Desert Dragon, page 39
Sofia: *She smirked evil-like, watching the fire burn around the shield.* "Too easy."
Millard: "The shield's too strong." *He clicked his fingers, causing the fire to splinter away.*
Sofia: (Moonlight Reflection is the stage above a mastered Mystic Shield.. Not even a Consultant can break this!) *She licked her lips in a confident-like manner.* (But it exhausts a lot of your stamina.. And to win the game, you need to distribute it in a smartly manner-)
*Sofia grinned evil-like, watching the wall-like shield fade away with a divine swirl-like noise.*
Alicia: (Did she say Radiatons?)
Lance: (What can I do?) *He had a flashback of splashing water in Zayden's face.* "Shit, I'm actually usin' my head?"
Alicia: "Lance?"
Lance: "Bitchface, use a strong ice Rostickal around them-" *He pointed at Sofia and Zephyr like a child.* "And, Millard, use your fire 'round the ice."
Millard: "Of course, child. I'm always up for new ideas."
Alicia: "O-Okay." *She closed her eyes, cupping her hands.* (When Locki activated my pendant's power, several incantations came into mind.)
Zephyr: "Th-Thank you, Sofia."
Alicia: (Also Millard's glyph is giving me heaps of energy.)
Sofia: *She puffed in boredom, watching her shield shatter like glass.* "Get them now, 'kay, Zephyr?"
Zephyr: "Yes!" *He reached over his shoulder, unsheathing another purple-green arrow.*
Alicia: "Frostic stars, rain forth-" *A dark blue glyph shined underneath her, as a ring of ice pebbles swirled around Sofia and Zephyr.*
Sofia: "Harh?" *She looked down at the swirling ring of ice pebbles.* "Trying to raise the level?"
Alicia: "FRIGID STORM" *She raised her arm, causing the ice to blast up in a tornado-like manner.*
Sofia: (Tee hee, it's like we're stuck in a prison.) *She giggled and reached out, watching the ice cut her finger.*
Lance: (That's like Millard's Flaming Wheel-)
Millard: "Scorching screeches, hurdling down, miserable heat, FLAMING BLAZE"
*Fire ignited on the ground and suddenly ringed around Sofia and Zephyr, instantly melting the ice.*
Zephyr: "What are they doing?" *He watched a twirl of water sway around him, as sweat dripped off his face.*
Sofia: (Hopefully a killer combo?)
Zephyr: "Sofia, I-I don't feel comfortable-"
Sofia: "Shut up, I'll make sure nothing happens to you."
Zephyr: "A-Alright." *He nodded his head, pulling the string back.*
Sofia: (But I don't have a cheat system, so you'll be excellent fodder material.) *She discreetly smirked, sticking her tongue out evil-like.*
Zephyr: "Harh!" *He flicked the string, blasting the screeching arrow at Millard.*
Alicia: "ICICLE EDGE" *She jumped up and dropped her arm, blasting an ice spear in front of Millard.*
Millard: *He watched the arrow instantly shatter the ice spear to pieces.* "Excellent work, Alicia."
Zephyr: *He glanced at the glittering ice, watching his arrow fly past Millard.* (She altered the course of my arrow-)
Sofia: "Stop thinking and get out another one." *She grunted in a stern voice, rolling her eyes.*
Zephyr: "Y-Yes." *He nervously stuttered, unsheathing another arrow covered in sparks.*
Lance: "My throat, I feel like I'm going to vomit."
Millard: "No, accept it. Your body is trying to learn something new-"
Sofia: "If I was an archer, I'd try to shoot an arrow as fast as I could." *She spoke in a condescending manner, tugging on Zephyr's shoulder.*
Zephyr: *He struggled to focus.* (My eyes can't-) "The heat of this fire."
Lance: "Lightning strike both sides-" *He lifted his arms and crossed them, causing wing-like streams of electricity to spark on each side.*
Millard: (Unfortunately I'm almost at my limit-)
Lance: "Flashing and flowing, call upon the secrets-" *He twirled his body and red lightning spiralled around him.*
Alicia: (Th-The lightning's red, I've never seen it in that colour before.)
Millard: *He took several steps back, as the lightning grew in size.* (A new Remenistal?)
Lance: "Summon the beast of roaring thunder-" *He stopped and crossed his arms above his head, causing the lightning to become static.*
Sofia: (The lightning around the man has stopped, and his Neurons have increased? He's about to use it-) *She squinted her eyes with anticipation, smirking with excitement.*
Lance: *He jumped on one foot forward and pointed at Zephyr.* "DRAGON'S BREATH"
*A red thick tornado-like swirl of lightning roared towards Zephyr and Sofia, taking shape of a dragon's head.*
Zephyr: *He gasped in shock, lowering his bow.* "Sofia!-"
Sofia: "Nice, but it's incomplete. You can break it with an arrow of yours." *She smirked, talking without worry.*
Zephyr: (Hope Sofia's right, that Rostical looks devastating-) *He flicked the bow and shot an arrow at blinding speeds, breaking the lightning's momentum.*
Millard: (Dragon's Breath? What a powerful Remenistal to know in your move pool-) *He watched scattered streams of lightning string in the air.*
Zephyr: "Ha, I did it?"
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Karol: "D-Dhid you hear that rawr?!" *He squealed in shock, as he continued to run with the guild.*
Lezard: (What is happening over there?!)
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Lance: *He dropped to one knee, as the arrow screeched past him.* "Th-That lightning? What the freakin' shit nuggets was that?!"
Sofia: "Oh well, all that hype for a lousy incomplete-" *She watched the sparks fall to the ground, causing her to notice the water under her feet.* "Nicely done! Yee harh!" *She giggled in excitement, jumping up into the air.*
Zephyr: "Sof-?" *His body violently twitched, as electricity streamed in between his limbs.*
Millard: (What a smart boy-)
Lance: *He took a deep breath and collapsed onto the ground.* (My face, fingers, hands, arms! Everywhere hurts-) *His body twitched and his hairs stood up, due to the static.*
Sofia: *She landed next to Zephyr, staring at the party with an evil smirk.* "Tee hee."
Alicia: *She ran over to Lance, helping him up.* (His body is covered in burns.)
Millard: *He hobbled up to Lance and Alicia, shaking his head in amazement.* "Good work, child."
Alicia: *She watched blood drip on to the ground.* "Millard, you're losing a lot of blood-"
Millard: *He shook his head, glancing at Sofia.* "If there was only a way to boost my power furthermore. I could finish them off with a powerful Remenistal."
Lance: *He stared at the numerous arrows in Millard's body.* (How can Millard stand?) *He thought in respect.*
Alicia: *She placed her hands over Lance, causing rings of white light to spiral around him.* "HEALING RINGS"
Lance: "W-What about that?" *He grunted, pointing at the self-inflicting glyph.*
Millard: "Unfortunately, I'm already using its strongest level."
Alicia: "I-I don't know any other way to boost Rostical with what we got."
Lance: (A way to boost a Rostickal?) *He gasped in pain, due to the burns which covered his body.*
Sofia: *She bent down, inspecting Zephyr with a bored expression.* "Number four, you care to wake up?"
Lance: (Boost? Wait a minute-) *He had a flashback of when he helped Season prepare for Battling Oxident.* "Millard!"
Millard: "W-What is it?" *He coughed out blood, taking the opportunity to catch his breath.*
Lance: "I got another idea."
Alicia: "W-What is it?"
Lance: "Help me stand next to Millard." *He grunted in pain, ignoring the rings of light which spiralled around him.*
Alicia: "Y-Yep-"
Sofia: "I said, wake up." *She slapped Zephyr on the face and giggled.*
Lance: "Do you have something to cut with?"
Millard: (I hate to say, but I've underestimated Lance's intelligence-) *He gave Lance a blade which was concealed in his robes, looking at Zephyr and Sofia.*
Lance: "Trust me, Millard."
Millard: "S-Sure?"
Lance: (I remember exactly what it looks like.) *He lightly carved lines on Millard's arm.*
Millard: *He squinted his eyes in pain, looking at the lines in confusion.* (A glyph?)
Alicia: (What is he doing?)
Millard: *He watched the glyph glow, causing him to chuckle in amazement.* "As soon as Lance connected the last line, the glyph instantly glowed on his arm."
Lance: "Really, at a time like this-?"
Millard: "This power?" *He straightened his back, facing Sofia and Zephyr with confidence.* (Using the glyph that boosts the spectator's announcements and drawing it on me?)
Alicia: (He's standing up like that despite his wounds-?)
Millard: (I can recalculate the formula so the glyph works on me, but an average person wouldn't be able to use this.)
Lance: (I hope it worked-)
Millard: "Untouchable flames, splinter from the divine spirit, burning courage engrave my immense power, scorch thout foe-"
*Black fire swirled underneath Millard and twirled up, blasting Lance back.*
Millard: *Dirt swirled around him, as he focused all his attention on Sofia.* "PHOENIX BLASTER"
Zephyr: "A-Ah?" *He moaned into consciousness, looking up to Sofia.*
Sofia: "Great, you're awake."
Zephyr: *He slowly stood up oblivious to his surroundings.* "W-What happened?" *He rubbed his head, facing Sofia in confusion.*
Sofia: "We defeated the opponents, our mission is completed."
Zephyr: "E-Excellent." *He smirked with accomplishment, holding his arm in pain.*
Millard: *He pushed forward, blasting an enormous black phoenix at Sofia.* "At this level, nothing could survive it." *He spoke with killing intentions, watching the phoenix screech towards her.*
Zephyr: "Did you hear that?" *He turned around, startled, noticing the air warp around the black flames.* "N-No!-" *He leant to the side, preparing to flashstep out of the way.*
Sofia: "Actually-" *She grabbed Zephyr's shoulder, holding him in front of her.*
Zephyr: "What are you-?"
*The phoenix dived on top of Zephyr and Sofia, suddenly blasting them high up into the air.*
Lance: *He looked up, watching the phoenix flap its wings.* "Whoa-"
*An enormous bomb-like explosion of black flames, rippled the air.*
Millard: "Harh!" *He pushed down, blasting the black flames into the ground, causing another explosion.*
Alicia: *She rocked to each side, as spurts of black fire stringed out of the ground.* "A-Amazing."
Sofia: *The straps tying her hair together, snapped off in the fire.* (Haheahe, this is fantastic!) *She giggled, watching her skin burn.*
Millard: *He leant forward, watching the black flames extinguish into swirls of fire.* "Done."
Alicia: "I-It's over?" *She lowered her arms, watching splinters of black fire scatter across the village.*
Lance: "W-Wicked-"
Millard: "What?!" *He gasped in disbelief, staring in front.*
Lance: "What, wat?!"
Millard: "You survived?"
Sofia: "Yup." *She giggled, throwing a black human silhouette of Zephyr onto the ground.* "Thanks, Zephyr."
Millard: "What a heartless monster!-"
Sofia: "Heartless? I'm doing this for love." *She frowned and coughed out smoke, holding her chest in pain.* (Despite using Zephyr as a shield, the Rostical still damaged me to this extent-?)
Lance: (That was incredible!-)
Millard: "For love? A monster can't-"
Sofia: "Don't call me a monster-" *She watched Zephyr's body crumble to pieces, noticing a layer of glass on the ground.* "It was just game over for him-"
Kath: "Sofia, stand down." *She walked out of the wooden hut and staggered towards Millard, staring at Sofia.*
Sofia: "Umm, no thanks."
Kath: "Excuse me? Failure to listen to-"
Sofia: "Oh, you really bore me." *She closed her eyes and smirked.*
Alicia: *She stared at Sofia, causing her to shiver.* (Something about that woman-)
Sofia: *She opened her eyes, staring at the party with shining gold eyes.* "Judging by your looks, you've ran out of continues?"
Kath: "G-Gold? I had no idea, you were hiding this from me?"
Millard: "You're one of them?!"
Lance: "One of what-?"
Sofia: *She took a step forward, reaching towards her waist.* "Now, it's time for me to kill the Consultants themselves-"
Kath: *She shook her head, facing Millard.* "I've still got enough power."
Millard: "For what?"
Kath: "You know, the strongest fire based Remenistal."
Millard: "But our wounds-"
Alicia: *She shook her head, cupping her hands.* "HEALING RINGS" *She swayed her arms around Kath and Millard, causing rings of light to spiral around them.*
Kath: "Are you ready-?"
Sofia: "Ready for what? It's been a real drag following your orders, Kathalestel."
Millard: "Show her respect!-"
Sofia: "Nah." *She stepped to the side and pulled her arm forward, causing a line of sparks to scatter around her whip.*
Millard: "I'm ready."
Sofia: *She flicked her wrist, violently whipping the air.* "I'll start with the Radiaton girl, then-"
Millard and Kath: "Hi-Ougi."
Alicia: "W-What-?!" *She stepped back in shock, causing the rings of light to dissipate.*
Lance: "A-Aye-?"
Sofia: "Hi-Ougi?!"
Millard and Kath: "O' fiery spirits feel our power and awaken-"
Lance: *He watched the light fade, causing the area to become dark as night.* (Everything is pitch black-?)
Millard and Kath: "Sacrificial glyphs form and spiral, open the gates to the Astral plains-"
Alicia: *She watched enormous bright red glyphs spiral in the air.* (There's glyphs everywhere? Is this even a Rostical? Is this even happening?!)
Millard and Kath: "Show us, prove to us that the legends are true!-"
*Large star-like twinkles flashed in the sky, causing everyone to look up.*
Millard and Kath: "Dark flames cover the skies, rain down and bring forth your total destruction!"
Sofia: *She gasped with widening eyes.* "I'm not a fool!" *She formed fists and puffed out her chest, blasting two sets of fluoro white aura-like wings out of her back.*
Millard and Kath: "METEOR SWARM"
*The twinkles in the sky, blasted down at blinding speeds, exploding into tower sized spheres of scorching flames.*
Lance: "..." *He stood on the spot, frozen in disbelief, watching meteors rain down around him.*
Sofia: *She turned around and blasted high into the sky, avoiding the falling meteors.* (This is crazy, I can't believe it! I'm not ready for a game over!)
Alicia: *She spun around, staring at a forest of flames.* (Fire is everywhere?! Is this the power of the Consultants?!)
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Lezard: *He stepped onto a dirt path and looked into the distance, watching meteors rain down.* "What is-?"
Luna: "The fuck is that fuckin' fuck?!" *She screamed in disbelief and readied to run the other way.* "We gotta run!"
Rachael: "Luna!"
Luna: *She squirmed out of Rachael's grip and attempted to run away.* "It's meteors! We're gonna-"
Nathan: *He caught Luna in his arms.* "It's Rostical.. We're fine."
Luna: *She shivered in shock and slowly leant out of Nathan's arms.* "Th-Them meteors was just a Rostickal?"
Rachael: "There's Rostical that can even summon meteors?" *She whispered to herself in shock.*
Lezard: "Their Remenistal knows no bounds.."
Nathan: "Are you okay?" *He held the side of Luna's face.*
Luna: *She looked away with blushing cheeks and turned around.* "Wateva."
Champion: "Not even I could use such a Rostical, even at my full strength."
Trevour: "For Lezard, let's keep going!"
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Millard and Kath: "Tssk." *They separated hands, causing the area to revert back to normal.*
Lance: *He glanced around the village, shaking his head in confusion.* "The place is damaged, but, from what we saw-"
Kath: "Argh." *She grunted in pain, collapsing to her knees.*
Lance: "Wat about that chick?!"
Millard: "Her power is fading, she's retreating."
Alicia: *She stared at Millard, biting her bottom lip.* (This man has gone through all that, and he can still stand.) "Let me heal you-"
Millard: "No-"
Alicia: "You need to be healed-"
Kath: "Millardestel, my love."
Millard: "Kathalestel." *He smiled, rubbing ash off her chin.*
Kath: "M-Millardestel, please. I won't be able to control my actions."
Millard: "I know-" *He looked away, coughing up blood.*
Alicia: "Millard, I have to heal-"
Millard: *He shook his head.* "No-"
Lance: "Please, Millard. If you won't do it for the stinky bitch, then do it for me."
Millard: (Lance?)
Kath: "The robed woman, he's released her."
Millard: *He gasped, looking at Kath in shock.* "You don't mean-?"
Kath: "Yes."
Millard: "I feel horrible leaving these children to deal with her."
Kath: "We should've retired a long time ago." *She smiled, staring into Millard's eyes.*
Millard: "I see your point."
Lance: "Who?"
Alicia: "What?"
Millard: "Children, step away."
Lance: "Why?"
Millard: "Now, children!"
Kath: *She closed her eyes and smiled.* "Finally." *She rubbed her cracked glasses, slowly opening her eyes.*
Millard: "I've saved this for you. Once when you had your Radiatons, I learnt this technique from a Sacred Knight."
Kath: "My love-"
Lance: *He shook his head with confusion and impatience.* "Why won't you let her heal you?!"
Millard: "It's too late, my tale's coming to an end."
Alicia: "D-Don't talk like that-"
Millard: "If I start to relax, the internal bleeding will kill me. If I wait, then the self-inflicting glyph will exhaust my body."
Alicia: "N-No."
