Sorry to tell you this, Rana, but I can't separate myself from my shield...if I try to help you out, I'm gonna end up killing myself cuz my shield won't work with my other elements...namely water *shudders*. Sooo...I think I'm stuck here until we can find a good spot to put Sere. I has a question too...and I'm probably gonna sound stupid, but what does OOC mean? LOL...and yes, you can set up your own playlist for free. I currently have a playlist that needs working on...

OOC: Shweet! OOC means Out Of Character and IC means In Character. And no, it's not a stupid question, I asked the same when I first got here. As for the shield, I'll keep Silveera busy while you find a safe place to put Serenity, then come find me. IC: *Rana, noticing Zephyr struggling to leave her shield, dashes back and relays a quick and quiet plan to her, then dashes off again towards Silveera* *using all her might, she draws upon the huge power of Mizu to create wave after wave of water, pushing Silveera farther and farther back, disorienting her and stealing precious breaths*

OOC: Oh! Okay! I still feel kinda stupid but oh well. IC: Okay...*lugs Sere around, looking for a really big rock* wow...this shield is taking quite a bit out of me...

OOC: Look for a cave or something, that would be better protection. And as long as I have Silveera on the run you won't need the shield. Just be concerned with getting Serenity to safety, she won't be coming out of that coma any time soon. IC: *with a huge final wave, Rana batters Silveera back and forth with it, knocking her completely unconscious* *rushing forward, she uses the wave of water to create a huge platform, and drags Silveera onto it, binding her with chains of truesilver to it* *then, taking off with the platform, Rana dashes through the forest, finally finding a small, fresh river, far from Zephyr and Serenity* *gently dropping silveera down, Rana awakes her and draws Mizu* It's just you and me now. I will no longer allow you to hurt my friends.

*drops shield and makes haste toward nearby mountain* What luck! *finds a limestone cave with a small subterranean creek running through it, settles Sere into a comfortable position and begins keeping watch outside*

OOC: What? What about helping me?!? IC: *silveera goes into full demon rage mode, obviously angered by my previous treatment of her* *with flaming demon fire she comes after me, throwing incenerators at me and burning the forest as fast as she can run* *Rana tries desperately to block the hell-fire with water from the river but all is hopeless, at SIlveera tears through, Rana can barely avoid keeping herself from being scalded*

OOC: Whoops...okay...misunderstood you. IC: *Zephyr dives into the path of an incinerating fireball just in time, and creates a vacuum where no fire can survive, keeping the inferno from Rana* OOC: I'm not sure how long this technique will hold up since it's new, but see if you can find a weakness...

*rana nods and takes a tiny droplet of truesilver from Mizu, then forms it into a spiraling needle* *surrounding it with water, Rana shoots it through the vaccuum at super fast speed, and it only increases speed as it travels through the vaccuum* *emerging from the other side, it plows straight through the other incinerators like air* *finally, it lands on silveera, embedding itself deep within her chest* Come on! *rana dashes out from behind the vaccuum and binds Silveera with water and truesilver*

*Silveera eyes glare and she prepares to send another blast of incinerating fire* Oh fishsticks! *Zephyr sends slivers of water toward Silveera, impacting her throat before she could attempt to breathe out anything* OOC: Which is practically the only thing she could do cuz she was bound head to toe...

Ok...how about this...*rana maneuvers a small sphere of water over silveera's mouth, clamping it around her jaw* Now, will you stop attacking us? We're your friends too silveera.

*Silveera mumbles, the light goes from her eyes, and she's her normal self again* Did you see the thing that fell out of her mouth, Rana?! It looked like a creepy black worm!

*Rana notices it and steps several feet back* Ewww! what is that thing? *cautiously she reaches out to touch it*

*Looks up blearily at Rana and Zephry* Hey guys ^^ *suddenly notices their disheveled appearances* What happened to you two?

*shakes head and smiles, drawing hand away from the black worm jsut in time* Oh, it was nothing, don't worry about it. *rana tries to unbind Silveera when suddenly the black worm jumps on her leg, biting deep into her flesh* AAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! *rana screams in agony, dropping to her knees*

Oh nothing really...^^ *notices Rana and grabs her shoulder's keeping her from moving* Don't lose your mind, Rana! The worm will not take over your mind! *Reaches out with a clawed finger and zaps the black worm with a small bolt of lightening, worm drops dead on the ground* Whew...Rana...don't lose your head! The worm's poison will only last for a little while. Keep yourself under control! Remember who you are! OOC: *glomps Silveera* Hiiii...

*wakes up* holeh crap! did i miss all that? dang it! O_O *changes back to human form and rushes over to Rana* dammit i wish i had healing powers for something like this...

*As my senses return to normal, I suddenly notice an intense burning sensation all ove my body. Looking down at myself, I finally notice the bindings holding me* ....truesilver!?.... AAah S**t Rana get it off me! I'm a Vampire AND Demon remember!? Truesilver hurts like hell!! *I squirm against the truesilver and water, hissing in pain*

OOC: @Serenity: XD! That's cuz I knocked you out, lol. IC: *Rana shakes her head, trying to clear the effect of the worms poison* *slowly, she regains her senses, only to find silveera struggling painfully on the ground* *with a quick grab at the chains, Rana pulls them off silveera, freeing her from the truesilver* (this includes the little dart of silver in your back too) I'm sorry. You were hurting your freinds, I had to use something to stop you. But...whre did that little worm come from??

Yeah that was gross...*shakes head and shudders*

OOC: Oh, and I'm stealing your playlist too Zephyr, just to let you know. IC: *now that the worm is dead, Rana pokes it, trying to get a hint as to where it came from* *however, just before she touches it, the worms shudders, and dissolves into liquid, forming a small strange symbol just before it sinks into the earth* *the symbol appears to be a cross, with a sword piercing through it, except instead of a hilt, there is only a circle* I wonder what that means...*looks up at the others* Does anyoe know what that symbol means?

OOC: *laughs* okie dokie...awesomeness. IC: I have no clue...but it looks like a forbidden sign, like the signs of old...

OOC: FRIENDLY MUSHROOM! XDDD IC: An ancient civilization maybe? Or...what?

OOC: XDDD I love Sokka! IC: It was an ancient sect of dark magicians, all bent on gaining power and controlling the nation's king. There were a few of them over the ages, and this symbol might be one of their signs...

*sighs in releaf as Rana FINALLY removes the truesilver, and the burn mark start healing* I have no idea.... *suddenly realises that the worm was in my mouth. My eye twitches and my face goes green* EWWWW!!! gr~ooos! that thing was in my mouth! *scrubs at tounge with hands, trying to remove the worms germs. dashes to a small stream nearby, and produces a tooth brush and tooth-paste from no-where, I begin franticaly scrubbing my mouth out, tooth-paste foam dribbling down my chin*

*shudders* I'm sorry, Silveera...that would be just plain nasty.

poor Silveera *pat-pat* dark magicians? ive known a few in the past, but this sort of magic is new to me....

*nods* That would make sense. *thinks really hard* Wasn't there a subbranch of that group of magicians trying to research biological evil or something like that?

Yes...they thought that if they understood that evil and could harness it, it would give them some spectacular advantages over the Triannes (the king's guard).

OOC: OMG how funny is this --"Speaking of concepts, here's one. Why don't you do what I say from now on?" --"Because I'm always right and you're a retard. Deal with it." random IC: *spits out tooth paste and rinses* I am unable to conrtribute here.... the only "dark-magicians" i know are me and the rest of Slaya's priest-hood

OOC: LOL...that's hilarious IC: No problems, Silveera. *scratches head* come to think of it, I recall a certain bio-evil group that had a particular symbol much like this one.

But...they're gone now, aren't they? I thought they died out at least a millenium ago. Still, maybe this thing came from some residual experiment or something. We probably better go check it out.

They should be long gone, but I'm sure there are still some apprentices out there...*spirals into the air*

*follows after Zephyr*

hm...i hope one of em is still alive *smiles idiotically and follows Zephyr and Rana* i guess i want to fight one of em...hehe ^^ they sound interesting xD

You GUESS you want to fight one of them?! XD Of course you do Serenity. lol

LOL...we could use your strength Serenity. Even though you might think you did nothing, you are of great value.

i luvs fighting xD i cant help it and thanks Zephyr *random glomp*

OOC: @Serenity: Sorryz about earlier, but you weren't on so I didn't know how to control...so I just kinda knocked you out. Sorryz. Anywayz, I must go now, so now I'm going to be the useless one, lol.

*feathered wings burst from my shoulders and red marks spread over my body as I leap of the ground flying after Zephyr, Rana and Serenity* Bring on the bloodshead, those bastards are gonna pay for putting that... THING in my mouth!

OOC: @Rana: aww dont worry about that--it was perfect timing--i wasnt online then anyways IC: yay! death! cant wait to cut them up good! xDD

*Fearsome Foursome takes off, scanning the skies for any movement, Zephyr uses her dragon-sight to see beyond the trees*

OOC: The Fearsome Foursome.... I like it!... and OMG that Utsusemi is so beautiful(I is listening to it right now) OH and here's another one for you ^^ "Don't tell me you're thinking of playing God with those children." ----"Don't be ridiculous. Playing is for children." IC: *A dark aura surrounds me and my eyes glow a bright red as the pupils contract (It's one of my vampire abiliteis, Hunter's Sight )

OOC: LOL that should be a good group name...hahaha. Oh thankies, and awesome! Hehehee! IC: Wow! Hunter's Sight? So cool! All I can do is see longer distances and through obstacles like trees or rocks.

(fearsome four lol xD) *is being lazy as i just lay there lounging in the tree branches* and my amazing ability is to sit here lol....yesh...u guys is very jealous xD

(with hunters sight, it's like looking through blue glass, living things glow bright white and people with power give of a purple aura...I give off a black aura, so do other demons. I can also see through things... except truesilver, that blocks my power completly)@Serenity. oh, I is s~o jealous oh she of the amazing sitting-dooing-nothingness lol

OOC: I totally has the sit and do nothing skill, so I be not jealous at all! And wow...I didn't realize you were so totally vulnerable to truesilver, my bad silveera! XD IC: *Rana stands beside silveera and Zephyr, patiently waiting for the cue to attack*

*hops down from tree and changes into dragon form and begins to froth at the mouth* just for the heck of it

OOC: *yawns* my god, im s~o tired, I've about four hours sleep in three days *head colapses on computer desk* I hate insomnia...@Rana, *says in a doctorly manner* well, evil things like vampires and demons tend to have rather serious allergies to pure things like truesilver. IC: *Hangs upside down from a branch, a blank look on my face and waits for the attack cue*

OOC: But...you're the one with the HUnter's sight. You're supposed to spot the magicians and give the attack cue! *pouts* Now I'll never be able to beat up those stupid magicians!

OOC: *sigh* fine IC: *Looking around, I see a general shape of the land skape, and about twenty or so blazing purple masses* Ah shitbees, these guys are powerful *my eyes dim to the red-brown they appear during the day, and I sigh, rubbing my neck boardly* There are four of the to the right, the rest are pretty clustered together over that way *gesturs vagely to the left* I'll take the four to the right, you guys can take the others *sighs and shudders* this is gonna take some of my spell work if these guys are what you said they are.

*picks Rana up in jaws and gleefully begins prancing to the left* hehe >8D cant wait to start kickin some magician ass!

*I flip down from my upside down perch, stretching out my right hand, Sanguine appears in my hand in a burst of fire as the red marks spread over my body and the feathered wings of my semi-demon form burst from my shoulders again* *The air shimmers, and my shadow suddenly disappears, and a pained look flickers over my face for a brief second* *I sling sanguine over my shoulder and casualy stroll out of the bushes, a board look on my face as the four magicians(or what-ever they are) spin around, shocked at my sudden appearance* S'up dudes? Magician1: Who are you?

*Zephyr twirls in the air, looking for a good opening to attack* I love air strikes...hmmm. Lessee...who do I go for first *picks a random magician* OH! I pick him...XD *breathes in deeply, creating a powerful vacuum/vortex and asphixiate (spelling?) him*

*a maniacal grin splits my face, and I point my left hand at them, palm facing them* (aswering mag1's Q) No-one inparticular *The air crackles with static, and sparks of red-black electicity travel up my arm, converging on my flat palm* *With a smell of burning atmosphere, I fire a bolt of red-black lightning at the first magician. The silence is rent by his agonized scream, and the air becomes tainted with the smell of burn flesh*

Mmmm...burning man-flesh. Nummy. *Zephyr throws the asphyxiated man to the side and pounces on another* Come on you guys...I thought you were magicians!

OOC: @Zephyr: A better word would probably be suffocate. IC: *Is struggling to get out of Serenity's jaws and kick some magi butt*

*drops Rana and smiles idiotically* hehe ^^

*takes off, dashing on a water tightrope, slicing through the magi's shields with super-sharp water whips laced with truesilver* *inside the lacerated shield, Rana glares at each in turn with a ferocious stare, her eyes turning a dark red-purple* Which one of you shall I take down first? OOC: Btw, I'm with Silveera and the four magicians. My guess is that they're a group of scouts, thus we ought to take care of them first before we fight the main force*

OOC: Idk why I picked that word...sounds cooler to me than just plain old suffocate. But true...suffocate would probably work better in that context. IC: Woohoo! *twirls 2nd captured magi in a miniature tornado* If we keep them busy, there's no way they can use their sad scout magic.

OOC: True...Maybe you should look it up in the dictionary. I'm sure there's a difference between the two words somewhere. IC: *Rana turns to the third magician, glaring evilly* *scared, he shoots two big fireballs at Rana, one aiming for her head, the other for her chest* FOOL! *Rana shouts, dousing both fireballs at once* Don't you understand the concept of water versus fire? *Terrified, the magician runs off, towards the main force, but Rana trips him with her water whip, and binds him to the ground with tendrils laced with truesilver* Now...tell me...would you happen to know anything abuot THIS?! *Rana holds the little dead black worm treateningly in his face*

*Zephyr sends the last magi flying into the massive trunk of an old pine tree* Oooh...he's gonna feel that in the morning...if he feels anything at all...*Rana's captured scout gasps, and squirms even more, terrified of the black worm* I think he does, Rana.

*Rana growls at the magician* Tell me all you know!! *The magician stutters, terrified out of his mind* B-b-but I'm just an acolyte! I don't know anything...!! *Rana lashes him with a water whip* Yes you do now tell us! *The magician glances fearfully all around, then finally stammers out* It's part of the Counsel's Beast, this scary monster that is rumored to be shaped like any creature in the world. *the magician shudders* Some of the higher-ups say that it can even disintegrate into worm-like cratures...beings of pure evil...*the magician then tries to struggle out of the chains, all in futility* But that's all I know!

Ask him if he knows what the Counsel's Beast shape truely is and who the higher-ups are. Perhaps that'll give us a clue...

*prances into scene, almost entirely covered in magicians' blood* nice warm blood-baths really do help with stress xD what i miss?

We're interrogating a prisoner. *smacks tree trunk with fist* And he's not being very cooperative.

just a sec *dives into a pile of dirt and starts scrubbing some of the blood off of scales*

*Rana relates the question to the shivering magician, but he just whimpers in panic saying "That's all I know...that's all I know!"*

*I growl, and my hand sparks threateningly* That better be all you know... cause there'll be hell to pay if you're lying! *looks at worm and shudders slightly* I'd still like to know how that thing got in my mouth...

Maybe we should just feed him the worm anyway...give the scout a taste of his superior's own medicine. Or maybe we can just tie him up and dangle the worm on a string in front of his face. *looks at scout* Seems like you have two options. It's up to you.

*grins maliciously* personaly, I think option a is the best choice....

*eyes flash bright blue* Me too...*man squirms uncomfortably*

*Rana whispers to Silveera and Zephyr so the scout won't hear* But...the worm is dead, it can't do anything to him...

*joins in* it would still be really sick to have something like that in ur mouth xD

Indeed. *rana turns back to the scout* THe choice is yours, acolyte magician. Either lead us back to your group, or you get a fine supper of black worms!

OOC: Didn't the worm sink back into the soil? IC: *magician squirms a bit and slowly regains composure, looks Rana dead in the eyes* Go ahead and feed it to me. I'm not taking you anywhere.

OOC: XD Yeah...I kinda forgot, lol. Oh well, we can threaten. IC: *Rana growls furiously at the magician, the lashes out with another whip, strangling him and cutting deeply into his neck* You WILL take us or I'll feed YOU to the monster! *her face is a deep pool of raging anger, dark purple eyes almost beaming in their ferocity*

OOC: Me too XD...but threatening is fun. IC: *magician grasps at his neck, which is spurting bright red blood* You'll have to kill me.

*Rana sneers at the acolyte* Ooooh...aren't you the loyal one? Well, we don't need you anyway. We already know where your friends are. I was just deciding whether to kill you quickly...or painfully... *the water whip tightens ever so slightly against the magician's neck*

*magician pulls at the water whip with his fingers, gasping* WAIT! Wait! I can tell you more! Please don't kill me! *Zephyr rolls her eyes* Maybe we should just kill him anway. He's nothing but a sniveling weasel.

Magician: No REALLY! I...I know where the monster is...I've seen him before...I can take you right to him without ever going past the other magicians. *Rana glares at him* Fine. But if I find out you're lying to us...*the whip squeezes even harder for a second, then let's go* *Rana unbinds the magician, but before she can tie him up again, he disappears* Crap! He's probably gone to tell the others what we're planning1

Well, he can't go far. That wound in his neck probably weakened him quite a bit. And it seems he's invisible. Follow the blood splotches! *takes to the air*

OOC: ...he transported...to the magician group. Thus, no blood trail, and the other magicians have probably already healed him.

OOC: Darn. Nevermind, then. IC: *flies toward the main group of magicians* You know, I'm getting tired of all this negotiating! Time to take you guys out.

OOC: XD Tis ok, tis ok. lol! IC: YEEEES! *pumps fist and takes off after Zephyr*

*A hungry look flits across my face as I run after Rana, Zephyr and Serenity* They haven't healed him yet, I can still smell the blood coming from his neck *My eyes glow again as I activate my Hunter's Sight* They're grouped together... I think they're questioning him.... *I fualter in my stride as the glowing purple aura flickers out and the smell of blood becomes w~ay more noticeable* They....they just killed him *Shudders*

omehgawd...theyre that twisted? Coolios xD But why would they kill him? It's not as if he betrayed them...

*pauses in flight* They realized he was weak. He was a pain in the butt, so why not kill him?

*Rana shakes her head sadly ad sighs* He was no weakling. Given time, he could have been the greatest of them all. But...no matter. We cannot allow such evil twisted monsters to live on this planet! Fearsome Foursome...ATTACK!!!! *charges all the magicians, strikijng out blindly with Mizu, slashing and dashing through the huge horde, just barely avoiding several deadly missiles*

*Zephyr attacks by severing several magicians in half by creating insanely high air pressure* Evil will fall!

*A well placed incinorator charge sends a group of magicians flying in an explosion of fire, as I change sanguine to its single-bladed scythe form and decapitate and dismember other magicians*

*just stands there for a second* what? evil will fall? damn xDD...oh well... *shrugs and dives forward to a group of magicians, drowning then in fire and soon their own blood* weee! its raining blood! *splashes around in a puddle of it before returning to the slaughtering*

*suddenly, a group of four magicians congregates before the groups, attacking them with super-powerful magic*

Oh geez! *creates a shield to block an insane water attack* I think it might be time to fall back a bit...

hn, Fall back? Tch yeah right! *I send a bolt of electricity along the magicians water attack, but it's immedeately contered by a wind shield* S'that all you got? *Unexpectedly (as they haven't seen me use fire yet) and faster than the magician with the wind powers can react, I send a wave of irredecant red, and black fire at the wind shiel, which is whipped into an inferno that consumes the Wind-Magician in ice-cold, soul-burning black fire and intense all burning heat of the red, followed seconds later by his agonized screams, which are abrutly halted as his life is snuffed out* *An cold, malicious smirk appears on my face* Next?

*grabs a bag of popcorn and cheers* w00t! we (lol im barely doing anythin) are kickin their asses

*The fire magician takes hold of the rampant soul-eating fire, and exerting huge amounts of force directs it back at Silveera, burning through her skull and scorching her soul (if she has one, or the equivalent of)* *Rana tries to douse the fire with water, but to no avail* *then, she slices at it with Mizu (made with truesilver) and instantly the fire dissipates* *looking back at the magicians, she finds a new wind magician has been added* Got anything else, you losers!

*screaming in pain from my (equivalent of) soul being scorched (he can't do more than "injure" me), a tear appears in the air behind me, and I fall backwards into Void, the tear sealing the instant I'm completely through*

*Rana looks around, conscious of a missing gap behind her* *seeing Silveera completely gone, she gasps, then sets up a gigantic water shield bubble, and imbues it with truesilver from Mizu* You guys cover for me! *Meditating, Rana calls for Hadina, who comes several minutes later, after the shield has been battered mercilessly and is starting to break apart* Hadina: What's wrong sister? Rana: It's Silveera! I think she's in the NEGATIVE! *Hadina nods, then with an incantation, Hadina makes a circle in the air with her staff, then stabs it, opening another portal into the NEGATIVE* *Rana and Hadina tumble through, and the gap closes behind them*

*I fall through the black, emtiness of the un-populated area of Void. Then with a thud, I fall onto something hard* *groaning and barely concious, my eyes flicker open, and I see the ethereal, glowing wastelands that I landed in, and in the distance is a ruined village and an emense, forboding castle* *there is a thunderous growl behind me, and turning my head I come face to face with the glowing green eyes of king dark-wym* Great * I stager to my feet, gritting my teeth in pain and reach to my side for Sanguine, only to see it several metres away, buried point first in the ground* sh*t! OOC: Void is divided into two areas, the space or Negative,consist of complete emptyness. There is only a constant, violent wind. The second part of Void is like looking at a negative of a photo of the mortal world. The colours of the environment are the negative to the real world. It is always night, and there are no stars or moon, but everything is edged in a faint white light. It's known as Del-demos which means "Place of demons"

OOC: Well, wherever you went to, we followed you so... IC: *Rana and Hadina burst forth directly between Silveera and the Dark Wyrm* *instantly ready for battle, Rana slices at the Dark Wyrm with Mizu, stabbing and cutting with great zeal* *the truesilver in Mizu has an aded effect, burning through the dark wyrm and killing it in moments, even despite it's huge size* *rushing back, Rana grabs SIlveera* Come on! We have to go back to our friends! They're getting slaughtered out there!!! OOC: Sorry I made such quick work of that Dark Wyrm, but idk what in here could stand a chance against a truesilver sword.