Tier Up! (Kyrie)

[Lucien DeChain]

It's 4 pm. It's sunny out, but also raining. The sky is slightly overcast, with sun rays poking through the clouds. What is Kyrie doing?

[Kyrie Blaze]

Kyrie is enjoying the feeling of home being so much closer with the mix of weather, but the feeling was brought more by the rain than the sun. Still, even though part of her is at peace and she was largely recovered from her ordeal, she remained watchful even as she eyed the sun's rays poking through the clouds with a quiet sense of awe.

[Lucien DeChain]

Suddenly a bright flash of light obscures Kyrie's vision! The light is so bright, it illuminates everything, leaving no shadow whatsoever. The light isn't going away.

Kiyr's eyes can adjust, just barely, but she can see after a few seconds. Six men surround her.

[Kyrie Blaze]

Kyrie flinches with the sudden flash of bright light, raising a hand in attempt to block. With her qi, she could feel there were no shadows to jump into and her heart rate sped in response as adrenaline began to come into play. Just because the light was intense and there were no shadows, however, did not mean she couldn't generate her own.

Unless it was caused by a light manipulator stronger than herself.

With both hands up, she pushed her qi over her eyes, essentially forming a sealed set of sunglasses made of shadow qi. She shifted on her feet in response to the threats surrounding her and drew in a slow breath to keep stable. Fear lurked but she would not let it overcome her senses.

[Lucien DeChain]

The sunglasses worked, but she noticed that there was no other shadow in sight, even from herself or from the men. The light seemed to be coming from nowhere, and everywhere.

The men stepped forward two steps, in complete unison, causing a resounding stomp with each. They were stonefaced.

[Kyrie Blaze]

"What is your purpose, here?" Her voice cut through just seconds after the last stomp. She angled her hands to conceal small threads of her qi running along her palms. It seemed like they wanted to fight or otherwise capture her, but she would not ask until she knew.

[Lucien DeChain]

They stomped forward again, another pace, then all at once, shifted once to the left, keeping the circle tight. None of them said anything. In fact, now that Kiyr could see a bit better, they all looked identical. Even the same face?

[Kyrie Blaze]

What were they doing? Circles, turn to the left? What was the pattern? They all had the same face? Some kind of illusion, some kind of ritual? The blonde didn't know what was going on and as much as instinct said to eliminate the threat, she couldn't act rashly.

Instead she let her qi begin to stream out, clouding the area around her to cautiously brush against the men circling her. She twisted her gloved hands, using her qi as an extension of herself to better feel what was going on. Was she being truly boxed in?

. o O ( I have no more idea of what's going on here than she does and I love it.

Kyrie's gloves boost her qi usage by 15%.

40 x 15% = 6 = 46 )

[Lucien DeChain]

The shadows approached the faces of the men, but as soon as they were about to make contact, something pushed them back with great force! No matter how hard they tried, they could not contact the men.

The six men stepped in unison to the left, and then forward. The circle was closing in, now. Three more steps forward and they would be upon her.

[Kyrie Blaze]

Forward, forward, left, left, forward...the next would be forward.

Kyrie drew her qi back in, wisely deciding against trying to force it through before she reshaped it, coating her legs a little and then forming under her feet to boost her into the air, one arm raised over her head just in case there was more at work than just an invisible forcefield where the men stepped.

If she was successful, she would leap from the pillars towards the ground, away from the sextuplet group.

[Lucien DeChain]

Kiyr successfully got out of the circle!

The men all spoke in unison, in a completely monotone voice. "Compress."

And they stepped forward, and forward again, until they all were about to collide, and then they did.

The figures all faded away as they intersected their bodies. The light faded, and there was nothing left. The rain fell. The sun shone. And it might have been the third strangest thing Kyrie had ever seen.

Grats! You tier up! Welcome to Medium Tier! New stat cap: 45 +5 (because Kiyr is special) = 50