p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Chapter 12/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Red Airship carried our heroes through the cloudy sky. They began to plan their next moves around the world. But what would they do with this new-found freedom? Perhaps find some new companions? Discover new lands? Or perhaps, their main goal was all that mattered? We will find out, now that the adventure has truly begun./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So what are next move, guys? We gonna find those shrines? Or maybe go around and help some people to make some cash to provide for ourselves?" Vanessa asked, hoping left and right in excitement, shadow boxing as well./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit scratched his brown hair. "That's the problem. We don't know where the shrines are." Bereit said, as he looked at Fallen for a moment./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes. However, if we ask locals, they could point us to where they are. Or perhaps, if we're lucky, they might sell maps of the countries." Fallen informed./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit thought about it. "Alright. But we're gonna need cash to get some maps."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Why didn't you just get some from your crew?" Vanessa asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That's for them. Anyway, it's too late now. We'll just need to go some place and look for jobs. It's my line of work, so I know where to check." Bereit explained, looking at Vanessa./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"br /"Works for me." Vanessa said, with a smile. "Oh man! I get to see the whole world! This is so cool! Come on! How are you guys not jumping with excitement!?" She asked them, looking between Fallen Bereit./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit scratched his head again. "Not to rain on your parade, but we're not sight-seeing. We have to find those shrines, and those anomalies and close them." Bereit answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa looked down, suddenly not moving. "Yeah... I guess you're right." She said, sounding disappointed. "But hey, as long as we get to see this stuff." She said, suddenly happy again./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen couldn't help but smile, seeing Vanessa's enthusiasm. She glanced at Bereit for a moment, and then back at her./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir walked in, as he had a map of the world. "Alright, so we have three countries in the world that contain these shrines. The rest don't even have any."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What places have them?" Bereit asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We already covered Ozean and that island where the Shrine of Shiva is, so we can mark those places off. We missed some in Wuste, Holhen, The Kalt mountains and Urwald. But you're right Bereit. We'll need cash to provide for ourselves, and bring a camp set with us, when we need to rest. So our first order of business is maps and a camping set."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded, as did the others. But he then looked around. "Hey, where's Zelkova?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He's with the pilots." Vanessa answered. "We're gonna need beds too for the airship." Vanessa sighed a little. "Yeesh. Didn't realize our adventure would be so expensive."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Then we'll just take as many jobs as we can take." Bereit answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Sounds good to me." Vanessa said. "Though, where do we head first?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir grinned a bit, and looked at Bereit. "Well, Bereit? Where should we go?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was taken a back by Imbir asking him. The three then looked at him, thinking he needed to make a choice. Bereit placed a finger in his chin, wondering where they should go./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Current Level: 7/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Wuste Level 5 to 8 With heat conditions./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Holhen Level 9 to 15 ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Kalt mountains Level 20 to 30 with cold conditions./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Urwald Level 40/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Holhen. While the beasts are tougher there than Wuste, hunts there will net us more cash. And they have chocobos, so we can rent them." Bereit answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Holhen is it then." Fallen said, with a smile. "Let's make our way there."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everyone nodded, and informed Cid of their next destination. And with that, they flew to Holhen, on their first mission to collect gil for their future needs of their journey./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Unlike The Titan, this Airship was advanced. It was capable to land in any sort of surface, along with however the land was angled. Bereit was really going to miss the old airship. But this one was a lot more useful, and The Titan belonged to the Frozen Hearts./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Landing in the rocky terrain of Holhen, the party got out of the airship, as their feet walked on the pebbles of the rocky lands of Holhen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit took a deep breath and let it out. "Ahhhh. The smell of engine exhaust in a pollution free area. Reminds me of the old days with The Titan." Bereit joked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Keep breathing it, you'll live longer." Fallen played along, having a playful smirk./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa giggled, finding her comment funny./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party then walked to Mauer, to see the bulletin board they had in town. Though, for Imbir, the memories weren't the kindest welcome, but the civilization certainly was. To Bereit however, seeing people walking around, carrying stuff or hearing the conversations, it was refreshing. He had been in prison for a while, so it was nice to see the sun and people, rather than darkness and prisoners. While it was going to be hard to forget that place, he was enjoying himself here./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So, where do we accept these contracts for hunts?" Zelkova asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"They don't have an official guild or place where you can accept them, but they've got a bulletin board that usually has them every now and then. It's always small ones, and people don't usually take 'em, so we should get what we need." Bereit answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What they all seem to easy? Should we spilt into teams?" Vanessa /br /"No-ho-ho-oo." Bereit said, his tone showing that he disagreed very much. "The hunt may be easy, but the journey to it won't be. There's always bigger fish than the ones you're trying to catch."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fair enough." Imbir said, agreeing with his judgement./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"After a bit of exploring the city, the party came across said bulletin board, as there were a bunch of advertisements of other things, but there were as promised, hunts./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit took a look at the hunts that they had, seeing there was small hunts, usually involving those wolf like creatures or item gathering. Sadly, these ones were so small, they didn't offer much. "Crap... it's gonna take us days to get the cash for a camp set."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir stood next to Bereit and lifted all the minor hunts, as there was a big paper of another hunt, one that had the word, "/span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"strongDANGER" /strong/span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"written on it. Imbir took all the others out and placed them back, after taking out the big paper./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Garuda. Said to have contracted some sort of virus that makes it more vicious." He explained. "Warning, we have yet to discover what illness this may be, take precautions in treating infected wounds. Reward, 5,000 gil." He looked at the others. "With that, we'll be able to afford a camp set, a map and more."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit took a look at the paper, as did the others. "White and blue feathers... that's not what a Garuda has for colour." Bereit pointed out./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It might be the effect of the virus." Fallen suggested./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Could be..." Bereit said, thinking it made sense./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"While we run a risky play, this will make our journey start faster. I say we hunt this thing. We'll just need to plan far ahead of how we take it down." Imbir suggested./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I know the Esuna spell. Perhaps I can heal wounds, so infection won't be a problem." Zelkova spoke up./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Good point." Imbir said, as he then looked at Bereit./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded. "Hunting an infected Garuda it is then." Bereit said, with a smile./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"With a hunt selected, the party set out on their course for this, 'Infected Garuda.' From the description, A Garuda was a bird-like carnivorous creature. It's size and strength in throwing wind at it's prey was what made it stand out. However, this one was different, as it was deemed, 'More vicious' than the normal ones. How was this Garuda infected? What was the infection? Perhaps the part would find out once they handled this monster./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The bounty also said how it never stayed in one location. It flew all over Holhen, not having a specific area of rest. Tracking this thing down was going to be tricky./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party began their search throughout Holhen, having their search occasionally interrupted by the wild life of Holhen. They seemed tougher than usual, it wasn't anything the party couldn't handle./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party found themselves around the mountains of Holhen, hearing distant screeches coming from them. So they decided to search there, hoping to find at least some tracks or something that could lead to their mark. However, they were heading directly where it was waiting. Not for prey, but for them. Though really, they aren't so different in this situation./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Zelkova)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova was glad to see the party was holding up okay. No wounds, no pains, though Vanessa was still complaining of sore legs, like always. Too bad Zelkova's magic healed wounds, not sore muscles./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Anything?" Bereit spoke up to Imbir./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The smell in the air is different. It's more... foul." Imbir answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It... it smells like decomposed bodies." Fallen said, somehow knowing the smell./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Smells familiar." Imbir answered again. "Watch your backs."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova started walking more quietly with the others, as he noticed the 'foul' smell grew stronger with each step. After a little more of moving forward, they discovered the source of the foul smell. The Garuda's nest was nothing but a pile of monster flesh and bones. Flies flew everywhere, and you could see the odor in the air./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh my god..." Bereit said, looking away, as did Fallen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Wait, didn't the bounty paper said it doesn't have a nest?" Vanessa asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I guess it must make them, but doesn't stay in them." Imbir suggested. "Perhaps it effects it's mentality too."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"My lord... with all these corpses... some of the animals could go extinct if we don't kill it." Zelkova said, worried./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Right. Give me a moment to think of something." Imbir said, beginning to devise a plan./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"br /Zelkova watched as Imbir's eyes gazed upon the layer of blood and bones that was the Garuda's nest. Zelkova looked back at the days he used to work for a healing church, remembering the many soldiers that would come to him, conscious or not. He even remembered all the kinds of injuries they would have. From fractured to broken bones, gashes to torn open wounds. But with his holy healing, there wasn't anything that couldn't be healed. Though death on the other hand couldn't be healed. That's why he wanted to learn the life spell. To bring back life. For the people that came to his church. Perhaps with Bereit and the others, he could find the spell./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at Bereit and Fallen, seeing Bereit and Fallen still looking away, and Bereit helping Fallen with deep breaths on getting over the smell, and the urge to vomit./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Alright, here's the plan." Imbir said, looking at the others. "Bereit, I'm gonna burn his... nest. Chance's are, it'll fly up to avoid the flames. When he get's far, hit him with a bolt of lightning. Aim for the wing so it crashes down. Then we all attack together."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova saw Bereit nodded, as a small spark of lightning flashed in his hand./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And just in case if he misses, Fallen, be ready to have Shiva bring it down." Imbir added./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova then saw Fallen freeze for a moment, then nodded. "Alright."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You guys ready?" Imbir asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everybody /br /"Alright." Imbir then pulled out two flame bullets and twisted the bottom of them, throwing them over./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fire then began to spread among the corpses of the Garuda's nest. It's shrieks could be heard, as it then flew in the air and began to fly away./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Now." Imbir to Bereit./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit grew a lightning spear in his hands, as he then cranked his arm back and threw it right to the Garuda's wing, piercing right through the right blue and white wing. The party watched as the flying beast fell down and crashed right into the rocky grounds, then chasing after it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova stood behind everybody, as then The Garuda got out of the crater it made upon impact, as it screeched at them, spreading one wing, the other wounded./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everyone drew their weapons, Zelkova having his spells ready for remedies and cures./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (General)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Garuda's left wing grew long and sharp feathers and shot them their way, everybody jumping away./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir fired a shot right at it's head, but it's beak deflected the shot./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa shot the body, seeing it was hitting there harder than it did the beak, though, she didn't see blood come out of it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As it charged for Vanessa, Bereit came in and jumped on it's back and slashed on the nape of it's neck, but it just barely cut through. The Garuda flapped back, blowing Bereit back to the ground, hitting the corpse filled ground, Zelkova standing by his side. "That skin is tough. I could barely cut it." He warned to Zelkova, getting back up with his sword in his right hand./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova stared at the menacing beast, seeing it was targeting Vanessa and Imbir. He thought that it was going to be a tough hunt. While healing was his profession, he sometimes wished he could help with more than that. Perhaps even serve as a distraction at the very least. But then he figured he could give that a shot. He looked at Bereit. "I have an idea." He said to him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova then picked up a rock from the ground and threw it towards the Garuda. The Garuda only flinched to the feeling of it on the back of it's head./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Garuda turned it's head to him, as it glared right where he stood./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova felt this sense of regret, but he didn't show any of it. He opened his arms, trying to provoke it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It then flew up and dived down right into Zelkova, him then bringing up his protect shield. The Garuda's beak pierced through it, but it wasn't enough to reach Zelkova. Zelkova's hand darkened, then threw the shadows to it, as the Garuda's eyes grew dark, it being blinded. It then pulled it's beak out, and swung it's self everywhere, clearly panicked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's open! Everyone, attack now!" Zelkova shouted./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And everyone let it have it. Imbir fired fire bullets, though he figured out fire was ineffective. Vanessa fired at the beak, thinking she could break it, so it couldn't try to eat any of them. Fallen wasn't able to do anything, though she did have something planned, but she wasn't sure it would be effective. But there was only one way to figure it out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit coated his weapon in lighting his weapon in lightning and then jumped onto the monster's back, as he then sunk his serrated sword right into it's back, seeing it was still barely able to cut through the back. He still tried his hardest to cut through, but nothing./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at Fallen, seeing she was was doing some sort of flipping movements with her staff. She then brought her staff to the air, as her staff got coated in ice, turning into a glaive. She held it in both hands, pointed the blade to the Garuda. She then ran forward, engaging in her first up close fight./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit seeing she was coming in. Bereit ran up to the head, and then jumped up and crashed down into it's head with lightning around his feet, forcing it's head down./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen then sunk the blade into it's head, as it pierced it so easily. Along with that, ice started to freeze it's body rapidly, along with the air around it started freezing up. It also turned a dark blue. Fallen took her weapon out, as she watched it spread, and eventually stop. The ice was everywhere, having twists and turns./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Zelkova)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova came in to take a closer look, as he saw Bereit's hand was frozen too, though only to his palm. Zelkova came in, seeing it was a dark blue, and placed his hand on it, casting Esuna on it. A small white light appeared on his hand, and immediately, the ice melted, along with his pale hand regaining the tanned complexion. He then looked back at the Gaurda. "It's the virus. That's all of it escaping his body." Zelkova explained, connecting it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So it's dead?" Vanessa asked, wondering if that's why the virus was leaving the body./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova nodded. "I think so." He then looked at the others, to quickly see if they were all okay. And from the looks of it, they were./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So ice freezes the virus. Though the question is why?" Imbir said, placing his hand on his chin, pondering of this event./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Perhaps during our adventure, we will come across somebody with answers. Though, I think we should make sure it is dead." Zelkova said, as he then looked at Fallen./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She looked down a little, avoiding eye contact, hesitant to kill it. But she had to. She bet the virus must have brought it a lot of pain. She placed her hand on it's head, feeling bad for it. She then brought her glaive up, and pierced the top of it's skull, slowly digging deeper. She saw the Garuda twitch a bit inside the ice, as it all began to melt, along with the Garuda's coloured feathers disappearing, leaving it in it's old beige colour./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's body was then left there, lifeless. Fallen took her glaive out, seeing the dark blue blood that coated the icy blade. She then made the ice melt away, seeing the blood fall with it. She felt sick from doing something like that. She told herself it was an act of mercy, but taking a life so easily, it just made her feel uneasy. She turned to the others, and shook her head. "I'm okay. It's... just a bit sad, don't you think?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That it got infected with this? For all we know it might have had a nest somewhere, where it had eggs?" Bereit spoke up, saying what she was thinking./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen nodded, placing her hand on her chest. "I just feel terrible, ripping family away from them."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit walked to her, looking at her. "We had no choice. Do you think they would have been well fed with it being infected like that? For all we know, it would have killed it's own young." Bereit explained./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova watched as Bereit cheered her up, or at least tried to. He stepped in, looking at them. "We did all we could. I think it's time we leave things as it is. We still have other things to tend to." Zelkova said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at Zelkova, seeing he was right. He nodded, and then looked at Fallen. "We're gonna have a lot more tough choices to make in the future, so don't get caught up on this one. But don't think of it as tearing family away. Think of it as saving them from being completely destroyed." He said, looking at her./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen looked down for a moment, and nodded. "Yes. I understand." She said, as she followed the rest. Though, deep inside, she didn't think she was going to get used to it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Red Airship carried our heroes through the cloudy sky. They began to plan their next moves around the world. But what would they do with this new-found freedom? Perhaps find some new companions? Discover new lands? Or perhaps, their main goal was all that mattered? We will find out, now that the adventure has truly begun./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So what are next move, guys? We gonna find those shrines? Or maybe go around and help some people to make some cash to provide for ourselves?" Vanessa asked, hoping left and right in excitement, shadow boxing as well./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit scratched his brown hair. "That's the problem. We don't know where the shrines are." Bereit said, as he looked at Fallen for a moment./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes. However, if we ask locals, they could point us to where they are. Or perhaps, if we're lucky, they might sell maps of the countries." Fallen informed./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit thought about it. "Alright. But we're gonna need cash to get some maps."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Why didn't you just get some from your crew?" Vanessa asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That's for them. Anyway, it's too late now. We'll just need to go some place and look for jobs. It's my line of work, so I know where to check." Bereit explained, looking at Vanessa./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"br /"Works for me." Vanessa said, with a smile. "Oh man! I get to see the whole world! This is so cool! Come on! How are you guys not jumping with excitement!?" She asked them, looking between Fallen Bereit./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit scratched his head again. "Not to rain on your parade, but we're not sight-seeing. We have to find those shrines, and those anomalies and close them." Bereit answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa looked down, suddenly not moving. "Yeah... I guess you're right." She said, sounding disappointed. "But hey, as long as we get to see this stuff." She said, suddenly happy again./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen couldn't help but smile, seeing Vanessa's enthusiasm. She glanced at Bereit for a moment, and then back at her./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir walked in, as he had a map of the world. "Alright, so we have three countries in the world that contain these shrines. The rest don't even have any."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What places have them?" Bereit asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We already covered Ozean and that island where the Shrine of Shiva is, so we can mark those places off. We missed some in Wuste, Holhen, The Kalt mountains and Urwald. But you're right Bereit. We'll need cash to provide for ourselves, and bring a camp set with us, when we need to rest. So our first order of business is maps and a camping set."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded, as did the others. But he then looked around. "Hey, where's Zelkova?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He's with the pilots." Vanessa answered. "We're gonna need beds too for the airship." Vanessa sighed a little. "Yeesh. Didn't realize our adventure would be so expensive."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Then we'll just take as many jobs as we can take." Bereit answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Sounds good to me." Vanessa said. "Though, where do we head first?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir grinned a bit, and looked at Bereit. "Well, Bereit? Where should we go?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was taken a back by Imbir asking him. The three then looked at him, thinking he needed to make a choice. Bereit placed a finger in his chin, wondering where they should go./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Current Level: 7/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Wuste Level 5 to 8 With heat conditions./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Holhen Level 9 to 15 ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Kalt mountains Level 20 to 30 with cold conditions./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Urwald Level 40/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Holhen. While the beasts are tougher there than Wuste, hunts there will net us more cash. And they have chocobos, so we can rent them." Bereit answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Holhen is it then." Fallen said, with a smile. "Let's make our way there."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everyone nodded, and informed Cid of their next destination. And with that, they flew to Holhen, on their first mission to collect gil for their future needs of their journey./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Unlike The Titan, this Airship was advanced. It was capable to land in any sort of surface, along with however the land was angled. Bereit was really going to miss the old airship. But this one was a lot more useful, and The Titan belonged to the Frozen Hearts./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Landing in the rocky terrain of Holhen, the party got out of the airship, as their feet walked on the pebbles of the rocky lands of Holhen./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit took a deep breath and let it out. "Ahhhh. The smell of engine exhaust in a pollution free area. Reminds me of the old days with The Titan." Bereit joked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Keep breathing it, you'll live longer." Fallen played along, having a playful smirk./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa giggled, finding her comment funny./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party then walked to Mauer, to see the bulletin board they had in town. Though, for Imbir, the memories weren't the kindest welcome, but the civilization certainly was. To Bereit however, seeing people walking around, carrying stuff or hearing the conversations, it was refreshing. He had been in prison for a while, so it was nice to see the sun and people, rather than darkness and prisoners. While it was going to be hard to forget that place, he was enjoying himself here./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So, where do we accept these contracts for hunts?" Zelkova asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"They don't have an official guild or place where you can accept them, but they've got a bulletin board that usually has them every now and then. It's always small ones, and people don't usually take 'em, so we should get what we need." Bereit answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What they all seem to easy? Should we spilt into teams?" Vanessa /br /"No-ho-ho-oo." Bereit said, his tone showing that he disagreed very much. "The hunt may be easy, but the journey to it won't be. There's always bigger fish than the ones you're trying to catch."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fair enough." Imbir said, agreeing with his judgement./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"After a bit of exploring the city, the party came across said bulletin board, as there were a bunch of advertisements of other things, but there were as promised, hunts./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit took a look at the hunts that they had, seeing there was small hunts, usually involving those wolf like creatures or item gathering. Sadly, these ones were so small, they didn't offer much. "Crap... it's gonna take us days to get the cash for a camp set."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir stood next to Bereit and lifted all the minor hunts, as there was a big paper of another hunt, one that had the word, "/span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"strongDANGER" /strong/span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"written on it. Imbir took all the others out and placed them back, after taking out the big paper./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Garuda. Said to have contracted some sort of virus that makes it more vicious." He explained. "Warning, we have yet to discover what illness this may be, take precautions in treating infected wounds. Reward, 5,000 gil." He looked at the others. "With that, we'll be able to afford a camp set, a map and more."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit took a look at the paper, as did the others. "White and blue feathers... that's not what a Garuda has for colour." Bereit pointed out./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It might be the effect of the virus." Fallen suggested./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Could be..." Bereit said, thinking it made sense./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"While we run a risky play, this will make our journey start faster. I say we hunt this thing. We'll just need to plan far ahead of how we take it down." Imbir suggested./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I know the Esuna spell. Perhaps I can heal wounds, so infection won't be a problem." Zelkova spoke up./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Good point." Imbir said, as he then looked at Bereit./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded. "Hunting an infected Garuda it is then." Bereit said, with a smile./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"With a hunt selected, the party set out on their course for this, 'Infected Garuda.' From the description, A Garuda was a bird-like carnivorous creature. It's size and strength in throwing wind at it's prey was what made it stand out. However, this one was different, as it was deemed, 'More vicious' than the normal ones. How was this Garuda infected? What was the infection? Perhaps the part would find out once they handled this monster./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The bounty also said how it never stayed in one location. It flew all over Holhen, not having a specific area of rest. Tracking this thing down was going to be tricky./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party began their search throughout Holhen, having their search occasionally interrupted by the wild life of Holhen. They seemed tougher than usual, it wasn't anything the party couldn't handle./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party found themselves around the mountains of Holhen, hearing distant screeches coming from them. So they decided to search there, hoping to find at least some tracks or something that could lead to their mark. However, they were heading directly where it was waiting. Not for prey, but for them. Though really, they aren't so different in this situation./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Zelkova)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova was glad to see the party was holding up okay. No wounds, no pains, though Vanessa was still complaining of sore legs, like always. Too bad Zelkova's magic healed wounds, not sore muscles./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Anything?" Bereit spoke up to Imbir./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The smell in the air is different. It's more... foul." Imbir answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It... it smells like decomposed bodies." Fallen said, somehow knowing the smell./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Smells familiar." Imbir answered again. "Watch your backs."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova started walking more quietly with the others, as he noticed the 'foul' smell grew stronger with each step. After a little more of moving forward, they discovered the source of the foul smell. The Garuda's nest was nothing but a pile of monster flesh and bones. Flies flew everywhere, and you could see the odor in the air./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh my god..." Bereit said, looking away, as did Fallen./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Wait, didn't the bounty paper said it doesn't have a nest?" Vanessa asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I guess it must make them, but doesn't stay in them." Imbir suggested. "Perhaps it effects it's mentality too."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"My lord... with all these corpses... some of the animals could go extinct if we don't kill it." Zelkova said, worried./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Right. Give me a moment to think of something." Imbir said, beginning to devise a plan./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"br /Zelkova watched as Imbir's eyes gazed upon the layer of blood and bones that was the Garuda's nest. Zelkova looked back at the days he used to work for a healing church, remembering the many soldiers that would come to him, conscious or not. He even remembered all the kinds of injuries they would have. From fractured to broken bones, gashes to torn open wounds. But with his holy healing, there wasn't anything that couldn't be healed. Though death on the other hand couldn't be healed. That's why he wanted to learn the life spell. To bring back life. For the people that came to his church. Perhaps with Bereit and the others, he could find the spell./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at Bereit and Fallen, seeing Bereit and Fallen still looking away, and Bereit helping Fallen with deep breaths on getting over the smell, and the urge to vomit./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Alright, here's the plan." Imbir said, looking at the others. "Bereit, I'm gonna burn his... nest. Chance's are, it'll fly up to avoid the flames. When he get's far, hit him with a bolt of lightning. Aim for the wing so it crashes down. Then we all attack together."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova saw Bereit nodded, as a small spark of lightning flashed in his hand./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And just in case if he misses, Fallen, be ready to have Shiva bring it down." Imbir added./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova then saw Fallen freeze for a moment, then nodded. "Alright."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You guys ready?" Imbir asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everybody /br /"Alright." Imbir then pulled out two flame bullets and twisted the bottom of them, throwing them over./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fire then began to spread among the corpses of the Garuda's nest. It's shrieks could be heard, as it then flew in the air and began to fly away./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Now." Imbir to Bereit./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit grew a lightning spear in his hands, as he then cranked his arm back and threw it right to the Garuda's wing, piercing right through the right blue and white wing. The party watched as the flying beast fell down and crashed right into the rocky grounds, then chasing after it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova stood behind everybody, as then The Garuda got out of the crater it made upon impact, as it screeched at them, spreading one wing, the other wounded./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everyone drew their weapons, Zelkova having his spells ready for remedies and cures./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (General)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Garuda's left wing grew long and sharp feathers and shot them their way, everybody jumping away./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir fired a shot right at it's head, but it's beak deflected the shot./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa shot the body, seeing it was hitting there harder than it did the beak, though, she didn't see blood come out of it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As it charged for Vanessa, Bereit came in and jumped on it's back and slashed on the nape of it's neck, but it just barely cut through. The Garuda flapped back, blowing Bereit back to the ground, hitting the corpse filled ground, Zelkova standing by his side. "That skin is tough. I could barely cut it." He warned to Zelkova, getting back up with his sword in his right hand./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova stared at the menacing beast, seeing it was targeting Vanessa and Imbir. He thought that it was going to be a tough hunt. While healing was his profession, he sometimes wished he could help with more than that. Perhaps even serve as a distraction at the very least. But then he figured he could give that a shot. He looked at Bereit. "I have an idea." He said to him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova then picked up a rock from the ground and threw it towards the Garuda. The Garuda only flinched to the feeling of it on the back of it's head./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Garuda turned it's head to him, as it glared right where he stood./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova felt this sense of regret, but he didn't show any of it. He opened his arms, trying to provoke it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It then flew up and dived down right into Zelkova, him then bringing up his protect shield. The Garuda's beak pierced through it, but it wasn't enough to reach Zelkova. Zelkova's hand darkened, then threw the shadows to it, as the Garuda's eyes grew dark, it being blinded. It then pulled it's beak out, and swung it's self everywhere, clearly panicked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's open! Everyone, attack now!" Zelkova shouted./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And everyone let it have it. Imbir fired fire bullets, though he figured out fire was ineffective. Vanessa fired at the beak, thinking she could break it, so it couldn't try to eat any of them. Fallen wasn't able to do anything, though she did have something planned, but she wasn't sure it would be effective. But there was only one way to figure it out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit coated his weapon in lighting his weapon in lightning and then jumped onto the monster's back, as he then sunk his serrated sword right into it's back, seeing it was still barely able to cut through the back. He still tried his hardest to cut through, but nothing./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at Fallen, seeing she was was doing some sort of flipping movements with her staff. She then brought her staff to the air, as her staff got coated in ice, turning into a glaive. She held it in both hands, pointed the blade to the Garuda. She then ran forward, engaging in her first up close fight./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit seeing she was coming in. Bereit ran up to the head, and then jumped up and crashed down into it's head with lightning around his feet, forcing it's head down./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen then sunk the blade into it's head, as it pierced it so easily. Along with that, ice started to freeze it's body rapidly, along with the air around it started freezing up. It also turned a dark blue. Fallen took her weapon out, as she watched it spread, and eventually stop. The ice was everywhere, having twists and turns./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Zelkova)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova came in to take a closer look, as he saw Bereit's hand was frozen too, though only to his palm. Zelkova came in, seeing it was a dark blue, and placed his hand on it, casting Esuna on it. A small white light appeared on his hand, and immediately, the ice melted, along with his pale hand regaining the tanned complexion. He then looked back at the Gaurda. "It's the virus. That's all of it escaping his body." Zelkova explained, connecting it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So it's dead?" Vanessa asked, wondering if that's why the virus was leaving the body./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova nodded. "I think so." He then looked at the others, to quickly see if they were all okay. And from the looks of it, they were./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So ice freezes the virus. Though the question is why?" Imbir said, placing his hand on his chin, pondering of this event./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Perhaps during our adventure, we will come across somebody with answers. Though, I think we should make sure it is dead." Zelkova said, as he then looked at Fallen./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She looked down a little, avoiding eye contact, hesitant to kill it. But she had to. She bet the virus must have brought it a lot of pain. She placed her hand on it's head, feeling bad for it. She then brought her glaive up, and pierced the top of it's skull, slowly digging deeper. She saw the Garuda twitch a bit inside the ice, as it all began to melt, along with the Garuda's coloured feathers disappearing, leaving it in it's old beige colour./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's body was then left there, lifeless. Fallen took her glaive out, seeing the dark blue blood that coated the icy blade. She then made the ice melt away, seeing the blood fall with it. She felt sick from doing something like that. She told herself it was an act of mercy, but taking a life so easily, it just made her feel uneasy. She turned to the others, and shook her head. "I'm okay. It's... just a bit sad, don't you think?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That it got infected with this? For all we know it might have had a nest somewhere, where it had eggs?" Bereit spoke up, saying what she was thinking./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen nodded, placing her hand on her chest. "I just feel terrible, ripping family away from them."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit walked to her, looking at her. "We had no choice. Do you think they would have been well fed with it being infected like that? For all we know, it would have killed it's own young." Bereit explained./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova watched as Bereit cheered her up, or at least tried to. He stepped in, looking at them. "We did all we could. I think it's time we leave things as it is. We still have other things to tend to." Zelkova said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at Zelkova, seeing he was right. He nodded, and then looked at Fallen. "We're gonna have a lot more tough choices to make in the future, so don't get caught up on this one. But don't think of it as tearing family away. Think of it as saving them from being completely destroyed." He said, looking at her./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen looked down for a moment, and nodded. "Yes. I understand." She said, as she followed the rest. Though, deep inside, she didn't think she was going to get used to it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No/span/span/p