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Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Oct 6, 2011 22:43:45 GMT -5
He didn't expect the hand to shoot out of nowhere; he couldn't dodge it in time. He felt it grab him, struggled against it.
"D-damn it!"
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Post by Volkmar Gamlxltoe on Oct 6, 2011 22:48:30 GMT -5
"What's the matter? Startled you, did I?" He said as he taunted him. He then threw him right at the ship and then he swung an arc right at Vash and fell right it crossing his weapons.
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Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Oct 7, 2011 11:41:32 GMT -5
Vash slammed into the deck, goaning in pain. He didn't have time to worry aobut his physical condition, however, because Volk took that time to follow up with a devastating attack.
Vash's wings dissipated into thousands of wisps, which coalesced in front of him to form a shimmering shield that took the brunt of Volk's attack; the attack was too powerful to be completely deflected, however, and Vash took a heavy slice before kicking Volkmar backwards and rolling to his feet.
He wiped the sweat from his brow quickly.
He's getting stronger, Vash realized, glaring at his friend's frenzied form. I have to end this quickly!
The shield of wisps shattered apart again, and they clung to Vash's cross as he swung it towards Volkmar, adding power to the blow before Vash brought the other arm up, level, to shoot at his friend once more.
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Post by Volkmar Gamlxltoe on Oct 7, 2011 17:27:04 GMT -5
Volk got hit in the gut by the shot, and was sent up into the sky. He hovered there, and then the sky over the ship got bright, then Volkmar came down, covered in his aura, preforming a more violent version of Terminal. Knowing that he has Vash, because if Vash dodge, the ship would get destroyed.
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Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Oct 7, 2011 17:47:20 GMT -5
Oh, no, he thought, realizing the Lunar Knight's intentions as he looked behind him at the people on the ship, cowering near the stern, watching the fight because they knew its outcome would determine their survival. Quickly, he looked back up towards his falling friend and made a decision.
He released the bindings on his cross.
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I looked up, feeling the power flowing through me. I couldn't keep this up for long, it was too dangerous. I had to use this power to bring the fight elsewhere, where neither of us would be able to harm the innocents on the ship.
I do not relish death, whatever connection I may have to it.
I called the wisps to me, melded them into a shield around the ship, realizing that such a reckless display of power would wear me down. Feeling my wings reform behind me, I leaped into the air, past the shield I had made, straight toward Volk. Cloaking myself in my power, and using my cross as the weapon it was created to be, I slammed into him, meeting his attack midway with one of my own.
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Post by Volkmar Gamlxltoe on Oct 7, 2011 19:10:23 GMT -5
Volk stared as the beam from Vash's attack, and as he collided into the beam. As soon as the two forces meet, a giant explosion happened, sending energy everywhere. The people in the ship screamed as the ship rocked. When the explosion died down, Volkmar was grabbing his head, and shouting. "Wha... Where am I? Where's Xiza?"
He sent his gun wielding friend to stop you!
"Wha... Vash? He wouldn't side with him"
He did, now fill up with rage. Get stronger!
Volk let his rage come back, and he flew towards Vash, as his aura covered his swords, making them longer, and sharper.
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Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Oct 7, 2011 19:15:02 GMT -5
I growled.
Volkmar's rage was growing stronger by the minute, enhanced by a force I didn't recognize and couldn't name. It wasn't quite the Black Moon's energy, I could feel something else affecting him.
I flew away, farther from the ship. If I could force him to come to me, we could end this quickly, get to a place where it would be safer to have this battle. Without my bindings, I was leaking Lunar energy like a sieve - I didn't want to attract unfriendly eyes. Still, I'd rather have the bad guys after me than a ship full of people hurt.
I ducked under Volkmar's leap, coming up behind him and shooting him with bullets enhanced with Lunar power; I just hoped that when Volkmar came around, he wouldn't start asking a lot of awkward questions about where all my power was coming from.
There are some things I'm just not ready to tell him yet.
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Post by Volkmar Gamlxltoe on Oct 7, 2011 19:42:38 GMT -5
Volkmar was shot in the back, with the bullet. The pain was throbbing in his arm, as he turned around and sent a massive arc at Vash. He then swung 2 more times at Vash each arc getting bigger and bigger.
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Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Oct 7, 2011 23:48:22 GMT -5
I saw the swings coming at me, but it had been a long, long time since I was at my fullest. Even as I misdodged directly into the path of the final swing, I knew that if I were truly myself, I could probably have dodged that one, too.
But, unfortunately, being bound all the time tends to dull your full strength, so I took the hit, which flung me backwards.
"Nnnf!" I grunted, before charging forward once more, sending a volley of bullets Volkmar's way, following up with a wave of energy.
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Post by Volkmar Gamlxltoe on Oct 8, 2011 9:42:22 GMT -5
Volkmar used the black hand from before, and used to block the bullets from before. When the hand came down, his aura has gone onto his head, covering the top of head to his mouth making a set of sharp teeth. His eyes were still red, glowing like dying embers.
"Ah... We are almost there. " He said as he saw the lights from the dock. "Good bye Vash." He vanished under the ship and used the black hand to pick up the ship. "You got a boat to catch." He then threw right at Vash, and then suddenly vanished.
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Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Oct 8, 2011 10:07:06 GMT -5
"Godsdammit, Volkmar!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as the ship raced towards me. I could see the people on it, clinging to the ship; I could feel the ones who didn't manage as they died in the icy waves below.
Cursing, I reached out for support; I knew I didn't have enough strength on my own.
Rasen, I begged her. Sister.... help me...
I could feel her response in the energy that swirled within me, surrounded me. I melded it with my own, sent my wisps out to encapsulate the ship. It was still almost too much; I reached, grabbed it, stopped it; steadied it.
The waves rose up to it as I lowered it, and I was grateful for my sister's help. I could feel my strength giving out, and everything went dark as my wings gave out and I plummeted to the deck of the ship below me.
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Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Oct 10, 2011 9:59:28 GMT -5
((Here y'all go; just a little followup as to what happens to Vash after he crashed to the deck.))
“Sir?”
“Nnnn,” I muttered, still floating in that black void. It was warm here, comfortable.
“Sir, are you alright?”
A hand on my shoulder. I shifted; winced, as I felt all of my muscles complain loudly at the abuse they had suffered at the hands of one Volkmar Gamlxltoe. “Nnnnnn.” I blinked open my eyes, saw a worried woman standing over me.
I sat up, groaning. “Where… am I?” I looked around, realized I was on the deck of a ship. There were also a lot more people watching me than just the woman who had prodded my shoulder.
“This is the Enterprise,” she said, indicating the ship I was sitting on, currently anchored in the calm waters of the ocean called “Diosces Piscina”. “Are you alright? You fell to the deck pretty hard.”
Fell…? Oh. Right. Volkmar threw the ship at me, and with Rasen’s help, I’d managed to set it down safely. However, the human body isn’t designed to channel so much raw power; between hers and mine, I guess I’d been overloaded and passed out, losing control of my wings and falling to the deck of the ship below. I chuckled. “Yeah, I guess I did,” I said, rubbing my hair back into place.
“We weren’t sure you were gonna make it, Mister,” said a little boy, clinging to the woman’s skirts. “But you saved us!” He grinned, showing a couple of missing teeth that weren’t all that unusual for a boy his age. “You were sure cool! Like... kapow!” He punched the air. “You hit the bad guy, and then whoosh! All those colored things went up, up, up! And then when you used those glowy wings~!”
The kid was ecstatic, and I grinned back at him, still secretly worried that I’d done too much here. Too much of a lightshow, and out over open water, the fight could probably be seen for miles. Luckily, the sea seemed fairly deserted.
The mother put a hand on her little boy’s head. “Now, don’t you think you’ve bothered the poor man enough?” she asked.
I shook my head. “I don’t mind,” I reassured her.
“See mom? He doesn’t mind! Mister, how’d you do all that stuff? Like, that pillar of light that surrounded you and then the ship just set right back down! I mean, it’s like your eyes are still glowing with it! It looks soooo cool!”
…huh? My eyes were what? Oh, man... I never...
I sighed. “Do you know where my cross is?” I asked his mother. She nodded.
“It fell into the ocean, but it was fairly easy to retrieve. It never strayed very far from the ship, almost as if it couldn’t bear to be apart from you.” She sent someone to fetch it, and I noticed that they were also carrying its sheath, as well. Smiling, I took both, wrapping the cross once again…
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He sighed, feeling his power retreat as he re-sealed the bindings. He smiled at the little kid, then kneeled down next to him. “Can I tell you a secret?” he asked. “Promise you won’t tell?”
The little boy nodded solemnly. “Cross my heart,” he said, drawing an X over his heart.
“Have you ever heard of ‘Lunar Knights’?” he asked in a fake ‘stage whisper’.
The boy nodded. “Yeah! They were in my book of stories!”
He smiled. “Well, they really exist. You see, I’m a Lunar Knight. But you can’t tell anyone, ‘cept the people on this ship, ‘kay? We’re supposed to be a secret, you see. I was sent here on a veeeery special mission, and I can’t have anyone knowing about it. So you and your mom keep the secret, alright?” He grinned.
“Yessir!” the boy promised, putting one hand over his heart. “I swearit, Mister Knight!”
Vash stood up, brushing off his pants, shouldering his cross once more.
“You shouldn’t encourage him,” whispered the boy’s mother with a smile. “He’s already far too interested in fairy tales; now you’ll have him wanting to be such a Knight himself.”
Vash’s smile turned to her, back over his shoulder. “It’s good, for kids his age to dream,” he told her. “Besides,” he continued, pulling aside a section of the back of his shirt where it had torn in the fall, revealing his Mark, “who says he can’t someday?”
Her eyes widened, but he put a finger to his lips, before continuing.
“Which direction is Ketulunanox from here? I’m all turned around. Where were you all headed before Volkmar hijacked your ship?”
“Home to Unda,” she told him. “We weren’t very far along when the man came, though; Ketulunanox is due west from here, and when that light from the sky came and wrapped around our ship, it set us down facing home again.”
He grinned. “Ketulunanox would be a straight shot to starboard then, correct?”
She nodded.
“Alright, then. Wish me luck, alright?”
“But – where are you go-?” She cut off as he called the Wisps to him once more, forming the glowing wings at his back. He waved, ran down the deck, leaped into the air.
He turned back towards the ship. “Good luck and fair journey!” he called. “Remember your promise!”
The little boy ran to the side of the ship, waving at him as he turned, and flew away.
Ketulunanox, he thought to himself as he flew. And likely, the ruins of Lunatopia. The ruins of... home.
He shook his head, pressing on into the night...
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