"Now" Cinder thought to herself, she had for the past five minutes been kicked in the legs and stomach as the crazy cat bitch repeatedly drained her aura and the cuffs stopped her from using her own magic. She leaned to the left fast enough that she fell, right as the bitch was turning the page in her book, the fucking white stain had cuffed her hands in front of her, letting her snap them on a stray thick bit of metal that stayed after she melted the roof.

*Bang* Her body smacked into the floor, but it was a smiles price to pay for a bit of freedom, she rolled to the side, luckily just getting out of range from Blake's heel. She ripped the tape off her mouth, hacking her throat out as she dodged under a kick, her arm snapping up to push Blake off balance.

Blake rolled with the force of the push, cartwheeling back to her feet she dashed forward, her claws active and hungry for blood. Cinder's Grimm arm formed a mass of black that hardened on the impact, chipping and sending pain through her nerves as it just barely stopped the attack from reaching her torso, yet still left chunks on the floor that spawned little pools.

"Bitch!" Cinder spat at Blake, she inspected her claws for a second, shrugging with a deadpan as she crouched, her legs bulging slightly as her muscles flared with power. Then she was in front of Cinder, her claw mere inches from her lone good eye.

A glass sword blocking the attack for a second and allowing her to use the force to move herself out of range, again the attack was used to save herself. The cuffs dampening all of her magic, but they were slowly disintegrating as they were broken and unable to sustain themselves anymore. Cinder smirked to herself, 'Dumb cum stain thing thought these flimsy things could hold me after breaking-' her face saw the roof.

She felt a sense of vertigo as the pain from her jaw bloomed, the moon looked quite beautiful tonight to be honest. And then she felt a cloth wrap around her, and then suddenly she was picking up speed and-

Fou unceremoniously just popped into existence in the warehouse, treated to first row seats of seeing Cinder get her ass kicked by Blake. She tried to put up a fight, by Blake was just playing with her food, tiring her out enough before she pulled a from Rock Lee's book. She crouched before launching both of them upward with a handstand kick, her Gambol Shroud coming into play for the first time since the start of the fight.

She even spun in the air, flipping Cinder straight into the floor head first, knocking her out. Blake landed silently, without a single sound to wake the mice, she strolled forward before her eye sharply turned to Fou, ready for a battle before she relaxed at seeing the small white creature wearing 3d glasses and munching on some snacks as if the fight as a big blockbuster movie.

Her shoulders slumped as she sighed, exasperated from the fact the creature didn't even move to help at all during the fight… yet Fou just smiled, happily munching on perfectly made day-old Popcorn, "Thanks for the help, Scrungo" His tail flicked at Blake's scathing review, an unrepentant smile on his face as he proceeded to give Cinder another Big Jay treatment.

*Crunch*

Her nose was smashed again, blood slithering down her face once more as she screamed in pain, a spoon shoved into her mouth and tape place over once more she hacked in pain, the dust blowing through damaged cartilage once more. Blake just facepalmed at him, annoyance clearly written on her face, as she casually slammed another heel into Cinder.

*Snifff* "Ahhh… The god awful heat. I won't miss it. I'm back, y'all." Neo approached, getting Both Blake and Fou's attention. She stands proud and in another outfit, one meant for a desert wasteland adventure, "Yo!" Fou called out, ignoring the currently in pain, Cinder. "How was the trip?" Blake said, giving Neo a crushing bear hug, "Where'd you even go? And uh…" Blake had instantly started to question her girlfriend before her eyes took notice of another person in the room. "Who is that?" She questioned with a raised brow.

Neo giggled, pulling from the hug with a smile, "Went to a post apocalyptic world." Her hand rolled as she started to explain. "The reincarnator there being part of this 'Light' Faction." Fou's ears perked up at that, but otherwise stayed Locked-in on beating Cinder's kneecaps with a crowbar that scraped the floor with a grating sound. Neo sighed as she shrugged, "Worst part is, they basically forcibly converted the inhabitants there as slaves… I can't fucking stand that" Her voice spoke of her disgust at these shitheads actions, she shook her head side to side with a scowl before she perked up.

"Oh! And I was accompanied by a small Goddess Kitsune with the fluffiest tails you could ever imagine." Neo gushed to Blake, "Ahh… I already miss Plushwyn." Blake gave Neo a pointed stare as she crossed her arms, Neo sighed and looked to the other person in the room. "And finally, this is Rhongomyniad." At that name, Fou's fate oriented brain finally fully took in her appearance, and he stopped capping Cinder for a second, she breathed out a sigh of relief, before Fou just bonked her on the knee one last time for good measure. "Given human form, though, you can call her Arturia." Neo finished, giving said Lancer a pat on the shoulder before dipping down into a deep bow.

Their voices faded to the background, Fou stared at Rhongomyniad, he noticed the lance enter into his Forge, yet without the spirit inside it, yet it felt like, if he tried he would be able to transform into the weapon, abilities and all. He shook his head and strutted up to Arturia as Neo watched Cinder like a hawk. "Do you know Da Wae?" Fou's face was uncharacteristically hardened as he asked, Arturia seemed to take the question in stride as it went over her head, she stared at him for a bit while humming. "You… seem familiar…" her face was locked into a thoughtful expression as Neo slammed a kick into Cinder's ribs HARD.

"FUCK YEAH I ACCEPT" All three were startled and instantly turn to see Neo with her arms raised into the air, in the blink of an eye a smol, cat sized, adorable girl with nine tails bigger than her body appeared on Neo's Shoulder. "I'm back~!" She cheered out, getting all three of the others to clench their chests at the cuteness she radiated off. "Big sister Lilith gave me a chance to accompany you~" She gave Neo a big thumbs up as she exclaimed her joy before throwing everything away and giving Neo's head a big hug.

The trio of new believers walked forward, Blake had a disbelieving look on her face from the cuteness of the small Kitsune on Neo's Shoulder, Arturia just smiled serenely and Fou… Fou just stared at her fluff with worship. 'Her tails are so fluffy!' He looked back at his own tail, seeing how it paled in comparison, and wished he could be just as fluffy and soft as the little one's tails. "Is… Is that the goddess you referred to?" Blake asked.

"Yes! This…" She paused for dramatic effects, grabbing her, holding her from under her armpits as she presented her to them all, "Is Plushwyn" She held her proudly like the monkey did Simba, "Hello~" The Plush waved, Fou scampered up Arturia's shoulder while waving in Sync with the Spear that held a layer of reality in place, though Blake gave her a slower wave. "You have such interesting friends, Neo." Her eyes roamed over them, taking them in, she locked in on Fou's fur, not really well taken care of to be honest, she moved on from that but made a note about it. Then her eyes spotted a certain dumb bitch that got Big Jay'ed, "Oh? I didn't miss the torture!" She clapped her hands in excitement as she watched cinder once more go red-faced as she was trying to cough out the cinnamon that was suffocating her.

"Nope!" Neo started strutting forward. "It just started up again. So what's that pledge again? What-" Fou tuned them out and instead decided to finally pull one of the books Zelretch gave him, 'Department of Creation & You, How to navigate the Artist's breadbox.' Fou snorted at that, opening up to the glossary, he skimmed it and turned to the first page. "But for now, let's continue to 'soften' Cinder up" Neo proudly exclaimed as she and the little one smiled, Fou shook his head and settled in for an interesting read, the sounds of Cinder's crying was just good white noise… Maybe he should record this for Neo to fall asleep to?

-Five Hours Later-

Fou had read through an additional 2 books about different departments, 'Department of Modern Magecraft Theory & Department of Policies' All of them were quite interesting reads. MMT being the department where Waver taught, while Policies was just the bog-standard, at least for magus, Social Science class that taught them about politics. 'I think both me and Emiya would rather be members of the DoC, rather than anything else.'

Fou looked up, seeing Cinder drained; Of energy, will, loyalty, sanity. She was spent. It was quite remarkable how long she withstood the torture and aforementioned things. He even saw her eyes, they begged to be asked for the information they needed, so the torment could finally pause, if not stop all together. Finally, hours later, it came. Fou heard the Tape being ripped from Cinders mouth rather than saw as Neo loomed over said bitch.

Cinder puked out small chunks of blood mixed with hardened cinnamon and mucus, spilling the copious amounts of the dust onto the floor as it pulled with her stomach acid until she could heave no more, the swords pulled from her numb limbs left her to fall into said poodle. Before she could try to get up, Neo grabbed the back of her hair and lifter her up so they were face to face. "So," Neo started, peppy as always, "Where's Salem? Let's that with that." She asked Jovially much to the Plush's amusement from using Fou as a mighty Steed and powerful throne.

"Shee." Cinder gasped out, trying to give the information out as fast a possible, "Has a castle…" She struggled to breathe properly, her healing long having given out, "in the ruins of that city… Dragon continent…" She hoarsely gave out, resisting the urge to cough. "Mhm… Mhmm… What did she do in your world?" Neo asked, feeling Cinder shiver in her timbers. "We… were in Haven…" She started, "She arrived but… she wasn't… the same Salem…" Cinder was recalling her prediction of the events as they happened. "Came from another Remnant… a ruined one." Cinder locked eyes with Neo. "Said she was… was bored." Neo friend and urged her to continued by tightening her grip on Cinder's hair.

"She arrived…!" Cinder winced from the pain, just barely noticeable from her numb body. She groaned before continuing, "Consumed the other Salem… Drowned the whole city in Grimm, death and magic." She downed a gulp of air, "Corrupted everyone into those things…" Cinder's body started to shake, experiencing PTSD flashbacks. "Anyone who didn't… died gruesome deaths. Then the world!" Cinder picked up, her voice holding urgency, "It was so easy for her…" Her voice died, the horrors still haunting her. "All the maidens could never match up… She kept." she paused.

"K-kept experimenting… she revelled in it all." Cinder's body shook as her arms tried to raise to hung herself, lacking the strength to do anything but breathe and talk. Neo took a look at Tearwyn sitting on Fou, idly playing with his fur, she gave Neo a nod before she commented. "Yes, it's as you think." Fou decided to stay focused on this conversation, if only to have some semblance of an idea of what the hell was going on. "The dark gods have corruption too." 'That implies there are light gods and dark ones, all with different forms of corruption…' Fou gained a pensive look on his face, a feeling of dread about having himself corrupted by some god. "You saw Raven and Pyrrha under Artoria-" 'Artoria, huh? Seems like she might be a friendly one if Neo isn't corrupted.' "-but they were still themselves at their core." Tearwyn paused for a moment, her eyes flickering down at feeling Fou's apprehension.

"But this is much like the Light's 'infected', Neo." Tearwyn answered, looking a little saddened at seeing the unsettled look on Neo's face and the tension that grew within her mighty Steed.