Preparing for departure

[Lance]

Lance used his momentum to vault over the wrought iron fence that surrounded the Mansion, there was a squad of unconscious guards scattered about the lawn like bowling pins. Lance chuckled and set Luna down. "Heh, Gotta say, Karma looks awesome." Lance walked into the mansion, arriving just in time to see the Earl piss himself in fear. "Pfftt...PFFFTAHAHAHA! Ah...ah my god! THAT is beautiful!"

Lance clapped his hands and walked over to the earl, drawing his knives as he did. "Hey Earl, remember me, I'm the "Murican" you met earlier?" Lance whipped one of the knives at the earl's head, narrowly avoiding the man's face. "I gotta say, I thought you just looked like an asshole, but man was I WRONG!" Lance punctuated his sentence with another knife, this one actually slicing a thin cut in the man's cheek.

"You let children starve...You show people that it's alright for them to lord their power over others that aren't able to fight back...well guess what you fat glob of shit?" Lance roared in anger and dashed forward using his wind magic again, the blast of air smashing a hole in the mansion wall behind him as he grabbed the Earl and slammed him against the wall behind him, drawing his sword and plunging it into the wall inches from the Earl's throat. "Now I have the power, and you can do fuck all to stop me from killing you, and nailing your severed head to a post outside of town! So I wanna hear you scream, cry, beg me not to kill you, and MAYBE I'll spare your useless life!" Lance's voice was dripping with hatred, the hand on his blade shaking from the effort it took to not simply cut the man's head off.

[Arin]

Aria saw Lance rush for the earl and started walking closer to Lance while focusing on keeping Arin pinned to the ground "Lunaris, calm Arin down. I'll keep him immobile until you can snap him out of his rage." She was now a few yards away from Lance and the earl, talking calmly so as not to push Lance's temper any further "Lance, that is enough. You've proven your point. I will be delivering his punishment personally, now let him go." As Lance kept the earl pinned to the ground, he could notice a foul smell filling the air, getting stronger the further down people tracked the scent, until ending at the horrified earl's pants.

[Tetsuya]

Luna immediately moved to Arin, kneeling in front of his line of sight to the Earl. "Hey now, knock it off you silly goof. I'm supposed to be the angry one in this relationship, remember? I know he's done a lot of evil just to line his own damn pockets, but Aria will put him in place now. You've done enough now, you even made the bastard piss himself," she said as she placed her hand on Arin's cheek.

[Lance]

Lance's scoffed and tossed the earl onto the ground, spitting on the man before moving to retrieve his knives. "Fucking maggot, he's worthless as anything but worm food. You should just end him and save yourself some wasted effort." Lance sheathed his knifes and retrieved his sword, walking over to Arin, "Yo, hero boy. Don't you have some grand destiny to fulfill?" Lance squatted down and stabbed his sword into the ground, using it as a handhold to maintain his balance. "Listen to the lady man, I can tell you from experience that the women in your life are right 9 and a half times out of ten." Lance's tone was oddly conversational, considering that he had just threatened to decapitate a man and turn his head into a trophy not 30 seconds before. Lance held out his hand, offering Arin aid in getting up, "Now let's get you up and at 'em, we've got a road trip to go on."

[Arin]

Arin was straining against his invisible binds, trying to get free as he could see the earl in his sights "...No...It's not enough! I want to make him suffer!" Luna's words were getting through, but he hasn't calmed down completely yet, still clinging to the darkness as his anger fueled his thoughts.

Aria watched as Lance tossed the pathetic earl to the ground, the humiliated and frightened aristocrat laying helpless on the ground until Lance turned his back to the man. He then took the chance to try crawling away, only to be lifted up into the air "Ah ah ah! You're not going anyway Alastair. You are going to see your punishment through, and the first step is teaching you humility and respect. time for you to make a public announcement to the town, you are renouncing your title as the earl of this land...And then you're getting thrown into the ocean, to get yourself cleaned up." Carrying a whimpering Alastair in the air, Aria looked down at Arin, then to Luna "How did it happen? What exactly triggered his rage?"

[Tetsuya]

Luna didn't answer Aria, more focused on Arin at the moment. With a glance, she made sure none of the guard were conscious, and only the present company was in the area. "Alright, Mr. Tough-guy, you forced my hand. You better make this up to me later," she said to him. She then leaned her head towards Arin, and kissed him square on the lips, hoping this would calm him down.

[Lance]

Lance chuckled at Luna's way of snapping Arin out of it. "I would have suggested clubbing him in the dome and hoping that a nap would calm him down, but your way works too." Lance looked at Aria and stood up, sheathing his sword and shrugging. "I told him about what lard-ass over there was doing, specifically about the kids. He went fucking ape after that, not that I blame him." Lance looked over at Arin, his expression becoming uncomfortable. "Still...I don't think that kind of power's worth it if it makes you act fucking insane."

[Arin]

Arin was caught by surprise when Luna started kissing him, thrashing wildly as his dark rage was trying to stay dominant in his mind. But, Luna's efforts were successful, as he finally began to calm down, and he began to ease into Luna's kiss, his entire body relaxing as the black aura surrounding his body dwindled to nothing.

Aria sighed and folded her arms in front of her "...His has a rare elemental affinity for magic. He has a natural alignment towards both light and darkness, which I have spent 14 years helping him develop a balance between the two, melding them into spells fused with both elements. Unfortunately, this rare affinity is also unstable if imbalanced until mastered, and only one man has mastered control of both elements separately without giving in to his darkness...His emotions will fuel his actions, and no matter what i do, I cannot stop him from losing control if his anger reaches past a certain threshold. I can only keep him from harming others and wait him out until the mana in the area is used up. After that, it simply becomes a temper tantrum and he eventually calms down. She looked at Lance calmly "...I do not expect you to trust me, but I believe he can help King aldari lead this land back to the stable peace it once had...You may also have that same potential, Lance, but I need to find some answers about your past first."

[Tetsuya]

Luna pointedly ignored Lance's comment, focusing her attention on Arin exclusively. She was worried he wasn't going to come around for a moment, but then he calmed down, easing into the kiss she started. With soft sigh of relief, she allowed herself to melt a little more into the lip-locking, only breaking apart once she was sure he'd calmed down completely. "Feel better?" she asked.

[Lance]

Lance sighed, "Unlimited cosmic power...driven bonkers when he loses control. We called that "blessed with suck" back in the Air Force." Lance lowered his hood, "If you were in my memories, you know where my folks live. Speak to them if you want, I don't know anything..." Lance turned and began to walk away, shaking his head. "Maybe they're hiding something, tell 'em about this place if you have to, just get some answers. Cause I don't think this amulet being an heirloom and me having wind powers is a coincidence, do you?"

[Arin]

Arin took a few deep breaths, calming down as Luna broke the kiss, and nodding softly "...Yeah...Thanks...Um...Aria?" "Of course, just try and remain calm. You're still not in welcoming company." Aria lifted the restraints on Arin, allowing him to get back to his feet. When his eyes laid on Alastair, he glared at the floating, portly man, who simply shivered in fear "Relax, Arin. He is no longer a threat. I will be seeing to it that Alastair here ends up learning the life of the people whom he mistreated. He is also going to be relinquishing half of his accumulated taxes from his stores and return them to the people. The rest will be staying for economic purposes within this building, as a bank. I think it's high time that this town adapt to some more modern chains of command, like the human world.I will oversee that as well."

When Lance started commenting on his wind as his affinity and the amulet not being coincidental, Aria shook her head, Lance was very true in his words "...No, neither do I...I will speak to them when I can, I first have to get my new adopted daughter situated before I can speak with them." "Wait. You adopted another child?" "Mhmm. Another orphan like you were, twice as cute, and she might be about as talented as you ere at your age." Arin chuckled weakly "Well no need to make me jealous now, Aria." Aria smirked and gave Arin a teasing wink, pretending Alastair wasn't even around them, which only fueled his feeling of irrelevance.

[Tetsuya]

Luna got up as well, and listened as Lance, Aria, and Arin talked before moving behind her boyfriend, and leaning back to back against him. "Whatever the case is with your magic, Lance, you at least had no repercussions. It's a typical occurrence when using magic for the first time without any training before hand usually backfires in some way. You should count yourself lucky that nothing happened, and that I'm so learned in magic to guide you a little," Luna said aloud. She swallowed the lump in her throat, something she knew to hunch of a possible future regret she might before she spoke again. "As long as we're traveling together...I suppose I could start teaching you one or two things about magic."

[Lance]

Lance looked at Luna when she offered to teach him how to use his magic. "I prefer to make up my own stuff normally...but I think it'd be best to learn proper control before I try anything, so...sure, I'd be honored to learn whatever you have to teach me. Thank you Luna."

[Arin]

Arin pushed back against Luna to support her as she leaned against him, letting her talk to Lance while Arin and Aria were having their conversation "...so, this new kid of yours...She have a name?" "Mhmm! Her name is Ciel. I was going to introduce you to her when we've gotten to know each other better with some mother daughter bonding. But maybe you would help watch over her for a while? I'll need to leave for the human world to speak with Lance's parents, but I won't be able to bring her with me. Interdimensional travel is too complex to allow group travel with magic, I can only travel with her with wormholes within our own realm." Arin sighed and rubbed his neck nervously "...I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not, Aria. We only have the two tents, and traveling for such a long distance might bore her. What if she wanders off?" "...there's three of you, I'm sure you can keep her entertained long enough for me to get my business with Alastair and Lance's parents out of the way and come find you to pick her up. and two tents is easy to work with, simply divide the tents by boys and girls."

[Tetsuya]

Luna's face suddenly grew angered when she heard Aria ask if they could bring her adopted daughter along for a little while. 'OH COME ON!?' she screamed in her head. She was not happy that they were going to have another addition along with them. The next thing she knew, some animal would start tagging along with them.... 'Oh fuck...I hope I didn't just jinx myself...' She then turned her attention back to Lance. "We'll start your training sometime after we've left this town....if we ever get around to it," she said.