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"Moonshine? What is that? Some kind of herb, spice, liquid? Where can we get some?" Dagan looked determined as he spoke, but a frown soon doned his face as he saw how quiet his father had gotten.

Ryo simply stood, quiet and listening. He didn't know what to think, what to believe. All he could do was find a way to reverse it all.

"But we can't....wait..." Dagan turned eagerly to his father. "Dad! You can fly! You can use your energy wings to fly up there and get some of that moonshine stuff!"

"No I can't....The energy wings won't take me that far. I'm too weak to make it there without falling to my doom. Besides, I'd probably end up breaking the stupid vial before I..." Before Ryo could even finish, his face was smacked by his son.

"Enough of that Dad! Quit giving up! You never let me do it, so I can't let you do it either! Do you love this woman or not, Dad?"

Ryo's eyes widened as he heard his son speak, let alone smack him in the face. The smack must have knocked the right amount of sense he needed into Ryo's brain, because he looked to Taig. "Could I...give it a try?"

"I'll do whatever I can for her. I just need to know where to find this, how to get there, and what I have to do. Leave the rest to me!" Ryo's cunning grin came back to him, his old self back, ready to take on another challenge.

Ryo did as he was told and extended his hands out, palms facing upward. He blinked a bit, wondering what would happen next. He gave a gaze to Dagan, smiled, then looked back to the angel's attendant.

Ryo twitched a bit, feeling the pulse of energy seeping into his body. He was shaking a bit, filling up with what he needed. However, Ryo didn't say stop for at least a minute. After shouting "STOP", he was pulsing with the energy of the newfound friend!

Ryo took one last look to his son before his energy wings dispatched from within his back. They seemed to shine much more brightly than usual, enough to make Dagan have to cover his eyes as his father hovered out the door. Moments later, Ryo bursted straight into the sky, increasing speed by the second. Reaching at least ten thousand feet high, a trail of light followed Ryo as he pushed the energy out of him in order to boost him above the clouds. Sweat began to come down his face as he continued to force the energy to propel him upward and strengthen his wings. Just as he was about to let go, he passed through the clouds....gazing upon a sight few mortals have ever seen before.

(g2g)

Saradin held his eyes on his copy, watching the weapon he held. Threat assesment was the first thing that came to mind, count the weapons and capability. "Three rounds left and..."
"two clips in the back pocket..."
"And the one Aurahkah has..."
"...still has one in the chamber."
"And if he's at all like us,"
"another 20 bullets between them."
"There's little way to prove which is which."
"Agreed."
"You wont give yourself away, no chance having to reload and take us on..."
"No mind games, that dinged sword won't keep you safe if you do anything strange."
They both tensed equally, trying to keep from acting as long as this stalemate held. Their third copy had yet to say anything, strange considering the lockdown between them all.

Leni broke the freeze,launching out of the fight, and towards a new target with one gun still in his hand and readying something worse to strike her down. Aurahkah was in the line of fire.

As soon as he had party stirred, both others looked over at his target fear apparent on them. Then both lunged at each other, acting on the impression that the other would attack if they acted to help. The sword struck first and both weapons were torn from the grasps that held them. Both scrambled for weapons hastily in the commotion. One found the gun and twisted around to fire three seperate bullets with nervewrackingly perfect accuracy at the one who charged Aurahkah.

Leni's gun locked onto Aurahkah, and his finger tensed on the trigger. Two of the bullets fired at him missed by the breadth of a hair, but the third spilt open Leni's shoulder, splaying blood around them while he wracked in pain. Leni's gun fired. Luckily, his aim was thrown enough in his pain that his shot passed right over her shoulder, missing completely.

Leni vanished into the depths of other realities while the other two were locked on one another. Final words came from the Saradin who now carried the sword. "Those were your last three bullets."

Sweat beaded in a couple droplets sliding down Saradin's forehead. Now he had an empty gun and his foe could cut him down before he could reload. Had his actions been a mistake, trying to protect Aurah? Instead of taking the oportunity though, his other self actually lowered his weapon.

"Why did you do that?"
"I could ask the same of you."
"I wanted to protect Aurahkah."
"I saw. But why? I'm the real Saradin."
"I thought we agreed no mind games to confuse things more."
"You instinctively covered her, genuinely trying to protect her. Not everything about you wants us dead."
"SHUT UP! You don't know anything!"
"Why then?"

Saradin tossed the gun away, his hand trembling as he did so. He was obviously paniced, defeat was mocking him now, and he couldnt tell anymore if he wanted to win at all. Rather than sit under the probing eyes of them both he carried himself off into the dark realm he was spawned of, slinking off to try to understand himself.