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I close my eyes and bleed this empty heart of all that longs to die,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxWhen faces lie and love will falter, I'm left with only time
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAnd time will break the dreams that take the pain away...
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Still hovering in the cold winter air over Lloyd, Lisanna was intently and warily watching to see what Saida would do. As a terrifying, deafening roar suddenly filled the air she anxiously glanced over towards the front of the mansion to see Bahamut facing two GF's. "How will we ever escape with so many enemies?" She thought desperately, still trying to quieten a distressed Nyale and wondering if she should move away. Their fight seemed to be getting a little out of hand. Looking closer it seemed one of the GF's was using a spell of some kind. Lisanna's eyes widened at seeing dark energy surround Bahamut and a huge ball descend on it. A powerful spell like that... "No!" The sorceress cried, realising what was about to happen. She beat her wings as if to try and fly away but it was too late. Lisanna suddenly felt herself forced downwards from the spell with no way to resist.

Eternal Love

Pain consumed her entire body as several of her bones instantly broke, making the girl scream from the agony and very nearly pass out from the shock. She didn't even notice the other GF nearby that had been about to attack her. The fall was short but she hit the roof hard, landing on top of Lloyd who managed to catch her, and only just managing to twist in the air beforehand so that she didn't land on Nyale. Lying amidst a cloud of dust and small amount debris on the now cracked roof, the disorientated young woman was unable to think or move for a few seconds and all she could feel was overwhelming pain wracking her entire body. Somehow she eventually found the strength to lift her head and look at the limp child in her arms, however.

"N-Nyale..." She gasped, her eyes widening with fear as she took in the apparently lifeless state of her child. Although she had managed to keep hold of Nyale during the fall and was still cradling her protectively even now, the child hadn't made a single sound. Either she was unconscious, having been also hit with the spell which no doubt hurt her as badly as it had Lisanna...or she was dead. The instant she realised this it was as if time stopped for Lisanna, and all awareness of her physical pain was pushed to the back of her mind in lieu of her concern for her daughter. All she could now feel was disbelief and sorrow as her heart shattered into a thousand pieces.

"No...please..." She breathed, tears spilling out of her eyes. She gently cradled Nyale closer, suppressed sobs making her shoulders shake. Despite the severity of her injuries she crawled off Lloyd and onto her knees, coughing blood. "W-Wake up, oh god please wake up..." She cried, feeling as if her whole world was being ripped apart. She kissed Nyale over and over again, brushing her fingers across her cheeks. Finally she tilted her head back and gave a heart broken wail into the night sky. There was probably not a single person in or around the mansion who couldn't hear the depth of her devastation. She didn't know or care what happened to Saida or the other GF but it was safe to say if anyone with malicious intentions approached her now, she wouldn't hesitate to use a limit break. "Kalay! I need you...!" She cried, her whole body shaking as she knelt on the roof and weakly holding her child in her broken arms. Her vision blurred, both through tears and as she started to inevitably lose consciousness from the sheer physical and emotional trauma she'd experienced.

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xxxxxxxxEver after never came, and I'm still waiting
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxFor a life that never was, and all the dreams I lay to rest are ghosts that keep me,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAfter all that I've become, I am only one.

Maris winced, a roar, loud and thunderous, blasting over her like too much bass pumping out of an amp. Had there been any windows left to shatter, Maris had no doubt that roar, and the torrential winds that followed, would have done the trick in fixing that. She paused from her support fire long enough to raise a hand up to cover her ear, staring at Kalay through a squinted eye. 'No way he did that.' From the reaction of Kalay and Momo neither of them were responsible, and Maris knew Kafshe's roar well enough to know it wasn't him. 'Then...' She caught movement, and a figure came gliding out over the marble floor of the mansion like an ice skater over ice. And she was holding something at that, her arm pulled back and ready to throw. "Sonuva--" Maris didn't waste any time, and with a single well aimed shot she fired a bullet, the round striking the glass bottle straight in the center, causing it to shatter and rain glass and lye upon Nona. 'Nice ******** try,' Maris thought, anger flaring. She didn't know what it was that the person was trying to throw at Momo, but Maris wasn't having any of that, and for the moment her attention was all on Winchester.

Gun trained on the rebel leader, Maris paused for a second, waiting for a chance, and then pulled the trigger twice. As Nona whirled around, turning to face Maris and Momo, Maris took the momentary chance to shoot while she was unable to dodge to hit her. She aimed big, not bothering to go for a lethal shot, but who knows. Maybe Maris would strike lucky, and get a lung. And a heart. But even in the midst of her anger, Maris still managed to channel it into energy and maintain her head and keep her vision clear on her target. And beautifully enough, Momo seemed to have had similar ideas. With almost perfect synchronicity, the two, whom had been together for many of years, struck at Nona near simultaneously. Where Momo had leapt behind Nona and struck her in the back with a Meltdown, Maris's own bullets, two of the five remaining HSA rounds she had, ripped through the air at over 400 miles per second. And unless Nona had the curious ability to side maneuver while turning around mid-air, the bullets would have struck her in the chest, and for all the protection her Protect spell would have done, the HSA would have pierced it, and her, like a needle popping a balloon. It was only after than that the flash of light reminded Maris of Kalay's existence, although before she even glanced at the man she had, for a frightened moment, thought that Salem had woken. She was wrong. "You've got to be ******** kidding me..."

Kicking her suitcase in between the rails, Maris rushed forward and leapt. The spear flew past her almost as soon as it had left Kalay's hand, and the explosion it caused sent her, and her suitcase, flying further than she had anticipated. She landed with a tumble, close to the fountain but far away enough from Kalay to remain out of his field of influence, and no sooner had she regained herself she rolled and raised her gun, training it on Kalay and firing the last several rounds of her HSA bullets. Neither came close to their intended target, the bullets path warping as if Kalay was protected by some sort of field. 'That's no protect.' Maris concluded. No, this was a deeper type of magic. The kind of magic only one kind of individual could possess. And after the spear, which had materialized out of seemingly midair, Maris had her guesses. Seeing it was useless to try and do anything against that, Maris flipped back the hem of her coat and pulled back on some kind of string. With a sharp whistle, five objects almost the shape of darts flew out from her waist. Some went for the wind blades attacking Momo. One flew uselessly at Kalay, exploding midair upon impacting the shield. And the rest flew straight for Nona.

"Momo!" Maris called, holstering her gun and grabbing her suitcase. "We're pulling out, this mission is a bust!" She desummoned Brynhildr, whom she felt was wounded, and from the information she was relaying it wasn't from anything Lisanna had done. "Well daddy, it's been fun. But I think it's time we made our escape. You on the other hand..." Maris's smirking expressing faded, as the last image Brynhildr had sent her before desummoning came to mind. With more sincerity than what he might have expected, Maris apologized to him softly. "...have my sympathies." If Kalay was listening, he might have heard the sound of Lisanna's broken cry, and if his heart was truly in the right place he would have focused his energy on going to her, than stopping Maris and Momo. Which was half of what Maris was counting on.

Momo at her side, Maris made for the door. Nona wounded, and Kalay rushing off to see to his child, the path was all but clear. As they got to the door, however, Maris paused, looking back at Salem, who, through it all, remained unconscious on the ground. Maris felt a pang of regret, and more than just frustration. 'I shouldn't have accepted this mission after all.' Maris thought, thinking back to her thoughts on the train ride to Winhill. 'Good bye, Salem. I'm sorry it had to end like this.'

Unexpectedly, just as Maris was turning away from Salem to go out the door, Momo began forcefully pushing at her from the side, and was saying something in quick urgent words that weren't registering to Maris. "Not now, Momo, I'm having a mome--" Actually looking out the door, turning her head slowly as she did, Maris caught sight of what it was Momo was trying to tell her. Kafshe. "Oh ********." Taking cue from Momo, whom had ran for one of the side windows, Maris slammed the front door and followed after, leaping from the window behind the moomba just as a powerful roar blasted through the front of the mansion.

xxxxcompany: Salem, Kalay, Momo, Nona xxxxlocation: Winhill Mansion; Lobby/Entrancexxxxmood: Pissed, agitated, anxiousxxxx

XXXXSaida had paused as she spotted another figure next to Lloyd. That figure had six wings behind their back and no doubt was the person they were here for. Or at the very least holding the child they were here for. ”Lisanna. Give me the child and no one else has to die!” she called as the woman shot towards the sky. Muttering something her eyes snapped to the boy. ”What a shame…”

XXXXA roar sounded to her right before the wind kicked up and slapped her several times across the face. Bracing herself against the cold winds her eyes narrowed upon her target for now. If it meant he was to die. So be it. She had no qualms in killing to achieve her goal, and not only that but he was Lloyd Nipal; one of the rebel leaders. Take the head off the beast and the body won’t survive. Unless it was one of those irritating monsters that could just regrow another in it’s stead. No matter she wasn’t going to think much on this because it looked like she only had a few seconds to take him out before he summoned his GF.

XXXXHis words though were cut off as she spotted to her right something black swirling into the air. Turning her head to look at Diablos right before he disappeared. ”Oh s**t…” that was not going to feel good. She didn’t even have time to put her sword away before being knocked down along with everyone else. Bones snapped and searing pain fried her brain and turned her stomach. A rib? Something surely snapped within her arm or hand because it caused her to drop her sword. It slid from the roof and landed into the ground below. The scrapping of metal against the tiled roof told her that much. Something in her shoulder either popped out or snapped. Saida couldn’t tell which. No if there was anything else wrong she couldn’t distinguish from it at the moment. All the pain blurred together creating a fog in her head.

XXXXOnce the spell ended she blinked open her eyes. "N-Nyale..." Her head snapped up which probably was a mistake on Saida’s end but she didn’t like the sound of what was happening. The baby better not be dead. Dread flowed through her, not entirely for the sake of the baby, but for having failed the mission in the worse way possible. ”God damnit… you really gone and ******** this up, Diablos.”

XXXXShe pressed the com on her goggles as she struggled to get onto her knees and then her feet. White pain seared through her. As she did Lisanna gave a heart curdling cry. This was her chance if she wanted to take them both down. With her still good hand she reached in one of her pouches at her side slicing her hand upon the one health bottle she had as it had shattered upon the spell just like everything else did. No matter she took out four needles with practice ease. There was two for Lloyd and two for Lisanna. Bringing her hand back she flicked her wrists just before Lloyd had turned to look at her and give his own cry. Such passion and sorrow for someone had Saida curious and perhaps even annoyed. Why was Lloyd getting upset over Lisanna and the babe? It wasn’t really his child that could possibly be dead.

XXXXSaida watched though as lights circled around him and she knew before it had appeared what was happening. Well s**t… Perhaps they would have to wait another time. She was bailing out. Though, before she could react water surrounded her before slamming inwards.

XXXX XXXX Goodbye For Now

XXXXCold, a numbing cold surrounded Saida, the pressure of the water caused her to cough up blood as it continued to crush her body. More bones cracked, snapped, and were crushed as she cried out her pain muffled within the waters encase. She was sure that she heard Sylphy’s cry as if the creature too could feel her pain but Saida couldn’t even concentrate enough to call for the girl. She was also sure she’d punctured a lung from her ribs snapping. Saida wasn’t for sure but she could gander that all of her ribs were broken now. Another cry erupted from her as something bright slammed into her. Saida couldn’t be for sure but thought it was another spell of some sort. There was enough pain to have her eyes roll back before they drifted closed.

XXXXSound drifted away from her. So was this the end of everything she knew? Was she fated to die here upon this roof? If she had still been coherent to what was going on and could feel her body she was sure it would have been shaking at the thought. The mission had been a bust and chaotic as it quickly swallowed everything in its path. Chaos burned through the surrounding area.

XXXXHer thoughts drifted to Maris and Momo. I’m sorry you guys… She’d been a total b***h the last two years. If she was to regret anything it was her last two years. Tears filled her eyes, pushed through the closed lids, and spilled across her cheeks. She wanted just one more moment to tell them how much she cared about them. To tell Maris how she felt and why she’d been so hurt. To hug Momo close to her chest and never let him go. Another moment to make a snide remark to Xaris before telling the girl she wasn’t really all that bad. To tell them all that she was the one that dun goofed and was stupid.
Saida … what you’re feeling is love… an emotion you’d been deprived of for most of your life. No one’s ever shown you how to so it’s no wonder you wouldn’t recognize it when you, Momo, and Maris got closer and closer as friends. If Saida could have opened her eyes at that moment they would have shot wide open. Love. That was the emotion she was feeling right now. Strange as it was there was no other answer to her feelings.
Saida …. Yes, she even loved Sylphy and Phantom. Wow, and at a time like this to realize she was even capable of feeling such feelings.

XXXX ”I’m sorry…” a last whisper floated past her lips before she dropped like a wet sack of potatoes to the roof top and rolled off the roof much like how her sword slid and plummeted to the ground.
Saida!!

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Xaris stood there as the bullets missed the blonde, and his pet. She was about to fire her last three but before she pulled the trigger Diablos's spell took effect. She watched as the spell hit the roof as well. "No....Saida was up there. I gotta help her!" As she attempted to go towards there she had almost forgotten her enemy was there, ready to attack. She removed her scythe while putting the gun back in its strap, but before she could charge at the man his pet shot out its smoke at her. It circled around her instead of going straight for her. Without much of an option all she could do was pull down her night vision goggles so she wouldn't get blinded by the smoke, and use her scythe as a pole so she could at least get out of most of the smoke but she knew either way that smoke was going to hit her. As she launched herself with her scythe she held her breath and with enough force she made it through the fog even if she now was covered in whatever substance the smoke was including the goggles, however she didn't feel the smoke surround her anymore.

She took the goggles off but as she did so a sword nearly impaled her as it came falling from the sky. Xaris quickly realized it was Saida's blade, and when she looked up she saw that Saida was coming off the edge. Xaris readied herself as Saida began to fall. Xaris quickly reacted by slamming the scythe's blade high up horizontally against a pillar that survived the large guardian force that Diablos attacked. Using the large handle of the scythe Xaris leaped up from the ground onto the handle of the scythe and jumped up further into the air where she was able to catch Saida who wasn't that far from hitting the ground. The landing wasn't that great but no large injuries were brought on Xaris. After she caught Saida the large GF had taken off to the roof. She was glad it didn't go after her, or any of her teammates. Xaris looked at Saida. She looked horrible, and it felt like she wasn't breathing at all. She quickly sat Saida down. Yanking her scythe from the pillar and sheathing it Xaris then picked up Saida. She didn't want Saida to die and had to get out of this place before she got attacked. She ran with Saida in her arms out and away from the mansion until she made it across the bridge where she felt safe enough and out of site to set Saida down. When Xaris looked back she saw that the large GF had flown off. Xaris turn back to Saida and spoke but she had a hesitant speech due to her emotions rising. "I won't let you die Saida. Not here, and not now. You'll be ok. I promise." Opening her equipment belt she pulled out a phoenix down and used it on Saida.

A ray of light hovered over Saida, and she knew the phoenix down took effect. Xaris then sat down next to Saida and having Saida's head rest against her lap. Xaris then removed the potions in her belt and had them ready for Saida when she awoke. During the entire time Xaris was near the brink of anger, and sadness. She almost lost a member of her team, and it was like deja vu for her. This time though was different because she was able to save her teammate's life. Xaris had to keep her emotions from getting the best of her so she began to hum a song she knew from when she was little. The song seemed to be working since Xaris was becoming more calm, and she was able to feel small breaths from Saida. Xaris was relieved that Saida was alive, and just kept Saida in her lap while keeping one hand on her head as she laid there. Xaris was worried about leaving Maris, and Momo back at the mansion, but Saida was more important right now, and there was no way that Xaris would leave Saida in the current condition she was in. All she could do was stay by Saida till she awoke. She turned her head towards the mansion and spoke. "Sorry guys your on your own right now. Please come back alive....I need you....and...Saida needs you too."

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{Current Theme Song: Ever Kuvera}

s**t. Elliot was tired from that spurt of flying. Riyel knew that much and even as he turned away from Lisanna towards him, he could see that the little dragon did not have much time left in this realm for all that long. And of course it was at this point that Bahamut shot into the air, forcing Riyel to cover his face as wind crashed about him. They had gone before he could have even said anything. "You have got to be ******** kidding me." That seemed to be the only comment worth utilizing to describe his current...situation for even as he turned, Elliot had begun to fade away into the aether, Riyel nodding his head with a small smile on his face. You did good, Ell. But then he realized his current situation. The enemy was still in the area and his one sure ride had vanished while his second had vanished before any sort of take off. Cursing once more in his mind, Riyel kept quiet as he watched the direction that Bahamut took. Gonna need you, Ifrit.

"It's about damn time.

As he focused, Riyel turned towards where the smokescreen still lay in the front of the yard, covering most of it as it spread throughout the area. He knew that there were other enemies still there... Looking downward near the front of the mansion, Riyel raised his hand. "Firaga." Almost instantly, a grand ball of flame erupted from his hand shooting towards the front of the mansion, near the door where the smokescreen lay in the thickest from where Elliot had spat it out. The explosion itself from the initial Firaga was loud in itself, but the next ignition of the cloud of smokescreen was even greater, sending a ground shaking explosion that caused a wave of heat to strike Riyel. Good. Turning away, he finished focusing on Ifrit as the grand fire demon erupted from the ground in leap just as Riyel jumped, his leap carrying the two of them throughout the air as they pursued in majestic leaps after Bahamut, hoping to catch up with the group before they departed as well. Don't you leave me behind... They were going to get it when they got home.

When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb

Kafshe was gone, the Relative was gone, and he had managed to save Maris from his summon's wrathful attack. Not that she had known any better since he didn't exactly tell her clearly, sooner, but hell they were okay, and that was what mattered for now. Laying outside, against the ground on the stupid broken glass that was everywhere, Momo began to pat Maris' face after the sonic blast had ripped into the mansion. Though, before the soon following explosion, which Momo decided to ignore as he was dreadfully hungry.

He'd done so much already and was out of energy, even if he seen Riyel, and well Ifrit, he wasn't going to give chase as it was. And Maris, well, she was in charge of the Momo snacks. Also of shooting people but that wasn't really important right now. "Hungreee!" He said, not being able to pout, he could whine. "Too hungree." Though, upon hearing gunfire, his ears perked up and he managed his way around to the smouldering front of the mansion, seeing Galbadian Soldiers opening fire on the roof for a moment.


G-Soldiers

There was only around twelve in the entire town, all of whom had arrived on the seen earlier, but hadn't gotten closer due to well... it was like Jurassic Park or something, with large beasts standing out front who they didn't know was who. But, with BIE uniforms on the remaining persons, and only one beast on the mansion rooftop, well, the time to act was now. One sniper on each rooftop flanking the front of the mansion opened fire with their large caliber rifles at the summoned Ifrit, that beast being more of a concern then the man getting onto the creatures back.

See, their fright of the situation hadn't stopped some of their training form coming into play. Especially their anti-terrorist training, which unfortunately, had been delayed, again, due to the summoned creatures. They weren't used to that sort of thing, and even worse, something which they would admit, they had grown complacent believe no Resistance members would actually attack a Sorcerer's home dead on.

Four of the soldiers arrived upon Xaris and Saida, one of them, one of the two only medics the town had in it's force. She wasn't really a pro at it, but she did carry some things. A basic two potion, one hi potion and one phoenix down aid kit. "Scan!" The woman said, taking a quick look at Saida before shaking her head. "Get a stretcher." She ordered to two other G-Soldiers, before speaking to Saida. "How did you receive these injuries?" She could seen the... bones, in their inappropriate manner, but the extent of the damage wasn't really clear, even with a scan spell.

Meanwhile, the other six soldiers were clearing out the buildings around the mansion, as the snipers, knowing their rounds weren't going to stop Ifrit soon enough, still kept a vigilant watch as it fled, taking shots whenever they could.

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Xaris smiled happily when Saida spoke despite the rude response she gave. Xaris could care less she was just happy Saida was alive. Xaris pulled Saida up slightly from the ground so she could hold Saida. Xaris pulled Saida's head against her chest and spoke. "I'm glad your alive.......I...I'm sorry you were hurt because of me. I don't know if you can forgive me, but for what its worth I was glad to have met you even through all the fights we had. I don't know how I can make this up to you. I don't think I ever could. We've been on a lot of missions together as a team, but I seem to be the burden of this team." Xaris took a break from speaking so she could get her thoughts in check. This day showed Xaris something. That she was incapable of protecting anyone. Just cause pain to people close to her. She then decided on what she was going to do. "I don't belong with anyone. I shouldn't be on this team. I can't because all I do is get people hurt. The loss of my team, and causing you to get killed was my fault. I lost someone I loved before, and now I almost lost you. All I can do to protect those I love dearly is by lea-...." .Before Xaris could speak anymore some of the militia came in. A medic came by and had started medical procedures. Xaris kept her arms around Saida as the medic did their job. Why did this have to happen the way it did? This was her first time summoning Diablos and this is what happened because of it. With not much compatibility with her GF she couldn't control him, and didn't look ahead at the consequences for summoning him. When she looked at Saida she just felt nothing more than a risk to her fellow group members. Saida wouldn't of ended up like this if Xaris didn't summon Diablos so hastily, at least that was how Xaris felt.

Not too long after the medics had Saida up on the stretcher Maris, and Momo showed up. The look on Maris's face told it all of how she was feeling but then she said this. "You ******** up, kid. And that's going to count for something when we have to report back to brass. For now, check yourself out and make sure that you'll be ready to move out within the hour. Hopefully you can make up for your mistake later." All of this only made Xaris feel more of a burden to the group. Maris was right but, something like this can't be made up. Xaris was the one responsible for getting Saida killed. She was only lucky enough to use a phoenix down in time. Xaris didn't even look at Maris anymore but she nodded to respond to her. She stood up from the ground and turned back to the mansion. She needed to be alone to think so she walked back to what was left of the mansion. When she stood in front of it the event of Diablos using the spell kept rewinding in her head. Xaris went back further and thought of how she should of done things differently. As she turned her gaze around the mansion her eye caught something. She turned her head more, and noticed that Saida's blade Aidan was still impaled into the ground. Xaris walked over to it reaching both hands onto the handle of the blade and ripping it out of the ground. The blade was extremely heavy, and Xaris had to use both arms just to hold the damn thing up. No wonder Saida was strong, to be able to carry, run, jump, or any sort of physical activity that had this thing on your back would have to take a lot of strength. Xaris could only walk while carrying the blade as she made her way back to the group so she could get this to Saida before they would separate. Looking at the blade its craftsmanship was beautiful, and it gave off a sort of feeling that Xaris was unfamiliar with. Strange as it was she ignored it and continued to make her way back to the group.

Everyone was getting ready to head out. Maris was ordering soldiers around, Momo was eating, and Saida was having a medical team ready her for departure for when the evac came. Xaris walked over to the medical staff tending to her, and spoke. "This weapon is hers so make sure she has it with her when you take off.' They nodded. Xaris then had one of the medics take the blade only to see them struggle and nearly fall. It took two medics to hold the blade, and that somewhat amused Xaris, but not enough to make her forget what she had done. She left them to tend to Saida, and walked towards the bridge so she could just be away from everyone. She felt being alone and away from everyone right now was best. All she could do now was just sit on the bridge and wait for extraction.