(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 Forest - Shadow Crow headquarters<br/><strong>With:</strong>Luca, Alice, Lyuk<br/><br/>The group got together and moved deeper into the forest after that, using something that vaguely resembled Lyuk's formation suggestion as they moved through the forest in something of a diamond shape. Just as Ralena speculated, however, the formation wouldn't be required as they came across a small and unassuming shack right in what seemed to be the dead center of the forest. Since Lyuk was in front, Ralena glanced to both Luca and Alice before shrugging lightly and moving towards the door. "Well... Uh..." Ralena looked back towards the group, jabbing her thumb back towards the small cabin. "I mean, this has gotta be it since nobody else would make a house in such a creepy and isolated forest, but was anybody else expecting something more... I'unno... extravagant? Whatever, doesn't matter."<br/><br/>Ralena positioned herself in front of the door, her hands coming together to grasp the handle of a large dual-handed hammer that she summoned. "Hey shadow crows! Hope you don't mind, but this is how Fairy Tail knocks on the door!" With those words, Ralena wound back her hammer and swung it with all her might towards the door. To her surprise, however, the hammer connected with a thick *thud* and the door didn't budge so much as a centimeter. In fact, the reverberation from Ralena's swing was intense enough to knock her backwards a little, her hammer plopping to the ground as the black haired girl stumbled and fell backwards. "Ngh! The hell was that!?"<br/><br/>After that, any of the other mages were welcome to try anything they wanted to break past the door, but none of their tricks would come to avail, nor would breaking down any other part of the cabin either. It was as though the entire cabin was protected by an incredibly powerful magical barrier that rested just beneath the human eye. Once everybody had tried their luck to their content, Ralena herself taking more then a few shots, the Fairy Tail mage would hum softly under her breath and cross her arms. "Maybe we're just not hitting it hard enough? Oh! I've got it!" With an excited grin, Ralena extended her arm outwards and took a knee. Right there, the other Fairy Tail mages would see her creating a massive pole with four handles sticking out, two in the front and two in the back. At the end of this gigantic pole was a fist, seemingly only put on there for stylistic purposes. Ralena had just created a 4 person operated battering ram. Smiling excitedly up towards her comrades and wiping the sweat from her forehead, Ralena gripped one of the front handles. "C'mon! Everybody grab a corner!"<br/><br/>Once they had complied, Ralena would confirm their actions with a nod before charging forward, letting out a ferocious war cry as she pulled her weight and rushed headlong to smash their battering ram into the magically protected door. However, it seemed that this barrier wasn't done with them yet. The instant that the first knuckle on the ram's fist connected with the barrier, the two devices connected for a split second before the barrier vanished. It didn't break, it just seemed like it had disappeared. This, naturally, resulted in the extremely headlong and accelerated Ralena barreling right through one of the walls and tumbling down a colossal flight of stairs alongside her battering ram. While it was likely that her fellow frontrunner would be following her on her tumble, the fate of the back handlers was still up in the air. "WAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!"<br/><br/>Having smashed her head, back, ankles, and shoulders at least a dozen times apiece, Ralena finally found the bottom of the staircase as she came skidding to a halt, bruises clear all across her body as she just took a moment to lay there, finally enjoying the sensation of flat, even land again. "Ow..." Other Fairy Tail mages in the area, depending on their condition, could notice a lengthy hallway that seemed almost as long as the staircase was deep. And considering the fact that Ralena had been falling for at least a solid thirty seconds, it looked as though they were going to be walking for a while. At the very least, a line of torches on either side of the hallway illuminated the way forward, so they wouldn't be walking in utter darkness.<br/>