Author Topic: Takeback! (Read 9691 times)

Gaserlake · « **Reply #25 on:** February 06, 2011, 01:23:45 AM »

The Virus suppressed the spirit signature of itself and the Aralangs and teleported back into the OV.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #26 on:** February 06, 2011, 02:20:37 AM »

Unfortunately Hikaru was not lit up, nor put into the Astral. Why? Because to put it quite simply, she was neither in the Physical or Astral plane at the moment, and the same went for all of her attacks unless willed elsewhere. Having no signature, she wouldn't be able to be traced, as the Phantom Magic she used prevented that. And being in a Plane unknown from what most would know, the only way she would be found was if she herself willed it.

Sensing the forced teleportation of the Aralangs, Hikaru knew it was time for her part. Being sure to catch hold of the Spirit Energy before it was teleported out, Hikaru tied it together in a net and let it teleport. That way the next time the Virus teleported the Aralangs, the spirit Energy would be in one big massive signature net which should overwhelm the Outerverse, as it outnumbered Iroku's own signature. That was for Spirit. In the case it didn't, Hikaru cast the next step.

Every feather that had sank into the ground began to pop up all over the Outerverse throughout the infinite dimension, multiplying themselves. Each feather then formed into a clone of Hikaru, and under them a spell circle. When all the clones had popped up, the spell circles connected through spell lines, and the Outerverse was connected. These circles had but few purposes.

One, they would send her own magic signature into the Outerverse at the same time as the Spirit Energy from the Aralangs, adding a whole new massive signature to the mass. And two, unlike a spell circle which grounded a person, this aimed to disconnect them from their point in spacetime, thus force teleport them out. And because the Outerverse was covered, it wasn't an attack you could simply wipe away. Therefore the connected circles both served to push Hikaru's signature into the ground, as well as force teleport Iroku out of the Outerverse, the effect spreading through the Physical and into the Astral as well.

As for the Strings of magic and snakes, because they were on the same plane as Hikaru, and not in reach of the Astral or Physical, they were able to keep their form and not be fed off of. After all, one can only feed off something they can sense, trace, or touch. The plane prevented all and the strings continued to attack the vines, munching them down.

Hikaru appeared outside Celestie's wall, but only a magical hologram of herself. Locking her eyes onto the kids, she gave a kind yet saddened gesture to the two of them, "Kotah, Ezael," She spoke, her voice near a whisper, but loud enough for the kids to hear, which prompted them to look at her with questioning looks.

"You must help me. If you don't, they will force you into helping them. I have given you choice of whether you want to go with the Special Forces or myself. But the Relorians, they don't care of your choice, they just want your power on their side. I was wrong for sending you to the Outerverse, it has only served to rid you of freedom even more. This time not by the Aralangs, but by the Relorians. Please help me, so that you may win your freedom back."

When Hikaru finished, the kids stood hesitant. On one hand, they were told not to trust their mother, on the other they were told she was a good person, and yet their mother was telling them not to trust the Special Forces or the Relorians. Which was the right choice? Both Kotah and Ezael glanced at each other before taking a step forward. True, the Relorians had given them their magic back, but their mother was still their mother, and the one thing they had wanted the whole time they were infants and toddlers. There was no way they were going to lose her again. Not even the influence of the ASF could get rid of that want.

Gaserlake · « **Reply #27 on:** February 06, 2011, 02:34:28 AM »

(Wait.... holy shit... did Irrelai really get herself knocked up?)

And the Aralangs were teleported back quick, as the Virus wouldn't give up. If it had to, it would teleport the Aralangs back hundreds or even thousands of times per second, or even more if it had to. That means Hikaru's plan was executed real quick. The OV was quickly overwhelmed by the massive amount of Spirit Energy.

Nisorin · « **Reply #28 on:** February 07, 2011, 12:08:20 AM »

((You sound surprised, Gaserlake.))

The vines and snakes, as they had to have some part of them in either the Astral or physical planes to be able to affect the vines, were still able to be fed off of, albeit at a lessened rate. As the Rroho was, currently, unable to find Hikaru there was only one other possibility. So, he poured power into the Rroho, expanding it even as the OV teleports the net again and again. The Eyes turn bright blue as magic, of any and all kinds, lights up bright like a beacon. The snakes seem like writhing ropes of light, the clones bright auras, vaguely humanoid in shape. The orienting of the eyes spreads the Rroho's vision across the Outerverse, with new eyes forming at the edges, quickly expanding his field of vision. "Why do you wish to tame this place so badly, Tyris? You, who have given up what made you so great? You are no longer worthy of the royalty you claim. The Relorians will ensure that you are no longer recognized as a princess, nor one of the Sage Three. Now you are naught but a shadow, a shell, pathetic and weak, forced to rely on hiding yourself away and attacking from behind like a coward unwilling to face his opponent head on. Enough wasting my time, little girl, come on out here. It's about time you were punished. Or shall you flee, panting and weak, through your hidey-hole still?"

Celestie took it upon herself to deal with the feathers and clones. Using the signatures as a reference point, Celestie forms barrier-boxes around the circles, cutting them off from the Outerverse and thus rendering them useless and preventing them from force-teleporting Iroku out of the OV. "Don't you realize you're only making this take longer?!" She shouts at the clones, now having a decent idea as to what Iroku and Irrelai are doing. "If you'd just let us finish you'd have your precious fucking Outerverse!" She continues, crafting barrier-arrays around each clone before squeezing them to the point of squishing them.

Irrelai, still inside the half-finished pocket dimension, lets out a massive scream as the newborn's body reaches the point where it's finally ready for birth. The ground of the Outerverse starts to glow a brilliant silver, even brighter in the Astral plane as Iroku's goal nears completion. "Hikaru, s-sealed herself, no more i-is she even, your mother!" She growls, her face contorted in a tight wince as the contractions begin.

((Next post, I get what I want. 3 posts, Hikaru's seal is revealed. Post after, seal is destroyed.))

Queen Bright · « **Reply #29 on:** February 12, 2011, 11:19:58 PM »

But Irrelai was too late, as the kids had already stepped out of the barrier half-finished pocket dimension and went forward to their mother. Kotah stopped for a second as his Clairvoyance had picked up the lie for what it was now that they were closer, but as Hikaru had no emotions, Ezael's empathy was useless and so he had already grabbed the hand "Hikaru" had held out to the kids.

"Ezael, wait!" Kotah yelled and grabbed at Ezael's other hand to stop his brother.

This was all Hikaru needed to give the signal to the Virus, "Infect Kotah and Ezael and give all information you learn to me. After that. Kill that silly woman. She's in the way." Though she said this, however, the hologram of Hikaru gave nothing away and remained in a 'worried' state of expression which served to make Kotah hesitate on whether his 'feeling' was true or not.

Because the former feathers that were now cloned holograms of Hikaru were not in this plane either, they could merely phase through the barriers and convert themselves back to the physical and astral planes to continue putting her signature into the Outerverse. If they barriers were enforced, they would just repeat the process of switching planes back and forth. With the type of magic they were made from, such a spell could be achieved as easy as a passing thought.

Add that to the fact that the holograms were not just close by, but spread throughout the infinite grounds of the Outerverse, and Celestie could not possibly have affected them all, as some would have been out of her area of effect.

By now the Outerverse would have the net of Spirit Energy and the magic signatures pouring in, and would be losing the fight as it diluted Iroku's own signature from it.

Hikaru herself stayed hidden while her snakes of Revelation and Genesis handled the mongoose, growing in size and phasing through the them. Instead of attacking by converting themselves, they just focused the magic of themselves into the ground. After all, the vines were no threat. Let them stay.

Gaserlake · « **Reply #30 on:** February 12, 2011, 11:26:16 PM »

The Virus inside of Hikaru took the opportunity and infected Kotah and Ezael down the chain of holding hands. It then sent everything it learned from them to Hikaru, including information about the Aralang Special Forces and their technology. The Virus then went to Irrelai and infected her, controlling everything in its path.

The Virus kept teleporting the spirit energy net back and forth, tens, hundreds, even thousands of times per second, and even more if it needed. If it needed to, it could easily go faster. Just as fast, if not faster, it sent the spirit energy net into the ground of the OV.

Nisorin · « **Reply #31 on:** February 13, 2011, 12:44:49 AM »

The second the virus particles touch the partial-dimensional wall, they disappear, added to the collected viral clusters out in deadspace as Celestie shakes her head, glaring at Hikaru as she forms a similar barrier around the kids, the moment the Virus started to move. Her barriers continue to move with Hikaru's circles, trapping them again and again. Soon enough, her forearm tenses as she adds a layer to the barriers, preventing the phasing was so fond of. Celestie, unlike Iroku, wasn't a specialist with the 'two' Planes, and so couldn't recognize that Hikaru wasn't simply phasing between physical and Astral planes.

"You will not harm these children. Your body may have grown them but you are their mother no more. You destroyed the part of you that was their mother, and thus they are orphans, free to make their own decisions. I will NOT allow you to take that freedom from them!" Iroku explains, opening a tiny portal behind him and shooting a small, green orb into it, closing it immediately after. "I don't care what the consequences are. You shall not have these children, nor shall you have my Irrelai." He adds, closing his eyes as the mongooses leave, the vines retract back into the ground. He spreads his arms wide, and his signature spreads throughout the entirety of the Outerverse, collecting on the outside walls to create a powerful ward against teleportation, phasing and portals. While Iroku may not know it's there, but even teleportation into Hikaru's own pocket plane becomes impossible. He now stands before her, the armor symbiote spreading across his stone body, transferred from his original body into this one when he'd left it to await her in the Astral.

The glow engulfing the Outerverse's ground swarms in on Irrelai's lower stomach, overloading the barrier-wall with strength enough to forcibly repel the Virus, exploding out in a nova as Irrelai disappears entirely, the glow with her. Celestie, smiling, laughs and lets out a loud whistle. Iroku allows a single exception into his ward, the Sons of Plunder. Within the blink of an eye, Nisorin, Kerion, Jade, Luna, and Alex teleport in, the exception removing itself once they've all arrived. Immediately, they focus their will upon Iroku's slumbering body, using the Sierrensa arts to sync their signatures with Iroku's, weaving them all together and infusing them into the Outerverse using Iroku's body as a conduit. Even Hikaru, strong as she was, couldn't outpower this many high-level mages at once. With the net of spirit energy stuck outside the Outerverse, it's one against six, standing tall and proud, out in the open. An image of true strength, six openly fighting against the cowardice of the so called crown princess of the Phoenix Sages.

K2 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 16, 2011, 03:43:12 PM »

"Hikaru, you've got company."

K2323 had been watching for some time now. He glanced at the battle going on before him. He could tell that there was a battle going on, despite his sarcastic comment of dumb-foundry. He was really an incredibly smart sage who knew very well that a high level battle was occurring and his sister was out numbered.

He had used his NET abilities to arrive in the Outerverse after he realized he was unable to teleport there. That's when he'd come across this scene. He'd just finished fighting in Shuma and his body was well prepared, already flaring with Genesis magic. He allowed his signature to rise -- though not to its full extent -- to make it clear who he was..

K2323, one of the Sage 3, the White Genesis Twin. His fist clutched a staff firmly, the staff being his Genesis Staff, and he used it -- not that he needed it -- to walk across the battlefield towards the Sons Of Plunder. He'd started to cut the magic signature like a thread, forcing his own magic signature into it to break it before it even got near to infusing with the Outerverse, but he still needed help. This was a lot of power.

"Hikaru... Give me a hand, doll," K2323 pleaded, a grin on his face. He glanced at the Sons Of Plunder with a very serious expression on his face. "My sister can sometimes be rash. Let's talk your concerns over before someone gets hurt. I'm sure we can come to an agreement."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #33 on:** February 19, 2011, 08:53:19 AM »

Because Kotah and Ezael had gone outside the partial-pocket dimension, however, the infection had already gotten to them, which was why Hikaru had lured them out to begin with. Now as the two fought the Virus for control, their spirit guides joined in by attacking the Virus on the Astral plane, clawing and biting at it.

Due to the fact they weren't just 'phasing,' but another tactic altogether, Celestie's barriers didn't effect the circles and feathers one bit. All they had to do was convert back to their plane and then back to the physical.

Hikaru had made sure of the success of this by using a spell to create a temporary plane of existence around just herself. This let her stay out of both the harm of the Astral and Physical planes.

The same went for her magic as well. By creating a temporary plane around each spell, miniscule in size. She could successfully keep the spell in that plane, and destroy it when converting to the Physical Plane. By keeping each very small and limited, Hikaru was able to provide enough power to keep the tactic up.

But eventually it would let up. This was why she had used one other way to keep herself from being caught by this Shaman and his pesky spirits. She had taken advantage of the other side of the rip and now would once again, as she commanded the Virus its next orders, "Teleport every sage taken in the Sage Dimension to here and focus their signature through the rip and into the ground at the same time as focusing the net of Spirit Energy. Teleport the Aralangs here as well, cast everything through the rip. He may be able to ward the Outerverse, but this side, he does not have control of. As for my kids, create a plane around them both for the few seconds it takes to Teleport them to this side as well."

With this said, Hikaru waited, not daring to respond to her brother for fear of giving away her position. His appearance had taken her by surprise, that was a given. But at this time, it was important to ignore it and just allow him to help.

With the circle still feeding signature and the added power from the net of Spirit Energy. Anyone who knew how many sages were about to appear, knew the Outerverse was about to be flooded with enough signatures to wash out Irokus and never see it again.

This all happened as the Sons of Plunder had been teleported. But they made no difference. The Outerverse would only accept one master. They could tie their signatures together to fight back the other signatures in trying to dilute the current one. But they could not all control the Outerverse. If it was attempted, due to the nature of the signature tie to the Outerverse, the Outerverse would throw off the invading ones that were tied in to the one it followed. A fact that Iroku had apparently overlooked and Hikaru now took advantage of.

Gaserlake · « **Reply #34 on:** February 19, 2011, 11:19:54 PM »

The Virus teleported all the Sages from the Sage Dimension, as well as all the Aralangs in the OV, to the Aralang dimension's side of the rip. There, the Sages focused their signatures through the rip and into the ground. At the same time, they focused the net of Spirit Energy, as well as adding half of their own Spirit Energy into the net. The Aralangs focused their Spirit Energy into the net, as well as focusing their signatures through the rip. Normally, the Aralangs wouldn't be able to do that, but due to the infection of the Virus, they can, as the Virus can.

The Virus then created a plane around Kotah and Ezael and then teleported them to the Aralang PD side of the rip.

Nisorin · « **Reply #35 on:** February 19, 2011, 11:36:54 PM »

Unfortunately for Hikaru, the SoP weren't force-teleported out, as the energy they were funneling into the Outerverse was, once they'd altered it a bit, Iroku's, while they acted merely as generators. Feeling the massive surge of magic from the rip as the teleport casting started, they whirled about in harmony, together calling upon the Outerverse's power in addition to their own. With the A- fields beyond the rip taken down, the single, brilliant silver bolt that shot across the Outerverse like a beam of light passes right through the rip. The moment it entered the other side, it explodes violently, spreading a multicolored mist that coats everything, including that side of the rip, without entering the Outerverse. The coating acts as a second set of wards and an expansion for the Rroho both, extending its sight into the Aralian dimension, spreading eyes of every color of the rainbow even as the mist on the rip itself forms a barrier, preventing crossing even through Hikaru's planar trick, now that it is detected. Each color seeing a different category of existence, it wasn't long before even Hikaru's hiding place was found, and with it, her advantage disappears. "You who have caged your own people through the abomination that is your pet cannot be allowed to take a hallowed place such as this Sanctuary. Your will shall corrupt it, distort and destroy it. We, the Sons of Plunder, shall take this place from your slaver hands, Hikaru Tyris!" They call out to her through the Mist, their combined voices like a vice against the Virus as the mist on the Aralian side of the rip shifts into a circle, used once against the DACI. The matter near the rip breaks down into its basic components, feeding the Forge as the Virus finds its own life energy being sucked out of it.

Iroku's new body, meanwhile, turns to face K2323. "Cease your interference, False Genesis Prince. Your sister wishes to tame this place, an act I cannot allow regardless of intent. If you keep trying to aid her I will kill you. Your position as one of the Sage Three is irrelevant. This place WILL not be tamed." He calls out, staring the man in the eyes as more of the OV's energy rises up around him, acting as a shield against K2's attacks. "The Sages were once a race of honor, of power and pride. Now you fall to a weak, pathetic shell of a woman who hides in fear of her foe, who relies on an abomination of life and has completely shut away all that made her who she was. Your race is now nothing more than mindless slaves, yet you wish to fight me?"

((Finally. I get to stop wasting time.))

K2 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 20, 2011, 12:15:33 PM »

The power of the Outerverse was a funny thing. Summoning it meant being in full complete control of it. When the control of something was being contested -- and it was -- it wasn't that easy to hold onto something. The controller was more prone to slip up -- to make mistakes.

K2323 looked Iroku straight in the eyes, his own eyes neither filled with anger nor hate towards the Relorian. He merely nodded at the man in understanding. He was observing the scene before him and could see right through the Sons Of Plunder. He knew what they were thinking. He knew what they felt of the sage kind.

"I have only met some of your kind, Mr... Iroku, isn't it? But in my time of knowing your kin, a friendship between us has blossomed. MY kind, the sages -- the ones, for example, of Japae -- we took your kind in. I recall vividly a meeting with the Sons Of Plunder in Sky Island where I expressed my full support to your once-great empire. In those days, your people chose the path of light -- of greatness.

"It was nearly eleven years ago, I think.. When our kind formally met over light refreshments. Even before then, we came to know each other when your people were apart of those.. What is your name for them? Kuos? The Starmen of the Starclan who were situated firmly inside their haven of Dragon Moon which eventually became your own home.

"In many ways, our kind -- sage and Relorian -- are cousins in the world of magic. In other ways, we are nothing alike and perhaps never will truly be one in the same. Regardless, it is not a person's race who decides their greatness. No, it is their actions and their will. A will can be good, or a will can be evil. Your people may believe as I do that their is no good and evil in this world for the people -- only a perspective of relative right and wrong. This is true, but an individual's being is determined by good and evil actions and will.

"Your kin and you are here now in the Outerverse in an attempt to thwart what you perceive as the darkness. Your view of my kind has been tainted by one woman and her pet. You've allowed yourselves to misjudge millions because of your own hate and rage. As such, those of you here are in the path of darkness -- of evil -- not because of your race, but because of your will and actions.

"Your kind can still be saved from the darkness, though. There are two paths you can take now. The path of goodness and light is your departing the Outerverse now. The path of darkness and evil is for you to try and hold on to the Outerverse -- to maintain it. You must leave now. It is for the good of your kind.

"And if it's my sister you're worried about -- or that thing over there -- you should not worry. As the embodiment of Fate, I watched over a battle which your people may have seen. It was a battle between a clone of mind - one who had chosen darkness - and my sister. The battle caused damages. My sister won, though just barely. I, on the other hand, would not have lost as I am not weak and in the path of darkness as my clone was."

K23323 now stepped forward towards Iroku, using his staff as an aid. The beam of light which was going towards the rip was intercepted by a second force of light which curled around it like a forcefield, keeping it inside the Outerverse. A similar field was emitted around the rip, designed to allow the virus on the other side to still do as he needed but designed to keep anything in the Outerverse out -- unless K2323 willed for said something to enter the rip. The coating wouldn't be allowed to enter the Aralian dimension.

"This place, as you claim, is independent of any political motive. It is, furthermore, apart of nature. I know not how much your people know of my own past. I was raised by a people who respected nature and seeked only to observe it and learn from it... In order to protect it. However; this place has spoken on behalf of sage kind. It has graced our kind, and now we must grace it by protecting it. That is OUR duty, not your own, and I must ask you to depart from this place which you were invited to.

"My sister's change in personality is a family matter....... The sooner you depart, the quicker I can deal with the situation. But I assure you, my kind has not fallen."

In that instant, a doorway began to rise out of the ground of the Outerverse. At the same time, K2323's own shirt (a gray T-Shirt) was ripped apart as two wings sprouted out of his back, causing him to drop to his knees in agony. The wings were dragon wings. They were flapping away.

"That door," K2323 managed before coughing up blood, "That door. Please leave through it."

His wings flashed red and unleashed a wave of red energy. It was a signal to Hikaru. Send the signatures to me. His wings had turned into giant magic-signature attracting rods.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #37 on:** February 23, 2011, 01:24:33 AM »

Even if K2323 had stalled the beam of light for now, it had still gone close enough to trigger Hikaru's own trap that had been cast in wait. The moment the beam was close enough, a large spell circle appeared painted across the entire rip. This circle, unlike Hikaru's usual, didn't have runes or even much of a design. Instead it had three rings and there dead center of those rings was a perfectly rounded hole with a blackness so dark that not even light could be seen shown into it; Very much like a black hole. But unlike a black hole, it was one-sided and for the moment tame until a spell crossed the threshold of the rip.

Around the hole, there seeped out a transparent barrier that was unseen for now.

Despite this bit of protection, Hikaru knew it still wouldn't be enough if they were to play this right. With the ward around the Outerverse they had to use what they had to their advantage, and this meant keeping the rip safe and in their control. Even if it meant doing what her usual self would despise. "If you can modify the anti-magic and other fields cause them to prevent magic, spirit energy, and teleportation from their side to this side but allow it to be cast from this side outwards."

After Hikaru had sent the command to the Virus, she had caught sight of K2323s signal, "When that's finished, direct all signatures of both the Sages and the Aralangs to my brother. All magic, and enough Spirit Energy to make a difference. But not enough to kill. I still have use for them."

Gaserlake · « **Reply #38 on:** February 23, 2011, 01:44:54 AM »

The Virus worked on the generators. It altered the generators to the point that the field generation resulted differently. the AM fields turned into a one-way field. Magic could exist inside the AM field and leave the field, but no magic could enter the field. It could be seen as a one-way AM barrier. Effectively, the AM field has become an AAM field for the magic on the inside.

The Virus then directed all signatures of the Sages and the Aralangs to K2, the Virus infecting the signatures, too, but without infecting K2. All magic has also been directed to K2. Same goes with Spirit Energy, but not too much -- half the Spirit Energy per person.

Nisorin · « **Reply #39 on:** February 25, 2011, 12:57:33 AM »

((Played like a harp.))

Iroku, in his new stone body, stands tall before K2323, directing blasts of energy to deflect the slash attempts away from the thread before dropping to one knee, bent forward with his palms flat against the ground, arms crossed at the elbows. The bolt twists, rebounding off the barrier and arcing high into the sky of the Outerverse. It explodes in a shower of rain, fueling itself with the ambient energy emanating from all those present. every tiny bit of energy it touched was absorbed, its signature stolen from it as a new circle spreads across the ground. Extending several thousand miles from the center mark, the ornate circle immediately begins breaking down all that was not permitted. The magic, phantom or otherwise, is sucked towards the circle by the marks symbolizing elemental Wind and Space that shone bright green and silver respectively. Even that excess magic stored in K2323's body is sapped temporarily, like a vampire feeding on its victim. "You misunderstand. I fight not on the behalf of the Relorians or the Sons of Plunder, but for myself. I will not allow this place to be tamed by anyone for as long as I have the ability to fight. This place, that allowed me a child, has given me too much to stand idle. You speak as if you have some right to this place, as if my defense of it is an absurd concept, alien to you. And you forget that darkness is not always a bad thing."

The Sons' of Plunder thread splinters after it passes through the Outerverse's ground, rising up to form the Forge of Arianos and absorb the invading signature, combining it with that gathered from the DACI. With the absolutely massive amount of energy pouring in from the Rip, it took mere seconds for the Ritual to complete. Blackness swarms the area in the Outerverse, spreading through the Rip and the adjacent walls of both the Outerverse and the Aralang Prison Dimension, engulfing Hikaru, the Sages, K2323, the Aralangs, the Virus, everything. It continues to spread, further and further, until it reaches the edges of the APD and the opposite side of the Forge. The Sages, Aralangs and Virus find themselves in a very much real realm of pure, endless white, floating in nothingness, with no air or anything else around them. Luna, Alexander, Kerion, and Jade arrive a good distance in front of the horde, radiating with power as the Sages and Aralangs enter their world.

K2323 arrives in a small clearing in a rainforest at night, Iroku in his bear form standing before him, silvery-green eyes staring out from the shadows cast by the mile-tall trees. Multitudes of glowing eyes of all colors blink around K2323, and the trees erupt in whispers. How he could not even prevent the atrocities right before his eyes, his inability to take hold of the Sages, of his kin, and teach them to behave. How he continues to push all away in the name of the Sages, while his own sister threatens to destroy everything. "Welcome to my home, Mr. K2323 Tyris, false Prince of the Genesis Sages. You'll find departure quite impossible until I allow it."

Hikaru, however, finds herself in a far different place, one flooded with a feeling of familiarity. She stands in a small garden, surrounded by sweet-smelling flowers, facing a 2 story house. Voices can be heard from inside, including one that sounds suspiciously similar to her own. Magic and use of spirit energy end in nothing, as if neither were at all possible within this relatively small world. Even Hikaru's control over fire, granted to her by her Phoenix heritage, does not function here.

The three 'worlds' exist only within the blackness, borne of a new magic, infused into the Weaves of the Sons of Plunder and Iroku and formed directly around those drawn into them.

A short distance from the Outerverse side of the blackness, Animas arrives, fading into existence as if summoned there. Their twin voices, speaking into the now empty air, echo slightly. "And so it begins. Our power, left behind from ages unknown, is hereby divided amongst these seven, a number sacred in magic and in spirit. With it, we bequeath to them our will, that the Planes be shattered by war, so that they may rise above those without honor and forge the new world, standing tall and proud, seven as one." Bound to the place as the Embodiment of Love, their business with the fallen princess keeps even the Outerverse from evicting them.

K2 · « **Reply #40 on:** February 26, 2011, 12:01:33 PM »

K2323's 'scissor spell' which were cutting the threads saw the energy blasts coming. The Energy Blasts being directed towards the spell were intercepted by threads of K2323's own which deflected the energy blasts. K2323 continued cutting into the magic signature of Iroku (and the Sons Of Plunder), stopping it from tying with the Outerverse.

The rain hit a barrier which appeared above ground-level. The rain would eventually eat through and absorb the barrier, but not for some time, and it wouldn't interrupt the transfer from the virus to K2323, nor would it absorb K2323's energy. Another barrier appeared coating the ground. It'd have the same effect on the circle -- it wouldn't be able to eat through/break down the barrier in time. Especially not with thousands of miles to cover.

K2323's magic was safe, and so were the signatures/spirit energy.

"Darkness represents in this case... Evil. I speak the truth, but you block out my words in fear that I speak the truth."

They were still in the Outerverse. With the SOP unable to tie their threads into the Outerverse, there was no ritual. Only pain for the Sons Of Plunder. The signatures and spirit energy being sent by the virus latched onto K2323's body. His body, overcome with energy, reacted. ONE HALF GENESIS RELEASE.

K2323's wings turned a black color, with crimson scaled dotted upon them. His Genesis Staff was absorbed completely by the wings as his neck extended slightly. Marks appeared on his cheeks -- dragon-like whiskers -- and his nails grew and transformed into talons. He wasn't in a dragon form by any means yet, but he had transformed halfway to the first stage of his Genesis powers.

"You.. should have... left," K2323 roared.

A surge of incredible power of signatures, all channeled into K2323's own signature, poured into the ground of the Outerverse. It's power, made up of entire races, overcame that of the Relorians by thousands of times. This was it. Game over.

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The Sons' of Plunder thread splinters after it passes through the Outerverse's ground, rising up to form the Forge of Arianos and absorb the invading signature, combining it with that gathered from the DACI. With the absolutely massive amount of energy pouring in from the Rip, it took mere seconds for the Ritual to complete. Blackness swarms the area in the Outerverse, spreading through the Rip and the adjacent walls of both the Outerverse and the Aralang Prison Dimension, engulfing Hikaru, the Sages, K2323, the Aralangs, the Virus, everything. It continues to spread, further and further, until it reaches the edges of the APD and the opposite side of the Forge. The Sages, Aralangs and Virus find themselves in a very much real realm of pure, endless white, floating in nothingness, with no air or anything else around them. Luna, Alexander, Kerion, and Jade arrive a good distance in front of the horde, radiating with power as the Sages and Aralangs enter their world.

K2323 arrives in a small clearing in a rainforest at night, Iroku in his bear form standing before him, silvery-green eyes staring out from the shadows cast by the mile-tall trees. Multitudes of glowing eyes of all colors blink around K2323, and the trees erupt in whispers. How he could not even prevent the atrocities right before his eyes, his inability to take hold of the Sages, of his kin, and teach them to behave. How he continues to push all away in the name of the Sages, while his own sister threatens to destroy everything. "Welcome to my home, Mr. K2323 Tyris, false Prince of the Genesis Sages. You'll find departure quite impossible until I allow it."

Hikaru, however, finds herself in a far different place, one flooded with a feeling of familiarity. She stands in a small garden, surrounded by sweet-smelling flowers, facing a 2 story house. Voices can be heard from inside, including one that sounds suspiciously similar to her own. Magic and use of spirit energy end in nothing, as if neither were at all possible within this relatively small world. Even Hikaru's control over fire, granted to her by her Phoenix heritage, does not function here.

The three 'worlds' exist only within the blackness, borne of a new magic, infused into the Weaves of the Sons of Plunder and Iroku and formed directly around those drawn into them.

A short distance from the Outerverse side of the blackness, Animas arrives, fading into existence as if summoned there. Their twin voices, speaking into the now empty air, echo slightly. "And so it begins. Our power, left behind from ages unknown, is hereby divided amongst these seven, a number sacred in magic and in spirit. With it, we bequeath to them our will, that the Planes be shattered by war, so that they may rise above those without honor and forge the new world, standing tall and proud, seven as one." Bound to the place as the Embodiment of Love, their business with the fallen princess keeps even the Outerverse from evicting them.
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Nisorin · « **Reply #41 on:** February 27, 2011, 12:25:32 AM »

((Well, I suppose that works too. I was just gonna contain the thread's energies in an artificial Weave while I dealt with you, but this works oh so much better.))

Iroku, refusing to accept defeat, quite literally grabs at the barrier covering the Forge, his hands forming into ornate bear paws imbued with a warping spell, further disintegrating the barrier even as its disassembled by the Forge, causing holes to spread through that section of the barrier. "You should have listened. With no honor, you think you can defeat us. This place will sooner be destroyed than tamed by anyone, and it shall be your own power that does it!" He calls out, smirking as the signatures pass through the Forge on their way into the ground. "You, who refuse to listen to those around you, refuse to acknowledge their wishes or desires, do not deserve to tame this or any other place! I shall personally ensure you fall unto oblivion for this!" He shouts, pouring his power, be it magical, spiritual or otherwise, into the Crafting. He reaches up at K2323, a tiny speck of black forming exactly halfway between them, before expanding rapidly, engulfing both mages and the massive amount of signatures projected by K2's body, an amount that would surely cause an overload of absurd proportions had Iroku not engulfed him in the new world. The black quickly fades, leaving behind a small sphere, only an inch in diameter. Dark, reflective blue, it shines bright as what looks to be a rainforest-covered planet revolves slowly within.

This left the Sons of Plunder, now turning their gaze to the Rip. Moving in complete harmony, they point at the area just barely around the rip, and black seeps through the walls of Outerverse and Aralang PD, the signatures of any caught within it disappearing completely as they walk, unconcerned, towards the rip. "You, who willingly associate yourself with an abomination such as the Beast, who willingly slaughter your own people, enslave their bodies as if they mean nothing, require punishment, discipline. Your brothers, while not having fallen as far as you have Hikaru Tyris, are in no shape to perform this duty. And so, we shall carry out this duty as Judge, Jury and Executor. Once your sentence has been carried out, you will be granted what it is you seek so vehemently." They call out, their six distinct signatures warping and forming into two.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #42 on:** March 18, 2011, 09:43:33 PM »

The signatures were unphased by the forge, however, as the fact was, the signatures were just too powerful. After all, it was two large races against only six mages. Sure, these mages may have been powerful in magic, but so were the sages of the Sage Dimension. And all of them? Add that to the Aralang race as well as the Virus that was helping as well, and it wasn't likely that the the forge would break about the signatures.

That, combined with the fact that Hikaru was reinforcing her brothers barrier, caused the signatures not to be touched in their path to the ground.
God Fire spread across the barrier accompanied together with Spirit Fire. When the two had merged? The result was far more powerful than Iroku could dream. God Fire was destruction its self, and could destroy anything on the Physical Plane, add that to the effects of Spirit Fire being able to access the Astral Plane, and the result was a pure unstoppable destruction on both the Physical and Astral Plane. Deicide Fire.

This darkened purple fire was what spread across the barrier and reinforced it. However, with her other tricks up, Hikaru couldn't keep it up for long. As much as she would hate to admit this had she been herself, the current Hikaru didn't care one way or another, as long as the battle was won. This is why she petitioned the Virus for help. "Focus all your power onto reinforcing my spell. If it goes down, my brothers barrier goes down and the signatures will lose to their attack. Everything depends on keeping his barrier up."

As Hikaru's circle encompassed all of the rip, there were not edges around it as every inch was covered. So as the spell came near, the defense circle was triggered as the rings around it started to spin, and the black was sucked into the even more deep pitch black of the circle, swallowed whole. The output of such a circle? Somewhere in the Negative side of the Dimensional Plane. Hikaru wasn't taking any chances. Any spell that tried to pass the rip or the walls around it would find its self too far to harm.

Gaserlake · « **Reply #43 on:** March 18, 2011, 10:47:03 PM »

The Elite Energy in Hikaru, despite her lack of knowledge of it, involuntarily strengthened her reinforcement on the barrier. The Virus channeled energy through Hikaru, giving as much as she is using. At the same time, it directly reinforced the barrier using magic and Elite Energy.

Nisorin · « **Reply #44 on:** March 19, 2011, 02:58:47 AM »

Even powered by a race worth of mages, the Forge would not be deterred. The particularly terrifying and oft troublesome trait of this circle was that its effects intensified the more energy was nearby. Pouring strength into defenses such as K2323's barrier only served to further strengthen the circle itself. It was not something that could be beaten by something as simple and obvious as overpowering it. Once engraved, it took a life of its own. It fed on the barrier, on the signatures passing into the ground, glowing brighter and brighter as more and more strength is poured into the area around it. And with the introduction of the Deicide fire into the area, the Ritual was not only assured for the Seven, but plenty enough energy was being consumed that they could create numerous 'worlds' in succession, so long as their personal stamina holds. While a normally excellent order, Hikaru's command to the virus only sealed the Sons' victory. Pulling K2323 into the blackness that crafted Iroku's world, the two disappeared as the black compressed into a small sphere, perfectly mirrored. Part of no particular plane, it was out of the Deicide Fire's reach.

Four of the Sons hang back, using the excess energy consumed by the Forge to warp the space around the fire, infusing it with the same power that allows the Aelirtras to function. The distortions burst in a flood of crystal clear liquid, illuminating the Deicide with a bright silver hue, pushing back at the purple flames like wind-borne rain against a wildfire. This strange liquid, imbued with the creative powers of the Aelirtras and the Forge both, forms a wide circle around the Sons and Iroku's world to protect them against the Fire.

Finally, Nisorin and Celestie Lertis, drawing upon their newfound power with an almost natural skill, raise their hands to the skies as their magic rushes out towards the rip, only to stop inches away from Hikaru's barrier. Their voices echo through the Outerverse and the linked Aralang dimension, taking on the joined tindre normally attributed to Animas. "Getaway, run away fly away! Lead you astray, to dreamer's hideaway." They call out, singing voices crashing against Hikaru's defenses like a bullet train, from every side accessible from the Outerverse. Her barrier shudders against the impact, repeated with every syllable. Marks of power, glowing with their own strength, form between the barrier and the Aelirtras magic. They push against the barrier, not physically touching it as the couple stare right through the rip, right into Hikaru's horde. In them is, oddly, no trace of anger, of hate or fear. All that shows beyond their ice blue and wheat hazel eyes is disappointment.

K2 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 19, 2011, 07:18:02 PM »

but it was too late. The signatures passed into the ground, protected way too well to be effected by the circle in time. The circles quickly faded before it's effects even took effect. The signatures, all channeled into the signature of K2323 and strengthened by the mass amount of spirit energy, had already taken hold of the Outerverse, the signatures of the Sons Of Plunder now diluted. In one moment, the sons of plunder -- and for that matter, everyone with the exception of K2323, Hikaru, and the virus, were forcefully teleported out of the Outerverse, along with all their magic.

A loud, resounding POP echoed throughout the Outerverse as this happened. Protective spells were placed around the Outerverse the moment the sons and their spells had left, preventing their magic signatures coming back in. The spells of the sons had not taken hold. They'd been teleported out the moment decide fire had appeared. The battle was over, but chances were, the war had just begun.

As soon as the Outerverse was taken, K2323 collapsed to the ground, returning to his normal form. After a few moments, he got up, placing more protractive spells around the Outerverse and the adjacent dimension. He called out to his sister.

"What's for dinner!? I'm starving!"

Nisorin · « **Reply #46 on:** March 19, 2011, 07:23:22 PM »

Animas, held in the Outerverse through their right as Embodiment of Love, walks towards the rip, clapping. "That was a brilliant move, too bad you've not heard the last from them. Seems we get to keep our power a bit longer. A shame. So now, Ms. Tyris, we wonder if you understand why we're here." They call out, walking almost leisurely towards the rip. "And we apologize, Mr. Tyris, but we have some business with your sister that does not involve you. We can assure you that unless she attacks us first, we shall not grow hostile. May we please have some privacy?"

Queen Bright · « **Reply #47 on:** March 19, 2011, 07:25:07 PM »

Though she appeared within sight, Hikaru didn't let down all of her defenses, just yet. If what this being, Animas? If she recalled correctly? If what Animas had said was true, the battle still wasn't over. Not if they were going to try again. Holding her arm out to signal the Virus to remain there, Hikaru looked out to the embodiment, "My brother stays. He is the owner of the Outerverse until I take it from him. Therefore he has to stay in order to preserve its defenses to make sure those incompetent fools don't return. If you do not like this, then you perhaps do not deserve to talk to someone as great as the eldest of the Sage Three."

To the Virus, Hikaru gave one last command for the time being, "Partially release control of those fools enough to allow them movement and speech. But be ready to stop any resists." To herself she muttered, "I want to hear their suffering.."

Nisorin · « **Reply #48 on:** March 19, 2011, 07:36:00 PM »

They laugh, smiling at Hikaru. "We merely wish not to be overheard,or interrupted is all." They say, glancing towards K2323. "Besides, they won't strike again so soon, not until they can keep you from bringing the Sages and Aralangs into it again at least. Though one might think you would mind your words in the presence of a pair of Embodiments."

Gaserlake · « **Reply #49 on:** March 19, 2011, 08:02:53 PM »

The Virus stayed where it was, and released control of the Aralangs and the Sages just enough to let them move and speak. Nearly all of them reacted in confusion and fear. The only ones that didn't show much reaction was Gaserlake, and Leserlake, the two in the OV that have already experienced infected.