Abyss
Caleb stayed back as the furies appeared. He was still running on adrenaline and as ready for a fight as he'd ever be but if there was a chance for diplomacy, they should at least try it.
Stupid evil demon-ladies!
I'm not a fan either but let's not get bloodthirsty
They settled on inaction for now, letting the more qualified among them speak, but still remained tense.
Breath of the Sun
The Abyss
The irritations continued coming. Spinning to face the new enemies, Mikael raised her crossbow and her finger twitched on the trigger, itching to shoot the other demoness through the head.
"Okay." She said, through gritted teeth. "Let's hear your offer before I kill you."
She doubted it would be a good offer, but hearing them out probably wouldn't do any harm.
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
Saint Academy, Nurse's Office
"Just a minute!" Nurse Hello tossed aside a battered copy of Atlas Shrugged before hopping over to Sam with a copy of Monte Cristo in hand. "You know, not that I mind, but you need to start taking better care of yourself. I'm not always gonna be here to give you a kiss and make it all better." She then hocked a loogie into her hands and rubbed them together, placing them on Sam. The spit became absorbed into Sam's body, running through it and transforming into a healing aura. Before Sam knew it, he was right as rain.
The nurse handed him the book as soon as he was able. "Here you go! Though I'm not really sure what you're gonna do with it. Do you even still have opposable thumbs?"
The Abyss, The Bubble
The ringleader chuckled, almost as though she were convinced she had all the cards. "If you say so. In case you couldn't guess, you're hopelessly outmatched. As long as you're trapped in here, we can send in as many reinforcements as we like. Even another bomb or two if we feel the need. But there is a way out. Simply agree to join the Furies and do everything we say, and you'll be spared! Oh, and you'll also have to stop whatever's keeping these mortals from becoming proper demons. That's just improper. And of course..."
She held out a long bony finger and pointed it at Remix's helmet. "...take that ridiculous thing off this instant. Believe it or not, that's actually an order from above. So. Do we have a deal? Mind you, I don't expect you to take it. You wouldn't be mongrels if you did. And it wouldn't be nearly as fun."
The Abyss, Hallways
Lucy scoured the hallways, doing her best to find Amadea. Eventually she could sense something or another from the far end of the nearest hall. There was no guarantee it was Amadea, but it wasn't as though she had anything else to go on.
AKA Nixer
Abyss – Many Many Hallways
The globule of ink zipped about, splitting and reforming to thoroughly scour each and every corridor – before the unknown presence finally registered to Lucy and she instead made a beeline for it. Slowing considerably once she was almost upon it, she let the small anchor point of ink meld into the pigmentation of the floor – the only visible sign of its presence being a moving patch of saturated colour.
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon… god am I glad I don't live here... I mean sheesh, do they build a new wing for every new addition to the family? It must be like catacombs down here…
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Surrounded by weirdoes
"I do" Sam said curtly, as he bid goodbye. Going to the library hasn't been fun lately. It's not like he wanted to eat that owl. Even after there was an entire collection dropped on him.
Walking back to the training room, he saw a strange machine made of ink. Obviously being Lucy, he looked around, but saw none of the others.
"The others haven't arrived yet" He noted, frowning. After getting to Mikael's mom, it should have been a quick end, even if he was away for a minute, people should start appearing I have a bad feeling about this
Wake me up at your own risk.
Breath of the Sun
The Abyss
"You know, I thought Zamael would be the most wicked of all demons. A monster who prays on innocent women." Mikael said quietly, lowering her head a moment in thought. Then she looked back up and stared the Furies' ringleader in the eye, raising her voice. "But at least he actually seems to care about mortals. After all, he told my mother once, back when she was human, that he felt more deeply about her than any of his other lovers."
Well, so her mother had said, once, in an argument with her Opa before she was taken to the Abyss. Still, she said it with enough confidence that it would hopefully provoke the Furies anger.
"These are my friends. Unlike my father, I can't and won't ask them to become demons. I don't care if Zamael himself comes to fight me - I won't let anyone harm them. So the answer is no."
And she loosed two corrosive bolts at the Furies. Already reaching for more, she called back - "Matten! Don't let them pull the others away from you!"
She reloaded and fired, hands moving faster than they ever had. She interspersed her bolts with spat hellfire. The fire probably wouldn't hurt them, but she didn't intend to. She just had to buy time for Lucy to find an exit. Come on, bitches. Hit me. I'm the one you want.
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
The Abyss
Most of the Furies were able to port before Mikael loosed her bolts and spat her initial blasts of fire, but the one with the striped fur wasn't so lucky. Before it could port, one of Mikael's bolts hit it square in the heart before it collapsed. The arrow's corrosive properties quickly spread throughout its' entire heart, rotting it as the demoness choked in pain. And then it was dead.
The other demons soon reappeared in the same spots as when they left. The ringleader noticed her fallen comrade, her lifeless bulging eyes now devoid of the yellow sparks that filled them. The demoness slowly clenched her fist before her gaze returned to Mikael, dead and stoney. "Right. You're dead now." The ringleader started firing out laser blasts from her armanents, porting in and out and spreading the room with laser fire. Even if she were the only member of the Furies still standing, she would still be a hell of a threat.
Though of course, she wasn't. The other five demons were there as well, and they had a plan of their own. Their doughy, uneven bodies began to melt like lava before they oozed into one another, shifting and changing before fusing into one large behemoth. It's body was a greyish brown mix that varied in tone, and it's form changed ever so slightly from one minute to the next. It then launched itself in all directions, spraying forth a gooey slimy mix that was bound to suffocate anyone it covered. Assuming it didn't try to strangle them first.
Abyss Bubble
Remix held up both of his hands, clutching the temples of his helmet protectively."Jesus Christ lady, again with the helmet?" he quipped. "I'll tell you where you can shove it! Gah! Shit!" He jumped back as lasers started flying around all over. And not the fun type of lasers you'd see at a German concert, either. Spinning on his heels - literally, since he was wearing Rollerblades - and twerked it up, barely dodging a laser that went over his head.
He also noticed what that crossbow bolt had done to that demon. If it could do that to one demon, maybe it could do it to another?
He slid on over towards the dead demon and shot out one of his legs to star spinning as he rolled there. He kicked his feet forward and back like a Russian dancer and twisted at the last second, sending one giant kicked right in the back, sending her heart flying right towards the large lava behemoth... demon... thing.
"GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!" he shouted.
Abyss Bubble
"Begone foul wrench!"
Many tendrils suddenly sprung out of Caleb, piercing through his clothing and growing at speed. As the behemoth fury launched...its? her? their? assault, Harmony pulled in kinetic energy, stopping the spread of the demon goo. More ooze wormed it's way along the tendrils and formed large shields, pushing the ooze back together and against the wall of the bubble.
Edited by FerrousMaelstom on Sep 12th 2018 at 10:40:34 AM
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Zamael's Place - Bubble
Mahvash waved her fan over her face as had become habit recently. One should not get her wrong. She already saw the group with Xs over their eyes at the base of a growing pile of (living) bodies to make a rainbow colored mountain that the class could do the electric slide down and this time she'd remember to shout 'I'm a shoeless, sexy, god of war!' But, my job at the moment is getting these lot out of here, and handle our chief diversion.
...And then Mikael went straight for the trigger. Well, that's my fault. I know what he's like.
The daeva kept waving even while slowly mining the bubble with very innocent looking if utterly black moths, albeit staying careful not to touch the barrier itself. Sure, the mines could have just been shapeless wisps or spheres but that'd be bland. "Move as you like," she half-sighed to the Class and Ellie. "I'm attentive in moving these clear."
She left the way open to her, even while putting withering essence in the path of the ersatz-shoggoth and potential space to teleport. "Okay, take five, our little Cirque du 'Fury'."
"Twintails, Wonder Quintuplets - form of mudflats," Mahvash said before whistling to the futilely rampaging demons. "Between the b.s., you almost had something with the joining forces theme. I kindly have an offer for you. At this very moment, I'll give you a way to get through this alive and with a chance to move up in this castle. You can very well refuse, and I won't blow you apart into a million pieces. That's a barbarian thing." She shut her fan, smiling innocently. "And I would not do that.
"Come on. You don't think you deserve to die slightly hindering the visitors to this realm who will leave and forget you at the bottom of a mountain of you and your fellows' corpses. You deserve a means to a little more glory, no? And you'll scarcely have to do a thing." she shrugged. "Come hither. Or not. You can refuse my offer. You won't explode."
Edited by CenturyEye on Sep 14th 2018 at 6:57:04 AM
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
The Abyss
As Caleb continued to push the ooze against the bubble, he began to notice something odd. The more ooze there was and the more he pushed against it, the more it began to stretch. Perhaps if he were able to gather more ooze and apply a bit more pressure, it was possible that he might just have had something.
Meanwhile, the monster of ooze continued its assault, turning to Matten and preparing to engulf her in a gooey, oozy mass. Or at least until she opened her mouth. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"
Just then, Remix kicked the heart of the demon right at the ooze monster, and it might have worked. Or at least it would have if the monster didn't have eyes literally in the back of its head. A hole momentarily formed in the creature, letting the heart harmlessly pass through. Straight at Mikael.
The Abyss
Eventually Lucy came across a large metal door just a few hallways south of the bubble. As far as she could tell, this was the place. The door itself was incredibly thick and locked shut. If she was going to get through, she'd have to be creative.
Breath of the Sun
The Abyss - Fury Battle Go
The armored Fury began to warp around almost randomly, spraying the room with laser fire. Mikael's coat was empowered enough now that it could casually withstand the blasts, and Matten could probably dissolve anything that came at her or their friends.
Mikael focused on trying to get a bead on the annoying teleporter, but she moved just fast enough to be fruitless.
Then Remix kicked the corroding heart towards her, and Mikael got an idea. Drawing one of her hellfire bolts, she swiftly raised, empowered the bolt with what little energy she could spare, and fired.
The bolt impacted the heart, sending it flying back at the ooze-monster. As it did, however, the explosive energies of the bolt mixed with the corrosive energies contained in the heart.
The result was an explosion that did a decent impersonation of Matten's own unmaking waves.
Recalling the now mixed corrosive-explosive bolt back to her hand, the combined bolt still holding that power from when Matten had first given it to her, she loaded again, this time both her crossbows, and began wantonly firing towards the armored ringleader.
The explosions were harmless against Mikael, being her own power, and Matten, for much the same reason. Matten could obviously protect her friends from the effects of her own aura. That left their enemies trapped in a room increasingly filled with energies that would slowly devour them.
"Keep running, Miststück!" Mikael practically laughed.
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
AKA Nixer
The Abyss
Slowing to a halt upon sight of the door, Lucy paused, inwardly humming in thought, before allowing the ink globules she was controlling to converge and then splatter against the door – coating it in an attempt to find a suitable opening.
Even if she could get only a small sliver in, it'd be enough. But with that said, her connection to this place would grow even weaker. Still, though, she was determined to get Amadea out of whatever mess she was in – so it was worth the risk.
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Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Amadea's Chamber - Bubble
The daeva ran her finger down the mobile mudflat, before sampling the taste. "I definitely won't eat you inside out if you try that." She dried her finger on her skirt before smoothing it out.
And Mikael took that time to go crazy on the trigger. Nice but better used elsewhere. And... The daeva began withdrawing her own 'mines' for good reason. One, she'd gotten her audience, two, she unmade things, like the O2 remaining in this gel bubble. Really, have to tell him to do that responsibly. Though, she thought it was obvious. Air (and spacetime) blew toward her constructs, to fill in the vacuum replacing the what's-not-there-anymore.
"We're gracious heroes of course," Mahvash answered. "And we can benefit from meeting. I won't have you obeying me forever. I merely ask you to return to your former patron and have her come here. Tell her you beat us down and she can finish us off personally or whatever other story you wish. That friend of yours, whose heart was playing the part of a hockey puck, we didn't send her or you here. The one who did fled from us and then sent you and your friends here to face our wrath in her stead. You can already see how eager the class demon is to get his teeth around something. And he's the son of Amadea and Zamael. If you find Zenestria as cuddly as her first impression implied, then, by all means, die with her name on your lips. Or send her here, watch her face her own errors and pay for sending you to this death. And then earn favor with that part of the family."
"Oh," she shrugged, having waited for the booms and bombs in the background to subside some. "And do me a favor and tell me how to make this thing one way, to hold everyone who comes in here. If our quarry flees, we'll just chase her this time, but why add an extra step?"
Abyss Bubble
Harmony was now spread out across quite a lot of space, various tendrils stretching around the area inside the bubble.
This is... getting kind of hard.
Need to focus.
Caleb took a deep breath and began to focus. As the two minds set on the same course, a melodic buzzing emanated from his watch.
Even more tendrils sprung out of Caleb and knitted themselves together, growing the shields further - at their widest, some were almost the entire height of the bubble. Caleb gathered the ooze, scrapping it off surfaces and stealing more kinetic energy, snatching it out of mid-air. Another limb pulled back and launched itself at the behemoth fury, clipping it several times trying to break up its mass. Once again they took as much ooze as they could, including anything they could get off the behemoth's body, and started forcing it against the wall of the bubble.
The Abyss — The Bubble
As Mikael continued to bombard the area near the ooze monster with wild abandon, the ooze monster itself was doing its best to think through its current predicament. Of course, seeing as there were currently five minds squished into one incoherent whole, that was easier said that done, but it was eventually able to reach a most definite conclusion.
"WE NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND. BUT ONE THING WE DO UNDERSTAND. CUTTING LOSSES. THIS NOT WHAT PROMISED. THEY WANT TO DEAL WITH THIS SHIT, THEY DO OWN DIRTY WORK." And one poof later, it was gone.
For the most part, this was most fortunate, but on the other hand, it also meant that there was no more goo for Caleb to draw from and add to the bubble. Before the monster parted, they had continued to collect and add ooze and push against it, and it finally seemed to stretch just enough to the point where one could see a noticeable difference. But without any more ooze, it could only go so far.
Not that they'd have to worry. As soon as the ooze monster left, the ringleader reappeared in the middle of the room, none the worse for wear. "Well. That was unexpected. I suppose we'll just have to call it a draw. Without the other Furies' help, I don't stand much of a chance against the lot of you. I suppose I could have just sent in a Abyssal Nuke, but where would be the fun in that? In any case, the bubble should wear off in an hour or two. Until then, twiddle your thumbs, slaughter each other, I don't really care. If she wants to get rid of you, she'll have to do it herself."
The Abyss — Door
Before long, Lucy was able to find an opening. There was just the slightest wedge under the door where she could squeeze into. She could probably fit her entire self in there if she put her mind to it.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Amadea's Chamber - Bubble
Mahvash acknowledged the fused demon's and the squad leader's departure with a small nod. "Charmed to have met you, but you could just send her here." The Furies certainly didn't consider Four's work a worthy cause. Why Saint might call them 'uninspired'. And yet, sadly, this reminds me of home. My little ones' hearts must be in the right place.
"There is a certain appeal in hunting Number Four down," the daeva mused idly. "But that's priority five if anything." We'll have to move to wherever Lucy finds Amadea. Then I'll have to keep her handy to evacuate Class One from the Abyss. Then I may have time for a hunting trip.
Caleb and Harmony had simply stretched the cage to its limits. "Straightforward and effective. Heh. Excellent work there." She gave Caleb a half-bow. "Are you able to keep that section of wall stretched out like that? We can have everyone strike that particular spot to breach this bubble."
Abyss Bubble
Caleb scowled as the demon appeared but the two of them kept at their task, the web of tendrils extended towards the wall. As Mahvash spoke, they turned and nodded. Although brief, when they spoke it sounded different to normal, neither Caleb nor Harmony's normal voice.
"Act fast."
AKA Nixer
The Abyss
Inwardly bracing herself, the floating globules making up Lucy's 'body' separated once more and drifted down to the cracks in the door, liquefying and seeping underneath its surface. Once through, they congealed again, hovering in place for a moment as Lucy thought through how exactly she was going to do this.
She didn't have enough of a connection to pull that pigment-draining stunt again. She was stuck with the mass that she had. But she couldn't exactly scan the environment for Amadea's position. At least, not without meticulously searching the entire room bit by bit until she managed to make physical contact with the demoness and detect her signature.
...Which is exactly what she ended up doing.
Because really, what else could she have done?
In any case, she had enough savvy to split the ink up again and have them go in alternating, crisscrossing directions. Would save her the time, even if the movement was a little funky. Fatigue from her mind being disconnected from her body for such a prolonged period was getting to her. In fact, she could say with confidence she would only be able to handle a couple more conversations before she ended up passing out.
So that was a fun thing to look forward to.
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Surrounded by weirdoes
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Edited by Blueace on Sep 22nd 2018 at 5:02:32 AM
Wake me up at your own risk.
Breath of the Sun
The Abyss, Bubble
"Good riddance." Mikael finally calmed herself down, glaring daggers at the Furies as they left. The fight (if you could call it that) went better than expected, at least.
She sheathed her crossbows and hovered over to where Caleb was holding the bubble apart. "Just another minute should do, if we all hit it at once." Drawing a final explosive-corrosive bolt from her quiver, she flew forward and rammed it into the weakened section of bubble. The resulting dissolving-explosion harmlessly washed over her, and she continued pushing the bolt into the bubble as hard as she could, hand completely covered in a mixture of demon-magic and daeva-aura.
"C'mon, everyone! Hit this spot as hard as you can!"
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Amadea's Chamber - Bubble
Mahvash did not quite look at the scene. Too much light to be comfortable. This could take all of us, or better one cleric. Hm. Big Red Devil clerics. That cannot be an innovation, but it somewhat works.
She didn't launch waves at the spot herself either. That'd be redundant. She simply focused on boosting the aura that Mikael was already pressing through his arrow.
"We were to drain them, impale them, blow them away, and/or erase them from existence." the daeva scoffed at Mikael's comment. Her only visible action. "Don't be crude and gruff on top of it. That's just in poor taste."
Edited by CenturyEye on Sep 26th 2018 at 9:09:17 AM
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
The Abyss
As Matten boosted Mikael's aura, she found the forcefield was slowly beginning to weaken. In fact, it was nearly ready to burst. It still wasn't enough to fall on its' own, but perhaps with just a little more pressure, they could finally break free.
Abyss Bubble
"Looks like you could be using..."Remix zipped ahead, as fast as he could, and jumped up to deliver a flying two-foot kick to the barricade, fast-forwarding and rewinding it as best he could to maximize and repeat the impact.
"A REMIX!"
A weak groan let out Sam's mouth as he walked through the hallways. He kept blacking out, and his legs didn't fell as strong as they should.
Stupid Abyss He thought Next time, focus on your body instead of having your head in five different places, idiot
Seeing the nurse's office, he knocked the door as he stumbled once again.
"Yeah, this is becoming too common, but what to do?" He said, as he started falling back "Also, do you have the Count of Monte Cristo among your books for later, if you don't mind? The librarian gets paranoid around me" He tried to chuckle, but it sounded unconvincing.
Edited by Blueace on Sep 9th 2018 at 4:36:45 PM
Wake me up at your own risk.