Abby was relieved of some of the weight from the unconscious man she was carrying when one of the guys who held up the debris slung the man's other arm over his broad shoulders. He shouted something at her, but she could barely hear him over the roaring flames and destruction all around them. However, she understood the determined look on his face and simply nodded before she began to pull the older man to safety. Smoke was filling up Abby's lungs fast and after just a few yards, she was already feeling exhausted. She didn't want to give up but this was taking more of a toll on her than she realized. 

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Sonya was watching the inferno rage from on top of a rooftop a good distance away when she heard the ping of her cell phone. She dug it out from her pocket and saw one new message from Vector. [i]Your turn.[/i]

The red head immediately put her phone away and began to sprint across the rooftops to the blaze. These kids responded to the dangerous situation much better than she had expected but their efforts were doing little to control the fire. She really couldn't blame them though; Vector was crazy to think that the candidates could stop something like this at their current levels. Now that she got the O.K. to intervene, it was time to take things into her own hands. 

Sonya jumped from rooftop to rooftop, circling the edges of the fire until she got to her destination; a tall building with a large water tower right on top of it. Pulling a silver cylindrical object from her back pocket, Sonya pressed a hidden button that extended the object until it was a six-foot long rod. At the top of the rod erupted a huge morning star, the tips of its sharp points already glowing in Storm Flames. Lifting the huge weapon with ease, the red-head swung the morning star at the water tower's wall. It punctured the metal wall with ease and when she pulled the morning star away, water burst through the newly made hole, falling in waves on top of the fire below. In a matter of minutes, the source of the blaze was extinguished, leaving only tiny bits of the fire that the candidates were already taking care of. Sonya retracted her weapon and put it away before stepping off the tall building, landing on the burnt sidewalk 40 feet below with ease. She briskly walked through the remains of the vendors until she reached the clearing where a few of the candidates were. She looked over each face for a moment before finally resting her blue eyes on the pink-haired future Undecimo.

"Naoto Alato, although I was impressed with your bravery and willingness to help, your efforts to contain this fire was pitiful." Sonya announced before suddenly kicking over one of the barrels Naoto had aimed to dump over the flames. Red wine spilled onto the blackened cobblestone. 

"As you can see, more than half of these barrels are filled with wine. We are in an Italian town celebrating a festival so there is going to be an influx of wine in the area. And yet you chose to the use the first thing you saw." Sonya then pointed to a nearby restaurant with its door opened. "If you thought things through instead of panicking, you would have seen that a lot of these shops were evacuated, leaving wide open doors for you and your potential guardians to enter. You could have used the water from sinks to fill up barrels. Or better yet, the fire extinguisher every restaurant is required to have. I can see now that I have to teach you to think clearly in dire situations and to keep a level-head." Sonya took another look over the area, seeing many of the potential candidates all over the place. 

"And apparently how to properly lead a team as well." She sighed.