New Beginning 21: Awesomeness Revisited

[Zaleramancer]

(It's too stupid right now to figure that out.)

[Philote]

"The Quarantine doesn't seem to have let up. That's unfortunate" I say

"Hey kid, I don't know what your name is, but could you wake that man up? He probably knows how to shut this off. Oh, and this just a normal hallway again, so that thing is going to be right on top of us any moment."

I begin tracing Rose King's Shield across the walls, placing wards to protect myself and the others.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Right, right. Come on doc, wake up before that thing eats us." Peter says, slapping the Vizier gently in the face as El-ahrairah steps forward beside Phi. It copied his moves, adding it's own power to his wards.

[Zaleramancer]

(You realize the Vizier is a humanoid feathered gecko?)

?A36O*GAN#O%T8H$(Q-)H@#24@HJA%O25(1-*PW#H-!!!!

Grumbled he.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

(Really? He must have had his hood up.)

"Yeahyeahyeahyeah, that's great. How do we shut off the quarantine!?"

[Philote]

Noticing the creature copying me, I take a closer look at it finally. "Is that supposed to be an imitation of me?" I ask "Could you have added a little bit less rabbit to the mix? I don't think its helping the theme flow of its powers."

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"No, it's not possible for me to have added less rabbit. I can only rabbits, I'm the king of rabbits, I founded the age of a rabbit." he's clearly an agitated, very high strung sort of person. He's talking very quickly now. "Look, the process it to complex to go over right now but when I hit you with him think of it as him absorbing some of your DNA. If you had a son who was somehow half rabbit, that would be what he would look like. He's your rabbit son, congratulations, enjoy that mental picture. WHY WON"T THIS GUY SPEAK PEOPLE?!!!!"

[Philote]

"If we're going to be working together, then I may was well assist you in getting the data optimized" I say as I lay a hand on the Phi-Rabbit. "There was a legend of a rabbit on the face of the moon who used a mallet to pound and create mochi. I am going to use this connection to unite your rabbit with both the moon and the mallet and from that connection unite it with the warding data of Rose King's Shield."

Power races through the rabbit as I adjust its theme. In its hand appears a copy of Rose King's Shield in the form of a mallet and its energies meld across the rabbit's fur.

"Alright, it is upon us! Help me push it back so that we can escape from here."

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It lets stares out with beady eyes toward the oncoming danger. The mallet is hefted in it paws, as naturally as if the creature had thumbs, before it brings it crashing down on the wards. But instead of break, they compress, and come up looking stronger. It swings down again as the begin to come back up, again and again, refining them, tempering, strengthening.

[Philote]

"Good. To add the moon and the mallet I had to remove the king and the rose."

The air shimmers as purple force moves from my blade as if it was burning the air. The force stretches out, gliding out into the form of roses wrapping around my body. I gather wards in my left hand until the accumulation of them forms a tower shield. The roses lock into plate armor around my body, wrapping so tightly that the form of the rose is lost except for aesthetic designs on the armor.

I charge forward, pushing the tower shield before me and sending out waves of force to send the sentient black hole back.

[Zaleramancer]

Curving halls twist around the blackhole, bent under it's merciless gravitational pull.

The energy slows as it approaches, shrinking into a pin-prick of light as it is absorbed.

It continues it's relentless advance.

[Philote]

I throw the tower shield of stacked wards forward, letting it travel with the speed of my charge. I jump back behind the rabbit's wards and wait to see what the collision will cause.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

I follow with Mayumi and Kiki following after me, "So whom will we most likely meet next?"


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(I'll be replacing Dryad with this character when this arc is over for the time being)

A portal appears and a woman comes out in front of the gates. Her black dress and hair spin around her for a few seconds before settling in place. She looks around and puts her hand on the hilt of a sword with a silver-looking tsuba at her waist before walking inside.

[Zaleramancer]

Staring at a sudden dead end, the woman tutted slightly.

"Some moron woke it up."

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The inexorable dance of the blackhole continued forward.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

I blink in confusion, "Woke something? Who woke what and why?"

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The woman walks into the room where the sphinx had been earlier, but was not there anymore and looks around slowly to try to understand what had happened in the room. Noticing the six doors set into the alcove, she chooses the one that has the nicest environment and enters.

[Zaleramancer]

"Security Systems."  She says. "It will only take a few minutes to turn them off. Hopefully whoever woke it up won't do anything stupid in the mean time."

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(I'm afraid I don't recall which one that is.)

[Philote]

"Can your rabbit do anything against that?" I ask over my shoulder.

Halo appears in my left hand to replace my lost shield. A section of non-matter that gave off the appearance of a white blade.

"I could use an Overdrive against it, but I'd rather not just yet" I say as I duel wield the blades.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I come bounding up, still in Wulf form, from bashing and thrashing demons. I look to either side of me, with a smirk.

"So. What'd I miss?"

[Zaleramancer]

".. I'll just not care who you are, precisely, and move on." The sorceress snapped her fingers and began chanting towards the dead end.

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The black hole wavers, then continues.

[Ericus Europaeus (Bug)]

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