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Hiro was more than reluctant to get near any of the new arivals, if they where willing to do some sort of summon and probably kill someone in the name of their craft he didn't want anyone to get any funny idias about his own craft. So he sat a respectable distance away in the shadows, a small attempt to make himself more invisable. He also made a point not to use any magic at all, he even left his staff in his room so he wouldn't stand out and be volentered for extra power, no way was his head going on the chopping block.

He silently watched the procindings of the other wizards, taking note of the symbols they used and the patterns they set up in an attempt to figure out how the hell the planned to acomplish such a feat, much less live to tell the tail. Every now and again he would find himself stareing at one detail or another, and quickly change the object of attention in another attempt not to stand out.

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Tas however, sat on the other end of the spectrum. She floated above the mass with her wings fluttering in a silent manner. She didn't seem to mind that her dress made a viable peep show for the whole of the room, they would find themselves dissapointed anyways as she was careful to wear shorts underneath today.

As she fluttered about, being a regular nusance she made a point of asking varried questions to anyone who appeared to have information on the current revival of the lost god. Sadly, everyone was either oblivious or as tight mouthed as Master Shu. It was starting to annoy her how information keeping everyone seemed to be these days, As if they didn't trust such a cute fairy!

Riokshte could feal the pull of a summoning as he dragged away his latest victom to the realms of the dead. With this Summoning he felt the shock of something being thrown desprately out of balance, this fealing shivered down his spine as his surroundings warped around and he appeared before a bar of Villans. Although it didn't regester to him as the Villian's hideout, all creatures looked so simmaler to him these days.

As he looked about, he saw the reson for his summons. A replacement spell, the exchange of one soul for another, and not just that it was for Lilie's soul to boot! So, now he had a job to do. He pulled the soul from it's origonal body and transplanted the goddess' soul into it, so strange.... usualy the soul that was to be taken struggled, this one seemed not to mind.

With the transplant compleet and everything right with his world, these wizards had some explaining to do. Riokshte made himself visable to the human eye with a swirl of darkness and intimadation.

" What is the meaning of this?!"

He demanded. He had no worries about the godess just yet, she would probably still be wondering what the hell was going on. And even when she relized what was going on the thaught of being stuck in one form would baffle her for a wile longer. So he was safe for the time being.

Riokshte was, needless to say, less than pleased with the reaction from the less than grateful Lilie. He crossed his arms, knowing that he was still safe due to the fact it would take her a wile to get her powers in working order, and frowned at her like she was the dumbest person on earth.

"what the hell do you think.... Stuck you in a human body, one of those exchange-a-soul kind of things."

Of corse she woud only get the jist of it, rather than know the fine tuning like he did. Thats when he notaced, the exchange hadn't gone through the whole way.... no wonder he was still tied here! He floated down to the now Demi-god's body and, what would apear to all in the visable spectrem, reached through her to grab the stray soul and quickly drag it down to the realm of the dead, making sure to seal it away in the deapest cavern he could find before returning to inquire more about what the hell was going on here.

This time, before inquireing for more information He scanned the room in an attempt to pick out who was in power and who was just here for the show. And after a few moments he chose the big cocky looking guy who had his arms crossed and chicks swooning after him, wile he cooly ignored them and watched the fairy of death do his job.

"What is the meaning of this?"

He demanded again, specificly to the, apparent, incubus that appeared to have that cool air of command.

Riokshte was not fooled by the false innocence of the Incubus' lie, and like all gods, seemed to stare right through him as he crossed his arms and floated just below the ceiling in a manner that made all around him feal insignificant. He glared particularly at the leader, his way of making people uncomfortably in the spotlight, and spoke in a voice that dripped vennom.

"Yessss.... But usualy it is for a soul of another human...."

The 'yes' had a particularly venomus-snake feal to it. If that didn't get most of the people in the room quakeing in their boots, not much else would.

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Hiro was still focused and intent on how the spell had gone through. With most of the patterns commited to memory, he felt confident that with the right ammount of power he could do the same thing.... but wasn't about to try it out any time soon.

When he notaced that the spell had actualy worked, and the godess stood before them, in an angry way no less, he was shocked. He sat in total awed silence as the conversation between Shu and Death went unheard by him.

Lilie didn't look happy. She walked over to Shu and wishing she had her power, which would make this much easier, she wrapped her fingers around his neck. Not bothering to squeeze.

"What the hell do you want? Apparently you're the leader of this and I want to know exactly what it is you want of me?"

She started to squeeze, hoping this body had enough strength to put enough force into it, which it had quite a bit as she found out. She wasn't one of the Gods who had made a pack not to kill mortals. She squeezed and could feel that he couldn't even swallow.

"You better have a damn good reason to bring me back to the shithole."

She looked around, not seeing anyone she knew except Riokshte.

"Would like to explain, Pixie?"

She asked Riokshte without releasing her grip on Shu.

Shu didnt fight against the grip of the demi-goddess, but he wouldnt bother to give her the statisfactio of seeing that it hurt him, if it did at all. He had a very indifferent look as she slowly strangled the incubus, making it apear like this happened every day.

Cain was quick to grab the hilt of his sword, pulling it half way from its scabbard before he noticed Shu telling him to calm down with a motion of his hand. Growling he threw the sword back into the sheath and took a seat on the floor, looking up at the scene.

The other villains were a bit confused on what to do. Shu was by technicality their leader, but Lilie was a goddess. They stayed in their seats and watched at the death fairy pulled the two apart.

"Lilie, sweet goddess. It was my intention to bring you back so you may do to those gods what they did to you. Surely you want them cast into the deepest pit of hell like they did to you."
He said once his breath was returned to him, speaking to Lilie although he currently saw the back of Riokshte.

" So the Pixie remark was directed at an Incubus? Congradulations, not only are you deaf and stupid, but you are also blind."

He said with a sour hint of sarcasum that, if speech could kill, would have seriously stung. Riokshte floated there for a minute wile Lilly, finaly, took her time to get her bareings. Knowing the goddess, he figured that she didn't even know where she was, much less what the hell was going on, and at this rate it would take forever for her powers to return!

Finaly, Lilly decided it was time for some answers as she now chose to grab the leader and head out. He took it onto himeslf to follow her and learn as much information as possible, also slipping back into the invisable spectrom as he went along. He felt much better now that he was invisable to all but Lillie, whenever people could see him he felt naked for some reson... probably because he was used to being invisable.

Eremes hovered about, lying on his back in the air. The specter found amusement in all the happenings, and seeing Shu getting strangled just made him want to laugh. After the severely aggravated goddess pulled Shu from the room and outside, Eremes was compelled to follow, having nothing better to do than learn what he could about everything around him. Eternity would do that to a guy. Of course, he would have followed if not for one reason. Riokshte was present, and Eremes knew that if he stuck his nose where it didn't belong, Riokshte was the one and only being that could do away with him for good, being the very god of death and all. If there was one individual he wanted to avoid contact with, it would be him. Phantom as he was, eternity could be cut very short if the wrong people were upset.