OCT Q4 Z2: The Sky Bound Pillars

[AlexisMaddox]

The music had died down now, and Alexis could hear once again. She listened to Isiir as he explained his theory on the copies.

"You're right, but we have to get to them if we want to get anywhere in this tournament. Now then, are we gonna sit here and talk, or go to the boss, whoever they are, and fight?"

Alexis began running in the direction of the glow as she finished her sentence, jumping and climbing in the same manner as before.

[Crazy Scion]

The Bosses words in Scion's head were child like in tone, with a playful feel to it. He didn't like it one bit, because the immatureness of there opponent meant he was unstable. A kid with power will lash out with it when angered, and kids don't know there own strength and wont hold back. It was unsettling to him, but before he could think more of it a man drops down with the spear he had redirected. At first he was ready to shoot him, but stops to listen to his comments, then withdraws his weapon when he tosses him the tooth pick that was once the spear. Just as things seemed to be calming down Naiyo starts to comment when out of nowhere, what could be best described as a magical flying ferret, spawned in the air to his side. Scion froze at the sight of the fuzzy creature his eyes kicking into there glow as the details of the world came to him.

"ooopsie" was all the creature said, then, using its tail of all things, slices a hole in space an disappears into it. Scion doubts that anyone else could have seen the creatures teleport like he could, and would have told them if for not one thought that preocuppied him. Thinking to himself, "It was so." then says out loud. "Cute!"

Derek sounding a bit confuced, "Scion what the hell are you thinking about right now. You should get after that thing it seems to be off over the bridge to your..." Before Derek could finish Scion turns to the bridge in question, kicks off the ground, then activates the rocket boots and blasts off towards Bree and the Flying Ferret. Derek now even more confuced, "Hey Scion what's the deal. You useally ignore my advice?" Scion ends up passing Alexis, who was heading the same direction as him, not stopping to look he presses on, then he yells out to the creature, "Hey stop I just want to pet you!"

"Oh God." Was all Derek could say.

[kzkskippy]

Bree picked herself off the ground and winced. This stupid illusion harassment was getting ridiculous. She started running again for the glow on the horizon. "I'm going to put an arrow in the very next person I see. In fact..."

Bree planted her feet and drew the bow all the way back to her ear. With an audible twang, she sent her first arrow of the match arching up out of sight, more or less towards the glowing spot. "Ha, would be to much to hope for, but I hope it hits him right in the ass. That's right you little glowing bitch, she shouted, "I'm calling you out."

She started moving this time, grinning. As she sped across the bridge, some crazy person just jetted by on rocket boots, shouting something inane. She briefly recognized the guy who'd set up the stall back in the lobby, and considered donating him an arrow. She decided against it, ultimately because he was too hard of a target. "You get off easy this time, crazy flying person." She called cheerfully and kept running.

[Scarletroe]

Isiir laughed at the eagerness of the other contestants as they ran off.
"Well, I suppose we should join them, huh?"
With those words he ran off in the same direction, actually using the bridge and running fast enough so as to avoid falling through the holes he was making with each step. The next pillar didn't have a bridge going the correct direction, so he jumped when he reached the end. If anyone were paying close close attention to his feet wouldve noticed a flash of blackness around his boot, one that lasted less than a second but launched him into the air. He continued this method of travel, leaping pillar to pillar.

[Shoryu]

Isiir's double paused and gave a playful grin and a giggle "oooh, your right, I sometimes forget not to make assumptions about what people said, heheh... Oh well, I'm still here, heheheh." A few seconds after Isiir jumped off and the double had stopped yapping it trotted over and jumped off after him, sparking up again as he fell, and firing off another bolt of lightning at him.

The Naiyo clone's dancing about stopped but it kept up the childish giggling at her lecture "Well, technically I am a child, I was only born like a minute ago, granted time is no object for some who's just a manifestation of someone's energy. I'm not a living thing, I'm not even a person, I'm just a random temporary creation meant to mess with everyone and then dissapear... LIKE THIS!!!!." It gave a last mad giggle before it dissapeared in a flash, a loud crack of thunder emitting from it's position as light flashed blindingly bright at everyone that was still looking at it, then it was gone. As well it seemed the remaining doubles dissipated into the air.

Lal gave another reply to Scion as he picked at those rude thoughts 'Hey now, i'm no child, i'm Several Millenia old. Ancient creatures must find a way to stay sane lest we turn into those legendary horrors that heroes attempt to hunt down and slay, heheh.' Of course he didn't know if the man heard him as it seemed he was overcome with Taki's cuteness and took off after him, who very clearly heard the joyful screaming about hugs and pettings.

When Bree Fired an Arrow at Taki she'd find that he'd teleport back, that cuteness marred just slightly by an angry angle to his eyes and his voice echoing loudly now "HEY, That's very mean, I didn't mean to run into you, I even apologized." He then proceeded to flail and beat at her face for a moment before teleporting away again, this time directly infront of Scion who would easily impact him where he'd hug tightly onto the man's neck and make a playful cooing sound "Hugs for you."

A few moments later Lal had figured he'd played around enough with everyone and decided to reveal himself, though he certainly can't do it as fluidly and effortlessly as Taki, he would teleport himself now down to the pillar that Naiyo was situated. First his voice would come from a certain point in space near the center of that particular pillar "Silly Girl, He's not the boss, He's my pet warp aci and he's too adorable and friendly to be a boss, Didn't you notice nobody even got hurt after being swallowed? heheh." A moment later large colors symbols emulating a magic circle appeared on the ground and began to produce his Image there before her, soon standing there solid and as cutesy, smiley, and happy as his voice sounded. "I'm the boss, And so far it seems you ma'am, are the most in need of lessons in how to have fun, heehee." He kept his happy smile on even as his hand slipped behind his back and produced something resembling a miniature lance, about 3 feet in length and clearly having no sharp edge aside from it's point, which he held out sortof like a rapier, though made no actual hostile movements yet.

[BTW =3 I finally got a proper commission of him ^.^ He's not as cutesy in the picture as i described him XD but just use some imagination =3]

---------- Post added at 11:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:24 PM ----------

Environmental Update: I almost forgot this one XD

It wasn't long after everyone's actions had started on the islands that the wind became strong and began to blow powerfully across the various arenas, cooling some or mixing the air in others, Strong up drafts built up in the air in some places. The water below became restless, starting to crash against the island, splattering water this way and that as the waves began to rise.

Then the skys began to darken, thick black clouds appearing on the horizon and quickly closing in on the islands, moving from east to west the sunlight began to die out at wickedly ominous clouds spread farther and wider, blanketing the whole of the Silver City area. Then thunder began to ring out, great flashes of light and countless Lightning strikes starting to rain down in the arena's soon followed by an explosive downpour of rain Thick enough it could obscure natural vision at long ranges.

[You guys can have it affect you however you like =3]

Area Specific Hazards: Lower visibility, Strong Winds, Potential Lightning hazard, Unstable Bridges, Slightly destabilized flight hazards.

[PlatinumSkink]

Naiyo had intended to do something about her own clone, but she was unsure of what. The clone had done nothing bad so-far, but… Then clone-Naiyo stopped dancing, and giggled. Giggled? That was something Naiyo had not done in a very long time, as far as she was aware. Then… clone-Naiyo started speaking about how she was nothing at all, a mere apparition. Strangely, it made certain negative emotions within Naiyo spread when an image of herself said such things. It was nowhere close to how she was herself, but the vision appeared to have accepted her fate, and was still smiling despite it… and then she rushed into her own doom way too fast. With a titanic flash that forced Naiyo to cover her eyes very quickly, the clone appeared to have blown up like a flash-grenade.

Muttering annoyed sounds, Naiyo tried desperately to rub the light out of her eyes, as if human anatomy worked like that. Pain in her flashed eyes, Naiyo spun around, hand on fan, red ponytail flinging about, trying to locate anyone trying to take advantage of her current condition. Due to that flash, she could only see a very clouded image before her. This is bad. If someone was to attack her now… Curse her for letting her guard down against that clone. How could she not have suspected it would do something? … Alright, she had expected it to do something, but she had not expected a covering blast coming at the speed of light that made to make her susceptible to other attacks. Hopefully, she’d survive and learn from this...

… This was bad. She heard the others, but could not see them…

Suddenly, a voice was heard. With a childish giggle, it declared the being to be too friendly to be a boss, and laid down the proof. That… that meant the being teleporting around there would not harm anyone? That thing was a kind soul that simply happened to be around? The voice was a happy, kind sounding one as well that sounded like it came from a small child or something. Naiyo almost sighed in relief, but then she turned towards the shape that had talked…

… A human-sized being rose from what appeared to be some circle that appeared before her. Naiyo could not see clearly, but it seemed the coming of this dark shape had brought a great change to the earlier brightness of the Sky Pillars. Small strands of white clothing was visible, but the skin appeared to be completely black. From the dark shape, a pair of wings were visible stretching out. Behind him, the sky appeared to blacken. Naiyo could only assume it was black clouds, but since she could not see clearly it seemed to radiate from the dark form. Strong winds suddenly coursed past Naiyo, forcing her to brace herself as she tried to keep her eyes on the form. The wind seemed to be coming from him, and the darkness behind him seemed to spread to infect the rest of the sky. The sun was blocked out by the darkness, and the dark shape before Naiyo that had heralded this change declared with that same childish giggle what was already obvious to her. He was the boss. He was the boss, and he had targeted her.

Naiyo found herself momentarily unable to speak. Darkness had overcome the world around her, and her vision had not yet returned. The dark being before her drew something. Something long, thin and assumingly sharp. As he did so, lightning struck in the background, as if to increase the aura of superiority from the being. The entire time, the dark being had this childish bright voice that would have fit on much smaller being. Not that the being was large at all, just… powerful. Naiyo knew it, both by being told and by instinct. This was the boss, the being that was far more powerful than any one of them. Those wings… truly a master of the sky. The speed he had come here… there was no escape. It could only be defeated by teamwork. But now… Naiyo had been targeted. She had been tricked by the clone, rendering her an easy target. This was the case.

Rain fell. Naiyo drew her fan, letting the metal piece swing powerfully down past her feet without intention of hitting anything, revealing its weight as it coursed up to stop at her right side where she gripped it with two hands. Rain fell powerfully, and her uniform was getting wet. This amount of rain would become troublesome to a normal human, because of sheer discomfort. Good, Naiyo thought, not being a normal human. Good, since her skirt was getting wet, and that meant it would become heavier and have less chance of blowing around improperly in the intense wind. Still unable to see anything else than a winged dark shape before her wielding a thin long object, Naiyo faced the foe.

‘As you may want to know, boss who’s name I do not know, your lessons in how to have fun will be completely ineffective since I do not share your sense of humor.’ That giggling of the boss still sounded really innocent, but Naiyo now knew the wicked intentions behind it.

‘… I, Okumura Naiyo, Captain of the Disciplinary Committee at Kamachi School, will accept your indirect challenge.’

She still saw nothing else than a dark shape. Naiyo decided to not attack at once, but carefully approach while ready to counter any act of the boss that would probably come too fast for her to do anything about. All the while, she was aware of how she was predicted to fare alone against a boss. She was not to have a chance. However, if anyone else attacked… she wished to be close enough to support. If someone else attacked the boss, however that would happen in this downpour, she’d rush in and slice afterwards while the boss was still startled by the other attack, if that was possible. Any shot at defeating this being… was welcomed…

[Crazy Scion]

Scion was surprised to find him self in a warm embrace of the flying ferret he had been chasing. Still driven by his desires, he immediately takes advantage of the moment and starts hugging the creature, then swings it back and forth while babbling, "Oh my god your so cute. I just want to hold you, and hug you, clone and army of you to cuddle with." Though unintentional his hug starts to slowly become tighter and tighter to an almost bone crushing level. However his brief enjoyment was interrupted by a somewhat panic sounding Derek.

"Scion I know that your preoccupied by that creature right now, but the boss just confronted Naiyo, and she's alone."

Scion practically froze still holding the creature in his arms, then slowly release it. As if to make the situation more dire, black clouds start to form in the sky blocking out the light of the sun. Heavy rain suddenly starts to pour and soak him and his fuzzy friend, followed by heavy wind. The situation was bad, he didn't know what the boss planned to do or what Naiyo would try. He curse to himself, "The dam rain and wind will make it impossible to get there in a reasonable time. Think if only I could tele...port." He thinks of the Ferret and the way its tail allowed it to cut through space. He groans a bit thinking about what he'd have to do to himself, "Man I hate altering my body, and I'll look so stupid, but to save Naiyo I'll have to swallow my pride. Derek help me with the alterations by providing the substance."

"I'll do what I can within my range, just don't lose your concentration or it might notturn out to well."

"I know Derek." Scion stands perfectly still letting the sound of the rain drown out the world around him. The chaos energy of Void flows from the portal in the watch, appearing like a strange light shifting constantly from earthly and unearthly colors. traveling across his body, then concentrates on his lower back. Scion alters his realty to accommodate the coming change to his body. Slowly a thin black tail sprout from the glowing part on his lower back and burst through a hole that forms in the coat. It extends from his body a good 6 ft and start to fluff out and fluctuate, seeming to boil like water, then finally takes on a greenish glow. Scion breaths a heavy sigh, then inspects the tail making sure it formed right. The sensation of having a tail was a new one for him, and he inwardly gowns again at the sight of how strange it made him look even by his standards. "Well it seems look right atleast lets try it out then." He uses the tail in a similar fashion he saw the other creature, and cuts through the fabric of space teleporting him away. Being his first attempt he landed himself in the wrong place finding himself far above the pillar he started on. "This isn't easy I see," he comments while falling, "but close enough." He can barely make out Naiyo and the boss from the bridge, but decides to rocket over to them, not risking another teleport landing him in the wrong place, and lands on the pillar with a crash. Assuming the fight hasn't started he would call out to Naiyo and yell. "Naiyo I'm hear!" If it has started he would slowly charge at the boss. Considering way he looks right then, whether he calls to Naiyo or charges it might be pretty distracting to the boss either way.

[Shoryu]

[It may be a bit premature to post with him =3 But reading those posts really worked up some funny XD]

When the hugging grew tighter and tighter the little glowrat gave some grunts and struggles, starting to swat with his tail, though he knew it couldn't kill him, he was plenty squishy, that didn't mean being squished about was comfortable. Then he was suddenly released and saw the man developing a tail similar to his own, and in an instant he let out a high pitched playful squeeeeeeeeeee noise, before teleporting over to Lal and plopped on his head about the same time that scion got over there and flailed his little paw at him "LOOKIE LOOKIE MASTER!!!!, he can grow a tail like mine, i didn't know people could do that, can all humans do that? I thought only cubi could shape shift that easily, but he teleported like me too." of course the fight hadn't started yet, Lal wasn't in a state to start assaulting anyone, he was still in a bit of a playful mood, though the 'games' were long over.

"Oooh, i see, how interesting, heheh, I've done that for fun before but the teleporting feature never came with it. How does it feel to function a tail made of interdimensional dark mass and has no spine to guide it? He'd taken a step towards scion, trying to get a closer look at the more human proportioned aci tail whipping about behind him, when it seemed Naiyo took advantage of his distraction to move in and slash at him with that big fan of hers. His weapon wielding hand whipped up quickly to angle that pointy weapon of his downwards while behind held up to catch the sharp edge of that fan and direct the slash along it's length to protect himself while pushing up to see if he could imbalance her by shoving the weight of her weapon upward "Pardon me Madam, But type of sense of humor is irrelevant, Everyone has something that can make any situation fun for them, you must have 'something' that entertains you, whether it's funny costumes, eviscerating your enemies, or bouncing around like a lunatic. There's always 'something'."

He gave a quick swing towards to fan in a second attempt to imbalance her before taking a step back and holding it out like a rapier in a defensive position and allowing one of his little hip wings to whip out suddenly in a fairly small but durable tentacle. It swung quickly towards her in a wide arm to try and knock her back with a simple horizontal swing, and whether it hit or not, or was intercepted, he spoke a little, though his voice seemed to echo to everyone without being painfully loud. "Since everyone seems so eager to get started, I think i should clarify something, You don't have to actually kill me, or rather you 'can't', The type of destructive force needed to kill 'me' is far above this fields current limitations. For the sake of being fair i've set myself hard limits of damage to take before something will change, I'll be using 2 forms in this fight, and If you can reach the limit on the second one it'll be considered a Victory... Obviously i won't tell what those limits are, hmhm that would ruin the fun and make the entire fight about calculations and numbers."

[PlatinumSkink]

... She couldn’t see much. But Scion’s shout was enough. Naiyo dashed in and sliced at the opposition with a horizontal slice from her right to left, her heavy weapon whipping up as much power as Naiyo herself could muster. The enemy raised his weapon as in to block or parry, Nayo just kept going. If by some reason the boss had underestimated her, maybe she’d be able to take him by surprise and take him down right here. Maybe the men in charge here had done a mistake when lifting the boss power level. Um. No, that would actually be bad.

That wasn’t likely to happen, however, as Naiyo found out. Her horizontal slice was met on an angle by the opponent’s weapon. Instead of taking the blow, the enemy logically shoved it upwards, bending the angle of her slice. At this new somewhat higher angle, the fan missed its target completely, and the boss even hit it an extra time on its way up to get it away. All the while the boss talked about how there was always something that could make a situation fun for everyone… Naiyo ignored it, she was too busy knowing she was up against a boss and trying to figure out what to do to survive to think out words to say.

Not being willing to stay at such a close range of the boss, Naiyo jumped and let the power of her fan carry her away from the boss with the momentum energy. As the fan was whipped up into the air, Naiyo jumped after it rather than try to bring it back, since that would make her vulnerable. Flipping herself and letting herself swirl a lap in midair to get rid of the momentum energy in the fan, Naiyo landed a few meters away. She had calculated beforehand to make sure that she didn’t fall off the platform while doing so. It might have been the right thing to do, since it appeared that the boss had attacked her hoping for her to stay in place…

… Alright, they didn’t need to defeat him completely. That was good to know. Or perhaps realistic. She’d guess they would normally not have a chance against this individual.

‘… Thank you for the consideration…’ Naiyo would then attempt to stay still, depending on where Scion would appear… Oh, her eyesight was slightly returning…

[Crazy Scion]

Scion wasn't sure how to react to the boss, and was even more confused by his appearance then he should have been. Before his eyes is what looked like a tall muscular man with wings, and the head of a panther. He seems to be talking to Naiyo about getting a sense of humor for some reason. Ignoring his words Naiyo springs into action, and charges straight at the crazy looking catman. She swings her fan across his middle, but he blocks it with his spear, then in the same motion uses his wing to knock it away from himself. He continues to talk only to everyone stating that he only needed so much damage to be beaten. In his mind. "Interesting, Derek what do you think about using "that?""

Derek also in thought, "I think he just needs one good hit to win with "that"."

"Alright lets try "that", and see what happens. I'm sure you know he can read minds, so try distracting him a bit."

"My pleasure **Evil Laugh**."

(There thinking of "that" with pictures so Lal can't see what there planing.)

Scion drops his pistol into his left sleeve, then reaches into the same sleeve and starts pulling out a black 5 ft staff. The staff is black with a sort of gloss to it, with two transparent spheres on each end, with what looks like a black dot in the middle of each. He grips it tightly with his right hand, and holds it to his side looking to Lal. He walks to wards him with a dead serious stare. When he is within 3 feet of him he says, "Can I interest you in some..." quickly reaching into his jacket, "..Milk." he says emerging with a bottle of milk in his hand. He is smiling now like he doesn't have a care in the world. Holding the milk up like some simpleton who doesn't realize he is at war. If Lal tries to read his mind. He will be surprised to hear Nyan Cat playing. Maybe over here what sounds like a kid, laughing himself to death.