<div class="floatleft">(http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q774/anniemaccloud/Tomoe%20Mami%20Avatars/Mami_avatar_43_zps70c82e1e.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Alice Deschain (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=176393.msg8367695#msg8367695)</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Shadow Crow headquarters.<br/><strong>With:</strong>Gaius.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>As soon as the gunslinger saw the mage emerging from the smoke, she fired at will. Gaius, however, summoned one of his illusions that worked as a powerful shield. Alice tried and tried, summoning a gun after another with other more powerful properties, only to discover they didn't worked. She didn't care to waste time re-equiping her guns. Once she discovered a particular didn't cause any scratch to the mage, she just threw it away to sumon the next one. And so she did until her options sold out and Red was right in front of her.<br/><br/><em><strong>"C'mon, drop the guns. You don't have to do this to yourself,"</strong></em>he said, a tone of pity in his voice. Alice dropped down her guns, looking down.<em><strong>"I mean, what are you proving by continuing to throw your face against a brick wall? The only thing you're managing to do is hurt yourself while accomplishing nothing. Wouldn't it be easier to just give in?"</strong></em><br/><br/>She looked at him, with tears in her eyes.<strong>"I knew... I knew you had something good in you. You could've me killed right now... and yet..."</strong>She came closer to him, limping and holding her aching shoulder. Then she raised an arm to touch and caress his face.<strong>"So, this is the real you,"</strong>she smiled,<strong>"if we met in another place and hour... maybe..."</strong><br/><br/>Red didn't push her away, so Alice grew a bit more of courage and hugged him.<strong>"Red... don't matter what happens from now on... don't lose that good side of yours, ok?"</strong>Standing in the tip of her toe, she kissed his cheek, reached his ear and whispered:<strong>"And... one more thing... I'm not a gambler... I'm a cheater."</strong><br/><br/>Alice hugged him as tight as she could while, with a flap of one of her hands, a thin strand of one of her ribbons began to glow with magical energy. Alice pushed the strand with all might, pulling up all of her guns scattered in the floor. Red saw himself in the middle of a dome of guns directly aimed at them, before he could listen Alice yell:<br/><br/><strong>"Desperado Cage!"</strong><br/><br/>Another quick pull of the ribbon and she did it. Alice used her carefully planned attack, the one that should earn a hard-fought victory or seal her defeat. As if obeying her command, all the guns shot at once, and the gunslinger mage could only close her eyes and wait being hit with him.