God Yet Lives

<Don't be absurd. That hideous form couldn't possibly defeat the sublime beauty of Blanca Rosa. The hard angles, the crusty exoskeleton, the deadened locks, the pockmarked face...such a sick joke should not be tolerated. I shall have to punish you before you feel the rose's sting.>

*He pulls out his sword & puts his hand near the tip.*

<Charlotte Coulhorn's Magnificent Spectacular Impecable Sonido Slash!>

*With that, he takes a single Sonido step, spinning as he does. The result is a sort of bladed death top spinning around & striking Mortal from multiple angles. Meanwhile, the rose is 1/3 open.*
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*It bites the bindings off & swims past him.*

<Antlion has a high tolerance for pain. Once it's sure its prey can't fight back, then it will finish the job. But since we appear to be at a stalemate....>

*Gio Vega appears in front of Aroma & Sab as the Antlion swims towards Senthose.*

<How about you? Are you fast enough to give me a little warmup?>
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*The funny thing about eyes, they don't have to be looking at everything pointed towards them, including other eyes. The Hollow was busy looking at each set of feet in tandem.*

<That doesn't matter. All that matters in a battle is killing the enemy like a warrior! Not running & hiding like some kind of coward!>

All of the Astarte's disappeared, and five reappeared in the air above him. They began to sonido in all different directions around the bird like flies, blasting him with lightning as they went.

Mortal uses her hands in a flowing motion to deflect, and defend against the strikes with scales, then uses her wings to launch her into the air at a speed she normally wouldn't have access to. She lands on the other side of the dome, and takes the same stance. Her entire body is now glowing a bright blue, but her wings are still normal, with only a slight glow of blue at the base of the wings.

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Sab teleport punches Vega in the face, "I am so not in the mood for snide remarks!"

*Unable to evade all of the lightning strikes, the bird is hit a few times & falls to the ground, wings singed & feathers falling off. As he goes, he unleashes a volley of Balas at the general area the clones are in by clicking his beak.*
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*Gio slashes at Sab's stomach when she appears in front of him.*

<Hopefully you're more fun to fight than you are to talk to.>

*Senthose is forced to take to the air to avoid Antlion. When he does, a black & white feathered Hollow flits past him, its mask having 3 forward-pointing horns arranged in a triangle & a snout like a beak with teeth.*
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*Even evading all of those attacks, Mortal finds herself covered with small nicks & scratches.*

<The thicket constrains those who cannot appreciate its beauty, doesn't it? Movement will become even harder as the thorn bushes grow ever closer together. But the true beauty of my attacks is that they complement one another, like the dazzling dance of a rainbow.>

*He touches a thorny tendril.*

<Charlotte Coulhorn's Special: Ultra Breathtaking Auroraborealic Vibrant Petal Blooms.>

*He fires a burst of pink Reitsu into the plant. Mortal soon finds herself surrounded by a series of bright, pink-tinged-but-multicolored explosions. Even as shit is blowing up in her face, Charlotte shouts the attack he did in the previous post & repeats it on her. The rose is now 2/3 open.*
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*It does not because THEY ARE VIOLENTLY WORKEN UP WHEN THE PLANE HITS THE GROUND BECAUSE it lands safely on the runway.*

Sab jumped over the slash, and tried to land her shins onto Vega's shoulders. Should this happen she squeezes her thighs together, then twists them violently in an attempt to break his neck.

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Noct had wrapped her arms around Euryale and had her Fullbring blinked on until she noticed they had simply landed. Blinking off her fullbring, and releasing Euryale, Noct, embarrassed, said, "Right, we're only landing, I knew that..."

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Mortal dances around the spinning again, and tanks the explosions, smiling a bit as her wings light up, "I shall set fire to the rain, for Azazel signals the coming of the apocalypse." Mortal let out a small breath and extended her wings to their full extent, the small motion seemed to shake the ground, and blue fire started falling in rain drop sizes. Mortal then flapped each pair of wings, bringing her closer to Charlotte, starting from the bottom and working her way up, each flap accompanied by a thunderous boom, until she reached her two feathered wings. When the last pair of wings flapped an explosion of pure white light washed over the entire dome, destroying everything. When the light cleared Mortal was standing in a crater of vitrified glass, holding two feathers in her hands, wings still at full span, though she only had the dimmest shine of blue left on her.

Astarte stopped moving and used both of her hands and her wings to unleash a storm of lightning that intercepted the Ballas.
"You are much weaker than I expected you to be," Astarte's mocking voice seemed to come from all around the bird as her clones spread out again. "But weak or not, don't expect me to be merciful!"
Astarte's image flickered and she appeared directly before the bird, lightning from her wings arcing into it's wings, and lightning from her fingers blasting into it's face.

<Weak?! WEAK!? You just ran & hid! If this were a real fight, I would have been victorious! No...no, wait! Please!>

*He is obliterated by goddamn lightning. Charlotte, on the other hand, was not quite destroyed. He staggers towards Mortal, clothes nearly ripped off.*

<That technique...so beau--no! No, I won't say it!>

*He laughs in a surprisingly cold tone as he hefts his sword over his shoulder.*

<I may have run out of tricks, but I have one more option! You should feel privelaged...there will be great beauty in our mutual deaths!>

*With that, he begins glowing pinkish-white & runs at Mortal, stabbing at her. Meanwhile, Gio Vega mostly ignores all of that. When he goes to stab her again, several lines of silk are wrapped around his arm & Aroma is pulling on the other end, preventing him from doing so. Up above, Senthose watches the strange Hollow swim through the air. It looks like a feathered snake, but with dozens of fins along its body. As he watches it, blue Ceros start forming in its wake like stars.*

S"O-ho, looks like I'm not the only one who did his research on our former comrades."
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"Consider yourself lucky. Flights are terrible for me. The whole time, in the back of my head, I can feel the plane struggling to meet the ground. Then, when it finally goes in for the landing, it's like the plane & the ground are rushing towards each other, & the plane is literally shivering in anticipation."

Astarte laughed, mania in her eyes and voice, before turning her eyes to Gio Vega.
"There will be more blood!" She cried as she leapt up and flew towards her new target.

Mortal furrowed her eyebrows, "Still alive are you? Either you're stronger than you appeared, or I'm rusty when it comes to using my wings..." Mortal extends her hand out at him, "Either way, good bye now." With that she fires off a cero, her wings glowing blue again as she does, strengthening the cero, which is itself, whiter than its normal blue.

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Sab takes this time to drop out of her release, grab her sword, and go Ruroni Kenshin on a mother fucker, quickly drawing her sword and slashing at Vega.

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"That sounds... oddly sexual."

*Gio Sonidos out of the way, appearing behind Astarte & firing a red Cero at her from his hand. Meanwhile, a massive set of jaws opens up underneath Aroma & Sab. Senthose generates a sphere of electricity & starts being pummeled with Ceros. As the repeated blasts add up & up, the explosions eventually block him from view. Charlotte is entirely disintegrated.*
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*Euryale raises an eyebrow.*

Astarte tried to counter with a blast of lightning from her wings, but was still sent stumbling by the attack and burnt minorly. She then split into four clones and surrounded Gio. One clone lunged for his front and the Astarte herself lunged for his back.

As the thorn bush withers away Mortal notices Sab and Aroma about to get eaten and flies in to grab the two of them from the jaws of death. As she flies higher in the air she looks down and fires a cero from her mouth into the open jaws of whatever is in the sand.

"Mortal?! You're flying!" Sab: Captain of the Obvious.

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Noct fidgeted a bit, "What, don't look at me like that... it did."

"No it didn't."
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A"I'm glad you're okay."

*The creature roars & dives further into the sand. Suddenly, blasts of orange light start exploding out of the dirt & up at Mortal. Things are not going so well for Senthose, who falls out of the sky literally full of holes. Gio Vega separates into 3 Gios.*

<What...you think you're the only one...who can make Sonido Clones?>

"I'm glad too." Sab said.

"I'm glad you're both glad, now excuse me," Mortal tossed the two of them high into the air where Sab released, grabbed Aroma, and teleported away to the ground.

Mortal uses her newfound mobility to dart and weave out of the way of the blasts.

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"It kind of did..." Noct said, "To me at least. Or maybe I just need someone to teach me what really sounds sexual."

Astarte's smile widened even more and she added another clone before unleashing lightning onto all three of Gio Vega.
"You are inferior! Die!"

*One of the Gios darts past, smacking her in the face with the weight in his hair.*

<Funny, I was just thinking the same thing.>

*The snakelike Hollow flies after Mortal next. It opens its mouth & fires a wide stream of blue fire at her. Meanwhile, the Antlion veers away from Senthose. Instead, a giant, clawed white hand bursts up from the ground to grab him.*
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"Maybe, but we really should find the hotel first."

Mortal retaliates by shooting a stream of fire out of her mouth, then shoots two ceros from her hands.

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Sab teleports Senthose away from the hand, "Are you alright?"

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"Yea, lets get going."

"Senthose" Yue says as his blades regenerate, "You said he had six subordinates right? I think we're missing some"

Astarte shot out a hand as he flew past and grabbed him by the collar/shoulder, her head being knocked back as she took the blow in the face, only to jerk back again and slam into Gio's nose.

*She fails to grab him. Four Vega clones appear around her, slashing, stabbing, & kicking at her.*

"Naturally. I did not expect them all to attack at once. The others are likely assessing this fight to determine their next strategy. For the time being, we have a bigger problem. That Menos flying around up there has Starrk's powers."

*When the flames clear, a thousand Ceros blast towards Mortal. The Gillian that tried to grab Senthose climbs out of the ground, as does 4 others.*
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*When they found the hotel, Euryale called Joh to let them know they'd landed, & Lilith answered the phone.*

"No, I don't know where Lulu would be hiding. Just be sure that when you finally find her, all of the doors & windows leading outside are closed. Alright, I'll check back with you in a few days. Bye."

*Once finished, she hangs up & tosses the phone on the bed.*

"Right, so, anything you want to do before bed?"

"I can try to sniff the others ou- holy crap that's a lot of ceros!" Yue exclaims before blasting the gillians with cero's from both his hands.

Astarte unleashed lightning from both wings and arms onto all of the Gio clones.
She then leapt up further into the air and split into her maximum number of clones before repeating her earlier strategy of having all of her clones and herself fly around the target, blasting him with lightning as they went.

*Gio's upper body swells, breaking free from his outfit & growing coarse, red-black fur. The blades on his hands also grow, to the point where his hands are just large bone spikes. As he transforms, the burns from the lightning fade away, & once completed, they no longer seem to bother him.*

<I'm getting tired of this. In this case, I'll abandon speed. One good attack should be enough to finish this.>

*Two of the Menos fall, the others opening their mouthes & blasting him with Ceros. To make matters worse, Antlion begins firing Ceros out of the sand again, this time at Senthose & Sab.*

Yue takes an almost direct hit from one of the ceros and is sent sprawling midair but manages to avoid the second. He doesn't stay down for long before launching into a cero fist flurry on the offending gillians.

Astarte paused and examined her opponent's new form, "What do you take me for?!"
She disappeared once again and reappeared just behind Gio's right shoulder, slashing at his jugular with her claws.