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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"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%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Slowly, Bereit woke up, his body feeling really cold. He shivered upon waking up, feeling another cloth over his coat from one of his hands being close to his body, the other being out of said cloth. His eyes opened up, seeing Fallen's cloak on his body. He was a bit surprised to see it on him rather than Fallen. He was soon reminded of where he had fallen asleep, right in the engine room. Upon removing the cloak, thinking he wouldn't need it at the moment, he felt the heat of the engine room, it being pretty hot. He immediately put it back on. "Sheesh. Had I known how hot the room would have been I would have left… though, I guess I have Fallen to thank for keeping me cool." He then stood right up, stretching his arms and legs out, his leg making a loud popping noise, him hissing in the split second of pain./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that, Bereit soon left the engine room, heading back to the main floor of the airship. He was met with the whole team all together, though, all doing their own thing./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The first person Bereit's eyes were lied on was Fallen, as she was sitting there, having something of a content look on her face. With that in mind, he approached her, but kept his greeting out to everybody. "Morning, everybody." He said to them, with a wave./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Morning, Bereit. Sleep well?" Imbir asked, seeming to have something of a playful tone of voice./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well… yeah." Bereit answered honestly. He then looked over to Fallen, before he took the cloak off his shoulder, handing it back to her in it's now clear state of appearance. "I have you to thank for that." He told her, with a smile on his face./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen smiled back, sheepishly taking her cloak back. "I mean… it was Shiva's idea." She admitted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Either way, I'm grateful. Though, you could have easily just taken me out of the room." Bereit pointed out./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen pouted. "Do you realize how heavy you are to me?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit didn't think about that, as he scratched his head in the realization. "I guess that's true. But… still, I'm glad you gave me your cloak."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Flirt -/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Say Thank You/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I must be somethin' special if you gave me your cloak." Bereit teased her, having a slight smirk on his face./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"N-no!" Fallen denied. "I'm just… can't I just do something nice without people assuming stuff!?" She snapped, actually sounding upset./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was a bit shocked to see she was upset about it. "I'm sorry." He quickly apologized. "I was just joking. I didn't mean anything by it."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen sighed, lowering her head a bit. "It's fine…"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit and Imbir looked at each other, both seeming to have learned their lesson about making jokes like that around Fallen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Anyway…" Fallen finally said. "Thanks to you charging those batteries, we're just about to my family's home in Urwald. Thank the Divines we are. The anticipation is killing me…"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Meeting her parents… Bereit forgot about that. That was gonna be huge trouble to deal with. Especially thanks to the trouble him and Imbir caused for the Ehre family. Bereit had a feeling he was gonna have to choose his words and actions carefully. "I don't think the anticipation is what's gonna kill me or Imbir."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen waved her hand dismissively. "Don't you worry. I'll handle the talking." She insisted, with a smile. "They'll listen to me."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I mean… both of your sisters tried to kill you at least once, Fallen. Are you sure about that?" Scharf asked. "Who's to say your parents won't try to kill you the moment you step foot in their home?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"With the Erpels flying around… they're gonna listen. What good is a world if they've got no one or nothing to exploit?" Fallen pointed out. She knew how far her family's greed went. And what would convince them to put that aside, or even use that against them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yikes…" Bereit said, sounding a bit shocked from the way she explained it to them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That's my family for 'ya." Fallen said, shrugging slightly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"There was silence among the group, before Cid poked his head out from the cockpit, from the pilot seat. "We're arriving to Urwald, everybody. So make sure you're all ready to go." Cid told the party./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit stepped into the cockpit to get a look at what was ahead of them. And it was nothing but green. At least from where they were. Trees, trees, and more trees surrounded by the blue and vast ocean. Though, he was well aware Urwald was inhabited by a lot of people. And exotic animals too. "You sure we're gonna have space to land anywhere?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'll find a spot. Don't you worry." Cid assured./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Co-Pilot soon showed Bereit a map, showing the entire world they lived in. He then pointed to a beach that was on the opposite side of Urwald. "Right here. Our ship will be safe, and far away from civilization."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Got it." Bereit said, with a confident smile. "So where would the Ehre's home be?" He asked, keeping his eyes on the map./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Co-Pilot soon pointed to one area on Urwald, one big open spot with a small and bold E. "Ehre Family Residence. To think they're so powerful they even have a spot on the map."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Upon looking at the map, Bereit noticed Ozean was in it. Immediately he was reminded of the kids back at his home. And with that, he was reminded of the stakes. The lives of the kids. He frowned a bit, before he looked out the window. "Sure as hell makes it easier for us."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Co-Pilot soon put the map to the side. "Well, the house sticks out like a soar thumb. As you can see…" He pointed out the window for Bereit. Both would soon see a tall, mansion-like building, on a rather small mountain./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well would you look at that." Bereit said. "I suppose you have to do something with all the Gil they make."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"After a bit of time flying around Urwald, the airship was soon landed right on a beach. The trees surrounding them shook from the jets of the airship blowing it with the strong force it emitted. The jets were turned off, and the party stepped right out of the airship./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Be careful down there everybody!" Cid called out to them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't worry! We'll be back in one piece!" Fallen assured with that same confident smile./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It was pretty strange to see Fallen seem so… confident. Especially since they were going to see her parents. She did seem to know what she had to do, so maybe it wasn't there just to give everyone a sense of false hope. Maybe she was actually confident she was gonna convince them into helping them out. It at least made Bereit hopeful that she could do it. And he believed she could./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party soon came to a village that had all sorts of houses that were made of logs and straws, with a few metal reinforcing. And the people that inhabited it were people that were famous among humans. Because of how different they were. A race of people that were very beast like./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"From what the party observed, they would see people that had fur on their skin. From grey, to white, to black. And they looked similar to lions. They had the tail, the mane, the face, but the bodies of humans, with claws instead of normal hands./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Of course, a few humans were here and there among them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa, Kurve and Zelkova all had surprised looks when they saw these beings for the first time./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As for Bereit, he had seen them before. He had met some as well. Imbir, Scharf and Fallen had heard of them, but never met any in person. "Wow…" Fallen said in awe, with a hand just below her lips. Though, her awestruck face went away, as a bad memory came to her at that moment./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Umm… they won't… try to kill us, right?" Vanessa asked, in a nervous tone./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We'll be fine. As long as you don't call them…" Bereit was silent for a few seconds, as he then leaned to her ear and whispered. The others couldn't hear what he said, but they could tell it must be a foul word, since Vanessa quietly gasped in disgust. "Who would even use such a word?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Trust me, the guy who even made the word died a horrible death. So if you value your own life, you're gonna want to not use that word." Bereit told her./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, thanks." Vanessa said, before she looked at the other two that looked at her curiously. "It's… best you don't even know the word."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The three looked among each other, before they shrug, guessing it was best to just forget about it. Though, they were left to the imagination on what that word was./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that out of the way, the party continued on their way to the Ehre Family Residence. Though, the fact that they were heading that way had people staring at them. To the group, they assumed it was because they were outsiders./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen a tried to center herself in the group, keeping her head down for a moment./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Do they not know what hospitality is? Last I checked staring is rude." Scharf commented, scratching the back of his neck./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well… we are new people." Imbir pointed out. "I guess in a sense we're the ones who aren't being hospitable, considering we just flew in here instead of using a boat like most do."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"True." Scharf agreed. "But we have a good reason not to use a slow ass boat."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Try explaining that without sounding like a psycho." Imbir added to what he was pointing out./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm not saying we should explain ourselves. We're only here for a moment and then we're out. Quick and clean." Scharf said with a slight shrug./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Stop right there, Rein Ehre!" A voice called out to the Fallen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gasped a bit from the familiar voice, before she slowly turned her head around, right after everyone else did./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ugh, this broad again?" Bereit said in an annoyed tone of voice./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And the party, was met with a familiar face. Folgen. One of Fallen's sisters. She held her staff proudly, while looking at Fallen, and nobody else among the group. "You will not step any closer to mother's home. I will be the one to have her rid of the Titan Erpel's fortress of stone."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen wished she could just hide and wait for her to leave. But there was no backing out. She had to step up. "Folgen, sister, stop with this competition nonsense!" Fallen spoke up, stepping past her Guardians. "The world is at stake here! Why not help us instead!?"br /br /"My mother is my world. I will save the world after I rid of you. Your guardians, I couldn't care less for. This is a duel between us." Folgen said, eyeing the rather impressive number of Guardians she had. While Folgen had none. She worked /br /"You'll care about me, I assure you." Bereit assured, as he was about to draw his serrated sword, stepping forward. But he was stopped by Fallen's staff, his sword drawn half way./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"This is my fight, guys." She told them, but mainly told Bereit. "Don't worry. It'll be over before you know it." She looked at him from the corner of her eye, giving them her confident smile once more./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was silent for a few seconds, before he put his sword back in the sheath./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Be careful./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You got this. -/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You got this, Fallen." Bereit encouraged./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"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 (Fallen)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gently nodded. While she would find no pride in defeating her sister in battle, she had to win this. But she hated that their time had to be wasted like this./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen brought her staff high up, and then spun it, magic beginning to flow around her. "Come forth, Quetzalcoatl!" Folgen called the one of her many summons. And what came, was a giant eagle-like being that had feathers that nearly looked as if it was it's own skin, they flowed beautifully with the movements of it's own wings. The feathers matched it's green lightning it emitted from it's body, the beak being as sharp as a lightning bolt./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Noticing the people around her were beginning to look fearful. "Sister." Fallen spoke up. "We should do this elsewhere."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"These people are nothing to my quest for Mother's respect." Folgen stated. "Summon your Divine!" She then demanded, gripping her staff tightly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen narrowed her eyes, appalled by her sister's carelessness. No, her heartlessness. To think something as small as respect can drive her to not care for the lives of others. "Guys, get the people to safety." She asked of them. "This is gonna get ugly."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party soon spread out and instructed everyone to leave, and had to convince some of them to leave, considering this was going to be a once in a lifetime opportunity. But as Fallen thought to herself before, this wasn't some show. "I'm giving you one last chance, Folgen. Stand. Down."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen scoffed at her sister. "Quetzalcoatl, strike them down!" She shouted, thrusting her staff forward./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that, Quetzalcoatl summoned a giant bolt of lightning that came right down towards Shiva. But she blocked that bolt with easy with a thick layer of ice above her head. She had a frown and narrowed eyes, as if she was unimpressed./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Shiva, take Quetzalcoatl down. Bring your wrath without mercy!" Fallen called, pointing her staff to the enemy summon./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that, Shiva brought her hands around her, as many spears of ice formed around her. She then shot them right to Quetzalcoatl, the enemy summon flying around all of her flying spears./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Quetzalcoatl shot it's own spears of lightning towards Shiva, but she easily blocked them all with smaller shields of ice. She flew up to Quetzalcoatl, making ice swords of her hands, and began to slice at it./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The two were locked in a furious battle of elements, their own blades clashing and making sparks fly all /span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen watched the two summons clash in battle. She clenched her staff in nervousness, feeling like this battle was gonna be a close one. The sound of footsteps were hurriedly rushing for her. She then looked towards the sound, her sister's footsteps growing closer, as she had a dagger in her empty hand, raised high at Fallen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gasped at the sight, and jumped away from the attempt to stab her. Fallen couldn't believe it. Folgen wanted her dead. Truly. "S-sister! This is getting out of hand! Are you gon-"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Shut your mouth, you 'perfect' bitch!" Folgen shouted at her, leaving Fallen even more shocked. "All because of you, I was the odd one out! You and Tier were always mom and dad's favourites! And I was left in the shadows to lonesomeness!" She shouted to Fallen, as she swung her dagger continuously./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That doesn't mean we can't make up now! Come with us, Folgen! We can save the world together!" Fallen said, as she kept backing up from each slice that was coming her way. "What good is respect when the world could be destroyed!?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No! Her respect is mine! I want the fame! I want the attention! I deserve it all after living in the shadow of the both of you!" Folgen kept shouting, before she pushed Fallen back to a wall./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gasped in fear as she was backed to a wall, watching her sister approach her with that dagger. The dagger was brought high up, as she saw the tip of the blade glimmer against the sunlight./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I always hated you… Rein." Folgen whispered those harsh words. She soon brought the dagger down to Fallen, ready to take her sister's life./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No…" Fallen's consciousness uttered to herself./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The dagger's strike was blocked by Fallen's ice glaive forming once more in her hands. With a scream of anger, as if to wake herself up, she pushed her sister away and slashed at her./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"br /Folgen had managed to dodge Fallen's attack, however she earned a small graze just below her upper torso. The cold bite of her blade sending a chill through her body. "Rein!" She shouted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't call me that, Folgen!" Fallen snapped. "I'm not some prim and perfect mommy's girl! I'm a human being! I do what I think is right! I make my own decisions! I don't need her! All I need…" She went silent for a moment, looking up at Shiva, seeing she was still in combat with Quetzalcoatl, but seemed to be gaining the advantage with slowing it down. "All I need is Shiva. And my Guardians." Her head then turned to her sister, her once happy face now showing a determined expression. "I won't kill you, sister. But I will do what I must to make you stay out of our way."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen grinned, as she threw her staff to the side, holding her dagger with both hands. "You'll regret showing mercy, sister."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No… you'll regret not showing me any." Fallen countered, as she then ran at her sister, swinging her glaive left and right with occasional thrusts of her weapon./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen's dodges were nothing like you'd see Bereit pull off. Her's were desperate jerks of her body to avoid getting cut. She never even tried to block or parry her strikes. She soon dodged one of Fallen's big slashes, and went to stab Fallen's belly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But Fallen used the blunt part of her glaive to push her head to the side. She then followed up with a slash across Folgen's shoulder, as it began to freeze in and around her wound./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen winced at the cold pain, soon backing up from Fallen, still keeping a tight grip on her weapon. "Dammit!" She cursed. "I bet you learned that one to use specifically against me, didn't you!?" She accused, seeming to think she was out to get her./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen remained silent, as she ran forward and slashed at Folgen some more, with the same results. Fallen figured she might have to try some new tricks if she was gonna freeze Folgen into submission. She put her attacks to a halt and brought her weapon close to herself, standing in a defensive stance./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen stood her ground as well, beginning to become out of breath. But she was driven to win. She had to win. She couldn't give up now. "Rein… I hate you." She whispered again, before she pointed her staff to Fallen, having picked it up from the ground. "Quetzalcoatl! Kill her!" She shouted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's eyes shot open as she looked right up at Quetzalcoatl, seeing a lightning bolt coming her way. She quickly jumped back, the sudden blast of lightning exploding in front of her./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But Shiva came in to buy Fallen time. She held Quetzalcoatl's wings, keeping it from blasting any more lightning. Shiva was continuously hit with lightning because of how close she was./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen smiled faintly at that sight, before she turned her head to Folgen, seeing she was running and swinging wildly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen slashed at Folgen with each dodge, cutting small parts of her body. Folgen shrieked with each strike that landed on her. They kept coming, and froze more and more of Folgen's body, before she fell to her knees, not being able to move./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen hit the ground, holding herself up by her hands, blood dripping down her robes. She was gasping for air in exhaustion. "I… I can't lose…" She whispered. "Mother's respect… will be-"br /br /Fallen brought her glaive to Folgen's neck, making her silent. "Sister… you're only making things worse for yourself by obsessing over Mother's respect. And I know you won't listen to me." The glaive slid across her neck, but didn't cut at all. It went to Folgen's back, where she now held her glaive with both hands. "This is all I can do, to keep you here without killing you."br /br /Folgen had a fear stricken face. She knew she wasn't going to die, but knowing defeat was coming was what she was scared of./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Forgive me, sister." Fallen whispered, before she slid the blade across Folgen's back, leaving her numb and frozen all over. Folgen was defeated. A victory Fallen felt no pride over. She looked at the blood that was slowly freezing over the blade of her ice glaive, feeling… guilty./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Slowly, Shiva came down to Fallen's side, putting her cold hand on Fallen's shoulder./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen looked up at Shiva, still having her guilty look. "I didn't want to hurt my sister… but she brought this on herself. I had no choice… right?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Not one." Another familiar voice spoke up, with a sarcastic and slow clap./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's head turned to where she heard that voice. And it was Tier again. In her usual attire of black and red, along with that crazy black hair. "You." She hissed quietly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Listen, sis." Tier spoke up. "I'll cut to the chase. We'll go see mother about fighting that Erpel. She's well aware of it. And we're gonna need all the manpower we can get our hands. Like your buddies over there." She pointed to her Guardians that were coming back, some of them eyeing what Fallen had done./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen sighed, looking down. "And you're sure she would accept my help above all help she can receive?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Tier nodded. "Let's just say I convinced her through her own language." She then motioned her head. "Come on. The longer we stand here, the stronger that Erpel will get." She warned them, as she made her way up the dirt path to the residence of the Ehre family./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen sighed once more, before she looked back at Folgen, her guilt coming over her one last time, before she walked forward with her Guardians by her side./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"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%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"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%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"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%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Slowly, Bereit woke up, his body feeling really cold. He shivered upon waking up, feeling another cloth over his coat from one of his hands being close to his body, the other being out of said cloth. His eyes opened up, seeing Fallen's cloak on his body. He was a bit surprised to see it on him rather than Fallen. He was soon reminded of where he had fallen asleep, right in the engine room. Upon removing the cloak, thinking he wouldn't need it at the moment, he felt the heat of the engine room, it being pretty hot. He immediately put it back on. "Sheesh. Had I known how hot the room would have been I would have left… though, I guess I have Fallen to thank for keeping me cool." He then stood right up, stretching his arms and legs out, his leg making a loud popping noise, him hissing in the split second of pain./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that, Bereit soon left the engine room, heading back to the main floor of the airship. He was met with the whole team all together, though, all doing their own thing./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The first person Bereit's eyes were lied on was Fallen, as she was sitting there, having something of a content look on her face. With that in mind, he approached her, but kept his greeting out to everybody. "Morning, everybody." He said to them, with a wave./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Morning, Bereit. Sleep well?" Imbir asked, seeming to have something of a playful tone of voice./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well… yeah." Bereit answered honestly. He then looked over to Fallen, before he took the cloak off his shoulder, handing it back to her in it's now clear state of appearance. "I have you to thank for that." He told her, with a smile on his face./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen smiled back, sheepishly taking her cloak back. "I mean… it was Shiva's idea." She admitted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Either way, I'm grateful. Though, you could have easily just taken me out of the room." Bereit pointed out./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen pouted. "Do you realize how heavy you are to me?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit didn't think about that, as he scratched his head in the realization. "I guess that's true. But… still, I'm glad you gave me your cloak."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Flirt -/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Say Thank You/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I must be somethin' special if you gave me your cloak." Bereit teased her, having a slight smirk on his face./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"N-no!" Fallen denied. "I'm just… can't I just do something nice without people assuming stuff!?" She snapped, actually sounding upset./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was a bit shocked to see she was upset about it. "I'm sorry." He quickly apologized. "I was just joking. I didn't mean anything by it."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen sighed, lowering her head a bit. "It's fine…"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit and Imbir looked at each other, both seeming to have learned their lesson about making jokes like that around Fallen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Anyway…" Fallen finally said. "Thanks to you charging those batteries, we're just about to my family's home in Urwald. Thank the Divines we are. The anticipation is killing me…"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Meeting her parents… Bereit forgot about that. That was gonna be huge trouble to deal with. Especially thanks to the trouble him and Imbir caused for the Ehre family. Bereit had a feeling he was gonna have to choose his words and actions carefully. "I don't think the anticipation is what's gonna kill me or Imbir."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen waved her hand dismissively. "Don't you worry. I'll handle the talking." She insisted, with a smile. "They'll listen to me."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I mean… both of your sisters tried to kill you at least once, Fallen. Are you sure about that?" Scharf asked. "Who's to say your parents won't try to kill you the moment you step foot in their home?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"With the Erpels flying around… they're gonna listen. What good is a world if they've got no one or nothing to exploit?" Fallen pointed out. She knew how far her family's greed went. And what would convince them to put that aside, or even use that against them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yikes…" Bereit said, sounding a bit shocked from the way she explained it to them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That's my family for 'ya." Fallen said, shrugging slightly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"There was silence among the group, before Cid poked his head out from the cockpit, from the pilot seat. "We're arriving to Urwald, everybody. So make sure you're all ready to go." Cid told the party./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit stepped into the cockpit to get a look at what was ahead of them. And it was nothing but green. At least from where they were. Trees, trees, and more trees surrounded by the blue and vast ocean. Though, he was well aware Urwald was inhabited by a lot of people. And exotic animals too. "You sure we're gonna have space to land anywhere?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'll find a spot. Don't you worry." Cid assured./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Co-Pilot soon showed Bereit a map, showing the entire world they lived in. He then pointed to a beach that was on the opposite side of Urwald. "Right here. Our ship will be safe, and far away from civilization."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Got it." Bereit said, with a confident smile. "So where would the Ehre's home be?" He asked, keeping his eyes on the map./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Co-Pilot soon pointed to one area on Urwald, one big open spot with a small and bold E. "Ehre Family Residence. To think they're so powerful they even have a spot on the map."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Upon looking at the map, Bereit noticed Ozean was in it. Immediately he was reminded of the kids back at his home. And with that, he was reminded of the stakes. The lives of the kids. He frowned a bit, before he looked out the window. "Sure as hell makes it easier for us."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Co-Pilot soon put the map to the side. "Well, the house sticks out like a soar thumb. As you can see…" He pointed out the window for Bereit. Both would soon see a tall, mansion-like building, on a rather small mountain./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well would you look at that." Bereit said. "I suppose you have to do something with all the Gil they make."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"After a bit of time flying around Urwald, the airship was soon landed right on a beach. The trees surrounding them shook from the jets of the airship blowing it with the strong force it emitted. The jets were turned off, and the party stepped right out of the airship./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Be careful down there everybody!" Cid called out to them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't worry! We'll be back in one piece!" Fallen assured with that same confident smile./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It was pretty strange to see Fallen seem so… confident. Especially since they were going to see her parents. She did seem to know what she had to do, so maybe it wasn't there just to give everyone a sense of false hope. Maybe she was actually confident she was gonna convince them into helping them out. It at least made Bereit hopeful that she could do it. And he believed she could./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party soon came to a village that had all sorts of houses that were made of logs and straws, with a few metal reinforcing. And the people that inhabited it were people that were famous among humans. Because of how different they were. A race of people that were very beast like./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"From what the party observed, they would see people that had fur on their skin. From grey, to white, to black. And they looked similar to lions. They had the tail, the mane, the face, but the bodies of humans, with claws instead of normal hands./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Of course, a few humans were here and there among them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa, Kurve and Zelkova all had surprised looks when they saw these beings for the first time./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As for Bereit, he had seen them before. He had met some as well. Imbir, Scharf and Fallen had heard of them, but never met any in person. "Wow…" Fallen said in awe, with a hand just below her lips. Though, her awestruck face went away, as a bad memory came to her at that moment./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Umm… they won't… try to kill us, right?" Vanessa asked, in a nervous tone./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We'll be fine. As long as you don't call them…" Bereit was silent for a few seconds, as he then leaned to her ear and whispered. The others couldn't hear what he said, but they could tell it must be a foul word, since Vanessa quietly gasped in disgust. "Who would even use such a word?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Trust me, the guy who even made the word died a horrible death. So if you value your own life, you're gonna want to not use that word." Bereit told her./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, thanks." Vanessa said, before she looked at the other two that looked at her curiously. "It's… best you don't even know the word."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The three looked among each other, before they shrug, guessing it was best to just forget about it. Though, they were left to the imagination on what that word was./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that out of the way, the party continued on their way to the Ehre Family Residence. Though, the fact that they were heading that way had people staring at them. To the group, they assumed it was because they were outsiders./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen a tried to center herself in the group, keeping her head down for a moment./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Do they not know what hospitality is? Last I checked staring is rude." Scharf commented, scratching the back of his neck./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well… we are new people." Imbir pointed out. "I guess in a sense we're the ones who aren't being hospitable, considering we just flew in here instead of using a boat like most do."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"True." Scharf agreed. "But we have a good reason not to use a slow ass boat."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Try explaining that without sounding like a psycho." Imbir added to what he was pointing out./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm not saying we should explain ourselves. We're only here for a moment and then we're out. Quick and clean." Scharf said with a slight shrug./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Stop right there, Rein Ehre!" A voice called out to the Fallen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gasped a bit from the familiar voice, before she slowly turned her head around, right after everyone else did./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ugh, this broad again?" Bereit said in an annoyed tone of voice./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And the party, was met with a familiar face. Folgen. One of Fallen's sisters. She held her staff proudly, while looking at Fallen, and nobody else among the group. "You will not step any closer to mother's home. I will be the one to have her rid of the Titan Erpel's fortress of stone."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen wished she could just hide and wait for her to leave. But there was no backing out. She had to step up. "Folgen, sister, stop with this competition nonsense!" Fallen spoke up, stepping past her Guardians. "The world is at stake here! Why not help us instead!?"br /br /"My mother is my world. I will save the world after I rid of you. Your guardians, I couldn't care less for. This is a duel between us." Folgen said, eyeing the rather impressive number of Guardians she had. While Folgen had none. She worked /br /"You'll care about me, I assure you." Bereit assured, as he was about to draw his serrated sword, stepping forward. But he was stopped by Fallen's staff, his sword drawn half way./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"This is my fight, guys." She told them, but mainly told Bereit. "Don't worry. It'll be over before you know it." She looked at him from the corner of her eye, giving them her confident smile once more./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was silent for a few seconds, before he put his sword back in the sheath./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Be careful./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You got this. -/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You got this, Fallen." Bereit encouraged./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"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 (Fallen)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gently nodded. While she would find no pride in defeating her sister in battle, she had to win this. But she hated that their time had to be wasted like this./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen brought her staff high up, and then spun it, magic beginning to flow around her. "Come forth, Quetzalcoatl!" Folgen called the one of her many summons. And what came, was a giant eagle-like being that had feathers that nearly looked as if it was it's own skin, they flowed beautifully with the movements of it's own wings. The feathers matched it's green lightning it emitted from it's body, the beak being as sharp as a lightning bolt./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Noticing the people around her were beginning to look fearful. "Sister." Fallen spoke up. "We should do this elsewhere."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"These people are nothing to my quest for Mother's respect." Folgen stated. "Summon your Divine!" She then demanded, gripping her staff tightly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen narrowed her eyes, appalled by her sister's carelessness. No, her heartlessness. To think something as small as respect can drive her to not care for the lives of others. "Guys, get the people to safety." She asked of them. "This is gonna get ugly."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The party soon spread out and instructed everyone to leave, and had to convince some of them to leave, considering this was going to be a once in a lifetime opportunity. But as Fallen thought to herself before, this wasn't some show. "I'm giving you one last chance, Folgen. Stand. Down."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen scoffed at her sister. "Quetzalcoatl, strike them down!" She shouted, thrusting her staff forward./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that, Quetzalcoatl summoned a giant bolt of lightning that came right down towards Shiva. But she blocked that bolt with easy with a thick layer of ice above her head. She had a frown and narrowed eyes, as if she was unimpressed./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Shiva, take Quetzalcoatl down. Bring your wrath without mercy!" Fallen called, pointing her staff to the enemy summon./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And with that, Shiva brought her hands around her, as many spears of ice formed around her. She then shot them right to Quetzalcoatl, the enemy summon flying around all of her flying spears./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Quetzalcoatl shot it's own spears of lightning towards Shiva, but she easily blocked them all with smaller shields of ice. She flew up to Quetzalcoatl, making ice swords of her hands, and began to slice at it./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The two were locked in a furious battle of elements, their own blades clashing and making sparks fly all /span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen watched the two summons clash in battle. She clenched her staff in nervousness, feeling like this battle was gonna be a close one. The sound of footsteps were hurriedly rushing for her. She then looked towards the sound, her sister's footsteps growing closer, as she had a dagger in her empty hand, raised high at Fallen./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gasped at the sight, and jumped away from the attempt to stab her. Fallen couldn't believe it. Folgen wanted her dead. Truly. "S-sister! This is getting out of hand! Are you gon-"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Shut your mouth, you 'perfect' bitch!" Folgen shouted at her, leaving Fallen even more shocked. "All because of you, I was the odd one out! You and Tier were always mom and dad's favourites! And I was left in the shadows to lonesomeness!" She shouted to Fallen, as she swung her dagger continuously./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That doesn't mean we can't make up now! Come with us, Folgen! We can save the world together!" Fallen said, as she kept backing up from each slice that was coming her way. "What good is respect when the world could be destroyed!?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No! Her respect is mine! I want the fame! I want the attention! I deserve it all after living in the shadow of the both of you!" Folgen kept shouting, before she pushed Fallen back to a wall./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gasped in fear as she was backed to a wall, watching her sister approach her with that dagger. The dagger was brought high up, as she saw the tip of the blade glimmer against the sunlight./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I always hated you… Rein." Folgen whispered those harsh words. She soon brought the dagger down to Fallen, ready to take her sister's life./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No…" Fallen's consciousness uttered to herself./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The dagger's strike was blocked by Fallen's ice glaive forming once more in her hands. With a scream of anger, as if to wake herself up, she pushed her sister away and slashed at her./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"br /Folgen had managed to dodge Fallen's attack, however she earned a small graze just below her upper torso. The cold bite of her blade sending a chill through her body. "Rein!" She shouted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't call me that, Folgen!" Fallen snapped. "I'm not some prim and perfect mommy's girl! I'm a human being! I do what I think is right! I make my own decisions! I don't need her! All I need…" She went silent for a moment, looking up at Shiva, seeing she was still in combat with Quetzalcoatl, but seemed to be gaining the advantage with slowing it down. "All I need is Shiva. And my Guardians." Her head then turned to her sister, her once happy face now showing a determined expression. "I won't kill you, sister. But I will do what I must to make you stay out of our way."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen grinned, as she threw her staff to the side, holding her dagger with both hands. "You'll regret showing mercy, sister."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No… you'll regret not showing me any." Fallen countered, as she then ran at her sister, swinging her glaive left and right with occasional thrusts of her weapon./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen's dodges were nothing like you'd see Bereit pull off. Her's were desperate jerks of her body to avoid getting cut. She never even tried to block or parry her strikes. She soon dodged one of Fallen's big slashes, and went to stab Fallen's belly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But Fallen used the blunt part of her glaive to push her head to the side. She then followed up with a slash across Folgen's shoulder, as it began to freeze in and around her wound./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen winced at the cold pain, soon backing up from Fallen, still keeping a tight grip on her weapon. "Dammit!" She cursed. "I bet you learned that one to use specifically against me, didn't you!?" She accused, seeming to think she was out to get her./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen remained silent, as she ran forward and slashed at Folgen some more, with the same results. Fallen figured she might have to try some new tricks if she was gonna freeze Folgen into submission. She put her attacks to a halt and brought her weapon close to herself, standing in a defensive stance./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen stood her ground as well, beginning to become out of breath. But she was driven to win. She had to win. She couldn't give up now. "Rein… I hate you." She whispered again, before she pointed her staff to Fallen, having picked it up from the ground. "Quetzalcoatl! Kill her!" She shouted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's eyes shot open as she looked right up at Quetzalcoatl, seeing a lightning bolt coming her way. She quickly jumped back, the sudden blast of lightning exploding in front of her./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But Shiva came in to buy Fallen time. She held Quetzalcoatl's wings, keeping it from blasting any more lightning. Shiva was continuously hit with lightning because of how close she was./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen smiled faintly at that sight, before she turned her head to Folgen, seeing she was running and swinging wildly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen slashed at Folgen with each dodge, cutting small parts of her body. Folgen shrieked with each strike that landed on her. They kept coming, and froze more and more of Folgen's body, before she fell to her knees, not being able to move./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Folgen hit the ground, holding herself up by her hands, blood dripping down her robes. She was gasping for air in exhaustion. "I… I can't lose…" She whispered. "Mother's respect… will be-"br /br /Fallen brought her glaive to Folgen's neck, making her silent. "Sister… you're only making things worse for yourself by obsessing over Mother's respect. And I know you won't listen to me." The glaive slid across her neck, but didn't cut at all. It went to Folgen's back, where she now held her glaive with both hands. "This is all I can do, to keep you here without killing you."br /br /Folgen had a fear stricken face. She knew she wasn't going to die, but knowing defeat was coming was what she was scared of./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Forgive me, sister." Fallen whispered, before she slid the blade across Folgen's back, leaving her numb and frozen all over. Folgen was defeated. A victory Fallen felt no pride over. She looked at the blood that was slowly freezing over the blade of her ice glaive, feeling… guilty./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Slowly, Shiva came down to Fallen's side, putting her cold hand on Fallen's shoulder./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen looked up at Shiva, still having her guilty look. "I didn't want to hurt my sister… but she brought this on herself. I had no choice… right?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Not one." Another familiar voice spoke up, with a sarcastic and slow clap./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's head turned to where she heard that voice. And it was Tier again. In her usual attire of black and red, along with that crazy black hair. "You." She hissed quietly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Listen, sis." Tier spoke up. "I'll cut to the chase. We'll go see mother about fighting that Erpel. She's well aware of it. And we're gonna need all the manpower we can get our hands. Like your buddies over there." She pointed to her Guardians that were coming back, some of them eyeing what Fallen had done./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen sighed, looking down. "And you're sure she would accept my help above all help she can receive?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Tier nodded. "Let's just say I convinced her through her own language." She then motioned her head. "Come on. The longer we stand here, the stronger that Erpel will get." She warned them, as she made her way up the dirt path to the residence of the Ehre family./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen sighed once more, before she looked back at Folgen, her guilt coming over her one last time, before she walked forward with her Guardians by her side./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"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%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No/span/span/p