Geo quickly raises his arms to block the onslaught, though it still pushes him back from its ferocity and quantity.
He leaps on top of the stable to get away, then brings out the EXE Blade.
Zoro and Nicole's combined efforts dispel the wind.
The Dark Emperor thrusts a hand forward, and the claw shoots out like a projectile, attempting to slash and grab at Zoro and Nicole before it retracts to the monster's body. With the other claw, it rakes the ground, sending a wave of dark energy towards the spider's little burrow.
"Ah-hah!"
Mercury sends another creature into the battlefield. This one isn't a supernatural spin on one at all, though...
"Take a snake, make it as large as you can get, and give it the muscle to both support its own weight and use that weight as a weapon. What do you get?"
An anaconda has joined the battle!
"Pin down one of its hands!" he commands. The snake lunges to bite the Dark Emperor's right hand and drag it away from its owner.
"I created them, obviously. I intended to keep them in my sketchbook, but I accidentally closed it the wrong way and released them all instead!"
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Angel laughs. "Oh, yeah, I do that all the time.
...
"Wait, no I don't. How does that work?", she says, having a dozen probably incorrect suspicions on how that works, among them one of which is probably the correct one, but she has no idea which of them it is so all of the information is completely and utterly useless without more context.
Angel bets someone says something really stupid.
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Yatta!Rbade blanches when Geo decides it's weapon time.
"Tch!"
He jumps up after Geo and past Geo, trying to knock him away with a kick as he passes.
The Spider is forced out of the ground due to the attack targeting it, and is dazed for a moment.
It then rushes forwards, trying to land on the hand the anaconda has procured.
"You have a... magic notebook? Or creative powers."
That's certainly interesting.
"I have created only one sentient being before this. It is not my area of expertise."
/\。。/\Nicole ends up slashed and grabbed by the Dark Emperor's oncoming hand. Thrashing about in its grasp, she swipes at the monster with her claws like an enraged bear once it brings her in close enough.
"Yo, pirate dude! Let's give those bad boys a little extra kick!"
She then sends a burst of Arcane Fire Breath at Zoro's blades, planning to turn them into Flaming Swords.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jun 1st 2021 at 7:35:56 AM
Whoah! Zoro is holding Enma with his mouth, so he's nearly charred. Doesn't mind though, even if he briefly admire the flames.
Thank! Now... He leaps high up unto the air and crash back down, towards the arm holding Nicole down. Instead of holding it down, he thinks, he'll slash it in two!
UI! BURNING RYU GARI! Yells Zoro, creating the aura of a flaming dragon around him before using all three blades to try to cut the arm off!
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterGeo stumbles from the kick, but whips around and retaliates by trying to wallop Rbade with the flat of his blade.
Zoro's flaming swords rip through the Dark Emperor's hand, destroying it. The Dark Emperor roars in anger, calling down a meteor shower upon its foes!
"It is a gift from God that I use to fulfill His..."
Venus' previously grand and jubilant expression suddenly turns crestfallen. "... vague and unreasonable requests... for new animals. But!" She immediately perks up again. "I make sure that everything I create has an air of beauty to it. The flamingos were a result of an order for 'an animal where the male breastfeeds'."
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Alright. Take care of the meteors while I slice it in two. Zoro sheath two of his swords, now no longer lit, but he does jump while carrying Enma, which he dip in Nicole's flame breath to lit it up again. Then, a black aura begins to surround it, as he grasp the sword's hilt with his left hand and right hand, raising it overhead.
Hiryu... Kaen! He says, swinging his sword and hurling forth a devastating air slash. It leaves a deep burning scar unto the ground after striking it, and make that scar stretch on for... a long distance ahead!
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterRbade already has the momentum, so it isn't too hard to go just a bit further and avoid the blade. It costs him a moment of stability, though.
!
Not one to waste time while tripping over his own feet, he raises a palm behind himself and forces out a directed explosion of purple light and lightning.
The Spider the decides 'hmm lunch time'. It begins to try and burrow into the Dark Emperor's other hand, its Extreme Omnivore mouth being the primary tool of matter displacement. If successful, it will try to eat this hand from the inside out.
"That is an oddly specific, yet oddly vague, request."
"I suppose flamingoes are all right. Their lifestyle is interesting, for a bird."
/\。。/\Angel thinks on this for a moment. In her world, flamingos haven't existed since time immemorial. What were they even like... well, she supposes they were something like these. No need to think back when you have an example right in front of you.
Still... poor animals. They must be scared. In such an unfamiliar place, would they even survive?
"I guess? What's important, however, is that these newly created flamingos be put somewhere more responsible. A forum is no home for a wild bird."
Yatta!Geo leaps high into the air, over Rbade's blast, and attempts to land on him with a falling elbow drop.
Nicole successfully shoots down the meteors.
The Dark Emperor reels back from Zoro's strike, unable to retaliate.
Meanwhile, the Spider will find out that the abyssal and malevolent darkness in physical form apparently tastes like chocolate. However, due to the Dark Emperor's hands being detached from its body, this is more 'inconvenient' than 'painful' to it.
"No problem." Venus opens up her notes and, with a sigh, scribbles over the flamingo drawings, erasing the flock from existence.
"My name is Venus, by the way. It's nice to meet you."
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Rbade amps up the power of the blast at the last second, using the thrust to force himself backwards and avoid the elbow drop.
"HAAAAGH!"
He immediately repeats the procedure with his opposite hand a moment later, launching himself back forwards. As he finishes the maneuver, Rbade swings said opposite hand around to the front and amps up the explosion to the max, trying to blast Geo point-blank and launch himself away again in one move.
*nom nom nom nom*
Christ, the sounds of it eating are like buzzsaws. Regardless, it fully devours the hand, and is fully juiced up.
"BWA!"
The Spider fires a trio of powerful bolts of energy. They're no Ultimate Attacks but they still pack an owie.
Eh, they're just birds. Very pink birds, but birds all the same.
She gives a slight bow.
"Nagato Yuki."
/\。。/\"Good news, we're not gonna learn firsthand how the dinosaurs felt when big-ass space rocks fell on them!"
With the meteors taken care of, Nicole turns her attention back to the Dark Emperor.
"Now let's bust this ghost!"
She flies straight towards the monstrous specter and, upon closing the distance, unleashes a point-blank Arcane Blast.
Geo is very confused by Rbade's maneuver, which means that it works, and he goes flying into the city of Whiterun.
A moment later, he comes leaping back up out of it, making a Three-Point Landing behind Rbade all cool-anime-like... not necessarily accounting for the possibility that Rbade is still in motion.
"I believe I already mentioned it." Venus puts a hand over her chest in a vaguely dramatic way.
"I'm part of a team that designs new species of animals to populate Earth. We exist outside the confines of spacetime, so an advanced being such as you may be from a world where flamingos are long extinct, but to me they only became extant a few weeks ago."
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Angel nods. "An interesting prospect. Existing outside of time and space. I don't prefer it."
Ah, so that's why. A being used to existing outside of time, whose purpose it is to do a job, whether it be cruel or not, would not care for the existence of a few birds.
Of course. That was just an excuse. One can have reasons to be cruel, but it is still cruelty. Whether it be born from a lack or perspective or not, it was still a form of neglect, and as someone playing the role of creator, neglect was exactly the sort of thing this person should avoid.
Angel could not discount that her perspective bent her feelings on the matter. Much of her life was defined by a negligent god... and that was not speaking of what her living brother went through.
"I haven't seen one in a while. In my world, they died... a long time ago."
Yatta!Rbade's blast launched him backwards too. This leads to a moment of 'teleports behind you' when Geo lands behind where Rbade was, but in front of where he is.
"NOTHING PERSONNEL!"
The lad tries to fry Geo from behind with a barrage of lightning.
"Interesting. In my world, flamingoes are extant in large populations across the planet."
"I suppose in terms of timescale, that puts me between you."
/\。。/\Jake looks at her demonstration intently, seemingly analyzing her movements a bit, not just the attack itself.
"Hm... I'm not good with a sword, so I don't know if I'll really make use of its switching, but this skill seems very doable."
He takes on a powerful Warrior stance, then faithfully mimics Reyna's demonstration, performing the Wild Swing before finishing off with said move's powerful axe slam. And while he starts on the Forward Overhead Slash, he doesn't switch the axe around, finishing off with a powerful upwards slam with the axe instead.
"Whoo!", Anna cheerfully encourages her fiancee.
Floating City
Sitting on a tall building's rooftop by her lonesome, Mani looks down at the cloak she had successfully stolen a while back. Her expression is a contemplative one, looking unsure.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jun 2nd 2021 at 11:48:27 AM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay."So... Personally, I vibe with the Forward Overhead Slash, but you're an axes-only kinda guy, yeah? So you'd want the Forward Slash to get into Wild Swing faster."
"Second choice is between the Finishing Discharge and the Compressed Finishing Discharge... Wait, no. Both of those are Sword Mode moves. Forget that."
Just for the sake of demonstrating, she morphs her Switch Axe into Sword Mode and goes ham on the Toadversary for a bit before thrusting the blade forward, discharging steam with a loud hiss as it blasts phial energy into the robotic monster before creating an explosion that launches Reyna backwards, the weapon automatically reverting to Axe Mode.
Then she reloads the weapon's phials and does it again, but instead of holding the sword out and letting it deal constant damage, she immediately blasts the phials for a mighty Recoil Boost-derived spin slash.
Geo looks back just in time to see Rbade and gets blasted, stumbling back as the electricity courses through him again. The EXE Blade being made of metal has turned out to be... problematic.
He straight-up just throws the sword at Rbade.
The Dark Emperor opens its mouth to try and eat Nicole, but it ends up eating only arcane energy. It reels back, roars, thrashes, and with a final strike from Zoro, it dissolves into light. For real.
As the last trace of the Dark Emperor dissipates into the clear skies' sun, Thouzer suddenly reappears.
"So, the infernal lord of darkness didn't amount to much. Fine. Now I will do what he could not."
His Maelstrom aura flares up menacingly...
Venus nods at Nagato's summation.
She then looks at Angel quizzically. "You seem troubled by something. Am I bothering you?"
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.""Those are some very potent sword techniques. I'm a bit sad I don't have any sword experience now.", Jake says.
"I've offered him plenty of times.", Anna remarks with a smirk.
"There isn't a class that'd let me use bows, swords and axes together, so that wouldn't have worked."
"Master Knight."
"That class has been lost for ages and requires a hor... you're just teasing me at this point, aren't you?"
Anna's smirk grows.
Mani looks up at Luffy now, confused.
"I'm not an... imp. Whatever that is.", she says as she gets up, putting the cloak back on and tying the top part around her neck so that it won't fall off.
"Why are you on the roof?", she asks as if she's the one who walked up to him.
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In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Angel thinks for a moment.
Ah well. She might as well say something.
"Yes. It is because you did something so cruel without a thought spared. I am not certain you understand why, exactly, it wasn't right to remove those birds from existence. I do not know much about you... but a creator should not be cruel to its creations. If not for their sake, but for yours as well."
Yatta!Huh? Who are ya? Well whatever. I'm still ready to cut loose. Says Zoro, taking a stance. He seems ready to engage the fight with an upfront attack, but if he's allowed to do that...
...
Huh? Well I wanted to eat in peace. He admits. And folks keep looking at my food hungrily so I got there to eat it in peace.
He takes a proud bite. Om nom... Ifantfuftfareitfano? Says Luffy, with his mouth full.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter

Rbade rolls to his feet and rushes Geo, intent on not letting him get hits like that in again.
"Blarbalbrlarehggh!"
He could work on his battlecries. Regardless, he tries to pummel Geo with a series of rapid electrified punches.
"Ope. That was my one use of Radio Chaos..."
The Spider dives downwards and burrows into the ground, literally devouring the dirt the replenish spent energy.
"I would not mind hearing your original summation."
She turns to Venus.
"Why did you have all these flamingoes."
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