Conquestum Paradisi

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Conquestum Paradisi

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What: Closing Arena Ceremonies, Part 2
Where: Aries Arena & Televised
Summary: 1/24/10AC
Warnings: This could get serious...but who knows.

Finally it was time for the mayor, Kazuki Sakahagi, to speak up. Not even an thirty minutes left to the celebrations, but seeing him go appeared to be lighting up a spark in the citizens. It wasn't too hard to see why; his enthusiastic grin and way of walking could easily melt anyone's worry away.

He walked to the center stage as cheering broke out, two men in black and Junko Tanako behind him.

[OOC - GO FORTH AND TAG FREELY]

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OPEN - THREAT LEVEL VERY RED

[hinoto_npcs]

[Throughout the event, multiple copies of people dressed exactly the same with a notable mask -- or wait, is that the same person??-- pop up all around the event in a crack of light, some floating in the air with a faint aura and some among the crowd. All brandishing the same polished white wands, they begin to shoot at things in the arena, explosions ringing loud with multicolored flashes of light. Pillars fall, wood cracks, and citizens run in a panicked frenzy to avoid being crushed by the wrecked objects, both the strobe-like effect and loud noises causing extreme disorientation. Some of them disappear with a crack of blue light after a few hits, but some stick around to fire a few more shots.

Dare you approach one?]

(ooc: not a killable npc; magic is extremely destructive, though if you approach her she will likely just fire a shot or two in your direction before disappearing to where she came. if you go talk to her alpha self, though...)

[echo_of_a_jedi]

This wasn't going to stand.

With so many threats popping up in the stadium and the whole area surging with panic with her in the middle, it was impossible for Meetra to step back and be a general. So instead, she was a Jedi, charging toward one of the masked figures to interpose herself and, in a flash of movement, her lightsaber between a masked figure and nearby panicking civilians.

She wasn't sure if she could deflect whatever this person was firing, but she could take the few seconds between her and her target to experiment between that and dodging.

[greyerrant]

Garviel, on the other hand, is trying to line up the teleporting mage with his bolter from on high, assisting meetra with fire support. He booms from his vox-emitters.

"We must end the sorcerer!"

[hinoto_npcs]

(ooc: injury, or get out of it mostly or entirely unscathed?)

Quirking an invisible brow from beneath her mask, the figure does something completely opposite. The glow around her growing stronger, she lifts up a bunch of broken pieces of stadium with what appears to be telekinetic abilities, and throws them at the pair at an alarmingly fast speed. Not undodgeable, of course, but it would definitely hurt if it connected.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

(I'd like her to go a few rounds and maybe psychically figure out the source of the copies? After that go for it, she's a Star Wars character so she can deal with getting maimed.)

Telekinesis. She can do this. At least she wasn't controlling lightsabers with that. She focuses on the trajectory of the debris, dodging past some with inhuman speed, cutting others in half with her lightsaber, all still trying to get close to the Anoli agent. It works well until she gets too aggressive and has to brace herself against getting hit with one large piece, leaping back using her own telekinesis and its momentum to get out of the way.

Which has the unfortunate side effect of sending her flying through the air away from her target, sadly.

((I believe Viridi wanted to tag in now.))

[forceofnature]

"Fleeing the scene of the battle? I'm disappointed; I thought you were better than that!"

Meetra's flight is interrupted halfway by the sudden feeling of weightlessness. For a brief moment, she hovers in place in mid-air before a burst of speed sends her catapulting back towards the 'sorcerer'.

"Don't underestimate her because of her looks!" Says the eight year old goddess. "This one's strong. I'm going to do a scan to see if she's weak to anything, but I doubt it."

Garvi is getting messed up by the prime version of her a bit later, see that thread.

[greyerrant]

Loken snarls, as the stadium chunks fly at them he cleaves through them with the sparking tungsten teeth of his chainsword. He tries to clear his bolter to get a clear shot at the magus, but the storm of debris is fouling his aim.


"Meetra, kill it, I've got no shot!"

[hinoto_npcs]

(ooc: all the copies are herself coming back in time to help cause chaos, but the her that is local to this period of time is around helping Spades~ And sorry Viridi, her equipped persona has no weaknesses.)

Hitsuji fires two bolts of technicolored magic at the fastly approaching Jedi, raising herself up in the air to leave the path of travel. More rubble is sent flying at her, though none find their way towards Viridi-- the 'sorceress' seems as though she won't attack someone that doesn't come at her with aggression first. Another shot of magic is aimed for Lokens feet, hoping to smash the ground below him and send the heavy man stumbling.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

There was something she hadn't felt before here. Some kind of...warping? Unlike the telekinesis, the feeling was unfamiliar, but it clearly had something to do with this agent's multiple copies.

She'd think about it when she wasn't flying through the air trying to intercept and cut the woman down. Meetra tossed a split-second thought of thanks at Viridi in between cutting through Hitsuji's projectiles and bulling her way closer. If she could just get her within her saber's reach...

[forceofnature]

((Viridi is Supporting a la Fuuka; she's not physically here.))

"Hm."

Viridi's Weakness Scan comes up blank, as she had assumed.

"Nope. Tough luck. Looks like you'll just have to take her down the old-fashioned way. I'll be here if you need healing or anything."

[greyerrant]

Loken stumbles, off balance as his chainsword chews across the arena floor as he clumsily flails with it, obviously wrong-footed by the magic blast.

"This isn't looking good."

He growls, before trying to get himself properly balanced again.

[hinoto_npcs]

Hitsuji reaches one hand out, stopping Meetra so close that her saber just barely can't reach the young girl in the express interest of being an annoying asshole, and promptly flicks her wrist to send her smashing down towards where Loken is to cause a collision.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Meetra grunts as she's tossed through the air, using the wings Viridi gave her to inexpertly twist off course and avoid Garviel, though she still smashes into the ground hard.

She stands up, shaking herself off and glaring. "Alright, Garviel, get ready. PERSONA!"

Bowing her head and focusing, Meetra calls up Vima Sunrider, the image of the Jedi striking the same meditative pose. Meetra and Garviel would both feel invigorated, faster, and stronger through the power of the legendary Jedi's Battle Meditation, while the copy of Hitsuji before them would feel likewise disoriented and weakened.

"Pin her down, Cerberus. It's time for round three!" she shouts, and launches herself upward again.

[aworldwithoutyou]

[Well, it wasn't like Sora was going to just ignore it. Even if they were originally planning to keep an eye on the exits, there was no way they could not do something about this. Those things were going to hurt someone!]

Xion, you see those things? [He turned to face her, wanting to make sure that they were both on the same page.] We should stop them!

((Sora and Xion will be fighting together in this thread, if that's okay!))

[whereibelong]

[Xion took one look at the copies, raining destruction down on the stands and people trying to escape, and knew Sora was right. She nodded back at him.]

Let's go!

[She charged forward, summoning her Keyblade in one hand. She may not like to use it, but as dangerous as this was she probably was going to need it. As soon as she gets close enough to the nearest copy though, she gathered a Fira spell in her palm and shot it at the foe. It was meant to be more a distraction than anything, something to get it to stop attacking.]

[hinoto_npcs]

[The fire washes over the girl and sparkles, absorbing into her skin like a heal spell. She smiles at her in an almost pleasant way, immediately turning and using her telekinesis to pick Xion up off of her feet, flicking her wrist to send her flying into Sora.]

I'm not a thing. I'm a person too, you know.

[A person who, upon closer inspection, neither looks nor sounds older than about 14 or 15 years old.]

[aworldwithoutyou]

[Sora's used to taking note of what spells do and don't work in a fight, even when he's not casting them, so he notices the way the girl reacts to the Fira spell. When he saw the way that it was absorbed he didn't think too much about it - he just took a quick mental note that he should probably avoid using fire.

Unfortunately, that doesn't him much when his little sister is sent flying right towards him, and he doesn't have much time to react before he's knocked over, right next to Xion.

But Sora is used to taking a few falls, and he refuses to stay down for long. He stands as soon as he's able and, Keyblade in hand, rushes towards the girl to attack.]

[attheclocktower]

[Xion grunts slightly, as she twists herself around, pulling her legs back under her. She's more than used to having to recover quickly, after all.

She would have shouted some kind of reply, except that at that moment, Sora was up and charging past her. Sora no-

Xion's up half a second later and running after him, taking care not to run straight behind Sora in case whoever this was decided to try the same trick twice. Instead of attacking head-on, however, she comes to a halt, deciding to try something a little different.

She lifts her hand up, channeling electrical energy in a Thundaga spell and sending it skyward. After a few brief seconds, it'll shoot down at the girl, so long as she's still there.]

[hinoto_npcs]

[Hitsuji had been in the middle of moving to avoid Sora's swing, yes, but not far enough to not be glanced by the thunder. She shakes a little as the current runs through her, dropping altitude slightly, and eyes widening as she lets out a growl of anger.]

So much for playing around.

[She immediately points one of her wands at Xion's feet, blasting a large hole in front of her and sending large chunks of pointy rubble flying from the impact. Mostly it was for the sake of a distraction while she addressed the more pressing issue. The girl turns back to Sora, floating down and aiming a quick kick at his head as he advances towards her.]

[aworldwithoutyou]

[Sora is, at least, quick enough to dodge her kink, dashing off to the side (though it's not running, exactly - it's more like he's pushing himself in one direction, and his feet barely touch the ground until he catches himself with a spin) to put some distance between them.

He glances over at Xion, worried about how she's doing. He doesn't have enough time to get over there yet, though. Instead, he heads right back in her direction, trying to get a hit or three in if he can.

It wasn't much of a strategy, but the fight had only just started, right?]

[attheclocktower]

[The distraction works all too well. Xion isn't used to having to deal with the additional weaknesses her Persona grants her. So the blast of earth pounding into her chest, some leaving bruises and the others scrapes. And meanwhile Xion herself is knocked back, falling to the ground once more with a yelp before the breath is knocked out of her.

Your move, Hitsuji]

[hinoto_npcs]

[Hitsuji dodges back away from Sora's weapon, blade swinging a narrow miss from her leg. It was a close call, not that she'd let Sora know that-- she could still feel her bones rattling with the electricity, and her clothes from where she was hit smelled a little singed.]

Are you seriously trying to hurt me with a giant key?

[She glances back over at Xion, expression growing delighted at the effects of her previous attack. Gliding back over towards the girl, she points both of her wands down, ripping two large chunks out of the ground and sending them flying towards the downed girl.]

[aworldwithoutyou]

[For a moment he stays quiet, and focuses on trying to attack again (she's fast!), and try to work out another plan. Maybe he should back off and try magic, or at least he and Xion should be attacking together. But first he backs off, again dashing in one direction to gain some distance.

He's about to reply - it's called a Keyblade, thank you very much! - but then he notices that she isn't focused on him anymore. That she's probably hasn't been for a short while, because there are chunks of earth flying towards Xion...who was still down from the last spell.]

Xion!

[He would honestly be calling himself an idiot for not noticing how she was doing sooner, except there's no time for that right now. He just does the first thing he can think of that will help.]

Gather!

[A transparent, diamond-like shape appears near, but not directly over, Xion when the Magneta spell is cast, and Sora hopes that it's strong enough to attract the chunks. Then he runs, focused on getting to his little sister before anything else happens.

[attheclocktower]

[It helps, a little. It keeps the larger chunks from falling and irreparably crushing an arm or shoulder. Unfortunately, it's not quite enough to stop everything.

Xion yelps with pain; she can practically feel the her left shoulder and upper arm being crushed harshly into the ground, along with a few broken off pieces impacting her chest and other side. Just as quickly as the feeling's there though, it's gone again, as the second chunk crashes into the first and the first rolls off.

The suddenly lack of pressure is, if anything, even more painful, and Xion yelp is reduced to a whimper as she closes her eyes tightly. She's trying to take inventory of her condition but the only response that her body seems to be willing to give her is that it hurts.]

[destinedwaters]

XION!

[With that single cry, a pearl of white magic hovers directly over Xion's chest, soon exploding to form a Reflect-like spell. Someone had noticed the outcry from her own area and aimed her Keyblade right where she could sense her two charges, and since Lea had specifically left Xion in her care there was no way anyone was going to hurt the child without some pain being dealt on them. If a chunk smacks against it, she'll find a green mist akin to one of her Cure skills fall over her.

Nothing like Restore Barrier to be enough of a diversion and something to protect her with as Aqua rifts right between the barrier and the one responsible for the damage dealt. Sora would have no problems getting to his sister, though.]

I thought I asked you to contact me if you got into trouble.

[She glares up at the unnamed woman, Keyblade tight in her grasp. Something about this woman's magic...]

Watch over her for a moment, okay? [Mad Keyblade Master is mad.]