[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[supertinyking]

@Tyki@thewizardguy

Ozzy sees the witch's actions, and frown, as he can tell what's coming next. He gets an angry scowl, as he spoke though clenched teeth. "You little whore..." He says. "Going after the biggest fish..." Soon, the march of boots can be heard, as both ends of the halls are filled with clone troops, Logar smiles, as he looks at Mia.
"Well, Mia, nice to see you!.......Do I need to give you some time alone with a these fellows if they're bothering you? I know you can handle them yourself." Logar asks, smiling...until Ozzy pulls out a picture and flicks it to him, and his smile turns to a scowl.
"Need I say my demand?" Ozzy asks, and Logar grits his teeth a little. "You little mother....son of...bas-......Kill all of them but the demon, and Mia." He says, and Ozzy raises an eyebrow. "....Do I need to tell you twice?" Ozzy says, grinning. "......Kill them all but the demon." Logar says again, though gritted teeth, looking at Mia with sincere sorrow as he says this, but he does move so they cannot shoot at her directly, giving her quite the advantage over everyone else, which would face a torrent of blaster fire, except for ozzy, who was shot around, as he simply walks though the sea of clones, being quickly lost among the insuring chaos.

[thewizardguy]

With a short shout, Mia flew through the metal wall. Seconds later she emerges unharmed, if rather annoyed. "Hey, hey, do I get to kill that one too?"

"Patience, dear." Cosmos smiles right back at the witch, although her seductive tendencies were wasted on him. Suffice to say females of his species were vastly different-looking from humans, and he found them all to look rather icky. Furthermore, his body had been dead for well over a week. Almost no disease was able to survive within his dead body, although the rot would set in far too easily if he allowed it. It was but a simple little spell that prevented his body from decaying around him. But with an even simpler spell, he merely redirected the air around his body, preventing the rotten breath from ever touching his skin. "I believe we'll need to have a talk, my dear. I have goals I wish to accomplish, and you might be most useful to me. Similarly, I hope to be of use in whatever scheme you may be brewing."

Clone troops covered all the exits, already preparing their weapons. Quite probably all of the base's security had been gathered in this particular location. Smiling, Mia raised an eyebrow as Logar seemed to switch sides nearly instantly. "Oh my. Logar, who knew you were such a pansy. Cosmos, may I?"

"Of course, dear. This would be rather inconvenient to us."

Mia raises both hands, even as the Clones begin to fire. She felt the wavelengths of those gathered souls, the sheer life force gathered in this room. She could feel the energy flowing through it, through all things, and she harmonized herself with it. Logar would feel, in that mere instant, a drastic change in the atmosphere. It was as if the air had turned to thick jelly, just for a microsecond, as Mia simultaneously resonated with every soul present. "Motherf*ckers go boom." White lightning arced through the air as screams echoed through the corridors of the clone base. They twitched and convulsed, blood exploding from every orifice. They then fell to the floor, dead before they hit the ground. Their internal organs had been liquefied.

"Now that that little ordeal is over, allow me to demonstrate to you how you're supposed to handle these situations. Pay close attention, and you might learn something important." Cosmos gestures, as a chain materializes around Ozzy's neck even as he tries to sneak away. With a sudden yank, he's sent sprawling across the floor. Should he resist, Mia would simply have hit him with another soular blast to quiet him down. "Mia. You know what to do...."

Mia crouched down besides Ozzy, as she retrieved a long, black scalpel from the folds of her robe. It was a familiar little thing with the capability to inflict permanent wounds. No healing magic or power could restore damage inflicted by this Cursed Blade, no regeneration would grant relief. The pain would not fade, as would be the case with other wounds, but would remain forever. "Now, aren't you a pretty face? See, you done something that's got my boyfriend in a stitch, and you know what? That kind of annoys me. I'm not even going to look at that picture, I'm just going to keep messing up your pretty little face until you tell me what it is. And then I'm going to keep removing bits you like until you undo it, starting with your dick." She gestures helpfully with the scalpel to the area she intended to remove, before she placed the tip above his left eye.

[Wraithblade6]

@thewizardguy
Torn between two souls, the vampires' body didn't know who to obey. It shook and tensed with paralysis and indecision, one arm grabbing the other as claws reached for its own throat. Both minds could see through the eyes, and they saw that Bob was still there and was charging an intense ball of the blackest terror at them. A bolt of fear, quickly followed by anger, shot though the vampires shared heart. Wings shot out from the vampire's back but were quickly grabbed and entwined by blood tendrils that followed them immediately afterward. Alucard tried to form another icewall and it melted. He tried to shoot Bob with his spontaneously generated quantum bullshit, but it missed.

Mithias didn't really have too long to think about whether or not he wanted to die, but he knew if he allowed Alucard to dodge the attack, he might lose control and Bob might not get another shot. He knew whatever Bob was doing was going to take them both out, but it was whateverthefuck at this point. It was like standing in front of a train. All you had to do was hold still, yet it was the hardest thing in the world to do. Instinctively, Mithias called out to the only friend he had for reassurrance, the only person who's simple presence might give him the strength to keep standing there despite the fear, "...Bob!!?"

Mithias screamed, but the sound was muted, like the plug had been pulled on a tv set right before the murder scene. There was a fast suction sound and all was black, weightless, a vacuum. Existance was gone. Not even a memory left.

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
Ozzy smiles, as he leans into the blade, it cutting into his flesh, as his pupils flared slightly. "Hehehehe....I must say, I've always wondered what it'd be like to be taken apart by the legendary Mia....Please, let it live up t-" Ozzy begins, before Logar walks over, picking up Ozzy, and slams him into a wall, his arm wrapped around Ozzy's throat.

"Where is my son?" Logar asks the demon, his fingers curled into Ozzy's throat. Ozzy hacks, and laughs a little. "Dead, or dying....that picture was taken before I ordered him executed..." Ozzy says, cackling at the end, as Logar would begin to grow loudly, as he begins to change. His eyes begin to glow, and his dark heart begins to pump out a darkness that Cosmos could sense was a manifest of rage. Throwing Ozzy into the ground before Mia, he looks to her. "...Go slow, enjoy it...slowly....Just like I watched you do to the cleric...." He says, walking away, before stopping.

"....Huh. You are truly different than the Mia I know..she knew how important family was...hehehehe..."
With this, Logar left, and Ozzy was cornered, but he simply grinned. "Welp, I'm done then, eh? Go ahead, as he says, make it slow....I want it to be the sweetest suffering I've ever experienced." Ozzy says, his inner masochist shining.

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
Mia raises an eyebrow, smiling brightly. "You.... captured Nathan? Oh my. How impressive. You must have used that really competent and capable demon minion you have. Oh wait, nobody in your employ could even harm him." Still smiling, Mia impales his left eyeball, removing it from it's socket using the scalpel. She then drips a few drops of Black Blood into the eye socket, which immediately begin digging into the flesh, the cells dividing and multiplying as they absorb his demonic cells. "So here I am, with the dipshit who claims to have killed a Witch-Kishin without anyone else noticing, and the gullible jackass who believes him. And you know what? I think we're going to have a great time together, Ozzy. Bright futures await us."

The Black Blood would spread through his body, multiplying and growing, even as Mia added more to the pool. It sliced it's way through flesh and bone, working it's way into his muscles, into his every vein, into his brain and his heart. The regenerating flesh was simply devoured once more, until Ozzy gave up on regenerating. His skin began to peel from his flesh, and his bones began to crack, and yet his body remained perfect form, the Black Blood sustaining him. "I'm not going to take things slow, you see I'm an impatient girl. And 'slow' implies that there's going to be an end. But Ozzy, from this point on, you're my bitch. And you'll wake up every morning licking my heels, and you'll spend every day doing whatever I want. And maybe, if you beg me, I might let you rest every now and then."

Slowly, Mia moves the blade to Ozzy's left arm. The Black Blood held him in place, and both Cosmos and Voidwalker guarded her. Nothing could conceivably interrupt her, no rescue would appear. Any magic Ozzy might use would be countered, any attack he performed would be redirected. Smiling, Mia begins to cut into the muscle, knowing that once she finishes, Ozzy will never again be able to move under his own strength. "So how oh how did you get that picture, bitch?"

[thewizardguy]

Mia raises an eyebrow, as Minx zaps off. "Well...... I hope at least she's at the coordinates." She looks over at Raiden, and waves. "feel free to come along, if you want." She then turns and portals off.

The planet in question was inhabited by a reptilian race of beings known as the Sa'Ri. They had great regenerative properties, as well as being born with a variety of natural weapons, such as claws and venom. These feats had allowed them to become the dominant sentient species in their galaxy, forging an empire that mediated between the many smaller powers that surrounded them. However, their expansion had been halted by a unity formed between the smaller powers, if the Sa'Ri would attack any one of the smaller powers they would all unite. As such, a peace had been established, and trade flourished through the many space ports.

In the city of Diri'Kai, main trading capital of the Sa'Ri empire, a new threat had arisen. 5 hovered above the ground, lightning arcing around him as hundreds of civilians were torn apart by his Soular Powers. The ground was painted red with blood as his attacks ruptured their internal organs, ripping the body to shreds. The military had been deployed, but mere power armour and beam weaponry were nothing to a being such as 5. They fell before him like wheat before a scythe, and even their robotic Guard Drones were destroyed by his mastery of the Dark Side of the Force.

Mia walked through the streets, using Vector arrows to clear a way through the piles of corpses. Smiling, she spoke into the wrist-based communication device the Sergal had given her. "He's here all right. Just like I said he was. Anyone left in the city is as good as dead, if at all possible I'd like you to bomb the entire thing straight to the ground. Probably won't do much to hurt him, but it'll clear the terrain and keep him busy. I'm going to have to immunize your troops once you warp in, so have someone pick me up. Believe me, you don't want to get anywhere near this guy without some serious Soular protection."

Everything was coming together, and soon 5 would be in her hands. The Sergal, Minx and Stein would be the perfect team to take down 5, every detail had been planned for. Of course, it wouldn't go exactly as the rest thought it would, but what was life without surprises?

Closing down the call, she uses her cell phone to call someone else. This time, she reaches out to Drac. "Heya. Still got this number off someone I killed. In any case, remember how you said all that shit about not touching your family?" Mia pauses for a moment, allowing the dramatic effect to settle in. "It'll take you about 20 minutes to trace this, I encoded it. So just sit tight big boy, and wait for the fireworks." She then closes the phone and crushes it, sticking her hands in her pockets as she watches the destruction.

[Tyki]

@thewizardguy

The sergals had been hovering around for a fair while, having alerted the Sa'Ri to the impending threat but ushering them to not tell the doomed planet so they'd at least be blissfully unaware of their impending death and/or complete and total destruction. After a few seconds there was some radio chatter and mia finds herself 'beamed up' into the ship which was more accurately described by her just suddenly appearing before shearing sounds could be heard aboard the vessel she'd boarded, troops awaiting immunization in front of a view port so she could watch the large blasts of energy scorching and flattening the city, the surrounding country side of the city, and anyone that decided it was a good idea to be making their way to that city from the neighboring ones at that time as the cities surrounding said fucked city would have just enough co-ordination and time to get everyone important into bunkers, most likely leaving the peasantry to their own devices as the skylines lit up with energy blasts rivaling large nukes with a distinct lack of the regular fall out, leaving at least some good thing for the local populace in this ungodly over kill of a carpet bombing which was rapidly leaving everything within the blast zone a mile deep crater with high energy rounds being shot at it just for good measure once the mana-shot runs out or at least, the commander gives the order "STOP SHOOTING IDIOTS OR WE'LL BLOW UP THE SODDING PLANET" rather irrately over the intercom

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
Ozzy's rings on his hands begin to glow, and his grin widens, and he looks up at her.
"It's surprising what a demon can do to trick a lustful moron into...ahh....a situation where he can be killed. Nathan was rather..ehh....delightfully...lustful. I simply looked into his mind, and found a woman he sought, and molded...a demon after her...someone named...Lilith....I think. She lead him into a trap, and in exchange for her freedom...we made a deal. Wish to hear what it was?" He asks, leaning up forwards slightly, ever so slightly, as to whisper it to her ear. As the rings glowed, something would bother Cosmos. It'd begin to cloud his magical senses, but one ring in particular, it'd be doing seemingly nothing at the moment, other than glowing. They'd at this point, would start to give him a head ache.
".........He became a demon...my most powerful..and he's been listening in on this entire conversation." Ozzy says, as breaking though a wall, Nathan's arm wraps around the Void Walker's throat, extending like rubber, his soul wavelength striking though her violently. The rest of him busts though the wall, and he cracks his neck slightly.
"Now, you all are either going to leave, or die. Your choice." He says, before Scorpion style yanking the void walker towards him.

[thewizardguy]

@Wraithblade6
Blackness engulfed the pair, death ripping at their very conceptual existence. One of Bob's greatest weapons, the Fear of Death, using his ability to manifest the essence of death itself. A nightmare that dragged one to their inevitable demise, capable of killing even supposedly immortal beings. Both Alucard and Mithias were trapped within the darkness, falling into infinity, even as each played out their own personal hell. A death devised by their own minds, their own vision of their demise. The fear of death that resided in all things that lived, personified, realized.

And yet, a single star seemed to shine brightly in the darkness. For trapped there with them, was a new figure. Two broken souls, formed together into one. A tall figure, clad in green. His hair was wavy and brown, his eyes a bright red, even as he smilingly held up his hand. A strangely familiar voice sounded, sounding unreal in this dreamlike world they floated in. The words spoken were lost in the rushing screams, in the creeping cold. However, the message came across.

'don't worry. I got this.'

And as the blackness cleared, Mithias and Alucard sat there, each covered in wounds, each weakened severely. And each completely alone. For the one who had died was not Alucard, nor Mithias, but Tsukune. And the only death he had ever envisioned, was to die protecting others from danger. And as such, that death was delivered unto him.

[thewizardguy]

@Tyki
Beams of light arched down from the sky, blasts of energy scorching the earth and flattening the city. In the center stood five, as the light flowed around him, the ground around him untouched. He smiled, as he felt the energy sapping out of him, warding off the immense quantities of power being thrown at him. A resonance with almost a billion souls, chanelled into the Dark Side of the Force. It was only his won immense mastery that allowed him to withstand such a furious attack, and if the blasts had been focused on his location they might have dealt him more serious damage. Even this, however, was a massive strain on his body, as several dozen nanites simply overloaded and exploded, their bits crashing to the ground.

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Mia rapidly moved along the line of soldiers, throwing strange thick white liquid over them. The stuff had been especially designed to contain an artifical soul that bonded with the host soul. If the host soul took Soular Damage, it would be diverted to the artificial soul. As the Soular Damage was used to destroy the body, the liquid would be mostly fine. Furthermore, it was all linked, meaning that excessive damage could be divided over multiple pools.

Mia then proceeded to run through the ship, almost frantically spraying the stuff on anyone she met. It pulled into skin and clothing, and quite probably left a string of highly confused Sergal. However, any Sergal she didn't spray would most likely be annihilated once 5 got up to space, and Mia knew it.

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Emerging from a portal, 5 glanced around at the many souls surrounding him. About a hundred ships filled with personnel, a bunch of infantry, mechanics and captains. Raising both hands, he smiled, feeling their resonance, and matching his own. White lightning crackled along the surface of his metal skin, as the nearby ships were dragged closer.

"You sorry bastards are going to regret that."

Blasts of lightning arch through the air, seeming to phase straight through the shields. The ship captains of the nearest ten or so ships collapse to the floor, convulsing and spurting blood, before dying. 5 smiled, as he prepared for the next volley. Any weapon that would be aimed in his direction would find itself rapidly torn from the hull.blasts fired are deflected by a shield of Darkside Force, not yet negated by Minx, who was yet to show. The troops immunized by Mia would survive the Soular Attacks, but anyone else was fair game.

[Wraithblade6]

@thewizardguy
Mithias blinked and peeled himself off the ground. Bit of rubble fell off him, and he realized, he felt different. Not just different in that he had been blown up again, but different as if his being had been altered, there was an emptiness. A warm part of him was missing. Shaking his head he tried to get up. Things were still a little foggy. He noticed his wings were gone, he couldn't summon the dimension-blade, and the wounds on his body were still there. Fortunately, his vampire body was still somewhat durable, but his healing was far slower than it had been. He was his normal self, alone. "Tsukune." Mithias whispered sadly, mourning the loss of his beloved friend.

Seconds went by, and Mithias saw that Bob had not decided to finish blowing him up, so he looked over at Alucard. His evil twin looked to be in a similar state, certainly taken down a couple of notches. Strangely, it was nice to see Alucard looking more like Mithias than an unrecognizable and stinky monster. Surely, even Alucard would feel the same sense of loss and grief that Mithias did. Hopefully, Mithias' alternate self would still have some degree of a heart. Maybe there was a chance that Alucard would come back to his senses.

Mithias wondered how pissed off Bob was. "Bob? Please don't kill him."

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
Even as Nathan's hand burst through the wall, it was rapidly shot back in with a vector arrow, as Nathan himself was launched through the wall behind him. Mia raised an eyebrow at Ozzy. "Why, how nice to meet you. My name's Mia. I see souls. What can you do?" She then proceeds to stab him in the left eye, impaling his eyeball and lifting it from the socket. The Black Blood quickly filled up the holes, preventing any damage to Ozzy's brain. "Oh, that's right. You can tell your pet demon to sit down and shut up before I carve out your other eyeball." She then turns to Logar, waving at him slightly. "Honey, hold your son down while I fix the mess he got himself into. I'm trying to be all helpful here, and a little cooperation would be appreciated."

In the meantime, Cosmos looks on, sighing as his face appears glued to his hand. "Mia, we're supposed to be killing him. We have no time for this entire ordeal. Just kill them and get over here."

Mia wags a finger at Cosmos, still smiling. "You promised I'd get to do it slooowly. So that's just what I'm doing. And if I get to help out Logar here, well, who knew?"

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy

As the vector arrow, and no doubt plate, would try to fling Nathan about, with a quick release of his wavelength, they would shatter, glass before a wreaking ball. Mia may be surprise by Nathan's soul, one of just awe inspiring power, even when it comes to her experiences. Cosmos would also see quite the special individual, as Nathan's body would be host to a plethora of magical energies, naturally. Nathan continues to walk forth, and as Mia goes to stab into Ozzy's eye, with a flick of his hand, a odd sensation would form in Mia's scalpel holding hand..a cut, long, thin, and slightly deep, would form, enough to sever a tendon or two. Nathan stares down at her, a good 20 feet down the hall.
"Try to stab him again, I take off your head with the next strike." Nathan growls, and Logar begins to walk forwards, before in a moment, is torn in two, his torso flying past Mia. "Sorta like that." Nathan says, his voice showing no change in emotions, but his eyes begin to stream tears. A prisoner in his own body....But it would matter not, for the contract he had taken would not be absolved so easily.
Ozzy chuckles, and looks up at Mia. "You're quite the one for intimidation. I have to say, if it weren't for the fact you'd nearly destroyed my home, killed several of my family, and made me quite pissed, I'd be quite tempted to join your little band you have going here...Oh imagine the carnage...A Corest, and a Stein working together...hehehe..oh god, our parents would be so pissed." He adds, laughing slightly.

[thewizardguy]

As Loagar's torso flies across the room, Mia seems to twitch. Cosmos raises an eyebrow, even as a number of Portals appear around Void, most likely in preparation for battle. However, instead of taking any offensive action, Cosmos steps backwards twice. "Well. That was most certainly unexpected. Void, I believe we should leave now. I think there's no reason to increase collateral damage." Void seems to glance over, before both she and Cosmos seem to disappear. However, they leave Mia, who now seems to be twitching and convulsing, her skin turning black as her eyes glow a steady red.

"You son of a bitch. I LIKED HIM!" The ground seems to shake and tremble, as Mia stands. White lightning crackles over her skin, and yet her skin seems to have dissolved into a black, shapeless mass. The lights seemed to dim, but not because of a power failure. The light seemed to be draining from the room, a shadow engulfing everything. What had at first appeared to be Mia was now a raging blackness, filled with tremendous Soular Energies. Her Soul had separated, revealing the ultimate disguise. For it had never been Mia who had joined Cosmos, not really. From the blackness dropped a torso, still kept breathing only through some dark necromantic energies. It was Medusa, covered in old blood, arms and legs forcefully removed.

Even as Ozzy decided the time was right to make a snarky comment, he exploded. The darkness inside of him simply expanded rapidly, blasting his flesh and vital organs all over the walls of the hallway, even as the being of darkness advanced on Nathan. The scalpel had been left behind, in favour of the immense Soular power that now coursed through the entire room. Nathan found himself staring at a fully stabilized God-Killer Resonance, Stein's ultimate weapon realized in it's true form.

"I LIKED HIM! Do you have any idea how rare that is? How few people I LIKE in this Multiverse? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'M GOING TO DO WITH YOU?!"

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
Nathan's soul lights up as well, a large glowing red flame amidst a sea of darkness. He begins concentrate, as his eyes begin to glow. Soon, explosions begin to detonate before Mia, flashes of light and soular power, and cuts would form on her skin, her black blood keeping them from being more then shallow slashes. Nathan slowly draws his blade, and holds it in a two handed stance...but then words that manage to reach above the noise of explosions, raging souls, ripping clothing. Words that rise about the rest, with power demanding of the attention.
"ENOUGH!" Logar screams, his lower body still missing, his guts spilling out slightly, but he was not dead yet. He is leaning against the back wall, his dark heart spewing forth a mist, that seems to slurp up the spewed guts and bones of the dead clones that abound, and his legs regrow. Slowly, he stands, and he walks over to Mia, and does something that could get him torn to shreds....

He gently hugs Mia.

"Mia, please, it's ok. I'm ok." He says, smiling, his scarred and torn face grinning widely, his teeth chipped and busted from either one of Mia's attacks, or Nathan's. To most, he'd look quite menacing, but in this light, he looks quite silly, and radiates an odd sort of warmth. Nathan sees this, and slowly sheaths his weapon, tears still streaming down his face...but now, he smiles, his teeth fangs.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

Alice, whom had been in the background, just sort of watching the goings on up to now mockingly wipes a tear from her eye and claps at the touching moment. "my my, what soft hearted folk we have here. i suppose i'll need to stitch this one back together?" she says evenly, pointing at the remnants of ozzy on her dress before flexing her hand and clenching it into a fist, ozzy's bits coming back together into an amorphous mass which she slowly begins to right, her fingers twitching and curling as she works until ozzy's reformed in a patchwork method similar to stein except with alot more stitches and alot less dissection hunger.

"despite the touching moment, i must admit that i find myself at a lack as to what to do, perhaps a new toy is in order?" she says evenly, ozzy's newly reformed body standing as the witch lifts her hand before the black blood mia had injected begins to convulse and expel itself rapidly from his wounds, seeping back over to the witch like a kicked puppy as the newly stitched together corpse hugs nathan, stitches flooding his body and locking up his muscles as the corpse's mouth open despite being sewn closed before it locks lips with the demon, an amorphous mass of threads being vomited into his mouth and down his throat, heading into his system like a wriggling mass of worms, seeping into every crevice of his body despite the heat before the pain seems to slowly subside as ozzy collapses off of him and rises like a puppet to the cieling, his head turning around for a perfect 180.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
As the stitches began to form over Nathan, his soul flaired once again, launching the reanimated corpse away from him, obliterating the stitches in him. Nathan then looks at the witch, and he looks about at the situation before him. He looks at the blood of his father, the blood he had spilled. He looked down and away, before turning away. With his blade, he cuts open a portal. He looked back once at the witch, his former enslaver, his father, and his potential killer. Oddly, with Logar hugging the mass of darkness, smiling, it almost made him wish to stay..but he could not. He had to do something, and he had to do it quickly. Reaching into the air, and pulling out a red orb he stepped though the portal, and then he seals it, now within Ozzy's hell dimension, it being filled with rubble, and corpses. Severed limbs, internal organs, bodily fluids, all these were here, rotting, and the smell would knock most on their arse alone, but the horrors there did not phaze Nathan. Slowly, he began to head down a tunnel near by, but he waited for a moment, to sense if someone had followed him. It would be extremely hard to hide, as they would be in a domain where Nathan's senses were heightened ten fold....

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
Slices never touched 'skin', rather slicing straight through the mass of shadows. They parted, only to reform a second later. Even when the part resembling a head was removed, it did nothing. Physical damage was almost useless against this being, it's body lacking any vital organs to destroy. "When I'm done with you, there will be nothing left." The shadows seemed to grasp Nathan from all directions, and even as he destroyed them they simply rebuilt. A column of swirling blades of solid darkness, tearing at his skin even as bursts of Soular Power tore at the essence of his being.

Then, it all slowed down. The shadows cleared, and light returned to the hallway once more. Even as Logar proclaimed that he was fine, the shadow being halted it's attack. For a moment, a humanoid figure was visible through the darkness. A girl with bright red eyes, fangs like those of a shark, and skin so pale it put Mithias to shame. Her hair was a long flowing black, and yet she wore the same flowing dress Mia always wore. Then, just as soon as the image had appeared, it was gone. And once more, Mia stood there, sighing.

"You should probably deal with that, you know. He's been changed down to his very soul. It isn't something he'll be able to just get over, even with Ozzy dead." Mia's expression was a sad one, a rare face for her to pull. "As a Demon, he'll be more ruthless, and far more bloodthirsty. If you can't change him back....." Mia knew that if Nathan wasn't changed back, he would pose a threat to not just her plans, but Logar as well. But she also knew that Logar would never kill his son, nor willingly hand him over to someone who would. "Just try and stay safe, okay?"

With those last words, Mia disappeared.

[thewizardguy]

@Wraithblade6
The only response was a massive beam of energy that shot right past Mithias. A deep trough was carved out of the land, a chasm almost a kilometer long and half as deep, the walls melted to magma by the sheer heat. In the centre floated Alucard, wings of fire spreading from his back, keeping him aloft somehow. Burn marks were streaked across his body, and while they regenerated, they did so slowly. It was only the level of regeneration expected from a normal vampire, not the self-proclaimed Lord of Vampires.

He scoffed, as lightning crackled along his skin. In front of him floated Bob, great cape of souls spreading out behind him and blocking out the very sky. The Taker of Souls was as imposing a figure as ever, a creature of immense power as old as life itself. And yet, it's fight with Alucard had drained him. Even Bob had been forced to go full force against Alucard. "When someone threatens my family, I don't mess around. This mongrel will be wiped from the Earth, and his soul will suffer for eternity."

Alucard simply moved into a fighting postition, clearly not fully recovered from losing Tsukune's power but already adapting. No longer was he rebuilding his body, but he was using his remaining powers of Pyromancy and Elektrokinesis to protect his body. Blades of plasma formed around his hands, a field of ionised gas superheated by his pyromancy and held in place with a magnetic field. "That one's new. That wasn't supposed to happen. It doesn't matter." Alucard smiles, and prepares his blade. And yet, there's something different about his smile as he prepares to fight Bob. Having lost his regeneration, armour, and most of his insane strength and speed, Alucard was still an immensely dangerous opponent. But weakened from the Invocation of Death, he wasn't nearly strong enough to defeat even a weakened Bob, and he knew it. For the first time in a long time he was staring down a superior opponent, prepared to fight for every last breath. And he was loving every second of it. "I'll just have to get stronger as I fight."

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
Hunger grins a bit. "Something the matter?" He asks. He could literally smell the hesitation. Rinack just shrugs it off. "She's down for it. Hell, if I was her, I'd be sharpening my cleavers and knives right about now."
"Yea, but you're a wacko."
"Says the man who compulsively eats everything.
".....I will eat you."
"You can try..."
With that quick back and forth, Rinack and Hunger are back to beating the living hell out of one another.