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The wall that One was standing behind had begun to crumble and fall as a result of the shockwave. He quickly rolls out of the way to a safer area, and gets ready for any other attacks Gale might send out.
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Gale flicks his hair back, the sneer on his face clearly visible. He looks around to try to sum up how many people he as dealing with. "That was a clever little trap, I'm impressed. However, you've done little more than piss me off. So instead of just questioning you as to wear the Angel went, I'm just going to kill all of you." Gale's aura flickers and grows, tearing up the ground around Gale. He draws Sin and takes a stance.
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Ayn steps into view, her sword drawn. "Is that so?" She doesn't say anything else, which is a first for her- she always has something sarcastic to say.
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Wessen gets back on his feet and walks out of the alleyway. He sees no sign of Rose at the moment. After unscrewing the rather long barrel on his gun, he faces Gale and shouts out to him.
You're a daisy, Gale. I'm the guy who sprung this on you. Wes pumps a new slug into the chamber of his gun and points it at the Abbissian. And I refuse to believe it didn't hurt you at least a little. I'm stubborn like that. Wes pulls the trigger, pumps, and repeats the process three times in rapid succession, sending three huge steel explosive bullets at Gale. As soon as the shots are off he begins to pull the two pistols that are now strapped to his thighs underneat his coat. ___ Sachiel sat quietly from that point in the Humvee and mused. He didn't know what he should do once they got to the boarders of Estecia. He hoped he would be completely healed by that time, but he knew that even then he wouldn't be ready for Gale if he was. And where could he hide? Gale would find him in any case. Sachiel: "It can't be destroyed..." He turns to Hayate, who he had previously been trying to disreguard. "But it can, perhaps, be separated into different eliments." Sachiel slips his hand beneath his breastplate revealing down feathers, red in color. He runs his fingers over them and to the center of his chest where there lies a blackened mark in the shape of a key on a patch of bare flesh. "Stop this vehicle." |
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"Oh really? In that case, you can die first." Gale fires a large blast of dark energy toward Wes. It catches the bullets, detonating them a safe distance from Gale but does not falter from its coarse. Gale eyes the rest of the group, still sneering. "I'm afraid a fluke will not save you, as effective as the last one was. So don't get your hopes up about surviving." Gale awaits to be attacked, and mentally plans his reactions.
__ Lara stops the hummer and shoots Sachiel an annoyed look. "What is it? We have little time." |
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"I serve Gale because he has taught me how to fight...and, inevitably, how to kill. Siding against him will only bring you pain and death. He is no father to me...he is my Master."
Rose's energy level explodes, coming off her in waves in order to drive Hallon back. She stabs out with Fate, attempting to impale him on the sword. Rikali screeches and exhales another bolt of lightning at Gale's face. Winging high above him, she sees Roselenna fighting Hallon. "No...it cannot be..." |
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Fury stands his ground as Gale engages Wessen, despite the fear welling up inside him. This was it, there was no escape. Everyone might finally die here, after all this time. He pushes that thought aside. They had to keep Gale away from the key, whatever the price.
He pulls the strap of his rifle off his shoulder and drops it to the side. Slowly, he reaches over to the sheath at his waist and draws the blade, which glows of the burning city surrounding them. With both hands he holds the sword at the ready in front of him. Ironic that the weapon Gale had once stolen was now dwarfed by the key already in his posession. |
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Gale notices the flash of lightning and disappears. There is no movement for a while, and no sign of Gale. The tense silence amplified all the surrounding sounds. The duel between Rose and Hallon, the smoldering debris, or the shifting of rubble in the nearly demolished buildings. Gale silently sneaks throught he ruins, moving when his foes were looking somewhere else in their confusion. His aura condensed, hiding its owner's presence as he contemplated his next move.
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One had been charging up an attack, but stopped as soon as Gale disappeared. "What the. . ?" He drops his stance and takes a step forward, while swinging around to look in different directions.
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Wessen mutters a new swear word with each of his bullets that is detonated, a string of profanity leading up to his look of panic in the face of the incoming blast. He wasn't like the others. He couldn't take hits like that and just be okay. He was a normal person who happened to have a lot of nerve and that's all.
As usual though, he finds a practical to solution and leaps to the side where there is a slight crater that he can fall into and out of the way. The blast is aborbed into the wall behind him, sending tendrils of dark electricity harmlessly up and down the wall. He lands painfully on his back, but holds out his arms straight to retrain his guns on Gale... who to his dismay is no longer there. Doo dee doo dee doo dee doo dee doo dee doo dee DOOOO. Wes clambers to his feet and out of the crater and looks around for signs of Gale. Hallon turns suddenly at the sound of Rose's voice. He intuitively senses the incoming jab and strafes to the side to avoid it. The sword goes past him in what seems like slow motion. He may be old, but he is powerful for a mortal. Rose's sword goes by, followed by the hand that grips it. He reaches out and grabs her wrist and then swings his sword arm and hits her in the chest with his forearm, knocking her back. Hallon: "Don't give me that. You don't strike me as a fool.. you must know that if Gale succeeds you are even more certain to die. If Hell floods in on this world do you not expect there to be pain? So you look for his approval now just as you undoubtedly did in all of your training exercises. Is it that you don't think you're good enough and you still need his blessing? You need for him to say that you're ready?" ___ Sachiel looks at Lara sternly. Sachiel: "I'm not bothering you with trifles, I assure you. ..tell me, which of you three is most proficient with the sword?" |
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Gale slowlys makes his way to the top of the building he is in, hoping to gain a vantage point in the figh. He is careful to remain as silent as possible and listens for any hostile movement. "Those fools got lucky, but not again..."
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HaVoK closes his eyes...in all the confusion, fear was dwelling up in the group he could feel it. Fear that Gale would surprise them and wipe them out....and even worse, the Fear that Gale had gone after the key.
in the silenceof His thoughts, HaVoK replayed the fight in his head in slow motion. Remembering what happened. He saw the flash, and then an Image of Gale. ''He's around...he didn't fly away...keep an eye out, and keep looking up.'' |
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Rose steadfastly ignores Hallon. She takes a step back and glowers at him. Her energy level begins to focus. Slowly, the girl begins to change. Wings sprout from her shoulderblades and stretch out into the air. Her fingernails lengthen and become diamond sharp. Her skin glistens and darkens. An aurua of darkness develops around her, like armor. Her canine teeth lengthen and sharpen. Her eyes, Gale's eyes, become even more blue, the pupil small and diamond shaped.
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He stops for a second, he knew Gale better than this. "Damnit" He thought to himself. One gets back into his stance and begins to power up once again.
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Gale's stands at the top of the wrecked building. He looks down on the group, and then up at the sky. After a moments thought he smiles and throws Sin into the air. The sword begins to break into hundreds of metal shards, and rains down on the group.
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Ayn sees a shard thunk into the ground, and her eyes widen. She dives under the temporary shelter of a half-collapsed building and from there she peers into the rain of metal, looking for Gale. Any type of movement now would be unwise, as a blast would just reflect off the bits of metal, and the building wouldn't last much longer. She stands there completely still, waiting.
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Rikali screams her rage in a long, glass shattering shriek. "It can't be true, it can't be true, this HAS to be a trick...Gale. He must be tricking me into thinking that...that...creature is my daughter! It's not her...please, it's not her." But her thoughts and prays were in vain. Before Rikali's dragon eyes, her 'daughter' Rose was fighting Hallon. Fighting against Rikali's side. Fighting with Gale.
Storm clouds gather overhead, and thunder rumbles in the distance. Called together by the dragon's immense grief and rage, the storm breaks out to be terrific in its power. ((Think Matrix: Revolutions)) Lightning sparks across the sky, illuminating the dragon that masters the storm. She shrieks again, and thunder crashes in response. Below, Rose looks up and sees the dragon descending towards her. She hisses and slashes one last time at Hallon, knowing somehow in her heart that her battle is now in the skies. She jets upwards, Fate held ready and up in a stabbing posistion. "Would you strike down your own mother, Roselenna?" Rikali's voice is partially drowned in the raging storm, but its message carries with ease to Rose. Rose's wings continue to carry her further up. She slashes at the dragon's underbelly, doing little with much effort. It is not the sword, however, that hurts Rikali to the heart. "I have no mother." Rose's scream carries with ease to all nearby. |
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Fury realizes too late why Ayn had dove for cover. Razor-sharp shards of metal were beginning to fall from the air, and they were increasing rapidly in number, sticking upright into the ground fiercely. Unfortunately, he was stuck out in the open, with the nearest piece of cover an agonizing twenty feet away. In a rush he resheathes his sword and bolts for the burnt wound in the side of the wall.
Suddenly he finds himself lying on his back in the middle of the pavement with a cold, piercing sting in his left shoulder. Shock immediately flooded him at the realization of what must have happened. The daggers of metal were coming down so hard they had literally nailed him to the ground. Above him, dozens of tiny dark dots hover ominously in the sky. With another start he leaps up, drawing the grounded shard out his back, and continues for the door that seemed too damn far away. About then something felt like it stabbed him in the back and stomach, but he ignores it. At five feet a shard punches its way through his lower right arm, leaving a clean hole, but he keeps running and dives into the safety of the damaged building. He rolls to his feet and backs up against the wall, waiting for the deadly hail to end. |
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One also reacts late, he first realizes he is under attack when a shard falls on his right shoulder, creating a deep wound. He falls right to the ground, and it takes him a second to get himself together. He runs towards cover--a nearby house. He jets there, struggling to not get hit by other shards of metal. Right before he gets there, he notices the "rain" seems to be coming down harder and thicker.
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Dag nabbit.. I'm SO not getting stabbed again!
The rain of sharp metal starts slowly and Wes fires at some of them, bullseyeing some of them away, but missing others.. as the hail intensifies, he decides it's not the best strategy. Thankfully he finds shelter fairly quickly in the form of a fallen stone slab. As he lays under it and waits for the shards to stop falling, he looks at how precariously supported it is. Well, at least I didn't get stabbed. Just then he notices blood dripping from his arm.. Er.. __ ((Hey, I need Hayate, Riki, or Lara to respond. I don't want this battle with Gale to finish and not even have gotten to finish my thought with the other group.)) |
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((I'm a little unwell currently, apologies for little postage))
Hayate does a quick check to see is anyone else is about to speak, before proffering his services I guess I'd take that award, unless Lara is a swordsperson. You're not suggesting something so crude as to slice it up, are you? I would have thought it'd be harder than that. |
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Riki pretty much ignores the conversation and watches the storm clouds gather in the distance. "I hope everyone is alright."
In the skies above, mother and daughter battle relentlessly. Blood mixes with the rain. Rose flips through the air, driven back by a powerful attack from Rikali's tail. She is pretty much unscathed, as Rikali has been reluctant to harm her 'daughter.' Rikali, however, is a mess. Her body is scarred by burns and wounds. Holes have appeared in her wings and one eye is closed forever. "Fight me, dragon! Or are you too foolish to strike back?" Rikali shakes her head in sorrow. "You are the fool, Roselenna. You should listen to my advice, and that of Hallon's. You are fighting for something you believe in, but look at yourself! Siding with Gale. He fights to end it all!" "As he should, mother. I sacarfice myself for him!" Rose imitates Gale's Abbis-slash. Rikali's wing is torn by it, and she screeches. "I cannot let you end the world." Rikali finally attacks back. Lightning from all across the sky flashes at Rose. It impacts her dead-on and sends the girl tumbling from the sky. She lands on her back and on a wing. Rose's young flesh is melted and charred. Her wings are nothing but stubs on her back. She moans pitouesly. "Gale...Master...save me..." |
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Gale looks at Rose and Rikali out of the corner of his eyes and sighs, obviously annoyed. "I will not tolerate such failure again." Gale flicks his wrist and all the shards of Sin rise and fly toward Rikali. Meanwhile, he begins to create a large orb of dark energy.
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Now that the rain of shards had stopped, she steps out from underneath her shelter. Apparently pissed off, Ayn's own hands form a large mass of white energy and aims it in the general direction of the constantly growing mass of dark which she knew had to be Gale.
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Gale eyes Ayn and holds out his other hand, a black transparent bubble forms. "I've modified it just for you. Your old tricks won't work anymore." With a rather smug look, Gale releases the bubble which flies toward Ayn.
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Ayn mutters a few cusses to herself. "Killjoy." She raises her voice. "How do you expect to get away with whatever the hell it is that you're doing if you continue to play with toys?" She sidesteps out of the way of the bubble, but keeps an eye on it, as these things have a history of catching her off guard.
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The bubble bounces and reverses toward Ayn. "Toys? Why this merely buisness. Except that arrogant human who was behind this failed ambush. I'm just going to kill him for fun."
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Sachiel removes his breastplate and reveals to them his chest of red feathers and the mark amidst them. He points to the key-shaped burn.
"This is the key. I am the key. You must understand something about the Seraphim.. we were designed to be very versitile in order to be key eliments in our heavenly battles. The very word Seraphim means "to consume with fire". A Seraphim is able to consume a vanquished enemy, bringing its energy into himself. In this case, I have done something similar to the key. This way, Gale must extract it from me to get it. ..a task probably not that difficult for an Abbis, though part of me is hoping he'll simply think that I don't have it. What I am proposing, however.." Sachiel turns to Hayate. "..is that you sever me, thus severing the key. If you do it precisely, I can be divided into two entities. That should add a step to the Abbissian's plans." Sachiel draws his sword, which gleams brighly with golden light. He holds it around the forte' and rests the side of the blade on his other forearm, presenting the handle to Hayate. "Assuming you are confident enough in your abilities." Sachiel says silently, "Consider this your best opportunity to apply steel to an Angel." The exchange between their eyes tells him that Hayate is likely thinking the same thing. |
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Ayn frowns slightly, then climbs up a pile of rubble to the top of a partially collapsed building. She then sends a small blast of holy energy at the bubble, testing its weaknesses.
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The bubble absorbs the blast and holy forms a nucleus like core. Suddenly parts of the bubble stab the core, and absorb it's energy into the shell. It then continues after Ayn.
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She swallows, backing away from the bubble and considering her options. She'd have to find another target for it to hit.. She suddenly darts to the side, jumping off the building and running straight in Gale's direction.
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Hallon keeps one eye on Rose and Rikali, but forces himself to give most of his attention to Gale.
Hallon: "What does it matter who orchestrated this against you, Gale? You are still alive, and all of us have the intention of destroying you. I'm not entirely sure you don't share that goal." Hallon stands ready with his sword. Hallon: "Return the key. Find another way to end yourself.[/I] After hearing Gale's words, Wes is more than somewhat reluctant to come out of his hiding place. As the stone slab over him rocks and tilts somewhat, however, he is compelled to brave the outside again. Wessen trains both of his pistols on Gale but doesn't open fire. As he sees the bubble chasing Ayn, he takes one of the pistols off of Gale and fires a shot at it to see if it will do any good. |
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Gale turns to Hallon, failing to notice Ayn. "I spared you once, I shall not be so kind again. As for this key, it's mine now. No doubt you've managed to hide the Heaven Key from me, so I'll simply take the third."
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"Well that's something." Wes fires at it several more times, trying to buy Ayn some time. He is quickly distracted by what Gale is saying, though.
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((We've stopped, no?))
You want me... to cut you in half? He tries to hold back a laugh, but a smile betrays his true thoughts One question: Vertical or horizontal? You know I'd hate to make a mistake here. He picks up the holy sword and tests it's weight balance. Given the small amount of smoke his hand is giving off, it's fairly safe to assume that it would be rather unsafe for him to hold it for too long. With a shrugs, he steps out and puts the heavy sword through an interesting series of motions in the name of testing it. Despite his rather slight frame and the large sword, after a few moments he's swinging it like he's owned it for years |
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((Yeah. I also kind of assumed we were outside of the car at this point too. Don't know why... but yeah. We are. Heh.))
Sachiel almost smiles. "I knew you could be counted upon. Vertically, please. You must do it precisely down my center. I need to have about the same body mass on each side of the scission and the slice must go through the mark of the key on my chest. And you must be certain to cleave all the way through my body. Leave nothing dangling. The sword should make it manageable for you." Sachiel takes off the rest of his plate armor, leaving only very soft white and red clothing to protect his body. The intensity inherent in Sachiel's appearance seems to deminish as he deliberately puts down his guard and stands straight before Hayate. "I'm ready for you." |
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Notably, Hayate hasn't stopped swinging the blade. It moves in ever more complex patterns as he keeps it moving. In theory, there's no way he can get any destructive power out of his rather puny form without having speed.
I hope you are... The blade is a veritable blur as Hayate gets it up to an adequate speed. While he's fairly certain he could do the job easily with the Murasame, he would rather the Angel survived. As it hits the peak speed, an upwards curving motion of the sword changes at the zenith of it's arc into a lethal two-handed downwards blow straight through the Angel. The sword slams into the ground under Sachiel, and Hayate prises his rather burnt right hand off of the handle Now the interesting bit begins, right? |
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As if to answer his question, a golden light gleams through the hairline cut down Sachiel's middle. His two halves are suddenly thrown apart in a short explosion of light. The result isn't exactly pretty or angelic-looking.
Both halves writhe on the floor, their wounded side bubbling up with a fleshy purple substance that seems solid and liquid at the same time. Their giant wounds continue to bubble and churn in a way that could turn any grown man's stomach until they begin to take a sort of shape. Sachiel begins to re-emerge from his right half, taking pretty much the exact same form with a white wing extending out of the molten flesh of the wound. Now in relatively the same form that Sachiel had before, he continues to pulsate somewhat as the minor details of his body sort themselves out. It is clearly a painful experience as he continues to writhe on the ground. The left half seems to take a different form with a grey-colored wing coming forth, thinner and longer than those of Sachiel's normal form. By the time the other entity has nearly completely reformed, however, this side is just getting started. The darker part of the body that has emerged from the wound begins to infect the rest.. as if once it has control of the right side it must also make the rest of the body conform to the same appearance. The face becomes dark with eyes glinting of red. Everything on him is darker except for the down feathers of his chest, which are white rather than red. Several minutes later, two clearly different figures lay in pain on the ground. Sachiel as they knew him.. and a darker, though not demonic-looking, figure a few yards from him. Sachiel finally brings himself to his feet, clearly feeling weeker. He looks at his opposite form and speaks. Sachiel: "You must be prepared. He will not recognize us and he--" Sachiel is interrupted as the other Angel gets up, pulls Sachiel's blade from the ground, and charges toward Hayate with a feral swing of the weapon. |
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Gale snickers. "Still have't figure it out. I'm somewhat surprised, but no hinderance to me."
__ Lara raises an eyebrow, surpised at what she just saw. "Do not tell my you just caused us MORE trouble!" |
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Wessen leers at Gale. He doesn't particularly like the idea that he's ignorant or slow. But to the problem at hand at least, he still has some hands to play... and hopefully he's good at bluffing. They needed to keep Gale here where they could fight him and he knew that.
Whatever, Paco. You still need this one, and there's no way you're getting it from me. Wes fires both of his weapons at Gale, hoping a shot will get through and harm him. You may be mighty, but you ain't bulletproof. Hallon moves quietly to a position behind Gale and waits for his chance to get in close to strike. |
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