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Post by Talon on Aug 2, 2008 12:39:20 GMT -5
A single hunched, humanoid shape stood on one of the stone 'pillars' near the cliffs, its four blue eyes observing the night skies intently. It was shaped much like the orange biomechanical creature that Cresence fought a day ago, except this entity was much more lithe, and covered in plates of black and green. Its head was shaped like a bullet, the front-bottom half taken up by three mandibles, a row of ridhges running up its forehead to the back of its head. It had only two claws on both hands and feet, and four cockroach-like legs jutted out of its back, each also ending in two small claws. A xenomorph-like tail stretched out behind it.
Occasionally, its jaws would open and twitch, accompanied by a strange chittering noise, then the jaws would close.
"This planet.... it SUCKS... there's nothing to do here..." It grumble,d eyes still wide and staring.
It glanced at the cliffs behind it, muttering,
"What Master has in plan is beyond me... but, it's not my place to question him."
It quickly turned back to the sky, not wanting to be caught off-guard by any unwanted intruders.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Aug 2, 2008 12:47:06 GMT -5
"Huh... it seems we're both bored out of our skulls."
The one who spoke revealed himself to be Cresence, who had yet to manage to find anyone worth blowing off steam against.
"I assume you are another 'Ether Lord'?" The crystalline beast continued.
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Post by Talon on Aug 2, 2008 12:52:56 GMT -5
The thing's mandibles dropped open, and it blinked, confused.
"Ether... I? No! I'm just a drone! How'd you know of them?!" It hissed, shocked.
He looked behind him for a moment, then back at Cresence, taking one step back.
"Who are you...?" He asked, eyes narrowed.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Aug 2, 2008 13:01:16 GMT -5
'Just a drone? Guess his master won't mind if he loses one.'
Cresence suddenly smiled that evil smile of his as he looked at the drone, and stalked closer to it.
"I've had a run in with an Ether Lord... The Lord of Fire to be precise. I didn't like him all that much, so we fought. The coward ran away before the fight was decided though. As for who I am... I am called Cresence. And you, my friend, are dead."
Cresence's arm lashed out, catching the drone and lifting him up. Cresence slammed it down head first, before drawing it towards himself.
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Post by Talon on Aug 2, 2008 14:12:53 GMT -5
The drone roared in surprise and anger before biting down hard on Cresence's arm, actually managed to bite the hand off. His four back-legs twitched before he rushed forward, hissing,
"You'll regret f*cking with a Cromian!"
The thing jumped into the air and smashed both feet into Cresence's face, sending him skidding backwards before the drone splayed out his back-arms. Green, crackling energy began surging along their length as he cackled hissingly, a green sphere of light forming in each back-leg's claws. He then lashed them all forward, sending off four crescent-shaped waves of energy that impacted into Cresence, slicing away decent chunks of his hide.
The drone glanced at the severed claw on the ground, pickied it up, then slid it into his maw, the crunching o crystal apparent as he swallowed it.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Aug 2, 2008 14:25:14 GMT -5
Cresence laughed even as the slight pain stabbed his mind.
"No, you'll regret eating part of my body! Watch and learn." Cresence laughed, as the Cromian suddenly screamed in pain as the crystal now in his body speared through and out of his stomach, a second spike erupting from his back, and yet a third erupting from his shoulder. The crystal returned to a liquid state and retreated from the Cromian's body, pooling back into Cresence's own body as his hand reformed.
"I could have speared you through the heart and brain if I wanted to. As a matter of fact, I could kill you right now, but where's the fun in that?"
Cresence grinned again, as his fingers split into thousands of tendrils, the tips of which hardening and diving below ground. Cresence continued to feed them through the ground, until they were right under the Cromian. The slight rumble of the earth was the only warning before the 'thorns' erupted underneath their target.
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Post by Talon on Aug 2, 2008 15:15:26 GMT -5
The beast screeched as he was run through by several of the spears, then suddenly 'grinned' as the holes began closing. Grabbing onto several of the spikes with his back-mounted claws, he sent surges of green energy through them, and therefore, into Cresence, causing small explosions and making Cresence begin to smoke.
"Plasma is such an interesting energy to produce at will..." The drone hissed.
He snapped himself off the spikes, musculatory actions spitting the leftover spikes from his body.
"All of us Cromians have excellent regeneration that only goes up with our rank. Even we drones can recover from almost-fatal wounds, given a bit of time." The drone stated, spitting out a handful of black-blue, oily blood.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Aug 2, 2008 15:25:46 GMT -5
Cresence sweatdropped at that.
"You do realize the the complete and utter destruction of the heart and brain is fatal to most, if not all, organisms, don't you? Well, in either case, the ability to regenerate lost mass without having to retreat to a new location to absorb various materials is nice..."
The crystalline beast licked its lips.
"You won't be returning to your master if you keep giving out juicy details of your abilities." Cresence finished, trying something new to absorb an enemy. Every part of him, save his head, turned into a liquid state and rushed at the Cromian like a tidal wave, enveloping him from the chest down in liquid crystal.
"If I were you, I'd start struggling, you've only got five minutes before you're body is absorbed into my own." Cresence informed as his head loomed over the Cromian.
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Post by Talon on Aug 2, 2008 16:03:14 GMT -5
((*taps finger on desk* I coulda sworn Cresence learned his lesson after the Geno Breaker.... heh, guess not))
The drone's eyes narrowed, seeing as how he had very little options.
"I will gladly die for Master's cause!" He suddenly barked.
Green energy crackled up and down his frame as a part of his chest split open, revealing a black, squishy-looking sphere covered in dark-blue, puslating veins. Said sphere resembled the object Master Gundam had implanted in his chest before his demise at Burning Gundam's hands. The sphere started flashing as the drone hissed,
"If you do not end here, you will surely fall at Master's hands! All lifeforms shall!"
With that, the drone suddenly exploded in a nova of green energy that blew off the top half of the pillar, and lighting up the surrounding area for about half a mile. While the drone was surely dead, the same would most likely not be the same for Cresence....
But it still had to have hurt.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Aug 2, 2008 16:14:20 GMT -5
And yet... there he was, still in the same position he was in, though the cyrstal that surrounded the drone quickly opened up into a hole.
The only other difference was that Cresence's eyes were closed.
"Did that idiot really think he could get me with a self-destruct move with such an obvious charge up time? It was more then enough for me to erect a barrier... I'm insulted thatt he thought he could damage me with that. Doesn't take a mind reader to tell what visible sparks of building energy mean." the crystallne beast muttered angrily, asssuming his normal form.
"Oh well, guess I'll have to find another Cromian and catch it off guard." he ended, spreading his wings and taking flight.
((Cresence: For the record, I did learn my lesson.
Azure: Sure you did...
Cresence: *growls at Azure*))
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Post by Talon on Aug 2, 2008 17:56:20 GMT -5
It was then Cresence saw the large Cromian stomping across the cliffs, holding a dark-blue Surge Crystal.
The thing was extremely bulky-looking, bearing two cylindrical arms, one of which ended in a mace-like head, the other in three thick, scythe-like claws. It bore a head Much like the previous's Cromian's, but thicker around, and the mandibles were stronger-looking. A single red eye peered out from the top of its head, and three cylinders were mounted on its back, one in the middle and slightly above the other two, and another one on each side. Its feet were nothing more then wide, triangular prisms. Its coloration was a gray-brown in color, with a dark, dark green at the joints.
"This may not do much... but it may help..." It rumbled, delving into one of the caves in the cliffsides.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Aug 2, 2008 18:18:03 GMT -5
(OOC: I'll just assume you had prior permission from Fred to do this.)
Cresence's jaw dropped, as he looked at the Cromian...
"A Power Surge... A Power Surge that is rightfully mines! Hehe... two birds with one stone. I get my regeneration, and a new Power Surge along with it."
Turning into liquid, Cresence dived into the cliffside, before rapidly pulsing his way to the Cromian, undetected.
While Regeneration would be nice, this was what Cresence was planning to do.
1. Ambush Cromian. Steal Surge Crystal.
2. Store Crystal for safe keeping within body.
3. Attempt to subdue and absorb Cromian.
4. Retreat regardless of the success or failure of Step 3, Absorb Power Surge before getting potentially ambushed.
With his plan in mind, he travelled up one of the walls of the cave, keeping pace infront of the Cromian. When the being least expected it, Cresence's bladed tail erupted outwards, quickly followed by three thick tendrils of liquid crystal. The bladed tail, with the force Cresence was putting behind it, chopped the hand holding the Surge Crystal off, which was quickly caught by the tendrils and pulled back to the wall, Cresence 'surfaced' from it, and wrapped his body around the crystal so that it floated in his chest, before becoming invisble as Cresence hardened his skin there to try and prevent an attack from getting through to it.
Seeing as two steps were completed in less then five seconds, Cresence couldn't help but mentally pat himself on the back. Now he would at least get one thing he desired if all went well.
"Sorry for the intrusion, but you had something that belonged to me." Cresence cracked as he smiled, edging towards the far off opening as he stared down the Cromian from his position upside down on the wall.
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Post by Talon on Aug 2, 2008 18:59:08 GMT -5
"Belonged...?"
"To...?"
"You...?"
All light was suddenly extinguished from the area as the entrance to the cave was sealed off. One red eye, two yellow eyes, four sky-blue eyes, and two green eyes peered forth from the darkness at Cresence, all of them narrowed.
"Something makes us think tht isn't true..."
Cresence was then ravaged by peals of concussive force, streaks of white-hot fire, shards of diamond-hard ice, and wind so pressurized it shatted rock. Several claws grabbed him and slammed him into the wall as all four entities growled,
[glow=white,2,300]"You do NOT take what is rightful property of the Ether Lords! Such an occurence results in death!"[/glow]
Four spheres of light began to illuminate the area, until a single raspy voice halted them.
"Wait... release him."
"Sir?"
"I don't believe I stuttered, Pyraxus."
Reluctantly, the four claws all released Cresence simultaneously. The exit was blown open, letting the moonlight filter in on the four Cromians, one being the red-orange Cromian from before, and the bulky brown one as well. But the attention was drawn to the pair of red eyes in the back of the cave.
"I must say, I'm impressed with someone who can manage to pull off a feat like that. Tell me, before you go, what's your name?"
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Aug 2, 2008 19:12:26 GMT -5
Cresence just shook off the pain and pulled back parts of his body that had been splattered everywhere from the quadruple attack.
"I go by the name Cresence, and for the record, this body I use is birthed from the crystals of the exact same origin as the Surge Crystals, which is why I claimed it to rightfully belonged to me. Because, in a sense, it does. Besides, submerging into any material isn't the only thing I can do."
His body rippled as it shifted, until he looked exactly like Pyraxs, then rippled again as it assumed the form of the wind-based Ether Lord. The process repeated as assumed the forms of the last two Ether Lords, before returning to his normal self.
"Imitations are quite an easy feat for me as well... assuming the one I'm imitating isn't in the vicinity."
Cresence then frowned.
"Why do you take such sudden intrest in me?"
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Post by Talon on Aug 3, 2008 15:04:50 GMT -5
A chill took over the area as the shadows seemed to deepen from that end of the cave.
"Why? You've got some interesting abilities, and the intelligence to use them well. Tell me, would you mind doing me a favor in exchange for some of these crystals? We gathered two more, but for some reason they won't work for us." He replied.
The entity's eyes narrowed, and if one looked closely, a sort of hollow pupil seemed to be set into the center of each.
"I need humans. Live, healthy humans. Roughly a dozen or so. Would such a trade be of interest to you?"
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