Three guards burst into the top most concert hall in the concert building. Isaac and Lenna were sitting casually in the front row of the audience seating, watching and listening to the guards as they spread out to search the entire room. Two of them ran to opposite ends of the room and started searching down the rows of seating. The third one went to the dead center of the room, vaulting over rows of seating as he went, until he reached the path between the second and third sections of seating. The seating was arranged into four distinct sections that were wider the further away from the center stage they went. There were around a hundred seats in all on this floor, not counting the three small alcoves adorned with tea tables and a handful of chairs each.

"Spirits of wind, fire, and gia, heed my call." The guard spoke as he brought his hands together and bowed his head slightly.

"It's a spirit warrior." Lenna said with obvious surprise.

Reveal hidden dangers to me and mine." A wave of glittering orbs of green, red, and orange rolled outwards from him in all directions and settled onto every surface that they touched. The ones that went upwards drifted back down in slow and graceful arcs that made sure that the glitter bomb covered absolutely everything within thirty feet of him.

"Um, Lenna, I think that is going to land on us." Isaac told his wife which snapped her out of her surprise.

"Your shadows won't help?" She wondered and quickly looked around to find the closest guard other than the spirit caller.

"I doubt it." Isaac replied. "Get ready to move as soon as they stick."

Isaac was right. The glitter stuck to everything that wasn't entirely gaseous. They were so sensitive that even hard gaseous beings like air elementals would find the glitter unable to pass through them. As soon as the first little sparkling dot stuck to Isaac's cloak, he and Lenna burst into action.

Lenna took off at a dead sprint towards the guard against the left wall, when facing the stage, and Isaac launched into a spinning back kick. Isaac teleported just behind the spirit caller and planted his heel in the back of the guard's helmet before he teleported again. Isaac appeared directly behind the guard that was along the right wall with a throwing spike in his hand in a reversed grip. He wrapped his one arm around the guard's helmet's chin part as if he was trying to choke the guard out but had purposefully taken control of the guard's neck instead. With his hand that had the spike, he pointed it directly into the guard's open eye slits, a mere inch away from the guard's eyeball.

By the time the guard that Lenna was going after realized that they were being attacked, Lenna was already ten feet away from him and moving in a dead sprint. She smashed her aura down on him which caused him to stumble back a step in surprise and fright while she closed another five feet. She then took a flying leap with her next step and planted both of her armored knees directly into the guard's armored chest. Both of them went down with all of Lenna's momentum and then weight attempting to crush the guard's chest cavity and armor alike.

While Lenna was absolutely bodying the left guard, and Isaac had the right guard in a very disadvantageous position, the spirit caller hit the ground face first. "You won't get away with this." The guard in Isaac's grasp spoke even as he tested Isaac's grip and slowly reached for the knife at his side.

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"I am Darkness." Isaac informed the guard in his grasp and the entire moonlit concert hall turned 'new moon black'. "You have two options. One I prefer because it means the least amount of clean up for me: Do not raise the alarm, stop causing a scene, and return to your duties. The second is much more in line with my name: I'll turn you into black dust, along with the spirit caller, and at least half of the rest of the guards that come looking. Meanwhile, my V'Nova mate will tear the rest in half and paint the seats and halls of this building crimson. Pick one." Isaac ordered the guard.

The guard squirmed slightly in Isaac's grasp and grabbed his knife. "Let me g-" The guard began but Isaac cut him off.

"Now." Isaac ordered him and set some of the dark mana in his core alight by turning it into death flames. The guard suddenly went very still in his grasp.

"I'll have to report in." The guard told Isaac. When Isaac didn't cut him off again, he continued: "I'll inform the captain of who and what is going on. I'll tell him that you want to be left alone."

Isaac nodded. "Good. That is all we want." He replied and let go of the guard. They both looked just in time to see Lenna hauling the other guard to his feet via a vice grip on his shoulder. She had his sword in her other hand and hers still hung on her hip. "Take your two companions, and hobble out through that door. If anyone else comes through that door before we leave, I will take that as you all having chosen option two."

The guard took a step away from Isaac as he turned to face the Lord of Darkness itself. He backed away another step as his eyes befell the being dripping shadows, who looked like someone had grabbed the silhouette of a cloaked figure and picked it up off of the ground. "I-I'm going to get right on that." He told Isaac with a shaky nod as Isaac was still burning death flames in his chest.

The guard hurried over to the spirit caller and immediately seemed to forget that Isaac was there. He fumbled with the chinstrap and then ripped off his comrade's helmet and tossed it to the side. He took out his knife and up the blade under the fallen guard's nose to look for condensation from his breath. "Damnit, I can't see." The guard swore.

Isaac appeared next to them both and placed his hand on the side of the fallen guard's neck. "His heart is still beating." Isaac told him. "Do you have healing potions?"

The guard nodded and quickly pulled two healing potions out of the spirit caller's belt pouch. "Here." He told Isaac.

Isaac's shadows poured towards his hand as they condensed. He spread them to cover the guard's neck and chin. "Turn him over." Isaac ordered the guard, whom he had been threatening a moment prior. The guard did as he was told and turned the fallen over so he was face up. "You can give him the potions now. His neck is broken."

The guard did as he was told and a moment later the spirit caller was coughing and trying to move on his own. By that time, Lenna and the other guard had joined them. "Thank you." The guard said to Isaac with a bow of his head. "You truly didn't mean us real harm."

"Speak for yourself." The guard that Lenna had slammed grumbled under his breath and Lenna smacked him upside the head like an idiot teenager. Isaac had no idea what little conversation they had had while he was dealing with his two guards but it had apparently been a friendly enough one for Lenna to treat him like a dumb child.

Isaac nodded. "Go. All three of you. Immediately." Isaac said the final word with real power in his voice that got even the heavily out of it spirit caller to get moving quickly. Isaac and Lenna turned and looked up at the moon as the three guards slunk out of the hall and were immediately met with their commanding officer. There was a mild commotion but the doors were still closed behind the three that Isaac and Lenna had spared. The three wouldn't have had to deal with their ordeal if the spirit caller hadn't had a way to specifically reveal beings like Isaac.

"Two minutes until midnight." Lenna told him.

Isaac nodded and took a deep breath. "Okay." He acknowledged.

Lenna bowed her head. "Lua, our revealing light, I pray that you will hear our request." She beseeched their goddess.

"I don't even know how to start repaying you for everything that you have done for us so far, so it feels bad asking this, but would you please listen to Lenna's request." Isaac told the moon.

Another long moment passed by before there was a shimmer of moonlight in front of them. Lua did not show her dark elven form in the slightest, but simply seemed to pause a beam of moonlight in front of them so that they were aware of where she was watching them from. "Speak, my child, and be heard." Lua told Lenna with a voice that was motherly, melodic, but also clearly from a higher plain of existence and power. "But first, raise your head. I have said it before, bowing does not suit you."

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