Name:Humanoid Guardian Cat Arthur Location: G8 > H5 Action: Shielding Total: 2 + 5 = 7 HP: 90 - 26 = 64 (No additional damage this round) ===========================================================
Arthur wasn't sure exactly what he was looking at, and stuck close to the group now around them. With this much Order, there was some comfort that they were in good company that could help. However, as the lightening struck through them all, they all felt that pain and many looked strained from it. How long was this going to last? The creature looked smaller, but how much did they still have?
Just - hope. Have faith in all of them.
He took a breath, watching as Pherkad tried, but expressed how little they had in them now. Their last effort to fight teetered them to nearly crumpling to the ground. Arthur moved in, holding them upright and beside them. "It's okay. You did good. Just stick to me. I'll watch over you." He assured them, doing his best to keep them upright and conscious.
It was then that his skin prickled and he looked across the people around him. It sang, a humming of energy straining against itself. It wasn't the first noticeable change. He had felt these pinpricks all around him - releasing outward as power expanded out freely to a new form.
This was close to him, and he looked about to those nearest him. A senshi with long, lavender hair and bright, white uniform in a similar color style to his own. Moving Phekad, stood before the group and the kneeling senshi.
Gently, he knelt down to them and smiled. "You called."
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Captain Sodalite Location: G9 Action: Attacking the Hollow Total: 3 + 5= 8dmg HP: 46hp - 26 (rd dmg) - 16 (lightning) +10 (Hatsya's deflection of lightning damage from AtroBella group this round) = 14hp left (I think)
Sodalite was getting frustrated. He gladly took the ethereal blossom that appeared before him and gave a small wave of acknowledgement to the one responsible before he leaped up in order to try and attack the creature. The shields had finally failed but that didn't stop the Captain from trying to do the best amount of damage possible. It was agonizing. The lightning that continuously struck the field now had no barrier. It was free to zap anyone unlucky enough to get hit by it: himself included.
Wincing he shook of the strike as best as he could before gritting his teeth. That should have been more damaging, so why hadn't it been?
Ellicott, Super Senshi of Dance Location: E1 Action: Passing healing berry to chibi, and using her magic on Mabella to help her feel better Rolled: 1, 8 (struck by lightning) Total: 1+5 (level modifier) = +6 to Mabella HP: 78-26=52-10-8=34HP ((Apparently been forgetting to factor shielding in... my bad))
She gritted her teeth and after looking at the scared child in their midst the Super senshi did the only thing she could think to do. She pressed the little pouch containing the healing berry into the child's hand before calling upon her magic.
"Dancing To War!" Even as her feet drove into the ground Ellicott knew it was just a stop gap. The other's that were protecting the spike were fading, but it was the only thing she could do. The best thing possible. The child deserved it more then anything else. She remembered being in the same position once. If she could protect Mabella then she would do what she could.
Even if all it is, is a mental boost. Something to provide some comfort. Anything is better then nothing.
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Super Sailor Scout Attack: Dancing To War
Ellicott does a strong, driving, war dance and as her feet pound out the steps on the ground the members of order around her feel a practical well of strength, courage, determination, and power surge up from the ground. Only the order members in a 10 foot diameter feel the affects of her dance and the affects last only as long as the dance does or 30 seconds, which ever comes first. The affect of the dance is actually stronger then the first attack. This can only be used twice in battle.
((Second use in this battle))
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Character Name, Rank, and a link to their journalSuper DMS Hela Location: H9 Action: N/A this post Total: + 5 = HP: 92 -26= 66HP
There was so much going on that she couldn't keep track of it all. The dark lightning, the fact that it had looked like Earth had just been destroyed, and the whole while she hadn't even been able to do anything to try and keep her friend Hybris safe. It felt like she was failing at being prepared and being able to stick it out through thick and thin, just as everyone had expected of her.
Clenching her fists as she thought through what she could do, she wanted desperately to help and protect people. Rolling over through each thought, she lost herself in the swirling ideas as lightning started to strike the ground near her. If she could just protect them, if her dolls and her magic could just do more.
If she could do more. She always persevered; that's how she even ended up in this city, far from the quiet farm her parents and siblings still lived on. They were waiting there for her to come home during the breaks between semesters.
Her hand fidgeted with the pin she'd clipped to her fuku, the gift from the alien merchant who had shown her that there was so much more than just the farm, the city, or the planet, even that she could explore and take photos of. She just had to make it through today, just had to push harder and work harder to protect those who had helped her find a community in this city.
Staring down, lost as she tried mentally pleading with her magic or whatever thing in the mirror might listen, she didn't even register the bolt of lightning as it struck so close that it singed the patterned and translucent fabric that framed the base of her fuku.
Super Corrupt Hylonome Location: G9 Action: Doing the healing thing Total: 1 + 5 =6 (all the hp bonus to Prehnite) HP: 47 - 26 - 19 + 10 (lightning deflection courtesy of Hatsya) + 15 (Almadel's Berry) = 27hp (I think?)
Hylonome heard Prehnite's words and took them to heart before she cast her magic again trying to keep the team up as long as possible. The lightning arcing around the field was worrisome and she just hoped that, at least in this promise, Prehnite would be able to keep it. Her magic cast was weaker but still the flower once more appeared before Prehnite.
Captain Dravite Location: B2 Action: Setting Fluora down carefully and attacking CH again. Total: 9+5(rank)=14 HP:52-26(prompt)=26
After carefully setting the corrupt down, Dravite made sure she was well enough to stand on her own before turning his attention back to the Calamitous Hollow. Without hesitation, he lashed out at it for a third time.
Lightning arched around him in a cacophony of booming sounds. He should have let go of the chain, but detaching the dagger had never been an option. Dravite understood the risk and knew that this may be his last attempt to make a difference. But he would not let that knowledge slow his hand or anchor him in place.
He barely had time to react before a flash of pink static collided with the black lightning that would have struck him, erupting into a blinding explosion. The next thing he knew, he hit the ground, the impact knocking the air from his lungs.
For several long moments, he could only lie there dazed, vision swimming with bursts of color that were not unlike a flash grenade going off in the room with him inside.
When finally he managed to blink the sharp lines and spots away, he spotted the Eternal lying unmoving beside him.
Dravite dragged himself toward her and gathered the Corrupt into his arms. Her ombre jade-to-pink eyes stared past him, glassy and dark where there was once color, and in them he saw a scattering of unfamiliar stars.
It made no sense…
Fluorapatite - Eternal Senshi of Static Location: B2 Action: Flighting Lightning with Static, attacking CH and using her magic to divert a lightning strike from Dravite to herself (also dusting the brain youma). Total: 3+10(rank)=13 HP: 42-26(prompt) =16 - 16 (lightning) = 0
When the Captain left her side, Fluorapatite aimed her attack just enough above him to redirect any lightning that was sure to come his way. With his weapon, he was effectively a lightning rod, and to insure his success in striking the Calamitous Hollow, she used her Chaining Static Shock upward to protect him.
However, her static was easily overpowered and the black lightning meant for Dravite followed the path of her static and struck her down.
There was pain, but it was over just as quickly.
This should have been the end. But in place of the god-like serpent, or the dark clouds rushing towards them, all she saw was a massive Dark Star; searing strands of purple energy, comingled with pure white light like solar flares, were haloed by a ring of crystal clusters.
I don’t understand… none of this made sense. What is this…?
Location: H5. Action:Attacking the CH with his last forgotten spell. Reassuring Helene, and eating Almadel’s berry. Total: 4+10 (third stage) = 14. HP: 91 / 150 (102 – 26 from CH general attack +15 Almadel’s Berry, no lightning damage)
Shockwaves from the Calamitous Hallow’s attack crashed down around the battlefield. People crying out, people trying to fight, people all struggling together—regardless of where they’d come from or which faction they stood with—because all of them wanted to protect the same planet. Earth, the home or at least temporary residence for so many.
And then it was gone.
And even as the Calamitous Hollow roared above them, Helene’s question rang in Kaifeng’s ears above all else.
“I’m okay, gege,” Kaifeng started, looking at Helene in the Soft way that he couldn’t help, even here at the end of the world. The way that spoke to how lucky Kaifeng knew he was, to finally know that he had never been as alone in the universe as he’d once felt, that he’d never been damned for whatever reason—probably some kind of negative karma accrued in a past life—to always seek romantic love and yet never find it. His heart had simply wanted someone who hadn’t been on Earth yet. Someone who had, by a series of fateful twists, survived a thousand years of Hell and somehow found his way to Kaifeng. “I’ve even still got this.……”
Kaifeng produced the mysterious berry from his little gift bag pouch. Almadel’s note had promised health, and it made the most sense for that to come from the berry—like consumable healing items in one of Lanting’s RPG video games—so Kaifeng popped it in his mouth. With his hand freed up, he briefly squeezed those fingers around Helene’s rope harness, leaning up to steal a quick kiss.
“Heal one of our friends,” Kaifeng told him gently. “Or yourself. But for now, I’m okay to keep fighting.”
And Kaifeng needed to keep fighting. Dancing around a cruel blast of black lightning, he swung his staff up at the Calamitous Hollow, and called one last time on the magic he’d found hidden at his Wonder.
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Kaifeng swings his weapon at a single target within a 20-foot radius. The target is knocked back by a burst of air, cold as death. When hit by the chill, the target is seized by a brief but powerful feeling that they have died and no one cared. This attack has three uses. 0 Uses Remaining.
Items Remaining:Almadel’s Pin (+10 to one roll), Almadel’s Berry (+15 HP)
Location: H9. Action: still internally screaming but attacking the Hollow anyway. Total: 2 +5 (second stage) = 7. HP: 96 / 125 (107 – 26 from CH general attack +15 Almadel’s Berry, dodged any lightning damage)
For a moment, all of Lete’s panic stopped.
But only because she watched the electrical attack burst out of the Calamitous Hollow and strike the Earth.
Even as the shockwaves from its attack crashed down on her and everyone around her, Lete couldn’t feel anything. Felt as though she couldn’t, anyway. All that work, all of these people coming together to fight as one even though they were usually enemies.…… Had all of that meant absolutely nothing?
It wasn’t fair.
But…… But Lete’s family was back on Earth. Her mami and papi. Her big sisters. Abuela. Meemaw. Leandro was probably back at home with Bruiser right now, except for how he wasn’t, and he couldn’t be, because the Calamitous Hollow had blown up the Earth and there wasn’t a home for them to go back to, probably, much less any of the people who made “home” any kind of worthwhile place.
Lete inhaled sharply. Her eyes burned as her vision went all wobbly. Hot, wet tears spilled over and rolled down her cheeks. But…… But everybody else had worked so hard on this.…… And they’d failed. They hadn’t managed to save anybody.
Without any thought or aim, Lete choked down the berry from her gift bag, then threw her magic out at the monster. If they couldn’t save anybody, then at least she could help ******** murder the thing that had killed her home.
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Items Remaining:Almadel’s Pin (+10 to one roll), Almadel’s Berry (+15 HP)
Character Name, Rank, and a link to their journalEternal Corrupt Beatrix Location: c8 Action: More magic time Total: 2+10 = HP: 63-26-16= 21hp
She'd seen Chrysocolla on the back of that angry monster, and for a moment, Beatrix watched in awe and horror that her Eternal was doing something so amazing and so brave while everyone else seemed to start falling. Her magic did it's job, whatever that might do against such a large beast but she didn't focus on what her Dullahan had done.
Something felt like it had shifted; there had always been the respect she had for the woman who had given her praise, a fresh start with all this. And as Chrys returned, Beatrix could feel that difference and smiled till her face hurt.
She didn't know exactly what had happened, but she didn't need to because she'd follow what her eternal, her general queen, the queen, and Metallia told her to do. It was just how it was, and she was proud of what her bosses could do and would do to keep things going.
There were so many questions she wanted to ask, more than she really ever brought up since it rarely mattered, but for now, she focused on the moment as she found herself a speechless witness to what had unfolded.
Character Name, Rank, and a link to their journalSuper DSS Procyon Location: Moving to Illyria (to facilitate a growth, approved) C6-> F3 Action: Panicked, worried, looking for help Eating Berry Total: 3+ 5= HP: 40-26+ 15- 16= 13hp
The blue planet he'd been thinking of as his newest home was there one moment, and then the next, it appeared to be gone. It sent a panic through the small grey senshi that only got worse as his friend Cernunnos went down. He didn't know what to do, not in this situation and his thoughts went straight towards getting help from the first individual who he'd met on this planet.
"I.. I'll get help! I'll be right back!" His voice shook as he bolted, stumbling as lightning cracked into the ground close by and people began to vanish or collapse.
He closed his eyes to it as he ran, out of breath as he made it to Illyria and the group of other strangers he didn't recognize. Wringing his hands together infont of himself as he looked at the mauvian who always seemed to know what to do, he felt himself stumbling over his words.
"What do I do? I don't know how to help them and... they're gone." He couldn't even figure out where and how that had happened or if there was anything to do, but he still wanted to try even as he stood there looking much worse for wear than he'd looked before.
Character Name, Rank, and a link to their journalCadet Vysynnia Location: F3 Action: Total: 8 HP: 78-26 - 15= 37hp
The senshi who were helping had started to vanish, struck by the storm and what came from the creature they were all trying to contain. It was dangerous, and as she watched Lyndin fight, she knew she had to keep at it as well; there wasn't time for the billions of questions she had about this and all the things that were going on.
Well, it hadn't managed to blast Earth thanks to the satellite shields; that had to be worth something. And the people nearest to him at least continued to remain upright, which seemed like another point in their favor...
But there were many others falling, while the Hollow continued to launch attack after attack... Even if it was smaller than when they'd first laid eyes on it, what did that mean in the end if it successfully killed all of them? There was nowhere to go and nothing to do but continue trying to dissuade its advance, but it somehow still felt endless and hopeless... Even his usually-perky girlfriend looked- worse for wear. Drained, tired, hurt, teary...
He couldn't know what she was thinking explicitly, but they were all approaching the end of their rope.
"Ele- You have to take this," Antisana said, moving close to her side. He pressed the berry from the pouch into her hand. She looked so defeated already, and since he could still stand, it would be more valuable to her than to him. "It will make you feel better. ...Theoretically. Take it."
Antisana had magic still to his name, so he used of that what he could- though he was convinced it would have no effect on such a monstrosity.
Watching as Earth was "destroyed" made him pause for a bit, and he could feel anger boiling up inside of him. Something however was telling him that there was something wrong with this scenario. Why would the serpent just destroy the planet? Even if it was angry, it could have wiped them all out without having to destroy the planet. A surge of pain shot through him as he was hit by lightning.
The Senshi that he had decided to stay with for this battle appeared to be getting the worse for wear. They would have to end this, and soon. Using the purple pin, he threw himself at the creature, using both hands in an attempt to at least graze it.
Arseno knew about trick and illusionary magic, and while the destruction of Earth caused a pit to form at the bottom of his stomach, his brain wouldn't allow him to admit that it really was destroyed. It didn't make any sense that the snake would do such a thing after taking such trouble to get here and battle them.
He wished he had his personal Youma with him and while there were plenty of Agents, including the General he followed, it still felt like he was the only one there. He didn't have time to contemplate the matter, he was hit by lightning and it took a few seconds to remember everything that was going on. And with it he threw his weapon at the creature.
Eternal Sailor Alastor Location: C8 Action: Attacking ; shard shrapnel raining down on him/Sessrumnir/Lucien ; using a large scale as a shield to guard against it ; near Ganymede/Valhalla/Laurelite Total: 3+3rd stage HP: 27 / 150 [67-26-14]
Alastor had to have faith that he did not just watch the world explode. He’d never seen a planet destroyed so he didn’t know what it would look like. He knew that they’d spent an incredible amount of time building shields, and when they’d all gathered, there had been so many lifting into the sky.
Almadel had no reason to send them faulty blueprints, not when he’d also sent them supplies to help them in this battle. If Earth had been destroyed–
Well, it wasn’t fine. But they’d taken who they could elsewhere. It was some people, but it would never have been enough.
The black lightning was unpredictable and wild, and the Calamitous Hollow seemed to be shaking itself off from the last attack and was preparing to strike again. He saw no humanity in its eyes. He had no shred of hope that this was a creature to be reasoned with. In its own way, it seemed mad. Rabid, on a celestial level.
What an empty existence, to simply consume.
He wondered if it had been a born monster or if it had been made it one.
It didn’t really matter. There was always a point of no return, and he figured the Calamitous Hollow must have reached it long ago.
He hadn’t used this much magic in a long time but he was far from running out, and he suspected it would run out of steam well before he did.
Though close, Alastor still needed to leap into the air to get in range enough to use his magic. The serpent had taken so much damage already; he could see the scratches and splinters on the scales. They were smaller than before but he didn't have to stay up there for long to see how much damage they'd done to it.
And how much damage it could yet do to them.
When he landed after his last attack, his eyes were still on the creature. Scales had been slamming into the ground around them, with far less frequency than the black lightning, but there was an uncomfortable scratch at the back of his mind and he was trying to figure out what was setting his alarms off.
In the distance, there was a sparkle in the sky. And then a dozen. Growing faster, rapidly.
There was a split second where his mind told him arrows and even if he knew that was wrong, he still knew it was dangerous.
With nowhere to take cover, there was little they could do. It wasn't like the black lightning was striking, tearing open a hole to intercept the bullet-like shards violently raining down upon them. He didn't know who was responsible for such a sloppy attack–probably a Negaverse Agent trying to show off for their Queen–but he hoped they hit her.
He didn't have enough time to call out their names when all they needed to hear was "Move."
A nearly in-tact scale had fallen just a few feet away earlier, and Alastor wasted no time in scooping it up. It was a mediocre shield, with nothing to strap it to his arm, it required he use both hands to hold it up. He might have been more gentle with Sessrumnir and Lucien if he'd had an arm to usher them away, but all he could do was bump into them with his shoulder with enough force to keep them moving while he raised the make-shift shield against the sudden barrage.
The splintered scale hit in one wave; the shard had fractured into a multitude of sharp, dagger-like debris. The first was roughly six inches long and hit the ground with a whistle. It pierced the ground strangely, and splintered into tiny bullets that scattered nearby.
If Sessrumnir had still be standing there, Alastor didn't want to think about what it would have done to him.
He didn't want to find out.
A few more shards pelted them from the sky in varying sizes. Two of them hit the scale he held and shattered on impact; his fingers were burning from the impact but the makeshift shield survived.
Another shard hit his leg but he didn't really feel the pain. Warmth, maybe. A little uncomfortable but not unbearable.
It might have only been a few seconds of danger but it felt like so much longer. Alastor didn't lower the shield even when he was sure the onslaught had stopped but he craned his neck over his shoulder to check on Sessrumnir and Lucien. There were flecks of blood on each of them, a small splattering, but he was quick to ask, "Are you all right?"
Location: E10. Action: rage, rage, against the dying of the light. (Attacking Harold, having feelings, etc.) Total: 10 +10 (third stage) +10 (Tianyi’s buff) = 30 HP: 66 / 150 (76 – 26 from Harold’s general attack – 15 black lightning damage +16 from Elkurud’s shield +15 Almadel’s berry)
For a moment, hope overpowered everything else about the situation. Bright as a star, warm as summer sunlight, blossoming in Murikabushi’s chest at the sight of the battle unfolding all around him. So many people from so many different walks of life—never mind all of the different faction loyalties among them—and they’d all united against this beast who wanted to destroy their world (or at least a world where they currently lived and worked). More than that, their efforts were working.
Rage like the sort that burned off of Harold right now—the sort of rage that made beasts take on obviously self-detrimental attacks like trying to dive-bomb the ground around everyone—it meant that everything they’d worked on had paid off. It meant that this slimy ******** understood exactly how much of a threat it had come up against this time. Nobody got that kind of angry unless they understood that they’d taken on more than they could chew, and that they’d probably meet their end sooner rather than later. Murikabushi even allowed himself to eat the berry from Almadel, trusting that it would help him more than hurt.
But then, all of a sudden, the storm stopped.
Then, Harold sent his lightning blasting right at Earth.
Murikabushi gasped. His eyes went wide. He looked around for his people, everyone he’d gathered up around him—right in time to see Tempesti taking a bolt of black lightning and going down. Mönch, who’d come over with Chillingham, went down next, with a one-liner on her lips that Murikabushi couldn’t help smiling at. “I do,” he whispered, even knowing that she couldn’t hear him. Tension started spreading throughout his body like an oil spill, his heartstrings going violin-taut. He tried to fight it. Tried to keep his hands from shaking. “I do believe in Sailor Mönch.……”
Believing in her didn’t make her get back up, though.
Believing in all the potential that she’d had to offer the universe couldn’t revive her.
Instinctively, Murikabushi looked to Elsa next. He should’ve looked to Elsa first. Should’ve checked on this boy first above everyone else—his boy??? were they??? that……that was why everybody had to get out of this, right? like, aside from all the other, significantly more important things that affected more people than just Elsa and Murikabushi??? because he and Elsa really needed to talk after this??? About themselves and what they were and what the kiss had meant? And for a moment, Murikabushi smiled, looking for Elsa and finding him strong, healthy, firing off his magic.
But the lightning struck him.
And where it struck, it left behind unspeakable black, pockmarked with smaller bolts of lightning.
“Elsa,” Murikabushi said softly, reaching for both the boy and his own magic. None of his magic could heal. He hadn’t been blessed in that way like Kerberos and Ida. ********, everything he’d been putting into his planet since purifying, even if it never loved him enough to bless him with transcendence, could it just love him enough to let him stop whatever was covering Elsa in this vantablack disaster? Let him pour his energy into Elsa the way that Kerberos and Ida could do for people, only the one time, it only needed to be the one time, as long as it was enough to save him— “Elsa, just—just hang on, please……please hang on, we—this looks so bad, but we can figure something out, we can try—”
Murikabushi curled a hand around Elsa’s wrist.
Two bolts of lightning crashed down: one for each of them.
But when the initial flare of pain subsided, Murikabushi still stood strong and Elsa……
Elsa was gone, and Murikabushi’s insides felt a chill that Mirrorspace could’ve only dreamt of emulating.
Tianyi’s voice came through, and Murikabushi met it with a nod. He wanted to look at Tianyi and give him a smile, something reassuring. But trembling all over, Murikabushi couldn’t manage that. He could only reach up toward that ******** Harold and yank down on an invisible cord, the way he knew so well, calling on the same magic that Airan had once used to punish that slimy noble-blooded ******** who’d been running his ******** mouth about how the peasants were undermining the very fabric of society with their entitled selfishness and the way they whined, the way they believed that they didn’t deserve to go ******** hungry every night.
You think you’re starving, Harold, Murikabushi thought at the beast, glaring up at him as angry tears welled up in his eyes. Let me teach you the real meaning of hunger, you pathetic little shrimp-d**k <******** class="quote">
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Items Remaining:Almadel’s Pin (+10 to one roll), Almadel’s Berry (+15 HP)
Corporal Cypher, Vanguard Corporal Location: F5 ->F3 Action: Leading the group with Lysanna, Vyn, and Hugbell back to Lyndin and the Vanguard. Eating a berry after getting struck by lightning. Total:5+5(rank) = 10 HP: 59-26(prompt)-16(lightning)=17+15(berry)=32
Cypher acknowledged Commander Vyn’s orders with a sharp nod.
When he turned to Lysanna, he watched as she ate the berry they’d received from Amladal. Some of the visible minor injuries were mended, leaving him feeling confident that as long as they made it back to the Vanguard without incident, she wouldn’t need his assistance in carrying her.
For now, he took up the front, rifle raised in case of an unexpected threat that was not the Calamitous Hollow above them.
When they reached Commodore Lyndon and the rest of the Vanguard he shifted his attention upward and fired another shot from his weapon. His act of aggression was replicated tenfold when a bolt of lightning descended from the sky and struck him down where he stood.
The pain was indescribable but he remembered the berry that Lysanna had eaten not more than a few moments earlier and withdrew his from the velvet pouch and consumed his as well. It helped, but not by much.
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1, 7Total: 8 (2-20)
Transended Princess Ida Location: F3 Action: Attacking the Hollow and gathering her friends close Total: 1 (roll) + 15 (rank) = 16 HP: 69 - 26 - 17 (10+7 roll) = 26
Ida had been putting everything into keeping that damned shield up, pouring energy into every source stone she could get her hands on. She'd barely had any attention for what was going on above them as the rest of their forced attacked the beast, until it tore away from them and there was a strange, brief lull in the fighting. It drew her eyes upwards to watch in horror as it shot back out, lighting flashing around it, and it blasted it's power through a gap in the clouds... towards a revealed Earth.
For a short moment, the blue pearl hung serene in the sky beside the white one, and then the shields their kind had made exploded, covering the view again. Please, please hold... She thought, her movements stilling as Ida watched the shields blast the monster back, throwing it down atop the shield they had all been so frantic to keep running. A shield that died at the force of the impact, finally giving out. That was it, then. There was no more she could do for this group. Now, she would have to focus on fighting this beast, and protecting her people.
Fang seemed fine. He'd taken some damage, it looked like, but he was attacking as fiercely as ever. Kerberos was desperately trying to heal Lyndin who looked the worse for wear... and was giving up on his device, now that the shield was gone. That massive sword of his finally made an appearance, and she watched with fascination as he used it to fling energy about, blocking lighting strikes... strikes that in other areas were hitting people. So many were falling around them... the lovely knight had disappeared, and Ida caught the young senshi as he too was struck and fell. The weight of all of their sacrifices sat heavily on her shoulders, weighing her down.
We're all fighting so hard... giving so much. Earth has to survive this... we have to protect it... Ida thought, feeling both desperate and oddly calm. They were doing everything they could do already... all the could do was more of the same. They might all die here, but they would have held nothing back.
Illyria's arrival back from... wherever she had gone while Ida had been distracted was a boon, and Ida reached for her, clasping her hand in her own.
"Just a little more... we have to keep going." She said, over the shouting and thunder, giving her bonded's hand a squeeze before releasing her again. Sweeping her hand up, she sent another arrow after the monster that hovered above them, joining her attacks to the rest. From behind, she heard another familiar voice calling out, drawing her attention back down.
"Procyon?" Ida called, surprised. She should have known he was here, but she hadn't seen him yet... he looked in rough shape. "Stay close! We have to stay together and keep fighting."
It was all they could do.
Ida cried out as a flash of dark lighting came out of no where, spiking through her like it was trying to tear her apart. She shook in pain and gripped Illyria's hand tighter.
Eternal Sailor Attack: Heavenly Orchid Arrows!
[What it does] An out-flung hand casts a trail of petals that form a bow-like shape. She takes it up and uses it to fire arrows of light with hardened petals as arrow heads. The arrows have an 'aura' of power to them and explode on contact. The explosion is more concussive, causing a pressure that can push a target backwards a foot or two, but doesn't do much in the way of actual damage. Unbalanced enemies could be knocked over, if they were caught unaware. Particularly heavy opponents may not be moved by the attack, but could be distracted or slowed by the pressure of it. Each arrow takes a lot of power to cast and her limit is three, which exhausts her and can force her to retire until she's rested.
