destinystrings | The Underground Bull: Taurus Battle

"She's weak to Wind now. Focus on that! That barrier will stop Water, too."

Latooni focuses on the offense, even though she doesn't have any Wind skills. Going out of control to this extent...she could really cause some damage, even kill people. Barely even thinking about it, she calls on Vasilisa to help the rest of the party, resulting in a skill she'd never seen before: the Persona split into blueish and reddish copies and performed a sequence of dance moves she knew very well. The rest of the team would be healed of whatever moderate damage had happened since the last Mediarahan and have their agility enhanced by the spectacle, before the twin Persona finally hit Taura for physical damage.

The results were quite different now. When the Dark and Light attacks hit the creature in force...they hit and did absolutely nothing. Sora and Latooni's physical spells made it move a bit, but it barely seemed to make an indent.

In response, it began to cast other spells at itself that turned into a cacophony of rainbow lights, and earthly shields covered in dangerous-looking spikes that hovered all around it.

>ALPHA TAURA IS CHARGING UP! 2 ROUNDS REMAINING BEFORE THE ATTACK!

"Well, that certainly doesn't look promising..." Fumi groans, shaking her head and summoning forth her other demon: Fenghuang the phoenix. Sensing its masters will, the great bird flaps its wings, letting loose a huge torrent of wind in Taura's direction.

Elzam frowned at the lack of anything from the persona, then his radio chimed in. Looking down with a smirk he ran off.

"Tch. " Fine then. If this monster wanted to play hardball then Sora could do that. He jumped into the air, hovering there with his Keyblade raised above his head as a tornado formed and made a beeline for Taura. When the funnel disappeared he touched back down on the ground.

Edited 2013-04-30 03:37 (UTC)

"Two minutes. Er, rounds of attacks. I...I don't know what those barriers do yet..."

Latooni stares upward, getting close to panic from lack of time and a creeping feeling she was somehow responsible for this, before her COMP interrupts her. Seeing Ratsel leave, she turns to follow him.

"I'll be right back. Keep hitting her with wind if you can!"

The complete lack of results from his prior attack makes Xellos quirk a brow, but he'll chalk that up to the strangeness of this world more than anything.

He still doesn't like it, though.

His staff comes to bear, and the gem in the head of it glows before a focused, spiraling torrent of air erupts from it. "DIEM WING!"

[Latooni and Elzam are not affected because they are not there currently.
First spell: Only Sora was affected by the dice rolls, the spell lasts one turn.
Second spell: Fumi, Sora and Xellos are affected by the Happy status. It lasts 2 turns unless a spell is used on them.
Third Spell: Fumi and Xellos were affected by the dice rolls, the spell lasts one turn.]

One, two, three! That was a lot of wind blown the way of the monster! As the gusts flew towards the now gigantic target, they began to merge together into a gigantic wind hurricane. Up and up it went, spinning the creature around violently along with some of the rubble. Suddenly, as fast as it had started, it stopped, violently dumping the creature to the floor where it fell with a satisfying crack. Thankfully the nearby buildings didn't seem to be damage from the small earthquake that followed.

But the damage was visible on it, and Taura's defenses which it had built before this attack where completely gone.

Vulnerable, it shifted strategy. The reddish eyes increased in glow as with a wave of its arms, it crushed the orb, shattering it to become a blue mist. Bringing to close to it's mouth, it blew it at all of the three remaining fighters. It tickled and pass, but only affecting Sora.

His form shifted, as the tall monster began to get even bigger...or was he getting smaller? Until he reverted to his 5 year old self, the clothing suddenly too big for him. Thankfully is mind was intact, however, stuck with the excitement a five year old had at the time.

Then before the others could react, it sang a strange song, one that reach deep inside their minds and triggered uncontrollable laughter. Suddenly the situation didn't seem that bad! In fact it was pretty funny, with this giant thing wriggling out in the streets wasn't it? Ha ha ha ha! D'awww look at kid Sora....wouldn't it be nice if he had grandparents?

Didn't think so? Too bad.

Their minds distracted, Taura waved its hands again, the orb reforming as it used its other clawed hand to obliterate the item again. This time, the mist affected Xellos and Fumi, turning them into sixty year olds in appearance. (For Xellos, one could assume the age where he would look like a 60 year old.) Yet all they could do was laugh. Laugh and laugh and laugh and...

...let's just hope the robots showed up soon. This could get really ugly really quick. It was no laughing matter. They just didn't see it that way right now.

>ALPHA TAURA IS CHARGING UP! 1 ROUND REMAINING BEFORE THE ATTACK!

Woah, what was happening? That was an odd sensation and suddenly Taura was really big and really funny looking! Sora can't stop laughing and he doesn't even realize it.

"There's no escape..."

From atop the nearest large building, silhouetted in the moonlight a large black robot stands there, cape flapping in the wind for a moment before it tosses it to the side and pulls both its rifles, one of its shoulder guards flying off with the cape.

"Trombe... Gallop!"

Leaping off the building it starts raining plasma beams down upon Taura as it spins and bounces off another building. Continuing to fire as it lands on the ground and starts circling the beast, still firing as if ammunition were not a thing. Stopping the robot charges its full reactor output into a blast and fires, missing the target but reflecting off the stray shoulder guard towards the back of the monster.

"Curse your own misfortune for running into me."

The robot twirls and holsters its rifles then grabs its cape out of the air as it floats by and refastens it.

((ooc: I like movies so if visuals are wanted http://youtu.be/CQLyj-n59eM?t=2m33s is it))

Well, this whole thing is apparently just suddenly hilarious. Heedless of her sudden change in appearance, Fumi just starts cackling like the Wicked Witch of the West, shrill mocking laughter cutting through the air as she starts cracking up at Sora and Xellos.

"You two look ridiculous!"

At least her earlier Shield All spell is in effect. That was really the one consolation any of them could take at this point, with the boss' ultimate attack only one round away. Perhaps it would be enough to save them until they were able to return to normal and finish the job.

Latooni didn't even bother speaking or taunting. She swooped in in the Wildraubtier, and putting her feelings aside, targeted the huge monster with its beam cannon. She just had to hope that with everyone else taking down the barriers, this would actually work, and she could prevent whatever attack it was charging up for.

The plane-like mech swooped in, locked on, and fired beams of light at the huge bull, seeking a vulnerable spot, or at least trying to create one.

((The cool kids are doing it, so...))

If Xellos wasn't too busy laughing and feeling horribly sickened about it, he'd be more worried that such a spell had an effect on him. And that he actually looked a lot closer to his age right now, though that was less obvious. Granted, the laughter coming from him was also that of an old man's, but, y'know. Too busy with that to actually think about it.

[Sorry for the late tag!]

At the sight of the robots, the creature let out the equivalent of a squawk of surprise, as it's features melted into fear for a few seconds. When the fire hit, it fell back, although it didn't seem as damaging as it could have been, making deep gaps into the road. When the lightning attack from the other mecha flew towards her, it fizzled out.

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Laughter, the type that could strike fear in the hearts of men, echoed around, not just from her but the area around them, a terrible echo. In rapid succession, it cast not three four four spells on itself, the final one freezing into a stolid gold metallic statue.

...was that an error? The battlefield turned quiet.

Unmoving.

>ALPHA TAURA IS CHARGED UP!

And just in time for a familiar voice to speak in all their minds again.

"I seem to have arrived just in time! And...hmm... no this will not do..."

Casting a healing spell from a long distance was probably not a skill that most support users could do. It spoke of how strong Q's Persona skills had become. The effects of the curse and the laughing fit subsided and they all found themselves a little more energized.

"Much better! I'd rather you all listen to me with your wits about you, unlike those young ones in the...no matter. Now pay attention! The Scorpio creature didn't do anything similar, but it may be tricking you into attacking it. Or it may just be the opposite....I'll scan it for you."

ANALYZE !!

Demon:

Alpha Taura

Arcana:

The Despot

MAX HP

INSANE

MAX SP

INSANE

Fire:	Water:	Wind:	Earth:	Lightn:	Ice:	Light:	Dark:	Phys:	Mind:	Alm:
Str	Wk	Str	Abs	Null	Null	Null	??	Null	-	Abs

Bloodied Wall (Blocks a water attack, and drains energy at those attacking with one (2 turns))	Solid Rampart (Blocks a wind attack, and drains energy at those attacking with one (2 turns))
Firery Castle (Blocks a fire attack, and drains energy at those attacking with one (2 turns))	The Child Turns targets into children for 1 turn
The Crone Turns targets into aged-up versions of themselves for 1 turn	Spilled Blood (User becomes covered in rocks for 3 rounds causing large earth damage added to attacks. Destroyed with a wind/ice/light attack)
Please Smile for Me (40% chance of inflicting the Happy ailment on all targets.(2 turns))	Golden Bull Turns target into a solid cold statue bull for a turn. Null to all.
???	??
???	??
???	??

He didn't sound too pleased with the results.

"Quite a nasty strong little bugger isn't it? At this rate there won't be much of a city left to save. There HAS to be a way to take it down more efficiently. Regardless of what you do next, do try to be careful, will you?"

>Your choices are locked to ATTACK, GUARD or TALK for this turn. TALK will allow you to converse with Q and ask for his advice or figure out a plan with him. Due to the situation, you can only talk with him about the equivalent of 3 minutes in-game before the monster reacts.

Fumi is deeply appreciative of Q's assistance, even if she's not the sort of person to say so out loud. She'll show her gratitude by including him in their plan to defeat the boss.

"Just a moment. I'm going to send you the data on the demons I have with me. They're not as well-equipped as I'd have liked to defeat this particular opponent, but there might be a way to coordinate them to a greater effect."

This would normally take longer than the three minutes they've got, but fortunately Fumi is an expert hacker with access codes to the government network. It isn't long at all before she's got her phone from home configured to send data through the COMPs, and after about a minute, Q should have detailed data on Fumi's Tao Tie and Feng Huang on his own screen.

"If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears."

Latooni continues circling in Wildraubtier despite the stormclouds overhead - the beam-based undercannon apparently was ineffective, but missiles should still work for partial damage.

"Hear weaknesses keep changing. Even aside from all the barriers, this statue form is strong against Wind when it was weak before. She's been consistently weak to water, but none of us can use water attacks effectively," she said. "If there was some way to hit it with water multiple times in quick succession, that might do enough structural damage that this form wouldn't be able to sustain itself..."

Now that she'd said that, she looked down. The river ran through this district...how close was Taura to it?

Everything was the right size again and he was no longer uncontrollably laughing. He looked up at the sky, a bodiless stranger he'd never met until tonight -- not that Sora had met any of the others before but this guy sure seemed powerful. And more importantly, on their side. For a moment Sora is thoughtful.

"I've got a Dream Eater that can do water attacks. Maybe. Haven't tried it yet in case it turned out to be a dud like the rest of my water attacks." Sora wiped a hand across his face, wondering if his Zolephant could be useful.

Edited 2013-05-02 03:37 (UTC)

There was a pause as Q quickly looked over the data and she could her him talk with a few others.

"Nothing for the moment, I'm afraid. We're still trying to figure out how that creature operates. Although... this Feng of yours, is it able to carry you into the air at all?"

Now that seemed to catch his interest.

"This could be the key! Well...not most of what you said, but do you have an idea why her weakness would have shifted from Wind to Water?"

"A rather unfortunate weakness," Xellos remarks, leaning on his staff for support. That... Effect was something he hoped to never experience again. "Any useful water-based magic I know of use requires a great deal of water to function," he explains, then holds a hand out, miming offering something - in this case, an alternative. "I do know a way around that, but I would need a bit of time to set it up..."

"It could be the statue effect. Transmuting into something heavier than plain rock would make sense for removing a wind weakness," she said. "Well, as much as anything based on Platonic elemental traits makes sense. This gold statue form might be designed specifically for defense while she powers up..."

"Considering it has a number of blockades up to fight it, perhaps not for ow. My hypothesis is that you should avoid doing anything right now that directly targets the Taurus monster. A few of my colleges think it is the opposite, and she'll unleash something if she's not brought down. Either way, it's highly inconvenient."

"Perhaps!" Latooni could hear a few people talk behind him as numbers and calculations were being yelled out. Q seemed to be pondering and ignoring them.

"Yet something is bothering me...perhaps when it shifts form again, I'll preform another scan to see if that's the solution."

"It may be wise to hold it out for now until it shifts form again," he warned. "My personal theory is that this is an elaborate trap for you to attack her while it has stored up energy. With Latooni hypothesis that it may revert its weakness after the form switch, it could be an attack done in vain."

The Underground Bull: Taurus Battle

PERSONA SKILL | ★ ROYAL HEART BREAKER

SPELL (MIND, SELF) x3

UNIQUE SKILL | ZANDYNE (WIND)

Unique Skill - Call Gear

ATTACK | WIND

UNIQUE SKILL | CALL GEAR

UNIQUE SKILL | DIEM WING (WIND)

SPELL (ALMIGHTY - ALL) SPELL (MIND - ALL) SPELL (ALMIGHTY - ALL)

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Attack - Fire

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ATTACK | LIGHTNING

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2/2 HEAL (ALL) | SCAN

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