And Peace Be With You-The Daemonic Rebirth #3

Chapter One: Bastion of The Damned

----- July 14th, 2010 -----

It was early the next day, most of the Wounded Lilium had died from their injuries, only three of them had survived and two of them were still in critical condition. Irina hadn't been gone long, she went back to the Base in Tokyo, and returned about two hours later. She had request from Arch-Commander Michael, he would send two of his Retainers into our territory to Search the Church which had been Eve's base, in the hopes that it's Great-Heavenly-Blade was still in the vault, the weapon had been left behind in the Custodies Veritas' panic to evacuate when the Cease-fire had first happened. Yuguchi had joined our ranks, she had taken the roll of our last Vanguard, although she had elected to keep her Great-Heavenly-Blade, she had given her Sanctified-Blade over to Irina to return to her former base. When she had the time she'd be allowed to replace it with a Tainted-Blade like she requested, but as of yet it hadn't presented itself. In addition Sammy had offered her the roll of our Coven's Inquisitor, given her history as a Custodies Veritas, and her loyalty to the Order of Balance it seemed like a good fit.  She had accepted, saying she would do her duty with great pride. Right now however Yuguchi and Irina were headed to the church with the Retainers, who had arrived early this morning, along with Jasmine as she had apparently once been a member of their Squadron they'd requested her to go along with them, Sammy had approved.

The rest of us, the Roshna Coven included, and Pandora currently had a much more daunting task, we were escorting our traitors to prison. But along side them was Eve, we had treated her injuries, and currently we all walked down the streets escorting her and the traitors. Eve was currently locked in various different restraints. The first were a set of Silver handcuffs, handcuffs covered in the Enochan Runes of a Sanctified-Nullification Spell to prevent her using any magic through her hands, sitting over her mouth was a mask of sorts, locked in the back with blood magic, it too had a Sanctified-Nullification Spell cast upon it to stop her from casting any verbal spells. Over her eyes she had a blind fold, and a set of ear muffs to prevent her from knowing where she was going. The ragged scars on her back where her wings used to be made it unnecessary to bind her wings. 

We walked towards the train station, at the very front were our Vanguards, while the Roshna Coven's Vanguards stood at the rear, flanked either side of the Cordila Coven were our various Guardians, while the Rangers we had flew high above patrolling back and forth, ready to strike if needed. Both Coven's Warrior's, although in our case that was only Angi, the Kakureru Academy security and the combat ready students were lining the streets between here and the train, Geena, Lucas and myself, walked among the traitors. In front of Eve Sammy walked, while Judith stood behind her. Raphael and Sammy's mother stood in front and behind her respectively, finally Pandora flew above us, directly over Eve.  

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When we finally arrived at the train station, we waited until all of the Roshna Coven and Serphina Coven fell in before boarding the train, although the cart that we boarded was typically used to carry troops from the Underworld to the Mortal Realm in times gone past. We passed through the gate way as the train begun to move, and it was a tense travel, not a single word was uttered by anyone and all of us were on edge. Even the typically calm and collected Broach was twitchy, any movement from Eve instantly had him reaching for his axes. When we finally arrived in the Underworld we didn't stop at the main station, instead the train was directly diverted to the station in the Northern most point; more commonly called The Niflheim District.