Seiko put her regular hand on her chin thinking about the last time she saw Alex," I haven't seen her in a long time after she made my arm in fact I don't think she was even in her home when I left to come here." Seiko told Rachel, Seiko walked over to a window and opened it half way, but due to the rain outside some of the rain water got inside the meeting room.

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outside of the castle something washed up onto the shore, it was obviously a body, that was face down, it washed up on shore from somewhere, two soldiers went down to the body to inspect it, when they closed in on the corpse they began to softly tap it with their boots wondering if the corpse was still alive..

" Hey who's dead body is this ? " the first soldier asked.

" Don't know ? I don't think it was one of ours but they could have been." the second soldier said.

The corpse started to move, it started coughing and retching up water, suddenly it got up from the ground, the dead person was actually.......Archer, she was badly injured and was bleeding from the side of her forehead, her battle suit was torn to shreds and showed her almost pale skin.

" Whoa Lady, we thought you were dead." The second guy said to Archer.

" Yeah ! Do you need first aid or any help what so ever ? we have medication and Doctors here."

Archer looked at her various wounds and lacerations, she had numerous all over her body and was hurt but she could stand." Yes I need medical attention, if you wish to know I just survived a nuclear blast." she told them both.

" Well here let me carry you, you don't look so good." the second soldier said to her.

Archer didn't protest, she just held her arms out for the soldier to lift her off her feet, the soldier carried Archer into the castle and took her to the infirmary, it was almost vacant and empty besides the doctors that inhabited it.

Spartan looked around at everyone here, he closed his eye's as he turned away from everyone
"alright, we move out at first light tomorrow, gather what your brining and rest up, we have a long journey ahead, dismissed" Spartan said to them as he looked back to them, his eye's glowing light blue
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Eve nodded with a slight smile as she climbed onto Magnus's back, to which then then slowly and carefully backed out of the door and made his way to the dorms to rest for the trip

Seiko turned to Spartan and looked to him with a face of curosity," You won't have us do anything ? Or make us do anything ? Isn't there anything you need for us to do ?" Seiko asked, she put her robotic left hand on the handle of her blade while she spoke to Spartan, it seemed odd to her that the leader wouldn't have them do much before leaving for some mission, it probably was just because of her past is all but it still seemed off to her.

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Archer was laid down on a medical bed by the soldier and the nurses quickly stripped Archer of all her gear and clothes leaving her only in her underwear, before they even thought about healing Archer they put her into a shower to get rid of the radiation that her body absorbed from the nuclear bomb, when the shower cut off they took her out and walked her back to the medical bed, soon the doctors cleaned, medicated and bandaged up all of Archer's wound, they put a blanket to cover herself up with and left her to rest.

Spartan looked to Seiko when she asked this
"it's late, you'll need the rest, we'll be setting out for a long and dangerous mission come tomorrow, you can train if you want so long as you don't forget to get everything that your taking with you ready" he said with a slight smile as he walked up to the opened window and closed it, stopping the rain from getting it
"other then that I don't know what else I could ask you to do" he stated with a smile as he turned towards her

" So you want us to train ?" she asked still seeming confused about what to do," Also I don't have anything or a room to sleep in, where do I go." Seiko ran her right hand's fingers through the hair on the top of her head and watched Spartan close the window.

"I want you to get some rest" Spartan clarified with a slight smile
"you can train if you want to, I'm not stopping you, the training room is down the corridor to you right when you leave the room" Spartan said as he walked back to the map table, he then pulled out a chip from the table and the holographic map above it turned off

Kori looked up to see his daughter whom he though was gone forever, he smiled softly, the light bright blue tears going down his face. He held her tight and comforted her, trying hard to stay strong for his daughter, gently rubbing her back. Zero ran to his father, hugging him tight, his electric blue tears crackled as they came down. "It's okay, I'm here now.." He said softly to his children.

Solaris had buried her head into her father's chest, while Amber slowly walked over to Kori, she thought her mind might have broken, she felt the heat from the explosion, she knew he was right in the blast zone, how did he survive? was she seeing a ghost? these thoughts raced through Amber's head as she walked over to him
"Kori?...." Amber asked timidly with a unsure look

Seiko turned around and left the meeting room feeling as if she didn't need to say more or hear more from Spartan, she started heading to the training room, when she got there she saw Kori and his family, she didn't want to inturrupt them during their moment, so she just stayed at the door watching them reunite with each other and hug each other, Seiko looked away from them trying to ignore them showing their affection to one another.

Kori looked up to Amber and pulled her into the group hug as well, his tears touched her skin as he rested his head on her neck, creating steam. "It's really me.." He smiled, holding his family close, he was finally happy again, there was somewhat happy again, no more war to wage, but his people were still gone and so were Jun's, he needed to make right.

The Hybrid once everyone was told to get some rest simply stayed where she was, soon the place would be empty and she could get some peace and finish that conversation with her other side. Rachel didn't know how or when she was able to talk to her darker side who was obviously her little demon, and always wondered where her little Angel was as that voice never appeared for anything. Typical that it's the angelic side of her who doesn't even care though.

As Kori started to hug Amber and his family, a clicking like sounded like a geiger counter was going off, there was radiation nearby either someone or something was covered in radiation and it set off the geiger counter in her arm, she held her arm out and started to move closer to the group, it started to get louder as she got closer to Kori and his family," I'd hate to ruin your moment but your radioactive." Seiko said hoping Kori listened to her.

Amber embraced the hug, but when Seiko approached and said Kori was radioactive Amber was a little disturbed, not that it was a danger to her or Solaris, but for Kori and Zero
"that's right, you did just survive a nuke, you need to wash off the radiation as soon as possible" Amber said to Kori with a concerned look

Seiko looked over to Amber before taking a step back away from Kori," Yes you should get it washed off you, you could endanger your family, you and those around you that you work with you." Seiko told him in a blunt tone.

While everyone had gone off to do their own thing Rachel was of course left alone in the large meeting hall of the Castle, giving a sigh as she got up from her seat and moved towards the doors out into the hall. She figured that she would go out and explore the area a little while getting some fresh air, smoking her cigar while she was at it as well wouldn't hurt. No one would miss her anyway she knew this as they were all to busy with other things and had their own friends to be with, again the hybrid was alone and alone she would be when something unexpected happened. Getting to the front doors of the castle Rachel pushed one open and slipped out, slowly she started to walk further and further away from the castle just to get away from it for a while. She was unaware to those who were watching her until it was to late, she had never been good with sensing people.

Once Rachel was just out of Sight of the castle strolling along minding her own business something flashed through the sky, embedding itself in the hybrids shoulder causing a cry of pain as the object steam at her flesh. Rachel dropped to her knees and glanced to her shoulder seeing a holy arrow had been fired at her, it was a weapon she was all to familiar with though she was surprised that it was here. Getting back to her feet while holding her upper arm Rachel's purple eyes darted around trying to spot the attacker, they always hid themselves it was annoying. This time however they showed themselves to be all around her, coming out from behind trees and rocks all with their arrows aimed to her. The girl swore under her breath as she saw no escape for herself, noting this as she did a full 380 turn to try and find one.

Spartan had left to Jacobs room to search for items that might help him get more information on there mission, whilst inside he found a book, it looked old, he picked it up and dusted it off, it was a journal, Spartan slightly raised an eyebrow then put the book down before finding some kind of hovering glowing relic of some kind, he stared at it in question and decided to leave it be, he left Jacobs room and made his way to the training room
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Eve had went to her room and had fallen asleep, Magnus however was wide awake and restless, being the size he was he had to sleep outside, the rain had settled down not long ago and the thundering clouds had moved on, something felt off to him, it made him growl, he got to his feet and looked around, he then spread his large wings and flapped them once, shooting him into the air for him to land on the roof of the castle, he looked to the dark clouds on the horizon, light flashing from them as they left, he let out a soft bellow as he watched them, then something caught his attention, he looked in the direction of what he thought to be a cry of pain, with his yellow glowing eye's his vision zoomed in to see the girl named Rachel with something in her shoulder, it looked like it was hurting her, Magnus narrowed his yellow eye's as he watched, he then noticed other beings that seemed to come from nowhere and were slowly closing on her, Magnus let out a deadly hiss as he growled, he then spread his large wings and took to the sky, with that he began to fly towards Rachel's location from above that way he wouldn't be spotted

Kori quickly remembered the radiation, it had taken him days to get to the castle and he wasn't afflicted at all. "I think I absorbed the radiation..." He said to them, he couldn't smell it on him any more. "But just to be safe I'll go and shower..." He smiled a bit, liking the idea of being able to get clean after so many days. He removed himself from his family's embrace and left to a shower room.

Amber slimed softly as she watched Kori left, she was more then glade to know he was alive, she then looked to her children
"alright you two, off to bed" Amber said as she hugged them both, after that they headed to the dorms to sleep, Amber stayed in the training room and continued to throw punches at the dummy's but with a smile

in the dark of the wood's near the castle a dark cloaked figure stands silently hidden just behind the treeline near a girl who's surrounded by beings closing on her, waiting, watching, almost in anticipation, she's hurt, a holy arrow is stuck in her shoulder, a fog seems to emanate from the figure as it appears to just barely be hovering off the ground,a light layer of frost covers the grass and flowers near it as it observes what is to come

Seiko left the training room before Kori, she was just going to explore wondering around the castle, she made her way to the roof before the rain stopped and her clothes got wet she didn't really care about getting wet, but when rain stopped she sighed, then when a scream echoed that sounded like a little girl's scream, Seiko looked around from the roof, she saw a fog clouding up in one area. She just acted on impulse, Seiko rushed back down to ground level and hurried over to the fog, when she got there she noticed Rachel wounded.