Event || The Night of the Thirteen Moogles

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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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[silencesfate]

Ace-sa--Ah...!

[ Minato when he's yanked away is momentarily stunned, which is a pretty big deal considering this is him. The Shifter's thrash of a tentacle to injure and grab what it deemed as its petulant prey thankfully misses, as a result of Ace's foresight. But he wasn't paying attention to that. ]

Are... are you okay?

[ His friend's expression can't be very well seen in the dark, but the erratic body language says it all. Minato hadn't seen Ace since earlier in the tower, and things have taken a turn for the worse since then. It's clear even without his personal admittance, he wasn't fine.

The Shifter's grin is maintained, despite its fury, turning into jagged, sharp teeth. Part of the fake skin had melted like plastic while still staying attached in a grotesque form, and the blue hair is haggard, at uneven lengths. What used to be an imitation of his mother's kind eyes had turned into all black, and ooze seemed to drip down like messy tears. It seemed to have shifted gears to try crush the spirit of one of either of its two targets. ]

Y҉ou̴ ͜w͟ould ̛do t̸h͏i̛s̢ to̸ th͏e͢ imAge o̕f͝ you̷r͠ ̴m̡o҉thEr? ̴R̷ea͡l̶ly, ̨e͠Ve̢n if yo͝u̵'̨vve ̕b̕eEn̨ alońe̸ ̵foŗ ̡thi s̨ l̷ong ,̷ do͜n't ̶you͝ kn̢ow͡ Any ͢Bet̴t̨er ̷?̸

D́i͠sre̶sp̨e̢ctf͟ųl͠,̸ ̛ ͟awf̧u͞l̸. . ͏.háte̴f҉u̵l,̕ ҉the̶r͟e ҉is͟ ͜s͠o҉m̨eth̷in̛g͞ ҉WROŅG̸ with t̶h͠is ̕chil̴d͜,͞ işn'̀t ̕t҉h͡er͘e?

[ Minato kept silent. Could it be...? That Ace was seeing or had seen something even worse? ]

Ace you... It's dangerous, let me handle this.

[no1]

[ Minato's assessment of the situation, however accurate, did absolutely nothing to shake Ace's resolve. He almost wished, in that moment, to once again witness the same carelessness he knew his friend from instead of the words of concern that had no place on a battlefield.

The cadet could have easily deflected the question, but Minato needed his confidence far more than he did, given the situation. Wordlessly, he gave the other boy's wrist a light squeeze before releasing it from his grasp, looking somewhat more composed now, that he was no longer merely an idle observer; it had been way too close, and little did Minato seem to have taken note of that.

Just as Ace would purposely disregard the message uttered by the phantom as he readied himself for an attack, sword in hand. ]

... Keep on casting.

[silencesfate]

[ He always had this eerie calmness in the face of danger and death itself (even before the idea that many Heroes don't stay fallen) but this to him was a non-issue. It was company that is likelier to throw him off; in this case company that wasn't feeling like themselves. Or maybe he didn't have the right to say that. Battle requires some sharp shifting of gears... And maybe admittedly he should be taking a more prepared stance to fight back; instead of letting things come as they may just because it didn't look very promising.

He nods without a word, and begins to Focus and make his next spell stronger. He hadn't expected it to come to this--but now that he had someone beside him, he had to make sure they both make it out of this alive. ]

H̬͟ ̴e̘͍͍̲̖̳e̕ ͕̞̟͓ͅͅę̺̰̫͖̜͕Hè̻̟̹͍e͉̠͙̱̟ ͚̳͍̜͇Ḫ͔̦̕ͅ ̢e̞̪̮͔͙̭̖ ̻͞ȩ̝̻̱̥͕̠.̥̤͝.̴͕̟̫.͉̝̝.̻̣̣̩.̜̺̣.͢


[ The Shifter noticed the lack of effect of its words, and so said nothing more for the time being, continuing on in a warped-sounding giggle that echoed against their surroundings. It seemed to think multiplying its limbs into nine extended bony arms and long fingers would make it the more convenient to grab its snacks: the original target and newcomer both. As clumps of stringy hair shed off to dissolve into the floor, large eyes opened from multiple directions around the head from what used to at least give a convincing illusion of a normal face. While gaming fight logic would dictate this as an addition of weak points, it would also be exponentially more difficult to find a blind spot, this way. All eyes, when they could, watched them intently and unwavering. ]


C̔ͬ͑̈́̑̉̃҉ö́ͫ͗̔͌ͨM̌ͯ́e͏ ͏h̶͊̓͗eͣ͒ͧȑ̵̍̚ȩ̿̿ͥͪ̔ͮ͑,͌͜ mͦ̓ͮ̏͢ ̡̑y̷ͣ̍ͩ̂̃̚ ̸ͧ̒̽̍̑c͗Ḧ̴́͑ͪ͌ͨ͌ͥi̵ͬ̾͗̂̏̔l̎ͭͩ̎̓̒͢d́ͣ̔́ͥͬͩR̢ͤͭͮͩͥͮ͗e͠n̅͋́̊͑́͜ ͮ͗ͩ͢.̈͌ͣ́̾

[ Looks like the next move was freely theirs. ]