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The male suddenly snapped back to reality as he had heard a threat.

"Sheena, behind you!" He yelled, sliding into a stance ready to pounce. Kratos had grasped at the hilt of his sword with an agile speed, unsheathing it in the blink of an eye.

When the portal closed, the mana rod Rhone had been using to keep Derris Kharlan in place suddenly hit him in the forehead. After staggering back a bit, he rights himself and grins at the group. His eyes were now a bright purple instead of the usual blue. When the assailant is noticed, Rhone slowly turns around and glares at him, as a massive aura of red, black, and purple extends from his body. Anyone sensitive to mana would become sick, and even those used to mana would be at least uncomfortable. Rhone holds his hand up with his palm facing the unknown assailant as a large sphere of mana larger than Rhone himself begins forming in his hand. He was readying something nasty.

You picked a bad time...I've got a lot of mana to unload and I don't mind wasting it on you if you're my enemy.

(XD Rhone's a chargin' his lazor. X3)

Zelos had already lept next to Kratos with his dagger and shield ready.
Never thought I'd have to team up with YOU again....

Colette had a bad feeling. She didn't want to leave her grandmother, because she had already left for other troubles, cutting into their family time. What could she do?

((Ooh, needed to do a little research there. ;;>.>))

Azriel and Sheena felt their energy and alertness returning, thanks to Kratos' First Aid. "Thanks," the former reflexively replied on their behalf, as the latter appeared to have been affected by what the stranger had said. "What are you talking about?!" she demanded, "What makes you think Sheena would kill her own people?!"

"I..." She retracted from her defensive stance, straightening up and lowering her hands to her sides. Her head lowered in a slight bow, her expression beginning to look distraught. Was he talking about what she thought he was? By the way he said it, she was sure of it.

"...Sheena?"

"I admit that because of my inexperience at the time, my actions led to the death of my people. But I didn't mean for things to lead to that, I swear it."

"...Wh-what?" Her words were puzzling Azriel. Still, she kept to her stance, as Sheena was looking vulnerable.

Sheena glanced over at Azriel for a moment, feeling like this was something she should have already known, but quickly remembered she wasn't a part of her old group and a Sylvaranti at that, so it wasn't likely at all that she had heard of that incident. "Long story short, at the age of seven, I was brought to Volt to attempt a pact with him. But it didn't work out...he went berserk and killed a quarter of our population."

"But does that really make it your fault? Doesn't that look more like...an accident?"

"Hmph." Sheena resumed her defensive position, a smirk playing at the corner of her lips, but only for a fleeting moment. "...That's what they think too...but I still take the blame." She turned her attention back at Axis. "Kuchinawa was the one who sent you, wasn't he? He still doesn't forgive me...does he?"

Kratos' eyes had narrowed into a stare that could likely pierce a hole into whoever dared look directly in return--theoretically speaking, of course.

Have humans not changed at all since the regeneration? Hatred still lingers, and of course such a thing is expected of humans. However, the male was not so passive as to turn a blind eye anymore.

...But again, this was not his fight. There was nothing he could do as Sheena was left to recollect her past sins.

Axis kept his focus on Sheena, leaving Rhone's anger filled words to dwell as a garbled mass going on in the back ground. He had no respect for those who used mana so recklessly. Eyes on Sheena, blade still drawn, he was quiet. "Troubling." He said shortly after she finished. The words were stinging. The story stung his memories, forcing him to turn away for a second. He looked back, sighing. "Kuchinawa? I never learned his name. He said he had answers to whatever I sought to know. He dressed in red, and kept his face covered. That is all I know." Looking back to Rhone, Axis sighed. "Do what you wish. You use something you don't even understand. It will destroy you before it destroys me."

(Sorry that Axis is so rude to Rhone. Its in his character. D : )

Grimm walked up beside Grimm and drew his blade. "Hey, do you need any help?"

Axis frowned, looking first to Rhone. "Should have been destroyed? Dont speak so foolishly." Looking back to Sheena, Axis frowned. "I seek answers. I must find another connected to the word. Spiritua. There must be another linked to that name. Maybe they will know what afflicts me." Leaving it at that, he faced her once more. "Your not a bad person. I see that much in your eyes. None of you are." He said, sheithing his blade and raising his hands in surrender.