Event || The Night of the Thirteen Moogles

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Characters: All the Heroes of Light.
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: October 31st, Evening
Summary: The Night of the Thirteen Moogles is here at last! Will the undead hordes triumph and bring about the evil reign of King Moggle Mog? Or will the Ghostbusters reiterate their success from last year and definitely put to rest the evil King and his loyal Moogles?
Warning: Horror, Battles, Moogles.

Mingle Thread
Of KUPOs and WEAPONs
The Hedgehog and the Moogle
King Moggle Mog 2.0
?O?M?E?G?A?

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[sesenta]

Sephiroth's right. They died.

[Arriving at the door, breathless, Akane rests one hand against the wall and another on her chest, fresh tear stains on her cheeks. She turns her head to gaze sadly at the wretched corpses that Ramza and Rikku have now become, then her shoulders wilt with a heavy sigh. She moves forward to stand beside the trio of Heroes, making it a quartet.]

But if they're embraced...if the strength of your love is truly strong enough...perhaps you may shake them back to their true selves. It's risky, but...

[She mutters something else just under her breath, shuddering, and draws a chef's knife from her belt as she assumes a defensive position.]

There's four of us. We should split into teams.

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sheena's been listening to everyone, but her focus has been on what "Meredy" is working on. Looking up, she tries to catch Sephiroth and Kaji's attention and point to her "work" with her eyes.

If they destroy that, they'll stop her and then they can deal with them, right?

Wait. She looks at the newcomer, her eyes wide. ]

Embrace them? Does that really work? [ If it does, Sheena's all for it. The last thing she wants to do is shoot a fellow Hero who's not exactly themselves. ]

[iknowtheconsequences]

With Akane? They might win this. But Sheena's signal has a point. Destroy what they're working on? It doesn't matter if they all fall.

"If you don't want to be grown up about it...then I think it's time for some parental discipline."

Kaji's Thoron spell isn't aimed at Meredy, but next to her. Oh, it might still hit her with the blowback, but he is more interested in destroying her half-finished project. He doesn't want to hurt them. Even Ramza, in Kaji's eyes? He's still too young for this. And Meredy is just a kid. But they can talk after Kaji's broken their toys.

[victorix]

[Thunder?! Lightning?!
For the living disinclined, Rikku’s startle response to Kaji’s spell is quite impressive.]

Kkkkrrrkrkrtttttttt!

[Honing in on the offender, lips part in a snarl exposing coyote styled incisors and the discord of a death rattle. Previous clumsiness vanishes with sudden supernatural speed as, completely unhinged and frenzied – the restless Al Bhed bursts forwards after Kaji, fangs first.]

[zodiac_brave]

[The attack spurs Ramza into action. When he moves, he does so silently. Rikku has Kaji covered, so he lunges toward Sheena. She had seemed open to an embrace moments before. When his eyes meet hers, he uses his Charm ability. The skill usually has about a 50% chance of temporarily ensnaring the target.]

[melnics]

What, what, what what what! ( meredy doesn't even attempt to back away from what she's working on. the blast doesn't seem to deter her any, though a frenzied look comes about her. )

No, no! No, no, no, no, no, no! KUPO! It's not finished, it's not finished yet!

( with her minions to distract the heroes, she was free to put those pieces back together, now that they'd been so hastily jarred apart! )

[sesenta]

Oh no!

[Akane gasps, flinching away as Rikku and Ramza both lurch forward. With Kaji and Sheena occupied, that leaves Sephiroth and Meredy. If they face off against one another, it's probably easy to predict how that will go.]

[Frantically Akane turns to Sheena and nods vigorously.]

It does! It's the only way I was able to momentarily suppress my brother long enough to get him treatment!

[She'd offer to show the bruises if they weren't in the middle of the fight. Akane sidesteps closer to Sephiroth, as if seeking his protection.]

Please go easy on her. This isn't her fault!

[shinrasfinest]

[If the strength of your love...

Akane is leveled with a look of almost complete and total disbelief in the moment before he caught Sheena's more direct glance. Sephiroth himself needs only a brief look passed Meredy to see exactly the objective here. Trust Sheena to be razor-sharp, as always. Naturally, it would be preferred if they could stop this madness without harming another Hero but given not only past events but simple facts; they are already dead, there is no way he's ever allowing himself to be so naive again.

The creak of leather could be heard by Akane as she stepped closer to Sephiroth, his hand tightening around the handle of his sword on the opposite side to her. Narrowed green eyes don't even flick to her as he's already weighing up options.]

Regardless, it needs to be dealt with-

[Cold and bitter in truth but Sephiroth doesn't hesitate further. Combat Mode initiated and he then executes a Dash passed Meredy in order to put the 'project' between the two of them, first.

It's a beat of a second before he leaps; Hellsgate coming crashing down from above. At the very least, at least the damage to Meredy, if she doesn't get out of range, won't be the full-force of that attack. Besides, adding a Deathblow to what is already dead? He's not convinced.]

[melnics]

( just as swiftly as the sword slashes began, meredy looks up, wide-eyed, as her moogle puppet steps in to shield her from the brunt of the attacks, protecting both her and the materials. it's sparking and twitching, wires and gears exposed— as a single cut trails a small streak of blood down her cheek. how did he move so quickly past the guard line...?

while ramza and rikku might look worse for wear; she is not dead. this is meredy.

disbelieving that a fellow hero would attack her so directly, and looking very much as though she was the one in control, a hand reaches up to touch at the cut, pulling away to see the redness of her own blood. in her stead, the moogle activates leg aim directly aiming for the SOLDIER. )

Wh—why... ( with the crippled puppet still protecting her, meredy inches backwards, looking rather frightened. )

[sesenta]

[Akane gasps in shock as 'Meredy' is struck, one hand coming to her mouth. Fat tears start to spill over her lashes.]

No...no this is all wrong! Everything is going wrong, kupo! Why is this happening?!

[Frantically she runs after Sephiroth, trying to throw her arms around him.]

Stop, you have to stop! You might kill her!

[Don't be alarmed if one of those hands is still clutching the Tonberry knife in her hand, Sephiroth. It's not as if she wants to bury it in his gut or spine if she manages to catch him.]

[Oh wait. That's exactly what she wants.]

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sorry, Ramza, but thanks to the sudden outburst around her, plus a dice roll Sheena's own immunity to a certain red-head's charm, she doesn't fall under his spell.

Instead, she quickly steps back, still unsure of what to do--until Sephiroth's actions put things into perspective--and she hears another "kupo". ]

Sephiroth, look out! She's a zombie, too!

[ And Sheena will just make short work of whatever's left of "Meredy's" work with one shot from her thrower before turning it on Ramza. ]

Don't move.

[iknowtheconsequences]

This was a bad life plan. Kaji takes Rikku's attack full in the chest, barely managing to throw up an arm to block those snapping teeth from his neck. Since he isn't armored, there's nothing to protect him from staggering back, and then down, hitting the ground.

His hands can't get free from trying to push her off, defend, or something, but he manages to concentrate. Focus. You know the spell. Casting Flare right next to himself is going to catch himself in the blast, too. But the bright light and implosion might be enough to get some space away from Rikku.

[zodiac_brave]

['Don't move'? Those words are immediately ignored. The threat to Meredy is all that matters, and it must be dealt with.

Ramza turns silently and bounds forward to launch himself at Sephiroth with unnatural speed. He goes for the neck with sharp, bared teeth. Blood is the price to pay for daring to attack Meredy. Blood...hot, delicious blood.]

[ninjainviolet]

[ Damn. She should have known he'd move. Reacting quickly, she casts Zelda's Gift on Kaji, a spell equivalent to Cura's effectiveness. Any severe wounds won't be healed, but mid ones will be, and a barrier of protection will surround him.

And finally making the decision she didn't want to, Sheena raises her thrower and aiming it at Rikku, fires. ]

[victorix]

[Pouncing downwards with her fallen prey, the pint sized blonde crouches over Kaji, pinning her intended meal with herculean strength. Those piercing fangs are more than happy to snap hungrily into an arm in place of a neck, fleshy parts all house the same red hot destination.

Sheena's thrower cuts deep, severing clean through a portion of the frenzied zombie's side. Viscera spills and with it a putrid, rotting smell. There's not so much as a flinch, the wound already beginning to seal as the weapon boomerangs back.

No brand of goggles could spare her from that intense wash of light. Dazed, the artificial sun briefly tricks the undead, whose strength is significantly reduced come day. One moment a creature of supernatural strength is holding the hero down; the next it feels like a 16 year old jobless girl.]

[shinrasfinest]

[Leg aim catches Sephiroth's front leg, just as he lands back from his special maneuver, causing him to have to shunt his balance onto the back leg in his stance and somehow attempt to dodge away. In the end, he ends up using Dash again, just to get clear.

It's a shame that at that particular point in time a viable free space was nearer to Akane again. He missed the k-word that Sheena caught and by the time words of warning are yelled there are arms already attempted to be thrown around him. Sephiroth's next move is to bring Masamune up from where it's been resting against the back of his arm since he moved, and sharply jut the pommel-end of the handle to his sword into the bottom part of Akane's face, any connection that he can manage to get; anything to be able to get his knee up to kick her away from him. The knife comes away red and wet, having managed to stab through leather into Sephiroth's side during the struggle.

Not that he's got time to realize or even react much further before all of a sudden there is Ramza-]

Sheena! We need to...stop this.

[At least he's managed to get Masamune around and between himself and bloodthirsty-Ramza before the vampire starts drawing closer, going for the literal jugular; not that it helps with the blade pressed flat between them. He's straining his head up and away from his attacker and those teeth, as much as possible, while trying to shove the supernatural strength there away at the same time. The enhanced strength that his custom job gives seems to be holding it back, barely managing to maintain balance.

Not so much for the exposed flesh at Sephiroth's upper chest and collar-]

[iknowtheconsequences]

This. Is. The. Grossest. Thing. Kaji's disgust rises in between the sharp pain in his arm. But it subsides for a second, right after the Flare went off. He can't even catch his breath, and a part of him wants to just stay down.

The healing washes over him, like a light brush of fingers across his cheek. Stand and fight. She wouldn't want you to die.

Kaji takes a breath in, and pulls himself back to his feet. A second to focus, and he can use his actual most dangerous weapon: his mind. The Flare stole some of Rikku's strength. And that was Zelda's Job.

"Sheena! Use more of Zelda's abilities! More light, more Holy energy!"

Blasting another of his most powerful spells is going to sap Kaji's energy quickly, but he will keep casting until he collapses. Another Flare in the center of everyone, hoping that the spell can sap all of the Undead Heroes of their strength.

[melnics]

( hell! everything was going to hell! as the skirmish happened in front of meredy, her head began to shake, naturally at first, then quickly devolving into some kind of mechanical tick. ) It's all wrong! It's all wrong, KUPO!

( shaking hands lifted to press against the side of her head as made an attempt to keep her head steady, though it continued to turn rhythmically. ) This wasn't supposed to happen! Everyone should have fallen for it, KUPO! The calculations—— the calculations KUPO!...

The calculations, the c a l k u p o...

( acting on it's own, the moogle-shaped puppet advanced again, as it began to repair moving in to back ramza up with an atttack routine. )

[zodiac_brave]

[Ramza tears at Sephiroth's flesh wherever he can reach with tooth and nail. His blood tastes powerful, like a fine dark wine sipped from a magicked chalice. He tries to push past the blade between them to reach his neck and slake his thirst...

...until Kaji's cursed white light flares up and burns at his eyes and his skin. He hisses, an ugly rasping sound from vocal chords ravaged by poison. Ramza releases Sephiroth and shoves him backwards so he can turn toward the new threat, the rat that dared speak that name. The light dispells his unnatural speed and strength, but the rage is still there as Ramza hurls himself at Kaji.]

[sesenta]

[Akane stumbles back with a feminine squeak of pain (kupo!!), clapping her hand over her chin and bloodied lip. Her violet eyes are wide with shock, as if she were emotionally devastated by this great and terrible betrayal.]

Y...you hit me...why...? What did I do...?!

[She only tried to spill his intestines! The hand holding the knife is trembling violently. Ramza is all over Sephiroth, so that leaves her free to rush to Meredy. She puts a steady arm around her shoulders.]

Are you all right, kupo? We need to go make more reinforcements!

[shinrasfinest]

[Ooof.

Crunch.

Sephiroth takes three steps back when he's shoved before his balance fails and he toppled backwards, onto the proton pack, on his back. The momentum from his own strength that had been holding Ramza back, as opposed to the supernatural strength of the other which had been stripped by the light magic.

Breath is knocked from him as the fall stuns, but at least the weighty ghost-buster equipment he's got on prevents his head from smacking on the ground which could have been a lot worse. With two of three thick gashes across the top-front of his torso where Ramza had been able to get, getting knocked out while bleeding would have been him finished for sure.

Masamune was knocked out of his grasp too but that's not Sephiroth's immediate concern. Blinking back dots he feels for the gun to the particle thrower and grunts as he pulls it free, twisting himself -trying to focus on a target. That puppet had to have something to do with all this surely-]

[victorix]

[A messy eater, blood smears down mouth and chin. A gulp sound; savoring a clump of flesh that had been torn free. As darkness returns, so does the girl. Moving back towards the loud one. Awkward, mismatched steps. Favoring the side Sheena's thrower scorched.

At this second flash, blisters appear on the small bit of exposed skin on the girl's face. Ramza passes in his physical attack, while she still approaches intending to bite, she casts absorb stats towards this irritating one. An eye for an eye - he drained her of strength, so the vampire would try to psychically drain and absorb his strength and magic.]

[iknowtheconsequences]

Not good. As Kaji gets Ramza's attention, as well. "Are you kidding-"

That's all Kaji gets out before he drops again to Ramza's assault, and, thanks, Rikku, the draining of his two top stats. Teeth bite deep into his arm, and Kaji screams at the top of his lungs. The spell he was starting to conjure fizzles.

No. Not here. Turn the pain into focus. Just- like- Asuka. He shoves his arm towards Ramza, his own blood drains down into his face, blinding him, and he summons up his strength for one last Flare. The spell goes wild, he has no idea where it impacts as he waits for what's left of Rikku to join in the attack.

[ninjainviolet]

[ Seeing what Sephiroth is doing she nods. ]

Do it!

[ Sheena hits Kaji with another dose of Zelda's Gift before once more hefting her thrower. She's gotta make a choice... ]

Kaji! Watch out!

[ Aiming at Ramza, she hits the button, sending the beam towards his chest. ]

[shinrasfinest]

[From within Sephiroth's half-winded state Sheena's yelling seems somewhat dull as he fires the trigger of the Particle Thrower at the puppet as it crosses his tilted line of sight. The scarlet mess of the front of his torso is taking a lot to be ignored; a red haze just around the bottom side of everything.

The brightness of the ray causes him to squint a little and he feels the pack on his back whir to life between him and the floor but his focus is all on that target; waiting to see the reaction before starting to shuffle himself back to his feet.]