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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 0:19:46 GMT
That Gin's face got frozen and gave a good kick into Erinye's stomach before running off, leaving the knife in her arms.
Meanwhile, Nephthys was focusing her energy as a blue aura appeared around her.
Seeing this, some of the Gin's gathered around a pillar and started kicking it many times.
It din't take long for them to get the pillar to collapse due to how old it was as it was about to land down in Nephthys's direction.
"MEDJED THE SMITER, LET US-"
Then the pillar collapsed on Nephthys, breaking into pieces and making a lot of smoke that filled the room.
The Gin's coughed up before the smoke cleared out and looked at the remains of the pillar.
Underneath the pieces of the pillar, Nephthys's brown cloak was buried under that pillar but there was no sign of Nephthys at all or if she simply got crushed under the rocks.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 0:32:54 GMT
Erinye pulled herself back up, pulling the knife out of her arm.. and looked over to the pillar while standing up on her feet. A Bit shakily due to being kicked to hell and back a whole ton of times.
"..You're kidding.." She whispered, barely even gasped, as she looked over to all of the Gin's.
She stared at them, coldly, re-loading one of her guns in spite of how her hands were shaking.
She held the gun up and rapid-fired it at every Gin she could.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 0:48:03 GMT
The Gin's used their knives to block the bullets while stepping backwards due to the bullets being kept fired at them.
The Gin who was on the statue, managed to avoid the bullets and kicked at the fingers holding the orb so hard they broke and caught the orb before it could down below.
Gin sighed in relief as he held the orb in one hand and held onto the staue with his other as he looked down at the crushed pillar and grinned as he saw Nephthys's cloak.
"Woah, I actually killed her, I can't believe it even for myself! Hah Hah! Kind of a shame, though, she was the second person to give me this much heat, first one being that Derek guy from 4." Gin said, proud of his achievement without a single hint of regret.
He looked down on Erinye.
"You can keep shooting as long as you want, it won't get your friend back, not unless you can get this orb out of my grasp and wish her back, and without a Summoner there won't be anyone to send you to the afterlife, guess your big strong daddy will have to-"
His line got cut off as something pierced through his chest and burst out of his back, with a shocked expression he looked down to see a smoking hole out of his chest with no blood coming out.
A blue ray of light that shot out of nowhere struck his forehead, making another hole and Gin let's go of the statue and the orb fell out of his hands, only for one of the Gin's to grab the orb instead as the one who had it crashed on the ground and poofed like all the others.
The Gin's looked confused as they looked around for whoever shot that Gin but they couldn't see anyone.
"What the hell?" One of them asked.
Suddenly, a transparent bandaged figure with a single orange eye with a fish tail for legs appeared behind one of the Gin's for one second before vanishing as he turned around and got smacked in the chest by something big and more blue rays of light shot from nowhere, making holes in that Gin before he vanished, leaving 6 more to take care of.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 0:51:26 GMT
"..You want to keep talking shit?" Erinye asked, with a very serious expression on her face. "I may not have a power oriented toward combat, but when this battle's over you're going to see exactly why I'm here on this mission.
But before we get to that.."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 1:17:10 GMT
More blue rays shot from different directions, each laser pierced through the Gin’s.
The one who’s face got iced shattered when a ray burst through his face.
Three Gin’s vanished while two remained, deflecting the rays into the walls but still couldn’t see their target before they got shot in the backs and collapsed before vanishing.
One more Gin remained, the real one who had the orb and his shoulder was shot by one of the rays.
Deciding not to bother fighting an invisible opponent, he turned to the left, kicking Erinye aside as he fled towards the entrance with the orb in his arms.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 1:18:03 GMT
When he did, she pointed her gun straight for him and fired it, blasting a clean bullet-hole straight through his back.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 8:31:03 GMT
Gin fell over but he din't seem to register the pain at all as he crawled towards the orb as soon as he dropped it out of his hands.
Then, something picked it up and then got smacked by what he felt like to be a large tail and crashed into a pillar.
The blue rays of light cut right through the pillar and it began to collapse, crashing on Gin like he did to Nephthys.
The smoke cleared out the bottom half of Gin's body was trapped under rubble, the adrenaline was still in effect as he tried crawling his way out of the pillar.
"What is this bullshit supposed to be!?" Gin asked.
Not saying anything, the thing holding the orb grabbed the cloak and the satchel off the ground before picking up Erinye as it shot rays of light at the ceiling, making a hole and the two of them bolted out the Sphinx through the hole.
Gin looked very pissed.
"G-get the fuck back with that orb, you stupid shits! When I'll get this thing off me, you two are dead, you hear me!? YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD!" Gin yelled.
Back outside, the invisible thing and Erinye landed on the Sphinx's back, right behind Nakiri who side-eyed them, not looking happy as she saw the orb just floating there with no one holding it till the knife with the element of knowledge on it warned her.
"...You two realize that if you break my concentration, the dome will go down and that fire breathing freak and those ships will rain hell down on you two till they get the orb, right? Can you atleast wait till the alpha male's are done with their pissing contest?" Nakiri asked, as she continued playing her flute.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 11:47:02 GMT
Erinye looked up through the dome, at the dragon, and at where the other ships presumably would be.
She nodded, looking off to the side and pulling out a transceiver. "Hello?" She asked, into the transceiver.
"Hey, did you get it?" Diana's voice came through.
"Yes, but.. there's, a lot of things going on right now." Erinye said, briefly reverting to her usual tone before going back to how she's been talking recently. "Cupid's having a dick-measuring contest with Balthazar, and all those ships and Cyndass on the other side of this dome. I felt you should know"
...
Speaking of a pissing contest, As Cupid was knocked back, he dug his feet into the ground as he slid along it, casting a brief glance to the top of the sphinx.
Seeing Nakiri playing her flute, a floating orb, and Erinye seemingly floating not that far from it, talking on her transceiver.
"Psyche!" Cupid yelled out, turning to face the other blue-blooded neonyte, who was still in one of the trees. He pointed up at Nakiri, "Get her!"
"You sure?" Psyche asked.
Cupid nodded, smiling, as he ducked down and grabbed onto one of Daphne's cords; pulling it towards him with enough force to send Daphne's body flying into his arms. "Give me a distraction, send that dome crashing!"
Cupid, holding Daphne, rolled to the side towards a patch of shrubbery and away from Balthazar's attack as Psyche jumped into the air. Psyche spread her hands out, many more strings spreading out from her fingers, they tunnelled into the dirt and with all of her strength, she pulled out 6 more spirit griffins, on top of the one that she still had.
Manuevering her fingers, she sent 3 of them straight for Nakiri, not necessarily to do damage, but just to distract her, while the remaining four surrounded around Psyche as a defensive measure.
As this happened, Cupid placed his hand on one of the shrubs, it began to wilt away at almost unseen speeds, the energy carrying itself through Cupid's arm, past his shoulders, and down his other arm into Daphne, slowly returning the colour to her skin.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 12:02:41 GMT
Nakiri leaned backwards, avoiding the hits from the three griffin spirits before she used her other hand to pull out a knife glowing with Destruction element, blocking their weapons.
The energy from that knife desintegrated their weapons before the energy reached the strings attached to those spirits and got erased, releasing those spirits from Psyche's control before they disappeared.
"...Destruction isn't limited to physical beings, spiritual matter isn't a exception." Nakiri pointed out that fact as she played her flute with one hand while holding the destruction knife in her other hand.
Balthazar, looking at the top of the Sphinx, turned his attention to the pirates, looking at both sides as he shot feathers from his wings at Cupid and Psyche.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 12:14:57 GMT
The feathers aimed at Psyche were blocked by some of the spirit griffins, as Psyche whipped a couple extra strings at Nakiri, one latched itself onto the hand holding a flute while the other two strings swirled around her, as she grabbed onto the successful string with both arms.
For just a brief moment, Nakiri's soul disobeyed her, being moved by the string and releasing the flute from her hand. Undoubtedly Nakiri would just destroy the string again in a matter of seconds, and there was always the chance that Nakiri would just grab it again, but Psyche could at least hope this would be enough to do what Cupid had asked of her.
Speaking of Cupid, he looked up and-
with feathers shot into his chest, he fell backwards way too easily, just as Daphne's breath returned to her.
Her eyesight returned as consciousness did, and the first thing she saw was Cupid lying in front of her, as though he had fallen down protecting her. "..Cupid?" She asked.
"I'm just glad you're.. okay." Cupid smiled, letting out a loud cough. He placed a hand onto his chest, with a visibly pained expression.
Daphne pulled her head up, looking up to Balthazar...
Time paused.
It resumed, Cupid had vanished, and Daphne was holding a sword- presumably dropped by one of the many Griffin's lying dead around the area-, charging at Balthazar, she appeared to teleport again, right in Balthazar's face as she swung the sword upwards, cutting along his neckline.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 12:29:31 GMT
When Psyche tried to latch onto Nakiri's soul...there wasn't actually any soul in Nakiri, all it was some pink imagination energy she grabbed onto instead.
Just like the Gin's, this Nakiri wasn't real, the elements she was using were likely generated by the real Nakiri using her own imagination enough to make them work.
But it did have some effect as the dome started to distort slightly enough for Cyndass to shove his through the dome.
Nakiri was glowing with a pink aura including her eyes before she shook her head and grabbed her flute, starting to connect the Imagination to her musical instrument before the dome became solid again and Cyndass's arm got trapped in it while the fake Nakiri glanced at Psyche with a livid expression, basically daring her to come up on the Sphinx and see what will happen next.
Balthazar clenched his fist and punched Daphne right in her visor, cracking it before delivering a kick into her chin, sending her flying into the ceiling dome.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 12:35:36 GMT
Time paused
The Sword fell down, point-first, about to land directly in Balthazar. Daphne had warped to the sphinx, holding onto it with all four of her limbs as she shook her head around briefly. Before jumping from it and landing on the ground.
As that happened, Psyche looked at Nakiri, smiling confidently. "..Gotcha." She said, almost a whisper, as she dispelled all of her strings; and then sent out 10- one from each of her fingers. All of them swerved around the sphinx at strange angles, going straight through Nakiri, while not latching onto her soul. The intent was clear, to latch onto the imagination energy and cause the dome to distort even greater and for a longer period than it had seconds ago.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 13:00:36 GMT
"GAH!" Nakiri gasped as she fell on her knees and dropped her flute, the dome was distorting at a rapid pace.
Clenching her teeth, she looked up with her eyes shining pink.
"You think you can outsmart me, you dumb beast? I may not be real, but not even the real me fears death like the rest of you do, I'll gladly take you down to hell with me if I have to!" Nakiri declared.
With that declaration, she shoved the knife of Destruction she had in her own chest, the imagination energy was being converted into Destruction and began spreading through the 10 strings Psyche sent, instead of eradicating them, the destruction energy continued going through the strings till they reached Psyche's finger tips and-
KABOOM!
The Nakiri on top of the Sphinx burst into a purple explosion, followed up by another explosion in the forest where Psyche was that took down half of the forest and the dead warriors aswell, that imaginary Nakiri essentially pulled a kamikaze attack before she went out, the dome went down along with her.
Thankfully, Nephthys and Erinye din't get too close but the blast sent them rolling down the sphinx before they painfully crashed on the ground. The new form Nephthys was using became visible, a ghostly aura surrounding the bandaged fish figure with the single orange eye lying on the ground with the orb clutched in it's arms.
Balthazar ducked and avoided the sword right in time to see both Erinye and Nephthys on the ground and rushed towards them to help them.
A spear flew in and pierced through Medjed's fish tail.
"AH!" Nephthys gasped, letting out a ghost like wail.
Cyndass, with Cleopatra standing on his back, gazed down at everyone at the battlefield with the orb in her sights.
"Well, look at that, Cyndass, I finally caught a fish after all this time." Cleopatra said, with no humor intended at all, lacking any emotion in her voice.
The giant dragon began to descend down, blocking any of the opponents from reaching Nepthys and Erinye as Cleopatra turned to look at everyone.
"...Wherever you are, Clovis, I suggest you give up the orb to me if you don't want to lose any of your men like that girl in the forest that you sacrificed just to get this orb." Cleopatra said.
Balthazar had his lancer pointed at Cyndass's eye as Gin climbed out from the large hole made by Nakiri that destroyed the back of the Sphinx, his legs looked fucked up but din't care as he looked down and was seething with rage as he saw red at everyone who was there, ready to go nuts if anyone tried to take the orb and get away.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 13:24:16 GMT
Cupid slowly lifted his head up, from where he was currently hiding, in a section of the woods that hadn't been destroyed by any of Nakiri's explosions.
'Zener' He sent his thought straight to the neonyte residing in his room, as he pulled his peacock-feather lined coat out of nowhere in particular, moving his arms back through its sleeves. 'The dragon is here, it is best that you bring us back now. It's time we show them the true superpower of the neonytes.'
He stood up completely, and waved at Cyndass and Cleopatra. "As you insist." He said, as a beam came down from above, two beams. One that took Daphne back up the ship, and another that took Cupid up. They both vanished without even trying to grab the orb.
Erinye lifted herself up to her knees, looking over at Nephthys with a pained expression. Without any idea of how to help Nephthys, she looked up at Cleopatra and Cyndass...
...
Cupid and Daphne had both re-appeared in Cupid's room in the golden Ship. Psyche's absence was obvious.
"..There's no time to waste." Cupid said, with a determined expression on his face as he looked over to Daphne. "Are you okay, hurt, even?"
Daphne stepped back when he moved to place his hand on her arm, but nodded nonetheless. "My visor's a little bit cracked, but I'm fine."
Cupid nodded, "At least you're okay. Zener, send Castor to retrieve Psyche. I.. I don't want to leave her here." he said, making his way over to the strange chair in the corner, surrounded by cables, needles and with that ominous headset dangling over it. He sat himself down in the chair.
With his own hands, he began rolling his sleeves up and shoving the needles into his skin. The Monitors activated, some of them displaying heart-rates, overs seeming to display schematics of some of the spaceships.
"Are you sure this is safe, sir?" Daphne asked.
"With what's on the line in this battle, safe isn't a priority." Cupid answered, grabbing the headset and placing it on his head.
...
Erinye was still on the ground, in front of Cyndass and Cleopatra, her transceiver had been knocked from her hand and was lying on the dirt not too far away from her, and she wasn't that far from the pierced Nephthys either.
For the time being, she chose not to act.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 13:49:14 GMT
With the pirates out of the way, Cyndass moved closed to the two before Balthazar got in the eye, aiming his lance intently.
"Hold, dragon, think this through! Your actions, think of them, kill these two if you do, you won't find rest in your sleep!" Balthazar declared.
"I will not kill opponents who can't fight back, the battle for them is over. Step aside, Balthazar, you are in no shape to take me on." Cyndass said.
With a flap of his wings, he sent a gust of wind that sent Balthazar on the ground, as he tried to lift his torso he fell on his back, he was too much in a critical shape from his fight with the pirates to get up now.
Cleopatra crouched and leaned towards Nephthys, placing her hands on the orb and forcefully ripped it out of her grasp.
She held the orb in her hands before looking at Nephthys and then glanced at Erinye, a sorrowful expression appeared on her face.
"...You are Theseus's daughter, correct? I know what it's like to have a child...and I don't want to kill anyone else's child and put them through the same hell I am, not unless they did something to wrong me. Just, please, don't fight me and let me take this orb, let me get the chance to bring my family back." Cleopatra said.
A rageful cry from above was heard as Gin landed behind Cleopatra, wrapping his arms around her and pointed his knife at her neck.
"If you want to see your fucking son so badly, then give me the orb and I'll send you to him myself, maybe this fish bitch will kind enough to send your soul to the afterlife so you won't get turned into a ghoul! NOW GIVE IT TO ME!" Gin yelled.
"TCH, YOU BASTARDS WANT THE ORB SO BADLY, DO YOU!?" Cleopatra asked.
She raised her arm as Cyndass opened his mouth and-...
Cleopatra threw the orb and it landed right in Cyndass's mouth, going all the way to his stomach before he closed his mouth.
"NOW TRY TO GET THE ORB NOW, YOU MISERABLE SADISTIC WASTE OF THOUGHT!" Cleopatra yelled.
And that was the final straw for Gin, beginning to scream like a maniac as he stabbed Cleopatra in her side and kicked her into Cyndass's back, aiming his knife and about to plunge it into her chest.
Cleopatra grabbed her spear and blocked Gin's knife, clenching her teeth and visibly struggling as she was focusing on reversing her wound while Gin continued to seeth with rage with intent to kill Cleopatra.
Cyndass tried to grab Gin with his arms but he ducked his body very quickly.
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