Nix simply huffs before disappearing.

Zeke comments
"Stuck up water fury."
Before disappearing himself.

Hermes says
"This will be interesting."
And he disappears too.

I sigh to myself. "Well, Herme's is right again. This will be interesting." then only in my thoughts, it's going to be a long night's training.

I still decide to get to sleep early in the evening, no sense putting off dealing with this.

When I get to the furyscape, I'll look for them, but mostly I'm hoping to find Hermes first. He may have some good ideas, or at the very least can fill me in on what's happened since they left.

You go to sleep and enter your Furyscape.
Everything seems more real with the addition of Nix.

You are between Nix and Zeke. They are glaring at each other ready to fight.
Hermes appears next to you.
"To two are at it again. You might have to put your foot down."

I'm interpreting more real as in starting to solidify in my soul, as opposed to I have a sense of danger here now. Just wanted to clarify that that's what you meant.

I nod to Hermes then put both hands out, one towards Nix and one toward Zeke, in a halting motion.

"This stops now. I understand furies are dualistic in nature and your overall views are opposing, but that does not excuse this incessant fighting. Zeke, you know very well what is at stake with these Titans, you've seen them first hand. And Nix, you at the very least have seen through my memories and know how important these coming weeks will be."

While saying this I'm embracing the fury essence that is surrounding me, much like I did with the air furies here last time, but with all 6 furies. I am making a point, while I have a long way to go power wise, I have a great deal already. Enough that they have each deemed me worthy in their own judgement. Perhaps this demonstration will re-emphasize that to Zeke and Nix.

Not doing anything with the furies that I'm drawing into me yet, just drawing them to be ready. I imagine it looks like a maelstrom of different furies coalescing over my skin, roughly in proportion to which furies I'm strongest in being highest percentage.

OOC: Yeah it's solidifying your soul

Zeke turns his head in shame.

You gather the furies around you. It's a chaotic roaring nimbus of Elemental matter.

Nix does seem in awe with what your doing.

"I understand this is going to have some growing pains as we all get to know everyone, and some of our personalities may rub the wrong way at first. I just require you both to put forward an effort to work together. I hope through working together long enough you will both be able to look past the elemental difference and get along. For now, let's get on to our training."

Hoping they'll go along with it I'll run through a variety of training exercises, using the maelstrom that I have pulled around me to be able to fluidly adapt and change what type of furycrafting I'm using most. I want to primarily practice in that copy of the castle I created the other night. Hopefully going through sparring practices, speed trials, and miscellaneous training will start brings these two together through mutual respect of me.

Other than training during the day with the two squads, and training in this new area, I don't have any other specific goals for the remaining week. In the time I should have reasonably been able to get Levi's squad comfortable with furycrafting, but I don't feel they are combat ready for it, but I admit to setting a high bar for that.

Oh, and this week of training I will start expecting my squad to start crossing disciplines, picking a secondary fury to study. Going to slowly work them to being able to handle each area at least for the basics.

A week passes by. Your squad pick a secondary focus. They manage to figure out what triggers Eren's transformation. It's seems that he needs and injury and a purpose to transform

Zeke and Nix Still don't like each other. But You manage to get them to work together for you.

Your and Levi's squad return to the front. and they are preparing an operation.


Basically they are trying to build a supply chain to connect to the one that was severedd by the destruction of the south gate.
Basically you will be traveling in a formation like this
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The outer layer uses a smoke flare when it spots a titan, then the command squad Directs the formation with another smoke flare to avoid the titan

I take it by the number of squads that not everyone here knows about our furycrafting?

I'll focus primarily on windcrafting to be able to see farther, and watercrafting to be able to sense when a Titan may be emerging. Both of these should be low energy drains.

I'll also direct everyone to remember to keep furycrafting in the reserve, we want to be able to use it when it's needed, not burn out our reserves too early.

Otherwise just staying vigilant and going along with the mission.

Yes they don't know about it.

You are travailing though open plains, The worst terrain for your group.
You use your windcrafing and see most of the squads clearly.

The group dodges a few titans.
You spot a Titan with a athletic female form running in from the east
She slams into the corner squad and ignores them until they try to kill her. Then she swats them like flies.

one squad=^
Female Titan=F
Your squad is here=Y
dead squad = x
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I get Captain Levi's attention, "Captain, an abnormal Titan with a muscular female shape has just crashed into our western most side.  She's operating with apparent purpose, and has taken down one squad already. Shall we move to engage with both of our squads, or are we to stay moving for more favorable terrain?"

It occurs to me that this formation may have been bait. It would make sense to give us extra training before we baited an abnormal Titan after all, and there are suspicions over who killed those two captured specimens. This could find the leak.  As such I'm relaying information to Captain Levi and following his order.

I do tell my squad "Have your furies at the ready, and Gunther, Wood-crafter, I want you to be ready to manifest your furies as well, but only once we engage. It's draining and I need as much of your talents as possible."

You are currently heading south. So the Female Titan is attacking your eastern flank. I'm going to assume that you relayed the correct side to Levi.

You relay the info to the Captain Levi
And he says.
"There is a forest ahead to south south-west. We are going to engage in there."

The signal from higher up in the chain of command has you turn directly towards the forest.

The Female titan slams into the next squad but loses ground due to having to slow down to deal with them.

one squad=^
Female Titan=F
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dead squad = x
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Yes, I just missed the fact that we were heading south. I would convey accurate information.

I nod to Levi as the command comes to move towards the forest, it makes sense, we will take casualties getting there,but fighting in the open is likely suicide for the lion share of our troops.

For now I focus on taking lead of my squad, and keeping an eye out for additional titans, and how fast this one is approaching.

She slaughters a few squads on the way to the forest. You notice a few things about her. One, She seems intelligent. And Two she is really ruthless. At one point she grabbed the wire from an ODMG and then swung the human around so fast, body parts flew every where. Another she grabbed and then slams them into the ground

You are now in the forest and don't see it at the moment.

I take the opportunity to ask Levi some important questions, "Captain Levi, is this a capture or kill target, and are we free to use furycraft?"

I'm staying alert, keeping an eye for the approach of this vicious Titan. I am very much hoping we're going to pull out all the stops here, and we get to both use Eren's talents as well as furycrafting.

"We are to capture the female Titan. I'll leave the use of furycrafting to your discretion. As the use of Eren's Titan form."

I nod, and begin making preparations.

To my squad "This Titan clearly has intelligence, and we are tasked with capturing her. Wood crafter, Gunther, I'd like you both to manifest your furies as soon as we initiate battle. Try and get the roots to snare her and the ground to rise up and detain her as well, respectively. Standard internal furycraft as you all deem necessary."

I don't feel comfortable manifesting two furies for sustained combat yet, so I decide Nix and Zeke are tactically correct for the first part of the fight. I manifest them as soon as I see the female Titan and give Nix the command to go into the Titan and start working on getting the little furies to rebel and stop giving aid. Primary objective, shut down or slow down regeneration.  Secondary, make body parts stop working from lack of air as Nix occupies cavities normally reserved for breathing. Tertiary, diagnose anatomy for discussion later.

Zeke is to be my front line man.  I make a point of mentioning I need his power to stand toe to toe, while everyone works on constricting this titans movement. I need him to burn her badly, grapple, just overall deal damage.  Avoid the nape of the neck, just devastating levels of damage to the entire body.

I am forming the flame and the void in my mind again, both for concentration purposes and to fuel my emotions to feed Zeke. He will need it for this one I think.

I assume is all given standard orders, to only engage in safe actions but with the additional word of warning to avoid using ODMG unless necessary, this Titan has demonstrated she can use it as a weapon against us. Further, crippling attacks are too be used primarily, with any long range furycrafting of manifested furies being the preferred approach. All with earth or wood talents are too aid woodcrafters and Gunther in their trapping efforts listed above.

After you make your preparations, she shows up. She is about 15 yards tall.

 Your squad's earth and wood fury manifests near her feet and trap one of her feet before she kicks the earth rhino and send it flying into Levi's squad. Killing one before he could dodge. The wood beaver keeps out of range for the kicks.

Zeke and Nix manifest.  Zeke leaps at her but she graps him out of the air and then covers her fist in a blue stonelike substance. A lot of steam is coming out of it.

Thanks to Zekes distraction, Nix is able to go into her.

The Female Titan uses the hand holding Zeke to smash the rocks and wood holding her foot. Then she smashes Zeke into the ground and grinds him into the dust.

You can feel Zeke getting very angry.

I take the chance to send all my frustration over the past week of trying to get a water fury and fire fury to get along, as well as my anger at this Titan for the brutality she's unleashed on humanity in the void, channeling it straight to Zeke, along with the mental message You've been bottling anger all week, let it go now!

I quickly tell Eren "I think we're going to need your special talents here."

And then I aid Zeke's effort, conjuring balls of fire and chucking them at this Titan. I'm using small balls so they don't instantly start setting the forest ablaze if I miss, so that it drains relatively little power, and it should be just enough to be enough of a threat that she has to pay attention. That should give Zeke time to wrap around a leg, and start scorching it into uselessness, meanwhile I have to just hope Nix's work will start paying dividends slowing down this creatures regeneration.

Your fireballs get her attention and she starts heading toward you.

Zeke turns blue with all the emotions you are feeding him along with his own anger.

He grapples her leg and starts scorching it. The shin gets covered in that same blue rock.
She then uses that leg to roundhouse kick though a tree, setting it on fire with Zeke. The tree is now falling in your direction.

Ugh, that blue rock is getting annoying, was hoping Zeke might manage to burn through it.

To anyone near me, "Move! Trees coming down!" and get out of the way.

Where's Eren? Is he transforming?

I'll continue to harass this Titan with fireballs, I'm buying time for Eren to show up as a Titan, and for Nix to do her thing in there. I dismiss Zeke for a bit,  letting him rest up in the furyscape, and preserving my reserves.

That and I assume Levi had a plan, hopefully his squad will be in position to enact whatever it was soon. It occurs to me I don't know how we're supposed to subdue this thing, so that's likely part of his plan.

You and your squad dodge the tree.

Erens is biting down on his thumb hard enough to draw blood with attempting to trigger the transformation.

She is limping where Zeke scorched her. She goes over to the tree and rips off a huge branch that is sized approximately as a club for her

She is looking rather annoyed at you.

"Eren! Stop trying to bite it, use your sword if you have to."

Looks like I've done my job getting her attention at least.

I decide that the time for fireballs is over. I make sure my internal windcrafting is high, so that I can dodge or run when I need to. It's time to manifest Hermes, wouldn't want him to feel left out. I'm going to focus to have him manifest on the far side of the Titan and to charge and try to hamstring the leg that's already limping. It's scorched, which should make it vulnerable and slow, and she seems peeved enough that he may get in there fast enough that she can't get that blue rock up in time. Otherwise I'm just staying on the defensive and buying time for Eren to transform.

I'll also shout to Uluo, "Your up on fireball duty next, Uluo. Gunther, try and snare the good leg again."

Going to start consciously fanning out to surround her. That way we can juggle who's annoying her most.

You manifest Hermes and he comes in behind her and hamstrings her. She collapses to a kneeling stace with steam coming out of her injury.

She swingw wide and low to the ground forcing all of you to use your ODMG to dodge it. Unfortunately she killed all of your horses.

"Keep up pressure on her, avoid the nape of the neck. Stick to range though, throw fireballs, have the earth spike from beneath her, start having the wood furies in the roots tie her to the ground. Levi, when you're ready, we could use whatever your plan is for capture."

I send the mental message to Hermes, Nice job.

I'm focusing on coordinating the pressure effort. Any sign of where Eren or Levi are at with their plans?

I send out a mental message to Nix How are you holding up in there? It seems slowing down the regeneration is working

Nix replys
It's hard to stop the regeneration. The little ones are not listening to me.

As you where relaying the orders while flying though the air, She throws the oversize club at you. You try to dodge with the ODMG but the branch clips your right side. Sending you into a tree where your right side is crushed. Including your heart.

Before you pass out, You see Eren transform in a rage.