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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 21:44:17 GMT
Hercule gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as he had the urge to help Theseus out against Cupid but looked back at the grey light, deciding that it would be more important to prevent the orb from getting into Cupid's hands, if anything happens to Theseus he could try to heal him so for now.
He began running towards the hole in a hurry while the snakes just watched him without even blinking.
...However, despite him running so fast, he did not reach the gap even by now, it's like the hallway was infinite as he wasn't reaching the chamber where the orb was at all, much to Hercule's annoyance.
"For god sake, is this yet another illusion troll shit or something!?" Hercule asked, as he kept running with sweat falling down his cheeks before the snakes began chanting in a sing along like manner, their voices were also synchronized as they tilted their heads left and right.
'Dead men walking, dead men walking, which one will be iiiiit?' Their voices were able to reach Theseus and Cupid, as if mocking the two and Hercule at the same time.
"Shut up! I'm done with your tricks!" Hercule shouted, glaring at the snakes.
"Liar, liar, pants of fiiire! Liar, liar, pants on FIIIIIIIIRE!" The snakes sang, that line being directed to Cupid.
The snakes then began laughing at the same time before their raspy voices changed, slowly sounding more like Haji who's laughter was now multiplied by the snakes.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The entire corridor with the snakes vanished and Hercule slammed against a wall with a red arrow pointing down at the floor.
Hercule got up, rubbing his cheek before he turned his head to see the open gate from the balloon area, meaning that the entire sequence with the snakes and the shining light were tricks aswell.
"OH, COME ON!" Hercule shouted, stomping his foot against the floor which sounded hollow as it cracked slightly beneath his foot much to his confusion before the floor crumbled to pieces and he fell in while screaming his head off.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 22:23:26 GMT
Shortly afterwards, both Theseus and Cupid fell down with him.
"I'm not going to let this unfair arena simply hand the victory to you." Cupid declared, as cool as ice as he grabbed onto Theseus's neck, sapping energy from him as Theseus placed his hand on Cupid's face.
Theseus's hand opened up and the energy shot out from it at point blank, knocking Cupid upwards. He span in mid-air, before gravity pulled him back down. With a very visible burn on his face.
Scowling, he began to heal his wound with the energy he had just absorbed while the two fell down.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 22:37:39 GMT
Hercule landed on his feet, he looked at the two fighters before he looked around seeing that the three of them were in a very spacious area.
The room they were in was completely red with pillars, walls that depict images of the cosmos being set on fire, everything was going haywire and at the far end of the room, there was a large statue of Haji and right behind him was a wall that depicted his large head laughing behind a burning Earth. There din't appear to be any exits out of this room.
However, the statue had the staff aimed at the ceiling with a shining light coming from one of the eyes of the snake wrapped around his staff: it was the Orb of Fulfillment stuck in the snake's eye socket.
Hercule stared at that light intently as he pulled out his transceiver to see if it was actually real and not a illusion till the results came in and it was a match, it was the real thing.
"Alright, no more games, this is the real thing. We found it!" Hercule said.
Running towards the statue, the room shock as dirt came down from the ceiling and he looked up.
A part of the ceiling started to heat and melted into goop, leaving a massive hole as Cyndass flew down with Cleopatra, holding two spears in her hands.
"Indeed, we have found it." Cleopatra replied, glaring at them with fury.
While the dragon was hovering above Hercule, Theseus and Cupid, Cleopatra raised her arms up and six spears appeared above her and launched them at the three.
Hercule swinged his sword and blocked the two spears, knocking them on the floor as he looked at the duo with a annoyed expression.
"Now we have to deal with this, this just isn't our lucky day!" Hercule said.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 29, 2020 23:50:54 GMT
Theseus and Cupid were both able to dodge their respective spears.
"Ah, Cleopatra." Cupid smiled pleasantly. "It's nice to see you again."
He didn't even look at Cyndass.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 29, 2020 23:57:44 GMT
"I'm not glad to see you, Clovis. Looks like that girl you dragged into this place din't make it, you have a bad habit of sacrificing every Neonyte who works with you every time I show up." Cleopatra said, staring at Cupid with complete apathy.
Cyndass just growled in Cupid's direction, snorting smoke out of his nose while Hercule backed away, standing close to Theseus, looking at him as if to ask if he had a plan.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 30, 2020 0:03:40 GMT
Theseus, in response, shook his head, and mimed for Hercule to wait and see what happens.
Cupid only smiled in response. "You shouldn't make assumptions like that. She isn't dead."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 30, 2020 0:10:15 GMT
“Like it matters to me. You and thousands of pirates won’t stop me from collecting the orbs to get back what I lost and we are aware of your powers that you demonstrated to us on Gryphon so don’t expect any free energy boosts.” Cleopatra said, folding her arms.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 30, 2020 0:24:11 GMT
"Oh, I wouldn't expect anything less of you." Cupid smiled. "But please, don't just focus on me.
I'm sure our friends here would like to hear what you think of them as well." He said, turning his eyes to Hercule and Theseus.
"Don't try and turn her attention to us." Theseus frowned. "Don't even think her being here changes this at all. I'm still going to defeat you."
"Oh, my." Cupid said, with obvious sarcasm. "Frankly, I'm intimidated."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 30, 2020 0:42:49 GMT
Cleopatra looked at Theseus and Hercule with the same expression.
“My feelings towards them are the same. I have nothing against Theseus since he would have an idea of what I’m going through, but as for his friend...he is a bag of trash who used my brother to destroy my family and then got him killed. That’s all there is to it.” Cleopatra said.
“I wasn’t with the old Royal Guard when Anubis died. I’m sorry Cleopatra, I never wanted you to suffer, we can help you by getting your family by using the orbs and get payback against Kaam by putting her on trial for what she did to your folks, we will find a way to make that happen if you listen.” Hercule offered, trying the peaceful approach.
“As if you would be able to get that hag to step one foot in any courtroom, placing her under lock and key won’t work, I want her dead. You nearly blew us up on Plague and every time you got close to an orb, you lost them, including the one you had in your ship because you let your guard down, you would have a better chance of getting me killed than helping me.” Cleopatra said, narrowing her eyes.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 30, 2020 17:28:41 GMT
"Then I'm sorry, but it appears we only have one option here." Theseus stated, taking a step forwards. Looking Cleopatra square in the eyes. "As it stands, I bear you no hatred. But I cannot simply stand by while you take the orb."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 30, 2020 17:37:57 GMT
"Then we have nothing else to discuss. Cyndass." Cleopatra said, staring back at Theseus.
"Yes." Cyndass nodded.
He swinged his tail at the three, smacking them aside as he turned around and flew towards the Haji statue.
"No!" Hercule yelled, quickly standing up.
He ran towards the dragon and leaped towards it, grabbing it's tail and lifted himself up to it's back as he swinged his sword at Cleopatra who leaned backwards, besides a part of her ponytail getting cut off, she was fine for the most part as her weapon clashed with Hercule's, the two snarled at each other before the dragon's tail slammed Hercule off it's back and smashed him into the wall.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 30, 2020 18:39:52 GMT
Theseus looked over at Cupid, and the ground fell beneath his feet, removing Cupid from the scene temporarily.
"First things first.." Theseus stated, his robotic eyes glowing as the ground shot up from beneath Cyndass, pillars stabbing into him from below and lifting him up.
Several chunks of floor rose up from behind Theseus and shot themselves at the dragon, smacking against his face in succession, with the last rock heading for Cleopatra instead.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 30, 2020 18:50:32 GMT
Cleopatra saw the last rock and mostly out of reflex and instinct, she jumped backwards to avoid getting hit and landed on the dragon's tail while maintaining her balance.
The pillars manage to pierce slightly through Cyndass's armor but din't reach his belly just yet as his armor began heating up and the pillars melted into puddles of goop before Cyndass opened his mouth and spat a fountain of lava at Theseus, some of it landed on the floor in front of him while the rest was about to land on his head.
Hercule, glued to the wall, shook his head before he looked around to see the dragon splashing lava at Theseus, noticing Cupid's absence and looked at the orb stuck in the snake around the statue's staff.
He jumped off the wall, delivering a hard kick to Cyndass's neck, causing him to roar in pain before Hercule bounced off him, grabbing the statue's legs and began climbing, heading towards the orb.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 30, 2020 19:23:19 GMT
A Wall sprouted up in front of Theseus, taking the damage for him before being split into several uneven chunks that all threw themselves at Cyndass's neck, the same spot that Hercule had just kicked.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 30, 2020 19:36:38 GMT
Cyndass got hit in the neck, leaving some red marks all over it till the dragon guardian began blocking the other chunks with his tail and spit out a regular sized fireball at Theseus, it hits the floor instead, combusting into a fiery explosion that took out the floor and sent Theseus flying off.
Hercule climbed to the statue's chest before grabbing onto the staff to lift himself up to it as he reached for the orb stuck in the snake's eye.
Cleopatra turned around and her eyes widened as she saw Hercule before a spear materialized above her and threw it at Hercule as the spear successfully pierced through his hand as he was about to grab the orb.
"Gah!" Hercule yelled, but grabbed onto the orb despite the pain.
Cyndass turned aswell and flew towards Hercule, roaring at him as Cleopatra began throwing more spears at Hercule, some of them hit the statue instead while two managed to stab him in the shoulder and his knee as he pulled the orb out of the statue.
The dragon's tail then smashed the statue into pieces, sending the orb flying out of Hercule's hand as he collapsed on the floor.
Cyndass unleashed a large wave of fire out of his mouth that spread out to incinerate the Royal Guard duo.
Hercule got up and ran quickly while limping a bit as he hid behind one of the room's pillars to avoid the fire, gritting his teeth as he pulled out the three spears out of his body, red blood dripping out of his wounds before he started to himself by putting his glowing hand on his chest before he looked past his shoulder to see the orb lying on the floor in the middle of the room.
He turned his head to Theseus, nodding to him as he pulled out a blue grenade with his other hand that looked similar to the ones Dietz was working on in the armory room when he came by to get fixed up.
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