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The four tentacle spears slammed into the ice, getting caught while cracking the wall, to where the tentacles could easily jerk free.

When Oriana looked at Auren, she saw him crouching, before standing to his full height and yanking the tentacles out. From her point of view, she saw the wounds seal themselves, the flesh knitting itself before her eyes.

Then the armor did it.

A dark aura seemingly surrounded Auren as he started changing. First his left arm, the same sword that was holding Discord grew monstrous, plated with chitin and metal interchanagably, the hand forming into a claw. The changes spread across him, armor enveloping his head and face while everything that was seemingly 'normal' about him disappeared. His chest was replaced with some seething glowing mass enshrouded in armor. His feet became claws themselves as they split. Discord grew monstrous, a single glowing orb at the hilt while the blade became real.

His right hand remained normal, strangely, and Dissension remained the same.

The Einherjar's Wings disappeared, replaced with seemingly wavy black flames in the form of his wings.

Auren growled with a wierd distortion to his voice. Far more primal ababd alien at the same time. "Oriana, she is a Shield. This means that if I were to throw a Sword at her, we'd both lose. Conventional attacks will slow her down. We must decapitate or destroy her head for victory. Otherwise this is all a waste of time."

He looked at her, his eyes remained the same, though they were cold and fierce.

"If we don't co-ordinate, we're both dead. I am a Sword but what happens when you throw the perfect offense at the perfect defense? The sword loses."

"Wait for my signal, then aim with your most powerful attack at her head. Understand?"

"Good." Auren grunted and disappeared with a small snap, having moved faster then she had ever seen him before.

The next second found Auren entangled in the tentacles, the two monsters engaged in a massive duel. Swords flashed out of Siriyana's wings to impale him but were easily deflected, parried, or simply slashed out of the way.

Despite his monstrous form, he moved with an unearthly grace and ease. However, despite his best efforts at being a swirling death machine, one tentacle, then another slipped through his guard, impaling him and slowing him down.

Of course, that was Auren's plan. To get close enough to threaten the other Huscarl while Oriana waits for his signal and kill her.

Eventually, he was slowed and stopped completely, unable to move while tentacles punched through him and entwined him.

There were enough that they lifted him in the air.

"NOW ORIANA!" he roared as the tentacles started straining to tear him to pieces.

Auren dropped to the floor when Siriyana lost her life. He looked at Oriana with a smile in his eyes, knowing that she couldn't see his smile. Standing stiffly from so many injuries, he slowly yanked out the tentacles and looked at the dead monster on the floor, before limping over to Oriana.

"Thanks Oriana. Saved both of us and probably everyone else in this building." he said quietly as he kneeled next to her, taking a defensive position.

"Now, do you understand why I was so angry? I am a monster but monsters like that poor Valkyrie are a completely different league. They need to be killed as they transform, or they wind up something like that."

Auren stood up slowly, sheathing both swords. As the adrenaline faded from his system, he gradually reverted back, bloodied. "I owe you my life, that's what it gets down to. I guess we're even?"

Oriana smirked, "You owe me nothing, we took her down together, and hopefully it will take away some of the Chaos going on in the realm of Aquious." she staggered to her feet, but soon collapsed to her knees.

Giles ran out and grabbed Oriana, "Lady Oriana! Are you alright?"

She looked up at him and smiled, "Yeah, just tired. Do me a favor though..."

"Anything My lady." he replied.

"Don't get involved with other species. You have to remember you're in the gate city and whatever happens here can easily pass through into other realms. I don't need that happening."

Giles lifted Oriana into his arms and carried her into his study where he laid her down on a sofa like bed and smiled, "I'll do my best Lady Oriana."

Guen hissed, "You can't just kill him! You followed him, so therefore you should be put through the same punishment... Why don't you two just run away together or something..." she crossed her arms and sighed, "Why don't you just leave him be. it's not like he's going too far, and plus what's so wrong with exploring other realms... I do it all the time..."

Giles looked deep into the man's eyes and hissed, "I don't know what happened to her... She came to the lab already in that state. One of the others found her... I believe he was in Rodasia. As for other experiments... I have rats... Lots and lots of ******** rats... A few cats, and Some jeweled animals for my own experiment... Which Oriana isn't too pleased about, but she hasn't done anything to stop me so i keep it up."

He concentrated on his core temperature, and became so cold that Auren had no choice but to release him, "Now. Take the lady from here. Get her in bed, and feed her. She should be your main concern if you're her body guard... right?" Giles smiled and walked down the hall to his room.

She opened her tired eyes and smiled, "I'm sorry for your grief Auren... once again, I'm sure if you could have changed it, or ended it a different way you would have." she reached out and touched his hand, "I'm sorry..."

(>< good god... now he's crazy too...?)

Oriana blushed softly and looked away, "Well, I'm glad no one found out about your little secret... you seem to control it better than... most do." she stood up and rested an arm on Auren, "Do you think you could help me down to Vadim?"