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The group was nearing the clearing. Sasha nodded at the other two's comments, " We'd have a lot of fun battling," she commented, grinning at the prospect of a two on one battle. She loved fights, and especially ones that made her use her all in them.
"I'm sure we will," she replied to Sasha's comment.
Suddenly Voltaire appeared out of nowhere and asked them what they were doing.
"Oh, we're just going to test out these things," she said to him, showing him her ring. "You wanna join or something?"
"As Sasha said, battling. We're all testing out our new strengths." She looked over, trying to assess his mental stability and, more importantly, his strength. She looked away after a few seconds, looking back at Sasha and Silver. She wondered if Sasha was okay with inviting him along. After all, she had hesitated at accepting Maya.
He feared using his magic with all this power...he had no idea what he may do, and he wouldn't want to use it on them. "I'll watch, thank you.." He figured Silver would call him out for it, or even attack him to force him to make a move on her. But the thought of the Virus haunted him. "I'll use this ring on my own time..."
"My 'best' friend.. The only friend i've ever had.. can't even remember me." Enki started to walked towards Enzo, and Enzo started backing up. "Enki.. I'm sorry that I-" Enzo couldn't finish his sentence before Enki punched him in the face. Enzo flew back, hitting a few tress violently on the way. He coughed up blood, in no time, his body felt like it was broken. His muscles ignored him, aching. "E-...Enki." Enzo whimpered. The red haired boy stood over him, glaring down at Enzo with all the hate in the world. "You said we'd be friends." He growled, and started stomping down on Enzo's face repeatedly. Each stomp startled the nearby wildlife[dead?]
Enzo quickly lost sight, lost hearing, lost his senses, everything. He slipped away into nothingness, though he knew, that his physical self was getting destroyed. Only one thing came up in his mind.
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"You said we'd look after one another.." Enki said, still kicking him in the face.
"You... promised.."
"...Maybe we should have asked Eos to come." She looked at Sasha and laughed. "God knows we'll need a healer." Maya looked back and Volitaire and tilted her head. "Why don't you want to test out your ring now, under the protection of the group?"She asked, in her sweetest voice.
It was then that the forest opened up and they were standing in the wide clearing. The grass was long dead, and the only tree that grew in the center was stunted and twisted.
"I'd rather not get into that, Maya." He said in the most sincere tone, he didn't want her to worry or wonder about it. "I'll be content watching. Don't worry." She was so sweet, it was almost hard not to tell her why. But he had to dodge the bullet there, and he did hope Eos would arrive soon. He wanted to see if she was alright.
Silver sighed. "Tch, if you insist."
She looked to Maya and Sasha. "You guys ready?"
The girl grinned, " Yeah, I am ready." A few droplets of mist condensed into water around Sasha, and started to spin in a circle in front of her, " Let's get this show on the road!"
"Are all three of us battling at once?" She looked at Sasha with curious eyes and went over the possibilities in her head. "If we have it an everyone for themselves type battle, that might not work out fairly... If we had it 2 on 1, that would also be unfair. You know," she looked at Volitaire and smiled, "if you were fighting, it could be 2 on 2. That would be fair." She said with hope.
Knowing she would be rejected again, she sighed and looked back at Sasha and Silver. "Okay, you guys first, then."
"I'll let Sasha make a move first, don't wanna overwhelm you guys or anything," she said with a sly smile on her face, looking to Sasha and waiting for her to do something.
That made Sasha laugh, " Overwhelm?" she said, " That's not going to happen anytime soon."
The water around her multiplied, each forming their own circle, and spun faster and faster. Sasha then began to rush towards Silver, " This will hurt like hell." She nodded, and three spinning circles shot at Silver. The water was spinning so quickly, it was as if it were a razor blade.
Silver simply watched and stepped to the side right before the water got to her. It barely missed her, but she grinned. "You're going to have to be quicker than that if you want to beat me."
" Che."
The water that went past Silver turned around, spiraling the other way towards her back again, as Sasha added three other circles to the mix, along with punching towards Silver as well.
"I'll battle the winner." Maya called and smiled as she watched. They both look pretty fearsome, she thought to herself. I wonder how this will pan out.
Watching contently, somewhat guessing what Silver may do next he was pretty impressed by the execution of Sasha's spells. He hoped to see a lot of out them with these new rings. He was quite curious of Maya the most. He remembered her having a dragon, and wondered what that can do as well.
Silver hopped to the side again, making sure to get out of the way of Sasha's punch. She noticed more of the water coming back at her and she did her best to dodge all of them, accidentally hitting one on her arm in the process. It cut her a little, but she seemed to not even notice.
" Aha, you're not half bad," Sasha commented, sending several more at her, this time, hardening them into ice. She roundhouse kicked towards Silver, moving at a speedy and efficient pace. Attacking felt strangely calming, as though she wasn't giving much effort at all. Sasha decided that it must have been the effect of the ring.
Maya took a step back when she saw Silver cut by one of the spinning water circles. "Yep, someone should definitely go get Eos." She said to herself, close to a whisper. Maya looked back toward the village, but the sounds of an interesting battle attracted her attention once more.
After a while, Enzo had stopped breathing, and Enki stopped to catch his breath. He chuckled a little, seeing his body, immobilized. "And now, for the other 6." Enki turned around, and started walking in the direction of the field.
Silver smiled, simply leaning back a bit to dodge Sasha's kick, and again stepped to the side to dodge the ice. One of them ended up hitting her shoulder head on, and Silver stumbled back a bit when it did. She didn't notice that when it hit her, it exposed her little secret. Her shoulder gave off a few indigo colored sparks before forming a wound where the ice hit her. It went right through her, too.
Silver sighed. "Is that really all you've got?"
Sasha's eye shot in the direction of the spark, " Heh, I see."
She laughed, and halted her ongoing barrage of attacks, scanning the vicinity for the real Silver, and not this fake illusion. The water reformed around her, only this time, in the form of a shield.
Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Volitaire gazing out the window - but within an instant he was gone. He must have done that warping trick he uses to move through shadows. Approaching the window she looked out behind the Inn. After a while of scouting, she saw where he had gone.
Taking a deep breath, she conquered her fears of embarrassment and made her way back down the hall and out the back.
"Ahh you noticed, it's about time. I guess my illusions really have improved."
As Silver spoke, her wounds disappeared and her torn clothes went back to normal.
"I wonder, what else around you is an illusion? It could be anything. It might even be nothing. You'll never know." An almost eerie smile spread across her face. She looked down to her ring and then back at Sasha, as if she was thinking about which move to make next. She smirked when she noticed Sasha got a bit defensive after her realization.
A short dagger appeared in her hand, and she twirled it around her finger before throwing it full force at Sasha, just to see how she'd react.
At first, the sight at hand made her nervous as she came upon the clearing. But after a few seconds, it was easy to realize that this was all for simple sport.
"Woah..." She watched, wide eyed as they showed off their skills - most of which she hadn't had the chance to witness yet.
JD had passed out.
Honestly he hadn’t meant to sleep that long, but restlessness had perpetuated itself into a long night that inevitably ended in an early morning bedtime. So he wasn’t surprised when he was the last one awake that morning, and much less the last one to ready themselves for the day. He still pondered over the ring- and he ran his finger along it to verify the jutting groves and curvature of it. His face soured as he realized that it was just the same sort of permanent jewelry that his pendant was. JD cursed in Deutch for an extended period of time before inevitably calming down and slowly getting dressed. It was the same sort of mundane affair that it had been last night with the exception of a nice pair of worn boots. Still it was just pants, a belt, a nice shirt, and a jacket. He rolled the sleeves up on the jacket once again, and smirked at his somewhat tame rebellion.
Slowly JD made his way down to the main living area to find that no one was there. “Well I’m sure they’ll bloody be back. No use getting myself lost- again. Just wish I knew where E was.” He had left her last night as soon as she seemed stable and had curled up in some corner room like a scared and feral cat. Well and if anything went wrong he could always feel it in their link, and currently he could only taste apprehension and giddiness. That within itself were normal teenage emotions.
I should be careful.
" Heh, too easy."
Sasha didn't move, didn't even try to block the dagger. Seeing as the item just appeared in Silver's hand, Sasha figured it was only an illusion. She looked around, Where could the real Silver be...?
He giggled, admiring how Silver advanced. But he heard a little voice nearby, he turned to see it was Eos. Seeing her made him stricken with butterflies and how adorable she was just waking up. He gave her a friendly smile and gave her a notion to come on over. He thought she'd enjoy watching the others spar with him.
Silver giggled a little. "You won't be able to find mee~"
Suddenly, the ground began shaking. She looked a little concerned at the sudden shaking, and she took a step back to stabilize herself. The ground began cracking in various places, and the cracks seemed to be quite deep. Silver took a step to the side to avoid falling in, watching as one of the cracks went straight for Sasha.
"Oh~." Looking over she saw Volitaire, and he was beckoning her to come stand by him. Come on, Eos... it'll be alright, she told herself as she made her way across the grass until she was standing beside him.
The blonde was trying to think of something to say, something to break the silence - but instead let out a care bear sounding yawn. She had gotten a lot of rest last night, but after a day like yesterday, she could have slept for even longer.
"So, illusions... that's Silver's power? And Sasha's is..." She thought for a moment until remembering last night and their first encounter. "... liquid manipulation?" Her eyes wandered over to Maya and offered her a smile, "I'm not sure what Maya's is... but I do know she's got bloodhound like senses!" Eos thought back to the day she caught her eavesdropping so easily.