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A Guidepost to Certain Death; In which Kyo finds a thing. You know. That thing. [Kyo, Kakeru, Naoya - Closed]
Topic Started: Oct 28 2013, 08:36 PM (1,241 Views)
Prince Arjuna
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The Passionate Haze turned into a copy of Isoroku Mayoi, and Kakeru reacted to this by clicking his tongue in annoyance. The Shadow copy of his girlfriend showed up in front of him, and logically, he wouldn't be able to even lay a finger on her, right? After all, she's his girlfriend.

Sorry, not gonna happen. As soon as the Shadow took its shape and before it could launch any kind of mind-altering spell, Kakeru cast Bufudyne, conjuring a spike of ice that emerged from below the ground where the copy of Isoroku was standing it. It would skewer it from below. What a gruesome way to deal with this kind of problem.

While Kakeru was mostly an indecisive teenager, he had no time to be indecisive while in battle.
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The boy shook his head after the blast, and stood up, staggering backwards a step. He shook his head -- the shadows were still up. Some of them, that was. The two big ones remained.

Naoya was stunned by the bolt of electricity, and then growled. He flicked his hand at the Sponge, dispatching the Lightning Bug at the severely-injured shadow just before the zionga landed, its stinger charged with lightning magic of its own. Before the automaton had made it a third of the way, though, it had melted into nothing. The former BeeZector stopped, and flitted back and forth, as if looking for something else to do, then sheepishly slunk back to it's master's side.

Naoya stood up and looked at the magician. His right hand was empty, but he didn't need a weapon to destroy this thing. He had his persona, after all.

For the third time, he summoned Krishna. This time, he directed his persona to cast Mighty Swing instead of a fire spell. With a nod, the persona wound up the arm holding the chakram, and threw it in a straight, flat trajectory at the middle of the Brutal Magician.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
The spike of Bufudyne did not "skewer" the copy of Isoroku however, either in the literal sense or the sense of innuendo. Being an illusion made of mist, the spike of ice simply passed through it...

...and the illusion froze. Not to say it stopped in place, it literally froze. Within half a second it had become a girl-shaped construct of floating ice particles, and then in the next second, they scattered. The Passionate Haze had, in fact, been turned into a small flurry of snowflakes that peppered the floor upon its death.

The Brutal Magician, on the other hand, died in a much more mundane manner. The Chakram sheered its mask in two before it could properly wind up for another spell, and the remaining hands and arms all flopped to the floor. The single remaining blade clanked to the ground, and the arms slapped and hopped and flailed like little squishy beached fish. Kyo, stepping into the middle of the hall, the better to see how her comrades were faring. She experienced a momentary thrill of reflex-panic in the instant before Kakeru's ice spell finished off the last Haze, but batted that idiot emotion aside. She watched as the now-disassembled arms of the Brutal Magician--it seemed that the mask was what held all those disconnected limbs together as a single creature--flopped on the ground, flopped... flopped...

...And then one of them began to take another shape... a Maya shape! A blue mask began to materialize, along with two smaller arms--

"Oh, hell no," grunted Kyo, snapping her finger so that Nevan appeared again. Nevan, in turn, snapped a finger. It was an almost comical one-snap, two-snap prelude to a black spike shooting through the air and piercing the Cowardly Maya's mask in one shot, killing it instantly.

One of the arms had been cut cleanly in two by the chakram, but one flopping arm still remained, and it, like the other, was forming into a Cowardly Maya before their very eyes. After the enemies they'd just fought, though... not much of a threat.
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"Heh..." seeing that the Shadow was reduced into smaller Shadows, and with only one of them remaining, Kakeru summoned Tsukuyomi-no-Okami, instructing him to attack the remaining Cowardly Maya. The armored Persona nodded as he unsheathed his icy katanas.

The Persona zoomed towards the remaining Cowardly Maya before he unleashed a Primal Force onto it.
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Naoya adopted a ready stance after dropping the Magician, but -- despite his relative proximity -- his reflexes had been too poor to get a shot in before Kyo and Kakeru had done their thing. Of course, he wasn't sure if any of the other arms were going to come back to life, so he remained tense for a moment, preparing to slam any emerging maya with the edge of his shield.

The illusory clone was bugging him. Kyo had seen it, and it had adopted the shape of her boyfriend after twisting his own mind -- how would that particular situation turn out? More than anything, he just wanted to not be here right now. The ruins weren't a place to go in company when you had a secret, and that meant that they weren't a place to go when you were hiding something at all -- something down here liked laying bare everything you refused to mention.

Somewhere nearby, there was a buzzing sound, as of something vibrating against a metal surface.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
None of the other arms did, so unfortunately, Naoya would have no small-fry to beat down on. Kyo, with no further enemies to fight, made sure her weapons were secure in their sheaths, and then sighed, letting the adrenaline rush fade from her system and cracking her neck. There was a renewed, dull throb where her head had hit the wall, which in turn fueled a second, somewhat softer pain on the sides of her head... where a boot and a slab of concrete had had their way with her skull. So she wasn't up to one hundred percent after all.

She looked to Kakeru, cool as a cucumber like always, and then to Naoya. She frowned. That pink Shadow, the forms it had taken...

Well--probably a bad idea to bring it up now, but if she was right, that was a disaster waiting to happ--

Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound. Kyo whirled in the direction of the door, the door that the Primal Sponge had been blocking moments before. Her hands went for the kodachi on her back... but then slowly lowered as she recognized the sort of buzz it actually was. Her first thought had been some sort of insect Shadow, but it sounded more like a cell phone going off, set to vibrate and then laid on a table, or maybe a PlayStation 3 controller with the vibrate function on that had decided to vibrate after being put down on the entertainment stand so Kyo could go get herself some munchies.

Kyo quickly walked to the door and peeked in, frowning at what she saw. The room beyond had caved into the floor below, the result being piles and piles of floor and ceiling and furniture that all rather neatly, and coincidentally, formed a treacherously sloping mound of ruination that looked perfectly traversible, if a bit less than stable. That explained how those two Shadows had gotten up to the first floor, then. Without waiting for any say-so from the others, Kyo hoped through the doorway and walked onto the mount, lightly jumping from one piece of debris to the next, eventually settling on a bent bundle of ceiling pipes that almost constituted an access ramp as her main way down.

Half-buried in the debris was a locker on the side wall of the room below. There was a heavy combination lock on the door, but that was a moot point, since the room above pummeling the locker into submission had knocked locker so out of shape that the door was half-open anyway. The buzzing was coming from in there. Kyo balanced a bit precariously on a small foothold and then jumped, landing in a hunkered-down crouch near the half-buried locker, peering through the broken door to see what was inside.

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Battle Results
 
Kyo Charinko's Persona, Nevan the Lightning Witch, has leveled up!
- Endurance has increased by 3!
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Kakeru sheathed his sword, but his hand was still on its hilt due to the suspicious buzzing sound. But before he could do anything in order to investigate it, Kyo had already moved forward to see it. Sighing, he just took his time following the girl, glancing at Naoya before he shrugged. He was hoping that Kyo wouldn't get herself into another trouble this time.

Instead of going to look at the locker where the sound came from, Kakeru remained behind, standing from a distance to see what's going to happen. His hand was still on the hilt and he would draw the sword out at any sign of trouble that might come.
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Inside the locker was a strange contraption: two flattened rings made of a dark material similar to gunmetal. The inner one had tick-marks upon it, like those found upon the face of a clock, and within it was a triangular piece of the same metal. None of the three pieces appeared to be directly affixed to any of the other ones, and the whole strange apparatus was vibrating.

Naoya stood at the doorway, peering through, the lightning bug hovering over his left shoulder, mimicking him as he peered through it. After that last battle, he just wanted to leave. That battle had been a headache and a half, and he didn't need any more of those. Considering who he was down here with, none of them needed that.

"What is it?" he asked.

The vibration passing through the device intensified, the buzz turning into a ringing noise.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
Kyo might have hesitated in picking this strange device up, especially considering that it seemed to be held together by open air. She stared at this strange device for several moments, until Naoya asked what it was.

Almost right after he spoke, the sound of vibrating metal became a ring. An urgent ring, even. Kyo flinched, and, as if the sound were a prompt, reached in to snatch the object up, looking at it more closely now that it was out of the darkened locker. The vibration passing through her hand was faint, and felt exactly like her first impression of the noise: like a vibrating videogame controller, except this just kept going and going and going. The needle--her first impression was of a clock face, but there was only one "hand," and it was quivering in the way a compass does--

"A compass," she answered automatically, looking up in the direction the needle pointed, and then back down... and then, back at the compass again. "It's a compass that, um, that doesn't point north 'cause if my sense o' direction is right that's actually um, east-southeast. I think. And it's vibratin' harder'n it was before..."

Now why might that be? Kyo heard Nevan ask in a voice that was, for the first time since Kyo had ascended, one of genuine curiosity, devoid of malice or distasteful intent. Kyo paused, looking in the direction the needle pointed again, and then once more back to the compass.

The penny dropped, and Kyo realized what a vulnerable position she was in.

"And it's vibratin' harder 'cause whatever it points at is gettin' closer!" Kyo said in an almost-laughing voice, quickly straightening up and stuffing the compass-thing in her jacket pocket. "But the compass ain't movin', so that means whatever it points at is movin', which means it probably points at something that's alive, which means we should prolly at least be in a better place than this if it shows up."

And after a slight sway while regaining her balance, Kyo hopped back over to that sloping alignment of fallen ceiling debris and pipes, and, slower than she would have liked, arms out to the sides to keep her balance, she made her careful way back up toward the door...
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And Kyo found a compass. Huh.

He looked at Naoya to hear his opinion about this. "So, what should we do next?" he asked the boy. If the compass did show them the direction of something that might come to their direction, then they might have to stay alarmed.
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