After having fought the giant bloticle with the faith spell, Stratos was getting ready to go and strike at the creature once again. However, before he could, there was someone who seemed to join the fight against the bloticle as well. Someone slightly unexpected. Stratos couldn't help but notice that Base was getting into the fray, which, really after having spent an entire world killing things alongside him he shouldn't have been too surprised about, but the memories of the one thousand heartless battle still stung deep into Straots's heart. Nevertheless, he was glad to see both Base and Mickey aid the group in dealing Billy the bloticle. Regardless, soon enough Raisor then got back into fighting the thing as well, none too happy it appeared with this bloticle's antics either. As soon as Raisor had struck the blot tentacle, Stratos decided to follow up by utilizing what was effectively his signature brawl mission move. With the cherry blossoms falling from the sky, time had come to a standstill once more, and then in a single instant, Stratos ended up slashing straight through the bloticle. But he was hardly finished just yet. He threw his keyblade in a strike raid maneuver towards the bloticle all while running towards it, and after the keyblade hit, he called it back to his hand, jumping into the air and using a Vorpal Blitz against his enemy. To finish off his barrage of attacks, Stratos's heart seemed to shine with a light once more, though this time it was green. Hitting his chest with his hand, Stratos was soon covered in a green electricity as he then rushed forward at the creature, striking it repeatedly with the Guardian's Rush limit. Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 98% Left Living -Blotlings: 977/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 583/1000
As Raisor got on board the keyglider, the weight seemed to clearly become a bit more than the glider was meant to handle, but it was still able to stay afloat. That was going to clearly change once the bloticle swung at the both of them to crash straight into them. Or rather, it would have, had Raisor's attack not have sent the bloticle off course of its attack and sent it crashing into the ground. Well, that was good to see that overall they hadn't really taken all that much damage from the whole ordeal. As Raisor made a comment about whether or not Stratos minded sick passengers, Stratos just offhandedly said, "that's fine, as long as you don't mind crash landings." Stratos was a pretty decent flier. He just had the worse track record to date when it came to landing. As he tried to descend onto the ground, the bloticle started recovering from the attack that Beuce had struck it with, lifting itself back upright and getting ready to knock the duo out of the sky. Billy then created more rock spikes and started firing them enmasse at the duo. Stratos did his best with the additional person on board and actually managed to dodge the grand majority of the attacks. But one lagged behind the rest, and like a stray meteorite in outerspace, Stratos knocked into it, causing him to say, "you have got to be kidding me." The collision resulted in Stratos losing control over his keyglider completely and caused the duo to plummet out of the sky and back onto the ground. Thankfully, they weren't too high, so the landing didn't hurt nearly as much as it could have. Bringing himself back up onto his feet, Stratos shook his head as he looked at the massive creature. This thing seemed to be way tough than a behemoth, now looking closer at it, as it was still mostly intact. Well, if there was one thing that Stratos was good at, it was killing giant creatures, so he would just have to treat this creature as just a much more resilient behemoth. As it seemed to fire more spikes at Stratos, the young keyblade wielder simply spun his keyblade and swung it forward, unleashing an enormous pillar of light that fired forward and took the spikes head on, only to then keep going and smash right into the bloticle, chipping more of the rocky armor it possessed. Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 99% Left Living -Blotlings: 977/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 709/1000
Stratos picked himself off the ground and dusted himself off once again. It was bad enough that he kept getting beaten down by this tentacle, but the thing didn't even look like it was close to being half dead yet. Well, getting down about that wasn't going to get him anywhere at the moment, so he just decided to wait for an opening as Raisor had continued his onslaught on the tentacle. After using what appeared to just be a swarm of blizzard attacks, Stratos couldn't help but crack a smile at the fact that he was just kind of stuck on the tentacle and probably couldn't get off. While amusing to look at, Stratos quickly got back into serious mode as he understood that the position that Raisor was in could turn really deadly really fast. And so, getting on his keyglider, the young boy shot off towards the bloticle and got ready to deal with it as soon as he was able. The earthen blot monster seemed to not really pay him any mind until Stratos got within melee range of the thing. Presumably this was because it was just because it was busy dealing with Raisor, to notice Stratos until he became an imminent threat. The creature lashed out with its sand tendrils again, however, Stratos was prepared for this as he basically tossed his keyglider out from under his feet to strike the tendrils and repel them pretty handily. As the blade glider came back to him, the bloticle began fire spikes of rock at Stratos, which he wasn't exactly expecting from it. While for the most part they were pretty inaccurate at the close range, one struck his keyglider causing it to go out from underneath him, which then caused Stratos to fall to the ground. As he began his descent, the bloticle created more spikes and shot them at the now free falling Stratos. In order to avoid the attack, Stratos called his keyblade back to his hand and everything just seemed to freeze for a split second. Within that moment, Stratos had blinked across the tentacle again, slashing through it with Zantetsuken once more and getting to safety. As he was now near the other of his allies, Stratos formed the keyglider underneath him and flew in close enough for Raisor to get on. "Need a lift?" Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 99% Left Living -Blotlings: 980/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 763.5/1000
After Stratos had finished using Trip Around the Sun, it seemed that Raisor had taken the knockback provided by the attack as a golden opportunity to attack the creature. The bloticle seemed to be taking a beating from the other keyblade wielder, and everything was all fine and dandy. Unfortunately, Raisor's attacks worked to well, and it took Stratos a second to realize that Billy was falling backward, towards him. "Oh god." Stratos muttered at the sight of impending doom. However, rather than just stopping and staring, feeling like he was moving but going nowhere, Stratos actually started moving. As started running away from the creature, he started just repeatedly shouting, "bad day, bad day, bad day." Fortunately, he had managed to avoid the tentacle falling on him. Unfortunately, the shock wave generated from the fall had knocked Stratos off his feet, and caused him to face plant into the ground. Picking himself up, he shook himself off and watched as the tentacle whipped forwards toward Raisor. Wincing from just seeing the impact of the hit, Stratos watched as Raisor became a meteorite that crash landed, and couldn't help but think that probably hurt a good deal. Walking a bit closer, Stratos used a really long range cure spell, followed up by casting an Aerora on Raisor to make sure that he didn't suffer the same kind of damage in one hit again. He then turned his attention back to the tentacle, which in turn turned its attention back to him. The tentacle seemed to become fully vertical, as if pointing to the sky, and had immediately caused the earth around it raise. It then swung in Stratos's direction, causing the wall of earth to fly towards the young boy. Getting onto his keyglider, Stratos shot into the sky, completely avoiding the earth toss. This was then followed up with a giant hail of earth being flung at him, trying to pelt him out of the sky. Trying to maneuver his best, even while taking a few rocks to the body, Stratos managed to keep his balance, and then shot towards the large bloticle. Flying as fast as he could, Stratos dodged the flying earth that was aimed at him, and eventually got off his keyglider as imbued his keyblade with ice and struck with a Vorpal Blitz at the creature. After hitting it thrice, he then was going to follow it up with a big spell...only to realize he no longer had any mp to use. Billy was not at all amused as it lashed out with sand tendrils from the main body that struck Stratos and had him fly towards the ground. At the very least, he landed on a blotling to cushion the blow, and kill the extremely small and inconsequential creature. Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 99% Left Living -Blotlings: 980/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 806/1000
Catching his breath a bit, Stratos couldn't help but fill a little bit of exhilaration as he fight was beginning to pick up back in pace. Despite being far from what one would call strong, even incrediby self deprecating when it comes to his own strength, Stratos felt some odd sense of excitement when faced with this giant horde of enemies. Gripping his keyblade tighter as he heard Karina's words as she left. A smirk crossed his face as he muttered, "of course." Spinning his keyblade, he tossed it in a strike raid fashion at the tentacle as Raisor was beating down on it. After the keyblade somewhat harmlessly bounced off the rock plating that was there, Stratos called the keyblade back to his hands, only to get on the glider version of it and charge straight towards the earthen bloticle. As the tentacle got back up from the beating it had taken by Raisor, Stratos had planned to just toss the keyblade out and then use some magic on it before gracefully landing and prepping for the next round. This did not go nearly as well as planned, in fact it didn't go at all as planned. As the tentacle noticed the green colored keyblade wielder, it did an attack that was a tad different than most of the other things it had done so far. Rather than spawning rocks or something to fire at the wielder, it instead lurched back with its entire body. What followed was the main body of Billy the Bloticle swinging forward and crashing right into Stratos. Taken completely off guard by this attack, Stratos didn't really react at all in time and was sent flying straight back towards the ground. Landing back on his feet, the wielder skidded across the ground, tearing it apart as he traveled along. He finally let out a huge sigh of relief as he stopped, thanking his foresight for casting Aerora. If not for the wind barrier, he would almost certainly be in a much different situation with probably two less feet. A bit annoyed by what the bloticle had just done to him, Stratos's heart flared with a white light as he clutched his chest with his hand. As if the light were coalescing into a new form in his hand, Stratos suddenly a small orb of fire in grip now. As the bloticle seemed like it was about to strike him with its body again, Stratos clicked his tongue and threw the orb of fire at the bloticle. As the two collided, the orb exploded into a massive solar flare which pushed the tentacle back momentarily. Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 99% Left Living -Blotlings: 981/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 845.5/1000
After calling his thrown keyblade back to his hand, Stratos gripped the blade tight as he was going to go on the offensive once again. Thankfully, before he went to attack again, someone else joined the fray in the attacks. Someone who he hadn't recognized all too much, but still remembered nonetheless. With it being none other than Raisor, Stratos watched as the icy assault from Raisor seemed to do damage to the creature and caused it to slightly shake in pain. Well, it was always good to have another keyblade wielder he out on the field. Giving a thumbs up to the keyblade wielder to show his appreciation to his effort, Stratos then turned back to face the tentacle. The large earthen bloticle saw the keyblade wielder's attention focus in on him and so it decided to try kill him once again. Lifting up a large assortment of boulders from the ground, it launched the gathering of rocks at the keyblade wielder quite like it had done so before. Dodge rolling out of the way, he managed to avoid the majority of the attacks, only for a second flurry of boulders to come hurling at him, and so Stratos got put his keyblade up to guard, but got launched back from the force of the attack. Tumbling on the ground, Stratos sprung himself back up off the ground in time to dodge roll out of the way of the assault once again. Seeing that this swarm of rocks wasn't going to end anytime soon, Stratos instead didn't wait around for that and just ran right at the thing. As the rocks kept being launched at him, Stratos continued to dodge roll out of the way, looking for his opening. Between the hail of rocks, Stratos finally managed to find a window of opportunity in order to attack this thing, and when he did, cherry blossoms started raining from the sky once again. As the rocks from the barrage were closing in on him, Stratos seemed to blink out of the way, appearing on the other side of the bloticle. A large slash mark appeared across the thing, as Stratos landed on the ground and got ready to go for the next round of attacks. Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 99% Left Living -Blotlings: 981/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 888/1000
After chipping away the creature's health a little, Stratos couldn't help but think that fighting this with only two people was going to be stupid hard. Thankfully, as he was thinking this, help arrived to take this creature down. Beuce came into the scene and started to do some fancy **** with space rain, and lightning and other such things, as the earth tentacle seemed to be taking a bit more damage. Unfortunately, despite the flashiness of Beuce's attack, ultimately the bloticle still seemed to be healthy enough to continue fighting them. As Beuce made the comment about Shac, Stratos couldn't help crack a smile as he said, "and not nearly as overly terrifying and uh...metal, as Metal Heart MOTH." Though even as he said that, he couldn't help but feel that the power of the bloticle dwarfed that of the standard behemoth, being a much more intimidating creature to deal with. Regardless of that, Straots still seemed to at least have some confidence in him as he said, "well, if we can take down a thousand heartless then-" he then realized that Kaida wasn't actually at that battle before he corrected himself. "Er, rather, if we can take down a huge hoard of demons and laser shooting reptiles, then what's a tentacle or ten to us. Right?" With that, Stratos went on his offensive. As he started to run through the rain, he charged with his spellbinder keyblade in hand towards Billy. The bloticle seemed to have some awareness of the keyblade wielder and instead of firing off any sort of earth at the young keyblade wielder, it instead lashed out with mini sand tentacles that originated from the main body. Being taken off guard by this attack, Stratos quickly guarded the first of the attacks, blocking the main force behind it but still being pushed back. The second attack then came forth and struck the key right out of the wielder's hand, pushing him back even farther. Well, that was a bit annoying. Adding to the coolness factor of the rain storm, Stratos then took in a deep breath as a barrier of wind seemed to surge around his body, not only causing his hair and clothing to flow in the wind, but also to have the rain effect. Of course this wind effect was caused by the Aerora spell. Calling his keyblade back to his side, Stratos charged Billy once again, blocking the tentacle lashes once again. Due to the power of Aerora, the brunt of the attacks were being absorbed by the wind barrier, which allowed Stratos to gain some ground against the creature. As it lashed out against him once again, Stratos coated his keyblade in ice as he slashed at the first mini tendril, then proceeded to slash twice more at two more tendrils that struck at him. The Vorpal Blitz had severed the tendrils, causing the bloticle to seem to shake a bit in pain, and Stratos finished the deed off by throwing his keyblade at the creature, using Strike Raid to damage it further. Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 99% Left Living -Blotlings: 990/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 921.5/1000
Stratos looked up and further inspected the creature that he just rammed into, and why it was such a hard collision. This thing wasn't really made of ink. Okay, well it probably was, but it certainly didn't look like it. No, it seemed to have more of a look that it was made of sand with a few rocks sprouting out of it as some kind of armor plating or what have you. He had zero idea that these things actually came in any variety whatsoever, but to be fighting a rock, as the first one didn't seem all that fun to Stratos. Oh who was he kidding, all the bloticles would probably be equally annoying so it was best to just get this out of the way now. Spinning his keyblade in his hand, he got ready to attack the thing, when Kaida seemed to join him in his fight. Waving to her he said, "oh hey Kaida, haven't seen you in awhile," in an almost completely nonchalant tone. Looking at Billy, which he intuitively knew that was the things name, despite there being nothing to designate it as such, he got himself pumped to fight this thing knowing he had at least one partner to do so with. While he was about to attack the thing again, it seemed to not want to have any of that, as it immediately retaliated at the keyblade wielders. With more rocks coming out of the sandy tentacle, the recently formed rocks then fired like stones thrown at high velocities at the duo. Seeing this coming head on, Stratos didn't really have time to react and dodge it, nor was he fast enough to do so anyway, so instead he just yelled "stop!" With that, the rock was frozen in mid air, not moving an inch. Stratos then took this time to immediately retaliate as he jumped onto the rock and used it as a stepping stone to jump off again before launching an aqua splash from his keyblade at the bloticle. The four bubbles flew from the blade, crashing into the sandy tentacle and causing damp spots to appear across it. It certainly wasn't critical damage, but at least it was a start. Spoiler: Count Wasteland: 99% Left Living -Blotlings: 991/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: Bloticle 1, Ruler of the Ever Shifting Sand - Billy: 964/1000
Stratos headed out with the rest of the group as they seemed ready and willing to go and take on the final battle of the wasteland. He was going to make sure he did his best to stop all of the blots and make sure that the group got the proper distraction that they needed as they would make their way towards the heart of the blots in the wasteland. However, things weren't really all smooth sailing as they got to the field where they'd be fighting. Mortimer made a surprise reappearance as he went on to tell them his grand evil plot with helping the blot, only to then send an army of blotlings at them. As this started, Oswald told the group to get a move on, to which Stratos gave a thumbs up to the five saying, "he's right. Kill that blot heart as fast as you can, and don't worry about here. We've got this covered," he gestured to all of the keyblade wielders who were still here. Stratos then turned to face the rest of the blotlings, took in a deep breath, and got ready to get going into this fight. Twirling his keyblade around, Stratos went to go test out the new blot power he got, and see just what he could do against these blots. As one of the ink monsters charged at him, ready to kill try and eat him or something, Stratos just continued to spin his keyblade before tossing it at the blotling. When the keyblade connected, it exploded into a large puddle of ink and didn't seem to be getting back up anytime soon. Realizing that he could hurt them now, the weakest keyblade wielder felt empowered and just charged right into the fray again. Rushing at the creatures, he struck one with a fire spell, causing it to explode then switched to one that tried to attack from the side and used Vorpal Blitz to strike it down. When two more attempted to charge at him, Stratos simply appeared on the other side of them with a large slash mark appearing across either of them, and both of them dying from a singular Zantetsuken. As he killed the blot lings, he then turned his attention to what looked to be a giant tentacle made of ink, that seemed to be draining the life out of everything around it. Immediately registering that as a bad thing, Stratos got on his keyglider and took off full speed towards the creature. With it, seeing that he needed to take down the creature, he crashed into the large tentacle because he completely forgot how to attack on the keyglider briefly and plummeted to the ground. Getting back up from the tumble, he looked as he had barely dented the creature at all. Sighing, the young keyblade wielder knew that he was going to get into another long haul of a fight here. Spoiler: Count Living -Blotlings: 995/1000 -Bloticle: 10/10 Injured: -Bloticle 1: 996.5/1000 bp remaining
After the last onslaught of attacks, Aoki was starting to feel kind of confident in what was going on here. The tree monster seemed to be on its last legs, not really able to fight back anymore, even if it did just unleash a massive flurry of bashes at the group. Regardless, even if this fight was nearly done, it wasn't done just yet. While only one of them had gone down, she had seen that the one was Zephyr, and realized it might be a bit of trouble if he was the one who had gone down, as they wouldn't have the power of his flames helping them anymore. Regardless, she'd just persevere and continue on fighting. Charging up her arcane power again, Aoki fired off yet another Arcane bolt at the enemy as she had Virgo attack the thing. Tldr: Aoki used Arcane Bolt (0-20%) and had Virgo basic attack and block for Aoki. As the girl who had brought the demons here continued to not have any sort of idea as to what was going on at all in the situation, their brief conversation was put on hold as something more pressing came about. According to one of Ra's summons, an enemy had appeared before their guild, and it would not do well to keep such a beast waiting. As such, the group that was all non-s classes had all dispatched themselves as they walked outside of the guildhall to get ready to fight this creature. As the group ran out, she saw the true horror of the beast, it being just some sort of scaly creature an incredibly large array of teeth ready to chew down on anything that fought it. She wasn't entirely too sure what it was, but she was sure of what had to be done. Knowing that action had to be taken, she yelled out, "knight's crest!" which prompted gray metal armor to form around her attire and her blade to suddenly become a better version of what it had been. But that wasn't all that was to be done at this moment. Immediately after, Charlotte followed up by casting a spell that seemed to do some weird things. Several cuts started to open up on Charlotte's body as blood flowed from said wounds and into the air above. The stray blood soon coalesced into one sphere, which then turned from crimson to white as it soon took the shape of another being. The blood took on a more solid form, as an armored figure with angel wings was created from it. The angelic creature then immediately drew out its sword as it went to attack the large teeth creature with it. Charlotte then went to shield Ra from any danger that may come his way during this monster's counter attack. tldr; Charlotte used Requip:Knight's Crest, Summoned Daniel and blocked for Ra. Daniel used Judgement Passed. As Lucia was wondering on just how she would get up onto the flower, when Jack had suddenly sprouted wings and offered to take her up the large plant. She was a bit taken aback by the fact that the boy could just sprout wings whenever he so desired, but that was about all there was to that shock. Soon she was taken off the ground as Jack had carried her up to the top of the flower, and she admittedly ended up feeling a bit embarrassed by the whole thing. As the two landed, Lucia let herself off of him and with a bit of a bashful tone said, "th-thanks." With all that said and done, the group then had to look for wings or something on top of the flower. While the purple haired girl wasn't entirely sure what they were supposed to be doing in this situation, they were in luck. Because apparently Skadi figured out this whole mystery in a matter of seconds and she wasn't really sure how, but hey, the path was open so she didn't question it. With that said, Lucia jumped down the hole to see what was beyond it. As the whole group was figuring out what was going on, Rho had stayed characteristically silent of the whole thing. He didn't quite care which suspicious figure they had decided to track down and or question, but it was soon revealed that they didn't really have to choose as plot convenience at its finest struck. When the group was split into two separate search parties, Rho, Aias and Trevor were in charge of questioning this beadle person or whatever. Soon enough though, Trevor revealed to have a plan to lure the man's attention over towards him. As he used his handkerchief to see if it would be enough to have the beadle go towards them, Rho simply walked past Trevor. He wasn't walking towards anything in particular and he was really just casually strolling. Aside from the fact that he seemed a bit out of place, Rho had simply acted the part of a passerby tourist, taking in the sights of all the buildings that lined the streets and just going at a nice walking pace. In actuality, he was just attempting to walk past the beadle, so in the case that the man ran away from them, he'd already have a head start. Not to mention he felt like being in a crowd with Trevor would just look slightly suspicious. Nevertheless, he continued to just act like a random pedestrian.
After Lucien wanted to go into a tussle with this guy, the god man person thing decided to start talking. As his echoing, and quite condescending, voice started to ring throughout the room, an increasingly annoyed and confused expression formed on Lucien's face. As he continued to not only insult Jayce, but also Lucien's own trustworthiness based solely on his heritage alone, the young demon boy's face became far more pissed off and fed up with this guys attitude. "Dude, it's a yes or no question. I don't need a report on it." As was obvious based on the way he was talking, the divine being had decided to just zoidberg his way out of the area after trying to just sort of cut at the demigod leader in passing. Letting out a sigh of disappointment, Lucien couldn't help but feel a bit underwhelmed by the whole situation. Here it was, his chance to finally fight someone in pvp, and not just deal with a punch of NPC grunts. But of course, the one person he ran into had to be a giant prick. And you know, the circumstances they were found in didn't exactly warrant an actual fight, but that was besides the point. Seeming a tad defeated, despite the fact that they really just had a sort of overwhelming victory, Lucien started to run after the members of the Shards of Hope in order to actually get some action in. However, there was something a bit strange about the whole thing. The god man that had talked down before to him had seemed to just stop in his tracks, and got ready to launch an attack of his own. Well that was a bit annoying, though Lucien soon realized that the attack wasn't actually a result of him trying to stop any pursuers, rather, just one. Seeing the shimmer light himself, he understood just who was his target, and Lucien could only sigh once again as he realized that he would have to be a "team player" and "help a brother out" rather than actually trying to go into a probably 4 vs 1 scenario. Reaching his hand out, Lucien grabbed the invisible head of Rose as he said, in a complete monotone, "I'm helping." He then pulled back and tossed her a bit back, not gently slightest, as he then took the entire brunt of the flames. Seemingly pretty unfazed by the whole thing, to end his daring heroics Lucien simply said, "saved." (ooc: So, in order to find Rose I did the same test as Vlad did. Roll from 1-10 where 6+ is success. I rolled a 10, so I think I succeeded.)
Iris had simply sat at the table, slowly but surely eating her way through all the food that was present near her. While the woman seemed somewhat docile and unassuming, and ate at a fairly constant pace, the pace never slowed down, and soon enough what had once been a table filled with all kinds of pastry was steadily looking more like just a barren table cloth with empty plates. Soon enough, as the group had started to depart from the table and the man in charge of the whole league, Sanderson, had proclaimed that it was time to go on missions, she removed herself from the table as well. Looking at the three of the people who had a gathering around them, as they were leading the expeditions, she decided to just go with whatever person seemed the friendliest. Looking at the three leaders, she then realized that she hadn't really heard much from two of them...at all. So she decided to go with the one that she had. After joining up with Sanderson's group, with a cheerful tone in her voice she said, "let's go hunting~"
Lucien felt confident that everything would probably go in their favor. After all, they had a few juggernaut-esque characters tagging along and were going to go against not the most terrifying of people. Okay, well at least half of their opponents didn't seem terrifying at the least. However, as they sent their other onslaught of attacks, the person who was in charge of front line defense, what with an arm shield and all that stuff, just kind of vanished. Well, not so much vanished as he was forcibly removed from the scene by his aide's teleportation powers...which she apparently had. Dark Ecriture man, I tell ya. If it's not one thing with that magic it's another. Regardless, this put the rest of the team in a bit of a bind, or rather, it would have put the rest of the team in a bind if the rest of the team did not consist of Throda and Lucien. While the dwarf man had taken to the front lines to block the incoming god slayer flames, Lucien himself turn to the back of the group and went to block the ancient god flames. Using his body as shield, Lucien simply stood in the path of the flames, allowing them to just collide with his body as he stood his ground. The flames seemed to do a disappointingly low amount of damage to the blue haired man, who now was just swatting the flame away with repeated strikes at the air, in much the same way one would swat the air around a candle to put it out...only with far more force. As the flames had finally ceased, Lucien brushed off his clothing to put out any of the fire that was left on it, and turned to face the rest of the group. Putting his hands in his pockets, he continued walk casually as the group charged into the room where Carissa was holed up in. Fire Dale seemed to be a bit busy with two people already ganging up on him, not to mention it'd be a pretty effortless task by Lucien to solo him, so he figured he'd leave that guy as is. Then there was Carissa who just seemed like someone that would be more annoying than anything else to fight, and so there was only one person left to fight...wait no there was two. He had completely forgotten the guy with the bird themed names was even here to begin with, but still, ended up paying him zero attention. So his attention was finally turned to the man who had the presence of an ancient divinity. Taking his hands out of his pockets, he had a pretty nonchalant expression on his face as he said, "well, everyone else seems a bit preoccupied here, and I'm a bit on the bored side." Gesturing to himself he said, "so why don't we dance?"
Aoki was a bit confused by the fact that Virgo had referred to her as "princess" but just didn't bother asking what it was about. Probably some sort of way she just refers to people or something. Regardless, she watched in awe as her maid looking servant struck the tree monster with nothing but her fists, still dealing a surprising amount of damage. Furthermore, everyone else seemed to be flexing their new magics, and boy did all of this look different from the norm, and quite impressive. She then heard Ander shout out something about building up magic energy and having Virgo do something. Looking to Virgo she shrugged and said, "uh, I guess do one of your attacks and go guard for the white haired girl." She wasn't actually familiar with just about anything that Virgo could do, so in trying to command her, she had no idea what to say to do. Then there was the fact that she needed to fight herself. Looking at her arms, they were covered by her shirt, but the runes were most certainly still there. Given what had happened during the ceremony, she was still pretty nervous about using that power. But, using water didn't seem all that preferable, and looking at the situation, it was really the only thing she could do. And so, exhaling deeply, a blue glow could be seen from underneath her clothing as the runes lit up, albeit rather faintly, and she pointed her keyblade at the Tree Monster. With that, she fired off a blast of blue magical energy at the Tree Monster. Tldr: Aoki used Arcane Bolt and left the decision of attacks up to Virgo, but told her to friend block for Beucette.
For once the battle is done, (because things are already hectic enough as it is there). Spoiler: 3rd App Ahoy Name: Shiro Reika Title: The Ascendant Faction: Shards of Hope Age: 87 Gender: Female Description: Around 175 cm tall. For all else there's this. Personality: Not the most stable of people. Shiro is not a person who seems to get angry easily, and is in fact pretty chill most of the time. She lacks any sort of tact, however, and comes off as somewhat rude. That being said, she seems to not really value the lives of others, and seems to have zero problem killing friend or foe, and never quite shows remorse for doing so. Furthermore, she has a complete and utter contempt of the demigod's lives, thinking them pretty much worthless and unneeded in the world. As such, she has quite the fun time with the Order of the Hammer. Spoiler: History Shiro used to just be regular human being who had just kind of lived her life as normally as she could. Of course, what with the Civil War going on and all, normal was only a temporary thing. And so, eventually blah blah, family town blown up by war, blah blah, looks like you've been caught in the crossfire, blah blah blah, Shiro impossibly and barely survived the destruction of the area. So anyway, as it turned out, there was a man passing through the area as her hometown had been destroyed, and he took note of the tenacious soul that was Shiro. This man, while he had the looks of an angel, had the feeling of a devil, and made an offer quite like one. His offer was simple. Discard her humanity, and in return, become something that transcends it. Of course, the dying girl took the offer in a heartbeat, and the man went to work. From that point on, Shiro was never the same person, both in physicality and mentality. Her body was now fueled by some sort of new arcane energy that flowed through her body and she herself had felt much more powerful. She was reborn with new purpose. Not much is known about Shiro after that incident, but what is known, is that she made a sudden appearance on the battlefield 30 years ago, assisting the shards in their effort to end the demigods. Weapons: Empyrean: It's heavier than it looks, (roughly the size, if not a little larger than Shiro herself.) Armour: Please, this is me we're talking about. Spoiler: Abilities Passives: Beyond Human: Due to the fact that Shiro is less human and more magical being, her strength far exceeds that of human limitations and is essentially on par with that of a demigod. This means she can run far faster than most and is able to wield even her greataxe with little effort. She also posses increased resistances to poisons and diseases.This also causes her to age at a pretty non-existent rate. Arcane Being: Due to the fact that Shiro is a magical being, she has increased resistances against all forms of magic. This does not extend to healing magic. Regeneration: Shiro posses an above average rate of self healing when compared to that of a normal human, though this doesn't entirely function all that well during moments of stress being put on the body, (ie. in combat.) Mastery of the Axery Actives: Ruinous Force: Shiro swings her axe with one powerful swing, causing a massive shockwave and push of air rush at everything in front of the swing. Mainly used to knock things off balance, blow things away and just generally look cool. World Breaker: Shiro strikes the ground with her axe, breaking the surrounding ground around her and causing a massive tremor to be sent in the surrounding area. Once again, mainly used to knock things off balance and just look cool. Comet Drop: When Shiro lands, she completely goes against Newton's laws, and takes any force that would be applied to her and instead pushes it into the ground instead. This effectively makes her immune to fall damage, and the farther she falls the harder the ground breaks underneath her. Strengths: Superhuman capabilities Magic resistance Good at crowd control Killing! Weaknesses: Skyheart branded lack of physical armor. Because much anime means little armor. Ironically, because her body doesn't really function like that of a normal human, natural regeneration and healing magic are the only ways that she can patched up. While she's pretty proficient with most weapons, (as she's had the time to learn quite a few,) she is much worse with smaller or one handed weapons then just needlessly large ones. Anti-magic weapons. Other:
Lucien had simply been following behind the group of Hammers who were being lead by Jayce and Throda, that had just been tearing through everything they saw. Lucien didn't really feel the need to do much at the moment, as the situation seemed to be pretty much under control, and spawning unnecessary enemies in a space like this was pretty much against the rules anyway. He eventually made his way to the front of the group as they had started to discuss just what needed to be done about the whole situation, especially in regards to Carissa. After Throda spoke he said, "ah come on, my stout stalwart comrade, just overwhelming her with numbers like this ain't any fun at all. Besides, knowing the shard's tenacity, we'd probably just lose a bunch of these guys before actually getting the kill." Waving his hand as if to dismiss the idea he then said, "it'd probably be just be better if we took her on with a handful of us then a whole army." He then turned to whatever her face was and then basically shot down her idea."And you, little Miss Three Dimensional. You make it sound like Jayce couldn't kill her on her own, and that sounds very upsetting to our fearless leader here." He turned to Jayce and playfully asked,"aren't you upset by that assumption?" He then turned back to the girl and said,"besides, we gotta play a take no prisoners game here. If they were really 'men of honor' that surrender with a leader's death, then this whole conflict would have been over a hundred fifty years ago." Of course, killing Carissa could also just turn her into another martyr quite like Alpha had turned into, but Lucien figured voicing that opinion would just be trivial. And so he didn't. Ien was feeling the fight quickly shift out of her favor. As her exhaustion seemed to manifest itself, the beast before her most certainly took notice of it. He seemed to be getting ready to come at her once more, replacing his two handed blade for two much lighter looking swords. She couldn't do much but brace herself as he had bellowed at her, claiming that he wouldn't be denied, before the beast charged at her with a ferocious fury. She was powerless to fight against the flurry of blades, as he had slashed at her with an unrelenting torrent of shadowed steel. All she could do was continuously try to use her blade and scabbard to block both swords as they came at her. Of course, this wasn't even a perfect defense as all the slashes she couldn't block ended making cuts here and there across her body, and there was quite a number of slashes that she could not block. As the onslaught continued she couldn't help but think about how helpless she was. She was merely a pretender king against an ancient force. A mortal against unyielding existence. As the slashes continued to come at her, eventually her grip on her scabbard was loosened, and the metal sheath was knocked from her hands and onto the ground away from her. Despite this though, she didn't buckle under pressure. Even her blade's scabbard was knocked from her hand, the grip she had on Raikiri never got any looser. In fact, she had gripped the blade with both hands now as she continued to block the incoming slashes, and the grip only seemed to grow tighter as the attacks came. What was a king to a god? Nay, what was a mere man to do in the face of such raw divine power? What could one little girl do against someone who was both god and beast at the same time? The answer was one simple word. "I! Am! Human!" Fight. "And I will defeat you!" As she declared this, her blade ignited with more electricity than ever before, and lightning could even be seen flowing across the girl's body. The demigod had been assaulting her this entire time with those twin blades. He wasn't relenting on the offense. He was fully aware of the momentum he had, which meant there was only one thing he wouldn't expect from his opponent. Faster than any speed she had been moving at prior in the fight, Ien ducked under the swing of the man's blade before pushing off the ground. To the outside observer, it would look as though had slashed through the man, (when in reality all she had done was slash at him as she moved past him.) Feeling her legs wobble and gasping for air, the lightning around her quickly vanished as the exhaustion of the girl was far worse than before. Looking back to the demigod she muttered, "go back to the rotten age you came from, beast." And with that, Ien lost all strength in her legs and passed out on the ground.
Were it Ien I'd vote South, but sadly such is not the case. My vote goes out to the East.
Ien had been made to regret her attack almost the instant that she had done it. Having completely missed the slash, she was in quite the predicament now as the man was at her side, and there was still some lag time before she could bring her sword to defend herself from the mighty blade of this beast. As such, she had lightning charge through her body once more to heighten her own speed, as she swiveled her body to face him and jumped back and away from the blade. Of course, while her reaction was quick, the blade still had left a slash mark across her side, and blood started to flow out from the wound. A pained expression briefly crossed her face at this injury, but there was no time to take her attention away from the fight. Knowing that he would simply do what he did before and gain a large momentum off of a relentless charge, Ien couldn't afford to let something like that happen again. As such, she charged her blade with electricity, having it crackle with the blue lightning once more again, and she herself charged electricity throughout her entire body in order to have her speed greatly increased once more. Rather than blocking against his slashes, Ien started slashing back, meeting each of his strikes head on with one of her own. As such, the two continued to be evenly matched as their blades clashed against each other. Ien recognized that this only delayed the problem, however, as the man's own blade had the greater reach, thus making it harder for her to even attempt to close the gap between them. However, she would not accept defeat so easily. She was to become the Storm King of legend, a swordsman without equal, a being whose very power was unmatched against any and all. To lose to such a feral creature like this, especially in a sword fight, was not something she could accept. And so, electricity continued to charge through her, keeping her at a constant boosted speed, as she set to shatter the momentum this man was trying to establish. After clashing with another of his slashes, Ien stopped wielding Raikiri in both hands, and as she did, she reached to her side to grab the scabbard at her side. When the man came back in for one more slash, Ien attempted to both dodge the blade and parry it away with her scabbard at the same time; after doing so she then struck at the man with her lightning charged blade and then proceeded to go into her own flurry of blows. Continually going to parry the blade with her scabbard and slashing with Raikiri, she had continued this process in her frenzy for many times until things seemed to come to an abrupt stop. Sweat was profusely dripping from her forehead as her wound hadn't quite stopped bleeding, and was no screaming at her. The over use of Shippu Jirrai (speed boost thingy), had left her somewhat exhausted and there was no way she could keep the same pace that she had prior. Needless to say, this was a bit of a problem.
After the group had left the campsite, they continued to go trekking through the forest, when a series of odd occurrences just seemed to happen one after the other. As they were continuing forward, all four of the more experienced people who were with them seemed to fall off a cliff that apparently none of them saw coming at all, and into what appeared to be some kind of a swamp below. Naturally being worried about the whole situation, she went to go assist them, but was immediately stopped in her tracks by the sudden appearance of what appeared to be a tree golem wielding some kind of makeshift hammer out of a log or something. Just from this, she was able to figure out the most descriptive and clever name for this thing that none could match. Tree monster. If they were to assist their other team members out at all, it had seemed they would have to cut through Tree Monster first. And so, Aoki immediately drew out her keyblade, briefly admiring the new purple and white appearance of the elegant looking weapon. Striking the weapon against the ground, Aoki yelled out, "Gate of the Maiden, open!" As she did the, earth split open, and out game the familiar looking celestial spirit Virgo. "Alright Virgo, let's take these guys out!" After having summoned the spirit, she then had Virgo use Flurry of Blows and then friend block for Aoki.
Charlotte didn't really pay much heed to the comments about the undead by Malkira. Even if he were nothing more than a possessed statue, it didn't exactly revoke what Orpheus and his undead had done to the guild as well. Exceptions were only exceptions because they only happened every so often, and thus, when presented with demons who were inherently sinful, lying, and cheating beings, she couldn't help but not immediately accept the idea that they were the exceptions. Soon enough, Edric had went to get the person who had helped summon the demons here in the first place, while Cassandra appeared with a sort of full understanding of the situation, and an odd willingness to immediately aid these demons and allow them to drain energy from her. Charlotte had continued to wait, until the woman that had brought the demons here came out to explain just what had happened with them. Once her exposition dump over and done with, Charlotte had nodded as Veilen made his explanation and pointed in the direction of the demons. "They're over there, feeding off of Cassandra. Apparently your plan to bring them to this world did not go unnoticed as they're being hunted by demon hunters now." Luica stared at the flower and pondered just what she could do to get up there. She was definitely limber and athletic enough to probably climb it, but the stability of the flower and whether or not she would be able to stay up there after doing such, well she was a bit unsure about that. Going off the list of the magics that she had in her head, she tried to think if any of them would particularly useful in this situation. Her arc of time was mostly only useful on inorganic things at the moment, which flowers were very much not. The only thing she knew about heavenly body was that it let her blow things up. And her ice devil slayer powers...well, freezing things didn't seem entirely too useful in this situation. So, she would leave this problem to her party members, as they all seemed to have different solutions to this problem as well. Giving a thumbs up to the rest of the party who expressed ides with their magics she said, "if you guys think you can do it, then go for it! Nothing ventured nothing gained after all, right?" Aoki wasn't entirely too sure what she could make out about the camp that they had seen. She wasn't entirely too familiar with computers...or rather, wasn't familiar with them at all, and the fact that there was a whole array of them here, she wasn't feeling any sort of confidence in her detective skills to figure out what was up with this place. Not to mention that she had no idea what this organization called the SMRF was, so she was drawing a blank on that one as well. Then there was Ander who asked if she had any celestial spirits that could deal with computers. There was Polaris, who was a silver key so she wasn't entirely expecting it to be all that useful. Then there was the key she got from Zephyr off screen, which had Virgo in it, and while the maid was definitely more than met the eye, a tech genius was probably not within her skill set. Then finally there was the one key that she knew nothing about. There was an odd feeling of darkness coming from it, and overall the key was just a bit off putting to her at the moment. "Sorry," she said to Ander, "I don't think I have any spirit to match that sort of need." She then turned to Alessia and Zephyr and said, "I think Zephyr's right. It's best if we let sleeping dogs lie here. Besides," she looked around the rest of the camp, "the people here recently left right? So that just means we have to see if there are any tracks or something we can follow to find the people who built this outpost." Rho wasn't entirely sure what it was with the people in this town. Having an accent was one thing, and something that he understood existing. But everyone in this town either seemed to speak through song or in riddles. Or maybe even a combination of both. He wondered how anyone here ever really knew what was going on, but simply perished the thought as they left in search of the judge. As the group had started listening to the song of the woman who was in the house, soon enough a passerby had come by to give them a warning of not dawdling around this place. As Trevor spoke up about what he thought there course of action should be, Rho simply said, "we have no other leads as to what we're looking for, so it would be for the best if we did not simply give up chase here because of a small warning." After Dale had questioned the woman, Rho then followed up by saying, "yes please inform us about him. I am curious as to what makes him such a frightfully dreadful man."
