Aphie was not a happy woman. She had been napping contently in a tree in the center of Cosmos's large inner garden when out of nowhere monsters started showing up and attacking anything in sight that moved. The former 1st class SOLDIER side stepped a the last of the monsters, slashing at its side with her sword watching it dissipate and vanish from the death blow. While there were quiet a few monsters to appear they proved to be little challenge. Murasame in hand, the tall blonde left the garden in search of the other fighters reasoning that if there had been a breach in the garden then it was likely there were other breaches through out the citadel.<br/><br/>She was not proven wrong as she encountered hordes of monsters, luckily all the warriors were present to hold them back but that would not last forever.  Grunting she stumbled back, grasping her shoulder from a lucky blow from an airborn fiend that took advantage of a moment when she was distracted. Its moment of gloating was quickly ended by a retaliatory lightning spell. Applying more pressure to her wound Aphie a basic cure spell to heal it before returning to the fight.  The zombies were more or less easy to deal with with a simple fire spell but they needed to find the source summoning of theses creatures and eliminate it.<br/><br/>Each time a new batch of monster appeared she felt something ripple across her senses.<strong> "Zidane, cover me." </strong>Taking the risk, the Ancient closed her eyes and concentrated on the feeling trying to pinpoint the location of the magical surges. If she could do that the soon they could put an end to all this.<br/><br/><br/>