"Oh come on, that is my thing, and mine is way better when I have time to summon it." Reno joked as he saw the hell hounds emerge. That didn't mean that he was dumb enough to challenge them. Sure Rude was stronger than he was, but he didn't want to risk one of his only friends just to show who was better during a riot that escalated to unnecessary violence. This fight was getting far too dangerous far too fast, and Reno took that as his queue to leave. Popping into his fox form, Reno ran out of the crowd towards the east, searching for some safety from the hounds and flames being unleashed on the city. The eagle that he had summoned for the battle trailed behind him as Reno's nine tails swished on his way out of the crowd. His slightly smaller form made it easier to get away from people, dodging in and out of legs slightly easier than trying to push past people in his human form. When he felt like he was a healthy distance away from the flames, Reno turned around, sitting on the ground to watch as the rest of the people fled, curious what the crazy woman with the hell hounds would do once she scared everyone away.
"I uh... I don't even know what to think of him honestly. This is not what we need to be doing with our time." Tinarah's eyes darted around to the buildings around. There was plenty of work to be done in this town and still villains on the loose and here they were talking to an overconfident duck who she was willing to bet didn't know what was actually going on in this town. At least Take had a decent idea of how to handle things ans she walked over to the opposite end of the building keeping her eyes pealed from there. As she looked around Tinarah faintly heard what Torrin had to say. She supposed that she felt sort of bad for him, but at the same time she just wasn't sure enough about the duck to really trust everything being said. Even so Tinarah nodded her agreement, if things weren't interesting enough as they were with her and Torrin actually being near each other, now they had this thing thrown into it on top of that. Well perhaps he could be of help, it was time to at least see.
As Thea dodged through the fire, webs came bursting through her wall of flames. Since she didn't have the control to keep the fire hot at all time, it was more for a distraction and the flames let the web through without much of an issue, causing Thea to become caught among the webs. For a moment she was stuck and a little freaked out, but as she struggled against the binding effect of them, her body became a pillar of flames, burning away the webbing that was around her as the flames took over, flickers of blue flashed in both her wall and the red flames around her body. Soon after however the red flames settled and Thea took a moment to calm her breath and try and control herself a bit more before she shot out a few more flames from her wall, trying and hit the spider with more fire, perhaps even igniting it if she could. As they walked down the river, Samuel stopped and Everette looked to where the boy was pointing, his eyes going wide. "That is not natural. I agree we need to take it down, and then perhaps see if it has any connection to the poisoning. But for now it is a danger to the town." Everette pulled out his sword and prepared for a battle as his clones mimicked his actions. Slowly the clones spread out from him, starting to form a semi-circle around the snake like creature. As he did he glanced over his shoulder at Conrad. "Unless you have a way to create light, I won't be able to help blind it. The moon doesn't provide that much light." Everette warned. Perhaps if it was sunny he could use his mirror to concentrate a beam of sun at the snake's face, but that was not the case right now and he would have to find another way. "I will do my best to distract it though, we will see what we can do." Everette prepared himself for an attack. If there was agreement among everyone he would go in to attack it, using some fighting styles he learned from other members of the guild. While it would do damage, the main purpose would be for his duplicates to copy his movements and trick the snake in focusing on the assaults taking him from 4 sides instead of looking at what Samuel and Conrad were doing.
As Tinarah hovered, ready for anything there was fog, and a voice. Tinarah was stuck trying to decide if she wanted to jump onto the roof and summon her keyblade, or remain on her glider, she couldn't do both of course. There was a sense of nervousness as she prepared for whatever was to come. However the more the thing talked, the less threatening it seemed, right until Torrin shot at it and it shrieked. Tinarah shook her head a bit as the voice continued revealing that he was apparently a hero. Getting off her glider once more she joined the rest of the group looking at the duck. Fans of his? Not a chance. This duck must have been delusional. At least Boreas was able to handle the situation, because Tinarah certainly didn't know how as she watched it from the back of the group. Biting on her lower lip Tinarah tried to think what to say, but in the end was at a complete loss of words.
As Reno moved through the crowd it seemed like the one inciting all this nonsense had decided to show themselves, bringing another law for the people. Oh this ought to be good. A law on who could leave the ships and who had to stay behind. That rule was one that Reno could care less about, he had no reason to be for or against that law seeing he did not care for the shipping of the town. That being said, it was becoming increasingly hostile and the new law seemed to be pissing a lot of people off. Looking around the heat of the situation escalated quickly, too quickly for Reno really to have the time to prepare himself. Before he had a moment to summon a creature to fight at his side, someone was already throwing a knife into the neck of the red head woman who was guarding the door. What was worse than that though, was that she plucked it out of her neck without any seeming effect. Crowds scattered, but not all of them, some stood their ground with weapons in hand. "You see, this is the problem with society, you all feel the need to bring weapons to a peaceful rally. You are the ones killing society, not him. Though he is an *sshole I do agree with that. Still it would be better to fight your battles with something more natural than knives and weapons, that is just the cowards way out, and I don't appreciate you pulling one so close to me. You could get me in more trouble than it is worth. Perhaps you could do with a bit of a distraction." As he finished speaking a bit of arcane energy blasted forth and an eagle flew forth from it, turning and attacking the thug right next to it with it's claws. The talons raked against the thug, giving Reno time to get himself prepared for whatever was to come. The Eagle swept around and tried to hit it with it's beak, but that only caught bits of the weapon doing nothing to the target. Reno summoned an Eagle Eagle used Smite Evil Eagle used talon attacks on Thug 6 Eagle used bite attack on Thug 6 Spoiler: Roll Results Talon Attack 1 1d20+3 12+3 Total= 15 Damage 1d4 +1 2+1 Total 3 Talon Attack 2 1d20+3 16+3 Total= 19 Damage 1d4 +1 2+1 Total=3 Bite Attack 1d20+3 3+3 Total =6 Does not hit! Total Damage= 6
Due to not having quite enough people I changed out the lines that person number 6 was supposed to sing and replaced them with other people, so please double check what parts you are to sing. Also as a reminder please get me a rendered picture you want me to use to represent you in the video. @Zelda @Glen @LadyAzura @CrownMoksha
As they continued forward Torrin caught some sort of movement. He assumed that they caught the attention of the villains so the best plan of action was clearly to head straight towards it and dive off the keyblade glider at the roof that, as Tinarah approached at a slightly slower pace, and instead of jumping off her glider, she lowered it closer to the ground and slowly stepped off of it, looking to the others. She left her glider floating behind her, one hand on it as she looked around. "If we caught their attention and they aren't here.... Um maybe we shouldn't be fighting about landing. It might be a trap." Tinarah tried to point out to them as she slowly climbed back onto her glider and just hovered near them. Seeing the explosions earlier she was terrified they would take out this building on them, so as much as she didn't trust her combat skills on a glider, it still seemed safer than standing around and talking about whether or not jumping from your keyblade was safe or not.
Auburn was a little choked to hear the Qrow was leaving to do other things. She understood but at the same time he was arguably the one that she knew the most out of everyone here. At least she had met him before arriving at the school, even if he rarely looked her way when he was over at the house visiting. She supposed that was why he made them talk it out and get along if he wasn't even going to be there to look out for her. Auburn couldn't help but wonder what her father would think about this, since Qrow was supposed to be looking out for her. That being said things had changed and it was only a matter of time before he was needed else where, and given that her father had yet to come for her, she assumed he was busy as well and understood. As they walked on and started into their mission, they arrived at a fork in the road where the two teams were supposed to split up. Auburn looked to both paths and then she looked to Blaine, he was their leader after all, so she was sure that he should have an idea of which way that they should go, and if the other team wanted to argue over path choices, she was the last one willing to stand in the way of that. This was a decision for her leader and she stood by that belief firmly. At least Arian was not the only impatient one. The newer member of his team, one that he had not spent all that much time talking to, also seemed ready to go. Noire soon obliged after telling them that Qrow was going his own way. "Guess he needed to refill his flask." Arian leaned over to Dubhan and joked lightly. He didn't put it past the old man to be going for another drink over staying with them. Heck at this rate they were probably driving him to drink more. Either way the finally got on the road and got the choice of directions that they could head. Seeing no one else speaking up yet, Arian started towards the path on the left. "We should go this way." Of course he would go left, all good adventurers went left.
From the back Tinarah listened to Torrin's story about the Light Chaser and all that he had been doing. He spoke out of his need to protect the light and Tinarah wondered if that was why he always was with Aria. Besides discovering that Aria was a princess of heart, she also just glowed with personality, perhaps he felt the need to protect her as part of it. It hit her, how different this was from the story of the Torrin on the other side. The man who wanted to take over everything with darkness, until there was no bit of light left, meanwhile this man who flew before her only wanted to protect the light. She couldn't help but ponder the thought for a while. "It... It is strange hearing that." Tinarah cleared her throat and spoke up only slightly. "So backwards from what I came to know from the other... you. He wanted to eliminate all the light, finish a war of long ago." Tinarah pointed out as she caught up a bit more. She was more talking to herself than anyone else at this point as she looked ahead. "My mind screams at me to be afraid and stay away, but I don't see him in you at all besides appearances." She then admitted. Sure she was still scared and uncomfortable, but slowly after hearing his story and speaking her thoughts out loud she was starting to see more clearly that the man she feared and the man in front of her, were not indeed one and the same.
"Better." Though Auburn barely looked up at Onyx. It seemed like after the scare of the injuries wore off he now remained just barely a shell, she seemed upset, and finally the weight, the true understanding of her loss had hit her. "Leave and go where? I have no home." Auburn pointed out, tears in her eyes. It was clear that she was not okay and not sure what to think of anything. Instead she found herself sitting there staring at the man, her chest tight and unable to think fully, she just didn't know.
There was almost joy, and fire that danced in Thea's eyes as she saw what was coming with this battle ahead, a chance to get out the magic crawling in her skin. More than anything she needed to release the flames that crawled under her skin. The power that was too much for her, but was her burden to deal with. She could at least release it a little bit as red flames burst forth from the tips of her fingers, aimed at the spider who stood taller than her. Thea kept her distance, as a solid wall of bright white flames, slammed into place between her and the spider. The white flames burned bright but not hot, they were mostly there in order to deter the spider. She could cause them to burn hot if she needed, but as soon as she did it would start draining her quickly, so instead little spears of red flame burst from the white as she aimed them all towards the spider. Everette was almost relieved that Samuel was speaking for him. He was too worried about the current situation to trust himself to properly form the words that he wished to speak. As they ran though, he expressed his concern about them being expected and it being a trap. It was true, it was very possible that a trap awaited them. Conrad continued to speak about the ideas of possible plans and what would be more beneficial. "As much as we need to hurry with this, we can't be wasting any time. We should not split up. If they have poisoned all the water in the village, then they might be moving on to the other sources. Either way it wouldn't be smart to stay around the city in my opinion. Too many people to see you and point others in the right direction. If they wanted to get the jump on us, they would be waiting outside town." Everette suggested, trying to make some sort of reasoning around everything that was going on. As they hit the edge of town, Everette created mirrored copies of himself that walked around them, just a bit of extra protection if the enemy tried to get a jump on them, the enemy would have to know which one of the copies as him before they could harm him. Perhaps it would be just enough to buy themselves time to be ready for whatever lay ahead, that was if they were heading in the right direction. "Be on your guard, we don't know what waits ahead." He knew both the males knew that already, but it never hurt to remind them as Everette himself pulled out his sword, all six mirrored versions of him, mimicking the movement.
Having her piece said and seeming no reaction from it, Aislinn turned to the others who were rushing to the boats. It was time to head out to the realm of light once again. What they would find once they were there, Aislinn wasn't entirely sure. She thought for a moment about the idea of home being on the other side, but that was not necessarily going to happen. She still had to make sure everything was alright with this group and make sure that no one actually brought anymore harm to these kids. She needed to hold to her promise and see them destroy the ******* who thought it was okay to stand there and taunt them, turn friends on friends and try to make one kill another. For now it was time to see where this would all go as she stepped into a random boat ready to leave. Aislinn is going to Native Grounds.
All Aislinn could do was watch, sit and watch as Hikaru made up his mind to sacrifice everything. There was shock and awe at his resolution, and while she had no real idea what was going on, or why, she still found some sort of grim peace in it. Looking into the boys face, seeing the tears but the resolve he had to do such things, even if she could stop him, she didn't know if she would. Of course seeing him now as his body fell, quickly disappearing into nothing but light, she was upset, tears stung her own eyes. As light flooded out from Hikaru she could feel the bindings on her loosen and she was able to get up. Looking around, seeing how emotional everyone else was, those who had been fighting along side him for so much longer, Aislinn couldn't help but feel bad for them. She thought.... no she thought wrong, every step of the way she thought wrong. She had thought she could protect her home and she couldn't. She thought that she could protect these kids, but here they were. As the light faded and Aux fell to his knees, Aislinn was left standing, looking at No Heart, she couldn't fight him, she knew that she was not that strong, she was not dumb enough to try, but in the place of the glowing light that was there a moment before, Aislinn was now glowing as she looked at the man before them. "You have tried, every step of the way to bring them down, to dampen their spirits, haven't you? You bring pain and harm and now death to this spectacular group for your own gain, believing yourself unstoppable. But I will tell you the truth, I have seen these peoples hearts and what they are like, and what Hikaru did, you might think you won, you might act as though it played into your hand, but I hope you know the fire you just ignited, because now they are going to rage on, and become a force not even you can stop, no matter how much scheming you have or what sort of trails that you lay ahead. We will burn through them and make them look like nothing, they are stronger than you know. And when they day comes when they prove to you what a mistake you have made trying to kill one of them, forcing one to sacrifice themselves, driving discord between them, I just hope I will be there to witness it." Aislinn might not have had the same emotional attachment to Hikaru as some of these people had, but she was invested in this group and just wanted to see them be able to walk on, heads high, glowing as brightly as she did now as she stood up to the man who was causing this all, no fear in her eyes, just a burning passion to protect those around her.
As she was preparing to leave, three new faces and two old ones, and a unfriendly face appeared before her. The unfriendly one however she wasn't sure about. The boy didn't seem like typical minion of Nequa's he just seemed... well broken if she was being honest. However she had no time to deal with him or the new faces as Melus and Luther arrived, explaining all that had happened with them as well as asking about her. Still trying to process what the story with Lea was, Karina chose to answer the latter of the questions, turning her attention to Melus for a moment. "We went to help some of my old friends, they got themselves in trouble with Uniform and I just went to help out. And as you know, my name is actually Karina, it kind of became even more clear around people who only ever knew me as Karina, and instead of trying to explain why I wanted to be called something else, I just gave up and went with it. As for the keyblade, well it is a long story. I had it, then I lost it, then all my friends got it back and I couldn't, so I came here, then I want to help my friends and before we left, they took pity on me and helped me get it back." Karina explained quickly the best she could knowing that Shiro wanted to go. "Well I think we need to go check some stuff out and be back. I will fill you in later." Karina assured. She seemed nicer now that she had returned, not necessarily happy but, less broody and more willing to talk. Turning back to Shiro Karina nodded and followed him, knowing they had to be quick and some of their questions were already answered, but she still just wanted to see for herself before she completely let this go. To her, Karina believed that Yue, and Lea were supposed to be so much better than her, and yet to have them die to these groups, it made the entire thing seem hopeless, she was just searching for something to say otherwise.
Why he was even up this morning, Reno couldn't really answer, except for the fact that it had been too damn loud to actually sleep through. The red-brown, nine tailed fox, sauntered around the back of the crowd, looking for food that he could perhaps snatch out of someone's hand and go find a quiet place to eat it, boy would quiet be nice right about now, but nowhere in the city was ever quiet, no where in any city for that matter. Well perhaps if he couldn't beat them, he could join them. After all, he was sure there was a fight going to break out any moment now. Just one wrong word from any one person and all hell could break loose. Perhaps he would be the one to cause that to happen, perhaps not. Pushing back the thought for the time being, Reno took a walk around the block getting out of site of most of the people before he flashed back into his human form, taking to the crowd once again, wandering around looking for something interesting to watch, but finding nothing so far besides a headache from all the noise. Perhaps these protesters would win their little fight, it would be nice if it put an end to all the ridiculous laws, then perhaps things would be fun again. At first all these laws and watching everyone stumble over them was a great time to watch, but over recent weeks it had just started to get plain annoying.
Should be able to catch her.... perhaps not the most comforting words but it could also be much, much worse. Watching Torrin and Boreas fly, they were good enough at it, that she felt that she could take at least some comfort in their words, even as she still felt nervous about leaning into a turn. However the next chance she got to do it, and it worked, Tinarah's eyes lit up slightly. As she found her balance and started flying more smoothly, she looked almost like she was starting to have some fun with it. Glancing over her shoulder she gave a small smile to Take. "You two holding in okay back there?" She asked him, eyeing Nini who was riding along. It was kind of cute watching the two of them flying like that, and the fact that Nini was okay just riding along how she was, it kind of amazed Tinarah to some extent. That being said now that she was used to her glider, she was rather enjoying the ride herself and wished that she could fly longer.
Due to lack of interest there was not a chorus last month, but this month we are back with full force, singing a song from NieR Automata. Make sure that you claim your lines by May 20th, lines will be due on May 27th. Make sure you claim your spot! full song | instrumental Spoiler: Lines [I feel like I'm losing hope] -1 [In my body and my soul]-2 [And the sky, it looks so ominous]-3 [And as time comes to a halt]-4 [Silence starts to overflow]-5 [My cries are inconspicuous]-3 [Tell me God, are you punishing me?]-1,2 [Is this the price I'm paying for my past mistakes? ]-3,4 [This is my redemption song] -5,1 [I need you more than ever right now]-1,4 [Can you hear me now?]-2,5 [Cause we're going to shout it loud]- 3 [Even if our words seem meaningless]-2 [It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world]-1 [I wish that someway, somehow]-2 [That I could save every one of us]-3 [But the truth is that I'm only one girl]-4 [Maybe if I keep believing my dreams will come to life Come to life... ]-5 [After all the laughter fades]-4 [Signs of life all washed away]-1 [I can still, still feel a gentle breeze]-2 [No matter how hard I pray]-3 [Signs of warning still remain]-4 [And life has become my enemy]-5 [Tell me God, are you punishing me?]-1,3 [Is this the price I'm paying for my past mistakes?]-2,5 [This is my redemption song]-4,5 [I need you more than ever right now]-1,2 [Can you hear me now?]-3,4 [Cause we're going to shout it loud]-5 [Even if our words seem meaningless]-2 [It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world]-1 [I wish that someway, somehow]-2 [That I could save every one of us]-3 [But the truth is that I'm only one girl]-4 [Maybe if I keep believing my dreams will come to life]-5 [Come to life...]-3 [Cause we're going to shout it loud]-1 [Even if our words seem meaningless]-2 [It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world]-3 [I wish that someway, somehow]-4 [That I could save every one of us]-5 [But the truth is that I'm only one girl]-1 [Still, we're going to shout it loud]-1 [Even if our words seem meaningless]-2 [It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world]-3 [I hope that someway, somehow]-4 [That I could save every one of us]-5 [But the truth is that I'm only one girl]-4 [Maybe if I keep believing my dreams will come to life Come to life...]-Everyone Line Claim: 1- LadyAzura 2- Glen 3- CrownMoksha 4- Zelda 5- Aelin 6-
As Tinarah stood there trying to figure out how to maintain balance, Boreas called out to her with some advice. As she tried the advice, Tinarah found out that it was actually working to some extent. As she spread her legs a little further apart, she found her balance a little more centered, enough so that she managed to close at least a little of the distance between her and the two males taking lead, or at least enough distance that she didn't feel like she was going to be left behind at any moment. And while Boreas still made her uncomfortable, at least it was helpful. "Um.. thank you." She told him a little timidly, not sure if he could hear her over the wind, but she could at least try. Just because his attitude bothered her, it didn't mean that she didn't want to at least try and be polite. After all she decided that she wouldn't let him win, so she would face them, mostly Torrin, but she needed to learn to face both of them. Being rude to Boreas would not help with the already damaged relationship that she seemed to have with the man, not from the time in the other realm, just their interactions in this realm.
Well none of what was said particularly answered any of the questions Karina had, but crossing her arms and rolling her eyes she got ready to follow Shiro anyways. Karina didn't even acknowledge the person who approached and asked if they could join as well. That was a question for the game master, not her responsibility. She might have had the minor responsibility for the rest of the brooding bunch, but she didn't particularly like it, and she didn't want to deal with a new person either. Glaring back once more at Charlie, she started to move with Shiro but mumbled under her breath. "I don't like him."
It was difficult to get used to figuring out how to fly her glider. She was a bit wobbly and struggled to find the right balance, but at the very least she was able to keep herself on the glider and not go plummeting to the ground. She could only imagine how badly that would hurt. Instead of giving pointers or actually any instructions at all for the three of them who had never flown, Torrin continued to do what he did best since she had been back, especially after telling her story, and avoid all of them altogether. She supposed since Aria wasn't here to be distracted with, he found another way to keep himself occupied, talking to his friends more than he paid attention to how they were doing. Tinarah didn't know why she was so annoyed by this, but part of her way. Perhaps it was because she was finally trying to not just be terrified of him and avoid him, but now, that she perhaps needed a little help learning how to use the damned thing, he was avoiding her equally as much and she was left struggling to figure out how to keep her balance. It was like learning to ride a bike all over again, but this time there was no training wheels to keep her from falling, and the fall, instead of leading to a scraped knee, could lead to her death. Still she tried to just keep her head down and focus on learning, if he wasn't going to pay mind to them, she wouldn't ask for help, and she didn't want to ask Take or Chrono who were likely equally as unsure about flying.
