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Skyfall. There was no other, more righteous, more divine city in all of Occulas. The morning sun was cascading through the towers around the floating city, the light untouched by clouds in its descent from above. Like pearls glistening, sharp like blades, the city's spires cut into the sky. When Tsuna's small escape pod came hurtling towards Old Archem, the magical enchantments surrounding the city were momentarily broken, alerting nearby Paladins. The sky above Old Archem shattered and lit up like a divine being was descending into the city, like a tiny star on fire. The magical barrier, which acted more as an alarm system than a real barrier, was put in place by the Paladins of Skyfall. It was the first line of defence against invasion. It would cost too much energy and seraphic magic to keep the barrier strong enough to keep things out. So instead, during this time of peace, the magic is only strong enough to alert the nearby Paladins. Tsuna's pod smashed into the roof of Old Archem, crashing down into the main hall, a great expanse of polished stone walls and pillars, with a fountain of sorts with a pearly-white orb on top of it. Everything looked overgrown.

When the paladins arrived, they came in a group of about a dozen, all in gleaming white armour and white cloth, flowing from them like holy armaments. They brandished their polearms and came running towards the site of Tsuna's crash. Even now, the roof was slowly falling apart piece by piece and letting in more sunlight with it. Dust was settling and as they got closer they realised there was a girl. "A young female!" one of them shouted, his voice young and powerful. Then from behind someone else pushed through. "Divide immediately!" he said, and as if by magic the dozen paladins parted and stood like statues except for the front two, who kept position and held their polearms down towards the helpless Tsuna, blades ready to move in case she wakes up.

Peace of Sincerity

The young gentlemen then came into full view, and the sun beamed down over him like a holy light. Over his shoulders perched a pair of white birds with yellow tipped feathers. They were Tieldoves, the much-loved avian of Sincerity, symbolic of Skyfall's reverence to Scentiel, the High Angel of Sincerity. And this man was one of Skyfall's priests. Around him there was an unmistakable feeling of, truthfulness and faith. Adam stopped in front of Tsuna, she had obviously been thrown to the ground when her pod broke to pieces during the landing, now she was almost twisted, undoubtedly with broken bones he thought too. As the roof above him gave way to some more dust, he lifted his hand and white magic swirling from his finger tips, he then clutched his hand into a fist and a barrier filled the gap above them, like a window of invisible magic. He then crouched down to inspect her wounds, running his hand above her as a warm light emitted from his skin. "By Heaven..." he said, his eyes looking over her cuts and bruises, "she's alive." Adam stood up again and turned to his men, "get this girl to the sanitarium now." One of the ones with their weapons brandished over the girl then turned his head and asked "even if she is an invader?"
"She is a student!" Adam's voice almost cracked, he had turned so sharply that his Tieldoves flapped their wings and squawked at the awkward movement. "Of Hope Academy, she must be tended to and protected, we know not if she is running, in danger... or simply unfortunate. We must find the Overseer-regent immediately."

They made quick work of delicately picking up Tsuna, they lifted her so carefully it was as if she was glass in a basket made of feathers. They all removed their gauntlets, using their bare soft hands to lift and place her onto a stretcher, as they moved with her they held their hands over her, warming her with their angelic magic, they were whispering words of sincerity, of healing, of protection. Adam had vanished in a hurry to find the Overseer-regent, the second in command of the Injustira Syndicate, second only to the Exarch Valorious himself.

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When Tsuna finally came-to, she found herself in a large hall with pristine floors, walls and stained-glass windows high above her. Everything was white, except there were some striking red and pale mint green on long thin tapestries handing near the windows. The sun was beating down, it was morning light. But not the same morning light that welcomed Tsuna, this was another day, two days in fact, after Tsuna's accident. There was a single lady in the room, tending to another patient, she wore white-robes that had mint green shades, just like Adam's Tieldoves. There were symbols that Tsuna did not recognise along the floors and walls, as if they were there to ward off bad things, or bring about healing. One of the windows was stained to depict that of a great angel, descending from the light atop a hill. She had no face, as all angels did, and had a golden lance. Just from looking at it, a name seemed to come to Tsuna's mind. Scentiel. That was when the nurse came over and said "she is the High Angel of Sincerity. Her light should be healing you now. You had a devastating fall from grace."

Priest of Sincerity

The nurse let out a cry as Tsuna pushed her away like a brute. The nurse was shocked and in disbelief that the girl was attempting to get away, even in such a state. The nurse then attempted to follow her as she made her way around the room, looking for her belongings or a way to escape. As the nurse tried to get close Tsuna clambered around, finding her hands near the equipment and eventually she grabbed a scalpel. "Please!" the nurse begged, "you have to rest! We've not long mended your bones, they are still brittle!" The nurse tried to move forwards but Tsuna threatened again, forcing the nurse back. That was when movement came from outside the hall and suddenly Adam, the priest from before, burst in. He took a moment to establish the situation in his mind and he made a quick movement with his hands and a white light grew inside his palms, it was just like Lucas'. He then held his thumbs and forefingers together to make a triangle, a symbol of Injustira's justice, and finished the spell. Three lines of white light appeared on the floor around Tsuna's feet and suddenly she felt locked to the ground, unable to move her feet. "There is no need to cause trouble in the Halls of Sincerity!" Adam called, just then as another woman appeared from behind him, stepping forwards in robes very similar to Lucas Purevelion's but not nearly as extravagant, as beneath the top layer you could see her pink skirt and black shirt. She had long white hair, styled just like Aoi Celeste's and had a ribbon beneath her chin. Her sapphire blue eyes widened at the sight. "Tsuna Miki!" She said, more surprised than anything else, "you will not hurt anyone or yourself whilst in our great city. You have already stolen an escape pod and shattered a section of our most holy sites." Adam then flicked his hand and suddenly the scalpel in Tsuna's hand flung away and rolled across the marble floor. "Arisa-" Adam began, but the woman let out a small sigh and sat on a bed beside her, looking across the hall at Tsuna, who was still locked in Adam's binding. She made sure to keep a respectable distance, she knew all about Tsuna. "Aoi told me just how headstrong you are, but I never expected this. Anyway, would you like to sit... or stay in that uncomfortable position all day?" It was strange... Arisa was able to be fierce, but her tone could not come across mean. She was kind, and giving Tsuna space, but she was being strong. "I am Arisa Celeste, Aoi's sister. I believe she was temporarily placed on your team in Otherearth. I am now Overseer Regent in Lucas Purevelion's... absence. I have contacted your headmaster and I have come to an agreement with him to keep this escapade discreet. It would appear he has some trust in you."

Overseer Regent - Disciple of Lucas Purevelion

Priest of Sincerity

Tsuna was headstrong, that much was obvious. Arise almost rolled her eyes but resisted formerly, her training had taught her not to be so judgemental. Adam on the other hand full rolled his eyes, he was a priest, and every action of Tsuna's so far was an objection to the gifts of angelic power.

Adam, a Priest of Sincerity, was a part of renewed sects the Injustira Syndicate. Up until the Darkening, the demon invasion led by Lucifial several years ago, Justice was all that mattered in the White Guild. Many other virtues, that of the other High Angels were recognised but not openly practised. Rumours surfaced after the great battle in Zakernand, that some of the heroes.... the Legends of Unum, saw the power of angels near World's End. The heroes involved, Team Elixer, revealed nothing of the like. but the other brilliant fighters saw it, and the rumours spread... hope rekindled the spirits of everyone, especially the Divine race. Now the sect of Sincerity has been reborn, its halls dusted just as the halls of Redemption, Vigour, and Reason had become populated once more with faithful acolytes. The Injustira Syndicate... was renewed.

Adam refused to believe the angels had forgotten them, refused to believe their existence was false. After all, the Divine were descended from angels, it was the oldest, most sacred text of the Divine race. It is where their magic came from... it was not arcane, but Seraphic.

Finally the girl sat, reluctantly admitting her pain. When she found out the Headmaster was allowing her transgressions she gasped, and Arisa nodded slowly. "It appears your headmaster has a lot of faith in you... and your team." Tsuna then went on to explain there was a big reason for coming here. Arise and Adam listening closely, they had thought she was just disillusioned. When the girl paused before completing her answer, Arisa began to wonder if her reasons were darker than originally thought. When it finally came out of her mouth Arisa raised en eyebrow. Adam's eyes looked between the nurse still standing at the edge of the room and Arisa on the bed beside him. Zoltan Maues...

They said nothing until Tsuna mentioned necromancy. It put a chill through Adam's spine. He took in a deep breath, clutching onto his book tightly as if it gave him some comfort. Arise closed her eyes, taking in a breath herself. The two Paladins outside the rom could be seen fidgeting, as if the word made them uncomfortable. The nurse looked over to Arisa, hoping she would say something to sway the girl. "Aoi... told me many things of her adventures with you and the rest of Team Sun in Otherearth. It filled me with so much joy to hear that she was making new friends besides her team from Merlin, and she adored each and every moment with you. All three of you. Aoi had mentioned the fate of your father too, and begged me not to speak a word of it to anyone else. And ever since I have silently grieved for you, keeping my promise. Now I must extend my promise to the rest of you in this room." Arise liked around at the nurse, who nodded, and to Adam who followed suit. Her chin moved over her shoulder to catch a glimpse of the Paladins standing guard outside the entrance, and she saw them give a respectful nod back too. "However. Even if I cannot stop you from continuing this fruitless quest, thanks to your head master, I will warn you that what you seek is impossible. Necromancy is not simply reviving life, it is trading life. Even the necromancers of Necrovalley know that much, and they do it regardless, sacrificing one another to raise the dead. Have you seen them raise an army of the dead? It is not out of thin air, they have previously sacrificed their own, other Scarred, stray demons and animals of Bloodholme in masses just to store enough energy to perform such feats... As for.... Zoltan Maues. I do not know who you are speaking of. Micha'el Maues has no brothers or sisters. I would know, we know a lot about the boy with the holy book. Lucas... had tremendous hope for him. If that is who you need to find to finish this, then you will never be finished. Zoltan Maues does not exist."

Arisa's demeanour had changed slightly after mentioning Lucas, as if it was a bad subject, as if it made her shoulders hang. But she remained proper and kept a slight smile on her face. But she was being stern, she felt obligated to stop this child from ruining her life.

Overseer Regent - Disciple of Lucas Purevelion

Arisa noticed the moment of defeat in Tsuna's posture. Her body language showed it all. Hopefully now, she thought, this helpless little girl would stay away from the curse of necromancy. As Tsuna described her last memories of her father, Arisa couldn't help but look down at the ground, whilst Evan continued to look on over the child. He was witnessing her sorrow. He turned to Arisa then as Tsuna asked for another way, a more sacred way of doing this. A way to contact the afterlife was not easy, but Evan knew there were a few meager possibilities. And Arisa would know. She looked up and never looked at Evan. "You are no fool." Arisa said, standing up from the bed. She made her way over to Tsuna and placed a firm hand on the girl's shoulder. She gave a short squeeze and said "fools die. You have lived and lived again. Unfortunately there is no such method that the Injustira Syndicate can bestow upon you. The afterlife is unreachable. It is a place of peace, something that us, the living, can never take responsibly."
"Arisa-" Evan spoke up, but she looked back at him quickly and he stopped speaking immediately. "You must live on. Stronger, wiser. Do not become a fool... Fools oft' go missing." Her last few words made everyone in the room suddenly become sorrowful too, as if a giant wait was on their shoulders. With that Arisa stood up and began to leave, shortly followed by Evan who looked back at Tsuna again, giving her half a smile before leaving with Arisa and her Paladins. The nurse gave Tsuna one more look too, and against her training, she left.

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Only a few minutes had gone by since the others left Tsuna alone in the hall. Everything was calm, warm, everything that what was going on in Tsuna's head. It was almost enough to distract her from the footsteps coming towards the room again from the main corridor. The person that emerged from the archway walked straight in, his steps calm and even, light like a child's. But he was a fully grown man, wearing dark clothes with accents of silver and gold. He had medium length black hair brushed back. His skin was tan and his eyes were gold. Behind him trailed a thin grey cape. He stopped at the bottom of Tsuna's bed and looked down to her. After a moment he took in a breath and said "I haven't heard that name in years. You know, Zoltan was a great wizard once, he would have made an even better Paladin. Where did you hear his name?"

Lea's Theme

Tsuna was startled by his unannounced presence. Lea was like a dark ominous statue, and like some pathetic fallacy the clouds overhead shrouded the sunlight, causing the hall to become ominous like a crypt. The gold accents on his cloth and jeweler glowed warmly, as if some kind of holiness still existed within them. "Please" he then said, "do not be afraid. I was there... when he was last defeated. That's the simplest way in which i can put it anyway. I am Lea Matzo Sun, I am a servant of Mesraphael. I am not surprised that a child from outside our city is unnerved by me. In the halls of Reason, we do not venerate the divine, blinding light. The High Angel Mesraphael is a being of twilight, divine light that has been reflected, just like thoughts, like memories. From it, comes Reason. The only difference between me and them... is that I am not a Divine. I am Human. Do you know what happened to Zoltan Maues? Only those that were with him at his demise remember him."

Lea's Theme

Lea nodded, "yes, his defeat was known as the Zoltan Crisis. Well.. by the handful of people that witnessed it." Lea took a step around the side of Tsuna's bed, the sheets in stark contrast to his dark clothes. He pulled up a stall and sat on it, coming down to the same level as Tsuna. Neatly, he placed one leg over the other, crossed his arms and leaned forwards. She asked him then to know more, to understand what happened to Zoltan Maues for her own sake... and someone else's. Someone of his own blood. That sentence echoed in Lea's mind, and for just a moment it looked like his interest was peaked. "Very well. By the guidance of Mesraphael, I shall divulge one of my biggest secrets."

Lea began his story. "Zoltan Maues was a n intelligent young man, who graduated Merlin and attempted to get into the Injustira Syndicate's Halls of Justice. He wanted to change the world. He was a vanguard of worldview. He wanted to bring Magic and Non-magic Earth together. Whether the non-magic folk accepted it or not. He was rejected, and so went out to complete his work on his own. He was stopped again at The Crossing, and went into hiding. Some years later he came back, but not like you would expect. He created 13 holes in time, using the power of a powerful full moon from 13 different times to empower his own magic so that he could cross the border into Non-magic Earth. As you know, it is easy to get to our world, but difficult to get back out thanks to the Occult's enchantments. He was then stopped. We were there, Team Elixir and a mysterious man known as the Doctor worked together to defeat Zoltan and his apprentice. They broke the holes in time, the continuum of time then began to age his flesh and bone, crippled him and brought him close to death before eliminating him from time and space itself. Anyone that wasn't there... forgot he ever existed. Everything he had done was wiped from existence."

Lea's Theme

He seemed to have Tsuna captivated by his story. It was full of brand new information, new characters, new plots. It was all important information too, for her path to seeing her father again. Although Lea didn't know it yet. Slowly she began to piece it all together. Lea was certainly not a member of team Elixer, and only those present remembered what happened. Lea noticed how her interest peaked after he finished speaking, and so he wondered what on Magic Earth she was thinking about. A smile almost came across Lea's lips as she began to express her understanding of Zoltan and how he would have had a back-up plan in case everything went awry. It was then that she stared at him in the eyes and he began to wonder the worst. His? Lea thought to himself, just who was she talking about? She then spelled out his name and he couldn't help but grin, a smirk bearing a singular fang as he took in a deep breath that filled his lungs completely. She knew.

The man then sat upright, his shoulders pulled back and his cheeks tight as his jaws were clenched tight. "I'll blame our mother for that, she gave us her unforgettable eyes. You're more intelligent than I first thought... for a child. Now tell me, who is it you think I am the brother of? My brother doesn't know I exist, nor my mother. Only my enemies. And what report says my name? All memories, texts... actions of my past are supposed to be gone. One wizard in particular made damned sure of that."