Yuki and NorikoNoriko: 4
Yuki: 2, Hyper[4]
The Black Beast: 6
Darting across the beast's front, Noriko releases her remaining spears. The jab, she can't stop but she can disrupt it, rob it of its power. The first drives through the metallic arm with a horrible grinding screech, the second rushes upwards a ballistic uppercut, driving its bladed head up right behind the jackal's chin, through their lower jaw, through their mouth, and through their damn fucking brain. Try that breath now, asshole.
The impacts should have forced it back. The spear sticking through their arm should have slowed their punch. The spear through their jaw, through their fucking brain should have given it at least some pause. But it doesn't. Its breath continues charging. Its fist continues its path. And in the span of the next split second Yuki finds herself getting thrown across the the length of the platform, civilians running for cover, even diving off the platform to escape the carnage. Flipping through the air, she self-proclaimed goddess jams her Regalia into the ground and re-engages her shields, her wounds closing in preparation for what was yet to come. She's not the only one hurt - her foe's hand has been split apart.
Goddamnit. God fucking damn it. The bastard just won't fucking die! Sweeping through the air Noriko crashes into the beast's side, the air solidifying around her feet as her flight turns into a flying kick right into the first spear. The wind compresses and rushes forward driving the spear deeper, but they don't just stop there, they drive themselves around the spear into the wound, through the wound and into the beast's body, into their black fucking heart.
The ghastly gale blows through its body, a mad zephyr spear through its throat. In it Noriko can hear twisted dispassionate screams, the deafening whispers of a mad god.
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And then comes the beam.
The platform, the ground, the very air around Yuki. It becomes everything. It becomes nothing. But in the end, Yuki is still standing, her chainsaw revving, that crazed smile on her face.
The beast changes targets now, going for Noriiko now, a fact that it announces by appearing right behind her, energy crackling around its newly formed arm, an arm twisted together from flesh and tree trunks. It's going to try and pummel her into the ground now, how creative.
Noriko
Status: Fine
World Line: 1 5 6 1 5 4 5 2 2 6
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 3
Yuki
Status: Hurt
World Line: 3 3 2 3 2 5 2 6 6 2
Alterations: 0.5
Resolve: 3
The Black Beast
Details: Teleporting behind Noriko to try and pummel her
Status: Very angry, Noriko's spears are lodged in its side, in its cybernetic arm, and through its head, internals have been sliced by blades of wind. Cybernetic hand has been split apart.
I'd suggest something a little more lethal, something that will make the whole bodypart replacement process a lot harder.
She tosses you a healing potion.
"There's ways of speeding it up, you'll have to show me how it work though!"MinatoMinato: 6, Hyper[5]
Thousand-Faced Bodhisattva: 5, Hyper[3]
The gates open. Light and leylines, whispers and legends, some forgotten, some yet to be written.
Eight forgeries remain.
Beams crash against your shield, the rest circling around. You wait wait till you can feel the heat against you, hear the crackling in your ear. Then, you launch forwards, driving your shield through the swarm.
Six forgeries remain.
You blast through the beams, and like a swarm of murderous hornets their brethren spin around collapsing back towards you. A third blast gives them pause for thought.
Five forgeries remain.
You decelerate quickly, Rho Ais may be strong but it as shit ain't aerodynamic. The swarm closes in once more. Fine, you drop another blast in.
Four forgeries remain.
The target's almost in range. Two forgeries are reserved to dive down, another two for close quarters combat. You'll need them too - the Bodhisattva's sporting two new arms. Might not be bad trading them blow for blow. Maybe, guy might have more tricks up their sleeves. In that case you'll still have your shield, your bow, and your fists. Anything beyond that is another gate, or perhaps it's time to-
Wait, what is that? What the fuck is that?
The five pillars rush up from the ground, closing inwards around you, and in that moment you see they are not pillars but fingers, fingers from a giant metallic hand, a hand now trying to wrap around you, trying to crush you, to break you.
Minato
Status: Fine, Rho Aias (charred and cracked), Gandiva, 4 stockpiled units, 5 healing potions
World Line: 2 1 6 2 2 5 2 4 5 6
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 2
Thousand-Faced Bodhisattva
Status: Fine
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Topic: Tengoku no Owari SI IC: Yuki Is (Not) Fine (Read 226599 times)