Flandre was silent for a moment. When she spoke, it was in a subdued manner. "I couldn't imagine it... so this feeling is not cause by others, but by yourself?" She was disturbed by that, being as it was an alien concept to her, the concept of guilt. "That sounds so strange... I wouldn't want to do bad things to people if I felt that..." For a moment, she seemed to be in deep thought. The next moment however, she finally noticed what was transpiring between Mokou and Marisa. "Oh, are we fighting?" Her eagerness returned. Well there had been a moment of clarity, at least. It was a first for the vampire.
Marisa was about to call out Mokou again, to get the duel going... when Flandre spoke up. This wasn't good, and it actually managed to break Marisa's cheerful grin. Marisa had been to duel Flandre a few times before, and it was fun... but it was very important that she explained that they were playing by spell card rules, and it was just for fun. Here, it was pretty unlikely that any kind of explanation like that would get through.
"Ah, Flan-chan, we're just arguing," she said, putting her spell card away and putting on a wide grin. "There's no fight at all!"
edited 24th Jul '11 1:50:03 PM by AnnoR
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up.""Stop trying to back out of it, coward!" A certain fire-winged girl said, resorting to pure fire-based danmaku devoid of the usual intricacies. It was, simply put, a random, massed stream of fire directed at a single target. It was certainly less dangerous than anything an actual spell-card would through at Marisa but it would certainly catch her attention... and it would also be rather difficult to stop with something as simple as a wave of water.
Cirno continued clinging to Yuuka's leg, only now she had shifted around so that she could actually see what was going on. Of course, it was less interesting than investigating the topic of death. Specifically, what could and could not be killed.
"If danmaku is safe but freezing isn't, what can be freezed without dying?" The fairy wondered aloud. Not all the frogs stopped moving, after all.
Marisa darted to the side, nimbly avoiding the stream of firey danmaku. It wasn't a hard dodge in the slightest, it was the simple matter of not being in the spot she once was. However, she held off on firing a response. After all, Flandre was right there...
"Fujiwara, we should do this another time!" she called.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."It was obvious that Marisa was lying, even Flandre could tell when Mokou attacked again. Her voice grew hard, dangerous as it had been the last time Flandre had confronted Marisa during that tackle hug back- it seemed only moments ago. "You're lying, witch. You do remember what I said only a minute ago, yes...?" The virtual threat was left hanging.
edited 24th Jul '11 2:03:17 PM by Bassetete
"Stay the hell out of this, kid!" Mokou snapped, lack of social graces blindingly evident as she increased the likelihood this would erupt into an all-out brawl in a second, which wouldn't be good for the more breakable people present. "Forgiveness 'Honest Man's Death'
."
This spellcard was pretty much wavering, dancing streams of danmaku interspersed with a cone of fireballs. Of course, this dramatically increased the chance one of the bystanders would get immolated or something... ah well, this was danmaku and not pure fire, they'd heal.
Marisa's eyes widened briefly. With the kind of power that Flandre has, this was genuinely frightening. The last thing she wanted was to be a victim of sudden, random explosion. This was probably one of the few things that could break through and make Marisa stop lying for a moment.
"Okay, okay, we're... playing, alright?" Marisa said hastily. "Remember? Like when I visit sometimes, were we make sure that we use spell card rules, because it's just meant to be fun for everyone?"
Trying to explain this to Flandre was complicated when Mokou fired off a spell card at her. Marisa paused, watched the way the danmaku flew, and darted in an out of them, avoiding any contact whatsoever. She was ready to grab a spell card, but only if Flandre was convinced by her explanation.
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"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."Flandre stood still for a moment. "Oh, okay then. That's good, because I like having fun with spell cards too! But if I get mad..." As if on cue, Mokou's spell card burned Flandre in the back. She cried out, an animalistic, wild cry that echoed through the entire clearing. Spinning on her heel, the suddenly infuriated vampire swept a hand. A whole portion of the earth, flowers and all, simply vanished in a massive conflagration of raw power. Flandre had missed her target in her rage, but Mokou was left dangerously close to a fresh chasm of destroyed earth with a raging girl of considerable power after her blood.
Patchouli was frightened as Marisa was. "No, no... not now!" Left with no other choice, she forced herself to summon up the energy for a spell. Dark clouds began gathering overhead as Patchouli worked as quickly as she could to nullify her charge.
Marisa wheeled back on her broom. This wasn't good. This really wasn't good. She'd never actually seen Flandre get angry before, and was quite glad she hadn't. It was really something she could've gone without.
"Pachu-chan, hurry up!" she called.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."Ah... that was impressive, Mokou had to admit, the chasm where there had previously been ground was quite unexpected. Still, it was nothing to worry about. Best just to keep trying to incinerate Marisa and the gardener, who was equally at fault. Back to non spell-card attacks, though, it was probably a good idea not to use most of the others since they would hit practically everyone. So many trap-like spell-cards...
Flandre growled. "Are you even paying attention to me? I'll make you wish you had died back then!" She took a step, the ground beneath her had several layers of dirt flayed away as her power continued to churn unchecked. "I'll-" She paused suddenly, because she felt a drop of rain. As it ran down her skin, she shuddered at the alien sensation of burning cold, icy thorns that stabbed at her skin and caused burns not unlike the ones that Yuuka had cured her of a little while ago. She whimpered despite herself, and drew back. It was a good thing, for then the rain began pouring in earnest.
It was a small area affected, mostly because Patchouli didn't have the energy to make it affect any more area than most of the clearing where the explosion had occurred. She was panting, struggling with her lax stamina to keep up the storm until Flandre was calm. It was easier on days where she hadn't been walking and running around and attacking people for a long amount of time. Now it was just a waiting game. Flandre was still sulking and bearing her fangs in empty threat in the one spot where rain wasn't falling- Patchouli just wanted to stop Flandre from moving, not kill her outright. She still seemed very determined, however. If she didn't calm down soon... Patchouli could feel her mind itself beginning to ache from the stress...
Then, for whatever reason, Flandre decided to curl up and sleep on the spot. Patchouli supposed she had been lulled to sleep by the melodic falling of rain drops, good thing, because she herself had lost the energy to stay up. She also crumpled to the ground, but not without a pang of regret first. She sort of wished she could be up longer, just to see what stupid things the others did next.
Now that the main obstacle to firing everything—a particularly destructive bystander—was out of play, Mokou felt fully confident in taking this as far as possible. If that meant taking to the skies, so be it (why had she been standing on the ground whilst attacking, anyway?)
Rising into the air, the immortal started firing again, simply shooting waves of fire in Marisa and Youmu's direction. It was ridiculously irritating to avoid shooting everyone else, though—it made a lot of her normal patterns impossible, since they went everywhere. Such was the flaw in having a single opponent for years with no worries regarding collateral damage.
Now that Flandre was sound asleep, Marisa didn't feel like she needed to be careful. She drew a spell card, and went into a tight roll through the danmaku, angling her body so she could slip through. A confident, cheerful grin came to her lips as she readied the card. Should she skip straight to the big one, or hold off on it?
Nah, she'd wait until they got higher in the air. There was too many other things to hit down here.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."Youmu's hand went to her sword hilt as she suddenly vanished and appeared a few feet away, dodging the blasts. "If you wish for a repeat of the last time, keep in mind that this is your own fault." She said in an even tone.
"Overconfident, much? If this was a one-on-one fight, you'd lose. Seems you're relying on numbers again." Mokou taunted, hands disappearing into her pockets as her ascent continued, pausing above the treeline and grinning like a maniac at the two. Time to show them a spell-card they hadn't seen before. "Exalted Personage 'Advice of St. Germain'."
The streams of fire looked an awful lot like curved spokes on a wheel, which was simple enough to avoid... but would they honestly expect her to dart from one place to another and repeat the process every time she finished firing off one set of the flames?
edited 24th Jul '11 3:14:30 PM by RainehDaze
Marisa finished her ascent at the same spot Mokou did. The first circle of jets of fire was easy enough to dodge. "Hah, that wasn't too-"
Then, Mokou started moving, and repeated the process.
"Uwah! Crap crap crap!" Marisa darted to the side and narrowly slipped between too streams, looking for a safe spot in the waves of firey danmaku. Now that they were away from the others, she could use her favorite... but she didn't have time to pull out her mini-hakkero now. She dropped a bit to avoid a spoke of fire, and swapped out her current spellcard in preparation.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."The downside with doing nothing but dodging was that this was quite a long spell-card... and it kept getting faster and faster. Now that collateral damage was non-existent, there was no reason to stop things prematurely, none whatsoever. It was best to keep things going until it was impossible to do so any more. Actually fighting back would probably hasten the process somewhat.
Marisa dropped under the spread of fire, turned, and took aim. Her mini-hakkero floated out in front of her, and the card floated in front of it. She grinned widely. This was her favorite, next to it's more powerful iterations, at least. Even if it didn't hit, which was unlikely, it was still a joy to fire off.
Magic flowed from her mini-hakkero, into the card, which glowed.
"Love Sign "Master Spark"!"
The card exploded into a huge beam of blinding energy, tearing straight towards Mokou. The beam was truely massive, and it wasn't even the largest attack in Marisa's list of spells. The air rippled and crackled with the sheer amount of energy, and the attack itself let out a sound like a roll of thunder.
edited 24th Jul '11 3:52:34 PM by AnnoR
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up.""Yes, it isn't a good feeling at all." Yuuka greed with the vampire, who seemed deep in thought about the whole thing. Before that fight got her attention anyway.
To Cirno, Yuuka replied, "There are few living things can survive being frozen and thawed. Frogs are one of them, I suppose, but you need to be careful. Even they have their limits."
Unfortunately, the fight had gotten a tad out of hand, and Flandre was struck, which was enough for her to join the fight. Yuuka only sighed in regret as flowers were caught up in her attack. Even if that child had some respect for them, Flandre's rage proved to be a hindrance.
A rain storm conjured by Patchouli kept Flandre at bay, where she then fell asleep. Yuuka was tempted to throw a spell at Mokou and Marisa for starting that fight, but instead found herself sitting next to the vampire, picking Cirno up and sitting her in her lap.
"Such idiots, aren't they..." Yuuka sighed. "For once, I wish they'd stop for a moment. Ah well..."
Things were literally heating up, and Shujiko only watched as spells were flung all over the place. Even that child with the weird prism wings contained a ton of power, if the chasm was any indication. However, it appeared that the rain was more than enough to stop her from rampaging. Interesting.
Mokou and Marisa took their fight higher up, with the sword-wielding girl joining shortly after. It was a two on one fight, and Mokou seemed to have the upper hand for now. So cool... Shujiko thought as she watched Mokou's spell in action. Again, a flicker of excitement crossed her face as she pondered joining in.
Mokou didn't dodge, being much to caught up and rather blinded by the wheeling spokes of flame and mid-air inferno, and the attack promptly stopped, with the white-haired girl absolutely nowhere in sight. The flaming wings were, however, quite visible, hovering in mid-air. The only question was why the immortal hadn't immediately resurrected. The answer came in the form of a rather particular spell-card.
Rather than target Marisa, who one would assume to be the more difficult-to-hit target, the wings latched themselves onto Youmu... and then the danmaku started. The only option was now to wait until Mokou couldn't force off the ensuing resurrection any longer and try not to get hit.
"So much danmaku..." Cirno said, gazing up at the sky. Not to mention that the only way she could freeze most, if not all, of the stuff Mokou was throwing out was by using Perfect Freeze. Anything else would have no effect, fire danmaku was incredibly resistant to being frozen. The blue-haired girl was sitting up straight, trying not to lean her incredibly spiky wings into Yuuka's frame.
They might leaning against things rather difficult, really.
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At the moment, the only thing Marisa could do was stay out of the way. There was no one to really target right now, as Mokou hadn't ressurected yet. Idly, she wondered how spell cards killed Mokou, but didn't kill anyone else. Aside from Fairies.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

"... This is harder to explain than I thought..." Yuuka muttered. Diverting her attention for just a second to the ruckus behind them, Yuuka called, "Make sure you mind the plants! They've suffered unbelievable amounts of trauma today!"
After a moment's thought, Yuuka answered Cirno first. "Who knows? Maybe people like to do things other than fight for some crazy reason."
"And Flandre... hm, pretend for a moment that you decided to hurt someone badly enough to make them stop moving..." Yuuka went on. "However, in your rage, you didn't realise who you hurt until they stopped moving, and it turned out to be your sister. Wouldn't that make you sad?"
Yuuka glanced away from the vampire, her face unusually blank. "Well, if you still don't understand, let's just say I got bored with the breaking, hm?"
All hell seemed to be breaking loose. A girl with a googly-eyed hat cast a large sphere of water to surround Mokou, and Shujiko glanced back at the white haired woman, seeing her rage growing.
"...Everyone! Calm down!" Shujiko raised her voice slightly, trying to pause the proceedings and have everyone clear their heads.