(http://uc.exteenblog.com/saintzoul/images/seinarukana/character/ruptna.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Ralena Tharin</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Leolt city streets<br/><strong>With:</strong>Luca, Lyuk, Alice<br/><br/>Ralena looked down at the man with as deathly serious a gaze as she could put on, that revelation coming from nowhere when he talked about how the Shadow Crows aimed to drain the world of it's magic. Ralena had heard the stories of the previous Fairy Tail generation in the past, how they went to an alternate world by the name of "Edolas". Supposedly that world had all of it's magic drained in order to prevent a full scale war from breaking out and to prevent some evil people from using it, and this sounded like the legendary thieves were looking to do exactly the same thing here. For obvious reasons, Ralena wasn't about to allow that sort of thing to happen, she simply couldn't imagine what the world would be like if there were no mages, no magic, nothing of the sort. "Yeah, answer the guy, how exactly are they planning on doing that, huh?" Teran panicked again, clearly still frightened stiff of the 'scary' black haired girl. "It's- It's all in the jewels, supposedly they have some kind of hidden power! One of them alone is basically useless, but when they're all brought together, the boss said something about the 'gate' opening up, and 'the world receiving the judgement it deserves' or something like that! That's all I know, I swear!!!"<br/><br/>Ralena shook her head, grabbing the young man by the collar. "Oh come on buddy, that's not true at all. I mean, you're about to show us the way to your headquarters and everything, now aren't you?" Teran panicked again, struggling desperately to get free of Ralena's grip. "Wh-What!?!? I don't know where it is!!!" Ralena paused, keeping her powerful grip on him. "You... You don't?" "No! This was my initiation! The Shadow Crows don't show anybody where their hidden headquarters is until they've proven themselves worthy!"<br/><br/>By this point, Lyuk came barging into the scene, carrying Alice in his arms. "Oh, well it took you guys long enough! Sheesh... Oh, this clown? Supposedly he's a Shadow Crow, not too useful to us anymore though." She leaned in towards him, though despite her speaking in a low voice Luca could hear her if he was paying attention, since he was close enough. "I'm gonna let you go now, but I highly suggest that you don't associate with the Shadow Crows anymore, they're too dangerous of a bunch for you, got it?" "Y-Y-Yes!!!" "Good." With that, Ralena let go of the novice Shadow Crow's collar, and the guy was off in a flash.<br/><br/>With him now out of the way, Ralena turned to face Lyuk and Alice. "You guys aren't going to believe what those lunatics are planning. I don't know how we're going to do it, but we NEED to find some way to figure out where their base is. Any ideas?" It seemed that the two 'sides' had both pieces to the puzzle that they needed. Alice and Lyuk had found the way to get to the Shadow Crow headquarters, while Luca and Ralena had figured out what their motivation was, as well as a possible course of action to take once they got there.