As seen from his face, Grant was not happy with Wesley for hitting him, but soon the expression on his face afterwards would make it clear to Wesley that he understood what happened, so he just would let it go, it seemed. Meanwhile, Emiri and Jaakuna looked at each other. Her look of disbelief was then taken over by a sharp pain in her head as she gripped it. Jaakuna knew this had to be from her power. The more she used it, the more the headaches happened and Jaakuna knew they would just keep on getting worse and worse. Still, she would stand up, claiming she was fine, but Jaakuna knew that she wasn’t.

When she stood up, Jaakuna did the same and they both looked to Chaos. Jaakuna would run in with two swords in his hand. He leaped up, struck Chaos with both of them in a succession of two vertical slashes. Chaos easily deflected them and when Jaakuna was pushed back. Due to his athletic ability, Jaakuna did a backflip in the air and landed on his feet. He would see Wesley and the others each do their own attack. Savayna would attack from the back with a Blizzaga, but Chaos blocked it with Aeroaga, smashing the ice and sending Savayna back once more. He saw Grant and Nadeline each do their own attacks and Wesley even went in with a Holara, which was deflected by one of the swords. The attacks would keep coming and they would get deflected. Parts of them would hit Chaos, but it was just the same thing over and over again. Even when Emiri would do her own attacks, they would be useless.

When everyone kept on trying, Emiri would tell them to stand back. Heeding her words, the group got behind her and they watched as mist surrounded her body. Chaos watched her intently as well. Soon the mist around her would take a form of multiple shades of electricity. Chaos would be surrounded by the same electricity. Emiri would chant out a chant and as she finished, bolts of lightning composed of mist came crashing down upon Chaos, each piling one after another. As it finished, there was an explosion of mist, which sent the entire party flying back. The force of it shocked(pun-intended) everyone. The end result was Chaos starting to fade, turning into a crystal-like object and then fading once more. The glyph of Chaos, The Walker of the Wheel, appeared on Emiri’s left hand. When that happened, she just exited without a word to anyone. Nadeline called out, but she didn’t stop. Everyone else just followed Emiri and Grant. It was one hell of a day, that’s for sure and getting out of Nabudis was their top priority at the moment.

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In The Cubicle, a head popped out from the wall. A certain female would look as Jaakuna and the others would exit the room. Popping her entire body out, Levi was in full view. She laughed evilly and she looked around the room. Obviously the brats were only in Nabudis to get Chaos and Levi was quite fine with that. Her reason for coming to Nabudis was more important than just acquiring an Esper. Truly, her reason for coming was much more valuable.

As she appeared before the back of the room, right where Chaos was, she smiled. “As dark as midnight, as light as day; as tranquil as a forest, as loud as an engine — open the gates of Nabudis and show me truth.” She chanted as the back wall would first divide vertically and then behind it would turn and split horizontally. A walkway was revealed and Levi walked through the opening. She would walk down the pathway that had golden textiles and the walls were paved with black and silver engravings of the scions of both light and dark,. As Levi would arrive at the end, the room was as she had remembered it. The room had a pedestal up top of a raising, circular platform above ground level. In the pedestal itself, there was an object. It had a hard, grey outer crust and a glowing black inner. It was indeed the Midlight Shard. 

Levi would pick up the shard and she would just laugh…and laugh. The laughing could be heard throughout the entire area of Nabudis.
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As they walked out of the room where Chaos formally was, the walk out of Nabudis was a quiet one for the most part. There were very few words from Emiri to the rest of the group. Even though they would ask, she would just state that she didn’t want to talk about it. About halfway through the journey out, Jaakuna noticed that Emiri was getting physically exhausted, so he told her to let him give her a piggy-back ride. After a few rounds of protest on her part and insisting on his, she gave in. It was the rest of the walk that she was on his back and five minutes after doing so, she passed out. As they continued, Jaakuna heard slight noise of laughter. He would turn his head back as he kept walking. He didn’t know what it was, but he cared not to investigate it. He just wanted to get the hell out of Nabudis.

When they got out of the Necrohol of Nabudis, they would walk further away so that Jaakuna could signal Iris to beam them up. Once that happened, they would be inside the Ifrit and by the time they did, Emiri was awake and walking on her own. Everyone would head to the dining room as Jaakuna had told Iris to set a course for Archadia, since they can go there without worry now. Once he did, they sat at the dining room table. Jaakuna stretched and sighed. [b]“So glad that we could get out of that place. I never want to see Nabudis for as long as I live.”[/b] Jaakuna said finally glad to be out of that hellhole.