"HE CAN TAKE THAT ENERGY WITHIN HIM! CAREFUL!" Takaros jumps back and catches the dark rune in the middle of the air. He had just finnally fully taken Taio's form. "Form COMPLETE! UNPROTECT!" Takaros yells. He pulls out one of his astral weapons. His choice was the sword. Takaros then begins to charge something into his sword...
Taio's energy double began to glow with a bright light, he was about to explode! Taio tried to get up, but Shajde kept him and the energy double down. The double exploded, and made a loud BOOM! The rest of the warriors were pressed back a bit from the explosion, but they were ok. The smoke started to clear. Of course, the energy double was gone. Taio could be seen, but with a new injury. His right arm was blasted from Jareth, but now, his right leg was torn up badly, and the side of his head had scratches. Taio yelled in pain for just a minor second. Taio stood up.
"####, Shajde, I have to admit, that was pretty good strategy, and you got me beat up badly. You are a great fighter, and I admire you for that. I think you're the strongest female fighter that I have seen through my years, you're even stronger that most of the male fighters out there. I am hurt because of your strategy, but I'm able to fight on. Wait a minute! Where is Shajde?"
Taio looked around for Shajde. What happened to her?
Takaros looks around, "What happened?" He walks a little bit, getting used to this form, then turns to face Taio. "You look pretty torn up there Taio. Ahh.. what happened to Shajde?"
Having taken as much of the blast's force as Taio, Shajde was thrown nearly two hundred yards away to plummet into the unforgiving ground below. Rather than making a dent in the ground, she seemed to roughly bounce, flopping and rolling across the ground for a few feet before coming to a stop in a position that suggested death, were her breathing not visible to the other fighters even from their distance; a sort of slight motion to her figure.
The sneak attack had done its damage well. She survived her part in the gambit, but it had torn through much of the front of her body, really wounds that looked more damaging than they were, skin and muscle damage mostly and she now lay nearly unconscious on the crumpled grass.
Maybe...won't try...that again...soon... she thought, the hint of a smile sneaking over her face.
"Shajde, what happened to you! Let me heal you. I'm not making fun of your power, but please use the earth rune, it will power you up more than you are now. I'm not insulting your power, I know how strong you are, but take my adivce this turn round. One more thing, Curest Light!"
Romku bent down towards Shajde. Little stars of energy floated thruogh the air. The stars started to go into Shajde's wounds. The wounds were healed, but the pain still existed.
"That should help for now. Taio, it's my turn! Satellite Combo and Renzoku Ring combine attacks!"
Romku made a blue energy portal infront of him. Romku jumped into the portal and dissapeared. Taio had no idea what was going on, until Romku reappeared behind his back and dealing him a dropkick to his back. When Romku got out of the portal, he had two energy discs with him. He threw them at Taio, hitting him in the back again. Romku now made a blue ring of energy infront of him. Romku blasted all of his attacks into the portal, any energy attack, spell, or other attack went into the portal. Romku yelled.
"Renzoku Ring close and vanish!"
Romku closed the portal and sent in inside the ground.
"What did you do that for Romku? Are you afraid of me?"
"Taio, I'm saving that move for later. This turn, I'm unleashing my new lighting attack. My lightning spirit just got to level 2 and I'm ready to show you my new attack. Lightning spirit, come and grant me your power!"
Romku started to change. His hair turned yellow, his clothes turned orange, and his aura turned yellow. Romku was blasting with new found power because of the spirit's upgrade.
"Bolt Fury!"
Romku started to gather all of his lightning energy. Romku launched energy into the air. The new energy started to cause severe lightning. This lightning was different. This lightning was using Romku's lightning energy for the power. The bolts struck the arena, then they all struck Taio at once. Taio was electricuted, but then an explosion occured. As always, smoke covered the arena. Was Taio finally defeated?
The bolt struck Taio with fierce energy. After the smoke cleared, Taio was found with a new injury. Taio's right hand was torn up because it was the hand he blocked the attack with. Taio was getting more angry with every attack that was dealt to him.
"Fierce Life!"
Taio had dark energy surrounding him. It covered all of Taio's injuries, and healed them, and getting rid of the pain. Taio was like a new warrior, ready to fight!
"Romku my friend, your friends are getting beat, and you're trying to beat me. Sorry Romku, but you stand no chance against me. I wonder. I have an idea. To show my true power to you, I'll let all 4 of your friends hit me with their best shot, and we'll see who is the true warrior around here, unless they're too hurt to go on, like Jareth and Shajde. Hit me with your best shot fools, show Romu how strong I really am!"
Taio lifted his hand, and made a "bring it on" sign with his hand. What would Romku's friends do?
Sage had gone over to Shajde when she had landed from the sacrifice move she had made. He was begining to get pissed off at Taio, especially for hurting a close friend. But before he got up and attacked he let Romku have his turn, which had only scathed Taio's right hand. The man used a spell of darkness and revitalizied himself to peak condition, and began to mock Sage's injured allies. Up until now, Sage was hardly in the fight, since Taio only made advances on Romku and those who protected him. Shajde was attack due to her being in combat up close and personal, but he, the winged fellow off to the side, was not really fighting. He was completly up to speed health wise.
Taio made a harsh comment and beckoned for the warriors to fight. Sage stepped forward by himself.
"Leave them out for this round, its my turn." The young Windian stated, drawing his Katana out and tossing down his sheath. He folded his wings back and out of nowhere flew forward, inches above the ground. He lashed out at Taio at an incredible speed, wind rolling off and over his sleek blade. After the first series of attacks he spun off to the side and suddenly grew an aura set of wings over his metalic blue wings. He readied his sword as Taio rushed him and Sage suddenly shot forward at the speed of sound.
"Pheonix.......ha!" he broke right into Taio and past him, whipping out his blade at the last minute, leaving a nice slash on Taio's left arm. Right after Sage flew by tho, his enemy was washed over in a wave of flames. He quickly landed from the attack and spun on one foot, anchoring himself to the ground and letting out his strongest spell, Typhoon, at Taio.
"Little egotistical freak." he said, not even breaking a sweat. He got in a bent stance and awaited a counter attack.
Jareth looks at taio who had been sorunded in flames then at his new leg and the rest of the group. "shajde thank you" jareth spoke aloud, "taio sunaki i will not conceed i will fight untill you or i die." Jareth pulls out a his dule schimitars and yells "Kinsi transformation" Jareth hair turns ice blue and his cloths turn orange he then starts to spin his swords at an unfathimable speed. sheathing his swords jareth leaps up at taio who is still sorunded by flames jareth flys starit threw the fire and starts to deal him punch upon punch in the gut and face jareth then uses kickstrom and kicks taio 18 times sending him starit to the ground jareth gets out of the fire ring and waits for taios next attack.
((Taio asked for my best shot? Well, then, this is going to take a while...))
Shajde's laughter was quiet, a dark chuckle. Even so, it carried across the field of battle as though it were a part of the wind, sending shivers through the bones of the men fighting on. She had retrieved the earth rune from its location of safety the moment she could move, thanks to Romku's healing. Crushing it in her hand, the rune's dust coated her with a fine layer of silver sand. Her quiet chuckling grew louder and loftier until it was almost a shouting. It ended abruptly, as though it had never begun, and her green eyes fixed on her enemy across the field.
You are a fool, Taio Sunaki!! The wind around her ceased its natural currents, beginning instead to circle around the glowing woman standing alone. Air pressure quickly built and carried loose dirt and stone up from the ground, making the tight cyclone surrounding Shajde a visible gold and silver screen in constant motion, a rippling wave of earth and wind. Inside, Shajde's eyes began to shine like twin suns, flaring outward as deep bronze beacons. The runes covering her skin flashed in unison, her last point to charge, and she roared, calling her power to her.
The ground shook with horrifying power. Cracks split and raced outward away from Shajde in nine directions, light leaking out from beneath the earth through the cuts made into it. The lights were prisms, each color of the rainbow and more, the blue green of the seas, the golds and fiery reds of falling leaves, the bright greens and browns of evergreens, the myriad hues of the many flowers of Earth, the layered blacks and greys of onyx. The cracks ended at thirty meters, new breaks forming between their tips to form a great star of summoning (in this case, used to summon pure energy).
As the star closed, a great flash came from the cyclone rising at the center of it. Shajde's hair seemed to burst into green flames, snapping the clasps braiding it back and rising around her in the wind, flowing like water and snapping as the tongues of a blazing fire. Overhead, the clouds that had been few, whispy, and white now were appearing in great number, smearing together into a great grey mass as though some divine painter, unsatisfied with his work, had wiped his hand across the canvas to create an all-encompassing storm of grey and shadow. Small white lines cut across one cloud to another, gathering together into larger white lines, eventually streaking earthward with a loud crack and a dull boom of thunder. The massive bolt picked Shajde off of her feet to fly nearly twenty feet off of the ground. She seemed angelic in that moment, clothed in light and shadows, surrounded by her earth's energy. The moment passed, and the force of the lightning blast flew outward in a ring of concussion.
Never, her voice thrumming with energy, under any circumstance, her hands sparking, bursting into flames, simply "allow", the flames becoming light, the light smoke, the smoke life, the life death, your opponents, the death seeming to call to the assembled warriors, promising them rest, to fight no more, to strike you, and even before it spoke they knew it was a lie, with, and still they loved and believed it, tears shining in their eyes, their best!!! The wind dissipated, and Shajde fell to earth on her feet, still glowing with all that defines existence.
HOPE OF THE EARTH
Her words reverberated through the earth as though it were air, through the air as though it were earth, shattering invisible stone and dirt alike as the force of them blasted across the men before her. In moments, the lifeforce of all that existed on the Earth was shared with her, sparing her all the energy that could be sent without causing death in other. All of this glowed above her to the right. At the same time, all that had ever existed and been destroyed, the living that now were dead, the stone that had been crumbled into water, the sands melted to glass, all that was forever changed, this too came at her call and became a great force of death above and to her left.
The calling complete, Shajde closed her eyes, floating up to hover between the two massive powers, one a faint green blue, the other a shifting mass of greys. She reached out her hands and, touching softly to each side, was joined by the enormous energy stored within them. The light of a new star filled the sky, blinding any who had been watching (and who had been watching anything else?). For hundreds of miles in any direction, the starlight could be seen as a great white beacon streaking up into the sky, a shining pillar of virtue and balance, purity and justice.
When the light faded and the warriors could see again, Shajde was standing only inches from Taio. Snatches of lightning crackled over her skin, which was as hardened as the packed earth beneath the surface of the world. Her eyes scorched their target with the flames of a planet's heart while her hair flowed around both her and her enemy, green rivers thrown about in a hurricane wind. Without a word, she lashed out, catching him around the neck and shoulder in her hands, and embraced him, placing a soundless kiss on his forehead.
The shockwave from the blast threw the other warriors up and away from the coupled pair. It felt as though a great boom or crackling should have accompanied the surging explosive force of the technique, but there was not a sound to be heard. Only the great darkness and bright light that swirled around the place where they knew Taio and Shajde stood moments before. The Power of Hope.....no one could survive that.....?!?
Taio dug into the thoughts of his mind. He didn't know such good opponents would make their appearence in this world. He never knew what true powers everyone had. After the fierce combo of moves from Sage, Shajde, Romku, Jareth, and Takaors. Taio was blown away, blasting him through mountain upon mountain with fierce energy. Taio hit the last mountain hard, causing him to cough up blood before he hit the ground. Taio's body was completely torn up. His upper body bled with many cuts and bruises. His legs were torn up and bloody. His face was covered with small cuts. It seemed like a puddle of blood surrounded him. Taio coughed and started to speak.
"You warriors...I have to say...are very powerful...more than I expected. I have to say that ecause of you...I have to pull off my greatest move. But first, I need to heal. FIERCE LIFE!"
Taio was healed, back to his peak condition.
"If you guys can at least block this move, I don't know what I'll do. This move is my greatest ever, even 100 times more powerful than the explosion of my energy double. Let's see if you can take the ultimate power of the dark side. Hyaa!"
Taio floated in the air, bolt of dark energy striked around him. The skies turned midnight black, and the ground glowed with dark power. It was like darkness controlled the Earth. Taio's eyes glowed with dark energy. His hair was covered with bolts of dark energy.
"ULTIMA CANNON! DESTROY THIS WORLD AND EVERYONE THAT EXISTS!"
Taio made a giant, dark ball of energy, but knowing Takaros would try to absorb it, he automatically converted the dark energy to neutral energy. Taio made the giant ball of energy, it was now the size of about 1/8 of the Earth itself. The ball bolted with energy, causing storms across the land where they were fighting. Taio launched the ball towards the warriors. Would this power completely anhiliate everyone on Earth?
Romku feels the giant ball of energy clash towards him, but now he remembers the Renzoku Ring that is still in the ground. Romku resummons the Renzoku Ring.
"EVERYONE! THE ONLY WAY WE CAN COUNTER THIS MOVE IS FOR ALL OF US TO UNLEASH OUR GREATEST ATTACK, BUT FIRE IT TOWARDS THE RENZOKU RING! THEN I'LL COMBINE OUR GREATEST MOVES FOR OUR FINAL ENERGY BLAST, I'LL ADD MY LAST RESORT MOVE, AND COMBINE, AND FIRE IT! I KNOW WE CAN WIN, BUT I NEED YOUR HELP NOW! PLEASE, IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THIS EARTH, FIRE YOUR GREATEST MOVE IN THE RENZOKU RING!"
The blue ring came out of the ground and appeared infront of Romku. Will the others help him out for this last resort move?!
The ground around her screamed in the torturous darkness forced upon it. The Earth was in pain. Shajde showed no emotion, her power still glowing around her. The grass for a few feet around her retained its healthy green color, but beyond that was darkness and despair.
Her massive charge had hardly been spent on her last attack. Most of the power had been borrowed from other lives and deaths. It could not truly be replicated, but copied....
Echohce, she intoned. Her body blazed brightly for a few moments as the enchantment recalled the last attack she had used, and the full power of the Earth's Hope was returned. This time, rather than direct transferrence, she poured the energy into the form of a great sphere of energy and threw it up to Romku's Renzoku Ring. Let him use the power if he felt it would help. She had to worry about protecting her world.
Unsure of her ability to defend against attacks, though she knew she could destroy easily most anything with nearly half of her power available to her, she instead chose a retaliatory preparation. Kneeling, she settled her hands over the grassy surface of the earth. Small streams of green light reached out like transparent vines, slowly wrapping around her arms and up over her body. Empathetic Atonement, she whispered. She was drawn down to the earth, true vines coming forth to entwine themselves around her. She would become part of the Earth's soul. If the Ultima Cannon succeeded in reaching the world, she would take the full force of the attack into herself. At the same time, the power of atonement would channel her pain back up toward the entity which caused it, effectively firing Taio's attack back at him with the power of Earth behind it.
It wasn't that she didn't trust the power of her companions, she just wanted to make sure Taio's threat would end here and now. Her eyes became a deep, rich brown, and her thoughts were gone. She could only wait, now.
Sage didn't really have a strongest move, so he shot a series of two spells into the Renzoku Ring. A few Sirocco's and Typhoon's later he landed next to where Shajde had vanished, planting his feet on the ground. If the attack got through he would try to destroy it before it hit the earth.
"Come through for us Romku.......I believe in you." he said, sheathing his sword.
Jareth looked at romku and then at taio jareth then fired a giant fire egale with a 50 foot wing span, jareth jumped on the back of the bird and sent it to he rensoku ring jareth lept off and landed by romku. jareth watched as his bird melded with the rensoku ring and jareth then fired his flame chaion assult right at the ring and watch as they also were taken up like matter in a black hole. "i hope this works" jareth spoke silently to himself. jareth prepared another attack that could kill him if he was off his mark.\n\n
