24th Blood | Marble Phantasm your heart!
[Tonight, all around town, Mayfielders may be treated to an extremely odd sight. Those in town who actually know anything about Magical Girl shows will likely be able to understand what is going on, and will likely think it's totally and completely stupid. To those who don't, however, tonight will be the most confusing night of their lives if
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[Oh, goodie, that makes it all the more fun. The two get to say a few cool lines, Clod gets to test her powers, and Arcueid can be a true magical girl. She takes a few seconds to think of a few lines. She has given at least a few speeches in her time anyway.]
Okay, how about this...
[For the sake of dramatic effect, Clod creates a sudden burst of Silhouette and Mirage energy from her body. A visibly green aura that's made to look a little more malevolent than normal for the sake of drama glows all around the little girl.]
All beginnings must have a conclusion. The follies of mankind have served to hasten their inevitable demise. Such a pitiful race of fools could never be allowed to exist for a second longer! The long-sought after end has finally arrived to grant humans the eternal punishment they so richly deserve!
I am called Armageddon, little ones! Cry, that all hope has been extinguished. Mourn that your existences never had purpose. And you, Phantasmoon... May you taste exquisite oblivion by my hands!
Hehehehehaaaahahahahah!!
[Something like that ought to work, Clod thinks.]
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She twirls her wand once more, catching it and pointing toward the evil girl bellowing her demonic intent before her. Sparkles fly from her person as she poses, truly setting the mood for a battle of good versus evil.]
I cannot allow such a thing, evildoer! In the name of the Crimson Moon, I will punish you!
[Of course, Arcueid had no idea the powers this child could have, so she's decided to go easy on her. Her initial attack is to deliver a flashy flying kick toward the girl's meat shield. Arcueid is doing her best not to put too much of her monstrous strength behind the kick, lest she do something that would actually harm the girl.]
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[Imbued with the full potentials of the Silhouette attribute, the drone is struck by Arcueid's flashy kick, but to no avail. Conversely, the Mirage attribute guards against mind or magical attacks, but that's irrelevant for now. Clod's enhancements gave the drone who normally should be quite fragile more of a resistance against physical attacks.
She sees an opportunity. Four giant, extending arms made of purple light generate forth from the drone and thrusts themselves at Phantasmoon. To top it off, the drone generates buzz saws which shoot at the girl if she should care to make any distance.]
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Your evil magics are no match for the power of the moon!
[She doesn't want to accidentally hurt the girl, but it looks like she's going to have to step this up if it's going to be interesting at all. She catches one of the buzz saws as it flies through the air, causing some shredding to her hand but it seems to heal instantly. She hurls it back toward the drone like a frisbee, her strength causing it to fly through the air with the speed of a bullet.
As the buzz saw flies, Arcueid charges the young girl once again. She brandishes her wand, sending what appears to be a blast of sparkling light toward her. She'll of course find that the sparkly attack was only for show and can actually do no real damage...but the vampire is still barreling down upon her with incredible speed.]
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It seems she'll have to make a shield for her meat shield.
Purple light sparks from the drone and defending him from the returning saw is... a giant boar. It was born one second only to die the next thanks to the buzz saw. The boar disappears into the sparks that it was born from and the saw strikes the drone, but the damage is dampened. The body starts to bleed as a semi-narrow gash is made, but hey, it's just a drone. This magical girl wasn't too bad.]
What is the moon... but a hunk of rock gravitating around the world? [Much more and she knows it, but drama.
Seeing Arcueid come down at her again, the drone yet again creates a similar boar. It charges at the magical girl. If attacked, Phantasmoon should see that there aren't any visible wounds being made. The boar and all other animals brought to life by Clod are pure Silhouette or Mirage. They're parasites that sap away physical or mental energies and in this case, the prior.]
You see, Phantasmoon? You may be blessed by the moon, but it's barren and lifeless. Coursing through my body is the power of life. Your lifeless moon can't compare!
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The Crimson Moon has more power than you could ever imagine, evil child! [Instead of engaging the boar, Arcueid leaps to the air. At the apex of her jump, she releases another flashy display of sparkles, then comes down at the girl and her meat shield as hard as possible. She generates an intense amount of sparkles around her as she falls, almost making her look like a glowing missile flying straight toward the ground.]
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Every bit of damage Arcueid intended to dole out courses through the drone's nerves. This is of little consequence to Clod now that he fulfilled his role.
Sparks fly into the air and form into a purple orb of light now hanging above Phantasmoon. Ropes of electricity surrounds the area around the magical girl, forming into a cage. Another boar appears on one side and the boar that had been conjured just a little while before is on the opposite side, both ready to charge.]
Maybe so, but none if it can possibly save you now. Stampede! Shatter the moon!
[Both boars charge at Arcueid, preparing to consume directly from her body's physical energy.]
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She brandishes her wand...and the next thing anyone knew would be that their world is full of sparkles...little crescent-moon shaped sparkles. Like, seriously, it's kind of nuts. So nuts it's blocked any chance of anyone seeing anything.
That is of course until the sparkles begin to pop like tiny, tiny fireworks. When they finally all do it reveals that Arcueid has moved to a rooftop once again. It may seem like she slyly slipped out of her lightning cage...but...if one looks closely you can see the char marks on her.]
Haha! A pathetic trick! [Arcueid pulls her wand hand back behind the opposing side of her body, causing her to rotate to the side.] But you are now finished!
[Once again, she flings her wand in the direction of the child with such force you could swear it would break the sound barrier.]
ARC DRIVE FINISH: FULL MOON! [Yea yelling out attacks is fun okay? Since this is a play fight, though, if that wand actually hits the girl Arc's reality warping will just have it give her a light bonk instead of the rocket force it initially had.]
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This can't...
[The wand hits the girl and simultaneously, the conjured boars disappear. Clod's body starts glowing with not an intimidating bright green color like before, but with a soft, faded shade. It appears that she could disappear at any moment.]
But how... How can the End of the World be stopped like this? It's... unthinkable! I won't accept it, I won't! ... Phantasmoon, what's the point in allowing such a deeply corrupted world to continue!?
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Hahaha! This world is only as corrupted as you choose to see it! I fight only for love and justice! Those who work against it shall be punished by the Crimson Moon!
[Have another dramatic pose, full of sparkles.]
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When the clouds cover Mayfield and the shine of your Crimson Moon dims, that is when Armageddon will begin anew! Hehehee.... Hehehahahahaaaaaahahahahaaaa-
[And Clod snaps her fingers. The green glow around her returns to normal and... everything is as if it never happened.]
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That was really cool! You're like...the ONLY one that knows what she's doing!
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Hehe, right?
And thank you for helping me out with my little test. It doesn't seem like I even hurt you that much.
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I'm...uh, glad I could help out a citizen in need!
[Arcueid kind of has no freaking idea what's going on but if the girl was just play-fighting with her that probably means she's not actually a bad guy or anything.]
So uh...how did you do all of that? Are you a magus or something?
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Clod brushes the dust off her clothing and gives Arcueid a shrug.]
That's a good term if you'd like to call me that. Evolved human works. And so does God.
And are you just an ordinary magical girl fighting for justice?
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People don't usually give themselves that kind of title.
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