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Aden and Arche sweatdropped as their food came.
"Yay our food!" Aden chowed heartily on his burger as Arche calmly ate hers.
"Well I don't really have anything to ask," Arche said dabbing her mouth with her napkin. "It seems we have no idea how to cure the curses these people are under, and I doubt we're gonna get anymore hints about how to cure them, so I'm satisfied."
Aden's mouth was too full to say anything.

As soon as Kenta ordered move, she was shoved off and pushed toward the ground as Kenta made himself compterable, leaving her to bounce on the ground. "Ouch, hey!!" grumbling before getting up and dusting herself off. "Dou!" a tad grouchy that she was on the floor now along with the other utensils Kenta knocked off. Not bothering to climb back up she sat on her salt shaker again.

"So remind me..." Kenta said, stuffing himself.
"Why do all of you have these curses and crap again?"

Largo looked at him dumbfounded

((Kalz hi-jacking here due to laziness))

"THAT'S IT!!" Kalz yelled thrusting the table over... then jumping to the ground to scoop Arieta up.

Kalz stood up, placed Arieta on his shoulder and pointed to Kenta who was still sitting trying to eat his fried squid.

"YER NOT KENTASS, ARE YA?!" Kalz yelled.


"Milord," said a cloaked man from the outskirts of the shack.
"They've finally confirmed what we believed to be true. What is our next move?"

"Fufufu..." came the voice of the walkie-talkie.
"Capture the impostor and tell Gabu that he may destroy the city as he pleases! If either of you feel the need to capture anyone else, by all means, do so. Today is a great day, after all, hahah!!"

The cloaked man threw his walkie talkie into the air, thus signaling something to his partner who was also cloaked on the other side.

"About time," the other cloaked man said.

He quickly threw his cloak off revealing his maroon spiked hair and embedded jewel. His purple robe with white lines running down was not needed to be noticed, because he quickly began his metamorphosis into his demonic dragon form. Gabu was now ready to raze the city as he saw fit. He began by breathing fire over nearby buildings.

Back at the restaurant the trouble could be started to here brewing...

"Fine..." 'Kenta' said.
"I'm not your most hated whatever. But hey, you guys seemed to have lacked a leader and all... So I just took it up. Though I was in contact with the real Kenta not too long ago..."

Kalz gave a cold stare at the impostor.

"For real!" the impostor said.
"Ya gotta trust me on this..."

"Regardless," Largo said, standing up.
"Trouble seems to be brewing within the city. It's fight or flight. Kenta, impostor or not, I still respect you as a superior. What are your orders?"

The fake Kenta gave a small smirk at Largo.
"Protect the city of course!" the impostor said, grabbing his sword.
"Let's go."

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~Barbatos' scheme~

Meanwhile... Somewhere near the Tree of Life...

Barbatos stood atop Draconis, giving a devilish smirk at the tree it self.
"Looks like your time is up," Barbatos said.

He put his axe up and said his favorite phrase, and began attacking the tree head on. Some remaining elf guards came to the scene... but due to lack of flight, and Barbatos' altitude in the sky with his airship, they were currently unable to reach him.

"Very soon... very soon..." Barbatos cackled as he continued to cast Burn Strike at the tree.

One enormous branch became completely incinerated from the assault, breaking off and falling into the lush forests below.

Barbatos couldn't contain his laughter. With Kenta currently under his own spell, Barbatos had the freedom to execute his own plans. With such luxury meant more threat than thought possible. A comparison that could be made would be killing Davy Jones whilst still in control of the Krakken, setting the Krakken free to wreak havoc as it pleased. Except unlike the Krakken, Barbatos was human, capable of planning, and enjoying the suffering of others. Which he seemed to be getting a lot of currently as he watched the tree continue to burn. Now he just had to wait for his two officers to finish their role of capturing the impostor and destroying the Elven village. All was going according to plan.

"That would be the least of your worries," said the other cloaked figure, as he approached the whole group.

He threw off his cloak to reveal his golden lion helm, along with his other golden armor. He drew his sword and whistled, calling out his lion pet.

"I am Sabnock," he said.
"I serve Lord Barbatos. I have come here for that impostor you call Kenta, along with whatever else I can take as hostages. So prepare yourselves, hahaha!!"

"KENTA!" Largo called.
"What of the city?!"

The fake Kenta hesitated and motioned Largo to lead the group away from the shack.

"I'll take care of this idiot," the impostor said.
"You guys go get rid of what that other nuisance in the city is doing."

Largo nodded and directed the group out the exit. Sabnock's lion friend quickly followed though. After getting out it jumped Largo.

"GO!" Largo yelled.
"Kill whatever is causing damage to the village!! I'll take care of this... I AM Black LION Largo after all!!"

Largo threw the lion off him with his scythe and began to engage in combat as he watched the others run for it.

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"Looks like that blue-haired forgot something," Sabnock said revealing something in his hands.

'Kenta' gave a very "WTF?" look as Sabnock showed Arieta to him.
"...that was an odd thing to pick up," he said.
"...er... person... yeah... So what the heck are you planning on doing?"

"I think I have a hostage situation here, so..." Sabnock began.

"Well," the imposter said.
"I kind of don't care about the girl so... Bad choice of a hostage!"

He gave a little gleeful smile as he charged at Sabnock. Due to the fact Sabnock was still holding the girl in his palm he was handicapped to only using one hand with his sword.

"Besides," the impostor said.
"She can still attack. She's a bit... too close to your skin right now. I feel sorry for you once she manages to free your hand over~"

He pulled back and slid across the floor, giving a smirk.

Even though Arieta had no intention of staying back, she was small and in the hands of their opponent, drawing her only sword she stabbed it into the man's palm, freezing it there till it was at least an inch stuck into his hand. "Icicle!!" calling out before jumped back from the falling icicles. To her surprise, they were fairly large but it didn't seem to hurt him as much, though he was in pain she had to say. Arieta growled, running up to her sword again since only the palm seemed frozen and managed to extend it to the entire hand. She turned, sticking her tongue out as she raised her arm. "Blizzard!!" with that, she jumped off, leaving her sword and froze his entire hand. Wasnt' sure how long it would last, but to her judgement at that size, probably a couple days or two.

The girl had ran far enough and she did, she was somehow large again. She placed her hands on her knees, catching her breath from running so far. Although, Arieta was now separated from the group and she had no idea where Kalz had gone.

"Oooh man..This isn't good.." she muttered, realizing that she had recklessly threw her sword into that man's palm and was left with nothing but the sheath and her magic. Perhaps if she had more time and possibly more money, she'd get herself some new clothes and a new weapon right away.

Malakai looked in horror when she reached what used to be the front steps of her house. Her house was barely standing. Several walls were destroyed and some were burnt.
Malakai: "MOTHER! Mother, where are you?!" *frantically searches through the destroyed mess*
Guy: "Malakai! Where did you-" *looks in shock and horror at the destroyed home and the desperate Malakai searching for any survivors*
Malakai: "Mother, please answer me! Where are you?! Ahhh!" *screams as she lifted up the last piece of wood in the pile she was searching in*
A elf woman was laying on the ground. She was badly burnt and had several cuts and bruises on her.
Malakai: "No! Mother, please wake up! Tell me, who did this to you?!"
Malakai's mother: *no response*
Malakai: *storms out of the ruined house, with her hands gripping her twin guns*
Ion: "Malakai!"
Guy: "Come back, it's not safe to go alone!"
Malakai: *notices a shadow in the air a little from her, and starts shooting at it*

Arieta turned, looking behind her and slowly walked backwards. She bumped into something and it scared her terribly when a glass was knocked over, possibly giving away that she was still near.

"Crap" she muttered, taking back door out which, surprisingly nobody was around. Though Arieta did wound up toward the front again where Largo and that man was about to go at it. Kalz was somehow with him..and dragon? Like hell anybody could take that on no matter what number they had, she had to get out. Although with things how it seems, there might not be a chance for the girl to even move from where she was....there was the roof but that would be obvious to any oncoming archers.

She shook her head "Better then sitting around" muttering to herself before turning behind her and ran down a dead-end alleyway and rebounded against the walls to catch herself up on the roof where a sudden arrow came at her and she nearly fell. "Whoa!" keeping her grip, Arieta pulled herself up and ran to the other side.