People arrived in a drove, dropping to the top of the building. It quickly spiraled from her confronting Titan alone, to having comfortable back up, to an overwhelming order presence that sent her blood pressure spiking.
People were shouting things, all of them in the vein of demanding back the starseed and a few in worryingly threatening tones.
“Please, guys, lets just take a step back!” She called as she spread her arms. In particular she eyed Hyperborea, hoping her friendship with the other girl might help her see some sort of reason. “It doesn’t have to become a fight! Someone will get hurt, the building will take damage… ”
Ida sent imploring eyes at Navi, Duhr, even Scholomance as people she knew, who might listen to her… but just as she feared, Titan didn’t take being confronted now any better than he had before.
“Wait!” She called, but he was already off, and Hyperborea was quick behind him. She took a half step and then jumped, dropping down through the partial roof and flooring to reach the brewing fight below. The man lay where he had fallen and a few steps took her to him, torn between trying to move him to safety, or try to, probably uselessly, get between the Knight and the General.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:18 am
Super Sailor Denebola
People were blipping onto the scene quickly and Denebola's stomach twisted. Most of them she vaguely recognized, from other large gatherings, but most of them-- they were strangers still. Only Navi stood out strongly in her memory, from conversations about the mirror senshi. Some of them had showed up to aid her when she'd been foolish enough to go toe to toe with a general who's inhibitions had been lowered by his time away.
It was redundant, the new arrivals shouting for the impossibly large general to return the starseed and she could feel anticipation slinking up her spine and wrapping around her nerves.
There were too many people, too many demands, too many attempts at orders and people trying to take the reigns of control and Denebola could see everything unraveling even before the general summoned his weapon.
He called the name of one of the gathered, Ida, and Denebola's two-tone gaze flicked upwards to where the senshi stood above and she tried not to tense when she heard the pleads.
Even if she wanted to listen it was too late, some were attacking and more were arriving on scene.
"Someone, help me get the body out," she called, looking for anyone who might help her.
Sure, the starseed was important, but it wouldn't mean anything if there was no body to put it back into.
There was far too much happening at once - yelling from both sides, action to be had but the senshi of tornadoes was baffled at where to even begin in a ruckus quite like this one.
Two voices rang out louder than the others, drawing her attention towards the two young women who appeared panicked, hollering for assistance. One seemed to be worrying over the body of the starseedless individual - Duhr wasn't quite sure why they needed to worry about a dead man over a live one but if there was one thing Sailor Duhr was good at, it was strength.
So, taking direction from the frantic woman, she clopped her way over to the duo, high heels smacking and thwacking against the ground before she too was moving to try to tug the motionless person away from the fray. Lace and poof was shoved away as she stubbornly worked to find a proper hold.
"You really think this is what we should be focusin' on right now?"
The Squire tensed as that monstrous youma moved, but seeing it instead take the other lieutenant to retreat was somewhat of a relief. It wasn't worth it, more than likely, to go after the retreating figure, and besides, what would he do against that youma and agent if he even caught up? The General with the starseed also went into motion as well, and the knight he had commented to briefly lunged after him.
Okolnir sighed. He should just go, but duty and what not. With a General this imposing, his magic might be of some use to people who were looking to engage him. Maybe they could get the starseed back. Maybe.
He followed suit after Hyperborea, summoning his small metal buckler. The squire didn't get close to the General or the knight though, instead staying outside of their strike zone for the time being. Close enough to cast his magic if he need be, but far enough away to be relatively safe.
That little girl was snappin sass back at him like she was full growed, but Saak was having none of it. Hyperborea deserved some respect, sure, but she had to earn the right to get away with treating others so dismissively, like they were lesser. "Don't know what trip you on - an' you definitely on one sis - but that's a grown-a** bear-man, and you're just a scrawny kid. You watch your own a**, I got mine." Glowbright got on her summoned ride and went haring off like she had no sense - because of course she did.
Got no sense. Saak wondered if the slender limbed white-girl thought somehow that being of a rank with the General made her a match, 'cause it didn't. This wasn't some ********' shojou anime where tiny high-school girls could defeat massive monsters with the power of true love or some s**t - this was real ******** life and no skinny-a** white girl was going to be any sort of match for a brute the size of Grizzly Mountain there unless she was literally Wolverine. Adamantium reinforced skeleton included.
The Bear's bearthing went off with the one enemy that Saak might have been able to take on himself. Awesome.
More awesome: Buttwings McGlowingFlowers seemed to know Hammertime. Cool. Also, why a giant hammer? A giant anime hammer? That Saak did not like the looks of?
"Cool. Cool. I like this. This is awesome." Saak rubbed his sweating palms against the magical khaki of his shorts, jingling with each furtive movement; he wasn't interested in following the General into the Very Obviously a Trap building-in-progress, but that was the hero gig, right? Then again, he didn't have to get right up in the General's junk to cast his magic and maybe make life a little harder for Rocky Hammer Butcher Show - just within four feet.
Too ******** close to that goddamn hammer. Saak swallowed hard and moved to join - slowly - the other Order members pursuing Titan, chanting under his breath "Four feet, four feet, four feet." all the while.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:09 pm
So much for a solid response to that one. One knight already jettisoned off after the general, the challenge declared, and left the rest to decide for themselves how they wanted to proceed. A bit of a b***h, that one.
Among those left behind was Ida, who looked to him and others and shouted a stay of pursuance. "Well, my friend," he greeted his summons, "looks like we're taking a detour. You first." A quick wave ushered the horse toward the already broken window. The bullet hole acted as a destabilizer that led the rest of the glass to shatter as the horse jumped its veritable weight inside. Then came Scholomance who once again mounted the steed once indoors.
Catching up to the brouhaha was a matter of navigating half-finished walls — dodging to and fro in the uniform maze as guided by the sound of challenge.
Once caught up, he found Ida trying to act on her own. If she had ideas about how to broach this mess, the time to speak them was past with the general in earshot again. Seems the other knight's rash decision-making canned what time they had for tactics. The rest was up to lucky calls and quick reflexes as Order so seldom worked with each other. Now wasn't the time to think about how many would die from this — how many would consign themselves to the burden of stopping this general alone so no others would feel its weight.
Oh well. Nihilism and all that.
To Ida, he communicated a head tilt that was somewhere between do you have a plan and do you want me to interfere? He had the magic for it; whether she knew that, memory couldn't say.
Waiting on the sidelines suited him plenty, regardless. That hammer looked like it could turn a man to paste.
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:06 am
Navi
The senshi's heart sank as she watched the big man make a choice and it was perhaps the worst option presented to him. A pursuit to end with a fight, and even if it was just that one general, he his excessive size and strength was not to be underestimated. If he got his hands on someone else, anyone else, they were all at a distinct disadvantage, because as was clearly demonstrated before, he cared little for another life, and they were duty bound to protect.
The redhead shot an anxious look up at Ida, not at all sure what to do about this, but doing nothing was certainly not an option. With a small sigh the petite eternal darted after the general and the knight that'd gone after him, wishing uselessly that the latter hadn't acted so brashly.
They could have made a plan, they could have worked together to get the starseed back, but now it had shifted into a uneven melee.
Rather than making chase, Navi went for where she'd seen Ida last, if the other girl had any sort of a plan, maybe a few of them could execute it, if they were quick enough to gather and form it.
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Close to Ida, I think? Or headed in the same direction? <3
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Genbu
Not at all happy about any part of this situation Genbu jogged along with the other order senshi and knights, but she paused as someone called out for help. She wanted to move the body of a man in a security uniform, which seemed a little on the pointless side, but based on the shouting she'd heard before she'd arrived that big meat wall of a general had a starseed, and Genbu was willing to bet this poor man was the owner of it. She took a few quick steps in that directio before another senshi, a super, was kneeling down to help her.
It didn't take three senshi for that job, so she kept heading towards the building. Towards danger. God, this was a bad idea.
At the very least she wasn't going into this solo, that counted for something, but almost everyone here was glowing in her head bright enough to be blinding. Cept for a dark skinned purple clad senshi with an instrument on his head. Genbu headed towards him, safety in numbers and all tat jazz.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:21 pm
City sounds, sirens, sighs swallowed the sound of the youma and little Alkahest. They were gone, safe.
Starlight shimmers and shouted command again, from one at least that followed and belied better dreams of dark times. She had worn the sky sometimes, in that other city. This facsimile’s fist his home on the turned guard of his scale-clad arm. Burning reiterated Everything: this was not She and Titan was no knight.
“Keep saying.” Two hands on the haft stabilized each other, and jabbed it up longwise like a quarterstaff at her, “You command nothing.”
Less colors that there were spotted the shadows around. That was good. That was easier to pick off. But what do the others do out there? Can they cast bigger spells in groups?
Senshi magic still seemed one great big mystery, sometimes, even years in the tooth.
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The security guard’s eyes were open, bits of dust and gravel clinging to the lashes and even the surface of the sclera that had been down in the dirt. There was no blink reflex, and only the slowest of breathing that wound jerkily down. Little tremors lit along the legs and arms like electrical ants on taut wires. Here was a starseed that had been violently taken. For those with the experience to have seen it, the signs were clear: even returned, his starseed would not make this man live again.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:24 am
Super Sailor Denebola
A girl with ringlets upon ringlets of blonde hair had come to aid her, but once they reached the body Denebola discovered that it would be to no avail. She swallowed hard and watched the body twitch.
"The starseed isn't going to matter," she mumbled, in a resigned sort of way that nearly sapped everything from her but she shook her head and turned her sights back on the general.
It took a minute before she found him. To Duhr she asked, "your magic, what does it do?" She was already bracing herself to activate her magic, to put herself directly in the line of fire but a little help wouldn't hurt.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:37 am
As her hand connected with metal scales she was thankful for her hand guard. "Maybe I don't." She said as the monstrous hammer was jabbed up at her. She caught it with both of her hands, it sent a ringing pain up her arms. "But one way or another I'm going to take back that starseed."
I have to keep close to him, a good swing from that hammer could do alot of damage. Getting pinned by it could be fatal. As she pushed down on the hammer with all of her strength.
At the same time she spun her heels and kicked with a long powerful leg aiming to drive her golden heal into the giant man's chin.
A red-haired senshi who seemed familiar came to help the downed guard and Ida left it to her thankfully. Protecting the body so the starseed had a home to return to was important… but so was Titan. Their last meeting had not gone well, but the memories she held were still clear, even years later. That man, and this man, were one in the same, no matter how deeply sunk in chaos he might appear.
A window crashed as a horse came barreling through it, a knight on it’s heels. She turned to catch Scholomance joining her, and not long behind him, Navi. The tilt of his head, asking without asking, brought a warmth she didn’t realize she needed. She wasn’t alone… Not yelling into a void while the world fell apart around her.
“Can you stop Hyperborea?” She asked as she turned to him. “Or… distract her? I can try to draw Titan’s attention, maybe he’ll talk to me. Maybe I can convince him to work with us, or at least surrender the starseed without turning this into a brawl.”
It hadn’t worked… super well last time, but she was alive when she could have been dead. There was still something there, if she could reach it. Everything felt like it was happening too fast. She had to act quickly if she wanted to stand a chance at this. Maybe he wouldn’t listen… but at least then she would be the target and not someone else.
“Help Scholomance!” Ida called back to Navi before she left them at a safe distance, running to get eyes on the pair she could hear fighting back in the darkness. The shine of light suggested Hyperborea had gotten her aspect off, but it wouldn’t last long. She didn’t have time to convince her to back off AND talk Titan down too. She was going to have to rely on the Saturn Knight to do what he could.
Her boots skidded on the gravely floor, scraping the cement when she reached the outskirt of the pair’s melee range. “Titan, over here!”
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:53 pm
Sailor Duhr
It stumped her to be helping one moment and then see the other girl abandon him the next. Her mouth hung open like a fish about to catch a worm as she glanced back and forth between the two in confusion - at least - that is, until she noticed the unmistakable signs on the ashen face.
The other senshi's words echoed in the back of her head, how the starseed wasn't gonna matter no more. The man was gone, another casualty of the ongoing war raging through the city.
It took Duhr a moment before she realized the redhead was addressing her, the two-toned eyes staring at the blonde when her own blue eyes turned to face the woman addressing her.
"Uh. Twisters. I make twisters."
It wasn't exactly an untruth... she just happened to leave out the tidbit where her twisters had absolutely no controlled direction.
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Scholomance whistled at Ida's request. Distract the knight? While she was actively making a target of herself. Tall order, but not impossible. Scholomance had a whip and enough magic to separate any two foes without so much as a scratch on either. But a pester wasn't an emergency; to fulfill Ida's request, all he needed was his whip. In his hand it formed, already coiled for use. "Distraction it is." Scholomance was always happy for avoiding a fight, good or bad.
The butt of his weapon slapped against Zalmoxis's flank and the horse unraveled on the spot. Gone was the construct, all its flesh and bone disappeared to the ether, back at home in the charm of his crown with some seconds remaining. Scholomance let that length uncoil from his weapon, then threw it outward in a practiced flick to catch the knight above one knee. A heavy tug should send her backward well enough — and away from the general for the moment. Long enough, he hoped, for Ida to get out what she needed to say.
Working without a fight… Perhaps they should've darted after that lieutenant instead, beaten the bear youma into a pile of ash, and hostaged life for life. Not terribly glamorous, but effective.
More effective than going head to head for what may not even be whole anymore. And with all that armor, Scholomance wouldn't know the first place to check for such a thing. Though, he knew where he'd quite like to check.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:12 pm
Sailor Pavo
Why was she even considering this? It wasn't her fight, wasn't her student, wasn't her prerogative to risk her life over a stranger while so many other senshi swarmed that general. What if their interference only antagonized? How many others would lose friends and family members because senshi decided to step in and try their hand at amateur righteousness? Pavo could only guarantee her own life, and that would be by walking away.
She had her future to consider. She had her students, Adel, and her mother to consider. And as she looked out to the distant fight, listened to weapons sing and catch against metal or meat, she wondered why she ever paused. What drew her to this mess? Certainly it wouldn't help her translation studies to watch how senshi fought one another. Nor would it benefit her tutoring career, or protect her civilian life from accidental accusations. Standing here was only Pavo's job as long as Ayesha accepted Pavo and for however long that lasted.
She wasn't a hero. Wasn't an altruist. Those down there, they fought for thanks they couldn't have. For justice, or loved ones, or glory, or an outlet, or any number of things. Adel would know better than her.
And Adel would try to join them. He'd urge her down to face off against that general. Maybe try to win back a life just the same as in that strange bottle. Was he simply rubbing off on her?
No, that was absurd. But so, too, was the real reason. That reason reached her as she turned her back, as bells sounded her retreat from that battle. Not retreat — refusal to engage. In that refusal, she realized she wanted that transaction of friendship from them. Fighting alongside them, they would learn of each other. Know each other. Feel responsible for one another. And if she could create a wider safety net in exchanges with these senshi and knights, then Pavo need not watch over Ayesha's students any longer. She needn't worry over her mother, or Adel, or even Giza when he left the house alone.
Snorting to herself, at herself, Pavo left the roof.
In a way, he kind of hoped White Girl Gone Wild got her a** handed to her. It would serve her right, since she was obviously not the sort to pay attention to detail or remotely work as a team. One of those glory-hounding lone-wolf types that often did more harm than good and only ever worked at all in really shitty movies, manga, or anime. Miles wasn't fond of those - even Nick <********> Fury needed his team and knew how to goddamn work with them, right?
Right.
As he continued closer towards Titan and Hyperborea, another member of the Very White Moon(tm) joined him, but since Saak was muttering and musing and concentrating on his self-appointed task, he only nodded to Genbu and gave her a thumbs-up.
Bone Knight and Flower Power had a Thing going on - four feet, four feet - which culminated in White Girl Gone Wild being yanked by a ******** cool-a** whip made of bone --are those ******** vertebrae!?? bet! - and not being ******** mashed to mush by General Hammertime McMusclemountain.
By that time Saak was close enough to cause a problem, so he did his little dork-dance, Childish Gambino style and summoned his magical tambourine. "Hey, you like music? I got some good s**t~" Magical horseshit prompted him to shake the damned thing in a wide arc around his ******** head like a tool, but that was fine. Titan was gonna feel the r-h-y-t-h-m down to his BOOTS. "Shake one, ********!"
With any luck, this would help the stronger, more seasoned fighters get some damage in. Or something. Honestly, what the ******** good was a sphere like tambourines? Not for the first time, Miles wondered why he couldn't be the Senshi of Bazookas.
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Using Basic Magic: The sound waves from the noise makes his area of effect (four feet) start to feel like their dizzy/messes with their equilibrium. Lasts 20 seconds, can be used 3 times in battle.
Everyone but Bee: You have been quoted because you are either gonna be affected or may be affected since his magic doesn't specify Chaos-only or not! Saak is not aware his magic will affect anyone and assumes it will only give Titan bad times :3
