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*Sierra forced herself to lay still under her Shinobi's ministrations... clenching her jaw as the initial contact with the wounds stung but quickly and thankfully went numb.

Why? She berrated herself... Why now did they have to explode on eachother? Why when she was weak and of so little use. She bit off a curse and choked down a sob as the healing paste warmed her chilled flesh, a tingling sensation crawling over her skin.

She felt as if the salve was a caress of a lover next to her skin and revelled in the warmth of it's healing complacently... but too quickly she had to force her mind clear of the intoxicating sensation.

Her feral eyes caught Gouken's movements and she paled ((if that was possible)) so that she looked ghostly and translucent. She knew that Shinigami could not defend against that move! Her heart and mind raced... She still wasn't completely free of the dark elf's emotions. She didn't know if it was because of this or just her protective nature that caused her to react then... but react she did.

Clawing her way into a sitting position her eyes flared and her pupils drowned into burning pools of flame. Thrusting her hands out from her and choking out a command in ancient elvish a barrier of her own errected itself between the two. It's tight mesh of multi elements would hold it fast... but she overlaid the entire casting with void energies. Her vision dimmed and she drew on earthen enegies to help stablize her. If she passed out... which she was dangerously close to doing... the shield would fall.

The spines met the shield and she sagged beneath the recoil of energies and the impact... but the void spell absorbed the attack efficiently... and the deadly spines dissapeared into the void of the abyss.

She bit her lip and her whole body shook violently as she faught to remain in control. Casting high powered magics while in mage shock was deadly.*

*Gouken watched as the void opened up and swallowed all of his hairs, and his mind flared. The choice of spells had certainly not been wise this time. After all, who better to manipulate the abyss than an abyss demon? Gouken merely waved his hands and the portal whirled out of existence, revealing the dark elf ahead of him.

Gouken made one bounding step, to bring him face to face with Shinigami, and thrust his hand talons-first at the elf's gut, while the other hand turned to swing at Shinigami's face, which would create enourmous gashes. His tail whirled behind him and swept towards Shin's ankles.

All these attacks and the movement of his legs occured in les than 1 second, leaving almost no room for any maneuver out of the way.*

*Sierra didn't have the strength to maintain the shield when Gouken attempted to shatter it. It had nothing to do with what element it was, had she been at full strength it was unlikely that he'd of been able to do so... but as it stood, the threads of energy that held the shield together were easily wrested from her trembling hands and her shoulders slumped as she sagged back to the floor.

She tried to watch what was happening, but she was seeing everything through a dim haze and the situation took on a fuzzy dream-like quality. Slipping further into mage shock she whimpered as she watched Shinigami partially shifted into what she recognized as the "Emerald Demon." And Earth demon, linked to the core of Gaia... He could tap into limitless life energies... but he could use them to bring so much death and destruction.

Fearing for the safety of her guild members, Sierra whispered something under her breath, linking into the numerous protection spells, wards and shields she had woven into the buildings and the land they were built upon. Triggering the guild's magical defences, she used the last of her strength to bind Shin and Gouken to this room, raising every ward she had placed on it to contain them and the damage they would cause. Furniture would be smashed, but the walls, ceiling and floor would hold firm... They could not leave, either of them, unless she was dead or lowered the spells... They were trapped.

Luckily, she didn't have to be conscious, because at that moment her body broke, She had pushed herself too far already but it had just left her immobile... This added strain began to shut her body down one function at a time and she slipped into blessed darkness, praying that she survived the shock long enough to maintain the wards, even in her comatose state.*

"Well, to be accurate, they'll probably be even better since I'm not gunna run off in the middle." Wind smiles warmly at Rayne before flower pulls on his sleeve.

"Brother! You're leaving so much out! What do you mean you ran off in the middle? You're horrible, to be leaving your sister out of the loop like this!" She pouts and clings to his arm as she whines.

"Flower, dear, your feminin charm doesn't work on me, remember?"

"Oh yeah. Damn."

Wind opens his mouth to say something, and flower puts her hand over his mouth quickly, ">You say one thing about 'hetero cooties' and I will burn your hair off.<"

She then smiles sweetly to Cyprian
"Performing is not my forte, I'm afraid, so it's not something I would do with just anyone. Now, forcing my brother to perform, and dressing him up for it... " heart

Winddance removes his sister's hand from his mouth, and says, "I don't care if Foxy isn't here, the no platforms or heels rule is still in effect!"

Flower pouts again, the effect made even more pathetic by Poe nibbling at her hair affectionately, "Brother, you're so mean to me."

"Such a wonderful brother-in-law! Hear that Wind, I like him better than you!" She sticks out her tongue at wind... despite the fact that she's still clinging to his arm. "It's more fun making WindDance do it though, since he doesn't want to, so he gets all embarrased and such. It's not easy to make this one blush, but when you do..."

This time it's wind's turn to cover up flower's mouth, "I think that's enough of that subject. >I'm not the only one with long hair that would burn up nicely<"

Flower grins and chuckles a little, quite enjoying the attention she's receiving from the older brother, "See Wind-dear, we could have a whole dress up party! Doesn't that sound fun? >I'll even make it extra nice, and I'll let you decide in advance what you'd like me to dress Rayne in...<"

Wind stares at Flower for a minute, "You're evil. Pure evil. Do you manipulate other people like this, or am I special?"

"You're spe-ci-al, cuz you get this treatment more than the others, dear brother. So, was that a yes?"

"A maybe."

Darkflower giggles, as if she knows better

"I'm used to it, for the most part" as much as wind was enjoying the chance to get to know rayne's brother, and the chance to catch up with flower, he was exhausted from the long day. Plus, he wasn't sure which one of them was being worse with their horribly obvious flirting.

"Silly boy, it comes naturally, of course." She smirks with a flip of her hair... which causes Poe to bite her ear lightly, since she'd flipped it right into his face. She ignores the raven.