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[[Everyone knows that Luna is out in the woods with Ialo, right? Even though he hasn't taken notice of her EXTREMELY LOUD howl.... T-T *feels so left out it's not funny*]]

"nice to meet you, by the way were here." he watched as they came upon the school and he immediately put her down "sorry about that there's to much stuff happening tonight." looking back at the forest he noticed movement whether it was a beast or man he didn't know. "come on lets go" he began walking to the office.

"Sir, were sustaining heavy resistance already!"

"We're not leaving without-"

Another channel opened up to the commander. "Sir, I've found one! The signatures match perfectly!"

"Grab it now and fall back."


At the direct order, each operative that had defended themselves from Ialo's satellite strike dispersed their defensive shields and shot straight upwards towards Ialo. But every strike missed him, it was almost as if they were aiming for something else. By the time Ialo had a chance to look back, they were gone; the operatives on the ground, and Set.

Ialo sank to the ground, still quivering from adrenaline. As he knelt down, breathing heavily, he watched drops of blood be absorbed by the ground. "... Why?" he mumbled to himself. He look up. Set was gone. Really gone. Ialo couldn't sense him at all, and the dragon could at least get a fuzzy reading from several miles if he concentrated. But there was nothing. Groaning, he flopped over and rolled onto his back, lying spread-eagle. He winced, the force had jarred some of the (many) injuries. Guns. They frikkin' shot at him. With stuff that he designed. If it weren't for his powers, he'd be a bloody mass on the ground.

.... Not that he wasn't already. Ialo put his hands to his face, and watched the blood smear as he pulled them away. "Someone is going to pay dearly." He wasn't sure what had upset him the most: that he had been ambushed and gotten his a** kicked, that a student was taken from right out under his nose, or..... he shuddered. That bone-shilling howl that went through the forest and bounced off of every tree. In the end, he merely decided to lie there, bleeding all over the forest floor.

At the arrival of Shintero and Athena, as well as her siblings and Cook, Danni widened her eyes to warn them not to touch the demons. Not even a brush of skin contact, or they'd be down and out for the count. "Damn it, don't to-" That was as far as she got before a gag formed over her mouth, and the bondages on her wrists and ankles got tighter and started glowing. Sapping away at her strength, her energy.

Lia, who usually couldn't be counted on, found her rare bursts of sisterly protection instincts were kicking in at the moment. She chanted quickly, and suddenly a miniature sun rose up from the ground, illuminating the grounds, thinking the sun would weaken the demons.

Well, it worked somewhat, seeing as some of the weaker ones slumped their shoulders and became easy targets for Cook's flying boulders. But the stronger demons wore heavy black cloaks. Simply pulling up the hood let them keep their strength, but Danni had no such protection. Her powers suffered from the pure light as well, and she writhed in her bonds, weakening faster because of the light.

"Danni...s**t! Lia, turn out the light!" Ambrose shouted, currently in a staring contest with a demon who's muscles were obcenely large as he flexed them. Two demons were facing Athena, keeping a careful distance back. "Arzol, what is this light? She has an alchemists markings." One said, and Arzol, who was busy keeping anyone from reaching Danni, looked up sharply. "To hell with the light, just stun her." He commanded, and that got Danni's attention. Her eyes flashed, but unforunately Arzol didn't catch it.

Instead, he turned, and summoning up a quick spell, he brought out a black whip, and struck out. It lashed Cook and Ambrose, and the two men went to their knees, crying out. And seeing that, Danni snapped.

Summoning up what energy she could, Arzol and the other demons staggered back when her power let loose, a huge black aura forming around her as her eyes blazed. There was a sudden explosion, and Danni disappeared from view for a moment. When the smoke settled, it revealed Danni, standing outside of her bondages, the gag off, eyes pure black. Her hair blew back in a sudden wind that sprang up, and lightning struck in between her feet.

"Don't. Ever. Touch. Them." She hissed out, her voice cold and merciless. "No one touches my family and gets away with it, demon scum. It's me you want, me who's the threat. So keep your hands off the others." She commanded, and Arzol flinched, despite himself. Out of ten possible levels of dark magic, Danni was a level 9.5. You couldn't get much better than that. After one reached level 10, the only other promotion was that to God. Every demon here knew this girl was easily capable of reaching God status before her eighteenth birthday, and that was unheard of.

But, Arzol saw with relief, the bondages and sunlight her sister had provided, as well as the energy she'd already used...all that had weakened her immensely. She was almost dead on her feet, the strong will and pride she was known for the only thing keeping her standing. "Face it, Shadow Runner. Your life ends here, tonight. By my hand. It is the will of the Demon King." He said, but Danni didn't reply, merely raised her hand and harnessed the power of the storm, so her hands glowed and crackled. She was holding a ball of electric currents that would kill even the Demon King.

"No one dies tonight, except you if you don't get out of here." She said, and Arzol forced himself to snicker. "Bluffs, every word. You're no match for the Demon King's guard." He said, and the two stared at each other, willing the other to make the first move.

"Yeah, you get him, Athena!" Lia cheered, having been reduced to cheering squad since her powers harmed Danni as well. She had helped both and Cook and Ambrose to their feet, and her brother was keeping her behind him. She had basolutely no problem with that. But the two men were more concerned with the two in the center of all the trouble, Danni and Arzol.

Trying to catch her off guard, Arzol transformed himself into a huge blackbear, getting up on his back paws and slashing at her with his claws. But in the same breath, Danni recited a chant in the language of the Ancients, the words falling quickly from her tongue. In a moment, her body seemed to morph. The next thing anyone knew, they were faced with a huge black wolf, fangs snapping and red eyes gleaming as it growled deep in its throat.

"No," One of the guard said, backing up slowly. "Arzol, she's not supposed to be able to do personal transformation. It has not yet been approved!" He said, fear making his voice shake as he looked on fearfully at both the wolf and his comrade, stuck in the ice by the alchemist. Cook, his body still rock, looked over at him with a sneer of disgust. "I don't know what the hell yer talkin' about, but I'm pretty sure ya lost all approval privleges when ya tried to kill my baby girl." He said, his voice almost more of a snarl than that of the she-wolf a few yards away.

Then Arzol sprung in his bear form, and he and Danni in her wolf form were rolling over the grass. He let out a roar when her teeth sank into his throat, and she let out a yelp of pain when his claws slashed across her stomach. It was a bloody battle, viscious when mixed when the snarls and growls of the two fighters.

Lia made her way cautiously over to Athena, careful to avoid meeting eyes with the two demons not trapped or dead. Those two were carefully considering their moves, seeing as there was a master of the earth elements there, as well as an alchemist, a protector, and the demon sorceress.

"It's all so...savage." Lia whispered to Athena, shuddering as she looked on. The two remaining demons were looking on as well, smirking despite themselves when they heard Danni's exclamation of pain. Arzol, while he'd gotten a good hit to the back of the head, had sprung on Danni's back, crushing her. She only barely managed to get up, springing to all four paws as her muscles tensed, preparing to spring.

"Shadow Runner doesn't stand a chance, whether the Ancients picked her or not. We'll have her corpse to hang on the wall...Or at the Demon King's feet." One of the demons remarked, earning a cry of fury from Ambrose, who fortunately wasn't foolish enough to try and get past the two wrestling animals to reach the remaining demons.

Athena nodded to Lia. "Yeah. Watch yourself, though. If I get knocked out, ugly over here will be released again." She jerked her thumb at the frozen demon. She did her best to ignore Danni's plight; she couldn't do anything to help the girl. That and she couldn't leave her pendant or her alchemy would be useless. Turning slightly, she faced one of the other demons.

"Hey fathead!" she called out. "Whatcha doing just watching? Need a seat?" She stomped her foot which was beginning to ache by this point and used a combination of magic and alchemy to cause a dirt chair to lift under the demon. However, it didn't stop when it had him in it--no, it kept going. Soon it was eight feet tall. Athena panted briefly. The energy that alchemy required was rarely taken from an alchemist, but when you weren't using potential energy as kinetic energy or weren't simply changing something's composition, it had to be done. Then she raised her hands, one in the air above the other, and flipped them, magicking the chair itself to flip and trap the demon underneath it. She panted harder after this one; it was done completely by magic, and took more energy than she planned.

Nonetheless, she kept her hands up and shot fire at the chair--not to harm the demon, but to superheat the particles in the dirt, which had a lot of clay. She wanted to go for the kiln affect.