[IC] Dragon's Awakening

[Lugia]

Soon enough, the rest of the runes were snatched up by everyone... but Mia... then again, she didn't have much in the way of offensive magic skills as it was, and not to mention the fact that she already knew how to heal the party... a couple of them tried out their new powers, their attacks splitting off into five or six parts at once, though, Trevor could only assumed these attacks cost a bit more of their magic to use like that. Maria then answered Jason's question with "Well... I got them from the artifacters. They found a bunch of them just... strewn around after that meteor almost hit, and they've been studying how to mass-produce the things for their own people," Trevor seemed to think about that for a moment before finally continuing onward to a seemingly empty room with a sizable chunk of the artifact that was used to somehow stop the meteor... the body and one of the heads was still intact, and just sitting on a rock next to a portal out of here. Surely it won't be this easy... Trevor thought as he headed towards the artifact, only to be stopped by some sort of magical barrier. "Who's there? Who wishes to take the artifact?" A voice called out from elsewhere in the room. Trevor didn't respond, and it kept talking "Whoever you are... you won't JUST be getting it... my magic wall will see to it... no... you'll need to do a test, first," after that, a large ghostly dragon appeared in the center of the room. Trevor tried to attack the thing with both light and fire magic, but that didn't seem to work... he then tried to punch it, and that did about as much as you'd expect punching a ghost to to. "Violent one, aren't we? Well... you'll get nowhere if someone here doesn't lend me a body," the ghost explained, later asking "Would anyone like to volunteer?" to the rest of the room.

[Shadow Dragon]

Jason presses his hand against the dome, then turns to the gold dragon that just appeared. "Volunteer? Volunteer for....wait. You're the one who changed everyone, aren't you?" Jason walks toward the golden ghost. "If I do, what happens to my friends?" He banishes all his drawings as he gets closer to the half transparent figure. "If you don't use me to attack them, I guess I will." He extends a talon to the dragon.

[Evanist]

Celina frowned as she heard what the dragon said and looking at Jason, on my guard right now. "Something tells me that he will attack us if he takes your body..." she then said, staying back. She was not sure what to do here, but considering it could talk... "Trevor.. might have been a bad idea to just attack like that. Maybe we could have at least talk a bit about this... but if we really need to fight here, then so be it." she then said before getting into battle position, ready to go and fight, hoping that the group could deal with this guy. If he takes control of someone, then the group probably going to need to knock that person out without killing them and be careful about this.

[Riddles]

Mia

---

It didn't seem like attacking the ghostly dragon would do them any good. Trevor had already tried and failed. Until the ghost possessed someone, they couldn't do anything, or so it seemed. He most likely wouldn't get rid of the barrier until they passed this 'test' of his, either. No matter what, they'd have to fight one of their allies. Mia couldn't think of any other way around it. "I guess we don't have any other options. My healing magic worked on that phoenix back there, so even if he does possess one of us, I should be able to heal them once the fight is over."

[Gavin]

Shaula

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"Jason," Shaula said in a warning tone, "don't be stupid. We need to think about this." She looked up at the dragon then back at where they had came from. "I told you all we should've just taken one of those mole-aliens. Stuck it in front of the dragon here - it would've been so much easier." As much as she wanted to knock Jason out by this point, there had to be another option. A better option... Like Mia. With her specialty in healing, taking her down would be a breeze compared to Jason's fire magic.
Then again, there was actually another option. "What about you?" Shaula said. She turned to the phoenix, the agent of the New World Order, and took great pleasure in saying, "It's your fault we're all in this mess. You should be the one to get us out. If you really want to help us, you do it."

[Lugia]

The ghost glared at Shaula after what she said, and he explained "First off, I will not take someone's body unless THEY volunteer, and secondly, I will only possess and use actual teammates... there IS a team here, and it consists of five creatures. You, the slime phoenix, the quadrupedal dragon, the fiery phoenix, and the feathered dragon... the purple phoenix is not a member of your team, and if you were to just bring in a poor civilian, I probably wouldn't want to possess them, as that might traumatize them," He then turned towards Jason, and answered "Ah, well... it's kind of you to offer, but unfortunately, I would use your body to attack them, so, I must turn down that offer... of course, this test does require that I, er, use everyone at least once," I then looked at the rest of my team... it didn't seem like anyone wanted to do this, and we were going to need Mia awake to heal at least one of us back so we could technically fight everyone, especially since Maria didn't count in this test. After some thought, Trevor shook his head, and said "Alright, I'll volunteer to be the first one, or... whatever," this seemed to be exactly what the ghost was looking for, and he immediately flew towards Trevor and... Trevor blacked out while the ghost took control. "Ah... always feels good to have flesh, even if it does make me vulnerable to attacks... so... is everyone ready, then? I hope so," He then smiled as he charged up some lightning magic, only to have lightning bolts strike the area around Trevor's friends randomly, whether or not they hit, though, was likely another story.

[Evanist]

When Celina saw that Trevor was being controlled by that ghost, she frowned before suddenly getting zap by lightning. That actually hurt her a lot as she scream in pain from that hit. Why did that hurt that much? She felt scared a bit from what she just felt but tried to stay calm before going to move back and staying at a distance right now from Trevor. Lightning probably won’t do anything against him, so she needed to use something else… not kill but at least knock him out. She thought about it before then starting to draw quickly, going to draw a hammer, then taking it in her hands and throwing it as hard as she can towards Trevor’s head. If they could at least knock him out, then it probably will be easier for her afterwards. She was being very careful here and keeping her distance because of what she felt from that last attack. Considering her slime… maybe it was because it could conduct electricity too well. She just hoped that the others might try to help. "K.. keep that lightning away from me." she then said, shaking.

[Shadow Dragon]

Jason draws a pair of flaming swords, flying above Trevor, and dives toward him, swinging his blazing blades at his head as Celina's hammer hits home. He flaps his now glowing wings, staying above the possessed dragon, and begins shooting fire from his wings, screeching as the lightning sizzles his skin. He also makes sure to keep the ghosts attention away from Mia, making the light from his wings flare to blind the possessed dragon.

[Riddles]

Mia

---

As the ghost possessed Trevor, lightning coursed across the battlefield. It did manage to hit Mia, though some of her allies seemed to have worse injuries than she did. She though back to the healing spell she used earlier. It was perfect for this situation, and since Aerin seemed to have stayed behind, she didn't have to worry about hurting him. "Everyone, get close!" She began to concentrate the same way she did before, and sure enough, the same ring of light appeared, healing the wounds of anyone nearby.

[Gavin]

Shaula

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"-and if you were to just bring in a poor civilian, I probably wouldn't want to possess them, as that might traumatize them," the ghost said.
"Oh, I never realized it might traumatize the poor thing," Shaula muttered. "Coming from the one who's scaring them away from their crops, that's something."
When no one else was willing to lend the ghost their body, Trevor stepped forward. Shaula opened her mouth to object, but the ghost was already flying towards him. It hit him then was gone.
"Ah... always feels good to have flesh," Trevor said, "even if it does make me vulnerable to attacks... So... is everyone ready, then? I hope so." An unnerving grin spread across his face.
There was a flash of light and a scream; Shaula's entire body felt like it was on fire. She found herself on her hands and knees, her arms struggling to hold herself up as electricity arced around Trevor. She forced herself to her feet and stumbled backwards away from him. Celina stood next to her, and a screech from Jason came from somewhere up above.
The ground lit up beneath her as a ring of Mia's healing light passed below them. "We need to get the ghost out of Trevor as soon as possible," Shaula said to Mia and Celina, reaching for her backpack. "If we don't-" She stopped. Her backpack wasn't there. It was lying on the ground where she had fallen, twenty feet away, blackened and smouldering. "No," she said. If the Orgone emitters were destroyed, Trevor was lost.
"The Orgone emitters, we need them - it's the only way to force the ghost out of him," she said, trying to explain it to them in as simplest terms as possible.

[Lugia]

The hammer did more damage than the ghost probably wanted it to, but he seemed more impressed at the flaming swords, even if they seemed... a bit less effective than the hammer. As he blocked the attack with his wrists, he commented "Say... you... do realize what you've done, right? Typically, one would require a rune to do such a thing, but you seemed to do it naturally. You probably would have made a fine squire if I were still alive," the ghost then looked around while he muttered "Now where is my weapon...?" as if he didn't quite realize that I didn't exactly come with one of those. His attention then turned towards Shaula once she shouted about 'emitters', and asked "Ore... what? Emitters? What in the universe are you talking about, madam?" this, on top of the confusion from not having a weapon seemed to make him miss his opportunity to attack, and even caused him to miss the ring of light that was surrounding Mia and some of the allies who were near her. He just kept shaking his head, going from asking where his weapon might be to muttering about how he's never heard of oregone in all of his years. Meanwhile, Trevor was still trying to force the ghost out from the inside, though, something told him that it wasn't going to happen until someone beat him up, unfortunately, since that also meant Trevor would get beat up, as well. Hang in there, team... and I think I'm starting to figure out how everyone actually works as one... Shaula's the distraction, Mia's the healer, Celina's a back-row mage, and both Jason and I are the front-liners... if she just keeps messing with him, he might never even get a turn. Trevor thought as he kept trying to regain his body... to... no obvious effect.

[Evanist]

Celina shook her head a bit, shaking as she remembered the pain of the lightning... before looking towards Trevor. She though about it... before then drawing another hammer, trying to make it bigger while the ghost seem confused. She then concentrated and then threw the hammer as hard as she can towards Trevor's stomach, aiming to possibly make him lose his breath and stun him from that, hoping that this might help out a lot in this case. Good thing Trevor didn't really have a weapon here. It was probably giving the group an advantage considering all this. She though about it afterwards, having felt Mia's healing light. She looked at Mia and whispered. "Thanks... if we knock out Trevor... and he tries to possess someone else.. try to move quickly to not get possess... your going to need to be able to heal Trevor back up." she then said to her, hoping that the group will be able to bring Trevor down before anything bad happens here... and without killing him. One thing she appreciated was that Shaula's rembling was actually confusing the ghost also... Well, if she keeps going like that, it might help out a lot.

[Shadow Dragon]

He screeches, and turns to both the dragon and Shaula, and his fiery gaze, and wings, begin cooking the air around him. "SHUT UP!" His wings glow white, his fire stoked by his rage, and he raises his blazing swords. "If you say anything about those stupid rocks again, you'll regret it until your dying day! Can I be anymore clear on that?!" He ignores the others, his rage focused purely on the golem. The heat coming from his body continues to rise, steam billowing from his spread wings. "You know nothing about anything in even our old world. And even less about this new one. So shut up unless you have something useful to say!" He raises his hands, and points one at Trevor, the other at Shaula, and a jet of white fire cooks the air at it roars though the air at Trevor, his other hand pointing his sword at the water golem.

[Gavin]

Shaula

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"Don't you dare point that thing at me," Shaula hissed as Jason pointed his sword at her. "I don't know what your problem is, but Trevor's going to die if we don't save him. If you really want to talk about this, it can wait."

She stepped back from Jason's sword and ran to her backpack, using his and Celina's attacks as cover. It was blackened and charred on the outside, but miraculously, the emitters had survived. She grabbed one and ran low back to the group.

The emitters were only for short range. To force the ghost out, it would have to be sitting practically underneath Trevor - easier said than done. Shaula knew the stakes. If the ghost found out she had Orgone energy, it wouldn't give her another chance to attack. She had one shot at this.

Shaula tightened her grip on the emitter. The others would never help her, least of all Jason, so distracting the ghost herself was the only option. She lowered her stance and aimed her hand at Trevor. The rune on her hand glowed a bright, ominous orange as water shot from her arm and split into multiple streams, each flying toward Trevor's face. Without giving the ghost a moment to regain its composure, Shaula took the emitter and threw it across the ground toward his feet. It tumbled across the rock, and for a moment, she thought she might have missed. Then, it came to a stop, and Shaula's body went cold. It stopped short. The Orgone emitter sat five feet in front of Trevor - the ghost would see it.

[Riddles]

Mia

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Jason and Shaula were fighting again. Normally she wouldn't pay them any mind, but this was probably the worst possible time for them to start arguing. "That's enough!" She approached Jason, and made sure to speak quietly enough that Shaula couldn't hear her. "Just let her ramble. Can't you see she's distracting him?"

Mia quickly darted away from the frontline, not wanting to be in range when the ghost finally decided to attack. She tried to think of a plan that would allow them to defeat the ghost without hurting Trevor too badly. The best she could think of was to pin him down, and make sure he couldn't move. That would be risky, though. They'd have to make sure he couldn't hit anyone with magic, and even if they managed to do that, the ghost might just leave Trevor's body to possess someone else. Perhaps knocking him out was the only solution, after all.

[Lugia]

Celina's second hammer didn't quite hit the ghost's stomach, but it did still damage him, unlike the strange item that Shaula threw at him. "Now... what is this? Seems to be hard, at least... maybe I could throw it at someone," the ghost said as he picked the thing up with no ill effects. He then searched the room for someone who he wanted to attack from a range, eventually throwing the thing at Mia... of course, he threw it pretty fast, and only after catching it on fire, so it would probably do SOME damage if it hit. He then said "Aha, THAT'S how he's been fighting... with his fists, and pure muscle, rather than skill!" after that, he flew down to Jason just to try to punch him in the back of the head while he was still arguing with Shaula about the... thing. Dang it, Shaula... why'd you have to throw that thing at him? All you did was give him a weapon, and an idea... Trevor thought as the ghost still possessed him. He really wanted it to stop, but he knew that if he were to force the ghost out of him some other way, it wouldn't 'count', somehow. Thankfully, Shaula's beliefs were proved wrong as the thing did nothing to stop the possession, even after the ghost picked it up, else we'd be called 'cheaters' or 'dishonorable', or something similar.

[Evanist]

Celina though about all this. “We need to knock him out!” she says before thinking, remembering the move that Trevor did before on the door and what she copied. Considering all this, she probably would need to try something different then that, but maybe similar. She breathe deeply before forcing her arms onto the ground and moving back, taking her distance before then sending herself flying like a slingshot into the air and spin quickly forwards, letting her slime move very rapidly as she rolls like a ball. She wanted to cannonball that ghost right now, hoping that this would work, hoping to really do a lot of damage and get him to leave Trevor’s body. She didn’t want this to continue. Never know... Maybe this would surprise the ghost, make him lose focus or something and get hit really hard. She just really hoped this would work, cause god knows that it was not going to be easy at all to deal with Trevor’s lightning right now.

[Shadow Dragon]

He screeches, and catches Trevor's arm, his eyes blazing. "Get. Out. Of. My. Friend!" He swings Trevor around his body, slamming him into Shaula, his hands and wings burning. He cries out in agony as the lightning sears his skin, and roundhouse kicks him in the gut, sending Trevor flying, and jumps after him, bringing his knee into Trevors head to knock him out. He looks back at Shaula with murder and fury in his eyes. "Shut up." His body glows brightly. "Just shut up, you idiot."

[Riddles]

Mia

---

Unsurprisingly, Shaula's 'orgone emitter' did nothing. That wouldn't have been much of a problem, if the ghost hadn't decided to use it as a weapon. Before Mia could even react, the strange glass pyramid was hurtling toward her. It probably wouldn't have done much, if it hadn't been lit on fire. She ended up with a pretty nasty burn on her shoulder.

She was already in the backline, but she got back even further so she could heal herself. She really didn't want to take another attack like that. As her healing vines spread over her injured shoulder, she noticed that Jason and Shaula were still fighting. "That's enough! Both of you!" She wasn't entirely sure that just shouting at them would be enough to stop them, but there was no harm in trying.

[Lugia]

The counter throw and roundhouse kick sent the body that the ghost was possessing flying right into Celina, who made herself hard enough to deal damage with her cannonball attack... not to mention, that hit the ghost, or rather, Trevor's body right in the head. The ghost struggled to get up, and he even commented "This body doesn't have much stamina... does it?" with a cough before adding "I don't want to..." before getting interrupted by a cough, he then continued "... kill this body... I should leave before I take some more serious damage," with that, the ghost left, and searched for a new body to possess while Trevor was face-down on the rocky ground. Soon enough, the ghost made its way to Celina, possessing her body as Trevor gathered up his willpower to stand back up. "Dang, you guys can hit hard when you need to..." he commented, noting just how badly beat up he was, especially given that nobody here should know how to use their body or their magic, yet... he then used his healing rune for the first time to heal himself, using his electricity to stimulate and energize his body and also to speed up the natural healing process. After the lightning finished its job, Trevor felt both physically and mentally healed, somehow... he felt ready to fight again, if he had to... but it looked like he'd have to wait until the ghost was done possessing Celina, unfortunately, since he couldn't attack the ghost while it wasn't in a body.