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Everyone around her seemed to be keeping up nearly as well as she was, they were all fighting hard, and still there was hardly an end in sight. They would need to put a lot of work in in order to get any further with this fight. At least there was only a couple of the Invisible heartless left, meaning that she could move on to a few easier enemies, give herself time to breath. That being said the big threat still loomed over her and she would need to deal with the last two before she was allowed time to relax and deal with the small enemies. As much as she would like to join the fight reducing down the numbers, left unchecked the big guys would be scary. As long as they could get those under control the rest shouldn't be too much of a problem. Though having their numbers cut down to two of them, the Invisibles were not too happy. She could see them start to dart around the beach, their swords out front. Jumping back Aislinn didn't give it a chance to hit her before she watched it do something she thought was strange. Putting it's sword in the ground, the heartless suddenly disappeared from sight. The next thing she knew a ring of purple orbs surrounded her. Aislinn was not able to roll out of the way before those orbs came together, converging on her spot. It stunned her for a moment, but when she saw it reappear by it's sword, she was back on track, ready to attack once more.

Surrounding herself in an protective wall, Aislinn charged forward at the thing, deflecting it's sword with her barrier as she went before she got the first strike on it. Unfortunately it was not enough to take him out. She would need to do a lot more than that one attack to take this thing out. It seemed annoyed that it's friends were dead and was being more aggressive than the others, Aislinn would have to watch out for that as she fought it. Taking her time with her strikes. Instead of doing a lot of fast, small strikes, Aislinn took her time and made sure she hit as hard as she could instead of as fast as she could. This meant that Aislinn only could manage to hit the thing once before she was sent dodging out of the way. She was able to get back to her feet soon after though before hitting it again. This went on a couple more times before it finally died. Taking a deep breath Aislinn looked around and shook her head at the small enemies that were making their way closer to her. They wouldn't stand a chance and she was sure that they knew that already.

Turning to the Neoshadow first, Aislinn took her time with this one, no fancy moves, not over the top attacks, simple hits that caused it to go down rather quickly. She didn't want to waste her time with the strong attacks that would take a lot out of her when something like this didn't need it. It was more worth it on the big guys, the big guys that only had one of them remaining. Sighing she then turned towards the small shadow that had been pawing at her leg for the last minute. "Shoo." She commanded it as she kicked it up and then swung at it like a baseball she had just thrown up. However instead of smacking it across the room he just dissipated into smoke a dust that surrounded Aislinns face as she walked through it looking for who was next.

Word Count: 616
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 300
BP: 0/78

Heartless Defeated:
1 Invisible
1 Neoshadow
1 shadow

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 730 Shadows
Defeat 185 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles

So it seemed why they needed meet in this room was a meeting to talk about how their worked as a team. Auburn already knew that she was lacking in the communication department, that was part of the reason she wanted to leave. When Qrow turned to her and addressed her in particular, Auburn took a step back and shied a way a little bit as he crouched to her level to talk to her. Why was so much of this about her? Who cared about her? Of course her father had talked to Qrow before she got there. The old man worried far too much about her sometimes and did his best to care for her. But now she could only think of why he wasn't here instead of her? He could do so much more than she ever could.

As Qrow tried to give her instructions, Auburn bowed her head and meekly apologized to him before he stood up and walked off telling them to talk to each other. She still wasn't a fan of that idea, but at least their new member made an effort to speak, so... she would too because it was clear she wasn't going to go far from here, and her father would be mad if she walked away now. She had to do as Qrow said and step out of her comfort zone, try to talk. "H-hi... I'm Auburn Miyashiro." She replied to him, glancing over at Lazuli and then to the others. She wondered how much any of them knew about some of the more popular Hunters, especially those that did most of their notable work eleven years ago, and only went back into the field a couple years ago. When he raised her, for 9 years he disappeared from the Hunter scene, but now he was back and Auburn wondered if anyone would draw the connection... or care, about the man who she called father and also saw as a hero. However she had always been such a shut in, perhaps he wasn't as important as she liked to believe perhaps it would mean nothing in the end.

There was still a gap between her and the next Invisible heartless, meaning that Aislinn would have to try and make her way further through the battle at hand. There was more fighting to be had before she could ever make it over to the next Invisible. Frustrated about all this, Aislinn picked up a shadow by the antennas, Aislinn began to spin it over her head before throwing it straight at a Neoshadow that was popping somewhere between her and the Invisible. She watched at the Neoshadow got annoyed and the small shadow seemed to be shying away from the larger heartless. A pang of guilt hit Aislinn in the soul as she watched the Neoshadow picked up the small heartless by the head and the legs. It's long, sharp, claw like fingers dug into the things head and legs as she watched the Neoshadow pull. There was a bit of a tearing sound and then the head was off, both the head and body turning into mist as the glowing yellow eyes of the Neoshadow peered at her, challenging her. Perhaps she should have thought things through before throwing a heartless at another heartless.

Spinning her keyblade around she searched her soul for a familiar force that she knew from before, when she first became a master. Music could be audibly heard around her as Aislinn spun her keyblade around a couple times and let the music carry her forward on light feet. The the beat of a drum her steps danced around the Neoshadow. Her keyblade hit to the sound of the snare. Strike after strike she dodged the long claws as she continued her onslaught. This was for the poor heartless that she exposed to so much pain before it died. She was inflicting equal pain on this heartless before she finally delivered the final blow so that she could move on to her real target, the Invisible that now rose up in front of her, sword out looking ready to try and kill her.

Through all this she managed to close the distance between her and the Invisible. Between the music around her and the extra strength granted to her by the job she chose to use, she didn't worry too much about the Invisible that stood in front of her as she kept on the move. Aislinn knew that the moment that she stopped moving she would not want to start, so she just made sure that she was still hopping around, dancing to the music as she slashed once from it's left shoulder, to right hip, before going from the right shoulder, to the left hip. After that she took her keyblade and drove it forward into where the heart would be if this was a person. The Heartless tried to drive it's own sword forward but that was easy enough to dodge before it crumbled to dust on her keyblade. With that Aislinn needed a moment to breath and recollect her thoughts before she could continue her dance of death that she was forced to go through. A dance that would truly prove her worth as a keyblade Master. If she could survive this then she could survive anything that was waiting for her back at home. She would be confident that she could save her home from whatever state it was left in now. Whatever had happened to her home after she was lost to darkness couldn't have been good, but Aislinn prayed that they were able to hold the walls in the end and keep the city strong. As long as they could do that, she could put an end to the infestation, but first she had to put an end to the heartless here.
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Word Count: 625
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 240
AP: 0/78

Heartless Defeated:
1 Invisible
1 Neoshadow
1 shadow

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 765 Shadows
Defeat 189 Neoshadows
Defeat 200 Darkballs
Defeat 3 Invisibles

Continuing her crusaders escapade through the horde of heartless, picking on the bigger heartless first before bothering with the smaller heartless like some were. Aislinn was quite thankful for those who fought the smaller heartless and kept their attention while she did her work. She wished she could be of a little more help but, she knew that she needed to pace herself. If she was going to deal with the large heartless, she couldn't waste time on the smaller heartless as well. If she tried to do too much at once, she would exhaust herself far too fast and wouldn't be able to keep moving. Still only taking out a few heartless at a time wasn't feeling like she was making nearly as much headway as she would have liked to. Still the number of Invisible heartless was quickly going down and they looked like they could do a lot more damage than the little guys. That being said the little guys in the quantity that they were swarming in could still cause issues if they wanted to. They already were for what she could tell, but Aislinn wouldn't let that slow her down as she set her eyes forward, collecting the energy she needed for another large attack.

Slowing her breathing, Aislinn breathed in once, and as she exhaled, time seemed to slow around her as the faint smell of cherry blossoms filled the air. After that there was small cherry pedals that began to fall around her before she shot forward, time seeming to restore to it's normal flow as she dashed through the air towards the towering Invisible that was standing on a wooden dock. She leaving the beach she hit the wood at the same time she hit the heartless. That was all it took to take him out. A serge of adrenaline pumped through her veins as Aislinn turned to see what was next. The next Invisible floated far enough away that Aislinn knew that she couldn't get over their without fighting at least some things along the way. Starting with the neoshadow that had tried to sneak up behind her as she took in her next course of action. As she turned she missed the feeling of her cloak whipping around behind her. The thing was old and tattered, it had need to be replaced but she still missed it slightly. At least her new outfit was doing alright for her. A new her after all. Jumping around the Heartless she stashed it's arms away from her as it tried to claw at her before turning around and making one last slash towards it's torso. The heartless turned to mist in the air around her keyblade as she did such things.

From there Aislinn didn't miss a beat as she brought her keyblade down just as a heartless popped his head up from the ground where half a shadow still remained. As it managed to pull it's body fully up, Aislinn pulled a second strike at him, not giving the Heartless even a chance to attack before it died itself. She didn't take much joy in this kind of battle and was doing it out of necessity more than anything else. She knew some soldiers and guards that enjoyed the thrill of battle, and to be honest, Aislinn enjoyed a friendly spar, but she didn't care to have anything too serious. It was more just testing herself against someone else and finding out what she could improve. At this point there wasn't even anyone she felt like she was protecting with this battle. She was fighting just to save her own hide, and that was the hardest reason she could think of to fight. Yes she wanted to live, but there could have been so many better reasons to fight, being the kind of person she was, she would die for someone else, but to live just to live, it was harder to reason with.
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Word Count: 662
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 180
AP: 0/78

Heartless Defeated:
1 Invisible
1 Neoshadow
1 shadow

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 814 Shadows
Defeat 196 Neoshadows
Defeat 200 Darkballs
Defeat 4 Invisibles

Having called out for help, Kiara took one last large breath before jumping into battle. She was worn out and bruised by this point, but Kiara was not going to stop yet. She had to deal with these things. Kiara didn't think her magic would do too well against these things so instead she decided to just use the whip blade that she wielded to flick at the robots and wrap it around it's neck. With one hard tug she managed to sever the head from the body. "Nequa bots. Psh. Someone seems a little full of themselves don't they?" Kiara scoffed as she readied her whip to keep going in battle. ​

How come it did not surprise Aislinn when Stratos had jumped into the battle right behind her. It was not a bad thing or anything, but it felt to be suspected from the boy. He seemed to have that sort of personality to him, and Aislinn respected that. She couldn't help but give the boy a small smile before turning towards the mass amount of heartless that were wanting her attention it seemed. Looking around she quickly surveyed the heartless around her, what she needed to fight. While the small ones were everywhere, Aislinn zoned in only on the larger heartless, the six friends of the one that she had defeated moments before. Not the biggest of the heartless out there, but they were ones that Aislinn was certain she would be able to take on herself.

Doing her best to dodge around heartless that were in the area, Aislinn set her sights on an Invisible heartless. It was in a distance but she could manage to get there she was sure. She just had to get over there. Wasting as little time as possible on the smaller heartless, Aislinn was quickly closing the gap between her and her quarry when a Neoshadow rose up in front of her stopping her in her path. Trying to dodge out of the way and keep running, the neoshadow wouldn't allow such things to happen as it moved and launched itself at her swiping with both its claw light hands. Dodging out of the way, Aislinn rolled to avoid the attack, getting the first bit of dirt on her brand new clothes. "You are going to pay for that." Aislinn mumbled. In truth she didn't care that much about how her clothes looked, or how clean or dirty they were, it was simply a reason to fight, something to drive her a little more to fight as she rolled back onto her feet taking her keyblade and slashing at the Neoshadow in a cross shaped motion.

The Neoshadow fell to Aislinn's keyblade, opening the path for her to continue moving once more. She could see the Invisible heartless nearing now and she readied her keyblade to deal with it, when a stray shadow walked out into the path. It wasn't that they were hard to defeat, but this was getting annoying as it leaped at her ready for an attack. This would not be hard to deal with, but it was still annoying. She lashed out with her keyblade sending the heartless flying and hitting the Invisible in the chest. As it did, the Invisible swatted the poor heartless got thrown once again, this time dissipating as it hit the tree. That left one just her target as she faced off against it.

While this heartless wouldn't be as easy as the last two she had just defeated. Smaller heartless tried to jump on her as she readied for battle. Instead of allowing them to get in her way again, Aislinn wrapped herself in a small barrier as she charged passed all the heartless to face her singular target. with her rush attack she managed to slice at the Invisible once before she danced around him, dealing a combo of hits in quick succession, trying to bring down this thing as quickly as she could. It was not falling this heartless as quickly as she did the other one, but that was because she did not have the energy to perform another attack such as she had previously again. While her attacks were still strong, she did need a bit of a break from the heavy hitters to reserve her energy. Soon even this one fell to her blade. Spinning around she surveyed the battle ground once more. Slowly more and more people were joining the hell hole that would be this battle. She silently wished them all luck in their own fights as she was forced to turn her attention back to the heartless. They wouldn't stay off of her for long. She needed to be ready for the next wave of attacks.
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Word Count: 681
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 120
AP: 0/78
Heartless Defeated:
1 Invisible
1 Neoshadow
1 shadow
Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 850 Shadows
Defeat 198 Neoshadows
Defeat 200 Darkballs
Defeat 7 Invisibles
Defeat 1 Darkside

Taking the ring in her hand, Aislinn held it close. The fact that Hikaru had included her in this, it was fantastic... more than fantastic, it was amazing. For someone who had felt outside the group since arriving, to be given this as a way to feel a part of this small group of heroes, it was almost as good as the feeling of finally becoming a master. She would be able to do right by her village, save them where need be. She had strength before but now that power had grown, alongs side these comrades that she had called kids before. Slipping the ring on, Aislinn found her way through the portal appearing on the other side.

Upon arriving on the other side of the portal, what Aislinn found was not what she had expected to see. The sky was dark and gloomy, and there was a man standing withing for them. Aux seemed to know more about all this than anyone, and upon remembering fell to his knees. Aislinn instinctively moved to help him, but stopped knowing he had closer friends like Hikaru waiting to help him. Instead she summoned her keyblade as the strange man started spewing threats at them all, claiming that he wasn't going to be a failure, he was going to prove himself a worthy soldier. Clearly this man didn't take the word "no" very well. A large man with power over heartless throwing a hissy fit, that was exactly what they needed to deal with now, or ever for that matter.

Rolling her eyes and trying to pass it off Aislinn got ready for battle once more, only for another very loud man to join the fray as well. It seemed this man was known by more, and he knew Kaida at the very least. While Aislinn didn't have any clue who he was she assumed they could trust him as he offered to deal with this man, Uniform. That left the heartless to them, and this wasn't going to be an easy fight. It was mere hundreds of heartless that had swarmed causing her to fall to darkness and end up here, and it seemed her next test was to face thousands. This time however she was not alone. This time there was all these wonderful people around her ready to fight.

"Lets give this master thing a try, shall we?" While fear wormed it's way into Aislinn's heart, she still wore a smirk on her face as she twirled her keyblade in her hand before unleashing a powerful first attack. The speed that Zantetsuken carried her, quickly closed the distance between her and the heartless. A large heartless loomed over her, but with several quick slashes she made short work of it as Aislinn twirled and made contact with her next target, a slightly smaller shadow like heartless that stood nearly her height. It took less effort to cleave her way through it before moving on to a couple shadows, making sure that the small ones trying to grasp at her feet had no hold. It was a matter of time before the small amount she shot herself into were gone, but more heartless kept swarming. She managed to take out one of the bigger guys on her own but there were six remaining and countless small heartless. This battle would prove a challenge of will and stamina, Aislinn hoped that no one would fall to it. However looking back at the others, they were all strong, Aislinn had confidence that they could handle this, and if they could, so could she.
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Word Count: 602
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 60
AP: 0/78
Heartless Defeated:
1 Invisible
1 Neoshadow
1 shadow
Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 899 Shadows
Defeat 199 Neoshadows
Defeat 200 Darkballs
Defeat 6 Invisibles
Defeat 1 Darkside

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No sooner had her thoughts finished before there was a crashing sound as someone broke through the window. Thankfully Tinarah already had her keyblade out and readied it as she placed her violin down behind her. A woman followed the man, one that seemed to know Mr. Incredible, and from what she could tell they weren't on friendly terms. A quick test confirmed that her magic still wasn't working, it seemed like they would have to fight their way out of this one. But Mr. Incredible did a make a good point, the two were horribly outnumbered. The situation only got worse when Mr. Incredible threw a table at them. Tinarah managed to keep out of the way, thanks to her not standing around the bigger cluster of people talking, but now they had a pretty big issue.

Alright no magic and Mr. Incredible working against them, Tinarah managed to figure out that it must have been the woman who had done that with whatever weird thing happened with her goggles moments before. Looking to Thallasa she got a nod of approval before Tinarah turned her attention towards the woman. She knew she had to be fast if she was to do anything, chances were the strange man and Mr. Incredible were made to protect this one, given she could somehow control people. Maybe if Tinarah was able to take her out, she could break the spell on Mr. Incredible... if that was actually what it was. Given that she couldn't use magic, it seemed weird to think this could be magic itself.

As she charged, Aria seemed to join her, likely having the same idea as she did. Maybe between the two of them they could get the upper hand on the lady before it got too bad. They needed to deal with this quick. If she could do what she did to more people and she caught Master Thallasa with that spell, things could be really, really bad. She wasting no time Tinarah went to strike at the lady a few times, before leaving an opening for Aria to join her. She could only hope this would work. ​

While not many paid mind to her playing, her brother stood in front of her, listening to her play the entire time. She supposed in the time she was gone, not everything had changed, this... this felt the same. He had always listened to her play and encouraged it. The small woman that was walking around, Tinarah hardly noticed as she finished her song and held her violin at her side. "Thanks.... It has been a while since I played moms violin, but... I think she is still here, with it. I can feel her." Tinarah admitted. Her mind then flashed to the last time she spoke of her mother, such disdain as Torrin tried to convince her to get angry over everything that her mother had done, the fact her mother had gotten herself killed. Tinarah started feeling guilty about the fact she blamed so much on her mother.

Taking a step back Tinarah as Chrono started to talk about the outfits. She would let him rejoin talking with his friends, meanwhile she still felt like she had a lot on her mind. Looking down she studied the blue violin for a while before she put it back in it's case. She itched to play more, but now wasn't the time or the place. Instead Tinarah summoned her keyblade to her and looked at it for a while, pondering if she would have done her mother proud, wondering if her mother would have been mad at all she had said about her. There was a sense of warmth though, Tinarah knew that deep down her mother could never be mad at her. She just now had to live a life that would make her mother proud. Her mother who was fearless and strong and creative. Intelegent, ambitious, and outgoing. Everything Tinarah wasn't. Still perhaps she had been given a chance to do something with her life. Given a chance to help other people when she lacked the strength to help herself. It was something she had to take, the reason that she was here even though she was nearly on deaths door just a couple days before. She wouldn't lose sight of that now. ​

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One after the other her comrades followed her into the battle against Nequa, and while Kiara wanted the killing blow she wasn't going to turn down the help. However even after their on slaughter of attacks, Nequa still managed to walk out of it like it was nothing. Moments later, Kiara spotted why. Instead of seeing scared flesh and smoldering hair, there stood a body made of metal and circuits that soon collapsed. She stared down at the hunk of metal for a moment as a voice blasted over a speaker.

Looking up she noticed several more of the robots come out as the voice laughed at them. While it was pissing Kiara off even more, she realized her mistake in using her limit when she did. She was feeling the exhaust wash over her even as she knew she still had a battle at hand. This wasn't going to be good, she knew that much, as suddenly spells where flung at them. Kiara was forced to jump back and go on the defense as various magic hit her, some harming her and others healing her. Out of the corner of her eye she caught Yue getting inside the labs, Kiara just hoped she could handle this on her own as she took another step back trying to dodge some more of the magic. Flames wouldn't be enough in this case, it wouldn't hurt them. "Yo metal boy, I need you to help deal with these guys." She called back to Koa. Taking a few steps forward Kiara made an effort to go back on offense to give Koa an opening to help, but it was clear that her energy was starting to fail her at this point and she was barely hanging on. ​

"We really aren't hero... Well they might be..." Tinarah tried to insist but looked to the others. They had all done far more than she had, they continued the fight against the Light Chaser while she had let so many people sacrafice their lives for her while she felt like she had gotten no further ahead in life. She certainly wouldn't call it being a hero. "Besides I don't even want to be a hero." She admitted in the end, but her protests seemed to fall on deaf ears as the woman who had been on the other side of the screen appeared to greet them.

She lead them inside, the house itself was incredible but Tinarah wasn't as focused on that as she looked back towards the two apparent heroes, then to Master Thallasa. Was this really what they needed to be doing with their time? It didn't feel like they were being all that helpful just sitting around here, but that was what was insisted upon, much to Tinarah's displeasure. The only thing that made it a little bit better was that Chrono had come to bring her their mothers violin. "Thank you. I have missed this old thing. I wonder if it still plays as nicely as I remember." After being spoiled with the overly nice Violin that Stamatis got for her, she wondered if your mothers still held up. Either way it was still nice to have a piece of her mother with her.

While it wasn't the time or place, Tinarah couldn't help but bring the violin up to her chin. "Mom I missed you so much." She whispered quietly as she closed her eyes and began to play, letting that part of her come alive again. That distant connection with her mom. She had learned to move on and let go, but a part of her still missed this. Chrono or Aria might have been able to tell, that over the years that Tinarah was gone, her skills only increased significantly when it came to playing the violin. And while she did notice this one was not as nice as her old one, it didn't bother her, just knowing it was her moms was enough.​

Sitting watching the horizon, Cerdic felt another person approach and sit beside him. He knew who it was before he even looked, there was only one person who would come after him, whether he wanted it or not. And of course Daeni wanted him to talk and share what was bothering him. The problem was, he had no desire to talk about such things. He didn't care to share his troubles. He came out here to be alone and that wasn't working all that well. "I don't hate you Daeni but I want to be alone right now. You have your own job while I keep watch anyways. I don't need help." Cerdic stated getting up ready to walk away from the girl when the earth shook.

"What the hell?" Cerdic questioned as he ran towards the cave to see what was going on. What he saw really got under his skin as he saw Mora laying their, darkness pouring out of her. "One job that you failed to do apparently! Why in the world did you leave Mora alone? You were supposed to watch her and take care of her. She clearly wasn't doing well and you just left her? Alder and Chrono are busy working on the extractor. I was taking watch! You just had to make sure Mora was doing okay! Who the hell cares how I am doing? I wasn't the one that was passing out!" Cerdic freaked out at Daeni as Ria's voice echoed through the cave.

Running inside Cerdic noticed where the darkness was seeping and he placed himself between it and where Alder and Chrono were working. "You two better hurry up. I can try and hold them off but I don't know how long and this seems like the best lead we got to making a difference." Cerdic yelled back at Chrono and Alder, hoping they could do it in time and hoping they could save Mora. ​

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Before Tinarah could get her violin back they were moving on to the person's place that was apparently going to let them stay there, in theory. Clearly Mr. Incredible didn't ask them just kind of volunteered them out. It was surprising that this town didn't have a hotel or something that they could stay at, but she supposed they would take what they could get, besides Tinarah didn't even know if anyone actually had money to put towards a place to stay. She couldn't afford to be picky.

A short walk later and they were approaching what seemed like a mansion of sorts where a laser time gateway was blocking their way. Mr. Incredible walked up to a screen and started to talk and a voice was heard on the other end before a face was seen on the other side, staring closely at the screen before the conversation continued, to the point Tinarah wasn't sure how long they should let this go on for. Finally as they got access and started to walk in Tinarah had the nerves to speak up. "Um.... We aren't really heroes. We don't need costumes or masks, just a place to stay and rest until we can figure out what is going on with this thing blocking our magic." Tinarah tried to inform Mr. Incredible. She wasn't okay with just lying her way through this, besides she didn't want a new costume, so it was better to tell him straight up. They weren't heroes.It didn't make sense to Tinarah why no one else was willing to say that. ​

A retreat? No this was something even better as Nequa stepped out shortly after the kid disappeared. "So you are finally done hiding behind those pathetic guards of yours? Good to see. I look forward to this." For so long Kiara wanted to deal with Nequa, and now here she was standing in front of her. "This will be fun." A smirk was on her lips as she got ready to put everything she had into this fight. She wanted to make sure that Nequa was dead, indisputably dead. She had held off long enough at this rate. Turning to her team she smiled a bit. "You might want to stay back." She warned as the small ball of fire started to glow hot and grow bigger, the power from it could be felt in the air as Kiara started to channel her limit into one attack.

The blast she sent at Nequa was strong enough that it sent Kiara stumbling back a couple steps, but the place that Nequa was, and the area around it was soon quickly engulfed in her flames. Before it all fully had time to settle down, Kiara went diving into it, knowing that the flames wouldn't hurt her as she looked through the haze to start her assault on Nequa, using quick strong attacks in rapid succession in the area that she was pretty sure that Nequa was in. It might have been over the top and brash, but Kiara wasn't going to lose this time. ​

Disappointment washed over Tinarah when Thallasa announced the group that was going to check it out. While Thallasa tried to back her decision why not to send Tinarah, it felt a little more like an excuse and not a real reason. She didn't need her brother to go with her, nothing said he had to go, and looking at Torrin, he could have been in better shape. That being said so could she. Her lungs still burned from the intake of smoke earlier. Looking back between the group of chosen and Thallasa, Tinarah knew better than to question those who were above her and backed down instead of fighting it.

Everyone was starting to interact and wish each other luck as the scouting party prepared to depart, but Tinarah took a step back, trying to separate herself from that, the disappointment of it all. She glanced over at Aria, wondering if the girl felt the same way that she did, after all both of them had been worried about not even being allowed to help on these missions, and now they were both being forced to stay behind as Take, Torrin, and Boreas scouted ahead for them, likely waiting with some strange lady that may or may not tolerate them for the night.

After a moment Tinarah walked over to her brother since there was only one thing she could think of that would help her calm herself. "Can I have my violin back? Take said you were holding onto it for me." She asked her brother quietly. It may not be appropriate to play right now, but her violin might make her feel better, and this one... this one she hadn't seen for over five years. This violin had once meant everything to her and she hadn't even held it since getting back, much less played it. ​

"There is a few places outside that I noticed were decent to sit around if we need." If he could remember how to get to them. Everette had a general idea but his memory was a bit foggy and it always turned into problems. It didn't seem to him that it would matter where they set up anyways, just somewhere that would get Sam away for a bit. "But I agree you need a breather Sam, so lets sit outside somewhere. We can go over samples, and if you find anything then we can move from there, if there is anything with the water from the well, then we will go to the river. If not we don't need to." Everette stated. "And Renza can stay with us as long as she is allowed, but I don't see the need to keep her here if the Chief needs her elsewhere." He also added. ​