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It was barely mid-afternoon by the time the group had got themselves ready and were heading down to the carnival at the Pristine Fields. It was a break Laxion was looking forward to, and who better to spend it with than his team? Brushing his feet through the grass he let the breeze brush past his face as he lifted his hands behind his head. He loved the air, the natural scent, the natural wind that made the grass reflect in different shades of green in smooth patterns across the fields. He stayed in his armour though, turns out (he was convinced) that the armour reflected a lot of the heat and kept him cool. And after their adventure with Lilly and Lottie he didn't want to risk something coming up and he didn't have his armour again. Alexis looked up at the tents and rides that had been erected, so many prizes, food to taste and drink to consume. And the best part about Neutral City's carnivals... they're cheaper than anywhere else! No one to compete with, not a huge population to deal with, no entrepreneurs. Laxion wondered how Kyne would enjoy this, giving him a quick glance before looking back at the carnival.

"Oh" Laxion then said, the scroll beside him suddenly glowing a faint light. Taking off the string that held it on his waist he said "Ruby, I- I think the Psychic scroll finally has a message!". He'd waited, they'd both waited months for a reply from Lucas since they last saw him. And even that was brief because of the circumstances. Where had he been? What had he been gone for exactly? They'd asked the summit but all the monks had to say were that he was away on syndicate business, but a personal journey. Unwrapping the scroll and holding it out before him the white lines of light emerged from the parchment and it was indeed a message hand-written by Lucas Purevelion.

"Team Elixer,

I'm sorry for ignoring your messages, but my Psychic Scroll has been interfered with for some time. I'll be with you shortly, there's something i need to speak to all four of you about.

Lucas Purevelion"

"Well" Laxion said, "Guess there's more waiting..." with a sigh. And then his mobile began to ring, with wide eyes he stuffed the scroll away and tried to find his phone. It was one from Entei, obviously, all nano-like and top-notch technology. Alexis pulled the 'not bad' face upon realising. Reading the caller ID he pulled and expression of anticipated as he answered. "... Hello?" he asked. Then a voice answered on the other side of the call, and Laxion let out a sigh of relief as he said "You sound terrible, we heard about everything-" Nyru then started talking mid-sentence, but Laxion let him. Alexis meanwhile walked over to kyne and said "Wonder where to start...". She had grown up a little bit in the twenty-odd years she's had to relive. She still looked the same, but felt older, and far more mature than she ever used to. No doubt, Ruby was keen to get in on the phone-call too. "You're parents?" Laxion then asked, but then he quickly added "oh, so they'll be gone soon... But we can see you soon?" he asked "... I... can see you soon?". He smiled softly at the reply.

((Sorry for moving along again Pyro, I hope you don't mind if i take the liberty of very vaguely including Kyne into the RP until you reply, just so that he can be included and not left out.))

He's embarrassed all right and he had the nerve to lecture her about the importance of private conversation. If he didn't want to be catch he should have split away from the group and talked under a tree. Ruby stuck her tongue out in arrogance as he ranted but of course this fight wasn't serious or anything. The elemental's posture proved otherwise as the adults walked into the area together reminiscing. Alexis hadn't known Kyne on friendship terms like they did and it was exciting to see the two have quiet a bit in common. The fire wield exchanged the story of his heroic question to save this family from bandits, while the blonde brought up Christmas Eve's time traveling extravaganza. After Zoltan's demise, his servant managed to escape and claimed to resurrect his master although dark magic has its tolls. The child stayed out of their babbling forcing on wining a stuffed bear that she wouldn't know what to do with.

Strangely, once the bullet cracked, the sky imitated the sound making Ruby cover her ears out of instinct. However, she would go back to aiming her gun at the ducks acting like nothing was wrong. This time, the thunder punctured the terrain near them and the skies blackened covering the warm optimistic sun. Alexis even mentioned the weather out loud to assure the others that something ominous was about to manifest over the fields. The pandemonium around Team Elixer was more than detracting enough to pull her out of her wining strike, and claim her prize bitterly. A seven year old girl began whaling as her mother tried to comfort her which made Ruby irritated. Not at the child's crying but at the fact that this sudden gloom intentional dragged people down. The carnival is suppose to be a place where families and friends erase their worries with their lips flapping freely in the wind. Debris became unsettled by one of the strikes of thunder and inside that light was an unholy abomination. Four jiggling legs that looked like decomposing flesh held its bulbous frame, and on top a ting head was perched.

It's sunken black beady eyes glanced down at it's equipped opponents and the spear shadows behind it shifted into the cultist Alexis fought. The albino narrowed her deep red eyes and combined her guns into a sword. She lifted her hand with the crystal bracelet on it which transformed into the crystalline sword that Kyne gave her. Cold fire ignited from the blade, but had no effect on her skin once so even considering she was the owner of it. Alexis's arcane staff extended into a scythe, Kyne summoned flames to his finger tips, and Laxion's duel tipped spear manufactured itself. The ogre roared showing its gray bloody fangs as it stopped its massive feet into the earth disrupting the peace.

Her black haired counterpart seemed intimated by his side, but her on the other had could care less. Being out numbered was no skin off her noise because she had become confident in herself. Especially with the white jewel secreting its energy into her their was nothing she couldn't accomplish. Ruby's attitude became cocky and she smirked at Laxion's comparison of the well and now. "Yeah right, this should be a slice of cake to that spider wench. We're no longer armatures so lets n** this in the bub! Turn up the heat, Kyne!" She yelled as she took off in front of them and sliced a cultist right in half without an complications. One attacked from her blind spot, but sensing his resistance, the girl stepped to the side being her crystalline sword with her slicing right through him.

In the duration of the training period, Ruby had become an expert swords woman and her aim never missed either. However, the real power she wanted to tap into was the crystal and she did it once by accident when she was meditating. Entei and the monks couldn't control her so Lucas and Laxion had to hold her down while Entei performed a spell that forced her into submission. Could she use that compulsion to defend her group if needed? The cultist catapulted from every angle but the child could sense their aura flying towards her, and would agilely move her blades through their corpses like anatomies. One shriveled up in front of her when she had brought it down and it made her wonder if this army was summoned by necromancy? Did Zoltan's student have the knowledge to reanimate men and assimilate a unit of them at once? Even the most advanced dark magic users couldn't handle the amount of strain this incantations puts on their body. The ogre trumped forward, raised its scimiters, and brought them down over Ruby. If Laxion hadn't interfered with his freely maneuvering spear that dissected its appendages, she would have been a goner for sure. The sheer weight of the weapons would crush her frame into a flat pancake like a cartoon of sorts. It diverted its attention from her and it was Kyne's turn to resonate with his teammates.

Fire hovered over his muscular palm as Alexis beckoned an arcane circle under his feet for him to rise up to the monster's face level. His fist curved into the beast's side ripping through the flesh and tissue, leaving a burning carcass smell behind, but it still stood fumbling to the side. The ablino had to jump out of the way, and stabbed down into a cultist's skull while doing so. The blonde wasn't about to sit back and take a nap either because she spun her staff clockwise twice sending arcane missiles in every direction possibly eliminated several entities. Laxion removed himself while in midair with his wind and even though Kyne was surrounded he vanquished the masked covered men in a second. Suddenly, the creature bellowed its allegiance to Lucifical and with the echo of its chant more cultist fabricated to make a never-ending fleet. Much to her friends astonishment, she assumed the army was Zoltan's magnum opus, but it was clear that they were dealing with Hell's dictator himself.

The elemental wasn't intimidated in the slightest and confused the ogre by glide to its massive foot that was ready to trample him, but launched himself upwards. He marked the face until it could no longer be confirmed as to what it is, and the pryo didn't extinguish the heat because it felt like it was licking her back side. Ruby was called to distract the mongrel so Alexis could unleash her full potential and bring the monster down in one fatal swoop. She bounced off one of the vermin's heads and penetrated the brutes calf which she repeatedly stabbed seeing that it became irradiated. The arcane mistress charged all her energy and warned her that she was going to let lose her technique any second now. Pulling back, the girl landed in the middle of a group of cultist and began hacking away at them like it was no big deal. Alexis hoist herself into the atmosphere and allowed gravity to careen her down into the ogre's cranium and body resulting in a hollowed hole. It flopped back falling on top of its brothers and shaking the earth all round knocking a lot of enemies off balance. Laxion and Kyne were fazed because they combined their attacks to create a flaming tornado that wiped out an entire section.

Ashes floated along the battle field but the war was far from over judging by the size of another monster coming their way. Mutilated one of the rides, Ruby became pissed because it was one that she wanted to go on and now she wouldn't have a chance to. Their endurance was spent quiet yet so they could repeat their efforts, but Heaven decided to have mercy on their mortal and immortal bodies. That thin needle of light encroached on this new foe's head, and when the white mist evaporated Lucas has stuck his sword in its head with finesse. With a clean cut, he decapitated the brute and its body fell to the ground like the other one disturbing the surface once again. Purevelion cautioned that this wasn't the time or place for a reunion but the good new was that the cultist had no more giant assets on their side. Laxion foresaw the portal to the south and addressed it specifically to her knowing that she could get to it.

Ruby dashed forward jumping up, throwing the crystalline blade into the air, and parting the guns showering bullets down on the cultist. When she was about to land she catch her the sword and brought it down on an unfortunate masked man near her. She looped through the groups of them slickly and passed Lucas looking him in the eyes before she dove into the new fleet. Her guns were pressed back together revealing the crystal myrithal blade and hacked through them as if they were paper. Her adrenaline pumped and the jewel embedded in her chest glowed encasing her body in light. Every time her blade swung, a sonic wave of light shot out incinerating all in its path. In no time at all, the portal was just a few inches in front of her and without hesitation she thrust her sword inside ready to pull out whatever was on the other side. "Come out, come out!" Ruby shouted insanely and laughed mockingly beginning to lose control.

Ruby was so focused on the portal that she didn't realize her blade being absorbed along with her. However, Lucas associated herself with her insanity as well with the portal's usual capacity. The instructor yelled her name and jumping into the air cocooning himself in his divine light, he rained down like a meter and hit the ground. A crevice was left where he ported and he grabbed her arm tugging her out of the portal. He tossed her aside safely, and once she was out the gate lifted into the air and exploded keeping it's existence secret. Lucas and her were flung back but he ignored the ordeal and went over to her immediately. The female was expected a lecture, but his lack of speech frightened her. The others asked if they were okay but not having a single scratch on her could indicate otherwise.

The jewel barely activated but the power so intense that she got carried away and but everyone's life at risk. Furthermore, she didn't want to believe she was a burden so like a stubborn kid she stated, "Lucas...don't get in my way again." This could be taken in different context but she hoped he took it as a warning. Apparently, even though the jewel was under control, she felt that the monks were right about her being dangerous. Without a word, she ran towards the damaged carnival grounds scanning them for hurt civilians.

The search was more like a quick sweep of the area luckily all the refugees made it to a safe place and all the demons were annihilated. Purevelion spared no expensive to get the group together in order to tell them the really tragedy at hand. Apparently, they would be on guard as all times considering where the demons came from. The corruption of a human's heart only varies depending on how tainted they have become but Hell's own personal army was nothing to sneeze at. They would keep coming and if a line of defense feel it would be replaced by another. Laxion's inhaling deeply meant that he was either scared or on the verge of screaming due to the irritation this situation is causing. Even though, Hellgate was destroyed over the course of so many years ago, the rulers of the underground found a way to slip through. That spider woman couldn't have been a possible candidate for the Lord's of Darkness return because like Lucas said she maintained half of her original force.

Ruby crossed her arms and spoke after being silent for a while. She didn't dare tell them how hot the temperature was expelling from the portal although the burn marks from her weapon heating up was visible on her hands. She hid her palms, but if she wanted to she could have plunged straight into Hell and tried to finish Lucifial or Valial herself. They would have the advantage of their own territory and she needed her friends by herself. As much as she tried to act tough and idependent she wouldn't be here if it weren't for them. "So where do you think we should start?"

Lucas lifted his head letting the almost extinguish fires detail his determined face. He suggested that they head to the pristine library in Skyfall where all records of past events are kept. Although, the instructor didn't inform them that the scrolls were in a sorry state so would the words even be eligible to read? Their task was to research as many demons as they could to pinpoint which leader is behind the recent attacks on humanity. Ruby automatically looked down and around the area as if she wasn't paying attention to what Lucas had to say. If only she knew where Horad disappeared to because it was likely that he had manuscripts on him that no one else possessed. What if the Hell leaders already got to him and tortured the old man for all he's worth? Last time she was out his house, an unexpected visitor was invited in and in the end Horad was forced to leave. She understood that he had to protect herself knowing very well she could defend herself, but there was no goodbye. At the library, hopefully there would be a book on portals so she could transport to the wreckage of his house on the cliff. Ruby may be able to salvage a couple of artifacts knowing that there is something to them that the old man kept secret.

Elites and Guardians from academies and universities from major fractions would be joining in the war. She wasn't rejected their help, on the contrary, she enforced it but how skilled were all these children? Hopefully, they wouldn't interfere with her obscene fighting because if she got out of control and they were in the way then they would be obliterated. In her mind, she noted that she need to research self-discipline at the library so no causalities by her own hand occur.

The tone changed and Lucas advised that if the journey was to dangerous he wouldn't have a problem with them turning back. Alexis had her reunited family and Laxion has family and any sort of future he due to his extensive employment background. All she had left was Horad, Claudia and Nyru, and the team. The only homes she knew were the streets and the summit which she could train with monks and the arcane wizard forever. However, the albino wasn't inclined to the luxurious life anyway so why would their master even bring this question up. "Are you kidding?" She smirked and wrapped her arms around Laxion and Alexis's arms. She was to short to reach their necks so this pose would have to do for now. "You heard them. We wouldn't leave the team for all of Magic Earth!"