"Where did he come from?!...Bah! Nevermind. You'll die just like they will!" The Demon shouted as he landed on the ground, Katana in hand. "Alright....who wants some of this?..." He asked as he unsheathed his sword and cut across the air, sending a horizontal wave of lighting towards Hadrain and the ones greeting him.
Team Shaun Demon Shaun
Hadrian raised his arms in a show of peace (though it didn't seem to help much, considering what was strapped to his arms), and responded to the two wolves in their tongue, though his Lupan sounded fairly rusty.
"Hey, easy now! I'm no enemy. The name's-" "Alright....who wants some of this?..."
Hadrian turned and stabbed Soul right into the floor. Within the instant of his invocation of "Frigus," a giant barrier of ice came jutting up from the floor, shielding them from the attack. The wave of lightning dispersed all around the ice, before vanishing completely from it's surface. The mildly annoyed wolf-man gave the barrier a kick that dislodged it from the floor and sent it speeding through the air to the Demon. He looked back over his shoulder and finished answering the larger wolf's query.
"...My name is Hadrian Selene."
The Large wolf communicated back to the werewolf in Lupan as he shielded the Bard trying even more to heal the Australian on the ground, although the nature of the injuries made it like scooping water with a sieve. "I've never known a hairless ape have the scent of the pack as you do, Wolfblood. If it wasn't so disturbing, I would ask how! I am Lupito of the pack headed by the Scarlet Knight." He moved the two humans out of the way of the bolts to give Hadrian, Angelus, Dillon, Teri, and Garm more room to work with.
Meanwhile, as Devon struggled to keep the Author stable, the Shadow's words joined up with a snide little voice in the man's head. Hey, just let the man pass away. It wouldn't be all too hard, would it? None of them could ***** you out for it, either. Just tell them that you couldn't save him in time. The Healbitch is off doing Healbitch stuff, after all. It's not your fault that you were trying to be the hero and keeping the Healbitch fully geared. He shook his head as he massaged the last bits of the potion into Shaun, hoping to God that it'd work.
What a fucking joke, hoping to God. After all, would She want some fuckwit that sold off his soul for some strength? Start thinking for once, you sack of dead weight.
After getting the last bullet out of Angelus' arm and disinfecting the wound, Teri put a hand over the wound and concentrated for a moment, allowing the combined energies of her healing Pool, Melethia's strange magic and her Aura to heal over it:
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Teri expends 4 points in her healing pool, and is aided by her Aura and Melethia's Drain Life to fix Angelus' arm. 28 points remain.
The dragon moved her arm a little, and gave her thanks to the Cleric before readying her fires for the frontal assault on Demon Shaun. As she did so, Teri moved to Devon and Shaun; looking over the other Author with distress, [color=0E59E4]
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"How's he holding up, Devon? I know I dropped a potion in, but I don't know if it's strong enough..."
Oh, here comes the Healbitch now to fix him since you obviously can't.
Seeing the fellow author, Devon waved her over. "I'm trying, but the potion really isn't doing that much. I don't know what it is about these injuries, but they're really stubborn!" He let out a lighthearted laugh to ease the frustration he was feeling at not being able to help the man and basically being-
Useless. That's basically what it boils down to, isn't it? After all, you can't fight here, you can't knock any sense into these chucklefucks, and even that little blond whorebiscuit told you to sit the fuck down because you'd be in the way.
Of course, even though the voice was stronger in his head, he kept up the same cheery attitude, but let it slip into a bit of frustration feigned at the whole situation.
Teri nodded quietly, and slapped her hands together, chanting a healing spell over Shaun before filling the Australian full of Positive Energy;
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Teri casts Cure Serious Wounds, healing Shaun for 49 points of damage! 24 seconds before another level 3 spell can be cast.
After doing so, Teri wiped her brow of some sweat, and looked over Shaun again, then to Devon, [color=0E59E4]
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"He should be alright now. That was my strongest spell... Devon? Are you okay? Look, I know that Demon over there is right about all of us having a darker side to us; but you can't let his words demoralize you!"
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[color=0E59E4][small]"Oh don't start acting like a hypocrite. It was no easy task getting ME under your thumb. What makes you think they'll listen to you so easily?"[/small][/color]
Teri forced that nasty thought to the back of her mind; and kept her gaze on Devon. If he was in fact falling under the Demon's spell, she wanted to make sure she caught it now instead of later.
Like I really care, Healbitch. Just go run off with your Speak And Spell and poof someone in that's actually worth a damn along with a vibrator so you can go fuck yourself!
Devon ignored the vindictive voice in his head as he checked the Author's unconscious form. "Really, Teri? Don't worry about me. We've got way more important stuff on our hands, and even if it wasn't there, I'm pretty sure I can take care of myself here. I'll stick here with Shaun, so if you could just back up the others, that would help out a lot." He put in enough stress in his voice to let loose some of the strain of the voice in his head, but just enough for it to be seen as the effects of having nearly died more than three times in the last two hours.
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Teri can roll against a DC15 to see signs.
Meanwhile, Melethia worked alongside Hadrian, Angelus, and didn't get in the way of Dillon as she cut more at Demon Shaun. The blessed blade of the Handaxe proved to cut in well, but the elf also noticed Dillon's blade and focused in more to see if the area just in front of the blade shifted to indicate an enchantment.
The Demon Author blocked Hadrian's attack by manipulating the environment's metal sheeting covering the walls. The only downside to the protection is that now Demon Shaun cannot use the same metal sheeting to protect himself again (Because Authors can't just post the same thing over, and over again), though Hadrian's attack did destroy the metal barrier the fake Author created.
"I see that they have started to talk to you once more. Come friends, try to become released from your bonds!" The Demon Author said in a dark tone which overlapped a younger and frail voice. Underneath the corruption of the shadow was a much darker side of Shaun, though this was suppose to be the side which stands up for him and will not hesitate to protect him with anything or anyone.
Any of the characters in the room could clearly see the cracks on the Demon's face from all the damage they have caused, they could even say that the face he wore was not his own. Another piece of the demon's mask fell off to reveal a concerned frown as he looked to his real self.
A good question to ask is "Who is 'i'?"
Meanwhile.
It seemed like the lifeless body of Shaun was not making much progress though in his head Shaun was meeting with the thing that caused all of this mess, from his darker side to Dark Tomoya.
"So what do you actually want? I know it isn't Tomoya or me."
"It's simple really. The destruction of all life."
"It's not that easy."
"It's simple once those Archangels come"
"Don't tell me!"
Shaun said but the Shadow only laughed as he noticed that the human had finally awakened to his plot.
"Finally, someone can SEE. Though it is far too late, I control both this world with the Archangel and your powers with your other side."
A smirk only came from Shaun.
"No you don't."
The shadow could only sigh.
"You control the side of me I have kept locked up for years. It would be impossible for him to take my power ... my creative power. By bringing him out you have only made him another character in this damned world!" Shaun smiled with killing intent as his began to glow blue with lightning.
"I never lost my power, I was only scared to use it!" Shaun yelled out as he called forth his own blade from the ground and decided to destroy the illusion of fear.
"I wish your death to be slow and painful then." The shadow only said as the mental wall within Shaun's head crumbled.
Shaun started to move beside Devon and slowly got up.
"Seems I have a habit of you healing me." He joked as he decided to give himself a little boost of his own. "
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Inciate."
A lightning field appeared around Shaun.
"I always wanted this." Shaun smiled as he looked towards everyone.
"We should really end this ... I'm getting tired of being tortured both ways. Though I doubt it will end soon." Shaun could only say whilst putting his katana on his shoulder looking at his Dark crazed form. Demon Shaun on the other hand roared once he saw his real self get up, he was acting more unstable by the second.
Team Tomoya
Riki held the gun with the light bullet inside it's chamber.
He only had one chance with this to save Tomoya. Everyone was focusing on the stunned Tomoya like it was going to be the end, though he didn't know that this was only the beginning of the fight. Squeezing the trigger of the gun the bullet of light left the chamber in a flash of light and it left the barrel quickly then light.
Even though the boy was a bad shot with the gun it seemed that the stone was attracted to the Demon Prince.
It was aiming for it's chest.
The Stone pierced the chest of the fallen one with great power and speed.
The Demon Prince slumped over and the corruption in the body began to erupt and black liquid flew out of the body.
But just as everyone thought they were victorious, the black liquid stopped in mid air and gathered into a ball with the stone of light in the middle. It had begun to form a person.
Meanwhile the body which the corruption left was badly injured and looked very familiar to most people in the room.
The body slowly got up from the ground covered in blood.
"What did ... I miss?" The one and only Tomoya smiled before he knelt on the ground and coughed up some blood. Meanwhile the black liquid had already formed into a humanoid form.
"HAHAHA, idiots. That was my aim, now I have true power!" The Shadow said once more as it introduced his final form.
Now die! He smirked as hundreds of dark arms came out of his body.
Tomoya watched in horror as his Demonic Side finally freed itself and prepped itself to wreak havoc all over the world, starting with everyone left on this ship
Rugal was finally up from those direct hits he took earlier, the torn holes in his vest and the electrical burns showing where he was hit.
Processing what happened around the same time that Fionn was freed from the magnet lock, he shouted "Cover my approach! That's an order!" before sprinting towards Demon Tomoya. "So shoot him then? such a brilliant tactical mind..."
Keen to get a piece of that black bastard, Fionn didn't object as he covered Rugal's mad charge, Shandy blasting off several in coming appendages as they tried to strike him.
Sliding over and grabbing Tomoya as his dark side brought a Axe it had summoned down where he was, He saw that Rugal of all people was helping him to safety. "Rugal?...Wh-...What is going on?..." He asked weakly as he dropped him off near Riki and Kud who were glad to see him alive. "..uhhhh...Than-"
"Second I'm done killing him, I'm going to bludgeon to death with whatever limbs are left intact!" He cut over him before returning to the battle. "..." Yep....That was Rugal... He thought as he realized he was in the Blackhawke's Bridge
"OKAY EVERYONE! JUST HIM AND US! FINAL ROUND! FIGHT!" He shouted as he rushed in his Slashing Aura, using to to slice apart anything the Demon threw at him as he lead what was hopefully the final charge.
Ton Ton's grip on Tomoya's leg faltered when the two split and found himself on the floor with confusion. [color=15650D]"What the-?!"[/color]
However, before anything else could be said by the little guy; he found himself being snatched away by the back of his cloak and cradled in one of Caim's arms. The warrior backed away, his jaw a little slack at the recent developments,
"I don't know what the hell's going on, kid; but I didn't want you near that amorphous thing for too long..."
At this point, Cadolbolg flew down towards Caim's level, and the mute deposited the Tonberry on Cadolbolg's back; gripping his sword again as the Demonic side of Tomoya finished his piece. With a nod to his 'children' and a mental message to be careful, he charged again; his familial blade shining and ready to strike again.
The Cuties in question gave a similar response; and Cadolbolg already began climbing in the air again for a chance for Ton Ton to leap as he did before.
Team Shaun
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Teri rolls against a 15 DC to see if something's wrong with Devon! She rolls a 10... Thus she'll blame stress instead of noticing any issues.
Teri gave a grim nod to Devon, and did her best to try to shoot an encouraging smile. However, it looked a little more desperate than encouraging, given the circumstances, [color=0E59E4]
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"Okay... We'll a good long break when this is over, right? Just hang in there for a little longer!"
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A familiar snide voice chimed in after Teri had attempted to embolden Devon; the Demonic form of Shaun causing that slumbering cruel force to attempt to speak, even it was a little muffled by an enchantment on one of the Cleric's rings,
[color=0E59E4][small]"Real picture of confidence, there. Bravo! They should elect you as motivational speaker for the year... Is this idiot really worth your time anyways? I mean really, what's he gonna do? Sing?"[/small][/color]
[color=0E59E4]"Quiet."[/color] was all the Cleric said to her shadow, fully intending on not allowing it to make this fight more difficult. She needed to focus on the events in front of her; not a weak attack against her mind.
That was when Shaun finally rose, and the Cleric's confidence seemed to raise a little, [color=0E59E4]
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"Finally up, I see... Come on Shaun, you've played Persona 4, you know how this has to end... Are you ready? GARM! TO ME!"
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The Cleric climbed on top of the wolf again, and the beast bared its teeth as Teri cast Shield of Faith on her faithful wolf; as following up with Spiritual Weapon on the Demonic Shaun, the spectral longsword appearing to attack the Shadow once more as the wolf charged in to aid his comrades.
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Blah blah blah Shield of Faith +3 to shield Garm; blah blah Spiritual Weapon attacks Demon Shaun for 42 seconds. 12 seconds until another 1st level spell can be cast. 42 seconds till another 2nd level spell can be cast.
The words were affecting Dillon the worst.
Dillon?s Id was always a tricky thing to control, Resonating with Excalibur normally suppressed the Id, and a resonance of this Magnitude would force all selfish temptations out of his mind.
But something about Shaun's words, perhaps he was casting a spell, was interfering with it. His soul shrank back to its previous size. His wings and sword stopped glowing. the wings were almost disappearing Dillon had sheathed his swords clutching his head, trying to keep himself under control but his Id was eager for the chance to be free again.
Tomoya's shift to his final form was accompanied by a slight amount of light focusing in on the Paladin and condensing as she worked her way through the arms.
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Slindis used up a Turn Undead attempt to Activate Divine Might! For the next minute, her attacks will have a +4 Sacred bonus to damage.
Turns Left: 10
When she got close enough, she unloaded with an extremely fierce flurry of blows, and the shifting nature of the wraps Slindis was wearing ensured that the Dark Tomoya felt each and every boneshattering hit.
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Slindis unleashed a full flurry of 6 strikes and two of them were a Paladin Exalted Smite that got the offhand strike! Using this attack, you call on the paladin's ability to strike down evil creatures, gaining twice your Charisma bonus to your attack roll, a damage bonus of [(Character Level{21} x 3) +3, or 66], and +1 to your weapon's critical threat range and damage multiplier. Uses smites per day.
Smites left: 5.
Damage dealt: [b][u]615[/u][/b] (32+31+39+[36+66]+3[24+66+6+25]+37)
In layman's terms, she just dealt an enormous amount of damage in 6 seconds.
Tajuh worked in a flanking attack with Caim as he slashed some of the arms, giving an excellent opportunity for Fionn to get some shots in.
Team Shaun
Healbitch really thinks she knows what's going on, huh? Vapid broad doesn't even know the first thing. Good for us, then. Otherwise, she'd just toss you aside like a used condom. Nah, that's wrong of me to say.
The condom's actually useful.
He gave a tired wave to Teri and kept up that same guise. "Looking forward to it, Teri. Until then, how about we focus on getting that out of the way?" Right after that statement, Shaun stirred.
Now ain't that cute. The Dingo-Humping Shitstain thinks you actually did some good there when it was all the Healbitch. Now be a good little boy and stay out of the way, dumbass. The adults are handling this since you clearly can't do shit, just like how it's always been and always will be.
Devon patted Shaun on the back, clearly still too tired to do much real fighting. It's a wonder that he'd even made it this far, but he put on a calmly confident face on as he spoke to Shaun. "Hey, I know that thing that came from you is messed up, but it's still another part of you. It just doesn't help anyone if you ignore it or shunt it off, and you'll have people here that will have your back. So have a bit of confidence in us, man. I mean, you messed up? So what. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other, and if someone's giving you problems, you can plant one of those feet firmly up their ass."
Melethia chopped and hacked at more areas that were open, and her harassment gave some openings for the others. of special note was her slicing the leg muscles, limiting his mobility.
"YEAH!...YEAH, COME ON GUYS! Show yourselves! For who you rea-GAH!!" The Demon Author shouted as Melethia stabbed him in the leg, causing him a fair amount of pain and causing cracks to appear on his leg. "OHHHHH...WHY YOU LITTLE!" He shouted as he turned his focus on the elf as he brought up his sword. "THIS....IS OF BLADE A LEGEND! YOU AIN'T GOT SHIT ON IT!" He mocked as he used his Lighting Cutter sword to send lighting at the elf, corning her off from her allies.
"YOU SHUT UP AND KEEP YOUR FAKE ASS SWORD AWAY FROM HER!"
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Teri's Spiritual Weapon came down hard on Demon's Shaun's chest as a result, and Garm joined in, scratching at the demonic Author with it's brutal claws; Lupito's warning about the taint in the enemy's flesh in mind. Angelus followed up the large wolf's attack with a homing volley of fire; eight concentrated shots of fire heading straight for the demonic Shaun's quickly cracking shell. As all this went on, Teri called to her 'sister' on the wolf's back, [color=0E59E4]
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"Mel, are you okay?!"
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The Cleric was clinging to the wolf's fur for dear life as the interplayed assault between the various fighters went on; her aura at the ready to aid those within it. To the Shadow, however, it proved to be far more irritating than any good.
Dillon saw this attack
In his head a cruel, idea came to him.
He suddenly flared his wings of light and swiftly lunged at Dark-Shaun
"Like picking on little girls do you? What's the matter boy too cowardly to fight someone your own size?"
Dillon began to slash and thrust his blades to cut The Demonic author, Teri could see se the signs of Dillon?s dark side creeping in on his mind he was using it against Dark Shaun.
Dillon was moving fast and ferociously.
"What?s the matter boy? You wanted to see my dark side," he said as his hair turned black and his eyes morphed.
"Oh, did you expect me to side with you? Foolish boy, you stand in my way so I'm going to Punish you."
He said finishing with a cruel laugh.
"I'm going to enjoy hurting you almost as much as I'll enjoy cutting up the one who has my wife." he said as he gave a quick slice at the face, leaving a large scratch but it wasn?t deep enough to cause any severe damage just a stinging pain, this was mostly what Dillon?s attacks were causing, he didn?t want to kill Dark Shaun, he just wanted to make him bleed.
Melethia's body instinctively moved out of the way of the blasts and rolled in for another slash at Demon Shaun's hamstrings, making sure to hit the spots where the cracks were from earlier. "It doesn't mean a thing if the person using it can't do anything. Plus, that sword of yours is really badly made. I mean, it's got an edge, but it's so brittle!" She got nicked by one of the return blasts, but she focused on crippling the man as the acidic edges of the blades ate away at the shell.
Lupito sprung at the Shadow, pouncing at him with large claws. "Garm, Wolfblood, split his attention. the human's not invincible, after all!" The coordinated attack was more than enough to give Dillon more chances to attack Demon Shaun.
Meanwhile, Devon just stood at the sidelines in an impotent frustration. See, buddy? They didn't need you here after all. Nobody on the ship needed you. That Whorebiscuit ran off because you'd fuck it up for her. Even the Batshit Murder Duo only want you for the news updates. So why the fuck did you come here in the first place? Because you wanted to be a knight in shining armor for these tools? Don't make me laugh. You haven't changed a single thing at best. What about all the times you've held them back? Face it: you're as useful as as an asshole on an elbow.
"Oh jeez..." The Shadow stated before he was attacked by every single angle, making blocking impossible.
After taking a Angelus fireball[sup]TM[/sup] to the face and being set on by the Mad Dogs of Lupito, Garm and Hadrian and the even madder dog of Dillon's less stable side, he went down quickly.
Even with his new power gained at the expense of his good side's sanity, he was quickly overwhelmed by the joint attack and soon it was less of a fight and more him getting his butt kicked as he was down.
Once the attack was over, The Demon Author was laying on the ground, cut and bruised, having learned the hard why what happens to those who fight the Rising Dawn solo. "...owwwww..." He groaned as he yeilded, his Dark Excalibur picked up by Dillon who began to examine the impostor sword.
Dillon was fascinated by the dark Blade, It's negative energy was powerful, but he soon realized this was not the True Excalibur, to an extent this made sense, As DIllon overpowered him with his Excalibur way to easy for it to be the real thing. However This Dark Blade may have it's purposes, he took th scabbard and tied ti to his belt and slid it in.
"Let's get moving these two can handle it from here."
The others looke dat him, he suspected judgement and sighed.
"Look there's two things we can do we can set this place to explode, when we want it to so once we leave this ship will be destroyed so no one can ever use it's tech to threaten the world ever again, or we can go help the others with Tomoya, or if I was a leader I would suggest we divide into two smaller teams and do both."
As the group settled down around the Demonic Shaun, Angelus called,
"Sound off, everyone. Is anybody hurt? If so, speak now while we have the time..."
In the meantime, Teri slid off Garm's back and wandered to where Devon was hiding out, shuddering as she passed Dillon holding the Dark Excalibur, muttering,
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"That thing [u]can't[/u] be good for you..."
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When she made her way around the rubble, she smiled faintly, and asked, [color=0E59E4]
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"Hey, how're you holding up? From the looks of things, Shaun's Shadow is down. So long as decides to accept the damn thing we have nothing to worry about...."
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Facing a DC 15, Teri rolls a 24 to get an insight on Devon's mental state. Watch out boy, the next thing you say might give you away!
Giving Devon a good hard look, the Cleric wondered if her fellow Author was as 'okay' as he claimed earlier...
Melethia checked the Demonic Shaun before sounding off. "I'm a bit cut up, but I'll be just fine, Miss Angie!" She went over to Lupito as the Dire Wolf examined Hadrian more.
Devon turned to Teri and kept up that fatigued but somewhat relieved appearance as he gave a terse response. "I'm fine, Courtnee. So calm down and focus on the others here. It's just been a really long day. At least we've almost finished with it."
Good luck, Healbitch. You'd just tell this waste of oxygen to sit the fuck down, and he wouldn't want that, now would he? Also, when this is all done, Healbitch, you've got a family to go home to.
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