1.0:A final moment of peace... (open to all)

[Bartholomew]

Bart quickly manifested a spear in each hand to block Roxa's beastly attack, but was slashed by Eli on his face a few times, before he made a blast of wind magic, and hopped backward. Bart look at the real Roxa and then the fake Roxa. "Huh, so there are two of you." He said quietly as the cuts on his face healed up rapidly. He made the spears dissipate, and he pulled out his execution sword.
"So, I'm guessing that the beastly one is the real Roxa."

[Dios Sarvo]

The party had been rather boring for Dios. An endeavour that was supposed to open doors to better employment opportunities had simply turned into another dry and forced bit of socializing with unimportant characters. Nothing but several notes scrawled in his notebook served as the rather meagre rewards for what appeared to be a wasted night.

Things took a rather quick turn, as the tumultuous sound of fire raining down on the castle quickly caught Dios' attention. Peering from underneath the brim of his hat, Dios took a quick swig from the drink that he had been swirling wistfully in hand before rising from his seat at on of the castle's tables.

"Hmmm, looks like things might not be a complete waste of time after all," he remarked with a wide grin as he stepped briskly into the shadows at his back, quickly phasing to the castles exterior. With a quick motion of his hands, the shadows at his feet converged and twisted, their forms altering to several wisp-like wolves.

"Come on boys and gals, let's get this party started!" He shouted as he charged towards the action, daggers at the ready.

[glitters]

Jasmine stood still to admire her work for a moment once the barrier went up in full. Her muscles suddenly felt like they'd undergone the greatest stretch they'd ever experienced and for a brief moment her vision disappeared, replaced with blackness. She swayed, her eyes opening before she could lose her balance entirely and with a semi-numb body Jasmine refocused herself and sped off towards Andy and Leah.

"I think we're winning, now!" she cried out breathlessly as she got near them, working her fingers and beginning to power up another spell to help them fight. Pulling more energy so immediately after a large-scale spell proved to not be such a wise idea as Jasmine ended up wobbling and almost falling over the more energy she put into it.
She dropped her spell immediately, shook her head and then started digging in her bag for something to replenish her energy. She may not have been wearing her robes but she still had her bag at least, always filled with some kind of potion and weird ingredients and home remedies.

[The Other]

The Other groaned with displeasure as he felt his skin twitch in anguish at the sense of light magic being conjured. Scowling at the young girl creating the barrier he moved quickly to leave its aura of influence.

As he smirked to himself in relief he looked around with eager interest at the fireballs raining down and splashing against the protective barrier. "So the little girl is keeping them out? Hahaha, more for me then." The Other laughed quietly as he approached the snarling black beasts. Two of them lunged, tearing madly at an arm and leg as their teeth clamped down on his body. He only resumed his chuckling as otherworldly jaws stretched out and over the beasts before rending them in two in a single bite.

"Such beasts, is your master really so weak that this is all he can muster?" He looked on at the beasts as they continued to fall from the sky, curious as to what the purpose was of all this flash and spectacle.

[Enizo]

What was the message that Duo wished to give? As he disappeared into the wind he dropped something. It was a seed, nothing unusual about it... until it hit the ground that is.

There was a voice that started to echoing inside all of their heads, it felt like a slime slowly spreading across their heads.

For when the innocent's blood spreads on the streets and the skies remain twisted with grief, the Hunter of all will grow.[/b]

Enzio grabbed his head in pain as the voices crossed into his mind, quickly looking over to his side where it seemed to be echoing from. The seed that had fallen was now beginning to grow, but not into any sort of vegetation. Instead it grew into something so horrifying, it something that should only appear in nightmares.

"What the hell...?" Enzio said to himself as he watched the creature grow as high as the towers itself.

The Hunter had appeared.

[Ingway Desmodius]

Sour at the situation, Ingway sat on the precipice of the cliffside and glanced off at the horizon, letting escape a hefty sigh. It was great that Sigmund was giving him steady gigs and payment, but Ingway would've gladly given this one up to shmooze and cavort with the higher-ups of Allorum at the wedding, but alas, here he was, on patrol at the former King's behest.

Munching on a small snack he pulled from his portal, he rose from his perch to continue his reconnaissance, when the hailstorm of fireballs reflects in his eyes, and the small bit of food held in his mouth dropped free.

"...That seems like something I should probably check out..." Ingway remarked to himself as he wiped the remaining crumbs from his gaping jaw. Giving his outfit a quick adjustment, he took to the cliffside and leapt high and far off the Roccian mountain.

With quick hand motions, Ingway's already lofty descent was further softened by the glider he now wore, allowing him to now quickly maneuver towards the Castles exterior. Cutting through the air at high speeds, Ingway quickly had a birds eye view of the ensuing battle that seemingly consumed the entire castle. Exercising his well trained eyes and close range magical sense, Ingway hastily gained a sense of the battlefield, easily perceiving the magical barrier that he quickly approached as well the allies that he had waiting below.

Dropping from his glider, Ingway darted towards the battle below, his hands already brandishing his dual rings, Sturmhimmel, he firmly planted his feet against one of the creatures before briskly plugging several bolts of arcane energy firmly in it's skull. Continuing this strategy as he leapt from beast to beast, Ingway eventually planted himself close to The Other, feeling somehow more at comfort with the hulking shadow beside him.

"Hey Other, where are all the others?" Ingway quipped as he volleyed bolt after bolt into the adversaries around them.

[Andy Jammer]

Andy sliced down another smaller monster when the Hunter appeared, large and towering he narrowed his eyes as the creature was moving through the city towards them.

"You're a big one aren't you..." he spun his sword, "lets see what you can do!"

[Enizo]

The Hunters eyes locked on to Andy before it leaned forward to let hundreds of vines pop out of its back and fly at him. The vines were quick and sharp, if they got around any one they'd be cut to pieces.

Enizo quickly moved to try to take out some of the vines by firing magic spells at it, this did help. Regardless, there were still plenty of those vines looking to cut Andy apart.

And as the vines attempted to do their job the Hunter moved to do another - take out the barrier. It slammed its long arms against the shield. Enzio had no idea if it was working or... he was really hoping it wasn't working.

[Yeligar Maelstrom]

"What the?!" Yeligar said, being startled by the massive monster. Yeligar pulled the rain blade and placed the snow blade into the power slot. Using his natural jumping skills, Yeligar to see the back of the Hunter where the vines were coming.
"Ice Trails." He said as beams of ice flying from his lance and toward where the vines were coming out from his back, freezing their movements.

[Enizo]

Yeligar's action seemed to catch the Hunter's attention fairly well. It stopped pounding on the shield and remained completely still for a moment. Than suddenly with a violent twist of the body it started to shake away the ice on the vines, as if it were a dog shaking itself off from water.

It looked over at Yeligar and simply grunted before sending the vines right at him.

"Damn..." Enzio muttered to himself as he watched the creature send its attacks at Yeligar. The Hunter shrugged off that attack as if we were simply ants!

...Who around would be able to pack more of a punch? Yeah, who else but Kazan.

Enzio turned around and started to run back a bit through the streets towards Jasmine, "H-Hey, Jasmine! I'd hate to make such an obscene request but could you please lower the shield?"

It was a crazy thing to ask, in fact, it was damn near suicidal. But they needed to get the creature out of the area for Kazan to do anything, otherwise it WOULD be suicidal.

"I know it's a crazy thing to ask but you just need to trust me here," Enzio tried to assure Jasmine as the Hunter prepared to start pounding on the shield.

[Andy Jammer]

The ones that Enzio missed Andy spun his sword, the massive blade moving like a giant turbine as the 'vines' got closer. Soon bits and pieced were dropping to the floor until they recoiled back and retreated back, blue fire surrounded Andy's blade.

"Hope this works...Hadoken!" he swung his sword and a massive blue fireball shot out from the blade and flew towards the Hunter.

[Kazan]

Kazan looked at the beast with a hefty sigh. Looking across at Lemon-face, he saw that his fellow guardian seemed to have the same idea as he did... Which was annoying... He would have to do something now. Firstly, this barrier had to go down, but he had other things to be doing whilst the others handled that... Most notably, making sure he actually had the energy to go ahead with his plan.

"Sakura Kafuku!"

More pink lightning like that from earlier, started to gather around Kazan as he charged up his strength. The bolts of energy seemed to get brighter and brighter as they become more constricted and moved closer to his body... Eventually, they almost completely disappeared from sight, appearing as a faint pink outline around Kazan as he let out a deep breath, before speaking as calmly as possible.

"Sakura Yaburu..."

Silence, for a moment...

A dull boom...

The ground shakes...

Kazan was stood at the epicenter of a minuscule earthquake, caused by him suddenly releasing all of his charged energy at once. The outline had disappeared, the lightning now coursing through his body, amplifying his blood flow, increasing muscle mass and sharpening his reaction times. He looked at the sheathed blade in his hand and smirked, before looking across at the Hunter.

"Eat this."

He threw his sheathed sword right at the Hunter's 'face'. The blade clashed harmlessly against the creature and riccocheted off the beast and flew away towards the edge of the barrier. Kazan chased after it, moving at incomprehensible speeds, he leaped up, placed a foot against the Hunter's head and then used it as a springboard to launch himself up to his sword.

Grabbing the blade in mid-air, he landed back on the ground by the barrier, looking across at the Hunter, he smirked.

"OI! UGLY! COME OVER HERE SO I CAN SNAP YOU LIKE A TOOTHPICK!"

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[Enizo]

Andy's attack did its job of warding off the Hunters vines and just as the Hunter was about to send more at him Kazan stepped in and caught its attention.

The Hunter tilted its head side to side as it watched Kazan. Than it started to laugh.

The voice echoed in everyone's head as it 'spoke' to Kazan.

"You're the one that HE spoke of.... The Masters speak very highly of you. But in the end, you're just a man, a man that will be hunted by ME!"[/b] The creature roared as it opened its mouth, looking to swallow Kazan.

"Damn it," Enzio cursed as he fired magic up at it, hoping to catch its attention. The attempts were ineffective as Enzio called out, "Kazan, MOVE!"

[Kazan]

"Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta..." Kazan muttered in annoyance as he gripped the scabbard of his sword in his free fist and slowly unsheathed the long blade, which easily stood at a height with him if propped into the ground. He slammed the sheath into the ground and took his sword in hand and smirked up at the Hunter. It seems that the Human Volcano was done playing around...

"I may just be a man..." He muttered as his wrists started to glow a pinkish hue. "But I'm also a volcano!" His smirk widened as he shouted out to the others.

"Oi! Guys! If we're dropping this shield, it best be done quickly!"[/i] He turned his attention back onto the Hunter and let out another deep breath.

"Sakura Yoyuken!"[/i]

Suddenly, magma poured from the handguard of the sword, and covered the blade before extending outwards, increasing the size of the weapon easily to at least three times it's (already unusually large) size. The blade bubbled and popped as a thin layer of molten rock started to cover certain parts of the weapon which was radiating an insane amount of heat.

"Let's dance, big boy..."

[Enizo]

Enzio looked over to Jasmine and gave her a nod, "Drop the barrier only for a moment and than close it as soon as I get the creature's ass out of it. Okay?" Enzio asked before quickly leaping away from her and onto the nearest tower.

With the barrier up there was no rain falling onto them, the sky seemed clear and calm. It was nice... you know, when you ignore the giant creature running rampage through the streets.

Enzio stood up and closed his eyes, focusing all his energy into the palms of his hands. He could his feel his hands start to strain as the energy built up into it... it was painful yet so powerful feeling.

"JASMINE." Enzio yelled down from the tower, his eyes changing color from the sheer amount of magic he was channeling, "DO IT NOW!"

In mere moments everyone would see why Enzio and Kazan were considered the two strongest Allorum Guardians around.