[Robert] The water that Elena shot at my clone thankfully got him to stagger, but since he was just going to use a physical attack, it didn't do anything other than distract him for just long enough for Miles' sword to slide over to me. "Th-thanks," I say as I shakily pick the weapon up. It should have been obvious to everyone that I was completely untrained and even afraid of the weapon... but for some reason, I had my clone fooled. His eyes widened as soon as he saw me pick up the sword, and that look in his eye was enough to make me feel a little more confident. He backed away, and I said "Just like I thought. You have the same weaknesses as I do. Good thing I still have the rest of my team, huh?" I said this in a tone of voice that implied that I was taunting my clone, which I was, and to great effect... even if he couldn't speak for whatever reason. I then ran as much as I could with the sickness towards my clone, and stabbed at him, aiming for the middle of his skull. Unfortunately, the sword wasn't quite strong enough to kill him right then and there, and he even managed to get a claw attack in, slashing my left arm, which would have been okay if I wasn't currently holding a two-handed sword... or, alternatively, wasn't so clumsy with swords that I needed to hold the thing with two hands. I still managed to hit the clone with my sword, this time with a slicing motion instead of a stabbing motion, and through sheer luck, slice his neck through all of the confusion and pain. He falls over, unable to breathe, and I fall over, the sickness starting to really effect me. [i]Wait... was that a victory, defeat, or a draw? I guess we still have Miles and Elena, so, it doesn't really matter.[/i] I think before I start to black out. --- [Tony] "Well, I trust you. My name's Tony," I start before I point over to Val. I then add "We all just call her Val... and the big golem who could have easily stomped on you, but won't is Connor," I then point over to Connor, though it was pretty easy to tell who he was just from my description. I was going to say something else, however, I get cut off by a feminine voice saying "Well, aren't YOU an interesting little ragtag group?" A figure then appears behind Deravan, and as soon as I get a good enough look at her, I notice that she was some sort of wolflike creature. Most of her fur was an odd dark blue, while her underbelly, as well as the tips of her ears and tail were a white color. She stood at about my height, and seemed to have some sort of water vapor surrounding her. She was wearing a stereotypical lab coat, and appeared to have a pen and notebook... something about her just didn't seem trustworthy, and that was confirmed when she said "You're never going to pull this off... the rebuilding of society, you know. As long as we remain animals, that's what we'll act like, and nothing some stupid little team of five can possibly say or do will change that. Face it, we have to eliminate magic, and we have to revive humanity... and I have a feeling that you're going to oppose me for this little speech," she was right, however, it wasn't so much WHAT she said, and more or less the condescending way she said it that angered me. She laughed for a moment just from looking at my obviously mad-looking face, and added "It doesn't seem like all of you were smart enough to understand... let me say it this way, you're wasting your time," that only really served to make me angrier, and she added "Oh? You want to fight, don't you? Hm... I suppose I have five minutes, but please, die quickly so I can get back to my research," she then, without warning, formed water near her hand, and shot it like a beam... right at me. I wasn't able to dodge, and that attack sent me back a few feet. I get up within a minute, and counter by trying and failing to impale her on a spike... she looked small, but somehow, it didn't seem as though she was quite as weak as she looked.