Raid #35

[Claire Lovelace]

Now things were getting interesting. Her Quake spell had spread the fire nicely and now it was truly and inferno. The ground and the surrounding area was aglow with the beautiful orange color of sweet destruction. Claire basked in the heat and inhaled the delicious fragrance of the dying life around her. That was until she saw water spells being cast on the blaze in an attempt to extinguish it and as a result, ruining her fun. Her eyes shifted over to the source of the water spells, a girl with pink hair. The girl yelled at her to stop spreading the fire and that she didn't want to fight her. [pink]"Wait a minute, you don't want to fight but you draw your weapon against me? Bad move girlie. Oh, and I will stop. I'll stop when this pathetic excuse for a world is nothing more than a barren and lifeless wasteland."[/pink]

Claire was about to attack the girl with the bow when she was struck by an attack to her left. She stumbled back and looked in the direction the attack came from. She saw a man with spikey hair and cards? He uses cards for weapons? Then the man sent a Thunder spell her way as well. Claire willingly took the hit for she had something else in mind and a little damage wouldn't bother her. It hurt but she was no where near to being out of the fight. Claire gritted her teeth and clenched her fists as the pain from the attack began to subside. Then she opened her eyes and glared at the man. [pink]"You expected that to stop me little man? So, it's two on one is it? Fine then but I'd hardly call that a challenge.[/pink]

Claire launched her chakrams at the same time in high arcs one at Serah and the other at Hayden in a combo move. The one aimed at Serah was not aimed at her, but aimed at her bow. Claire's intent was to slice the bow in half and leave the pink haired girl weaponless. The girl would still be left with magic but her fighting capability would become limited. The other chakram, thef one aimed at Hayden was thrown so it would arc high then come down and hit across the back of his legs. Claire's intent was to cut deep into his legs and severely limit his mobility. Regardless of whether or not her combo chakram attack hit or not her chakrams returned to their owner. And smirked and evil smirk at Hayden. [pink]"Now little boy, get ready to witness hell."[/pink]

With Fire as her chosen spell, Claire's eyes burned a crimson red as her chakrams levitated in front of her and began spinning and rotating around one another, soon a 10 foot tornado of fire appeared in front of her and hurled itself towar Hayden. If her chakram injured his legs it would be fairly certain he would be the recipient of a direct hit from her Chakram Cyclone. If the attack to his legs missed, well, the cyclone may or may not hit it's intended target but either way it would cause another large portion of the surrounding forest to catch fire and add to already massive inferno. After the cyclone hit or missed Claire's chakrams returned to her. [pink]"This world will burn until nothing remains."[/pink]

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Chakram Cyclone - Claire's eyes glow red as her chakrams are imbued with a spell of her choosing. The chakrams then spin around her, creating a mini tornado of about 10 feet tall made of the element of the spell Claire used for this ability. For example, if Claire used Fire for this ability it would produce a Fire tornado around her. If she used Blizzard it would produce a tornado made up of about hundreds of razor sharp ice shards, etc. Claire can then decide which way the tornado rotates and sends it towards a single target and any other targets within a 6 foot radius. Dealing moderate damage to all enemies hit. The chakrams then return to Claire. Cool down: 4 posts.

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Serah has been removed from the Raid for not posting within four days.

Jihil is next to post in the thread. She has four days.

[jihlnabaat]

The battle was reaching it’s apex. Some were trying to extinguish the fire, others were making the best use of it as weapons, like Mordred and several flying burning logs. Jihl smirked and kept the small animal known as Roo under her tight embrace. One of her Behemoths was on the front line while the other was close to her acting as a bodyguard for any… surprise attacks. Such decision proved to be useful as the Colonel heard a metallic crash and turned to her second Behemoth as he rose his huge golden sword, deflecting what seemed to be a short sword…. Belonging to the Prince Noctis.

Jihl’s eyes narrowed as she grabbed Roo with extra ferocity and took a step back. That annoying brat was trying to save the small woodland creature. But not on her watch. Her baton was under Roo’s chin and the Behemoth that protected her took a stance between his mistress and the dark assailant, but before he could attack the man, he had already vanished next to the first Behemoth, striking it with what seemed to be a halberd before blocking his sword against the L’Cie. So… He was trying to save the hostage? Poor, poor prince. He had no idea on how hard such action would be.

“Prince Noctis.” Jihl said with her green eyes sparkling with murder intent as she cuddled Roo with an evil smile on her lips “You wish to save this little thing? I apologize but this little stuffed animal has other plans for the time being.” The Behemoth stroke by the halberd roared louder and focused his attention on the prince while the second standed next to Jihl. “I’m afraid I can’t handle him over.” The first Behemoth tried to cut Noctis in half with his gigantic sword while the second slashed the already burned floor, sending a shockwave towards the prince at the same time as ashes and fire were tossed against him with the impulse of the sword. The Colonel however remaining put. From her right hand, a small electrical current seemed to appear, signal that Jihl was getting ready to use her “Charging Manadrive” either against the prince…. Or against Roo.

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Calling Reinforcements I - 3 turns left

[Noctis Lucis Caelum]

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He seemed to possess telekinesis as he did, and while he reminded him of his mortal enemy only known to him as the 'White-Hooded Man', he had to focus on getting the flaming projectile coming his way. At the same time, a young woman had thrown a chakram weapon to pursue after Serah, and noctis gained an idea. As the Azure Behemoth pulled back with it's weapon to slash down on him, the prince took the moment while there was no increase in pressure on his weapon, and pushed off as he performed a baseball-like slide underneath, through and out the other side of the Behemoth's legs. As he predicted the flaming log would home in on him as it seemed the telekinesis holding it avoided Jihl, he slid in the last spot Serah had just been standing in, hitting two birds with one stone and having the two forces of the chakram and the flaming log collide and cancel one another out. Unfortunately, this meant he was still on the ground as the Azure Behemoth that acted as Jihl's bodyguard could still damage him with somehow making it's shockwave, but at least the damage was considerably less laying on the ground than it would have been standing up and exposing more of his body to the elements. The smoke rose away and climbed into the sky as Noctis rose from it, ashes and fire tossed against him but otherwise still unscathed. "You're going to have to do better than that, Jihl." he countered, as his currently summoned weapons disappeared and he summoned his jousting lance into his hand, it's point directly at the base of her Azure Behemoth bodyguard's foot as he attempted to stab it deep into its right bipedal foot at point-blank range and into the earth. Pinning it there to immobilize the monster just as he had done to a solider once invading his castle, and without stopping or so much as pause, his swallow blade materialized into his hand next to Jihl's elbow as he thrust it forth it under the arm she was charging her electrical attack with, precisely trying to lever her upper arm back behind the body with the middle chakram-shaped part bending her lower arm uncomfortably behind her back. And by uncomfortable it would be excruciating pain, and the length of the swallow blade hooked across her back and slotting in front of her elbow with the arm she was holding her lengthy baton at Roo's chin. Another grapple technique he had performed on a solider back at his castle once before but new and improved, completely locking down her dexterity with her hands and arms by placing the weapon's blade between her spine and the inside of her bent elbow, and as he spun around her he extended his other hand to catch Roo. If he had the small kangaroo in his hands now, it would weigh him down and give Jihl an upper hand against him as he tried to defend the plush joey, but he promised his mother he would and it would be well worth anything he had to endure for such a young and innocent life. "No, you can't handle him, period. And true, he does have plans, getting the heck away from a cruel woman like you. What's the matter, Nabhat, can't fight so you cower behind as many creatures as you can? You're a coward who can't fight on her own." he finally spat back as he executed his theory of paralyzing her with surgical accuracy, knowing if she attempted to struggle out of the blade she would cut herself excruciatingly on it, and he forcefully held the weapon in place as he remained behind her to face the two Azure Behemoths that would predictably have to get through their master in order to get to him... if she were to survive it unscathed for all the suffering she had inflicted on the innocent. --- Teleportation: One turn left. Battle Theme: Forest Battle (Can you tell my role model is Optimus Prime? Gotta love that honorable big guy, haha.) [/style][style=font-family: times new roman; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 5; word-spacing: 1; text-shadow: 0px 2px 2px #000000; color: #4e4e4e; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;] template by A S H T O N OF O N T H E E D G E

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[Hayden Katran]

Hayden was too focused on Claire to notice the log flying at him until it was too late to dodge. Enlarging his palmed Queen of Swords to six feet high and two feet wide, he braced his shoulder against the card and slid back from the force. Luckily, the movement had him out of the arcing path of the chakram that had been aimed at his legs. Claire was talking now.
"Witness hell? Sorry, miss, but I don't see anything but a bunch of arsonists and firefighters here."
Hayden smirked as he said this. He then saw the tornado of fire going at him. Kicking off of the log, burning his foot slightly but not enough to mess him up, he grabbed the Queen, which was still six foot by two foot, flipping in midair, and buried the card in the ground, using it as a springboard to launch at Claire in one fluid move, bracing his shoulder with the Jack and the King of Swords. Hopefully, this would work.

TAROT CARD STATUS
Queen of Swords: Enlarged to 6'x2', buried in ground near burning log.
Ace of Swords: In sleeve
Jack of Swords: Enlarged to 15"x12", braced against Hayden's shoulder
King of Swords: Enlarged to 15"x12", braced against Hayden's shoulder
Page of Swords: In left palm
All other cards: In pocket
Wheel of Fortune ready!

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Mordred has been removed from the Raid for not posting within four days.

Eight is next to post in the thread. He has four days.

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Eight has been removed from the Raid for not posting within four days.

Silv is next to post in the thread. He has four days.

[Silv]

After using her shockwave for protecting herself, she had gotten loose from the boy, but as she turned to face him. He was gone, where did that bastard go? She was initially confused by the turn of events, but quickly shifted her eyes towards the Keybearer that was headed to Modred. I'll keep him busy, so four-eyes can keep burning the place down, she figured with a smirk.

Then she started to move forward and let her axe slip out of her hand, she grabbed ahold of the tail and started to spin the axe. Then while moving towards Ventus, she tossed the axe as she used her black disc technique, causing the axe to flare up with Darkness and look like a flying black disc that headed towards Ven. While she had tossed her axe, she had haltered only for the toss, but then immediately kept moving after her axe towards Ven. If the disc wasn't going to hit, she could perhaps still punch the boy down.

Making fists, she leaped after her axe to give the Keybearer a fist to the face if she was able to. Using attacks one after the other worked better than just throwing attacks with pauses to let the opponent catch breath. The others present had seemed to be busy with each other, but Silv planned to check on them after she had beaten Ventus down.

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--cooldowns--
Dark Seed: 2 posts
Black Disc: 2 posts

--events--
with the disappearance of Eight and Modred, Ive just considered Eight to have disappeared from anything anyone want to put in if it is needed (corridors, invisibility cloak, random pit trap that just happens to appear out of nowhere and swallow Eight whole before closing again, so it still appears like a patch of burned grass), ive switched target to Ventus and let him decide whether he wants to do anything about Modred

[cyclone]

The man who started the fire was gone.

Ven hit the ground hard, stumbling a little and coughing in the smoke and fire. He turned on the spot wildly, searching and searching but to no avail; he'd disappeared. Likely he didn't want to stick around once he'd set the fire. Hopefully it was that, and not that he'd set off to set fire to a different part of the woods. The fire was still raging around him, and he felt the worry rise up in his throat. Pooh and his friends… were they all alright? It didn't seem like it as his eyes fell upon a small kangaroo held by a woman. He wasn't exactly sure, but it didn't seem like the was trying to help him. On the contrary, the poor guy looked like he was terrified. Without thinking Ven started towards them, keyblade at the ready.

Suddenly the sight of a strange circular dark flame flying at him came into view, and with a surprised yelp Ven leapt to the side. He was grazed by the strange projectile, and while he was gasping and whipping his head to the side to check the damage he was hit with a fist as a woman appeared from nowhere and began firing them at him. It was almost a constant stream of punches, and for a while Ven could do nothing more than try to brace himself. Finally catching a break, he took a short step back did the first thing he could think of: he raised his keyblade through the pain as beams of light appeared around. They spread out around him, filling him with a warmth and letting their white light shine through the orange of the fire as it targeted the foes around him.

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blitz: 1 post
faith: 3 posts

[Claire Lovelace]

It was about time that someone really put up a fight in this battle. She was looking forward to taking on both the man with the cards and the pink-haired girl with the bow but the girl had left the battle leaving Claire with on opponent instead of two. Claire was disappointed in this change but it couldn't be helped. She thought it was amusing that the card wielder thought he could win, or even hope to survive a one on one battle with her but Claire figured that she could have some fun with him before she finished him off for good.

Her attacks at the man had missed their marks but this didn't deter Claire at all. Now the card user was launching himself right at her. Her moves were a bit sluggish due to her injuries but she could still move quickly. Claire rolled out of the way to her right just as Hayden was about to hit her and then she sent both her chakrams after him as a counter attack. Hopefully either her chakrams would hit their target or he would be to distracted trying to avoid the spinning blades to not look where he was going and hit a tree or something.

As she watched her chakrams fly after her enemy a sharp pain surged through her arm. Her wounds were strained from performing that roll dodge and she new that this battle would be a struggle if it did not end quickly. But even if her arm was broken or no matter how bad her injuries were she would not be defeated. Even if she destroyed herself in the process she would destroy her opponent as well.

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Chakram Cyclone: 3 posts remaining in cooldown.

[jihlnabaat]

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[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][STYLE= background-color: #1d1d1d; width: 350px; padding: 5px;][STYLE=background-color: #405e3c; margin: 5px; height: 20px;] [/style][STYLE=margin: 5px; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9px; color: #6a6a6a; text-align: justify;]"This is far from over. The move the prince performed on Jihl was horrible and she was indeed suffering from that lock. That brat… managed to rescue her hostage and pin her down like that, thinking that using her as a shield like she did to the small idiotic creature. Very cleaver. She would grant Noctis that. Both of her Azure Behemoths stopped their attacks, confused without the next course of action. Without their mistress orders, they were nothing but huge blue monsters without a purpose. “I must admit…” Jihl said with a faint smile of her lips, trying to ignore in an unsuccessful way the pain she was feeling. “I didn’t see that coming.” With her arms behind her back and with Noctis sword against her elbow, Jihl was indeed low on options, unless she wanted to injure herself in the process of getting free from Noctis grasp. And that… was the only available choice for the Colonel. That was a war, and she would gladly suffer some punishment if that meant inflicting it to her opponent as well. The hand locked behind her back started to emit sparks as Jihl prepared for a sudden world of pain, and before Noctis could have a chance to strike her down, the soldier casted Charging Manadrive at close range of Noctis. Even if the fire and blizzard wouldn’t do much damage to the prince, the fact that he was holding a metal sword against the sudden electricity charge would inflict major damage to the boy. Jihl screamed in pain as the spells engulfed her as well, eyes closed and a suffering look on her face. That was the part her Behemoths were waiting. Both rushed towards the duo, one quickly pulling Jihl away from Noctis with one of his huge claws, while the second punched the floor where Noctis was standing, emitting a huge shockwave due to the impact. At least their mistress was now safe… It was all that mattered. “S-slay him!” Jihl managed to say before being put to safety by her Behemoth. Show the brat no mercy!” ------------- Calling Reinforcements - 2 turns remaining Charging Manadrive: Jihl can cast Fira, Thundara, Blizzara in a quick succession. (Jihl isn’t a l’cie so she uses technological means to cast her own spells) Fira – 2 damage Thundara – 2 damage Blizzara – 2 damage (Total damage inflicted: 6 damage. All spells charge at the same time, with a 3 post cooldown cost) [/style]

[Noctis Lucis Caelum]

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Quickly he concentrated, and pictured within his mind the handcannon that was with Kanga, that he cleverly had slipped into her pouch before she had left. As the flames burned around them and he had still held Jihl writing in place, he expected that she would do anything to hurt herself to writhe free, and grunted in pain from the several burns as he endured the Manadrive and twisted the blade against the woman's back and arms to bleed her out as she was pulled away. Even if she were to outlast the battle, she would not do any more harm if she was bleeding out, and would be forced to retreat with her abominations towards utter defeat. As her minions came to her rescue and once punched the ground in a shock wave predictably once more, Noctis looked up and simply shook his head once from side to side, his channeling complete and used Teleportation to disappear from the spot fractions of a second before the assault was unleashed into the soot-ridden earth. Noctis suddenly appeared some miles away in the Spooky Cavern, next to Roo, Pooh, Rabbit, Tiger, Eeyore, Piglett, and Owl. The animals were startled at first by the frightening appearance of the stranger, as Piglett exclaimed "H-h-h-heffalump! D-d-d-d-dear!" and were about to bolt when Kanga saw Roo clutched safely in the man's arms as he knelt down. "Let's do a trade, hmm?" Noctis smiled, as Roo yelled "Mama!" as Noctis took out the handcannon from her pouch and handed Roo into his mother's loving and cuddling arms. Noctis smiled, but remembered why they were all here from the handcannon in his grip, and looked at all the stuffed animals as he began concentrating to teleport the long distance back again. "Don't worry, just stay hidden and don't come out unless you hear my voice, okay? Be brave." he told them, before in the blink of an eye he had teleported again. The prince teleported back to his swallow blade, a few moments after the Azure Behemoth had lost track of him, finally finishing his Teleportation technique. "Now that's out the way... time to show you my true power!" he yelled furiously, three of his sword weapons of the shortsword, the swallowblade and the Falchion appeared around the battlefield, floating and circling in mid-air. Hovering just before the trees that had caught alight, the weapons dug into the earth, cutting as they created a firebreak of a deep ditch to stop the fire from spreading to trees that had not caught alight yet. Using Telekinesis, now the entire battlefield was sealed off from the rest of the forest, the weapons finishing their digging by cutting down dead trees that had already finished burning to fall and be used as makeshift blockades in front of the ditches to further hamper the fire's growth, all of the warriors now locked in a arena of ash, smoke and flame. That should have severely put the villains at a disadvantage during this fight and evened the odds up for them, and he would soon see after the battle with his allies to firebreak the flames of the forest, before eventually returning to the peaceful inhabitants of this world and letting them know they were now safe even if they did not have a home world to return to. "Remember me from your nightmares; for those that wish to destroy this place, you're finished." the prince called confidently to the firestarters, before succumbing to a coughing fit due to the thick smoke rising between the branches. --- Teleportation: Finished cooldown, used again upon finishing cooldown. Two posts left. Telekinesis: With little effort, Noctis can summon his weapons out of thin air with magical power, and materialize them anywhere in the free space of the battlefield. They hover within the air and are almost transparent if one doesn't look hard enough, and he can't materialize them into people or objects, so he needs to grab them out of the air and throw them in order to move them around to make offensive use of them in combat for the most part. He can also use his telekinesis to rotate them in the air, both to set a almost invisible trap in a switchblade-motion, or to orbit around his body in his defensive 'Coat of Arms' technique. He can summon one weapon at once, which he always chooses his main weapon, the Falchion as his weapon of choice along with any additional weapons. Even then, he may only use a few at a time, leaving others as back-up for projectiles or to act as a defense. (He can only summon as many weapons as there are opponents in the thread. If he uses a weapon to attack or defend, one post cooldown.) 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The battle is over!

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After some voting, we have decided that Dark has won this battle.


The Dark has won 100 Acre Woods!


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