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With seven magic knights now together, greetings of old friends and new acquaintances happened, some happier about this reunion than others as there was a heavy atmosphere due to what the majority of the group had recently gone through. There was confusion as to why Jirou was even there but he explained just how long they had been gone and how he had been getting worried for his sister's well-being. This of course would be frustrating as this was part of their jobs, it hadn't been the first time she had to be gone for an extended period of time nor would it be the last it was just the nature of their jobs especially if it was this dangerous. It was still an important piece of information he had given and had solidified Amaya's suspicion that there was something funny going on regarding the way time flowed within the forest.
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Although hesitant Valo had hugged Hino who scolded him for his reckless behaviour when it came to his excessive training and how he continued to push himself when resting was just as important before hugging him back before asking when he transferred to the black bulls. When he went to greet the former blood mage he was told it wasn't a good time. He greeted Amaya and Jirou while the carbon and floral mages gave the captain the rundown of the situation. How Zaven replied seemed to concern the healers as he not only didn't seem himself but how he was speaking not to make any sense. Valo then greeted Joseph and Zaven. Before much more could be said or done the scenery started to change, it looked like a psychopathic killer's wet dream. The light that was previously bright turned blood red, the rivers carmine red, the trees turned black and petrified.
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A male voice came out of nowhere and explained that at least one member of the group had been reckless and so they would be punished because of it to make a point that recklessness wouldn't be tolerated going forward. He explained that they were all children, that their strength would be weakened and that through the rules of the mana they couldn't affect their grimoires, however, as their bodies shouldn't have them they would only be of the strength of someone who just received theirs. He went on to explain they could make them full power but it would require pouring more mana into that spell. Valo was the first who noticed what he said was true and called out to the daemon in irritation.
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"Oh, I'm flattered you think I'm capable of this little stunt but you give me far too much credit. Hell hath no fury like a woman pissed off I assure you, it's just worse when they have daemonic blood." he said showing that he had nothing to do with it but one of the daemonesses that called the forest whose actions had royally annoyed. With that, he again went silent allowing the group to come to terms with their new reality. Each member took the change differently. Valo turned back into a hot-head, Sol realized his complexion had changed and shook Valo blaming him for this happening. Jirou told the pure aura mage to shut up before he put his sister in any more danger. Zaven attempted to remain level-headed on the matter. Joseph keeping calm also asked Valo not to taunt the daemons any further so as to not make the situation worse. He did point out to Jirou he wasn't in charge and how the pecking order was.
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The boys all stated their age or a bit about their pasts to show there had been no change. The girls on the other hand hadn't been so lucky. Amaya though that she was indeed eight and was concerned about what her circle was going to think about her wearing male clothing. She also freaked out that she was turning red, but that her clothing was still white. She called on her golem to keep the blood rain from getting on her more but she was freaking out at the fact she wasn't on the estate and didn't know where she was. She called out for her family members but got no response, she did ask for who everyone was although it was clear she believed the others of the group had kidnapped her. Hinota on the other had before she went to one of the trees to inspect it only to realize that it would be harder to see the markings.
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Before she could tell the others, she had not only shrunk to being a six year old but she called out for her bodyguard in a panic. She began to speak but it came out in her native tongue. She sobbed and cried in fear and confusion as she had no idea what was going on but hearing Jirou's voice she called out to him and started to run over to him but tripped over her own feet and fell. She could only curl up in the mud and cry more. She was scared and wanted to go home.
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The group has been turned into children ranging from six to ten years old. For the most part, the group seemed to be blaming Valo and how he arrived for their current predicament. Valo then decided to yell at the daemon who gave a reply before the group more or less told him to shut up and not taunt them any longer before he made an already bad situation worse. The group asked who was still how they should be and found out were the offensive and most of the utility mages one of the utility and the healer of the group were both in the child-like mindset of their age. The group knows this punishment will last until they get to the inner most area of the forest but they essentially have two children in toe right now. One a scared spoiled princess and the other a scared princess who didn't understand or speak a word of Clovian. The group now have to navigate this new trial and continue towards their goal.
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While they have all become younger they do have their memories up until that point and they have their personalities in check... well except the girl's they will react as they did at that current age. In addition to all of this, they have access to all their spells, however, regardless of rank they are all considered junior rank although their normal ranks mana cost and sustain will be applied, if they want to make their spells stronger they will be 25% of the charge added per rank above junior (This means that an intermediate spell will cost 25 ¦ 13, a senior spell will cost 45 ¦ 23, a grand spell will cost 88 ¦ 44 and an archmage spell will cost 160 ¦ 80 if you want the actual power behind the spell they chose) and will hit for a maximum of 1/2 junior damage without a spell helping them become stronger.

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It was an understatement for one white hair heiress to say she was in a literal nightmare in more ways then one. First was the transformation of turning into a child both physically and mentally. The once 18 year old was now 8 years old. She didn't know where she was, Iji was no where to be found, Sinclair was no where. She couldn't sense anyone she was familiar with. She was in some nightmare of a forest. She was around several other childern that seemed much different then they appeared. The males seemed to more or less be at each other's throats one way or another. the other girl for example. She was absolutely teriffed and speaking a different language.


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Amaya would be lying if she was saying she wasn't scared. She was terrified. If she could let herself actually stop being brave she would be in the fetal position crying for Jianyu and her family. She wanted to do that exactly. she wanted to be found and taken home. she was terrified beyond belief with a strange group of kids who can't get their heads on straight it seemed.


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It was the fact one of the black haired male yelled to the voice. The voice of the daemon that caught her attention. It spoke about the fact this was not his doing, it was of another. From his words, he sounded to speak of a woman that was furious with the group for one of their own's actions. She looked towards each of the group wrapping her arms around herself, trying her best to hide her shaking. She looked towards a conversation between two black hair males that sounded to be about the scared female that was on the ground crying. Amaya felt bad for the girl as she listened to one male speak of her being his sister and the other speaking of being her fiancé as she couldn't imagine what such things were.
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She and her circle had a joke that she was betrothed to another in her circle Enlil. She found such a joke funny but gross as Enlil was much like a brother to her as her circle were like additional siblings. She knew all of them since she was tiny, they were the top of the social circles. They were held within tight restraints within their families and viewed as the future leaders of clover. She snapped out of her thought process haired the longer haired male in armor call out to her. Her pastel blue eyes watched him as they narrowed hearing him mention of them all being friends of Hania's. That was a lie. She knew better then anyone who was Hania's friends. That answer was no one. He had too much studying, training, and want to avoid all interactions like the plague if at all humanly possible. The fact such a thing was said really made her take two steps back with her golem following suit. She watched him speak to the girl and Valo as he crouched down seeming to offer her a piggyback ride, something she remembered her brothers doing from time to time for her if she got too tired. She shook her head to Jirou's call keeping her hug of herself tight. "No...I am not going to take the word of a liar to remain calm." She spoke nervously.

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She then turned to another male that seemed to be one of more authority from his words and actions. His words had her confused the most. He was speaking of not having some pity party with a bad word added in there. From his words it seems she been with this group longer then she thought but it sounded like he left them and was now coming back in and they were going to more or less deal with it. She watched him move towards them with a black raven like bird following to then sat on his shoulder before he declared they were to get moving as their were in bigger moment? She was confused of what he spoke even if she was confused she knew one thing. The groups he spoke of family and non family. From what she was getting the one who spoke of Hania must be a brother to the other girl. and the rest were not such? She turned her eyes towards Zaven Shaking his head. " I am not listening to someone like yourself. I d-do-do-don't know you or the authority y-y-y-you think you have trying to co-co-co-command me to group up with any of you" She chimed in taking another step back, keeping away from the males at a safe distance. She didn't trust any of them so far. They were strangers and her stranger danger was breathing large bright red flags to turn and run.


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It was them that she heard from the 4th black haired male in the party. He seemed to finally be done shaking the heck out of the male called Valo. Scolding him for his actions that was brought on to them. She watched him clear this throat to get both jirou's and valo's attention telling them to more or less knock it off. She soon locked eyes with him as the most striking difference other then his reasoning was his blood red eyes. They were unique but scary much like this forest, Like this blood dyed hellscape. He didn't seem bugged by the blood rain, just like the other males. Did they not care about getting drenched? getting stained? He Seemed nice and reasonable. he spoke of them all being stuck in the same situation by some bad people. He spoke of them needing to get away from here but the only way they were to do so was to move. He then offered to help her get home. she felt her cheeks grow hot, glad for the blood rain on her skin to hide the small blush at his offer. he was nice that was for sure.


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She turned around form him resting her hands on her face in thought of the offer. She could walk in some direction and find the edge of the forest. All directions had some end of regions. This forest wasn't infinite right? Just moving in one direction is what she was to do right? She was still in clover right? She was known, her last name was her ticket to getting anywhere she needed. She was sure she could find someone to give her directions or take her golem to the air, through the branches to above the forest. The trees had to have a height limit. It was then she was snapped out of her thought process seeing a towel and umbrella offered to her by a peach haired male as she stepped back from him looking behind him and the items offered then back to him, several times over before she hesitantly took the towel presented to her nearly jumping out of her skin at the honk of the goose golem as she felt her hair taking out her pins before placing the towel on top drying her hair as well as getting as much of the blood off her as possible, sniffing her hair to see if she could get any other scent of this rain, if it was indeed blood or not. She rested the towel on her head as she then accepted the umbrella opening it as the purple golem deformed but the smoke it came from moving back into her bracelet as she watched Joseph move his hands in confusion. She only knew a small beginner amount of sign language from a book she read once out of boredom within the studies she and her brothers had to tend. She watched his magic as she was confused. They were childern. None of them were 15 even if the others stated such? What was going on with this forest.


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Amaya watched the Peach haired male named joseph and his carbon magic go to work in an attempt to explain something that seemed so foreign to her. He spoke of them being cousins and how he was Fintan's son and him dying when she was a year old. " I am s-s-s-s-sorry but none of that is in my memory. I remember mother and father speaking to Fintan once but not of any childern of his. Plus if you were my co-co-co-cousin you would have lived on the estate like the rest of the family does, meaning I would have remembered you due to your hair and eyes." She spoke confused folding her arms. She listened to him explain about Jirou's reasoning for claiming what he did. "Honestly, if you all ac-ac-ac-actually wanted to try calming me down, y-y-y-y-you should have said one of my twin brothers of Sinclair or Iji since they have di-d-d-different friend group and schedules then I. It isn't a secret Hania does not have the people we call friends. He is very busy with his studies to his trainings to just being able to have down time to himself." She explained blankly.  Holding the umbrella as she stabbed her staff into the ground for a holder as she tightened the big satchel on her, pulling it on it's last notch pushing it behind her as she adjusted her staff in its straps. She then listened to his explanation of the whole situation as she raised an eyebrow in confusion. What he spoke seems like a wise tale at best.  " I do-do-do-don't believe such things regardless of the si-si-si-si-tuation as I had no reason to t-t-t-t-trust any of you to hold your words even if such a situation explains the blood stain scenery around us." She said before looking back over to the one called Sol speak with them before speaking to her, asking her to stay close, that he would protect her. She sighed as this situation was a messing one but the two males of Joseph and sol seemed nice enough to try calming her down. but her mind was set. She was heading home one way or another and that meant choosing a direction and going for it.


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She looked around the group as she turned towards the other female moving towards her and Jirou holding out the towel, keeping it safely under the umbrella " I-I-I think she can use th-th-this." She said trying her best to get out her words. She looked around the group before deciding her next step of action. They wanted to move right? The sooner they move, the sooner they were out of this forest right? So just move forward. She had no reason to fully trust them all as there was only really one that seemed nice in words while another was helpful. the other three seemed too into a issue to matter to her. She took a deep breath clinging to her satchel strap once the towel was taken, if not, she would place it in her satchel for the time. She closed her eyes mustering her courage before taking the first steps in some direction. it was a bloody mess and it seemed from her sight, it wasn't going to change soon. Her heart was racing, her mind was screaming to continue calling out. her fear was the same as that night two years ago. She had grown some sense then. She just needed to get home. She will never leave the estate ever again, she would behave. she will give anything to just be back where she knew she was safe. She didn't want to be in this nightmare any longer. She wanted to wake up back in her room where she was not covered in blood like rain. Where there was no nightmare fuel around.
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Before the floral mage managed to get what was on her chest off it in regards to her captain and his behaviour since entering the forest. She was worried about him it was plain to see as to her this wasn't the same man that had walked into that forest, it almost seemed as if the longer he remained in there the more he changed and not in a good way. It seemed as if it was something that even Amaya had also noticed but soon enough the entire group had been turned into children, for the most part, everyone had managed to keep their memories. It seemed like this forest had a twisted sense of humour and made the two primary healers revert to how they were as children. One didn't believe a word that anyone was saying and the other didn't understand what anyone but her elder brother had to say.
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Jirou had stated to Amaya that they were friends of her cousin Hania and she was quick to rebuttal that her cousin had no friends due to his busy schedule and his own preferences. Joseph then tried to tell her of who his father was and that he knew that Hania wasn't social, it wasn't exactly unknown even at a young age that the ice mage was only social out of family obligations. Sol had at least got the young angelic mage to be at ease as she took the items being offered. The pure aura mage had attempted to tell the young floral mage that he would be there to protect her, which he promised. Jirou seemed to take offence to anyone being near his younger sister and had even offended the man in return. Valo stated as Hino was his fiance that he would put up with some of Jirou's bullshit but he had a limit.
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This was enough to get Sol involved, stating that the pair didn't need to like or respect each other but needed to get along or none of them were getting out of there, given their current situation. Joseph had called his mother goose golem and the moment that the young floral mage seen it she started to scream. She already thought that people were arguing because she had ended up outside of the mist and seeing that nightmare fuel just scared her making her hug her brother all that much tighter but she still refused to get on his back and be carried. Zaven attempted to regain some sort of control but as it stood no one was listening to him and Amaya made if very clear that she wouldn't listen to someone like him as he had no say over her.
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With that the Angelic mage walked off in a random direction seemingly not caring if the others were following her or not, she wanted to get home and believed that if she went in a straight line she would eventually find the end of the forest and a way to get home. After a few moment the Daemonic male's voice was heard with a small chuckle "I am one of two voices of reason within this forest but I wouldn't worry about talking to me as your arrogant little princess is about to walk into danger." he stated "And you sure you want to listen to that would be captain's tactics? Who in their right mind would want to separate a group like that? You are making the children targets." he said with a disgusted tone as he spoke to the group, however as the group heard one thing Valo would hear a second message underneath.
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The group is in complete disarray. Zaven has proven that he is currently unable to keep control of those within his command. Jirou and Valo seemed to be at odds. Joseph and Sol were attempting to put Amaya at ease and failing. Amaya wasn't having anyone's bullshit and walked away from the group while the main support and tactician for the group was pretty much isolated from the rest of the group due to a language barrier and being scared of her own shadow. The male daemon did however reply to Valo's words stating that he and one other were indeed voices of reason within the forest but not to be worried to talk to him as Amaya was about to walk into danger. Only Valo would hear a second message underneath the first "I am willing to answer some questions and guide you safely, trust me or not that is up to you." it would be completely up to Valo if he shared what he had just heard. It is now up to the group if they want to listen to the daemon's warning and attempt to stop Amaya going in the direction she is going or ignore the warning and follow the wayward spoiled princess. One thing was for certain someone had to take control of this situation or it was going to go from bad to worse.
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