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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 21, 2015 13:13:55 GMT -5
"Useless, ahahah!"
"MUDA MUDA!" As the blast of lightning launched at him, The World punched the ground, launching a large block of ground into the air to help block the blast. With two more claps... This time, it could be seen, at least by the ones who figured it out. An odd bubble of sorts began launching from the vampire, turning everything it went past into a color negative as he stopped time again.
"Hehehe. Checkmate!" Leaping up into the air, Dio reached into his jacket, pulling out two large handfuls of fancy-looking knives, which he threw at Ace, the blades stopping in place a little bit after he threw them. "...Time flows again."
With that, the negative color vanished... and the knives continued on their path.
"Hahahahaha! I, Dio, will greatly enjoy drinking your blood..." He hadn't felt a rush like this in a long time. Not since Jotaro. He gouged his face with his nails once, blood spraying a bit from him before his wounds healed themselves.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 21, 2015 14:20:08 GMT -5
Once he had the World in his sights, Evan charged at the being again, claws and fangs erect and with nothing more on his mind than to DESTROY THIS THING.
"Okay. Playtime's over," Patrick murmured darkly, a bright blue abjuration circle lighting up beneath him. "Someone needs a time out."
Yes, he was aware of the irony. Apparently, Patrick Rooke was capable of irony. Who knew?
The light surrounded Patrick's form, encasing him in a protective ethereal shield. He transferred this energy to Evan, granting him his own shield, and he was about to do the same for Ace when Dio made his move again. Patrick only briefly saw the bubble that Dio projected, and the next thing he knew, there were knives headed directly for Ace.
"YIPE-!" He hastily threw all his energy at Ace, too stymied to think up a different spell. Not that a simple shield spell would do them any good at this rate...
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Post by DMis on Oct 21, 2015 18:34:52 GMT -5
Artemis picked up speed as she went for Dio.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 21, 2015 22:01:33 GMT -5
Ace came to an abrupt halt when neither her staff or her lightning hit their target. Then, before she could even consider what had happened, there were knives headed right for her.
"!!!" Without thinking, she crossed her arms in front of her face as a shield. Fortunately, even as Patrick's hasty spell proved ineffective, she managed to disrupt her body's particles so that the knives harmlessly phased through her in the nick of time. She might've been quick enough to avoid being stabbed, but she remained solid long enough for the blades to shred the sleeves of her shirt, along with much of the skin of her arms.
Strangely enough, her outer layer of skin just seemed to tear away like paper, revealing a second layer beneath. This skin was black, leathery, and almost diseased-looking, even disregarding the cuts from Dio's knives.
Ace stared at this new development, jaw dropping, the world around her suddenly coming to a screeching halt by her own accord, and suffice to say, it left her utterly mortified. It was painfully obvious what was happening. The shell of her former fallen angel self was finally starting to come apart, and the demon inside was trying to break free.
In one startling revelation, everything Ace had worked for was gone.
She should've been scared. She should've been more desperate to stop this transformation in its tracks. But as her gaze slowly rose from her arms to Dio's smug face, her one green iris darkening until it was as black as the other eye, Ace only felt one emotion: pure, unadulterated, unequivocal rage.
"Youuuuuuu..."
Staffs erect, gravitons building up around her, Ace screamed like a banshee and charged at Dio with the intent to kill and the outgoing force of a thousand wrecking balls.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 22, 2015 0:43:06 GMT -5
"Aaaaaahahahahah!" Dio laughed as she charged at him. "Weakling, weakling! Just... Give... UP!" He pulled back, and then let out a chilling yell.
"WRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" He stared at Ace as she charged... and suddenly, two high-pressure beams of eye liquid fired from his eyes; the Space Ripper Stingy Eyes.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 22, 2015 10:06:50 GMT -5
"Ohhhhhh popsicles..." Patrick muttered. Things were already getting out of hand, and even if he had ensured that the damage would be minimal, he had no idea what to do now. Evan was still fruitlessly trying to destroy the World and Ace was...
Oh God, what was happening to Ace??
Patrick! Van shouted, startling the mage out of his reverie. Give Artemis the shield spell too!
"Ah! Right!" He quickly complied, casting his blue light upon the aforementioned fallen. As soon as he had completed this, he suddenly found himself being pulled inwardly as one of his other selves forced him back into their mind. And once he had been repressed and relegated to a voice in his own head, Patrick was shocked to discover that it was Van who had assumed control.
Van, what're you doing?!
"I'm sorry, Patrick," Van murmured sincerely. "But if this goes where I believe it's going, we'll need a clear head to defeat this foe."
And who said you were any better suited for that?! Ray protested.
"I did. We don't need to add to the insanity, Ray. We need to-!!!"
Van was cut off by Ace's blood-curdling scream, looking up in time to see her fly towards Dio... and Dio unleash a devastating attack on her.
"ACE!"
ACE, NO!!! Patrick wailed internally. VAN, DO SOMETHING!!!
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Post by DMis on Oct 23, 2015 21:10:29 GMT -5
Artemis backed away seeing the eyebeam coming from Dio.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 23, 2015 22:23:55 GMT -5
......!
Ace didn't even see it coming.
One moment she was soaring head-first at Dio.
The next, there was nothing but blinding pain. The beams from Dio's eyes struck Ace directly in the face and sent her flying back. She crashed into Patrick's wall of force in a gruesome flurry of feathers. Then she toppled to the ground, lying sprawled out and motionless for an uncomfortably long time.
Eventually, Ace found the strength to pick herself up, resting on her hands and knees. She lifted a hand and gingerly touched her face, stifling a horrified gasp.
While the right side of her face had merely acquired some patchy burns, the skin on the left side was pretty much gone. Ripped away. And what remained was the black, sickly, leathery skin of the demon within. Her hand shakily trailed up the rough, tight surface until it reached the wound that her horn protruded from; simply touching the bloody gash pushed the horn outward further with a nauseating squish. The crimson fluid trickled down her cheek and from her mouth, and upon running her tongue along her teeth, her upper left canine fell out and a much longer, sharper fang instantly took its place.
The angel was dead. The monster was awake.
No...
NO...
Ace was furious. But unlike before, this wasn't a blind fury. She wasn't simply mad at Dio for what he had done to her. She was fully aware of the depths of her own rage, and she embraced it. She had every intent not just to claim her vengeance upon him, but to make sure he really and truly understood the grim mistake he had made.
She chuckled softly and maniacally as she slowly rose to her feet, her bat-like wings unfolding to their full size and shaking loose many more of their dead black feathers.
Ace was furious. And it felt good.
"Fine..." she breathed with a chillingly calm edge. "If you want blood so badly..."
The dark aura that surrounded her was clearly visible now, writhing around her form like ethereal black whips. She raised her hands, and all at once, the gravitons around her created a pulsating shield, negatively-charged particles sparked up two white rings of lightning around her, and tiny beads of the blood that flowed from her wounded, mutilated body rose up and orbited her.
"...have some."
Ace threw her hands up, and with the force of a magnum, she fired the blood droplets at Dio like they were a hundred crimson bullets.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 24, 2015 13:49:48 GMT -5
"Ghhk?!" Dio's eyes went wide as Ace transformed, and while The World appeared, punching at the 'bullets' flying at him... there were far too many.
Even with his vampiric agility, he was badly gashed up by the shots. "Gyah! Hhh... hhh... y-you'll come to regret that..."
But not now. Dio needed to return to the castle and inform Dracula of what was going on. With two claps, Dio stopped time once more... and in an instant, he had vanished, having jumped away at high velocity during the stopped time. The remainder of the blood bullets struck where he was previously, with no sign of the yellow-clad man.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 24, 2015 14:12:22 GMT -5
Van swallowed hard and ran after Ace, calling over his shoulder, "Evan, stay! Artemis, please help him!"
He stopped a good distance away from his other self's beloved, properly mortified by the changes she had undergone so suddenly and drastically. His and Patrick's utter horror only escalated when Ace's fear turned into demented, gleeful rage. He stood there rigid, preparing an illusion spell should things get out of hand.
"A... Ace?"
No... No, babe, what's wrong?? Patrick shuddered.
Van was then blown away, literally and figuratively, when Ace unleashed all of her fury upon Dio in the form of high-velocity blood particles. And to his surprise, this actually seemed to do the trick, as in an instant, Dio had vanished. Perhaps he wasn't defeated, but at least he was out of their hair for now.
Warily, he turned back to Ace. With one threat out of the way, he and Patrick had more leeway to worry about her. "Ace, are you alright?"
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Post by DMis on Oct 24, 2015 21:50:22 GMT -5
"Sure thing Ghostbuster!" she called over her shoulder before going to assist the feral guy.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 24, 2015 22:31:54 GMT -5
"Myeheheheh... Coward," Ace laughed dementedly, pausing to spit out more blood. "All that talk, all that buildup, and he turns out to be just another coward!"
She turned an insane smile on Van, racing over to him and tightly grabbing him by the shoulders. "Patrick! Or... Van? Cool! Just who I wanted to talk to! Why don't you track him down?! We could go after the freak and give him what's coming to him!!"
Ace was practically trembling with maddening ecstasy, her mutilated face a mask of chaotic bloodlust.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 24, 2015 22:52:28 GMT -5
Evan anxiously looked around when Dio and his stand suddenly vanished. After all that chaos, he expected them to reappear at any given moment. He jumped slightly when Artemis approached him, but he ignored her and continued his search; the master had ordered him not to harm this one, after all.
"W-What??" Van choked, lightly pushing Ace away. "Ace, c-calm down. He's gone. We don't need to go looking for him. You, however... You need to pull yourself together. You're not acting like yourself. I'm worried that this transformation is starting to take its mental toll-"
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Post by DMis on Oct 24, 2015 23:06:21 GMT -5
Artemis looked back. She gulped. "Anyone know a priest or exorcist?" she asked in a very scared tone.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 24, 2015 23:15:32 GMT -5
"Van, come onnnnnnn!" Ace half-growled half-whined in a surprisingly intimidating manner. "That douche attacked us outta the blue! You're just gonna let him go?! Leave him free to attack and kill whoever else he wants?!"
She didn't even wait for an answer. She just scowled at Van and took a deep breath, exhaling it in a huff. "Alright, fine. If you're too weak in the knees to do it, I'll find the bloodsucker myself."
Ace then took to the sky, showering those below her in black feathers as she arced over the wall of force and began her flight across the park.
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