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When Claudia lashed out with her own weapons, she made excessive use with her shadow arrows, he now felt almost guilty that Isabelle didn't pick up Claudia's bow and arrow, it would have to be something they retrieve later! Ducking when Isabelle's victim flew over him and down the Inkwell he gazed back up to find another soldier lashing out his sword down at him. Bringing his own up he reflected the strike and managed to push his opponent back with a grunt. Bringing his blade back he spun on his heel to spin round 180 degrees and slice at the man's throat, a fountain of blood rushing to the floor. Seeing another running at him from behind him he thought quickly and utilised the greater purposes of his weapon. Swapping hands to hold his sword in a dagger position he stabbed it into the ground, it sliced the stone like cake and from behind him the soldier was impale from the crotch upwards, the tip of his now collapsed sword protruding the crown of his skull. With a twitch of his wrist the blade tightened back up into sword form as he stood up. There were 5 left and Claudia was almost at Lucan. But then there was a flare of hot light from the corridor Croix was in!

Isabelle had to cover her eyes, she was just then finishing another soldier with her whip around his throat, her foot on his back. When she pulled her arm down she found Adi had just cast a brilliant spell, unexpected, but brilliant, those soldiers were crying in pain before she knocked them out. 3 more now, well, that was until Isabelle was brought back to reality, shaking what she'd just witnessed from her mind as she flicked her wrist and broke the neck of the soldier below her foot. 2 more defended Lucan and were standing between the man and the others. The first of them blocking Claudia's attempt with a shadow arrow.

"Now, now, you just can't stop killing people can you?!" Lucan applauded. Looking around her said to the dead bodies "You were worth every coin, truly you were" with a sarcastic tone. "Now, i'm sorry that i've trampled over your things, but, you're not going to be needing them for much longer" he said. The two soldiers in a ready stance, not quite sur eof which person to look at as they darted their gaze ebtween the bodies of their allies and their opponents. Nyru was holding his sword up high by hise side ready, and Isabelle has her fists tightened ready encase she had to let loose her whips again. "You won't be taking us today!" retorted Nyru, catching his breath. Lucan could only reply in one way though, as if all of them were beneath him. "Oh, won't I? Let me show you why you're wrong" he threatened.

Lucan then raised his middle-aged veiny hands, his palms crushing the air within his fingers as his two guards collapsed from heart attack. When their bodies hit the floor with a thud, Nyru coudln't help but stair, why would he dor such a thing? He could only believe something more sinister was at work. And then he saw the Prince's mark on Lucan's hand, the same as his own and Claudia's too. It gave a faint glow as the two corpses got back up to their feet, their bones clicking into place, they were like puppets on ridged strins, their faces distorted, no eyes just black sockets, their mouths were stitched shut and their noses were flat.

Still standing and weaving his chain of blades around him, it would nick at the rats and send a couple flying or shred one or two here and there, but more kept coming. Isabelle was watching her brother fending off the rats, luckily they weren't too much of a nuisance thanks to his armour, but she could tell he was struggling. Even Claudia was having trouble, no, she was in immense trouble. But then she vanished and Isabelle could only wish she would do something and quick. Trying to look over her shoulder she felt the sweat on her forehead run down her face, she was trying to hard to keep the undead at bay but she couldn't even turn it into ashes. This was some powerful magic and she dreaded to think where, or whom it was being delivered by.

Isabelle could tell that Adi was pre occupied, but she didn't have the time to question it. Then Adi took the initiative, and Isabelle muttered her name as she had to move to the side to let her do whatever she wanted to do. She saw the golden drops of ... magic leaving her finger tips, it was like she'd taken the Heavens and liquefied it. Then with the sudden growth of light Isabelle saw in Adi's face she was going to do something. Covering her eyes she was just in time as to not be blinded.

Nyru didn't hear anything, he had just brought his blade back to its normal sword formation to protect himself from Lucan when the burst of light caused him to see nothing but whiteness. For a split second he wondered if he had died, and was going to be tried before the Angels for injustice and servitude to the Underworld... and then a small shock-wave penetrated his flesh and left hsi body behind him, thumping with a small, earthy 'boom' on the wall behind him, he heard all the meandering deaths of the rats at this moment, reminding him he was still alive. When the explosion had subsided, his ears were adjusting to sound again after the shock-wave, a high pitched ringing in the back of his mind. His eyes were taking their time to adjust too, his vision blurred and slowed.

With his head lifting heavily from his shoulders he saw Claudia with her empty bow raised, and between her and him was Lucan with an arrow that dematerialised before him, leaving an empty hole right through his throat. Isabelle meanwhile, she was uncovering her eyes when she saw Adi's raised palm and before her was no undead creature. Infact both the undead had just... vanished, purged from the Inkwell. Lucan then fell to his knees, trying to say something but the air in his lungs unable to escape the ways it should be. Nyru took the moment of opportunity to say "Slice his throat with a rusty cleaver..." as he clenched his fist and swiped his blade horizontally, a clean cut on his neck as it began to tip like a cut-down tree on its plummet to the earth. "...Early in the morning" he finally repeated with the sound of his head on the ground.

Breathing heavily, he stared over the body as it fell to the floor, his arms hung loosely after the adrenaline was beginning to subside and realisation was dawning. Isabelle was the first to speak, "Blo*dy hell". Nyru then replied "I'd rather not face two realms of evil, thanks Isabelle..."
"You chopped his head off!"
"Claudia already killed him! Besides, who made light?!"

The two siblings were almost comical i their style of throwing comments at each other. In some ways, he wasn't too sure why he cut his head off... it felt like a good thing to do at the time, atleast he shouldn't raise from the dead, should he?! Isabelle had her whips wrapped up around her arms again and her hands on her hips as she stared between the three of them.

Nyru, having nudged closer to Adi then added a quick reply of "I dread to think, no one knows what's at the bottom" with wide eyes. As his sister spoke of an option, Adi helped her to finally come out with it. It was a suggestion that Nyru was shocked to hear, and Adi was correctly questioning it too! Nyru had to c**k a brow as Isabelle gave them all a stare. "The Therians... yes" she said, making sure not to call them just 'wolves', it would be against the Occult's rules.

"W-where..." Nyru struggled to get a word out of his mouth, there were too many questions. "When... no, no, no" he then added quickly, his fingers to the side of his forehead. "They don't exist, do they?"
"Of coarse they do" Isabelle stung back, "Several decades ago, we don't know where from, we don't know how, but the Therians re-emerged in Non-magic Earth, they came to Absólúte for protection until they knew the Guildeam would trust them. They've been living in the Iringod Spires and Notchwood for several years now"
"And the guildeam doesn't even know? My god, would they not have been better off just telling the Guildeam they were back? I hate to think what the court would do for them hiding in The Wilds..."
"That's the thing! Because they ewre the original natives of the Land of Crows before the prince and his vampires kicked them out, they don't trust us Daywalkers still and they most certainly don't trust the guildeam, because the syndicate never helped them"