Holy Orders [Cloud, Genesis, Open]

[anja]

As the wind blew through the forest on yet another idyllic day, a white feather, glowing with its own radiant light, floated through the trees. Before it hit the ground, it flashed in a brilliant light before dissipating and revealing a figure with radiant wings curled around her. As they unfurled from the figure and faded away, a woman stood in the forest, her hands resting on the pommel of her sword and the tip of it resting on the ground. Once the spell that brought her here ended, she opened her eyes, taking in her surroundings. "Quite a majestic forest, almost like it's out of a fairy tale..." Anja muttered as she walked, holding her sword by the scabbard. "Though this world reeks of Darkness... I must be cautious." She continued to walk for a while, keeping alert for any Heartless or hostile wildlife.

Eventually, she walked to a clearing and found herself in front of a cottage. Anja, having seen no other residence or, really, any other person, she walked towards the cottage, still on edge. As she walked up to the house, she looked inside the window. No one. Not a soul was in there or at least that's what it looked like. Anja then knocked on the door. No answer. Anja sighed and shrugged. "I suppose I should have expected as such." Suddenly, she could smell the Darkness. She turned and saw the Heartless rising, a veritable legion of them appearing. Anja gritted her teeth and unsheathes Claiomh Solais, the scabbard disappearing in a flash of light. She then gathered Light energy into Claiomh Solais and got into a fighting stance. She sliced at the air and summoned five Swords of Light before shouting, "Fiends borne of Darkness, Despair! For I am your end!"

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Imbue Claiomh Solais - Anja focuses Light into Claiomh Solais, making it glow with a sacred light. This allows her attacks to be more damaging, due to having Light coursing through it. While there is no limit on the duration of this upgrade, Anja must be able to keep the power within the blade. Thus, if she's knocked out or reeling from a powerful attack or she is disarmed, this buff is disrupted. This counts even if disarmed and then called via Blade Bond
[Cooldown: 2 posts]

Swords of Light - Anja raises her sword and suddenly slices at the air in front of her. She creates five blades of light, which then become animate and home in on any unlucky opponents. Should they make contact, they explode, damaging the opponent and possibly setting him/her up for more attacks from the other Swords of Light. Should they not make contact with any opponent, the swords dissipate after a certain duration.
[Duration: 3 rounds] [Cooldown: 5 rounds]

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Heartless:

Shadow x10
Soldier x10
Rapid Thruster x10
Bolt Tower x4
Assault Rider x3

(Figured I'd have a big group for the Three Heroes to beat up. Hope this thread is enjoyable.)

[mrstrife]

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Tell me, why is it... The Princesses of Light. They needed to be protected, no matter the cost. The Masked Man had been searching for them, Cloud knew that much. What for he couldn’t do but question, but whatever it was it certainly wasn’t going to be good for the worlds. That was why the One Winged Demon had come: to make sure that Snow White didn’t fall into the hands of the masked enemy. From what he’d heard, she lived part of her time out in the woodlands with the dwarves that she’d lived with for all those years. That is where Cloud was starting his search, trying to find where this little cottage was in the sea of trees before him. He hugged the tree line, carefully glancing up over and again to keep himself from colliding with a branch as he flew overhead. He was finally starting to get the hang of it, though it took a lot more energy than if he’d just taken Fenrir. That aside, at least he wasn’t stuck by the obstacles that occasionally blocked the roads and the trees that could keep him from driving up to the cottage if it lay where the massive motorcycle couldn’t go. It wasn’t long, perhaps an hour before he spotted the cottage. It was beside a clearing, quite convenient if one actually thought about it. Cloud had thought that maybe the Princesses of Light would live somewhere a little more... Defended? No matter, at least he’d found what he was looking for. That and something else, at least. Beside the house was the figure of a young woman peeking within the house, causing Cloud to narrow his eyes. What was she doing here? Before he thoughts could go any further though, she was suddenly surrounded by a small army of Heartless. She spun and summoned her blades, her form and ability reminding her of the Warrior of Light that he’d fought alongside during the Dissidia Wars. This brought a small smile upon his face. Ah, the good ol’ days... Wait, what? Cloud shook his head. Good ol’ days? What was he thinking, it’d been one of the worst times of his life. He guessed the Darkness was finally starting to get to his head. With a snort he tucked his wing, quickly descending upon the battle as Ultima Weapon formed in a flash of light into his hand. Throwing his wing out he halted his dive, raising the blade as energy crackled down from its handle to its tip. “Watch out!” Cloud warned her, dropping to the ground like a stone beside her as he buried the sword’s edge into the ground to unleash Blade Beam, the powerful arc of blue energy sailing across the ground before it would collide into one of the Assault Riders in a brilliant mako colored explosion, the remaining energy of the attack rippling off in different arcs towards the other Heartless opponents. He slowly stood, yanking the blade out of the ground as he looked over his shoulder towards the woman. “Everything will be fine, no one’s getting the princess,” Cloud told her, before focusing his attention back towards their opponents. He narrowed his eyes, holding Ultima Weapon firmly before him now as he spread his feet into stance. This group was nothing compared to that which he and Leon had forced back in Radiant Garden, he was sure that they’d have a similar lack of trouble here. If she proved to be as tough as she looked, at least. He assumed Genesis was nearby as well, certainly he wouldn’t want to miss out on the fun either. Guess I should save him some. -------------------- Cool Downs: Blade Beam: Two Post Cool Down

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[Genesis Rhapsodos]

Where the heck did Strife run off too now?

Flying through the skies at a far greater height then Cloud had done, shot the figure of a man with a singular, large black angel wing. Large, powerful beats of the wing caused the mean in the crimson coat to rocket further through the skies of this unknown world. Below lay a forest that seemed to go on forever, all the way up to the horizon in the distance. Just trees, everywhere. No matter which direction the SOLDIER 1st Class looked in, it all appeared to be exactly the same. If it were this bad up in the skies, it must have been one hundred times worse down on ground level. At least way u here he could travel across the world at a considerably quicker speed then if he decided to walk. Though what if Strife was down on the ground, somewhere amongst the trees? Ever since he had teamed up with the likes of Masked Man, the aura his heart gave off was a lot more difficult to pick up then usual. Even with the new Darkness being awoken inside of him, it was still a difficult task finding the chocobo-headed warrior. It was simple luck that he happened to stumble across him back at Beast's Castle when investigating rumours about 'Masked Man'.

A subtle shock wave caught the SOLDIER's attention, halting him from flying any further as he tucked in his legs and pushed his feet out before him as if he were skidding to a halt upon solid ground. His massive black wing flapped continuously to keep him airborne, hovering high above the endless forest below. What was that shock wave just now? The brightly glowing eyes of the Crimson SOLDIER glanced down directly below him and searched about for whatever may have caused it. Nothing. There was nothing down there, just trees. However, just before he was about to fly off once more, did something catch his attention. Only spotting it out the corner of his eye, Genesis turned about within the air to see a small trail of smoke floating up out of the trees. Curious, he took off in that direction, lowering his altitude until he were flying just over the canopy of the forest. Within a few seconds, he came across a clearing which housed a small cottage, the smoke coming from the chimney of said cottage as standing outside beside one another, was an unknown woman possessing an extraordinary aura as well as 'Mr. Chocobo Head', Cloud Strife. Black figures of different shapes and sizes were dancing about before the pair, a few of them being slain by an attack blasting out the end of Strife's weapon.

As the effects of the Blade Beam had finished, the colourful mako explosion fading away and the trails of the brilliant blue arcs of energy finally dissipated, the clearing was disrupted once more as several explosions suddenly erupted throughout the gathering of Heartless. Eight Flashes suddenly rocketed down and crashed into the swarm of Darkness, the clearing being lit up with a fiery orange glow as four of the Soldier Heartless and four of the Shadows were the intended targets. Not even waiting for the first set of spells to clear away, a second round of eight Flashes shot down into the same places as the first wave, causing further explosions to shake the cottage and the surrounding trees. As the flames died down, the remaining Heartless sliding their way through the smoke and embers towards the woman and Strife, the sound of the beating wing of Genesis came from overhead.

With Rapier in hand, the Crimson SOLDIER slowly started to lower himself down into the clearing, through remaining airborne throughout to provide aerial support to Strife and his new friend if they required it. Smirk was spread across Genesis' face however as wen the smoke and dust created from his spell finally got blown away, did he speak up addressing his current, temporary ally.
"Getting into trouble once again are we, even dragging in this poor woman into the fray at the same time?"
Mused the quoter of LOVELESS as he looked down upon the pair as they stood beside one another, weapons drawn, stances firm and strong as they looked upon the enemy before them. There was something fishy about this newcomer Cloud had stumbled upon... Who was she? Why was she all the way out here? Why did she carry a very extraordinary aura about her? Perhaps questions could be answered after the enemy had been driven out.

-=Cooldowns=-

Flash - 1 Post. -- Genesis gathers energy within his left palm, causing his hand to glow with a fiery red aura. With a swing of his arm, he can release between four and twenty Flashes. The fireballs have fantastic tracking abilities, good enough that they can turn about 180 degrees to keep following their target. Each Flash explodes in a small yet violent eruption.

[anja]

(Angeal got hit with a case of writer's block, so he bowed out of this thread. Hence, the Anja post)

The horde of Heartless stood between Anja and freedom as her sword glowed with sacred brilliance. She waved an arm and the Swords of Light flew across the battlefield, seeking their targets. She then got into a battle stance before an odd thing happened. One of the Assault Riders was blindsided by a large wave of energy, dissipating immediately. That wave of energy then dissipated into many smaller waves of energy, which slammed into the other Heartless. They seemed to be weaker as well, as all were injured, but none fell. A blonde man then came to Anja's side and Anja could but raise an eyebrow at his appearance. He wore all black, had blonde hair, very blue eyes and the biggest sword she had laid eyes on. It was positively absurd and looked needlessly complex. How did he even manage to lift thing, much less fight effectively with it? The man then mentioned something about a princess. A Princess? Is she in danger... there is more to this man than meets the eye. Perhaps a Prince hoping to rescue the object of his affection?

She didn't have long to muse before another attack was made, this time what almost looked like fireballs from the sky landing and detonating, cutting a swath through the Heartless grunts. Thanks to the first attack, several of the Rapid Thrusters were destroyed along with most of the Shadows and Soldiers. Anja then heard a loud flap of a wing, as if a giant bird of prey were flying down to greet her. Anja turned to the sound of the wingbeats and found herself facing a red-coated man with one black wing extended. It was... a rather strange sight. Was he an Angel? Surely not, as he reeked of the Darkness... but was it possible? Who were these men? Anja then heard the man speak and her curiosity was replaced by anger. "H-How DARE you?! 'Poor woman'? I am NOT some damsel in distress to be rescued!" And here she was about to thank them.

Again, she was interrupted from reading the red-coated man the riot act. The remaining two Assault Riders had teamed up and were charging straight at her. She growled and closed her eyes. "Though my comrades are worlds away..." she prayed, her blade glowing, "THEY FIGHT WITH ME!" As soon as the Assault Riders got close enough, Anja swung her sword and several slices of Light slashed at the Assault Riders, cutting away at their bodies. Then Anja turned her sword around and hit both of the Heartless with one final slash, ending them both. Anja then turned and found a Bolt Tower nearing her. Anja merely uttered a "Hmph" and charged at it and used Purging the Sin, slashing at the Bolt Tower over and over again before finishing it with two powerful slashes, sending the Tower flying as it disappeared.

The Heartless now got on the offensive, their numbers having dwindled quite rapidly. Two of the Bolt Towers floated to Cloud and Genesis. One of them tried to slam its body down on Cloud's spiky head, while the other tried to electrocute Genesis. The Rapid Thrusters also tried to swarm Genesis with attacks, while the remaining Shadows and Soldiers ambushed Anja and Cloud, injuring Anja in the process. The remaining Bolt Tower also used its Lightning attack on the Paladin, electrocuting her. She stood her ground, breathing heavily from the burns she received, though they were minor.

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Imbue Claiomh Solais - Anja focuses Light into Claiomh Solais, making it glow with a sacred light. This allows her attacks to be more damaging, due to having Light coursing through it. While there is no limit on the duration of this upgrade, Anja must be able to keep the power within the blade. Thus, if she's knocked out or reeling from a powerful attack or she is disarmed, this buff is disrupted. This counts even if disarmed and then called via Blade Bond
[Cooldown: 2 posts]

Swords of Light - Anja raises her sword and suddenly slices at the air in front of her. She creates five blades of light, which then become animate and home in on any unlucky opponents. Should they make contact, they explode, damaging the opponent and possibly setting him/her up for more attacks from the other Swords of Light. Should they not make contact with any opponent, the swords dissipate after a certain duration.
[Duration: 2 rounds] [Cooldown: 5 rounds]

Pain of a Thousand Blades - Anja swings her blades once and several slashes made of light strike at the opponent. The instant the final slash connects (or misses, depending on the opponent), Anja moves in and slices the opponent.

[Cooldown: 2 rounds]

Purging the Sin - Anja readies herself for battle and then charges in, unleashing a multitude of extremely powerful slices that are enhanced by the Light. The last two slices finish up the combo and are extremely strong, capable of knocking back an opponent for quite a distance.

[Cooldown: 3 rounds.]

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Heartless:

Shadow x2
Soldier x2
Rapid Thruster x3
Bolt Tower x3

[mrstrife]

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Hmph, is that all?! Right on time, Cloud thought, watching as the attack he recognized as Genesis’s Flash rained down upon their Heartless opponents. He simply stood and watched as the force of the explosions rattled the environment around him, doing naught but move the Imaginary SOLDIER’s hair. As the smoke began to clear, Cloud glanced at the true EX-SOLDIER as he landed gracefully in the clearing across from them. His words earned a chuckle from Cloud, who shrugged. Before he could reply however, the woman’s angry outburst cut him off. She then took her frustration out on their common foes in the Heartless, finishing their cutting the numbers from thirty seven to ten. Now it was the Heartless’s turn to attack, one of the Bolt Tower’s colliding with Cloud’s heart causing him to flinch. This left him vulnerable to the Shadows and Soldier’s attacks, which forced him stumbling back into the wall of the cottage. He growled, shoving off the structure as he brought Ultima Weapon to his side then raced towards the small group of Heartless, to drive his sword through the two shadows before he drove his foot into the ground to allow him to spin and swing his sword upwards like a bat to send the Soldiers airborne. He then leaped into the air above the duo, driving his sword downward to finish Climhazzard and hopefully finish the small group. He glanced at Genesis, wondering whether or not he should help. ...No, he could handle himself. Besides, there were three enemies still nearby that he needed to deal with. Glancing towards one of the Bolt Towers, specifically the one that had struck him, Cloud darted once more and swung his sword twice in rapid succession at his target, hoping to kill it with Double Cut. He supposed the woman could handle the remaining two Heartless, and stood tall as he watched the heart that the monster had held hostage become free from its dark prison. It reminded him of their mission, to protect the Princesses of Heart from the Masked Man. He looked back over his shoulder to the cottage, setting his eyes once again on the windows. Was Snow White in there? No, if she was she probably would’ve awoken and emerged from the chaos caused first by the woman and then by the Heartless. She was probably at the castle, safe with the prince and the others. Well, as safe as anyone could be with the Masked Man prowling around. She needed powerful allies to defend against the likes of him, which was why he and Genesis had come. Perhaps they could even convince her to leave for now to a safer location until the threat against the worlds was over. It wouldn’t be that easy though, Cloud had a feeling about that. The world would fight against having their Princess taken, and she would feel obligated to remain and stand against the threat even with the obvious fact that they didn’t stand a chance against their opponent. He sighed, shaking his head as he pulled himself out of thought and brought his attention back to the battle. Holding Ultima Weapon firmly before him once more, he narrowed his eyes at the two remaining Heartless near him as he waited for what came next, ready to finish them off. -------------------- Abilities Used: Blade Beam: One Post Cool Down Climhazzard: Three Post Cool Down Double Cut: One Post Cool Down

made by Rosalyn of BTN