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Post by HungryHunter on Mar 10, 2016 22:39:44 GMT
Jun was prepared to stop Sid again, this time tying a knot in his leg to keep him still, but his tactic surprised her. She could only watch as he blew a hole in the wall and was free. As dull as the boy seemed, he had at least thought of that. She had been hoping to focus their attention on the door. Jane bawled, deep gashes covering her body not releasing a drop of blood. No words could leave her throat through her choked sobs. "I'm sorry, Callis. You seem to be a decent man. But I have lied to you and your friends. I am Yuu Arachne, and that is Jane Arachne. Now listen to me, and listen well." Her eyes fixed on Alex, pouring an inhuman amount of tears. "You let her go. Or you will burn." Something flared in her eyes and her whole body became ablaze, the room's temperature becoming unbearable.
Outside, Martha shivered. Even in winter clothes, having no body heat in the mountains in the middle of winter was agony. Luckily, she got to move right away. The floor was wooden, giving her a platform to bound from when the dirt beneath sucked in. As much as she hated to help Marika with anything, if she had blood, it would be running hot now. She landed right in front of the stone fist and let out an echoing roar as she shoved with a front kick. A foot tougher than concrete met the stone with another crushing roar that didn't come close to matching the power of Martha's lungs. The momentum of the kick and the fist shoved Martha back, foot plowing a path in the floorboards. Martha puffed and shook her head, staying her her boxer position, arms guarding what her legs could not. She could take that fist! She just needed to kick harder! She didn't get a chance when she saw the wall to her left, past Jose and where Ash was fighting. She only realized consciously why her legs bent when she noticed Marika sitting against the back wall, not far from the man who just emerged. Orders were orders, and orders were to keep people off of Marika. Disgusting. Still, in terms that pissed her off less, she couldn't let her sisters get outnumbered so badly. Martha's legs unbent with proportional strength like a flea's, propelling her across the room. Coming in at an angle, the white blur fell into an axe kick aimed at Sid's neck.
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Post by Vapovile on Mar 20, 2016 10:15:34 GMT
Sid exploded through the wall just in time to see the chaos beginning to unfold. Jose was shooting huge stone fists everywhere, some white-haired chick was kicking one of the fists, Goemon was attacking some hot chick that was wearing a miniskirt and sports bra in this weather?! He snapped out of his daze just in time to see a weird purple-haired girl sitting along the back wall, looking at something directly behind him. Turning his head around once more, he is met with the sight of the white-haired chick from earlier blazing toward him, leg up to deliver an axe kick. "Heh...bad choice."
Digging his left heel in, Sid waits until Martha was just within striking distance to swing his right leg at Martha...aimed at the hamstring of the leg she was pulling up to deliver the kick. He debated if he wanted to go directly for the crotch instead, but figured that would be a cheap blow...so giving this chick the worst charlie horse of her life would have to do instead. Should the strike hit, Sid would follow up with a quick knee to the face, using Martha's own momentum against her.
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Ash beamed at Goemon's acknowledgement of her perfection statement. "Of course, perfection only meets so many people! This will be a perfect fight, since it includes me!" Ash continued to boast, grinning at Goemon's approach. He can make explosions at his feet! Seeing Goemon aiming for her head first, Ash focuses some of the heat in the surrounding area into her fist, making it glow slightly orange with head. She then lunges forward to meet Goemon's fist...until he pulled back at the last second. His fist slammed into her stomach, though it was met with a strangely inhuman amount of resistance; as if Ash was much more durable than her figure would imply. The force of the punch still made her gasp for air, luckily not having much in the stomach area to become damaged, as most of her organs were taken out before the narcissistic doll's string was added. However, while Ash was still reeling from the punch, her own momentum was still carrying the fiery fist straight at Goemon's head...though with slightly less momentum than before. The mere touch of the fist would be like sticking one's hand in an open flame, the heat of which could be felt from a few feet away.
Up on the roof, Cadence watched as Jose began to fill the area with large stones...taking note of his earthbending powers. Her expression stared boredly at the suit of armor flying toward her, breaking through the roof and wrapping her in a bear hug. "...an earth creature...? Fun..." Flicking one of her hands upward, a tiny seed flies up and latches itself onto the earth creature. Within seconds, tiny roots began to grow in between the cracks of the creature, each thread wrapping around the insides of the golem and pulling outward, slowly ripping the creature apart from the inside. The longer the creature stayed up, the more the threads would grow inside and rip it apart. Down below, the potted plant suddenly grows a large 5-pronged spear and each flies toward Jose's direction, figuring that he'd be guarding the body...so attacking the area around the body should have a chance of finding a hit.
Near the window, Haven watched as the volley of rocks came flying at him...and adjusted his purple sunglasses in anticipation. "I've been spotted, huh? Time to start the show!" Summoning a thin pillar of purple light in front of her, Haven extends the sides out to create a pointed shield that would make the rocks bounce off at an angle, slowing them down and sending them flying off in the wrong direction. With the rocks gone, Haven leaps into the air and is propelled into the room by a sound wave he summoned headed the opposite direction. She looked at Jose with determined eyes, noticing that Cadence's attack was incoming as well. "Looks like you found me! The name's Haven, and I'm going to need that body from you! So just hand it over, alright?" After trying to lure Jose into lowering his guard, Haven summons five spears of purple neon light, and sends them at Jose right after the vines, aiming to strike him after he dodged Cadence's attack. How fortunate...a fellow ranged fighter.
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Post by Kuma on Mar 20, 2016 21:52:56 GMT
Callis flinched at the mention of Marika Arachne. He wasn’t exactly knowledgeable of the Hidden World criminals (or most of the Hidden World to that matter) but many members of the BHA got really scared every time her name popped up in a conversation or a new wanted poster. Rumors told that she almost killed Crow Cementerio and Ashlea Primrose. The Beast Knight knew the first one in person and he didn’t know the second, but to be known in the BHA Japan they must be somewhat famous and powerful. Callis didn’t listen to the chatter, he wasn’t the kind of man who indulges in water tank talk, yet if he listened more closely he would have been chasing Marika way before her minions met him here. The Errant Knight did hate the undead… but the Necromancers who created them? Callis utterly detested them.
The Beast Knight raised his blade. –If you serve that witch I won’t turn my back to this mission, all those who pervert life like she does deserve to be put down…- Callis did a flourish with his sword, that slowly regained its intense white glow, bathing the rustic kitchen in alabaster luminescence. His eyes shared the same glow, losing their usual blue. With reinforced belief on himself he swung his sword down with severity, against Alexander’s wires, this time around his will sharpened the blade to new heights, capable of chopping cars in half. –You and this girl are only puppets for your master, right?- Callis pointed at the door. –Leave now and I will spare you and your friend, tell me where your master is hiding so I can clean the stain of her existence from this world, as I did back in mine, exterminating the last Necromancer from the face of Centris.- The Beast Knight tone didn’t seem to allow opposition, his eyes sparking with an ivory glow.
Without losing his stance Goemon reacted to Ash’s attack executing a perfect Yoko Uke (Side block), returning the fist that connected to the Doll gut and crossing it in front of his chest, knocking his wrist into Ash’s. The thin, yet concentrated, layer of ki around his body was the Maisetsu-Kyo technique, created by Reiji Fukuma, passed down to Ichigan Nagare and then to Goemon. The Karate Star’s arm was aimed to deflect the attack and set up the next step, advancing towards Ash with a quick series of Suri Ashi (Sliding Step) to close the gap after his first attack, getting into her close combat Maai (Combat Range) to connect a spinning elbow over her extended arm, right at her chin. –ORYAAAA!- He shouted as he executed his plan.
Around a Km away from them a figure was sitting on a rock surrounded by snow. He was dressed in a tuxedo with the bowtie untied, handing from his neck. He had a thick coat over his clothes, covering his shoulders, while his hand played with a round dark purple disk. In his other hand he carried a ceramic bottle containing Sake, he chugged it from time to time as he looked towards the location of the fight. With a wolfish smile on his face and a evil glow on his eyes. Ikari Fukushi was present on the location, but what kind of dark purpose was his presence serving there?
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Post by waybig1010101 on Mar 30, 2016 7:03:19 GMT
As the projectiles head towards him, Jose lifts up both of his arms and yells out a might battle cry before slamming both of his fists into the floor, and soon enough the ground, and not just the area around himself, but the entire floor of the room that held the recently decrease Orge King inside, drops by a considerable amount in no time at all. The floor shift could be describe as the world's most insane roller coster drop on steroids. The change in level was so fast in fact, that people standing on the ground a second ago, are now technically in midair at the moment. The exception to this however are Jose's allies, who each have their own custom size earth pillar, which supplies just enough footing for each individual to stand and perform their next move comfortably. Essentially, each pillar support Jose's allies in such a way that they are unaffected by the earth change for their next action, however, their opponents on the other hands have nothing but air below them, thus completely loosing their footing in the middle of their latest exchanges. He hopes that this maneuver will give his allies a moment to help turn the battle in their favor.
For himself, Jose and the Orge corpse are attach to the earth during the change and travel far enough down that the projectiles harmlessly soar over their heads. Without much more delay, Jose uses one hand to focus on the rocks that were recently blocked by Haven and relaunch them once again at her from all directions as she experiences free fall. With the other hand, Jose focuses his attention to the roof as he tries to control his Earth puppet, yet he quickly realizes the issue. "Plants huh..." He quickly uses his hand and commands his golem to explode in a massive dust cloud that begins to swirl around Cadence. Searching for any orifices to enter, along with generally coming back together with her being in the center of this dirt cloud. Before long, the cloud begins to rebind itself into rock, and repeat this harding process until the rocks on plant manipulator's body begin to deliver a pressing force against her skin as the newly form rocks begins transforming back into its previous from. However, rather than the earth amor bear hugging her like before, it was in fact putting her inside the earthly suit itself. As it is applying an immense amount of squeezing force from the outside, the KI enhance dense earth suit continues to go higher and higher in the air with its captive inside of it.
As he brings his sword down, Alex recall his wires threads back to his glove. The threads dance around the three of them as Jane is release from a full body wrap. His threads insane flexibility and speed prevents the the Beast Knight sword from touching them with that incredible swing, though had the knight adjusts his swing midway through, the ghoulish hunter imagine that he would have likely cut a few threads. Still, even if Callis' blade had been sharp enough to cut through a few of his wire threads without any difficulties, a large number of his wires threads together in a complex structure boosts each individual wire threads' capabilities well enough to the point that he was confident that the slash wouldn't have been able to cut through so smoothly. Yet, that is exactly why he release the girl. With his wire threads being so thine that they could match the width of a spider's web, he couldn't afford the knight's slash to fail even slightly without risk damaging the girl. To him, the girl is potential a key asset that he did not want to afford losing. However, there is another reason, a much more important factor, that made him release the girl that he wasn't even conscious of. And that reason is none other than the look that the hairy man is emitting throughout his entire being. It was his survival instincts that subconsciously force him to let the girl more than anything else. He turns his head towards the person who identify themselves as Yuu and prepares for what she will do next.
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Post by HungryHunter on Mar 30, 2016 18:41:25 GMT
Yuu tensed when Callis dropped his blade. Not a muscle relaxed when Alex released Jane. "JANE, RUN!" The tiny girl didn't hesitate, tumbling away and scrambling out the small door Sid had discovered, vanishing into the night. Yuu threw flaming kunai to either side of Callis and Alex. "You are not harming Marika! I'm sorry, but I've warned you." Flames began to spread from the kunai impaled in the wall, getting dangerously close to surrounding the two. Yuu lunged forth, fixating on Alex first. "You were planning on torturing the sweetest, most harmless person in the world! What is wrong with you!?"
She lashed out her hand to catch his gloved hand, seeking simply to ruin it with the heat of her blazing body. She attempted to look at Callis while keeping her grip, a thing of solid steel. "I know you think you're fighting some great sorceror, but she's just a child! Please, even if you defeat me, promise not to harm my Marika!" Her eyes continued their volcanic output, splattering the floor below her with flaming globs of some sticky substance. Yuu and her clothing remained utterly intact through it, Yuu's movements even growing swifter the hotter the room grew. She made no move towards Callis, just held a kunai defensively against him.
Martha and Sid moved too fast in regards to each other for Martha to see just what happened, but she could piece it together by the details. She moved down, he moved up, and she felt a sudden strike in her hamstring. Her leg involuntarily curled, causing her to tumble forward just enough that Sid's knee was perfectly placed. She met it on her way to the ground. She smashed straight through the floorboards and kept going until she struck the wall to the kitchen, shattering every board between the two points. Kicked up dirt fell over the boards and Martha's body.
It didn't remain for long as she pulled herself to her feet. Her nose was a lightening bolt, her mouth a puzzle with pieces missing. "By dose agen..." She felt her face with a poisonous look at Sid. That was a hell of a combo. She slid into her battle stance, guarding her broken face with her arms. Before she made a move, Marika lunged from Sid's flank, stabbing at his side below the ribs with scissors dripping with some purple fluid. "Bastard! It'll take forever to fix that!" Oh, great. Marika was getting in the way. Making her job harder. Martha made another bound, this time to the opposite side Marika was on. She moved like a bullet from that spot, jabbing at the side of his head with her foot, then a spinning kick at his ribs. She was going to break at least as much of his stuff as he had hears. It was only fair. However, her shots went wild when the floor dropped. She flailed for a second, landing with as much grace as a rhino. Not taking the time to consider what just happened, she bolted at the pillar, feet digging in to propel her straight up like a rocket, foot lashing out at his chin at her full speed.
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Post by Vapovile on Apr 14, 2016 16:24:19 GMT
Sid couldn't help but flinch when he watched Martha tumble through the boards, not intending for it to be that harsh. Before he could say anything though, he sensed a poisonous ki signature nearby, and lunged backward to try and avoid the attack...but it nicked his side, and a small wave of pain rocketed through his body. Crap, this shit was poisonous! Diving away from Marika, he could feel his muscles being noticeably tighter than before, meaning he won't be as quick as before. Damn it! "Fix? What, is she some kind of kid's toy?" He wasn't going to wait for an answer, as Martha came barreling at him. He managed to duck out of the way of her head kick, but could only raise his knee to cushion the rib shot. He could feel a few of his ribs crack under the pressure, but luckily, he didn't need to counterattack...as the entire floor went downwards! He peered downward at Martha landing on the ground with a grin, getting back into a battle stance for when she came back up. This time, he was ready. Waiting until she was just below the platform, Sid leaped upward and twisted his body sideways, trying to use Martha's upward momentum against her and kick her directly across the face, aiming for the window Haven came out of.
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Noticing that her arm was being deflected by Goemon's, Ash grins as she sees him setting up yet another attack. "Hah, so you have some moves? Well I have better ones!" Ash yells as the doll twists her body around, and grabs the deflecting arm with the arm it was deflecting. The sheer size difference between the two made this tactic much easier, allowing Ash to wind her other fist back and coat it with yet another concentration of heat that still coated her other arm...yet it's effects likely weren't as effective with the ki layer surrounding Goemon. With her fist now the temperature of an active fireplace flame and still rising, Ash swings it forward to try and stop the elbow with sheer force. "Haaaaaaaaa!"
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Not expecting the sudden drop of the ENTIRE ROOM, Haven began his freefall down toward the ground...only managing to break it by summoning a neon purple platform just a few feet above the ground to break the fall. Only a split second before she hit the platform though, Haven notices that there was a large rock directly under the platform he summoned! The music doll tried to summon a shield to stop the rocks, but only managed to block the ones coming from the bottom and front, with the back rocks slamming into her side and breaking many bones in his arm and right leg. The rocks sat in the makeshift shield for a few seconds...before erupting in a shower of neon purple lights, exploding in every direction. Haven stood on the platform once more, numerous tears on the right side of her coat now...but very little blood. Doll anatomy was hollow for the most part past the bones, so unlike humans, they wouldn't bleed nearly as much.
"That's it...you're done!" Reaching out his left hand, Haven concentrates a large portion of her magic energy into sound energy...and launches a concentrated sound wave that sounded like a train ripping through a station directly at Jose, having a radius of about 6 feet. Haven then launches two more to the right and left of Jose to try and hit him if he decided to dodge the first one, knowing that these sound waves could rip through rocks if he decided to defend himself too.
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Up above, Cadence's eyes widen slightly as the golem bursts into a dust cloud, and began to enter through her nose and mouth, beginning to press up against her body from both the inside, while still having a shell on the outside. Pain like this would normally be horrific to people...but Cadence remained completely calm. Her pain receptors were completely numb due to her constant smoking of a special plant she made, allowing Cadence to continue thinking rationally even in extreme circumstances. How...quaint. She thinks, as her body began to twist and break apart. Her entire front side opened up like a wardrobe door, numerous vines stretching around the rocks that were inside of her body until they were outside of it. Still in a mess of vines, Cadence forces a large section of the vines invading the golem's rock to rip apart, creating a hole large enough for her now deformed body to slither through, and begin freefalling downward. To prevent the golem from trying to capture her again, Cadence focuses her attention back on the ground, and commands the plant from earlier to grow at a rapid pace back to her, rising up out of the roof and would eventually meet Cadence, where she'd enter the large vine and create a safe passage back into the building. It was a pain fighting in the air.
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Post by Kuma on Apr 15, 2016 2:39:06 GMT
-I am sorry....- Callis spoke with a soft voice, his head lowered, making his messy blond hair cover his eyes. –Child or not…- The Beast Knight raised his head, his hair moving to the sides of his face uncovering his blue eyes, shining with the light of determination. – I can not allow such travesty as this!- He proclaimed while summoning a new Notio Gladio into his hand and pointing it at Yuu. The tone of his voice had been changing as he spoke, from an almost inaudible whisper to a roaring shout. The Beast Knight charged forward from a very curious starting position, using his free hand to further accelerate his movement, his whole body inclined forward. Without a speck of hesitation he jumped over Yuu, swinging his blade in a downward arc while he was upside down in the air, trying to cut the Kunai Wielding Doll on the shoulder to disarm her.
Callis landed besides Alexander and glared at him, his eyes showing a mixture of his knightly determination and his beastly savagery. –When this fight ends we will have a long discussion about morality.- The Beast Knight was trying to follow his nickname to the fullest, allowing his gut instincts to guide him while balancing it with a moderate amount of his knightly reason and lawfulness.
Goemon didn’t feel the heat. Normally he would, but something was off, he noticed Ash’s powers, but they weren’t affecting him. Even without this strange feeling of protection against the heat he would’ve been able to tank such low intensity flames just with his Ki Enhancement. But something was clearly helping him to overcome the Doll’s ability. –GOTCHA!- The Karate Star roared as his spinning elbow impacted against Ash’s guard. This range of combat was Goemon’s area of expertise, even with his large body he could twist and turn his well trained waist and hip to follow up almost any attack.
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Post by waybig1010101 on Apr 16, 2016 21:24:08 GMT
Jose recognizes his golem above being ripped apart once again, and prepares to intercept the plant manipulator above from reaching the ground, yet before he could settle on a plan, his witnesses the approaching sound waves. He readies himself to drop into the earth to avoid the barrage, but he knew doing so will expose the corpse he was told to protect. And if he tries to bring the body underground with him too quickly, he didn't even want to image the state the body would be via the process of earth traveling. He didn't like what was going to happen next, but he ends up dealing with the issue by planting his feet and placing his arms over each other in an X formation. His earth amor was already enhanced by the fusion of some of Ki into earthly material, making its durability well above typical rock, however; there is still a method available for the bounty hunter to further increase his armor's defensive capabilities to even higher level by supplying further KI. Taking a deep breath, he quickly releases his KI from within his body and pours into his earthly suit.
For those who can see KI, they would notice a reddish aura radiate from inside the earth armor and expand outwards until it covers the suit completely. Soon enough the aura begins to get suck into the suit, turning the surface of the earth amor into a dark shade of red, at least it will appear that way to Ki users. Not much time passes between the sudden color change that the sound wave smashes against his body. The force strikes with incredible pressure, causing the armor to crack and even pushing it backwards. Had the armor not been planted into ground so firmly, it would have probably been launch to the other side of the room and through the wall. Yet, Jose manages to keep his feet position in the ground as he struggles to deal with the remaining force of the attack.
By the time the full blunt of attack is finish, there exist two rigid 5 meters lines that start from where the earth shaker was position just a few moments ago. Standing now extremely close to the dead Orge King, the armor's head turns to inspect the body. Examining that the corpse seems to have not receive any damage from the last result, then turns his attention back to his foe, which reveals the state of his armor to his opponent. The whole surface is completely cracked with plenty of material falling off each second along with streaks of blood sliding down from the breaks in the armor. Soon enough, enough martial has fallen from the top of the armor to show a good portion of Jose's bloody face. He spits out a good chunk of blood from his mouth before he asks, "That the best you can do?"
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With one hand, he issues commands to some of his wires threads to wrap around the Yuu's kunai as they were thrown, it was especially easier for him to catch the thrown weapons with his wire threads already surrounding his body. His wire threads were highly fire resistance, being able to withstood temperatures that could melt steel. Without wasting much time, he uses his wire threads to wrap around the kunai completely, successfully suffocating the source of the flames behind him before cutting up the kunia into pieces thiner than hear strands. With his other hand, he commands some of the surrounding wire threads in the room to adjust around Callis' movements.
Once the beast knight lands next to him, he doesn't bother to pay any attention to Callis' words. To him, the knight seems to be a mix of both good and bad qualities. On one hand he seems to be quite experience and skillful, yet on the other hand, he appears to be the type to allow pointless principles get in the in the way of getting the job done. Regardless, he wasn't going to focus on analyzing the beast knight. All he could focus on for now was the intruder trying to burn him. Even though he stopped the flames from growing behind them, he himself would not be able to withstand the sheer heat that the zombie in front of him is emitting for too long. With a quick hand gesture, wire threads around Yuu begin fold inwards into what appears to be a cross between a venus fly trap and a spider's web to close on her from above her head and in front of her body. The technique is meant to slice her up from numerous angles, even though this maneuver did allow an easy escape if she would simply be fast enough to move her body backwards, along if she could try to goes to the sides as well to evade, through Alex hopes that the beast knight will be ready to attack her if she attempts to escape from the sides. However, the true goal of his actions was to make Yuu think he was trying to push her further away from his own body.
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Post by HungryHunter on Apr 20, 2016 23:33:18 GMT
Yuu didn't like her knifes vanishing in the grip of Alex's wires. She may very well be forced to kill him. It was her focus on him rather than honorable Callis that lead to the slicing agony in her shoulder. A kunai dropped from her shaken hand, clattering to the floor and splattering little burning droplets across the ground. Callis would discover that the sticky substance that wreathed her in flame would find his blade solid enough to cling too, continuing to burn and beginning to drip. She winced and her tears flowed harder, but not at the pain. She slid fingers into her sleeve and drew her wakizashi from its hidden sheath.
She took a lunging position, small sword in backwards grip, noticing the closing trap around her. Yuu knew she had to move, but her mind was caught for a second on the question of where. The kitchen wasn't huge, but she was sure there was space where Alex's wires hadn't reached. However, she didn't know his speed with them. Another path may be better. She darted to the side and used the wall as a springboard to lunge off, landing between Callis and Alex, flames sputtering out from her body. She swept her arm up to knock the pommel of her sword into Alex's chin, then spun it in her hand to swipe for the edge of Callis' cape, her intent to light it ablaze.
Martha smiled at the sound of Sid's rib cracking. "Fucking serves you right!" She roared as she put her feet to stone and lunged to take him from below. Her eyes narrowed in confusion when he himself jumped out of reach, flailing to stop. It was too late and she was carried into the range of his kick, launched across the room to land halfway out the window, making a crack of her own as she fell on her chest. As she limply slid down to crumple to the floor, Marika took advantage of Sid's aerial position to throw out a net of threads. Whatever they touched, they clung to, and they could resist Sid's level of strength easily. "You fucker! I'm replacing anything you just broke with something from you!" She screeched, touching the other end of the threads to the floor to anchor them.
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Post by Vapovile on May 2, 2016 0:49:04 GMT
As Martha crashed into the window into a crumpled mess, Sid couldn't help but smile at the victory. "Hell yeah! That's what you get for breaking my..." Sid's sentence was soon cut off as he remembered that there was another person attacking him...and was now screaming. "Something from me? What, are you some kind of Frankenstein freak or some shit?!" The kick-master reacted as the net of threads sped towards him. His aerial position wasn't particularly great at handling an attack like this...but he could salvage the situation. Reaching onto his back, Sid draws his blade from its sheath...the sword glowing a faint blue glow and crackling with electricity. He wasn't hurt too badly, so this wouldn't be effective as he wanted...but it would have to do! Pointing the blade to the side, Sid fires a blast of lightning to rocket his body away from the net. "Hah, you think you could get m-" His eyes widen with the realization that...there was a thread attached to his sleeve. Quickly, he points the blade down to fire another blast of lightning down the thread to try and burn it up.
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Ash's guard swung wide open, the sound of bones breaking could be heard by anyone close by. However...Ash's face didn't seem to react much to the pain. "I've got you now...hah!" Oddly enough, Ash stepped backward...and grabbed a massive shovel the ogres used to shovel snow out of the path. Sprinting back out of the building, Ash prepared to dig the tremendous shovel into the snow heap, and toss as much as she could back into the building. Strangely, Ash was breathing much harder than someone should after those few blows, and continued to breath hard as she tossed her first heap of snow into the building, sending the icy substance scattering across the floor. Ash had a plan.
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Haven watched with intrigue as Jose blocked his sound attack, and managing to protect the ogre body from harm as well! She couldn't help but smirk, clapping in response. "Not by a long shot. But...I have a feeling I'm needed elsewhere." Leaping onto a dark purple board that looked like a surfboard, Haven rockets back upward toward the entrance. She knew Ash couldn't last much longer. Before Jose could give chase...a network of vines began to coil around his ankles. Down from the ceiling, a bored-looking green-haired doll stared right at his armored body. "...your armor is a nuisance. What's your name...?" Cadence asked, now suspended a few feet in the air from the ground Jose was on. She wanted to know the person who gave her so much grief.
Back outside, Ash was breathing harder than ever as she threw a second scoop of snow into the building...barely able to stand up. "Gotta...win..." She says to herself. Unlike all the other dolls, Ash had a collection of poisonous gasses in her lungs, making her endurance much lower than the others and giving the doll the symptoms of an asthmatic. Before she put the shovel in to do a third scoop...a hand stops her and whisks the doll back inside. "That's enough Ash...you did good. Take a rest now, alright?" Haven tells his sister, setting Ash down next to where Martha landed. It would be much warmer here than out in the snow. Turning back to Goemon, Haven cracks his knuckles. "Sorry, my sister needs a break. I'll be taking her spot, though!" Jumping back onto his board, Haven began to strafe around Goemon, summoning a half-circle of dark neon purple knives to rocket at the karate master. Staying away from this guy was key.
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Post by Kuma on May 3, 2016 3:49:50 GMT
This wasn’t Callis first rodeo, and an enemy setting his cloak on fire wasn’t something he never encountered before. The Beast Knight, aided by his uncanny reflexes released his cloak from his shoulder guards, throwing it behind him, and without a speck of hesitation kicked into it, aiming to surprise Yuu using his own cloak as screen to block his actions. He was quite surprised by her power, as back on his world abilities to summon the elements were exclusive to the magic user and only the living could wield the “Vis” The energy the people in Centris drew on to cast their spells. An undead abomination with these powers was a surprise, but Callis couldn’t just wander in awe at everything this still strange world threw at him.
Still he was conflicted about the whole undead thing... as these undead seemed to retain their intelligence instead of just turning into monsters like back on his world. He wouldn't allow his resolve to waver, undead or not these were criminals. All of this flashed through his mind and he was launching his kick hidden behind his crimson cloak, which currently was ablaze thanks to Yuu's efforts.
-Daaaamn!- Goemon winced upon hearing the bone breaking. Even if he was fighting against Ash because of his job he didn’t have any kind of hatred against her and he was very acquainted with broken bones himself, he knew the pain of them. His good nature played against him, as his moment of weakness allowed Ash to flee from him. –Damn it, Nagare-sensei was right, I’m too soft- The Karate Star muttered a curse and glared towards the door before darting behind Ash. Goemon stopped on his tracks upon discovering Haven standing right besides a clearly exhausted Ash.
-Sounds fair, I’ll get her after I defeat ya! – Goemon boasted filled with confidence, not out of arrogance, but as a way to keep him pumped after his mistake before. He raised his guard, using quick footwork to stay always focused on the moving Haven. The hail of knives came out of nowhere for the Karate Star, but had wrongfully reasoned that the dolls used elemental powers after watching Ash in action. He blocked the knives with his arms, which got pierced by the blades in several spots. Whatever those things were made off was fucking with his Ki armor, almost as if they disrupted it.
-Surf’s up girl? Let me fix that- He asked with a smile as he punched the ground lifting the snow into the air around him. The Karate Star used the snow screen to charge undisturbed towards Haven most predictable next location (following her speed and trajectory) aiming to land a powerful chopping elbow from above.
-So these are Arachne’s Dolls? Can’t say I’m impressed…- Ikari was looking at the fights from afar using binoculars. –I don’t get why I had to come to the middle of nowhere for a damn mission… I fucking hate cold.- The Agent of Hatred spitted on the floor. -They could have used one of those fancy new tin cans Kago was working on.... what was it this time? Monks Demons? Cowboys?-
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Post by waybig1010101 on May 13, 2016 4:56:57 GMT
Previously as Cadence was falling down, Jose's broken earth armor that had attacked her earlier, which is now just a massive puff of smoke and dirt, slowly descends towards the ground above their heads. Meanwhile, the current earth armor that the earth shaker is not in the best shape possible as well. Yet, even with his creation in such a sad state, he didn't lose one ounce of his resolve. He is ready for anything, even expecting that his enemy would try to escape dealing with him to assist one of their own comrades. Yet, before he could try to prevent his foe from exiting from his pit with a few earth manipulations, his plans are cut short by the entrapping vines around his ankles. Without wasting time, he quickly claps his hands together, and the earth around his feet explode into a series of rotating miniature spikes, that penetrate and rip the vines apart. Disappointed at himself for letting his opponents get away like this, he starts to mumble in an incomprehensible fashion to himself. Though no one could understand what he was saying to himself, nor could a person rely on his facial features to inform them about his anger aim at the self. He pushes away his own criticism about his mistake and adjusts his body to face his remaining opponent.-So, she's the one on the roof top? Seems like she can manipulate plants...- Without needing to move his eyes, he could sense his Ki enhance dirt cloud dropping onto their location. Doing his best to not give anything away, he starts to establish a stronger control over the seemly harmless dirt smoke. With the smokes approaching so slowly, he attempts to distract his opponent by talking to her In his typical monotone voice as he replies to her question with a straightforward response, "I'm a member of the BHA's Artemis branch and I will take you and your entire team down." Stepping forward with a casual pacing he slowly closes the gap between them. "The name's Jose Hernandez."
Leaning his head backwards in time, Alex manages to avoid the full force from the butt of her sword, yet she achieve light contact on his chin with her weapon. And even then, the minor touch is enough to cause him to stumble a bit. Requiring him to place his hand on the counter in order to regain his balance. -Had she taken a proper swing, I might have lost my head right there- Most people would most likely be terrified if they are in a dangerous position that could lead to their death, but for the hideous man, the joyful, while creepy, smile spreads across his face, is enough to let anyone know, that he is finding this whole exchange to be a rathe fun activity. As the beast knight attacks with his kicks, he launches some wire threads from his right glove to wrap around Yuu's legs. Using the other wire glove, he quickly readies himself for her next assault. Wire threads shift around him until their layout changes to become what appears to be a prison bars around his body. Though rather then being thick, they were quire thine, along with the wires going horizontal as well as vertical. Still, soon enough he is within an interesting death box that is too narrow for people any regular person to witness. Oddly enough, it is rare to see Alex set up a trap and act like his own bait.
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Post by HungryHunter on May 13, 2016 21:25:33 GMT
Yuu would have pushed her assault on Alex, but Callis cape loomed over her vision before she could take another swing. She stepped back, but not enough to avoid the blow. She grunted at the force of it striking her chest and stumbled back. Her eyes flickered over Alex, noticing easily his wire trap. Her eyes were far better than any everyday human's. She tossed two past him, sticking them in the walls behind them. Flame spread from where they struck, creeping out to force Alex forward. She wouldn't give him any room to escape, stabbing another kunai into the ground between him and her, igniting that spot as well so he was surrounded.
She stepped sideways to distance herself from that, looking at Callis through a haze of heat. Her sweat evaporated on contact with her flaming skin. He had a thick looking outfit. Maybe she could exhaust him. She jumped up onto the overly tall central table, 8 feet over Callis' head. From her vantage point, she hurtled more kunai, now painfully aware of their limitations. 3 more after the 2 she launched for his kidneys.
The thread burned away, the very next second, an unnaturally bent Martha came roaring down with a falling axe kick, seemingly having jumped from the window across the room. "You FUCKER! I'm slamming you to China!" She roared as she dropped. Marika below flicked more threads, one from each finger to latch onto Sid's body while he was distracted by Martha. She'd have him bundled up and bleeding out in a minute.
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Post by Vapovile on May 16, 2016 1:58:41 GMT
Hearing the loud scream, Sid groaned loudly as he watched Martha drop from the sky. "Aw...fucking hell! I thought you were gone!" Looking down at Marika as well...Sid's martial arts training soon came to mind. Use the enemy's attack against them. Twisting his body, Sid pulls out a stick of dynamite from his belt and slaps it onto a metal container on his right boot, swinging it upward to clash with Martha's axe kick. The resulting explosion would hopefully blind Martha with smoke as he transferred both her downward momentum and the explosion's force into momentum for his descent, allowing for Marika's fibers to latch onto the area where Sid just was; Martha. Now rocketing toward the ground, Sid tucks his legs inward to absorb the impact with the floor, and springs off the ground to aim an upward kick at chin of the one thing that was annoying him more than the manly chick; Marika.
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As soon as Goemon slammed the snow into the air, Haven smirked and did a move that not many would expect; he created a bind on his feet with the same purple light as her board, and pulled the entire thing directly upward and back, doing a full circle back-flip under the cover of snow through the air. Once his circle was complete, Haven smirks as she created a neon purple boxing glove over his hand, and held it out in front of her as he tried to strike the area where he just occupied, hopefully with Goemon's head there. "Surf's up! Time for you to wipe out!"
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BHA...huh? So this person was a bounty hunter. Analyzing his movements, Cadence looks back at the ogre's body behind him. If protecting that body was so important to his mission...why was he coming toward her now, when he knows that she can attack from a distance? Staring blankly at Jose, Cadence merely gives a small nod in response. "...ok."
While Jose was walking to her, Cadence was setting up her own traps; influencing any nearby roots to grow under the ground that they stood on, creating a long network that almost nobody would notice until it was too late. Rapidly growing the thickness of the roots, Cadence would cause a wall of them to explode from underneath Jose once he got within 2 meters of her, wrapping their tendrils around his body...focusing on his throat. If she could crush his windpipe, this battle would be over in a flash.
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Post by Kuma on May 16, 2016 3:44:00 GMT
Callis wouldn’t let such attacks bother him, his reflexes were just too fast. Without retracting the leg he used to kick Yuu he snared his cloak and using his other leg he launched himself backwards, performing a backflip kick, using the still flaming fabric as a shield. It wasn’t a perfect maneuver, as one of the Kunai managed to knick him on the shoulder before falling on the ground. The Beast Knight winced in pain mid-air but continued his pirouette, landing with a roll, still carrying his cloak on his foot. –I will attack from the front Mes Stevenson!- Callis shouted as he followed the momentum of his roll using his hands to jump feet first towards Yuu’s location, but this was just a ruse.
His cloak was still infront of him so it granted certain amount of cover for his actions. The Beast Knight summoned a Notio Gladio and threw it towards the Kunai Wielding Doll, right through his cloak, already weakened by the fire. His sword would carry the decoy towards her while he used his uncanny ability to change his direction by grabbing to one of the oversized table legs, spinning around it to gain momentum before going over the table to connect a kick in Yuu’s right flank. Quite the marvelous display of acrobatics from the Beast Knight, who was focused towards the goal of defeating Yuu, so he could find out more about her master.
Goemon didn’t expect Haven’s counterattack. “DAMN” Was his only thought as his elbow didn’t connect against the doll, that’s when he knew he fucked up. Then he felt it, the boxing glove hitting him right in the nape, buzzing like a chainsaw, because of the sound vibrations. The blow was quite powerful and as sturdy as his ki defense was the attack hit him mid-air, as he was striking the location were Haven used to be. The attack made him flip over several times, his large body spinning wildly until he crash landed on the snowy terrain, which thankfully softened his fall. He tried to raise his head, but everything was spinning. –Ugh… what the hell? Did anybody write the license?- He barely managed to utter as he blinked.
His vision was blurry and the pain was unbearable. One of the tenets of defense in martial arts is having a good footing, as the calf muscles serve as a matter of suspension for the whole body, channeling the damage towards the ground. Getting hit mid-air was one of the worst things, as you lacked the ability to properly take a hit and in this case it was a powerful one. The only reason Goemon is still among the living was the highly compressed Ki armor created by the Maisetsu-Kyo technique softening the blow. If he didn’t have it we would have Karateka’s brains splattered in the snow. Goemon’s vision started to clear up as he stood up, raising his guard by pure instinct. He was still a bit dazed, so he wouldn’t initiate an attack, he stood there reinforcing his ki and focusing on recuperating as much as he could.
Goemon’s legs were trembling, hopefully Haven will think that was because of the cold and not from her quite brutal blow. Without anything to relay on apart from his grit and guts Goemon invited the Doll to attack with both hands, just like he did to the Devil on his movie “12 Rounds Away from Hell” in which he played a boxer betting his soul against the Devil to save his brother from cancer.
-Hernandez, Williams, Stevenson, Renen and that interesting Drifter I met on Kyoto…- Ikari kept observing the fights will drinking booze. –Arachne’s playthings have their job cut out for, I don’t think they can win the first round.- He commented upon seeing the advance of the different fights using Ki sensing and binoculars. The Agent of Hatred finished his drink with a final long chug and threw the ceramic bottle away, breaking it against a nearby boulder. –Hum…- He cleaned his mouth with his sleeve and stood up, making a visor with his other hand over his eyes and looked around. –I should find Arachne before they do, or I won’t be able to do my job.-
The Avatar of Hate decided to shift from Ki to Hate sensing, an ability gained thanks to his Gainen Medal. Similar in function as Wild Battle’s vision, he would only see people with hatred in their hearts, the more the better. Callis Nomene was barely an outline with a small yet powerful flame deep within his soul. Goemon Williams was practically invisible, not even sparks of hate in that man. He kept looking around to find Marika.
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Post by waybig1010101 on May 29, 2016 3:59:59 GMT
As he slowly approaches forward, Jose could sense his opponent's efforts. -She underestimates my connection to the very ground she attempts to move her plants through- Without wasting time, he begins to command the earth itself to apply a new level of pressure on the plants below their feet. The plants' movements start to slow down as the dirts becomes more difficult to push aside. Before long, the earth begins to condense itself over and over again. The rapid process of increasing density creates such a tremendous force, that the plants are squeeze apart and grind so quickly, that the experience is similar to an acceleration process of fossilization. Soon even the elements of the plants is transforming into further material to add to the hardening earth. Thus, preventing any remaining parts of the plants to be useful to their master. However, this task is far too taxing on the young bounty hunter to be able to manipulate the earth outside of preventing the plant manipulator's actions with the plants inside the earth. But, he still is capable of using any terrestrial substance that has already been fuse with his KI.
Yet, he did not feel the exchange of limiting both their powers will be a disadvantage, because his aim is to change their fight from manipulation abilities (for he is worry about damaging the corpse his is suppose to protect with such a battle) to a contest of physical prowess. He knows all too well that he is no where near the summit of the martial arts world, but he confident enough in his own skill with the Mountain Slaying Fist, that he is more than willing to end up slugging it out to decide the victor. As his earth armor continues to collapse apart, Jose's uses up his remains bandwidth to command his broken armor to reform around his hands, until nothing remains of the amor besides a set of powerful earthly gauntlets. At the same instance, his monster size armored up hands are completed, he rushes towards Cadence and prepares to pummel her into submission.
Cursing under his breath, Alex is extremely disappointed that his foe didn't try to engage him in close quarters combat, even more so, she just had to throw more kunai that summon fire. The flames soon surround him from all side. Before, he consider the flames to be a nuisance, but now are starting to slowly toast the ghoulish man's a disgustingly pale skin tone. "I think I'm ugly enough without having to be turn into Freddy Krueger." Just as he finish the sentence, he begins to spin his the fingers of his right hand in quick circular motion . The wire thread prison cell cage soon dissolves into a tight spiraling sheet, that rotates faster and faster, causing the flames to dance around Alex's body in a mini tornado of fire as he prevents the flames from consuming him, With wasting much time, he uses his free hand to command wire threads to wrap around and destroy the kunia creating the flames.
As his threads sliced up his foe's weapons, he couldn't help but to consider launching the remaining flames spinning around him at his opponent. Yet, before he could, Callis has already rushing at her. So, he simply allows the updraft of his own mini-current he is maneuvering the flames with to push upwards. Soon enough, the whole ceiling above his head is set ablaze. While his forehead is sweating under the heat above, the rest of his body is doing fine outside a couple of spots containing first degree burns, primarily his arms. -I won't be able to withstand this kinda heat for much longer- thought Alex. He retracts his wire threads back into his gloves as he keeps his eyes on Callis and Yuu's engagement. Searching for the moment to strike her.
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Post by HungryHunter on Jun 1, 2016 6:45:45 GMT
Sid's understanding of physics was rudimentary, but it was enough to deflect Martha, as well as blowing a hole in her leg with the sheer force of the dynamite blast. She was sent somersaulting back through the air to crash once more into the wall. Marika stared at Sid preparing to strike and scrambled back, but it did her no good. Her head snapped back with a sickening crunch. She fell back, holding her jaw with tears of agony in her eyes. She let out a gurgled scream that rang throughout the hall and squirmed on the ground like a fish pulled from a lake. The hate in her went from the spotlight it was before to the very sun.
Yuu had little hate in her heart when she backed away from the treacherous cloak. It was something far more destructive that fueled her flames when she swung her short blade and sidestepped to avoid the blade entirely. Her caution around the cloak didn't help when Callis struck from the side, winding her and cracking a rib. She had no breath to cry out, but she didn't need it to take a wild swing for his thigh. The other wasn't attacking, but even this one wasn't working out. She needed to end this. Her mind was racing when her train of thought was derailed by Marika's scream from the other room.
At once, she sprang from the table, dropping two kunai right as she passed through the entrance Sid had to light fires, hopefully keeping them from following her. She glanced around the room and made a snap judgement. She flared with hatred just for an instant, like a meteor, gone at once but bright while it lasted. Her last kunai was like another meteor headed right between Sid's shoulder blades before her flames died and she shot past to scoop Marika in her arms. "CHILDREN! WE'RE LEAVING!" She cried, leaping to the window Haven and Cadence entered by. Martha growled and pulled herself up to rush the battered down door.
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Post by Vapovile on Jun 4, 2016 18:45:37 GMT
Upon scanning the room, Ikari would see a range of hate levels among 4 of the people inside of the giant building. Sid was but a mere outline, not really hating anyone currently, but there have been a few who have annoyed him greatly...like a certain person in the Osaka incident. Haven, on the other hand, was much more visible in appearance due to a large amount of hatred for one person; Marika Arachne. The one who routinely tortures him for reminding her of the one who freed the person meant to supply parts for her boyfriend. Cadence was slightly less visible than Haven, still hating Marika...but the painkilling smoke she inhales makes nearly all of her emotions numb to the point of indifference to most things. Ash was nearly invisible to Ikari's hate vision, hating nobody due to the fact that in her mind, she is better than everyone. Why would she hate people that are inferior to a perfect person such as herself?
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The sound of his boot meeting Marika's face was absolute music to Sid's ears. It appeared as if the one kick did more damage than Sid thought, as the spider girl was flopping around on the floor in pain, yelling something incoherently. Before he could try to restrain her, the kickmaster spots the hot tall lady from before...and she was throwing a kunai at him. The lazy martial artist only had just enough time to throw his body to the side to avoid the weapon going into his shoulder blade, only making it slice the top of his shoulder. "Fucking...hey, I am not done with you yet!" Sid yells after Yuu as she exits through the window. Not bothering to try and run after them, Sid instead reaches into his pocket, and begins applying some first aid to his shoulder.
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Haven watched as Goemon flipped through the air like a ragdoll, now slightly concerned that he had overdone that last attack. Watching the actor try to stand back up, then try to invite Haven to attack made the doll shake his head a little. He always saw how determined people like Martha or Ash would try to keep going even after they were obviously too injured, a trait that Haven admired a little. "You want to keep going? Alright, here I c-" Before Haven could finish his sentence, Yuu yelled out that they were all leaving. "...well, nevermind I guess. No hard feelings, I wouldn't even be here if we weren't forced to. Later!" And with that, Haven rides his surfboard right out the door, scooping Ash up along the way.
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Cadence looked down at the ground when she felt that her plants were beginning to get crushed up from the pressure below. So he could manipulate this much Earth at once? She prepares to summon more plants out of the vines that brought her down here...but Yuu's command finally reached her ear, causing the doll to grab the vines instead and hoist herself up above Jose's punching range. "...gotta go." The plant doll plainly states as she rapidly rises out of the hole with her vines, and exits through the roof that she came into the building through. She then creates a small wooden chair around her body to sit on, using her vines to move the chair to keep up with the other fleeing dolls.
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Post by Kuma on Jun 7, 2016 4:52:09 GMT
Callis grunted and rolled over the table, trying to get some distance from Yuu. Her kunai caused a clean wound on his leg, a wound that it could be dangerous if not checked out. –By the ancient Magus. - He muttered, the closest thing to cursing he might say, as he opened gash in his tattered pants to look at the wound. It was a bleeder, but it didn’t hit any important artery. The Beast Knight stood up looking at the fleeing Yuu, he limped towards the other end of the table and stomped the flames on his cloak. It was totally wrecked, as whatever magic it had left seemingly got spent in blocking the heat of the flames.
For a moment he felt the sting of sadness in his heart. The cloak was a symbol of his status as a Knight, it was given to him when he was knighted, and it protected him from arrows, blades, magic and even worse things. To the Beast Knight it was like losing an arm and he could almost feel the same pain, but he couldn’t stay there feeling pity for himself. He stood up with the ruined remains of fabric he could pick up and without hesitation he used them as a makeshift bandage surrounding his wounded leg and applying pressure with a knot.
Callis looked around, a lot of fires were started by the fight. –First things first. - He whispered as he got down the table. Taking in account his injured leg he slid down the table’s leg, but without even noticing he used his claws to slow his descent. As he landed, with a jolt of pain coursing his body he glanced at his hand with a mix of bewilderment and frustration and turned away while retracting his paternal inheritance. Callis scanned the kitchen until he found a water source, surely needed in a kitchen, until he found a very large rustic wooden bucket, made for ogre use. With a bit of effort, and small spurts of blood coming out from his wounds, he lifted the large container using his inhuman strength and walked towards the fires to douse them.
As he did he talked to Alex. –Mes Stevenson, I will deal with the fire, could you please check the situation outside?- If the Beast Knight was still pissed with the Grotesque Hunter it didn’t show, maybe because he was still high on adrenaline and focused on a big problem than a morality conundrum. Still, deep down Callis had to admit that Yuu was quite the fighter and even deeper down the Beast snarled with desires of fighting her again.
Goemon waited for the Dolls to leave in the same position as he ended up. In a regular situation he would chase them, but the blow Haven connected was quite devastating. It was the Karate Star’s own fault as he underestimated his foe. Once they left his line of sight he fell on one knee, panting as the back of his head beat like a drum. Filled with frustration Goemon punched the snowy ground. –Dammit, what poor excuse for a fighter I make…- He whispered, his voice muted by the whirling winds around him. –Don’t become a poor excuse for a teacher Goemon, don’t tarnish Ichigan’s memory.- He heard his own words and shook his head, with a sad smile. –Ichigan would beat me up for saying something so pretentious…-
Finally he gathered enough strength to stand up. He was still shaken, but he clenched his fist in front of his face, with a fierce smile drawing on his lips. –He would say “They beat you down? Stand the fuck up and beat them up harder!”- And as he remembered that line he started laughing out loud, not a giggle, but a powerful torrent of laughter coming directly out from his belly. With his doubts vanishing he walked back inside, hoping that everybody was okay.
-This mess sure was instructive…- Ikari talked with a great deal of sarcasm, the words slipping through his closed teeth, like flames out of a furnace door. He could keep track of Marika and most of the Dolls and decided that it was high time for him to meet them and extend a helping hand and an offer. “Better circle around that place, I don’t plan on fighting all these amateurs on my own.” That crossed his mind as he started walking towards Marika Arachne’s location, using rock formations to hide of the line of sight anybody could have from the Ogre’s tribe compound.
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Post by waybig1010101 on Jun 8, 2016 0:55:28 GMT
After swinging and missing, Jose becomes extremely annoyed at the thought of his foe escaping. He prepares to go after his opponent, but at the last moment, hie turn around and stares at the body he is suppose to guard. Even with the burning passion to chase down the plant manipulator and defeat her, he couldn't bring himself to leave the corpse of the late Orge King. So instead of chasing, he decides to continue his guard duty. Now outside combat, he realizes that his breathing has become slightly heavy as well as his body. Without wasting time, he makes sure to crush any remaining plants in the place. During the process he starts to hate himself for being too weak to stop them. As he finishes, he could hear his mentor's laughing. Though he couldn't use his terra senses to tell that their recent foes escape, due to the earth being covered in a layer of snow outside, but he could sense them via his Ki abilities. Which makes him wonder why his master was laughing with so much energy, when the enemies manage to successful escape. Yet, for some unknown reason to him, hearing Goemon's laughter a change in his own attitude for the better. With a few gestures, he shifts the earth around them upwards and back to their previous floor level.
He arrives in time to witness his mentor coming back inside. His face remains perfectly still and for accounts appears pretty calm to even the most observant viewers, but his own master will probably see his pupil suffering from the frustration of not being able to finish the fight.
Without saying a word to Callis, Alex walks out to check what is happening with the others. It didn't take long for him to examine the situation. -So they got away- Their current assignment is to guard the Orge's body, which still seems to be in the same decomposing state as it was before the zombie invasion. And as much as he would like to go zombie hunting right now, he has a job to finish here. But he will keep a mental note about the two he faced today, and will look forward to the next encounter with them. As he pictures their next meeting, he couldn't help but smile.
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