Horrifica grunted softly in pain as she felt her new powers circluate through her whole body, the pain want unbearable and she was about to collapse only to have her bird friend chirp in her ear, telling her to stay awake. "M-my de-dear friend. I-I am in so m-much pain. B-but you are right. I shall stay up as long at I can." she said softly as the barrier intensified more as the symbol in the sky started to create its own glow to protect the spirit wolf girl. Horrifica grunted softly more as her powers started to become visible and started to create a choker and held the ancienty symbol of the Spirit Wolves. She held her arms, curling her tail and perked her ears a little. The bird became worried and flew outside only to see a human girl looking inside the cave, the little blue and black bird didn't have time to shoo the girl away, but only find a human that was willingly to help its friend from the clutches of the Soul Reapers. Horrifica looked up and pointed her ears up and heard footsteps outside the mouth of the cave and saw a girl. Horrifica tilted her head and heard the girl speak up after seeing her, "You're a human. Wait, you're a slave. But either way, you have found me. I am Princess Horrifica La'Grime, the last Spirit Wolf. Please, don't come closer, the barrier is most likely to harm you if you come any closer." she said as the bottom of her dress laid on the ground and swayed her tail side to side happily. Horrifica was just so happy to finally see a friendly face that was human, if she had been a Soul Reaper, then she would have had a hard time coming in the cave, due to the flowers.

The bird flew to the foot of the mountain and saw the Soul Reapers fighting the humans that appeared to be Rebels. Flapping in the air the little bird twerped loudly at the top of its lungs. The bird tried to get everyone's attention and the chirping caused the Symbol to glow more as two large pure white with tainted gold wing shot out of Horrifica's back, making her scream loudly out of the cave and it traveled throughout the village.

Shin simply stood there as he watched the soul reaper in front of his face; still one hand onto the hilt of one of his own swords while the other hand freely by his own side as though it was not going to really be used at all. Suddenly, when the sound of a foot stomping onto ground came out from the soul reaper in front of his face; the sounds of the rooted spikes coming straight out of the ground and slicing through the air to jab into Shin came to his ears. Immediately gave the reaction for him to jump back a couple of feet as he had a small smile on his face once he landed onto both his feet. "Oh come now. That can't be all you can do reaper." he mocked as Shin immediately unsheathed one of his own blades only to end up charging forward toward the male soul reaper. As Shin reached closer toward the male soul reaper; he extended his free hand out right toward him, right as he did so, his entire free arm had changed into plain smoke as his arm that had extended out looked as though it had turned into smoke itself. Blasting the smoke forward toward the male soul reaper; if one were to look closely enough, the smoke would almost look as though it were the face of a dragon.

Right before he could make complete impact with the dragon-faced smoke arm Shin had released; the sound of what seemed like a chirping sound of a small bird was heard. Only to cause Shin's entire arm to return right back to normal and for him to stop in mid attack, still a couple of feet away from the soul reaper. Turning his attention straight toward the direction where he heard the small but high pitch chirp like sound. It seemed that it made his own attention go toward the sky, there was no doubt about it; even if he couldn't be able to tell what color the bird was or completely what it looked like. It was obvious enough to Shin that this was a bird in the sky doing so due to the sounds of the small flapping wings in the air. "What is a bird doing here?...and why is it just chirping so loudly?" he asked himself curiously before taking his attention back to Hana and the other male soul reaper; wondering if the other two he had heard were still in the area as well. All of a sudden however, before he could even get another thought out through his head. The sound of a female screaming out caught to his ears once more; which had caused him to gasp in shock. Turning his attention toward the direction of the sound of the scream, Shin could only guess that must've been the spirit wolf. Was she caught by the soul reapers already? was she hurt? either way, Shin was thinking highly that this male soul reaper was planning on going after that scream.

Cora looked closely at the girl. She had a tail and fuzzy things coming out of her head. Was this the spirit the other slaves were talking about? Could it be that she had stumbled upon the one person everyone was looking for? Thats when the girl spoke up. She seemed like she was in so much pain. Of course she seemed horrified that she would be a slave girl, but that didnt matter much. The spirit was in pain. Unfortunately she had also told her to stay away. With a quick glance down at the battle below, she turned back to the herbs that were in her basket and pulled water out of the air. She pulled out a little bowl from the basket that helped collect a couple of the more moist herbs and keep the fresh. Now she put some of the herbs in there and added a little bit of water, crushing them with her fingers then adding more water until the bowl was full of it. The barrier might hurt her like the spirit said but this would at least help ease pain. Or at least it did with humans. "Here... this might help your pain."

It wasnt easy helping the spirit, but what was she to do. It wasnt like anyone was going to find this girl sitting here in the cave. No, she was just getting hurt sitting in here. There was a ton of flowers that probably didnt sit well with her and she also didnt know that the Soul Reapers were looking for the spirit wolf. "Why are you in here? And whats with the barrier?"

Aiden watched the battle between the human male and the soul reaper commander with almost critical eyes, taking in the moves of each carefully. He wasn't entirely surprised by Vorgoth's spike attack, after all it was one that he had seen before and made somewhat of sense for him to use. He was surprised however by the human male's retaliation attack, though mainly just the fact that he had elected close combat with the soul reaper. "Close combat...that could prove to be a foolish move..." the spy whispered quietly to himself.

His thoughts however were soon interrupted by the sound of a loud chirp of a bird, followed by the sound of a female's scream. Dispassionate eyes calmly gazed towards the direction he believed the scream had originated. 'Now what could have possibly warranted that...I doubt the troops had reached there yet so I doubt they have been the cause...although that too didn't sound like the scream of a human female. As many as I've heard I know that the lung capacity of a human isn't that great...Perhaps I should go investigate...' The blade that had been resting peacefully against the tree was soon disrupted as its owner's hand came to grasp it once more and secure it to his side again.

Seeing Shin distracted by the bird, Vorgoth swung his sword right at Shin's mid-section. He knew his troops were already marching up the mountain. They would hold the spirit wolf until he arrived.

While Shin had stared at the little bird flapping it's wings in the middle of the air along with it chirping lightly to get everyone's attention; his attention was indeed taken away from the male soul reaper that he was fighting right in front of him. This was completely careless of him; as the leader of the rebellion human army, he had to make sure that his senses stayed much more aware than the rest of any ordinary human, due to himself being blind. However, when the sound of a blade slicing toward him had caught to his ears; Shin immediately took his attention right back over toward the male soul reaper once more only to see him slashing his blade toward his own stomach area. Seeing the blade coming at a quickened pace, Shin didn't really have time to use his smoke to block or negate the attack from hitting him but rather all he could do was take a small jump backwards. Unfortunately enough for him, the attack hadn't completely missed as his shirt was ripped open right where his stomach was along with a small nip right at his own skin. Feeling some of the blood coming out of the small cut on his stomach onto his skin, Shin just sighed with annoyance before taking his attention immediately back toward the male soul reaper. "Attacking when someone's guard is down. You indeed play rather dirty, reaper." he spoke before re-sheathing his sword back onto his side shaking his head lightly at the thought. Shin didn't really have time for fighting this male soul reaper all day since who knew who could've heard that loud scream, maybe even the other soul reapers had heard it and were thinking the samething; that the scream came from the spirit wolf. "Sorry, can't play anymore." he stated with a shrug before stomping his foot onto the ground just like how the soul reaper had did earlier. Although with doing that, smoke began to come out of the surrounding area until the entire area itself became covered in a blanket of white smoke itself. With the thickness of this smoke; one shouldn't even be able to see ones hands in front of a person's own face. Taking this opportunity to make his way over toward Hana; Shin unsheathed his blade only for a moment, only to break the chain and collar holding her down to the floor. It was already bad enough that Shin was blind; so with this smoke, its as though nothing had changed for him."Hana. Make your way to the scream, I'll see how long I can hold him here." he whispered only lightly just so that the two of them could hear one another.

Vorgoth was blinded by the smoke. This human was proving to be a tricky one. Vorgoth cleared away the smoke with a mighty swipe from his hand, then turned his sword into a whip and wrapped it around Shin's throat.

One of Aiden's eyebrows rose as he heard the human male claimed Vorgoth to playing dirty when attacking. It was probably the one instance where he disagreed, after all it's never wise to become distracted whilst in the middle of a fight. 'The mistake was yours human. The fundamental rule is if you see an opening you take it, and by dropping your guard you gave the opening. It's almost comical...how these humans think...' The silver haired soul reaper was soon brought out of his thoughts as the area was suddenly surrounded in smoke.

The spy couldn't exactly see other than the smoky color, but that didn't stop him from moving away from the tree he had been against. Eyesight wasn't everything, any soldier or veteran of the battlefield knew that, and although his other senses weren't as sharp as say one who was deemed blind, they were still enough to let him move somewhat. Soon however it seemed the soul reaper commander was able to lift the smoke away, a rather surprising feat considering the quantity of smoke in the area as well as its thickness, and sight was once more restored to normal for the most part.

Emotionless eyes caught the sight of the human female whom had previously been chained free, and what appeared to be a whip around the human male's neck. Tracing it back it was clear that the origin of it originated from the other soul reaper, which only made the spy sigh slightly. "You should really quite playing around Vorgoth. There are more important things at hand, and I'm sure Maria wouldn't be pleased to find you held up by a human" the soul reaper calmly called out. He had watched the battle long enough and wasted more time then perhaps he should have by doing so, and now he was more then willing to get back on track. Of course he also needed to ensure the commander would be able to get back on course as well least they both be punished, especially if the humans managed to acquire the last spirit wolf before the reapers had a chance to even reach the creature's location.

"Do not question my methods, Aiden. Remember, I am still your elder" Vorgoth tossed Shin aside with his whip. He then turned it into a giant scyth. Vorgoth then formed another horse from stone, and rode to the mountain. "We shall finish this later, human" Vorgoth called back.

(we should probably wait until Gothika posts back so we dont get too far ahead of her k?)

(srry meesa busy with skool work XC Darn u skool work :illgetu:)

Horrifica looked at the girl and took the medicine. She looked at it knowing that it wouldn't help her. She smiled softly and gave the bowl back, "Thank you for helping but this will not help me since my body is different from humans." she said then giggled softly as the barrier created a chain around her throat so that Horrifica but then shattered into pieces as the blue and black bird chirped one last time. Horrifica was able to answer the girl's question, her eyes widen slowly and fur started to grow all over her body. Wolf features started to show themselves as Horrifica started to grow in the cave making the cave starting to crumble around them "H-H-H-Hurry, a-a-and ge-ge-get out o-o-of h-he-here." Horrifica struggled to say as she used used her semi humanoid paw and gently pushed Cora out the cave and grew five Chrysler buildings and caused the top part of the mountain to crumble and break away as a deep and eerie roar escaped her mouth causing everyone there to shiver a little in fear. The last Spirit Wolf had been free from her barrier. She jumped in the air and flapped her heavy wings as she looked at the Soul Reapers and Humans and started to fly away.

Vorgoth looked up at the spirit wolf. "Foul beast! Your hyde shall be mine!"

Within the very few moments after Shin had created the smoke to surround the entire area to blind the rest of the soul reapers in the area just to get Hana free from her collar and chain. The last thing he was expecting was when the male soul reaper had ended up blasting away the smoke only to wrap a whip right around Shin's own throat. A painful grunt escaped his lips as he bit down onto his lower lip, glaring back toward the male soul reaper that held onto his throat. This whip was indeed made out of some kind of strange material which made it rather more difficult to break it so all he could do was to focus enough of his own strength to rip through it. Although right before he could even do so, hearing another male voice come up out of nowhere; Shin's attention was immediately taken over toward it. Just hearing the male soul reaper Shin was fighting talk to him as though they knew one another and that this one was an elder gave away the fact that the other male that had just spoken up was a soul reaper as well. Without even a word been able to speak out by Shin yet; being tossed aside as though he were a rag doll Shin's own smoke came out of his own legs only to solidify themselves to make what seemed like silver sand to break his fall. Taking his attention toward the other two only to hear what sounded like a horse galloping toward the direction of the scream. A small 'tch' sound came from Shin's own lips before he covered himself once more into smoke to make his way into the same direction.

Soon enough, making his way over toward the male soul reaper that had went for the sound of the scream; Shin's own eyes widened up when he had seen how the top of the mountain itself was beginning crumble downwards almost as though it were an avalanche of rocks. Before long, seeing what looked like a winged feathered wolf bolting into the air flying away from all of this caught his attention. Shin's eyes directed themselves toward the air only to be able to hear the flapping noises of wings through the air. Luckily enough, hearing the other male soul reaper call it a 'foul beast' gave away the obvious face that it was the last of the spirit wolves in the air. Even if the humans couldn't save her right at this very moment; it would be better to try to stop the soul reapers from getting their grubby hands on it. Within the next moment, a small smirk came across his face as Shin pointed his hand toward the direction of where the male soul reaper was, from this distance he should be able to easily avoid any ranged or close ranged attacks due to the amount of space he had between himself and the reaper. Shin was simply following the tactics that his father had taught him before he had died even though he hadn't learned all of his father's combat strategies just yet. All of a sudden, the hand that was pointing toward the reaper had immediately turned into smoke as it made it's way over toward the reaper only to end up wrapping itself around him and his horse all together. By the time the smoke covered both the reaper and the horse, Shin clenched his other fist causing the smoke to concentrate together to become solid until the point that it had turned into what looked like a giant steel beam had been wrapped around the entire reaper along with his horse. "Our fight isn't done yet. Reaper, let the spirit wolf go for now. Your battle isn't done with me..just yet." he stated hoping that Hana would deal with the other reaper that had spoken up earlier.

Once more a sigh escaped from Aiden. "Elder or not it doesn't change the fact you've wasted time we technically don't have...Our orders are the same and are first priority not some squabble with humans" the reaper quietly whispered to himself. 'Age means nothing if the only thing you have to show for it is foolishness...And that's why you probably would have lost the battle in the end' he thought with a shake of his head. He watched as suddenly the commander created a stone horse and quickly rode off. "Great...leaving me with the mess. That's sloppy even for you Vorgoth."

A hand calmly went to the hilt of his blade, least one of the humans decide to make a move in his direction. His attention however was soon drawn from the humans as a roar suddenly echoed throughout the area and the sound of destruction reached his ears. Aiden chanced a glance towards the mountain range that was technically in front of him. What he saw was a sight he hadn't quite expected. The top of the mountain had all but disappeared and in its place a giant wolfish creature. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the creature was the one the soul reapers had been searching for information for.

In the distance he could hear the shout of the soul reaper commander as the wolf took off to the sky. "I told Vorgoth he shouldn't have wasted time...I have a feeling Maria isn't going to be happy about this" he said as another sigh escaped. His words were calm, despite the fact of knowing punishment would probably await either of the soul reapers for failure to catch the spirit wolf before it fled. His gaze then turned as the human male began to pursue after the soul reaper commander. 'Well that's one less for me to worry about...' he thought as his gaze then fixed itself on the human girl.

Cora jumped when the spirit pushed her. Of course someone like her was going to jump with being pushed out of a cave. She didnt realize that when she was pushed out of it though, the top of the mountain was collapsing as well. Yes it was a gentle push out of the cave, and it didnt help that she jumped a little backwards as she got out of the cave. Now she was falling off the mountain while the wolf spirit hovered over her, huge as ever. She used her water manipulation to create a cushion for her to land on. She looked up at the mountain coming down on top of her. Plenty of Soul Reaper soldiers died from the impact of the rocks on top of them. She dove tried to run as far away from the falling rock as possible. it was hard to get away from it all. A large rock happened to land on her head, causing her to black out. All of a sudden she was on the ground. The herbs were scattered on the ground and her legs were under some rocks. Luckily they werent broken. The water she had used to cushion her fall was still on her legs like glue. It cushioned the rocks, the only problem now was that she was stuck under them. She tried to move, but the rock had her pinned face down. She would have to wait and see if it was a matter of time before someone helped her, but then who would help a slave girl?

Vorgoth used his scyth to slice through the steel like it was paper. He turned towards Shin. "You are becoming quite the pest" Vorgoth charged and sliced at Shin with his scyth.

As Shin stood still right there after holding down the male soul reaper with his steel like pillars wrapped around his horse and himself as well. Shin was obviously thinking that wasn't going to hold him down for very long, the only reason for the steel to wrap around him was so that the spirit wolf could at least have some time to escape from this soul reaper. From what he had been seeing, this reaper could cause to be a rather annoyance if he were let to roam around freely. Soon enough when the scythe that the reaper held in his hand had easily sliced through the steel that had wrapped around him only to see him charge forward toward Shin on his horse to slice at him. All Shin did was stand there as he listened to the galloping horse ride ever closer toward him, a small smirk came across his lips as the scythe came down to slash right through him. As the scythe's blade came down to slash at him, right at the instant that the blade was about to touch Shin's body he had immediately turned that exact part of his body into smoke only to end up causing the blade to go through him as though the reaper were to slice through plain nothingness. Quickly after the blade had finally went completely through his body, Shin immediately turned around and extended his hand forward once more having the smoke appear right under the horse as it immediately turned into what seemed like silver sand once more; just like earlier. Although this time, rather than using it as a cushion the sand came out more as though it were pulling the horse down into the ground like quick sand. "Come now..don't you think this would be a bit more fun if we'd fight each other on the floor? Rather than you being on a horse." he stated before pulling out both his blades, each one facing downwards rather upwards.

Vorgoth lept off his horse and faced Shin. "You cannot win this battle. I have destroyed untold numbers of enemies who have stood in my path"

Im sorry school work kept me REALY busy this week! im just gonna jump in now that im all caught up!

Hana fallowed after Shin, as she wasnt going to leave the leader of the rebels to fight alone, Even if he thretend to take off her head and feed it to the dogs, she would help him at least weaken this reaper before moving on. She knew Shin wouldnt like this but she could of cared less he would punish her later or thank her, either way she did what she felt was right! The confution never stopped for her even when the Spiret wolf finally revelad itself. Hana now knew the real battle for humanity would begin and possibly end today if they and the rest of the rebels didnt band together quickly and take up arms alongside that winged wolf!

Hana watched rather astonished as her leader turned his body to the elusive smoke, he could so easly controll, and pritty much dodge the entire attack. She quickly went to Shins side, manifesting her own wepon from the water she controlled and stood her ground. "Then you will have to just put a notch in your loosing belt!" Hana stated confedently as she stood beside Shin ready to fight.

With a small smirk across his face when hearing how the male soul reaper had jumped off his horse only to end up landing both his feet onto the ground. This reaper was indeed rather agile for such a big figure as himself; although when he had ended up threatening Shin saying that there was no way for him to win this battle and that he had destroyed unknown numbers of enemies who stood in his way. All he did in return was shrug his own shoulders, that was impressive but something like that wasn't going to make Shin be afraid to fight this reaper. "If that is true; than you should be able to take me out without any problems right? And think about it...if you beat me...the humans rebellion will be gone; although..don't think I'm going to go down just like that." he stated before taking his own battle stance and preparing to fight this reaper that had been rather of an annoyance so far. Shin already knew the consequences for losing this battle against a reaper, he was the leader of the rebellion and losing wasn't exactly going to be an opinion; he already knew for a fact that if he were to lose this battle and cause the whole rebellion to crash down around him and all the other humans alive; his father probably wouldn't forgive him. Just the thought of remembering his father and witnessing his death through his head once more caused Shin to clench the hilt of both his swords even tighter til the point that both his palms started bleeding lightly. All of a sudden as he stood there; his own eyes widened up when he had turned his head over toward his side only to end up hearing footsteps standing beside him along with Hana's voice speaking up. She had defied a direct order to find the spirit wolf while he dealt with this reaper, although the other thing that also ran through his head was that the other reaper that was also fighting along with this commander of the reapers. Giving a small sigh, knowing no matter what he said Shin already knew that Hana wasn't about to leave his side. So just accepting the fact that she was going to help, at least telling her something would be helpful. "Hana, There is another reaper besides this one's army. Make sure you watch your back." he stated as he made sure to keep his senses up even more than he usually would just in case the other reaper was planning to surprise the two of them.

Vorgoth spun his scyth. The blade went by so fast that it looked like a propeller on an airplane.

Hana nooded her head and simply said ok, as the information that another reaper was about caused her to hunch a little lower and pay close attenchion to the trees around her. She griped the staff she had created tightly and began to lightly step away from Shin. She knew shin had turned her fight with this reaper into hisown, and it was possible that the reaper would attack shin first over her. But hana knew better than to think this way, the reapr was sure to attack her just to draw shin out and possibly get him to reveal a major weakness. "Together, work together." Hana breathed to herself as she still scaned the airea with her eyes as well as listening for anything out of the ordinary.

Vorgoth lept into the air, coming down on Hana and Shin with his spinning blade.

Horrifica continued to fly away until her blue and black bird friend suddenly appeared and landed on her snout, chirping about the girl under the rocks. Horrifica slowly turned her head left and right, using her wolf seen eye-sight and seen the girl that was in the cave with her. Flapping her wings harder to get to the girl, Horrifica landed with a loud thud making the ground shake and tremble as she walked; she used her tail to move the rocks off Cora and kneeled closer to her, using her snout to help her stand up. "Get on my back and I'll get us both away from this madness." Horrifica said telepathically swaying her tail behind her, unknowingly creating a little too much wind for the people that was fighting. "By the way, may I ask for your name since you technically know mine." Horrifica giggled telepathically then tilted her snout so she could lift the girl up and the little bird chirped happily but it wanted to stop the fighting so it flapped its wings and flew to the male Soul Reaper with the fiery head and started to peck at his arm.

(O.O bird wants in on the action >.<)

Aiden was a bit shocked to find the human female defy the order of her commander and keep him busy, not that he had made any move against these particular humans...yet. However not having to worry about dealing with either human at the moment did make his job slightly easier. Of course he also knew that, that could very well change considering he needed to go in the same direction as the previous three. With a resigned sigh, the grip on the hilt of his own blade lessened slightly as he calmly moved from his spot and in the destined direction.

He was again slightly surprised to find Vorgoth hadn't quite made it up that far up the mountain and was now being occupied by the two humans. "Honestly 'playing' with the humans again..." he said with a shake of his head. His gaze then drifted towards the direction that the spirit wolf was disappearing into and knew that before long they would lose sight of the creature. Technically he had already accomplished his own mission, which was to find the location of the spirit wolf which the creature had so helpfully provided itself, rather than to destroy it. The destruction of the wolf was to be taken care of by those slightly higher up then him in the chain of command, however how things were currently going his mission would soon become incomplete yet again. He calmly debated his next actions before coming to a decision. "Are you actually in need of assistance Vorgoth or still playing around?" the spy questioned with again a calm voice, though in actuality he was rather frustrated at the elder and the two humans. An eyebrow rose in slight amusement however as a gust of wind passed over him and a bird began to attack the soul reaper commander. The wind cause his gaze to once more glance upward, only to find that the spirit wolf had returned to the mountain top for an unseen reason, at least to him.