Saikazo

Raynor gritted his teeth as he stood, the assault of dual weapons and magic doing a number on his body. However, he refused to show any weakness. He refused to fall again. He gripped his lance and stared down the three.

"That all you got?!" He called out, ready to go on the offensive again. However, an exchanged happened that inwardly relieved the Jouran.

"Men, fall back!" The commander of the enemy cried out, causing Raynor to grin victoriously.

"Yeah, you better run!" Raynor called out as the enemy backed away from them.

"Falcons. Stand down and move back." 

That... That made sense. Frankly, he needed the time to recover anyways.

 "I can try to work on Raynor as we move! We don't want to give them a chance to change their minds."

"Hey, don't worry about me! I barely have a scratch on me! Let's just get outta here before anything worse can happen, yeah?" Raynor gave a confident smile despite the pain he felt. It was more important that everyone got out of here. He directed Gojira over to Edda. "Need a lift?" He asked.

"I would assume that will suffice for the time being?" To be honest, Sieg didn't know. He talked big about helping out, but... he didn't actually know how to train people. Right now, he was trying to prioritize his protection targets, and Alex here managed to get himself off the "absolutely helpless" list and onto the "should be able to handle himself" one instead.

"Sure, I suppose that's---,"

“That’s it? Hey!” Sieg sighed to himself as he heard a voice call out to them. “You’re just going to throw a punch and then talk about it for a bit? That’s not- that’s not why I invited everyone here, you know. I said something like, ‘Oh, if you want to come fight,’ and then I went all the way up there to get a good view and it’s like, I wouldn’t have done any of that if it was just going to be, like, a slap to the chest and that’s it.”

The bird began to whisper into the girl's ear, perhaps to tell her what to say next. He really couldn't figure out what kind of Jaeger they were. “Frog boy and I had this whole thing, too,” she said. “Like, there was a chase and there was fancy flying and some brilliant magic involved if say so myself.” She gestured at Tricky. “I mean, you agree with me, right? I don’t know if you do any of that, but, I don’t know, this stuff?” She mimed a punch. “I know we don’t want to kill each other just yet but it seems like a waste of time, don’t you think? Your time, if not mine.”

"Quite right girl. If you boys are going to have a little wrestling match I suggest you go full force and get to it, at the very least make it a spectacle to watch. I mean you don't want your teammates to think all your capable of is some gentle shoving do you? Make it flashy for us!"

Sieg sighed, rubbing the back of his head with his right hand. "Sorry...," He apologized softly. "I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding. My power's hard to control, so I had to make sure I knew Alex's limits before I did anything too flashy. But... if it's flashy training you all want...," He walked behind Alex.

Training Begins

"Then flashy training all three of you shall receive," He then gave the beast a forceful shove, pushing him back towards Robin. The dragon slayer then took a stance, spreading out both his legs, placing one hand in front of his forehead and the other in front of his waist. He took a deep breath, beginning to trace a large circle in front of him until his hands switched positions. As he did, his hands began to glow, and a sort of large energy ball formed in the very center of the circle. The energy itself looked wild and unrefined, like it was trying to escape from Sieg's grasp and let loose in the entire room.

Sieg gritted his teeth and began to bring his hands closer to each other, slowly but surely compressing the energy into a basketball sized sphere of crackling energy. The dragon slayer found himself wishing he had brought his sword this time, as it was easier for him to channel energy through it, but he would have to work with what he had.

"Dragon's Cannon!" he yelled as he thrust his hands forwards, firing the ball with such force that there was a blast of wind from the attack's launch. As the energy ball flew through the air, Sieg took another breath of air, this time focusing his energy into his legs. He crouched down, and then took off like rocket, leaping into the air high enough that his head scraped against the ceiling, leaving a dent in the floor. He soon fell back towards the ground, arms raised above his head, ready to slam them into the ground the moment he landed.

Time to see who needed protected.

Shiro wasn't sure what to expect when they emerged from the hole in the ground, but it seemed to be some sort of... place of worship? There were pews and a giant statue... he supposed that this was a place that the humans gathered to pray to their gods. But why would there be a hidden passage leading all the way over here in the first place? That didn't make much sense to him.

Everyone went their separate ways, some examining the statue, which Shiro decided to do as well. However, he decided his method of searching would be a little more direct. He carefully grabbed onto the statue and began to climb up it, aiming to get to the top and look around it, to see if there was anything hidden out of sight on its back. He also took the time to note how dusty the statue was. If it was really dusty, that would imply people haven't been here for a while, but if it wasn't, there obviously people had been here and cleaning it recently. He only hoped he found some important clues.

I was lost in thought as I processed the info Archer gave me. So much so I almost missed the others about to leave. "Oh yeah, guys, important update," I call out. "There's a house in a graveyard that seems abandoned, but a mage is setting up shop there. Also, Archer's stuck in a binding trap at said house. In fact, lemme take care of that," I raise my hand, sighing that I had to use a Command Seal, but I didn't want Archer to get caught now. One Command Seal now to save too many headaches in the future."By my Command Seal, I order you Archer to come by my side!"

When we got to the house, I considered Berserker's master's words. "Hmm... I don't think we can just sneak up... But I might be able to sneak in," I say. "You all want to take that chance?"

"Sai...every time you say that, I get worried," Rightly so, honestly, but Sai wasn't going to let that get him down. "The first time you said that, the idea you had was great. I mean hell, the idea of utilizing pyrotechnics in the manner you had for a grand opening in your one Duel last year was amazing." It really was amazing, if he said so himself. He even made it so his wrists could fire out sparkles. It was cool. Souji then began to sigh, before rubbing the bridge of his nose. "...the last time you said you were inspired, it was just bad...terrible even. I mean, technicolor dream coat for the headmaster, when you can tell they happen to be colorblind?"

With a slight shake of his head, Souji sighed again. "...however, I am your friend, so I'll indulge you...since you seemed to be on a roll after you got Kyouko's design. So, what's the idea this time?"

"Okay, okay, so this time, the idea is for you," Sai commented as he let go of Souji's shoulders. "Okay, so you know how you play E-Heroes and they're tokusatsu as hell? Well, any good tokusatsu protagonist gets a suit upgrade, and some of the more recent ones get transforming suits. So, that's what I'm going to make you, a transforming suit!" He smiled proudly before tapping his chin. "Wait, wait, lemme pitch what I got so far," He ran out of the bathroom, diving onto his bed, reaching over to the other side of it and grabbing some empty Duel Disk cases. "Okay, okay, imagine this," He said as he quickly strapped a case on his waist and one of his wrist. "So, Imma make a custom Duel Disk, right? Make your belt the graveyard while you have an otherwise normal duel disk, right?" He then pulled out three cards from his own deck, slapping two in the Monster Zone. He then struck a pose.

"Now, I use Polymerization to fuse Whatitsname and Whocares!" Sai preformed, doing his best impression of Souji. "Now, by combining the powers of forgetfulness and apathy, I call forth a new power!" He picked up all three cards , placing them down into his belt. "Whatitsname! Whocares! Fusion Summon is a go!" Sai now made his voice sound like an announcer, one excited for the events despite how silly it all looked. "Henshin!" He called out as Souji once more, pulling an imaginary lever on the belt. "Don'tgotaname!" He then finally struck one final dramatic pose, before slipping back to normal and using his own normal voice.

"And then your costume transforms into a form that resembles the fusion monster you summoned," He explained as he took off the duel case on his waist. "I think if all goes according to plan, and if I don't get distracted, I can have this done by next week. Whatcha think, Souji?"

The day of the Kickoff was a productive day for Sai, as evident by the mountain of waded papers by his desk. He had went through a mountain of ideas for Melissa's costume, but some of them weren't right. Sadly, he only got about half a notebook worth's of ideas before Souji came home from the Kickoff. It seemed Kyouko had some ideas for her costume. It was actually much more detailed than he expected, but, still, it awoke something in him.

He was inspired.

So he worked through the night, sketching out some more ideas, before deciding to work on a prototype headpiece for the costume itself. It took most of the night, but he finished it. He wasn't sure if it would fit on Kyouko though, as he didn't have her exact measurements. He would also have to make adjustments to make sure she could see and the like. Still, he had finished it.

But the creative beast inside him was not quelled. He needed to do more, create more, to...

He needed to improve Souji's costume. And he had just an idea of how it could work. He would need to get a working prototype running though, since this idea was a difficult one. It was probably the most elaborate idea he had yet. He kept working... until the next thing he knew, he woke up to the noises of Souji getting ready for the day. without hesitation, he rushed over to his friend, wide eyed and hyped up despite just waking up.

"Souji Souji Souji!!" Sai called out as he dashed to his room mate, skidding to a stop behind him and grabbing him by the shoulders, spinning him around and looking him dead in the eye. The next three words were a warning to Souji, as they were always followed by Sai's best, and worst ideas.

"I was inspired!"

The man Akira was not happy. Worst part was that it was all his own damn fault. Yesterday, he had been running super late. He couldn't find Katsu anywhere, and frankly, he understood why. She was probably very busy. So he was late for the exhibition duel, but he did see it, and by God it was beautiful. Yushiro finished it off beautifully.

Akira would have went to congratulate him, but it seemed Yushiro wanted to celebrate with Elizabeth. That was fine, the Man was patient, he could wait... well, he would, but something would prevent that. The man was hit by a wave of nausea and threw up in a trash can, away from others. He couldn't believe it. He was sick, he, the Man Akira! He wasn't one to get sick, so he was dropped like a ton of bricks by this. He went home, laying down and hoping to sleep it off.

Sleeping it off did work, and he woke up in a sweat covered bed, feeling much better. He went through his morning routine of exercise, jogging down the path to school. As he did, he texted his friend.

From: AkiraTHEMAN

To: THEMANYUSHIRO

Vigorous Right Fist Fukuryu is a kickass name. The Man Akira is proud.

Draw a loli in a raincoat.

Well, there was a bit of good news, and a bit of bad news. The good news was that the group could in fact handle the people that they currently were dealing with. The bad news was that more people were coming, and that could spell bad news for everyone else if they were flanked. They would need to funnel them, have them focus on one spot and pick them off instead of letting them overwhelm the others.

"Oy! You all wanted a Jouran? Well come and get me! Unless you're too cowardly to face me like warriors?!" He taunted to the approaching group as he attacked the Iron Sword wielding cavalier from earlier with his lance. "C'mon, show me the strength of your precious Rastarn!" he took a deep breath, preparing for the fight ahead. Now wasn't the time to falter. Now he needed to be stronger than ever!

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The duels Zirco and Tora had while Shannon dueled were easy enough. Despite being the backbone of this city's martial law, they went down rather easily. However... it wasn't without loss. When Tora landed her final blow, the Security officer wasn't happy about it, and they rammed their D-Wheel into hers. It caused her to crash, the D-Wheel crashing on top of her. 

Zirco stopped, picking up her bike and looking at her leg. It didn't look so good, in fact, despite not being a doctor, Zirco could tell a leg was not supposed to bend that way. So he picked her up, placing her on his back and taking her back outside the city, back to Gil and the van. They had to get her medical attention. It didn't take long for Gil to get Tora loaded and secured, before driving off. Seemed they would be on their own for a while.

Zirco turned around and headed back to the city. However, instead of heading higher up into the city, he kept low below the streets, down in the underbelly. This made sense for a place to look, right? He turned on the radio again, reaching out to Shannon and Jet.

"Yo, it's Zirco. We beat those cops, but Tora broke her leg when one of those bastards were a sore loser and made her wreck her D-Wheel. Gil's taking her to get medical attention. So... yeah, tell me you got better news,"

As the three talked, they could hear the sound of tires squealing outside of the stadium. Someone was leaving. The odds of them catching the peeping tom were very low, but it was obvious. Now was not the time to stay still, unless more people get the stadium soon.

The group had decided to take the two people up on their offer, which the girl herself was very pleased about. The two lead them outside of the Arena, heading to a nearby alley. The girl hummed to herself as she swung her sleeves around.

"Hey, hey, Not-Octopus," She said. "How do you think we should summon Dread Knight? The easy way or the fun way?"

"How about no way?" The boy muttered. "This is stupid and they're all stupid for wanting to do this,"

"Well, since you're being no fun, the fun way it is!" She said before suddenly pointing ahead. It looked as if there was two people trying to break into a house. "Oh, oh, let's us them!" She called out, revealing a gun under her sleeve. She ran ahead, confronting the two burglars. "Oh, what a catch!" She said in a loud and dramatic voice. "We got ourselves a bunch of suckas, thinkin' we don't know what they are!" The boy sighed and held up both hands, showing he wielded two guns.

"Now we can... do justice, or something," The boy muttered, obviously not into it like the girl.

"Yeah, yeah, all we gotta do is pump 'em full of lead and be on our way!" The girl said.

""Ey, what the hell are you all doin'?" The burglar snapped, pulling out his own gun. "Don't try to butt into our business! We'll pump ya full of lead, got it?" However, before a firefight could break out, knee deep fog began to roll into the area, the sky turning black as night. "Ah, hell naw. We need to get the hell outta here," One of the criminals muttered. The girl and boy simply fell onto their backs, disappearing into the fog. The two criminals turned towards the Signer group to try to run, but... before they could... the sounds of footsteps echoed through the area.

The two criminals froze, fear etched on their face as they took a step back. Suddenly, the group would feel a presence... and see someone decked out in black armor and cloak slip past all of them, silently walking past them, not touching one of them as he made his way to the culprits. One raised his gun, firing off a few rounds, the sounds of the gunshots ringing clearly through the night, each one clearly hitting the cloaked man. However, the figure never broke his stride, just walking closer and closer to his targets.

The figure reached into his cloak, pulling out a hilt of a sword with no blade attached. However, as soon as it was drawn, a blade of fog exploded from the hilt. The figure took one more step, and suddenly, instead of slowly walking in front of the signers, he stood behind the culprits, looking as if he just finished the motion of a sword swing.

"... Dark Requiem," He called out, slamming his blade into the ground. The criminals fell over, lifeless, and the fog cleared, the sky brightening up once more.

"He ha ha ha ha! That was awesome!" The girl from the Arena suddenly called out, still laying on her back. The boy sighed and sat up, dusting himself off.

"I told you two you shouldn't do things like that, didn't I?" The armored man didn't turn to face anyone, his voice both reprimanding, but they could hear the concern in his voice.

"I know, I know, Dread Knight, but, but! They wanted to meet you!" The girl said, pointing to the group. Dread Knight didn't even turn.

"What business do you have with me?" He asked, sharply.

"You're right, Sienna. That was rude of me," her ears flattened. "I apologize for that, Shiro. I suppose I am just a bit on edge from this situation," she gestured toward Cora and the others. Now, was Shiro sorry? Not one bit. If being the voice of reason was wrong, well, then he never wanted to be right. However... he did need to be careful, and frankly, not even the foxes deserved the sharp tone he gave... not yet anyways.

"I apologize to. I admit it is tense right now, and I lost my cool... not something I should be doing," Especially since he needed to keep an eye on... well, everything, frankly. However, now was not the time to ponder upon that. Instead, it seemed Alois had indeed came across something important, namely a way to open the burn resistant door. Indeed, that was quite the discovery. Shiro waited for everyone to climb down in the basement, ready to follow behind... except for one small hitch.

The town person that refused to go in. It was obvious. She wanted him to go in first. Frankly, he didn't believe it to be a good idea. Seeing how she reacted to Edrick and being the cause of the whole argument the group just had, he wasn't sure if she wouldn't do something like try to lock them in, or set the house on fire in an attempt to have the tunnel be filled with smoke and cause them all to die.

So it was a tense minute as the other silently urged the other to go first, neither one willing to go first. The longer they waited, the more suspicious Shiro felt. However, in the end, Shiro had to lose their little game of chicken, seeing as if he dwelt here any longer, he'd lose sight of the foxes, who were just as important of a watch target. So he compromised. He never took his eyes off of Cora as he walked into the tunnel, even walking backwards down the tunnel to make sure she didn't do anything funny. The only thing of note was Gunther speaking to her, although what he said, the frog didn't know.

Soon, they came to a room with the only thing of note was another 'keypad' and a ladder that lead into the ceiling. The archer made her way up and tried to push against the ceiling, so Shiro walked over, standing under the ladder, ready to catch her should she fall. And seeing her track record so far... well, he needed to be there.

"So why don't ya like that fellah again?" Oh, now that was a story she wasn't sure if she wanted to go into. After all, there was a lot going on there, and frankly, she knew a lot of it was pettiness. Did she want to admit that she was just that petty? However, it seemed that there were more pressing manners at the moment, with a resounding boom filling the air. How did no one notice that? "Why don't we go pay the mall a visit? All this talk 'bout shootin's got me trigger finger itchin'." Not that she had a choice, as she watched Archer make his way towards the mall. 

"Great, just great," She muttered as she ran out to follow him. When the two arrived at the mall, there stood the giant of a man holding on to two obvious Heroic Spirits, and one Master watching them all. The two heroes in the giant's grasp struggled, but no matter how they did, the giant held on tight. Finally, it seemed that the Berserker had gotten tired of holding them both and tossed the green haired Heroic Spirit over his shoulder, having him land ungracefully in front of Astoria, before trying to crush Rider like a tin can.

"Damn, this isn't ideal," Caster muttered as he dusted himself off. He then noticed Astoria and Archer, and he quickly sprang back up to his feet. "Ah, I didn't know we were in the presence of such a lovely lady. And she seems to have a strong servant as well. Would you mind lending your talents and helping us take down Berserker?"

"Hmm... well, Archer. Now's the time to show your stuff," Astoria stated, curious to see how such a hero would fight.

"A hand would be much appreciated!" Rider called out as the golden glow surrounded him once more, slowly sapping away Souta's mana again. Using his Mana Burst, he managed to pry open Berserker's hand and slip away, moving back towards Souta. "Master, I'd suggest you go to that other Master. I'm going to take Berserker's attacks head on!" He raised his hand over his head, a shield manifesting in his hand. He held it in front of him, taking a defensive stance. "Come at me!!" he called out. Berserker seemed mesmerized by the shield, and so he charged, smashing his fist right into it. Rider stood, taking the blows, and leaving the monster wide open.

"What a strike."  He smiled, pointing his sword out in front of him with one hand, setting his guard position.  "I'm at a slight disadvantage fighting you, but that won't stop me from winning this bout.  After all, my master is the one who will win this war."  He taunted Lancer with his off hand, begging her to come closer.  "Are you tired?  Or would you like to continue our baile caliente!?"  

"Are you kidding me? You're the best fight I've had in over 3000 thousands years! Damn straight I'm going to keep going!" She had a wide grin on her face as he dashed towards Saber, this time keeping her body close to the ground. She took her staff and swung, aiming to sweep Saber's feet out from under him. "Don't disappoint me now, sword boy!"

"Your mana won't last forever," Misaki observed. "Everyone runs out at some point and has to recharge. Winning is as simple as stalling you out until then, especially in a non-fatal battle."

"Yes... that is true... but the same goes for you," Ciel shot back, putting her hands behind her head. "So I wonder, which of us will last longer?" Suddenly, the vines unwrapped from the tree, flinging themselves straight at Misaki, intent on wrapping her up. 

So far, everything was going well. However, things wouldn't stay this way for long. The one he attacked had ran off, and some new person came and attacked him. That really mad the rider mad! Who just ran off from a battle?!

"Coward! Get back here!" Raynor yelled at the top of his lungs, shrugging off the attack of the new enemy and generally ignoring them. Raynor clenched his weapon and went to chase after his old opponent, but as he moved, a few things caught his eye. There was an enemy behind him the whole time attacking their leader, and his enemy that had ran away had a clear shot at Layne. Where they trying to take their healer out of the equation? Well, he wouldn't let that happen.

He moved closer to Layne, while at the same time attacking the enemy behind him right into their side. Then then turn and watched the enemy that fled from him "Come and get it!" He yelled once more.

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"I'll indulge you, Master of Berserker. I spy something that should have stopped moving long ago." Caster peered out the window, looking at a group of three people passing by. It was hard to tell if they were men or women with their getup. Scarves, goggles, basically, every measure had been taken to ensure you couldn't see who was underneath. But their posture was slouchy, and their movements slow and jagged. "Vile creatures, truly. Looks like we're in the right part of town to find our necromancer, but these are merely her minions. Your orders, Masters? Seems they don't know we're here."

"I'm just going to hang back for a bit, and wait until I get a report from Archer," I comment, before turning to the other two Masters. "I hope you understand, but I rather our servants take those things on then trying to do it myself,"

"So, what are you, then, if not a Jaeger?" Lopt asked, "You seem like you've been through a lot in your life, even though you don't look much older than me... You don't have to talk if you don't want to, but maybe you can make a new friend? I know I would appreciate having someone strong in my corner."

"Friend, huh?" Sieg repeated as he sat up straight, mulling over the words that was spoken to him. "Been awhile since I had one of those," He pondered the question presented to him. What was he? A Pseudo-Jaeger was that Eric called him, as he was no longer human, but a Jaeger was something that was naturally born, a blanket term for any number of creatures. He wasn't like that... he wasn't like them. "I don't know what I am," he admitted. "I... I was born human... grew up around other humans, made friends with humans... and then... I became... this," He motioned to himself to emphasis his point. "Like a fool, I bathed in the blood of a dragon after slaying it and became... this," There was a little more to it, but... he didn't like talking about that part. "Not human any more, but not a Jaeger. I think Eric called me a... Psudeo-Jaeger, or Artificial Jaeger...," He turned to look at Lopt. "So...," He paused awkwardly. "What kind of Jaeger are you?"

Just as he finished talking, a woman dressed in the A.R.C.H. walked out, looking over the two. "So, you here for your haircut then, Dragon Slayer?" Sieg just just nodded in response and stood up, moving over to the barber chair and plopping into the seat. The woman placed some cloth around his neck and got to work. It soon became obvious why Sieg had told people thirty minutes. It took a bit for the scissors to cut through his thick hair, and with it being so long, it was obvious they would be there for a long time.

During that time, Sieg did his best to keep the conversation going, to not miss this chance to maybe befriend someone. He wasn't sure if he could keep the conversation going, but he tried his best, not wanting to see too standoffish. He didn't know if he offended Lopt or not with his question, but hey, he was asked first. It only seemed fair that he asked the question back.

25 minutes later

By the time Sieg's haircut was finished, the hair on the floor piled high enough to reach the woman's ankles, and Sieg's hair only went down to his shoulders. The woman began to pick up the bundle of hair, humming to herself. "Looks like we'll be able to make a lot of wigs out of this haul," She exclaimed as she took them into another room. Sieg stood up, sighing as he brushed his shoulders, letting some stray hairs fall off. With the 3 minutes it took to get here and the 25 to get a haircut, he'd have 2 minutes to get to the training. Seems he would make it on time.

"Looks like it's time now...," He muttered as he headed out. He was quiet as he walked to the training area, mentally preparing himself. He had to make sure he kept his strength under control. He couldn't afford to break something, or worse, someone. Soon, he got to the arena, walking in and looking around. "Alright, let's get started," He looked around, finding Alexander. "Hey, come on, let's get started," He walked towards Alex and moved him to a relatively empty area. "Okay... I want you to hit me as hard as you can," He said as he stood up straight, leaving his arms dangling at his side, no effort being made to defend himself. "Don't hold back on my account. I promise I can take anything you can dish out,"

Fight the Knight

The enemy had begun to mobilize, to push forward with their attack. There were a lot of them, yes, but Raynor was no longer worried. His doubt, his fear, he forced it down as he stood on his lizard's back. He would blaze the trail forward, open a path to victory, like the ones before him had. Gojira raced down the field, their target being very clear. The rider folded his arms in an act of complete confidence as he charged at his opponent.

"Are you ready, guy?!" He called out to his opponent. "Put your war face on!" With that, he crouched into a stance, pulling out his lance. "This fight is mine!" He called out as the two approached, Raynor thrusting at his opponent's chest. He knew his range with his lance was much better than the man's reach with his sword, that his thrust should reach his opponent before the solider had time to block. He was as good as dead.

So he slightly directed his focus. He had rushed by someone in his drive for battle, and they stood parallel to each other. Raynor kept his focus locked on the man. He wouldn't be blindsided by this solider, no way in hell!

"Sorry," I say to Berserker's Master. "But I rather not play games right now. Don't wanna be distracted in case Archer needs to reach out to me, ya know?" I comment. I look out the window, scanning the area. "You know, this place could be a good base if we manage to drive out the necromancer,"

“It’s not the necklace, it’s what it stands for,” Link finally spoke up, explaining things to the confused frog. “It’s a symbol of worship of Inera. She’s… a very important thing in every human culture. Most of them consider her evil. Edrick’s thinks she’s a hero.” Link wasn’t speaking very loudly. “Think of it like the beads of Inari. Your tribe and Sienna’s almost went to war over them going missing.”

"Worship?" Shiro asked. "You mean... like gods? They're getting like this because of...?" He shook his head, muttering to himself. This was all falling apart because they believed in some big scary magic woman in the sky? He couldn't understand it... frankly, he wasn't sure he wanted to understand it. He wanted a minute to himself, but really, he couldn't leave the room. He couldn't trust these wackjobs to not attack the princesses after finding out just how unstable they really were.

"This is yet another failing of living in isolated villages like we do," the fox shook her head. "We become complacent, and unaware of matters to which we should take heed." She glanced at Shiro. "Link is right. That 'necklace' as you call it is much more than a necklace. It is a holy symbol, worn only by those devoted to the goddess Inera, revered on a level far beyond how you frogs feel about your Frog Sage. There are many names for Her, such as the Lady of Life and Death, the Two-Faced Goddess, the Raven Queen, and many more. Surely even you must have heard of her."

"No. I like to learn about other kinds of things. Like reality," Shiro shot back sharply. Foxes really could get under his skin far too easily. He'd need to work on that some.

"Hey everyone what's going on - oh wait. I don't care." Alois stated as he went upstairs. Well, that was rude of him. He wasn't gone for long as he came downstairs and grabbed a book of some sort?  Shiro quietly walked over, looking over the boy's shoulder, trying to see if he could figure out what Alois was looking for. 

On 12/19/2019 at 8:58 PM, Yui said:

"Someone can fill you in on the types that often fall into various classes later, but for now, the short and simple answer to your Saber question is no; you'd be thinking of the Rider class. As for our dear necromancer, speaking as a Caster myself... claiming it's as simple as "they should be weaker during the day" is a bit misleading. Unless their particular method has something to do with the stars, anyway. Say, Archer's Master, you're the one who gave us the heads-up about this mage. Might you be able to tell us more?"

"Sorry to say, but that's all the info I got for now. Not exactly keen on sticking around a bunch of zombies, you know?" I sigh and put my hands behind my back, thinking to myself. "I do think we should head out now. Frankly speaking, if they are a master, it might be best to strike before they have a chance to amass too many bodies. A bunch of zombies and a Servant? Doesn't sound fun to me at all,"

In the end, only Edda accepted the ride, which was alright. Raynor would have to babysit them a little more, but it was a small price to pay to make sure no one fell behind. So they ran, doing their best to escape the knights that pursued them. Soon however, they had to stop and fight. That was ok with Raynor though. When they stopped, he climbed on top of his mount, slowly and carefully picking up Edda and placing her on the ground.

"Sorry, but I need my buddy back," Raynor explained as he slipped back into the saddle.

"Falcons, get ready." 

"You got it," Raynor took out his lance, gripping it and getting into position. It was time to take on an unit of armed guards, people that were out for their blood. It wasn't like the other times with monsters and bandits. They wanted the Jourans dead and were trained well enough to do it. The thought scared him some, seeing as he fell to a skeleton not last night, but... at the same time, he was excited. New day, new battle, new results.

"If you keep going back you can get out of here. They would stay here to try and take me and you could have time to get away. There's no reason to stay here and get caught up in this." Rona spoke up, causing Raynor to raise an eyebrow.

"N-no way!" Yue called out "Th-there's no way we're leaving any of you behind. R-Rona, you're...uhh..." she trailed off, blushing, then shaking her head. "You're members of the Iron Falcons, and Edda is a client. Leon taught us to stand by each other, and we can't let a client get hurt either. So...don't say such sad things." 

"... She's right, you know." Ada sighed and rubbed the back of her head."Besides... Aeoran, Jouran, who cares? We're a group. We need to lean on each other, not run off or fight. Not to mention, I'm a devil like you, whether they know it or not."

"Yeah, no. That ain't happening." Layne shook his head."They're right. We aren't leaving anyone behind to suffer this alone. Besides, they wouldn't settle for that from the sounds of it. They would hunt us down, that guy sounds pretty dedicated to his job."

"Besides, back when I offered ya the chance to split from the group, you turned it down, saying Leon needed you at his side," Raynor stated with a grin. He didn't blame her, the odds didn't seem to be the best, and she tried to save the others. But remembering her own declaration should strength her resolve... he hoped. "Now's not the time to take back those words. Let's get going!" With that, Raynor and Gojira began to move forwards, the two readying for battle. "Go ahead and line up!" He yelled excitedly at the enemy. "This Jouran's going to kick your asses and move on to become a legend!"

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"Sensei, I think we have something to discuss..." Touch revealed to the teacher his own device, pulling it out from his pocket. "Three of us already have devices that came in a similar fashion." Frimon came right behind him and leaped into his shoulder. "We may need more lore exposition before going into the next stage."

"Oh... oh god dammit," The teacher pinched the space in between his eyes as he began muttering under his breath, before finally saying. "Right... right... I'll explain just... give me a second. This is a lot of info for me to take in as well, you know?" Before he could continue however, the other students began to speak up.

"Yeah whatever. So we gotta go all the way to California? If you ask me, we should try to find a way to get things back to normal...not try and hide away like rats in a cage!" Todd exclaimed, to which the teacher shook his head.

"Yeah, I guess being in a giant cage for a week would make anyone not want to go hiding," Zubamon commented. "So is that why you were hiding in the back? To gather your courage for this massive undertaking ahead?" The digimon asked innocently, stars in his eyes.

"He's right!" Kokoro agreed. "We have to get all the way across a place as big as America after whatever happened, just to hide and wait for everything to blow over? We might as well try to fix what we can along the way instead of just saying, 'oh well I guess I'd better run away now.' I don't really understand a lot of what's going on, but I think I get enough to know this isn't something that'll pass while we're holed up somewhere." So it was best to do something with that in mind. Kokoro's eyes went back and forth between Mr. Henderson and Omnimon. "No matter what we do, you've got a lot to tell us. Sensei and Alter both."

"Give me a second... it's a lot to think about and organize," Mr. Henderson muttered.

"U-Um... Why are you here then?" Wormmon barely muttered, before looking down, "N-nevermind..." Omnimon looked over to the small digimon, getting on one knee and reaching out with his giant wolf hand, gently patting Wormmon on the head.

"Do not worry about it," He said softly before standing back up. "I'm here because we were searching for any human survivors or stray digimon so we can lead them to safety," He folded his arms. "However, all we could find so far was all of you,"

"Here, let's just head outside, I'll explain on the way," Mr. Henderson finally said, scooping up Theo and walking off. As he walked off, he looked over to Chris and Conner, just to see what they were doing.

"Chulainn, hey...are you alright?"

"My body f-feels like it's on f-fire, my arm is gone again... a-and everyone's gone. I-I'm dandy Chris," Conner muttered as he slowly stood up. Slowly, he made his way back to the group, follwoing their teacher as he headed outside.

"So... big, simple exposition dump," Mr. Henderson muttered to himself as he quietly walked down the hall. "So, the Digital World is an alternate dimension, right? In it, all lifeforms are digital, and some of the most common ones are Digimon," He rubbed his chin. "Usually, when the Digital World is in danger, it'll grab random kids and force them to become heroes for the Digital World. This time however... this time it's different. It seems the two separate dimensions have fused into one, and no one knows how," He motioned to the device Touch held. "So that, that's a Digivice. Think of it as a link to your digimon. It makes them your partner, and you can do some... interesting things with it, like force enough power into them that they temporally age up into a more powerful form," He rubbed the back of his neck. "Don't ask me how you're supposed to do that, it's different from person to person," He tapped his chin. "I think that's all you need for now. Right now, we need to see what outside looks like,"

The most noticeable thing that everyone could see as they stepped outside was that everyone's houses had been moved. Every house in the small town had been arranged into rows, surrounding a train station that most definitely wasn't in the town before. The second thing they could see was that far, far in the distance, there was some sort of large white tower reaching into the sky, going so high up they couldn't see the top. However, it was so far away they couldn't see the base of the tower either.

"Hey, Omnimon... what's that tower?" Conner asked, pointing to it. Omnimon looked up at the tower, sighing.

"We don't know. We just know it's somewhere in Colorado... and yes, it's so big we can see it from any where in the... 'United States'," Omnimon supplied. Conner blinked and looked back to the tower. What the hell?

"Alright kids... find your houses, and get essentials. We'll meet at the train station in half an hour," Mr. Henderson said as he walked down the school stairs, looking for his home. 

So, do you remember, Gwen? The Gardevoir/Chandelure fusion that was rescued and adopted by the mentally unstable daughter of Baby Blob, and her boyfriend that got out of jail early because he was 'sorry'? The one that had a twin sister who somehow sacrificed herself in order to save Gwen?

Turns out she was not dead. She was living inside Gwen's mind for all these years. Calling herself Carol, she lived in Gwen's head until the age of 12.

When Baby Blob and the rest of the family found out about her, they decided to clone Gwen, and using psychics hacks, moved Carol's mind into the body, this giving letting Carol live her own life.

This is important, because despite my characters appearing and EVIL looming on the horizon, she took up most of the screen time of the arc.

For you see, as Carol went to school, she discovered something life changing. She discovered... SHE WAS A LESBIAN!!!! DUN DUN DUN!!! She met Janet, a 15 year old with a similar secret, which is that SHE WAS A LESBIAN!!!! DUN DUN DUN!!! The two started dating, but Carol was afraid to call her anything other than her friend around her family, in fear of what they might do of they find out SHE WAS A LESBIAN!!!! DUN DUN DUN!!!

You might be calling me callous for making fun of 'the only realistic aspect of the Worst Pokemon RP', to which I say, it's the Worst Pokemon RP. They, of course, fucked it up. Instead of it being a character arc, one that they eventually resolve, it became the main focus of the arc, overshadowing the fact there are bad guys that want to kill them. Anyways, back to the arc.

Ali and her twins Carol and Gwen were walking into town when they saw Rock. The boy was lost, and trying to find his way to Kanto (they were in Johto). Ali was about to be nice and help Rock when Reshiram came out of nowhere and dive bombed Rock. Ali, immediately recognizing Reshiram, figured out who Rock was and called him dangerous, because he 'got Baby Blob killed'. Rock tries to point out all he did was give directions to a clone that looked exactly like Baby Blob, and thus had no malice towards the family.

Ali was not convinced, but decided to 'give Rock a chance'. They used their super special morphers to turn Reshiram human, to which we discovered she turns into a girl about Rock's age (about 20 years old) instead of her brother Baby Blob's age, about 30-something years old. This is never explained why this was the case.

Reshiram immediately clinged to Rock because she was convinced he was the Hero of Truth, which really sucked for Rock, because even though Baby Blob's family thought Rock was scum, they treated Reshiram as Baby Blob Zekrom's sister. Giving her the name Robyn, Ali and her girls then took Rock and Robyn all the way to Seven Island, where the Knights and Nitsuas lived.

Seven Island was pretty much a paradise, where rich people live, Pokemon ran free, Suicune runs around, exclusively cleaning their lakes and no one else's, and Xerenas lived in their forest in her tree mode, giving life to all the trees.

Drew was being an ass, and seeing that Rock was there, challenged him to a fight. There was no clear winner, except that Drew was being an ass while it happened. The Pokemon turned humans were cool with Rock, but the kids really didn't like him.

As a peace offering, Kim have Rock an Eevee egg, one that was not made by fucking Dan, but by fucking Tommy the Leafeon. She fucks the both of them whenever she wanted.

Rock left to be alone, seeing as a clingy Reshiram and Baby Blob's family was exhausting to deal with. He found a cave within a mountain, and inside was Regigias! The legend, angry to be awakened, went to attack Rock, but since Rock spent a large portion of his life living with Rhyhorns and wrestling Machokes, he knew how to counterattack.

He dodged he attack and ran up the legendary's arm, punching it in the face. The punch didn't do much, but Regigias did stumble back in shock and tripped over a stone, falling over. It then calmed down, looking down at Rock and patting his head before GTFO-ing of Baby Blob's island and disappearing in the sunset.

Even I wasn't immune to the stupid in the beginning.

So, the beginning of this arc starts with Baby Blob Jay learning that his cousin was giving birth to a baby. He went to see her, only to find out the baby was sick and the mother was dying. He could only use the magic to save one... For some reason, so he used Dragon Clan magic to heal the baby, and in doing so, somehow infused her with his DNA, changing her hair from blonde to green, and making her the child of Jay and his cousin.

The baby is named Sophie, and is put in the baby ward. The mother dies of childbirth, and The Dark Legion kidnaps baby Sophie. They renamed her Ophiela, experimented on her, which unlocked her powers of some sort, but left her blind! The Dark Legion was trying to mold her into the perfect vessel, for once every 1000 years, an ungodly amount of power gathered at the top of the Dragonspiral Tower, and the Dark Legion wanted to channel this power to make Sophie/Ophiela into a goddess!

In order to make sure their plans succeeded, they used their ultimate trump card. They found another baby blob, this one being Kyruem. They molded the original one into a man named Nick Deliora, who had the same powers as Jay because he was also a dragon and a member of the Dragon Clan. They also used his DNA and mixed it with Dan to create Paladin, a half clone of Dan with ice powers.

Paladin used his power of looking like Dan to sneak into the Knights' house and kidnap Tara, the product of Kim the Espeon funking Dan. This triggered the Knights and Nitsuas, causing a war between them and The Dark Legion.

They quickly and magically found the Dark Legion's base, and began a battle! Dan fought his clone, and using the power of words, converted him to the side of good! What helped Paladin decide this though was that cloning was unstable, and he was slowly dying, but the Nitsuas had science that can fix that! Who would of thought?

Ali came face to face with Jake, the love of her life she thought was dead. You see, during the plane crash, Jake's lesbian sister fell on top of him, and her blood flowed into his cuts, acting like a blood transfusion. So he was alive and abusing pokemon so he could help the Dark Legion take over the world. The power of love made him good though.

Jay came face to face with Nick, and the two battled it out, both evenly matched. So evenly matched, they just casually talked as they fought with their swords and magic dragon powers. Didn't use one pokemon in the Pokemon RP.

Because neither one could overpower the other, Ali and Drew transferred their energy to Jay, whose eyes began to glow and his body was wrapped in a green energy, effectively making Susanoo from Naruto. Using this power, Jay defeated Nick, who fled with the Dark King, the two escaping.

At the top of the tower, Sophie was about to gather the energies when Drew and Katie went to stop her! Sophie, in a fit of rage, went to kill Drew, but Katie threw herself in the way, dying in Drew's place. This act of 'true love' cause Sophie to become good! Everyone was sad, but then Jay used the power that was gathering in Dragonspiral to bring Katie back to life. And that is the end of the war...

Next up is the Kalos arc, the arc I joined in! Stay tuned for that. Please, leave a comment and let me know I'm not crazy!

"Necromancy isn't as easy as the games make it out to be, so this person is a pretty decent mage," I comment as I listen, nodding to myself. "Also, Berserker kinda is a code name, no?" I add. "So, Master of Caster, what say you? If you're in, we might as well get going now,"

Zirco gritted his teeth as he floored it, splitting further away from the cops. One of the said cops turned to the other and nodded, speeding up to catch up with Zirco. The other one pulled over to Tora, grinning widely. "Alright curfew breaker! Time to bring you in!" He called out as Tora's dueling systems were forcibly activated. "You can't escape! Show me your pathetic attempt to escape the law!"

When the group cleared out of the store, the man slammed the doors behind them, taking out some chains and locking the door so no one else could come in. If the group were to keep watching, they would see him walking to the walk-in fridge, opening the door, and walking into it, closing the door behind him...

The trip down to the Arena was quiet... for Hearthome. There were some homeless people hiding in the alleys, some cars that drove past, but besides that, it was very quiet. Soon, however, they found the Arena. It stood tall as a beacon of order and cleanliness, and many people have gathered in there. As the team walked in, they could see that everyone had split into their respective gangs, and they all eyed the newcomers with complete suspicion. No one made a move towards them, but they didn't seem to like the idea of being approached.

In the center there were duels going on, but there was one table open, a older man smoking a cigarette standing there, no one willing to duel him. There was an area with food and snacks, and some strange man that seemed to be snorting some sort of powder up his nose. And, perhaps unknown to the group, across the arena, there was a boy in a hoodie and a cheerful looking girl eyeing the group, and if they would look closely, seemed as if they were eyeing Octavia in particular...

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He knew humans were petty, he knew humans were stupid, but this... this was a different level. He didn't even know what to say here. Maybe if he knew the significance of the necklace, it'd make more sense, but as it was...

"I-er that is. Um." The resident of the town stuttered. "I am willing...to give y'all the benefit of the doubt but..." She cast her glance towards Edrick. "I can't abide him roaming about this town as he likes. Not when he's got...that thing with him."

"Perhaps when we go to the town hall, or wherever it is we're supposed to go from here, Edrick should...stay behind." Gunther suggested. Shiro was taken aback by this one. Gunther was one of the few people he could stand in this group, and now he was just being here being... weird, and illogical. 

"Wait, hang on," Shiro spoke up. "So to make sure I understand correctly, the two of you are willing to let three inhumans with the power to change into giant animals and a man who enter houses through the rooftops to search this village, but not one normal and capable man because of a necklace?" This really didn't make sense into him. "I thought we were trying to save everyone here from a horrible fate in the least amount of time possible. We know nothing about this curse, for all we know, it could become permanent if left alone for too long," He paused, glancing at the princess duo. "And you're both willing to place more duties on the two princesses and expose them to potential danger because, and I empathize, of a necklace?"  He turned back to the group. "If this is some sort of human joke, then I don't get it,"