♪ - Memory - Roar

[skaldssong]

Who: Devola, her Shadow, and whomever.
What: A Shadow stops skulking around and drops in for some fauxlosophical discussion before the inevitable occurs.
Where: Hotel Lobby/Prospero Streets.
When: November 29th, the Dark Hour
Rating: PG-13. I'd be surprised if it went higher.
Warning: Violence, NieR Spoilers -- like, seriously.

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"Danmaku Bullshit" Prompt

[skaldssong]

(( Beyond this link lies a Teal Dear, branded with a declaration similar to "You aren't me" ))

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"...Wrong answer."

No sooner were the words uttered than the air to the Shadow's right distorted, a shadowy hand flecked with red - easily the size of either Devola or her shadow - writhed in the air for a moment before balling into a fist and hurtling itself at Devola.

A Devola who was, to her credit, not there. In an unlikely display of acrobatics, she'd vaulted off of the chair, flipping backwards a good dozen feet or so, and legged it for the door shortly afterwards. She knew what she was capable of, what she'd chosen to keep the other residents of Prospero in the dark about -- why mention abilities and skills you no longer have, after all -- so she knew precisely how dangerous her Shadow now was.

As if answering her thoughts, the Shadow appeared before her again, rising out of a glowing red glyph in the ground and sending another fist -- a pair, this time, at her. In another display of agility Devola managed to dodge again, but failed to dodge the follow-up, a veritable curtain of magical bullets. Her Shadow slowly walked towards Devola, lobbing the red and black spheres of power without so much as a gesture of incantation or care for aim.

Though she wasn't wounded, merely slowed down, without a Persona fighting back was a losing proposition.

[heavenscorpse]

"Devola!"

V/V had also been expecting the lobby to be safe, and so seeing a Shadow here was a bad sign. Besides that - seeing someone she liked be attacked was also bad.

Alice was called quickly, an almighty attack not unlike the spheres of power the Shadow used sent towards it.

[skaldssong]

The shout had alerted the Shadow, who's retaliation was of a self-defensive kind. Magic bullets and almighty spell collided, not with a crackle of power or an explosion, but with the quiet fizzle of mutual destruction.

"I'd appreciate it if you minded you own business right now."

Devola had frozen in her flight, looking to V/V with an expression halfway removed from the blank state it had been moments ago. The look in her eyes was essentially screaming at the other woman, imploring her to run.

[heavenscorpse]

"Okay. Can I take Devola with me? I want to talk to her about something."

It was worth a try.

[skaldssong]

"You'll have to wait in line. For about a week, I think it was."

Annoyingly, the duplicate had some skill at multitasking and calculating trajectories, without a motion it sent another wave of bullets towards the redhead, as well as a lesser amount towards the blonde. Interloper butting in, and all.

[heavenscorpse]

Alice could use Zan, and that was it. V/V squeaked and scrambled out of the way, bare feet against the cold floor. There were more important things right now than comfort, though.

"Please?"

[oneshot_wonder]

If she doesn't like interlopers...have another. Godo was more than happy to show up and pull his Angel away from the bullets and behind him. He balanced a rifle over his shoulders completely ignoring gun safety rules and tapped his fingers on the butt of it.

"I hate waiting so I'll butt in line."

Oh boy, he was digging himself a hole. Especially with not exactly having a persona at the moment.

Regimented v/v - godo - dev order, or do we jus' wanna go crazy?

[skaldssong]

"You get points for a hard-boiled one-liner and for being gutsy, but you might want to rethink your stance on things."

The shadow paused it's barrage of magic momentarily. It wasn't lying about not really wanting excess people pulled into the "dispute", despite sharing Devola's generally pragmatic approach to problem solving.

"If I told you the line was closed, would you two walk away?"

I think that'd work~

[heavenscorpse]

V/V peeked around Godo's side. "I wouldn't go anywhere. What about you?"

Fine with me

[oneshot_wonder]

"I'm a paying customer so I'm not going anywhere." Yes, he did want to leave but if Angel was staying, there was no point in arguing in front of someone else.

'kay-o~

[skaldssong]

"Right... Well, feel free to leave at any time. Vivi, you can talk to her about whatever you'd like. Just know that she won't be able to give you her full attention."

Yep. The shadow had indeed picked up on Devola's way of saying V/V's name. It also, in a display of almost brazen arrogance, turned it's back on the two to give it's full attention to Devola again. Dark fists slowly formed in the air near it as it started to move again.

[heavenscorpse]

Alice reappeared, violet light shining near her as she charged up another Zan attack.

"Pay attention to me. I don't want you to hurt her."

[oneshot_wonder]

Shit, she really was going to go through with this. He raised his rifle to his shoulder, pretty sure nothing was going to happen if he actually shot but a threat was a threat.

[skaldssong]

"It won't hurt for long. You know death here is a transient state of being anyway, don't you?"

It crouched low, a sadistic grin forming on it's face.

"Just think of it like rebooting a computer. There's a software error, maybe this'll fix it."

In a burst of movement it dashed forwards, away from V/V and Godo and towards Devola, the fists each arcing forward and colliding with the ground as it moved. Devola, still quiet, focused on dodging once more.

[heavenscorpse]

It was hard to make sure not to hit the real Devola with her attacks, but V/V tried her best with Alice's Zan.

"I have no idea what you're talking about!"

[oneshot_wonder]

No point in trying to attack just yet. "I'll explain it to you later."