Riften
"... Do either of you want to come back down here and fight on fair terms, or are you just going to do your own things?"
I really don't want to blow what little cover I've got in front of strangers..., Megan thought as she caught her axe once again. She sheathed her axe, chucked about six knives at Weiss, and then readied herself to dodge in case they were reflect or in case Weiss thought she looked like a tempting target.
Edited by OmegaShadowcry on Oct 6th 2020 at 3:53:58 AM
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousNanza look proud at hitting MAD JACK and hold her hand up for a high five at Megan. Though when she remembers that Strange died, she goes back to neutral and hold her sword up at the mad samurai!
I'm gonna avenge that guy, so prepare yourself! Oh, and your sword's mine, it's too cool for your grubby hands to use!
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"Y-you... would not be worthy..."
He seems to pause. "I should not be worthy..."
However, he picks himself up. "But it will be coated in your blood all the same."
Weiss silently glowers. If only she knew how little she actually knows, she thinks condescendingly.
"He would only have been striking down a weakling." She seems to be about to say some more taunts, but then gets a few knives in the shoulder, arm and leg.
"It is no matter," she remarks even as she drops to one knee. "For you see... you were blind."
The frost suddenly erupts into a field of ice spikes, trying to skewer everyone besides the Strike Force in as many places as possible!
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Riften
"?!"
Megan had been predicting an attack from above, not from below. She tried to spin to block what she could, but the ice punched through the wood of her shield and broke the brittle, flash-frozen steel. She tried to dodge, and took a couple of cuts and minor wounds... until she had nowhere left to dodge, and a spike punched right through the an elbow joint on her armor.
Megan would've liked to have thought something, but the only thing she really had right now was a sensation of overwhelming pain. Thankfully, that was her only major wound... but it was on her former shield-arm. She almost instinctively reached over to the blood, and began to trace some symbol on the ground in her own blood.
It's possible that she had gone mad, but this seemed completely deliberate — if also somewhat autonomous.
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousSeveral ice spikes pierce Nicole through the arm, causing her to snarl in pain and drop Olympus' Wrath.
"Argh, dammit!"
She unleashes an Arcane Blast at Weiss before taking a moment to pull herself free.
"Jesus... How do you think Ruby feels about the only other survivor from her world serving someone like Narktus, Weiss? Yeah... I heard about what happened with Ridley, and how Gravitus kidnapped and brainwashed you."
Weiss' eyes widen in surprise and a hint of fear again right before she gets hit in the face, causing her to stumble back. "S-stop talking about that!"
—
The ice spikes explode in a shower of surprisingly gentle fragments, which soon melt away.
This is followed by a towering pillar of darkness erupting from the center of town, which folds in on itself and condenses into the form of...
"Two rules. We had two rules to follow, no matter the situation. And you broke them both on the one day you were allowed downtime. Both of you leave; I am going to clean this mess up myself."
Weiss and Jack, both visibly suffering... inner turmoil... do as instructed and warp away.
Anti-Aqua manifests her Keyblade and casts Waterza, creating a bubble of water around her. This appears meaningless, but any melee attacks on her will result in the bubble recoiling and blowing the attacker away, and any ranged attacks will be met with a barrage of smaller bubbles being fired at the attacker with enough force to cause surprising damage.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."As Nicole picks up Olympus' Wrath, she prepares to speak again... only for Anti-Aqua to appear and send both Jack and Weiss away. Visibly confused, she shifts her gaze to Aqua.
"Okay, who the friggin' hell are you, lady?! What kinda rules are you going on about?" she asks. "And what did that wizard guy mean by helping me against something before the samurai killed him?"
Riften
Megan paused for long enough to see what Aqua's defensive barrier did to the others, and decided that, no, in fact, she did not want to die like that. She quickly brushed away the symbol she had started on and changed it to something else. Once she was done, she slammed her open palm into the center, causing the sigil the glow with chthonic lambency.
The magma-glow seemed to wrap around Megan as she rose to her feet, and it then spread to the ground. She stumbled forward, and the footprints she left behind spread out. The glowing rock seemed to flow up and around her, forming into second, hardened armor. Her stance began stronger, as did her foot-steps
"[Ward of Earthbones]."
She then... waited. That was more draining that she expected.
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousAnti-Aqua is completely silent. Her Waterza bubble detaches from herself and goes careening towards Nicole as a powerful projectile.
She follows it up by casting Thundaza, dropping a tremendous and powerful bolt of lightning on Nanza!
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Nanza get up in time and take a stance before cutting the lightning, slicing the bolt in half with a motion using her sword.
This powers up the sword, but some red energy flows into her instead of attacking forth, healing the damage and allowing her to stand up. Screw ya, blue head! AYAH!
She leaps forth to attack!
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterVs. Aqua
Megan, sensing an opening, broke into a dead sprint and attempted to tackle Aqua to the ground. The added force and weight of her Ward of Earthbones seemed... amplified beyond what would be natural, and she was not nearly as burdened as the weight of this much stone would have suggested.
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousNicole rolls aside to avoid the oncoming Waterza bubble, groaning in annoyance and pain from her stabbed arm.
"Okay... good talk, Sorcerer's Apprentice! You've been really friggin' educational!"
She unleashes a retaliatory Arcane Beam at Aqua.
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Famine's thousand yard stare says it all, with nothing to sate its hunger any longer it bounds for the nearest exit.
The Harbinger AwakensAnti-Aqua disperses on impact. A fake?
She reappears in front of Megan. And next to Nanza. And behind Nicole. And all over the place.
The one closest to Megan unleashes a point-blank Firaza, a tremendous fireball that will instantly take them both out in a spectacular blaze should it hit.
Two of her double-team Nanza from opposite sides, striking at her with powerful slashes of Master's Defender.
Three of them circle around Nicole, gathering energy into their Keyblades, but an additional non-Aqua-shaped figure starts to fade into view just behind them...
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Beelzebub and Lucifer
The two demons picked up on the dark presence in the air, but they didn't mind to much. Nothing really phased them at all. They were some of the most powerful demons from their realm.
"Interesting... Hey Lucy."
The CEO of Hell's face turned red and she started stuttering a bit
"D-Don't call me that here."
With a laugh, Beelzebub looked to her.
"My bad. I was just wanting you to pull something from Hell. Justice and Cerberus are here, so grab the Seeker."
With a nod, Lucifer opened up a portal into Hell, sticking her arm in it and rummaging around for a bit
Beelzebub looked back at the Demon
"So, you know what this place is? Our companions made their way here somehow, and yet we have no clue where we are."
"Just a humble peasant looking for work~""Oh, great, she can clone herself!"
Not wanting to be on the receiving end of whatever attack they were charging, Nicole slashes at the two closest Aqua clones with Olympus' Wrath, then attempts to knock the third off the Bee and Barb's roof with a spinning wheel kick. Afterwards, she catches sight of the newcomer fading into view, eyeing them cautiously.
"Don't tell me she called in backup..."
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Riften
There was nowhere for Megan to dodge or hide, nothing to block with save her own armor of rock and stone. It would not be nearly enough, not in thousand years.
The stone rose in heat, scorching Megan within the armor as it began to heat and glow. Megan screamed as her flesh scorched and boiled, though it no longer sounded like her own voice. The magma dripped down the front, and in much the same way did it begin to run down through the many cracks and openings in the armor. The magic wore off, causing much of it to fall to the ground, but Megan's scorched body was unfortunately just slightly too resilient to die instantly. Her eyes started to burn away from the heat, before she finally, blissfully expired... but instead of the comforting embrace of a bed somewhere, Megan drifted.
And drifted.
And drifted anon. This void-space between worlds was not unknown to her but it felt as though she spent a maddening eternity here, drifting through spirit-winds propelled by the breath of ancient things. At some point — perhaps only a few seconds, perhaps countless eons adrift, she encountererd... something.
It was vague beyond understanding, as if it and her brain both refused to fully acknowledge one another. However... she could make out an outline by looking away from it and catching it in her periphery — an axe, cruel and sharp, glistening in the ghostly death-light. Her own voice echoed in her mind, with a thought not her own.
—
Cruel and sharp my cleft shall be,
When righted so by wrath,
Fragments dark from bloody seas,
Entwined within your path.
Secrets born by northern souls,
Beyond the restless frost.
Seek the path in skyborne coals,
And pay heed to the cost.
Flesh-blessing of the mighty dead,
Brought to bear in flames,
Together with the thought in head,
Of the wyrm and its aim.
Nightmare-vision of Eldritch Accord,
But lest you fall in vain,
Take you heed of the words,
I shall bear in my name.
Brought to heel in steel and death,
I take my shape at last.
Brought to life with Machine's Breath,
And made in memory of the past.
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Megan then promptly awoke in a room back in Esche, with all her gear intact — save the shield — and only a vague memory of that drifting and other strange nonsense.
"... Damn, I need to get some hot chocolate," she said to herself, as she stared out at the blizzard outside her window.
Intrigue
Raziel thought for a bit, in her ever so slightly exaggerated way.
"Weeellll, I think I've heard it called The Arena, and I know that dying here causes you to... usually revive, all well and good. I also gather that it's some manner of crossroad between all sorts of different places, but beyond that I'm as uncertain as everyone else. Oh, right, and the terrain and buildings can regenerate if they're destroyed! I kinda like that part. You can get as reckless with your fireballs as you like!"
Nyr immediately tossed up a casting of Shield and Absorb Elements in the background, fully expecting to get fireball'd.
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousThe Anti-Aquas vanish one by one, save for the last one Nicole attacked, who ends up stumbling into the grasp of...
Snake.
"This is for your own good," he remarks as he puts her into a submission hold.
"Is this... all you... have to offer?"
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Winterhold
RED is highly manipulative, devious, and has a power not matched by many, especially within his world...
But nobody ever claimed he was smart.
RED runs headfirst to chase after Godzilla, firing multiple blasts of hellfire, thinking he now has the advantage.
"DIO is the ultimate being! The being of the future! Dare you not to rival me!"Nanza notices Megan's death and decide to up the ante. She gathers all her energy into the blade, and the eye within wiggle with joy as a large aura appears around the sword, taking the shape of a humongous claymore!
MAN BE CAREFUL MAN IM REALLY GONNA CUT HER IN HALF THAT DAMN WITCH!
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter

Spreading her dragon wings, Nicole flies after Weiss and lands upon the Bee and Barb's rooftop.
"Don't tell me you didn't notice your samurai buddy about to cut you down like he did Merlin!"
She points to Doctor Strange's corpse with Olympus' Wrath.