A Tale Of Magik

[Knight Errant]

The woman swan dives into the water after Dact. He just smirks... clashing her sword with his as his hand crackles with electricity... growing brighter and brighter until.

-Z-z-z-z-z-z-zZZZZZAPP!-

[Zoey]

The woman screeches in pain as Dactylos unleashes the fury on his lightning rune. The woman grits her teeth and jumps back taking her sword with her and slicing an elemental in half as she lands. Her body stems and crackles with some lightning arcs and supports herself with her sword which digs unto the ground. She gasps. "Dirty.... bastard....." she says cringing.

The bunny girl tries to hold a chuckle. "So you actually let your woman, be at another dimension without you... You must be either stupid or what captured you was really strong..." she says turning her head to the side a bit. "I am surprised you didn't use your powers to free yourself or something too... I hope you didn't try to bring her back with some necromancy or the like".

Blaze can't help but cough up a little blood as she skids and falls on the ground. Logos in better condition that poo Okuni though both are hurt and brused. The golem who attacked Blaze comes forth and swats Jean away like a toy and goes for Lucy as it grabs her with both hands. Why not target the weakest link and the one who hasn't done anything? The golems rune shined a bit brightly. Did he enjoy this? The other 2 golems captured the wounded exorcists by first starting to throw them around to further injure and weaken them.

[Blaze]

Blaze whimpered a bit as her mouth filled with the coppery taste of her own blood. Jean yelps as she is punched and goes flying, sliding to a stop and not moving. Logos tries to get back to her feet, but is thrown! She hits the ground awkwardly and a sickening crack is heard as her arm breaks. Lucy is grabbed and struggled as much a sshe could, but since she's just a schoolgirl now it doesn't do much. Okuni seems to be unconscious and doesn't react at all to being thrown

[Knight Errant]

Dact climbs out of the pool, wiping his face a bit. "Whatever, lady. Your the one who started this. Now are you going to play nice? Or do I have to beat you into the ground some more."

[Raleigh]

I would have revived her as easily as I could you should I kill you but sadly I am not allowed to. The constraints that my kind are bound by forbid me from reviving her myself precisely because she was my wife. Those same constraints are why I couldn't come to help her, why I couldn't simply step back in time to stop it, and why I was a human elsewhere at the time. My job never ends after all even if I was married. I have contacted her since then though through a friend of mine and a special wish granting item. I know she isn't mad at me for what happened and that is enough. That and the fact that the leader of those that killed her is bound in eternal unceasing agony atop the highest point in that world forced to watch the developing world without his influence and the knowledge that I slaughtered his entire tribe across the multiverse for his actions. Not by magic by the way. I did that part by hand.

[Zoey]

The bunny girl looks very surprised. "Very vengeful are me? So you are forbidden to revive and time travel, but you are able to slaughter a whole tribe? You are pretty dark... Please tell me. How many innocent woman and children you killed that day? How many men did you leave widowed before you slaughtered them? I'm curious..." she asks her eyes squinting becoming serious.

The woman glares. "N-Never... I'm not gonna stop until you suffer!!!" she exclaims her rune shinning as she stops the ground and produces a... mud ball thing. The woman looks surprised and cringes as she notices her earth is soaked. She drops the ball and just takes her broadsword and backs up keeping an eye on Dactylos.

As the girls lay in pain, Lucy is being crushed. However as she is crushed alive and she grunts, she feels like a small candle inside of her lits up. This weird feeling at the bottom of her belly spread like a warm blanket and the thought of her demise along with her friends fueled it. She felt like her energy was coming back, she only needed to grasp it. The rest of the exorcists suffered. They were being slaughtered and the sound of Logo's whimpers and their friends about to for real die, made Lucy feel frustrated. She had to save them, if not. This was the end.

[Raleigh]

That was a drop in an infinite ocean of innocents slain by my actions though it was the only case of it being of my own choosing. Vengeful I am though which I would never deny. I make it a point to let it be known as such too. Makes for less blood shed in the long run. Dark? I suppose that it was from one point of view. Keep in mind though I'm ancient and as such use those same ideas even in this era. You take my eye and I gouge out that of you and all your descendants kind of nature.

I didn't say I can't revive or time travel. I said I can't in that particular case nor could I use the same to revive my children should they die. Traveling to the past to me is no harder than interacting with you now is. Time has little to no meaning to me.

[Knight Errant]

"You dont even make any sense, lady. I dont know you. But if you persist on this, I'll have to make sure you cant hurt anyone anymore." He nods to his elementals, who begin pounding her with firehose level water pressure!

[Blaze]

Lucy looks over the broken battered forms of her friends and choked back a sob. It couldn't end like this...

It was at that moment she felt the warmth inside her, and how it grew stronger as she worried about her friends. At first, she was worried. Was this her demon side acting up somehow. But as she saw blood trickling down Blaze's chin, she realized she didn't care where it came from and gave herself over to it!

[Zoey]

Lucy's fire began to grow and grow! She... needed... no, she had to. No, she WILL protect her friends! The energy which surged through Lucy somehow felt natural to her, something she had suppressed, but now it flowed through her vains. It was at that moment that the golems arm's began to crack and break as a gust of win started to come out of Lucy! The golems stopped surprised and the exorcists would behold as Lucy started to break free of the golems grasp. Lucy's gritted her teeth as for some reason all now she could think off was... killing, destroying, annihilating those golems. It was then when Lucy completely let herself go, her eyes grew wide, her pupils became large. Her nails sharpened and fangs became very prominent on her mouth. The gust picked up as Lucy was producing a tremendous amount of pure demonic energy. With the roar of a full fledged demon she broke the the golems arms and clenched her hand into a fist and punched the golem so hard it vaporized before it was self backwards almost destroyed the station where they came from. The whole earth trembled at the punch so hard it might have been felt across the city. The train station was filled with this gust that stenched of demon and seemed to almost collapse on itself. The golems being ordered to destroy the girls quickly locked on the last one with power, but for Lucy... This felt so right. The way she destroyed that golem. Yes. It felt right. She had to do it again. For her friends. She will DESTROY THE GOLEMS! ... and savor every freaking moment...

Before the elementals attack the earth shakes in a tremendous shockwave. The chambers roof starts to collapse as stone fell from the roof. Both parties would feel like something for a moment pushed down on their hearts. The woman takes this opening and fresh rock to send spires and destroy the water elementals as the room starts to break apart and collapse. "What are you doing?! You to kill us both?!".

"For all your talk about being such a powerful being, all I still see in front of me is nothing more than an arrogant man which thinks he can do anything he pleases. It'll be the day when you learn the hard way that power can be-...." she says before cutting off as her eyes widen a bit. It was like someone put the stop button on her, but after a few seconds a small grin came across her face. Which of course she tried to hide. It was at that time the ground way beneath them shook. "I'm sorry... Got distracted there for a second by something..." she says adjusting her hoodie. " Where did I leave again?" she said now looking more cheery.

[Raleigh]

Somewhere around the usual pointless drivel of how I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm merely another little flesh puppet like the rest of you, I have no idea what true power is and will one day get my inevitable comeuppance, and that I'm delusional I think. It always amuses me at how many of you spout that over and over again. Good thing we didn't discuss the manipulation of events toward facilitating fate or you probably would have added the even more mindless tripe of that 'free will' nonsense.

[Blaze]

Lucy's face splits into a triumphant and psychotic grin as she obliterates the golem holding her. When she drops to the ground, she immediately goes on four limbs, looking at the remaining two, her fingernails digging into the ground. Suddenly, she vansihes, moving faster than ever on all four limbs she speeds towards one of them, appearing before it. Curling her hand into a fist, as pulls it back and drives her fist into it's abdomen!

As for the other Exorcists, the demonic power that fills the air starts to wake them up. Okuni moans and pushes herself up as Jean looks at Lucy in horror while Logos gets back on her feet. Blaze rolls onto her front, grunting as the pressure doesn't help her broken ribs much. She takes out a dark rifle and loads it with a dart marked "In Case of Demonic Awakening." Looking down the scope, she tries to get a bead on Lucy but she moves so fast!

[Raleigh]

*After a pause while he watches and personally cheers on Lucy on a certain level, he continues.* Then again I could always be a lying sack of crap too. Perhaps I'm just some early human who stumbled upon some even more primeval power and tapped into it or am some sort of mass hysteria given a form to interact with by a few collective worlds... not too unlike how some gods are made to be sure. Then again I could be nothing more than a small bug with a rather hefty power well and a talent for illusions. *He shrugs.* All of those could be the truth. They aren't exactly but they could be. Just as it could be truth that I only bound that one man in eternal suffering or just as I have saved probably more worlds, civilizations, and species than I have ever ended. Sometimes doing so by being little more than whispers in someone's head, a small child in the correct place, or even an old man with a good legend that might just not be from the world he is spreading it on.

((Edit: Realized my last sentence was a fragment.))

[Knight Errant]

"I'll survive... I'm the good guy. You? Not as much... I'll give you one last chance to give it up before I go all out on you..." His hand crackles with lightning... as the woman might realize how soaked with water she was...

[Zoey]

As Lucy goes on all fours and dashes forward to a golem, she disappeared in a red flash and maybe a second almost 2 later, the ground explodes and splits apart where she was as another huge gust of demonic energy explodes forth from Lucy. As she drives her fist into the golem, she can't help, but produce a deafening roar as she uppercuts the golem. The force was so tremendous that the ground above them gave in and exploded. In a blast of rubble and energy, Lucy had made a huge hole to the surface, her first trembling with insane power. By this point Lucy was going completely feral, her body going on its last orders to protect the girls and she will go to the extremes to do so. She snarled as small rocks came falling back down as the smoke cleared. The last golems mind quickly knew it had to go to more easily to fight surface and jumps out to the streets.

The bunny girl glares at Raleigh about to reply when way below them the street explodes and with it comes a terrifying roar. The girl looks down as goes back unto the roof instead of resting at the edge as rubble and pavement was sent flying impact the surrounding building and even sending some into the sky. They can probably see the golem that jumps out and smoke coming from a large hole and definitely feel the tremendous demonic energy flowing out of the hole.

The woman glares at Dact and grips her broadsword before another earthquake hits and a giant section of the roof collapses and speeds up the destruction of the chamber! "Pft... Good guy... Do good guys leave their family to rot?! Do good guys let their mother die?! Don't give me that good guy bullshit Dactylos! You left us for 'adventure' and didn't ever look back!" she shouted her face very very visibly annoyed and enraged as another giant rock falls between the two. The waterfall starting to stop as rocks fall unto its path.