Author Topic: Sanctum/Divided (Read 29409 times)

Zen · « **Reply #1650 on:** January 31, 2016, 06:17:00 pm »

Madeline

As forcefield blades rained from the sky, Madleine propelled herself out of the way of the drill using boosters from her legs and laid her arms out to her sides. Streams of fire danced around her fingertips, soon growing into orbiting projectiles. With these in store she circled around Nicole, letting out a few volleys like small flaming comets and then backing away, as if to challenge her opponent to give chase.

Cody Lazarus

He sidestepped. One blade missed by a hair, as the second grazed his pant leg.

Damn, he's accurate! He looked around. Nick was nowhere in sight. No... Not here! In a rush he laid his hands to the ground and began chanting to himself as quickly as his vocal cords would allow.

Exchange. Mana to Matter. Follow model A13. Exchange. Mana to Matter. Construct.

Two knives flew at him from the side, but they hit something metal. A combat drone had been summoned out of raw mana, equipped with a gatling gun and alloy plating.

I blew more mana there than I had intended, but model A13 should be able to keep me safe. He and the drone stood back to back, on high alert to any foreign projectiles and firing wherever they heard a rustling.

Leaping Deer · « **Reply #1651 on:** January 31, 2016, 07:35:57 pm »

Hera

"Scutum!" Hera shouted quickly as Will's body began to glow. She dashed madly towards wherever there wasn't the sound of fighting, doing her best to ignore the combined pain of a wounded shoulder and leg. An explosion behind her sent her forward causing her to crash into Jack.

"OW!"Hera exclaimed as she landed in the snow.

Iaashadow · « **Reply #1652 on:** January 31, 2016, 07:44:06 pm »

Jack Blair

A saber ran at him. His mind blanked, his movements began to just slur together for him. A step here, and twist there. He pulled out his sleeping bomb he never got to use against that boy Henri and pressed it up to the makeshift servant's face. It fell in front of his feet and he removed his pistol.

He pulled the trigger 2 left. The bullet entered the servant's skull as it began to quickly light up. Jack stepped back as the violent explosion shook his body. The burns on his face healing over into normal skin.

There wasn't much thinking left to do. Kirin's classmate was right, and all Jack could do was watch. He did what he could, but it wasn't enough. He knew that. Everyone knew that. Two bullets left, two more actions, two more servants, or whatever was being hurled at him...

The air left his stomach as a girl tumbled into him.

"Hey! Are you alright?" He recognized a teammate, or at least he thought.

Architect\O/ · « **Reply #1653 on:** January 31, 2016, 07:52:47 pm »

Robin

The healing nearly complete, Robin turned to the nearest enemies he could take care of. Looking at the Saber's remaining, Robin got up from the position, trying his best to ignore what little was left of Avery's body. He sprinted at the Saber, the enchantment still fueling his energy.

As he reached the first, which looked at him, surprised, Robin cut it down before turning to the next. He let loose a violent attack, slashing at the Saber. Side, backhand, overhead, side, side, overhead. The blade penetrated the Saber's side, sinking in deep before Robin realized that the Saber that he had killed was about to explode as well. Leaping away before the explosion went off, Robin found himself facing 2 warriors at once. He cut one, but the other slashed his non-sword arm. The cut wasn't deep, but it burned all the same. Robin killed the being, sprinting down the Saber lines as he narrowly dodged the first of the four explosions. The rest of the explosions followed, and Robin presumed it safe to continue fighting, slashing down a Saber an then retreating from the explosion.

He continued to fight this way, his blade becoming a blur of fire and glinting metal as he cut down Saber after Saber, sending gusts of wind to carry the dead Sabers into the ranks, although it didn't seem to do much to the Sabers.

Leaping Deer · « **Reply #1654 on:** January 31, 2016, 07:54:59 pm »

Hera

Hera rolled her eyes as she slowly maneuvered herself into a sitting position. "Of course I am, as you can see from my bleeding shoulder and bandaged leg."

Iaashadow · « **Reply #1655 on:** January 31, 2016, 08:04:23 pm »

Jack Blair

"Oh, Sorry." He snapped out of his stupor, "Let me get that." He placed his hands over her shoulder and the wound began to heal, "It should be alright in a few minutes. Your leg will be a little more difficult."

Leaping Deer · « **Reply #1656 on:** January 31, 2016, 08:27:37 pm »

Hera

Hera's eyebrows raised slightly as the agonizing pain in her shoulder began to subside. "You specialize in healing magic. Huh, who knew? In all honesty, I thought you specialized in attack spells of some sort."

The young woman glanced at her now healed shoulder. "...Thanks."

Nitrox · « **Reply #1657 on:** January 31, 2016, 08:38:10 pm »

Henri

Henri's eyes were transfixed by the key in front of him. He closed his eyes, expecting to hear some whisper of Ruler's voice, but there was nothing. Only him and his own thoughts.

Arash's goal... my goal... it was to bring peace to everyone. Even if we end the Sanctum War, that's... impossible. But with omnipotence... it might be.

Henri knew that time and time again, those who had hoped to enact grand change with the Key failed. Time and time again, their plans were swallowed up in Ruler's schemes. But with the Key right in front of him, rightfully granted to him, he could see the possibilities stretching forward. The power to punish those who harmed others, to reward those who ended wars, to preside over a new utopia. The power to form a new family, of his friends, and Cody, who still had a slim chance of being something more.

Henri shook his head and began to point his trident, crackling with lightning, at his key.

Suddenly, a barrage of elemental spells were fired at him, from one of the summoned corpses. Henri redirected his trident toward the spells, but in the process, it caught on the Sanctum Key. A burst of mana, the creation of a circuit, perhaps aided by his earlier line of thinking, and he was wielding the Sanctum Key. A golden forcefield appeared in front of him, and the elemental spells were deflected, tunneling into Nicole's so-called Caster with double their original force. Caster was defeated.

Henri tried to let go of the key, but his hands moved slowly, as if they were straining against his will.

Iaashadow · « **Reply #1658 on:** January 31, 2016, 08:40:48 pm »

Jack Blair

"I would be dead several times over if not for healing. Celtchar was sort of all of my brawn. Let me get that leg." He placed his hands on her leg and pressed a little energy into it.

M217 · « **Reply #1659 on:** January 31, 2016, 10:34:19 pm »

Nicole

Scowling, Nicole summoned a harsh wind, trying to knock Madeline out of the air. The Artificial Intelligence deftly maneuvered through it, adapting easily to the attack.

I guess there's no other option.

Nicole leapt off her perch and took flight herself, unleashing a tremendous flame to propel herself forward, and soon began gaining on her foe. Intending to knock Madeline out of the air, she began to take careful aim, preparing to unleash a devastating attack.

Nicholas Hemingway, Assassin/Berserker of Clubs

Another robot? What an annoyance... Still, guess that's his specialty.

"Tsk, tsk. Cody." Nick's taunting voice echoed around the battlefield, seemingly coming from all directions. "Don't let your guaaard doooown!"

A stone golem began to emerge from the ground in the center of their formation, wedging its way in between Cody and the robot. It drew its arm back to strike as the boy turned, startled, gun held aloft.

Then, the stone seemed to liquefy, losing its substance, as Cody's first two bullets had no effect at all.

"What do you think you're doing, Cody, trying to shoot water?"

The golem began to morph again, this time gaining a flickering quality, and began to glow.

"Op, lightning now. Better run!"

Zen · « **Reply #1660 on:** January 31, 2016, 10:44:55 pm »

Madeline

In the air she continued to launch bright red projectiles like cluster rockets. She circled around and redrew her Halberd, changing course and flying straight at her.

Cody Lazarus

The A13 thrust its hand into the sparking golem, absorbing the surging electricity into its generator. There was too much to store, however, so it scanned the horizons for a place to safely disperse it before it tore it to shreds from the inside.

Over here, Lazarus! Cody heard Caster. He looked over and found him a dozen meters away, surrounded by Sabers. The man gave him an earnest thumbs-up. Cody nodded to the drone, which let loose the electric blast straight at him. Receiving the strike Caster twirled the lightning to arc around his body numerous times, meticulously arranging it to her specifications before letting it fly loose upon his assailants. While Nicole had been occupied preparing her attack and evading Madeline's spread-fire, she found herself unable to react in time to stop it.

M217 · « **Reply #1661 on:** January 31, 2016, 11:26:12 pm »

Nicole

Left with no time to turn, and with a need to defend against both the explosive projectiles and the deadly halberd, Nicole took what seemed to be the only option -- she summoned a forcefield of her own. Throwing her hands up into the air, she brought into being a blood-red octagon in front of her and braced herself, prepared to weather the attacks.

Nicholas Hemingway, Assassin/Berserker of Hearts

...Huh. Well that's annoying as hell. I may as well end this. It's been fun, Cody, but it's over for you now.

"Let me show you..." This time, rather than taunting, the voice was menacing, and each consonant pronounced with a hard edge. "What it means to be... a servant." Nick deactivated his Presence Concealment, and appeared before Cody.

"Mad Enhancement."

A red hue began to envelop Nick's body, and his eyes again began to glow. Any semblance of life had receded from them.

He lunged forward, without a sound, too fast to follow, and was immediately met with the combat drone. However, unlike most Berserkers, Nick was also an Assassin, and he had once been a mage.

Deftly kicking aside the gattling turret as it began to fire, the spray of bullets went wide, allowing Nick to brace his free palm against the side of the machine.

After a second of it furiously attempting to right itself, the drone finally stilled, as smoke began to curl out from around the machine. With a shudder, purple flames began to consume the machine from the inside out.

Nick turned to Roger Bacon, already holding two daggers in each hand, and lunged forward.

Muramasa

Fighting with multiple blades against a single-blade opponent, especially when she had already been faster, put Muramasa in an advantageous position, as her former teacher struggled to deflect all the strikes and still find openings to attack. It wasn't long before Muramasa managed to deal a particularly debilitating blow, sinking one of her blades deeply into the side of his abdomen, but still he continued to fight.

Zen · « **Reply #1662 on:** February 01, 2016, 12:05:07 am »

Cody Lazarus

"Damn!" He observed as the A13 blew itself to pieces. Nick was gone in a flash, headed straight for Caster.

What now?!

You're the master, you think of something!

Cody could only watch as Caster engaged Nick, finding himself at a combat disadvantage. Against a focused opponent without a specialized weakness, he wasn't quite as powerful as most servants. Cody looked down at the done's scattered wreckage and noticed the damaged minigun. He quickly thrust his palm upon it and scanned it.

Scan. Deconstruct. Reconstruct. He strained his brain to come up with a new weapon design as quickly as possible. Damn it, give me a little more time... Design. Reconstruct. Reinforce. Seal! Around his right hand, the mechanical parts dislodged from the mechanism and attached themselves, taking on a new form similar to that of the original gatling gun design. With a twitch to his fingers it seamlessly switched forms in between that of a metal glove, and of a handheld machine gun.

"Hey!" He yelled at Nick preparing a final blow to Caster's neck. Cody let loose a barrage of mana bullets at Nick, several grazing his legs before he evaded and ran at him with two fistfuls of kunai. Cody found himself still shaking from the recoil, and he saw Nick's glowing red eyes as the blades neared his neck.

Reconstruct! Seal! Unwillingly, he felt the gun morph around his arm and shape into a shield, saving his life. After a second of disbelief he paced backwards. With another flick of the wrist the shield changed back into the gauntlet.

...Thanks, Caster.

It was nothing. I'm an inventor same as you. We simply look out for one another!

Well, I say we turn the tides.

Well put, Lazarus.

As he fought in close combat against the Berserk Assassin, he continued to change the weapon's form with Caster's constant help and guidance. In battle they had a symbiotic strategy of constantly adapting to the tides of combat with the speed of two separate minds.

Madeline

Nicole deftly defended herself on all fronts, dodging and striking away stray projectiles on one side while using the octagon shield as an independent line of defense. Even from multiple angles Madeline couldn't find an opening to strike with the halberd.

Suddenly, there was a faint clicking noise inside her mechanism. A container that had been slowly pouring out a substance unexpectedly burst open a much wider path. Eyes glowing a fiercer gold than before, Madeline hefted the halberd behind her and swung it down with enough force to hew a mountain in two. The strike let out a deafening screech as it pushed against the shield.

M217 · « **Reply #1663 on:** February 01, 2016, 01:34:28 pm »

Nicole

Nicole screamed, loud as a thunderbolt but still inaudible amidst the deafening grinding noise, as Madeline's halberd sawed through her formidable defense.

Her retreat cut off by a row of projectiles, Nicole could not escape the attack in time, and Madeline's halberd cut a half-inch deep line of red down her torso.

With a burst of mana, Nicole's shield exploded, propelling herself and Madeline in opposite directions. Both ended up hovering high in the air, Madeline's halberd tip coated in red and Nicole breathing heavily as blood dripped from her wound.

"You'll pay for that..."

With a small gasp, Nicole propelled a burst of mana into her wound, haphazardly stitching together the skin on either side of the wound.

The drops of Nicole's blood that hung in midair and on her clothing began, agonizingly slowly, to drift to a spot just past the focal point of Nicole's gaze. The crimson droplets collected, congealing, forming a tightly compacted ball. The ball then elongated, changing structure, until it was finally fixed into the image of a tiny, curved blade.

With a raw, primal scream from Nicole's throat, the blade shot forwards towards Madeline, twirling and slashing in midair, with the intention of cutting her to pieces.

Nick

Despite his greater strength, speed, and reach, Cody's reaction time in the combat was almost unreal, preventing any truly devastating blows from being dealt.

This battle would not end in a standstill! Snarling, Nick lashed out with a powerful kick, which Cody anticipated and rolled with, ducking away.

This gave Nick the opportunity to bend down, and slash one of his daggers across the ground. The small trench dug in the earth expanded, and its edges began to glow red.

Even though it was only a few inches across, and only an inch deep, the trench appeared as black as the void itself. From within, a skeletal hand reached up, grabbing onto the lip of the ditch and slowly dragging itself out. A literal, real-life zombie, only this one wasted no time before exploding into flame and charging at Cody directly.

Zen · « **Reply #1664 on:** February 01, 2016, 02:05:56 pm »

Cody Lazarus

He's just full of surprises, isn't he? Might've made a fine ally sans the apathetic psychotic personality.

Oh, thanks for the input! He dodged past a few attacks, shooting back. Most of his bullets harmlessly whizzed past the skeleton's ribcage. Any skeleton-fighting tips you've got for me?

Try this! Cody's gauntlet shrank into a simple bracelet, the remaining material being used to construct a blunt weapon.

A club, huh?

Took us long enough, huh? Cody ducked under an arm swipe and bashed the zombie with the weapon. I call it... The Club Club!

With a wide swing Cody slammed the ribcage, ripping it to pieces. ...Eh, too obvious.

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