Zaida threw herself a mini pity party after admitting what she did to Salazar at Silver's castle.. Finally, she got realized she'd had enough:
<HUF> Zaida is done with feeling self-pity and fear.... she walks down into the basement - she tucked away all of her gear here, things she never thought she'd need to use in this way again...
<HUF> Zaida takes her time, running her hands over the aged, soft leather before pulling it on, tightening it with its buckles and straps. She pulls on her boots and laces them tightly, the leather long ago--
<HUF> Zaida --having formed to her feet, the clothing feeling like a second skin. Even after all this time... it still feels natural... She brushes the thought aside and walks over to a nearby wall --
<HUF> Zaida display, looking over the weapons and tools, making her selections carefully. On the wall, carefully coiled was one of Ari's whips that he'd left behind. Who knows, she smirked,Maybe --
<HUF> Zaida it'll bring me luck tonight... She hangs it from her hip; satisfied with her choices, she stands in front of a mirror. She would require no mask, she wanted them to know, to see her face...
<HUF> Zaida Standing in the mirror, looking at her former self, Zaida realizes how far she's come from that old life - and how much her current life, and those in it, meant to her.
<HUF> Zaida wanders back upstairs and takes one last look up at the smiling faces on the ceiling... she stands before the statue of Arius, and promises, I'll make sure they can't target you ever again...
<HUF> Zaida turns and leaves her castle, apparating from her home near OSC to a small south Georgia town, near the Florida border. It looked almost the same as the last time she stood here - time hardly ---
<HUF> Zaida --touched it and it was something she was grateful for. She turned from the town square and began to walk... she wasn't far from the hideout she'd established years ago.
<HUF> Zaida The abandoned church was moss covered, the wood rotten and she tread carefully on the stairs leading up to its door. She blatantly opened it and left it wide open, walking up to the old---
<HUF> Zaida ---pulpit, and lifting the trapdoor that hid the underground den. Hello, boys, she greeted them, Look who's home...
<HUF> Zaida A few figures looked at her from the shadows in the dimly lit room, Well, well, lookie here what the cat done drug in... Zaida smirked at the voice, Hello, Erik, long time no see...
<HUF> Zaida Erik smirks at her, What brings the high an' mighty down to these parts? Zaida replies, Gather everyone, I have an announcement.
<HUF> Zaida The man in front of her chokes out a laugh, Well, sorry, your holiness, but you left... what gives you the right to come back here all of a sudden an' demand things of us? Zaida glared at him
<HUF> Zaida As one final act, do this for me... Erik relents, 'lright. It takes a few hours, but soon the full gathering of 50 thieves are under the same roof as their former leader. Now, spit it --
<HUF> Zaida out, an' be quick about it. Zaida's face, hard and unshaken, looks out at the men she used to lead, her voice comes out strong and angry, For the last year and a half, you've tailed me...
<HUF> Zaida You've ran me from every nook and cranny I felt was calm and peaceful, stripped away every bit of goodness out of my life, and I'm here now to tell you-- What, Erik interrupts,You gon' jus’
<HUF> Zaida lecture us, or do you actually have something to say? Zaida continued, I'm here to say that you've failed. I've seen you and have been merciful until now... I have forgiven your actions...
<HUF> Zaida but no longer. You will stop, you will leave me in peace. Erik claps, You thin' that's all it's goin' t'take to get us off your back? Sorry, hon, it don' work like that. Y'see... you left us.
<HUF> Zaida That's never been done... You know from experience that one just don' leave, unless they're dead. You ain' dead... Sorry hon, your father's rules... not mine. Zaida's glare hardens,He wasn't my
<HUF> Zaida father, just my adopted father... and you disgrace him by continuing this... Erik jumps from his perch and screams into her face, You're the disgrace! You disgrace him 'cause you're still --
<HUF> Zaida here, you're still livin'. Now, what are you REALLY here for? Zaida doesn't back down, I'm here to get out, once and for all. If you think you can take me down, well then...
<HUF> Zaida I guess you'll just be legends, the ones to take down a lesser divine being... bully for you. But if you can't, well, I guess we know that outcome, now, don't we?
<HUF> Zaida Erik smiles, You'd really take all of us on? You'd really wipe out the people that you yourself trained? If you don't back down, Zaida replies, then yes... I will be free of you.
<HUF> Zaida hears the sound of blades being drawn all around her. She spots the newest member of the group, So, did they tell you why I was the best...? The kid (looked to be in his early 20s), shook his
<HUF> Zaida --head, No - they haven't... An evil grin spread across her face, Here then... let me show you. You've drawn your weapons... now let me get mine...
<HUF> Zaida 's skin darkens again to its natural blue hue. Her tresses bleed out to white, and the brown in her eyes fades to gold. The wings rip through the back of her cuirass, effectively ripping it to -
<HUF> Zaida --shreds. Zaida's wings bear her aloft, having healed from Silver's earlier ministrations. The blades of her daggers glow a fiery red, You should have just let me go... Zaida begins to chant.
<HUF> Zaida 's power pushes out from her in a ball of light, slowing the room around her to 1/10th of its normal speed. Zaida began her dance, circling around the men, letting the blades strike vital areas -
<HUF> Zaida --of her former followers, knowing how quickly they would bleed out once her spell ended. One by one, cut by cut, she strikes each one several times – the daggers gliding through skin like hot knives through butter- before she finally touched down and let time
<HUF> Zaida --resume. They quickly fell, each lamely trying to strike at her with their blades or to fling a shruiken at her, all were side-stepped and batted away. It didn't have to turn out like this...
<HUF> Zaida assumed her glamour once more, keeping her hair white to hide the damage - but the lines in her face are etched a bit darker, her hands look a bit older... it was a price she was willing to pay..
<HUF> Zaida looked down at the face of Erik, You brought this on yourself. Erik rasped, You.... will never... be free. The man breathed his last, and Zaida kicked his body, pouring the final bit of..
<HUF> Zaida ...anger into the strike.
<HUF> Zaida quickly busies herself and casts one final spell. One that would detonate once she was a safe distance away. As she apparated back to her castle, the fireball erupted - washing away the --
<HUF> Zaida *evidence in an all-consuming fire.
<HUF> Zaida , safely back in the Shadow Enclave, gave in to the weak feeling that overpowered her - and she collapsed on the floor... this would take time to recover from...
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