IC: Sanctuary REVAMPED

[Kristia]

Pine Grove | Bone dragon Fortress


"Then warrior Socks, let our blades sing their tales" the yaju spoke reading her long sword, her pose changed into the one of fighting style with both paws on the blade, yet her body was almost crouching, as if she would be on almost on all fours. The vixen´s closed for just a moment, but when they opened, the slits were now thin.

With a growl, the fox yaju jumped slightly as the skeleton warrior charged forward, just as the undead´s melee weapon touched hers, she touched the floor with her feet, making her slide on the floor while holding the attack.

[WriggleRid3r]

Outskirts of Pine Grove | Time: 4:15 PM

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It seemingly only took the two a second or two more than an instant to get out of the tower and have Sanctuary's magnificent walls in view. With sudden changes in scenery came awe from Lavender. She didn't exactly understand how the two mamaged to leave the tower in mere seconds, but she could tell that her Master must be a very strong person if he was able to travel so fast.

The explosion that soon came afterwards, however, did put Lavender at quite the unease. Startled, she yelped cutely and brought herself closer to Azeruk, her bare body pressed against his metallic armor plates. "W- w- w- what was that?!"

[SUSTIC]

Pine Grove - Chronomacer's Tower

Hearing what made Zero seem so... angry with him made Braum sigh as he pushed forward with the others. It just reminded Braum already of the bad deed he had done, even though he didn't mean to do such a thing as helping the Necromancer... it did pull a bit at his conscience a little. In fact it made Braum stop for a second or two before he forced his body to speed up while he carried such a heavy shield. He was only moving a little bit faster now... not much, just a tiny bit. As he began moving faster and faster he turned to Zero and spoke.

"I know that I have done bad thing, but that does not mean Braum is bad person. I had travelled for so long helping people in trouble. I have helped reunite child with crying mother, I had helped take care of wounded bear! Braum is friend to those who wishes to do good. I did not mean to help such... nasty girl, and that is why Braum wishes to help nice people even more!" He spoke without a single hint of hostility in his voice. His voice sounded stern, and determined. A voice filled with compassion. He really does wish to help out to make things right.

[Zekai]

Pine Grove - Chronomacer's Tower

Zero knew he was in the wrong and let his animal side show. He was about to apologize when Zena pinch and pulled his cheek, saying that they need the help and not the time to argue. Then Zena released and continued walking ahead. Zero was dumbfounded by it all, Zena didn't react to what he said about his own body and was treating him normally. Even when he was getting some training from relatives on his dad's side, he wasn't treated as nicely as Zena is treating him now. Zero just adverted his eyes and followed behind the two from a distance. He felt that he shouldn't be close to them and only followed in silent.

[Tewi_Inaba]

Pine Grove | Chronomacer's Tower

Zena walked with the two males and slowly made her way over rubble and broken meta golems At this rate it wouldn't' be much longer until they reached their chronomancer ally, but what if the necromancer had gotten to him first? This thought raced across the paladin's mind and filled her with worry as she picked up her pace, urging the others to do that same.

Pine Grove | Bone dragon Fortress

Mr. socks was pleasantly surprised that the yaju was putting up a fight. He was hoping she would provide some entertainment. When his first axe was blocked he simply used his other to attack from the Yaju's side, however this attack was blocked by the same man the Yaju had saved before. He stepped in, holding his blade with both hands as he knocked the axe away from the Yaju with great force. "I've got your back." he called out as he took the chance to strike at Mr. Socks's exposed skull. the skeleton quickly moved his body so that the blade would only hit the shoulder of his armor. The blade had grown too dull to cut through the skeleton armor, however it did force the undead to take a step back to defend himself.

[Kristia]

Pine Grove | Bone dragon Fortress


Taking in mind the new knowledge of the speed and strength of the skeleton warrior, Nera had to counter that with her own flexibility. With quick movements, the yaju made an upward arc towards the left arm of the skeleton while making a mental strategy depending on how he would react. (There must be a weak spot in the armor, maybe if I douse the fire on his body, we might have an advantage against him.")

[S121]

Outskirts of Pine Grove | Time: 4:15 PM

Azeruk saw that Lavender was quite shaken by the explosion and gently placed his hand over her shoulder in an attempt to dispel her unease.

"I don't know.", Azeruk said as he thought about his next course of action.

Azeruk did not know what exactly caused that explosion, but he had a feeling that it had to be all Seki's doing. Taking the bone dragon she had into account, Seki would be upon them within mere moments. Azeruk could try to travel with Lavender even further, but he could not perform such a feat for long, especially with a second person in tow. Even if he tried, he would quickly exhaust himself and would not be able to defend Lavender and himself if Seki did find them. To Azeruk, the only choice was to fight back and buy Lavender enough time to get to Sanctuary. From there, Azeruk would meet up with her, but if he he did not succeed, then at least she would be taken care of in the city.

"Lavender, I want you to keep running to Sanctuary. If you get lost, there's a map in your pack that will lead you on the right path.", Azeruk finally said to his new companion.

[Tewi_Inaba]

(Quick post for cucoo sicne i didnt' realize his last post was aimed at seki)

Pine Grove | Chronomacer's Tower

The Necromancer moved forward until she came across the familiar sight of the telephoning swordsmen. Seeing how he appeared in front and showed off his swordsmen skills, Seki naturally assumed she was being challenged. For the second time in an hour or so two foolish boys had tried to take her on by themselves. "Did you learn nothing from our fight earlier? I'll give you one chance mortal, stand aside." But her words fell on deaf ears as the male simply refused to budge.

The girl gave a small sigh as she made a small charge of dark energy and fired it towards the male, only to watch it fly directly through him without hurting him. This illusion may have worked on Seki had she not already seen the boy's power. Because of this she simply rushed him and used the same portal to pass through the boy as well. After this she attempted to keep walking.

[Cucoo5]

Pine Grove

Achlys smirked at Saru's display; an obvious indication that he was recovering now. "Feeling better?" She glanced to the tower and then the castle atop the dragon's back. Maybe there's something worth while in the tower... She still wanted some sort of collectable or else a veritable amount of gold gained from this trip. "We should get going." Although she phrased it as a statement, a tinge of a question lingered in the end as she wondered what would be more profitable.

Chronomancer's Tower

Aion smirked mischeviously once she passed through the rifts. After a moment he went through and once again appeared in front of her, swiping again to complete a set of rifts. He would do this two more times but the 3rd time he wouldn't complete the rifts, hiding behind only one. At that time he would expect Seki to simply walk through it and then he could trap her in another timeline which would eventually kill her. However the lack of a swipe of his blade in their normal time might hint that he is up to something.

[Tewi_Inaba]

Pine Grove | Chronomacer's Tower

Seki Narrowed her eyes as she looked onward. She knew the boy was up to something but she didn't know what. However she did see a weakness in his defenses and she intended to exploit it. "You're trying my patients." She slowly raised her arm up towards the male with her wrist bent so that the back of her hand while her index finger was pointing straight down. Seki might not have been able to see the rifts but she knew where they were since they only appeared when the boy swung his sword. While he might have thought himself protected on all sides, he was clearly not expecting to be attacked from above or below. "Foolish boy." She said as she flicked her wrist up and pointed directly at him. This caused a powerful blast of dark energy to shoot up from under the boy's feet with enough speed and power to cause a small explosion. Normally the necromancer would have put more power into such an attack, however since she was trapped inside a tower with the rest of them, she was forced to hold back in order to keep the tower from falling in on them.

While the man would survive the attack it would still leave him badly wounded to the point where he wouldn't even be able to walk. If no one found him soon after then he would slowly bleed out and die. Seki waited for a moment after the blast to make sure she got him and to see if the rifts would vanish once he had passed out or gave up.

Pine Grove | Bone dragon Fortress

Kyuzo followed the Yaju's idea, perfectly mirroring her strategy but attacking from the opposite side. This would force the undead to focus on two separate directions at once and divide his focus... however that didnt' seem to bother him at all. Rather than protect with a melee attack, the undead's armor's eyes glowed red and summoned forth a mass of dark fire between him and his two foes. This would force both of them to stop their advance or get burned. The yaju might have had away around it but Kyuzo clearly did not as he was forced to stop and avoid the flames. What happened next shocked the swordsmen even more. The skeleton let go of his two axes and and through them at the two fighters. However they didn't simply fly towards them like one would expect. Rather they moved on their own as though they were still being held and they swung themselves at the two fighters. This seemed to be the work of telekinesis but how could someone have this ability and still command fire? It shouldn't' be possible for one person to do such a thing.

[WriggleRid3r]

Outskirts of Pine Grove | Time: 4:16 PM

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"But- what about you, Master?" Lavender retorted at the command Azeruk gave her. In her feeble memories, explosion meant fire. Lots of it. She knew this from the burning of her old Master's manor. The day where she was separated from him... he must be worried sick.

"Old Master went missing after an explosion and fire happened to his home!" Lavender reported. She didn't want Azeruk to go "missing" either, although it hasn't even been a day since she first met him. "Please, let me stay with you. I'm scared... scared that you might go missing as well..."

[Kristia]

Pine Grove | Bone dragon Fortress


Quick senses saved the yaju female from being scorched by the flames as she evaded the wall of fire made by the skeleton warrior (Pyrockinesis, that will be useful to use) she thought and then was surprised by the levitating axes "Impressive, I could assume two things from this" she actually praised the warrior "You either have a partner fighting from the sidelines or have managed to get multiple magic abilities, something only those who have gone beyond life to achieve it" she said while clashing her blade with the axe.

Nera then decided to use her own hydromancy by taking two vials with her free paw, one was the second and last acid one she had and the other was the one of red liquid ("Let´s see what this liquid is actually) she thought by trying to get the scent of the red liquid as both of them became levitating spheres, one was yellowish of the acid, the one was wine colored of the unknown red liquid.

[Tewi_Inaba]

Pine Grove | Bone dragon Fortress

As the red liquid bottle was opened, the fox would smell the unmistakable cent of elf blood. The blood of an elf had a few uses but it would be hard to determine the exact reason the necromancer had kept them bottled up. Kyuzo gave what Nera said a bit of thought. If there was someone helping him nearby, they would have had to of been on the other side of the door.... unless.. "Miss Yaju... The skull on the fiend's armor lights up whenever he summons fire." He pointed out hoping his observation was helpful..

[Zekai]

Pine Grove - Chronomacer's Tower

Zero silently followed Zena and Braum, going over the destroyed traps. As Zero went over a trap, he slipped and fell some. He got up and shook his head some and looked over at his left arm, causing a sad/depressed looked on him and making him stop walking.

[Kristia]

Pine Grove | Bone dragon Fortress


Evading a slash from the floating axe, Nera looked at the armor and surely it was more active whenever the fire was summoned again "Two souls inside one being.. this could be an abomination or an astounding breakthrough of alchemy" she said and ducked from an horizontal slash. There was also the fact that the blood was of an elf "Elf blood.. they got long life span and are supposed to be the "purest" in terms of biology.. perfect for blood magic" she deduced and then got an idea. "Human, we need to distract the two souls, maybe if we get rid of the head, we could have some fairer ground against them" she commented as she took the blood sphere into a vial, but the acid one got smaller and denser, with a flick of her finger, she fired it at the center of the armor.