[IC] [Mizos]The Tides of The Past[SanaChan][Take Two]

[SanaChan]

Hotaru looked at Larel when he came over, "Giving away your prizes?" she smirked lightly, "One of these days I'll find something suitable to return the favor," she said, holding up the cat, before tucking it in to her bag on her side, making sure it wasn't in any way going to fall out. She felt Eryn watching them though and turned a fiery glare at him that had him quickly backing away though he was laughing, quite pleased that she was so viscously embarrassed.
"So, Larel, do you appreciate my handiwork? I know everyone appreciates what I've done with Mera, though we will probably never see it again with that atrocious cloak of hers," He pouted a bit, earning him another glare from the mentioned female, but he was waiting for Larel's answer, "I really didn't have to try too hard to bring out all her natural beauty, though again, it will probably never be seen again, since you know... she's a bit of a brute."
"Why do I keep coming off that way?" Hotaru seethed, "You and that damned Kaori both-"
"Your temper for one."
"How can I not get pissed off with you basically insulting me-"
"Oh hush," he waved her off and though of ripping his hand off the wrist crossed her mind, "I want to know whether or not my handwork was appreciated."

Mera rolled her eyes hearing the conversation before looking at Alari when he spoke, "Didn't earn it? You mean your "embrace"? Well even if you had, which you weren't too far off if I'm being honest, I think someone might kill you for coming within close enough proximity," she said, crossing her arms as she looked up at the sky, waiting on the show to start, "Though the time was short lived, I definitely appreciate it. I was able to come in a little more contact with my emotions that I had tried so hard to push back for so long because I only saw them as a hindrance," she murmured, "And it's only because your insistence that it happened, so thank you for that," she looked at him, "But now it seems I'm stuck with these things," she looked at her wrists, "Because there is no way I will be able to tell you what I have to tell you to be able to unlock them with him prowling and glaring at us...." she mumbled, glancing over towards Larel and Hotaru before looking back up at the sky, "I'm sure you like knowing there's a guarantee for something else like this happening again..."

[Mizos]

Alari was all smiles until Mera mentioned he wasn't too far off from his embrace, hearing that Alari's head drooped as a sudden depression hit him all at once. He worried he might actually tear up at the loss of the possibility but he did agree that death would not come quickly even if he had earned it anyway.
He raised his head as Mera continued speaking before smiling when she thanked him. There was many things Alari did without and thanks was among them, not that he wanted any but hearing it still made him really happy, of course he wouldn't say that he enjoyed it out loud, he did want to hear it again someday. When she looked at her wrists he looked at the cuffs and looked at his sleeve where he held the key, Mary had told him not to remove them in the first place so she would probably be content but a part of him worried he might have taken them off anyway. He hoped wherever she was that she'd be able to see the fireworks when they start, it'd be a shame to miss them.
He lowered his sleeve when Mera looked back at the sky, the words that followed brought a warm feeling to his chest causing him to reach up and grip it for a moment.
"I await the day it's under different circumstances," Alari said smiling at her. "You should do what your heart tells you, do what you feel is right Mera, who knows you might get away with it."
Alari grinned and looked up at the sky running a hand through his hair as the preparation seemed to be finishing up.
"Not many thank me for my insistence I'm more than happy to continue."

Larel glanced over at Hotaru when she spoke before letting out a small sigh as she mentioned the prizes, he smiled however when she mentioned returning the favor, he waved his hand in front of his face indicating it was alright.
"I didn't want to owe Alari so I got him something, I can deal with getting him a horrid gift, I can't deal with owing him a favor. Kaori would have just whined if I got Alari something and ignored him," Larel said shrugging.
"Hey!" Kaori said.
"Well you would have," Larel said not looking back at him.
"That's beside the point, you're mean La-chan."
"Never...call me that again if you want to continue resembling a living thing."
When Eryn spoke to him he looked over at Hotaru taking in her appearance again before turning back towards the sky, since Eryn brought attention to it he found it difficult to look now. A slight blush formed on his cheeks but he said nothing for awhile as the two spoke, smiling a little when Eryn said brute which Kaori nodded to agreeing wholeheartedly probably because he was out of swinging distance.
When Eryn spoke again Larel brought his hand to his chin before looking over at Hotaru then at Mera then back to Hotaru.
"I don't see any real change in Mera-sama but if this is your handiwork Eryn I'll admit I was taken aback for a moment but you just made Hotaru prettier right? I don't know how to respond to your inquiry I'm sorry. Also I don't think Hotaru's a brute, she just expresses herself differently."
Kaori jaw had dropped at Larel's words and he had to speak up after hearing that.
"How can you say Mera-dono hasn't changed Larel, that's almost an insult," Kaori said. "Also I wouldn't mind living in your world for a day Larel, if Taru-chan's actions are 'expressions' to you."
"Be nice Kaori we talked about insulting Hotaru and don't mind the comment about Mera," Alari said glancing back at him. "Larel has his master vision on, when it's on he only sees his master, any other characteristic is unnecessary."
"I feel like that's an insult," Larel said glaring at him. "You just insulted me didn't you."
"Nope just a fact, it's a shame because she really looks beautiful tonight," Alari said looking forward again.
"Don't push it Alari," Larel said closing his hand into a fist. "I should-"
"Look!" Kaori pointed towards the sky before a loud bang followed.
Larel quickly turned forward as bright colors lit up the night sky exploding outwards and filling the area with continuous light as the colors lingered in the sky only to be followed by others. The flash of lights in the night sky drew Larel's full attention, he stared wide-eyed at the myriad of colors in front of him his mouth hung agape as the fireworks came one after the other. Alari smiled and glancing over noticed the look of pure astonishment on Larel's face, it was the first time Larel had ever seen them like this, Larel stunned face slowly turned into a wide smile causing Alari to chuckle.
"It's all worth it just to see you that happy," Alari said looking back towards the sky. "No matter how many times I see it they're always wonderful."
Kaori watched with almost childlike innocence waving his hands as the fireworks continued to fill the night sky, Jin popped out of Alari's kimono and stood on his shoulder yipping at the fireworks.
Alari slowly reached over and took Mera's hand in his own keeping his attention on the fireworks, a small blush formed on his cheeks as a small smile formed on his face.
"I had a plan b," Alari said looking over at Mera smiling a little. "Just kidding."
Alari looked back at the fireworks as Larel gaze was trapped on the display in front of him, a look of pure astonishment on his face.

[SanaChan]

Mera looked over hearing Eryn's badgering of Larel, about to tell him to leave Larel alone until he answered, "Does he realize he just admitted he thinks she's pretty?" she murmured quietly with a smirk, looking forward again whenever Alari admonished Kaori for insulting Hotaru, who looked like she was seconds from either roasting Kaori, or blushing from embarrassment because she too caught on that Larel had actually just called her pretty, or rather that he said she was prettier, which meant he thought she was pretty to start with. Her attention went to the sky when Kaori pointed and she smiled lightly seeing the fireworks, remembering something similar from when she was younger. She blinked a bit feeling Alari taking hold of her hand, but she smiled after a moment, hearing him, "I'm sure," she smirked lightly before looking back up at the sky, "I really am never going to dress this way again, just so we're clear on that," she added, not talking loud enough for Larel to hear, but loud enough Alari could hear her over the fireworks. She wasn't all the comfortable in gowns like these, as they weren't very durable in a fight and she was usually always prepared. But it did feel nice to feel... "girly" for a little while, to be complimented in a way that didn't feel odd for the most part, having her beauty appreciated again. It had been awhile since she had had such vain thoughts.
Hotaru was watching them as well, smiling as she saw Larel's reaction to them. She liked getting to see this side of him, seeing him sort of open up a bit more and show who he was without Zenmaru talking in his ear. She was almost a little sad thinking it couldn't always be this way since she imagined she wouldn't stay down long. She was going to remember this night for as long as she was able, the first night in a long time she actually felt completely happy. Even with Eryn and Kaori calling her brutish, this was still a great night and not just because she heard Larel compliment her. It wasn't a night of running or hiding or trying to pretend that the world wasn't coming after them- though in a way hey were- it was just a night of enjoying themselves, "We'll have to make sure to do this again sometime," she smiled at Larel, nodding, "And next time I'm totally going to kick your butt at the vendor games," She pointed at him, making a challenge out it, but it was clearly she meant it in good fun.

Mary came up to them, standing near Eryn as she beamed, looking up at the fireworks, "Oh wow!" she grinned, "That's so cool!" she clapped her hands together, bouncing a bit and Eryn chuckled at her.
"I'm glad you got to enjoy yourself," he nodded, looking at the four in front of them, "We did what we could I suppose to put the cards in their favor."
Mary looked at him then, though he wasn't looking at her, so he missed the look on her face. She was worried, scared, and there was something else in her expression, but another firework went off and she looked up at it before he would see it. She knew Eryn thought that the night have been worked towards the favor that he wanted, towards their happiness, but she wasn't entirely sure the goddess or whatever deity watched over them had given them that grace. She knew Thanos was hidden somewhere, still recovering from his wounds, Mera unable to aid him and be ready for their father with the cuffs on, and she knew they were still on from the fact Mera was still here- or had Alari talked her out of it? She hadn't seen her sister so relaxed and...smiling quite so much in a long time, so she knew Alari had done something to ease her mind, if only for a little while, and she appreciated that. She almost wanted to cry knowing she had actually enjoyed something like this, even if she didn't for the whole of it.
She looked at Kaori and smiled, "Have you been enjoying yourself?" she asked him, crossing her arms behind her back.

[Mizos]

Alari chuckled a little hearing Mera's mumbled comment, he shook his head as a response, Larel didn't realize it and that's one of the things he liked about him. His straightforwardness didn't make him a very good ninja in certain aspects but he enjoyed getting to see Larel speak openly once again, he wouldn't say it out loud but he and Kaori had a habit of speaking without thinking about what they were saying, Larel just saw things differently and had some tact.
Alari looked over at Mera smiling a little when she responded to him, he supposed he inadvertently had taken some time off himself, this kind of peace was nice, he couldn't help but smile getting to see a little of it once more. Peaceful moments like this reminded him of his time in the village with Haruka and everyone else, it was a shame things weren't always be like this.
With Mera next to him, Larel and Hotaru nearby and everyone else next to him Alari couldn't deny he was happy to be here.
Hearing Mera mention never dressing that way again Alari smiled and turned back to the fireworks.
"A part of me is relieved but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed," he whispered to her.
Larel only pulled his attention away from the fireworks when Hotaru spoke to him, he grinned hearing her and nodded turning his attention back to the fireworks.
"Without a doubt," Larel said before grinning. "Anytime Hotaru don't expect me to hold back next time though."
He chuckled as it was fun to joke around like this, however his smile faded and he shivered as Mary's voice hit him, he promptly turned forward again finding it easier to stand near her when he didn't have to look at her, though he could still sense her presence causing him to let out an nervous chuckle.

Kaori on the other hand was ecstatic to see Mary again and grinned seeing she made it to the fireworks, he went to speak to her but seeing the expression her face he went silent blinking and watching her face for awhile, he however turned his attention to the fireworks and pretended not to see it as he was sure it wasn't something she wanted to share. He was sure Mary had things on her mind as well like everyone else did, he didn't always understand the complex things but he was happy to see everyone smiling. Kaori closed his eyes before looking back at the fireworks his eyes drooping a little as he crossed his arms.
He looked over at Mary when she spoke to him and gave a firm nod before pointing at the cracked fish jar in his hand.
"I had a great time, Larel even gave me a gift," Kaori said. "I danced with everyone played a few games and even got to paint a few people as well, I had a wonderful time Mary-chan. I hope you had a wonderful time too what did you do?"
Larel leaned forward a little as the fireworks grew extremely large before the fireworks came to a stop and Larel pouted a little. He smiled shortly after glad to have the memory now, he let out a relieved sigh but covered his mouth shortly after as his eyes flashed yellow. Larel's whole body shivered and he lowered his hand from his mouth as pain coursed through his body. Alari glanced over at him seeing this and with some hesitation released Mera's hand before walking over to him.
"Take a breath Larel," Alari said as he put his finger close to his head and started working the seal. "I've got you."
"What's wrong Oji-san," Kaori said looking over at Alari.
"I have to bring Zenmaru back," Alari said sighing. "Much as I would love to keep her down the two coexist in the same body, I have to bring her back or it can hurt Larel. It's much sooner than it should have been, she must really have been fighting."
"...Alari," Larel said looking up at him.
"Hm?" Alari said keeping his attention on his forehead.
"Um...t...thank you."
Alari's eyes widened hearing Larel's words and he almost lost his focus for a moment but he forced a stoic face and responded to him.
"Don't worry about it," Alari said.
"No...really...thank you for-"
Larel cut himself off as the seal fully reappeared before vanishing once again causing Alari to lower his hand.
Reaching up Larel rubbed his head and closed his eyes as his shadow seemed to flare for a moment, a small grin formed on the shadow's face before vanishing as quickly as it came.
"Why are you standing so close," Larel said opening his eyes glaring at Alari.
"Right," Alari said putting his glasses back on. "That's what I'm used too."

[SanaChan]

"You weren't hiding with our things the whole time, were you, Mary?" Mera looked over at her sister, deciding to talk to her than taunt Alari about her dress.
"No, I wasn't, I played with some little kids as well," Mary smiled brightly before they both turned their attention to Larel.
Mera had to admit she was a little disappointed that the overall good mood was kinda killed with Zenmaru coming back in to the picture, but Mary held out her cloak, which she put on, regardless of Eryn's whining that she was going to kill him if she did, "Hotaru, would you like to go change?" she looked at her.
"I would have liked to change yesterday," Hotaru said simply before starting with her back to Eryn's house where their clothes were and Mary handed Hotaru back her katana.
"You're a traitor, little sister," he pouted
"If I didn't give them to them, Hotaru would have forced you to give them back," Mary patted his arm before looking back to the others, "I guess I'll go back to keeping an eye out, I haven't sense any particular things within a mile or so of the village, but it's kind of been hard to pin point anything with all these people going around, the music, and such," she said, hoping she wasn't wrong. She turned and started to walk back towards the edge of the village where Thanros was, hoping she could use him in a way to stretch her view to see where their father currently was. She got down a side street and stopped as she looked around, getting some feeling that there was something close by.
Mera and Hotaru were already almost to Eryn's when Mera stopped, getting that same feeling. "What is it?" Hotaru looked at her, looking around as she recognized that look on her face. That there was something dangerous close by, but she didn't see anything.
"He's here," Mera murmured, looking around, a little but more panicky than before, grabbing Hotaru's arm and pulling her in to Eryn's house, "I didn't get the cuffs off, there's no way I'll stand a chance against him," she was trying to think of a solution to get him at least away from the village because even if they left, he would destroy this place to spite them, especially Eryn.
"Then we need to leave," Hotaru said simply
"We can't just leave, he's not one tracked minded unfortunately."
"I'm insulted," they both froze at the voice that interrupted them and they turned to see the man sitting in the dark corner of Eryn's living room, "I don't think having a little dedication to my cause should be such a bad thing," he said as he stood up
"And what cause is that?" Mera pulled Hotaru behind her, feeling the need to try and protect her from this man, this thing.
"To rid the world of the lesser beings, of course. However, I think you're still a page behind, Scarlet," he walked forwards, standing in front of the fire, his shadow cast over the two, "You still believe that I'm your father, which is the rouse I would prefer the other idiot gypsies believe, but this bloodline I chose for a reason. You're still the purest line, the one with the most relation to your elven ancestors, that's why your powers are so much stronger than the others. I could resist such a grand host-"
"What the hell are you going on about?"
"Do you really not understand?" He mused before pulling out a container that looked a lot like the one on Hotaru's hip, "I sent one of my children ahead of me this evening and made sure that Hotaru got that particular flask on her now because your brother sacrificed himself to try and rid the world of one of my daughters, my favorite, if we're being honest. But no gypsy host would satisfy her when I offered, because she had taken a fancy to messing with a young vampires head," he said and Hotaru paled a bit, "Now all we have to do is wait for her to be able to travel back since her host has been prepped."
"Sybil," Mera tried not to react, "You're saying... that you're Sybil's father... why did you chose my father as your host?"
"Because he was weakened. A mortal wound delivered from a human who thought he was an enemy, like his brothers who want to rid the world of the humans. It was so easy to get inside at that point. And then I just had to mold the clay that he had spawned," He chuckled darkly and Mera grit her teeth. She grabbed Hotaru's arm and pulled her out of the house, running down the street quickly.
"Where are we going?" Hotaru managed to swallow and ask as she looked over their shoulder, "What about Larel and the others?"
"We have to get you somewhere secure before that bitch gets back in your head. The others shouldn't be their target if they don't know what was going on tonight," Mera murmured the last part, hoping that none of that things' spawn had seen

[Mizos]

Larel demanded Alari return his clothing to him which Alari complied with as his reason for holding them was now gone. Gaining control of his shadows again Larel checked for his sword and sure enough he could pull it out. Due to the crowd he kept it within his shadow, he didn't want to hold it as he might unconsciously respond if he bumped into someone. Alari watched Hotaru and the others leave and with a sigh called Kaori and followed behind Larel who made his way back to the inn.
Once they returned Larel quickly returned back to his normal attire, it took longer than he wanted to get all his hidden weapons back on his person, even Alari had returned back to his old Kimono. Alari informed Kaori that he was still repairing his kimono so he'd have to wait a bit longer to change back, Kaori didn't seem to mind the idea though.
Alari closed his eyes as Larel adjusted his sword and checked over everything once more, Kaori watched Alari and arched a brow when Alari's eyes suddenly opened wide and flashed red.
"Is something wrong Oji-san?" Kaori asked.
"....I'm...not sure," Alari said. "I just...have a bad feeling."
"A bad feeling?" Larel questioned turning to face him.
He had a rude remark but seeing the look in Alari's eyes he realized he was actually serious about it, crossing his arms he wondered how to respond to him thankfully Kaori spoke first.
"Did you sense something?"
"Yes and no...I felt a...weird echo..."
"What do you mean?"
"It felt familiar...too familiar. It's not the echo I know but I feel like it's the same source. Anyway it's just a feeling with all the people it got overshadowed by the other echo's."
Alari stood up and looked over at Kaori as Larel tilted his head, Alari suddenly seemed in a rush.
"Kaori let's find Mary, her senses will be able to pick up what I can't. It's just a feeling but it wouldn't hurt to double check."
"Okay Oji-san," Kaori said standing up.
"Larel why don't you find Mera and Hotaru, there's no reason to linger here anymore."
"I don't need you to tell me that," Larel said before hopping out of the window.
Alari knelt down and let Kaori climb on his back before leaping out after Larel, the two dashed off in two different directions, Alari towards the edge of town and Larel to search the town for the two. Larel was going to have to depend on Zenmaru for this one, Alari on the other hand followed Mary's echo the best he could.
Kaori gripped Alari's kimono tightly as he jumped onto a roof, he closed one eye and leaning forward spoke to Alari as he kept his attention forward moving from rooftop to rooftop.
"Why are we hurrying Oji-san."
".....that presence..." Alari mumbled to himself causing Kaori to tilt his head at him.
It reminded him of Sybil....but it wasn't her...it seemed....he didn't know how to put it other than worse. Even among all the people here that presence stood out and that's what bothered him, he needed to find Mary soon whatever that was it can't be good.

[SanaChan]

Mary was up on the rooftops, looking around, not having taken the time to change out of her attire yet. She stepped towards Eryn's house and a chill went through her, He's here! she called out to Larel and Alari, scrambling back a bit before looking around for Eryn, who she couldn't seem to locate, nor could she find Thanos.
Mera was pulling Hotaru along, away from the people, trying to hurry as Hotaru grabbed her head, "Damn,"she hissed when she realized she wasn't going fast enough. She stopped by a house, checking to see that no one was inside, shoving Hotaru inside and she held her hands up, slowly covering the house in thick roots with an exterior of bark. With her magic being weakened by the cuffs, it was taking everything she could to work on it, but she had no choice. It was the only way to contain her for a long enough period of time that she could do something to get the people away from there, but she saw it out of the corner of her eyes, that the thing in her fathers body was moving towards the people, looking around, rubbing his chin as he was clearly deciding on what to do, "Damn it!" she grit her teeth, trying to make her magic move faster, feeling her body aching as she forced it beyond its limits at that point, but she couldn't stop. By the time he was out of sight, probably mingling amongst those about to be his victims, she finally got the majority of the house covered. She leaned against it, panting heavily, trying to get her strength back. She looked over her shoulder as she heard someone approached and she paled seeing Thanos.
Usually he would be a site for sore eyes at that moment but there was something off about him in general, and she could only guess that the demon had gotten ahold of him.
"So it seems you've caught on to the situation," he said, cracking his knuckles as she turned to face him, leaning against the bark.
"Release him," she said through her grit teeth.
"Or what? Two devious little witches wanting to play cupid have your powers zapped at the moment, don't they? That's why it took you so long to pull that off," he motioned behind her, "Which it won't help. Whenever Sybil decides she wants to play, you're all in for some trouble," he grinned.

Mary went towards the edge of the houses, looking down in the streets. Seeing her father made her stomach churn, the dark aura just rolling off him. She gasped when a hand clasped over her mouth, a female pulling her down and out of site as he turned to look up that way, "Mary, you idiot, don't be such a sitting duck!" a voice hissed.
Mary looked up at the woman, having a hard time recognizing her with the tight leather garb on and her hair hidden in a hood, but only one other person had the exact facial structure as Mera and that way, "Raina!" she sighed in relief, "What are you wearing?"
"Something that makes it much easier to give from place to place without being noticed," Raina rolled her eyes, "Now be quiet," She drew a couple of jagged daggers from her side as she looked around, "He's probably got people up here trying to find you," it was about then Mary remember Raina was one of their siblings that had no ability to use magic, so she guessed she shouldn't have been surprised that she found something else to focus on honing her abilities for, "Thanos and Sola have both been possessed," she whispered, "So whatever you do, do not go to them for help. Mother may have been as well. I hid Eryn as he's about as useful as a cat in a sack in the water," she mumbled.
"I-I've got friends here who can help," Mary whispered, "We're not alone in this," she added, looking around for Alari and Kaori
"Tell them to go to Mera, Thanos will have gone after her and he's a match for any of us on our best days," Raina told her and Mary nodded, relaying the message to them to find mera.

[Mizos]

Larel and Alari both skid to a stop as they received Mary's message, Larel was a tad confused but Zenmaru just told him to get to Mera and gave him a direction to go in.
Alari grit his teeth and set Kaori down before closing his eyes for a moment, he opened them as he caught Mera's echo, using her power made it a little easier to locate her, feeling an echo similar to that of the forest in a village was easy to locate thankfully.
Alari looked at Kaori and reaching over put a hand on his shoulder, he pointed in the direction they were running before speaking not really ecstatic about what he was going to tell him.
"Mera's father is here Kaori, keep to the shadows and go this way...she's that way," Alari said not saying Mary's name.
If her father was here he feared his men might be in the village as well, Kaori nodded understanding and Alari gave him a message as he reached in his sleeve and handed a few talisman's to Kaori.
Kaori blinked and took the talisman's looking at them and the strange letters written on them, Alari pointed to them before explaining.
"These talisman's will protect you, if you place them on a creature other than a human it will inflict it with the curse, it won't work on higher class being so be careful. Imps and the such won't be able to resist it. If you slash at it the talisman will cut through their body and will hit their nerves directly, do this if they're human, it won't kill them, if you do it to a demon it will do the same but they'll recover faster. Under no circumstances place it on a human being, the curse will devour them if you do. The letters will disappear with each use, once gone the curse won't work anymore be careful of that."
"O-okay Oji-san, be careful," Kaori said before Alari nodded and sprinted off, Kaori noticed Larel sprinting in the same direction and offered a small nod.
Kaori took a step back into the shadows sinking into it, he clutched the talisman's to his chest before fading completely.
Moving as stealthily as he could Kaori moved in the direction Alari had pointed to and sure enough after looking he found Mary...and some other woman. The two seemed to be conversing so he was sure she wasn't an enemy as Mary seemed relaxed with her.
Kaori moved to the shadows in front of the two before stepping out holding his empty hands out as he spoke quietly.
"I'm not an enemy, I'm not a fighter either, well I'm more of the first than the second one, actually no I'm pretty equal in both...no what I mean to say is I'm not a bad person promise I'm just a messenger for Mary-chan from Oji-san."

"Of course it's not simple."
Alari fell from the sky and landed next to Mera placing his hand down as he landed before slowing raising his body up, he looked at Thanos and with a sigh removed his glasses before placing them in a case and sticking them in his sleeve.
Alari had the pleasure of hearing their conversation though he wasn't sure what was in Thanos, hearing his words it was plain to see it wasn't the man he had met before.
"I'm not sure what's up with you Thanos...but going off what I heard you're not yourself right now. I suppose asking you to politely leave is too much."
Alari looked over at Mera flexing his hands before he looked at the thorn covered house, Hotaru must be in there and hearing 'Thanos' mention Sybil he became increasingly concerned why.
"Are you aright Mera?"
"She would be if you would keep your distance."
Alari looked past Mera to see Larel walk out of the shadows and stand beside Mera on her other side, he turned towards Thanos and brought his hand to the hilt of his sword and lowered his body slightly, Zenmaru told him to be cautious as the scent surrounding Thanos was inhuman.
"I don't know why you bother conversing, this man's obviously a threat," Larel said. "Also don't stand so close to Mera-sama."
"That man is Mera's brother Larel he's...just...well possessed it seems."
"I could care less who he is if he threatens Mera-sama he's my enemy....Wait did you say brother?"
"Yes and Thanos isn't doing this willingly Larel, even if negotiation isn't an option you shouldn't just start swinging your sword, if you intend on attacking at least avoid lethal organs."
"....if he lays a hand on Mera-sama I can't promise my aim won't slip. Still if he's Mera-sama's brother I don't see him going down easily....are you sure he's possessed?"
"I've looked this man in the eyes multiple times Larel. I've seen how he looks at Mera, look closely and you can see the difference."
"I'll pass Mera-sama what are your orders? I'm ready to attack at any point of time I'll be lethal or non-lethal depending on your preference. Also just to confirm did I hear him say Sybil? I don't know what he wants with her but I wouldn't put my faith in someone who's already lost once."
"You always choose violence," Alari said sighing. "Just focus on protecting Mera."
"I don't need you to tell me that," Larel responded glaring at him.

[SanaChan]

"Ah, Kaori!" Mary smiled before Raina grabbed his arm and pulled him down, "Sorry, this is my sister, Raina," she whispered realizing Raina was wanting them to be discrete.
"The enemies are everywhere," Raina whispered, "In some way or another the demon possessing our father has brought some sort of small army with him and they're possessing others. They're capable of being without the hosts, but their hold on the physical realm is much strong this way," Raina whispered as she looked around, "He's choosing people within our family because of our close connection to the elves, who used to be closest tied to the elements and therefore one of the stronger races. Now he's picking humans because he believes we won't attack the humans in an attempt to protect ourselves," she explained as she looked over and motioned with two fingers towards a shadowy figure, "Keep low and keep quiet," she whispered before she moved towards another shadow, blending in with the dark sky as she closed in on them.
"Raina doesn't have any elemental powers so she chose to focus on these skills instead," Mary whispered to Kaori, staying down, "She's also not likely to get possessed based off what she just said. But what was Alari's message?" she looked at him, wondering what he had to say, leaning closer to him so they didn't have to talk so loud and Raina wouldn't get mad at them.

Mera slowly sank to the ground, panting heavily as she couldn't manage to keep standing at this point, having using up a serious amount of energy to force her magic to move at a faster pace, "I would prefer not to lose a second brother if we can manage that," she mumbled, looking at Larel, "But my brother wouldn't want to be a permanent puppet to some demon scum," she looked towards Alari and then back to Thanos, "if you can just incapacitate him that would be best, but do whatever you have to do to stop him," she sighed, putting her hand to her head as Thanos stepped forward, cracking his knuckles.
"I can keep you entertained awhile, at least until Sybil manages to get back to her favorite host yet," he said before putting his hands out, the ground starting to rumble around them.
She put her hands forwards, vines grabbing ahold of his arms, pulling them down, using a lot of weaker vines since she couldn't muster up the power to use anything stronger. She gasped as she heard the wood behind her cracking and Thanos sneered.
"I didn't think she would wait long," he said as the cracking continued.
"Sybil has forcibly repossessed Hotaru," Mera said, clearly starting to panic a little as she was trying to figure out a solution to the problem before Thanos stomped his foot. A crack shot from his foot to the wood around the house, putting a huge crack in it, all the way up, "Damn, we need to move- get a better position- and we should find some actual human blood for Hotaru, hunger was how Sybil was controlling her before," she looked at the two of them, still holding her hand towards Thanos, more and more vines trying to hold on to his massive frame, though he just seemed amused.
"Awwww~ Don't run away~ After such a valiant effort, I want to see the look on your face knowing your brother's sacrifice was worthless!" Sybil called out from inside the house and Mera made a face that made it clear it was killing her to know that Nero died in vain, "We just want to plaaaay, all of us!" she called out again before laughing, her fingers appearing in the crack as she started to try and work her way out of the casing Mera had put her in.
"We need to move, now!" Mera got back to her feet, but Thanos twisted his foot again and a hole opened beneath her, dropping her in up to her waist before closing again.

[Mizos]

Kaori smiled hearing Mary but it faded as he was pulled down; Kaori listened to Mary as she explained who the other woman was nodding when he heard it was her sister. He blinked a few times but grinned happy to meet more of Mera's family, he wondered if he could do a family painting at one point but he decided to focus on Mera before expanding further. He sighed and closed his eyes as Raina explained what was going on, when he was traveling by himself he didn't encounter anything like this, he started to wonder if it was bad luck to hang around Larel. It couldn't possibly be Mera, Mary's or Alari's fault, Hotaru maybe but definitely not Mera.
He was interested to hear about the elves though, Alari had told him what little he knew about it after he heard the conversation in the forest while serving as Zenmaru's seat, most of what Alari told him came from what he heard from everyone else though.
"I may want to avoid getting possessed then...I'm pretty sure Larel wouldn't hesitate to cut me down," Kaori mumbled.
He looked at Mary as she talked about Raina's skills and nodded in agreement making sure to keep low, he could kind of understand that a bit, though she at least had other talents to rely on.
"That's an impressive feat, I'm personally quite proud of my ability to hide and run...though I suppose that's different then her skills," Kaori said with a small smile.
When Mary leaned closer Kaori nodded and held up a finger as he recalled the message Alari asked him to deliver.
"Oji-san told me to tell you," Kaori began speaking quietly but loud enough for Mary to hear. "Mary by time you receive this message I'll have reached Mera, I'm positive Larel will meet me there as well since I sent him out ahead when a bad feeling hit me. I'm going to have Larel get Mera as far away as possible when we meet, in her current state fighting might not be the best and knowing our luck she'll probably be in trouble by time we meet. I'll make sure Mera see's you again so make sure to take care of yourself, I promise to return the last thing I need is Kaori whining because I got myself killed."
Kaori nodded his head at this as it was true before he continued.
"I'm not sure what I'm going to run into but judging by this feeling it's probably not going to be easy to get past especially if it's your father, If this is the case I'll have to vanish once all this is over. I'm telling you this because I may not have time to tell the others and Kaori will be hiding, I'll make sure Mera's safe before that happens though. Take care of yourself and-"
Kaori cut himself off before reaching forward and ruffling Mary's hair as Alari had requested him to do.
"Stay out of trouble,"
Kaori turned his attention forward again before smiling a little.
"Oji-san is smart so I'm sure he'll do it, so we have to do our best since he's doing this best."

Larel nodded and got ready to advance hearing her words, avoid killing him if possible that he would be able to do, however at the mention of Sybil being back in Hotaru Larel grit his teeth and his grip on his sword tightened. At the mention of her he feared that but he didn't want to believe it was possible, Zenmaru on the other hand was losing it in his mind. He could hear her laughter reverberating through his skull and it just fed his anger more.
Hearing Sybil's voice Larel's eyes widened and Alari's hand closed into a fist before he noticed the look on Mera's face, he looked back at Thanos to see Mera get dropped in the hole, his eyes narrowed and he flexed his hand before he spoke to Larel who seemed seconds away from rushing forward.
"Larel remember your sneak attack in Kyushu, I think it's time you recreated the end of that," Alari said.
Larel actually flinched at the mention of it but he looked at Alari as he snapped his fingers causing two of the lines to vanish from Larel's seal. They both knew taking on the two of them at the same time was a bad idea, especially if they had to hold back which Larel wouldn't be able to avoid in Hotaru's case.
Larel grit his teeth and building darkness into his hand slammed onto the ground, at this Alari rushed towards Thanos to give him his opening.
He wasn't pleased Alari knew so much about this darkness but it actually came in handy in his moment, whenever he used his dark spikes he never used the darkness on the surface as he couldn't extend it far enough to be effective, he just manipulated the lack of light under the earth to force the darkness up, except this time he wasn't creating spikes.
Larel moved the darkness under Mera and once he surrounded her lower half with it, the darkness flowed out of the earth where her top was poking, Larel quickly expanded the darkness forcing the earth apart, the moment it opened he grabbed Mera from under both her arms and jumped away wrapping his arm around her waist with an apology as they moved away from the scene.
Alari on other hand slammed his foot down and threw a low punch towards Thanos's stomach before getting ready to shift his stance to uppercut him afterwards, he couldn't afford to give him distance or he'd just pursue them. Once Sybil got out he wasn't sure he'd be able to stop her and hold off Thanos so he hoped Larel would get far enough away.
While Larel flew back threw the air with Mera he spoke to her as Alari got further and further away.
"I had to abandon my master during a rescue mission in Kyushu because we got found out, I realized I could used the darkness in the earth then. He intends on buying us time, much as I loathe the idea I know I can't take on Sybil seriously if she reaches us."
Larel landed a few houses away and set Mera down before looking over at her.
"In Hotaru's body it's not going to take Sybil long to close this distance though that goes without saying, and I'm not sure how long he can hold off your brother so we should hurry and get that blood. Can you run Mera-sama?"

[SanaChan]

Mary nodded lightly before he ruffled her hair to which she patted her hair back down, "But there's really not much we can do... Well... I suppose there is something I can do, but I'm going to need someone a lot faster than me to get the item I need," She murmured before glancing around, scooting to the edge of the building and looking down in to the streets. A person stood next to her father in the crossroads wearing a helmet with a clear stone in its middle, "I need that," she looked to see Raina cut down the person on the roof, "If I get that helmet," she looked back at Kaori, "I could get us all out of here- my mother and I are the only ones who can use it to its truest potential and it not melt our heads for it," she nodded as Raina came over to them, about to lecture them before Mary motioned down.
Raina glanced down and sighed heavily, "Of course he's keeping him close by," she looked at Mary, "Quickest way will be for you to put me down there and then bring me back. Can you do that super fast?" She put her hand on her shoulder.
"I can certainly do my best," Mary said. Rain stepped back, preparing herself as Mary closed her eyes, focusing. Raina disappeared and reappeared below, cutting the guys head clear from his shoulders, taking it in her grasp as her father turned to strike, but Mary had her gone again and beside her before he could truly figure it out. Mary grabbed her head, her head reeling. Raina pulled her back from the edge, pushing Mary and Kaori down so they would be laying down with her in between, "Do not make a sound," Raina whispered harshly, almost holding her breath as well as Mary put her hand to her face, her nose starting to bleed.
"I want that back!" their father roared from below, his men nearly stumbling over themselves to get moving, people screaming as they were running all over the place below.

"I'm fine," Mera said, glancing back, not at all liking the idea of leaving Alari back there, "Let's move," She mustered up what strength she had and pushed forward, gasping a bit as she heard her father's voice, "Mary must have done something- we've got even less time than before," she said before skidding to a stop on the edge of a house, looking around for someone that was a victim of the rampage her father's men had had going through from house to house, "There," she pointed in to a house, "I'm seeing a few non moving warm bodies in that house, grab one," she told Larel before looking back the way they came.
Thanos grunted as the bunch hit his stomach and his hand caught Alari's arm as he went to uppercut him, "You're wasting your time," He grinned, "This man's body can withstand physical attacks for days from one man like yourself," He said before slamming his foot in to the ground, making the crack wider in the house, "Especially if you're missing your sense of urgency," he sneered before Hotaru's whole arm came out through the crack.
"I've almost got it brother, you focus on that pip squeak, while I go wring the life out of his sweetheart," Sybil cackled before she put both hands on the side of the crack, managing to get herself out, though not unscathed, "Such a shame her hard work was completely obliterated with hardly any effort," she turned and jumped up on to the roof of the house, "COME OUT, COME OUT! I WANT TO PLAY!" she roared as her wounds slowly bled since she was taxing Hotaru's body to such an extent as she was still fighting to gain some control back, but Sybil wanted revenge for Nero trying to send her away.
"Shit!" Mera hissed before looking around, "Quickly, she'll be coming this way soon enough," she said as she tried to thick of what they might do to distract her. It dawned on her then and she sighed, "Please don't think less of me in my moment of desperation," she murmured as she used her vines to pick up the dead and bloodied bodies, scattering them on the roof tops, "Sybil's hold won't be able to combat the parts of Hotaru that have both an aversion to and need for blood," she said as she continued to do so, having at least a dozen bodies on the roof tops near them

[Mizos]

Kaori put his hand to his chin as Mary spoke to him, he smiled seeing she at least had an idea because he personally had no idea what to do. When she motioned to the person wearing the helmet his eyebrows drew down a little. He'd seen what happened when Mary used her power too much, he had a good idea what those things did as well, hearing it melted heads didn't help his worry. He watched the two seeing that Mary was going to help Raina get to the helmet, he felt fear start to overcome him at the idea of that huge man down there finding them. Now that he thought more about it Alari was supposed to be his bodyguard why did he leave his company again.
He was quickly reminded as he looked at the two however, Alari was worried for his friend and Kaori was as well, with a small sigh Kaori took deep breaths to calm himself down before Raina was teleported.
Kaori blinked a few times seeing the whole thing happen but when she was brought back his eyes widened before he was shoved to the ground, he covered his mouth with both his hands as he looked over at Raina.
He wasn't incredibly comfortable that she had the item the giant roaring man was currently trying to obtain, he closed his eyes and slowed his breathing waiting for the moment to pass, he was pretty sure the talisman's he had weren't going to do anything to him.

Alari grit his teeth as his arm was grabbed, but a small smile formed on his face up until Sybil broke out, his eyes glanced over at her hearing the word brother come from her. That at least explained who was currently occupying Thanos, when Sybil jumped on the roof Alari grinned and flexed his hand before looking up at Thanos.
"I kind of figured my attacks would do little but I've done my part to help even things," Alari said before holding his hand up to Thanos' face. He gathered Ki into his hand and detonated it while at the same time gathering the Ki in the arm Thanos had and blowing it up to escape.
He jumped away from Thanos landing on the opposing roof of the building Sybil stood on, he looked at his missing right arm before looking up at Sybil letting a talisman fall from his other sleeve. He brought the talisman to his other sleeve and put a bit of his blood on it, he hurled the talisman high into the air until it vanished.
"This is all I can do right now," Alari said before he coughed up blood some trickling down his chin.
Alari fell to his knees as a small grin formed on his face, his body was starting to go numb, he had a feeling something like this would happen.
"Finally caught up to me," he said before he fell forward vanishing in a flash of yellow.
Larel accompanied Mera doing his best to keep up with her, he admitted that Mera was nothing if not resilient he respected her for that. He nodded at the mention of the house and rushed inside finding a body at Mera's request, he quickly came back out before he felt his whole body shudder hearing Sybil's familiar voice. It echoed in his mind for awhile and he grit his teeth as Sybil's smile flashed in his memories for a moment.
The idea of it being on Hotaru's face just infuriated him further as he walked up to Mera adjusting the body on his shoulder, the person was a young woman and the first one he grabbed when he ran in, he had seen more but he found Zenmaru's influence grow the longer he stood there. Last thing he needed was Zenmaru to start commenting on how the bodies were still warm and it was a waste to leave the rest there.
Larel watched as Mera put the bodies on the roof, he offered a small nod as a response to her words as he couldn't really blame her, he didn't say it out loud but he of all people had no right to judge on something like this but he pushed those thoughts aside and looked at Mera.
"I hope this works," Larel said closing his eyes. "I'd rather not test Zenmaru's question of my loyalty to you by fighting Hotaru, I fear what I might do."
Larel felt a chill run through his body as he quickly opened his eyes as they flashed; the seal on his head flickered as another line vanished from it, he shook his head before looking to his right.
"Zenmaru what was that?" Larel asked narrowing his eyes. "That was Alari.....alright thanks for letting me know."
Larel closed his eyes and took a long deep breath as his shadow sunk back into him as he waited for his further orders.
"I'm ready for your orders Mera-sama,"

[SanaChan]

"Whatever you're doing, Mary, you're going to have to do it quickly," Raina whispered, "And discreetly as fucking possible."
Mary looked around, a little out of breath from teleporting Raina, not completely at her best to start with, before putting her hands on both of them and focusing. In a flash they were inside a building and Raina was up, barricading the door as Mary lay on the floor, putting her hands to her head, "Never done that one before...." she sighed as she got her bearings back. She sat up slowly before looking out the window, "Everyone, come to the inn," she put her fingers to her temple , rubbing as her head was starting to hurt again. She had no idea anything had happened with Hotaru, that Sybil had taken her over, and had also sent the message to her to come that way, however, she did notice that it didn't feel as if she had contacted everyone she intended to, "Don't worry, Kaori, I'm going to get us all away from here as quickly as I can," she gave him a weak smile, sitting down against the wall, "I'm just going to nap until everyone gets here," she mumbled as she closed her eyes.
"She's been using her abilities too much, hasn't she?" Raina looked at him, letting down her hood. Her hair, unlike her practical doppleganger of a sister, was short, almost like a boys, but it had been growing back out and had a slight frayed appearance to it since it had been in the hood so long, "I'm going to strangle Mera for not taking better care of her," she muttered, putting her hands on her hips.

Sybil raised a brow at what Alari did, scoffing when he vanished and looked at Thanos as he all but flailed because of Alari's explosion of Ki in his face, "Pathetic, brother, pull yourself together," She spat him before taking off after Mera's scent. She raised a brow as she got Mary's message in her head, sneering though when Mera and Larel came in to sight, "There you are," she stopped just a little ways from them, taking a deep breath, then scowled as she saw the bodies everywhere, "Desperate much?" she looked at the two of them, "But by making her more thirsty, you're not helping your case any and I just happen to have a bit more control than some untrained pure blood leech," she clenched her fists before starting towards them again, "By the way, I might just mention to those down below that your sister is waiting for you at the inn- guess she didn't get the memo that I'm back in the game," she glanced down as she moved closer still to them before several vines shot up, grabbing a hold of her arms, pulling them back and slamming her in to the roof top.
"You're going to have to make her drink the blood," Mera looked at Larel before slamming Sybil again, "If we want to avoid having to actually fight her in Hotaru's body, we have to allow Hotaru to get full control again and she can't do that if she's been starving this whole evening," she said before looking towards Sybil as she got up, dusting off pieces of the roof that had stuck to her.
"I'm not about to let you end my fun that quickly," Sybil narrowed her eyes again before crouching and leaping forwards, landing a few feet back from them, pulling out Hotaru's katana, spinning it around as she looked back and forth between Larel and Mera, ready to move if they so much as twitched, her own fingers twitched just a bit as she itched to be able to fight them, "C'mon then," she looked at Larel, "I'll kill'er if you don't do something, and you don't which her I mean either," she put the sword to her throat, "As fun as it is to watch you all squirm when I use her," she pressed the blade against her skin, drawing blood, "I'll kill her just to see you break," that wicked grin returned to her face as she waited for his reaction

[Mizos]

Kaori thought he was going to be sick when they teleported again but he couldn't deny that he was happy that they had gotten away from that very angry man. Looking at Mary though he was really starting to worry about all of this, when she spoke his eyes widend a little at her intent on getting everyone away. When she went to sleep Kaori reached towards her but stopped mid-reach and withdrew his hand. Mary was doing what she could for everyone and it was obvious it was putting a strain on her, Kaori looked at the talisman's Alari had given him and the part of his message he said not to share with anyone. Alari was going to die, he told Kaori that pretty directly without a moments hesitation. He was going to do so because it was the easiest way to set up a counterattack if necessary, one talisman would activate if it became necessary but he couldn't be alive for it. He told Kaori to make up something for his absence, he said 'I'll have to vanish' will suffice if nothing else, he didn't like it but it was a personal request from Alari so he complied.
Alari put his life on the line for them, honestly he wasn't sure what to think about it. Alari didn't answer him when he asked if he could come back this time, Alari was taking his own life...that broke the immortality rule.
Kaori shook his head he couldn't think about that, he just had to do what he was able too, everyone was trying hard for now he couldn't be cowardly...though it was extremely hard not to be.
Kaori looked over at Raina as she spoke to him, when she lowered her hood Kaori seriously considered if he should just do the family painting first, he quickly pulled himself back to reality as she continued to speak.
Kaori looked at Mary and sat on his knees letting out a small sigh before he spoke.
"Yeah she's been using them to try and help us," Kaori said. "Mera-sama didn't want her too and Oji-san didn't either but..." Kaori trailed off for a moment pained for a moment as he thought of Alari. "Sorry...Mary-chan wanted to help. I don't like my friend pushing herself too much...but I appreciate how much she cares at the same time."
Kaori stood up and adjusted the flower in his hair before holding the talismans in both hands.
"At the very least she can get a nap in while we wait for everyone else, of course any actual physical fighting involving touching I leave to you Raina-san so good luck I'll be rooting for you...from way over here."

Larel remained still as he looked at Mera however when Sybil's voice reached his ears he immediately looked for Sybil, he found her and his eyes narrowed at her as he noticed she really was controlling Hotaru's body and he could see the strain already put on it. When Sybil mentioned control Larel's eyes actually drooped as he found that extremely hard to believe with the way she seemed to address things but now wasn't the time for that kind of doubt.
When Mera spoke to him he nodded and his shadow returned before picking up the body; Larel watched as it was pulled into his shadows vanishing into the vast darkness before a loud crunch was heard. Larel physically flinched and holding up his hand allowed a sphere of darkness to appear, when he made the darkness hiding the contents of the sphere vanish a red liquid showed within it. The liquid was clearly the blood from the body though Larel wasn't pleased with how he obtained it. The sphere vanished and Larel watched as Sybil landed near them.
She wasn't going to willingly accept the blood he knew that, so it seemed he was going to have to force it. He looked at his hand at the thought of it but he didn't have much choice.
When Sybil spoke he felt a chill run down his spine worried what she intended on doing, when she put the blade to Hotaru's throat his eyes widened as a mix of fear and anger enveloped him. His pupils shrank as he stared at Sybil his hand clenching into a fist as he watched her, he was beyond anger at this point and seemed at the breaking point.
"Hey hey now," a voice called pulling Larel back to reality.
Larel's shadow rose up and taking the form of the female Larel wrapped her arms around his neck before resting her chin on top of his head.
"Now that's not exactly fun now is it? Entertaining as it would be to watch Larel's only friend die in front of him and I mean it would really be fun this is a boring way to do it."
The voice was clearly Zenmaru and thanks to Alari removing three of the seals she had just enough power to manifest, though it seemed she was still darkness and not a physical being.
"Larel you have to fight your friend," Zenmaru said.
Larel's eyes widened at this and he opened his mouth to complain but Zenmaru spoke stopping him.
"If you don't Sybil will kill her, I mentioned this before right. You'd have to choose, now you remember what a ninja has to do right."
Larel lowered his gaze at this and Zenmaru looked over at Mera before her easygoing grin showed on her face, there seemed to be something else lurking beneath that smile but she turned her attention back to Sybil causing it to vanish.
"Remember the three wise words Larel, see no evil a ninja only see's a target there's no good or bad about them, no friend or enemy," Zenmaru said this covering his eyes with her hands. "Right?"
"Y-yes Zenmaru," Larel said nodding.
"Good ninja's don't hear evil either do they," Zenmaru covered his ears as she said this. "Those orders from earlier aren't important, right now you have an enemy and they have to be taken care of."
Again Larel nodded as a response to her before she continued.
"A ninja must speak no evil either right? Being silent and all that uninteresting stuff you do, now darken your heart, pull your sword and attempt to kill you friend like a man," Zenmaru said as she covered his mouth for the last part.
Again Larel nodded and Zenmaru grinned and hugged him from behind again before patting his head.
"Now get rid of the blood," Zenmaru said.
Larel held his right hand out as requested and summoning the darkness let the blood from the human fall to the ground leaving a red spot. Larel used his foot and covered it up with dirt.
Larel glanced back at Mera at this, he wasn't sure if he could communicate it but he tried to say 'trust me' with his eyes.
"There now everything's even," Zenmaru said smiling. "Why don't you make the first move Sybil or we can I just want to see the pained expression on his face as he fights his friend. I got trapped and missed all the fun at the festival, I want a little fun of my own and what better than two friends fighting each other. I get my payback for rudely excluding me and it'll be interesting to watch, it's a shame you can't fill his emotions right now they are everywhere. Don't you agree Sybil, just imagine it Hotaru will either wake up with her friend standing over her bloody corpse or she standing over his. Imagine that reality for a moment, well that's if you let her see it mind you, don't see why you wouldn't though it's cruel not to let someone know they took their friends life. Leaving in denial and ignorance is bad for a persons health. Now hurry up and get ready I didn't come out here to watch Hotaru die, I came out to watch two people suffer, possibly three depending on Mera's opinion of this."
Zenmaru backed away from Larel and took a few steps until she was next to Mera, she crossed her arms as a silent indication that she had no intention of interfering.
Larel reached back and drew his sword before holding it with both hands and getting into a fighting stance, he didn't want to do this and it showed on his face but he steeled himself and locked eyes with Sybil.
"You'll have me to deal with if you interfere Mera," Zenmaru said keeping her attention forward. "Let the two 'enjoy their youth' for at least a single minute."
She grinned at this, she knew what Larel was going to do without the blood in the dark sphere there was only one other way to help Hotaru and it involved getting up close and personal which is why he drew his sword.
"I wonder though, if he'll be able to attack her. Either way there's going to be blood. He's not at the power he was with their original fight so let's see what happens. The human ninja or the demon in the vampire's body."
Zenmaru wondered if Mera would catch on Sybil wasn't stupid but this was something Mera who had just been rescued in a certain way may realize exactly where Larel's darkness was going.
"Kyushu is such a nice place," Zenmaru mumbled to herself.

[SanaChan]

Raina gave a slight eye roll as he mentioned rooting for her from a distance but she put her hands on her hips as she decided to address a different part of what he had said, "Who is this Oji-san and what's happened to him to cause that look on your face? I'm asking because if he's cared enough to worry about my sister, then she'll care enough to be heart broken if something happens to him, so I'd like to be prepared for that amount of emotional instability. If she has been using her powers this much, tipping her over the edge could cause some serious repercussions and I'm not going to be as comfortable with her trying to use her abilities to transport us," she said, shaking her head.
She went over to the window as she spoke, looking out to see if she could see where any of their enemies were, hating that she lacked the ability to see where they were in the way Mera and Thanos could, but her senses were well honed to try and see it in a different way. There came a knock at the door and she grabbed a blade from her side, but she relaxed hearing Eryn's voice quickly telling her it was him in their tongue before he came inside.
"I got Mary's message, and I'm hoping Sybil's too preoccupied to act on the fact she probably got it too," Eryn said as he came in to the room, "What's going on?" he asked as he saw Kaori and he looked to Raina, his brows drawing close.
"Mary's going to try and get us all out of here and away from Father, which I would prefer not doing it, but we've really not go a whole range of options. I just hope that this Oji-san this Kaori fellow mentioned is alright because-"
"Has something happened to him?!" Eryn suddenly sounded quite alarmed, "No, no, no, that can't be- what could have happened already?!" he put his hand to his head, "He's coming back right?!"
"Who the hell is he?" Raina arched a brow. Eryn responded in their tongue, sounded quite distraught and Raina looked surprised, "Oh," then horrified, "Oh, shit."

"This is a horrible idea," Mera hissed at Zenmaru, "The only reason I'm not intervening is because I am completely tapped out with these damned things on, cause I could careless if you tried to stop me at that point," she spat at her, "Pitting them against each other- even with Sybil in control, Hotaru will never forgive herself for so much as having raised a finger against the people she cares about,regardless of who wins," she looked over at them, "And he shouldn't have to be doing this either, it's unnecessary stress to the whole situation and you're adding it because you're a manipulative little shit," she growled as she glared at her.
Sybil sneered a bit, "Fine by me," she turned, taking off at him, ducking down as she got right on him, curving up to go under his arms, aiming to drive the katana in to his gut, though something caused her to hesitate for just a second- putting an angry scowl on her face, and causing her to put more strength behind the jab. She wasn't counting on him being quick to react- betting on some kind reaction to him seeing the face of his friend coming at him, regardless of all the schpeel that Zenmaru had just said about not seeing friend or anything like that. She was counting on the predictability of humans she had tormented in the past. But she also hadn't been expecting Hotaru to be able to cause even the slight hesitation that she had- she had forgot that she had spent most of her life as a human rather than as the pureblood- which would have caused her to act swifter, especially considering that the vampires had been treated worse than the gypsies at one point or another.
Mera visibly tensed up, wanting to intervene, her fists clinched. She looked at Zenmaru as another thought came to her mind, "What are you even doing out like this? What's going on that you would be able to create a manifestation of any kind?" she meant to make it harsh like a demand, but she was aware that Alari had some control over that seal and therefore how much Zenmaru could actually do and if he had allowed this... worry was what mostly dominated her voice, her emotions too open for her own tastes considering the level of exhaustion she had reached and after she had spent the evening trying to be more honest about how she felt and all that it was hard to quickly wrap it all up, especially when her own kin were coming after her. Her heart ached at the thought of it all collapsing on her at that moment and it was everything she could do to remain looking severe, not needing Zenmaru harassing her over her stupid emotions right now.

[Mizos]

Kaori flinched at the words and he stared at the ground not really wanting to answer that question, he wasn't sure how much longer he would be able to do this. Alari told him not to say anything but it's not like he could keep it up forever, he was a horrible liar after all and it hurt to think about. He couldn't hide the expression on his face it was too hard to try and smile when he doubted it so much.
When Eryn came in he felt a tad relieved since the subject might change but when Raina spoke of Alari he flinched again seeing that wouldn't be the case, worse off he was sure Eryn just explained who he was which made it all the more difficult to just play off. Kaori just wanted to get away from all this but going outside wasn't an option, he'd be dead within seconds especially if Sybil was out there.
Jin sensed Kaori's discomfort and popped out of Kaori's kimono, he landed on his head before yipping.
"Jin what are you doing out-" Kaori started talking to Jin but stopped when it felt like something was reaching into his skull.
Jin spit a ball of blue fire out causing it to expand and cover the small area in front of Kaori, a dome type energy enveloped the area and Kaori and Alari materialized in front of Kaori within the dome about human size.
"No...." Kaori said trailing off as he watched the scene from his memories.
Alari was shown speaking to Kaori in the village and he said message to Mary which Kaori had already delivered.
Kaori pointed to his hand before speaking telling Kaori the final part of his message.
"Mess up her hair and tell her to stay out of trouble,"
"Why do I have to do that?" Kaori asked. "I wouldn't like my hair messed up and I'm pretty sure Mary-chan's probably older than I am."
"Don't worry about the reason just go ahead," Alari said. "Now Kaori don't mention this part but I'm going to die soon. I'm on my last legs here but I need to make sure everyone's safe first, I'm going to set up a talisman to counter what that accursed woman will do."
"Zenmaru you mean," Kaori said.
"Yeah my hold is weakening in my current state, coming back before took more out of me than I thought. Letting Zenmaru out will cause her to influence Larel, that would be extremely bad without a control. Thus I'll have something in place, regrettably Larel won't kill me with this I'll end up killing myself to put it up, please make up something for my absence. 'I have to vanish' works just fine."
"Oji-san I don't really like this..." Kaori said.
Alari ruffled his hair and nodded his head as he moved his hands in his sleeves.
"I don't like it either Kaori, but I know she'll do something. We don't have that much time so please do this. I know Larel wouldn't miss me but if Mera found out...I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I put her through any pain...I have to keep my promise but I don't want to hurt anyone while I do so."
Kaori watched as Alari rubbed the bracelt on his wrists, Kaori couldn't recognize the look in Alari's eyes but it was a distant one, something rooted deep in Alari showed for a moment but it faded as soon as it came.
"Okay Oji-san...uh...you'll...you'll come back right, like you always do," Kaori said worrying showing on his face.
Alari averted his eyes at this and his eyebrows narrowed as he didn't answer, Kaori's eyes widened but Alari turned his attention back to him and smiled before reaching over and patting his head.
"Don't worry about me...just do your part. I'll get Mera in Larel's care she'll be safe with him. I'll unlock the seal a bit so he has a bit more power...just make sure Mary stays safe. If I save Mera and Mary get's hurt then we still lose. Remember Mary's our friend so we have to make sure she stays safe and everyone else too."
Alari reached in his sleeve and handed Kaori the talisman's before the vision of the two faded as Jin yipped again.
Kaori kept his attention to the floor and put the talisman's back in his sleeve with a small sigh.
"...sorry...Oji-san made me promise not to say anything...but I believe Oji-san wouldn't just die like that...he...he wouldn't die...Oji-san promised me he wouldn't leave without saying goodbye and he didn't so he'll be back...so...I have to believe he'll come back...if no one's waiting for him he might not come back."

"Hahahaha ah I love that about you Mera, that tenacity of yours always makes me smile. I ever tell you that I love breaking strong people, that broken look in their eyes gives me more more excitement than cutting through a dozen humans," Zenmaru said grinning. "My guilty pleasures aside let's watch, its not everyday you get to watch two good friends try and kill each other."
Larel's body lowered a bit as Sybil agreed and ran at him, she was fast keeping up with her was hard enough but he readied himself to respond once she was close enough. When she closed in on Larel and stabbed at his gut his eyes went immediately to the tip of her blade.
"Did you know Mera," Zenmaru said. "That Larel could have dodged that Kunai when Hotaru tossed it at him when they first met. Instead he let it hit him because Larel knows one thing about catching his enemy off guard."
Larel turned his body slightly but didn't try to dodge the blade, he dropped his sword and let the blade stab into his gut his eyes narrowing as it did but he braced himself and grabbed Sybil's wrist the sword still in his body.
"The best time to catch your enemy off guard is when they have the upper hand," Zenmaru said grinning.
Larel summoned the darkness from under the ground and dark hands grabbed Sybil's ankles before another grabbed her free arm by it's, he reached forward with his free hand and grabbed Sybil by the back of her head.
He pulled her head toward his before putting his lips to hers, as he did blood trickled out of his mouth as he forced the blood into her mouth keeping a firm hold on her to make her swallow it as he tried to keep a firm hold with his darkness.
"I was speaking to Larel while you were giving your orders, we decided to use a little deception. Larel pretended to get rid of the blood but only cut his own hand spilling his own blood. Even if Sybil got the scent Larel is a human being, it'd be a subtle difference since it was a female's blood but a little goading would help keep her attention off it. When I put my hand over Larel's mouth during my speech I put the blood in his mouth, I am darkness after all that blood went right to me."
Zenmaru let the blood of the woman run along her fingertip before licking a bit of it off as she continued with a smile.
"All Larel had to do was make sure Sybil was close enough, on the ground and the attack didn't hit any vital organs, granted he felt bad about last part of the plan as he was sure it was rude but you gotta make sacrifices sometimes. All of this to follow your orders and help his friend, that boy's innocence truly astonishes me."
Zenmaru clapped her hands together truly happy to be a part of Larel's soul, she lowered her hands however as a smirk formed on her thin lips hearing Mera's words.
"Feel free to use your imagination for an answer to your question Mera-san," Zenmaru said an almost giddiness to her voice. "I just came out to personally watch, we should focus on those two, I'm hardly more interesting than what's going on over there. Still I love the despair that shows on the face of humans, it's so beautifully pathetic hahaha."

[SanaChan]

Mary had woke hearing Eryn being so loud but had kept quiet, trying to go back to sleep, but she saw the scene that Jin showed them. She put her hand to her mouth, trying very hard to fight back the wave of emotions that hit her as she realized Alari had resigned himself to his fate, "He...." Raina and Eryn looked a bit alarmed hearing her choked up voice, "He didn't need to do that," Mary grit her teeth as tears stung at her eyes.
"I-I'm sure he had a back up plan," Raina said quickly, "Y-your friend just said it, he-he would just up and.. you know," she really didn't want to say the word.
"And a-as he said, if there's someone waiting, he'll come back, We'll all be waiting, especially you and Mera," Eryn said with a nod, "S-so just-"
"I could have done something!" Mary grabbed her head and Raina grabbed Kaori pushing him to Eryn, who moved Kaori behind him.
"Don't run, ok, but just stay behind me," Eryn whispered as Raina moved in front of Mary.
"I could have helped somehow!"
"We don't know that, Mary!" Raina flinched as a pulse of energy escaped Mary, "Calm down, Mary!"
Nothing Raina was saying was reaching her and Mary grabbed the helmet piece, jerking it on as Raina tried to take it from her.
"Mary, please stop!"
Mary stood up, disappearing as Raina went to grab her.
"Shit. Shitshitshitshitshit!" Raina punched the wall before opening the window, "You two do not move. If I come back here and you're not here I will kick your asses myself," she growled before climbing out the window, going on to the rooftops.

Mary raised her brows seeing the tactic used and Sybil's eyes went wide as she tried to pull against the shadows, growling a bit as she ended up swallowing the blood. She made a quick jerk of her head, smacking her forehead against Larel's so she could pull away from him, "Just you wait, you damn whelp, next time you won't be so damned lucky that I didn't stab you in the heart," she sneered, but her face dropped, the orange fading from her eyes,
Hotaru blinked, seeing completely dazed as she came back around but her senses quickly kicked in when she felt the sword in her grip and she went wide-eyed seeing where it was. She looked at Larel, horrified, mistaking the blood that had gone down his chin from forcing it in to her mouth as his own since she had no idea what just happened, She tried to pull away but realized not only did he have her but the shadows had her too,
Mera sighed figuring she didn't really need to worry anyone at this point about them but Zenmaru's answer didn't help her worry about what happened to Alari. She tensed as she felt the pulse in the air, "Mary," she whispered, jumping a bit as Raina landed beside her, out of breath from pushing herself so quickly, "Raina? What's going on here?"
"Mary's gone and lost it, I'll explain why later, but right now, we've got to reign her in before she hurts herself," Raina quickly said as she stood up.
"Well, where is she?" Mera demanded before another pulse hit them. Mera rushed forwards towards the source of it, Raina right behind her. If Alari really was no longer among them, even if for a short while, the cuffs would be nullified as he had the key. Mera probably wouldn't catch on right away because of her need to stop Mary, but it wouldn't take too terribly long before she caught on.
Mary was back where they had been before they went to the hotel, looking down at her father, who was still having his people look for the helm. She grit her teeth as she looked at him, "This is all your fault," she muttered angrily and the gem started to glow, the buildings around her cracking under the pressure and he looked up before feeling a bone crushing pressure set in on him, everyone around him hitting their knees as he tried to fight it, "I'll make you pay," she yelled down at him, her eyes already bloodshot from what she had done throughout the day.
Mera and Raina felt it too as they came up to her and Mera ended up taking a knee as well, her body already mostly tapped out as well, "Of course she's trying to squash him," she panted as Raina offered her a hand up. It was everything the two of them could do to stand up and try and get closer to her, especially since the pressure Mary was pushing down on their father seemed to be getting more intense by the second.
"Mary, you've got to stop!" Mera called out to her, but she definitely wasn't even aware anything had been said in her direction

[Mizos]

Kaori's eyes shot open as he heard Mary and he quickly turned to her, he felt his heart sink seeing the expression on her face and hearing her voice.
He wanted to say something but no words came out, even Jin was shivering and jumped into Kaori's kimono when he was pushed behind Eryn.
Kaori nodded hearing Eryn's words and peeked from behind him as Mary's power started showing itself, he stared wide-eyed at the scene only reacting when Mary grabbed the helmet, he unconsciously reached his hand out to stop her but Mary was gone in the next second causing him to lower his hand.
"Mary-chan..." Kaori mumbled lowering his head.
He quickly looked back up hearing Raina's words and nodded as she started after her, Kaori stepped out from behind Eryn as Jin jumped back out onto his shoulder, a sad yip came from the little fox and Kaori reached over and pet its head.
"It's not your fault...you didn't know," Kaori said. "Let's wait here for them okay."
A giant red glow formed in the sky as Jin yipped in response, Kaori quickly turned his attention to it as the red filled the sky, his jaw dropped as the talisman let off a fierce glow. Jin hopped off Kaori shoulder and quickly transformed into Alari before pointing to himself than out to the light.
"That's Oji-san's doing?" Kaori asked.
Jin nodded and waved his arms causing Kaori to looked back out at the light.
"...Oji-san."

Larel reeled back at the attack but he kept his hold, he couldn't let Sybil get away he had to get Hotaru back. The moment he saw the look on her face he let out a small smile and sighed a little, but when the horrified expression showed he figured he'd better start explaining what exactly happened.
Larel let his darkness subside and releasing Hotaru stepped back to force the sword out of his gut he put his hand over the wound and wiped the blood from his mouth before holding up his other hand to show he was alright. He noticed Mera had run off with some woman and knew it wasn't safe for her to be running around in her current state, but he had to explain what happened to Hotaru she was probably a tad confused at what had happened.
"Good to have you back Hotaru, first off I'm fine I made sure the attack didn't hit any lethal organs I let it hit me so I could get the blood into you," Larel said. "It wasn't my blood either it was an already dead woman's from the house over there, it was Zenmaru's plan to get it to you not Mera-sama's she just wanted to get the blood in you but Sybil used your own body as a hostage so we resorted to such a trick. I apologize for having to resort to such measures."
Larel's spit the blood out of his mouth before shaking his head as he removed his hand from his wound.
"I don't know how you drink that stuff," Larel said chuckling a little but it quickly faded as a realization came to place. "I just kissed Sybil...oh man I'm going to be sick. I mean it was you but she's in you so it was her so...ugh..."
Larel covered his mouth as his face paled at the idea of it, as he stood there Zenmaru watched the two with a small smirk on her face as she started moving her darkness.
Since the two were so occupied and with all these demons around it wouldn't be too surprising for an...'accident' to happen to them. That seal wasn't stopping her either which only brought her more joy.
She started to move the darkness into a weapon but a red glow filled the sky directly above them, when it did Larel quickly looked at the sky as a figure fell from above and landed directly behind Larel lowering on one knee to steady themselves.
The figure seemed to be a young woman shorter than Hotaru and Larel, she barely looked old enough to be an adolescent but what she wore made her stand out.
She had on a short kimono which stopped a little past her knees and over top of it she had the top part of Alari's kimono on, the light blue pattern with the fish and what looked like plants on it was hard to miss as he always wore it around. She had on Alari's glasses as well and with one motion of her hand she threw out her medium length blond hair that stopped at the top of her back.
She had on white tabi and red geta that made her seem taller than she truly was, she was slim and had pale skin, her fingers were slender and she reached up and adjusted her glasses with them.
She turned around her bright blue eyes landing on Larel's wound, she reached forward and grabbed it causing him to flinch, when she did a yellow glow enveloped her hand and the wound closed and healed itself.
Without a word she turned and walked over to Zenmaru, she tapped a wooden sword on her shoulder as she walked and when she passed Zenmaru slammed it against her skull causing Zenmaru to grip her head before the girl sped off in the direction Mera had gone, Zenmaru scoffed and chased after her.

The girl jumped from building to building going as fast as she could move, however when she neared Mary she was quickly forced down to the earth and hit the ground with a loud crash creating a small crater in the process, the girl groaned and got back to her feet before her eyes landed on Mera, she did what she could to get next to her and get a better look at Mary. Her eyes landed on Mary and her target, seeing their father her eyes narrowed a bit before her glasses started to crack from the pressure.
"If she goes and get's herself hurt," the girl said her voice light and soft as she stared at Mary. "I'll never hear the end of it."
The girl stood fully up resisting the pressure the best she could and opened her mouth however she stopped and turned around as Zenmaru rushed at her reaching for her face, she slammed her wooden sword into the side of her skull sending her into the ground with a 'stay'.
Zenmaru grit her teeth and tried to stand up but the pressure was a bit much in her current form causing her to only be able to take a knee, she glared at the girl as she turned back around.
"You...what are you?" Zenmaru said before leaning forward as the pressure got to her more. Her eyes went to the girl's back before she noticed the red talisman appear and vanish, her eyes widened at it and she lowered her head and grit her teeth before punching the roof a grin showing on her face realizing what she was.
"That little...heh...hahahahah..."
Even with the small crack on Alari's glasses a glare seemed to form on them as she took in a deep breath.
"Mary!" the girl yelled Alari's voice coming from the girl.
When the glare faded her eyes let off a familiar red glow as she stared at Mary her grip tightening on her sword as the pressure caused the glasses to fully crack.
"Mary you have to stop this! Those artifacts are harmful remember! if Mera's claw burnt her hand I don't want to think about what that helmet will do to you! We'll take him to down together don't force it all on yourself!"
She couldn't move towards her, this force was relentless if that wasn't enough she was going to have to pull from something. She was glad Zenmaru was around for that convenience should it come to it.
"You're not even real...yet you have that much power....ridiculous." Zenmaru said a grin on her face.

[SanaChan]

Hotaru was still upset about having stabbed him, regardless of not hitting anything vital, but she turned beat red when he said he had kissed her, regardless of the fact it had been Sybil he was actually acting towards. She was about to say something before the red glow appeared the girl showed up, healing his wound, "Um," she blinked as she left, "What?" she blinked before she heard the sounds in the distance as the buildings were coming down from pressure now, "I guess we should go see what's going on?" she blinked, looking at Larel, not sure what she should do at this point, her head still feeling fuzzy, "Or we should we head to the inn, I heard Mary say go there, or I think I did," she rubbed her forehead, trying to connect the dots. Usually she wasn't really in control when Sybil was so she didn't remember much of what happened, so it felt a little weird having some recollection of what was said to her, but not of hitting Larel, "And I'm still sorry about that," she motioned to where the wound had been, "Even if it was technically her, I wasn't careful and that's why she even got to do anything to start with," she shook her head at herself as she put her katana back where it went on her back. She made a motion towards where the others had gone figuring it was better to figure out what was going on.

Mary looked over towards the girl and Mera's heart sank seeing her eyes. They were completely red and and her irises had turned black, "We have to stop this now," she looked at Raina, not addressing the fact Alari's voice was coming out of the girl's mouth right now, "Don't let me fall, or I won't be able to hold this long enough," she said before spreading her feet and Raina moved behind her, supporting her weight as Mera held her arms out again, focusing on Mary. Two thick vines burst through the roof top next to her, groaning from being so close to the source of the pressure, moving slowly. One wrapped around Mary's neck, squeezing just enough to get her attention by cutting off her air. The pressure dropped considerably and the second vine went to get the helm, but instead of doing what she planned, it completely backfired. When the vine touched the helm, both whipped back away from Mary and Mera gasped as it felt like something punched her in the gut, putting her on the ground, coughing.
"Mary!" Raina shouted, getting a little frustrated as the pressure shot back up.
"I am going to make him pay!" Mary said firmly, the roof under her cracking and one of the buildings behind her collapsing, "He will never cause anyone else's unhappiness! He will never hurt anyone else I care about!" she stomped her foot and a wave went out, knocking Raina on her backside, almost winding her as well. The gem started to turn colors from its original clear, turning black, "I don't care how it hurts me if that man is gone!" she shouted towards the girl before looking back down, narrowing her eyes as she forced the pressure to increase, red starting to run down her cheeks from her eyes.
Mera tried to push herself back up, at least to her hands on her knees, but her head was ringing and she couldn't feel her connection to the earth at the moment, which left her feeling even more out of sorts, "Damn it..." She panted, putting her hand to her mouth as she tasted the faintest hint of the coppery liquid, "I'm not going to let you do this," she forced herself up on to her feet, pushing against the pressure to move closer to her.
"Why are you trying to stop me?!" Mary demanded from her, "Do you know what he's done?!"
"I know a lot of it," Mera said, "But he's already taken too many people I care about away," She reached towards her, "If you keep doing this, you're going to let him take someone else- Mary, even Mother said not to use that, that it could kill you if you didn't use it properly! It wasn't meant for this! Please stop!" Mera begged her and Mary seemed a little unsure seeing the blood on her sisters lips, knowing that was her fault.
"If I stop now, he'll come here and he'll hurt all of you!" she said, turning back around, though the pressure seemed a bit more focused down below. Not feeling the pressure on her actually caused Mera to fall as she wasn't expecting the sudden shift.
Hotaru arrived at that point, catching Mera before she went off the side of the building when she fell, setting her down as she looked over at Mary, "I've got a quick solution unless someone else has a different plan that doesn't involve me having to knock her out," she said, looking over at Larel and the strange girl

[Mizos]

Larel seemed just as lost as Hotaru from the girl's appearance as he looked at his wound and back in the direction the girl had gone, he looked back at Hotaru when she spoke nodding in agreement to seeing what was going on in the distance. Mera had run in that direction and Zenmaru had followed after the girl, he was a little worried at leaving her alone with Mera.
"Don't worry about it Hotaru, I of all people understand it wasn't your doing," Larel said smiling at her.
He wasn't sure why her face had been red but he hoped she wasn't pushing herself too much, once this was over it may be for the best they all get some kind of rest.
Larel turned and ran in the direction Mera had gone following after Hotaru, when he arrived he was willing to admit he was shocked at what exactly he was looking at. Mary who he made sure to keep an extreme distance from seemed to be doing something against a large man and what he assumed to be his subordinates. He checked on Mera who was okay thanks to Hotaru before looking over at Zenmaru who had stood up by now. She filled him in on what was going on and his eyes widened as he realized who it was, he actually found himself supporting Mary but the girl who had been silent throughout most of the event opened her mouth to speak to him.
"That helmet's hurting her so don't be too excited at his current position," she said crossing her arms her voice returning to normal.
Larel opened his mouth to speak to the girl not sure how she knew what he was thinking but Mera spoke drawing his attention over to her, he blinked a few times as he wasn't entirely sure what to do with Mary, knocking her out seemed an alright plan to him.
"Killing her isn't an option right?" Zenmaru said.
"No," Larel and the girl said at the same time causing Zenmaru to shrug showing she didn't have anything either.
"I have an idea," the girl said looking at Mera. "It won't involve bodily harm either...if it doesn't work though knocking her out may be the best option. He'd prefer I do this first anyway."
"You," Larel said to the girl causing her to look over at him. "Name."
He wasn't trying to hide his disdain at being near her and the fact he was suspicious of her, he wondered if it was the glasses which she removed from her red eyes before putting another pair on ignoring his rudeness.
"Rin," she responded before turning towards Mary.
"Who are you?" Larel said as Rin knelt down getting ready to jump up onto the roof.
"Not important," she said before jumping moving away from everyone.
Larel ruffled his hair finding himself irritated from that short of a conversation, talking to her reminded him too much of Alari and he wasn't entirely sure why.
"Zenmaru who is that?" Larel asked looking over at her.
Zenmaru however had her arms crossed and was staring at the ground, her eyebrows were drawn down and there was a scowl on her face, something about her aura told him to just leave her alone for right now.

Rin landed on the roof next to Mary's, she noticed there had been a bit of hesitation when Mera had spoke to her, perhaps she was returning to her senses a little bit. Rin decided to take the chance and speak to her again.
Rin cleared her throat not wanting to speak in Alari's voice again, she moved her hands into her sleeves and took a deep breath before speaking as she looked for the right words to say to her.
"Mary I hope you can hear me right now," Rin said. "I know you don't know me but I've heard much about you and everyone else from Alari. Mary I only know what Alari has told me about what this man has done to your family and I won't say I understand what you're going through right now...I can't even say that man down there isn't an enemy from what I know.
"This is going to fail so badly," Larel said bringing his hand to his face.
"However Mary I know you care about Mera, you've seen what Mera did when it came to your father. She suppressed her emotions, took everything upon herself to protect you and the others from him. Didn't that hurt Mary? Didn't it hurt to watch your sister go through all of that, you wanted to help her didn't you? You want your sister to be happy right. What you're doing Mary isn't all that different from that, putting yourself through all this isn't worth it for all the damage it's doing to you. Think about your sisters watching you right now! Think about your friends, they're worried about you and Mera can barely stand but she's reaching out to you! Don't be consumed by the desire to see him die, it'll change you! The Mary-chan Kaori always loves seeing, the Mary that Alari can smile so easily around, the Mary that your siblings love. It's not worth it if you lose yourself to this! The tattoo on Mera's back is a constant reminder of how dear you are to her, that you're always there for each other that you're not alone! That in a tough spot you'll watch out for each other, acting alone spits on that notion Mary!"
"The what?" Larel questioned ruffling his head but Zenmaru covered his mouth as Rin continued.
"Please stop this! You have so many people supporting you, do you not believe in their ability protect those closest to them! Do you not have any faith in those dear to you to take this all on yourself! I won't say your wrong in wanting to protect them but not like this! You know the pain of watching someone hurt themselves for your sake don't force that same feeling on everyone! Look into the eyes of your sister and wake up Mary! Don't make excuses, don't make up reason's, don't justify it just stop!"