Hello!

I guess I can start copying and paste?

Just think, this is the last RP of 2020...

Dreamcatcher blink a few times// high royal got 2 or 3 families?... what kind did Blue call me again? Didn't he say I'm a high royal?... there was that lion in the dream so do I have more? How do they even work? I can summon but I never summoned a kindred, not even as a fawn...this Vaseterm stuff very weird//

A Goofy look came to the Dreamer prince face when Ai made her discovery // that a lot of energy... she really excited about this// he had enough pics of the puzzle to understand Ai a bit more// so she not like her brother in that way //

The Dreamer prince had a little sister, he seen that look before and though he knew Ai really wanted to come Catch was also a big brother " Ai I know you want to help but if were having to go to a dark world, you can't come with us, it to dangerous " he then adds given a soft smile " but there are many different ways you can help, im sure you're brother will love nothing more then to see you safe and sound here, you could maybe make him something? "

Ai worked her jaw at what Catch said, dropping her gaze for a few moments as she thought about his words and Judas, "I won't go to dark world, I don't like dark world, they hurt and are scary... And Judas would be upset if I went there again"

"But if Judas come here, to this world or a not dark world, I'm helping" Ai said with determination, "You would help your brother too, right? If he was in a bad way"

She then quickly thought about what to make him, and it clicked almost instantly, "Mac and cheese! He love love love mac and cheese! He eat it allll the time and it make him so happy" she rocks her shoulders side to side, "I don't have wings, but his wings shake when he eat mac and cheese. He really like it!"

"Mmmmmm," Eater thoughtfully hums as he listens to Crystal's reply, his eyes turning from Catch, to Eira, to Crystal. "Ah, they're going out looking for Scarlet? That's definitely something that needs to be done, we need to get that sword out of Crim's head," he remarks, then adds, "I don't have any plans for the day either, though I'm making some right now. For starters, I think we all need to get together at some point, maybe fairly quickly, and all of us talk about Judas and try to come up with something, then maybe we could split up--some of us could go after Scarlet, and some of us could go after Hiiro? We need to get Purity's Key back, I could track him down easily."

Ethan nodded, he hoped so to, but his gut told him different // something like Judas, Soledormir not going to keep little things as his guard....if we do this, we will be facing things we likely have never seen before....//
The wolf boy then frown, he couldn't remember Eira brother " is he here? I don't recall seeing o-ther Griffin shapeshifter..." he then tipped his finger together " I guess could help find him? "

FadingGlory

Eira took a moment to remember that Rahab hadn't exactly been introduced with the rest of the group. "Oh, right... He teleported in from the Land of Dreams the other day. I think someone found him a place to sleep last night, but he's just been... somewhere, since then. We should definitely find him sooner rather than later..."
The shiftress got up, ready to head out to look for Rahab with Ethan, but she paused and glanced at Catch, wondering whether she should bring him along too. She hesitated though, seeing how he was interacting with Ai and helping the girl smile. Instead, she smiled and touched her husband's arm, saying, "Hey Catch? I'm gonna go find my brother. I'll be back as soon as possible."

(My babyyyyyyyyyyyy She so pretty, thank you for drawing Eira QwQ
Helloooooo)

( your welcome! Fade But it Rahab x'D )

“I agree.. “ Crystal said, “Which is also why I agreed to help them hopefully lure her in, they had been looking for her before, but sadly weren’t having any luck.”

The girl once more looked at Eater when he answered to the questions, listening to his response carefully, “We do need to gather and talk, even though that kind of thing usually ends in chaos.. I don’t know how we’d go about any of this, but splitting up like you mentioned might be helpful in these cases..” Crystal thought for a second then asked, “How did Hiiro get Purity’s Key anyway? I mean, we /do/ need it back, but after today.." she simply left it at that, thinking back to what had been said to all of them earlier.

( how are you doing? :)
Did you have a good Christmas? )

Blue didn't respond much after his outburst, once he was on Victoria's back, he was unresponsive, limply laying on the Queen's back as she galloped down the halls.

Victoria race through the palace, it wasn't long before she came busting though the doorway of the Infirmary, she didn't stop on the first floor, she headed right for the elevator.

The lady at the desk, made a call telling the nurse in the to floor that Blue was on his way again, this was normal

It felt like forever for Qui but it really wasn't that long of a wait before the door opened up to the sky room, the top floor the the Infirmary, it had a glass dome roof, during the day it had to cover over it that simulated artificial moonlight but at night the cover would be off and let the natural Moonlight filter through.

Already several nurses had were already prepared Blue normal spot, which the queen headed over to and let the staff take Blue off and care for him

Osiris look to Fiona when she asked her question but didn't reply right away, he could kill two birds with one stone.

The Phoenix shapeshifter step closer to Terra and the map he had out, he lean down and pointed at an area acrost the city from were they were at " from the reports it is in this District, Tomahawk: north part of the city... very interesting location indeed, as you can tell, it is an older part of the city, there many areas that are left abandoned, however some large corporations have bought out some of these abandoned and remodeling them, turning them into modern and respectable areas "

He then went on now to respond to what Fiona had asked " that i am not sure of... the Nightmare king has been an enemy of the Kings, im sure by now he would have at least a suspicions on where the silver spear Palace would be located and yet he cast this particular spell so far away... though I have my own suspicions that this was still planned... from what I have hear of Malice's of late has been odd indeed and this is not what I know of the king of Nightmares "

Terradream closely studies the area that Osiris pointed out, as well as the areas surrounding it, and more. //So that's over there... He said if it were near the heart of the city, it would've destroyed the barrier around the palace, therefore we must be around... here.//

//Oh he's really coming up with the battle plan,// Sparky thinks, watching his partner with slight amusement.

Terra doesn't say anything out loud to Osiris' comments on Malice, and even in thought he only thinks //Yeah...//, as his mind is formulating a plan. "... F-Fiona, do you know where it is th-that you were planning on going with A-Alex?" he quietly asks, not looking up at her from the map.

After finishing her current notes, Fiona looked over to Terra now, noticing just how much concentration he must've been putting into his silent thoughts. //He's super focused with /the plan/... I gotta give it my all here for everyone, too!

...Sparky's right, /he totally is a bossman.///
And then he asked her a question, which caught her a little off guard, "Whuh--Oh, uh...
No... Not really... She just said they were in the woods passed the city..."
The Elemental leaned in a little more, glancing between her own map and the one Terra had. "...But it looks like there's a forest on this map... Maybe she was talking about this spot here?" She pointed to a bit of deep green on the outer edge of the scroll map--what seemed to represent the beginning of a forest.

(Poor Rahab X"DD

Hello you two! :D How're you doing? Though maybe Fade's about to answer that, since you already asked, Shadow 'XD )

( I think that all of them ^-^ )

(Ah! Sorry X'D The species all look too similar, and that's my fault X'D Thanks for drawing my boy! x3)

(I'm gonna get some breakfast real quick, and maybe vacuum my bedroom too)

( haha, now this makes me wonder if those two get mistaken all the time? I wonder how they act to that?

I'm doing pretty good, as you seen I actually got myself to do some tablet art. Still need to keep working on it, but other then that I'm really excited about Skey xD
How are you doing? :3 )

(I'm doing okay x) Christmas was relaly nice, spending time with family and giving gifts to each other.
It's weird how the year is almost over, though...)

( that good to hear Fade! :D it sounds like you had a good time x3

It is, isn't it? For the longest time it felt like the year was going nowhere but boom, here we are xD
I'm looking forward to this new year x3 )

(I did x) How was your Christmas?

This year was full of surprises x'D I hope the next year will have good things to look forward to~)

(Ah, I missed your moments Lilly! Hello! I am doing alright, yes x) And how about you? Other than eating and cleaning xD)

A puzzle look come over the Dreamer prince face// she couldn't know that Weaver my brother? Then again the Vaseterm just seem to know things...// it was hard for Catch to grasp just what was going on with Ai, he was just starting to understand his own abilities let alone a species he knew very little about but he did know kids and I could just been saying that because she had a brother, ether way Dreamcatcher could synthesize with the Girl, " yes I would do anything within my abilities or if I could not help I fine someone who can and just do the best that I am able to" and as he spoke it reminded him of something important, that just doing the best that you can make the biggest impact

The Dreamer prince pat Ai on the top of her head and smiled " that sounds like that be something great for him when he get free, you make him the best mac and cheese "

Catch look up from the girl and to his wife " sounds good " // Rahab, he been with the Shadows hunters a lot longer and he was in the Detective side wasn't he? //

( my Christmas was odd, it wasn't bad but it wasn't much different then any other day, we did have a lot of good food x3 )

(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah)

(Good food is good, at least! Yeah, I've heard that from most other people... It was hard to get in the Christmas spirit because of everything else happening. But I guess every day is a reminder of the blessings we have x)

Hi Fluffyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!)

(Ok, I sent Void some dust, dirt, and cat litter, and I ate breakfast/lunch! I'm here now! :3

It's good to hear you had a good Christmas, Fade, and you're doing alright now~ X3

Glad to see you're doing good too, Shadow! :3 )

(Hallo, Fade, Shadow, Lilly, and whoever else may be watching from the /darkness!/

Glad to hear you guys are doing alright, and that you had a good Christmas, Fade and Shadow! I hope the New Year'll be good for everyone, too!
...It definitely does feel weird, though... It's been a weird year. 'XD

Yes. Send Void all the cat litter, Lilly. ( òvó)b

(Also

RAHAB!! IT'S DAT BOI!!)

Ethan was going to stay quiet but then realized he should probably go with Eira so she wouldn't get lost or at least offer to come along " I can come with you if you like?"

( Hi Fluffy!! )

( ok. I'm home now xp
Sorry about getting pulled away, I had to run to the store really quickly)

(It's alright! Welcome home!)

Osiris stay quiet for now, letting the two discuss their plans

Black birds pare down at the big Xanos as he rested, slowly they had been gathering and just watching him from the branches they were all perched on....

"Hmm..." Dreameater hums again, but he narrows his eyes when Crystal asks her last question. "I don't know how he ended up with it, but obviously he stole it from her..." he growls quietly. The idea of Purity being around Hiiro enough for him to even be able to steal her Key doesn't sit well with him...

Eater then sighs, sets his almost empty mug of hot chocolate on the table, and stands up, quickly trying to get back and track. He briefly glances at Eira, who's going to fetch her brother, and doesn't bother interrupting her since he figure she'll be back soon enough, and takes a couple steps toward Dreamcatcher. "Hey! Catch, I've got some plans I want to run by you, also have some questions for you, too."

( I got a peppermint hot chocolate from Dutch Brothers and it so goood!)

(... I hit the big 700 on colors, I feel I should do something but at the same time I feel lazy )

(Oooooh nice Shadow! That sounds really good!!

That's awesome too!! Maybe you could do something eventually? 'XD )

(Ooooh, awesome! Congrats on both of those things! X'D

Yeah! You don't have to do something right away. :>)

( it is very good!

I have to see, I been working on a big project right now for my color friends so I been focusing on that right now x'D coming new years is going to start off fun~ )

At first, Hiiro hadn't noticed the birds gathering around him, he'd been lost in his own mind. But eventually, when he opened his good eye, he noticed them all amongst the trees. He rolled onto his belly, pinning his ears back as he looked around and he started to growl.

(I have food now!!

Ooh, hot chocolate is yummy, and oooh~ project plans e-e

Glad to hear everyone's surviving!)

Terradream's not surprised that Fiona doesn't know where exactly the forest is, but he gives a slight nod of his head when she points out where she thinks it might be. "Alright... So I'm thinking, we go out to the city this way," he says, trying to curl his ribbon around to both be holding it with both of his ribbons, but also have just enough of the end of one to point on the scroll and trace a path across it, "If the attack was u-up--up here, we can try to investigate the heart of the attack, maybe find Malice... Then if this area is the forest A-... Alex was talking about, we can split up, you, Alex, and whoever else you decide to take can go up there wh-while I do my own thing..." He gets a bit quieter there at the end, but quickly tries to move on. "... Then we can meet up... here (he points to the spot on the map). From there we'd just have to g-get back to the palace... O-or we could just come back here and meet up when we're done..." Terra looks up from the scroll once he's done, and looks intently at Fiona. "H-how does that sound...?"

(Hi Blood! How're you doing?)

(Also, food is good. -v-

And ooooh, New Year's plans!!)

(Hey Blood! :3

Fooooooooooooooooood~!)

Some birds tipped there heads as others flap there wings but nothing about them seem to show anything signs of them being intimidated by Hirro

They just keep watching him

A cold mist drifted across the orchard floor and with it strange Whispers... "...Looook at him... rage fills his heart..." the voice was unnatural raspy tone, like someone who was old or was struggling to breathe

" perhaps.." a smooth woman's voice replied " but from what I have seen he is weak... "

Once she got Catch's acknowledgement, Eira gave him a peck on the cheek and started toward the kitchen exit. She looked back at Ethan with a confusing blink when he spoke. "That was the plan, wasn't it?" That part of the plan hadn't actually been discussed, but Eira had naturally assumed Ethan was coming with her, so she had already begun to roll with it. She gave him a nod and kept striding to the exit.

The spines along Hiiro's back rose with the woman's words, weak? He wasn't weak, though as he thought that, he felt hesitation in his heart and mind.

"Come out here and I'll show you who's weak!" Hiiro snaps, lowering his head to peer in between the trees. His snout was wrinkled in a snarl and his eyes blazed with rage.

(I gotta go now! Be back later everyone! :3 )

" heeee has potentially... yes?... his pain eats at his soul... " the odd voice speaks up again.

The woman laughter replied at Hirro bold statement " oh please, only children and the truly feeble bost of their strength "

" a true king does not need to tell their subordinates of his powers... they will know it "As if coming from the opposite side of were her voices was speaking, a pleasant scent came forth and soon along with it was a beautiful woman, however she was not human... her skin was a grayish blue, she had long ears that hang behind her and could have been mistaken as a veil, she has black long curled hair, her eyes were a blood red and her lips were the shade of red roses. Her dress was a form-fitting black dress with interkit red trimming, the gown and long sleeves and netting that went from the chest up to up choker on her neck, on the choker dangled a little red charm, it shape would have been seen off and on though the group travels, the symbol of Soledormirs...

Though Hirro would not have known what stood before him was a vampiric Nethersglade

" but all I see is a wounded dog " the Duchess step out from the Shadows so all of herself was showing

(OK LILLY!)

(Bye Lilly!)

(Shadow, I thought I saw KILLY in your last comment and I got scared... Killy does not need to exist here, nope nope, go away come again another day)

Ethan look back and forth between Catch and Ai before heading out with Eira

The midnight Walker, did his thing to go back into his disguise, he felt more comfortable looking like a normal wolf shapeshifter, but other then that he didn't say more

Fiona listened closely to Terra's battle plan, watching him draw invisible pathways across the map with his ribbon. She took notes of this on her own map as well.
A visible hint of discomfort edged into her face when he quietly mentioned 'doing his own thing.' But she tried to suck it up and remind herself to have confidence in him...
...Though the extremely secretive way he was still acting about it just made her wonder more.

Nevertheless, at the end of it all, she looked at the ghostly Dreamer and repeated, "We look into that attack and Malice as a group first, then split up, tackle different things, and meet up later!" The Elemental gave a hearty nod, "Sounds like a great plan to me! I'll fill Alex in on everything when I find her!

...And we can make sure that's the right forest."

Hiiro twisted around to try and follow the sounds of the voices, he shook his head with frustration, but the sweet scent that he picked up was unusual, he inhaled deeply. It wasn't a smell he recognized, //Definitely not the fruit// he looked at the orchards around him and then to the odd woman.

His tail twitched with irritation at her words, "What do you want?" he growls, "Come to mock or attack me? Get in line, it's quite long"

(See you Lilly!

Agreed, Fade. X'D)

(But uh, aside from that, another big bad just showed up and that's not very good at all

_I thought they said this city was safe_)

( sometimes it the place people think are the safest are the least... )

(_They lied to us all_

Now the question is, did the keyhunters open a way for bad characters to slip in, or did they know about the place all along?...)

(HmmmmmmmMMMM. It's all...

///SUSPICIOUS///)

(*insert sneaky Judas emoji*)

( hehee now that is the true question Fade ewe
What do you guys think? )

Eira started down the hallway, looking back to make sure Ethan was with her. "So, remind me where the library is. He's bound to be there, but I haven't mastered these halls yet, and we'd save time if we didn't make a wrong turn," she said to the wolf shifter.

(Hmm, it's hard to say... But I'm always gonna be suspicious of a self-proclaimed evil-free utopia... e-e)

(Hmmmm...

...I /might/ go with the good ol' hardshell-softshell taco commercial girl.

"Why not both?")

Crystal simply gave a nod, not sure what to say on the matter. She didn’t want to assume it was outright stolen, there really was no evidence to point in that direction other than the fact Hiiro has the key in the first place, but she also didn’t have any evidence to say it wasn’t stolen either..

When the Nightmare stood and addressed Dreamcatcher, Crystal looked over at the dreamer for a moment and wondered how he was doing after the last couple days, but soon she just turned her eyes back to her hands for now and took another sip of her drink.

(XD)

The Duchess ignored Hirro and continued to talk with the odd voice " Seeker, you said he is the one... but I know what the master desires...his body may be strong and his heart is full of rage but it takes more then that to satisfy my master..." she placed a hand on her hip " all I see is weakness... so much that even the wicked have shunned him..."

The old voice replies " ... the cry of mothers Mourning their children is the echo of his path... " after the scream of the Dreamer fawns Hiiro ate ring eerily through the Mist, followed by their mother's sodding

" blah " she waves a hand to the shadows " do you not remember he seek Council from the wicked prince? He listened and mounted over his food, he / is/ weakness" she then began to walk, slowly making her way around Hirro, he eyes bore into him, looking over every detail of his features but there seem to be more then that... she knew Hirro

Ethan knew exactly were the library was " t-his way, your highness " he waved a hand to follow and briskly walked down the hallway towards that destination

Hiiro flicked his tail as he listened to the two banter back and forth, his blood chilled as he heared the cries of Dreamer fawns and their mourning Mothers. He shuffled around to hide the fact that he shuddered.

But he was getting fed up with this woman, he quickly lashed out his whip like tail, right at her.

Eira followed Ethan. It wasn't long before they saw Rahab cross the hallway up ahead, engrossed in the book in his hands. He vanished around the corner, but a moment later he reappeared, walking backwards to squint at the two down the hallway. "Ah-ha. I wondered what happened to you." The griffin shifter closed his book and walked towards them, and Eira hurried forwards too. "Ray-Ray, we were looking for you. There's a bit of a situation, and we need your help," she said as she reached him.
Rahab, not responding yet, put his hands on his hips and looked over Ethan, scrutinizing him with narrowed eyes. "You aren't her red-head. Are you pestering my sister or something?" he challenged, though there wasn't any aggression behind it. If Ethan was perceptive enough, he would've caught that Rahab was just messing around with him.

The woman put out her hand, beside from that her body language did not change, Hiiro tail slammed up against a magic force field, it spark with black and red energy sending right back at Hirro double the force he had tried to hit her with

The Duchess turned her head towards her attacker, her eyes were like daggers as she shouted " IS THAT ALL THAT YOU HAVE?! WEAKNESS!!"

the birds were silently watching, some hop with quiet excitement as overs scooted closer to the action, some were just sitting almost as if they were unamused

Hiiro felt immense pain shoot through his tail, his mind blank for a moment from the shock of it, it didn't last for more than a moment before he pulled himself up to his full height on all fours.

His body trembled with rage and with some pain too, his body almost begging him not to start another fight, but she'd taunted him and he wasn't going to bow to a woman.

He parted his jaws and blasted her with fire, a blood red flame, that might have been mixed with his own blood. It wasn't intentional, he just hadn't properly been healed in a long time. But the flame was still hot as hell.

(I'm back! Interesting things are happening... eue)

(Welcome back!)

(Welcome back!)

(back Welcome!)

(Haha, thank you all! XD )

Ai smiled when Catch patted her head, "I will" she had watched as Ethan left with Eira. Now, she just stood there, unsure what to do next. She knew Echo was still flying around the city

Ethan had stop just a little behind Eira, he had quietly look at the stranger but had just as fast turned his eyes down, he was just content and helping the princess find her brother and him just faded into the background but that wasn't happening...

// w-hat?! I-I didn't mean to be a bother! // the wolf boy look up again but only look to Rahab for a moment before looking down and quickly shaking his head 'no'

Dreamcatcher place his hand on Ai shoulder " good, now I need to go talk to my friend for a moment " he tells the girl and then gets up.

Now that Ai seem to have calmed down the Prince walked over to were the Nightmare was at " hey, you wanted to talk?" He gave a friendly smile

Osiris was still waiting, he need some more details but was curious on what the 3 would do or say

~~(Song: Hidden Skill Training ~ The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)~~

"Yeah! So I was listening to you and Eira, and I was chatting a bit with Crystal," Dreameater starts, pointing finger guns at Catch as he speaks, "I'm thinking maybe when Eira and Ethan come back with Rahab, we can all try to go over Judas more and figure out what to do about him, I know some things about Judas now that you need to know too. But! I was also trying to plan for after that, and that's where I was talking to Crystal."
He takes one step back and gestures to the human in question with his hand, and continues, "She says that before we all got in here, she was talking with Jason and Ethan I think about finding Scarlet, that's Crimson's evil sword. Scarlet is some kind of cursed thing that was made from one of Soledormir's daughters, she can shapeshift into blood and she talks to Crimson in his head and tries to influence him, so we need to find her and destroy her. It won't get rid of all his corruption, but it'll help him a lot, I'm sure."
He then turns back to Catch. "Then, we need to get Purity's Key back from Hiiro, too, after what happened earlier, there's no telling what he'd do with it... This is where I was thinking, maybe we could sit down, make some plans about Judas, then split up--maybe we could have one group going after Scarlet, while the other goes after Hiiro?"

Terradream nods his head again, though now he's starting to wonder if there's any holes or flaws in his plan that he might've overlooked at first. "... I guess I--... I can go find everyone else and let them know the city's under attack," he finally says after another thoughtful moment, then rolls up the scroll and turns to jot a few more things down in his notebook before looking to Osiris. "Is... Is there anything else we need to know...?"

The woman voice could be heard coming from the flames, however it was different, in some kind of Echoy chant...

The Duchess was walking forward though the fire, the flames Bend and twist around her " its a no wonder why Mina was murdered, your PATHETIC! You could not stand against the red prince so what desire do you have in STOPPING ME?"

"... hate run though his veins...pride... jealousness...lust for blood.... he has these things yes?..." the old voice speaks up " destruction follows him as if its the stench of the Dead..."

the Duchess rises one hand out, a small creature was clutched in her hands, it glow with a fant purple light, it almost could be made out to be a Fairfin... her hands had something that looked like a black and red claw gloves, they looked sleek and elegant Beautiful by Design but also Wicked and dangerous " YOUR WEAKNESS IS WHY YOUR HEAR HIIRO! ITS WHY YOUR ABOUT TO DIE!"

She crush the creature in her hand, with no signs of remorse, her eyes turned black as she chanted a dark spell, her magic swirled around her, it over took the Xanos fire, the Duchess rises her hands as she was calling upon the dark art of Soledormirs...

She thrust her hands forward, red magic shot out, the simplest way to describe it would be electricity type energy.

If her magic hits, it be more then a zap, she using blood magic and a curse at that...

(Also! I never asked--How're you doing, Galaxy? :3 )

As Terra wrote a few notes down, Fiona beamed, "Yeah! Then we can all meet up before we put this plan into /action!/" She brought her fist into her other hand, feeling a little wave of excitement at the thought of even having a battle plan to put into action in the first place.

The Elemental shifted her attention to Osiris as the ghostly Dreamer asked his question... She was wondering the same thing, as well as another question that popped into her mind...
But she waited to see what the Phoenix would say, first.

(Hgjfhkdshgk, that's right--

Hi Galaxy! I second Lilly. 'XD)

Naturally, the girl was listening in on what Eater was explaining to Catch, but when her name was said for a second time and she glimpsed Eater’s gesture at her, Crystal tilted her head to look over at both him and Dreamcatcher. She was nervously brushing her thumbs over her cup as the Nightmare went on. Thinking about the situation with Scarlet, she hoped Eater was right, that by finding and dealing with her it would finally be something to help Crimson, even if only a little.

Crystals eyes went back and forth between the two in front of her, wondering if they could really manage to sit and plan something like a normal team would.

(Haha, it's fine. :P Hi everyone!

im going alright, have had a headache most the day, but I'm starting to feel better now. :) Hopefully yall are still doing okay too?)

(Aww, that smells, I'm glad it's starting to feel better :/ Having a headache all day is awful ;-;

Yeah! I'm doing pretty good, don't have anything to complain about, other than there's still green grass outside and no snow X"D )

(Ahhh, headaches are awful. :s
I'm glad you're starting to feel better some now, too! I hope it goes away completely!

I'm doing pretty good, too! It's been a nice, chilled out day, I think. -v-)

( Hi! GALAXY! ':D I get going and get caught up in replying
That really smells about your headache :(
I hope it go all the way gone!
I'm doing good, I been sitting in my room most the day x'D )

Osiris was hoping they would ask or pick up on something very important " indeed there is Sir Terra " he gestured a hand towards the tablet that Sparky pick back up " you do realize those monsters did not reveal themselves on their own?...have you stop to wonder what this spell might mean to others creatures? particularly ones with magic? " he pause to let that sinkin " .. I have no doubts that this spell is still active, forcing these monsters into their true forms...and yet humans seem to be unharmed, humans who have no magic "

Terra goes quiet after the butler brings up his point, and he glances down at his Fairfin, coming to a rather grim conclusion from what was said...

Sparky likewise thinks the same thing, and says it out loud. "Uh... We're kind of made of magic... I think..." the tiny ghost remarks, looking up at his partner.

Again, Terra gives only the slightest nod of his head in return, and also briefly looks over at Fiona--while he doesn't remember everything about Elementals, he knows they sure are magic-based people...
While he's a little concerned by this, he's not near as worried as he normally would be, as Terra does figure, that, in Osiris even pointing this out, he must have something to offer that could help, either advice, or...

Eira quickly stepped in between Ethan and her brother, blocking Rahab with a hand. "Calm down - he's just a friend, and a helper of the key hunters. Look, we've got more important things to deal with, and you're a Shadow Hunter so you might have more luck figuring this out."

Rahab considered, then crossed his arms, going into business mode. "I'm listening."

Eira glanced back at Ethan with a small smile, silently letting him know that it would be okay. She then focused on her brother. "So. There's a very important, powerful Vaseterm, a friend of ours, who has been captured by Soledormir's men and is being forced to slowly turn into a war monster. His sister wants us to go and rescue him, but we don't have a clue where to look. You've studied a lot about the shadows. You might have an idea of where to go, or at least how to follow their traces. Can you help us?" she asked, trying to make everything short and to-the-point.

Rahab thought about her spiel, working his jaw as he did. "So you want me to help you track down some of Soledormir's scariest henchmen and then let you all dance into there, probably to your bloody death?" He met her gaze with an almost stern, but protective, look. "I'm not losing you again, Eira."

The shiftrezs blinked up at her brother, surprised and touched by the last thing he said. Eira dropped her gaze and hugged herself with her arms. "I-I know, it sounds reckless... But... it's our mission to stop this evil from taking over. I've been growing stronger with every fight, and I don't want to run away from everything anymore. Oh, we'll also get backup from the Vaseterms here, if that helps at all. Right?" She looked back at Ethan.

(I think Blood might've died or something?)

( im not sure ':(
She hasn't replied in a while. Not even on Discord but she did say she was having problems on her laptop)

Hiiro went to spread his wings to get up and avoid the magic, but they complained when he started opening them. And he was never all that quick at getting airborne anyways.

So he braced himself, digging all of his claws into the ground and hunching his shoulders.

When Osiris gestured to the tablet, Fiona looked down at the image on the screen, then back up at him... Upon his reveal of information, the Elemental's eyes went wide, and she repeated looking to the tablet and back--but faster this time. "...OH."
And with Sparky's comments, she glanced just as quickly to the two ghosts, her slightly concerned, but definitely big-eyed gaze meeting Terra's.

She whipped her head to Osiris for a third time, "If we go there... There's gotta be something we can do about that, right...? I mean, like Sparky said, they're made of magic... A lot of the other Keyhunters have magic... I'm pretty much made of magic too... Kind of..." The Elemental mumbled.
"...At least the humans aren't being hurt by it..."

Dreamcatcher stood there quietly for a moment as the Nightmare was load of information on him, one he was trying very hard on figuring out what could be Eater and what was Weaver or maybe it was both?
He made a puzzled look when Eater brings up he knew more about Judas // what does that mean?// but for now doesn't say anything as the Nightmare keeps firing away with this words.

The Dreamer prince wave his good hand to Crystal and give a warm smile when Eater gesture to her, but his jaw dropped with the plot bomb he said next " wait what?!"

Catch put out his hand to try and stop Eater from saying anymore, he needed to wrap his mind around what was just told to him, " what do you mean that Crimson has a evil cursed sword? When did he get that?! " his sock was just as clear on his face as it was in his voice

The Dreamer prince had a LOT to think about, he rubbed his forehead, there was Hiiro and Purity key to " I think sitting down and figuring this out is a good idea..." he didn't say more and went over to the closet chair and took a sit// what in the moons? //

// the queen did say Lady Eira went missing a few years ago... that must be what he talking about...//Ethan keep glace up at the siblings, he didn't have any himself, not by blood but he had friends who were the closest he had to siblings // Qui get upset with me and Jason in doing Reckless things...but Jason the one who goes out of his way for trouble...//

He set his thoughts aside when Eira brought him up, the wolf boy stood up straight " Y-es!" He squeaked, " t-he silver s-pear and burning s-un have been work-ing together in trying to stop S-oledormir... rescuing Judas has b-been one of our major focus e-very since Blue uncover the truth about him. "

Ethan took a swallow before adding on " I-I trust Eira " his ears pind back as his nerves were getting the best of him and he was shying away, looking down " s-she is one of the key hunters..."

The dark magic stuck it target full on, the dark energy would tear at Hiiro hide leaving Burn marks just like lightning, but that was only the beginning... the marks left behind would glow red with chaos energy, feeding off of Hiiro life force and with that, something began to happen.
The Chaos energy was taking forms of skeleton like snakes, they began to bite and eat Hiiro

"... he hungers... he hungers for revenge.... he hungers for blood..... more...more... never enough...a hunger that will never be satisfied..." the old voice said

The Duchess took her hand and looked at the blood covering it, she then started to lick her fingers... she tipped her head slightly up curious in what Hiiro would do

Hiiro held back a roar, his eyes bulged wide with the pain of taking that dark energy on full force. He twisted around now, trying not to writhe in pain, as he bit down and ripped off the chaos snakes.

As he was peeling them off, he was moving closer to the Duchess, his eyes glazed over as his mind tried to block out the pain. Blood ran down all four of his legs, as he continued to thrash and tear at the snakes biting him.

He opened his vents wide as he rolled, flames jetted out as Hiiro incased himself in fire.

"Uh-huh," Rahab said slowly as Ethan responded, counting a lot of new names and even more stuttered words from Ethan. He frowned at the second comment though, and looked over his sister. His features were stern, but there was the faintest hint of concern hidden in his eyes. However, when the Shadow Hunter blinked, his eyes were unreadable again. Huffing, Rahab turned to the side and crossed his arms. "She's still got a lot of growing to do. She never took the Monster Hunter course, so she's still lacking a lot of the necessary skills needed to fulfill that prophecy thing, let alone take on Soledormir's forces."

Eira flinched in agitation. Her brother always had a way of irritating her,, and he hadn't changed a bit. She moved to square up her brother, intense eyes flashing blue. "You have no clue how much I've grown! I've learned more than any school book would tell me because I've had to fight monsters left and right to survive the past five years. And I /have/ fought Soledormir's forces - more than you ever have. You can't just assume I'm weak because I'm your little sister," she snapped.

Rahab looked her over with a raised brow. To her surprise, he smiled, then chuckled. "I knew you still had it in ya." The Shadow Hunter ruffled her hair with a hand, and Eira growled and pushed his hand away. "You're gross." //He was just testing me, wasn't he?// Though it was annoying, the shiftress kept her back straight, at least proud that she was able to push him back.

Rahab turned to face both Eira and Ethan, placing his hands on his hips. "The plan's still stupid, but I'll at least save you some time with my help, and I'm going to come with you. No exceptions," he asserted. "No one's dying under my watch."

(*Shadow Hunter course, not monster hunter X'D)

(*Blasts Monster Hunter theme*

...I feel that. X'D)

(Rahab thoroughly believes that a Shadow Hunter is not a real hunter until they have beat the Monster Hunter games)

(Weaver would totally agree with Rahab)

(Well now there's an alternate universe where Rahab grows up obsessed with the MH games)

(//Yes//)

(If Fiona knew what video games were, she would totally agree with Rahab and Weaver.)

( I just come back to amazing xD )

(Indeed xD And now it must be drawn)

( yesss! XD I love that! )

Ethan was watch the siblings horrified, he didn't know what to do, the way Rahab was speaking to Eira and then her snapping back, the poor boy didn't know if he should try to say something or not, he was second-guessing if what he said was the right thing or not...

Much to his relief the two settle down, the poor boy didn't realize that he had been holding his breath, which he finally let out slowly... Ethan stayed quiet for the most part, until Rahab mentioned that the plan was stupid, which Ethan replaced without really thinking as he mumbles under his breath " y-ou be surprised just how often stupid work-s around here " the boy had many stories he would have never thought would work but by some miracle they did, hearing Rahab promises help rises his hopes

As quickly as the tension has appeared between the siblings, it disappeared as they refocused on the current matter. Rahab snorted at Ethan's remark. "I'm sure this plan will be plenty surprising. They probably won't see it coming when a bunch of colorful kids with magic keys show up at the door and kindly ask for their friend back," he rambled sarcastically. He paused and furrowed his brows. "Do you guys even have any of those keys? That's your whole shtick, right? To stop big Sol with the Keys?"

The Duchess smirked at Hiiros attempt to resist " you are stubborn, that I will give you"
She watch as Hiiro set himself on fire and began to roll around, she moved forward and yet it seem by some odd force that Hiiro could not get any closer, nor could the fire " that won't save you" she said plainly " nothing will, nothing you can do that is...you been cursed...the very burns on your flesh will continue to eat away at you " she said going over to one of puddles of blood

" ...destruction follows in his wake....without care... without thoughts.... only his will....his devastation..." the old voice whispered.
" you say all this Seeker and yet there still some evil in him... the good burn bright and yet there still a spot of evil in him ... he is not pure "
The Duchess kneel down taking two of her fingers and dipping it in Hiiros blood, her eyes followed the Xanos as she placed her fingers one at a time in her mouth and cleaned them off

"... were they not all lost?... helpless in the light?.... all were weak until he saved them... you taste his suffering... what the light has done to him...made him into a monster...then turned it back... left him for dead...but we are better then them..." the old voice whispered in the darkness