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Anne

What do I have to do now anyways? Might as well join where a majority of the group decides to go.

"I agree, politics is tricky stuff. But just saying, not an expert here, it's definitely gonna take more than just two people. Plus, we were part of the ending the cycle, so we should take part in this." She jumped into the conversation even though she hadn't been asked.

((Eh I  had no ideas and decided to have Anne try and join the main group.))

Anne

Saber went down with a fight. If only that strike had missed. Well it wouldn't really matter. It's over, there nothing left to oppose us.

But there is.

Ha, no.

I could give you Cody and his robot will be spared.

Wait what? She was confused, but wanted more information. Yet at the same time she worried that the key was just trying to manipulate then.

Anything tied to the key is destroyed when it is destroyed. That robot's code was MADE by this key.

...I hate you. She knew what was the right decision and what she knew was best for the future, but she still almost did what she wanted before realizing that there was something hidden beneath what the key was showing her. HER future could be fine. The world, however, would take a different path that could possibly lead to extinction of the human race.

I'm glad you understa-

She felt a bit stupid taking to a key, but she knew it had to be done to end this. Yeah, I understand. You don't give a **** about what happens to everyone. You want to keep manipulating people to use you for your own good, so that you can keep existing. Well you know what? Right now you know that I am your last hope and chance to continue this cursed cycle. Others have died for this and I'm the last one left. Good riddance.

With that she dropped the key on the ground and traced a scar that she had made what felt like a life time ago. Blood dripped into the short blade which instantly became longer. It has power, power that should leave this world. One stab downwards and stone flew across the room.

You fool. It's not-

She dared to ask the last question. Was it worth it?

((Phone post, so there are probably typos.))

Anne

Shit.

The weird bobbing Maria-on-a-cube thing floated towards her in an awkward pattern. It was about to reach her when...

POOF. Tons of sparkles and the smell of cupcakes filled the room.
"IT IS I CUPCAKE WIZARD AND I WILL DESTROY THIS WEIRD THING FOR NO REASON."
An explosion left everyone covered in cupcake frosting, and Maria was turned into a giant cupcake, which Cupcake Wizard ate. READ THE DOUBLE PARENTHESES AT THE BOTTOM FOR AN EXPLANATION OF THIS.

..."ARF!"

A beagle materialized in the air above Maria and bit her neck, hard. The snapping of bone echoed through the room, and Maria fell off her cube and never got up again. and started howling very loudly, irritating everyone nearby and distracting them. She also squirted some water at the fake Maria thing.

((No idea who crossed that out but as an explanation, there's no bone in the Maria fake unlike all the other corpses; It's made entirely from mana crystal which is similar ish to glass/quartz and thus has a rupture psi of about 24 times an average dog's bite strength.))
((It was crossed out by me, I was just joking around because I had nothing better to do))
Whoops

The beagle disappeared as fast as she had come and found herself in Anne's room on the bed which she proceeded to fall asleep on.

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Muramasa seemed more focused on the disciples than on him which was helpful. Using this to his advantage, Saber managed to impale one of his blades in her leg, but he knew it wouldn't be very effective. As soon as it had pierced through, he pulled it back out causing her to scream in pain and rage.

After that attack, she focused her attention back on him. The two were locked in a blade to blade combat that was so fast, any of the watching masters that looked over just saw blurs. Overall, Saber had more small cuts and injuries than his student, but he continued as if he had no injuries.

((If you saw a few things that did not belong in this post... let's just say that I was bored and had nothing better to do. MOST of that boredom went into the Kell post (the Cake Entrance junk) but some ended up here. ALSO PLEASE PARDON THE TERRIBLE QUALITY OF THIS POST.))

In her fight with Lancer, Eve had knocked Saber onto the ground, but he had managed to get back up in a few seconds (after being stepped on by one of the creatures in her army, but that's irrelevant as he wasn't injured). Masamune would have attacked Avenger earlier, but Muramasa attacking him had delayed him. The Lancer of Clubs seemed to have weakened Avenger enough, so Saber decided that now was a good time. The white aura around him expanded a little bit and his nine (for one had been slaughtered by Muramasa because he was in the way) disciples arranged themselves around Eve in a wide circle. A small burst of white light was  visible from where he was. When it disappeared, he held a longer blade that was stronger than the previous.

"Now."

Quickly sidestepping Muramasa as she ran at him again, he charged at Eve and time seemed to slow down. She turned some of the portals at him, some of them slid right by him, merely centimeters away, but he continued. More weapons came. Each fell to the side as it bounced off his new blade that was glowing a vivid blue. It continued to get brighter as Anne made the deflective covering stronger. Finally as he neared her, his nine disciples who had followed him, shrinking the circle prevented all routes in and out. In the circle that was about five feet wide, there were no armored humanoid creatures anymore, just fallen pieces of metal.

I'm going to weaken her before you deal the killing blow.

Below the layer of water which Anne continued to hold up, a large flame burned a path towards Avenger leaving only dripping 'metal' behind. It seemed to leap right over  the circle's edge, but in the center, Eve was burnt decently. She was still pretty strong and still would barely have the upper hand against a master. A third of the portals turned to the attacker, Anne, and fired. Most of the rest aimed at Saber, but he deflected them quickly.

"Cody, help me keep the shield up!" She shouted at him over the noise of weapons crashing into various things. Even before he could respond, she continued forcing the shield to stay up by pushing against each incoming blade. He joined in as well, but didn't use as much mana.

Shit, that was probably my last attack.

While they worked at keeping the shield up, Saber and his students closed in on Avenger.

"It's over for you."

He lifted his blade up and sliced down, through her skull and face and everything. Blood splattered on the ground and started to pool up. Just in case she was alive, each disciple impaled her with their blades till Avenger looked like an apple with a ton of toothpicks stabbed through it. She collapsed on the ground and began to crumble into ashes that drifted away.

Cracks spread through the portals of Sanctum Sanctorum and they fell to pieces before dissolving in a similar manner as their creator had. The armored creatures also seemed to be going through the same process. Above, the phoenixes split into what seemed to be millions of shards of glass and penetrated the layer of water which came tumbling down, soaking everyone below. No one was hurt by the pieces of glass that fell harmlessly like glitter from the sky.

The only colors in the room were red and white. Muramasa glared at Saber...

Anne

It's a wonder that he got out of the way in time and can still fight because of that.

Despite what Robin seemed to think, she actually had been paying attention. In fact, she had just unleashed a large flare when he had jumped in and told her to pay attention. She had managed to suck the flames back in and gain back half of the mana used before it killed him, but his right arm was a little burnt and would take an above normal healing spell to cure.

He skipped away like the pain was nothing, but would probably stop to heal sometime soon as his arm was less numb and he could feel the pain.

Eve's busy with Muramasa, you can go in now, but come out fast.

Saber charged towards Eve and landed a slightly weak blow. It would just distract her for a few seconds, and hopefully his stupid student would use that moment to her advantage. He quickly slid back out of Eve's range and proceeded to cut up more of the armored humanoids. There were only around four fifths of the original amount left, showing good progress.

Anne

Ok so I'm supposed to post and I havea half completed post, but don't expect it till tomorrow (at latest by 3 CA time).

((I'll just modify this later... This post is to save the spot before others post... Cody'll be saved people so don't worry))

UPDATE THOUGH LATE:

Anne

She had just entered the building when she heard the sound of a bullet firing. Curious, she went to investigate and saw Avenger lifting up a glass of wine and saying, "Here's to the next one so it may hold better results." She was about to ask what Avenger was talking about, but then she noticed a bunch of portals across the room that fired tons of weapons that instant.

He can't dodge that many, and I can't do anything fast enough that would save him except...

Protect Cody from Avenger.

Saber materialized in front of Cody while Anne muttered a quick spell, similar to one she had used before just in case what he was going to do wasn't enough. The similar bluish glow enveloped his blade, but a lot brighter this time.

With a few slashes, the blades fell to to the ground.

Based on the weapons in this room... the portals have already fired once... and missed? But does that mean they can fire multiple times? I trust Saber, but I need a back up if she decides to aim at us.
[font color="red"]Prepare for any more incoming attacks[/font]

Realizing the danger of the situation, Anne ran next to Cody and created a shield to protect both of them.

"Do you know her identity yet and if it could lead us to realize any possible weaknesses?" She asked Cody.

((...Such a long time for such a SHORT post...))

Storm

Unless there's no more food on this planet, I refuse to eat that. Even old tree bark looks more appetizing.

"I'll be over there if you need me, there might be other things." She said pointing towards a pile of fallen trees that seemed to have a gap under them.

Storm lay down on her stomach next to the gap and slid underneath. When she came out on the other side, she found herself looking over a 15 foot drop. Below there was what looked like a lake bed that had been dry for many years.

"Do we have any rope?" She shouted through the gap she had come through.