"W-wait! So much people. Why would you need me, master and Ashraeh-swan to help if you guys are strong enough...?" Rickardo quickly inquires, thinking that us three being here was a total waste.

"Well, it's not like it matters, the more help the better," William cheerfully says, as he rushes onwards up the stairs. Once he arrived, it was a large, spacial area with nothing except walls and two portals. One to the left, one to the right.

A burst of magical energy happens, 'Only three people can enter one portal. The left overs go through the other one.' The text said.

"Master! They're trying to split us up..." Rickard angrily pouts.

Rennet wasted no time in stepping through the portal. Her sisters followed her, and soon the portal had disappeared.

"I guess," Ashraeh said
that leaves us three." She sighed, disappointed that Rickardo was still with them.

Will nods and the group quickly enters the portal. As the blinding light consumes and teleports them, they're left standing in front of a large, stone golem statue. It could barely fit in the room, since it's so gargantuan. “Another monster floor…” William sighs, grabbing out his gauntlets and dashes towards the golem.

Delivering a barrage of fast, quick and snappy punches, the all it done was a small dent on the monster. “Go Men A Sai, Pyro flamma, ustulo hellfire, servo mihi quod efflectum meus foes! Fell Flames!” He chants, sending fire needles slamming down onto the golem.

“Master, fire specifically, is ineffective on this monster! Retreat and think of something else!!” Rickardo recommends.

“R-right…” William mutters before a large stone sword was sent crashing towards him. William barely dodges it in time, for a huge crater was left remaining where the golem attacked. In fact, it seems to almost have destroyed the floor.

“Um, I think it's best if you sit this one out, okay?” Ashraeh said. She chanted her spell, her magic swirling around her body. The discs of water shot out towards the stone golem. They severed it's right arm, and it fell to the ground with a thunderous crash.

"Right, right..." William nods to Ashraeh as he watches the golem be put under extreme disadvantage against water. The golem seemed to look at its severed arm and let out a small chuckle of evil as the rocks begin to form together again... It lifts its arm, aiming directly to slam Ashraeh into the ground. "W-watch out!!"

"Water discs!" Ashraeh shouted in panic, her arms extended as if they would save her from the crushing stone. The discs had severed the arm in midair. Her hasty attack was not able to save her, as the fist crashed down upon her, kicking dust up at every turn.

"Ashraeh!!" William shouts as he dashes towards the pile that has buried her. However, before he knew it the golems fist was flying towards him, quickly blocking the attack with his gauntlets, the block seemed ineffective as William's sent flying backwards in utter pain.

"Fireflies," Rickardo chants as a few ineffective mini-fireballs burst into the golem, grabbing its attention, giving Will and Ashraeh a chance to rejuvenate.

Ashraeh couldn't move. The blackness surrounded her, the debris laying on top. She might not breath again.

William dashed after her, ignoring the opening they now have. He had to save her and fast. Rickardo was also in a tough position, backed into a corner. Grabbing the rubble, with all his might he continues to throw the debris away from Ashraeh, until he finally sees her. Gently pulling her out, he gives her a hug, "I'm sorry for not being able to protect you... just wait, I won't let that thing hur you again. Not now, not ever." His voice contained a bit of panic within it, he didn't know healing magic or anything of the sort... "Rickardo!! Heal Ashraeh with the little magic you got, I'll fight this thing!" He shouts over to the ermine, who replies with a nod and quick agility and speed, he appears in a few seconds right by Ashraeh.

Ashraeh opens her eyes, groining from some unknown pain. She tries to sit up, but an ache courses through her body. She looks at her stomach, to find it pierced by a huge rock. Her eyes gape open, fearing that this is her last hour.

"Don't panic, you'll live." Rickardo reassures, "When I wasn't an ermine, I've had seen people survive with much worse wounds." He states, healing her most abdominal area.

William avoided a few stones chucked by the golem, but he couldn't do this forever. Backflipping, he begins to chant. "Go Men A Sai, Aestuo incendia wrap inter meus hostilis quondam penetro enchanted area. Inferno Twist." He murmurs, jumping backwards as the golem steps on the area of effect spell and fire bursts from undernath it, however it seemed to be ineffective and just made the golems attacks have a burning touch to it. "Go Men A Sai, Pyro flamma, ustulo hellfire, servo mihi quod efflectum meus foes! Fell Flames!" He chants his strongest spell as needles of fire hail upon the golem.

Most needles hit the joints of the monster, causing it to break up, however it reformed in a matter of seconds. "How do we defeat this thing...?" He looks at it, only to be blown back a stone pillar that bursted from under the ground. "And it still has tricks, it seems..." He pants rather tiredly.

"Urgh, I can't go on like this... I-I must do...something..." Ashraeh was losing blood, and fast. Within a few minutes, she would surely perish. She made up her mind. She must not die here! Her family would never be found! How would they be saved?! She couldn't give up, not here, not now! She casted a spell she had been studying, but would it be enough?

"Glacies! EGO dico vos continuo, everto gelu, glacio mei hostilis per! Permissum lemma rumpus! Glacialis Occupo!" She directed the beam of ice at her gaping abdomen. Her midriff was encased in ice, her life preserved for a little longer.

Wait, are you allowed to do two missions at the same time??
-Directed At Will

"What a tough girl..." Rickardo mumbles, as he watches what the two mages will be doing and how they handle the situation, considering it is the next generation of mages. “You know though, a pactio would handle things so much easier.” Rickardo says those last words as Ashraeh departs.

William quickly knows Ashraeh standing up in an erratic manner. “Stop, Ashraeh!! You need to heal, just leave it to me!” He punches the golem directly in the face with his ‘Magma Fist’, wiping its head clean off. However, it quickly reformed. “There has to be something about it…” He speaks.

(OOC: You can. As long as you know which order you're doing them in. This is before the Defending Shrine.)

Wincing away the pain, she slowly stepped forward, and fired another ice beam. It's arm froze, and broke away. It shattered with a thundering crash. The shards of ice flew in all directions, the powerful gust pushing William and Ashraeh back, and knocking Rickardo into a wall.

Ashraeh stepped forward once more, and fired another beam, but her wounds caused her to miss. She stumbled and fell to her knees.

The monster quickly tries to attack the already injured Ashraeh, "I don't think so..." William angrily mutters, punching it's chest directly with his magma fist, sending it flying backwards, revealling a huge core that looked like it was working with magic. "A-Ashraeh, do you think you could hit it!?" William shouts to get, as it already begins to reform.

Ashraeh charged an ice beam, and fired. Alas, her attack was in vain. The golem recovered before the spell reached.

"It's...it's too...fast..." Ashraeh panted, the ice on her stomach was beginning to thaw. She applied a new layer, and begin to feel light headed from the energy she was using.

"At this...rate...well die...!" Ashraeh felt a new determination. She stood and charged a ice beam. The bolt sturck it's head, but it only replaced it.

"What...are we going to...do?" She gasped.

"What an annoying girl, she keeps ignoring me!!" Rickardo grumbles angrily, forcefully creating a pactio circle under Ashraeh. "I told you what to do!!" He shouts at her.

"You can't be serious, Rickardo! Now?!" William shouts at Rickardo, getting punched into the ground with extreme force, forcing Will flying back into a ground, coughing up some blood. "Shit... Blood... right before a pactio? No, that's just..." He mumbles to himself, making sure no one else can hear as he wipes the flood from his mouth.

"This is no time to be playing around!" Ashraeh does something she has never done before, she glared at Rickardo. She whirled around and attacked once more. However, she was too busy to realize she was still in the circle.

William quickly aided Ashraeh in the barrage of attacks, Rickardo quickly expands the circle, including William in it. "Do it!! You're right, there's no time, that's why you have to do it! Now's not the time? Don't be a fool! What about Rose's? Rie's? They were exactly the right time! And so is this!!" Rickardo shouts, even though his ermine look, it seems he was very forceful with rage, as if he was giving a lecture, he quickly forces Ashraeh and Will together.

"W-what?!" William was left speechless, he didn't know Rickardo could be like that. It seemed like this time, it wasn't for the money or the kiss, but that it was actually needed.

Ashraeh had been dodging this outcome, but it seemed that it couldn't be done. She leaned in forward and delivered a passionate kiss, the final blow...

William looks at Ashraeh, who seemed ready. As she leaned forward, he blushed like a red tomato as their lips met. The kiss only lasted for roughly three seconds, as the light shone brightly and the golem charged at the two. A pactio card slowly dropped from the air, Rickardo quickly clones it and throws one towards Ashraeh.

Will, instead used his magma fist spell once again and used his explosive punch to burst the golem's chest open, however it seemed of much lesser damage, Will's fatigue was showing. It was up to Ashraeh.

(Edit: I loved this part. MEMORIES~!)

Ashraeh glance at her pacto card, she was dressed in something that seemed vaguely familiar. In her hand, she held a crystal. Was this to be her weapon?

"A...adeat!!!" She shouted. A white light caressed her body, gliding over her, erasing her school uniform. She was dressed in the most beautiful of dresses, with jewels hanging about. But this was no time for awe. She didn't know what to do with her crystal, but she prayed that it saved their lives. Slowly, the crystal began to morph and change colors. What was once a small shard, was now a grand sword, it's blade cut into pieces.

She swung the sword in a horizontal arch. It severed the golem's body, reaveling the core. She had but a split second. Wheeling around as fast as she could, she thrust the sord forward, it's blade seperating, forimg a sort of whip. The crystal weapon pierced it's mark. The golem is defeated. They could pass- No. The giant boulders that had once been the mighty golem, now crashed through the floor, everything falling into the dark depths below.

"Will! Rickardo!" Ashraeh shouted, nothing to be heard. The wind whipped at her clother and body as all three fell. There's no way to survive.

William quickly tried to grab Ashraeh's hand, however a boulder flew between them. "Ashraeh!! Rickardo!!! Where are you both!?" He shouts, as they all plummeted to the bottom. If this was so hard, how would the other three handle themselves?

Ashraeh tried to hold out, but her wounds were too great. It seemed she had unfortunately succumbed.