Gato Community College. (game thread)

[Lunar Templar]

Sierra looked around a bit, after the terrain settled, that odd, familiar feeling of 'home' settling over her again. Birres seemed to be an Imp, which was some what surprising. She figured he'd been a bit higher up the food chain then that. He then explained about the demon.

"And feel free to let your dark magic flow here, it should be far easier on your body if you recall."

As Birres spoke those words Sierra's mind flashed to the last fight she had in Limbo. It was against a demon knight of some kind, one loyal to the demon king who wanted her dead. "How could I forget? It's the only reason I beat that Knight." she said as she started toward the giant demon, before simply flying over the broken terrain, and lamented not bring the gem that held the prototype DRAGOON system she'd been working on. So many good ideas and weapons for fighting demons in Gundam animes. But she'd make due with what she had.

Sierra while still in flight, drew her sword, and with the draw-stroke released a black, crescent shaped projectile at the demon, then second such attack as she sheathed her blade. She landed and assumed a stance that would allow her to quickly draw and parry a ranged attack, and had enough distance that she could dart away if it decided to charge. The light in the area fading away as she started to channel her demon energy into the sheath of her sword.

 

[Athol]

Alicia

She hissed in annoyance as yet another fireball was dispersed by the red fluid the attackers were using. Almost immediately it was followed several 'darts' fired back at her. Staying mobile, Alicia immolated a couple with well-placed fireballs, while dodging several more. If this prick would just stand still I could close in and end his ass. She thought ruefully, but unfortunately her opponent was content to fight a distance.

"AAHHHH!" She let out a loud yell as a 'dart' she'd missed hit her in the shin. "MOTHER FUCKER!" Bringing her hands together as a focal point she then unleashed an unending torrent of flame on the guy, forcing him to turtle-up to avoid getting roasted.

[hr]

Isaac

"Come on big man, the ladies you hit on can take more than that."

He knew the voice and the words that were said, but for some reason none of it made sense. ?Huh? Wha'd...ohhh..." He muttered, as his throbbing body reminded him of what'd happened.

"You okay?"

Blinking a few times, his vision focused and he recognized Jack in front of him. "Fan-fucking-tastic...though I feel like I just got hit by a fucking train!" Back down to his normal size and appearance now, he braced himself on Jack and staggered to his feet. "We 'shifters can take a beating but that fucking hur-." He was cut short by a massive blast of some sort that sent Jarrah, in his true form no less, flying at them. Quickly reverting to his earlier armoured form, he broke Jarrah's fall somewhat.

Seeing that the creature had taken on a more 'Yowie-like' appearance, he groaned. "That can't be good." Getting to his feet, he grimaced as it rushed Rose...no form that he knew that was fast enough to get there was strong enough to even slow that thing down. "Jacky-boy if you have any brilliant ideas on how to stop that thing I'm all ears."

 

[figment of mind]

Mirabelle quickly let go of the signpost and jumped away, as the blood formed into some sort of spike shield around the cultist. 'Odd...it seems to be able to absorb the kinetic energy from my attacks...how the heck do i get through that? Maybe i could use a thickening agent...Maybe it only good for absorbing an attack, not for stopping constant pressure...whatever it can do, i need to find a way around it.' she thought for a second before getting her thoughts interrupted.

"So...what going on now?"

She looked over and saw the dragon man that Alicia had fought in the gym, having seemingly come from nowhere. She didn't question it though as Mira saw the effects of Alicia's fire attack. Anyone else that could evaporate the blood was a good sight currently, and besides, he was from the school.

"Uh...well, cultists. I don't know for who yet but they're attacking civilians and are wielding blood. Fire seems to work though. Could you help, por favor?"

She said this while lifting up a car, lifting the back first before using her other arm to grab the middle from below, just to steady it. She proceeded to slam the car, engine first, onto the cultist's shield, letting the weight of the machine crash down on them along with her own strength.

 

[Knife-28]

One moment, Jarrah was elbow deep in monster juice and the next he found himself flying though the air and landing in a rather unceremonious heap. Jarrah groaned as he stood and shook his head.

"That can't be good."

As Jarrah's vision stopped swimming he saw that the beast now sported fur, his fur. "Oh come on!" Ignoring his cry, the beast turned towards Rose, who herself had transformed, and charged.

"Jacky-boy if you have any brilliant ideas on how to stop that thing I'm all ears."

"I could throw you...." Jarrah muttered, before turning to Isaac and repeating louder; "I could throw you."

 

[Sithmorack]

"Jacky-boy if you have any brilliant ideas on how to stop that thing I'm all ears."

After hearing Isaac's words, Jack turned to him and said "well... the room is a little to bright for my tastes. I can't really do anything that important except run distraction."

"I could throw you."

Jack stared at Jarrah for a second in thought before saying "while I appreciate the idea, I don't think that's such a good idea. Apart from Isaac getting thrown at the creature and possibly hurt, I don't even know if it would have any effect." He then turned in Isaac's direction before saying "unless you have something that can pack a punch, it would help if it gets more power from speed. Somehow I doubt it thought..."

 

[Outcast107]

Tomas listened to Mirabelle as he watch the group and the cultist attack each other. Wondering if he could make a fire at his current level of training as he shrugged. "I might be able too...though I'm still learning this whole drag-" he stop in mid-sentence as he watch Mirabelle lift up a whole car and smash someone with it.

A bit shock to see the girl able to do that, but quickly remember what school he was at. "Right...Anyways might not be able to make a fire, but I'll still help out.." he said as he charge into battle. Relaying on both on his training he'd learn so far, and his dragon instinct. His dragon-claws easily tearing apart the cultist he choose first to attack.

Normally, he would be against this sort of thing brutality. Though due to the fact these are cultist and are hurting innocents, he didn't mind so much. After the cultist body fell to pieces, he ran towards the next one. Blocking one cultist's darts as Tomas made his way towards him.

 

[Athol]

Alicia

Adrenaline and anger let Alicia keep the stream of white hot fire going for a good 15 seconds, before mental fatigue forced her to stop. She had no time to inspect what she'd done before another hostile lashed out at her, using the red fluid as a whip.

She tried to dodge but the dart in her shin, which seemed to have vanished, hobbled her pretty well. A tendril flashed out and before she could dodge, it wrapped itself around her throat, the cultist using it to squeeze her windpipe was he lifted her off the ground. Not...good... She needed to hit him quickly, before she blacked out.

Point Ignition... She'd just started experimenting with it, but it was worth a shot; she only had one shot and there was too great a change of him blocking a fireball. Concentrating on the guy's face with everything she had left, she picked a point and snapped her fingers, using that as the focus for her powers. His left eye glowed for a moment, then popped, as she super-heated it; the fluid lost all cohesion as the cultist fell to the ground, clutching his face.

Staggering to her fee, Alicia looked about. There were still lots of these assholes about, though fortunately, the civvies were fewer and fewer. Still, if these guys got further into the city it would be bad. She was running low on energy, but she had a plan. While Tomas, who seemed to appear from nowhere, and Mira went to town on the hostiles, Alicia took a knee and began to concentrate.

Aside from generating her own flames, she'd discovered early on that she could also influence exiting fires. Reaching out, she 'grabbed hold' of several smaller fires that had resulted from the initial attack, and with a big pulse of power caused a firestorm to envelope either end of the block. So long as she could keep it up, these assholes were stuck in here with them.

She was deep into what little reserve strength she had left, but still she forced herself to her feet, and over to Ohka. "C'mon," She gasped, shaking Ohka with an unnaturally hot hand. "We need everyone on deck..."

[hr]

Isaac

"[small]I could throw you...[/small] I could throw you."

"That's a bad...WAIT! I have an idea, just give me a moment." He said, beginning to breathe deeply.

"...unless you have something that can pack a punch, it would help if it gets more power from speed. Somehow I doubt it thought..."

"No," Isaac replied. "But 'pointy' might work." As he spoke, he began to change before Jarrah and Jack's eyes. Instead of going larger like before, he was getting smaller, until he was about the size of an eight year old child...though considerably more muscular. He skin once again took on an 'armoured' appearance, while his fingers and toes began to grow claws, his face flattened out and pulled back, until he had no neck. "Damn..." He muttered through a mouthful of newly fashioned shark-like teeth. "The constant shifting is tiring..." Taking another moment to centre his thoughts, he looked and Jarrah. "Okay, aim for the head...then see if you can knock out some of these lights..."

 

[Knife-28]

"Okay, aim for the head...then see if you can knock out some of these lights..."

"Alright." Jarrah nodded and picked up Isaac, resting him on his shoulder like a javelin. The Yowie breathed out as he backed up a few steps, relaxing his body and trying to ignore the slowly developing bruises. With no warning he suddenly took off, striding across the arena in a run. He drew back his arm before throwing it forward with all his might, sending Isaac streaming towards the creature like a living missile. Thankfully the creature's head is no small target, and Isaac hits it at full speed, staggering the creature and throwing off its charge just enough to scrape by Rose.

Jarrah let out the breath he didn't know he was holding, and continued running to help Isaac bring the creature down.

 

[Athol]

Isaac

This was a bad idea. Isaac thought; unfortunately for him, that didn't occur to him until he was already airborne. Slamming into the creature, he latched on, his claws biting into whatever exposed flesh he could find purchase on. After a moment, the abomination stopped staggering, which allowed Isaac to release at least one hand from holding himself steady. With that done, he immediately began clawing at the thing's face.

 

[mcpop9]

As Isaac connected with the creature, it stumbled enough to force it off course with rose, allowing her to continue to work while she was humming a song that might seem familiar to some and seemed to be halfway through the song. Educated guessers might assume that this was a signal that she was about halfway done with her ritual. They'd be correct. The scratches being made on the creatures face were regenerating, and jarrah's assist broke a peice of metal on it, but it regenerated to its proper form. However, they did have its attention as it was now trying to peel the armored boy thing off of its face.

[hr]

Ohka looked up at Alicia slowly. She was still shaking, but saw the look in her friends face and nodded. "Ye... Yes...." she said and slowly got up shakily. She knew she had to do something and saw a car over on the side of the street, having witnessed Mirabell use a car as a bludgeoning device, she decided it'd probably be an effective weapon as well. Hopping over ontop of it, she closed her eyes and tried applying her ability to the car and felt it beginning to take effect.

However, at the same time, a group of the cultists began gathering together in a circle, a large red ball beginning to gether in the center of them. The remaining cultists forming a defensive line and beginning to volley fire the red spikes. "A... Alica... try thwoing the car..." ohka Requested.

[hr]
It took the hits, only a couple of scratches appearing on its skin as seirra's weapon did their damage. However, as it turned around, its mouth opened up to reveal what would equate to a garbage disposal device from hell, made of nothing but shark like teeth. That's when it quickly charged up and launched a black energy beam at it, only having its aim thrown off by an explosion via birres on a nearby rooftop with an rpg and making the beam miss her.

 

[Athol]

Alicia

"Ye... Yes...."

She was glad Ohka'd snapped out of whatever had been going on with her...they needed everybody they could get. With Ohka on her feet, Alicia's attention was drawn to the fact that the Cultist's were massing together, some laying down defensive fire while the remaining massed for...something. That can't be good.

"A... Alicia... try throwing the car..."

"Huh?" She said with more than a little confusion, as she took cover behind what little cover there was. Looking over at Ohka, she could tell the girl was using her powers on the car. What the hell is she...riiight. She was confused at first, but quickly remembered just what Ohka could do. "On my way!"

Darting from cover as soon as there was a lull, she put the car between herself and the hostiles. "I sure hope you know what you're doing." She said out loud, as she grabbed the car. Although it was a bit of a struggle at first, Alicia found that once she got the car in motion, lifting it clear over her head wasn?t too difficult. Car now up, she took several running strides before hurling the car.

[hr]

Isaac

Now what genius? Isaac thought as he clung to the creatures face. Sure he'd stopped it from trampling Rose, but the wounds he was inflicting where healing as fast as he made them. Any further thoughts were pushed aside as a thick fingered hand reached up and tried to pry him loose. Sinking his claws deeper into the creature?s head and neck, he twisted and sunk two rows of razor sharp teeth into an easy to reach finger.

Roaring in anger, the beast pulled its hand away and began to pick up speed. Oh fuck... His fear was confirmed as it slammed head first into a wall, sandwiching Isaac in the process. The impact was enough to knock the wind out of him, and caused him to relax his grip for just a moment. In that moment the creature reached up and pulled Isaac free, before hurling him the length of the 'arena' where Isaac slammed into yet another wall. Laying in a heap, dazed and semi-conscious, Isaac began to revert to his normal self.

 

[Sithmorack]

"For fucks sake..." Jack thought to himself as he ran over towards Isaac. 'Useless, that's really what I am right now aren't I?' he internally questioned himself as he continued running. Eventually he got over to Isaac and nudged him to see if he was going to get up on his own. Though he doubted it. "Why... do I always..." Jack began as he started lifting Isaac from his crumpled state, "Have to lift your sorry ass back up?"

 

[Lunar Templar]

Even with out Birres assistance, when Sierra saw the giant demon starting to charge up a shot she bolted for cover. Birres intervention meant she could attack sooner. Sierra kicked of some rubble and flew up at enough of an angle that when she came down, she'd land behind the demon. As she flew up a blade of darkness formed on the tip of her tail, the blade in this attack being more powerful then both her opening attacks combined and as she reached the peak her 'arc' she spun around, slinging this blade at the demons head, she swiftly followed that by positioning her wings so the 'talon' on the tips where point forward, the larger wings over her shoulder, the smaller ones down by her hips, she then fired 3 energy blasts from each for a total of 12 shots, also at the demons head, though focused largely on its eyes. Her final move was saved till she had come down a bit.

She draw her sword and released all the energy she'd been gathering with a single, powerful strike, targeting the demons neck, The attack it self dwarfed the power of her prior attack in terms of power, just releasing it temporally blacked out the surroundings, and even if she missed some how it was unlike the demon would be left where anywhere to stand given the nature of Limbo.

What was unlikely to have been noticed right away was what all this had done to Sierra, the rapid use of her demonic powers, in conjunction with how much energy she was putting into the attacks, had cause her body to ache like she was suffering form a really bad full body migraine, and her right arm from the elbow down had split a bit and she was now bleeding, and not only that, the skin tone on said arm had paled a bit.

 

[figment of mind]

In Mira's mind, it was a wise decision not to lift up the wreckage of the car to see if the blood coming from underneath was the blood from the magic or the cultist's own. Besides, looking at what was left of the car...it wasn't hard to answer that question anyways.

Looking past that, it seemed that the other cultists had grouped together to start...making a ball. A few others began forming a defensive line, launching a bunch of red spikes at her group. Mirabelle herself took cover behind a bus, letting the spikes hammer into that rather then her. Thinking of some way to retaliate, she looked around for some thing she could throw to close the distance...before looking back at the bus. Sure, it was risky to throw her cover, but the size of the thing ment it would at least take out quite a few cultists in that defensive line.

Reaching her hands underneath the bus, s he began tilting it forwards, trying to grab something underneath to hold it steady. Once she found that grip, she hauled it up over her head, a massive amount of creaking happening as she did so, though it was hard to tell if that creaking came only from the bus or if parts of her body were doing the same thing. Nevertheless, she began moving, taking a few slow steps first before walking faster and ending in what could only be equated to a jog, finally throwing it in the first few steps of that.

The bus landed a few feet away from the defensive line but kept rolling, even bouncing off the ground, hitting a few bits of rubble but retaining most of the speed that went into it. It plowed into the side of the defensive line, taking out a small group of mages not quick enough to react to the hurling death before them. Unfortunately, the rubble that it hit took it off course, barely missing the ball summoning mages as it spun out. Still, it was better than nothing, the way she saw it.

Afterwards, she picked up a vespa and began using it as a shield, moving towards the defensive line...or what remained of it.

 

[Outcast107]

Tomas jump back towards his side to regroup. The defensive line had push him back as they guard whatever the others cultist were doing with that ball. Watching as both Mira and Alicia both threw something at them. One being a bus and the other a car as he look at both of them. "What the hell are you girls on to be throwing cars and buses?!"

Shaking his head as this was indeed the strangest night he ever had. Ducking behind Mira for cover as the follow her up towards the remains of the defensive line. Wanting to end this now before whatever the cultist have plan can become reality.

 

[Knife-28]

Jarrah was thankful for the fact that he and Isaac had prevented Rose becoming an impression of a pancake, but the heroic feeling in his chest was negated by the fact that the monster was still kicking their ass. Isaac sailed over his head, followed by another roar. This time however the creature didn't charge, instead it chose to plant its's feet and aim the cannon fixed to it's arm.

"That's not even fai-" Jarrah was moving even as he articulated the words, only for them to be snatched away by the booming report of the creature's cannon going off, and the resulting explosion which sent Jarrah sprawling. The ringing in his ears and the dull throb in his chest drew him away from the fight, and for a moment he forgot he was in a karaoke bar turned arena, battling a monster straight out of a 90's video game. That is until he felt the creature's 4 fingered hand close around his throat like a vice grip and lift him up.

Putrid breath, like a rotting carcass wrapped up in copper wire, washed over him, and Jarrah growled in defiance as he reached up and grabbed the creature's eyes, aiming to crush them.

 

[mcpop9]

The creature screaed as its eyes were blacked out via the giant aussie's hands. It let go and grabbed at its face. it was at this moment that Rose had finished whatever she was doing and was now standing. she had her katana and her robes on. She sliced at the air and it split open, revealing the club they were once at. "In the rift, shove it!" she shouted to them, focusing and making the rift larger.
[hr]

In the other portion of limbo, The beast took the hits and the massive demon's back was open, his spine and ribs showing from Sierra's attack. Birres saw the condition she was in and bit his lip. "you need to kill its heart! i can manage if you don't think you can o it without dieing!" the imp shouted to sierra. She maybe had thirty seconds at most to determine if she was going to let the imp finish off the beast.

[hr]

Ohka closed her eyes as she watched the buss fly over her and roll through the line. Her nerves were lighting up in pain and the car was shocking everything it flew over. As she saw the group of mages who were creating the ball were now over, she lept off the car and into the ball of blood. The car itself plowed over the mages, but the ball didn't dispell and ohka didn't pop out of the other side of the thing.

 

[Athol]

Alicia

She smiled as the car, and a bus slammed into the attackers. The smile faltered as Ohka disappeared into the ball of liquid the mage's had been building, without coming to the other side. "That can't be good."

"What the hell are you girls on to be throwing cars and buses?!"

Looking towards the voice, Alicia saw buddy with the anger management issues...his name was Tommy or something like that...right? "?Not on anything." She replied, watching as the mages regrouped. "Mira is...special, and I had help. Speaking of..." With that she lobbed a couple of fireballs at the big red ball, as she began to run towards it. I've gotta get her outta there.

While physically she was still okay, the heavy use of her magic was wearing her down faster than she liked. Her clothes were soaked with sweat, and her fireballs were getting smaller and harder to form.

[hr]

Isaac

"Why... do I always...have to lift your sorry ass back up?"

" 'Cuz I'm just too damned cute to leave on the floor?" Isaac muttered as Jack lifted him up. After a moment he was able to get his feet under himself. "Uggh..." He groaned. "We 'shifters can take a beating, but THAT bloody hurt..." Clapping Jack on the shoulder, he smiled at the shadow man. "All seriousness though, thanks."

"In the rift, shove it!"

"On it!" Pushing free from Jack, Isaac began to shift again, his legs growing more massive and muscular...at least for a few moments, then he pitched face forward onto the ground, returning to normal as he did. "I'm okay..." He called out, from his face down position. "But I think I'm done...I can barely move." My everything hurts...

 

[figment of mind]

"What the hell are you girls on to be throwing cars and buses?!"

"Nothing that i know of, i'm just built to lift things, throwing them is easy afterwards. As for those two, i assume that they're using some sort of electro-magnetism to bypass gravity!" Mirabelle shouted back to Tomas, unaware of any noise that could block her but doing so anyways, just in case it was just her.

Speaking of, Mira watched her friend jump off the car and hop into the ball of blood (not very sanitary, but it's like she could mention that now). Still, she was happy that Ohka had done some damage...until she realized that the orb wasn't dissipating and Ohka wasn't coming back up. Luckily she wasn't the only one to notice as Alicia began to charge forward, trying to attack the big red ball in any way she could, namely fireballs. Seeing as how she had seniority when it came to magic, Mira left her to it to and decided to keep the remaining cultists on her back.

With that decided, all that was left was to warn her new travel companion that she was chaning speeds.

"Um...we should probably hurry. A bit of warning, I'm speeding up."

With that, she charged the remaining cultists, using the vespa as a battering ram to smash through any defense that they could conjure. She then grabbed the handle bars and swung it like a one-handed bat, knocking a cultist away and into a lamppost, trying to keep them distracted while Alicia tried getting Ohka out.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Sierra gave the Imp a 'Do you even know who your talking to look', still, he had a point, the giant demon was more durable then she'd figured it would be, trying to kill it with her demon powers alone would not be a good idea. The demon thrashed its tail at her and she dodged it. It was her fight and she was going to finish it, but her demon powers no good, while she still had plenty in the tank, and she could push through a lot more pain then she was feeling, she was tired of it. She was tired of having her only combat powers nearly kill her every time. Sierra paused that train of thought, as she avoided another blast from the demons maw, smaller then the last one, clearly her attacks had taken a greater toll on the beast then it appeared.

As she landed, and subsequently, darted forward. A though accrued to her. She didn't have just one power set suitable for battle. She had two. She looked at the demon, then Birres as he came back into view, then down to her sword and sheath. ... worth a try ...' she thought as she changed direction. Sierra darted toward Birres "Hold this, be back for it in a minute or so" She said as she flew past the imp, dropping her sheath at his feet. Sierra then turned toward the demon, and after putting a small charge into her sword, slung another black energy blade at the demon's face, again, at the eyes. This was a faint though, cause as soon as the attack had impacted the demons face, blinding it for a moment, she darted for cover a little ways away form the demon. As she landed she removed her earring.

Sierra stuck Bakuzan into the ground and removed the enchant on the stone and begun to add a new enchantment to the stone. She kept close watch on the demon from her hiding spot, she was out of reach of its claws, but there was the breath weapon, not to mention she didn't know if it could sense increases in energy's or not, she figured if it could, it was only demon energy, which she was currently not using. As she worked the enchantment into the stone, she silently wondered why she'd never though of doing this sooner, why it was she drew such a hard line between her Demon and 'Human' magics as far as what she considered combat worthy.

Sierra worked quickly, and the enchant showed her haste, it was sloppy, and likely wouldn't hold together in any functional way for very long, but she didn't need very long. Sierra waited till it's back was to her again before she darted out, Bakuzan in one hand, earring in the other. she charged for the wound on the demons back, which, much to her annoyance was smaller then it was a minute ago. Didn't matter, Sierra tossed the earring out in-front of her and hooked the loop with Bakuzan's tip, then shoved the sword up to the hand guard, prongs and all, into the demon's back, burying the earring well in the demon's body. The demon took a swing at her as she pushed off and away and only grazed her leg with a claw, if her plan didn't work, she really would need a rescue now, but she put a little bit more distance between her and the demon before landing on the street, flipped the sword around so she was holding it blade pointing down, struck a cocky pose, and snapped her fingers.

Sierra couldn't help but grin as she watched the demon's body puff up a bit, or blow out smoke and aetherial energy from the wound on its back, and fall to the ground, dead, blood and pieces of internal organ flowing from its open maw. Sierra, flew up and landed by Birres, favoring her wounded leg a bit.