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The worthless rock that orbitted around Brass shot away in all directions. It seemed he was going to have to do this the hard way afterall. "Damn..." He walked across the unstable ground underneath untill he came across of of the deep holes made by the rock he summoned from the ground. The last thing he wanted to do was venture down deep into the recesses of the volcano, the heat really wouldn't be a problem. But, the volcano was active, his control of the earth element would be useless if it decided to blow and lastly, he just didn't feel like going down there. "Gotta do, what ya gotta do." And with that he sighed deeply and dived, face first, into the hole and down into the heart of the volcano some hundreds of feet below.

As Brass silently freefell down the volcano, he saw a familar orange color light. He instantly figured out what it was summoned rocks underneath him, then just before his body was burnt to a crisp by the insanely hot magma, the rock 'broke' his fall he he floated back away from the magma. "Now I know what hell feels like." he lamented as he summoned another magical cooling wind that was the only thing from burning him up in the raging inferno. However, he couldn't let the magma stop him from his goal, which, it just so happens, was within his line of sight. There it was, no more than a few yard away from him, the precious gem he had been sent here to get. And a large amount of it was too, the whole thing was about the size of a small bicycle. He'd never be able to carry it all away. Just then an idea came to Brass' mind. The large deposit of gems suddenly began to shake as he used his earth element magic to pull it away from the volcano.

As the gem pulled itself away from the volcano, that was when the tremors began. "Uh-oh." The deposit of the rare gem floated over to Brass and settled on the rock he floated on. The magma level in the volcano began to raise and Brass began to worry. It was about time he got out of here. Floating on his rock, gems at his side, Brass began to quickly fly out of the volcano at top speed through the hole he had made. However, the tremors sents down a rain of rocks that were too many for him to focus one. The stones rained down upon him, destorying the rock he was flying on and sending him down into the magme below. "Gah!" he yelled out as his arms wrapped around the large piece of gem he had worked so hard to collect. As he fell down towards the magma, the sea of molten rock parted so that his body didn't touch the melted rock. Yet again though, things went heywire and the magma that had parted began to close in all around his form as he used the gem to float on. Eventually his mind grew tired on the strain of keeping the gem afloat the pushing back the ever growing wall of magma. And before the molten rock wash over his body and the gem he yelled out. "Personal Encasing!"

His ear twitched at Tellus' warning, but instead of ducking he fully caught the spinning scythe as it pinwheeled towards him. He moved it once around his hand to get a better grip and tucking away his own weapon just in time to hastily block another swing from the creature he'd swiped in the head.

It was obvious that a bladed weapon would be more useful to him at the moment, the weight was differant, but the effect...this time the creature wasn't so lucky as to keep it's head.

Sun straightened and rubbed the back of his hand across his nose, eyes catching where his companions were quickly.

"Try not to get split up! We-" The world suddenly went dark as with a scream one of the creatures dove towards him from the air, it must have lept from behind. Sun barely had time to throw the scythe in his hands upwards for a block and was slammed into the ground as the weight and gravity worked in the creatures favour. The curved blade slid off the block and landed inches from Sun's kidney, a small slice through skin wetting the blade with his blood.

He faired better then the thing however, the buisness end of his own scythe had met the face of it as it had landed, and the weight was suddenly lifted off Sunstrike as it turned back to dust.

*Deep within the heart of the garden pulsed a strong beat of energy. Each pulse of power was like the note to a song as an enchanting voice sang in a foreign tongue... a tongue of ancients and of earthen poetry.

The verse drifted on the wind, faintly echoing as a breeze carried it through the tower. The very words themselves were power.

While the flora and fauna about her were an emulation, they were still alive. This whole garden was alive... alive with the power of gaia.

The eerie elven chant seemed to grow in strength and tempo, as a woman with ankle length, crimson hair danced amidst the greenery. The emerald carpet of vegetation about her graceful figure, was a lush compliment to the ruby of her hair.

The woman's eyes flashed a luminous gold as she danced, a fan held and poised in each hand. Every movement beautiful in it's fluidity. Her gown of black and gold braided silk flowed about her body in it's sleekness, the slitted skirt guaranteeing that her movements went unhindered.

She danced and sang in a trance like state... the power about her being swelling with every word and gesture...

It had been some time since Victor had secured Ra'kar's position as the dominant soul within the elf maiden's body. And now... they had guests arriving... guests whom they had been awaiting with eager anticipation. And now that they were here... She was going to deliver a powerful performance...*

what the hell...? eek *a shudder raced up her spine as she slowly glanced at Tellus, the girl was going off the deep end and now was soooo, not a good time for this...As hono was reminded of that face buy the down stroke of another scythe almost caught the elemental off guard and she had to lean back off balance to keep from being sliced in half as Vahn's first opponent had been, a thin slice across her chest showed through the red material of her tight top and she yelped and back pedaled another step before bringing her fan up into a better guard and putting Tellus out of her mind for another moment* scream Hey... you have any idea how much that shirt cost me? It was a designer label... evil
*hono growled softly trying to dodge the next swipe of the scythe as she spun on her right heel in towards the monster with a growl* I knew I shouldn't have gotten all dressed up.... stare *a thin line of blood ran down the edge of the cut to disappear against the material of her top, as hono spin and swiped with the fan, a shriek of metal on metal as she turned another swipe of the scythe with the flat of the fan blade, using her weapon as a shield before frustration drove her to simply flip her dagger in her hand and another flick of the wrist sent the weapon spinning through the air at the monster, a spray of rainbow sparkled dancing through the air as the light went through the crystal. The blade buried itself hilt deep in the chest of the monster, and Hono used a mental command to call the dagger back to her hand as the thing dispersed to sand again* Tellus... get a grip girl, we do not have time for this..... sweatdrop

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He merely stood off to the side, arms folded across his chest.

"...."

He had no say in the quarrel, even as the last of the monster's fell apart to be so much dust; Raven had been the one who just kept on fighting.

So there they were... the four of them.

And already something was wrong.

"...We don't have time for this."