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Rina glared at the spawn. Understanding what Blade wanted her to do. She raised her bow to aim at it's front legs when the ice flew. The teen didn't notice until one of them imbeded themselves in her left leg. She fell to the ground, losing her arrow. Blood leaked from the wound. The shard didn't go through her leg, which was a good thing. Rina yelled in anger and pain. She quickly tried aiming with a new arrow.
Once she spotted Blade in the air and controling shadows, Rina flinched. It reminded her of the spawns themselves, but she shook it from her mind. Kneeling on the ground, Rina finally took aim at the water spawn's front legs and fired.
Rani ignored the fact that his fire had missed the spawn and pulled out his weapons. Once he heard Rina scream, his mind went blank. He dropped his weapons and ran to her side.

((Wooo.. Better late then never))

Gaian Name: Lani del Oloth

Character Name: Nago Takeno

Age: 26

Race: Human

Power(s): The ability to coat his body with a highly flexible, extremely durably metal. Nago can only cover the surface area of one arm total over his body.

Weapon(s): None, Nago fights unarmed, if at all.

Appearance: Nago stands around 6’5” tall, and is twig like in his build; very thin, but also, pretty strong. Monk like is what some people have described his features. Tanned skin, short hair, buzz cut some have said. His clothing is smile earthly colors, and very plain, with nothing marking him out as anything special. The only thing that marks him different is a tattoo in white on the back of each hand. Looks like this.

History: Nago was born in an isolated village, high in the mountains, often far from the troubles of the world below. That was, until the creature known as Tidal was formed. When it traveled, it would leave nothing but destruction in its wake. It traveled to the village, destroying much. Nago was at that village during the time, and was learning the way of the healers there, and would soon travel the world. His training was completed, and his first patient was his friends from the village. Leaving the village, Nago swore to heal those hurt by Tidal, or its Spawns, and heal what he can otherwise.

Other: Nago is primarily a healer. To heal he draws from energy outside of him, essentially coaxing the body to do what it would have done at a much faster rate then before. This means that illnesses, wounds, and such are the easiest to fight, but the more damage, the more energy taken. While it takes no energy of his to channel the energy, Nago has to direct it into working, otherwise, nothing is done. That takes a lot of concentration and effort.

Nora had leaped back into the trees the second she had realized there was danger. Then she saw the water spawn. She felt her teeth clench and the urge to summon but held herself back. She was out of practice and could hurt someone. Intead she leaped nimbly from tree to tree, Kyr flying above her. She stopped breathless at the one woms amazing display of power over Shadows and Fire. As one of the girls fell to an ice shard she watched as the Shadow-Fire warrior stopped her attacks to rescue her. A low growl escaped Nora's lips, you never stopped the attack on a spawn, ever! That thought disgusted her, how low Tidal had caused her to fall.....

With a hearty push of her legs she flew into a full leap and with a full force twirl she smashed her ironoak staff into the creatures tail hard enough to jar her teeth. Dropping the staff and without skipping a beat her long silver sword seemed to spring out of its sheath on its own accord and into her hand. In another moment she had brougth the sword down once....twice....three times, not even knowing whether she made contact or not she was in such a rage. Kyr screeched in warning and dived at the beasts body. At his call she instantly backfliped and turned, leaping up to a branch in one fluid movement. Crouching on the branch she sheathed her sword and replaced her hood.

Now or never....She closed her eyes and breathed deeply, holding her hands before her. As her eyes snapped open they flashed a gold and then bright white. With a jerking movement she summoned the earth to her power and the ground around the beast jutted upward, forming itself into a shallow bowl riddled with a few sharp earthen spikes. Knowing she was at the end of her strength she could only hope she had managed to do some damage with her summoning, though her aim with the spikes seemed poor. She breathed in sharply and her eyes returned to normal as she slumped to her knees. Her desperate and unpracticed summoning had cost her too much and she fell forward, hitting the ground with a loud thud. She felt Kyr land on her back and shreik one of his loud haunting cries. Her arms ached, and her head filled with terrible pain. "Damn," she whispered. Nora glimpsed the Shadow-Fire warrior once before her eyes closed and then she knew no more. I tried....

((There, fixed and much better! My apologies, I was not sure how to handle the spawn as of yet, though now I understand. I'm usually not so controlling, my mistake! sweatdrop ))

Aiko rolled on her back having no trouble sleeping. A strange way of how she sleeps, as hard as a rock when nothing is near but when danger lingers she up quickly as if someone never throw a rock at her head to wake her. Someday her laziness will get the best of her. A slight chill ran down her spin causing her eyes to snap open. She pushed herself up from the grass rubbing her head. "I'm forgetting something," she slowly began to talk to herself.

She pushed for a moment looking towards the dead fire. It must have just gone out seeing that the smoke was still slowly lifting into the air. Aiko felt reenergized and ready for almost anything but the fact that she knew something was messing bothered her. Standing now she looked around at the open space. She pats her side and reached for her Scythe. Her eyes widen before she rolled her eyes at her own stupidity. How could she forget something so important?

Aiko placed her hands in front of her to try and call forth her weapon but it never showed. Something like this only happened when she didn't know where it was last seen. "Maybe I dropped it in that lake?" she asked herself as she turned back towards the lake. She moved her hand putting her ponytail back as she like it while she walked. Once it was done she put her hands behind her head walking rather lazy back to the lake. A good sleep did her good even though it never seemed like it.

Nearing the lake she heard the sounds of a battle. What could it be this time? Where the people of the camp she saw ok? She dropped her arms and began to run swiftly through the forest. Rather quick on her feet she got back in no time. She inhaled spotting three ice shards flying her way. Quickly she jumped behind one of the trees watching the shards embed themselves into the tree next to her. What the?! she thought mostly to herself.

Her green eyes looked at the shards in front of her before poking her head around and witnessing the battle unfold before her. Aiko pressed her lips together with a more determined face. A Spawn…she couldn't believe it right in front of her. Her eyes looked at the lake to the injured female, Blade and Rani around her. She then looked at the Ebon who didn't seem to be doing much of anything at the moment. Seeing all of the people it didn't seem as if they need much help.

She moved to the side of the tree now in full view to watch and jump in if she could help but...she had no weapon. Her eyes narrowed looking to her side and she would never summon her power over darkness. Aiko never liked the way it made her feel. Why did it have to be darkness? Why couldn't it be light, wind, earth, anything other then something that made you feel cold and empty on the inside. O well nothing to be done now, she thought to herself.

||Just ignore Shiama's post. You can either have the choice of editing it or having me delete it.||

It looked as if Rina would be fine, or at least for now. Blade watched as Rina stood back up, picking her bow up and then taking aim. Blade would definately have honor for Rina for getting back up like that. The girl reminded Blade of herself, stubborn. But Blade didn't smile, this situation didn't call for something like that. She nodded before standing up and turning around just in time to watch as a stranger began to assist them in the battle. The earth shot out, spikes reaching up towards the spawn. The spawn tried to jump back, but because of its injury it couldn't move back fast enough. Some of the earth pierced through its scaly flesh, blood leeking out from its wounds. It let out a loud screech of pain, raising its head up as its body went stiff from the sensations it was getting from the rock that was trapped in its body.

"Hurry Rina! The tail!" Blade cried out, taking in a sharp breath afterwards. So close, they were so close! One spawn down, just one! It would be a moment that could never be forgotten in her mind. The first spawn to ever die, it might happen right then, right now. Her heart pounded heavy in her ears as she watched, her jaw tight as she gritted her teeth together.

'As long as Rina can hit its tail, then it can't transform itself into water and escape... hurry Rina, hurry!'

In order to help further Blade's eyes swirled black again, shadows reaching up and further locking the beast in place. Hopefully now Rina could hit it, please, hit it....

While the first arrow that Rina had fired missed the second one hit its mark. The spawn screamed out again as its wriggled around, struggling to get itself free. It fell to the ground, but as it tried to escape it couldn't move fast enough. Blade's eyes returned to their normal blue, signalling that she'd stopped her control over the shadows. She was too far off to run up and hit the spawn from here. Unless she tapped into her shadow powers, but using it too much would back fire again Blade. But a spawn was a spawn, and there was absolutely no way in hell that she was about to let this opportunity slip through her fingers. Blade ran forward, her body turning into black smoke before appearing to fuse itself with the shadows that ran along the rocks. She then reappeared in front of the spawn, her sword drawn.

Blade brought her sword up and then cut down in one swift motion at the spawn's neck. Her sword cut through, and before the spawn could scream out again its head fell off from its neck. Blood spilled out, staining the ground around Blade's feet as its eyes rolled back up into its head. Blade took a step back and looked down, hardly even able to believe her own eyes. A mixture of agony and pride threw itself through her body as the spawn's body began to change form. Before anything could be seen Blade set it on fire, covering it in flames. The body was quickly eaten, and within a matter of seconds all that there was left was ash.

"...I'm sorry...." Blade whispered to herself as she bent down and touched the ground with her fingers, her lips thinning into a thin line. But this was the way it had to be. And besides....

There was no time to think like this, Blade would save these emotions of hers for later. Instead she stood up and then ran over to Rina, smiling widely. "You did it! You did it Rina!" If it weren't for the fact that Rina was injured Blade would have picked her up into a strangling hug. "I think I love you!"

After Rina had fired the arrows she had sat down. Rani had tried helping with the wound, but was too afraid to leave her to get some hebs that he knew of. Rina watched amazed as Blade overtook the spawn and killed it. She didn't know Blade had that much strength. She grinned happily hearing Blade praise her. She liked that fact, but she knew it wasn't her that did much. Her smile faded when Ebon spoke. "No, no." She said weakly to Blade from bloodloss. "You were the one who killed it. Ebon is right. You need to get to a healer. You look bad with so many gashes." Rina motioned for Rani to give her the rest of her cloths. She still hadn't put them on after her short swim. The twin got them and let her use him as support while she put on her pants.