melodiesoflife | Event || The Enemy Within

Entry tags:

Event || The Enemy Within

Characters: All characters who signed-up for the event.
Where: In their heads.
When: January 15th.
Summary: The Heroes of Light have a vision-- They are living through a hypothetical future where the Sage share his knowledge with them, and things went horribly wrong as some Heroes of Light became the villains in this timeline. Maybe they'll revise their thoughts on getting all of that knowledge.
Warning: The apocalypse, deaths, tragedies, overall a lot of very bad things.

Mingle Threads: The Antagonists || The Protagonists || The Others || General
Free Open Threads: The Two Years || Other Events

#01 Attempts at Negotiations || Trano Golsaucia
#02 Tactical Espionage Action || Aqures Ixen
#03 Judgmental Glares || Aerilon
#04 The Fight for the Crystallized Bodies || Aqures Tosf
#05 The Dusk of the Heroes || Mysidia
#06 The Fight for the Moon || Lunar Gate
#07 Conflict Above the Stars || Moon Base
#08 The Birth of a God || Crystal Life Tree
#09 The Death of a World || Moon Base
#10 Where Everything Ends || Pandaemonium

Conclusion || The Sage in Mysidia

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The lancer had shot up to the sky at the take down. Coming to a stop overhead, her weapon unfurled into chain links. Holding a section in each hand, the sharp edge loomed over the girl like a serpent's head. Red eyes looked to the SOLDIER clasping her pathetically fallen team mate. "Ain't any of you got better things to do with the world ending than sucking each others faces?" Cloud - he could have offed the dark haired chick, but chose to knock her out instead. So he was an idiot or he had a soft spot for her. Probably both. She could use that.

"You want her safe? You stay out of this and keep her that way. Or I'll kill her myself for being such a screw up."

From the fire in her eyes and dark smirk that reveal pointed fangs...it seems she is quite serious. It's only the girl in blue that fights with her that knows any better. As the descent begins, Kyoko twists her body hard, reaching out with her magic to slam her modular spear downwards like an oversized ball and chain towards the unoccupied of the two still blocking the path.

Sheena couldn't stop looking at Albel and Terra even as Yuri spoke. True, she had taken a neutral stance in the battle between Heroes, but there was nothing neutral about her feelings towards the couple in front of her.

Very personal, hurt feelings as time and again they demonstrated their disrespect for her without once acknowledging those feelings or offering her an apology. The irony of the situation? She had taken the position she had in order to save everyone including them.

But things were quickly spiraling out of control around her, and Yuri's pushing her wasn't helping her mood. "Yuri! Will you stop pushing me? I can walk you know!"

Anything else she could have said was cut off by Cloud's actions, and the thought of knocking everyone out to prevent the fight entered her mind. But she didn't even get that far before all hell was breaking loose and instincts she thought long-buried kicked in...

And she placed herself in the middle of it all--unmoving, protecting everyone the best she could.

Yuri sighed heavily from what was going on. He's not entirely interested in the the sudden outbreak of emotions, nor was he stopping the pushing for a moment longer. Eventually, he stops and steps towards the other group and past them if he needed to. The fight was starting on its own and he had little interest in what they were trying to do with each other. The woman known as Tifa was knocked out in a matter of seconds and he had no time to react. Cloud didn't do anything bad, so he didn't see any reason to stop the blond.

In fact, Tifa looked like she was knocked out and nothing more. He reached an arm out as Cloud was saying those words, "Fine, I'll take her with me. She's incapacitated, anyway."

He's planning on walking through the barricade with the unconscious person because she obviously wasn't awake to fight anyone right now or create conflict. It seemed fair. That was as far as he was going to stick his nose in. Yuri watched as Sheen reacted on her own before his comment was answered.

"We don't have time for this, Sheena."

They weren't here to get in the middle of a fight, "If you want me to stop, you better start walking."

Cloud was a sitting duck, holding Tifa like that. Albel couldn't fault him, though. Love made people do stupid things. He would know. So instead, with the help of Shunshin, he darted forward to block Sayaka's attack. Metal hit metal with a loud clang.

"She made her choice!" he bit out. "You should have left when you had the chance!"

Sayaka was stronger than she looked. Keeping her off Cloud's back kept Albel fully occupied -- which meant he couldn't deal with Kyoko. Who was launching an attack right at Terra. Shit!

"TERRA!" he called out in warning.

Terra's eyes were on Cloud and Tifa. She felt something twist in her chest and it was only the call of her name that pulled her back towards the battle at hand. She turned in time to see Kyoko's attack come charging towards her. She raised her hand calling forth whatever magic might be quickly gathered to her finger tips. It wasn't enough but it stopped the blow from being fatal.

She felt the pressure of the attack against her palm and then the force of the collision as she swept from her feet and thrown backwards. Her shoulders slam against the ground however Terra was quick to cast another spell this one directed towards Kyoko.

"Flare" The word dripped with venom as flames erupted from beneath Kyoko's feet. She hadn't wanted to fight, she never wanted to fight but she wouldn't just die.

Cloud frowned at the behavior of the two girls. Were these the sort of people that Tifa had considered allies? Or had she merely joined them in order to confront him. He had taken her on as she issued a challenge to him. And now they were using her as a shield to attack Terra and Albel.

And yet these were the same Heroes who refused to make sacrifices for the sake of Crystallis.

He still wasn't sure he had made the right choices over the past few years, but he was glad he didn't count these two as friends. A quick nod to Yuri and he pushed Tifa to him. At least he knew him to be responsible enough to not let her come to harm. As much as he held his promise to Tifa dear, he wasn't about to let his promise to Tifa and Sephiroth go forgotten either.

Another Dash and Cloud was standing in front of Terra, holding the Masamune up to block and braced with his other hand. He hadn't time to use his defense skills yet but he was still vastly enhanced by Onion Knight and S-Type SOLDIER's Combat Mode.

Kyoko could handle her own, which is why Sayaka stayed completely focused on the clash of blades with Albel. There was a grunt of effort as their swords scrapped against one another, where she afforded a single glance over towards her partner, then was back in the moment of her own confrontation.

With a jump back, she folded her cape over herself, and when she flipped it outwards again, five swords stood upright in the ground. The five Lillians.

In quick succession, she began throwing them at Albel, not giving a single moment of reprieve as she launched her attack. "For the sake of the people trying to protect others they care about... there's no way we could ever just leave!"

Tucking her knees, a quick twirling of the lance in a helicopter below creates a blast of air. Extinguishing the spell before it strikes.

The spear had already been extending in a blur, ready to pierce through Terra where the woman lay prone with crucify. Only, when Cloud moves to defend her foe, Kyoko pulls back, twists her weapon 180 degrees to press the the butt to the ground and parkour off to the side. Eyeing the blond nuisance irritably. The lance extends into chained portions, matching and then superseding the length of his sword in a bolt tipped whip.

There's not a moment lost before the red clad girl is relentlessly lashing at him. Looking for an opening like a cobra trying to strike.

"You're annoying, got some macho complex? Ain't you heard girls can fight for themselves?!"

Sheena, stuck in the muddle of all of this, refused to stand helplessly by and watch people who once called each other friends attack one another. What she could do, however, was lost on her until Albel's cry forced her into action.

Always the ninja, she relied on the tried and true form of disappearing and reappearing in different spots of the group to make her way towards Terra. No matter what had happened between them, Terra and Albel were still important to her, and she didn't want to see either of them hurt.

What she couldn't see with all her popping in and out was the chance she'd place herself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It wasn't even a minute short after Tifa was handed to him that the fight broke out further and Sheena was not listening to what he had to say. Yuri honestly didn't want to deal with this tedious mess of heroes and ex-heroes of light. It wasn't his place and it wasn't his interest. they have much more important things to get to. Sheena was making it complicated and Yuri wasn't having it.

"Final Gale!"

He pulled his sword, while still holding Tifa with one arm, and swings it down on the ground creating a huge wind current in the middle of everyone that was fighting and throwing them off balance if they were caught in the large blow that he struck in the middle of the two parties.

He might as well break it up now before it got any worse, but who knows if they're going to take it lightly. Frankly, he didn't care since he was not on either side. His actions were his own and he didn't want to have to deal with them and his current teammate. Some of these people were former friends, allies and people he respected.

He knew they were all better than this.

"That's enough, all of you."

"Then you're in entirely the wrong place, you ignorant, simple-minded -- !" Is that what they thought? That Albel and Terra were defending this gate for the others to sacrifice the crystallized heroes?

It didn't matter. Albel deflected blow after blow, sword after sword, until the last. That he dodged and knocked back in a counterattack, aiming the blade toward Sayaka. Yuri's Final Gale changed everything. Albel stumbled with the gust, his katana jerked, and the sword he'd aimed toward Sayaka was knocked to the side. The fifth Lillian flew through the air, propelled ever faster by Yufi's blast. It missed Sayaka entirely. Unfortunately, it was still finally stopped by flesh.

Sayaka's deflected sword sank deep into Sheena's gut as she reappeared from her smokescreen. Albel's eyes widened; he froze. He felt like ice ran through his veins. "Sheena!"

No, no, no, this isn't what he wanted!

Terra was rising from the ground as the fight continued. The energy around her was pulsing as if seeping from the earth and into her palm. Her arm had begun to shift, replacing her once delicate hand with a light purple claw. Her fingers flinched as magic and energy swirled within her grasp. She's about to release the spell when she feels the gust of Yuri's wind and then watches as Albel's blade embeds in Sheena's torso.

Her eyes widen and in an instant the magic was released back to the earth. She didn't understand what was happening, they were trying to save those who were alive and yet Terra was watching someone she knew die in front of her now.

Her arm fell to her side, her glowing blue eyes fixed on Sheena. She wouldn't fight anymore and, in truth, Sayaka and Kyoko were right. That was exactly what Robin was doing and why they had been placed at this gate. The energy flooded from her body and her heart twisted in her chest as specs of scarlet blood scattered like rose petals in the air.

Edited 2016-03-22 18:40 (UTC)

Cloud frowned briefly at the foolishness of Sayaka and Kyoko. They were given all the chances he could offer to stand down. His brief battle with Tifa was, at her own words, something she wanted to settle herself. And he had knocked her out and offered them the chance to take her to safety, something THEY had thrown in his face. The bridges had been burnt.

Struck by Yuri's gale, Cloud fared better than most of the others, braced as he was. Glancing back at Albel and Terra he took a quick assessment of them before looking back at the two offending girls. At least that was his plan. As Sheena suddenly appeared and was impaled upon the blade flung by the blue haired girl and deflected by his own ally.

This was ready to go worse than bad in seconds. Shifting from his defensive stance he held the Masamune ready. "Don't. Move." He shot his threat through his eyes and blade at the two. This was getting worse and he was running out of patience. If they were foolish enough to continue this he'd have to cut them down for the sake of T-....

He wasn't sure which name to finish that thought with, and in that moment his focus faltered.

The sudden heat as cold steel ran her through certainly wasn't something Sheena wanted, either, but there was nothing she could do about it now. It was her own actions that had brought this about, and honestly, she didn't regret one moment of them.

Looking at Albel, she shook her head, her voice soft as blood began seeping through her clothes and dribbling from her mouth, her body quickly weakening. "Albel... Don't. Don't blame yourself. Okay?" Turning to Terra, she tried to smile, but the pain and numbness were settling in too fast. "I'm glad...you're all right. I really am."

She wanted to say more to both of them. To take care of each other and protect each other, but she only had so much time left. "I'm sorry," she directed to Yuri befre finally giving one last look to all of them, she shook her head.

"No...more. This has to stop... Please... no more."

And with that, she removed the blade in a gush of red, and dropping it with a clatter, soon followed, the soft thud of her body hitting the floor loud in the relative silence.

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CW: Death scene