OOC: Discussion with my parents ended now, I can post again. :) BIC: "Hey, can you send these coordinates to Darxess?" Xardius said. He sent a photo of the coordinates to her. "It'd be a big help. And, I think we're done here...But Richards isn't quite finished..." Looking over Wing's shoulder, he said, "Hey, do you know if we can get to Twilight Town from here?"
OOC: I'm having a bad day, forgive me... BIC: Xardius dialed in Bellatrix's phone number, holding the phone in one hand while he scribbled calculations onto a piece of paper with the pen in his other hand. Mumbling to himself, he circled an area and waited for Bellatrix to pick up.
OOC: Oh, yeah, sorry...For someone reason I thought I responded already... And he's gone...Well, if no one shows up within the next half hour or so, I'm probably going to call it quits...
OOC: I'm officially free...School is OVER! YES YES YES! But I have to pay for my calculator, because it mysteriously disappeared from my computer desk...That's a dent in my non-existent paycheck...130 dollars, yeesh... Anyhow, Obsidian Sky will be coming up late this week or next week. Count on it! I'll come back in a few hours, and see if people are on, so don't run away...unless you don't have the time.
Richards, hit by both Xegreny's energy blast and Wing's sword, hit the ground heavily. "Well," he said. "I guess I underestimated you twerps." "But..." he said, raising a hand and letting the twilight wind rip into his arm, slicing into it. Blood dripped onto the snow. "You haven't seen half of what I can do," he said, his eyes widening with his smile. "All right, that's enough," Xardius said, still talking to Darxess as he grabbed Richards by the head. "Stop sniveling." "Wha--?" Richards said, twisting. "I'll just trace your spirit energy," Xardius said, hefting a struggling Richards in the air. "But give me a sec. I need some wind power." Putting the phone on mute, Xardius turned to Richards. "All right, I'm kicking you out. Hope the shock kills you." Richards' eyes bulged as Xardius flicked some bandages off, power surging into Richards. "No, no WAAAAAY!" Richards howled as his voice faded. "Well, I guess he was right," Xardius said. "Only a piece was left. But then, it looks like there was only a piece to begin with. I'll exorcise that too." More power, and then the body turned to dust. "All right," Xardius said, turning the phone off mute, "Darxess, let's see..." Closing his eyes, he concentrated. "Looks like you're floating in interstellar space about three worlds over from us. We can pick you up...just don't accidentally call the UPA or something while you're waiting..." OOC: I have to go, so I ended the fight a little earlier. But there's a clue on the ground to the location of the original Richards...but I don't want to decide, so someone else do it. Anyway, I'm out. G'night.
Xardius began toying with the edges of his bandages, and more power flooded into Wing...nearly triple what he had given him in the first place, re-energizing Wing instantly. Xardius didn't even seem to notice... "..." Xardius 'said'. "If you want a pizza, call the right number. This is Xardius of the Ultimate Organization, and if you call asking for another pizza Darxess, I will actually get around to teaching you how to use a phone. Got that? Now, where are you?" *** Meanwhile, Richards again exploded into air and reformed into the palm of a third Richards, now juggling two balls. "Wind clones," Richards smirked. "Miraculous, isn't it?" The balls shuddered around him, forming into mirror images of Richards. "So," all three Richards said. "Which one of us is it?" Richards began circling Wing and Xegreny at high speeds, creating a semi-vacuum. "Can you tell?" they shouted through the whistle of the wind.
Richards clapped from behind Wing. "Impressive," he said. "But that won't work on me twice." The body in front of Wing disappeared like air, swirling into a wind ball in Richards' palm as he chortled. OOC: Or not, XD. Richards, you're too smart. Anyway, now to Darxess and Xardius and Orb. BIC: Xardius popped an eye open (He's been taking a nap), and answered his phone. "Yeah, what?" he asked.
Richards swept forward, clashing his wind blades against Wing's, pushing him backwards... OOC: Get past his offensive capabilities, and you have him, Wing.
"Uh, well, not anything for you, but it might have a nasty side effect if you use it too long...Actually, these swords are for Highwind, Tera Roth, and Tyre...That one increases lightning and water damage by 250% each, and when combined, increases Tyre's strength a heck of a lot...Not that he needs it," Xardius said. Richards backed off, sneering. "Wind Blades," he muttered, dual blades appearing in his hands.
Richards shook his head. "Dreams are a waste of time." Xardius' eyes narrowed as Richards power doubled, then tripled... "That's...That's coming from somewhere...else," Xardius muttered to himself. "It reminds me of..." "Him." Richards flashed forward, catching the blade before it could swing, and smashing a wind bomb down at Wing. As it connected with Wing's wind shield, it shattered, hitting Wing's shield at nearly every point, stressing it to its max...
"This body will be 2 years old in a month, the day of my 66th birthday," Richards said. "But it doesn't matter. I just wanted this boy to have some fun with wind...Since I control it too..." The air shimmered around Richards, and he smiled suddenly as a slow trickle of blood from some ice slid down his cheek. Xardius slammed his hand into the other one. "I got how he's going so fast...He's manipulating the air currents to glide him to areas...The low air concentration here makes him impossibly fast! Heh, smart, for a fat dude..."
Richards looked with interest at his own blood flowing through his arm, then was hit by Xane's volley. He sneezed. Then he sneezed again. Shaking his head, he shrugged, "Guess that's it." Xane didn't have a chance to see it coming. Richards moved so fast even Xardius had trouble following. One instant, Xane was standing in front of Richards, the next he was bleeding from a slash from waist to shoulder (though thankfully it wasn't deep thanks to Wing's wind shield) and flying 100 feet away into the icy ground. Richards stared at Wing, and his eyes began turning blood red. "Do you want to play, young wind user?" Richards asked softly. The next instant, Xegreny belted him into the ice pillar. And, of course, Xegreny was right. Richards got up and continued to stare at Wing, a slow smile spreading across his face.
"Like a styrofoam ball," Richards shrugged, flashing behind Xane and spinkicking him into the air, then flashing above him and spinkicking him into the ground.
Richards was one instant hitting the ground, the next his fist was slamming into Xegreny's gut, exploding energy outward and skyrocketing Xegreny into an ice pillar. EDIT: Xardius sighed. "Yeah...The sword on the right on the ground...That one enhances wind powers by over 500%...Here I'll give you a bit of a boost too..." Energy swirled into Wing like a turbulent engine. "Hopefully, your power just got raised by about 200%...With the sword, you'll definitely be comfortable..." Xardius shrugged. "Just don't die." OOC: Oh, the swords are on the ground, so you can just pick them up. :)
Xardius smiled slightly, and power shot out of him, hitting Xegreny and Xane. "I'm splitting my energy at its current state, so you're now both half as powerful as I am," Xardius said. "Xane, your strength and speed have both been boosted 250%. Xegreny, yours, as you are more accepting of energy, have boosted 300%. Good luck." Xardius sat down, and laid back, sighing and mumbling about how cold it was here...
OOC: I pmed you Jaxed!!! (Y'know, I was in a bad mood earlier, but somehow it's all gone! Yayz!) BIC: "Give me all you've got," Richards said. "But it won't be enough." Xardius closed his eyes. "Hey, Xegreny, Xane, I don't really want to fight right now...Shurunrai gives me an ability much like Xegreny's. I can give you a steady influx of power that will allow you to keep up with this guy's speed...It might feel kinda funny, but you'll get used to it."
OOC: Summer's free for the moment...XD And about that "incident..." Xardius' memory is completely shot, unfortunately for him, and all he really remembers is that he is supposed to be saving this world and stopping Scourge. Lately, he's been having something like amnesia attacks, where he gets flashes of his old life...It's incredibly painful, hence he used the Masamune to end the battle with Sephiroth before he could go nutso and kill everything. BIC: Richards rubbed where the blast from Xegreny had hit him. "Ow." Hearing Vecked, he looked up. "Yes...and no..." Xardius' expression was taking on a dark viewpoint. "I think I get where this is going..." Richards shrugged. "I am Mantell Richards, so to speak. But I'm not the original. You see, I'm simply the body, whereas the brain is elsewhere." "Oh great, one of these freaks," Xardius muttered. Richards ignored him. "Because my original body was becoming somewhat, shall we say, impractical for the work I do, I had my scientists come up with...well, this...Of course, it wasn't without sacrifice. The poor soul who first inhabited this body just got, well, obliterated when I came in. I apologized, but you see, there really isn't much left to apologize too." Xardius' hands clenched around Shurunrai as Richards chortled to himself.
OOC: Yes, Xegreny, though it wouldn't be to that extreme...He keeps his powers under 'wraps' (XD) so bystanders don't get a backlash from his tremendous power...It wouldn't be to the extreme of dying, but it'd probably more than feel like getting the wind knocked out of you, if you just didn't go unconscious. BIC: Instead, Xegreny got the fourth option. Rubbing his head where the blast had hit him, Richards said, "Ow." Xardius rolled his shoulders. "You're right, sort of," he said. "But I can't beat him with just 15. I'll have to use Shurunrai...(pronounced Shoe-rune-rie! :) ) Popping a crystal out of his belt, Xardius grabbed the hilt of Shurunrai as it appeared out of the crystal. Sweeping it, he sneezed. "Wow, haven't used her in a while, considering the accumulation of dust," Xardius said. OOC: Shurunrai is a long katana, about like Sephiroth's sword.
OOC: Yeah, if you can, meet back in a few hours... I'll save some time for then. It turned out that the movie we were going to was sold out...XD. And that's really smart, Wing! BIC: Xardius looked up, his eyes suddenly clear of pain. "Hey, unless you want to die, I suggest you stop taking off my bandages," Xardius said slowly. Richards laughed. "You mean these?" he asked, yanking them off. The next instant, Richards was blown back nearly 500 feet. Xardius slowly wrapped his hand back up. "I told you not to..." "What was that?" Richards asked, getting up and brushing himself off. "These bandages seal 85% of my power away," Xardius said. "So, if you want to live, don't make me unwrap them." OOC: So, the seal Xardius broke sealed away 75% of his power, so he was fighting with only 25% of it throughout the whole UO. Now, he broke the seal, but the bandages seal 85% of his power away, so he's fighting with 10% less power...which means that he's slightly less invincible.
OOC: I gotta go, *SOB SOB SOB* It's my parent's fault!!!! See you...
