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Audemar coughed as he took another deep breath, "I just didn't want her to suffer." Another thought came to mind.

A young Audemar looked at his mother as he sat a few feet away, "I must find a way to help you, Mother." His mother shook her head weakly,

"I'm dying, Audemar, there is no hope for me." Tears began to run down the young boy's cheeks,

"No Mother, please don't say that."

Peridot would see the fighting come to a close and deemed the area safe again, though opting to take the villagers to a much safer landing place, I.E. Gaia's spring, to give them time and obstacle for something to be done about the destruction. It was his hope that someone in the team had access to a type of magic that could restore buildings to their best state.

Elesa would feel Haldors arm around her and hugged into Lilim while resting against Haldor, grateful for his compliance in letting her be closer to her adopted big sister, however reluctant as he was to give her that prize. Sound asleep as she was, Lilim would have no objections and simply moaned and cuddled into the comfort of Haldor's chest, hugging Elesa while she slept. Haldor would have had hell to pay all over again if Lilim found out that he had been mean to Elesa.

Merry saw Will go down as well and murred as she was able to see all of his injuries through her auric sight, "Stay with us, Will... I'm on my way." she says as she focuses on finishing healing Raven. When Raven goes to smirk and speak, Merry would gently put a finger over her lips and shush her, "Don't try to move or speak just yet, Raven... Your body is still really fragile, and the slightest wrong motion could prove more taxing than you'd hope." she warns as she slowly makes the cracked crystalline ash appearance of Raven's body heal and change back to its natural soft fleshy texture.

Glitter, Moonlight, and Pixel would come and join Merry with Raven and Will. Pixel getting an idea and fluttering over Raven to sprinkle some of her wishers wing dust over Raven, accelerating the healing effects of Merry's magic. Then she'd do the same as she makes several passes over Will, to which Glitter would channel his magic into a soft golden aura to wash his own power over Will, "By the will of Mother Gaia, with the combined magics of Fairy Dust and Unicorn Radiance, let your wounds be corrected and mended." Glitter chants as he acts to strengthen Wills natural healing.

Organna would walk back up to the mangled and defeated Viking and take the axe from him again, "Thanks for the gift, pal. You really know how to charm a Warrioress." she says with a smirk. She'd then carry the axe away and make her way back to Merry, awaiting her turn to recieve healing. Organna had several deep gashes in her back from the Dominatrix's blade tiped chain whip, but she didn't seem too pained and wasn't bleeding near as profusely as Will.

Merry would be finished healing Raven after almost a minute more. Then her attention was turned to healing Will and getting him at least back to a stable state. Bones... Muscles... Nerves... Veins... Organs... Merry would have to see to them all on Will as she heals him from the apparent brink of death for the second time in 3 days. She'd give Will all the attention he required and a bit more for safe measure, before moving to give some attention to Organna. The Orc Warrioress sporting her new Viking War Axe with a proud smirk.

Raven would stop talking altogether as Merry placed a finger over her lips, silencing her altogether. Raven would sigh, but comply and simply close her eyes as she tried not crying at the pain that soared all over her body. Though when Merry started healing her, she felt a giant wave of relief was over her, and let herself be wrapped up in the wave of healing. She would open her eyes slightly, only to notice Will lying on the ground unconscious as well. She wished she could help, but she was in no state to do much at the moment, and she had regretted that her barrier did nothing to heal him like she had originally intended.

She would feel something small trickling down from above her, and looked up to see Pixel dropping some kind of dust over her, causing the effects of Merry's healing to speed up. It would cause Raven to feel better, as she went back to closing her eyes, not wanting to see what he body must have looked like right now. Her body would slowly start closing the cracks on their own, starting at her feet and working its way up her body until all the cracks that ran up along her body were gone. Then there was the black, ashy color of her skin. Starting from her feet, her skin color would start going back to normal, and ran up her body until every inch of her was back to normal and she was healed.

She would open her eyes, looking down at her hand to see that she was essentially healed, before slowly sitting up, just in case. When she saw her body was no longer at risk of falling apart, she would pull Merry into a tight hug and smile, before she let go and watched her as she healed Will. She would remain seated and watch, waiting as she would essentially start healing Will. She would smile as she used her staff to pull herself to her feet, quite exhausted. When she looked up in the air and saw that Peridot had landed, before Raven nodded to herself and turned to the village, holding her hand up and closing her eyes. A black aura surrounded her entire body, as she started chanting quietly under her breath.

"magon hielm....zentara boluku...woviet..."

She would repeat this phrase over and over again as the same black aura surrounded all the buildings and rubble lying on the ground, and they would slowly start moving around, repairing themselves and essentially repairing themselves from the ground up. Though a task this big wouldn't come without consequences, and she would need to rest, just like everyone else. After a while, the buildings would be repaired to their former glory, and Raven would lower her hand, ending the spell as she looked at her handiwork. She would nod to herself, pleased with the repairs before walking off towards the steps to go to her mothers grave. When she got there, she would slowly ease herself to the ground and lean against the grave, knowing that everyone would be at the village sooner or later. Though right now, she would be lying on the soft patch of grass next to her mother's grave, as she let the rushing water slowly lull her to sleep, only to awaken when the sun went down.

Will kept coughing up blood as Merry healed him. His insides weren't as bad as his outside, but still pretty bad. Once Merry had finished healing him of his wounds, Will turned over, vomiting out what he ate at the feast and blood, getting choked for a second. Once he was done throwing up his insides, Will tried to stand up, still weak from the blood loss. He manged to almost stand up straight, but fell back down into his pool of blood, covering his hair, left side of his body, and his coat and what remained of pants in blood and splashing a bit out. "Wheres......El..Esa?" Will struggled to say as he tried to stand up again, only to fall back down.

Merry frowned at Robin, having not stopped healing Will at all yet, "Robin... Please stay calm... I'm not yet done healing him in the first place... But yes, try to keep him from moving... This process is going to take long enough as it is... The more he moves, the longer it's going to take me... Organna, please help Robin keep Will from pushing himself... I'll stretch my healing to all of you." she says calmly.

Organna would answer Merry's request and knelt to help Robin support Will while Merry continued to see to him, "Take your time, Merry. You just used a lot of magic power already, if you go down we're dead in the water if we get attacked again." she says cautioningly.

Merry's expression would become more determined now that the sun was high enough and was unobscured, "I'll be fine. Mother Gaia and her surrounding stars give me the strength I need. My magic will not waiver!" she says as her magic power increases drastically with exposure to the light of the sun.

Organna would feel Merry's healing magic wash over her and her wounds would quickly be healed. Will's blood would begin to bubble up and hover with the presence of Merry's heightened magic power, and Merry would use this power to clean Will's spilt blood of any and all obscurities and imperfections, slowly feeding the clean blood back into Will's veins as she continued to heal his injuries.

It went without saying at this point, but Merry was always performing at her best while directly under the light of the sun. Merry's hair would once again be floating in the uplifting magic Merry exerted now, and Will would feel his pain melting away as his wounds faded and his body was given the attention it needed desperately.

(Um, at what point do we time skip to night??)

Raven would sleep sprawled out in the patch of grass next to her mother's grave, curled up into a fetal position while she hugged her staff in her sleep, a look of peace on her face. Though inside her mind was a different story. Raven, Mason, and Crow would be standing face to face with one another, talking intensely and deeply in conversation. So while her body may be at rest, her mind was just as busy as it usually was, what with three minds occupying the one body. It was actually quite exhausting, but it was something they had grown accustomed to. The three of them would be facing one another, deep in discussion, and only a person able to tap into Raven's sleeping form and enter her mind would be able to hear what they were saying.

"So help me god I'm going to murder Pentre when I find him.!!"

"Raven, your being to rash!"

"Is she though? Don't get me wrong, after everything we've been through Crow, I don't like fighting. Not anymore. But this man sent assassins on not just us, but all of our friends as well. And he needs to pay for what he did to both of us in the past..."

"How is it that your husband and I are on the same page? Crow, after what he did to you, what he forced you to do and what he forced you to give up, I would have thought you wanted him dead more than any of us!"

Says Raven, sitting down on the ground black expanse that served as a ground, crossing her legs and placing her head in her hand. Mason would move to hug Crow lovingly, only wanting what was best for her, though Crow would be tearing up as Mason tried comforting her.

"I do....I do want him dead, but were not the only ones...Besides, I think he can pay more for everything hes done while alive than he can dead. You know, a fate worse than death kind of thing..."

"He gave the assassins our weaknesses...He sent a pyromaniac after us for gods sake! You two surely saw what happened to me when Will used his fire attack on that behemoth! If one of us dies, then we all do! We have one body! We are one being! And he almost killed the three of us today! He's becoming sneakier and a massive threat to all of us! I say we get rid of him before he can do any more damage to us!"

"You know what the truth of it is? I'm sick of fighting...It has been a constant, non stop battle since before you were even born Raven...And I would like to have one peaceful moment before it all starts back up again...even if it's only for a minute...We never get those anymore....Which is why I don't want to start a witch hunt for Pentre...I agree he needs to be dealt with...but not right now..."

Unfortunately, the day was just beginning as it was barely drawing close to noon even with the assassin battle long since over.

Elesa would be dead tired as she finally climbs off of Peridot and stays with Haldor, "Thank you, Peridot!" she calls out gratefully. The bird would look to her and to Haldor, glaring at Haldor solely before enveloping himself in energy and reducing his mass slowly to the size of an eagle, the smaller form having much less strain on him as he turns his attention to the sky again and flies away with almost no further noise save the light flapping of his wings.

Elesa grew used to Peridot being the strong silent type, and even if he found aiding Elesa to be a chore, Peridot was very reliable. The child would welcome Haldor finally getting still, and she moved to cling to Lilim as she finally drifted off to sleep herself to sleep while she could.

Peridot had landed not far from where Raven chose to rest, so at least everyone knew where they were and that the area was safe. At least... For the moment. If no further incident occured, Elesa and Lilim both would sleep until the evening.