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The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Oi, I got on mobile the day before yesterday (I think?) to say that I won't be able to post but it obviously hasn't posted! D8 Anyhoo, our performance was done yesterday and it was basically hell day, haha. I broke down with a fever ._.

We lost, by the way <////3

Really sorry for the delays, I promise now that the damn performance thing is done my sched might get smoother. For now, posting uvu. Sorry again to make you all concerned.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Phillis Circus: Big Top – Onstage

“All right, that long-haired fish stick’s going down!” Lute and Delilah snarled at the same time as the virtuoso got up from the ground. “I think I just found the one damn decent thing about my clumsiness,” He muttered, pertaining to that moment earlier where he slipped instead of sending more attacks to Aria. Wait, who was he kidding? He actually punched her! Both were equally frustrated with what Vance had them do and were waiting for a chance to get free of his control, and now that they had the opportunity…! Anyway, earlier Poppy had her hands poised around Aria’s throat, but Trixie arrived and lent them her aid. Now the two were running away from that blasted teddy bear that was supposed to have been destroyed already! With a battle cry of his own, the virtuoso charged at the giant plushie and tackled it. He pulled out a handful of stuffing out of the toy’s head before being pawed back. For something made out of cloth, that thing sure packed a punch…!

“Owww. Bad idea,” Lute groaned as he staggered to his feet. He could still catch up to Aria and Trixie if he ran fast enough, and he did, even jumping on the accursed bear for good measure. “Okay, what’s happening?” He called out as he reached the duo, where the prankster pulled out a flashbang that was, unfortunately, thrown back at them. And then the girl started firing her guns too! “They really don’t let up, do they?” Delilah steered Lute away from what shots she could hear, though he ran like a drunk thanks to the disorientation from the flash.

In fact, he was a bit too slow to avoid the new bomb she chucked, and when Lute finally got the stars out of his vision he found that he was now stuck in one place. “Ohhhh, ughhhh! Disgusting!” He screeched. That sticky, damp feeling! Like condensed mold! As if that wasn’t enough, a handful of creepy ass little dolls went their way. As Lute twisted and turned his body to get a step out of the trap- definitely won’t do to have him fall on his butt now, not unless he wanted to fight without pants- some of them jumped up on him with those horrendously childish sound effects. He refrained from swatting at himself and shot sound bolts at the smallest dolls, at least until he felt something squirming inside his shirt.

Over his wound, actually.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Posting. I feel a little better now.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Ugh, I'm back from Deliberations. Suffice to say everything hurts. Even my soul.

Actually, I hope nobody minds if I post tomorrow. I've been having a cold for about a week now, and just yesterday I had a fever and the cold's worse. The only reason I was up today was because if I missed the Delibs, I'd be totally out. So yeah, I'll just sleep because I still don't feel well. I feel worse, in fact. Haha. Sorry again. uwu

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Phillis Circus: Big Top – Onstage

Oh gods, he didn’t mean to hurt her that far! Lute’s eyes widened in horror and he faltered, barely even making the attempt to dodge Isabella’s attack. However, Aria stepped up to his place and deflected the knife, and the two women swiftly engaged in a deadly dance of blades. The image of the acrobat’s bloodied form flashed before his eyes and Lute remained rooted to the spot, staring at the hand from which the errant bolt came from. It took all of Delilah’s efforts to rouse him from his reverie and set him to the task of covering the illusionist’s blind side.

When Isabella finally fell, the two guilders relaxed their pose and then glanced around to scope out their previous target. Lute was still distracted by what had transpired between him and the acrobat, and was absentmindedly tweaking with the scraps of cloth covering his chest wound when an unfamiliar sensation overrode him. He watched, perplexed, as his blood-smeared hand moved itself from his shoulder… At least until Vance’s control completely took over. Delilah, for the most part, was outraged about her refuge- Lute’s mind- being invaded by a complete and utter stranger, and was screaming obscenities even as the virtuoso faced Aria. To her credit, the illusionist seemed to sense that something was wrong and asked Lute about it, only to be met with the sight of her friend raising his fists up to his cheeks in an informal boxing stance. He was no warrior, but it seemed as if all those moments watching those no-holds-barred brawls in Thaum's taverns held its effect.

“I- What? T-this isn’t a side effect of using- Wha-! Watch out! Move!” As he warned her, the virtuoso’s hand moved of its own accord and shot a screech at Aria, quickly followed by a jab. The attempt was but a warble at first before returning to its usual power, evidence of how Delilah was still trying to resist the puppeteer. However, thanks to her bond with Lute, it seemed as if she would just have to watch and wait while some snooty longhair abuses her powers while she kept only a token control of it. It didn't mean she had to like it.

Regardless of whether or not the illusionist dodged or resumed the offensive, Vance didn’t seem to leave loose ends seeing that Lute’s free hand once again pulsed with energy as the sounds around the pair lessened in volume. “NO!” That single word was deeply entrenched in anger and horror.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Got it! 8D This will be fun hehehe-

I'm making my post~ :)

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Hey guyyyys my post will be up around later. Sorry for the delay. *sobs*

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Ooooh, finally some action!

After that barrage of bullets, Est and Breeze hid together behind another fallen tree. The merchant went after Lizbeth, which left Aiden to Est, and the cheerful nobody really seemed to enjoy himself as he waved his partner goodbye.

“Good luck, Bweeze! Give ‘em heck!” He chirped then moved away to the other direction. A few strides further into the forest he heard somebody- month’s worth of pay it’s Aiden- screeching and while it was pretty funny to listen to, the noise attracted one of those giga boss robots that nobody really wanted to mess around with.

“Aw man, the humans are going to die,” Est whined under his breath and then returned to the previous area. Just as he expected, it was a huge cluster of chaos and bullets. He even got sniped on the side of his face! And again! It was totally Red and Blue vs. Pink and Orange in here! By the time he had downed enough players to give a hand to his and Aiden’s team, his suit was a brightly-colored abstract painting.

“Look at me, I’m so pretty!” The soldier hollered, waving his hands in the air, and then rolled behind a tree when the boss robot turned towards him. It gave the others an opportunity to attack and also for him to realize that his health was down to a measly 60%. Lovely. However, when he peered over and began shooting at the synth, he realized that…

“Oh, you! Leila! The heck you doing!?” That girl was a member of Aiden’s team and he wasn’t even looking out for her! Est sighed and covered for her, at least jarring one of the robot’s hand as it tried to scope her out. Unlike what he expected, she didn’t run for cover and instead pretty much wrecked the giant machinery. He almost felt sorry for the synth as it died down and collapsed onto the ground.

“Cool beans, that was quick thinking!” Est chirped, resplendent in the bright pink splotches all over his armor, as he hopped over along with the others who came to marvel at Leila’s ‘kill’. A thoughtful and amazed silence fell over the two groups, at least until Est raised his head and his gun then shot Aiden in the face. “Oh- what- OI!” The other soldier fell on his butt and this made the Blue Team “leader” to guffaw, patting his knees and laughing louder until Aidan got up and shook his fist at them. “You’re going to pay for that, Berit!” He howled and a match of point blank firing soon commenced.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Phillis Circus: Big Top - Onstage

“It’s always the creepy doll ladies, isn’t it?” The virtuoso weakly quipped before jerking his head to the right to listen in on something, and then being distracted by yet another noise from the opposite direction. He could swear there was the oddest sound in the air, like something small flying around…

Well, he needn’t have spent so much time pondering about it, because the next thing he knew both he and Aria were on the ground, hit by Poppy’s severed fists. The acrobat asked them a question that Lute would have answered was it given earlier, and then launched herself in the air. When she stopped, the virtuoso took the chance and grabbed Poppy by the ankle, and pulled her down before she could react from after warning Guinevere, then ran forward to face the ringmistress. Delilah had solely tuned in on what was happening between Xandra and Estelle, and what he heard made the gentle features in Lute’s face disappear under a veneer of hardness. This has gone on for far too long. He and Aria had their eyes trained on the wounded panda that had bravely shielded their target.

The tent was overrun by the din of a myriad toys skittering about, and many were pooling down towards the stage where they stood. The noise was almost deafening. In front of the duo, Guinevere raised her head and glared with eyes full of spite. Lute returned the look with the same level of loathing without so much as flinching. Isabella, on the other hand, was much more vocal. “How dare you…! My family, my home…! And now you wish to murder Guinevere!” Her voice rose pitch per word in fury and indignation, “I cannot forgive you for this! I never will! You… You will suffer for this!” Her sharp gaze was directed at Aria and she pulled out her last knives.

Oh gods, that’s it. “Shut up, will you!?” Lute howled back, his voice rippling over a considerable amount of space due to Delilah’s amplification. The familiar did so in order to make him sound more threatening but in all honesty, what with how he looked now, she needn’t have tried. “You lot spout all this crap about your family being hurt… And I’ve had enough! You’re hurting my friends too, hypocrite! You’re not touching her without going through me!” The virtuoso raised his hand and curled it up into a fist, an almost invisible pulse of energy gathering at his fingers. With his other hand he shot a bolt of loud noise at Lidya, distracting the lioness and at least diverting her trajectory so that her paw raked down his collar instead. The two fell to the ground; while the lion readjusted her course to run after them again, Isabella went after Aria, flinging her knives in a frenzy before the virtuoso finally got up and, free hand pressed against his wounded chest, staggered after the acrobat.

“Look at me!” She did, and Lute unfurled his hand, releasing a sound wave. It was shaky, unlike his normal assaults, and were extremely short-ranged. What it differed from his usual attacks, however, was that it was created to maim, not to distract. With what he had left of the distance between the two of them, he charged at the acrobat, who dropped her weapons with a jarring cry and covered her ears, and tackled her with his shoulder.

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

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