Absorption

[Zero]

Winds blew across the outerverse and a strange kind of light that Kai had never used before appeared in the outerverse illuminating it. What was happening was the arrival of Aria Tyris. Aria had come here merely to siphon off all the genesis/phoenix magic that K2323 or Hikaru may have left in this area at the instructions of Order Tyris who was at the moment busy raising warriors to fight for him.

Aria held out her hand glowing with the gold of her genesis magic and the black of her Negion simultaneously and a spell formed. This was a unique spell that would absorb only that which was K2323's or Hikaru's from this area and completely remove it.

"Genesis Aura!" She commanded and a  copy of her Negion Aura spell but made out of genesis formed around herself. If anyone tried to waste her the spell would stop her from being killed or having her soul removed.

[Queen Bright]

Out of seemingly nowhere the air began to distort in upon its self, looking like a black hole without the black. Out of the hole, two people were squeezed out like toothpaste out of a tube.  One being a girl with bright orange hair and cloaked in green. The other, cloaked in off-black gray and hooded where only her eyes could be seen.

"Wow, This place sure has changed." Exclaimed the first girl, as she glanced around the area of the Outerverse she and her partner were in; a little ways away from Aria. "I don't sense Mistress Hikaru's magic signature anywhere. Did she lose the Outerverse, I wonder? Quickly shaking her head, the girl dismissed the thought as quickly as it came. "I didn't think it was possible."

At this the other girl spoke up, "Mistress Hikaru? Is that the sage you had mentioned before?"

The first girl nodded, her green eyes scanning the distance. "Yep. She was my master before I left along with her. But then we went our separate ways, and I haven't seen her since." Pausing her speech for a moment, she held up her hand and focused, doing what seemed like a scan of the area. "Wait! Echo! I think I sense something."

Grabbing the second girls hand, the first ran forward to the source of the magic signature she had sensed; Aria.

[Zero]

Aria upon hearing the voices got two conflicting thoughts. One of those thoughts was that the Anrufe had sent two new recruits and the other was that it was no one to worry about it. Naturally the prior thought won out and so she made a wall of air that would stop them from coming any closer to her until they identified themselves. She was not going to let them take her soul organ if they were Anrufe or if they weren't.

On the wind her voice could be heard "Who are you?"

[Queen Bright]

"Wait for me Inari!" the second girl, Echo, called out. By the time she had caught up to the first girl, both girls quite literally smacked into the wall. They may have been magic users, but they were far from intelligent, and a bit too gullible..

"Oww! Who the heck puts an invisible wall up?!" The first girl, Inari, shouted in automatic reaction. She quickly stood up and dusted herself off, bending over to help up Echo. "Wait... I hear something."

Echo stood up to join Inari, her eyes on where the 'wall was.' "So do I. Think it's friend or foe?"

"Most likely the magic signature I sensed. At first it feels like Mistress Hikaru, but now, it feels... different. Inari stood by Echo and eyed the wall as well. Finally with agreeance from her partner, she called out. "We're friends!We come in peace! Whatever you do, don't attack!" Then jokingly added"Your wall already did all the attacking for you"

[Zero]

Aria extended her conciousness outward reaching towards their minds. She would simply verify that they said they were friends. The wall had faded out of existence in order that she might not accidentally harm them. She didn't sense Zere or Blue Zero or Chaos or any that were having the familiar Anrufe signature and so she smiled.  She pointed her hand at them calmly. "You want to be trained by me?"

Holding her palm out she dissolved whatever remained of the wall. However she quickly put up an Anti Teleportation and Anti Portal field made of her own magic to prevent the arrival of the more unsavory aspects of her family/the anrufe or Kai. She wanted nothing to do with any of them and so she would be prepared in case they tried to show up.

"I am sorry for stranding you here, but it is more for my protection than for yours since I don't want the Anrufe to try and gain your soul organ from your body. "

[Ino]

Back at the river, Ari contemplated on even coming out here, to the Outerverse. When someone writes a letter, any kind of letter, in blood (or cut outs from magazines and such) then you know that it's best to not follow through with what it says. Blood and cut outs are default ways in which to cause fear and terror within a person. No one established it, aside from the fact that it was only used for those particular purposes. In a way, it established itself to be a horryfing way to write to someone.

Anyway, here Ari found herself, covered in a thin blanket of darkness as she stared out into the enviroment. She wasn't really sure as to what it looked like, but she could hear voices, which is why she made sure she was thoroughly concealed behind the black. Tendrils of the darkness swirled around her, gently brushing her face and causing her to feel prickly and itchy. One of the tendrils wrapped gently around her wrist, and now matter how many times she moved it, it would follow with, like a leash. Sighing, Ari brushed it away ever so gently to avoid causing more itchiness in her wrist. It coiled away at her touched and disappeared. Why the darkness had taken such a fondness for her, she had no idea, but she lived with it.

Ari's eyes turned to slits as she tried to spot where the voices were coming from. She strained so hard that she didn't realize she was allowing the darkness to disappear until she was already revealed, the only thing left was a ring of it around her right wrist, the same pesky tendril she shooed away before. "Hello?"

[Zero]

Aria could sense no magic from Echo but from Inari she could sense magic. Who were these strange people? Well she intended to find out after she killed them of course. They would pose a threat to Order and so she with a simple flick of the wrist made the air condense into black flames which came at them quickly.

[Ino]

Deciding to show and reveal herself and the fact that she was here made Ari decide that, hey, she could probably sing her way to being spotted. So, there she was, leaping out into the open to reveal herself with, in her opinion, beautiful singing voice. "I invite you to a world where there is no such thing as time..." she cried, her voice raising in mulitple octaves.

[Zero]

A black ball of fire from Aria came to the source of the singing. It would blast the singer hopefully but this blast would be mild compared to the one used against Echo or the other one.

[Queen Bright]

Inari merely tilted her head to the side and gave Aria a puzzled look, while Echo just stood there silent. "Why would we want to be trained by you?" Studying her for a bit, her puzzlement only grew.

Echo stood by and watched the exchange between Inari and Aria. Her Nihil was acting up, and had been since they had appeared in the area. She didn't know if it was the magic of this stranger, or what else could it be. She was sure it wasn't Inari. The two had done many trials, in order to tame it to to accept the young fox sage's magic. But whatever it was giving off the reaction, it wasn't a good one. The Nihil within her was acting hostile, on guard, and seemed vengeful against even the ground its self.

And she was about to find out why...

"Inari watch out!" Echo shouted, as Inari ceased her talking and turned to look back at her companion; completely unaware of the fire attack that had just come their way. Luckily Echo was already on top of things, and a wave of nothing, but really of something, sweeped around the two of them, picking up dust in a whirlwind of 'nothing,' and fizzled out the fire before it hit.

But at that time, another person had entered the area and seemed to be...........singing?
Both girls looked on in a mixture of puzzled bewilderment and exasperation, from being attacked, at the new arrival.

[Zero]

"I wasn't aiming at you." said Aria panic stricken for a brief moment as a blast of dark energy came towards her from Kyle Leaving's staff.

"Aura!" said Aria and a protective dome covered them all. "How did you stop my magic?"

[Queen Bright]

Since the Nihil had counteracted Aria's magic, it now saw her as a threat. Thanks to this, a wave of it hit the barrier and slowly brought it down, Echo unable to control it. "..." Echo stayed silent at the question, as if afraid to answer,  while Inari answered for her.

"We have our ways. I'm sorry, but Echo doesn't want to give it out, as we've heard people have been losing their magic lately. It could be rumors, but it's better safe than sorry." Glancing up, she observed the barrier coming down, slightly alarmed.

[Zero]

Aria quickly concentrated and a shield of hard diamond rose around them hopefully preventing Kyle from murdering them. "Give me your Genesis Aria and I shall leave you alive to watch the end game."  Aria thinking on that "Never."  At that great fiery wings burst from her back, she was obviously beginning to get angry. Perhaps if Echo and Inari took down the guy she would calm down.  The air began to heat up inside the crystal dome.

[Queen Bright]

"Fire Wings? Genesis?" Inari now looked more puzzled than ever. Looking from the wings, to Aria, and then pondering on the words of Kyle. She knew it wasn't Mistress Hikaru, but then... What was going on...? Too bad now was not the time. "Echo, I think we need a shield. Can you handle it?"

Standing beside the other two girls, Echo held her hands together in almost a motion of praying, sweat seemed to drop from her face. "I-I don't think so." She stuttered, as the diamond shield vibrated slightly, like an invisible force was trying to break it. The grass and ground beneath them, also vibrating. "I don't know what's going on. I can't control 'it.' Even if it was just this girl, and that boy. It wouldn't react this badly. It's been hostile ever since we even got here."

Still looking alarmed, Inari snapped her fingers, realization finally hitting her. "It's this place, Echo! OH! Am I so stupid! We should not have come here. The Outerverse is one of the most magical places around, if not the highest, the land its self is covered in magic, under the ground is magic. This whole dimension is magic. Of course it would affect you." Smacking her palm to her face, Inari looked ashamed. "Damn I'm so stupid. We need to get out of here."

Echo nodded in agreement. The reaction of the Nihil was so strong now, she couldn't talk, and the Diamond barrier had started cracking.  Taking out a black and silver staff, she handed it to Inari, meeting the other girls eyes, and once more nodding as Inari understood.

"Right! I'm sorry, forgive me for this later!" Already knowing what to do, as they had trained for situations before, she took the staff, swung it back, and, "THUD," right into Echo's head. Echo falling to the ground, knocked out. The vibrations gone.

After making the staff disappear for the time being, Inari bent down and hoisted up Echo onto her back, and carried her. "Miss, Uhhhh... Well, you! I guess we haven't properly introduced ourselves.. Well I'm Inari, and who I just knocked out was my friend Echo. I would love to find out why you seem to have the same power as Mistress Hikaru, and why he thinks you have her brothers powers. But.... Uh, we need to get out of here! Asap!"

[Zero]

“I am like Hikaru except that I have Genesis Magic along with 2 other magic types at my disposal.” Said Aria kindly to Inari and for the benefit of Echo. “I am sorry if what I did was alarming you, I was aiming for Kyle to stop him.”

Fire began to gather in her palm forming into a half sphere and her fist changed color to a grayish pigment for a few moments and her arm extended outwards toward Kyle to punch it through him in order to eliminate the threat   

Kyle seeing the Phoenix Fire headed at him knew that likely it was laced with Genesis Magic and Negion simultaneously and so the best bet would be to avoid it. Jumping to one side he fired lightning at her, he was just intending to stun her and take her Genesis from her.

Aria seeing the lightning moved a foot ever so slightly and vines rose up catching the lightning so that it was ineffective against her. 

 
As the vines blocked his attack Kyle decided he would simply freeze her which as he cooled the air with his staff, didn’t work quite like he intended. Aria was resistant to the cold being a Phoenix and said “Inari, you have to get all three of us out of here before I go berserk. “  Her power was not fully mastered yet and she was worried about going berserk.

[Queen Bright]

As Inari was about to teleport them all out of there, the Nihil around Echo reacted the last minute, messing with her spell. By the time she had realized it. It was too late. Where they ended up? The world may never know.

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