Author Topic: Last Flight of a Phoenix (Read 4373 times)

Zero · « **on:** July 06, 2011, 05:54:06 PM »

Am, AT, AP, AST fields went up around the entire planet as a transmission was sent out to Kurai.

Hello Phoenix.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #1 on:** July 06, 2011, 05:59:43 PM »

As Cruor wasn't magic, but instead a big ball of negative energy and enchanted blood, the fields did next to nothing. Kurai appeared to be floating on her back in a lake of blood nearby, her wings outstretched and laying flat in the scarlet red liquid. "It's your funeral," the Negi smirked and sent back her answer in telepathy.

Various Negi and corrupted inhabitants from Japae and Bula Bula went about their day to day lives. The Negi torturing the inhabitants and the inhabitants screaming out in pain.

Zero · « **Reply #2 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:01:14 PM »

We understand you and Hikaru share something in common. Your rapid healing abilities to be exact. With your permission, we would like to put those to a test, a very painful one if you would allow it.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:04:03 PM »

"Pain?" Kurai squealed in such delight that the emotion of pleasure in a very wrong way could be felt through the telepathy its self, the feeling sinking through into ones sending the transmission. "Why don't you come down here first?"

Zero · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:06:17 PM »

Can't. Our orders are to remain orbital. For all we know the blood or other stuff of the planet may be toxic. Plus the negative energy readings are off the charts and that means we are to be cautious. Our orders are to vivisect a Phoenix, learn how the healing factor works and replicate it through technology and magic and/or both.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:08:44 PM »

"Well unless you come down here. I can't help you. " Kurai's voice sounded sweet-toned and sorrowful, very unlike her usual attitude.

Zero · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:11:27 PM »

We will send down someone down.

A scientist in full hazmat tech appeared near Kurai. He wore body armor over that, and his entire armor was fire-resistant.

"Let's get started."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #7 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:16:17 PM »

"Oh no..." Kurai switched out of telepathy. Rolling her eyes to look over at the scientists, Kurai pulled herself up out of the blood and shook her wings dry, droplets of the red liquid splashing everywhere. Her skin however stayed soaked. "If you do anything it has to happen here. Set your equipment up here and bring along your little friends." Kurai catwalked towards the scientists blood dripping from her bare skin, the usual feathers soaked and nearly see-through. Her eyes held the gaze of the scientist and her expression was one of welcoming.

Zero · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:17:28 PM »

Well if she would allow it to happen here on the planet. First a barrier made in the shape of a table was crafted. "Get on it. We have a lot of tests to run to see if your blood is the solution to a technological problem that should never have been invented."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:23:03 PM »

"Only one of you?" Kurai frowned. "You said there'd be pain. One person cannot cause the amount of pain to pleasure me. I demand you bring the rest of your people!"

Zero · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:24:19 PM »

"Trust me. With the equipment I have, you will feel excruciating pain." Ten more men appeared, soldiers. Assigned to protect him and clad in full body armor and so he looked at her. "First, we are going to test the durability of your feathers. And pluck a few of them for research purposes."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:28:26 PM »

"Eleven still isn't enough." Kurai flew up to a blood stained tree that had blood running from the branches as if the tree its self was bleeding and crying out in agony. "Do you know how much pain it takes to satisfy a girl of my caliber?" Kurai ran her hand across her face, stopping at her mouth to which she licked her fingers one by one, sucking the droplets of blood from them. "Bring more or no deal."

Zero · « **Reply #12 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:30:56 PM »

Finally Marco Stone appeared.

"So you will be our guinea pig?" He asked, examining the Phoenix. "Bring me my tools." He ordered, and all sorts of scientific equipment used in creating genetic experiments appeared around them as did a massive power source which all of it was hooked into.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #13 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:33:30 PM »

"Still not enough." Kurai droned on dryly. "MORE! I NEED MORE!"

Zero · « **Reply #14 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:36:18 PM »

"Fine..." said Marco. He pulled out a crystal and broke it. Jake Ateris also appeared. He would help with the restraints. Ezra Tan also appeared. Ken Atlas appeared as well, each of them in hazmat gear. "Now may we get on with it?" Ezra alchemized up his tools that he would need, including that crystalline knife he used for dissection or vivisection.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #15 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:38:12 PM »

"Now lose those suits." Kurai called down from her perch, batting her eyelashes with an amused smirk on her face. "After all, we're all friends here."

Zero · « **Reply #16 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:40:22 PM »

Ezra and the others thought about it for a moment. Each one except for Marco, and Jake who were not clad in the suits took them off. Ezra was waering robes, Ken was wearing a business suit, Jake wore a grey and green tunic and Marco was wearing the outfit of a scientist. They then threw a ball of fire magic at the suits destroying them. This would have to be done according to plans. "Alright, now may we get started on the research?"

Queen Bright · « **Reply #17 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:50:12 PM »

The second the suits were off Kurai had jumped down and had Ezra by the neck, while a spell circle appeared beneath the rest of the group and scientists. This was Cruror, a planet completely in Kurai's control and sadly for the scientists a planet also created completely from blood. To a spellcaster blood was sacred as it carried life and was used in all kinds of rituals and binding spells. Why this mattered?

Ken, Marco, Jake and the rest of the scientists were now trapped. Moreso than usual. The type of circle they were in and the runes inscribed into it was of binding. It took their magic signature, spirit signature, and DNA and binded it to that point in spacetime that they were, grounding them to that very spot. This made portals, teleportation, shadow travel and the various other forms of travel even by technology completely useless.

As for Ezra? Because he was in Kurai's grasp and therefore in her space of power as every spellcaster had one, he was helpless and portals, teleportation and the rest wouldn't help him now. Feathers from Kurai's wings were shed and they were carried by the winds of her magic to Ezra where they started to cover him.

Black tendrils of Negative energy erupted from the blood and began to creep up Ezra and the rest of his groups legs, the blood and circle binding them. "Now now... You honestly don't think that was such a good idea do you?" Kurai's devilish tone returned as her eyes swept Ezra's face and watched for his reaction. "The question is. What should I do with rats that enter my nest?"

Zero · « **Reply #18 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:55:38 PM »

Trapped, and unable to move, Ezra for a moment blushed. He then righted himself and thought of something. A way that they could do something that might help them get out of the circles. Ken concentrated his magic, and tried to use it to erase the rune circle while Jake used prophetic and psalmic magic to try and overwhelm the rune circle at the same time Marco pulled out a portable analysis device and began to analyze the energies. Ezra could not move due to the grip as it was tight.
"You should let us accomplish the task we came here to do. " said Ezra. "For your blood will be making millions suffer soon."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #19 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:59:40 PM »

The spells of the group were blocked however as Cruor was once again BLOOD. A property in magic that increased the power of spells and their binding effects to tenfold. Any spell against that much blood amplifying its spells was bound to fail. This was the reason Kurai had created Cruor. Not just for the aesthetic choice as she could have chosen anything dark. But also for the power it held.

Kurai tightened her grip when she felt Ezra squirm. "I'll tell you what. Three of you will die. That I assure you. The rest will be tortured and remain here as my prisoner. While one of you.." Kurai reached forward and licked a speck of blood that had fallen on Ezra's cheek, her tongue sliding gently across his skin. "One of you will get the chance to escape here with only one thing lost." Her smirk grew. "Your virginity."

Zero · « **Reply #20 on:** July 06, 2011, 07:02:36 PM »

"Well since you are determined to kill three of us anyway...." Jake held out his palm. "Let me release my magic before you kill me. "

Ezra stopped for a moment. He had already lost his morality. If any were to escape it would have to be him. Ken concentrated and formed an orb of power which he launched from himself, slamming into the chest of Ezra. "I'll die too. "

Marco. 'Well, go ahead and kill me. Just let Ezra live." Marco copied all his intelligence into Ezra, all his technological knowledge.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #21 on:** July 06, 2011, 07:10:55 PM »

"Oh? You thought you were the one I would let live?" Kurai laughed. "You're much too ugly and pathetic for my tastes." With that she broke Ezra's neck and set his him on fire with arsenic colored flames of Unholy fire, the massive inferno consuming his body in an uproar and burning him to ashes and then burning those ashes. For his Spirit? Kurai grabbed hold of it before it could enter the afterlife and absorbed the spirit energy in a single feather to which she crushed and set aflame..

"Well that's one down." Kurai cocked her head and looked at the rest of the small group with a smile of pleasure on her face mixed with a glint of insanity in her eyes. "So who lives?"

Zero · « **Reply #22 on:** July 06, 2011, 07:14:30 PM »

"You killed Ezra. The only alchemist we had. And despite that, you did it mercelessly." Ken was angry. And rightly so, she had just murdered Ezra. But he still had his power and thought of something. Marco was the youngest one of them, and had the best likely chance of survival and so Ken began to speak words in ancient narrikian to Marco who agreed. It was the only chance any of them had if one of them were to survive. If none survived, oh well. Ken had left his will as had the others.

"Marco will live." said Ken finally, deciding for the group. Jake gave Marco the stone tablets and the scythe. "Prophetic and Psalmic are yours to command now, just don't mess this up kid."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #23 on:** July 06, 2011, 07:23:16 PM »

"So he's next then?" Kurai snapped her fingers and a magenta pitchfork appeared in her grasp materialized from blood. Reaching forward she stabbed Marco like he was a large peace of meat speared on the end of it and brought him forward out of the circle and in her space of power. "You do really need to realize my game." Kurai drawled on. "Did you honestly think I would take your suggestion? No no. I'm just seeing who you value the most of your little group of ants."

Kurai plucked Marco off the end of it and threw the tablets and scythe away. She now held him by the neck. "Tell me... Marco is it? Why did you come here?"

Zero · « **Reply #24 on:** July 06, 2011, 07:24:59 PM »

"For scientific purposes. To vivisect a Phoenix. And to see why this planet had so much negative energy coming from it." His magic was healing him. The stone tablets and scythe vanished. Marco could not save himself, but he had sent those far away along with Ken's crown.