False Gods: Take 2

[AngelicTurtle]

Io let out a squeak when the spider launched at her and turned too late to put up her shield...but, luckily, Telaer's plants were there to pick up the slack.

"Stupid..." She'd gotten careless, and it could have cost her. She hadn't fought a real battle since the war, and in those days she and Valko fought as one. She was unaccustomed to being so useless in physical confrontations.

"Thank you," Io said, smiling, when the spider was destroyed and Telaer set her free from the plants. She paused to thank her savior only for an instant, though, before darting after the others. On foot, she wasn't nearly as fast as they were in the air, and she wasn't close enough to see what was going on further down the road. She hoped things had gone as well there as they had here with the spiders.  

[ClaraDusk]

Just as Vergil turned around to finally leave, a pair of knees implanted themselves in his back. He issued a boyish scream of pain before it was cut off shortly by flattening against the pavement where the wind was knocked out of him. He raised himself up with one arm, and coughed up blood, he thought he might have broken a rib or two. "Sp-spider! Pure Darkness Release! Now!" Spider001, who had survived the impact by erecting a Firewall around itself (the same wall that probably caused Vergil's broken ribs in the impact), just silently sat there observing the need for such a technique. Vergil started to stand up and wobbled falling back down to one knee. "Spider I have to SEE!" "...Permission......Granted."

Vergil stood and turned to meet them. His blind eyes shot open and the irises turned black. He could finally see his bretheren in full and living color and flesh. A broad mischevious grin cracked across his face as tendrils of darkness spread from the corners of his eys and across his face. They wound through his hair and down his neck and once again giving him claws and talons of pure shadow. The cut on his face healed and his ribs popped back into position audibly. Wings burst from his back. "Vergil. You are allowed only to incapacitate them so they will not follow, then leave. Any other action will result in great and dire consequences." Vergil's smile broke into a twisted frown at the news. His eyes narrowed as he scanned his prey. "I better make this quick then. Sorry, guys, but I wish to live another day to kill another day!" His lifted his clawed black hands and spread out the fingers in a shrugging guesture. Then an orb of violet energy burst into both hands which he flung first at Jamie and then another at Arliss. Then he dissapeared, like so much static, and reappeared on top of a high nearby roof, wings spread.  

[Edmund_Gallows]

Arliss cried out in pain as he was flung backward from the impact of the attack. Years of drinking suddenly caught up to him in one moment, and he wasn't able to dodge the attack or create a shield from any remaining fog. "This... Is... Crap..." He said, laying on the ground with a tiny bat flapping around him.

Mushi didn't know what to do, he just sat down on Arliss's chest hoping for him to make a move. Fog swirled around them both as Arliss attempted to stand again.  

[Skye Venorum]

Immediately after hitting Vergil Jamie hit up his gust power, still tumbling along the ground "Augh! My knees! Crap that hurt!"

"Jamie, get up, now." she released Blizzard, blinding everyone and everything even close to Vergil. Including Vergil himself "Dodge to the right, he's throwing something. Focus in at Five o clock."

Jamie rolled to the right, feeling something...horrible...pass by him. He crouched up and raised his hand, getting ready to...

The blizzard shifted over to Vergil again, clearing sight for Jamie and Arliss "Jamie, he warped. He's in the middle."

Jamie nodded, moved his hand, and channeled his warmth power to heat up any metal within the blizzard.

Like a scythe.

or biotech.  

[AngelicTurtle]

Io arrived just in time to see Arliss get struck and crumple to the ground. She looked to Vergil nervously, wondering just how close he'd allow her to get to the wounded man. She had to try. Io sprinted quickly toward Arliss as he struggled to pick himself back up.

"Don't try to move," she said when she got in range. "I'm going to try to heal you, but I don't know how badly you're hurt and it could take time."

((Edit: Fixed.))  

[Ashenclaw]

Telaer smiled at the destruction of the spiders and stood up quickly. He ran off to get closer to Io. For now he had spread his plant network underneath a wide area. As he ran by Cuddles the little cat hoped up onto the man's shoulder. When he was close enough to Io he stopped and turned to to watch Vergil. Cuddles eyes him cautiously as well. A white rose fell from Telaer's right sleeve into his hand and the flames appeared above the small cat's tails.  

[ClaraDusk]

Claire skidded to a halt near the rest of the group, noticing Jamie's plan to freeze the man and heat the metal. She smirked and winked towards Jamie before using concentrated blasts of heated air to run up the side of the building Vergil was standing on. When she entered the blizzard, she had to use her heat absorption technique to reabsord her own body heat as fast as it was being sucked away by the chilling wind. He suddenly screamed and dropped his scythe to the roof when it got hot enough to scald his clawed hands. He was distracted. When she got close enough behind Vergil, she concentrated her absorbtion to the Spider on his chest making the little bug go from very hot to very cold very quickly, fracturing the biochip. Vergil, realizing his Spider had broken, laughed maniacally. Defensively, Claire stepped back. Her red aura and wings were growing fainter by the minute because of the lack of energy. She would soon have to resort to other methods of energy like body heat and her own life energy.

Vergil's hands hurt. So did the eight points in his chest. Until they got cold, and something cracked. The noise sounded like what he imagined the cracking of someone's skull sounded like; sharp, and with a soft squishy center. He giggled at the thought, and then raised a hand fingers spread to his mouth when his grin cracked wide again and he sniggered, and then his eyes shot open wide and his sniggering turned into full blown maniacal laughter. "Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! I'm free, dammit, I'm FREE!" He crouched down and sprung into the sky wings spread and did a summersault before leveling out with the ground and floating there, laughing.

((OOC: Edited slightly.))  

[Skye Venorum]

Jamie smirked, and started laughing.

"What are you laughing about, Jamie? He was obviously still under control by the parasite, now he's free!"

Jamie winced as he got up. Crap, for now his legs weren't reliable...He initiated his gust power and flew upwards, level but a ways away from Vergil "Yes, uncle you're free." he quickly used his lightning bolt power, hoping to at least stun Vergil "You're also ungrounded while fighting a storm god. Idiot."

As he started talking, the blizzard took to the air once more, covering Vergil and Jamie.



**OOC**For future reference, unless you have an auto/easy hit attack like my lightning bolt (people are made mostly of water, water conducts electricity) It is extremely hard to fight in the middle of Blizzard. The only cold part about the power is the actual bits of snow and sleet, it is a blinding power not a freezing/damaging power.**/OOC**  

[Edmund_Gallows]

Arliss groaned and pushed everyone away. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine." Mushi landed on his shoulder and glared at him. The fog around him built up underneath him, and began pushing him from the ground as he stood up, the fog acting like a platform. He held his chest as he rose, ignoring the people who had come to help. "I can kill him... I know I can..."

Mushi sighed, and turned to everyone around them. "I apologize for him, and I also am sorry if you had needed him in this fight." Turning to Arliss's ear, he screeched as hard as he could, making Arliss cry out. The fog underneath him stopped supporting his weight and he came crashing down, slamming his head into the ground. Mushi managed to get off him before he fell, and as he flapped in the air, "It's better he be knocked out then dead." Arliss groaned as he blacked out.  

[ClaraDusk]

Vergil's new eyes were blinded by this stupid blizzard thing. He beat at it with his claws until he was zapped again. His flesh was slightly scorched, but the darkness coating his body was slowly filling in the damaged tissue. His eyes were glazed over for a moment as he stared into nothingness, and then they snapped back to the voice through the blizzard. His frozen grin slowly twisted into a grotesque frown. "I can still hear you little nephew!!!" He slashed his claws toward the voice twice sending two pairs of three wind slices at the lightning god before letting himself drop out of the blizzard headfirst toward the ground. When (if) he reached the ground he would spread out his wings and land gracefully on the same building, grounded.

Claire watched as Jamie took off after the shadow man. "Jamie you IDIOT! Don't be a damn hero!" Shortly after the man was zapped he fell out of the blizzard cloud and toward the ground. Chloe interjected, She was right that did seem too easy. He might just be toying with them. Claire raised her right palm and a flame burst into life. She used her left palm over her right to shape it to the image in her head... and threw it at the man. The flame separated into hundreds of little flames that formed into a flock of hornets. The stinging insects swarmed around the falling man setting things afire wherever they landed and stinging him repeatedly. The man began screaming childishly and thrashing until he hit the ground, when he started rolling to try to squash the flames. She walked up to his flaming, thrashing body. "Just who do you think you are---agh---" He grinned maniacally up at her and warped to a standing-up position with a hand squeezing on her throat.

Vergil grinned maniacally at the woman, before bursting into white hot flame. She was trying to set them both afire, but she was running out of energy fast, and he could heal as fast as she could burn. She clawed at his arm frantically, making glorious paniked choking sounds. The sound was ecstasy for his ears. "My name... is Vergil!!" At his name he squeezed harder on her neck, and his arm began to get colder, and colder, and colder. He soon realized his fingers were freezing, and let her drop to the rooftop. His arm hung limply to his side, half frozen. "You little wench!! Look what you did to my arm!"  

[Skye Venorum]

After hearing Vergil's proclamation about being able to hear Jamie, of course, proceeded to list lazily to the left in the blinding cloud, easily dodging whatever attack Vergil threw at him.

"Jame?" Alaria said with barely contained glee "He's on the ground now."

"Let the demon reign free then, of course!" he grinned. No-one else knew it, but this battle was already over. "Claire! Get away from him NOW!"

The blizzard disappeared and frost appeared beneath vergil, and ice shards with a black aura shot up into him, wriggling into his skin of its own accord and causing pain wherever it touched.

Jamie called down another Lightning Bolt on Vergil "Learn some physics, you idjit. 'Grounded' is not the same as 'On the ground.' In fact, you might have been better off in the air."

"Why, Jamie! I do believe that counts as witty banter. You've improved!"


**OOC**In case it was a misunderstanding of yours, Clara, by 'grounded,' I'm referring to the process in electrical engineering theory. It is the process by which something in a circuit is connected to something with zero (or very little) conductivity. It requires a somewhat simple system in order to be grounded into the actual ground, but it still requires a setup. This is why people are still killed by lightning bolts.**/OOC**  

[ClaraDusk]

Vergil's eyes shot open wide and he stared up at the lightning god with a twisted expression. He screamed. So much PAIN. He tried to rip away the wriggly little ice worm things from where they were burrowing into his skin. Then he was blasted with lightning again, and it took longer than normal for him to recover from the shock. "You b*****d... He raised his arm toward the lightning god and collected another orb of violet energy which he blasted in a beam toward his nephew. "Damn you... Damn you... DAMN YOU!!" After the beam was expent he continued to struggle with the ice things and ripped one leg free of its entorturment while struggling with the second.

Claire had to skitter away backwards on her hands and feet as best she could before the dark ice thing erupted into Vergil. She attempted to stand but her whole body was weak from lack of air and lack of energy. She had used alot of heat in her pathetic attempt to escape Vergil's choking by burning him. If only she were in the sun, she would scorch his body off of the face of the earth. She was breathing hard, almost panting, and her body was getting cold. A sign that she had nearly reached her limit.

((OOC: burning_eyes The SCIENCE... It BURNSsss...!! burning_eyes XD ))  

[Skye Venorum]

Jamie's eyes widened as Vergil's hand went up, and he quickly cancelled his wind power, falling quickly enough that the violet orb flashed overhead. Unfortunately, this was also quick enough that -CRACK- his left tibia snapped. "AUUUUGH!" he aughed, calling down another lightning bolt "You die!"

"Focus, Jamie!" she hit Vergil with another Ice Demon "He's almost down!"

Jamie, focusing through the pain, was struck by inspiration "Claire! Take the heat from his blood! We can still die, kill him by stopping his circulation!"  

[AngelicTurtle]

"It's alright," Io said in response to Mushi's apology. "He has a strong will. That's a good thing, even if he doesn't know how best to direct it yet."

Io gently placed her hands on Arliss's unconscious form. Healing was an odd sensation; she could feel her patient's body, swim in his veins and feel the firing of his neurons. It took Io only a few seconds to search his form and find the source of his injuries. A few cracked ribs...a bruised bone or two...a spinal injury that would have caused a great deal of trouble for Arliss if he'd been allowed to keep fighting...the nasty bump he'd suffered when Mushi knocked him out...nothing serious enough to be life-threatening, fortunately. Io let her own energy flow into Arliss, carefully mending the damage that had been done.