Rain and Lightning and Sin [active; open]

[summoning_sin]

Character(s): Sin and anyone who wants in on the fight
Content: Boss fight! In the rain!
Setting: L7
Time: early evening, while it's still raining
Warnings: Destruction, mayhem, and violence. And a hole in the domes.

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[stretchmeout]

"I finally made it

[sparkplasma]

Ivan had seen a lot of strange things since he'd been in Paixao. Demon overlords, sudden disappearances, magic carpets, people who didn't exist... not to mention Sin itself. After a while, you started to build up a certain tolerance to it - except that instead of becoming normal, the strangeness of the city had, at some nebulous point, become simply terrifying.

In spite of that (it wasn't as if he'd never been scared witless before), he'd finally stopped hiding outside the radius of destruction and rushed in headlong to try and do something about it. True, he didn't know where his friends were, but they'd said they would be along, and he trusted them. Actually, who was to say they weren't already there ahead of him?

The closer he got, though, his stomach knotted uncomfortably. They weren't. They weren't there yet. Sin was still standing unopposed -

Except for the flying building.

That was a new one, and the sight of it stopped Ivan in his tracks. For a second he thought Sin had just knocked it over, but no, it was flying. And

[summoning_sin]

Admittedly, the lone voice scarcely attracted Sin's notice - it was built to notice far larger things, when it noticed them at all - and one single person wasn't anywhere near that threshold.

The building that followed the announcements, on the other hand, was definitely large enough to attract Sin's attention, as it crashed into its side. And yet, for all the glass and stone that made up the building it didn't seems to have all that much of an effect on Sin, save for creating a rather impressive cloud of dust and debris.

Of course, it also let Sin know which direction the attack had come from. And with that, it could arrange for an appropriate counterattack; a blast of lightning shooting out of the cloud of dust and debris.

And while it was mostly aimed at Luffy, the blast was wide enough to strike Ivan as well, should he not move out of the way in time.

[stretchmeout]

Luffy, bull-headed as ever, kept right on charging forward, his face contorted wildly with gritted teeth and narrowed eyes to give shape to the boundless spirit and boiling temper that usually lay dormant beneath his child-like smile. It didn't matter how much damage the building had done when it slammed into Sin; Luffy had simply used it as an opening salvo. A solid punch from the rubber-man made an impact like that look paltry

[greatherohamel]

Sticking in the shadows, you happened to hear a lot of gossip about things that were happening around the city. Hamel had heard more than enough about strange monsters and attacks on innocents-- tch, even in another world there was always something threatening the people. And here he thought he was gonna get a nice vacation for as long as he was here.

It wasn't difficult to find the gigantic monster, not at all. It looked like a dark shadow in the distance, through the misty clouds of rain (how did it rain inside, anyway? This placed was stupid). Hamel stood underneath a large gazebo in what looked like a little square not far from the monster's looming shadow. That would keep him out of the rain long enough to do something.

First, he set out a handwritten sign that read "WANTED: HERO- INQUIRE WITHIN". He hoisted the violin over his shoulder and put the bow to it, beginning to play J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. This was a melody to pump up a warrior as he or she plunged into the dark forces of the world to battle them

[itshowiroll]

Sonic's first thought upon seeing the monster (from quite a distance, too) had been man, that thing's huge! Sure, he'd seen robots bigger'n that before, but those had been robots. Normally living - at least he was pretty sure that thing was living - creatures didn't come quite that big. The monster being in the middle of the city probably meant bad news, too.

He'd changed direction, heading towards the thing at not-quite-top speed (Knuckles had to keep up, after all), and had almost reached it when a sign caught his eye. Hero wanted, huh?

He skidded to a stop and doubled back, looking first at the sign and then at the guy with the instrument. There was something about that music...

"Lookin' for heroes, huh?" he grinned up at the instrument guy. "No worries - we're here."

[knuckle_headed]

Knuckles had almost stopped short in sheer amazement at the size of that... thing within the city. What was that creature? It definitely didn't look like a robot, that was for sure - and no living being on Mobius could have reached that size.

Then again, they very clearly weren't on Mobius anymore. The echidna grit his teeth and ran faster to keep up with Sonic - even when his friend was going slowly (for him, anyway), it was still a challenge to keep up. He nearly stumbled when Sonic stopped, his gaze darting to the sign that seemed to have caught Sonic's eye.

Hero? Well, if anybody could pull that off, it was him and Sonic. He let the hedgehog do the talking for the moment, offering a nod by way of greeting to the man who had, apparently, put the sign up.

[summoning_sin]

Luckily enough for all involved, Sin had yet to take much of an interest in the lone musician and the... beings who have stopped in to talk with him. And since Seymour is primarily interested in the well-being of his creation, there won't be any attack coming their way just at.

But they were being watched. Because he doubts anyone would stay if they weren't intending an attack eventually.

[overlords_wrath]

There'd been more than just a few distractions on the way, but finally Laharl had arrived to check out the monster everyone had been talking about

[summoning_sin]

For all it was good at (mostly destruction, destruction and more destruction) Sin was not precisely good at getting out of the way of large explosions, and consequently, Laharl's attack hit it rather squarely. And while even Sin was capable of realizing that the attack had hurt, it had yet to show much damage from the blow. After all, if impacting with a building hadn't caused much visible damage, why should this?

Of course, it wasn't simply going to sit idly by as it was attacked, as with a crackle, a bolt of lightning arced through the sky, streaking towards Laharl.

[faithxhealer]

Flonne knew Laharl had had his eye on taking down this monster for a good while now, and it was nice to...well, to get back to normal. Giant monsters were something you'd find in the Netherworld - they didn't mess with your head or make you fight against your friends or anything like that. They just roared a lot and caused some damage and...well, if they were a little smaller and laughed a lot, they'd be Laharl.

Either way, it was good to be doing something both of them knew well. "Okay!" she gave a salute, then smiled as Laharl's voice softened. "Don't worry about me, Laharl-san. I'll be fine." She watched as he leapt away, moving to keep out of the range of the monster's attacks but still keep Laharl within range of her magic. She couldn't help but smile at the Overlord's Wrath - when did he not start with that move?

It took everything she had not to cry out a warning when the bolt of lightening appeared. He'd be fine, she told herself. It was Laharl. He'd be fine.

[overlords_wrath]

The counterattack by Sin couldn't have been more obvious to the Overlord. He simply lept up high into the air, as the lightning struck his previous location, dropping down to land back on the cobblestone street.

"Tch."

His Overlord's Wrath had barely even scratched it, although, admittedly he hadn't put not nearly as much strength into it as he could have. It had been a feeling out shot, and it seemed he was going to need to dish up everything he had. He glanced over his shoulder to keep an eye on Flonne's location, as his scarf came to life and he pulled out his sword.

This was going to be a hell of a fight. Laharl couldn't have been happier, just how to take this thing down? He didn't even want to think how much HP it had. Well, for now he'd just toss what he could at it he figured.

So with another amazingly high leap, Laharl just brought his sword up high above him, energy crackling around the blade as he floated mid-air and with a cry swept it down, a huge wave of green energy slamming towards the monster.

[Closed Thread]

[superiorevil]

Deep in the dark shadows of a building, a dark figure stood watching the fight above with great interest. It was rather convenient that such a large battle was taking place. One couldn't really ask for a better distraction. Plans could be put into motion with few even realizing.

It was a wonderful opportunity that was too good to pass up. However, decisions would have to be made quickly.

Sensing another nearby, the dark figure turned, glancing to them in the barest of greetings. "Convenient, isn't it?"

[masterfulflames]

The other was a bit less entertained, but it may not have been all for this new convenience, and maybe because of the current company. What a downer, but couldn't win everything, right? As long as the plans, plots, and all that unfurled, some things just had to be taken in stride - calmly, coolly.

A shrug was returned as a response, while the figure found a spot to casually lean nearby. "Yeah, yeah, wonderful." And, trying to sound more enthused, "I love who they chose to redecorate. Really, some nice stuff. Need to call the guy up sometime."

[superiorevil]

The additional comments were ignored as they were unimportant. "Nonetheless, it is a valuable distraction that should not go to waste."

As long as the city was preoccupied with the monster and the damage it was causing, it would help their movements remain undetected. The shadowy figure turned away, only pausing to glance at the other, "Keep an eye on the situation, but do not let yourself be seen."

[masterfulflames]

"Look, it's cool," came the light reply. "I know how to take care of things, thanks." And it would be even better if the other up and left to find something else to do. Not being seen? Easy. Not being distracted? Workable. Dealing with present company? No.

The battle was mildly entertaining, thankfully. Certain tabs were being kept, at the very least.

[4thhighsummoner]

No one could deny that it was a strange occurrence. Who had ever heard of rain indoors (at least, not without magic, anyway). It didn't take long for him to become soaked, his robes only becoming heavier.

The first thing he noticed was the building flying through the air, and immediately Braska came to stop. Obviously, this was where the fighting was going on, and he was late.

There were already quite of people here, he could see, and they were fighting with all their might. He couldn't help but smile. All these people together, fighting for one purpose... It didn't matter what their motives were, or whether or not they would normally fight alongside one another, they fought as one.

Something he needed to get to.

He immediately cast NulShock on himself before casting the barrier on the other groups currently fighting. It only allowed them one free hit each, but hopefully that one hit would protect them enough.

[kotetsu_blade]

Auron tucked his glasses away. With this rain, they'd only be a hindrance. His arm was loosed from its cradle in his coat and his blade was shouldered, but he had yet to join the fray. Instead he watched Sin closely, attempting to figure out just what it was capable of, Sinspawn aside.

So far, all he could tell was that it used lightning, but that was obvious enough from just looking at it. A man within or not, it seemed as though Sin had as much strategy to its actions as its predecessor. He would have to participate in order to find out anything else--and that was fine.

It was then that he felt the magic wash over him, and Auron glanced over at the yellow pyrefly lazily orbiting him. "I would have thought you'd be the first here," he called over his shoulder to Braska.

\o/ INTRO FINISHED!

[4thhighsummoner]

Braska had caught sight of the red coat before Auron had spoken, and so he wasn't surprised when the ex-guardian had. "I was a little bit further away than I thought," he explained with a small smile.

Re: \o/ INTRO FINISHED!

[summoning_sin]

Ah. The former high summoner and his Guardian were here. No doubt come to Send both him and his beast, should they have that option. Not that he had he any intention of making it easy for them. Nor was he going to take the easy way out, by simply casting Silence on Braska. He'd wait to see what else the man had in mind.

Interestingly enough, the attack that Sin sent in their direction was not lightning based. Instead, it was a cruel blast of wind, intended to knock the wind out of them if not send them staggering them back a few paces from the onslaught.