Cecil and Firion would both notice the disturbance rather quickly as well, rushing over to watch as the sky blackened and an entire horde of airborne creatures began to dive bomb the castle. Nodding to one another swiftly, Firion drew his bow and started to take rapid potshots at many of the approaching Ahriman creatures, while Cecil took it one step beyond and actually jumped off the side of the balcony, using some of his newer paladin techniques to keep himself airborne as he rushed towards one of the flying eyeballs, piercing it with his blade before his armor suddenly became pitch black and he kicked off the creature, using the powers of darkness to send out three massive orbs of shadow power to horde a small bunch of the creatures in, before the orbs exploded, resulting in anywhere between 7 to 12 casualties extremely quickly. As he began to fall, he snapped back to paladin and coasted back up to safety, landing on the railing as he looked towards his two allies. "Where are they coming from? Could this be chaos' doing?"<br/><br/>Firion nodded.<br/>"I don't know who else it could be. For now though, we need to find the source of this attack. Full frontal invasions like this always have some sort of leadership commanding it."<br/>"I agree, but where should we start looking?"<br/><br/>Since the three of them were on the opposite side of the castle from the massive orb of bodies, that question was a bit more valid then it would be otherwise.<br/><br/>...<br/><br/><em>"And so I agreed to take part in the battle between gods. Shortly after the agreement was made, I found myself sailing in what seemed to be an endless ocean, looking upon the most awe inspiring castle I had ever seen in my life. It seemed to be made of pure marble and crystal, the whole white domain stood up like a pillar in the middle of the ocean, the single castle being the only structure in what could have been an entire world of endless water. The castle coiled around itself as though the entire castle was nothing more then one giant staircase. Despite the beauty of the castle, something was amiss. The skies were black, and flying creatures of all shapes and sizes were attacking. It seemed that I was too late to see the castle in all of it's splendor, however, this meant that the battle had begun, and now was the time for action.<br/><br/><del>Without hesitation I readied my gear and-</del><br/><br/>I made my way to the castle, in order to fight against this standing army.</em><br/><br/>Adelle was rather distraught at the fact that Cosmos' castle was already being laid into by the time that she arrived on her little sailboat. "Tch, those chaos goons sure are an impatient bunch, aren't they?" She shrugged, preparing her whirlwind bracelet to get her the rest of the distance to the castle when the sailboat got within range for her to be able to make the rest of the distance with one jump. She was already looking forward to seeing just how this battle unfolded. If she was able to take on Chaos with just 3 other allies back in the good ol' days, and she was even stronger now then she was back then, and she had EVEN MORE allies backing her up this time, she didn't see how Chaos could possibly stand a chance.<br/><br/>Well, the rematch with the god of destruction would have to come later, for now, there was a castle that needed saving. When the boat got close enough, Adelle activated her bracelet, and with a flash of green energy, the red mage blasted forward across the water and landed smoothly on the docks. "Alright then."<br/><br/><em>"Enemies started to attack almost the moment I touched down on the docks of the castle. With little understanding of the situation to work off, the best course of action was for me to work my way towards the middle of the castle and try to collect more information."</em><br/><br/>A group of three birdlike creatures seemed to take notice of Adelle as she made her way towards the docks, and the red mage just barely had enough time to straighten herself and regain her composure before she had to dodge backwards to avoid their talons and beaks. With a slightly annoyed groan, she hurled a Firaga spell at the center one, and the massive explosion that rang out upon collision took out the other two as well. "Tch, I got no time for you chumps. I need more intel!"<br/><br/>With that, Adelle started running up the stairs of the castle, looking around for any potential allies who could have a better understanding of what was going on.