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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Jan 20, 2011 19:16:39 GMT -8
"Eh?" Brianna said to herself before noticing the axe was split in half. She just barely registered the result before the wind picked up and forced her outside along with Ratio and Wyatt.
She quickly picked herself up, readying her backup sword when she saw the huge fire spell Ratio prepared. "Ho...ly...BOA, LOOK OUT!" She shouted in a panic.
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Post by joseph on Jan 20, 2011 19:24:17 GMT -8
It didn't take Color of Observation for Boa to know what was coming her way. She swiftly leapt out of the spell's path, moving faster than the eye could see. The Amazon-like pirate captain reappeared in front of Ratio and sweep kicked at his head.
In the meantime, the unknown watcher fingered the charms he'd liberated from Wyatt. "Hmm... I wonder what these do?" he muttered, "Collector's item, maybe? Wait, what's this?" Peering closer at one of the charms, he proceeded to massacre the pronunciation of the incantation inscribed on it.
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Jan 20, 2011 19:33:41 GMT -8
"BOOM, HEADSHOT!" Brianna yelled, getting a glare from me, still inside. "Oh come on, I couldn't resist!" "You gonna help her or not?" I flatly asked. "Hey, I'm only after Ratio. Wyatt can come out of this unscathed for all I care. Though...I'm honestly gonna need a bit of help with this." Brianna said, digging through her pockets for a certain staff.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 20, 2011 19:38:55 GMT -8
A little smirk settled upon Ratio's face. There was no way the girl could have dodged his spell. He saw the flames engulf her. Wonder what that did to her. he thought, leaning casually against the pommel of his sword. I wonder, to Kuja Princesses burn just as much as regular ones do? I'll have to find out.
His thoughts were interrupted when he saw a foot com flying towards his head. He ducked away, the feeling the wind brush his hair as he narrowly missed having his head swept off by a crippling kick. Thank the gods for reaction raising spells. He immediately retrieved his sword, the edges flickering to life with once again as the red glow returned. He lunged at the girl from his crouched position, aiming to spear her through the gut. He scowled a bit as he heard Brianna's words, I just saved your life you lousy ingrate. And you're still out to kill me. Maybe next time I'll just let you get pulverized by the wall. No skin off my back.
Wyatt pushed himself up looking around. He patted down his pockets, searching frantically for the charms he'd lost. Ye merciful gods, how could I have lost them. he took a mental inventory of the ones he'd lost. Thankfully nothing all that volitile, though he did have a few binding charms. A couple that could heal light wounds, a few that when activated would respond with a little jolt of lightning or flicker of fire. Teleportation charms too, Seven would kill him for losing those. Have to get them back. he thought, gritting his teeth, I need to get them back somehow. he looked around, Now where in the five hells could I have left them?
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Jan 20, 2011 19:46:58 GMT -8
"Now, where did I put that stupid thing-HERE we are! Ripped straight from that jerkass Begnion Senator's corpse!" Brianna said before holding up the Rewarp staff, Zelda-style. "'Scuse me for one sec, everyone." She said before activating it and teleporting away, coming back with a few new people a few seconds later. The male of the two had spiky, blue hair with a headband, a ton of armor on and a yellow-colored giant sword. The other was a red-clad, pink-haired, pegasus-riding female with a large lance to boot.
"Everyone, may I introduce Ike of the Greil Mercenaries and Marcia of the Crimean...wait, you're part of Elincia's Royal Guard, right?" Brianna asked. "Never mind that, what the heck do you think you're doing? You and that other mage stomp all around that one village and now you request help from us? Are you insane?" Ike asked. "Maybe...but still, could you get that guy for me?" Brianna asked with an innocent face. "Oi, let's just roll with it for now...handsome, look alive! It's the mage you dueled with a little while ago!" Marcia shouted, pointing at Ratio. "Is it now? Well, I HAVE been put through my training paces for the day...I might as well fight." Ike said, holding up his Ragnell sword. "Care to add another opponent to this, mage?"
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Post by joseph on Jan 20, 2011 19:47:50 GMT -8
"A stabbing thrust to the abdomen," Boa whispered calmly before spinning out of the way like a dancer. She leapt again, this time high into the air, and kissed the tip of her pointer finger. A small pink valentine heart formed on it, and she held her hand in the time-honored "finger gun" gesture. She took aim, and...
"PISTOL KISS!"
The heart sped toward the base of Ratio's skull with unnatural force.
The thief, meanwhile, had moved on to another charm. Somehow, against the logic of his vaguely American accent, he managed to pronounce it right.
An instant after she'd fired her bullet, Boa seemed to disappear into thin air.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 20, 2011 20:04:38 GMT -8
Ratio whirled around, eyes going wide. How could she have seen that coming? he wondered. I didn't even know I was going to make that move until a second before it should have hit. He didn't have time to ponder it. One moment he was inches away from stabbing a girl and the next he was being shot in the head. Again. This time it was only a finger so he figured that would be okay. An almost comical looking heart hit him in the base of the skull and nearly bowled him over. He looked up, opening his mouth to comment on how ridiculous the whole thing had looked, but the woman was gone.
"What the devil...?" Ratio raised an eyebrow, still looking a little dazed as he sat upon the grass. He sighed. The battle was over. The adrenaline left his limbs and in its place he felt drained and honestly a little ill. Magic had terrible effects on the body, especially on the body of a mortal man like himself. The magical signature that fed his magic and followed him wherever he went flickered a little bit. A mage's signature was their hallmark. Their life. It was a representation, invisible to the untrained eye, of a mage's internal life force energy, and the surplus of what was left over. Anything that wasn't being used to power the heartbeat and the body could be used for magic. The problem was that Ratio was never quite sure where his threshold was. Making a fire monster might have been what pushed him to his limits this time. He made a mental note of that. For future reference. Fire monsters are rather intimidating, but not worth the extra effort. Stick to ice and lightning based spells in the future.
He sighed a little, glancing wearily at Brianna and Ike, "Not right now." he held up a hand, "I just saved the lot of you from that sea witch. If I may have one request, please put your toy soldiers away for now. I'm not up to fighting."
Wyatt looked around, his brow furrowed in suspicion. Every time someone cast a spell it left behind a trace of the user's signature. He could feel one now. It was a faint little thing, just about enough to power the heart of an infant or... Or to set off a charm.
"Hey!" Wyatt gave a cry, rushing off in the direction that the little signature was coming from, "Wait! Stop! Give those back!"
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Post by joseph on Jan 20, 2011 20:14:22 GMT -8
Shit. The thief decided then and there that the little trinkets were more trouble than they were worth. Flinging them off to the side, he melted further into the shadows, watching as the young man rushed past him. Too bad the girl with the rack's gone, she had some expensive-looking earrings.
Boa reappeared many miles away. Her dress was a bit singed, and her muscles ached, but otherwise she was in fair condition. If that wretch of a swordsman ever crossed her path again, he would join Josu (or whatever his foolish name was) in the rubble. Now, which way had her kidnappers come from?
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 20, 2011 20:49:43 GMT -8
Wyatt frowned coming to the stop just a little ways away from the woods. No sign of any of his charms, or the man who had taken them. He glanced around momentarily. This is where that signature came from. he thought, Now where the devil is... all of a sudden a gleam caught his eye. He bent down, retrieving from the ground a dead teleportation charm. The very one that had been set off moments before. He picked it up, gingerly, looking around. Whoever had stolen the charms, he was close. Close enough that the thing was still warm. He closed his hand around the dead charm and turned, slowly coming to a stop dead in front of the shadows where the thief had hidden himself.
"Show yourself now." Wyatt said, his voice suddenly much less that of a frightened apprentice and more one of a powerful magic user in his own right, "My intent isn't to harm you, but you don't know the power of the things you've stolen from me. I suggest you give them back. They're not just trinkets for you to throw about at will."
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Post by joseph on Jan 20, 2011 21:12:18 GMT -8
The thief was not easily intimidated. He'd pilfered from fanatical religious sects, gotten the drop on dangerous assassins who could kill in the blink of an eye, stopped a few supernatural conspiracies, and lost his eye to an Elder God. Some novice wasn't going to get the better of him. Then again, he really didn't know what these thingies did, and had only gotten lucky with that one that made the hottie disappear to who knows where. Wordlessly, he tossed the unused charms in the boy's face, simultaneously dropping a strange spherical device with a lens on it. On impact with the ground, it gave off an intense blinding flash. For a split second, Wyatt could have seen a slight, furtive-looking man in vaguely medieval-style clothing. The mystery man made a break for it.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 21, 2011 4:37:01 GMT -8
Wyatt gave a little cry, falling back, temporarily blinded by the strange device. He looked around. For a second he'd caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a dirty looking boy rushing off into the brush. At least I got my charms back. he thought. After a second a thought hit him, Wait...
He took a step forward retrieving a binding charm from the bunch that had been hurled at him and fired it off at the boy. Such a spell would render the target immobile if it hit, and that was exactly what Wyatt needed. It wouldn't hurt him, not unless he hit his head particularly hard on the way down. He rushed up to the boy, squinting to see if he'd made a hit or not.
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Post by Alastor on Jan 21, 2011 7:32:44 GMT -8
Hazama, still eating some Terumuffins, watched Boa and Raito fight. "Dinner with a show? Wonderful! I do need a break from tormanting Ragna..."
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Post by joseph on Jan 21, 2011 7:57:30 GMT -8
Even the best thieves can get caught sometimes. Garrett was no exception. The charm struck him just on the shoulder, stiffening him and throwing him off balance. As Wyatt caught up with him, it became increasingly apparent that the thief was not a boy as previously assumed, but a grown man somewhere between thirty and thirty-five. He lay on his back, his face completely deadpan.
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Post by Little Death on Jan 21, 2011 9:55:40 GMT -8
"Well, that was pointless." LD was still hovering in the air, having witnessed the whole event. How no one noticed the grim reaper hovering in the air was beyond her, but whatever.
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Jan 21, 2011 10:06:10 GMT -8
"Hey, cheese brain, we're not anyone' toys! We're" Marcia got out. "Marcia, enough. Besides, at least we know that someone around here can fight honorably, unlike a certain girl standing behind us." Ike replied. "Hey! I can...oh, who am I kidding, I fight dirty." Brianna responded. "Anyway...your name was Ratio, wasn't it? We can duel some time later, if you wish." Ike said, turning back to Brianna. "Get us back to Tellius or our temporary A Support is going right through you." "Got it, got it..." Brianna reluctantly replied, sending the two back where they came from.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 21, 2011 12:52:55 GMT -8
Ratio nodded, shakily righting himself, "I think I'd like that." he said, a small grin on his face, "The next time our paths cross. Hopefully then neither of us will be fresh from an attempt on their life."
As Wyatt approached a feeling of pride rushed through him. He'd done it! He'd caught the thief. His eyes lit up as he approached his felled opponent only realizing now he was much older than Wyatt had imagined. Older than Ratio he would expect for his face was starting to show some signs of age. He pulled a small dagger from his belt, pointing it at the man.
"Now, I'd like you to return the things you stole from my master and I." Wyatt commanded, he faltered a bit, realizing at once the man probably couldn't return anything right now. Not being able to move and all, "Well err..." he fumbled for his words, "Or at least tell me who you are and what you want with us."
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Post by joseph on Jan 21, 2011 13:10:40 GMT -8
"So that was your place back there?" Garrett responded, smirking at the boy's faux pas, "Well, I would, but then I wouldn't be much of a thief, would I?" As he spoke, the thief experimentally tried to raise a finger. He could, but but with some difficulty. He decided to employ a specific tactic to gain some time: "You don't get many victories, do you, kid? Stuck in your master's shadow, unappreciated, kicked around? Well, I guess I could let you have this one: I'm Garrett, and I'm trying to pay my rent."
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 21, 2011 13:40:48 GMT -8
"You'd be hard pressed to pay anything off using charms." Wyatt replied, "The material is cheap. Granite, quartz when we can get it, most of it you can't shape without using magic to do it, and the ones that you can shatter too easily. Only thing they're really good for is channeling magic through them." he shrugged, tossing the dead binding charm over his shoulder and lowering his weapon. The man couldn't do much under a binding spell, after all.
"Unappreciated? You don't know the half of it." Wyatt sighed, kneeling down beside the man. Not really giving any regards to civility his rolled the man over manually, checking his pockets for the rest of the stolen charms. He found some of them, and a multitude of jewels, rings, hair pins, pocket change, mourning pins and everything in between. He wasn't really concerned with those things. After all, it wasn't his problem that other people had been stolen from, but he knew that Ratio wouldn't appreciate him losing his weapons, especially to someone who might be enticed to sell them to someone who WOULD know how to use them. That could be messy indeed.
"My entire life is just an act of going from one master to another." Wyatt sighed, "I started off as a general's son. Too scrawny to be in the military, so I get sent to work under a tailor. Accidentally kill the tailor so I get sent off to work for a carpenter. Then I get accused of witchcraft, marked as a crazy, nearly driven out of town and nearly burn to death in an inn fire and where do I find myself? Working as the apprentice of the mage who's stunts in Layne nearly killed me! Can't exactly turn him down. Don't have anywhere else to go, and it beats living as a thief." he paused, "No offense of course." he sighed a little, "Still, what I wouldn't give to have a little freedom now and again. I mean, I'm a good enough mage. Was good enough at everything else I did, never fantastic but." he shrugged, "Ah, such is life. I'm sure I'll get out of it eventually. Ratio's not a bad guy. That is to say, he's not exactly good, and he does have a bit of a temper... and I really wish he'd stop practicing his spell on me. Even though Seven tells him time and again there's going to come a time when he can't fix me and then he'll be out an apprentice." he blinked looking up, "Ah, but I'm rambling aren't I?" He pocketed the charms he'd managed to retrieve. Still was missing a few of them. Seven would be angry at him, but other than that he was probably fine.
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Post by joseph on Jan 21, 2011 13:53:57 GMT -8
"None taken," Garrett responded. "So those were for spellcasting, huh? Not what I'm used to seeing. Most of the mages I run into use wands, and let me tell ya, they pack quite a punch." He would have shrugged if it weren't for the magical paralysis. "Being a thief isn't so bad if you know how to work under pressure. I won't bore you with my life story, but let's just say I'm leveling the field a little."
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 21, 2011 14:37:39 GMT -8
"Wands?" Wyatt repeated, "Well that's a rather novel thought." he chuckled a little, "I suppose those sorts of tools can help to concentrate energy, but wouldn't something... larger be more appropriate?" he shrugged, "You can carve encantations into the side of a staff after all. A little bit of magic will cause the spell to activate without saying the encantation in those cases, and it doesn't die after one use like charms do. They're really rather handy. Don't quite know why you'd want to use a smaller weapon instead. For precision I suppose?" he imagined the use of a wand being almost akin to using a dagger instead of a sword. Handy to have around, but hardly a proper replacement.
He smirked a little bit, "Well if you're looking to level the playing feild consider it even here." he said, "I'm about as low as you can get, barring beggars that is." he smirked a little "Don't be fooled by all little trinkets. We make just about everything we own from the things around us. The only thing we really have is magic, and I'm afraid that's a bit difficult to steal."
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Post by joseph on Jan 21, 2011 15:03:45 GMT -8
"You wouldn't like where I'm from, then," said Garrett. "There's the Nobles, the Hammerites, and then there's everybody else. Believe me, I don't snatch up just anything. Those 'charms' or whatever, they just looked kind of exotic. Magic's not really my forte, though." Garrett would have told the kid he'd stolen stuff a little more difficult than magic, but bragging wasn't his thing either. He twitched his finger again. It felt a little less stiff, but not much. "Taffer of a spell you pulled off back there."
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jan 21, 2011 15:37:47 GMT -8
"Nobles?" Wyatt laughed a little, "Trust me I know about Nobles, Lords, Barons, the like." he smirked a little, "Ratio wants to get rid of them. You could say he... we fight for a similar cause. Leveling the playing field, but on a wider scale." he looked down at his hands, hesitation clearly visibile in his eyes, "Much wider."
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Post by joseph on Jan 21, 2011 15:56:13 GMT -8
"Eh, I don't really go for the whole world domination angle. Stealing from the rich and giving to myself might not be as ambitious, but it's a living, and it keeps the bastards on their toes."
Garrett was starting to get restless. It wasn't so much that he'd been caught in the middle of a heist (and not a very productive one at that). Nor was it because of the long-unpaid rent hanging over his head (he still had plenty of time to case another mansion or two). It was because his mechanical eye had slipped out of its socket a little bit.
"Hey, kid, could you do me a favor?" he muttered. "Push on my right eye a bit."
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Post by mekasoundwave on Jan 21, 2011 18:45:37 GMT -8
And then Gurren Lagann crashed through the ceiling.
It says "Random Ass RPing" in the topic, doesnt it?
"I keep telling you we need to work on these landings, bro..." a voice from the head of the mech.
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Post by Alastor on Jan 21, 2011 18:58:10 GMT -8
"Yeah, yeah..." another voice said, muttering something about 'giant dinosaurs', "Hey, Simon? You know where we are?"
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Post by mekasoundwave on Jan 21, 2011 19:20:23 GMT -8
"Well, I'm in Lagann, and you're in Gurren," Simon responded. " I don't know much else. Maybe we should get out and check?"
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Post by Alastor on Jan 21, 2011 19:27:27 GMT -8
"Sure." Kamina replied, as the mouth/cockpit of his gunman opened. "Waaaaaait, where's Yoko and the rest of Dai-Gurren?"
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Jan 21, 2011 19:35:54 GMT -8
"I'd be amazed, but you guys have already been with me once. Oh wait, even Kamina is there? Awesome!" Brianna commented.
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Post by aquadragon94 on Jan 21, 2011 19:49:36 GMT -8
"Sorry I'm late, guys." Said Yoko, bursting through a nearby window in all of her fanservicey glory. "I had to take out a few cyborg dinosaurs." She landed next to the foot of the Gurren Lagann, her rifle at the ready.
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Post by mekasoundwave on Jan 21, 2011 19:50:55 GMT -8
"I.... Don't know, " Simon said as Lagann pulled itself out of Gurren and landed beside it. The dome of it's head opened, and Simon stepped out, Boota following. "Oh, wait, there's Yoko."
And Boota did what he did best. Dive into her cleavage.
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