An average day in the slums (Open)

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"NO PLEASE STOP IT" The screams of a poor man could be heard for blocks. The smell of smoke would overwhelm the scent of anyone who dared to come close to this place. A large burly man kept the screaming man in restraints as four others carried objects out of the burning house. A heavily armored man stood and watched it all happen, his name was Gyres Felnoc. Gyres smiled but his joy was short lived as the man who they were raiding continued to bawl about how crappy his life was right now. Gyres sighed and walked to the man, crouching down so they would be of eye level. "Buddy. Listen. I warned you that this would happen if you didn't comply to my wishes. And you tried to play hero and pull out the knife. Now we gotta burn everything. And. Make sure we have no witnesses."

The man screamed and begged for mercy but Gyres intended to show none. Gyres unsheathed the Sword of Light and placed it to the mans neck. With one quick jerk of the hand the man's scream was silenced. 

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Cynthia jumped from roof to roof, dressed in her Oracle attire, she saw a fire from far away and immediately went to check it out. The smell of smoke entered her nostrils with the scent of blood.  She watched the men scrambling around on the floor like disgusting ants looting the burning house. One man however seemed to be the ring leader in this whole hoohah of crime. As Gyres placed the sword on the neck of that poor man,Cynthia screamed "NO." she threw out a sharp feather at Gyres, but it was too late the man had already bled out to much. The feather would most likely scratched Gyre's hand and landed on the floor.

Now that the oracle had been discovered she no longer had a choice in standing by silently. "Now now boys, didn't mommy teach you not to touch other peoples things?" She announced herself on the roof before throwing five more feathers at the people who were looting. The feathers hit their marks and forced the men to drop the loot. "I guess she didn't so now the oracle is gonna have to teach you a lesson." She said placing one foot up on a ledge in front of her allowing her heel to make a clicking noise.

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Gyres felt a twinge of pain from his right hand as soon as he killed the poor man. He glanced over at it and saw a strange scratch near his knuckles. Gyres was confused with what had happened and luckily for him the culprit stepped forward soon after. He looked up an immediately laughed at what he saw. His men noticed as well and began to laugh as well, finally Gyres spoke. "Well it's a red raven. Never thought I would see such a sight but I guess I was wrong. Look beautiful, I don't want to hurt you if I don't have to so how about y-" Before he could finish his threat his men were hit with black feathers, some had the feather lodged into their shoulder while others had theirs in their arm. The effect was the same however and most they all dropped what they were carrying, some of the items shattering when it touched the ground. Gyres took a deep sigh and flicked his right hand which caused the sword of light to suddenly fall apart.

I guess you have a death with girly. Oh well it's going to be just one more body for the pike soon. Boys, get your act together and take the stuff back to base." The men grunted in pain and started to pull out the feathers lodged in their bodies and tried to drag bags of goodies back to base. The large man who held the owner of the house in place picked up his corpse and began to walk off with the others towards their base of operations. Gyres stood there though, his sword's blade all curled up on the ground and separated into chunks that were only held together by a thick wire. Without a word Gyres moved his hand to slash at the Oracle from where he was. The sword suddnely jerked forward and swung from the right to the left all the way to the Oracle. The sword was broken into large chunks and spread out far onto a long metal wire. If the Oracle didn't move she might just be hit by this long reaching sword whip.

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Cynthia sighed when he threatened her by adding her to the mound of bodies he appeared to have already collected. "The name is the Oracle and the only body being added to anything is your's in jail or with the other sinners in Morgg. Your choice." She said with a stern tone of voice. As Gyres ordered the men to leave, she became slightly agitated. She knew she couldn't stop them all but she could at least stop the head of this operation


"Sorry dear but this Raven has claws, sharp ones at that." She said while holding her hand out as her feathers returned to her. She kept five in her hands in anticipation for Gyres to attack back. She knew her position in this fight was the more optimal one but the fact that his sword fell apart with just a wire holding it together puzzled her so she decided to stay cautious and watch closely.
Suddenly the sword was animated and Cynthia had to get out of the way quickly since she did not know the sword's range. She fell backwards and allowed herself to fall through the roof using her phasing spell. When she landed inside the house she immediately kicked down the door and fired the five feathers in her hand's towards Gyres while reaching for more.

She aimed for his clothes to restrain him instead of fighting, specifically aimed to restrain his hands since Cynthia thinks thats how he can manipulate the sword.. If the feathers landed and managed to restrain him successfully Cynthia would approach him slowly with a new set of 5 feather's in her hand. "Now do you want to tell me why you felt it was necessary to take that man's life? Or should I force you to talk?" she would ask.

If she missed she would take more feathers out of her hands and watch him carefully, that sword seemed extremely lethal and she was particularly worried about it becoming an issue if it hit her.

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Gyres laughed at her little threat. He guessed she didn't know who he was. That was a shame, maybe she could saved herself if she knew who he was. "The oracle huh? Interesting...one of my boys took a trip to Pherana and said a theif by that name goes for nice amount of cash. But anyway I don't think you quite understand where you are sweetie. This is the third district. Here people don't care about breaking Noku's laws...they care about getting on my bad side. Cause the Black Daggers run the Third District...and I rule the Black Daggers. This is my little funhouse where Noku's stupid temper tantrums can't reach. No matter how many guards they threw at me. Not one has gotten close to taking me down."

As the sword burned a hole through the roof it slammed into Gyres tried to dodge the feathers. He dodged three of them but the last two pinned his right arm in place, stopping his sword. He flicked his right hand again and the sword quick retracted and went back to a normal sword form. He pulled out his shield he had kept clamped to his back and held it out to block any more feathers while he tried to get the feathers out of his clothes.

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"Quite confident huh? But you failed to grasp what I was aiming at so let me be more blunt." she laughed at him struggling to get the feathers out, she flicked her hand and the feathers recalled to her, before barraging his shield with feathers the would hit his shield and go to a seemingly random location. as she threw her feathers out she continued to speak. "If your little minion knew of me he should have told you more about me, I didnt care for Pherana's laws, I dont care for Noku's laws and i most certainly do not care for your own here in the "ThIrD DiStriCT" she said mocking him in her cold, monotone voice.  As she threw her last feather they were  spread around the area in a circle, she used the shield's hard surface to her advantage by having them ricochet and give her a more zone of control. If gyres looked around he would realize that she is out of feathers and they are in the center of the impromptu circle.

  "Now this isnt usually my  style but since this is a unique situation I guess ill have to let it slide. seeing as how I have the upper hand once more, how about you explain your actions to me and ill see if your worth sparing your pathetic excuse of a life or if i should just take something from you, im not sure yet that all depends on you."  Cynthia usually would send a calling card first to warn Gyres of his "Trial" as she liked to call them but she realized that probably would not work at the moment.

 "Now tell me why did you kill that man and rob him"

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Gyres thought she was dumb for having her feathers release him. He chuckled and was about to go for another attack but was bombarded with more feathers. Gyres remained quiet, ignoring the Oracle's empty threats and attempts of being scary. She obviously didn't know what she was in for. Gyres noticed that as the feathers landed, they seemed to be forming a circle of sorts. As the clinging of feathers against the shield stopped Gyres saw that he was surrounded by this feathers and in all honesty he'd rather not find out why. Gyres decided to play with her little game right now but probably start playing by his own rules later. "Well I don't know what your expecting from me. I don't know if you thought I'd have some sob story or something. No. None of that. He was the unlucky choice of a roll of a dice. Six houses, each side represented one house. Unluckily for him the dice landed on five. So he was robbed. As for his death, he was never supposed to die. In planned to just leave him in the ashes of his house. But he had to play hero, try to protect his house. I warned him, really did so he wouldn't play hero and I didn't waste time killing him but he did and now he's dead. Either way it's a win win for me. If he's alive he will likely pay for us to not go for him again....and dead well....it's not talk for a lady to listen to. Oh and also I forgot to tell you that your wrong. I have the advantage. I mean it's obviously 3 vs 1.

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The oracle was beginning to become even more angry. How conceited or narcissistic can one person be? It reminded her of that damned slave owner who chained her down. She clenched her fist at his remarks he saw people as nothing more then toys in his world? "Disgusting. So you just see people's lives as your own for the taking huh? They are just your toys to break as you please?" she said with a nasty tone in her voice.

"Also what do you mean this is three on one? Even if that is the case I do not suggest they make a move unless my finger accidentally...slips." As the world slips slides out of her mouth she decided to demonstrate what she meant. As she tugged her finger towards her a glittering little red strand of Manna manifested towards Gyre's and pulled a feather from behind him most likely scratching his cheek.  after the feather recalled to her she prepared it in her hand to be thrown quickly, she looked around to see what he meant by 3 on 1 she didn't notice if some of his lackey's were still around.

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Gyres laughed at her comment. "What? No no no. They are people. And I try to avoid killing if it is possible but I mean he tried to play hero so I had to prove him wrong. It's survival of the fittest girly. Here in the third district either you take or you have stuff taken. It's how things work. And don't think killing me is going to solve anything, the strongest rule the black daggers and they are constantly replaced. If you think I became this way fair and square no....I killed the bastard who lead the Black Daggers originally and took his spot. Someone stronger is just going to take over. And what do you think I mean? It is me and two of my men against you. Hehe." As Cynthia would look around she wouldn't see anyone really around them. The only people that weren't them were a few poor men just staring at them in fear either from the windows or from alley ways.

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Cynthia was rather still annoyed at the fake he was taking this argument and fight lightly, in  Pherana her name used to strike fear into some peoples hearts and when they didn't they were normally the type who believed they were in the right.. Gyres seemed to be the 2nd kind of person who took her as a joke, and this did not sit well with her. she stood there thinking for a moment, "If he really does have more people that are hidden, im in a really bad spot.

"Alright...Fine. If killing you wont help then i have other ways of making you beg for forgiveness." She said recalling all 10 to be between all 10 of her fingers and 5 pointing at Gyres behind her "You can continue on with your business for now, but know ill be back False king of thieves, I will take everything from you."feathers would dig themselves into the roof behind her and wrap up around her arm and raise her up to the roof she was on before.

If gyres stayed quiet Cynthia would just run away  stealthily to not be followed, she was super angry she couldn't do anything to this target, she would have to approach this target in a different manner. 

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Gyres chuckled as he was realeasd, his wrists were bright red from the pressure of the clothes tightly pinning against them but Gyres didn't mind. He got his weaponry and smiled. "Yes yes girly, you do that. I have dinner to attend to anyway so I'm going to be on my way." Gyres walked off, humming a light tune. He continued to stroll down the streets until he reached the pit, where two of his men were waiting. "Oh thank the gods Gyres I thought you were done for. The boys got everything back alright, now cmon the cook is prepping your favorite." Gyres smiled and joined his men. They looked around for anyone watching, seeing no one they grappled onto the ledge of the pit and lowered themselves in. When they reached the bottom they yanked the ropes and the metal grapple came falling down into the pit with them. They squeezed their way through a strange crack in the pit, reaching a small room with a door. Gyres said some incomprehensible and the door opened, letting them in.

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As Gyres walked into what seemed like their base, she phased through a nearby wall. "So this is where your base is...interesting.." she said before phasing back through the wall and finally retreating away from this situation.



A grin flashed across her face as her new target seemed to be fast approaching, she would most likely need some help however...this target was going to be a difficult one..