It had been a long couple weeks of training. But the power he gave them wasn't hard to master to the point they needed and once they had the swing of things, Di moved them onward to the more subtle advantages the soulbinding granted them. The ability to know what the other saw, heard, and felt as well as the increased strength and speed. The compulsion towards rage and violence was cultivated under his tutelage, and he was very proud of his work by the time he was finished. They had control of the fire and frost enough to be combat proficient, and he was ready to move ahead with the first phase of the operation.

He's in sector six-three-one, standing on a cliff overlooking the main quarry for the Tsunami plant. Behind him Ember stands stoic and calm, while beside him Frost stares through the scope of a sniper rifle and surveys the yard below. She's speaking under her breath, but both the men beside her can hear every word clear as a bell.

"Looks like at least twenty guards, six at the main gate, four at the mine entrance, one on the south end in a sniper nest, another at the north. The rest are patrolling the grounds in pairs. I don't know how many miners, but there's at least twelve there. They keep coming and going and they are all dressed the same. There could be any number inside." Her voice shakes a little at the end, but is otherwise steady.

Ember shifts uncomfortably, "Sir?" he starts, but Diritas cuts him off with a wave.

"We proceed as planned Ember. Lock it down." Di says curtly. His eyes are hard and cold, his homeland reflected in the midnight blues.

Ember nods and pulls out a small device with a little dish on the top. Activating it, the man sets it beside Frost as she watches the yard erupt in chaos, every gate leading out of the quarry below had just had its control box overridden, and was given the command to close.

A dark smile crept over Di's face as he surveyed the scene below. Finally he nods to himself and turns away, facing the cliff plateau and focusing hard on the storm clouds above. They'd been waiting for the perfect night, and this was it. Closing his eyes, the descendant of Ashinabe the Guardian draws power from the void within. The storm above breaks open, and the deluge falls on a place near the trio. Diritas stares hard at the water accumulating on the ground, and it immediately freezes solid. Rising from the ice, as each drop falls and adds to the frozen mass, a form takes shape. Its head alone is as large as Diritas, and as the neck rises into the rain, its claws reach out into the night to pull itself into existence. Within the ice construct is one of the many demons residing in the void within him. As the tail slides from the frozen ground the rain stops and Diritas sweeps out an arm towards the quarry below.

"Go." He says simply, and the sinuous oriental dragon roars down the cliff side and into the yard, batting a cargo truck into the first sniper nest with its tail. It breathes flame across a swathe of the area and catches several of the miners and a security guard in the blast.

Ember paled as the dragon blasted a few of the miners, but when Diritas gives him a hard look he just nods and prepares himself.

"Frost, status on the snipers." Di says curtly.

A shot rings out. "North sniper confirmed down. South sniper is still buried in the rubble."

"Good, let's move." Di starts for the top of the cliff face, where the ventilation shafts for the mines surface in a fenced area relatively unguarded. Meaning only the only guard there was dispatched as soon as Diritas saw him with a well placed icicle flung from his palm when he arrived. Ember and Frost arrived and began unspooling rope from one of their packs. He slides into a fluid martial arts form and with a single well placed blow, turns and kicks a fan apparatus from its base and exposing the shaft beneath. "Set up the braces, and be ready to move in two minutes." He says while surveying the main quarry from the higher vantage point.

Ember and Frost set up a rope system to slow the fall down the shaft as he watches the dragon below distract the guards. At least a dozen more had poured from the mine's entrance, fighting the massive construct in a multitude of ways. Di saw one guard blast the side of the thing with a bolt of lightning from his hands, another attempting to melt it with a flamethrower, and yet another seemed to be telekinetically flinging heavy mining equipment at it. Of course, none of these would do any real good. The dragon was a ship breaker he used to bring down warships with steel hulls, and could withstand direct blasts from artillery cannons. They would need more than an overgrown battery, a candle, and some tractors to take it down. He snorts to himself and watches the construct bite a guard in two until Ember calls for him.

"Alright, follow at three second intervals." He grabs a rope and steps into the shaft, sliding down it with an ease born of being raised on a ship and working in the riggings. He hadn't even bothered with a harness, though a fall from this height would kill him. A grin spreads across his face as the darkness of the shaft and the sensation of speed and falling overtake him. He heard Ember drop above him, and though he couldn't hear it, knew Frost would be right behind. He looks down at a pinprick of light beneath his feet rapidly growing until it swallows him and he is dropped out of the ceiling of the first tunnel directly above the first security checkpoint.

Violet flame erupts over him and his two fighters, it would protect them from the fall and the gunfire that blasted from the security checkpoint from the few remaining guards that hadn't gone to the main yard. He grins, and blasts outward with black flame and frost as he hits the ground, incinerating a guard and a miner who'd picked up a weapon in the process. He rolls out of the way as Ember drops from the ceiling and grabs a second guard who'd rushed him with what looked like an enchanted blade by the wrist. His other hand comes up covered with talons of ice and tears through the flesh of the fool's throat.

Diritas watches through Ember's eyes as the big man rolls and kicks upward into another guard's stomach, black flame blasting out of the unfortunate guards back. Ember had moved on to the next before the body hit the ground. Frost dropped from the shaft, and before she'd even hit the ground had drawn her side arm and a concentrated blast of black flame spewed forth from the barrel. She rolled when she hit the ground and the blast destroyed a barricade along with the guard taking cover behind it.

The entire thing took less than six seconds, and the security checkpoint for the entrance for the Tsunami plant was neutralized. Di smirks and brushes off. "The main floor is through there" he says, pointing down the hall. "Ember, you are with me on the main floor. Frost, take your rifle into the catwalks, take down anyone in your way and cover the room from there. Once we are through, mop up what?s left of the security and keep our exit clear." He turns and heads down the passageway to the entrance gate for the main production floor. Nodding to Ember and Frost, he draws Tsura and cuts through the gate with a lazy slash. It falls from its hinges with a resounding crash. "Knock knock." Grinning he ignites Violet flames and charges with Ember beside him wreathed in the same flames as Frost bolts into the catwalks and her rifle starts spitting death from above.

The next thirty seconds passed in a blur of magic and blood. Diritas and Ember laid waste to anyone in their path as they cut a beeline straight for the second checkpoint on the other end of the main floor which protected the elevator to the VIP offices and the vault holding their objective. Di took several bullets to the chest, the violet flames shrugging off the projectiles as he cut through weapon and wielder both, icicles flying in a deadly blizzard around him as he made his way forward.

Ember chose to deal with flame instead, and had proven adept at manipulating the flames Di gave him despite limited training. The big man flung fire into the chests of two guards before spinning midstride and kicking hard through the chest of another unfortunate guard who exploded into ash.

As they reached the second checkpoint Diritas flung forward a blast of cold that froze the air and instantly bloomed frost over the occupants and the security equipment alike. "Pathetic." He sneers as he swings Tsura at the elevator cable and severs it cleanly. The elevator drops down the shaft and lands with a crash. He's almost bored when he drops a concentrated ball of black flame down the shaft and jumps to the remaining cables, sliding down them as the blast below turns the wreckage into a furnace. He lands among red hot metal, cracking his knuckles as he walks through the ashes of those who'd come to investigate the crashing elevator. Ember lands behind him.

"Go secure the VIP offices, kill only the guardsmen, I doubt anyone else in there poses a threat to you. Disable them if you have to but try not to burn any paperwork yeah?" he chuckles and heads for the vault with Tsura in hand. Passing the door to the offices and hearing Ember enter behind him, the ensuing screams and sounds of battle bring a smile to his face. The massive vault door stands at the end of the hall. It's surface gleaming with wards and polished steel. He takes one look and turns around, walking into the Offices and searching for the most important person he could find. The room was a wreck, but true to his orders, Ember hadn't killed anyone who didn't have a weapon and had managed to not burn anything. "Well done Ember, now which one of these sniveling cowards can open the vault?" He asks the big man who'd gathered the remaining seven survivors in the room.

Ember pointed to a fat man in a suit. "That one. He's the owner of the mine, one of three with access to the vault." He says flatly.

The man paled, "No, no, it's not me, it's that guy!" he squeals, gesturing towards a dead body on the floor nearby.

Diritas grins, reaching down and picking up the dead body in one hand he grabs the pigman by the collar and whispers in his ear. "Well, then we'll just see if you lied to me now won't we?" Dragging the man out of the door, Di shoves him down the hall to the Vault door and throws the body at the warded steel. It connects with a wet thump, and the body explodes into fine particles of blood that rain down onto the walls and carpet. Di shakes his head. "Now, see you are making it hard for me to trust you Mr"." He squints at the mans nametag. "Pellman." He chuckles, "Now let's try this again yeah?" He brings his cutlass up and spears the man through the bicep. "Open it." He growls over Mr. Pellman's screams.

"Alright!" Pellman whines between screaming as Di whips the cutlass out towards the vault door, sending him sprawling. Pellman gets up to his knees and chants a few arcane words in a language Diritas doesn't understand, but the shimmering wards dissipate.

Di smiles "Now the door Mr. Pellman, I would hate to think you left a trap active for me to fall over." He says with a cruel light in his eyes. Pellman swallows hard, and stands holding his arm. Moving to the door he punches in a code and it swings open. Diritas grins. "Now inside is a diamond known as the Blue Sky Diamond. Get it for me." He says, shooing him forward like the man were a child. Pellman turns and walks into the Vault. Pale, sweating, and bleeding from his arm he still manages to find the diamond. Di walks in after him and looks around. It's full of diamonds and datarium of all shapes and sizes, a small cabinet of papers on a shelf catches his eye and he smiles, heading to it and pulling the deed for the mine from the files. "And this is worth more than everything else in this room." He says to Pellman. "but I don't need to tell you that, now do I?" he laughs and takes a pen from his pocket. "Come here and lets fill out your release forms."

A few minutes later Diritas has the revised deed to Tsunami plant in a metal tube strapped to his belt. The Blue Sky Diamond is in a pouch in his pocket. He looks at Pelman, "You are a truly charitable individual Mr. Pellman, and your donations to the Diritas Fund are much appreciated." He says with a singsong voice. "And now I wish you the best in your next life." Pellman pales and goes to scream, but it's cut off along with his head as Di flicks Tsura with his wrist. Turning he accesses the Soulbinding between himself, Ember, and Frost. "Time to go. Ember, bring the pack to me. Frost, is our exit clear?" he's aware of Frost's rifle firing off a few shots, and her answering in the affirmative. Ember exits the offices ahead of him and unslings a pack from his shoulder. Diritas gestures around him and says simply. "Take whatever you like, just grab me a pure sample of Datarium. And grab whatever Frost wishes as well.?

Their exit was smooth, it was a simple matter to ride the cables back up the shaft when the right one was cut, and true to her word, Frost had taken down anyone who entered the main floor. The dragon Diritas had set loose was waiting at the exit into the yard, the site having been laid waste to and with not a soul alive. Diritas pets the massive construct on the snout, and dismisses it. It melts away into pink tinged water as the three leave through the front gate.