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Asami slipped back into the shadows. She was hidding cause she knew one of them got infected.

Asami slipped out of the shadows to see the damage. She had a smirk on her face. Untill she felt something. She felt that Melethia had woken up. Her smirk then changed to a frown. She was quite mad.

"NOO!!!!" She yelled. "HOW CAN SHE BE AWAKE! MY PLANS ARE GOING TO GO TO BE RUINED! DAMN YOU MELETHIA!"

As Rappahannock lay motionless, his blade clutched lightly, a few guards investigated closer. They had their weapons bared from the dangerousness of the suspect, and they weren't in the mood to dance with the devil. They advanced slowly, their grip tightening at points where they gulped, waiting for him to jump up at any second.

He was fully conscious, and had done this before, The wind was blowing his hair by just a little bit, and his scalp sensed them blocking the wind with their body mass. A soldier thought of a great idea: Why not poke him to test if he's alive or not? It he budged, surely he could just finished the poke and send the tip through his ribs and pin him on the ground! He gave a sign, and moved in front of everyone else, edging his lance further and further to Rappahannock's back. Inch by inch, the seconds went by with shaking and rattling from other soldiers as they tried to get a glimpse. Finally, the point made contact, and left a bead size hole in not just the clothing, but Rappahannock's back, too. Not a single movement. Relieved and sighing, the guard removed his lance, and stared at Rappahannock more, still armed and ready. He could be faking it, after all.

A single unit came tearing through the pack of guards, and all attention was turned to him. "Expect morphia." he whispered to the guy that poked him, while a kris was sticking out of his ankle. He spur up, and slashed the Achilles tendon in his other foot, while the lancer let out a cry of pain. Rappahannock twisted and writhed in between the men, doing the same to them, slicing their ankles up, making them immobilized. Ask soon as he was finished, he stopped the darkened soldier with a blade through the forehead, and making it a question mark so someone could say "This is quite a confusing way to die!" Rappahannock is not known to have a sense of humor, but one of his buddies does.

All the guards, wincing on the dirt about how badly their feet are killing them, are all fresh meat for this particular murderer. Dancing on the men, stabbing here and there, truly it was unfortunate for them. The wounds increased still, and he was only having fun; hurtin' every one. After about ten minutes, he was still doing this, even though they were all dead and gone. No one dared interrupt them. With the way he was moving, they probably couldn't touch him with a thirty nine and a half foot pole.

Asami was already furious with the fact that Melethia was now awake. She swiped her sword 5 times at the captain. Right now she didn't care if she killed or infected him.

"Oooh! Nothing's working," the mage exclaimed, frustrated. The hawk just stayed where he was, not fazed in the slightest by the fires.

"Fine! Just... hang on," the knight shouted back as she pulled back on the reins, guiding the pegasus down among the buildings. She flew just over the tops of the buildings...

And shoved the mage, who fell only a yard or so before landing hard on a building rooftop, then rolling down the roof, falling onto the street dazed but alive.

The pegasus knight then tugged back on the reins, making her pegasus fly higher into the sky. Yeah, maybe it would lead to a sticky end--really, all the Hawk King had to do was gut a wing, and gravity would take care of the rest--but it was still better then flying down a street teeming full of people.

Once she felt she'd climbed to a sufficient height, she turned around, facing Tibarn.

Gulp.

He snarled as her claws sank into his arm, and he squeezed tight on his sword as he dug the blade into her leg. "Heard that said, aye... But 'm experienced," growled the forty year-old General, and he brought his other hand around, grabbed the hilt of his sword, and swung it into the backs of her knees, causing her to fall to the ground with deep wounds in her legs, but nothing the demonic entity couldn't quickly heal.

And her blood coursed in his veins...

The noble flags of FEF came down from above the gates several minutes later.

Tibarn flared his wings to brake in the air and flapped hard to hover staring at the pegasus knight. His beak opened up and a fierce screech hit the poor animal dead on so that every fight or flight synapse flipped immediately to flight. With a sudden buck and twist, the winged horse lurched into the sky to get away just as Tibarn launched himself up after her. Up and up they flew, up toward some of the lower clouds that occasionally passed in front of the moon.

Tibarn's beak snapped just on the horse's tail, and its eyes rolled into its head in fear as it strained every muscle in its body, kicking its legs frantically and beating hard to get away.

It was only chance that a huge flock of geese passed in front of them, which Tibarn collided with and disoriented himself badly. Many geese died that day, but their deaths were not in vain; by the time Tibarn righted himself, the pegasus had disappeared through a cloud. With a loud screech of anger, Tibarn whipped through the cloud a few times, then folded his wings and dropped like a lead weight back to the castle grounds, where he flared his wings and landed heavily before reverting to his laguz form.