|
Post by Elias Sands on Sept 11, 2007 17:08:49 GMT -5
:The shadow spell burns Sands a little, but his new thick hide is more protected to spells. He faces up Zion and lunges. His speed and strength both have been improved. He takes Zion down and claws into his shoulders:
"I'll kill every single one of you then go out and finish your friends and that pitiful army you brought if needs be. Vector will not fall!"
|
|
|
Post by Clerian Soulflare on Sept 11, 2007 17:19:13 GMT -5
A large spiral of wind tunnels into Sands' side, knocking him off Zion. Clerian gives out a tired chuckle as he started rising to his feet.
"And what good will Vector be if its entire army is defeated?" he asked, "An entire city for one abomination of a man?"
Spinning his gunblade, Clerian took a few swipes through the air and entered a fighting stance once more. The claw marks on his chest were searing, but he could care less. This was it. There was no holding back. Sands had become a monster, and Zion had become something new. It was time for Clerian to do the same.
"We have to finish him, Zion. Get up," he said calmly, urging his ally to rise.
Clerian closed his eyes and gusts of wind began blowing around him. Finally, as the wind started picking up to violent speeds, he opened his eyes to reveal that his pupils were gone. He had entered his Limit form once more. He had undergone Ascension to make the playing field even.
There were no more words from Clerian. This time around, the Ascended state had been entered completely, making Clerian a superhuman avatar of battle at the cost of control over his senses. There would be bloodshed - lots of it - and only time would tell who would survive.
Clerian picked up his second gunblade and prepared for a fight.
|
|
|
Post by Elias Sands on Sept 11, 2007 18:08:14 GMT -5
:Sands leans down and his claws tear into Zion's side. He throws his body across the room into the pile of Chambers, Airlia, and Rainii. Sands crouches and motions:
"Come on....show me what you're made of boy."
|
|
|
Post by Rainii Loire on Sept 11, 2007 21:06:49 GMT -5
::Rainii lays still, listening to the battle come to life again. She wants to help more than she can say, but her body resists. She does manage to sit up, and lean against the wall..::
This would be so much easier if I had the strength to get up.
::She looks around for her sword, which is laying across the room on the floor.::
Damnit. So much for my plan.
::Rainii decides not to try to retrieve her weapon, only because she'd become more injured than she already was in the process. She looks over to her side, where Airlia, Chamber, and now Zion lay. She's not sure if Chamber's still alive, or how bad Airlia and Zion really are...She feels hopeless.::
|
|
|
Post by Julie Loire on Sept 12, 2007 14:58:43 GMT -5
:: Julie enters with Moomba, but she tries to keep her distance from Clerian and Sands. Instead, she concentrates on getting to Rainii, and the others who have gone down. As they come close, Moomba runs ahead. ::
Moomba: "Rainii!"
:: Julie follows, grateful that the noise around them seems to have drowned out Moomba's alarmed shouting. She reaches her sister's side only a few seconds after Moomba. ::
"Rainii... what happened here?"
:: She glances toward the other three. ::
"... Is everyone still alive?"
|
|
|
Post by Rainii Loire on Sept 12, 2007 15:45:29 GMT -5
"Airlia should be...but I'm not so sure about Chamber and Zion..."
::She looks up at her sister, grateful that she came.::
"As for me, well....got stabbed because of my own mistake, and am only alive thanks to Airlia here. It was a very serious wound, and she pretty much healed it all. Made herself unconcious in the process, though."
::She touches where the wound had been--right on her stomach. Airlia's healing had closed it up, but had still left a nice sized scar.::
"Anyways...we need to get them out of here as soon as possible, any way possible. Chamber and Zion need medical attention, and Airlia probably does too. I think I can stand, and help distract Sands if he loses interest in Clerian....Are there Estharian soldiers with you?"
|
|
|
Post by Clerian Soulflare on Sept 12, 2007 16:54:08 GMT -5
Clerian is completely uninterested in what's going on outside of the face-off with Sands. With a grunt, the swordsman charged the beastly Sands with lightning speed, throwing an elbow and knocking him a little distance from Zion.
The ex-SeeD spun his gunblades around in his hands then stopped and roared, "Burning Soul!"
His old Limit Break had returned with a vengeance. Where he had once used a single large gunblade to assault his enemy, he now wielded two deadlier and more agile gunblades. The katana-style blades of his twin weapons were engulfed in flame and Clerian let loose with a barrage of gunblade strikes that were sent in Sands' direction with blinding speed.
|
|
|
Post by Elias Sands on Sept 12, 2007 18:48:51 GMT -5
:The beast staggers and groans. The attack leaves him bleeding, but still determined. Sands takes notice of the newly entered member to the fight and roars out loud:
"No one is going anywhere!"
:Sands slams a fist into the ground, the build groans even more and pieces from the ceiling fall down around everyone. He lunges at Julie and bites her shoulder:
"Tasty little dish aren't we?"
:He breaks into a toothy smile and throws her to the ground so that he can face Rainii:
"So persistent. I thought I dispelled of you."
|
|
|
Post by Situation on Sept 12, 2007 18:52:10 GMT -5
:A ghastly figure pushes Rainii down and steps in front of the beast. Chamber gathered the last strength he could muster and reentered the battle. Blood soaks his shirt and a steady path leads from where he was laying. His rifle, which rarely leaves his side, is left on the ground where he was laying and now the pasty white soldier aims his trusty shot gun at the beast. He opens fire without hesitation, firing off round after round Sands:
|
|
|
Post by Elias Sands on Sept 12, 2007 18:54:00 GMT -5
:Sands steps back, his damaged body can't take much more. Clerian's strike left him vulnerable and now the wounds were gaping. Sands lashes out and claws across Chamber's chest, sending him back to the ground:
"I won't stop!!!!"
|
|
|
Post by Airlia Eyanson on Sept 12, 2007 18:59:38 GMT -5
:Airlia blinks and feels nausious:
I've got to....
:She looks up to see Chamber crashing into the ground on Rainii. Zion and Julie were also down, only Clerian stood:
....as much as I hate to I can't just lay here any longer..
:Airlia slowly gets to her feet. Sands is preparing to focus on Clerian again, who looks completely drained. At his feet lay Sand's sword, the Vainslayer. As the monster rushes Clerian she sprints at him as well. Airlia pushes Clerian out of the way and grabs the sword at his feet. As they both fall to the ground they watch Sands pass them and slam into another metal pillar. The building sounds even worse now, it surely can't hold up much more abuse. Airlia slowly gets up off Clerian and stands over him with a hand out:
"...come now. Lets finish this."
(OOC- Sorry for the barrage)
|
|
|
Post by Clerian Soulflare on Sept 12, 2007 19:15:16 GMT -5
[OOC: Haha, it's fine. Pretty interesting stuff.]
Clerian's eyes return to normal and he takes a huge gasp, signalling the end of his Ascended state. He shivers a bit, but looks up to see Airlia offering a hand. Not wanting to be rude, he takes her hand and stands up.
"This is the end," he said, "Let's finish him."
Taking his gunblades, Clerian charges at Sands and pins the beast up against the metal pillar. Clerian's twin gunblades had been pierced through the monster's chest, holding him against the pillar as Clerian stood face-to-face with the transformed Elias Sands. Gritting his teeth, the young man pushed with all the strength he had left, keeping Sands where he was.
"Airlia!" he yelled between breaths, signalling for Airlia to finish Sands off.
|
|
|
Post by Airlia Eyanson on Sept 12, 2007 19:27:41 GMT -5
:Airlia nods:
"...then it is..."
:She cracks an evil smirk and approaches Clerian's back. She lifts the sword and takes a hefty swing, narrowly missing Clerian she lops off the head of the beast. Airlia leans on the blade on pauses as if she doesn't know what to do now:
He's dead.....I really didn't think it was going to end...
|
|
Zion Strife
Determined Individual
FFT Veteran
Posts: 188
|
Post by Zion Strife on Sept 12, 2007 20:24:31 GMT -5
Zion, after getting thrown into the corner, snarls and attempts to rise again. He stops suddenly, held in place. Weary in mind and body, the real Zion begins to wrest back control. After a minute of internal struggle, Zion wins out. The flame recedes back into the crystal and it stops glowing. Zion falls back to ground in time to see the head of the demon Sands fall. He smirks, happy that things appeared to finally be over. He had much more to think about though. The crystal he wore had shown itself to be possibly sentient. He would need to figure out this mystery, before it happened again. A searing pain in his chest brought his thoughts back around to his current situation. His voice shaky from the effort he calls to the rest of them.
"I ... might need a little help."
|
|
|
Post by Airlia Eyanson on Sept 12, 2007 20:27:53 GMT -5
:Airlia looks around. Chamber, Rainii, Julie, and Zion....all on the ground. It's Zion's voice she hears. She starts to approach him and sheathes the blade she picked up:
Better than nothing for now...
:The struggle inside continues, but the thought that she should remain humane wins and she approaches Zion:
"You ok chief?"
:She grins:
"We won...if that's comforting.."
|
|
Zion Strife
Determined Individual
FFT Veteran
Posts: 188
|
Post by Zion Strife on Sept 12, 2007 21:58:15 GMT -5
Zion grins despite himself.
"Oh, this is just a scratch."
He pushes himself up to his knees. He looks a little shaky in this position but he manages it. He looks around the room a bit.
"Jeez, he really did a number on everyone. How did you get him? I blanked out after he came back. I woke up over here but I was...."
He trails off, not sure how to finish.
|
|
|
Post by Airlia Eyanson on Sept 12, 2007 22:16:11 GMT -5
:She grins more:
"Hacked off his ugly head."
:Points over at Clerian:
"He pretty much finished him himself though."
|
|
|
Post by Rainii Loire on Sept 12, 2007 22:27:44 GMT -5
::Rainii moves Chamber off of her and onto the floor next to her. She then looks to see Julie laying a few feet away from her, holding onto her injured shoulder.::
I'm gonna have to try to heal them now...
::She consentrates on Chamber first, since he's injured the worst. She lays one hand on his chest, then one on his stomach. Her hands begin to glow, and then Chamber's wounds. They mostly heal, enough so Chamber could at least function.::
"You're uh...quite stubborn, aren't you? I thought you were dead back there...I really, really did."
::Rainii's not even sure he can hear her, but it doesn't really matter.She smiles at him.::
"You should be fine now...So you can just relax..."
::She hesitates a second, watching him--he was breathing, that was good, but he needed real medical attention. Maybe someone in the Esthar camp could help him. There was usually a doctor among them. At least, there had been before.
She toys with the idea of taking him back to Esthar--they'd heal him quickly, and with the best techniques available. But...she didn't want to 'kidnap' him. She takes his hand and squeezes it, before letting it go and going over to her sister. She moves Julie's hand away from the wound, so she can see it better.::
"Oh, man....This could hurt a bit, Julie. "
::Like she did with Chamber, Rainii lays her hand on Julie's wound. It soon begins to glow. After the glowing fades away, Rainii removes her hands, revealing Julie's completely healed shoulder.::
"That's better. You alright?"
|
|
|
Post by Clerian Soulflare on Sept 13, 2007 3:21:21 GMT -5
As the others took care of their wounds, Clerian fell to his knees, breathing heavily. His gunblades remained in the chest of Sands, sticking straight out.
Deaf to the commotion around him, the young man slumps down onto his back and rests on the cold lab floor. The large claw marks across his chest were burning before, but now the pain was hardly noticeable. Actually, he could hardly feel his body and limbs he was so exhausted.
Looking up at Sands' body pinned up against the wall, headless, Clerian thought, "You've hurt too many, Sands, but when you hurt my...friends...you sealed your fate."
Closing his eyes once more, he added, "Besides...I said I wasn't going to die. And as long as I'm alive, that means they won't, either."
|
|
|
Post by Airlia Eyanson on Sept 13, 2007 17:08:19 GMT -5
:Airlia glances back to Clerian and pauses:
...he's so quiet....very distant....
:She grins:
Reminds me of someone else..
|
|