The Undeclared War. (The War. 1.5.)

[Kazan]

Kazan raised his magma coated blade, so that only one eye was visible behind the bubbling orange glow of the sword. He started to swing it this way and that, faster and faster, more air funneling into the burning rock of the magma and causing it to glow brighter and brighter. Kazan held his breath as the corrosive liquid splashed against the spinning blade, quickly evaporating into what the Guardian could only assume was poison. So quickly halting the spinning of his blade, he dived away from the pink cloud that he had made and took in a deep breath whilst the air was (relatively) clear.

He charged forwards towards the Corrupted, his blade in hand as he leaped into the air and brought his sword plunging down towards the face of his opponent.

[Bartholomew]

The Corrupted growled as it quickly curled up into a ball and started rolled with its large and hard shell towards Kazan, cracking the ground with its mighty force. When the sword made contact to the shell, it started to spew more of the pink gas around the area.
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The Lost didn't moved, as his back claw came down and knocked the sword away from itself. It then started to charge towards the trio, ignoring the kunai flying and striking its legs. The claw acted like a plow protecting the faces and torso of its body.

[Enizo]

Enizo raised his hand and fired a bolt of magic to the ground ahead of the Lost, causing a pretty sizable hole. This would interrupt its charge well enough.

"Bang, nice of you to join the party!" Enizo nodded towards Bang in thanks, "I think I'm nearly drained of blood but I think I still have enough in me to take this thing down!"

He raised both hands into the air and combined water and lightning magic. The water fell onto the creature which made dodge the lightning strike next to impossible for it. With any luck, Enizo would deep fry that monster.

[A.B.A.]

Sweeping her hands across from her hip outwards the ground responded to her movements and formed a protective wall that met the monster's corrosive onslaught with defiance. While enduring the attack the wall became quickly eroded, leaving a wide open hole when the majority of the acid had hit.

"What a disgusting slug! I'll kill you before you dare touch me with your filthy bile!" A.B.A. shouted out before sucking in a deep breath and throwing her hands forward with a deep battle cry. The wall burst into flechettes by the dozens, screaming towards the Corrupted only to fall harmlessly to the ground upon connecting with its rounded shell. Throwing her nose up and sneering at the bug's defence she paused to watch the spinning carapace cut it's path along the ground. Time to cut that crap out.

Holding one palm out she snapped it upwards, her palm facing skywards. The ground in front of the Corrupted's path moved to her will, blocking it's path with a reinforced barrier. Without a moment to watch the creature's reaction her other hand thrust outwards past her raised palm only to retract both and slam both palms together in front of her chest, leaving her arms tensed as she looked to be caught in prayer. From behind and both sides three more wedges rose around her opponent from below before slamming together like a makeshift garbage compactor.

[Bartholomew]

The Corrupted shrieked in pain as the compactor started to squeeze on it, unrolling to give it more room. It quickly crawled up the wall before it complete closed on it, but not before have part of its tail caught into it. As the blood flow out of the tail, it started to corroded the ground on which it poured on. The Corrupted then spew more acid out of it's mouth, but this was more in the form of a powerful stream.

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The Lost staggered as it fell into the hole, being struck by lightning, the bolts intensified with the water. After the onslaught stopped, the back claw of the Lost grabbed the ground and picked rest of its self up. It was bleeding, but it wasn't giving up. It stuck out it's stump, and a massive spike protruded out it, the back claw then opened up, and fired it towards the group. It's palm fired more spiked balls at them, as it charged at the group.

[Enizo]

Enizo wasn't going to let it get off the hook that easily. Enizo's waved his hand to the side and caused more rainfall and lightning.

Enizo cringed as he channeled the magic, because when you use magic as long as Enizo has the mana seems to be tied to your very life and he was draining more and more of it by the second. He could feel it slowly vanishing from inside him.

[Bang Shishigami]

I had hoped that Enizo's magical onslaught would've been enough to best this beast, but it would appear that the creature had a veritable well of constitution, and I could see that my comrade in arms was beginning to tire from this extended encounter. I knew I needed to end this soon so that Enizo might be able to rest, and so I might be able to maneuver on to help our other teammates.

Seeing a perfect opportunity to charge my gauntlets to the limit, I jumped in and took the front lines as the creature sprayed projectile after projectile, each one serving as but a means of giving my armaments the power they needed. With a swift and powerful back fist, I deflected the the large nail away from us, then took to the air in a flurried assortment of kicks to deflect the spiked balls to all corners of the battlefield, giving a clearing not for the creature charge, but for my own.

With a well practiced ariel maneuver, I kicked off the air itself with a scant portion of my armaments power, lunging hastily at the creature with my Nail brandished and at the ready. In a motion like lightening I fit the nail cleanly into the hole previously created by Enizo magical blast, rearing my fist back in preparation for what I hoped would be the final blow.

"Face the unbound Fist of Justice, fiend! Shishigami Style Killing Blow: Fist That Splits the Devil's Peak!"

Thrusting my fist upon the head of my nail, my punch resounded against it, expunging all my stored power in the single blow. Seldom did I ever perform such a technique, for the devastating make of my large spiked implement was designed to take all force upon it and resonate that force outwards, increasing it by ten fold in the process. I could only hope that my maneuver would best this beast, for after this, I would need to recharge my gauntlets before performing such a move again, and I was afraid that in such a time Enizo might suffer further with the strain of battle.

[A.B.A.]

Feeling confident in her systematic beating of the creature A.B.A. once more threw her hands out and brought another wall up to protect her from the bile. Unmoving and readying her next strike she was thrown off when the concentrated flow punched through her defences and flew out towards her. Throwing her hands up in a protective stance she turned her back and covered her head as the stinging corrosion ate away at the stone armour covering Seigmand's body. Frantic and feeling the tinge of pain on her back she shunted the protective stone outwards off her body, taking the acid with it.

All of my power and you squander it with brashness. Rest assured your cockiness will get us both killed one of these days.

"Shut up!" A.B.A. shouted seemingly at no one, fuming as she swept the rest of her wall out of the way with a stroke of her hand. "I'll kill it in this next move, bet on it!" Quickly pushing her emerald sleeves up past the firm definition of her biceps she sunk low into her horse-riding stance. With a quick deep breath she let loose another battle cry out as her arms thrust out in a double palm-heel strike. Two waves of ground sprang to life at either side, rushing outwards towards the Corrupted. Cutting along the ground they seemed to pull the ground up wherever they moved, drawing a line of raised earth that flowed with the movements of her hands.

Slicing to either side of the massive bug the ground whipped past and around it, encircling it as it built higher and higher. Finally bringing her hands up and together the walls conjoined to a peak that ensnared the creature within a hollow pyramid of tightly packed minerals.

"Now for the coup de grace..." She scanned the perimeter till she saw a large and mostly intact piece of the tower that had been destroyed by the navy shells. Winding behind it with expedience she snapped to a side stance and thrust her palm into it. The tower piece whirled through the air as if tossed by the mightiest ballista, warped instantly by the shaping commands of her Geomancy into a deadly stone bolt coming straight at the broadside of the stone prison she'd ensnared the Corrupted in.

[Bartholomew]

The Lost stumbled as it took the attack from Bang. It raised it's hand and shouted one barely audible word "DUO." It then fell to its side, and died.
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When the walls of the pyramid came up, the Corrupted roared angrily and spew more acid at the wall. When there was a hole large enough for it to crawl out of, the stone bolt pierced it. As the acidic blood destroyed the stone, it slowly crawled out of the hole. It gave out one more shrieked, before it died in the sun.

[Enizo]

"Gha..." Enizo let out as he watched it die. Breathing in a deep breath of relief he began to walk over to check if it was truly dead.

He stumbled a bit while he was walking over. Enizo's body was incredibly tense at the thought that it might be playing dead. Once Enizo arrived by its side he nudged it a bit with his foot, looking for any sign of life.

[Kazan]

"N'maaaaa...." Kazan muttered as the magma around his sword literally just dissipated into nothingness, becoming a thin black trail of smoke before disappearing into the sky, mixing with the rest of the smoke, ash and dust that was already lingering in the air. He walked up to The Corrupted and poked it meekly with Wareme, the size of the blade allowing him to stay a good six feet away from the corpse of the beast.

"Dadada... Is that it..? Man... I thought this thing would put up more of a fight!" He gave a small chuckle, scratching the back of his head with his free hand. "Still... I'm not gonna' complain about it being dead!" He looked across at Enizo.

"OI! LEMON-FACE! DID YOU KILL YOURS?!"

[Bartholomew]

A loud snapping of the fingers was overheard by the bodies of the Lost and the Corrupted. Their bodies, while motionless, started to glow. The Lost had a soft blue color, as the Corrupted was a harsh pink color. Then in synchronization, they both exploded. The Lost had billions and billions of spikes shooting everywhere, as the Corrupted produced a shockwave while a wave of acid came across the area like a tsunami.

[Enizo]

"Yeah... it's dead," he nodded before giving it another kick.

But than Enizo could feel the change in the air before as they began to explode and in a split second Enizo turned his view back to his ally, "Kazan RUN!" He yelled out as it exploded, the spikes flying in all directions.

In a brief moment Enizo pulled a barrier up around Bang and Vash to protect them against the spikes but doing so left his vulnerable.

Enizo ducked low and threw his heavy cloak over his body in attempt to keep them from striking deep, still many of the spikes still struck his body heavily. Once his left leg and backside was covered in the spikes Enizo collapsed to the ground with blood seeping out of his every wound. He couldn't yell, it was too painful to even speak. He just hoped Kazan and his other allies escaped the blow better than he did.

[A.B.A.]

See, told you I had it. Just goes to show what your, I mean my power is capable of when you aren't so busy worrying all the time. A.B.A. looked smugly at her handiwork as the Corrupted fell with it's last disgusting breath.

"Hey boy, you feeling capable enough to take on a real challenge? I get the feeling those flares over there indicate some unfinished business for us." She thumbed back behind her to where the battle with Bart was raging on.

Yet the sudden outburst of Enizo snapped her eyes to him, then to the body of their foe, already brightly enflamed with the hue of their imminent self destruction. "Wha-?" Her eyes widened as surprise overtook her. She stood stunned and could only look on as the wave of acid rolled in. In a terrible moment her mind retreaded a familiar memory, one from years past. The same fear gripped her as it had when Grey's explosion had caught her in the field in Santo-Luce two years ago. The explosion that had pulled her away from the Saints, the first of her failures to bring her down this road, only this time there was no attempt to run. There was only a still fear.

Yet whilst her mind remained frozen her body seemed possessed by a different feeling. The surprise in her face snapped to annoyance and in a flash Seigmand's body twisted to a low crouched stance as his arms wheeled around in a wide arc, ending with them raised to the sky. The ground snapped up from all sides, rushing higher and higher to embrace him completely. In a moment he was gone from sight as only a tower remained to take on the explosion of acid.