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"I'm Victoria, nice to meet you, Noah," Victoria said with a smile. She heard an animal howl, a wolf, more likely. I need help!! it said.
"I'll be right back," Victoria told them, and ran toward the bushes, and befroe she entered, she turned into a black wolf. She headed toward the howl.

Rin decided to wait for the shape-shifter to return and leaned against the trunk of the tree behind her. "Going where? Do any of us have a place we really need to go to?" She was genuinely curious to the answer to this question, since she had nowhere left to go. From what Muusashi had said earlier, she doubted that there was any particular area to head to. It was possible that the others also had the same problem.

Victoria ran until she found another wolf, caught under a log. Victoria turned back into a human, and released the log from the wolf. In wolf, she told him if she doesn't come back, he needs to take care of the forest and animals.
She turned back into a wolf, and headed back towards the group. When she reached, she turned back to normal, and she said, "Sorry, wolf was in trouble. What did I miss?"

Victoria sighed. "That's his problem..." she muttered, and climbed a tree. She picked and apple, and dropped to the ground. She started eating it.

Musashi looked at the stone on his hand,"so...could this be a shard?..." Musashi wondered,"that geezer back at the village had mentioned something about shards..." Musashi yawned as he walked at a causal pace,"no use mulling over it..." Musashi looked back up into the clouds.

The dark figure had his eyes staring out a balcony,"....seems as though these children will put up quite a fight...lets see some of these carriers in action...to test their abilities..." The dark figure opened his palm as the stone on his gauntlet glowed, numerous shadows appeared all over the room, on the ceiling and walls,"....bring them to me...alive..." the shadows dispersed, and the figure sat down in a chair,"don't disappoint me...." he whispered. He knew he could not kill these carriers, the shard itself was useless, the carries held the power of the crystal, they did not have to have a shard to carry some of the enigma's power, but it would make things easier.

Musashi smiled as he continued walking, then there was a rustling,"...im not slowing down pal..." Musashi turned to the bushes," hey..are you o-" Musashi was attacked by a shadow, the demon had no color, it was only a sillouette of a warrior, Musashi kicked him off and took a stance,"bring it on!" Musashi began throwing punches at the new enemy, he was ambushed by another, three more appeared next to it, Musashi laughed,"take your best shot!" three of them lunged at him, Musashi jumped up and flipped forward, delivering an axe kick to one of them, it faded away, Musashi took his stance again,"who is next?!" Musashi got ready for a good fight.

Musashi grinned,"....i dont need help pal!....but im not one to keep the fun all to myself!" Musashi turned to another shadow, he threw a barrage of punches, several hits landed, he finished it off with a powerful kick, sending it back, as it faded away, three more took its place.

Four shadows were hiding in the trees, several more hidden in the bushes, there was the sound of a twig snapping and three of them lunged at Rin, several following close behind.

Musashi stopped in his tracks, Noah's attacks seemed more vicious,"t-take it easy pal!" Musashi was ambushed by two more, he slid under one and tackled them both.