Kanade springs into action first, rushing over to her friend and presently comrade, making her way over the short distance in but a single graceful bound. She stops by Mijimeki --burnt, but resolute-- and she puts her hands near him. Her ethereally beautiful Persona is summoned, and Kanade pours a bit of her willpower into magic, a healing Dia spell that flows into Mijimeki, causing him to stand a bit straighter, not to mention be rather less singed.
58 HP restored!That boost in energy plays immediately in Mijimeki's favor, as he springs forth, feet pounding against the concrete of the abandoned parking garage as he winds his arm backwards to deliver a punch, closing quickly on the (now even more) horribly battered and shattered bird. His arm reaches the zenith of its pull backwards even as he finishes closing the distance to his fire-lobbing enemy... and as he throws his fist, his Persona appears and mimics the action, a double punch connecting with the raven, an enraged blow to the chest from Mijimeki's fist... and a
significantly more effective heavy grey fist to the beak courtesy of Frankenstein. The bird reels backwards, its beak
bent by the attack, causing the bloodcurdling scream it lets out (which just sounds like the scream of a human girl much more than it does a bird now) to be distorted. But though it has been positively ruined, the bird isn't dead.
Mijimeki brings the Raven to the brink of death!At first Aoi adopts a defensive posture and braces herself -- she has been hit with fireball after fireball, burned seared singed and charred, and she fully expected to be hit again. But when no attack was forthcoming, it rapidly became clear that now was her opportunity to strike, while the Raven was still battered and stunned by the blow, to
end the damned thing. So she charges, and the cloaked figure of her Persona appears -- not to stay from afar and cast magic at it, but to float over and wrap its arm around the bird's neck. Faust isn't terribly strong, but it doesn't need to be -- in its current state, the Raven is scarcely capable of struggling. It turns and essentially
throws the Raven, a Bufu following shortly after the tumbling bird -- Aoi had intended to aim at the ground, but ends up nailing the bird, which spasms mightily as the icy projectile impacts it and with a horrible scream begins to... melt.
Aoi defeats the Raven!
Kanade Akiyama: 24
Mijimeki Genmutsu: 17
Aoi Tachibana: 13
Smashed Raven: 7
Players:
HP: 66/110
SP: 15/65
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Ice
Weapon: Thin-Knuckled Gloves (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Bufu (6 SP): Deal light Ice damage to one enemy. Magical.
Tarukaja (12 SP): Boost an ally's attack's by 1.5x the damage! Lasts three turns. Does not stack.
HP: 99/140
SP: 9/45
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Fire
Weapon: Low-Caliber Pistol (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Moves: Bash (5% HP/7 HP): Deal light Physical damage.
Zio (6 SP): Deal light Electric damage.
Staggered!
Tarukaja 2/3
HP: 65/90
SP: 22/60
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Thunder
Weapon: Half-Naginata (x.66 base attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Dia (5 SP): Heals from 55-65 HP.
Agi (6 SP): Deals light Fire damage. Magical.
Enemies:
HP: Defeated
Weaknesses: Ice
Resistances: Null Fire
Moves: Agi, Maragi, White Wall
1x Soul Drop (restores 10 MP)
Its form gets smaller and smaller as it tumbles, a layer of thick black goo marking what remained of its smashed body. But the most notable thing about this is what finally comes rolling to a stop next to the corner at the end of the administrative hallway of the garage, the corner the supplies had been thrown from midbattle. As the Raven finally stops melting, what is left in its place is a girl, around the age of the three Persona-users, with a slim and graceful figure. She doesn't appear to be wearing much of anything, but her modesty is preserved by a thick layer of the jet-colored sludge, which appears to be a bit thinner around her head and face, allowing the three to see her long, black hair.
Stepping from around the corner is a figure clad in all grey, cloaked, its step a hobble -- the Grey Shade that had kidnapped Kanade, and that Mijimeki and Aoi had been pursuing. It falls to a knee as it gazes upon the girl left over from the Raven, and then more slowly to the other. Hesitantly, it extends a hand to the girl's face, and brushes off the goo on it, staring at her unconscious visage for a few seconds, remaining stock still. Then, slowly, it swivels its head towards the group, and seemingly making a decision it braces its good leg against the floor, and with a baritone and decidedly masculine grunt, it
pushes, pulling the girl from the goo around her with a plop. Then, before he can be caught by the group, he pulls out some sort of cylindrical device, presses a couple of buttons on it, and disappears with a blue flash, the girl disappearing with him.
The group are left dirty and singed (especially Aoi) as well as exhausted (especially Mijimeki), their clothes burned and damaged (especially Aoi's, again, which she is going to have to throw away). Now that the battle has ended, their quarry has escaped, now that the three have been reunited, the adrenaline begins to wear off, and they're left tired in a parking garage side hallway with a large puddle of black goo on the floor, which is slowly disappearing into red and black motes which fade away in the air. They can see the outline of some items (some large some small) being revealed under the slowly melting goo, but other than that they're alone. No other monsters spring out to "greet" them, nor people to greet them.
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Topic: Persona: Ruins, IC: Return to Normalcy, Once Again (Read 27829 times)