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{Tseng : Atlantis : ???}

Tseng nodded his head as Noelle caught the ether he had tossed and turned his focus back to the battle at hand, continuing to fire as quickly as he could. If his bullets even though they were infused with light were doing anything, they still didn't show. That was when Daniel made his risky move, jumping directly onto the hand and began trying to pry out the gem that was embedded in the palm. The situation then took another turn for the worse as dark tendrils wrapped around Daniel, binding him forcefully to the palm.

"Daniel! No!" Tseng shouted, continuing to unleash as many bullets as he could.

When the hand that held Daniel bound to it slammed into the ground a massive shockwave knocked Tseng's feet out from under him and the Turk fell to his knees. As Tseng struggled to rise to his feet again from the shockwave that jarred his body his focus remained on his prodige who had just been more than less squashed like a bug.

"Daniel! Are you alright!?" Tseng attempted to call out only for the monster to unleash another shout and a massive beam of energy erupted at not just him, but the entire group, enveloping the entirety of the platform that they stood on in crimson energy, pain coursed through the Turk's body unlike any pain that he had ever felt before and he collapsed onto his stomach, unable to move his body due to the pain.

After the blast had subsided the Turk was slowly able to move again. He raised his head just for Ajora's spear to come whizzing by, if the Turk had been a few more feet to the right that also would have hit him. His vision blurred as he tried to focus, regain his focus and then the claw like tendrils came down, apparently not aimed for him as they missed completely. The monster was apparently not done though as he unleashed a series of lasers across the battlefield, Tseng forced his body to move, rolling out of the way of one of the lasers as it swept past him.

'We have to keep fighting...' Tseng thought as he slowly pushed himself back up his knees and then rose to his feet, picking up his guns.

He could suddenly feel magical energy coursing through him, as Kyle and Mathy's enhancements took effect. His focus once again shifting to his protege who at this point was unconscious in the middle of the arena. Tseng slowly made his way towards Daniel, his guns trained on the head of the monster, the barrier around it finally down. He began to unleash shot after shot of light infused bullets at the abominations head, ignoring all the pain that his body was in, all the Turk had to do was stand still and fire, standing in front of Daniel in an attempt to protect his unconscious form from any more harm.

[Kyla confused ???]

Kyla was knocked off her feet and all around her constructs shattered and disappeared into fragmenting lights. An enormous amount of pressure and pain slammed into her sending her flying down one of the paths of the battle field. When the unholy cross was cast she received the full brunt of it and she ceased as the pain struck. She twitched on the ground as shockwaves coursed through her body and her bruise burned like a brand.
~Kyla! Hang on! It’s going to be ok! Get up! Hurry!~


‘Tyue- ‘she could hear people shouting somewhere. Everything was so sore and as much as her body just wanted to give up, exhaustion rearing its ugly head again, Kyla bit her lip and rolled over. Pushing herself up into a sitting position on her knees she could see Noelle, Dani, and Dawn up ahead. She had been flung across the field to the back corner. Beyond the girls Kyla could see that creatures head looming in the void.

~ Kyla! Look out!~


Where?!

THERE! Kyla rolled to one side and throwing her hand up she conjured just a simple wall shape from her finger and it blocked the snap strike from a protruding tendril sticking out of the terrain. “Uugh man, whats sonofa-“
A familiar frustration and anger swept over her, and she clung to it because when she was angry she was relentless. Whatever it took to keep her moving Kyla wasn’t going to pass it up and stumbling to her feet she darted away and kicked off into the air.

Tyue didn’t need a prompt and so the Pictomancer was airborne now. From her vantage point the artist realized she was aligned perfectly with the being face... and for the first time since this nastiness started, Kyla smiled. All around, her allies were hurt, and that new guy lay broken on the ground.

She felt so weak in body but.. inside. Something was bubbling up.
Just looking at Daniel another face flash before her eyes-
-several did.

“- I’ll make you pay…”

Kyla’s grip tightened on her pen and it moved like lightning across her page with a pressure that almost made the paper tear.

“I’ll make you PAY!”

With that the girls book egnited, her entire body lit up with it and with the loud sound of a explosive wind, the artists' limit break made an appearance. As big as a comet as fast as a bullet shot, with a wing span as large as a small plane- the attack swooped over the girls heads with a rush of wind and now infused with enlightiga AND Kyla own elemental inspiration it was packing as maximum Light magic element.

It made a beeline for the entities’ face!

“ THAT’S for ELLIOTT you b*****d!”

{Dani : Atlantis : ??????}

Dani nodded as Kyla set something down beside her. When she had finally finished healing Noelle to the best of her ability she quickly folded up the paper and put it in one of her pockets for safe keeping.

As soon as Dani was back on her feet she felt herself fall again because of the massive shockwave from the hand. "God dammit! Just when-" Dani thought as she returned to her feet as the energy blast from the unholy cross collided with her and she was on the ground . "****" Dani hissed in pain. After the blast she noticed that tendrils attempted to slash her. Luckily, she was able to roll out of the way and avoid them.

Dani was finally able to get back on her feet when Noelle had cast Curaga. "Back in buisness." Dani spoke making her chakrams fly back to her hands. 'Kyla I am gonna use it now,' Dani said to her through the charms. 'I hope that your magic doesn't suffer too much.'

Dani pulled out the piece of paper that was given to her and stared at the monster. She took a deep breath and activated the paper and watched the paper suddenly glow. Dani suddenly saw that beside her were giant fin like chakrams. "Cool." Dani noted before she looked down to her own chakrams. "Time to let these things do their work." Dani finally threw her own chakrams at the monster before noticing the giant chakrams whizz past hovering beside the original chakrams. As soon as they were heading for the monster she felt more magic start to leave her as a giant tsunami with enlight appeared behind the chakrams and followed them with the intent to crash into the monster. If there were any earthlings in the path it would just go right through them with no harm.

Used: Kyla's paper {Tsunami Fins} [Rare KO chance for all minor enemies in field]

[ ????? : Darkness ]

Tseng's bullet barrage, though damaging, did nothing to hinder the monstrosity, who continued charging with his hands and unleashing a laser barrage from his eyes. In fact, all it did was make him target all seven beams directly at the Turk. It would have been impossible to dodge all of them, because they had originally been pointed in areas around him when they suddenly converged.

Before the beast could really destroy the gnat, however, there was a sudden glaring light--and Kyla's Birn Strike Mach Three detonated on his face, causing an explosion of magic that shook not simply the monster or the platform, but the entire pocket dimension as Light and Darkness clashed, backed by immense power from either side.

When the light faded, the monster's head was lowered, stunned somewhat and blinking as a million-voiced growl rumbled from the abyss. The lasers had stopped, luckily for everyone involved.

It was just shaking itself, recomposing, when Dani's Tsunami Fins struck, the blades soaring straight through his face with a violent hiss of Light on Darkness, followed by the massive wave crashing down on him, searing him like acid.

The growling grew louder--and the entire pocket dimension began shaking once more, only this time, it didn't stop. The hands flashed dangerously, and the crimson eyes narrowed.

"Fall."

At that moment, a massive black-and-red sphere appeared above them, and they would feel the immense force of its pull, though it did not lift them off the ground. Instead, the four paths began to crumble, breaking apart from the edges, with each stone flying into the portal.

It would take some time, but they knew. In just a few moments, all four paths would be gone, and the center would fall.

[Joe: ?????]

The orb above them spelled out defeat if they didn't do something fast, but they were all blasting the enemy with everything they had. So they were either going to finish it quickly, or...well, Joe wasn't going to think about that. He had other things on his mind. Like the fact that his drive was about to end.

Sorry guys. Need you for a minute. He summoned Kyle and Mathy back to him, the orbs snapping back like at the end of rubber bands, sucking back into his chest.

Joe grabbed his weapon from the ground, raising the blade up into the sky, pointing it at the orb above them all, and the eyes of light in his arms spun, all suddenly a different color than the others. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, indigo, purple. And they starting spinning in their 'sockets', faster and faster and faster, glowing brighter and brighter as they started firing off laser 'rockets', each on the color of the eye they shot from. It was a prismatic spray of light and color, blasting at the enemy. And then Joe shot up into the air, vaulting up higher and higher.

At the apex of his jump, Joe floated there, the 'rockets' still firing as he became surrounded in the prismatic light he was emitting. Then he aimed his weapon, and dove, fast, hard, shining with light that surrounded his being, flashing and swirling colors.

"PRISMATIC MISSILE!"

Joe dove into the creature's face, weapon stabbing into it with an explosion of color and light and force. And then jumped away, back to the center. With another flash of light, though, the drive was over. Joe was left standing, leaning slightly to one side, with Kyle and Mathy near him, Kyle immediately muttering under his breath and casting Faith before beginning to charge... something. Joe had no mana left, and it felt...draining, to say the least.

[Drive over, PRISMATIC MISSILE stats: PS 13, MS 17, light elemental]

{Bobbi .:. ?????}

Bobbi was heartened when her attacks actually did damage; she would have kept up the barrage if she could have, but as she reached for another arrow, the monstrosity attacked, and in a way she had no means to dodge. She yelped in pain, and barely had time to recover before she was hit again by something else. She really didn't even know what hit her, aside from all the lasers running around the place. Luckily, the black tendrils didn't target her at all, and she was able to concentrate on getting back to her feet and shooting things.

So many of her friends and allies were laying on the ground, broken and bleeding, each of them struggling to get back up and rejoin the fight. Kyla's Lotis shields seemed to be shattered, and everyone looked like they were on their last legs. Bobbi tried casting a spell, any spell, but the Silence still seemed to have a hold of her. She consoled herself with the knowledge that it wouldn't last much longer, but for now she simply concentrated on firing her arrows where and when she could. She watched as Tseng was shot, as Kyla unleashed a tremendous Birn Strike, as Dani's Chakram struck, and as Riku severed the black tendrils attacking. Bobbi felt totally useless without access to her mana.

Then, the dimension began to shake as the creature's chanting increased, and Bobbi looked up. She watched, feeling utterly helpless, as the world around them began to disintegrate. Just like the Destiny Islands.

Just like home.

She screamed, defiantly, searching desperately for a way to access her mana past the Silence, and firing her light-and-ice-imbued arrows as fast as she could. She attacked whatever she had access to; hands, face, minor enemies, it didn't matter.

[ Daniel ~ Atlantis ~ ????????]

The smell of dirt.

Gravity.

The Turks senses made a staggered return, bringing with them the pain and suffering of his near death experience moments prior. His fleshed screamed in agony, his innards felt misplaced-- and suddenly it was all gone.

Daniel was healed. His eyes shot open.

The far end of the battlefield seemed to be breaking apart, and falling up? Daniel blinked, then lifted himself off of the ground. He took a moment to assess the ball of destruction in the sky and its effects on the field. He watched some of the other Survivors massive attacks do considerable damage to the 'face' of Darkness. The Turk even took a quick glance at the 'support' group in the back working in tandem to dish out some form of magic on the group. He quickly realized they were the ones who healed him.

"Thank you!"

Daniel considered for a moment how wrong he was about this groups battle potential. Sure, they may have started off... poorly, but they made up for it with perseverance and strong magic. The Survivors were clearly holding their own in this fight, and it was Daniel who got his arse handed to him. The Turk groaned; he was the true fool.

Knowing he would need time to gather his strength, and that they were running out of time, Daniel summoned his swords to each hand and plunged them into the center of the cross shaped battlefield, spreading ink from both at a rapid click.

[~~ Blood Ink Battlefield Counter:: 2 ~~]

{Bobbi .:. Darkness}

When time seemed to stop, Bobbi paused in her firing, watching as something decided to happen. She watched Ajora forcing his way out of the giant monstrosity that had been attacking, and listened as he demanded death. Immediately, Bobbi raised Taulmaril and sighted, aiming directly between Ajora's eyes. She reached for her mana, and breathed a sigh of relief when she accessed it without difficulty.

~:No. Bobbi, you can't! It's murder!:~ Shiva said, horrified at what her Summoner was about to try.

It's mercy, Bobbi explained as she charged her arrow with her Piercing Icicle spell. It should penetrate; clean and swift, more than he deserved. Look at him, Shiva! Is that any way to live? Aside from the fact that he deserves this after what he's done to us, would you leave someone, anyone like this? I don't know what happened, and God knows he doesn't deserve my pity, but I'll be damned if I knowingly let someone suffer.

~:...I know,:~ Shiva sighed, resigning herself to the situation. ~:But will you ever forgive yourself for taking a life?:~

Doesn't seem like he has much of a life to take, if he's asking us to end it. It's ready.

Shiva choked back a protest as Bobbi released the arrow, and watched it speed towards the intended target. It left a streak of silvery-blue and white, showing Bobbi that Kyle's Enlighten was still kicking. Hopefully that extra boost of Light element would be enough to end this.

"Hit," she breathed, willing the bolt to penetrate as she drew another arrow. "Hit, damn you."