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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 13:52:36 GMT
Erinye went over to Nephthys, looking over her. "..Nephthys? Are you okay?" She asked-
A Large, red beam was fired from a auxiliary cannon attached to one of the ships flying above them, striking Cyndass right in his back.
And then, another, similar beam was fired from Castor's ship, All of the ships circling around above them revealed themselves, firing straight at Cyndass from every imaginable angle. It was a full-on-assault.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 14:11:49 GMT
Nephthys returned back to her human form as the spear fell out of her.
Covered in scars and slowly bleeding, Nephthys had a distant look from Erinye, she had a look that suggested that she blamed herself for losing the orb.
The red beam fired at his back caused Gin to fall off Cyndass and crashed on the ground while Cleopatra ducked and wrapped her arms around his neck as Cyndass took off to the sky, roaring in pain and anger as smoke was coming out of his back.
Gin landed on the grass and quickly got up, he looked up at the dragon before slowly looking at the girls with bloodshot eyes, he let out another rage filled scream as he rushed over to them with his knives in his hands.
A teleportation field struck the ground and Warikomu appeared, blocking Gin from reaching the two.
"That's enough." Warikomu said.
"Get out of my way, I'm not through with them just yet!" Gin said, swinging his knives at the air.
Warikomu grabbed him by his wrist, holding his hand up.
"I said that's enough! Don't get yourself killed. We have a plan B, remember?" Warikomu asked.
Gin din't seem to care as he breathed slowly but ultimately, decided not to resist and pulled his wrist out of Warikomu's hand.
"Kumo, take us out of here." Warikomu said, placing his hand on his ear.
Gin looked back at Nephthys and Erinye, giving them the 'next time I'll see you bitches, I'll kill you' before the two of them disappeared through another teleportation field.
Cyndass used his wings to block out the laser beams as Cleopatra glared at all the ships.
"I figured they would pull this shit, Cyndass, you know what to do!" Cleopatra said.
Cyndass roared in response as he opened his wings, repelling the beams into the sky as he flew over to the nearest ship that was attacking him, opened his mouth and shot a large beam of fire that struck through the ship and went all the way through as the beam burst through the back of the fire ship, engulfing the ship's insides in fire before it burst into flames.
Nephthys looked up to see something falling out of the sky and saw charred up pirates landing not too far from her and Erinye, much to her shock as she looked back at the sky.
"NO!" Nephthys yelled, reaching her hand out as if Cyndass could hear her from there.
Cyndass grabbed onto another ship and ripped in two before burning the pirates who were inside that ship and tossed the halves of that ship aside and used his wings to block out the next wave of attacks as he flied towards the next wave of ships who were in his way.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 14:19:31 GMT
When Cyndass grabbed onto that last ship that he was about to rip in two, a field appeared around it; He got electrocuted right in his teeth, and that electrocution carried itself throughout his body. Didn't stop him from ripping it in half clearly, but it still happened.
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"..Cupid?" Daphne asked, looking over a listless Zener's shoulder, at the footage and the increasing number of windows on the screen that were just displaying static.
Zener's eyes focused on the world in front of her, she stormed away from the table and turned to glare at the man; "Cupid! We're losing men fast! Do something before you cost us every ship we have!"
Cupid shoved another wire into his arm, before pressing a button on the arm-rest on the chair. As soon as he did, he fell limply against the back.
The Shields around the ships began to glow quite obviously, as they continued to fire at the dragon. The Beams knocked Cyndass back, leaving actual scorchmarks on his body where they made impact.
A Beam was fired straight from the golden ship, one that completely engulfed Cyndass and sent him flying into the trees in front of Nephthys and Erinye; completely flattening all of the forestry and replacing it with a messy crater and a rain of leaves and branches.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 14:48:25 GMT
Cyndass was lying on his back, his armor was cracked with black marks around him and smoke coming out, his eyes were closed.
Cleopatra, who held onto him, coughed up a lot of smoke before she looked down at her guardian with a concerned expression.
“Cyndass!” Cleopatra said, starting to reverse his wounds even though her being next to him should heal him up regardless.
Some of the wounds began to slowly disappear as Cyndass opened his eyes and shook his head.
“That bastard, he absorbed my energy and used it against me.” Cyndass said
He slowly got up and took off into the skies again.
“Stop! You don’t have to kill them, just escape!” Nephthys pleaded.
Cyndass flew into the center of the sky and crouched down as he opened his wings and shot multiple fire bullets at the ships, each bullet that hit a ship exploded into pillars of fire, trying to pierce through the forcefields or atleast cause to fizzle out slightly assuming the energy will be too much for Cupid to consume.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 14:54:37 GMT
The Fire almost vanished on contact with the shields, red energy spread throughout them, and vanished from sight.
...
Similar red energy was rushing through the wires into Cupid. Zener stood over it, looking at some of the nearby monitors. Some of them were displaying the schematics and the status of the various shields, and some were displaying Cupid's own vitals.
It was still in the green, so she didn't act. Daphne had taken over control of the computer on the table, using the touchscreen mousepad to activate another set of laser blasts.
...
The Golden Ship unleashed a pillar of Fire, a culmination of all the fire that had struck the shields less than a minute ago, that completely spread itself around Cyndass.
And Before Cleopatra could heal him, 3 of the other ships unleashed a trio of beams at Cyndass, intent on burning and boring right through his stomach.
..
From the surface, Erinye only watched.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 15:16:16 GMT
Cyndass, instead, proceeded to absorb the fire into his body since the energy came from him initially so the flames vanished. Cleopatra stomped the fire off her dress and healed her arms and lega, looking black ish slightly.
As soon as he got struck by the beams, he blocked them with his hands before he repelled them in different directions as he launched a powerful gust of wing from his wings, sending the three ships away and any ships near him.
Cyndass’s body was starting to heat up, moreso than usual as he switched from offense to defense mode instead, using his wings to shield himself as his body continued to heat up.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 15:20:56 GMT
Two of the ships continued firing their beams at him,
but inside of them..
"Wait." Pollux said, moving his hand in front of the holographic screen with the Parrot crewmate on it. "Don't do anything, this looks bad."
...
Castor's ship held off on attacking, while one of the other ships in the corner, one that was clearly a repurposed ISP Vessel, fired a red, almost electrical beam at Cyndass; the beam spread itself out and formed a solid, electrified sphere around him.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 15:44:48 GMT
Cyndass din’t do anything, his body was now red-ish than usual, balling himself into a ball.
A red sphere appeared around Cyndass, it looked really, really hot and it continued to increase in size till it melted the electric shield.
The red sphere reached the size of a Sun and stopped growing.
Cyndass opened his wings and spread his arms.
“SUPERNOVA!” He roared.
The sphere got engulfed in flames and began to expand, it was pushing the pirate ships backwards, the energy coming from that sphere was overwhelming, also too hot for Cupid to absorb as the wires attached to him started to heat up from system overload till flames erupted out of the wires.
The fire sphere then vanished, all the ships were intact for the most part thanks to the forcefields but that attack possibly overheated their weapons and systems at best, and were far away from where Cyndass was.
Speaking of the dragon, smoke was coming out of his body as he regained his normal color, he put a lot of his power into that attack than the fire ball that destroyed Plague, exhaling and inhaling.
Cleopatra pulled out her transceiver and started working on setting up a portal before the pirates get their act together.
A large portal appeared behind them and the dragon flew through the portal and it closed, leaving only the pirates, Balthazar, Nephthys and Erinye the only ones at the battlefield.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 16:13:47 GMT
Zener stared down at the flaming wires, a couple of the monitors had completely blacked out, but most of them were still functioning.
Undoubtedly, however, most of them were in the red. With a wide-eyed, seething expression, she slammed a black button attached to one of the monitors, and all of the wires ejected themselves from Cupid's body. He had a shining golden tan, and his hair itself looked to shimmer underneath the artificial lightning. At the very least, he had absorbed a lot of energy that didn't get much use against Cyndass.
"...Perses is not going to be happy when you wake up." She spat, her voice sinking like a stone in the ocean.
As though prompted by Zener's sullen tone, Cupid's eyes fluttered open.
"..I'm sorry." Cupid said, slowly sitting up. He looked 10 years younger. "...I lost us a lot of men just now. Because of my arrogance."
"That you did." Zener glared at him, not even bothering to hide her rage.
Cupid stood up, looking at her, with tears welling in his eyes. "...We'll get the orb next time. I swear it on my life, you tell Perses what happened here."
"..If you insist." Zener said, turning away and walking past the table Daphne stood at, making her exit from the room.
And as Zener made her exit, A Portal opened up in the middle of the room, Castor walked through it, with a scorched, burnt up looking Psyche in his arms.
Castor stared at Cupid with blue, unblinking eyes. "I found her." He said, plainly.
"C...Cu..pid..." Psyche coughed out, dark blue stains jumping from her mouth with every forced syllable.
Cupid looked to the burnt up neonyte with wide, worried eyes. Running straight towards her, "Psyche! Are you okay? Are you going to be okay!?" He asked.
"I'll...*cough*.. I.. I don't... think so..." She coughed out again. "That.. girl.. got me good.."
"Don't, don't, don't say a word." Cupid said, "It'll be fine, everything will be fine. You're still going to get everything I promised you, don't worry about it."
"She's suffered from a lot of external and internal bleeding." Castor said, matter-of-factly. "Most of her limbs were broken in the explosion as well, so.."
"Shut it!" Cupid's expression completely changed, only to revert back to what it was supposed to be in this kind of situation.
"...Please.. just.. can I.. have a hug?" Psyche asked.
Cupid looked at Psyche, and nodded. "Of course."
"Than....ou.." She attempted to say something, but failed, Castor let Cupid take Psyche in his arms and hold her in a embrace. Psyche rested her head against his chest.
"...I...always...wanted to.. do this with... someone special.." Psyche forced the words out, as though they were the only things she ever wanted to say. "At least.. once."
"Just this?" Cupid asked, a lighthearted chuckle with something missing.
Psyche closed her eyes. "..I.. wanted more... of course. But, just a hug.. is enough... Just one hug... it's good enough for me.."
And so, Cupid held her, felt her heartbeat slow.
Castor stared at the two of them, without any reaction. While Daphne held a hand towards her own face.
"..Cupid, you can heal her, right?" She asked.
"..If I do that, then, that'll use up most of the energy I got from Cyndass right now." Cupid's words were solemn, as he held onto Psyche, feeling her heartbeat go slower, then slower. "The amount of energy it takes to heal one broken bone is bad enough.. but, to deal with this. I'd be left in a similar state...
And you don't want that, do you, Psyche?"
"..No.. I wouldn't.. want that." Psyche said, as Daphne lowered her hand. Castor glanced down to see it ball into a fist... as Psyche stopped moving.
"..This energy I've obtained, I can use it to avenge you." Cupid said, although Psyche was no longer listening. He handed her back to Castor. "Please, take her to someone who can send her spirit away. This universe has plenty of summoners, find one who doesn't know who we are."
Looking seriously heartbroken, he turned around as Castor went back through his portal. Leaving Daphne to stare at him, baffled.
She looked to Cupid as he sat down in a chair and held his hands to his face, and then knelt in front of the laptop, pressing a button and speaking into a mic. "Everyone. Take your leaves." She said.
...
The remaining ships, which was, thankfully, the majority of them, all left and vanished, one by one. The last ship to leave was the golden one, Cupid's own ship.
As Erinye looked up at everything as it vanished, a portal opened up a small distance away, near where the explosion in the forest had occurred, and a charred body fell through it. The portal then closed.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 16:31:50 GMT
Balthazar slowly stood up, his injuries were slowly starting to close up and looked to Nephthys.
Nephthys got up, she said nothing as she picked up her staff and walked to the centre of the forest.
She raised her staff and did what she does best as the souls of the pirates who died began leaving their bodies and going towards the sky.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 16:33:16 GMT
"...I suppose, considering everything, It was a bad idea for me to go for the orb." Erinye supposed, speaking more as though it was a logical conclusion she reached, then out of any form of self-doubt.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 16:53:36 GMT
“...We managed to prevent Gin from taking the orb, but I couldn’t stop Cleopatra from taking the orb...it’s my fault aswell, and now each of the groups have an orb, the chances of us using those orbs...don’t seem very possible now. Even with three evolution spirits, they din’t help us win.” Nephthys said, looking at the ground, she looked very sad.
Balthazar stepped forward, looking at Nephthys and Erinye.
“...One lost battle you lost, not the war.” Balthazar said.
He placed his hand on Nephthys’s shoulder.
“A guardian’s road has ups and downs, there will be times when obstacles will come in your way and surpass them you must, physically and emotionally. Lost, you did but next time, stronger you will become and win, you will. No matter what happens, give up, you can’t, summoner.” Balthazar said.
Nephthys looked up to Balthazar and nodded slightly.
“The advice is the same for you.” Balthazar said, turning to Erinye.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 16:54:47 GMT
"Oh, I'm not giving up." Erinye said, "Just.. thinking I might need to take a different angle than most people."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2020 17:04:22 GMT
Balthazar nodded as he turned to look at the damaged forest.
“...A lot of healing to do, Nature has. Tomorrow, seeds we will plant, today, the dead, we mourn.” Balthazar said, turning to the remains of Caspar
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Post by IDEK on Jan 1, 2020 17:11:28 GMT
Erinye looked at Caspars body, and then around at all the other things nearby.
She walked up to one half of a crashed spaceship, peering inside it. "...If we found the right dead pirate, I bet we could learn something useful." She said, walking off into the forest.
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