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Rune looked over at her shoulder and saw that the area was being chilled thanks to Allure. Pulling out the dagger she saw that most of he wound had been covered so it stopped bleeding. Looking up she grinned at Allure, thanking her."

Rune nodded. "Yeah, thanks to Allure I'm a bit better." she replied. "I just can't shake the feeling that there was something off about that dagger..." she muttered to herself as she readied her rings for any more attacks.

Hiashi felt the chilling ari, but was unphased by it. Years of training in his element had mde him very comfortable in areas of water, freezing water and other such conditions that others would normally cringe at. The others of his group however would more then likely not last as long. These men were thugs however, people he hired off the circuit, not his own men...they would be a test. The plan would proceed as discussed, he would launch a large attack and then the men would charge forqward and dispatch the attackers. It would turn out that the cold air was precisely what he needed.

...clasping his hands together quickly, Hiashi began to focus and closed his eyes. After a few seconds he opened his hands but kept his fingers together to reveal a spherical ball of water between his palms. As his hands drew further apart, the ball grew larger until it was the size of his head. In an instant he then threw his arms apart, scattering the ball of water in hundreds of fragments and then sent them forward through the brush, towards the group. Immeadiately the smaller fragments froze upon contact with the freezing air and then continued forward, a barrage of ice shards and fragments that seemed to rain on their position. the hired men, soon after watching the attack be launched, leapt out of their concealed positions and ran towards the group, each one assigned to one of the women, and two of them assigned to Cobra, who was the main target, each of them brandishing a Katana, and aiming to kill.

Rune felt as the air got cold she saw shards of ice coming to rain onto them! 'Another ice elemental like Allure!?' she thought as she leapt back and tried to avoid what she could. She growled when she felt a few too close for her liking just scratch her. 'I'm slower then usual, dammit! that damn dagger...' she thought to herself, but had no time to worry about that. She manipulated what earth she could into a barrier to block a few slices at her and quickly felt around her seed bag.

Finally she found what she was looking for and barely managing to roll out of the way she tossed the four seeds onto the ground and used her elemental power to grow the seeds rapidly. She smirked when the small tremor from the seeds growing so rapidly that the guy who attacked her didn't know what hit him until he was knocked away by several long stems shooting out of the earth. The stems grew until it started to form and soon four giant venus fly traps were barricaded around Rune. Though she managed to pull it off and was somewhat protected by her plants her vision started to get hazy as she tried to stand up but fell to one knee.

"Da-dammit..." she coughed out as she tried to stayed focus. She shakily brought up some earth and leaned against it as she pulled out some arrows as she tired aiming, at the guy trying to get past her plants that surrounded her.

(( *Shrugs* Can you drink while sleeping? ))

One person, one of the Black arm members, came running towards Straven.
Straven said, in an irritated voice "Yesss..??"
'Sir, sir.. You have to see this, quick..'
"Hmm, alright..But this better be worth it.."

Straven followed the man, and called 4 other thieves to follow him.
When they arrived at the place the guy took Straven to.. they saw...
Other thieves?

Other thieves..in Straven's district!!?
"Thank you for showing me this..go back to the base.. " Straven said,
He then jumped up high in the sky, and landed in a large, high tree near them, so he could see what they were doing..

*rose was still sleeping when Ren's spirit came and sat next her her, looking at her and wishing to hug her in his afterlife*

Cobra saw the ice shards flying directly for him, but before he was able to gather his own power to create an earth shield, he watched as the fragments flew off to the side with a stiff wind. No doubt being the work of Allure, he looked over to nod a thank you to her, but was quickly confronted with two men charging him. Reacting with quick instinct, Cobra threw his arms out and summoned power from the earth to him as the ground around him began to tremble furiously. Just as the men closed in near him he brought his arms together quickly in a large crash, the earth between the two men split, quickly widening into a small fissure, forcing them to move out of the way or fall into it.

...the men stumbled out of their charges, their form and balance crumbled by the tremors and fissure, each of them just barely twisting out of the way and off to the side, one to the left and the other to the right. Just as the one on the left was regaining his balance, he looked up to see Cobra spinning around in front of him when he felt a strong kick land directly in his gut, hitting him back at least 5 feet. Flying backwards from the kick, the man was hit directly into a tree trunk, where he impacted with the tree with a thud and fell unconscious from the combined front and back impacts in only a 2 second interval.

Quickly leaping over the fissure he created, Cobra drew the longsword from his back as he landed and met the second attacker's Katana with a horizontal swipe knocking it out of the way and giving him an opportunity to Bull rush the man with his shoulder, pushing him back a foot or two. Cobra took up a position with the sword and waited for the man to come at him, which he did, quickly and fool-heartedly. This man was no match, his footing was horrid and his strike was off balance. Easily catching the man's downward slice, Cobra redirected the katana off to his left with his sword, and followed his own movement, gently leaning in to the left, grabbing the man's arm with his right hand as he threw his foot out and tripped the thief. Cobra then ducked under the man's arm, sliding his left hand with Broadsword still gripped to the man's wrist, twisting it slightly as he turned, moving his right up to the man's shoulder as he pushed down on him, shoving the man's body into the ground while lifting his arm up and twisting his wrist, forcing him to drop his katana to the ground as hit with a thud. The man's face was buried in the ground as he winced in pain from the join lock Cobra held him in. His arm was now completely held up vertically, at the mercy of Cobra's grip on his wrist which he held tightly to as he slid his right hand off the man's shoulder, down to his neck and hit a pressure point which made the man fall unconscious at which point Cobra released the man's arm, which immediately flopped to the ground.

Looking around the field quickly, he could see that Allure was handling herself well, and he was sure Veronica would be fine, but Rune looked as if she was in pain and weakened. He started to move towards her aid, but with the time he spent dispatching his attackers, he would not make it in time before her next move, as he saw the man approaching just as she was drawing an arrow.