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Post by JeY k on Apr 18, 2014 11:57:07 GMT -5
A portal opened up to a particularly vacant lot in The World that Never Was, a world where the sky was perpetually dark and the architecture reflected the blackness that 'illuminated' the sky. The light, allowing humans to see, emanated from the neon tubes strewn about the buildings, floor, railings... a strange glow in a dark place, but somehow visibility was perfect despite the amount of black in the area. The portal juxtaposed the darkness, being a fluorescent pink gate with ornate columns on the side. Stepping out first was a middle-aged man in a rough plaid shirt and a brown apron with black khakis while wearing a backpack, behind him a more interesting being.
"...Oh, okay. Wow. Didn't think that would actually work," the first man spoke. The portal closed behind the second one, who looked much younger by comparison. He was in dark clothing and wore an interesting-looking blind fold. He would give the man a stern look, not that anyone could tell with his eyes being hidden. "You doubt me needlessly, Stigian. Just prepare the procedure," JeY spoke, his voice monotonous and tough to listen to. The other man winced, dreading this step.
"Just remember your end of the deal, bub," Stigian said, taking a vial of powder and started to sprinkle it in a circular fashion on a particular spot. JeY had no reaction. "I'm a care-free douche bag who couldn't care less about the world in general, not someone who betrays others. I promised that you would see little or no harm, I intend to keep that promise," JeY said, his tone a bit more harsh. The other man bared no reaction, just capped the vial and shrugged off his backpack to fetch a black vase and a small jar of fluid.
The man in plaid simply placed the jar inside the vase, then took out two pre-arranged setups of incense, taking a lighter and lighting them. The entire ground shook slightly. JeY grinned a bit. "It's all ready, mister freak show. I'll be enjoying your up-front payment over your corpse though," Stigian said, chuckling a bit. He knew the man he bargained with wouldn't get too upset over his crude humor, his ego was far too substantial to even take a dent from him scheming his death. "Well, sorry to break the bad news but you'll have no enjoyment without the corpse aspect being a part of the equation," he said. The comeback was too long-winded to be worth much though. The other man only scowled.
"But I take that back, you get a front row seat to the show of a lifetime," JeY said after, opening a portal. Stigian would get redirected to a nearby rooftop, far enough to be out of immediate danger but close enough to get a decent view of the action. Not what the man wanted, but he was at the mercy of this strange individual. He trusted him to guarantee his safety, after seeing what he was capable of before. "I still think you have no idea what you're getting yourself into. No one has been able to claim this dragon's power. What makes you think you're so special?" he asked. JeY was still for a moment, but replied when he found the proper words. "You'll just have to find out for yourself," he said. Stigian shrugged, walking through the portal.
"Rise, Gan'Kromorg! I command you to serve me for your freedom!" JeY shouted as he shot a blast of dark energy at the vase, causing it to rumble violently. Eventually, energy erupted from the vase to reveal a massive, snake-like lindwyrm dragon. It looked down at JeY with red, beaming eyes. "I am released once more! Tell me mortal, what makes you think you are capable of controlling me for my mere freedom?" the large dragon spoke in an distinct sophisticated voice, booming with such a powerful echo caused from having vocal chords several times larger than an ordinary human's.
JeY grinned with a sinister delight. "Because I am the only one who can tame you, Gan'Kromorg," he said. The dragon was not amused. "I will only be tamed by someone worthy! I will take no haughty talk from a mortal. Prepare to be destroyed," it spoke, preparing to strike head-first with a colossal biting attack. JeY was too quick to the punch to even let the massive dragon fully rear back to begin the strike. Putting his left arm forward, he shot a simple ray of Chaos energy at the dragon's face, which moved too fast for the dragon to react itself.
Terribly surprised by the attack, the dragon recoiled a decent bit before recovering and staring its opponent down once more. Well then, this might be a tad more interesting than the dragon anticipated. This guy was serious about taking his reigns. Well, should he actually be capable, the dragon would not be making it easy for him, or anyone else who might come along and try to help.
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Post by Raphael on Apr 18, 2014 14:09:26 GMT -5
A dark portal opening a corridor of darkness appeared at the top of memory skyscraper, a cloaked individual emerged into the low visibility that the darkness of this new world provided "Jeeze…This place is almost pitch black…I hope I didn't accidentally find myself in the dark realm this time…" Arin flipped back the hod of his coat just in time to keep himself from walking off the edge of the skyscraper "Woah!" The corridor vanished behind him as he stumbled on the edge of the skyscraper rooftop, having used his keyblade to push against one of the screens nearby, pushing him to and on his backside, but safely on the rooftop "…Okay…that was close…Don't remember the portals ever landing me on top of a building before."
Suddenly, a large dragon appeared out of nowhere (assuming the dragon was large enough to go over the skyscraper rooftop), startling Arin into rolling backwards to plant his feet onto the ground and take a defensive stance. But when the dragon started talking to someone he couldn't see, he felt that something was up, and walked over to the edge of the rooftop again. From ground level it seems like someone was performing a ritual of sorts. "…Well, it's not after me at least…But who's the old guy and the kid?"
Suddenly the dragon attacked the younger individual, but was pushed back by a strange power that he didn't recognize *What is that power he's using? It has traces of light and dark mixed into it, but it seems more powerful than either one. Could this kid have mastered how to use both elements to their full potential?*
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2014 16:08:27 GMT -5
Jared found himself atop a tall skyscraper over looking a vast city of some sorts, but there was a disturbing lack of people. The lack of activity was almost unnerving. "How did I get here?" Jared thought looking around at the blue glowing buildings all around. "Why here of all places? Looks like the apocalypse came early here, minus the damage.."
It was quit, then the silence was broken by the roar of dragon that suddenly appeared. Jared stumbled back, but caught himself and half expected the dragon to immediately attack him, but it seemed focused on someone else. Then Jared realized that he wasn't alone on top of the tower. Another man stood near the edge of the skyscraper. "Hey, you there! Any idea on what THAT is!?" Jared asked the person but then immediately regretted that, he didn't know this guy, maybe HE was the one who summoned the dragon. Then Jared realized that the dragon seemed to be TALKING. That's a first, Jared thought. Suddenly a beam of somewhat mixed light and darkness by the looks of it flashed from the ground level up and struck the dragon.
"Maybe the summoner is there, and is getting more than he bargained for" Jared smirked walking cautiously to the edge. You can't trust these guys, you should.. dispose of them. "Shut up, I don't even know the story here, I can't just kill them!" Jared muttered. The voice was the darkness manifest in his heart and was more like a rude tennent in his mind, only more dangerous. Suit yourself smirked the voice, if you could say a voice even COULD smirk.
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Post by JeY k on Apr 18, 2014 20:37:37 GMT -5
The battle started a bit sooner than the shady man in the apron anticipated. Leaping through the portal, he'd find himself high in the sky on the roof of a skyscraper, but his first observation was that he wasn't alone. His first instinct was that JeY lead him into a trap, the rat bastard! Some goons to dispose of him now that he did his part? So much for that promise! He was open to open a telepathic voice channel that the chaotic man taught him how to use to yell if he was ever in danger so he could be saved, to ease the aspect of his promise, but upon further analysis realized that it wouldn't be necessary... yet.
One of the 'goons' called to the other exclaiming a question of whether or not the other knew what 'that' was, probably referring to the dragon. They were definitely not associated with JeY or whatever was going on here. Stigian figured he'd just lurk off to the side since they hadn't immediately noticed him yet, but weary nonetheless. JeY wanted to go here because he thought it would be a quiet place with little interruption, as for why there were two random bystanders was beyond him, but it wasn't really the merchant's issue.
JeY on the other hand was a bit focused on his target, not too worried about any bystanders and instead focused on the task at hand. A bit angry at being blindsided by such power, the dragon began another attack but moved forward in an erratic slither through the air in attempt to possibly dodge more incoming dodges, though the chaotic man wasn't such a simple contender. Throwing up his arm, he materialized a massive two-handed sword made of light energy which was nearly the size of himself with a blade almost as wide as his forearm, then spun it down into a defensive position. It may have looked like he was going to take the dragon head-on with the sword, but that wasn't his plan in the slightest.
Once the colossal enemy drew just slightly closer, JeY vanished instantly and immediately reappeared on the dragon's back, toward the middle of the body but closer to the neck, and heaved the sword straight down, piercing its shadowy scales and impaled the sword rather deep. The dragon began to react by yelping in pain and twisting it's body up into the air slightly, but JeY jumped even higher into the air while spawning another identical copy of the sword and whipping it in a vicious spinning motion at the dragon, impaling a segment of its body about ten yards behind the first blade.
Kicking off the air and jumping to the side off seemingly nothing, he moved more toward the dragon and spun around spawning a another blade made of light energy, but this was a long and skinny blade instead of a massive claymore-like sword. From the spin, he flicked it off his wrist and it barreled toward the dragon making another impact about ten yards away again, then pushed off the air again straight up while spinning his body faster, spawning another smaller blade identical to the previous one, launching it at the dragon again to make the fourth impact. This was quite a spectacular feat, considering how one would think that his blindfold would make him... blind? Completely incapable of sight? Yet he performed as if he had clear and perfect vision.
During this entire time, Gan'Kromorg tried to fight through the pain and twist back and attack JeY with its massive teeth, but it was beginning to learn that such a simple approach would not work against this particular being, especially knowing that he could teleport. The swords hurt quite a bit, though the colossal dragon has endured worse. They were inconvenient incisions as being a lindwyrm dragon it moved very like a snake, so curving its body at the points the sword stuck caused sharp spikes of pain which weren't impossible to deal with but made fighting that much more difficult. Of course, it had two tiny arms on the lower base of its neck, but much like the tyrannosaurus-rex, they were probably not even capable of scratching his chin.
However, JeY was not the only entity in this realm that could teleport! The dragon chomped it's mouth shut and made a circle of shadow energy around its head, to which its entire body seemed to shoot absurdly vast into the vortex only for it to come out another carefully-placed dark circle under JeY's positioning in the air in an attempt to chew him out from below with its vicious teeth. JeY saw this attack coming, cart wheeling midair with a propulsion of shadow flames jetting out from his palms, grazing the dragon's face with a hot burning sensation just long enough to dull its senses to by unaware of a follow-up: JeY, now directly to the side of the dragon's distracted face, launched a powerful bolt of Destruction Chaos energy into the side of its head point-blank.
The powerful dragon roared in pain as the force from the blast directed its path in the opposite direction from where JeY stood, but now the dragon was angry. No more stupid tricks! Using its momentum of being forced off to the side, it recoiled back down toward the ground while aiming to flip its entire body into a loop, and then darted at high-speeds toward JeY in an attempt to ambush him after making it look like he was rag dolling down to the ground. So much for 'no more stupid tricks'. JeY was faster still, and spun mid-air the side to avoid him with ease.
Unfortunately, JeY's back was to the skyscraper that the viewing party happened to be positioned, including the merchant. JeY realized this fatal mistake, as now the dragon was out of control and about to ram the skyscraper they stood on full force. JeY only knew about the merchant, so his telepathic message would only reach Stigian's ears (no one else's). 'Jump off the building if you want to live. Now. Don't ask questions,' JeY said to him mentally. He warped to the solid ground sitting on the side of the building, prepared to leap up and catch Stigian once he sighted his descent.
Of course, the merchant had been more focused on the other two accompanying him on the skyscraper than the fight itself, though he did look back and forth in his own defense. There was one point where he completely lost sight of the other two people and focused solely on the fight, as he'd never seen anyone move like JeY could. Was he... flying? He seemed to maneuver in the air as if gravity wasn't even a thing. It was spectacular. He could even warp around... but he wasn't a fool when he saw the dragon coming head-strong toward the skyscraper. Growing wide-eyed, he froze in panic. His paralysis would only be ended by the eerie sound of JeY's monotonous voice in his head - to jump off the building no less.
Well... the instructions seemed like they would be the opposite of trying to survive, but deciding that he had literally no other choice than to trust this man. He looked over the edge and... gulp... what a long drop! He really hoped this worked! "Welp, here goes nothing!" Stigian proclaimed aloud, closing his eyes and jumping off. After a few seconds of gaining momentum, he suddenly felt his entire weight shift when he was now rising in the air instead of falling, feeling the pressure of arms wrapped around him. Opening his eyes, JeY was soaring through the air while carrying the merchant. He sighed in relief.
Just before this point however, there would be a definite collision between a massive dragon and an even bigger skyscraper, causing the entire upper-building to come crumbling down. It would be at this point that JeY would notice the others however, and once he got Stigian safely to the ground he would make another portal for the man and run off to the other two - and give them a quick scolding of 'you shouldn't be here, leave before you get killed' type of thing. Their conversation couldn't last long, as the epic dragon would sure to shake off his blow and come around for another attack soon enough. Then, they all would be in trouble.
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Post by Raphael on Apr 19, 2014 0:45:56 GMT -5
Arin spun around suddenly when he heard someone talking to him, poised to strike with his keyblade. But when the stranger was asking him a harmless question, he took a breath and lowered his blade, giving the new face the benefit of the doubt for now "Wish I could tell you, I only just got here a while ago." When the stranger approached him and leaned over the skyscraper, he noticed that the fight was slowly being drawn to the skyscraper "…As much as I'd like to discuss this further…it might be best if we relocated to somewhere safer!"
Just as the dragon collided with the skyscraper, he felt the building slowly shift out of place as it began to fall to the ground "I hope you have a way to get down, because I've only got one for myself!" But then, the man from before appeared in a portal of their own making, and was giving them a cold look. Arin looked at the man, and scratched his head nervously, before the trembling of the building brought his mind back to the current crisis.
Leaping over the edge of the skyscraper, Arin fell first, coat flying quickly behind him. He tapped his keyblade against the side of his shoulder and his body burst in a veil of light, before his keyblade armor formed on his body. He quickly fell toward the ground, leaping up at the last minute with his doubleflight ability to somersault in the air, before landing at the base of the skyscraper. He ran to gain some distance from the skyscraper and the dragon, keyblade in hand as he spun to throw the keyblade at the dragon at full force *I can at least draw that thing's attention long enough for them to get out of there.* The keyblade hit the dragon square in one of its eyes, disappearing and reappearing back in Arin's hand "HEY! Down here you oversized lizard!"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 13:00:06 GMT -5
Just before the dragon collided with the skyscraper, Jared had already planned his escape. When the dragon impacted, Jared leapt of the skyscraper and focused on the area at the base of the tower. Mid fall, Jared disappeared in a flash of fire, only to reappear a few moments later safely on the ground. Glancing over to wear the other man who was speaking with him on the tower had appeared, he noticed that that the man was already engaging the dragon head on. I really don't think that's going to do much, Jared though as he realized that the man had just thrown his keyblade at the dragon, and rushed over to the man for backup.
The dragon seemed to be somewhat distracted by the attack that the man had launched and was now focused on him. Well that's not good, Jared thought as he mad his way to the man. Looking back he realized that there was another man who had seemed to be fighting the dragon also. Wow this place is populated for some reason. "Hey let me help you out! Jared shouted and summoned his own keyblade to his right hand.
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Post by JeY k on Apr 21, 2014 14:42:59 GMT -5
Perhaps throwing a weapon at the head of an enemy who bases the majority of its combat around its menacing teeth wasn't the greatest idea, as while looking around frantically for the new location of its opponent the massive dragon laid eyes on two strangers, and a keyblade barreling for his eye. A simple lever-motion with its jaw would allow the dragon to attempt to simply swallow the weapon which was tossed at it, though it didn't anticipate on the weapon disappearing before it even reached the back of its throat.
Then, whatever ant-sized mortal dared toss that weapon at it had the audacity to call out. Well, this cute little warrior wasn't the primary target but a quick snack couldn't really hurt. It was about this time JeY wrapped up his priorities and instantly appeared in front of the two others, who looked prepared to fight. His eyes had a distinct dire urgency to them but the rest of his expression was neutral and lacking; emotionless. "You two shouldn't be here. You're likely to die if you don't leave now," he said, just before turning his back to face the dragon diving toward them.
JeY was prepped to attack during the curt warning, completely aware of his surroundings the whole time, raised both of his arms and shot two rays of Destruction energy in succession, the dragon being more prepared this time at the mere sight of its original target, managing to jaunt right then down to the left slightly to avoid them, still diving full speed, now opening its mouth. There wouldn't be time to make another attack, if the two idiots wanted to die here then so be it, he wasn't going to be their babysitter. It was bad enough he had Stigian to look after. JeY warped into the air a good distance and hover, looking down.
Despite being in a hurry to chomp its opponent(s) to death, it wasn't dumb enough to eat pavement, therefore after a hefty chomp toward the ground (sure to consume the others if they hadn't moved) it angled up to reposition itself in the sky, observing that it's futile to try and chain strikes against a teleporting opponent without being able to wholly predict said opponent. Speaking of not being able to predict, it didn't expect a counter attack so soon - immediately upon JeY being in the air, he charged and fired a blistering ray of continuous Destruction energy, since Gan'Kromorg continued to move straight a decent portion of its back would soon become seared.
The Bleak Dragon roared in pain, twitching to the side in order to not be targeted by the laser further, swooping midair to fly straight toward JeY once more. Its trajectory would get thrown way off course, the four blades sticking out at intervals made a sharp turn such as this one extremely painful. It was probably time to do away with these nuisances, on the belief that it could attempt to work despite the pain and quickly end this mortal's life it made sense at first to try and ignore them but that was not going to be the case anymore.
Flying high into the air, the dragon coiled up and then lashed itself out with a jump rope-like motion, flinging the blades all out of its skin at the same time, causing them to go into various directions. Though, while it occupied itself with that, JeY already repositioned himself and launched another powerful ray of Destruction energy straight for the center of its head, making direct impact and causing its flight path to go off-kilter. There seemed to be no end and no match of strength to that infernal energy JeY used to strike him constantly...
Though, amidst the combat there were still other variables as well. JeY was certain the others wouldn't heed his warning and even try to help him still, but this fight was still only the tip of the iceberg. JeY had done quite extensive damage already, it seemed, but the dragon was only beginning to fight and only starting to get warmed up. Dragons themselves are already resilient, but the Bleak Dragon was made entirely of shadows... there is no destruction caused by anything real that can exceed that of the true entities of darkness.
There was still so much of this battle left to go, no matter how much damage that dragon has sustained, without the proper anticipation it could be over for them in however long it takes for it to close its jaw. That's what JeY feared for them. It's what he would fear for himself, should his ego even allow fear.
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Post by Raphael on Apr 21, 2014 20:11:29 GMT -5
Arin rolled out of the way of the chomping jaws, aiming his hand at the eye of the dragon again and launching a wave of black flames at the dragon't head as it was slowing to pull away from the ground. Whatever the hell this monster was, it was certainly out of Arin's league *There's no way I stand a chance against this thing, but the most I can do is keep it distracted. Hope it likes the irritated eye I gave it* "No offense pal, but I think I'll worry about my own fate. You just focus on killing that monster!"
Arin ran over to the side of another building, letting the darkness and light in his heart run loose. In a burst of light and shadows, his body emerged with dual keyblades, and he proceeded with throwing them at the dragon, twice each before he threw both and the two collided in mid throw. The blades gave off an aura that was similar to JeY's chaos aura, but far weaker in power and intensity (if by chaos we're going by a perfect blending of light and darkness). The blades each gave off a slight bit of elemental damage with each blade that collided, the final throw doing more damage than the previous four attacks *Keep hitting him with whatever it is you're doing, stranger, I'll do what I can to keep it from focusing on one target*
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 21:11:13 GMT -5
Jared dodged out of the was as the dragons jaws clamped down. Damn, this thing is fast Jared thought as the huge dragon managed to pull up from the dive and began to gain altitude again. The man from the skyscraper was already once again attacking the dragon, but doing no real damage. Jared paid no attention to the warning the other man gave him, as Jared entered a state of strange calmness, even though there where explosions and a dragon flying about.
Lucky you, looks like you will be getting some play time after all Jared thought to the voice inside his head. Good, now we can finally have some...fun the voice chuckled. Suddenly Jared let out a loud howl and the aura pressure in the area exploded and when the dust around him settled, Jared was coated in a flame cloak that surrounded his entire body. Jared suddenly disappeared and reappeared atop a smaller building nearby where the dragon was being assaulted. He the also joined in on hurling his flaming keyblade and as it struck the dragon, Jared warped to it using the flames emitted from his keyblade as a medium to teleport to and anchored himself on the dragons head. Placing his hand quickly on the dragons head, he imprinted a rune onto the beast. The dragoon writhed and twisted, causing Jared to loose his balance and fall, but mid air, Jared twisted and focused all the surrounding heat and forced it forward into a great blast that struck just underneath the dragons right eye. The dragon roared and continued to slither about in the sky, apparently not fully focused on Jared.
Jared fell hard on the roof of a building and dragged himself back to his feet. "Let's go for round two, shall we?!" he snarled, summoning his keyblade to his hands once again.
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Post by JeY k on Apr 23, 2014 10:40:52 GMT -5
Seems the other two would not heed his warning, and rather than idly stand by they even went so far as to engage his enemy with combat through their own techniques. Just who the hell did they think they were? JeY grumbled a bit to himself, irritated that his prized glory would be weakened by the unwanted help of a couple keybladers. He could never stand the type; in his experience, JeY always met those who wielded the weapon who felt entitled to whatever they wanted, and that they could take on anything. They were way out of their league, in his opinion. 'Alright, if you're going to be that stupid, two tips:" JeY mentally transmitted to the fighters using telepathy, making them hear his voice as if they were having a thought in the way that he sounded. 'One; avoid the teeth - one bite and it's game over. Two; aim physical attacks at its midsection, magical attacks to the side of its head near the ears,' he said. The dragon's teeth would surely ed the life of whomever they got a hold of, being able to pierce most physical and magical armors with ease and tearing flesh apart like a spongy, moist cake. Some Background Music~ The fight -really- begins!Meanwhile the other's attacks were like flies buzzing around his head at best, not that JeY's own attacks inflicted much more than a slight bit of knockback anyway, but they were more nuisances than direct damage. Arin's first keyblade strike hit, but only when it was distracted by JeY's 'death from above', to which it reoriented to deflect the following keyblades by whipping its head back and forth, bouncing the keyblades off its teeth, even the stronger one. However, being focused on Arin allowed Jared to lay his trap rather easily. This was all before it soared up and whipped the embedded blades from its flesh. This battle was about diminishing the shadow veil of the dragon's scales in order to inflict more grievous damage, as these surface attacks seemed to hurt, they were shrugged off in a moment's notice. The only notable impact so far were JeY's blades being embedded into its flesh, but even then the dragon's veil absorbed the majority of the impact. The veil would only be gone when their attacks would have noticeably more knockback and cause the massive snake-like lizard to be so preoccupied with pain that it couldn't focus on counter-attacking. Still, it would be a while before that point, until then, they just had to keep fighting. Well, and surviving. The dragon bit open another rift and launched itself through to the other side, which was a portal nearby Arin and attempted to get another mouthful. Shortly after the attempted attack, it would whip its massive body around to lash its hefty tail at Jared, which if struck would be launched toward the dragon's head to make it easy for two snacks from one attack. It's attention was focus on JeY, which he would have to deal with later except for now it would simply have to avoid his attacks. It would work at first, a few twists and turns to narrow avoid fast-travelling rays of Chaos energy launched from JeY who remained hovering midair albeit farther away, explosions of its fluorescent pink energy blowing up the ground beneath the intended impact point of the dragon's head. It was learning, that wasn't good. Perhaps a change in attack pattern was in order, perhaps once he figured out the dragon's current pattern. It was going after what it thought was weaker first, knowing JeY could teleport it didn't want to waste efforts on striking him until it had nothing else to worry about.
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Post by Raphael on Apr 28, 2014 0:03:17 GMT -5
Arin saw that the dragon was working on opening another portal, barely noticing the rip in space close to him to react. Leaping up, he kicked off of the building behind him and used his double flight ability to jump out of the dragon's chomping range.
In response to the sneak attack, he threw both keys at the dragon's eyes from above, then landed on the dragon's winding body. Resummoning both keyblades, Arin started slashing at the dragon's back in quick succession, white and black aura scars marking every point that his keyblades made contact with, hopefully dealing some elemental damage in the process.
Until the three of them could find a way to stun this dragon or make it leave long enough openings in its guard, he could only focus on places where the dragon couldn't immediately retaliate with its teeth.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 21:15:11 GMT -5
Jared was surprised when he suddenly hear a voice in his head that wasn't the Phoenix, and was equally as surprised when the dragon opened another portal and went for a direct attacked on Arin, but he managed to dodge away and counterattack nicely. The dragon whipped his tail towards Jared in an attempt to catch him off guard. Luckily the attack was long enough for Jared to counter quickly by stabbing the tip of his keyblade into the side of the tail, cushioning the blow and hopefully doing some damage.
The blow knocked Jared back a ways, but it wasn't that terrible. Jared could have dodged the attack in the form he was now in, but he opted for the damage however minimal it was. With the blade of his keyblade still loosely stuck in the dragon, Jared teleported to the blade and tore it, with his left hand, out of the flesh of the dragon in a swift motion, and with his free right hand place another seal on the tail.
Quickly leaping away from the tail afterwards, Jared's figure blurred and he reappeared a short distance up the base of the dragons tail. Speed was a great asset in this form. Jared continued slashing with his keyblade at the base of the tail with increasingly more fierce swipes, as the Phoenix was clearly enjoying having a little free roaming. In hind sight, if Jared had any in this mind set, his position probably wasn't the best as he could easily be thrown off with a few erratic movements, but he didn't care. C'mon you big ugly snake, show me what you've got! Jared though to himself as he thrust the blade once more into the dragon.
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Post by JeY k on Apr 30, 2014 21:26:55 GMT -5
Well, this was interesting, the 'recruits' managed to avoid a basic portal strike and were now mounted at opposite ends of the dragon, hacking and slashing away with their weapons. Granted, the scales it had were tough and cushioned a great deal of the damage and possible inflicted pain, and the thrown blades directed at its eyes were easily seen to which the dragon jerked its head up slightly to bounce the blades off with its large teeth, but it was not happy about having insects attempting to tear away its flesh. In response, it seemed to turn itself into a tightly-knit circle.
'Jump off, it's going to strike,' JeY communicated via telepathy still, floating off in the air preparing another attack strategy as the dragon was concerned with the others. He noticed the dragon began to coil up, to which if he correctly brushed up on his ancient shadow dragon techniques and patterns before knowingly engaging in this fight, he saw the massive beast getting ready to do what he understood was a shockwave attack. By coiling up and rapidly lashing out, a wave of darkness would be sent out in all directions. Not so much in the form of a dome, but several angled rings which could be avoided by being threaded.
As the dragon suddenly uncoiled, the force from that movement alone would easily throw the two fights on his back into the air, only to be possibly hit by the follow up shockwave of shadow energy unleashed from the attack. Anyone hit would sustain a decent deal of damage and heavy knockback, should they not manage to thread themselves between the many rings unleashed. As for JeY, he simply moved back until the rings were spread far enough apart to just slip through. He planned to charge back in and start another barrage of energy, but the dragon went to disappear again.
Gan'Kromorg ripped open another portal immediately after and vanished into the void, only to reappear... nowhere! Well, that was weird, it seemed their opponent had just completely run away! Unfortunately, JeY was incredibly sensitive to auras, and detected the dragon's presence in no time. He decided to alert the other combatants. 'It's still around. Be on your toes.' While not nearby any of their vicinity and not interested in raising his voice, telepathy was the superior option here. While technically the others could transmit thoughts back to him (but not to each other), he wouldn't tell him the trick for breaching his secure channel of transmitting thoughts due to not being too particularly interested in their complaints or opinions.
In any case, an entire ten seconds would pass, which seemed like an entirety in the heat of a battle, before another rift opened behind JeY and out came the dragon, only to chomp early and rip open another portal right in front of the chaotic man who didn't budge a centimeter sans turning around to face the monstrous snake-like shadow lizard. Another rift opened up to the side of Arin but the dragon deployed a similar tactic of biting early and slithered into another rift. It went back to JeY's side, faking him out yet again. However, if one thing could be observed from this peculiar pattern, it's that every time the dragon came through a rift, it moved faster and faster. That wasn't good - it was building an insanely high velocity with this tactic. Where the dragon finally decided to emerge and strike would be a total mystery as well - JeY could see where it could move to each time and predict the rift openings, but he wasn't precognitive to the point where could see if the dragon was going to open another rift or not. That could only be determined by the movement of its jaw - but what exactly defined as 'chomping early'? It certainly could just chomp slower to imitate the same timing regarding it making a bite.
Still, it would dart around the city faking out the three fighters, it's final two portals first opening behind Jared into a fake out, zooming right through another vortex opened behind JeY, now going at an unbelievable speed, though JeY simply stood there as a massive set of teeth attempted to bore into him. It was hard to see what happened, the view of JeY now being completely obstructed by the dragon, but the massive beast circled up and doubled back into the portal while still flying rather quick, flying out where it originally faked out Jared, looping around and attempting to snatch him as well, curving around and using the remainder of his speed to also attempt to snatch up Arin. Whatever momentum left would carry it high into the air so the fighters couldn't so easily jump on his back again, where it roared.
"You mortals will never best the Bleak Dragon!"
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Post by Raphael on May 1, 2014 0:45:57 GMT -5
Arin leapt off just moments before the shockwaves were unleashed, but he only was able to avoid a couple of shockwaves with his only double flight jump. He caught several of the rings of darkness with his armor, but the amount of force and density of the darkness was too much for his boy to endure. His light keyblade vanished, leaving only his dark keyblade. His armor also shattered in a white haze, replaced by his black coat from before, with the hood down. The last thing that happened before he lost control was the dark aura of his keyblade being forced back into his body.
A brief cry of pain could be heard as he clutched his chest, before crashing into the pavement, and rolling a few times before sliding to a stop near the debris of the fallen skyscraper. Arin was twitching in pain for a few moments, his hair slowly blackening until none of his natural goldenrod hue was left. Just as the dragon was about to make a grab for him, he rolled out of the dragon's flight path and aimed his dark keyblade right at the vulnerable underbelly while it was making toward the sky, pushing hard with the blade to try and deal some heavy damage from a weak point.
Arin looked up at the large serpentine beast, his calm green eyes replaced by a pair of piercing yellow eyes that glared at the out of reach dragon, "Why don't you stop teleporting around like a scared little garden snake and prove it then!" His attitude was far more aggressive than it was just a while ago, proof that his darker side was assuming a more dominant role while his power was cut loose.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 22:57:29 GMT -5
Jared leapt off the great dragons back as it began to unleash shockwaves in all directions, with Jared managing to weave his way through most of them, but the last one he couldn't and was forced to block with his keyblade. The impact sent Jared flying into another building and his keyblade shattered and disappeared. The dragon then began to rapidly enter and exit portal, gaining crazy momentum. He appeared behind Jared, only to disappear before he could strike.
Dammit, what is this thing, its not even fazed by our attacks. Looking around to see how the others were the others where, he noticed that the JeY seemed to be doing little to no fighting, and that passed him off. "Hey jackass, you wanna get a move on? Jared snarled suddenly appearing in a flash in front of JeY. Then letting himself free fall, Jared landed neatly on another building, and leapt off to another building closer to the fight. Seriously how tough is this stupid thing!? Arin seemed to be attempting to solo the dragon, which wasn't the best idea, but it didn't look like it was doing much. Arin had transformed again o it seemed so maybe something new would happen. "Stupid overgrown snake, stay still so we can thrash you!" Jared scowled as he looked for an opening to counter attack.
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Post by JeY k on May 5, 2014 10:54:34 GMT -5
A few scrapes here and there would inflict some more minor damage, the dragon's shadow veil beginning to weaken some more, though the group still had a long way to go before they completely shattered its most basic defenses. The initial attack on JeY as he stood there seemed to do nothing, as the chaotic man phased out of time-space in order to protect himself from the teeth, fleeing the scene to set a few traps making it apparent that he vanished from the fight for a moment as the other two were left to fend off a couple chomp attempts.
Once JeY returned, making himself visible to the fight again, he was immediately approached by the flame-induced fighter. His expression remained flat and void of emotion, rather unamused by the boy's taunt. He had no clue what JeY was preparing for, and that made him a bit irked, but obviously he didn't know anything so he paid him no attention. "I could always just kill you next," he would say as the boy descended away from him. Depending on whether or not he thought he got his fill from slaying this dragon, he could see himself 'punishing' these fools for getting involved. For now, he would entertain the idea of them as pawns; if they died, it was of little or no consequence to him.
Speaking of taunts, seems everyone was trash talking at this point, the dragon being the most amused one here. He never grew bored of the human's ability to feel so confident. Very well, he would test that confidence! Well, first he had to deal with a few shadow bolts fired from JeY at first, he wouldn't just let himself take free hits for the sake of a point, especially from his most annoying opponent. The dragon started slithering through the air in a jagged pattern to avoid the attacks, though sought to make JeY into a tasty filet.
Deciding not to stand there for too long, JeY flew off to the side, over the open area they were fighting in, through a vague corner which was still more open space since the buildings in this corner were rather far apart. The dragon took the bait, growing excited in that he dodged every single bolt and thinking that victory would soon be in its grasp should JeY think he could salvage this poor performance, but he didn't know JeY's plan. Suddenly, JeY cast four different spirals of shadow energy to make two crosses with a narrow square in the middle to force the dragon into a certain spot, jetting shadow flames into the spot to attempt to catch the dragon off guard. Well, instead of taking the attack to the face, the dragon decided to bite into another dimension and slipped away again, vanishing.
A few seconds later, it emerged at Jared, but instead of vanishing again it went right for the prize, should it miss or it, the dragon would swerve off to the side and rip another dimensional hole and vanish again, but not before JeY attempted to fire another couple bolts of shadow energy, catching a few on the midsection on its way out, though not really doing much. It emerged right away at JeY again, who warped higher into the air and freefell, taking a page from Arin's book and summoning one of his Zweighandlers, hacking away at its back. After about five slashes the dragon ripped into another dimension, but not instantly reappearing. JeY landed on the ground near Arin, giving him a brief turn of the head before looking ahead again, making almost no sense since he was still wearing a blindfold. It was obvious at this point that he had some sort of guiding sense that allowed him to 'see' despite the lack of having access to his physical eyes.
The dragon would re-emerge, running along the ground in an attempt to catch JeY and Arin in a line, before flying back up into the air. While JeY just stood there with a plan, if Arin didn't move he would eventually become lunch.
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Post by Raphael on May 5, 2014 13:09:59 GMT -5
Arin grinned and launched a dark flare at the dragon as it was approaching, the dark flame masking his movements as he umped high into the air again, and landed on the dragon's head. He swung down hard on the dragon's skull and flipped off of its head to run along the top of the dragon's body, toward the tip of its tail.
While doing this, Arin's attack method was a bit more unorthodox. His body bent low to reach his target, he swung and the dragon's scales with his left hand, the keyblade slashing at the dragon's body. But instead of coming back down with the keyblade in his left hand, it had switched to his right hand, and he counter-balanced his movements by alternating strikes from his right and left hands.
Just as he was about to reach the end of the dragon's tail, it started curving towards the sky again, forcing him to fall off. Leading his target, he threw his keyblade, blitz raid style, and aimed at the spot on the dragon's back with the most scars. Flipping his body, he landed on all fours before standing up again and recalling his keyblade to his right hand. "You're all talk, snake!"
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 22:20:34 GMT -5
This whole portal business was getting real old and Jared was beginning to wonder if this dragon new any other tricks. The dragon was currently being occupied by Arian who was slashing once again at the dragons shielding outer aura. We have to stun this thing, and then we get some free hits to wail on this thing Jared's sane mind was telling himself, but the Phoenix was happy to resolve this fight the old fashion way, but that would be even less affective it would appear.
Arin was thrown from the back of the dragon and landed on a nearby building, but not before counter attacking by throwing his keyblade. "Ok then, up I go!" Jared sighed as blurred and reappeared next to Arin. "I'm totally guessing right now but if I where you, I would aim for the eyes, everything is weak in the eyes right?" Jared explained before flashing away in a column of fire, only to reappear on the dragons head. Jared acted quickly, planting another rune in between the dragons eyes and then summoned his keyblade back to his right hand. Swinging it in a forward sweep, he struck both eyes, hoping to stun the dragon long enough for someone to counter to the back of the neck, probably causing more damage. "Here's a parting gift for you to enjoy!" Jared shouted as he back flipped off the dragons head, PHOENIX HALBERD!. A beam of fire shot downwards towards the dragons head with great force. Ok this should be enough set up for the others to get something going too.
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Post by JeY k on May 11, 2014 20:44:33 GMT -5
It seemed now they were inflicting some decent damage. Once the dragon emerged again, most of the group took to mounting it and attacking it directly, similar to before. JeY, while on the ground and directly in its path, simply vanished as the dragon went straight through him. Once the body passed its course all the way through, he would be absolutely nowhere once again. His traps were primed and ready, all he needed to do was get the dragon to make the simple mistake of making it think it caught JeY off-guard at some point. For now, everyone else seemed to be doing their part, but going on the physical side for its face would be a bit tricky. The dragon wasn't too fond of insects crawling all over it, but for them to be on its head and face especially was the worst. The dragon would jerk back and forth and attempt to dislodge the pesky fighter, if that didn't work, suddenly lower its head to put Jared in the air and twist up to deflect the attacks with its teeth. However, that would only account for half of its current troubles. In order to prevent its face being messed with, it could hardly multi-task to Arin running down its back and wreaking another havoc entirely. It flew straight up, as gravity would surely force this pest off. As the dragon righted itself after finally getting rid of the annoyances, JeY appeared once more not too far off. Not being perfectly level-headed and letting the agitation from this fight going rather poorly seep in, it charged at JeY at an attempt to make a quick snack once again, but was disappointed when JeY shot backwards in the air being out of reach. The dragon wasn't about to let itself get out sped this time! It zoomed forward, almost closing the gap but JeY launched himself up this time, the dragon quickly following. That was interesting, he barely had to bait the dragon at all, it seemed to just go after him regardless! With such intensity too. No matter, it was in position, and now was the perfect time to unleash the trap he'd spent so long building up. Flipping back again and free-falling, JeY flicked his arms out while whispering to himself, "right into my trap..." Suddenly, large orbs of light made themselves apparent all around the vicinity of the dragon's body, each letting out an intense ray of energy making a dreadful impact. The dragon roared in agony and flew into another portal to quickly position itself outside the attack and a decent length away from the fighters in general. With its veil from the shadow scales starting to wear thin, it was only a matter of time before attacks started piercing its actual skin and inflicting real damage. Once that point was reached, JeY had a sure-fire way to finish this fight once and for all, for now they just had to chip away for a little longer. However, the Bleak Dragon wasn't about to make that easy for the fighters. "Eeenooough!" it yelled with a booming, powerful voice. It definitely sounded like it was done playing around. [OOC: Track change!] It tucked itself under and coiled up again, but instead of lashing out and releasing waves of darkness again, it began to glow profusely, then suddenly lashed out with a blinding purple light for a moment, clearing to reveal the dragon flew in three different directions at once. Staring down the fighters now were three dragons that were the exact same size as the original one, having nearly the same level of power as well. The only different being was that it could attack three time at once but also take damage from three sources at once. High risk, high reward... if it could land hits while dodging them itself. The left-most dragon swooped down for a direct attack on Arin, and would definitely be focusing its bite on the boy, for sure. It would wiggle and twist and try every which way to fly fast and unpredictably to get close and land a good chomp. The right most-most bit into another dimension and attempted a fake-out attack on Jared again, popping out after four different dimension shifts to attempt to land its own fatal attack. If it missed, maybe it could catch the boy off-guard with another tail-swipe. The middle one had a stare-down with JeY. He could tell that it separated its presence, not its power. Attacking any of the three would be as equally effective as hitting it as if it were still one entity, but the same could be said about getting hit by its own attacks. He had no idea how it managed to multiply its power or what bound the three different images together, but its strength wasn't divided by any means. JeY readied an orb of Chaos energy in his hand, giving the beast some time to think carefully about its strategy. JeY, on the other hand, planned to purposefully miss so that it could distract the agitated beast long enough for a sword strike or two; but he wouldn't be doing anything until the dragon made its first move. He had to see what it was planning.
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Post by Raphael on May 12, 2014 0:21:35 GMT -5
Arin grinned smugly and gave the dragon a 'come on' gesture as it descended, not caring that the dragon had a damage link to the others. All he cared about right now was fighting a strong opponent, and t was charging right at him. He positioned his keyblade on his left side with his right hand, bracing to strike foolishly.
But at the very last second, he juked to the right, switching hands with his keyblade and using the teeth of his keyblade like a makeshift fish hook to swing on the tendon joining the dragon's lower jaw to its skull, riding along the outside of the dragon's head while it thrashed about "Someone's getting grumpy! Things not going as you want them to, garden snake?!"
During one thrash of the dragon's head, he delivered a fierce right jab to the dragon's left eye when he was within range, recalling the keyblade and swinging with his right hand at the dragon's skull before kicking off of its head to get some distance from those jaws.
As soon as he was back on the ground, his body let out a brief burst of light, and his appearance had changed back to its original form, blonde hair, green eyes, and his keyblade had changed back to the golden keyblade with its angelic and demonic wings in the design. He felt his power had reached its limit and gritted his teeth "Crap! My time's up!"
He braced himself for the dragon's next strike, trying to keep his distance while stalling for time until he could regain his power boost again. He didn't know what the chaos aura wielder had planned, but Arin knew he had to survive until the man could start turning the tide of this battle again.
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