Event || The Enemy Within

[melodiesmods]

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

Comments

[foodchaining]

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?!"

[ninjainviolet]

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.

[dammit_flynn]

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."

[wickedone]

"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!

[greenmagick]

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.

[neverfirstclass]

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.

CW: Death scene

[ninjainviolet]

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.