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"Don't.... you.... run away.... from....from me!" Duri picked himself up, with a murderous look in his eyes and an aura, red as blood, spewwed from his arms, "I'm not finished with you!" He roared, "You? Still alive? Well I can fix that!" Heo scoffed charging at him with lighting speed. Duriono charged back at him as well, everything around them was slowwed down, yet it seemed their speed was reduced to normal, but that was far from what was actually happening. They clashed, crossed blades and threw punched, What is this? I can't do this? I shouldn't even be alive right now! Duri thought, in his mind the so called gate embodyment replied appeared, "You've 'awakened' Gatekeeper! You see that gun strapped to your side?"
"Yeah?"
"This stage is only temporary! This version only happens when your fighting your second soul! So when you've fully 'awakened'.... nah! I won't tell ya! he vanished and Duri returned to the battle at hand.
Duriono shot at Heo with his revolvers, he twirled his blades and they bounced off, then Heo dashed up close, missing Duri with three strikes. Duri then swapped to hia broadsword and gave Heo a hasd vertical cleave, Heo couldn't dodge, he took the hit and fell to the ground.He pounced up onto Duri, slashing with his claws. Then Duri hurled him off and shot him with Death's Penalty, corrupted souls flying into Duri's aura, snd fueled the gun.

Zero checked the Aura of the cloaked figures.
"Huh...Elven. Can I get you four any drinks? Water? Wine? Soda?"
He said giving an opening gesture for them to come in.
They're looking for something but their minds are cryptic. I'm going to have to either Dive into one of them or get them to loosen up.
"I can get you some alchohol if you prefer. Hell I'll pay. It's not like I need money right now."

Heo bounced back at Duri, he tried to tear Duri's heart out but Duri blocked, he slammed his fists into Heo's torso then gathered souls into his right hand, releasing them in a burst. Duriono had blown Heo's arm off, he winced in pain as Duri dashed in and delivered the final blow, he sheathed his katana, leapped at him, twirled while unsheathing the katana and decapitated Heo, "DECAPITATIOOOOOOOOOOO..." Duri roared, as everything returned to normal speed. "OOOOOOON!" He finished "Hey Aura!" He raised a hand then turned to Kagura, she was gone. "Kagura!?" He quickly looked around, and began to sniff the ground, "Where'd she go? There's no scent..." He then returned to Aura, "How'd you get here?"

"No, we're not here for drinks sir!" The tavern was now empty, except for Zero and rafeal on the rooftop. "But you might have something we want... we'll take it by force if we have to. I think this place harbors soldiers of the enemy, if you know what I'm talking about, demon. Yeah I know what you are, elves can sense it. Now, let us in or face the consequences!"

Rafeal stared down on them, hatred burning in his eyes. I don't know why poeple think you have to love them because they're family... damn murderers. 2 of them were Rafeal's cousins, the other was his grandfather, and one of them was his older brother (by 1000 years) Zethriel. And they were of the same gang that killed Aleta's family, although they were 2 men short, one was dead, the other was his uncle. He continued ot observe them. Fight or flight... I'll see what they do before I make any plans.

"Some idiots tried to entered the tavern from the back,so me and mah fell Yumi here," Aura nodded towards the blonde girl with round glasses that was talking to some men already,"Yumi can you spend 5 minutes without flirting gosh!" Aura rolled her eyes ,"so when we were done kicking butty we came to look for you and the others...but found only you...where is everyone?"k

"So some creeps in the tavern scarin mah clients?" Aura's kind smile disappeared to leave way for a wicked grin,"excuse me i hear an argument unside Yumi stay here..." Aura strode off

Yumi turned to Duri,"hello there~"

Duri's face turned grim, "She was near death, and then she just disappeared... that's all I know.." he crossed his arms, "Apparantly, I've begun to 'awaken' what ever that means..." He sighed, "I hope Kagura turns up soon.." He then raised his head, "So, uh.. who's she?"