[IC] Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

[ReaptheMusic]

It was utter chaos below a everyone and their mothers tried desperately to do anything to the deformed Naisha. Distract her, physically attack her, magically attacking her, trying to send her, protecting her, trying to hold her back--she was starting to get a headache. When asked if she was okay, she merely glanced at the man asking her before turning back to Thane as he talked.

"It would have seemed you have Experienced the world for yourself, yet after so many years are still a child in it. Perhaps for you to grow up some more...you might have to visit Macalania temple. I would say it would probably be an interesting experience to behold...now that the original Fayths have returned..."

Her stomach tightened, but she didn't show it. She chose to raise her head a little at his words to show they had caught her attention.

"It would seem I should get to work my self. Take care of yourself my little flower."

And then he disappeared, leaving nothing but a sphere behind in his wake. In a swift motion, she stepped forward and snatched up the sphere he left behind and gingerly placed it into her pocket. A less composed person might have crushed it instantly underfoot, but she felt she would need it somehow in the coming days. Saina, hand in her pocket, turned to the dark haired man in the red coat. Briefly, she squinted at him as she looked at him head on. Somehow, he seemed familiar. Though, the commotion down below turned her attention where it needed to be. She walked over to the railing, putting a cold hand on it as her narrowed icy blue eyes looked at Naisha's contorted form. A weakened body would do the trick, that's what Thane said, right? She stayed that way a moment then, looking over her shoulder at the man, spoke to him.

"Please share an elixir with me after this. I won't be able to do magic immediately afterwards otherwise."

It was not a request, clearly. However, as she straightened her back and pressed both her cold hands over her heart, she exhaled in a look of complete, but ambitious, relaxation. As she did one could see her breath, as though she were standing in the freezing tundra rather than the tropical area of Besaid. Taking into consideration the placement of everyone in the room, especially the two actually on Naisha's possessed body, both of her hands shakily moved to press out in front of her, pressed together with palms facing outward. She breathed heavier as she began to concentrate. A mild wind stirred her body and for her, everything was quiet. It was like she could see everything with pristine clarity; a feeling not unlike walking through the virgin, untrodden snow.

Her center, her focus, was completely on Naisha's body. Between the girls' breast and her collarbone, just on the opposite side where the heart lay in her chest, a tiny blot of blood in her body turned into a very, very small ice shard within the veins, causing its own flow to stop.

Saina's outward facing hands took on a claw shape, a bead of sweat dripping down her brow as a black and blue large alchemy circle formed in front of her covered in intricate scriptures, all the while her hands shaking in concentration. The shard grew, just a tiny bit, enough to cause discomfort in Naisha's chest... and then, with extreme force and a cry of great effort, Saina's clawed hands forced themselves open pushing so far to either side of her that she had to change position to a crouch with her legs parted and knees bent, her hair barely contained by the ponytail flew up wildly around her. Simultaneously, the alchemic circle glowed brightly before shattering and fading--down below, the blood-ice shard grew so intensely fast that with Saina's movements, it had looked like someone had impaled the girls body with a javelin. This one, however, came from inside her body. The frozen blood used was Naisha's own, causing immediate blood loss, and imploded through her skin inside her, through a few major veins connected to the heart.

Falling to one knee, Saina panted loudly. Her mana, which she had just restored at full, had been instantly drained in that one vicious attack. Shaky and wobbly-kneed, she slowly stood up with great effort while holding onto the rail in front of her for support. She swallowed briefly between pants and watched below to see what unfolded next.

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Before you get concerned, this attack has been pre-approved to be done by both the GM and rivaan herself.

[rivaan]

„Huh???” The mage thought as she definitely heard another voice inside her mind. The voice was so identical to her own that for a moment she thought she was just imagining things, but that was not the case she was really hearing it! It sounded like her but the voice had a lot more fiery sounding to it, than she usually talked. “We are part of you, don't worry. We will understand everything later, but for now we will help you regain control.” Another voice appeared, this one had a very gentle and soft sounding. Naisha was so busy trying to find out what was going on, that she completely missed the attack Valefor made, but she did sense the suddenly drop of the Daemn's strength on her as it appears the summoner Eva was performing a sending to try to make it disappear? Then in the next moment she saw how Gippal jumped and grabbed the hand which was holding the staff. The aeon was prepared to fire the boosted fira right in his face.” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Naisha shouted... she couldn't allow this thing to harm him!” That's it girl... that's the way! Don't give up, the stronger your will is, the stronger we are!” She heard the fiery voice say as suddenly the previously impossible happened. The boosted fira shrank and lost the majority of it's power. What hit Gippal was plain fire! Naisha quickly began to sense that she started to regain control of her own body along with her powers! Whomever those four presences were, they were really helping her. Problem was the aeon was still deeply rooted in her. While they managed to block it's access to Nai's elemental abilities it still had control over the others. With that it was preparing to unleash a Gravija on Gippal and Alex to try to bury them under the rubble of the arena, but then the mage felt something in her chest. A huge ice spike pierced her from the inside out. The suddenly blood lose and the shock and pain completely froze Naisha's brain... She couldn't even try to protect herself from the damage that was going to be dealt on her brain from the lack of blood.” Don't worry... we will take care of it.” She once again heard the soft voice as her mind completely turned to black.

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The dark aeon was at a predicament. The person who he possessed while was very useful for her abilities and skills, was no longer capable to utilize them. The original owner of the body had lost consciousness. So all her abilities were no longer possible to access. Then there was the strange thing with the other 4 presences that appeared and started to block a lot of it's tries to use the magics of Naisha and to top it all, with the wound this body sustained it was going to die soon. The woman had became useless for the needs of Daemn. In few brief moments the creature left the body in the form of pyreflies and quickly materialized outside it. Daemn quickly threw the lifelessly looking body of Naisha to the side. It still had a summoner to catch!

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Naisha's quickly began to come back to her senses despite the wound and the seemingly no blood circulation... Her mind was hazy, she lacked strength to move even her arms, but her desire to destroy that thing gave her strength.” I break thy seal... destroy him... limit break... Dreamt existance!” She all but managed to whisper before all the remaining energy was drained from her body.

Just above Naisha a big fiery magic circle appeared. From it as if it was a gate to a place far away, a hand suddenly appeared followed by the rest of a body. From the circle a 2,5 meters tall humanoid creature made it's way. It bore Naisha's visage, but had a pair of long curved horns identical to those of the summon Ifrint. It's long red hair was covered with fire and it had a floating cape of flames. It was dressed in red also flaming clothes akin to those of the uniform of the Auchons. Finally on it's hip there was a long thin crystal sword, covered in flaming patterns.

[21308]

Bohdan nodded to Cassius. "Do try and stay safe without me." he said. He left as Cassius had ordered, hoping that Cassius would be able to follow his order in turn. He ran to where Eva and Urick were and drew his lance. He tried to position himself so that he was between Eva and any incoming danger as he had with Cassius moments ago. "Don't worry, as of now I'm a friend." he sad in a firm yet gentle tone. Bohdan prepared to throw caution and his own safety to the wind to help bring this awful situation to an end.

Bohdan hadn't been in a fight that was anything like this. He'd fought before, sure, and he had done it enough times that threats to his well being didn't phase him very much, but he had a hard time not being concerned that his previous experience and training wouldn't be enough.

[Teancum]

His grip on his sword tightened as the man questioned why he would fight against him. It was quite obvious, the original faith was never real....It may have taught a few things which was good and worth implementing, but it was corrupted and was meant for control over everyone. Before he would answer the man though he seemed to be forgotten as he noticed Thane looking to the woman now performing a Sending.

He looked at the man as he mentioned she was always the smarter one... What did that mean? Did she have a connection with this mad man? Like this woman who stood before him, who didn't utter a word but only glanced at him when he asked if she was OK. His eye's went wide at her glance upon seeing her face and blue eyes. It couldn't be.... Shaking his head she simply turned around and ordered him basically to share an Elixer with her afterwards. Afterwards what?

She gripped the rail for a moment before performing something that seemed extremely hard to do, clearly by the look of her while she did it. As she prepared he did see two people holding onto the Aeon now... A male covering the woman below him, ready to take a hit. What an idiot, didn't he know he had already casted shell upon her? He didnt' have time to send another shell, hopefully the guy knew what he was doing. He was then hit in the face with a firespell, it looked weak...did something happen?

He then saw a blood ice crystal seemed to explode from the Aeon's chest. He had to admit it surprised him enough for him to take a step back. Looking to the woman who's very prescience was cold he was surprised someone had powers to do that. He knew mage's were powerful people not to be taken lightly, but he never, in all his years traveling, had seen someone perform something like this.

She fell to a knee before slowly standing up, using the rail for major support. He reached into his pouch and pulled an Elixer out, and placed it on the railing in front of her. He would have offered more help but now there was work to be done with this Dark Aeon now free of the body. He hopped up onto the railing with a left foot before jumping as far as he could and landing on the bleachers below.

He looked around and found some Alcohol and picked it up filling his mouth with it and threw it to the side. He then placed his blade infront of him and spat the alcohol over the blade, drenching it. He then raised the blade over his head, closing his eyes for a moment as he focused his energy, Then saying softly, "Banishing blade." a blackish red light suddenly surrounded the blade, and spun around it along with white runes going the opposite direction of each other. After a moment the runes vanished leaving his blade covered in the dark red light, he twisted the blade and swung downwards, his blade in bedding in the ground below him. An alchemist circle appeared and four black orbs with red in the fringes launched at the Aeon.

[Silver Fox]

As the Aeon used Slow on the red head, Alex cursed under her breath as she felt her body move in slow motion, her punch inching much more slowly toward the Aeon, knuckles just stopping inches away. But Alex didn't dare attempt to move faster. Her body might be slowed, but the amount of damage would remain the same if it connected. So losing her temper and trying to move faster would just make her punch harder. It was then Alex felt the spell Shell casted on her, seeing the faint green tiled barrier briefly appear around her. While the controlled Naisha was firing up a Fira.

Then all of sudden, she felt a weight on her and she turned her gaze to see Gippal covering her. In which case Alex growled and started thrash a bit, attempting to knock the white haired man off of her. "You stupid idiot! Get offa me!" she snapped angrily at him, for several reasons.

One was the reason that they both didn't need to end up hurt by this, that would only make Naisha sadder. The other was that Alex believed she could take care of herself and take a hit. Indeed, Magic had always been something that hit her harder than the rest of normal people. She could take a lot of punches, kicks, boulders crushed against her. But magic always felt the worst. It was weird really, she could learn all the knowledge of magic from Lulu or Yuna, but no matter what Alex could never cast the simplest of spells. And they were always painful. Ice and Earth were at least easier to deal with since they were punchable, but that didn't make them hurt any less.

At the sound of the Hymm, Alex's protests suddenly ceased and her head started screaming again. It was so loud, her head pounded like it was being hammered on the inside and her teeth clenched tightly as her body trembled. She could taste the familiar rustic blood within her mouth. Why now though?! The tall woman was not in the temple, so this didn't make sense to her. A sense of panic ran through her veins, yet she held no understanding why. Shaking her head to try to rid of the pounding and the ringing, she tried to focus on the task at hand.

To her horror, a blood color icicle then pierced through the chest of her friend. Alex couldn't help but feel her heart stop, breathing hitch, and her blue eyes stare in horror at the sight. But the Aeon seemed to find the predictiment at a lost and disappeared in a burst of pyreflies, something that made Alex tense as she tried not to touch them but still hang on to Naisha. As the Aeon basically chucked them to the side, Alex growled as she quickly scooped Naisha in her arms bridal style. Slamming her feet against the ground, crushing the stand beneath her, but landing without having Naisha or Gippal crash or get crushed.

Ringing.... Ringing... Ringing... Make it shut up!

Alex's face twisted, sweat appearing on her brow and sliding down her cheek but she looked to Naisha and then the blood icicle sticking out of her chest. Glancing up at the flaming creature Naisha had casted, the red head tried to think. Her first thoughts were to rip the icicle out. Yet the remaining sanity she had told her that was a bad idea. Yet if something didn't happen, her friend would die in her arms. Alex knew how to bandage one up in a pinch. She's lived alone in the woods for years amongst fiends. This was a little too much for her though. At times, Alex really, really, really hated magic. If it disappeared, Alex probably wouldn't care except for the fact that it is the thing that saved Naisha when she got ill.

Yet now it was the thing that was killing her and she could do nothing. She wasn't even sure that the Elixer Naisha had on her would do enough for this serious injury that %#%#% did.

How irritating.

Alex felt panic run through her, terror, ferocious rage, yet a strange forced calmness as well. It was disorienting. She felt like a dog that was hearing a giant dog whistle over and over again. Unable to make coherent thoughts. Despite that however, Alex continued to hold Naisha in her arms protectevely. A firm yet gentle grip, as if she would break if Alex moved a muscle of her godly strength. Her headache was making it difficult focusing on who or what was around her, but she looked ready to violently attack anyone or anything that got too close.

Not exactly happy having to resort to this, but having no option, Alex glanced her blue eyes to Gippal. "Think of something. Get that girl, get a medic, I don't care just save her." Alex growled at him, yet still didn't seem willing to let her go either. Like a Guardian Beast protecting its sphere.

[Sophitia]

She happened to look up to see Gippal get a fire blast in the face. Which caused her to stop her dance and place her hands over her mouth in fear. She heard him scream in pain and she made a move to help him only to be grabbed by Urick. She looked to him and he shook his head, "He's fine don't worry about h..." Before he could finished he was staring back at the three, she turned and saw a blood ice spear sticking out of the Aeon/Naisha. In the next few moments pyreflies escaped Naisha's body, her form turning back to her original self. With one final move the Aeon Daemn threw them to the side. It's gaze turned to her.

Before it could anything, suddenly a fire image of the girl Naisha appeared, though slightly different and much taller it definitely took her by surprise...what was that? She then noticed a swordsman wearing a Red robe perform a banishing blade and strike towards the Aeon. She too pointed to Valfor and commanded it to fire at the Aeon with it's beam. Suddenly Urick spun around her so instead of blocking her path he now stood behind her. She looked only see a Ronso who had offered it's help, but that was not what she was afraid to see. Thane, who was at the top of the Announcer's box was now behind them. How did he get there so quickly? Urick stood tall trying to block her view, not to hide her but to say Thane had to get through him first.

Urick looked down at her, and she up at him. " Go to Gippal he will protect you... and please save Naisha...please." His normal soft voice was gone, the beads of nervousness as well. He seemed to be at ease talking to her. She had seen this before as they traveled. What she saw now was confidence, worry for his friend, but he seemed to know everything will be ok.

She looked to Thane who offered his hand and said, "Please come with me my dear. Let us finish what we started together." She didn't understand why she was so important to his ritual... but it had to be her... This was what it was like for two years, running from him.

"Eva... Run to Gippal NOW!" Urick said in a commanding voice He then looked to the Ronso who offered his help. "If you wish to help Protect her! Do not let anything happen to her!" He said as he turned to rushed towards Thane. She listened and started running to where Gippal, Alex and Naisha had fallen down. She had looked up to see Valefor in between her and Daemn, protecting her. She wasn't too far away from them in the first place she could make it.

[21308]

Bohdan began following Eva as he was instructed. He felt he was adapting to the chaos well and was glad to have a job to do. He saw that she was running to three people who had apparently had trouble with this Thane person and the creatures he'd brought into the arena. Good, maybe I'll be of some use to them as well. He was probably overshooting, he thought, as he was sure he didn't have it in him to being down a single dark aeon. He was positive he could take down an average fiend, however, and was willing to do whatever he had to to protect his new... friend? Acquaintance? Whatever they were, he was ready to put his body between hers and any teeth, claws, magic or whatever else should come her way before it could do her any harm. Hopefully he'd get the chance to do the same for her friends, or best of all actually get to fight against some of the awful beings they were now surrounded by.

Bohdan looked behind him. He wondered what Urick was planning to do, and hoped it would succeed whatever it was. He'd have liked to help him as well, but he was only one ronso and wasn't about to start arguing about which job he would be more suited for. He adopted an aggressive stance and ran just slightly ahead of Eva, hoping that any enemies behind them would be occupied with Urick.

[Aerandir]

Urick ran at the smaller man after telling Eva to run and the Ronso to follower her. He cocked his right arm slightly back before lauching a punch at his face. Thane stepped out of the way and pulling out his sword he slashed at Urick. Urick used his armor on his right gauntlet to push it to the side and miss him, Following with an uppercut with the same hand. Thane had managed to turn his head just in time to dodge it. He swung his body around in a 360 degree turn to slash again at Uricks chest.

Urick saw it comming and caught the blade with both of his hands flat, which took Thane by surprise. A feat normally difficult coming from a vertical strike but from a horizontal was another indeed. Urick Grunted and snapped the blade with his hands as if it was a stick. To which Thane jumped back and looked at his blade with Disappointment. "That was my favorite blade you overgrown muscle head." He tossed the useless blade to the side as Urick prepared for Thane to use magic or something else.

Urick then smiled. "You are going to lose a lot more than just your favorite blade for hurting my friends Thane. For the last three years I've been wanting to do this."

Thane only glanced to his left, when Urick did he knocked from his feet and slammed into the bleachers below, his mass crushing multiple rows, and ripping the metal anchors out of the concrete. He looked up to see a Behemoth roaring where he stood before. He looked at his ribcage as he felt burning and saw four claw marks had ripped his skin open. The Behemoth must have come out of one of the tunnels, which was why he was caught off guard. He pushed himself up off the ground.

Thane was laughing as he slowly made his way back towards where Eva and the Ronso ran. "So have I, we can agree on this." Thane said as the Behemoth roared again and rushed Urick. Urick let out a long breath and rushed the Behemoth as well, His eyes calm as he watched the massive fiend lower its head to impale him with it's horns. At the last moment he raised his arms and caught both Horns with his hands. The behemoths momentum and more weight pushed Urick back. But the massive fiend came to a stop as Urick wrestled with it, just next to the drop at where the water sphere would have been.

The massive fiend snarled in anger, as it tried to push more, only to be punched square in the face, sending it's head into the ground and leaving Urick standing there looking a the knocked out Behemoth. Urick was breathing hard, as he made it look easy it really wasn't. He smiled at the challenge he does accomplished and punched the beast again to kill it. He didn't want it to come back and hurt someone. He then ran towards Thane once again, who was still walking as if he was in the park.

He grabbed a section of the seating that had ripped out of it's anchors and swung it around a few times before launching it at Thane. Thane was startled as a five chair section slammed into the wall just in front of him. He looked back in surprise to see Urick Yelling, "I'm not done with you! Fight me!" He yelled as he charged over to him.

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Gippal despite Alex's protesting ignored her. He yelled in pain as he got hit in the face with fire. It wasn't enough to knock him off. He gritted his teeth as covered his face with his arm to rid it of the flames. He did but when he looked up he saw the massive blood ice shard now protruding from Nai's chest. His eyes widened in horror "NoooOOO!" He screamed. Who did it!? who harmed her! He looked around But with the Aeon leaving and throwing them to the side he didn't have the chance to see. Unlike Alex, Gippal hit the ground hard rolling like a rag doll till he landed face down. He groaned and pushed himself up and looked up to see Alex holding Nai in her arms.

He made his way over to them, wincing as he did, and managed to stand next to Alex and placed his hand on Naisha's cheek. "Come on Nai don't give up..." She opened her eyes and she said something he couldn't hear, but suddenly a fiery being appeared after she closed her eyes again, it looked like her. He would have been amazed with it if Nai wasn't on the brink of death. He had hope though if this being looking like her somehow it was connected to her, which meant she had to be alive!

Alex looked to him Telling him to think of something, to do something. His eyes looked up and down Nai's body rapidly, trying to think of what to do. He quickly turned around to look for Eva, she had a Cura spell, and he was sure she would be carrying a phoenix down...something. He didn't know of any medic's nearby, if they all ran from the stadium, he wasn't sure he could pick them out. He saw Eva running towards him, then looking further Seeing Urick Fighting Thane. His blood boiled seeing the man but he couldn't do anything right now. Nai was the priority.

Ignoring the pain from the fire and the fall he ran towards Eva, Seeing the Ronso following her as well She was the best hope he had at saving Nai. He lept over the edge and landed, doing a frontward somersault back to his feet he saw a couple of Dingo's rushing them from the left, He threw his dagger, catching one as it lept. As it yelped in pain he reached down and grabbed a sharp metal as big a one of his knifes, it was awkward in his hand but it was better than nothing. He ran right past Eva to Help the Ronso who would be now fighting the Fiends off. Jumping off a chair and kicking one more in the head. As he landed he looked to the Ronso and nodded in thanks, After they killed the Dingos he followed Eva back up to the group, looking again at the Fiery image of Nai who was protecting them from the Aeon.

Eva rushed to Naisha and quickly said, "Cura!" Right at her wound with the Ice. She didn't know how well it would do with the Blood ice chunk sticking out of her chest. It was better than nothing though, She could still tell she was alive it was very possible she could heal her.

[CAS1006]

During the chaos, he saw the red head and the black haired one helping the now horned girl with the bloody ice in her chest. He slowly inched over with his machina, charging his weapon up as he placed it in his machina. He strolled over to see the red head was the only threat; and not one that he'd see as threatening seeing as he had range on her.

"Girl, I never quite caught your name, but I can see this person is precious to you, though I see her as a potential threat to a degree, I no longer see her as very active, and because of that...-" He cut himself off, he wasn't about to go into too much exposition.

"Just hold her steady..." Cassius ordered.
"Master, that shard contains a large portion of her blood..." Helios said trying to be discrete despite everyone already able to see what it was.

Cassius looked at Eva. "No offense, but you're going to make it worse by closing the wound around the ice, what you all should do is move her into a hut away from here where we can patch her up, and melt the blood so it can be filtered back into her body. Though I'm sure they appreciate the effort."

"There is something I can try here, seeing as my machine is pretty much a medical one. But... if it were up to me I'd do as I just stated. Melt and filter the frozen blood. Pretty hard to do in debris." he commented.

Cassius folded his arms as he looked over the four. A moment ago she was a big threat, and now they want to save her, so if I am correct as I previous guessed, she is important to them, and if my assessments are correct, she was possibly not in control seeing as her aim dramatically shifted and transformed her body... truly terrifying...

"Well... there is one more alternative... if there is no breech in her back, you can lay her flat on the ground and slowly melt the blood from the root- where it is impaled as it seems, and then I could heal over that." He gave his last option to the group.

[rivaan]

The summon Nai called forth looked at the situation around her. Till her eyes stopped upon Alex who was holding the lifeless looking Naisha in her hands. The expression on the face of the fiery summon darkened. She was just about to say something, but then the summoner rushed to them, trying to heal Naisha. Followed by a half-ronso looking guy. The latter seemed to know what he was doing.” Hear me, my sisters will keep her alive for now.” The summon said at the group behind herself that was trying to heal Naisha.” But since they weren’t summoned like me, they won’t have enough power to heal her, they can only delay the inevitable at this pace. This was probably done by that ice girl from earlier… get her to melt it for best results.” The summon said turning back towards the dark aeon and then she noticed Thane.

“THE SIN OF HARMING OUR CUTE LITTLE NAISHA IS A GRAVE ONE! YOU WILL PAY FOR IT IN BLOOD!” The fiery creature shouted with her voice full of burning anger as she drew her sword from the sheath, doing a vertical slash from distance towards Thane.” FLAMING WAVE SLASH!” She shouted as the blade erupted with fire which spread in a vertical wave towards Thane. Then from the position she was right now with the sword pointing downwards she quickly slashed upwards in another vertical slash. Again the same power, but towards the dark aeon.” Since you guys have Valefor to protect you from the dark aeon I can freely deal with this guy!” She shouted as she jumped in the direction where Thane was.” Even tearing to pieces and boiling each one of them won’t be enough punishment for you!” She roared at Thane. Again doing a fiery slash like the other two.

[Jerkchicken]

Kahl's pace quickened as he continued making his to the source of all that din. Only to stop when he heard loud noise and man's voice shouting. His attentions changed as he honed on to new objective. From what he saw there were two men, one beefy and very pissed off, and one not so beefy guy at the receiving end. He pondered what to do but his racing instincts got the better of him and before a thought even completed itself he found himself hurtling a decent sized piece of debris at the skinnier guy. Either it would hit him or it would prove a useful distraction to allow the other guy to get him. It didn't matter what happened. All he knew is his gut was telling him the beefy guy was the not bad guy in this situation.

[ReaptheMusic]

Saina brought the elixer given to her by the man in red to her lips and drank it down slowly. As she did, taking her time in doing so, her eyes watched Naisha part from the Aeon, it going on about its own rampage and meanwhile the others clamored about the limp body. Meanwhile some sort of summon sprang forth made of fire, but she didn't pay attention to much else. She had done her part here.

Her strength slowly returning, she noticed the man in red leaping away to take care of things. Not caring either way, she turned to the machina parts he had run up on before and used an ice bridge quickly formed to cross the path, not wanting to use too much energy again. She was, after all, still a bit weak kneed from the intensity of her attack. She paused in her path only to see Urick and Thane fighting, causing the pale woman to quirk a brow. Really? Thane had chosen to show himself? Now that was foolish, even for him. She watched the fight between the two, choosing to take a seat at the edge of the machina arch she walked on to rest herself for the time being. Urick truly was impressive in his skill. Thane had been taken off guard, not a normal feat for him. The flame summon catching her eye, she turned to look at what was going on. The Summon had just launched a fiery assault towards the two.

The large impromptu ice wall met it's attempts to harm Thane. Her hand held out in front of her in a small alchemy circle as the attack was absorbed by the ice wall instead of being allowed to meet its target, then shattering and melting on the impact. Her hand dropped to her side as she looked at the summon.

"Don't be so stupid."

Her voice was flat in tone as always, but her eyes were narrow with a mix of disbelief and disgust.

"You do not take a fight from a warrior."

Here, she gestured to Urick, but kept her eyes on the summon.

"Valefor is the weakest Aeon of them all and you decide she can handle the more present, looming threat? Distasteful. You remind me of the red hair girl."

[Silver Fox]

Alex sighed softly as the Hymm stopped and her mind ceased from feeling like it was going to explode. Though she still felt a little shaky, her blue eyes watching everything around her. Giving a feral growl as a dingo tried sneaking up before she kicked it in the face and knocked it over the edge of the railing. Alex looked to Gippal, who had gotten a face full of fire and she muttered under her breathe on how he was a idiot as he landed harshly on the ground. Before pursuing that strawberry pink hair girl that was coming toward them with a Ronso that she saw sparring with the half-Ronso.

As the half Ronso came closer and started speaking, her eyes narrowed slowly with each word in a irritated glare. Naisha was her friend and she might have been a danger, didn't mean she wasn't going to help her. Cutting himself off, the brown colored man commanded for her to hold the weak Mage steady. Under normal circumstances, she probably would of protested being ordered around by him, but she'd swallow her pride if he could actually do something.

He had been here for a short time, but in that time he didn't seem to be exactly a bad person. Not very sociable though. Holding Naisha steady, shifting the limp body to a more comfortable position and to give a good look to the injury. When the other three came closer and the mystery girl tried using cure before the half Ronso basically scolded her on the error of it.

Was magic really that complicated? Whatever, Alex didn't have time to think about it.

The man started listing off options like a doctor, and Alex frowned before her eyes darted around as she tried thinking about the situation. Looking at the fiery image of Naisha tell them this was the ice %#%#% doing and that it would be best to have her fix this before flying off where the woman and Ronso came from. Seeing Urick lock in battle with the bastard Thane along with another man. Not too far, seeing that ice woman just sitting there watching, making Alex growl and having to restrain herself from having her hands crush Naisha body. The fire summon there while the man clad in red attacked the dark aeon.

How dare that woman?! Just sit there doing nothing but watch another fight! Not bothering to help rid the fiends in the area or anything! Alex doubted by the looks of things, the woman didn't exactly care about Naisha's well being. Nor anyone. Probably just did it in a attempt to rid the aeon of its accessible power it had with Naisha. If she was going to help, she would have done it. If one of her friends wasn't in the process of possibly dying, the red head would give the %#%#% a piece of her mind.

Alex didn't think that woman would be very helpful in that case. Heartless tended to be that way unless it benefited them. Gently feeling Naisha's back, she felt the ice spike and she cursed again. The half ronso's last option wouldn't work in that case.

The red head did agree to the first option, but she worried over leaving Urick. She did trust him as a strong warrior and she was pretty confident he could beat that bastard if he set his mind to it. If he didn't, she'd come back and beat both of their faces in. But the stadium was still filled with fiends and although the youth league and other fighters were trying there best, there was just so many. Urick, if not careful, could get outnumbered and sprung on. And what of everyone else? They needed all the fighters they could get, both to help them stay alive and to keep the fiends from leaving the stadium into the village. Some most definetly got out, but with the help of all the fighters, most seemed to be at least contained in here.

Alex had confidence in Valefor, despite being a Aeon, the creature was a warrior in a sense. She just had faith the flying creature would keep the dark aeon off of them. Naisha was seriously hurt and she and the half Ronso would need some sort of protection. As well as the summoner. Take her into account, it would be best if she got out of here and away from Thane. Three people possibly needing to protect, a healing machine to help save Naisha and they had Alex, Gippal, and a Ronso at the forefront. They could try healing her here, but the debris was filthy and might infect the wounds and make it worse, as well as being filled with fiends with little cover.

Thane was after the summoner, so they really should get out of here. The fiends might be somehow be controlled by the bastard and would aim for her. They could hide in one of the boxes and the fighters cover the entrances but their location would be known. But with the dark aeon around, it would just follow them. It's also possible to break the roofing and crush Naisha while incapacitated.

Growling in frustration, Alex turned her gaze toward Urick, torn between her loyalties to her friends. Naisha needed protection, as well as the summoner. Alex couldn't abandon them, but she couldn't abandon Urick either. She hated it. Hated. Hated. Hated. Hated. Abandonment. How shameful. It made her wonder, if it was ever this hard for those who abandoned her?

Shaking her head she clicked her tongue a bit.

"Urick you better kick his ass! If you don't and end up dead I'm coming back here, dragging your dead ass from the Farplane and using you as a whooping stick on that bastard!"

Alex shouted, her voice booming before she turned away.

He'd be okay. She had to have faith he'd be okay. He was a shy, awkward, big teddy bear... But in a serious fight he knew how to use his claws.

"Come on, we can hide her at my place. It's a bit out of the village, but should be somewhat safer than around here to allow you to heal her properly. If you think we can't make it to the falls, then we'll try and hunker down in the village. Gippal, take front, Ronso protect our sixth. Summoner, catboy, stay by side." Alex said before starting off to make her way to leave the stadium, being careful not to juggle the ice further against the skin so she had to go slower than she usually could. While allowing Gippal to take lead.

[CAS1006]

Helios- The Machina spoke up.
"If I may make a suggestion, you could remove the shard from her and place it into me seeing as I have the abilities to sterilize and keep it from being lost. However, it is recommended you close the wound. My battery should gradually defrost the blood. And then we can filter it in through a vein of hers. This however does seem like the best course of action. Though I was astounded Master Cassius had the right idea, say twenty years ago." The Machine chuckled.

Cassius somewhat glared at the machine. "It's nice to know machines have funny bones. Time to amputate it." this was Helios' que to stop joking around.

He then turned to the red head. "It's Cassius Alexandros Svent. CAS for short."
To those who may have been from Lucca might remember a shop keeper by the last name. This would be his mother who runs a rather large and secure store that does sell sports equipment to things like consumables, to even adventuring gear such as water purifying flask. On the second floor of the building was where plushies were made, it was a nice business; even through there touch a Molboro could seem innocent despite the real thing being nightmare inducing.

"We can try my place, it is at the edge of the village, my caretaker is very experienced with combat. Not super far, can catch your breathe, and maybe get a drink. You guys look like you've been through the farplane and back. And not in the pleasant way." He loaded a fire gem into his gun before torching a small mob of canines. He figured the torching would be better than discharging the gem; which would be a fiery explosion.

[rivaan]

“TAKE A FIGHT FROM A WARRIOR!?” The summon in return asked in disbelieve.” Are you referring to something as stupid as honor and pride in this situation!? Against a guy who blew up a stadium and caused so many deaths on top of everything else? Are you so naïve as to let a man like him get the chance to run away just because such reason!? Heh… and to think you have the nerve to look at me with those eyes.” The fiery summon said with a combination of laugh and anger.” Better think very carefully on who’s side you are… otherwise you may not realize when your actions cause the death of everyone around you.” The fiery creature said turning away form the annoying little girl in front of it.” I have my own reasons to consider letting Valefor protect them as enough of a measure…” The summon stated as she turned towards Daemn, since it was trying not to look at the foolish girl who stopped her attack.

“Do I now? Well believe me if I was more like her, I would be attacking you right this moment. While I will be perfect to clash with you, it’s not my place to do so. Naisha wanted me to destroy Daemn and Thane... it would have been other matter if she mentioned you though...” The summon said and quickly jumped towards the aeon who was in the middle of struggle between the warrior monk and Valefor.

“Well then you bastard, I will make sure you vanish first. Then if your master isn’t gone by that point, I will go after him even if I have to go through that foolish girl.” The fiery summon stated and slashed with her sword in a spin move.” Firaga wave slash!” As she spun around, for the slash, powerful flames coated her sword as well as herself. At the end of the mere second it took for the spin, she unleashed the fire attack from close distance towards the dark aeon.

[Sophitia]

Alot was happening, a half ronso appeared and started offering different ways that he could heal Naisha..Which caused her pull back after he 'scolded' her. Despite being a summoner, she didn't know too much on healing without spells or potions. As they rattled off different ideas she looked around to see a warrior monk fighting off the Aeon along with Valefor. Then back To Urick who was fighting Thane, then suddenly hit by a Behemoth. She stood up, suddenly afraid for him. But he managed to get up and wrestle the beast and beat it. She knew Urick was strong...but to defeat a Behemoth single handily was amazing. She winced as Alex Yelled at Urick to beat Thane, and if he didn't she would use him as a beating stick. Not the best encouraging words in her book... But they were friends.

She ran off with them, not knowing what to do at the moment...She did suddenly grow tired and stumbled to a stop. 'Idiot' she thought to herself. Holding a Summon for this long was bound to take a toll on her, it was her first one... She looked back to Valfor who was fighting Valiantly against the dark Aeon Deamn. If she held it any longer she would probably faint from the strain... Besides she was sure she couldn't leave Valefor here she would have to stay nearby.

"Forgive me!" She yelled to the Warrior monk as she recalled the Summon. Breathing hard now as she felt the full force of the drain on her now. She trembled, not being able to move. She had over exerted her self. Great now she was a burden to Gippal and his friends... she was useless. She couldn't do anything...

[Aerandir]

Thane looked over to Urick as he yelled that he wasn't finished yet. Suddenly a small piece of rubble flew just passed his nose, quickly looking over he saw a man who threw it and pointed at him, Uttering a single word as a Gravita appeared underneath the man, in the halls below to catch him off guard. His attentions turned to Urick for a second when he then heard yelling from his left. Then a flash of flame's coming towards him. But before he could counter a quick wall of ice shot up. He smiled. "Awe Thank you Saina..." Apparently hearing her say something about not taking a warriors fight away. Interesting where did she think of that? Surely it must have been somewhere during her travels. Urick had heard what Saina had said, but he hewas hoping to use this to his advantage as Thane spoke.

He looked back to Urick who was now closing in on him and shot a Flare at him. Urick saw it coming and dodged out of the way, only to sprint faster towards him. He went to punch and Thane dodged just as he was about to get hit, Urick's fist slamming into the wall, cracking the concrete under his blow. Thane then kicked at Urick's knee trying to break it, but Urick twisted it just enough so he caught the back of it, only causing him to buckle over with out harming his knee joint.

The two fought for a moment like this back and forth, Urick was surprised that Thane knew so many styles of fighting, magic, swordsmanship and hand to hand. Though Urick it seemed was much better at hand to hand Thane's smaller frame gave him an advantage for speed.

Urick was detracted when he heard Alex booming voice telling him to kick Thanes ass. Enough that Thane managed to land a punch on his face. Shaking his head He caught the next punch with his right hand and slammed his left palm into Thane's ribcage, sending him sprawling back. Urick then yelled just as loud "JUST SHUT UP AND GET NAISHA AND EVA OUT OF HERE! I'VE GOT THIS UNDER CONTROL!" Normally he wouldn't even dare say that but he was slightly irritated that Thane managed to land a blow on him. He let out a breath to calm his mind and focused once at the task at hand.

Thane had used this moment to Summon more Fiends, As now three Bashura's stood in front of him and rushed him at the same time. Urick started dodging each punch, landing a few as he moved around, trying to keep himself from getting surrounded. Thane looked around to see Eva exhausted herself now and called back Valefore.

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Gippal had made his way to the front of the group when he heard Eva yelling "Forgive me!" He looked back to see her calling back Valefor and now was hunched over breathing heard and wobbly knees. He skidded to a stop and ran back to scoop her up in his arms. He turned around and said, "Come on lets go!" He moved ahead of the group again though closer to Alex and Cas, who had introduced himself while running. He quickly looked at Eva as they ran and said, "Are you ok?" Any Fiend that came to close he would kick, like a Blitzball. Eva not really effecting his running or kicking. He looked over to Urick as he shouted back to Alex and despite their situation smiled. He forgot to mention to Alex that Urick apparently talks a lot more while fighting, and Isn't the same person really while doing so.

He turned into one of the entrances that was cleared, though it would have been faster to run in the inner circle of the Stadium he had a feeling the halls would be less infested with Fiends. As they ran past the food stands he found he was correct and they made great time to the entrance of the Stadium. "Where is your place?" He called to Cas. Motioning for him to take the lead with a jerk of his head.

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As for the Dark Aeon who now fought with the flamming summon of Naisha and The warrior monk, after being hit by the banishing blade and Ice attack, and now flaming attack it was really weak. It was a parasite, and lacked the strength other dark aeons had. It unleashed bio on the two targets and turned it's attention to the strongest host it could see at the moment, which was Urick. It fled the battle and soared towards him.

Thane had seen enough. Frowning at the site before him, His plan was falling apart, and it would seem Gippal and Urick were now much stronger than they were six months ago, and also his friends, were stronger than he anticipated. With his first aeon defeated and now his second close to being defeated he felt it was just time to fold, and attack another day. Especially if Lady Yuna and her guardians were now clearing the rest of the Fiends fairly with ease. He hadn't taken in account that the original Aeons would have returned, And since Lady Yuna's summons were so powerful still from her pilgramage, they were way to strong for his. He used the confusion to slip into rubble and disappear from everyone's view,

Making way to his ride, a personal Airship that he acquired, as soon as he stepped aboard the pilot shot off from the ruined stadium. It would seem Lady Eva already had her Guardians, and no need for him. No matter...as long as she continues to collect the Aeons...

[Silver Fox]

At Urick's shout, the red head shot a death glare toward his direction. Her temper flaring and making her boil. Looking almost ready to storm right over there and rio his guts out and use them to hang Thane by the throat. Well screw him then! Apparently there was no need to worry about him! Jerk. Even though deep down Alex knew she distracted him, although she also could blame him for getting easily distracted, it still irritated her. Especially when he didn't used to act like that. It just made her more uneasy. It made her thoughts slightly wander over what Thane said yesterday.

Perhaps they really did change and they weren't the people she knew.

There was no time to dwell on that fact though and she kept moving. When the half Ronso introduced himself and suggested his home, the red head nodded a little. "Alex, Naisha, and Gippal. Sounds like a plan so let's go, we can chit chat when we don't have fiends breathing on our heels." she answered as she moved. She knew where his home was at least. She did pass by it often when on walks.

Her pace slowed a little as Eva stopped and was about to turn to get her but Gippal got to her first. Alex grunted before continuing on, kicking another dingo in the face before continuing on. Soon reaching the home of Cassius, she didn't really bother waiting fo him to open it as she opened the door and went inside.

"Where do you want her?" Alex asked quickly, before following the half ronso wherever he wanted her.

Examining the cold share, Alex's eyes narrowed as she lightly grasped the shard. Unsure if she really should pull it out or not. She was definetly strong enough to remove it, but she would have to be gentle and careful about it and be ready to put pressure on the wound.

"Just tell me what to do. Should I do what your robot suggested?" she asked. If Cassius said yes, then she would remove the shard as gently and quickly as possible and hand it to Cassius before holding pressure on the open wound in a attempt from completely losing blood. If not, she'd would just stay in that position until told otherwise. Naisha couldn't lie flat because of the ice, and lying on her side wouldn't be good either. So she had to hold onto the Mage to be somewhat steady.

[ReaptheMusic]

“TAKE A FIGHT FROM A WARRIOR!? Are you referring to something as stupid as honor and pride in this situation!? Against a guy who blew up a stadium and caused so many deaths on top of everything else? Are you so naïve as to let a man like him get the chance to..."

It was in the middle of that speech that Saina's eyes half closed and her mind drifted away. She had no reason to listen to this entity with its threats and it's criticisms when clearly it had no idea what it was talking about. The summon continued to insult and berate her even when she turned her back to it to focus on the fight between Urick and Thane. And even after all that ranting about how stupid she was, she noticed the summon do what Saina said it should.

It would regret trying to make her appear to be a fool.

She watched the fight, taking pleasure in seeing the skills both parties presented in their actions as they both fought for what they believed in. The red head once more proved to be a nuisance, distracting Urick from his task and causing him to lose focus. Not long after, some fiends were summoned and Thane began to make his escape. During this time, she also kept an eye on Eva, one of the few other people she actually cared about in the room, escape with Gippal and a few strangers both familiar and unfamiliar. The fiends around Urick, she didn't worry about. However, when the dark aeon began making its lunge for Urick, she was on her feet in an instant. Both hands leapt out in front of her and an alchemic circle appeared before her as well. A large, single ice lance formed from it and shot off with a 'Bang!' sound to intercept the aeon at high velocities and pin it to the wall before it could latch onto Urick.

Once it shot off, she started running to meet Urick, hoping to assist him should her ice lance fail. As well as to tend to any injury he may have received over the brawl. While running, her lithe finger tips felt the Sphere in her pocket that Thane had left behind and her eyes gazed up at the airship speeding away. At that moment, she felt something she hadn't before in the entire span of her life.

Homesick.

[CAS1006]

Cassius lead the entourage to his room as he was greeted by people thanking him for the assistance in the stadium, how he and his machine helped as many as he could who could not fend for himself.

Rohzar looked at the entourage, Cassius somewhat waved his hand dismissively as if a signal of "I'll handle this."

Cassius lead them to his room. "Set her on my bed. I really don't care if you get blood on it right now, I just don't like people dying because of radical chocoboshit."

Helios opened up the top half of him, there were medical tubes and needles, as well as other disinfectant filters- but there was also a large area where it looked as if you'd place the blood shard.

"Red, I need you to pull out that shard and place it in the cylinder looking area. It is marked as 'disinfect'. The blood was exposed, it needs to be cleaned." He placed what looked like a radiant green gem into his gun.

"When you do that, this here will heal her. Her insides should heal up nicely as well as her outsides. Then Helios here will use some of these needled tubes to go into her arm. Well, a vain really, but it will put the blood back into her blood stream. After that is done, I can use the last of this healing gem; don't have a name for it- to heal the small prick in her arm. She'll be good as new." Cassius said flatly as he looked at the blood shard.

"Pull it out."

"Very nicely stated Master. Did you figure that all out by yourself?"

"I did acctully. Thinking under pressure helps make decisive decisions. That, and I was taught a bit about how this sorta stuff works by my Al-Bhed friend at home. Part of me wonders if she sent you to me as well as this sterile suit... didn't plan to become a doctor." he chuckled.