Stanidng up from the rock he was sitting on, stepping outside the cave he looks up calmly at the black sky. A few of the dragons steps out of the cave looking at the sky, growling and snarling softly at it. Placing his hand on one of them nodding slowly."I know this is a ill omen...We must leave this place and head to the high mountains."He says to them as the new borns and eggs will be save there atleast for a while. Walking back inside the cave he grabs a sack placing everything he owned inside which wasn't much a few extra weapon and a fresh set of cloths thats was about it. Getting ready to flee if he must, anything that was enough to spook a dragon made him worried." This war must have awoken a sleeping power we all will be apart of it soon."Talking calmly to himself staing outward at the dark lands.

Kengen gribs his shoulder as the sky grew darker, his right wing always reacted like this to a greater power. He was trained to surpass the energy but this time there was no surpassing it this time. Energy swirls his wing like living lighting he laughs abit stepping back."Well I guess I'll be getting paid more for this job."He says laughing to himself.

Alanna watched as an ice dome appeared over the forest not half a mile away from where she floated, "Hmmm, interesting." she mused, before beginning to fly towards it, the felguard sprouting wings and following behind. "This construct seems to be an attempt to protect from the onslaught from the sky - but who has the power to create such a thing, and the will to preserve life at the same time?" she asked herself, pondering on it as she flew.

Argexis stared into the sky as the sky turns as dark as night, and the apperance of an ice dome. He turn to face Shina, "well then... eat up... or both of you are going to skip your meal and investigate that?" questioned Argexis as he pointed to the mysterious ice dome in the sky.

Gillian had to stop and rest for a second. She looked back up at the dark sky, it hadn’t lightened at all, it only seemed to get darker. She’d been walking for some time and hadn’t run into anyone. She sighed and got back up and started walking again. She wasn’t used to the extra weight of the sword at her hip, it kept hitting her leg as she walked. Finally after a long time she pushed her way through a bush and found herself looking at what had to be the center of the dome, and small gathering of people. She didn’t know how to approach them, so she stayed back watching what they were doing.

Bertrum stepped into the clearing, nearly stumbling as he watched the reaper work her magic, seemingly entranced by it as he came closer and closer to the black growth that now held up the half breed, running his good hand over it's surface, "It's beautiful," he whispered, seeming to not notice that anyone was even there, his tattered clothes beginning to ruffle slightly with the small wind that the changing temperatures inside the ice dome created.
Behind the ragged old man was a small boy, dressed as neatly as the man was ragged. Unlike Bertrum, however, the boy looked to be a little nervous, and aware of those that were in the clearing, paying particular attention to the angel, his eyes not leaving her, though he followed Bertrum closely and perfectly, staying no more than 10 steps behind him at any time.
"I must have a sample..." the man muttered, reaching down to his hip with his bad hand and pulling away his makeshift blade, scraping along the sides of the black pillar, trying to collect some of it for his own purposes, whatever they may be.

A man came through the dome and took a small piece of the black pillar, causing Tika to sigh and quickly make her way over to Kaine. He had expended a lot of power in order to keep them all protected for now. She shook her head and turned to the new man. "Please state who you are and what you are doing here.." She asked him, brushing her silver white hair from her face before she looked back to the sky, a small amulet around her neck glowing as bright as a star. There was a mild heat coming from it and it was felt in the cool dome.

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Shina looked to the fish and grabbed a few of them, quickly picking them clean and giving the bones to Luka, who ate those and the rest of the fish. Shina then turned toward the others, looking at all of the people in the area. "We have to find someone.. Someone who is powerful enough to get us all out of this place.. Or at least help us fight." She said to them, her light pink eyes moving to each face.

"I know where to find her.. But you will all have to wait for me to bring her back.. Back out of her world.."
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Oni sighed as she looked up at the sky, then turned and looked around at the snow and ice covered trees. She knew that it would be a long time before she was back here and she took the amulet she'd hung on the tree branch. She slipped it around her neck, then turned and waited. Someone would come for her. She had enough family in the forest to know that much. They knew she would fight even if it killed her again.

Kengen looks at his sister and sighs abit as he was was holding a bone as Cerebrus was chewing on it, moving the bone back and forth as the three heads growl playfully as they pulling and yanked at the bone."Heh....You mean Oni I haven't seen her in a while??"He says to her calmly as he turns to her as Cerebrus manages to get the bone from him and run off to chew on it."You want me to come with?" He asked her putting his jacket on and buttoning it up slowly.

Maxwell as thinking of a way to get his dragons out of the cave as he was drawing a hexagon on the wall with white paint stepping back he looks at the wall as he pours a liquid on the ground as it flows up the wall and formed into the Hexagon making a window."Hm...whatever cuasing this can't be seen by normal means."He looks to the leader of the dragon herd he nods to him."Take your clan and head to the mountains hide away. You will be safe there."He says as the leader nods to him as he leads his clan out as if a few mintues they cleared out of the cave and flew off, looking around the cave as it was so empty once they left."Its abit lonely here..."He says calmly grabbing a few things as walks out of the cave it would be a few days walk for him to get to the mountains. He hated fling that why he wasn't flying with the dragons."Well I guess I better go."He says walking through the forest to get some water first then he would head to mountians.

Bertrum seemed not to hear the angel as he looked over the small black shard he had collected, examining it closely before opening the small pouch at his hip and depositing it inside of it, the bones flashing in the light before he closed it again. Only when he had put the shard away did he turn and see the angel, giving a little jump at her sudden appearance. Taking a second to try to settle himself, he attempted to straighten out his tattered clothes, as if they were only a little ruffled and reached out his bad hand towards the angel to shake hers, the hand covered in dirt and grime. "I'm Bertrum," he said, flashing a crooked and decaying smile at her. The child looked at the angel with obvious malice in his eyes as he moved closer to Bertrum, standing at his side. "And I'm Kofra..." the child said through gritted teeth, the introduction obviously forced, offering no hand to shake as Bertrum had.

Bliss sinks away from herself momentarily, seeming to quickly flash back before switching into a darker swirl of blue tones. She felt herself slipping into a daze, the souls purged into the shell of her body dancing and writhing, deep inside of her, warming and boiling down into raw power and will.

"Excuse me." She paused, quietly, turning her head back to the forest. Taking a slow draw on breath, Bliss began to disappear, being unpainted to the real world. And soon, she was gone.



At a lone spot, she reappeared. Slowly, and patiently, appearing with her black clothes tight against her skin, golden rings and embellishments appearing dull in the faint bare bit of light entering the darkness of the woods.

"Oni." Bliss spoke gently. "It is a pleasure to see you again." Her head lifted up just slightly, silvery mirror eyes spotting the mystical being.

Bliss raised her hand above her head, her lantern appearing. Three orbs scattered across the dome's expense flowed back inwards to her, mixing back into her lantern's now blue light.

"A dark war has come. And a dark war we shall fight. And onwards we shall fight, til the prevail comes. But to what the prevail belongs, is what our lives shall depend upon."

Atanya exited the palace through the window she had come in, her arms bloodied with cuts from the glass and her black wing feathers somewhat looser than they had been when she got there. She landed beside a little stream, and she saw a pack of dragons a few miles away. She simply jumped into the cool water, the rush of the current tugging at her and urging her to move downstream.

Tika looked to the man and shook his hand, clearly not bothered by the grime and dirt on his hands. "I am Tika. it is a pleasure to meet you." She bowed lightly, then looked to the child.

"There is no need for malice and hate at a time like this. Whatever your faults may be.. I care not. I may be angel, but I fight for me mother. Not the angels." She explained, then looked around at the others in the ice dome with her. She took a deep breath and nodded her head a bit before letting it back out.

"Bliss has gone to her already. We shall follow her soon."
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Shina rolled her eyes at her brother. "Yes I mean Oni. Who else do you know is strong enough to stop anything really big?" She asked him, brushing a few strands of hair from her face before turning to the others.

"Will you join us?"
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Oni looked to Bliss and bowed, nodding her head. "It is a pleasure to see you as well. As always." She started, listening to Bliss speak and she nodded her head, sighing deeply.

"I have felt it. Same as many others. The sky is not right, people are dying. Even the creatures are fleeing. This is a war that will be won by more then just battle and blood." She explained, though she did agree with the reaper. They were in need of some kind of help. Help that would have to come from all races.

"We need a trust between the lives of many. A bond between strangers that allows us the army we would need to strike back against the dark corruption readying it's attack."

Bliss looked up to the top of the dome, the icy figure so crystalline smooth. Droplets of water gathered here and there, dripping cool onto the ground.

"The dome will not last forever. We are not forever safe here. We need to hurry, and make haste of this protection to gather up a force." She turned her head back to Oni. When Bliss made eye contact with Oni, her own mirror-like eyes reflected a brilliant hue of light blue, a hue so magnificent that it even tainted the tops of her cheeks and her lids.

Her eyes flicked away and she raised her right hand to the sky.

Another set of screams were heard as silver souls danced through the distance like bullets, ripping through the world around them, tearing from the void.
The freshly killed. What had it been? Ten minutes? And already numerous people were dead and confused.

These souls leapt for her hand, being absorbed into her tan fingers, turning them a mystical metallic chrome as they disappeared into Bliss's body.
She closed her eyes as yet another wave of the dead was gone.

"We must prepare quickly."

As Bertrum shook the angel's hand, he seemed to lose interest, looking up into the sky and smiling, a small gasp escaping his lips. "They gather to the Reaper!" Bertrum sounded very excited as he turned away from the angel to stare off into the sky above the forest. Kofra sighed as he looked at the old man, "Attention span like a moth...." he muttered, exchanging one last angry glance with the angel before he wandered off, finding himself a place to sit against a tree. "Well, I'm getting some rest before he decides he wants to move off again..."

Bertrum flinched as a rather large droplet of water fell on his head from the roof of the dome. He reached up and felt his head, as if to make sure it was wet, "Damn rain..." he muttered, looking around the clearing until he saw Kofra sitting against the tree. "Son, could you get the umbrella please, it's starting to rain," he said pleasantly, smiling at Kofra before turning back to stare off at seemingly nothing.

Kofra sighed as he stood up, having finally gotten comfortable, walking slowly up to Bertrum and standing next to him, a large leathery wing sprouting from Kofra's back and stretching out above Bertrum, a few drops of water striking the wing. Bertrum smiled slightly, "Thank you son," he said cheerfully. Kofra tilted his head backward, to stare at the angel behind him, raising an eyebrow at her, though with his head upside down like it was, it was more like lowering it. "Are you mad like the old man? I only see two unconscious people, who the hell are you talking to?"

(I'm hoping I'm right on the person count, I read back a bit to make sure, if I'm wrong tell me and I'll correct the post.)