Author Topic: The Games (Read 14695 times)

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #25 on:** June 29, 2012, 08:00:15 PM »

OOC: Actually there is no throne. K2 said it disappeared when the snow appeared.

"A mere curiosity," Niiv said to the great figure as he passed. It seemed a girl in his company was entering this world of antimatter, and...not canceling out in a violent explosion. Well, that was a disappointment.

It was then that two Hikarus walked in. Wait, two Hikarus? Well, that must make it the big four now, or maybe, the big two...

Nisorin · « **Reply #26 on:** June 30, 2012, 12:04:54 AM »

Kerion looks to the Hikarus, smirking. "Well well, it's as Celestie said, you do still have some feeling for him. Interesting, very interesting indeed..." He says, Luna disappearing from their view into the snows. "So, what brings you two here, hm? Do you seek the power of Hell as well? My my, one would have thought you'd have enough power by now for nearly anything. Your nearly godlike self, and your constantly reincarnating fiery self together could take galaxies together, isn't that right?" He asks, watching them closely. Walking over, he shakes his head, staring the mortal Hikaru in the eyes. "I'm afraid I can't let that happen. You see, our interests in this conflict."

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #27 on:** June 30, 2012, 12:26:14 AM »

Niiv, slightly separate from the crowd at this point, began to grin. Oh-ho, this was going to be marvelous. If only he had his magic and could attempt to raise the Hikarus' blood pressure, as well as other factors in order to make her more easily angered, and make a full on argument break out.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #28 on:** July 01, 2012, 03:45:54 AM »

"If I claimed Hell it would be only to destroy it," Subgrounded!Hikaru muttered defensively, preferring not to notice his first comment. "I merely want to escape this forsaken place. Lucifer had the only way out."

"But if we did wish to take it, it is not as if someone as weak as yourself could stop us." Ingrounded!Hikaru smirked, "Especially since you just now confirmed that by commenting our 'godlike' abilities." She laughed as Subgrounded!Hikaru spoke up.

"However perhaps we could make a deal... We help you take Hell if in return when you have the throne you change this damn orb back and return my soul from that ludicrous demon follower of his."

Nisorin · « **Reply #29 on:** July 01, 2012, 03:01:23 PM »

Kerion smirks a bit, taking a moment to think it over. "An interesting proposition indeed. It would certainly save me a great deal of time." He says, glancing back at the lands of Snow beyond the wall. "Who is this demon, and where may I find him?" He asks after a moment, his smirk widening.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #30 on:** July 02, 2012, 07:03:52 PM »

Both Ingrounded!Hikaru and Subgrounded!Hikaru watched as he smirked and then looked at one another for a quick second. "On second thought..." Subgrounded!Hikaru muttered, "Just agree to free me when you take the throne and we will lend our assistance. For the soul we will take care of that ourselves... I do not quite trust you with the one thing that can be used as a means of control..."

Nisorin · « **Reply #31 on:** July 03, 2012, 02:21:31 AM »

Kerion chuckles, shrugging. "A cheaper deal for me. That's fine. Now, how will we ensure the other will keep up their end of the bargain?" He asks, looking her right in the eyes, quite clearly not trusting her as far as she could through him.

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #32 on:** July 04, 2012, 01:29:42 PM »

Niiv saw that he was getting nowhere, and thus decided to tka a different approach. He would begin to search the palace to see if he would find something useful. He left the room, making the false version he had created of himself leave in a different direction as to throw off any hostile persuers.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #33 on:** July 23, 2012, 04:05:02 PM »

"With no magic, the only thing one could do is contract their own Spirit.." Ingrounded!Hikaru rolled her eyes, "But neither of us quite trust you enough to do that. So in that regard, you are out of luck."

"And why does it matter in the first place? If I did turn on you, I would still be stranded in Hell. Taking it over does not change that, in fact it almost guarantees I would have to stay here, which I do not wish to do. Therefore, it is you that is the lest trustworthy in this bargain as you could simply refuse to free me at the time we did help."

"In other words, just do your part and we will do ours. If your turn on us, the result will not be one you will like." Ingrounded!Hikaru concluded after her counterpart Subgrounded!Hikaru had finished explaining.

Nisorin · « **Reply #34 on:** July 24, 2012, 08:08:06 PM »

He chuckles. "No magic? Ah, I'd forgotten your race doesn't have anything similar to our Weaves. A shame. In any case, let us get things started, shall we? I think it's about time we ended this little contest." He says, stepping up to them and offering his hand. "Partners, for now?"

K2 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 25, 2012, 08:57:37 PM »

"This is getting us nowhere!" Vincent yelled out to Keith, "What do ya say we end this now, hm? Once and for all!?"

As he uttered those words, it seemed like every inch of hell was shattering, like glass. Distortions. Chaos. Everyone would find the ground shaking violently, and find the ground below them phasing out and in, disappearing for a split second to the whiteness of nothingness, only to once more appear. It was as if hell itself were... Falling apart. Vincent's last move.

The moment someone set foot in the snowy domain of the Embodiment Of Cold (once Vahaga), a short yet skinny old man, much like a dwarf, bald, wearing villager clothing and carrying a wooden staff three times his height, appeared before the group, still well into the domain. He did not speak, but merely glared at the group, moving his head to motion that they should follow him as he glared at the scene of South falling apart before him.

And then he turned around and started walking into the snow.

@Pokemon Master Red · « **Reply #36 on:** July 25, 2012, 09:49:14 PM »

Keith grinned at the man's words. "Very well then! Loser buys the drinks, aye?"

Once he said his words and saw the plane falling apart, Keith knew what he had to do. Maybe not all of it, but perhaps enough would work...
The area under Keith's control appeared to shrink vastly, as though he was giving up ground, before instantly exploding outward. Except...He didn't control everything. Instead, the area of Hell he took over was a massive criss-crossing web of territory, all taken over by Keith's Chaos. Honestly, if it weren't for his foe's change in focus from holding ground to scorched earth, he probably wouldn't have been able to do this, but now it was all beginning.
As his foe tried to destroy hell, the web of control made by Keith's Chaos fought back, holding all of Hell together. Keith's control of Hell fought back, preventing even the parts not controlled by him from falling apart. All of this drained him immensely, though, having just taken a massive part of a dimension in a very, very short time, then using the area he'd taken up to stop the whole thing from collapsing. Both of the clubs growing from his back were now merged with the ground, and Keith ran at his foe, dragging them along the areas controlled by him as his arm turned into a blade.

Nisorin · « **Reply #37 on:** July 26, 2012, 02:10:05 AM »

(As Hikaru has not posted yet, I will post solely as Luna until she does.)

Luna nods at the dwarf, looking onwards. "Is there anything left of the Lady Snow?" She asks, looking around, musing about how the destruction affecting South would not reach through the doorway.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #38 on:** July 28, 2012, 12:37:30 AM »

Before either of the Hikaru's could answer Kerion, they both realized what was happening with Hell and glanced at one another. If hell went, so did Subgrounded!Hikaru's soul. That could not be allowed to happen!"I will assist in helping you then..." Subgrounded!Hikaru moved forward as Ingrounded!Hikaru turned around and started to walk the other way.

"While I will obtain what is rightfully ours."

Nisorin · « **Reply #39 on:** July 28, 2012, 01:23:13 AM »

Kerion smirks, chuckling. "Seems someone's going a bit overboard. I can keep this section intact, so there's at least something for you to come back to." He says, taking out what looked more like a hunting knife then an actual weapon. "Just be quick."

Luna nods at the dwarf, looking onwards. "Is there anything left of the Lady Snow?" She asks, looking around, musing about how the destruction affecting South would not reach through the doorway.

@Pokemon Master Red · « **Reply #40 on:** July 30, 2012, 09:31:51 PM »

OOC:Law of the Three Days(Sounds a tad more epic, don' ya think?)

With no adequate resistance made, Keith managed to take vast parts of Hell for his Web of territory, which stopped it from falling apart and in fact stabilized the entirety of the areas that his Foe tried to make fall. And then, Keith reached Vincent, plunging his blade into the other's body. Except...The blade of Chaos did not harm him. Well, not in a way that would cause him death or wounding, anyways. With his strike, he was making a connection to Vincent...A connection that would allow Keith to steal from him his bond to Hell itself. With that move, the fight would be over, and Keith would be bound undeniably to the Realm, as its true Lord and King.

K2 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 05, 2012, 06:59:05 PM »

Keith had effectively become the ruler of South now, with Vincent, the last remaining link to Radical, defeated. But Vincent wasn't the one trying to destroy South -- his attack had only been what pushed South to it's limit. With everyone trying to control South at once, it was too much for the realm to bear... It was literally caving in on itself, and even as various parties tried to keep it together, it was quickly coming to its end.

So what did it do?

The souls of South -- not the ones in the domain of the embodiment of snow -- dead or alive, suddenly, would find themselves being forcefully teleported out of South as it began to cave in. It would be like a loud, violent pop -- much like forced teleportation in the Outerverse. So where were they being teleported to?

The Spirit Realm.

The only one who would not be teleported was Keith... He was binded to South, and he could make South stop from caving in. The question was, how would he do it?

In the domain of Snow, the old man gruffly shook his head at the question, before motioning that she follow him deeper into the domain.

@Pokemon Master Red · « **Reply #42 on:** August 05, 2012, 08:43:00 PM »

With his new link to Hell itself, Keith saw its structural instabilities within the framework of the Realm itself, as caused by the fighting over its control. He realized that while he was holding it together, if something was not done, it would definitely fall apart. So, Keith did something not at all insane and obviously completely rational.
He changed the plane itself to Chaos.
You see, Chaos was very much known for its unpredictability. Paradoxically, that was the only stable thing most people would probably know it for. Oh, most certainly you could direct Chaos, have it work towards your ends, especially if you're a creation OF Chaos itself...But ultimately how it does what it does is quite random. And because of this random aspect, as Keith changed more and more of Hell into Chaos, it grew both more and less stable. Some areas breaking under the stress of so many laying a claim became instead stronger the more stress was put there, other places the stress immediately disappeared as though it'd never been there. As well, some areas broke and cracked as the Chaos infusing the space itself increased the stress...And then there were areas where the stress(and other factors) caused simply random effects, such as making flowers with antlers for petles sprout or turning a hill into some sort of alien duck.
This all was not the only purpose of Keith's actions though. With more of Hell being made into Chaos, he had more and more control over it. He took the areas that were breaking apart, and focused the Chaos into mending them back together, and into relieving the strain and stress the dimension was going through. Hell itself was slowing raveling back together, becoming instabily stable from the influence of Chaos itself.
And Keith's own power, as he did all of this, was beginning to rise further, and further. Something in the back of his mind nagged at him about this...It was unsettling. He almost felt...Afraid of this new infusion of power. Like it might...Change him. Or...More like...Take him over?

K2 · « **Reply #43 on:** August 05, 2012, 09:10:55 PM »

As Keith repaired South, it was changing. Sure, it was changing into a realm of chaos, but more than that... It was giving up control -- transferring the power that had been Radical's over to Keith. It was crowning him. It was enlisting in him more than simple physical control over South... It was giving up the throne itself, to Keith.

Radical had been granted his power by Destruction and the embodiments. That power was what had made Radical so strong. And now, it belonged to Keith... Until the embodiments decided otherwise. Or until somebody killed Keith.

Nisorin · « **Reply #44 on:** August 06, 2012, 12:18:55 AM »

Kerion returns, seeing Keith. "Well now, it seems you beat me to it. That just can't be allowed to happen." He says, walking over to him. "Nisorin has a very high opinion of you, after your fight with his wife." He adds, stamping his foot to the ground to send a shockwave of his own energy out, contesting his domain and pulling together the ground around him for a good twenty feet.

@Pokemon Master Red · « **Reply #45 on:** August 06, 2012, 12:32:05 AM »

"Fight with his...Celestie?" Keith said, running his memory for any beings similar to the one before him. "If your friends with them, then I honestly dont want to fight you." He said, frowning, as he focused his power to keep that area contested while pouring Chaos into the column of rock in order to weaken it enough to make it fall back down to his level. He simply appeared next to his "foe", using his current mastery over the plane to shift his location in it, and he just kind of scratched his head in confusion. "Before we fight, if we even will, can we at least talk?"

Nisorin · « **Reply #46 on:** August 06, 2012, 02:06:46 PM »

Kerion chuckles. "It's a little late for that. You have the key to something that I want, you see." He says, looking to the incarnation. "There's something hidden deep within the ancient city that I need. And I really don't care who gets in the way. Now, what is it you'd like to talk about?" He asks, his hand sparking with the return of magic, which makes him grin all the wider.

@Pokemon Master Red · « **Reply #47 on:** August 06, 2012, 02:24:40 PM »

"Um...Ok. Whatever you're looking for, you can have it. I'll help you find it if you want." Keith says, bemused that this line of thought, that Keith would help him, hadn't crossed the man's mind. "I dont like fighting allies, so I just wanted a way to peacefully resolve this conflict I dont really understand. Whatever it is your looking for I can guarantee Im not here for."

Nisorin · « **Reply #48 on:** August 08, 2012, 06:48:52 PM »

Kerion smirks, looking around them. "Look around you, Incarnation. Tell me what you see." He says, his eyes shining with some sort of unknown vision-based spell. His stance was relaxed, as if completely unbothered by the oppressive atmosphere and unnatural denizens of South.

@Pokemon Master Red · « **Reply #49 on:** August 08, 2012, 07:00:36 PM »

In actuality, the atmosphere was quite different than the norm for Hell and its denizens were, of course, quite gone at the moment due to them having been teleported out already. Even so, Keith looked around bemusedly, saying,"Uhh...Hellscape? Chaos-Infused dirt? I dont...Um...Im not sure what I should be looking for."