HiddenSides(1x1)

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The witch grit her teeth at Adreal's insult and squeezed the bones. Bard fell over, screaming in pain as he flickered between him and Asmund, both of them writhing in pain until she loosened her grip. "I will keep time from killing them. By the time I am done with them time wont even be able to touch them."

Astra stepped between the twins and the witch, glaring at her. "You can't have them. Hand over the bones and pick a new price because they are apart of our pack now." She warned, extending her hands for the bones.

Oliver looked around nervously at the plants that were beginning to move, covering the doors and windows, slowly cutting off the bits of light that slipped through into the dusty air. He nudged lily to get her attention and nodded up at the plants moving above them, hoping she could do something about it before the fight started.

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Adreal just rolled his eyes a bit then said: "Honestly that is also no way to answer a question." He clearly didnt mind going on with his point of view but also didnt risk saying everything on his mind at the moment.

Aonani shook her head and said: "No, they arent bad people, leave them alone." She held the two close wishing she could take away the pain while tears just builds up in her eyes.

Lily felt Oliver nudge her and nearly jumped because of it but then looked up at what was happening and then gave a small nod before slowly letting go of the arm of Mace and used her magic fo clear them away from the door and windows keeping light in as much as she could.

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The witch suddenly looked over, her milky eyes locking on Lily as she moved the plants back. "They stole from me. They came uninvited to my home and took that magic for themselves, just as you intend to do yourself." Suddenly the plants snapped back into place, plunging them into complete darkness. "I wont let strangers take from me again."

A crack split through the darkness and Aonani felt Bard be pulled from her. Mace growled and tried to grab hold of Lily to protect her but in human form he couldn't see anything. He shifted into his wolf form, accidentally knocking Oliver over on top of Iris causing them both to scream in fright, but now he could see. The woman had broken the ropes that held the bones together. Everyone was moving and it was hard to make out who was who but he could tell instantly there was too many people here. Mischievous grins broke across the two dazed expressions before the flames ignited.

Astra screamed as Bard suddenly ignited beside her, catching her clothes and hair on fire as she stumbled back into a shelf of ingredients. She looked horrified at the mess around them. Both of the twins were present and separated, appearing as Aonani had seen them in the mirror. Bard had his eyes focused on her and raised the sword he had brought above his head, preparing to stab into her but she sent a blast at him, knocking him back a few feet but he retaliated by throwing a fireball at her that crashed into her shoulder, causing her to scream in pain.

Asmund created a spear of ice and looked for his first target, the wolf. It leapt at him, its fangs barred as it tried to dig its claws into him. He swiftly formed a shield of ice and used it to knock the wolf off of him and onto the floor, stabbing at it with his spear causing blood to splatter across the wooden floor and the wolf's yelp of pain to fill the dark air. The only light in the room came from Bard's fire, distorting everything, but he didnt need to see since the witch was the one really pulling the strings for the both of them.

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Lily groans as the plants got snapped back sending a wave of energy to painfully shoot through her, then it was complete darkness, she tried finding Mace but it was pretty much impossible. She did however soon realized he shifted forms and then just returned her attention back to the plants trying to reopen them as she heard the screams and shouting starting, the twins now seems to have started attacking them. She tried keeping her attention on the plants but it wasnt there for long when she heard Mace being stabbed. She hurried to the side yelling: "Stop it Asmund!" Then tried finding Mace through the dark.

Adreal growls but his night vision soon came into place and he looked around then over at the witch saying: "You know, you are really starting to tick me off, I swear if your the grandmother of Alistorm I wouldnt be surprised, your both butt holes of people! What part of us looking for help don't your little head understand! Old people are supposed to be wise not acting like this!" He summoned his weapons and then hurried to Bard to get his attention off Astra and rather onto him.

Aonani gasps a bit and tried finding the two only to hear them attacking the others. She then yelled: "You two stop! Please! It's just us!" But she knew they weren't themselves, the witch controlled them and she couldn't stop that either.

Jonathan looks around trying to find Oliver and keep him close and then said: "What the heck do we even do now?" He tried thinking of a way to get out of this mess but this sudden attack seems to have had everyone off guard.

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Asmund turned away from Mace who was struggling to breathe on the floor, his paws scratching the floor and smearing the pool of blood that extended from him. Top two targets down, Bard had the third, onto the fourth. He turned his eyes to Aonani and quickly stabbed at her as ice shot up from the floor and tried to encase her wing, but the temperature in the house was rising quickly from Bard causing the ice to be weak.

Bard turned to Adreal as he charged at him. He slashed at him with his sword as he tried to set up a wall of fire between him and the others to keep the fight just between him and Adreal, but the water from Asmund was extinguishing it and causing smoke to fill the enclosed house.

Astra was huddled against the wall, her hands shaking as she struggled to heal the burn wounds on her before shock could set in.

Oliver coughed and pulled Jonathan to the ground beside Iris and Cathryn to escape the smoke as he looked at the fight, illuminated by Bard. "We need the bones." he said as he looked past the twins to where the old woman sat, her fingers rubbing across the surface of the bones. He squeezed his eyes shut as he tried to remember everything Bard had said. Focus on his emotions. If the others were going to win they needed better light, light that he could give if he would just stop panicking and cheer up for even just a minute. He pressed his forehead to the floor and covered his ears with his hands, slowly starting to hum a song. Faintly he began to glow, helping to light up the house a bit but not enough to help with the fight.

Iris cursed as she saw Oliver fail at making enough light for the fight to win. "Plan B. Cat, get the bones." She said before pushing herself up from the floor and drawing her knife. She ran for the woman. All she needed to do was grab ahold of her and they could get the twins back under their control. She dove under the wave of fire Bard sent at her but ducking from them meant having to accept the shards of ice that rose up, one of them stabbing into iris' arm. She cried out in pain but kept moving forward, knowing that at least ehr dash would distract them from noticing a cat slipping around the edge of the room.

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Lily hurried to find Mace and finally managed to feel him on the ground hearing his heard breathing and knew that it might have stabbed through his lung so she hurried and tried finding the wound to start healing it before it causes his death. Her eyes slowly started getting use to the dark but she still couldn't see much.

Adreal jumped out of the way as the slash came then watched the walls come and go rather quickly so he just attacked again shooting towards his leg not wanting to cause to much damage to them knowing they couldn't help their behavior.

Jonathan felt himself get pulled down and moved closer to Oliver coughing a but with the smoke going around, soon he said: "Alright, the bones." He looks towards the direction of the old lady then watched Oliver trying to light up the place, which didn't go the best but hey what was there happy to even think about right now? Jonathan looks at Iris and decided to help so went dashing towards the old lady much like she did but from a different side, just to add some extra distractions.

Cathryn watched them and then locked her eyes on the bones, reaching through towards it at the blind sides as quickly as she could. She watched the others figting and attacking and then looks back at the old witch before she jumped up and grabbed the bones swiftly, running off to a small hole in the wall to place them in and hide from any coming attacks.

Aonani could see Asmund coming to attack her, she barely managed to miss the stap from his weapon but it did cause one of the rising ice to stab her wing. She groans then quickly placed up a force field to cover herself from the attacks but she doubt it would hold with the power they had.

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Bard turned and cut into Jonathan's stomach as he tried to run past but it forced him to accept the wound from Adreal. He growled in pain and stabbed at Adreal again but it was halted as Cathryn stole the bones.

Both twins stood motionless as soon as control of them transferred to Cathryn. Each time she accidentally touched the bones together the twins got pulled towards one another but still their faces remained expressionless.

The witch released a furious shreak as she felt the cat rip the bones from her hands. It didn't matter, they were all so heavily wounded that she had the upper hand still. She heard Oliver hive a cry of excitement as he managed to glow, filling the house with light, and made him her next target. The vines came to life and shot out to attack everyone. Oliver screamed as one wrapped around his throat and yanked him into the air bit he refused to stop glowing, knowing Lily needed the light to heal Mace.

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Jonathan groaned and then fell to his knees just holding the cut wound before he saw the light out of Oliver, however it turned back to going bad as the vine grabbed Oliver by the neck lifting him up. Jonathan hurried up and over then used his claws to try cutting down the vines and free Oliver from it as quickly as possible.

Cathryn hid in the hole and watched the twins realizing they were still pretty much being controlled by these bones, she also knew that destroying them could kill teh twins so she instead tried seeing if she could get the two back onto each other and get them off the spell.

Lily hurried to Mace as soon as she had the ability to see then worked quickly to start healing his wound. Singing out her spell and then just watched it glow and close so sighs in relief, but this fight was far from done. She looked at the vines how starting to fight them so used her own magic to try take control of the plants and stop them from attacking or at least make it harder to do so. Which would slow them down and give the others a bunch of more time.

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Oliver fell to the ground when Jonathan cut the vine, coughing and gasping for air. The light flickered for a moment but he managed to sustain it for the others.

Astra tried to jold back the vines that were attacking her but though Lily's powers against them were helping she was still getting overwhelmed and torn apart by the thorns like all of the others.

As soon as Cathryn put the bones back together and stopped touching them the twins got dragged back into eachother and formed one person again. Bard looked around confused for a moment but quickly got his barrings. He ignited himself again, the flames causing the heat in the room to be overwhelming but made it so the vines couldnt touch him. He walked quickly to the old woman who was desperately trying to find a way to protect herself but it was too late. Bard stabbed through her with his sword, watching bitterly as the life drained from her face and only removed the sword when all of the vines fell to the floor. "Who's not dead?" He asked, turning to the others and extinguishing his flames.

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Jonathan fell down again and groaned, unable to protect himself from the cutting vines but soon he could feel them stop, everything seems to finally go quiet too. He looked over at Oliver and then just hugged him close and sighs in relief while he asked: "Are you okay?" He then looked up at Bard who seemed to have killed the witch and then said: "Nope, still alive."

Adreal fought of the attacking vines best he could and was only glad when it came to an end, he then groans and said: "That did not go as planned... at all." He sits down on the floor to catch his breath and looked over at the others saying: "Well, we seem pretty alive to me at least."

Cathryn came out of her hiding spot and rushed over saying: "Okay Okay okay, who needs some serious healing?... and what the heck do we do with those creepy bones?" She shifted into her human form and hurried over to Iris and then looks at Bard saying: "Thank goodness your back to your senses."

Aonani groans and placed her hand on the wounds of her wings then looks at Bard saying: "Are you two okay?" She force herself to her feet and looked at the others who were all pretty beat up. She then said: "Let's heal up everyone."

Lily groans after that attack and then just sits down against Mace, checking his wound again glad it fully closed up and then just closed her own eyes to catch her breath and get back some energy.