about time this happened
[There's something not quite right with Pleiades. It's not like him to transform simply for the sake of transforming, but there he is, lounging about Ryuuzaki's room, donning his dragon-like armor just as she turns away for a moment to fasten on an arm guard
There's something different about that armor, though. It seems to be more...flashy? Angular ( Read more... )
There's something different about that armor, though. It seems to be more...flashy? Angular ( Read more... )
"How..." The girl turns, Yume now standing with wide eyes. "How did you both get in here...??" As Ryuzaki stares Yume swallows, shaking on the spot. "This room is supposed to be impenetrable... Do you have any idea what could happen in here...??"
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Impenetrable? Really. Clearly it isn't, if we're here...
[And laughter.]
Then again, you'd be hard pressed to keep us out of anything we choose to be in. This body included.
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"Th..." What. What what what, are they fighting in here, no that's not-
No that's not- "Please..!"
Ryuzaki turns- ...Please?
"Please... Leave." Yume's voice is strained as she speaks- and she seems to unconsciously attempt to draw back from both of those before her. "Please... Just leave, before anything happens..."
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[And "Pleiades" sniffs.]
Really, now, you underestimate our capabilities. We don't speak for the human, mind you, but we're sure we can handle what you worry about.
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Ryuzaki nods. "That's right- and besides... This is our fight! If anything, you should get out of here as fast as you ca-"
"I'm not talking about HUMANS..!" Yume's voice echoes over the air, cutting Ryuzaki off- and it's likely that outside, the munna she left on 'watch' is picking up on these now hysteric emotions quite easily. "What I am talking about... What I am trying to..." She shakes her head. "It is 'shadow' and nothing more- an 'element', something above any living thing...!"
"It can't be that bad..." Ryuzaki that was a horrible thing to say.
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Fancy name or no, something wielded by a human is of little consequence to us.
[Then there's a squinting look in Yume's direction, a nod, and then laughter.]
Especially if wielded by a human that is incomplete such as yourself. Why would a human repress their already weak Denpa, I don't know, but truly, this is no problem at all for us!
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"Ehh? Denpa..?"
Yume's head is bowed- and her voice a little quieter than before. "I cannot control this shadow." She clenches her fists, teeth grinding before she speaks again. "I have spent many years pushing it away for that reason... But..." With a swallow she looks up, and again she shouts- "If it breaks out now... If this thing escapes while you're here, you will all die..!" Of that she's certain-
But Ryuzaki seems to have just as much faith in that as 'Pleiades'- "Tch. If you've held if off this long, then it's nothing- don't worry about a thing, just get out of here..!"
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For once, we agree with the human. Something that can be repressed by a human is of no consequence and is an annoyance at best.
[And there's a chuckle.]
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No no no no no... "Please... Please just listen..." It feels dark in here- despite the light, it feels dark, and with that in mind she quickly turns her eyes downward.
Ryuzaki however, looks back to 'Pleiades'. "Tch... It'll be the only thing we agree on then," she decides, swinging the sword back and preparing to charge. "We have a fight... And I'm not taking back what I said before..! NOW," she roars, jumping forward. "LEAVE!"
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Honestly, how brutish...
[And he swings upwards, so that he's perching properly on that chandelier again.]
Do you humans really know nothing of combat other than swinging at each other? There are other means, obviously...
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Yume is holding her head below... Backing away again, while Ryuzaki kicks off a nearby wall. "Tch- 'Kendo' is not a 'brute' art...! And YOU," she snarls, bringing the blade around in a swift arc, "Should figure that out..!"
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Clashing against each other, really, that is unrefined...
[And then there's laughter, even as a small card mysteriously appears in "Pleiades"' right hand.]
There are things that you humans call 'tactics'! Such as this-our particular favorite-sow confusion and disarray!
[The card is gone, thrust into a slot into the left gauntlet, which is swung upwards...]
Battle Card: Meteor Stream!
[Suddenly, there's a misty blackness swirling around the ceiling, and from it...burning hot meteors are falling from it?!]
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"Ngh- Shit..!" A quick change of plans is in order- using her own blade as a barrier between the first meteor she kicks back, landing on the ground below. "Ahhhh..." The rocks fall from the center, but they cover the entire room- somehow, she's able to slash most back- Sending them one way or the other...
Behind her, Yume is having a somewhat more difficult time. "Hhaahhhh..!!" She has no sword- she can't even use her shadow. So Yume is forced to simply run, almost fruitlessly back and forth in an attempt to dodge-
And yet somehow, Ryuzaki is able to treat this like a joke. One more stone tossed away, and another, and another... "Is that all you've GOT," she snarls, slowly beginning to 'aim' the stones she deflects. "Are these your 'TACTICS'..?"
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That was simply a small taste of our power. Perhaps, something...more chaotic? Battle Card: Junk Attack!
[And now flaming piles of metal. That break apart on impact and send shrapnel everywhere. Okay.]
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The room was already somewhat destroyed by the meteors- but the walls refused to buckle despite this. Now however, chunks of the still sturdy wall seemed to break off and repair just as quickly as the words were called out- steel rebar impaled the ground, concrete pounded craters into the wall... "Okay..." Ryuzaki swallowed. "That works..."
Everyone for themselves- As fire and stone literally rained from above her vision became littered with nothing but shadows and blurred objects, some bouncing off a swung blade and others barely avoided. "NH-" One skidded past her foot... "Nah..!" Another in the place she stood just a split second before...
And now- "Gh-" Something hot was above and behind her... And as she turned, there was no avoiding this one. In the few moments of time that seemed to slow, she stared-
"Heh... D... Damn..."
It went dark.
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...And she saw it from the other end of the room. Frozen for but a moment, staring with wide eyes...
"No..." This one... That person (girl..?) couldn't have been more than 16. Just... Just a kid, just a kid and now-
Fire streaked from above and it was darkdarkdarkdarkeranddarker and panic wasn't letting up, her heart was racing but she could barely move, stumbling over ruin as she tried to avoid what was still flying through the air (but the target was 'dealt with', so why hadn't this thing stopped-)-
"NGH-" Something tore at her pant leg and she stiffened, looking back. A piece of metal had locked around her ankle... And tugging at it gave her no release from it, bringing her to pull at it more directly with her hands. "Come on," she hissed, eyes wide with terror. "Come on, come on, come on..." This was not a 'dream'. If she died in either it was all over, but this was not a dream which made it all the more worse. She didn't know what would happen here...
She didn't know if her body, like that of the 'Coyote's, would fall into the possession of something else-
Again she pulled, before a shift in temperature brought her eyes upward- something falling-
Ducking downward she closed her eyes for just a split second...
And when she opened them again, it was black. "Hahh... Hahhhhh... Hahhhh..." Black, dark, and endless just like that night, just like the nightmares just like it, the thing, the monster, the demon the shadowshadowshadowshadow-
Dark...
It was so dark... She couldn't move... Couldn't do anything...
"Nn..."
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