((Fer the love of crap...Ok let's see, I''ll delete that last post after this one then.
And again, can we please keep all these OOC posts strictly in PMs from now on?
One moment whilst I THINK of something...))
((Ok got it.))
And suddenly...The ball of energy started to shrink. It grew smaller and smaller until it was only the size of an eight ball.
And the source of problem was revealed.
Lord H'taed stood in the air, his hand entrenched in the ball of energy, slowly draining it away to fuel his own might.
"Naughty Naughty. I don't like what you're doing to my poor pet. He hasn't been fed for centuries, and here you are depriving him of a good meal. Shame on you..."
The last of the energy ball drained into Lord H'taed. He then suddenly dropped out of the air, and onto the dragon's head.
"Go my pet! DESTROY THEM!"
The dragon roared again, and breathed another torrent of pure negative energy at the two beings.
Lord H'taed aimed a fist at the stream, and shot a single beam of electrical energy at it...
The huge wave of electrical and negative energies fused, forming a bloody red crackling flood of destructive goo, heading right for Alex and Krystell.
((*claps* Much better! ^_^))
Alex stepped forward and held out a hand, a single flash coming from the palm. The blast hit mere seconds later, but seemed to go no farther, as if hitting a field not unlike what surrounded them. However, there was one difference. Another flash appeared behind the dragon, the energy shooting out and heading towards the dragon from behind. The attack had been jumped to another location in space, redirected towards its creator.
((Mwahahaha!))
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The wave of gooey energy simply blew right past the dragon with no visible effects.
"Hell will have to freeze over before a dragon is born that isn't immune to its own breath, my sweet. You'll have to do better then that."
Then the dragon flapped its wings, and floated into the air...
Then crashed back down to the stgone earth. Two things happened.
The stone split and cracked, and a giant fissure with several stony fingers erupting from it appeared. This formed a jagged line, and the fissure and the giant crushing assault of wrenching and toiling rocks and boulders started to head right for Kystell and Alex.
The second thing was the huge shockwave that was also heading for them.
(Mwahahaha!)
Krystell grinned slightly and wrenched the ground she and Alex were standing on out of the ground. The new platform simply hovered there as the fault and the shockwave went harmlessly past them.
Channeling another beam of light through her sword, she fired this one at H'taed.
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
He yawned, extended his hand, and simply absorbed the attack through the palm of his armored hand.
(I love energy sink.)
"Aoleleb fought better then you. You're supposedly a stronger fighter then him? HA! I know toothpicks that could do more damage to me then you have."
The dragon roared again, and conjured two gigantic fireballs in both hands. It breathed traces of negatiuve energy into these...
Then threw the negative fire balls at the pair, along with a another huge stream of negative energy breath again.
The wave rose over the dragon's head for a moment, obscuring Lord H'taed...
and when it fell away again, he was no longer there. He had bolted away somewhere, waiting for his opprotune moment to strike.
Krystell raised up her shield and the fireballs and negative energy breath dissapeared, absorbed into it.
She channeled another beam of light into her sword, but she held this one in it. She flew at the dragon with her light-enchanted sword at the ready.
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
((Woah, I go to work for 1 day and we've already got 5 more pages O.o Better start reading...))
@Kedeawyth
Co-leader of Vae Victus Sinistus (Freedom/Infinity)
Virtue
Exorii: Lvl 50 Kat/Elec Stalker, fully IO'd, T4 Incarnate
SG: Hands of Ashra
The dragon pulled out a new trick this time.
Its en tire body seemed to explode, and all the chunks and pieces of its skin seemed to degrade into a floating pulsing black goo. All these globs scattered about...
And started to reform AROUND Krystell...
And in the blink of an eye, The dragon had entirely reformed.
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In the stomach of the dragon.
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Krystell found herself in a very bad place to be.
The stomach of the dragon.
Everything was meat and gore, with purple ooze dribbling from all around. The wall pulsed and quivered...
And strangely enough, the place was bigger then it was on the outside. The entire stomach was easily over a hundred feet wide in every direction. Bigger then the actual dragon.
"In case you are wondering..." Said a voice from behind her.
"The reason this place can be so big is because of my master's manipulations. It is standard procedure for him to bend time and space around his creations to give them special aspects. This dragon was no exception. He expanded the inside of it. While the actual body is only what? Seventy or so feet tall, forty or so feet wide? Whereas this space you stand in here...The entire inside of this dragon is easily over several dozen miles large. Interesting concept, don't you agree?"
Lord H'taed stood upon a giant pedestal of meat not far away.
"But that is aside the point. Shall we fight?" And with that, he conjured his mud mace.
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Back outside the dragon...
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The beast seemed to almost grin at Alex.
It started to charge forward at frightening speed, its giant hands, claws beared, lashing out towards her.
"Finally. I've been wanting a crack at you all day."
Krystell put her shield back in her pocket, she wasn't going to need it for this. She concentrated for a second and her sword turned into a dagger, with a blade made for punching through armor.
"This ought to be fun."
With that she dissapeared. She reappeared behind H'taed and aimed an attack at the back of his knee, normally one of the weakest points on a suit of armor.
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
((Alright, I think Nether is going to take a break for a bit, as she's been kind of left in the dust, >.> is about to be exploded, and I have another character I want to try out =D))
Shoshemi sat in the small meditation chamber. She had been there for 3 days. As one of the senior members of her order, she did little more than instruct the acolytes and meditate.
Her mind's eye watched. It watched ages long past, and ages to come. As all acolytes are instructed, she had found her inner self. Not many in the monastery wear the gold sash, or Jinzu, of inner peace. The trial is long and exhausting, a road traveled only by those that have found their inner self. She had felt compelled to meditate 3 days prior. None of the other monks knows why or what for, but she hadn't left the room since entering.
She had felt a disturbance. You could say it was a similar feeling that Obi-wan had when Alderan was destroyed. And so she began her meditation. She knew not what to search for or where to start, but she had begun none the less. Three days hence, her journey ended.
A "package" had entered our dimension. What it was, how it got here, and what it does were inconsequential. The fact was that it caused a disturbance in this dimension, and any disturbance was viewed as a threat. Shoshemi's inner eye watched it move from place to place as one would watch a satellite in the night sky. And now it had stopped in a place called the Dimension of Mists.
Shoshemi opened her eyes. Her vision quickly readjusted to the light after being closed for so long. She stepped through the door into the hallway, surprising a few acolytes that had congregated around the door to see if she would come out.
She scolded them, Shouldnt you be meditating?
They all mumbled an apology and hurried to their respective rooms. She began walking down the hallway. As she made her way down it, everything around her seemed to fade away, until seemed to be walking on thin air through an endless blue expanse. In the distance she could see an archway.
Through the archway looked pretty much the same as it did all around Shoshemi. Of course the blue haze of the mists looked very similar to what she was standing in now. She stepped through the archway. Instantly it felt as though someone had thrust a dagger through her consciousness. This place was a breeding ground of aberrations against reality, and every one of them assaulted her senses.
This place reeks of chaos. If I cannot destroy this device, I must make sure it doesnt leave here.
That said, she wrapped herself in a force field and began flying towards the device.
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*An Extremely Brief History of the Li Long Monks, and Shoshemi*
The Li Long Monks are an old order, dating back to the early 1300s. It was started by a man, known only as The Star Wanderer. It is said that they guards a Secret. What the Secret is, what it could mean, is known only to 5 monks at any one time. Shoshemi is one of them.
Each monk trains physically for 7 hours each morning, beginning at 5AM. Following that they pray to whatever god they feel, and then meditate for 4 hours, attempting to reach their inner self. Those that believe they have are giving a test to reach the Jinzu. If they make it, they are allowed to wear the sash, if they dont, most likely they havent survived. When one finds their inner self, they are able to tap into, as of yet, unreachable sources of power. They seem calmer, much more intouch with themselves and those around them.
Shoshemi is one of 4 monks currently wearing the Jinzu. At a young age she was taught the magiks of "Inryoku Chikara Bunya. No one knows why she has a third eye, or why it is absent most of the time, only that it shows itself when she channels extreme amounts of energy. ((Shes a Grav/FF controller, heres a pic. While she may be a controller, she's still a monk, so she know's martial arts.))
@Kedeawyth
Co-leader of Vae Victus Sinistus (Freedom/Infinity)
Virtue
Exorii: Lvl 50 Kat/Elec Stalker, fully IO'd, T4 Incarnate
SG: Hands of Ashra
((Congrats on the new char nether!
Erm...Some bad news though...
Krystell also tried to fly through the mists...And she ran into several difficulties.
Say hello.))
And suddenly, Shoshemi felt something smack against the back of her force field.
Below her was a gigantic eye. An EYE. The entine thing was easily larger then the moon of the Earth. Its vastness eclipsed everything below her. Extending from the blood red iris of the massive orb were thousands...MILLIONS of tendrils made entirely of pulsing green energies. Veins of blood the size of office buildings crisscrossed from below the point in the mists up to the single black center of the thing.
The black spot on the eye wasn't a black spot though.
It was a black hole, devouring everything in its path apart from the eye.
One of the tendrils had smacked against Shoshemi's force field, but it didn't look like the actual creature had noticed her yet.
It slowly sank back into the mists. The only evidence it had ever been there was the glow of green tendrils as they stretched through the endless oblivion of the mists.
((PSYCH! No, I didn't actually do anything.
Yet.))
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In the stomach of the dragon...
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Only Lord H'taed was no longer in front of Krstell. He was now behind her. His Lightning Reflexes kicking in the second she had left his field of vision.
His newly conjured mud mace descended upon her now vulnerable back.
((hehehe, those monks sound similar to what's behind the Keepers. Every potential Keeper has that energy locked up inside them. When a previous Keeper is about to ascend into the Council, merely bringing their replacement to the Lands of the Ages is like turning the key. The chosen person only has to believe truly that they can trust the Keeper to be ascended, and those doors are opened. In a way, Syne is now Alex's mentor, just like for Syne, Kitar was hers. Kitar was similar to Alex in a way, he didn't hold back often, but he also doesn't have the skill of manipulation that Syne had, so he left gaping holes that Syne spent her entire time as Keeper having to correct. That's typically how Keepers and their Council Mentors work, alternating between hands on force, then repair. Every Keeper inherits their mentor's skills, however, and since Syne had such unbelievable skill in manipulation of the time stream, Alex also has that ability. Since she can do hands on work without holding back AND repair any damage she may make, she's a pretty awesome force.
Huh, I guess there isn't much similar after all XD Anyway, this post will have to be short x.x I'm at a friend's house, and his keyboard sucks... the C key isn't working right, I have to hit it like ten times...))
When the dragon charged, Alex seemed to move with it. If it increased in speed, so did she, and if it slowed, she did as well. Soon they were to the opposite side of the field, and just when Alex's back was going to crash into the wall, she simply blinked out of existance, not leaving much space between it and the dragon. She appeared near the highest point in the field's ceiling, watching with arms crossed.
((And you posted before me, nice creature! I love your ideas, we need to talk sometime :P))
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The Dragon reached out with its hands and PUNCHED the energy field. While the field held firm, it stopped the dragon's momentum enough for it to steady its self.
The massive beast turned around and glared at Alex with its glowing red eyes.
It suddenly thrust its giant fists forward, and blood red energy began to form. Purple lines and links of energy crisscrossed and swirled around this ball of energy...
The dragon's swaying motions as it conjured this stuff changed. It began to leave tiny trails of its self behind it...Almost like aferimages, and time seemed to literally slow down. Voices that echoed from everywhere and nowhere at once, each overlapping with another, repeating an endless pattern before suddenly switching off to another.
And all the while the ball of energy grew, greedily devouring the space in between the dragon's hands.
Krystell seemed to vanish again and the mud mace hit the ground. Krystell was standing about ten yards away from H'taed.
"Come now, you can do better than that can't you?"
Krystell was standing in front of H'taed with her arms crossed. She focused for a second and her dagger turned back into a sword. She channeled a column of flame into it and blasted it at H'taed.
((If anyone wants to know how Krystell's powers differ from Aoleleb's (because besides different applications of his I really haven't shown what her unique power is yet) just PM me))
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
Lord H'taed vanished again, gone in a blur of static.
And the next second he had conjured two mud maces in both hands. One he aimed at Krystell's feet, another he aimed at her hands, intending to knock the sword out of them.
Krystell held out a hand and both maces stopped in mid-air. She was controlling the electricity that compirsed them
"What was that you said about Aoleleb being stronger than me?"
She brought her knee forward almost at the speed of sound, intending to blow H'taed away.
((Considering he has "Lightning" reflexes, he'll probably dodge that somehow.))
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
H'taed vanished in a flash.
He reappeared a few yards away.
"I see now...Nobody could have done that unless..."
He glared straight at Krystell.
"You're a mimic arn't you? You can copy the abilities and powers of others. I said it once, I will say it again. Aoleleb was stronger then you. You have to rely on the strengths of others to be able to do anything. And that's not all...You may be able to copy my powers...But can you use them with the same skill or tactics?"
Lord H'taed conjured his mud maces again.
"And remember, I'm an avartar of lightning. Not an ordinary super with flashy powers. I garuntee you that things will not very smoothly for you if you continue to try and mimic me. It might be...shocking..."
And with that, he accelerated towards Krystell again, mud maces twirling in an intricate pattern.
"If she tries to stop my attacks again with that little trick of hers, she'll be in for a surprise..." H'taed thought.
((Ok I was getting irratated with the holdup. Krystell can copy/mimic any powers she sees. Element told me in a PM. Point being, I needed a way to counter this ability of hers without simultaniously confusing everybody else in the process. Just thought I'd mention it.))
Krystell disappeared once again and appeared behind H'taed.
"I honestly don't see how you think Aoleleb is stronger than me. I have all his powers AND I'm his mentor. You think he was the first one here because he was the strongest? No. He was the first one here because he needed the practice. You may think he's stronger than me, but everyone has a different fighting style."
Krystell flashed again and was beside H'taed now.
"By the way, you are gonna have to think of some other way to come at me you know. I could keep this up all day."
A ball of energy formed in her hand. She started charging up for a powerful attack.
((H'taed, Krystell wasn't able to stop your maces because she's a mimic, she was able to stop them because electricity is one of the energy elements. Look back in the SS Fight and I listed the elements back there.))
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
((Yes, but considering that Lord H'taed is the AVATAR OF LIGHTNING...
and that he has used the stuff for god knows how long...
I'm fairly sure his manipulation over the stuff overpowers yours every day.))
In a flash, Lord H'taed was right in front of her. He reached out with the palm of hois hand, and planted it right on the ball of energy.
"Mine."
and in a flash of light, he absorbed the energy into himself.
"I think YOU'RE going to need to come up with a new idea. I can dodge and absorb your attacks all day long. And as for MY new plan...ATTACK!"
Suddenly, the meaty ground beneath Krystell seemed to quiver...
Before the entire thing erupted in a giant storm of muscle, gore, and pulpy meat. The stuff climbed up Krystell, holding her in place.
"Now you're not only fighting me. You're fighting the entire battle field."
And with that, H'taed conjured his maces again, and swung them forward.
"Geez, it's about time H'taed. Now things get interesting."
Krystell let out a burst of energy, freeing herself from the bonds of...well...let's not think about that right now. :P
She dissapeared right before she was smashed to bits and appeared a good way behind H'taed.
She rose up into the air and started gathering the winds about her. When they reached the force of a hurricane she threw them at him.
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
H'taed simply stood non-plused, and yawned as the hurricane blew right past him.
"Electricity. Grounded. Yada-yada-yada."
Suddenly, a huge vein-riddled bubble at the top of the stomach chamber popped open...And a huge stream of acidic chemecials and fluids dumped themselves ocer Krystell.
Lord H'taed started to whistle a merry tune, and weaved his hands to and fro, purple energies gathering about his form.
((Um, H'taed, what exactly are you grounded to? Last I checked, electricity seeks ground, not dragon guts. XD))
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne
((Little thing called Gravity, my good sir! Here's an example for you to consider...
H'taed can still be grounded on top of a skyscraper, even though its hiiiiiiiiiigh in the air! Because of gravity and electricity seeking the ground!
Correction. Electricity does not strictly seek the GROUND, it seeks a DOWNWARD PULL at all times.))
((Have to stop you again :P If she can stop the ball in an instant when its going so fast towards the edge of the field, what would stop her from merely holding it in place against a push of energy? :P
Gotta think more creatively, man. No Keeper is someone you could beat with brute force, even the ones who pull their punches. Syne had to get tricked into something for H'taed to get his chance against her, the same would have to be done for Alex. Only difference is, Alex isn't holding back at all, so you'd have to think up a good strategy to get her to back off.))
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