darkSpyro

With Erianna subdued for the time being, Kai focused his attack on the others. He flicked his katana with one hand causing the water whip rise back from the snow. He snapped it at Ember's sword, trying to knock it from her hand.

Ember's eyes widened at the sight of Erianna. This distraction caused the water whip to successfully knock her sword away. Shivering, she stepped away from the bush, trying to decide on her next move. The sword dissolved into the dark mist and faded away. Ember narrowed her eyes and brought the darkness back into her palm, trying to create a new weapon. She warily eyed the bush, ready to dart away from the next movement that was sure to happen.

OoC: Should I use Rickorio's character or will someone else take him for now?

OOC: Uhh......I was jsut going to pretend he didn't exist or kill him off. :/ *asks DC* If you want him, DC says sure, you can have him.

Kai guided the whip to lay in the air right in front of him. He used his hand to extract a small portion of the water which took shape into a ball. He flicked his hand to the side and sent the ball crashing into a nearby tree. The water exploded upon impact, leaving a bruised mark in the tree's side.

The blue-haired male, proceeded to extract another portion of the water and ready it into a ball. This time he sent the bullet of water flying straight for Ember's stomach.

OoC: Omg lol. But yeah, I'll take him!

Ember gasped as the ball of water collided with the tree. How does it have that much power? She didn't have much time to think as she was forced to roll away from another sphere. "Alright, stop it!" she grumbled angrily, the darkness surrounding her hands and licking at her fingers, like a flame. She thrust her hand forward and fired at the tree, a section of the dark flame detaching from her hand and spiraling towards the tree where Kai lay.

Jason had had enough of the senseless attacks. Although the revelation of Ember's powers were unusual, he was somewhat relieved to know that she had some sort of elemental strength, like he did. "If you won't stop, I'll make you stop!" he yelled at the mysterious attacker, rubbing his hands together and generating a few balls of electricity and wind. He fired them alongside Ember's dark flames.

Kai watched as the dark enegy collided with the tree, yet his face showed no reaction, no suprise or concern over her strength; merely a simple blank look. He raised his arms, his hands held as if he was controlling a puppet with strings tied to his fingers. The water coil before him broke apart into balls of water that hovered in front of him. More water rose from the snow and formed into balls creating a vast number before him.

One by one the balls started firing, the first few harmlessly hitting the ground, yet they gradully drew clsoer and closer to the individuals gathered around the fire. As they drew closer, more began firing at once. Each water-bullets impact made a whizzing noise as it rocketed through the air, hitting the ground with a loud pop.

Oh no. Ember stared moving back; first steps, now a full-blown backwards movement. She fired more darkness at quicker rates, sure that at least a few would hit…she glanced over to Erianna, who was collapsed over the ground. If she didn't do anything, this "water of death" would cause serious injury. She knew what she was going to do.
"Er…you! Everyone!" she called. "Pull out! We have to go deeper into the city, where it's safe."

"Back out?" Jason asked incredulously. The battle had just begun! He fired some more spheres of electricity around, some colliding with the water and blasting it back, electrified. "We're doing fine!"

"You're doing fine," Ember shot back. She leaned over and heaved Erianna onto her back. Ember was unusually small for her size, and grunted under the extra weight. "Eri- er, she isn't." Ember stepped back, and moved away from the advancing balls of water.

Kai didn't pursue them, letting them escape away into the city. The water bullets continue to fire after them however until the ones he had at the ready run out. Once they have all fired and the individuals had left, Kai turns and walks off back into the forest.

Arcadia looked up, unable to really ignore the sounds of the other group which had picked up slightly. Was that a fight? She huddled closer to her small, sputtering fire. What was going on over there?

Jason watched in amazement as the water slowly stopped coming when Ember hurried off. He fired one last burst of electricity and ran after the two girls. "H-hey!" he panted. "It's working!"

Hoshi and Shiori gave up trying to figure out what Red was talking about through his confusion. Hoshi motioned for Seiki to come with as they were to continue travelling to the castle when they saw a few people heading towards them.
"One of them's hurt!" Seiki pointed to Erianna, who's condition seemed to be getting worse as time went on.
He rushed over to help, yet Hoshi remained weary. She kept her sword held firm. Shiori on the other hand went to help her brother. Shiori and Seiki worked together to help Ember lie Erianna down to administer first aid.

((I guess I can take over Jason now. Just PM me if you wanna know why I'm back so soon.))

Jason looked at Seiki as he saw him begun to run towards them. Instinctively, he jumped in front of Ember and Erianna and raised up his sword, which he had created as they ran, and pointed it at him. "What do you want?!" He yelled at him.

Ember was kneeled next to Erianna. She barely noted how there were suddenly people around, or how Jason was trying to protect them. She nodded numbly to Erianna's words, remembering those times, and gently pulled the flask. Taking a deep breath, she opened the bottle and did as she was told, carefully replacing the flask and stroking Erianna's hair when she was done. She hoped that her friend would wake up soon.

"Easy, we just want to help." Seiki got out his keytar and played a soft tune, casting a healing spell.
"We're not going to hurt you. You can relax." Shiori held up her hands defensively.
"Geez kid, you don't have to yell, we're right hear. Chill, they're just trying to be nice." Hoshi's tone sounded rather annoyed.

Jason lowered his sword. It disappeared. "Well, when a group of people start to approach me, and two girls, one of which is injured, of course I'm gonna get protective." He said.

Ember nodded, relief bubbling up inside of her. "You're welcome." Realizing Erianna was looking at something behind her, Ember slowly turned around. Here, she took these other people into account for the first time. The one who'd made fire for them was here, as well as a handful of others. Ember froze, awaiting the answer to Erianna's question.

"I'm Seiki, this is my sister, Shiori, and the grumpy one over there, is Hoshi." Hoshi sensed Seiki's joke and playfully stuck her tounge out at him through a smile. With things seeming relaxed at the moment, she put her sword back through the strap on her back to put it away.

Ember nodded slowly. "I...I suppose it's nice to meet you all. Shut up, idiot! Stop being scared! They're other people, like you. "Uhh...what're you doing here?"

Hoshi suspiciously eyed Red. She wasn't sure just how much she should say in front of him.
"We were going to look into the source of this perpetual winter and try to do something about it." Shiori did her best to avoid giving away information about Glacia, thinking the same as Hoshi.

Ember blinked. "Really? That's...that's what she- Ember nodded to Erianna- "and I came for, as well." Ember continued to to rub Erianna's back gently. "I know this is a weird question, but...oh, never mind." She sensed that there was tension between these three and the one who hadn't introduced himself. Her question might be a little bit too...revealing.

Jason looked at the three, and looked at the two behind him. "As much as I'd loveeee to stay put here, freezing our butts off, does anyone else want to head to my cabin, where I can easily start a fire without risk of killing everyone?" He asked, hoping to get these people to warm up to him, to see what their true motivations were.

"As much as I love the outdoors, I'm not really one for the cold. I don't see why not." Shiori smiled to Jason.
Seiki held Hoshi back for a moment while the others started following Jason. "See if you can explain things regarding Red and the truth without him overhearing." Hoshi nodded in response.

Jason began to walk down into the village, and sighed as he saw his cabin. "Finally!" He yelled, a smile on his face as he began to walk a little faster towards it, still going at a speed the others could keep up with.

"I don't know if my powers can do so subtly, though I have an idea and will need your help..." Hoshi whispered her plan to Seiki as they got close to the cabin.
Shiori, meawhile, ran alongside Jason, almost racing him to get there first.

Ember got up, her arm wrapped around Erianna's shoulders to support her as they moved. She followed the others, admitting to herself that a warm cabin sounded way more pleasant than freezing to death out here.

As they drew near, Hoshi tapped Ember on the shoulder to get her attention and motioned for her to hold back to the back of the group with her and Seiki.

Jason sighed in happiness as they reached closer and closer to his cabin. They were only a gods five minutes. "Not too much farther." He said to the rest of the group, getting some sparks in his hands to keep them warm-ish.

"Erianna...er, she needs my help. Can she come too?" Ember whispered. She glanced worriedly to Hoshi, wondering what she needed.

Seiki, who was beside Hoshi, put a finger to his mouth, motioning for Ember to keep her voice down. Hoshi nodded in response to Ember's question.

Ember nodded slowly. Alright. "Come on, Erianna," she told her friend. She moved closer to Hoshi and Seiki. "W-what do you need?"

Hoshi practically glared at Red ahead of them, watching his every move. seiki moved close to the girls, making sure to keep his voice low.
"See that guy up there." He motioned to Red, "He's mentioned he has plans to kill Glacia, the girl who controlls ice who was kidnapped and caused all of this. Naturally we're trying to rescue her and him killing her creates a problem with that."

"Slow down!" Ember gasped. "Glacia? That's the person who did this?" She blinked as she thought. Ember knew that the winter, of course, had to be caused by something. But a girl with icy powers was not something she'd guessed. "Did she start this blizzard...er, voluntarily? Or was she forced to do it?" If she was using the power for evil, Red might have a point.

"We don't know a whole lot. Just that some bad guys kidnapped her and after they did, all of this started. I'd say it wasn't a choice." Seiki whispered.

Ember nodded. "Okay. Well, I see what you mean. What're we gonna do about that guy who wants to kill her?" She shot a glance towards Red, then her gaze darted back.

Jason sighed as they reached his cabin and opened the door, motioning for everyone else to go in first. "Here we are!" He said, laughing a little.

"For now, I guess just leave him be and watch him. If he tries anything, we stop him." Seiki said.

Ember nodded. "I understand. I'll make sure to keep an eye on him." Deciding that the mini-meeting was over, she started to turn around with Erianna and head into Jason's cabin.

Shiori, Seiki, & Hoshi went into the small cabin and sat on one of the couches against the wall. After everyone had come inside, Hoshi spoke first.
"So... do any of you guys have some kind of plan for putting a stop to this endless winter?"

Ember grabbed a log from the fireplace. Almost instinctively, she grasped it in her hands and concentrated. A few orange sparks flickered over the log and as it warmed she tossed it into the fireplace. The sparks became embers that lit the other logs ablaze. She leaned back into the couch, feeling the warmth from the new fire spread as she thought, not realizing what she'd just revealed to the others.

"So, I guess we're showing off our powers now..." Hoshi noted by watching Ember light the fire simply by thought.
She got up from the couch walked over the wall and calmly put one foot against the wall. As simply as walking, she raised her other foot and put it on the wall. Instead of falling back down, she remained standing on the wall. She walked up the wall and onto the ceiling, where she sat cross-legged on the ceiling. Oddly her clothes nor hair seemed effected by gravity and remained as they were as if she was sitting normally instead of trying to fall to the ground.
"Maybe we shouldn't show off everythign we can do to people we jsut met." Seiki suggested.
"Oh.... Right..." The thought finally occurring to Hoshi.
She put a hand to the ceiling then propelled her body from it and let go to gently fall to the floor.

"Seiki"
"Shiori"
"Didn't we do this already...." Hoshi narrows her eyes. "Hoshi..."

"I'm...Ember," she introduced herself. She glanced around at the others. "So, let me get this straight. We all have the same mission- to stop this winter, right?"

OOC: It's fine, Hoshi just has a tendency to be rude....

"It can mean a number of things as a word, though yes, as a name.... I take it you're Japanese." Seiki says.
"Hmm, maybe we were meant to be together then. Both our names have to do with stars." Hoshi teases.
Seiki lightly smiles and rolls his eyes at Hoshi's joke.