The Start of it All

[acetalon]

OOC:  Ryder asked me to RP the black robed man.

IC:  The Black robed man eyed Ryder, sizing him up, as he calmly and carefully finished wrapping the stump where his hand used to be.  

"You."  The black robed man stated.  He pointed his finger from his only hand at Ryder.  "If you fear the light, you will not stand in my way.  Do not interrupt my preparations, for your sins shall not be forgotten once I have received the light."

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder calmly aimed his gun at the black robed man and sighed...

"I can't stand religious nuts, all they do is bitch and whine about some celestial being..."

And with that, he fired right at the black robed man's forehead...

[acetalon]

The Black robed man, or BRM for short, recoiled, his head snapping backwards.  He straightened his back and grimaced in pain at the hole that was several centimeter wide that gaped out of his forehead.  It seemed that he didn't think with his brain anymore.

"Such a weapon will never work twice, for Sin is with me!"  He shouted.  Clenching his fist, he thrust out the stub of his hand.  From his forearm shot out a grotesque looking tentacle-like arm that wriggled as if it had its own mind.  "He has given me such powers as it is!  What he shall bestow upong me when I finish the ritual is without equal!"  

And with that said, he charged, out his tentacle arm to bear and cracking it like a whip.

[RyderHakubi]

"DUDE!! THAT'S SICK!!!" Ryder screamed as he, with his free hand, sent a plasma blade right at the tenticle...

Oh shit... my gun won't work on him, and I don't trust this guitar that I have.

[acetalon]

"How dare you call such a gift sick, you heathen?!"  The BRM shouted, twisting his body to avoid the plasma blade.  He made it...almost.  When he twisted around, the blade caught the joint between his forearm and and upper arm of his human side.  Yamiko, who had started to plummet to the ground, was caught and wrapped around the waist with the tentacle arm.

"Such a heretic as yourself cannot COMPREHEND the beauty of such gifts," he commented, gritting his teeth from the pain of losing his other arm.  From the other stub of his arm grew, no, more like bubbled a sickly greyish goo that reformed itself into an arm that could only be described as belonging to an ogre.  It was 3 times too big for the BRM and 3 times as gross.

"You fight a losing battle.  As you continue to remove my humanly body, my heavenly form overtakes what I have lost!"

[RyderHakubi]

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?!?" Ryder screamed as he holstered his railgun.  "I've known some really sick people in my life... especcially in the Omega division... but you're easily the most disgusting creature I've ever seen...

So, it can regenerate everything I cut off...  So, I would need to destroy everything at once to kill this batard...

[acetalon]

The man spat on the ground.

"I need not bother with you,"  He sneered.  "At your current states of enlightenment, you would surely burn in the hellfires before Sin would ever take notice of you.  However, _I_, as his representative on this world full of simple sheep such as you, will give time to notice Sin's full beauty.  "

He tightened his grip upon Yamiko and smashed his ogre arm against the ground, picking up a cloud of dust and smoke.  When it cleared, he was gone, along with Yamiko.  All that was left was her watch, which loosened from the tentacle slime and fell during the fight.

[Naphtali]

[ooc- damn, things really moved while i was asleep]





Shi crossed his arms over his chest.  "Alright then, dear brother.  The rules are thus: Die, and lose.  Surrender, and lose.  Fall off the column, and lose.   No flying to get back on, either.  You pick the prize for the winner!"





[ooc- btw, the columns can't be destroyed, so our attacks won't blow them up and MAKE us fall.]

[acetalon]

"The prize...heh.  I don't know what you want, but all I want is to know where dreams cease and reality begins.  Yes...I want to know from when my life ended in realilty and started in a dream..."

"Knowledge is the prize.  The winner chooses what he wishes, and the loser gives whatever knowledge he had on the subject.  I can't imagine that you would want any material object I had anyways.

"Prepare yourself!"  Ace whipped out his energy chain whip with one hand and a kodachi with the other.  His normally bright blue aura darkened until it was so dark it was almost black.  

Ace smiled.  His smile wasn't one of joy or laughter or even sadness.  It said nothing, it was the smile of one who was losing himself.

"Let the games begin..."

[Naphtali]

"Sounds fair enough!"  Shi closed his eyes, then snapped them open.  His own aura sprang to life, not visible, but ever-present.  His grin was the very opposite of Ace's, one of a terrible joy.

He snapped his fingers, and a deck of cards appeared in his left hand.  "Let's go!"  He started off with a minor spell, just to get things going.  Light gathered in his right palm, and he shoved it out at his brother.  A beam of light shone forth, a blinding line of solar power reaching between the two fighters.  "Sun Ray!"

[RyderHakubi]

OOC: Uh... Rat... the black robed man is gone...

[acetalon]

Ace traced a circle in the air with his kodachi, outlined in his aura, and pushed the circle forward.  

"Shadow's cloak!"  He cried out, and the circle burst into an orb of darkness to envelop himself, to protect against such harmful light.  

Spinning the chain whip with his right hand, watching the wind gather around and coat it, Ace brought the weapon to speed before launching it at Shi with the force of the wind.

[Naphtali]

Shi flicked his wrist, tossing one of the cards in front of him.  Surprisingly, it didn't fall, but expanded.  "Shield!"  The card vanished, but a glowing transparent shield formed in front of him, blocking the whip before fading from view.

He looked across the empty space between them to his brother.  A dark sphere appeared and arced towards Ace, then turned into a net as he dropped down.  "Shadow Net!"

[Kwokinator]

Kwok sank to his knees in despair.

"I can't find her..." he looked down, muttering to himself. "Where are you, Angela...?"

He started beating his fists relentlessly against the ground until the spot was a clear crimson.  

"Angela..." he spoke out, his voice sounding choked.

He felt something enter his mind, the presence of the powers of an Aspect.  It altered reality directly, and that was why he could feel it from his position so far away.

There were only two other Aspects in this world beside him.  Order and Death.

He looked in front of him again.  Angela was still nowhere to be found.

"There's nothing I can do, I guess..."

With a heavy sigh, he turned around and headed back to the direction of Ace and Shi, curious about the activation of the powers.

[acetalon]

Ace tightened his grip on the kodachi, watching the crackling energy spark and jump from the blade, and swiped a wide arc above his head as the net came down.  

With a snap of his other wrist he brought the chain back and eyed Shi carefully.  

He wrapped the chain around his kodachi and jammed the blade into the ground a few feet in front.  With that done, he gripped the chain with one hand and fired a surge of burning black energy through it that passed into the ground in an arc at Shi, the focal point coming from the blade.