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"No, not bulletproof." Sin transforms into a large shield, blocking the bullets. "But better than you. You've tested my patience, human. A courageous attempt on your part, if not foolish." Gale holds out his hand, and charges an orb of dark energy.

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Blah blah blah. You evil sorcerers are all the same.

Wes waits until Gale fires the orb of energy at him before dashing between Ayn and the globule of energy that is pursuing her. He continues to run, hoping he was able to put Gale's two attacks on a collision course with one-another.

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The Angel recoils, surprised at how adeptly Hayate parried his attack. It only hesitates for a moment, however, before snarling silently and rushing foreward with another attack.

This time, however, Sachiel is ready. He quickly reaches out and grabs his counterpart by the wrist, stopping his attack abruptly.

Sachiel: "Israfel, cease and desist. This isn't your enemy."

Israfel: "He is a sinner.. and he struck us."

Sachiel: "You know that doesn't matter."

Smoke begins to come from the Angel, Israfel's hand. A moment later, he lets it fall to the ground and takes his eyes off of Hayate for the first time.

Sachiel gestures toward Israfel.

Sachiel: "This is Israfel. He represents all of the enemies that I have consumed, but with my personality blanketing over the flaws. The alter-ego I chose not to become, if you will. But despite his vices, he is good. He will accompany you to the city. Keep his half of the key safe."

Israfel tosses a contemptuous look at Hayate and Lara, clearly less than excited about traveling with them.

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Lara raises an eyebrow. "Woah wait, then where are you going?"
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Gale scoffs. "And just what the hell do you think you-" Gale realizes how close Ayn had gotten and frowns. "Red light." Gale fires another bubble at Ayn, ignoring the fact that his first bubble and blast would soon collide.

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Ayn's eyes widen. "****!" She tries to dive out of the way but she was too close to Gale to do so. The bubble wraps itself around her leg; she'd only have a few seconds before she was entirely enveloped.

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Riki looks at the two halves, disgusted and intrigued. "Gross."

Rikali is struck by the peices of Sin. Screaming in burning agony, she begins to fall from the sky. Rikali catches herself on a small updraft and manages to stay airborne. The dragon is dangerously weak and unsteady, but her eyes are burning with a fierce determination.

Rose pulls herself to her feet. The pain was vicious, turning and boiling every inch of her. She wanted so much to lay down and die, but she couldn't fail Gale. He would never forgive her. Tottering uncertaintly on her feet, she slowly lifts her hands, holding Fate. Rose puts the rest of her energy into the blade, puts all of her mind into it.


Wolf stands before her, surrounded in a mist. "Swords are weapons. No matter by whose hand they are held, they were made with the sole purpose to destroy." Wolf's voice echoes in Rose's head. "I know, Gaurdian. I know the purpose."
"What do you seek to destroy?"
"One who fights against me."
"Be your path good or evil?"
"Neither and both, evil and good is in the eye of the beholder."
"Then fight on in that name."

Fate glows a silver-black energy. It builds there for a moment or two before erupting from the blade in a massive energy attack with a loud whoosh. It strikes Rikali's chest dead-on, sending the dragon tumbling from the skies. She crashes through the remains of buildings, through rock and earth. The crater she creates sends out large chunks of rocks to shower any nearby and completly cover her.

Rose falls to her knees, drained and weak, but triumphant. Rikali would not fight again today. Some part of Rose's mind knows that the dragon was probably still alive, but she has hope that it would die of its injuries.

((Sorry for my absence! Damn internet wouldn't work!))

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Gale chuckles at the site of Rikali's fall. "Hah, so you're not worthless after all." Meanwhile the Wes manages to lead Gale's blast to the original bubble. They merge and once again the blast forms a core like ball in the center. However, the blast remains still. "Well look that that, you created a bomb. Unfortunately it's to close to us to detonate without killing your friend right here. It's really to bad, you might of had a chance." Gale smirks, he was curious to see how Wessen would react. While his kind had emotions, they often (at least before the war) allowed logic to dicate their actions before instinct or feeling. It allowed for better thinking in the long run. However, humans would often put how they feel before what they know. A rather primitive action. In the end, the blinding caused by their emtions lead to incrediably rash and foolish action. ....But there would also be that chance that despite how illogical they were being, they'd ultimatley succeed. Be it by dumb luck or an act of some god, it was an irregular that Gale hated for the simple reason that he'd seen it before. Regardless, he had bested most of the ones here before. He was confident, if not somewhat arrogant, in his abillities.

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Rose smiles. The words might have sounded harsh to anyone else, but to her they were like sweet healing water. She was, however, unsure as to what to do now.

((Okay...basically I'm sitting in a little rut...Rikali's buried and I don't think anyone can spare the time to dig her out right now, and Rose isn't really good for battle either. Not what I planned to happen, but I changed my mind. o.o Help would be apperciated...))

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Sachiel stretches his wings, both of which now appear perfectly healthy.

Sachiel: "Don't worry about it. Probably better if you don't know. I don't want anything connecting the two halves of the key. Just know that I'm going somewhere away from here.. to make the Abbissian's aim more difficult to acheive."

With that, Sachiel lifts off and flies in a direction adjacent to the direction the others are traveling.

Israfel lifts off as well, but comes back down to land atop the Humvee, causing it to bounce upon its suspension.

Israfel: "I refuse to ride in a small cabin with the likes of you."

He eyes Riki, but instead of leering at her like he does to Hayate, he shrinks back somewhat. Apparently surprised or intimidated by her presence.


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Wessen panicks, unsure of what to do. He has no immediate plan for doing any serious damage to Gale so he thinks saving Ayn would be the appropriate course of action. Unfortunately, he doesn't have an immediate plan for that either.. and he is running out of time to think.

Just then, Hallon changes his slow approach to a sudden lunge at Gale, used in a congruity with a massive downward slash of his sword. Hallon's blade sizzles with a dark electricity and a black glow as it sweeps across Gale's back. Gale is in a single moment wrapped in painful tendrils of the hallon's magic and thrown foreward toward the bomb. Before the electricity even stops arching over Gales body, he stands up and gives a terrifying look back at Hallon.

Wes uses the opportunity to act in the only way he can think to. He runs toward Ayn as fast as he can and executes a leaping kick right into her chest area. The bubble takes some of the blow and even wraps itself around Wessen's foot before losing its grasp. The momentum and impact sends them both flying back several yards further away from the bomb, landing painfully in a pile of rubble.

Looks like luck is being a lady this evening..

Wessen reaches down and grabs Ayn's arm, causing the bubble to start enveloping him as well. As it craws up his arm and binds his hand to Ayn's arm, Wes pulls her as hard as he can further away from the Bomb.

At that point, the bomb detonates..


((One of us will try to help Rikali in a moment Wolf. Sorry, I just couldn't think of a way to do it right away.))

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Lara sighs. "If Gale finds him, he'll have an idea where to find us... Let's get going." She situates herself in the driver seat.
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While Hallon was only knocked away by the powerful blast, Gale was caught in the explosion. He let's out a scream of pain as the ground around him is torn up and debris is tossed into the sky. When the explosion is over and the dust clears, there is nothing more but a crater filled with rubble. After a few moments, Gale crawls out. His clothes are turn, burns are evident on his arms and blood is trickling down his forhead. He grips Sin and pants heavily. "No...human can kill me..."

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((I shall be patient. :) ))

Riki eyes him back and raises and eyebrow. "What? No smart-ass comment for me? I feel so unwanted."

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Across the other side of the crater, a pair of footsteps come to rest at its edge. Kyushin's voice, now all too familiar to Gale, rings out. "Having some trouble, Gale?" As usual, his sword was sheathed and his haunting glare burned mercilessly into the Abbis. Now, however, something orb-like glimmered in his hand.

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Gale sneers at Kyushin and rises, he was badly injured but he was not dead. "And what do YOU want, you miserable vermin?

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Kyushin lifts the clear object in his hand and tosses it up and down. "I found this. Thought it may be of interest to you." He stops and catches it at chest level, holding it out so Gale can see. It is a spectral, glass-like sphere with a constantly morphing aurora of blues and purples swirling inside and a bright point of light in the center. The very air around it seems to pulse and glow.

Slowly, a sinister smirk grows across Kyushin's mouth.

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Gale's eyes widen and he grinds his teeth. "You sneaky son of a bitch....give that to me!"

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"I'm not going to make it that easy." Kyushin lowers the orb and draws his sword. He holds both out at Gale, one as a lure, the other a challenge. The smirk disappears from his face and his eyes glow a solid, sinister red. "Take it from me. If you're all you say you are, then prove it. Prove your right to destroy this world!"

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Gale's aura fluxes and further rips up the ground. His eyes are consumed by his dark purple aura, much like Kyushin's red eye. "If you desire death, than it shall be delt to you!" Gale draws Sin which morphs to merge with his right arm and grows much larger than usual.

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The Fury doesn't even blink at Gale's bizarre transformation. "Hmph. Cute." With his left hand he continues to hold the Key out like a matador's cape, and uses the other hand to hold the sword off to his side. Gravel crunches under his feet as he shifts slowly and deliberately into the proper position.

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Gale teleports around Kyushin, slashes wildly at him. After the flurry of attacks he teleports to the safety of a building's rooftop.
((got it right this time :P))

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With ghostly agility, Kyushin literally dances around the frenzied attack, sidestepping effortlessly past each swing. This presents several opportunities to retaliate, but instead he merely holds his weapon idly to the side. In all the madness Kyushin moves so swiftly and dodges by so little that Gale has no means of knowing if he had landed a strike until he retreats. Not a scratch.

Without any search, Kyushin spots Gale on the rooftop and watches him through the the corner of his eye, as if pinning him down there. "Anxious are we?"

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Gale tosses Sin into the air, and fragments of it rain down on the first Fury brother. "How dare you mock me!"

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Despite the descending hail of metal, Kyushin stands his ground and doesn't even look up. Moments before impact, several white circles of light form around him, laid over an invisible sphere surrounding his body. Each cell of light moves up the sphere and positions itself to intercept the first shards that were accurate, then shifting mechanically after each impact to stop the next. Each one is deflected and they scatter harmlessly onto the ground like pieces of broken glass. The miniature energy shields disappear and Kyushin continues to leer. "So far mocking you has been far more entertaining."

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Israfel sees something in Riki that causes both shock and disgust in him.. "That's right. You're not wanted." Israfel sneers at Riki. "Get in your man-made animal to remove the temptation for me to consume you as I would any common demon."

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Wes watches, somewhat mesmerized by the new character.

Hallon, is this a good guy or a bad guy?

..Hallon?

Hallon lays nearby, clutching his chest with a bloody hand with gravel and dirt spekling the thick red substance..

Hallon, are you--

"I'm fine! Look at lady Ayn!" Hallon shouts back, almost angrily. He then sits upright and tosses his sword to Wessen. It begins flaming and arching with purple elecricity on its trip through the air.

Wes attempts to catch the sword, but fumbles with it clumsily while trying to avoid the blade. He quickly picks it up off the ground and runs over to Ayn to help remove the membrane around her. He carefully touches the sword to it and Hallon's magic does the rest. The flames of the blade melt into the membrane and the electric tendrils begin extending over it in a battle for Ayn's freedom. As the bubble relinquishes, a large charred mark on her back becomes visible.

Oh crap.. tell me you're okay, darlin.

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Riki opens her mouth in surprise, then closes it with a sharp snap. She scowls. "What are you talking about?! I'm not a demon!"

Nevertheless, she seems a little unsure of herself.

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After a few seconds of being free she gets up and beats the dust off of her with her hands. "****, that hurt..." Her entire back tingles uncomfortably from the blast, but she ignores it, and gives Wes a sheepish sort of grin. "Thanks.."

Her expression quickly changes to one of seriousness as she watches Gale and the Fury brother. "So he got himself a key.. He's a fool to taunt Gale with it.."

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Don't mention it. He looks up at the dueling duo. So that's what that is? So there are three keys, huh?

Wes looks back at Hallon to make sure he's okay.

Hallon seems to be okay. He has stopped clutching his chest, revealing the source of the blood to be only minor shrapnel wounds from the detonation. He does make the occasional cough, however.

At the moment he seems to be looking into the ground..

Wes comes over to see a rubble-covered hole. The only thing that can be seen inside is the glint of an eye. Rikali.

Wessen sighs.

I guess we'd better get her out before we get buried with her.

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((Yeah, this thread isn't allowed to die or something so we're gonna keep going.))
Hallon took a few breathes and looked at Wes and Ayn. "I say we gather whoever's here and leave a soon as possible. God seems to be with us in that someone else has managed to occupy Gale, let's not waste the time given to us by the Almighty. We must use it while it lasts."
((FYI: Hallon is religious, but he isn't overly religious or something...o-o; ))

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((Okay, I'm getting tired of this. Someone needs to POST. I was gonna wait for people to get on AIM to push them, but this is getting ridiculous. We cannot let this thread die, so people, GET TO POSTING.))

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((*Rolls in defibrillator* Clear!))

Kyushin glances at the group. To his disgust, they really are still here. "Fools! Leave this place!"

The storm brought by Rikali's wrath surges with a new wave of energy and unleashes a torrent of ground strikes across the land. The wind breaks and shifts directions violently, cutting off the declining trickle of rain. In Kyushin's left hand, the Key begins to glow stronger the aura seems to grow outside of the sphere's confines. He draws this back like a flintstone in preparation to strike his sword with it and merge the two items.

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Gale snarls and holds out his hands and his aura concentrates in his palms. Gale releases a beam of dark energy toward Kyushin, threatening to pierce him upon impact.
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Hallon begins to dig Rikali out of the rubble, visibly anxious to get moving.
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Lara snarls. "All of you be quiet! We're leaving." Without another word, Lara continues the drive to Estecia.

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