Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[amdreams]

Rose

Rose still felt uneasy, but as Milia seemed rather uncomfortable with this conversation, she decided to drop it for now. She shook her head a bit, sighing. "Well, fine. You don't have to say anything if you really don't want to. But I'm going to find out eventually you know."


"But," she started, her voice softer and less stern than it was just a bit before. "This is a party and everyone needs some time to unwind, even you. So I'll let it go for now. I don't want to give you more stress than you already have."


~~~~~


Vash

Vash blinked a bit. "Huh? I didn't say anything about machines. How do you know about the machines but not me?" Vash grabbed his head, crouching down trying his best to figure out what was going on. He thought he and Azure were friends but Azure didn't remember him. He remembered the machines though. Which meant that Azure cared more about the machines than Vash.


Vash looked up teary eyed. "Well, it looks like you've made your decision. There's no room in your heart for me I guess. And after all we've been through? Hawaii? The death of my evil twin? Potassium? Well, fine then. I'll just take my new buddy and leave you here with your precious machine then!"


~~~~~


Mel

"The ****?" Upon entering, Mel was greeted by a horde of cosplay hookers, all calling her "master". The ****? This is the correct place, right? What sort of thing did she just walk into? But honestly, who the **** cares? She just wanted t be alone and rest for a bit. "What are you guys talking about? You know what, I don't care. I don't have time to deal with this. I just want to a hot shower and a warm bed. S can you point me in the direction I need to go?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"Believe me Rose, I wish I could tell you everything... but I can't for your guy's sake."


Milia seemed to perk up a bit


"But I want you to know, that if I do ever get the chance, I really will tell you everything. Until then, it is just up to you to put two and 2 together."


Milia seemed to be back to normal by now


"By the way, did you get any neat sort of equipment you like to use? I'm asking cause you're still wearing that battered uniform, it looks like it's still holding together since you haven't been here all that long, but eventually you'll need something new. Havoc makes weapons and armor for us you know, or at least while he had raw materials to do so. It's why I got this nifty gear I'm wearing here. We're sort of in short supply probably with the way things are so he probably can't make you anything remotely close to this... maybe. He might be able to make whatever you have better than it was before at the very least."


~~~~~


Thunder Area (Mel)


The girls looked around at each other, confused before one of them came up to Mel to take a closer look


"This isn't Havoc's energy... this is someone else... Havoc is..... below us on the first floor I think"


The group began freaking out and apologized to Mel that they showed her all that, and pointed her the way... and all began to leave


"Man... we broke in and set up ourselves for nothing..."


Mel was finally left alone in Havoc's place, and couldn't sense anyone else in home, besides one other person below here... maybe in a basement?


There were many doors, each of them clearly labeled, probably due to surprise pop-ins like those girls, if they were staying over.


The doors were labeled to be "My Room", "Fujin's Room" "Raijin's Room", Rooms for 3 people who live in this home, as well as 5 "Guest Rooms", one of which Mel could use.


"Washroom", "The Collective Records", "Armory", and "Basement", are others labeled doors as well. The Collective Records room appear to be locked however, strong enough to ward of the typical civilian or warrior, but perhaps not someone as strong as Mel, with some magic. It probably contains history or something.


~~~~~


Unknown


"Because Morgana and the others told me that I was put inside this place when I got put in here. I can't really remember anything before that though... and I don't know why."


Azure looked shocked at Vash when he started looking like he was on the verge of tears, not looking like he knew what was going on. Even the woman was confused, but was looking at Azure judgmentally, uncertain about what was going on... but figured that he was the bad guy here somehow at least.


"Wait... guy!"


Azure put an arm on Vash's shoulder


"I'm sorry, I honestly don't know what I did that was wrong, but I want to make that right again, by making sure we can all get out of here before you two succumb to this place. I want to leave just as much as you, I'd rather be back at least out of this twisted and sealed space, if nothing else, but as far as I've looked, there's no exit anywhere, but I won't give up!"





Allies' turn was skipped


"@!#()$"


An enemy attack came from behind, firing a powerful energy wave that speared on through Azure, rending him with the powerful attack, and slicing him all over, blooding him, and dealing 36,840 damage to him. Azure's Magic and Skills were sealed. Azure collapsed. Azure was toppled.


"Ugh..."


Azure's armor ability activated, letting him survive the attack with 1 HP remaining... Azure was auto-cured of topple due to an ability, and got up


"But... maybe for now... I'll just fend this thing off... while you two make your escape... we aren't escaping this pocket dimension until I get the time to break it."


Azure summoned the orb of light, turning it into that triangular saber again, holding it with one arm, while the other supports his arm, standing a little hunched over and bleeding in various places.


"I'll be fine... really... trust me, I just let my guard down was all"


Azure's tension increased from very high to max.


Azure appears to have some sort of smiling grin, like he was about to enjoy the oncoming fight, and full of confidence to boot.


"But..."


The woman isn't sure what to do, but Vash could sense her desire to get out of dodge...

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"Equipment?" Rose looked down at her own clothes. Her school uniform was torn in various laces. Nothing scandalous but it would still a bit of an issue later on. She wasn't sure how long it would last with all these Aberrant fights. They still had at least 3 more if there was one per area. "Hm . . . Something new might be nice. But how are we going to pay for something like that? We don't exactly have any money here."


~~~~~


Vash

Vash put his hands on his hips, looking at Azure rather angrily. "What are you talking about? Heroes of justice don't leave any man behind. So I'm not running away. You're stuck with me!"


He looked at Marith now, who seemed to really want to leave. He'd rather she stay but he couldn't really stop her. Plus it was super dangerous here. "Marith, if you want to go you can. We'll try to catch up later, okay?"


~~~~~


Mel

As the women all left, mentioning how they seemed to break into this place, Mel felt a slight pang of sympathy and fear for the Havoc. It seemed, for a moment, that his life was a tad more terrifying than she had initially thought. But that didn't matter anymore because now she could at least get something actually done. She could still feel someone in the home, bt it was in the basement and therefore none of her business.


She decide to shower first, feeling very icky at the moment. She pushed into one of the shower rooms, letting the door slam behind her. Stopping by a mirror nearby, Mel cringed at her appearance. Her hair was a mess. Her eyes were still a bit red. And there were various rips and tears in her clothes, mainly her jacket. Luckily, the sleeves were still intact and everything she wanted to hide was hidden. But still, she'd like something else to wear. ******* sucks that her magic was not working here or she'd be able to change rather easily.


Mel cast aside her clothes for now to step in the stall. Scars of varying degree covering her back, arms and hands. There were even 2 distinct circular ones present on her feet. Beneath some dark red ones were many more whiter ones, looking like they may heal completely in a year or two. Feeling uncomfortable in her own skin and Havoc's house, given what must've happened here, she showered quickly and got dressed, except her jacket which she carried. She felt a bit warm and with no one but the one in the basement, no one was going to see her arms or anything.


She located the nearest guest room and let herself just fall onto the bed. But the ****? She was tired. She was ******* tired. But she couldn't ******* sleep. Ah. That'd probably fix itself if she just laid there.

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"Pay for stuff?"


She grinned funnily at Rose that she said something silly.


"When you're the only ones strong enough to keep everyone else from dying, you get something called the heroes treatment and get everything for free, or at least as free as it comes anyway! Since Havoc is the one making the stuff though, he'd probably passionately ask you to pay with your body, but as long as your not a tease and tell him no, he'll respectfully back down, and will probably do all the work for free"


Milia went on over to beside Rose and hooked an arm around her shoulder, bringing her in to whisper quietly to her


"Although... Teasing can be pretty effective against him with a cutesy pose and adorable voice. After he's made it, you can just take off and run with his stuff he made."


Milia got of off Rose to talk normally


"Give it some thought, ya know?"


~~~~~


Unknown


Azure looked surprised as Vash decided to stay and fight, but quickly went back to her previous look


"There's no guarantee that I'll be able to protect you, but fine then, this place is gonna get you anyway, it always does from what I've seen, so I guess going out in a blaze of glory isn't a bad way to go. Once your Soulfire goes out though, you really will die, and even I can't do anything after that point."


The battle music changed

Music: The Eternal Battle

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Azure's presense in the battle revealed some of the enemy's stats

Spoiler

Target: $#()@#$%$!

Stats: Raw


Remaining/Max: 3,364,892 / 1,000,000,000


Strength: 34056


Spirit: 56392


Vitality: 20953


Will: 28351


Speed: 5390

Stats: Calculated

Standard Attacks: Works


Outgoing Damage: Powerful


Incoming Damage Reduction: (0% Azure) (30% Vash) (50% Marith)


Skill Receive Hit Chance: Enemy is not actively trying to dodge. Always


Status Receive Hit Chance: Immune


Skill Outgoing Hit Chance: +35 (Azure), 15+ (Vash, Marith)


Status Outgoing Hit Chance: Always


Skill: [???]


Abilities: [unbeatable v.5, ???]


Arcane Artes: [black Hole, Envoy of Self]


Forbidden Artes: [soul Absorption, Total Annihilation]


Absorb: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Reflect: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Immune: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Resist: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Weak: [Azure, Azure, Azure Blessed Attacks, Morgana]


Status: [Reraise, Charging, ???]

Allies

Azure: (1/142,999)


Buffs: None


Debuffs: Exhaustion, Mana Recovery


Vash: (80,000/80,000)


Buffs: The 5 Secrets


Debuffs: Soulfire (100%)


Marith: (55,000/55,000) Fled...


Buffs: The 5 Secrets


Debuffs: Soulfire (12%)

Land Power = None


Weather = None


Field Effect = !@#)@#!#@

An ability activated, auto-curing him of his status effects


Azure changed the orb of light into a regal looking crystal staff.


"Secret: White Thaumaturgy"


Azure's energy is pouring into Vash and the woman, filling them with his life force, massively buffing their Max HP MASSIVELY


"Secret: Peerless Wind God"


Energy emanated from Azure filling his allies with a powerful surge of energy, making them feel as though they could run a marathon for days, increasing their speed VASTLY


"Secret: Starlight Barrier"


An energy emanated from Azure, creating a solid wall of light around Vash and Marith, DRASTICALLY increasing their Defense and Magic defense.


Azure used up all of his mana... an ability activated however, granting him more, but debuffing him with exhausted status


"Secret: Nuclear Fang"


An energy emanated from Azure, making his allies pulse with powerful energy, INCREDIBLY strengthening them both for their physical and magical abilities


"Secret: War Machine's Unyielding Machinations"


Energy emanated from Azure, inspiring his allies with potent forces. Vash's attack turns increased to three. Marith's attack turns increased to two.


"Ugh... I may have over done it... I wish I could receive those buffs also... but I'm the source for all that..."


Azure now has the Mana Recovery Debuff


Azure crouched down for a bit, waiting for the enemy to react.


The enemy is charging up for a Forbidden Arte


The enemy is charging up for a Forbidden Arte


The enemy is charging up for a Forbidden Arte


The enemy is charging up for a Forbidden Arte


"!#@)*!)#@%!#@ !@#)*!@" ('Total Annihilation')


A massive energy power gathered up, glowing purple in essence, collecting bigger and bigger above it. The size kept getting bigger as if it were a black hole, infinitely eating the surrounding energy, and is continually getting stronger


"Damn..."


Marith successfully fled the battle


"Sorry..."

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"Hm . . . " Rose did think about what Milia had said. Looking at her own attire again, she did feel like it was probably best to have another change of clothes. And Rose was never one to refuse new clothes, unless it was ugly. "I suppose something new would be nice. You sure he'd be willing to do that?"


~~~~~


Vash

Vash was a bit sad to see Marith go. He was never one to deal with abandonment well. But he guessed he understood why she did. This was a super scary monster. Plus, she said sorry. So she was a nice girl, right?


But for now, he had a scary monster to focus on. He wasn't too sure what to do. Mel wasn't there to tell him. And he had never really been in a fight on his own. Back home, all he had to do was punch punch punch. But here, that wasn't going to work. For now, he cast "Iron Defense".

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"He'll do anything for a girl in need. It doesn't even matter what gender they used to be, he just has that sort of weakness. And don't confuse me for being a former boy just because I said that, I'm a born and raised lady you know. Just make sure you let him know you don't want something provocative, or else that's exactly what you're going to get. It'll be just as strong as anything else, but just with much more sex appeal to it, you don't exactly come off as the 'loose' type, if ya know what I mean. Even this what I wearing now is still a little revealing and form fitting, but I like it just how it is."


~~~~~


Unknown

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Spoiler

Target: $#()@#$%$!

Stats: Raw


Remaining/Max: 2,913,000 / 1,000,000,000


Strength: 34056


Spirit: 56392


Vitality: 20953


Will: 28351


Speed: 5390

Stats: Calculated

Standard Attacks: Works


Outgoing Damage: Powerful


Incoming Damage Reduction: (0% Azure) (30% Vash) (50% Marith)


Skill Receive Hit Chance: Enemy is not actively trying to dodge. Always


Status Receive Hit Chance: Immune


Skill Outgoing Hit Chance: +35 (Azure), 15+ (Vash, Marith)


Status Outgoing Hit Chance: Always


Skill: [???]


Abilities: [unbeatable v.5, ???]


Arcane Artes: [black Hole, Envoy of Self]


Forbidden Artes: [soul Absorption, Total Annihilation]


Absorb: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Reflect: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Immune: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Resist: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Weak: [Azure, Azure, Azure Blessed Attacks, Morgana]


Status: [Reraise, Charging, ???]

Allies

Azure: (1/142,999)


Buffs: None


Debuffs: Exhaustion


Vash: (80,000/80,000)


Buffs: The 5 Secrets, Azure's Blessing


Debuffs: Soulfire (100%)


Marith: (55,000/55,000) Fled...


Buffs: The 5 Secrets


Debuffs: Soulfire (12%)

Land Power = None


Weather = None


Field Effect = !@#)@#!#@

Azure forced himself up off the ground and into a battle position


"Hellclaw Assassination"


Azure changed his weapon into several daggers, held in a powerful grip between his fingers, all of them attached to his glove by wires, and flung them all outward seemingly missing it, but brought his hands together, causing the wicked daggers to swing on into the enemy, tearing into it like a vice grip, then ripped them out as they retracted back to him, dealing a total of 84,500 damage to it. Azure marked the enemy, increasing the damage he can deal


"Vacuum Wave"


Azure changed his weapon, focusing the energy into his gauntlets. He did a short martial artist wind-up pose, and released a massive surge of powerful energy at the enemy. Vash failed to percieve Azure's attack damaging the enemy. The enemy took 115,000 damage. The enemy is immune to stat decreasing status effects


"Vacuum Wave"


Azure repeated his attack again, dealing 128,000 damage.


"Vacuum Wave"


Azure performed it once more, dealing 124,000 damage.


Azure is no longer suffering from mana recovery


"Azure's Blessing"


Vash could sense Azure's energy flowing through Azure. Azure blessed Vash with that energy he sensed, and it began to glow a faint blue around him. Vash's attack are now able to damage the enemy.


The enemy is charging up it's attack x 5. The massive orb gathering strength above it is growing at an increasing rate, The sphere has to be at least as big as a rather very big house in size now.


"Vash, go ahead and get outta here really, what good is a hero if you die? I'll be the bait so that the attack doesn't hit you."

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"Yeah, I really wouldn't want anything too . . . revealing," Rose replied, thinking on it. She didn't want to wear anythng too embarrassing. She was okay with wearing a bikini at the beach but wearing such a thing to battle was something else completely. There was no way she could go out like that. "Should I ask tomorrow? He probably needs some rest as well."


~~~~~


Vash

"I'm not going!" Vash shouted. "Heroes never leave anyone behind! And heroes never die! They only die in a blaze of glory when fighting the final boss and this is not the final boss! We still got like 3 more places to go after this." Vash charged forward and used "Explosive Force" on the enemy. "Mel says you don't abandon friends. She's never left me of Riff behind and she hasn't died yet. So why am I going to run?"


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[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"Ask whenever really, he's gonna be stuck here while he's making it"


Milia gave Rose a quick look over


"Hey Rose, have you ever given it thought to what being a different race would be like? I think has a thing that can change your race if ya really want. You could probably turn from the elf you are to a fairy probably. That's just a guess, cause I turned down when he offered me to use that thing, but I don't know if it actually works."


~~~~~


Unknown

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Spoiler

Target: $#()@#$%$!

Stats: Raw


Remaining/Max: 2,913,000 / 1,000,000,000


Strength: 34056


Spirit: 56392


Vitality: 20953


Will: 28351


Speed: 5390

Stats: Calculated

Standard Attacks: Works


Outgoing Damage: Powerful


Incoming Damage Reduction: (0% Azure) (30% Vash) (50% Marith)


Skill Receive Hit Chance: Enemy is not actively trying to dodge. Always


Status Receive Hit Chance: Immune


Skill Outgoing Hit Chance: +35 (Azure), 15+ (Vash, Marith)


Status Outgoing Hit Chance: Always


Skill: [???]


Abilities: [unbeatable v.5, ???]


Arcane Artes: [black Hole, Envoy of Self]


Forbidden Artes: [soul Absorption, Total Annihilation]


Absorb: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Reflect: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Immune: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Resist: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Weak: [Azure, Azure, Azure Blessed Attacks, Morgana]


Status: [Reraise, Charging, ???]

Allies

Azure: (1/142,999)


Buffs: None


Debuffs: Exhaustion


Vash: (80,000/80,000)


Buffs: The 5 Secrets, Azure's Blessing


Debuffs: Soulfire (100%)


Marith: (55,000/55,000) Fled...


Buffs: The 5 Secrets


Debuffs: Soulfire (12%)

Land Power = None


Weather = None


Field Effect = !@#)@#!#@

"Vash... Do you even know what your saying?! Back in the living world of this game, Morgana, everyone, and I spent days chasing and fighting this thing a year ago after the cultist harpies unleashed it, It can't be killed, only sealed, we aren't strong enough to kill it, only Azure is... But... I need to keep this thing here, so that it can't escape. Because he won't end it..."


Azure is now targeting Vash. Azure ran up to Vash and took him by an arm


"Hammerhead Swing!!"


Azure began swinging Vash around, spinning him faster and faster, using the natural inertia generated from swinging to keep him from escaping


"I WONT LET YOU DIE!"


Azure let Vash go, sending him flying in Marith's direction. Azure forcefully removed Vash from battle.


Azure is charging up for an Arcane Arte


"Diarahan"


Azure targeted Vash before he got to far away


Azure used up to much mana, and is now in mana recovery


"Damn... In the end, I can't heal... Bring it on!!"


Azure prepared to counter attack


Azure prepared to counter attack.


The enemy is charging the attack x 5. The sphere has to be the size of a football stadium, and then, the orb began slowly dropping to the ground, likely to burst when it landed.


"No you won't!"


Azure changed his weapon into oversized guantlets, mimicking Vash's weapon, only bigger. Azure jumped up to the orb to intercept it, only for it to continue descending, taking him to the ground very slowly till he could stand on it, and stopped the orb still trying to fall.


"EAT THIS AND DIE!!"


Azure began slightly pushing it up, making the attack his own somewhat, and punched the orb... Resulting in...


~~~~~


Unknown (Vash)


Vash got tossed far away, landing maybe a few miles away from the fight. Vash took 53,000 damage from the landing.


Vash was healed fully shortly after.


"Whoa... You...?"


Marith poked at Vash a bit, he still should be able to be conscious, what's going on over there?


Vash could see the massive orb drop, exploding, sending violent energy even this far away. Vash was strong enough not to take damage... Marith based herself as the blast force came her way, holding her ground


Vash could not sense Azure's energy anymore...


"You okay Vash?"


Marith helped Vash up.


"What happened over there??"


As the smog settled from far away, Vash was able to see that enemy... However... It seemed to have taken extreme backlash damage for some reason.

 

[amdreams]

sh]Vash[/sh]


"WWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT?!"


Before Vash could attack, Azure had apparently thrown him. A great distance away. Vash was screaming the entire way until he hit the ground. "Ugh . . . " When Vash got up, she saw . . . Marith? She asked him what happened and Vash seemed on the verge of crying. "I . . . I . . . I got thrown awaaaaayyyyy. A-A-Azure's mad at me. He hates me. He's being a meanie!"


~~~~~


Rose

"No . . . " Rose said, shaking her head. "I don't think I've ever wanted to change my race. Like as an elf and an elemental is pretty good. I'd like my hair to get back to normal and maybe it'd be nice if my chest was a little bit bigger but I've never really wanted to change. Why? Have you ever wanted to be something else?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"He can fix that no problem, he actually has a weapon that can just do that on the fly even. I personally hate that weapon... one time we got into a big fight... and he kept increasing the size of my bust as his method of attack, making it bigger and bigger till it was bigger than my whole body, and kept going till I couldn't even move... needless to say, I lost that fight against the pervert. If you do let him make your gongs bigger, just make sure you're paying attention, and not drifting off in bliss, and stop him when your happy with the size, ya know. It's up to you really."


Rose received a message from Kylier


'I would like to repeat, in saying that although normally, altering your body in the game will have the machines you are in alter your real body in the real world to match them if possible, I have disabled such functions in these machines, and any 'physical' changes that occur in the game while be ones that are only active while in it.'


End of message


Milia looked away a bit thinking in consideration to Rose's thought about changing races


"Well, not really, I mean... Human's are rather cut and dry, in that they don't innately have weaknesses, which for what we're up against, I prefer. You'd lose some skills and abilities, in exchange for others, you'd have to get used to a different body, cause faeries are actually between 1-4 feet tall here as a fully grown adult size, being a fairy might be neat for a bit, but I'm not gonna be one if I gotta fight. Human's being immune to holy instant death magic, otherwise known as 'Expel' is pretty useful also. It's personally my favorite method of killing off the enemy mooks. I used to have the strongest version of that spell till... well, you were then when I messed up."


She looked up toward the ceiling


"I can already fly with this armor, but even without it, with my Aura, I could fly anyway, which I'd have to teach you how to fly using that, after I get that back"


She looked back at Rose with a hand on her hips and a sigh


"Soon enough though..."





~~~~~


Unknown


The woman looked on, really unsure what to do or how to console him. Vash is the first normal guy she has seen after all in a long time besides Havoc.


"Can't you uh, sense that thing's power though? I'm still learning the ability from Havoc, but, it still feels very overwhelming. Maybe he was just desperately trying to protect you by fighting it all by himself so you don't have to. The first thing I learned from Havoc though is that there is strength in numbers in teamwork, but... are we really strong enough to take on something like that?!"


A few shadow shaded rocks flew on by, with something oddly shaped landing beside her, scarring her. She picked up what looked like something wrapped in cloth, when a blown off arm fell out of it.


"AIIIEEEEE!??! What is that!? That's someone's arm?? Is it that one guy's???"


Vash can't sense Azure still anymore, as though he vanished, and the enemy seems to now be heading Vash's way... Marith is panicking and freaking out over the arm that fell out of what looked like a torn off section of Azure's clothing.

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"Eheheh . . . " Rose laughed nervously. "I . . . I think I'll pass on that then." Never before in her life did she ever want to go home more than she did now. Honestly, this place was terrifying and getting more so the more Milia talked. Rose's mind went blank, not able to hear Milia mention fairies, weapons and flying with Rose. Her own face paled. She didn't really want that armor now . . . "I . . . uh . . . Maybe I should go to bed . . . I-I'm really tired now."


~~~~~


Vash

Vash wasn't paying attention to Marith. He was too busy flopping on the floor, wallowing in his own sorrow. "He haaattttteeess mmeeee . . . Everyone leeaaavveesss mmeee . . . I don't like being leffftt behhinnnd . . . "


He continued this until something came flying at them. Vash screamed upon seeing the arm. "It's begun!" he shouted. "The end is nigh! The sky is falling!" Not knowing what was going on, as always, Vash grabbed Marith and ran. Not necessarily from the energy heading toward them but from the arm itself, though he was accomplishing both anyway.

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


Milia noticed that Rose sorta, went off on her own mentally looking sickly


"Sorry if I killed the mood... but... talking about changing your hair and stuff made me remembered some of why I hate Havoc..."


Milia seemed to be in foul mood as well...


"Here, this should help ya, maybe a little at least, mentally"


"Patra"


Milia used some magic to try to sooth her nerves, trying to make the idea that Havoc may really indeed be the enemy of all women, is just a 'whatever' subject, removing some distress and panic from her.


"I don't got a key, so just go and get Havoc for one, I don't want him seeing me here, and bugging me over things if you don't mind, you've learned to sense people's energies by now right?"


~~~~~


Unknown


"I don't want to die, not like this!?"


"!@#)*!@# )!) !#@)!#@"


As Vash and Marith ran... their movements began getting increasingly sluggish somehow, while his point of view began going lower to the ground. Soon, he'd notice that he'd sunk into the ground as if it were quicksand, trapping him and keeping him from running.


The enemy caught up

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Target: $#()@#$%$!

Stats: Raw


Remaining/Max: 64,000 / 1,000,000,000


Strength: 34056


Spirit: 56392


Vitality: 20953


Will: 28351


Speed: 5390

Stats: Calculated

Standard Attacks: Works


Outgoing Damage: Powerful


Incoming Damage Reduction: (0% Azure) (30% Vash) (50% Marith)


Skill Receive Hit Chance: Enemy is not actively trying to dodge. Always


Status Receive Hit Chance: Immune


Skill Outgoing Hit Chance: +35 (Azure), 15+ (Vash, Marith)


Status Outgoing Hit Chance: Always


Skill: [???]


Abilities: [unbeatable v.5, ???]


Arcane Artes: [black Hole, Envoy of Self]


Forbidden Artes: [soul Absorption, Total Annihilation]


Absorb: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Reflect: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Immune: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Resist: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Weak: [Azure, Azure, Azure Blessed Attacks, Morgana]


Status: [Reraise, Charging, ???]

Allies

Azure: Dead


Buffs: None


Debuffs: Exhaustion


Vash: (80,000/80,000)


Buffs: The 5 Secrets, Azure's Blessing, Iron Defense


Debuffs: Soulfire (100%), Sand-trapped


Marith: (55,000/55,000)


Buffs: The 5 Secrets


Debuffs: Soulfire (12%), Sand-trapped, Panic

Land Power = None


Weather = None


Field Effect = !@#)@#!#@

"It's here???"


Marith tried to struggle out of the ground she was sunken in, but to no avail...


"I don't want to fight it feels weak but... isn't it stronger than us?!"


Marith is panicking, and self inflicted herself with panic due to the situation.


The enemy is charging up for a forbidden arte x 4

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"It's fine," Rose said. "It's probably best I find out he can do this sort of stuff early on, so I can be careful, right?" She still felt uncomfortable but like she had told Milia, it was best she knew this now. That way, she could be more prepared so that she wouldn't get sucked into these sorts of antics.


Rose could feel herself starting to relax with Milia's skill. "Thanks," she said. She waved bye to the woman and went off to look for Havoc.


~~~~~


Vash

"That's cheating!" Vash shouted as him and Marith began sinking into the ground. Damn it. Why did they get dragged into the fight? If they were gonna fight anyway, why didn't Azure just let him stay? Stupid Azure. Stupid game. Stupid everything.


"You're a big bully!" he screamed at the enemy. "Bully! Bully! Bully!" Vash cast "Lightning Blade" and then "Iron Defense". He was going to teach this bully a lesson. It was being mean and he could hurt mean people because they were mean. Just like Mel does.


He tried to charge the thing, but as it seems, that was rather difficult to do when in quicksand. And no amount of wiggling on his part was helping. Damn it. This wasn't working. What was he going to do now? What would Mel say?


'Focus Vash!' 'You're supposed to hit them. That's the point!' 'Stop ******* eating! There is a ******* gun to your head! This is no time for afternoon tea!'


Yeah. That wasn't helping either. Uh . . . Eh, screw it. He was just going to hit that thing. He shot off two "Shrapnel" attacks.


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[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"Definitely, I'm sure as long as you know, you'll make some good decisions."


Milia smirks knowing that simply being here is procrastination for her, considering what she 'should' be doing.


"I'm gonna lie low so the dark hag doesn't lecture me, so I'll come get ya after you get the key and all that"


As Rose looked for Havoc, she would eventually catch him over toward the side of the area, looking kinda moopy, despite how aloof and upbeat he was all earlier, like he wasn't having a good time.


"Oh, Rose, sorry do you need something?"


~~~~~


Unknown

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Target: $#()@#$%$!

Stats: Raw


Remaining/Max: 64,000 / 1,000,000,000


Strength: 34056


Spirit: 56392


Vitality: 20953


Will: 28351


Speed: 5390

Stats: Calculated

Standard Attacks: Works


Outgoing Damage: Powerful


Incoming Damage Reduction: (0% Azure) (30% Vash) (50% Marith)


Skill Receive Hit Chance: Enemy is not actively trying to dodge. Always


Status Receive Hit Chance: Immune


Skill Outgoing Hit Chance: +35 (Azure), 15+ (Vash, Marith)


Status Outgoing Hit Chance: Always


Skill: [???]


Abilities: [unbeatable v.5, ???]


Arcane Artes: [black Hole, Envoy of Self]


Forbidden Artes: [soul Absorption, Total Annihilation]


Absorb: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Reflect: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Immune: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Resist: [Non-Weakness Attacks]


Weak: [Azure, Azure, Azure Blessed Attacks, Morgana]


Status: [Reraise, Charging, ???]

Allies

Azure: (144,000/144,000)


Buffs: None


Debuffs: Exhaustion


Vash: (80,000/80,000)


Buffs: The 5 Secrets, Azure's Blessing, Iron Defense


Debuffs: Soulfire (100%), Sand-trapped


Marith: (55,000/55,000)


Buffs: The 5 Secrets


Debuffs: Soulfire (12%), Sand-trapped, Panic

Land Power = None


Weather = None


Field Effect = !@#)@#!#@

The enemy took 48,000, and 47,000 damage from Vash's attacks.


The enemy seemed to grow incredibly unstable for a brief moment, its physical form seemingly dissipating from that final hit, and fell to the ground as darkness evaporated off of it.


Vash was able to sense Azure again? He seemed to be getting stronger by a bit somehow, and felt as though he was fully healed even.


The enemy's buff 'Reraise' Activated, and is slowly reviving... The enemy is slowly healing to 100% of its max HP and will come back alive... The enemy healed for 200,000 and is still unconscious seemingly. Vash and Marith are still stuck in the floor.


"You did it!?"


Azure came into sight of Vash, looking surprised and happy to see his accomplishment.


"That good, I'm sorry I did that guy, I could feel your distress... but I had no choice!"


Azure is using an Arcane Arte


"Terra Aura"


Azure manipulated the ground Vash and Marith were stuck in, safely removing them from it, and eliminated the quicksand entirely.


"If I didn't, you would of died for nothing, and I swear, that I will protect you both for as long as I can. This enemy can't be beaten, every time you 'kill it' it just comes back at full strength, and a little stronger as well. So here's the plan..."





Azure seems to be in a rush to do something, and dispelled his Aura stepped away from Vash and Marith


"Dichotomy Body"


Azure glowed with energy for a bit as he suddenly split into two separate people?? One of which was a guy, while the other a girl it seemed. The guy version looked pretty much the same, unchanged really, while the second one, Vash could feel as being completely female, body and all. Both parts felt weaker however... although both parts felt stronger than 50%...


"You're going to make your escape with my female form while I hold this thing off"





(F) Azure took Vash and Marith by their hands


"Lets go"


(F) Azure forced Vash and Marith to leave with them in tow, running for on and on...


"Guess now I just gotta keep you here..."


The battle continues on...


~~~~~


Unknown ((F) Azure)


The group ran for quite a long while, before female Azure stopped them all to let them rest


"Guy, Marith, do you know where this is? Where we are now I mean?"


"Uh...?"


(F) Azure is charging up for an Arcane Arte


(F) Azure is holding her charge, delaying the magic's activation.

 

[amdreams]

Vash

"No! You were being mean!" Vash grumbled at Azure, arms crossed and not questioning anything that had happened. "I could've helped."


He didn't have much time to argue though. The enemy was rising up again. "Really?! That is super cheating!!! I killed you. You die now. Things die when you kill them!" Vash flailed his arms at the thing, angry at how it seemed to be reviving. That was so not fair. Not fair. Not fair. Not fair. Not fair.


Vash wanted to hit that thing again, but before he could, Azure had split in two and a girl was now dragging him and Marith away, with him screaming the entire way.


It was quite a while before the three of them stopped and by then, Vash's voice was hoarse from all the screaming. He fell onto the ground, reduced to a puddle. "Thirsty . . . " was all he managed to mutter.


~~~~~


Rose

Rose went about the party for a while before she eventually found him looking rather mopey. She thought about simply asking about the armor but it seemed a rather awkward time to do so. "Havoc?" she began with a concerned voice. "What's wrong?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"Well, it's about Mel..."


Havoc shook his head disappointed in himself


"I don't think she's taking, what the Aberrant did to her friend well at all. I can tell because, a lot of people here are basically one giant family, and when someone dies, or it eats them, its just devastating... some people breakdown entirely and fall apart when they hear the news, others get violent and hateful, wanting revenge on a thing that doesn't die, other's withdraw into themselves, trying to bottle the pain so that they don't feel it, and what I believe to be Mel's case, is that she's disassociating him from her life, doing everything she can to make her friend worthless in her mind, something she could never consider a friend, so that she couldn't feel any pain from the loss."


Havoc stood up from where he was sitting down


"I don't know, I try not to think about it to much. It's important to morn, but I don't have that kind of time here, between doing research and making whatever. I've been trying to study the Aberrants, but, there just really isn't anything practical that can be done. The most I've been able to do is make prototype weapons, designed to do damage proper, but Fujin and Raijin haven't returned yet..."


Havoc seemed to snap out of both his train of thought, and rambling, looking a little better thanks to Rose


"Ah, I'm talking to myself again, sorry, I've been rather overwhelmed lately, but have you ever gotten anything from the Aberrants from your fights? Could you show me if you do?"


~~~~~


Unknown (M)


"...You did help me though. I defended you, and made your attack hurt it, so that way it would be weakened enough for you to kill."


~~~~~


Unknown (F)


"Sorry, but there's no food or water anywhere..."


"Gate Breaker"


Azure filled himself with a strange energy and kept walking


"This place infinitely expands around the person like a prison no matter how far you run, but this is only the first layer of the prison, one that I can take others through."


As she walked, dark energies tried to surround her, as they at the same time were also repelled. Azure we t flat up against the wall of darkness, and attacked the wall, creating some sort of strange light fissure in it that felt similar to the static portals they have seen.


"Maybe... You could find water out the other side?"

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"O-oh! Yeah. Just let me get them." Rose opened up the inventory, taking out everything they had gotten from the portals the Aberrants left behind and gave them to Havoc. As she did so, she found herself frowning.


Rose felt incredibly bad for Havoc, listening to him. He seemed to be thinking a lot about this sort of stuff. It must've been hard. "I'm sure Mel's fine," she said in an attempt to make him feel better. "I mean her other friend was killed just a month ago and she was perfectly fine after that. I mean I've never seen her cry. Get angry, sure, but not cry. Personally, I think she's just used to it. She's constantly surrounded by death after all."


~~~~~


Vash

Vash gasped. "No food?! What sort of horrible place is this?!" He grabbed his head, running around in circles with a face of absolute horror. He kept chanting, "No food? No food?" He halted to a stop though, when he heard Azure mention the possibility of water in the next area. "Water? So there can be food too?" He didn't wait for an answer. Instead he just ran through the fissure with reckless abandon.

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


Havoc looked over the collection of equipment, quite impressed at the selection Rose had to offer.


"Well... if you say so Rose..."


He sighed, and returned to look over her stuff more eyeing the virus cores that Rose took out very curiously.


"... this is... something I've never seen before... you are sure you got this from an Aberrant? This item has a chaotic and disruptive energy to it... I think I can do something with this, this is what I was talking about"


Havoc looked surprised as she brought out the Tetra Guard Armor


"...?! You got this from an Aberrant?? This is Azure's armor though, how on earth did you even get this? It's been so long since I've seen this armor as well, this... this doesn't make any sense??"


Havoc looked at Rose stupefied about the situation


"You couldn't of gone to see Azure yet right? The reason you came here in the first place is because you needed my help in breaking the seal he put to where he's holed up right??"


~~~~~


Unknown


The two followed after Vash through the portal... and what waited on the other side of it was nothing sort of a hellish landscape for the trio to look down upon from high atop of cliff side, extending probably a mile or two off the ground. Massive lakes of lava out in the open, health drawn out of the ground and air, there was no life here, nothing alive... for some reason, even color was devoid in the land, leaving nothing but a grey, garish, and barren world. Even the lava looked faded in color, but still maintained its natural look...


"Guy, Marith, do you know where this is... when you two were killed and absorbed, you were sent into Tartarus, the Dirge of Tartarus, Tartarus's truer, but not final form, that's what I was told."

Dirge of Tartarus

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"I was hoping where we would end up might of had something more, but it did not... this place is a trap made by Azure in a last ditch effort to keep everyone alive, and trapped me down here as well to keep that thing I was fighting from leaving. It can't be killed, and only I can really match it, anyone who has tried to help me died in the process, people who are stronger than you as of now..."


Azure took out something, and it appeared to be some sort of map?

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"I've been trying to restore this place bit by bit, but the only real purpose to that, is to force the enemy to spend time undoing what I did... Do you need help climbing down from here?"

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"Well, yeah," Rose said. "After we defeat the Aberrant, we usually get these things from the static portals left behind." She watched Havoc examine each piece of equipment, jumping when he found the Tetra Guard. "Y-yeah. It came from the portal. Like all the rest."


She became confused when he asked her if they had seen Azure yet. "Well, no. Of course we haven't. Why else would we even come here?"


~~~~~


Vash

Vash's face fell once they had entered the new area. "There's no water here," he whined. "What is this place? And why is there no color? That's weird." Azure then began saying something that only seemed to confuse him more. He didn't want to think. He wanted water. He fell onto the ground, grumbling the entire time, not even making mention of the map in Azure's hand. "I dun wanna . . . I want food. And water. And naptime."

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"Hmm... well... its strange to say the least, but when it comes to Aberrants..... there's just to much that we don't know... Those Virus cores though, I might be able to find a use for them, they might be just the thing I was looking for when it comes to dealing with Aberrants. Looks like an all nighter for me maybe."


Havoc looked excited to see what is up with the strange things Rose and her buddies have collected


"Hey, while you're here."


Havoc pulled out a keycard of some sort and held it to Rose


"You can use this to just grab yourself a room to sleep in while you feel like turning in, I gotta find that harpy to give her one too now that I think of it. Thanks for cheering me up by the way."


Havoc gave Rose a glinting smile of a smirk meant to either show gratitude in a cool way, or just to be a little silly perhaps.


"You'll probably grow stronger over the night while you're sleeping from the fighting you did, its just to bad you guys won't grow as fast as Aura Knights though. Man... I hate Aberrants... we had levels in the thousands..."


~~~~~


Dirge of Tartarus


-... This guy... he's like a kid or something...-


"I guess, you can call this the evil version of Tartarus? It was always evil, but we made a good version of it that is very blue?"


Azure shook his head, unsure what to do with Vash at this point, with his child-like explanations.


"Well, you can sleep... I guess... It should be safe with me around protecting you at least..."

 

[amdreams]

Vash

"Evil?" Vash asked. Oh! He was in an evil lair. A dungeon. That meant there was treasure here! Shiny stuff and maybe food! Vash found himself getting more excited but he was tired as well and decided to take up Azure's offer of rest. "Good night," he said, settling himself onto the ground and konking out almost immediately.


~~~~~


Rose

"Thanks," Rose said, taking the key card. She realized that she was actually pretty tired after all. Maybe she should've taken Mel's example and went to bed early. She began to leave when she remembered something. "Ah! That's right. I heard you could make us some better clothes than what we have now? And do something about my hair? I mean I love purple. It's my favorite color. But I'd much rather return to being blonde, you know?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Party)


"See ya around then Rose, I'll be up working through the night checking this stuff out."


Havoc looked at the virus cores excitedly as she left, only to return to ask some more of him.


"Of course I can, that's like, half of what I do here. Here, come on."


Havoc took Rose's hand and led her through the crowd to the elevator across the room, and went into with her, letting her hand go after that. Milia came walking over wondering what was going up, but Havoc already set the elevator to start moving, going rather fast upward as Milia tried to fly after it, giving chase with her outside the glass sealed elevator, passing Havoc's home along the way to a higher floor


"Rose what's up?! You passed his home? Where are ya going??"


"Sorry Milia can't hear ya, science and all."


"Havoc! Stop this elevator and let me on, I..."


Rose could see for a brief moment of Milia slamming into the ceiling before entering a little elevator tunnel that separated the tower segments


"Sorry Milia, going through a tunnel, the reception is real bad here."


He looked at Rose


"She'll probably be fine"


After a bit, the elevator stopped upon reaching the ground floor of block 2 of the tower.


"This is pretty much the R&D part of this tower."


He lead her toward a room to the side.


"I haven't needed to use this thing since the last Reeza incident I caused... heh I really hope I don't meet her again anytime soon, I doubt she'd be happy to see me at all after the prank I pulled on her."


In one end of the room was a machine that resembled the pods they went in to get in the game in the first place. Toward the back of the room was another one, that looked completely destroyed, torn apart, deep claw and greatsword marks etched into the metal itself.


"You'd think I'd know not to mess with Reeza, but I set her off while doing a test of sorts trying to help her with her anger, and I ended up making it far worse. It's a pretty bad story if you wanna hear about it. Anyway if you don't really care, you can just go in the pod and I'll talk and walk you through whatever changes you want to your body from there."

 

[amdreams]

Rose

"Uh . . . " Rose was honestly terrified as Havoc brought her to his lab. After hearing everything Milia had to say, she stepped back with caution. Her arms pressed up against herself. She had no idea what would happen to her here. And those pods didn't exactly look comforting. They looked similar to the ones that put them in this stupid game and look how that turned out. She just wanted out. "I . . . Uh . . . I think I changed my mind . . . It's not like it's hurting me, right?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Thunder Area (Block II)


"Well go ahead and just take the elevator down then if ya don't wanna try it, I guess it does hurt you but, not really since you sound fine with purple hair. If you don't want to use the pod, you can just stand on that pad over there to be scanned. Changing hair color is minor enough that something less effective as that could handle it."


He pointed toward a dusty looking panel at the ground against a wall.

 

[amdreams]

Rose

Rose looked at the dusty platform. It seemed safer than the pod but she still didn't feel all too great about it. Luckily, Havoc also gave her the option of backing out and just going to bed. Hopefully with no questions asked. "Thanks," she said, starting for the elevator, but something seemed off about what he had said. "I think I'll just go n- Wait, what? It's hurting me? What do you mean? It's just hair color, right?"