Protestant Church, Thirteenth Street

[NPC Controller]

A tall Gothic church. The steeple, supported by four pointed arches, reaches twelve stories into the sky, and stained glass depicting various scenes from the Bible lines almost the entire building, allowing intense amounts of crepsucular light into the cathedral. The arches are supported by further supporting arches, a building style emphasised just before the Renaissance, but two eras after the Greco-Roman style.

[Shirafune]

Good, it's protestant and not Catholic. And I got nearly burnt by the Catholics for most of the time they were dominant.

'On a stake too.'

Tsubasa knew now wasn't the time to shudder about what she did then to those stupid humans.

"Is anyone there?!"

[theburntone]

The Predator swore. His lightning had been cut to shreds. Again. Nanaya was way too powerful. However, he was currently occupied by Akiha, so the loli would need no more protection. The Predator form was beginning to lose power, too. He put on a burst of speed, rerouting power from his cannon into his jets.

He saw the church ahead. He landed on the roof, trying to remain as unseen as a 4m tall, extremely heavy mobile armour could. Oh well.

Turns left: 7

[schrodinger]

Breathing heavily, Venser walked into the church, looking around for signs of anyone who might be able to help.

"Is there anybody here?"

A chill breeze blew past him from the depths of the church - strange, considering that there were no open windows. Glancing at the altar, he thought he could make out the outline of someone praying, kneeling amongst an arrangement of candles. In the flickering light, he couldn't make out the person's face, but he could feel something in the air.

Strange...and powerful.

[NPC Controller]

"Welcome to the Church."

The lady at the altar stood up. The Holy Cross glowed on her cuffs, light reflected off her dark blue hair.

"You may call me Ciel. How may I help you?"

[schrodinger]

"There's a murderer with a knife coming this way. His name's Nanaya Shiki, and I believe he means to kill quite a few people, myself included. Do you know him?"

[NPC Controller]

Ciel

"Nanaya...?"

Shit.

A brief passage of time, as a sudden gust of wind suddenly blew through the cavernous halls of the Church.

Ciel was at the door, six black swords in her hands.

"Catch up."

A swift bound, and she was gone.

[boingboom]

Being near Ciel felt like Nanaya was close again; both had the same cold confidence of countless battles fought and won.

If both of them clashed...

Kyouko dropped Sol on the ground, and quickly looked to the future.

This was one fight she wanted to see.

[Shirafune]

Not very nice. I guess we play the role of pathetic conveyors from time to time; or maybe it's all the time.

From the rather fractious viewpoint Tsubasa now held, the best was to help and catch up. Placing Sierra on the ground, Tsubasa took to the air in a bid to try catch up with Ciel.

Let's hope she isn't very sensitive about vampires.

[Carillus]

Kamin was just on her way in when she saw Tsubasa dart out.

"Eh? Going already? Do we have help yet?"

She followed Tsubasa.

[RaineScarlet]

Tsubasa flew fast--faster than Sierra's water could keep up with them. By the time they landed at the church, she was completely winded and wobbled before falling on the ground again.

Flying.. how frightening...[/b]

Ciel left quickly after hearing the news of Shiki's battle, with Tsubasa following closely behind. No doubt others would, though Sierra didn't understand why anyone would bother returning to a battle that they had already lost without healing.

A casual glance around the area informed her what a more important job was. Sierra crawled over to Sol, who had been knocked out from using his transformation, and who had been deposited rather unceremoniously on the ground. Without thinking about the consequences, She placed a hand over Sol's heart and started sing. The air around them glowed.

((HP: 60, MP: 0/90))
((Sol healed 36))

Sierra's brow furrowed in irritation. Not enough.

She continued singing.

((HP: 35/60, MP: 0/90))
((Sol healed 56 (total)))

Finally she stopped her song. She was starting to cough up blood. But surely that was enough? Before pursuing the rest of the group, she curled up to rest. She felt slightly lightheaded.

But it's a feeling I'll have to get used to..[/b]

[theburntone]

The Predator's armour cracked and disintegrated.

Well, that was helpful.

He was now just plain old Constantine, except that he had his glaive launcher back. His armour, however, was totally drained.

Darn.

The voices giggled, they were too ecstatic with the new power they had found.

"Oh. shut up," Constantine said as he jumped off the roof. The newcomer was rather strong. Hopefully she could beat Nanaya. He was becoming extremely irritating.

HP: 40/40
MP: 0/60

[Mathus]

Sol slowly opened his eyes and stood up.

'Oh boy..thought I was seriously gonna die..'

Sol looked around, he was in a church and Sierra was sitting next to him.

She's the one who healed me huh?..Guessed I owe her now..

"Thank you...you don't have to worry now.."

He said to Sierra whilst patting her head.

[RaineScarlet]

A weight on my head...[/b]

Sol was patting her head. Sierra wasn't sure if it was because of that, or because she felt lightheaded, but she felt a little hot.

"You are well... That's--" She coughed, hiding the blood with her hand.

"Good..."

She averted her eyes.

"I-I have to follow them..." Sierra stammered.

Is this another human reaction? I have seen gratitude before, but experiencing it...[/b]

"I'm worried about Akiha. She was left alone with that boy."

Sierra placed her hand on Sol's.

"You should stay here to rest."

She gazed in the direction of the mansion and tried getting up. Water rose to help her movement. Her limbs were actually still weak from healing, but she tried to hide it.

[Mathus]

'Guess I better go too'

Sol formed his new black steel armor and weapons and rested awhile before leaving the church.

'Hopefully I can survive better..