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Joslyn Taylor Jones
DAY: 53 - 2/5 | DATE: November 13th, 2013 [Wednesday] | LOCATION: Hotel in Taupo, New Zealand

Rubbing his temples, the little boy shook his head and let out an exasperated sigh "No, no...its fine..." It seemed like there was something on his mind that bothered him a little bit. Was it seeing her again? She really hoped that wasn't the case. "If its not rude, may I ask why you are so nervous? I mean I've seen many nervous people...but nothing like you," he said before closing his eyes and rubbing his temples again. "Er...no offence or anything." The boy said as he opened his eyes and raised his hand. "but still...You must learn the true meaning of courage...only then will you be able to go forth and grasp it!" He said enthusiastically as he clenched his fist.

"Wow, I never expected to hear that from him. This little one is just full of surprises. Well, we need to answer him regarding your whole nervousness issue." The fallen angel off-handedly commented.

"Uh, well... S-see, the th-th-thing about that i-is..." The girl twiddled her fingers faster as she looked around nervously.

"Don't say that you were in a mental hospital. That won't help our case at all." Azazel advised the girl.

"Uh, umm," She struggled to find the words to say to this little boy that wouldn't set off flags in his mind. "Y-you see..." It almost felt like she was sweating bullets at this point. "Um, w-well... I-it's j-j-just that, I'm n-n-not used to b-being o-outside without a c-certain s-so-someone."

"Ok, that's good. Keep going, keep going."

"B-but, you see... This s-so-someone was a g-gi-gi-girl that I was r-re-really close to... a-an-and along the w-wa-way... S-sh-she got kidnapped..." Her eyes stopped frantically looking around and drooped down as her fingers slowly came to a stand still. "R-right in f-fro-front of me, too..."

"Honey, I know this is hard for you, but you need to focus on the task at hand. I miss Xath just as much as you do, but right now, we need to concentrate on recruiting this little kid, ok?" The girl silently nodded before continuing to speak.

"B-but, I-I'm trying to b-be stronger. For h-her sake, at l-lea-least... I-I know that wh-what we s-sa-said the o-other day w-was outlandish, b-but it's the t-tru-truth!" She tried to be more assertive as she spoke. "A-actually... A-a l-l-lot of the o-o-others th-thought it was c-cr-crazy, too. B-but e-e-even so, w-we were able t-t-to c-convince th-them..." Her voice trailed off as she remembered that Hana was largely responsible for recruiting most of the fallen that had come with them.

"Look, you're doing great, honey. Just keep at it!" The angel offered her words of encouragement.

"I-I don't really kn-know wh-what else to say, now..." The unnerved teenager said to the angel residing within her.​

 

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The girl was absolutely terrified, at least that's what it looked like to William as he listened to her speak with such a great stutter. Regardless of how difficult it was to make out what she was saying, William listened to her words without complaint and crossed his arms once more. This was really difficult for the girl and strangely her words begun to make much more sense than before.

She lacked the necessary social skill most people had and she was too reliant on her friend. With that friend gone and having it done right before her, William could only imagine the turmoil the girl before him must have been feeling at moment. It was a conflicting feeling for William in which he felt that the girl had made no lies, that what she said was the truth, but the sheer ridiculousness of the situation made it just too difficult to understand.

He didn't know what it was that made up his mind, but William closed his eyes. "What is courage...to blindly rush into a fray?...NO...that is not courage...that is stupidity....just what is courage? courage is being able to utilize your fears, use it as power!" William said closing his eyes calmly. "Very well...I shall put my trust into you and accept your words...and If you so desire I can teach you the method of true courage" William said opening his eyes with a small smile. Maybe it was the determination that the nervous girl had shown that changed his mind, but in the end he chose believe in her crazy story and travel with them

 

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[/url]Ahranna had been eating a snack she got from the vending machine when some blond kid came in. She remembered seeing him from the mirrors and stuff and knew him to be Adam, host of Semyaza. He was the one Harbonah had been working over. Brandon and she had been talking more about what he and his friends were doing in New Zealand. He was doing his best to not let anything slip, but she couldn't help but pry a little bit, learning about how they were traveling the globe. Brandon didn't really say why, but of course she knew. Adam hadn't been in the car with Brandon and neither had an older couple. The names he called them by were interesting. She had to physically remind herself that what he called them wasn't actually their name, but some obscure resemblance of it.​

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"Hey Brandon. Hope you are doing well. I brought you a ball. Don't go crazy." Adam placed the ball on the side table and turned. It wasn't until after he turned that he apparently noticed there was another person in the room and he jumped in surprise, "Bloody hell... oh. I didn't... huh. Who is this, or rather who are you?"​

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The corners of her eyes crinkled as she smiled up at him and rose to her feet. Ahranna held out her hand to shake his while introducing herself. "The name's Ahranna. Unfortunately, I'm kind of the reason why your friend Brandon here and the other one -- ... Kai, was it? -- are in the hospital. It was like their car came out of nowhere and then it was swerving to avoid hitting me." She looked up at him sheepishly and returned to her seat beside Brandon's bed. "You must be Adam. I've heard a good deal about the lot of you. Brandon told me that you and your friends have just been traveling the world. That's so fascinating. I was just telling him that I wish I could just pack up and leave -- travel the globe -- like that, when you walked in. I bet you've just had tons of exciting adventures."​

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She smiled up at Adam and twisted a lock of her technicolored hair around her finger. Ahranna ran her fingers through the tips and chewed on her lower lip. From what she gathered, Azazel wasn't with them right now. She needed to bide her time until the other half of their group returned, but once they did, it would make things more difficult. She was informed that Raziel had been keeping a rather watchful eye on Azazel as of late. It would definitely be a challenge, but one she was up for.​

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Cora watched the couple before her in silence. Her eyes were smiling though. Even though they had lost their children, they still had each other. Cora wasn't so fortunate to have anyone from the life she lived previously. "Vell, no important to know details," she said as she set the mug on the table and leaned back against her chair. "Zeh power vithin me came alive for short bit. Nothing more." The Russian was distant, thinking back to yesterday. She remembered how shook up she was from the whole experience; not just saving the baby, but what a horrible thing the young mother almost did. The mother must have been suffering greatly to go as far as disposing her own child. It was an upsetting story, even though it ended on somewhat of a good note. Henrik stated bluntly, responding to her offer of a place to stay.​

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"Someone else has been paying for the rooms." Henrik stated bluntly, responding to her offer of a place to stay.

"But we'll take up your offer if it's not too much trouble. Thank you."​

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Cora nodded her head and spun her mug slowly, looking down at the dark liquid. Anything she could do to help for now on, she would be willing to offer her assistance. Although now she thought about it, she wondered if it was such a good idea to split up. Perhaps they all needed to stay in the same place, just in case. Cora had not met any of the Dark Angels yet that Adam and Henrik kept telling her about for the last few days, nor did she ever want to. ​

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"What made you leave Russia?"​

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The Russian raised an eyebrow when she saw Iris elbow Henrik and then chuckled. "He iz fine, he iz fine." She stopped spinning the mug on the table top and kept it in her hands, feeling the warmth of the liquid inside seep into her hands. "After I lose husband and unborn child, I vas not myself. Staying in Russia, no. Vas no option for me. I vould not be here if I stayed." She looked up at Henrik and Iris, the light that was in her eyes moments before was gone. Even though she had a steady voice and was not upset as she was yesterday, she still felt the overwhelming sorrow billow inside of her. This couple were much older than her, but Cora felt like she could relate to them in a sense of losing a loved one and their own children. "Too much zorrow in Russia... Too much pain to face. I choose new place to go. I had no one, I vas alone. America vas too cliche" Cora forced a smirk and took a sip of her lukewarm chocolate. "Zoh, I picked here. Started new life. Now I begin new chapter, vith you."​

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Spoiler: Arbitrary Self Training Post #11

Spoiler: Round 1

So here Sal was, once again in the odd dream world, to fight to his angel's heart's content. If everything followed the

usual order than because he just did things that were sun related, he should be moving into the next rank in his earth

powers. He hadn't actually used those much yet, but one of these days he was sure it was going to come in handy to have.

He stared down at the opposite side from where he was standing to see what was spawning in this round. It was simply seven

shadow types. Strength in numbers maybe, but that strength wasn't going to help them against Sal at all.

The round started with all of the shadows sprinting at him at quite the ferocious rate, and quite rapidly. Well that was a

bit annoying. They did their usual circular motion around Sal and he looked around he was getting himself prepped for a

fight against them. They were most likely going to do their usual combinations of various feints followed by actual

attacks. That was going to be slightly annoying to deal with but nothing that Sal hadn't dealt with in the past. Looking

around Sal saw them beginning to do their usual combination of feints and that's when he knew that the attacks were

coming.

One launched itself at him, and Sal turned around to meet it head on with his fist. The shadow collapsed instantly on

contact with his fist, and then three others shot at him. Sal turned to see the three coming at him from the front only to

realize that three from the back were now coming at him as well. Sal kicked backward, punched forward, and then spun kick

around killing five of the six shadows. With only one shadow left, it tried to be brave and do super special tactics, to

try and beat Sal, but Sal just punched the thing once and it died, thus ending the first round.

Spoiler: Round 2

Sal was standing there, kind of thrilled that such a large number of foes were kind of really easy to beat what with just

his basic fighting prowess. Now he had to wait for the next opponents of this whole self training thing to spawn in for

him to fight. Sal cracked his knuckles and stretched out a bit awaiting his next opponents. He looked over to see that the

wisps of darkness forming in were creating his new opponents to be. It was simply two beast types and...seven shadow types

again. Well this was probably going to be probably really annoying. Heck he might even lose this round. Oh well.

The round started off like one would quite expect it to. The shadows charged at him at their usual speedy manner and the

beasts charged at their usual moderately fast manner. Sal watched as the shadow types started to circle around him,

getting ready to unleash his unholy holy fury upon them. That's when he realized how awful fighting these things were

going to be. Those beasts were going to be on him soon, and fighting a swarm of fasts with a couple of powers spelt bad

news bears.

Sal was getting ready for the onslaught when he noticed the feints stop and the beasts get right on him. He dodged the

first beast's attacks and was getting ready to dodge the second beast's attack when something...bad, happened. He got hit

in the back by three shadows all at once and was then met with a large powerful punch, sending him flying. Afterwards, the

seven shadows all started dog piling him and were totally beating the ever living **** out of him, before the two beasts

came in, grabbed him, and body pressed him. With that done, Sal had lost the round.

Spoiler: Round 3

Round three was probably going to be just as awful as round two. Why? Just some sort of gut feeling Sal had. Honestly,

being body pressed to death was a new way to go out for him, so he was kind of interested in what other ways they were

going to kill him this time...as morbid as that sounded. Maybe he had started to become far too comfortable with dying. Oh

well, that wasn't really much of an issue here in this dream world anyway. After Sal had been painfully put back together

he got ready to go and get totally killed again this round.

The round started off with the shadows and beasts rushing towards him like lunatics. This time there was no circular

formation. There were no feints. And there definitely seemed to be less planning involved. Were Sal not expecting

something different, aka a more well thought out attack, he probably would've taken them down. Quite easily at that.

However he had just lost to a well planned attack, and so he was taken off guard by the sudden surge of attacks towards

him.

He was able to dodge the first few shadow attacks, and was able to dodge the two beast attacks as well. However, the

remaining shadow types were able to hit him, causing him to lose balance and shift around a bit. After picking himself

back up, he got ready to bring the pain down upon his foes, only for said foes to now be looming over him and tackling

him. After the shadows had effectively just barreled into him, the beasts then finished the deal by tossing his body

around like some sort of a rag doll before he finally bit the dust.

Spoiler: Round 4

Alright alright, this time, it was going to be way different. Sure the last two rounds he had gotten his ass handed to

him, and quite one sidedly he might add, but this time, he just knew that he was going to win. He wasn't going to be

tricked by some sort of weird tactic that these creatures came up with out of nowhere. No he was going to beat the ****

out of these little asshats and there was no way he was going to get bested by them. This was round four and he was going

to kick ass and take names.

The round started off with the shadows sprinting off the line and went straight towards Sal. Next up were the two beast

types that were coming into to attack him as well. The shadows started circling around him and the beasts then jumped into

the circle as well. He swiftly dodged the first attack, and then knew that a barrage of shadows that were going to attack

him. Sal then ducked down, and kicked off the second beast, dodging the shadow barrage altogether.

Now that he was out of the way, the shadows then went over to try and kill him all at once. He punched the first shadow,

killing it, and dodged around the next three. He then punched thrice more at the other three killing them as well. The two

beasts were now on top of him, and he simply weaved around them and punched them as well. They were still kicking around,

but with the shadows mostly dead, he was feeling more confident than before. The next wave of attacks were much easier to

deal with. The shadows went down easily enough, and the next attacks from the beasts were easily and dodgeable and he was

easily able to bring them down, thus ending round four.

Spoiler: Round 5

So that last round went rather well if Sal did say so himself. It was always a pleasing thing to bring those ****ers who

beat him down, but he had to continue thinking forward about this whole training thing. He was curious as to what his next

opponent was going to be. Looking over, he saw his new enemies spawning in away from him. Oh how these old foes of him

were going to cause distress for him. It was nothing short of three shambler types coming at him. He simply stretched a

bit and got ready for whatever this round was going to bring at him.

The round started as it would usually with these shambling freaks, and that was simply them firing off tentacles spikes at

him in their usual etremely lethal fashion. Sal could only dodge around these attacks and try to plot out some form of

counter attack towards these *******s while trying not to die. It was a total of fifteen tentacle spikes coming at him at

any given moment, and as such it wasn't entirely the easiest thing to just deal with. Eventually, though, he figured that

enough waiting was enough and just went for it.

The attacks were coming at him at such a rapid pace that even trying to dodge while moving was proving to be hard. He felt

the need to constantly just stop to help further his advance, but he started to realize that this was a bit on the

counter-productive side. It was just getting him more cut up and stalled him even furhter. Eventually Sal decided to just

charge at the things again, but his body was a bit too damaged to continue running and dodging at such a hurried pace. As

such, he eventually fell prey to them and couldn't continue his reckless charge, this causing him to get impaled by all

the spikes and sliced to bits before the round was truly over.

Spoiler: Round 6

Okay, so that loss was rather embarassing. Really he had no idea why he decided to approach that situation in such a

flawed manner, but he did and he had paid the price for it. He started to feel the healing effects of the magic of

Zachariel on him once more. Oh good lord how painful this was, but how effective it was. His body was all back up and

running, ready and operational and he felt as though he could take on anyone. Granted there were only three oponnents to

take on, but hey, he could easily do it.

The round started off as it had done so last time. He was simply tasked with avoiding these shambler's attacks. That being

said, those attacks consisted of five tentacle spikes from each shambler. So yeah, it was a bit of pain to try and dodge

all of it. But he continued to put in his best effort until he finally got a good dodging rhythm going on. Oh man this was

quite the good habit to get into really, and he was, at this point, just biding his time and waiting for an attack

opportunity to present itself.

Sal had eventually found a good time to do some of his usual charging at the oponnent stuff, and dodging all while doing

it. He knew that if he was going to have a shot at this, stopping was by no means an option. However, with spirit

undettered, he continued going forward until he was close enough to the first shambler and punched it the **** out. With

that one dead, the necessary reactions to continue dodging decreased drastically. As such, charging the next two shamblers

and punching the **** out of them to win this round, was considerably easier.

Spoiler: Round 7

Alright, next thing on the agenda was bringing down his next opponents of course. He felt slightly refreshed after that

last fight, and as such, could only get psyched for the next round. However that was not going to be the case for long

because he soon realized that he was going to most likely lose this round...just some sort of innate gut feeling that told

him so. The enemies that spawned in were nothing more than five shadow types. Two of which were just...average. Three of

which, however, had a sun aura blanketing them. Oh well that was a it of a problem.

The round started of with the shadow types just rushing straight at him. The sun shadows were clearly ahead of the regular

shadows and their speed was far exceeding that of the regulars. So how was a man to deal with this sort of a situation?

Sal got ready for the shadows to make their way over to him, and was going to bring the pain down on them with his fists

almost immediately. However, the plan went slightly awry when the sun shadows stopped and let the regular shadows pass by

them.

Sal then went into to punch those two regular shadow types down, only to be met with an immediate counter assault from the

sun shadows. Their sudden shift in speed was not something he was entirely expecting, and as such he was taken completely

by surprise by it. After getting hit by the attack, he was knocked a bit off balance and the regular shadows then decided

to take it upon themselves and beat him up as well. Not being able to move at all under the unrelenting pressure of these

extremely fast shadows, Sal was eventually overwhelmed and lost.

Spoiler: Round 8

So, that last loss was. admidetly, pretty embarassing. He had lost against an armoy of nothing but shadow types, the

weakest of all three archetypes. Oh well. All that meant was that he was going to have to step it up a bit against them in

the rematch. Though, he had this odd sense that even now he was more than likely going to lose this round. His body

started to repair itself via Zachariel's healing abilities and he slowly picked himself back up, stretched a bit, and was

ready to get on with the round.

The round started off just as it had with the last one. The shadows all rushed towards him at a breakneck pace in their

regular shadow fashion. The two regulars kept to being slower this while the sun shadows started to run extremely fast and

started circling around Sal.These fats enemy types were quite difficult to read and so he wasn't entirely sure how he was

going to deal with them. It was soon after their circling of him that the shadows started to make their move against him.

It started with the sun shadow types sprinting in towards him and then feinting out. Quite annoying really. Then the two

regular shadows came in during said feint and hit Sal down. The three sun shadows then followed up their attack and

continued to knock Sal around as well. Sal tired to think of what to do in this sort of a situation, but he just really

couldn't. Instead, he eventually succumbed to the stupidly fast beat downs and Sal had against this team up again. Boo.

Spoiler: Round 9

Well that last round had gone just about as wel as the other round preceding it. That being, it didn't go well at all.

Sal's body was extremely battered and bruised and as such, Zachariel's healing started taking place. Once his body was

completely and totally repaired, he got up and stretched around a bit, now ready to take on all these shadow enemies. He

stared down the shadows and figured it was do or die time against them, and as such, was fully pysched to go on to round

nine.

Round nine started with the shadows blitzing forward towards him and Sal was ready to bring the darkspawns down. The suns

started doing their regular circular notion against him, but they had ended up forming some sort of outer circle around

him. Meanwhile, the regular shadows types formed some sort of inner circle around him. He had no idea what tactics they

were going for, but he wasn't about to let them go and win again.

The shadows started the assault and the two regular ones came in, only to feint out. During this, the sun ones came in,

but feinted out as well. This pattern continued until they were ready to strike at the angel man. So, seeing this coming

at him, Sal was able to spot when the regular shadows finally began their assault against him. Rather than killing them,

though, he simply grabbed them and then tossed them at the now approaching sun shadow types. Two of them smacking into the

other two, killed four instantly, and Sal just had to punch out the final sun shadow and won the round.

Spoiler: Round 10

Sal had been easily pleased with his victory against those asshat shadows, and was now feeling ready to be able to take on

any sort of enemy that could be thrown at him. To help further this confidence boost, there was a sudden glow of green and

blue surrounding him. Right on, he was wearing the earth aura now. With this extreme strength increase, Sal was curious as

to what his next opponents were going to be, only to see that it was five sun shadow types spawning in. Well this was

going to be fu~n.

The round started off with the sun shadows sprinting straight towards the angel man. Rather than try some sort of all in

rush though, they simply started circling around him at insane speeds like they normally would. Sal was quite curious what

kind of strategy that they would imploy this time, and was waiting around for something to happen. It was then that the

shadows started to go straight at him, and feint. God, all of this feinting was getting quite annoying to deal with.

The sun shadows then began their assault, by having two on opposite sides feint at him, and one attack him right from the

get go. When the sun shadow hit him, Sal wasn't exactly able to respond due to its speed. However, he did notice something

interesting about the attack. It barely hurt at all. The next two then charged at Sal after he took the hit, and then

turned around and punched one while getting hit by the other. As the other one hit him, the last three converged on him

only to realize that the blow did not phaze him at all, to which he simply beat the **** out of the last four and ended

the round.

Spoiler: Round 11

He enjoyed this earth aura, really he did. It made him feel quite powerful to not really feel any attack that an enemy

could send at him. The increase in strength was one thing, but the increase in defensive capabilities made it all the

better. He knew, though, that was only part of the test and that he was now just reaching the halfway mark for these

trials. So what to do other than just continue fighting on. He looked over to see what the enemy spawning in was like, and

saw that it was two shadows and one beast, both with sun aura. Well this was going to be fun.

So the round started off with the unusual tag team mechanics of the beast and the shadows. That being, the shadows jumping

on the beast, and the beast essentially bull charging Sal at sun aura speeds. Well that was certainly not a fun thing he

was going to have to deal with at all. The attacks, he figured, were going to be pretty unpredicatable given their

incredible speed, but hey, that wasn't going to put Sal down...well at least not this round.

The odd combo made their way towards Sal and eventually came in to bring the hurt down on him. The sun beast flung the two

sun shadows at him, and they just sort of soared towards the angel man. Due to them being flung and off the ground, they

had absolutely no control whatsoever, and as such, Sal punched them both out of the sky before they could become a

problem. All that left to deal with was the sun beast, who just sort of charged at Sal. The attacks were slightly hard to

dodge, due to them being much faster than usual, but it wasn't something he couldn't handle, and as such he just beat the

beast back and ended the round.

Spoiler: Round 12

Well that round was solved easily enough, no real challenge there at all. While he wasn't exactly disappointed with the

results, he still figured that there was going to be larger challenges ahead in this fight. He looked over to see what his

opponents for this round would be to see that it was just two shadows and one shambler. Granted they both had sun auras,

but he wasn't exactly seeing the big deal about them. Though he did have this foreboading feeling about it, but decided to

brush it off and continue regardless.

The round started off as one would expect it to. The sun shadow types sprinted as they usually would and the sun shambler

attacked as it usually would. Only there was a large problem with this sun shambler, and that was that it was spewing out

six tentacle spikes at him all at once, and they were going really fast. As good as Sal was at dodging these things, he

was not nearly well of enough to dodge these attacks unscathed. Granted his earth aura made the damage as less as it could

go, and Sal decided not to wait around anymore.

As such, he charged at the sun shambler almost immediately after getting into his dodging groove and sprint dodged towards

it. This was met with extreme faliure. Why? Well for starters the attacks from the sun shambler were still hitting Sal and

so he was still getting injured during this charge. However, the real killer, was the sun shadows attacking him. Normally

their attacks wouldn't make him flinch, but they were going for spots already wounded, and as such, Sal lost mobility and

got skewered to death by the sun shambler.

Spoiler: Round 13

Okay, so that could have gone better had he been paying attention more. Doing these really spaced out was really affecting

his memory and he totally forgot that was a thing that the shadows did when in conjunction with the shamblers. Sal felt

his mangled mess of a body get healed up and picked himself back up now, getting ready to take these enemies out rather

easily now. Why was it goign to be easy this time? Well, it was simply because Sal had a strategy now, and that was that.

So the round started off with the enemies doing their usual thing against Sal. That being the good old Sun Shadow sprint

and just hang in the back and the sun shambler just starting to go at him with as much ferocity as it could towards him.

Sal was sure of what to do now and as such simply started to get into his dodging groove against this six spiked monster

that he had to deal with. Once optimal levels of dodging were reached, he had decided that it was time to simply get going

and win this round.

As such, Sal started rushing towards the opponent that was the shambler, and started sprint dodging. Knowing what was

coming up next, Sal did something that he normally doesn't against shamblers. He jumped up into the air and used the

strength from the earth aura to bring him down faster than usual. However, when he came down, his feet ended up landing on

the sun shadows trying to attack him and as such, he killed them instantly. Now all that was left to deal with was the sun

shambler, to which Sal simply ran towards it and punched it the **** out, killing it instantly.

Spoiler: Round 14

Sal felt good about that last win. It wasn't everyday that you were able to curb stop your enemies to death quite like

that. And not to mention that beating a ****ing sun shambler was an accomplishment in of itself. However, the rounds

seemed like they were starting to amp up in difficulty when he saw what his next opponents were going to be. It was simply

three shadows and two shamblers. The downside was that all five of them had sun auras. Oh well, he was just going to have

to deal with it as best as he could at the moment.

The round started off almost identically to the last one...only a lot more chaotic. So what happened now, was that all

three shadows did what the last two did and just hung around in the back. The real problem was with the two sun shamblers

who were attacking him with a total of eight tentacle spikes, four from each. Sal had no choice but to start dodging as

best as he could, but he was starting to have a rather difficult time dodging all eight of them.

The other problem here was that Sal did not actually have any sort of plan to go and do this time and could only really

resort to yolo charging his enemies. So that's kind of what he did. He ran as fast as he could towards the sun shamblers

and tried to avoid damage as best as possible. He noticed the three sun shadows began their advance, and so he did the

same thing he did last time against them. He jumped. Only this time, they were expecting it and stopped before being

underneath his feet. Having failed the attack, Sal was then hit by the shadows and skewered by the shamblers.

Spoiler: Round 15

So, having successfully and completely lost that last round, Sal was pretty sure he needed to revaluate his strategy

against these enemies. Clearly just yolo charging them without any sort of prior planning was going to end in him getting

killed, so thinking before acting was probably the most important thing to do in this scenario. However, what to do

against such a combination was elluding him, until he thought of a brilliant plan as to how to take them down. Alright,

after getting fully healed up, Sal was now ready and able to go against these enemies.

The round started off like the last rounds had. With that being just all the shadows going to the back row and the sun

shambler beginning their relentless assault. Sal had to start dodging a bit better and slightly wished that he had a blade

right now. If he had one of those, breaking these spikes and charging would be so much easier than it is right now. Oh

well, he had to make due with what he had. That being his quick wits and super strength as it were.

When he had finally got into his dodging groove, Sal knew it was as good of a time as any to go in and break some heads

open. He rushed forward as fast as possible and dodged as best as he could against the shamblers. When the sun shadows

started their charge towards him, Sal put pressure in his legs to appear as if he was jumping. What he actually did,

though, was simply duck down, hit the shadows with his legs, and exploded off of them. Having effectively kicked off all

the shadows and killed them, Sal then picked himself back up as best he could, ran towards the shamblers, and killed both

of them with relative ease.

Spoiler: Round 16

Well that was a succsseful win if ever their was one. Getting his minor wounds healed up by Zachariel, he was rather

pleased by how that had all gone. In fact, he felt so good about it that he didn't think there was going to be a way he

could lose the next round. The round after this one though, he had no idea about. Sal stretched out a bit and saw who his

next opponents were. Spawning in away from him, he saw three shadows and two beasts spawn in. They all had sun auras

around them. Well this was going to be some jolly old fun.

The round started off with the sun shadows leaping on top of a single sun beast and the both of the beasts decided to

charge at Sal. It was this sort of awkward combo that he wasn't sure of what to make of, but he wasn't going to let it

shake him up at all. So he simply waited around to see what the enemies were going to do as they made their way towards

him, only to see the three shadows be flung into the air over him. Huh, well that was an interesting tactic.

The tactic, however, was met with complete and utter failure on their part. Sal pumped his fist into the air and easily

killed one of the shadows coming down on him. The beasts were then on top of him alongside the shadows, and they were

coming to totally kill him. Sal didn't care though, as he simply punched one beast square in the jaw, dodged the second

one's punch, sweep kicked around him killing the other two shadows, and uppercut the last beast killing him as well, thus

ending the round.

Spoiler: Round 17

Alright so here it was. Good old round seventeen. A good deal close to the home stretch he was at this point. Sal, though,

felt some odd sense of foreboading during this round as well. Perhaps he was going to lose this round as well? Oh well, as

annoying as that would be, he'd learned to live with it...since he wasn't actually going to die from this anyway. Looking

over he saw what was spawning in to be nothing more than two shadows and four beasts. However, only two of the four beasts

actually had a sun aura on them..while the shadows obviously had an aura on them.

The round started off with the four beasts all running side by side...or rather pair by pair since two were faster than

the other two. The shadows did not jump on the beasts this time, however, and instead were just charging him as they

normally would. So Sal figured he'd have to go and do something about them, so he simply bided his time waiting for the

shadows to come towards him until they stopped and let the sun beasts come forward as well. Only they stopped as well.

This left only two regular beasts to try and punch his lights out, to which Sal easily avoided their attacks and then went

for a counter on both of them. He then was met with utter defeat. The sun shadows then attacked his legs, not really

hurting that much, but still getting hit in the shins hurts, and was met with the real whopper of the gang. The regular

beasts were simply a distraction as the sun beasts came in and punched his lights out. Well that hurt a lot, and they

continued to do so until Sal was completely knocked the **** out and lost.

Spoiler: Round 18

There were times when Sal was a complete and utter badass. There were other times where he seemed to be relatively human

and could easily get his ass kicked. This was one of the latter. Sal felt the restoritave properties of Zachariel's

healing on him as he stepped up and out of it feeling ready to take on that challenge again. Okay, so he needed to have

some sort of a plan to deal with that sort of bait and switch or else he was going to lose again...and that'd be no bueno.

The round started off like the last one had. The pairs of beasts charged forward and the pair of shadows sprinted towards

him as well. Sal was getting ready to bring down the hammer on all of these enemies when the sun shadows stopped in their

tracks. Next, the sun beast stopped as they approached him, leaving only the regular beasts to go in and try to kill him.

This was happening nearly identical to the last fight, and Sal was sure he knew how to deal with it now.

The two regular beasts came in with their punched, and rather than kill the beasts, he just dodged the attacks and waited

for the next slew of enemies to come at him. Only they didn't, so Sal simply killed one of the beasts with a hard punch to

the face, and saw the shadows approach him as fast as possible. He curb stomped one of them, punched the beast, and kicked

the other shadow. With only two sun beasts left Sal figured he could hand himself well. As they came in with their

attacks, Sal had to dodge, and he just barely managed to do so, before ending the fight with two great punches to all the

beast's faces.

Spoiler: Round 19

Alright, so here it was, the penultimate round as things would seem. Sal was quite looking forward to his challenge that

he was going to presented with here. That challenge being whatever he was going to have to deal with in this round. Okay,

so he was almost positive he was going to lose this round, because he always did, and just figured that he'd still put his

best effort into it. Seeing his enemies spawn in, it was nothing more than two shadows, two beasts, and two

shamblers...all with sun auras...great.

So the round started off with the everyone doing their usual thing really. The sun shadows ran around him, the beasts ran

to his sides to flank him, and the shamblers just tried to straight up murder him with their tentacle spikes. Sal's only

action he could take at the moment was to dodge, and that was not going to be the most effective action, he figured. So,

what should he do? Well he didn't quite know, but he was getting slightly cut up from the spikes, and was not enjoying it

one bit at all.

Eventually though, he decided that enough was enough, and just went in to go and try to kill these shamblers. As he was

expecting, the shadows were trying to attack him from behind, so he just jumped to the side only to get caught by a sun

beast, and thrown like a rag doll. He was then thrown the air to the other one, who simply punched him downward and then

was met with a very violent stabbing from the sun shamblers. So yeah, the stabbing was not exactly the most pleasurable

thing in the world and he eventually just lost.

Spoiler: Round 20

Alright so that round could've gone better...by a lot you know? Oh well, that wasn't going to real stop him from giving it

his all against them this time anyway, so he was just going to put his best effort into killing the **** out of these

cretins and win. After all, it was the final round, and it was his time to shine against the same enemy type he had just

lost again, just as he would do every other time. After getting all patched up and ready to go, Sal faced down his

opponents and was ready to start round twenty.

Alright, so here was how things were going to go now. Well, obviously the round was going to go and start the same way as

it always had. But that was a given as it always was. Sal simply started dodging the onslaught of endless attacks by the

sun shamblers and paid attention to where all the enemies were. The shadows behind him, the beasts to his side ready to

pincer, and the shamblers in front. After getting a good plan worked out in his head, Sal then began his charge towards

the enemies.

Running and dodging was still as difficult as it had always been, but hey, it's not like he could really change anything

about that right? It was then that he noticed the sun shadows running after him, that his plan was going to start. Jumping

to the side, Sal kicked off the beast waiting there for him, going to the side and kicking off the next beast, killing

both of them, and then landing on top of the two sun shadows. He then went over and started sprinting towards the

shamblers and punched the **** out of them and killed the shamblers instantly, thus completing earth rank three.

Spoiler: Round 1

After finishing off all of the enemies of the earth challenge, as per the usual an orb that glowed the colors of the earth

aura had appeared. As such, Sal just grabbed it and absorbed the energy from it, meaning he was expecting an end...but

clearly one wasn't happening yet. So what happened other than, well a black orb appearing in front of him. With a hilt

sticking out of it, Sal grabbed it and revealed his Baselard to be the item within the confines of the orb. Okay then,

more sword action was fun. Seeing whow was spawning in now, he was apparently going up against a knife type and a short

sword type.

So the fight started off with the two bladed enemies advancing slowly on Sal's position and all he really did was bring up

his baselard to defend against any strike they might send at him. Slowly but surely they made it over, at which point they

started striking at him with all the ferocity they could, and as such Sal continued to block against each attack after

attack from the two. The strikes from both were swift, but they weren't exactly difficult to fend off. When he was ready,

Sal decided to go in for his own counter attack.

He started with the knife type first, striking at it after it had failed to hit him. The knife type dodged away, and the

short sword type then tried to go in for the kill, only for Sal to block the attack, and then strike at the short sword

type, causing it to get a long cut on its arm. The knife type then tried to attack him again, and then Sal simply parried

the blade away and struck down the knife type with ease. With that out of the way, Sal then finished the short sword type

off and killed him as well, ending that round.

Spoiler: Round 2

With that fight out of the way, the only remnants of it was a giant black orb that formed in front of Sal. Sal decided to

just plant the baselard in it and watch it sink in, only for it to spew out the short sword hilt as it usually would. Now

with the short sword in his posession Sal just needed to fight the next wave of enemies that would come after him. Those

spawning in would be the short sword type and the ever so dreadful knight type. Sal had still not actually thought of a

proper way to deal with these things yet, but oh well.

The round started off with slow advances from both parties. Only the knight was slower than the short sword, as if it just

wanted to fight Sal mono y mono. Well, he could deal with that...sort of. He knew he could deal with the short sword type

at the very least, but regardless, he looked towards it and began and advance of his own. He struck at the short sword,

who blocked his strike, but then struck faster this time at an unguarded area. The short sword was dead pretty quick

actually.

However, upon the death of the short sword type, the knight type then just continued to advance forwards toward Sal and

strated attacking him. Sal barely had any time to react before blocking with his own blade. The attack sent him back a

bit, but Sal perservered and struck back at the knight. The knight type simply used its buckler to defend against the

attack, and Sal had to back off immediately to avoid the slash its arm blade. With nothing much left to do, Sal fake threw

the short sword at the knight, and then went over and cut it while it was still reacting, thus ending the round.

Spoiler: Round 3

With the death of the knight type, Sal only could speculate what would happen next...other than the obvious immediate

thing that would happen. That being the large black orb that spawned in front of him that he would have to use. Planting

the short sword into the orb, the blade sunk and out came a hilt. Pulling the hilt out, Sal was quite pleased to see his

trusty old longsword. Waving it around a bit first, Sal then spotted his challenges. It was simply four shadow types, only

two of them earth auras.

Okay so the round started off with the shadows charging almost immediately at Sal, as they always would. Sal was not fond

of earth shadows at all, as they were still insanely fast and could actually hurt him now. Annoying really. The four

shadows, though, only circled around him and looked ready to do something. He was positive that there was going to be some

form of feinting against Sal, but he was not exactly caring about that at the moment. He just needed to time his strikes

and all would be fine.

The shadows then began their feinting, and the two regular shadows then came charging straight towards Sal. All he had to

do was wait until- there it was. The two regular shadows came at Sal, and he didn't entirely respond to them. He rather

just jumped in the air, avoiding their attack altogether, and then striking at the two earth shadows that were coming

after him. He was sure that those regulars were just bait, and so having been proven right, Sal had killed all the shaodws

with relative ease.

Spoiler: Round 4

Alright, so that round was rather easy actually. Nothing short of a bit of planning sense that came on and off depending

on whether or not he was supposed to lose a round. But since this was a sword round, he was supposed to win 'em all.

Regardless of that, Sal still did enjoy the feeling of using his long sword and knew that it was going to be his preferred

weapon for a while. That's when the next round hit. He saw his enemies spawn in to be nothing more than some earth shadows

and and an earth beast.

The round started off with the gang of creatures just charging at him in their usual manner. He was pretty sure that it

was going to be nothing too big to worry about, so he just brought up his long sword and got ready for whatever they were

going to do. The two shadows had hopped on the beast and they were now charging at him, so he was pretty sure he could end

this all in one clean sweep. With the beast closing in on him, he got ready to end this entire round pretty quickly.

Only, once the beast got close, it threw the shadows at Sal. Now that was slightly easy to deal with and Sal just sort of

sliced the both of them in half in one clean strike, but was still hit by their flying corpses. It was then that the beast

came at him, and Sal just cut at the beast. Unfortunately, this things skin was like, made of stone, and it was really

hard to get the damage he did off anyway. The beast continued to punch at Sal, and having to exert more effort than usual,

Sal killed the earth beast and ended round four.

Spoiler: Round 5

Having dealt with that combo fairly easily Sal was now ready to move on to the next round of monsters to see what he was

going to be dealing with this time. He slashed his longsword around a bit trying to get over how much he loved the thing

and realized that the enemies were getting harder to kill now that they had the earth aura around them. He figured he knew

what was going to happen in this round, though he wasn't one hundred percent sure. Anyway, the things spawning in were

nothing more than just two earth shadows and one earth shambler type. Alright then, that was going to be quite the fight

to deal with.

The round started as one would it expect it to, that being just good old fashion shadows running straight towards Sal and

the earth shambler firing off its tentacle spikes straight at Sal. Sal, of course, attempted to dodge these spikes and was

then met with the horrifying realization that these shadows could actually do some good damage against him. Furthermore,

while he could still cut through the tentacle spikes, the effort it took to do so became so great that he deemed it a tad

inefficient. Oh well.

So, after getting into his dodging groove enough, Sal started to run towards the earth shambler as quickly as he could.

Unfortunately, the earth shadows were now on his tail as well, making it some what dangerous from the get go. However

these shadows, while having the earth aura, were still easily killable and so he wasn't going to be dettered by them at

all. So what he did was do a quick spin attack as they charged at him, and continued forward, threw the longsword at the

shambler, killed it, and ended the round.

Spoiler: Round 6

Alright, so Sal was feeling pretty confident in himself after having successfully destroyed all those differing combos of

enemies. Sal was now wondering just what exactly he'd be going up against next in this round of swording. It was then that

the wisps of darkness started to billow up and reveal a new form of enemy. This enemy had the same build as the knight

type, and furthermore it was armored as well. The only real different thing about it was that rather than a longsword

arm...it had a ****ing great axe for an arm. Oh, well this was going to be quite the different fight.

Sal gripped his longsword tightly and was curious as to what the creature here was going to do. It just slowly advanced

towards Sal and he was holding his ground. The creature seemed to be just lugging its great axe arm around, kind of like

it was a big weight for it to deal with, and finally got a close enough distance away from Sal that it felt like it should

do something. That something being bringing its giant axe arm down on Sal's position in an attempt to completely murder

him.

Sal realized that trying to block this attack would be extremely stupid, so instead he just sort of dodged out of the way,

feeling the force of the blow ripple through the ground. The creautre than brought the axe off the ground and swung it

towards Sal, to which he had to duck down to completely avoid. With the beast now open from its wide swing, Sal ran in and

slashed at the thing with his longsword. It was busy trying to bring its arm back around only for it to be completely

defeated and killed.

Spoiler: Round 7

After Sal killed the great axe knight type enemy, now deemed earth sword, he was gifted with a blue, green, and black orb.

Thikning it was quite like all the other sword orbs, Sal stuck his longsword in there and watched it sink in. After the

blade was gone, a long handle burst out of the orb to which Sal grabbed and tried to pull out. The handle was stuck. So,

Sal eventually just started pushing up on the handle to have a great axe pop out of it. Badass. Sal then looked over to

see his enemies spawning in, that being six earth shadows, and thought of how much fun this was going to be.

Sal brought the great axe up and rested it on his shoulder, ready to take on these things. The shadows did their usual

shadow thing and just rushed forwards towards him. Sal was going to just slash at them, but realized that this axe was

pretty heavy, and not one that he could just swing around easily like a sword. He had to side hop out of the way the earth

shadows to be sure he didn't get hit before thinking of a way to try and kill these enemies. He didn't think it was going

to prove to be difficult and as such, he was already to take them on.

The shadows then turned around and came at Sal ready to kill him almost instantly. To counter this, Sal brought his great

axe to his side and swung it, hitting all the enemies that were in its path. That being three unfortunate earth shadows

that died immediately. The other three had dodged out of the way and came at Sal from three different positions, to which

Sal responded with by swinging in a spinning position, killing two, and then brought the axe back up and went down on the

final shadow killing it and ending the round.

Spoiler: Round 8

Man, this axe was strong...he figured. Seeing as his longsword was able to easily kill earth aura shadows as things stood,

he didn't actually have anything to scale his damage off of. However, based on the weight and the force he felt that

traveled with this blade, he was sure it was stronger. While thinking about how much stronger though, some new enemies

came and spawned in. They were simply three earth aura beasts. Oh, now that was a good thing to test if ever there was

one.

The round started off with the three beasts just trying to bull charge straight at Sal, who simply hoisted his axe back

onto his shoulder and waited for them to come. He was going to have to be careful about this because he needed to get a

good lock on when the right time to strike was. Seeing as if these guys missed they didn't have to turn around and come

back at him, it was going to be a more difficult time to go and kill them. When the beasts were finally at Sal's position,

he figured it was a good time to start.

They attacked as best they could and punched straight at Sal after inital charge. Still feeling the burden of the axe's

weight, Sal felt it a tad on the difficult side to simply avoid the attacks. Nevertheless he managed and had continued to

perservere through fighting this fight and finally found a good place to strike. He then brought his axe down on one of

them and watched as it cleaved through the beast with ease. The other two then tried to kill Sal, to which he simply spun

around with his axe and killed them both entirely.

Spoiler: Round 9

So this was what Sal presumed to be the second to last, or penultimate, round and was wondering what kind of enemies he

was going to be going up against now. Furthermore, he realized that this axe was ridiculously powerful. It just cleaved

through three enemies that the long sword had trouble cutting with super ease. Guess that made up for the increase in

weight. Sal then saw his new enemies for the round spawn in. They were nothing less than two shamblers with the earth

aura. Oh, this was going to be fun.

The round started off with Sal getting attacked in the same way as he normally would. The shamblers just started firing

off their spikes at Sal and he had to, of course, dodge the attacks as he always would. The problem he was feeling, now,

though, was that the weight of the axe was keeping him weighed down a bit and he was unable to actually dodge as

effectively as he usually had. So, he was also feeling the increased damaged of the earth shamblers on him and he needed

to think of how to get out of this situation.

Sal had figured that doing his usual strategy, yolo charging, was not going to work in this situation, simply because the

weight burden was too great for him to effectively yolo charge. So instead, he decided to do something he usually did not

think to do. He spun around and flung the great axe straight at one of the shamblers. The spikes that were colliding with

the axe were shattering in an instant and the blade eventually planted itself in one of the shamblers. Sal then had the

opportunity to easily run over, grab his axe, and heave it at the other shambler, thus ending the round.

Spoiler: Round 10

Well here it was, the final round that Sal had to use this great axe to fight things against with. Overall, he was pretty

happy with this weapon and thought that it was a trusty power type weapon. Maybe if he actually had the earth aura on at

the moment then the weight problem would be countered, but oh well. Sal was pretty sure who he was going to be fighting

for this round and watched as he was proven correct. In spawned a knife type, and short sword type, a knight type, and an

earth sword type. All of them, save the latter, had earth auras over them.

The final round started as one would think it would. The slew of swordsmen type enemies just advancing on his position at

their own relatively comfortable pace, while Sal prepped himself to bring down his axe on all of them. The knife type shot

forward towards Sal, to which he responded by dodging, hitting with his pommel, and then swinging the axe around to kill

it instantly. The short sword type then tried to attack Sal during the recovery, but Sal simply kicked the thing in the

shin and then proceeded to bring his axe down.

The knight type was the next one to try and kill Sal, but Sal met the strike of the knight type with his axe, snapping the

knight's blade and cleaving through the enemy entirely. With that taken care of, there was only one enemy left, and that

was nothing short of the earth sword type itself. It tried to come forward and swing the axe down on Sal, but Sal was able

to easily avoid the attack altogether and do a side swing with his own axe. The great axe cleaved through the earth sword

type and the monster was now dead, ending the trial altogether.

Spoiler: Round 1

Sal was rather happy how that round with the earth sword had gone and was prepped and ready to take on whatever challenges

he was going to have to go up against next here. While wondering what he was still doing here, his great axe did indeed

sink into the water ground and leave him unarmed. Well guess it wasn't a sword round now. Sal stretched out a bit and got

himself ready for whatever form of fighting he was going to be met with and saw that the opponents spawning in were simply

four shamblers. Fun.

The round started off with the shamblers firing there usual tendril spike thingy majigger at Sal and of course he had to

go out of his way to dodge the attacks. If he didn't then ****, he'd be pretty much a Sal pin cushion. Regardless of the

attack onslaught upon him, Sal was able to carefully avoid all the attacks being sent at him, sort of, and started

thinking of what to do here. Really, recklessly charging sounded like the best plan of action so heck, why not?

So Sal effectively went out of his way and started yolo charging at the opponents. Sure Sal was getting slightly cut up

through this strategy, but between his running and dodging back and forth against attacks, Sal managed to make out pretty

alright. He closed in on the first shambler and waited out its meele spikes before punching it the **** down. Sal then

went and punched out the next shambler and one by one the shambler army that was firing spikes at him had all fallen down

and the round had been resolved as a win for the fallen angel man.

Spoiler: Round 2

With round one done the only thing to follow it was obviously round two. Sal was pretty alright with how that last round

went and wasn't entirely sure how he could do it any better. Those shamblers though, always managed to cut him up a bit.

He felt Zachariel's healing wash over him and was soon ready to go beat the **** out of more of...whatever the actual

classification for these things are. Sal then saw that his opponents were four shamblers, again, and three beast types.

Okay...

So yeah, these enemy numbers seemed to be getting a tad on the larger side and Sal wasn't entirely sure how he was going

to deal with this increase, but deal he was going to. Well...he was going to have to regardless and now was the time to do

so. The round started off with the shamblers doing their usual tentacle spike thing and the beasts with their same ol'

same ol' charging thing. Sal was obviously locked into dodging the attacks from the shamblers and was getting ready for

whatever these beasts were going to throw at him.

As such, when the three finally converged on his position, Sal was already ready to just avoid each and everyone of their

punches. Sal then decided that the shamblers were the bigger threat and completely ignored the beasts and ran straight

towards the shamblers. This was not his smartest move truthfully. He was making his way over but was slowed tremendously

by the large onslaught of attacks being sent at him. As such, the beasts eventually did catch up with him, grabbed him,

and pummled the **** out of him.

Spoiler: Round 3

Okay, so that round went pretty shittily. Really, he got his ass handed to him quite thoroughly, and it was not a pleasant

experience in the slightest. While his broken and mangled body was getting healed, Sal had to think of just what he could

do to win against this large quantity of enemies. Seven did seem a bit excessive, but he assumed that Zachariel was just

ramping things up. All for the best really, he did think that some of these were starting to get a tad too easy, but now

things were getting a tad ridic. Oh well.

After being thoroughly and completely healed from the previous ass kicking, Sal stood up and stretched out a bit, and

after doing so the round started. Of course, this was in its usual way, and so Sal was able to access the situation fairly

well. The shamblers were trying to skewer him as they usually would and the beasts were charging. All Sal really had to do

was wait on whoever was coming over to kill him immediately, that being the beasts, and deal with them thoroughly.

So, learning from his past mistakes, Sal figured that he was going to have to simply deal with the beast types first, lest

he get horribly pummled again. So, Sal avoided the punches from the beast types and decided to go into his own little beat

down thing. He started punching one of the beasts and dodging the other two when suddenly he felt something stab him.

Well...turns out that the shamblers had managed to hit him while he was focused on the beasts. This just left him wide

open to more assaults until he was finally pummled and beaten again.

Spoiler: Round 4

Alright, so Sal was really sucking hard at winning these rounds. After losing twice in a row he was now determined to win,

determined to beat these weird denisens of the dark down and totally ****ing destroy them with his own two hands...since

he didn't have a sword to kill them with. That was a real bummer really. Regardless, Zachariel's magic healing washed over

him once more and he got fired up and ready to go...after a good minute stretching his repaired body out. With that out of

the way, it was time to bring the beat down down.

Alrighty so this round, round four that is, started off like you'd expect any round ever to start. Simply saying, this

round started with the beast types charging and the shambler types, not shambling, but firing spike after spike at him.

Alrighty, so Sal had to just be sure to avoid these attacks as best he could, lest he get killed quite hard again, and was

awaiting the beasts to send his new plan of action into motion. A plan so simple and so unrealistic that one could only

get away with it when this had no consequence on anything.

The beast types attacked at Sal and he simply dodged out of the way of the fists and then went onto his own onslaught

against the enemies. He began punching at the beasts, but made sure to line himself up so that the shamblers couldn't

actually attack him. So next thing he did was, pummel the **** out of them, and then yolo charged at the shamblers. He

then proceeded to go and kill the **** out of all of them with his bare hands and fists of fury. Once all four shamblers

were down and out, he was proclaimed the round winner.

Spoiler: Round 5

Alrighty, that had been quite the decisive, albeit undetailed and ambiguous, victory for Sal. He felt good having

conquered seven enemies all with the potential to kill him rather easily. Quite good indeed. Now all that was left to do

was take on whatever the next sixteen rounds of this challenge had to offer him this time. Looking forward he saw that the

enemies he was fighting this time was none other than...four shambler and four shadows. Oh good lord this was going to be

rough.

So the fight started off with the shamblers and shadows doing their own things. That'd be firing spikes and sprinting at

him respectively. As such, Sal was forced to go into a dodge like mode where he would have to continue avoiding all the

attacks sent at him by the shamblers. He then went into a sort of thinking mode. He knew that if he tried his yolo charge

strategy, the shadows were just going to kill him, so he needed a way around that. Actually...he had already developed

several ways of doing so, so what was the point of thinking up more.

Turns out there was plenty of point in doing that. Sal immediately charged at the shamblers before him and tried to dodge

and run as effectively as one could, when the shadows were coming upon him, he stopped and let them pass, only for him to

completely punt two of them out of existence. Now came the problem that there were still two left, and they were pretty

annoyed. So they attacked Sal right there, right in the front, and the shamblers proceeded to stab him quite viciously

until he was no more.

Spoiler: Round 6

Embarassing loss was embarassing...but it was not something that he couldn't recover from! No siree! He was going to give

them a piece of his mind and beat the everlasting **** out of all the forces of darkness...okay that was probably

exaggerating. Forces of his subconcious? Seriously these enemies origins and classification were extremely ambiguous.

You'd think that Zachariel would give them a better hint as to what they were actually fighting. Oh right, task at hand

demanded more focus!

So, after Zachariel and all of her angelic healing powers later, Sal was fit as a fiddle and ready to break some ****ers

heads open...if they had heads that broke open. Really they were just wisps of darkness given form so there was that.

Regardless, they were coming to kill him, and kill him quickly at that. The shamblers started the round off with their

usual barage of spike tentacles and the shadows began their usual charge forward as well. Only this time, something was

much different.

The much different thing being Sal's plan, not the enemies at all. So, the different thing was that Sal charged at the

shadows instead of just waiting around and dodging. Sure this plan did end up getting him hurt from the shamblers more so

than usual, but this time, he was able to intercept the shadows and kill them before there was even a bit of a threat to

be faced. Sal then decided to go after the next priority, that being the shamblers, and yolo charged each and every one of

the four shamblers, giving them a good punch to the face and killing them all.

Spoiler: Round 7

Victory Screech! A LULULULULULULU...anyway, Sal had found that last round to be quite satisfactory. He had managed to

totally shatter a usual enemy strategy and completely break it into tiny dead enemy sized pieces. So, now that that was

done and over with, Sal was wondering what his next challenge was going to be like. In spawned two earth shamblers that

looked ready to kill Sal as quickly as possible. Oh, Earth Shamblers were quite the nasty ones, so Sal figured he'd have

to deal with them rather quickly in order to win.

So, the match started out with the Earth Shamblers firing off their relentless barrage of tentacle spikes at him. Sal of

course had to dodge around them as much as humanly possible and was quite sure that he was going to get ripped apart from

these things. The spikes from the earth shamblers were quite difficult to deal with, simply because they were stronger

variations of regular spikes. Really all this meant was that they did a hell of a lot more damage even if they made the

same impact as usual.

So of course Sal kept trying to dodge around these attacks but he was pretty sure that this just wasn't going to work out

at all. Eventually, though, he decided to go and do his signature anti-shambler attack, the yolo charge, and run straight

at the shamblers. The shamblers then proceeded to completely rip Sal to shreds. Like actually. Turns out he had spent a

bit too much time just standing in one spot dodging and ended up being too injured to actually deal with the enemies, so

in the end, the Earth Shamblers won.

Spoiler: Round 8

And there was a loss if ever there was one. Turns out fighting earth shamblers was much harder when you weren't using an

aura yourself and you didn't have some form of weaponry to back you up. Oh the struggles with bare fist fighting. Anyway,

Sal needed to get going and think of a plan to stop these shambling not actually shambling freaks. As he healed up and his

body got repaired, he looked forward and figured he was going to lose this round. Why? Who knows. But, he was going to

lose with style.

The round started off with Sal getting stabbed immediately by the earth aura shamblers and he was simply trying to dodge

them as per the norm. Really this was getting a bit tedious and repetitive, but it sure was the only way for him to get

much much stronger. Well, that was also relative since he had been putting in the effort in many a dream state and not

making much progress, but nevertheless, he would perservere. As such, he decided not to keep dodging forever and just run

straight at the shamblers.

Using his tried and true method of yolo charging, Sal began to close in on the shamblers and before long he was right in

front of one. It tried to shred him up with its melee spikes, to which Sal just continued dodging back and forth away from

the attacks until he was finally away from the strikes. Then, with an opening presenting itself, Sal punched the shambler

and turned his attention to the next one. Unfortunately, that shambler was kind of not dead and stabbed Sal in the back

rather awfully...and that was the end.

Spoiler: Round 9

So that last round was quite awful if Sal did say so himself. Okay, so practically speaking, it do better than the round

prior to it, so that was a plus. On the down side, he still lost, and that was kind of bad. Regardless, things were going

to look up in this round. Why? Because goddamnit Sal was going to make it work for him. He now knew that the shamblers had

some sort of vitality or defense increase and was not going to let that stop him anymore. After getting fully healed up,

Sal was ready for round nine.

Okay, so the round started off slightly different than all others. Yes, the earth shamblers did indeed try and strike down

Sal with extreme prejudice and tentacle spikes, and yes, Sal was dodging, however, he was running. Running right off the

bat. He was not waiting for the shamblers to get some pot shots off on him and decided to just yolo charge right off the

bat. As such, the attacks from the start were a bit, easier to dodge since the yolo charge was quite unexpected.

As he reached the first of the shamblers he punched it extremely fast, before it could even start its melee barrage. As

such, Sal quickly backed off and the shambler exploded into spikes. After avoiding it, Sal then advanced further in and

punched the shambler dead. All that was left was the last earth shambler and that was going to prove to be easy. Sal

rushed forward towards the shambler and quickly dodged the spikes being flung at him. He then punched it once, and decided

to follow up almost immediately before the shambler could recover, thus winning the round.

Spoiler: Round 10

That last round, ****ing fantastic. He was pretty psyched that he was able to easily defeat the shamblers that wore the

earth aura over them. He then realized what challenge he was doing, even though he was already positive about what it was

anyway. He saw that he had the healing aura start to form around him. Oh, well that was pretty nice. Granted, the healing

aura wasn't one of /greatest/ of auras, but hey it was better than nothing. He then saw his enemies spawn in, those being

three shamblers.

So yeah, one of the big problems here, the first of the three shamblers was that one of them was earth auraed. Well that

was a bit of a problem. While normally he'd just yolo charge, doing that against three seemed a bt on the suicidal at the

time. So instead, he started dodging the attacks like he usually would. The usual problem here was that the shamblers

would cause far too much damage for him to actually continue on with charging efficiently. That problem was now

circumvented.

The healing aura provided some self regenration for him so that the damage was being healed rather quickly. So, now with

that problem solved, Sal started rushing forwards towards the shamblers and decided to go in and punch at the enemies. He

went for the regular shamblers first as they were quite easily easier to kill. So he punched at the first shambler and

killed it, moved onto the second shambler, killed that, and then went towards earth shambler and then kicked it, moved

back and killed the shambler with one more punch.

Sal woke up, feeling wholesomely sore after that long ass training sessions, and saw something that was rather...odd. He was sitting around minding his own business and had been simply observing for the time being. He watched as Ariel woke up and started to behave rather...oddly. He seemed to be rather friendly towards Hay Sun, so much so that the Lion seemed more like the Puppy. To be perfectly honest, it was slightly creepy to watch. Nevertheless, Sal didn't really do much, even as Hay Sun looked ready to blow Ariel's head off. Then Ariel continued to speak that only seemed to further the idea that he was an extremely creepy angel, person, fallen, whatever but just let it be until Ariel said something that proved that, if Ariel was a model to go by, angel's could be pretty unknowing about the world they live above.

Not really giving Hay Sun the time to react to Ariel's statement, that seemed rather innocent to him but was probably one of the worst things he could say in this situation, Sal walked over to Ariel and pulled him away from the girl. Having some sort of personality shift that didn't make him deathly terrified of everyone, while it was a good thing, was no excuse to solicit pornography from a minor. Getting Ariel as far away from Hay Sun as possible, lest they all die, Sal decided to give Ariel a lesson of his own.

"So Ariel, Leon, whichever you prefer, I feel obligated to tell you that, well that last thing you said was particularly bad. So first off, what you were just describing was a form of something called role playing. It is simply where people decide to pretend and act like they are people that they actually aren't, I don't really know why myself, but some people are just into that sort of thing. Now what you described, where both participants get naked, is not the best thing to say. You see, those sort of things usually end in some form of sexual intercourse. So, by saying that, you were implying that you want to have sex with the young Miss Hay Sun, on top of basically implying that you want to get married after this is all over. Now, whether or not you are actually stating these, I don't really care, but one tip is that you shouldn't be so direct about these sort of things. I don't know about angels, but with humans that is usually not how things work, and it can be taken as creepy. Do you understand?"

 

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ALMOST[/url] AS FAST AS THE WORDS SLIPPED OUT OF HIS MOUTH, A HAND CAME DOWN ON HIS SHOULDER. LEON LOOKED UP TO SEE ZACHARIEL'S HOST STANDING OVER HIM. HE WAS PULLED TO HIS FEET AND DRAGGED AWAY FROM HIS BEAUTY. IT WAS HEARTBREAKING BEING PULLED AWAY AFTER FINALLY GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE TOGETHER. THE YOUNGER MAN DRAGGED HIM TO THE OPPOSITE END OF THE AIRPLANE BEFORE FINALLY SAYING ANYTHING. LEON CROSSED HIS ARMS AND NARROWED HIS GOLDEN EYES AT HIM.​

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"So Ariel, Leon, whichever you prefer," THE MAN STARTED​

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"LEON IS FINE," HE INTERJECTED.​

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"I feel obligated to tell you that, well that last thing you said was particularly bad."​

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LEON RAISED A BROW. "HOW SO?"​

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"So first off, what you were just describing was a form of something called role playing. It is simply where people decide to pretend and act like they are people that they actually aren't, I don't really know why myself, but some people are just into that sort of thing. Now what you described, where both participants get naked, is not the best thing to say. You see, those sort of things usually end in some form of sexual intercourse. So, by saying that, you were implying that you want to have sex with the young Miss Hay Sun, on top of basically implying that you want to get married after this is all over. Now, whether or not you are actually stating these, I don't really care, but one tip is that you shouldn't be so direct about these sort of things. I don't know about angels, but with humans that is usually not how things work, and it can be taken as creepy. Do you understand?"​

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LEON NODDED HIS HEAD ALONG SLOWLY AS THE MAN IN FRONT OF HIM SPOKE. HE WAS DOING HIS BEST TO FOLLOW ALONG AND GRASP WHAT HE SAID, BUT THIS GUY JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HAY SUN. SHE WAS A DIRECT KIND OF PERSON. SHE RESPONDED BETTER KNOWING EVERYTHING STRAIGHT UP -- NO VAGUENESS OR OBSCURITIES. THERE WAS NO BEATING AROUND THE BUSH WITH HAY SUN OR PURIEL. "YES. I UNDERSTAND," HE FINALLY REPLIED. "WHILE YOU MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT ABOUT MY ERROR ON THE ROLE PLAYING THING, I DO KNOW HAY SUN A BIT BETTER AND SHE DEMANDS PEOPLE BEING DIRECT WITH HER." HE LOOKED PAST ZACHARIEL'S HOST TO GLANCE AT THE ASIAN IN THE CHAIR. "WHILE IT MAY SEEM 'CREEPY,' HAY SUN ALWAYS HAS THE ABILITY TO TELL ME KNOW HERSELF. I RESPECT URIEL'S WISHES." MOST OF THE TIME ... SOMETIMES THE FELLOW ARCHANGEL COMES UP WITH RIDICULOUS REQUESTS. "AND WHO ARE YOU TO SPEAK ON HAY SUN'S BEHALF?" HE LEERED AT THE YOUNG MAN. "DID I MISS SOMETHING WHILE MY WINGS WERE BEING RIPPED OFF MY BODY AND MY MEMORIES WERE TAKEN FROM ME?" LEON LOOKED MENACINGLY BETWEEN SAL AND HAY SUN.​

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GO AWAY ARIEL. THAT'S ENOUGH ARIEL. STOP TOUCHING ME LEON. SO SILLY...​

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W E A R I N G ✖ W R I T I N G ✖ M U S I C
MOOD ※ IRRITATED ✖ DAY 53 ※ 3/5 ✖ DATE ※ 11/10/2013 ✖ LOCATION ※ JET PLANE
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She was subjected to yet another death grip hug, but it was thankfully shorter than the first as he began to explain to her what he remembered. When he mentioned Gabriel, Hay Sun recalled her ( mixed with Uriel's ) resolve to destroy Gabriel and the council of Paradise, but that determination had been short-lived when other things began to happen.

He was now indisputably, disgustingly in Gabriel's debt. Uriel hated being indebted to anyone.

❝. . . to you being all over me. Like Archangel, like human. You can pretend, but I know the truth.❞ Pretty Boy tapped her nose lightly and she almost smiled, but then slapped his hand away with an irritated scowl.

He started rambling again and Hay Sun retreated into her mind for an emergency meeting with Uriel. Is he always like this? she asked him with confusion.

Unfortunately. the Fallen replied with a certain amount of solemnity, and Hay Sun suddenly felt for the guy. Ariel is a bit of an idiot, to tell you the honest truth, but he is extremely loyal, and stupidly brave. You couldn't ask for a better warrior companion, really.

She frowned. I . . . What exactly are the two of you?

It was quiet for a moment as she watched Pretty Boy's lips move with excitement. He was saying something about school now. He is a subordinate. We had fought alongside each other for hundreds of years. After I fell, he was still interfering and constantly risking becoming like me, but it wasn't until you that the Council had finally decided to do something about it.

He sighed and Hay Sun frowned. So was it . . . really her fault that Pretty Boy was like Uriel, now? She felt bad but he didn't seem so distraught about it. Hay Sun studied his face as he continued to ramble. He really was pretty, but he sounded awfully innocent and naive.

❝. . . teach you, we can do that thing humans do were you pretend to be the teacher and I get called to the desk after class and then the humans get naked for whatever reason? That sees fun. What is that anyway. That just doesn't seem like the right way to teach someone . . .❞

Hay Sun's breathing hitched and her face turned cherry red. She raised her good hand on impulse to fist it across his face in a rush of irritation, anger, and embarrassment, but before she could do anything, Italie pulled him from harm's path and she struck at thin air. There was a loud snap broken into the barrier of sound when her fist crossed.

Uriel was . . . hysterically laughing inside her head.

She took the chance provided by Italie to calm down and clear her thoughts. This was ridiculous. Leon was . . . ridiculous. She didn't know how Uriel put up with him for the last . . . however many years they had spent together.

If you can believe in me, he isn't always like this. Uriel explained, coming down from his extremely rare fit of laughter.

Rubbing at her temples, she finally found herself taking deep breaths and calming down. She listened to Pretty Boy replying to Italie and he glanced at her. Remembering the embarrassing, stupid things he had just said, she looked down at her lap and tried to control the urge to blow up the plane before they reached South America.

When things started looking sour between the two boys, she stood up and just kind of . . . threw herself in there. This was dumb. Pretty Boy was dumb. ❝Okay, shut up. Shut up. It's too damn early in the morning for this.❞ she irately ruffled Leon's soft hair. ❝I'm glad you're okay now, but I'm won't hesitate to throttle your ass and send you into your next life already.❞ A murmured string of cussing in French ensued. ❝Quit being so . . . dumb. I will kill you.❞

When done sealing her threat, she looked over to Italie. ❝Jun Tae is sending us to South America. Someone's waiting for us there, but he wouldn't tell me who.❞

She winced as she tried to move her left hand, but nothing worked. God, she was afraid of that.

Let me help you out with Ariel. I often did this when I grew tired of him.

Uriel raised two fingers to press them to Leon's forehead and cast a sleeping spell.

Hay Sun blinked and then looked up at Italie and then back to Leon. She shrugged, trying not to think about anything too much. Her hand was what she was most worried about.​

 

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HAY[/url] SUN STOOD UP FROM HER SEAT AND PUT HERSELF BETWEEN SAL AND LEON. HE SMILED DOWN AT HER, BUT SHE SEEMED TO TURN ON HIM. "Okay, shut up. Shut up. It's too damn early in the morning for this." SHE RUFFLED HIS HAIR AND AS ANNOYED AS SHE SOUNDED, IT WAS SWEET HIS GRIN WIDENED. HAY SUN YELLED AT HIM FOR TOUCHING HER, BUT IT WAS OKAY FOR HER TO TOUCH HIM -- NOT FAIR... "I'm glad you're okay now, but I'm won't hesitate to throttle your ass and send you into your next life already." SHE STARTED TO CURSE IN FRENCH AND HE SCOWLED AT HER. "Quit being so . . . dumb. I will kill you."​

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AS LONG AS IT'S BY YOUR HANDS, THAT'S OKAY ... LEON FIGURED IT WOULD PROBABLY BE BEST NOT TO VERBALIZE IT. HAY SUN WAS WORKED UP ENOUGH THE WAY IT WAS THAT SHE WOULD PROBABLY GO INTO A FRENZY IF HE SAID THAT, BUT IT WAS TRUE. SHE WAS CUTE WHEN SHE WAS THREATENING HIS LIFE. HER ATTENTION TO TURNED TO ZACHARIEL'S HOST -- WHOM HE STILL DID NOT KNOW THE NAME OF. HE FROWNED. HER BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES SHOULD REALLY ONLY BE ON HIM. WHY WOULD SHE EVEN WANT TO LOOK AT ANYONE ELSE? "Jun Tae is sending us to South America. Someone's waiting for us there, but he wouldn't tell me who."​

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LEON NODDED HIS HEAD. "ALL RIGHT THEN." SHE REACHED UP AND PRESSED TO FINGERS TO HIS FOREHEAD. "HAY SUN, WHAT ARE YOU --" HIS EYELIDS GREW HEAVY AND HIS WHOLE BODY LEFT LIKE A ROCK AS HE SLUMPED FORWARD INTO THE GIRL.​

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{♚}Location: Taupo, New Zealand {♚} Mood: Surprised {♚} OOC: {♚} ​

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As Logan sat there, he was thinking of different ways to go about this situation. So far he thought if many different ideas. Some were descent, some were okay and there was one that he had no idea why he'd bother to think of it. In the end he'd only sat there while someone else went towards the boy.

Sufficient to say, he was surprised to see that it was Joslyn who'd approached the kid. Especially considering how nervous she was when she tried to speak with him back in Germany. Still from what he could tell it was going well, the fact that he didn't hear any child like shouts like last time furthered his beliefs.

Well, since his original intention of recuirting didn't go as planned he figured that he might as well still say something to the kid. Getting up from the couch he walked over to the duo. " So I take it that things went well." He said.​

 

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✴Day~53{3/5}☁Location~Taupo, New Zealand☁✴​

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Elsie stayed hidden behind the wall at the end of the hallway, listening to Joslyn and Will talk. Good, she didn't have to deal with that brat. She was glad that Joslyn had convinced Will to join... And then she heard Logan talk. She sighed, pushing away from the wall and made her way back to the room. What use was she to anyone? If she showed her face now, she would probably scare Will away. Maybe she should just work on more homework, write something... Start over with her creative writing prompt journal. Yeah, she could do that. It wasn't like anyone need her right this moment. She was one of the useless people around here; had no clue what was going on, just tagged along and learned things as they came along. In fact, she didn't even know what the dark angels looked like. Would she know? She sighed as she sat heavily on her bed and stared out of the window. Maybe this was a bad idea after all...

 

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Lauren was having one of those mornings where she felt incredibly bored. She wandered into the dining room to get food because she was really hungry, and the food that was available reminded her of Alice again and she let out a sad sigh as she plated her food.​

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She turned around and was going to sit down on her own before she noticed Jun Tae sitting in there, "Oh Leo! G-da-AHH!" Lauren immediately fell to the ground and the sound of the plates breaking against a chair were heard. ​

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She laughed and skipped back over to the place to get food, totally forgetting to pick it up, so one of the hotel employees went and picked it up before she made her way back to Jun Tae, and she sat down with a smile and spoke, "Sooo g-day!" She sang as she shoved a bit of food into her mouth and then spoke as she was chewing, "So, you say you aren't Leo... but you look like Leo... can you sing and dance? I bet you caaaan."​

 

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❖ MAP ❖ OOC ❖ WEARING ❖​

❖ DAY ⟡ 53 ⦙ 3/5 ❖ DATE ⟡ Wednesday ⦙ November 13, 2013 ❖​

❖ LOCATION ⟡ Stanley, Falkland Islands [Forest] ❖ INTERACTION ⟡ xXx ❖​

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... Not really much to put here. Sam is still sleeping -- blah, blah, blah. Alice is still recovering from her time spent in Hell -- blah, blah, blah. Hana is still sick and slowly dying, along with holding up the barrier -- blah, blah, blah. I got nothing ... There's a new map up top. ^^ Eventually Hana gets too tired to stay awake and trusts that everything will be okay while she sleeps, too tired to keep watch any longer. Her body is rapidly shutting down on her. She curls up beside Sam and rests her head on his chest before passing out. The barrier holds, but it grows weaker with every passing moment.​

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Cora raised an eyebrow when Henrik asked her an odd question. She shook her head. "No, I have not heard voi- I mean, Arariel. It has been silent in here." She tapped the side of her head, reinforcing that nothing had happened. "It zounds terrifying... Angel can push you that much?" This news troubled Cora greatly. She rested her elbows on the table, resting her cheek on her hands. The fact that Henrik spent time in Russia seemed to be forgotten as thoughts of the supernatural was beginning to take over. Would she have control? What would happen if she allowed Arariel to take complete control? Would it be a good thing? Or would it bring great destruction? Henrik's words brought her back to focus. She couldn't help but to chuckle once more, shaking her head in disbelief. "Not die? Yeesh. Vhat is this? Zeh Hunger Games? No, I get it, no joking. Iz zerious..." ​

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Cora pressed her lips tightly together, her smile fading as she grew serious once more. "I vould like to be teached... Vill your vife approve you being my instructor?" She wanted to make sure she wasn't getting in the way of their relationship. After all, she was another woman. Though Cora had no intention of doing anything of that matter, she wanted to be sure everyone was on the same page. "Vould your angel kill me on first lesson? Or vill he be nice?" She wondered if Henrik really had control over himself... If what he said was true, she wasn't so sure this was a good idea. But she didn't want to be stuck behind everyone else and be completely useless. She wanted to get a handle on things as soon as she could.​

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W E A R I N G ✚ S O L V E ? ✚ M U S I C​

MOOD ※ SIGH ✚ DAY 53 ※ 3/5 ✚ DATE ※ 11/13/2013 ✚ LOCATION ※ TAUPO, NEW ZEALAND​

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LEO had been sitting idly in the dining room of their current hotel, waiting to hear anything from [ of all people ] Adam, who had gone to visit Brandon and Kai. He had routed the hospital bill to an offshore account that was kept by his friend Tan with a message containing minimal details about the situation. It was hard enough with every single one of his contacts constantly asking why he had practically fallen off of the face of the earth, so he didn't need brash Tan spreading rumors if he had the mind to.

On his phone, rarely killing time, he was in a chat with Wonshik and Hongbin about their new concept and launching when an annoying voice pitched in to bother him. ⎧Oh, Leo! G'da – AHH!⎭ He lazily looked up from his screen to see Lauren falling to the ground. She was a complete klutz, and that triggered alarms in his head because that was dangerous. It was one thing to train Joslyn, who didn't know how to use her strength and power, but a complete other thing to train Lauren, who simply couldn't control hers.

He watched as a poor hotel employee cleaned up her mess. She skipped back over to the table he was sitting at. ⎧Sooo, g'day!⎭

Leo internally sighed.

ＬＪＴ : Have to go. Remember that girl I told you about?

♔Rᴀᴠɪ: the crazy one who thinks youre Taekwoonie?

ＬＪＴ : . . . Unfortunately. She's bothering me again.

beany❢: *salutes* we wish you all the luck, junnie ♥

♔Rᴀᴠɪ: ㅋㅋㅋㅋ nah man he's toast. See you on the other side, bro.

ＬＪＴ : You guys are clearly the best friends ever.

beany❢: we love you too junnie ♥ *salutes*

ＬＪＴ HAS BLOCKED ♔Rᴀᴠɪ AND beany❢.​

♔Rᴀᴠɪ: ...he's such a queen sometimes

beany❢: dont say that or he'll find you in your sleep! but youre right lol​

Internally rolling his eyes, Leo clicked his phone off and then gave a bored look to the black-haired girl. ⎧So, you say you aren't Leo . . .⎭

⎧So I've said.⎭ he replied evenly.

⎧But you look like Leo . . .⎭

⎧Unfortunately.⎭

⎧Can you sing and dance? I bet you caaaan.⎭

Leo blinked at Lauren, taken off guard by the question, but still looking bored as ever. Why would she ask something as useless, silly, ridiculous, and . . . intrusive as that? Jun Tae rarely thought about that kind of thing, not just because it was absurd, but because it also connected a little to his more innocent past, before he became a shady character in the world. It brought him to his first three years in Korea, when he had met the would-be idols of BIKS.

⎧Why do you want to know?⎭ he asked flatly. His head began to buzz with memories long-gone of long, tiring hours of moving his arms and legs across a wooden floor with six other teenagers who didn't have a clue whether or not they would ever be in the entertainment business. Things were better then, and it was a good distraction from the death of his mother at the time.​

ιllιlı.ıl L lııl E lııl O lıιllιlı.​

 

Joslyn Taylor Jones
DAY: 53 - 3/5 | DATE: November 13th, 2013 [Wednesday] | LOCATION: Hotel in Taupo, New Zealand

From the sounds of it, the little boy was on board with them. That was great! Somehow, she managed to do get him to, at the very least, consider going with them. "Alright! We did it! See? My apology strategy worked."

"I guess it did." A huge wave of relief washed over the girl as she finally started to relax a little bit. She thought about what he said, though. He could teach her the ways of courage? That would be immensely helpful, honestly. Maybe having him along would help her get stronger. That would be really great.

"So I take it that things went well." The familiar voice came. When she turned to look, she was a little surprised to see that it was Logan. She hadn't really heard him speak very much since they first met him.

"O-oh, y-ye-yeah. L-looks like it..." The girl said before turning her attention back to the little one in front of her. "U-um, well. If y-you're going to c-come with us... W-we're going to n-need to f-fill you in on w-what's been g-going on... A-and what w-we need to do." Before she could say any more, her stomach growled loudly. "Ah!" Her pale face flushed a bright red as she put her hand on her belly. She laughed sheepishly as she stood in front of the two.

"You should probably go get something to eat, now. Why not ask him to join you?" The angel made her suggestion.

"Uh, w-well. I-if it's not too much t-t-trouble, w-would you l-like to g-get something to e-eat?" The embarrassed teen continued to laugh nervously as the trio stood there. "W-we could t-tell you more about w-wh-what we've been d-doing. And m-maybe the o-others that are w-with us are e-eating now, s-so we c-could i-introd-duce you pr-properly."​

 

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Lauren frowned a bit as she played around with her food, "I was just trying to make little talk." Lauren took another bite out of her meal and then continued, "I just assumed maybe you did if you had the charm of a kpop artist... eh... sorry mate if I bugged ya." ​

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Lauren let out a sigh and she leaned her elbows against a table, "I used to randomly dance to that music, pretty badly usually but I had fun... but I was always dancing with Alice..." Lauren leaned more into the table as she continued, "Fun attractions... distractions..." Lauren corrected herself because she felt like she needed to, then grinned and looked back over at Leo, "Everyone can dance... but can you dance well?"​

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W E A R I N G ✚ S O L V E ? ✚ M U S I C​

MOOD ※ . . . ✚ DAY 53 ※ 3/5 ✚ DATE ※ 11/13/2013 ✚ LOCATION ※ TAUPO, NEW ZEALAND​

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SEEMINGLY stirred from her chipper mood, Jun Tae watched as Lauren played with the food on her plate. ⎧I was just trying to make a little talk.⎭

He let out a little sigh, reminding himself that she was new to all of this and that she had lost her wife. That was no real solid reason to treat her with complete pity, but Hay Sun would tell him on one of her good days that she should be nicer. Brandon would probably get on his case, too. Why did everyone want him to be so tolerant?

⎧I just assumed maybe you did if you had the charm of a K-Pop artist . . . Eh . . . Sorry mate, if I bugged ya.⎭

For a moment, he thought about everyone who had ever tried to pry into his personal life, and how it made him feel. As Raziel, he was naturally secretive, but as Jun Tae, being asked to disclose information about himself was a ridiculous request and annoyed him to no end. What business of theirs was it about his life outside of business?

⎧I used to randomly dance to that music, pretty badly usually, but I had fun . . .⎭ she began again after a sigh. ⎧But I was always dancing with Alice.⎭

Alice was with Hana. Now Jun Tae had a second obligation to get to South America as soon as possible. Lauren, and especially her wife, didn't really need to be dragged into this mess that the Fallen called their lives. Any other reincarnation cycle would have been fine, but not one with the impending Apocalypse.

⎧Everyone can dance . . . But can you dance well?⎭

⎧Dude, look at his legs! It's like he's moving on air. Juntae-ya, how do you do that?!⎭

⎧Maybe I should steal his legs while he's sleeping.⎭

⎧Yah, Jaewhan, he'd kill you!⎭

⎧Sanghyuk, dance with me, c'mon!⎭​

Laughter rang out in his head, and then he sighed, blinking back to reality and the now. He sat up straighter and rested his folded arms on the table. ⎧You're persistent.⎭ he commented, glancing at his cup of coffee. ⎧I don't see why it matters, but yes. I can dance. And sing. I have no use for it, so I don't anymore.⎭ He looked to the side almost solemnly and then pulled out his phone again.

ＬＪＴ : Taekwoon

ＬＪＴ : I need your advice, if you could be quick.

☾ L E O: This is a surprise. What is is?

☾ L E O: **it

ＬＪＴ : If someone I didn't know asked me to sing/dance again, what do you think I should tell them?

☾ L E O: I wouldn't, but you know why. You're different. You just don't like showing people your less serious side.

☾ L E O: You have a lot of talent, Hakyeon never fails to complain on a weekly basis what a waste you went to when you left the company.

☾ L E O: And you used to like it a lot. Enjoyed it, even. Even now, we all think you still miss it, but we're just too busy with our schedules to worry.

ＬＪＴ : I think I might be scared.

☾ L E O: Coward.

ＬＪＴ : We can't all be fierce lions like you.

☾ L E O: If you're going to look like my twin, you should act like it. I'm not a coward.

☾ L E O HAS LEFT THE CHAT.​

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Jun Tae stared at his phone and the departing message. In a rare moment of bewilderment, he looked up at Lauren and then back to his screen. Coward.

Coward.

Coward.

Coward.

Jun Tae was many things; an asshole, secretive, manipulative, bad – but he would rather go to Hell than be referred to, believe that he ever was, or be a coward. What the hell was he so scared of? Nothing. Jun Tae White wasn't scared of anything. ⎧I don't know about dancing, now anyway, but if you want, I could sing for you.⎭ he said suddenly, his tone even and rational.

Jung Taekwoon would eat his words.​

ιllιlı.ıl L lııl E lııl O lıιllιlı.​