Nationstatelandsville wrote:William's sword made it halfway through one seraph, embedding itself in the spine, before stopping.
William was too weak to continue, to laden with mourning and futility; what, exactly, was the point of fighting? What was the point of living?
As such thoughts began to consume its master, Excalibur would find itself unaffected - and pissed.
Calliel abruptly appeared, arms wrapped around Fen and Grace, sombreros planted firmly on the heads of each and a lei wrapped around Calliel's neck, sunglasses planted on his nose.
"I..." he muttered, "have no idea how this happened."
They would find the scene around them no less strange.
During her teleportation from Elfen High to Heaven, Grace faintly felt as if she had been brought through the Hawaii and Mexico during the journey, only to quickly depart again towards the celestial realm. The warm sensation of the sombrero wrapped around her head swiftly confirmed said feelings.
With a distressed look, Grace removed the Mexican hat, keeping it in her hands, while observing William's battle with the strange heavenly creature. Visibly shaken by such a sight, the British girl glanced up towards Calliel, and tried to grab his attention.
"Uh...Calliel," she started "what's that thing, exactly, and should we join that red-haired man in fighting it?"
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Zarkenis Ultima wrote:
Lyra watched as her monsters battled the other monsters (Who were, surprisingly, much uglier this time), simply hanging back and observing them, noticing that health bars suddenly appeared on top of everyone present. Lyra saw the ones belonging to creatures hit by the arm cannons drop considerably, most of them being struck down by one blast, though a few did manage to continue fighting after taking a hit. As she watched this all transpire in front of her, Lyra became curious and looked up, noticing a tiny little red rectangle above her. She sighed. It probably made a lot of sense for it to be that small and she knew it, but she wasn't exactly happy to see it illustrated like that.
Either way, she continued watching the fight, and saw that Caspian's gun did a lot of damage to the armcannon-wielding monsters, and so she had an idea. Quickly, she began drawing, eventually causing something to appear next to her: A revolver.
If revolvers had been invented for people twice as big as humans, anyway. And what better creature to wield such a weapon than the vaguely humanoid creature that was twice as tall as a grown man and had appeared next to Lyra moments afterwards?
The creature began firing at the enemy as well as the girl continued drawing, wondering if she'd actually need more of those things to keep the arm-cannon monsters away from Merlin.
They blew the arm cannon monsters out quickly, though twenty more came in.
Merlin muttered to himself, Ganesh's hand in his own. "I, Merlin the Bastard, known also as Myrddin Wyllt and Ambrosius Aurelianus, wizard of Camelot, sorcerer of Cymru and failed protector of Arthur, am to merge the worlds as one and remake them." he said in a dark and ancient tongue, a tongue which brought fear to those who heard it. I understand that this may not properly convey the fear a normal person would feel when they hear Welsh, but description was never my strong suit.
He began to glow an even brighter red, shining - his health bar began to slowly trickle down of its own accord, as he was using his life energy to perform this ritual.
As Damien-dragon burst in, so did someone else. Lukas, wielding a bloodied sword, burst through a nearby wall, coughing. "Set has been delayed." he explained. "He's out for now. But not for too long. Get this ready- and hurry."
A portal was opening now. Then another. And another. Finally, four portals stood, one on every side of the room. Lukas stood next to Merlin, looking worried. Out of the portals came through eight more monsters. A horrific screeching sound was heard by them, which caused some bleeding ears to those who heard it, sounding like an inherent violation in their soul.
BWOOOOOOORRRRRNNNGH Another horrific noise was heard, though the source was not visible, causing Lukas to cough and wince, and sending chills down the spines of the PCs. Merlin and Ganesh, however, seemed entirely unaware of anything going on around them, stuck in a different magical reality.
Another bar appeared over Merlin. It said simply "Gotterdammerung Progress: 15%". It slowly increased, but he needed more time.
Lukas gestured at one of the new monsters with his sword. "Let's go." he said, as she suddenly grabbed one of Lyra's arm cannon monsters and sliced it clean open with her sharp claws, screeching as she did so.
Lukas ran at it, his sword slicing at her claws, clanging sounds heard. The other creatures began to fire blue beams of energy either at Damien or Lyra, deeming them the major threats.
For the first time in the whole journey to save Ganesh, Gwen was clearly startled. She had confronted some of the worst beasts in the multiverse, dragons included, but she clearly understood that something worse than anything she had ever witnessed during her life was going to happen. The arrival of the other monsters confirmed her fears.
Struggling not to cover her ears with her hands, Gwen raced to put themselves between the monsters and Lyra/Lukas, trying to shield them from the energy beam barrage by shooting Excalibur's own beams against them, much like an AA-gun.
"I'll cover your back, run!" she yelled to the rest of the group.