Ricken followed her, worried for Goldenscale and Tieral.

Metting Ahnah at her door, Mayumi took Goldenscale inside where she started working on a way to get the arrows out. "Come on in Ahnah. The rogue there can stay outside, I don't trust him just yet," she said, using a claw to hold open the wound as she slid the arrow out with as little damage as she could manage.

"I'm going to go help Tieral," Ahnah said raminaing outside and turning to Ricken, "Ricken, if you want to help, we need to find a chunk of quartz about the size of a full grown hedgehog."

"I know where to find one." he said running off.  He then squeezed into a small cave opening and rolled into a small cave.  There he began to dig, eventually bringing out a chuck of quartz about the size they needed.  He then went out the way he had gone in and went back over to Ahnah.  "Here you are." he said, holding it out.

"Great, now we just need to get close to Tieral without being caught by those archs of  dark energy, or by those claws of his," She said, heading back towards the barrier.

Along the trees just outside the barrier, were deep claw marks and large scoched sectioins.

I frown, thinking and then follow goldenscale. The dark energy fizzes somthing up deep inside me and I feel my heart beating like it was attached to powerful batteries. My hands start to glow. Whats happening?

"You might want to get away" I warn in a sinester voice, not trusting myself. I feel like I'm going to black out. Somthing flashes and my hands are gerked out infrount of me. When the light fades down I can see 20 or so different animals, all made out of fire looking at me obediently. All of the animals are preditors, wolves, leopards, tigers e.c.t.. I look down at my hands and a steady flow of fire is flowing between them and I feel myself egnite, tendrils of fire flow from me and the animals, I'm filled with energy and anger against the enemy. I look at my friends "when this ends I don't think I'm going to feel that well" I say in a voice that sounds to deep, like it's not my own.

Frost waits to be called to the stand for the meeting.

"I think that our best chance would be moving through the tree branches like Goldenscale does.  That would allow us to get close." he said, jumping up into a trees branch and began to run through the branches towards Tieral.

The animals look at me as if waiting a response "Goldenscale, whay the hell do I do?"

(Goldenscale is unconscious inside Mayumi's house, getting arrows taken out.)

(ahh) I walk over to Mayumi's house and knock on the door as she opens she sees me on fire as well as my arms of firey aanimals

Sitting in the middle of a clearing, Tieral had his claws dug deep into the ground below him as the occasional arch of energy flew from him.

"If we can get him to grasp this crystal, the dark energy will leave him. If we don't find a way to do that fast, he has enough energy in him to taint this section of forest," Ahnah said, watching from her spot in the trees.

"Come, place your hands on Goldenscale's wounds. I can make use of the energy you seem to have too much of," Mayumi said, waving Storm over to Goldenscale.

After about an hour of waiting, the council members stepped into the build and surounded Frost. "Just give the word and we can get this ceremony under way," one of them said, passing right by Frost as he went to his position.

He closed his eyes and began to chant something, using his magic to teleport the gem directly underneath one of Tieral's paws.  He then opened his eyes once it had teleported and looked over to Ahnah.  "I teleported it underneath one of his paws so that we don't have to risk our lives.  I just hope he feels the crystal..." he said with a frown.

Pulling up the ground he had dug his claws into, Tieral pulled up the crystal. Looking into the crystal, archs of energy began attaching themselves to the crystal. After a few minutes Tieral had returned to normal, each of the arrows that had been stuck in him had been pushed out by the flow of energy, and the crystal took on a jagged surface and the same color black Tieral's eyes had been. "Thank you, you two," he said, starting back towards the barrier.

"You're welcome." Ricken said as he jumped down from the tree and followed Tieral.  "So you are another of Goldenscale's enforcers?" he asked.