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Post by jace on May 15, 2019 9:09:58 GMT -5
The Dimension called Indigis, Ruled by technology, a land that bread Heros to venture off to other worlds and write there own legacies.
A portal opened, for less then five minutes, in the southern province of the Confederation, from the time it opened until the time it closed all technology in a two hundred mile radius just.. stopped. Computers simply shutdown and would not turn back on. Planes lost power and worse control. Engines just ceased to follow what everyone understood as simple physics and would refuse to generate thrust, power, most wouldn't simply move.
Guns when fired just dented the caps, the bullets still in chamber.
This was only the first discovery of the portal, later news cropped up from the few mages in the area, their magic had ceased in the same instant. Like someone had simply cut the cord that allowed them to cast, the magic just wasnt there.
Inside this effective bubble was a tavern that had gotten quite the name for itself, where inside a fight was going on.
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Post by jace on Sept 24, 2019 9:33:46 GMT -5
Julia flexed one hand the mana in her body burning for a fight, the Alvejetti she long tried to keep in check as she denounced her father, the sole thing she held in compliance with her brother, the sound of the fight was waking that within her, the one thing her father told her to never quash.
She blinked unbeknownst to her, her eyes began to spiral though she could feel suddenly her magic was gone, it was replaced by a rage she had never felt before, everything that had happened over the course of her life flooded through her head, she was no sap and generally didn't have time to reflect on the past like her brother, Now it was like it was being tossed into a fire inside her, each one causing it to burn all the more hotter, bigger, and threatening to engulf her. Her father flicked past her vision as Change cut the muscle behind his left leg, the back of her mind noted how it bled, the muscle and skin not stitching together in the typical Alvejetti way.
Her brain settled on two targets before her, she saw her father and her brother. Everyone else, no everything else seemed to fade into the red her vision was now encompassed in.
Flash step, She was behind her Father as he stumbled from Changs "Never there. Not needed here." She struck him hard square in the spine using the force to propel her self into the air, She met eyes with Chang "Fuck your lot", Jaces legs went straight from the shock causing him to jut upwards just as she brought her head down onto the crown of his, Jace stumbled back looking woozy, Perhaps today wasnt the best time to lock his power.
The force by which Julia and Jaces heads hit was sickening but enough to flip Julia backwards, she stood facing away from Ace her forehead gashed and blood spilling forth, the Dragoon armors had been sent back to their spirits as the magic to hold them was closed. Her head screamed with pain, that pain fed the fire. She spun sweeping a leg low dodging a slash from Ace, she kicked a chair into the air Her veins were on fire from the mana that like a volcano only needed a release, she reveled in the pain. She brought one palm up under Aces elbow from the arm he slashed at her with, then elbows him directly in the groin, as he doubled over she popped up bringing her head to meet his chin with great force, her vision dimmed but the fire roared. Ace stumbled backwards, unlike there father this time it wouldn't be enough, she caught the chair as it fell finishing off her initial spin she brought it down across his head and chest. Ace collapsed to the floor.
She redoubled on Jace who was quickly regaining his composer.
The "power" came back on, her mana began to vent, the blockades she built over the years powering up, her logic was returning, Her mind fought it, it fought to keep this rage, keep this power, her arms began to grow runes as the inner termoil grew, she stared at her father in utter loathing, but Jace could see what was coming.
"Do you expect to contain this power little girl? Will your body allow it? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT!? I told you what feels like a millennia ago."
Flash step, Jace is now behind Julia.
"The Bloody Rage of the Dragon never sleeps."
He grabbed her arms just above where the runes would grow next, they rerouted into his hands and up his arms, Power he hadn't felt in a long time, a skill he wouldn't use as it took to much.
Julia went limp and he dropped her, he let one arm sag and it seemed to atrophy as the other grew in size, the feathers that once sprouted when he used this attack now formed scales, Nice touch he thought. his hand formed a cannon.
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Post by hellcomet on Dec 19, 2019 13:14:20 GMT -5
Zack flash steps at the Lee Androids coming out of his charge prepared to send a bolt of crimson lightning into his enemies but nothing happens. A familiar feeling washing over him, as his mana slipped beyond reach just like when he was in the Tower. The androids slump and drop to the ground as if the life was ripped from them. In the stairwell up to the Last Mile a formerly cloaked Lee appears, his holo computer dyeing an undignified death. The gestalted black magical energy enveloping Chang's arm and black vanish as his blow slices through Jace's leg as do his magical enhancements. Without the support he barely tracks Julia as she intervenes.
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Post by jace on Dec 19, 2019 13:52:37 GMT -5
Jace made a mistake and he knew it, he had already signed away his power, restarted at level one, and now had the energy of the sun flowing through him, his vision went slow as he glanced around, he looked for Zack, Back turned he knew if he fired there was a 75% chance Zack could still catch it. but on the opposite it would blow clean through him. This is when he realized slowly he was toppling over, the leg supporting the massive protrusion was gone from under him.
He swung the cannon to the floor and let it rip, Jace went skyward blasting himself through each floor above him, the only hope in his mind that the distillery in the basement wasn't churning out anything to potent. At one point Jace looked up and could see the curvature of the planet and the black abyss of space, something further something.. the power ran its course.
His momentum stopped and slowly reversed into a free fall, he reached out to Zack.
"spin the dial, roll the dice, send me off somewhere.."
He could feel his mind wandering, or could that be blood loss or the energy he just exuded.
"Either way I'm done here.."
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Daemon looked up at Jace for a moment then Zack, the calculations flying through his head, odds, plans, but he didn't move.
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Ace looked around and flexed his hand for a moment and looked over at the Dragoon spheres, he looked up at his father, the red sphere lit. "go ahead then", the sphere shot toward Jace with the faint silloet of a fire dragon surrounding it.
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Daniel blinked, while all this was interesting, nothing had changed except Jace, he was always one for self sacrifice thats for sure, but for a cause he believed in. Why did he just save the daughter he had nothing to do with. Would he, Daniel do the same?, he waited to see who if anyone would save Jace, or if his sister would finally get her way.
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Post by hellcomet on Dec 19, 2019 14:38:21 GMT -5
Zack reoriented himself as Julia began to beat on Jace and Ace. She really did let emotions control her too much, but then who was he preach on that. After a few minutes of assault the familiar warmth of is free filled him just as Julia began to unleash her Ancient Cannon. Jace responded first as the incantation for the protection spell stilled on his lips.
Chaos reigns as they once said in their youth. Jace seemed determined to embody that, breaking his own seals the warrior had deployed his own Ancient Cannon in retaliation only to redirect the blast downwards and propel himself through the glass ceiling and into the rooftop pool then even further up continuing beyond sight. Letting the spell not linger longer. The floor under his feet shuddered and quaked but did not break the defenses he had placed on his apartment the floor below held strong, stronger then he thought they would after all this time.
The blast emission stopped finally. Zack reached out sensing Jace as he plummeted to the group. further and further he dropped and Zack waited before sighing. "Catch." He opened a portal directly in Jace's path with the other end opening into Daemon, the strange being that felt oh so familiar but entirely new. His gut told him that the being would respond correctly and with perfection.
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Post by jace on Dec 19, 2019 15:17:27 GMT -5
When the Portal opened infront of Daemon it was like Jace hit a pool of slime as he exploded absorbing the force, like the aforementioned slime he stuck to everything slowing Jace to a stop and also grabbing his disconnected leg, the spirit that was chasing him got through before the portal closed. Once stopped the liquid metal swirled around Jace and shrunk out of existence.
Ace walked over to Julia, He shook his head. "Pathetic, even your plaything left you here. Zack I'm taking her, If Claudia asks she where we all met."
Ace poked her with his foot and they vanished.
Daniel looked at the rest.
"With the troublemakers gone, what will all you side characters do?"
He smirked with a blood thirsty smile.
He stood and walked towards the door.
"The curtain falls on the Chaos gang."
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Post by hellcomet on Dec 19, 2019 21:14:58 GMT -5
Lee levels a pistol at Daniels Head from outside the door having walked up the staircase towards the bar. The piece was small and compact that he had received as a gift a few years but from Ocelot and used as a fallback gun and loaded with modified rounds that fired chemically burning spray of pellets. That sounds like a threat Millie, you have some thing to do with the lose of magic and machine failure? Both those seem above your weight class."
Chang angerly runs a finger down the blade of the Vandread, all the magic it had stored for years had been dissipated. Generations of Gorgano power lost in an instant. Ace vanished in a flash of magic taking the unconscious Julia with him. Bitch tits bitey was tried to make some sorta dramatic exit, if they were side characters what was he? an Extra? This was his chance to prove he could stand toe to toe with Jace to prove he was worthy of being considered a rival. All interrupted and the opportunity lost. His rage built, growing till his whole body shaked. "What the fuck just happened?"
Zack reached out to the greatest of his sense. Something had occurred, something that had caused a greatest enough disturbance to seal magic in the bar and the chaos he was feeling meant that it was far more far reaching then just this location. With almost an after thought he directed a quick rapid restoration spell at Jace as he state on a stool at the bar. Tendrils of Zack's extended mind reached out probing psychically, emphatically and magically expanding ever outwards as his concentration grow deeper.
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Post by jace on Dec 20, 2019 7:34:03 GMT -5
"Quite above my negative albino. Where you all are Sides, I am what you would call a reactionary, my only job is to be tortured, provide emotional connection and be discarded by the next scene. So go on with it, fire away"
Daniel brought his hand up slowly in a motion that would suggest he was asking for the gun, hand palm up.
Zacks Magic hit a set of runes, as commanding as the gods its self, He could feel it filter though gates of commands, deciding if it was malicious, sensing and cataloging him, before it was finally discarded and absorbed without ever hitting Jace. His senses were a whole 'nother ordeal, a psychic scream had warped the land, those not attuned to phychic warfare were debilitated in the streets, to Zack this would be little more then white noise, a mist, but one he couldn't see through, but just as he would begin to understand it, like the Magic/Tech issue it two would vanish.
What followed was the screams of people finding dead psychers and mages, planes and more having crashed, a people mourning their own.
The death toll from from just five known fields, took the lives of hundreds of thousands, the feilds covered around five hundred miles and when they collapsed the psychic scream afterwards killed more, those towards the center could only be psychic touched and still be found a vegetable.
Jace not trying to hide from Zack was easy to track, Daemon had taken him to the one place his mind said he would be safe, the deepest parts of the lionsden, Deamon didn't understand, nor was he attacked, he started working on Jace.
Not a mile away, Ace brought Julia under the waterfall in his room, he pressed a button on the wall and the water slowly changed over to mana, this wasnt the pure liquid mana of the Western Kingdom, it was manufactured stuff of the industrial era, but it should do the trick. He held her under it of course dousing himself as well. "Set.. I have a situation of the female persuasion.. Could I borrow some clothes.."
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Post by hellcomet on Dec 27, 2019 19:10:01 GMT -5
Lee rolls his eyes as Daniel speaks. "Millie, you are such a fucking little bitch arnt you?"
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"It has gone to shit out there it seem what ever that was wasn't too far reaching but it did hit a large section of Keykus. Fucking disaster out there. It knocked out the central airport along with one of the military fields, planes dropping into the city and surrounding countryside."
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Post by jace on Dec 27, 2019 23:10:39 GMT -5
Daniel sighed and lowered his hand.
"Call me what you will, I have come to know my place, Not amount God's who dispise the very site of me, Kings, queens and courts where the same could be said. Your words mean nothing to me or the story at large. Think about it, truely think. In this age what have you accomplished that hasn't been at the Beck and call of another? Lee what haven't you sold?, You may think you pull the strings but who really pulls yours?"
He turned and looked at Zack.
"The Striths and Alvejettis, and if the don't make the drama they find a way to be in the middle of it, Ill bet His High Lord, Sir Zackery is already formulating a plan to figure out what happened. Heedless that while they both were gone, after the Alvejettis twins were forced from the realm of dragons, there's was peace, only broken by the war waged between them."
He looked back at Lee still holding him at gun point.
"While their are Alvejettis and Striths my words be marked, no plane they are on shall know lasting peace"
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Ace held his sister now convulsing below the Mana stream, her body was going into shock from all her failed barriers and he had no idea the Mana was just buying her time. He waited a moment longer for word from Set before lowering his head.
He figured he would try asking first.
"Claudia.." an image of them, along with her failing vitals.
His voice was just a notch above begging as he could feel her mind and life slipping.
A thought dawned on him and as he waited he started an incantation, one he had last used in his childhood.
Setsuna, Maybe Mark, would feel this his energy convergence with hers slowly, hers growing all while his weakend. ~~
Daemon healed Jace the best he could physically, all that could be done now was to wait, When he finally looked up he noted ranks of durahan flanking them on every side, surreal in there stoic posture but the moment anything came there way they came to life, first in negotiations then a quick and merciful death if those failed.
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Post by hellcomet on Jan 14, 2020 13:35:16 GMT -5
Lee glared at Daniel as he lowered the gun and stepped closer. "Really now? Know no peace? The Alvejetti line can be traced back to the ancients and the 'Striths' are not a thing, its just Zack. Its this melodramatic emo bullshit that your always spewing that makes 'kings, queens and gods' depise you." Lee mockingly air quotes the words for emphasis, gun awkwardly dangling from a finger. "The only time Jace or Zack ever caused shit here was when they were only 2/5th of it, you understand 1/5th?"
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Setsuna dialed in the access code to Ace's room and stepped through the gateway into the artificial environment Ace built within. She focused her sense reaching out and locating Ace's magical energy along with feeling another familiar one that surprised her. With a quick cast of an enhancement spell set set off in their direction at high speed.
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Claudia sat in the classroom as the professor droned on about legal precedents when she received Ace's message, she quickly gated to Aces location and was met with an even more alarming scene of Ace trying to restore what was taken from Julia decades ago. "Fucking moron!" She unleashed tide of magical energy at Ace to throw him away from Julia while pulling temporal energy stored in her earnings and using it to cocoon Julia in a bubble of stopped time. "Just what the fuck do you think your doing!"
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Post by jace on Jan 14, 2020 14:18:06 GMT -5
Daniel shrugged.
"No point in talking to a stone."
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Ace flew not expecting the quick lash from Claudia, Setsunas spell caught him mid flight enough to give him the energy to land without flopping like a fish.
He coughed and looked at the few drops of blood, they both made it in time, he wondered how much time he bought Julia. "Hey Claudia.. Pretty as always.. I took something that didn't belong to me, I was just returning it."
He sloppily stood, no shame being nude before the women whom hated him or soon before one of his beast friends traces of his body looked like they had just begun to tear them selves apart when she stopped him. "Neither a thief..nor a borrower.." He lurched over coughing again bringing him to his knees, he continued coughing trying to catch his breath slamming his fist on the ground.
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Post by hellcomet on Jan 14, 2020 15:13:23 GMT -5
"That doesn't doesnt belong to her! 6 years ago when you ripped the Alvejetti essence from Julia you killed her doing so! While her soul is mostly the same her body was remade by our father, it was made anew. That essence you tried to transfer belongs to a corpse not to Julia!" Claudia clothes transformed from average street gear to combat gear as she stepped to next to Julia's suspended body. "Her body is in shock.....Mana Sickness?" with a mix of magic and psychic she delicately skims the away the layers of Julia's being. The Arc of Time materializes on her and she slowly reverses time around Julia the essence Ace sent seeps back to him. "You look like your feeling it too. Just what happened to you two? Did the North final send a Hunter-Seeker to assassinate you? It would have taken a especially strong anti-magic zone to completely empty your mana pools even down to innate magic in your blood. The shock to Julia's system because her pool is raw and large, like an ever growing ocean without bottom , the bodies reaction of trying to refil that from the mana in the air around her was to much strain. A regular mage needs years of training to increase their mana pools and that training shapes their pools like jugs flowing one to the next. Dear Julia never needed such training as magic is like breathing, i expect much the same could be said of you but you were never as much of a mage when compared to her so your pool is smaller and probably tempered with physical training."
After reaching the point in Julia's timeline that her mana was stripped away Claudia lets time start to flow forward again for the woman, very slowly every second a year for Julia within. Letting her mana slowly returned at a controlled rate.
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Post by jace on Jan 14, 2020 15:31:33 GMT -5
Ace shutters as his pieces slowly fill back in, he slowly stood and hocked the left over blood off to the side, having his wits back and worries some weighleighed he waved a hand, and his clothes appeared, he waited for setsuna to be within earshot before telling the tale though he never made a notion to her being there.
"But back to Julia I tried to douse her in Mana"
He waved to the Mana fall.
"I trained to take energy from multiple places and reappropriate it. I could say the same about you.
Julia's psyche was still fighting when her eyes opened, her body was slow but her mind was racing, fear, logic, lack of understanding. The more her Mana grew the slower her mind became, slowly her barrier rebuilt, her powers slowly spreading out augmenting her perception.
She realized Claudia was there her defenses willing dropped this time and she passed out again.
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Post by hellcomet on Jan 14, 2020 20:25:58 GMT -5
Setsuna entered each step measured and guarded she did not know why Julia and St.Generous were here but considering how thing went in the past she was kicking herself for not bringing her sword.
Claudia adjusted the flow of mana from the stream to greater and greater amounts till cutting of the stream and removing Julia once she passed out again. "The stream was good thinking like water on a burn wound stop her from sucking the surrounding area dry. But mana is a fickle resource too much too fast like like water will make you sick." She reached out telepathically just brushing the surface of Julia's mind.
Setsuna moved towards the stream and Julia. "We see a few cases of mana sickness every year, students trying to cast spells too great for their ability and force the spellwork emptying their pools and brute forcing a draw of energy from around them.
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Lee leans back slightly and launches a headbutt at Daniels nose.
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Ocelot walked alongside Wind as the headed back to the Bar, his right forearm bloody with a bite mark and bandages quickly wrapped around it.
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