Welcome to Gaia! ::

Tsuliria looked around at the diminished but continued forward, she opened and closed her hand as her eyes rested on the cross.
However hearing a voice she looked at the beast in front of her.
She stopped and crossed her arms as she scanned the creature her eyes narrowing at it afterward.
She wasn't sure what the creature was and the darkness coming from it bothered her.
It wasn't darkness that developed from normal humans....it seemed beyond even that.
She extended one hand towards him as he drew closer.
"I'm not really in the mood to deal with you, so let's get this over with."

Blood fell from Tsuliria's hand as a sword flew up to the front of her left chain, gripping it she hurled it at the Hunter aiming for his chest as she made a sweeping motion at his feet with the other chain.
She moved her right foot back as the chains made their way towards him.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"R-Rai? How are you alive? I saw you die"
"It was a copy you idiot. I saw it was the easiest way to hide while I put my plan into action."
"Still Rai...why did you do all this? Our father and mother...you even endangered Kina....I thought we were brother's."
Rai walked closer to Kalan before taking off his glasses as his red eye started glowing.
"We were until you took her from me."
Kalan blinked a few times before shrugging his shoulders, Rai's eye twitched before he spoke again.
"Kalan...how do you think those thugs found you back then, and why attack you a simple stable boy?"
Kalan put his hand under his chin and rubbed it thinking back before his eyes widened, he looked back at Rai seeing the grin on his face.
"That's right...I paid them to attack you. The idiots took Lana though and brought her too me after she hurt them. A passerby found you and brought you to me. Then you woke up wanting revenge, fearing that everything would be tied to me I tried to stop you but you went anyway. Then instead of dying like a good little boy you came wandering back to me."
"Rai...you didn't-"
Rai cut Kalan off as he held up his finger his eyes narrowing at him as he continued.
"Did you even look at the sword Kalson came at you with! It was the one you bought! It's because of you that Lana died Kalan!"
Kalan took a step back as darkness started leaving Rai's body causing his clothing to flutter as a blood lust filled his eyes.
He rushed forward and making a fist hit Kalan in his face causing him to stumble back.
"I swore revenge that day, that your blood would stain my hand just as hers stained yours!"
A toothy grin formed on Rai's face as a mixture of red and yellow stared hovering around his body and mixing with the darkness as it exploded into the air.
Rai started walking toward Kalan as black hellfire circled around his body.
"I will rip that soul out of you and infuse it with my own. Thanks to the contract there's an even distribution of power. I will use the power of Valcas and retreat to the underworld as the world comes to end. Then I will bring Lana back and the world will be reborn anew from the ashes of fools. I will be the supreme demon lord and the best part is you'll no longer exist. For once I'll get what I deserve!"
Rai vanished from sight and appeared in front of Kalan before slamming his fist into his stomach causing Kalan to hunch over.
Rai took the back of Kalan's head and slammed it into the ground before leaning up.
Using his foot Rai kicked Kalan onto his back before stepping on his face chuckling lowly.
"You always got everything, you got Lana even though I was so close to getting her back. Kervani looked at you as his son. Fortune always smiled on you! I became the doctor and actually made something of myself. Yet you got everything."
Rai continued stomping on Kalan's face grinning as Kalan's body twitched with each stomp.
He started laughing before forcing Kalan onto his stomach, he stepped on the back of his head forcing his head into the dirt.
He knelt down and taking hold of his hair forced him to lift his head up before leaning down and whispering into his ear.
"Oh and don't worry about Mirela, I'll make sure she dies just as painfully as you do. I'll make her beg for forgiveness before I rip her apart."

Kalan's eyes shot open before taking on a red glow, a large burst of dark energy exploded throwing Rai back, however he turned his body and landed on his feet sliding back a little.
Kalan slowly stood as darkness poured from his body as dark claws grew on his hand.
Fangs protruded out of his mouth as his hair took on a dark color, he growled at Rai as a dark mist started leaving his body.
Rai smiled feeling Valcas' spirit active, he laughed as a dark aura circled around him, reaching up he took off his glasses before throwing them to the side.
"That's what I'm talking about! Show me if you can use that power!"

Kalan started to run forward but stopped as he brought his hand to his head, images of Mirela started to flash in his head as he started stumbling back and forth.

"I didn't need your help..."

Kalan fell to his knees as he clenched his other hand into a fist causing his claws to cut his skin.
Crimson dripped onto the darkened grass as Mirela's voice echoed in his head.

"I'm not going anywhere without Kalan!"

His aura started to flicker as Rai's eyebrow arched as Kalan's corrupted energy started flowing back into his body.
He gripped the grass as eyes switched between red and green and his fangs started shrinking.

"Kalan!"

Kalan body lifted into the air before he let out one last yell as darkness exploded from his body.
His claws shrunk before Kalan returned to his normal form his hair returning to it's blond color as he floated back down.
Once his feet touched the ground he made one motion with his hand before a straw sword formed in his hand.
"No," he mumbled as he looked back at Rai.
"I won't depend on Valcas for this...."
Kalan brought both his hands to the sword as his eyes narrowed at the smiling Rai.
"If you won't move Rai then you leave me no choice. I will forge a path to her from your tattered remains!"

Rai grinned before holding his arm to the side, green energy circled around his arm before his hand closed around the hilt of a long blade.
The blade of the sword in Rai's hand was longer than his body and let off a dark aura around the black blade.
"When your on your knees before me remember your threats. It's more fun to see your face when you fail."

Kalan sprinted toward Rai bringing his sword to the side as a yellow aura circled around his body.
Rai grinned before running at Kalan holding his sword behind him as his dark aura circled around his body.
Rai's eyes widened as his pupils shrank upon nearing Kalan, letting out a loud yell Kalan brought his sword forward as Rai brought his sword in front of him.
The two slammed into each causing the straw in the area to fly up into the air around the two, their swords clashed against each other as Kalan deflected Rai's blows causing the straw to hover around their bodies from the concentration of their energy.
Kalan glared at Rai as he grinned at him sparks flying from the collision of their swords.

While resting upon Mirela's back, Inae let out a small sigh. She wasn't too pleased with the situation but thought that perhaps to make the situation less awkward, a conversation could be held between the two of them. "So, you're in love..."

Mirela gave a small nod, smiling as she continued to briskly walk forward. "Yes, I am. I didn't think it would happen this quickly, though..." Bringing her thoughts to Kalan, she began to wonder where he was and if he was alright. "To be honest... Before I was dragged into all of this I was confused about life and how someone could enjoy it if it went by so quickly. Now I've realized that love is a big factor in it. Meeting Kalan made me look at things differently, I now know that life doesn't move as quickly as I thought it did. I cherish every moment I have with him, and yearn to be held in his arms every time we're apart."

She stopped for a moment seeing the cross a short distance away and took a deep breath. "He makes me incredibly happy and I want to do everything I can to make sure that I can make him happy, too. Going back to what I was saying, I'm able to grasp onto life and enjoy it. I have Kalan to thank for that, Inae."

Shaking her head slightly, Inae tightened her hold on Mirela as the two began moving once more. "I won't argue with you here. You and I have completely different tastes, but I suppose whatever makes you happy is what makes you happy. I for one have given up on a man's love."

Mirela made a small face as they came much closer to the cross, listening to Inae speak. "Well maybe someday you'll find someone that you truly care about, or at least have an interest in."

"I doubt it, and unless we do our part to take care of this new threat, all of this talk about love won't do you any good." Inae let out a small sigh as she looked upwards, trying to figure out how they could possibly destroy it after thinking that perhaps the situation was now more awkward than it had been before.

Mirela lightly shook her head. "You're right. I suppose the only thing I can do now is use my love for Kalan to drive me forward. Now," Bending her legs, Mirela let Inae climb down off of her back as she came to a stop, standing up straight after her sister was safely on the ground and staring up at the cross that towered over them. "Let's bring an end to this."

With that, Mirela moved into playing position as Inae reached into her pouch, pulling out a card and holding it out before her.

Yama smirked. Looking up at the winged beast on top of the cross, he knew his opponent has arrived. Stepping away from his partner, and his bodies, he studied the cross.

"I guess you take care of your dear old dad, and I'll take his pet..."

Jumping up and landing on the left arm of the cross, he crouched down and looked at the creature, gripping his axe as he readied himself, slightly sweating from the excitement of the battle yet to come.

"Be cautious, we aren't used to flying creatures, you might need more power."
In his head, he spoke to the wolf inside him, watching his enemy.
"we don't know that yet. Let's wait and see before we degrade my body even more. I'm not ready to switch species, you know."
The spirit nodded her head in agreement as she knew his plan.
"Alright, but just remember, I will help, for if you die, I die."

Mirela's pupils shrank at the sight of her father. "N-No... How..." She remained completely still, feeling as if her feet were chained to the ground. "How are you alive..." Her hands and legs began to tremble, the recent memory of murdering her father repeating over and over again in her mind. Tears began to fill Mirela's eyes as her heart pounded in her chest. "I-Its.. impo-" Mirela let out a small, shocked gasp as she was brought back to the situation. Looking down at Inae, her pupils returned to normal size.

Inae shook her hand a little, flexing it slightly. It was a bit sore after hitting Mirela in the arm. "Have you forgotten everything we just talked about?" Narrowing her eyes, Inae traded out the card in her hand for another in her pouch. "Don't let someone you've already killed get in the way of our mission. I'd be pretty annoyed if I had to tell Kalan the reason behind your death." Holding the card up, Inae silently prayed to herself that her next move wouldn't be too painful.

"Tarot VIII - Strength."

Watching as Strength formed at her side, Inae reached over and slid the card into her hand, a small smile forming on her lips which concealed the pain she had started to go through. "Welcome back, Strength."

"M'lady... What is the reason you summon me?" Strength kept her eyes forward, locking her gaze with Diminished Emilian.

"Protect my sister and I so that we may rid the world of this crisis." Inae shook her head a little, bringing her attention to Diminished Emilian. "Kill him." Looking over at Mirela, Inae pointed up to the fists that were punching down at them. "I'll handle him, you work on those."

Mirela gave a small nod and began to play a quick melody, green energy in the shape of a medium-sized orb began to rise from the ground beneath them. She increased the tempo to speed it up before moving into a crescendo, watching as the orb expanded above them and shone brightly.

As Mirela neared the end of the melody, a barrier had formed between the hands and the three women. 'I... I hope this holds.' Sending the melody into a trill to hold the barrier, Mirela hoped that Inae would be able to handle the fight.

"Very well, m'lady." Strength drew her rapier forward and moved closer to Diminished Emilian, slashing horizontally in hopes of ending her duties as quickly as possible. "Perish!"

As Strength attacked, Inae began to look around. 'This is very unsettling... We need to get out of here as soon as possible.' Inae continued to look, hoping to find some sort of opening where they could escape to safety.

Tsuliria eyes watched the man as she pulled her chains back in, seeing the blast of mist she threw herself higher into the air narrowly dodging it.
"Come."
A blast of darkness erupted from her before her scythe appeared, turning she landed sitting on it before looking down at the man as she kicked her feet a few times listening to him speak.
She let a small sigh escape from her as a red aura circled around her.
"This is taking too long, I'm sorry but I have to start getting serious."

Tsuliria held her arm to the ground causing a red pentagram to appear on the ground.
"Executioner Hanra."
A red hand came out of the pentagram before a red face followed after it.
The face had two red eyes and had black hair tied in a ponytail. Opening it's mouth it revealed it's fangs before gust of wind started flowing into it's mouth pulling the mist in with it.
Tsuliria raised her hand causing tiny pentagrams to appear outside of the dome, seconds later chains burst out of the pentagrams as one hundred surrounded the dome before rising above it and linking with each other.
Tsuliria landed in the pentagram keeping her mouth covered with her sleeve before looking at the man.
"Goodbye."

Her body sunk into the pentagram before Hanra pulled her other hand out, holding both hands up a large dual bladed axe with black blades appeared in her hands before it slowly rose out of the pentagram. Hanra wore a red half shirt which hid her upper from view.
On the bottom half of her stomach was a long black line with circular markings on it.
Hanra growled at the diminished as the chains took on a red color outside of the dome.

Hanra's eyes went bright red before it let out a roar as the chains started glowing brightly.
"Forgotten lullaby," Tsuliria's voice echoed from the pentagram for a second as Hanra gripped her axe.
Hanra slammed the bottom of her axe on the ground causing ten red spheres of energy to come up from the ground.
The red orbs started moving in a circle around the dome before horizontal beams shot out of them combining with the other orbs until they were all linked.
Hanra opened her mouth sucking in more air as the lines formed a twin star before the holes of the start let off a red glow.

Giant beams of red energy exploded from holes consuming everything in their path as Hanra vanished amongst the red beams. The beams rotated coming upon the dome each one moving towards the diminished as they bounced around.
They continued to move around the dome splitting off each time into smaller beams until thousands of red beams filled the dome as the chains continued to pulsate.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Diminished Emilian raised his eyebrow seeing Inae fly out of his trap before the west wall faded for a second as the hands around Mirela vanished.
He faded into the wall as strength attacked him before appearing through the east wall.
Turning he sprinted at Mirela as two hands formed out of the wall behind him.
Extending his hands he caused them to fly forward towards Mirela as the eyes turned their attention to Mirela.
The hands curved into each swirling a few times before claws formed on the end of them as eyes appeared in their palms.
Diminished Emilian drew closer behind the hands as they went to slam Mirela between them from the left and right side in a grab attempt.
"Mirela!"
Diminished Emilian screamed as dark crows came out of the south wall, they flapped their wings as their red eyes peered at Mirela.
After a dozen came out of the wall they started flying towards her, cawing at her as they continued their flight.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rai's laughter could be heard as the dark spheres exploded causing thousands of dark spikes to fly down towards Kalan.
Turning his body Kalan flew down to the ground and placing his foot on the ground, jumped off it as he started sprinting along the field.
The dark spikes crashed into the earth around him as he weaved through them.
Seeing they were the size of buildings he made a note to avoid getting hit by any.
He jumped to the right dodging one before jumping and kicking off another dodging another as it slammed where he once was.
He continued kicking off the spikes as they slammed into the ground around him, turning his body and doing a cartwheel in the air he narrowly dodged one as it passed him.
He let out a sigh before landing on the ground and spinning while sending a burst of energy from his back.
The burst sent his body sliding forward along the ground as he continued spinning leaving large circles in the ground as he progressed the spikes narrowly missing him as the fell to the earth.
He came to a stop before one landed next to him causing him to take a step away from it.

"Oh I'm not done."
The dark spikes started glowing red as Rai reappeared in the sky.
Kalan looked around him to see he was surrounded by the spikes before Rai snapped his fingers.
"Cry my children, let your pain carry him to the afterlife!"
The black spikes exploded into a giant upward torrent of black hellfire that covered the whole field as hundreds of faces appeared in the flame crying out.
Rai vanished to avoid being hit by it as it pierced the clouds before fading away.
Rai landed on the ground and chuckled as the black hellfire consumed the entire field and started reaching out to the forest that hid the field from view.
Standing amongst the black flames Rai covered the side of his face before laughing towards the sky, his red eye glowed brightly as the black flames started growing larger with each passing moment.
"Now let's get that....huh?"

Rai saw a figure slowly rising from the black hellfire, his eyes widened as the figure turned towards him his yellow eyes piercing the flames.
Kalan's eyes narrowed at Rai and in one motion white hellfire consumed the black hellfire banishing it before it faded leaving a burnt wasteland.

"Corrupt Eden."
Ten white pentagrams appeared around the two in a circle before giant rectangular pillars lifted out of them.
The rectangular pillars continued to rise above the forest before stopping near the clouds.
Tree's started lifting out of the ground with dark leaves and wood inside the pillars before black bushes and grass appeared around the two.
Rai's eyes widened before Kalan appeared in front of him.

Kalan slammed his foot into Rai's face sending him flying back, Rai's body turned as it flew to see Kalan reappear in his path.
Building white energy into his fist Kalan slammed his fist into Rai's stomach forcing Rai to stop.
Kalan leaned his body down below Rai before rapidly kicking Rai in the torso with his foot. The force and speed of the kicks kept Rai's body suspended in the air as white energy burst out of Rai with each hit.
Turning his body Kalan raised his foot up once more, the heel of his foot slammed into Rai's face sending him flying into the air.
Vanishing he left a mirage of himself where he once stood. The mirage gathered dark energy into it's left arm as it looked up at Rai.
The real Kalan appeared high above the battlefield and brought his left arm back as white energy gathered in his hand.
Rai opened his eyes as Kalan extended his hand unleashing the energy. A giant focused beam of white corrupt energy flew from his hand down at Rai.
The beam was three times as large as Rai and as it slammed into him sent him flying down towards the earth.
The mirage Kalan yelled as an equally large dark beam exploded from his hand and up towards Rai.
The black beam collided with Rai and the white beam before a large explosion erupted form the collision creating a giant light and dark sphere of energy with Rai in the center of it.
Kalan landed on the ground and crossed his arms as the sphere exploded sending Rai spiraling towards the earth before hitting the ground.
Light and dark lightning sparked from his body as he slowly sat up.
Rai stood up before looking at Kalan, brushing off his body he grinned.

"All that and you did nothing to me."
Kalan glanced over at Rai as a calm expression formed on his face, Rai built dark energy into his hand causing it to crackle.
"I end this now."

"What!?"

The diminished' eyes widened as the onslaught of beams barreled down on him, their sheer power causing the mist to evaporate into the clouds. As the beams slammed into the beast below, a loud cry bellowed out, his body slowly diminishing. As he evaporated into the mist, a small smile formed on his face, his eyes slowly shutting as he took a final breath.

"Seems you got me...."

As the beams destroyed the ground below, the clouds opened up, small purple droplets raining down. The constant percussion of the rain rang out in the dome of chains as the clouds opened.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jazz took in a deep breath as he approached the massive cross before him. It's black stone looked smooth to the touch as it shined and shimmered in the light. Jazz flexed his hand, a spear flashing to his hand, it's bright light shining off of the cross. As Jazz lifted the spear, ready to throw it, a blast of light shot off behind him, Forte flew out of the crater, his body shining.

"Not yet!"

A bright light focused in his chest before he fired, a massive beam of light shot from him like a cannon. Jazz jumped, the beam colliding with the cross behind him. As he twisted in the air, he launched the spear into Forte's head.

"I'm already tired of you."

Jazz hit the ground in a sprint as he dashed at Forte. Before Forte could react, two blades of light slashed through his body, one white, one black. As Jazz retracted his blades, Forte fell to the ground in three pieces, one last breath leaving him before faded into ashes. Jazz turned to see the cross cracked up the front of it from Forte's blast. Throwing one last spear, Jazz dashed in, his foot meeting the end of the spear, slamming it into the cross, causing it to explode into massive chunks of black rubble.

"That's one down..."

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The diminished gave a small smirk as his eyes darted between the Justice clones. With a small laugh, the diminished dashed forward at one of the clones.

"Foolish girl, Leon always catches his prey!"

The diminished, now known as Leon, slashed through the Justice clone, a loud laugh ringing out as the clone puffed into smoke. Leon extended his hand into the haze, his forearm slowly changing from a dark blue to a dark red. The color began to change over his entire body until he was fully red. Turning, his eyes began to glow as two clones of himself stepped out and dashed at the other two Justice clones.

"Why thank you young lady, I'll treasure this power, while I'm ripping you limb from limb."

Mirela's eyes softened as she watched the chain of events unfold. When the trap shattered, she lowered her bow to her side but however kept Love resting on her shoulder. Turning her attention over to Inae, Mirela's eyes grew wide at the sight of her in the middle of a fight. "I-Inae!"

Hearing Mirela's voice, Inae's ears perked up. She turned her head toward her older sister and gave a small chuckle when she realized that Mirela had won the fight. "Well good job. Looks like you finally did something useful. I'm a bit busy though, so if you'll excuse me..." Inae brought her attention to Leon. "Where were we?"

The remaining two Justices slashed their swords diagonally at the Leon clones in one, swift upward motion.

Mirela raised her bow once more and went to take a step closer to help Inae, but stopped once Inae spoke to her.

"Mirela, what the hell do you think you're doing? I've got this covered. Get rid of that cross and go find Kalan. Can't let him slack off now can we?" Inae kept her eyes locked onto Leon, never breaking concentration. "Go on, hurry up."

As much as Mirela didn't want to leave Inae alone, she let out a small sigh and gave a nod. Turning to look at the cross towering above her, Mirela took a deep breath before playing once more.

Her melody was calm and gentle. As she played, green energy began to form around the base of the cross. Mirela continued to play the melody, causing the energy to begin crawling up the cross, taking the form of multiple vines. The vines kept growing, winding themselves around the cross and eventually made it to the very top.

The vines then came together, forming a large, beautiful lily at the top of the cross. When Mirela began to near the end of her melody, the vines began to shimmer from the base of the cross. Each passing note caused the shimmer of the vines to become brighter than before.

Mirela shut her eyes gently as the lily began to shine. Its shine being a lot brighter than the vines that formed it. As Mirela opened her eyes, she brought the melody to an end which in turn caused the vines to constrict around the cross while the lily set off into a large explosion.

Mirela then lowered both Love and its bow to her sides. "I'll be back soon, Inae. Be safe." She turned to look over her shoulder to see Inae give a small nod before hurrying off into the distance to find Kalan.