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Post by Sincara on Feb 4, 2012 9:14:44 GMT -6
The peaceful assembly of those came to mourn the tragic lost of their hero was cut short as a great darkness swallowed the skies above and cast its shadow on the land. Sincara tilted her head up, brown eyes looking out from behind the hat's rim to see what could only be described as a planet descending on their world as panic led the masses to run, scream and step over each other. Yet another god, or god-like being appeared in a booming voice demanding surrender or would bring about death. This was all too familiar and this time Sincara was in a position where she wasn't just a helpless innocent bystander. "Not this time," she said with certainly. "Not my world."
Walking through the crowd of frightened civilians Sincara found herself 25 feet away from Darkseid and to his right. After the demonic punch interrupted an attack of his, Sincara held up the six-shooter and began to charge up the black magic in her possession. "Not my world, you bitch!" A wave of .357 magnums fired from the barrel of the six shooter, each bullet empowered by dark magic and set to explode on contact at the main body of Darkseid.
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Post by Tenjou, Utena on Feb 4, 2012 21:33:01 GMT -6
Utena felt like she was just hit by a freight train when she crashed into Sparda. Had it not been for the added aid of the white mage it probably would have caused far more damage than the Champion of Ohtori would care to feel. Before she could even respond to Chloe's question she heard Aminee crying out for help and instantly looked over in her direction but couldn't figure out what was wrong. She wasn't going to wait to find out either. Utena stood up, biting her bottom lip as she endured the pain and made a dash to Aminee.
"Aminee! What is it? What's wrong?"
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Post by Sparda on Feb 5, 2012 7:19:16 GMT -6
That whole counter had come in the space of a mere moment. All of a sudden, the towering beast had launched one of its other attackers at Sparda and sidestepped to allow his disembodied third fist to crash into them both. Sparda had just about stepped around so as to catch the young girl with his other arm, and Chloe had leapt into the fray to absorb the phantom fist with Kasul.
"I'm fine," the demon muttered in response to the new Empress, letting Utena go. "In fact, if the stakes weren't so high, I'd be enjoying the promise of this challenge."
Without another word, the Dark Knight was back on the attack. Within the blink of an eye, he dashed across the courtyard towards Darkseid, leaping into a somersault over the creature's head and swinging downwards with his namesake sword. The whole move and strike had taken mere milliseconds; time to see how fast this self-proclaimed god really was. |
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Post by DC Comics on Feb 10, 2012 4:09:09 GMT -6
As Aminee was submerged into madness, the boy up ahead alluded death thanks to the intervention of Chloe. Darkseid took the demonic fist head on and the barrage of magical bullets soon after. While not having a scratch on his body to show for either it was enough to knock him backward where he stumbled on the ground where Sparda had again chosen to strike. The previous two attacks placed Darkseid into the perfect position as he was already looking up into the air while stumbling back when Sparda appeared, his eyes charging up another Omega beam as the Sparda blade came down and began to split his face in two, a sadistic grin flashed on the god's gray face as he unleashed the Omega beam at point blank range in the midst of Sparda's fall. Thick smoke surrounding the two as a result of the blast. Clouding both behemoth to the other fighters on the field.
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Post by Aminee Starlight on Feb 10, 2012 21:08:35 GMT -6
After the previous cry for help, the Pop Idol was fighting just to remain awake. She had a promise to keep to Kira. A promise that kept her going even though in this case her death would be through no fault of her own. Starlight looked up to see Utena standing over her and she immediately grabbed onto the edges of her shirt, saying more with her eyes than she ever could say with her mouth. Aminee was dying.
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Post by Tenjou, Utena on Feb 13, 2012 2:52:20 GMT -6
"Aminee, I can't help you if I don't know what-"
A loud explosion from behind Utena caused the pink headed girl to look back at the fight just in time to see all the amount of smoke covering Darkseid and Sparda. With no time to waste, Utena helped Aminee up off the ground and escorted her as far away from the fighting as they could get. Regardless of what was affecting the Pop Idol it wasn't a good idea to stay so close to the source of her pain like this. Coming around to the back of a building three houses down from the battle she subtly set Aminee down into a sit and gave her another look over while smacking her cheek lightly to keep her awake.
"Don't fall asleep on me, Ami. Now please, tell me what's wrong. How can I help you?"
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Post by Sparda on Feb 13, 2012 8:50:29 GMT -6
For a fleeting moment, Sparda was glad his blade had struck home. When he realised the beast had merely allowed it so as to get into position for this point-blank beam attack, though, the demon was quick to change his tune. As quickly as he had struck, Sparda wrenched his sword free again - leaving a diagonal gash across Darkseid's face - and turned the flat of the blade against the Omega Beam just before it was fired.
Nothing could be seen of either warrior for a long moment through the huge cloud of smoke thrown up by the blast, until Sparda came rocketing out, thrown skyward by the force of the blow. Determined to get back onto the attack, the Dark Knight guided his flight for a few moments, his sword wreathing itself in a field of demonic energy that coalesced and condensed upon the edge of the blade.
When the time was right, Sparda flipped around to bring Darkseid into his line of sight; and in a single moment, he materialised a platform of energy upon which to land and unleashed the stored energy with a mighty diagonal swing. The crescent-shaped wave of force that roared forth from his blade was almost an extension of the blade itself, with a perfect edge, nigh-unbreakable strength and enough kinetic power to blast Darkseid through several buildings - if it didn't cleave him in two first. |
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Post by Silver Eyes on Feb 15, 2012 15:21:42 GMT -6
The last thing he remembered was somehow managing to get away from those red lights, but something hit him hard. Was it debris from the blast? The teenager winced, touched a red cut at the side of his head and staggered to his feet as the dust began to settle. Not too far off, his staff was lying down and the glow that pulsated from the embedded crystal had ceased--his steady supply of mana was momentarily halted. His fingers curled into his palm and the staff jumped to his hand. Someone had saved him earlier but he wasn't sure who.
It was then he saw Utena taking Aminee away from the battle scene and she appeared to be wounded in some manner. Frowning with concern, he dashed after them--the others can handle this thing or whatever it was.
"Don't fall asleep on me, Ami. Now please, tell me what's wrong. How can I help you?"
"Do you know what he did to her?" He set his staff down and observed the pop idol, "I'm a healer, but I'm not certain as to what is doing her harm. Miss, can you hear me? Do you know what he did?" He opened a pouch hanging from his belt while waiting for an answer and dug his hand into it. |
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Post by DC Comics on Feb 16, 2012 5:26:04 GMT -6
The ground where Darkseid once stood collapsed at the blow by the Legendary Dark Knight as the ruler of Apokolips was nowhere to be found. While others would have been lost to the overwhelming demonic might of the monster from hell, Darkseid needed no more than a nanosecond to react, one of many perks to being a New God. Darkseid reappeared by his side and delivered a punch hard enough to send Sparda down the same hole he had created through his power meanwhile creating a duplicate of himself to speak to the others.
Looking at the field he would notice that the White Mage, Utena and Aminee were gone from the fight leaving only Chloe and Sincara aboard alongside Sparda as the main three that stood in his way. His eyes then looked up to Apokolips which slowly grew closer to Genesis, threatening all life for every second that this battle was drawn out. He looked at Sincara, the only one there who had the authority to speak for the people of Genesis.
"It's not too late. Surrender to me and I will spare this world a most gruesome death."
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Post by Chloe/Kat on Feb 16, 2012 6:28:48 GMT -6
Things weren't going in their favor at all but since when has it ever? Utena was being knocked around like a rag doll, Aminee was going crazy, Sparda was in the thick of it and she had no idea where that kid who was almost killed had gone off to. Speaking of kids, Chloe looked over to Sincara. Who the hell? No time for that now. Blue eyes became crimson red as they narrowed over the sight of Darkseid who was once again trying to get them to surrender only this time he was focusing solely on the girl. And wait a minute, there were two of them now? Great....
"Step away from the girl!" yelled Chloe, now standing between Sincara and the god with Kasul raised. "This battle is far from over and you're dreaming if you think anyone here is about to yield to the authority of an asshole on a power trip, god or not! Now how about YOU surrender and I won't have to plague your body full of holes!"
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Post by Aminee Starlight on Feb 16, 2012 6:53:11 GMT -6
Were they blind? How could they not see it, it was all over her. Aminee looked up to Utena and the boy that offered to help though she doubt how much help either could be if they were so incredibly blind to what she was going through. The young Pop Star was tempted to concede, to allow her eyelids to close and venture off to a state of eternal slumber. But she couldn't. She wouldn't. Struggling just to breathe Aminee opened her mouth and spoke one simple word to the two, "L-leprosy."
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Post by Sincara on Feb 16, 2012 6:56:09 GMT -6
Silence. That was all Sincara would return to the New God as he made his demands known once again. Her eyes hidden beneath the rim of her brown hat as the vampiress named Chloe got between her and the god. Sticking her nose where it didn't belong like all other outsiders that came here to Genesis. Sincara could see her sin clear as day but unfortunately there was no sin to exploit in Darkseid though one would argue he had a lot of pride there was no deadly sin within him. But that didn't matter because her target was not Darkseid.
Her target was the planet.
Tilting her head up to see the world descending on her own she raised the six-shooter, a dark energy shooting from her wrist and emerging itself into the weapon charging it up for the next fire while Darkseid was busy with Sparda and Chloe. Pulling back on the trigger a single bullet shot out into the air and exploded, sending a shock wave through the sky which began tearing open a rift that already existed and blocked the path of Apokolips. It was only a little bit bigger than the planet itself and a powerful vacuum substance shot out from the rift dragging Darkseid's ace in the hole through it to only Yahweh knew where.
"Hold on to something."
The vacuum suddenly grew stronger as it threatened to drag both Darkseid in through the rift to join his planet and anything else that wasn't buckled down to the ground.
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Post by Silver Eyes on Feb 16, 2012 18:11:30 GMT -6
"Leprosy? Uh..." The boy cleared his throat and pulled out a handful of what appeared to be dried herbs. He gently blew on them and the reagents were suspended mid air whilst he resumed looking for something else. "Right, well, thing is I don't really see any symptoms off the bat but I'll do what I can. Let's see...ahah!" Two crystal vials were pulled out and the herbs filed into both, each sinking in one clump at a time. The glass items began to glow red and he swirled them around, "Okay so I'll be giving you something that should cure it, hopefully. If not then the problem may be somewhere else. I can cure disease but I have to reserve mana--I don't know if that thing will come after us. The results should take less than thirty seconds."
Puffs of sweet-smelling smoke drifted from the vials, the herbs now liquified thanks to magic, and he poured the rest of it into the one on his left, "Make her drink this, miss. I'd say she'll trust you more with this than I." He handed the warm vial to Utena. The liquid inside was a light shade of pink and smelled strongly of damp roses. "I'll remain here until all is well, then we'll have to go back and fight...whatever that thing is."
The shockwave in the sky made him look up. Whatever it was, it didn't sit well with him but he wasn't sure on what to expect. That's when the vacuuming began and he saw lighter things float up to the sky.
"SHIT! Er, I mean crap. Hang on! I'll anchor us down!" The mage's hands quickly moved in circular motions above them, "Power Word: Holy Barrier!" A yellow dome of light rained down and sank into the ground. Should they start to float up, the barrier will hold them down.
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Post by Tenjou, Utena on Feb 17, 2012 3:04:22 GMT -6
"Leprosy? What do you mean you have leprosy? I-I don't see anything!"
Utena was starting to panic. Of all the things she has gone through since coming to this strange new world this moment was definitely taking the cake. She looked over to the boy completely helpless. There wasn't much a girl barely hanging on to her sanity and majors in fencing could do in this situation aside from watch. The healer came back to her with a warm vial in his hand, giving it to her and asking that she'd have Aminee drink it. He didn't have to ask twice as far as her friend was concerned as she knelt back down in front of Aminee and presented the vial to her.
"Please. Drink this it'll make you feel better."
I hope, she added mentally.
Utena would suddenly have yet another thing to worry about when the shock wave hit and the next thing they knew they were starting to ascend into the air. Instinct struck and Utena reached out for Aminee and then the wall of the nearby building with her other hand to save herself. Before she could look back to the boy however he had already cast another spell to keep them down on the ground and Utena sighed a sigh of relief but she couldn't help but wonder.
"How long will this hold?"
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Post by DC Comics on Feb 17, 2012 3:50:17 GMT -6
Darkseid watched as his planet was devoured by a dimensional rift exploited by the young native of Genesis. But how did the child know that there was one lying in wake there? Clearly even the New God has underestimated the cunning of this child and those of Genesis who would sooner see their world lost to destruction than under the command of what they considered to be an outsider. Darkseid would see to it that Sincara would have her wish. The two Darkseids became one again and began their approach of the dimensional rift.
"If you would sooner choose destruction over life then allow me to be your guide."
Through divine intervention, the New God became one with the rift. Taking control of it and expanding it even larger across the threshold of space and time. The vacuum's intensity also grew with the added fuel of power from a god. His red eyes were the only thing that could be seen from the portal as now Moon Valley and all of Genesis was threatened to be thrown in where there was no life on the other side.
Where nothing but death and despair awaited them. And they would have a little girl to thank for it.
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