melodiesoflife | Event || Revelations

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.

Palitutu nodded at Jade.

“You can use it… It’ll give you some more time…” She then turned to Kidd and Levy. “I never gave up on Hope… But in reality, you can never protect what matters without sacrifices... Life and death exist as one… The very act of living itself implies taking other lives, be it to eat, breath or defend oneself…” And to Kidd in particular. “You better than anyone here should know that…”

And with that, Palitutu froze and collapsed onto the ground. She wasn’t exactly dead yet, but without heavy treatment that would be only a matter of minutes—Or seconds if someone decided to finish her off immediately. And as she collapsed, a last portal opened up behind the Heroes of Light—Presumably one that would take them back to Crystallis and Aqures Ixen. Upon hearing what Twilight said though, Artemicion stormed from Sheena’s head and pointed an accusatory finger at the pony.

“No, you are the one who doesn’t understand, Kupo! It’s not a movie, that’s reality! If the Calamity wins, all worlds will die! She’s never done this for Crystallis only, Kupo!”

The Moogle went before Palitutu’s body and shook his head. He seemed very panicked and distressed, which was his usual state of being one could argue, but more so than usual, not to mention he was also crying.

“There have been countless generations of Heroes of Light. There have been other Twilight Sparkles, Aangs or Jades before, Kupo. They had more times and means than you and they still failed! Worst, their failures nearly allowed the Calamity to destroy everything. If it wasn’t for what she did, you wouldn’t have been summoned and Narayana would already have won. And you—You’re just going to do like them, Kupo! You are the actual Calamity to me!”

With that said, Artemicion grabbed Palitutu’s arm and tried dragging her body through the portal… With very limited success. He tried his very best to lift her, but that ended with nothing more than a lot of efforts and tiny wings flailing a lot. It would seem she was heavier than she looked.

Lust was about to deliver a mocking rebuke to Pyrrha for threatening someone with no job and no weapons, but it was suddenly over. She whirled away, eyes wide...and then wider and wilder when she saw Palitutu on the ground.

No...damn all of them, no!

Her head whipped around, anger burning savagely on her pale face as she searched the crowd and -- THERE. Lust pushed past anyone in her way as she stalked furiously toward Jade ~~as if this were all his fault somehow~~, fists clenched, eyes narrowed. As soon as she was close enough, she made a grab for his shirt to make sure he understood the intensity of her desire.

"I want her alive, as a prisoner. That is my one chance at becoming human. Don't you dare let it slip away!" Maybe she'd never met Jade personally, but it didn't matter. He could heal. He could keep Palitutu alive until she made a Philosopher's Stone.

Kaji has been waiting all year for this moment: when he's got that little traitorous fluff ball in his crosshairs. His hand is on his bow as he strides over to Artemicion. Part of the game has very suddenly changed when he saw how Palitutu was changing jobs. But, if anything it has made him even more angry at the moogle. Kaji is completely disinterested in the moogle's judgment of their crimes, when he has his own to answer for.

"Artemicion. Stand down and prepare to be taken into custody. You'll be taken back to Aqures Ixen to be tried by your own people for corruption of a political office, and whatever other charges they decide to slap on there." His plan this entire time, if he didn't get the chance to shoot the little fucker, was to leave him to the mercy of the moogles.

But now they might have a problem. "Show me the Crystal. Which one did you have?" Four black crystals. Did it break upon Palitutu's death? And if not, which one is it? And why can he hold onto it without turning into an abomination? If it's shaped like a black rose, Kaji is going to consider shooting the moogle anyway.

Having Artemicion approach her like that had certainly surprised the ninja, and thinking he was either going to attack or fly over, she had gotten into a stance. Only to rise up slowly when he landed on her, water dripping from his fur and down her face.

Before she could do anything, he was off and flying again, and once again, she was following him--this time to kneel beside him. Whether Jade casts Life or not on the Researcher was up to him; right now, she was focusing on Artemicion.

"That's what we want to avoid, Artemicion. She wanted to start the cycle all over again by stopping this one. We want to stop the cycle, too--but not like this. Not at the cost of the lives we're trying to protect." She rose as the Moogle began to drag Palitutu away, and finished speaking before Kaji declared him under arrest.

"We want to stop all of the cycles, Artemicion, please remember that."

And Deadpool's standing in front of the portal, reaching out to grab the Moogle by the head, Deadmoog looming over them.

"Y'know, I've been very patient this entire time with you and your tatertot master. How about you shut up with the Humans are the Real Bastards shtick and let us do our job? Hm? Or I'll gladly show you your world being destroyed."

And he has a blade aimed at the Moogle.

Ales felt a twang of guilt - not because Palitutu had a soul like any other living being or out of the goodness of his own heart - but because he saw a lot of himself in her. They both were frustrated with the problems in their worlds and took matters into their own hands. They both understood that sacrifices needed to be made. Ales would never allow himself to get soft and stupid by sparing lives to sacrifice even more.

What a shame. He and Palitutu could have gotten along well.

"She did ask us to kill her to prove our worth, didn't she?" His puppet raised its arm, aiming it at Artemicion. He could always hit him with a Leg Shot to prevent him from escaping. "We're going to do whatever it takes to stop this nonsense once and for all."

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