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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Frozen Hell of the North
Age: 41
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Nanya-muse: *Snore*
DC-muse: *Holds up sign* [Help, she's squeezing me too hard in her sleep, my legs have gone numb and I can't move. And now she's doing things with her hands that she shouldn't, HEY!]
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Don't ask me how that all fit on one sign.
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SSX 1-15
Spoiler for Blood That Flows - SSX 16:
A few minutes ago...
"So, you understand the plan then?" Zelgadis asked as he held up his hand, firing a powerful blast of concentrated wind to the Mariage in front of them. He sighed as the others nodded and, instead of trying to get around the Mariage and force them one way, were driving into them as if the Mariage were a giant pool or something.
At least it made sense with Kuma, since he could get in and out before most anyone could blink, Zelgadis shrugged and unsheathed his sword and ran into the crowd of Mariage himself. Ducking a swing for his head, he slashed upward, cutting the Marriage in half as he spun and lobbed off three heads before elbowing one in the stomach and sending her flying backwards. "Lybrim." Zelgadis swung his arm in an arc, freezing all the Mariage around him in an instant. Sure, the spell didn't have that great of range, but the fact that it could freeze anything that had a physical body instantly was more useful than most ice spells.
Up in the air, Kyrie frowned as she watched the Mariage move. "They're moving slower." That wouldn't be nearly as much fun. After all, slicing up things that were barely able to move just wasn't as much fun as trying to outmanuver enemies that could move pretty fast or could take a hit like those weird robots from awhile ago did.
"There's still a lot, you know." Amitie yelled up at her and pointed her Zapper behind her, shooting off ten shots and taking out several of the Mariage that were starting to shamble up behind her. "If you're not careful..."
"I know, I know..." Kyrie waved her hand as she watched Caro direct Fried to blasting a group. "Where has that Dragon been?"
"Busy, obviously." Amitie said as she flew up to her sister. "Didn't you pay any attention to what was going on?" Amitie sighed as Kyrie just grinned at her. "Of course not." Amitie would have rubbed her forehead if she wasn't busy shooting at the various Mariage down on the ground. "...Should I use that?"
Kyrie shrugged at her. "I don't see why you should. I mean, it's not like we're in danger, right?" She gulped at Amitie's glare. "Plus you might kill an ally?"
"Huh... Good point." Amitie nodded slowly, slightly shocked that Kyrie would point that out.
"Ladies, if you'd please lay some covering fire down," Kuma said as he looked up at them. Sure, getting a look up their skirts was nice, but there was a bit of a crisis going on around them. He smirked as the two let out small yelps and started firing down at the group of Mariage. "Well then..." He grinned as his magic swirled around his feet. "Let's dance!"
(---)
Sette looked at the crowd as she and Cinque worked their way into the crowd. "How are Ginga and Nove doing?" She looked at the shorter girl.
Cinque closed her visible eye as she tried to contact Wendi. "...It seems like they're okay, but they won't be at full health for a few more hours." Opening her eye, she snapped her fingers and several knives lashed out of mid-air and struck several of the Mariage in the forehead before the knives exploded. "Where's Mr. Snuggles?"
Her eye widened as an explosion occurred behind her. Turning, she sweat-dropped as a fire sprang up and a small figure walked out of it. "...I'd ask what the heck you did, but I'm more afraid of the answer."
Mr. Snuggles just smirked at her. "Trust me, you don't want the answer."
Cinque looked at Sette and could have sworn that the tall cyborg was smirking at her. But the smirk was so small and didn't last long enough for her to tell. "I... See."
"Now then, it seems these things are getting weaker, how about we wrap this up and get them to follow us to the meeting point?"
Sette and Cinque both nodded and moved towards the crowd. "Even if they are not fast, they are numerous." Sette commented as she grabbed a Mariage that tried to get close to her. Snapping the arm off, she kicked the Mariage into the group as Cinque threw several knives in and caused them to explode. "...This is taking too long."
"Reform one of your boomerangs." Cinque said and nodded as Sette did just that. "Give it here." Taking the weapon in her hands, Cinque smiled and handed it back. "So, who's up for a massive fragmentation grenade?"
This time Sette did smirk as she threw her boomerang into the air and shattered it. "Cinque, if you would," Sette said as the small, spinning blades cut into the crowd of Mariage.
"Of course." Cinque nodded and snapped her fingers.
The resulting explosion was far larger than Cinque, Sette or Mr. Snuggles expected it to be. The shockwave was so intense that it sent the three of them flying backwards to crash into one of the buildings behind them.
Groaning, Mr. Snuggles looked up and gaped at the destruction. what little wasn't obscured by the smoke was pretty impressive, considering that trees were uprooted, cars were tossed around like nothing, and a bird bath was in thirty pieces. Mr. Snuggles liked hunting those birds, they were fun to try and get before they flew away.
"Woah..." Cinque stared. "Sette, we are never doing that again." There was no response and she turned to look, gasping as she saw Sette on the ground, clutching her head. "Sette, are you okay?"
"I am fine." Sette looked up at her. "I hit my head a little too hard though." Shaking her head, Sette stood up and blinked as she looked around. "I should be okay."
Cinque nodded to her. "Just take it easy, okay?"
"I agree, also, where are those things?"
"What are you..?" Cinque trailed off as she looked at the destruction more clearly as the smoke dissipated. "...Woah." The crater that covered the street was massive in size and depth, covering at least a two block radius and going deep enough that several sewer pipes were exposed and destroyed.
Of the Mariage that had been surrounding them, nothing could be seen.
"I think you over-did it." Mr. Snuggles sweat-dropped as Cinque nodded.
Cinque looked at her hand and frowned, 'did I put Chaos into that by accident?' It wasn't like that power was controllable after all. Still, it was something to talk to her mother about.
(---)
Shiro looked at Lina as she sneezed. "Are you okay?"
Lina rubbed her nose, smirking at him. "I should ask you the same thing, dear..." She practically purred as she watched him cut down more and more Mariage with each passing moment. Just watching him turn the women into dead pieces of flesh was just intense.
And Shiro was, in her opinion, totally hot when he was committing brutal kills on his enemies.
"Hey, mom!" Arf yelled from up in the air. Looking up, Lina smiled as she heard Arf's next words, "the street only has those weird women on them for at least eight blocks."
"Well then..." Lina pulled out Galveria and smirked as she looked at the Mariage. "Light Come Forth." The bright flash of light and roar of magical power had both Arf and Shiro looking away to protect their eyes and ears. "Fly, Galveria, fly through them all!" Pulling back on the magical weapon, she let loose a single bolt of energy that rushed forward at such speed and power that by the time Arf turned to look the entire city street had been cleared of the Mariage. "...I almost forgot just how powerful this weapon was."
The memory of her using it to send a Ragna Blade through Dynast Grausherra suddenly struck her mind, as well as the resulting death of the former Mazoku Lord. Looking at the bow in her hands, she narrowed her eyes and willed it to shut off.
"Dear?" Shiro blinked as Lina looked at him, a rather dark look in her eyes. "What's wrong?"
"Galveria was a mistake." Lina muttered as she turned and started to walk down the street. "Luna just contacted me, Miyuki, Arashi and Vivio are safe."
Shiro nodded as the two of them walked down the street while Arf flew overhead. "What did you mean by a mistake?"
"It's too powerful for humans to have. The other four weapons of light combined don't even come close to this thing." Even if she wanted to get rid of the thing, she would only give it to Sirius. It wasn't that she didn't trust anyone else in her family, but she knew just how tempting it was to use something so powerful when it was at your finger-tips and it could be used.
Even if Chaos was terrifying, the power it had could not be denied and some times it took effort to not tap into it with her power.
Lina blinked as she felt Shiro's hand on her shoulder. Turning, she blinked at he smiled at her. "Lina, just because it's powerful and dangerous doesn't mean that I'm worried about it. I married you, after all, didn't I?"
Lina smirked at him and slugged him in the stomach playfully. "Better turn the charm down, mister, I need to concentrate on something other than how incredibly sexy you are."
"Oh gods!" The two blinked and turned to look as Miyuki was giving them a disgusted look. "Aunt Luna flies us over here as fast as she could and you two are about to make out, in the middle of a war zone!"
Lina gave her a flat stare but shrugged. "Actually, I was trying to talk him out of it this time." She ignored Miyuki's disbelief and looked at Vivio and Arashi. "Are you two okay?"
"We're fine, grandma!" Vivio smiled brightly at Lina. "Aunt Miyuki gave your sister the sword of light and then there was a big fire that went WHOOSH! and flames went everywhere before exploding and BOOM!" Vivio threw her arms out wide with a shocked look on her face. "And everything exploded!"
"Sounds like you've been having fun then." Shiro chuckled softly. "Come on, we're making our way into the city. That Teana girl apparently has a plan of some sort."
(---)
A few minutes later, Filia and Chrono had made it to the area where Teana had asked them to meet. "Chrono, will Amy be okay?"
"We left when those things were almost gone, and I know that Lotte and Aria can handle bodyguard duties." Left unsaid was the fact that the Mariage were moving much slower than they had been when he joined the fight, so he felt a lot more confident that they would be okay. "Agent Lanster," Chrono spoke up as he got closer to Teana, Subaru, Dieci and a girl he had never seen before, "Nakajima, Takamachi, and you are..?" He looked at the last person.
"Ixpellia, Dark Ruler of the Underworld, creator of the Mariage that lay siege to this city and someone who wishes that they would stop."
Chrono raised an eyebrow, but nodded. "I see. I take it that you're not the one behind this current crisis then?"
"Indirectly, I am, however, no matter my role, this is still my responsibility." Ixpellia closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I have no idea if I can get these Mariage to come towards us though."
A few moments later, there was a tap on the rooftops where they were meeting, looking over his shoulder, Chrono nodded to Luna, Lina, Shiro, Miyuki, Arf, Vivio and Arashi. "I see that you decided to join us."
Lina smirked and looked around. "Is this it?"
"This is the Ground Forces working with the Rescue forces on the scene. We will be working to purge the city of these things as quickly as possible."
"Understood, Ground Forces. To anyone else, this is Admiral Chrono Harlaown, the force we have here can deal with most of these things easily enough, deal with the beings in your area and mop up any stragglers."
"Yes sir."
Filia raised an eyebrow at him. "Was there a point to that? We could have used the others."
"I was about to say," a new male voice spoke up from behind Chrono, "that we'd like to help too."
"Zel! Caro! Erio!" Lina smiled at the trio. "You guys took care of your problem?"
"We left Kuma, Amitie and Kyrie behind. Fried's currently roasting any of these things that he can while flying through the city." Zelgadis looked at Ixpellia. "As you're the only person I don't know, I'm going to assume that you're the only person that can stop this?"
"Kind of," Ixpellia nodded to him, "how did you guess?"
"Because just after Teana contacted us and these things started to slow down, they started to make their way towards this area, and since the only thing that I can see would draw them would be someone I don't know, I'd have to say that you're the reason."
"Don't look so smug, Zel," Lina rolled her eyes, "the next thing you know, this cute little girl will start throwing a Dragon Slave around, destroy some magical items and somehow someone else will get blamed and you'll be forced to go on an adventure to help them clear their name."
Ixpellia just scratched her head in confusion. "If they're heading here, then the compulsion I put into them worked, so," she looked at Teana, "what is your plan?"
"Get them together, then destroy all of them at once," Teana smirked at the looks she was getting, "don't act like that, human-sized bodies that are flooding the city? If they remain spread out like they are now, a few will escape and we'll have to deal with this in the future. Getting them all together and then wiping them out at once is a valid plan."
"I like the stuff blowing up plan." Subaru grinned as she looked down at the Mariage as they shambled in. "So, how do we blow them up? Wait until we can't see the ground or..?"
"Rune Flare." Lina and Zelgadis said at the same time and Subaru stumbled back as the two spells converged on the Mariage below.
"I suggest that you start laying suppressing fire down." Shiro chuckled to Subaru, who nodded and took off to another roof to try and get a better angle of fire.
"This seems to be going well." Zelgadis said as the small force was able to wipe out the Mariage fairly easily. Looking up, he snorted as he saw Filia and Chrono both blast the ground below with some beam magic attacks. "Show offs."
"Oh, like you're not?" Lina smirked at him as she pointed an open palm at the crowd below. "Blast Bomb."
"That's just cheating." Zelgadis muttered irritably. "Being able to do that without boosting your magic."
Lina and Zelgadis smirked at each other as the final enemies were destroyed by the combined magical assault of the team. "Well, that's..." Zelgadis trailed off as there was a soft thump behind him.
Turning around, Dieci, Zelgadis, Teana and Lina, the only ones who had stayed on the roof, stared as they looked at Ixpellia's downed form.
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