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Mending the Dark Steel (Open/Two others max)
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Post by Gallatin on Apr 5, 2016 22:53:10 GMT
Losing sight of your enemy is a really bad mistake. Getting distracted by thousands of shurikens flying around him was even worse; but now that said enemy was currently diving down at Sagittarimon, things were not looking very good. Sagittarimon flew into a panic upon hearing the shriek of the Female ShadowArmsdramon overhead, apparently she was really good at sneak attacks at the worst possible moments for him.
"Darn you, cretin!" He yelled out, still mildly out of breath as he attempted to charge full force out of the way of Alicia's attack. His back was bombarded with scratches like a hellish knife as he was pushed out of the way by the force of his leap and the blow. After crashing into several trees, Sagittarimon's form was finally stopped by an especially large one, but not before he had fractured it severely. His body slid slowly to the ground, his breath ragged as more and more data leaked from his open back wound.
This wound did not deter him from the battle though, no matter how severe. In fact, it placed him in the perfect position to attack right now as the girl was still off balance while diving so fast and landing. "Hah *COUGH* Bulls eye..." He whispered as his eye sight wavered for a moment before focusing. He quickly cocked another arrow out of instinct, ignoring his muscles screaming in pain, and let off another Chrome Digizoid arrow shot. "Judgement Arrow!" He screamed, his bow and arrow once again glowing with an ethereal light as it streaked directly toward's the middle of Alicia's back.
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Apr 5, 2016 23:23:57 GMT
"Alicia!" Sol called, in hopes of warning the ShadowArmsdramon in time to evade the attack. The point it was aiming for would at the very least be a crippling shot. Given the power behind it, it was more likely to be a fatal blow if allowed to properly connect.
"I see it, Sol!" Alicia answer with a snarl, having kept an eye over her shoulder on the archer once she landed. She was left in an awkward handstand on the ground as she'd been planning to vault off Sagittarimon's back to avoid this exact situation. Unfortunately for her the centaur was a fair bit faster then she expected. It was a desperate move, but she didn't have time to push away. Her tail lashed out in hopes of deflecting the arrow again.
Another 'clang' of steel against steel proved the her aim was true. However, it wasn't a complete deflection. Instead of striking her dead center in the back, the metallic arrow instead scarred the right side of her body, ripping a hole in her suit and carving a nasty gouge into her side. Certainly not as bad as it could've been, but a very painful wound none the less.
To her credit, the Spirit User managed to grit her teeth and bare it without much of a whimper as she flipped back to her feet. That motion, however, made her hiss and wince, letting Sagittarimon know that while he didn't hit where he wanted to, he did deal the woman a significant injury in return for his own.
"Blast it all Alicia, back out of this one. You can't afford to continue fighting in your current condition!" the Steel Spirit continued, trying to reason with his host. "This is not an injury you can overlook!"
"Not happening Sol... This guy's going down..." Alicia bit back grabbing another set of shurikens. It sure seemed like her pockets were endless when it came to the pointed metal stars, huh?
"Whispering Star...!" Alicia called, tossing three more waves of shurikens. If any one of them could cut the string of Sagittarimon's bow, she'd consider the attack a success. It was those blasted arrows of his that were so powerful after all, anything else she could likely deal with in short order.
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Post by Gallatin on Apr 6, 2016 0:36:41 GMT
Uh oh. Things weren't looking good for Sagittarimon right now. While he had been successful in sufficiently injuring the ShadowArmsdramon with his arrow, it hadn't been the killing shot he had hoped for. Not to mention the fact that she had seemingly pulled out a hundred more shurikens to throw at him. "Oh shit..."
Shakily reaching into his quiver on his hip, Sagittarimon slowly knocked up 5 small wooden arrows he kept as reserves. He aimed carefully as he knocked up all five of the arrows on top of each other and held his bow sideways like a crossbow. "Gotta make this count or I wont be able to knock some sense into this banshee!" he thought to himself, taking careful aim as the waves of metal death streaked right at where he was pinned up against the tree... Then he let go of the string as the arrows flew.
At first, it looked like they were all flying in the same direction, but as they went further, they arced inward slightly before all rebounding off each other and splitting in different directions like an exploding firework. In the blink of an eye, the arrows began bouncing off of shuriken after shuriken, moving so fast that they looked to be streaks of brown rapidly crashing into each projectile. After the last one had passed by the waves, most of the shurikens had either been knocked far away from his direction or 2 to 3 had even been sent back at Alicia! He rejoiced for a moment before he suddenly lost feeling in his arm that had been holding the bow string.
Embedded in Sagittarimon's right arm, and currently streaming a slew of red data was roughly 5 or 6 shurikens along its length. Shock overcame him as he let out a feral yell in pain before his arm entirely exploded into a field of crimson data that floated into the air before dissipating. "YOU FOOL! The boy is dead, so why are you enraged!" He roared in outrage. This human-digimon should have thanked him profusely, not wounded and attempted to kill him. Didn't she know this was for the future and well being of all digimon!? "He was a *COUGH* threat to all of us! If given the time to develop, his true nature would arise and he would have destroyed all of existence!" He bit into his bow string and pulled it back to try and fire another arrow at her, only to lose his grip on it several times in a pitiful attempt at survival.
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Apr 6, 2016 1:26:36 GMT
"Freaking archers, how do they work...?" Alicia muttered to herself as she saw the insane trick shot Sagittarimon pulled off. Seeing a couple shurikens fly back at her, she swayed her body out of the path almost casually before fixing a glare on the wounded centaur. While she'd been planning on just destroying the bow's ability to do anything, taking out an arm was certainly an acceptable alternate outcome. Seeing the entire limb explode into data was a surprise though.
Seeing the archer feeble try and improvise to make up for his lost arm struck a cord in Alicia, and the ninja dragon started walking closer to him, blades gleaming with their wielder's rage. Still, the centaur posed some good questions, so while she was approaching she decided to give him some answers.
"Why? You see, we humans can be rather illogical at times. Even if given proof that someone living is a plague upon the world we still try to protect them. Often times though we'll at least try to nullify the problem. Another reason is that you killed him right in front of me while we were just having a friendly conversation. That kind of thing really sets someone on a path of rage."
By now the ShadowArmsdramon had closed the distance between herself and Sagittarimon, resting her blades on his neck to prepare for a fatal slash. "I suppose nothing really matters now, considering what you did. All I can do now is end you in turn."
"Alicia, stop! You're making a huge mistake!" Sol yelled, trying to get her attention. It wasn't working though. The ShadowArmsdramon started to dig her blades into Sagittarimon's neck.
"Fine then, know this before you continue. Gallatin lives!"
The shock of the declaration caused Alicia's eyes to snap wide open, and for the ninja dragon to recoil away as if struck. "Wha...?"
"Finally something gets through to you. Gallatin lives. His actual body is smaller then the one you saw. Sagittarimon just hit the shoulder, hardly a fatal blow. Let this guy go, you've done more then enough." Sol noted, sighing in relief. "Haven't you noticed how you're changing? Using this form without its counterpart to oppose it is throwing your Spirit out of balance."
That was easily the most chilling thought of the day. Alicia growled openly before huffing, turning away. "Scram. Some new information came to light so I'm going to let you go." She was still furious now, but more so at herself. How had she lost control of her emotions so easily? She was more level headed then this for the most part. Turning again to the direction she came from, she wondered if she should rush back to make sure something didn't finish the job.
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Post by Gallatin on Apr 6, 2016 1:56:55 GMT
Gallatin walked through the the forest casually as he made out the trail of damage left by what looked to be a digimon fight. "Jesus, whatever that thing was really did a number on the forest." He was about to sweep his arm to gesture, but winced as his shoulder tensed up in pain once more. It was bad enough that he had nearly been killed by an arrow, but now he had to make his way through a forest with a data-leaking shoulder.
"Well at least it's not blood." he thought to himself as he stared at the floating binary data symbols leaking out of his green furred shoulder. Since he had been in his Chronamon form the entire time, even under his suit, he had never actually been wounded before. Not a very surprising thought considering that he had only ever been in one digimon fight before, and that was against a giant, Ultimate-level Spider monster. His spirit had been surprisingly silent the entire time that he had been walking... "Who needs him anyway. All he does is nag me."
Just then, a roar ripped through the silence of the forest that caused all of the birds in the trees to take off from the ground, startling him. He quickly ran towards the direction to see what looked to be some kind of armored centaur digimon pinned against a tree with what looked to be a scary looking, black dragon thing about to slice its throat. "I guess that's Alicia... wow, That's the first time I've really seen another person turn into a digimon before... kinda... scary?" He lamented as he watched the scene unfold... however, something seemed off as he walked up to a spot about a yard or two away from the two fighting digimon...
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Sagittarimon shut his eyes in anticipation for the final blow from that human digimon... only to get annoyed at why he hadn't been deleted yet. "Finish me off already!" He screamed at her in his head before cautiously opening his eyes to look at the digimon that had been about to kill him... She was just standing there, as if in deep thought... "This is my chance!" He used the rest of his strength, recycling the data of his remaining arrows in his quiver to manually levitate one of his nearby Chrome-Digizoid arrows. "If I'm going to be deleted, I'll take you with me." He planned in his head.
He slowly aimed the arrow directly at the back of her skull, there was no way that she could possibly dodge it. Sagittarimon only paused for a moment, after being addressed by the human girl again. "Tch. Fine... I won't bother you any longer, my mission is over..." He groaned out before a smirk overcame his expression. "Besides... What use is speaking TO DELETED DATA!!!" Letting loose the energy built up in his last arrow, he felt his energy slip away as it zoomed forward. There was no possible way any digimon could survive this attack, and there was no way she'd be able to detect it! He watched almost in slow motion as the arrow streaked towards them... a foot away... an inch away.... Then all he could see was red before his vision became black.
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Gallatin was able to come close just as he saw the arrow reach the back of Alicia's head; there was no time to warn her. "CHRONO BREAK!" He yelled out, while running towards the two. The familiar purple tint enveloped everything as time froze, the golden glowing arrow already touching the back of her head and making the tiniest of imprints into her skin. "GAAAAAAH!!!!" Gallatin screamed in the silent zone as he used all of his strength to run at and grab the arrow out of the air, just as time resumed, his shoulder burning like nothing he had ever felt. The momentum of the arrow still present, Gallatin was turned in a circle by it and let it fly... directly into the face of Sagittarimon...
His face exploded in a mass of red data as Sagittarimon's entire form then followed suit, eventually flowing into the air and leaving no trace of the Centaur Digimon being present at all. Gallatin gasped as the pain in his shoulder became worse, the wound of leaking data deepening and worsening until it was too much to bear. Gallatin collapsed onto the ground in front of Alicia unconscious, his digimon form shattering into floating data and his digivice reappearing in the red holster on his belt. Now that his human self was revealed, anyone could see the unconscious 16 year old african american boy dressed in an unzipped leather jacket, green tank top, and faded black jeans; including Alicia for the first time. Gallatin's open shoulder wound and sliced open hand were now bleeding profusely, staining the grass crimson.
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Apr 6, 2016 2:53:13 GMT
Alicia's eyes had opened wide at Sagittarimon's shout. This was how it was going to end? What a pathetic way to go, stabbed in the back but some one she was going to let live because her reason for assaulting him wasn't true. There was simply too little distance between them for her to even lash her tail up in time to hopefully find where it was going and either deflect it or hit it on something less vital. Well... seems good guys really do-
And then there was Gallatin collapsing in front of her, a slight amount of pain in her head from where the arrow had started to break the skin. What had just happened? Wait, Sol and AncientKronosmon had mentioned the latter had time powers. Is that what went down? He stopped time to redirect the arrow? A glance over her shoulder showed enough for her to draw that conclusion, the Sagittarimon was dead. Err, 'deleted' as he called it.
"... Hey, AncientKronosmon... if you can still hear me, tell him I said thanks, alright?" she asked, hoping the time warping spirit was indeed still in contact. With that, she scooped Gallatin up into her arms, using her Digimon form's enhanced strength and speed to dash off towards the hospital. Thankfully, with her ninja-like speed and reflexes, she wouldn't be seen as she took care to stay to the shadows to conceal her presence.
Humans all around went unaware of the draconic figure in the area. The only time Alicia was seen was when she reverted to her human form, shifted Gallatin so his arm was over her shoulders, and hauled the unconscious boy into the ward to check him in for his certainly significant injuries. He certainly deserved that kind of attention after saving her life twice now.
Seeing as her side was bleeding a fair amount from the echoed damage ShadowArmsdramon took, she realized she'd have to check in for a bit too so... everything worked out?
"One of these days, kid, you're going to be too far in over your head..." Sol commented in exasperation.
((OOC: End Thread))
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