With Stratos's magic doing more damage than ever, thanks to the mariachi band giving him power, Mim seemed to be hurting...seemed to be. She quickly came in and attack them with her broom strikes. The magic let loose from this attack was the same in quantity as the one when she had reverted back to this form, only this one was even stronger than that one. Guess the desperation move was just a nerfed version of this attack. However, thanks to that weird thing Kel had summoned, he had been brought back from the strike that had hit him. Regardless, he was still willing to give it his all, and when Ana came over to give him an aero spell to keep from dying, Stratos gave her a thumbs up. With Kel bringing the witch back down with Gravity, Stratos turned to Beuce and said, "are you ready to go all fisticuffs on the old bag again?"
my pick is that which was my most loyal (for whatever reason, I dunno I hardly ever switched out) of dream eaters...the TAMA SHEEP!
Noir was quite disappointed that the two people who were at each other's throats decided not to work as one, ah but such was life. When India had complimented him for his idea, he simply said, "but in the end it didn't seem to work. Ah well." With being handed the parachute, he watched as India jumped off and figured it was time for him to make his grand exit as well. So casually walking over to the edge he simply plummeted downwards. Everything else now relied on the wind and or fire magic user.
Alright, so Stratos was now given a grace period in order to preform his action, and so he was going to preform this action like no ones business here. With both of Ana and Kel going on the support side with Ana continuing her weird revitalizing picnic and Kel summoning...Stratos had legit no idea what that was, and Beuce going for a punching attack, Startos did the only thing he could do. Since punching an airborne enemy would prove to probably be fruitless, Stratos decided to use an attack that actually suited his offensive stat and was meant to be used as an attack rather than a limit builder. With his hand glowing a faint light blue now, Stratos traced an asterisk and said, "oh chilled air create a shard to pierce my enemy through," swiping his hand through the asterisk, Stratos pointed two of his fingers at Mim, with his thumb up. When the thumb came down Stratos said, "blizzard!" and fired a chunk of ice out of his fingers.
With the second spell of reluctancy up, Stratos knew what he had to do. Getting picked up by Ana's picnicking was helping out a lot, granted he still felt like he was about to keel over at any second, but regardless, he looked towards the opponent and went along with the plan. Creating a faint glowing brown light on his fingers, he decided to cast another spell, one that he had before but totally didn't need to go through this process before to do so. Tracing them into the outline of a square he said, "oh earthen forces, set those that would trample you ablaze," sweeping his hand through the square he shouted, "mine square!" and created a circle of mines around Mim. Since this wasn't actually an attack, the barrier of reluctancy couldn't stop it.
Stratos had taken quite a beating from the old witch. Sure, he had been able to use the most powerful attack anyone had managed thus far, but it seemed to come with him getting slaughtered almost immediately afterwards. And so, Stratos was dead...oh wait...when your quantitative measure of your physical health status reaches zero apparently you're just knocked out. Well that's handy to know. Stratos picked himself up as apparently someone taking a break was apparently the greatest sort of healing move there was. As he stood up, he realized that he wasn't the only one to have taken a massive pummeling from that attack. And so, he decided to get on the support side of things and heal someone up. He started to glow a faint light green color as his fingers started to glow brighter. With them, he traced a very simple outline of a leaf in the air as he said, "oh blessed flora that casts its faint light upon the weary," he then swiped his fingers through the leaf outline and then lifted his hand above his head to cast the spell. "Cure!" Targeting Kel, he gave him what little healing power he could offer at the moment. Stratos also had no idea why he was making up chants and overly cinematic scenes for these spells now, but he then decided it was more than likely just to make them seem cooler.
10/10, would fuck cake
Now it was time. Everything had been leading up to this moment. At this point, Stratos was positive what he was going to do. With a serious expression on his face he suddenly clutched his chest and to let a large glow from it. Next he moved his hand off and started to move his fingers in a circular motion, creating a faint trail of light for wherever they went. "You who would desecrate the land of the golden sword, with my advent, I, a keyblade wielder, lay waste with the Unbound, and expel thy vast defilement!" Stratos, without actually having unbound out, then swiped his fingers through the light circle he had made and brought his hand up, gathering all the light into one small ball. The ball quickly started to glow and burn as though it were a star, and Stratos finished it off with throwing the orb straight at the Rhino Mim. As the small ball of energy connected with her, it let loose a brilliant solar flare of energy causing a massive blast of star energy to burn straight at the Rhino. This was, or at the very least, Stratos's version, of Trip Around The Sun.
After the supposedly heartfelt reunion between the two sisters who may or may not still be existing, Amethyst decided to continue on going with their grand journey in this forest to go and find a way out of here. Like actually, this dumb forest of silver leaves all over the place was starting to get on her nerves. There was nothing here but heartless after heartless, and the entire area in general was just overall not pleasant to be in at all. After all, what kind of person likes trekking through a basically shining forest? Whatever, she was totally going to lead the trio to town so they could be done with this little excursion of theirs. Only problem with that idea is that she had absolutely no idea where to go from here. The though of burning down the entire forest was quite appealing to her at the moment, however that'd probably just get her and the sisters killed as well by some sort of burning branch falling on them or getting set ablaze themselves or just second hand smoke. Damn smoke. Ah well, still slightly annoyed at the situation, Amethyst said, "alright guys, let's get going now. We're going to go find the exit to this forest if it kills us." With that, Amethyst started the walk to find this dumb forest's exit.
Blanc had woken up to the ordinary sounds of his now home town. It had been two years since he was left to his own devices in this city. He had been thus far able to make ends meet by doing little odd jobs here and there, and with it he had been able to make a living for himself. Known as that guy who would take care of just about any menial task you'd ask him to do, within the years of his living in Kikei he'd found out that mutants still have a bunch of weird things they need done. A perfect example was when that one mutant with hyper sensitive smell had him handle all of his garbage duty. That was a good consistent job, however the man eventually moved and that just meant that Blanc had to go find some new work. However, the middle of the night, as it would be as of now, was not a good time to find jobs. What it was good for, was simply taking a walk. The boy still needed to relax himself every now and then, and the night times was the perfect time to do it. Sure, it was when the more ferral and hunter like mutants came out, but he still found it to be a great time to clear his head and think about how he would find a job today. As such, Blanc just kept walking through the streets of Kikei.
Noir had an amazed look on his face as India had essentially went through some sort of Sherlock stream of consciousness straight towards Dmitri and clapped for the man. "Wow, that was quite amazing." Noir had absolutely no idea what India was actually talking about, seeing as he had literally just met these people, but it still sounded impressive nonetheless. He was most certainly right about these people being interesting to go along with. After India had thrown out the suggestion of them getting these pieces of cloth to make a makeshift parachute, Noir threw in his own suggestion. "Also, if we were to use this cloth parachute, we have Dmitri here with his fire powers. We can probably use that in much the same fashion that one would use a hot air balloon in addition to Dain's wind powers to help slow our descent. In addition he could even use the flames themselves to apply thrust in the opposite direction from which we are falling." He figured that could work, and thought it would be quite enjoyable to see Dain and Dmitri working together despite their apparent hate for each other.
So at this point Stratos basically felt like copy and pasting the same post he had done before, but oh well. With his massive physical strength and speed of his, Stratos sprinted straight towards madame Mim and decided to follow suit with everyone else to basically punch her into mines. Really this was probably the weirdest image one could think of. Just a bunch of young people ganging up and punching an old lady into explosions. Granted this was probably not going to be the weirdest thing yet, but it was still kind of odd.
So Stratos was totally waiting to do his attack...again. He was still waiting on Beuce to get the attack off...well a revised one that is. Since apparently Dumbo was still on the field despite not physically being able to be summoned. Oh well. Stratos felt that he was getting much closer to using that solar magic thing they were discussing earlier. Half way there in fact. Well, he would just have to wait now and BS again because boss battles suck sometimes.
Having successfully laid his mines down, turned out that the witch didn't actually move at all. Well that was disappointing. Stratos wasn't entirely sure what to do next in this sort of situation, seeing as he was then totally blinded by some sort of bright flash attack, but with her most likely not going to step on any of the mines herself, Stratos decided to see if he could just shove the old lady onto his own mines. With his pathetic strength he ran up and started to try and combo her into the mines, praying the RNG was on his side.
With the go ahead signal from Beuce, Stratos now started his full blown sprint towards the madame. And what he did next was simply the exact same thing that Beuce had done. Running in, he clapped his hands together, and then right where Beuce had cast his mine square, Stratos slammed both his palms on the ground to transmute the dirt in the earth into explosive Mine Circles...that's how Mine Square worked right? Regardless, if everything worked out perfectly then the only problem they would run into was if she summoned a Star Eater.
Ooc: The attendance event finally got to me... Stratos had no choice but to sit there and take note of the battle. Sure all of this would probably be said after Beuce did what he was going to do, but time was of the essence, and god as his witness Stratos was not going to miss another opportunity. He knew just what the plan was for when it came time for him to attack Madame Mim. In fact, everyone knew what the plan was, despite not really discussing a plan at all. In fact, all they had done so far was really talk about magic theory and what everyone was capable of. Nevertheless, Stratos got himself into position to do what he was meant to do. Getting ready for a sprint, seeing as he wasn't the fastest fellow around, he was going to prep his spell and lay waste to the madame.
Stratos watched as Ana and Kel went off to make their own weapons as Stratos continued to just stand there thinking more on this fight. It was then that he remembered that he had something that was probably going to be pretty helpful in this fight that he hadn't mentioned yet. "Oh right, another thing that would probably be helpful in this fight would be a magic attack akin to throwing a sun at someone. Oddly enough it's not that hard of a spell to learn, so I wouldn't be surprised if you guys knew it as well. Unfortunately, the requirements of this spell seem to fluctuate in terms of power needed to generate it, not to mention it's said to detract from other skills you might know. But seeing as it is one of the most powerful things I've heard of, it'd probably be really helpful in this battle. So, do any of you actually know it?"
Username: Skyheart Name: Blanc Age: 18 Gender: Male Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/jwYw30T.jpg Mutated Features: The red circles on his face, pale skin. His skin is more like metal than actual skin. Power: Combat Force- The ability to use enhance oneself in order to fight at an alarming level Abilities: -Resolute Eyes: The ability to put strain on one's own body to exponentially increase all physical parameters -Full View: Can see in an entire 360 degrees field of view -Clear Mind: His mind/mental status cannot be influenced by any external force -Iron Heart: As per his mutation states, his skin is as hard as steel -Hyper Intuition: Is able to effectively read his opponents movements and react accordingly. Weapons: None...save for arms, legs, feet, hands, etc. Strengths: Close ranged fighting, unarmed fighting, and is quite the cook. Weaknesses: Actually lacks the know how in regards to using weapons. Isn't exactly the best at expressing emotions. Starting Area: Kikei Bio: Blanc was a boy who was never quite good at anything. He was a failure at any form of education, he was physically weak and for the most part sick at all times. With this, his own parents started to resent him as they had to put all their money into a child who wasn't really worth much. It was then that a teenage boy seemed to be going door to door, seemingly asking parents for their children and if they wanted to have them be a part of some sort of Spirox related experiment, and that he'd pay them for Blanc's participation. Blanc's parents let go of him in a heart beat, and thus Blanc's fate was altered forever. What was actually happening was the teenager in question was trying to look for kids who weren't living in the best of homes. He had been pleasantly pleased for the most part, though felt sorry about Blanc's situation. He then informed Blanc that the spirox related experiment wasn't false, and if he was actually interested in going through with it, he could give Blanc the gene. Once Blanc agreed, after a long winded procedure that is far too complicated to go into, Blanc had the gene placed in him. Quite as the boy had thought it would, the gene didn't exactly comply with the Blanc's body, however that wasn't a bad thing at all. For the most part, the gene reconstructed his body to become one that had all of its old weaknesses gone. The real mutation was how it gave him a body that could actually work, and preform in a much more exceptional way than his old one. With that over and done with that, the boy then helped Blanc figure out just what his powers were. Once that was done with, he left Blanc on his own to go live on the Outskirts for reasons unknown. With that, Blanc was left to fend for himself, however, with his new-found body, he was more than fine. Other:
10 Brandon's expression became annoyed as soon as the demon's started charging him. Gritting his teeth, he shouted "if you're going to fight me then why not do it yourself!?" Generating a large amount of electricity in his hand, Brandon flung a lightning bolt at a single demon. This was the new technique of his, chain lightning, in which a single bolt went towards a single target. Once the bolt hit its target, it more or less used them as a living battery and charged off them, before going towards a new target. The lightning started bouncing from demon to demon, killing them as it went until there were none left. Once the bolt left the final demon, it flew straight towards the recovering Adan. Adam had finally gotten himself to stand up straight before the lightning went straight into his chest, Adam held it and let out a sharp cough before screaming, "Enough of this!" and he formed the mist again and had it form again, like the needles, but this time the size of daggers, but not nearly as many as the needles. When he threw them in Brandon's direction he fell to the ground. When the daggers came towards Brandon, he turned Vis Vis back into a sword and electrified it. Slashing towards all the daggers coming towards he managed to knock a few out. However a few cut his torso, while one found itself in his leg. Gritting his teeth, Brandon electrified his leg to not only disintegrate the dagger, but also slightly burn his leg wound to close it. Looking at his collapsed foe, his anger went down a tad as he said, "are you done yet?" Adam knew he couldn't just give up here, no matter how much he may have wanted to at that moment. He was getting hit pretty bad by Brandon and he really wished he had something more powerful than mist to counterattack. He used his sword to help himself stand up, before he pulled it out of the ground and transformed it into a throwing axe. He formed mist around it to form a grip, that way if it did miss, or if it hit him, he could pull it back. Adam threw with as much strength as he could muster towards Brandon, hoping he could do some damage. As Adan got up wordlessly, he realized that this fight wasn't going to end until one of them went out like a light. With a calm expression on his face, Brandon sighed and started walking towards Adan with an electrified Vis Vis. As he hobbled his way over there with his bad leg, Adan threw his blade which was now in the form of an axe. Brandon couldn't really dodge it with his leg the way it was, and it just planted in the shoulder of his free arm. Grimacing a bit at the pain, Brandon's shoulder electrified, burning the mist on it and firing a pulse that knocked the axe out of his arm. As the electricity start to burn his shoulder wound close, Brandon continue walking with that same calm expression firing a small bolt of lightning from his blade towards the ground at Adan. The bolt was simply supposed to turn into a pulse that would do nothing more than knock Adan down. Adam had gotten a firm grip on the axe just in the to use it to block the lightning. It was the first time something managed to time well during this fight for him and he was going to use that to his advantage for now. Adam transformed his axe back into a sword and ran up to Brandon and slashed down at his legs. At the very least he was going to try and go with the tactics that got him to win against Sal. Even if most of that fight was luck. Brandon continued walking towards Adan, even with his foe charging him now. Brandon simply kept lmiping forward. Once Adan brought down his blade towards his legs, Brandon simply blocked the attack with his already damaged leg, grabbing the blade with his bad hand. Dropping his blade, as this happened, he jabbed forward with his hand, now fully electrified, straight at Adan's torso. Adam moved slightly to the right, but wasn't able to move quite quick enough. He felt the hand go straight at him and he felt his heart skip a beat. He felt paralyzed and couldn't move and felt the feeling that this was the end of him. He lost his ability to move, although he remained conscious of everything going on. As Brandon had seen his attack go through, Adan fell to the floor rather quickly. With a good deal of damage to himself, Brandon fell to the ground a bit himself, and tried to bring himself up. As he picked himself up, breathing heavily, he looked down at Adan, and saw that he wasn't moving anymore. "My my, it would appear you had everything under control Brandon." Brandon turned around to see just who the voice belonged to, only to see that it was El who had appeared before him. With his ever calm face on, El said, "nice work there, though you seem to be badly banged up yourself. So, is he dead?" Brandon looked at Adan and shook his head. "He isn't, or at least, shouldn't be. I don't think I put enough power behind that last attack to kill him." Brandon was hoping right now that Adan was just unconscious. Sal shrugged and said, "well guess there's only one way to be sure then." Sal drew out his blade and pointed it upwards. "It's a shame that you had to turn traitor against us Adam, but if this is the path you chose, then you should except the end it lead you to." With that, Sal brought the blade down towards the limp body only for it to be stopped by a golden blade. His eyes traced the blade to its source and saw that it belonged to Brandon, who had a pleading look on his face. "Even after all this, you'd still side with him, hm? Well, " Sal shrugged, "guess it can't be helped then." With that, Sal grabbed Brandon and hoisted him onto his shoulder. He turned to Adam and said, "yo, Semyaza. Even if your host is out, you should still be able to hear this. At this juncture, I'd recommend you stop where you are. Even if you have the strength to keep fighting, don't. In the case that hell wins, just go on with what you were doing before, it'll most likely be no different for you at all. In the case that we win, you should just run away from here as fast as possible. If you aren't a threat to us, we won't pursue you once this is all over. However, if you keep on fighting, your host will die, and it will be a completely pointless death. So stop where you are now." With that, Sal started walking away from the body and hadn't looked back. Once he got back to the others, he simply put Brandon down and turned to Vincent, "it would appear the boy got himself a tad too injured for the time being, so if you could heal up first that'd be wonderful." Sal then turned to see that Henrik and Soren had already decided to charge Lucifer on their own. Not to mention, Samuel had been going on a rampant demon killing spree, and was focusing more on the demons than anything. Then there was Alistair, who seemed to be heavily wounded and not finished with his opponent yet. Who to help first? Regardless, Sal decided that he needed someone to send a message. "June." The young girl walked over to where the Portuguese man was and said, "yes?" "I have a favor to ask of you. Could you please tell Samuel, the big Mexican man with the flames over there, to stop wasting time on the demons and instead move on to the bigger targets like Lucifer or Leviathan?" "Mhm." With that the girl drew her giant blade and started walking forward towards Sam in order to give him the message.
Stratos listened to what Beuce had to say about this new spell of his, known as Reluctancy. Beuce seemed to know a good deal about the power behind the magic, though Stratos was curious as to how he had learned a type of magic that doesn't fall into the basic archetypes of magic. Stratos had heard of different variations of the archetypes, such as switching gravity to zero gravity or combing thunder and gravity to create magnet, but this seemed so far a deviation from any of those that he had no idea how one good about using it. However, once Beuce had finished his explanation, Stratos said, "so basically, its a spell that makes people not want to attack each other? That does sound useful if we're going to have analyze our opponent in our fight." Stratos then went to thinking about the fight and then said, "though even with all the spells we have, we still run into a few problems with the plan. No offense Kel, but I don't really get the whole, magically talented vibe from you, and so the damage output from him using spells probably won't be the greatest. Not to mention we are going against a witch, who probably knows a few things in terms of having magical defense. Not to mention, we have the whole limited amount of spells we can cast, and I'm pretty doubtful we'll all have enough mana to last us through the entire battle. In that case, do you think we should try improvising weapons from the environment around us and not use them as swords but rather some other archetype of weapon?"
