Let's go, everyone out the door...

[acceptmytruth]

Who: Dartz, OPEN
When: Spanning two days from evening May 30th through May 31st
Where: All over campus
What: Dartz accidentally summons something a bit too powerful even for him, and the group has to figure out how to stop it
Rating: Likely PG-13 for violence and language

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[ibreakrules]

The terrible feeling that rushed over Frau stopped him dead in his tracks. Verloren. No. The feeling wasn't the same. No where near the same. "My God what could possibly make me thing it was Verloren?" Not a good sign at all. Frau whipped out of the boys' dorms to try and catch a glimpse of whatever was radiating that amount of power.

What he saw was beyond even his imagination. "Holy shit..." Frau tore his gaze from the Balrog when he realized that something felt odd. He glanced at his hands to find them shaking. One of the seven ghosts shaking in fear? This wasn't going to be good.

[teito_tiashe]

Teito preferred to stay with simpler things, too; though that was less because he was worried about backlash and more because he didn't want to chance getting lost in that maze place. He paused, considering the promise Frau was asking for; visibly teetering on his decision.

"I...I'll try," Teito compromised. He just couldn't let that thing run free. "I'll be fine - go."

[ibreakrules]

Frau turned for the mech building and hurried off. "I swear kid," he shouted over his shoulder. "If you die I'm going to bring you back from the dead and kill you myself!" That being said, Frau focused fully on where he was going. The faster he could get there and back the better.

[teito_tiashe]

Teito blinked in surprise, then laughed softly to himself and took off for the park area at top speed. He still had a ways to go to get used to people worrying for him like that, it seemed.

The Balrog wasn't far now, looming terrifyingly, wreathed in flame and shadow. Teito swallowed thickly, steeled himself, and whipped a long chain of Zaiphon around himself - destroy, it said; destroy, ravage, explode - and lashed it cleanly across the monster's path. The earth burst outward, a deep, wide trench erupting in a spray of dirt and rock and aphsalt, the trees nearest shattering from the force.

The Balrog roared it's fury, and Teito ducked out of sight, dashing to head it off before it could turn around. He hadn't harmed the thing, barely even scratched it. But hopefully it would at least slow it down.

[ibreakrules]

Frau threw himself onto the hawkzile and started it up. Knowing Teito like he did, the boy wasn't going to just sit around and wait for Frau to come back. Frau drove the hawkzile out of the garage and prayed to a god that may or may not exist. "This better work," he grumbled as he flicked the switch for his newly installed turbo charger. He'd added a stopping device this time, but he hadn't tried it out yet.

The hawkzile shot forward, the wind blurring Frau's vision. The bishop hunkered low over the front until he came up to the balrog. Crossing his fingers, Frau hit the switch to turn the turbo off. Amazingly enough, it worked. No time to celebrate that. Zaiphon flashed around Frau's hand for a second before he sent it soaring toward the balrog.

[teito_tiashe]

Teito dodged a wild swing of the Balrog's whip by mere centimeters, the heat of it searing in the few seconds it passed him by. Teito didn't stop for a second, rolling to his feet without losing a moment's speed. Frau, it appeared, had joined the battle. A feral grin crossed Teito's face for a moment, and then the ground was exploding again, right across the balrog's heels.

Teito landed on one knee just before the newest trench, the Zaiphon at his fingertips barely flickering as he aimed it at the beast, not caring a wit that he was in plain sight if the balrog so much as looked over it's shoulder. Frau had said to stay out of the way 'until he got back.' Well, he was back. And now Teito was damned well going to get in it's way.

[ibreakrules]

Seriously, Frau was going to kill the kid. He pressed the gas again and shot the hawkzile around to the side, attacking as he went. He couldn't let the balrog focus on Teito even if it was costing him more than he had been intending on using.

[teito_tiashe]

Direct attacks weren't working! Not the Teito wanted them to! Tei growled and fell back a little to regroup, waiting until the balrog was distracted by Frau. The instant it turned it's attention towards the bishop's hawkzile, Teito dove in closer than ever before, focusing his attacks on the ground beneath the balrog's feet as he attempted to trip it up.

[ibreakrules]

Frau caught sight of what Teito was doing and froze. The balrog's whip whistled straight toward Frau, but the bishop didn't seem to notice. It was at the last second that he saw the attack coming. He managed to get up a shield, but it did no good. The whip connected, and Frau was blasted out of the air. The hawkzile was thrown a short distance and then hovered above the ground. Frau had landed even further away. He pushed himself up on an elbow, growling in pain.

[teito_tiashe]

The balrog caught Teito in a backhand a moment later, sending him flying in the opposite direction. And god, did it hurt. Teito grit his teeth against the pain, shoving it away to deal with later, and caught himself on a branch as he flew by. The rough bark scraped his palms bloody as he used the inertia to spin himself around it and land on top, but that pain went ignored to. Dammit, dammit. So close -!

Teito pulled himself up, using a hand against the trunk for balance and another against his side for support when he wobbled. He leveled a ferocious glare at the balrog, searching instinctively for Frau as he did. Not there. Teito closed his eyes, praying briefly that the man was alright, then flung himself back into battle.

[ibreakrules]

It didn't take long for Frau to get himself back on the hawkzile. Gunning the engine, he sent the machine heading toward Teito. They needed to back off for a bit. It was going to take everyone to take this thing down. There was no point in wasting all of their time and energy before the real fight began. Frau whizzed past Teito and reached out to wrap his right arm around the boy's waist. His left was bloody and tattered. "We're getting out of here."

[teito_tiashe]

Teito yelped as Frau snatched him off the ground, the sound a distinct mixture of both surprise and pain. He held tight to Frau's robes with one hand as they moved higher, Zaiphon building power around the other for one last shot.

He loosed the attack onto the balrog's head at just the last moment, twisting into Frau's grip rather than out of it as the Zaiphon hit.

"I can keep going!" he protested vehemently. "No one else is here yet - I need to fight!"

[ibreakrules]

"That's the entire point!" Frau snapped back. "Nobody else is here yet! We've already agreed that we can't bring this thing down by ourselves. When everyone shows up our power is going to be needed. The best thing we can do now is conserve that power or we'll be useless to the real fight!"

[teito_tiashe]

Teito grit his teeth stubbornly, then made an aggravated sound as he started tearing at his apprentice robes, making long, ragged strips. The blood on his own hands left smudges that stood out against the white cloth, but they weren't too bad, and it was better than nothing.

"Give me your arm," Teito demanded, twisting until he could duck under Frau's chin to sit awkwardly in front of him, facing the blond with a fierce scowl. It was the one time Teito was grateful to be so much shorter than his guardian - he was too small to obscure Frau's vision, even like this.

Frau was right, as much as Teito hated to admit it.

[ibreakrules]

Frau had been anticipating a major fight from Teito. The only response he could give the boy when the fight didn't come was quiet obedience. He pulled his left hand off the steering and held it out for Teito. Just the right was enough to steer for now.

"Are you alright?" he questioned softly. For once the worry was evident in Frau's voice. Of course, if Teito mentioned it Frau would just yell at the kid for being reckless, totally avoiding the topic of worry.

[teito_tiashe]

Teito studied Frau's hand in concern, carefully cleaning it as best he could with his robe and trying to identify where the worst of the damage lay.

"...I'll manage," Teito answered as he worked. He began wrapping Frau's hand with the makeshift bandages in a swift, professional manner, careful not to hinder the bishop's dexterity too much while still applying enough pressure. "I've had a lot worse; I can still fight. Flex your hand - is that too tight?"