Lords of Creation (Story Thread 2)

[Philote]

Rhogar continues to fight at Gilgamesh's command. Aox was in his sights again, doing something foreign to Rhogar.

The hero prepared an overhanded strike against his opponent, his blade now coated with a hard layer of ice.

[Mik_Hael]

"hah...ha....I can't keep this up for much longer..." the images are flickering as the sea of memories tryy to reorder itself forcing me to lapse back into unconsciousness. "...have to stay..awake...."

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Grace: "I agree!!!!" they fly upwards dodging the crystals before realizignt that the top is beginning to close into an impenetrable array of spikes, "QUICK GIVE ME A BOOST!!!"

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Muffin: "GRAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He grapples with the thrid of the Cormuffins as the second lies crumbling. The creature's attack lifts the Cormuffin into the air, and he delivers a powerful punch to it's mid section. it begins to shatter, but false directly towards the arena.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

It was now or never. Aox released one of the tubes and it rolled  between Rhogar and Aox where is sizzled for a brief moment before exploding in a colorful display of fire. The heat singed Aox's face and he turned away from it. As quickly as it had started, the flames died

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Mina gets fed up. The destruction of the crystal wasn't as fast as she'd like so....

Mina: "Kyuuketsu, Suna, Illusia! Get over here!"

The three walk over and Mina details her plan to them. Illusia then walks behind all of Mina's group and sets up a giant illusion for anyone watching what they're doing to see a desert storm. Suna then creates glass out of the desert's sand and uses it to rip apart the crystal as Kyuu uses the Heart of Gravity and the Heart of Magnetism simultaeously and divine power (Inherent Smite) to generate black holes around her to fully destroy crystal that she approaches.

Meanwhile, Gravas and Magnas use wind, water, electricity, and metal to rip the crystal to pieces as Mina uses fire, ice, and shadows, all covered by the illusion.

(Total: 10 motes)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The Babysitter see's the spikes, flips over, and plants he squarely on Graces backside with a nice swift kick. The Death goddess goes flying up through the spikes just as the close in., The babysitter barely managing to not impale herself as she slides to a stop and kicks off the dome.
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The crowds that are left watching the match begin to scream as the giant stone monster falls toward them. Only for a fist made entirely of crystal to slam into it a knock it away.

The Von Trapt, sans arm, stands in the desert. Everyone in the cockpit shocked into silence that it had actually worked.

"Wow." Say's the teenager. "So, did we win?"

"Win?," says the watchman, exiting the cockpit. "I don't think we've yet begun to fight."

[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Oh, this is getting exciting! I hope I'm drunk enough to enjoy it"

[Philote]

Rhogar picked himself up from being face down in the dirt. What was this creature that he was facing. Fire, Smoke, and even arrows appeared out of no where to defend him. His armor and scales were charred, the level of sword magic he had been using would not be enough for this summoner.

He cracked his back and two plates in his armor opened up. Wings began to grow from his back. His left hand grew into a large scaled claw. In general, his whole body was becoming more draconic.

Standing up, he faced Aox. Taking in a breath, he fired off a breadth of clinging frost.

Tier Two: Spell Scales

[Mik_Hael]

(Remember, it spits highly corrosive acid from the pool as well.)
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Grace: At the moment, grace was experiencing something that had never been felt on this world before...several G forces. She sped upward with a quick break through the sound barrier from the combined speed of the BS and her. The crystal began to grow to block her path, but she altered her directions lightly and continued, to the point that the crystal was at it's thinnest, the very center above the city. She smashed into it, barely lessening her speed enough to avoid extreme pain, and pressed her hands agaisnt the smooth surface of the dome. She concentrated and sent a pules of energy through the crystal...it shimmered, as it attempted to resist the new command, before yeilding, and shattering. A sprinkling of shining crystal fell upon the city. Each peace no bigger than a snow flake.

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Muffin: "BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAACK" The creature delivered a killing blow into the face of the last Cormuffin, before falling to the ground exhausted and breathing heavily.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Mina and her entourage stops their attack and run in as fast as they can to find out the situation. Kyuu hands the Hearts back to Mina and they turn into bracelets on Mina's wrists.

(Total: 10 motes)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The frost hit Aox square in the face. After the intense heat of the fire, the frost was extra painful. With no way to warm himself up Aox could do nothing more than try to shield himself from the icy onslaught. He reached for something, anything to block the frost. All he could find was a thick leather apron he'd left in his satchel. He held it up but it did little to stop the cold.

Was this how it was going to end for him?

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Back in Mina's territory...

Lily watches the work on the temple and aids the races as well as she can, talking about how each block of stone for the temple should be positioned. Kyouko calmy and quietly creates blocks of ice with the Yukionna and Yukiotoko for the other races to carve designs into or sculptures from for practice before they actually worked the designs onto the stones. This way, each block would be unique with its carver's love for their gods etched into it.

Lily had already carved her block. It had upon its surfaces, flames flowing around it in a display of beauty. Kyouko had yet to carve hers but she already knew what she wanted to carve on it: a rose formed of ice, with each delicate petal etched in detail. Theirs were the two blocks that would cover the entrance to the Illusory Labyrinth to mimic their role, as the Divine Guardians of Lady Mina's lands. It had been decided early on by the consensus of all of Mina's races that the entrance to the Illusory Labyrinth would be the center point of the temple. Around it would be a section dedicated to each goddess. For Lady Mina was an altar with 5 flames, one for each of her domains. For the Twin Goddesses was one altar with nothing on it by their request. If it could be used for blessing twins, they would be more than happy enough. After all, their domains were Fire, Ice, and Twins. For Gravas was an altar with an everfilled bowl of water and a blanket woven with a feather from each tengu on it. For Magnas was a blanket woven with a hair from each raiju and metal interwoven with the hairs. For Kyuuketsu was an altar with a chalice filled to the brim with blood and wood from several trees from foreign lands. Alas, no altars had been made for Suna or Illusia as news of their creation hadn't reached the builders yet. But when it did, they would build an altar of colored glass with sand for Suna. For Illusia, the temple itself would suffice as her altar. Lots of work was needed.
(Total: 10 motes)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Grace," said the Babysitter, flying up through the crystal storm. "This is amazing. High five!" She puts up her hand as a sudden wave of divine energy pulses through the  crystal particles, transforming them into water. The net result is a blanket of fog descending on the city. (inherent: Miracle)

"Yes Grace, this whole affair haw been pretty amazing, hasn't it?"

The Watchman slowly rises through the fog bank. His voice's are calm. Far too calm, and they all speak together with no single voice lasting longer or beginning before the others.

"Sorry about that, didn't want people breathing that stuff in. Who knows what might happen. Now, explain."

"Sir." "Sir!"

Two watcher race up through the fog and one of them attempts to salute.

"What are you two doing here?"

"We thought we would have pertinent information, Sir." says the Teenager. "We did spent the afternoon with him, after all."

The Watchman looks at the two of them.

"Yes, all pertinent information. I think everyone involved is up at this little pow-wow at the moment, except the rock monster and I'm not sure he can talk. So, Grace, if you wouldn't mind starting this little sharing circle..."

[Mik_Hael]

Grace: "I don't know wwhat's going on either." Grace looked down and shuffled her feet, a rather hard act to do when floating several hundred feet above ground level, "BS and I were out in the desert...talking, when we were attacked by Mik...No it wasn't Mik Hael, or at least it didn't act like him...He's used me in the past, he's manipulated me but ever since he brought me into existence I never thought he would be capable of something like this...okay he was capable, but he'd never do it. Especially with the tournament in progress, he was looking forward to it more than everyone else." Her eyes widen slightly and she looks directly into the Watchman's mask, "Where are they?"

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Monsterking: "...Good, good, I would have preffered the dust to remain in the city, but just as well." The God inside of a writhing mass of shadowswaved his hand over a section of crystal and the image displayed wavered and dissapeared. The god turned laughing quietly to himself and walked forward towards a large mirror that sat in the center of the far wall of the room. The room was composed entirely of crystal, higher than the arena it towered over the vision of men and faded into darkness before the roof became visible, the room looked more at home in a cathedral than a fortress. A throne sat at the end of a long line of darker colored crystal, elevated by several steps. Slightly to the right of this throne, was the mirror. The god snapped his fingers and the surface pulsed, flickering slightly as the crystals fed stored information into it, retrieving captured images from the fight. Eventually it settled on an image of Gilgamesh...Second later the reflection shifted, and the arm of the reflection reached forward, penetrating the glass of the mirror and moving forward. In seconds it was freed, and stood silently. The Monsterking turned and made a small motion with his hand signalling for the god copy to move forward, and it did, without emotion or thought. The mirrors surface flickered again, turning back to the same image, and the process repeated. As it did, the mirror's surface divided, showing figures of the other gods as well.

"Not bad for a copy I suppose, it could use some work, but otherwise this will do, now for the second part....'the god fell silent for several seconds. His arms rose at their full length in front of him and he breathed slowly the red eyes leering out from his face were little more than slits. Shadows from around the room came forth culminating into a single spot between the hands of the god, ixing with his breath, creaing a small cloud of smoke like substance. When the small ball of shadows began to resemble a black flame, the god's eyes snapped open and a pulse of power swept out from him redircting itself into the ball of shadows. A loud crack echoed across the room as the ball exploded, spreading a fine dark powder into the air. An instant later the powder rushed back towards the monster king, forming a small grey cloud in front of him.

"Hello." the monsterking smiled revealing a red cavernous mouth.

the cloud reformed itself shapping into the letters H, E, L, L, and then seconds later O.

"Good to see you again, eh? I won't say I've missed you, but your absence was just tollerable." The god held a hand out and  the cloud formed around it rappidly rotating...almost like an evil ethereal cat. "Enough." A pulse of energy swept out and the cloud dispersed for several secons before refforming ..somehow darker, and glowing for a breif instant. (2 miracles -6 Cloaking/undetection, BB) "Now come on, you know what to do, get going." The cloud straitened itself, and then swept outward, moving through the crystal and out into the world. "Almost sad to see the little buggers go...well almost at least. how are the rest of you doing then?" The mosnterking glanced at the center of the room where he had left gilgamesh, there were now several dozen copies of various gods, spread across the room in rows according to exit from the mirror and copy. "Great!" The monsterking sat upon his throne and propped his head upon his fist. Now just to wait."

[Zaleramancer]

A scraggly looking crow descends from the sky, landing on the Watchman's shoulder.

It's clipped beak holds a small parchment scroll.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

He takes the crows delivery, cautiously, and reads it before speaking again. The Babysitter floats up to read over his shoulder.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Crav was getting impatient and the alcohol in his system wasn't helping either.

"Where's the little puke that tried to ruin this perfect day!"

[Zaleramancer]

The person you're looking for is rather hard to find. He(?) has swathed his person with heavy anti-detection cloaking. I can barely ken out where he may be by figuring out where his cloaking doesn't extend. I'll keep working on it, but for now all I can tell you is that he's south west of Spectropolis.

                                                                -Zaya

[Zaleramancer]

Yelling, Shouting.. It was all to much for Mela. She was already nearly panicking herself.

She snapped.

"LISTEN UP!" She said with a voice like a thunder-clap. "SIT DOWN. NOW!"

As one, the crowd of people sat. Gulping and wondering if it being crushed by the stone monster would have been preferable.

"GOOD. NOW. THIS MATCH HAD BETTER KEEP GOING. I WILL NOT HAVE MY NOTES BE INCOMPLETE."

Mela's face promised certain, painful death to any who defied her.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"If you mean the rest of Miks retina, they left right before all this began." he says, looking up from the letter.

"Grace he didn't do it. It was something else!" The Babysitter shouts excitedly.
"Or Zaya could be lying."
"Oh, she wouldn't do that."

He looked at her for a moment. He would never understand the prestige that girl held Zaya in.

"I'm going to go check it out. But not alone." He turns to the two waiting servitors, studying them, as if he were accessing some distant memories. Finally, he nodded, and stuck out his hand toward the teenager. Divine lighting arced from his fingers and flowed into him. The Teenager screamed from the sudden shock of it all, as he began to spin into a whirlwind of sparking light. When it finally stopped, what stood there was a boy with sandy blond hair in a long grey cloak. His mask had fallen away onto the sand.He wouldn't be needing it.Instead, he had a pair of grey rimmed glasses.

The Reasonable, God of Peacekeeping and Reason.

(Create Major god -12 +1 for furthering my domain.)

He stared down at his new form, and brought up his hand to wiggle his fingers in front to his face. "Si-sir, I, I mean-"

"I want you to go down into the city and put the peoples minds at ease. This is supposed to be a festival, I'd hate to have it ruined. Spin this as some sort of display. Keep them happy. Then, I want you to take Grace and the Babysitter and head for Miks land. I want to know whats going on there. Can I trust you with that!"

"Yes," he says, almost stumbling over his words, "Yes sir, I'll do my best." He flies down, already thinking of ways to calm the populace and keep peace. (+1, further domains)

Then he turns to the Veteran, and power arcs again, shooting into the servitor. He doesn't spin. Instead, he seems to implode. The sound of scraping metal can be heard from withing the cloak, and when it unfurls again it reveals a man in dark grey Armour. The top half of his face is covered by an eyeless metal helmet, but the bottom falls away to reveal and grizzled, lantern jaw.

"Veteran, God of Defense and, "Pragmatic" Battle, you will accompany me to the south west. I want to find this man, if he exists." (Create Major -12, current motes: 0)

"Sir Yes sir!" he bellows, giving a textbook salute.

Before they jets off, he turns to look at Grace and The Babysitter. "Wait for The Reasonable to return before doing anything. We don't know whats going on, and I would rather not have this become an "Incident."

Then the two are gone, capes fluttering in the wind.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

(10 motes previously +3 motes, Total: 13 motes)

Mina notices as the Watchman flies off and signals to Magnas and Gravas to take her retinue to the arena. She, Kyuuketsu, Suna, and Illusia would be following the Watchman. She needed to know just what was going on.