Luminesa wrote:Thana
Thana calmly watched his students struggling to climb the side of the cavern. He did not seem concerned with the danger of his challenge, and his impassive expression gave away no scrutiny in his eyes. His flowing black hair and trench coat floated around in the soft breeze, unaffected by sunlight or heat. Each student sought to find their own ways up the mountain, but they were not working together. While Xavier was trying to find a way to launch himself forward off the branch, Death walked up the shadow-covered walls. ...You all have your own plans, don't you?...Interesting...In a true battle, you will have no time for plans...only for actions...only for survival... He snapped his fingers, and smiled softly as the cavern wall was covered more and more in serpentine darkness.
Both the Angel and Death managed to singe and burn away some of the serpent-creatures, but more continued toward them indiscriminately. Larger ones began to appear as Death continue to walk up the wall, causing Xavier some alarm. Covering his arm with fire, he punched it into the wall, hooking himself into the rocky wall while shooting fire up toward the incoming monsters. "I don't think this is all he has planned, guys...And driving up the wall isn't going to be easy with all these monsters in the way!" he warned. With each inch he climbed, flames streaked up the cracks in the rock, creating intricate and treacherous designs as they seared through rows of incoming serpents. As larger ones seeped out of the walls, however, one found Kimiko through the rocks. Immediately, it grabbed her leg, pulling her downward and slamming her against the wall.
"Kimiko!" Xavier was nearby, and as he blazed a group of larger serpents, he scaled the wall and moved toward her. He had to be careful to try and save her, however, as one wrong move would send her crashing downward. GIven everyone was already at least twenty feet high, such a drop would hurt her physical body. Taking a risk himself, he grabbed her arm with one hand, and tore her out of the serpent's grasp, throwing her higher up the wall. With his other hand, he blasted the serpent apart, causing himself to let go of the wall and to fall back a few feet. He managed to smash his burning fists into the walls another time, now as he hung about ten feet above the ground.
Ahhhh...that's more like it... Thana thought, with a smile. Seeing the motorcycle, however, he narrowed his eyes. He opened his trench coat ever-so-slightly, and more shadows slipped out, too slight for the students to notice. However, when they flew down toward the students, they took a rather frightening shape: a giant, orb-shaped creature made of multiple huge, staring eyes. Shadowy blackness leaked off the orb like gas, and the eyes petrified everyone who made eye-contact with it. Now with all eyes on you...let's see how you three respond...
Osiris
Osiris liked when questions were sent back his way. He knew then he was teaching an attentive student. Giving her the slightest of smiles, he walked toward her and stood before her. "...Interesting answer...as for what I believe?" He thought for a few silent moments, and then his eyes flickered back to her. "...History is not singular, in a line, focused toward a single point in time. History is now, history is tomorrow, history is yesterday. And all of those moments...are now. All that we know, all that we see and feel and speak, it is the need to reach across boundaries that are beyond human understanding. To understand history is to know the divine. And because I am divine, history is the continual reach across all of time in the now. And in every world, every dimension, every choice even. When you are created for a purpose, you sometimes forget...the world around you also has a purpose. And everything in it has a purpose. A choice. Decisions. They lead to ends, but those ends...they never end."
Kimiko
"Thank you Xavier, that thing literally came out of nowhere," she dusted off her skirt as she felt the presence of the terrifying eye monster. "Such a malicious soul," she felt as if it was staring at her, just like all of the eyes back at her home. Old anxiety began to resurface and her face grew pale. "N-not, again," she shuddered as she remembered her home, her form fading from sight to hide from the glaring eyes. She still felt the eyes watching her even if they may not be, "S-stop, staring... Stop watching me!" She unsheathed her sword and the blade lit aflame, she jumped up towards the creature blade held above her head. She became visible once as she flew through the air, "It's not my fault that they created me!"
The flames of her sword obscured her vision, so she was solely following the presence of the beast. When she thought she was close enough she brought the blade down from above, flames chasing close behind it. The first attack was followed by two more, and then two more after that, her attacks were vicious and showed no form of thought behind them. After the fifth hit the sword faded and a bow took its place, she jumped back away from the wall and pulled back an arrow. "Death is too merciful for you, YOUR SPIRIT IS MINE!" the arrow began to glow with a teal light. Flames built up at the tip of the bow as the arrow was fired, it burned with an intense heat and was shot directly at the creature's core. After the arrow was fired Kimiko began to fall down the wall, she had quickly expended a large sum of energy and it was bound to take its toll. She figured that her attacks wouldn't kill the creature but that's what she had a team for, to cover for what she could not do. She kept falling down the wall and was quickly approaching the place where Xavier was stationed.
Nyarlathotep
"I see," she was expecting some sort of test, or trial as part of her curriculum, but this kind of learning was by far one of her favorites. "And what of chaos and order, two sides of the same coin? Dark and light, good and evil? Do you hold the same ideas about them as most others do?" she was a being that represented chaos, but acted in a manner that showed little to no deviation from order, so she was curious about what Osiris thought about the two concepts.