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Sam finally looked back over at Athan before pointing to the temple. "They need to go to the doors and the energy should release opening them...hopefully the energy that is building won't be something bad...but I think we should check." Her eyes rolled back in her head slightly and she felt as if she was about to faint but she pulled herself back into check.

"So what this comes down to is us taking these roses to the doors and hoping that they don't blow us up when we open them? And then, assuming we're all still alive, step inside a temple created for the sole purpose of pitting us against one another in fights to the death?"

Athan looked to the others that supposedly had the roses. One was a little busy, while the other wasn't even sure if he had the thing. Real great.

There was a shrug of his shoulders, and he picked up his sword with his left hand. There was a slight wince as he did so, but then it was gone and he was stepping towards Sam.

"Sounds fun. I'm up for it."

Shouyin was fumbling away with the Impala, starting the engine, hooking up his amp to the cigarette lighter through the adapter, setting the big mother ******** ('twas a sufficient size for a small gig) outside the driver side door and then hooking it up with a nice long quarter inch to his Squier Precision.

That all done, he'd pluck a few low notes, making sure everything worked, and start playing.
Volume wasn't loud, he wasn't trying to start some concert, he was just booored.

Sounded something like this (sans guitar effects and voice clips o'course).

He'd probably just mess with that line 'til something happened.

And Owle...smiled.

You don't live around Flare for as long as Owle does without learning that, when someone says 'Yeah, I'll bring him back so that I can kick his a**' what they really mean is 'I'm doing this for you, but if you get all wishy washy on me and tell me how nice I am, it'll totally ruin my image. And we can't have that, now, can we?'

"Thank you."

Yeah, she was never really one to respect the badass image.

"Thank you," she repeated. Then she looked at Sam, at Athan, at Allen, as though noticing them all for the first time. "But after this is over...when the night comes...I think I might be able to find out where they took him. Particularly if I can find a place where Nyx is venerated. Right now, though, it looks like there are more gods trying to screw us over."

Just like that, she was focused again. She just shoved the drama aside, ready to solve the problem in the moment. She could cry later, when there was time to be afraid and lonely.

"The rose petal you picked up," Charles reminded his friend. "Remember? Just before you entered the van."

Charles proceeded to point at each person as he said their names.

"Vahn over here was bestowed with that rose after he beat the possessed version of Sam, that Amp woman."

"Athan must have gotten his rose from beating whatshisface, the one behind it all. Viceroy!"

"And you picked up the rose petal Conrad droppped after we defeated that egg thing, uh... Null."

Moving next to Sam, he put his hand on her shoulder. "Our post-possessee here has come to a conclusion I can agree with: the three rose things have something to do with what's been going on and with this temple, how to open it up and such."

There'd be plenty of time later to talk about who was in love with who and who was preggers with which god. Now was time for action.

His back still to Owle, even as he began walking forward, his entire attitude shifted back into overdrive.

He still had a contract to fulfill after all, even if it was such a small loose end.

"So, this is the next stage huh?"

Sliding his rapier free of it's sheath with his right hand, he spun the weapon full circle once, before shifting it into it's true nature; a flamberge.

The now lengthened blade went sparking against the sands, a soft line of glass forming, before it would come to rest across his right shoulder.

"Well then, let's wrap up this crazy party. Shall we? Got to clean up the mess God left behind." The rose on his person was fully exposed, even as he moved toward the sealed off temple.

"But you guys better worry if you don't want me to take all the credit."

As Vahn moved closer to the Temple, a bright pink light shot out from the rose, encircling the large structure encasing it in a bright pink light. From out of nowhere, voices began to sing in harmony though the language was unknown, the song was unearthly beautiful.