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Post by Greed on Apr 1, 2011 11:40:32 GMT -5
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Post by SlvrNight on Apr 2, 2011 18:28:55 GMT -5
Nearest Place to Heaven
Carl and Suzuki both stared at the twenty-sided die. The teenager took a step back, lost at what to do. He had no super strength, no darkness powers, no regeneration, nothing. He was completely powerless. Normally, he would be willing to take on this new and mysterious foe, but he knew that he would not be able to do a single thing to harm it. Fear began to creep into his heart as he began to realize just how weak and powerless he truly was.
Suzuki felt Carl let go of her hand as he began backing away and she turned to look at him. She saw the expression of fear on his face and closed her eyes. She could not think of a way to comfort him at this time, for she knew exactly what he was thinking and she knew it was the truth. At this moment, Carl was completely powerless and useless in this battle.
...However, she would be damned if she allowed him to be hurt. The female demon opened her eyes and spoke to him in a gentle, but serious, tone. "I know what you're thinking right now, Carl. Just stay out of harm's way and everything will be fine."
An expression of confusion covered Carl's face. "What? How can you say that? We're all going to die, Suzuki."
"You're not the only one who has no powers right now. Some of us have other skills though and we're going to put them to use. If you promise to stay out of this and not get hurt, I'll be able to fight without holding back."
Carl looked down at the ground for a few moments and slowly nodded. Suzuki then took out her scythe and quickly began running, following Steven and Hakumen.
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Post by Greed on Apr 7, 2011 9:48:28 GMT -5
Miracle Matter
In an instant, the creature shifted its form... it became a large, orange ball, bristling with spikes that undulated all over its form. Mia, much to the other's surprise, broke out in front of Steven and Hakumen... on equal terms, she was much more swift than either of them had been originally. It was almost a spectacle to behold, even.
"I don't care what you look like, its not going to help you!" Unfortunately, that wasn't the case, because as soon as the edge of her sword struck the being, she was bounced back by some sort of barrier. Mia struck the ground rolling, managing to jam her sword into the fleshy ground to halt her own momentum.
As she stared back at the spiny being, though...
A spear whistled through the air, striking the orange ball dead on. Instead of being reflected, it pierced straight through the creature, causing Mia's mouth to fall open. Jade smirked; his attack had worked... he had suspected it earlier, but now, acting on it...
Jade had no time to think, though, as three long spikes extended towards him; he rolled to the side, strafing around the strange being to go retrieve his spear.
"I would say try piercing instead of slashing right now...."
The others who watched from the sidelines just stared. Marisa rested, leaning on her broom.
"Hmm... so, its weak to itself? Piercing vs. piercing?" Satsuki cocked her at the question, and could only shrug, for she had never dealt with something like this before...
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Post by Advix on Apr 7, 2011 13:33:09 GMT -5
Steven watched Mia zipped past him with reckless abandon, bouncing off of the monster. He dodged to the side to avoid being struck by her, and watched as Jade's spear pierced it, as did Hakumen's Yukianesa, as he parried a spike and used it to guide the tip of the dormant Nox Nyctores home, and quickly lunging past the monster. Steven felt the need to throw a remark towards Mia.
"Let those with caution take the lead. I would hope that you'd hold your life with greater value than to throw it away on a reckless attack." Steven then began to pick up the pace drastically, as he darted around the giant pin cushion with furious strides, stabbing at the monster uncountable times with each pass, dodging what spikes came his way. He would let it be known that his mortality held no bearing on his physical capabilities. He was every bit as fast and strong as he was before they were swallowed, with or without magic, with or without immortality. It was a warning to those in the group that sought to fight him. This was the man who nearly killed a dragon that reached for the power of the gods.
"I swear," said Melissa. "The more he shows off like that, the more I wish I had my own sword. I remember when we first met each other, and we used to bout. Those were so much fun."
"You can keep up with him?!" exclaimed Oswald.
"Oh of course not. But I don't need to. I'm sure a knight like you must know that you don't need to be as fast as someone so long as you are skilled." The way she said it unnerved him. 'So long as you are skilled.' Not 'very skilled,' or 'as skilled as'. Just 'skilled,' as if it was something you either had or lacked. Once more Hakumen's words echoed through his memories.
"Don't play coy. You are far from defenseless. I am no fool."
What were these two?
Kirby had finally made his way back to the group. Much like he did with Siphon, he flew up over the ball of thorns, and came crashing down sword tip first.
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Post by Tokrochiru on Apr 11, 2011 19:32:02 GMT -5
Vastion and Xerxes both charged forth, each of them wielding Savior. Their intent was to each deliver a single, deep stab to the....whatever it was. X, in the meantime charged up his buster. Bang threw some of the spare nail-shuriken he had on him, and Rugal simply waited for an opportunity.
They all were thinking the same thing.
They had to leave this place.
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Post by Greed on May 7, 2011 18:58:05 GMT -5
Downtown Kyril - Empty Basin
The fight raged on against the disturbing creature inside the beast; it was a long, difficult battle as no one had access to virtually any of their powers besides Kirby, and even the most ingenious strategies were foiled at times due to the lack of strength required to carry them out.
In the end, Aire was burned to death when she protected Satsuki from Miracle Matter's fire form... the creature was surprising even Kirby, who had fought it once before, by being far more mobile and aggressive than it had been before, actively chasing down individuals and focusing its powers on them.
The battle came to a violent end when Kirby, Mia, Steven, and Hakumen struck its cutter form simultaneously, bringing the dark being to a violent end....
Suddenly, the entire groups finds themselves back out of the creature, in the lowest levels of the ruined city, In their bodies just as they had formerly been...
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The group had seemed to awaken standing, breathing heavily, and though it their old bodies, they still felt the exhaustion of fighting in their powerless state.
Satsuki looked around searching for the girl that had saved her, throwing herself in the path of a roaring inferno just long enough that Kirby could attack it.... she could see no trace of Aire, who had been burned to death in the battle.
"... That did not go very well at all." Samus was the first to speak, and she spoke her mind as usual. It was an understatement for sure, but a sound statement in its own right. The former bounty hunter noticed that the phazon in her body was back once more, and that basically everyone was back to normal... well, as normal as this group got.
Zetta looked around briefly as he stretched... the fact that Aire remained dead after leaving irritated him... it meant that that place wasn't some sort of battle in the mind or anything.. they had really been inside that thing. Even the overlord's skin crawled at that thought.
Even then, Mia began to panic... surely, she thought that those two would be alright once they had gotten out of that thing. But no, they were nowhere. Nowhere to be seen, found, just.... gone. Dead, inside that monster. Even though Mia, nor most of the others had knew them very well, it was another two lost in a long line of people lost to them.
Jade fixed his glasses, and stared toward the sky.... indeed, today had been a rather awful day, hadn't it? He could not imagine a more horrifying way to die than to simply vanish in death, leaving not even a corpse behind.
Even though, the group was startled by what they saw upon returning... the world was falling apart, pieces of the environment simply missing, leaving gaping black voids... the sky was nightmarish at this point, as stands of strange, parallel black lines races across it, and the world seemed to fall away into an endless void.
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Post by Advix on May 9, 2011 17:14:03 GMT -5
Downtown Kyril - Empty Basin
Oswald blinked. He found himself next to Satsuki and in his black, regal armor. He looked around, searching for Aire and Melissa. The two together had saved them from a fiery death, but they were nowhere to be found. There was the sound of collapsing metal as an armored Steven fell to his knees, cradling his gnarly saber.
'Steven? Where are you?! What happe- oh... I see. It was defeated.'
"Melissa... I..."
'It's okay, dear. We knew this would happen. I... was ready for it.' It was a lie, and Steven knew it. Melissa couldn't hide her sadness. It wasn't enough that she could sense his soul so close to her own, she wanted to hold him again, to embrace him in her arms as tightly as she knew he held her. But she couldn't touch him, or see him. She was trapped inside the sword once again, and it tore her apart. To have been a sword for sixteen years, she had never imagined she would be human again. But her body was gone again. She had been teased with happiness, only for it to be snatched out of her grasp once more. Just as Melissa was tortured with grief, Steven, too, broke down in tears. Oswald only lowered his head. he couldn't believe that Aire and her friend had vanished. Kirby was still clueless as to what was happening. He frantically searched for the two missing allies.
Though Hakumen found himself in the Sankishin Susano'o again, he appeared indifferent. He turned to the group, as if he was taking charge. "This is not over," he stated. "They gave their lives so that we may live. Steel yourselves, for if we falter now and fall prey to this darkness, their efforts would have been in vain." He turned back to sight beyond, gripping his Nox Nyctores in preparation. "Honor their deaths with your resolve to live."
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