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Quint had no idea how to react. On one hand, Morrigan's face was not what it used to be, the large cut looking like it would leave a permenant scar, if she were human. If there was one thing he liked about her, it was her face, and now it was scarred..

..On the other hand, Aonice seemed to be getting in progressively worse condition, the hundreds of bats swarming her, getting bit and scratched all over her body, much of the biting being done to places he liked..

The two's small, or quite loud in Morrigan's case, cries of pain hit Quint hard. And he knew that for this reason, he would have to stay on the sidelines. Last time he said that, it wasn't hard to do. But now as the fight became a lot more serious, he found staying out harder and harder, as he wanted to help them both, but couldn't because they were on opposide sides of the conflict.

He just hoped neither would be upset at him for his decision.

((Step in how? And for who? I don't think that either woman would like Quint to step in for the other, and if he just calls the match, who's to say who won?))

((...Yea. sweatdrop ))

Quint's fist, balled and shaking, suddenly went skyward, and from it came a chilly gust flew from one side of the room to the other, blowing most of the bats off of Aonice.

The majority that were blown away began to come after Quint, but it was then that his wings screeched sharply, telling the rest of them why he did what he had done.

"It's over."

Quint then walked to Aonice, taking off the few bats that hadn't gotten the message, then pulling her up, being very careful to watch for the large scars that were in a few choice spots, along her thighs, and on her triceps. They knew what they were going for, aiming for places that would further hinder the physically dependant woman.

He then proceeded to Morrigan, and since he didn't know how to take care of her, he asked, a little nervous since her jaw looked quite nasty. "Need any help?"

Aonice growled and attempted and pick herself up, only ending up stumbling into Quint's arms, caughing up a good smudge of blood onto his shirt.. " I.. I'm fine" She said firmly, her voice groggy and ill. she kept a gringe, biting onto her lip as she attempted to pull away from Quint, pushing off with her arms, her stamina still appearent with the haslle she attempted to give, but her body just woudn't allow her too.. After a good two minutes, she finally hissed, and knocked her forhead lazilly onto Quint's sharp soldier, the pain dull compared to the rest of her body at the moment, Realizing that all the nicks, cut's and holes in her body weren't allowing her muscles to work very well at all... She wanted to complain, critisize and even insult Morrigan at the moment, but nomatter how she put it, what happened was something she wasn't able to protect herself from, and it dug deep into her, eating away at her stomach.

Aonice mumbled incoherently as Gats attempted to comfert her, she had a bad feeling about the estate in the first place, but atleast she knew what to do for a next time, although, her being called aggressive after fighting someone like Morrigan caused her to roll her eyes.

Once the shock of the blow against her wore off, Morrigan and her bats composed themselves and examined her injuries. One of them formed a quick seal along the surface of the cut and began to do what it could to heal it. Some of the others quickly formed her clothes before the swarm dissipated.

"Ha ha, perfect! It'd been too long since I had a thrill like that." She tossed back her hair with her hand, and as it fell it returned to a perfect condition, as if it had been washed, conditioned, and perfectly brushed in an instant. After a moment, Morrigan walked up to Aonice bearing a half-caring, half condescending grin.

She bent down a bit to come to eye-level with the back of her head, as her face was resting in Quint's shoulder. "You did well, dear. However, your ultimate, and as far as I can see, incurable weakness is power. So don't bother listening to Gatz; if he knew anything about battle, I would have been a lot more interested in him than I am now. With a good enough offense, you'll rarely need a defense. It's better to rely on something you're good at than to split your focus in two, knowing you'll only be able to use one at a time..." She paused for a moment, turning away. "As for me, I can't help but be versatile. So take my advice, or ignore it. It doesn't matter, as long as you have pride and a will to defeat me."

Walking away, she called to her bats.

"Minions! Clean up this mess!"

The bats began to work industriously at repairing the house, even so much as to gather wood from the surrounding forest for the part of the house that had been destroyed. There would be no need for Quint's alchemy after all. As for Morrigan, she retired to the den and rested on the couch for the next battle with Rio.

Rioushu could not hear any more sounds of battle and he sighed as he looked to the door. "Oh man, I hope Aonice didn't hurt Morrigan too bad, I still want her to be pretty strong when I face and beat her." Rioushu said, stretching out his neck and opening the doors to the manor. Oh crap, I just remembered, Quint is going to stop me at some point, that might not be too good with me trying to win and all.