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((back from the earth clan---woo woo!!))

"I intend to hurry..." Dusk said as he flew right over the border. The flight was uncomfortable for him, carrying Freyr and knowing that at any time she could poke and prod his open wounds.

Finally, he flew through one of the windows of the throne room and set Freyr down. He made his way to his throne, and sat there, looking completely exhausted, but he was relieved to be able to take a break from moving around so much, "You had better not think of leaving now."

"Yes, thankyou," Dusk rubbed his neck, curious to see if there was anything left of the wounds, "And where did you expect to sleep?"

"So you want imaginary luxuries?" Dusk laughed. Then he folded his fingers together, "There are several empty bedrooms two floors down. I'll allow you to stay in one if you promise not to make any escape attempts."

"Might as well considering how much time I spend up here... But, I think tonight I prefer to stay up and make sure our invasion efforts with the River Clan go as planned," Dusk lifted a hand, pretending he was holding a bottle and offered it to Freyr, "Why don't you go entertain yourself with invisible drinks while I go see how my army is doing."

((um...a spur of creativity? i don't know xD; ---a creative gush, lol rofl ))

Dusk rubbed his head, "Hmph...wench..."

He stood up and stretched, and then walked over to a mirror and tapped it. Its ripples sent a flood of colors throughout the surface before it settled. There he saw that a large group of soldiers were heading over to the pit as he had wanted, "So far, things seem to be going accordingly."

He stepped sideways and then leapt out of a window, allowing himself to fall to gain speed before spreading his wings out to glide. He tilted to his left side, making a wide turn to head towards the intended meeting grounds.

((lol xD . you can't teleport through the mirrors. they're just there for communicating. anyhoo, you could always have freyr go around and bug the other demons or you can try to find dusk and annoy him during the invasion rofl ))

((Yay, I'm back for the moment, my computer restarted automatically though and I lost what I had typed before. *eye twitch*))

The cables and clamps fell away from Dreadnought, striking up a noise that brought Zero's attention back into the room. The ancient machine groaned since it had been in that same position for a couple centuries. A final docking clamp release and hydraulics hissed as the it was now bearing its full weight once again. Zero watched as it took a few steps, waddling like a child learning to walking before getting control of its balance. It then moved to a large door that lead to the hanger and clamped onto the locking lever, turning it and swinging the door open. Zero continued to watch until the door closed behind it. Gabriel spoke up, "There you go, in the next few minutes we'll see how well you maintained it. Anything else you want me to do?" Zero brought over a service drone, similar to when the tower was functional. It carried a thin layer of dust from all the time off its disuse. "I want you to interact with this. Its just like the old model except it runs on a battery, you should be able to give it commands and send it to do work around the tower. But it only has a couple hours of battery life, so make sure its on a recharge platform before then. I've created similar tech for Echo and I, its a short range transmitter that we can give command to our machines through thought. Even in our clan, commands can still be given after making contact with the machine. Now if you'd excuse me, I have some business to take care of in the Chapel."

At the workshop, several garage-type doors opened up and a small squad of tanks rolled out. Echo then shut and locked each door. He placed his hand on each one of the seven tanks. Upon moving his hand away from the tank, the engine of the machine would roar and head straight for the coordinates of the pit. Echo then climbed onto the seventh one and it to followed its fellow tanks toward the rendezvous location.

In the Chapel, Zero had set up 4 pots around the main artifact, the one that he used to restore energy to the smaller ones. Each pot was filled with a high grade soil that he had kept stored for research purposes before hell's invasion. He removed the seeds from his chest compartment and planted one seed in each pot. He then gave each plant enough water that they should be able to survive off of before headed back down.

((deal with it? there are no training grounds inside the castle Oxo . there are definitely training areas outside though))

Dusk soared above the troops, which were nearly at the pit. With one wing detaching itself from his back, it flipped horizontally so he could sit on it and watch as his forces moved. One loud snap coming from the pit was followed by a mess of yells, and the soldiers nearly stopped in their tracks, already on their guard. Dusk moved himself just close enough to the pit to find out what had happened. One of the Titans had taken a step forward, sending demons scurrying away from it as though it had moved against their command. He stood up on top of the wing and had it move not too far in front of the Titan's face, almost marveled at the sheer size of the monstrosity, "It does look like you are ready to move out."

It stared at Dusk, unwavering to Dusk's comment, then it gave one slight nod to let Dusk know that it was expecting such, making it appear as if it had its own mind and soul. He looked back, and saw that the soldiers were staring at the Titan in awe. They had never seen any of the Titans move before. It was indeed a sight to behold. And even though none of the other Titans seemed to be functioning then, Dusk grinned at the thought of finally being able to see at least one in action, "Good, now all we have to do is wait for Zero."