He took a bunch of soil in his hands and bit it. "heavy amounts of calcium, sodium and nitrates, good soil for forests" he whispered to himself but Phieth giggled at the mentioned to one of the ancient laws of energy and had to put a hand in his face to keep his laughter under control. "Seriously guys? Entropy?"
He looked at the radioactive shield of the perfect system and then at the gun of the fate as he stood up. "And I thought you were the observant one" He said to the Sayan, he flew next to the little Amelia and put a hand on her shoulder. "your drawings are very lovely sweetheart" he gave a kiss on her hair before making himself appear no so far from the barrier Kor had put around them.
Phieth sighed "Entropy is also a tendency of the universe to attain a state of maximum homogeneity in which all matter is at a uniform temperature" He waited a moment so they can digest what he said. He put the hand on the barrier, as the energy acted it was being absorbed quickly, Phieth closed his eyes feeling that little energy running trough his true self but also vanishing as it was entering, however the energy wasn't being stored inside the vessel or the grace, it was just flowing trough a bond all creatures had between the true self, the soul, the heart and body.
Once the barrier was vanished for good, Phieth smiled. "I hope this was a good example of what your Entropy and your Father has done to me, should I continue?" He hissed full of disdain and coldness.
At DLS' request, Leon had moved through what was left of the train to rest on some of the less destroyed wreckage, closer to where Suzi and Amalia were. He kept his eyes on the newly appeared, and was ready to move at a seconds notice. "Aye, this guy sure isn't subtle." he thought to himself. "Not that anyone else really has been, admittedly." When Leon had noticed Phieth had flown through the barrier that had been put up, flying towards Amalia, he quickly leapt from his seat and had launched an attack at where Phieth was, missing just as he had teleported away. Leon now stood behind Amalia, his yellow eyes glowing fiercely. He wasn't going to let distance get in the way next time. "Aye, we'll be having no more of that, I think." he growled at the thing wearing the Angel's body and energy. He wasn't sure how much damage his attacks would really do, given that Serkë seemed to be of an unnatural sort, but Leon thought it would be worth trying at least once.
Having arrived back just in time to see the most vile of all sins that any entity could commit, the dragon demon queen was ready to annihilate every being in this universe that was not already deemed a friendly. DLS had enough of Phieth. He had gone way over the line when he dared to touch Amalia. Now it was her turn to touch him. She knew that a frontal assault was what he expected and that was exactly what she wasn't going to give him.
She had just about enough of Phieth and his temperature manipulations. Dragons don't care how hot or cold it gets, but she couldn't say the same for the others. She didn't move her head, but used her peripheral vision to glance back at her daughter and the others inside the barrier. Suzi was trying to adjust the barrier every time the dark entity changed the temperature outside, but she was using quite a bit of energy to do it, and it was getting a bit more difficult for her to hide it from the others. The dragon demon queen needed to do something to distract this thing from his little game and give the others a chance to either get away or figure out … something. She was actually a little annoyed that Aegil hadn;t already done so.
She needed to figure out what couldn't be affected by heat or cold that this thing couldn't manipulate, but she could. Then she got it. An evil grin crossed her regal face. She inhaled deeply and exhaled neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm breath. The purpose was to blow the precipitation away from the area, and back in Phieth's direction. Now that it was clearing up in their area, she spread her wings and the sun did the rest. Her wings acted like living solar panels. They absorbed light which she captured and stored internally as energy. It was also how she became invisible to the eye. Light is neither cold or hot, or can be either or both. Since Phieth was playing with both, she would too.
First, she directed her wings so the sun's light would be reflected into Plieth's eyes only. It would have no heat or cold, just the blinding effect. As he tried to adjust to it, and he would need to do that, she could continue to adjust the brightness or darkness needed to keep him off balance. He would not be able to see, at least not clearly and certainly not clearly enough to be able to tell that he was about to be attacked. No, she was not going to be attacking him. He would expect that from her. She glanced back at her daughter and her little sister. Such a pure little girl to be defiled by the likes of Phieth was unconscionable. She nodded at them and then stared at Phieth with nothing but pure contempt.
She started her lighting attack, almost a strobe light effect, brilliant and blinding and then, dim to almost void in his sphere of sight. She compensated for how his pupils were reacting. It went on for just a few minutes this way. Oh, she did step a few steps closer making him think she was going to attack, so that he would try to defend against her.
What he didn't prepare for was another dragon that flew in from behind him and ripped off one of his precious wings! Draco!
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:40 am
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Draco grabbed onto one of the dark angel's wings as close to the body as he could and pulled back hard. He ripped it pretty good, but didn't quite get it all the way off the entity's body. He knew he couldn't used dragon fire on it, his sister had warned about that, but he needed to be sure that the entity couldn't reattach the wing. Fire was out, but acid wasn't. Draco opened his mouth and spit a huge wad of acid spit right at the spot where the wing had been torn from the body. He almost gagged at the stench created when the acid hit the entity's body. It was so foul that it caused him to let go of the torn wing. It didn't matter, the damage was done. The wing was useless to Phieth now. IT was broken close to the body and the acid had burned off most of the wing feathers. It had also eaten through the coat and scarred the skin of the vessel Phieth had inhabited. Draco felt sorry for the vessel, but it had to be done. Anything to take some of the fight out of an enemy is what it's all about.
The young dragon demon warrior had done what his sister had needed of him. He flew up and waited to see if he got any more orders to attack. His mother paid him no notice, which was to be expected. She needed to keep her attention on the entity. A quick, “thanks brother” came from his twin was all he needed and in a blink of an eye, he was back with his other fate brother half-way across the planet.
Suzi sighed a little. She had hated calling her twin to help, but she really needed his assistance. Harbinger was in the vehicle safe and sound with KorC and they foresaw nothing in the area for at least the next 50 klicks, so a five or 10 minute absence wasn't going to hurt them and certainly helped her. The fact that her barrier didn't keep Phieth from entering and that he actually touched her sister Fate scared her more than anything in her entire life. She felt powerless at that one moment. Had he done anything more than just that slight thing, she would have verbalized her horror and that would have triggered a violent response from Amalia, or should she say Novus. Suzi shuddered at the thought of what would have happened then. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly to clear her mind and calm her body. Then she went back to drawing with Amalia who was giving her a strange look. It was one of those, 'are you sure you don't want me to cool things down' looks. Suzi smiled and said, “I think it's okay now. Mother and the others should have that dark angel under control. I mean Aegil hasn't even used his card yet. So, it's all good.” She knew Amalia wasn't happy with what was still happening outside. Finally Suzi said the words that needed to be said. “ We really don't want you to get upset about such matters. If and when the time comes, I promise, we will let you know . Until then, please let us handle this.”
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:40 pm
Phieth
Light is another form of energy, Phieth was amused how little knowledge this dragons had about energy and let them do whatever they want, he just keep still admiring their handiwork. Oh if they really knew, really knew. The sweet stench of acid burning through the vessel and the angelic grace, the glorious feeling of poisoning cursing through his veins, oh how much he had wished to had that perfect dragon acid.
Shame he was in vessel with an angelic grace.
"Are you done?" He asked as he flexed the wings. One was almost useless and the other was in pristine condition, he tugged them back to his back, if they could feel that little pain it was causing him, they probably would laught with him. "This is only wasting our times" he added nonchalantly looking at the dragons. "it only proves to me that dragons are like those monkeys" he signaled the Saiyans "playing at being gods, trying to be the source off all goodness" He puts such disdain in the last word that it made sound like a curse.
His eyes then caught a fade light inside of the dragons, something that made Phieth smile. There was fear irritating softly and steady from the dragon near the fates and and a steady fury from the bigger one.
"The only thing left to play is the fates, but I can tell they're the smart bunch, guess their Father at some point has, is, will tell them about me. I wonder wonder"
He forced out the grace a little, calling upon them strom clouds as he gathered the light of the sun on his borrowed vessel. It was creating something akin to a solar eclipse, only that Phieth was stealing the light energy from that half of the world. Thunders and lightning struck all around him twice, his eyes glowed golden an instant then it was gone.
If the total darkness worried them he'll know, if they could see him he wasn't even worried, with his eyes closed he waited for them. He was gathering what the monkeys (the Sayan) called ki inside the vessel until it formed a little stone just like he was gathering in his pockets, which remain him of the hole he had in the coat.
KorA realized that if energy based attacks wouldn't work then there really was only one thing left he could try. It was time to return to try melee attacks. Kor also realized that if this fight were allowed to continue on that things could turn really ugly, so he decided that he'd have to try to end things quickly. So while still powered up into his LSSJB2 form, he decided that he'd try using the Kaio-ken like he saw Goku use that one time when he fought Hit in a tournament to determine which God of Destruction of a certain Universe 6/7 set of his SubMultiverse would get the chance to use the Super Dragon Balls and summon the Dragon God Zarama.
Kor(Team A):"KAIO-KEN X20!!!"
His already blue aura was then surrounded by the red aura of the Kaio-ken and his physical stats were multiplied by 20. He then charged towards, but then veered to the right and started circling Serkë at move so fast that he created ended up creating Afterimages Clones that completely encircled Serkë. They all without a moments warning turned towards their target and unleashed a fury of punches. The thing is that Kor had been moving so quickly that his Afterimages actually maintained solid form long enough for all their punches to be solid. This meant that the only way that Serkë had to dodge them was to move up. When he did so, Kor used Instant Transmission and punched him as hard as he could from above. Serkë was sent flying towards the ground as the vibration caused from the impact of Kor's punch shattered every bone in his body.
(((In case you're wondering what LSSJB2 with Kaio-ken looks like I'll include a reference picture of Goku using the Kaio-ken while transformed into his SSJB form in a Spoiler below this OOC. The only difference really would be there would be a lot more lightning bolts sparking around the auras too.)))
When was the last time he had all his bones shattered? It didn't matter, he could already feel the grace slowly healing them, it wasn't as painless as he had felt before. The borrowed grace concentrated on the shattered bones, slowly returning the light to the that part of the planet, stupid old thing.
As he sat, he could feel some sort of glee coming from the Saiyan. well at least someone was having fun. He looked at his hand and the little white-ish stone filled with the sun light.
He faced Kor. "So having fun at least, monkey" Phieth hissed, some blood was running from his broken nose and lips, bruises were appearing quickly on the fair skin of the fragile human vessel. He could use one of the stones to heal himself and leave them in their merry way, but he needed all the stones including the new one, so he will need to endure a little more punishment if needed, after all,they seemed to be uncreative on the punishment/torture department.
"I do wonder how long you and your friends will keep playing at the kill first questions later. Weeeelllll because you know, so far, I just have just invoque minor tricks, you know like the doves in the hat" He giggled.
As his blood dropped on the ground, an alchemist circle blared into life, the circle had complicated drawings and strange letters. "well that's unexpected" he said surprised, because of all thing to go wrong, that is was the worst.
A great eye opened under Phieth with a red pupil. "No I not playing, I had the red stones you requiered" The red eye blinked once and Phieth sighed. "All right, all right." As he answered that silently order, he extracted the red stones and leave them be engulf by the red eye. "ha ha so funny" Phieth remarked. The eye blinked again and closed, the alchemy circle vanished and Phieth was left in a nice sunny day, with his bones broken half mended, an almost ripped out wing and without philosopher stones. As usual he only had his wits and his bad luck.
"Sorry that, boss man wanted the toys earlier, you were saying?" He put a hand at the best of his abilities on his nose, hoping to stop the blood drop on the earth purposeless and cause another surprise.
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:32 pm
Aegil: The Magician, Number I
Aegil sighed at what was going on, everyone was going straight for the kill, every one. That wasn't going to help at all, they could use the man later. For one reason or another, they needed him alive. He readjusted his 'ice' setting on his weapon and walked forward. "I would hate to see a mind destroyed. So if you would be so kind, I intend to save your life." He half muttered as he raised the 'gun' to level at Phieth. When he pulled the trigger, however, it was *not* a bullet that shot out. Instead it amplified his magic in this form, making it nearly as strong as his card form awakened, though not quite. For example, he was now firing a beam of cold to freeze phieth in place, a special beam. Seeing as he wasn't fully powered his coldest levels weren't accessable, but he could lower the beam's impacted target from their current state, to within a googalth of a single kelvin (essentially 0 kelvin, absolute zero). If the gentleman could survive this, and break free, he was truly an energy manipulator, which meant he would need to get Amalia's binding coil.
KorA landed next to Serkë and Aegil after releasing the Kaio-ken technique. He clapped his hands again and pressed them into the ground once again. This time he transmuted a Katchin encasement around Serkë about 3 feet thick leaving only the head unencased in his Universe's strongest existing metal. The very same metal that Goku hurled a block of it at Gohan so Gohan could test the power of the Z Sword, which had resulted in the sword breaking and Old Kai being released. He had figured that maybe it might be better to be safe this time and make certain Serkë couldn't escape.
Kor(Team A):"Okay so maybe I should've held back on that attack. Sorry about that Aegil and Tessiel wherever your soul may be at angel boy. I almost killed you Serkë. Well then anyone have any idea how me might save Tessiel from whatever Serkë did to take control of our angel boy's body?"
Kor hoped they'd be able to save Tessiel. Unless somebody already knew how they might go about doing so, Kor realized that they'd likely have to squeeze the information outta Serkë first tho.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:33 am
Phieth
As the cold surrounding him he almost felt relief from the shattered bones, sadly he also could feel the cold went through that bond and dissipate. the wonders of the void. He shaked some frost from his face and blinked to both the monkey and the magician.
He laughed hard for a good long even if that metal surrounded his limping body, he just made sure his blood didn't drop.
"You're not funny" he said death serious to both of them "If someone can kill me they will have my eternal gratitude"
Even if the katchin was the strongest metal the monkeys knew about, and the absolute zero was the coldest thing they could think about it, they both were just minor issues right now.
"Oh so Tessiel is the name of that wavelength creature" Names were always a powerful thing to have at hand "well if this make you feel comfortable I don't even know how I get stuck here" and he wasn't talking of being inside of a warming metal cocoon supposedly to be unbreakable.
He used the grace to shift the metal around him just enough so he can lay comfortably on the ground, expand the winds inside the earth so they could heal nicely and also stop seeing the faces. Oh the bones were doing much better in that position.
OCC: that was unexpected... in italics it can be read "Death was unbreakable" rofl
DLS was not of the same mind as Aegil. If that thing could maneuver inside Kor's metal prison and against Aegil's absolute zero conditions, then he was a far worse enemy than they needed at this time. She used her keen sense of sight and smell to follow his movements inside his encasement. This one, of all their adversaries in this place, could be trusted the least. No, should his head reappear above the top of the encasement, it would be the end of the dark angel.
DLS walked over to Aegil and stood in front of him, and between him and Phieth's temporary prison. "Brother, I understand your abhorrence to violence and death, but to even suggest using Amalia at this time is a most dangerous thing. She has been virtually begging Suzareigna to let her handle matters here and has so far listened to her dragon sister's counsel on these matters. Were you to give in and allow her to take matters into her own hands now, I can promise she will definitely continue to do so from here on out and neither the Fates nor the dragon demon siblings will be able to stop her. Should any of us actually get seriously injured or killed, I can then guarantee that Novus will appear and it will be game over. If that is what you want, then continue in this manner."
She stopped and looked at the metal containment behind her. "The way I see it, the only way to deal with Serke right now, and to keep Amalia safe and her powers in check is to end that vile creature's life. I will not ask you or even the Kor's to do that. It must be done swiftly and there is only one way it will work. I must be the one to do it. Serke is healing his body as we speak and should he stand up, he will be able to break free from that metal prison. Do not try and stop me, unless you want not only our family and friends to suffer more and the people of this planet to become more little red stones for his alchemy."
She knew there would be arguments and resentments from her Fate brothers and problem from the Kors and Scentrus, but what she would do she would do to save everyone. If they wanted to take the matter to the Father later, she didn't care. Serke had touched Amalia, that alone could have caused a disaster of epic proportions had the littlest Fate understood the terrible danger she was. Actually, she might have known and was waiting for a sign to act. She is extremely bright. Still, Suzareigna had continually asked her to wait until asked to help, and she had. Now, big sister was taking control of the situation.
Taking a few well placed steps toward the metal containment that held Serke, she waited. She was tall enough to look in and see just close Serke was to healing his body. She could see, hear and smell him. It would not be long.
He wasn't as far down as she thought. Actually he was only about half way down. His head was pretty far up. She put her head in the box. "Hello Serke. Feeling better? I do hope so. Here, let me help you feel much better." She opened her mouth, descended down and encased his head with her massive mouth and closed it around his head and neck.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:39 pm
Phieth
Sometimes I do wonder if the Dragons are sentient creatures at all. Phieth thought as feel the head rolling inside the dragon.
This one will take a little more than the usual trickery he had been using. After all, the head was filled with his blood. He just gave the command and his blood used the acid in the stomach to boil and drill a hole in the walls of the stomach, the blood that drop from the hole mixed nicely with what left with his own and turned the bone, the skin the hair and grey matter into a set of hungry larvae that started to eat the insides of the dragon.
Meanwhile the grace keep the blood inside the body, gave out the sound of a gurgled sound.
"I'm positive that I mentioned that I had a wavelength creature at my call otherwise it wad burned your eyes if you killed it" Phieth spoke softly to their minds it wasn't a try at reading their mind, it was just like a soft whispering in the wind. "I'm sure this was fun and at all, but it seems that this lady doesn't want me under her sight and I getting bored"
One of the larvae popped out from the skin and crawled to where Phieth was, still covered in dragon blood it managed to attach itself to the neck and slowly make its way inside.
"One little word of advise" he managed to sat down and change the Katchin from a prision to an armour and helmet. "Think, why I would gather Philosopher Stones and never use on you? or heal myself? Why I would need metal is not for fight you? Why in this hour I haven't hurt you? Think. I'm sure the fates knows the answer already or will figure out." He voiced only to Kor.
"And old friend of yours send his regards"
And with that he flexed both wings, even if one hurt and managed to flight away, taking the metal with him.
OCC: Next post a surprise! wink good one promise! sorry for the larvae, couldn't help that smile
Before DLS could severe the head from the borrowed body, Phieth reacted. He might have thought that his defense would be vile or at least discomforting to the dragon demon queen but he was so wrong. Larvae? What an idiot!! For a creature that was old by even dragon standards, he knew nothing of their kind. The bodily fluids were like slightly acidic tea to her. Remember, she swims in volcanic lava for spa days. And those larvae tickled her scales. The one that tried to burrow into her neck got a huge shock when it touched one of her electrified scales. She lifted her head and sighed. "You certainly are a persistent one Serke. But you know nothing about my kind. Your blood and acids cannot hurt me or my kind. And that is your first lesson about me. Now, let me give you a little piece of advice before you run away and hide somewhere to think about your next encounter with our little group. If you ever touch any of us, especially the little one. There will be no head biting off, no blinding lights or hot and cold plays. You and I will leave this place together and either one of us- that would be me, or neither of us will return. Of that you have my solemn word. I do not speak lightly I do mot make idle threats but I do make promises that I always keep."
She watched as the almost fully recovered Phieth flew off. His last little tidbit about not using the red stones told stories about it. He was aligned with Reaper. All hell was going to break loose very soon and with those stones, alchemy and those who actually knew now to use them meant more trouble than this group could handle easily. She also knew that her dragon army was not equipped to deal with that much alchemy. She, Suzi and Draco were, but not all that were here now were. She needed to talk to her daughter.
In the meantime, one other thing had to be done. She transformed back to a more humanoid form to talk to Aegil. Walking over to him, she matter of factly stated "I must talk to the Father. Things here are getting out of hand. There is a real possibility that Novus will come out and take total control of this universe, which means, the end of this universe. I need to get his counsel. I have his permission to do certain things, and need to find out what else I can do to prevent such a disaster from happening. Suzareigna's main objective now is the well-being of Amalia and to keep her happy, informed and calm. I won't be gone more than a few minutes in this universe's timeline. But, I need you to use the data you already have and start calculating a course of action. You are #1 after all."
With that said, She walked into what was left of the train car and sat next to Amalia. "I'm going to leave for few minutes and talk to Father. Is there anything you want me to tell him for you? I'll only be with him a couple of minutes, but you kno"w he will always time to listen to anything you have to say."
She smiled at Suzareigna and sent a dragon speak message. "There is going to be too much alchemy at work here. Only the dragons trained in alchemy can be here. Send all the others home now."
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KorA felt some slight muscle weakness all throughout his body as a side effect of going overboard on attacking Serkë, so he pulled out a Sensu Bean from a small pouch on his waistband and ate it to heal himself.
Kor(Team A):"Well then Aegil, I'm thinking with all the new developments happening with all 3 teams, that it might be a good idea to regroup and readjust our mission objectives. Wouldn't you agree that that is probably the best course of action?"
It really seemed that Reaper didn't want them to get help from the formerly titled Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric, and his brother Alphonse Elric. And it wasn't just Reaper, who wanted to stop them. There were others like Demigra that KorB's Team B had fought against and the zombie master creature that Harbinger's Team C had battled against. Things were certainly heating up and Kor was rather excited about how things were turning out. Sure he didn't want anything terrible to happen to this Universe, but he couldn't help feeling excited because it was in his Saiya-jin blood to enjoy a good fight and it looked like there were plenty of action packed fights in store for him and the others.
Suzi just sat in the remnants of the train with Leon and Amalia. At the next sign of trouble of any kind, the three of them were out of there, whether Aegil liked it or not. The idea of Aegil wanting to use Amalia's binding coil was like asking a cobra if it wanted to hold someone's glass of water but not harm anyone in the doing. As soon as Amalia got any real inkling from her brother that they were really in trouble, she would act and that sweet little girl would turn into the most dangerous entity that Father ever created/spawned/procreated. No, before that happened, she would get that innocent part of the duality out of there and someplace far away. With her mother back at the Hub conversing with their Father again, and that was a tricky thing to do, she was left to ascertain the best course of action. The Fates were not handled to equip battles on a daily basis and she doubted their abilities. From what Draco had told her of Harbinger's battle with the humming shadow creature, she knew they were over their heads in that subject. She had sent out orders to her troops already and she knew they would be complied with to the letter. That was the only thing that gave her any piece of mind. Dragons are the most loyal of beings to their own kind.
The dragon demon princess had been listening in on her mother and Phieth's little conversation before he flew off. That arrogant piece of unholy s**t knew nothing of their kind. Sentient? He dared to question if they were sentient? This piece of s**t being had to steal other being's bodies in order to perform his alchemy tricks, and he wanted to know if the superior minds and bodies of Father's children were sentient? Her blood started to boil just thinking of that crude entity but then she looked down and there were the most precious eyes looking up at her. If she let her current feelings toward Phieth continue, Amalia would catch on- if she hadn't already- and the littlest Fate would begin to understand the gravity of the situation. Suzi looked at the wide eyes and smiled. She looked at the drawing being made and her smile got wider. “Is that picture of me and my brother?”
Meanwhile, at a secret location somewhere on the other side of the planet and underground, a small army of dragon demons was gathered. A blue-gray dragon, slightly larger than Draco was issuing orders to a band of maybe 750 dragons of various colors and sizes. “We who remain are the ones trained in all forms of alchemy. The scouts have gone out and retrieved two of these red stones, at great cost to the patrol. We lost 3 good soldiers to get these, but they will help use understand how they are used by the enemy. Our chief alchemist has analyzed them and he has some information about them. Listen well, the findings are shocking. What the humankind on our home world used to think of us is nothing compared to how these things were made and what they can do." The dragons sat close together as an older, by dragon standards, and wise dragon explained everything about philosopher stones. After telling them about them, he gave a demonstration of their power, but just a little one. Too great a demonstration would alert anyone outside of their location. Since they knew how they were created, they also now knew how to destroy them. What man creates, dragon can destroy. I would not be an easy task, but it could be done. Their first objective would be to go out in very small groups and locate and steal any of the red stones that they could. Once a stone was collected, it must be returned to the lair. No going for more after even one was located. Since stones seemed to 'talk' to one another, they must not be allowed to stay out. Back in the lair, they would be rendered powerless; and the souls that created them could be set free.
