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[dark0messenger]

Characters: Captain Adelbert Steiner, Kuja, and Alexandrian folk/those nearby; will update!
Progress: In-Progress
Summary: Garland's gift comes bright and early
Location: Alexandria and surrounding area
Date: May 1st
Warnings: Eventual violence?

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[dark0messenger]

As the army charged in defense, the dragons rampaged forward for the attack, a clash of sword and claw and fire tearing apart the streets and buildings. The sight was a nasty one to see, for most, but for Kuja here it was splendid, just what he had been aching for! Row after row of Knights, soldiers, and dragons are demolished, as if they were nothing to anyone, practically expendable. This probably wasn’t the case, but the rate of death made it seem so.

Leading the Knights of Pluto was none other than Captain Aldebert Steiner, a face that Kuja recognized and upon doing so scowled. Part of him seethed to see the likes of his enemy on the field, but another took delight knowing that the possibility of ending him was great. They had been all talk and witty banter over Mooglenet, why not take their words and turn them into actions?

The dragon he mounted landing on command, he steps off of it as gracefully as one can do in the midst of a battlefield, waiting by the side of the creature until the Captain is locked in his gaze. Raising a hand to point at him, calling to his attention and his attention only, the sorcerer only allows a brief moment between them to slide by with nothing more than gazes exchanged before summoning a herd of dragons to the defense, concentration of magic in the form of orbs rotating around him shortly after, ready for battle.

[captain_rusty]

For that moment, Steiner stood transfixed, the whole world around him seeming to stand still. Kuja, here in Alexandria! So he was up to his old tricks again. Last time, it had been the Mistodens. This time an even more dangerous enemy threatened to overwhelm them. Steiner could not let that happen.

"KUJA!" he shouted, enraged. He glanced around for support, but there wasn't any; all the soldiers had either fallen or were embroiled in battles too far away. The hopelessness of the situation didn't deter Steiner. If Kuja was the source of this attack, perhaps defeating him would also stop the dragons.

It was the work of a moment to use his last X-Potion, then Steiner charged once more, fighting his way wildly through the dragons which defended Kuja. He felled one, two, three before his strikes began to waver. Battered and bruised, Steiner was slowing down, but he wasn't done yet.

"Kuja!" he yelled again. "Come and fight, you miserable coward!"

[dark0messenger]

Hearing that voice call out to him amidst the fighting, Kuja can’t help but reiterate with similar banter. “Come then, take your steel and test it against my magic, if you dare!” More than happy to oblige the Captain clad in armor, once there was a clear path between him and the knight there was nothing to stop him from commanding a barrage of offensive magical energy to bombard and destroy. Hovering above the ground as if gravity had no effect on him, with a twirl of his hands the spells aim for and shoot towards Steiner, giving no rest to the weary fighter.

[captain_rusty]

Never one to back down from a challenge, Steiner charged at Kuja, right into the path of the spells. Even these didn't stop him; he fought his way through despite the battering his body was taking.

Steiner was close to passing out now, and had only one coherent thought left in his mind: attack Kuja. He struck blindly, wildly, with the last of his strength.

[dark0messenger]

The erratic, desperate attempts to swing his blade at the sorcerer suggested that the knight was on his last limbs. Betting on this assumption, Kuja drew back with each ranged thrust of the sword, waiting for the opportune moment when his opponent was completely drained of energy before attacking. “As impressive as your persistence is, I’m afraid your part in this act will have to be cut short. Farewell, Captain!” With crazed, maniacal intentions twisting his features, Kuja summoned a great deal of black magic to his command and used all of it to finish off what he could of the offender, a rain of attacks tearing through the sky as they hit the very ground that the armor clad warrior stood on.

[captain_rusty]

To Steiner, it seemed as if the world had exploded around him. Adrenaline had kept him impervious to pain, but not this time; it was too much. There was a moment when light flashed and it felt as though fire or lightning was searing him inside out - and then nothing.

Unseeing eyes stared up at the dragon-filled sky from beneath his battered helmet. Steiner's body lay still, defeated at last.