Feb 23, 2012 19:57
T H I N G S F A L L A P A R T
T H E C E N T R E C A N N O T H O L D
amascut,
rory williams,
applegate,
rue (hunger games),
hellboy,
annabeth chase,
ann darrow,
logan,
buffy summers,
waco kid,
teja,
veronica mars,
sallie reynolds,
katniss everdeen,
olivia dunham,
doc scurlock,
aziraphael,
mary anne bell,
coyote,
burton guster,
artemis,
yrael,
sameth,
will scarlett,
crowley,
skellig,
mal reynolds,
nick sayre,
felix of vale,
val von doom,
river tam,
anthy himemiya,
liz sherman,
annabelle newfield,
atton rand,
leonard 'bones' mccoy,
puss in boots,
illyria,
enzo matrix,
ava wilson,
thalia grace,
raylan givens,
raven,
tyler marlocke,
destruction,
hermione granger,
jack bauer,
the doctor,
splinter,
sariel rager,
michaelangelo,
kate barlow,
dixie cousins,
ben wade,
claudia donovan,
galadan,
john mccabe,
cal chandler,
moiraine,
michael the archangel
...but the lightning has stopped.
Suddenly, with a flash brighter than the hidden sun, a sound rises through the red-tinted tumult of battle. An indescribable shout of triumph, greed, and fury that seems to go beyond sound, piercing into the very heart of those who hear.
And with that shout, the silver hemispheres come together, sending a thick, malevolent column of fire boiling up into the sky, burning away the surrounding gloom with its heat.
The triumphant voice of Orannis the Destroyer howls across the landscape of Milliways like a great wind, echoing against the distant mountains.
Freeeeeeeeee!!!
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He can't comprehend it, and as he stumbles out the lake door he ceases to care, as the triumphant booming roar of the Destroyer's exultation shakes the grounds around them all and blasts through the area with the force of wind from a furnace, stealing all moisture and striking fear at the core of those who hear it.
Nick goes to his knees with the force of the cry, staring in horror. The last time-- the LAST time he'd heard that voice --
"Lirael, Sam, I'm sorry," he whispers.
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It takes him a moment to realize this is Milliways and he knows that horrible feeling and spots Nick.
He calls out as he starts to create a diamond of protection around the spheres, Orannis will not destroy Milliways and says to Nick,
"Listen to me, you're not going to fall again. Stay there, he has been defeated before."
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What has since then come here.
"You have done this once before, Wallmaker Sameth," says the Eighth of the Bright Shiners to Sam, moving to offer Nick support as well. "You know what is needed. Three diamonds of protection at the least. Around the sphere, turned inward, to protect that which lies without rather than within."
It has been centuries since that kind of protection had been needed - but it had been a Wallmaker who had managed it then, as well.
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He stops and crafts a shield around himself, it won't hold for long but he needs to be able to give all his thoughts to the Charter.
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Nick has no way of knowing that it's the result of the Charter Mark on his forehead interacting with the Free Magic left in his blood from the Destroyer's possession, exacerbated here by the explosive interaction with the Star and the Time Vortex within the stranger he'd met so briefly a few hours ago.
As Orannis speaks, Nick struggles against his paralysis, and hears with horror the words echoing from his own lips, as well.
"There is only one of you here, Wallmaker." Flat and devoid of caring. "Not Seven. Only one, and thus your Walls will fail."
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He's begun to trace the first diamond, channeling and manipulating the Charter until it glows around him.
Each Mark, each step must be deliberate, he can't think on how he's tired or what's happening to Nick. There is only step and Marks and a wall.
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"I will burn your Charter into ash, little mage, and crush your walls into dust."
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Instead he continues crafting the walls, the line of his sword has made in the ground now holds a wall.
With each step he takes that wall grows stronger, the Charter solidifying as he wills it into a shape that will hold.
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Sam, he clasps briefly on the shoulder. "Keep it up. You're the only Charter Mage here - I expect you to do your parents proud." And if there is a subtle, slight power transfer in that moment of contact, just in case Sam needs it, Yrael does not mention it before leaving towards the bright pillar. There are people who need to be gotten to safety before things become worse.
And then, he and his brother will have words.
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Then she stops.
Yeah, the ground’s been shaking for awhile, and there’s so much dark mojo around she can’t tell where hers stops and everything else begins, but-- that--
She’s heard that voice before.
Oh fuck, that's officially not good.
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"Do what you can to hold him in! Anything, he can't succeed!"
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"ARE YOU INSANE?!" she says.
"FUCK THIS, I'M GOING HOME!"
Ava presses a hand to her headband ...
(You are now: DOOMED.
To hear your DOOMED options, mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.)
"Grrrreat."
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If he can't concentrate then he can't manage the diamonds properly, "Keep them off me!"
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"Hey, buddy!"
The demon fast approaching Sameth finds itself a) fast stopping and b) fast pulling out its own heart with its claws.
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With his sword, he's drawing a line in the mud as Charter Marks go from it to the ground and rise up around Orannis.
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