Forests of Magix

As soon as the suppression lifted from herself Vivian took a fighting stance only to find out everything had settled down already. She heaved a sigh of relief. "Everyone still in one piece?" she called out.

"I'm more or less intact. Are you alright Vivian?" Snow calls over her shoulder while healing the downed combatant.

Roll slowly stands up right and strolls slowly towards Vivian, but takes notice of Shinra still being affected by the poison. "Besides a minor bruise, I'm unscathed." He remarks softly, deciding to head over to his roommate.

"My shoulder is killing me but otherwisely I'm all good," she said trying to sound lighthearted except that a tine tremble in her voice betrayed her being slightly shaken. "I'm glad the redhead is okay," she says as she gestured towards Roll. "Almost thought I fried him."

"Ok, what just happened?" Xanthe asked, trying to figure out that ambush.

"Do you want me heal it once I'm done with this one here?" Snow asks her roomie as she briefly looks over her shoulder. "I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I would like to know why they attacked us."

Roll stops a few feet from his roomie and voices after a bit of thought, "You sort of did fry my vision for few seconds with your miss and I do have a name that I told you earlier you know."

Vivian chuckled nervously and scratched the back of her head. "Sorry for that, and I forgot your name, I'm a bit scatterbrained right now," she said apologetically and then turned to Snow. "Save your power in case more are near, I've had worse. But I know one way we can find out. We tie this one up and take her to Alfea so they can find out what she knows, We should not let her go!"

"I've already promised we wouldn't do anything to them now and let them go." Snow protests in a rather more stern voice, "We won't gain anything by going back on our word now." She looks kindly at the person before her, asking gently, "Are there anymore of you out here that we should worry about?"

Roll nods slowly at what Vivian said to him, "A rather valid point with what just happened."

[Hooded figure]
"There are dozens. They'll come for me little fairy, they better not find me like this," she replied. Her meekness has gone along with the wounds as well.

[Vivian]
"Fat chance we let her go. She's not getting away with assault this easily," she said in a huff.

Snow sighs softly at the reply of the figure, "And I thought we were doing so well. I'm afraid I've done everything I can for you with my limited healing." She turns to look at Vivian and shakes her head, "And I'm a person of my word and its best we allow her to go free as a sign of good faith."

"How about we just get the hell out of dodge once Shinra is better." Roll answers, looking out into the darkness, just to make sure there wasn't anyone else coming. He really didn't want to meet anymore of this person's friends.

Roxy looks over to the two girls discussing what to do and decides to interject, "While handing her over might cause more problems, I think allowing her to leave would be the better option due to it showing we're not going to hold a grudge against them."

Vivian stared blankly at roxy not believing her own ears until she turned from normal, to light red to purple in a couple of seconds and the small girl boomed: "Have you completely lost it? They attack us. What if it were only one or two caught here, they would have killed and you let her go?" A vein on her forehead throbbed and looked as if it might burst.

"If they had killed someone, I would be more willing to take them in, but no one was killed or seriously hurt." Roxy answers in a calm voice, not wanting to enter into a screaming match right now, "But none of us are harmed and allowing them to leave shows our good intentions."

"Uhh, actually, I fully intend to hold a grudge," Sonya said, stepping forward and holding her injured arm. "The only reason none of us are more seriously hurt is because they were overpowered, not because of any kindness on their part. She's a danger to whoever ends up on this path next, we should bring her in so she doesn't get the chance to pounce anyone else."

The irony of her advocating to bring a criminal to justice wasn't lost on her, but this was part of being an "upstanding citizen", wasn't it? Trying to keep things safe for other upstanding citizens?

"Screw good intentions. It blinds people who are too trusting and it ends up back firing on them. We bring her back to Alfea and have them send them to Lightrock." Roll remarks darkly, referring to events he had only heard about two years earlier. "Roxy would know all about this sort of thing."

Roxy scowls at Roll for what was said, "That was an isolated incident with the wizards. This is a new situation with different circumstances."

"I'm with redhead tho, he speaks sense," she said, again lapsing in calling Roll redhead since she still forgot the name.

"My name is Roll, stop calling me redhead." The boy answers with a hint of annoyance in his voice. It had been a long day and he rather not be called by his hair color.

"I just don't know what happened, but i guess that the best bet is to get a teacher here asap. At least let them know that we got held up" Xanthe replied, "Or they won't be happy."

"We'd have to split up if we went to go find a teacher and bring them back here," Sonya said, shaking her head. "Or we'd have to leave this one," she nodded to their captive, "here on her own and trust that she'd still be here when we came back. Which...I don't. It would be faster and safer to just bring her back to the school with us."

"Tie them up in the chains around their feeet and just drag them back to Alfea." Roll voices as he bends down to make sure Shinra was well enough to move out. "Griselda or Faragonda can get the answers they need from there."

Roxy's brow furrows a bit at the cross talk between the group. It was obvious at this point that she and Snow has lost the battle on letting this person go. She releases a sigh and stands up, unsure what to say.

Vivian smiled confidently when the decision was reached to take the poison user to Alfea. She wouldn't get off as easily as just being set free, ohhh no. She then directed her attention to the dead one still laying on the middle of the path. "What about that one?" she asked while nonchalantly gesturing towards the motionless hooded figure. "We can't just leave her lying there for the crows to eat, even after she attacked us," she said with a fair amount of distaste in her mouth.

"If you are talking them, take the whole lot" Xanthe replied, "Like, come on. That person is injured.

"I'm sorry I can't let you go. I'll try and have the teachers at Alfea go easy on you." Snow whispers to the poison user rather sadly and looks to the others. "I have to accept the fact that we can't let her go, but that one." She points to the body of the ghost user, "The person who floored them has to carry them back. Is that acceptable to everyone else?" She looks at her nephew, expecting a protest since she knew he was trying to get to that ghost user. "Further more, how badly injured are they?"

Roll frowns slightly, looking back at the body. He already knew how "bad" the injury was. "They're beyond injured." He remarks darkly and continues on in a somewhat begrudging voice, "I do not want to carry them back, but I'm like the only one not in rough shape, so I'll do it. What choice do I have?"