Event || Esdham Under Fire

[melodiesmods]

Characters: Anyone.
Where: Republic of Esdham
When: From the 15th to the 18th of January
Summary: Event log for the Esdham Under Fire event. Feel free to start your thread and put in the header where your character is, when and what they are doing. refer to the OOC Post for details and plotting.
Warning: Battles, possible death and war horror.

Aqures Ixen
The Army Attacked
Transport from Aqures Ixen
The Coliseum on Fire
Rescuing the Civilians
Protecting the Airport and Mognet Office
The Bevelle
Attack on the Presidential Palace (Boss Battle)
Misc.

Comments

[2hell_weride]

That thing again... last time he saw that huge blue bi-- woman was in October. But at least it seemed to be on his side, and not ready to try and ice him over. At least the girl was putting his chocobo to use.

MarKus too was knocked back by the impact of Luffy's madness, shaken and dazed himself. He felt a sort of ringing and heard some odd noises as he shook his head but passed it off for the time being. Reaching to pick up his hammer, instead his hand grasped around a long blade. He'd found something the white-haired Dragoon was looking for.

It wasn't going to help him much, so instead he sought to get it back in the hand of someone far stronger than himself and grabbed it by the handle, making a bee-line for where he could see the huge mane of white kneeling and reeling. Naturally as he ran he saw how busted up the sword was. Trash quality... but now's not the time to be whining about that...

"Hey! You... git back to work." he says with a smirk, bumping the handle of Sephiroth's sort against his breastplate. "Work it till it breaks"

[gomu_ningen]

A plume of smoke, as if by some strange magic trick, and Luffy is back to his usual build. Covered in the scorch marks from the repeated spells put to his body, the pirate makes a short run towards the group of heroes as he keeps the hat to the top of his head with a hand.

It isn't until he's started into a run that he sees the large, blue-skinned female appear out of thin-air, making his eyes go wide as he comes to a screeching halt.

"WUUUGAH-! WHAT-.. WHAT IS THAT?!"

Feet make for the opposite direction, turning to speed off away from the oncoming wave of winter that approaches. The rush of a chill wind is nearly upon him as he dives to jump away from the robot he had attacked, as well as a few of the lingering invading soldiers.

"IB! I ONLY SAID TO CAST THUNDER! WHAT DID I DO TO YOU?!"

[whereishe]

"Move out of the way!" Yuna ran closer to Yuna, Rikku and Ib with her bow out and ready. She knew this summon and Luffy wouldn't do well being stuck on top of the machine when diamond dust is cast. She felt so helpless running towards the fight without her abilities from the past. If she could still use the chaos then she would be able to do something.

She skidded to a stop looking back at her cousin and other self as they stood in the back of the fight. It was a strange feeling but at least for now they had support. Everything was chaos.

She watched Soldiers stand from the blast and began to aim her arrow to fire at their rising forms. There wasn't much that she could do except protect those casting from a safe distance away.

"Yuna." It was weird calling herself but it wasn't the time to dwell on that. "Can you cast Shell on him?" She pointed up towards Luffy.

[grandsummon]

Chaos was putting it lightly... while the white mage couldn't be sure of all the things she was seeing, the trickling cold that Yuna felt was a familiar one as she watched as Shiva appeared. She shot her head from side to side as the aeon spun her magic, waiting perhaps a moment to long to see what would happen -- the sound of her own voice calling her name broke her from the sudden bout of tunnel vision as she gave her head a shake, eyes narrowing in Luffy's direction.

"Right!" she replied quickly, staff encircling as she sent a combination of both Shell and Protect towards the man atop the machina. "And... this too!" the mage cried, trying to land a cure, and cura on Luffy as well, even knowing their effects would be dampened.

[shinrasfinest]

Given their situation, being in the midst of battle, MarKus would be forgiven for not having the time to inspect Masamune that closely as the sword was far from trash. It's legendary nature aside, that sword had been arguably the best caliber of blade available on Gaia and even since Sephiroth had arrived to Crystallis he'd been taking care of it like he had always done. Sure it was more than a little battle-scarred currently due to the fact he'd been fighting for nearly three days straight but it was certainly not going to break any time soon. The gleam caught all down the long, sharp edge was still undeniable.

Sephiroth had managed to scrape his legs underneath him and get to his feet as the chilling air of Diamond Dust swept around the area out from the blue-skinned eidolon. The cold burned at his tired eyes but thankfully he was far enough out from the activity that he was relatively safe. His gaze found the spider-robot, -the other soldiers' dead bodies littering the space around them- noting how it seemed to struggle with it's regeneration in the wake of Shiva's attack. Kind of half-going through the moves to do so but then the energy not stretching far enough.

It was probably a good thing that MarKus couldn't see the immediate scowl from behind Sephiroth's helmet at the way that the pommel-end of Masamune's handle was bashed against his breastplate along with the accompanying comment. Just who did this guy even think he was talking to? 'Get back to work-'- how rude could this guy get? 'Work it til it breaks'- hmph, whatever.

What resulted was nothing but a half-snort of a grunt as Sephiroth closed his hand around the handle presented, and both pulled harshly away from MarKus and stepped into a stance away from him. Apparently having little regard to how close MarKus was to the keen edge of his sword, but in reality having perfect control; even though MarKus might have expected it to cut him, it did not. Still, it expressed how unimpressed he was without causing any injury.

"You should get back." He commented lowly, with just a hint of sarcasm before Sephiroth turned his attention completely back to the robot, resetting the grip on his sword. Spirit Surge took a beat longer than he liked for it to be cast, but gritting his teeth and blowing air out of his nose Sephiroth executed Leap once more-

-he came down Masamune first, like a great pincer into the middle of the mass of metal that was still trying to execute it's self repair.

[her_rose_is_red]

"Luffy?!?! I thought you were away from the robot!"

Ib can't quite keep the frustration from her voice. It's almost as if Luffy is determined to be in the line of fire every time she attacks this thing. She's starting to wonder if he's doing this on purpose...

But at least Shiva seems to have put a dent in the enemy forces. And Sephiroth looks poised to do a lot of damage to the robot. So they might just make it out of this one.

But now she isn't entirely sure what to do next. Not wanting to cast anything near any other allies she hesitates, waiting to see how things develop.

[victorix]

A light sheen of sweat covered the guardian as the battle wore on, "That all ya got?" she goaded a soldier after dodging the swing of his blade. Flustered, the swordsman lunged in an ill timed strike. The ninja quickly countered, arcing her twin daggers so the dull sides rested against her forearms, she twirled in a deadly dance. Rikku was already running forwards to intercept the nearest enemy when her previous foe fell, clutching reddened hands to his throat.

Shiva's appearance caught her by surprise, she was keeping a constant eye on her time separated cousins - it had not dawned on her that there would be other Summoners. A callous mistake, she should have been running back when she was running forwards. Her quickened breaths now fogged the air as the Aeon's magic built. Uh oh - she really needed to get out of the line of fire. When Yuna's warning sounded, the ninja was already trying to retreat, but her foe was not having it.

Her opponent's longsword came down in a heavy overhead strike, Rikku just barley blocked it by criss crossing her daggers. It left her prone, and he quickly gained the upper hand, lunging with a superior strength. Her arms shook with strain as the blade drew closer to biting into her. In a do or die moment she ducked, twisting the daggers as best she could. The strength the soldier had been bringing down on Rikku worked against him as he stumbled forwards. It was all she needed, a swift spinning kick took the soldier to the ground where his heavy armor left him slow.

Not bothering with a kill strike, the blonde jumped up and dashed away as fast as her legs would take her, feeling a flash of intense cold at her back when the spell was unleashed. Her previous foe frozen instantaneously in its wake.

She glanced between her cousins with an embarrassed wince. Close one. Leave it to her to nearly get caught in friendly fire...er, ice. It made her appreciate how easy it was to fight with the other Guardians - but then they had the benefit of countless battles to learn each other.