Maria- Alright ya ready

  Ray- *nods*

  Maria- Alright then let’s do this

  (Ends on that)

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  (Cut to the Shadow Cult)

  (Rever is walking down the hall and flipping his coin to his council room while reciting a tune)

  Rever- 2 sides fling, 2 sides fall, deciding whether I’ll kill them all, my statements been read, by coffers bled so should I claim the kings severed head the family runs deeper but agony is steeper so tell me God, am I my brother’s keeper

  Rever- *opens the door* Evening gentlemen

  All present- Good evening Sir

  Rever- So *kicks his feet up on desk* do we have a plan as to how we're gonna procure the wielders *flips coin*

  General 1- Well we wanted to wait until you came so that you could oversee the process

  Rever- *smiles/stops flipping coin* How generous; Well then, start discussing

  (chatter in the room quickly begins to stir as Rever hums the same tune)

  General 2- What if we launch a full scale attack

  General 5- Are you serious Donovan we would surely be defeated

  General 3- We don’t know if the kingdoms have been united yet and the kings of Tamasha and Windholm pose a serious threat not to mention if they’ve fully branded their wielders we could be at a serious disadvantage

  General 1- What if we went for a stealth like approach

  Donovan- Too cowardly we need to face them head on maybe even use our own divine-

  Rever- *stops flipping coin* Quiet

  (Everyone shuts up as Rever just puts the coin on the table)

  Rever- Donovan you know as well as I do that our vessel isn’t nearly stable enough to be put to work so don’t insist that we use it yet on the other hand I would like to hear Marinko’s idea *gestures to Marinko* Continue

  Marinko- Um I just think we should try a stealthy approach like a kidnapping or covert operation

  (Rever thinks it over)

  Rever- Sounds good, but do you have a plan

  Marinko- Well kind of a rough draft of it

  Rever- Let’s hear it

  Markino- Well I was thinking of tackling Windholm first since we all know that they possess the strongest pillar so taking theirs would be the most beneficial to us

  Rever- Go on

  Marinko- So when Windholm’s defenses are down we sneak into the castle kidnap their wielder or divine pillar or both and escape

  Rever- Anything else

  Marinko- Just give me a little more time to think about sir

  Rever- It’s a very good plan and simple plan despite being just a draft but I would like to add the idea of double agents, why not instead of waiting for them to let their guard down, we do it ourselves

  General 5- Sounds like a good idea and it decreases the probability of an all out war since It’s only on one place and it’s just one person

  General 7- Don’t forget, Korun, that “one person” is their country’s highest security concern and if failure is mixed in, we could be looking at an all out counter attack

  Rever- *flipping coin* I’ve thought of a way to mitigate that, let’s use our low level grunts and train them, thus we send them in, they covertly lower their defenses and viola easy taking; oh but pardon me this was your plan right Marinko? Is there anything else you would like to add to it?

  Marinko- No sir, it seems that you thought out my plan faster than me

  Rever- *stops flipping coin/stands up* Good then now I shall ask, any objections?

  (Everyone is in agreement but Donovan but he holds his tongue)

  Rever- Excellent then we shall execute this when the teams have been trained and are ready to depart

  All Generals- Yes Sir

  Rever- Then you are dismissed

  (Cut to Ray and Maria)

  (Ray and Maria stare each other down with Maria conjuring her Crux weapon which are 2 deagle pistols)

  Ray- *in head* Those guns look a lot tougher than that other kid’s weapon need to be careful around her

  (All of a sudden Maria starts to shoot multiple shots at Ray who tries to parry them but it having a hard time since not only are they faster than he expected they’re heavier)

  Ray- *in head/surprised* Damn, nearly knocked the staff out of my hands

  Death- *whimsical/smiling* Need some help?

  Ray- *in head* No I got this

  Death- *shrugs* Ok then

  (Maria the shot another volley closing the distance to Ray quickly as he tries to dodge and parry the bullets but she gets to him and gut checks [punched him in the gut] him; Ray starts coughing profusely)

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  Maria- Don’t tell me thats all ya got come on “wielder” make this at least a little entertaining for me

  Ray- *gathers his breath* Fine then

  (Ray then speed blitzes around Maria and is about to land a strike on her head)

  Maria- Your fast I’ll give you that but that seems to be the only thing you got going for you

  (she then puts the gun over her shoulder and shoots Ray in the arm he falls to the ground, dropping the staff, howling in pain)

  Maria- *disappointed* What? You thought you could get me with that lame ass trick? Listen here dumbass I’m not a normal person I’m a Supreme General *picks Ray up by his hair*

  Ray- *pained* Ah

  Maria- *looking Ray in the eyes* So Imma need you to start getting serious before I kill your ass *sees his eye/in head* What’s up with his eye?

  (Ray then goes limp)

  Maria- Huh? Are you seriously done after that I even weakened the bullet for you and your this weak? *throws Ray down* Trash

  (Ray then starts chuckling)

  Maria- Huh?

  (Ray then starts to slowly get up as his hair starts to turn white from the root and picks up the staff still laughing)

  Maria- So you can keep going *manifests her guns*

  (Ray then speeds up tremendously at a speed that catches Maria of guard, and then he tries to strike her but she blocks it with her guns)

  Maria- Whoa hold the fuck on where did all this strength come from?

  (Ray just continues to laugh as he starts to swing at her rapidly which Maria is having trouble dodging as Ray is twisting the staff around him so irregularly that Maria can’t tell if he’s going to attack or defend)

  Maria- *in head* Where did all this skill come from he’s like a completely different person from a moment ago and what’s so funny

  Death/Ray - RA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Ah yes finally back in the flesh again after so long it feels great to fight with blood in my veins and breath in my lungs

  Maria- *in head* What the fuck is he talking about *manifests two shotguns* whatever, just need to take him out now

  (Maria then tries to shoot at Death/Ray but he seems to dodge all of the pellets with eas as though they are nothing to him then lunges for a strike at Maria but she dodges and counterattacks with another punch to the gut sending Death/Ray flying to the other side of the training room)

  Maria- Heh, Looks like I’m gonna need something even faster *manifests a minigun

  (Death/Ray gets back up still smiling)

  Death/Ray- *excited* Now that's more like it *picks up the staff* now let’s get serious *gets into a stance*

  (Death/Ray then goes straight forward)

  Maria- Bring it on then *starts to unload the belt of the minigun*

  (Death/Ray then starts to deflect all the bullets away making Maria a bit scared as he gets closer and closer then he moves in for a killing blow but-)

  Ray- Stop *takes back control*

  (Seeing this, Maria punches Ray out cold across the room)

  Maria- *shaking off her fear* Whatever the fuck that was you nearly got me I’ll give you that, I’ll have to find out whatever the fuck it was when you wake up

  (Ray then wakes up in his room with Milenya coming in with some orange juice and tea, Ray then covers his left eye)

  Milenya- Oh you're awake that’s good *closes door*

  Ray- *groan* What happened

  Milenya- Well from what Maria told me you were sparing and you apparently went crazy on her and started to exhibit that same weird behavior that Fredrick was talking about except you were talking weird about “finally being in the flesh” and stuff like that

  Ray- Oh…*in head* Dammit Death

  (Milenya notices Ray’s not very fazed [;)] face)

  Milenya- *quizzical* Ray are you hiding something

  Ray- *panicked* No, no, no I’m just fine really

  Milenya- *skeptical* show me your eyes

  Ray- Why?

  Milenya- Just need to check something

  (Ray tries to dodge away feels some unexpected pain which makes him freeze for a bit giving enough time for Milenya to move his hair and hands away from his face)

  Milenya- *shocked* What happened to your eye?!

  Ray- Um *rubbing the back of his head* I got hit by Maria

  Milenya- *not amused* What is this really Ray?

  (Ray looks away from her)

  Milenya- Answer me!!

  (Ray doesn’t answer and just stays quiet)

  Milenya- *sigh/let’s go of his arm* Fine I won’t force you but I would just like to know

  (Ray just stays quiet, Milenya sighs and then goes to look at his book collection and picks out Hero-Man)

  Milenya- Would you like to read this with me again *sits down/advertises the book to Ray*

  (Ray still just lays there no words leaving his mouth)

  Milenya- You know I was a “Denizen” once in my life too

  (Ray is still quiet)

  Milenya- *continues* Had a family too we played and laughed for a while but *chuckles* it didn’t last long *starts flipping through the book* when I was 7 they sold me to the Windholms. I never knew the reason why, but now, I think it was for money. *flips a page* Once I was brought in, I stayed there with other children, we all were from the slums, they told us that one of us was going to be the best so they trained us rigorously *flips page* day in and day out we would train our Cruxes but I couldn’t get mine out but I kept trying and- *closes book* ah look at me what am I doing dumping all this information on you, you should be resting if your not already *puts the book back in the stack* Rest Ray and hopefully you’ll be to tell me about your eye when your ready *leaves*

  (Ray just lays there and sighs)

  (cut to Milenya walking down the hall)

  Milenya- *in head* What could be up with him? Does he not trust me? Did I do something wrong *catches herself* Stop just stop thinking about it he’ll come around probably *looks at watch* looks like it’s dinner duty

  (Cut to the kitchen where Milenya getting ready)

  Milenya- *putting on hair net/sigh* Ok let’s do this *opens door and goes into kitchen* Good evening everyone!

  Kitchen staff- GOOD EVENING MISS MILENYA!!!

  (Milenya looks at today's menu and starts to stroll her way over to the ingredients)

  Milenya-*underbreath* Ok just need some pepper and lemon zest

  ?- Oh? Are we making a type of salmon dish?

  (Milenya gets spooked as she turns around to see Fredrick)

  Milenya- Could you stop doing that *holding her chest/catching her breath*

  Fredrick- What is that, twice now? I’ll say, Ms. Milenya, you’ve seem to have lost your edge, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE!

  Kitchen staff- GOOD EVENING MR. FREDRICK!

  (Fredrick then walks over to the menu board and checks it out)

  Fredrick- Well guess we should get to work then aye’

  Milenya- Sure

  ?- HELLO EVERYONE!

  (Milenya turns around to see Dane entering in the door)

  Kitchen staff- HELLO MS. DANE

  Fredrick- Ah, Ms. Dane it’s good to see you here on time

  Dane- Well I was a little busy helping Ms. Lerena with some of her reports, since she’ll be leaving back to the storage units and I’ll be going with her

  Fredrick- *tick mark on his head* Funny how you get to visit the lower parts of the nation but I can’t even leave the damn castle

  Milenya- Language Mr. Fredrick

  (Dane snickers a bit)

  Fredrick- Just wanted to visit Shānguó but fine

  Dane- Ah well we can’t all get what we want *smiles*

  (Cut over to Windholm walking through a laboratory as multiple staff members bow in his presence, He then walks into the main office)

  (Knock Knock Knock)

  Johnathan- *writing some documents* Come in

  (King Windholm opens the door and then closes it)

  Johnathan- *still writing* So what is it-

  King WIndholm- Greetings my son

  (Johnathan freezes for a bit as he drops his pen; He then catches himself and looks up)

  Johnathan- Father?

  King Windholm- *smirks* The one and only

  (Ends on that)