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Post by Greed on Jun 23, 2013 23:07:13 GMT -5
-Zelos-
"Not bad, hunny, I like your style~" Zelos taunted Trish as he jumped into the air straight over the spinning blade, turning as he did. His sword glowed bright red for a moment, before releasing a large fireball in Dante's direction. As he fell, he rapid-casted a series of much smaller fireball spells, ending up with a literal firestorm being directed at the cocky swordsman.
The moment the magic swordsman landed, Zelos made a beeline for Dante in a low dash, hopefully all that flame he'd just leveled at him would make a difference.
-Satsuki-
Satsuki gulp, as the battle shifted chaotically, everyone shifting their targets, seemingly at random. She... was supposed to be a part of this team, right? As she hid behind the car, a light flickered on in her head, as if reminding her of something incredibly obvious.
"Oh, right."
As Satsuki lifted the car above her head by the front end, Zelos's face instantly paled, as the red-haired swordsman backpedaled furiously to avoid the incoming vehicle.
"I-I'm sorry!" Well, she had to imagine having a car slammed on top of you would hurt a whole lot. The young vampire brought the rather expensive looking car down as hard as she could on top of Dante, as though she was using a book to squash a bug.
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Post by Jisui on Jun 23, 2013 23:12:29 GMT -5
[[Use the shoutbox Advix, lol. And if we waited for you for every post, there would seriously be no progress. Just jump back in, and everything will be fine.]]
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Post by BloodValkyrie on Jun 23, 2013 23:35:23 GMT -5
[[ This is how things have always been unless your character was someone who absolutely needed to respond. I mean, yes, with the main group I usually waited for everybody to post and...well, look how that turned out. Yes I know you have work and I know you cannot help that, but do not get upset. Simply jump back in, like Hisui said. ]]
Trish barely managed to jerk her head back in time to avoid Hellboy's strike, grimacing as she felt his fist cut through the wind less than an inch from her chin. Even she would have been hurt if she got hit by that. It would have hurt like absolute hell and she was not exactly a fan of pain. This was a good opportunity for a counterattack though and the demonic woman wasted no time in taking advantage.
A yellow sigil appeared in front of Trish, right between her and the red demon. She held her hand out and it unleashed a massive torrent of electrical blasts and, due to Hellboy's close proximity, they were basically fired at point blank range.
Trish noticed Ciel had managed to avoid a direct hit from her mine and smiled at the woman's tenacity. She got blasted away and just got back up in an instant. She had to admire that.
"Alright, let's see how you like this too."
She held out her other hand, another sigil appearing in front of it and unleashing another torrent of electrical blasts. Dozens of streaks of yellow lightning flew towards Ciel, each one with enough power to cause rather nasty burns and numbness.
Meanwhile, the Sword of Sparda had reversed course and was on its way back to its mistress. It just took a different path in that it flew close to the ground, heading straight towards Zelos once again as he raced towards Dante.
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Post by Advix on Jun 23, 2013 23:37:55 GMT -5
The sound of glass breaking rang out from behind Dante as Oswald threw a vial at the ground behind Dante's feet. A green ooze sprung forth and clung to his heels as Satsuki attacked. He had quite a few more alchemical tricks up his sleeves in case the Demon Hunter survived.
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Post by Jisui on Jun 24, 2013 0:01:07 GMT -5
"Tch... how annoying...!" Ciel muttered upon seeing Trish conjure another magic sigil in front of her. Did this woman even know the concept of mana? Surely she couldn't keep doing this forever, right? Grimacing, Ciel again forced mana into her legs, reinforcing them again and preparing to leap to the side to avoid her attack.
As the flurry of electrical blasts streaked towards her, Ciel leaped to the side with the help of her reinforced legs, trying her best to avoid the massive torrent of electrical projectiles launched towards her. Unfortunately, perhaps because she was too careless, she was half a step too slow, and hissed in pain as a stray bolt grazed her left leg. Her left knee buckling slightly in pain, she took a quick moment to assess the damage. It wasn't a severe burn this time, but worse than the last light one she received. She would still be able to move, but would most likely be slowed down a bit.
This woman... how troublesome. If she planned on firing electricity away like that with no hesitation, it would be hard for her to get near. Unfortunately, as much as she hated to admit it...
She looked at Hellboy, who was presently being blasted away by a flurry of electricity. It was probably impossible to beat her like this, if they both just blindly charged in one after the other.
"...Demon! Fall back!" She called out (albeit grudgingly) to the red-skinned demon, creating additional Black Keys and muttering a quick spell as she did so. Small, glowing red-sigils appeared on each Black Key, and the keys began pulsating with a soft red light. Lifting both her left and right hand, she threw five Black Keys with each hand toss, each targeting vital areas of Trish's anatomy. It wasn't much, but she needed to keep her busy for a bit while she and the... demon, formulated a plan.
[[Cremation Sacrament: A holy sacrament with ties to Magecraft, which is considered heretical to members of the Church. However, because of her knowledge of Magecraft through Roa, Ciel can use this ability without any problems. By creating a spell sigil on an individual Black Key, Ciel can cause them to burn her enemies upon piercing their target. While not powerful enough to cause instantaneous combustion, the flames that are produced by the sacrament grow at a moderately fast rate, and continue to do so while the Black Key is embedded in the enemy. The Cremation Sacrament requires relatively little prana to generate, so Ciel likes to use it often.]]
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Post by Tokrochiru on Jun 24, 2013 1:17:19 GMT -5
Piccolo managed to parry Dante's incoming blow. Doing so burnt his hand, but it was worth it to avoid having to face the full force of his flaming punch. After parrying, Piccolo skillfully moved behind the devil hunter and observed Zelos attempted to pelt him with a barrage of fire. Satsuki brought a car down on the devil hunter, just inches away from Piccolo. Piccolo would have scolded at Satsuki for her recklessness, but this might have just been what they needed right now.
"Good job Satsuki, now move out of the way!"
Piccolo stepped back and unleashed his own barrage of "fire". Instead of shooting actual fire like Zelos did, however, he threw waves of yellow energy. Each blast of energy exploded upon hitting the the car that Piccolo believed Dante was trapped under. At the very least, that's where he sensed his energy was at.
There were four blasts of energy in total thrown at the truck. Just enough to allow Piccolo to still react if Dante turned out to have dodged Satsuki's car-crush.
He had to admit. While the group hadn't gotten along all that well so far, they sure did know how to work together during a fight.
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Post by SlvrNight on Jun 24, 2013 9:49:13 GMT -5
Hellboy took the full brunt of the torrent of electricity, grunting loudly in pain but standing his ground. It hurt like hell and he was gradually being pushed back but he held his arms in front of him, trying to reduce the damage of the blasts. However, he lost his footing when several of them hit his legs, numbing them enough to make him fall and take the rest of the blasts completely.
The red demon was sent rolling back, his coat burned and smoking in different areas. The left sleeve was completely burned off and his red flesh beneath it was blackened from the burns. He got his head back into the game, however, and quickly pushed himself back up. He had taken far worse damage and, while he was in a pretty large amount of pain, he knew how to deal with it. Then, in a surprising but welcomed turn, the church woman called out to him to retreat and threw some of her swords as covering fire for him. Hellboy wasted no time and immediately jumped towards Ciel, landing next to her with a loud thud.
"I'll save my surprise for later. You got a plan, lady?"
Dante had to hand it to these guys. They certainly knew how to concentrate on one guy. But he could tell they were all just attacking him with little regard to one another's attacks. He could tell they hadn't been a team for that long. First thing was the red-haired guy's fireballs. Honestly, the demon hunter had to smile at this. He just attacked the guy's green-skinned ally with flaming gauntlets, yet he attacks him with fire? Then, right after he shot those, the little schoolgirl picked up a car and was about to smash it on him like he was some kind of bug. Add the black-armored guy's sticky chemical or whatever and the green guy's energy blasts into that...
Well, he had to admit, the guy's green sticky chemical was a pretty nice strategy. One of Dante's main attributes was his mobility, so limiting that was a good idea. But these guys just didn't know who they were dealing with.
"Heh, seems like you guys are serious! Alright then!"
Right before Zelos's fireballs impacted him and Satsuki's car smashed upon his head, Dante's body was consumed by the flames of his gauntlets, his body became covered in charcoal-like armor, and he smashed his fist into the ground. A large torrent of fire blew up from the surface like a bomb, tearing through the car, absorbing the Chosen's fireballs, burning away the knight's sticky chemical, and blocking the alien's energy blasts by using the car as a shield.
The flames had torn through the car and made contact with the gas within its tank, causing the vehicle to erupt in a massive explosion, consuming Dante and likely catching Satsuki, Oswald, Piccolo, and Zelos in the blast. Pieces of burning metal and shrapnel flew off in all direction and the explosion could be heard throughout the neighborhood as it echoed into the night.
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Post by Greed on Jun 24, 2013 11:26:38 GMT -5
-Zelos-
"Aw hell, Guardian!" As the startling explosion erupted, and the scythe spun back towards him, a spherical green energy field protected Zelos at his command, blocking the vast majority of the damage. A few knicks and cuts here and there. but he ended up mostly unharmed from the explosion. Then the scythe came back.
Zelos grunted as he blocked the veritable buzzsaw with his sword, the green field still up for the moment. With a serious effort, he managed to deflect it, sending it back towards its master, wobbling wildly from being deflected with another blade.
"Right right, next up, Air Thrust!" A green sigil appeared now, as Zelos used the smoke cloud as cover. A sphere of razor sharp, cutting wind with a green tint enveloped Dante just then, slashing at him from all direction. Zelos had to guess it would be hard to dodge from that position, but he knew from his travels with Lloyd that letting up on an enemy like this, for even a second, could spell disaster for even a large group.
-Satsuki-
Satsuki screamed as the car exploded in her hands, being thrown head over heels backwards by the combined explosive force of Ifrit and the car.... straight through at least two or three walls in Dante's office. The electricity in the building flickered on and off as a result, but at least the building stayed standing for once. However, that wasn't Satsuki's main concern.
She had just been thrown into a very different trophy room than what the others had seen in the front of Devil May Cry. Blood ran down the vampire's face as she pushed herself up, dazed and in a decent bit of pain. Her hands were a bleeding mess of cuts and gashes, along with more than a few burns, and the sleeves of her uniform had been burned up almost to her shoulders.
"Ow...owowowowowow.... that... hurt." Satsuki paused, and looked around her. Was... this that guy's armory? There were a large number of weapons and... odds and ends in the room. A pair of opposite colored swords, a demonic looking guitar, a pair of icy-looking nunchucks, a strange box... This guy looked like he'd kept all the weapons he'd collected over the course of his life and unceremoniously dumped them in his back room.
"... Isn't this kind of irresponsible...?" Satsuki couldn't help but be a little unnerved by the collection; a few of these weapons seemed almost alive... and beyond that, she knew she'd just get herself hurt if she tried to use any thing like a sword, or the various guns around the room... and was that a bazooka?
"I'd... better just leave these alone, I can't..." Then, something caught her eye. A pair of gauntlets, black and white, as well as matching greaves, just sitting in the corner. Like a bunch of the other weapons, they were just collecting dust and cobwebs, but when Satsuki got up and brushed them off, white light gleamed from between the black plates covering them. Satsuki may not have been good at much, but there was one thing she was good at; punching things. And from that little display out there, this guy was good. REALLY good. Satsuki began to pull on the demonic light-gauntlets, frowning as she did.
"Isn't this stealing...?"
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Post by Jisui on Jun 24, 2013 14:26:42 GMT -5
"I'll save my surprise for later. You got a plan, lady?"
Ignoring his slight jab, the church woman glanced at the demon near her while Trish was busy with her Black Keys, specifically looking at his stone fist. Ugh... if the Church ever knew that she was about to work with a demon, they'd have her head, literally. But she had worked with worse before, and she wasn't about to just die here over being stubborn. This demon... Hellboy, seemed to be quite durable. Specifically his stone fist, it seemed to be resistant against magic... plus, electricity didn't conduct against rock. Maybe...
"...I might. But you won't like it." She admitted, glancing at the electricity demon in front of them. "I'm going to use you as a shield. Run towards her and keep her busy for the initial attack. I'll match your movements and move behind you."
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Post by Tokrochiru on Jun 24, 2013 20:50:34 GMT -5
The explosion was painful. Very painful. But thankfully, Piccolo was able to take a page from the demon hunter's book and shield his torso from most of the explosion with his limbs. He could afford to take damage to his extremities. After all, if he lost one, he could just grow another.
Piccolo was knocked back a total of 9 feet from the explosion. His arms were pitch black with heavy burns, but still very usable. With the immediate danger done and over with, he brought his mind to the next important task. Defeating Dante.
Their current strategy wasn't working. They needed to try something else. Piccolo thought about his past exploits with opponents he had to work alongside others to beat.
....An idea came to mind.
Piccolo was hoping to introduce his troupe to this particular ability slowly as to not shock them, but things were getting out of hand. He sent a telepathic message to the entire group.
"Don't panic and listen up. This is Piccolo. I'm speaking to each and every one of you telepathically. Hellboy, you're on me, Oswald will cover you. Zelos, focus on the girl. Satsuki, get back here. I've got a plan to take care of Dante, but I need you here for it to work."
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Post by Advix on Jun 24, 2013 23:39:57 GMT -5
Oswald was knocked off his feet as Dante detonated the car in Satsuki's hands. He pushed himself to his feet as he looked desperately around, until he found the hole in Dante's office that Satsuki made. His right eye began to glow red with a terrible malice as he called upon the power of his Belderiver. "You cur. I don't know what happened inside the building, but she never wanted to harm anyone. I'll make you pay for hurting her!" As his black aura intensified, Piccolo's voice rang through his head, but Oswald would not be reasoned with.
"Enough, Piccolo! Amuzi may have made you leader, but my alliance with you only extends as far as it does for her. Neither of you are my master, so do not even begin to act as such!"
"Behold!" With a red flash of his cursed sword, Oswald was engulfed in black flames, his ghastly visage crowned by wisps of white fire. He reeked of decay, reeked of death, and only the shine of his right eye and the crystaline blade of the Belderiver shone through his cloak of black flames. He hovered over the ground as he sped toward Dante, ready to tear him apart with his unparalleled Psyfer and the burning black claws of his left hand. He struck fast, fierce, and wildly, offering no mercy to the Demon Hunter.
[The Shadow Knight: Oswald’s signature ability is his transformation into the dreaded Shadow Knight. His natural strength and speed are boosted and he is almost completely invulnerable. Now that he is away from his world, he has no worries of the Netherworld or the Halja that lurk it. He can now maintain his Shadow Knight form for 2 posts, more than enough time to wreak havoc. It takes a powerful strike to force Oswald out of this form.] Strength: A Magic: E Speed: A- Defense: A- Combat Skill: C
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Post by Greed on Jun 25, 2013 0:48:31 GMT -5
-Zelos-
The lightning hunny, eh? Alright then, if you insist, Big Green.
Zelos turned, still somewhat obscured by the smoke and debris of the burning vehicle; he had to make his temporary cover count, since he'd managed to deflect that spinning scythe thing. Right then.
With a burst of speed, the red headed magic swordsman bolted back towards, his sword dragging along the ground... but as he began to get a few feet in front of her, he swung up , unleashing a quick energy wave along the street, which rapidly picked up speed as it streaked towards Trish, as he called the name of the attack.
"Demon fang!"
[[ - Magic Blade ~ Demon Fang: The most common and recognizable sword arte for a particular set of universes, Demon Fang has the swordsman sweep his or her sword down to the ground, striking up a wave of energy that travels along the ground and towards an opponent at high speed. Zelos is capable of using this ability twice in quick succession, or can channel the same energy into a heavier energy wave known as the Fierce Demon Fang, creating a short range area of effect attack in front of Zelos. ]]
-Satsuki-
It was probably an odd thing, watching Satsuki walk out of the hole in the wall while pulling the second one of the greaves on; she could most certainly use some more battle awareness...
O-Okay, I'm here. I put these on right , didn't I?
Satsuki clenched her hands into fists, as Oswald leapt at Dante. He... had been rather protective of her back at the sanctuary, hadn't he? No, that wasn't something she needed to distract herself with, nor... anything else. She had to figure out if there was a trick to these things, and fast. And so, she did the first thing that came mind; punched the ground.
As if reacting to intentions, the Beowulf gauntlets magnified the blast wave she would have normally sent out, a straight line of white energy tearing through the street, straight at Dante, raising the pavement as it did.
"... He keeps this stuff in his back room!?" She couldn't really help thinking it aloud...
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Post by SlvrNight on Jun 25, 2013 9:02:28 GMT -5
Dante, even in his flaming demonic form, could be seen raising an incredulous eyebrow at Oswald's declaration. The knight had a more powerful form...it was an interesting turn, but the demon hunter had faced enemies with powerful alternate forms before. Nelo Angelo, all the guys in the Order of the Sword, blah, blah, blah, he could go on for hours.
"Wow, so you just look at stuff selectively don't you, kid?"
Dante swung his fists and legs, blocking most of Oswald's strikes with his own flaming punches and kicks. His body's armor during his Devil Trigger made it possible for him to block the man's blade and claws. If he was in his normal form, they probably could have cut right through his flesh.
"She dropped a car on me, kid. Saying she didn't want to fight after seeing that is just stupid."
Oswald was extremely fast when in this state, one of the faster opponents Dante had faced. He was managing to block a lot of his attacks but he could feel the connecting strikes cutting into the charcoal-like armor of his body. The demon hunter released a large burst of flame from his body and jumped a few yards away from the death knight. He needed to gain speed comparable to Oswald's in order to compete with him. His eyes then saw Satsuki come out of his store wearing his Beowulf gauntlets.
The demon hunter had a slight smile on his face. The girl was resourceful, he'd give her that.
Dante jumped into the air, dodging the vampire's energy blast, and took out a long silver sword with blue electricity surrounding it. His flaming gauntlets vanished and his fiery aura was replaced by azure electricity. His demonic form gained blue pulsating lines in its armor and black wings sprouted from his back, flapping as they kept him aloft.
"I'm gonna need you to give those back, lady."
He threw Alastor at Satsuki, the blade spinning like a buzz saw as it carved its way through the air towards her, firing off random bolts of lightning as it went. Immediately after he folded his wings over him and spun at Oswald like a drill, bolts of electricity crackling around him. If he hit the knight with this it would electrocute the hell out of him and, adding the impact of Dante hitting him, it would all likely be rather painful.
Dante (Alastor Devil Trigger) Stats: Strength: B+ Magic/Energy: B- Speed: A- Defense: A- Combat Skill: B
Hellboy grimaced, annoyed at Piccolo and the others. "Oh, NOW you guys decide to send some help? Sorry green guy by the church lady and I got enough problems. You guys can deal with the cocky demon hunter without us." The red demon then looked at Ciel and nodded, acknowledging her plan. He charged at Trish, briefly hopping to the side to allow Zelos's Demon Fang to go past him, and held his stone fist in front of him. Hellboy was planning on using the fist as a shield to block his face and chest and, at the same time, he took out his over-sized revolver with his left hand and fired several Whopper rounds at Trish. Hopefully the bullets' special ingredients and enchantments would do some extra damage to the demon.
She was a demon though, right? Not just some superhuman?
"Holy lady!" He called out to Ciel. "Do your thing!"
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Post by BloodValkyrie on Jun 25, 2013 9:25:51 GMT -5
Trish backflipped and twirled around as she avoided Ciel's Black Keys, but one managed to stab through her right arm and she instantly felt a burning sensation come from it.
Tch, something with the sole purpose of harming demons? It would not be surprising considering her opponent was from a church of some kind. It was obvious with her outfit... Trish immediately grabbed the Black Key and pulled it from her arm, throwing it to the side. Blood began to trickle from the large gash but she paid little mind to it. It would heal in time. A small smile then adorned the female demon's face as she saw Hellboy and Ciel regroup.
Discussing a strategy, huh? Now that was more like it...some actual teamwork. Her eyes looked over towards Dante and watched as he began to use his demonic powers against his opponents. It was smart of him to do that. If he had been cocky and refused to transform, the group could have very well killed him. Maybe.
"Demon fang!"
Trish's eyes were brought back to her battle as she heard that and she flipped into the air, avoiding the energy wave and gracefully landing on her feet. The Sword of Sparda returned to her hand at that time and she saw the red demon and holy woman charging towards her. Were they planning on using the man as a shield? It was a rather...suicidal plan to be honest. Part of her considered the possibility of Hellboy being significantly more durable than she assumed, but such a thing was deemed irrelevant. She had the legendary dark knight Sparda's sword. She was fairly confident she'd be able to cut through that stone fist with ease and returned their charge with one of her own, dashing forward with one hand forward, firing several burst of electricity, while the other hand held the crimson sword back, ready to perform and upward slash up Hellboy's center when close enough.
However, to deal with the red-haired man, Trish quickly released a yellow sigil in front of her before charging off to Hellboy and Ciel. The sigil was aimed at Zelos and released a torrent of electrical blasts, each one curving around one another as they flew towards the Chosen. There were easily a few dozen blasts, each one packing a rather decent amount of power.
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Post by Greed on Jun 25, 2013 10:58:37 GMT -5
-Zelos-
Oddly enough, Zelos was having fun with this. A mischievous grin came as a torrent of lightning shot out in front of him.
"Well come on then, seems like everyone's doing it, so why shouldn't I?" It was a mystery what the Chosen was talking about until he jumped up, avoiding as many of the lightning blasts as he could. Even after taking a blast to his midsection, a pair of golden wings, made of light, erupted from his back as he flew up above the battle field, a red sigil charging beneath him.
"Burn baby! Eruption!" Trish would have to keep moving, as a torrent of magma and fire erupted from the ground several times beneath the lightning demon. While it wasn't real magma, it was easily hot enough to do some serious damage. And now, Zelos was in a much better position to avoid their attacks, though, if things went on much longer, he might have to resort to potentially lethal measures.
-Satsuki-
The vampire's eyes widened as the sword spun at her, and her face grew serious.... though, in Satsuki's case, that just looked more like a pout. However, holding up her arms, Satsuki blocked the spinning lightning sword, which grinded against Beowulf fruitlessly, until the sword lost enough momentum for her to grab the hilt without her hands getting chopped up. Even then, lightning arced around the gauntlets, shocking her regardless...
"...I-I'm not too great... with swords. Never used one, really." The young vampire was forced to one knee as the blade shocked her, but even then, she forced herself back up, bringing the sword back in a reverse grip holding it back like a javelin.
"So you can HAVE THIS BACK!" A gleam of red came from the vampire's eyes as she hurled the sword with all her strength at the spiraling form of Dante. Instead of spinning, she had hurled it point first, so hard that it visibly parted the smoke and fire from the wrecked car, and rattled the windows all down the street. Elements be damned, the weapon was still solid. Satsuki rushed after the weapon, breaking the pavement as she kicked off from it. Oswald needed help with this guy, despite the power he had in his Shadow Knight form, and, well, if there was one thing she was good at, it was fighting at close range.
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