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Crystal eyed the Golem rolling towards Nami, and furrowed her eyebrows. "Kairos, Shadow Ball the Golem." The Sigilyph would start up a Shadow Ball, but fired it off prematurely as he felt the huge chi spike. Her fur would stand on end as she felt the chi spike herself. "What is going on?...."
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Aile and the hybrid Raine would have a good vantage position to see the creature rise. This would make the hybrid lose concentration and fall a bit, though she catch herself. 'Oh crap.... Guys, if this link is on, I think this is an Elemental! I heard about them from my sis, these things are nasty.... Pretty much, the weaknesses do normal damage, and take it from there. We are up a hell of a creek....'

Aile looked down, scowled, then let loose a nice stream of words no one else needed to hear.

Cera was fairly sure she had a good lock on everyone she could get one on, until she noticed a sudden, drastic spike in the area's chi. Her eyes opening wide, she ascended and caught a sight of something she really wish she hadn't. Whatever the heck it was, she really, really wanted no part of it, backing up before starting to fly away like a bat out of hell.

"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!"

"What's sis taking off- uh oh." Aden was suddenly a bit startled, backing up a step. He held his ground otherwise, but suddenly, this seemed like less of a typical day for him now.

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Sol tried to keep away from Darts, only to end up tumbling with the jacketed wonder towards what little ground remained. Or the lava. Lava worked too. The presence of the golem didn't go unnoticed, serving to exacerbate the matter. "You know, Darts, I could do without you deciding to tackle me for whatever reason. I'm not paying for you to get off."

"This lot has the same knack. Good," Dark spoke up, undeterred as he saw and heard the golem. If anything, this was an even better opportunity than what Zygarde was giving back in Terminus Cave. As a glob of lava went to hit him, he didn't really bother to move. If anything, the heat from it proved to be useful, feeling more energetic than before. Enough to really ramp what he could do if he added what he already had.

The glow from the jewel intensified before Dark himself did, blinding the area to worsen the chaos that the golem was already causing. His usually bulky body slimmed down a little to make him more lithe, visible as the flash began to fade, and his chest gained what looked like an armor made from bone, resembling a skull that might've once belonged to an ancient relative of the common Houndoom.

With flames escaping him for a moment, the intimidating look he already had could only get worse. Chances are the others weren't going to have an easier time of things.

"Now, let's have some fun!" His voice boomed as he spoke, adding to the dread that might already be present.

After getting tossed off by Sol, I rolled over and looked ahead, staring in confusion. This situation had all went to hell. Who the hell is this guy? His presence is about as off the charts as that alternate me. Maybe from the same universe? I have no idea. Whatever the case, this does not bode well for ANYONE down on our end.

I then perked up, a even greater presence. Something familiar, no less. "Oh God, I hope that isn't what I think that is..." It was way too strong for it to even be a legendary Pokemon, minimum. Probably hundreds would be a fair equivalent. We couldn't stay here. Not with lava rising on us and that thing all the way up there.

I couldn't take this person infront of us directly though. I pushed up, gave a wave of the arm, then clinched my fist, a notion I would usually use against someone. The explosion, however, wasn't on Dark. In fact, it wasn't anywhere that close by.

"Yes. but not to say I haven't seen some interesting things along the way." RC says with a reassuring smile. RC shakes his head. "I don't know, and for now, I rather not know." RC says.

"I don't, either, but where would you go? You know this was created by Death, right?" She let go, looking down slightly. "There'd be no point, anyways, because well..." She looked back up at Cera. "We'd all be screwed anyways."

"That's a good question Sub..." Giratina Darts shoots back over his shoulder at the leader behind him. "If you wanted to try it, we could blow this popsicle stand wide open, get outside the game..." He gulps a little apprehensively, not at the thought of going back to the Distortion World, but at the advancing Rock Elemental. "Otherwise we could try standing here and fighting this thing." Neither option seemed appealing to the gambler at the moment, so he was semi-stricken to choose between the two.


It seemed as though Sol's words towards, as he called him, Darts, had struck a final nerve with the jacketed man as they stumbled into one another. Clenching his hands in a fit of rage, as the two of them get to their feet, the man retrieves his hunting knife and swiftly edges up behind him, ending Sol's life with a quick slash across the throat from behind, spilling his life-essence with one fatal strike. "Consider our debt settled." He says in his dulcet voice, shoving the no-doubt mortally wounded Sol off of the platform in front of him. "And don't call me Darts. You people seem to be a little too trusting in a familiar face..."

It didn't take much for Sol to notice that, for some reason, he had struck a nerve with Darts. Or, who he thought was Darts, at least. He thought to ask who this person was, quickly grabbing one of now-Darts' arms to try and keep him from going any further back. But before he could follow that up with something that might've saved him or otherwise brought the front of his neck into the danger zone, the free arm had managed to do its dirty work.

Sol, for his efforts, couldn't prepare as much as he had hoped for, and it meant a fairly hefty price at a time like this. Being tossed off wasn't going to help his or anyone else's matters either. So long as the ashes remained relatively close, there wasn't too much to fear. But falling from the air as his body began to burn, the ashes that inevitably would remain would soon scatter to the wind if they didn't end up in the lava below. There wasn't any coming back from this one, possibly to Death's delight for a change.

Finally, finally, their chess game could go uninterrupted.