Home Sweet Home (Open)

[Jehanne]

"I haven't forgotten, my lady. I apologize if my words offended you."

Jehanne would hear the glass break and turned around to see Sincara had found a way inside the church. Solomon must have still been outside the entrance dealing with the male that had hit on them prior to the battle. The trainee would position herself in front of Miracle again with her shield up and sword at the ready. Jehanne was hesitant to fight here as spilling blood on sacred ground was forbidden but if that was the only way to protect Miracle then so be it. She would accept whatever punishment the Lord found appropriate when this was over.

[Miracle]

"I'm over here."

Miracle turned to look at Sincara, though she did not prepare to attack the High Priestess instead she was ready to defend should the girl that opposed them now decided to fire from the weapon in her hand. Or the hat upon her head.

"Go on, summon him. I want to look into the eye of my parents killer!"

The High Priestess could only give Sincara a look of sympathy as she replied.

"I do not wish to shed your blood, or anyone's blood here today be it by my hand or the Arashi. I feel your pain, I've known it. We all lost something precious that day and I take my fair share of the blame but do not allow yourself to fall to vengeance. Please. I wish to resort this peacefully."

[Solomon]

Solomon used Sebastion's own momentum against him when he blocked his blade but he did not step forward, instead he moved back and struck again with his sword, meeting Sebation halfway in his own push forward and bringing the blade down against his chest. The burst of power from Miracle's magic from within the holy temple giving him more strength in his swing as the sword came down.

[Sincara]

"I came not to send peace, but a sword."

Sincara raised up her weapon and aimed it at the two. If Miracle took a step forward, she'd fire. If Jehanne took a step fire, she'd fire. Either way someone was getting shot at if they moved unless it was the gesture Sincara requested.

"You did not wish to resort things peacefully when you slaughtered the refugees outside of Hallowton. You did not wish to resort things peacefully when you marched to destroy the Downward Spiral. And your General did not wish to resort things peacefully when the man outside appeared. I'm supposed to believe you now? When the very god you worship has commanded his people to slaughter millions? I don't think so."

[Jehanne]

Jehanne threw her sword towards Sincara and stayed behind her shield to protect herself from the bullets as she charged in, putting all of her strength behind the shield to push Sincara back and smash her into the altar.

[grimmhallows]

Sebastion's loss of balance was easily exploitable; but his lightning quick wings came to block and parry the blow, the strange bone unharmed by the attack. Sebastion twisted once free of the attack in a great show of acrobatic evasiveness, and got some distance by gliding close to the ground and back to his feet.

Lightly adjusting his uniform and rubbing his wing lightly, he quickly aimed and fired off his scythe like a rifle, 3 bullets racing at Solomon. His gun-scythe then stopped flaming, and Sebastion quickly advanced after the shots, bringing a forceful but controlled horizontal slash at his preaching adversary.
His mind raced as he ran at the man, that scythe rather tightly arcing to cut apart his target; a defensive attack, but one none-the-less.
This man he faced called some sort of power mid-strike; it only stood to reason more like it would come.

This is why I hated "holy" cities in Altenia. Too many damn idiots trying to "cleanse" my evils and labeling me a demon.

[Miracle]

"I came not to send peace, but a sword."

Miracle frowned at the misquoting of scripture, remembering when she misquoted it as well to support her decision to slaughter the innocent after being questioned at the Downward Spiral when Kari was still frozen beneath the Crystal Expanse.

"Jesus was talking about division among family members that accepted him. Not war."

"You did not wish to resort things peacefully when you slaughtered the refugees outside of Hallowton. You did not wish to resort things peacefully when you marched to destroy the Downward Spiral. And your General did not wish to resort things peacefully when the man outside appeared. I'm supposed to believe you now? When the very god you worship has commanded his people to slaughter millions? I don't think so."

"You're right I didn't," replied the High Priestess regretfully. "I killed all those people in cold blood. I thought it was the will of my Lord but now I don't even know what his will is anymore. I just know in my heart that what I did was wrong and there's no taking it back. Don't make the same mistake I did. Put the weapon down."

Miracle's violet eyes was suddenly widened when she saw Jehanne attack the girl with her sword and charge in with her shield.

"Jehanne, no!"

[Sincara]

Sincara fired a shot from the Six Shooter, the bullet hitting the sword out of the air as both objects hit the ground at the same time Jehanne rammed Sincara into the altar. Her back to the altar, Sincara took the now steaming hot Six Shooter and pressed the barrel to the neck of Jehanne to burn her skin before kicking her away.

"For a practitioner of peace you sure do keep violent company."

[Jehanne]

Jehanne screamed when the barrel burned her skin leaving a black burn mark on her neck before being kicked back against the ground. She rolled and then got back up to a knee and grabbed her sword, standing up to her feet and standing in-between the pews and Sincara and Miracle. If Sincara wanted the High Priestess' head she would have to take hers first.

[Solomon]

Solomon held up his shield at the bullets came, normally the bullets would have dented the metal of the material used for the shield but the holy enchantment made it endure as the shield was still perfectly shaped by the time Sebastion's strike came. Lowering the shield, the General pushed his weapon to the side and then kicked him down the steps of the holy temple.

[grimmhallows]

Sebastion took the kick straight to the chest; and he felt slightly winded all the same. Screaming a curse as he tumbled, he managed to use those demonic looking wings to balance himself and after a few beats was back up the stairs, the flame of his left eye a dark and menacing black.
"Svetorum, nomias!" He called; and in response 4 shards of frozen oxygen appeared in the air with him.
Holding his arm up and focusing, the icicles grew slightly larger, and then he made the act of throwing them; at which they raced down in the attempt to impale the general and his shield.
"Take it!" He cried as they flew down rapidly. He raced down after, not 5 foot away from his last shard of ice. His wings narrowed as he brought his scythe in an aggressive assault.
"I'll make you regret acting before thinking! Now take your salvation!" He cried as he went for a quick and powerful strike from horizontally again.

Secretly, the trigger appeared on the scythe once more; anticipating a dodge more than a block.
Inwardly, Sebastion grinned as he raced down; too long had it been since he'd fought a believer in a god, and now he remembered why he loved it.
Equal parts spirit and delusion. I wonder why they choose to fight for a god.

Something Sebastion promised to ask Solomon after this battle.
Why fight for something that uses you for it's own ends?

[Miracle]

"For a practitioner of peace you sure do keep violent company."

"Jehanne, step aside!"

Miracle commanded, refusing to allow this to continue for another second. Some things couldn't be resolved by the swing of a sword or the fire of a gun. Some things had to be settle face to face without the use of weapons.

"Looking the Second Aspect in the eye, killing me, none of it will bring your parents back, nor will it make you feel any better. This quest for vengeance will get you killed!"

[Solomon]

Holding up his shield the icicles shattered on contact and pieces of ice fell to the stairs as he pushed forward, slamming his shield right into the charging Sebastion and knocking him back against his own momentum. Now bringing his own sword down horizontally towards his chest.

[grimmhallows]

Once again staggering, his quick thinking allowed his wings to beat just once, letting him narrowly avoid a fatal slash to his torso; his uniform however ripped and now revealed strange black markings all over the chest of the artificial reaper. The wings methodically kept him aloft from the stairs, preventing further damage to his spine, or any other part of his body. Grinning stangely, he removed the shirt of the uniform and threw the tatters away.
"Now, now. That's hardly fair! Hiding behind your shield like a coward!" Sebastion laughed, and then flew up, higher and higher.
He touched the clouds; which turned a dark grey. He gracefully fell back, pulling his scythe to hang back beside him.
Now picking up rather tremendous speed, he summoned a small mental shield around himself as he now broke the sound barrier on his dissent.
The sky above had now gathered many storm clouds. And Sebastion grinned as a lightning bolt came directly from the very air he'd touched; racing down to his scythe and setting it ablaze. One minute, he was quite a distance from Solomon; but then he sped up to twice the speed and brought his scythe down to strike at the shield directly, using the raw power of his lightning infused scythe.

If this doesn't break it, or at least scratch it, I'm going to have to use darker magic... Yuck.
Sebastion thought as he pulled up just before striking; to add even more power to the attack.

[Sincara]

"You think this is just about vengeance?"

Sincara asked while staying at the ready in case Jehanne chose to attack her again.

"I fight for Genesis, I fight to defend her from foreigners and natives alike who put her life at risk."

Raising up the Six Shooter again Sincara aimed it right for Miracle's heart.

"So that way she and her children never have to experience the pain I felt on that fateful day."

And fired.