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A yelp came from Haveni as the lightning sizzled near, confused as what she thought was a villain shielded her from it. The sudden confusion caused her to lose her grip upon the embers, which had been losing their light from the thick barrier, anyways. They dropped from the air like hail, making sizzling noises as they slid against the ice.

Indeed, she was no fire element, but if the embers were there, she could manipulate them, as she could any other not-too-large object; at a price, of course. Using that poltergeist element which was birthing inside her ate away at her own life to use it in such raw magnitude as she had earlier with the ice spears.

She listened to their words. Her own kind, the kind she had tried to protect, had said this was her fault. The ones who caused it said otherwise. Was she truly betrayed by her own kind?

"Poor little shadow," the voice in her mind said, soothingly. "My arms are open to you... Don't you want to be a whole person again?"

She ignored Ruin's voice inside her. Her breath was ragged, her body weakening from using that strange element so much. Yet, she pointed an accusing finger again at them. "You...leave." She placed her right hand over her right eye and forehead, wincing. She was in great pain inside, and now she knew why. She was possessed by the dead.

The little ones found refuge behind a tree and hoped to be out of danger.

"This is getting more and more confusing, don't you agree Sage?" Epona asked the little rabbit. The later nodded and frowned. He knew they could be easy targets and his sister was very absent-minded at times. He had to keep an eye out for the both of them.

"I feel so helpless...but I'm too little to help anyone." The phyrefly sighed. What could two children do in such a battle? Jade went back to figthing and it was clearly painful to her, the children could tell. "No, surely there is a way to stop all this."

Sage made a face. Here she was, being all idealistic and naive again. He knew there was no simple way to end the conflict but he also knew they weren't completly helpless. They just needed to know WHAT they could do.

As he looked around, he noticed rocks and big pebbles at their feet. He took one and showed it to Epona with a grin.

"Rocks? What? You want us to throw rocks at the enemy? I don't know..." she replied to him with a hint of worry in her voice. But the little bunny was already scanning the battlefield for its first victim....

Frei was surprised that Haveni seemed to be on their side, at least for the moment anyway, which meant Ruin wasn't there. Or, unbeknownst to him, in control of Haveni's body. He had no idea how Haveni was struggling inside at that very moment.

He sent another water-based energy ball flying through a crowd of cursed that were in his way. Bodies already littered the field as more fell on top of them due to his attack.

He was about to run for Haveni when there was a sudden burst of energy. Fire met with ice. "So...powerful..." he muttered as the rush hit him, sending him flying backward. He landed, but not without taking a little damage. His legs were scraped up along with his hands and elbows from shielding the fall. Frei called upon the blue waters to rain over his wounds, cleaning them. He swirled his finger in the air and a little rain cloud appeared just above it where little sparks of lightening danced about. The water covered his bleed injuries, soothing momentarily.

In fear, he could only watch to see what would happen next. Who were these other powerful constellations? And why were they taking credit for the chaos? Only time would tell.

And she let out an almost insane laugh, letting her ropes strangle and break bones. The tears began to fall freely, as Jadecrystal caused a circle of destruction, and the insane giggles began to rise in pitch...

Rosel knew a false temptation when she saw one. Granted she hadn't expected to see anything more out of the strange woman who only a moment ago appeared beaten and exhausted. Such a confusing creature...

Her hand lifted of its own, and almost took the offer out of mere curiosity before she stopped herself. Looking past the limp strands of hair into fathomless eyes, she was suddenly grateful for her own veil separating them in its own small way. She knew Aeos was coming soon to interrupt, she could hear his footsteps pounding through the mud and see him as a pale blue blur in her peripheral vision. But Haveni obviously had access to a massive amount of power, did this come from her supposed possession?

"Tell me," Rosel asked quietly, for Haveni's ears only, as she eyed the hand with suspicion. "Will it give me power?"

Not in time.

Aeos hissed, realizing he was too late to save Rosel from an experience she wouldn’t soon forget. She was like
Noctis in a way, but swayed by the temptation of power rather than women. Pressing his wings more tightly against
his back, he sped towards the two Constellations without pause. Even if it was too late, Haveni was a moonfolk
that could not be spared for the sake of Seir’s plans. The white Constellation was too much of an unknown variable
because of her unstable mind and powers.

Or rather, Aeos suddenly realized, she wasn’t quite that. Because of their invasion, the chance of Haveni coming
to their side was slim to none. Yet, with the way she was acting now, the chance that she would docilely return to
being the sweet candle-maker of the village was even slimmer. She had nowhere to go, except to wander around
in search of… what? Aeos had no idea and didn’t want to, but he hadn’t wanted to involve himself in this mess in
the first place.

Finally, Aeos was on them. The ice Constellation created a slim, knife-like layer of ice over his blades. They were
practically invisible to the eye, but they would give him a longer reach and no one would know the difference. He
landed before Haveni in a ready to spring crouch. Aeos’ own pale eyes regarded the milky white complexion of the
other Constellation’s physical and mental state.

“You’re in pain, aren’t you?” he commented quietly, digging his feet into the ground. “Death will bring you none.
Because, as you are now—unresolved and…” Aeos looked at her, recalled her words. “Possessed. You don’t
belong anywhere else.” He launched at her, blades tight in his grip and angled to slash her down.

((Wao I missed a lot! Woot!)
Ro'ark found himself tossed to the side by the force of the blast, the two powerful elements, opposite in design colliding together in a huge burst of energy. Creating enough impact to separate the poor fire twilif from his companion frei, at least momentarily.

Covered in bits of dirt and scrapes a few hot drips of blood slipping free to splash across the ground leaving dark little burn marks and embers in their wake. Hissing softly as the fire that coursed through his veins healed the small wounds away leaving tiny glowing scratches to attest to the fact he'd been wounded.
Frei had been right about her being powerful, yet he'd never imagined aeos to be strong enough to be able to survive such a strong attack..A second blurry glance cast upon where the icy constellation had been revealed the truth, seir..the cause of all this current trouble, taking advantage of the plague as well as his followers stood there seemingly unfazed, looking just as smug and happy as a cat with its cream.

"F-frei?" He muttered and glanced around spotting the ghost that hung off of the twilifs horn before he actually spotted frei. "There you are!" scrabbling to get to his feet ro'ark stumbled over to the still sitting male "Frei..you okay.." his new found companion seemed a bit shaken.

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Daskri gasped and coughed roughly, brushing ash away from his hair and his shoulders as he climbed free of the debris, the monsters around him he'd just been battling with either dead or injured a few survived from the shock wave blast of fire and ice and were slowly regaining their composure, starting once more to wreak more havoc..
Daskris saving grace had in fact been a collapsed building, the debris had caught and shielded him from harm where his paint had failed. "Ouch..Goodness they all play rough.." to believe that the maiden had been so powerful..to see seir move in at the last moment and save aeos, well had he really been saving aeos? Tsk the dark raincloud constellation seemed far to selfish to ever do anything that didn't serve his own evil purposes.

Shaking off his own soreness and the annoying headache that was slowly forming in the back of his skull, daskri pushed himself up and slipped free of the cluttered debris and fallen bodies. Nimbly stepping out into the mud like ash, smudges of the stuff covering him as he took a change to look over the chaos. Narrow green and blue eyes widening as he caught sight of aeos again, again he was after that woman! "Aeos have you no shame!" daskri shouted forlornly at the attacking constellation, though he doubted aeos heard him at all.Couldnt he just leave her alone?
More importantly there was seir..daskri suddenly realized the cause of all this was standing there seemingly focused on the battle between his brother and the others, mayhaps this would be a good chance..

Tears slid down's Rosel's face. The sensation startled her and she lifted a muddy hand to her cheek. Looking belatedly down at her fingers, she couldn't tell if the tears were there or not. Her breath was shallow and irregular. It shook her body. Or was her body shaking her breath? A slow moan escaped.

Something was moving in front of her. It was something she knew, but it hurt to remember. Remembering. Remembering. Remembering the dead.

It was as though the feeling were there again, wrapping her existence in a death shroud, too tight to move. She wondered hysterically why she had so much sensation bombarding her before she realized her eyes were open. And people were talking.

She didn't want it, it was too much. Stumbling around backwards, she saw the shade of a tree, a burnt, dead tree, and moved towards it.