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Raven heard Ronin's call and quickly ducked pushing her borrowed blade upwards for a heaven parry. Just barely catching the sword in time to stop it from slicing her neck, it still dug deep into her shoulder. She hissed in pain and reached out to grab a hold of his good leg, her hand turning into an eagles talon and sunk them deep into his flesh until she scratched bone. Releasing him she dropped the sword, which turned back into normal, and then turned into a black raven, taking flight to the skies very wobbly.

It was then that she saw the black of his eyes. She cawed and it sounded as if she was fretting about something. Raven now realized what Ronin was. Three sins versus three normal humans...well as normal as Mitomi had to offer anyway. At least Ronin had called out to her, so was he still fighting his virtue. Was he like Zephel, wanting so very much to be good, and not Gwen, who embraced her sin like an extra life?

Raven flew to the sand barrier that Anik had made and flitted over the walls, where she turned into a human next to him. "This is bad. The three of them are all sins, get Ace in here." Raven commanded, holding her shoulder. Her hair was slowly growing longer and her clothing was turning into a dull shade of dark.

Anik dug his fingers into the ground and reached up to grab Ace, hoping the boy wouldn't freak out and just let Anik pull him in. Either way this needed to end fast so he could apply medical treatment on Raven, where was Toshi when you needed him.

"Worse comes to worse I could always get out there and try that new serum on them," Anik said holding up all ten fingers in a way to show Ace he meant him no harm and just wanted to get him out of there. Yeah the crystal cage was probably fine and all, but at least they could all formulate a plan if they were in the same place.

"No, what if it doesn't work." Raven hissed and she unfortunately had a point.

Meanwhile Gwen was almost dancing as she dodged the crystals. "Watch my mouth? Why? You know you like it." Gwen blew Zephel a kiss, laced with white flames that licked out towards him menacingly.

"By the way, I like your tail. Your vessel is so adorably fuzzy, Envy. I figured you'd find someone a little meaner looking," Gwen teased, Lust's voice echoing from her mouth. Being bored already with this little game Gwen transformed entirely into smoke, the only thing that was remotely visable for a time was her dragon tattoo which was now pure embers.

A large roaring noise echoed around the room, making the whole hall shake on it's foundation and then an inferno of flame blasted from the smoke.

Anik reacted fast, grabbing Ace anyway and pulling him into the barrier and then sealing off the top so they were in their own little impenetrable stone box. "You okay?" Anik asked seeing Ace's burn.

Ronin was relieved when Raven had blocked his attack. He cried out in pain, as the talon entered his leg. Feeling it tear into his flesh and muscle, scratching the bone. This was by far the worst injury he had sustained in all his life, by far. He fell forward on the ground, as his whole body stared to burn from the cut on his right leg, the poison taking more of his mobility from him. His blood seeped out, but very slowly and was acting as a kind of clot.

Greed started to pull Ronin into their subconscious. Ronin was still fighting it, but with as much pain as he was in, It was getting harder to even stay conscious. 'Quit struggling and i can make everything better....." "your not coming out, i don't care how much pain i'm in. I won't endanger another person." The vicious laughter told him otherwise. 'Sadly Ronin, your my vessel, You Don't Have A Choice.' Greed had been stalling letting the venom seep, almost immobilizing Ronin's body. Greed knew now as the time to take what was his. Though he was loving having this power over Ronin.

Ronin's body seemed motionless, but his hand stared to twitch. His eyes snapped open, looking at the world around him. It was the first time that he had full control. His eyes had shifted to their green with gold flecked eyes, the wisps turn in to full blown black haze around his body. Slowly but surely he stood up, having grabbed both of his blades. He had shifted most of whatever pain or immobility he would be feeling over to Ronin. He wouldn't be able to use his legs to their full abilities thanks to the wounds. "Let's see how you like it?" Greed's voice was much deeper and corrupt sounding from Ronin's. He slid the sword Raven had been using back into it sheathe. Greed looked at the blood on the blade and wiped it onto his hand. Using it like grease, Greed slicked back what strands of hair stood in his face. Exhaling his smog cloud at the feeling of the world around him.

Turning his attention towards his sister and the other host, who were fight. Greed was just excited to be out and about and no Ronin to stop him. "Well this should be fun to watch." He grinned at the two, not really talking to them but to himself. The black haze took the brunt of the blast from the inferno, but Greed didn't mind. The heat just confirmed that this wasn't a horrible dream.

Zephel just smirked, he felt a strange renewed energy in him after saying he didn't need envy. It was like a power was coursing through him, like envy's but lighter in a way. He wasn't sure if it was his own or not, Maybe it was something Envy was repressing about him naturally since Zephel did have Envy in his body since birth. Whatever it was, Zephel felt different and more in control then when he had that strange energy surge he needed to release. And in all honesty, felt confident enough to be able to take on both sins, even if he was by himself. But that might be a bit too much. With a quick reaction to lusts fireball, a crystal shield, no thinker then an inch raised up and took the fire, the slab of crystal being unscathed. He quickly kicked it and shattered into small shards which soon shot out at lust like a hail storm. "Envy's taking a break hot stuff. " He told the girl with a smirk as he quickly turned and looked at greed, not wasting time or waiting to see his reaction, Zephel formed Crystal spikes behind Greed fired both of his guns till the ammo in both clips were out. " Envy.....what are you trying to hide inside me?" He asked himself as he noticed something extremely strange, he could feel air movements and could actually slightly see the movement or disruptions in the air currents. " I wonder if...." He thought for a second but took his mind off of the idea to focus on the current fight.

X{♪} Choices choices!

The brisk jog over to the halls never took very long, Mariya always made it a point to get there quickly as some sort of warm up. The halls are quite large, the building its self took up quite a bit of space.
Slowing down to walking pace, Mariya sauntered through the large doors of the building and made her way towards a small counter set off to the side, unfortunately though, there was no sign of life...
"Hello! Is anybody there?!" She shouted loudly into the air. There was no answer...
"Hmm... Must be early. Ah I shall check in myself!" Mariya decided and hopped over the counter to a small computer screen. And then it hit her, what room would they need? She herself would most likely go for weapons, but would Tenshi rather go for Hand to Hand? she wasn't sure... He DID cary swords though.
"Tenshi bro-ski! Check that list for room you prefer. I would pick weapons training, but you count too." she asked towards her opponent for the morning. She only hoped he steered away from elements, they were something she could never really get the hang of.

She thought back to the last time she had tried to block out fire, ended up taking down one of the walls... fire didn't like to be compressed...

X{♪} Let's get ready to rumble!

With their decision made, Mariya battered down on a few keys and marked their room taken. Now it was all down to them, and with Tenshi pulling his swords out already she could see this was going to be a fun morning.
"Hold on there Comrade! You should wait until we are in room... Luckily room is not far." She exclaimed before hopping back over they counter and slinking down the corridor towards a reassuring strong looking door. It was metal plated at least, of not solid steel. The weapons training room was built to withstand a LOT of punishment, some of the weapons that floated around this school made the military look a little ill prepared...

Inside the room it was more of the same, concrete walls laced with metal outlines, concrete floor and ceiling with the same metal outlines snaking around in angular patterns. A large empty square room. It didn't have to be empty though, there were various setting available that could have cover walls sprout from the floor via the metal joints, or even full buildings complete with 'targets' slide from the walls. It was up to the users on how things went. Personally, she was just interested in the open space, it gave less chances to hide, and more chances to strike at her opponent...
"So, open room, or cover? Your choice Comrade." Mariya asked towards Tenshi as she fiddled with touch panel on the wall just inside the room.

What was honestly on her mind though, was what fields she should use. Disruption fields would be way too harsh for a training fight, not to mention the fact that she would win in mere seconds... Dissection was her best bet, maybe coupled with flat too.

X{♪} The battle begins
"Gooood choice Comrade..." Mariya droned whilst she set the room to it's desired characteristics. there was some quiet beeping from the pannel confirming her choices, followed by whirring of gears and mechanics under the surface of the room as the door swung shut and sealed them in.
"Lightning? I thought you didn't do elemental?" She sang in curiosity with a smirk. Clearly Tenshi had some tricks up his sleeve, she'd have to watch out for them...

with her opponent already 'limbering up', Mariya got down to doing the same. She held her hands out in front of herself, palms towards the ceiling, and let a small bubble shaped field form. It was no bigger than a basket ball to begin with, but as she twitched her fingers rhythmically it shrunk, grew, spiked out like a sea urchin, dimpled like a golf ball and separated into varying numbers as she 'limbered up' her magic to get ready for use.
"When ever you're ready.. Oh, safe word is banana. Things are too much? Just shout and we stop." Mariya explained as the bubble shaped field split apart again and started orbiting her body like the electrons of an atom.

X{♪} Counter attack

"Magic is not a weapon?" Mariya smirked back at Tenshi's retort as she eyes up his swords some more. If one could do elemental tricks then the same was more than likely for the other, however she couldn't tell what it was so far.

She didn't have long to ponder on it though, Tenshi had made the first move by charging towards her at quite a speed. He certainly knew what he was doing. Whith a blade coming in from his slash, and another up to block any attacks, it looked like Mariya would have to start of on the defensive.

she lowered her stance slightly, bending her knees and spreading her legs to brace for the impending impact.
"Haa!" Mariya shouted, as one of her hands flashed into the path of the incoming blade. Tenshi wasn't getting a hit in that easily... One of the fields floating around her moved with her hand, widening out in front of her palm into a large flat square to shield her from the blow. It's smokey opaque surface had no trouble in taking the blow... Now for the counter attack.
"My turn." Mariya growled with a toothy grin.
The fingers of her other hand flicked towards Tenshi with a quick but precise action, and again, the fields orbiting her responded with her movements by lengthening out slightly into spiked projectiles and firing towards the samurai like arrows set for a bullseye hit.

This was Mariya's magic, originally developed for a strong defence, altered by her for an even stronger offence. It was a little unorthodox looking at first, but the offensive properties were something to be reckoned with.