[Q_Q]

Cancer and Kaskakia were gone in a flash, Kaskakia didn't even get the chance to state her unhappiness before they were gone. Mao blinked, Yugure was being controlled either way she looked at it. She didn't like the man at the best of times though. Still if he was being controlled by a being she hated more then he could ever get emotions out of her, she felt bad.

"Yugu--"

Before she could speak though, cat or not. She was cut short by a wave that made the cat whimper, her eyes had glanced at her white haired savior. She quickly turned into a germ and with much work went straight into the male. She could help better anyway being inside someone but it also meant that even though she could give them a boost she was going to also steal his energy a wiered way to work together that is once they were done both of them would be sleeping for a very long time. How she wished that Plague was there now.

[Smoke + Mirrors]

His lips twisted into a wicked grin as he felt his title settle around him, unlocking his power and freeing his lust. After so long, it prickled through his body, making him feel alive. Shaking himself, he turned to face the troublemaker. FATE hadn't made its move just yet, so he directed his attention to the one who had.

His dreams were finally coming true because he got to beat Yugure into the ground. Of course, he couldn't kill him but that was not his style. Their gifts for his previous situation would be dealt with later.

"Oh, dear Yugure, when will you learn?" Hand opening in front of him, he summoned his weapon - his beautifully sharp scythe - but no, that was not its true form. With a thought, it shifted into what it was before when he had been himself as he was again now. It coiled on the ground, draped from his hold on its handle - his gorgeous whip of thorns. "I guess I'll just have to punish you as I have long desired to do."

Reaching out with his powers, Kutsuu touched the purple puppet's mind and nearly giggled when he encountered that not-so-little piece of FATE. It had left a perfect weapon for him, embedded in the mind of its new toy. Its mistakes, however, were to be taken full advantage of at all costs.

He ignored the fleeting thought that FATE had done that on purpose. Yugure was just a tool to it, after all. There was no escaping that fact.

[Ayaka]

Neko  felt her heart tighten, yup the God came back, she thought he was a goner but the God came back. She couldn't help but to sing along in her head, some how it made the stress less. Thankfully the male was on their side for now. Her eyes darted around, the withe haired male was going to become an obstacle kind of. If fate decided to play with him, something about him reminded her of the annoying girl.

He had turned into a light bulb. She sighted, since Fate was so distracted maybe it was time for her to do something productive, tapping into her curse she closed her eyes. Hopefully death didn't fallow everyone around her. She tented to lose control quite easily. One of her eyes became almost half of the size of her face, a large yellow pearl stared at everything the cat like eye blinked a few times before the arm opposite of the eye began to rip and brake and form into a large black paw.

[Blood Brothers]

"Go to the back and - protect your wife," Kokoro told the candy boy, not knowing what else to do. Granted, Sashi could probably survive the top part of the shop falling on him, but if they could avoid that and any other avoidable damage then they would. Sashi beamed up at him for a moment before skipping off towards the tiny sprout, singing something about sticking a banana in his ear.

Sometimes, he rather worried about Sashi.

With a sigh, Kokoro turned and made his way to the front just in time to see Yugure clench his hand in the air towards Seishin, obviously intending to crush him as the purple-haired male tried to once before, but there was a shimmer in the air around his other self and he seemed completely unaffected. The gem in his forehead gleamed with power and Kokoro wondered again what it was because something about it seemed familiar.

The God of Pain was moving and giggling, pulling out his feared weapon as he prepared an attack. Too close to FATE for comfort, Neko was shifting and changing in a way that Kokoro had not seen in a long time. That form made him worry even more about how this was going to end. Even if or perhaps because they were fighting FATE and the three soul-brothers, he was uncertain if he could participate.

His chest throbbed and a flash of gold crossed his mind, making him blink to try and dispel the image. There was, however, something to fight for no matter how uncertain he was about the other reasons.

"You'll have to try harder than that," Seishin sneered, noticing the boost in his power that was probably a result of Mao tinkering in his body. His mind was racing, forming strategies and picking apart what he could see of the opposition's defenses.

To him, this was going to be fun.

[S-O-Y]

Yugure sighed as a glimmer shook over Seishin, almost if it were a lightbulb flashing on. He tilted his head in the man's direction as the ripple in his eyes slowed. Both were revealed now, the bandages stripped from his face. His eyes were healed. The purple remained.

Oraku, take care of Seishin..., Yugure voiced into Oraku's mind.

An evil grin took over the red head's face as his glowing red eyes turned to look at the white haired male in the distance. A man of black in the perimeter as well. A hiss was sent into the air, Yugure turning to Smitigo in the process.  The god that was re-titled has transformed one death tool into more of a torture device. A shiver ran down Yugure's spine. The ground released the purple haze that was cast upon it, and the rocks and debris that once hovered fell with several thuds. Fast foot steps followed soon after as Oraku felt he was needed to exit one zone and breech another. With a quick shiver that took the outside of his body out of focus Oraku was out of sight in the blink of an eye. A few thuds here and there signaled where he was going. Blood pressure would begin to race in several individuals within the crumbling shop for a high pressure was being sent into the radius within it.

Leave Smitigo, this does not concern you..., Yugure voiced into Smitigo's mind.

The glow in the blue haired boy's eyes dimmed as a frown took his face. His back and posture straightened up as the hold on him was let go. A smile crossed Yugure's face as he nodded to his youngest brother. A sigh escaped Smitigo's lips before he quickly ran away from the small child and the vividly evil man with the whip. Jumping sideways onto a wall, he scaled it to jump to another and continued until he reached the rooftop of on of the buildings. His blue hair bobbed out of site and slowly Yugure brought his plum eyes back to Kutsuu, formly known as Kamikuro.

"Such a change you take Kami. I too have seemed to change unfortunately. But yours seems fitting..."

Yugure tilted his head after his deep voice filled the air. He looked down at the child and began to wonder what it was that he wanted next. The puma was gone, maybe not because of him, but it was gone. Was he supposed to fight his once god now? It seemed life was twisting in complex circles suddenly and sadly Yugure was content with it stopping. His heart had had enough...

"What else do you want from me. May I ask what has happened to me? Am I dead?"

His eyes glistened for a second before Yugure closed them to hold back emotion. His heart was throbbing with pain. Aches echoed around his body centering their pain in the middle of his back. A purple wave pulsed out of Yugure and crawled across the ground growing bigger in the process in a ripple formation.

"You snake!!!", a feminine yell filled the air suddenly coming from the ground below Seishin.

A hard pressure was sent to Seishin's knees, a kick was delivered by Oraku who was camouflaged on the ground by magic. He shivered in and out of focus as he delivered the kick and the was gone with a shrill laugh. In a corner of a shop, a sliver of blood began to form in the middle of the air gathering into several needle like senbon. Their direction was focused on Kokoro and Seishin. The amount of senbon expanded within seconds and with a loud snap of the fingers, Oraku was brought into focus as he flicked his hand at the two males. Like bullets, the blood senbon was sent forth at fierce speed. Oraku shimmered out of focus once more.

Standing beside the child still, Yugure opened his glistening eyes that held a slow ripple still. He couldn't feel his hands...

[Ayaka]

Neko was stunned, she had manged to make things leveled in a way. She now had the god of pain at her side not that she was proud of it, she was so out of it she didn't even really hear what was being said between the people currently there.

Needing to act quickly her hand moved down towards the ground fate seemed to have noticed because she also didn't pay much attention to anything else once Neko's hand touched the ground.

"Take me to the desert..."

she whispered, this was going to make some really painful repercussions.

as they were getting ready to the transported, Fate moved quickly to try and stop her. just a few seconds before however they were moved to hunters town, she attempted her best to take as many of the people involved as she could.

[Wind & Earth]

Somehow, he found himself back on the main street, though he had been certain that he had been heading away from this area. Scratching the back of his head, Byakko viewed what had changed since he had last seen the group. From what he could tell, everything had changed. In fact, he hardly recognized the black and white twins except in a very odd way.

He could feel their pulsing glow as if he had a straight line to their hearts. What did that mean again? The wind was whispering to him excitedly, but everything felt strange and out of place. His feet drew him forward and then the monstrous girl and cat in one did something and the wind picked up drastically. Everything was whipping around him in a dizzying pattern that had nothing to do with the wind though the Great Mother would always be with him.

There was sand in his face and at first he didn't understand. Then, he opened his eyes.

Where had she taken them?