<div class="floatleft">(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120711025136/campizanagiroleplay/images/0/0c/Sexy-anime-boys-109110.jpeg)<br/></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Luca Saylor</span><br/>Location: Guild hall<br/>With:  Malux Arcadia and Iron Maiden, Nirubi<br/><hr/><br/>Luca growled as he noticed the poison wasn’t slowing the Iron Maiden at all and was starting to look like he was going to have to seriously injure her if he wanted to slow her down even if he didn't want to. She was just an innocent being manipulated. Taking a moment he glanced up at Malux, noticing the way he seemed to have devoted himself to controlling the puppet even further and completely focused on him. Now would be the time to attack the puppeteer directly if he could break free of the iron maiden but as much as he hated to admit the thing was fast and moving fast enough to get the time he needed to attack the puppeteer wasn’t likely. He was running out of options.<br/><br/>Luca could either a. try to out maneuver and take on Malux with hit and run attacks while avoiding the puppet but that would be difficult with the Iron Maiden’s speed. If he could find a way to limit its movements he might be able to use brute force to turtle and plow his way through using his shield but unless he could position things just right the shield might just slow him down too much and leave him as an easy target. He could try to attack them both at once with a giant wave of flames but he didn’t know how strong the Iron Maiden’s defenses were or how good of a fighter Malux was on his own and such a big attack would leave him open. His final option was a full takeover but he didn’t want to risk it if he didn’t have to.<br/><br/>As good of a mage as Luca was he was still afraid of his own magic and of losing control. It had happened once and the consequences had been catastrophic even if he’d never heard from the demon that had possessed him that day again. If he did change Sariel was one of the saner and friendlier demons he had contact with and could reliably use full takeover with him but he still didn’t want to risk losing control if he didn’t have to. As for the other demons, he’d never tried it with them yet. Infernus had the firepower to take on this puppeteer pair but the proud demon also had quite the anger and if anything happened he ran the risk of burning down a big part of the city. The rest were much the same, Bezahl was the equivalent of a demon bulldozer, Haderechi was downright insane and thrived in chaos, Eleasir was  a hunter and at a disadvantage here in the building not to mention he was a bit of a coward. Tariel had potential and seemed to have some kind of code of honor but Luca still didn’t know the demonic knight that much and he seemed to be near unfathomable most of the time.  No, he wasn’t going to use full takeover unless he had no other choice.<br/><br/>The best thing to happen would be Nirubi to take the initiative and ambush Malux while the puppeteer was completely focused on fighting him but he didn’t know if he could rely on her. He’d been on his own so far. He shook his head. No, she was a Fairy Tail mage. He would trust her. Members of the guild always had each other’s backs here. Luca’s right arm immediately returned to normal even as the second one change this time to a giant shield as he blocked the strike at his chest and began a fighting retreat, striking out at the puppet with the heavy shield while he continued to the  trying to pull the puppet as far away from Malux as possible.<strong>“Is this your unstoppable magic? I could beat your puppet with one hand tied behind my back.”</strong>He taunted. It wasn't usually his style but if it worked he wasn’t going to object to its use. If he was lucky maybe it would weaken the puppeteer’s control over it but he was doubtful of that. What he really wanted to do was buy Nirubi time to ambush the puppeteer and make sure that the puppet was too busy with him and too far away to assist its master. If this didn’t work he would have to move on to more drastic measures and hope for the best.