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Before Aldyne hit the tree, he quickly twisted about in the air letting his feet absorbed the damage from hurtling towards the tree. Aldyne still groaned painfully on the impact, but with a great deal of agility, he was able to deflect most of the force off him and rolls on the ground to put out any remnant of flames still on him.

His hair in smoked clumps and the smell of burnt flash wafting from his body, but none of his fighting equipment seem to be affected by Angalo's flames by much, except for the lute that now lay burning on the ground. He was in pain, fortunately he held his breath as he was expecting the fire, so he did not burn his nose, mouth and lungs. But his face hurt terribly, his neck has badly seared, and he seems to have sprained an ankle from the tree.

With gritted teeth, Aldyne ignored all his pain and grabbed Angalo by the collar.

"Get to town! Quickly!" He roars at Ren and the children as he slings Angalo over his shoulder and bolts towards the Lake.

With a great heave, Aldyne throws Angalo into the cold lake. "GET UP! YOU MANGY EXCUSE FOR A WOLF AND LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"

Angel stood up quickly completely drenched, his headphones were playing (Nightshade by Tim Van Der Stadt) "what just happened? why am i in the lake!?" his attention turned to the injured Aldyne "Are you alright man!?"

Angelo ran up to Aldyne and threw Aldyne's arm over his shoulder to support him a little.

A small crumpled girl lay in a patch of grass yards away from the lake. She opens her eyes slowly and touches her left shoulder. It hurts. Avi closes her eyes tightly, trying to escape with her mind. Of course, it doesn't work. She opens her eyes again and sits up. Her arms are shaking and weak.

*I'm scared* she thinks to herself. *Why am I here? It hurts.* Avi crawls towards the lake. *Water. Maybe water will clean the pain* The wound had stopped bleeding. It is just raw exposed flesh where her shoulder should be, covered by scraps of blue cloth.

"I'm not one for 'I told you so's but I did try to warn you all about that thing..." Aldyne growls half in pain and half in irritation.

"We should get to town. I am in no condition to fight and am in serious need of treatment" He said hoarsely. The searing claw mark on his throat made talking hard, "Also... you owe me a lute... a good one."

"Are the children still here?"

Ren had stepped in front of the children. She hurried over to Aldyne and inspected his wounds. Creating an orb of water in her palm, she pressed it into his arm, closed her eyes and focused, healing him slowly.

Angel was confused, he hadn't a clue what Aldyne was talking about "dude! I seriously don't know what happened... One minute I'm talking to Ayvas then the next insane up in the stream soaked with burnt clothes" he shifted slightly still supporting Aldyne as much as he could so be wouldn't fall whilst being healed.

"speaking of Ayvie wh-- oh god, she's hurt, Ren you need to save her after you've done him" Angel slowly put Aldayne down as he ran over to Ayvie.

Avi continues to crawl towards the water, tears streaming down her face. *Help me* she cries in her mind, her shoulder throbbing with unbearable pain. She sees someone run up to her and stares at him. *Why is he all wet? And his clothes are burned. Is he in pain? He doesn't look like he's in pain.*

She looks up to the sky. *It's dark. But the stars are out and the moon is shining down.* Avi thinks. The moon makes her feel calm. She closes her eyes, her face blank. For a moment she feels like she is with the moon. For just a moment Avi feels at peace. She lays down on the pebbles. So soft.

Ayon ran over to Ayvas as well, scared for what might happen. As he saw her slump to the ground, he cried out. "NO! Don't die!" Ayon, having seen his parents getting murdered, had grown extremely attached to life and didn't want to see death anymore. He quickly bypassed Angalo and crashed to the ground next to the girl. There were tears streaming down her face as he held her, memories flooding him of their parents.

Back at Ren and Aldyne, Ayan was still screaming and keeping her eyes shut? She didn't want to see this. This has to be a nightmare!

Angel picked up both Ayon and Ayan and looked at them both "she's okay, Ren's going to save her" Angel kept them far and clear from Ayvie and put them down next to Aldyne, he looked at Ayon with a serious look "keep her with you, don't let her go there".

Angel turned and ran back to Ayvie, his fingers had electricity coming from them "okay Ayvie stay with me now!" Jaiden put his fingers to her chest sending a jolt just strong enough through her body to keep her alive. "REN HURRY!"

It's a beautiful fall day. Avi is sleeping on the lap of a stranger. Her parents smiling and waving as she rides away in a carriage. A hand brushes Avi's long black hair behind her ear and whispers,

"REN HURRY!" the girl opens her eyes and looks at the stranger, then to her parents who are now dots in the background. In a panic, the child struggles from the stranger's grip, "Let me go!" she cries.

disobeying Angalo, he bolted back to ayvie and pushed angalo aside with unexpected force, pushing him off his feet.
He knelt down and put Ayvie's face in his lap, leaning over her. he was crying, and closed his eyes in an effort to keep his tears from falling. "please don't die..."

It was then, that a tear fell onto ayvas' cheek. it glistened, then disappeared. As a miracle, Ayvas' wounds closed and the burnmark disappeared. Ayon, unaware of what was happening, kept his eyes closed and was still crying.

Suddenly the stranger starts crying. Startled, Avi whispers, "Don't cry.." she opens her eyes and sees a boy only a couple years younger than herself. *Why is he crying?* she asks in her mind. Avi looks over to Angalo and at Ren and Aldyne. She hears a little girl screaming and closes her eyes tightly. *Stop screaming* she tries to make it go away with her mind. It doesn't work.

Avi opens her eyes again and sits up, rubbing her shoulder. *It's completely gone. It doesn't hurt anymore* she looks at Ayon with her blank grey eyes. *Did he do this?*

"Don't cry..."
The voice startled Ayon, and his eyes shot open in surprise.
"H-how..." He then suddenly huugged her closely. "You're not dead!"
Realizing he was probably hurting her, he quickly let go, only to stare in disbelief.
"Where are your wounds?" He was still oblivious as to what had happened.

"I don't know" Avi whispers, confused. *Maybe he didn't do it after all.* She rubs her right eye and looks up to the moon. *Thank you* she smiles a little. The girl stands up, brushing some dirt off her blue dress in vain. She looks at the boy.

"Is she ok?" Avi points to Ayan, who is still screaming.

What is wrong with these fools! Aldyne's grew more more angry and very desperate as the children disregarded his warnings. Even Angalo was in on it, his instinct having taken over him so completely just now.

With a swift flick into his pack, Aldyne produced a nondescript stick no longer than a hand's span and a bottle of bluish liquid. He popped open the bottle and downed the contents in one gulp and seemed to jam the pointy end of the stick at his chest. The combined effect of the healing potion and the wand of healing healed Aldyne's wounds at a strangely alarming rate, his sprained ankle pops into place and the burn marks disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The healing effects was suppose to take about a minute to heal all of Aldyne's wounds, causing a great deal of pain in the process. With that combination, it allowed Aldyne to heal in a matter of seconds, but at the same time multiplying the pain exponentially. He felt like fainting but the healing effects prevented him from doings so, even with all his training, the pain was strong enough that he had no choice but to give out a gasp in pain.

"You fools!" He roars at the group, "Get away from her! She is a creature of evil hiding in the form of a child."

The look in his eyes was now much different. There was a calm rage to it and at the same time a cold and calculative glint as he drew his bow and an arrow that seemed to pop into his hand when he reaches for the quiver on his back.

Avi stares blankly at the man that was so injured a second ago. *He must be very powerful,* she thinks to herself. "I'm not evil," the girl whispers. She doesn't know if the man will believe her or not. However, Avi feels safe with the people that tried so hard to heal her.

She closes her eyes tightly, wishing the man would just disappear. He scares her. She doesn't want to feel so much pain again. Avi just wants to observe what happens and never have to worry about the outcome. Never have to worry about getting hurt. Never have to be responsible for for anything.

Long needle-like arrows soar down from the heavens. They are translucent and have a blueish color to them. Only the most observant could be able to see them. Avi looks up and notices. Her eyes widen but she doesn't move from her spot. The arrows hit the little girl with full force, causing her to collapse.

Ayvas tilts her head to the side and slowly gets up, her movements different and wrong. A smile spreads across her face, "Oh look, I'm all better," she laughs and hugs Ayon. "Thank you little boy! You saved me!"

Angel was totally an utterly confused at this moment in time. He held his hand out in front of Ayon and pulled Back, now standing in front of him and taking steps back together away from Ayvas "you're not that girl..."

Angel's mind was blank as to what happened before he woke up in the stream but a while ago he felt fine around her and now his instincts told him otherwise "Ayon, I want you to run back to Your sister" Angel's tattoo sparked with electricity. "what are you? Where is that little girl?... Is that what you planned on doing to me?... Turn me into a puppet?" if she wasn't controlling her own movements then someone was doing it for her and those arrows may have bees the way they did it.

Why his own clothes were torn and why Aldyne was injured remained a mystery to him but now he wishes Ren would've ran to the town with the kids.

"What are you talking about?" Ayvas' lifeless eyes stare into Angalo's for a moment, then at Ayon. Her smile looks calm and pleasant. "Hey. Do you want to come play with me sometime at my house? It's high up in a tree! My papa made it." She brushes her hair behind her left ear, still smiling. That healing power could prove useful.

Noticing Aldyne, Ayvas frowns, remembering his small blue and purple arrow. "I have to go home. It's dark out and I have a family waiting for me in the village." A special family. Everyone in that village is inhuman, just waiting to be captured.

Ayvas gives a little curtsey, backing away slowly. She really doesn't stand a chance with these creatures. Hopefully they won't start a fight again. She doesn't think so, because she didn't do anything wrong. Yet.

"Wait, where are you going?" Ayon asked. "I don't understand!"

(sorry chaoticdeath. I did not see your reply about healing me until too late... -_-;

Aldyne's stare intensifies with the return of the previous person who inhabited the girl's body. He relaxed his arrow hand, letting the arrow fall harmlessly to the ground and he reaches to the quiver on his back while bending down to rest a knee of the ground.

When he pulls back, he now held four arrows, each in between his fingers and thumb, all made of crystal. As he cocks the four arrows onto his bow, Aldyne started to whisper something, something too soft for anyone except Aldyne himself to hear, and as he spoke a crystal arrow seemed to materialize out of nowhere, pointing at the direction of Ayvas. As he kept whispering, more and more of those crystal arrows started to appear in the air.

By the time Aldyne stopped his whispers, there were at least a dozen of the crystal arrows floating in the air, all aimed at Ayvas.