A Tale Of Magik

[Zoey]

Raleighs wounds would heal slower than usual and he would also notice it took way more power than it should to overtake Lucy's hellfire.

Lucy would feel discomfort from Dacts attack. It wasn't nearly that powerful to inflict serious damage on the beserking demon. For Lucy now in her rage filled mind seeing Dact now attacking her would make her even more pissed off. So that means Rai AND Dact are in league with each other!

Mima blinks. "Woah... so... whos gonna combine with who?" she asks as she looks at the artifacts.

[Blaze]

"Hmm... we only get one shot at this. I think Logos should go, being the only one of use likely to be able to keep up with Lucy." Blaze says.

"You should do it too Mima. Your powers are the only one that still work." Okuni adds.

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Lucy ignores Raleigh after the hellfire shoryuken he just took and glares at Dact. In an instant, she's before him, trying to slam her head into his!

[Raleigh]

*Taking advantage of Lucy's shift in focus, he reaches into one of his pockets and pulls out a beaker.* Tch, this is beginning to annoy me. *He drinks the megaelixir in order to restore his full power and health.*

[Knight Errant]

Dact blinks as the attention shifts. "Oi... can you tell me whats goin on-OH HELLS!"

He says as she is suddenly in his face! He ducks to the side to avoid the headbutt, kicking off from the rooftop to try to tackle and pin her! "Oi demonpants! Calm down allready!"

[Raleigh]

Knights always managing to get themselves in trouble. *He swings out his left hand and twists the wrist before bringing the hand up. Sliding out of the sleeve a silver cross flows up and into his hand. He tosses it almost negligently into the air where it begins to fall and reveal its actually five crosses. After a moment though each of them ignite forming into a holy energy sword focused through the crosses and start to float and take position around himself.* Let us see if I need these. If magic isn't going to be the way to go I suppose I'll start using my artifacts instead.

[Zoey]

Dact would notice that colliding with Lucy just moved her. It didn't slam her into another building or anything. In fact, being so close to Lucy would be suffocating in a sense that not only it was hard to breathe but it felt like Dacts own soul was under a burning shower. However the Knight does manage starting a grapple.

Raleigh would notice that the elixir does manage to do its job, but again he feels like there's this continuous small leak from which his power keeps slipping away from him. Its not being drained its just disappearing. Additionally the sword he summons seems to be working as usual.

Mima suddenly sweatdrops. "Umm... you sure? I...Ive never tried something like this before... Are you sure?" o.o;; says Mima obviously a bit worried as she cutely twirls some of her hair in her finger.

[Raleigh]

Yo, Dact, need some help?

[Blaze]

"Yes I am. We have only one shot at this, we need to be careful. Of course, if you do not want to, it is understandable." Logos says to Mima

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Lucy snarls right in Dact's face and starts moving her hands to his face, her long nails poised to go for the eyes!

[Knight Errant]

"If you can come up with something really clever to incapacitate her while her attention is on me, nows the time!" He says to Raleigh, as he grimaces and grabs Lucy's arms with his own, weathering her withering and oppressive aura.

Now in her face, he sees if yelling louder at her will have any effect! "Lucy! I'm not your enemy! Calm down!" He could try shocking or headbutting her... but... he dosent want to hurt her. A sentiment she seems to not share at the moment.

[Raleigh]

Of course. *The five blades shoot off form their orbits around himself and attempt to pin in Lucy by forming a circle around her. As each of the points stab into the ground a magic circle forms complete with a pentacle with each point being attached to the blades edges.* Close Hell's Gate. *The swords flare in an attempt to pacify and tone down demonic energies. Even as this is happening Raleigh reaches into another pocket and pulls out an odd looking prismatic sphere.*

[Zoey]

Mima shakes her head, collecting all her courage. "No... your right. It seems the battle upside is still raging. Plus the city cant keep taking much more of this. We need to end it" said the cute magical girl, clenching her fist.

Dact feels as Lucy quickly starts to overpower the knight and his grip slowly starts to falter! However quickly Raleighs attack catches the raging demon off guard and shes pinned! Lucy snarls and starts exerting incredible power, training the seal keeping her in place. Magic lighting ripples around her as that demon red aura flies everywhere in streams. However the magic had pinned her very close to the whole where the exorcists lay. Lucy seeing this whole where in her primal mind she knew her friends had died added more fire to her demonic furnace. Her eyes quickly turned white as she let out an ear shattering shout as the seal Raleigh had used starts to break. The ground beneath her shakes.

Now... in a very deep and dark recess of Lucy's soul. The half-demons sane mind finally comes to. Lucy finds herself waist high in a dark void full of red warm water. Turning around she see's a huge grey and golden hate half open from where the water is slowly coming in. She barely has any memory from before she transformed only having a vague idea what happend to her. However even she could feel huge demonic energies around her... the same she suppressed for years.

[Blaze]

Logos gives a small, approving smile as the magical girl is handed one of the bracelets.

"Put it on." Logos says as she puts on it's opposite

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Lucy groans as she wakes up, rubbing her head as she looks around.

"Urgh... what happened?"

She notices the gate and slowly approaches it.

[Raleigh]

Hm.. *Puts the sphere away.* I don't think I'll be needing that. Overkill really since it seems she is starting to work her way out. Dact, you might want to move though since if she powers through those things they are likely to crack and send shrapnel flying. *Sits back to observe. Really he had to do a lot more than he had expected since he only came along as the transport and distraction for the group..... well that and see if he couldn't learn something interesting from all parties involved.*

[Knight Errant]

Dact is nearly overpowered... then Lucy is caged and such! Nodding at Raleigh and seeing the fury in Lucy's face... Dact gets to his feet and hurries away from her!

[Zoey]

Mima gives the bracelet a confused look, but nods. "Umm... ok..." she says putting it on her right wrist.

As she approaches the gate Lucy can feel something she hasn't felt in a long time... A seal, but just not any ordinary seal. Entering the gateway she see's in the far end a glowing circle with demonic markings of a curse... and standing right in the middle is the figure of a girl...

Meanwhile in the real world Lucy with one mighty yank breaks free of her restraints! A large gust of wind is produced by this infused with a lot of demonic energies shattering the ground and nearby structures. Lucy suddenly is out of sight and Raleigh feels something punch him square in the face before launching him straight through 7 buildings and crashing outside city limits. Lucy appears from where Raleigh stood. Growling, eyes white as her aura became even stronger, a single stream of saliva coming out of her mouth as she turned her attention to Dact. "Kill.... kill..... kill.....".