melodiesoflife | Event || Revelations

Having a Job active or not, does not stop Vincent from being an experienced marksman. While he would prefer sniper rifle or something heavier, it would be awkward enough with all the melee-crowding... A hand-gun is slightly better, even if most people wouldn't take the chance of firing into the group.

Vincent would, as he was used to it. Fast and agile even without an active Job, it was part of how he'd been trained and part of what he was used to. Even if the bullets lacked the same power as before, he focused on Palitutu, zig-zagging his movements and being sure to make every shot count. They had to stop her from casting!

And as the other heroes deal with Palitutu, Twilight is chasing after the bee-covered Artemicion. That black crystal might be the only thing that can stop Palitutu outright.

"Artemicion, stop running and get in the water!" Twilight shouted. "Look at you - you threw yourself in front of Palitutu and all she did was ignore you! She's willing to let you suffer so she can prove a point. You, someone who has been nothing but loyal to her and this is how she repays you! What kind of..." Twilight wanted to say 'master', but that really didn't fit right. And the Tarutaru isn't obviously friends with him. "...person would do such a thing! If we lose, will she tend to your wounds? Will see she make sure you're okay? Or will she go back into hiding and assume everything is fine even when it's not?"

Selphie didn't like the feeling of powerlessness when she came out of that last portal. She liked the attacked that sapped most of her strength even less and don't get the perky brunette started on that creepy crawling sensation from the curse spell. She was getting ready to hit the deck and pray to not get hit with anything major when Cloud used that megalixer and got them all back on their feet.

Add in the notion that she happened to be near Jade when he used all that shiny status boosting hocus pocus and Selphie was grinning like a devilish bastard. She'd already pulled out her nunchaku but she also pulled out a little magic stone she'd procured from her stash at Balamb Garden. Who knew that Thundara Stones would come in handy as she looked up over her left shoulder at Squall. That shit-eating grin on her face is in full view as she nods at the stone in her hand.

"I've got the sonic, if you've got the boom," she practically cackles. "Also, I'm going left if you wanna go for the flank attack double whammy Balamb Garden special."

Squall follows shortly after Selphie through the portal. And just as she did, feels the effects of the curse and disable. He frowns deeply and unlatches Lion Heart from his side. He is about done with Tarutaru and portal hopping.

He glances at Selphie as she comments and pulls out her stones and he quirks an eyebrow. She has that look in her eye.

He reloads his gunblade and it makes a few ready clicks. There's a very pleased smirk gracing Squall's lips.

"Let's not disappoint anyone."

With that Squall aims and shoots, following up with a sprint to take an attack at the flank.

There is more than one way to silence a mage. Ramza has no skill or spell, but he has a blade, and the throat is a tender target.

He moves to circle around behind Palitutu where she will be less protected. If he can get close enough, while she is distracted by Soldiers and Assassins, he will pull a dagger and draw it across the tarutaru's throat.

Sparks is really grateful for all the buffs, but he also needs to cast Runic on himself before he attacks, in case they can't stop her spell. Now that his attack power was devastatingly powerful, it was time to save the energy and go with some melee.

As he runs his armor towards Palitutu, he yells out to get Jack Harkness's attention. He only has a few seconds window to do this.

"Head's up, Harkness!" He tosses the energy pistol that he had just brought from Torchwood HQ towards Jack. Sparks figures if anyone here knows how to use it, it's the guy who gave it to him.

Now it was time to get up and close with Palitutu with his armor. Gritting his teeth, Sparks let loose with a Smash Attack just for her.

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Jack had been just about to find cover, with his jobs disabled and without the reassuring feel of the energy flowing back into him? His usual fighting strategy wasn't going to serve anyone well here.

But then, oh then, Sparks tosses him an incredibly welcome sight, the gun smuggled out of the Torchwood base. He almost fumbles it, he's so happy to see that laser blaster that he thought was in lock down. "Gwen Cooper, you beautiful woman...."

Dials the damage to maximum as he turns and aims right at Palitutu. The Doc's last words to him are still ringing in his ears as he doesn't hesitate this time. He wanted to know what she had to show them. But if this is her last demonstration? One last way to help them, in her own twisted way. Jack fires.

"Ah, this is more like it!" Tazendra said, sword out and already casting Shock on her sword. She only hoped there was room to get to Palitutu. Who knew someone so small was so dangerous?

It was... well, actually, it was a bit personal. Tazendra was protecting her world. Even if Palitutu was doing the same, Tazendra wasn't willing to kill her own world for Crystalis.

Aang was joining Twilight to talk to Artemicon. It was hard to talk while someone was being chased by bees, but he was going to try.

"Now that you've seen the people who live in our worlds, can you really agree with Palitutu about destroying them? Let us find another way."

Maybe... maybe he couldn't save Palitutu. And he didn't know what to say to Lust... maybe 'wait until Palitutu is not trying to kill us'. He couldn't remove her job abilities the way he did with Ozai's bending. But maybe Artemicon could help.

Nanami wasn't going to freak out or run away. She hoped. But... she wasn't going to charge in with just her sword. So she grabbed a potion at random from Ellana and tossed it. Hopefully it was the fire: Nanami still didn't trust bees.

"Will you just go away and stop bothering us!?" she screamed at the tataru. "I am so sick of you!"

Aoi takes the potion his sister offers to him and chugs it. That's much better. He murmurs a 'thanks' to Akane before he starts trying to plan his next move.

There's bees and shit over where the battle is thickest, so he doesn't go charging in or anything. He's better at bluffs and taunts than actual fighting anyways. He'll leave that to Duster. ~~Look at his boyfriend, kickin' that little bitch. Aoi's so proud.~~

He knows he's not going to be able to kill Palitutu, but he can try to be annoying enough to distract her from her spell. He tugs his headband out of his silver spikes and uses it as a simple slingshot to launch rocks at her dumb face.

After stepping through that portal, Sayaka looked worse for wear. Taking on Judgement full force didn't help at all, though with all the things heroes behind her were flinging around, she couldn't bring herself to care all that much if she was in the area of the healing effects.

For her part, with a flick of her cape, a handful of Curas will go out to anyone around her. All the while, she didn't say a word, her eyes shadowed by the hair in her eyes.

No thanks to her Crystal Knight job, a negative sort of energy weighed the air around her down, and with one last heave of her zweihander, just before the attack might unleash, she would make a break for the front line, a powerful Crystal Shield bursting in front of her..

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Johnny's Jobs were disabled, and there wasn't a lot he could do. Thanks to the others around him, he at least had some strength and health back.

Palitutu was obviously charging up something big. If he was going to die here, he was going to at least go down fighting. He might be without his Dragoon and Pirate skills to back him up, but he still had a lance with him. He joined the fray, running at Palitutu with his weapon raised, ready to attack as soon as he could find the chance.

The buffs weren't going to stop there. Saori may not have her jobs to back her up, but she didn't come to the fight empty handed. Palitutu picked the wrong goddess to piss off.

She pulled out a wide strip of paper with an brush ink drawing of a fox carrying a bushel of rice in its mouth. The black ink changed to red and it gave off a golden aura before burning to ashes. Inari's Ofuda would provide a small luck or crit boost for about a minute given just how big the party was.

While using her custom weapon she got from her homeworld would've looked impressive, she didn't have the physical strength from a job to help her. Saori followed after Mary with her own hidden blades ready. And if the blade wouldn't hurt Palitutu, the poison lacing them would. Since Mary covered the aerial attack, Saori aimed for a low attack in case their target tried to break away.

Over half of his entire life was spent in a tower where no powers truly existed until the very end save the powers that sought to use him and others as their toys. He doesn't need the speed that comes with his own powers or of the Dragoon, only the small sword in his hand and scalpels he'd lifted from what remained of Jason's lab. Looking for an opening, he charges forward, aiming his blade for the tarutaru's throat.

[ Fighting without magic was hardly a problem for Tear—though it wasn't her forte, it was still the basic training every Oracle Soldier received, and she had been no exception despite her skills as a melodist.

Sword in hand, she also set to pursue Artemicon, though before she launched forward a small knife had flicked into her hand, the feel of its smooth handle comfortingly familiar. Taking careful aim, she threw it toward the Moogle, hoping to provide another obstacle for him to avoid and increase their chances of catching him.

Should he survive this she would apologise to him, but for now she was intent on stopping him from aiding Palitutu further, praying that her allies were more successful in stopping the Tarutaru than she would be without so many of her skills. ]

It wasn't how he had been trained to solve conflicts, relying on brute force rather than skill - Ace simply hadn't been graced with the same physical prowess as some of his classmates. With the help of the powerful supportive spells, however, perhaps he could still make a difference. Reaching for the deck of cards stored in his bag - no longer gleaming with the same energy, but nevertheless, still usable - he made a target out of the tarutaru's focused posture and sent a barrage of them flying.

From the corner of his eye, he could see Tear rushing forward in pursuit, which further convinced him to follow the moogle as well. Rather than attempt to apprehend Artemicion directly, however, he was determined to block off his path, should he try to return to his master, opting to place himself between the creature and Palitutu. Thankfully, while the moogles had their wings, they couldn't fly that high - it was mostly a matter of whether the cadet would be able to make it in time....

Running away from the bees, Sheena and Tears’ knife at once proved to be far trickier than Artemicion had originally anticipated. Whilst he managed to take a sharp turn and avoid Ace and Tears’ knives both, he immediately dived into the water upon hearing Twilight’s recommendations. Only to resurface moments later upon hearing what was being said.

“Y-You don’t understand, Kupo!”

With that said, in a surprising turn of events, Artemicion flied straight for Sheena and landed on her head. Maybe he was tired of running around. Maybe he was hoping the bees would go for the bigger target if they were to come back. Who knew where the truth was?

“She’s ready to take millions of lives if it means saving the whole. But you, you are ready to risk the whole to save millions of lives, Kupo!”

On Palitutu’s end, the battle went in a less than stellar direction. The Ultima WEAPON had been a monumental opponents designed specifically to kill the Heroes, made of metal and nearly indestructible. And while Palitutu’s Job was also made to fight the Heroes… She was much smaller, not to mention made of flesh and blood. And unlike some of their previous opponents, she wasn’t much of a fighter nor did she have any special powers granted to her by the Calamity. So whilst she did manage to avoid whatever deadly blow were directed at her throat and heart, her spell casting was interrupted and the attack still hit her; just not killing her within a split second.

The smash attack sent her flying backward and she fell onto one of her knees. She had noticeable cuts now and was a bloody mess, for lack of a better word, with seemingly only moments left to live. She coughed and shook her head, not saying anything for a while as she seemed to try and muster what energy she had left.

“When you’ll… Face Garland—No, Chaos…” A pause. “Do not preach at him or speak while fighting… It won’t give you any tactical advantage and he’ll take the opportunity to kill you…”

She grabbed the necklace around her neck and snapped it away, before throwing it onto the ground right before the Heroes. As it crashed and broke into countless fragments, it revealed a crystal contained inside—A small yet gold-colored and bright crystal.

"You don't understand, Artemicion." Twilight said once he landed on Sheena's head. "We've never been about JUST saving this world. If we save this world, we save all of them! Palitutu is risking everything for a stopgap measure. You kill us, you just delay the inevitable. It will keep going on and on and on!"

Twilight approached Sheena and the Moogle.

"You want to stop this, too. I know you do. Would you rather let this cycle to keep going? This sad and sorry cycle of death and rebirth? There's a movie my brother liked to watch and it had a very good message... also heard it from the nutcase in red."

"The Needs of the Many Outweigh The Needs of the Few. Or the One."

"We've been not just for this world, but all worlds. Palitutu's only been for this world. Trust us, Artemicion. You know we're right."

"Twilight is right. It's not about just our own worlds or all the people on them. Or even all the people on Crystallis now. If we do what Palitutu wanted, it won't solve the problem with the Calamity, just pass it off to the next set of Heroes for them to solve. That just means you need to sacrifice more and more just to stay in one place. Delaying a problem that big never solves it. The Calamity isn't going to stop on its own."

That had been Roku's regret on his own world: leaving the Fire Nation for Aang, a child, to solve. It had worked out, but Aang had seen what 100 years of war had done to his world, and knew he was spending the rest of his life fixing the damage.

Aang wasn't sure if they could stop the Calamity. Palitutu was a person who could make choices, even if they were bad ones. But the Calamity seemed almost like a force of nature. Even the Avatar couldn't stop a force of nature... but they could understand it and work with what it wanted. And Palitutu and Kalki had both tried to understand what the Calamity was.

He glanced back at Palitutu. "Does she have any family or something? Someone who would like to know about... what happened?" He was so frustrated at Palitutu, but... she was still a person. And he wished they could have found another way: maybe with the same tricks she had to disable them.

Somehow, Jade hadn't expected it to end like this. Of course it made sense -- a single tarutaru couldn't possibly withstand an assault like that. Even so, he'd half-expected her to pull off some trick or another.

Still, better an overkill than a loss.

"I think her family will know soon enough... If they don't already." The response was directed at Aang's question. The photographs they'd found in Palitutu's lab were a rather clear indication who she'd considered her family.

Still wary, just in case Deweg or someone was still around, Jade approached the golden crystal on the ground. Was that...?

"...This is one of the special crystals for the Mysidian Tower, isn't it?"

A win was still a win, but it didn't feel right. Selphie skid to a halt near Jade who was examining the crystal left in Palitutu's wake. She crouched down and looked at the gold crystal but didn't touch it. There were questions on the tip of her tongue but she kept silent. There wasn't much else she could do here.

"I guess this was the only way..." She said sadly.

Near as Mary could tell, Palitutu was still alive. Close to death, but still breathing. She knelt down by her side as per Assassin custom. She would continue to hear her last words, and take a dab of blood not as a trophy but as a memory if there was time once she passed. In this moment she could still feel her anger for the little woman seething, but it was pushed back down. Now wasn't the time for it. She wasn't a threat to them any longer...not directly anyway.

"I'm not going to lecture you any further, but this all may have been avoided, at least in part, if you had come to us to begin with. What was it that made you turn away from Hope? To thinking that any level of sacrifice was acceptable?" She was sure the answers would be found in her logs, but she wanted to hear them from the Tarutaru's lips.

"What a waste..." Levy said, shaking her head sadly. She's happy none of the Heroes had to die, but still frustrated that it had to come down to this. She may not have liked Palitutu, but she never wanted to see her dead.

"We could have worked together. We could have solved this. Even after everything... I would have welcomed you into Fairy Tail. Everyone deserves a second chance. So why? Why did you have to push it this far?"

Maybe her sentiments are foolish, but Levy will always be a bleeding heart. And now she's shedding tears for their enemy.

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