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Seeing the orange portal firing off shots of magic, Tsugaru attempted to throw a couple rocks at the shots in order to intercept them. However, the rocks were cleanly burnt into dust, so Tsugaru had to jump out of the way at the last minute. The shots dug into Thero's back, causing him to drop his dagger in pain. "OW! Tsugaru, what the hell do you think you're---huh?!?" Thero noticed Tsugaru was already running away into the forest, and then saw a charging (and raging) Silver dashing towards him. "Son of a---Waru, we don't have any time! Do it now!" Thero pulled a white lacrima out of his pocket and ran magical energy through it. While it produced a bright flash, Thero took a crossbow off of his back and fired a shot off at Silver.

Blinded by the flash, Silver reflexively enlarged the portal in his hands to become shields. The bolt that was fire however was not intercepted and it left Silver with a rod sticking out of his right shoulder. Graaaah! Silver yelled as the enlarged portals on his hands began firing impulse shots at random places in front of him. Enraged and succumbing to the pain of his previous his injury, Novala can only heal, not take away pain, Silver befell a state not unlike that of a rabid dog.

Zerkon had been lying on the ground throughout all of this, sleeping his injuries away. However, he had found himself conviently awakened, after a restless dream.He looked up at the two warriors, one which was holding an unconscious Tiresa. "Huh...what was I doing...?" He tried to focus, as everything was a bit of a blur. Finally he made out the image of Tire with a knife to her throat. "Tiresa! She's in danger!" He instantly tried to get up, however, he fumbled it and his injuries impeded him, making him fall again. By the time he was back up on his feet, The duo were already gone, leaving their teammate alone in the forest. "Dammit... If only I was faster..." Zerkon's wounds were still not healed, so he still had blood running down his back. Adressing silver, he turned. "So...It's obviously a trap, But do we really have any other choice?

Jeri, wake up. As Jeri started returning to consciousness, she thought she heard her brother's original voice. However, when she was fully awake, she instead heard the cold emotionless voice of Self emanating from his key. Wake up, Jeri. Something happened while you were out. Jeri opened her eyes to find, much to her surprise, that she was floating above the ground. She looked around and eventually realized that Silver was carrying her. She tried to figure out why, but could only remember that she was knocked unconscious somehow. "What's going on? Why are you carrying me, Silver?"

"Yes, I'm fine..." Zerkon made to turn to Porlyuscia's house, but didn't feel like going in, realizing that all of this was his fault. "I'm sure the old lady is fine..." he replied, turning his back. "But we have more important things to worry about." He put a hand to the back of his neck attempting to stop the bleeding and hide it from Adrian. "If we're going to walk into a trap, we at least need to be prepared so we aren't ambushed by flying rocks and whatnot."

As Jeri heard the situation explained to her, she realized how easily she was overwhelmed and defeated. One rock...I got defeated with just one rock! So much for 'strong as you think you are...' Still, I can't get depressed now. I have to help the others rescue Tiresia! Jeri looked down with Silver and Zerkon at the map, and then realized her book had fallen out of her hands when Silver picked her up. She didn't want to draw attention to it, so she just continued studying the map, waiting for an opportunity to grab it in secret. However, as she looked towards the two others, she realized that Zerkon was bleeding from his forehead and Silver had an arrow sticking out of him. "Hey, what are you two doing standing around all hurt like that? We should get you two back to the guild before you two get any worse! How powerful were those two to be able to inflict so much damage?"

(To answer your question, Tire, you can try to escape from the pair now or just sit and wait until you're rescued. When you wakes up, you'll be in Thero's library tied to a chair. The library is in a mansion, so the rest of the room will be pretty fancy. There's also a bookshelf full of the purple books behind you, but you can wing the rest of the room.)

Tsugaru, wasn't it? The one left behind Silver said to confirm before pulling the bolt out, albeit with slight hesitation and a disgruntled murmur of pain. Silver quickly covered the wound with his hand, pressing down on it to stop the bleeding. He could feel that nothing serious was injured underneath it.

So, who gather the books and who looks? Silver asked as he released his shoulder, it had stopped bleeding. He didn't even notice his injury until Jeri pointed them out, so he did a quick overview of his body to find any other injury. Luckily, he only found some minor scratches.