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Post by IDEK on Feb 3, 2020 13:09:07 GMT
Instead of falling, Cupid jumped into the air instead, a series of blasts exploded below him, striking the lava serpent and splattering its remains onto the ground surrounding him.
"Is anybody there?" Cupid asked, "I'm in a dire situation here!"
"We can't get the ship close enough." Daphne's voice came through, shaking, "If we get too close it's going to melt through it and down us all."
"Then send Castor!" Cupid seethed, "I can't hold them off forever!"
Daphne hurried to a explanation. "I can't get through to him, there's something causing major interference on his end."
"What?" Cupid asked, turning his head away, completely distracted in that moment.
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Post by Master Psychic on Feb 3, 2020 13:34:47 GMT
The moment he let his guard down.
Cleopatra flew up to Cupid and stabbed her talons into his back, scratching them down as she tore through his skin like peeling off an apple.
She took her talons out, leaving him with big bloody smoking claw marks that began to melt the skin off his back, it was a painful experience for Cupid before one of her feet wings slapped him into a mountain nearby.
Hercule looked at Cleopatra who was trashing the terrorist around before looking back at Theseus as he was healing him.
"By the time she is done with him, she will turn her attention on us, we need to get away from her and join up with the others, I'm not sure what our chances are of surviving a battle against a Neonyte fused with a Evolution spirit are, especially a really pissed off one!" Hercule said.
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Post by IDEK on Feb 3, 2020 13:54:43 GMT
Unfortunately, the orb went flying along with Cupid. A Cloud of dust was visible in the sky above the mountain he landed on.
"..." Theseus was silent as he found his legs again, standing up now that he was sufficiently healed. "We need to take her out, now." Was all he said.
At that moment, a giant laser shot out from Cupid, the same flowing water and sparkling light effect that had been occurring since he first grabbed the orb shot out, completely covering everyone's vision as it pierced through Cleopatra's stomach and sent her into the air.
"It doesn't-" Cupid was interrupted by a glob of blood coming out of his nose, he wiped it away, staining the burnt up shirt sleeve on his arm as he took a step forwards, the right half of his hair was almost completely burnt off, while the left half had got off relatively easier in comparison. His face had met a similar fate. "- matter what form you take, I refuse to be bested by the likes of anyone! Not again, not as long as I live!"
With that exclamation, another burst of energy, just as bright and overpowering as the last went flying at Cleopatra again, piercing through the hole it had already made in her stomach and propelling her even further up into the sky.
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Post by Master Psychic on Feb 3, 2020 14:02:47 GMT
Cleopatra got launched into the sky as the lasers made contact with her body.
Her stomach wound was glowing orange and the actions of Cupid's attack began to be undone quickly than ever before her stomach was back into it's place.
Cleopatra remained in the air instead of going back after Cupid as she raised her arms, the wings opened up, releasing fire energy spheres that flew up into the sky and began to solidify into black stone with fire coming out, turning them into meteors.
She threw her hands down, launching the meteors down from the sky, aiming at her opponents.
Hercule looked away from Theseus and quickly avoided the meteor coming his way that combusted into a bush of fire when it came in contact with the ground and so did other meteors that were landing down.
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Post by IDEK on Feb 3, 2020 20:30:12 GMT
Theseus held his hands out above him, as blocks of dirt shot out from the ground around them, each of them flying into the meteors above him, the impact destroying the smaller ones, and fragmenting the bigger ones.
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Post by Master Psychic on Feb 3, 2020 20:41:43 GMT
The bigger fragments kept falling as they crashed and combusted around his defences, breaking them apart.
Hercule looked up before looking at Cupid from where he was.
"We can't let him get away with the orb, I'll try to hold her off as best as I can while you take him out!" Hercule said.
Hercule then leaped up into the air, heading to Cleopatra while avoiding her meteors.
As he reached her in the air, he slashed at her face before delivering more slashes at her chest.
Cleopatra grunted before she blasted a fire-lava beam in Hercule's face.
He ducked his head and grabbed her by her throat burning his hands again, smacking her in the face with his head and sent the two of them falling downwards from the sky.
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Post by IDEK on Feb 3, 2020 22:33:43 GMT
Theseus looked over to Hercule and Cleopatra, sending one last cube of earth flying in their direction as the ground beneath him was lifted upwards, carrying him off to Cupid.
Gritting his teeth, Cupid wrapped both of his arms around the orb and turned his back to the battle behind him, scaling the mountain he had landed on.
His golden ship had appeared in the distance, a small golden speck traveling overhead.
Theseus charged straight into Cupid, the cube he was standing on fell apart, and exploded, knocking the orb from Cupid's arms by proximity and sending the two neonytes tumbling down the other side of the mountain, out of side, towards the many rivers of lava in the distance.
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Post by Master Psychic on Feb 3, 2020 22:49:00 GMT
Hercule and Cleopatra both crashed on the cube of earth with Hercule landing on top of Cleopatra, the cube's surface melting as she laid her back against it.
Gritting her sharp teeth, she slashed Hercule across the face, leaving hot smoking marks on his face before kicking him aside, nearly causing him to fall in the lava.
Hercule was having a bit of a hard time regaining his balance before Cleopatra raised her hand as she gathered lava onto her hand that formed into a spear and launched it at Hercule.
He swinged his sword, cutting the spear in half...before Cleopatra redirected the two halved towards Hercule and stabbed him in the back.
Cleopatra pointed her hand up and the spears took off into the air while still thrusted into Hercule's body till he reached the sky and when she clenched her fist, the spears burst into what looked like a fireworks display as Hercule began falling down, smoking.
A large lava hand peered out of the lava lake and grabbed hold of Hercule before he could fall as Cleopatra flew in front of him and tightened her fists as the hand began crushing Hercule's toros while burning him at the same time.
"AAAAAAH!" Hercule yelled.
Cleopatra just floated there, her expression not changing as she scowled at the Neonyte whom she holds responsible for the only friend she had left in this world, willing to make him suffer, not even paying attention to what's going on with Theseus and Cupid.
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Post by IDEK on Feb 4, 2020 20:55:56 GMT
Cupid continued to tumble down the mountain, the orb rolling dangerously close to the rivers of lava in the distance as the golden ship sailed overhead.
Theseus caught himself on a outcropping of rock, stopping his fall, and glared at Cupid, at his damaged body, that had been more injured by Cleopatra than by Theseus himself, and he let his rage explode, the ground beneath Cupid shattered apart, piercing through his back and knocking him into the air again.
Cupid let out a feral grunt, and a series of explosions shattered the air between them, smacking Theseus roughly into the mountain behind him. The cyborg lost his balance and stumbled down the mountain as Cupid landed roughly on his ass, bleeding.
"You bastard!" Cupid yelled, turning on his side and reaching for the orb as he shimmied along the dirt. "You stupid bastard! How many times am I going to have to blow you up before you die!"
"At least once more." Theseus responded, finding his balance, holding his arm out in front of him.
Cupid pulled himself to the orb, shot to his feet, and looked up to the ship as it steadily got closer, but it was still too far looking to be roughly the size of Cupid's hand. Tilting towards the two as though it was off balance, for some reason Theseus couldn't quite figure out.
Theseus's hand opened up, and he shot a actual bullet from it, it struck Cupid's shoulder. Even if he had absorbed the energy, the physical damage couldn't just be denied. He stumbled back, wrapped his arms around the orb as though it was his newborn child and ran for it, ran to the direction of the ship. Theseus didn't even look back on the other side of the mountain, to Hercule and Cleopatra.
He just ran after Cupid.
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Post by Master Psychic on Feb 4, 2020 21:12:37 GMT
Hercule continued to scream as he was getting burned and crushed at the same time by the lava hand while Cleopatra aimed one of her hands at Hercule as she was about to fry him alive by charging up a powerful blast.
Hercule, gritting his teeth, decided to highten his aura, increasing his strength and stamina but his insides felt like they were about to burst as he broke out of the hand, it splashed into lava pieces that landed on Cleopatra but din't burn her. Instead the lava went into her body before Hercule punched Cleopatra in the face and sent her crashing on solid ground, making a massive crater as she landed.
When Hercule landed, he kicked Cleopatra off the ground and went after her, slashing at her body constantly without stopping or giving her a chance to fight back, cutting through her body.
Cleopatra then grabbed onto Hercule's sword with one of her winged feet as she stopped herself and his sword suddenly turned red and slowly began to melt much to Hercule's shock as what was left of the sword was a puddle of metal that went all the way down to his hands and felt the burn.
"GAH!" Hercule screamed as he dropped his handle on the ground.
Cleopatra slashed him across the chest with her claws, burning his chest and collapsed on the ground before she began glowing with a red aura and started to fly towards the sky again as she held her arms up.
Red blood went down on his stomach, coming from his chest as Hercule wiped the blood out of his mouth and looked up at Cleopatra, having no idea what she was about to do next.
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Post by IDEK on Feb 4, 2020 23:43:15 GMT
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There was nobody else in sight, the ship was so far away, a passing cloud was closer. Passing over it and obscuring it when Theseus looked up. It was Cupid's destination, but it was too far away to truly impact events as it stood now. It occurred to Theseus, as he chased after Cupid, as they ran past streams of magma, that this was exactly what Solomon had seen. The mountain was gone, a part of the background now. All there was, was Theseus and Cupid.
He could die here, Cupid could die here. Everything over the day had been shouting that fact out to him, slapping him in the face with the possibility of death as though he hadn't already faced it once before.
Back when she first walked into the hospital, He barely recognized Erinye, she had changed so much and yet so little. As everyone does when they grow older.
'Have I changed as well?' He asked himself, 'Internally, I'm the same as I've always been. I'm still the same Theseus.
At least, I think I am...'
The time for introspection was over, he picked up the pace, running forwards and opening up the ground beneath Cupid, who fell with a high pitched yelp.
Cupid barraged the air beneath him with bursts of energy, shooting himself back into the air. "You never learn!" He exclaimed, holding the orb above his head as energy poured out from him like heat from the sun, the force cracked the ground around them and propelled Theseus away. "You're just one of my many mistakes, Theseus!" Cupid declared, letting himself float to a piece of stable ground.
"And you're one of my successes, tells you something, doesn't it?" Theseus refused to let himself come off as angry and abrasive, better to strike Cupid in the ego instead. "You didn't defeat me, you lost."
"It appears we both lost, friend." Cupid grinded his teeth together, "I lost everything I had worked for, you lost any chance at being anything more than a weapon."
"Aren't you the guy talking about how the strong should rule the weak, and we should use the strengths we were given?" Theseus asked.
"That's not strength that was given to you." Cupid stated.
"It was earned-" Was Theseus's rebuttal, but Cupid cut him off.
"It's machinery. You've got guns in your hands, Theseus. You're a complete robot under there, even if you have half your skin. But me, I was in that explosion too. I came out of it just as injured as you were. But I recovered, I adapted, I found my way back to the top. These pirates believe in me, Theseus. Just like everyone on Aquila did. Because they know that I'm right! They know what we're supposed to be! Our relevance is fading, Theseus, because of people who'd rather sit in chairs drinking their tea going to forced peace meetings with the people who hate us the most rather than show them that instead of hating, they should be fearing! Worshipping! The powers of the gods themselves run through our veins, and I'm one of the few left who utilize them to their fullest! Do you understand!?"
"...You're not going to convince me, Cupid." Theseus frowned, as the ground shot up around his opponent, Cupid darted back, still holding the orb, and then appeared right in front of Theseus, he held the orb above his head and brought it down upon Theseus's skull full force, The metal skin on his forehead shattered apart as Theseus fell from his feet, Cupid drove the orb down, hunching over Theseus as his head hit the solid ground beneath him.
Everything in front of Theseus blurred together as his eyes failed to adjust, he held his hand out, as Cupid raised the orb up again.
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Post by Master Psychic on Feb 5, 2020 6:10:35 GMT
As soon as Cleopatra was high enough in the sky.
She created a red fire sphere that appeared to be small at first till it grew in size, becoming medium sized and continued to grow which was now the size of Cyndass’s Hellfire spheres....but it continued to grow as Cleopatra let out a fearsome roar as the sphere continued to expand.
Hercule watched in shock as he and the ground he was standing on was covered in shadow and continued to do so as the sphere’s shadow loomed over Theseus, Cupid and the ship aswell when it reached them.
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Post by IDEK on Feb 5, 2020 20:27:34 GMT
Cupid froze for a solitary moment, looking up briefly to see the giant sphere in the distance. Theseus took his chance. Another bullet shot from his hand and knocked the terrorist back. The orb sailed out of his hands and rolled away as Theseus pulled himself to his feet, metal falling to the ground and exposing wires in his face as he punched Cupid across the cheek with his other fist.
Before Cupid could even let out another noise, Theseus punched him again, knocking him back.
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The ship was currently a bit too high up to be close to Theseus and Cupid, let alone to be shadowed by the orb. But looking at it through the window, Zener shook slightly.
"Get away from the window." Castor said, Zener nodded and backed away.
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Post by Master Psychic on Feb 5, 2020 20:40:36 GMT
The giant red orb that was now as big as the planet itself, if not, even bigger than the planet began to be covered in pitch black stone with fire coming out of it, it was now a giant meteor and it was no secret that if it hits the planet, it will be eradicated when it hits, powerful enough to wipe everyone out but chances are, the explosion would also take out Cleopatra aswell as anything else that's nearby outside of Uraeus, including Cupid's ship and any planets nearby. Any attack on it would likely trigger the explosion.
Cleopatra had her arms aimed at the meteor, exhaling angrily as she was about to drop it on the planet.
Hercule, who had trouble getting up and coughed a lot of blood, stood up and looked up at Cleopatra, looking weak and tired. There is no way he had that much power to push the meteor back like he did with the Hellfire ball, he had only one option left.
"...Cleopatra, don't do this." Hercule started.
"Why shouldn't I!? You left me with nothing! All of you left me with nothing! This stupid Universe took away everything that was dear to me, my parents, my brother, my husband and now...Cyndass, you took him away from me! I have nothing to lose now!" Cleopatra cried out with pure rage and sorrow in her voice as she glared at Hercule from below.
"But if you drop this, there is a chance you will die in the explosion too, not even your wings will be enough to save you from that!" Hercule said.
"...That's a outcome I would gladly accept. My life came crashing down into a bottomless pit of fire and smoke and now it will end in fire and smoke, a fitting ending for you, the Royal Guard, this planet...and me." Cleopatra said, tears falling out of her eyes, still acting out of grief.
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Post by IDEK on Feb 6, 2020 18:06:23 GMT
"This is not a good situation." Daphne stated. "If we get too close, then that thing's going to blow up and take us out with it. It might take out the orb as well."
"...I say we just leave." Zener stuck her head up. "We just leave, and come back once the explosions faded away. Those orbs could easily survive the blast."
"No, we can't leave." Daphne shook her head. "Those orbs could be picked up by anyone if we try to leave."
"What do you care?" Castor asked.
"I've been given a mission, and I intend on following it through." Daphne explained.
Castor stared at her. "Why? It's not like you're in F anymore."
At that, Daphne shuddered. "..That doesn't matter."
"No, what matters is the death ball over there almost as big as the planet. We can't do anything if that thing takes everything out first." Zener muttered, the glass on the windows was turning red hot and they weren't even that close, it would burn her hand if she touched it.
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