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Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

Saina continued on hacking her way through monsters, freezing some of them solid in ice so that Maximus could easily come through after her and deal the final blow. A flying creature loomed overhead, narrowly sweeping in to attack her. At the last moment, Saina turned the ground to ice and power slid beneath, her back bending back wards before she brought her heel down hard. Stopping the motion, she used the slickness of the ice to kick off, back flipping around the flier, and slashing her katana straight down.

She landed, the ice fading while she panted. She stayed still a moment, ready to push on until Maximus spoke up.

"Where did you learn how to control ice magic so easily?"

Still panting and a bit ahead of the hall down from the others, she turned her head with a surprised quirk of the brow. Between breaths, the pale woman fought for an answer. It was still difficult to cast so much magic with mana so low. She'd yet to get an Elixir since shipwrecking that morning.

"It's... not as easy as it looks."

She admitted at last, leaning her head down as she paused to catch her breath.

"Actually, it even hurts a little."

Her gloved fingers trailed down the long scar on her abdomen, sighing as she stood up.

"It's a matter of will. Power always comes with price. What you see is ease, but what I feel is control."

She paused, letting her words be punctuated as she looked at her gloved hands.

"My magic has never been unintentional, and it's not just something formed on a whim. It's something handled with care and what precision I can give."

Her voice trailed off. Then she looked over at Maximus, inspecting her blade simultaneously.

"My power is different than most black mages, this much I know. I think what that difference is... I... understand this magic, better than most."

She nodded, then looked at another spherical indent in the wall as she stood up.

"We are here."

She placed the sphere into the indent, causing it open up and reveal the room that comes before the Chamber of the Fayth. Saina walked in, placing her katana away, and sat down against one of the walls with her eyes closed, resting for the moment to try to regain her mana. With the Hymn playing all around them, she seemed at peace.

"M'lady, I will not accompany you within the Fayth this time. Be strong, for all of us."

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Dovev the Unseen

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@TheWindel@McFazzer

That last line the Corpse Collector had spoken was, really, really cheesy. The car that had crashed through the wall, and around all the bullets, Dovev had managed to dodge them and he now stood beside Jukebox, staring down Corpse collector as she had her little tirade. He had yet to acknowledge the man from the green guild, but assumed from how he spoke that he was one of the kids from the hospital room.

As rounds started going off, he made an attempt to grab the noisy avatar beside him by the back of his collar and drag him along as he skittered back into the shadows down a corridor, avoiding the shots. He pressed his back against the wall as he dropped the kid, turning his face towards the manic blonde. Dovev would need to think quickly; her systems were being hacked--or rather, unhacked, and this kid by him was killing his main venue of offense. He took one more glance at the kid, and then ran further ahead down the hall without another word. He decided, it would be best to place distance between himself and the Corpse Collector before coming back for a counter strike. The kid was on his own.

God's Shattering [Concluded]

@TheWindel@KoL@floodtalon

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The woman cried out as her arm was bitten into, causing her to back away quickly as Ruxen let go. She backed off, swinging her knife wildly with an angry, delusional, and... scared look in her eyes. The moment the blonde started circling her on a broom, she started to wail, breaking down into tears and holding her face partially with one hand, sobbing and with her other, shakingly swinging it. When the blonde finished speaking, the woman looked up, her face twisted in gut-wrenching terror.

"Leave.... You...H..."

She spoke in whimpers, reaching out again, both to the broom girl and to the others, looking ready to cut anything that got close. She brought her hands to the side of her head, hyperventilating.

"Hhh.... They're coming... They...!"

At the moment her voice started to get high pitched and tense with fear, the blonde would feel something quickly pass over her shoulder as she rode in circles. A golden tipped arrow had impaled the woman through the head from the back, leaving the tip in front on display to Ruxen and Chen in the dead center of her forehead.

"A-ah..."

The woman's eyes had gone wide at first... then slowly began to relax with her eyelids half closing before she crumpled to the ground, her golden knife skittering across the dirt as blood pooled out of her head and onto the sparse grass below. A final, long exhale left her lips and her color paled. The woman with the broken leg was dead. Not a dozen yards away stood a gray-skinned man with black eyes with a golden circlet over his pale hair and his lower body clad in gold, lightweight looking armor. His stance was tense, holding a bow up with a quiver full of arrows on his back.

The black eyes focused on the three standing there, no doubt lightly sprayed with the blood of the woman who had tried to attack them, and he slowly cocked his head to the side. He raised his right, unoccupied hand, and made a symbol with his hand where his index and thumb were closed with the remaining fingers fanned out. He drew his hand back, and then forward.

From the tree line, upon the gray-skinned man's signal, a few dozen other soldiers similar in appearance ran forward, all of them seemingly coming towards the three that had just witnessed the woman's death.

God's Shattering [Concluded]

@BlueAjah@KoL

For Evie, I suppose I will just wait until the collab opens. So, I won't post as her again until that point.

Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

A dark chuckled invaded the space in which Naisha and Alex occupied. As the small, ugly, deformed girl spoke up with threats, the hooded figure turned slowly toward her.

"Pitiful. They bring you, trash... a nuisance. You should be forgotten."

With that, his red eye began to glow so brightly that the entire room was flooded with intense, blinding crimson. As it did, the pain Naisha would feel would be utterly unbearable. It was as though her body had been wrapped in barbed wire and twirled around erratically, slicing her skin off while her head was pegged through countless times by dozens of ice picks. As of that wasn't enough, the torturous sensation was added onto with a sound only Naisha would hear, a high pitched, swirling, screaming sound that invaded all of her sense and filled her eyes with visions of needles being pierced into her eyes despite nothing actually being there, all of these sensations and feelings invisible and non-physical.

At this moment, the hooded figure smiled sadistically at Alex before turning and running down the halls the Defiant, running fast but slow enough that he would remain in her line of sight as Naisha's pain continued.

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"Agreed M'lady, we should hurry."

She pushed past Eva after they went through the door, turning to look over her shoulder.

"I'll push on ahead and do what I can. Maximus is right. We should get out of here as soon as possible."

With that, she hurried ahead, her katana slashing through a few separate fiends on her way, running through the streams of pyreflies before they faded from sight, pulling the cloister of trials spheres together as quickly as possible, the path opening up fairly quickly.

R.W.B.Y. ~ The Colors of Dawn ~

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The slight crunch of the leave behind Glynda, whom at this point had been left alone, only for her to turn and have her purple eyes widen at what was greeting her. White magic flooded her eyes before she could speak however, and she fell to the ground where an arm, clad in ebony robings, caught her and set her down gently.

This figure looked out over the field from their vantage point on the cliff, seeing the Retrograde defeated.

Inconvenient.

Whipping out a hand, their fingertips glowed with similar colored magic. They crouched down and struck the cliff. The resounding effect was white cracks in the earth forming and shooting down the cliff, across the bridge, across the field and down to where the Retrograde lay in pieces, as though lightning had struck the ground. The dirt began to shiver, and then violently shake as though an earthquake was imminent, and it was. At this moment, Rood had run from the clearing after acknowledging Vlad and Chen's words, finding himself beside Bonny and Rowan whilst looking in awe. Beneath them, the ground separated and began to split, separating it quickly to form a chasm where dark and red light shone beneath them. A terrible, disgusting screech welled up from below them as the pieces of the Retrograde, which had begun to dissipate, fell into the abyss.

And in response, a grimm that had only been heard of in mythology reared its ugly head as it crawled out before the quadron of students present and shrieked.

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Rood von Rah

@Turboshitter@Chickn@BCTheEntity

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Rood's eyes grew to the size of saucers and he stumbled back, his chest clenching in terror. He'd seen this thing before. His breath grew to near hyperventilation levels as he shuddered, the beast and its lower heads approaching in a slow, controlled manner as its rotten breath was blown into their face, causing Rood to nearly gag.

"F... Ff... Falthon..."

He began to take steps back away from the beast, clearly freaked out. Falthons, in mythology, were amongst the most 'young' of the Grimm and thus the most macabre. Before Grimm had found distinct, animalistic shapes, they formed monstrosities of fear that had thought to be wiped out by ancient heroes like Turnbon and Chikalis. All the while, the scholar Bentiteea had found ways to eradicate them; complicated methods as such due to the fact that dust never seemed to prove efficient against a Falthon grimm.

"We gotta run... FALTHON!" With that, Rood turned around and booked it for the cliff, knowing they already had their relics. Though he had seemed so cool headed earlier, the blonde had looked upon the monster with recognition. He knew what they were capable of, it seemed.

God's Shattering [Concluded]

Letty Winchock

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@KoL@BlueAjah@Awesomoman64

She'd fallen back from the fire barrier due to his kick, something she had been sure she had ducked beneath. Regardless, She moved to a higher up location by leaping upward from the rumbling stones of the coliseum floor and creating a glyph beneath her to make yet another ice floor, this one connected to the wall. Her expression was placid as the blue flames were hurled toward her. She leapt upward, gliding along on her wings with a bend in them to ensure her speed while evading them. However, as the mage began to seem to experience some form of headache, Letty saw her opportunity. At the same moment, intense fear and angst, feelings of despair welled up inside her. She paused, her head down... and raised it back up with a scowl. These were feelings she had defeated a very, very long time ago. Regardless, she felt a waver in her mind due to this. Only simple spells would have to do right now. Another glyph beneath her feet, Letty raised both her hands, one atop the other. Her wrists wrung around in opposite directions, forming two large ice walls on either side of the mage. She brought her wrists close together, moving them apart.

"Freeze to death."

It was no spell spoken in a monotone, but as her hands clapped together firmly, bringing the two, formless slabs of ice together at high velocity, it was all she hoped she would need to say. Her attention was brought to the approaching girl from before regardless of the outcome with the mage and the ice slabs, then to the boy who was fighting a suit of armor. The boy was busy... clearly, the girl was at hand. A deep sigh echoed from her lips as she looked at Fei.

"You're turning on the wrong card, girl. Know when to fold."

Letty's head tilted to the side, revealing a pale blue eye decorated in winged eyeliner beneath the mask. She winked at Fei, promptly dropping her head back to the side.

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Rivenwood

@KoL@TheWindel@floodtalon

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"When I was just a little girl..."

The singing had grown closer. A woman was singing it... so it sounded. Between each melodic line, from the position of the trees, a dragging sound was heard.

"I asked my mother... what will I be?"

It was slowed down... dragged out. As though the woman singing were exhausted.

"Will I be pretty?"

The figure was starting to be seen through the trees, headed toward the trio, stumbling and limping as though their leg was broken at an unnatural angle.

"Will I be rich?"

At last, a hand was seen through the trees, gripping the branches, blood on the fingertips.

"Here's what she said to me..."

She stumbled out, revealing herself as a woman with a ripped dress, blood spattered from the bottom of her ripped skirt to the top of her lavish updo which was bedraggled with leaves and branches inside of it. Her leg, indeed, was broken. She limped on it, dragging it behind her with her black heel still attached to the dainty ankle. Meanwhile, her other foot was bare and covered in thistle, poked with blackberry thorns.

"Que Sera, Sera..."

Her head slowly turned to look at the trio as she pulled herself onto the road.

"Whatever will be, will be..."

She looked at them fully now, revealing her face which had bits of glass sticking out of it where clearly someone had smashed something like a mirror or glass vase against. In her shoulder and sticking out in the front from the back was a golden tipped arrow. In her hand, which was covered in blood from a slash at her upper arm to the point where muscle was exposed and had caused red plasma to cover her palm which held a golden-handled shark steak knife. As soon as her eyes met the trio, her expression turned from dazed to contorting with anger, fear, and delirium. She slowly raised the knife up high and lunged for Chen.

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Dovev the Unseen

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@TheWindel

He felt the electricity pulse back into his arm, to which he narrowed his eyes at the painless return transaction. Looking up and seeing the gun in his face, the rogue fled back, narrowly missing the shot that would have gone in his back. As he jumped back he rested his palm against the floor, his silent feet skidding backwards. All of which were completely silent thanks to his feats. The smoke had finally cleared, giving each other a good look at what the other had to offer. His eyebrows creased as he straightened up, jutting his chin outward.

"You don't get it do you?"

His face was a sneer of contempt, his hand tightening on the hilt of his katana.

"While you were in here, playing games and hacking your way out of every situation you forgot who you affected in reality. Did you ever even care?"

He leapt forward, moving to slash the blonde's throat. As he got close, he muttered loud enough for her to hear.

"I doubt it.

R.W.B.Y. ~ The Colors of Dawn ~

@Specter189Sorry sir, We're full and not accepting right now.

R.W.B.Y. ~ The Colors of Dawn ~

@Raijinslayer Accepted. Post to the CS tab and post when you can.