Aeterna - IC

[Katrix]

Regius prison - Otori's cell

"So you think you are funny eh? Well I think not."
The fireball in her hands flew towards Otori and exploded when it toched him setting his hair on fire.

"You better say everyting you herd and saw or I will suck the answer out off you. Litterally."
She began creating a weak suction around Otori that got stronger over time.
The first thing you saw was all the blood coming towards the skin.

Meanwhile one of the search teams had stumbeled upon the mule by the mountainside.

[Tewi_Inaba]

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost

Seki had actually been walking from cylinder to cylinder of fire when the grazed against each other. She was able to bend the fire around her and pass through safely. Once she found Jason within her rang, she dashed into the wall of fire he was attempting to pass through. With one deathly strike she sliced her roaring chainsword down at Jason’s head knowing he would most likely think to protect his head first, as human nature would dictate. The real dangers came from her free hand, while she would attempt to hold Jason in deadlock she would reach out and just try to touch Jason’s chestplate. If she could at least graze his armor she could turn it into a magic bomb. The yellow flame would surround his armor and feed on all the combustible components within and around the armor. She could turn his defense into his weakness but she had to touch him in order to do it.

[S121]

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost

Jason saw as the chainsaw came down towards his head.

(Time to try out my new move.)

Upon seeing this, he knew that the time was right to counter. Jason swung his Chainsword with his right hand hand and thanks to his weapon's mass, bashed Seki's weapon away from his head. With his left hand hand, he quickly followed up his strike and pushed forward, creating a small disturbance in the air. The very moment the air got momentum, Jason sped up the disturbance's speed and caused a surge of wind to fly into Seki at 300 mph. The wind quickly slowed Seki to a stop and sent her backwards, away from Jason. Jason's current fighting style was defense. If he tried to attack, he could injure Seki. Unfortunately for him, she didn't share the same self-control.

(I don't want to actually kill her or anything. My best bet would be to let her tire herself out.), Jason thought as he got into a defensive stance, ready for Seki to recover and attack again.

[wonderweiss]

Otori sent a strong breeze to blow his hair off.

"Damn, that was close."

Then the suction began pressurizing him. He decided to let it out in a mist.

"Gh... like I said, how should I know?! I was just there by this morning and was taken by the afternoon, what could anyone accomplish by then?!"

HM stood nearby. He watched closely... for if Sidna went to far, he had to stop her.

[Katrix]

Regius prison - Otori's cell

Sidna was really begining to get angry at him. ("I guess I shouldnt be so hard against him.
It miiiight actually be that he doesn't know anything at all.")

She threw two bis off Pottasium around. On 3 meters behind Otori and one on Otori himself. She then surronded both of them with water.
The good thing was that there wasnt really any way for him to get rid of it uless she removed it herself.

"I guess you really don't know anything. If you do remember something however then tell us imideatly." She then walked out of the room.
To save some time she emulated a small magic range so when she walked a few more meters she heard the first stobe go boom because the water had touched it, at the same time she waited. She didn't stop walking. She only slowed down a bit.

[wonderweiss]

"... that was quite the experience."

Otori sat there. He stayed calm in all this. He wasn't worried much at all.

Jeez. Well, look on the bright side... she's creative.

HM saw Sidna walk by.

"... I do hope you don't believe him. Either way, you did make it so that I was free to shock him without killing him, right? I want to ask him some... personal questions."

[Tewi_Inaba]

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost


Seki strike had been averted off to the side and she had just missed Jason’s chestplate by a hair. However she was able to snatch one of his daggers he had sheathed earlier. Although it wasn’t what she wanted it was enough to give her an edge. She had also let go of Chainsaw-sama purposely as she was pushed backwards and tossed it off to the side. Seki began moving the flaming cylinders travel outwards around the sidelines where Jason was while having the one he was currently standing in slowly close in on him. Chainsaw-sama would move towards Jason on its own thanks to its teeth telling him Seki was over there. Actually Seki was quickly coming up the other side. Seki had taken the combustible elements in the dagger and set them ablaze. It admitted a yellow flame. She tossed the dagger directly towards Jason The way things were going if no one where in the way, the sword and dagger would collide in the air and cause a large explosion. The sword hit a rock underground and flipped itself into the air as if it were going to strike Jason in the same manner as before while the knife was headed at him from the other side.

[Katrix]

Regius prison - Otori's cell

"I'm not done yet. Listen closely". As she took another step a loud explosion was heard from the other room.
Sidna then quickly walked into the room.

"I tought I heard you yell. Did you remember something?". -he probably had yelled to as where the stone once was therw was not abig hole in his shirt and his torso was heavely burned.

Sidna looked at the burns. "That's some serious burns. We have to get a doctor to treat you First you have to tell us what you heard, saw and said that little time you were together with them. In the meantime we can play "let's pour salt in the wound" that would be fun don't you think so too?"

As she said that Sidna found some walt from one of her pouches.

[Kilelicus]

Kris's Outpost - 9:46 AM

Rescue or Revenge? Wouldn't it be clear what his motives were?

"Well at first," Phenom began, "my motives were purely revenge. I was of the impression that this empire had been directly responsible for the death of my little sister; the only family I had left. Then I found out she was still alive. But you know what its like logging in and out. Pure blackness until the process finishes. Lachesis may be 13, but she's terrified of the dark. So imagine being that easily scared and being stuck in the dark for a year. Now that I know she's alive, my motives are purely rescue. It's my job as her brother and the last family she has left on the planet. I only hope our physical bodies have been discovered and we've been rescued in the real world, though... it's not like you're kicked out of the HiveNET when you die. So I suppose I'll just fix it to let people back in first and find out if we're still alive before doing anything else. I'd rather not die just yet, you know?"

[wonderweiss]

HM got angry really quickly.

"Sidna, what the hell are you doing?! He could have died in there, and so help me if he does-..."

HM calmed down.

"... whew. I should remember that he's not exactly the type to get killed easily. Seriously, though. Don't kill him. He's mine, no matter who wants him."

Otori was in pain, but he didn't show it.

"... you're funny. I was screaming a bunch in there - ugh- ... glad I finally got your attention. Now then... you want info from me? Then... this is what I know... there was a big ass explosion. In a titanium mine. God knows what happened there. I didn't quite figure out each one's powers."

"What do you know of everyone's powers then?" Said HM as he walked in.

"... Ya know... I might tell you... that is, if you step down and return to us!"

HM snickered.

"Well, Sidna, whaddya think? Should I step down? Me, HM, the commander of the assassin squads, the ever active detective, the interrogation master? To go back through the desert to go back to who I used to be?" He asked, expecting both a yes and/or no response, knowing her.

[S121]

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost

Jason heard the clang of Seki's "Chain-sama", then saw as the flames began to close in on him. It was all starting to become disorientating to Jason. Finally, Jason had enough.

(No more.)

Reacting quickly, Jason then put another field around him, only this field was different. This was a "time field". As soon as the fire entered Jason's magical range, they stopped in place and died out, due to the chemical reaction of the flames being completely stopped. Jason was feeling somewhat strained, but he managed to hold the field. What he didn't expect was that not only was Seki's "Cainsaw-sama" caught in the field, his knife was as well.

The flames completely disappeared, revealing Jason with both weapons stopped at each of his flanks. Jason's knife cooled down, thanks to the heat being stopped. Jason looked at the knife and was somewhat angry. Seki's attack didn't combust the metal, due to its high resistance to heat, but it did combust all of the paint on the weapon, causing it to completely lose its decorative coat. After a moment of standing there, Jason grabbed his knife out of the air, put away his Chainsword, and grabbed Seki's "Chainsaw-sama". He then deactivated the field and took a small moment to rest. He only rested for a second, but it was just enough for what he was about to do next.

(Time to show her what it feels like to have one of your teammates try and kill you.), Jason thought as he sprinted towards her at 500 mph.

[Katrix]

Regius Prison - Otori's cell

"Don't worry. He wont die from it. It does however hurt that much that he can't really move that much.
As for you stepping down. As much as I would like it we still need you here. And besides, whjo will be my test dummy for something like that then." Sdina pointed at the terrible burns that Orori had.

"I have a much better idea. The bad thing is that I don't have that much salt to spare. I think we can fix that tough."
At that moment Otori began forming tears from the tear gas that Sidna had released. Sidna got the tears and extracted the salt from then.
When she had enough she poured it into the wound. "From you body it came and to your body it goes back. Now tell us what you know!"

[Tewi_Inaba]

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost

Jason had used quite a bit of power in order to almost stop time around his body with such a high powered speed barrier like that. He stopped both blades and all the flames Seki had made before seemed to die out. Seki had stopped maintaining them once she saw Jason finally get his head in the game. However she was still not saticfide. She was going to push him farther and farther until his intent to kill was strong enough. Seki had almost forgotten she was mad at him….almost.

In his rush however, Jason had made one error in judgment. Seki’s weapon was by no means the work of science or lagical reasoning. It had no motor, no gear or anything that would allow this iem to exist in the real world. The weapon was the love child of a mad person’s imagination and her magic. In other words so long as the blade was within range Seki was able to manipulate it, although the range for her blade was a lot shorter then the rage in which she could cast fire spells. It just so happened Jason was just within rang when he held the sword against it’s master. This allowed Seki to manipulate the chain of her weapon to shoot out from the grip of th sword and wrap around the boy’s legs, thus causing him to trip and fall before he would have been able to reach Seki.

At this point not Only would Jason be immobilized momentarily but he was close enough that Seki could touch him and cook him alive almost instantly. However Seki did nothing to follow up. She allowed Jason to regain his composer and look in her direction before acting again.

“Jason… you are.. USELESS! You allowed the enemy to take over your mine, use your materials. Meanwhile I have to fight off your assassin, destroy the land YOU lost and train you for a war, you shouldn’t even be a part of. No, I’ve been cleaning up your mistakes since I met you, and you couldn’t even collect a SINGLE! TINY! BAG! OF COINS!!!” She said finally revealing what had truly angered her. While Seki had his attention, she carved a small sigil into the ground directly between her and Jason using her fire magic. Once the sigil had been formed Seki closed her eyes and concentrated. The sigil began to glow and suddenly three foot thick walls of flame began rising all around the battlefield. The walls grew and formed a rounded ceiling as well. The walls had all formed around 58 -61 feet away from where Seki was standing at that moment in time, they outlined the range of her magic. This flame’s only purpose was to drain Seki’s mana and stamina; she didn’t know how to hold back but this prevented her from using her power to its fullest against Jason which was relatively the same thing. However that isn’t what Seki told Jason.

“I have no control over this fire anymore. The sigil I formed is a binding contract known as the circle of life. In order for one of us to leave this circle the other must die.”

This was of corse a boild faced lie. Seki could stop the flames any time she wanted, They would stop if she became to tired to maintain them as well. They did however prevent anyone from leaving. The thick and hotness of the fire, not to mention Seki’s insanity, all made the fire so unstable slowing down the molecules in the fire was very difficult and extremely dangerous. This was Seki after all.

[wonderweiss]

"Ha. Test dummy. You crack me up."

It stung Otori a lot.

"Gah! You... you are just... one... sadistic b-"

"Thaaat's what I said!" Said HM, trying to interrupt the predictable end of the sentence.

"... I can't believe... you -argh!- left... to be with... people like them..."

"... It was my choice, Otori. Let. It. Go. Go back to Neo Vegas, or else I will fulfill my vow, and it would make many people sad."

HM turned to Sidna. "Hey, you can take it from here. I'm going to look at the witness and question him... quite possibly my next replacement..."

He left. Otori was in great pain.

"... good. He's go-agh-! Gah... you... you want... to know... what I know... I... I know this... He... and I... both know... that if we... were to die... we were going to die... by eachother's hands... like men... and now... I can deal us... a little magic trick... Wanna see?!"

Otori used a wind scythe and cut the ropes. He backflipped behind the chair, and before anyone could think, he let loose the wind bomb.

"The air is now highly concentrated and highly explosive if given a sudden and drastic change in the pressure, and I've been keeping it away from you two in order to keep it secret, and what happens when a highly pressurized wind bomb meets-"

Before he finished, the wind capsule let loose. The wind bomb created so much extra pressure that the room blew up. He hid outside, distorting the wind around him to disguise himself.

Damn! I'd bet she's alright, but killing her wasn't my plan. Getting out alive it... damn this hurt!

Otori's burns were now extremely painful, but he kept to himself. Mind over matter, he thought. He hid there temporarily so that he didn't have to move, aggravating the burns.

[S121]

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost

Seki's words bit into his mind and only served to increase his stress from the fight, Seki trying to kill him, and his father's knife being ruined. Perhaps the words stung more because it came from a friend. Not only that, but her words caused him to think of how he stood by and let his father die. He may still be alive, but only one word rang through Jason's mind. "USELESS!"

Jason quickly got free, then threw the chainsaw away from himself.

Jason then stood up and looked at Seki with a look that rivaled even her flames in intensity. Jason had now gotten truly angry. He could no longer hold his calm demeanor anymore. All the stresses of these past three days were going to be released. All of them.

"Well you're no model of perfection either. I may not know how to fight, at least I actually listen when I'm told something! At least I don't try to kill my teammates, my friends! At least I don't try and kill them over a bag of coins!, Jason yelled as he remembered the bag of coins he was given.

Jason patted at each of his pockets until he found them. Once he found them, Jason tossed them to Seki. He then continued.
"At least I don't clumsily kill innocent bystanders! And don't you dare tell me that I'm useless! You want to know what I did!? I made sure that the Villagers back in Kalkun didn't attack you for being a fire mage! I tried to keep you alive when you burnt yourself to a crisp! As for you cleaning up my mistakes, that's bullsh*t and you know it! It wasn't just you that attacked the mines, we both attacked them! I didn't ask you to drop a nuke on the mine, I had enough explosives to do the job! And what assassin!? You mean that green robed wind mage!? You didn't do a damn thing other than throw an explosive bottle at her! I'm the one that chased her down!

Eventually, once Jason's anger boiled over, he just stopped and no longer looked angry.
He was now in the same state when he killed those 36 men at his house.

"If you can't make them see the light, then make them feel the heat... If it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you'll get.", Jason said as he pulled out his other knife.

All of a sudden, the air around Jason rippled as heat waves formed around him. The stone floor below him began to heat up until it started to become soft and slowly began to burn until it was black.