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Post by sumata on Jul 30, 2010 20:27:06 GMT -5
Now, the three heroes she was destined to fight would find themselves in a dark dark area, a thunder cloud over the skies of Chalybs. She learned this ability from Tempest, as she opened her book, the atmosphere was just perfect.
"Now..now. Listen.." She started, as she kneeled down to a little girl wearing a blue dress, blonde hair, simply just the purest girl anyone could ever see.
"..Got it?..Our guests will be here soon, and then you'll be happy.." She teared slightly, and then looked across the wide open battlefield toward the three she would fight still..
"...If you beat me..you'll be a step closer to finding the beauty in our lord's goal..if you cannot..I'm afraid you'll all die here, and never be seen again..this is your last chance to leave, if you should so choose." Then she opened her book, aiming her hand at the three, preparing an incantation to force their decision faster.
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Post by Zeke Omoihake on Aug 7, 2010 1:04:11 GMT -5
"Where are we?" Zeke questioned as he stumbled from the gaping portal. It was only when he turned to face the young queen that he knew it didn't matter. As the sky rumbled, eager to let loose it's fury Zeke shouted to his opponent. "I'm only going to ask once, let us pass. Our fight is not with you, and I'd rather not waste my strength in unnecessary battles."
Behind him Zeke was already working on a countermeasure of his own. His brush moved side to side in eager strokes as it formed the outline of two thin muscular forearms. Feeling them come into being he flexed once, a habit to confirm he had control before he took a ready stance.
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Post by sumata on Aug 7, 2010 1:15:23 GMT -5
Serena gave a glare to Zeke, as she pounded the book down, it's pages ruffling with a thud.
"Of course this is our fight! You are trying to hurt that who I respect! You are trying to stop the rebirth of a world that has been dead for decades!" She then kicked the book open to page 2637: and spoke aloud, "Do you know why, art is a form of expression?"
She then felt the cloud rumble with lightning as the static swung through the air, giving everyone a light shock.
"My idea is that art has its way to appear in everything: Technically, my pain, and my happiness, despite being opposite, is art. My child's death, or her birth, is a form of art. All opposites, under one umbrella..you being an artist, you know of this concept."
Now, she looked up at the group, sitting down near her daughter.
"So, if everything is art..that would insinuate that nothing is art..which makes the artist much the same, no?" She smiled at her last taunt toward Zeke's initial approach, and patted the girl's shoulder, as Alice came up to her elders, the heroes, and smiled. "Ready to play?"
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Post by Zeke Omoihake on Aug 7, 2010 19:31:45 GMT -5
Zeke scrunched his nose in disapproval at Serena's philosophy. "That's bull. You can't say everything is art, so of course art exists. Art must be made, and must be made with feeling. If you want to see what art looks like, then it looks like I'm going to have to show you." Zeke dashed past the young girl without a word and made his way towards Serena.
As he moved his brush followed in tow, making several foot long lines angled upwards, each capped with a round nub. As Zeke got close enough he produced a single round bomb that burst into smoke all around him. The cloud grew out in plumes of reds, yellows and blues that covered a wide reach. Not wanting to waste any more time Zeke used the distraction to leap high in the air, hoping it would prove enough to get behind Serena.
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Post by sumata on Aug 7, 2010 19:40:14 GMT -5
Serena chuckled lightly at her opponent's disapproval, "So you're saying that some things..are not art?..."
She sighed, and sat down lightly to her knees, seemingly depressed, again, as Zeke rushed in.
Behind him, the other two dealt with a barrage of attacks from the young girl, Alice, as she smiled throughout it all: filled with an extreme evil, there was fire, ice, wind, any element you could imagine being thrown around : However, this current fight between these two was what was at hand.
She watched the colorful show, and sat there for a bit, watching the smoke bombs go all around, when she opened her book, and pointed at another line, speaking up, "Summon."
Her body was encased in an ice shield of sorts: A trick she learned from Yeligar himself: Always observing, as she waited for Zeke to make his move: She wasn't going anywhere, and she spoke up again, "Omoihake.....I want to see all of the art you can make.." She laughed.."Color my world."
Then she stood up, with a tower shield, and a piked spear.
Alice looked up at Zeke jumping then, yelling quickly, "Look out Mom!"
Serena didn't make a move.
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Post by Kouji - Hikari no Shiro Okami on Aug 7, 2010 20:32:34 GMT -5
"Zeke, cover your eyes!"
A bright flash of light came from the direction of the shout, meant to blind the enemy; he hooped Zeke's reaction time was better than Serena's or the little girls.
He'd arrived a little late to the party, the portal having spat him out just a little hard.
He was getting kinda tired of that, really. It would be great when this was all over, and he and Kouichi could go back home.
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Post by sumata on Aug 7, 2010 21:04:35 GMT -5
Serena instead turned away from the flashing light: it would seem that Kouji's tactic would foil Zeke's plan, as it were, as she held herself in a battle position. She was ready for any sort of onslaught.
However, Alice felt the blinding light as she started crying from the pain, going down to her knees for a bit, "Why is it that all my new friends hurt me??" She stood up, with a mad face, pointing a large blade at Kouji: it was a fencing foil, as she held it with both hands.
"Maybe if you'd just go away, become a ghost like me, we can be friends, where you won't hurt me!" She went in for the attack, Kouji would be her focus.
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Post by Kouji - Hikari no Shiro Okami on Aug 7, 2010 22:29:11 GMT -5
Crap, crap, crap!
He barely got his staff up to block in time, glad that she wasn't using the weapon for thrusts instead of slices, as it was easier to block a slice.
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Post by sumata on Aug 7, 2010 22:39:24 GMT -5
Of course Alice didn't know how to fight with a foil, as she frowned, her first attack failed, and she reached over, tapping Kouji's head.
"Heehee! You're it!" She smiled up at him, and then aimed her hand with fire starting to build up in it, "Now the game's getting started!" Kouji would have time to move, easily: She was actually playing a game with him.
..A deadly game.
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Post by Zeke Omoihake on Aug 10, 2010 5:19:25 GMT -5
"Oh no." Zeke looked troubled as he peered backwards to see his allies pinned down by the tiny girl. As much as he had wanted to avoid a needless fight it seemed he would have to battle the ice-clad sorceress.
Tumbling up to his feet quickly Zeke pointed at Serena in a heroic pose. "If you want to see my talent at work, then so be it!" He proclaimed loudly as his brush moved as a dervish of wood and ink. Mere moments later some twenty long single lines hovered in the air, all points aimed at Serenea.
"Take this, Invincible Hail!" Zeke smirked as all of his arrows came into existence and took off to the air. As the twenty he just created whistled past him, he knew with confidence they would do no damage. Instead his boosts and drama had been to distract Serena from the few that truly mattered.
From Serena's flank a handful of bomb-tipped arrows Zeke had shaped earlier sliced through the colorful smoke cloud, ready to detonate the moment they struck anything.
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Post by sumata on Aug 10, 2010 8:14:21 GMT -5
Serena smiled at Zeke, as he spoke nearly heroically: his worried nature was a nice thing to see in her own eyes. She pointed her hand back, the other holding her large compendium.
"I can't wait, let me tell you.." She smirked, and started to etch into her book, watching his movements closely. She watched his every stroke, brush, and use, when she watched up, realizing what this move really was. She smiled, and snapped her fingers, reading from her book.
"A problem for an artist, is when someone else steals their idea to use as their own.." Then her own iced hail based on his drawings went out: She watched the two sides of his own move fight each other, finding herself in another predictament, one arrow hit her sternum, and the ice shield exploded in glory, the frost in the air, and Serena behind it, flipping through her pages, a few slices even across her cheek and arms from the ice shield embedding itself before dissipating.
"Not bad..I admit, you've got a good head on your shoulders.." She then read from her book again, "The warriors of Ignis, they show me that there is much more to fear about fire than is normal.." She then snapped her fingers, and was surrounded by 10 glowing orbs of fire, sprites if you will all orbiting Serena, wanting to protect her. This time, she drew her throwing knives, and one came out of the end of the smoke, straight for the painter himself.
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Post by Zeke Omoihake on Aug 10, 2010 17:41:07 GMT -5
"An artist is nothing without their creativity." Zeke threw his arms up as the knife flew at him. Though merely a figment of his power, the connection to his own body still allowed him to feel the pain of the blade's touch. He seized it and with one harsh motion pulled it out, letting the blade clink to the ground.
Already forming his next move in mind Zeke threw out another of the multi-colored smoke bombs in front of him. "And if there's one thing I know how to do, it's drawing in a person's attention." His brush labored briefly before summoning out a small generator and fan aimed towards the cloud Serena had hid herself in. With a humming buzz the fan pushed the smoke back towards Kouji and the young girl.
Zeke poked his head out from the dense cloud to see if Serena had revealed herself once more, as his brush worked calmly and slowly on filling out a shape nearly identical to it's own. Seems as good a time as any to see if I can make this work.
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Post by sumata on Aug 10, 2010 17:49:07 GMT -5
Serena smiled, as she started to look through her book, small tiny droplets of blood stained the pages now as she looked up, hearing the power force the cloud away.
Zeke could see her for a bit, her signature smile shone as she dodged back toward the cloud, the knives were coming at random now.
They all came from the smoke, but they seemed nearly endless, with every couple of tosses, and the 'shing' of the metal flying through the air, he could see the blood droplets on the floor: She was weak compared to the other sumata physically, but her power was unprecedented.
"Artists...Your creativity is different from any old artist. You can make anything you want, you are God incarnate.." She laughed softly, and stepped out of the smoke, covered in the fire's protection as she advanced with a long sabre.
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Post by Zeke Omoihake on Aug 12, 2010 15:54:33 GMT -5
Blood? What the? Zeke had only a moment to realize what it meant before he saw a dagger soar through the air towards him; a herald of the danger to come. He had expected it this time and ducked low. Yet turning up he saw them stream out nigh endlessly from the cloud he'd summoned. As he moved swiftly towards his brush whilst avoiding Serena's attacks he could feel the soft sting as more than a couple clipped him.
At last! He could feel it; the second brush was done and like a flash his original moved in front as it drew a tower shield for Zeke. The daggers clanged against like hail on a tin roof, but its defence remained intact. Let's do this.
At last hearing the end of her attack Zeke ran out with his brush at his side, leaving the other behind the tower shield to create his ace strike. "I'm not the one who desires to be God here. I want to make people happy with my art, not control them." Zeke saw the fire shield and had an idea instantly.
With a skidding stop he punched the ground below him, his created fists cleaving through the metal paneling to reveal the raging ocean below. His brush brought out a fire hydrant, one that was missing it's seal, that drew water from the ocean below. "Time to cool you down." He said with a smirk as the horizontal geyser rushed out towards Serena.
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Post by sumata on Aug 12, 2010 20:59:52 GMT -5
Serena's sides hurt a bit, as she coughed softly from the smoke, reaching to her side, her throwing knives were all gone. She was slightly frustrated to see Zeke still standing, with but mere scratches, upon his personage.
However, she watched the man, with his tower shield come and advance before she spoke up, "Your goal is inevitable! You cannot make everyone happy with your style of art!" She watched as a fissure divided the ground, and put her hands out.
The ocean engulfed her, and she stepped out, fire gone, and her body untouched by the water, leave for her now wet hair. She smiled at Zeke, and flicked her wrist toward him, when the ground started to fuse again, and the cloud's floor moved up and down, creating a wave effect toward Zeke: Geomancy, as the short term.
She then advanced with each wave, unarmored and unguarded, with her spear in hand.
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