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Post by IDEK on Jan 28, 2020 23:27:41 GMT
Zener raised a hand, and Hercule was sent flying, smacking straight through the ceiling.
Grunting, she pulled herself back up to her feet, and ran towards the exit.
Theseus flew up into the air, catching Hercule on his way back down and looking down at the maze. Scanning it from left to right before catching a glimpse of Cupid. He closed his eyes, focusing, and the ground beneath Cupid shot upwards, sending him flying into the sky.
Zener stopped in her tracks, using her power to freeze him in place as he waved at Theseus before pointing. A Blast of crawling creepvines and twirling snakes shot forwards, as a green aura surrounded Theseus and threw both him and Hercule straight into the blast. The two were engulfed in it, thrown into the distance as Zener then hurled Cupid in a different direction- towards the hole where the tapestry used to be.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 28, 2020 23:38:28 GMT
Hercule swinged his sword left and right, cutting through the creepvines and snakes to release him and Theseus.
He panted slightly, removing the sweat from his forehead before he clenched his hand on his sword with red veins popping out of his arm.
Hercule placed one foot forward, the floor cracking beneath his weight as he charged forward, smashing through every wall in the maze with his fist, other than dirt getting on his hand there was no scratch as he kept smashing through the walls, rubble and dust was sent flying in Zener's direction, blocking her view.
Before she could react, Hercule reached her, his sword went upwards as he slashed through her chest and covered it in her olive blood.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 28, 2020 23:43:30 GMT
In response, his sword flew from his hand and sliced across his face.
Zener gritted her teeth, with both arms around her bleeding chest and telekinetically threw herself into the air to get away.
Chunks of ground shot out from beneath her, smacking her in the stomach and knocking her aside.
"Hercule!" Theseus called out, still flying overheard as he looked down at Hercule, and the large gash across his face. "Are you going to be okay?"
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 28, 2020 23:51:07 GMT
The cut on his face looked pretty nasty as it came from his blade and Hercule had a pained expression, he visibly flinched as he slapped his hand against his face and his power started to do it's magic as the cut started to slowly close up and vanished like it wasn't there to begin with.
"Ah! Yeah, don't worry, tis just a flesh wound." Hercule said, attempting his best to smile despite how painful that looked.
He went for his sword and picked it up before looking at Zener and the gap.
"But more importantly, we need to get Cupid, make sure she doesn't follow us!" Hercule said, as he charged once again, leaping into the gap and tried to run without Zener getting in his way again.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 0:07:47 GMT
Theseus took a look at Zener, who was still grasping onto her chest. She let out a groan and turned to her side, falling into a heap when she attempted to stand up. a Olive green puddle beneath her only making it harder to her to stand up. After a couple of seconds, she gave up.
Not saying anything, he followed after Hercule. Four walls of earth sprouting up around her.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 0:20:50 GMT
Hercule continued running down the hallway with Cupid in his sight in the distance.
But then, the corridor started to shake as cracks began appearing on the floor.
“Oh, what now-“
Hercule din’t finish his sentence as he and everyone else in the corridor fell in as the floor came apart into pieces.
His fall got prevented as he landed his belly on...a large floating balloon of all things, much to his confusion.
Hercule raised an eyebrow as he slowly stood up on the balloon, adjusting his ballance before he saw more balloons floating up and going right into the stalactites from the ceiling as they were coming from down below.
Hercule looked at a red balloon and saw a moving image in it.
He saw Haji standing there with his back against a cactus as he watched Nephthys crying over the corpse of a woman with short black hair in a matching dress who had a dagger stuck in her chest while another man was lying there who had his chest ripped out and his heart was on the ground.
Haji looked up to see the grey energy leaving the woman’s body and leaped into the sky, beginning to spread.
“...What the?” Hercule said, under his breath.
The balloon he was standing on burst, releasing rubber snakes and landed on the next balloon before looked up at wherever Theseus was.
“Theseus, did you see that!?” Hercule asked.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 0:45:27 GMT
"I'm a bit busy right now!" Theseus called out, as a energy blast resembling waterlily's flew through the air above Hercule, bursting several of the balloons as Theseus appeared, jumping from one to the next and opening fire at where Cupid was. Standing atop a balloon significantly higher than the rest, by sheer luck.
"Once again, you get in my way." Cupid frowned, disappointed, continuing to open fire on Theseus, who continued to avoid it. Sending blasts at Cupid in turn, to enraged to consider how even if they did hit him, he would just absorb the energy. "I see that some of you survived your stunt back on Aquila. Maybe things will be more fortunate this time around."
"Maybe so. Maybe one of those dragons will eat you in one bite." Theseus snapped back.
Cupid jumped from the balloon he was standing on to the next as one of Theseus's attacks burst it. "Then I'll tear my way out of their stomach before they know what's happening." He said, jumping up with enough energy in his step to fly several feet up.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 9:41:27 GMT
Hercule looked up to see Theseus and Cupid fighting it out before he looked at more incoming balloons that had images playing inside them.
He saw one green balloon featuring a little toddler with short red hair in his room, playing with two dolls, a doll of the former pharaoh and the other a snake as he had the pharaoh shoved in the snake's mouth, making it look like the snake is eating the pharaoh.
The next balloon showed a image of the kid who was 10 years old, yanked out of his burning house by someone wearing armor while dozens of other guards were setting his village ablaze, the kid reached out for his parents who were inside the house.
Then the next balloon featured the kid who grew up as a teenager as he along with several other people who were covered in dirt and bruises, wearing nothing but rags around their waist with nothing else on as they were pushing a giant wheel, getting it to spin while being whipped by one of the guards.
Next one showed the kid as an adult, who was now recognizable as Haji who placed a veil around his mouth with a turban, wearing a white cloak and shoved breads in his bag while there were other people who wore the same clothes as him who were killing a few guards and taking their stuff, likely the bandits.
"...This guy had a pretty messed up past. Nephthys did mention something about him being one of the bandits before..." Hercule said.
He looked at the rest of the balloons, next one showed Haji sitting on his knees in front of a Horus statue with a large serpent body wrapped around his neck while it had a second head at the end of it's tail as the snakes opened their mouths, releasing red smoke that engulfed Haji, blessing him with the Mischief element as the staff materialized in his hand, looking at it with a shocked expression before his reaction quickly turned from shock into pure glee as he looked up at the sky and with a snap of his finger, it got covered in confetti.
Hercule got to see several more balloons showing Haji up to his tricks as he placed a fake love letter in front of someone's hosue and knocked at the door, vanishing into smoke as a young woman with really, really long black hair wearing a black robe came out and picked up the letter, reading it before she smiled as she placed the letter against her chest, only to be heartbroken later when her secret lover never showed up at all, one balloon showed Haji walking away, eating a pineapple as Etanfe was dangling upside down from a rope wrapped around his foot next to a pine tree, another showed Haji reading Iknaa's journal.
Then him standing in front of a tablet, the snake around his staff had glowing eyes, pointing it at the tablet as hieroglyphs appeared on the tablet that Hercule had no idea what they meant before he saw a title above the tablet, XII square stool, lion, vulture, jar stand and a quail chick. Next balloon showed Haji standing inside a heavily guarded room with a magic barrier set up around a table as he was now holding one of the Orbs of Fulfillment in his hand before the image jumps right to him outside a palace with Kaam's statue on top of it, handing the orb over to a person Hercule din't recognize as all of this appeared to happen on Earth, indicating that the orb Haji handed over was the one on Earth that Cleopatra had one before it got stolen by F2, then another balloon featured Haji standing outside Hikrat's throne room, eavesdropping on his conversation with the Royal Guard when they arrived on Earth to start their mission.
"...That orb was probably the one F6 stole before those scarabs took it from Cleopatra. He played a part in Earth's orb being gone." Hercule said, with squinted eyes.
Then a big red balloon showed Haji in the temple where he got his power, sitting on the floor as he added some olive liquid on a tiny body...while there were rows of ropes attached to the ceiling with noose knots at the end of each rope and there appeared to be a pile of small uncanny stuffed dolls in the corner that accurately looked like the Royal Guard, F2 and a whole bunch of pirates as he was sitting under a row of ropes with dolls placed in those knots, hanging from above but what was actually disturbing was that those dolls were the people who died so far in this journey.
A few of them were the pirates who died in Cyndass's rampage on Gryphon then after them it was a burned up Psyche with wounds that matched the ones she had when she died including dark blue stains, right next to her was Nakiri with a cut throat with red liquid pouring out, a completely charred up Silenus whom Hercule din't recognize but Theseus likely would and the next rope was empty before Haji held up Zener with a cut up chest as he was finishing adding the olive liquid to her body.
"...What, the, fuck?" Hercule asked with wide eyes, disturbed by what Haji was doing as that balloon floated up as it was now between Theseus and Cupid.
The balloon's image now showed Haji playing with two dolls of Theseus and Cupid as Zener's doll was hanged right next to Silenus, he was imitating the fight they were having right now like they were voodoo dolls, except for some reason doll Theseus's coat was red instead of yellow as Haji previously mentioned he would look better in red.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 16:07:51 GMT
Cupid looked at the balloon and his expression shifted. His confusion granted Theseus the opportunity to strike him with one of his blasts, it hit him. The energy sinking into Cupid's chest as it knocked him off the balloon and onto one quite a ways below them. With a image of what looked like a inauguration ceremony being displayed within it.
"This place is insane!" Cupid called out.
"I suppose you would know." Theseus scowled, not even paying the balloon any mind as he sent another spray of attacks in Cupid's direction, the banished neonyte looked up at Theseus and ran into each attack deliberately, absorbing the energy from all of them.
Shining with energy, he sent all of it back up to Theseus, striking him and sending him flying into the air.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 16:21:31 GMT
Hercule looked at Theseus and then looked at Cupid as jumped off towards him, uppercutting him in the chin as he bounced against a blue balloon.
The Royal Guard captain landed his feet on another balloon as he saw that they were getting closer to the ground before he saw another balloon floating in front of him.
Dolls of Theseus, Cupid, Hercule, Koshi, Cyndass and Cleopatra were lying in front of Haji as he was aiming a stick lit on fire at the Theseus and Cupid, pointing at one before pointing at the other.
"Hm, I wonder, which one of them will burn first? Or should both of them be burned? That is the question, isn't it?" Haji asked.
Hercule's eyes shrunk before he cut the balloon into pieces, releasing more rubber snakes as began jumping from balloon to balloon, deciding that he had enough of that.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 18:14:43 GMT
Theseus flew after Hercule, staying close to him.
While a reasonably freaked out Cupid continued to ascend from balloon to balloon. Using them as trampolines in a attempt to make his way back to the hallway they were all running down.
Theseus looked up, saw this, and flew after him instead.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 18:22:20 GMT
Hercule landed on solid ground, standing in front of a closed gate and four tiles around him.
An orb, a house on fire, a turban and the twin snakes.
He looked at the gate again and guessed he would have to solve this little puzzle by pressing the tiles in a order as he began to remember the sequences that occured in Haji's life.
Hercule stepped on the house on fire, the turban, the twin snakes and then the orb.
A jingle was heard as the gate then slowly opened, revealing another hallway as Hercule looked up, realizing that Theseus wasn't with him.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 19:43:11 GMT
when he looked up, he saw both Cupid and Theseus were heading back up the way they had fell, in-between taking potshots at each other.
On the upside, Cupid was going the entirely wrong way, on the downside, Theseus was going after him with all he had, and hadn't noticed that Hercule had left the scene at all.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 19:57:49 GMT
Hercule sighed out of frustration as he continued his run, going into the hallway.
"Damn it, he better not get himself killed against that guy. On one hand, it will be good if he managed to kill Cupid but it won't do us any good if he takes him down along with himself!" Hercule said.
As he said that, he could see a bright shining silver light coming from the end of this hallway, indicating that the Orb of Fulfillment could be possibly be there.
"Ah, shit, that must be the orb!" Hercule said.
He continued running before he stopped to a halt.
There was a large square hole at the end of the hall from where the light was coming from but there were walls of skulls on left and right, with funeral roses placed in their teeth and snakes peered out of the skulls before all of them turned to stare at Hercule in a synchronized manner with flames in their eyes.
"...Ugh..." Hercule said, staring at the snakes, not making any movements just yet as he hoped to hear any signs of Theseus and Cupid's ongoing fight to see how far they would be from where he was.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 21:24:46 GMT
As he turned to look- from out of sight, a massive red beam completely took up the entirety of the area all of the balloons were flying in. Covering every crack of it.
There wasn't any noise beyond a resounding 'voom', as the excess energy pushed itself down the hallway, brushing the back of Hercule's head and even reaching the synchronized flames inside the snake's eyes.
The Beam faded, and Hercule could hear Theseus let out a small grunt.
"Ha... ha..." Cupid's breath echoed throughout the chamber. "Once again, once again you get in too far over your head, my friend. I've been saving that up for a while, my dear Psyche will be so pleased to know that the energy she refused was put to use splendidly.
What's wrong, friend?" Cupid's sheer malice and joy found its way to Hercule's ear. "Having trouble standing up?"
"Far from it." Theseus's voice spoke up.
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