Courtyard (South)

[Magus_sista]

Erika had been observing from the shadows of the courtyard, gathering information on each individual here. Getting to know their strengths, weaknesses and how they faired in battle. She would give them credit, they were all rather strong combaters, but there was one problem this Kujiro, this so called servants of the gods was always one step ahead. He had an answer for everything, a block for every attack and counter as well. It was almost as if eh knew them inside and out. Perhpas that was because whislt battleing them he too had been observing. But no matter, it seemed these individuals had bitten off more than they could chew. Naturally this wouldn't concern Erika at all, she neither worried nor cared about anyones elses welfare but her own, but something in this situation changed. Kujiro had now threatened to elminate all in this area even if his battle was not with them directly. He was like a kid striking out at everyone around him and there was no way she was about to let a 'kid' get the better of her.

Raising her arm she gently kissed her black feathered friend and told him to circle the skies for his safety. In an instant he shot off like an arrow from her arm, slicing through the air and leaving Erika to 'play'. She rolled her shoulders backwards as muscles began to tear, bones shift and skin rip and large black feathers started to grow from her back, being a raven demon had its advantages, like being to only half transform when wished, but its was bloody painful. She gritted her teeth and her eyes shone as the wings reached their full length and stopped pulling at her back and shoulder muscles. Taking in deep breaths she stood tal, now with black feathered wings upon her back that pulled her into the sky when she pushed off the ground with her feet and looked down upon them all.

Now drifting in the sky she looked around for an object, any object large enough and sharp enough so that she could get a grip on it, yet it had to be with reach of telekentic band otherwise it wouldn't work at all. Her dark eyes quickly scanned the area for anything, anything at all. But nothing, the only were statues in the fountain and at the moment they were just a bit too heavy for her powers to lift.
"Guess i'll just have to do it the old way"
Sighing she placed both her cat claws together, her hands hidden beneath the deadly claw weapons, and started focusing her energy around Kujiro. This part was rather simple, she was only formin a barricade around him to resrict his movements to the spot he was standing, yet he wouldn't know what was happening until he felt the tight bind of invisble rope creeping round the length of his body.  

[Moonduster]

Reaper's eyes narrowed upon her spell seeing through the light she was creating catching sight of it having zero effect upon the shadows. She had predicted something of such seeing how she also had the power of shadows. But, it was no use using her shadow abilities seeing how his reign over them were far greater then her own. Seeing how her power was having no effect she was shutting off her spell not wanting to waste all of that energy upon something that was having zero effect. This meant that she would have to go to the very true source of all of this and that was Kujiro himself. Her hands pulled away from the shadow when she caught something out of the corner of her eye. Not evening bothing to take a full glance at what she caught glimpse of. Rolling herself forward as two streaks of shadows came zipping past her.

The exact same kind that was used to impale her brother realizing how much she was in danger she didn't hesistate to start moving. Finding several more coming at her fast. She ran but instead of heading towards any random direction she was making her way towards Kujiro. It was clear to her that she would have to be up close and personal in order to do any sort of harm to Kujiro. It was a major risk that could be life threatening but that didn't matter to her. As long as she was able to strike him and get him to loose his focus over those blasted shadows. Just long enough for them to release hold of her little brother. As long as that was accomplish she didn't care what happened to herself. She checked over her shoulder to see if the shadows were following her or not either way she would continue to draw near to Kijro. Getting her claw like fingers reading to do some series gashing and slicing.  

[Sousei Tatsu]

Tatsu's eyes widened as Kujiro took hold of his sword and began to use it as a medium for some kind of passive attack. However, his surprise was not do to the fact that his sword was caught, nor the fact that a viral assult was about to plague his body. What caused him to have this sudden anxiety was the fact that he would have to let go of his sword, that his sword was being used against him. And Tatsu would not stand for such an insult, especially concidering the special, sentimental value his sword held.

Tatsu pulled back away from Kujiro, leaving his sword with him in the process. Tatsu fell to his knees, not from Kujiro's attack, but from the constant use of Void. The nothingness around his arm began to fluctuate with power, all of which coursing from Tatsu's demon self. Apparently, Tatsu's reverse side, the "tails" to his "heads", did not like this one bit either, and shared his rage with Tatsu. At this point, more Void began to flood from Tatsu's neck and traveled to his spinal cord and his legs.

Thin lines of Void ran down Tatsu's legs, not wasting precious life force converting the skin and merely converting all that which was under the skin into Void, giving him godly speed. The Void that traveled to his spine wasted no time converting everything that touched his backbone, even the top layer of skin aboe it, into Void. This would not only protect his sinal column from attacks, but reduce the time it takes for him to react to an attack. The Void the continued down the spine, extending it outwards into a long tail, complete with a deadly point on the end.

Tatsu fell to all fours as the Void in his right eye spread to his left, giving him complete sight of whatever he needed to see. He grinned as the Void around his neck suddenly tensed up, making it look somewhat physcial, yet still untouchable by matter. It was then that his lips moved, and his voice, no, his demon's voice came booming out. "You'd better hope to god that what you've shown so far is nothing compared to your full power, because I've been watching you, Serenian. I may not be even close to my full power, but just mess with Tatsu more by takin' that which is most precious to him and using it against him, and so help me I'll show you why the name 'Kusarutobi the Void' is feared throughout the realms, even by the non-linear 'gods'!"

Tatsu's arm seemed to shake violently as the Void began to reshape and mold itself into a new form to accomidate the loss of the sword. Soon, a blade jutted out from his wrist, followed by two more blades at the center of his forearm and on his elbow. Another thin line of Void crawled down his left arm, spreading out once it reached the back of his hand and spreading to each finger, covering each one in Void and creating a set of claws. Tatsu dropped to all fours, his eyes burhning brightly as he said, "Come and get some if you feel you're up to it, Serenian!"  

[Nyanfood]

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[Dosso]

He sighed as he walked about the campus after waking up from his nap. He glanced about setting down his suit case he removed his old sweater and threw aside and flipped the locks of his suitcase open and lifted the top. As it opened it it revealed it's contents to the world. Inside the suit case two semi-automatic handguns, a dirk, a black netted vest, and countless magazines of bullets each with their own incantation engraved into it.

As he removed it's contents he quickly slipped on the vest and the the two guns in their holsters. The next thin he pulled out was a silver dirk which he strapped to his left leg. Afterwards he pulled out a long black leather belt with a little clip ever 3 cms, he quickly put it on and began attaching magazines to it. When the magazine were all attached all his belt resembled was an odd fashion statement at best. Flicking his tail about he walked around until he found pop can. Examining it ever so carefully he tossed it into the air drawing his guns simutaenously and began to empty the magazines into the can.

As the firing stopped and the can hit the ground he walked over to the can and examined it. Noticing that there were three holes in the can. He grabbed his hair and moaned in agony.
"God damn it I didn't think my skills had decreased this much!", he said with his head pointed towards the ground. As other students looked by they wondered what was wrong, out of 16 bullets he had only made 3 holes big deal. If they thought this they were wrong, all the bullets did hit, but they were supposed to go through the same hole.  

[Nyanfood]

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[Ceron]

At the moment he seemed to lose sight of Chryos, so did his attention divert to those entering. It was a young woman, or girl, who apparently came shortly before a man. The two seemed oblivious to the fighting going on, strange as it was. Kujiro's eyes stopped upon the female, who's very presence seemed to sway the atmosphere of the air around her. They then switched to the man, who's ability with a firearm hinted that he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, so to speak. "Pitiful..." he commented, though not specifically regarding either of them. "Yet more enter these grounds, new arrivals to this place. It matters not, as their presence here is no different then that of the rest of these beasts." he spoke while reaching back slowly. The sword that Tatsu had relinquished was now slowly being overtaken by the black, vein like presence around its white crust. It was not long before the entire thing was covered in the black, liquid like state of the shadow Kujiro formed. By that time, it became no different then the shadow itself...a mere hint at what would have happened had Tatsu not separated himself from it. Kujiro pulled a portion of the blackness that was once Tatsu's sword into his right hand, holding it tightly for the moment.

"Served? No...you do not serve, you merely followed his cause. All the more proof of how correct I am about you, petty tyrant." he used that term again, not moving so much as an inch from his place while Chryos spoke. "What precisely do -you- know of power, creature? WE are of the Gods, the true Gods. First to live, first to die. We know our purpose, and our path and we take it upon ourselves to walk that path, unlike the lot of you. All the more reason that the you and everyone within this courtyard be passed judgement." he shot a glare to his right as Chryos appeared, his hand already extended in front of the man. He seemed to expect where Chryos would come from, anticipate the attack he readied. The blackness of the shadow he tore from the once infected blade spread out from the center of his hand. It captured the released glitter like dust, wrapping over it before it could spread, then compressing immediately. The mass compressed into a black sphere, large enough only to fit in Kujiro's palm, which it did once he closed his hand around it. "Though you claim to be a protector, you know not your own path..." his eyes were wide as he made his statement.

Those eyes...pure black by now, not a single hint of white. They were directed into Chryos' own eyes with a deep, unyielding sense of conviction. "...a path which is but a lie, Ichshirion. You would claim to exist solely to protect them? You claim madness upon me? How...human...and ignorant of a statement..." he turned again as Chryos moved away, unfazed it would seem, by all of this. As he turned, his eyes set on Rivera once more, though only briefly as he turned to face Chryos. Even with the blinding light, he had been able to see and sense Chryos freely, and was already taking action to defend himself. Every whip like tentacle formed moved in front of Kujiro, all at once stopping the tendrils which Chryos used, binding with them. "But let us see just how far you take your role. Let us see how the beast reacts to choice." and no sooner had they wrapped around and with the tendrils had their light began to overtake the dark of Kujiro's shadow. "Truly, you think to kill me because of the evil you believe that I am. And by that narrow perspective, my death would be for the greater good..." their energy quickly flowed down the tendrils of black, each one of them, as if not even being fought against at all.

Kujiro waited as the energy came, energy that would undoubtably surge through both Scytheress and Jacob, and kill them. He knew that when the energy reached them, not only would the energy from Chryos tear their bodies apart, but the mixed in Serenis Dark energy would crush their very living souls as well. They would be utterly destroyed before the energy even neared to Kujiro, the intended target. "Let your simple means of attack...be... for the greater good then, Ichshirion." he awaited, still with the black sphere in his hand. He was ignoring the others, though. Erika's attempt at slowing him down wasn't felt very much at all, Reaper had yet to strike and hence was not an issue, and as for Tatsu, Kujiro viewed him as but a child who talked too much.  

[Dosso]

He had heard the girl although he wasn't quite paying attention the first time she had spoken to him and his ears twitched towards her direction when she spoke a second time. He closed his eyes clearing his mind, upon hearing the thunder after the lightning his eyes shot open his pupils returned to a cat like state. Slowly he raised both his guns concentrating cooly on the cat and fired. Emptying his magazines into the can he dropped his arms and walked over to where the can had landed, there was only one hole this time. "Hmmm I must thank you for your advice kind lady", he said walking over to her standing well out of her way not wanting t ointerfer with her training. "Allow me to introduce myself if you will. My name is Kazuma and as you probally may have noticed I am a freshman. Now then how may I address you?", he asked removing the magazines now and began the slow process of refilling them with shells from his suit case.  

[Nyanfood]

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[Dosso]

"Ah well yes you see I just happen to be new here. Hmmm well kindness is in fact relative and can be viewed from different prespectives. Well now that I've practiced my marksmanship for a while would care to help me with my martial arts?", he asked her as he threw off his holsters into the case alongside the single custom revolver strapped to the case's lid.  

[Nyanfood]

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[Dosso]

((didn't you just post the exact same thing?))  

[Nyanfood]

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[Magus_sista]

Erika could tell her binding was not affecting him much at all, in fact he could probably only just feel a small nagging. This made her smile, it was a good indication that he was no push over and would provide a wothy battle, finaly a challenge that she could sink her teeth into that wouldn't be finished within the first few minutes of it beggining. Snickering she started to tighten the binidng, forcing more energy into, concentrating on forcing his arms behind his back and shoving his legs together so that he could not move and slowly winding its way up around his chest and neck, she just needed more energy placed on him first before she could actually carry out the rest of her attack. He was quite strong and so he needed much forced energy than what was normally used, but it was no matter. Her hands locked together round what looked like an invisible rope that she was now pulling on to tighten and tighten, until he forced himself free she was going to continue with this attack, all be it she had other attacks but she wasn't about to reveal all her playing cards out just so he could throw them back in her face. No she wanted to keep them secret, a suprise for him.

As she tightened her hold on Kujiro, she ended up drawing herself slightly closer to him, which was not the desired effect. But it happened none the less making her wings bend like an arc trying to pull her backwards as well continue to put more pressure on Kujiro.
Just a little more and soon he wont know what hit him.
As she was drawn closer she saw two more students entering the grounds, they entered almost completely ignorant to what was going on around them and she couldn't help but sigh in agreement, they were indeed pitiful creatures.
"You know, if you feel we are such ptiful creatures and not worth your time then perhaps you should just move on and find someone more worth while"
She did not yell this, rather she spoke what was running through her mind and at this point when she heard him say pitiful and that they should be judged and that he was a god just made her want to laugh. If he was a god why was he wasting his time here?