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Looking down at his arm, Logan saw that his arm had withered. The skin was a sickly pale white and the arm appeared to be skin and bone. Logan immediately looked at the Hime woman and noticed that only one of her hands was without a glove. The other had a half-glove covering it and was holding another half-glove.

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Logan only had one thought. Shite.

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Then, Logan laughed. His laughter caught those that attacked him off guard. In less than a second, Logan exploded into golden flames. As suddenly as the fire appeared, it disappeared. Leaving Logan looking as if nothing had happened to him.

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Logan: "While I'll admit, you three got the jump on me..." Logan said as he rolled his shoulder. "...It's not gonna happen again."

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As Logan finished speaking, he disappeared. Reappearing in front of the Geist with an ash Katar dagger, Logan struck as hard and as fast as he could to pierce the Geist's mask. As he did, Logan threw a fireball behind him at the black-haired girl, which exploded. As the Geist's mask got pierced, Logan let go of his ash Katar and dodged a swipe from the Grimm-corrupted woman. Logan retaliated by twisting his body and giving her a kick which she caught.

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As soon as the Grimm woman caught Logan's kick, the black-haired girl came rushing out of the explosion trying to grab Logan's face. Logan reacted by coating the girl's arm in ash and began to use her to beat the Grimm-woman like she was a club. After being used as a club for the third hit, the girl broke free and slammed a kick into Logan's face sending him back. Logan used this chance to use the trees around them to break their line of sight on him.

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The two women chased after Logan but as they rounded a tree, they lost sight of him. Logan came from below with a Glave and attacked, separating the two of them. The Grimm-woman suffered a slash across her back while the black-haired woman got one of her hands cut off. The Grimm-woman turned and rushed Logan fast. Logan ended up having to either dodge or block while the black-haired woman grabbed her severed hand. When the Grimm-woman overextended with a sidearmed swipe, Logan pulled his pistol and shot her in the head four times in rapid succession, dropping her to the ground. Down, but not dead.

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As Logan went to deal the finishing blow to the Grimm-woman, the black-haired girl shot a tendril out from the stump of her hand, grabbed Logan around his waist, and threw him after slamming him into several trees. As Logan got up, he ate a fist from the Grimm-woman sending him tumbling.

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???: "You aren't the only one that knows magic~" Logan heard as he stood up with golden fire burning on parts of his body.

???: "ALiCa, lEsS tAlKiNg. MOre KiLLinG!" Logan heard the Grimm-Woman growl out in a very coarse tone.

Alica: "Oh, quiet you." The girl, Alica, said as Logan watched her reattach her hand. "Besides, I highly doubt he wants us dead. After all, you can't get answers out of a corpse."

Logan: "Thank you for talking during a fight, you two." Logan said as he stood up, completely healed.

Alica: "Please, don't insult my intelligence. I know you weren't going all out." Alica said as she let out pitch-black smoke from her fingertips. "So either you fight for real or I can go and kill those students. You pick."

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Logan didn't say anything. He didn't need to. Before the girl called Alica could blink, the entire surrounding area was ignited in fire forming walls of fire. Traping the three of them inside. Alica wasn't even surprised as she continued to watch Logan.

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Logan smiled as he stared right at Alica, keeping her attention on him. The Grimm-woman, on the other hand, as soon as the walls of fire appeared, she slinked over to Alica in fear. Logan took notice of this as he continued to have his stare down with Alica.

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After a few more seconds of staring at each other, they acted. Alica with a smoky grey energy shooting out of her hand and brilliant golden energy shooting out of Logan's. What they were doing now was something Salem taught Logan and Glynda, channeling pure mana into an attack. While wasteful, it was a good way to measure another mage's magic rather than just sending numerous spells at them in hopes to gauge one's opponent.

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After a few seconds of channeling mana at each other, the two broke apart when Logan moved. Dodging to the right, Logan moved around while pinning Alica down to the ground with numerous spells aimed at her surroundings. Be it flaming pillars or turning the ground into lava. Alica and the Grimm-woman noticed this immediately and tried to move only for Logan to redouble his efforts.

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Getting out of Logan's entrapment, Alica sent smokey grey tendrils at him in hopes of grabbing even his arm. Just as she was about to grab Logan's leg, the walls of fire and Logan himself disappeared. It was as if he wasn't there in the first place. The only traces that even showed they were there in the first place was the remnants of ash from the walls of fire and the terrain that Logan changed through his spells.

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Silence permeated throughout the field. Not even the wind blew. Alica and the Grimm-woman got back to back, hoping even for the slightest hint of where Logan went.

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Alica: 'Did he run?' Alica thought as she couldn't even sense his presence of mana.

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Just as she thought that an ash clone of Logan descended from the sky at her and a pair of hands shot out of the ground and grabbed the Grimm-woman's ankles, pulling her underground. As Alica fought the ash clone, the Grimm-woman was fighting the real Logan. Alica managed to deal a fatal blow to the ash clone when the ground next to her erupted and out shot the Grimm-woman up into the air. Before Alica could react, she was speared in the back and into the ground with the spear missing vital points just barely.

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Alica coughed out blood and tried to remove the spear as she watched as Logan came out of the ground and started attacking the Grimm-woman with weapons made from his flames. Seconds went by as Alica watched as Logan removed the Grimm-woman's limbs as she still struggled with the spear in her.

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Once Logan was sure that the Grimm-woman couldn't do anything and was out cold, he turned towards the girl, Alica. Logan knew that the only way to capture these two was to go after them with the intent to kill, so that was why he turned the Grimm-women into a Mcnugget plus a head and used his white flames and ash to make a barbed spear to pin Alica to the ground.

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Once Logan was sure that the Grimm-woman was no longer an issue, he turned towards the girl, Alica. He saw that Alica was struggling to move or was even able to use her magic or aura to help herself. Logan sighed in relief as his gamble worked. Logan had no idea if his white flames could seal someone's mana and he took a calculated risk with them. But, as he approached Alica, he saw her rip the spear out of her body with a look on her face that was all too familiar to him.

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Resignation.

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Logan: "I can heal you, you know." Logan said as he approached her, the stench of blood was heavy and thick in the air.

Alica: "I rather die in battle than be captured." Alica said as she stood on shaking legs and a gaping hole in her stomach.

Logan: "I can still capture you." Logan said as he came closer, his arm lit ablaze with golden fire.

Alica: "Like I said, I rather die."

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As she finished speaking, Alica attack with all she had. With weak punches, Alica hit with all she could. Logan just leaned to the left or right depending on what she threw at him and lightly tapped her where the hole in her stomach was causing her to wince at the pain it brought. After a few taps, she was healed completely but had no energy to even move anymore and was on the brink of unconsciousness. Logan sighed as he went to bind her but as he did her man, which had been cut off by his white flames, exploded out of her. The force of the explosion sent Logan tumbling away.

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Once Logan came to a stop, he looked up to see a small crater and he could feel a dead zone of mana. And from what Logan could tell; when he sealed Alica's mana, she kept trying to bring it out, and when the effects of Logan's flame's ability wore off caused it to act like a bomb. Destroying her, everything around her in a small area, and throwing Logan back with mana burns across his body.

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Logan grunted as he sat up and surveyed the damage done by the accidental mana bomb he made inside of Alica. After a minute of surveying the damage done, Logan sighed as beside the dead zone of mana at the center of the explosion, nothing major happened that couldn't be hidden with time. Sighing, Logan got up and pulled his scroll out of his [Inventory] and called up Port as he was sure that they were still at the hideout. After talking with him for a bit, he found out that the exo-suit disappeared right before the fight started, they attributed it up as Logan came back and got it until they saw the fight from the monitors.

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Logan sighed as he figured that Alica somehow got into the hideout and stole it. He just chalked it up to her magic. After finding out what they did while Logan fought, which was scouring the monitors for any more Grimm or otherwise and patrolling the forest, he hung up after getting their reports. As Logan stood, he heard the Grimm-woman speak.

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Grimm-Woman: "ALiCa? MoMmY?" The Grimm-woman groaned out. "WherE ARe YoU MoMmy?

Logan: 'Shite.' Logan thought. 'I doubt her corruption was an accident. And now that I get a good hear of her voice, she isn't growling. Her vocal cords never developed because she never grew up normally. I doubt she was three when this happened to her. And I bet Alica was her mother too.' He sighed. "This is never easy."

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Grimm-girl: "DO yOU KnoW WHerE MY MoThER IS?" The girl asked as she saw Logan approach, her mind foggy from waking up.

Logan: "She... she not here." Logan said quietly. "She's gone."

Grimm-girl: "GoNE whEre?" the girl asked.

Logan: "Don't worry, you'll meet her soon." Logan said as he formed a bright, multi-colored fireball in his hand.

Grimm-girl: "ReALly? Ya!" The girl said, then she saw the fireball. "So PreTTy..."

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Logan then dropped the fireball onto the girl, killing her without any pain whatsoever. A single tear rolled down his cheek as he watched the multi-colored flames cremate her body leaving only ash and dust behind. Once the fire was out, Logan made a shovel from his ash and walked over to where the girl's mother, Alica, once was and dug a hole. After the hole was deep enough, he picked the girl's ashes with his semblance and buried them inside the hole.

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Logan: "By the sweat of my brow and by the heat of my flames, I turn you to ash and return you ash to the earth. As we rose from the ashes, and to the ashes, we return." Logan prayed. "May the gods watch over your soul so that you may rejoin your family wherever they may be, wherever you may go. From ashes to ashes. Dust to Dust. May you rest in peace, to both you and your mother."

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Once Logan finished his prayer, he gave a few moments of silence for the girl. Unaware he was being watched ever since the walls of fire disappeared.

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[A/N: For those wondering, no I am not that religious. I just had this inspiration when the prayer scene happened. Originally, logan was just gonna give a silent prayer for the girl and her mother, but I felt this was better overall. If you didn't like it, oh well. I felt like it fit Logan's character. That's all.

~Hawkin]