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((UNS - Will - Holding off on the other two for now))

And what kind of f***ed up response was that from Itachi? That was NOT what Will said. Distracted from the flow of energy? What energy? It was really just Roulin and Thomas who had been fighting. Raven didn’t count, and Will hadn’t fought on the ship either. Lame excuse and utterly unacceptable. Will had not trained Itachi so that he stand and look pretty, not that Itachi was pretty anyway. The Heat Owl even wanted to be trained so he could become stronger to protect the ones he held dear to him. Some good that would do dazing around like a deer frozen in the view of headlight beams. “Groundless excuses….” The displeased glare Will directed toward Itachi might as well have torn Itachi’s soul and body apart, and Satan was in such a mentality that he very well could have physically done the same to express his displeasure, but it was neither the time nor place for that. Once this so called battle was over though, that was a different story. “If you had enough time to think all that, you could have-” The creaking sound of a ship being destroyed by the crackling of ice made Will’s ear twitch slightly. Kojiro. “-actually made yourself useful just like Kojiro is.” Even those nonOwl Japanese troops were more useful than Itachi. Of course they were. They were from Japan, and the country knew how to train soldiers. But then, before Will do anything, he felt himself being pulled away. ”Stay alive, you two!” Will shouted angrily as he was pulled away and teleported. What it really meant was "You'd better still be alive the next time I see you, you two little brats!" He wasn’t even sure if Raven and Roulin heard him. Actually, the Satan Owl wanted Japan to stay alive as well, but that was a given.

When the teleport was complete, Will knew they were in Russia from the change in atmosphere. The first thing in his line of sight was Thomas walking away, making that comment about 'home.' Had Thomas already forgotten whose 'home' that he had just ordered an attack on before? ”Get out of my sight, Itachi,” he growled as he reverted back to his "human" form. They weren't in battle now, and unless Itachi wanted to die or suffer immensely, it was a good idea to get away from Will. The Satan Owl was withholding himself from lashing out because Itachi wasn't in his direct line of sight... Thomas was. But it was possible that venting on something would calm him down faster. Despite that, Will was old enough to be able to maintain his levelheadedness. He was not happy, but he wasn't pissed. "Thomas...." he hissed.
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((Fallen Phoenix - I don't think there's anything new for Benkei at this point, Neo.))

Things just seemed to go from bad to worse. The UNS had all managed to escape along with Thomas and the Satan Owl, who had shouted something about ‘being alive‘ but Raven was not paying him any particular attention at that point. Roulin however did have her attention “A bomb? s**t! Classic tactics, so old and un-original” Despite her sentence, the bomb had her on edge. And knowing Thomas, that thing would be powerful enough to blast half the island into dust “If I can get back on solid ground via ice skating, then you sure as hell better do something about that bomb Roulin” She ran to the edge of the boat and leapt overboard “So…much…ice” Who had created this perfect rink? It couldn’t be just one Owl…right?

While in mid air and before she would make contact with the ice, Raven sent out a large shockwave, one that was powerful enough to send her flying, while not damaging anything or anyone that might be in flight. Well, if they were in the way it was their fault.
The wind whipped past her furiously as she landed on top of the frozen sea. Parts of the ice was breaking away, showing the water beneath. Again, she used her own ability to propel her towards the land much faster then normal skating would have done.
A sigh of relief escaped her lips as she stumbled onto dry ground “Just were I prefer to be” She smiled while glancing around and located each member of the Fallen Phoenix, or at least those within eyesight “Damn it! how the hell are we suppose to make it way from here in case Roulin messes up with the whole bomb disposal task…”

Nathanial’s head felt like it would explode with every second that he tried to keep the wall up with Benkei. He clenched his teeth together as he tried his hardest, but it was not enough. Nat fell down onto one knee and tried to keep going. It was only when he noticed that the UNS had all vanished that he finally stopped holding up his portion of the walls “Wh…what….whats going on?” He huffed out in one breath.

When the battleship finally exploded, Roulin immediately placed a box around the ship. The ice that the ship was resting on was broken and slightly, the ship descended into the water beneath it. The light from the possibly nuclear explosion was bright, but Roulin had no choice but to stare into it. He could see cracks forming in his barrier, but he had to push through or else, like Raven said, the side of the island may be charred to cinders.

He formed another box to supress the later stages of the explosion. His orginal box hadn't broken, but he could feel heat seeping through. The Life Owl clenched his fists and the box began to shrink smaller and smaller into an extremely dense point of light, heat and sound. The box, even from the island, could be heard producing a very low hum, the bass of which shook Roulin and much of the ice beneath it. After a few moments, the box was gone and the explosion was compressed beyond it's limits. Roulin, having saved the island, fell back onto the ice immensely fatigued. His eyes shut, and he almost instantly fell asleep.

( sorry about not posting. )

Itachi just stood there as will got mad at him and then left as itachi sighed to himself but not out loud as he looked at himself through a reflection of ice. He felt different soemhow but couldnt plac eit and jsut shruged it off as nothing important and began to walk as he wanted to find amaya and make sure she was allright after all of that battle that went on.

Nova flew down from the sky and landed next to raven as he wiped hos face to get rid of the sweat on it. " Well raven whats our plan i can always teleport us with magic but as usual with a spell like that ill be tired after so hopefully we dont have to go far. We should get out of here before the japanese military decides were a threat now and comes after us. Not to mention what we are to do about our alliance with the night owls do we keep it now that your back with us?" asked nova.

Zane sighed as the battle was finally over. His sand defenses went down and he turned back to normal as he went over to the rest of the night owls and boarded the plane as well. " Well it was a partial success we managed to free raven from the UNS and force thomas to withdraw again. Better then our previous battles at any rate." said zane.

((UNS - Will, Amaya, Armand))

Perhaps, the Satan Owl was overreacting a little. Thomas, Lucien, Amara, and Vincent had gone inside the building, and he could hear an outburst from Amara and her student Vincent from beyond the closed doors. The blonde heard Itachi leave his vicinity per his instructions. It was for Itachi’s safety, and for the Heat Owl’s own sake, Itachi had better never freeze up like that again. Will didn’t bother looking at the other members of the UNS. ”Look alive, wisea**es,” he growled cryptically yet audibly to the others before he took a different door into the UNS building and made his way to some empty room as he stewed. They lived. Japan should still be standing. He didn’t know, but it was just a feeling. He was only silent as a violin case appeared from a mass of black lightning. He opened the case and gently took the violin in his left hand and the bow in the right hand. He brought the violin’s chinrest to his left shoulder and chin and brought the bow to the strings of the violin before closing his eyes and beginning to play whatever came to his mind first. Of course they did. They are the new generation and they will. The Satan Owl was calming himself, but he didn’t think that he was harsh on anyone in the new generation. They had to be stronger, and he sure as hell didn’t mind giving them a hard time about it. The thought of forcing them as leads into the new era brought a smirk to Will’s face. The Satan Owl couldn’t possibly go ballistic on them. The energy from anger and unhappiness could be redirected toward efficiency. And just like that, Will was now completely calm without torturing or killing anyone. So, the Satan Owl projected to his former lover from over a thousand years ago, Noel Anderson. ~Noel….~ There was no question with the projection, but since it was Noel, she would know that he probably wanted an update.

Amaya, being the lucky Clueless Owl, had been teleported a little ways off from everyone, on the other side of the building… It took her a bit to realize where she was because it was colder, and she was cold. “Oh, this is Russia, right?” She shivered. Japan had been a little warmer. She heard voices somewhere nearby from the other side of the wall. ”Huh? Someone must be there!” She walked toward the corner, but before she could reach there, Itachi turned the corner, and they crashed. ”Itachi! Oh, no! Sorry… why did you fly off like that? I couldn’t follow you!” Apparently, despite Amaya being completely clueless on what had happened, she was asking about Itachi flying away.

One moment, they were all working together, the next moment, UNS was in Russia. The scene changed rather fast. Armand wasn’t aware of the bomb on board the ship, but he had been wary of why Sibal had signaled the retreat for the UNS. Something had to have happened. The question was what? The Prankster Owl sighed. Will seemed annoyed. Amara was annoyed. Vincent was assertive. Lucien was proud of them? Well, the situation did have its interpretations… and Thomas was the ever so secretive smelly Thomas. Anya had been awfully quiet, and Itachi was now gone. Amaya was nowhere to be seen…until Armand happened to hear her voice from behind the wall after a very audible crash sound. He sighed again. ”Well, Anya, at least there were…” Armand stopped. He was going to say “minimal casualties,” but he remembered that Anya had lost Owen, who appeared to be dear to the Poison Owl. “Want some pie?” he asked cheerily.
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((Fallen Phoenix - Benkei))

While Kojiro had gone to take out the ships, Benkei had also been trying his best to hold up something with Nat. He dropped the shield when everything seemed to have calmed. He hadn’t been attentive enough to notice what exactly Roulin had done, but he knew that the Life Owl had saved Japan from the potential destruction that would have occurred. He dropped onto the ground, sitting besides Nat. The Shield Owl shook his head. He wasn’t sure what had happened exactly. The Japanese nineteen year old nodded when Raven approached. He managed to crack a small smile. “Hey, Raven.” Benkei hadn’t heard Raven’s words before the Fallen Phoenix leader walked over, so he didn’t know what Aaliyah was yelling about. And Nova had a point. At that moment, he looked toward the sea and the ice and remembered Kojiro. “Where’s Koj?” Everyone was here except well…Owen and the Frozen Owl and Flo! Benkei struggled to get to his feet. ”We need to find Koj and Flo…” the Shield Owl muttered as he saw a jet in the distance as he glanced around looking for Kojiro. He blinked. That hadn’t been there before. Maybe he was too tired. He could use a good rest…but no, Kojiro. Where was the fellow Japanese Fallen Phoenix?

((Edit: Forgot Flo. :Sweat smile )

Kojiro was lying on a flat slab of ice, he was breathing heavily as his body refused to keep moving, not just out of exhaustion anymore, his muscles had been torn up by the abuse he had put his body through. he looked around,"....I shouldn't have fought...I shouldn't have killed those people....why did I do it?..." he sobbed to himself, he could not bring himself to get to his feet, the slab floated lazily across the water. Kojiro curled slightly as he cringed in pain, the sign on his eye flickered and faded away from sight as his actions finally took their toll on him, he felt every round that hit him and the force he dragged his body through, the slab was stained with the scarlet tinge of his blood as he lie motionless. His body had been torn apart and yet he still drove himself to keep going, he could not help but wonder if in the end he kept going because it was right...or for something much worse He heard the bellow of a loud yet suppressed explosion and then deathly silence. Kojiro was too tired to really act at all, if it was something about to his him head on, he would not even make the effort to flee. Finally the slab hit a large mass of Ice, finally coming to terms with the fact he had to head back to shore, he continued moving, he slammed his palms onto the ground as he pushed his body upward, tears lightly streamed from his face as the mixed with small amounts of blood, both his and that of others. His muscles begged for rest, however he knew he could not stop until he at least made it close to shore. Stumbling to his feet he began to walk towards the shore on the frozen water. Kojiro saw the mangled wreckage that was still trapped in the ice, he could make out bodies that were caught in the frozen tomb, some of them were badly mangled. Kojiro tried to look away and shake the images out of his head, but it only made his guilt grow,"...They had families too...but...they were trying to destroy mine...even then..I could have just as easily stopped them...kept them from attacking...what came over me?" he stopped at the edge of the ice, he was still a ways off, it broke off lightly as it began to float again, Kojiro simply fell to his knees,"...I don't want to fight any more...I just...I just want to be with my family again..." he whimpered he hugged himself lightly, for the first time in a while, he actually felt cold, his request was simply met with silence. Kojiro tried to get back up, and then fell back to the ground, dead silent.