New Beginning 21: Awesomeness Revisited

[Philote]

I set down the container for the Labyrinth Virus and speak to the Zale before us "Is there anything you can tell me about how I should deal with this creature before I finish my preparations for this fight?"

The Labyrinth Virus was too dangerous to bring into a battle such as this in its current state, leaving me with no choice but to carry out the final experiment I had planned for it now. The limiter I had created for its use had proved stable so far, working in every manor of object that I had placed it upon. Lastly, I would test its efficiency on a living object, by injecting myself.

I empty the container and the virus rushes over me. A Labyrinth like pattern moves over my skin and vanishes as my powers are forcibly brought to their ultimate state. My body gains a pure white appearance as it turns to a non-matter state and my clothes turn black as the displaced matter compacts into them.

"Hold onto this for me" I say as I toss Rose King's Shield to the Vault. For this fight I would only be relying on my true blade, Halo.

[Zaleramancer]

"Eager thing, isn't she? Abrupt too."

Glancing at Phi with an expression of worry, I say, "You're going to have to hit it fairly hard to catch it's attention. It may look like nothing more than.. whatever you guys see it as, but-"

Red lightning spewed forth as the blade sliced through the neck of the Knight. It continued to advance towards the Blue Dragon as the wound healed, barely even slowing.

"- It's not. It's an illusion of perspective, because most minds prefer to not watch two things battle in 8th dimensional space."

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Crescent hisses in fustration before raising the blade up and pointing its tip at the knight, "Divinity Crusher!"

A beam of silver light lances out to strike the knight's chest area.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Hold this for him." The Vault says, tossing the Shield to the Zale boss guy.

The door opens.

Gone is the form of Peter. Back is the ape with the obsidian hands, the savage god of savage group of apes.

The boy stood next to it, looking around excitedly. "Gee Mr. Vault, what's going on?"

"A fight, Sherman!" he replies boisterously. "Apparently, taking place in eight dimensions. Thought you'd like to see."

He turns to Zale. "Do not lose this boy." He then takes off in a run, and leaps onto the stand. "HEY, RED MAN!" he says, his voice shaking the whole arena. "I WANT YOU INSIDE ME!" Then he leaps, coming down from above to smite the knight with a flying elbow drop. He pushes the bodies divinity into the attack, turning it from an normal attack into the literal wrath of god to smite the creature.

[Philote]

I teleport over a now vacant arena. The only remaining creature is the red one below me. I have made it so that my actions will only interact with the foe by shifting my attunement with this dimension so that he is the only one that I perceive.

I ready one of my Ultimate Overdrives far easier than normal as the Labyrinth Virus reworks my structure, expanding inwards instead of out. The golden energy of the Omni-Element clouds around me and compacts into a dragon's head over my blade. My wings flare as I fly down towards the creature to thrust him with the energy and send it spreading throughout its philote-structure, even into the other dimensions in which it existed.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Pictured: Approximately what is happening right at this moment.


I'm the train.

[Zaleramancer]

The Colosseum dissolved as the frail illusion snapped under the weight of power.

Black void spread out in all directions, gone where knight and dragon- now only two writhing columns of power remained, one fat and red, the other wavering and blue.

Around them orbited myriad colored shapes and forms, dancing around in mind-bending dimensions.

Several of them gathered around those that had remained near the entrance, embracing them in a multicolored bubble.

Sorry. This is the best I can do right now.

A wavering voice said.

The voice was soon overpowered by a new, explosive sound. The three pronged attack struck the red column, spinning and pinching it. A sound like the king of all thunderclaps rippled outwards.  

That had certainly caught it's attention.

Then.

The Red Creature pushed back.

Raw, unadulterated power shot out like prominences from a furious sun, arcing towards the three who had attacked it.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The attack drives him back, even in the body of the fiercest creature he possessed. He could feel it, pouring into his pours, settling itself against it's taste-buds and the lining of it's nostrils. He flies off, sailing into the void.

The Door opens, and it's flight is arrested by what looks like an ancient Egyptian pleasure skiff. The impact of it's landing pushes the boat back through the void, until the ores orient themselves and it stops. The Vault smiles with the blood gods lips, a horrible sight to anyone that cared to be looking, and begins to laugh with a deep baritone as the Skiff begins drifting back toward the pillar.

"Hahahahahahah, yes, YES! Such an energy, so unlike anything I have ever felt before." he shouts to it, almost frantic with desire. "You, such a unique creature. There is no need for us to do battle, and the result is inevitable as entropy. You will join my collection. Offer yourself to me, beautiful one, and in exchange I will give you eternity!"

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Crescent moves out of the path of the energy. Although she could withstand a large amount of punishment, she'd prefer not to have to test it against something like this. Concentrating quickly, she switched from the cloak she had on to one more suited to the purposes of this level of combat: The Cloak of Flowing Twilight, strongest and most powerful of Crescent's armors, as well as the one most closely linked to her soul. The ends flare out from behind Crescent as it sparkles even more than the previous one, yet at the same time darker in color.

"Elemental Quake!" The blade bursts into flames as ice, sound, lightning, and acid surround it.

"River of Blades!" Crescent moves just as fast as before but now she makes a hundred slashes in the direction of the red pillar, each causing a ripple in the air and accompanied by the energies surrounding the Silver Crescent Fang.

[Zaleramancer]

The thing swatted at the skiff with titanic limbs of fire and lightning. It neither heard nor understood his words.

But.. the other both heard and understood.. A plan began to form.

A spark of blue fire shot like a comet out of the Blue.

It shrieked past Cresent, as ice melted and steamed, sound vibrated uselessly, lightning was eaten and acid flash-dried. The explosion of a thousand strikes caused the creature to ripple.

A tsunami of plasma and roaring noise poured out from it as it flailed against her assault.

The comet darted around the spinning limbs of Red, landing on the skiff in vaguely human form- looking like lightning mimicking a human shape.

It does not understand you

But It can be made to understand

Time is required

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Just so long as it understands that it. Is. Mine." it replies, and the skiff moves nimbly and unnaturally out of the way. The Vault kicks in the door of the skiffs single cabin.

There's a dry rustling sound, like a wave of leaves in Autumn, and an ocean of white bandages fly from the cabin and begin to wrap the Vaults prize for it, ancient holy script blazing like the sun across the length of each individual linen wrap.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Crescent avoids any flailing attacks directed towards her previous position, reveling once more in the joy of wearing her soul-bound armor. Moving as fast as she can, Crescent forms what appears to be a wall of after-images, while delivering strikes at random and chanting a short rhyme:

The heavens are my blade
Niflheim is my hilt
The Earth is the tsuba
I summon thine power, World Blade.

A glow appears above Crescent and a bone-white katana floats down to her outstretched hand, seeming almost to pulsate with raw undeniable power as she swings it once releasing raw force to impact against the red pillar.

(FYI, the soul-bound items are from the sourcebook "Encyclopaedia Arcane: Magic Item Creation"

The World Bladeis more powerful than the Silver Crescent Fang and was also made using The Immortal's Handbook)

[Philote]

I close my eyes and when I reopen them, a golden labyrinth covers my irises. All around me, everything that I perceive has changed into the same golden energy as the Omni-Element covering my blade.

(Elemental Perception: I perceive the world as only one element, allowing me to affect things as if it were that element, and having things only affect me as if they were that element. Doesn't actually alter anything but myself.)

I rotate my sword around me, connecting with and gathering the ambient energy around me and then point my blade towards the oncoming column of energy. The dragon's skull covering my blade comes alive and grows into a large serpentine dragon as it hunts towards the foe.

[Zaleramancer]

Grand and red, the being flickers at the force of the blows, bending and twisting.

It's response is simple and furious.

The force of several nuclear blasts explodes outwards.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

As the blasts hit and send her flying a backwards for a distance, Crescent frowns. While several nuclear blasts (even combined) could knock her back, they weren't enough to hurt her or any but the weakest of her family, so there had to be something else to it... Oh, right! The enemy didn't know about that, so it could very well help her.

Crescent takes a second to concentrate, raising the levels of power that she was drawing upon before making a dozen attacks of pure power with the World Blade and the Silver Crescent Fang upon the pillar from several different angles.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(Where can I be of assistance? I think I'm with Phi and them. What all's going on here?)

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

(We're fighting the being that took control of Zale's body and is fighting his mind. Crescent is attacking at high speed; Dryad, Kiki and Mayumi are preparing to cast a spell; Phi is attacking the being; GV is attempting to capture it; and several blasts each with the force of several nuclear blasts have been fired in all directions at those who have attacked the being)

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Witnessing the conflict at hand, I decide to lend what effort I can. Though, it will require more than brute force. That in mind, as my body goes into False Cognition and proceeds to attack with various physical attacks, energy blasts and psionic manipulations, my mind ventures out of my body, invisible, and attempts to make contact.

Where Zale and the enemy do battle, I hope to be of assistance.

[Myself]

I join in the fight with my own attacks while supporting others (using one mind) and attempt to use mental powers to help Zaleramancer win the fight against the being (with another mind) whilst simultaneously attempting to protect myself with a third.

It is good to be able to have a fight alongside friends for the first time in a while.

[Zaleramancer]

Strident shrieks of energy continued to pulse off of it as it bent and wove.

Then a sudden clicking sound changed what was heard.

An explosion of cursing and yelling suffused the shrieking noise.

It understands now, and we it.

In response to this development, the creature upped the ante. Already radiating energy like unto the core of a white-hot-star, it unleashed a wave of what could only be called Fire: The No Fucking Around Version.

Stray particles were ripped down to their constituent springs as the wave of mobile deconstruction surged forward.

(Let's finish this before Christmas, eh?)