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Post by Talon on Nov 7, 2008 19:15:32 GMT -5
Garrett sighed in conent as he surfaced from one of the springs, his swimming attire of choice having been dark-blue trunks. He grunted as he rolled over several times, then glanced at the watch on the edge of the spring.
"Aaaugh... this feels so friggin' good..." He mocked the AI.
Varion snorted, replying,
"Like I'd wanna waste my time 'relaxing'. Bah! You're just wasting more time we could be using to cacth Nexus!" The watch growled.
Ryuoki laughed, laying on the edge of a distant spring, but still within sight range.
"Oh come now, brother. You gotta give the kid some slack; you've seen what he's been through the past few weeks! Besides, if you had your own body, you'd be in there to-"
The dragon stopped short, then glanced to the side.
"Err... sorry..." The mech apologized.
Garrett shot both a questioning glance, but decided it was best to leave it alone.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Nov 7, 2008 20:00:04 GMT -5
"Relaxing's always nice to do, and around here, I've quickly learned, you usually don't get a lot of it." A certain black wyrmling stated as she came into view.
"By the way, whose the third person here, I only see two..." Cynder asked, looking around.
She then caught sight of Ryuoki, and arched an eyebrow, "Do I know you? You seem familiar..."
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Post by Talon on Nov 7, 2008 20:07:52 GMT -5
Wishing he could grin, Ryouki nodded and replied,
"In a sense.... you used to know me. I was called Spite for quite some time before I got my original body back."
Garrett blinked, then looked back and forth between the two before stopping at Cynder.
"Uhh... yeah. He's Ryuoki, the talkative watch is Varion, and I'm Garrett."
He blinked, then added,
"And you may be...?"
Wonder if she has anything to do with Mortis... He thought.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Nov 7, 2008 20:37:42 GMT -5
"Name's Cynder." the black wyrmling replied.
She slipped into another hot spring and sighed to herself.
"Things are almost always too chaotic... it gets annoying sometimes..." she muttered, more to herself.
"So, what's the reason the big bad demon army is gone?" she asked Garrett.
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Post by Talon on Nov 7, 2008 20:45:59 GMT -5
He sighed, leaning back before replying,
"Well... seems a lot of robots and I were fighting the main force... we took out quite a large number of them. Some black, horned robot killed off their leader, and the ones that were around after that pretty much dissapeared."
He groaned, rubbing his temple.
"Hence why I'm here... that fight took a lot outta me..."
"Pansy." Varion muttered.
"Hey Ryouki, catch!" Garrett shouted, picking up the watch.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Varion shouted in surprise as he sailed through the air.
Ryouki caught the flying watch in his maw, snorting a restrained laugh. Garrett bit his tongue as Varion roared,
"YOU UNGRATEFUL LITTLE SH*T!"
"Pansy!" The teen retorted back.
He laughed once more, which slowly died into another sigh. He turned back to Cynder and asked,
"So've you been here long? This is the first time we've met, I do believe..."
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Nov 10, 2008 21:23:12 GMT -5
"Um, kind of... I was here a little bit after the Aparoids made their first attack." Cynder responded. "I wasn't exactly on the right side in that battle, if you know what I mean, even if it wasn't my choice..."
She sighed, "Not one of my better moments in this world..."
She, looked around, grimaced, jumped out of the hot spting she was in, and walked over to a near by tree, and bashed her head against it about five times.
"Shut up in there..."
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Post by Talon on Nov 10, 2008 21:51:18 GMT -5
Garrett blinked, leaning back a bit as he asked,
"Uhh... you okay?"
Ryouki sighed, then stomped over to Garrett before muttering quietly,
"You recall what a Hollow is, right? Well... li'l Cynder over there happens to be 'half-Hollow' in a sense. She and her dark half share the same body, and the Hollow can be a bit troublesome at times."
Garrett's eyes widened, and he muttered,
"I'm... sorry to hear that..."
Kinda like the Guyver was with me, huh? He thought solemnly.
He looked back up, then shouted,
"Uhh... anything I can do to help?"
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Nov 10, 2008 22:45:36 GMT -5
"Not really, and this is nothing. Back when she first appeared, she was very... cruel and controlling... now... she's better about things, but she still tries to act evil, even though she's softening up." Cynder responded.
Cynder frowned to herself, feeling some strange energy in chest.
'Hey... besides the fact that we share the same body, you feeling what I'm feeling?'
'Yeah... I do... looks like you're changing a bit naturally, like you would have if you never got taken way...'
'...Like what?'
'That, we both have to figure out on our own...'
"Well, that's interesting news..." Cynder murmured, not realizing she had physically spoken.
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Post by Talon on Nov 10, 2008 23:14:34 GMT -5
((Shive: *holds up finger* Something all kids at that age go through... *frying pan to skull*))
Garrett blinked again, then asked,
"What's interesting news?"
He leaned over to Ryouki and asked quietly,
"You sure she's not just crazy? Seems common around here..."
Ryouki laughed, then shook his head.
"No... she's sane."
"Doesn't look like it..." Varion muttered.
Varion was then hurled into a nearby spring, cursing all the way. Garrett grumbled, then looked back at Cynder. Ryuoki was keeping his eyes on the wyrmling the entire time, his eyes glowing with contemplation.
I seem to recall hearing those two were getting along... but by how far? True, the Hollow could have been affected by Cynder's attitude, but then again... she's a Hollow... Hollow are never to be trusted completely... He thought.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Nov 11, 2008 0:57:27 GMT -5
"Oh, did I say that out loud? Well, any ways... seems something knew is going on... hmm..."
Cynder licked her lips, and hopped out of the spring again. Something occured to her, something she wanted to try. The wyrmling inhaled through her nostrils, then exhaled, and a black 'flame,' seemed to surge from her maw, not unlike actual fire. She made sure to keep it away from any of the others, but tilted her head when the black 'fire' lingered and seemed to not burn anything...
"That's strange..."
One of her eyes suddenly turned black with a yellow iris as Hollow Cynder cut in. "Perhaps this new breath weapon only works on those with a soul, or at least an imitation of it. Too bad we don't have any... 'willing' target practice."
Cynder shook her head and growled, "I can't belive you would think of doing something like that, even if you shoot it down later... never mind, I can believe that you would think of that. You're a Hollow after all..."
"Never doubt a Hollow, little Cynder..."
"Shut up and get back where you belong." Cynder growled again, the blinked before her eye returned to normal.
"Sorry about that, she still does that from time to time." she apologized to the others, while snuffing out the black 'fire'
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Post by Talon on Nov 11, 2008 20:30:33 GMT -5
Garrett nodded dumbly, muttering,
"Well that's.... uh, interesting..."
Ryouki's eyes narrowed when the Hollow had finished speaking, and one of his right foreclaws drummed on the ground. The mecha-dragon suddenly perked his head up, and he abruptly roared,
"CROMIANS!!!"
Garrett jerked in shock, then dove into the spring where Varion was tossed as several of the biomechanical creatures bursted forth from the treeline, headed by the Lord of Wind, Avialis. The Gaigan-look-alike clacked his beak as he hissed,
"You know the drill! Find the boy and kill him! Make sure he can't initiate Varion!"
All three of the drones stomped forward, one bearing a naga-like build with a pair of large pincers in place of hands and a wolf-like head; the second resembling a bulky humanoid covered in tank-plating and bearing two cannons on its shoulders, with tread-feet and single featureless head; and the third resembled a humanoid bat with a chaingun-like weapon on its left arm. Avialis glanced at Cynder, then snorted before focusing on Ryouki.
"You! You're MINE!" He hissed.
Ryouki bellowed, of which was strong enough to shake the loose rocks nearby, before slamming into Avialis and sending him into the rock wall. The Harbinger's mount began taring into the Wind Lord with tooth and claw as the three lesser Cromians staggered towards the spring where Garrett was last seen...
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Nov 11, 2008 22:11:10 GMT -5
Cynder wasn't having any of that though, and ran to place herself between the cormians and the spring Garrett had dove into.
'Let me handle this, I'm sure I can win with my new breath weapon. I don't want to have to resort to letting an evil person, even if you're not as evil as before.'
"Hate to burst your bubble, kid, but those powers seemed to develop because of your time under the influence of the Dark Master, and maybe Armaggedon as well."
'WHAT!?'
"Hehehe, don't look at it badly, after all, what better way to spite one's tormenter then using the powers given because of that tormenter for the opposing force? ... I can't believe I just said that..."
'... You know, you've got a point there... Thanks...'
Cynder grinned at the lesser Cromians, her fangs peaking through, as she called up the new 'Shadow Breath' that she had, spewing a stream of it at the naga cromian. The naga screamed in pain and fell back, writhing as the shadows burned his body like corrupt fire, both organic and mettalic components alike. She let up on the stream to turn to another Cromian, while the lingering 'fire' from the Shadow Breath tormented the naga more. Another 'instinct,' as it may be, crossed her mind, and she followed on it, inhaling again before launching a sphere of green liquid and the bat Cromian, splattering across its form as it struck. All the organic parts struck by the new breath weapon seemed to turn sickly as the liquid seeped in, and the Cromian sagged. It was no where near a fatal dose, thanks to its regeneration, but the new Poison Breath would keep it occupied for a bit.
Cynder finally turned to the bulky tank-like Cromian, figuring her Poison Breath wouldn't do much, so she tried something else, this inhaling was much deeper then any of the others, but only air came out when she exhaled...
But it came out hard and fast, like a miniature gale. The Wind Breath picked up enough force that the tank like Cromian was blown back a few feet, and even knocked over. Glancing at the naga Cromian after that, she sent another Shadow Breath its way to make sure it stayed down, but wasn't sure if it would actually kill it.
'Ok... Maybe I can't win, but hopefully he'll have enough time to get Varion... and 'activate' him or something...' Cynder ruefully thought, frowning.
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Post by Talon on Nov 11, 2008 23:06:43 GMT -5
Avialis snarled, sending an electricity-hued burst of wind forth from his indent and sent Ryouki tumbling away from the Ether Lord. He snarled, fangs exposed before he did a double-take at the other Cromians. He blinked, then looked around. No Varion. He blinked again, and looked at Cynder... then all four of his eyes narrowed.
"WHAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?! Some insolent little creature has deterred three Cromians on its OWN?!" He screeched.
Ryouki snarled, then headbutted Avialis back, replying,
"I wouldn't underestimate that one... there's more to her than meets the eye..."
Meanwhile, the 'bat' Cromian had shaken off the posion, but the naga Cromian wasn't so lucky... his ability to regenerate seemed to have been hampered by Cynder's Shadow Breath, and his life-force was dwindling away. Meanwhile, the Tank Cromian had gotten back up, then snarled at Cynder before rushing forward and knocking the onyx wyrmling out of his way. Just was the biomechanical beast grunted a laugh, a voice roared,
"HEY! You NEVER hit a lady!"
The Cromia turned back to the spring to see it explode outwards, then a fist immersed in green, fiery energy slammed into what litle it had of a face, detonating and sending the beast staggering backwards as it tried to regenerate, but could not do so. Garrett, fully immersed in the 'complete' Varion, floated above the spring as the water all came raining back down, giving the Astral Harbinger a strange sense of majesty. He turned his green optics to Cynder and asked,
"You okay?"
He paused, then glanced at the two 'downed' Cromians.
"...you did that? Wow! I'm impressed!"
Meanwhile, Avialis scowled, then mentally smirked.
If I can kill him here, imagine how my reputation would increase.... after all, it's not the same human...
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Nov 11, 2008 23:48:54 GMT -5
"I'm ok... Takes more then that to down a dragon, even if I'm only a child." Cynder replied, standing back up.
"And ya, I did that to those two. They had it coming."
She then observed the damage Garrett/Varion had done to the tank Cromian.
"Looks like you are more then well equiped to deal with these guys..."
Cynder shrugged to herself, firing a stream of her Shadow Breath at the Bat Cromian, striking it in the face. It collasped like its bretheren, but this time, Cynder didn't stop, sustaining the stream on the writhing Cromian until it just fell limp and stopped moving entirely. The onyx wyrmling licked her lips, feeling she could still use these new breath weapons still.
"Strange... I should be out of Mana by now, but I still feel like I've got a full 'charge' of it... Must be an after effect of getting pulled from my dimension into this one."
She then glanced over at the Ether Lord and Ryouki. "Lets finish up with this last Cromian and then help your friend. He might be having some trouble."
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Post by Talon on Nov 12, 2008 21:04:38 GMT -5
"Aye-aye cap'n!" Garrett replied.
The Tank Cromian rose to its feet, clutching at its damaged face before It looked up through its bloodstained optic to see energy gathering around Varion's chest. The single cred circle widened, and the Cromian started backing away before Garrett roared,
"NEBULA PUULSE!!!"
The wave of orchid-colored energy tore through the air and slammed into the Cromian, effectively liquifying him after several seconds of exposure. Avialis took note of this and scowled, then turned back to Ryouki just in time to dodge a torrent of blue 'fire'. The avian Cromian screeched at the mecha-wyrm as he bounced backwards, landing beside Garrett/Varion. Avialis smirked, then went airborne as the wind began to pick up in the area. Ryouki bellowed in protest as Avialis roared,
"I suppose you didn't tell the boy that I happen to be the fastest Cromian in existance, did ya?"
He cackeled as electricity crackled between his claws, then lashed both appendages forward, of which sent out twin bolts of blue voltage slamming into Varion and Ryuoki. Avialis's four eyes flashed with malice as he turned to Cynder, hissing,
"You're... next..."
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