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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2015 20:10:49 GMT -5
Walking through the bright streets of Twilight Town with the sun beating down on her from on high, Dark Sirene held her hand up in front of her narrowed red eyes and sighed irritably. She'd been walking through this town all day, and she hadn't found one lead on her search. As a matter of fact, she hadn't found anybody in this town; not Shrike, not a even a random kid to question a bit. She was well and truly bored; and the ever-present sun glaring in her eyes was not helping her already foul mood any.
'What the hell even gives? It's gotta be noon or so, and there isn't a soul in sight,' she thought, walking into a large area - the Tram Common, not that Dark Sirene knew its name - and casting her eyes about.
In her mind, her other personality piped up. 'You know, it could actually be a whole lot later than it looks,' Sirene's natural self said in her usual cheerful tone. 'After all, it looks like the sun never goes down here. For all we know, it could be this world's night-time! Oh, I just love how all these worlds are so different from our own... Don't you think it's great?'
Dark Sirene stopped, closed her eyes, and sighed again as she pinched the bridge of her nose; her other self's excitableness and pep got tiresome to listen to at the best of times, never mind at a time like this... 'You say that every time we go to a new world. Can we just have one visit when you're not gushing like a baby about the scenery? Huh? Will you give me that one luxury?'
There was something that sounded something like a whimper, before Sirene stayed quiet and left Dark Sirene to continue her search.
'Thank you, the red-eyed program thought, a cruel kind of smile slipping across her face now that she'd actually got the moron to shut her metaphorical mouth. With that thought, she continued her way through the place; she noticed that a couple of the shops still had their owners manning them - 'so I've got some people to 'play' with after all, wonderful!' - but on the whole, the place was a ghost town.
The program had to admit, though - as much as she didn't like admitting her other self was right - there really was something strange going on. Why were there hardly any people around? Why did the few shop-owners hanging around look so frightened?
And... why, every now and again, did it look as if the shadows were moving?
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Post by SXBattle on Jan 25, 2015 11:52:59 GMT -5
Landur walked through the woods, back along the path in which he came. These walks of his were daily, as they helped him to escape the business of the Twilight Town commoners. The silence of the woods helped him to clear the storm of thoughts that often devastated his mind. He closed his golden eyes, continuing along the tightly-packed, leafy path as he knew it like the back of his silver gauntlet.
For once, the silence of the forest could not save him from his thoughts. He was born with a task, but even for the sake of his life, could not figure out where to begin. "To help save the worlds," he mumbled to himself. Was this duty even possible to complete? In all honesty, Landur found it to be a little far-fetched. "Delta said he'd always be with with me. For someone who holds the soul of another, I feel alone."
As he reached the end of the pathway, a burst of negative energy vibrated his body. His glossy black hair blew lightly with his senses. "As fate wold have it." He broke into a light jog as he arrived into the tram common from the hole in the brick wall. There was barely a soul in sight, just a few shopkeepers. Landur made his way to one of the shops, leaning over the counter. The man was scrambling around, gathering his things.
"Is everything alright? Shops don't normally close up this early."
The man did not even look at Landur as he continued to gather his belongings. "Haven't you heard? That thing has been snatching people up at random. No one wants to risk anything, so everything is going on lock-down."
"What do-" Landur stopped mid question as the man stumbled out of the shop and made off in the direction of the sandlot. Shaking his head, Landur locked onto another powerful negative energy. He rounded the shop building and spotted its source. The back of a girl's head, long golden hair that could compete with Twilight Town's own Sun. She was dressed in black. Glowing red lines lit up her outfit, with headphones to match sported on her head. Clearly, she was not from this world. From what he could tell, she was definitely shorter than he. He grew a bit suspicious seeing how she was the only person in the plaza who did not seem to be running for her life.
"Is she causing all this commotion?" He could not tell, as the other energy was still present. He made up is mind to confront and question the girl.
"Excuse me," He cautiously walked over to her, "Do you have any idea what's going on around here?"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 17:43:53 GMT -5
'You know, maybe you're right; maybe it isn't this world's night-time. Maybe there is something strange going on,' Sirene's natural personality commented with a worried tone to her voice, as Dark Sirene stood and continued to survey the empty, near enough silent area.
'Oh, we're in agreement for once, eh?' Dark Sirene thought back with a smirk slipping across her face. 'Might that mean that I'm finally succeeding in making you a little more fun, like my good self?'
The program obviously couldn't see her other self, but she practically felt her bristling at the insinuation; a thought that pleased the dark side to no end. 'I am nothing like you, and I never will be,' Sirene replied seriously. 'And you're not 'good,' either!'
Dark Sirene just chuckled once to herself. 'Well, you got that last part right, sweetheart,' she replied, before the sound of footsteps - yes, in the midst of all this unnatural silence, actual footsteps - from behind caught her attention. She turned around, red eyes settling on a young man who seemed to be approaching her. The program looked him over, taking note of his striking eyes - piercing gold, an unusual eye colour for a human being in Sirene's own experience - and the heavy, silver gauntlet that covered his right arm, decorated in strange symbols. 'Oh-ho. We have an interesting one here,' Dark Sirene thought to herself, folding her arms and smirking a bit.
'Don't you dare get any ideas.'
'Yeah, yeah, buzzkill.'
The young fellow with the striking eyes then asked her a question; if she had any idea what was going on around here. "I'm afraid I don't, sweetie," Dark Sirene responded honestly, referring to the young man with the same kind of terms she referred to most everybody with. "Truth be known, I was actually wondering myself. I didn't exactly expect to arrive in town to find the place completely dead," she gave a dry kind of chuckle, shifting her weight and unfolding her arms.
In their mind, Sirene's default personality spoke up again. 'Maybe this person is from this town,' she suggested, as Dark Sirene's bright eyes again studied the young man from his shoes to his glossy, spiky hair and back again. 'He could help us figure out what's going on. And I know what you're going to say - 'why should we bother finding out what's going on? It's got nothing to do with us,' etc. etc... but if there's something - or someone - nasty out here, then we should get to it before it gets to us.'
Dark Sirene twisted her lips in thought as she listened to her other self. 'Damn. I hate to admit it, but that might actually be a good idea. I think that's the smartest thing I've ever heard you say,' she added with a sly smirk.
'Hey, we're the same person, you know...' Sirene responded, trailing off, a little upset.
Before the program could respond to her other self, a shriek caught her attention and made her look behind the golden-eyed boy. Not a moment later, a woman and a man rushed by with their two small children running at their sides, horror in their eyes. "Hurry, hurry!" the woman was frantically urging the two little boys as they went. "You've got to hurry, or the shadow will steal you away, too! Hurry!"
Dark Sirene watched the group go with interest. "The shadow, huh?" She then returned her attention to the fellow in front of her. "Say, hun. Are you from around here? If so... Do you know of anything from this town that could've caused, well, that?" she asked, motioning in the general direction that the family went to emphasize her point. After that, it seemed like the place was utterly deserted.
'Maybe everybody else escaped, too?' Sirene's natural self suggested, with a hopeful tone to her worried voice.
'Or maybe they were all stolen away by an evil shadow creature. Try not to get your hopes up by being an optimist, okay?' Dark Sirene responded dryly, keeping her attention on the boy with the gauntlet.
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Post by SXBattle on Jan 25, 2015 20:23:40 GMT -5
The girl turned around to meet his golden gaze with her own glowing red eyes. The smirk on the girl's face made Landur all the more suspicious of her. He made a conscious decision to not tense up, sense she had not proved herself to be a threat to the town as of yet. Instead, he relaxed his shoulders and kept eye contact with her. She'd said that she was on equal level with him in terms of knowledge of what in the worlds was going down. Despite her claims, her chuckle and smirk hinted that she could easily be lying.
Landur continued to study the girl for a moment, watching her eyes look him up, then back down again. He wondered if she sizing him up for battle, but still, he made sure to not look threatening with his posture. A moment later, the girls lip twisted as though she'd heard something she had not liked.
Landur intended on inquiring her further before snapping his attention in the direction of a high pitched shriek. Two adults, presumably the parents of the children they were rushing along, scrambled by. Landur scratched off the possibility that the girl was telling hogwash. He leaped in the direction in which the family was running away from, hoping to have jumped between the family and whatever might be pursuing them. The tram common was now dead silent with vacancy, and nothing appeared. Maybe he reacted too late and the enigma was still chasing the family. Landur stood up straight again and turned his attention back to his rather attractive companion as she questioned him.
"Say, hun. Are you from around here? If so... Do you know of anything from this town that could've caused, well, that?"
Landur started in the direction in which the family ran - toward Station Heights.
"Not from here, but I've resided here for some time. My guess is that it's a heartless. Not your average Shadow either."
He took a glance back, nodding his head in signal for the girl to come with him. He didn't want to give any orders, but he figured she was just as interested in finding out what this thing was as he. He broke into a run.
"Name's Landur," He introduced himself, finally, "Care to tell me yours?"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2015 20:10:40 GMT -5
'Heartless?' Dark Sirene thought, a slight frown creasing her forehead as she turned in the direction that the yellow-eyed fellow was going in; it seemed like he intended to follow that fleeing family. 'No idea what he means by that.'
'It doesn't sound very friendly; 'heartless' and 'shadows', people going missing and running for dear life...' Sirene's original personality murmured worriedly in their mind. 'Please, if you're going after this thing, remember to be careful!' Although Sirene didn't like her other self, she liked the idea of death even less; and then there was the fact that it might have been another personality, but it was her own body. If Dark Sirene got herself killed, they'd both suffer for it.
Dark Sirene was well aware of her nicer side's opinion of her, but she smirked in return to her comments. 'Aww, your concern's so touching, honey... I promise, I'll stay alive to make your life more interesting a little longer.' With that thought, she refocused her attention fully on the boy, who motioned with his head for her to follow him. 'Oh, whatever. I might as well see what all the commotion's about!' The program ran to catch up with him, then ran at his side to wherever it was they were going.
"Name's Landur," she heard him say as they went, causing her to turn her head in his direction. "Care to tell me yours?"
'Landur, huh...' Dark Sirene only just managed to catch herself before she started smirking. 'My interesting little human here's called 'Landur.' I'll have to remember that!' Turning her attention back to the streets in front of her, she responded simply to his question. "Call me Sirene. Pleasure to meet you, Landur."
'You know, that's actually my name...' the real Sirene protested weakly in their mind. 'You really need to get your own and stop using mine!'
'Yadda yadda yadda. Whine about it to someone who cares, ya little pest.'
Dark Sirene's attention was taken from the impending back-and-forth with her other self as things suddenly got... much, much darker, just as they'd almost arrived at Station Heights (again, not that she knew what the place was called.) It was as if the sun had been turned out, but only for just a brief moment. 'Huh? The heck was--
Stopping for a moment and turning her head toward the sky, the program's thought process was quickly ended and her question answered. 'Oh... Hel-lo. Think you were right, Siri; it doesn't seem very friendly.'
The 'it' in question was a large creature; large enough to have cast a massive shadow when it flew overhead, making its way up toward the station. On large, bat-like wings it soared, humanoid in shape but pure black as if it were made of pure shadow. Two long, sharp horns extended forward from its head and a long, serpent-like creature - complete with a set of sharp teeth and everything - jutted out from its stomach area.
"I guess that's 'the shadow,'" Dark Sirene stated, remembering what the family had called it, before continuing her run back up to the station plaza.
The sound of screaming - a sound that, admittedly, Dark Sirene enjoyed (but it made her other self start whimpering, and that annoyed her) - coming from the station plaza caught her attention.
"It's here!" screamed the woman from earlier. "The shadow is here!"
"Kids, don't get close to them! You've got to run!" came a male voice, no doubt the man from earlier.
'Them? More than one?' Dark Sirene wondered, starting to feel a rush of excitement from all this commotion; not a normal reaction to have, no doubt, but she was hardly a normal person. When the plaza finally came into view, she saw the family from earlier surrounded by a group of shadowy creatures; six regular shadows with their sharp little claws and three Neoshadows, bigger and slightly more humanoid than their bug-eyed companions. Looking up at the clock tower, the program saw the snake-stomached thing perched on top of it surveying what happened below. 'Are they working together or something?'
'Please, you've got to do something!' the real Sirene cried out in their mind, sounding absolutely horrified. 'Those monsters are going to kill that couple and the children if you don't do something about them! Please, either let me take over or protect that family!'
Dark Sirene, surprisingly, agreed with her other self; something did have to be done about those monsters. Even though she was actually somewhat impressed by the big guy - the little things were a little too cute and 'cartoony' to be impressive, unless they were hiding some serious power - she didn't want to let it destroy this town and its people by itself...
'That, after all, is my job!' she thought, a grin crossing her face as she raised her right hand and summoned Flying Victory - her translucent purple guitar-cum-weapon - in a flash of zeroes-and-ones. "Better get ready to fight, sweetie!" Dark Sirene shouted over her shoulder at Landur as she ran toward the group of shadowy creatures, knocking one of the little things to one side with her guitar before bringing it up just in time to stop one of the bigger ones from clawing one of the kids in the face, quickly bringing up her leg to kick the thing away.
She might not have been much of a hero, but there wasn't any reason why she couldn't have a little fun stopping something from killing innocents... even if it was only so there'd be more innocents for her to kill by herself.
/OOC: Feel free to take control of the Heartless/the family in whatever way you want to!
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Post by SXBattle on Jan 27, 2015 15:59:47 GMT -5
/OOC: Okay, gotcha! /
"Call me Sirene. Pleasure to meet you, Landur." He note of the name he surely would not forget, as his memory was quite impeccable. "A pleasure as well. Too bad it had to be in dark circumstances." Landur did not bother to look back at his now silent companion as they dashed up the hill. His body began to vibrate and his head crackled like small electrical shock waves. More than one, he declared to himself, sensing the presence of several negative energies. He ignored the fact that Sirene was giving off a similar, yet different, vibe herself for he needed to have his for attention on the mission at hand. A strong wind hit and suddenly the area was splashed with darkness, and then light again. Landur looked up to see a a humanoid figure flying through use of a pair of devilish wings. He took note of the two huge horns that looked sharp enough to pierce a building. It's body was pure black and most disturbingly, a serpent stuck far out of its stomach. If this thing was a heartless, it surely was not the kind he was used to smashing to bits. Landur made sure to keep his pace despite the horrible sight. Closing his eyes, he searched his past life for a clue as to what this thing was. The energy was familiar - definitely that of a heartless - but he could not find any other information on it. Upon entering the station's plaza, Landur's attention was removed from the the flying heartless by the familiar sound of frantic desperate words. No doubt, it came from the family he and Sirene encountered earlier. "It's here!" screamed the woman as she held tightly onto one of the children's hand. "The shadow is here!" "Kids, don't get close to them! You've got to run!" The man stood defensively in front of the other child in an attempt to shield him from the six shadows and three neoshadows that closed in on them from all sides. This explained why Landur felt several negative energy sources. The shadows were sloppily jumping about while the Neoshadows moved in at a slower paste in a low, creeping motion. "Right. Shadows fight using instinct. Neoshadows use a bit more strategy," Landur reinforced to himself. Landur glanced over his shoulder to see Sirene had caught up. He wondered for second if he'd just walked into a trap set up by her, but her next action said otherwise. With a smile that Landur could not tell whether was filled with confidence or secrecy, Sirene summoned a purple guitar that appeared almost as though it was made of data. He could see through it slightly due to it's transparency, quite intrigued by a weapon of its nature. It seems there are people who are quite unique throughout these worlds. I'm not alone after all. Landur confirmed to himself as Sirene took off toward the heartless. "Better get ready to fight, sweetie!" she called back to him. "It's what I was born to do." He replied, taking off into a run. It was time to protect this family. His journey to help protect the worlds had begun. As his companion dealt with one of the shadows that attempted to make one of the children its first victim, Landur leaped into the air, allowing gravity to add force to the punch he landed on the shadow with his silver gauntlet. The shadow disappeared into a puff of black. When it cleared, not moment later, Landur caught a glimpse of a Neoshadow sneaking up behind the woman. In his left hand, he formed a fireball about the size of a baseball, throwing it with great accuracy as it hit the Neoshadow, knocking it backwards. He then addressed the woman. "You have to get away from here with your children. Now. We'll hold them off with no problem." The woman nodded slowly, horror in her eyes. It was clear that she was just as afraid of Landur and Sirene as she was of the heartless. She looked to the man who nodded firmly, clearly grateful for the assistance. They began to make their way towards the the plaza exit. Landur knew that the heartless perched upon the clock tower would not let that happen. Prepared, he filled his arms and legs with fire energy, launching himself up high into their air, fire bursting out his fists, pointed downward, and his feet. (Flame Jet Ability, 2 post cool down). Barely reaching the top of the tower, Landur grabbed its edge and hauled himself up just as the heartless was about to take off. "No. Face me." He threw several punches at the heartless, a few feet away. Waves of flames, shaped like slashes, followed suit. The enemy, blocking the last few flame slashes, retaliated, allowing the stomach-dwelling serpent to thrust forward. Landur moved his head, just barely avoiding getting caught between the serpent's jaws. The heartless then rushed forward, grasping Landur in it's shadowy hand. It flew off of the tower and sped towards the plaza ground. Landur released a loud grunt as he was slammed into the ground. He was thankful for his ability to take high levels of impact without being crushed, which he inherited from Delta. Stumbling to his feet, he faced the heartless, preparing for its next move. Close up, he realized, this thing looked much bigger and much more menacing than before. Despite this, he felt no fear. This was his duty, and he would carry it out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 22:19:07 GMT -5
Dark Sirene had wasted no time in swinging her weapon back around, stabbing the shadow she'd hit earlier with one of the guitar's pointed ends and watching it dissipate into what looked like thick, black smoke, just as Landur had done the same to another of the creatures by leaping at it and punching with that heavy gauntlet. 'All that without a weapon? Not bad at all...' Even more impressive than that, the yellow-eyed boy then went on to create fire in his hands and use it to knock back one of the bigger creatures.
'Between the fire and the eyes, I'm starting to think he's definitely more than a normal human,' Sirene's natural personality commented while Landur urged the family to escape. Dark Sirene nodded ever so slightly in response, before a shadow leapt towards her and raked its claws across her face, giving her some unpleasant scratches. "Oh, now it's on; no-one touches the face, pal," the program told the thing angrily, before quickly swinging Flying Victory around, smacking the little thing out of the air with the guitar's body before spinning the weapon around and stabbing the creature while it was down. It wriggled in protest, and Dark Sirene's expression changed into a wicked grin before she pulled the weapon out, only to stab the creature again. This time, it gave up and dissipated.
The program turned around to face the rest of the creatures, ignoring the stinging in her face from the shadow's claws, only to see Landur suddenly produce fire from his hands and feet and go flying into the air. The force had blown the remaining Heartless away slightly; the remaining three little things were on their backs and scrabbling to get back up, while two of the bigger things stood looking dazed and the other - the one that had been struck by the fireball - looked particularly worse for wear.
'Is he really going to face that big, ugly thing alone?' Sirene's original personality asked in amazement, even as Dark Sirene swapped out Flying Victory for her Shakers and threw them at the weakened Neoshadow, watching it finally burst into dark smoke and disappear as they hit. 'He's really something, isn't he?'
'Spare me the love confessions, Siri, I'm trying to fight here,' the program replied dryly to her other self, rushing forward and intending to deal with the remaining four creatures while Landur kept the big guy busy--
--only for the 'big guy' to suddenly come flying toward the ground, landing right on top of the remaining shadow monsters and flattening them. It proceeded to smack its hand into the ground; and it looked like there was something in that hand...
'Oh my gosh, Landur!' Sirene's original personality cried as Landur stumbled back up. 'I can't believe he's okay after that...'
'Don't be so surprised,' Dark Sirene replied, slightly relieved herself to see that the yellow-eyed boy wasn't too injured; it would have been a shame to see such an interesting human - if he even was a human - die without knowing anything about him. 'With this guy's strange abilities, who knows what else he'll turn out to be capable of?'
The black shadow creature - definitely an imposing sight, but that only served to make Dark Sirene more excited, for some reason - brought its arms over its upper chest in an X, splaying its long, clawed fingers as a dark, shadowy substance began to emit from them, before it suddenly threw out its hands and sent out six balls of bluish-purple fire; three in Landur's general direction, three in Dark Sirene's.
Dark Sirene thought fast and jumped to one side; the balls weren't very fast-moving at all, but she felt it necessary to get out of the way. The three orbs of darkness fell innocently to the ground in front of her...
...and transformed into three Neoshadows, as a sound eerily like laughter rang through the air.
'What? Did it just... create those things? Was that not even an attack?' Sirene questioned in their mind, absolutely confused by everything to do with these shadow creatures. They had never encountered anything like this before, so it was entirely new to them.
The voice that had laughed before - the serpent-stomached Heartless itself - did the most terrifying thing it possibly could, then; it spoke. "You will fall before me and the Heartless I summon," it threatened, before pointing and firing out a beam of darkness at Landur, then repeating the move with Dark Sirene; in her case, she sidestepped, but it was fast and caught her through the shoulder like a bullet. The program put a hand to her shoulder and grimaced, but kept her eyes on the thing all the same.
"Let's just see, Horny," she said to the ugly thing, eyes narrowed. "After we're through with you, I'm gonna cut that snake off your chest and make you eat it!"
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Post by SXBattle on Jan 28, 2015 17:55:38 GMT -5
Clawed, shadowy hands were held out before the vile creature. From those hands came six large eerie-looking balls of dark shades. Three flew towards Landur, and three towards his golden-haired companion. Landur, still a bit shaken from the shock of the impact from being slammed into the plaza ground, crossed his arms in front of him defensively to prepare to take even more damage. A couple moments went by and he felt no additional pain. He lowered his arms to see that the orbs slowly to the ground and formed three pools of darkness. He glanced over to Sirene who seemed to be as flustered as he was. His attention was directed back towards the dark pools as Neoshadows climbed out of each of them. Their arrival was accompanied by a deep, wicked laugh seemed to echo in all directions, making it hard to pinpoint the source.
Heartless can be created just like that? Landur pondered to himself. What is this thing?
A voice identical to the laughter just a few moments ago began to speak. This time the source was clear: The giant heartless. "You will fall before me and the heartless I summon."
Immediately, it's sharp-clawed fingers point at Landur and Sirene, firing off two lethal lasers; one at each of them. On pure reflex, Landur dropped to the ground, avoiding the beam all too narrowly. As he picked himself back up, a Neoshadow launched itself forward and slashed at his chest.
Grimacing and grunting, Landur returned the favor with swift uppercut that sent the heartless flying back behind the other two. His chest burned but he did not care. He looked over at Sirene who was clutching her shoulder in her hand. She must had been hit by the ray. Landur wanted to tear this heartless apart, but he kept a level head.
"Let's just see, Horny," Sirene's voice sounded much more agitated than before. "After we're through with you, I'm gonna cut that snake off your chest and make you eat it!"
Landur smiled a bit at the girl's courage. He could not help but wonder, suddenly, where she came from or why she was here. He pushed the thought aside to save for a more suitable time. His focus returned to the battle at hand.
"Sirene!" He called out. "As much as I'd love to get rid of these burdening Neoshadows, I don't think it would do any good. This thing will just keep making more. I say we take off those arms of its, since they seem to be its favorite weapons."
One of the Neoshadows hurled itself at Landur, but he stepped quickly to the side and ignored it. As he dashed towards the ringleader heartless, he formed a spinning disk of flames, razor sharp, in his hands. It floated around him as he closed the distance. The three Neoshadows were in high pursuit of him. The Giant heartless fired two balls of darkness out of its hand straight towards Sirene. These ones moved fast and were presumably, to Landur, not Neoshadow summoners.
In response, Landur swung his arm, causing his flame disk to fly in that direction. Upon contact with the disk, the first orb dissipated. The disk returned to it's floating state by Landur. The giant heartless then proceeded to swing its massive fist down in an attempt to smash Landur once again. Although a bit slowed down by his chest injury, he rolled out of the way, using his shoulder armor to make the roll as quick and painless as possible. The shadowy fist made a booming sound as Landur's pursuers were smashed to oblivion.
He spotted an opening. He threw the flame disk directly at the deep-voiced fiend's shoulder. Let's hope this cuts its arm off, he anticipated. The flame disk went through the shoulder, but it was still in tact. The creature let out an earsplitting roar. Landur was a bit disgusted by the fact that something so sharp hadn't cut it off. How unnatural. But he was glad to have done some damage.
Maybe one more slice like that will do the trick.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2015 22:53:14 GMT -5
Just before Dark Sirene could launch herself at 'Horny' (as she had not-so-affectionately nicknamed the giant creature, not knowing its name, if it even had one) or its little minions, she heard Landur call her name and quickly turned her head toward him. He stated that it wouldn't do much good to get rid of the little things - Neoshadows, he called them - since the big guy would just make more, and recommended taking off the creature's arms instead.
"Ten-four, cutie," Dark Sirene nodded in understanding, a quick smirk slipping across her face before she went serious again, turning back toward the giant shadow monster and the three 'Neoshadows' in front of her. 'Not interested in the small fry,' the program thought to herself, quickly switching out her Flying Victory for her Flute of Corrosion. She didn't know if her plan would work on creatures of this ilk, but she figured it was at least worth a try... Bringing the flute up to her lips, the program blew out and fired a poisoned dart at each of the three Neoshadows in front of her; or she meant to, but she only had enough time to fire at two of them before suddenly, two fast-moving balls of darkness caught her eye. "Crap," Dark Sirene hissed to herself, quickly throwing herself to the right, looking up just in time to see one of the balls destroyed by a fiery attack from Landur, while the other one hit the exact spot she'd been prior with a scary amount of force, enough to crack the floor a little bit.
She didn't waste any time in picking herself back up, though; even though her arm was sore from the landing (and from the creature shooting her through the shoulder earlier,) she didn't have any time to dwell on that. Quickly casting her red eyes to the side, she saw that the two Neoshadows she'd shot earlier actually had been affected by the poison, much to her delight; because of their impaired vision, they were kind of flailing around at the air around themselves, occasionally clawing each other in the process. 'I'll give you little things something to play with while I focus on your 'daddy,'' thought Dark Sirene as she produced a copy of herself with her Duplication technique, which went off to distract the one Neoshadow left with its vision intact.
When Dark Sirene finally turned her attention back to Landur and the creature, she saw Landur rolling out of the way of what would have been a certain flattening under that huge fist, before he fired a disk of fire at the horned creature's shoulder, going through it but not cutting it off. 'Ooh, so close but so far,' Dark Sirene's eyes narrowed, disappointed that the attack hadn't gotten the thing off, before she was suddenly grateful for her headphones as the thing gave a horrifically loud roar. 'Looks like it still had an effect, though...'
Her mind went back to what Landur had said earlier, about taking the creature's arms off. For a moment, Dark Sirene felt an anger piquing in her chest; she didn't have any weapons sharp enough to get through something like that, considering that Landur's disk-thing looked to be a lot sharper than anything she had on her... but then, an idea came to her head. If these shadow things could be affected by poison from her flute, then maybe they could be affected by her songs, as well.
Dark Sirene approached her golden-eyed companion (at least for this battle, anyway,) and spoke to him quickly and quietly; after all, if this thing could talk, it could probably understand other people's speech too. "Landur, keep that thing and its little babies - or whatever they are - away from me. I might just have a way to make this a bit easier," she said in an uncharacteristically serious tone. "If this works, that thing will get tired, so you ought to be able to get to it then." That said, she took off to the other end of the 'battlefield,' as the station plaza had become. The clone from earlier ran up with Flying Victory in hand, looking to be in a battle ready stance as the real Dark Sirene began to sing her Lullaby; a soft, soothing song that would make an opponent more and more tired over a short duration, provided she could keep singing.
'U-um... I don't mean to be rude or distract you, but are you sure this is going to work?' Sirene's original personality questioned her dark half.
'It'll have to,' Dark Sirene replied as she sang her song, keeping her eyes firmly on the giant shadow creature. 'The little guys were poisoned earlier, so who says this won't work? Besides, if it does work, then it'll give us a better shot at the thing.'
The giant shadow creature looked between the program and her copy, and growled. "I care not for your childlike trickery," it stated, raising its uninjured arm and sweeping it outward, easily brushing away the data copy, along with the three remaining Neoshadows which went flying helplessly into the wall. Once again, it crossed its arms over itself, gathering darkness in its hands before firing out two large, vertical, crescent-shaped arcs at its opponents, about seven feet in height and a foot in width. "This town and its pathetic residents belong to darkness! They belong to me!"
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SXBattle
Heartless
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Post by SXBattle on Jan 31, 2015 18:59:23 GMT -5
Landur kept his eyes on the beastly heartless as Sirene approached him. A good idea, he thought it was, to keep quiet around this creep.
"Landur, keep that thing and its little babies - or whatever they are - away from me. I might just have a way to make this a bit easier," her words were quite humorous to Landur. "If this works, that thing will get tired, so you ought to be able to get to it then."
"Aye aye, cap," his whisper was accompanied by a firm nod. He watched her take off towards the other end of the plaza. Something in his caught his attention in his peripheral; another Sirene. His head whipped back and forth between this Sirene and the one he'd just watched on her way to the plaza's other end. She was definitely offering up more surprises than he expected. He couldn't tell whether she had split into two beings, or if one was just a clone, or if one was just an illusion, or who knows what?
"Fancy," he shrugged off his curiosity and turned his attention back to the beast whom he would have to keep at bay. One of the Sirenes, presumably the orginal, began to sing melody with quite a beautiful sounding voice. Landur found himself wondering just what she was doing, but he decided to keep the enemy busy as his red-eyed companion requested. Before he could reach the unfavorably-sized enemy, it reached an arm out, sweeping at the closer Sirene, or her copy, or whatever it may have been. She or it disappeared in a flash of ones and zeroes. There goes our cover. In it's attack, it also took the remaining three Neoshadows. Landur was a bit disgusted at the thing's recklessness.
"This town and its pathetic residents belong to darkness! They belong to me!" Its voice echoed once again. Landur was agitated by the creatures words. No one belongs to anyone, he thought to himself, and they surely don't belong to darkness. It proceeded to fold its arms arms across its chest, dark matter filling it's hands.
"Not again," Landur almost spat the words to himself. If this was anything like the previous attack, it would be fired at both he and Sirene. Gotta protect her. This blast was much bigger than the last, so there surely was no ducking it. Prepared to keep Sirene stable as she sang, he took a leap out of the arc-shaped wave's path of destruction, flipping foward. As he came down, he landed in a crouched position, with one leg extended and his hands, palm-to-palm, outstretched. From his hands and leg came a wave of fire about the same height as the blast. It pushed forward with blinding speed and intercepted the devastating-looking wave.
"Phew.." He then blasted fire from his fists and feet to propel forward, almost as though he was riding the waves of fire. He began doing laps around the enemy, throwing fireballs at it's feet, midsection, and horned-head. The heartless let out a roar of frustration as the fireballs that it did not manage to block seared it's shadowy body. It probably would have crushed the golden-eyed young man if it had not been distracted by his attacks. Landur, in seeing how effective the distraction was, decided to keep it up as long as possible.
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