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Elure chased after Shi as fast as he could, but as he ran he realised that Shi was going slowly enough for him to be just behind her- she could fly much faster than any runner.

The elf subtly pulled his dagger from its sheath and put it in his left arm protector so that he could reach it easily. As they ran, he thought back to his sister- maybe he should have turned back to guard Amadeus, not Shi because with any luck Shi would not kill her friend, but might kill Elure. And leaving Rien with Amadeus was not such a good idea.

Still, it was too late now.

Amadeus awoke not too long after everyone had run off. Just for a second, he had no recollection of where he was or what he was doing there. He did know that he was, for the moment, in an unfamiliar place, with no memory. A brief second of panic, and he sat bolt upright, his head whipping around in both directions, taking in his surroundings in a hectic manner. It was never good to be caught in a location where no one knew where you were, and worse, you didn't know either.

His gaze fell upong Rien, who was sitting in the chair across from him looking like she might just have to kill him if he moved another centimeter. The events of the day came back to him and he smiled at her, his catlike grin showing off his carefully filed fangs. He brought his hand up to the puncture site on his arm where Christophe had stuck him with the syringe. The area had already healed, but the drug had not yet fully left his system.

"You my babysitter?"

He noticed her tense up, so he leaned back on the couch, moving away from her as not to provoke her to attack him. He didn't think he wanted to deal with her right at the moment, espically since he didn't know the make-up of the sustance he'd been injected with. Never know the side effects of stuff like that. He was already a bit light headed.

"Lost Theonidas did ya? Couldn't have possibly thought you could take him down, did you?"

A thump was heard, and the door to the tavern opened, Christophe rising from a crouch and entering. He walked straight to the bar and poured himself a drink, tossing some money on the counter. He then turned and surveyed the watchful Rien and the wakened Amadeus.

"Welcome back to the living," he said, coming around and pulling up a chair to chat with the scarred angel. "Did you know he can teleport?"

Amadeus had Rien flipped around, under him with her pressed against the couch in the blink of an eye, his eyes flashing from a cocky sinister to pure evil. He knew that she and Christophe would over take him again soon, and they might even put him back to sleep, but he also knew that they need information from him if they were ever going to figure this stuff out. He leaned in real close to Rien's ear.

"You ask me all these questions, dear. You want to know everything, and then you tell me to shut up. What's a man to do, sweetheart? How confusing you are..."

He pushed away from her and moved around the other side of the couch, out of arm's reach. "Teleportation, eh. Well now, genius, don't you think if I had that ability, I would have done it by now? Yeah, I would have been long gone by now, brother."

His voice escalated to an angry growl. "So next time listen to me when I tell you that Theonidas outranks me in power in more ways than you could EVER imagine."

Rien waited for Christophe to subdue Amadeus, but he knew that wouldn't work, and it would only be a temporary fix at best. "No Rien, let him up."

He sighed again, "I knew you didn't have that ability Amadeus. I was asking if you knew Theonidas had it. But nevermind. We do need answers to our questions though."

Walking back to the bar, he poured three glasses, brought them to a table, and righted the chairs that had been knocked over. "Sit down, let's have a chat. All of you." He motioned to the chairs again, and then squatted on the seat of the one he chose, his suit not allowing him to simply sit down.

"Well, for the time being we have to give him some space. We need answers, and while he'll have to pay for what he's done," Christophe narrowed his eyes as he spoke, "we have a bigger fish to fry."

"When I tried to follow Theonidas, I made it as far as the roof of the Aeris building where he'd entered. Nolah was in there, and once they'd met, he did something and they both vanished. Ergoe, he can teleport. Now I don't know where either of them are."

"We need to find them. Both of them. And Shi. We really need to find her. She made Theonidas change, so I'm assuming our next step will be to find her."

Christophe looked at Amadeus. "If you have anything useful to contribute, I'd contribute it. You probably have 5 minutes before Rien kills your hide, so I'd make it quick."

Amadeus had taken a seat on the couch again, and he was had opened his mouth to speak, but was abruptly cut off as a figure came through the door, ran across the room, and plopped down next to him. Amadeus closed his mouth and started, momentarily confused. The cat-girl, or at least that's how he was going to categorize her, looked as if she had been through hell and back, and Amadeus was about to comment on how she'd probably run into Theonidas, but then he considered the fact that she was still alive. If Theonidas had taken the time to rough her up, he would have killed her. So, no, this wasn't the Reaper's work. This girl had come from someplace else.

But he didn't really care about that. If the girl was going to be sick, she damn well better do it in the other direction, because Amadeus wasn't a laundry man and this was his only set of clothes for the time being. He looked up at his captors, raising an eyebrow.

"How bouts you get her away from me before she hurls all over my shoes?" His intent was to sound callous, and he succeeded.

"Look guys, I know you're all gung-ho about catching up with Theonidas, but it ain't gonna happen. The man has more power and resources than he knows what to do with. I'd come here knowing that he wasn't at his full potential, and I had been planning on taking him with me as such. I knew he wouldn't cooperate, but I have my ways of persuasion. But no, you guys had to interfere, like you're soldiers going to battle or some s**t, and up and away he goes. You really don't understand what you're up against. Once he gets back with Shi and learns what he's been missing out on all these years, he'll be upstoppable. Hey, this is your guys' fault. So, don't expect me to help you. You ******** -- excuse my language -- it up, so you morons can fix it."

He sat back, folding his arms over his chest.