Home, Sweet Home

The room was silent. The question echoed in everyone's heads, but nobody seemed to know or want to answer.

The woman in the front watched all of them with both curiosity and annoyance. Her long, brown dress resembling tree bark, and as she took one step closer, it moved unnaturally, like it was part of her.

"Where is Seraphine? I won't ask again."

The threat was obvious to everyone. The soldiers tensed a bit, and some raised their weapons, which caused all the nine newcomers to summon weapons too.

The tall, older white-haired man coalesced into a long sword by cooling down the surrounding air.

The blue-haired woman summoned a trident, which had lightning zapping over it. The man next to her held a spear, which seemed to be made of water.

Two of them had weapons already drawn. The pale woman changed positions and leaned on her wicked scythe, while the cyborg next to her whirled his blue energy sword.