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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 13, 2006 8:09:11 GMT
Cloud met the blade easily, but shoving it back took a little too much effort... he'd been forced to encounter way too many of Jenova's spawn since sunrise... It is only now hitting me that right now, I happen to be DEFENDING Kadaj. What the blue h**l has gotten into me? Or him, for that matter?
Ami could feel the Elite coming. "A fearless one, hmm?" She gave her brother a look and a half-grin.
"Only idiots are fearless," Kadaj replied, completing the old joke. The siblings retook their places in the fray, diving at the Elite from either side as Cloud covered them from behind, warding off any stray troopers that wished to take advantage of their consumed focus. Not that many of them dared get too close now, anyway... in fact, many of the troopers seemed to have fallen into total disarray... It clicked in his mind. Jenova. She was coordinating everything, and with her dead, their strategy is falling apart.
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Vincnet cut off the fire volley, realizing too well that it was being FAR from effective. He decided it would require close combat to see this savage fall... He charged at him, firing away to attempt drawing the clone's attention, his golden claws ready to strike...
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Post by Ru on Dec 13, 2006 8:14:36 GMT
The attacking clones easily deflected or parried Rude's and Reno's attacks; they could recover much faster than the men from the loss of energy or fatigue of battle, and immediately began slashing and stabbing, trying to break a hole in the men's defense to wound or kill them. The looks in their faces held no fear, only determination and delight in the carnage of battle.
The elite units standing guard around the inn immediately moved into defensive mode, holding their weapons at the ready to repel any assailants. Those few standing who possessed guns began firing right away at the oncoming children and man, trying to halt their progress over the battlefield. If they could slow them enough with the bullets, those with swords could step in to finish the job easily, and the inn would remain untouched.
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The Elite could sense Cloud's fading strength, and immediately threw himself into an all-out attack on the man, jumping and dodging at impossible speeds, bringing his sword down one direction only to completely change position next. Going for Cloud's neck, the Elite's attack got parried, but then the soldier dropped down and slashed for Cloud's legs, brutally fast.
The Elite blocked the bullets with his sword, again sending them ricocheting around the battlefield. One whizzed over Cid's head, and he stopped in the process of stabbing a clone trooper to swear angrily at Vincent before resuming his work. The Elite, meanwhile, saw sun glint off of Vincent's claw and brought his blade up to block the attack or, better yet, take off Vincent's arm.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 13, 2006 8:30:01 GMT
Annie saw the Elites opening fire... She closed her eyes and bent her head, and a small sliver of space bent backwards on itself for a split second... long enough to send the bullets whizzing back at those who had fired them.
As the immediate threat passed, Loz hurled himself towards the thinning ranks, knocking into them like a bowling ball-- or better yet, a wrecking ball-- into a setup of ninepins. His pile bunked began to wreak havoc among the guards, blasting heads left and right... he aimed a punch to his right, and ducked as a sword flashed over him from the left... an uppercut quickly cametowards the sword weilder as punishment...
Annie spread out more anti-friction pads under the guards' feet, but it wasn't easy while she was trying to keep an eye out for Loz, too... She began to shoot into the ranks with the White Wave...
Joey hung back and shoved a little more speed into her parent and his colleage, trying to give them the edge... Dad, stop holding back. You taught us all we know... just believe in yourself.
Reno accelerated thanks to his daughter's help... he kicked up at the blade flying towards him, attempting to jar it out of the clone's grip... his EMR arced down at the Elite's neck, and he felt something inside him surging... the Elite began visibly weakening as Reno began to recover all the faster... I'm pulling energy out of him, Reno realized.
Rude had no such advantage... all he could do was stay out of reach of the weapons and try to land devastating punches whenever he got a moment to spare...
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 13, 2006 8:35:06 GMT
Cloud dodged away from the Elite's blow, but nearly stumbled on the blood-slicked grass... Kadaj and Ami moved in, catching the Elite's advance with their blades and shoving him back ferociously with a yell of anger that sounded almost as if in stereo... Cloud regained his balance and warded off some regular troopers trying to take on Kadaj and Ami from behind...
Vincent saw the energy blade coming... he caught the blade with the Cerberus, thoughtfully equipped with one of Jared's force shield strips... and swung his arm down to gouge the clone's leg instead...
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Post by Squall on Dec 13, 2006 21:08:21 GMT
Squall picked himself up off the ground, having tripped over a body whilst fighting, there less hassle when there living! Squall parried a heavy sword attack with his gunblade, deflecting the blade to the ground then kicking the attacker in the face. *Woosh* the attackers head drops to the ground. *Bang* a clone heading towards phil dropped dead, shot in the back of the head. Wonder if the whole gangs here? Squall thought as he ran off towards the others to help.
Phil laughed as he toyed with the clones around him, pretending he was in trouble then pummeling clones with punches from his fists and wings. Spinning round he extended his left wing and swept the legs out from under a clone, he then caught him in his wing and flung him high into the air. Phil stopped dead, a cold numb pain started to spread through his lower back. Looking down he saw the tip of a sword sinking back into his stomach, pulled back out by the elite whod attacked him. Phil staggered round and faced the man who gazed at him spitefully, an i got you angel boy look on his face, phils eyes glazed over into an expressionless stare, his skin turning pale, he dropped to his knees...
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 14, 2006 20:21:59 GMT
Ami saw Phil be skewered and gasped... Where's Reno and Annie when you need them?! She glanced the other way... They were way too busy engaging the Elites, and she couldn't have called them telepathically anyway...
"With me!" Ami called. She began edging towards Squall at the center of the troops, hoping to cut the sections of the still-fighting units in half, and then swing out to eliminate them...
Kadaj followed, but he didn't like the idea. Ami, you might still be fresh for battle, but Cloud and I got dropped off first and we're almost ready to drop.
You will drop if you don't keep moving, Ami retorted. What choice have we got?
We aren't here to beat these pathetically dilute creatures... we're just the distraction, remember?
If they're so dilute, they ought to be easy prey for you, brother. She cut down another trooper...
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Post by Squall on Dec 14, 2006 20:39:22 GMT
Squall turned and spotted Phil on his knees, he saw the look in his eyes, " You shouldnt have done that..." You guys are in for a world of hurt now... Squall turned back to his bad guys and continued to fight.
Phils breathing slowed and he started to go cold. " Any second now..." Suddenly his eyes shone a radiant purple colour and he coiled his wings around him, *boom* Phils wings exploded into purple flames, energy rushed through his body, his wound began to seal up and he became alive with energy, feeling sharper and stronger he rose to his feet. " heres the best part..." Phil closed his eyes and stretched the tattered skeleton of his wings out beside him, with a strained creak large black blades grew in place of the feathers, reforming the shape of his wings. * looks to the elite* " Wanna try stab me again?!"
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 14, 2006 20:58:00 GMT
Ami yanked a trooper forward with her blade and scorpion-kicked him, her heavy boot sending him sprawling as she followed up with a stab to the chest... Cloud, not to be outdone, scissor-sliced his blades out at one of the trooper's necks, sending him to the ground with a blunt blow to the back of the head... Kadaj sliced one to his left in the leg and kept up the momentum by impaling one to his right, yanking the blade out and stabbing the leg-wounded trooper in the chest... This was steadily becoming a free-for-all, without Jenova to give direction...
Amnesty reached Squall at last and started fighting back-to-back along with him. Kadaj and Cloud, both struggling on their own, glanced at each other. Cloud shrugged. Kadaj rolled his eyes. They followed suit.
Amnesty turned her head towards Squall. "We have to start moving out to the other side of the battlefield... we have to seperate them!" She caught an incoming trooper just barely in time with her blade as it pushed against her desperately with a keen-edge battlestaff...
Two more troopers sprang for Squall, one shooting at him from the left with a semi-automatic plasma rifle to force him to block with the gunblade, and the other coming at him from the right with a pair of short energy blades, trying to stab him in the midsection...
The Elite merely smirked at Phil. "Impressive lightshow. Too bad this engagement is last curtain for you."
The Elite charged Phil, holding his long energy blade in defense position...
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Post by Squall on Dec 14, 2006 21:29:06 GMT
Squall felt a huge weight of his shoudlers as Ami approached him, he couldnt talk to her but seeing her there, knowing she was ok... Squall felt lighter. He deflected a couple of bullets back at the trooper on his left, swinging it round inbetween blocks and shooting the trooper approaching from behind. " follow me guys..."
Phil smiled wickedly at the elite, " Loose the optimism, your death will come easier..." Like lightning, using his wings to propel him phil moved around the elite, making sure to cut down all the bad guys but him, from punching one hed jump into a dropkick to the next, with a quick flick of his wings Phil fired a handful of short blades from his wings, dropping a couple of clones instantly. After going full circle Phil stopped infront of the elite again, a huge ring of bodies around him. " Still confident?"
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 14, 2006 21:47:17 GMT
Ami followed with a curt nod, kicking a leg out from under the battlestaff trooper and plunging the sword into his stomach before moving on. Kadaj and Cloud hung back a bit to spread out their forces as they started herding the troopers away from their brethren... the troopers failed to notice the obviousness of Ami's plan and simply threw themselves at the line... One trooper did so literally, dropping down like a kamikaze on Squall, a pair of force shields strapped to his arms... he tried to bash them together with Squall's head in the middle...
The Elite merely smiled at Phil. "Always, my fine feathered friend."
He slashed at Phil's chest, careful to stay back from those lethal metal wings...
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Post by Squall on Dec 14, 2006 21:59:51 GMT
Uh oh... Squall stood motionless as the trooper flew towards him, Wheres the weak spot... haha there it is! Squall leapt forwards and dived underneath the trooper, spinning round in mid air and thrust his gunblade up into the troopers chest, squall landed heavily and shot at a couple of troopers from the ground as he got his breath back, then heaved himself to his feat and carried on moving.
Phil stepped forward and then quickly dodged to the side, grabbing the elites wrist and twisting it before aiming a powerful punch to the back of his elbow, snapping his arm. " Im gonna take you apart piece by piece!" * bring a knee to his stomach then throws him to the ground*
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 14, 2006 22:16:53 GMT
The Elite trooper gasped in pain and shock... "Impossible," he breathed. He twisted over on the ground and shot a small element ball at Phil with his good arm, following it up with several plasma shots from his energy hilt as he got back up to a kneeling position...
Several troopers began to move back from the party... they recognized too well they were dealing with people who outclassed them, not with orphaned children or desperate normals. Amnesty led the way as the heroes kept pushing back against the fleeing troopers, preparing to clean their remainders out... a few extremely stubborn specimens continued to attack, one of them advancing on Squall with a star dagger in each hand, slicing at him and blocking his shots precisely with the sharp, elongated hilts... Kadaj covered the group from behind as the troopers, generally, lost interest in pursuing them...
Xima, sensing the mass slaughter her brethren were being subjected to, merely tensed and waited. Let those fools all die... my family will survive.
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Post by Squall on Dec 14, 2006 22:33:06 GMT
Phil laughed a little, carried away with tormenting the elite. Phil leapt aside from the energy ball, " Mis..." he recoiled suddenly and surrounded himself with his wings, waiting for the plasma shots to subside. Phil slowly opened his wings and gazed down at a big hole in his shoulder, which slowly closed up and healed. " didnt see that one... haha" Phil regained his composure and went on the attack again, more agressive this time. with a huge flap of his wings phil launched himself at the elite, Dropping kicking him heavily in the chest, then before he touched down he flapped his wings again and fired himself up into the air, backflipping and bending his legs, sending himself plummeting towards the elite knee first.
Squall leapt back from his new attacker, quickly reaiming his gunblade and parrying a nasty slash, then rapidly launched an attack of his own, going for speed rather than power he span his gunblade around wildly, attacking from all angles. Trying to overbalance his foe, Keep on blocking...
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Dec 14, 2006 22:46:27 GMT
The Elite rolled aside and sprang back up painfully, pivoting back towards the bizarre warrior and launching himself up at Phil's neck blade-first from his left, attempting to slice through his primary vein...
The star dagger trooper stood firm, dodging the blade until he got a bead on Squall's pattern... he caught Squall's gunblade with both his daggers and locked it in, swiveling the hilt down to gash Squall's wrist as he shoved the gunblade up and away from any fatal shot areas... he brought his leg up towards Squall's torso...
Ami saw the kick coming and slid in behind the trooper, slashing the hamstrings of his other leg, forcing him to crumple with a cry of agony. She jammed her blade into the creep's ribcage and shoved him away... she smiled at Squall and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before spinning around to block yet another attacker, this one armed with razor blades...
Kadaj rolled his eyes and got back to the melee. Taking a spare split second to kiss the boyfriend. OK, so ten out of ten for style, Ami... but minus several million for good thinking.
He edged towards Squall. "Sometimes that girl worries me."
Another clone found himself nearest to Squall... he hesitated, not ignorant of the carnage that had proceeded him, but he forced himself to remember the horrific death of his mother and he flung himself suicidally forward, shooting off a gunblade of his own...
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Post by Squall on Dec 14, 2006 23:03:24 GMT
Phil hit the ground hard and followed the elite with his eyes, Uh oh! lowering the tips of his wings to the ground he lifted himself up and threw himself out of harms way, land a couple of metres from the elite Phil stood up straight and looked at him respectfully, " Its been fun, but i cant waste any more of my time on you..." he charged at the elite, firing a couple of daggers from his wings as he raced towards him
" She worries me too..." Its half her charm, Squall smiled to himself as he clashed weapons with the gunblade clone, " You know how to use that thing?" Your scared, I can see it... Youve lost already. Squall picked up the pace, he almost felt bad for the clone attacking him, and fighting him was far more unpleasant than it should have been. Once again squall took the opportunity to show off his prowess with his weapon, spinning it round his body like nunchucks, building its speed and momentum before unleashing a frighningly powerful attack on the clone x
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