I'll get the reposts!

The Nightmare nods his head, but stays quiet for just a moment longer, still feeling the inner turmoil of two wills trying to fight each other. //I... I don't like this! I don't like this thing that Catch is doing, it feels weird, and it's making me so tired! But... I do kind of like it, it's nice to get a break... N-no! No, that's not...
Eater, don't forget everything that happened with Crimson on the way here, he was threatening to kill you, remember?
Well yeah, but he's not here right now...
You know he's gonna come back at some point, and then what would he do?//

Dreameater grunts quietly, but then he looks in the direction Catch nodded his head. "It looks like Crimson's fighting the monsters over there himself, his life aura doesn't look so good... But he doesn't look quite as bad as Blue did, at least." After saying that, he grimaces slightly. //... It was a stupid idea to let Crim go off on his own like that... No it wasn't! I didn't want to argue with him, he might've tried to do something to me if I did! But he's super corrupted by something evil, I know there's no way I could've convinced you to work with me, but letting him go off on his own like that would be like letting me out into the city without anyone else to watch me... I'm glad at least Glory's with him, but he needs something more, and there's no way we'd get over to him in time...//

He does hear Rihanna's comment and briefly glances at the birds too, but there's more pressing things on his mind right now. "Catch, can you stick some more light magic things into those crystals for Crim to absorb them? He needs something, honestly he needs more backup, but I don't think we could get over there in time if we tried," the Nightmare suggests, looking back to his friend with a serious look on his face.

Dreamcatcher green eyes drifted to the birds watching them, they were just staring ether at them or in the directions of Crimson " yeahhhhh, I don't like them ether " he replied to his Fairfin, it was making him feel anxious knowing that these 'birds' might not all really be birds

The Dreamer prince looked when his brother spoke up, seen the look on his face Catch knew this had to be serious and not only that he felt it to " yeah! I'm on it! " he pass Anna over to the Nightmare so he could use both hands.
" What?! Hay!" Rihanna at first snapped but that was only because she was so focused on the birds, she quickly calm down figure out what was going on.

Catch didn't waste to much time, he first summon other spear and stuck it in the crystals Crimson left, this time however the crystals were far more evasive in absorbing the magic Spears but just like the first one the crystals did spot, though it look like didn't want to " That so freaky..." he Mumble but it was a really good guess that meant it had worked until it stopped, Catch dropped other spear and the same thing happened " I don't know how this really works, but I hope it's doing something for him" he thinks out loud dropping other spear In the crystals.

then a thought crossed his mind// he needs magic, I can summon my light shards and see if thought do any better?// Catch did just that, he closes his eyes and focus, the Dreamer wasn't in his true form were he uses his wings to construct in control them, he rises hid left arm and turned his wrist as his fingers fan out into position, Catch glowed as just off to left above his hand a bright light formed, it soon took shape as a long shard of light ( Catch hasn't used this in like 5 years our time!) He turned his hand and the shard followed his movement levitating in the air, Dreamcatcher glace over at Eater, just by how bright the shard was told that he had it about half its power which was enough to cut a tree in two, he was being careful not to hit his friend with it on accident.

" let see what happens with something like this" the Dreamer prince thinks outloud then carefully move his arm into a down position watching as the shard follows his command, the shard touch the crystals and immediately the crystals began to absorb the light magic, but unlike the Spears where the crystals grew on it, with this, they were pulling the shard into itself, Catch grimaced feeling the pull the crystals had on his shard it felt strong enough that I could pull him in with it...the Dreamer cut his condition and took a few steps back and watch wide eyes as the crystals for consuming his raw magic like that. with how aggressive it was Catch was expecting the crystals just to eat all of it but it did stop to, just enough to say it did thought, with how little was left sticking up

" ...its like I'm feeding some kind of creature" he thinks outloud

Crimson rolled out of the way of the attack, He let out a tried grunt, he was pushing himself but if let himself take a break he get hit again // ughhh! This world freaking sucks! // The dark thought crossed hid mind again, he could tip the scale...no one would have to know he used dark magic...

Crimson mind snapped back to the Forgotten words, " o-ver to the right? " he repeats out loud, his voice was carrying both his physical and mental strain, the red king took mental note on the sword was somewhere to his right, he didn't want to turn to see with his left eye just yet, last time that didn't go well. Crimson knew he had to keep moving but in the middle of a swarm of monsters with little resources, the king and Forgotten were in a rough spot...// it's over to the right... I'll have e-nough to get there...get the sword, take out the puppet master...// he decided to trust her this time, the red king pushed off, crystal formed under his feet as the back of his armor changed, fire erupted from his back as his cape dissolved, Crimson shot forward like a rocket! He spotted Loyalty for only a brief moment as the smaller butterflys in his way became nothing more then bugs on a front of a car... the red king said a frustrated no, no word when his visor got clouded, he didn't have enough magic to complete ignite himself and continued with his next phase of his plan but he wouldn't get that chance anyway...

Something hit Crimson hard enough he black out for a moment but soon the red king since started to blur back, first it was the sounds of hundreds of wings buzzing but his vision was still dark, he could since the mass of monsters around him and Glory but couldn't see them" ... G-lory?..."he moaned trying to get up but couldn't, something was holding Crimson down or he was to weak to push it off right now //... I /hate/ this world...// he thought bitterly, he was tired and now he was grumpy

"I'm... I'm still here...!" Glory quietly mumbles, being squished up against Crimson's cheek in his helmet, and sounding rather shaken from the impact of everything. "Are you ok?"

Eira gasped as the velociraptor released her and she tried to kick it back while it recoiled. Staggering to her feet and keeping her hurting arm close to herself, she held out the other hand towards the shade. //Now's my chance to finish it off...// She figured she'd try something different, inspired by Rahab. The shiftress pointed a single finger at the shade and directed her ice magic through it. Instead of a wild splash of ice spikes like she normally produced, ice shot out in a thin line like a streaming bullet this time and pierced the velociraptor right through its chest, finishing it.
Eira stood there a second, sort of impressed with herself, then shook herself back to reality. She rushed over to the car and peered in at its passengers. They hadn't gone anywhere, especially with the doors having been smashed into place, but they were still alive. "It's gonna be okay, I'm getting you out," she began as she tugged at the door. It was jammed, and the handle was done for. But she kept pulling as hard as she could, slowly getting the door to creak more and more outwards.

Rahab clutched onto the manticore tighter, preparing for it to roll over, but then he gave a scheming glance backwards. Abruptly, he jumped, shifting midair to land in a crouch in his human form. Magic flashed as he summoned his staff in his hands, which he jabbed upwards just as the second manticore charged over. It struck the beast's underbelly, and a ripple of glowing blue magic runes exploded outwards with a boom, taking out the manticore in a blink.

The blind manticore was the only one remaining after Rahab destroyed the other with his magic. Even with being blind, its keen sense of sound told it that the other shades that had come with it had either been killed, or run away themselves. Since Rahab was no longer on top of it, the manticore took the opportunity to run as well, using what senses it had left to attempt to escape.

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The spider saw Fiona's sword flying its way and tried to dodge it much like its ally had earlier, but due to the sheer size of the blade, and the Elemental overshooting it on purpose, it still managed to hit its target.

Fiona then turned to glare at the last spider, still trying to immobilize her... And well, it may have been working some. She struggled to move her one arm that she hadn't cut loose.
But once the shade realized most of its allies were being defeated and backup wasn't going to come any time soon, it started fleeing. "HEY!!" Fiona was about to give chase, but found that even without her great sword, a pretty big creature with eight legs could still outrun her. If she had tried flying, maybe she could've caught it? But... That wasn't her biggest priority.

After scowling about that, she glanced back to Eira and Rahab, who had, or were dealing with the shades threatening them pretty well. The Elemental hurried to pick up Shockwave and free herself from the rest of the webs. //C'mon... Need to make sure everyone's okay...//

Crystal didn’t like how Arthur was starting to sound.. “It’s okay, we’ll take care of it..” she said, worried for the King and feeling the need to reassure /him/ instead of the other way around.

Hearing a zipping sound, the girl looked over in time to see Jason make an entrance too, and seeing yet another familiar face coming to the rescue caused her to smile for a very brief moment. As she watched and listened to Jason and Boreas she quickly realized they seemed to have some sort of a plan already. Crystal observed as the Elemental made his ice cannon, suddenly getting the general idea of what they were going for.

Because of this, Crystal took a couple steps back and thought to herself, ‘please let this work..’

Jason nodded and spun a chamber on his crossbow, it put a coding on his bolt, if he was going to go big he might as well make it bigger! " pull! " he amid his bow judging by the angle of the cannon

"... I-I'm sorry..." the man voice whispered as if he wanted to do more but couldn't, and then time resumed... the monster snap its jaws right when it got fire and launched into the air.

Jason pulled his trigger right as the monster hit the billboard and EXPLODE!!!
the orange hair boy did the first thing that any honorable guy should do in this situation and toss himself in front of the closet girl to Shield her from the debris as it fell, who was Cristina.

Cristina cover herself when the explosion went off and would take her a moment to recover from what just happened.

[ what? Wait! ] Arthur called to the other voice but just like that he was gone and so was the unusual feeling he had, the king didn't have a lot of time to think as an explosion just went off [ Crystal take cover!]

After firing his cannon, Boreas slid over to Crystal to assist in shielding her from whatever kind of blast that would follow as well. He didn't have enough time to make a very stable ice wall, but he summoned up the best he could manage.
The initial retina-searing EXPLOSION made him squint, but the captain still scrutinized the area of impact to ensure they had actually taken care of the beast.

I think that should be everyone excpet Terra, I'll get him once we get going. Shadow and I have some more stuff too to work on and spam in a while, we did some more over the week~

/excpet/

*slithers over to the window to watch for people*

(Ohhh, spooky cover~

and also yes, bring on the spam!)

(Oop, and hello! x>)

Hahaha, hiya Galaxy!! Are you excited?~ XD
How're you doing? :3

( HELLO!! :D
I am home now!! :D)

(Hellooooo, Lilly and Galaxy!

*Takes this post and whacks window with it* /SPOOKY COVER./ It is very suspicious...

The question has already been asked, but I shall second it for both of you--how're you guys doing? :>)

(Yeah, I'm pretty excited xD
And I'm doing good! Although very sunburned, lol.

Hey there, Shadow and Fluffy!

Haha, yes, how are you all doing? X3 )

(I JUST ATE FOOD-AAHHH *falls backwards away from the window*

Aww, you're sunburned, Galaxy? That's no fun, but I'm glad you're doing good aside from that! :3 Hope that sunburn heals up quick! :3

I'm doing much better today than I was last week, in fact when I was getting the reposts from last week, I saw my last comments I made about going to bed early and not feeling good, and I thought, "Man, that feels like that was forever ago it doesn't feel like just last Sunday X'D
I'm excited toooo~ eue )

(Hehehehe! I'm excited tooo! X3
/And spooked. Excited and spooked./

Oof about that sunburn, though. I hope that heals up soon. xs

I'm doing pretty good! Just had a biscuit with some honey. ^v^

And HALLO, SHADOW!)

(Yeah, sunburn isn't fun, but I'm wearing a super soft sweater, so it doesn't feel too bad right now x)

Y'all talking about getting food makes me want some too, haha. I've never tried honey on a biscuit before, but it sounds yummy~

I'm glad to hear you're both doing good! It's great to know you're feeling better this week, Lilly :>)

(Ah that's good to hear ^-^

Hahaha, it doesn't hurt to eat before the RP begins~

Yeah! It's nice to have a Sunday again where nothing goes wrong ^-^

Honey on a biscuit does sound good, I agree~)

(That's good! Soft sweaters are the best. -v-

Food is good!
...I especially like a good biscuit with honey. I think it's a nice sweet, but not too sweet treat. ^-^

Yeee, I'm glad you're both doing good, too!)

(Oooh spooky cover pic.... e-e

Hello! I am home from my trip and able to do stuff now!
How is everyone?)

(Also

*insert gif of Fiona busting through door*)

(Hallo, Fade!! Welcome home!

/Get both the window, AND the door!/

I'm doing pretty good! It's been a nice day today. ^-^
How about you?)

(HI FADE!! GOOD TO SEE YOU! I'M DOING GREAT! I'M EXCITED FOR TODAY! :D

The window is still safe, at least...)

( YHOOOOOO!! It's good to see everyone doing good and excited! XD )

(Let's get this party started, shall we? ;) )

(You guys can go ahead and work on your posts~)

(Post them, too~)

(I FORGOT SOMETHINGGGGGG)

~{Song: Dismiss - Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX}~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au5hOQwLuhE&t=108s

At least Glory seem alright but Crimson growned " no..." in reply to her question he wasn't feeling good at all, unlike the night before he was able to cycle magic so he could keep going, but here he wasn't or more like he wasn't letting himself do it the same way... he promised not to use blood magic and with Glory said earlier he was going to try to stay away from using his dark magic to...though the Temptations claw closer and closer in his mind // ...just do it...we're going to lose....just take whatever you need...// " no! I can't! I promise Crystal! I promise I would do better!"
//...no one has to know....there just monsters anyway.....we done it before....it be fine... I can show them my power...// Crimson try to move his hand to hold his head " AHHHHH!! JUST SHUT UP!!! I KNOW WHAT IM DOING!!!"

"RAHHHHHH!"The red king try to push himself up with what energy he had left, whatever was holding him seem to move! But then it suddenly slammed him back down, whatever it was, was now repeatedly smashing him into the ground " WHAT THE FREAKING HELL?!" The red king roared with anger, his armor was still holding up despite being sickly from Malice's spell, it was dull colored and just like his crystals it to had grayish green spots in places, Crimson body was desperate for Magic but there was nothing, nothing but the lingering curse of Malice...but it could have been worse if not for the sticker Dreamcatcher gave him earlier, he could use magic but that was also a problem, he was spending but not getting it naturally back from his environment, he could use his crystals to absorb magic but his mind only thought of taking it from others, the thought of someone freely giving it didn't even cross his mind, even though he knew it was possible.

" I FREAKING NEED MORE MAGIC OR I KICK YOUR * he yelled a colorful metaphor*!"
Crimson was getting tick off more and more with each hit, he never liked feeling helpless and then suddenly all the red king wanted was to go home, home before all this, he was so tired and felt sick. Crimson closed his eyes and laid there getting shoved into the ground more and more, his head going numb with the thoughts of home, but what was left for him? There was nothing there anymore, it was all destroyed, it was all taken away from him by Malice...

{...Ssssolvex....} a dark voice whispered...

Why was he holding back? He was losing and losing against something of Voids... this wasn't even Malices minions but he was losing because of the Nightmare king and this cursive world, he hated it, he HATED ALL OF IT. The red king opened his eyes, his pupil was slit, rage swelled up inside him, he didn't care about the consequences, he just wanted to survive and he just wanted to win...

Crimson bit his bottom lip until he could taste his own blood, he then focused on the hand he cut earlier and spoke in the dark language, his voice grew distorted even within the helmet as he cast his dark spell... his one's blueish crystals that were scattered across the battlefield turned red, the crystals began to grow and consume Corpses of the monsters that were dead, but they didn't stop their, no, the butterfly monsters who had Crystal shrapnel in them made painful screeching sounds as the shards now started to grow and eat them alive...even the remnants of the Butterflies smashed on his armor glow red and dissolved into his armor, Crimson could feel it, the power coming back to him... a smirk came to his lips, it felt good and he wanted more...

Glory would be the only one to be able to see just what it looked like inside the red king armor as he feed his dark appetite...the ones mostly dark interior only illuminated by a few blue glowing patterns bit they changed to red, but not only that red veins like marking appeared across Crimson skin, the temperature inside increased greatly but Glory would fine herself feeling more and more cold as time passed...

The red crystals grew rapidly as they absorbed more, there hunger for more magical things made them spread like wild fire, some of the black birds few down and landed on them, they didn't even struggle as the crystals began to cover and swallow them whole... the red king chuckled Darkly, he didn't know what was happening in the world around him and right now he didn't care, he just felt a rush of energy, dark magic flowing into him, oh how a part of him miss this high and the craving was so much stronger then before, maybe it was because of how long it been or maybe it was because of this world and he was just so hungry for any kind of magic, it didn't really matter to Crimson now, he just like it.

At first, Glory felt incredibly pitiful for the red king, wishing she could do more to help him, but then the monsters started beating him further and further into the ground. She flinches with every hit and tries to brace herself for each, but things start happening very quickly after that...

"Crimson...?" she quietly calls when he started chanting his dark spell, carefully trying to move around in his helmet so she can turn and see his face, and she quickly starts to panic when she sees the red vein-like patterns on his skin and his smirk, and hears his sinister chuckle. "N-no! Crimson! Stop, please!! What are you doing?! This isn't good...!!" she begs, now being both horrified for him and for her own life as she tries to hug the red king's face, "Please!! Crimson, please stop!!"

(But please do, post your posts when you get them done X'D )

(HI EVERYONE

I'm glad yall are doing alright, and excited for today! I am too x'3

RIP windows and doors... e-e)

( EEE!! that good to hear!! And I'm happy to know you had a great time vacation ^-^
RIP in deed x.x )

(Crimson noooooo

But very epic writing for that part, super cool e^e)

The monster hunched with the impact of the bullet and made a wailing sound, it stopped its Pursuit for a moment but it didn't pause long, it angled itself towards some debris for cover

//Yep! I see it alright!// Sparky says as he invisibly flies down, //I can go be a big distract now to get it off your tail for a moment, I'll definitely see what I can do to get it over there, bossman!//

//Ok,// Terra simply responds, merely sitting there behind the counter for a moment before moving to peer around the corner. He watches the monstrous shade as his Fairfin comes down and makes himself suddenly bright and visible, right in front of the creature's face.

"Hello, Monster!" Sparky cheers with a big grin!

The monster flinched with the sudden appearance of the bright Fairfin but it's surprised didn't last long, the shade made a snap at Sparky

Dreameater doesn't do much when Anna is handed to him, he just holds her gently in his left hand and glances down at her. He doesn't say much when Catch starts working with the crystals, either. "Yeah, I hope so too," he briefly mumbles in agreement with the prince, watching Catch for only a moment before turning his eyes back to where he can sense Crimson.
//... I'd still rather he have someone other than just Glory with him...// he thinks, //But there's nothing we can do about that now, is there? We can just sit here and give him light magic. It'd take us longer to get over there, wouldn't it? Well... I mean, sure it'd take us a while, but I don't really care... But what about everything we've set up?//
The Nightmare glances over at the ribbon and spear net trap they set up to catch some of Void's shades.
//We could always still use it for something, we can always improvise. But if we try to go to Crim, and the monsters come this way, even if they got caught in the trap, they could just get out with no one here, right? ... What's more important? Making sure Crimson doesn't go crazy being alone, or capturing some of Void's things?//

Just then, he starts to pick up on the change with Crimson as well, and he looks back in that direction. //Oh, that's... Oh no... Oh NO...! THIS IS BAD!! I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!! NO--we need to get over there!! We need to stop him!!//
"Catch!" Dreameater suddenly exclaims, already taking a few steps away, "Catch, forget feeding him light magic, we need to get over there!! He's getting bad!"

“Why are you-“ Crystal started in response to the mysterious second voice in her head, but with time staring again, there was no time to finish what she was going to say.

Even with her general knowledge of what was about to happen and Boreas moving in to shield them, the explosion was still so jarring that Crystal let out a startled squeak and ducked, covering her head and ears with her arms.

Once the situation seemed to settle, she slowly lifted her head again..

Rahab twisted to look back at the final manticore as it approached. "/Moons/ you are persistent," he growled. Taking his staff, he held it out as if it was a bow and drew his other arm back, causing a magic string to appear and an ice arrow to form in place. The shifter steadied himself and inhaled, then let it loose. The arrow whistled through the air and hit the shade in its chest, finishing it off.
Rahab exhaled heavily and dropped his arms. "For the love of the moons, give us a break for five minutes," he grumbled sarcastically to the air. He got to his feet and jogged over to Fiona to help her out of the cobwebs still stuck on her. "You got it?"

Eira gave the car door another big tug, putting her back into it, until it popped loose - almost knocking her off her feet, because she had been leaning back so much. "Woah, okay... Time to get out," she murmured as she reached forward again for the first person's hand and helped pull them from the car.

( BROTHER GOT PIZZA!! )

( HE GOT ME PINEAPPLE!! )

(NICE!)

Sparky quickly flies out of the way, then stops to shadow box the shade a little ways away. "Come on, bad guy! I'll fight you! I'll take you on! Give you the ol' one-two!" he taunts, still with a big grin on his face.

In seeing this, Terra pulls back behind the counter again, and moves over to the other side. From there he goes invisible, and carefully starts making his way closer to the area he wants to lure the creature towards, though he doesn't go all the way over there... At a certain point, he stops and makes himself more visible again, carefully watching the horse-sized shade to see if it notices him.

The shade bared it's teeth at the Fairfin, he then lunged at the bright yellow light, snapping it jaws at Sparky, the monster followed, quickly hobbling after its prey

Fiona chopped the webs as much as she could safely manage, then vigorously shook one arm at a time in an attempt to shake them off. "Y-yeah! I got 'em!" She looked to Rahab and nodded, squinting ever so slightly as she felt the beginning of a faint ache in her nose. //...Eugh, I'm gonna feel that for a while... Jerk spiders...//
...She might've known it was the spider bite, but she hadn't realized there was poison /in/ the bite.
"Let's get over to Eira and help her out with those people!" The Elemental suggested, starting to head over to the griffin shiftress and the civilians coming out of the car.

//It's very distracted with Sparky, alright...// Terra thinks to himself, rethinking some plans again, and he goes invisible once more, trying to carefully hold his magic gun in a way that's not too noticeable. He gets into position behind the hanging rubble, reloads his gun, and calls his Fairfin--//Keep it up, just bring it over this way.//

//Aye aye, boss!// Sparky cheers back telepathically. He keeps up his taunting act with the monster, dodging its attacks and even swooping down to pick up a rock and throw it at it, luring it closer and closer to Terra's trap. "Yeah, that's right! You can't beat me! Raawr! I'm a big, scary mouse! My feet are totally bigger than your teeth!"

When he feels the shade is in position, Terra fires a successful shot at the shade's chest area once more to stagger it, then quickly points the gun up at the wires barely holding up the rubble and fires a bullet of his magic. As the rubble falls, more of the building itself collapses around it...

The horse-sized shade, wailing and choking on its own blood after Terra's bullet punched through its lower neck, is unable to fully move out of the way of the falling rubble. The debris pins the weakened shade down, leaving only its head and one foreleg exposed as it growls, shrieks, and wails as it struggles to free itself.

//... I hate fights that drag on like this,// Terra thinks to himself as he briefly watches the shade. He's grimacing, both from the sight of the wounded, dying monster, and also from the recoil he feels after using his magic again instead of a bullet. "It'll be over soon..." Terra mumbles as he walks forward, making himself visible again, and fires two more magic bullets into the head of the monster, making sure it's dead.

Jason shielded his face his one of his arms, his special gauntlets fanned out to form a barrier to block the debris.

Christina was just trying to catch her breath, she cradled her bleeding arm but the shapeshifter eyes were locked at the place explosion happened, even after the monster was gone she waited for a moment longer, trying pick up any sign if that thing was still alive, but she couldn't since any magic from it any more but she felt something dark, the shapeshifter fins wiggled and she turned her head not quite sure what she was picking up.

Arthur was just as confused as Crystal with the mysterious voice, he couldn't place it, it sounded Vaguely Familiar but at the same time not, he wondered who that man could have been and were did he come from and where did he go. His curiosity would have to wait as more pressing matters where at hand [ Crystal, your hurt! ]

(PIZZA!!

BUT NOT PINEAPPLE! D:<

I do not indulge in pineapple pizza because pineapple does not like me)

(Aww sadness Fade

I tried pineapple pizza for the first time just a day or so ago, I kinda like it XD )

The black bird that had been following Terra, appearing to be a raven, now sits on a broken windowsill of this same building, and has been continuing to keep an eye on the ghostly Dreamer's every move... With the shade dead, it raises its head slightly to get a better look, as if more interested now than it was for the fight.

"WOOHOO! We did it!" Sparky cheers, throwing his arms up in the air to celebrate, "We did a teamwork, beat the bad guys up, and saved the day! All we're missing is a backflip--Woah hey, bossman, are you ok?"

Sparky was interrupted by the sudden sound of Terra's gun hitting the floor. The Dreamer is hunched over slightly with his head down, holding his left hand with his right. Even his left ribbon has uncurled around his upper arm and is wrapping around his hand. "Hurts... to use magic... like that... Moons, I can't feel my hand..." Terra answers with pain in his voice, looking down at his shaking hands and slowly flexing his fingers. He winces as he looks up at Sparky and explains. "If I don't load a bullet in that gun, I can use my magic instead, but the recoil... hurts. I can't fire too many like that..."

Sparky frowns at this news, and flies over to his partner to check his hand as well. "Soo... in other words, we're not super invincible ghosts, huh?" he comments, then offers with a faint smile, "Hey, if this hurt you that bad, I could try to help you out with the more technical stuff, right? Maybe I could've gone up and cut the thing holding the ceiling and stuff up?"

Terradream frowns and shakes his head. "No, that would've taken too long, you don't have anything you could've used to make it fall anyway."

"Fair point... But hey, don't push yourself so hard next time, alright? You know I'm more than willing to help ya out with anything I can." Sparky says, staying upbeat, of course. "Your arm gonna be alright though?"

( Oh no! Pineapple whyyy you not Fade Friend?!!!! D:< )

"It'll be fine... If I can just have some time to recover, it'll get better, I'm sure..." Terradream mumbles, reaching down to pick up the gun with his right hand, and since he's in his human form now, he pauses a moment to see if he can use his pockets, and for now he puts the unloaded gun in his pocket.

"If you say so, the last thing we need is for you to lose your arm, so you should definitely pace yourself. You still got more actual bullets, right?" Sparky asks.

"I'm down to two..." Terra mumbles, sounding more and more frustrated. "So I'm going to have to start using more of my magic for ammo, whether I like it or not..."

Sparky flies ahead of Terra a bit and holds his arms out in front of himself. "Well hey! It just means we'll have to get more creative with the next bad guys we come across, huh?" he cheers, but then he does get a bit softer. "... There's a lot of things on your mind, aren't there? You wanna talk?"

Terradream stands a bit more upright now and looks down at the dead shade. "... I'm so limited like this, Sparky, I can't use my magic like I normally would, I can only make magic bullets that damage me, and I have limited ammo just in general, I wish I could do more... The fight would've been over much faster if I could've used my earth magic..."

Sparky frowns slightly but flies on over to his partner's shoulder and sits there. "Yeah I know... But you should look at the bright side of things. You and I were able to take this monster on just the two of us! We're doing good, Terra, /you're/ doing good. I know it's frustrating to not be able to do everything you could do before, but try to be thankful that you can at least do /something./"

Dreamcatcher jump at Eater suddenly shouting at him " wait, what?!" His eyes change the yellow as a warning of what was happening, he went to turn to the Nightmare but just then the crystal he was feeding change to red " Whoa! Whoa!" He quickly stumble away from the crystals as they became more violent in consuming his magic, they no longer was holding his spears but were sucking them inside themselves and grown over them.

" look out! " Anna pointed at the crystals

" Yeah! I think we need to go! " The Dreamer prince grabbed Eater shoulder and pulled him back with him as the red crystals now started to move towards them seeking out any form of magic in an attempt to satisfy their hunger

Dreameater makes a face at the crystals as Catch grabs and pulls him back, but he nods his head and shapeshifts to his true form again. "Get on and let's go!" he nearly shouts as he backs away from the crystals more. //GLORY!! What's happening to Crimson!? He didn't lose a bracelet, did he!?// he then demands of his Forgotten.

{.... suffersss greatly you hassss.....}an old and dark dry voice said in the language of Soledormir.

Glory words were just White noise at this point, she was just a other voice added to the chaotic songs in Crimson head...

{...long hasss been the labor you'vesss endured...butsss the timesss is drawing closer Solvexsss......}

Dark symbols appeared in the red crystals under the red king, chaos energy sparked and the atmosphere surrounding the red crystals begin to change, the SUV that was being use the smash and pin Crimson to the ground stop in mid swing coming down on him again, the vehicle and other objects seem to levitate from the energy, the red king then spoke in the dark language red magic shot up and ripped through the SUV and anything else unlucky to be in its path, the vehicle EXPLODED in a far greater intensity then was natural.

{... Reborn yousss will be soon....}

The silhouette of the red king stood in the mixture of smoke and red energy, the ones blue gemstones now glowed with a sinister red light on his armor, the blue glow of his eye in the visor of his helmet was now a piercing red, his cap had reform and was flowing behind him unnaturally, it's tips were more ripped and moved more like underwater tendrils. only Glory would be able to see the wicked smirk on the red king face and the red glow coming from his mouth, his breath was hot with red sparks

{ .... the final step isss all is needed now...the time is near....}

Elsewhere, back at the Silver spear Palace Nevaeh was out in the back yard with her ship made of cups, she stopped and turned looking to the sky with silvery eyes of a vision " and the sky will be painted red with the innocent blood of the sacrifice which the devil will return...." not even the Palace sirens and explosion there could distracted the midnight walker with her ominous vision

"CRIMSON!!!" Glory screams, desperately hoping to reach him through all of the chaos around her; she's sobbing hysterically at this point and shaking from both her terror and the painful cold she feels. She's still trying to curl up and hug his face, as if to find some semblance of warmth or comfort in him. //Evil is taking over him, Weaver!!// she informs her partner when she hears his call, //I--I can't stop it!! There's something else here, I don't know what it is! I hear some kind of noise, but--I can't save him, I can't save him...!//

She nearly chokes on her sobs, and weakly tries to nuzzle the red king's face with her own. "Please, come back! Come back, Crimson, I'm scared! PLEASE! I'm scared of this evil, it hurts!! Crimson!! Don't lose yourself in it...!!"

Boreas stood steady through the impact of the explosion. His ice wall might not have been at peak strength, but it still took the debris that was thrown at them.

After the air had cleared and there was no sign of the monster still being alive, Boreas let the shattering wall crumble and dissipate. "...Good hustle." He simply stated, glancing to Jason and Christina at first, then to Crystal behind him. The Elemental was about to ask about her, but his attention was abruptly pulled away by a rather worrying magic sense he was also picking up... He held out his left hand briefly, trying to feel whatever he could in the rather magic-less air.

All he could really tell was that it wasn't anything good. "Hmmm..."

But he looked back to the human girl, a genuine hint of compassion in his tone, "How're you feeling, Crystal? You look like you had it rough."

...Along with all of this, distant hoofbeats of the Vanguard soon became audible.

Rahab stepped back and followed Fiona to the car. He hadn't noticed the effects of the manticore's scorpion poison yet, since he was already exhausted from all the fighting and flying, and part of him didn't even care so long as it wouldn't kill him.
The other passenger had gotten out, and all that was left was the child they had been asked to rescue, who was trying to clamber over the dented chairs with his shaking hands. Rahab reached into the vehicle and grabbed his upper arm, simply lifting him out of the car and setting him down. "D' they need first aid, or are we good to go? Because we probably won't be alone for long."

Eira examined the civilians, looking for any injuries. They seemed scratched up and bruised from the broken glass and the crash, and they were definitely shaken up and looking at the heroes nervously. But they seemed okay enough to keep moving. Eira gave them an inquisitive face with a thumbs-up, just checking that they were okay.

Rahab let the girls check up on the passengers while he stepped back and shifted back to his griffin form to get ready to be boarded. His head spun a little when he did though, and he frowned as he blinked away the effects of the poison. "Don't like that sign..."

(Haha XD Pineapple acid burns my tongue easily and makes my gums sore, so I try to avoid it. I can enjoy something with just some pineapple though, like a smoothie. So long as I don't have a ton of it. Thankfully it doesn't actually make me sick though xD)

(Aww, that stinks, but at least you can enjoy it sometimes Fade :3 Glad it doesn't make you sick!)

Terra glances Sparky, but he doesn't say anything more on that. Instead, he tries to change the subject. "... At least this wasn't as stressful as the last battle... There weren't any people in danger this time, there was only one monster... I don't like combat, but being able to be in control for once is nice..." he says, then turns to start walking towards the exit of the building.

The raven, hearing this, tips its head up with a seemingly smug look in its eyes, as if it is pleased with what it's hearing... However, as pleased as it might seem now, it doesn't keep this look for long, as another black bird flies over and lands near it on the broken windowsill.

"Yeah, it definitely is nicer when the stakes aren't too high, but hey! Either way, we have triumphed over the enemy! Don't forget you helped save those people~" Sparky encourages Terra, and he can tell that helped him out a bit by the little bit of light that comes back to his partner's expression, but then both Sparky and Terra pause when they hear a bird's caw. //... There's birds here?// Sparky wonders, quickly noticing the two black birds in the broken window, but something about them feels... off, to Sparky. //... Terra, I think there's something weird with those birds.//

Terradream gives a very slight nod of his head as he tries to watch the birds, and he answers telepathically, //Yeah... Let's go out and try to get a closer look.//

When Terra and Sparky leave the building and go around the corner to the broken window, they see both of the birds sitting there; the raven has its feathers all ruffled and its head pulled back, though it does try to turn its head a little to watch the ghostly Dreamer. The second is something blatantly suspicious, having longer legs, a longer neck, a longer tail, and also having red markings on its body. It's the same kind of bird that Crystal saw... This black and red bird is hopping around, its head held high, its chest puffed out, and its wings outspread as it caws and seemingly shows off. The raven seems like it's trying to ignore the newcomer, but the new bird is being very loud and obnoxious.
The pompous cutthroat turns its head to acknowledge its new audience of Terra and Sparky, caws at them once, then ignores them to continue pestering the quiet, grumpy raven.

//... Yeah, these birds aren't normal...// Terra agrees with his Fairfin, still keeping a safe distance from the suspicious birds.

//What do you think we should do about them?// Sparky asks in return, becoming more of a defensive orangey color as he keeps his eyes on the birds.

Terra has to think for a moment on that. If these birds are some kind of dark creatures (which the one obviously is), they need to be taken out, but he only has two bullets on him, and his arm is still in bad shape after the magic he used earlier... //I don't really have the resources to deal with them right now, but if I can just rest for a moment, I might be able to get enough strength back to maybe shoot one of them... I'm not really sure what we should do, I... guess we could watch them for the time being...?// he suggests, wincing again as he tries to put his hands in his pockets.

//Mmm, alright, if you wanna keep an eye on them, I'll keep a lookout in case anything comes up behind us,// Sparky replies. //Evil bird-watching it is, until you rest up a bit. I can try to get something too to take out the other one.//

The Cutthroats circling the red king opened their beaks spelling dark incantations, they continue to land and let the crystals feeding the growing hungry that would not be satisfied...

The Shades coward back from the explosion and the darkness flowing from Crimson, Any of the smaller butterflys that were in the area of the red energy were turned to ash and they're magic adding to the red king powers...

One of the Cutthroats did something more, it flew down to the red king and began to heave, the bird then vomited a pool of red blood before the crystals consumed it, however the crystals did not touch the blood... { oh, master~ how long has it been since I last seen you in such good health~ } Scarlett hummed as she began to slim across the crystals and work her way up Crimson armor { I had fear your sickness would over take you soon, so much was against you but you are more powerful then the evil that seeks to destroy you } Crimson didn't make a reply, he didn't do anything but stand there as chaos energy swirled around him. { let us have one final dance young one, are beautiful dance death which will bring life and happiness to this wicked world} she moved to the red king right hand and formed into her long sword { that right master! Let us taste blood! } she said full of excitement.

Crimson turned his head up towards the Giant butterfly who had been hitting him with the SUV "...this is were you all DIE!" He Shouted as he took the blood sword and stab her into the ground, the crystals under the butterfly spilt open in a Bazaar pattern, large Crystal Shards broke loose and floated circling monster, the shade wanted to flee but it was trapped and it never had a chance... beams of energy punch through its body with ease, the chaos beams shot out of the floating crystals and criss-crossed with one other, severing the Colossus butterfly into. The cracked ground beneath the shade had been moving, grinding against each other like gears in a clock, they spun faster and faster, making horrible screeching sounds, Crimson then stood up and took his left into a fist " BURN!" Chaos energy shot up from odd moving markings, in second the Colossus butterfly was disintegrated not even leaving ash behind.

{ YES MASTER!! SHOW THEM NO MERCY!! } the blood sword encourage the Red King.

Dreamcatcher didn't hesitate, he hop on his friend back " let go!"

Rihanna flew when Eater shifted, she looked up in the directions Crimson went " guys look! " she pointed, a whole flock of those birds were circling and a red glow show from somewhere past the buildings.

The feeling of dread grow more and more , something far worse was happening, Catch held on to his friends back as he bolted down the street, but as they went the moon blood eyes change to silver, Dreamcatcher grimaced and let out a painful scream as a vision took hold and Force him into his dark form, Catch claws grap the Nightmare as he combusted it into flames and shadows. A glimpse of a possible future, just up ahead Crimson had placed traps intended for the butterfly shade but Catch was seeing himself, Eater and Anna getting caught in the explosion and getting impelled by crystals "WEAVER STOP!! THERE A TRAP UP A HEAD! " he forced himself to Shout out a warning

Dreameater grimaces at Glory's reply and pushes himself to go faster, and mostly ignores Anna pointing out the sky. //Yeah, I'm sure it's pretty bad,// are his only thoughts on that, but he does slow down some when Catch starts screaming. "Catch!? You too!?--" he first shouts, but he skids to a stop when the Moonblood prince gives his warning. Just in time too, as he watches the cars Crimson set up explode right in front of him. "Your heads-up just saved us, but are you ok!?" //There's so much FREAKING HAPPENING!! AAAHHH! I SWEAR TO ALL FOUR OF THE SILVER MOONS, IF CATTY TRIES SOMETHING TOO, I'M GOING TO EAT HIM--//

Fiona paused as Rahab pulled the child they were looking for out of the car. She hadn't seen him in there at first, so she made a brief, relieved comment, "Oh! We found him, too!"
The boy seemed very nervous, jumping a little and even trying to hide behind the nearest fellow civilian as Rahab shifted to his griffin form. Fiona got down lower to give the tearful boy a little, gentle pat to try and help calm him down.

The Elemental then assisted Eira as best as she could with examining the passengers, and once they had come to the conclusion that they would be ready to continue on, she started doing rather tired charades to usher them onto Rahab's back. She even hopped onto him and patted his back to show them the plan... Though, the griffin's comment made her frown, "Huh...? You doing alright, Rahab?"

Crystal’s brows knitted worriedly at Arthur’s urgent statement, “Yeah.. I- I know..” she mumbled, soon looking down at herself despite already knowing her injuries. Her body hurt from the impact of the monster tackling her to the roof.. And because of that monster she had a few nicks and scrapes, but also some deeper wounds that certainly needed proper care from where the beasts claws had really gotten her. But even with the pain she was in and visible blood it wasn’t a large concern in her eyes even though it should be, because the important thing to her right now was that she wasn’t dead.. “Are you okay though, Arthur? You didn’t sound well a moment ago..”

Crystal looked up at Boreas when he turned to her and spoke, “I’m not entirely sure.. but I think I’ll be okay..” she replied, going quiet for a second before speaking again. “Thank you, both of you, for coming up here,” she said, briefly glancing over to Jason too, her tone not hiding a single ounce of how grateful she was, “I honestly don’t know how well things would have ended if you hadn’t came..” She paused for another moment, something far away sounding in her voice at the end. She didn’t know what way to turn next, but she knew she needed to just take this one thing at a time so she looked over at Christina, her gaze concerned, “I’m sorry you got hurt.. How bad is your arm?”

(Crystal's a BEAN!)

" Cat! Are you ok?" Anna ask worry, flying closer to the two boys.

Catch grip eased up now that the transformation was done, he was practically laying on the Nightmare back with his head resting against Weaver scarf " you know how it is when I shift, I-Ill be fine in a moment, but we don't have that, we need to get over to Crimson fast! " The dark moon blood replied, now that he was more functioning he make sure his wings were up and out of Eater way, But being in this dark from right now didn't feel right, even the Nightmare inside seem wack, Cataclysm kept repeating gibberish " something wrong with Catty, he not making any sense, I... I don't know if whatever happing with Crimson doing this or if he just nuts!... he keep saying this is the end and the blood moons are ri-! "Dreamcatcher was going to tell Eater more but a dark shadow case over them, a Colossus shade like bird flew over head, it had red markings across its body just like the dog monster that came after Crystal, " WEAVER LOOK OUT! "

The giant Birds swoop down with its Talons out to grab the Nightmare and Moon blood

Dreameater growls quietly and pins his ears back when Catch explains he's alright, and quickly starts looking for some possible detour they can take to get to Crimson--he isn't sure he really wants to run through the rows of fire, there's no telling what else could happen here... He tries to listen to what Catch says too, but he can't even say anything himself when his friend gives his other warning. Without even bothering to look and see what it is, Eater practically throws himself out of the way and off to the side, but there aren't any alley ways here where Crimson set up his traps, they're all blocked off, so the only way for him to go is straight ahead... //Thanks Crim, of course your trap has to make it harder for us to freaking rescue you!// he angrily thinks to himself as he starts running down the middle of the flaming road. "What is it?! I... Wait a minute, I can't sense it!?" He shouts to Catch, still trying to focus more on the road.

Crimson slowly turned, red embers dance in the air as he stared down the Puppet Master, the butterfly who controlled the others, he took a step forward but stopped abruptly, a foul taste entered his mouth from his crystals consumed Dreamcatcher magic. " G-glory?" Crimson could hear her distance sobs and desperate pleas for help though the fog of his mind but it was quickly being drownded out from all the other noise in his head //... I want this....please don't!... don't do this!... help!...someone!... G-lory?...//

"CRIMSON!! STOOOP!!!" Morning Glory continues screaming and sobbing, louder now that she heard Crimson say her name, but, in one last ditch effort to do something to save him, she reaches out to the people she's linked to: Crystal, Fiona, Boreas, Qui, Catch, and Eater, and sends out her distress call, //PLEASE! SOMEONE, anyone, please save Crimson!! Something evil is taking over him, and I can't help him!! I can't save him!! I'm going to lose him!! Please, someone SAVE CRIMSON!! SAVE HIM!!!//

"... plead and beg little onesss but itsss uselesssss....he cansss not win...." the old voice said in a language Glory could understand.

Crimson placed a his left hand to his forehead and screamed.

"... no onesss can hear yousss... alonesss you aresss because no onesss caresss...."

Scarlett took notice of the red King's hesitation { the final battle is not over Solvex! Finish this! } and with that the Forgotten words were blurred out once again, just other wave in the ocean storm of Crimson mind......//... it all ends the same...//

The red king rises his left hand up and several spots above him sparked with red magic, rings appear and from them long dark Spears emerge in the exact number that Catch had made... he then took his hand in a quick casting motion, the dark Spears shot forward striking the Puppet Master, the spears impaled a monster and crippled it, the king wanted to take his time with this one... Crimson walk in a way like he was stalking his prey, the puppet master was pinned to the ground by the Spears, it try desperately to get away, even to the point of ripping it's own body but it wasn't enough, the king loomed over it sinisterly...
{YESSS MASTER! MAKE THE TRAITOR SCUM WATCH!}

~{Song: The Devil - Rok Nardin}~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGIu6-WtwEs

Crimson slowly rises his hand and with that crystals rise under the Puppet Master, the shade made horrible painful screeching noises as the crystals spear went though its body, the crystals didn't stop rising and forced the monster up with it, however the dark Spears were also holding it down causing those body parts and ripping it's wings in pieces as the two methods of torture work against each other. The crystals finally stopped when the Puppet Master head was just slightly below the red king eye level ".... So tell me Azamuku Rhysand how does it feel to have all your planing be for nothing?.... your still nothing more then a pawn in this game we play....a game you will always lose...."

{... remind yousss, you have not won justss yet my mastersss....the evil one still livessss...} The old dry Gravely voice warned

Scarlett hissed knowing the Seeker was referred to Crystal and that she was still alive { tisk! it does not matter now, the fiends squander their time with foolish efforts that amount to nothing...} she said about the key hunters and then continued { even now what they wish to achieve is petty in savings this world... those who may try to stop use will be to late~ they do not even realize the bliss that will befall on all soon, so much blood, so much death~} Scarlett change her form into blood around Crimson hand { ... now my master, the time has come to wake up from these nightmares } something was coming out a the pool of blood, a Jagged Onyx blade with red marking was placed in Crimson right hand by Scarlett.

The red king rises the black dagger in front of himself, he turned the blade to face his chest... this felt so familiar... had he done it before? Memories of himself at 14 holding a blade like this came back, but it blurred with a silhouette of a some kind of humanoid shape, he couldn't make out the features other then glowing blue eyes.... Crimson felt pain in his chest, like something was holding on to his heart so it wouldn't move for what was about to happen... he started at the blade and began to Trimble, he felt a rush of excitement because he wanted this and terrifying fear because he was going to die..."... so tell me, this is how the game comes to an end?... this was so easy....should I even call it a game? there was some thrilling moments I guess but now a new game we all will play, will now begin..." a dark tear ran down Crimson face//... I-I'm sorry....// and then he pulled the evil dagger towards his chest...

(I just imagine Glory just pinged @ everyone)

Eira helped witht he ushering charade as best she could, trying to coax their scared rescuees that Rahab was going to help them and not eat them. It probably didn't help much that his feathers were nearly as black as those shadows... But eventually, they all got onto the griffin's back and held on tightly to his feathers.

Rahab shook out his head and gruffly responded, "Yeah, let's just get a move on." He took a survery of their surroundings before taking off, beating his wings and running along the street for some momentum. He took to the air and pivoted to head back in the direction they came.

(*writes reply but forgets to hit send for 20 minutes, then only notices when checking for replies*)

(Hahaha, it happens Fade 'XD )

(That's alright Fade!)

Fiona sat in the back, clinging onto Rahab's feathers. She once again started scanning the area around them for any suspicious activity... The pain in her nose persisted, and that distracted her a little... But nothing could distract her from the /massive tornado of birds and red sparks far off in the distance that set off ALL THE BADNESS ALARMS IN HER./
"UH, WHAT THE HECK?! Guys, that wasn't there before, and it looks /REALLY EVIL./"

...However, that was only the beginning of her worries, as a sudden message from Glory came rushing into her head. The Elemental jumped at the Fairfin's panicked screams. "AH!! WHAT?!" She looked around frantically, but quickly realized that it was telepathic. "/OKAY, THIS IS BAD./ Glory just contacted me and said /something evil's taking over Crimson!!/ Does /THAT/ have to do with it?!?"

[ I think I'll be fine, just a bit winded for a guy who doesn't have lungs anymore ] Arthur half-heartedly joked, he still wasn't feeling %100, it didn't feel like something bad just more like he just over work himself, but that what was more of the odd thing, he was a key now so what was it? but right now the king was more concerned about his keeper and the strange voice [ we can look into it later after you see a doctor ]

Jason took down his Shield now that it wasn't needed, he kneel down to look over the pink officer " I got HP stuff on the way " he didn't have healing magic or any kind of magic but that never stop him from helping others, the orange hair boys came prepared, he hit a button on his Gauntlet was called a drone from his bike that carried a first aid kit.

Christina attention got pulled away for a moment when Crystal and Jason addressed her, she looked down at her arm, it was pretty tore up, her blueish blood soaked through her torn sleeve but she managed a smirk at Crystal and shook her head " this? It nothing that a few stitches and time off won't fix, it wasn't your fault " but then she froze and turned her head back the way she had be looking before, Christina eyes widened as her fins fand out getting a clear signal that something evil and powerful was going on in that direction " W-we need to get out of here! "

The puffy raven tries to take a few steps to the side away from the cutthroat, but the black and red bird just hops right over to it, now starting to peck and nip at the other bird while it continues cawing loudly. The raven ruffles its feathers more and hisses at the cutthroat, but it still doesn't seem keen on fighting back or fleeing.

Terra just stands there, quietly watching the two birds... but his mind does start to wander a little, and a few doubts creep in. //... I'm not... Wasting time here, am I...?
...
...
... Fiona, Alex, and everyone else are off fighting monsters, I still haven't seen them since we got out here... They could be in danger, they could be /dying,/ and I'm just... watching two birds...//
... After a moment, he telepathically asks, //... Sparky, is this stupid? ...//

//Stupid? Well, is your arm feeling better?// Sparky replies.

//Only a little,// Terra answers, frowning.

//Do you have spare resources?//

//...//

//Are these just your average, normal, everyday birds?//

//...//

While he's still watching Terra's back, Sparky tries to pat Terra's shoulder with his ghostly tail. //I think you're good, Terra, we might not be fighting monsters physically, but we're investigating shady creatures while you try to recover. For all we know, these could be shapeshifting monsters with laser vision and mind control. Don't sell yourself short.//

//Alright...// Terra thinks, watching the cutthroat continue to peck and boast at the raven. The ghostly Dreamer keeps watching the birds a while longer, observing the behaviour of both of them with slightly narrowed eyes... Standing here in silence, though, a thought does come to mind. //Should I...? Hmm... I don't know... Would that be a good idea...? I guess I could see what would happen... It could be something simple and obvious...//
After a pause, he looks between both birds, and says to the raven, "... Mmm, if I didn't know any better, I'd think he's mocking you..."

The cutthroat lets out a loud caw at Terra's remark, while the raven doesn't seem to react to Terra. The raven steps further away from the cutthroat, but the cutthroat quickly goes back to cawing and pecking at the raven, seeming more aggressive now.

Rahab noticed the dark swirl of magic as well but didn't hear Glory's message since he didn't have a link with her, so he only had Fiona's report to work off of. "Who's Crimson? A friend of yours?"

Eira's insides churned in uneasiness when she looked where Fion had pointed to the rising evil tornado of dark magic. "What... is that?..." When she heard Glory's message, her skin grew colder. "Oh no... We need to get over there to help... Do we get these people to the camp first or go over now?" she wondered, feeling torn on what to do. This seemed really important, and they probably didn't have much time to waste...

Boreas just blinked at Crystal when he heard her speaking to Arthur. He wasn't completely sure on what exactly was going on with that, but for now he was left to speculate--he'd have to ask later.
Either way, his focus was more on her wounds.

He listened to what the human girl had to say, glancing to Christina as well when Crystal directed her attention to the officer. From what he'd seen, he was confident Jason had her injuries covered... However, when she reacted to the powerful evil that was growing by the minute, he could feel it too.
And along with that, Glory's message arrived in his mind. The Captain hadn't been expecting it one bit, but the most he showed on the outside was his very serious expression.
"We need to move." He reaffirmed what Christina had said, then offered one hand to Crystal, "...Are you able to stand?"

The civilians on Rahab's back couldn't understand what Fiona was saying, but her shouting coupled with the dark calamity in the distance didn't help anyone stay calm. The people started making a panicked ruckus--some of them may have shifted uncomfortably, but none of them dared let go of Rahab.

"Oh jeez...!" Fiona soon realized what she'd caused. Her brow furrowed and she clenched her teeth tightly with just how indecisive she was. She wanted to make sure nobody else turned evil--especially not after everything that had happened thus far, but everything that had happened also told her this was far too dangerous. It was hard for her to say, but she eventually blurted,
"Aahhh... Ugh... This is /REALLY/ bad, but...
I think we should get these people to camp first! It's even /less/ safe for them here than before!! We just gotta hurry...!!
We can tell you about Crimson after we get these people to safety, Rahab!"

(Quick brb!)

(Ok! :3 )

( over 20,000 years ago )

" are you sure you're plan will work? I can look into more options " Judas offers with a half shrug and his hand out, his tassels bounce ready to dive deeper into the possibility of the future. the outcast appearance was not like current Skeys or what he looked like in reality, here in the dream realm Judas was made whole again but not just anyone could do this, no, but the person he was talking to could and did

Faithful Dreamer turned and smirked " thanks for the offer Judas but have a little faith, all they need is a little imagination to see the truth, the Spirit of faith, heart of integrity, the courage to change ...-"

"and a lot of luck! " Judas interrupted with his own smirk

Faye nodded " yes, a lot of luck and the wisdom to stay pure "

" All jests aside, Soledormir going to come at them with everything he has... " the outcast smiled faded as he followed his arms and looked away

" no, he'll do worse... he let them destroy themselves...it's going to get rough, it may even come close to the end but they will succeed they just need /more time/ " Faithful Dreamer replied looking up in thought, but that time would cost him, would cost them both..." you have done so much already Judas but look after them for me will you? "

Judas shook his head and look back to the Dreamer prince and smiled again " you don't even have to ask that Faye, within my abilities outside this dream I will do whatever I must for the chosen candidate, even if it cost my life " the Vaseterm promises with a small bow

Faithful Dreamer rolled his eyes at his friend dramatic promise, he knew the sincerity of his words and that he keep his promises but Faye knew more to the plan then his friend " don't sale yourself short, they need you alive for the end "

Judas tips his head but dosen't say more but he trusted Faithful and his plans.

Just as Crimson pulls the dagger towards himself a sharp pain digs into his right eye, a pain similar to what he experienced back in Vahlemas were he was forced to see what someone else was with his eyes but this time it was worse, the red king cry out in agony as he hunched over and put his left hand to his face. Images forced their way into Crimson mind...

He was seeing this moment and what happens next, after stabbing himself darkness and chaos explodes from his body, everything around him gets destroyed, rising from the ashes was a horrendous monster silhouetted with a sky the color of blood, it was a monster he just knew was himself. Fear crippled Crimson as this was the first time he had seen the monster he became, the one he only knew as harbinger as Judas call him.

The Images shift to horrifying monster flowing into this word, destroying everything and murdering the humans here, seen then move to the key hunters, as one by one they fall in one way or other, ether be taken over by darkness or killed ".. no...NO!! " Crimson screams with the last image of the vision, seen Crystal dead body, and with that the vision let go.

Crimson stood there shaking uncontrollably, tears streamed down his face as he was taking sharp panic breath, the shapeshifter just went though a lot and so much of it terrified him, including the dagger he was still holding in his right hand...

Crimson Chuck the evil blade as he screamed in both pain and fear.

{ NO!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! } Scarlett roared in anger

" Scarlett?!" Crimson stumbled back and started to panic " NO STAY AWAY FROM ME!"His mind was still fuzzy, he didn't even remember were he was but one thing Crimson did know was he needed to get away from hid blood sword

Morning Glory is still shaking and hugging Crimson's face after all this time. She hasn't stopped begging and crying, either, though now she sounds a little quieter, and more depressed. "P-please...! Come back, Crimson...! Come back..." she weakly whimpers, "Please... It hurts...!"

Between Jason looking the officer over and Christina’s reply, Crystal simply nodded in response, even though to her the arm looked pretty bad.

The girl was about to move on to the next thing she wanted to say, but instead Glory’s terrified and pleading voice entered her head, stopping her instantly. Crystal’s breath that got stuck in her chest and wouldn’t move as a new round of fears grabbed hold of her. She then remembered that earlier Dreameater had mentioned he wanted to get Crimson’s help in all this.. She was so consumed by what had been going on up here and everything leading up to it that she had completely forgotten about it..

She snapped out of her momentary shock and gazed out to where it seemed Christina looked, then turned her eyes to Boreas when he spoke about getting out of here as well, having no idea he had heard Glory too.

Crystal nodded again, glancing at the Elementals hand, “Ye-yes, I’m fine,” she lied, “but Crimson’s not.. We need to find him.”

Rahab frowned suspiciously but didn't protest, continuing to fly in the direction of the camp to prioritize their rescuers.

Eira kept staring back at the scene where Crimson was, worrying about what could be happening but knowing it wasn't their place to intervene right now. //The last time he freaked out, we lost Mina... I hope someone will be there in time to help...//

Dreamcatcher lend with his friend and keep his head low, the big bird talons just miss the two boys. " its a huge bird! I don't think it's one of those shades, it's got red markings and for a dark creature it looks even more corrupted! " The moon blood prince replied as he turned his head to look back at beast

The Colossus bird flew up and turned to make other pass at the two.

" It's coming back around!!" Catch shouted, he sat up and turned and summon his bow and took a quick shot at the monster.

The bird took the arrow in the chest but keep going. The moon blood prince chanted and shot again

(Uh oh, I'm crashing quick... I can see it coming this time though x'D Might make one more reply at least)

( it is getting late xD )

(Oh no! Alrighty Fade, at least you can see it coming X'D )

Fiona tried to help calm down their passengers, quieting down more herself. She couldn't help but keep looking back to the harrowing scene where they thought Crimson must've been, memories of the day before echoing in her mind as well. "...It's... It's not gonna happen again..." She repeated in an uncertain mutter a couple of times. "We'll make sure these people are safe and then stop it..."

(Ahhhh, alright, Fade! Yeah, it's nearly midnight over here. X'D)

Eira glanced at Fiona unsurely at first, but she took in a breath and gave a nod, forcing herself to think positively despite the temptation to be afraid. She knew fretting wouldn't change anything - if anything, she knew that her fear only tended to make things worse for herself. "We just need to trust that our friends can help... And we'll be there soon to back them up. It's gonna be okay," she said, reassuring both herself and Fiona. Hopefully her calmed down tone would help reassure the civilians, too. They were still nervous and squirmy, but they seemed somewhat grateful that they were being transported in the opposite direction of the chaos.

Rahab huffed. "Well, we can bet on one thing, and that's that all the shades will want to flock /that/ way," he said with a head toss in Crimson's direction. "Keeps the people safer. And you ight as well gather 'em together and hit 'em all at once."

(Yeah, it be gettin late... Normally I'd be fine with the time, but my sleep schedule has been shifting and I can't stay up as late anymore X'D)

(Yep I'm crashing fast x'D Yall can continue without me though, if you'll be up longer! Goodnight everyone, it was a lot of fun!)

(Alrighty Fade! Yee, your sleep schedule is important!

Hope you get some good rest! It's been fun, and see ya next time! ^-^)

(Okie dokie Fade! Ahhh we might have to think about it, I wouldn't want you to miss too much at this part XD But you sleep well! See ya next time! ^-^ )

( you gave a good night Fade! It been fun!
I'm getting hit to by hit to sleep to x'D )

(Uhh--yeah if it's not obvious, we're calling it a night now 'XD )