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Eons ago, it was prophesied by the ancients that the greatest of mages throughout the land of Ishgar would forever have an intertwining fate.
And only united, would they be able to accomplish their foretold destiny...


This is the main RP thread for the roleplay 'The Legends Of Ishgar'.
Rules and further plot points are listed on the Sign Up Thread.

"The view is amazing from here!" Azure's sister Tiffany shouted back towards him and his other sister, Carolina. Tiffany was standing at the edge of a cliff that hung over the crashing waves of the ocean. Her long blue hair blowing in the wind. Azure and his sisters all had blue hair along with blue eyes, which they took after their parents. That was the reason their parents named each of them after shades of blue.

"Tiffany, you're going to fall, and I'm really not in the mood to catch you." Carolina, the eldest of the three said to Tiffany with a displeasing tone in her voice.

Tiffany turned around to face Caroline, "First of all, I'm not going to fall. And second, even if I did fall, I would be able to save myself." Both sisters were wild tempered, and often got on each others nerves, but they still always made up in the end.

"Guys!" Azure said as he stepped between them. "We don't have time for your silly arguments. I can here people coming down the path, and if we want their supplies, we have to get ready." Since the Corient siblings were always travelling, and had no way of making Jewels, the only way for them to gain any supplies was by robbing them from others.

Caroline was the first to reply to Azure. "Fine. Azure, go hide in that bush over there. Tiffany, you and I'll go behind the tree. Make sure to be ready." Each of the siblings got into position.

As the people approached, Azure saw that there were about five of them; a mixture of male and female. They each were carrying backpacks; they appeared to be going on a long journey. As they drew closer, Azure reached down into the pouch attached to his belt and lifted out his 'Lightning Summoning' card. He stepped out from behind the bush and onto the path. As Azure raised the card up, he shouted, "Summoned Lightning!" and then a blue-ish magic seal was created in-front of him. Six beams of blue lightning emerged from the seal and headed towards the group of people.
Once it struck them, they began to scream in agony. While they were dazed, Tiffany ran out from behind the tree. With a simple flick of her arm and a few words, "Liquid Earth!", the ground beneath their victims feet transformed into mud, causing them to become trapped in the earth.

Caroline spoke, "Quickly, grab their packs." The siblings rushed over and removed the packs from their victims. "Tiffany, release them from the earth so we can get rid of them."

"Will do." Tiffany replied. She effortlessly flicked her wrist and the five people were freed from the mud.

Instantly, Carolina raised her left hand towards the five injured people. "Gravity Change!" A large pink magic seal appeared beneath their feet, the air around them turned a pink-ish colour, and instantly they were sent flying over the side of the cliff. They began screaming and yelling, but instead of falling into the ocean they continued falling sideways. As Carolina released her magical hold on them, they fell into the ocean. Miles away from the land...

"Think any of them will be able to swim back to shore?" Tiffany asked.

"I doubt it," Azure replied. "Caroline's gravity magic brought them out too far, they'll probably drown in a few hours."

Since he currently had a small stash of jewels, Skeet had decided to maintain a low profile for a while. Not too long ago, he had become a member of the Sand Leaf and he had had quite the steady income of jewels as he usually did whenever he was a member of a guild and actively taking missions. However, one of his fellow Sand Leaf members had gotten into some sort of disagreement with some not-so-nice people or something, it's not like Skeet had bothered to ask what the problem was, and the bad people simply had quite a bit of jewels.

So Skeet sold his guild buddy out and the rest of the guild didn't really like that. Not that it was an issue, he had been planning to leave anyway, guilds weren't really a permanent solution for Skeet. You could say he had 'trust issues' as nothing stopped the rest of the guild members backstabbing him if he stayed. Besides, he really didn't like the desert one bit. He couldn't even remember why he decided to wander into Desierto in the first place. He couldn't have been in his right mind.

Either way, Skeet wasn't going back to that wasteland anytime soon, preferably never, if he could help it. He very much preferred plants and lots of green, like the particular tree he was currently sitting under, over dull sand. The sound of leafs rusting in a slight breeze was way more calming than the sound of sand scraping in the wind. However, Skeet's peace was interrupted as the wind carried faint sounds from the shore. It sounded like talking but there was no way of understanding any of it due to the distance. Annoyed by the interruption to his peaceful break, Skeet got up on his feet and headed towards the sounds to investigate.

As he got closer, he could distinguish "Summoned Lightning" being shouted out, which was followed by screaming. That got Skeet to become intrigued. Something was clearly going down and it sounded like magic was involved, which meant he'd better be safe than sorry. Keeping his steps light, Skeet quickened his pace and ducked behind a tree as he finally got a visual on the situation at hand. Two girls and one guy, all with blue hair, were busy relieving a company of five of their belongings. Judging by the fact that the poor victims were effectively stuck on the ground, at least one of the three thieves was a mage. Since the three of them looked alike, it was safe to assume that they were related in some way and thus, they were probably all mages. Bandit mages, eh? Skeet didn't come across those too often.

Skeet wasn't exactly unnoticeable appearance-wise but he could be eerily silent if he wanted to so he had confidence he hadn't been spotted yet. He pondered his current options as he watched one of the blue haired girls fling the unfortunate travelers far out to the sea with her magic. He could just leave unnoticed now but that would be no fun, or he could attempt to take the stolen packs when he still had the element of surprise. The second option was tempting but Skeet wasn't stupid enough to attack presumably three mages at the same time. As far as he had seen, they seemed to possess magic that shouldn't be taken lightly. So Skeet decided to go with the third option: approach the quite possibly hostile mages to see what you can learn while having a back-up plan. Or something along those lines.

With a swift movement, the young man dug out a small pocket knife, flicked it open, and sliced a horizontal cut through his right palm with it. Relishing in the small sting, Skeet curled his hand into a fist and few drops of blood fell to the ground from between his fingers as he stepped forward from his hiding spot behind one of the trees nearby the blue headed mages.

"Sheesh, what did the world do to you kids to make you toss helpless injured people into the sea to drown so mercilessly?" Skeet asked the three nonchalantly as he took few more steps closer to the trio before stopping at a safe distance. "Didn't your mother ever teach you robbing and killing people isn't really nice?"

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((Oh sheesh, I didn't mean to write that much. Where did all that even come from? xD Anyway, I hope that's all fine. :>))

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(Yeah, it's all fine ;>)

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Just as Azure was about to search through one of the bags, a guy with red and yellow hair appeared out from behind one of the trees. He spoke, saying that Azure and his sisters weren't exactly the nicest of people; which made Ethan realise that this guy had been watching them the entire time.
"Tiffany!" Carolina shouted. She didn't need to say no one, Tiffany understood what Carolina was asking her to do. Carolina wanted Tiffany to strike the stranger with her magic. As Tiffany was about to perform an attack, Azure sensed the magical power that the stranger was emitting.
"Don't!" Azure yelled at Tiffany. "He has magic. Don't attack yet, we don't know what type of magic he uses." That's when Azure saw the blood dripping from the strangers right hand. What exactly was this guy planning?
Azure wasn't sure how to approach the guy, so he just went with it. "What do you want? Answer quickly, otherwise, you go over the cliff with the others." A slight grin crossed Azure's face.

Honestly, she felt like trowing up her breakfast. Apparently Tenebri's body didn't agree on traveling by boat, which was quite sad, since the scenery was gorgeous: open blue sky wherever you look, soft green waves lulling, sometimes covered by a soft blanket of mist. This was the first time she stepped on a ship, as well as her first time seeing the sea.

The orphanage care taker bought her a ticket, a ride by ship to another country. It was a really nice farewell gift for the poor girl. The lady even gave some jewels for Tenebri to start on in the new city. Witch one was it the girl already forgot, but it wasn't the important part. The journey through the sea was.

There still was sometime until they'll reach the shore, but land was already peeking out on the horizon. But Tenebri didn't want to reach it, not yet. Even with her stomach trowing temper tantrums she liked sailing too much. After sailing for three days she liked it even more, it was love at first sight.

But the people could be better, six times already Tenebri was falsely accused for pick pocketing. While the girl didn't mind proving her innocence, it was annoying when random guys scrabbled around her stuff. Not to mention a shady guy tried to steal her keys. Well he found out the rumors ain't all talk, he'll be lucky to walk again.

But all that was forgotten when a shark showed it's nose from the water. Tenebri almost squealed out loud, but her hands killed the noise before it escaped. However, it got away, when the shark thought to amuse the girl more by jumping out. Sharks where one of her favorite animals and seeing one for real made her heart race.

Yes, she really loved the open sea.

Skeet tensed up an readied to perform a counter-attack when one of the girls was about to start a fight with him. However, before the situation got out of hand the blue haired guy stopped his partner in crime. Relaxing slightly, Skeet focused his attention on the male mage. Tilting his head, Skeet narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the younger man. The boy had realized the older man possesses magic so quickly, which intrigued Skeet a bit.

"You seem to be smarter than your companions," Skeet told the boy while casting a brief and wary glance at the girls before returning his attention to the boy. "To answer your question, I kinda wanted the stuff you just stole but I'm not stupid enough to take you all on at once. Besides, I'm not a penniless kid like you three apparently are so it's not worth the hassle." Giving the other two blue haired mages a warning look, Skeet continued talking, "So I pose no threat to you. Unless you want me to. In which case, at least one of you ends up dead regardless of the outcome of our little disagreement. I don't fancy biting the dust and I assume none of you want to kick the bucket either."

Shifting on his feet, Skeet just kept on rambling, "But that doesn't really answer the question, does it? You kids don't really have anything I want at this point, I was merely curious as to what the deal with you guys is. I don't come across many young mages mercilessly drowning people and I figured curiosity doesn't always kill the cat."

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"Storm Slicer!" Eria cried, sweeping her hand in a harsh, slashing motion towards the mage.

"Do you really think you can beat me with that, little girl?" the man taunted, before extending his hand. "Orange Fire!"

Eria leapt to the side, letting the fire crash into the forest. "Heaven's Fury: Six Bolt Strike!"

A yellow, sparking magic circle made its appearance in front of Eria, and a lightning bolt flew out, which the man easily dodged. "It looks like the little girl needs counting lessons too," he mocked. "That was one lightning bolt, you're short five!"

Something flashed in Eria's eyes, and her mouth curved upwards. "Do you really think so?" she laughed, before her eyes gained a sinister glow to them. "Count again," she intoned dangerously.

"What?" the man asked, only to scream in pain as five magic circles surrounded him from all angles, five more bolts flying out and striking him with a million volts of electricity.

Eria's eyes flashed again, and she immediately knelt down besides the man. "Oh, no! I didn't hurt you too much, did I?"

"What the f***, you crazy woman! You tried to kill me and now you're apologizing?" the man yelled, only to wince in pain as the after effects of the electricity hit him.

Eria narrowed her eyes as they flashed again. "You're right," she said, before snatching the coat off his back, retrieving the book inside. "I'll take the book now and send the Rune Knights after you when I get back to town. Have a nice day, now!"

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"Don't you think you were a bit harsh on him, Miss Stera?" the Rune Knight asked.

"He was the one that stole a valuable grimoire which has been passed down for generations," Eria replied coolly. "I believe he fully deserves the shock, pardon the pun, I granted him."

The Rune Knight could only sigh as he turned away and forced the man into the hands of the nearest teleportation mage, who immediately returned them to their headquarters.

Eria sighed as she watched them go, grabbing her boots and slipping them onto her feet. "To Seven I go," she joked under her breath with a flash of her eyes.

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Azure really didn't like this guy. Azure could tell he wanted something, but wasn't saying. If anything, this guy was a waste of time if nothing else. Him and his sisters had better things to be doing. "So, you're telling us that you want nothing, you were just curious about us? Honestly, I don't buy that."

The only reason Azure and his sisters hadn't eliminated the guy already was because he had the advantage; he knew their magic, but they didn't know his. But once they discovered his magic, they would have the advantage. After all, there were three of them and only one of him.

Azure's sister Tiffany then spoke, "We don't have time to chit chat. Can we just kill him and get it over with? This isn't going to end any other way, he saw what we did to those people. He'll probably run off and tell everyone about us." Tiffany was right. They couldn't just let him go, he'd already saw too much...

Skeet merely shrugged as the blue haired kid refused to believe him. It was no surprise though, Skeet himself wouldn't have believed a guy who just showed up and only claimed to be curious. When one of the girls spoke up, the young man sent her a glare, "I'm no snitch." Honestly, he was kind of offended the girl though he'd just run to the nearest person and tell them all about the little 'drowning people' incident. "Though I doubt you'll believe that either. I can't really blame you though, I sure as heck wouldn't take the risk."

Which meant, things would get serious very fast. No words were going to change the minds of these little bandits so he needed a different approach. He still kind of had the upper hand as the trio had no idea what kind of magic he possessed while he had at least some kind of idea what they could do. Skeet and his blood were fast, he had no doubts he could off one of the blue haired kids effortlessly with a quick attack. However, that would've been the perfect plan if he only had one opponent. People usually don't like seeing their buddies die and Skeet would rather no provide these mages with any extra motivation to kill him. Thankfully, this group was perfect for his plan B.

Whispering "bloody python", Skeet raised his right arm with a quick movement and in a blink of an eye a whip of blood shaped like a snake shot out of the wound on his hand and wrapped itself around Tiffany's neck. The blood turned as hard as iron around its victim's neck but allowed her to breathe just barely. Skeet's eyes turned dark as he glared at the remaining two mages, "You think you have the upper hand here just because I'm alone but the truth is, being alone is my advantage. Unlike you, I have nothing to lose," the lad emphasized his point by tightening the blood's grip on Tiffany's neck, squeezing the breath out of her, before allowing her to suck in precious oxygen again. "Trust me, you don't want to mess with a guy who has nothing to lose."

Looking straight at the guy now, Skeet continued talking, "You seem like a smart guy, you should realize that if you want me dead, I'll take at least one of you with me. Are you ready to lose a buddy yet or would you rather grow up a little bit before going through that?"

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The port city was huge. From where Tenebri stood she couldn't see the end of the countless buildings towering over. The streets were full of rushing people, bumping into her each few minutes. She couldn't help but huddle her belongings closer, the teen new how easy it was to steel something in such a big crowd.

Tenebri moved with the flow, not knowing where it would take her. After walking for what seemed like hours, she made it to the calmer part of the place. Barely any people went around, but the houses were really pretty. The girl saw a one with a sigh that said "Green Unicorn", most likely a guild.

For a moment Tenebri wondered what was it like to be in a one, to trust the people around you, to be happy.. She never got a taste of any of those feelings, never accepted into a light guild, never wanted to join a dark one. Just from curiosity the mage peeked through the window at all those smiling faces and sounds of laughter. Her heart skipped a beat at the view, her soul longing some warmth of that kind, or any for that matter.

With a sigh Tenebri turned away to continue her walk out of the town. She didn't feel like sleeping indoors today, she had enough of such nights in the ship. The girl would just find a nice place in the woods, make a little camp and go hunt for dinner. Yeah, that kind of plan sounded like music to her ears.

"This is the last time I ride a train," Eria grumbled. She had booked a ticket to Seven, but the train had been attacked by a group of bandits, which she had managed to defeat alone. However, the damage dealt by the battle to the train had managed to earn her the 'honour' of being left in the dust, literally as the train sped off.

Her stormy-grey eyes gazed around her. Right now, it looked like she had the privilege of being near a cliffside as the end of her aimless wandering about.

"When I get back to town, I'll go and wrangle the train station staff," she muttered, crossing her arms as she did so.

Walking further, she raised her eyebrow as she sensed magic energy in the air. 'Blood magic,' she thought with a snarl. She was ready to go and maul the mage, but she restrained herself.

'I don't know if this is the guy who killed my parents,' she chanted mentally. 'If this isn't the guy, then it'll be my entire fault. Just calm down and see what's actually going on first.'

Creeping up towards the source, she hid herself behind a tree as she felt the magic pouring off the mage in waves. "Control yourself, Eria," she mouthed, before daring a peek around the tree.

What she saw shocked her. A mage was holding a blue-haired girl hostage with a blood-like rope, and the girl looked like she was struggling to breathe. The other two bluenettes, she supposed they were her siblings, looked on in shock at the other mage who had a serious look on his face as he held the rope.

"Are you ready to lose a buddy yet or would you rather grow up a little bit before going through that?" Eria heard.

A familiar spark ran through her body and Eria knew her magic had taken its toll on her again. "Actually, I'm sure he'd rather grow up a little bit before that," she said coolly, stepping around the tree. She met his eyes evenly as she crossed her arms, magic starting to pool in her fingertips. "No one deserves to live through that pain."

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(@Eevee
We're actually in Caelum right now, not Seven xI)
(Also, I'm just going to make forms for Tiffany and Carolina and RP as them :b)

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» Tiffany «
Tiffany had barely enough time to blink before the blood red whip had grabbed her neck. When she paid more attention to the whip, she noticed that it wasn't a whip, it was actually blood. 'Blood Magic, of course. Why hadn't I realised this before?'. The blood began to tighten around her neck, and soon enough, her oxygen supply began to lower. Breathing was getting more difficult; She was getting dizzy, she couldn't hear what was happening around her. Tiffany glanced over towards her siblings, "Do something..." She whispered, unsure whether they heard her of not.

Tiffany reached both hands up to her neck to see if she could do anything to loosen the grip. She placed her hands against the blood. It was a strange feeling. Being a liquid, with enough pressure, she was able to move her hands through. But the blood acted as a solid against her neck; leaving no way for her to escape...

» Azure «
Azure could see that Tiffany was in pain, but he didn't know what he could do. He heard her faint call out for help. He took a quick glance at Carolina, she was glaring at the stranger. He could almost see her brain trying to figure out what the best option would be for them.

Azure came to realise that the stranger was right. If they all began to fight, at least one of them would lose their life. There was no point in arguing with this guy, so instead of answering his question, Azure decided to get straight to the point. "Wha..." Just as Azure was about to ask the stranger what he wanted, a girl with blonde hair appeared out from behind one of the trees and answered the strangers question. 'Another one? Great, just more people to deal with.'

Skeet's head snapped to the side almost painfully as he got an answer from an unlikely source. He gave the blonde girl a small frown as she crossed her arms. He had been so focused on the three blue haired mages that he hadn't noticed another one creeping around nearby, a very rookie mistake. The situation had changed from bad to worse. This random girl clearly thought he was the bad guy, which to be honest was rather understandable considering the current situation, and she probably wouldn't listen to reason. He really should've just walked away in the first place.

With his body tense, Skeet glanced at the other mages before looking at the newcomer again. He was a lot more wary now, he didn't know what this girl could do and what her motives were. It seemed like she only wanted to be a good samaritan but he knew better than to assume things so easily. "Kid..." Skeet gave a small chuckle at the girl's naivety before continuing, "no one in this world gets what they deserve. People get what they take and other people get things taken from them, that's just how it goes. You know, the strong eats the weak and so on."

However, it didn't really matter whether he was right or not, he was highly outnumbered. The weak could become strong in a pack. Skeet had screwed up majorly, he needed a way out. Though escaping four mages wasn't that easy. He needed a distraction. Hissing out a curse, the young man decided to play it risky since he didn't have much options anymore.

"Scatter"

Instantly upon Skeet's verbal command, more blood rushed from the wound on his hand and into the whip he had used to subdue one of the blue haired girls. The blood wrapped itself around the girl more effectively while it was disconnected from his 'host'. Skeet turned around and broke into a mad sprint just as the blood wrapped around its victim morphed into an uncountable amount of small 'bullets' and shot out in a fraction of a second. The young man merely grinned as he felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder and the right side of his hip. Unless you were inhumanely lucky, no one besides the one in the dead center got out of that one unscratched, not even Skeet himself, which he didn't mind much.

However, as the adrenaline started wearing off, the effects of the blood loss started weighting on Skeet's shoulders more and more. After he almost tripped on his own feet, the young man was more or less forced to take a break from running and hope he was far enough. Leaning his back against a tree bark, Skeet clutched his head in his hands as he tried to will the dizziness away. He felt light headed and weak and he wasn't sure which way was up. Skeet really didn't like this part of his magic.

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When Zander Allax opened his red eyes, all was white, even the sky, surrounded by an almost permanent white snowy fog.

"Everything is empty... as always", he said in a low voice.

He was really used to be alone, with sometimes the unpleasant company of any wild animal.
Polar bears were his personal favorites.
They were tough and kinda hard to beat, but when were talking about survival, it was best to kill the animal instead of being his food.

Iceberg was always the same.
Mountains covered of snow, low temperature, hard hail falling over the place, sometimes they were even more larger than an open palm, like grotesque and almost deadly snowballs.
There was a small village near the coastline, not really big, only a few scattered houses with a few persons living there.
Not more than 20 people, with sometimes a few persons interested on exploring the cruel snowlands.

Zander knew too well that the Iceberg lands were really nasty.
Researchers, travelers, mountain climbers... he had found tons of half decomposing corpses in the snow, attacked by animals, drowned under the half frozen lakes or simply frozen alive while sleeping.
No one should take a step on the snowy and deadly wastelands, no one should try to climb the high mountains, no one should be even allowed to approach the country.
That were Zander's personal thoughts.

He stood up, shook the snow of his snowy boar mantle and after put it on his shoulders, he started wander aimlessly, like always.
With luck, he could find something to eat.

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And I'm here at least :D
Sorry if something sounds weird.
It might take a while until I can think of something to make Zander leave Iceberg to meet the others.

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It has been a week and a half since she left the Seven country, aimlessly searching for her place under the sun. Her journey was easier than she expected, no one wanted to trouble her. Tenebri had no problems crossing boarders, everyone just ignored the female.

Like this she pasted a small bit of Bosco, the forest calling out to her. The nights spent in the wild would stay in her memory for a long while, the beauty of that place was truly magical. But Tenebri's stay was ruined when she tried to join a dark guild. It seemed that he mothers reputation reach even this far. But honestly they didn't need to scream their no, she understood the language pretty well without the emphasis..

After that she went to Fiore, the country of flowers. Tenebri crossed it as quickly as she could. The land was known for it's high activity, though for the good or bad, was a whole discussion on its own. Lucky for the girl, she didn't meet any of the 'famous' guilds there, avoiding the cities might have helped that.

But sooner or later she found herself back on a ship. The female pleaded her way on it, promising to work off the price of the ticket. If not for the soft-hearted captain, she would still be in the Fiore's port. When they almost reached the shore of Caelum a funny thing happened: they found five people dropped in the sea. She didn't stick around to hear the full story, but from what she heard a few mages ambushed the poor suckers.

Now Tenebri was walking down a road in the forest when she heard hurried footsteps. Then they came to a complete stop just near by. Curiosity getting the better of her, the mage went to have a peek. Tenebri stared in shock when she saw a man leaning against the tree, but the blood dripping from his had soon caught her attention.
"Oh my God, Sir! Are you alright?! Let me help you!"
She ran to the stranger, pulling him down to sit. The female pulled out some water and bandages, cleaning the wound, then wrapped it up.

It was almost sunset when Zander entered the small village carrying a big size snow boar on his back. One would think that that big animal would be really heavy for a kid like him, but Zander wasn't a kid, he only looked younger and frail that he really was.
He open the door of the butchery, letting the snow enter.

"Oh, it's you again kiddo!" the man behind the counter saluted "What did you bring me this time? It has been a while since the last time you came here, I was almost thinking that you were buried on the snow outside"

Zander threw the snow boar in the shop ground, and he sat up in a wooden chair, crossing his arms without saying a single word.

"The usual, I suppose" the butcher scratched the back of his head while the silent guy nodded.

Like a half of an hour later, the butcher approached Zander with two small sacks.

"There you are. Fresh meat and a jewel compensation for the boar meat"

He didn't say thanks, Zander only took both sacks and leave the shop without a word.
The walk back to his camp took him more than two hours even when he was using his magic, 'animal soul'.
It was a really long way, and also really dangerous, so he tried to avoid the village as much as posible.
But, when his prey was a big animal, the meat was too much for him and it would be a waste letting it rot in the snow.
So he walked to the village for two reasons: Sell the rest of the animal meat and avoiding the villagers to send hunt parties to the mountains.
He just hated the sight of the dead rotten bodies, and the hunt parties often lose themselves on the traitor snowy wasteland.

He used his magic to cook part of the meat and ate it while looking to the mountain base, the small coast village.
It was a really starry and clear night, not a single snow drop on the sky. Too strange for the young man liking. That night wasn't normal, at least not in Iceberg, the land of the eternal snow storm.

Then he saw it.
A large boat approaching the coast.
A tourist boat?
Maybe more researchers?
No, it wasn't that.
It was simply too big, it was a council warship.

"Shit" Zander muttered.
He was finally found.

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(Just incase you guys didn't know. Eeveelution8 is leaving/left PH I;
So that means we can just go ahead and write her character out, or make her disappear etc..)

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» Tiffany «
The stranger muttered something, and suddenly more blood began to surround Tiffany's entire body. She was in pain. The blood was tightening around her legs and her arms were pinned down by her sides; she was unable to move.

The blood surrounding her began to change form; morphing into small circular-like shapes. 'Oh no...' Tiffany had been expecting the bullets to harm her, but to her surprise, the blood shot outwards from her body and was firing in all directions like bullets. Tiffany had noticed a few of them strike the stranger as he ran away. He reacted with pain, but still kept on running.

As more and more of the blood left Tiffany's body, she felt the grip around her loosen. Soon enough, she'd finally be able to escape.

» Azure «
Azure had managed to dodge the first few of the bullets, but he couldn't keep it up forever. He thought it would be best to create a shield to block any further attacks. He reached into his pouch to grab one of his cards. He raised his left arm, "Ice W-AHHHH!" One of the bullets had struck his arm, the cards dropped to the ground. The pain was excruciating, he could barely move his arm.

The attack had dazed him. Before he knew it, more and more began to hit him. One of them struck the middle of his chest and sent him flying backwards, crashing into the bushes.

» Carolina «
Carolina was using her magic to enhance the gravity surrounding the oncoming blood bullets causing them to collapse in on themselves, slowing them to a halt, and splash onto the ground.

After successfully destroying most of the blood bullets, Caroline grew weary due to using too much magic. 'Just a few more...' But before she could even attempt to destroy the rest, Carolina feinted, dropping to the ground.

Skeet lifted his head way too quickly, making his vision swim, as someone ran up to him. Judging by the stranger's worried question, she was no imminent threat. Maybe Skeet could even use her if anyone came after him. He didn't exactly like how close the girl came as she pulled him down to sit so he made some weak protests at first but gave up rather quickly. Blinking few times to clear his vision, Skeet looked at the girl with suspicion and a hint of curiosity. The black haired girl looked faintly familiar from somewhere but he couldn't remember where. The fact that he was rather light headed from the blood loss wasn't really helping his memory in the slightest.

Once the girl was done wrapping his hand up, and rather nicely too, Skeet attempted to get back on his feet but slid back down as his hip protested against the movement. The injuries he received from his own attack had completely slipped from his mind. The young man reached his left, unbandaged, hand over the injury and it came back bloody. He had already lost quite a bit of blood and he was still bleeding. He could easily stop the precious red liquid from flowing out of his body with his magic but it might not be a good idea to show this random stranger his magic. Even though the said stranger had demonstrated no ill will towards him so far.

Skeet gave the girl a wary glance but he didn't exactly have options at that point, losing any more blood would be very very bad. closing his eyes, the lad took a deep breath and concentrated on his two injuries. After a second or two, he opened his eyes again. Moving his jacket out of the way and lifting his shirt slightly, Skeet had to twist a bit to see the injury. It had now been coated with a thin layer of blood that spread on his skin, covering few centimeters of it. That should keep his blood in for now. He didn't bother trying to check his shoulder, it should be fine too. Now he just had to maintain concentration on those two spots before he could get himself patched up properly.

This time Skeet managed to get to his feet even though he still felt a bit dizzy and only then did he address the strange girl, "Alright, what do you want?" That question seemed to be asked rather frequently recently. "I mean, people don't just help people unless they want something and since you kinda just did that," even though no one asked for it, Skeet added in his head before continuing, "so I'm guessing there's something you figured you could get from me. Jewels? Is that it? Although I don't look like the richest fella around, people usually do have something valuable on them, even people who look like me, whatever that means."

Skeet did his best not to look as bad as he was while he rambled on but his pale face and shallow breathing probably gave him away regardless. He just hoped the girl would be swift with whatever she was up to and he could keep going. He had been lazying around for far too long already. At that thought, the man glanced towards where he came from. He couldn't see or hear anyone so far but that didn't necessarily mean no one was after him.

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Tenebri hadn't noticed the other wounds until the man touched one of them with his hands. She would have helped with them, if the scare from all the blood wouldn't have had a vice grip on her. She had beat up plenty of guys in her younger day, but somehow when the bloody mess was caused by you, it didn't have such a harsh effect.

She proved to be even more useless, when the male just moved around on his own, regardless of the horrible injuries. He even fixed them up by.. more blood.. it seemed. 'Maybe it's a part of his magic? But I don't think it'll hold for long.. I guess I could badage it too, if he'd let me..' The mage dumbly looked up at him as he stood up, deciding to finally talk to her. However his words weren't really nice.
"Alright, what do you want?" Then he paused before rambling away. Tenebri didn't really like his attitude, he could have just said a 'thank you', where were this guys manners?

"I just saw ya needed help, so I gave ya some. No need to be so rude about it. Now if ya only sat yer butt back down, I could fix those other wounds too." She sighed, before answering his 'important' question. "I don't wanna anything from ya, so calm down already."

The other mage didn't look so good, if the way he was swaying was anything to go by. Still he seemed rather off, kinda worried. When he glanced backwards, her suspicion were proved right, someone was after him. Probably the same one who did those wounds.
"It seems those wounds ain't yer only concern, running from someone? Maybe I could help ya on that too, I mean there's no way ya'll run away looking like that.."

» Tiffany «
Once Tiffany was able to move once again, she made her way over to her siblings. She was growing tired, and her left leg was in pain as she tried to walk, so she was forced to limp.

She eventually hobbled her way over to Carolina. Carolina had cuts and bruises plastered all over her body. One of her shoes had fallen off, and her cloak was torn around the edges. Tiffany knelt down and began to shake Caroline. "Wake up... oh god, please wake up!" Tiffany could feel Carolina breathing, but she was still unresponsive. Tiffany didn't know what else to do, so she raised her left arm and slapped Carolina on the cheek, Carolina's eyes shot open.

"Good, you're awake. Just stay here for a minute. I'll go get Azure." Tiffany stood up and searched around her. Over in one of the bushes, Tiffany noticed Azure lying on top one of them. Tiffany made her way over to Azure as quickly as she could. By the time she had made her way over to him, he was already awake.

As Tiffany was helping Azure to his feet, Carolina came storming over. "I'm going to find that red haired guy and I'm going to kill him!" She shouted. Carolina marched on past Tiffany and Azure and headed in the direction the stranger had went...