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Post by inakamoto on Nov 7, 2016 5:52:22 GMT -5
Alpha-7 continued to back step, keeping just beyond the reach of Kasturi's blade. As the fight continued, Alpha-7 continued to analyze the girl's features. She seemed to be losing herself. Whatever was happening inside her head, she clearly wasn't thinking straight. She perished the thought of this girl fighting Zemo in this state.
Just then, Alpha-7 reacted to one of Kasturi's strikes, catching her blade in metal hand. She then followed with a fluid movement, closing the gap between them, and placing the index finger of her free hand against the girl's throat. She formed her hand in the shape of a gun, hoping to get her point across.
"If this were a real fight," Alpha-7 said, looking right into Kasturi's eyes, "you'd be dead right now."
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Post by trishiabidaure on Nov 7, 2016 17:57:28 GMT -5
Kasturi could only stare at the lady with her eyes dilated, her facial expression showed blank. The blade that was caught by the lady slowly turned into red with red and black smoke emoting from the gem hilt, but the princess doesn't care about it.
"If I died...who would save the people from corruption? It can't be you, right? If there were so many people got killed, why didn't you do something to seek justice for the murdered?" She asked the lady with a monotone voice, she sounds like she's neither angry or happy.
Andrew's eyes widened as he witnessed the sword changes its appearance slowly and neither of the two noticed it. The child sprang into a run towards the battlefield, he have to warn them before it's too late! "Wait! STOP!" Andrew cried from a far while running.
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Post by inakamoto on Nov 11, 2016 8:55:48 GMT -5
Alpha-7 didn't respond at first. The question had cut deep, deeper than any physical wound she'd ever experienced. Who was this girl to accuse of doing nothing? How could she even think that? After a few seconds of those words echoing in her head, something within her snapped.
"Don't you think I wanted to stop him?" Alpha-7 asked in a low tone, suddenly grabbing Kasturi by the collar of her shirt, "Don't you think if I could've prevented those deaths, I would have?!"
She then threw Kasturi towards the center of the of performing area, her voice growing louder and more intense as she continued on.
"Ten years, that's how long it took! Ten damn long years of fighting him, chasing him, doing whatever we had to to stop him! I've seen what he's capable of! I remember the faces of every person he hurt; every life he ended; all the suffering he caused! And what, you thought I didn't care?! We were desperate to stop him, I was desperate to stop him! I spent every waking hour of those ten years trying to stop him!! When we put him behind bars, it was supposed to be over!!!"
As she continued on, small droplets of tears began to well up in Alpha-7's eyes, "But it's not over...he escaped, and now he's coming here...and it's our-, no, my fault he's coming."
Alpha-7's human hand had clenched into a tight fist, "I need you to understand, Zemo's my responsibility, not yours. I can't let you face him, I won't let him take another life. I'm the one who has to face him, not you."
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Post by trishiabidaure on Nov 11, 2016 9:57:19 GMT -5
Kasturi hated the line of "My fault", it sounded like the lady was giving up slowly because of that and the princess hated it as if the word mocked Kasturi for being weak to fight her. She was even thrown to the ground without even taking a hit to the lady weeping about her past. Well, the princess had her own past too similar to the lady. Making fun at when she wanted to fight like the castle guards in her kingdom, hearing numerous crimes of deaths that the victims were like her as girls who were so vulnerable to the corrupted world, seeing their bodies being mangled with their own blood stained on the kingdom's battlefield. It's not like she's belittling the lady's past "ten years" ago, but she's just not satisfied with the answer she got.
"Tch! Don't try and treat yourself like some petty, vulnerable women whose always targeted by manic predators! Taking ALLLL the burdens to yourself when there are people who were trying to reach you out and help you, but NO! You just pushed them away without the consent of even listening to them anyway!" Kasturi blurted while recovering from the gravitational throw she experienced as she stood up with the support of her tainted sword like a cane.
"You'd think that you're the only one who always see blood splattered? My kingdom was ravished by predators who wanted nothing but their own satisfaction of greed and lust to the citizens outside of my castle's walls. I couldn't imagine a night without hearing the screams and cries of little girls and women while being harassed by those men who treated them like some lustful ornaments! I tried to ease the pain of being a bystander just because I'm a girl who would do nothing until death, but I'm sick of it!" Kasturi's eyes began to be tainted with red too, and then her voice started to get deeper too.
Andrew stopped at a good distance to see the green sword has now been tainted with red and black color, he then take a glance of the mysterious essence within her sword. The sword was magical after all, but Kasturi never used it's magic anyway because she doesn't want to rely on it too much. Surely, he'd read books about mythological creatures as he researched the residents of Cirque Mystique and that's when he took another time in reading weapons when he created the five elemental weapons. The sword seemed to be changing very slowly that he could have sword Kasturi didn't noticed it, he'd read swords before and stumbled into one weapon that catches his interest and scared him a little. He was worried that Kasturi sword would react badly because of the magic being suppressed far too long from the inside with the addition of Kasturi's wrath and the desire of doing bloodshed for the bad people, it's exactly what the sword wants to do: To have bloodshed.
"Oh no...." Andrew's eyes whispered in fear as his eyes widened while backing away slowly, he'd hoped his speculation about her sword wasn't true.
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Post by inakamoto on Nov 12, 2016 7:36:09 GMT -5
It was only then that Alpha-7 noticed the aura surrounding Kasturi's blade. In the heat of battle, she never realized the dramatic change it was undergoing. As soon as she caught sight of the red and black smoke emanating from the weapon, and the red glow of her eyes, she began to suspect there was more going on here than she first realized. Whether the sword was responding to her own feelings, or the sword was twisting her own personality, it was hard to tell. Regardless, the solutions seemed obvious to her.
Alpha-7 suddenly leaped high into the air, twisting her body and aiming her jump to land just behind Kasturi. The second she landed, she reached out with her left hand, and wrapped her arm around Kasturi's neck, lifting her off the ground. With her other hand, she grabbed onto the girl's sword hand at the wrist, and twisted it backwards, applying just enough tension to weaken her grip on the weapon.
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Post by trishiabidaure on Nov 12, 2016 10:47:37 GMT -5
Kasturi stared at the ground while trapped to the lady's arms, she didn't even bother to break free anyway as she continued stared to the ground with her red, dead eyes. The sword begun to morph slowly, its blade looked like it's melting but Kasturi's tight grip to the sword doesn't seem to weaken at all.
"No! Please! D-d-don't hurt Kasturi!" Andrew cried when the lady grabbed Kasturi without notice, he was worried that she was strangling the princess. Tears begin to fill from his eyes as he stared at the two people fighting at each other, they were supposed to be friends and not enemies. He felt a strange sensation that his chest began to tighten but no one was strangling him, he placed one of his hand over the chest to ease the pain. As he sought to find a solution to stop the two, he stopped at where Kasturi's sword transforming without having the two notice it.
Andrew closed his eyes as he tried to remember whatever the heck's going on with Kasturi's sword, but he couldn't get rid of the fact about the sword that desires bloodshed upon being unsheathed. It couldn't be the sword he'd feared to be exist just because it doesn't exist, right?
~ "Thou hast made this offer over-late, if thou wouldst make peace: for now I have drawn Dáinsleif, which the dwarves made, and which must cause a man's death every time it is bared, nor ever fails in its stroke; moreover, the wound heals not if one be scratched with it." ~ ~ "Once the sword has been drawn, it must be shed blood or it would never be sheathed again." ~
"King Hogni...Hjadningavig....." Andrew murmured as he was close in remembering what it was, he even clutched his head because he wouldn't want that memory to disperse before he could get it.
"Sword.....Legacy.....Cursed....Dwerg Dain....Dain...." Andrew gasped as he felt horrified of what he realised. Not only the tip of Kasturi's sword was pointing to the lady's left arm, but the princess' weapon was glowing in red and black.
"NO! STOP! LET GO! RUN!" Now the child was begging to the lady in letting Kasturi go before it's too late. "SHE'LL KILL YOU! CURSED SWORD! DAINSLEIF!"
And that was when Kasturi's sword elongated that it pierced the lady's left arm right through it.
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Post by inakamoto on Nov 14, 2016 3:40:23 GMT -5
Something was wrong. Kasturi didn't seem to be fighting back. She just hung there, limp in Alpha-7's arms. For a moment, she wondered if she had passed out. Then, she heard another voice. It was the boy, he seemed to be shouting something. But before Alpha-7 could react, a sudden, sharp pain shot through her arm.
Alpha-7 let out a yell of pain as the blade pierced into her bicep. Immediately, she grabbed Kasturi by the shirt, and through her towards the center of the ring. The sword sliced a deep gash in her arm as it came out. Alpha-7 pressed her metal hand against the wound, which did little to stop the bleeding. She looked down at the wound with a look of concern mixed in with wincing pain. She recognized this kind of pain; it was dark magic. She'd been hit with cursed weapons and hexes in the past, and they always felt different from regular pain. This time was no different. She looked towards where she had flung the young girl, wondering what sort of weapon she possessed that could cause this kind of damage.
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Post by trishiabidaure on Nov 14, 2016 7:34:43 GMT -5
Andrew ran to where the lady is, it was the first response when Dainsleif pierced her arm. Because it's almost impossible to heal a wound that was inflicted by Dainsleif, the lady could possibly die from blood loss or infection from her wound. "Are you okay?" Andrew asked the lady nicely as he analysed the wound she was inflicted with, the wound appeared to be quite deep and bleeding. He'd just hope that his 'grandpa' Aidan would have the power to heal her wound or it'll get very dangerous. Dainsleif is a dangerous weapon, how in the world his older sister figure got her hands on the sword? Even if Kasturi's sword doesn't looked like the real Dainsleif he saw in books, it's still has the same power and mechanism of the Cursed Sword. He looked at Kasturi and gasped, the Dainsleif seemed to take over her own body too! The princess' appearance seemed disturbing enough when her body was crawling with black and red light until it completely had taken over her body, her shoulders slumped and her sword has black flames igniting all over. "I'll.... SlAughTEr tHeM....I'll KiiiIIILL ThEm....EVERY.....SINGLE..... ONE....." Kasturi growled like a beast, in a literal way. Her desire of killing the bad people would fired up her rage and igniting Dainsleif in the first place. It's actually true in the mythology that the king wanted to kill the one who kidnapped his daughter, so it's almost the same thing with Kasturi. Andrew stood in front of the lady to protect her from what's going to happen next, he readied his red alchemy circle on the ground that is also igniting with flames as he was looking to his Elemental Weapons stand by. "Kasturi......" Andrew tried to call her one more time to stop, but it's too late. "I'LL KILL THEM ALL!" Kasturi's sword bursted with flames until it fades into a new weapon. Her weapon transformed from a straight sword into a wavy kris, the blade was black and it has a silver hilt. The berserk princess attacked the people at the first sight: Andrew and the lady she wounded. She dashed to the two like a lion going after their prey, Andrew's red circle bursting with flames as his Fire Chakrams had been pulled out from the ground. Kasturi raised her sword and attempted to strike the child down until Andrew blocked it which his own weapon.
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Post by inakamoto on Nov 16, 2016 17:01:12 GMT -5
"I'm fine, just a flesh wound," Alpha-7 answered after the boy approached her. She hoped the lie would help assuage his fears.
Alpha-7's eyes widened as she looked on Kasturi's transformation. The girl was unrecognizable in this new form. A part of her could scarcely believe that weapon was capable of such a feat. It seemed like she'd been possessed, likely by that dark sword in her hand.
She couldn't help but feel useless as the situation continued to unfold. The boy was now the one standing between her and the raging Kasturi. It was her job to protect the people of the cirque, and here she was, arm cut up like a side of beef, and a kid barely half her age, standing up to someone who used to be his friend. She couldn't just sit there, she had to do something.
Alpha-7 got closer to the boy's alchemy circle, and stuck her metal hand into the flames. After a few moments, it began to glow red hot. Then, after taking a couple seconds to brace herself, she placed her searing hot hand over the wound, letting out a strained groan in between her teeth. After pulling her hand away, the wound was replaced with a sizzling burn mark. It was just enough to stop the bleeding, though with cursed injuries, there was no telling how long it would be before the wound opened up again; they had to end this quickly.
Alpha-7 touched the jewel on her metal hand, and activated her Firebird Form. The red phoenix energy erupted around her body, and surrounded her in a bright red aura. She felt bad having to resort to using this form against Kasturi, but this was a unique situation, and she needed to act quickly. After pushing her doubts out of her mind, she balled her metal hand into a fist, leaped upward, over the boy, and aimed her metal fist at Kasturi's head.
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Post by trishiabidaure on Nov 19, 2016 3:19:14 GMT -5
Kasturi knew what the lady will do to her, she didn't even care of how it appeared to be capable of the lady's new form. The princess discarded her sword to send a powerful kick towards Andrew's stomach that sent him crashing to the Cirque's benches, damaging it upon impact. Even losing his Fire Chakrams upon the strike, his weapon were scattered on the ground. Andrew didn't expect by the moment her foot struck him and ended up lying on the splintered woods, it did hurt him but he didn't care.
Kasturi jumped up to the lady and blocked the fist with her sword, her tainted body somehow gave her equal strength against the phoenix lady. The princess spurt out a loud roar to the lady face to face.
Andrew recovered from the hit as he saw Kasturi about to strike Dainsleif to the lady, he got to wake Kasturi up somehow. He summoned his golden alchemy circle as he placed his hands on the ground, the Earth Gauntlets had engulfed the child's hands until it reached to his arms.
"EARTH GOLEM!" Andrew cried out loud as the Earth Golem erupted from the ground and grabbed Kasturi's legs mid air, it appeared that the Earth Golem copied Andrew's movements as the child flung Kasturi to the ground. Andrew then curled his Earth Gauntlets into a fist as the ground formed a cage around Kasturi. The princess growled at the Earth Golem as its summoner ran towards her, his face was full of worry about her pre-insane self.
"Kasturi! Please! Wake up!" Andrew cried, hoping his older sister figure could hear him. But to no avail as Kasturi slashed the cage with no efforts as she slashed the Earth Golem that it was blown to pieces, even the child's Earth Gauntlets have been dismantled. Andrew was in shock that his creature was destroyed by the princess herself, he wasn't able to dodge the Earth Golem when she jumped in to it either.
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Post by inakamoto on Nov 19, 2016 8:39:32 GMT -5
Alpha-7 managed to recover in mid-air after Kasturi blocked her initial attack. After she landed on the ground, the red aura from her Firebird Form still flaring up around her person. She could scarcely believe the girl's power in this form. To think that a sword could transform her so completely. Just as surprising was how the boy was handling himself. He'd been knocked into the bleachers, and somehow managed to get back up.
Still, even with his powers, Kasturi still seemed nowhere closer to stopping than before. Brute force wasn't working, they needed another form of attack. Alpha-7 knew the key was getting the sword out of her hand, but if it had the ability to resist even her Firebird Form, it was going to take more than just knocking her over. Just then, she caught sight of her coat a few feet away from where she was standing, and had an idea; it was a long-shot, but at this point, desperate times called for desperate measures.
Alpha-7 made a dash for her coat, her Firebird aura quickly fizzling out. In seconds, she managed to dip her hand into one of the pockets, and swiftly pulled out the sonic whistle she carried. All she could do now was pray the sword didn't give her audio immunity.
She took a deep breath, and blew hard into the whistle. The entire tent was filled with its shrill screeching. Alpha-7 kept her eyes on Kasturi, hoping against hope her idea would work.
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Post by trishiabidaure on Nov 20, 2016 6:49:43 GMT -5
Instead of the frequency affecting Kasturi, it affected the child instead. Andrew's ears was painfully ringing from the whistle that he tried covering his ears, but to no avail. It would make sense that Andrew's afraid of sounds such as that.
"AAAAAH!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Andrew's screams was heard to Kasturi's ears that she looked at him that still has that sense of Humanity inside her, she doesn't like what the lady was doing against her. Sure it's heck of a painful, but she can still take the pain like the princess said she would. But seeing her little brother in pain would really cross her line, and she knows where the source came from. Kasturi growled to the lady and dashed towards her, she then proceed with a painful hard kick to the lady's stomach and a slash to the whistle in order to break it into pieces.
Andrew took deep breath as he saw Kasturi was close to the lady again, he took no chance to catch his breath as he summoned another Elemental Weapon. His green alchemy circle had summoned a green hoverboard, he took a step over the board and uses his wind alchemy to stop Kasturi as fast as he can.
Kasturi was about to raise Dainsleif to strike once more until someone was yanking her hair painfully, it was actually Andrew who was pulling her hair. "K-K-K-Kasturi! Stop it!" Andrew pulled her hair as hard as he might, but it ended up ripping a chunk of her hair. But Kasturi could only stare at him without any signs of pain, her only response was that she slashed Andrew's hoverboard even though the child tried to shield it with his wind. The hoverboard broke into pieces as Andrew fell down on the ground, Kasturi didn't even bother to hurt Andrew when she looked to the lady instead.
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Post by inakamoto on Nov 20, 2016 21:11:09 GMT -5
Alpha-7's world was spinning. The last thing she saw was Kasturi rushing towards her in a flash black and red. The blow to her stomach left her gasping for air, she even felt one of her ribs cracked. She couldn't even stand at this point. As she rolled around, she laid her eyes on Kasturi. She was dead-locked on her, with a look desiring nothing short of murder. As she stared into the girl's twisted features, she was reminded of a previous incident. It was an odd time to be thinking back to an old memory, but seeing those red eyes, the moment reminded her of Delta-4.
She remembered how Delta-4 had lost control of her super mode, how the system had shut her off to the world. All she knew was rage and violence. She remembered how not even the Hulk was enough to restrain her in that state, how she was inches away from doing her in. But most importantly, Alpha-7 remembered what she said to get through to her friend.
"Kasturi!" Alpha-7 shouted, "You do this, you'll be no better than the bad guys! You kill me...you'll be just like Zemo!"
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Post by trishiabidaure on Nov 21, 2016 20:40:49 GMT -5
Kasturi blinked in silence, the black flame surrounding her body had started to disperse slowly. Of course, she does know about the consequences and this happened. She injured the lady and even hurt Andrew because of her blind rage, but she knew that it will come to this. It just so happened that the lady was right, but she couldn't do anything because it already happened.
Andrew can see the sadness that his older sister figure held upon her expression, her own grip from the sword was shaking. The lady was right, if Kasturi continued what she's doing then she will be the bad guy. "Kasturi. Please. No more hate. No more." The child pleased to the raging princess, hopefully his own voice could hear her out like what happened minutes ago.
Kasturi turned to Andrew, her face was etched with sadness. The princess can hear his voice even she became a raging creature that he and the lady tried to stop her with, but they couldn't stop her. Maybe the only one could stop Kasturi was herself, it's the least that she could do and try.
She raised her sword high, but the blade wasn't facing outwards. Her sword was facing at her, the blade was pointing to her chest.
Andrew's eyes widened as he was shocked in what Kasturi is about to do, she was about to kill herself with Dainsleif. The sword can only be stopped with bloodshed, but this is really crossing his line. "NO!" Andrew screamed as the blue alchemy circle emerged on his feet, he hastingly pulled out his last weapon. He aimed the mini cannon to Kasturi as fast as he could, dried ice started to form from the inside of the cannon.
"KASTURIIIIII!" Andrew pulled the trigger and a large chunk of ice was fired towards Kasturi. She heard his cry and looked to see ice, she wasn't able to dodge or slash the sword as she got struck frozen by the cannon itself. Even the whole area got covered with ice, but it didn't matter to be child as long as he was able to stop Kasturi from killing herself.
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Post by inakamoto on Nov 23, 2016 8:45:36 GMT -5
As the flames around Kasturi's body faded, Alpha-7 slowly made the effort to rise back up, hopeful that her words reached the girl, somehow. The boy also seemed to be able to get through to her, a good sign, for sure. But then, the girl raised the sword, and appeared to point it at herself, and Alpha-7's eyes widened in fear.
"Wait, stop!" Alpha-7 cried out.
Just then, Kasturi had become encased in ice. She was frozen in place, the cursed weapon still in her hands. Alpha-7 blinked a moment, then caught sight of the boy, who was holding some sort of weapon. He must've been able to summon the ice to stop Kasturi from hurting herself. But the weapon itself was still a problem. Summoning up what strength she had left, Alpha-7 managed to force herself onto her feet. Her breathing slowly became more regular, even though her abdomen still stung from the cracked rib. She then looked over towards the boy, her face wearing a very serious look.
"Alright, kid," Alpha-7 said, pointing towards the sword in Kasturi's hands, "what do we do about that?"
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