10/6 18:12 (Autumn, Night, Midrar)
After Mafel separated from Luna, short on breath because of the long kiss, she felt herself wilt slightly under the other white-haired one's heated gaze, immediately speaking in her own defence.
"It wasn't that dangerous and it would have been very important for us to know how to behave in the future and what Titles mean, right?"
Luna sighed briefly closing her eyes before pinching Mafel's arm, hard, dragging a yelp from her Mate. "Except if I was five minutes late in starting to call you back, it didn't matter what you would have learned as I would have lost you beyond my ability to restore you."
Before the Elf could speak further, she felt her face being turned towards Sabel, the Human pouting in displeasure at her. "Remember that time a grieving mother visited us? It was supposed to be just a normal visit except the mother had conveniently forgotten how her baby boy made a Deal with something, probably a Demon, and it gave you a crushing headache lasting three hours straight. You were lucky they did it unintentionally and unknowingly or my presence alone wouldn't have been enough to bring you back fully."
"She what?! When did she do that?! I would have felt it!" Luna exclaimed in a mix of surprise and some sort of threatening determination while Amber on the other side of the purple-and-gold-eyed Elf flinched at hearing about a Demon, even if only partially, almost ripping away one of Luna's Mate from her.
"You two were busy at the time with fighting that Ice Dragon and I was able to pull her back on my own very quickly and relatively easily that time." Amber groaned at this knowledge shared by the Human, in furtehr emotional pain as she was the reason the two were distracted at the time.
Mafel tried to shut up Sabel only to fail as both the Human and Amber were more than able to block her arms considering how the Elf was the weakest physically of the four and by a not insignificant amount.
"It was not that bad…" Mafel said quietly, her protests slowly being silenced by the looks from all three of her Mates. "She just wanted to speak with her son and I couldn't even help her…" She told them sadly, her eyes finally meeting the solid red of the Vampiric one, before this last one sighed and started to pinch the Elvish one on the cheek, making her yelp again.
The black-haired one kissed her in the newly-wounded cheek to reassure her before she spoke up to change the arguments. "Do you know what kind of Demon it could have been, Amber?" Causing this last one to explain after a brief pause at feeling the others' honest curiosity.
"Well, considering the fact that it probably weren't only his memories that were messed with but his Soul… I would say this doesn't exactly reduces our options, depending on their Deal. Demons, Spirits, Gods, Angels and Elementals don't have a Status like the Being of this World normally but can obtain one given enough time and power. All the same they each have their own way to grow stronger. In particular, Demons gain their power from the Sin associated with them, both in feelings and in actions."
At seeing the raised eyebrows and the wondering of her Mates, she coughed once in embarassment before moving towards her point.
"Particularly old, twisted or prodigal Demons, if there is a difference between these last two categories, are able to twist every single one of their actions and feeling to suit their Sin. For example a Gluttony one will turn the act of breathing, sleeping and even fighting into an act of Gluttony or at least as a way to ease said Sin.
"Not only that but all Demons mess with Souls naturally and while their two Affinities are derived only by their Sin alone, two Attributes are fixed, no Demon has a Holy-Attribute Affinity, all Demons have a Curse-Attribute Affinity. And when it comes down to corrupting Soul, well, any Demon could do that."
"I see…" Mafel murmured, sad at being unable to find the source of corruption belonging to that individual.
"Returning to the previous matter, what happened this time?" Sabel asked her in curiosity.
"I was only able to analyze one hour of memories in total and they were not only disjointed between each other, none of them were earlier than today or even linked at all to the Guildmaster." She answered, disappointed in herself.
Luna sighed before yet again pinching her cheeks, hard, making the Elf yelp and beg for forgiveness. "You do remember that you are not alone, right? In that case there is no reason to risk yourself for to find that out when you can just ask us, no?"
"But none of you have any particular Affinity -" and here Mafel looked briefly at Amber before correcting herself. "- well, Amber probably could but I am not a good enough teacher to, well, train her. And reguarding you -"
"Yeah, it's impossible for me to become a Medium. I am not, after all, connected to this World at all but to the Moon and with quite the different function to your own. But you are misunderstanding my meaning. You could simply watch it while sharing the complete memory to me."
Silence streched between the four before, hesitantly, the former Boss Monster tried to explain. "The information within the Sea of Soul is, not hidden exactly, but is, oh, what is the term, encrypted, yes encrypted. My "Soul Gaze" helps me to translate it faster, sure, but it's my "Medium Comunication" Skill that render it possible at all to translate it so…"
The former Half-Elf sighed while shaking her head in mock-disappointment, as her emotions rendered clear. "How naively direct. You are right when it comes to the analysis, I can't do it in your place -" Yet, she added to herself. "- But I can store that information for you. The reason why you found it so hard to analyze that information is because you were experiencing it while at the same time trying to both remember and translate it. Next time you go to the Sea of Soul, and it better be with the three of us present and aware of it, -" The silent warning was heard loud and clear.
"- concentrate only on sending the data at me without bothering on translating or remembering it. Then, calmly and safely, you can Translate it from my memory."
All three of Mafel, Sabel and Amber knew her very well thanks to their Mate Mark and so were more then capable to understand she had an ulterior motive behind her gesture but they were also aware that she was genuine in her worry and were also aware that its better if they didn't know the Lunarian's additional reasons for her proposal.
In response this last one would have offered her reasons calmly however the three did not ask and so she didn't offer her own, that being that by using Mafel's memories of the Records from the Sea of Souls, the translation of said Records made by Mafel and most importantly the Language that Gaea used for its Records around 63000 years ago, Language that the previous Lunarians already fully Translated, so that she would learn the Language of today.
Luna, once satisfied the other understood, layed back down over Mafel and closed her eyes, sending feeling to relaxation to lull her Mates to sleep, well aware that the Elf was mentally and spiritually exausted.
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10/6 18:12 (Autumn, Night, Middle of the Ocean)
Sider, at the moment laying down upon the bridge of her boat basking under the moonlight gently illuminating her body, suddently opened her eyes in alarm, her ears twitching a couple of times.
As she jumped to her feet, her fingers clenching as her nails and the top of her fingers becoming long claws, her teeth sharp canines, her eyes narrowing in focus and preparing to jump in an attack, her posture lowering like a beast on the hunt as she searched for the prey that deluded herself to be the predator.
Her waiting was not long.
The water under her boat rippled, violently shaking it and the Werewolf upon it, before she jumped back barely dodging a tentacle larger than even her own 2 meters tall frame that erupted from the water around the boat.
Eleven more tentacles exploded from beneath the boat, encircling and grabbing it with force, before this last one was shaked with immense strenght all over, trying to send the black-haired one overboard and right in the water.
She immediately jumped high in the sky, dodging the tentacle trying to impale her from behind before noticing the tentacle standing tall before trying to crush her under its weight, pulling her hand back with force, silver crystals briefly forming around it for an instant before she punched it straight on.
Said crystals upon contact with the tentacle before her shattered in an instant, releasing a wave of sharp yellow crystals and a wave of force and electricity that pulped the part of it before her in an instant, the top part of it flying in the air before she landed on the bottom half of the tentacle.
She turned her attention towards the other tentacles trying to sink her ship, despite this last one being built for her private use and as such was more than able to last a while against the attacks of even very powerful Monsters especially if she helped defend it.
Before she could do this last thing, however, the tentacles upon which she temporarily landed writhed violently before from the wound emerged small fanged worm-like tentacles that tried to knot around her feet to immobilize and subseguently devour her, either whole or in pieces, stealing her attention.
Sider's silver eyes narrowed in obvious hostility, a snarl forming on her face before she forcefully rose her left foot, being briefly covered in the same crystal as before, before stomping down and destroying even more of the tentacles, small pieces raining down upon the ship.
Two more tentacles moved in, trying to crush her between them only for the Werewolf to groan in displeasure, her month twisting in displeasure before she released a loud howl, various shockwaves repeatedly being released and stopping the two tentacles long enough for her to adjust to being mid-air before causing an explosion right before her, sending her flying to the ground.
Once she landed on her naval vessel, she turned her sharp eyes towards the shreds of the tentacle she previously shattered, noting how they were trembling and rippling before exploding into worm-like Monsters? No, they weren't proper Monsters but part of the greater whole that was even now trying to sink her present, causing an even more ferocious expression to form on the Amazon's face.
"You will regret this!" Her hands sprouted dense black fur as her claws enlarged while her teeth sharpened and her hairs spiked up even more in an unconscious threat display.