Jet kicks a stone into the distance. Looking to the afternoon sun that beats down harshly on him as he walked around the outside of the Ruins of Forever. Emilia and Virginia joining him as they actually came towards the ruins themselves.

"So...you think we may find something about Twilight Lone here?" Emilia wondered as Jet broods.

Virginia nods. "Well...it was rumored that a powerful artifact was here. So while Clive is reading up on the subject and Gallows is helping, we get to come here and check it out."

"Well, I don't th-"Jet fell into a hole whacking his head against a stone wall along the outside of the ruins that may have acted as a defense before they were buried by the sands of time. As he shakes his head free of all dizziness and rubs his bump he notices writing on the wall. "Hey, what's this here?" He shouts out as Emilia and Virginia arrive.

Examining the writing Emilia turns to the two. "What does it say? Virginia wonders anxiously.

"Nothing about Twilight Lone." She remarks. "It does speak of the Raven's Wing which apparently is buried here."

"Raven's Wing?" Virginia gulps. They look to her suspiciously.

"You know what it is?" Jet urged subtly.

"Well, I heard that it's an old sword created by Justine, the guardian of courage. Something...powerful."

Jet rubbed his chin. "Well...ancient and powerful sounds like it's worth a lot of money...I'm going in to get it anyway."

He is caught by a tug on his collar. Emilia pulls him back giving him a glare. "A sword like that should be mine. I'll use it to kill Nobuo."

"I guess I'll have to kill you for it."

"Hey, hey!" Virginia stepped between the two. Then she realized what Jet said and gave him a glare. He shrugged. "Listen, let's take a rest. It's getting late, and we won't be able to get home before dusk, so we'll eat dinner now and rest. In the morning you may race for it, and whomever gets it, gets to keep it...or sell it."

Emilia and Jet nod in agreement. "I don't see any problem with it."

"Then it's decided, in the morning you will start at any one of the four entrances to this place you wish and race for it."

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As the fire died out Emilia's eyes woke up slowly. Rubbing them as she rolled to see what she thought she heard. A shadow who was creeping into the ruins. "That little bastard." She swore as she jumped up with her weapons in hand and ran for the nearest entrance labeled 'III' believing Jet was cheating.

However, Jet was still up by a second fire he had set up away from them after Virginia's shouts of modesty that she didn't trust Jet to sleep next to her and Emilia. A shadow entering through another entrance did not escape his eyes. He was quick to act and ran into the entrance marked overhead by a 'II'.

Once inside he kept running, but the floor begins to give way and he boosts his speed to escape it. He stops to gain a breath, "Snap!" He dodges a rock that falls from the ceiling. He charges forward as more fall down for his body. Getting to the next hall he was met by countless spears that would thrust out of the wall. He was able to jump over, dodge, and duck under most of them, except the one that nearly hit his ear. Since he no longer had that upper part of his ear due to explosion he was relieved it missed though.

Emilia hadn't had it easy either. Swinging axes and pendulums were all over her entrance as well as rooms that were upside down. However that room led out to a room with five paths where she runs into the tired Jet who was catching a breath.

Jet looks to her. "Why did you jump the gun and start early?"

"Me? Why did you?" She argues.

"I did-"A noise is heard from the fifth passage that presumably was not linked to the outside paths.

"So it was someone else altogether?"

"I'm not letting them get it!" Jet grabs Emilia's sleeve and charges forward into that corridor. They come to the end to meet up with a certain brown-haired young man and rival to Jet. "Adven? You want the sword?"

"Maybe to beat you, maybe to sell it." Adven replies.

"You...know this guy?" Emilia wonders.

"Yeah...sort of."

"Still," She glares at him. "He can't have the Raven's Wing!"

Jet lunges at Adven who jumps away from the attack. The two men focused on one another Emilia lets out a laugh. She sneaks on ahead passing the two by as they fight. However, she stops and jumps aside two sai are thrust down on her. They land embedded in the floor. Sakura drops as expected from the ceiling landing on the floor and snatching up her sai. "I had a feeling there was someone else after that sword. I'm gonna need it if I want to defeat Virginia."

"Virginia?" Emilia questions, puts two-and-two together and realizes this is that frival Virginia was talking about sometimes when they had late-night women talk. "The sword will be mine." She reinforces. Drawing her blade she runs at Sakura who blocks the attack with her sai.

Adven falls to the floor after Jet threw a jab at his jaw. Adven was able to kick back throwing Jet back in a stagger. Still, as Adven rose Jet came back with multiple fists thrown about the room finishing with an uppercut to Adven's cheek. Adven responds with a quick elbow to the gut. As Jet recovers he pushes Adven into a wall as he tries to catch a breath. As the two glare at one another Emilia and Sakura tumble into the scene on the floor between the two.

Adven nearly twitches at the mouth. "S-Sa-Sakura?" He is hit in the face by Sakura's palm as she stands. Tough love, or at least unrequited love.

"Sorry Adven, but you're in the way." She remarks turning back to Jet and freezing up a bit.

"Uh...he...I...I will take the blade!" Adven declared as he went to punch Emilia returning his focus to the Raven's Wing and not Sakura.

Emilia dodges the attack and swings her unsheathed blade at the nearby Jet who blocks it with his forearm. As Adven trips from missing Emilia he falls into Sakura's breasts which send her into a blinding rage that he knows well enough he should run from. Jet finally kicking Emilia back as her attention goes to the other two. Drawing his ARM at the same time Adven draws his own the two stare at one another. The two women already have their weapons ready as the four look to one another. Standing in a near circle watching each of their temporary enemies.

"So," Jet huffs as he gains a breath. "Who wants that blade more?"

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What fun, it's so confusing with four people running around fighting each other. Can't even concentrate myself. I was thinking of leaving it back after Jet and Emilia meet one another inside and hear the noise up ahead just to get you people left off at a point and trying to guess who it was. Should have, but it didn't seem like enough writing so I continued.