"....I need your pure mana." Vincent replied.

"I'm at the Fyrane manor." he told her, before filling her in on what he was witnessing.

"Cassandra, I know I won't be enough for this." he then said.

"My mana is powerful, but not powerful enough to overcome all this." he went on.

"I need you to help back me up on this, and use your mana as well." he continued.

"Can you do that?" he asked.

The conversation was ended, and Vincent looked a little confused.

'Eh?' he thought.

'That was... oddly quiet...' he thought to himself, before shaking his head and sighing.

'Whatever. Bigger problems to worry about.' he added, looking back towards Casey.

Meanwhile, Addison was laying on his bed, reading a book, when he looked over towards his mother.

"Huh?" he muttered.

"My mana?" he asked, setting the book down.

"What do you mean by that?" he asked further, getting up into a sitting position.

".........." Addison was silent, before sighing heavily.

"Fine." he said.

"All right, all right." he said further, taking her hand.

"Let's go." he told her.

"I'm ready." he finished.

With that, they were gone in a flash, and appeared in the Fyrane's back yard.

And when they arrived there, Addison almost felt himself be metaphorically crushed by the sheer necromantic power that was there.

"...wh... what the hell...?" he asked, his tone hushed and quiet.

Addison did, indeed, follow his mother, but he lagged behind a little, mostly because he struggled a bit with the sheer oppressive nature of the mana.

"It is." Vincent responded, as Addison looked at Casey, and the room.

"Holy shit..." he muttered quietly.

"It is impressive, in the worst possible way." Vincent said.

"...what are we supposed to do?" Addison asked.

"We need to combine our mana to override the tainted necromantic mana and neutralise it." Vincent explained.

"...but what about the quartz?" Addison asked in response. "Surely that's there to contain the mana, as well as protect it from being attacked, yeah?" he asked them.

"That's where -I- come in." Ash chimed in. "Due to... reasons... I'll be able to pulse mana in, and shatter the various pieces of quartz." he explained. "But once I do, you'll only have a few seconds before the mana starts to overflow towards us." he warned.

"So this will essentially be like a coordinated assault on the necromantic mana." Lindsay summarised.

"Pretty much." Ash confirmed.

Lindsay just sighed.

"I'll try it, then." he said.

"If something goes wrong, I'll come back from it." he reasoned.

He then made his way up the stairs, pausing at the literal divide between the necromantic mana, and the rest of the house. He sighed once more, before bracing himself, and stepping through it.

He DID manage to step through it, but the mana seemed to immediately swarm him, covering him like a swarm of micro-organisms, and the group watched him age 100's of years, until he turned to literal dust.

"...holy shit..." Addison got out.

"And every time he's reborn, the same thing's gonna happen, again and again." Ash muttered, before looking at Cass.

"Well, there's your answer." he then said to her.

Vincent just sighed.

"I will." he said.

"You sure?" Ash asked.

"I have various reasons." Vincent responded. "Let's just get this done." he said further.

Ash nodded in response, before making his way to the divide, while Lindsay was reborn and killed over and over again inside.

"All right, everyone get ready." he told them, as Vincent positioned himself.

"As soon as I break the quartz, you've got mere seconds to blast the mana."

Ash looked back at Vincent, as his eyes suddenly turned pure white, and seemed to glow with an almost ethereal aura.

"Now!' Vincent yelled.

Ash responded by sending a pulse of his special mana into the room, which broke all the quartz there... and immediately, the mana started to flow out of the room. Vincent responded by extending his arms forward, palms out, and fired the pure mana right at it, as Ash dove out of the way.

The pure mana pierced right into the room, and it seemed like the necromantic mana was ready to swallow it... before the pure mana started to grow and overtake it quickly.

"...just... a little... more..." Vincent said to Addison and Cassandra.

"Just one... more... pulse." he finished, before the two of them gave one more burst of mana to him, which caused one last blast of pure mana, eradicating the tainted mana that had been in the room.

"Holy hell, the whole house shook from that." Ash muttered, as Vincent fell to his knees from the effort and strain.

As Cass placed her hands on Vincent's shoulders, she felt Addison place his hands on her back.

"I think I'm faring better than you are. Hope this help." he echoed, as he sent some of his own mana into her.

"...heh, like mother, like son, it seems." Vincent chuckled.

Meanwhile, as Lindsay started to regenerate again, Ash rushed into the room and placed his hands over Casey's forehead and chest. He then pulsed some mana into her, causing her to fall into a deep sleep, kind of like a coma.

"That should stop her control." he muttered, as he carried her out of the room.

"Right, I know Casey needs to be taken to the hospital." he commented.

"Anyone else?" he asked.

"...drained." Vincent replied.

"Very, very drained." he reiterated.

"Well, I'm taking Casey to OLA so Rene can make sure she doesn't die while she has her little impromptu nap." Ash told them.

"Tell Lindsay when he's finally fully rezzed." he continued.

"...oh, and if Ashley comes back from the flight she's on while I'm away, fill her in." he added.

"Can do." was all Vincent said.

"...and thanks for the help." he then told the three of them.

After a bit, she felt a familiar presence nearby, and wasn't surprised when Ash stepped into the clearing.

"Hey." he greeted her.

"I heard about what happened." he said.

"No fun." he mumbled further.

"Heard you might come here, so I came looking." he then told her.

"Listen, can we talk?" he asked. "I have some info to share."