Ria was a bit surprised to hear two offers come suddenly from Cerdic and Alder. Cerdic's answer seemed, unlikely, but quite possible. While Alder's certainly seemed likely, but Ria was not sure he needed it. Ria seemed to ponder for a moment before looking at Alder and saying, "While your offer is tempting and I believe you, it is not something I require. And, well to be frank my friend. I want you dead. Gone. Poof. Which is why Cerdic's little scheme with the journal is not going to give any of you a pass whatsoeve-" Ria heard a tearing noise, and looked over at Cerdic. He lowered his hand which stopped Mora from choking and instead made her cough, she looked drained and tired and Ria began to make their way towards Cerdic saying, "Ya know, I guess you're right. You did hide it somewhere, didn't you? Well, at least you didn't lie. Though, I'm not quite sure how I feel about you ripping up the pages. Therefore-" Ria lifted his hand and darkness from the circle came out and began to surround Cerdic. It was not nearly as paralyzing as the one in the circle, in fact with enough willpower Cerdic could probably escape. Ria walked on over and said, "I'll happily take the book from you now." There was a moment where Ria freed one of Cerdic's hands to reach the book, and Ria held their hand out as if ready to accept it, "I'll let you go, hero." But in an instant, Ria noticed Relli coming at him from the corner of his eye. Erratic, uncontrolled, and swinging the keyblade with as much force as possible, going straight for Ria's leg's like the last time Relli attempted. Though this time, it worked perfectly, as Ria's reaction time was not nearly as good after what happened with Marley. And Ria ended up losing their grip on Cerdic with the darkness, but he was able to at least push Cerdic away from him, just away from the group before falling down. Relli got on top of Ria and dropping the keyblade, began punching the lights out of the guy. Between each punch, Relli gritted their teeth as they commented, "I've had enough of your games! I've had enough of you killing everyone! I have had enough of not knowing what's going on! I've had enough of your ugly mug speaking with their know-it-all attitude." Relli gave one more solid punch before yelling, "Fuck you!" Ria laid on the ground for a moment to process it before chuckling a bit and saying, with Alder's voice, "You have no idea what you're dealing with, do you, Princey? If you did, you wouldn't have left your keyblade." Relli moved to go and summon it out once more before Ria grabbed Relli by the neck and darkness began to surround him and said, "At this rate, I'm gonna have to get rid of all of the ones I don't need to be rid of. But this is fine." Relli struggled to get out of his grasp, shaking uncontrollably and struggling before Relli looked tired out and seemed to slowly stop before Relli started to disappear into light as Ria said, "And... goodbye." he let go and Relli disappeared before Ria just kind of laid there on the floor, trying to catch their breath saying. They rolled over shaking, until they were at least on their hands and knees. Their breathing was heavy and they seemed to be struggling a lot before the ground turned to darkness and they disappeared into it. Trying to not show that much weakness anymore. Mora took a breath and said, "The- the crystals. There are five of them. One in each corner of the village, and one up there." Mora pointed up towards the top of the cave and said, "If... if you can break them, it should free the circle and we can get out of here... If we can only break a few, we might be able to struggle our way out of here without passing out..." Mora started shaking a lot before she started crying, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry..."
Take listened to Tinarah express her feelings about Choma leaving and the fear of getting hurt. He understood this completely, not because he had this problem himself anymore, but he knew he used to. He was a bit hesitant to bring up the fact he was "used to it" as he didn't think that was going to help. Takehiko raised an eyebrow and asked, "You think Master Choma would leave us alone if he didn't think we were strong enough to handle ourselves?" he crossed his arms to think of some solution for her and said, "Tell you what. If you're worried about us getting hurt, how about you use that cure spell Choma just taught us and give it some practice so you can heal us better? Being a healer isn't any less important as someone out there and fighting... though..." Take stopped himself before he even stated his thoughts. He wasn't sure how to word it and he was worried he'd sound stupid. He tried to word it as best as he could in his head but instead it slipped out, "Sometimes people have to get hurt so they can learn how not to get hurt." once he said he it kind of stood there for a moment and said, "Iunno. Just. You can do this. Just..." he shook his head and said, "Just... you'll be fine." and he didn't really know what else to say.
