~~Boundless Sky~~ PT. 1 =+With LiFe Comes DeAtH+=

[Picnicpanther]

His back turned, as he was heading back inside after saving the girl's life, Solace was unsuspecting. His mind not even on combat, he was proud of himself: the way he had handled that situation, the fact that he wouldn't have to tell a customer that their child was viciously slaughtered outside his inn. Suddenly, a bolt of purple lightning struck him square in the back. His eyes widened, and it felt as if his entire body was being stretched in super speed. He dropped to his knees and let out an ear-piercing scream.

The initial shock(OOC: no pun intended) and pain of the incident, he was still feeling the after-effects. He held his hand up to his face to see little ringlets of electricity jolting around his hand, fingers, and arm. He twitched uncontrollably. Fading in and out of consciousness, he attempted to stand up.

This was a mistake, for Solace's body had not yet recovered from the heavy electricity which had just flowed through his body as boldy as blood. He stumbled forward, and caught himself on the wall of his in. He turned around, fighting through the pain, to observe that Seru was gone.

"That...thing..." he said with contempt. "I"ll slice its head....skull...off". His sword still drawn, he looked around frenetically for it. Suddenly, he withdrew into himself in what can only be described as an upright fetal position. He threw his arms out, and a deafening blast shook the area. When the noise subsided, Solace had two massive, flame-wrought wings jutting from his shoulderblades.

Taking to the sky with sword in hand, he hovered in place 20 feet above the ground, his wings making a low 'WHOOSH' with every beat. Solace surveyed the immediate area...nothing. "Things don't just cease to be..." he said defiantly. "I will find it..."

(OOC: Sorry it's a bit skimpy, it's late and I took an AP test today. :D)

[Shattered Redemption]

Seru looked down, it was watching everything like a show.The lightning shot from it's hand, and in milliseconds it hit Solace square in the back. "Well, I thought that he would have moved or something.........whatever." Solace dropped to the ground, and let out a blood curdling scream that Seru took as a painful reaction. It looked down again, and laughed as it saw Solace twitching and writhing in pain on the ground.

"Ehehehe, this is funny."

Something strange was happening however, and Seru's wings flapped slightly, even though they weren't really need for it to stay aloft.

Erebos felt a flux in the power the innkeeper was emitting and looked over at the crowd, his face blank as it was skeletal, but his mind reeling. He exerted a telekinetic shield instantly, but it was draining as he used it on everyone in the area. "Damn it, he really needs to calm down." Erebos looked over at at Solace, and stopped using his power for the time being, as Solace was no longer directly any dangerous energy towards the crowd, but he was still angered.........

"Ooooh looks like fun." The armor floated down a bit and came into the line of sight that Solace was in.

Solace seemed to be looking around for Seru. "Things don't just cease to be," but they did, as Seru could easily do what Solace was speaking off. Seru chuckled, and stretched out it's arm as it flew closer to Solace, a metal plate flying from beneath its wrist, and sliding up the length of its arm, quickly forming into a large cannon type weapon.

It moved back, and called out to Solace. "I really don't like that you didn't get me a drink before, you should just die." The cannon pulsed, and a shot of energy erupted from the cannon, racing towards Solace.

[Picnicpanther]

Solace's adrenaline was rushing; he would not be caught off guard again. He anticipated the cannon shot, and sliced it away with his sword. It deflected and hit a building off in the distance. "That's a bit harsh..." He said with a smirk. It was as if he was enjoying this...which, to be perfectly honest, he was.

Effortlessly, Solace summoned two fireballs in succession, rather large ones, and threw them at Seru. "Thing's are starting to heat up..." he said, immediately aware of his bad pun...but how often did he get to fight, especially using his magica.

He then used his flaming wings to propel him against Seru, blade held out in front of him. He was on a direct line to crash into it, depending on whether or not it moved. Moving, though, would be a hard feat, because the two were not far away, and Solace was hurtling forward at a rapid pace of about 30 miles per hour.

[Shattered Redemption]

Battle was something that Seru had no doubt a lot of, and it wasn't the kind of thing to actually question the logic of anything when there was a clash, because when fighting, any number of things could happen that in the flow of a raging fight could not be picked apart, such as how Solace actually sliced partially through the blast fired from the Fragment Shot, then without having his blade damaged, knocked the blast completely away and it slammed into a building, which the top half of it crumbled to dust; showing how dangerous the attack was. "Wow, that was disturbing." Seru voiced its thoughts on what had just happened.

Solace was a beautiful creature which was a thought that randomly came into Seru's mind, he had poise and the rabbit features were interesting, but this by no means stopped its mind from being focused on the fight, and the two balls of fire that Solace threw towards it. It's hands glowed purple, but then remained their normal color as the balls of flame came towards it.......

The balls moved in midair, spiraling up and around Seru, slamming together as it released the telekinetic grip on them. "A straight rush huh?? Not really smart." Seru noticed that one of its horns was singed from the flame, which was odd. Solaced had been moving in a straight line, as after Seru had avoid the fire ball attacks, it drifted down behind the now turned Solace, and charged magnus energy into its hands.

"Chouhappa" It threw a punch, and magnus force purified flared from it's hand, it continued a barrage of punching attacks that released flares of energy shaped like fists. Each one got weaker as they hurled towards Solace, and after thirteen of these, not all of which were thrown forward, but some around and guided via telekinesis, Seru propelled itself forward and regardless of which direction Solace would be moving, after being hit, or guarding against any number of the attacks, the energy that had been sapped backwards during the blows got released, as an extremely fats moving wall of energy that extended across 20 feet in length, and down 15 feet in height, with another 7 feet in width.

[Grimmjow Jaggerjack]

'Yreal.' One said as he looked up from his book.

Yreal sat across his master, leaning against the wall of a decayed house with his eyes closed. He had sat there for hours...silent, thinking. He didn't need more than just be close to One, so he didn't seek for anything to do. He had just sat there, as One read in the book called 'Wisdom'. When Yreal opened his eyes it was his first movement since he sat down there that morning. He looked up to One, who said at what seemed to become his favorite place: The pile of rubble in the abandoned ally.

'Yes, master?'

'Yreal, I need you to visit the city. I want you to leave the slums.'

'Master?' Yreal asked, as the silence after One's words had continued enough.

'Hmm? Oh, right. I need you to go to the city. At least to the part of the common folk, and maybe even up to the part of the Nobles. Your clothes look rather new, and the gems you carry speak of wealth. I don't think you would have any problem traveling through the higher parts, in contrast to myself. I would not last there longer than an hour the way I look.'

'Centainly, master. Is there anything specific I need to do there?' Yreal once again asked because of the silence that had lasted for moments.

'A good question, Yreal. A question that actually asks for an answer.' One replied. Yreal found it a bit of a strange thing to say, but he kept quiet and waited for his master to continue. The last did, a few moments later.

'There is change going on in this city. That is the answer to one of your earlier questions. There is change, and thus we are here.' One paused. 'However, we are not the only one. Change always atracts power. Other creatures and beings like us, who want to use that change and control the effects and outcome of it. Or the other beings, who want too keep this city from changing. Change is here, and thus power is here.' Again One paused. 'I need you to find out what power has already gathered. Go up to the higher parts, and find out as many as you can.'

Yreal was thinking. He spoke after another silence of a few moments.

'Like us, master? Are we like those others, only here to change the outcome of the events, and use the change?

One's face lighted up.

'You surprise me, Yreal. You have a good way of thinking. That indeed is the right question too ask. And your answer is: Yes, we are here to change the events. The difference is that our reasons are of another nature than theirs. Thus, we are not the same.' One paused, seemed to want to say more. 'I hope that satisfies your question, Yreal.' He finally continued, clearly not stating what had been on his mind. Yreal wanted to ask about it, but One simply raised his hand. Yreal kept quiet.

'Go, Yreal. I expect you back within a maximum of two days. Other things than this ask my attention...and your power.' He finished mysteriously.

Yreal stayed for a while, still leaning back against the wall. Half because he was thinking, half because he didn't want to be seperated from One for so long. Eventually he sighed and stood up. Without a word he left the scene. There was no need to say goodbye, as there was no need to say hello. They knew when they where in eachothers pressence and when they where not. Words where unnecessary, and did not need to confirm that fact, Yreal had learned.

[Dark Heart 2]

Crome suddenly appeared between the two combatants, with his Magnus Power at the ready to negate the numerous bursts of energy that were coming his way. From what his senses could tell, every wave was weaker than the one before it, which would allow him to use his energy to negate all of the blasts.

With each one that charged Crome, he took his stance within the air, using his Floater ability, which consisted of pushing Magnus Power from below his feet constantly and with a fairly high level of energy, and smacked each one in time with his Magnus Negation, taking advantage of his speed to disperse all of them quickly. On the final three however, as if to put on a show, Crome drew out his blade, and channeled the Negation into his blade, spinning in two complete three-sixty circles to destroy the third and second blast, then making one last stab into the final wave of energy, causing it to vanish as if it had never even existed.

He merely stood in that position, with his blade extended, making himself seem like a statue that stood against the flow of time. Slowly, Crome drew himself back to his standing position, gracefully placing his blade back in it's sheath. With a firm voice, he spoke firmly to both the reckless fighters. "You two... whoever you may be, I could care less how you mangle or mutilate each other, it is of no consequence to me. However..." He first gave the Inn Keeper a cold glare, then shifted it to the floating specter on the other side. "I shall not allow you to harm this city, or it's people."

Turning his back to both of them, he closed his eyes in solemnity, crossing his arms to show his uncaring demeanor to the two. "I ask that you please move this outside of the city walls, before I have to get anymore involved. And trust me, I don't want that anymore than you do. I will do what's necessary, however, to protect this place." Turning back towards the two, he gave them both a firm look, his jacket gently blowing in the wind as he took tried to take authority of the situation. "So, what have you to say?"

[Shattered Redemption]

Erebos laid back on a chaise like bench inside his den. He was feeling rather annoyed that something supposedly having to do with his family could be so completely vile and more so that it seemed to disregard the fact that Erebos existed. He had talked to Charla about it, but she didn't really have much to say that he wasn't already feeling.

"Seru. Just what is that thing??"

He sighed, and the glowing force that was his eyes dimmed as he drifted off to sleep. A few moments passed, and Erebos shot up, looking around the room for he felt a strange sensation. It was that of pure terror, the feeling of someone in terrible pain, and the release of a combination of thoughts.

He shook his head, rolling over and looking at the wall of the den, only to find that there was blood everywhere. It was running down the walls and onto the floor. pooling at areas and soaking into the thick plush carpets. He could hear the tearing and ripping of flesh, and then after that, the cries for help. It was almost like the words were not being said, and blood sprayed up and hit him in the face, moving off his skull and down his rib cage.

He looked down at his hands, only to see that a chunk of flesh was stuck to his skeletal like claws, and he continued to moved his hands down, causing more screams from his victim."Erebos, NO, please stop, I thought you loved me ahhhh, I no, please."

The voice cut off as Erebos unwillingly watched himself tear out Charla's throat and her head fell back...........

Erebos was jolted awake........"Erebos, you were crying out, is everything okay??" Charla looked down at Erebos with a worried look on her face.........as Erebos seemed to pass out.

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As per the norm with these such happenings, there was always someone whom wanted to interfere, or get involved, as there were so many whom thought being a hero, or peace maker was cool. There were far too many wanna be heroes around, and Seru didn't care for them anymore than the way it or lack there of for anything else. This is what ti was thinking anyway as a wolf-man showed up and proceeded to use some obvious negation technique to do away with an attack that Seru had used again Solace, even trying to make himself look special as he used his blade to take out the final attacks.

"You two... whoever you may be, I could care less how you mangle or mutilate each other, it is of no consequence to me. However..." Seru watched the wolf-man's eyes move to him and finish his statement. "I shall not allow you to harm this city, or it's people." Seru was really not at all impressed with the wolf-man, nor his objectiveness to the situation as if he was somebody of importance.........

"You you think that you are going to stop me do you??" Seru moved its hand from its side and waved it across the direction of those below.

The wolf-man seemed nonchalant "So, what have you to say?" The holes where Seru's eyes would be dimmed, and an off white glow shined from them, getting brighter and brighter as it moved its arms and then the pressure

"This" Seru laughed. "Искусство мнения, разлучите моих противников!!!" From the large crowd below, citizens starred to yell, unsure of what was happening to them, their bodies rasing off the ground, their arms and legs flailing about as they rose higher and higher. The bodies moved about, eventually forming a circle around the wolf-man. A woman near him struggled, but she couldn't open her mouth as her side began t rip open, internal organs spilling over the side as she twitched and then finally screamed, blood gushing out of her. Her body dropped from the sky with a splat on the ground.

Seru didn't really waste a lot of time toying around, and on by one the heads of the people began to burst apart, showering the wolf-man with brain matter, and finally their bodies begin ripped completely apart, raining down blood on him.........

[OmniChaos]

Agram stood silent atop the inn, watching the events transpire. In his arms, he held the small child, who let out gasps of pain now and then. The potion he had given her seemed to have been wearing off, bringing the child back to pain. He sat the girl down, her pain lifting to an extent. He turned back around to see the sky a blood red color. No... It wasn't a color, it was blood. Agram noticed the source of it. The specter had lifted the people of the crowd and spun them around the Wolfen, ripping their bodies apart.

Agram looked on in disgust. Killing for pure enjoyment, how pathetic. As much as he wished to assist, he could not. Without the emperor's prior approval, taking on a target was near impossible for Agram.

The contract...

He cursed that thing... And he cursed the emperor. Agram cursed himself, falling for such a obvious trick.
Disgraceful...

With that contract still binding, Agram's power were lcoked to their lowest level, three possible abilities he could use. Without the emperor's approval, Agram was unable to unlock his higher, more deadly abilities that would had made this fight short and easy.

Damn him...
Damn him and his contract to hell...
It's nothing but a leash... Binding his movement and choking him of his power...

And for the kicker, Agram can not lay a finger on the emperor or the contract...

He felt powerless right now... There was nothing he could do right now, except watch. How he hated doing such. There was nothing he could do...

Nothing...

Nothing but to watch...

[Shattered Redemption]

The loud music made the room vibrate, the yells and screams adding to the situation. Such was the life inside the club that the liveliness was enough to make Boa actually not hate her job. Entertainment was something that she was good at, but had never actually taken up in this form before. She moved her body in rhythm to the beat, coaxing out yells from the crowd. Her hips moved in a circular fashion, and as she bent her legs and dropped low to the ground, squatting and turning so that her backside was facing the crowd. Her voice was seductive, and she moved faster...........

"Yeah you like that huh??" The men in the club started going wild as Boa dipped down and did and split completely down, her legs facing outwards on either side. She slid across the stage, snatching up bills that people in the crowd were giving her, and stood up, rubbing her body against the chest of a man daring enough to climb onto the area of the stage for close up encounters. The pulse of the music was getting louder, and more vibrant, as her dance finished, her body sliding down a large pole and into the floor.

Below stage, Boa waved her hair back and sighed. She had actually out done her last performance with this one. The guy from the beginning fainted when she climbed on him. There was just too much to do in one night. Her card was already slashed up, so she just walked out the side entrance and into the street...........

[Picnicpanther]

The fight was halted by a Wolfen.

Solace watched as he accused both of them, he included, for endangering the town. That moment, he knew that the Wolfen had made a big mistake... "No....NO!" shouted Solace, already knowing that Seru would go to extreme lengths to disobey and completely obliterate the Wolfen.

All of a sudden, it was a bloodbath. People by the tens were lifted into the air, their stomachs and abdomens exploding, crimson blood projecting in all direction. The cobblestone street below was drenched in the heavy, soupy liquid. Even Solace himself was covered in projectile splatters. "You....You goddamned monster! You're going to regret this!!!" He shouted.

Suddenly, Solace lit on fire. Wings still present, he lunged at Seru mercilessly. He was berserk now, unable and unwilling to hold back. Firing a barrage of fireballs at it, he used his secondary element, Wind, to lift multiple barrels off of the street, out of an alleyway near his inn: He happened to know that the particular establishment sold guns and related paraphinelia, including gunpowder....and it didn't take long for these barrels to reach Seru.

They exploded in a blinding flash, complete with a deafening boom. Though they were high enough that no buildings were hit, it still made Solace nervous, especially with this overly high-and-mighty Wolfen around. And yet, he couldn't stop laughing. This had been the most challenging endeavor he had participated in for a while, and it seemed he had won. "Yeah...YEAH! BURN YOU DEMONIC SON OF A BITCH!" He screamed at Seru...

[Shattered Redemption]

Seru turned slowly as he saw that Solace as rather angered by what it had done, and this made Seru happy. It loved to see creatures get overexcited and freak out over trivial matters, or at least things that were almost always trivial to Seru. In a frenzy, Solace launched a barrage of fire balls at it, meaning to hit Seru with this random attack in his fit of rage.

"I think not." The fragment saber materialized in Seru's hand, and was used in a quick fashion. The blade was released from Seru's hand and as the fireballs reached the blade, it collided with them, spinning around and slicing them apart. Each ball of fire was handled, other than one that flew past the blade at higher speeds than the rest. This one was hit Seru, right in the chest area, the armor moving from the fiery attack. Seru's blade returned to it, and vanished, and Seru floated towards Solace, but it seemed that Solace was serious about this.

Barrels of explosives and substance with high detonation power were used against Seru, blow up in it's vicinity at close range, causing a mighty explosion that sent out shock waves of energy, enough that could have wiped a cliche fighter out in seconds, yet Seru was nowhere near that notion of manifest, or ability to fall for such as trick. The explosion didn't go away, and there was a deafening roar...........

"You wish I was a demon. It's too bad that your gorgeous form will most likely not survive what is coming." The energy from the explosion was unmoving, almost as if it had become trapped in another kind of power. A repulsor field generated by strong magnetism had not only encased, but also compacted the explosion's power the energies were compressed more and more from the magnetic field around them, and as Seru conjured his own powers more, a pulse of electric force went off, flowing around the shrinking attack.

Using a substantial amount of the flowing energies that came from Seru's domain outside of reality, it based it's power of heat conduction on Solace, and reversed the flow of energy, in a way that would stop the rabbit-man's wings from working, and also used a press of telekinetic strength that would hold the man in place.

It launched the compacted sphere of warped energies from its palm, as it had gone through such transformation that it was the size of a small fruit, yet harbored massive destructive force. "Вы потеряли эту борьбу, и все же я даже не использовал десять процентов моих полномочий."

The attack would no doubt destroy the man if he did nothing to defend himself, and even then, was focused enough that major harm would ensue regardless, not only to him, but also the wolf-man in range, and even the area nearby......

[OmniChaos]

Agram stood there, arms folded, waiting for what ever was going to happen to happen. Just then, he noticed a strange green light flashing from his sleeve. It was his crystal ball. He pulled the crystal ball out, placing it between his palm and right before him, just below his chest. "Green..." he softly whispered. "A level One approval until target objective has been met..." He looked all around him. Was he watching? I didn't matter, Agram now had the power he had needed.

The crystal glew green, shining a powerful light in all directions. "Level 1 Approval granted!" Agram shouted. "Unlock Level One restraints!" The light intencified, shining brighter and stronger. The light faded away, leaving the normally light blue crystal ball and green color.

It had returned... His power over shadows, now even stronger than it just was. Agram was comfirted at the fact that he could now control the shadows, using them as a way to attack, travel oranything else. He could manipulate them as he please, due to the fact that the darkness of the day created endless shadows for him to use.

After placing the girl in her mother's care, Agram jumped to the sky, easily covering half the distence between the ground and the airborn fight. Agram moved his hands to the side, palms facing upward and fingers in a claw-like position. "That is enough!" Agram shouted, making a lifting motion with his arms. Down on the ground, shadows rocketed upward, forming a pilliar of shadow. The shadow pilliar shot upward, just below Agram. He made contact with the pilliar, riding it as it rose toward the fight.

His primary target was to erase/remove the specter. Once the target was silenced or removed from the current area, his secondary target was to end the fight and restore peace. Once those goals were met, the release would once again be locked.

He had no way in reaching the ball of energy heading for the man who seemed to be fighting this ghost. But, he could try for his first goal. The shadow pilliar seemed to pulsate slightly beneath Agram's feet as he came into shouting range of the fighters. "Stop this fighting at once or face execution!"

[Grimmjow Jaggerjack]

One watched Yreal leave, thinking he might have made a mistake. The powers gathered could already be more than his young Yreal could handle. He hoped Yreal would not judge the situation dangerous too soon, and keep his powers hidden for as long as possible. He hoped...for he needed the powers of Yreal a bit longer. One had chosen a life without noticeable power this time, and did not want to regret it.

The man sighed and directed his attention back to the book he was reading: 'Wisdom, by Onimus Nertan Embrace'. Onimus...Nertan...Embrace...or simply ONE. Yes, One. This was his book, which he had regained only half a year ago due to a weird chain of circumstances. It was a book about another time, another place...another life...

Melancholy. A scent of melancholy touched his heart.

...A tear?

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Yreal strolled through the streets of the city. He had needed only about an hour to leave the slums and come here. And as he did so, he noticed the difference. Shocking. Truly shocking. Yreal had gotten used to the life in the slums, and really forgot how it was to life in a normal city. The sun actually reached here, the streets where clean, the houses were...complete. And even more strange were the people. They seemed happy. Happy...that was an emotion he had not seen in a very long time. Too long.

The sun shone bright, a gentle breeze tickled his cheek, and the noises of a buzzling city delighted his mind. Such refreshing surroundings bring light to one's thoughts and banish out shadows that creep inside one's darkest thoughts. Strangely, Yreal found himself whisteling...Weird that a simple change of scenery: A sun for once, could change a man's state of mind so completely.

'Would you care for a drink, gent?' A young man asked, advertising what seemed to be the local pub.

Gent? That was a first. Yreal liked it, as his normal cold personality melted like snow for the sun.

'Well, why not, my best man. What do you have to offer?' He replied, still grinning over the fact he was called gent.

The young man was just about to inform him when another character came running down the streets, shouting to anyone who could hear it: 'Help! Help! Monsters! Monsters I say! A massacre! Blood everywhere...' The man stopped in the middle of the street, out of breath. Yreal walked up to him before the man could continue.

'Lead me there.' He said to the man without hesitation.

Maybe this was the work of one of the beings his master told him about. If it was or not didn't matter, he needed to investigate this further.

[Shattered Redemption]

The moving orb that Seru had fired stopped moving when it heard what the new approacher had said. "Execution huh?? Are you another that believes himself to be a hero?? I get bored of all of you. As if I have any reason to worry about you, or anybody else." Its orb expanded back to the original size and glimmered in the air, moving towards the cloaked, and armored man. Seru raised its finger and the attacked floated higher, and higher into the air, where exploded into yet another form of energy in a display of what looked to be fireworks. This was in fact light from the spectrum that Seru could control.

"Such obvious powers, yet so easily broken." Seru seemed to fold in on itself a bit, crunching and wrapping its arms around the armor it was. There was a monumental pulse of energy that expanded outwards from Seru, and in seconds the entire area was alight with light, not a single dark spot or shadow in sight. "Hmm, it didn't want to use that much power for something that was once so simple, but it seems I had to display a bit of my powers for this."

Seru had released a powerful stream of particles from the spectrum and aligned them with the planet's magnetic field and was focusing them through itself and the area. This caused for the photonic mass there of to expand and condense, forming a barrier of light around the district they were all inside of. There was no darkness, only light and its energies........

"What will you do now??"