Event || The Night of the Thirteen Moogles

[melodiesmods]

Characters: Everyone!
Where: Aqures Ixen (Old Observatory, others).
When: Night from the 31st of October to the 01st of November.
Summary: Midnight is approaching, ghosts are everywhere and clouds are slowly gathering above the old observatory... What does it all mean? This post is open to all characters, there are no sign-ups for this.
Warning: The destructor has come.

Mingle || Before Midnight
Confrontation || Midnight
The Cursed Heroes
King Moggle Mog XIV

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[desertbloomed]

An airship...of course! Ashelia flew down to Ales, landing on the roof gingerly. She gave the giant marshmallow moogle only a cursory glance, even as the air shook from the tower's destruction. "I'll carry you - we'll save time."

She looked around at the other Heroes, her gaze lingering for a moment on Minato. Too inexperienced...

"We've got to split up, distract it, keep it stationary." She chewed on her lip for a moment, squinting at the marshmallow monstrosity. "We could use a few more on the airship. Ales will make sure it's ready for take-off - if you aim to accompany us, we'll wait no more than ten minutes once the engines start. Yes?"

The Queen stooped over to pick up the Teensie before levitating once more. "I expect to see all of you at the end of this, alive and well. Are we clear?" She looked especially at Ven and Minato, seemingly the youngest of the group.

[umslay]

She was meant to be a leader, Ales thought to himself. He called for his puppet - also small, but slightly heavier than him - to latch onto his pack. Ashe would be carrying more weight than expected, but he trusted the queen to be strong. Teensies typically were annoyed by larger species' attempts to carry them around, but he didn't mind being held this time. It wasn't as if he was being treated as useless.

He added another proposition: "If you change your mind, I might let you hop on board when I return. No promises, though, and you'll have to find a way to jump on board from a building." Stopping an airship mid-air was near impossible, but the more people that could man the canons, the better.

"Let's go," he said to Ashe.

[jadethenecromancer]

Jade watched the gigantic Moogle rise from behind the castle for a moment before turning back to the others. His face was grim, but nevertheless quite calm. Given their luck so far, he really should have expected something like this.

"I'll see if I can slow it down for you from ground level." He nodded to Ashelia and Ales as they prepared to leave, then glanced at the rest. "Anyone who wishes to join me, feel free to follow."

Without wasting any more time, Jade strode out of the observatory.

[sacredancestor]

[Watching the giant trudge toward the city, D felt dread. He couldn't stop Cloud or the Moogles even with his Necromancer Job. But the city needed protection more.

With the silence known to his Job, D slipped out of the observatory and headed toward where the Moogle headed...

The Crystal of Fire.]

[whereishe]

[Yuna turns and begins running down the stairs. It isn't the fastest way but she's going to go and help her friends. She'll leave King Mog to the others.]

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sheena isn't too far behind, and once they exit the building, she'll be casting Haste on both of them. Hopefully, they'll still get there in time. ]

[tacticallyminded]

"Time to go!" Robin yelled. With Ventus's haste, she could run fast -- right for the castle. "I'll head there!"

[shinrasfinest]

He watched the whole thing in the clouds above their head with his Dark Light trained on the ghostly figures. He might be imagining it but he thought he could make out the larger figure of Cloud up there but there really wasn't much time to even think about what to do about it before all of them vanished.

A dull noise, and even Sephiroth had his balance knocked a little by the ground shaking but it was that unearthly scream that originated in the direction of the Hospital that ran a thousand needles right up into the back of his neck. Those Cursed by the Planet, had to be those in stasis...

Genesis...

But with everyone already leaving and choosing their path, Sephiroth was left glaring at the giant moogle as the King arose from behind the castle. Indeed, something had to be done about that or what was left of Aqures Ixen would surely be leveled. Ales and Ashelia left, supposedly to make for the airship port. A good idea, how else could it be possible to even fight that thing.

Once more, Sephiroth was left paralyzed with a type of indecision. Should he wait for the airship to come and attempt to leap on board; that hadn't worked out so well last time he'd tried such a feat and that was with Dragoon equipped - without anything anywhere near as agile it seemed impossible. What he would do with powers that he no longer possessed, or indeed, that he hadn't yet possessed...

A quiet curse was uttered, eventually as he both put the Dark Light away and upped the charge in his photon pack by flicking a small switch on the side. Slipping his sword away in a sheath that ran across his back Sephiroth cast another glance over whoever else was left on the rooftop and headed back towards the inside of the Observatory in order to get down to street level.

"Cloud..."

[silencesfate]

Minato was still... uncertain as to why this level of dread was making his heart and feet feel as heavy as they did, but Ashe's authoritative voice and prolonged concerned glance made him feel--at the least, there were certainly people who would care if he dropped dead, even some of those being people who didn't personally know him. And by now he had others who he wanted to protect too, with the best of his abilities. As much as he would deny it.

He could't be weak now; no, he has to make sure no one else suffers more than they already have. He tightens the grip on his staff and bites his lower lip, and shortly follows behind other Heroes on the way downstairs.