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Kries remained quiet as more and more people came into the room. The next one into the room was another girl. She only began walking towards the group when the other girl that had been there ran over to her and embraced her. the pair exchanged a few words and Kries remained silent, looking awkwardly around the room and finally getting his bearings.

Pyreflies... He had never really seen them for himself before. It was frighteneing how ominous those small lights seemed right now. Why had the elders called them there? the pyreflies were the pretext but why to this old temple and not inside the safe zone..?

His thoughts were then inturrupted by another entering the door. This person he knew from helping around town. His name was... Ryuu-something. He helped out as the blacksmith in town. Kries and his father often had to put in requests for machina parts at the shop. It wasn't like they were going to get the parts anywhere else, now were they?

Soon after Ryuu entered Elle spoke up to the elders, finally breaking the silence in the room. Saying what must have been on everybody's mind that had been called there. And to Kries' surprise, the elder answered. She spoke of them as guardians, chosen by the spirits to set out on a journey. She said that it had been their duty to protect them up until that point. Which made Kries wonder "And now what..? What are we facing that you have been protecting us from?

In her next statement, she answered that.

Sin.

Sin. It was a word that Kries thought echoed through any person who lived in that world. the boogeyman that was real. Could kill you by getting near you. The leviathan of a monster that no matter how many times you killed, just came back the next time.

That Sin?

but also she spoke of gifts that they had been given. The tools to fight Sin. She began to speak further on this when the very earth itself inturrupted her. Soon there were shouts and the word on every breath was Seeker. Kries stared up at the hole in the cieling for a brief moment, the words processing in his brain. How!? The machina had been patrolling? Why were there so many reports? HE heard as the guards deduced that they followed the pyreflies.

So it all came back to them.

Kries looked back just in time to see Elle burst away from the group and charge up the stairs. Needless to say she was going to protect the village. Well, if they were the ones to take down Sin, they had to be able to handle this. Kries wheeled around and chased after her, trusting his instinct and memory to lead him to the entrance. He burst out into the searing daylight compared to the dark temple and he shaded his eyes and squinted to adjust. Although afterward, he wished he could have stayed blinded by that light for longer.

The village was carnage, there were fires and blood in the streets. Man and child running from seekers alike, and only rarely there was the guardian being gutted by a seeker. Kries never remembered seeing it the other way around. Although soon a familiar voice pierced this calamity. It was Elle she was yelling at a family to run from a pack of Seekers. Kries didn't even think as she just put up her staff in front of her. He had to get their attention away from her. He ran forward a few steps then looked down his gun carefully, his heart pounding. Then he pulled the trigger.

Direct hit center of mass on the seeker he was aiming for. The beast lost its ballance and fell to the ground. After that, Kries didn't even think anymore or bother to aim as carefully. He continued to pull the trigger, hoping they would look at the one who was actually hurting them.