Blink Fight: FK Style

Blink Fight: FK Style
Date of Scene:	06 January 2013
Location:	Everywhere
Synopsis:	It's time for Blink Fight: FK Style. Place your bets place your bets. Spend your munny. Spend your munny. Whose going to win this dastardly and emotional conflict? Words are said. Blows are thrown. FK runs on piefaces.
Thanks to:	Angantyr for the idea, everyone who participated, FK for being a great place to be.
Cast of Characters:	Reize Seatlan, Tifa Lockhart, Riku, Angantyr Vespar, Deelel, Yurita, Cirra Constantine, Palom, Luso Clemens, Sarafina Carenze, Avira, Maira, Hati, Minerva, Tom Magnusson, Ron Stoppable, Lavi, Mercade Alexander, Legion, Deidra

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Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Sometimes things start with a explosion...

At the Gates of Rabanastre, this is one of those times! "COME BACK HERE!" Angantyr shouts after a retreating Riku. Angantyr follows in hot persuit, ducking down a side passage to try and cut off the younger warrior. He turns a corner, aiming to put himself right infront of Riku, as the mace comes to bare. His eyes narrow, and he starts to walk forward. "I don't know who you think you are, kid, but today we settle things once and for all!"

He says, with a smirk as he throws a easily deflectable swing of the mace, trying to test out Riku's defenses and see generally where he was on the fighting scale today...which seems to be some sort of sliding scale somedays!

"If you think you can beat me, you got another thing coming kid!"

Riku has posed:
Riku vaults in a semi-spectacular fashion around and over a fruit cart when SUDDENLY Angantyr. The teenager grins at the dark knight, rocking back on his heels.

He completely didn't MEAN to start the fight with Ang. He was out here totally because he wasn't hiding from a crazy scientist lady.. and Portals are not the best thing in the world, He has found. In fact-- he's starting to think Portals are plotting against him. Riku refuses to feel anguish about something that isn't his fault, mocking. "Blah blah blah-- AH! Whoa. MACE."

As Yeah- Suddenly. WHOA. MACE. --Riku springs upwards, kicking off the wall and then using Angantyr as a stepping stone to start running down the alley.

It's not like he MEANT for it to be /his/ stew.

Probably.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
"ONE HUNDRED GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL!" Angantyr shouts in complete and utter (not really) rage!

Riku's agility saves him from the swing, but Angantyr turns, stopping on a dime and immediately following after Riku. The mace swings again, aiming to try and catch him by the leg and try and trip him up. "AND MY ARMOR! YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT TOO!" he booms, aiming to quick kick to the gut to try and sprawl the Darkness user out.

"Seriously! I liked that stew too!"

Riku has posed:
"Tough cookies." Riku goes flying several revolutions, THUD, THUMP, WHACK-- (apples.. a lone grapefruit.. something that resembles a kiwi) The teenager picks himself up from the general fruit destruction and floor show. He throws the offending grapefruit up in the air and catches it, shrugging at the lesser scary armor dude (as opposed to Scary Armor Dude the Greater)

"Then go slice a mountain in half or something. I'm /sure/ nothing can go wrong!" he throws this over his shoulder as he shoves the grapefruit into tha hands of the irate shop owner, pushing him away, weaving through the crowd. Dumping crates and scattering chickens and vaulting across low walls whenever possible.

He /so/ didn't want to be around people for this--

Riku runs down several short alleyways but he isn't familiar with the streets of Rabanastre. Soon he comes to a dead end (which is going to be a BAD END very shortly) and he decides. Yeah. No. Not today.

Riku waves in the general direction of the wall, a portal opening up as he barely slows down as he charges through it.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr growls!

"Still sarcastic I see! Lets see if you can cash that check that your mouth just wrote for your <GOOSEHONK>!" Angantyr chases Riku down, but he manages to slip away from him once more. Growling, he turns down an allyway and then...

Dark portal.

Angantyr dives down the alleyway, before diving right into the closing portal! "OH NO YOU DON'T!"

Riku has posed:
Incoming Portal in 2.. 1..

A black stain opens up in the sky about ten feet or so off the ground. A silver haired teenager launches out of it at speed, THUMPING hard from the shadow portal into the branches of a nearby tree. He spits leaves and little branches, digging into the trunk and wrapping his arms around a branch to keep himself from falling all the way down to the ground.

"God. Why is it always trees." he mutters in a stunned fashion, he peers around at the golden horizon and the shimmering hills but he has very little time because almost as soon as he hits the tree with a shuddering WHACK he uncurls from around it and starts to make his way down.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
The portal isn't done yet...

Another figure flies out of the closing portal, falling straight down.

"OH GOD TREES!" he shouts, as he falls like a rock. Angantyr, clad in heavy armor, falls straight down.

The tree doesn't hold his weight, branches shattering like glass as he hits them with full force, and litterally soars down...

Catching up with Riku...

And if he isn't fast enough, get caught underneath the form of the dark Knight.

He rolls back onto his hands and knees, as the mace rests near him as he pulls himself up. "Ow..." he mutters, dazed.

Riku has posed:
Riku Dislike Trees

Actually, not so much dislike as 'god, freaking Faram or whoever, get this nutcase off me'

Because heavy armor has it's own gravitas and etc. Riku takes a shattered tree limb, trying to make the armored knight's head ring like a gong as he attempts to get out from under the knight and roll painfully back onto his feet.

The teenager is surrounded by the shattered detritus of trees and he starts to laugh. "It's always trees. /ALWAYS/ --What is with the trees? I open a portal. /Trees/ -- Even when it's a desert. If I look away for a second. Trees." he throws his arms up in painful exasperation, tree branch included, and then-- mid rant, just charges forwards, planting the branch in the earth like a staff as he attempts to knock the heavily armored man over with a well placed kick.

Luso Clemens has posed:
At first, Luso was there.

And then, he wasn't. "Not this time!" Sailing through the air, he avoided the vortex of darkness threatening to engulf him, and landed to the ground. "There's only one way this story's gonna end! With our victory! Come on everyone! Get it together! We can take this guy no problem!" As he spoke, Luso began to glow with an orange aura, his powers growing in anticipation for the next attack.

Meanwhile. The Judge was met with Reize's attacks, boomerang striking at various points before he dove in for the kick. The blows rock the entity's armor, causing him to merely take a step back. He regarded Reize for a moment, as if scrutinizing him for something.

Tifa's attempt to slam the judge is met with absolute resistance. She cannot move him. He does not budge whatsoever. He batted her away with the flat of his sword, not doing much damage, but just to move her.

And then came Yurita's discs. They strike the armor, bouncing off after with little consequence afterward. The dark enforcer regarded the program with a brief look, eyes trailing red as he did so. Silence was all he offered.

Following that, he swung his sword outwards, deflecting Deelel's strikes without looking back at her. However, this brief lapse in attention gave Cirra all the time she needed to strike the judge down, pinning him with her weapon. However, he did not seem panicked at all and just stared upwards at her. His eyes glowing intently.

'.........Can you withstand the darkness that lies within your heart?'

These words, utterly voiceless appear within the minds of everyone, including the newly arrived Riku and Angantyr who just so wonderfully dropped in.

FLASH!

Darkness surged forth in massive volume, blowing Cirra off as the knight rose to his feet in an almost eerie fashion. The phantom sword was gripped tightly as the darkness begin to whirl about him, creating a strong wind that pushed against everyone's footing.

'To face me, is to face yourself. Let the darkness carry you away.'

And then the sword was spun, gripped in reverse, and then stabbed down into the ground...

What followed was an eruption of darkness, breaking the ground apart in various places, engulfing several in it's reach. But he was not done yet. The dark entity dashed forward in the midst, lashing out with a flurry of strikes to all present.

Reize Seatlan has posed:
There are a lot of people within the close range. Tifa and Cirra are one of them. As they move in towards the Judge of Nocturne to get their licks in, Reize decides to kick his foot back and spring away from the group, allowing them the distance so that they don't cross each other.

Then, his eyes drift towards the arrogant little brat, Palom.

"...At least we're not in a town," Reize concludes, rubbing his forehead. Though, Deelel does tell Yurita to pull back. A frown is given, the boy tries to give a bit more forethought about the other girl. He... doesn't get her, honestly.

And then, a portal.

First comes Riku, and then the other guy approaching him. Reize never did get the guy's name. ...Or, just can't remember his name. Nevertheless, the boy looks over towards the silver haired boy and he brings his hand out to wave at them.

"Ooooooooooiiiii! Riku! Ooooooiiiiiii! Other guy in dark armor whose name I never gotten!"

Pay. Attention. Reize. God. Pay the hell attention! OH MY GOD PAY ATTENTION!

It is too late. Reize turns his attention towards the knight too late to see that the manifestation of the darkness that occurs. That eruption of darkness has the boy's eys widen and he yelps in surprise, "Whoa!"
That Heartless dashed towards the group, and especially towards Reize with the flurry of strikes, "Acccckkk!!" The young man sprang over to the air and over to the shoulders to distance himself from the knight's blade. And then, Reize springs himself forward to meet with the knight. This time, Reize pulls out the hookshot from his backpack. The hookshot strikes towards the armor.

And then, Reize dives down and makes his way behind the knight, tossing another content from the bag at the back of its head. And then, Reize rolls along the ground to distance himself from the knight. Sucking in a breath, Reize is starting to draw upon his magical power.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Riku and Ang clash through the trees. Their attacks breaking off of each other, both from clashing weapons, but from striking each other. Riku grabs a tree branch, swinging it towards Angantyr as he manages to nail the Dark Knight right across the temple and staggers him... Angantyr flips back to his feet and aims to swing upwards...

Before the Knight tears through the area, causing darkness and pain to errupt in his wake and causes Angantyr to fall to the ground, rolling to his feet as he lands with a painful groan. Slowly, he spins the mace into his hand as he twists towards the Fallen Knight.

"HEY! <GOOSEHONK>! THIS IS OUR FIGHT! DON'T INTERUPT!" he screams, turning around and aims to grab the Dark Knight, dark energy gathering through his hands as he transforms his hand into a dark claw...

Before the blood spilled...turns into a barrage of crimson claws, aiming to try and tear into the knight...and throws him towards Riki.

"NOW STAY OUT!"

Tifa Lockhart has posed:
Tifa Lockhart notices that some new people dropped out... with a portal like the shadow lords. She knwos because she saw Kaydin using them too. That doesn't really make her confident if they are going to attack while they are busy. Hasn't she seen that boy before too?

Anyway, lets take care of what's in front. She's been spared the strong looking attack at least, she she can concentrate on what she's doing... pummeling it. Of course, would be better if they stopped dodging her pile driver. She hasn't had much luck with that recently...

Yurita has posed:
Yurita grips her data disk tightly, the lights on her suit no longer flickering as she hits her Target, and it does nothing "you, have /got/ to be kidding me..." she then she dodged the enemies attack as fast as possible, being all but a ninja with the movement, rolling sideways before standing up, pulling her arm back she throws her disk, hard, only to catch it to throw it two more times, before running a little closer to Reize so she can focus on the fight, and still yell at him "PAY ATTENTION REIZE! I'll make sure to hit you after the fight if your attention lapses again!" she gives only a single glance to the silver haired kid, and the familiar dark mored man, before looking back at the 'judge of Nocturne'.

Riku has posed:
Riku is too focused on Ang to really notice much. "Hello Reize." is something he throws over his shoulder, a bag of amused annoyance that he drops into the lap of the younger boy. "Getting in more trouble again, I see." he chuckles. "I can't really throw stones this time."

Then the trouble in question gets right up in his face before he can even breath. A flare of darkness spears up from the earth so close to his feet that it roars past his nose. It might as well have struck because the abrupt pain of that much concentrated darkness so close is like a knife through the heart. He hadn't been shielding himself and his head snaps back.

Riku smirks, although a moment of fear flashes across his eyes as the barrage of crimson claws appear-- but they weren't aiming at him this time. "Not another one. I have had enough of /DARKNESS/ and crazy today. " he lets out an exasperated groan.

" GET SOME NEW LINES, MOOK!" he disappears, flashing back and forth in arcs of red light. a black wind thunders across the crossroads, plowing into the knight as Riku appears behind them and then to the side, slashing and slashing in great crackling arcs of darkness.

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra stares down at the Judge of Nocturne as she has him pinned. Her own read (not glowing) eyes narrow at the...creature.

"It's not the darkness in my heart I need to be worried about-" she prepares another strike, raising the scythe up in both hands!

FWOMP

The blast wave of darkness sends Cirra flying backwards off the Nocturne Judge and slaming itno a bunch of trees. A bunch of trees that Ang and Riku slamed into moments ago. "Nhg..." the Judge lifts her helmet off her head, since it now has a nice big dent in it. She looks up in time to see Ang throw the Judge through the air, "YOU!" she shouts and then sees the arc the judge was thrown, Riku "...you..."

The Judge pulls herself out of the trees and pulls a crystal out of her pouch and crushes it in her hand, the blue glowing effect is pretty telling: a potion.

With some wounds healed, Cirra rushes forward again leaping upwards to bring her scythe down at Nocturne's neck like a guuillotine to try and lop off his head. She knows better though, and continues her assualt, spinning around as she lands to drive the pike point of her scythe into the small of the other Judge's back.

Witha elap backwards Cirra opens up just enough distance that she can lunge in agian, but this time she leave the scythe wide, instead pressing the fingers of her hands together to slam up at the Judge's ribs through his armor.

"Darkness is just another thing; the stuff between the stars." she grits her teeth. "And I can push it out of my heart, just like I can tear it out of you!"

Then she does that energy draining thing. Huh seems she /doesn't/ need to kiss someone for that.

Palom has posed:
People falling out of portals! "Hey!" Palom calls. "Watch out, this guy's hitting people and throwing around darkness!" he gestures at the mysterious Judge.

And turns to face him. "The darkness?" his eyes widen, then he frowns. He opens his mouth to speak, cut short with a cry of "Agh!" as he feels darkness grabbing him, sucking his life force away, and then he's struck and sent flying, tumbling across the ground until he rolls into a tree.

The boy stands up, robes torn, bruised all over, and sniffles, shooting a glare of death at the dark judge. "The darkness within my heart is what I'll use to defeat you! You picked on the wrong mage!" He holds the staff out before him in both hands.

'Let the reaper show you your final fate! DEATH!'

Palom's magic seems to form a faint, dark shape, of a giant figure with a scythe, which swings at the Judge. Magic trying to drain life and make him frail. But the boy isn't done yet!

Unleash the dark power of the rotting world! The greatest Black Magic spell of Mysidia! FLARE!'

And then the boy's magic attacks the air and earth around the Judge. Tearing the very matter itself apart, unleashing the energy stored therein and directing it inward at the Judge! Even with most of the power directed inward, there's a pretty flashy and bright explosion around him, and a shockwave washes out over the ground.

Palom has braced himself against the tree, and when the light dies down he uncovers his eyes, trying to see... Did that do it...?

Deelel has posed:
Deelel is shocked as two people come bounding out of nowhere, into the trees and keep fighting. It seems two other people are engaged in combat of the most strange sort but there's little that can be done here. She's actually very worn out she's not got much energy left she's going to fade back and hope she doesn't get notice but seriously who the heck are thsoe guys that just popped in?

Luso Clemens has posed:
Oh crap.

That was the only thought Luso uttered before the darkness came for him. He managed to weave his way through dark eruptions bursting up from all around, but what he wasn't prepared for, was the Dark Judge appearing right before him. The massive blade was slammed right into his chest, cutting against the armor and then tossing the boy away. He went sailing through the air, and then crashed to the ground, rolling a bit before he finally came to a stop.

"...Sheesh..!" Struggling, Luso got back up to his feet, sheathing the Ogun Blade and then going for Flametongue, drawing it out quickly. "Face myself? Face the darkness? I already said that this story's gonna end with our victory! I mean it!" And then he ran forward, going right back into the fray, lashing out with a flurry of slashes radiating light and shadow. "Here it comes! Twilight Blades to tear everything asunder!"

Meanwhile Reize's gambit did little to distract the knight. the random items bouncing off of it's helmet with an audible clang. But he was given no attention as he did not attack directly.

Angantyr's attack however does catch the dark knight, the various crimson claws grasping into the champion of darkness and tossing him airborne.

Riku's follow up however is seen through. The knight perfectly angles his sword at every exact direction that Riku struck from parrying the blows effortlessly. But this gave the others all the time they needed to strike.

The Judge is bombarded with attacks from all angles, but he does not falter. Cirra's strikes, aiming to behead and internally injure him made their mark, but there was no blood. No fluids at all. And his melmet remained firmly attached to his body. Palom's magic blows into the knight, causing him to take a take back to defend, and then Yurita causes him to take another step back...and then another...and another...

'...Impressive. Your hearts are strong.'

Those words, voiceless, pass through everyone's minds.

'...But what is the true extent of your strength?'

The knight gripped his sword once more, eyes flashing red as a dark aura surged forth yet again. He raised his blade to the sky and the aura extended forth, going up and up ...and up...and up still. Till there was a blade of darkness nearly triple the champion's one rather lofty height. The blade was then lower in front of the Judge, who did not attack yet. Another string of words appear.

'Now begins the second third movement.'

The titantic blade is raised backwards...and then he swings, aiming to cleave into any foolish enough to be in range. But it is not done there. In the aftermath of the swing, black wind bursts forth, creating an array of evil cutting blades to slice through the air and tear all to shreads.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr turns away from the knight.

"<GOOSEHONK>in A man. Seriously. Bloody evi..." he pauses and then.

"Crap." he realizes the dark thing was charging another attack, he turns, opening a corridor of darkness. "RIKU! Quickly through here!" he calls out, and dives into the corridor of darkness. There might be a grin on his face, hoping that Riku was too focused on getting out of the thing's attack to realize that was the worst idea in the world.

On the other side, Angantyr is holding the mace ready, ready to paste Riku when he exits.

Riku has posed:
Okay. This was the time for NOT being here anymore. Riku had enough darkness already on his plate. The cutting blades fill the air causing him to dive underneath one that almost takes his head off at the neck.

He practically curls around himself as he loosely rolls across the ground from a prone position, grasping at his chest as he tries to keep his internal darkness from lashing.

Even though he's got it mostly under control, he /REALLY/ didn't want to stay here long enough to see if his control won out.

Riku throws himself onto his feet and through the portal. Good idea? Get out of Range. Bad idea: Get INTO RANGE.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
In the hotel room that is the new Detective office, a corridor of darkness appears. Randomly, without rhyme or reason, as a large man in chain mail armor rolls out, behind him will probably be a familar figure to those here...followed by THE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Jazzhands.

Angantyr doesn't even bother to look where he lept, instead swinging the mace around as Riku hopefully was /right behind him/ and aims to MACE him a question.

"HA! GOTCHA <GOOSEHONK>!"

Riku has posed:
Riku groans. "I can't believe I FELL for that." but in a contest between evils, being-- The teenager staggers into a wall hard as he is clipped out of his mental train of thought by an incoming mace. He growls very softly in exasperation, launching himself at Ang and using some of that leaking darkness to form multiple misty spears that crystalize with a number of snapping pops and crackles.

He uses them to try and pin Ang to the floor and or the walls while he gets enough breath back to take a look around, leap over some furniture and find a window--door-- building-- portal between himself and Scary Armor, The Lesser.

Legion has posed:
"We would not say that he is a victim in the same way we could be considered a victim, Sidha of the Network says though we prefer, THe Network as the Network says, to not be seen in such circumstances for matters of pride and--"

A dark portal opens up to the side and people start fighting. After a moment's reflection, she assumes this is natural behavior.

"Cronus behaves oddly for someone whose only purpose is to kill us for purposes of an experiment." She say to Mercade. "In our last battle, for instance, he allowed me multiple chances to retreat--though he followed--nor did he kill me as immediately as he could have, Sidha of the Network explains that in our initial meeting, his instinct was not to kill us either. He was told to 'dispose of the waste material', The Network explains. His behavior seems erratic, this one admits, but we believe if he is a victim it is of himself. We are of the supposition that he has convinced himself to enjoy it. He does desire power, however, and that is why he is doing these acts he is uncomfortable with doing."

And then after a moment she reconsiders the elephant in the room and looks over to Riku and Ang.

She doesn't recognize either of them. She looks to Mercade, then to Riku, then to Mercade, then to Ang.

She stands up, fans her hands from side to side, and then declares a terrible, dreadful phrase.

"NO FIGHTING (the Network insists and forcefully heals your wounds)."

And that's when--in a matter akin to force lighting--electricity erupts from her hands and collides into both Ang and Riku...threatening to...!!!!!

....fix them up? Ooh nice tingly feeling! It's kind of nice!!

Mercade Alexander has posed:
"That's... really weird." Mercade says as Shida explains the situation. "It's almost as if..." He trails off as the portal opens up.

Mercade and Shida were having a nice conversation here!

The sudden eruption of Darkness between the two causes the Detective to grimace, pulling out pearl-handled revolver with a grimace. "Shida, look out!" He says, as he quickly moves to interpose himself between the DAAAAAAAAAAAARKNESSSSSSSSSSS and the newly-resurrected Legionnaire.

He isn't going to let her die again THAT fast.

And then he sees what's going on, as the pair smash into the room. "Angantyr!? Riku!?" Mercade's expression grows dark as he seems to be unsure of what to point his gun at for several seconds.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr moves to try and grab Riku by the shirt...

KINGDOM HEARTS IS LIGHT...ning.

Angantyr looks oddly around him, there was a little girl that just shot them full of lightning? Which...kinda felt okay? He blinks looking down at his wounds, which were now...lot bleeding or infected with 'THE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!' he blinks, and then looks up at Mercade.

Ackwaaaaaard.

"Huh. Sorry." he says, half heartedly, and then moves to try and toss Riku out the door. "We'll be just...movin' along." Angantyr moves to follow Riku, thrown or otherwise, out the door...

They might be needing a new door either way.

Riku has posed:
Riku forcefully has his wounds healed, which is so startling that he staggers back a step or two. He gets roughly grabbed by Ang but he knows being IN RANGE IS BAD, so he twists away, leaving Ang with just his jacket. The teenager still nearly falls over a chair backwards but catches himself at the last second. He instead swings the chair in front of him like a shield, frowning slightly as he recognizes the detective. "Here. Catch."

he throws the chair at Mercade in a rather softball manner that he /hopes/ will spoil his aim. "Thank you whoever you are." he smiles at Legion, still trying to shake off the tingly feeling as he vaults over some furniture, dodges past Angatyr and rushes into a side room, slamming the door.

He throws up a hand, summoning a portal near a window just as he dives into a side closet that may or may not be full of things, closing the door behind him.

Legion has posed:
"Ah?" Shida says as Mercade HERO ROLLS into position. She blinks twice as she's thanked and ... Ang gets awkward. Or--as is perhaps more appropriate--Angward. She nods a bit to Riku and then says, "Ah one moment." as Riku summons up a DARK PORTAL OF POWER. She looks between the Dark Knight and Riku and says, "You are going into a dark corridor. This one suspects the influence of darkness may be problematic. Allow this one to be of some assistance." She is oblivious to Mercade thinking about who to shoot--suspecting it to merely be a matter of surprise, hero nature, and detective moxy.

She raises her hands up and fires another bolt of electricity. This one doesn't really heal but it should protect them from the influence of...

ZEH DARRRRKKEENENUUUSSSSSSS.

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Mercade looks like he's finally deciding who to shoot. Just as he raises the gun, however, the chari knocks the gun aside, the bullet burying itself harmlessly into a doorjamb. "DAMN YOU, RIKU!" Mercade yells, no doubt giving Riku a momentary feeling of amusement. Also, Legion works on healing them both! "What the hell, guys!" Mercade yells as the runble carriues itself out of the room and into another one. Mercade leaps into the other room just in time to see a Corridor of Darkness open. "Why the hell is this even happening?" Mercade asks.

He won't get an answer. He never does.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr looks around...

Where was...

ZAP!

"Wait what?" he turns towards Legion again, and then..

THERE HE IS! "Look, Mercade, there is a very logical expl.."

Angantyr half way through responding runs into the neighboring room, leaving Mercade without a single reason why this happened, and a wrecked room.

Angantyr busts through the door after Riku, and see's the Dark Corridor...

And advances to jump inside of it.

"NO ESCAPE!"

Riku has posed:
Riku isn't hiding very well if strange healing people can find you in side closets and shock you with healing voltage.

It's not unpleasant but it's REALLY unsettling. It also completely blows his hiding spot, so he just charges forwards and -WHACKS- his head on the closet hanging bar. Riku winces in pain, muttering a curse under his breath as he yells "I'm sorry." over his shoulder just as hand /BARRELS/ into Ang from behind.

"HAH! I can pull this stunt too, jerkass." He lashes out to CLOCK Ang in the back of the head with the handle of the mistsword.

Avira has posed:
A show of power clearly begets a show of power. Destruction rains down all around them, leaving nobody unscathed.

Wolves of shadow tear forward, leaping onto the Heartless and viciously dragging it back down to the ground. Avira, who lunges forward with an ice-imbued weapon, does not shy away from this particular attack, unafraid of the pack that Hati summons. In fact, it reminded her of a certain spell of her own that she had devised, but had not attempted to use since the cure.

Unable to dodge or really lifts its arms to parry, the giant monkey Heartless is a sitting duck to the airborn Momzilla. Sarafina tears into it with her chainsaws, each strike tearing off chunks of darkness. Seconds later it does start to reform, but at significantly less mass than before. It seems as if Sarafina is, literally, cutting the Heartless down to size.

Sarafina might want to move, though, as Lavi opens fire upon the Heartless. The noise is deafening, perhaps even moreso than the comets that were just summoned by the Heartless. Lavi will find herself satisfied at last as the Heartless does not dodge or absorb these strikes. It's almost comical, the number and size of holes left in the King Powerwild are absolute obscene. It's hard to believe that there's anything left for Minerva's holy power to hit. And yet there is. The blasts from the monk actually tear the Heartless free of the vicious Shadow wolves, though it makes little effort to counter. Instead, it falls over, face-first to the ground, its massive, battered form unmoving.

Then Ronda rolls up to its prone form, her body smacking soundly against its head. A second later, the entire Heartless evaporates into a mass of swirling mist, leaving nothing but a sparkling black crystal behind.

Avira sloooowly turns to look at the civillian that, in spite of warnings, did not evacuate. On one hand, that was kind of foolish. On the other, actually attempting to fight the Heartless was pretty brave of the woman. "...hmmmm."

Suddenly there is commotion in the fountain. Avira whirls, her weapon raised. "!!!"

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr falls out of the portal, landing next to Riku in the fountain of Traverse town.

Groaning, he stands up, shaking himself off and watching as Riku starts running off.

"OH NO YOU DON'T! TIME TO FINISH THIS!" he shouts and leaps over the fountain barrier, and right towards Riku.

This time, his right hand bursts into dark flame, pointing it towards Riku, and causing the same to happen to him. This is followed by the Knight rushing towards Riku, hand extended, aiming to try and break through the barrier of electricty that surrounds them both, and then...

Aims to grab Riku by the back of the head, aiming to drag him face first into the ground, and then aims to punch him full force into the ground and aim to send him flying back up from the sheer force of it.

Then he falls back into the aggressive stance!

Sarafina Carenze has posed:
Sarafina drops down quick to avoid getting friendly fire and--ONCE THE BATTLE IS OVER--performs a Final FAntasy Victory DAnce. It involves punching the air repeatedly. She turns to the shower after and says, "Shhhh!"

She points towards VALKYRI. "Maira is sick and is trying to sleep."

Hati has posed:
From the distance, Hati watches the end of the Heartless as the rag-tag group of mismatched heroes manage to take it down at last. Her own wolves vanish after a moment, howling once in song before disappearing into little more than vapor. With a growl, she pushes herself to her feet, checking that everything still works. Everything is intact, even if she's got more parts of her body muttering about aches than she can count. "Well, that was interesting."

It isn't exactly a victory dance like Sarafina manages, but she twirls that one dagger and sheathes it, glancing around in search of the other.

"Everyone alive?" She asks, one hand wrapped around her side. There's little enough time for worrying over the others, as suddenly the sound of the new arrivals perks her ears. Turning, Hati just... stares. Riku, she clearly recognises, but the other one, not so much. Of course, just what the two men are doing, short of something close to a wet t-shirt contest, or pro-wrestling, is anyone's guess.

Strangely, the wolf looks to Avira, as if she were somehow the one to take a que from.

Tom Magnusson has posed:
Tom arrives. The beast is slain shortly thereafter. Tom hrmphs quietly, crossing his arms over his chest. "Well," Tom concludes with the logic that only Tom is capable of wielding, "Guess I was too late for the party. Or maybe I was right on time, and it decided to melt back into the darkness as soon as it noticed me! Heh."

There's a pregnant pause. Tom frowns. The tiny blue mouse clambers up his leg and perches on his shoulder, squeaking consolingly at its mount. "Well, maybe next time. I guess!"

And then, something draws Tom's attention. A couple somethings.

Tom leaps from the ridge-wall, and lands with a loud thud in the town square. "Oi, Riku!" Tom says when Riku gets himself punched in the face. "Where've you been? You picked up another guy who wants to put you through a wall? Maybe the two of you aught to take thise somewhere there /ain't/ civilians? Hmn?"

His muscles tense, and then he launches himself forward, arms lashing out to--

Take both of the young men in a massive, Tom Grade bear hug!?

Lavi has posed:
The deafening roar peters out swiftly as Lavi cuts the feed of ammunition to her weapons. While she might thoroughly enjoy blasting something down to its component atoms, living for over a century has given her the necessary patience and restraint to know when she's just being wasteful.

A cloud of thick gunsmoke drifts lazily from the cluster of barrels on her hands, mixing together into a grey mist that lingers about her arms as if they had just been extinguished. The knight wanders over to the smoldering husk of the former simian Heartless, smirking as it evaporates into a dark puff of smoke.

"Now that was a fight! Stomping on all the little ones was starting to get tedi-" More runes flicker across her HUD. The read-outs are strange, something she hasn't seen before but something is coming.

Her head tilts up to the sky moments before the air is rent asunder by darkness, eyes narrowing as the two young men tumble into the fountain. Bio-scans are performed immediately and within a few seconds the information scrolls across her eyes as thin lines of white light to anyone watching.

Scanning Lifeforms...
Bio-signs being compared to database...
Warning: Partial Match Only.

Lavi clucks her tongue at the output. No confirmation but they were similar to that boy out in the fields and the hooded man in the bar. Something had changed about both of them though. Or maybe it was just a malfunction. Absorbing so much dark energy had fried several of the circuits. It would take a little time to mend them.

She just watches quietly, eyebrow quirked as the others respond to them. Apparently the large man from the boat recognised them. Mentally she marked down the name Riku, applying it to the appropriate file in her head for future reference. Let's see where this goes.

Avira has posed:
A look of annoyance briefly crosses Avira's face after she manages to tear her attention away from wet Angantyr in the middle of a fight. Yeah. She could...watch that all day, frankly. Nice. "Give us SOME credit, Tom, will you?" she huffs before noticing that look from Hati.

It takes her a moment to figure out what it's meant for. "We ought to break this up-" she starts, only for Tom to quickly jump in. Now there are three guys wrestling in the water in the fountain.

In front of a group of women. (And Ron, but he totally counts as a girl right now.)

Avira's quiet for a long moment before: "Oh. Hey. No. Break it up, guys." She sounds so enthusiastic.

Riku has posed:
This is going to suck.

Riku has just about enough time for this very obvious thought to cross his mind before he impacts the ground. The barrier SMASHES apart, blood beginning to fly from gashes as he is picked up and slammed. Slam. Slam.

The pain also breaks through the fragile control Riku had over his darkness. It brings the fear to the foreground again as he realizes IN RANGE IS BAD. In the sense that he might very well get crushed if he doesn't do something right /now/. Die. He was going to die again.

Riku screams, the faint echo of a roar behind it as he reaches into the surroundings which are seeped with the echoes of fading darkness. "/ENO---GGK/" ---TOMHUG.

Riku in control of his darkness and his faculties would probably have reacted a different way. DEATH by squeezing and then just-- letting Tom do his thing because.. ridiculous as it was, he was only trying to help. --
% However. Riku is not here right now. Leave a message.

Riku roars in defiance again, eyes glaring at Angatyr as a deadly black storm whirls and slices with a million cutting blades around Riku as he draws in a gasping breath and at the --very last second, draws in enough self control to not lose himself completely. He slams his head back trying to KLONK Tom in the face before unleashing a veritable storm of dark energy from VERY close range.

Ron Stoppable has posed:
Perhaps it is because she's dressed like this or something, but the fact of the matter is that Ronda is staring into the fountain and at this battle of battleness that is happening right now. She actually seems to be looking just like the rest of these girls are.Simply in awe of the two men that are battling it out and such.

"Wow." comes from Ronda's lips as he stares on like there's nothing else to stare at this moment. She doesn't even finish getting herself up and to her feet at this moment, because she's clearly too focused on watching Riku and Angantyr duking it out.

To be honest, though, Ron's just impressed by Riku's hair at this moment.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr is serious, but he knows better than to actually go full force against the kid. He wasn't trying to kill him...just...

Then something happens, the area just suffered a massive fight of something dark. Angantyr wasn't sure what, but it's hard to figure out what is going on here...

There was a familar person, Avira is spotted out of the corner of his eye, the giant of a woman that he met in a bar too was there, but it's only a passing familar...

Then suddenly TIME comes out of nowhere. Grabbing him, and drawing him into a bearhug. Angantyr responds immediately, swinging in a massive arch of darkness, the mace aiming to grab into Tom's body and TEAR armor and flesh away with it's strike...

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" he booms, "STAY OUT OF THIS!" he shouts again, annoyed and angry. NOBODY interupts a fight! It is...simply...

ANNOYING.

Angantyr, having ENOUGH of people do this crap, hell...and HUGGING HIM!? He doesn't even KNOW this guy...

Angantyr's right hand channel's the darkness, letting it flow through his body, as he swings the mace upwards...

Then, without fear, the darkness wrapos around him, temporarily transforming into a shadow-like beast, just a single red glowing eye as he swings the mace in a massive arch, aiming to repeatedly drive it through him...

The darkness shifts as he brings the mace up, aiming to litterally draw life from Tom...

And then shove the mace RIGHT into him, aiming to blow the Detective away.

"NOW! LETS FINISH THIS RIKU!"

Sarafina Carenze has posed:
"Avira..." Sarafina protests. She looks as Tom starts wrestling the other two. "Tom..." She adds.

Roaring from Riku.
Shouting from Tom.
SHOUTING from Ang.

Sarafina's left eye twitches. She looks towards the window of VALKYRI HQ where Gangway is just shaking his head and holding an index finger to her lips. And then he crosses his arms, looking awfully dissapointed. Sarafina's teeth grind together at the flashy special effects and power.

"I said..." She says, stomping forward and swinging her chainsaw in a wide arc, using the side of it (it's not active so it won't carve, it's just the broadside. She's not trying to seriously hurt anyone) to clobber the three of 'em!

"Maira is trying to sleep!"

BEWARE THE WRATH OF MOM-RA?!

Hati has posed:
Stepping in to the middle of a fight between two obvious bad-asses. Not a smart move on Tom's part, and Hati can't help but wince in expectation of what is going to happen. Then again, it's his own fault. Her eyes shift away from Avira just long enough to watch the two turn against Tom. Guess neither of them like public displays of affection. Of course, with everyone focused on the fighting, it means that pretty black crystal is just sitting there.

The thief in Hati can't help but figure: their loss, her gain. Yoink. For all her injuries, the wolf moves surprisingly quickly. One minute it's there, the next, gone. Oh, and that wolf balancing again ontop of a lightpost? Nope, totally wasn't her that took it. Not at all. *cough*

She turns back just in time to spot Sarafina joining the fray for Maira's sake, and this time the wolf isn't able to keep from letting out a laugh. Sure, the situation seems dire and serious, but mega-mom is ... amusing. Of course, the laugh brings a wince from the wolf, too. "Think this is my que to head out. I've no interest in getting dragged into this fight." Why had she even joined in the other one? To protect the civilians? Ron(da)? Avira? When it comes to the lone wolf, her reasons are anyone's guess.

If someone actually happened to be looking in her direction just at that moment, they might see just the faintest shift of darkness as a portal opens, the wolf leaps through it, and then both disappear with a puff of dark mist. Yeah, that guest party member for this fight, totally made off with your loot.

Minerva has posed:
Minerva is about to say something she really is, She's happy it's over she's she's now doing up the coat she's going to march back inside act like this NEVER HAPPNED and enjoy her first hot shower ever in the middle of winter!. Then two guys come out of nowhere, they are suddnely there fighting and then Tom goes into the middle of it. "HAVE YOU NO HONOR THEY ARE HAVING A DUEL!" She looks to Hati "I shall return this shortly." She glares back at Tom. WAit did they just run off with most of the mummy? Maybe she'll keeop the coat oh well she's got a shower on her mind and likely a potion or two...

Lavi has posed:
More beeps and scrolling data accompanies Hati's swift exit. Lavi tilts her head slightly to regard the strange girl as she goes, noting the darkness that seems to respond to her will. The number of people who seemed to share this power was growing at a disturbing rate.

Smiling at the strange scuffle in the fountain, the titan marches over to join the other women. A plethora of metallic groans and squeaks accompanies her movements, the armor in terrible condition. The edges of the knight's body seem to disort and shine, the faintest hint of a mirage outlining her stout frame as if the light were playing off her in unnatural ways. The effect is subtle and noticable only for mere moments at a time.

A hand is rested on Avira's shoulder as she draws near. "You know these men?"

Avira has posed:
Hati makes off not with munny, but a mysterious large black crystal the oversized Powerwild had left behind. Avira is pretty aware of Hati's departure, "Nobody should be dragged into this fight, especially not here in the middle of Traverse Town!" -and only notices a moment afterwards that their helper had run off with the left-behind crystal too.

A frown of annoyance crosses her face. "I knew I should have picked that thing up faster." Stupid sexy Angantyr.

As more people join the fray, Avira puts her Spine away and, from her mouth, pulls out the now bare sea salt ice cream popsicle stick. At least, during the fight, she had managed to eat her ice cream my letting it melt in her mouth.

MISSION DO NOT LOSE THE ICE CREAM: SUCCESS

"I do." Avira looks up at Lavi. "Riku and Angantyr. I'm assuming Angantyr is taking issue with Riku over Manhattan? Either way, you guys-!" she calls out to them, "Take it outside! ....of town! This place has had enough fighting in it today!"

Tom Magnusson has posed:
A lot of things happen to Tom in a very short span of time. Tom has no idea who exactly Angantyr is- he knows Riku! But Riku does not seem to be here at the moment. Tom is very quick to realize this-- right around the time where he notices that, instead of an angsty, muffled grunt of disapproval, Tom instead recieves a headbutt, right to the face. He grunts, his head snapping back right on time to be caught up in a great conflagration of tenebrous shadow. And then, there is Ang. Ang, whose mace slams painfully into Tom's torso.

He produces a sound, it is a sound that is very much 'oof'-like.

He's flung back, skidding across the fountain stone. Miraculously, and speaking strongly to the detective's incredible durability, Tom is not actually unconscious just yet.

Then, he's slapped upside the head by Sarafina's chainsaw. Tom produces another sound that vaguely resembles an 'oof' as his jaw generates a noise that sounds like a 'crack' as he stumbles, painfully, back. "Ugh, jeez," Tom spits. There's a little bit of a blood mixed in with the phlegm. "Duels are great an' all, but there's a time and a place for everything, y'know?"

A wet, painful sounding cough wracks his frame, before he straightens and clears his throat, dislodging a thick glob of bloody tissue into a very wet handkerchief. He frowns, pounds on his chest once or twice, and then pops his shoulders. "Well," Tom concludes, soaked in all kinds of water. "/That/ was a great and painful sort of hello."

He turns to look at the... Peanut Gallery? No. The audience. An audience, to three guys brawling in a fountain. Mn. "So." Tom asks--

"Enjoyin' the show?"

Riku has posed:
And-- Sarafina knew just what button to push.

The mom button.

Riku abruptly stops yelling as if Sarafina had stopped up his mouth with a sock. He chokes and gags, blearry yellow filled eyes staring woozily around at the surroundings. He shakes his head, exhausted from the expenditure.

He takes a shaky breath and lets it out. "I'm.." he grins lopsidedly at Ang. "I am NOT done wiping the floor with you yet, tin can." The bravado sounds a little hollow but he still wants to stop this armored goon that he can come back from this-- that he can control himself and still fight.

Hell. At this point, that he can still stand. Riku glances over to Avira, eyes widening slightly in surprise at something-- but he can't really pause for thought in case of MACE. Riku gestures for Angatyr to follow and /drops/ out of sight as the portal appears at his feet.

Deidra has posed:
It's always night in this town yet Gargoyles still need to sleep. Deidra had found the clock tower had made a nice roost, it was high up, harder to get to and well a great place to get some air just after she woke up. The thing is she's not awake, she's sleeping and all that is apparent is another bit of decoration on the tower in the shape of an non human woman who seems to be thinking about something. She's not inactive per say nay she's dreaming at the moment really about who knows what it's doubtful she'll remember upon her waking. Still what does she have to worry about only the other gargoyles in the town really have any idea about this spot barring the janitor who may take care of this place. It's true humans never really do look up all that much.

Riku has posed:
Riku drops heavily to the ground and tumbles off the edge as a portal appears at a slant and dumps him across slanted roof tiles.

He lashes out a hand to keep himself from falling off the edge, but only manages to arrest his fall a little bit before his arms give out. He falls about five feet before jolting to a stop on a slightly lower ledge. He tries to balance himself, scrambling for purchase on a tower decoration to get him away from HUGE FALL IS HUGE.

"AHhh.. No. Yeah. Just.. No."

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr was pretty much near the end of his stamina...

So when he hits the roof, he starts sliding as well, falling onto the lower edge...

However, he spends this time waiting...

And then punches Riku as hard as he can towards the balcony below, aiming to follow up and land right ontop of him.

Angantyr quickly moves to try and put his foot on Riku's sword.

"NOW we settle this.."

Deidra has posed:
Sleep also must end eventually too, and it's right about now whatever processes govern Gargyole sleep patterns end. Deidra is waking up as stone turns to flesh from within. As Riku makes his perch upon Deida, he and Ang would notice the sdtatue is starting to crack like it's about to explode the next thing there are stone shards exploding everywhere. There's ain inhuman roar/yawn as the statue is stretching and judging from the looks of her it's Deidra. Prehaps this is why she was very paranoid about where she sleeps. She really has to have a safe haven to sleep, and the next thing she notices that Riku on her she lets out a cry and is losing her balance. Who the hell is fighting here in basically her bedroom!

Riku has posed:
Riku just folds around the punch. The armored fist almost feels like it crushes his chest at the impact. He goes flying in a long arc to collide with the rough stones like a falling star. The entire body weight slams down on him, the armor boot causing him to jerk and spasm as the boot then slides to pin the sword to the ground.

Riku weakly lets in tiny gasps of air, darkness swimming around the corners of his vision. His world contracts to a vague and distorted image in which the colors are bleeding away and strange. He had the realization that HEY, he has been in this position before as the light dims. In the distance, he feels the pull of the darkness murmuring to him to lash out again. It may be his only chance to survive.

The light goes dim as Riku passes out, head turning to the side as the light of consciousness fades.. and he gives in.

Except there is still a part of him that clings onto his control even in unconsciousness. The one still on the wary look out for echoing footsteps. Riku chooses not to give in. Not to his fear.. and not to Scary Armor, the lesser.

He did NOT respond well to intimidation. When push comes to shove. Riku always pushes back. The teenager's eyes flicker as he fights his way back to consciousness, the mist sword evaporating as a faint groan trickles from his throat. WIth an anguished sound of pain, Riku slams his palms into the rough stones, forcing himself to curl like a spring and lash out, feet first, straight at the armored man's chest.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Riku was suddenly back on his feet?!

Angantyr stumbles back, accidently falling back and accidently shoving Deidra, he manages to catch his balance...thanks to Deidra...

But there was a stairwell there...

However, that is a story for a different day, as a lash of darkness swings out from the mace, aiming to try and sink into Riku's body to burn him like dark flame. Angantyr stands back infront of Riku, the two of them stare each other down... It will come down to this...

Angantyr drops the mace, deciding that it wasn't going to be necissarily, as he moves to come down on Riku with his fists.

A right, a left, and then he swings both hands down, aiming to try and pile him down with a single hammerslam, before trying to put room between himself and Riku, just in case the kid got...smart.

Riku has posed:
I'm sorry. This Riku is no longer in service. Please hang up and try again at a later time.

The teenager raises his arms to try and deflect the blows but you knwo-- armor against no armor is a suckers bet.

He slides backwards, the armored punches forcing him backwards. Riku manages to get one more good strike in, using the very remnants of his strength before-- HAMMER time. Riku thumps hard into the ground. He does so hard enough to bounce slightly from the rough stones. He doesn't get up a second time.

Deidra has posed:
Deidra is sleepy is confused she's caught in the middle of all of this suddenly fight. She's dazed now as she's caught int he middle but well there's a stairwell she forgot to close the door before she wrnt to leep and she's going to pay fot this. She's going to so pay fo this due to avoid the two comatqantas she staggers entrance and she just ends up falling down the stairs with a loud cry as the two warriors fall.

Angantyr Vespar has posed:
Angantyr swings...

Riku Swings...

C-C-C-CROSS COUNTER!

Angantyr stumbles back from the strike...and then prompty falls backwards, landing on the ground with a loud THUD.

DOUBLE KO!

-----Game over. Continue? [Y/n}