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"Havessa!?" "Hey, Havessa!? Are you alright!?" Ace nearly shouted.
"One second Sam" He quickly said.
Ace knew it was dangerous to move someone while he or she was in a trance. But calling the name useally worked.
"Haaaaaveeeesssaaaaa!!?" He said one last time. Clapping in his hands in front of her face.

(( Ehh. Alex. I'm not sure what Sam wants me to do. PM me what you mean? ))

As much as Straven now wanted to flee, He just couldn't. Something stopped him.
He knew, that if he let this monster go. It wouldn't take long before he also reached the other citizens. It did not matter if they were rich, or poor. Those were just too many. Too many lifes.
But how could Straven defeat this monster?
He would never be able to do this alone. Straven's weapons would be nothing against it. But that man. The dwarf. He seemed to have the power to stop it. Or, Weaken it in the least. Straven needed this man's help.
Seeing the ball-fist flying towards Gloryrness, he quickly ran in Gloryrness' direction. While running there, he quickly shot a few bolts of lightning towards the fist. He wasn't sure if it would hit, because of his speed. But it was more or less to distract.
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Gloryrness flew back several feet.
But quickly jumped back on his feet as he saw the giant fist-ball flying towards him.
He raised a wall of stone infront of him. The front-side of the wall (wich was about to get hit) covered with mud and earth to cushion the attack. So that the wall wouldn't inmediatly break at impact.

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Straven quickly jumped over the wall while it was still being raised.
Standing, back against the wall, he pushed against the wall to reinforce it.
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Gloryrness gave the man a puzzled look. But this was no time for questioning.
Holding his hands against part of the wall, he too tried to reinforce it.

There was a strange silence as the two braced themselves agaisnt the wall, a few seconds, turning into a minute or two in their heads as they waited for the impact. Finally though, in a sudden explosion of rock, mud, and debris, the wrecking ball like appendage slammed through the wallsending both Straven and Gloryness flying through the air and onto the streets. To each of them, it may have seemed like a failure, but anything less then what they had done would have meant certain death as the wall bore most, if not all of the sheer force behind the attack. The beast cackled maddeningly as his extended appendage split into two tendrils, immediately gripping Straven and Gloryness aboutt he chest, wrapping around them three times and lifted them in the air.

...Gloryness' armor protected him for the msot part, only a slight squeezing effect being felt, but Straven's skin not only felt compressed, but burned as the evil of the creature began to tear apart at his flesh with searing pain. After a few seconds however, when the pain was starting to create screams a large force could be felt as a flash of light purple energy could be seen appearing from the street corner, coming up out of the ground, quickly spinning around just behind Straven and Gloryness as two arcs of purple flame energy moved out from it's center in an X shaped arc, slicing directly through the creature's black tentacles as the black ink recoiled and released the men, as they fell to the ground free to move about. The creatures squealed in agony as it recoiled backwards...the ink that was struck now disintegrating slowly as dark purple flames spread over the cut edges and seemed to eat away at the mass until it was gone.

As Gloryness and Straven looked up, they could see Cobra standing there at the ready, staring down the beast with a determined and fierce look in his eyes. He held his longsword out to his side, slightly behind him and looked like he was ready to dash forward and start attacking at any second with his body language. The sword and Cobra's entire body were as he normally looked, but every inch of him was wrapped in a light/dark purple flame that was remarkably visible as an aura around him. The flames flickered and bounced in the wind, but was still contained solely around Cobra from the moment. this was a side to his power that he preferred not to use, as it carried strong consequences to his body after using it, but dire times called for dire measures, especially when so many were at risk. "Sorry I was late Straven, and I regret that I have no time for introduction, ...it would seem that Salem has gotten out of control. If this man is fighting alongside you, I assume he has some powers...we need to contain Salem fast, I can't keep this aura up for very long...every second we continue, it will sap my energy until I collapse. We have about 10 minutes at best. I say we Blitzkrieg him, all three of us strike as hard and fast as possible...all at the same time."

Sam pulled his mouth shut and shook his head "And I thought I was the odd-man-out." he muttered and looked to Ace, a slight expression of fright in his eyes "I don't know who, or what, you are. But you're different from the rest of us" he said to Havessa and shook his head again.
He turned back to his defacto work station and looked over his shoulder "I think I can honestly say that for the first time in my life, I'm terrified. Terrified of this power, terrified of corruption, and terrified for my own skin." he said and raised his right hand "sooner or later, power corrupts even humblest of men." he muttered and turned back to Havessa "try not to be dissuaded, love. You and I, we're just caught in the crossfire." he said and walked back to his seat, whistling as he went.

(("Absolute power corrupts absolutely" I'm not sure about you, but personally, I'd be terrified of running into just half of what our characters are capable of.

"Odd-Man-Out" as in having unique abilities that few others have.

"Different from the rest of us" Meaning that Havessa isn't like a normal elemental.

"Caught in the crossfire" Meaning Sam and Havessa are both here completely by accident.

Sam would be happy to have a job(a paying job...) whereas Havessa's basically a no-body that got roped in by guilt of association.

Do you understand now or must I explain further?))

Sam held up two blocks of plaster he was working on "these'll be blanks, more rather... templates for the mould. Naturally you can't just pour molten metal into plaster without it melting horribly." he said and took the top off of the first one and showed it to Ace "this is complex, even for me. But I'll do what I can to explain this nice and slow for you." he said and pulled a round out of his belt pouch "normally this rifle needs a single powder charge, and this bullet. What I'm thinking is why not put both together? It's a quicker more mobile loading mechanism, and it lets me load much faster." he said and scratched his head again "I've been stonewalled on what to make my mould out of though..." he said and leaned back in his chair "any ideas?" he asked and looked to Ace.

(("Terrified for my own skin" meaning he's afraid of dying.))

Sam shook his head "the problem with Iron is I've no idea if there's any spare scrap laying around..." he muttered and shrugged "Maybe Straven had the same thought as me? Maybe the fellow already has a similar mould laying around that we can use?" he said and stood up, grimacing "there's so many maybes to all of this. What we need is something we know we've got..." he said and began pacing around his work station.
Sam stopped and looked to Ace "we'll try your first suggestion. You can get back to your scales. I'll see if I can find any scrap" he said and began rummaging through various piles lying around.

(( Straven did mention once, that he made some changes to his gun/ammo. So that he could load faster. So, perhaps. ))

Ace nodded, and went back to Havessa and the scales.
The scales seemed to be enough for about 2 or 3 persons.
They'd definitly need more. A lot more.
Ace wouldn't kill any. Nature did that herself. And Ace, would just take scales that'd still lay around.

"Uggghhh.... I'm not sure what to imagine. How many fire tribesman we'd have to fight. But we really need enough scales. I'll tell Yuuske once he's back." He said audibly. Incase he'd forget.

Ace then remembered that the others needed armor too. Light armor, leather.
Wait a second..the thieves. Some of them wore leather.
Yeah. Surely they'd be allowed to borrow a bit of it. Or even customize some. He'd be able to make something of it.
He'd ask once Straven was back.

Ace now surely wondered if they were able to hold off enough knights. It sure took longer then expected. And Cobra had gone for a while too now.

But there was no time to worry. Ace had work to do. Lots of it.
So, He had to search the leather armor. Needles. Thread.
Something to connect the scales with. Food and medicine. He wasn't sure how long the trip to DeLeon would take, once they're trough the portal. So, food was a must.
The thought of food only made Ace's stomach grumble. He hadn't eaten in a few days. And it didn't seem as if there were much supplies here.
They had to get out of the hideout to get food.
But how could they, without getting noticed?

It was now that Ace remembered,..
While searching for the scales. He noticed a somewhat larger room, full of clothes. But there were also wigs. And hats. Even a few knight armors.
Ace could wear one of those. Along with someone else.
They could get some food. An Excellent idea. He thought so himself.
They could even get some supplies from the blacksmith.