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"W-What is this..." She muttered, letting out a groan and resting her head on the cold ground. 'To think that they're interested in winning me over... Yet they don't care that I'm lying here, bleeding. Ugh... Men... They also think that I'm not 'fair?!' To be a dancer, one requires to have some sort of attractiveness! I know I'm not completely beautiful, but I'm at least fair.' Letting out a sigh, Mirela winced as she sat herself up, rubbing her head. "I don't get any say in this, do I?"

Mirela angrily brought her gaze to stare the two, quite clearly not pleased with either of them. "Here's an idea, how about whoever can make me stop bleeding gets a date??" Collecting her violin into her lap, Mirela began to inspect it to make sure that it wasn't damaged in any way, feeling a bit of regret in the back of her minds for giving the two men something else to shoot for.

Shaking her head and frowning upon only finding a few scratches, Mirela returned the violin to her lap. "If either of you get too drunk, I'm not dragging you out of here... And my name is Mirela! Not babe or anything like that, and I'm not anyone's prize." Mirela had muttered the last bit to herself, sighing once more. "I hate this city..."

Luck and Kalan took hold of their drink and brought it to their lips.
Tilting their heads back downed the drink before slamming the mugs back on the table.
The two stared at each other for a moment before they both fell over holding their stomachs and clawing at the ground.
"Agh! What was in that?!" Kalan said holding his stomach.
"I don't know I just pulled it from somewhere? Is this what all mortal drinks taste like?"

Meanwhile at a tavern not so far away.
"Good thing those mugs were filled with mop water from today's incident, too much drink and suddenly being scared like that left a huge mess to clean up."
The tavern owner picked up a mug and cleaned it with a nearby rag.
"I'll still add it to Kalan's tab."

The two crawled to nearby alleyways before loud groans could be heard along with the emptying of their stomachs.
"It...it burns so much!"
It taste like Birth's cooking combined with a demon's lower intestine!"
The two wailed as the table and stools disappeared.
Luck climbed further into the alley groaning, and rolled over onto his back.
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A loud slap echoed through the central as Linora held her cheek, she looked at Tsuliria who shook off her hand.
"You know the cost of the dark arts and yet you still used them. Linora, you know better than that."
Linora averted her eyes and nodded her head.
"Yes Mistress. I'm sorry."
Kailos seeing a chance to escape got up and ran away from the three vanishing into the city.
"We have the info so it doesn't matter," Tsuliria said. "I'll go take care of him. Can't believe he's in the bakery being rebuilt."

Reaper followed behind Tsuliria and Linora walking with his hands behind his head with a chuckle.
The three walked over to Mirela hearing her yell about a date, Tsuliria looked around to see Kalan hugging a nearby horse and crying while muttering something about a green demon.

Tsuliria, Reaper and Linora stood over Mirela looking down at her, their shadows blocking the sun light from reaching her.
Reaper smiled down at her as Tsuliria walked around her before kneeling in front of her.
"Well look at you, seems like you've been through a lot haven't you," Reaper said walking to her side.
"Such pain in those eyes, I see some anger too."
He reached down and took hold her chin making her look up at him as he looked her over.
"Such a young lady, it's sad that you'll die here today. What do you think, would you like to be ripped in half, no, I know, I'll play a melody with your spine as my bow."

Tsuliria reached in her sleeve and pulled out a small role of bandage and started taking care of Mirela's wounds.
"Reaper stop joking around," Tsuliria said keeping her attention on Mirela.
After a few minutes she finished wrapping Mirela's wounds and stood up.
"You should be fine now, you need to stay alive until Jazz finds his light and returns to being the Envoy, then I'll kill you."

Reaper stuck his tongue out at her before turning his head, he sniffed the air and looked around once more.
"Why does it smell like pain and suffering here...with a hint of pathetic, I only smelled that with Luck around...."
"It's probably Kalan...come on let's go."
Tsuliria walked ahead causing Linora to follow, Reaper turned and looked back at Mirela.
"See you real soon Mirela," he said with a smile.

Tsuliria stopped and glanced back at Mirela.
"Oh, don't worry about the date."
With that the three faded into the distance heading towards the bakery.

Mirela was left alone, speechless with her blood boiling inside of her. Quickly rising to her feet, she ran a few steps forward, shaking her fists violently. Feeling tears well up in her eyes and spill down her cheeks, Mirela screamed after the three of them, desperately crying for her mother. "R-Reaper!! Give her back! Give her back!" From here Mirela dropped onto her knees, bending over and pounding her fists against the cold, hard pavement. Crying out in despair, Mirela remained on the ground, feeling her heart ache and yearn for her lost mother. The man that had taken her... Reaper... Had just spoken to her, touched her, handled their conversation so casually.

Finally quieting down, Mirela silently returned to her position on her knees and looked around with an empty haze in her eyes. Rising to a stand, she emptily made her way over to her mother's violin and brought it back into her possession, clutching it tightly. "What am I to do...?" Her words were empty, her voice monotone. "I want her back... But I can't do it alone..."

Mirela tilted her head up to the sky and let out a deep breath. "I'm going to find you," She whispered to herself, closing her eyes. "I promise you that, Mother. Reaper is going to pay for what he's done..."

Jazz was glowing brightly, using what power he had left in him, being at a handicap at night. He was willing to die in this fight for the answers he needed. Loyalty, his gloves, had begun to glow a feint blue, reacting to Birth and the power that Jazz was mustering.

"Jazz...Please, I don't want to hurt you."

Without a word, Jazz dashed at Birth, all emotions buried deep inside. His movements were thought out and percise as he dashed forward. His arms flexed as two large orbs burst into his hands, each glowing brightly. He jumped throwing one at birth, it's speed was deadly as he aimed for Birth's chest.

Letting out a small sigh, Birth looked up at Jazz' attack, her eyes flashing for a moment before the orb exploded in air. Jazz landed, jumping back as he threw the second orb. Before Birth could react to the second attack, his fingers snapped, causing the orb to split into seven smaller ones. As his foot hit the ground, two more orbs formed in his hands.

Birth lifted her hand, a wall of light erecting to dispel Jazz' second attack.

"Tch...I knew you weren't gonna be easy to hit but you could at least fight back."

Jazz slammed the two orbs together forming one huge orb. He raised it in one hand above his head as he stared at Birth. Their eyes met before Birth took another step forward.

"What exactly do you seek to gain from this Jazz?"

Kalan rubbed the back of his head thinking for a moment, his job was with Reaper, and if Tsuliria ordered something of him he would have to do it. With the commanders gone his workload would probably increase.

He looked at Mirela and let out a sigh, he had a bad feeling this would probably put him in a bad position later but smiled.
"You can count on me!"
His smile faded when she addressed Luck.
"Why does he have to get involved...."
"I'm a deity mortal, and I'd be glad to help you, the more innocent people that are killed the less babes I'll be able to swoon."
"Do you think about anything else besides women."
"I believe that deity's and humans should coexist, I'm just existing with the women first."

Kalan put his hand over his face before turning back to Mirela.
"Though I want nothing to do with him, I'll put it aside while we work together."
"With this I'll gain the babe's affection, and beat this mortal, I'll stick with them until I finish wooing her," Luck thought with a grin.

Kalan put his hand under his chin for a moment.
"If we wanna beat Reaper we'll need info, if we can find Tsuliria I'm sure she'd be willing to share some info with us."
Kalan clapped his hands together.
"She's really kind on the inside."
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"The pain!"
Tsuliria slammed one of Ulior's man against a wall continuously as he screamed before throwing him aside.
Linora followed behind her looking around at the body's of the men unfortunate enough to get in Tsuliria's way.
"I'll kill all of them if they continue to get in my way," she mumbled.

Tsuliria pushed open a door and walked into a smal room filled with red candles on each side of the room, a red carpet leading to a large throne which Ulior sat on before standing up.
He held his arms out as red barriers filled the room two of them appearing next to Tsuliria and Linora.

"Welcome Tsuliria! I knew you would come to me! How long it has been since our last meeting!"
He took a few steps forwards as the door closed behind them.
"I have a question for you Tsuliria, while you're here."
Tsuliria remained silent as an indication to continue speaking.
"Who in the world keeps coming in my barrier! Do you know the pain I went through to put up that barrier! People keep walking in like it's a gate! A barrier is there to stop things, not let things through!"

Tsuliria remained silent as Ulior continued speaking walking closer to her.
"Anyway, let us do battle then Tsuliria, to see who's the be-"
A chain flew out of Tsuliria sleeve and wrapped around Ulior's neck before lifting him up before a crack was heard, she threw his body aside and shook her head.
"He didn't last as long as last time," she said pulling her chain back. "Let's visit Reaper."
"Yes Mistress."

The barrier around the city flickered for a moment before slowly fading, people seeing the barrier fall cheered and Ulior's men made their way towards the exits of the city but were caught by the guards and moved away.
Tsuliria and Linora walked out of the bakery and headed towards the field.

"Kind, yet she continues to talk about killing me." Mirela shook her head before thanking the two. "If you're positive that she'll be willing to share this information and won't just kill us, then we'll start there. Just know that locating my mother is a high priority-- If I find any clues on where she is I'm going after them and I expect you both to follow."

Mirela felt a bit relieved knowing that she wouldn't be alone on her search. Of course she would have to put up with a deity and a desperate drunk, but she felt that it wouldn't be too much of a hassle. Of course, there would be a few rules.

"I should lay down a few rules before we go, if we're going to be traveling and staying together. I know this is all going to be a group effort but that doesn't mean treating me as 'one of the guys,' so get ready to remember these."

Clearing her throat Mirela began to walk forward, stopping once she was behind the both of them. Keeping her back to the both of them, Mirela looked back up at the sky as she began her introduction of the rules.

"First off, no touching the violin. Especially you, Kalan." She recalled back to when Kalan had stolen the violin and dragged her into a mess with Kailos, of course after going through a horrible, embarrassing fall. "Its very important to me and belongs to my mother."

"Next, remember that I'm a woman. I practice clean hygiene habits which means I bathe often, whenever I can. During those times you're not to go near me, I expect full privacy. Times of emergency are the only exceptions, so in the case of an attack and I'm unable to defend myself, come to my rescue but be respectful about it." She narrowed her eyes at the thought, sensing a bad vibe from that rule. "No 'false alarms' either. Come get me if there's a real emergency, don't just cry wolf."

"For sleeping arrangements, we'll all sleep in the same immediate area. Take turns for look-out, things like that. Neither of you are to come near me while I sleep. Chances are, if I'm able to hear you breathing you're too close." Mirela shook her head, sensing a few more bad vibes. "The only exception is winter... In which case I'll permit closer arrangements, but not too close. I don't want to be under the same blanket."

"Finally, just respect my personal space. There are times when honestly I just want to be alone. Keep out of my personal business and I'll keep out of yours." Mirela lowered her head, making a small face. "I'll think of more along the way. Now, with those being said, let's go."

Turning to look at them, Mirela gave a faint smile. "First things first, though. I need a new violin case, I lost the original when I first met Nola, may she rest in peace."

As the explosion subsided, there was no trace of Jazz. Birth frantically looked around for him.

"Did I accidently blow him up?!"

"Behind you!"

Just before the blast hit him, Jazz threw a small spear just in front of him, lessening the damage from the explosion. With her focus on the bang he hit the ground and quickly circled around.

"Clever..."

Jazz summoned his two blades as he flew at Birth, one hand briefly hitting the ground causing him to spin. Birth quickly summoned another spear as Jazz crashed into her, sparks flying between them as the swords hit the spear. Their eyes met as both, Jazz and Birth, gave a small grin.

"Tell me Jazz, why do you wear that mask? Is it to hide from your past? Or perhaps yourself?"

Jazz jumped, kicking off of Birth's spear, launching his swords at her as he flew back. She quickly knocked them away with her spear before launching her second attack. The spear caught Jazz out of them air by his leg, causing him to spin and slam into the ground. He strained getting on his feet from the impact, his breathing heavy from the lack of energy he had left.

"You haven't even gotten serious and i'm already almost done....Seems i've got little to no choice here."

A large sphere of flame emerged in the middle of a small field. The sky seemingly turned red for a moment as Rahj stepped out of the elemental plane of fire.

And what a perfect place to emerge.

Rahj landed in the middle of a small battle between many other people. "Well I guess I need to learn how to shift between planes more effectively." he said to himself, dodging some bolts that were not directed at him but almost hit him regardless.