Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[ComradeSenpai]

"Eeeeee~" Anya made a noise before carrying a bundle to the closet. A rumbling sound came from within for several minutes before she kicked the closet door open, bounding out.


"PRINCESS I'VE COME FOR YOU." she shouted. She was dressed in a mostly plastic, yet remarkably detailed suit of armor. The armor itself had a crimson surcoat draped over, and the helmet had hollow cat ears to accommodate her own.


She raised her plastic sword in the air, and lowered the visor, ready to charge forth and rescue her fair lady.


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"You fool! A gentleman is expected to know a lady's measurements by heart!" Richter declared, pointing his finger at Azure. "It's a skill passed down from father to son, that brings friends closer together as men!"


He raised his rifle, and took aim. It occurred to him any bullets hitting Mel would likely pierce her and hit Azure as well.


I'm sure he can handle it, he thought to himself, shouldering the rifle.

 

[Duwang]

Suddenly, Mr. Khan's phone vibrated as he was busy reading his magazine. "Ah!" he jumped. Calmly, Mr. Khan reached into his new chest, taking from it a black smartphone. "Oh. It's Mr. Sub." he mumbled, reading the text message. Mr. Khan tapped in "Can't. Watching kids" before erasing his message. "Forget it" he told himself.


Mr. Khan got back into the closet and emerged in his normal form: a tall man in a white button-up shirt, and black slacks with black loafers. "I'm sorry kids" he said, posing right out of the closet. "Mr. Khan's gotta take care of business" he excused himself, sweeping his hair to the side. "I hope you can watch yourselves. Have fun" he said, walking out the door.


Mr. Khan was quick to locate the oil drum. He hefted it up and carried it to his car, stuffing it in the back seat.

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure looked at Richter with an exhausted face... as well as brought up some bad memories...


"... all of you are unreal..."


Azure waited a bit more hoping that Richter would do something, when he brought up his weapon.


-Wa..... is he going to shoot?!?!-


"Richter?! You're going to shoot with me here...? You aren't going to just gut punch her or something!?!"


Azure was shaking in fear a bit... if he let Mel go, she'd be able to do whatever to him, and if he didn't Richter would probably shoot regardless of what he was saying... damned if he did, damned if he didn't


"Well Azure... your move now, unless Mel has something to say about all of this... hehe"





"... I'm not getting shot... again..."

 

[amdreams]

Mel was taken by surprise as Azure grabbed her from behind, having not heard him coming at all. Either he could teleport or maybe he used illusions to mess with her hearing. THough how he didn't matter right now as he had her immobile. As she thought of a way to free herself, most likely involving a rain of knives or something similar, a familiar voice made her grimace. Great. She was fighting a group of perverts. "Why? Jealous?"


Hearing Richter pipe in didn't stop the slight shudder going down her spine. But Azure's grip loosened at this point, so she took this opportunity to bring her leg up and swing it back as hard as she could for where she assumed were his crown jewels*. "Bloody ******* pervs," she muttered under her breath, as she slipped from his arms.


Mel stepped away as her eyesight began to come back. Everything looked washed out though she could make out a few blobs of color. However, before it could get any clearer, Bunny took her whip, wrapped it around her leg and pulled, making Mel fall to the ground and pretty hard as well. But as Mel hit the ground, she moved her legs sharply, pulling the whip and Bunny with it. The angel was met with a kick to her side, sending her flying into the water, though not without hitting the ice first.


Mel stood up again, and pulled a card from a pouch on her belt. Squinting a bit, she was able to make out a roman numeral 7 and a few swords on the card. Perfect. If she didn't know exactly where everyone was, she would just have to attack all around. Giving the card a kiss, she smirked. Behind her, several small magic circles appeared with what looked like ornate shotguns coming out of them. They span around, circling her until they stopped. "Bang." And with a word, they all shout multiple rounds in random directions all around.


~~~~~


Rose ran for a nearby tree, trying to hide behind it, though a couple bullets managed to graze her leg and cheek. The half-elf could only hope the others were as lucky, if not luckier. She peered from behind the tree, hoping to find an opening to move in. She noticed the guns eventually slowing down until finally stopping and vanishing. Mel stood still, as if waiting for someone to make a move or to see if they had all died.


*It doesn't have to hit that particular area. Oh god, we should hope it didn't hit.

 

[CSA]

When Anya burst out of the closet, loudly proclaiming her intentions, Lily had to keep herself from giggling. She knew that Anya was super serious and completely into it, but it was still just too funny and cute. There was a pause for a second as the teacher excused himself to do something or other- posing as he left.


"Gross."





"Um... bye, mister Khan..."


He had been playing with his phone, so maybe they were done already? Or perhaps they needed backup. Either way, it probably wasn't too dangerous for Lily to be alone with Anya in their room. Lily turned back to her friend.


"Oh, a brave knight has come for me! But how ever will she defeat... the DRAGON?"


One of Lily's vines rummaged around in the toy box and pulled out a relatively large and not-at-all threatening stuffed dragon. She manipulated it to move around with one of her vines as she covered her mouth and tried to make her voice menacing. It didn't work too well because her voice was as the sweetest honey, but at least she sounded different.


"Kekeke! After a thousand years I'm free! And now that I've captured the princess, I will... uh... marry her! Bwahaha! And then I will be the king! The dragon king! Huehuehue!"


She moved the stuffed dragon around as she spoke to make it seem like the dragon was talking.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Wha?!" Anya jumped back, gasping. "Dragons can't marry princesses! That's for knights to do!"


She pointed her sword forward. "And you ain't a knight, son. Verily." With this, she readied her blade, and began swinging ineffectually at the beast.


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"Not bad." Richter commented as the barrage ended. He'd absorbed the brunt; holes riddled his body. He dropped his PKM, drawing the .45s. "Let's see what I can do."


He fired off a lengthy barrage, charging Mel with a mad dash and dozens of bullets.

 

[CSA]

"Fufufu! Such a weak knight could never defeat me," 'said' the stuffed dragon, weaving around Anya's flailing.


"Now it's time to end this! Ultimate Miracle Rolling Tackle Attack!"


The stuffed dragon closed in, and one of Anya's wild swings made contact. Lily tossed the toy aside like Anya had hit it with incredible force.


"This cannot be! Now I am sealed for another thousand years probably!"


Lily took her hand off of her mouth and reverted to her normal tone of voice.


"Oh, goodness! My brave knight has slain the dragon!"

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure snapped back to Mel a few moments after she began to fight back at him. She ended up hitting his leg, and after she dropped out of his grasp, he jumped back some and held his kicked knee a bit.


"Hey... Don't loop me in with them as a pervert, I'm not like that! I'm innocent!"


"Oh? Is that really something you should concern yourself with now? After all these years, I thought I had already taken that away..."


"..."


As Bunny lead her assault on Mel , he backed up to avoid getting in the way, and watched as Bunny got launched.


"Gah, Bunny!"


Azure ran behind a rock at the first sign of her doing something. He could do much to help bunny since Mel is between him and her and wasn't feeling like close encounters would be a good idea. Likewise Kylier jumped down and behind her spot , bringing the towel along with her..


-It's got to be some kind of magic... But what does it lead to?-


When the bullets started flying he ducked down with a surprised yelp. What followed was Richter seemingly doing the same.


"What's with them..."


Azure decided that the best way to support Richter was to shoot the area behind Mel with a shadow blast, to limit where she could go, and possibly keep her in place. He stepped out, and held his weapon out, built up the energy within and launched the concussive explosive magic behind her a couple feet.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"I've bested the dragon!" Anya cheered, sheathing her sword. "I've finally completed my journey. Now I can marry the princess, as is my birthright."


"Wait." she paused, and went over things in her head. "But I'm not old enough to get married!" she panicked.

 

[amdreams]

Seeing Azure and Richter fire at Mel, Rose decided to take her chance and help provide support from her angle as well. Pointing her finger at Mel, light began gathering at her fingertips before a laser fired in Mel's direction.


With attacks coming at her from 3 different angles, Rose was sure Mel wouldn't be able to defend against everything. But in a split second, Rose saw a black and yellow blur appear on the clearing. There then came a sudden drop in temperature as 3 thick walls of ice erupted from the ground. Bullets and magic collided with ice but the walls did not falter, bearing a few burns and cracks but still standing their ground.


In the middle of the ring of walls stood Riff, wearing a black suit akin to a butler's. By the look on his face, he was obviously not amused. "Lucky me," he said. "It appears I've made it just in time." Hanging from one of his hands was Vash, having been pulled here by the collar. "Hi Mel," the white haired demon said, waving to her. "I got lost. Sorry."


Riff dropped Vash, earning a loud "Ow!" from the boy. He walked over to Mel, bowing down to her before saying, "I'm back, Miss Mel."


By this time, Mel's eyesight had come back. She took one glance down at Riff before going back to watching the others. "Get up, Riff. Or you'll miss this wonderful party."


~~~~~


By the time Bunny swam to the surface, she could see not only Mel but also Riff and Vash. "Damn," she cursed beneath her breath. This was going to be harder than she wished. After shaking herself a bit dryer, small wings sprouted from her back and she took to the skies, flying closer to the eye of the storm.


She looked around the clearing. She could still see Azure and Richter, and even saw Rose emerge from behind a tree, cheek and leg bleeding a bit. There didn't seemt o be much opening in Mel and her goons' formation. They stood in a close circle, backs toward each other, each posed ready to strike anyone who came forward.


Bunny didn't see how she could help much at the moment but she at least could get rid of the ice. As it was a demon's creation, her own power should be able to melt it. So casting 3 beams of soft white light, the walls of ice vanished into large puddles.

 

[Croissant]

Elaem




​

Elaem had been hiding behind a couple of bushes and large trees, moving so he would not be noticed, at the time he had been behind a bush when he saw Mel casting her power from an outside source, the magic did not exactly seem to originate directly from her but she still activated it. Elaem saw the shotguns as they elevated and quickly knew what she was up to, the magic coating the shotguns would control them. He looked towards a boulder nearby but it was quickly occupied by Azure, only a few momments before the shots would be fired he decided to evade them through prediction, his eyes seemed to know as the shots were just about to be shot where Elaem would move to evade them, Elaem tilted his head slightly and moved his upped half to the left while his legs remained motionless, as the shots whizzed by none managed to touch him, he was lucky he was able to predict the route of the bullets directed his way in the first barrage of bullets as he quickly got behind a tree the second barrage. As the firing ended Elaem had exposed his whereabouts as the bullets had destroyed any other hiding spots.


"Well damn..." he said





He saw looked towards the people fighting Mel and noticed the trajectories that they were shooting at, they attempted to lock Mel in but to him it seemed vain but it might work as Mel's vision was blinded and even at her amazing ability in the dark the blasts would be too quick for her to eva-. He looked back at another person running by him at great speed, an ice user and the other was.. Vash? Elaem recognized Vash's energy but he did not know about this other person. He looked towards Mel and the man used his magic to manipulate the ice into walls. Pretty clever. Elaem thought he might be useful in battle but it seemed that everything was a bit crowded already, he would jump it at moment's notice. Hopefully he hadn't been THAT exposed, he probably was though...he remained behind the tree as the battle went on. The walls were quickly defeated by another girl in the sky.


--This is getting a bit heated... I wonder why they're fighting so hard, I mean just how many did this girl 'kill'?--

 

[CSA]

Lily smiled as Anya cheered, but quickly went to comfort the girl when she realized that she would be unable to 'seize her birthright' just yet. Lily pulled Anya close and rubbed her shoulder reassuringly.


"It's OK, my brave and dashing knight. I'm not old enough either, so we can just get married later."


Lily paused to think for a couple of seconds.


"Wait, so I'm not old enough to get married right? Why did that dragon even kidnap me, then? He was pretty dumb, huh? Surely no match for your cleverness. A feast," Lily called out in a rather grandiose manner, "In honor of the gallant Dame Hawthorne!"


One of Lily's vines slithered over to the refrigeration unit and took out a pie, setting it on the table.


"Hark! It is a pie for feasting," said Lily, pointing in the direction of one of her tender and flaky masterpieces.

 

[Advent Azure]

Everything seemed to be going well, that was until the Ice barrier came up...


-Her magic?! No... this isn't good, my magic doesn't break through...-


"..."


Azure became hesitant, he wasn't sure if it was safe to go in, and he couldn't just use his magic all day either, and considering that he can't see her behind the walls of Ice, he was at a loss, or at least until Ray's of light struck down upon them. He noticed that Riff and Vash were with her now...


-... I don't know how this is going to go... Bunny's magic nullifies that Ice wall... so I should be able to be effective against that as well... but... what are they going to do? What am I going to do!? If her magic is only truly effective against demons..... I need to make a path for Richter...-


Azure pointed his weapon toward the three of them, considering that Vash was... on a leash... and that Mel hadn't used Ice make in either encounter, that Riff might be the one to cause it. He pointed his weapon right at Riff, and launched Bunny's light beam attack at Riff. Compared to Bunny's soft light, Azure's had a harder and harsher aesthetic to it, as if it had more malice to it

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Anya gave a cheer as she grabbed a slice of Lily pie. This was a just reward for a successful quest.


"Hey, Princess Lily," she said, eating the pie whilst armorclad. "We've been playing dress-up for a while. Papa said variety is the spice of life... usually when we had something new to eat, but I think it counts for games too. Is there something else you wanna play?"


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"The ice guy. Let's see if tech can keep up with your magic." Richter said, holstering his pistols. He brought around the flamethrower on its sling, and unleashed a thick torrent of flame. The weapon would run out of fuel before long, but it'd be quite an onslaught until then.


Provided he could keep running towards them, of course.

 

[CSA]

Lily simply sat down and watched as Anya ate her pie. Her current outfit would be a pain to clean, so Lily abstained from eating just yet.


"Oh? Your papa sounds worldly. He's right, Dame Hawthorne- it's nice to try new things every once in a while."


Lily thought a minute about some new games to play. She had been reading about activities both for children and for cats, so she probably had a good idea of the stuff Anya would like. She hoped. Before Anya had become her friend, Lily never had anyone to play with so all this stuff was pretty new to her.


"Well once you're done eating and you get changed, I think I'll have a new game for you."


"I hope she likes it. Even if I've researched a whole lot of stuff, it doesn't mean anything until we try it out."

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Yeah, he really is the wor- a new game?!" Anya hurriedly finished her pie, then dashed into the closet. She emerged mere minutes later, dressed in more practical, albeit less noble day clothes.


"I'm ready for the new game!" she announced. She'd no doubt this would be the greatest game invented since dress-up.

 

[CSA]

As Anya put her normal clothing back on, so too did Lily. She only waited a couple of seconds while Anya finished up and came back out. Anya was excited- Lily could tell. She just hoped that what she had in mind was fun.


"OK... so you're ready for the new game?" asked Lily slightly nervously.


It wasn't something that they'd tried before, and on paper it didn't really look like it would work, but Lily had done her research. This was fun probably. She just didn't want to disappoint Anya.


Lily took something out of her flower, and simply held it in front of the Neko. It was a ball of yellow yarn. She moved it slowly from side to side, hoping that the girl was interested, and then all of a sudden chucked it to the ground.


Lily had no idea why this would work, how this would work, or why it was fun, but she trusted her internet research. She trusted the numbers.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"What's thi-" Anya stammered, eyes quickly focusing on the yellow ball. Her body tensed, and she knelt down as the ball fell, beginning to paw at it. "What is this?" she asked herself. She couldn't figure out why she was batting the yarn back and forth, but she was certainly enjoying it. "I don't understand" she told Lily, unraveling the ball with her teeth before rolling it around. It was short work to get herself tangled, rolling around with the yarn.

 

[amdreams]

(Why does everyone hate Riff? xD )


Seeing Azure's attack, Mel rushed forward. She pushed Riff aside, taking the brunt of the attack herself. Using her arms to defend herself, the light burned through her sleeves. As the light disappeared, her arms were red but it didn't seem to damage her more than that. "What the **** do you think you're doing?!"


Riff, however, wasn't so lucky. As Mel pushed him aside, she pushed him into the line of fire of Richter's flamethrower. He brought out his scales as quick as he could, but as flames were a foil to the nature of his own abilities, all they could do was lessen the damage as the flames licked his back. Riff hissed as at the pain in his back and shoulders, now black and red with burns.


Though still pained, he managed to erupt a thick wall of ice to protect Mel from the lingering flames and heat.


~~~~~


As everyone was trying to take down Riff, Rose decided to turn her attention to Vash. As he didn't exactly seem like the brightest of the bunch, she figured it'd be easier to get him out of the picture.


Once she saw that the others were preoccupied with Azure and Richter, she rushed forward toward the white-haired boy. In her right hand, light gathered, before stretching and forming a sword. In her other hand, she sent several small shots of light at him. Vash easily blocked them, using a large rock nearby to shield him. He then took the same rock and threw it at Rose.


As she swerved to avoid the small boulder, Vash came running at her, fist posed to punch her. Sticking her sword in the ground, she used it to pull her away, barely dodging his fist as it hit the ground behind her with a loud boom. The ground cracked beneath the impact as dirt and bits of grass flew in all directions, leaving behind a small crater. The half-elf looked at the hole in disbelief before turning her attention back to Vash. Well, she obviously couldn't let herself get hit by that. But how could she get close without getting knocked out, or crushed?


As she tried to think of a plan, Rose watched as a whip wrapped around one of Vash's arm. It pulled back, distracting the boy and leaving just enough opening for Rose to come and slash him across the chest with her blade.


Blood gushed out as Vash fell forward to his knees, grabbing at his wound. Rose looked up to see Bunny descend, whip still in hand. "Thanks." "No problem."


~~~~~


Mel looked around at her servants. Riff was doubled over, his back burned. Vash had a gaping wound on his chest. Silent and face oddly calm looking, she stepped forward toward the others, practically leaking murderous intent.


But before long, a hand clamped over her eyes, pulling her back. "We're not dead yet, Mel." Riff stepped forward, dragging his feet a bit. His back, though still burnt, was covered in ice in an attempt to dull the pain. Glancing back at his mistress, his hand went to his throat, toying with a clear blue gem hanging from a collar around his throat. "As long as we have these, we'll always win," he whispered to her.


Vash passed her as well, his front still soaked in blood. His wound was more shallow than it appeared. "Don't worry, Mel," he said before taking a solid stance a little ways in front of her. "We won't lose. We'll never lose." He took his fists and slammed them together. "Because we are not the ones who are wrong."


Mel smirked. They were right. Deluded, but right. As if she could lose to some rag-tag group of freaks and perverts. She was better than this. And it was time to show them. With a snap of her fingers, two sets of weapons appeared in her hand which she tossed to Riff and Vash.


Riff was given what looked like dual revolvers, but the barrel of the gun was extended and flattened into a large curved knife. The actual barrel of the gun peeked out from the top of the blade. Vash had a set of thick guantlets that had a set of 3 holes along the knuckles of the glove. The metal around his wrist and forearms were especially thick.


Both boys smiled as they got their weapons. Vash quickly slipping into his while Riff twirled one of the guns in his hand, before firing a few shots at Azure. As the guns actually worked with Riff's magic, the bullets themselves were sharpened shards of ice. "You dare harm Miss Mel?"


~~~~~


As Riff went after Azure, Rose saw Vash look toward her and Bunny. He looked posed to fight, but as they took their chance to run earlier, he was much to far to punch them, so she was a bit confused. Only when the boy seemed to punch the air did she realize the purpose of the holes in the guantlets, as explosive shotgun rounds escaped the weapons and headed for them.


Both girls fled to the side, only to see a metal spike on a chain zoom past them and into a small tree. As Vash opened his fist, so did the spike, making a grappling hook. The boy pulled back as the chains retracted, pulling the tree out. He then swung his arm, swinging the tree to in Richter's direction.


In an attempt to stop him, Bunny shot a blast of holy light at him, but before it could hit, Mel rushed in the way, summoning 3 of the same magic circles she had used the night before. In her hand the 3 of penacles. Mel glared at Bunny, before the raven-haired girl dashed toward the angel, summoning a short sword in her hand, ready to slice the girl up.


(Sorry for the bad post. I find it hard to play both sides of a fight with other people involved as well. Trying to find the balance between advancing enough for my own characters while not too much for the others. Plush switching targets all the time can be a bit confusing for me.)


Hint: Mel, Riff and Vash have an advantage over the others. That being teamwork. As a group, they are nearly invincible as everyone's strengths make up for another's weaknesses. Not to mention they are used to fighting with each other, or at least in the case of Riff and Mel. Your best bet is to try to split them up into individual fights or while someone is attacking one of the three, have someone else attack the one who can protect them.

 

[CSA]

Lily was really happy that Anya seemed to be enjoying her yarn so much. Not so happy, however, that she had forgotten to grab her camera and take a few pictures. Anya seemed rather confused about the whole situation, and truth be told Lily couldn't shed any light on the phenomenon either, but they were both having fun at least.


"It's fun playing with that yarn, right?" asked Lily, getting down on the floor with Anya.


"I don't really understand either, but-"


Anya had almost completely unraveled the ball with her teeth and had gotten herself absolutely covered in yarn. Lily couldn't keep from giggling.


"You silly girl, you've gotten yourself completely tangled. Here, let me help."


And with that, Lily attempted to help Anya untangle herself. With the apparent success of this game, she wondered what other things would work. Maybe the laser pointer.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"What sorcery is this?" Anya asked, pulling the yarn off. "Are your toys magic? They are, aren't they?"


She stared at her friend before asking, "...Do you have any more?"

 

[Advent Azure]

"Oh... well that's something rather interesting you got them to say there Azure."I.. guess you managed to do what I wanted yet again..."


"...? Does that mean you'll help us fight?"


"I believe you have my words twisted up again Azure... after all, you all seem to be making headway... I suppose..."


Azure looking in shock as Mel did something to equipment them all further...


"Kylier... I know you don't care if I live or die at this point... but can you at least tell me something you learned about these guys... anything!?"


"Azure surely you can't figure it out on your own..... perhaps... that is actually your problem... trying to do things on your own while they are doing everything together..."


"What do you mean...? I attacked when Richter lead his attack... and so did Rose"


"Perhaps... but their formation makes it easy for them to defend themselves against your formation..."


"Can you be a little more specific?"


Kylier seemed to ignore Azure... more focused on Mel's group. Azure tried talking back, but Riff decided to launch his counter attack against Azure... being right beside the tree for cover made it easy enough to dodge... but at this rate this wasn't going to leave him with many options...


-Hmm... perhaps if I taught him the other functions of his weapon... he'd be able to make up for them protecting each other's weaknesses... but where's the fun in that...-


Kylier began laughing to herself as things grew increasingly dire, and looked toward Azure again


-It seems like the weapon's latent effects are showing up... he'd never stay in a fight as long as this one before...-


"It's not that I want to hurt her so much... but its what it came to Riff..."


-Now that I think about it... Mel did shove him out of the way of my attack... and didn't seem to bothered by it otherwise... maybe Kylier is saying that we need to make them unable to help each other... but how can we do that if our attacks can't even separate them............ ...!-


Azure had a plan thanks to the hint that Kylier gave him... he wasn't to sure how long he would be able to keep it up, but he should have more than enough magic due to Kylier being 'Kylier'. Azure used his weapon to put the Mel's group under an illusion that removed their sight and sound from Bunny and the rest, then began shouting toward the others.


"Listen, I'm going to force them into not being able to help each other... if I were to just out right make us invisible to them... they would just try to be defensive until they outlast my magic... so I'm going separate who they are able to perceive. Just go after the people that are after you, and I'll private-ize the fight on their end. Riff can't see you guys, but he'll be able to see me and such, basically... and the same is true for who you guys were fighting... just keep that in mind"


Azure used his weapon to once more use Kylier's Illusionary Magic on the others. He made it so that they were no longer able to see or hear each other. More so even... he took this one step further, to specifically affect them differently. Riff was only able to properly use his senses against Azure, Vash was only able to use his senses against Bunny and Rose, and Mel was only able to use his senses against Richter.


-If its like this... they can't help each other, but they will remained focused on us rather than just trying to stay with and help each other... I hope this is what Kylier meant...-


Azure realized that he used up the light magic that he had gotten from Bunny... and as a result, lost a good chance to use it as well... Even so, as long as he continues to force Riff's attention on him, he probably won't have the time to exactly locate the others.


-... I wish I was in my other set of clothes... I had more weapons on there... and I could fight him with two dagger's instead of one..... and maybe... I could do something about the magic Mel used... but I can't get to close since he has guns...-


Azure, being the cautious (coward/scoundrel) guy he is, went back out from behind the tree quite the distance after Riff's attack ended. Before he had done so though, he went out to line up Riff and Mel... He considered going after Vash instead... but he's a little to unpredictable, and he would have had to circle around a lot more than compared to Mel, who is the main target...


-So Mel did have more tricks up her sleave... and it sounds as if she has more...... I wonder...-

 

[Croissant]

Elaem




​

Elaem remained behind the tree and observed the fight, for a second it seemed that Mel's group was getting a grade A beating and the "Good Guys" are winning, but they seemed to show no mercy (The good guys) both groups had the intent to kill, and he didn't see justice in either of them, they all looked as if they had their own mixed goals, some were simply following, and others (Azure) were still confused of the whole situation but decided to help out because it seemed like the "Right" thing to do. Elaem would have to do this as well, he had his own goal in the fight, he wanted to prevent killing. When you are aware of the Action you are doing and know it is wrong, and intend to justify the action, it seems just as evil as being aware that you are killing and not caring about the justification for it. If both sides wanted this, they were both wrong.


Elaem stepped out of his hiding place and unto the frozen battlefield, he was still off to the side lines but he simply observed. Azure was setting up illusion magic that he drew from the same source, a woman that was shrouded by illusion magic, she was very good at it she managed to keep her face mostly hidden but the magic would not work on Elaem's eyes for very long, putting some more focus he saw the pattern Azure was setting up his Illusions in a patter to separate the other group, it was clever but it might be dangerous as he has used it in previous occasions on the girl named Mel and she was very skilled and as long as the mind is aware that it is under an illusion the illusion loses a part of it's strength on the Person's side reality wise.


Elaem walked to Azure and tapped his shoulder


"Anything I can do to help?" he asked


"Alsooo.... who is that girl that you seemed to be magically connected to, I can tell she's a demon comparing her aura to Riff's and Vash's so are you drawing all that magic from her?" he asked this first, he would have several other questions after depending on the answer Azure gave, although Elaem already knew the answer.

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure shuddered, gasped, and went wide-eyed when Elaem touched him.


"Kylier?!"


Azure looked back to see that it was not Kylier, but Elaem who got his attention...


"Wa... Er..."


He wasn't sure what to make of this...


-He's probably saw this, and wants to fight... probably for the sake of killing...-


"Well... you'll probably get hurt if you join in... and we..... or at least I am trying to leave them both alive, and incapacitated..."


Azure froze for a bit when he referenced Kylier...


"You..... can see past her magic... as well...?"


He sort of figured that he would be the sort of person who would just leave considering that he walked onto a battle ground...


-Ugh... this guy.....-


"Well..... its just magic that I had already drawn from her in the past... wait... how can you tell in the first place?"





-..... who is he... he already has made a bother of himself...-

 

[Croissant]

Elaem




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Elaem could see the distaste that Azure had once Elaem made a presence, Elaem wasn't pretty fond of this guy either, he was pretty shady in his actions and he was silent, secretive. But Elaem kept his composure knowing that this guy had the same goals as him, not just jumping on for the "fight" or to "kick some ass".


"I guess we're pretty similar goal wise, I don't really want to kill, (He isn't reading minds he is basing it off of what you said) It isn't very "just" or "righteous" to kill when you're aware of the action being Evil but proclaim it is an act of good. Since you are slaying evil hypothetically. But enough philosophy I don't wanna sound like a smart ass..." he said returning to his usual self


Elaem sighed and looked at all the illusions set up as divisions, it may work if the Mel girl doesn't realize, she has been in Azure's/??? (kyiler)'s Illusions before. He thinks.


"I honestly thought you were just hoping on for the good sake of a "fight" or just following the crowd, I may have been wrong I guess" He mentioned


"So erm... I can tell since I've been observing the battle also the magic you've absorbed from her left a trail, and the magic you expelled was pretty similar to the one surrounding her, so one can only use the solid evidence that has been observed. Also if that question was referred to how I can SEE her well it's not magic. Also who is she?" he pointed in the direction she was and looked directly at her.





Elaem quickly dropped his hand and smiled nervously, he didn't know the person so he didn't really wanna piss the girl off by exposing her hiding spot, but he didn't know what she was here for, but she didn't really refute the fact that Azure took magic from her before hand so Elaem, guesses she might be allied with Azure.


"So what's your plan for incapacitating the enemies?" he asked Azure