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San Draco
El Draco Caido

Garland looked around him. The Void monsters were strong... But they lacked the spirit to defeat their foes. To the monsters, they would always have time. To them, time mattered not. They could simply out-wait the mortals. Now, however, that attitude was working against them.

Chaos, now wielding the powers of a Holy Knight, slashed at the former contestants, wielding a Excalibur masterfully. Suddenly, a Void monster was cut down by a card. Turning, Chaos saw the one he hated above all others. Setzer...

Jumping, the fiend landed in front of the gambler, feigning aid. "My friend, I have something for you. Since you defeated me long ago, it is my turn to replace your loss. Hold out your hand."

Setzer did, anticipating the return of his most powerful card. Snarling, Chaos shouted, "This is for my humiliation, mortal whelp!"

Garland then flung the King of Spades into the gambler, sending him flying and causing massive damage to all around him. A sudden spark of energy alerted him... Rubicant has obtained the power of all elements? But how? And why is Queen Zeal attempting to stop them...

A flash of realization sounded. Turning to a Void monster, he shouted, "You and the five others, circle around and strike the band of mortals to your right. The other six will circle around the ones on the left, and I shall strike through the middle. Do as you are told!"

The Void monsters silently obeyed, each going to attack a different mortal. Laughing insanely, Chaos shouted, "Come now! Surely, the mighty heroes which struck down the Master of Time can defeat these demons! Or, do you need the aid of a Holy Knight? I shall be more than happy to oblige you!"

Suddenly, a card cut across the Fiend's chest. Spinning around, Chaos saw what he detested most... a live Setzer, both cardfans in hand. Vehemently, he snarled, "If you wish to die that much, then prepare yourself! I shall strike you down, and complete your doom!"
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Daigojhi: If you had other plans, then go ahead and tell me. I'll edit this very quickly.

If anyone wants to duel/fight/whatever with Garland, I'm more than happy to oblige you.

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Dareon
The Second Gunman

"Damn it! Don't they ever stop?" Ito grimaced as a stinger-like appendage was jammed into his already wounded shoulder.

One of Saint's party glanced at him, then continued slaying shadowbeasts. "They are creatures of Nothingness, given form only to null ours! Only by removing their forms can we hope to stop them!"

"It was a rhetorical question!" Ito's gun belched Earth into the face of the fiend attacking him, blowing its foul head off and leaving its body swaying gently before collapsing. With a click, the slide on Ito's right-hand gun locked open. Three shots and two dead Void-forms later, his left-hand gun ran dry as well.

Ito quickly dropped back behind a line of spellcasters, dropping the spent clips and throwing them at another beast. He took a moment to heal himself, working the injured shoulder as the flesh knitted together. Then, he drew forth two more clips from his pocket. Glancing at one, he replaced it and withdrew another. Sliding the two home, he stood.

"All right, yada yada yada, magic, Third Round... DRILL ICE!"

Buzzing bolts of blue energy leapt from Ito's guns, accompanied by blasts of frost from the muzzle. The bolts slammed into the wraiths and drilled right through, punching through three, four, sometimes five of the enormous creatures at once.

Ito continued firing, blasting away at the encroaching fiends.

(OOC: Yes, I know, using all four Elements to attack the forces of Darkness is trite, overused, and cheesy. Just wait. It gets cheesier. )

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KyleIII
Locke Cole - FFOS6

Taking out another group of the creatures with a shot from the revolver, Locke began to reload the weapon. As powerful as the gun was, it could only fire six shots before it needed to be reloaded. Though he wasn't nearly as fast as Ocelot, Locke seemed to have a natural affinity for the weapon.

Turning his attention towards a group of the beasts, Locke managed to take out a few of them. Hearing a shriek behind him, Locke turned around and saw that four of the things were about to attack him. "One... two... three..." Locke counted as he took out his opponents one at a time, "Four!"

*click*

Instead of the loud bang he was hoping for, Locke was horrified to realize that he had miscounted his shots. His gun had run dry. Reaching back and striking hard, the creature knocked Locke back onto the cold, stone floor. "Damn," Locke sighed, "There's just too many of them. It's... no use."

Suddenly, Locke remembered the face of Celes. "How could I have left you?" Locke wondered, "I entered this tournament for a chance to fulfill my greatest wish, when I already had everything I wanted right there in front of me. I'm such a fool!"

As the creature was about to land a killing blow, Locke suddenly felt renewed. Quickly dodging to the side, Locke jumped to his feet, pulled out his dagger, and struck a blow deep into the creatures side, followed by a quick bolt spell. Shrieking in pain, Locke retrieved his dagger.

"Celes, I will not put you through the grief I know all too well. I will come back to you! I will not give up!" Locke decided, suddenly very determined, "Bring it on! This old adventurer isn't about to die yet!"

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OOC: Everybody else was doing the sappy melodrama, so I just had to join in.

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Daigohji
Sponsor: Setzer

Garland was momentarily stunned by the sight of Setzer standing before him, card-fans at the ready. The gambler was apparently unscathed by the King of Spades, though the creatures behind him had been torn to shreds by the attack.

“What trickery is this?” the knight growled, “That should have most certainly killed you.”

“Tell me, where exactly does one acquire a deck of magically powered cards?” Setzer asked, “They are hardly easy to come by, indeed they can not be bought at all. These …” he indicated to his cards, “are nothing more than paper and ink until I imbue them with my power. Only the diamonds were manufactured. I would be foolish indeed to allow myself to be struck by my own power.”

“Besides” Setzer said as he slid into a combat posture, “the king is not the highest card. Perhaps that is different in Chaos poker.” With that he charged at Garland, who readied himself for the attack. But it never came. Instead Setzer threw one of his card fans like a boomerang. It sailed over Garland and sliced the head from a Void creature that had been approaching from behind. “I’m surprised you have time to think of settling personal scores in a situation like this. If we live to see another day, I’ll be glad to give you the satisfaction of a final duel.”

One by one the monsters around them were being cut down by the fallen warriors. Some would simply evaporate when destroyed, other collapsed under their own weight into a pool of tar coloured liquid. As it had before, this liquid was slowly welling together and forming into even greater nightmares. To the horror of all who saw it one rose up some fifty feet high. Its form was like that of an Allosaurus though the jaws opened back to the middle of its torso. With a swing of its head the creature knocked several warriors flying, though amazingly some of them managed to counter the strike in mid-air. Setzer gritted his teeth and drew a card from his deck and waited until all of the warriors were out of range. Garland saw that it was the ace of clubs. The gambler hesitated for a moment then threw the card at the beast. The tiny projectile hit it in the side and caused a massive shock-wave that completely disintegrated the monster and all those around it. Even those far away were knocked to the ground by the force. As the card turned to dust Setzer dropped to his knees and spat blood out onto the ground.

“Then that power is something you can never get back” Garland stated as he realised what was wrong with the gambler. “So that’s why you only carry a single deck for those purposes.” The knight turned and thrust his blade into a nearby beast. “Are you going to sit there all day, gambler? There’s work to be done. And there’s no way in hell that one of these whelps is going to kill you before I do.”

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San: Sorry, I wasn't expecting a duel in the middle of all this madness. Depending on what the Void has in store for us in phase three there may not be a happy ending for Setzer (but as anyone who's read Survivor 4 knows, I love writing tragedy ).

Kriz: I'm not going to kill you, maybe just put crocadile clips on your ears or something.


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Download FFO Survivor 5 - the music video



He deals the cards as a meditation,
And those he plays never suspect.
He doesn't play for the money he wins,
He doesn't play for respect.

He deals the cards to find the answer,
The sacred geometry of chance.
The hidden law of a probable outcome,
The numbers lead a dance.

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Mintaka
Mana Spirit Dryad

Ok, so I'm back later than quoted. I, er.... LONG story. If you're curious how it went, go read my LJ - I'll spare the rest of you the sappy hellish wonderment I just got through. Thank goodness the seats at home are SOFT!

=^^= Run run, or you'll be well done Krizak! Er.... shoot. Vote. Rightey-o.

Uhh... *annoys Ex* XD Kidding. I'll pop some story in a bit in thsi post unless someone else posts. I, er... have to mail Kriz and want to take care of some other things first, like eat! I ate at 5am... its now almost 3pm and I'm FINALLY devouring my food! *flees to devour everything in sight* FOOOOOOOOODDD!!!

BTW, loverly post Curley. XD A good laugh indeed.

"Victory dinner for me!"


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:: I :: summon :: thee. ::
"Uh... damn it, that burns... so, how's it going, babe?" -Edge, to Rydia -S6/RT1

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Sephiroth666
Gloriosa Generosa

A twang resounded through the car as an arrow arced through the air and suddenly lodged itself in Baram's back. The head of the arrow protuded through his chest. The robber gasped for air. "Clyde! Get me out of here!"

Clyde slung Baram over his back and hurried to their designated exit. He slid open the door at the back of the train, and jumped off. The duo rolled across the ground for a while before skidding to a halt. Clyde got to his feet and checked on Baram. He had passed out. Blood gushed from his shoulder and chest. Further down the railroad, the train slid to a halt and a group of soldiers filed out of it. Clyde pulled Baram into the woods.

Clyde gently shook Baram. "C'mon Baram..Open your eyes!"

Baram groaned, and slowly opened his eyes halfway. "Clyde..? I'm scared..." Baram coughed harshly, and winced as a sharp pain ripped through his body. He touched his shoulder and looked at his hand. "Is..is this my blood?"

Clyde looked over his friend. "You're gonna be okay!"


Siegfried slashed at the Void beast, it disintegrated into the air with a burst of light. He fell to the ground, kneeling. He felt defeated and tired. The memories were clouding his mind from the battle. All he wished was for it to end. The beasts were encircling him now, screeching and screaming in a haunting echo. The dark warrior welcomed them, for they would be the ones to put them at his rest.

*Bang!*

A Void beast exploded.

*Bang!* *Bang!*

Two more disintegrated back into the Void. A familiar voice shouted, "Hey Siggy! Don't just stand there! We've only just begun to fight!"

Siegfried looked over his shoulder and found Locke Cole running towards him. The thief tosses a glowing flask at the ground near the warrior. The dark mercenary looks at it wondering if he should accept this change of fate.

He picks it up willingly, gripping the handle of his great broadsword.


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"I am the man who has never bled or cry,... The first disciple of Jenova,... Wielding the blood rusted blade that had been taken from the light of good to the darkness of evil... I am the master of the black relic and was born to lead the world to total damnation... I am god! I am Sephiroth!

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San Draco
El Draco Caido

Garland looked at the destruction the one card had wrought. Is this the kind of power other worlds can possess? I account myself fortunate. If one such as he had fought me in my youth, I would not have survived the encounter.

Drawing up to his full height, he shouted, "Though you may defeat the Void in appearance, you can never truly defeat them. The only hope you possess is banishing them back to whence they came, a truly awesome feat. I, on the other hand, am much stronger than them in this... I am tied to this world. This... place, is where I exist, not the Void."

The gambler, hate filling his eyes, whispered, "Why? Why would you throw away your one chance at freedom and fulfillment?"

Garland laughed. Long, slowly, and menacingly. "Did you not hear Yume? When the tournament is ended, we will all return to our timelines. For me, that is at the very instant of my death. Do you know what will happen to me?"

The gambler shakes his head. Smirking, the knight said, "I will go to the Void. I, Chaos, will suffer that fate. Alone, and with only my regret to comfort me. However, this is not to be. If the Void is successful, then all of us will be put into the Void. At last, I will have one dream completed. YOUR OBLIVION!"

Gathering magical energy around his hand, Garland sent a blast of Holy energy at the gambler. Leaping just in time, Setzer dodged the blast. Going into a low fighting stance, he whispered, "Fight me, Garland, or are you afraid of your chances?"

Snarling, Garland went into a higher, more offensively-based stance. Suddenly, he lunged forward, slashing high. Ducking under the blow, Setzer swiped with his cardfan, which Garland barely blocked.

Chuckling mercilessly, Garland said, "So, your skills in fighting have improved. Still, they will not avail you. Your last chance is now. Either let me kill you quickly, or I will enjoy tormenting you to the end of your miserable, short existence!"

In reply, Setzer spun with both hands extended, striking Garland in the leg. Though the cards only scored a minor blow, Garland charged at him, knocking aside one cardfan. Then, with a perfectly timed blow, he stabbed at Setzer, the Excalibur cutting through his cloak. However, it only grazed Setzer's side.

The gambler then leaped to the top of a column. Garland, not to be outdone, slashed the column in two pieces, the top part quickly crumbled. Setzer, leaping high into the air, landed on Garland's blade, striking with a fan-swipe.

The blow went through Garland's helmet, barely missing his face. Swinging the Excalibur, Garland flung the gambler off his sword, into a Void monster. The beast, unprepared for that chance, nevertheless attempted to kill the gambler.

Garland snarled, "Stay away from him, fool! He is mine, to send to the Void when I see fit!"

The beast continued on, not hearing Garland's command. Just before it could strike the gambler, it was split in two, the Excalibur cutting through it's noncorporeal body like a piece of silk.

"Gambler, you have humiliated me thrice now. I shall not suffer another! Prepare for the Void!"
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And off to Daigojhi, if you want to continue this. If you don't, I will.

You have been warned.

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Mintaka
Mana Spirit Dryad

Normally I'm SLEEP deprived, not food deprived. ~.~ Mmmm.... even if stupid BK screwed up and put lettuce on my sandwhich. Gah. Your way my... :P
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Rydia couldn't believe what she had witnessed. She blinked, and then again. She looked down at the ring, and bit her lip. Edge...

"He gave it all... for..."

She put it on, and set for more fierce battle. This would not go without her seeing everyone through this.

"Asura lend me your mighty wisdom, power, and forgiveness!"

The warriors felt some resortation from the battering and injuries they were recieving at the hands of the Void. It wasn't alot, but it revitalized those who were weakening.

She looked around, at the managerie of people collected here in this place, such a mix that only the mind of a truly insane person could ever dream of such a group, yet it was all real. The blood, sweat, tears, screams, wishes, hopes, and live. Everything. It was a reality in a drream-land, but the pains and fears were too real to look away. A thief was taking on some of the smaller ones, slipping around quickly and agilely, determination on his face. What is he fighting for? Something noble perhaps, for he seems not the common thug... Her eyes fell on the two she had helped earlier, almost seemingly long lost twins - more correctly one descended from another. They fight... to restore something lost... Others were fighting, many for differing reasons of their own, yet all together for one common thing - hope. And dreams.

They were all there now, trying deperately to stop the Void and save-

"All right you ugly little blots, if ANY existence is going, its your non-existence first!"

I won't give in, not for anything. Edge wouldn't want it that way. I WILL live, and I will see him again. For the lives of the innocent, dreams of lovers, and hopes of children! For everyone!

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Eww... I feel cheesy. :P Pardon that rather weird post. I think my 3:30am wake up call is catching up to me, and its NOT pretty... @_@

I probably won't add anymore tonight for the sheer fact my brain is finally going. ~.~

And yes Daig, I remember. *sniff* Poor Cecil...

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Munkwunk
FFOS6: Zio

Zio turned in circles, gazing all around him. Larger than ever beasts had formed, winged monsters swooped toward unsuspecting victims on the ground, and a great battle was taking place near the crystal. Things were not looking to be in the favour of those who were tangible.

Swinging his makeshift scythe at a beast that cascaded toward him from above, Zio launched a Foi spell at its head just as it became real; mere milliseconds to spare before it hit him, it shattered into a thousand pieces, shards of its new form penetrating a rather large looking beast behind him. That now-living beast took form and subsequently took action against Zio, slashing a clawed arm at the black mage.

"Saner!" Zio was quick with the effect spell; his responsiveness was doubled by the magic, and the added agility aided him in dodging the beast's blow. In one fluid movement, he not only dodged, but struck back at the monster with his scythe, cleaving the beast's arm at the joint. A howl of pain arose from its throat as it launched another, intensified attack toward the mage with its good arm.

Still quick to dodge, Zio deftly maneuvered away from his enormous opponent as its tendrilled arm swept through a dozen Void-beasts in the vicinity, all of which instantly phased into existence. The mage was quick to act, a powerful spell arising from his lips.

"FORCEFLASH!"

Intense orbs of magical energy struck each of the tangible monsters with raw power, blasting off their newly formed heads as he felled all of them with that one, single attack.

Just then, another Void-beast caught the black mage off guard, slamming pincered fist into his back and sending him head-over-heels onto the ground, causing him to drop his scythe in the process.

He knew the beast had to become real in order to strike him, so Zio took the opportunity to ready another spell, casting it just as the monster loomed over his body, ready to strike. "NATHU!" he screamed, pointing his palm at the creature's chest as he released a massive spire of electric energy, instantly disintigrating the beast's foul form.

"You may just be in over your head this time, Zio" he chided himself. "And without a soul around who would bother to save you. If only Dark Force could hear my prayers from this dismal locale..."

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Kyo
Has a Big Sword

Post

Well, I got Darkken's collabaorate material. So, borders in red like this:

*****

will indicate the switch from my part of writing to his. I'll implement this in the future, when I start to insert his material.

And since it's a collaboration post coming up... and a Seiken Densetsu 3 one, no less... It's time to

HIT THE RETRO MUSIC!!! XDDDD

Well, let's do it.

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The gauntlet was thrown. And for the last time, it seemed. The Forcena Knight unsheathed his heavy broadsword, and assumed his fighting stance, holding his blade out even at shoulder's length, the tip aimed at the dark mage's throat.

"If it suits you, then I accept your challenge. Prepare yourself; the power of a Cavalier unleashed awaits your call!"

There was no more need for idle conversation. Duran sprang into action as charged his nemesis, unleashing a flurry of rapid slashes as he did so. Koren responded by shimmering out of reach every time a stroke as about to reach him, chanting the preperation for the Fireball spell as he did so. Recognizing the verse from his first battle with the mage, Duran took a step back and outstretched his hand, feeling the power of Mana flow through his body and into his sword as he did so. And as Koren finished his spell, the warrior let the Swordsman Aspect take control as he hurtled forward.

"FIRE BALL!"

"ICE SABER!"

As Koren hurtled a massive sphere of plasma at Duran, the warrior's sword blazed with cold blue fire. With his sword enhanced in Ice energy, the warrior then cleaved the fireball in two, his momentum carrying him far enough still to catch the mage off-guard and carve a thin blood-red line across his chest. Koren shimmered back out of range, and then stumbled back on one foot, grinning with a predatory flare.

"You've gotten a lot better since I faced you last time, Duran."

Duran gave an equally fierce grin as he raised his sword up to bear.

"You've only gotten a taste of my true power, Koren. You're going to have to pick up the pace--" He channeled his energy into his sword again as he drove it into the ground, the Duelist Aspect taking reign-- "if you want to beat me! ERUPTION SWORD!"

Koren's grin did not fade as he calmly faced the onrush of lava and brimstone that sweeped towards him. Raising his arms wide, he began to create a vortex of dark energy in front of him, releasing it in a large shockwave when the lava got too close.

"EVIL GATE!"

The dark blast of power pierced Duran's Eruption Sword Tech, and scored multiple searing marks on the swordsman's body as it cleared the lava away from the dueling couple.

Duran gave a short exhalation of breath at being burned, and rushed forward before Koren could make use of the distance between them. Sword rang on staff, and their duel raged on as the Void's warriors battled the former contestants, and Zeal faced off with Driscoll and Rubicant.


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Keep ~ Yourself ~ Alive

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Simplistic Hero
Dunce of Stealth

Go get'm.

"No mass, no power."

Gryz was unconcerned withy the uncoming void, and highly suprised that everyone else was.

"There not even solid." he assured himself. As the crowd neared, he strolled to the front of the group, over confident, and assumed a lackadasical stance.

He was the first to be struck.

The wraith like fiend flew inward, a sharp gastly claw tore at Gryz's chest. The wound was black, like poison. Gryz was infuriated. The large montavian flung himself on the next creature, a slender darkness witha serpent like form. Each of his arms wrapped the monstrosity, tightening. The serpent bursts, as if he consisted of smoke, and disapated.

Gryz caught a more huminoid creature by the neck, arm rearing back in preparation for a crushing strike. But the arm had snagged, as two wraiths had siezed it, holding it back. Gryz tried to twist it free, but two more had grappled his knees, and a third wrapped chilling tenticles around his back. Wrenching back and forth, twisting and flailing, Gryz attempted to shake off his assailants.

More and more creatures topled onto the montavian, ten, twenty, thirty. The grasped at his back, entangled his neck, twisting and tightening. The wieght grew to much, and the montavian was forced to his knees.

His airway had been cut off.

OOC: Ok kids, Gryz is in trouble, and its up to you to save him. Basically, hes covered, encomposed, contained. Like a giant Void dogpile. Oh yeah, and he can't breathe, so, ....well....do somthin' already.


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I use to have a list of all the RPGs i've beaten here, but God asked that I take it off because it kept scaring all the children.

Mammoth rush
Generic crunch
That fickle beast
stepped on a pickle.
And how could he be so crude
to step on such a marvelous food.
--And then bellow at his feet.

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Soujiro Seta
SIN

OOC: Seeing Locke blast enemies with a six-shooter rocks. Somehow, it just fits...

*jumps in the melodrama boat*

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Zeal opened her eyes again. The fog all around her had cleared, an in it's place was a location all too familiar to her. The vision had welled up again in the recesses of her mind. The grass of the plains, the water of the stream - she knew the place even before the fog had lifted.

But something was different.

There was no tree.

"What?" Zeal looked around, hoping that she had mistaken the landscape, but she had not; everything was in its proper place. Everything except the tree at the top of the rolling hill in the center of the plains.

Zeal ran toward the hill, the distance seemingly so close, but taking longer than ever to reach. Almost like the tree was becoming farther and farther away. She could have flown to it, but a sensation inside her cried out for the burning in her lungs and the blood pumping through her muscles, the feeling of yearning for confirmation of life and mortality. As she approached, where the great tree had been, she discerned a figure through the mists.

"Come out, Void! I shall not stand idly by as you profane my body with your foul presence!" No answer. Zeal walked - more slowly now - up the hill. When she was close enough to discern what she had seen, she broke into a run once again toward it.

On the top of the hill, in the place where the great tree stood, Yume - or at least the image of Yume - sat, clutching her legs and hunched over.

"Yume! Yume! Are you alright?" Zeal took the young goddess by the shoulders and tried to bring her to.

Danger!

Zeal snapped to full height and moved her hand to deflect a great sphere of burning darkness that was meant for the image of Yume. It flew aside and scorched the grasses of the plain with its black fire, the sound of it echoing as if in a great hall.

"Zeal...you pitiful woman...." The void spoke from the mists with a tone so twisted and alien that Zeal was not sure whether it was the equivalent of laughter or chronic coughing. "You were once before a servant to the darkness...yet now you resist. Why must you resist? Where nothing can exist, there, nothing 'evil' can exist. Everything is one - nothing."

"If nothing evil can exist because of nothingness, so also can nothing good exist, or any consciousness to enjoy a life without evil." Zeal felt as though something was moving her to speak, but she agreed with the words whether or not they were truly her own.

"Your empire crumbled, Queen, and your body will one day decay. Don't you fear it? Or have you resigned yourself peacefully to death. If all things must die and return to nothingness, we then only seek to quicken the result! Life cannot carry on forever! The only true purity is absolute nonexistance!" A five gigantic spears of ice flew at Yume from beyond the mists, each longer than ten mens' height.

"Fiend!" cried Zeal as she formed balls of fire, one after another. "Shields of fire, break the spears thrust against thee! One!" Zeal threw the first ball, breaking the ice spear in half. It lodged in the ground of the plains appearing as the weapon of a giant. "Two three and four!" Zeal threw the balls together and threw her hands apart. The surface area expanded at an expotential rate melting three spears into a shower of rain that washed over her and the still-silent Yume. "Five!" She decreased the size of the last orb until it was just a shining speck, then sent it hurtling toward the last and largest spear. Sssssshhhhhh---crrraack! The tiny orb flew through the center of the length of the shaft, shattering the spear into thousands of icy shards.

"You are skilled in delaying the inevitable, but you cannot hold out against we, who have existed since the beginning of time! Why do you continue to hold on!? What good does it do you!?"

"I have two children...a boy and a girl..." Zeal started slowly as she bent down to check Yume. "This girl...Yume...when I see her, I think of my daughter. My daughter, who was lost to the infinite realms of time and space, all because I could not see past my own self. She was only a few years older than Yume here looks..." Zeal moved Yume's purple bangs out of the way, examing the face of the young girl. "So much weight on so small a pair of shoulders....a girl who can't even have her own dream..."

"Foolish, foolish human....that is not even the real Yume! This is your dream! This is the dream had by a woman much too foolish to have ever stumbled upon it in the first place, yet somehow did. This is the vision of the Divine Tree, the pillar supporting the heavens, the earth, and all realms of existance! Without the tree, the heavens would fall onto the earth, and the earth would rise up into the heavens! All things would pass away! And the name of the tree is --"

"The Creator...I know." Zeal nodded her head as she recalled what she had learned when she had stuck her hand into the blackened heart of the dream-tree. "But the creator is too wise and powerful to ever fall prey to a pitiful force like yourselves. So there is only one possible way....the way is through Yume...the daughter. The key to creation."

"Yes....so you too know..." the Void sounded angry as it continued talking "but what good will it do you!? You have no power over even your own body!" As if to spit in her face, upon the hilltop materialized the form of Shadow-Zeal once again.

"Your power is insignificant compared to the power we possess!" she shrieked with the booming voice of the Void. "We WILL have the daughter of the Creator!" Zeal set the small form of dream-Yume down gently, kissing her forehead.

Schala...please give me the courage and strength you had so abundantly....this is for you, and for this girl...

"You shall not have this girl! She shall not fall to the darkness!" Zeal stood up to her full height, a terrible ferocity burning in her eyes. "To the last drop of my blood, to my dying breath, I shall FIGHT YOU!"


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"Eeeeeeeeaaaaaaygh!" Rubicant's tortured shout rang like a Vesper bell in eternity through the Crystal Realm.

"Know my power and despair!" Zeal yelled, clenching her fist to strengthen her Hexagon Mist spell, drawing the six-sided prism of deadly hot and cold closer to the fiend's body. She could feel his pain, his suffering...his despair....

"How about a little some of this!?"

Zeal wheeled about to find Commander Driscoll attacking her from the side with his rapier.

"Impossible! the Void's voice bellowed as Zeal moved her hand to strike Driscoll away. "You underestimate me, Commander!" A tendril of glowing black energy snaked from Zeal's palm, and she willed it to collide with Driscoll's sword. She heard a faraway clang, and looked to see the business end of a rapier blade a few meters away. "Fool!"

"Who's the fool?" Driscoll sneered as she reached out to strike him with the whiplike appendage again, but the commander ducked and rolled, coming up on Zeal's other side. Before she could react, he thrust the broken blade into her arm.

"Eeeeeeeaaaaaaa!" Void Zeal bellowed in pain. The black tendril struck Driscoll clean across the chest, sending him flying backward and leaving its smoldering imprint across his clothes and skin.

He has more in him that I gave him credit for Rubicant thought as he moved stealthily for his next attack. But still, I dread the foe that has no soul!...

"God....this hurts!" Driscoll winced as he tried to pick himself up. He held his blade's hilt in his hand, ripped from Zeal's arm as she threw him back, just as violently as he had thrust it in. Maybe that'll slow her down. He cast a sideways glance at his broken sword. "I guess half a sword's better than no sword at all...."


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Slip...Baka...I need your stories too...or else I'll have to ad-lib everything myself....and we wouldn't want THAT to happen... *evil grin*


tenken's choice battle themes of the Finals:
- The Darkness Nova (Legend of Mana)
- Premonition (FF8)
- Final Shore (Turn-A Gundam)

Download them now, like the voices in your head tell you to!


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Angel of Death

Shit, I've missed this whole thing... well, I'm atleast not at a total loss. I've managed to spam my way into GenChat to catch this! Make me proud boys. Make me proud.


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Zelda - FFOS6

Zelda fought off monster after monster. A giant monster suddenly reared up in front of her, having made itself out of the last five or six that she'd just taken out.
"By Nayru...this isn't working at all...."
The princess humped into the air, throwing shuriken after shuriken into the beast. She landed back on the ground, and just as she was about to chant a spell the monster reared back and knocked her backwards.
"Uugh....How can we fight things that just become stronger as we kill them...?"
Zelda looked into the monster, into its eternal nothingness, and for a moment was intimidated. "Nayru's love..." she chanted to herself as a blue shield materialized around her.
"Take THIS!" she yelled as the unleashed five more shurikens into the creature, and jumped backwards out of its range of attack to chant a few words, imbuing the shurikens with magic. There was a blinding flash of light, and the monster shrank back into its puddle of nothingness, but within seconds she could see it starting to reform.

Zelda stood still, waiting for the monster to come back so she could fight it again.
"This is pointless....I kill it, it comes back stronger, I kill it again....eventually it'll be too strong for me to defeat..."

A sudden realization hit the princess. 'These must be coming from somewhere.....if we can get the source....'
Zelda immediately tapped into her magical abilities to cause her voice to sound in the minds of the rest of the forces against the void.
"Everyone...this is pointless. If we continue on like this, we will all surely be killed....We must try to go against the source itself..We have to enter the void..."


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WANZER!

Teamwork

*finally gets back online*

...urgh. I've just spent the last hour trying to find a computing lab open at this time of night.

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Driscoll hurt. The black whip had left a smoking line across his chest - which was beginning to burn.

He looked at the smoking blade in his hand, and smiled. A good soldier doesn't need weapons - but they sure help.

The queen - the void - whatever - was attacking the fire demon now, once again ignoring him.

This void.. it's clever. It knew to attack me first. But why is it ignoring me now?

Maybe... maybe the queen is fighting back?
Driscoll struggled to make his mind think about things he thought were impossible. Over the last few days, his mind had been broadened so much he could have pulled it out of his ears and tied knots in it. But someone fighting themselves? But... isn't that really what he'd been doing, back in his Wanzer? So... Zeal, she could be fighting the void. In which case, she should be able to keep it distracted long enough for...

Driscoll smiled, readied his sword, and charged at Zeal's back. At the last second, the queen turned, in time to receive the broken sword in her waist, followed by a kick to the back, knocking her into Rubicante's flames, and down.

He turned to the fire demon, and smiled in the few seconds he had before she got up again.

"Now that's what I call teamwork."

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oro, and I've just had a phonecall to say my cable modem just started working again.

This. Takes. The. Piss. I'll be going home now.


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The Light of Hope

Wow. I'm actually quite glad i didn't participate this time round, as i DEFINATELY wouldn't do justice to a story line as intense and creative as this. A round of applause to all the fallen and the two finalists, you've made one heck of a final round. Anyway, good luck to you both, and may the best.... the best THING win...


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The Second Gunman

Ito's guns ran dry once more just as Princess Zelda's voice rang out across the field.

"Enter the Void... Face the Darkness... It just might work."

Dropping the clips from his guns, he pulled out his last clip. He loaded it into one gun, discarding the other pistol.

"Six Rounds Combined Super Dimensional Ammo Luminarius! I'll clear us a path! HOLY RAIL!"

Swinging his gun towards the vast maw the Void hordes were spilling from, Ito braced the pistol against his hip and squeezed the trigger.

Monumental happenings have always sparked from the smallest events. A bird dropping on a mountain sparks an avalanche that buries a town. A child born sparks a revolution. A chocobo flapping its wings in Conde Petie causes fifty dwarves to stampede through Qu's Marsh.

These events, while each monumental in their own right, are more than likely just as influential as the actions sparked by the firing pin of Ito's pistol hitting the primer of the first Luminarius shell.

The Luminarius ammo was created using various high-power elements from each world. Pulse Ammo from FF8. Ultima Materia from FF7. Holy Bolt spells from Diablo 2. MatLuminAmmo from Xenogears. C4 from Metal Gear Solid. And Holy spells from FF9.

These six elements, combined with Ito's arcane knowledge (And a really cheesy author), create the most powerful handgun ammo ever imagined.

When the trigger was pulled, a small bead of light appeared at the end of the barrel. Curling wisps of Holy energy gathered around the suspended bullet, increasing its energy and yield. The bullet itself achieved a potential velocity of roughly half the speed of light before being released from its suspension. It whipped along, nearly invisible as it punched through row upon row of shadow fiends. The shockwave and resulting explosion of pent-up Holy energy that followed it, however, were quite visible. A wash of pure white rushed after the bullet, wiping Voidforms clear off the face of the earth.

The recoil from that one shot was such that Ito was pushed backwards three feet, and nearly knocked him on his ass. Shaking off the momentary hearing loss, he trust his gun forward. "CHAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!"

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Zelda - FFOS6

Zelda saw a path lay open by a man weilding a gun. "Everyone, Quickly!!" She telepathically said to everyone, as she ran towards the void herself. "We must face the darkness!!!"

The princess ran as fast as her legs would take her, destroying any void creatures who tried to get in her way.

Suddenly a void monster like none she had yet seen jumped out of the ground at her. "Link?!?!" she exclaimed as this creature pulled out its sword.

No...It is not Link...its the Void....

"Zelda....Don't.....kill....me...." it said in a lifeless voice. "Its me....Link.....Not the void...Come here....." Zelda walked towards the dark fiend, hoping that it was really him. Suddenly, it swung at her with its sword.

NO!!!

She jumped back just enough to keep from being cleaved in half by the dark monstrocity, but she had a deep gash in her side.

"Unng...I'll tend to this later..." Zelda pulled out a dagger and stuck it into the Link-creature, and then blasted him with some magic, and took a second to heal herself.

"Everyone! The void is trying to stop us from getting in!! Its using Memoria...Our own thoughts and memories against us!! Be careful..."

Zelda struck down another void monster that tried to attack her from the side, and sent out one last telepathic message to everyone. "We must hurry everyone! The creatures will do all they can to stop us from getting in!! I must warn you all, once we get in, there is a very high chance that we will not come back alive...But if it costs me my life in order to save all of existance from nothingness itself...then its something I'm more than willing to give up...We must fight for our loved ones. For our families and friends, and for existance itself. Come everyone, For the Future!!!"


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Elemental Fiend

I have no idea where Baka is, Tenken, but I'll give this a stab. Damn, his losing his connection has to suck at a time like this.

You know, Ex, I was intentionally holding Rubicante back to make it a fairer fight, given the power difference between him and Driscoll. Now what am I gonna do?

EDIT: Aaah, now Baka posts. Working around it, somehow. o_O

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A god... in Yume's place?

I cannot believe what I hear at first, for it runs contrary to everything I have learned thus far of the tournament. I will admit that the idea of a single wish granted is far-fetched enough as it is in the first place, for Yume would seemingly gain nothing from it save the satisfaction of bestowing a gift. But the abandonment of her powers, and to one of us - what is she thinking? Surely a tournament of warriors is a foolhardy way to decide, for the strongest of us is not necessarily the most able to wield such powers.

All of us... we accepted her invitation to the contest because of our own dreams we wished to fulfil, and now we learn that Yume herself wishes to achieve a dream; or, rather, to have the ability to dream which her power denies her.

And now, all of lie threatened by the power of the Void, embodied by the woman who stands before us. Yume's face is twisted in concentration as she attempts to prevent the Crystal from further damage, stained by the light of whatever it may encompass. Whether you keep your powers, or eventually let them pass, Yume, I cannot allow this destruction to happen while I still stand! I remember the Void, the screaming nothingness between my own destruction and my awakening in this tournament, and I will be damned again before any others face such a torture!

The Commander is in unspoken agreement, and together we face Zeal and ready ourselves for battle. "So..." Zeal hisses mockingly at us, "you think an Elemental and a lowly, magic-deprived human can defeat me?" She laughs. "You are welcome to try."

Taking her up on her words, I summon up a vast column of flame which ignites beneath her feet, enclosing her from sight within the towering flames. Yet she does not scream but laughs instead, and when I dispel the flame moments later not even the robes that Zeal wears are damaged in the slightest. Driscoll follows up by unleashing a hail of bullets from the weapon he dubbed the AK something-or-other, but Zeal holds out her hand and instead of melting them like I did for a similar attack, each bullet slows in midair as their kinetic energies are drained away into the Void and they clatter to the floor.

"Fools!" she cries again. "You think mere physical weapons can do a creature of Void damage, or elemental magics any effect on one who does not exist on this plane? Perish for your misconceptions, both of you!"

I move to attack again and attempt another gambit, but before I can do anything a sudden wreath of flame roars out of nowhere and passes over my body, healing me of whatever injuries I have not yet recovered from. What madness is this? Driscoll knows no magic and carries no fire-based weaponry, for the Hexfire saber was lost earlier. And Yume's anguished face as she shudders and attempts to prevent the Crystal from shattering tells me clearer than anything that she cannot spare the concentration to aid us.

As a vast wave of water appears from nowhere and hammers every part of my body, however, I scream out as my opposite element attacks me. No sooner has this assault ended than a vicious wind whips around me and skitters my flame in all directions, then spears of earth apparate to lace my body with primal fury and rage.

Zeal, I believe as the pain crashes over me in repeating waves, is this your doing? A multi-elemental attack to overwhelm my own element with three others? Distantly I can see the Commander look over at me, then attempt to press an attack while Zeal's attention is apparantly on me, but if it is her doing then it takes little of her attention, for his grenade is batted away and he himself thrown backwards by some kind of force.

Suddenly, the other attacks do not injure me but begin to heal me, absorbing into my body and slowly coming under my control. Eventually all of the rampant elementals dampen down and into to my body, which shudders and then hits me with a rush of power as their elements become accessible to me, the Fiend of Fire and fire only. How is this possible? How -

// rubicante //

"Barbariccia!" I cry! But she is nowhere to be -

// we... not here... powers sum... ed... aid y... //

// our p... wers... beco... your... //

// fight f... us... rothe... //


As her voice dies away into static, I piece together the fragments of her message. Somehow she and my other brethren were called to this world by another from our own - Rydia, possibly - and have chosen to aid my struggle by bestowing their abilities onto me. The Fiends united, their powers as one, although I know not how it will help against a foe unaffected by my fire.

Zeal's head snaps around and seeing me as a new threat to her, encases me in a prismical magical attack that blasts me with waves of heat and cold. I have not yet accustomed to these new powers and the cold hits me like a dagger, and when the spell clears I find that Driscoll has attacked the Void's vessel in order to distrupt her attack on me. He doesn't escape uninjured, his sword shattered and a whip-lash across his chest, but his fortitude and courage still impresses me.

"So all elements are the same to the Void, Zeal?" I challenge her, picking up on her earlier statement when I gained these new ones. "Let's see how you fare against two together!" I create a familiar ball of flame in one hand and somehow manage a sphere of ice in the other, then thrust my arms forward as the antipodal attack launches and strikes her hard in the chest.

As her attention turns to me, Driscoll circles behind her and charges at her unprotected back, then impales her stomach with a grisly thrust as she turns too late to face her new threat. Driscoll darts to the side and unleashes a savage kick to her side, throwing her body across the floor. I take up the following step and unleash a wall of flame in her path which she stumbles into. This time, though, she cries out as her body takes damage from the flame.

The sword!

Images flash through my mind of Zeal's halting the hail of bullets, deflecting a grenade, attempting to avoid being struck by saber. She can be hurt by physical weapons, and once hurt in that way then also by my magics! While Driscoll's broken saber is still impaled in her body, I charge a massive lightning thrust within my body and before she can remove the blade, the electric fury of air and water combined hammers through the air. Zeal screams in pain and shock as the lightning bolt is drawn directly into the weapon, and channels all its rampant energy into her crumpled yet defiant form.

"Your attacks and mine together, Driscoll!" I shout to my former adversary and current ally. "That's the only way we can beat her and drive the Void from her body!"


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Maybe you'll be able to challenge me again. I look forward to our next encounter.

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Fire of Legend

Three words: Blaze of glory.

Julius watched as the blonde princess led the charge towards the Void. Inside he couldn't help but laugh at her foolish optimism. Certainly the man called Ito had cleared a path to the gaping maw of the Void, but apparently none of the other contestants were aware of the opening's nature. The Void was nothingness and the Void monsters were also made of nothingness, and as such could pass freely through the Void's entrance. As existing matter, however, any contestant who attempted to breach the Void would be violently torn apart by the Void's nature.

Once again Julius chose to come to the others' aid. Utilizing his Mana energy Julius flew forward to the Void's entrance, swiftly passing Zelda and the others. Upon reaching the Void Julius paused and began concentrating, calling forth as much Mana energy as he could. The mouth of the Void slowly began to fill with a glowing white light as Julius's Mana energy flowed forth. Within a matter of moments the energy of life had filled the Void, transforming the inky black surface to a glimmering portal which would grant entrance to the warriors.

But even as Julius forced open a doorway to the heart of the Void he could feel the force of nothingness begin to press on him, attempting to seal the passage he had made. In response Julius gathered even more Mana energy, keeping the Void at bay while the heroes quickly passed through. Yet the nothingness persisted, forcing Julius to summon more and more Mana energy to keep the portal open. After a few minutes even the near limitless power of the emperor's Mana was stretched as far as it could go, but the Void still had energy to spare, and Julius's opening began to slowly collapse.

In desperation the emperor reached out to the Universal Mana he had tapped into before. The power came to him with surprising quickness, flowing through his body and stabilizing his doorway. Within moments, however, Julius realized exactly why the power came so quickly. The Mana power was not simply flowing through him, he was becoming part of it. It was consuming him.

In his last moments as a unique creature Julius reflected on the irony of his situation. He had entered the tournament for the power to control his world, but now he was sacrificing his very life to the power of life. These were Julius's last thoughts as his physical form faded forever into the flow of Mana. A moment later the portal he had opened snapped shut, leaving nothing but the endless black of the Void.

Suddenly a small object fell to the ground, so softly it made no sound as it landed. It was a small plushy shaped like a Moogle.

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WANZER!

"Your attacks and mine, Driscoll!"

OF COURSE! That's what the real Zeal was trying to tell us, somewhere in there! My god... she'd let this happen? She'd let us destroy her? Well, maybe we can avoid that happening. But for the meantime...

"Y'know, crispy, you just might be right. But using lightning? That's just cheating."

Flipping out the AK again, he fired off a round into the Queen's back, then watched as Rubicante bathed her in ice, and she screamed in agony - a scream that seemed to pierce the walls of the room. Suddenly, a dark explosion burst out from her, throwing Driscoll - and probably Rubicante - across the room. As he looked up from his crumpled position against a crystal, Zeal - no, the Void, floated in the centre of the room, arms outstretched, black energy crackling from her fingers. Rubicante lay somewhere on the other side of the room, clutching at... his head? Probably. The queen laughed, a low boom echoing through the room.

"I will not be beaten so easily, fools... I have been too easy on you. Now, witness the full power of the Dark Queen!"


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Baka // Evil Bishounen Mastermind // Otaku-in-Training

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OOC: Okay San, I'll write the next bit of the fight. Sheesh, some people just won't take 'no' for an answer -_- Well, he is evil, after all.

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Ride ze shoopuf?

Simplistic Hero: Don't worry, its Bowser to the rescue!

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The world around him collapsing, Bowser decided that the time for games and petty crushes was over. It was time to be serious. The lives of everyone in the tournament, everyone in the multiverse was at stake. It was time...to unleash the power.

Hideous creatures the likes of which Bowser had never imagined were all around him, battling with other contestants. These battles were not to win, they were to live.

"I intend to live today." Bowser muttered to himself.

Bowser heard a struggle nearby. Running to the scene, he encountered a large number of Void fiends attacking Gryz.

"Bowser, some assistance please! They are...urgh...too many!"

Bowser went berserk, ravaging through the demons of the Voids. One lost a head. Another lost both its arms. Another was completely eviscerated.

Wriggling free, Gryz witnessed a rage the likes of which no one had seen in Bowser.

"Die Void monsters! You will not destroy my world! A world that I shall share with Peach someday!" Bowser bellowed.

"Bowser, behind you!" Gryz warned.

Bowser turned to see a huge creature behind him, easily eclipsing Bowser by at least ten sizes. A loud screeching noise signaled to him that the creature intended to fight.

"Hmph. If there is one thing Mario has taught me, its that when fighting, size definitely does not matter."

Bowser thought for a moment.

"It doesn't matter, but it sure is nice to have!"

Bowser suddenly grew to an immense size, one to match the fiend before him. (Note: Think of Bowser from Super Smash Bros. Melee)

"Ah, I feel big again! Now, you suffer!"

A fierce claw-to-claw battle ensued between the two monsters. The large Void monster shoved the mighty Bowser to the ground. He leaped in the air with great force like the dragoon Kain that Bowser had seen earlier. Thinking on his feet, or rather, his back, Bowser swiftly turned on his belly, exposing his spiked back to the leaping fiend.

"AAAAAaaaagghh...." The creature howled in pain.

"Ha, now you know why Mario never tries that!" Bowser remarked. "And now...for the kill!"

Bowser brought a huge fireball from the pits of stomach, and incinerated the monster as it screamed in pain. The threat over, Bowser returned to his normal size.

"Th-that was incredible." An awestruck Gryz commented.

"I know. I'm just that good. Now, lets go kick some Void ass."


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Oh yeah, Bowser is a badass for the rest of the tournament


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"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then, if you still don't succeed, give up. No point in making yourself look like a damn fool."
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Dunce of Stealth

Well i'll jsut save myself then.


Edit: OOC: ok, ok, Bowser did save me, but i didn't really notice til later, we wrote the posts at the smae time. So...lets just pretend, I get piled upon, Bowser saves me, walks off, I get piled apon once again in a very similar fashion, then comes this.
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As his air faded, Gryz knew that know one was coming to help him out from under the massive pile of wraiths that pinned him down. Maybe no one had seen him rush to the front? Maybe everyone was already dead? Maybe, they assumed he wouldn't need any help? (He perferred the latter.)

"I have to get out."

Then, Gryz felt an object, hard and cold, pressing against his side. He struggled to slide his arm downward, pushing through wraith and claw, grasping the object off of his belt. He couldn't see it, no light penetrated the bodies of the encomposing nothingness, but he could feel its round metallic shape and a small ring on one end.

"A grenade!" he nearly shouted.

He had taken it from the soldiers back in the stealthy compound. It was a stealth grenade , far louder and more powerful than any normal grenade.

Gryz knew what to do, he pressed the grenade against his chest, wraiths squeezing against him. The pin came out easy.

Wraiths flew in all directions, eminating out of the tremendous flash where the charred, yet live motavian, struggled to stand.

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Yes thats right, apparently Gryz IS immune to explosions.


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I use to have a list of all the RPGs i've beaten here, but God asked that I take it off because it kept scaring all the children.

Mammoth rush
Generic crunch
That fickle beast
stepped on a pickle.
And how could he be so crude
to step on such a marvelous food.
--And then bellow at his feet.

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Soujiro Seta
SIN

The Eternal Dream - Nightmare - Fourth Movement


"Uuuuuuuuurraaaaaaaa!!!" Void Zeal gave a savage roar as she lept onto Rubicant with the ferocity of a behemoth. "Strength of a thousan--" She was cut off by Rubicant's surprise technique - he had suddenly burst into a bright flame, all-consuming and vivid crimson. Zeal gave a cry and fell back, her hand moving instinctively to her wound.

"My flame glows bright throughout the hallways of eternity!" Rubicant said as he took a position in front of Driscoll, so as to shield him from the Queen's fearsome magic. Without taking the embers of his gaze off of the Queen, his left hand moved behind him, once again curing the worst of Driscoll's wounds. Still, the black scar remained.

"Damn, that's gonna leave a mark" Driscoll rubbed his chest. "Thanks, crispy." He began to feel that if the battle was ever won, he would have second thoughts about taking up arms against one as brave as Rubicant had been.

Zeal picked herself up from against the wall, blood staining her orange robe. For a moment, Rubicant thought he saw a tear in her eye, but it it truly existed, it had been evaporated by the dark flame.

"Now!" Driscoll shouted, and with that, he and Rubicant took off in opposite directions. This time, we're going for critical damage! He'd never thought that the most intense battle of his life would be fought with a broken rapier, of all things.

"Rend the flesh...." Zeal started to chant, and Driscoll turned his head toward the Queen as he ran. "Shatter the bone..." Everything seemed to be moving slower, and Driscoll could almost feel himself being hindered by a force unseen. "Crush the spirit...." Out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw Rubicant rushing toward him. Dammit! That's the wrong way! his mind screamed out, but now he was sure that the fiend of fire was certainly moving toward him. "...And banish the dream! Dark Gear!"

Driscoll felt himself in the middle of a maelstrom, then a heavy hit from the side and he was lying on his back.

"What the--" Driscoll looked up just in time to roll frantically out of the way of a translucent ball of expanding energy, and what were seemingly blades of shadow hitting....Rubicant! "Noooooo!"

Without thinking, he pulled out his gun and fired two bullets at the queen. It was a mistake. The bullets flew to the sphere of dark blades like a magnet draws iron fillings, and Driscoll was sure he could hear them impact Rubicant's body.

The spell's intensity lessened, and Rubicant's crumpled form dropped to the ground. Driscoll could hear him breathe heavily as he rose to his knees, quivering.

"It is the will of the void" Zeal said "to end the struggle quickly and painlessly. However, the trouble caused by the two of you has put you in an eschelon of your own. Your existance shall be prolonged for the cause of pain so great that, when it has ended, you will long for the sleep of eternal nothingness!"

"Rubicant!" Driscoll flung himself over the fiend's body, ignoring the uncomfortable heat. He tore the cork off of a strange bottle with his teeth and poured half of it down the fiend of fire's throat. "Sorry about the liquids, bud," Driscoll said as he re-corked the bottle but without you, I'm toast - no pun intended." He only hoped that he wouldn't have to use the rest of the healing potion, but at their present juncture, he doubted the vial would have a chance to cool down in his pocket before his hot hand reached for it again.

But Zeal was already advancing on them.


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~someday, the dream will end~


"The Queen is peerless in both power and beauty"
FFOS6 :: Queen Zeal :: Sidekick

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FFOS6: Zio

Zio heard the voice of Zelda resonating within his mind, pleading with him to help the others in their goal to defend existence. He shook his head, a devilish sneer crossing his lips. "No," he said aloud. "Non existence is my goal! I will not back down! This is for Dark Force, my ultimate sacrifice!"

In a fit of renewed passion, Zio set out to accomplish his ultimate goal; his humanity was all but gone now, and he would see to it that the same was true for everyone else!

Battling his way through the hoarde of Void-beasts, Zio finally reached his destination; just behind Princess Zelda as she attempted heroics. The pricness turned and smiled thankfully at the black mage. "Oh, you've come to he---EEEEHH!"

Before she could finish her sentence, Zelda was knocked backwards by the force of powerful Hewn spell, the intense wind knocking her cleanly into a group of Void-beasts.

"You won't succeed!" Zio shrieked. "I will give the ultimate sacrifice for Dark Force! I will create a monument to non-existence!" With that, Zio thought he heard a voice coming from the disance... "Hey, that's my line, bub!"

Shaking off the odd reply, Zio cast another spell at Zelda and any who dared approach. It was not long before Zio's own memories caused a giant embodiment of Dark Force to form from the creatures of the Void. As he watched the embodiment of his god take shape, the black magician's twisted smile returned.

"My ultimate goal is now at hand..."

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Sponsor: Setzer

“We were tied at two games each when last we met, gambler” Garland sneered, “Consider this the tie-breaker.”

Damn, I can’t fight Chaos and the Void at the same time, Setzer thought as his eyes darted around, looking for a quieter area for them to fight. There was none. No choice then.

He picked out a card from his deck, which was now quite slender. With a flip of the wrist the Jack of Hearts was embedded in the ground. As it struck it burst into flame and spread into a ring of fire that surrounded Setzer and Garland. At the same moment the knight noticed some of the colour drain from the gambler’s face. “Be careful not to use too many of those precious cards of yours” the knight taunted, “I won’t be deprived of your blood.”

Several Void creatures charged obliviously at the warriors and were consumed by the fire. Paying them no heed Setzer ran toward his opponent with his remaining card-fan held behind him. As Garland swung his sword down the gambler’s fan connected with it in a spray of sparks. With some difficulty he managed to deflect the great sword away to his right and dodge around to Garland’s opposite side. The knight recovered momentum quickly but not in time to prevent a deep gash to his left flank. He roared and swept his blade horizontally. Setzer managed to block the attack, but the sheer force of it was enough to knock him off his feet.

Garland loomed menacingly over the crumpled form. “How pathetic” he rasped, “must I run you through as you lie there?”

Setzer’s response was swift and spoke louder than words. His arm moved almost too fast for the knight to see and was followed by a sharp pain in his throat. Garland staggered back and yanked the ten of spades out of his windpipe as the gambler rose once more. The knight grinned darkly through blood-stained teeth, “I should not have under-estimated your sleight of hand” he chuckled as he rubbed the gaping wound. “We should know each other’s play by now. I’m going all in … and I call your hand.”

“Very well” Setzer agreed, “this will be the final game between us.”

- - - - - - - -

San: You can finish this off. I’m not sure where to go with it, and I don’t know what you have in mind. Two things though; don’t kill Setzer (obviously) and don’t take or make him use the aces of spades and hearts (I have specific uses planned out for those near the end of the round).

Dareon: LOL, well I see a Macross reference there (it could be Orguss too). I wonder if there’s anyone out there who’s actually heard of GodMars – Five Gods Combined, though. No one got that one.

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Baka
WANZER!

Driscoll looked up at the advancing Queen.

"This is getting stupid. And damnit - you are not going to win this! Driscoll never loses!"

Jumping towards Zeal, Driscoll swung the remains of the sword - only to be batted out of the air by an invisible blow, which smashed him against the wall of the area.

Slumping against the wall, he saw the Queen, as if in slow motion, bend over Rubicante.

The fiend. Why did I protect him?

Why did he protect me, too? A few seconds ago, we were fighting each other to the death... but that's how these things happen. I had to work with Lloyd once, if I remember...

Zeal raised one hand, a sphere of blackness beginning to form in it.

So... so what if she destroys him. Sacrifices are inevitable in a war, right? And.. this is a kind of war? Against the void?

The sphere was larger than her hand now.

A war, right. Against evil. But what is evil? A lack of good. But the void is a lack of everything... and if Rubicante dies, he'll join the void, make it stronger. I'm not... can I do this?

Driscoll realised he'd made his decision. No more sitting around contemplating his fate. His fate was this fight. And Driscoll was going to defeat fate.

Zeal's sphere of darkness suddenly flashed, and elongated into a spear of utter black, sucking in the light from all around it. Which gave Driscoll a plan. Realising he couldn't get there in time, not in his state, he fumbled at his belt, and pulled out a small hand-torch.

If I remember my physics lessons right...

Switching the torch on, he aimed it at one of the crystals - which diffracted the beam into a thousand smaller beams, all colours of the rainbow. The lights flooded the room with a myriad of flashing lights, and as Driscoll rotated the torch, the lights moved, bending at strange angles, diffracting again when they hit other crystals.

It's actually quite pretty...

...and it seemed to be working. Zeal's concentration was broken, and the spear of darkness broken, scattered to the corners of the room. She backed away, looking around in confusion, as Rubicante stood up, tall and menacing as ever. Driscoll dropped the torch, still on, and stood up, bathed in lights.

"Let's end this."

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Zelda - FFOS6

I will create a monument to non-existence!

Zelda got to her feet. "Not if I can help it you won't...Din's Fire!!!" the void beasts around her were knocked backwards, but due to a lack of actual matter, not destroyed. They saw the fire in the princess's eyes and thought better of attacking her.

The beautiful warior walked towards Zio with a determined look in her eyes. "Don't you have family..." she asked as she threw a magically embued shuriken. "Friends?" another shuriken. "A world to go home to?" she pulled out a chain-like whip and pulled back her arm, imbuing it with fire energy. "Don't you care in the least about all these people depending on us?" she snapped the whip and left a burning gash across his chest.

Zio snapped his arm forward and flung a spell towards Zelda "Nayru's love.." A blue force field appeared around her and the spell reflected back at Zio, knocking him backwards. "There have been many such as you...yet in this tournament...they have fought for the greater good...Julias forfieted his very life for that of the multiverse....and I will NOT allow one evil man to cause it all to end....If its the last thing I do...I will........oh my god..."

Zelda saw a giant void fiend appear in front of her, apparantly one of Zio's memories, made manifest by the void.

"You...Bastard..." Zelda uttered as she looked up at the huge monstrocity towering above them, blocking entrance to the portal.

Zelda reached out telepathically to the warriors. "Everyone! Zio has betrayed us....This giant thing is one of this memories....And it is blocking the void from us....We must destroy it and get in...but I cannot do this alone...Everyone...For the good of the multiverse...Help me..."

And with those words, Zelda rushed the beast, throwing everything she had at it, and hoping beyond hope that help would come in time..


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Formerly Cloud Stryfe

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Kyo
Has a Big Sword

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Duran looked on with mild exhaustion as Koren got to his feet again and prepared himself for another battering magic attack that he might be able to evade, or counter. The battle had been going on for quite some time, but the equal amount of emotional and physical tension on both sides had not lessened one bit. And it didn't look like this stalemate of theirs would finish anytime soon.

Duran did have the upper hand, though. But that could easily change in a second.

Koren raised his arms to the crystal ceiling, indicating his deferance to the heavens above as he shouted, "I guess it's time to stop playing games with you, Duran! If you truly have become more than that petty soilder I fought atop Forcena Castle years ago, then now's the time to prove it!"

Duran raised his sword again, not exactly certain of what to expect--

"Terrible magic from aeons long past, wreak havok with your Dark ressurection! ANCIENT!!!"

The warrior's mind was almost completely filled with terror when he saw an enormous metor shower blast through Memoria and into the Crystal chaimber. The meteor fragments blasted down indescrimately, cutting down Void and defender alike. A lone fragment hurtled towards Queen Zeal, who easily deflected it without batting an eye. But all that was just heralding the meteor whose fragments just devastated the battlefield, a burning star of massive proportions--and it was heading right for him!

Koren laughed, obviously at ease from Duran's unsettlement. "Not exactly so confident now, eh? If you can't defeat this--defeat me, than this will end it. I doubt that it will matter to Fate much either way..."

Duran's mind panicked, running in circles as he saw the giant meteor gradually careen towards him. What do I do! I can't even hope to dodge or defend against something of that size! What do I DO?!?!

Believe in yourself, Duran!

An Aspect? Which one?

It is I, the Lord Aspect. I never fully reconciled with you--and now I'll show you why you're strong enough to prevail against Koren. My lesson to you comes from the Present; defeat the Ancient Magic! Only when you do so will you understand why you can.

But, how can I even fight something of that magnitude?

Like I said, believe in yourself! And your own abilities! It's only when you face impossible odds that you lose faith--I'm telling you to have faith anyway! You have all of our powers at your disposal; use them together! At the limit!

All...Allright, I'll do it! Got nothing to lose anyway...

Not exactly worthy of 'That's the spirit!', but decent nonetheless. Break his magic, and you'll break him!

"Allright..."

"Eh?" Koren looked up in wonder, to see Duran shining with even more determination than he had before.

"Here I go! TAKE THIS, YOU BASTARD OF A ROCK!!!"

WIth that, Duran leaped into the air, his Mana power reaching it's maximum as he drove his blade into the meteor with all his strength.

"Blade of thunderheads, streak into reality with force! VACCUM SWORD!"

Duran began spinning into the rock, moving his blade like a drill as he fought against it's powerful gravitational motion.

"Blade of infinite opacity, smother Hope to it's grave! ERUPTION SWORD!"

The backwashing twister of rocks that Duran was creating in the meteor with his efforts turned into a burning twister of fire and brimstone. He vanished into the meteor, the force behind his attacks making the earthen sphere rumble.

"Blade which severs Mana, make this strike land without fail! MAGIC CIRCLE!"

A complex runic symbol encircled the meteor as it fell, making it tremor violently as it's flames were put out completely. Fissures and cracks began to form all over as Duran put the last of his energy into the attack that would finish the job. At the other side of the meteor, there was a flash of dark and light energy entwined--

"DARK SABER! SAINT SABER! Focus my sword into that which severed Damacles! Aura of balance, destroy that which blocks thy path! HOLY SWORD ECLIPSE!

--And then silence. The meteor halted to a standstill, and for a brief moment, everyone looked up in wonder, trying to figure out who had survived.

A beam of light then shot out of one of the meteor's fissures, then another. And another. And another one. The Ancient spell shattered as the meteor gave a massive final tremor befor exploding into a million pieces, showering the area with stardust. And in the center Duran hovered, glorified in that split second as twilight's shower surrounded him, before gravity bid that he plummet to the ground.

Koren, who had felt every ounce of his being become ruptured by his link with Ancient, crumpled to the ground in pain as the warrior descended to earth.

...Do you know why you can prevail? It's because... The Sword of Mana you saw in Memoria...reflected your own heart. The impliment of the Goddess of Mana lives in you, as it has with those who defended the Tree in ages past. You are destined to save it from evil, like Koren predicted.

But then... that means I fail to do so, according to him... But I can settle that, with this battle's outcome!

And it certianly looked that way; for a moment, it seemed like the Boy had prevailed.


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Currently sponsoring Duran (Seiken Densetsu 3) in FFO Survivor 6/Rurouni Taikai I.
Keep ~ Yourself ~ Alive

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FFOS6: Zio

Zio's body was racked with pain as the ferocity of Zelda's attacks hit him with full force. He'd never imagined such a person could be so fierce. The little wretch would pay for her actions!

"Friends?" Zio rose to his feet. "Family?" He took a step toward Zelda. "Happiness?" He evaded another snap of her whip. "NO! NAFOI!" A pillar of fire burst from teh sky, engulfing the princess as Zio spoke.

"Dark Force is the only reason for my existence! My life, everyone's life, is meaningless! Everyone dies! I will simply see to it that I am the Bringer of Ruination! NAWAT!" Torrents of water flooded down from the sky, extinguishing the flames of his previous spell and knocking over the princess once more.

"Everything is meaningless! You! Your so-called friends! Family!" With that word, he spat. His sneer twisting even more. "There is no salvation for those as petty as you! As petty as anything! Only Dark Force shall remain!"

As he spoke, the entity that looked like Dark Force became more life-like in shape, yet still it had an air of nonexistence about it. It was lashing out at all those who neared the portal. Clearly, it would defend its territory.

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Soujiro Seta
SIN

The Eternal Dream - Nightmare - Stacatto


"That's a wonderful trick, Driscoll" the void laughed, forming another ball in Zeal's hands. "Unfortunately, it shall now be your undoing!"

"Beam of heat, burn away false hope! Laser!" Zeal flew toward one of the room's larger crystals and unleashed her blast directly into the crystal. A reddish-purple beam refracted throughout the room, distorting through other crystals, and raining down upon Driscoll and Rubicant. Rubicant, acting quickly and oddly decisively, threw himself over Driscoll's battered body.

"You desire death so greatly as to throw yourself in the path of attack?" The Void seemed confused, but Rubicant's mouth bore a menacing grin.

"Think you're so fast I couldn't tell? That's a heat-based attack...and thanks to you, I'm feeling a bit more myself. Let's have at her, Commander!" Driscoll nodded, checking his gun and tightening his grip on the hilt of his broken blade.

"STOP!!!"cried a voice from Void-Zeal, but it was Zeal's voice alone. The Queen raised her hand, a sphere of dark energy on the tip of her fingers....and pointed Squarely at Yume, who was desperately focusing all of her energies into healing the damaged crystal. "Stop me...stop the VOID!!" The missing voice of the void jumped back in mid-sentence and Zeal's hand snapped straight where it had previously quivered, unfocused.

"What will you do? What CAN you do?" Zeal sneered as she walked up to Driscoll and gazed into his eyes. Driscoll desperately wanted to run; the feeling became greater with each inch closer the evil queen moved to him. But he couldn't move - he was stuck to that spot, most likely by Zeal's force. Her gaze pierced into his soul, her hand still pointed unwaveringly at Yume.

Driscoll...Rubicant...do not stay your hand. Do whatever it takes...for Yume... Driscoll felt the message faster than he could blink, and he knew Rubicant had heard it too, speaking gently and sadly inside of his mind. Crazy as it seemed, and as foreign as the concept was to him, there actually WAS a woman fighting the void in...her mind? Driscoll shook his head - the only thing he knew for sure was the threat in front of him. And yet, for all that he and Rubicant had done, the match remained undecided, a deadly waltz along a razor's edge. A wrong move could mean a death deeper than death. Not only for the two of them, but for the whole of existance.

It's my all...or nothing! Driscoll steeled his heart. Sometimes, one had to do whatever was necessary to win.


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"I shall banish you, black spirit!" Zeal threw another energy ball at the fiend but it seemed to only slow it down. My magic alone...it is not enough! Oh, but for a way! She felt every pore of her skin burn with the flame of ether energy, all of her hairs standing on end with the electrifying power.

"Blades of light, pierce the armor of the enemy before me! Skygate!" Zeal soared in the sky, directing the panels of lightning to section the her loathsome shadow-self into oblivion. One, two three... she began to tick off her mental counter, the blades of light cutting clean through the void, sending pieces of her doppleganger dropping to the ground with a splat.

But they re-formed, and the void gave a laugh.

"You may hold us back, Zeal-woman, but you cannot kill that which is nothing! The life of Yume means nothing to us - she is merely the conduit through which we shall achieve our objective!"

Zeal could see the sleeping figure of dream-Yume beginning to fade, her purple kimono not quite the shade of violet it was once before.

Time...is running out. I hope Driscoll and Rubicant understood. Until then...."Have at thee, fiend!" Zeal gestured her arm toward Shadow-Zeal, a full spread of Energy Balls slamming into the form, blowing off pieces that would soon regenerate.

Schala...Janus...please give me your strength...strength to endure...

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~someday, the dream will end~


"The Queen is peerless in both power and beauty"
FFOS6 :: Queen Zeal :: Sidekick

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Tenshi Kain
Nameless Eternal

Another Voidshade crumpled under Slash's heel, dissipating into a black mist moments after its decapitated trunk struck the floor. Slash was starting to breath harder now, his forehead and arms peppered with minor cuts and abrasions. One of the creatures' claws had come dangerously close to striking his ribs on a scythe-motion cut, and Slash now sported a gash in his tunic from where it had sliced. With their strange and brutal finesse, the creatures were proving to be a much more lethal foe than any Guardia Knight.

And you're thinking about those mammalian dirtbigs right now? Fight, dammit!

Slash shifted into standard attack position once more, hunched slightly forward with Slasher II and Shamshir held forward. The next Voidshade approached him from the swarm at a much quicker pace, almost jogging to meet him across the battleground. Slash moved in an instant to meet it, and with a cry of war and a cry of insane bloodlust, the combatants clashed in the center. Slash slammed his Shamshir into the stabbing arm of the Voidshade, forcing its hand into existence. Overbalanced and panicking, the Voidshade reeled back, but by then, Slash had his beloved Slasher II poised and ready. He clashed his larger blade against the scythe-shaped short sword, sending both swiping in an "X" slash. The Shamshir's edge was too short to connect, but the Slasher II's blade had no problem slicing through the solidifying appendage. The cut won a scream from the creature, its hand shattering into a billion ash-like fragments before dissipating forever.

Slash regained momentum just as the creature reared up again for another swipe- and swipe it did, and Slash felt a stinging sensation along the left side of his jawline. A cut- minimal, but there was a coldness, a burning coldness, to the scrape. Slash persisted- it was more of an aching throb than the familiar thin pain of a cut, anyway. He chewed the inside of his cheek to quell the anger, scything the Shamshir up and into the creature's side with a one-handed thrust. He was rewarded with the sound of metal punching through solid, and the subsequent noise of pain from the Voidshade. It recoiled in pain, but brought back its hand from the swipe movement to whip for Slash's head. The Mystic swordsman felt the coldness of its hand approaching, however, and weaved his head down moments before impact. The creature stumbled back further; Slash stepped after him, placing his right foot forward, but rather than slashing upward, he took a step back with his left foot, standing to face his wounded enemy from a sideways stance. Slash gripped his infamous sword with both hands, slowly curving it down and up, away from the Voidshade. As he did, he stepped over his left foot nimbly with his right, twisting his entire frame around to face the opposite direction- and in the process, brought the Slasher II directly into range of the Voidshape's skull. Slash was strangely slow in his strike, however, and the Voidshape saw its chance. Ducking in, it lashed out with a claw blow, its talons screaming for Slash's blood-

-and then Slash's strike doubled, tripled, quadrupled, quintupled in speed.

"Bachiatari Hakuma Ryu- Amenomurakamo!"

The blade outslashed the claws, and Slash cleaved the shade in two from shoulder to hip. The same ash-like substance exploded from the wound, and the rest of the body followed suit. As the creature sped forward, driven on by its own momentum, it shattered into nothingness, passing harmlessly through Slash's form. The Shamshir fell from its side to clatter at Slash's feet just as the Slasher II's edge split a tile of the Memorian floor.

Pumping out all my best techniques, and this was only my fifth kill. Slash brought himself back up to his full height, casting a glance at the battling Voidshapes and his once-competitors. Neither side was truly gaining an advantage, save for a few competitors who resorted to magics and summons to blow away a few. But for each shape that fell, another and some more sprung up in its place. There's an easier way of making these things solid. I just don't know i-

Slash's gaze fell upon the elaborate table of food that Yume had set out for them, just prior to the invasion by the Voidshapes. "Hold that thought," he muttered, weaving past a few vagrant fighters towards the banquet table. There was quite an assortment of food- sandwiches, fruit, salads, soup, even a few hot dogs-

And plenty of knives to cut the cake.

Slash grabbed a good, thick butcher knife, and whirled with a red glint to his sallow eyes. Cocking his throwing arm back, he laid his eyes on a Voidshade coming in his direction, arms upraised and shrieking mindlessly. Slash let his muscles relax, just slightly, and whipped the knife through the air. The blade turned over the hilt just before impact, embedding itself in the center of the Voidshade's chest. It stumbled once, pawing at the foreign blade in an effort to escape the awful nemesis- reality. Slash, however, had mapped out this one technique before he'd even thrown the knife. Placing his blade forward, Slash took off in a sprint, sword pointed at the head of the creature in what would have appeared to be a basic charge.

But, of course, any Guardia Knight who laid eyes on that position would have put up a shield and prayed to his gods he survive.

"Bachiatari Hakuma Ryu no Fungeki- Hyakuretsuto!"

If the Voidshade had been just a step out of reach, it may have been able to fully evade the attack. But as it was, Slash had no problem with his aim. The Mystic seemed to emanate from north, south, west, east, and all directions in-between, and the Slasher II's blade darted forward in seven swiping cuts, patterned randomly. A shoulder cut from the left opened to mime a razing gash on the groin, and the third and second attacks tore the creature's left arm and hip. The left shoulder and right arm followed, and the right hip exploded in a whipping cut. At last, the head was split in two, popping open like an overripe watermelon. Yet no blood spewed, and Slash's immense charging technique carried him through an ashy black mist as the Voidshade was damned into oblivion by the howl of the demon sword.

Slash skidded to a halt with great care, the soles of his boots alight with friction as the last of the momentum died. He panted slightly, bringing the Slasher II up once again. The one-on-one method was less tiring than multiple-target attacks, but he was making less of an impact. He needed a method of attack that would dispatch a group with one fierce blow.

Despite himself, Slash smiled thinly. An attack that will kill many in one blow. It may not be my style, but I think I know just the thing...

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Your Dear Old Uncle TK, modelling after the Tenken, suggests these sweet, sweet tracks for listening to during the tourney:

"Shades of Revolution", Rurouni Kenshin
"The Bridge Of Khazad Dum", Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack
"Knight of Fire", Xenogears
"Boss Fight", Metal Gear Solid 2
"Endgame", Skies of Arcadia
"Fight- Final Boss", Grandia II

And for any Slash fights (), "Warrior's Suite", Rurouni Kenshin. Biased, am I? Sounds like me, yeah.

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Locke Cole - FFOS6

"Everyone! Zio has betrayed us....This giant thing is one of this memories....And it is blocking the void from us....We must destroy it and get in...but I cannot do this alone...Everyone...For the good of the multiverse...Help me..."

"Damn!" Locke exclaimed, as he heard Zelda's message, "What now?"

"Whatever it is, there's no way I'm leaving her to die," Locke decided.

Attempting to rally the competitors, Locke yelled out, "Listen everybody, I'm not about to die here, and I don't think any of you are either. But this is about more then just our lives and our dreams, the fate of the universe, the fate of existance itself hinges on this battle. Don't ask me how I know, I just do. Anyone who can still fight, come with me! I'll try to take out Zio, you'll all have to deal with his creation."

"You sure you'll be OK?" Ito asked him.

"Of course!" Locke said, pointing to his headband, "Infinite ammo."

Locke and the small group of contestants that followed him charged the humongous shape of Dark Force. Drawing the revolver and twirling it on his finger, Locke thought to himself, "You're not ending creation on my watch, buddy. You'd better prepare yourself Zio, I've got a bullet with your name on it."

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Zelda - FFOS6

Zelda struggled once again to her feet. She was badly injured, but she would not allow this horrible person to accomplish his goals.

"No Friends...No Family...All you want is destruction.." Zelda unleashed a barrage of magic from her fingertips, sending him flying backwards. She walked over to stand over Zio's battered form. "There's a word for people like you Zio..."

Zio didn't let her finish her sentance as he jumped up, knocking her backwards. She did backflipped through the air and landed square on her feet, immediately unleashing a barrage of shurikens into Zio's stomach. "Din's Fire..." She chanted, and almost immediately a circle of fire engulfed the area, leaving Zelda unscathed, but Zio wasn't so lucky.

Zio was quick to counter though, as he released a spell of his own at the girl, sending her slamming against a pillar. "Uungh..." Zelda said as she tried to get up.

Zio walked over to stand over her, ready to claim victory. "What was your word for people like me foolish one? Victorious? Powerful?"

Zelda pulled a knife out of her belt while Zio was gloating over her, "No....Neither....the word...was...." and with her last ounce of strength, Zelda lunged forward and stabbed her knife deep into Zio's unprotected chest. Zio fell backwards, not hurt as badly as the princess had hoped.... "Pathetic..."

And with that, Zelda passed out.

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Your Mission: Save Zelda.

LoL, Love the Metal Gear Solid 2 Referrance


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Locke Cole - FFOS6

"Poor fool," Zio muttered, preparing to end the princess's life.

"Stop!!!" Locke yelled. Zio turned around to see the treasure hunter aiming a gun at his head. Locke quickly asked, "What are you trying to do?."

The black mage laughed, "Do? Why I simply wish to put an end to everything. Don't you realize that existance itself is meaningless. Friends, family, happiness, love... what is their purpose? Why do you cling so desperetly to life, when in the end everything must die?"

"She's right," Locke spat out, "You are pathetic."

"Ha, the only thing that's pathetic is that weapon of yours!" Zio screamed as he suddenly charged his opponent. Though he nearly managed to land a blow with his scythe, Locke did a quick sideflip, landing outside of the mage's range.

"Try dodging this!" Locke taunted as he quickly pointed the revolver at Zio's massive form and squeezed the trigger.

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I hope Munkwunk gets here soon. Sorry if I got the dialouge wrong, I just kind of reverted to basic villian-speak.

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Zelda - FFOS6

Yeah, don't worry about the dialouge...that's kind of what I did too whenever I had to have Zio talk...especially since I have no idea what his character's actually like...

*Sits waiting for Munkwunk*


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Gloriosa Generosa

OOC: For those of you who haven't played Phantasy Star IV yet, here is the complete script to the game. Just look for Zio's lines and you'll get a summary of the sort of person he is.

Kyle, You pretty much have him read. He uses really big villainous words, while keeping a "you're pathetic" feeling in it.

(Guys, I don't think you should attempt to get into the Void. You wouldn't want Krizak's story for the finalists to be ruined. )

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The bullet fired through the air and everything seemed to go slowly, the howling of Zio's mind manifest - Dark Force, the wounded Zelda struggling for life, Zio's cape dancing in the wind, and Locke's grin as he fired the revolver. But the bullet missed as Zio gestured his cape.

Locke stood there still amidst the chaos, pointing the revolver at Zio, who was smling evily, "Sig, go get Zelda somewhere safe. I need to show this guy how pathetic he really is!"

The dark warrior ran towards the princess, and carried her from the battle. Locke's and Zio's figure still stood in the smoke of battle as he gave the glowing flask of potion to Zelda to treat her wounds. Then he was engulfed in darkness.

"Clyde...before you go..you have to use your knife..."

Clyde looked back at Baram, puzzled. "What...?"

Baram grimaced in pain. "Think what they'll do to me if I get caught. I don't want to have to go through that. Do me this favor."

Clyde frowned, then unsheathed one of his daggers, and stepped towards Baram, kneeling by the injured man's side. His gaze was caught in Baram's eyes, and he faltered.


The dream exploded as Siegfried bellowed in anger, "Damn this place!" A figure silently stood ahead of him, a familiar face. He wore a long brown cloak over a brown shirt, black pants and boots. His brown hair was held back with a black headband. Two daggers were stuck in his black belt.

"We meet again,... Baram." the figure smiled.


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"I am the man who has never bled or cry,... The first disciple of Jenova,... Wielding the blood rusted blade that had been taken from the light of good to the darkness of evil... I am the master of the black relic and was born to lead the world to total damnation... I am god! I am Sephiroth!

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Zelda - FFOS6

Zelda opened her eyes and sat up as the potion began to take effect. Her wounds started to magically close themselves, and almost immediately she felt healed. "Thanks..." she started to say to the cloaked man, but noticed that his attention was on someone else.

The girl looked forward, to see Locke facing off with Zio, and jumped to his side, getting a shuriken at the ready. Locke looked to her worriedly, "Go somewhere safe...I'll take care of this.."

Zelda turned to him and smiled. "You think I'd let you have all the fun? Zio is strong...You will not be able to take him on your own...I'll back you up. Oh...and by the way...Thanks for the save back there..."

Locke was about to reply when the Zelda tackled him to te ground, a fireball passing just over thier heads.

"Looks like Zio's not going to give us time to introduce ourselves..." Zelda said as she and Locke got back to thier feet, and prepared for battle...
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Over to either Munkwunk or Kyle...


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Yume
Daughter of the Creator

Chapter 9: A Guardian Falls

Zeal stepped back from her two opponents, clutching her head in pain. "No! You cannot defeat us! We are eternal! We are endless! You cannot defeat that which does not exist!"

And she responded to her own words in a faint whisper, one that was not so tainted with evil. "Watch me." And with that, her hands began to glow, burning her own face.

"AGHH! Damn you, Zeal!" She threw down her her hands, revealing deep red burns on both sides of her head! "Fine! If you want your body back so much, then take it! I have no need for it anyway!"

Zeal threw her arm back, and then her entire body flew backwards, landing unconsious a few metres away. In her place stood a creature of the Void... except, it was different. In it's shadowy form, subtle hints of colour were visible: a shimmer of red here, a glimpse of green there.

As Rubicante and Driscoll watched in wonder, the darkness in front of them contracted and solidified into a human shape. It took texture and colour, and was finally revealed to be a slim man, about 25 in appearance. He wore an archaic silk shirt and pants, both solid black, and his long silver hair hung inches past his shoulders. He carried a long katana, wrought in black metal, which crackled with bright blue energy. He smiled as he stretched. "My, it feels good to be out of there. That woman had a stronger mind than I anticipated."

"And who do we address now?" Rubicante asked, his flames burning brighter as he anticipated the battle ahead.

"I am known by many names. I have been worshipped as a god, feared as a demon, and have walked among men unknown. Yet I am but a creation, formed by the Void to oversee the task of destroying this imperfection and returning the Void to it's natural state. And for this purpose, I needed no name, and thus I do not have one. But some beings, particularly a group that has always had close ties with the Creator..." And with this, he gazed up at the Crystal, where Yume was still working to repair the damage. "...they call me the Shapeshifter."

Yume had listened to the entire battle unfold, silently cursing herself for not being able to help. But now she turned, keeping only one hand on the Crystal to steady it. "T-the Shapeshifter? YOU are the Shapeshifter?"

"Yes, my dear Yume, I am. The big 'bogeyman' of the Eternal society. I tried to prevent your birth long ago, but at that I failed. But this time, your precious Saint isn't here to save you... or is he?" He glanced over his shoulder, and that was the first time that the Goddess or the two warriors had noticed the white-haired man standing there. The Shapeshifter turned to face Yume's guardian. "Well, there he is now! Hello, Saint! Long time, no see!"

Yume gasped. "Saint... you're here..."

Saint pulled out his sword. "Ahh, but I was hoping that it would be a much longer time until I saw you again. Somewhere more in the vicinity of never would have been far preferable."

"Oh, Saint, surely you jest! Didn't you miss me?" The Shapeshifter raised his sword and took a stance. "Come on. How about one last battle, for old time's sake?" He leapt forward suddenly, but Saint countered him, and the battle was joined.

Driscoll and Rubicante looked on in awe as the swordfight took place. Damn... thought Driscoll. [/i]And I thought the battle between Rubicante and me was fierce...[/i] Even Yume, herself skilled at wielding the blade, marveled at the finesse and skill of Saint and his opponent. At the same time, she was filled with a deep dread.

The battle had continued for a few minutes, and Saint had begun to slow down a bit. "What's the matter, Saint? I thought the Eternals were, well, eternal. I didn't think that you would age so quickly, or at all, even." The Shapeshifter grinned.

Saint pushed himself harder. "You know... as well as I do... that that lifespan of... the Eternals... is a blessing of the Creator... Until Yume enters her full power... that blessing will not manifest itself..."

The Shapeshifter chuckled. "So I see. Your reflexes have slowed, your timing is off, you are getting tired far too quickly, and..." He ducked under a slash from Saint's sword, and stuck his own katana deep into the Guardian's chest. "...your defences have become a joke." He watched as the light in Saint's eyes faded, and then withdrew his blade, letting the body slump to the ground. "Goodbye, Sigma. It's been fun."

"NOOOOOO!" The Shapeshifter reeled forward as Yume launched herself into him. He quickly got up to defend himself, but fire raced across his belly as the enraged Goddess pulled out her katana and violently eviscerated him. Clutching his stomach, he staggered back a few steps.

"Saint..." Yume knelt next to the fallen body of the man who had been like a father to her. "Oh, Saint, don't leave me... I still need you..." She placed her hands on him, and concentrated, tears running down her face. "Saint, come back to me!"

Suddenly, the Crystal Realm began to shake. Pieces of crystal began to break off of the various platforms and structures, and the Crystal's light was starting to fade. "Yume!" Rubicante called out. "Your power is needed to save this reality! Let us tend to Saint!"

"No... Only I can help him... He's all that matters now..." Yume appeared to be lost in a deep trance.

Driscoll groaned. "Great. This reality is going to bite it, and we're all going to die, and I have no idea what we can do to prevent it!"

"You can do nothing." The two contestants turned back towards the Shapeshifter. The gash in his middle appeared to be gone, and he seemed to be as powerful as ever. "We're just going to sit here while this reality falls. And then you'll get to visit MY home... until, of course, your atoms are ripped apart by the forces of the nether."

Driscoll looked at Rubicante, who nodded at him. "Well, I don't exactly feel like sitting around and waiting for the world to end. Mind if we send you home first?"

Rubicante blazed brightly, his anger fueling his flames. "I must agree with the Commander. There is far more honour in losing one's life in battle than there is in waiting for this reality to crumble. Stand your ready, minion of the void."

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Third Phase (Bishounen) has now begun.

Well, reality is now falling apart, both in the Crystal Realm and Memoria. For our finalists, remember that Yume is completely inaccessible right now; she's suffering from a trance combined with catatonia. Your only concern is the bishounen warrior that you now face.

Memoria folk, you should note that Julius sacrificed himself to close the portal to the Void. Good thing, too; the moment any of you stepped into the Void, you would have been ripped atom from atom. In other words... STOP TRYING TO GET INTO THE VOID!!! Cirrus, this means YOU!

Oh, and this round ends at 5:00 PM MST, Saturday afternoon. That's 12:00 AM Saturday night for our British finalists.


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~ I am you, and you are me ~ This defies reality ~ Whether this is false or true ~ You are me, and I am you ~
Rurouni Taikai: The Eternal Dream ~ The Massive Insanity Has Begun! ~ Now, Cross Your Fingers And Hope For The Best!

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