After his meeting with Sinol, Cal resumed his search. Determined to find Lunacy for reasons he couldn't quite fathom. Without quite noticing, he passed by Valarinth and Fexiryn's room. The door was ajar. That was not like Valarinth at all. Peering through the gap, he saw Valarinth lying on her bed, twitching and writhing. He could also sense a great spiritual disturbance and wondered why none of the other students or teachers could feel it. Cautiously, he entered and approached Valarinth.<br/><br/>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br/><br/>Lunacy was too disoriented to really notice what was happening at first but when the "other" Valarinth grabbed her, she screamed, just before he pressed his lips to hers. He drew away and she screamed again, struggling desperately against him.<br/>"You can scream all you want, there's no one to hear you but me, my pretty."<br/><br/>There was a flash of light and the man who resembled Valarinth screamed in pain before being lifted off the ground, flung up into the air and slammed into one of the decrepit walls. Cal stood out in the open, positively burning with magical energy.<br/>"Get away from her!" He commanded, his voice booming with power.<br/>"You think you can defeat me?" The faux Valarinth asked. Cal just smiled and before you could blink, he had crossed the distance between them and was soon hearing satisfying gasps as his hand gripped his opponents throat.<br/>"Revive Fexiryn! I'll keep this one busy!" Cal shouted to Lunacy, who has hiding behind a piece of rubble.<br/><br/>Lunacy rushed over to Fexiryn and slapped her face gently to try and wake her.<br/>"Wake up wake up wake up wake up!" She shouted desperately, ignoring the deafening sounds of the fierce battle behind her.<br/><br/>After dodging and countering several deadly spells from Faux Valarinth, Cal pressed the attack again, summoning a flaming sword to his hand which quickly descended and bit into the shoulder of his opponent, almost severing the arm completely. This was countered by a blast of magical force, knocking Cal back. He barely had enough time to move before another spell flashed inches away from his head.<br/><br/>"I can't get her to wake up!" Lunacy screamed at Cal, desperately shaking Fexiryn's shoulders.<br/>"I'm busy!" Cal shouted back as he countered another spell meant to kill him.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">This was going to be a tough one to win.</span>He thought, forced onto the defensive by his powerful opponent.