Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
The Hub => Hangout => Roleplaying => Topic started by: K2 on August 03, 2011, 08:04:39 PM
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One on one battle, please. You pick the setting, I don't care. Sorry Hawk, not you, I always fight you. Want someone else...
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Jay Stryder setting the stage.
Neutral ground, an abandoned city. No inherent advantage to either.
I swear not to use freezing.
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"Go."
As Zere began his rampage of the abandoned neutral city, used primarily for inter-empire alliances, currently abandoned due to the recent Plexan attack, a large explosion rocked the city, a tall skyscraper exploding. In the center of the city itself, Zere appeared, the Anrufe cloak upon him. To his left and right, two circles could be seen in the air, made of some black energy, constantly spinning around like a wheel.
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Merely walking along the street, hat tipped as he came across the remains.
A dark smirk drawn across his lips.
"Across the universe they talk of the man who killed Plex."
He seemingly muttered to himself, his cape flowing in the wind as he began to rise.
"The Warrior Of Light, The Ultimate Templar"
His voice became a little louder as he approached Zere's level.
"Jay Stryder, motherfucker."
Jay lifted his hat to show his face, an almost manic grin across his face as he eyed the man from the Anrufe.
In his other hand appeared a greatsword, pointed at Zere "Here to kick your bald ass."
He floated there, his cape flapping in the wind.
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"Zere," he replied, a smile on his face, "The only reason you beat Plex is because I wasn't there to do it first... I should thank you. I would hate that kind of pressure. I might've had to make everything go boom."
The greatsword's blade suddenly found itself fighting against net-like harness seals, green little circles of floating energy which were linked together in the shape of a net. It the sword touched it, whichever part of the sword did would be sealed, chunks of the sword itself "eaten" by the seals.
All across Zere's own body, tattoos began to appear as the figure closed his eyes, his smile fading.
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Jays smirk continued to be plastered across his face as the parts of the sword that disappeared almost instantly returned, every single time a seal came across. The sword was repairing itself.
"Bro. You clearly ain't ever seen me in action." Jay chuckled, suddenly he was behind Zere.
He had his handgun directly behind Zere's head and emptied the clip into the sage's head, speeding the bullets through time.
It was clear a being as strong as a sage would be able to survive a basic handgun but hey, sometimes you get lucky but just for insurance, fire burst out of the barrel aswell; Consuming Zere's head.
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The tattoos that had surrounded Zere were seals. The moment the fire and bullets touched him, they were absorbed, sealed inside the tattoos themselves before they could penetrate Zere's skin. It still hurt like hell, but by no means was any of it fatal.
Zere's body suddenly turned into a pile of mesh, melting into a black gunk which reached out towards Jay's body, trying to surround his legs. The seals kept growing stronger as they absorbed bits of Jay's sword. They were working faster now, trying to absorb the sword before it could regenerate.
Zere's real body appeared once more, spurting out of the ground on a sidewalk aside, watching as his black gunk went to work.
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"Not much of the talkative type huh?" Jay muttered, appearing on the ground before Zere "You're slow."
Jay tired of his sword destroying itself and instead put a short burst of effort into returning it to its original state and literally sealing it in it's original state. As the seals hit the blade now they found themselves incapable of sealing anything; The blade was locked in Time.
The Templar then swung the sword in the air towards Zere as two silver bursts of energy burst out of it; cutting through time and rewinding anything in it's path.
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"You're dumb," Zere replied.
The black gunk now poured out of the otherwise useless seals, the seals themselves now acting as portals. The gunk started to surround the sword, hardening around it. As Jay tried to swing it towards Zere, he would find it heavier now and unable to cut into anything. The two silver bolts were trapped within the harden goo, its effects on time seemingly being mirrored by the goo, pushed towards the sword.
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Of course, the second the bolts touched the goo the goo reverted into harmless seals.
"Man you are like obsessed with gettin' rid of my sword." Jay laughed, the goo beginning to be rewound in time "You know, seals are boring as all anything. It's been a while since I used jus' magic."
Silver energy encompassed the blade as it disappeared. It would return to the Citadel and go back into it's original state.
The Templar cracked his knuckles "I'mma assume punching you in the face won't work" He grinned "Seriously considering it though."
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He smiled. Back to square one, then.
He held out both of his hands, and on the underside of them, black marks began to appear. He glanced down at the ground, as if he were measuring something in his head, and then the black marks, seal circles, shot off his hand and onto the ground as he jumped back about a foot and repeated the process. He ended up lining two columns of nine rows of seals out. When that was done, he smiled as he muttered... Something.
"Metaok!"
From the seals, black lines started to run horizontal across the street. Now, nine lines, running horizontal, were between the two, with two seals in each line.
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Jay leapt backwards, generating Temporal Energies into his hands. Once he was at a safe enough distance from the seals he launched a wave of silver energy at Zere, grinning. He also slowed time for himself to ensure he had a higher reaction time.
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The moment the silver bullets passed through the SPACE that the lines were drawn across, they became useless. The bolts stopped at the first line. It would only be able to effect time that it interacted with there on that first line. It could not go any further.
The moment that it stopped, the lines began to revert to their original state, just two seals...
But because those two seals had been forced to change states, it reacted accordingly, creating a third seal next to the two on that row. Now, the first line grew back, with three seals instead of two.
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"I...." Jay chuckled "Is this a damn joke?" The Templar raised his hands towards the area the seals were in and clapped them together. The area around them and the ground underneath them were enveloped in a silver light before disappearing entirely; Sealed in time until the end of their battle.
"Attack me you son'bitch." He raised his hand again, launching another blast of temporal energy.
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But the space that the area was in seemed to be fighting back, as if something had been binded to it, a spell or enchantment of some sorts, something not physical that time itself would not be able to contest. The seals and lines reappeared, with one more seal appearing on each row than before.
"You'll have to do better than that to beat me," Zere informed Jay, smiling, "I AM GOING.. TO WIN!"
As the temporal energy once more reached the first line, the same event as before occurred, with the lines being reverted back to the original seals, and then the lines regrowing with one extra seal.
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Jay shrugged.
At that point he was literally behind Zere, firing another temporal bolt at him sped through time.
"I never caught your name." He smirked, appearing in another area in the viscinity behind Zere again, launching another bolt.
"I don't think I especially care though."
This time he was next to Zere again, launching a fireball almost directly into his face.
The Templars cape fluttered in the wind with each movement; It was almost as if Jay were making it a point to seem as flashy and showy as possible.
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The three attacks merged where Zere had been standing as he disappeared, reappearing on a nearby building's roof, glancing down to Jay. The roof of the building literally became covered with seals. If Jay was going to try to appear next to Zere again, he would find his feet sealed before he could say "ouch".
This was going to be a long-range fight.
"THE NAME'S ZERE!" he shouted back, "AND I... WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO MY PARTY!"
He broke out in his psychotic laughter as another building near Jay blew, its rubble toppling down towards Jay.
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"You're a damn freak." A dark smirk ran across Jay's lips as the rubble came down upon him.
Suddenly as if out of nowhere, the rubble was falling upon Zere instead and Jay was standing arms folded on top of another building "And I pity you."
Jay then sped time up for Zere, as if he were now slow to anyone perceiving the battle. It was clear that he wasn't going to win this battle being sportsmanlike; He'd have to destroy this opponent with all he had.
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Zere smiled at Jay's comment, mouthing the words, "Thank you."
As the rubble started to fall down upon Zere, he didn't even move. As rubble started to fall down towards him, his seals began to absorb it, every piece of debris, the seals turning into pieces of paper with strange writing upon them, the "keys" to the seals, so to speak. If one preformed the right spell upon the little pieces of paper, the debris would be unleashed.
The pieces of paper flew up into the sky. In the meanwhile, Zere pointed at Jay's building, a smile growing on his face as two giant seals appeared on the side of the building. New seals appeared around Zere to replace the old ones, as well.
The sky suddenly began to get very dark as the sun was slowly blocked out from view... Something was about to happen.
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Jay closed his eyes, breathing in.
Time slowed around the Templar, allowing him more time to react were anything to go down.
He threw his head back.
He had two ace in the holes, two all powerful asskicking things he could do here. All he needed to do was react.
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The seals around Zere all surrounded his person now, latching onto his skin, but not sealing him, as he teleported out of the range of the modified rate of time Jay had applied to him just moments before, reappearing on yet another building where the seals latched out, covering the roof. A giant energy barrier surrounded everything within a two building radius of Zere, coated with seals as well.
Now, the rubble started to fall all over that part of the city, having been broken down so much that each drop of rubble was the size of a raindrop. Jay wouldn't be able to dodge this one. The debris was coated with small seals which covered it. Everything the debris rain touched would be sealed.
The dark sky now got a touch of light to it as a giant, red seal the size of a city block, probably visible from anywhere in the city, started to appear. On the ground, a thick mist started to coat the city blocks, its material makeup allowing it to not be touched by the seals. It would make ground visibility near impossible, especially with the dark sky.
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As they fell a piercing silver light burst out of Jay's back; Forming into silver wings and pushing his cape up into more of a huge scarf.
The Templar raised his hands as thousands of Templar portals appeared, dragging each stone into a different timeline but keeping them in perpetual motion by hopping them from portal to portal, timeline to timeline.
Jay had pushed himself into the Elder form, giving him a significantly higher level of temporal manipulation.
Silver energies emanated from Jay as his eyes which were once orange were now a pure silver short of his pupils, it was truly a sight to behold.
The ground underneath Jay had a silver circle form on it, temporal energy emitting from it too and fueling the Templar.
He smirked over towards Zere, projecting his voice not only through sound but through time itself "I am so sorry." Was all he said.
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But Zere would not hear Jay... Zere moved right as he was shouting, quite coincidentally, out of range of the area he projected his voice. The red circle in the sky started to glow brighter now, growing ever so bigger. Zere's seals once more coated his body, and his form vanished, reappearing in the sky, behind the giant seal, his smaller seals spreading out and coating the air around him, still acting as a shield. Zere began to pour his energies into the red seal, preparing it.
Several smaller seals began to bombard Jay as well, coming from everywhere possible. The rain debris had stopped falling into the Templar portals, the remaining bits exploding in mid air, causing a lot of fires to spread and a good portion of the city to have structural damage, including Jay's building which began to collapse.
The mist on the ground started to intensify now, and the sound of running water started to fill the city. The sound of a screaming girl also echoed from the ground near Jay.
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Jay actually remained calm, smiling as each and every seal that tried to bombard him was sucked into a new Templar portal. As the building collapsed below him Jay began floating, still above the circle which remained intact in the air. As the circle poured energy into Jay, Jay poured energy into it. A distortion field materialized around Jay; Anything coming for him would be slowed down and absorbed into a Templar Portal.
To anyone looking at the circle, it seemed to begin distorting from a pure silver circle into what looked like a silver clock face.
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Zere had, of course, learned from the debris rain and earlier defensive tactics made by Jay, and had predicted that he would counter with portals. The moment the Templar portal became active, the seals that were raining down towards Jay exploded, the explosion filling the entire area -- his portal would only be able to take in some of it.
The screaming girl on the groud, actually a young, twenty-year-old wearing a light, cotton summer dress, found herself floating in the sky, being lifted up. She was terrified. All over her skin, there were rashes, a result of the mist she had been in. The sound of running water was getting louder.
Suddenly, it happened... Water broke through the concrete of the city streets, skyrocketing up in streams, pillaging buildings. This caused the red circle to glow violently red through the darkness, and suddenly, all the buildings, the debris, the rubble... The entire city, bit by bit, began to fly through the sky, up towards the red circle.
The water on the ground seemed to be the last thing that was coming up, acting as some sort of protection to ensure the city was successfully absorbed.
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Jay looked over at the girl.
"I'm sorry." He muttered to her with genuine sadness in his eyes and voice.
And suddenly, Jay was on the opposite side of the great seal in the sky.
He was sick of this asshole.
The circle had moved with him and was directly behind him.
Jay opened his Templar Portal in front of him as every single seal and rain stone he absorbed came flying out at Zere; The seals colliding with Zere's seals.
What happens when a seal hits another seal? The seals cancelled eachother out; Clearing a path directly to Zere.
Since time was still slowed for Jay he then continued on with another attack this time using the circle.
Silver tendrils of light burst from it and jammed into the giant seal but instead of being sealed like they should have been the areas that the tendrils burst into began to literally disappear; They were being locked out of time and being made not to progress anymore. Soon enough the seal would have been removed entirely from Time; Then the tendrils would move onto combating Zere himself.
Jay had a damn serious look upon his face as Zere would have found the Seals on his body reverting... Sliding down his body and becoming their original small tendrils of magic.
Jay was no longer using energies to combat this opponent. He was manipulating the very forces of time.
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The red seal, however, was undergoing a strange reaction as the tendrils tried to touch it, it having completed its absorbing of the city in a short time, after expanding to be the size of the city earlier. The red turned into pure, bright light, and Zere was absorbed by the light. As the tendrils moved in towards the light, a cloud of dust, radiation, and light was released, forming a ring which would sweep the tendrils, Jay, and the circle behind Jay away.
Sure, the tendrils were locking what it touched out of time, but the tendrils were separating as they tried, and they were suddenly hurling towards space at an incredibly fast velocity, with Jay and the circle being hurled with them. They were falling apart, bit by bit.
The source of the light, where the seal had been, was changing yet again now, slowly turning solid... The Templar would find that it, strangely, echoed the Templar's power, seemingly unique in time itself... Whatever this singularity of light was or would become, it was certainly a lot different than Zere's attacks before it.
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As the ring approached Jay it dissipated, forced to revert in time but only in the areas messing with Jay and his circle.
He smiled at the light, arms still folded.
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Jay and the circle were basically pushed out of the ring of light, which stopped moving now, stabilizing as more light replaced the light that had been lost, like blocks falling when their bottom block has been lost. The ring, in all, extended from the center light, down towards the planet, encompassing the entire former city, still otherwise dark from the lack of visibility of the sun, in light... And also extending outwards towards space, and covering a great amount of sky.
The ring began to shift direction, slowly ascending away from the city. Within a matter of moment. At the same time, the orb of light started floating upwards into space. In a few moments, the orb of light would be in low orbit, and the ring would no longer be "sideways" but would surround the light, parallel to the planet below it.
It would be visible from basically anywhere on this side of the planet, being the only source of light visible. It continued changing and growing ever so "resistant" to the Templar. Was it "leaving time"? No, to do so would be impossible, as then it would be unable to progress. It was actually cornering itself off from the Templar, still well within the realm of time, but slowly becoming a sort of... equal force. It was almost as if this light were another templar, but of course, that wouldn't be possible either.
So what was it?
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Jay smirked So that's what you're doing. You poor idiot.
The Templar mustered as much of his energy as possible... He was going to prepare as best as he could.
This fool had his plans, Jay had his own.
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The light suddenly erupted in another explosion as a second ring spread out, this one overlapping the first and extending the range of the rings even further. The light had completely changed now... It wasn't just light, now. It was a giant clock face, lined with numbers written in some strange script, with ticking gears and moving hands. The hands now pointed to two of these strange, foreign written numbers, or whatever lined the clock, and on a conventional clock it would indicate that the current time was 11:30.
The two rings began to pulse. With each pulse, apart by about a second each time, small particles of light were released from the rings, flying at high velocities into the depths of space.
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Jay breathed in another calming breath as his own clock face circle merged with his own body and his wings grew majorly in span.
"Unfortunately you've pushed yourself into a dark corner." Jay smiled "Trying to mess with time so freely. What I don't think you've realized."
Jay raised a hand
"Is that i'm a Templar Elder."
Five white orbs burst out from Jay, circling him. These were the outerverse cores he had absorbed long before in his battle with Plex. The same orbs which gave him more than enough energy to rewind the consciousness out of the negative core itself.
They fueled him.
Out of nowhere, the clock face would have been pierced by a burning silver light which echoed Jay's own words I am so sorry.
And this was all Jay needed. His message that he had burnt through time itself to try and give Zere.
Since it originally missed it's target as a harmless message the energy just kept moving through time; Moving through their timeline until the opportune moment.
The message gave the now highly powered Jay a link to the clockface; To the light it emitted, to it's source and to everything it originally emitted.
"You came close but no cigar."
What Zere likely didn't fully understand was to manipulate any aspect of time for a normal mage a lot of energy was required; Simply just to put him in the state he was in now and to bring the clockface just outside of Jay's reach in time should have put him in a state of near-death from the sheer energy consumption.
"Unfortunately though, i'm the best..."
He held out his hand as his sword of ages appeared in it.
"Good luck though."
The Templar pointed the sword at the clockface, at his newfound link to it.
"If you ever get out, come find me so I can kick your damn ass again."
He mustered all the energy he could from the cores and from himself, using the sword of ages to amplify it.
A flash of silver light flushed the whole area.
Zere would have found himself waking up on a beach; Not sensing Jay whatsoever.
He would have found himself trapped in a completely different timeline.
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A beach...
Zere found himself waking up there, the water crashing against his body. His eyes opened, and he looked up to the sky. Where was he? Had he... Had he really failed, was it true? Could it be that he was trapped here, unable to ever again return to his family, his friends, his loved ones?
No... No, it couldn't be.
Then, he spotted the girl from earlier, the one in the dress who he had almost killed. She was here? But... How? And why? Why was she here, and what did that mean for Zere, the sage who had spent the last YEAR of his life away from home.
The girl was nearby him, laughing as she ran down the beach. Zere ran after her, chasing her for what seemed like miles. She was... So familiar. She was so like her... He had to get to her, to just see if it could be possible.
"Hey, wait up!" he shouted. She did not turn around.
Finally, Zere eventually caught up to her, grabbing her by the shoulder and twisting her around. Their eyes met, and he watched as a frightened look of shock came across her face. He looked at her well, though... How... How could it be?
"Please... please, tell me it's you."
"Zerdian. It's me... Zere, I'm here."
"What... what do I do?"
"You know what you have to do, baby. You've known all along."
"I... I can't go back there! It makes me so crazy to not be around you... It makes me go insane."
"You know that you don't have a choice... Keep fighting. Keep trying. Someday, we will meet again. I promise."
"I love you, baby."
"I know, Zere," the young woman replied, "I love you too."
And, there before his eyes, the young woman seemed to vanish all together. A tear rolled down Zere's eyes, but he quickly wiped it off, the face of a psycho returning. He looked into the sky and started to laugh... He started to laugh like he would never laugh again, more than he had ever laughed before.
And then, he saw it...
In the sky, something was glowing in the distance... Something dark and blue. He started to fly towards it. He knew what awaited on the other side... He knew where he was going, and he was ready. He was ready to go home, and to finish this battle once and for all.
In the other timeline, the clock which Jay had attacked was falling to shambles without Zere there, literally breaking apart. Much of it had been engulfed in the silver light and sent back in time. Sure, Jay had a direct link to it... But it had still been a seal before, and apart from the broken pieces of clock floating through space, that is what it was again -- a red seal in space.
But it's inside was glowing with the light that the clock had been letting out before. The light that had separated into space was NOT under Jay's control. When Zere vanished, it came back... It came back to the red seal, looking for its master... It had to find its master.
And then, it erupted into a blue spectrum of light.... It was trying to pull upon time itself, pull upon the Temporal energies that Jay had released in this fight... It was trying desperately to create a link back to its master... To bring him home.
A voice boomed in Jay's head, loud, as if it were shouting...
Pretty good... For a Templar.
Light shot forth from the blue, as Zere shot threw it, into the depths of space, a grin still on his face as he looked at Jay directly. However; his own form had now changed as well. All around him, beams of light were dancing, surrounding his very form. Rings of light were all around his arms, his legs, his entire body.
He was different now. He was... Stronger.
And he was ready to fight.
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Jay himself looked different also. His eyes were a pure white, almost burning with silver and white energies.
He didn't carry himself in his usual joking manner, he was purely serious.
This time, the Outerverse didn't take him over; Instead Jay was channeling it.
The light that was pouring from Jay formed into an orb encompassing both combatants.
"You know. I was trying to send you away. I was trying to send you to a new land where you could live out your life happily." He sighed "It's a shame."
Jay's blade glowed a pure white before being encompassed by the energy and literally absorbed into him.
He sighed, staring dead on at Zere; His voice returning to normal "This is your last chance to just walk away. I wouldn't fault you for it."
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Sound could not be heard in space, and yet, Jay's first words reached Zere's ears in an all too fluid movement. Did he particularly remember actually hearing what Jay had said? No, but his mind registered the words. They received the information.
The light that surrounded Zere was now sprouting outwards, changing from light to... To something else. The black of space left their sight, as they became encompassed in some sort of vortex, once more traveling... And then, with no noise, no sudden, rapid movement, they were on the planet once more, outside the ruined rubble that had been a city... They were on a hill, overlooking the city.
A single tree stood on that hill, well and tall above the two. Zere and Jay's eyes met there, right under the shade of the tree. They both knew that Jay's offer didn't mean anything here. They had to keep fighting. This was their very survival.
He could see, deep within the serious face of Jay, everything he needed to know...
"Do you love her?" he asked, his voice serious for once.
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"You know..." Jay grinned, taking his hat off and throwing it aside "....The exact answer to that."
The Templars cape became enveloped into his body too as his transformation was complete. A crossed arrows symbol appeared across his chest.
"Y'know, i'm not just a Templar." Jay raised a hand at Zere before snapping his fingers, a crackle of white energy forming out of his hand into the shape of an energy blade from his hand "I'm the best." He rushed at Zere, energy blade raised for a swing to his face.
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Zere smiled, opening his mouth and releasing a deadly screech. The sound of his voice, a high-pitched squeal, moved forward towards Jay, the vibrations moving at intense speeds. They were literally going to tear Jay apart... The sound of his voice was going to destroy Jay.
Running... There she is, standing in the field, wearing the dress you bought her. She's waiting on you, Zerdian.
Zere dropped to his knees, his hand grabbing his head... Pain... He could see her there in his head for just a second. Where did she go!? Why wasn't she in his head now, and where had she gone!?
As flowers literally began to rain down upon him, he glanced up to see how his opponent reacted to his attack.
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The second the sound waves burst from Zere's mouth, Jay seemingly disappeared.
He had run through time.
As the sound died down, The Templar appeared behind Zere; Slamming his blade into the back of Zere's head.
Of course, he wasn't done.
If the blade connected, it would have absorbed itself into Zere after making but a small mark.
"Just who in the hell do you think I am?"
Jay appeared in front of Zere and outright punched him in the face.
The blossoms rained down on the two.
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As soon as Jay appeared behind Zere, the entire sky seemed to literally burst out with emotion as Zere disappeared, reappearing in the sky just before Jay could stab Zere. The sky had gone from noon to sunset in a moment's notice. As Jay appeared in front of Zere, it once more changed, rapidly becoming night as he disappeared once more, reappearing back on the ground.
In the distant sky, the two would be able to see a figure of some sorts approaching them... It seemed to be a sailboat, floating through the now night sky. It was fairly far away, and wasn't going the quickest. It would arrive soon enough.
"WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME!?" Zere cried out, obvious pain in his voice. A seal started to appear on the back of his hand, pink, in the shape of a heart.
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"Pay some damn attention, kid." Jay growled, one of the few times he actually acknowledged his own age. The Templar snapped his fingers again as the buildings in the distance began to repair themselves; Slowly at first but quickly rising in speed before finally becoming whole again.
Jay this time appeared before Zere again and went for another punch but this time, if he connected he would literally grab Zere.
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"I WON'T BE FOOLED!" Zere yelled out angrily.
The entire ground seemed to be pulsing now, literally like a heart. Thud, thud, thud. It's pulsing was getting louder and faster as Zere got more and more excited. The entire city was already starting to shake again, even from the battlefield, which was outside the city itself.
Zere's heart literally bounced off his hand as Jay came in to punch Zere, creating a thin membrane between Zere and Jay, as the heart was now much more massive in size. It literally began to warp everything around Jay. Zere would seemingly disappear from sight. Everything would become incredibly dark, as if he were in a dark void, falling.
Laughter started to echo from all around Jay. He wouldn't be able to see, but certainly would be able to feel, as needles came at him from all different directions. These were not any ordinary needles. They were soul nails. Once they hit Jay, all the energy in his body would be drained...
Jay himself was still, physically, before Zere, but his spirit was not...
Meanwhile, the sailboat was getting closer and closer.
OOC: 1/4 of my posts until sailboat arrives.
1/3 of my posts until Heartbreak Shatters attack.
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Yet, Jay's body did exactly what it intended to do. It grabbed Zere's face.
In the spiritual area Jay's spirit was in, he was narrowly dodging these needles.
He was losing hope fast, he couldnt see and was relying solely on instinct to dodge. This was not what Jay was used to, this was not his usual forte. He didn't know how to deal with this.
Through his mind rattled images, his family from thousands upon thousands of years ago....
His life as a human....
His friends when he became initiated into the Templar Order....
His old master....
His awakening....
Meeting Nek, Meeting Inari, Fighting Kurai, Fighting Anarchy, Gathering the Outerverse Cores, Fighting Sakael, Plex, Becoming The Warrior Of Light...
Just who in the hell do you think I am?
Silver light pierced the darkness as that rung through both the physical and astral planes. It burst through Jays spirit and body, anchoring them back together and sealing them within the same entity once more.
"Fuck you." Jay had returned to his body, and was now grabbing Zere's face.
"I mean it, seriously fuck you." He growled, anger pulsed through him.
Jay's hand began to crackle with white energy as it fought back against any defenses Zere would have had directly on his body.
The planet, the ship, the battlefield, everything found itself pulsing with silver and white energies.
It's a shame
Those words echoed through time again also, this time centering on Zere; Sealing his movement in time.
"While some men are defined by their power." Jay tightened his grip on Zere's face, his hand burning against him "I am defined by those I love, by those I lost, by those I will lose." His hand was.... Morphing. The transformative properties of the Outerverse were channeling through him and causing his hand to be a pure while glow in the shape of a hand and forearm instead of mortal flesh "I am Jay motherfucking Stryder, and I will. Destroy. You."
The Templar's hand burst into multiple tendrils of light that enveloped Zere as he channeled a high level of his energy into a single Templar Art.
Pay some damn attention, kid
Those words echoed through and again centered on Zere, this time opening a more powerful link between Zere and Time itself as a force.
"As you were."
With those words, a silver wave of energy burst from the Templar.
When the light cleared, Jay was stood beneath the tree. The ship was nowhere to be seen, the buildings in the city had returned to their original pristine state, the grass beneath him was a luscious green and in his arms....
Was a baby.
The Templar was smiling as he looked at the child that was Zere, he had forced Zere through Time and used the most ancient of Templar Arts; Restarts. This did exactly what it said on the tin, brought the target through time and essentially gave them a fresh start as a child.
Jay was precisely how he was just before the fight, wearing his cape and hat again without the symbol across his chest.
"I could kill you." He sighed, lifting the child with magic in the air before him "But that's not my style. You're gonna be raised right kid, and maybe you'll even go far. I know of an earthen family who cant have kids, they'd love this little bundle of joy." He smiled, waving his hand as the baby Zere was gone. Jay walked through time to return to his Citadel.
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Naturally, it wasn't that easy. It was never that easy, and even Jay knew that. The moment Jay's hand grabbed a hold of Zere, something within him snapped, a defense activated... And Zere's body expanded into something massive, even with the white energies sparkling upon it.
Zere's body became... A seal.
The seal itself was composed of three sections. It's outer-rings consisted of some massive force of energy, it's mid-rings consisted of sealing fire, and the rings closest to its center composed of the temporal energies Jay was feeding by trying to use his attack. The center itself is where Jay was, a pit of darkness in the night sky. The dark energies there were enveloping him, corrupting his very essence.
Zere had learned his lesson, of course. He was not actually, physically, the seal, and he was no longer linked to it. It was what he used as a placeholder. Jay, because of his own attack, was now linked not to Zere, but to the circle. So, where was Zere? He was watching, amused, as the Templar tried to reverse time in the skies above the planet, failing epicly as his Temporal energies were fed to the seal.
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