Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[MechaGhoul]

Espinosa glanced towards Skyia as she glanced towards Reggie and Robin, "I will be bac-" She blinked as Lily announced that she'd hold down the fort and keep everyone calm. She gave a thumb's up to her, "Good plan, make sure to do that." She then glanced towards Victor, "We could always use more ranged!" as she waved him over towards the boarding party attack group. Robin simply tapped his left foot, as he glanced towards Reggie, "Well this should be an enjoyable experience for you. As for me, as per noblesse oblige, I am contractually bound to help out the common man. As such, the holdings are being attacked by intruders, as a Baron and Heir of the Taishang Mage Guild, I cannot allow such a repugnant situation to go unsolved."


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Meanwhile, Richter successfully scurried up to the second floor, where he was met with the corpse of an Elven Crewmember, who had their limbs strung about. The left arm was holding on the remains of the floorboard by it's tendon. At the moment their was only one crew-member at the scene, but there was the sounds of rushing members from both the left and right corridors.


The pirate who was at this area, was an female Kitsune who held a battle spear. She quickly grew out her nine tails, as she rushed towards Ritcher with her spear attempting to strike him in the torso, but more importantly, trying to maneuver him to fall back down the hole. As per her plan, she used one of her nine tails to try to trip over Richter, as she was thrusting towards him.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Richter stomped the fox-girl's tail in retaliation, grabbing the girl's spear and crushing the shaft in his fist. He used his other hand to grab her waist, and pulled her close to him, not unlike the pose used for a slow dance.


"Shhhh. There's no need for anger." he said, brushing the hair out of her face. Gently, he leaned in, bringing his lips close to hers, close enough to hear her breaths...


At the last moment, he brought his head down, and began drinking deeply from the side of her neck as he stroked her tails.

 

[Advent Azure]

((Accidental wrong area post, posting by phone sorry))

 

[ComradeSenpai]

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[MechaGhoul]

The Kitsune glared at Richter before she howled out, "You do not have the right to touch my tails!" As Richter brought her face closer to his, she used the opportunity to kick at Richter, and claw at his face, before getting bitten on the neck, as she continued clawing at him and struggled to get out, as she moved her tails away as quickly as she could.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Oh, I don't?" Richter asked, pulling away from the wound he'd made. "But I can't help myself. The texture of the fur, the softness, the quality. Your tails are exquisite; it's a shame you can't share them with me."


The vampire pushed his prey against the wall. "Why, you're more concerned about them than you are your own blood. That is something."

 

[MechaGhoul]

The Kitsune struggled against the wall as she attempted to use her tails to strike Richter enough to push him off. She continued glaring at him as she moved her head forward to skull bash Richter. If the force of these were enough, in her weakened state with a lack of blood taking its toll, she would attempt to make an escape down the right corridor.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Richter gave off a low laugh, running his hand along another of her tails as she battered him again.


He leaned in once more. "You won't last long with an open wound like that." he whispered, and took several steps back, letting the kitsune go.


"But I do enjoy the way your tails feel, so I'll give you a chance, however slim. Let's play hide and seek."

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Victor stepped forward nodding, standing right next to the party. Giving a quick nod to them. " Ready to go when you all are. " He said, taking off the rifle from his back and holding it in his hands.

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure stepped forward as well


"... I'm sorry about before Robin, and I'd like to make it up to you, but if it's any consolation, I can shield us from any sort of magic they may have, as a defense, and send it back as well."


-... Maybe I shouldn't bring that diseased knife along... I don't even know what I was thinking... That's the sort of thing Kylier would do...-


Azure quickly discarded the bag, throwing it back to where his bag laid, standing next to them all. 
"Also... I'm thinking you are going to use magic to get us there, so... if you are... I don't want to just ruin what you are going to do... so first, can you cast it on me? I absorb magic, which can make things a bit complicated in its own right, like this situation for instance. Use what you are going to do on me, so I can follow you guys."


-Hopefully it won't hurt to much... I don't have any of those marks on me, so I should be fine... I just hope I don't get overwhelmed with magic if the enemy crew can use it...-

 

[MechaGhoul]

The Kitsune glared at Richter, as she held out her left hand to hold onto the vicious neck wound, as she desperately tried to keep the mangled scraps of flesh, well on her neck, as the blood pooled onto the floor below, dripping between her fingers. She waggled one of her nine tails, as she began glimmering. She appeared translucent and appeared to be popping in and out of reality, as she jumped backwards, through the wall. "Catch me if you can... You won't." The Kitsune was gone, but that was not the only enemy Richter had to face, as two Elves quickly ran in from the right corridor, as they aimed shotguns towards him and began firing, as the spray from the blast was tearing into the walls, and of course, towards Richter.


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Robin simply wagged his right index finger. "That would require me to spend time casting two spells, when I could easily cast one, get onto the enemy vessel with a boarding party, and then now aboard the enemy vessel proceed to fight them. Time is something that I am not about to spare, when I could use my spells in a more efficient manner. It is my solemn duty as a Noble to go and stop the invaders from attacking, and... Hmph." Robin began rubbing his forehead with his left thumb and index finger, as he stated with a clearly annoyed tone of voice. "I have already engaged in too much dialogue. TELEPORT!" With that Robin teleported himself, his familiar, Reggie, and Victor and Miss Espinosa, onto the airship. Judging by the interior of the room, what with the large benches, and the smell of gruel permeating the air, they were in a dining hall, on some level of the ship. And almost immediately, the twelve Elves who were in the room drew out their weapons, some of whom had guns, others who had axes, and were ready for combat.


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While back on the Cargo Ship, all seemed dandy, well other than the fact that their was still the Enemy Airship to deal with, but it hadn't fired any artillery shots, so that was good. Yes, it looked like things on the Cargo Ship would be relatively peace-... And that is when three individuals teleported on-board. There was a small Gnome who was dressed in a white oil stained tunic, who had an ear-piece sticking out of his right ear. He had a simple wand which was made out of twisting metal, which glowed with a light blue aura. Then there were two large beast-men, both of which stood at 6'4" and looked rather similiar to a Gecko. They were both wielding large war-mauls and were wearing chain-mail armor. The two Geckos peered to both sides of the Cargo Ship, as the Gnome spoke, "Internal ship defenses weak. No sign of advanced crew, only children. No additional boarding party necessary at this moment. We shall be back with hardly any trouble." it was clear that he was speaking to someone using the ear piece.


The Gnome glanced towards the Gecko Beastmen, "You know the job. Let's get to it then." Both of the beastmen simultaneously cracked their knuckles. "It'll be easy enough." said the Gecko on the right.

 

[Advent Azure]

"... But..."


Regardless, they ended up leaving him behind... and with that, he feel forward onto his hands in a little bit of sadness...


"...Am I... that much of a issue, that I can't even help my classmates..."


Azure pulled out his Shadow Blade...


"This stupid cursed thing... its brought me nothing but trouble..."


Azure stood up, deciding not to beat himself over what he couldn't control...


"Whatever... maybe I'd only get in the way..."


That's when somehow, three guys somehow ended up on their cargo ship, he wasn't looking at the time, turning around wondering what was going on


"Huh? Uh..."


-Boarding parties? They are going to kill us or something?!-


Azure looked around behind him... with only Skyia cowering, Rose asleep and Lily, well, focusing all her efforts on Anya still...


-I... gotta do this on my own I guess... but... ugh... this is a problem... if he's talking to other people... then... if I act, they will send more right?! What can I do to.-


Azure sized them up for a bit...


-They are armored... so... weapons are a little ineffective... I... I gotta use magic, if I can get the ear piece off the guy, maybe I could use it, Kylier said even electronics could be fooled... I think... I just gotta make sure they can't call for backup then and see if I can use it somehow-


"Erg..."


-I'm still in a plane though, I gotta be careful... since he's a gecko though, he's probably susceptible to Ice maybe, they are cold-blooded right??-


"I won't let you!"


Azure used Riff's Ice manipulation to freeze the three guy's feet to the ground, and had it try to creep up and through their through their armor slowly for a short bit, he was trying to be conservative over his magic, since he was running out, and while the two bigger guys could probably break out, he didn't think that the gnome at least would be able to.


-Ok quick!-


Azure then switched to using Kylier's illusions to try to block communications going out and in between the gecko

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Richter raised his arms as hot pellets ripped through his flesh and bone, tearing small chunks of flesh off his skeleton.


"Out of my way." he said, and made a weapon not unlike an oversized set of claws on his hand. "I've got a date."


The vampire swung in a wide, horizontal arc.

 

[MechaGhoul]

Richter's horizontal arc quickly chopped the two Elves in half, as they both were split into three pieces, as he slashed through the bone he heard quick and loud popping sensation. They bled heavily on the floor as their shotguns landed on the floor, luckily not going off from the impact. The upper half of the Elven corpses dropped a eight shotgun shells, for the break action shotguns that they carried.


The lower half of the Elven Corpses slipped into the hole below where Richter had crawled up from earlier. From below there was a ghoul, who peered upwards. The upper right half of her face still had some pale flesh attached to it. She peered up with her yellow eye, which was filled with maggots crawling about. She pointed her skeletal right arm as she mumbled something, as the flesh of the Elven bodies, below were warping, as the skin slithered off of the bones, and quickly hooked onto the hole. The Ghoul began climbing upwards, "Let's play!" The Ghoul cheerfully said in a high pitch voice.


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Azure's use of ice magic did in-fact catch their legs. The Gnome glanced towards the Gecko beastmen who roared out as the one on the left used his tail to slam down on the ice, shattering it, as little shards flew around the plane, some of which dented the barrels which were containing scrap. The other Gecko pulled out his right foot quickly, as he actively cut himself. His blood dripped onto the floor as he then slid his left leg at the open spot where he pulled out his leg.


The Gnome clenched his right ear with his hand, "Gwah!" He grimaced as the illusion magic took a hold of the communication device. "Damn static." He glanced down at his feet, as they were consumed by ice. "Oh no you don't." He pointed down with his left hand as he shot a small fire-ball, which quickly melted the ice. The Gecko Beastman on the left pulled out his large warmaul as he charged to flank Azure from the left as he swung his warmaul straight towards Azure's head. The Gecko Beastman on the right glanced down at the Gnome, as he quickly picked him up. "Delivering you to the target." He placed the Gnome on his back, essentially giving the Gnome a piggyback ride, as he tromped towards the Cockpit, leaving a trail of bloody footsteps, well footstep really, while his compatriot was engaging in battle with Azure.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Hmmm..." Richter considered the Ghoul's offer for a moment, then kicked a discarded firearm into his hand, doing a sweet backflip to pick up a pair of fresh shells into the well-greased chamber of his new gun.


"Okay!" he smiled, and fired a round at the undead's head.

 

[MechaGhoul]

The Ghoul was struck square in the head, as the slug went square in the head, as skull fragments exploded and fell down onto the floor below. Brain matter was slowly dripping from the skull, as the Ghoul, glanced up towards Richter, "No fai-" And with that the Ghoul fell off the flesh rope and landed with a squishy and crunchy plop.

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure was surprised, despite the fact that their size made it unlikely that it would work entirely anyway, he wasn't sure what he should do next.


-A magic user... how can I use that to my advantage..... of course...-


Azure looked over at the Gecko charging at him, and dived backward, rolling and putting himself upright as he is somewhat crouched, and looked as they went over to the cockpit


-Wait... if they are going to the pilot, and kill him... we're going to go down!-


Despite the fact that the one engaging on him is a more immediate threat, Azure decided that he would have to deal with them.


Giving the main issue the first bit of attention, he used his explosive magic on the gecko after him currently to send him flying back, if only to buy him some time at the very least.


He used his illusions to make their destination disappear before their very eyes, as if the door was no longer there at all. Afterword, he sent out another explosion aimed at the the gnome, hoping it would knock the ear piece and wand out of his hand.


-If he's using a wand, I should be to absorb the fire magic out of that, and anything else if he has any, maybe he used teleport magic to bring them here?-


He looked over at Curtis... who was still asleep as this went on at least for now... he hoped that the racket would wake him up... but, he couldn't waste time with enemies around him. If he spent time waking Curtis properly, Azure would be vulnerable, as well as the pilot, besides, if explosions weren't going to wake him... well, shouting probably wouldn't either.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Sorry." Richter tossed the shotgun away. "I always get really competitive. It's my fault, really."


"Now, where did Fluffy go?" he asked, feeling the wall she'd walked through. He formed a heavy bearded axe, and began chopping down the wall between him and his target.


"Come out and play!"

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Skyia froze up seeing the new figures in the plane, they didn't look familiar, they didn't look familiar at all. Instantly reaching into her pack and pulling out the spear Azure made, extending it and holding it in her hands, she trembles looking at them.


In her head she didn't know what to do. " W-what are you here for? " she said looking up to the Gekoman and his gnome, trembling in her place.


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Upon teleportation and seeing many elves armed and ready to fight, Victor gripped his rifle, yanking it upward against his shoulder, aiming with a quick grace towards one of the combatants with a gun, and fired at his skull, before diving back behind something for cover. for the initial wave of shots, and blades.


Quickly glancing over again to see the situation after his boarding mates made their moves.

 

[CSA]

"Of course it's a good plan," thought Lily, somewhat impressed that the teacher was able to recognize her genius, "I thought of it."





Soon enough, their boarding party teleported out. Things seemed to be going about as well as they could be, given that there hadn't been much more 'turbulence' since the first barrage, and Lily felt as if she could handle things on this end.


Then the pirates seemed to have teleported over their own boarding party, consisting of a Gnome and two Geckomen. It was trouble, but not anything Lily couldn't handle. By the way the Gnome spoke, he probably didn't know that they were just a bunch of schoolchildren on a field trip- which meant that they weren't here for any students. It was probably something that the seedy pilot was in possession of.


Given that fact, if Lily could find out what they wanted, she was certain that they could get through this without any injuries. With her own charms and the help of her enhanced scent, she could do her duty to the students of this school and keep everyone safe. It was finally her time to shine as the group diplomancer.


Then the green guy shouted at them and assaulted them with magic, thereby likely making all of the innocent students targets as potential hostiles. Everything was ******. Lily didn't have a plan for this sort of ******.


"Alright, no one panic, but everybody hide and stay out of the way of the sky pirates," she shouted, taking cover behind a couple of boxes with Anya as a couple of explosions rocked the interior. She didn't expect the pirates to disengage, but at the very least she hoped to be able to save the students that had not yet drawn their ire. Which of course included both high schoolers as well as smaller children.


She could only hope that they had even a shred of mercy in their hearts.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Anya's eyes cracked open. The first thing she noticed was that Lily had crouched with her, safely hidden behind some crates. The second was the sound of fighting and yelling. She poked out of her vine-cocoon to see that several large alligator people and a midget were chasing around that weird green guy.


It occurred to Anya that this scenario was exactly like Home Alone 2. She pulled herself fully out of the cocoon, and scurried between the stacked crates and barrels littering the aircraft.


A loud giggle echoed from all around. The game had begun.

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis just kept snoring quietly, the movement of the plane wedging him further still between the crates.


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A feeling struck Olga. Was it hunger? No, no, she shouldn't have to feed for another day or two at the very least. Nor was it boredom, pain, hatred, or any of the other things she was used to feeling on a regular basis. No, this felt like... like...


"Husband Richter is in danger!", she cried, dropping her scalpel onto her work table, the blade clattering inches away from her most recent project.


Olga placed her head in her hand, leaving a thick smear of blood across her face as she regained her composure.


"Aaaaand I am no longer caring.", Olga said as she retrieved her scalpel, "Drago!"


The skeleton straightened and gave a shaky salute, "..--..".


"Hand me another puppy from the crate."


"-.-- . ... / -- .- .- --"

 

[MechaGhoul]

The Geckoman continued trudging towards the door as the illusion did not work. The Gnome chuckled a bit, realizing that the illusion failed to work, as it was so obvious that they were at the cockpit door. The Gecko's pupils glanced towards the side as he noticed an explosion blast heading towards the Gnome. He quickly moved his shoulder up as he then brought up his curved it, turning it into a makeshift shield for the Gnome, the Gecko didn't flinch as his arm became quickly covered in flames and covered in second degree burns, and his entire humerus was visible, revealing white bone, with few tendons still attached to them. The Gecko, with his face showing the writhing pain from the attack used quite a bit of will power as he rather sluggishly placed it back down at his side, where the arm now hanged limp."There you go. We have more important things to worry about anyway. Showing any sign of panic would be detrimental to the operation. However, I will say, that hurt. A lot actually. Probably won't be using it any time soon." The Gnome nodded, "That we do, well don't expect an instant heal of the arm. Don't worry just the one hand should be enough." The Gnome glanced at the cowering Lamia, "Do not act against us, and we will allow you to live." It appeared that the Gnome's heart grew three sizes that day, in not ordering an attack on an individual who did not threaten them. Or, perhaps that attacking them would slow down the real goal, or perhaps Lily's enhanced scent was working. Either way, the Gnome was much more concerned about the door than the other students in the area.


The Gecko Bruiser with the incredibly burned arm began pulling on the cockpit door as placed his usable hand between the hinges as he began pulling. The bolts and nuts of the door were cracking under the weight of the Gecko's strength, as the door was contorting, as the metal was warping the door further and closer to opening. OH **** ME! Francisco thought to himself as the very sound of the door being pried open made him instinctively look back. Well, if I can't leave piloting this craft, it'd be too dangerous for everyone on-board. I just hope, whoever is back there, can stop whoever Captain Atticus sent.


Meanwhile, while that was going on, the other Gecko who was attacking Azure, was knocked back from the explosion, as he slammed against the walls of the plane. The interior wall which he struck shook from the impact, but luckily enough, the explosion did not cause collateral damage to the plane. But the Gecko appeared unfazed from the strike, as the armor took the majority of the blow. He paused for a moment as he heard the sound of falling metal. He then focused his attention back towards Azure as he rushed towards him again, swinging his warmaul at his torso.


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Back on the Airship, Richer began chopping down the wall that the Kitsune escaped with. When he was chopping he began to hear someone singing off key, into a loofah which was stuck on a stick, and the sounds of running water.


"We are no strangers to love/You know the rules and so do I/A Full Commitment is what I am thinking of!" The Ogre sang as he then began washing his belly with the soapy loofah. As soon as Richter hacked through the wall completely, the Ogre just blinked at him, as the pink soap bubbles on his yellow skin popped a bit in the running shower. The Ogre quickly flung his loofah back as he swung his right hand trying to grip Richter's neck, and lift him up through the other side of the wall. "You interrupted bath time!" the Ogre shouted out in a wild fury.


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While that was going on, inside the dining hall, Victor was quickly able to shoot a round shot an Elf gunner square in the head, as the bullet through his skull, and leaving a clean kill. He successfully drew the attention of the other gunner Elves who began firing upon him. Though he was able to quickly hide behind a bench as he made cover for himself. The bullets whizzed by, but the Elves clearly didn't know where he was. Robin, took his familiar as he hid behind a keg. He flicked his left wrist as he fired a small white orb, which flew quickly into a gunner Elf's chest. The Elf looked down for a bit, before she died. The gunners now split their attention between the two rangers, as they continued firing in the directions of where they expected them to be.


Espinosa cracked her knuckles as she charged at an Elf who was wielding an axe. "Whatcha you gonna do when the Hellfire comes for you!?" she boldly declared as she jumped up towards the Elf and did an elbow drop on the Elf, who was struck on the skull as he fell down. Espinosa then turned her palms into blue flame, as she proceeded to melt the face off the Elf, who was screaming in horrific agony, which he had full right to. The other melee Elves then charged towards Espinosa, ready to avenge their fallen comrade.

 

[Advent Azure]

"That's..... so very nice of him..."


Azure couldn't help but feel a bit warm inside seeing the big beast man taking care of his friend..... or fellow henchmen, he didn't know the relation. Even so, at this point it was a disaster, the pilot was directly exposed.


-Ugh... maybe...-


Azure ran forward toward the pair who were able to do whatever to Francisco, using his shadow edge to mute the sound that he made, as to not let the two hear him, but remained visible as to allow the beastman behind him still able to see him as he tried his attack. He took a few knives out from his clothing, and threw them accurately at the gecko behind him, to provoke him and damage him a little at least, and when he closed in on the pair, he jumped up to grab at the gnome to force him off. He hoped that he had indeed caused the gecko behind be provoked, and would go after him. After a bit, he used illusions to appear that he was still on the gnome trying to shake him off, when really he had gotten off already, hoping that whatever he would try on Azure, he would instead do to the gnome.

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Skyia just froze in place hearing that, but, wait, they were going after the pilot, how would they be able to stay up afterwards!? What if they wanted captured them? What would they do then? How long would they be stuck working for them?! And do who knows what else on board their ship.


" U-uhh. what to do what to do, wait! " she thought to herself.


She looks over and sees Curtis over there, maybe he can help do something? Quickly she slithers over, trying to wake him up, shaking his head. " Wake up! Wake up! " She cried, trying to stir him awake, face stricken with fear.


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Victor seeing their current situation, grinned a bit, good good, he caught the attention of the gunners, may make it slightly easier for the people up forward to move up and deal with the rest. Aside from crossfire, but he intended to not miss a shot on these pointy eared elves who think carrying around a big gun and waving it around firing randomly around their area.


A attempt at suppresive fire it seemed, and Jayus wasn't here to provide a distraction, oh well, might as well make do with what he can, he began to look around the piece of cover he found on its right side, so only a small portion of his body would stick out, took aim at one of the shooters that was focused on Robin, aiming right for his head.


With a bang, click, and tang of the round, making another quick adjustment of his rifle, sending off another bang click, and tang possibly hitting, or missing the second elf in his sights, hitting a arm, or part of the torso, or simply scraping against the elf, he slid back into cover seeing if that would catch their attention again. a attempt to lighten up the fire on him and his snake, so he could do something to get one or even more of them in the back.