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Post by Chloe/Kat on Feb 17, 2012 6:07:30 GMT -6
Chloe looked up in awe as the bullet from the little girl's gun created a shock wave opening up a rift large enough to swallow up the descending planet and save them all. The vampiress had no clue whatsoever what kind of child or weapon that was or how she knew that rift was where she shot the bullet but she was too overwhelmed with joy to care.
"Hold on to something."
"What?"
Ah shit. The vacuum hit and Chloe almost got sucked up into the air before she stabbed Kasul into the ground and held onto the hilt of the blade tightly her feet still up in the air kicking all over the place as she held on for dear life and if that wasn't enough Darkseid had a wonderful idea to use that same very hole TO KILL THEM ALL!
"Thanks a lot, kid! Thanks a fucking lot you just made things worse for all of us!"
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Post by Aminee Starlight on Feb 17, 2012 8:05:08 GMT -6
Aminee wanted to cry but she didn't even have the strength to do that. After everything she's gone through; being imprisoned, raped, freed, attempted suicide, close encounter after close encounter, this was it. She was finally going to kick the bucket and leave this world to a broken promise. To a treatable disease in this day and age no less. Aminee would never see her home again. Never stand on stage beneath the lime light with thousands of people screaming her name at the top of their lungs. It wasn't meant to be. Looking up at Utena weakly she used every ounce of strength she had remaining to speak. "Utena, tell Kira I'm sorry." And of course she couldn't forget the first person in this world to look out for her. "Also tell 201 I-I didn't do it. I didn't kill the man... that raped me... I couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to take a life..." Aminee couldn't even register the vial that Utena had to her lips. "And make sure Kragens get his-"
She was going to say "And make sure Kragens get his gun back" but being given the vial interrupted her speaking but the vial itself wasn't important. What Utena said it would do was. It was a powerful illusion that began this mess and it would take a powerful illusion to end it. Aminee believed her friend, trusted her friend and the boy that wanted to help that this would cure her. Strengthened further by the will to live and keep her promise to Kira no matter what, despite telling him she couldn't promise not to die. Only to not kill herself. Aminee began to see process. The sores on her skin was starting to fade away and the strength began to return to her body as she could finally speak without feeling pain.
"I-I'm cure-!" The victory party wouldn't last long as the Pop Idol felt herself being sucked up into the air only to be brought back down by Utena, and thank god for her. Aminee held onto her friend's hand tightly, closing her eyes shut as she couldn't believe the power that was trying to drive her away. Her hand beginning to slip as the vacuum only grew stronger. "Utena, I can't hold on much longer!" Just as she fell out of Utena's grip were they all brought back down to the ground by the power of the boy. Aminee's heart skipped a beat as that was WAY too close for comfort. "I-I can't keep doing this..."
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Post by Sincara on Feb 17, 2012 8:42:06 GMT -6
With her gun tucked away for the time being Sincara held on tightly to the side of a building while using her other hand to keep the hat on her head. The invader's plan while ingenious in its own right was exactly what the child had hoped the enemy would do after the rift was revealed. Which is why she couldn't understand how the new Empress of Jherrazad could be cursing her when she had in her hand the means to help end this. But what could you expect from outsiders? Scaling the wall of the building she was holding on to, Sincara got close enough to where Chloe could hear her over the sound of the vacuum above.
"Drain him! Use Kasul to weaken him!"
There was a reason her people feared what Kasul could do. A reason that even the gods dare not oppose the one who wielded him recklessly. It didn't just have the power to devour souls. It could bring even that of a god's power down to a baby's. All she had to do was aim it at him.
"As long as he's in the rift he's vulnerable! If it collapses he's finished!"
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Post by Chloe/Kat on Feb 17, 2012 10:00:14 GMT -6
Through a sheer act of will, Chloe slammed her feet into the ground and stuck to it like a spider sticks to a wall to keep from being pulled into the rift before pulling Kasul out of the road and holding onto it tightly so it too couldn't be pulled into the rift. The vampiress caught Sincara approaching her out of the corner of her eye and could see she was yelling out to her but even her superior hearing had trouble hearing through the noise of the vacuum but finally she was able to make out what she was saying, and it sounded insane.
"Are you crazy!? That thing is way too big now!"
Not to mention the whole unlimited power of a god thing and Chloe found it highly unlikely that Kasul, as powerful as it was, could do anything to weaken either Darkseid or the rift that was now expanding large enough to swallow them all whole.
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Post by Sincara on Feb 17, 2012 10:17:50 GMT -6
Sincara carefully took another step while scaling the wall so it would be easier for Chloe to hear her shouts.
"He's using his power to expand the rift! Putting all his focus into that one task! If we upset his focus even for a brief moment we'll be able to use our power to close the rift and trap him inside!"
Time was quickly running out as the building two rows down the one Sincara was using for support was being hurled into the rift and the hope of the people was fading fast. Without Superwoman to save them who did they have left? Could they place their trust in the people that were there now? Would it be enough?
"Legend say that Kasul can only speak to others telepathically! Order it to call on the White Mage and anyone else with the power to close the rift! We'll be able to do it while you create the distraction! If we do nothing we all die we have to take that one in a million chance!"
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Post by Silver Eyes on Feb 17, 2012 13:26:55 GMT -6
"Thank the Light! You're okay! I didn't think it would work but it did!" But the hope was short lived. The barrier he put up was beginning to fall apart piece by piece, and it was only a matter of time before nothing would hold them down. He was warned repeatedly by his uncle to not rely on healing spells alone and to look into other means of protecting his allies. Looks like that lack of desire was going to be the end of himself and two innocent girls.
"I'm sorry but there's nothing left that I can do! If you have any means to anchor yourself down now would be the time!" He sank his staff into the ground, which was surprisingly well embedded and he motioned for the other girls to hang on. "Don't let go! The shield is going down in five seconds!"
Light, protect us...
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"Awww, am I missing out on a big party? Why wasn't I invited?" Argus appeared next to Chloe, calm as ever, his crimson cloak being tugged in the direction of the widening rift. "I'm no expert on this sort of thing so any advice would be fantastic. I saw what was going down on the television, and that is an ugly mother fucker." |
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Post by Sparda on Feb 17, 2012 16:51:28 GMT -6
All of a sudden, hell seemed to have broken loose. Sparda jammed his sword into the ground to anchor himself against the pull of the rift that had been opened in the sky above the town - a rift which Darkseid was somehow able to harness for himself as a means of eradicating his foes.
He was just within earshot of the argument going on between Chloe and the girl with the revolver over how to deal with the self-proclaimed god... The way Sparda saw it, every moment they spent squabbling was a moment bringing them closer to their doom. This maniac above them needed to be engaged right now.
"If you two are quite done bickering," he shouted over. Those who were observant amidst the chaos would have noticed the sky darkening somewhat, despite it being the middle of the day, as the Dark Knight delved into vastly deeper reserves of his newfound power, sealed away for so very long.
"I'm going to take the fight to this fool."
And hell broke loose once more. All was consumed in a pulse of crimson light, the others were pressed against the walls and ground by a wave of otherworldly power that bore down upon them like the weight of the planet itself; and appearing before Darkseid within a fraction of a blink of an eye, six wings unfurled and angular red eyes glaring almost murderously, Sparda's true form took defiant flight against the pull of the void.
In an instant, he was upon the so-called god; skeletal limbs wrought from the very darkness rose up from the shadows on the ground, writhing skyward like the extremities of some terrible monster, and latched onto Darkseid's body, grabbing at his arms, legs and torso and holding on with such ungodly strength that even he would not have an easy time freeing himself...
All at once, with the collective force of a black hole clawing at the demi-god's body, the skeletal hands squeezed. |
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Post by Tenjou, Utena on Feb 18, 2012 4:22:07 GMT -6
"F-five seconds!?"
With no time to lose Utena did the only thing she could think of, pull Aminee towards her while grabbing onto the kid's arm just in time for the barrier to come down and the field above to resume its relentless attempt at dragging them through it to their death. Utena has never felt as helpless as she did right now. She could do nothing at all to help in this situation except hang on for dear life and hope that by some miracle they all lived through this.
It was enough to bring a tear to her eye but now was no time to start weeping. Not when your friends needed you to be strong. And that what she would be, spirit of a Prince or no spirit Utena increased her grip on both people and readied herself to endure whatever else this 'thing' had in store for them.
"Don't let go, Aminee! Whatever you do don't let go!"
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Post by DC Comics on Feb 18, 2012 4:44:00 GMT -6
As Sparda reached the dimensional rift opening he would discover that Darkseid wasn't just merely in the rift.
He WAS the rift.
There was no body to find. No body to grab on to. Nothing but an opening to another world as the skeletal limbs literally crossed through the fabric of space and time into a place where life was never meant to exist. They were pulled in and now Sparda was faced with the same threat, that and the force of the vacuum also threatening to rip the demon apart limb by limb, whichever came first. It did not matter to the New God.
He would see them all dead.
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Post by Chloe/Kat on Feb 18, 2012 6:18:38 GMT -6
"Argus!"
Just the person they needed after Sparda took it upon himself to engage the rift and be the distraction that Chloe and Sincara needed for the plan to work.
"I need you to help us use your power to close the rift so we can trap the enemy inside it."
According to Kasul the White Mage was unavailable. Preoccupied with helping Utena and Aminee and he was needed more there than here as it was up to the four of them to get this rift closed or anything else going on around Moon Valley and the rest of Genesis wasn't going to matter. Aiming the tip of Kasul towards the rift the vampiress charged up the demon blade and fired a massive beam of its demonic energy into the portal, the power behind it draining the strength of the rift and beginning the process of closing it while Darkseid had Sparda to deal with. Chloe trust that the Legendary Dark Knight would be able to get out of the way when the portal came closer to closing.
"Now!" shouted Chloe to the others.
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Post by Aminee Starlight on Feb 18, 2012 6:51:00 GMT -6
"Utena, I-I can't hold on any longer. I'm sorry." Despite their best efforts to keep her safe, Aminee hand went numb and she lost her hold with Utena. The next thing the Pop Idol knew she was being pulled through the air as if caught in the middle of a twister, watching houses, animals and people alike spinning around in the air alongside her as they came closer to the rift. A tear dripped down her cheek and passed her neck as she closed her eyes and wept. All she could do now was wait for the inevitable.
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Post by Sincara on Feb 18, 2012 8:28:40 GMT -6
Sincara reached down to hoist the magic gun once more, losing her hat to the vacuum in the process. After Sparda provided the distraction and Chloe began the process of weakening the rift, Sincara charged white magic throughout her body and passed it into the six-shooter. Sincara was the one who opened the rift to begin with and she'd make damn sure she'd see to it that it was closed. Pulling back on the trigger she released a torrent of bullets powered by white magic at the rift which would cause it to collapse in on itself.
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Post by Silver Eyes on Feb 18, 2012 15:59:04 GMT -6
"No! Don't le--dammit!" The White Mage focused on the drifting Pop Idol, closed his eyes and shouted: "LEAP OF FAITH!" as loud as possible. From the crystal in his staff, a white, wispy tendril shot out, wrapped around Aminee's body and pulled her down to them. The angle that Aminee was brought to would allow her to grab onto the staff that was still in the ground. The spell itself was short lived and he wasted no time in making preparations to keep them on the ground.
Unfortunately that spell needed more time to "cool off" as it were so they had no choice but to cling to whatever their hands could find.
"Don't ever let go again! Just keep hanging on! I'm sure your allies have an idea in mind to seal that off." He shouted. The arm Utena was hanging onto was getting tired but it wasn't like he had a choice in the matter.
All the teenager could do was sigh in frustration.
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"Chloe!" he waved at her, "Close up deadly rift that's sucking everything in like an expensive vacuum. Got it."
Everyone available gave the rift all they've got and Argus joined in with a simple spell he had learned during his years in hell that would force a rift closed. He had brushed up on it often as of late while helping Amoura close rifts to other realms that had opened in the Crystal Expanse so this shouldn't be too hard.
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Post by Tenjou, Utena on Feb 19, 2012 5:37:10 GMT -6
Utena could feel Aminee's hold on her slipping prompting the former Ohtori Champion to plea with her eyes for her to hold on.
"Aminee, please. Aminee. AMINEE!"
Hues of blue looked on in shock as Aminee was pulled away towards the rift. All Utena could do was reach her hand out through the empty space where the Pop Idol once stood and watch helplessly as she drew closer to the rift that wished to kill them all. That was until the boy acted and managed to rejoin their hands once again. Pressing her face up into his clothes she started to cry while her grip didn't let up even for a split-second.
"Th-thank you. Thank you."
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Post by DC Comics on Feb 19, 2012 6:22:59 GMT -6
The strength of the vacuum that threatened all the world began to grow dim in light of the overwhelming pull it had on all. Pain spread throughout the New God like a cancer as the corners of the rift began to collapse upon itself. Darkseid's eyes, which could still be seen through the entrance, widened for the first time in disbelief as it looked down to the source of his pain. The source of this new found weakness. Chloe, Argus and Sincara. Sparda had been nothing more but a simple distraction this time around. And Darkseid had so foolishly fell right into it!
A roar of anger shook the very fabric of space and time as the dimensional rift were merely seconds away from closing and there was no time for even the New God to reemerge himself from the portal. In a last ditch effort to see to it that those who defied the New God would perish he unleashed with all his might his strongest Omega Beam yet, not aimed at the planet or any of its people but the one thing Superwoman cherish most.
The suns!
If Darkseid could not destroy Genesis than the destruction of their suns would bring about their own extinction in his absence as his screams of pain and anger was drowned out by the closing of the dimensional rift, trapping him there for all of eternity.
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