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"That depends Focht, I'm only a pain in the a** to the ladies." He winked, sommersaulting to the left and pulling the blade he had sent to through the roof back towards him hoping to intersect with Focht's katana shards and destroy them. It would be of no use to deflect them as Focht would just redirect them towards him again.

When he landed, Xol snapped his open gauntlet closed and the wall of dark matter exploded. This would cause the roof to buckle and explode, sending materials into the main hall of Draeken's Mansion. Fockt, unless he was a good fifty odd feet in the air, would be engulfed in the circumference of the expanding black sphere.

Once sai had caught herself from falling, She now had to worry about Xol's dark matter attack that was rapidly expanding on the roof top. Expanding her fingers of the gunalet towards the nearing matter, as the gunalet opened and spun around what would be where a Arm and hand would be, in a rapid motion. A circle of White Light engulf Sai, as it seemed to cave in onto the gunalet like a beam, Once the circle was completely closed onto the gunalet, She clapped her hands, as a flash of bright light exploded as her gunalet snapped shut around her arm again. She sent back a Wave of Shadow energy, that cut through the air in a semi circle from her to counter Xol's Attack, hoping to give Focht some time, or even Time for her Move from the area of attack.

Standing on the Edge of the roof, She fell back, twisting her body, perfectly to land, upon the ground, a few feet from the mansion. Once she landed, a small wave of dust and dirt shifted, as she landed kneeling on one knee and on her hands. She glanced up in hopes that Focht had time to move from the attack.

Draeken's body was wavering now, his balance all but leaving him entirely. Turning his head towards Phia, his face blackening and the skin starting to crack, he smiled and tried to speak. It only came out in a hoarse wheeze, but his lips still moved enough to convey the words, "I love you." He started to sag forward then as his body finaly lost all ability to remain upright. He kept his eyes on Phia however, because at that moment, his eyes were beginning to film over, but not in death. His eyes were being corroded away now as well, and he wished his last sight to be his wife's face.

Xol's attempt to destroy the 2 pieces would work just like he planned. They wouldn't be of much use any more but the intended effect had been achieved. Xol had stopped to defend. With Xol stopped, Focht unleashed what he had been hiding but fired it in what seemed to be off target as he tried to dodge the energy. The blade would appear to miss slightly over head before stopping suddenly. At that moment, six blades of air shot up from beneath Xol in a complete hexagon around him. The blade that had stopped above him shot downward, changing into a very compact and powerful blast of air that would send Xol through the roof and possibly the next floor as well since the blades had already removed any of the support the roof would offer. The 6 blades would invert and follow the blast of air downward after Xol.

Missing with the blade of air had a second purpose, provide momentum. It might have been enough to clear the explosion of energy if he had sent something other than a blade of air to finish his counter. Focht used the momentum and manage some slight manipulation of the air to miss the edge of the roof and head downward. This wasn't enough to completely avoid it, but it was enough to minimize the exposure. As he fell, he twisted to try and avoid the outer edges of the blast but it didn't do any good. Passing the equator of the explosion, it expanded and engulfed his left arm and the left side of his torso. Sai would notice him grimacing in pain as his left arm had all 3 major bones broken, along with a number of ribs. He landed on the ground infront of the Mansion, dropping to his left knee to absorb the impact, grabbing his injured arm as he did so. Focht's shirt seemed to have shredded into nothing where it had been inside of the sphere, and he seemed alittle unsteady on his feet for the moment.

Xol sneered as the six blades of air impacted and tore into his body. Was Focht foolish enough that after all this time he still didn't realize that, like Mastema, attacks that would penetrate the body held no harm for him? The air blast from above though, would do what it had been intended to do and smash Xol through the already failing roof to the floor below. When the six blades of air followed him down, he ripped a hole beneath himself and dropped down through it, leaping forward to let the blades of air impact with the ground.

With a quick scan of the area, he felt Focht and Sai's auras through an adjacent wall. A pulse of dark matter obliterated the wall seperating them to which Xol would burst out not a second later. Both massive blades trailed behind him, shooting around in an arc as he brought his arms forward and then bearing down on the aforementioned duo in an 'X' pattern.

"Don't tell me you were trying to leave already Anastasius." Xol hissed before his two gauntlets collided in front of him and a debiltating sonic wave was released in their direction. The wave would vaporize the the top layer of the ground as it moved towards it's targets, intended to knock both unconsious or severly impair them so that the incoming blades could dispatch them entirely.

Erudemasa did allow Old D's full mind to hit him. It wasn't anything he hadn't at least glanced over. The experience of semi-living through the memories was slightly different, but nothing that couldn't be dealt with. In return, Eru opened a portion of his mind to Old Draeken to observe. This consisted of images that Erudemasa had seen of alternate paths not taken by D. There was one where he conquered the world, only to be overthrown by a mismatched group of rag-tag rebels who were barely able to put aside personal differences to defeat him. There was one where he had died at the appointed time, which had ended up eliminating most of the problems in the world by removing him from the balance. The most bizzare one was where Old Draeken had become a mime, travelling the world as a silent performer, and recruited individuals who looked strangely like KB, Mastema, and Xol into his circus troupe. Of course, none of these would ever come to pass, but it was sure fun looking at them sometimes. To the soul within the weapon, Erudemasa responded (OOC Note: Trip and Pleasant, as they are pretty intimately tied to Erudemasa's mind, can hear this dialogue)"Oh, don't worry. Your soul will pass on from here. Sunny-Day over there would have nothing less. I just want one teensy little thing before I allow your transition. And yes, I have some death avoiding abilities beyond speed. Why do you-" It was at this point that Eru's mental communication was cut off by the large piece of bone now sticking through his chest.

Erudemasa had made no moves to avoid or even notice the spikes of bone approaching him. As such, the largest fragment caught him right in the chest. His eyes widened with shock and pain as he coughed up blood from his mouth for a moment before going limp. At that instant, all within the area could feel a pulling sensation at the base of their skull. This lasted only a moment before disappearing as a new Erudemasa stood calmly and with a smirk on his face on top of the tip of one of the bone fragments. The limp body still hung where it had been stuck, but the spear was in the possession of the new Erudemasa. He made a 'tut-tut' noise as he wagged his finger at the clone of Truinthil. "Sorry, Harry True-man. I don't go down that easy. Unfortunately for both of you, I've got what I was here for, so I'll be asking your leave."

He stepped down from the bone spear point and sketched a mock salute to the two Truinthils before slamming the butt end of the spear onto the ground. A small black pool of water began to form on the floor. The light did not reflect on it, nor could anything be seen through it. If a person looked closely at it, they could see millions of flashing images, each one not connected to any other (and yet seemed to corrolate very well with the shifting patterns of Erudemasa's scarf). He looked over at Sundel and said "Well, delightful Sunny, as a courtesy and a gesture of politeness, I'll be glad to discuss this with you. If you'd please step into my office..." Erudemasa gestured to the small pool of liquid.

Focht winced a little as Sai pulled the makeshift sling tight. It wasn't his prefered manner of dealing with broken bones but he let it go for now. Standing and turning to face Xol,

"Sai, go, I will be right behind you....."

The blades on the other hand, were left for him to deal with. There was a very big flaw in the design of these blades, and Focht intended to exploit it. He sent a bubble of highly compressed air toward the 'X' formed by the blades, a moment after the bubble made contact, it exploded outward with enough concussive force to send the blades sideways. There had also been the intention to counter the shock wave headed toward himself and Sai but there wasn't a solid burst from Xol left to speak of. The resultant excess of kinetic energy faded over the distance and would just be a slight breeze when it reached Xol.

"Sorry Xol... This isn't the time or the place for us to fight."

Focht turned and stepped through the portal, hoping Sai would follow.

The beauty of the weapons he used is that they were very unconventional. When the bubble of compressed air exploded, they indeed caused the path of the blades to veer to the side, however the blades would simply stop in air and continue down on their previous path. Focht had caused just enough of a pause for him to escape as the blades impacted with the ground right after he stepped through the portal.

Xol let out a huff of air as the sonic wave was cut down by Basaran before it could reach Focht and Sai. "Really now? Well, I'm sure I can find a way to make a few little play things out of your spare parts now couldn't I?" He scoffed. Unfortunately for Basaran, the blades were shooting back to their master and flying right towards his sternum. This would be evident to him soon enough as the white hot, liquid metal 'chains' became taunt and zipped past his midsection.

His eyes shifted briefly to lock with Sairys' as she to passed through the portal. "Hmph... what a waste of talent. If only..."