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Luci missed his home in the Order of Capricorn, but the summons had gone to the highest ranking member of the Order, and since Lady Judge and the other Arc Knights were busy, it was left to him. Capricorn wasn't in the best of shape, the strong winds wearing the stone down little by little, but he still worked hard, mending walls, fixing pipes. The entire trip to Igros Castle he had ran through his head all the things that needed fixing, ignoring the fact that some of the Knights and Squires had taken up that same list, almost shoving him out the door. He reached the castle gates, showing the summons to the guards, and relinquishing his weapons. Luci was average height, his muscles disguised by over large clothes, those in turn covered by the chain and plate-mail he wore. He was shown through a series of hallways, eventually being left in the hall with the Steward's promise that the King would attend to him eventually.

((How's that?))

"These will do wonderfully, sire." Crimen said to the king. "I was originally going to take a few days to case the place and find my way around but now I can simply study the maps on the trip there. I'll have the stone for you in no time, my liege." He said standing and giving a bow. "Is there anything else you wish of me before I leave? I'm eager to get to work on this."

((I think Maluc means that I'm in a meeting with the king in Lesalia, I could edit if you want...))

((I purposefully left it open enough because I didn't have time to read and catch up))

"We had to take a long detour King, an Undead issue came up as I started my travels. I represent the Order of Capricorn. Our Order could be in better condition, but we are maintaining it well enough. We have enough people, and have plenty of food for ourselves" Luci reported.

Hyato was sprawled out on the floor of the dungeon cell he was holed in snoring loud enough to wake a sleeping dragon until he got prodded by a spear. Slowly waking up and wiping the drool from his mouth and swatted away the spear that was annoying the ever living crap out of the infamous Virgo marksman. "Knock it off dirt bag! I'm awake already. Jeez can't a guy get some sleep around here? It's not like there's anything better to do while cooped up in this sorry dump. How many times do I have to tell you morons that I didn't do anything wrong this time. You're just mad because I beat up a few of your guard buddies while they arrested me for doing what? Breathing? Is that such a crime now? If so then you idiots should be in here too." Hyato said going off on a tangent. He had been locked away for roughly 6 months under the false accusation of attempted assassination on King Delita. Hyato had tried to break out of jail a few times but had been thwarted and beaten severely for trying. At least 3 times a day, the expert sharpshooter has been tortured in failed attempts to get him to admit to the crimes he's been punished with in order for the King to give grounds on executing a notorious hero amongst the general public and the Order of Virgo. Despite everything, Hyato is still blatantly defiant and resistant to his captors. Deep down though, he wondered if he was ever going to see the free world again and more so who man he considered to be his brother. Hyato had no idea that Raipheale was somewhere within Igros Castle as well as the attack that utterly destroyed the Order of Virgo's base of operations.

After seeing no response from the Blue Dragon, Kayla gave up on shaking her limp body in vain attempts to revive her. The female Squire decided that it would be best to carry Tsunaimei along to where the others had run off to. After much struggling with the dead weight, Kayla managed to get the unconscious Vice Judge into a piggy back position and walked over to Judge Fiora and the others. "Oh man, you're heavy Lady Tsunaimei! I don't see how you can move as fast as you do with all that weight from the armor that you're wearing. I can barely get around as is in the Squire armor. I wish I was as strong as you are, Lady Tsunaimei." Kayla said mostly thinking her thoughts out loud to herself, knowing full well that her words fell on def ears from the Vice Judge. She gasped and nearly dropped Tsunaimei as the young red head came upon the sight of Lady Fiora. Kayla lowered Tsunaimei's body on the ground in a prone position and remained in a kneel before the Virgo Judge. "I'm sorry for failing you all... " Kayla said ashamed at herself for being rather useless during the whole ordeal.

Inside Gemini HQ, Ceres Dalma could hear screams down below. "So, that creature that's been trapped has finally broken free. Well...I guess it won't hurt to take that man up on his proposition and get the stone. Not like the others will be needing it soon anyways," she said, assuming that the others would most likely die defending this place. Not that the assassin cared about the order, it was simply a place that she could work for. She moved swiftly for the guarded chambers in which the Gemini stone was placed. It was a fairly simple venture, no one suspected her intentions. Even if they did, anyone that gave her trouble was quickly dealt with.

Finally, the blonde got inside the room with the holy stone. All the defenses had been breached, and thus once it was in her hands she had no problems with leaving the headquarters in all the confusion that the assault was creating. Whenever necessary, Ceres teleported but no matter the way, she made it to the chocobo stables. Finding her black chocobo, already primed for leaving (considering she was going to go later that evening anyways), she climbed up onto the saddle and left, headed southwest.

Fiora looked at Dominic and Celine, shock in her eyes. "H-he...got the stone? We need to go after him and get it back," she said, starting to pace until she saw Dominic hold out her sword. She stopped to put the Save the Queen into its rightful place. The blue-haired judge watched as Mer'loct mourned the loss of his blade for a moment, before having her eyes settle on Celine. "I...guess we can't follow him. We don't even know where he was going or even why he wanted the stone." She sighed, placing her hand on her forehead in thought. "It...it just doesn't make any sense. Gwynn used to not be like this..."

After being satisfied with what healing she could do, and with watching what Valthis did, Gloria went after Kayla to get to the others. Although the long expressions on everyone's faces told that something bad had happened, the young bard's lit up at seeing Fiora safe. "Mommy!" she cried, running up to the judge and throwing her arms around the lady. "I was so worried that you weren't going to come back again..."

Fiora blinked and saw her daughter just in time to see the girl wrap her arms about her person. And she also caught sight of Kayla having brought the unconscious Tsunaimei. "No, dear, you did what you could. ...We lost this one. One person cannot change the tide of battle." She then softly smiled down at Gloria, gently moving locks of the girl's brown hair. "You don't have to worry, I'm here. I'm not going to leave you again, Gloria. ...Did you take care of Tsunaimei, or should I take a look at her?"

Gloria shook her head. "I cast some healing spells so she should just need rest," she said, looking over at the White Phoenix leader.

"Then, we should gather everyone together and get healed up enough for travel. We cannot stay here any longer, it would be suicide now." She looked over at Dmitri. "Ah, Dmitri, my friend. Do you suppose that those in Leo would be willing to help accommodate us? I'm not sure what form of payment we could offer at this time, but...we don't have much."

Dominic looked over at Celine, who seemed a bit put off by what had transpired. Just what was Gwynn thinking? Was this his own design or someone else's? It really hurt his head to think too much. He could remember the former Vice Judge a little from his youth, but Dominic was still pretty young when Gwynn had last left.

Gwynn was rather glad to hear that Bane was going to go with him. "Good, then let's go." With that, he rode towards the west.