destinystrings | The Underground Bull: Taurus Battle

Suddenly, their COMP systems burst to life, with the telepathic connection to Q still intact. The video feed displayed a man that looked more like he should be holding a seance than providing help, his every word dramatically acted out by his tone and hand gestures.

"I must speak with you! The time is now! In this most dire of hours, your eyes are blinded by what you see and accept as truth! Remove yourselves from this mortal coil and use the power of within!"

Ohgodswhatthehellwasthisguyon.

"Remove ourselves from this mortal coil? Well, I suppose killing myself is suddenly looking like a rather attractive option."

She's had just about enough of all of this.

One long pause of readjusting her hearing later...

"...is he telling us that we're looking at this the wrong way?"

"...In his usual round-about way, yes."

The way Q said it, it sounded like this had happened many times before.

Many, many, many, MANY times.

"Stop it with the riddles, we don't have time for this!"

"No, I didn't mean taking's one life! It pains me to not have understood this until now, but look beyond the here of now! Think with your souls!"

"...the grand day of your births!"

He probably meant your birthdays.

Probably.

July 3rd. Cancer. Water element. Cardinal sign. Ruled by the Moon. Detriment is Saturn, exaltation Jupiter. What of it?

"AHA! Someone who does understands the deep mysteries of Astrology!" Or, you know, could list them good. "Recall if you will that the great beast threatening the city of Hinoto-Ri was created from one of those signs. To banish it, I believe it MUST be done using the primal element that represents your self as the power rod for the other's!"

"That's all well and good, but if you'd been paying attention at all, you'd know that I don't happen to have the means to produce a Water elemental attack."

"...Astrology?"

Xellos is putting on his best innocent and unknowing face, which given that he feels like being a torturous asshole to this damned bull, is difficult, but he manages.

"So we each hit it with the element associated with our birthday? If you need a water effect I suggest opening a fire hydrant. I suspect my plasma rifle will have to do for me."

"Although, if that's what's going on here, I'm left wondering why there are five of us present instead of only four. There are some classifications of the elements that include a fifth, but Western astrology deals only with earth, air, fire, and water. One of these things is not like the others."

"Perhaps as a back up if one of us went down? Magic isn't really my thing."

"In other words, not only do we need to hit her weakness, but the person whose sign element matches that weakness needs to participate," she said.

"I have Skogsra, Ratsel has his plasma guns, and Mr. Xellos has his magic to match our sign elements," she said, "but Ms. Fumi is going to need to be creative. Sora, can your um...summoned elephant creatures do other elements of damage besides water? We'll want at least two attacks of each element as they come up to account for the barriers."

"The only way I can think of to produce a large amount of water would be to have Feng Huang use Bufudyne to create ice, and then Inferno to melt it. The hitch there is that Inferno is an unfocused attack that randomly damages everything on the field, so we're going to have to be prepared to absorb some fire ourselves. Also, that plan - if it works at all - will naturally take a turn of setup."

"Unfortunately, I believe I'm quite restricted to wind, element-wise," Xellos chimes in - he doesn't look very pleased by this fact, either. "As for the fifth... I know nothing of this world's magic, but in regards to that of my own, the fifth of our elemental magics was Spirit. Things that dealt with the Astral Plane."

[OOC: I guess we can pretend his use of ice magic and talk of water earlier didn't happen, since when I did those posts I kind of forgot about the event's elemental restrictions, whoops.]

"No, there's no need for Ice and Fire melting! You're forgetting the power of your own, all-powerful flesh and bone housing your mortal souls!"

"...There's little time left before time returns to normal! Enough with the riddles! Out with it!"

Q's limit had reach an all-time high the minute Orpheus had entered the scene, and he'd let him prattle on enough.

Spoilsport.

"A body is made up mostly of water! You can blow out air with your very lips! Fire can be lit with only the power of a match! You can kick the dirt around you...."

A pause.

"....HAS NO ONE WATCHED THE FIFTH ELEMENT?!"

He'd suspected it before, but now he knew it was true.

Orpheus was insane.

"So you're suggesting that those who can't use the elements right now make them up on the spot."

He'd suspected it before, but now he knew it was true.

Q was finally starting to understand him!

"EXACTLY!"

There was a few precious seconds worth of uneasy silence that followed...

"Q, can you hear me! Blast, our connection seems to have been sever--"

"Oh put a sock in it, I'm right here!" Siiiiigh.

"Right. Well considering how our efforts have been mostly futile, and we're running out of time, I can't believe I'm even agreeing with this it might be an idea to consider. As the creature's current weakness is water, anyone who cannot do it with a skill...might as well try?"

If you guys want to. He wouldn't blame you if you didn't.

Because seriously.

Why was this happening.

And what in blazes was the Fifth Element.

[OOC Notice; If you do, PLEASE DO NOT PEE ON THE MONSTER this isn't a Michel Bay Game or Movie.]

"Oh, of course. How silly of me. I'll just go ahead and spit on it, then. That makes plenty of sense."

As much as she's complaining, though, Orpheus' rant does make a certain amount of sense, symbolically speaking. Fumi sighs deeply, squeezing at the bridge of her nose before approaching the base of the Taurus monster's giant foot, working up some spit in the back of her mouth, and letting it fly.

"And I suppose if this doesn't work, I can always try bleeding on it after it steps on me."

Apologies for everyone's ears

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okay I'm done, YOU GO GUYS

UNIQUE SKILL | FUMI USED WATER GUN | IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE????