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Post by Vapovile on May 6, 2021 0:25:11 GMT
The two began to dance, Amelia keeping up as best she could. This style was entirely new to her, but the alcohol made her body more willing to go with whatever flow Armand was directing. A smile was plastered across her face as she danced, staring Armand in the eyes.
"I'm feeling greeeeeeeeeat!" Amelia said, clearly still trying to keep it together. When Armand picked her up and tossed her, Amelia let out a light 'yip' and landed back in his arms. She took a brief moment to squeeze his biceps, and appreciated how strong he actually was.
When the song ended, Amelia leaned into the kiss and wrapped her arms around Armand's neck. Everything seemed to fade away at that moment. The music, the talking crowd, her hatred for Alexis...all briefly gone in that moment. When they finally finished, Amelia let out a few giggles and a single snort.
"I...really had fuuuun." Amelia said with a smile. "But uuuuuh...I'ma just go sit." With Armand's help, she made her way over to a chair and sat down. She had plenty of endurance to keep dancing, but the alcohol was making her slightly more dizzy. She looked at Armand with a grin.
"Wooooow! you saved us there, I reckon! And don't think I didn't see that little diss to your broooooo." Amelia mimicked his gesture, and giggled once more. When the judges were finished tallying the results, it was revealed that Alex and Alexis got 5th place, while Amelia and Armand got 7th. The band then announced the floor would be open to anyone.
Suddenly, a graceful woman with hip-length silver hair and wearing a black dress with red checking on the bottom. She looked at Armand and waved to get his attention.
"Congratulations you two! I don't know if you noticed, but I was in the 2nd place team." She smiled confidently. "Now, I was wondering if you would be so inclined as to take this damsel out for a dance, sir Armand?" She asked, reaching out a white-gloved hand. Amelia looked on, sizing up this woman.
Her red eyes were certainly strange, but she did see that the two were dancing like pros earlier. Her partner appeared to be talking with another group, so he didn't seem to mind. Amelia shrugged her shoulders.
"You can take it if you wannnnnt. I'll just let some of this dry up a little." Amelia smiled and leaned back in her chair and taking a sip of water, curious to see if Armand would accept or not. "What was your name, by the way? Wasn't paying attention." The fire mage asked.
The white-haired woman turned to Amelia with surprise. "Oh, I left that out, didn't I?" She stuck out her tongue to the side of her mouth and lightly tapped her temple with her own fist. "I'm Leone Miyata, the pleasure is allllll mine." She coo'd toward Armand, giving a smile of her own.
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Post by othus on May 6, 2021 1:14:14 GMT
Amelia's kiss felt right, the sweet taste of her lips mixed with booze and both of their hearts racing after the dance was really something that couldn't be replicated. This close, the sentation of her arms on him was certainly driving him crazy, it was only after he let her go that he noticed she was more than a bit tipsy already, her funny laugh however made it very difficult for him to consider her situation remotely worrying at all.
"Yeah, let's go sit for a while" Armand said as He laughed awkwardly at her comments, Alex waved Armand goodbye, knowing him, he and Alexis were still gonna hit half a dozen other places. Armand's attention was then brought back towards a silver haired woman, who waved at him in a friendly manner
"Hey second place, we were sooo close to beating you!"-Armand joked and got up, extending his hand to her
"Sure, I still got a couple songs in me, sounds like fun! maybe I could even learn a thing or two"
Armand took Leone to the center and held her waist as he took her hand to dance.
"I gotta admit, I don't get asked out to dance all that often So, Leone...Miyata, was it? any particular reason to take this seventh place loser for a spin?"-Armand laughed, he was gonna try to keep up, but she was probably much better than him. Then again, she probably already knew that, so there was more to this than just the dance.
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Post by Vapovile on May 9, 2021 3:07:59 GMT
Leone took Armand's hand and pulled him onto the dance floor, leading the choreography this time. She was clearly an accomplished dancer, but her technique was slightly off, as if she had learned how to master another style of dance and was only translating some of the skills. She gave a toothy smile at Armand.
"Hmmmm...I would say it was your daring maneuver back there. Pulling her up must have taken a loooooot of strength." She said, deftly pinching his bicep to get a feel and going back to dance. They had now moved further out onto the floor.
"Say, you seem like quite the attractive person. Tell you what; you two can come over to my place after this and I can show you some more moves, if you'd liiiiike." With a grin, she pulled Armand into a bow, then raised him back up. "I'm also a pretty big musician, so dancing is natural to me. And I have plenty of fun things to show you both, if you so desire." She said, looking at Armand expectantly as the song neared it's conclusion.
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Post by othus on May 10, 2021 0:05:30 GMT
Armand was taken aback by how direct this woman was, she seemed quite the flirty type too. Armand smiled and shrugged at her offer
"I don't mind having some more fun! As long as Amelia wants to come as well. So...why don't we go and tell her about your plan?"- Armand said as he took her hand and led her back to Amelia
"Hey Ame, how are you feeling? better now?"-Armand said as he sat next to her to check if she was still somewhat dizzy, combing her hair away to check her face.
"Leone here has an offer of sorts for us, wanna hear it out?"-Armand asjed her, looking back at Leone as he sat in between them.
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Post by Vapovile on May 11, 2021 3:41:47 GMT
Amelia had sobered up a little, able to sit mostly straight now. Leone explained the offer, and Amelia nodded slowly. Truthfully, Amelia didn't want anything to do with this woman. But Armand seemed interested...so maybe she could indulge this woman a little. "If that's what you want, I won't object." She said diplomatically. Leone clapped her hands in glee.
"Why thank you, Amelia. I'm delighted to show you both some of my techniques." She said with a toothy smile that made Amelia a little nervous. Regardless, she stood up and followed the two out of the dance hall, sticking close to Armand and locking her right arm through his left. They stepped out into the cold Paris air, Leone sucking in a breath and exhaling.
"It sure is wonderful here. I do have a performance in two days, if you're interested." She offered, giving them both a head tilt.
Right as they left the place, Alex was awaiting outside having a smoke, Armand was never the guy to hang with two women at the same time, so that certainly caught his attention, he looked at her in detail and his eyes glowed in a silver tone, displaying the person’s simple concept.
Name: Yamiko Miyata Serial Killer Idol Age: Unknown
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Post by othus on May 11, 2021 4:52:22 GMT
"Performance? are you dancing here?!"-Armand replied, when Amelia clung to his arm, he embraced it and walked right away with her.
A chill ran down Alex's spine when he noticed the title, what was he to do? exposing her outright would probably be dangerous, but saying nothing was gonna get his brother killed! His first instinct was to get to him, he couldn't involve Alexis in this just for the sake of it! he was the one to do something about it! he called his brother on the phone and hung up, once he saw Armand making some space between him and the girls to reach his phone, he sent him a text
-woman with with white hair, serial killer, checked her title.
Armand turned around at the girls as he locked his phone.
"So Leone um, you are gonna kill us, something happened. Ame, you sister has been trying to get to you for a while, she just sent me a text, she wants us to be back at the hotel now, apparently she's not feeling well"
Armand grabbed Amelia's hand and pulled her so they faced Leone
"Sorry we gotta go like this out of a sudden but, maybe we could have your number? i say we could meet again on the day of your performance"
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Post by Vapovile on May 13, 2021 0:35:57 GMT
Amelia looked on with confusion when Armand made some space between them and Leone, his body language having changed entirely. Her eyes went to his phone, and she immediately became suspicious. Ashlea had never given her number to Armand, and he never gave it to her. Was Armand lying? His frightened demeanor made Amelia think there was something more going on and took a step to shield him.
"Oh, really? Yeah, I think we might need to help her out. Siblings, right?" Amelia gave a few laughs. Leone looked on at them, narrowing her eyes.
"Hm...that's a little strange. You two were so calm just a few seconds ago. I wonder what changed..." She pondered, taking a step toward the two. Amelia's eyes widened when she felt the woman's aura become noticeably more menacing, a toothy grin plastered across her face.
"Come on, you wouldn't abandon a girl, right? How about I go over and help with her? Surely she'll appreciate more...assistance." She said, taking another step. Amelia waved her right hand. "No thank you! I think we'll be going now." Amelia looked around, immediately finding an escape route.
Leone took another step. "Are you both that afraid of me? You're being sooooooooooo..." Leone was now within arm's reach.
"...strange."
In that instant, Amelia teleported the both of them onto a nearby rooftop located a block away. The fire mage breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wow...she turned really weird...what happened down there??" Amelia asked, turning to look at Armand. Her eyes then widened when Leone descended onto the rooftop from above and clapped her hands.
"Ohohoho, so this just got MUCH more exciting! What other tricks can you do? I MUST know!" The silver-haired woman cackled. Amelia glared and stepped forward, reaching into a hidden pocket of her dress and drawing her saber, pointing it at the woman.
"Who are you, and why are you after us?!" Amelia demanded. Leone simply cackled in response.
"Wahahahaha! Sure, I'll let you in on my little secret! I am the famous underground idol that puts on the most mortifying shows in the world! I am the silver beauty that wanders the earth, searching for men that can entertain me for the night." Her face grew a slasher smile when she held out her right hand and formed a maroon semi-transparent knife in her hands, bringing it up to her face.
"And you're the lucky winner of Yamiko's attention tonight, Dancing King." Yamiko cackled. She then threw the knife directly at Armand's throat, but Amelia easily parried it.
"Armand, stay behind me! I'll deal with her!" Amelia yelled, her saber erupting in an aura of fire as she stared Yamiko down. The sadistic idol continued to cackle as she formed two more knives in both her hands, and kicked off the ground toward them, attempting to slice Amelia's throat.
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Post by othus on May 13, 2021 1:38:38 GMT
Armand saw Amelia getting in front of him for his sake, for a moment he stared at the scene dumbfounded, but he quickly bolted into action as well, he wasn't gonna let anyone hurt her either!
Enveloped in lightning, Armand dashed in between Amelia and Yamiko, he was fast, too fast, even for hidden world standards. Armand aimed to kick Yamiko right in the face to deflect her advance, quickly bolting back to Amelia
"If you are fighting then so am I, let's kick her butt together!"-Armand told her, his nose slightly bleeding. If Amelia noticed, Armand's clothes were also emmitting smoke, whatever that technique was, it was doing damage to him for as long as he sustained it.
Armand knew stamina would be a problem, charge up was a strong technique, but for how long was he gonna be able to keep it up?
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Post by Vapovile on May 14, 2021 10:10:02 GMT
Yamiko was completely taken by surprise and kicked off course, sliding across the roof tiles. Amelia looked at Armand with amazement. "...whoa." Was all she could say in response. Her expression then turned to concern when she noticed the smoke coming off his body, and the blood coming out of his nose.
"Please don't over do it...but yes, let's destroy this witch!" Amelia turned to Yamiko, who had gotten back on her feet and dusted herself off.
"So THAT'S what you can do, huh?! You're fast! Sorry I had to break it to you before you got to the bedroom, bitch." Yamiko cackled at Amelia, who rolled her eyes.
"Are you done?" She asked, Yamiko putting a hand to her chin thoughtfully. "Hmmmm...no. Maybe I'll slow down after I shove that antenna up your ass." Yamiko laughed further as she waved her hands to summon 2 rows of 20 deep red knives above her head. She then let loose both in a wave toward the two of them.
Amelia focused a concentrated stream of fire into her saber and slashed it at the knives, using the pressure to knock them off course. But Amelia's eyes widened in surprise when Yamiko leaped over the stream and slashed at her chest, making a fine red line that dropped down her dress. The fire mage winced in pain, but smirked.
"My turn now!" Reaching forward, Amelia grabbed Yamiko by the dress and pointed her saber at the sadistic idol. She then blasted a small stream of fire forward, making Yamiko scream. "Get the FUCK off me!"
Yamiko delivered a sharp kick to make Amelia let go, making the fire mage stumble backwards. Yamiko now had a charred front, but was surprisingly resistant. She flew forward and waved her right hand upward, summoning 10 knives in a ring around Amelia and 10 around Armand, Yamiko sending them all inward at the duo. A strange music began to reverberated though the area. An aura of madness that Yamiko danced her life to the beat of.
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Post by othus on May 15, 2021 23:47:11 GMT
"What the hell..."-Armand questioned wether he was going mad or not at the eerie music.
He jumped upwards, dodging the knives at the last second and dashed back again towards Yamiko in a zig zag pattern, he reached for her head as he attempted to drive his knee to her face, if successful, he would repeat the dose a couple more times.
It was unusual for Armand to keep up his charge up skill for this long, he would have to cancel the technique at some point, but if he was to do it, he would at least release it on his opponent, he tried using his initial combo to tag Yamiko, once he was close enough he would set his hands on her head, releasing all the lightning magic accumulated on his body at once.
Wether or not Armand was successful, he would be sent back flying. He reeled in pain as he wiped the blood off his mouth and got up.
"Are you ok, Ame?!"-He told her, knowing she had just been injured a second ago.
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Post by Vapovile on May 18, 2021 10:17:38 GMT
Armand's speed was a little easier for Yamiko to keep track of this time, but she only avoided the first grab before getting her face smashed in several more times. However, her body began to disappear into a cloud of fog during the strikes. When the final attack came, Yamiko was cackling in glee.
"That's right, release that you little bitch!" She roared. The electricity zapped through what was left of her upper body, leaving several burn marks before disappearing entirely. A sadistic laughter echoed throughout the quickly-expanding foggy landscape.
"Hahahaha! Try to attack me now, electric dick! I own this land now!" Yamiko continued to laugh, with the voice now coming from seemingly the fog itself. Amelia glanced around looking for Armand.
"I-I'm ok! I'm coming right now!" Amelia couldn't safely teleport in this fog, so she sprinted toward Armand's voice that sounded weaker than usual. Her heart then sank when a loud bell rang out through the fog, reverberating through the air. She then felt a knife being driven directly into her back, making her pause in agony.
"Gotcha~" Yamiko said in a sadistically cute tone, before ripping the knife diagonally across Amelia's back, tearing through the dress and leotard and leaving a red streak that matched her previous scar, forming an X. Yamiko pushed aside the fabric with interest. "Oho? So I wasn't the first one to backstab you, huh? You're one unlucky bitch, aren't you?"
Amelia dropped to her knees as the pain radiated through her body. The comments only made her ball her hands up in rage, looking at the ground with fury. "Don't you...EVER..." Amelia's body flared up, whipping her neatly-done hair upward as it flapped in the wind. Yamiko dropped her knife in shock as she backed away, disappearing into the fog once more.
"...comment on my BACK!" Eyes now burning with fire, Amelia flared her aura out further. The hot air created an updraft that began to push the fog upward, dissipating it slightly as it swirled around her aura. "Armand, if you can hear my voice...I could really use a heal please. I am going to send this witch to the moon."
Lowering her aura behind herself for Armand to approach, Amelia concentrated her fire into her blade and superheated it with mana. "Inferno...slash!" Slashing the blade horizontally, the wave cut through the fog in front of herself and produced and updraft that sent it flying upward. Another bell sounded from fog that was traveling upward, reverberating into the fog behind them that was swirling. It was as if Yamiko couldn't materialize yet.
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Post by othus on May 19, 2021 23:55:46 GMT
Armand quickly rushed to heal Amelia, he looked at her back and cast a healing spell. He himself was angry at the damage done by that psycho, what was her deal? they were to stop her at all cost!
"I'll back you up!, let's finish this!"-He replied when Amelia sent the fog upwards. Thunderclouds gathered on top of the fog as Armand channeled all of his magic energy into a single attack.
Thrusting with his fist into the sky, he set up a step ladder, tracing a path for lightning to follow, the sky darkened and thunder roared as Armand released his magic, small sparks rippled around his arms while he dragged them down in a single motion "Return Stroke!"
A stream of lightning fell on top of the fog, bombarding her with the forces of nature, Armand released the spell and came to Amelia's side, in the meantime, Alex had already made Alexis aware of the situation.
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Post by Vapovile on May 29, 2021 8:31:17 GMT
The tower of fire and lightning erupted into the air, incinerating the nearby fog and sending it high into the sky. Amelia looked on at the display, heavily breathing from the sudden shock of pain that Armand managed to heal. She leaned against her sword, breathing a sigh of relief and looking at Armand.
"That...was really impressive. Are you alri-" "YOU DEEP-FRIED HORSE COCKS!" A voice roared out, a bloodshot eye glaring out of a wisp of fog nearby. "YOU THINK YOU WON?! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Out of the fog came an arm, summoning hundreds of maroon knives around the area in all directions. "That's it! I was trying to keep pretty boy alive, but you're both going to be used as trash bags now!" Yamiko stepped out of the wisp, showing she was now significantly shorter than before and now having short white hair with two long bangs in the front.
Amelia stood back up and prepared to teleport away when a hand reached from behind her and whips of pitch black shadow lashed out to swat at the knives. “Alex and I got all the people away from the dance gig! Told them there was a gas leak.” Alexis winked. A noise like a higher-pitched alligator bellow came from the dog-shaped creature at her side. “Looks like you needed it, eh sis?”
The look on Amelia’s face was a mixture of emotion. On one hand, she hated that her help was in the form of Alexis. On the other...there was help. Amelia let out a snort. “Yes, this woman’s a complete monster. I couldn’t even teleport with all that fog…” She commented. Yamiko’s eyes flicked to the new arrival, then Armand. He smiled, if Alexis was as strong as Amelia, then maybe they had a shot.
“Looks like she still has to maintain some sort of physical form after all, how about it? Should we finish this up?”- He said as he casted a healing spell on himself, soon enough, he would be able to go into a charge up mode again.
Yamiko looked at the trio with disgust. “And that’s just GREAT! So now they’re multiplying. Whatever, fuck EVERY one of you with a rusty pipe!” Yamiko yelled, waving her hands once more and leaping back, summoning a wall of whirling saw blades that all launch toward the trio. She then cackled as they began to move midair, Yamiko tracking the blades to go after Alexis and Amelia.
“Alexis, on me!” Amelia yelled, taking off toward Yamiko and diving over a saw blade.
“Got it!” Alexis hopped back and a blade gashed her skirt rather than severing her legs. One whistle to Whiplash and she vanished, only to appear from Amelia’s shadow. “We gonna burn her away?” Alexis asked, Amelia finally cracking a smile toward the fire mage.
“Yes...burn. Together. Watch out!” Grabbing Alexis by the shirt, she teleported the both of them out of the way of a saw blade, then let her go and readied her blade. “On three...we blast her to space.” Amelia instructed, glancing at Armand. “Armand, blow away that fog! Even if she disappears, I want her in the next country!” She instructed.
Armand gathered all his magic energy into the palms of his hands, he took aim and released twin bursts of energy, looking to tear through the fog and past it, the attack’s recoil sent the lightning mage on his back, his body slightly steaming from the attack, if he hadn’t cast a healing spell prior, he would have been in far worse shape.
The lightning blasted through the fog, the moisture conducting some of it and ripping through Yamiko’s body, making the demonic idol scream. Amelia then looked at Alexis.
“Three…” She began.
“Two.” Alexis released Whiplash and the hound sank into a portal.
“One!” Amelia’s white hot sword swung forward, unleashing a torrent of fire that whipped through the air like a knife.
“Heat Death!” Alexis lashed out not with direct fire but with a blast of dry heat. The fog would wither in its past, leaving Yamiko nowhere to run. “And… BACKBLAST!” Any fire that passed Yamiko was caught in her control, folding into a twisting fireball to hurl itself at Yamiko’s back.
Yamiko stared at the oncoming attack and threw up a deep maroon bubble that was quickly enveloped by both attacks. She pushed against the combined might, red eyes glaring at the both of them. “Fuck...THIS!”
Waving her hands, the barrier exploded into a million tiny pieces. When the dust and debris finally settled, the trio would find the spot where Yamiko had stood...and a hole in the roof. Amelia hopped down and glanced around...but couldn’t find anyone. She teleported back up and sighed.
“She’s gone…” Amelia muttered, leaning forward against her sword. She stumbled over to Armand.
“Are you ok? I saw that magic was hurting you…” Amelia looked his body up and down, trying to see if anything was wrong.
“I’ll...live. My whole body hurts bad though…”-He told her as he embraced her
“Thanks for protecting me, Ame”- He whispered at her.
Amelia embraced him back, eyes welling up as she looked down at the ground behind him. “Of course...I guess this date’s kinda...ruined.” Amelia sniffed. “I’d totally get if you didn’t want to go out again after this...mess…” Amelia looked at the ground further.
Armand stepped back and looked at her with a smile
“You are crazy, right? There’s nothing I want more than to see you again and again and again until you get tired of me”
He reached for her and kissed her as he held her, there was nothing he wanted to do more than that at that moment.
The kiss took Amelia by surprise, but she still wrapped her arms around his back and kissed back. The wave of relief washed over Amelia’s body. She had thought that Armand would surely leave her...the date was ruined by a psychopath. But he kept proving how amazing he was.
“Uh… I’d leave you nerds to it, but I’m gonna stick around in case she comes back. HWIC should be here in a minute.” Alexis mumbled and walked to another corner of the roof to give them some small privacy.
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Post by othus on Jun 2, 2021 5:40:51 GMT
Alexis left and Armand became a bit more self concious after what she said. He looked at Amelia a bit embarrassed, he had just met her and yet he felt the chemistry was there.
"So um, I know we are just one date in but, I was gonna ask: are you gonna be like, dating other people or, do you wanna be exclusive? don't feel like you absolutely have to tell me right now, I just...would like you to think about it"
Armand did not want to pressure Amelia into anything, they were both adults, and frankly, he had messed up during the date. That being said, he definitely wanted to see her again, and expected that she at least had the same feeling.
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Post by Vapovile on Jun 6, 2021 4:25:40 GMT
The question came as a surprise for Amelia, especially after such an intimate moment following a harrowing experience. She leaned back a little and made a fist, softly bringing it down on top of Armand's head.
"Come on...after all that, you think I want to see someone else? Honestly..." Amelia gave a smile and rubbed the tears out of her eyes. It was nice to know that even Armand was awkward at times. "Yes, I would love to keep seeing you. Exclusively, if you're willing to do the same for me." Amelia explained.
Amelia let out a sigh to compose herself. "I uh...had fun at the dance tonight. Would you like me to walk you back to the bistro, now that I am your amazing knight?" Amelia teased, stroking her hair and giving him a sidelong glance as she awaited his response, offering her arm for him to grab.
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Post by othus on Jun 9, 2021 3:02:32 GMT
"I am willing, which is why I asked!"
Armand chuckled and scratched his head a bit embarrassed.
"Actually um, I thought I was gonna drive you back to the hotel with your sister, you know...I don't want her to think I sent you on your own"
Armand wrapped his arm around hers, and walked with her, he looked up to the sky and and then at Amelia
"Unless...it was never your idea to go back to the hotel, in which case, I feel kind of silly"
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