Yoko: Om, Parikuu Ta!

Yoko's charm lit up as it guard Umi with a shield made of Ki, the shadow were repulsed by the attack at first, but then started to wear away at it, Yoko got closer with his sword, Hiraishiri
(Running Lightning) and swung at the shadows with a Ki enhanced sword slash, bisecting one of them and cutting into another one

Yoko: Shinmeiryuu Ougi, Zanganken!

The girl smiled again, the butterfly still on her head and kept silent.

The barrier soon falls; he repeats the spell, "Unus spiritus ardescat coentes sagittet inimicum!" He says as a flaming arrow pierces the shadows head making it scream, causing a lot of commotion. Quickly turning to Rie, "We have to leave--" He shouts over to her, realising a shadow monster was standing directly behind her.

Aliidan had dispatched some shadows with relative ease (they were only weak ones) when she suddenly noticed one of the shadows trying to sneak off with a bound person... Aliidan wasted no time to deliver a kick to the shadows head, assuming that it was just a weakling shadow again. Imagine her surprise when the shadow didn't vanish...
"Uhhh.... Oh... Uhm... Aiyah!!!" Aliidan said as she was forced to dodge some shadows racing towards her.

The black world around Rose had faded away... Whoever was doing this to her had seemed to lose decisive concentration. Regaining her consciousness slightly, her eyes widen as she realized she was being carried. "W-what's happening...?" she mumbles as she looks up, noticing Aliidan. "Aliidan!! Why are you here? What's this thing!?" She consistently asks, questions racing through her mind.

Osami had been in the forest south of the school for a while, observing the other students (in particular the odd behaviour of Aliidan) but her attention had shifted towards William and so she had followed him, at a safe distance. Now it seemed that he would require assistance if he were to succeed... Wasting no time she took out one of her (many) guns and planted a solid shot in the head of the shadow standing behind Rie, dispersing it.
"It would seem that I have arrived at exactly the right moment. Lets wrap this up so I can get back to sleep." Osami said, cracking a huge yawn.

William looks at the girl. "A-ah, you were at the magic theory class." William states, as he looks at her. Rushing over to Rie, he quickly goes to aid her. "Thank you," He thanks the girl who had saved Rie.

"Are you alright?" He asks her, "Let's go help Rose," He says rushing over to the direction he heard the scream.

Aliidan pivoted a little, dodging the shadows thrust at her before performing a backflip and landing in front of Rose, her staff held in a defensive stance.
"No time to talk! We must defeat this guy if we are to make it." Aliidan said, slamming her staff down onto the ground, bursting up a cloud of dust, disrupting some of the shadows.

Rose nods in agreement. "Right!" She replies to Aliidan, constantly kicking the shadow monster to loosen it's grip. After a barrage of consistent kicks, it soon loosened its grip allowing her to escape, thanks to the dust it was confused and unable to catch Rose again. Grabbing out her tarot cards, "Che Ya Na! Prediction!" She chants as the cards tell her something from the left is coming, she dashes forward and a shadow figure runs past where she would have been.

The girl was still smiling brightly, maybe in an attempt to ease the mood, and her smill butterfly friend was still on her head. "Chii." She tried to thank Osami and William but again she failed due to lack of words.

William looked at Rie and her bright smile. He smiled back, it was a rather warm smile. The three soon arrived in front of a large dust cloud. This was the border of where they were supposed to go. "Is Rose there?" He ponders, there wasn't much time to think with his brash nature, he leaps into the battlefield, of course allowing Rie to rest in safety. Upon arriving in the dust, he soon saw Aliidan. "Aliidan! What are you doing here?!" He's quick to ask.

Osami stood back a little, opting to provide fire support.
"Go, William, help your friends. I shall guard the girl." Osami says while taking out a second gun and shooting some at the large shadow.

"Right!" William replies with a grin, using Osami as back-up who is easily fairing well destroying these shadow like creatures. As Aliidan fought off some shadows, he rushed around the vicinity, obliterating the weaker shadows. “Rose where are you?” He asks out loud, kneeing a shadow in the face as he used it as a shield to block off another one wielding a sword. Jumping across, he soon saw Rose running away, as an extremely large shadow was chasing her.

“Go Men A Sai, unus spiritus ardescat coentes sagittet inimicum!” He chants, sending a large blazing punch with amazing force into the shadow creature’s face. It didn’t disappear, however did stun it. ‘How’d it survive that? None of the others came near to surviving it.’ He thought to himself, grabbing Rose and chanted continually.

“Sai A Go Men A Sai,” He continually says charging up for something big. Concentrating hard, he finished the spell off. “Triginta spiritus ardescat coentes sagittet inimicum!!” He shouts sending thirty blazing arrows destroying numerous shadow creatures. The dust settled and the remaining ones seemed to disperse on their own, as if they had stopped being controlled…

Aliidan collapsed from exhaustion, dropping onto her butt, but she still smiled.
"Aiyah... that was tiring..." Aliidan said, wiping a few beads of sweat from her brow.

The girl (and her little butterfly friend) followed Osami, even though she wobbled slightly still, and looked around the area, a bright smile still in place.
"Chii." the girl said and took a small wobbly bow in gratitude.

Rose clenches onto William. "T-thanks for saving me..." She says her face bright red, giving him a hug. She hadn't been carried like this since childhood... Being put down, she waves at everyone who came to save her. The first person she noticed as a rather beautiful girl with flowing white hair and scarlet red eyes, she then looks at the majestic gunner who easily obliterated the shadow warriors easily. "Hello, my name is Rose. It's a pleasure to meet you two." She says bowing respectively back. She looks at Aliidan as well. "Thanks Aliidan!" She smiles.

"Whew... Glad that's over." Will mumbles to himself, "We should head back. This place is infested with monsters further on, thanks to the commotion we done, we better up." He recommends to everyone as he starts heading towards the Cerberus Magic School.

"We also have to help this girl." William says looking at Rie.

Osami steadied the girl as they started to move towards the school.
"I wonder... This girl, she has such an unusual hair colour... Where do you think she's from? And this inability to speak correctly, maybe she's lost her memories?" Osami said, looking (as far as she could) concerned.

Aliidan followed the group towards the school, not at all concerned about the odd girl. She made a small detour to pick up her flower basket, noting with some delight that it was untouched. Aliidan decided to give the girl a flower later...
The group met no more enemies or problems on the way to the school.

Rewards:

William - 2 SP, 1 MP and 350,000 Drachma.
Rose - 2 SP, 1 MP and 300,000 Drachma.
Rie - 2 SP and 300,000 Drachma.
Aliidan - 1 SP and 100,000 Drachma.
Umi - 2 SP, 1 MP and 300,000 Drachma.
Osami - 1 SP and 100,000 Drachma.
Yoko - 1 SP and 100,000 Drachma.