New Beginning 20: Nize Hats for everyone.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

(... She's that one? Didn't think anyone would actually use that mythical creature...)

Matron blocks the strike with a lantern and starts trying to figure out which creature Atsuko was. She was probably going at it wrong, if it wasn't similar to Achilles, then which mythos was it?

The Mage and the Gladiator move away from Id as fast as they can. Radiation was not something that they could withstand.

Justin collapses to the ground coughing as Superego's order goes throughout his body. He yanks out all of the rings on his Soulsword's hilt and yells out, "Ultimate Form, Fang of Draconic Psionium!" The numbers of daggers multipies to 1000 as Justin puts one of the rings around his own neck and uses its effect to neutralize Superego's power as well as he can. The daggers move to counter and attack Ego and Superego respectively.

Matsuri, Miki, and Mayumi teleport as fast as they can across the ocean to Minerva Academy.

[Zaleramancer]

A flash of red light illuminated the Labyrinth.  

The Stellan exploded into a supernova, sending out a huge surge of energy and plasma.

The mirrored wall shattered and Rafe collapsed.

With a dismissive wave, the young girl knocks the arms aside with enough force to punch through steel.

"You have no choice now, Jessica." She said with a smug smile."It said to let me go. Release the other seals."

Jessica whispered in a husky and hoarse voice, "So this is how I die. May the ancestors forgive me.."

She turns to Philote. "I hope you are powerful enough to stop her. Otherwise, I and my world are doomed... If only I could choose."

Jessica raised her staff and spoke three words, then broke it over her knee. She collapsed.

Four bracelets clattered to the floor. The little girl smiled.

A sound like many voices spoke at once.

"Free at last. Free at last. Let us slaughter the world!"

Her form twisted and grew distorted, expanding and bending. Skin became red, claws and horns sprouted. A whip-like tail emerged, and a flaming crown appeared on her head.

Suddenly, her body came to a halt. A tall woman with skin like blood, a long mobile tail, goat horns and wicked claws.

"For I am Alza, Queen of Demons and Destroyer of Worlds!"

Fire blossomed from her, wrapping her in an aura of super-hot proportions.

[Zaleramancer]

(Which one do you think she is?)

The hazardous radiation continues to spew from Id, as he pursues the fleeing pair.

Ego flies through the daggers, bashing the aside with his sword, moving faster than a bullet train now.

Superego feels her order blunted by this new power. As the rings moved in, her eyes glowed green.

Every plant within a hundred miles suddenly exploded into new growth. Green surrounded her, thick and.. hostile. The plants did not move, but grew with such extreme speed that they might as well. They began to engulf the daggers.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

(First thing that pops to mind is the hundred-year-old objects, but that's probably wrong. Next thing that comes to mind is kappa, but Atsuko doesn't have a tail so that doesn't work. I need to check my database on Japanese mythos. Just give me a little bit)

(You got the attacks wrong. Justin only has three rings and one's on his neck while the others are in his hand along with the katana. What moved to attack Ego and Superego was daggers, not the rings.)

[Zaleramancer]

(Correct. She comes from a very mana-heavy world. So much so that in some areas, It's possible for enough mana to cling to an old object that it becomes sentient. Such objects are able to form bodies from the ambient mana around them. These new bodies are virtually indestructible, but can not house the object's soul. Only their original form can.. so if it gets broken, their soul escapes and they die.)

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

(And this just goes to show that I shouldn't second-guess myself sometimes. It always happens that when I change my answers on tests that my original answer was correct. Oh, well.)

Matron moves to change things up. If her opponent was invulnerable, then the best thing she could do would be to destroy the sword and reduce this to hand-to-hand combat, "Ultimate Form, Pledge of the Lantern Keeper!" The lanterns multiply to number 46,656 as they absorb even more heat while Matron starts to avoid coming into contact with Atsuko's blade as much as posible, blocking only when necessary, to make the blade become very brittle.

As Id chases after the Mage and the Gladiator, gravity suddenly increases all around him as Mayumi makes her entrance. Simultaneously, Miki jumps in front of Egoo to block his attacks, her invulnerability working very much in her favor. As Justinstarts to stand up, Matsuri puts her hand on his shoulder and relieves him of fighting against Superego. All of the fights would now be one-on-one as the Mage, the Gladiator, and Justin take all of the wounded into Minerva Academy for medical care.

[Philote]

"Biome" fled into the arctic energy she had created, the blue sphere reducing in size to just barely surround her in order to increase its intensity. Her Core flashed in the blue light. She brought her hands together and pulled them apart, a string of pearl-like spheres forming as she did so. "Biome" sent the chain of pearls arcing towards the center of the supernova. Several ruptured under the energy of the supernova, but chain after chain followed, working to encompass the blast.

I turn my attention away from those that I had just been facing and depart into the Labyrinth.

Morph's Core shined with the light of a sun. The metal of his satellite began to burn white from the energy it was taking in, even the Labyrinth around them began to uncoil as the energy was drained. Eventually the area around the satellite is turned into blank space, a seemingly white area where even the position's data had been drained away. "You are nothing!" Morph called to Alza as he he thrust his hands forward. A white beam escaped the satellite and cut through space, reality twisting away from it into more blank space, towards Alza.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The planet's atmosphere remains aflame, but now the Sun and Planet Celadon begin drawing further apart. With just a glance, the flame turns to darkness, and the darkness ripples with psionic power.

The Penultimate disappears into thin air, and as soon as he's gone, a gigantic nearly-planet-sized hand reaches through the dark portal. How the Penultimate loved reaching through the Magnifactor Dimension. it magnified EVERYTHING. Mass, density, size, strength, powers. And since he had blocked all passage through said realm, reserving it only for those favored by him and the Elementals, it wouldn't come back to bite him.

However, the magnification wouldn't last forever, as a rule; the Elementals had already discussed that with him. And so he'd have to take advantage of his planetary size quickly.

He would start by enchanting the Gilded Ninnyhammer, increasing its size to match his own, and psychically accessing the knowledge it had stolen; now it was time to bash some skulls.

[The Junkyard Cat]

Watching all the battles at once was entertaining a bit but I wonder if there is something big about to happen feels like something is building up a special moment (Just saying how fun it is to watch by the way Marv really curious on what your working on)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

(Sorry, No Spoilers. But it's pretty damn cool if I do say so myself. )

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

(My guesses: 1. It's going to be a picture of the NB group as a whole. 2. Individual portraits of each of our characters.)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

(Guessing won't do you any good, cause I ain't sayin' if you're right or wrong. )

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(Shush! don't ruin the surprise! It might be preparations for the comic we've been talking about. Maybe he found somebody to do it, or is attempting to go through with it himself!)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

(Speculate all you want, my lips are sealed.)

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(I know....)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

On a completely unrelated note, does a anyone know where I can find Bug's character description?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Um, I'm guessing you'd have to email him. He is biracial, from what I remember, and lean build, from a pic I saw of a tattoo he got, but the pic didn't include his face, so, that's about the best as I can offer.

And hopefully he responds. He said something about not being able to access the internet for a while.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I was hoping maybe someone remembered a post in which he described his character. Oh well, I'll try sending an email.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

But that's the point, he never did describe himself, other than (I think) saying that the character looks just like him.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I do remember him saying that he was shifting a lot, due to being imagination. I just thought he had said more at some point.