Courtyard (South)

[Dosso]

"nya", he mummured under his breath as he looked at her again picking up his suit case. He twirled around and bounded into a nearby tree stretching on it for a while before responding. "You lost your memory? So you don't remember who you are, what you learned, friends, family , or loved ones at all?", he asked her curiously as he produced a bottle from his pocket taking a swig of it.  

[Moonduster]

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[Scytheress]

Scytheress's eyes had become blank slates of gold as her consciousness was turned entirely inward on herself. Her body was dripping with Kujiro's shadows that pulled at her own energy reserves to fuel them. Scythe should have realized before not to get mixed up in this but these blasted people some how manipulated her thoughts into aiding them. And look where it got her. Deep yellowed bruises began to form on her neck, or at least that's the only area that they were visible because too patches of discolored skin were surfacing on her shoulders, arms, and legs beneath the shadows, each in response to the strong grips on her souls.

For within her raging mind Kujiro and his ancestors all had their hands clasped to one part of her or another. Kujiro the only one to restrain Scytheress herself, placing a strangle-hold about her neck with a single hand while the others wrapped their fingers around Rem in various places. The Elf wanted to shriek but her mouth was covered, Scytheress wanted to let off a string of vile curses but her air was cut off making it so not even her corporeal body was able to yell out in distress. She was quite literally trapped within her own mind. Rem could only stare at Scytheress, calm and cold as though she'd given up. Frightened to no end the Elf began to struggle violently, jerking her limbs all ways and often dislocating some joint in her effort until she exhausted herself.

Yet still the Fox remained immobile, her eyes fixed down on Kujiro's manifested form as her finger tips began to twitch from a lack of oxygen. She began to feel a cold draft within the dark recess, like the first winds of the impending winter chill and for a split second Scytheress worried it was the real Kujiro at work to disolve her soul-links to her body but it soon grew too cold for a separation, it had to just be a cold force outside. The perimeter of her mental space began to frost, ice sicles dropping from the ceiling as the collective breaths surged out in white puffs. Scytheress's real body however only exhaled small wisps between blue-tinted lips, traumatized by the mental cut to her lungs.  

[Wrath_of_Chryon]

"Reaper Move! You don't wanna be caught in what is about to happen here..."

As the numerous people dove into his attack Chryos's only aim was to protect them before he launched his next move.

"Misguided serenian...I aim only to stop your rampage on these poor souls, not murder anyone... and as for these humans. I was once one of them and sometimes wish I could still be; free from all the insanity of immortality...I exist now as a pure astral being. Brought back from Hell with aid from the Gods...Fool! You speak of me as a tryant now, but am I not the one trying to aid my former people. Yusake was of your own flesh and blood and you strike him down..."

Chryos would make his next steps as he continuted to speak. When Kujiros own power began to seep through Chry's "jellyfish" attack he needed to think fast to save the others. Before the energy would reach himself Chryos summoned the ends of each ribbon of energy to the palm of his hand, throwing them backwards and upwards at a high rate of speed as his own energy balled up and exploded, taking the shadow powers with it. Seeming that Kujiro was somehow reading his own movements, Chryos decided to formulate a new strategy. Others kept trying to aid him when really all they did was hinder him from unleashing his powers. If he were to move at full speed the kinetic release could kill those around him. If he unleashed a powerful attack, no matter how quickly he did so another would likely be in the line of fire. To protect them he must find a way to keep them out of range, of both Kujiro's onslaught, and his own energy release. Suddenly it hit him, hand to hand fighting. Even if Kujiro could dodge the attack Chryos could protect the others. If Kujiro counterred Chry might catch him. His movements now would have to be unorthodox, almost seem suicidal, but if it worked, he may finally be able to at least imprison the man until Yusake regained consciousness...or whoever was pulling his strings appeared and decided to stop him...

Whereas Kujiro's own eyes now seemed to be blacker than the very shadows he created, Chry's were just the opposite. His own now shined completely white, with the smallest hints of blue floating in from time to time. He smirked, as the same energy ribbons as before were released from his body, but instead of attacking began to wrap around him. Eventually they covered his entire body, but with a twist...as each formed it dissapeared as it wrapped around him. It would seem that he'd done nothing at all to most, though it did give off a feint signature of energy as each formed, but soon subsiding as they became dormant and lightless. He took off forward, coming at Kujiro at what seemed to be an impossible speed. He'd moved quickly before, leaving after images in his wake, but now his body sped along a such a pace that the image seemed real, and only one seemed to form. The rest couldn't keep up. Multiple sonic booms could be heard from all directions as Chryos was almost floating, springing, jumping and twirling around kujiro in all directions. He began to form multiple ice projectiles as he moved, carrying them in his arms and they too had similar properties to the energy ribbons surrounding his body. Suddenly one ice orb was released, thrown in like a fast ball at Kujiro from his front left. The next orb came from his direct top, and the final from his back. Chryos himself flew in after throwing each from Kujiro's direct left, throwing a full body punch with his right hand at Kujiro's mid section. He left a final orb resting on the ground to Kujiro's direct right, placing it just before Chryos had made his own strike.  

[Nyanfood]

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[Dark_Airhead]

Dayna walked to a tree with three books in her hand and sat down agenst it. She sat two books down and started reading the one she had kept in her hand. Once in awhile Dayna would glance up to her seroundings when she heard a noise,which was quite often. Dayna sighed and went back to reading after looking up once more.  

[Dosso]

He sighed and looked back at her frowned. "You know loneliness must be the one thing hardest deal with." he said not caring anymore if she took his words into consideration. He deftly jumped down opening his case and holstered his revolver "Hades". "The weather embraces you, but who far does it's reach touch your heart?", he asked her slowly loading his gun with his "speacial" shells. "I wonder how that battle is going", he said to no one in particular..  

[Nyanfood]

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[Dosso]

"Ahem, well...that's very interesting and all, but I am afraid I must be leaving now", he said with a bow. He quickly stood up and walked away briskly as he remembered he had yet to get his dorm. ((auggghhh so short I'm not in a writing mood Dx))  

[Ceron]

"Just as I thought." Kujiro closed his eyes as Chryos played the part set out for him. He was counting on this, that Chryos would not follow through with his energy output that would end up breaking apart both Jacob and Scytheress. And in doing just this, in attempting to sever the connection of the two tendrils, he set forth his intended attack. When the welled up energy began to gather from Chryos, instead of exploding, it bonded and became stronger. In a sudden rush, the shadow like tendrils became immediately locked to Chryos position and rushed at him with even greater speed. Their power passed through his energy and overtook it, and even with as fast as he moved, they still followed exactly in the same path as he went. They were tethered to him, connected from binding with his own power, using the tendrils he created as conduits to follow him exactly. "I have nothing more to say to you, creature. You have already proven exactly what kind of thing you are." Kujiro turned toward Reaper as she began to throw her own tendrils into the mix. But by this time, Chryos had already moved swiftly around the area like a storm. In doing so, he caused the tendrils of shadow to surround Kujiro. Instead of her power coming into contact with Kujiro, they became latched onto the shadows.

"Why did you bother?" Scytheress would hear his voice in her mind. "You had absolutely no place in this conflict. Now...do you see the results of your interference?" Kujiro's image still held the Fox by her throat. However, the many shadowed figures taking hold of Rem vanished, becoming well...nothing within this darkened room representing the two minds. "It matters not..." he tossed the Fox aside, looking down over the floor. He extended his right hand out, and as he did, the darkness began to sway and move. "I tire of this..." and as this voice within her mind spoke... "I tire of this..." as did Kujiro's physical form. Scytheress' body would begin to flail about and convulse involuntarily. More of her life, her energy, was being used to give strength to the shadow. And as it did, each and every tendril thickened suddenly. Jacob's efforts became like nothing, for as his ice began to spread over one of the tendrils, the many of them began to expand, the shadow beginning to cover his flesh, his body.

Chryos' orbs were no different, being so close to the tentacles, they couldn't help but come into contact with them, now that Chryos had led the tendrils in a circle around Kujiro. When the ice orbs came into contact with the tendrils of shadow, vein like cracks quickly surged over them before shadow enveloped their entire form. And in moments, they were taken into the tentacles, then simply...lost. The closer these tendrils came to one another, the more they began to bond with each other, at least the ones around Kujiro. They reached out to one another and began to meld in together, forming larger areas of shadow around Kujiro. And as they did, they began to surround him further, which about made Chryos' punch as useful as the ice spheres were. His fist would connect with shadow just as Tatsu's blade did earlier. And just as his blade met with the entrapment of shadow, as would Chryos own fist. But rather then the infection simply spreading like before, Chryos would be pulled in fiercely upon his fist coming into contact with the shadow. And at the same time, the larger tendril ends which were now bound to him by an insubstantial connection of his own energy.

At the very same time, Reaper would find herself in no better a situation. Her own tendrils intermixed with the shadow of his, and just like with Chryos' energy, the shadow rode the current of her energy to rush her. They were not bound in the same manner as they were to Chryos, or at least, not yet. All the same, they would use her own energy current and rush her, then spread over her body the same way they were doing to Jacob, had already done to Scytheress, and would soon begin to do to Chryos. The last thing was Erika, who continued to test Kujiro's patience by attempting to force a restraint on him with her mind. But he would not allow such a thing. Closing his eyes, Kujiro slowly brought his arms in front of his body, against the force that was delivered. As much as she put into this, Kujiro still held strong. His eyes slowly opened, though only enough to be like slits. "Away with you..." he spread his arms out quickly, his own mind creating a kind of backlash when he forced the pressure on his body to break. The surge would hit Erika's mind and bring a horrible pain to it, one that would cause her to feel as if her skull was being cracked apart. She was the only other variable, as Jacob, Chryos, and Reaper were set to be consumed in shadow.  

[Magus_sista]

She gritted her teeth in disbelief, he was forcing her own attack to expand then shoot right back at her ten fold. No one but one person had done this before to her and she knocked unconcious at that time for she did not break the connection in time and it hurt like hell. It felt like a chainsaw had been taken to her skull and was slowly severing away, slicing her in half and inflicting terrible pain. She did not fancy feeling this again, especialy not from someone who was stuck up.
No matter what happened next she had to break contact with him and quick before the backlash of energy hit her and seeing as he was now covered in black tendril there was no way she could get in for hand to hand to hand combat without risking her life. He was literaly surrounded by these things from head to toe, then something occured to her. They were all attacking straight on from he could see and anticpate there next move, but if they were to try a suprise attack from where he couldn't forsee then they might just stand a chance, and Erika knew exactly what she had to do.
quickly she broke the bond away from Kujiro, releasing the pressure from around him so that no backlash could be thrown back at her, most would say that it was a waste when in fact it was not. She had now a small oppurtunity to get a strike in. Smirking she drifted where she was with left over telekentic energy hanging around her, it needed somewhere to go and shew as going to use it as a mere distraction whilst she intiated her realy attack. She focused teh rest of the energy into her six metallic claws letting them build up as she focused her real attention on the earth underneath Kujiro, to be more precise the metal which lurked beneath his very feet, the one part which he hadn't quite protected. She could feel the metal lurking, she could sense it and felt her powers grab a hold of it and begin to draw it to the surface. All the metal that lingered beneath had began to collect and all it needed was one last psuh and it would peak right fom under Kujiro, forcing him to break from his powers so he could avoid it unless he wanted to get impaled.
There she was ready now, the left over energy had built in her claws and the metal beneath was ready to peak upon her command all she needed to do was execute her plan. Grinning she swung all six of claws in a swift vertical motion releasing the excess energy in six seperate waves that started to tear through everything it their path, heading straight towards Kujiro.
"I've had enough of playing...how about you?"
The energy waves were mere decoys for him so that he wouldn't notice where her main focus was. The metal gathering beneath his very feet, under the very earth he stood on, that was where her real attention was directed at so that when the time came to strike the metal that was being pulled from the earth would rise burning with immense heat ready to impale whoever stood in its path.

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[Nyanfood]

Rivera closed her eyes, smiled and watched the battle with her mind. It was growing interesting... She held the Kairyu close to her. "Brother... do you ever think that I will love a person?" The sword hummed, vibrating in a warmth that she took in with welcome. It was comfort, but she could feel the sword's indecisiveness. Priestesses better than her lost their right when they determined that they were to be human by loving another deeper than they could with the storm. "No... I don't think so. There is nothing to love so much but the storm." With the whisper to the Kairyu, Rivera raised her head and watched the battle with her eyes, brilliant emeral iciness tinted with gold sparks. The man had just spoken... she had taken an interest in his fighting skills.  

[Dosso]

He wandered off his feets lightly touching the ground as he went. Seeing the battle he decided there was no point in fighting battles he knew nothing about. He might try his best to help if there was truly someone's life at stake as he began to load the chambers of his revolver. "Damn, first day and I already might get hurt", he said sticking out his tongue slightly. While he loaded the last bullet he made sure that none of the incantations on them were damaged.  

[Moonduster]

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[Wrath_of_Chryon]

((sorry to jump Scy but I can't wait till later, Ill move it tommorow though if you want me to))

"Yuuuussaaaaaakkkeeee!"

Chryos called out to the unconscious man, his voice sounding more like a beast's roar than a human voice; though he wasn't really human anyways anymore... Feeling small bits of his own energy tailing him now, and a wall of complete darkness right in front of him, Chryos knew he'd have to act quickly. His fist opened up, the claws on his ice gauntlets now bursting into white flames, though cold not hot. With the outstretched hand he unleashed a wave of energy into the shadows with enough cold force to freeze through a diamond. ((Ever seen the old "raquetball trick" from the science fair? Normally the ball is quite hard to tear, break, anything really. Then they throw it in a bowl of liquid nitrogen, freeze it completely, and throw it against the wall. Then it shatters into a thousand pieces.)) His aim was to freeze a spot large enough to fit through and break through it and get out. It would be risky, but risk was better than death... Finally it began to discolor and Chryos knew he had a shot. With the other gauntlet he thrust forward into the wall of shadows, smashing a decent size hole through it. Flying through it began to close back around him, though he was up and out just as the homing tendril was about to strike it. He'd hoped it would stop and join the rest, but that was far from likely as well, so after going through he kept blasting and punching until he had a way into fresh air. He passed within a foot of Kujiro and ignored an attack all together, knowing it was just about pointless at the moment. As his final hole formed He dove up and out of the ball of shadows, screaming and throwing a large sheet of ice down under him to at least slow up the shades.

A jump would only take him so far though so Chryos began propel himself away with small controlled ki blasts, just enough to escape the range of shadow and get another running start. Blasting off his ice gauntlets and replacing them with a freshly frozen pair, he took off again to his own blistering pace stopping about twenty feet away, cutting back, and waiting for Kujiro's next strike in a ready stance. If he'd been followed again; this time, he'd be ready...and with this last turn of events...It became deathly clear that Chryos would not be able to skate through this one with out full power...

"Furios acrinom macretatsurion ichshirion CHRYOS!...

Chryos was mumbling something under his breath...each word sounding stranger and making less sense than the last, save the final two. He was reciting some sort of incantation it seemed, though as to its meaning that was quite unclear. The only real clue as to what it meant was the "Eye of Chryon." It now seemed to pulse with energy, more gathering around it, his own breath turning to puffs of steam...