(http://imageshack.us/scaled/large/209/kdgr.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Ralena Tharin</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Shadow Crow Headquarters<br/><strong>With:</strong>Lyuk, Alice, and Luca<br/><strong>VS:</strong>Orpheaus<br/><hr/><br/>Orpheaus was still completely focused on deflecting Death's most fearsome and overwhelming attack, and as such he was completely and totally blindsided by the extremely powerful attack that Luca was able to land right on the aged mage's chin. Thanks to that his defenses dropped and he was hit with whatever fraction of Death's final attack remained afterwards along with Alice's bullet overload. In the end, the man let out a loud shout of pain and collapsed backwards, hitting the floor with his eyes shut.<strong>"I... don't understand... Magic would destroy the world, yet you... Yet you stupid kids..."</strong>Ralena stepped forward at that point, panting softly as her shield returned back to it's natural blue energy state as it phased back into her body. "Yeah, the world of magic is capable of some pretty freaky stuff... But at the same time, we can do so many amazing, wonderful things because of magic. So yeah, we're gonna keep on defending it, because it might get dangerous from time to time, but it's OUR world, so we're gonna fight to defend it tooth and nail. Against anybody that would either hurt it, or take it away from us."<br/><br/>Orpheaus opened a single eye in Ralena's direction, shaking his head gently.<strong>"You of all people..."</strong>With that, however, he passed out. With Orpheaus now unconscious, Ralena crossed her arms and groaned gently. "And what's that supposed to mean?" Ralena sunk her head and shut her eyes, those last words having gotten to her as they rubbed some salt into her open wounds concerning her foggy knowledge on her past. Apparently, in her distracted and somewhat distressed state, Ralena would need to be reminded of the fact that they had just emerged victorious, and had saved the world of magic, something that was quite out of character for the normally very upbeat and optimistic girl.