As Cid finished with those words, her eyes trailed down to the ground where Skurai was painting out a symbol. "A sacrifice?"

"It's the cat right? You only need to scarifice the cat! You can let the rest of us go? Pretty please?!"

OOC: Does your guy even know he's magic immune(Death wise)?

[OOC] yea, but he still doesn't like to get hurt, and the wizard might use a normal dagger[OOC]

Earlier

"I don't know anything about a wizard." The thief leader blubbed as he saw Cid approach with the burning knife.

"I know I just have to make this convincing." Cid said. He pressed the knife against the thiefs arm and was met by the smell of burning flesh. and the sounds of painful screaming.

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"People change a lot from a loyal page to the king, don't they, Lynx." Tama said to Lynx. Cid did his best not to laugh. <If you only knew.>

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The beast gently kicked his playmate out of the way as they had coreographed for many months. The Dragoon took this time to killl the beast. Breaking the ruitine but not the purpose of it.

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Cid pretended to drink and succomb to the narcotic in the water. He soon arose and rang the hidden bell in the cave. Soon a throng of magical beasts came out and brought the prisoners into the castle above.

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"Oh Skurai, I should mention the Avion killed your little pet. I assume you'll make him pay for that won't you?" Cid said to the dark wizard.

"Of course I worked hard on that masterpiece." Skurai replied. as he continued to paint the symbol on the floor of the chamber.

Even if the thieves weren't part of his group, he is still a fool for killing the leader. He could have easily recruited him, and probably a force of bandits across the country... He just made enemies with a guild of thieves... Lynx was going over everything that had happened in his head.

She focused mostly now on the symbol that was being drawn on the floor, trying to recognize it if she could. Of course it was from the dark arts, but what exactly was it used for? Maybe she could...

"Skurai, do you really think you're going to be able to pull off that spell against me?" She tried to pull a bluff, hoping maybe he'd think she was more powerful than she actually was. "And even if you could, how do you know that Cid isn't going to betray you as well and kill you too?"

Thid perked up when he heard Dawn's argument. "Yea, think about it, how do you know he didn't kill your pet on purpose so it couldn't help you when he decides to finish you off! And look at his past track record with dealing with people, it doesn't exactly boast for your retirement options."

Thid thought, whew, Dawn's plan is alot better than mine...his name doesn't even sound too much like Sakura anyways...

Ark came to after listening a bit. It hit him. Cid hadn't counted on him being here. He'd never signed up. And, Cid didn't really know about the phase power.

"Ta-ta." He phased. But, instead of falling down, or hell even up, he shot right across the room following gravity and went through Lynx.

He hit the floor with a thump. Above him he heard cries of rage.

His head was swimming, and he realized, the mage had fucked gravity over. He slowly got up and heard something approaching.

He jumped to his feet. A man/goat/wolf thing ran at him. He sidestepped and neatly kicked it in the face then punched it in the gut. It's grip on it's cruel sword loosened enough for Ark to get it away, and cut it's head off.

He ran out of a doorway, and saw....stairs. Lots, and lots of stairs. Majority defying gravity. He ran down some and through a door. And was all the way across the room. He bolted through another hall. The hallway extended and flipped. He was suddenly standing on the ceiling.

With a walk of confusion, he found himself back in the stair room.

"Oh fuck it all."

OOC: Before you complain, this way it buys more time. Wizard's domain, Ark running loose, who knows what abominations on the loose, etc. Wizard will have to focus a wee bit more on the spell and ignore what's going on.

[OOC]wait a tic, i thought it was ghost's character that phased [OOC]