HARDMODE... FROM BEHIND (GM)

[Zack Asiv]

Barker would look to Mathew.

"No. I have no incentive, nor reason to change sides."

Kiyr would summon Gregory.

David is healed.

Rai gets a salute from their leader and some words.

"Holding our ground, sir."

[Kronos]

She called....and the call was answered.

A pillar of ice would surround Kiyr, and inside, a masked Gregory would be. He would hold out a hand and the necklace would fly into his grasp, and he would proceed to place it around his neck. The ice pillar would shatter and he'd be standing between Kiyr and her enemy, his one good eye draw down in anger.

He spoke over his shoulder, eye never leaving the enemies.

"You okay, Kyrie?"

He would wait for her to give orders.

Stats after necklace:

STR: 150
DEX: 125
CON: 160
INT: 100
WIS: 155
CHA: 141

[Mathew Amtrum]

"Well other than making sure this real threat is stopped. You call me a fool, I suppose we can both be fools then."

He keeps building up his armor and working his Qi into the pillar below him. Taking this reprieve to prepare himself.

[Zack Asiv]

Barker would get enraged as three more tattoo's would glow and he'd fire a stream of electricity, Earth spikes, Fire stream, Ice spikes, wind blast, shadow knives, blood bullets.

[Aryn Valcoph]

The force itself from the initial contact was enough to send Aryn sprawling, ass over tits, and she wound up flat on her back, panting. She felt...like a starfish.

Not that that was anything new. Or that she was flat out on her back.

Drawing her limbs inwards with a hiss of pain, she looked up to the blood and gore and grinned wickedly.

"Oh but you two have fucking impeccable timing." Aryn's green eyes focused on John and Delilah. Her words were about as much thanks as she would give right now. She heaved a couple more deep breaths and fought passed the pain to push to her feet.

Round two? Fuck, she could go all night long.

[Delilah A. Black]

--And then he died. TA DA.

Delilah landed lightly on her boots before dropping to a knee, pressing the palm of her glove against Aryn's chest for a few moments before she could stand.

"'Healing," she summarized quickly as the armour went to work, restoring a bit of vitality to the girl, while not actually healing her wounds. She looked down at her, intense expression lined with worry...and a bit of pain?

"Get somewhere safe and regroup for a minute. Behind the archers, if you can."

There was no time. No time. She was on her feet again, offering John a pat on the arm and a small, weary smile.

"Nice work."

AND OFF TO HELP THE NEXT POOR SOUL.

((OOC : Delilah takes -10% decreases to her strength and constitution stats for having her Qi activated too long!

Str : 83 - 10% = 75
Dex : 87
Con : 90 - 10% = 81
Int : 55
Wis : 58
Cha : 50))

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai nodded.

"Where do you need the most help? I feel that we've already lost two of ours out on the field. How do you plan to retaliate?"

[Lucien DeChain]

And then Lucien watched as Olesya basically used her water Qi as a cutting laser. It was amazing, was that the true power of that Qi? The general fell to the ground, but Olesya wasn't looking too good. In fact, she collapsed to the ground.

"Dammit!" He spat. Once he made sure the coast was clear, he ran over to her, first stopping to plunge his knife into the fallen general's head, pinning him to the ground, and then winding up for a bootkick to the knife, forcing it through the skull.

He wanted to make DAMN SURE that he was dead.

If he was satisfied, and the man was indeed in his final form (death), he would retrieve his knife and then go to the collapsed sensuous female curved body of the vulnerable Olesya.

[Your Mom~]

Her vision swam in front of her eyes as she attempted to push herself up with her hands, her arms shaking. She felt like shed run a dozen marathons all at once. Her arms gave it and she curled up, looking much like the yoga pose 'childs pose,' resting her forehead on her arms.

"Les?! Les you ok?!" August exclaimed, grabbing her shoulder and shaking her as Lucien came up.

"Just...give me a minute." She panted, fighting unconsciousness. A nap would be SO good right now... "Is he...dead?"

[Levi Kayamei]

Levi strafed as he continued to return his foe's fire, frequently shifting direction and using his own blasts to intercept the attacks he would have a harder time dodging. Once he entered melee range, Levi consolidated his qi into his armor as he he threw a series of probing attacks, Jabs and knife hands, at various points of the man's body, looking for any technical weaknesses.

[Mathew Amtrum]

He was channeling a lot of the Qi into the pillar. Enough to effect around 30% of it, stomping his foot onto the stone as Barker launched his attacks he would swipe with his leg to shoot the large swath of pillar at barker, sharpened like a blade to try and cut him in half. Mathew surfing on the stone which would hopefully absorb most of the attacks as it shot out and upwards to Barker!

[Kyrie Blaze]

The ice was a surprise. She wasn't expecting that. The cool temperature emanating from the pillar of ice was...refreshing. She was in pain, but pain was life. And she fully intended on living, which meant facing more pain.

She made no protest as Gregory took his necklace back. She could feel the flood of strength as the weight of it lifted, though there was a very mild decrease in the other areas. She hissed another breath and then stood tall as the ice shattered.

"Alive and mostly well, thank you, Gregory..." She sighed as she felt goosebumps prickle over her skin. It was...unnerving to be called by her first name, but the tonal inflection was not lost on her. She simply refocused on the battle and brought her mask back out, the wings fanning out straight behind her.

"We have seven major enemies last I counted. I have not been able to keep tabs on them." She turned her gaze to Gregory for a moment. She had taken in the shift in his statistics as he put the necklace back on and sighed as she strafed to be able to see this one. "Explosive power. It burns him, too, I think...but he seems to be healing. I can not get a bead on any of their abilities--they do not seem to have a qi, though they have abilities."

It was why she was burned...but not majorly. She could still function.

[Zack Asiv]

The leader would answer Rai.

"Retaliation hasn't been ordered, we are simply defending."

Lucien and Oleysia find out he's totally dead.

Levi's attacks would find no opening, and the retaliation would come in quickly palm strikes that would equal Levi's speed and power for the time being. Intercepting his own attacks.

Mathews cleave in half attack didn't work as Barker took to the sky, but it would cut one of his legs off, Sadly the multitude of elemental energy that was fired out would converge on Mathew, the destruction of which far more explosive than probably seen before. Even if he melded into the pillar its destruction was quick, even impeding of an escape, the elements converging and would leave Mathew a crippled mess of blood and damage. His right arm missing from the shoulder down.

And in the air behind Barker would be John Strike, floating.

"I think I heard right. Trying to stop me? Well your mistake was working for me."

And when Strike turned around Sean Barker's neck would snap completely around in a 360 degree angle. And fall dead. Strike would vanish.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

They way they were treating him with respect and the fact they thought he was one of them gave Rai a very VERY off the wall idea.

Focusing all his mental energy as he could muster he would look into the eyes of the woman in front of him but would broadcast this singular thought out forcefully.

"OBEY ME."

[Zack Asiv]

Rai's mental blast hits her square and from that Rai's mask vanishes early. But she moves to his side and waits.