End of life.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Daar nodded, and Chrono started to calm down, his blades vanishing and his appearance more or less innocent. "What about the rest of the test?" he asked before Daar picked him up and carried him through a portal to Onea... "Just do as she says, and we live..." he said to Chrono as they 'flew' through the tunnel that connected both portals.

Kostil was surprised as well. "Uh... I have no idea, I was sleeping the entire time waiting on you!" He got up and called out the chain that linked them both, and gave it a tug. The vibrations went all the way to Folen, and the remnants of a portal that took Mask appears for a split second. "I can feel him in Folen, but not precicely where in Folen" he said as he tried to re-open the portal.

Mask had appeared in Folen as the portal exit materialized.... two kilometers above the ground. He was able to recover his stance and started blinking towards the bottom, and right on top of a Faceless hero that was fighting Jensuno. "Oh... hi..." he said as he looked up at the multi-armed divinity. However, he couldn't continue the conversation as Jensuno swung at him, mistaking him for a Hero Faceless. Mask smacked the hand away with his staff, then blinked a few feet back and bumped into another spirit, she was shooting at the Faceless that continued to come after her. He looked around and saw Faceless only attacking a few spirits, while the rest were either attacking Jensuno, or getting ready to. He was starting to think that he either took a portal to a different form of Folen... or the 'rebellion' was being supressed. The most confirming of the second thought was that these were not normal Faceless, which pointed to his father's doing.

All the calculations he took from the events around him, he could only guess that the spirits that attacked, supported the rebellion. So, he grabbed the wolf that was attacking the Facless, and tossed her far away from Jensuno, then blinked up to her and did another grapple toss, sending her to an open area that was far from the current battlefield. He caught her before she hit the ground, then set her down before jumping back a few feet, his staff at the ready. "Why are you rebelling against 'Mother', do you even expect to survive her and my father's wrath once this battle is over?"

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Jaida ignored the fact that she was bumped into because she glanced over and saw that it wasn't a Faceless creature. She had reloaded her pistols and continued shooting at the Faceless grunts that came towards when she was grabbed out of nowhere and tossed away. The one who had bumped into her showed up in front of her then tossed her again but was more considerate this time and caught her, setting her down before jumping back. She didn't even have time to think about regrouping herself when he bombarded her with a question.
"Whoa, whoa..." She responded after running the question through her head a couple times since she couldn't really concentrate the first time. "What are you talking about?" Her mind reeled for a minute. "Wait...Dwayne said something about Jensuno saying 'team Mother'. I didn't know what he was talking about though." She thought for a few more seconds. "Look...all I know is that our group was already attacked by these creatures once without warning, and now they've come back and are stronger than the other ones. Jensuno said that some stronger divinity was controlling them and that he would have to defeat that divinity to save us all." She looked at the stranger and her expression confirmed that she didn't know anymore details. Her eyes scanned his face as she tried to understand what was going on.

Meanwhile, Dwayne watched as Jaida was tossed away like a ragdoll. He growled and was about to follow after the two, but when he saw that the stranger caught her the second time, he stopped. He decided that he would watch and listen in from afar. After all, he could be at her side in a millisecond if he needed to be.

[Vosur Aekira]

Hearing the Faceless spread out, she decided it to take to the trees, sticking to thicker foliaged limbs for cover as she moved about to keep them guessing. "Gotta buy Akodo some time..." she thought to herself, pulling out her main pistol only and taking aim at the Faceless that approached, her other hand helping to keep herself steady on the limb she chose for her vantage point. When they came within a hundred feet of the tree she was in, she started firing at the captains that she could see before moving on to fire at the grunts. She didn't stop to see if she hit any of them, dropping down and pulling out her secondary pistol to take more pot-shots before she took off again.

Not seeing any more Faceless than the ones who pursued Ruby, she decided to chase after the group. She tried to keep as silent and as quick as possible in this pursuit of her own. "Crazy kitsune... she's going to get herself killed again!" she thought to herself, almost catching her loose clothing against some of the bushes and smaller trees. She started to notice that Ruby was leading the group towards Folen, and possibly to help. "I guess she's not as crazy as I thought." she thought, smirking as she came close to some of the Faceless, one of them seeming to stay far behind from the rest. Getting a little closer as quietly as she could, she pulled her sword up to the ready to strike the one closest to her.

Vosur and Icey lands on the overlook, Icey reverting to normal form as she breathed heavily from carrying him. "Sorry, I wasn't exactly anticipating being yanked out of a battle like that." he said, breathing a little heavy himself due to all the energy exerted from the fight and escape.

"Looks like we'll have to put you on a iron-reduced diet when this is all done and over with." she joked and looked around. "Great, Akodo and Ruby both left here and to lure those Faceless creatures away. I can't fight..." she said as she sat, thinking.

"No, but I can. Get Daisuke and get to safety." he said, taking off in the general direction where both Ruby's and Akodo's scents were coming from.

[Rygore Anikeria]

Ukko jumped away from a sword blade and snapped the faceless's arm with his forearm. He saw the other spirit, Jaida he thought her name was, she was being tossed around by a spirit that he had not seen before. Ukko finished off the grunt with a swift swipe of his axe. "Double scythe" he rushed towards them, leeching the energy from the slow moving consciences of the grass, he was tired though and he didn't want to use up his last reserves of stored energy yet and the grass could barely fuel him. he loosed a bolt of lightning from his palm as his runes flashed and the magic aftershock rippled all across his fur. It killed three grunts in his way and he dispatrched the fourth with a swing of his blades. he rushed up to the two spirits. "Hey I say you guys wrestling there, what happened?" he shot a bolt of ice from the tip of his scythe and it froze two faceless to the floor, he disarmed them and dispatched them with their own blades, then threw the weapons into the crowd. He still saw that Jensuno was fueling the spirits with his own energy and with one final burst of energy Jenusno's arms left his shoulder. Feeling renewed he transfered some energy into his staff and shot off spells into the faceless horde, keeping close by the two spirits so he could get his answer, looking towards Jensuno, he really did care about the spirits, Ukko knew he had made the right choice in fighting, he would help Jensuno once he got his answer.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Mask became confused at the lack of knowledge from the wolf. "'Team Mother'?... anyway, those are my father's faceless, and judging by their actions, they were only going to focus on Jensuno... your attacking automatically made you a part of the rebellion in their eyes..." He looked back at the battle still going on, and noticing none of the faceless were turning around to attack the wolf. "Just to clear the record, 'Mother' has done nothing, Dad sent his faceless after Jensuno to keep the rebellion from reaching 'Mother'... Do you have anyone else I need to get out of there, or do you still side with the traitors?" he looked down at her guns, which she still didn't put away.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Jaida growled at his words, coming back to her normal personality. "I didn't attack. I defended someone using a power I didn't even know I had." She snapped. "I 'sided' with keeping someone I knew had never hurt me before alive." She raised her guns in the air, doing air quotes with her fingers when she said "sided". She looked over at where Jensuno was. "I don't know what kind of issues all these divinities have been dealing with around here but I'm going to stand by the one who is protecting his residents, not the one letting their minions attack residents who don't know the whole story and only know their Guardian is being attacked. Maybe your 'Father' should have gave them voices and minds of their own so they had a choice, like Jensuno gave us a choice." And with that, she rose to her feet and ran past the stranger and Ukko, firing upon the Faceless once more.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Mask noticed she was drawing away Faceless, but her reasons as to why she protected Jensuno is wrong. Mask blinked next to her and knocked the guns out of her hands. "If I can get the others away from Jensuno, the Faceless will stop attacking them.... now please don't draw them over here... neither my father or myself want innocent spirits harmed...." Mask kept at least one of the guns so she wouldn't think about against an army with only one. He then did a rapid series of blinks back to the battle ground, and was about to clear away some Faceless, but they parted before him, the captains having ordered them to let him pass. "Son of Master Daar... why are you here?" asked a hero faceless in street clothes, but the black energy around his hands banished any thoughts of doubt. "Some of the ones who attack you do not know why you attack Jensuno... let me take them out of the fight so you may continue uninhibited." The Hero nodded, and the faceless began to attack the other spirits less often and focus their strength on the divinity they came to kill.

Mask blinked a good hundred feet in the air, and levitated there by blinking every other second. He was able to make out a white wolf with a fox fighting together against a group of Faceless that had lessened due to Mask's orders. He blinked down to them and swung his staff in a circle, ordering the faceless to cease their attack on them. "Unless you wish to join Jensuno in his demise... turn away..." Mask saw how one of them was eager to fight, so he didn't let down his guard.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Jaida's anger rose. She didn't like it when others who didn't know her touched her pistols, or her, for that matter. "I'm not leaving!" She yelled towards the battlefield as she marched forward. "Jensuno! He's trying to force us all to leave so you have no help to survive!" She yelled, looking over and up at Jensuno.
Her eyes tried to release tears but she wouldn't let them come. She felt really connected to Jensuno. Actually, she felt that way since she first met him. She didn't know why though, she just did.

[White Wolf Guardian]

"It's about time for me to maintain the balance in a more forceful measure." *The longstanding neutral divinity whispered into Jensuno's ear* "Intervention needed unfortunately, I rather not take part in any of this." *The ice divinity looked down spotting White* "That's my frontline of deterrent right there and still so weak. It's pathetic really, but it's all I have right now."

*White looked up feeling the necklace burning his neck and saw a strange icy-looking creature up neaby Jensuno* "Who is that?" *The wolf didn't know, but had a feeling he knew them from somewhere*

[Rygore Anikeria]

Ukko saw the sudden shift in faceless towards Jensuno and how the bombardment towards the spirits had lessened. He needed to warn the other spirits. "Guys! They're all focusing their attacks on Jensuno, we have to help him!." Another creature had appeared out of no where, but this one was a spirit, he told Ukko to stop defending Jensuno or he would meet the same end as Jensuno. "Who are you to tell me who and who not to defend? In fact who are you at all and why are you after Jensuno?" Ukko blasted a couple of spells into the retreating horde of faceless and froze the a circle of faceless deep in the crowd, keeping a large group from advancing. Ukko ran through the area destroying a large number of faceless that could not escape and then destroying the frozen ones as well. He leeched all the energy from the grass in the circle he made and the circle of grass had deied and withered until it was black, turning the area that had just been filled with faceless and energy into a wasteland. He released the energy he had gatehred from the grass and blasted it out in all directions, making sure to exclude white and the stranger who had just appeared and opening the area even more. "Now tell me, Who are you and why do I need to stop helping Jensuno?" Ukko demanded holding his double scythe menacingly.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Mask grabbed the fox by the head after blinking right in front of him, taking advantage of his surprise by throwing him to the ground. "My name is only for the divinities to know... as for Jensuno... if the faceless doesn't kill him, my father and my brother will send him to the void, along with those who fight with him. I don't want innocents to fight a battle without knowing how dangerous it will get. All I ask is that you don't fight at all." Mask sighed before continuing. "Look, I know this is alot to take in, but those you seek to kill... are people who died as spirits, if you still wish to continue fighting them... I'll make you join their ranks" he brandished his staff, knowing a fight was more likely than compliance.

[HowlTheGrayWolf]

Before the next hero could attack Howl, a fourth figure from the woods called out. "ENOUGH! Do not waste your energy on him, leave this man to the army." With that, the captains disappeared and grunts poured back in, charging at Howl. There were many of the faceless, they numbered in the hundreds, and the fight with that previous captain drained some energy; he had to make a run for it. Sadly, that wasn't an option, for he was surrounded. "This isn't going to end well..." Taking his broadsword back out, he waited for a huge group of enemies to attack. They came at him from all sides, so he spun around with his sword, cutting them in half. More tried a frontal assault, which was pushed back when Howl chopped up a good deal of them. He decided to try his luck, and he ran through the thinest part of their lines, running and slashing. Many of them tackled Howl, cut him where the armor could not reach, and he started to weaken. "Gotta get out..." With the majority of his last bits of energy, he sent a shockwave that blew off all the faceless and knocked down his nearest enemies in pursuit, then ran into the woods. Howl managed to escape the grunts, then leaned against a tree. "I don't think I can take too many more of those blasted things. Someones out there fighting the faceless, I must join up with them."

[Rygore Anikeria]

Ukko stared in surprise at the powerful spirit. with a grunt he mumbled. "I shouldn't have left you out of that shockwave I just casted, you just throw me to the ground and expect me to listen to you?! If thats the case then you need a new strategy! Now since I am still going to defend Jensuno I belive I know where this conflict will lead us." Ukko rolled to the side and jumped to his feet. He used some of the enegy Jensuno had given him to make the ground rise underneath him giving him a platform away from the enemy, he closed his eyes and emptied all the energy from his crystals and into his body, his staff turned back to normal and could not be changed magically anymore. The runes inscribed across his fur glowed brilliantly and his fur rippled as if it was in a storm, he was lifted off the ground and in a bright flash he changed to his true magical form. "I havent used this since I was alive" Ukko's voice seemed to meld with a multitude of other voices. He was levitating off the ground with seven orbs orbiting his body, each one surrounded by a intangible and unearthly fire. "Now lets try this again." Ukko smiled, though in his mind he knew that he did not have enough energy left to sustain this form for long, but the enemy didn't know that. Ukko hoped that this sudden display of power might even scare the enemy away. Ukko muttered a quick phrase and he launched towards the enemy his orbs forming a circle around the enemy in his view, like a targeting computer, three obs formed the target cursor while the otheres were getting reasy to battere the enemy in spells. He was halveway to the enemy fomr his platform and shot off three spells, fire, lightning,  and frost, the lightning amplified by the targeting orbs, the dead grass was set ablaze by the fire spell while the frost spell was aiming for the faceless that were attacking Jensuno, the lightning spell the only one heading for the spirit who had attacked him.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Mask sighed, but didn't lose his focus as he 'blinked' right behind the magical fox, dodging the entire attack. "You know, considering I've been doing nothing but talk; you've been the one wasting his energy, killing dead spirits that can't even dodge a straight cut. But since you insist on fighting a losing battle..." Mask swung his staff and the bulk of the staff smacked the fox in the neck, finally showing the unseen strength of the young divinity as he sent the fox flying towards the ground. "Please tell me that form is just for looks..." he said in a loud enough voice for the fox to hear.

[Rygore Anikeria]

Ukko was hit with the staff and sent flying in the direction of the swing but levitated him self up right before he made copntact with the ground. "Your not a normal spirit, your something like a divinity aren't you? so tell me more about why you wish to destroy Jensuno, he is a caring divinity as far as I have seen, he even fed us his own energy to keep us alive." Ukko pressed his palm on the floor and one of his orbs was sacrificed as its energy was used in a major spell, the earth rose up from underneath the minor divinity, a writhing mass of constriction and compressing layers of rock and minerals seeking to consume the enemy that threatened its caster. Ukko shot two other orbs at tthe opponent, they shot off their spells while spiraling around him while Ukko was busy with a larger incantation in his mind. With his voice amplified with magic he said "Why do you seek to destroy thi divinity tell me your reason and then I will determione wheather to fight or to flee." Ukko was dropping in energy fast, he would need to retreat soon and recover energy, but this minor divinity enraged him to the point at which he didn not care about his energy he only wanted to eradicate him, why would he attack Jensuno, Ukko wanted answers and he wanted them now.