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Post by DanteMGalileo on Oct 24, 2015 14:13:10 GMT -5
Madison slowly got to her feet, the unicorns and snakes still circling her head. That had to be the worst thing she ever ran into!
"Lalala... sorry mister tr- YOU CANNOT STOP ME- ee. Didn't see you there. But really, I need to find some help for those guys!" And with that, she resumed her running in earnest.
It lasted for maybe thirty seconds before Madison crashed straight into something else. In this case however, that "something" was a person.
"... That tree is still- SERVE ME- the worst thing I've ever run into! Hey there, what happened to your- AND SAVIOR RICHES- head? BEYOND MEASURE!"
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 24, 2015 21:44:04 GMT -5
Bruno stumbled back as the little girl crashed into him. "Urf!"
When she spoke to him, he blinked. "...I don't know. It just fell off when I woke up here. What... happened to you, little girl?" Her sudden shouting like that was certainly not normal.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 24, 2015 22:05:05 GMT -5
"HRK!" Melancholic hadn't expected such a powerful blow from Ace, strong enough to knock him back, force him to release his grip on Patrick, and leave him disoriented enough for Ace to disrupt his shadow form.
Phlegmatic was at least able to brace himself, taking Ace's hit rather well. "You aren't, are you? Honestly, little demon, you have yet to prove me wrong, if I do say so myself."
"A-Ace...!" Patrick had no idea what to do. As soon as he had hit the ground, shadows and demons surrounded him from all angles, leaving him too preoccupied to deal with Ace's growing hysteria. And he was getting pretty fed up himself, as his haphazard onslaught of light spells more than proved.
In the midst of his slaughter, Evan found himself face-to-face with Choleric. The feral human and demon quickly charged at each other and engaged in a chaotic dance of shadows and unadulterated aggression. Evan slashed and snapped. Choleric commanded his shadows with extreme prejudice. Both were holding up extremely well.
From the shadows, the altered form of a friend observed this one-on-one. "Evan...?
And in the meantime, Sanguine left the other generals to it, opting to keep an eye on the party member that had gotten away. The mummy girl hadn't even gone that far before running into a new character, and the demon caught up to her fairly quickly. Shadows rose around Madison and Bruno at his command. "Hello."
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 24, 2015 22:41:16 GMT -5
"I'M NOT A DEMON!!" Ace screeched, striking Phlegmatic with a raging onslaught of electricity. "I WILL DESTROY EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU FILTHY HEATHENS TO PROVE IT!!!"
Left and right, Ace swung her staffs, shot her lightning, threw anything she could at the infernal demons. And the longer the fight went on, the angrier Ace became... the more decayed her outer layer of skin appeared, the longer her right horn grew, and the darker her aura became.
They wanted to know what a real demon was like?
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Post by DanteMGalileo on Oct 25, 2015 20:28:58 GMT -5
"Um, hey, we're really sorry about- YOU TEST MY PATIENCE- runnin' off on y'all earlier. But can we just talk it out- THERE IS NO NEED FOR TALK." The ancient king took over Madison's body, lashing out with the bandages that extended from their arms, swatting at the demons surrounding them, scatteirng them away.
"Sorry! I'M NOT SORRY! Can we make this up later? THERE IS NO NEED FOR FORGIVENESS."
Another lashing of the bandages ensued, though weaker this time. The blonde mummy clinged to Bruno, eyes wide. "Help me! Help my friends! DO SOMETHING USEFUL!!"
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 25, 2015 23:21:23 GMT -5
Bruno was already readied when the shadows coalesced around them... and as the mummy girl clung to him, the man summoned his Stand. "Sticky Fingers!"
With one punch to the ground, Bruno opened a zipper on the ground, and dove in, carrying Madison with him, shutting it quickly. He began moving underground with her, heading up a big tree nearby. "I can help, but promise me you'll stay quiet and away from the fighting."
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 25, 2015 23:31:39 GMT -5
Patrick shielded himself in a barrier of light and took a moment to assess the situation. Needless to say, it was not going well. Ace and Phlegmatic were engaged in their duel, as were Evan and Choleric. Melancholic was commanding his shadows and minions in a charge against Patrick, and Sanguine was pursuing Madison and her new friend. This was pure insanity, and with practically the entire Præt'nos army against them with the fog to further enhance their dark power, it didn't take a genius –which Patrick obviously was not– to realize that this was a losing battle.
"Ace, maybe we oughta get the frig outta here!!"
At the very least, he decided it best to get the Paramount Key out of the Præt'nos' reach. Thus, from within the safety of his light bubble, he opened a portal to his void pocket, removed the key from his person and tossed it in. Now all that was left to do was seal this sucker and get everyone to safety.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 25, 2015 23:39:34 GMT -5
After slamming her staff upside Phlegmatic's head a few times, Ace turned around when she heard Patrick shout to her. Part of her agreed with the prospect of escaping; even she was willing to admit that they were pretty outmatched here.
But even more so, she wanted to prove just how wrong these monsters were.
And she saw the perfect opportunity.
As soon as Patrick had opened up his storage space and dropped the key inside, Ace drove a staff through Phlegmatic's chest to hold him off while she forced her gravitons through Patrick's light barrier and into the void. Once she had her sights on her target, she pulled the gravitons back out, freeing her object of choice and sending it flying into her hands.
The blood hedron, which contained a binding sphere, which contained the miniscule base form of her demon ex-boyfriend, Jack.
"You fools. Let me show you a REAL demon!"
She grinned viciously at the surrounding shadows, and at her command, the hedron started to come undone molecule by molecule.
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Post by DanteMGalileo on Oct 26, 2015 14:04:35 GMT -5
"You can count on me tio be sil- FIGHT SLAVE- ent! I'm really good at-"
Madison (or the mummy, it would be hard to tell) was cut short when Bruno placed her hand over her mouth, shushing her on the spot.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 26, 2015 14:13:32 GMT -5
Bruno nodded, leaving the bizarre mummy girl up in the tree, slipping back in. From what he'd been able to see, this... creature... could manipulate shadows. He'd need to be careful... Fortunately, he already had a plan.
The black-haired man slipped further, leaving from another tree... then unzipped his Stand's hand, throwing a punch at Sanguine from the distance. "Ari!"
Immediately, he zipped open the tree he was near, heading to do another attack from another angle. If he could get them to drop their guard enough...
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 26, 2015 14:32:10 GMT -5
"Hmm?" Sanguine smirked and shielded himself from all angles with his shadows. "Well well, you're a crafty one, aren't you? You know, this would all be over quickly if you fools simply left this place."
Finally, Choleric seemed to get the advantage, pinning Evan to the ground with one hand. The screeching feral man's scratches were ineffective against the demon's shadowy arm. "One less pest. One last keymaster..."
Another Præt'nos' shadows suddenly wrapped around Choleric's arms, much to his shock and chagrin. When he looked up, he discovered the source of this intervention to be the metaphorical black sheep among them, the green-eyed Præt'nos. "RGH... Stand down, soldier!!"
Toby flinched but managed to suppress the hive mind seeking to manipulate him. Choleric was not his general. He hardly felt as compelled to obey him as he did with...
All the while, Patrick watched in a fair amount of confusion as Ace reached into his void storage just as he was sealing it shut. And he was even more horrified when he realized what she had absconded.
Jack's hedron.
What?!
WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT?!
"Ace?! ACE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
He raced over to her, but found himself unable to get the hedron away from her as he was forced to protect her from the advancing shadows. There were too many to ignore and he couldn't let any of them touch Ace. But between the Præt'nos and Jack, which was a worse situation?
As the hedron disintegrated, revealing the glowing blue sphere within, the little black blob inside perked up with keen interest.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 26, 2015 16:07:10 GMT -5
Ace ignored Patrick's shouts, her mind too far gone to care about the consequences of releasing the monster. All she cared about was giving these demons what for. And if she and the others couldn't do that, who better to dish out the dastardly deed than the greatest master of chaos she knew?
Soon enough, the hedron was reduced to little more than crimson ash scattered across the wind. Her powers wouldn't work on Patrick's binding orb, however; being pure magic, it had no physical particles to manipulate. Well then, Ace would have to improvise.
"Meet Jack!"
With the force of her gravitons backing her up, Ace threw the blue sphere holding the black blob directly at Phlegmatic, the crushing blow on par with that of a cannonball.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 26, 2015 19:45:45 GMT -5
As his Stand's fists collided with the shadow shield, Bruno thought to himself a bit. 'So, this thing's using those shadows... it doesn't seem to be a Stand, but... well, this should still work just fine...'
The man moved through the ground again... and from the area just below Sanguine, a punch struck the shield, and a zipper formed on the shadows as Bruno zipped them open, leaping from his position underground. "Hrrah! Take this!"
Sticky Fingers appeared, throwing a rapid-fire barrage of punches at Sanguine. "ARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARI-"
One more massive punch wound back, then launched at the demon's head, and Bruno shouted in turn. "Arrivederci!"
His head was still held under his right arm, but he still did a two-finger gesture to where his forehead would normally be with his left hand.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 26, 2015 20:08:25 GMT -5
Sanguine was impressed and taken aback by the ferocity of Bruno's attack. He did his best to block the Stand's rapid succession of punches with his arms or shadows, successfully shielding himself from a few but taking a great deal of them directly. He was properly disoriented by the time the final blow was delivered, slamming him in the face hard enough the send the demon flying back, disconnecting from the shadows and instantly dissolving into a formless black mist.
Just as quickly, however, said mist retreated back into the shadows and reformed into Sanguine, who could only grin smugly at Bruno. "Nice shot."
With Toby effectively distracting Choleric, Evan squeezed his way out of the general's grip until he had enough leeway to reach up and sink his fangs into the demon's neck. Choleric yelped and tried to push the man off, but Evan just reached up and grabbed ahold of the demon, gripping tightly with his claws and driving his teeth deeper into the soft, fleshy part of Choleric's neck. After a few seconds of struggling, pushing and tearing, Choleric finally went down, melting into the shadows and disappearing entirely.
One down.
And given that Evan had just taken down the most physically imposing general with his mere brute strength, it was safe to say that things were turning around, as Melancholic duly noted. "Oh dear..."
Patrick would've made note of this development as well, were he not distracted by Ace freeing Jack's binding sphere and hurling it at Phlegmatic. The demon took the hit hard, the combined force of Ace's increase in gravity and the protective barrier that formed the orb knocking him to the ground. Blue sparkles exploded off the orb, though it stayed intact.
"WHA NO!" Patrick immediately dove for the sphere, but Phlegmatic's shadows seized it first.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Oct 26, 2015 20:33:48 GMT -5
Ace's maniacal smile widened when she noticed the sparks coming off the orb, hopeful that it would break with enough force. When Phlegmatic grabbed ahold of it, she jumped in after it herself, sliced the shadows with her staff and smacked the orb away like a golfer, this time sending it flying towards a distracted Melancholic.
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