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.

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[disconinjafrog]

It's not like Yosuke has a choice. He can't really move right now, poised in a stance of surrender with projectiles ready to pierce right through him. God, if either of them got killed by this, he swore this mistake was going to send him to hell...

He swallows hard, his mouth dry and sweat running down the side of his face. Despite himself, his shoulders are shaking. "We can't do anything to stop you, you should just get out of here." Yosuke doesn't want to let them get away, but like this they were completely at their mercy... He was bargaining for Naoto's life more than his own, considering he started this mess.

[camoflage]

Someone's comment elicited a very entertained laugh from the man. Was it Yosuke's or Naoto's? Hard to tell

Odds are it was probably both.

"You don't actually have any idea what we're doing, do you?" He sounds as amused as if he had just learned of a friend who is convinced they flunked their test, instead of listening to teenagers begging for their lives. "I don't know why I expected the Light Brigade to do more research."

Spades, surprisingly, released the knife from Naoto's neck, only to bring it up and run the blade from across her cheekbone and over to her nose, before swinging his leg up to kick her in the back and giving a thumbs up to Hitsuji, to go ahead and make Yosuke into swiss cheese if she so chose.

[detects]

She instinctively recoils, the sharp sting of the blade's edge across her face startling. She jerks back, tries to get away on her own, but the heavy blow against her back causes her to lose her balance. She stumbles forward and falls, catching herself on her hands and knees. The force at which she hits the ground hurts about as much as the cut. She can feel the warmth of the blood running down her face and taste it on her lips.

Naoto is disoriented for all of five seconds. The moment she regains her bearings, though, she is on her feet and firing her gun in front of her. Her Persona card shatters in an instant and Yamato-Takeru appears, darting straight at Yosuke and Spades' companion.

She isn't sure her Persona will successfully deflect any attacks thrown his way but she'll certainly have him try. If anything she can try and distract Hitsuji from firing one off successfully.

[disconinjafrog]

When he sees the guy in the spades mask move his knife, he looked about ready to be relieved. Until, of course, he instead cut her face and sent her to the ground.

He can't even help himself, his body jerking forward and towards her, pressing against the sharp wooden shards aimed for his heart. "NAOTO!!"

Knocked out of her death grip, he suddenly finds himself the one trapped and pinned in place.

[hinoto_npcs]

Goddamnit, Yosuke.

Hitsuji was already in the process of sending the projectiles forward, albeit in a slightly less deadly manner as per orders, when Yosuke began to squirm, and quickly she jerks her hand to try and avert the path of the piece aimed for his heart. It narrowly misses the vital organ, while the other pieces implant in places such as his ribs, stomach, arms, and legs. Turning to see Naoto's Persona raging forward, she kicks Yosuke forward to use as a meatshield as she moves back towards Spades.

[camoflage]

Spades was almost content to just stand there and watch. Which he did, for the few seconds it takes to put his knife away and pull out his gun.

"Yeesh, you two are practically doing our work for us."

He met Hitsuji halfway though, teleporting to the side of the conflict and firing his gun at Naoto's hand, hoping to either cause enough injury or knock the gun out of her hand. Two shots, just to be sure.

[detects]

She hears Yosuke's shout, his voice ringing in her ears. That's just what they want, isn't it? For them to panic and worry about each other to the point of distraction. Her Persona doesn't fall for Hitsuji's trick though it does halt its attack and instead catches Yosuke with its free arm, preventing him from hitting the ground. Naoto winces inwardly at his injuries, stomach twisting into knots. She can only imagine how much that must hurt and wishes for the first time she knew healing spells like Yukiko to help ease the blow. Yet she can't let it distract her. That's probably what they want too.

She smears the blood on her face with her sleeve in a vain attempt to wipe it away. The gunshots alarm her and instinctively she blocks it with her revolver. The first bullet ricochets off it. Unfortunately it also throws the gun from her hand and well out of reach. She knows the second shot is coming and she knows she has no way to properly block or avoid it. With her Persona with Yosuke and her gun not reachable, she can only try and lessen the damage. She turns sharply and blocks with her arm. She hisses in pain as the second shot lodges into her left forearm instead. There's no exit wound which doesn't bode well, but... she can potentially still fight with her arm injured. Anything else would be more of a problem.

Mindful of Yosuke, Yamato-Takeru is still nevertheless given the order to throw a Deathbound attack at them. Doing their work for them? She'll see about that.

[disconinjafrog]

Yosuke cries out in pain as the wood is lodged into his chest, stomach, arms... and then he's sent hurtling forward towards Naoto's Persona, his expression full of pure panic. Whatever small part of his mind that isn't screaming at how much pain he's in is so extremely thankful that instead of hitting him, Yamato-Takeru caught him, keeping him from landing on those wooden shards.

He's leaning heavily into the Persona pressing his hand against the wooden shard that narrowly missed his heart, gasping and choking in pain as blood seeps through his shirt and onto his hand. He can barely move, and his vision is going fuzzy, but he's holding out his hand and calling forth his other Persona, Apollo, as best he can.

Hearing his master's desperation, Apollo unleashes his mutation skill on the one who inflicted the damage, Hitsuji, an Almighty attack that removes fire resistance.

[camoflage]

He held his hands up to brace against the Deathbound, teleporting around to avoid most of the slashes. It did a good job of slicing up his coat much, but that seemed to be about as much as it affected him.

"Ah ah ah--!"

With Apollo moving to attack, Spades teleported once more, appearing in front of Hitsuji. He stopped for a moment, before straightening up and reaching out his hand, fingers outstretched. Within seconds of the attack unfolding, the purple particles of the Almighty magic started to gather and center around Spades' outstretched hand instead of on Hitsuji. The particles fizzled around until the entire attack had run its course, swirling around and-- it appeared to swirl into his hand, soon disappearing without any traces that it had occurred.

The entire attack had been absorbed and nullified.

He clenched his fist and withdrew it, extending his pointing finger and waving it back and forth as if he were chiding a child.

"That's not very fair, is it?"

[hinoto_npcs]

Hitsuji pulls a chunk out of the ground with her telekinesis to block against the raging attack, wincing as pieces of shrapnel blow off of the chunk to nick at her exposed skin, and chucks the remains of the concrete at Yamato-Takeru when the attack had concluded.

Her eyes widen slightly as Yosuke directs the almighty attack straight towards her, but Spades barely gives her any time to worry as he interferes. She clutches a little at the back of his jacket as he absorbs the attack, a small smile tugging at her lips. What a gentleman, Spades. Her hero~

"Very rude, I'd say."

[detects]

Naoto grimaced. Unfair? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Although Spades seemed to absorb Yosuke's attack she noted that neither of them were able to do anything against hers besides dodge it. Perhaps Physical attacks were the way to go? They had to have an actual weakness. Everyone did.

During the time it took them to react to their attacks, Naoto hurried over to where Yosuke and her Persona were. She made sure to grab her gun again too. She left a trail of blood in her wake but paid little attention. The concret blocks tossed at her Persona were cut in half with a swift strike of the sword Yamato-Tekeru clutched in its other hand.

"Please hang in there, Yosuke-senpai." His injuries were grave. At this point their best chance was to escape. There was no way they could continue like this...

Yamato-Tekeru attacks again with Tempest Slash, aimed at Spades, while Naoto herself fires on Hitsuji. Her Persona, with Yosuke still in tow,begins to fall back. But Naoto stands her ground.

[disconinjafrog]

"Ugh... I... I can't move my arm..." His right arm was hanging limp by his side as he leaned into the Persona. It hurt too bad to stand on one of his legs, and he was trying all he could, as he groaned and kept his left hand pressed near his heart, not to pass out and collapse.

"Naoto, you're hurt..." Yosuke had heard the gunshots from Spades, and he had seen the blood dripping from her arm. He closes his eyes as he tries to summon Susano-o, though he's fading fast, the pain becoming far too excruciating. "Media... media..."

He stumbles and chokes back a shout as Yamato-Takeru pulls him back, just wanting to get out of here, wanting the pain to go away...

[camoflage]

Spades was certainly everyone's hero today!

He raised his arms again, this time in defense; he takes the Tempest Slash head on, but it doesn't look like it's doing much to slow him down; a few more shreds to his jacket sleeves, but he didn't seem to be much of a fashionista. The next minute, he was running forward, swinging his left fist forward to deliver a punch right to Naoto's solar plexus.

"Y'sure you don't wanna just run now?"

[hinoto_npcs]

One bullet narrowly scrapes across her arm before she dodges out of the way of the second (note to self: train more with guns, too many narrow calls so far), reaching one hand out to the detectives gun to jam it from within with her powers. For all the damage a gun could do, they were surprisingly easily to ruin with just the slightest bit of dirt.

Hopefully Naoto would heed the suggestion now that one of her lines of defense was ruined.