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Homecoming Match, Kilik Vs Dory
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
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Post count: Know what? Just to be nice, let's boost you up to my level. Classes: Whatever you've got People: Just me and Kilik Setting: Alegrarse Temple Training room Did I miss anything? Fuck it, I'm in a hurry. Cupcakes are waiting to be baked, damnit. Xanthe could think of at least one hundred different places she would have preferred to have found herself in that exact moment. She could have been on the battle front somewhere, expanding the empire. She could've been in the pastures of Roft, teaching Zaire how not to leap for any and all blood that she saw. She could've been in the throne room, discussing politics with her concubines and learning all that she could about her new position. Hell, she could've been in her room, strumming away on some stringed instrument that vaguely resembled a guitar... but no. She was striding in to the training room, agitated, with her crossbow at her side. Malaya trailed behind her from a safe distance of two yards, eyes shifting this way and that-- the meeting hadn't been cleared by anyone, much less the battle. A battle she intended to end with death. How would it look? A new regent killing the first poor fool that had dared challenge her? Well, Xanthe didn't much care about that. She wasn't dealing with the first sword of the Empire and his games, and that was the part that mattered. "Where is he?" She demanded as she made her way in to the center of the room, cerulean eyes glancing sharply back toward her high priestess as she shifted, propping her mini-crossbow against her hip. "Is he late, or have we been lied to again?" Malaya shifted uncomfortably, slipping behind one of the many suits of armor the training room had to offer, and peeking back toward the door awkwardly. "I don't know." She whispered. She wasn't supposed to be there either. "The guard didn't tell me anything except that there was someone here to challenge you, my lady. Be careful... it may be an ambush."
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
Posts: 2,898
Member No.: 1,513
Joined: 13-November 07

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((Wowwww It's been so long since I've fought a mage. I almost forgot they existed. *cracks her fingers*)) ((Also... when did Kilik and Xanthe meet? o.0 Have I forgotten something from her first run through? Pretty sure she only lasted for one topic, there. You may be thinking Siran.))
Xanthe sighed, shuffling back a couple of steps as the thundaga hit the floor, sending her skin to tingle and her hair to frizz, but doing very little to actually pain her. A grand entrance. Playing. As Malaya threw herself further behind the armor, back pressed against the cold steel, the regent shook her head, fingertips of one hand combing through her hair.
"I've had enough of games." She called, almost pleadingly, though she wasn't sure how far her voice would make it through the chambers, much less how far she needed it to go. Shifting, she dropped the crossbow on the floor at her feet, and lifted her fingers to the bindings on the front of her Regents robe. The tunic beneath it was less than queenly, but if her opponent wasn't in front of her now, and Malaya wasn't screaming that he was somewhere hidden in a location similar to her own, he was above her. She would need her wings, and there was no point in ruining such finery. "Why don't you just tell me what it is you want, and we'll get this over with, hm?!"
As the robe dropped to pool at her feet, she tilted her head back, peering upwards in hopes of finding the figure.
"Or at least who you are? I'll need a name for your gravestone, after all!"
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-Dory |
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
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Her assassin? Her angel of death? It took very nearly every fiber of control within Xanthe's body to keep herself from snorting outright. What did this person know about the divine? What did they know about angels or demons? Though, as the Blizzaga began to swirl around the room, she thought again-- The girl may well have been delusional, but she also had talent. The walls and armor froze over, hail threatening to pelt in to her, but as she lifted a hand, batting away most of it like ping pong balls with tiny pushes, she kept herself mainly out of fire.
A flair for the dramatic. She lifted an eyebrow as the figure placed herself before her, asking if she recognized her yet with a voice that was more than likely meant to be frightening. It probably would have been, too... if she had the right person.
"Nope." She answered airily, eyes lifting to trace the sense of the wall she could feel but not see, before she shook her head, and her wings burst from her back, pristine white feathers edged with obsidian. "But you should probably figure out what you're talking about before you go attacking people.
Clenching her hand, she shifted her focus, changing push in to evocation as she caught the balls of hail to hover around her, gathering before the cylinder of ice rose around her, dissintigrating(sp) again in to little chunks of ice, which she pelted at him rather carelessly from over the wall.
((Ummm... I think we planned on having that happen, and then it never did because she never got out of her little cult spot and I wound up scrapping her for Amitiel.))
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
Posts: 2,898
Member No.: 1,513
Joined: 13-November 07

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As the ice disappeared mid hurl, Xanthe ignored the comment about the woman being a weaker and more sickly male-- as it didn't particularly matter-- but the statement that she looked like her aunt got to her.
Really got to her.
Bad.
Just like that, she was in motion, kneeling to retrieve her crossbow before she leapt in to the air, letting displace carry her higher before her wings caught her well above the sparkling feathers, and sent her in to an awkward spin. As she flipped upside down, the bolts slipped from her tunic pockets, but she caught one as she began to right herself, slamming it in to the crossbow's chamber and jerking back the cord to hook it manually against the clip. As her feet caught the support beams, she flapped her wings once more, bracing herself against it, and firing the bolt in the direction from which the glittering feathers had come.
Even then, she didn't stop moving. With a sharp kick, she pushed herself away from the foundation, dropping her crossbow and stretching her gauntleted arms before her, the metal parts beneath her fingers flipping out, and sharpening in to claws.
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
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((Ey-- if I remember correctly, you have SOME kind of im. What was it? xD))
Malaya's back slammed against the back of yet another suit of armor as icy spikes jutted from the floor, and she shivered, wrapping her arms around herself. Her eyes skittered upwards toward the man who grasped the helmet, thinking it had been her to begin with. She was not in what one would call a "Safe" position... then again, she never was anymore. It was the one dual edged sword of falling under Xanthe's rule. Life was interesting... and always in peril.
"Slippery bitch..." Xanthe muttered, voice gutteral as she stopped her drill-like approach, and spun again, eyes glowing with energy as she sensed for the source of the blizzaga that had stretched below her. Head turning as she found it, she glared first at the helmet, and then at the pendant the woman was clutching.
The corner of her lips twitched upwards, and she beat her wings once, twice, lifting her high enough to rest on one of the rafters. She held on to it with one hand, leaning herself over it perilously as she pointed one clawed figure at this 'Kira'.
"Why don't we stop with the games?!" She called, rocking back and forth off of the rafter as her wings fluttered above her. "You don't stand a chance and you -fucking- know it!"
As she focused, the helmet in his hand began to melt.
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
Posts: 2,898
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Joined: 13-November 07

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((Argh.. I was trying to get the bbq conversation somewhere a little quicker.))
Xanthe grinned slightly as the metal scalded the woman's hand, and pushed herself away from the rafter, letting her wings act as a sort of parashoot as she shifted to the one behind her, and then the one behind that.
As the iced over helmet slammed against her previous grounding, the gauntlets slipped from her hands, stretching in to a metal wall that caught the onslaught of lightning, charging even as she took the blast of cold. She almost wished she was still outside-- the stinging burn of ice would have been little more than a refreshment in the desert, but as things were, she had little other choice.
As frost edged at her skin, she bit down on her lower lip, and focused instead on the floor beneath her. She needed that ice to melt. Shaking her head, and keeping small behind the cover of charged metal (Who knows, maybe her opponent would think her to be dead?) she thought over her situation.
And then sent a hefty push in to the ceiling.
As the glass shattered under the force, the full beams of the Hassan sun rained down on the icy floor, bringing it to water fairly quickly. Closing her eyes, she counted to five, praying Malaya would find some way out of the way, and pushed the metal, to the floor, slipping it with alchemy back toward her the instant after it had touched the water, already transforming it back in to the gauntlets from which it had come.
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
Posts: 2,898
Member No.: 1,513
Joined: 13-November 07

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Malaya screamed as she found herself taken off guard, brought close to the strange enemy's body. Xanthe's body arched almost inhumanly, fingers spreading outward again as the gauntlets reformed around her hands, wrists, and forearms. The magi was going up, through the hole she had made in the ceiling.
She was in -so- much trouble. Then again, she had warned the emperor that she might have enemies... hadn't she?
"Malaya!" She called sharply as the concubine turned priestess writhed within her confines, hands gripping at the one wrapped around her neck before the Regent's voice caught her ears, and the Magi's wings opened for just long enough for her to see the woman. She nodded once, curtly in memory, before her body stilled, and she closed her eyes, letting her arms droop down to her sides.
As Xanthe stood, the younger woman's wrists jerked to wedge between herself and her captor. The gauntlets that matched her Regents, otherwise hidden by her priestess gown, joined then, as though they were full arm shackles, before they exploded outward, toward Kira's stomach.
((I feel like I'm godmoding here... but I'm really not. >.< Look at Malaya's profile, the gauntlets are there.))
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He's a Satyr, like Pan. No, not the flying gay one. Ba~ah

Group: Summoner
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(no need i have trust in you) The explosion of steel thrust through his intestines the force of the impact forced kiliks hand through Malaya's neck almost decapitating her on spot but the force of electricity sent through her caused her flesh to burn the smell was welcoming to Kilik. The metal asorbed the electricity and sent it back through Kilik's body which was a strange sensation for him. The burns almost welded himself to Malaya and his wings opened he wasn't going down by himself. He wielded what energy was left as darkness crept in his vision and forced Xanthe to come towards him using the affinity of the wind that swept through him. It was much to late as darkness crept further leaving a pinprick of vision in his right eye. A single intake of air. "Xanthe..." He couldn't bring it to himself to finish and in his mind's eye the runes he held in the deepest recessess of his mind since the beginning of the burst forth in place of any word he could have spoken. His Body was now a conducter of pure electricity and the rune was his aid. One last rasping breath. With that final breath he exploded sending the pure arcane to cleanse the room. The electricity hit the water and the suits of armor were just beacons of pure conductors. He opened his eyes and he was the final purity of arcane energy he overtook everything and forced himself at Xanthe. He didn't plan on killing her now... Not now that he was pure arcane energy he planned on infusing everything that he was with Xanthe. Survival of the fittest... (Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did and sorry if I Godmodded which this post does kinda feel like... IDK Its up to you how Xanthe takes the last of the damage but the armor and water is both electric prone  )
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The heart of the hustle: to use the mind as a muscle

Group: Roleplayer Enforcers
Posts: 2,898
Member No.: 1,513
Joined: 13-November 07

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((Indeed. Twas fun.))
As the electricity and pain coursed through her, Malaya's head dropped, chin brushing against her chest as she fell unconscious, and Xanthe found herself pulled toward the pair, wind catching her wings like the parashoot she had used them as before. She let it happen, jerking her like nothing more than a ragdoll toward the pair, and wrapped her arms around the girls head, careful to couch only her.
She teleported.
There was no telling what happened in the training room from that moment on, as the Regent lay her high priestess across the center of thirteen thrones, fingertips brushing her eyes closed as her lips pressed against her forehead. For once, the throne room was empty, and she could only be but so glad. Who was there to help her? Surely the lord Archivad would simply laugh, perhaps make some comment on the uselessness of whores, but as she rose, she would have been glad to have seen even him.
"Healer!" She barked, voice echoing through the halls, pivoting to glare at the door to the entrance hall, before she looked toward Malaya again, brushing the crimson hair from her scortched neck. "Someone! Find me a goddamned healer!"
She didn't know the cause of this, but what she did know was that whatever was left of the decimated Magi would eventually come to be destroyed. No one harmed her friends, as few of them as they were. No one.
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