(Gabriel has officially caught up to the time of everybody else)<br/><br/>Gabriel ran his hands over the eyes of the fallen High Silencer, Preston. He had found him an hour after finding the scene of the first skirmish. Preston's body had a blade wound across his chest, and his legs were severed from his body. He lay among the bodies of many other demons and a couple of middle ranking Silencers. Preston's favorite sword lay a ways away from his body, snapped clean in half. He died just as he thought he did, relying too much on his sword. One of the other Silencers had been bisected in half, the other one was gored to death. He looked along the battlefield and saw countless demon corpses, whatever group did this had to have been rather well sized, or it could simply be a few very experienced adversaries. Either way, Preston was dead, as was a large amount of demons.<br/><br/>He started trying to deduce what direction their hideout was from this gathering of dead bodies. It was rather hard, as based on the layout of the bodies they had attempted to surround them in a sort of ambush. He could easily rule out the direction he had come from, as it was more likely their base was further from the center of town. He had to find the hideout of the these Hunters and make sure that the loss was repaid. He grabbed the hilt of half of Preston's blade, hoping to bring it back to confirm the Silencer's death and jumped into the air to land on a nearby building he wanted to find the Hunter hideout before heading home. He moved with amazing speed, jumping from building to building and hoping that a Hunter would pass his vision.<br/>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>Seth awoke to the feel of melted pavement. He stood up and saw that his body had burned a nice man-sized hole in the street. He focused his will and extinguished the demonic flames that engulfed his body. His pants were torn a bit, but otherwise were unscathed by the flames. An enchantment that Ifrit had taught him ensured that they would not be incinerated by his raging fire.<br/><br/>He looked around at his surroundings and saw that his opponent had escaped, he guessed that he had expended too much power and had to leave. Seth angrily slammed his fist into the stone wall behind him. The stone blew forth from the wall upon impact.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">You fool,</span>Ifrit said in his head,<span style="font-style: italic">if you hadn't been messing around that Hunter might have been dead.</span><br/><br/>"Just shut up..." Seth replied with a seething anger ready to burst forth.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">You are mad because you know it is true.</span>Ifrit said matter-of-factly.<span style="font-style: italic">You will have to train more when you return.</span><br/><br/>"Why should I return? I should-"<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">You are too weak right now to pursue the Hunter, and even if you did you would have no idea where to start looking. It has been hours since you two fought and by then the Hunter could be quite a ways away based on his speed.</span>Seth clenched his fist and growled angrily. Ifrit was right, there was no way he could fight that Hunter now, and even so he didn't know where to find him. Returning to HQ was the most sensible idea. Calling forth fire to his hands and feet he flew upwards into the sky, intensifying them and flying at blinding speed back to base.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Hiei...</span>he thought,<span style="font-style: italic">next time will be different.</span>