While Sal had been here to speak with Leviathan, he was immediately caught off guard by Adam. As the boy spoke, Sal simply felt an unnatural sudden inclination to take a step back and watch. As Adam basically just requested to have Leviathan return to hell to meet up with Lucifer, Leviathan seemed extremely bored and uninterested at the moment, simply returning to going to destroying things. How very interesting. After Leviathan left, Alistair then bent down and started poking at the smudge on the ground with a vacant expression on his face. As he commented about now being a free man, any doubts that Sal had about who those remains belonged to were instantly washed away. After Alistair posed the question to the group, Sal simply said, "I'd think it's in all of our best interests to not push the subject any further. Trying to force a conversation with Leviathan would most likely lead to his anger, and I don't think that's something any of us want to experience." Sal then shrugged his shoulders and said, "though I suppose I'll come back later regardless." Looking back and forth between the members of the group Sal then posed a question of his own. "How about yourself Doctor Grey? What shall you do with your new found freedom?" Turning towards Adam and the other he continued with, "and how about you Adam and friend? Seeing as Leviathan isn't interested in talking at the moment, what are you two going to be off to do?"
Spending Three Crowns on 1 AP Spending Two Points on Intelligence for a +2 Magic, +1 Res and +.4 MP boost. Equipping Combo.
➨ Caterpie I WANT MY BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFREE
Stratos wasn't entirely sure what to make of the scene that had just transpired in front of him. After preforming an attack that could be considered an Almighty attack, Gilgamesh seemed to concede that he indeed lost to all of them. He still seemed fixated on getting the sword, though and was going to keep going at them...until someone kind of strange appeared. She was a young, petite looking thing with blue hair. Interesting. She basically seemed to boss Gilgamesh around, and was all up in his face, so to speak. It was then that Mizu, as her name appeared to be, seemed to have some sort of prior relation. It was then that Merlin told her to go and continue her discussion with Gilgamesh in private and then asked for a status update from them. "Well you see, after leaving your tower," it was then that a massive white bubble seemed to encompass the entire background with chibi versions with all of them doing very simple actions, reenacting everything that he was explaining appeared and the setting changing to match the setting that was being used at that time. "We wandered through the forest, asked some questions to Wart and Goofy, Ana had a moment (pretty sure she had to pee,) then we got back to town. It was there that we saw some other keyblade wielder, probably evil, here talking with Gilgamesh, the big dude over there. Then Beuce hit on her, and she left. Ana hit on Gilgamesh and he ignored her. Then Gilgamesh noticed our keyblades and hilarious antics ensued in the form of a fight. After we preformed some kind of all out attack on him, we won and this happened." With that said, the giant bubble disappeared. Stratos looked over to the girl talking with Gilgamesh and then back to Merlin. "So Merlin, who's this Mizu person over there?"
➨ Cat
I'm just gonna...leave this here...my post that is...
➨ Other Response (Specify) "Who are you and how did you get in here?"
Sal and the girls were now in Australia, the continent where Leviathan, the strongest of them all was. It was clear that they had no plan, seeing as once they had arrived they had not been able to get any kind of plan drawn up. This being, Leviathan, was strong enough to take any of them on, easily, and kill any of them, easily. From what Sal had heard from Hana and Zachariel, apparently he was near unstoppable, and only managed to be sealed away after Michael's best efforts. And for the most part, he was told that Leviathan was unable to be negotiated with. This, bluntly put, meant that no matter what they tried against him, they were fucked. However, if Leviathan was to join up with Lucifer's team, than they were even more so fucked. So what was it they were supposed to do in this situation? Sal had felt that everything seemed to be working against them. No matter what they had done to stop this from happening, back at the church in Rio, was completely pointless and somehow been nulled by some thing that no one even knew. However... "I'm going to be going to meet with Leviathan." "What?! Are you sure? You don't mean alone do you?" "Well, that was the plan. If we failed altogether as a group, then we'd all die. This way, only one person's only in danger." Tiia grinded her teeth nervously and spoke, "You be careful then. If you need us, get us. Okay?" "I'll be sure to do so." That was the last thing Sal said before leaving for his one man suicide mission. It was true, that taking this on by himself was the not teamwork thing to do. It was also true that he may have had a better chance with more people, but given that one was the friend of god and the other was the only angel on Earth who had the capacity to unseal him the entirety of his imprisonment, he was privy to think that they might do more harm than good. And so, he left. Sal had made it to Sydney only to see the people already out there. He saw Alistair, Mali, Adam, and...that one girl...Sal had no idea who she actually she was. He remembered seeing her before, but he just couldn't put a name to the face. Then there were the two others that were more attention drawing then them. There was a smudge on the ground, one that seemed awfully...well he figured someone had just been killed on the spot there. And then there was the man who probably did it. The man who was Leviathan. Sal simply walked in and said, "my my, it seems like I missed something. Hello." [DOUBLEPOST=1395704760][/DOUBLEPOST] Kai was extremely dodgey about training with Richard and was trying to assure him that training wasn't necessary. Based on his constant denial of needing some kind of training at all, Richard was starting to think that Kai needed training more than ever. It wasn't until he finally cornered him by bringing up the fact that Kai had been in the group for much longer than most of the group. When Kai had finally admitted that he had never trained at all, Richard sighed. "I figured as much. You need to get stronger Kai, at the rate your strength is growing, even the new ones like Min and June will leave you completely in the dust." Richard simply pulled El-Harriss out of his pocket, and simply held the wand in his hand. "Now then Kai, whether you like it or not, I'm going to help you become stronger. So for starters...have you even held your own blade yet?"
➨ Roxas
Gomen Gomen...But I'm going to have interject a bit as my posts will never reach 1000 for them all not counting everywhere and my laziness shall never get me into a higher position then I am. Thus, I must post here no matter how much one of these normies bothers me... Also Grats on the promotion Cstarcchi.
It wasn't like Richard was particularly expecting an exact location from him, but there was something odd about the whole thing. Clearly Kai wasn't saying that his choice was wrong, he just didn't have any real evidence to back his choice up with. Richard had seen how Kai had worked in this group so far, and for the most part he behaved quite like Richard had in the beginning. Simply staying in the background and trying to not be as involved as he could. For him to just assist the group by selecting a location like that, was not quite in the character he had seen. Despite this, Richard felt that pressing him for any more answers at the moment would return fruitless responses. "I don't know about an innate knowing of things. If it were so easy to find these Gates, then they probably would've been discovered awhile ago. As far as I can tell from everyone else in the group, not even the angels have the faintest of ideas where it is." Richard honestly wasn't too sure about how to proceed next with this. They were on a hunt for a location no one knew, had no clues as to where it could be, and furthermore, Richard didn't even know what he was really looking for. Was it an object, an area, actual gates? Despite being something that seemed so important to all of the angels, they knew so very little about it. Richard sighed. He then looked up to Kai and said, "hey. You and I aren't going to go searching for it right away today. Instead, we're going to train for a bit." There was another thing about Kai that Richard had seen. Everyone had primarily focused on getting all of the new recruits up to a decent level of fighting so that they would be able to hold there own. However, Kai wasn't new, and so people often payed little attention to what he did, assuming that he was on par with everyone else. It was just that, Richard wasn't entirely sure how much training Kai had ever done. The entire time spent in London, while everyone was getting acclimated with their powers and weapons, he was almost certain that he never once saw Kai doing...any of that. Brandon was all fired up and ready to go once more! That's right! The gang today was totally going to find the gates...probably. Brandon was just about as clueless as everyone else, probably more so, as to what they were actually looking for, but he wasn't going to let that get him down. He walked over to Min, who seemed to be handing out scarves to the ladies, when he said, "yo Min. You ready to go on another day of searching?" There was no way they had searched every part of the city yet, and there was no way they were going to search some place else before they came to a 100% conclusion that nothing was here. It's not like any other place had any backing as well.
Now that they were here, the search wasn't entirely going their way. After his extremely awkward chat with Caius yesterday, Brandon had ran over to him all excited. He had gone on about they totally knew the location of where the Gates to Heaven were. Apparently Kai, who people were calling a pervert for whatever unknown reason that Richard didn't particularly care to know, had circled a location on the map. Whilst everyone else was trying to deduce the location, apparently Kai had casually and silently walked in and gave them a location. For whatever reason, Brandon was instantly inclined to believe that this was the true location of the gates and so he had insisted that Richard take them the there almost immediately. While others may have been skeptical, starting to look somewhere was better than not. Having said that, when they arrived somewhere in Iraq, they had absolutely no idea where they were supposed to go. They had tried yesterday, but to no avail and no leads, they instead spent the day training the new recruits with what they could. The new ones needed to get as much last minute training as they could, so that they wouldn't lose almost instantly in a battle. However, now being a new day, they needed to continue searching and get somewhere or else time would run out before they could get anywhere. Now that everyone was up and ready to continue their activities, Richard turned to Kai and said, "so, do you have any kind of idea where we should look in this place?"
"Oh, well pleasure to meet you Suzuki." Amethyst had responded with a smile, she then started pondering about whether she had seen Suzuki's sister. Well seeing as she just met Suzuki, she was pretty sure she would have next to no idea what her sister looked like. Shrugging her shoulders, Amethyst replied, "sorry, haven't seen anyone like that around here. Regardless, I think we should stick together for now. It'll probably be easier to find her that way, plus the heartless will be waayyyy less a problem with two rather than one fighting against them." Amethyst was actually a bit worried about the heartless here. So far, up until today, she had only actually seen the crawling black ones. Now, out of nowhere, there were these soldier type ones and whatever the hell these floating ones were. Not knowing what these heartless were capable of, which was healing, strength in numbers was something the definitely needed.
Wandering around the forest she had randomly been deposited in, Amethyst had literally no clue what had just happened. One moment she was just wandering around, stumbled onto some conglomeration of weapon wielders fighting heartless, and then the next she was in some weird silver woods. Well this was just wonderful. Wandering around, she eventually thought that she heard someone crying out someone else's name. Huh, must just be the very vocal wind...even though the air was pretty calm here. It was then that after walking around for a bit of time, she eventually saw someone land on the ground from the trees. Whoa, was she some kind of jungle girl? "Hey there." Amethyst gave a short wave to the girl who was in front of her. She seemed frantic about something, but then a some sort of weird green heartless appeared out of nowhere. It was floating above the ground and just sort of did...nothing. "Excuse me for a second," Amethyst told the girl in a polite tone. Turning to face the heartless, she made her bladed knuckles appear and, with an annoyed expression on her face, she punched the hell out of the green heartless almost immediately. After killing it she turned back around and happily said, "as I was saying, hey there. My name's Amethyst. Are you looking for someone?"
Richard perked up at the mention of the last name, Astar. He wasn't quite sure, but he was pretty sure that name was familiar, not to mention the boy himself looked like he resembled someone that Richard had seen before. He couldn't quite place it, but he figured it wasn't too big a deal. The kid, Caius, started scratching his head and it appeared to Richard that he was just as uncomfortable with this conversation as Richard was. Scratching the back of his head, Richard replied, "well, nice to meet you Caius." Richard didn't know where to take this next. However, an idea did pop into his head to help out the kid. "Also, about those," he pointed to the shoddily wrapped horns on Caius's head, "since you're a nephilim you are part angel, and if you wanted to hide them you could do what angels do to hide their wings." Picking up a nearby coaster, Richard said, "one innate ability we have is to simply make things," it was then that the coaster disappeared from sight, "invisible." Making it reappear, Richard put it down and said, "well hope that helps." As the young boy, William, pointed out that there might be something to do with Christian Mythology when it came to finding the location of the Gates. Seeing the middle east being pointed out, June got to thinking...and then stopped. She had absolutely no idea about the holy land at all. Other than the fact that there were a bunch of people fighting over it, she was at a loss. "Now now, that's no way to think with scavenger hunts Juney. You gotta be all vivacious and ready and willing to go!" It was here once more. Her angel, Muriel. June had understood from this angel of hers what she was capable of, and what kind of angel she had. 'If I don't know anything, I can't help.' June stated to her angel. Despite being in her head, June could tell that Muriel was making a pouting face right now. "Well fine then." Her voice instantly went back to jovial, "then I guess I'll just have to help you out! Now let's see, if I were the entrance to heaven, I'd probably be somewhere really well into all that godly protection like a church or something. Oh! Oh! I got it! We should try the holy cities in the middle east! I'm sure those places are overfloooowwwwinnng with holy protection and what not making it the perfect place to keep a super important thing like the gates!" It was then that June took a pen and circled in the cities of Jerusalem, Safed, Hebron, and Tiberias, as Muriel had told them to her. Looking at the group she said, "these are the holy cities." Going back to her conversation with Muriel June then asked, 'so, are you sure that these are where it is?' "Absolutely not!"
Richard had listened to what Caius said and his thoughts were unsettled. As things were, with now having two accounts of people telling them that Temeluchus was indeed working in her own third party. There may have been the chance that she was working with Lucifer to release Leviathan, but now that was clearly not the case. Though, while he was still curious as to what she actually wanted to do, he didn't really think he'd get any more info on that subject from the boy. Furthermore, there was still the case of Alistair being actually for their cause was something interesting to learn. Well, guess Richard just had to wait until they all met again. He looked back up at the boy and said, "thanks." At this point, the entire conversation was going to devolve into...awkward silence probably. So Richard figured he'd just ask more, "so, what's your name kid?" Brandon had woken up ready to teach some newbies the basics of being an angel. Also the basics of using a sword...granted, Brandon was basically making up everything he did as he went along and/or just taking what he knew from video games and shounen. But details were never something that bogged this boy down. Nope. Having everything that he needed ready to go, he burst out of his hotel room to see the gathering of some of the other people already. Listening in on what was going down, he had found out that Buch was actually some sort of pervert all along! Man, that was a shocker. Then again, Brandon tried to remember what section that he found Buch in when they first recruited him. Now, Brandon knew absolutely none of the german language, though using his contextual clues of legitimately nothing, Brandon was able to figure out that he was either in the culinary or the smut section. Don't ask. As Brandon walked in, Dante walked away, and that just left Min and Dire there. Brandon popped in saying, "who's excited for a day of training and location scavenging?" Brandon was as enthused as one could be about fruitlessly searching for a location he literally had no idea where it was. "I say we start with looking for the Gates place or whatever first! Good to use the old noggin before exhausting it out with exercise." It was then that one of the other recruits, Bagge, walked in with a map and a case of pens. Brandon didn't question where she got these from, but instead decided that it was awesome of her to be into this whole "Where's Waldo" quest. Opening the map up, putting a pen on his ear and adjusting his glasses that totally have existed this entire time but just have never been mentioned since lord knows when, Brandon said, "now, if I were the entrance to Heaven, where would I be?"
[/url]Amethyst had managed to walk through town for quite a bit now without any sort of interruption whatsoever. It was nice to just not have heartless constantly pouring down and trying to kill her at every given opportunity, but as all good things are, this soon came to an end. She saw some more of the heartless materialize, crawling out of the ground. Amethyst sighed a bit before resigning herself to her duty once more. She had been walking throughout Twilight City for a good hour now, but she had yet to see anyone else with a weapon like hers. Well really, anyone in general, simply because most people stayed away from the place where deadly monsters came in and tried to kill them. Making her own weapon come out once more, Amethyst simply used the bladed end of her knuckle weapon to slay the few heartless that had appeared. Easy enough. It was then that more heartless decided to swarm in, including a few abnormal ones. They looked like small soldiers or whatever. Nothing she couldn't handle. She started punching through shadows that hopped towards her, causing them to dissipate almost instantly. The soldiers, not so much. It took her a few good punches to finally kill them, but it still wasn't that bad. The main problem here was that they were starting to surround and swarm her. The shadows had never seemed to appear in this large number before, and her weapon wasn't entirely purposed towards taking out multiple targets at once. It was then that something weird happened. Some of them just stopped moving, and like literally stopped in every way imaginable. She continued beating down the heartless, until she saw a few leaping at her suddenly vanish from a single katana sweep. The owner of it had purple hair, and looked rather unphased by the whole situation. He continued to cleave through heartless after heartless, before waving his hand and walking away. Before Amethyst could even say anything to him, a few more soldiers spawned in which she had to quickly dispatch of. Once they were all dead, she looked back to see the man with the katana was no longer anywhere in sight. Weirdo.
Stratos...uh...calm?
Richard had been simply sitting down in the hotel when suddenly the nephilim he meant to speak with came into view. Well that certainly wasn't a long wait at all, and pretty convenient too. Richard took a quick look at the boy's head to see that he had something wrapped over it. It didn't take long for Richard to realize that it was to conceal his horns under them...but a hat would probably do this kid some wonders just as well. He also seemed to have a bit of a stutter, though seeing as just a few days back Richard was trying to kill the people he was with, this was also perfectly understandable. "Good morning." Richard sighed as he continued on with what he was going to say, after all, he was far too bothered to not bring it up. "Listen, we've probably got off to a bad foot before, and based off the fact that I'm going to go straight into asking questions about Hell, I'm probably not helping my first impression out at all. Nevertheless, I feel it's only right that I introduce myself first. Name's Richard, or as an angel I'd be known as Maalik." Obviously, speaking with people was not one of his strong suits, as he was struggling to come off as not hostile yet being totally blunt at the same time. "The question I wanted to ask though, could you tell me what Alistair and Temeluchus allegiance with the forces of hell are?" Richard hadn't really taken much note of it during the fight, but looking back at things, he found it rather odd that when the demons entered the fray they were still attacking the dark angels and the dark angels were retaliating in kind, not to mention there seemed to be no shock value behind it.
So the plan was going...weirdly. So somehow, Beuce had managed to go on a massive dual wielding spree using Kel's keyblade. Somehow he had managed to grab it without the keyblade immediately returning to Kel, but it was all necessary to combat the now super powerful Gilgamesh. And by super powerful Stratos meant that he had managed to give himself more arms which meant more weapons. At least he wasn't flinging these swords and making them explode. However, Beuce was met with a comedic end by the weakest sword in existence. A sword that did not discriminate between defense ratings and damaged all equally. And so he was completely knocked out. It was then that Ana had rushed over to him and tried to do a little medic work with her own cure magic, though he still wasn't really up yet. Ana then had figured something out for all of them. She simply knocked away one of his blades and then told the rest that they should probably do the exact same thing as well. Well that was certainly a simple strategy. And one Kel had managed to pull off quite easily. Once Ana burst out in a laughing fit over Gilgamesh being some sort of octopus or something, Kel rushed into action and managed to knock out two blades before he had been pushed back and forced to use cure on himself. All that left was five blades in Gilgamesh's arms. As of right now it was Stratos's turn to go and fight. However, he only had one MP left to actually cast a spell for this fight. Stratos knew that going one vs one against Gilgamesh was a truly terrible idea as Stratos had virtually no strength to back himself up in a fight. In fact, he had the lowest strength possible, save for his Unbound giving him a boost. However, due to having to post in a one on one format, Stratos was left with no other options. Stratos started charging forward, when he remembered that rolling was still way faster. So he started rolling towards Gilgamesh and once enough distance was closed, he went in for a straight attack at the multi armed behemoth. Staying on the ground, Stratos struck at the giant's leg once with his keyblade. While Stratos would've easily liked to follow that up with at least two more strikes to preform a combo, it was simply not an ability that Stratos could physically do at the moment. Furthermore, because his attack was so terrible, Gilgamesh was mostly unphased by the strike, and he only really succeeded in drawing his attention away. Which was more or less a successful thing in terms of providing a reprieve for the others. Regardless, Gilgamesh was now aggroed onto Stratos, and so he had to act quickly. With the eight armed giant bringing three blades down onto Stratos, he quickly reacted and put up his keyblade to guard the oncoming strike. Mitigating a good deal of the damage, he then dodge rolled away to avoid another two blades coming down onto him. Stratos then dodge rolled back as Gilgamesh's blades connected with the ground. With them exposed, Stratos was easily able to strike at one of the wrists with his keyblade, though he didn't managed to actually break his grip. Stratos then started rolling away as the blades continued to try and decapitate him, only for Stratos realize what needed to be done. As two blades were brought down, Stratos guarded against the attack to mitigate most of the damage, and then parried the both of them back. The next three blades came towards Stratos, which he avoided by jumping upward and then casting blizzard on one of the wrists, freezing it, and causing him to drop another blade. Unfortunately, the three unoccupied arms then came it him with a solid punch and knocked Stratos back. Wow that hurt. However, due to the wrist injuries he had suffered, Gilgamesh didn't seem to get off scot-free with that attack either. Well, now there was only four blades they needed to take out before he was completely subdued. OOC: Words: 690 EXP: 30 12/15 TOTAL EARNED Ananta 53 Stratos 102 Kel 46 Beuce 45
