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 Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:10 am
One particularly, surprisingly buff looking hunter demon growled as he pulled the wounded hunter away from Sephiroth and Jacob. It wasn't quite as good at cloaking or illusions like it's brethren, but it had a good amount of brute strength and more armor covering it's body than most hunters had. It circled Sephiroth and Jacob, while communicating with it's brothers.
You idiots, Alpha is disappointed with us! And now one of us is injured, due to such carelessness. Focus more on hurting their minds, like the traitor niearcim we've found out, instead of brute forcing things! Leave such physical fights to me!
While not as rapid fast as some demons, the injured hunter was gradually growing back it's appendages at such a speed, that the growth was rather evident.
The stronger hunter shook out it's fingers, it's strong, sharp claws elongating exaggeratedly as it swiped harshly at Sephiroth's shield.
Distract this one!
Suddenly a number of thoughts flooded Sephiroth's mind, suggesting he was tired from travel, weak from exertion and previous battles, that his memory had been not so clear as he thought as he remembered weird or bad situations that were forgotten like he was recovering from a sort of amnesia.
Fal'Jenul fought against these of course, but that action caused her to reveal herself without noticing, so they assaulted the both of them in Sephiroth's body. And just as quickly as the brute hunter slashed it's claws at Sephiroth's shield, he had spun, and struck out with his tail stinger, then kicked with his sharp clawed foot. Apparently this one had studied some form of fighting.
During all this, Jacob was focusing on a spell, murmuring words as energy started to glow from his hands, the removed appendages from the demon moving in front of him.
(Jacob) This I can work with...
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:27 am
Sephiroth made it that much of a stronger barrier that he didn't have to constantly concentrate on once the attacks in his head began. We didn't get assimilated with the billions of souls and still carried out our plans, a few hunters flooding our mind isn't worse than that, he told himself. Still he was finding it harder to hold up his heavy blade at ready when he knew he wasn't really tired.
Two could play at that. He started to say some words and do the motions to a spell that Jacob possibly remembered as one of his signature ones in which some purple glowing symbols began to appear in his hand and then as they faded from his hand and appear above the hunter as he said decend it all suddenly stopped as if the spell was interrupted. It would have drained the hunter after a couple seconds to having practically no energy once the casting was complete.
"I...I can't remember the end part of that spell... There are at least 6 of them...4 in my head, at least one in Milaku's, and this one..."
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:41 pm
Jacob couldn't tell or even think to Sephiroth the last part of the spell at the moment, he had to maintain all focus on what he was doing now. One last syllable and the spell was complete, a splash of blood spilling from the disembodied parts as they meshed together into a new shape. A spider-like being with a frenzy of sharp limbs slammed into the assaulting brute hunter, stabbing and slashing wildly as it screeched horribly. Jacob continued gesturing with his hands to control the strange golem of flesh while he managed to at least send one brief thought to Sephiroth.
Need to fight to remember, the spell ended like thi....
That small lapse of concentration cost him as his own creation was thrown into his face-mask, the claws trying to gain ground and inadvertantly tearing at his suit as they were thrown to the ground. Apparently because it was a creation of Jacob's, it was allowed through the shield Sephiroth had brought up... and perhaps because the shield had been weakened due to the hunter's assault's as well.
Jacob kicked the thing off him, ignoring his own slight injuries and scratches and tried to rush his claw-filled golem at the hunter again, while Sephiroth was trying to remember his spell. The hunter would have none of this though as he gripped one of the incoming appendages of the creature, ripped it off, and threw it like a dart at Sephiroth while simultaneously hurling the now twitching summoned thing at Milaku who was just starting to recover. She fell to the ground hard, while the ground itself started to react to people on it... Spiky tendrils started to push out of the dirt and try to bind themselves around the heros.
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:31 am
The sudden blow and pain cause the hunter demon's distraction to fail and Sephiroth realized that was part of their distraction and remembered how to complete it... he wasn't even doing it entirely right to begin with. He said the words, which were few, the demon got very angry as it should have by now known what was about to happen and even more fiercely pounded on that barrier. Sephiroth moved his hand in a circle forming redish-purple light in that shape and the moment he had finished the movement, the demon broke the barrier and slashed Sephiroth's hand that had made the circle, but it was a moment too late to disrupt the spell as a halo of light of the same color formed over the demon's head.
"You had better either run or win in the next 3 seconds, either way your energy will be depleted."
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:43 am
(Actions done with permission of course razz )
When Sephiroth was struck and bled a little the humanoid's nose twitched. His armor closed over the wound rather quickly, but this one still got a whiff of it. They suddenly vanished and reappeared right next to Sephiroth and punched him so hard that he slammed and went slowly through the other mages barrier (picture you trying to poke a hole in like a balloon that's not inflated with your finger... or through dense gel... it's an effect like that), which surprised many there since he was supposed to slam into it and fall off.
The one that punched him didn't hesitate and went after Sephiroth. It was gone before Jacob even realized he possibly had a dead type of being right next to him.
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:29 pm
The stronger hunter demon took this momentary distraction to his advantage before he completely lost his strength, stabbing Jacob through the waist, further damaging his suit and digging his claws deep into his stomach. He went to stab the man through the chest, but only made it part way as the necromancer barely managed to block the move with his dagger... the demon then slumped over, drained of strength, but still trying to attack weakly. Though greviously wounded, Jacob still managed to grab the demon around the jaw and force it's head skyward, using his dagger to mostly sever the flesh around the neck and base of the skull, where there was a bit less armor than anywhere else. He then returned the favor and stabbed the demon in a soft spot in it's stomach, kicking the damned thing off of him.
~Caution, Yir Nanite Suit functioning at 20% capability.~
~Damage to collar and belt units detected. Auto-repairing...~
Jacob muttered swears as he prodded at his damaged high-tech armor. The deepest of his wounds was only about half a foot in, which when considering the length of the demon's claws, was rather fortunate. In the meantime, there were probably still hunters around him and...
...he smacked himself in the side of the head.
People, we have a tactical advantage over these invisible hunters. The suit has all sorts of alternate vision modes, it completely escaped my... I'm just not used to these damned things.
Activating a few modes of vision, he was able to more easily see outlines and images of hunters crawling around. One of them had just leaped at his face, and he repaid it's attack by magically hurling the bladed clawed summoned he made earlier into it's stomach, shredding at it's flesh like a chainsaw.
Milaku, in the mean time, was busy clearing her mind finally and just realized what Jacob said. Thankfully, the Limboian tech made itself easy to use and she saw the tormentors that had been plaguing her. Growling under her breath, she let her wings unfold, and leapt onto the back of one unexpectedly. It thrashed, while one of it's breathren tried to pry her off, but she was quick with the sharp parts of her wings, stabbing several times in key areas before she was hurled to the ground again. The hunter she injured stumbled, bleeding profusely, choking on it's own gore. Focusing some holy energy, she sent a rather potent blast at the other hunter, but this one reacted faster than his brother... He grabbed his wounded brethren by the tail, swooping him forward into the blast as he ran forward, the holy energies blowing off the probably already dead or dying hunter's head as he leaped, and landed on Milaku's shoulders. His foot claws dug as deep as possible into her suit, trying to draw blood, while he slashed at her helmet.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:16 pm
Alpha now stood outside his barrier and touched his hands to the ground and suddenly the hunters were invisible to the others despite their superior technologies by some form of blindness to them the what was left of the hunters in there. He clinched his fists as the thing began to shrink and give them less room.
Meanwhile Sephiroth was dodging or cutting up bolder's and rubble until one finally managed to land and send him flying back at Jacob who was cutting up a hunter rather badly.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:02 am
Jacob turned just in time to see Sephiroth flying at him, but not in time to catch him or help stop his momentum. They both ended up collapsing on the ground, Jacob's concentration broken enough that his flesh golem creature fell apart in mid-shred on the hunter. The hunter fell back, it's stomach open with all sorts of gore and splintered carapace exposed, and bleeding from the mouth.... it was gravely injured, but moreso it was pissed off now which in some ways would make it more dangerous.
Milaku screamed in rage as she hurled the hunter off her shoulders, a small amount of her blood dripping down her face from inside the protective helmet that was now repairing itself as quickly as possible from all the fast and dangerous attacks inflicted against her. She lunged forward at the fallen hunter to stab it with her talon-claws, but the hunter turned invisible and evaded at the last possible moment, slicing a gash open in her suit with a very focused and potent swiping motion. The wound to her stomach was only an inch or so deep, but deep enough to sting and force the suit to further exhaust itself in protecting her and healing her injuries.
Jacob at this time was finally realizing that the barrier was shrinking as he struggled to get up, wincing as something swished past his head and tried to bite into Sephiroth's calf. They needed to strengthen their attack for sure.
We need help, this is getting too dangerous...
He was trying to hint that one of the hidden forces around them, such as Rosemary, or Muerte or someone should join the fight right about now, without being obvious about it so that the Alpha wouldn't expect it. Another attack attempted to sever Sephiroth's head right after the bite attempt, but this was deflected by Fal'Jenul with a reactionary blast of energy that shattered some of the hunter's claws.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:25 am
The other mage had reentered the arena soon after Sephiroth did twisting one hand with a blade twirling at their side. Several of the claws and sharper body pieces of the hunters raised up. A small rock smacked the one who attacked Sephiroth as the other sharp pointy things went after the actual person in question at various angles. "You IDIOT! That one is mine!"
Alpha entered the area and went after Milaku himself.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:28 am
They weren't coming at him from behind so he ran and worked at casting a barrier on himself.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:39 am
Rosemary appeared floating behind Alpha and shot him with a M.E.R.S. gun.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:42 am
Alpha collapsed from the blast of the unknown weapon finding himself to now feel weak... however with the help of the others outside the barrier, she saw Jacob on the ground as she started to think she hit Jacob instead of the mage.
When she looked at Jacob, she saw Alpha instead and started to swing that gun towards him.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:05 pm
PULL THE TRIGGER BEFORE HE ATTACKS YOU!
Instantly realizing what Rosemary was about to do, Jacob stepped back.
"Rosemary wai..."
Of course, with how fast her reflexes were, a sudden voice that sounded like common sense and a conscious (it was a hunter), and how delayed he acted himself, she had already pulled the trigger by the time he said something, THOUGHT something to make her realize he wasn't the hunter and that she had been trick.
Too little, too late, by just a millimeter.
Jacob's energy was almost entirely sapped from the magic essence stealing gun, and the effect was immediate as he fell over. A hidden hunter demon nearby noticed this, and grinned as he swiftly opened his mouth and stretched it over Jacob's head...
*CRUNCH!*
His body spasmed and twitched as his head was quickly removed by the hunter's sharp teeth and inner mouth claws and barbs, reduced to chewed necromancer mush that was quickly swallowed... it had been the hunter from before that he had wounded, and now with fresh food in his system, his stomach rebuilt itself almost immediately as he made a straight rush for Rosemary, claws extended.
It would be a little while before Jacob could recover from having his head chomped, though not nearly as long as it would take thanks to the damaged but still working healing systems of his suit.
Thas had not been entirely idle this time, for while Rosemary could see the threat in front of her, there was one behind her unnoticed. His prayers were answered as he used an invisible strength to finally be able to use his swords unseen, stabbing the hunter behind her in the only way he was able to at his current angle... from below, up into the body. His sword stabbed from the hunter's groin, up into it's chest cavity, bypassing all it's armor and causing it to shriek in a strangled voice. To others, it literally looked like the demon had exploded from below in a splash of horrid nether-blood.
For some reason, only on a reason Rosemary could hear, since it was more than just telepathy and an actual feeling and bond, she sensed that Muerte could tell things were going badly outside and wanted to help... though she knew he would only act if she let him.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:28 pm
Rosemary flicked the switch on the gun over to the bullet fire mode and held her hand on the trigger at the hunter rushing her. In her other hand she summoned the sniper to it and shot a nasty round into it that made a huge hole and embedded itself in the hunters gut. Spikes shot out and covered the round right before it exploded sending shrapnel throughout the body, only to have it travel back to the starting point.
Meanwhile a several Jiluzix fingers had wrapped around Sephiroth's legs and caused him to trip. He quickly turned around to see the mage about to pounce him and he quickly stabbed his blade upwards and got him in the chest.
The mage didn't look too thrilled about this and his hands began to glow with a dark energy, faint visions of skulls and twisted tortured faces visible in the waves it made in the air in front of him. Sephiroth tossed him up into the air off his sword single handedly as the mage sent a beam of death at him as Sephiroth countered by sending a wave of energy at it and sliced him in key places.
"Missed me!" Shouted the mage in a singsong voice even as he turned to dust.
Alpha saw all this and Sephiroth left who for some reason wasn't splatter in the dirt. With the other invisible member or hideous spell and the other one gone, he thought they needed to rethink their tactics a little (especially since no one's giving me any pointers XD) The 3 hunters left with him jumped to protect him as a bright light flashed blinding everyone and when it faded, they were gone. Sephiroth however was still being entangled and pulled on by "fingers."
As for the vampire with mage markings that died, nothing happened.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:54 pm
Back in the city a slumped over footless doll like person with the niearchim symbol over one of its closed eyes was picked up. One side of its face and body was that of a perfect porcelain doll while the other had the mark, a scar going back from it's mouth with stitch like markings, markings and symbols and jewels all embedded on the arm of that side. No doubt there was more underneath the small dress, nickers, and stockings she wore. The doll did not move when picked up. The one holding her had similar markings on it too.
They along made their way to one of the special rooms dedicated to communicating with Jiluzix. The person carrying the doll like girl sat her down. The doll like girl stood up on her stubs like a puppet being pulled by strings. "Daddy, I have some intriguing and disturbing things to say on the bad people outside. May I please talk to you?"
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