[center][h2]Agrabah Palace
[color=Sienna][b]Cerden Celebrindal, [/b][/color], [color=darkorchid][b]Flora Kairu-Celebrindal[/b][/color][/h2][/center][hr]

There was an unnerving silence that took over their specific location. The low and almost inaudible sounds that emitted from the Birug’s scanners were the only sounds heard within twenty meter radius. Both Flora and Cerden stood motionless and tried to maintain their near-expressionless faces. They didn’t know when the machines or hooded figures would come at them. The slightest moment could initiate an attack. It wasn’t like they couldn’t take them, but if noise was made from a fight, that would possibly invite more hostile forces to their location and the two lovers didn’t need that at the moment.

A minute of silence passed and suddenly a surprising yet familiar voice roared louder than a Darkside. It was Nomis, but something was off. Flora could sense it and Cerden knew it. Cerden knew his brother to an emotionally-unstable person. Even though it mostly was under control through his almost emotionless, calm and  collected persona, there was something vastly different about his tone. Cerden felt a certain malicious intent behind it,  a complete disregard for all feelings and notions of remaining calm. Nomis sounded as if he abandoned all stability and wanted nothing but death.

[color=sienna][b]“Flora, get ready..”[/b][/color] Cerden whispered to her as his eyes trailed to his purple-haired lover.

Before Flora could make any kind of response, the words from Nomis resonated with the Birugs and forward they marched with the intent to follow their master’s orders fully and completely. The Birugs would fire out red beams of limb-cutting energy at Flora and Cerden. While the latter would dart to the left, evading the beams in the process, Flora wasn’t so lucky. She fell victim to a sudden pounce of the Tattered Figure. 

The surprise of it on her was not only enough to knock her on her back, but her neck whiplashed forward and then back, her head hitting the hard ground all due to a loud bang that was heard and felt throughout the palace. Before the beast was able to get any hits on her, Flora had raised her arms over her head, shielding herself from any potential face hits. In that same moment, she brought a hardened wood-like texture, similar to a Californian Redwood spread throughout her entire body. It had a dark reddish-brown color to it. Each scratch pushed her more deeper into the ground as it started to create a human-shaped crater beneath her.

[color=darkorchid][b]“Damn it!”[/b][/color] Flora cursed as she tried to wiggle herself, but she was still stuck on the ground.

Meanwhile, Cerden had effectively destroyed the Birugs by simply using his twin swords Brother’s Requiem as he stabbed each of them once with both blades, causing them to explode in a small radius. However, Cerden would then find himself in a bit of a bind as two more of the Tattered Figures came at him with the  same raw animal instincts as the one that attacked Flora. Both of them leaped into the air, their razor-sharp claws pointed at Cerden. The white-haired male brought the end of both sword’s circular hilt. Each circle opened up halfway and locked together and his twin short swords became what was known to the general public as a Swallow Sword. In that same instant, Cerden ran his power of glass throughout the entire sword until it was encased in such a sturdy and noticeable blue and silver coating of glass. 

With the Tattered Figures just two meters above him and one meter away from making contact, Cerden began to rapidly spin Brother’s Requiem. Once it obtained enough speed, an array of glass shards began to shoot forth at the Tattered Figures, each shard traveling at twenty miles per-hours and having the cutting power of a finely-sharpened, steel blade, perhaps even sharper then that.