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 Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:44 pm
THWUNK
Tanto's follow-through slammed 93's head against the wall, wedging the blade halfway into it. 93 began flailing, attempting to dislodge the blade from its stone head.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:59 pm
Isaac charged at 114, blades and REF ready as he clashed with the subject.
Tanto, in the meantime, decided not to let 93 get away, and released the sword, though 93 was still pinned to the wall. The huge Demon-Major grabbed the stone arms and crushed them, followed by the legs, then a devastating punch to the chest. Pretty much only the head remained uncrushed, and that was completely penetrated by the sword.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:02 pm
The stone arms and legs remained irritatingly functional as 93 avoided the punch by removing the small amount of the blade stuck in the wall and-
That b*****d. He was trying to run away with the sword still halfway-cleaving his head.
114 deflected the sword strikes with the shield, thrusting the lance at Isaac in a conservative but powerful counterattack.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:14 pm
Tanto growled. If that was how it is, then it was like that. Tanto reached out and grabbed the sword's handle before it was too far gone, jerking back. It pulled 93 backwards even as the blade dislodged, and Tanto spun and slashed diagonally, aiming for the final killshot.
Isaac, in the meantime, knocked the lace away with one sword and countered with the other, coming in over the top of the shield as hard as he could without straining himself.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:21 pm
93 fell to the ground as the sword sliced a wedge of his head away. He collapsed on the ground, shuddering violently.
Subject 93 incapacitated. Subject 114 has engaged. 114's strong defensive stance easily blocked the strike. A burst of fire came from the hatch on the lance, blowing Isaac back - some sort of mundane shell. Subjects 14, 87, 139, report to combat the intruders.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:47 pm
Tanto hefted the sword and spun, then slammed it down in the shield. This undoubtedly disrupted the stance of Subject 114, as Tanto's physical strength was enormous.
Isaac, in the meantime, recovered and fired several shots into the opening thus created before moving behind to flank and strike from behind the opponent.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:51 pm
114 slid forward, slamming his shield up against Tanto's sword and knocking him off balance with the shield. Isaac's shots dealt a small degree of damage to the plate mail - nothing significant, however. As Isaac flanked, he spotted another subject - 139, from the numbering embroidered in yellow on the black button-down shirt below his black trench coat.
"Well, this is looking to be interesting. I was taking the time to be brushing my teeth and I am arriving to find you are standing above the body of Subject 93," he commented, adjusting his black, white-banded fedora and rubbing his hands together.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:39 am
Tanto responded to the new entry with yet another Chaos field; it never hurt to try, in his experience. Waves of the potent energy were infused with the image of a bucket of water, flowing over the subject.
Isaac, in the meantime, turned on his REF while behind 114 and slid in, dealing an X-slash with his twin silver blades.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:22 pm
139 sank into the floor and dropped downward from the ceiling after the Chaos blast moved by. "Mmmm. Potent magic - similar to those of my own, to a degree," he commented, waving his hand around in the wake of the chaos bolt then licking his finger.
And then Isaac's blades slammed into the bulky armor of 114, knocking him to the floor. Isaac followed up by driving the swords into the base of 114's neck. The ichor they'd seen in the other Akai Ryu cultists began to leak out.
"Really, 114. I expected better of you," 139 commented. He placed his foot to the ground and a black tendril shot towards 114 from the sole of his foot. "You can't even use a weapon granted by His Greatness to its full extent. Shameful." The tendril dragged 114 over to 139, Isaac's swords slicing half the neck away, while another tendril forked off from the first and seized 93's corpse. "In your deaths, you serve a greater purpose," he whispered. He stood unmoving as the right side of his body, from the trench coat outward, turned into an enormous black mouth with razor teeth and consumed the mortally wounded Akai Ryu subjects. "Now, let me show you how this weapon is used." The gunlance grew outward from his left hand and the shield from his right. He began to advance upon the intruders.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:29 pm
Isaac watched in horror, but this wasn't the time to back off (no matter how bad he wanted to). He raised his arm and fired again and again, though with how badly he was shaking, he was pretty sure he'd miss.
Of course, Tanto was impressed by the powerful magic. It seemed like this person would be a good fight against the mastery Tanto had over Chaos; it had been so long since someone had offered him a real challenge. The only thing that excited the ancient demon anymore was putting his life on the line against someone stronger and seeing who would emerge at the top again.
He charged at 139 and, very surprisingly, launched himself into the air and slammed his sword down onto the opponent. "What's your name, creature?" Tanto asked in his low, Hell-infused voice. Once the attack resolved, Tanto punched the shield with all of his strength to send 139 backwards.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:34 pm
"I am Subject one-three-nine," their foe replied as he deflected Isaac's shots with the shield. "As one of the few of our tests to keep my memories and the better part of my brain," he continued as he fired a shell at Tanto's sword, knocking it astray as he twisted with Tanto and kicked him upward, sending him flying a solid twelve feet backwards. "I retain my old name, Malcolm, as well." Subject 139 - Malcolm - readied himself for their next attack, a blue flame flickering around the barrel of the gun part of his weapon.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:37 pm
Tanto hit the ground gracelessly, though he regained his feet in seconds. He lobbed a Chaos bolt at Malcolm with a light rightside angle, darted in on the left, swung his sword such that it would come in from the wide left, and was ready to throw a punch straight in in his attack was countered.
Isaac, in the meantime, fell back a bit to watch, though it was also because he was terrified. He hoped that some other people from their team would arrive soon.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:44 pm
Malcolm's shield absorbed the mana. As he approached.....
FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Malcolm himself flew back about two feet, sliding to a stop another five feet later. A large vent atop the gun flicked open and began radiating heat.
"Gotcha," he declared cheerily as Tanto's flaming body flew backwards at his compatriots.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:53 pm
Cassandra dove out of the way, trying to do the only thing she was good at: analysis.
"Come on, there's got to be something I can see outside of here!" Cassandra muttered under her breath, dropping another empty magazine and replacing it. Two spare now. This was reaching critical levels.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:44 pm
Isaac gasped as Tanto was so easily thrown off. Isaac had thought the huge demon to be very powerful, but here was Malcolm playing with the Fallen Angel like he was a rookie.
It terrified the Clockwork Knight. Badly.
He was too shaken to attack the subject. Tanto, badly burned and knocked around, laid still at the far end of the hall, smoking.
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