[ Symka 3, Hanmyo's House: ]
*USarge is successful, and they both drop to the floor*
*However, Hanmyo locks one leg behind USarge's knee, and puts a hand on the back of his neck*
*Applying pressure, she's obviously trying to go for a submission hold*
Hanmyo: Next lesson: Escaping a hold!
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[ Back on Hei Fon 4, Conquistadores Guildhouse: ]
*Outside, Erza is practicing her swordforms*
*She stops short at a high-pitched giggling, and immediately turns*
*In a glowing whirl, she's requipped her Heaven's Wheel Armor and blocked a flying kick with eight crossed swords*
*Even with that defense, she's forced back across the ground - Her boots leave deep trenches in the dirt*
*The assailant cackles, leaping in to deliver another flying kick*
- Spoiler:
Erza: *Blocks again, this time following up with slashes from two swords in her hands*
???: *Brings own round shield to block, and hops back to safety* Hello, "Titania" Erza.
Erza: Who are you? *Dashes in to slash with five blades in a row*
???: *Blocks easily with shield once more* How polite, attacking before I can reply. I am "Warmistress" Minervy of the Summer Pillars Guild. It's customary in our Guild to greet new Guilds to the planet by attacking them to test their mettle.
Erza: You must be quite confident, to attack us alone. *Without calling its name, attacks Minervy with Tenrin Blumenblatt*
Minervy: One, it's important to have confidence in your own abilities. *Manages to block with shield, then swings sword into the ground*
*With a huge burst of dust, a shockwave travels across the ground towards Erza*
Erza: *Crosses eight blades in front of self, but is still knocked into a pile of stone blocks*
*As she rises up, mostly unharmed, her eyes abruptly narrow at a prickling sensation up the back of her neck*
Minervy: Yes. And two, I'm confident, not stupid. I brought a few friends to the party.
---
*Down at a small ice cream cart, two girls are enjoying a couple of scoops*
*One girl has dark skin, rounded features, long, wavy blonde hair, and a catlike critter hat*
*The other girl is much shorter, has fair skin, and long, straight black hair*
*From the shadows nearby emerges a tall man in ragged black clothes, wearing a stitched-up wolf's mask and carrying a long staff of ashwood, topped by a carved stone eye*
???: Apologies. *Lowers staff, releasing a pulse of dark energy*
---
*Elsewhere, a young lady with full features, somewhat strawberry-blonde hair, a tight black tanktop, formfitting jeans, heavy gray gloves, and shin-height boots has just tossed a number of thugs to the ground before a shop*
*The store owner is thanking her profusely, before a low whistle goes up*
Girl: *Turns to see a short young man with wild, messy, azure blue hair, using some kind of long reed pipe*
*Abruptly, animals on the street start going crazy - Running in circles, most doing anything they can to get away from the noise*
Girl: Hey!! The name's Miki of the Conquistadores Guild! Stop whatever you're doing or I'll kick your @ss!!
???: I'm afraid this is necessary to defeat you. *Starts to play a low song*
*With a screech, a hawk dives out of the sky, talons extended*
*It digs its claws into Miki's hair, somehow missing her scalp*
*Before it can attack with its beak, a small blue chick wearing a witch's hat hops out of nowhere with an angry chirp*
*As it delivers a peck to the hawk's forehead, its opponent is sent rolling through the air with a flash*
*The hawk screeches, and groggily takes flight to escape again*
Miki: Thanks, Mahōtori! *Turns on the flute-playing mage*
???: *Plays a different song, much more repetitive and imposing*
*He begins to slowly force open a portal, pulsing and growing larger every few moments*
Mahōtori: *Chirps fearfully, pecking on Miki's head to try and get her to attack*
Miki: *Allows the mage to finish his spell, and frowns at the summoned creature*
*It appears to be an oversized moth, with large, glowing eyes; a toothy mouth; and wings ended by short tendrils, three to a wing on the top pair, two each on the bottom pair*
???: Why did you allow me to finish my spell? You could have struck at any time.
Miki: Well, that's just no fun at all! *Dashes in, throwing a punch for the moth*
*However, it abruptly flaps its wings with great force, disloding countless glittering scales*
*They flash, and form into a liquid barrier that catches Miki*
*Splashing apart, it hurls Miki back through the air*
*The thugs and shopkeeper alike cower in fear, watching from the doorway*
Miki: *Groans, rising to sit up and rubbing her aching head*
*Without warning, the moth lunges at her and tries to bite her*
Miki: *Tries to block with arms, cursing loudly*
---
*Back at the Guildhouse, the two combatants are circling each other*
*Everytime Minervy gives a swift, brutal strike with her broadsword, Erza deflects it with her Armor's many hovering swords*
*Likewise, each whirling slash of many blades that Erza unleashes on Minervy is expertly blocked with her shield*
Minervy: Well, this is going nowhere in a hurry. Do you mind if we stop playing and start fighting seriously now?
Erza: *In an instant, has requipped her Giantess Armor* Admitttedly, our game was growing dull. *Requips a massive battleaxe, as well*
Minervy: *Cackles gleefully* Well, I know how to spice the event up a bit...
*Her shield begins to pulse with a golden aura and shift*
Minervy: Prepare yourself. *Lunges*
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[ LOHAC Dungeon: ]
*The battle is winding down*
*At last, every Lich and Imp has been slain*
*However, from the ceiling drop down several Ruby Giclopes*
Terezi: *Leaps to stand beside Aradia*
SH4LL W3?Aradia: *Channels scarlet energy to her hands*
we shall!Terezi: *Gathers a huge amount of cyan energy to brow*
Together:
4STUT14 Chr0n0slash!Aradia: *Forms a huge, crackling blade of scarlet energy that shifts and flickers*
Terezi: *Unleashes huge amounts of energy, wrapping the blade in cyan energy tendrils*
*It begins swooping around the Giclopes, snatching them up with its tendrils*
*Then, levitating up to the center of the room, it begins whirling them around*
*With a flash, they're all abruptly hauled inward towards the blade*
*A massive grinding noise can be heard, and grist rains down*
Dave: *Easily dodges the remaining heads divebombing towards him*
*As two begin to breathe flames towards him in mid-leap, he Accelerates past*
*One gets a huge hole burnt clear through its forehead, while the other's windpipe is blasted open and cauterized instantly*
Dave: *Lands on the floor as two more heads fall behind him*
*He's now dangerously close to the forest of pillars, and head is trying to take aim for a breath of fire*
Dave: *Holds hand out*
S T O P !!*His Sylladex activates, shooting a katana out at high speed*
*Such speed, in fact, and such force that it easily bifurcates the neck midway down*
Dave: Sh## sh## sh## don't be decapitated don't be decapitated -
*The end of the neck falls off, and abruptly, the level's music plays faster*
Dave: Well. F##k. *Accelerates in a leap backwards, blocking with the Royal Deringer*
*With a blaze of crimson flames, one stump becomes three heads, and they all begin lunging at Dave with incredible ferocity*
Dave: *Blocks one head, but the other two are just about to lunge at him*
*Suddenly, both are blown away by a couple of huge spheres of red energy*
*As the smoking stumps drag both necks to hang limply, a massive burst of cyan energy pummels the other neck so hard that the head is snapped up into the air*
Dave: *Leaps up, grabbing onto the bottom of the creature's head*
*He Accelerates a stab into the bottom of the neck, and begins sliding down*
*When he hits the floor, the head gurgles, and falls to the side - Dead*
*The other head is already shooting flame up its gullet, before another Dave appears on the top of its jaws*
*Whilst the Dave standing across from it disappears, the new Dave sends an Accelerated stab through the top jaw and pierces it together with the lower jaw*
*Flailing madly, the last head begins to jet black smoke out of its nostrils*
*Its eyes roll back as glowing, heated cracks begin to spread across its scales*
*With a huge gout of flame, its entire head explodes without a trace*
*As Dave lands, he, Aradia, and Terezi collect the rain of grisr*
*They share brief pats on the back, then move further inward*
~ ~ ~
[ Medieval Planet, Brightvale: ]
*The location is some kind of large shop with many stained glass windows*
*As a matter of fact, it seems that all they sell is a variety of such glazed glasswork*
Brynn: *Is looking over the selection* Hmmm...I don't want something austere, but preferably something that's not going to be too eyecatching.
Shopkeeper: Ah! I believe I have just the thing, milady! *Guides her over to one window in particular, mounted in a rack on the wall*
*It has a pattern of white clouds over a curved green field, with the designs of golden sunbeams stretching from the very top to where the green begins*
Brynn: My, that's beautiful! And perfect for my house. How much would it cost, good sir?
Shopkeeper: I would like for it to be a gift to one of our fair country's defenders, but I know you'll not be having that.
Brynn: *Chuckle* Sadly, you'd be right. I'll not accept preferential treatment, I'm afraid.
Shopkeeper: Ah, but it's been customary for first-time buyers to get a discount since before I took over the shop from my father; as a matter of fact, since before he took it over from
his father! I'll take 500 gold pieces for it.
Brynn: *Hands over five small pouches from her belt* Thank you, good sir.
*Soon, they've got the window wrapped up - Though Brynn barely can negotiate the heavy object outside*
*With a grunt, she nearly drops it - Before a pair of spry, limber arms helps her support the wrapped window*
Brynn: ... *Shakes head, chuckling at who it is* A guard of Brightvale, helped in carrying her purchase by a pickpocketer. T'is a strange world we live in.
Hanso: *Chuckles* Well, to be perfectly frank and honest, it's weighed heavily on my mind that I sunk so low as to apply my
masterful abilities of thievery to relieving an elderly lady of her excess coinage. So, I thought it would only be proper that -
Brynn: Hanso, please shut up and help me carry this back to my house, would you?
Hanso: *Snorts back a laugh* It would be an honor, Court Guard Brynneth!
*They both move in perfect synch, carrying the load down the street*
Brynn: How do you even come to learn such terms of purple prose?
Hanso: Shenanigans.
Brynn: I see!
~ ~ ~
[ Taken It Back~ Back~ Back~ Back~ WE FORGOT SOMEONE: ]
*The planet is Fanrong, in an urbanized city*
*A certain huge criminal of an extraterrestrial race, armored and wide as a house, is getting out of a van*
*He wears a very expensive-looking suit and several golden rings with huge gemstones*
Three-Thumb Demalco Black: Huh? *Looks up as music starts* ...Music?
Cue: Dirty HarryDemalco: Oh god
dammit - *Is hit by a huge explosion*
*Up on a rooftop, a certain girl fires off the rest of the boxy launcher's missiles*
*They home in on the still-smoking Demalco, and knock him back*
*Beneath his weight, the car crumples, glass shattering*
Demalco: *Snarls, pulling the singed suitjacket off* You little
bitch!! Do you
realize how hard it is to find suits in my size!?
Noodle: *Takes out a demonic-looking plushie rabbit, and twists its head one-eight degrees*
*She tosses it into the air, and it begins flying with jet power*
*Toothy jaws opening, it fires from a rotary machinegun hidden inside*
Demalco: AUGH!! *Finds that he's being hit with incendiary rounds* Wha!?
*The bunny impacts, exploding with terrific force*
Noodle: Boom!! *Draws two kitten plushies, grafted onto sawed-off shotguns*
*Dual wielding them, she begins firing sprays of energy blasts*
Demalco: *Roars, but is knocked to the ground*
Noodle: *Prepares to fire again*
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