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originally posted in:The Roleplay League
12/11/2015 9:10:32 PM
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"...huh? Oh, right! Thought I felt something there for a moment. Anyway, if you think that's all you can do, go ahead and do it. Get as many people out of here as you can. I'll go talk to Ginger and the others to hear their ideas"
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The clone was about to rush off, but Lakir caught it's scent. He threw a knife at the back of its head, and watched it disappear. Lakir," I smelled it out."
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Edited by Moot: 12/11/2015 10:14:30 PM"Huh. Thought I felt something... Anyway, we need to get to Aries somehow, and I have an idea. It's not exactly elaborate, but it might just work, provided we have a distraction..." Switch jumped down from the roof and back into the crowded streets, unseen.
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Lakir nodded but stayed where he was. Meanwhile, Aries was almost finished with the preparations.
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Dashing through the streets quickly but quietly, Switch bypassed a small market stand selling fabrics for civilian clothing. He swiftly and silently grabbed a piece of cloth and wrapped it over himself to conceal his identity and blend in with the other city inhabitants surrounding him. He soon managed to bypass the abominations' positions on the rooftops and arrived at the building, directly above which Aries was enveloped inside the shield of darkness. He entered the building and scaled the steps, going multiple steps at a time but making sure to keep quiet. Soon enough, he was at the top floor and directly under the dark shield which was protruding through the roofing. Reaching up above his head with his hand, his palm made contact with the dark aura. The touch caused the dark warping aura to turn white and glow brightly with light where he touched it, like forming a cavity in a tooth. He felt the process drain him of light, but he also felt the light within him continually replenish in the traveler's nearby presence. Once the dissolved hole was big enough, he jumped into the shield and burst through the roof tiles, landing on the outside if the building but inside the shield. The cavity of light grew tendrils and closed shut behind him. Now it was just him and Aries. "Expecting me? Again?"
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Aries' only reaction was one of laughter. " I don't think you got the right idea...." He stood up and walked to the thin dark membrane that protected him, and he placed his hand on it. " Quite clever to use Light to burn your way in, however, you forgot something..... This protective shield is Hunger, and he is perfectly suited to capturing Light and transferring it into energy for me." As he said that, Light was emitting from the Dark membrane and into Aries. He could feel his past strength returning." " And another thing. In here, if you stay long enough, not even the Traveller's Light can reach you."
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Edited by Moot: 12/11/2015 11:02:07 PM"Well I'd certainly agree with you there. Using light to burn my way in was indeed a good idea. But what if you took it one step further? I managed to make a hole in it large enough to get myself through simply by touching it with my hand. But what if you touched it with something equally as light-filled as a guardian, but a little more, powerful? Something fast and strong. Something like... an overcharged shadowshot?" At that split moment, the entire bubble turned from a black and oozing texture to a blindingly bright and dissolving white aura. A shadowshot burst from outside had sliced straight through the shield, directly where Aries had been holding up his hand. The shadowshot exploded on impact with his palm and cause his whole forearm to evaporate into the void, meanwhile the entire shield of darkness had turned white and dissolved, like ash in a light breeze. Switch felt the sun's rays hit him on his back, feeling rejuvenated and free from the dark snare within which he and Aries had been cocooned.
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" You forgot. Hunger can absorb your Light. Any Light." Just before the protective membrane collapsed, Hunger had wrapped himself around Aries, becoming a thin and invisible second skin. The power of the Light weapon used on the protective shield transferred to Hunger, who is now transferring it to Aries. [i] Hahaha! You idiot! You fell for it! Now you're going to be devoured!"[/i] Aries and Hunger separated, and then Aries put his palm on the ground. " Thank you for the power I needed. Now I can summon Sorrow." Nothing happened on the outside. But pretty soon the ground started trembling. After a few more seconds of this, the ground started opening up. Something came out of the ground, almost like a giant tentacle. Almost like the mythical Kraken, multiple tentacles popped out of the ground, each one bigger then the Tower. A loud deafening roar emitted from the ground. As if it could get worse. The almost limitless amount of Light that the Traveller was supplying to the Guardians, stopped. It was being blocked. " Now. It's my turn to attack."
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Edited by Moot: 12/11/2015 11:28:51 PM"You sure about that?" A second shadowshot zoomed through the air with a whaling screech and directly hit Aries square in the back. The shot exploded on impact, sending him flying forwards and momentarily halting the process. The source of the fired shadowshots still remained a mystery, while the dark tendrils continued to flail in the air like some trapped octopus under a barred manhole cover. "Ill admit, you're pretty much correct about everything you just said. Sure: the light feeds the darkness, and everything we throw at you only strengthens you. I bet that shadowshot felt healthy, despite busting your back in like a bitch. But who's to say that it doesn't work both ways? You may have the ability to block the channels feeding us light, but only so long as you're focused on that task. Face it Aries: you made a [u]bad[/u] move deciding to come here of all places. Here, a guardian couldn't be stronger if they tried. We distract and engage you, those revitalising channels open up again. As long as you're distracted by us, you loose enough focus for us to maintain our strength, and anything dark that touches us will only get burned, like some small helpless creature on scorching desert sands. Like I said: it works both ways. Our attacks may feed you, yet your attacks only burn against us" "What was that thing you said to ginger earlier; 'The party is just about to start'? Something along those lines? Well, I do indeed believe it has"
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Aries chuckled. " That's why I have friends to cover me." The four abominations appeared in front of Aries, and stared at Switch. Meanwhile, the tentacles started their own attack. They swung down and crushed buildings in one foul swipe.
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In Switch's head he was hoping that the other guardians had evacuated as many civilians as possible before the tendrils had emerged. Rather than strike at the abominations, Switch moved fast to the nearest erupting tendril, where he arrived at its base and placed his hand on its surface to test the effect it had, if any.
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The touch caused a reaction that blasted Switch back. Aries smirked. " You can't harm it so long as I have control over it."
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Edited by Moot: 12/12/2015 12:26:52 AMSwitch got up from the blast and brushed himself off. "So, all I need to do is sever your control. And while I might not be able to damage it myself, I can think of one or two things that certainly can..." He briefly glanced over to the traveler itself, radical ideas and plans storming through his head. Luckily, the nearby streets were mostly empty now. Most civilians had either been temporarily evacuated by the other guardians, or had dropped everything and ran at the sight of the giant dark tendrils.
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Aries anticipated his next move. " I've let you have your fun. But it's my turn now." Right in front Aries, and just behind the abominations, civilians appeared. Three people. A family. A father, a mother, and a little daughter. " Surrender now, and they live. Continue to fight, and they'll die. After every fifteen minutes, I'll grab a new family to butcher until you do surrender."
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Edited by Moot: 12/12/2015 12:40:33 AMSwitch slowly turned to face Aries. His head was angled down, yet his optic eyes were boring straight into Aries' eyes like drills, their purple glow conveying a very serious and angry subliminal message. With a stern flick of his arm and wrist, Switch blinked from his position in the streets, to directly in front of Aries. He had moved over 50 metres in less than a second. "Ok. You've got my attention... So what happens if I surrender?"
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" I go on my merry way. The city stays in one piece. No one dies. And the fighting ends. I call back the abominations, and this can all end." Aries looked straight back at him. " However.... There is a slight problem..... See those three?" He gestured towards James, Lakir, and Lake. " They won't give up. So you'll have to kill them."
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"Ok then, let's play this out. Let's say hypothetically that I do decide to surrender; how exactly do you plan on making me kill them? And why would you entrust such an 'honor' to me, considering they're [u]your[/u] arch nemeses?"
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" It's not my problem to worry about it. That's your job. So what's it gonna be? Hunger does love to eat... And the little kid could serve as an appetiser."
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Switch looked over Aries' shoulder and peered into the eyes of the obviously traumatised family. "What's stopping me from saying 'yes I surrender', waiting for you to pack up and leave, and then conspiring with James, Lake and Lakir rather than killing them?"
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" Because I won't leave until they are dead."
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Switch's eyes narrowed, practically as if they were piercing directly into Aries' eyes. He turned to face the three guardians. "What do you guys think?"
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James," As if we'd let him get away. This ends now. All we need is a plan."
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Edited by Moot: 12/12/2015 1:49:17 AM"A plan. Right. This may or may not go horribly" Switch faced Aries yet again. "I'll consider your offer. But in the meantime, I think a certain playing field needs evening..." Switch's arm shot straight up as his performed a 'tugging' motion with it. He blinked straight through Aries to the hostage family, grabbed all of them in a tight hold, and blinked yet again as far away from the roof as his strength would allow. He and the family were out of sight in moments. Before any of the abominations could pursue yet another shadowshot flew there the air and stuck I to the roof, tethering everyone in its radius except for the three remaining guardians.
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Aries sighed. " Did you really think it would be that easy...? Tell me. How many innocents live here?" As if he was expecting Switch to do that, Aries unveiled his next move almost too well. On all the rooftops of every building still standing for two miles in any direction, other civilians appeared, each one frightened and confused about what was happening. Behind them, a normal clone of Aries stood, each with a gun. " How many have to die before you see the big picture? All of this. It was planned from the start. Ever since you stepped into that courtyard, this battle has gone according to my plan. You've been extremely predictable. But I'll give you some credit. I didn't expect such a prolonged fight."
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Switch blinked back to Aries' position, without the family. His arms were crossed and he had a blank expression on his face. "Fine. Have it your way then. I surrender"
