Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
Uncharted Space => Other => Topic started by: Queen Bright on May 21, 2012, 09:37:53 PM
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Suddenly all throughout the mortal dimension a pulse of magic would be felt with a familiar magical signature as it swept throughout the dimension. And then, as fast as it came, it was gone, faded with the rest of the magic around. But not before a spark of gold lit up the sky on an empty planet no bigger than a moon a distance away from where the planet Aralia used to stand, what now lay, however, was naught but empty space.
From the spark appeared none other than, Hikaru Tyris, the Eldest Sage of the Sage Three who had been missing for nearly nine years now. Yet, she looked no older than when she had disappeared, and had not changed at all in the last near decade, the effect of immortality of the Sages.
As Hikaru fell to the ground the spark of gold disappeared as fast as the pulse had done which left the Sage confused. What had become of her magic so suddenly? Had that damn anomaly Smith lied in his actions? Had the Aralangs followed her back? Hikaru glanced out into the space that lie above the planet. Whatever had happened, it appeared she was stranded. Fate apparently did not want her to return.
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"You." A calm, pleasant voice rung next to Hikaru as out of nowhere appeared a young man wearing a trucker cap "You are a real anomaly." The man sighed as he held a completely blank book "Like seriously, its a pain. Mind explaining why time herself says you are wrong?"
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"Do I know you?" At first startled by the newcomers arrival and at what he said, Hikaru ignored her curiosity and proceeded to glare at him, awaiting her answer as she silently dared him to come closer or try anything. Her expression was one of pure annoyance; He was obviously a technology user, how else could he have teleported there?
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"For one of the few times in my life I have no fuckin' idea" The man continued to laugh "Y'see yer book is empty but like, it recently just reappeared. Meaning I can find you." He let go of the book, as it floated out of his grasp it slowly faded out of existence "Now you haven't yet answered my question." He smiled as he came almost face to face with her "Why d'you reckon time's not keeping track of you anymore?"
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"Of course I have not answered," replied Hikaru in an annoyed tone, "You question without first introducing yourself. I have not even the slightest idea of who you are and yet you appear out of nowhere asking questions concerning a subject that you shouldn't even know about. So.." Hikaru watched as the book faded, recognizing it, but saying nothing about it. "Who put you up to this? My brother? The Anrufe? The Aralangs? Only the first and last of those would even know about what you're asking." She continued to glare at him.
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"Sadly you're the one person in goddamn existence I know nothin' about, no idea who your brother is." Jay sighed "I'd say the Lady put me up to this but really I dont think she cares that much. It's more of a side project of mine to check out people who aren't quite right" The Templar laughed as he stretched "But you are right, pretty damn rude of me to not introduce myself." He held out a hand to shake hers "Name's Jay Stryder, Templar Elder, Destroyer of Plex, Hero of Light... But really im jus' rambling. How about you?"
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"Well isn't that strange," Hikaru smirked. "Considering my brothers book is blank as well. Both of them." She ignored his hand and instead looked at him skeptically. This guy didn't know who she was? Was that even possible? "I am Hikaru Tyris, eldest of the Sage Three the three most powerful magic users in ex-" She stopped before finishing the title, "Wait... Destroyer of Plex? How could it be destroyed it barely just woke up?"
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"Well, I stabbed it." The Templar laughed "Fortunately when you're the best there is that's all there is to it." He stopped a second, looking directly into her eyes "You been living under a rock or somethin'? It's been like years since I killed Plex, sort of made me a celebrity. How do you not know who the hell I am?"
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"I highly doubt that." Hikaru muttered, still skeptic. "Plex is barely known by anyone but the embodiments and the to the people who fought in the tournament. How could some ego tripped brat fight even fathom the claim of having beat the unknown entity? It's preposterous and I'm calling out your claim."
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Jay simply smiled as he simply shrugged "You can choose not to believe me if you want, wont change the truth though. Unfortunately, yer just a kid to me who may or may not need educatin'" He sighed "I mean, are you dumb or something? You might be one of those anti-templar nutjobs maybe?" He snapped his fingers as a silver spark shone from the clack and around them the wind stopped blowing, in the sky a single shooting star was stopped and generally it was as if everything had just... Stopped. The Templar sat next to the sage "If you are an anti-templar nutjob, hope ya dont mind me freezing everything a stop. Easier to think when the universe isn't carrying on around ya."
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"Are you some insane person or just plain retarded?" Hikaru saw the spark but just mentally attributed it to the work of technology. "So what? You can use technology to imitate magic when there's an Anti-Magic field up, big deal. That leads me to doubt you defeated Plex even more. As for Templar, I've never heard of such, some low grade empire that rose up during the time I was captured I presume? No matter, if it gained enough power it will be dealt with at the same time as the other empires. Now... since you are using technology, I can only assume that you are the one responsible for the current lack of magic in this area," her eyes narrowed further into an even more intense glare as she stepped away from him. "So I highly suggest you drop the anti-magic fields."
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"Most tech i've got's a gun, kiddo." Jay laughed "And this isn't really a uh... Normal anti magic field. I really can't get rid of it and lets face it, look at ya. Without magic you wouldn't really be able to put up much of a fight against me." He snapped his fingers again and everything resumed "And a Templar is uh... Hard to explain. We're strong, jus' leave it at that" He winked at the Sage, smiling. He knew that he could easily explain what a Templar is, he just found it hilarious to let people guess.
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Hikaru growled, "Call me a kiddo again and you will regret it. Anti-magic fields do not affect me. I found a way around those long ago. So keep pushing it, brat. And if you are so strong, prove it." She crossed her arms and mocked, You talk big, but so far you have shown nothing that a common mage or technology user could not produce. At least I can back up my power and title."
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Jay snickered "Go on then, kiddo." He smiled and stood with his arms out facing Hikaru "Hit me with your best shot. You can see where it gets ya if you feel like, just dont feel bad when I show you up."
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Growling, Hikaru glared even more, "I believe I told you to prove it first!"
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Jay smiled "Alright. Try moving."
He now held a more casual stance as he literally froze Hikaru's movement in time.
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Giving in to the bait with the belief that he was all talk and no bite, Hikaru attempted to move and when she found she couldn't, up went her temper. However, her expression did not change, even as mad as she was, she wouldn't give this guy that satisfaction. "Paralysis? More technological tricks? Not proof enough," she taunted through gritted teeth at holding back her anger.
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The Templar snapped his fingers and suddenly, Hikaru's movement would have been granted to her just as they swapped places out of nowhere. "You can pat me down if you like, the most mechanical items I currently carry are my credit card and a gun." He was still smiling, level as ever as he motioned to her "Your turn. Why dont you hit me with a simple fireball? Im sure a young 'un like yourself has gotta know that spell by now right?" This was of course, silly of him. He was always awful at actual magic.
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"That's it, you're dead!" Hikaru growled, dropping all formalities. "At this point I do not care who you are. No one insults the power of the Sage Three and gets away with it!" Yet, even after declaring this, Hikaru wasn't sure how she was going to fight him. He had been correct at one thing, this was no normal Anti-Magic Field. Probably the only thing he had been correct at. However, now that she had been within it long enough, Hikaru noticed her usual technique did not work.
Normally where she would encase her magic in Spirit Energy to avoid the anti-magic, this time there was no magic to even encase. Was it an Anti-spirit-energy field as well? But if that was the case her Spirit Energy would be gone, and that was still there. Whatever this field was, it was new and despite what she had claimed, Hikaru did not have a way around it. She would have to use a bluff to scare him.
"I will show you fire!" With a flick her her hand a ring of fire encircled where he stood, the fire a white-blue color, even without magic she could use Spirit Energy, just in small enough amounts that it wouldn't destroy her. "I wouldn't move if I were you, that fire is a creation of mine I call Spirit Fire. It will literally burn your spirit, in normal cases resulting in permanent death."
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"Oh man, i'm so freakin' terrified right now. It's not like I can undo something so...." He almost genuinely looked shocked for a moment before uttering the word "Tame." The Templar smiled as he stepped forward, the spirit fire seemed to simply just recede as it crackled at him; it was simply just returning to her spirit energy "Pretty though, wish my power was quite so theatrical." He looked directly at her "I didn't really insult anythin'. You're obviously not weak, a little too proud for what you can do currently though. Now you still haven't answered my question. Why is your book blank?"
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For a split second shock filled Hikaru's expression before she quickly regained her composure and crossed her arms, "Whatever. You are a waste of my time anyways. And I will ask the questions here! Why do you even care and how did you obtain access to my book anyways?"
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"Call it a hobby." Jay smiled "I'm a man with a lot of time, so to speak." He chuckled at his own joke "But seriously, book. Empty. Why? Did ya break it?"
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"I am still waiting to hear how you obtained it." Hikaru simply replied then rolled her eyes, "However, before asking stupid questions, how about you go obtain the books of both Kai Tyris and K2323 Tyris as well? If you can." She gave a short laugh, "That may answer a few things."
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They literally just appeared in his hands "Empty too, im aware. I cant find this Kai guy and i'm too polite to ask K2. Yours however just reappeared." As he dropped the books they faded and a new one appeared "But, your Negi's book however seems to work fine." He flicked through a little "Ah this is the page im after." He flashed Hikaru the page in which he and Kurai fought "She was a tough one." He smirked and dropped the book again as it faded "Like I said, im a Templar. I can do a lot of things."
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A bit surprised, Hikaru didn't let it show as she watched the books appear and disappear. When he pulled up Kurai's however, she again looked shocked, "Hold on... When did that battle happen? The last I saw Kurai she was infected by the Virus and left in the Sage Dimension, before that she worked with the Virus right after her creation... The battle would have had to have happened during her team up with the Virus, but Plex wasn't known to be alive then...." Hikaru looked simply confused. Were these counterfeit books?
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"...Seriously where you been the last like decade?" Jay looked genuinely puzzled "8 years ago Plex awoke and waged war on the universe. Your Negi joined the 'Hey lets fuck up and kill everything' side so I smacked her down. One thing led to another and I ended up combining with the Outerverse and killing Plex. Any of this ringing a bell at all?" Suddenly Jays eyes widened "Ooh maybe you've been locked outta time. I was locked outta time for a while, like thousands of years actually." He laughed
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"Eight years? That is impossible." Hikaru ignored the rest of what he had said as she went on, "My counterpart, the Aralangs, and I merely just teleported from the Guardian dimension a few minutes ago. There would be no time to be locked out of time, as you so put it. We were attacked, but the attack missed, there is no one who could have done it and no chance for it to have happened."
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"Thats the stupidest thing i've ever heard." Jay sighed "When you're outside of time you dont like notice it because you're outside of time. The space that yer out of time seems like nothing because you dont perceive it, hell I was out of time for thousands of years and it felt like nothin'."
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Hikaru rolled her eyes, "Perhaps you did not understand me," she muttered. "There was no time between things that happened for that to even happen. All we did was teleport, nothing to cause such a thing. Wait... I get it." She pointed at him, "You are just trying to psyche me out. Lying in order to deceive me for some reason or another. Well I am not falling for it!" She snapped quickly. "Your games do not fool me."
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"...Great, someone is wrong in time and of course, she's a nutjob." His palm fell firmly upon his face "Right look, I can feel it ok. You are wrong, chronologically you are wrong. Time has been skipped upon you which usually only happens when my influence is involved. Now I know that I didn't do that, and since you're certainly still alive you could only do that if you were a Templar or literally had control of like... Everything. You one of those screwed up existence people?"
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"Hah! As if I would believe that." Hikaru smirked, "Even if you were telling the truth, and I highly doubt you are. You talk about time as if you know everything about it. And as far as I know, the only one that can claim that is the Embodiment of it, Asura. So unless you succeeded her between the years you claim to have went by or something, why should I believe a word you are saying?" She rolled her eyes, "And I believe the term you are looking for is Ingrounded. Something you would know if you were telling the truth."
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"The Lady isn't the only one with such capabilities. I'm a Templar, we control time." Jay looked almost bored as he reeled off the long boring explanation of a Templar to this insane woman "We're bound to serve the Lady Asura and to maintain the integrity of time." He was very clearly getting a little ticked here "I don't even have to do this y'know, I could just leave you here to rot."
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"Then if you know Asura, you should know why my book is blank." Hikaru explained matter-of-factly, at the same time giving no respect when saying the name Asura. "But obviously since you see it fit to ask me, it is apparent you do not. So the only conclusion is that you are lying. At least for some of it. I am just not sure which part."
She uncrossed her arms and stepped forward. "But fine, I will play this game for now. Humor me. If it really has been eight years, how, praytell, do you suggest it happened?"
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"If you're one of those ingrouded people maybe you put yourself out of existence." Jay muttered "Or maybe you managed to piss off another Templar and they locked you out of time for being a pain to deal with." He was almost staring Hikaru down, it was the first time in a long time that someone was directly doubting his power and he COULDN'T prove it "What can I do to prove to you i'm a temporal manipulator. I can stop time at will, I can speed time up and slow it down. I literally bend the very fabric of time to my will."
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"Out of existence?" Hikaru questioned, "You did not say out of existence. You said out of time. But yes, we teleported out of existence, but only for a few seconds at most. It did not happen all that long ago." She grinned at his question, "If you are telling the truth, then it is simple. If you have power over time in such ways that you claim, then you should have no problem traveling back in time, correct? Simply do so and take me with you so I that I may see for myself these eight years you have claimed went by. Starting from the last place I was, The Guardian Headquarters Dimension."
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"Being out of existence is being out of time, genius." All of the annoyance that showed in Jays face suddenly stopped and converted to a completely confused look "If you left existence then you left time, meaning you could have been out for anywhere between like five minutes or a million fuckin' years."
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"Well blame it on Exisence trying to erase me," Hikaru responded venomously. "Are you going to do as I suggested and prove it or not? I still do not believe you."
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"Why the hell not, not like you can change the past." Her book appeared again "Now that I have this, I can get back to when it disappeared. Do me a favour and don't try and change anything, all it will do is create an offshoot timeline in which you fuck everything up." Jay snapped his finger as silver energy once more crackled and formed into a silver portal next to them "After you."
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"Would not dream of it." Hikaru simply rolled her eyes again as she stepped through the portal.
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As she stepped through she would find herself observing... Herself. Moments before herself disappearing.
The Templar took a stance next to her, arms crossed. "Don't worry, they cant see us. I synced us up with a different timeline, we can perceive them. They cant perceive us"
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Hikaru watched the event with a bored expression as she had already been through this part, literally. "Do you take me for stupid?" Hikaru questioned, "I am not a child when it comes to timelines. I have been thrown into enough parallel universes, realities, and points in time to know how it works by now! It was my brothers who sealed and locked time in the first place. We are by no means naive in the subject."
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"I take you for a little dim, yeah." Jay smiled as he watched, as the event drew to a close he then started on his own awakening through to the end of the Plexan war. He took very special care to specifically show her his battle with Kurai, alongside the other major events of the war and the peace conference "Ironically, I know nothing about you short of..." He stopped on his meeting of Inari and their time together "What she's told me, she doesnt often shut up about ya." He continued to proceed with the events
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While watching the battles, Hikaru made sure to take mental notes of each and every move the fighters made. "Good, maybe you should keep it at that. I do not take kindly to having my privacy invaded. Just ask the mind-reading Aralangs about that. Oh wait! You have no way to." She ignored the part about Inari and simply watched the rest.
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"Who the hell are the Aralangs?" They got to the actual fight against Plex and Anarchy, the death of Koty and Eli and the Outerverse cores being gathered. Finally, the end of the battle- Jay's ascension to becoming the hero of light and skewering Plex itself. They then reached the beginning of the P3C "Let my guard down for like five minutes, your Negi kills a station full of people. Real classy."
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"How fun," Hikaru commented. "A shame I missed it. I would have liked to join in the killing spree. Though if it was me and not Kurai, there would have been far more people dead." She again ignored his question. "Though if it was me, I would not have lost the battle with you either."
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"I was weaker then" Jay shrugged as they hit the end of the P3C and the empires twisting and turning, the rise and fall of new empires. 8 years of war.
He mostly just showed the most important points, slowing down until they eventually hit the new Excel tournament and the sudden stopping of magic.
"Happy yet?" Jay almost seemed bored, for him the past 8 years had been considerably too many- He lived them over and over, so many instances of himself everywhere.
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"Quite. Of course I believed you long ago." Hikaru smirked as she watched the last of the events. "Tell me, how does it feel to be manipulated? With that little excursion of yours, I now know about you and you're battling style to know how to defeat you if you should ever get in my way. And yet..." She paused and grinned even more, "You still know nothing about me."
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"You couldn't defeat me." He smiled, turning to her "Even if I turned your magic back on, you couldn't beat me." Their timelines shifted, suddenly they were back to where they had started "Its funny, im a nice guy. If I wanna know anything about you, I can ask my apprentice or your brother." He smirked "Which actually brings me onto another point." He drew his blade "Give me a good reason not to take your head from your shoulders right now, if you're lookin' to cause me so much grief."
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"Well..." Hikaru walked towards the blade, showing no fear. "Judging from what I just saw and especially comparing your battle with Kurai. My reason is this," She reached out her hand and touched the tip of the blade with her index finger, watching his eyes with her own. "You will not. You are too simply of a 'nice guy,' as you so put it, to commit the act unless I pose enough of a threat to force you to." She pressed on the blade further, hard enough for it to draw blood. "Go ahead, prove me wrong."
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Jay simply smiled as he sheathed his blade "Yeah, you're right." He began cracking his knuckles "Still, not like you're a threat. Just know this." He leaned in at a whisper "You don't want to be my enemy. There are fates I can inflict that are so much worse than death" The whisper was so much darker than his normal voice, while normally he spoke with almost overenthusiastic youth he suddenly sounded almost baleful. As quick as that came he shot back up again, turning his back to her and taking a few steps away "Right. Well, i'm still bored. Where d'you wanna go?"
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"How about to hell?" Hikaru grumbled, yet joked as she put her hand down, "You sure are a strange one... First you appear here out of nowhere to question me, then you threaten me, now you are back to being casual, completely forgetting about your former question. If this is what the dimension has amounted to, people like you, I am not sure I wanted to come back. At least with the other holier than thou inter-dimensional do-gooders, they had a one track mind. You on the other hand are one of those fools who likes to play hero all the time. The annoying kind."
Hikaru stepped away and laughed, "However your threats do not scare me. Because we will more than likely be enemies. I completely and utterly despise people like you. The Guardians tried it, and they died. The Aralangs also tried, and now they're gone. Fate has not been too kind to people who try to interfere in the lives of the dimension and be do-gooders throughout all of Existence. And if you follow that, I will personally see to it that we become enemies."
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"You didn't answer my question. Where to?" Jay almost completely ignored all of her short rant, he had given her fair warning "Seriously, anywhere in time and space. Where d'you feel like?"
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Hikaru thought for a moment before answering, then rolled her eyes, "Your grave."
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"You're actually hilarious." Jay was simply smiling, arms crossed looking at her "I'll be taking you somewhere, i'm being nice and lettin' you pick."
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"And who said I wanted to go anywhere? I quite like it on this... rock." Hikaru lied, doing her best to be extra difficult. "You only assume that I want to leave. Well you are wrong."
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"Who said I was giving you a choice? Until you actually become anything near a threat to me you're just a helpless little girl stuck on a rock" Jay was loving this, while he was always terrible at manipulating folks he always had a knack for knowing how to get under someones skin "So where to? Ice cream?"
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"..." Without a word Hikaru flicked her hand and an upside down bucket of water promptly appeared above his head through a small bit of Spirit Energy, "I am NOT as helpless as you think, fool!" While using the water as a detraction she aimed a kick at his nuts.
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As fast as it happened, Hikaru was under the bucket of water and Jay was where she stood. With the bucket on her head and the momentum from her own kick, she would have fallen pretty quickly. As she fell, Jay shot the bucket- The bullet would ricochet off but the resounding noise that it would have made inside the bucket would have been screechingly painful. He stood, gun aimed at her head "There's two ways this can go. First, you keep this up. We carry this on until you kill your own spirit or you push me far enough to end you. Second, you pick a place to go and we go, nice and pleasant. What's it gonna be because I shit you not I could do this all day."
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"Hmph." Hikaru threw the bucket off her head and stood up slowly, giving him the death glare. The pain of the sound went away as fast as it had came. Internal magic still worked, and thus, so did the phoenix healing ability. "I have a better solution. Goodbye." With that, Hikaru walked away, but not before kicking the empty bucket at him. "And good riddance!"
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"Aww c'mon don't be like that" Jay laughed as he was next to Hikaru once more, calmly walking "I'm sure we just got off on the wrong foot, i'm Jay Stryder. What's your name?"
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"Go to hell." Hikaru merely replied and walked the other direction. "Literally. Go to hell, and stay there!"
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"I've been, too warm for my likin'" Jay continued to follow her, it was very clear he was simply just bored and bugging her for entertainment "Now let's revisit when ya said I didn't know anything about ya." If she looked, he would still be smirking "But simply talkin' to ya has built up a bit of a profile. You're clearly way proud of being strong." He appeared in front of her, walking backwards to match her pace "So knowing ya can't just throw a good old fireball at me without facefucking your own spirit has gotta be burnin' your mind. Am I about right?"
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Hikaru stopped, "Fireball? Seriously? If that was the extent of my power you would be right. I would be too proud. But I can do far worse things than that when I have my magic!" She paused, then glared, mentally slapping herself for admitting she was powerless. " WHATEVER! When it returns you are dead! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!"
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"It's actually pretty funny, now I know what this is like I could probably emulate it. Call an instance around say, a single sage from time." Jay stared right back into Hikaru's eyes, almost challenging her "Say i'm getting hungry, how about dinner?"
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The blackness of the planet's sky, it being some distance away from it's sun, made for the perfect scene as a purple light erupted violently between the two, near Hikaru. From this purple light, a small ripple shot through space itself as from it, K2323 came forward, his face well rested with youth, unlike the last time Hikaru had seen him, when he'd had an aged look upon his face. As K2323 came forth from this light, a NET vortex, he crouched, regaining his balance as the vortex, K Empire technology, closed behind him.
Glancing at Hikaru, and then at Jay, he stood, his eyes glaring upon his sister. "Hail, Queen Hikaru Tyris... Our kingdom awaits your return."
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The ground beneath them began to shake thunderously as the smell of smoke and brimstone filled the area. A large Hellgate rose from the ground as laughter filled the air. "I'd love to see that!" a voice called out as Anotion Stradivari walked out of it.
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"Oh, Ms. Tyris! A word, would you kindly?" He calls out again. His voice was joyful, and cocky, and loud enough for many to hear.
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"Do you ever SHUT U-" Hikaru stopped in mid speech as first her brother appeared and then a Hellgate not long after. She took one look at the Hellgate and forgot everything she was going to say. Ignoring Antonio, and giving no answer to K2323, she glanced back to Jay, "On second thought... I will take that offer, I do not care where you take me, so long as it is anywhere BUT HERE!"
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"Give it a minute this could be pretty funny." The Templar held up a hand "Hey K2."
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"Now dont play hard to get now Hikaru." He said as he approached her. "Im offended actually. You wouldnt even greet me with a hello." he says sarcastically and laughed.
"A little birdie told me that it was collection time, so i kindly obliged Satan, and offered to come up here just for you." he points as a grin stretches across his face.
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"Well you are worthless," Hikaru quickly mumbled, then sighed. She had only barely returned to Existence, and already the situation had gotten out of hand. If the annoying idiot and her brother were not enough, now it seemed by the appearance of this stranger, Lucifer had decided to collect on her broken deals with him. And of course it had to happen all happen when she was without magic. Could it get any worse? Perhaps she could buy some time...
"If Lucifer truly wants to collect, then he can stop his laziness and come here himself. Otherwise, he can wait."
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"Uh, hey, sis," K2323 replied, "I'd do what he says... He sort of could kill us all right now..."
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Jay appeared between Antonio and Hikaru "Actually, not me." He was holding a book, open with one hand on his sword "I declare myself, The Hero of Light, Slayer of Sakael to be this woman's protector until she regains her power. You can take her soul when it'd be a fair fight, violin maker." His eyes met with Antonio's "I'd trust this ain't a problem."
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"Oh, im not here for her soul." he says as he whips his violin bow out like a sword. "She has an unpayed debt, and im here to collect it. Now, Ms. Tyris dont make this hard on me, because I have leverage, you see. Come with me through the Hellgate and we can work this out."
"But, if you insist on doing this..." he raises his hand as 2 more smaller hellgates arose. "I have friends." he said with a grin.
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"This does not change my opinion of you." Hikaru quickly muttered skeptically in response to Jay's display.
Narrowing her eyes, she glanced over to Antonio, "And what leverage is it that you have? Because, as far as I know, Lucifer is the only one with any ....control..."
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"I'm doin' my job. You said it yourself, too nice to let ya die before ya become a pain." Jay dropped the book and drew his blade "Last warnin' buddy. You won't beat me. Walk away now with yer pride intact."
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"Oh, but you see, im here on behalf of Lucifer. He never said that the Sage Three were so, weak though. He made me think you posed a threat to me." he laughed. "The only thing that i can see is the Templar here." He points to Jay as he touches his bow with sword and lowers it.
"Im not here for a fight, nor to harm Hikaru." Antonio tells Jay. "But, once again, if you insist i will take make obligated affirmative action." he informs him.
"Ms. Tyris, once again, please follow me through the Hellgate and we can resolve this."
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"If your job is to interfere, then I do not need it. I can look after myself!" Hikaru snapped back before looking back at Antonio, "You do not fool me. Thanks to that orb of Lucifer's, I know that if I should enter that gate, I will not be able to leave Hell until he allows it." She glared daggers at him for the comment about being weak. "So you can tell Lucifer that I refuse."
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"So what you're saying is if I say, stepped down here and he got violent and literally tried to drag you through you could defend yourself?" Jay smirked
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"Refusal isnt really much of an option. You need to realize that even YOU can die. Now i'd suggest you come with me or we will make that a very well known fact." he said with a more annoyed tone.
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Hikaru had an expression of pure annoyance, "Perfectly fine... " She lied, her tone dripping with loathsome. "I can die, I never said that I could not. I just will not stay dead and will return every time. Such is the privileged of a Phoenix. And even better, a Subgrounded Phoenix. Again, I refuse."
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"Guess ya dont need my help then." Jay turned to Hikaru, still smiling as he stepped aside "Hope you enjoy hell! I fuckin' hated it and I was a visitor."
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"Hikaru," K2323 spoke again nervously, "What are you doing?"
From within the Hellgate, a beastly roar could be heard, as literally an army awaited the call of Hell's general. Ready at any moment, they could burst through the gate and begin causing chaos and mayhem. All they needed was the call. Hikaru was property of Hell... And not even a Templar could stop the wrath of Radical.
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Antonio was now in front of her. He looked her right in the eyes. "I know you more than you think. Your reputation is the most important thing that you have." he grinned in delight. "So what'll it be Hikaru? Do you still refuse?"
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Though fearful, Hikaru glared Antonio straight in the eyes, "Yes."
Hikaru then glanced over to K2323. "How dare you consider yourself A Sage anymore, much less one of the Sage Three. Giving in to Lucifer of all people? Have you lost your mind?! This is not the first time he has gone after any of us. It is your fault that I am in this mess in the first place, brother. The deal broken was to kill you."
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"He can most definitely call himself a sage. He is just smart enough to know what lies behind me should you insist on making my job hard." He says as one of his pointer fingers pokes her in the chest. "As I recall, you were a mother, correct? I heard that they were nice kids... Be a shame if anything were to happen to them. Of course, since their father, Koty, unfortunately passed away my lord, Lucifer wants to claim rights to the children as their rightful father, since he was appointed a godfather before." he starts pacing circles around her.
"Well, since before your lover's death." he says to her in a harsh tone. "It was actually quite a shame that he died, and there was nothing you could do about it... How does that make you feel oh mighty queen?" he says in an even harsher tone. "Cant seem to do anything right, can we. Always failing, which is quite an unbecoming trait of the suspected 'most powerful being alive'." he stops in front of her again.
"But, you may be able to redeem yourself yet, by protecting your own kin, your blood, your life. Come with me, and you shall never see my face, nor hear my voice again."
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"My offer still stands." Jay seemed almost concentrated, medicated infact. He seemed somewhat conflicted in his eyes, unsure of his next action. He slowed time for himself to allow for greater reaction time. What Jay was referring to was his previous offer of taking Hikaru anywhere she wanted to go- An offer that K2 and Antonio wouldn't have been aware of.
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"Hikaru," K2323 growled, "We're powerless right now. He's not. Don't be stupid."
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"My answer remains no." Hikaru smacked Antonio's hand away.
The hit, which normally would have been rather weak without magic had been amplified through the Elite Energy, an ability Hikaru had been given eight years ago without her permission. Though she later found about it, Hikaru had refused to even acknowledge its existence due to the fact it was technological energy, thus artificial magic in and a disgrace to real magic in her eyes.
Luckily, or unluckily for Hikaru if she ever knew, she didn't have to want to use it as the energy was passive. It amplified all of her physical, magical, and spiritual abilities on a normal basis without her knowing. It was this detail that would have increased the force of the smack considerably.
"As I said, I do not need your help." Hikaru told both Jay and her brother. "Other than that Hellgate, he has no more than I do right now. After all, he cannot use magic either. If he had any power he would not be trying so hard at persuasion and deals. He would have acted in offense already. He is simply bluffing."
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"Play it your way," a voice replied from the other side of the Hell Gate. Radical himself walked through, his eyes set on the prize -- Hikaru Tyris. He first looked at the Templar, then Antonio, and then K2323. In one of his many tails that quite frequently moved around his body, a staff with a blue, crystal orb upon it's top sat comfortably. Radical rose the staff and pounded it upon the ground, and in that moment, Hikaru would be brought into Hell, summoned there by death itself -- she was technically dead, after all, but Radical had no idea if it would work or not, seeing as last time he saw Hikaru, things hadn't gone as planned.
Glaring at Jay next, he said aloud, "Templar, do not interfere. Time has no power over death."
Finally, he turned to Antonio, nodding at him. "You have served me well... Let us return, now."
And with that, he turned and walked back to the Hell Gate.
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Antonio picked himself up from the ground, and coughed. "Man she has a hard hit.." he said, his breath still a bit wispy. He picked up his violin bow, and left through the Hellgate as it closed behind him along with the others.
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Jay looked at K2323 "Dunno about you but I see that as a goddamn challenge." The Templar smirked as he stepped forwards, cracking his knuckles "Death's got nothin' on time." He turned on his heel, looking directly at K2 "But a serious ass question's raised- Why'd ya let yer sister go straight to hell?"
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"Because," K2323 replied, sighing and glancing at the ground, "I can't stop Radical. Not until I fulfill my deal with him..."
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"Does every mofo and their dog have a deal with the devil these days?" Jay sighed "Well im goin' for it. Tyrant turned helpless, taken by the devil for crazy unknown reasons? Sounds like just the kinda fun i've been missin' recently"
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"Wait," K2323 replied, "I'll go with you. I have something he needs..."
It was true. K2323 had stolen Radical's spellbook long ago, when they made their deal. So much time had passed since then, though. It was worth a shot. Radical would surely exchange Hikaru for the book... Right?
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"Go for it dude, make it a hell party" Jay smirked as he waved a hand. A templar portal materialised behind him "Im gonna read up whats happened so far. While her books blank the demons aint" Jay stepped through, book in hand
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"Right, meet you in Hell," K2323 replied, activating a NET portal and vanishing.