When her phone went off with Athene’s message, Ida herself was half way across town. She set off immediately for the location he’d described, but it took a while to get there even at eternal speed.
By the time she arrived, Ida was out of breath and the fight was already on as she landed on the wood fence surrounding the amusement park. She could feel royal signatures in the wash of others around the under-construction ride. It was curious, but welcome, to feel an Order royal assisting… it was such a rare thing in her experience. The Dark Mirror aura was curious too and it was really the first time she’d ever felt one. Was it Remarque… or Leto? One was already known, the other… was a bit of a wild card. She had long been allied with the Negaverse and untrusted for much of the future timeline… but had fought beside them at the end. If it were Leto, what side did she fight for this time?
Circling around to the other side, Ida pulled out her phone to dial up Athene, praying he wasn’t inside already. She didn’t want to interupt him in the middle of a fight, but she didn’t want to rush in blind either. She could sense far too many chaos signatures inside for comfort… and a couple of unknown dark mirrors as well.
Was Liryn with him? It was likely… Ida hoped their guardian was safe in that shuffle inside. She held the phone to her ear as it began to ring, her fingers mentally crossed.
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 8:12 pm
Athene still wasn't sure what was going on, but the pain-laced scream that came echoing up from further within the mountain didn't need explaining and neither did the scream that came from closer to where he and Liryn was.
Something terrible was happening to at least two people and from the number of Nega-auras around it wasn't hard to deduce that the people doing it were most likely Negaverse agents.
He ran forward, catching a flash of what appeared to be green-hair and the sense of a Super senshi's aura and... Paper?
Yes paper, a veritable flurry of paper in various shapes and within were the auras of both a Dark Mirror eternal as well as a Negaverse Captain.
There were other auras too - a Squire and a Senshi as well as a youma and a second Captain but they felt a little further on with auras moving towards them - the Dark Mirror eternal and the first Nega Captain were closest...
And then the paper cleared in time for a tall woman with scales and a tail lunge at a white-haired eternal with outstretched claws.
He clenched his fist intending to try using his magic on her, but of course Liryn would choose that moment to leap from his shoulder and go darting at the Captain that seemed to be a mixture of woman and some sort of red-scaled tufty-tailed thing.
He suppressed a sigh and followed after at a run of his own knowing that if he tried using his magic that he risked hitting Liryn who was making a beeline for the Captain's tail.
The first scream was unmissable, fear interlaced with pain coming echoing towards their position from somewhere within the mountain.
The second scream was equally unmissable but closer.
It was quite obvious that the screams were the Negaverse's work - at least it was quite obvious to Liryn and it was equally obvious to Liryn that they had to hurry.
Fortunately they weren't the only ones because he had picked up on quite a few Order auras all moving further towards and he was assuming within the mountain thing.
Something fell and hit him, Liryn feeling the touch of magic because suddenly feeling a sense of concentration and focus just as the paper flurry cleared away to reveal a familiar white-haired senshi and the Nega Captain that was attacking her.
That the white-haired senshi's aura was no longer the same aura as the white-haired eternal she had been at their last meeting was confusing, as was her new and darker fuku but it didn't stop Liryn from launching off Athene's shoulder as he sprang at the youma-Captain - his target was the scaled tail topped with a bit of floof - a tail that he wasted no time in trying to rake.
Vision beginning to blur and fade, Chariklo managed to stumble a few more feet, vaguely aware of Ginger's call to her and presence nearby. That was good. She wouldn't be able to rescue Amy on her own right now. Her vision blurred again and she found herself suddenly looking at the floor. Which had gotten much closer. Blinking in confusion, she tried to figure out what had happened, acutely aware of a harsh rasping noise that hadn't been there before. Now what...?
That's you breathing, idiot.
Chariklo blinked in a moment of clarity, realizing just how badly she hurt and noticing the blood covering her hands and oozing down her side and leg.
Ah. Yes. That would explain it, she thought.
She meant to turn around and explain this discovery to the senshi who'd come with her, like a child relaying some new and exciting discovery. Her body, on the other hand, had an entirely different plan. Which consisted solely of passing out and hoping that someone in the darkness would get her out before it was too late.
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The smoke and sparks from the destroyed animatronics had been easy to miss in the darkness. However, it had been just enough of each to trigger the fire alarms set throughout the Geyser. The shrill keening hadn't been terribly noticed at first, but it was reaching the point where it was rivaling the screams of the two Dark Mirrors in volume. And as per the Geyser's programming, a signal was sent out to Destiny City's bravest.
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OOC Notes • Chariklo has passed out and needs to be gotten outside and taken to medical aid ASAP. • The Fire Department is on the way to the Geyser, prompted by a computerized alert suggesting the possibility of fire within the newly constructed ride. It is incredibly likely that a few police will come along with them. After all, the Geyser hasn't been opened yet! And a random fire. In the middle of the night. When there is supposedly no power. Well, even the most foolish observer would agree that someone's snuck in and is up to no good inside. • Amytis still requires rescue. Chariklo is a terrible girlfrand. • With the fire alarm going off, Emergency Exit signs are beginning to light up, revealing handy escape routes for those who cannot teleport. • Srsly. Someone go help poor, tiny wailmachine (Song's words, not mine). She won't be going with the Negaverse when they made their escapes, but she is still tied up and badly wounded.
"They're all yours," Leto muttered to Castor. "I think some of my Mirror babies have been making friends, these Order people are not my doing." She grinned at her Order counter-part. As a General appeared ready to take the two of them on, Leto nudged Castor towards her. "Enjoy!"
And with that, Leto left her ally in search of her teammates.
Leto could hear the screams, and people calling for her. The Dark Mirror Royal used her strength and speed to climb up and over the boulders throughout the ride, every once in a while using her large black wings to push herself ever deeper. The sound of Amytis's scream made Leto want to vomit, but she was far too angry at this point. She passed a few Negaverse Agents and a youma, and she caught a glimpse of Chariklo who was being assisted by a red-headed Senshi.
"Get her out of here!" She called to the White Moon Senshi as Chariklo stumbled and the floor met with her face. "I'll get Amytis, just get Chari to a hospital. Go!" Yep, she was definitely giving orders to a White Mooner. Satisfied that the girl would get Chariklo help and with Castor for backup, Leto kept moving until she made her way around the third bend in this god forsaken ride.
It was there that she saw familiar pink hair, with a General, a youma, and a Negaverse Senshi.
"Get out of my way," Leto spat at the corrupt Senshi, her hands immediately balling into fists. Her temper was boiling and she took a step towards him, the only thing standing between herself and the General with her youma. Her large black wings flared outwards, in an attempt to make the tiny 5'3" Princess seem larger and more intimidating.
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 6:06 pm
The distinct wailing coming from the pink-haired senshi jarred Ochre's concentration greatly. Beyond the sound of her torture, Ochre picked up little more than blatant energy signatures near the area - and what sound he heard beyond her blubbering offered no indication of approaching forces. He sighed in exasperation. What was the expectation behind standing around as magical firepower, regardless? As a basic senshi, he was well aware of his uselessness against anything other than basic senshi.
And the senshi that approached nearly froze him in place with power alone.
Her command was more than obliged. Ochre stepped back with a shallow grin, skirting the winged woman while he watched her push past. At this angle, Ochre could manage one instance of his magic and strike her in the back. He lacked time - the senshi stormed where she tread - so once brown hair and feathered black streamed past him, he raised a hand toward her.
"Sheikh's Prayer," he muttered quietly, drawing energy toward his hand to usher forth a waning wisp. It shot in Leto's direction, as he hoped.
If this hits, let it be something goddamned useful. Someone as powerful as her isn't gonna give us time to ******** around, and that's assuming Lady Cain over there intends to fight a little.
Smoke soon registered to his olfactory, suggesting that the freshly-oiled and ill-prepared animatronics needed a few tune-ups before releasing on the big day. More importantly, they needed to get the hell out before they were smoked out.
Just once, let this be something of use.
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if it hits, fun. if not, oh well~
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Sailor Scout Attack: Sheikh's Prayer Range: 8 feet Number of targets: 1 Duration: Variable Number of casts: 3 Ochre extends his palm out and a pentagram forms just beyond his raised hand. It glows, and a spirit-shaped energy curves and swirls out at quick speed in a straight line. Once struck, the enemy experiences mild cold-oriented damage (i.e. light skin abrasions and irritation) along with a sense of doom and cold sweat. Lasts 10 seconds. Can be dodged and interrupted.
If hitting a SENSHI... The senshi incurs no damage and no repercussions from being hit. However, Ochre is afterward allowed to cast one iteration of one of the magic attacks, up to the equivalent to his level. For example, if Sailor Ochre strikes Sailor Iris with his attack, he will only be allowed to cast one iteration of her Iris Rainbow Ribbon attack. His ability to make this one cast lasts for a 20 second window.*
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:32 pm
The massive Dark Mirror aura was in front of Megrez.
And, of course, the majestic black-winged princess the aura was attached to was there, too. She heard the orders the princess shouted out, and she called out a quick "Yes!" as Leto continued forward so that she knew Chariklo would be taken care of. While saying Chariklo would be helped was one thing, actually helping her was another thing. The Dark Mirror had roughly 8 inches on her, which made carrying her a bit of a troubling matter. Something to do with getting in front of her and boosting her onto her shoulder...
With perhaps a little more jostling than she would have liked, Megrez pulled Chariklo up over her shoulder. Slowly, carefully, she made her way to a nearby emergency exit, hoping that she would be able to make it to a hospital in time (and explain what was going on to the people there).
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Exiting with Chariklo, unless you have another thing you want to do!
Schörl lifted Amytis near, putting the bleeding feet into the running water to keep the red flowing. It made a fine visual as the party finally got started in her neck of the woods- a corrupted senshi and the very Dark Mirror Royal herself come calling. " 'Though the mills of our machine grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience We stand waiting, with exactness grind Us all.' "
"Peace-politic made after phoenixes, pretty, and our own collared, branded, and beaten. Months on, now, yours go unpunished, unled, but bollocksing up every operation they can. If crown-own can't clip the wings of its own insurgents, it will be done by others. " The General spoke over the pretty shoulder, Barbary's paws reaching hungrily in want to touch and drain. The odds not well favored, Corrupted and General against a royal. But they want this one alive, back in their care. The operation was for neutralizing. These will not be on the field again soon. It is achieved.
"Are any faster from there with magic or blow than my hand at her very back, Jill-Crown? They are alive, for you to take home and school better manners of chaos kin. Fetch yourself, and all of yours away, and I'll send this one tumbling down to your pail of water. "
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 6:29 pm
The phone rang and rang, but no one answered it, making Ida worry about her team mate. He had to be here… there wasn’t anywhere else Athene would have gone with this many signatures. The only thing she could think of was that he was fighting inside… and that meant she had to get in there to help him.
Suddenly, the alarms began to sound and Ida flinched, taking off at a sprint for the other side of the ride from the massive signatures she felt. She would have made her way inside, but as luck had it, there were people coming out… People she knew, even.
“Megrez!” Ida called as she recognized the red head. She lifted an arm to wave and catch her attention as she angled her path to meet them. As she got closer, the woman she carried turned out to be familiar too and Ida felt her heart squeeze painfully as she recognized the dark mirror.
“Megrez, what happened? Chari… is she okay?” The nursing student immediately bent to check for injuries, wincing at the blood and already-forming bruises. The blonde was firmly unconscious… she needed a hospital badly. Ida took some of her weight as she turned to look the senshi of eggs over, her eyes concerned.
Moonstone wasn't bothered by the change in her opponent, she would fight whomever wanted to step into her space - take them down, hard and rip their starseeds from their still-heaving chests. Wasgo growled and pulled free from the gummy eggstuff that had been holding him somewhat still when it's mistress gave a shrill whistle.
The Captain hissed as Glitnir's magic hit her, weighing her down and clouding her mind with flashes of memories that she couldn't recall on the best of days. It was disorienting and left her with a heaviness in her chest that made it difficult to breathe and to keep her totem bat up. She hissed at him, "This will not save you, traitor." And it wouldn't, no - it would help though! Moonstone's will was enough that she was still able to go at him with violent and deadly intent despite the unseen weight pressing her down.
His head was going to be cracked open - she was intent on it.
Wasgo let loose a hellish sound and surged towards Sailor Sadachbia, dodging one brick but not the other; the glancing blow smacked into it's already sticky shoulder but only slowed it and made it's step unsteady. Taking damage wasn't smart, but it wasn't going to stop until told...or worse. The beast came in close, teeth ready to rend and rip, to bite and tear at the dark skinned senshi gal working to keep it from the Mistress.
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Wasgo is going to try biting poor Sadachbia - but you can have it hit flesh or fabric (big and dumb, she can side step and it won't be a problem to anything but her skirt/bow) as for Glitnir...same deal, though Moonstone is more dangerous.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:41 am
The voice that said her name was familiar, and once they met, Megrez returned the call. "Ida!" She shook her head at Ida's question. "No... a youma attacked her. She's been bleeding, and she passed out when I went to follow her to, um, Amytis," she said. She didn't quite know who Amytis was still, but she was clearly someone important. "We do need to get her to a hospital. But we'd have to drop her off and leave so we don't compromise her privacy, right? And me? Um, I'm fine... just got a bruise from a Captain. Two of my friends are handling her and her youma. We really need to get Chariklo out of here before someone catches up to us."
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---- Glitnir would be lying if he said he didn't get a kick out of seeing his magic work. He had slowed her for a bit, to be sure. Moonstone calling him a traitor flew over his head; it was probably part of some sort of Negaverse dogma. Unfortunately, she had been able to pull through the effect of his magic and was now charging towards him, and that bat was going to give him a hell of a concussion at minimum if he didn't move. He canceled his channeling to get the hell out of the way, though canceling was a little slower than he anticipated. He dodged the bat, though it was a very narrow miss; any later and it definitely would have caught on something. He released the chain of his scales to give himself a little more length to work with, then swung it like a flail at the captain. It was a little unwieldy, but he can gotten better at wielding his scales. Maybe he could hit her.
Sadachbia, meanwhile, wasn't lucky enough to escape Wasgo with a full dodge. The youma's teeth caught one of her hip ribbons, leaving her stuck dangerously close to it. She could pull away and just let the hip ribbon tear so she could escape, but being so close gave her a risky idea. She could point-blank her bricks at it and see if that did anything. If it worked, she could escape anyway, hip ribbon or no. With another muttered "Sadachbian Building Blocks," she called forth two bricks and thrust them at the youma, hoping to break them on its head.
Slipping under Chari's arm to brace her between herself and Megrez, Ida nodded.
"Come on, we can both get her there. I don't know what's going on inside, but Athene is in there, and... Leto, I'm guessing from the feel of it? I think there are others... we have to trust them to get everyone else out. Chari needs us right now." She turned the trio towards the city, starting off that way as fast as she could with an unconscious woman in her arms.
"Yeah, we'll have to leave her before she powers down... Maybe she'll wake up enough to walk herself in, otherwise, we can put her close to the hospital and call them or something. We'll make it work, don't worry." Ida said, tightening her grip on her friend.
Whatever she had to do, she'd do it. Hold on, Chari...
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 6:51 pm
“HALF youma.” Cinnabar growled as she bared her fangs at the dark mirror girl. “I’m still an agent, Sweetheart. You should probably be worrying less about you hurting me…”
The captain wasted little time rushing the senshi, her claws slashing. They weren’t the power house of a sword or a bow and arrows, but they were sharp, and she hit nearly as hard as a general when she was boosted like this.
The dark mirror was saved before long though, because without warning another order signature appeared and SOMETHING latched onto her tail. Cinnabar snarled as she whirled back out of range of the senshi, spinning to rip her tail away from whatever had been attacking it. She was shocked to see a small striped cat, star bright on its ********… Get off you little b*****d…” She hissed as she danced back away from the pair, caution flowing in to replace the battle lust. Umber had better be in safety, because she was not going to be able to protect him like this.
Movement, off to the side, pulled her attention for a moment and the half youma swore, seeing two eternal senshi carrying off one in black. s**t… That was the dark mirror chick they’d been trying to capture, right? Jumping back, Cin put more space between herself and her attackers as she pulled her crystal out, broad casting widely again.
“Two eternals are making off with our quarry, so it looks like the bird has flown the coop and isn’t coming back.” She said with a snarl, lips pulled back from her fangs.
Stupid b***h… someone should have killed her. So much for this mission, or whatever it was. The purpose had been the senshi, and now she was gone. For Cinnabar, that signaled the end of it all. ******** staying around to try and face two eternals while no less than two royals roamed about.
There was one loose end to tie up though… Spinning before anyone could catch up to her, Cinnabar took off at a sprint for the lieutenant she had been waiting for, overtaking him with her speed advantage.
“We’re out.” She snapped as she threw an arm around his waist and between one step and the next, they disappeared.
Cinnabar and Umber Exit!
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Cinnabar has sent out a call informing Negaverse agents nearby that Chariklo has escaped!
High above the battle, Bolton crouched among the rafters. The pair of Lieutenants, herself and Quartz, were several rafters apart by now; he had found his own part of the battle to be fascinated by, and she had hers. Castor. He'd let her die. It wasn't as if she were especially angry at the Negaverse, not any more, Zircon loved her and trained her and that was more than she could ask for. But she longed for her memories fiercely, her stomach rebelling at the thought of what could have been. Who she could have been, if she had just been awakened on the right side...
She made a list of the names, of the words they shouted, repeating them with each thought, what she could hear over the din of the scattered fighting. Glitnir. Sadabachia. Building blocks and Sadabachia... A guardian cat attacked Captain Cinnabar. The winged Royal abandoned Castor, who was left to fight... someone. A General that Bolton didn't know.
Sirens in the distance. Bolton's head jerked up and she saw the rising smoke, rose-gold eyes tracking it back to its source. Smoke alarms. She scanned the rafters for the other Lieutenant, spotted him, and hopped across the rafters. It wasn't graceful, but it got her across to him. "We're going to keep being smart," she said, loud enough to be heard through her mask. "I don't want my Captain to bail me out of a holding cell and you probably don't want yours doing that, either!"
Luckily, she didn't have to drag him through the criss-cross of beams. There was a service exit for emergencies, and the pair of them were gone before the cops arrived.
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 6:52 pm
Dogma, or she was just that pissed that someone was messing with her - traitor to the Earth, to the Human Race...that sort of thing -- the dark-haired Captain didn't really think too heavily on such things. She was far too busy slodging through Glitnir's stupid magic, being angry about said (stupid) magic, and envisioning his skull caving in as her bat 'lovingly kissed' his (stupid) head. As his magic released her, Moonstone dug in and surged forward...only to disappear briefly before reappearing behind him for a perfect opening at his unprotected brain pan.
Meanwhile, Wagso had ripped into Sadachbia's costume with it's fangs and shoved hard into her with it's massive, gnarled-wood-esque body. It was very pleased and moments from shifting it's head so as to be able to sink it's already bloodied teeth into the meat of her thigh when a horrible thunk was heard and it yelped, much like a scalded dog might have, as the summoned bricks dug into it's flesh and broke apart on what must have been a tender spot.
Moonstone's swing faltered as she twisted upon hearing her youma's cry of pain and instead of smashing Glitnir's head into juicy bits, the downswing was more likely to hit his shoulder. Or the ground, if he managed to dodge. Either way, she'd jump back quickly to re-assess the situation - there were signatures leaving, the bait had gotten away - there were Royals around. She hissed in irritation; this would not be a battle won for the Negaverse and she wasn't willing to die in this place, not when they were so clearly in need of a tactical retreat.
Wasgo whined and released Sadachbia, staggering a few steps before leaping a short distance away, wanting space between it and this...horrible creature that kept smacking it! Even so, Mistress had not called off the attack, so the youma would circle the senshi and look for another opening until that point.
Mintaka's arm stung with the tear from Cinnabar's claws. Just a little bit though, and a small price to pay as she saw two order senshi pulling Chariklo out.
Amytis had to be soon as well. With Cinnabar gone, the entrance down into the geyser was more open.
She waited in the front, like a lone senshi for anybody to come out, should it be dark mirror or order, she would be there to assist. If it was empty well...
At least she had succeeding in distracting or as long as she had.
