"If we get the transient facts, then we'll feel the info high..."The mysterious Mirager manages to wrench herself to her feet and parries Misaki's initial attack with practiced efficiency, stepping back to avoid Miyuki's attacks. Her style is robotic, inhuman; the movements do not come to her naturally, but as if they have been downloaded into her and executed like a program. Despite Miyuki and Misaki's voices raising in response to their emotions and power, the Mirager's voice stays level, light and airy, as if none of this bothers her.
Despite Miyuki and Misaki's Mirages working in tandem, and Hikari having reversed the effects of the Mirager's odd waves, the odds are still against them. Misaki can barely get a blow in edgewise, Moralltach just about managing to hold off the unknown Mirage. Miyuki, meanwhile, barely manages to outpace the Mirager; her speed is just enough to allow her to keep ahead, but the Mirager's reflexes are swift enough to allow her to, while not evade the blows, parry them, or move to rob them of their already limited force. Hikari manages to shoot a beam out to assist the sisters, her song still echoing through the area, but the Mirager manages to spawn a rift to reflect the blast back at her, which Tsubasa manages to evade with a yelp.
After a few more seconds, the Mirager pushes away from Miyuki and Misaki, somersaulting away to open the space between her and the twins. She sweeps her Mirage out to the side, as segments begin to open up with a white glow, revealing the true shape of it to be a whip sword, similar to Haruka's Dyrnwyn.
"Neutralising targets. Unleashing Banishing Blade."She runs at the duo, sweeping her Mirage from side to side, the Mirage's length expanding to cover the entire area. Nowhere to hide, nowhere to evade. This was a plaza with only small trees, benches, lampposts and trash cans. Nothing that could take such an overwhelming attack.
They were caught like a rat in a trap, and this was-
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"The hell you will! We are one! Shinjiteitai YO!"Azusa once more interposes herself between the Mirager and her junior allies, Aymr gleaming bright with flames as she smashes it into the ground with a fearsome roar. Flaming replicas of Aymr erupt from the ground, intercepting the Mirager's blades with her as the blades bounce harmlessly off the flaming copies of Azusa's Mirage. The flaming copies summon themselves in a circle around Miyuki and Misaki, shielding them from the worst of the Mirager's attack. Azusa continues her charge, swinging Aymr in a half-circle in front of her to catch the Mirager's sword before it can retract to normal size, pinning it down to the floor.
The unknown Mirager and Azusa glare at each other through the chaos, their unleashed attacks having countered the other's, as the plaza they are standing in is set ablaze by Azusa's Mirage, the light of Azusa's flames drowning out the faint purple glow of the black Mirager's unholy gleam. The others can see the distant glint of cameraphones, presumably those who have escaped the earlier attack having noticed the fight.
At last, the unknown Mirager jerks her arm back, the exertion managing to dislodge her Mirage. She scans Azusa briefly, and for the first time in the entire fight, her expression changes from a placid, emotionless neutral pursed lip, to a frown.
"Mirager power level...exceeds known limit. "Aymr" threat level deemed extreme."
"Heh. It better be."The Mirager prepares to continue combat, but a yell from Haruka distracts her, as Dyrnwyn hurtles out from the side to slash at her, the Mirager just about managing to parry the blow.
"Kumon! Don't overdo it! I-!"Haruka pauses, with the Mirager also stopping, as their Mirages make contact with each other. Her eyes widen as she pulls her blade back.
A brief pulse can be felt emanating from the area where both swords contact, and both Miragers pull their weapons back, staring at them in obvious befuddlement.
"What the...how did..." "...Resonance detected." "...No. Can't do this."Before anyone else can speak, the Mirager slashes through the air again, forming a rift and stepping through it, the rift closing behind her before anyone can follow. Haruka steps forward, staring at her blade in confusion. Tsubasa and Hikari land nearby.
"Shirokawa-senpai, are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"...yeah, I just...that was weird."Haruka nods, still staring at Dyrnwyn in bewilderment. Azusa snorts in disbelief, leaning on Aymr and using it as a support as the copies of Aymr fade away into ash.
"Well...that was a bust."She looks at Miyuki and Misaki.
"Mukawa senior, Mukawa junior, ya did good. Honestly couldn't have done it without you. Shame she got away...but can't win everything, huh?"
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Topic: FEF: MegaMirager IC Thread Chapter 2: Shocking Debut (IC Thread) (Read 37693 times)