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<div class="bbCodeBlock-content">Ein Kebia[/u]]<br/>
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Tifa is punching at the manikin from the front, fists a blaming blur as she forces it to defend itself with all it's limbs,  Rikku seems nowhere to be seen at first, but just as Ein looks back, he catches her out of the corner of his eye, lunging at the Manikin from behind in ambush.<br/>
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Then, as quickly as it came, it recedes, and Ein falls to the ground, aching all over but not quite dead, not yet...  The Manikin looks him over for a moment, as though deciding whether to finish him off, and then, it begins to charge a spell, taking longer this time.  Clearly the thing doesn't think he'll be getting up again, and Tifa and Rikku are still finishing their own manikin off...</div>
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The woman's only response was to narrow her eyes and grit her teeth as she sent another flurry of fire uphill, succeeding in tagging two of the descending manikins in the process.  Taking one of the more heavily wounded ones out of the fight entirely as her smaller calibre assault stressed it's weakened body to the point of shattering.  She kept it up, causing the manikins further slowdowns as she seemingly willed greater accuracy from her battered body, but they were drawing closer, and the final ground-bound manikin seemed at least moderately capable, dodging left and right, advancing only from cover as it fired away with a gunblade.  The weapon was inaccurate by nature, but sooner or later Thrice would need to either take the manikin out or take some cover of his own to keep from getting hit...</div>
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Heading towards the island works for a little while, but it isn't long before Mike comes to the shore, and is left looking across the waves to the light-sky'd land.  It seems small from here, and quite low to the waters, but in any case, he cannot get much closer now, unless he plans to swim the whole way of course...<br/>
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The two women exchanged glances again, confusion writ large on the green-clad mage's face while present -if to a lesser degree- on the lapine archer's face as well (For Gauthiant could see clearly now that two rabbit-like ears poked from the white hair that ran down her back from beneath her helm).  "Isn't he..?"  The mage begins uncertainly, only for the archer to shake her head.  "I thought he was with you...  Does that mean?"<br/>
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The Archer's eyes narrow, and she levels her bow at Gauthiant, though given he can see the attack coming, he can at least be fairly sure he could dodge it if he's quick.  "What do you know of Cosmos and Chaos?"  She asked, tentative skepticism in her tone.  the mage looked alarmed at the bow being aimed, re-summoning her shield, but she looked curious too, glancing towards Gauthiant attentively to hear his answer...</div>
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