[IC] Soul Eater Next Gen (Restart)

[Burthstone]

Vech would head over to Neku. "Idiot." He would then start heading up the steps to the building, arms in his pockets.

[booksmusicanime]

Naomi rushed over to Neku to check on him.

---

Elu stood there with her fist clenched.

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Kari smiled. Now I really want to meet that little girl. A game of destruction will be fun. She thought

[Burthstone]

"I would like audience with the headmaster of this school!" Vech would shout out, continuing up the steps.

[ShadowVentus]

booksmusicanime said
Naomi rushed over to Neku to check on him.Elu stood there with her fist clenched.Kari smiled. She thought

Naomi would find that although Neku's wounds are grievous, he was still breathing. The stairs were stained with the blood from his right arm.

[booksmusicanime]

Naomi ripped a part of her jacket and wrapped in around the wound. Then scooped the boy up and ran him to the nurse's office

[ShadowVentus]

"I..can't believe it...I lost..." Neku thought as he was rushed to the nurse's office.

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

The constructs she had made with her earlier uses of Goshintai had been spread by now, moved to each corner of the world.

The declaration of war to the city had been made.

-And all beings in the city had been analyzed to the utmost with the Eye of Providence.

"The stage is set, the actors are in place." Erika hummed to herself, well outside the city boundaries.

"Now then, everyone, show me how you'll react. Show me how you'll struggle and fight to survive."

"And do make this entertaining."

[Grey]

"Well James, you never told me you had an evil ex," Kiri joked after reaching his travelling companion's position, "So shall do we have to wait for the other six, or...?" The edge of his lips perked up a bit. "I'm surprised though, and here I thought that you'd be the first nut case to be attack on DC grounds," he remarked before his sort-of-smile fell, "...But... the situation still doesn't sit right with me."

Kiri shrugged before walking away and saying, "Best be on our guard, I guess. No telling what shit's going to be going down in the next few days... As for me, I'm going home." As he passed by Elu on his way home, he mumbled a quick-but-audible: "Good job out there, kid."

[LaXnyd]

"Don't misunderstand," James groaned to Kiri, "If I could, I would stay far far away from her. We met a few times back when... well, you know. And from what little interaction I had with her I knew she was one of the most dangerous people I had laid eyes on." he shuddered. Her powers were something he could not comprehend; something he did not understand. While other witches used themes that were easily understandable, Erika was a complete mystery to him.

"Anyways, I'm going to discuss this matter with Shinigami-sama. Whatever she's planning, she was certainly capable of doing much more than what she just did."

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

The Layer Three spells, as they had been dubbed. The two strongest spells Erika commanded authority over.

Goshintai, and Hell's Gouging Sword.

The former, a marvelous trick of reality. Paying an enormous energy cost with this spell resulted in the creation of a temporary link between the mind of the user and reality, allowing images to pass from the former to the latter freely. In that sense, it could be seen as a way of working around the law of conservation of energy, a spell that found a loophole in the fabric of reality and exploited it. In other words, even if the cost of what was being projected would normally exceed the cost of Goshintai itself, or even Erika's maximum energy capacity, it could still be projected under the thrall of Goshintai. All the same, it had its weaknesses, as it was essentially just a "better" version of Devil's Projection at its core, and so was bound to the same principle of "something which currently 'is' cannot be projected." Not to mention the utterly absurd energy cost. While it was a fixed cost, a third of a witch's power on a single spell was so inordinate it was unheard of.

The latter though...the latter was the only solely "offensive" spell in the witch's arsenal. An arrow of light that would kill anything, from a man to a devil to even a god. If the Shinigami were struck with it, or a Kishin, or the great leader of all witches, they would not survive the attack. Even so, while in theory it was the "strongest" offensive spell possible, a strong enough being with a quick enough reaction time could negate it before it touched them. As long as it was blasted before it touched its target, its capability to be a "certain one-hit kill" would diminish. Not to mention the absurd energy drain caused by using it. Like Goshintai, it was something intended to be a last resort among last resorts.

She would probably need to use those more and more in the coming days.

But for now...

"Fwah, two Go's, rest, projecting three Eggs, rest, and using Go a third time all in one day? If I hadn't restored at least something during those rests I'd be dry for the rest of the day. Sleepy..."

Such were the words of the witch who had earlier declared war on a god as she fell back onto the ground, closing her eyes.

[booksmusicanime]

A owl landed beside Erika.

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Elu nodded in thanks as she turned down the street to her apartment

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Before the owl had reached Erika, the Eye of Perception had alerted her to its presence, or more accurately its full existence.

"What is it? I'm tired~" Hummed the witch, still laying down.

[booksmusicanime]

The owl morphed into Kari. "I saw what you did at the DWMA. Pretty cool." She said

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

"Cool? That was the opening sequence, when the game actually starts is when it gets cool." Erika replied, flopping onto her side. "I bet those kids are scurrying to talk to their little god right now, not realizing that it's already ended. But I digress, you want in on what I'm doing, right? Give me some motivation to include you."

[Burthstone]

Vech rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. "This'l get me noticed, Soul protect, off." His soul protect dispels, leaving him completely revealed on the steps of the DWMA, magically that is.

[SaekoGami]

Red Akuma said
(( Sorry for not posting for a while, but I was really busy with school and some real life issues. Once again sorry.))Arc got up from his seat and went over to Satsu. " Yeah I want to go home and sleep a long time." Arc said as he smiled at her.Mira was drawing a magic circle on the ground in front of the cave. When she was finished drawing it, she sat down in the middle of it and started to hum a song.

(Sorry didn't see the reply)

She smiled and nodded, taking his hand and walking out of the school and down the steps. Walking through the town "your gonna have a nap and then I'll make you tea!"

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Time had passed.

In the Witch's Realm, a predictable event had begun: the Witch's Assembly.

However, in this, a less predictable event had occurred.

"The Kishin no longer exists."

Erika Schweinborg had elected to address the Assembly without permission to speak, and stood up with an icy expression suitable for her words.

"The current Shinigami has all of the power, but none of the experience or substance."

With regards to the Grand Witch, the Eye of Perception was utilized in addition to Laguz's Requiem, compounded backwards by three hundred years.

"Thus, the strongest being in the world at this time is none other than Grand Witch Mabaa."

"Why then, have we done nothing?"

"Instead of using our power, peace has been brokered with the Shinigami. Peace with the being who runs an institution built for the express purpose of killing our kind. I ask you, are we evil? Do we deserve to have a race raised like cattle to slaughter us simply on the grounds of existing? These meisters and weapons kill just as much as any of us do, slaughtering witches whether they be ancients from millennia past or mere children who have only uttered their first words."

"I have never killed an innocent. I've only ever killed meisters and weapons, I've only ever killed other murderers. We've been hunted by them for sport. If they saw a child witch, a girl barely able to control her magic, they would kill her just because he was a witch, because their leader said so. And even then, even we are evil just because of what we were born as, it doesn't matter."

"I ask you, is this just?"

"We were resigned to the shadows, lurking in the backdrop and forced to defend our livelihood against the onslaught of weapons bred to kill us, because we could not fight the oppression of the Shinigami. But times have changed! The current Shinigami is inferior to the old one, the force that kept us at bay is no more! And yet, we remain in the shadows, doing naught but struggling to live while the weapons and meisters that are trained develop ever-more effective methods of slaughter. Look around, my fellow witches! Look at the users of magic who stand here today! Even one of us is a force that requires the Shinigami's forces to use their full might against! Against all of us, against our combined magic, Death City would not last a day."

"So why then, why have we not attacked? Why have we not struck back for the oppression we were forced under, why have we not torn down the regime that prides itself on slaughtering us and our children? The answer is simple: cowardice. A lack of willingness to change the order, a lack of surety that we can, a lack of passion to help all witches work towards a better future."

"Now, I am sure all of you are curious as to why I've said all this without so much as a motion to speak, so allow me to explain. I will not allow this travesty to continue for one day more. I will tear down the Shinigami's system by my own hands if I must, but before I do so I wish to have you, my fellow witches, work with me to move towards this future. And it is for that reason..."

A brief use of Devil's Maze to teleport up to the seat of Mabaa, a pointing of a finger at the witch who led the Assembly.

"Grand Witch Mabaa, Mistress of Space. By my will, and by your cowardice to challenge the institution of the Shinigami, I, Erika Heinrich Schweinborg, First Witch of Man, challenge you to single combat. Only one combatant shall end up alive. To the victor goes the loser's magic, the loser's abilities, the loser's mind, body, and soul..."

"As well as the title of Grand Witch, and leader of the Assembly."

[booksmusicanime]

Kari just watched everything happen with wide eyes.

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Elu walked Towards the nurse's office to check on Neku.

[ShadowVentus]

Elu finds Neku lying in bed, his right arm and torso wrapped in gauze. He's simply looking up at the ceiling, not noticing that someone decided to visit him.

[metagros]

Zyrik slowly regained his conscious. He looked around Notecing that he was in the infermory. He wondered how long it took them to treat him seeing that he didn't have his soul protection on.

(am going to be in Germany for a while, and thus might not post.)