Mosaic City, located along China's coast, is quite large city sometimes called the Crossroads Between Nations due to its diverse population. While it was once a large tourist spot, the city was placed under a blockade as the military appeared claiming there was a radiation leak. The true hazard, however, is much more sinister.
The drake soared through the air a bit as the attacks came flying in. Of the attacking made against it, John, Xain, Jaelyn, Setsuna and Layla miss! While in the air, the drake once again extended its wings, causing everything to begin pulling towards it. Tristan's Sukukaja is removed and put on the Drake!
Looking down at the users, the drake swoops down, revealing its claws. Its claws drag against the ground causing sparks and debris to go flying. Ringo, Xain, Lucian, and Tristan are hit for major slash damage! Critical damage on Ringo!
Still airborne, the drake turns to the whole group and flaps its wings, dealing major wind damage to everyone! Once finished, the drake lands and begins to creep over towards the users, clearly still ready for a fight. Non-projectile attacks will now effect the drake again.
Last Edit: Jun 16, 2014 19:32:40 GMT -5 by Za Bossu!
Xain saw, with a smile, that the dragon betrayed its sole supporter and attacked after removing the buff. While he doubted that the flame demon would do anything about it, it would be amusing to see how that would play out.
Still, the dragon continued to dodge Xain's attacks. That could end up creating a problem, the android realized, but he knew that the drake couldn't dodge everything. He just wished that someone had the ability to hamper the dragon's speed. With a bored look in his eye, Xain summoned Dominion and cast Poisoned Arrow again in hopes that it hit.
((Poison Arrow on Drake)) Poison Roll: tLuECxif1-4 1-4
Post by Tristan Carter on Jun 16, 2014 21:50:52 GMT -5
Tristan grinned another horrific, malformed grin. The angel understood him and decided to stop attacking. That was good. What wasn't good was how the dragon not only stole the speed buff that had been applied, but it also started attacking its one ally in this fight. Not that Tristan cared. He resisted the winds, and the slash attacks were ineffective.
Still, that drake pissed the shadow off. "I'll deal with you all later," he said in reference to the Users. "You may not want to trust me, but that shit with scales just fucked up." He leveled Laevateinn at the dragon to add emphasis. "Until that dies, I won't see a single one of you as an enemy. Have a got a deal? Temporary, uneasy truce?" He didn't wait for an answer. The shadow swung his sword at the dragon to launch off a large ball of flame. Jaelyn removed its resistance to fire, right? God, I hope so, he thought to himself. If not, he fucked up.
((Agidyne at Drake))
Last Edit: Jun 16, 2014 21:51:28 GMT -5 by Tristan Carter
Post by Ayakura Alisa on Jun 17, 2014 0:17:15 GMT -5
The drake continued to soar in the air, dodging some of our projectile attacks. Fortunately my arrows hit their mark, so it looks like I hadn't gone rusty. The flaming demon did attempt to strengthen itself, but the drake seemed to steal that energy for itself while sucking all of us in. It charged down again and attacked with its claws, but I was able to escape. While airborne, it was releasing sharp gusts of wind once more and then landed. It still wanted to fight, of course, but now non-projectile attacks could land on it. Isolde seemed to focus on healing us, which was nice, but she was one of the others capable of dealing damage. I wondered a bit about that. Alice was trying to do her best as well. Though, the Shadows now stopped attacking us entirely and soon turned their attentions to the drake as well. It looks like everyone here agreed the drake was a menace and wanted to get rid of it first.
Ah well, I can't argue with that. Besides, there won't be anything stopping us from turning on each other once the drake was dead anyways. Stupid demons. Still, regardless, my elemental magics probably would be less effective here, so I decided to stick to using my weapon and shooting at it.
(( Action: LV5 Pierce attack [Automatic Crossbow] on Drake ))
Post by Gin Takemoto on Jun 17, 2014 1:37:02 GMT -5
When the dragon attacked the flame demon, Gin couldn't help but smile in spite of himself. The fact that the flame guy then turned and attacked the dragon right back only made things that much better. Then add in the fact that there was a shadow in the form of an angel helping. Gin just couldn't believe his luck.
Of course, there were still the matters of the dragon being able to fly on top of dodging everything. Then there were also the attacks. Gin had to do something. Randomly attacking didn't seem to help much, so he was going to try something else just for kicks. The tiger took a certain and stance and howled. No noise came from him, though.
He could only hope that the same would be said about the dragon.
Post by Jaelyn Callahan on Jun 17, 2014 2:38:05 GMT -5
"Sweet bleeding fuck, this night just keeps getting weirder," Jaelyn complained. Though she'd been distracted by the dragon's attacks earlier, now that it was focusing more on other people, Jaelyn was able to notice more shit that was going on. First, another shadow had showed up, also claiming to be on their side against the dragon, and despite attacking the fire giant, suddenly the fire giant was on their side too.
...What?
Well, Jaelyn reasoned, the dragon probably had something to do with that. It had attacked the fire giant after all. And...fuck, there came the wind again. Jaelyn recoiled as the wind sliced through her, clutching at her body in pain until their injuries healed again. Fucking hell. Why did it seem like everything had wind attacks?
And for that matter, how had the dragon managed to dodge a fireball that big?
Jaelyn shook her head. She was having trouble keeping her thoughts straight, but she would at least make a concerted effort to stay sane this time. It still wasn't as bad as last time. And now that the dragon was back on the ground, it wouldn't be able to avoid another fiery explosion as easily as before. So that was exactly what Jaelyn did.
Pyxis's pace was only thrown off for a second by the actions of the other two shadows. After that, she decided to just roll with it. They had something against the dragon. Okay. The dragon was the greatest threat there anyway. She'd already figured out Gin's and the fire giant's weaknesses, so she could deal with them later. While she had no clue what the angelic shadow's deal was, it clearly had something against both the dragon and the fire giant. It was still suspicious, but its actions were easier to figure out than Gin's used to be.
Well, that just left actually attacking. With only one target to focus on for the moment, Pyxis turned her danmaku-class finger guns on the dragon and opened fire on it.
Post by Layla Amare on Jun 17, 2014 3:48:41 GMT -5
Well, despite saturating the sky with lightning bolts, Layla still managed to miss. Crap. That thing was pretty fast to be able to get through all of them. Fortunately though it landed soon after, following another blast of wind. Layla took the opportunity to fire off another attack. Another ball of electricity appeared high above the field, then grew in size until it could effectively rain down lightning bolts on the battlefield. This time, though, she withheld from attacking the fire giant shadow. For whatever reason, it and the dragon had turned against each other. But Layla wasn't going to question it. If it meant one less enemy to deal with for the moment, she'd take it.
Another round, another volley of attacks that did pretty much nothing to Anna, and another dose of weirdness from the shadows that had shown up after the dragon. Sheesh, a few more exchanges and this furball would start reaching WyrmCon levels of strange. At this rate, that may end up being a story that needed to be told, too. But what they, as Persona users, did was still pretty straightforward. It was the other shadows with the delayed execution orders that were being confusing. Unless they started focusing on the group again, all Anna needed to do was to keep shooting. So, after popping out the last empty shell and loading another one in its place, Anna leveled the shotgun at the drake and fired again.
Post by Ringo Shiro on Jun 17, 2014 7:12:38 GMT -5
The dragon soared up in the air and dove down. It seems to have stolen that shadow's Sukukaja because it was absurdly fast. Ringo's eyes widened in pain as he felt not only the deep slash from the dragon but also getting hit by a couple of the debris it caused. Soon it flapped its wings sending Ringo flying until he crashed until a nearby trash can. His entire body was screaming. This was just about as worse as that Shrine fight in terms of the pain that was being inflicted upon him.
Ringo slowly got up as he started to get healed. With the dragon lowered though, he can now start striking at it. His eyes glowed and Tokoyo shot out of his body, her sword drawn. Both hands placed upon the blade she sent the blade down in attempt to slice the dragon in half.
As always the tossing around of fellow Persona users began. At least with the drake taking away that shadows buff, and that shadow being logical enough not to start anymore fights with things that intend to kill it as well, they have a new ally, reluctant as that ally is. However, the time for picky is over, the dragon's assault began. It was painful but thankfully their healer was on duty as always. Amane kind of wished she had a form of cross bow or something to stab it with but she'll make due. Her eyes glowed as Vivane is once more appearing before her to do battle.
"Just a little more..." Viviane fired a shard of ice at the dragon hoping to weigh it down.
Post by John Nicholson on Jun 17, 2014 11:34:36 GMT -5
John was starting to realy get annoyed with this damn drake and its constant dodging. John did not seem to be the only one with such a sentiment as the unidentified flaming shadow started an attack on its past ally. John did not trust the shadow any farther than he could throw him which, given the thing's size just wasn't going to happen. He realized that there were bigger threats to deal with right now though, so he decided to keep that problem on hold until after the fight was over.
Speaking of the drake, John had seen it raking his allies with its claws and was quite thankful the attack had not hit him. The blast of wind following it did not though. Not that it really mattered much, as wahatever wounds would be inflicted were healed immediately. John retaliated at the drake with another shot from his shotgun, although he was starting to doubt the effectiveness of just wildly attacking.
action: Lvl 3 pierce attack on the drake with increasing amounts of annoyance.
Now even the fire shadow wanted to take out the dragon. Brynhild growled at the idea of listening to his suggestion. The presence of a larger threat doesn't mean it's alright to work with this monster. The humans don't need that kind of help, and could probably take him out right now if they wanted to. Convincing the others would distract them for too long. She wanted to get rid of all the shadows, but dragging this battle out would ruin the theme park.
For now, only the boss wanted to hurt any humans. If she continued to attack the other three, everyone else would end up taking more damage than necessary. She'd have to find some other way to help out.
Ever since she found that armor during the last full moon, Brynhild had not bothered to avoid damage. The latest wind attack certainly hurt the most so far, but with the constant healing she was able to hold out. Looking over at the boy from earlier, his condition didn't seem to be improving. If the magic did not help him recover then he must really be unconscious. He needed a different kind of help. Bryn vaguely remembered passing out two months ago, and how she got crudely resurrected after the fight. It might be smarter to wait until the end to do this; although if she didn't bring him back now he might be dead for two long, or something. One of these days she'd have to learn how this technique actually worked.
Brynhild ran closer until she stood over the pink haired kid. Before tonight she never had a chance to use this spell, but knew that it probably involved stabbing the poor kid. While summoning Berserker she tried her hardest to focus on less painful ways of helping, not that it mattered. Her Persona manifested a cross-shaped dagger approximately one foot above the boy's chest and jabbed it into him. The dagger quickly dissolved into his skin, surrounding the kid with a faint glow as he recovered. She knew from experience that these weapons never actually hurt, but having to watch this happen always made her feel uneasy.
Post by James Kamimaru on Jun 17, 2014 16:45:53 GMT -5
James jumped up after feeling something... pull him from the deepest part within. He guessed he had passed out from the attacks. He looked at the woman standing over him. "Thanks," he said before looking around. He saw that another giant creature joined in the fray, but this one looked like an angel. I have to figure this shit out soon, he thought to himself.
He then looked back at the woman who woke him up. "Doesn't look like anything got better. God." He took aim against the dragon. It was still the biggest thing that he knew of, and it didn't seem to like bullets. After shooting off a few rounds, he turned. "Any chance you can explain to me what the hell's going on? After this ends, I mean."
((L1 Pistol- Pierce))
Last Edit: Jun 17, 2014 16:48:49 GMT -5 by James Kamimaru
The drake was beginning to falter having endured so much up to this point. Even the shadows that thought that they were "aligned" with it finally got some sense and began to attack him. Just because they were all shadows didn't mean that they were allies.
While prepping for a counter attack, the drake took evasive maneuvers to deal with the enemy. Xain, Alice, Lucian, Alisa, Gin, Jaelyn, Pyxis, Anna, Ringo, Amane, and James all miss their attacks! Not bad.
Quite pleased with its avoidance skills, the drake inhales before releasing a blast of fire on everyone below. Everyone takes major fire damage!
Then with a smirk, the beast lifts its tail before sending it out at some nearby targets. Tristan and Pyxis are hit for severe pierce damage. The are both hit with poison as well!
Needless to say, the drake may have gotten a bit cocky after its dodging. Rather than continue its attack, it decided to perch back on the roller coaster and roar at the small creatures below. It was taunting them now. How embarrassing.