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Rikuyo finally arrived at the top of the building.  Roxas knew that this was where the battle began.  If he learned anything from his fight with Sora, it was that he had to fight smart to win.  She leaped forward, attacking him from above with a strong kick.  He jumped backwards, getting just out of range of the attack.  Then, he leaped forward with as much momentum as possible, raising the keyblade and attempting to deliver a diagonal slash.

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KARIN ZARAZA

Her fist smashed straight through the hardened armor with a crunch, and she prepared to finish this fool off… if only someone was actually inside. The armor was empty. Her eyes widened in surprise. Was this actually a robot?

Karin started to withdraw her fist from the robot(?) thing, but it caught onto her arm and reared back for a haymaker. She brought up her free arm to defend against the incoming strike, but her opponent put far more power into the attack than she had anticipated. The punch smashed into her face with a sickening smack of metal on flesh, and her head snapped back 180 degrees. The damage would have killed a lesser being.

It couldn’t even hope to stop her.

Karin grabbed the robot's arm and pulled it away from her face, while the other arm twisted in the mechanical vanguard’s grip, gaining and equal handhold on it’s own arm. She squeezed down on them hard, threatening to bend the painted white metal.

As irritating as it was, she couldn’t help but feel a little pleased with this discovery, relieved even. As her head twisted back around to face the enemy, her mouth parted in a tiny, malicious grin.

“I can’t learn from you the traditional way, so tell me… can a machine like yourself experience fear?”

Without waiting for a reply, Karin leapt up and planted both of her feet against the robot’s shoulder plates. In the second she had before gravity brought her down again, she pushed her legs out with all her might. Metal squealed, bent, and was rent apart as the machine was literally disarmed. The brunette backflipped off of it to land on her feet, still clutching both arms in her hands. The smile was gone, her face blank again. This was about to be over.
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"OK, I understand", Sakura said in response to Irisviel's statement, before being pushed back into her seat as Irisviel floored the accelerator.

After a short drive, Sakura noticed a large and very familiar castle out of the window.

How did that get here? she thought, puzzled.

Soon after, Irisviel announced their arrival. Sakura braced herself for the sudden decceleration, but instead Irisviel slowed down at a rate a little closer to how a normal person might drive. Seemingly she had at least learnt a little bit....

"So what'do you think?" she asked.

Sakura looked down at the ground again. The castle was one she knew. It had been a lovely place, once, until it had been severely damaged during the Grail War, and then mostly abandoned. And, of course, it had been Ilya's home....

"It.. it's very nice", she said, trying to sound more upbeat than she was feeling.

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KARIN ZARAZA

Her fist smashed straight through the hardened armor with a crunch, and she prepared to finish this fool off… if only someone was actually inside. The armor was empty. Her eyes widened in surprise. Was this actually a robot?

Karin started to withdraw her fist from the robot(?) thing, but it caught onto her arm and reared back for a haymaker. She brought up her free arm to defend against the incoming strike, but her opponent put far more power into the attack than she had anticipated. The punch smashed into her face with a sickening smack of metal on flesh, and her head snapped back 180 degrees. The damage would have killed a lesser being.

It couldn’t even hope to stop her.

Karin grabbed the robot's arm and pulled it away from her face, while the other arm twisted in the mechanical vanguard’s grip, gaining and equal handhold on it’s own arm. She squeezed down on them hard, threatening to bend the painted white metal.

As irritating as it was, she couldn’t help but feel a little pleased with this discovery. Her mouth parted in a tiny, malicious grin.

“I can’t learn from you the traditional way, so tell me… can a machine like yourself experience fear?”

Without waiting for a reply, Karin leapt up and planted both of her feet against the robot’s shoulder plates. In the second she had before gravity brought her down again, she pushed her legs out with all her might. Metal squealed, bent, and was rent apart as the machine was literally disarmed. The brunette backflipped off of it to land on her feet, still clutching both arms in her hands. The smile was gone, her face blank again. This was about to be over.

No.

This seemed to be the end. Barely Mordred was able to stand up, clutching her spear in her hands, then this freak demolished Vanguard if he should have killed it. She refused to call this thing human. But she wouldn't let herself capture. Even if he had to abandon Vanguard to save herself, she would do it. For someone of her kind losing her freedom was unbearable thing. Activating her spear, she swore to sooner die than be imprisoned even if her opponent caught up with her. Sorry, Vanguard, I will be leaving you With hope that whatever this thing was it would get lost in Hedge sooner than her, she jumped back into the gate with swiftness granted by her spear.

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Vanguard

It seemed he had somewhat underestimated her. If anything, she was a persistent insect who refused to die. Commendable, if it wasn't for the fact she had stumbled upon the worse person possible. Kneeling, the armour gave a short laugh as the woman talked of him being a machine of sorts.

"Oh, yes. Fear. Fear to make a man lose his mind, fear to make one cease to move, to think, to feel. Yes, I have known of this thing you call fear." he chuckled, not once averting his gaze from her. He did, however, notice Mordred disappearing. It was for the best, for it meant he didn't have to hold back.

Then, looking up, the disarmed behemoth looked up. The ground shook and the area around the two became impossibly heavy, heavy enough to crush an animal or perhaps even a man. What Mordred had experienced prior would have been nothing in the face of this.

"Sadly a mere flesh wound is hardly scary. But I wonder, do you know fear?" asked Vanguard with a sudden ominous tone.

This would hardly stop the likes of her, but if she did have blood to function, it would fall. Besides, this was only to buy him time. As he looked up the heavens, the sky seemed to darken for a second. There was no mistake, the clouds were shifting about and moving.
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"It.. it's very nice", Sakura said. She was clearly trying to sound more happy than she did, and failing miserably at it. Irisviel frowned. “I guess you don’t like it, or no, I think it’s probably something more-” Irisviel said, putting a hand on Sakura’s shoulder. “-what’s wrong?” She asked with concern.

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PARIAH

The infestation in the wall violently recoiled as parts of it began to rot. Flesh began to slough off and the decaying chunks slowly dropped until only the untouched flesh was left. The flesh that was quivering with anger. Across the entirety of the hotel spikes of hardened biomass tore apart floors and walls above and below the hallway as the virus petulantly raged at the loss of biomass to magic.

PARIAH wouldn't kill the mage. Sister wouldn't like that, and making family mad for something so small was bad. Instead a tendril thicker than a man's torso burst from the wall and smashed into the toy, sending him flying towards the other side of the hallway.



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EMIYA SHIROU

Shirou blinked in surprise as Sakura slumped against him. Going by her deep, even breathing, she was asleep. Hopefully that meant he could go now. Rin gave him a knowing, almost smug smile that was so like her, saying that she wanted to “have a talk” with him, but that wasn’t going to happen if he had anything to say about it. He sent her his best disapproving glower, but suspected that it wasn’t really going to put her off.

The Emiya magus scooped Sakura up in his arms and carried her over to her Servant. He wasn’t comfortable being around her, but she probably wouldn’t attack him under the circumstances.

“You should take her,” he said to the very well endowed woman. “Will my leaving now be a problem?”



AKIHOLARME

Aki frowned as Caedia handed a small, clear container of glowing red liquid. It was admittedly very beautiful, and piqued the dragonborn’s interest. Divines only knew what treasures could be found in this new land… hell, they probably actually didn’t. But what was of greater concern was why she was giving it. Judging by Rebeca’s reaction the two had never met before, but the new warrior was staring at the girl in blatant interest and was now giving her unknown gifts.

Aki didn’t like it. Caedia was coming on far too strong for it to be a natural desire for friendship. She would have to keep an eye on that one.

“Your friend is quite strange,” she said offhandedly to the man who had introduced himself as Crest.
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Sakura grunted softly as Shirou picked her up before she tightly wrapped her arms and legs around him, mumbling incomprehensibly he carried her.

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KARIN ZARAZA

The machine didn’t seem phased at the loss of its arms, but she hadn’t really expected it to be. It claimed to know what fear was. Perhaps it did, in an intellectual sense, but that didn’t mean it actually understood what it was like to experience.

Well, interesting as that train of thought may have been, she had far bigger fish to fry. It was time to wrap up and be done here. Karin turned to glance at Mordred, making sure she was still incapacitated. Instead she got a glimpse of the woman disappearing into the very same phenomenon she had appeared from.

Suddenly it felt as though a crushing weight was placed on her, almost as though her body itself was now made of iron. Unprepared, Karin fell to her hands and knees. The stone pavement beneath her gave way, cracking into pieces as though to resemble a spider web as her body sank into the earth.

"Sadly a mere flesh wound is hardly scary. But I wonder, do you know fear?" it said in a severe tone.

The brunette looked up at the robot with shock and rage, certain that it had caused this but not sure what it was or how. She grit her teeth and shakily stood back up. Whatever was happening, it seemed to have effectively multiplied her body weight. This was a severe disadvantage… but it could still be turned to her favor, when applied properly.

Karin bent her knees, hunched down, leg muscles bulging, and jumped. She didn’t get very high, only around 20 meters, but it was enough for her to notice a considerable difference in weight. Perhaps the closer she was to the machine, the more it could increase gravity’s effects on her. Even so, the pull of the planet’s mass caught up to her, latching on and dragging her back down. She flipped her body in the air, reared her fist back, and came crashing down on the robot with a roar of primal fury.

The impact shook the world, as though to put meteors to shame. The stone and mortar walkway exploded into chunks both large and small. Dust flew up and about, obscuring vision. The earth beneath buckled under the tremendous force.

Karin didn’t even care that she could be attracting outside attention at this point. All that mattered to her was that this smug, disgusting thing would not be able to oppose her again.
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Sarse

Sarse guessed it was an understandable doubt. Angels most certainly did none of that, but Just had no way of knowing he was one, and the norm here in Nexus City for what mortals called the supernatural seemed rather different from his universe. Maybe it was even more different in Just's. Since his arrival, the seraph had seen undead, etherals and many other beings of myth (the majority of which were extinct in his world) roaming freely - and some were reputed for attacking and devouring humans. He couldn't blame a mortal for being wary of such beings. But even knowing there were reasons for Just's words, he almost scowled in reaction.

Given recent events, Sarse couldn't help but feel a bit childishly hurt over the question. Regardless, he answered solemnly. "I do neither of those things. If anything, my purpose is closer to protecting humanity."




Butler

The panic alarms at the precinct started blaring, red lights in the main hall flashing in synchronicity. The noise of the wall collapsing alone had probably drawn more guards to attention than the alerts. A couple of cops had fallen to their feet or swayed off-balance with the very impact down in the parking lot, but already they were scrambling to their feet.

Butler registered Lorenzo's request as more police members ran towards the cell and the parking lot. He heard one in the street yell, raising her pistol at Suiren.

"Freeze! Not another inch or I'll shoot!"

Butler chuckled softly to himself as others reached for their firearms as well despite general expressions of offbalance, unsure whether to focus on his master or Lorenzo. He called out to the pirate, "Excuse me for a moment."

With prenaturally swiftness, Butler leapt down. In an instant shorter than a regular human could register, he stepped behind the policewoman who had taken the initiative and seized her.  Before she could react, he had her in a choke hold. She struggled, attempting to break the grapple even as her colleagues noticed - but in a few seconds, before any of them could react properly, she went unconscious.

A policeman yelled something and drew his gun in Butler's direction. At the same time, the policewoman went limp in his arms and the prodigious servant caught her pistol mid-air as she dropped it.

He adjusted his grip in a tenth of a second, aimed, and squeezed the trigger. The eager officer's grip spazzed, and he cried out as his hand was hit. He dropped the gun which went off, bullet straying nowhere.

Not missing a beat, Butler planted a warning shot at the feet of the other cops, even as their fellow clutched his hand. He shook his head, keeping the policewoman he'd knocked out firmly held on his arm.

"So inelegant. Can't you see my master wishes to have a proper bout with the gentleman there?" He began, speaking like a tutor to a difficult child. Pistol still aimed at the policemen, he turned his head towards the inside of the precient through the broken wall.

The man who was keeping watch on the now broken cell blinked as Butler commanded his attention, saying: "You there. Bring the fine pirate what he asked for and explain to your colleagues it would be in everyone's best interest to remain calm."
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Vanguard

Well, that was flashy indeed. He didn't remember holding back, so having her move to such an extent was quite a surprise even for him. Few were those who could have achieved such a feat.

Tilting his head in confusion, Vanguard stepped back a few steps as the woman crashed into the ground like a meteor. He'd give credit where it was due, she was strong of will and of body.  But now, his magical energy was now surging incredibly, the sky now clearly darkening.

She was a child, but he had not the luxury of taking her lightly. Wether she lived or died would be her choice and her's alone.

But for now, what mattered was for him to gain the time he required. Without his arms, he was in a disadvantage, even if he could work around this. Altough his sight was obscured by the dust and the smoke, he could see the shifting of the particles, her position somewhat makable. Attacking her would bear no fruit for now, so he braced himself for her next attacks, focusing on gaining the time he needed.

"You are strong, child..." He muttered, praising her from the bottom of his heart.
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Tar

Henry drove silently, choosing to ignore the rather tense atmosphere in his car. Not entirely contrary to the the image he had established (and Saber's expectations), he took his time and drove just under the speed limit.

As soon as they arrived, he slid with sudden speed into a parking spot, pulled the handbrake and shut down the engine. The demon stretched back, and looked between Lancelot, Saber and Noel for a moment.

At least he was more confident than the last time he explored a sewer system to find something potentially deadly.

Taking a deep breath, he got out, slamming his door closed as he headed towards the back of the car. He popped open the trunk, retrieving from a box a gas mask with a large filter and wide visor, and an industrial flashlight. Turning it on for a moment to confirm it was working, he hoisted them under an arm and walked towards the DO NOT CROSS tape. He did not wait for the rest of his ragtag group.

The policeman waiting there lifted the tape up for him to pass and addressed him firmly. "Manhole entrance in the back is clear. No noxious gases that are immediately obvious, but I'd keep masks handy."

Henry grunted in affirmation and made towards the back of the building where the investigation had started, and the largest entrance to the sewers in the block.
« Last Edit: April 25, 2015, 04:37:51 AM by YOLF »
[13:38:37] Helligator: Depends on the god, but gods by definition in Nasuverse are strong because they have divine authority.
[13:38:48] Kat: Even the toilet god?
[13:38:56] Helligator: No one worships toilets.
[13:39:00] Helligator: Don't be a shitlord.

[04:32:08] Helligator: I can't make dragons in power armor like this

[19:50:12] francobull III: [...] why are you being all assive aggressive?

[23:32:37] Helligator: use the narrative as a means to convey an interesting story and cool conflicts with the openness you're allowed
[23:32:43] Helligator: not to CHEAT stories and conflicts

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Abigail

Abigail frowned at Law's answer and was about to reply when a woman came tumbling from the ceiling to land right on top of Law. 

"What in heck?" Abigail said as she moved to push the woman off on Law, but the beautiful redhead stood up and helped Law to his feet.  Then she started to brush Law off, asking if they were friends of is.

Abigail felt her cheeks heat up and she replied, "Yes!  We're of the friendly type to him and . . . you fell from up there and on him and . . ."  She pointed, a squeak escaping her lips as she sensed something other about the woman.


Saber

The blond raised her eyebrows at Noel becoming more in control when she had her gun in her hand.  Saber frowned slightly at that, but was quiet the rest of the way to the drive.  Once they arrived, she put on the wading boots and put the mask on so she could pull it on in a moment's notice.

She unsheathed her sword, the wind surrounding it stirring her hair slightly.  "Let us find this fiend," she said as she moved beside Tar.
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Abigail

Abigail frowned at Law's answer and was about to reply when a woman came tumbling from the ceiling to land right on top of Law. 

"What in heck?" Abigail said as she moved to push the woman off on Law, but the beautiful redhead stood up and helped Law to his feet.  Then she started to brush Law off, asking if they were friends of is.

Abigail felt her cheeks heat up and she replied, "Yes!  We're of the friendly type to him and . . . you fell from up there and on him and . . ."  She pointed, a squeak escaping her lips as she sensed something other about the woman.

Law's mind was sort of blank as he recovered from the wind being knocked out of him, but a few things were clear. One, someone had landed on him. Two, that someone also had red hair. Three, she was drop dead gorgeous.

"Uhhh..."

Archer was quicker to respond than his master. "His likely future lover and his servant, respectively. And you are?"