melodiesofeternity | Apocalypse || Sen Riqeaux Castle

Nozomi’s eyes go wide. Undyne,Tyzias And Vimes both were attacking Ramaa. And if this was like with the threats from other worlds...

“Wait, you’re wasting your time!” She shouted

All right then, if that's how they're going to play it, Corrin's game. After everything this woman has done, Corrin will gladly join the others in doing what she has to to protect Vaikuntha. She finds herself ready to kill Rama.

She lets fly a [Mjolnir] as the others attack, a bolt of electricity zapping out from her fingers towards Rama that will deal [Thunder] damage and will deal [4x damage on a critical hit].

"This! Ends! Now!"

Finn stumbled back when the spear was loosed and fighting broke out. To think he had been hesitant.

Though, he's still hesitant even now. There was no telling what her Job entailed if it included summoning Bahamut. They could figure out more later, he reasoned and joined the fray.

Since there was no telling what would happen, he used a single Death Penalty with a 10% chance to insta-kill, hoping it would get this done fast.

Edited 2019-03-12 01:40 (UTC)

The look on the Empress’s face made her heart stop, and everything else around her fell silent. That look was one she understood, and had been battling with since they first met. There was more she wanted to say, but time to ask it had run out as all around her emotions were unleashed.

Both instinct and her own inner turmoil acted on her—an honourable Jue protected their royalty, and more than that there were still questions unanswered. Gritting her teeth she unleashed another Protect, but this one on Ramaa herself. Knowing it wouldn’t be enough, Sylvarie’s body followed suit to come between her and the others.

As if the entire reaction wasn’t confounding in itself, she also struck the Empress with her staff imbued with Healing Spellblade, at least hoping to knock her out of the way as she braved herself for the oncoming wave.

So this was it. This was the beginning of the end. To be truthful, Tressa was honestly kind of scared. Even though they've clashed against a great calamity before, it didn't make the experience any less scary. Besides, Bahamut was a far different beast from Galdera.

When all hell broke loose, Tressa jumped back in surprise, and began to notch an arrow, Aiming right for the Empresses head. She had to be taken out, and it had to be done QUICK.

When the chaos erupted Bowser was ready, the talking had bored him and upon the betrayal he wanted nothing more than to just fight, though he did little more than use the Brasier spell, using it against the empress.

Plague Knight barely manages to exit the airship in time to watch the Empress' change in demeanor, having- foolishly, perhaps- thought to spend a few moments cleaning up after the impromptu breakfast he'd brought everyone.

Just in time to hear her betrayal, just in time to watch everything falling apart. Everyone starts attacking at once, but will it truly stop anything? Plague Knight pulls a hi-potion out of his sleeves, and looks around. Whatever happens next, someone's going to need some healing support soon enough.

"Is that really it?? The reason we're here? Just pawns in your little game? Ugh! I take it back, you're exactly like the Enchantress. I'm rolling my eyes beneath this mask, hee hee!"

To say that the events of the last few days have weighed heavily on Ganeshan would be an understatement. The world around him is falling apart, his treasured research assistants abandoned their work and fled to the Ramuza Stone Fields, and he hasn’t yet found a way to stop it. He’s more tired than he’s ever been.

”I’LL WATCH OVER THEM.” he told Biggs and Wedge as the Heroes exited the airship near the Sen Riqeaux Castle.

He uses his Chemist’s ability to switch into a Paladin’s armor.

”PLEASE BE WARY, DEAR FRIENDS! DO NOT LET YOUR ANGER MAKE YOU FOOLISH! IF SHE IS INDEED THE CULPRIT, HER MAJESTY IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE!”

He uses Rampart to bolster the Heroes’ defense.

Well, leave it to Undyne to make a sticky situation. Still, it was better than talking Ramaa to death. Time to get to work.

Madhuri swept her fingers over the bone and keratin of the guitar, applying a Spellblade (Elemental). With a strum, she conjured up a few orbs of lightning, crackling and... singing?

With added electric sound, the tiefling began her tune. An odd ditty from an odd time, an odd world. Perhaps it'll trigger a bit of devilish style.

For now, she let the power build. No no no, she had to wait for the right time... until then, why not have come combat music for the lot?

"Go, go, go!"

"You don't need the Supreme, Naoto. Show 'em what you got!" He'll just provide cover.

With the Black Ice sword given a twirl, he called upon a Vengeance to up his defenses further, and maybe give a little 'right back atcha' if Ramaa wanted to pull anything funny. The next five doses of medicine would be pretty fuckin' tasty, wouldn't it?

"Ready! RAAAAAAHHHHH-" He advanced.

Terra tried not to show how devastated he was by the Empress's - Kalki's - revelation. Still, the words burst from him like an explosion. "We trusted you!" They'd trusted her, and then - this whole world -

Terra was no more than half in the present, his eyes unable to stop seeing another shattered world, another broken trust, almost exactly a year in his past. Still, he was there enough to charge forward, aiming his Holy Blade - and thinking, horribly, that this may be the time Desperation becomes of use.

When the Empress's demeanor changed, Kenichi quickly mounted his chocobo. The white aura of the Pestilance Stance glowed around the duo. He considered going in on the offensive until he saw Sylvarie and he cursed out loud.

"Oh for the love of--Let's go, Kohaku!" Kenichi spurred his Chocobo to quickly close the distance before attacks could hit. He didn't wait to hear any objections as he bent down to grab Sylvarie by the waist to get her out of the way from the incoming attacks. A second person hanging off the side of a giant bipedal bird made balancing an issue, so Kenichi could only move about 15 feet away before skidding to a halt.

When he's finally able to catch his breath, he carefully helps her back down on solid ground. "Before you get angry with me, I'm sorry but I'd rather not lose a fellow ally by friendly fire. Also, something tells me she can take care of herself just fine."

Kisegawa had been ready to lash out, to summon something to wipe that smarmy smile off Ramaa's face. That plan was instantly thrown out the window when Sylvarie ran into the fray.

"Wha--" She didn't even manage to get the word out before Patches forced his way into control. "Varie!"

Thank the heavens for Kenichi and his chocobo. Patches dashed up to the bird, the battle forgotten, to support Sylvarie as she was lowered to the ground.

"A-Are you okay? Don't scare me like that!"

The Empress didn't make a move as Undyne threw her spear at her. She looked confident as ever, all until Sylvarie moved to protect her. Her eyes widened in surprise and... Was it horror? But it was too late as her skill went off. Within a split second, Undyne's position and Ramaa's are switched: practically speaking, this means Undyne ends up being on the receiving end of her own spear. Meanwhile, the Empress is safe at the spot where Undyne used to be.

Ramaa scowled from her new position, muttering as she saw Sylvarie and Kenichi in a safe spot.

".......Idiot!"

But soon her smile returned, and every attack aimed at her met with the same fate: she swapped her position with whoever her attacker was, resulting in them being on the receiving end of their very attack.

”DEAR SYLVARIE, YOUR FAMILY SHOULD BE PROUD OF YOUR PURE HEART. AND SHAME ON YOU, LADY RAMAA, FOR DISHONORING THIS ACT OF KINDNESS!”

Ganeshan lets his voice boom as he moves in front of Terra after he got hit with his own holy blade, and uses a Cura on him to heal his wounds.

Nozomi resisted the urge to facepalm. She was right on the money - Ramaa had a resistance to everyone's attacks. "Everyone, stop attacking! If she's doing that, then we're wasting our time!"

Having already transformed into Cure Dream earlier, she ended up running to Corrin's aid and using the Precure Dream Shoot on her, healing her slightly.

With a moment of quick triage- whose attacks seem likely to have inflicted the most harm on themselves, and who's not already being helped- Plague Knight pulls out a second so he has one for the next injury, and rushes over to Tyzias, shoving it into her hands after she eats her own attack, or even right into her mouth if she knocked herself down.

"Drink this, quickly now- those weapons of yours seem deadly indeed, heal up before the pain really sets in, hee hee! We're not even at the main event yet it seems!"

Edited (Forgot what mega potions do, definitely not using one of those right now.) 2019-03-12 13:40 (UTC)

"Unless someone has a clever solution, it looks like talking and defense are what we have," S'reee said.

So. That's what it felt like.

Ow.

For a moment, all Tyzias can do is look down at the gaping hole in her stomach, her blank expression almost comical.

Then she falls to her knees, vomiting blood as the teal fluid leaks out of her wound. She's too incoherent from the pain to take Plague Knight's offered potion voluntarily, but as the wound slowly begins closing up she fumbles another hi-potion out of her pocket, gulping it down greedily. "Thanks," she gasps, the agony still too much for her to move, think, or say too much.

It takes a second for Finn to realize what just happened. He'd been deposited in another position and then hit with what felt like a rock.

Taking in the scene around him, he quickly realizes what it had been and how close that was. Shaken up more than he would have liked, his eyes found Ramaa or Kalki or whoever she was off to the side, unharmed.

"Okay." Finn shakes himself, gripping his hands to ensure that, yes, he's still alive. "Okay. I'm all for restraining her now!"

He moves towards Ramaa.

Terra's head spun for a moment as the skill took effect, and then he was dropping to one knee as his own Holy Blade sliced into him, the worst of it blunted by the armor but still more than enough to make him stagger.

He looked up gratefully at Ganeshan's healing and struggled back to his feet. "I'm fine," he insisted in the face of all evidence to the contrary. "Just - wasn't expecting that." And now he feels kind of foolish for thinking she wouldn't have some trick of the kind prepared.

He had his own Cura, and used it on Tressa, who no doubt needed it after taking her own shot.

As soon as the arrow pierced through her skin, Tressa let loose a cry of agony, falling to one knee before ripping the arrow from her wound. So the empress had a gimmick up her sleeve... honestly, she should have expected that, but it still took her by surprise. Honestly, who would think that would happen?

Though the pain had soon lessened greatly, thanks to Terra's Cura. Rising from her feet, Tressa turned to him and nodded.

"Thanks, I needed that."

Edited 2019-03-12 16:13 (UTC)

Undyne, now in a different place from where she was before, turned around, slightly confused, when her spear hit her right in her robotic eye. It malfunctioned a bit, flaring up brighter than it ever did before, and her vision was slightly blurry now.

Nevertheless, Undyne was determined to not let Ramaa win, though she knew after that, that she couldn't attack Ramaa directly. She decided to try to brainstorm possible attack strategies.

Blast. Of course she'd have defenses prepared; Ramaa would have been ready for them to make a move at her once she'd so casually revealed her true intentions to them. And now it's clear just how powerful she truly must be.

Megatron quickly summons forth an [Eos] to begin attending to the other wounded. They would probably need several Eoses out in the battle to come.

But he does note Ramaa's protectiveness towards...Sylvarie, was it? She had actually looked horrified for the brief second that the girl had interposed herself between the incoming attacks and Ramaa herself. Why would someone so hell-bent on the destruction of this world and every other care at all for the life of a single person?

"If you are truly as committed to this path as you say you are, Ramaa, why should Sylvarie's safety matter to you?" He asks. "Who is she to you except another victim to be sacrificed on the altar of your ambitions?"

Kisegawa took over once more, about ready to scold Sylvarie, but Megatron's point gave her a pause. She hadn't imagined it, then. Ramaa's composure had crumbled for a moment -- and it hadn't been just once, either...

They were missing something.

"...This is still an act, isn't it?" She turned to face Ramaa, eyes narrowed. "You're laying it on far too thick with this whole evil madwoman routine, then slipping up the second something unexpected happens. Like an amateur performer who can't stay in character.

"Just what are you trying to pull here, Your Majesty? You could just act natural and we'd have no less cause to despise you. Why are you making such a big show of how terrible you are?"

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