Shin Megami Tensei Persona: Dissonant Strain (Private RP)

[PresqueVu]

Yamada stopped in his tracks, blood running cold from more than just the temperature. There was something wrong about Seiya up there. Twisted. He took a step forward to her, wanting to help her, but the warning from the broken weapons at her feet was more than clear. He looked to Kurado, not sure what to do. "What is happening to her? You said this has happened before?"

 

[Daren58]

The ice on the ground was strange but Rin found herself preferring it over the pit from the other night. She was about to ask Kurado about the ice when she caught sight of Seiya. She looked unharmed, but her posture seemed unnatural. She turned to look at Kurado. "whats she doing down here like this?"

 

[Cinnonym]

Kojiro was the last person Kurado was expecting to see on the other side of the girl.

"Don't be reckless--!"

It wasn't even worth taking the time to shout a warning. An invisible force threw Kojiro back the way he'd come; Hikaru's back arced unnaturally, her head snapped backward with a strangled gasp. It became apparent that her feet hadn't even been touching the ground. She was a marionette on the end of ghastly strings.

"What the hell is happening to her?!"

Kurado didn't answer Eber's question; he was prepared for battle.

Shadows dripped down like oil from the ceiling--they stretched toward the girl below. It wrapped around her throat and into her mouth, restrained her arms and wrists. It constricted around her like pythons. It was hair. The locks parted for a wicked face that looked like it had once been a woman, and was twisted into the flat-nosed broad-mouthed visage of a snake.

Hikaru dangled beneath it like a lifeless power source.

Menaka has gone out of control!
The battle to save Hikaru has begun!

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro only had a second to register someone else was there before he was smacked away and skid across the ice. Finally stopping when he hit his head- yep stupid. He'd get over it. He picked himself up and watched as Seiya became a puppet to some horrid shadow.

"Ugh...is that...her?" She stood up again, this time ready to fight. He could see the others and that green haired man on the opposite side.

 

[ShadowFolk]

She did her best not to cringe at the thing wrapping about Seiya. 'We've got to get her out of here!' Though that would involve first destroying the shadow that was currently in control of her. For the time being it was best to focus on beating that thing into submission and setting their senpai free. She got a little closer to the tracks, trying to decided what her first course of action would be while she worked her way to the enemy.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada felt his stomach knot almost violently, sure that he was going to be sick watching her used and warped by her persona in such a way. He wanted to stab it. Wanted to jut ram his spear into it and make it go way, but was worried it would hurt Hikaru too if he did.

He saw Ishikawa skid across the ice and wanted to run for him but was sure they'd both then be thrown back. He was sure the boy would figure a way around her, but only hoped he'd be safe in doing it.

His eyes slid to the green-haired man and he immediately copied his defensive stance, sure that he knew better about this than he did. He braced himself for whatever was coming, mind flying to find a solution. "How do we get in there?"

 

[Keppler]

Well that was interesting. Isoroku answered Yamada's question, even though he wasn't the one being directly spoken to.

"Like I said, no time like the present"

As he found himself saying before they'd all started back into the tunnels with Kurado, none of them had come prepared for this and none of them really had any idea what they were getting in to. So as far as Isoroku was concerned, he had no reason to fear whatever this ghastly puppeteer was. Just as Kojiro was tossed back the way he'd come, Isoroku half ran, half slid forward calling Leviathan with a sick smile. The persona came with a twisted snarl of its own, jaws agape and flying at that fluid 'hair' as he tried to run past to Kojiro's side of the tunnel.

 

[Cinnonym]

"Ne--"

"Chimaera!"

Kurado's earpiece was perfectly functioning; the amplified power it afforded to both him and his Persona radiated off the monstrous beast he summoned as it materialized just long enough to slash its claws at the distorted Menaka, ripping a strangled cry from its bizarre mouth.

Eber cast a quick Garu as a distraction tactic, then rushed in with his knife. The enemy swung Hikaru into the path of his blade and he forced himself to stop short; it countered while his guard was down and sent him flying into Isoroku.

"It is vicious..." The German said, rubbing the side of his face where he'd been struck with the vine-like hair.

Animus Menaka

HP: ==============================
MP: ???

PARTY:
Fridmund/Kurado/Yoshida/Yamada/Mizushima/Junsui

HP: ===================
MP: ============

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro nodded to Isoroku. "I see you're the same as ever," he smiled, "I'm glad you guys got away." He watched as Fridmund was flung into the boy he was talking to and he shook his head at his statement.

"Then let's be vicious back!" He rushed forward summoning Quetzalcoatl casting Zio and swinging full force at the demented persona's hair.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada saw what happened with Eber and hoped to avoid the same as he ran forward with his spear, trying to stab at the beast. He had no attack magic to combat the thing, so he only hoped this would be good enough, strong enough to help bring her back.

 

[Keppler]

"Thanks to y-" Isoroku hadn't expected to be randomly blitzkrieged by a flying German, but of the possible outcomes that was probably among the least fatal at the moment. As soon as he'd pulled himself out from beneath Eber, he yelled out to Leviathan and the persona followed along behind Kojiro and Quetzalcoatl, casting Rakunda at the beast.

 

[ShadowFolk]

"How the hell do we hit it? It's using her as a shield!" Kumiko was afraid to get close to it, it had such long range and all she had was her legs. She fought with herself internally, she kept seeing herself up there in place of Seiya every time she thought Baldr's name. She shook her head, 'It won't be me. It won't be me! IT WON'T'

"Agi!"

 

[Daren58]

Rin glanced down at the ice as the others went about attacking it. 'Theres already so much ice, so using Bufu doesn't seem like a good idea.' She reached into her bag and pulled out her book. She moved forward quickly hoping Yamada's attack was distracting it and swung the spine of her book towards the hair surrounding Seiya.

 

[Cinnonym]

Kurado feigned a blow to the left, just barely missing hitting Hikaru with his fist when Menaka swung her to absorb the hit; he dropped to the ground and kicked upward, emphasizing it with Chimaera's power; he struck the underside of its "head".

Eber used Ne-Zha similarly to leap upward, high enough to slash at the snake-like face with his knife; it was dangerous. She countered with fangs to his shoulder, and he fell back wounded and cursing.

Animus Menaka howled: it cast Bufula on Mizushima for maximum damage.

Animus Menaka

HP: =====================-
MP: ???

PARTY:
Fridmund/Kurado/Yoshida/Yamada/Mizushima/Junsui

HP: ==============
MP: =========

 

[ShadowFolk]

She'd been hurt by shadows before, but this was something on an entirely different level. Her entire was screaming in pain. Kumiko's brain didn't even register that she'd hit the ground until a few seconds after her eyes opened again. She groaned, getting up from the ground slowly.

"Fuck...that really....really hurt."

 

[Keppler]

Isoroku watched his own breath fogging from his mouth; it felt colder as Menaka cast its spell. He only halfway registered that Kumiko had been hit though; his mind was preoccupied with cursing himself for not bringing his guns along with him. Though from the look of all the shattered weapons scattered about, they probably wouldn't be very useful anyway...

So he ran.

Much the same as he had before, he rushed at the beast. Only this time when he came upon it, he went one way as Leviathan went another though the two stayed relatively close to each other, arching around to strike at the same spot. Isoroku lept and kicked as best he could as Leviathan rushed right into the monster as it cast Mudo.

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro watched as the Seiya's shadow cast a high level ice spell. "God damn!" He charged again Quetzalcoatl hovered over him increasing his attack, He swung his lead pipe stronger than before. Bashing it into the long extensions of the persona.

 

[Cinnonym]

Menaka is weak to Darkness...

The enemy is down! Now is your chance to strike!

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada ran forward, determined, as soon as the enemy was down and stabbed into the the thing's face, wanting to free Seiya from its control. This shadow was stronger than anything they'd faced before. He didn't want to think of how it'd be if this happened to any of them. Their personas were a part of them. Something that made them whole. He wondered what it must be like to have part of your very self destroying you.

 

[Daren58]

Rin clenched her hands around her book and rushed in quickly. She brought the spine of the book down hard near the shadows head.