Oogie watched her step back, this girl was hard to judge. He now had bigger fish to fry however, and this was becoming quickly apparent. A large scaly head burst forth from the trees, it bared many teeth as it let out a roar, an ear drum crushing sound, combined with the smell of the flesh of weaker beasts. Oogie sprinted forward, reaching his hands out and then drew them in, the shadows beneath the trees bent to his will, rushing towards him, he enveloped himself spinning as he leapt forward to dart a wink at Faina.

No harm, i promise

He vanished almost completely, anyone who knew where he was could find him eventually, but to the animal, which he was now beneath, he was invisible. No gun, no swords, his promise would be kept.

Faina watched, wide eyed and impressed. This guy was good. Now, let's see how much his word really meant.

From the shadows near the creature a shadow appeared though subtle, it was obvious. In leau with his ninjitsu training this was a fundamental part of it all. Close to the creature as it was, it was then when a strange feeling came over him.
"I sense it," Fia whispered, her minor poltergeist powers having grown since they were discovered by Corenian unexpectedly through testing what he read in a book.
"A...I can't tell what yet, but something is coming and fast."
"Really? Then let's just slink back here, we'll see what happens next, who knows it may be worth our time," Corenian muttered as he hid deeper into the shadow as he awaited the entity to make its move.

The creature sniffed the air tentatively, it was obviously here for the source of the scent, and confuseda about the lack of delicious beasts. Oogie chose his moment as perfectly as he could, uncoiling his body he allowed the force from his legs and lower back to rocket him skyward, turning in a graceful arc, as the sun hit him he became fully visible, landing on the end of the creatures long snout. For half a secong perhaps he regained balance, before useing his already extreme momentum to propel himself up and down onto the creatures back, swinging his legs into a riding position, his mind ran through the beasts anatomy, he pin pointed its nerve spots, knew how to kill it. BUt he wouldn't he was a man of his word, instead he clung tight to its scaly back, and looking towards where he thought Faina was hiding yelled

I believe the term is YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAW!

A fiery hole opened up in the ground beneath the beast that Oogie had mounted. Ashes began to fall into the hole as the monster evaporated in front of their eyes. Before Oogie could burn up and his ashes could be sent plummeting to hell, the hole closed and his body slammed to the ground. A small sprinkle of snow flakes slid out on the ground under Oogie, cooling the area back to normal temperatures.

A tall, imposing figure emerged with two far more impressive figures on each side of him. On his left was a beautiful, curvacious female body with a majest blue and purple hue. On his right was a monstorous being with flaring skin that would combust into tiny flames constantly. The fire and ice God escorted the human in the middle up to Oogie.

Still playing with toys Captain?

The voice familiar, a smile crept from the origin of said voice. For the first time in the history of the world, two Guardian Forces were summoned at one time. Shinu only worked up his time with both out to two and a half minutes, so he dismissed them both.

Like my friends? They're Guardian Forces, the fate of the world hangs with them and others like them. This is why we're here my friend.

Oogie caught his breath hard as he slammed against hard ground, and with a groan turned himself over oonto his back, and stared into Shinu's eyes. He was torn. One the one hand he was glad to see Shinu at least bearing some semblance to his original self, on the other the animal was dead, which meant his promise had been broken. Of course he hadn't killed it but would Faina accept that? he shot a glance towards where he knew she had moved then turned back to Shinu.

You know how that shit freaks me out

Oogie looked back at the faint burnt circle on the grass behing him, that animal had been... obliterated. Those things Shinu had created were bizzare and otherworldly, and he mistrusted them, of course he knew Shinu could control them, but it was unnerving none the less.

Its good to see you outdoors, what happened, you see a pretty girl out of the window?

He allowed his face to split into a wide grin, he knew that Shinu needed the support and ridiculing him was a part of the Oogie healing process.

Kira walked out from a bunch of bushes, not far from behind Shinu, he had been napping and the intense cold emitted from Shiva had woken him, the heat didn't bother him as his own body heat was raised most of the time. Walking over to where Shinu was, talking with a new person he hadn't meet before. Walking next to Shinu, where Ifrit stood just seconds before, he introduced himself to the stranger. Hey there, names Kira. Good to see you out and about Shinu. Kira looked past the stranger and saw Faina sitting on her own staring at them. Walking over to her and sitting down next to her he wrapped one arm around her, looking into the bushes, noticing Corenian hiding in there. After living with him and his ninjutsu for a few years you get used to noticing him and his likly spots to do his training, even if it is using the shadows to his advantage. Hey Faina, how are you doing?

Oogie looked at the newcomer with interest, this guy was yet another different character.

Glad to see the company you keep hasn't changed much Shinu.

Shinu had always loved the stranger people of the world, Oogie had many fond memories of backwater taverns, himself nursing a strong ale and Shinu questioning travellers, what were their countries and adventures like? How long ago, Oogie could drink legally now, for a few years so that must've been long ago.

So, Kira right? I guess you have powers too? Never seen so many of us in one place, 'cept maybe bar brawls.

I think Nioelle is still asleep, it's rather early. Pretty girls don't catch my eye as much as they used to.

Shinu understood the terror those words would bring to his best friend, but it wasn't without truth. After Nioelle helped to save his life, he loved her even more than ever.

Nice to see you Kira, can never expect to come here without seeing you, always a good thing when my summons tire me out.

Shinu waved hi over at Faina who Kira had joined over off to the side.

Oogie Kira is our fire master, also duel wields two blades the size of me. He's even saved my life with one of them before.

Shinu turned and focused his eyes on the ceiling. He measured the amount of light coming in and the temperature, doing research to check the best conditions on dual summoning. It really did take a lot out of his body, he just wasn't willing to show it. After being a tortured prisoner for eight months, pain had a different meaning anyways.

It's good to see that you're on top of your game right now Oogie, we're all going to need to be. Our greatest challenge is coming soon.

Raven had been watching these guys for a while. He had been just resting in his spot just enjoying himself but then he heard some commotion, and thought he would check it out. He first thought that it was a couple of T-rexaur fighting over their territories again, but he soon found out that it was just a new guy and Faina. The new was riding around on one of the creatures which was causeing the commotion.

He then shooked his head and walked away form the group. He wasn't going to leave but he wanted to have a little fun before he made himself visible. Maybe Corenian was doing the same with his constant spying on stuff, hopefully he wasn't to close to a tree that was gonna change in a few minutes. After Raven got far enough away he turned and faced where the group was. He already had the picture of their surroundings embedded in his mind so he didn't need to focus on it that much. A dull grey energy orb appeared in Raven's hand and he grinned a little.

He then slammed his hand down into the ground below and felt the energy leave his body and travel through the earth below. Some of the trees around where shinu and the others where where starting to get cover in jagged rock spires, around ten of the trees. Then the rock spires fell apart and disappeared into the air. The trees now where petrified into solid stone, and Raven started to walk back to the group, his gunblade in hand. The nodes though on the inside of the blade were active and dark bolts were jumping around like crazy on the inside. He had to be closer to do what he wanted to. He then stopped and just chuckled a little, he knew that Shinu and Kira would figure out who it was soon enough, Raven then stabbed the blade into the ground and pressed the trigger. The sound of a it ringing out into the distance. Yet below the petrified trees, runic symbols appeared, and then pillars of dark energy shot straight up from the runes and obliterated the trees.

"Well thats what they get for disrupting me anyways," Raven said still chuckling.