p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Chapter 39/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 (General)/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;"The airship flew towards the ocean as the party would prepare for the search for the other Erpels. It went without saying, but everyone was nervous as to what kind of strange creatures they would encounter in the sea. Other than Kurve, since this was his territory. But that just meant he knew what to be scared about and what to watch out for. So, he felt like he was gonna have to play a leading role here. It both excited but scared him, thinking that he could lead them to something pretty dangerous. "Well, they'll know better to not mess with Leviathan." He reassured to himself./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;"Hey, Kurve." Zelkova's voice spoke up. "We're ready to head into the sea. Are you ready?"/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;"Uhh, yeah!" Kurve answered. "I'll be there in a second." Kurve soon stood up, but tripped a bit when the airship came to a sudden halt, realizing the time has come./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;"A thunderstorm was happening around Fallen and her guardians, making her wonder if the Erpels knew they were coming. It sure felt that way. She held her staff in her hand, her sisters standing beside 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;"So we're heading into the abyss we've never explored as a species, huh?" Tier asked in a snarky manner. "Can't say I'm a fan of this plan."br /br /"Neither am I, sister. But we must." Folgen replied./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;"They soon went silent, looking at the ocean before them. The giant waves crashing along with the lightning striking. Fallen felt like there was no coming back from the ocean during a storm. It was terrifying. But with everyone around her... she felt like she could do it. She had to./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;"Hey... in case something happens... I wouldn't ask for anyone else to be my sisters." Tier told her siblings, making them both turn their heads to look at her. "Because let's be real... someone's going to die down there... but we should try our best to make sure it doesn't happen."/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... true." Folgen responded. "It would be a shame to lose someone this far into our journey."/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;"They're my guardians. They should be protecting me but... I don't feel like I want them to protect me. I want to protect them." Fallen added. "Ever since we truly became friends... I kinda wanted to show them I was the guardian... funny, isn't 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;"It is rather strange, but it just goes to show you've grown the most compared to Tier and I." Folgen wasn't afraid to admit that./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, there's some growth in you too, it seems." Tier spoke up. "Normally you're never wrong, but here you are, taking it responsibly."/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 you? What has changed of you?" Folgen asked Tier./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... good question." Tier responded, as she tried to think on it. "I guess I like someone now..." She answered, gently tapping her index finger against her own cheek./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;"Is this really the time to bring this up?" Fallen asked with a furrowed /br /"Hey, Folgen asked the question." She 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;"Well?" Folgen asked. "Who would it be?"/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 began to blush a bit, looking to the side. "Honestly, it's-" But she was stopped by the sound of the hatch opening, making her stop what she was about to say immediately./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;"Another time then?" Folgen asked./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, yeah, whatever." Tier responded in a slight flustered manner./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;"Soon, the others stepped out of the hatch, joining the three sisters in the storm surrounding them. To break whatever silence could even come of them, Bereit stepped up. "So... everyone ready?"br /br /Everyone responded in an agreeing 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;"Fallen faced the ocean ahead of them, before she would hold her staff with both hands. "I bring the lord of-" But the sound of shredding metal was heard between everyone, as a gigantic yellow fang-like blade would sever the airship in half, causing everyone to fall into the ocean, each hitting the water painfully./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 swam for the surface as soon as possible, gasping for air and coughing as salt water splashed into her face. She raised her staff once more. "I bring the lord of the seas to assist me! Come to my side, Leviathan!" Fallen finished her chant. But the sea would erupt as something came from 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;"A colossal being rose behind her, The Holy Erpel, Alexander. White as light, body made of what looked like marble, but surely it wasn't made of marble. Fallen then caught the face, seeing there was no mouth. Just two eyes that looked down at the party that desperately tried to stay afloat./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;"All Fallen could wonder is if it was standing from the very bottom of the ocean, or it was floating somehow. Well, there was that, and how she could possibly defeat this 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;"Alexander would open two parts of the side of it's face, revealing what looked like some kind of cannons, made out of some kind of dark flesh. Light came from it's skin and went right into the cannon, charging it. It was ready to unleash it's holy power unto them, but Leviathan appeared and bashed it on the side, knocking it's shot off into the sky./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 when that occurred, the party would hear another roar in the sky. They all faced the direction, watching as another Erpel fell from the sky. Lightning coated it's body, and the body was coloured by the bolts that emitted before it's scales. It bore wings, a long tail that resembled that familiar blade that cut their airship in half, but no claws like the others./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're kidding me, two!?" Vanessa called out, before the party was swept out of the waters by Leviathan, carrying them all upon it's back./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 ain't gonna be long before it's up and flying normally again! We need to split and fight them separately!" Bereit suggested. "Folgen, you're with me! Fallen, you've gotta form your group, as do I!"/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 sure this is a good idea!?" Fallen asked./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;"What choice do we have!?"/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 was hesitant with the plan, but he was right. It was now or never./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;"Form the first party, to face Alexander Erpel./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;"1. 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;"2. Folgen/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;"3. Imbir/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;"4. Scharf/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;"5. Kurve/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;"Form the second party, to face Ramuh Erpel./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;"1. 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;"2. Zelkova/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;"3. Tier/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;"4. Strake/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;"5. Vanessa/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;"Form these parties?/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
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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 (General)/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;"Both parties of five stood on opposing sides of Leviathan, ready to face the beasts they were to battle against./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;"Hey, sis?" Tier spoke up to Folgen, Folgen turning her head to see her sister. "Good luck."/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 nodded. "Same to you, sisters." She responded, before she began to chant and summon her own creature to use as means to take flight. And that was the familiar Quetzalcoatl. One by one, they all jumped onto the flying beast, both parties going their separate ways./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, Party 1 (General)/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;"So... any ideas on how we're gonna beat this thing!?" Scharf asked./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 find a weakspot! Or we make one!" Bereit answered. "Everything has one!"/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;"Okay, but where could it be!? All we're seeing is it's giant head and shoulders! For all we know the weakness could be in the ocean with it's body!" Scharf 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;"Damn..." Bereit cursed under his breath. "Folgen, guess you're gonna have to summon Leviathan instead!"/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 need a minute!" Folgen responded, as she began to chant to summon Leviathan./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;"Alexander began to fire beams at the party, but Bereit would shoot bolts of lightning to stop the shots from coming anywhere near 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;"Scharf and Imbir would continuously shoot at the beast's eyes, Kurve assisting with blasts of water, thinking Bereit could help out with what he had planned. But Quetzalcoatl disappeared from below, only for Folgen's Leviathan to appear and carry them. It started to circle the magnificent beast, the party examining it's form to see if there was any place they could even consider a weak spot. And so far, nothing./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;"Let's check it's body underwater!" Kurve suggested./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 nodded as a response, before the party riding Leviathan would dive into the water. A sphere would appear, surrounding the party as a means to breath. They circled the lower body, seeing that it was on four legs, and the lower half was even bigger. And no signs of weakspots either./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;"See anything?" Scharf asked everyone else./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 clue." Imbir responded, seeing more cannons were opening to fire at them, some of the shots hitting Leviathan. Though... he was getting some ideas./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 need an idea, and fast!" Folgen announced./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;"Take us back to the surface. I have something I wanna try." He informed Folgen, as he then loaded his gun with one of his explosive shots./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 noticed what he put in, getting what Imbir was suggesting. But he was gonna wait until they confirmed if this would work or not./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;"Leviathan broke through the water, the sphere disappearing before 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;"Imbir aimed his gun, waiting for one of the cannons to reveal it's self. Soon, one appeared on it's back, exposing the dark weapon. Imbir shut an eye, aiming for the cannon that began to charge it's shot. And soon, he pulled the trigger. The bullet flew right into the hole, exploding and creating a big crater of a 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;"Keep eye, Imbir!" Scharf responded./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 the compliments when we're done." Imbir reminded him that they were fighting./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;"Let's hope some magic can do the same effect!" Bereit charged lightning in his hand./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;"Kurve did the same, using both hands to cast a stronger spell. /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;"More and more of the cannons within Alexander would open, Bereit, Imbir, Scharf and Kurve would destroy them one by one, trying to destroy them as quick as possible. A bunch of craters created by the cannons they destroyed were formed, one by one./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;"It was then that Alexander would realize that it was only gonna get it's self killed if it kept attacking them the way it did. Any remaining cannons on the surface retreated. It would then attempt to ram the party, Leviathan avoiding it./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;"It's fighting against our strategy!" Bereit announced to the party./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;"Now what can we do?!" Folgen asked./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;"There was silence among everyone trying to figure out what they could do to defeat this beast. It had become a starring contest while Leviathan avoided the attacks from Alexander./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 looked at his arm that had previously needed recovery, feeling like he had an idea. But there was gonna be a consequence with it. "Hey, Folgen?" Bereit spoke up. "Can you by any chance fling me high up into the air?"/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;"Folgen had something of a hesitant look. "And you're certain this isn't a stupid idea?"br /br /"It ain't stupid, it's just possible that it can go wrong." Bereit responded. "But we really don't have a lot of options right now." He reminded 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;"Alright. Go to Leviathan's tail and I'll have it send you to the air." Folgen instructed./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 nodded, as he then started running for the tail. "Imbir, Scharf, Kurve, strike a spot and push it as deep as you can!" He asked of his companions./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;"They all nodded, soon aiming their arms to the Erpel, striking right that the very tip top of it's head, Leviathan rising a bit in the air to give them a better shot./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;"Alexander retaliated by swinging it's head to avoid getting it's head broken anymore than it already was./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;"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, party 1 (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;"Bereit ran for the tail at full speed, faster than he had ever run in his whole life. While he was separated from his companions, Alexander opened a few of it's cannons and began to fire holy beams at him, Bereit jumping and sliding to avoid them. He would shoot lightning at the cannons to destroy them, but Alexander continued to attack./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;"He made it to the tail, standing to the fins that were going to make him airborne. Slowly, he felt the tail lower it's self, Bereit hanging on to not fall off. And right after, Leviathan flicked powerfully, sending Bereit high up in the sky./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 flipped and spun in the air in desperation to control his fall. It was only a matter of time before he began to descend. He was able to slow himself down by using his fire magic to push himself against his flips and spins. With that, his plan was set in motion. He began to fly down towards the Erpel, seeing it had begun firing it's cannons at him, but from below the water, the beams now curving and homing towards him. He couldn't see it, but these shots took more of the light off it's bright body, as if it required more power./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;"Turns, spins and quick dodges, he was able to avoid these, occasional grazed shots or some nearly hitting him directly. His hand was emitting so much lightning it was starting to burn his hand. He clenched it into a fist, raising it high up as he came down. And soon, he aimed right for the spot that his companions weakened. And just before he made impact with the spot, he released all of the lightning right on the spot, blasting a gigantic hole through the body, almost splitting it in half./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;"Alexander couldn't even make a sound. It slowly fell back into the ocean, a gigantic splash following right after./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 about to fall too, but Leviathan caught him, setting him right next to his companions. He looked at his hand, seeing the bandages were gone, revealing the familiar injuries he had from the last Erpel battle. He was about to state that they were victorious, but then he realized something. "Wait... where's Cid and the co-pilot!?"/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;"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, party 2 (General)/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;"Right when the parties split up, Fallen and her team set off to defeat the Ramuh Erpel./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;"They would circle the Erpel, as it would remain stationary. It began to charge lightning in it's mouth and then blasted Fallen's Leviathan right on the face, making it tip to the side, but caught it's self from tipping any further. Everyone hung on as it happened./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;"So... any ideas!?" Strake asked 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;"Guess we just need to take it head on!" Tier stated. "Maybe we can get it to stop emitting lightning, then we can go for the kill!"/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;"So how do we stop it from emitting the lightning!?" Zelkova asked./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 looked at Fallen's Leviathan. "Can Leviathan shoot water or something!?"/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;"I can." Fallen's Leviathan replied./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;"Awesome! Then we've got our plan!" Fallen stated. She soon swung her staff right at the Erpel, Leviathan firing giant blasts of water towards Ramuh, splashing it repeatedly. Though, the lightning wasn't letting up. It was gone for a second, but Ramuh just vaporized any that touched it's scales./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;"...alright, we need a new plan!" Fallen stated./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;"There was silence among the team, trying to figure out what they could possibly 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;"Hey!" Vanessa spoke up. "Just how strong is it's scales!?"/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;"Just try to break through!?" Tier guessed what she was thinking./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;"See that gigantic blade tail it has!?" Vanessa pointed out. "Who knows how much damage that could do!"/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;"But how are we even gonna get it off!?" Fallen asked./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;"Vanessa showed her gun. "It'll take a lot of shots, but I can weaken it! Maybe you can give me a hand!?"/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 as a response. "I'll see what I can do!" She soon began to form the darkness that would normally form into beasts, prepping for the plan./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;"Fallen!" Vanessa called out. "Can you ask Leviathan to shoot more water!?"/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;"Of course!"br /br /"And one more thing! Is it a bit much to have two summons at the same time!?" She added to her questions./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;"Fallen thought about it, unsure if she could. "Well, it wouldn't hurt to try!" She was a bit nervous to try, but this was no time for hesitance. "Leviathan!" She called out, as Leviathan would fire a continuous shot of water. And soon, Tier's darkness would flow with the water, as many aquatic beasts flowed with it./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;"Vanessa fired as fast as she could, trying to weaken the tail of the beast./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;"The Erpel flew right over the beam of water, avoiding the attack./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 gotta be kidding me!" Vanessa said in disbelief./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;"But Fallen was one step ahead of the Erpel. She swung her staff up. "Shiva! Now!" She exclaimed./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;"And soon, Shiva appeared and formed a ramp of ice appeared before them, blocking the Erpel dead in it's flight. The ice soon surrounded and held it still, it's bladed tail being vulnerable at the very top of the slowly forming sphere of ice. "Tier, Vanessa, Strake it's your turn!" She kind of felt bad that Zelkova couldn't lend a hand, but he was a healer, not a fighter./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;"Tier sent her beasts up the ice to go for the tail, while Vanessa let out a storm of bullets to it. And Strake would jump up to it and begin to cut at the tail. The combined efforts of the three weakened the tail, cutting deep into the scaly skin, but the Erpel would soon erupt out of the icy trap in an electrifying roar./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;"Strake managed to jump back onto Leviathan before she could get hit by the sudden burst of lightning./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;"The Erpel's tail could hardly even be lifted. But it was clear it wasn't gonna try and get any closer again. It began to fire bolts of lightning at the second party/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;"Damn!" Fallen hissed, thinking that getting that tail off was gonna be a lot tougher now. She had one idea. It was extreme, but she saw how the other party was doing, and from what she was observing, it wasn't looking good. "Tier, I'm gonna need your beasts one last time!"/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;"Tier nodded, as she began to charge the darkness again./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;"Fallen swung her staff forward. "Shiva, one more time! Right for the Erpel!" Shiva appeared once more, creating a long, straight line for the Erpel. She soon disappeared, Fallen then summoning Ifrit with a chant, right behind her back./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;"Ifrit picked it's summoner up, and then ran on all fours. Right on the ice path it was given. The beasts followed behind Ifrit, like Ifrit was their leader. And the Erpel was their prey. /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;"The Erpel kept shooting lightning bolts at them, but Vanessa shot at it's head to mess up it's aim continuously./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;"Fallen riding on Ifrit's shoulder, she had her staff in the form of the ice glaive, her hands gripping the weapon tightly, like she was afraid of dropping it. And it was a fear right now, since she was starting to feel faint from all of the summoning she was doing./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;"The beasts would soon run ahead of Ifrit, as they would latch onto the Erpel's head, covering it's eyes and biting down hard to stay on./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;"Ifrit soon jumped up, Fallen going right for the tail as she leaped off of Ifrit's shoulder./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;"What's she doing!?" Zelkova asked, realizing how risky her plan was./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;"Fallen brought her glaive back. And with a strong swipe, she sliced the tail off, cutting the flesh and bone clean./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;"Ifrit caught the tail and then swung it's arms way up in the air. And with one last strong swing of it's arms, it flung the bladed tail and it pierced right through the Erpel's chest, sending it down the ocean, sinking lower and lower into the dark abyss as it was welcomed to death's cold embrace./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;"There was silence among the party, waiting for some kind of surprise... but the Erpel had been slain. They all looked over to the other party, seeing they had completed their battle as well./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;"They did it. They actually did it./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;"Quick! Fallen's down there!" Tier called out to Leviathan./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;"Leviathan soon went down to the ocean, quickly finding her underneath the water and sweeping her out of the water. She hadn't fallen that deep into the ocean, so they were lucky to have gotten to her that quick./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;"Tier came to her sister's side, seeing she was pale and had her eyes closed. She touched her forehead, feeling nothing but cold. "She pushed herself so much this fight..." She told everyone./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;"Here, allow me." Zelkova said, as he knelt down and began to heal her tired body./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;"With this moment of calm, if you could even call it that, everyone began to catch their breaths./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;"Strake looked over to the other party, seeing everyone was near the ocean's water. She leaned a bit closer, seeing they were searching for something. And it just occurred to her, the airship was destroyed, and Cid and the co-pilot were still in there. Before she could say anything, Leviathan began to fade away, as everyone soon fell right into the stormy ocean./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;"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, party 1 (General)/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;"Folgen made Leviathan dive right into the water, in search for Cid and the co-pilot. To find them, they looked for the airship that was most likely sunk way below. But thanks to Leviathan's assistance, they found the severed airship, as well as the two they were looking for. But they weren't moving. From what it looked like, they tried to make their way back to the surface, but hadn't made it in 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;"Leviathan picked them both up on it's head, resurfacing right after./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;"Are they okay!?" Kurve asked worriedly./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 leaned his head to their chests, not sensing a heartbeat. "I'm not hearing anything! But the storm doesn't help either!"/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;"Hey! The others are in the water too!" Imbir called out, pointing to them. Everyone looked over, seeing what Imbir was pointing to./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;"Folgen gasped quietly. "Leviathan, retrieve them!" She ordered her summon. And soon, Leviathan would retrieve them, giving them a spot on it's head./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 saw everyone crowding around Fallen, seeing that she wasn't in the greatest condition either. But at least Zelkova was working on that. So he began to focus on Cid and the co-pilot. He started to preform CPR, his form not being the most professional, but he was in a desperate hurry to bring them back. "Come on, come on!" He repeated./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;"Cid soon shot up and erupted water out of his mouth, coughing heavily. He looked up at everyone, seeing all the chaos that was happening before him. "What the..." He soon looked at the co-pilot, seeing he wasn't moving either./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;"But Bereit got to it immediately, removing all of the headgear he wore the whole time. And when he did, the face was revealed. The co-pilot's blond hair was revealed, a buzzcut, but the eye colour wasn't visible. Bereit worked on him as well, preforming the same CPR. It took a bit longer, but the co-pilot eventually came to, his shooting up and coughing horribly. He looked at Cid and Bereit, realizing that all of his headgear was off. "I'm surprised I'm even alive..."/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 did your best." Bereit told him. "Both of you, lie yourselves down and rest a bit. We're gonna find shore soon." He instructed them, looking back at Fallen again, seeing her sisters stand next to them. He wasn't there to see it, but he could tell she found her limit as a summoner. And that was good to know, because he knew what was about to come next. The real battle./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
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;"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%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The airship flew towards the ocean as the party would prepare for the search for the other Erpels. It went without saying, but everyone was nervous as to what kind of strange creatures they would encounter in the sea. Other than Kurve, since this was his territory. But that just meant he knew what to be scared about and what to watch out for. So, he felt like he was gonna have to play a leading role here. It both excited but scared him, thinking that he could lead them to something pretty dangerous. "Well, they'll know better to not mess with Leviathan." He reassured to himself./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;"Hey, Kurve." Zelkova's voice spoke up. "We're ready to head into the sea. Are you ready?"/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;"Uhh, yeah!" Kurve answered. "I'll be there in a second." Kurve soon stood up, but tripped a bit when the airship came to a sudden halt, realizing the time has come./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;"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;"A thunderstorm was happening around Fallen and her guardians, making her wonder if the Erpels knew they were coming. It sure felt that way. She held her staff in her hand, her sisters standing beside 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;"So we're heading into the abyss we've never explored as a species, huh?" Tier asked in a snarky manner. "Can't say I'm a fan of this plan."br /br /"Neither am I, sister. But we must." Folgen replied./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;"They soon went silent, looking at the ocean before them. The giant waves crashing along with the lightning striking. Fallen felt like there was no coming back from the ocean during a storm. It was terrifying. But with everyone around her... she felt like she could do it. She had to./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;"Hey... in case something happens... I wouldn't ask for anyone else to be my sisters." Tier told her siblings, making them both turn their heads to look at her. "Because let's be real... someone's going to die down there... but we should try our best to make sure it doesn't happen."/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... true." Folgen responded. "It would be a shame to lose someone this far into our journey."/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;"They're my guardians. They should be protecting me but... I don't feel like I want them to protect me. I want to protect them." Fallen added. "Ever since we truly became friends... I kinda wanted to show them I was the guardian... funny, isn't 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;"It is rather strange, but it just goes to show you've grown the most compared to Tier and I." Folgen wasn't afraid to admit that./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, there's some growth in you too, it seems." Tier spoke up. "Normally you're never wrong, but here you are, taking it responsibly."/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 you? What has changed of you?" Folgen asked Tier./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;"Umm... good question." Tier responded, as she tried to think on it. "I guess I like someone now..." She answered, gently tapping her index finger against her own cheek./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;"Is this really the time to bring this up?" Fallen asked with a furrowed /br /"Hey, Folgen asked the question." She pointed out./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?" Folgen asked. "Who would it be?"/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;"Tier began to blush a bit, looking to the side. "Honestly, it's-" But she was stopped by the sound of the hatch opening, making her stop what she was about to say immediately./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;"Another time then?" Folgen asked./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;"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Tier responded in a slight flustered manner./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;"Soon, the others stepped out of the hatch, joining the three sisters in the storm surrounding them. To break whatever silence could even come of them, Bereit stepped up. "So... everyone ready?"br /br /Everyone responded in an agreeing 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;"Fallen faced the ocean ahead of them, before she would hold her staff with both hands. "I bring the lord of-" But the sound of shredding metal was heard between everyone, as a gigantic yellow fang-like blade would sever the airship in half, causing everyone to fall into the ocean, each hitting the water painfully./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 swam for the surface as soon as possible, gasping for air and coughing as salt water splashed into her face. She raised her staff once more. "I bring the lord of the seas to assist me! Come to my side, Leviathan!" Fallen finished her chant. But the sea would erupt as something came from it./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;"A colossal being rose behind her, The Holy Erpel, Alexander. White as light, body made of what looked like marble, but surely it wasn't made of marble. Fallen then caught the face, seeing there was no mouth. Just two eyes that looked down at the party that desperately tried to stay afloat./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;"All Fallen could wonder is if it was standing from the very bottom of the ocean, or it was floating somehow. Well, there was that, and how she could possibly defeat this thing./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;"Alexander would open two parts of the side of it's face, revealing what looked like some kind of cannons, made out of some kind of dark flesh. Light came from it's skin and went right into the cannon, charging it. It was ready to unleash it's holy power unto them, but Leviathan appeared and bashed it on the side, knocking it's shot off into the sky./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 when that occurred, the party would hear another roar in the sky. They all faced the direction, watching as another Erpel fell from the sky. Lightning coated it's body, and the body was coloured by the bolts that emitted before it's scales. It bore wings, a long tail that resembled that familiar blade that cut their airship in half, but no claws like the others./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're kidding me, two!?" Vanessa called out, before the party was swept out of the waters by Leviathan, carrying them all upon it's back./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;"It ain't gonna be long before it's up and flying normally again! We need to split and fight them separately!" Bereit suggested. "Folgen, you're with me! Fallen, you've gotta form your group, as do I!"/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 sure this is a good idea!?" Fallen asked./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;"What choice do we have!?"/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;"Fallen was hesitant with the plan, but he was right. It was now or never./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;"Form the first party, to face Alexander Erpel./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;"1. 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;"2. Folgen/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;"3. Imbir/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;"4. Scharf/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;"5. Kurve/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;"Form the second party, to face Ramuh Erpel./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;"1. 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;"2. Zelkova/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;"3. Tier/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;"4. Strake/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;"5. Vanessa/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;"Form these parties?/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
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;"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%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Both parties of five stood on opposing sides of Leviathan, ready to face the beasts they were to battle against./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;"Hey, sis?" Tier spoke up to Folgen, Folgen turning her head to see her sister. "Good luck."/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;"Folgen nodded. "Same to you, sisters." She responded, before she began to chant and summon her own creature to use as means to take flight. And that was the familiar Quetzalcoatl. One by one, they all jumped onto the flying beast, both parties going their separate ways./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;"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, Party 1 (General)/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;"So... any ideas on how we're gonna beat this thing!?" Scharf asked./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;"We find a weakspot! Or we make one!" Bereit answered. "Everything has one!"/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;"Okay, but where could it be!? All we're seeing is it's giant head and shoulders! For all we know the weakness could be in the ocean with it's body!" Scharf pointed out./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;"Damn..." Bereit cursed under his breath. "Folgen, guess you're gonna have to summon Leviathan instead!"/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;"I'll need a minute!" Folgen responded, as she began to chant to summon Leviathan./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;"Alexander began to fire beams at the party, but Bereit would shoot bolts of lightning to stop the shots from coming anywhere near them./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;"Scharf and Imbir would continuously shoot at the beast's eyes, Kurve assisting with blasts of water, thinking Bereit could help out with what he had planned. But Quetzalcoatl disappeared from below, only for Folgen's Leviathan to appear and carry them. It started to circle the magnificent beast, the party examining it's form to see if there was any place they could even consider a weak spot. And so far, nothing./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;"Let's check it's body underwater!" Kurve suggested./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;"Folgen nodded as a response, before the party riding Leviathan would dive into the water. A sphere would appear, surrounding the party as a means to breath. They circled the lower body, seeing that it was on four legs, and the lower half was even bigger. And no signs of weakspots either./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;"See anything?" Scharf asked everyone else./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;"No clue." Imbir responded, seeing more cannons were opening to fire at them, some of the shots hitting Leviathan. Though... he was getting some ideas./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;"We need an idea, and fast!" Folgen announced./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;"Take us back to the surface. I have something I wanna try." He informed Folgen, as he then loaded his gun with one of his explosive shots./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 noticed what he put in, getting what Imbir was suggesting. But he was gonna wait until they confirmed if this would work or not./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;"Leviathan broke through the water, the sphere disappearing before them./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;"Imbir aimed his gun, waiting for one of the cannons to reveal it's self. Soon, one appeared on it's back, exposing the dark weapon. Imbir shut an eye, aiming for the cannon that began to charge it's shot. And soon, he pulled the trigger. The bullet flew right into the hole, exploding and creating a big crater of a wound./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;"Keep eye, Imbir!" Scharf responded./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 the compliments when we're done." Imbir reminded him that they were fighting./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;"Let's hope some magic can do the same effect!" Bereit charged lightning in his hand./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;"Kurve did the same, using both hands to cast a stronger spell. /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;"More and more of the cannons within Alexander would open, Bereit, Imbir, Scharf and Kurve would destroy them one by one, trying to destroy them as quick as possible. A bunch of craters created by the cannons they destroyed were formed, one by one./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;"It was then that Alexander would realize that it was only gonna get it's self killed if it kept attacking them the way it did. Any remaining cannons on the surface retreated. It would then attempt to ram the party, Leviathan avoiding it./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;"It's fighting against our strategy!" Bereit announced to the party./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;"Now what can we do?!" Folgen asked./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;"There was silence among everyone trying to figure out what they could do to defeat this beast. It had become a starring contest while Leviathan avoided the attacks from Alexander./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 looked at his arm that had previously needed recovery, feeling like he had an idea. But there was gonna be a consequence with it. "Hey, Folgen?" Bereit spoke up. "Can you by any chance fling me high up into the air?"/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;"Folgen had something of a hesitant look. "And you're certain this isn't a stupid idea?"br /br /"It ain't stupid, it's just possible that it can go wrong." Bereit responded. "But we really don't have a lot of options right now." He reminded 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;"Alright. Go to Leviathan's tail and I'll have it send you to the air." Folgen instructed./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 nodded, as he then started running for the tail. "Imbir, Scharf, Kurve, strike a spot and push it as deep as you can!" He asked of his companions./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;"They all nodded, soon aiming their arms to the Erpel, striking right that the very tip top of it's head, Leviathan rising a bit in the air to give them a better shot./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;"Alexander retaliated by swinging it's head to avoid getting it's head broken anymore than it already was./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;"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, party 1 (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;"Bereit ran for the tail at full speed, faster than he had ever run in his whole life. While he was separated from his companions, Alexander opened a few of it's cannons and began to fire holy beams at him, Bereit jumping and sliding to avoid them. He would shoot lightning at the cannons to destroy them, but Alexander continued to attack./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;"He made it to the tail, standing to the fins that were going to make him airborne. Slowly, he felt the tail lower it's self, Bereit hanging on to not fall off. And right after, Leviathan flicked powerfully, sending Bereit high up in the sky./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 flipped and spun in the air in desperation to control his fall. It was only a matter of time before he began to descend. He was able to slow himself down by using his fire magic to push himself against his flips and spins. With that, his plan was set in motion. He began to fly down towards the Erpel, seeing it had begun firing it's cannons at him, but from below the water, the beams now curving and homing towards him. He couldn't see it, but these shots took more of the light off it's bright body, as if it required more power./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;"Turns, spins and quick dodges, he was able to avoid these, occasional grazed shots or some nearly hitting him directly. His hand was emitting so much lightning it was starting to burn his hand. He clenched it into a fist, raising it high up as he came down. And soon, he aimed right for the spot that his companions weakened. And just before he made impact with the spot, he released all of the lightning right on the spot, blasting a gigantic hole through the body, almost splitting it in half./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;"Alexander couldn't even make a sound. It slowly fell back into the ocean, a gigantic splash following right after./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 about to fall too, but Leviathan caught him, setting him right next to his companions. He looked at his hand, seeing the bandages were gone, revealing the familiar injuries he had from the last Erpel battle. He was about to state that they were victorious, but then he realized something. "Wait... where's Cid and the co-pilot!?"/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;"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, party 2 (General)/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;"Right when the parties split up, Fallen and her team set off to defeat the Ramuh Erpel./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;"They would circle the Erpel, as it would remain stationary. It began to charge lightning in it's mouth and then blasted Fallen's Leviathan right on the face, making it tip to the side, but caught it's self from tipping any further. Everyone hung on as it happened./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;"So... any ideas!?" Strake asked the party./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;"Guess we just need to take it head on!" Tier stated. "Maybe we can get it to stop emitting lightning, then we can go for the kill!"/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;"So how do we stop it from emitting the lightning!?" Zelkova asked./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;"Vanessa looked at Fallen's Leviathan. "Can Leviathan shoot water or something!?"/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;"I can." Fallen's Leviathan replied./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;"Awesome! Then we've got our plan!" Fallen stated. She soon swung her staff right at the Erpel, Leviathan firing giant blasts of water towards Ramuh, splashing it repeatedly. Though, the lightning wasn't letting up. It was gone for a second, but Ramuh just vaporized any that touched it's scales./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;"...alright, we need a new plan!" Fallen stated./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;"There was silence among the team, trying to figure out what they could possibly do./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;"Hey!" Vanessa spoke up. "Just how strong is it's scales!?"/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;"Just try to break through!?" Tier guessed what she was thinking./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;"See that gigantic blade tail it has!?" Vanessa pointed out. "Who knows how much damage that could do!"/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;"But how are we even gonna get it off!?" Fallen asked./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;"Vanessa showed her gun. "It'll take a lot of shots, but I can weaken it! Maybe you can give me a hand!?"/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;"Tier nodded as a response. "I'll see what I can do!" She soon began to form the darkness that would normally form into beasts, prepping for the plan./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;"Fallen!" Vanessa called out. "Can you ask Leviathan to shoot more water!?"/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;"Of course!"br /br /"And one more thing! Is it a bit much to have two summons at the same time!?" She added to her questions./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;"Fallen thought about it, unsure if she could. "Well, it wouldn't hurt to try!" She was a bit nervous to try, but this was no time for hesitance. "Leviathan!" She called out, as Leviathan would fire a continuous shot of water. And soon, Tier's darkness would flow with the water, as many aquatic beasts flowed with it./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;"Vanessa fired as fast as she could, trying to weaken the tail of the beast./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;"The Erpel flew right over the beam of water, avoiding the attack./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 gotta be kidding me!" Vanessa said in disbelief./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;"But Fallen was one step ahead of the Erpel. She swung her staff up. "Shiva! Now!" She exclaimed./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;"And soon, Shiva appeared and formed a ramp of ice appeared before them, blocking the Erpel dead in it's flight. The ice soon surrounded and held it still, it's bladed tail being vulnerable at the very top of the slowly forming sphere of ice. "Tier, Vanessa, Strake it's your turn!" She kind of felt bad that Zelkova couldn't lend a hand, but he was a healer, not a fighter./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;"Tier sent her beasts up the ice to go for the tail, while Vanessa let out a storm of bullets to it. And Strake would jump up to it and begin to cut at the tail. The combined efforts of the three weakened the tail, cutting deep into the scaly skin, but the Erpel would soon erupt out of the icy trap in an electrifying roar./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;"Strake managed to jump back onto Leviathan before she could get hit by the sudden burst of lightning./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;"The Erpel's tail could hardly even be lifted. But it was clear it wasn't gonna try and get any closer again. It began to fire bolts of lightning at the second party/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;"Damn!" Fallen hissed, thinking that getting that tail off was gonna be a lot tougher now. She had one idea. It was extreme, but she saw how the other party was doing, and from what she was observing, it wasn't looking good. "Tier, I'm gonna need your beasts one last time!"/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;"Tier nodded, as she began to charge the darkness again./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;"Fallen swung her staff forward. "Shiva, one more time! Right for the Erpel!" Shiva appeared once more, creating a long, straight line for the Erpel. She soon disappeared, Fallen then summoning Ifrit with a chant, right behind her back./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;"Ifrit picked it's summoner up, and then ran on all fours. Right on the ice path it was given. The beasts followed behind Ifrit, like Ifrit was their leader. And the Erpel was their prey. /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;"The Erpel kept shooting lightning bolts at them, but Vanessa shot at it's head to mess up it's aim continuously./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;"Fallen riding on Ifrit's shoulder, she had her staff in the form of the ice glaive, her hands gripping the weapon tightly, like she was afraid of dropping it. And it was a fear right now, since she was starting to feel faint from all of the summoning she was doing./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 beasts would soon run ahead of Ifrit, as they would latch onto the Erpel's head, covering it's eyes and biting down hard to stay on./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;"Ifrit soon jumped up, Fallen going right for the tail as she leaped off of Ifrit'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;"What's she doing!?" Zelkova asked, realizing how risky her plan 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 brought her glaive back. And with a strong swipe, she sliced the tail off, cutting the flesh and bone clean./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;"Ifrit caught the tail and then swung it's arms way up in the air. And with one last strong swing of it's arms, it flung the bladed tail and it pierced right through the Erpel's chest, sending it down the ocean, sinking lower and lower into the dark abyss as it was welcomed to death's cold embrace./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 party, waiting for some kind of surprise... but the Erpel had been slain. They all looked over to the other party, seeing they had completed their battle as well./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;"They did it. They actually did 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;"Quick! Fallen's down there!" Tier called out to Leviathan./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;"Leviathan soon went down to the ocean, quickly finding her underneath the water and sweeping her out of the water. She hadn't fallen that deep into the ocean, so they were lucky to have gotten to her that quick./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 came to her sister's side, seeing she was pale and had her eyes closed. She touched her forehead, feeling nothing but cold. "She pushed herself so much this fight..." She told everyone./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;"Here, allow me." Zelkova said, as he knelt down and began to heal her tired body./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 this moment of calm, if you could even call it that, everyone began to catch their breaths./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;"Strake looked over to the other party, seeing everyone was near the ocean's water. She leaned a bit closer, seeing they were searching for something. And it just occurred to her, the airship was destroyed, and Cid and the co-pilot were still in there. Before she could say anything, Leviathan began to fade away, as everyone soon fell right into the stormy ocean./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, party 1 (General)/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;"Folgen made Leviathan dive right into the water, in search for Cid and the co-pilot. To find them, they looked for the airship that was most likely sunk way below. But thanks to Leviathan's assistance, they found the severed airship, as well as the two they were looking for. But they weren't moving. From what it looked like, they tried to make their way back to the surface, but hadn't made it in 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;"Leviathan picked them both up on it's head, resurfacing right after./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;"Are they okay!?" Kurve asked worriedly./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 leaned his head to their chests, not sensing a heartbeat. "I'm not hearing anything! But the storm doesn't help either!"/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;"Hey! The others are in the water too!" Imbir called out, pointing to them. Everyone looked over, seeing what Imbir was pointing to./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 gasped quietly. "Leviathan, retrieve them!" She ordered her summon. And soon, Leviathan would retrieve them, giving them a spot on it's head./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 saw everyone crowding around Fallen, seeing that she wasn't in the greatest condition either. But at least Zelkova was working on that. So he began to focus on Cid and the co-pilot. He started to preform CPR, his form not being the most professional, but he was in a desperate hurry to bring them back. "Come on, come on!" He repeated./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;"Cid soon shot up and erupted water out of his mouth, coughing heavily. He looked up at everyone, seeing all the chaos that was happening before him. "What the..." He soon looked at the co-pilot, seeing he wasn't moving either./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 Bereit got to it immediately, removing all of the headgear he wore the whole time. And when he did, the face was revealed. The co-pilot's blond hair was revealed, a buzzcut, but the eye colour wasn't visible. Bereit worked on him as well, preforming the same CPR. It took a bit longer, but the co-pilot eventually came to, his shooting up and coughing horribly. He looked at Cid and Bereit, realizing that all of his headgear was off. "I'm surprised I'm even alive..."/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 did your best." Bereit told him. "Both of you, lie yourselves down and rest a bit. We're gonna find shore soon." He instructed them, looking back at Fallen again, seeing her sisters stand next to them. He wasn't there to see it, but he could tell she found her limit as a summoner. And that was good to know, because he knew what was about to come next. The real battle./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