⌊ open⌉ Ayakashi

[moonlitknight]

Who: Zero and Open
What: A week after THIS, Zero falls to an ayakashi and is killed.
When: May 11th
Where: Everywhere.
Warnings: Blood, violence, death


The blood had calmed the vampire enough for the Hunter to take back control, but after he did so Zero was left with the horror of what he'd done. Those who had fought him off had left their mark but his healing factor had taken care of any physical scars leaving only the mental ones. The ordeal had left him fearful of what he was, what he could do. He was a godless shinki without a leash. He couldn't control himself, not without the blood tablets and those were gone which left him grasping at straws. He was missing something, he knew it. He couldn't have been like this while he was alive. There must have been something that had kept the bloodlust under control, something in his memories to help him from becoming that again.

But what?! Without a god to guide him he had only himself and without his memories....  His memories! They held the answers. They had too! Something to stop the bloodlust, a key, a spell. Something. Anything.

And so it began. His fall. It  started with a single question - how to control the vampire inside? - and ended with the beast that suddenly appeared before its prey. A loud crack echoed through the area as the wolf, ten feet tall, stepped forward. Its body was a composition of razor sharp silver rose vines that enveloped a darkness beneath. This time, the shinki didn't taunt, didn't track like the vampire. It fell across his victims and sought destruction as it sprang forward and snapped its teeth at its prey.

[ OOC: Plotting Post is Here, though post is open to all! Also, sorry this is late! ]

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[miraculo]

For someone that comes from a game all about fighting and dodging and more fighting, she doesn't even bother to raise a barrier. The vines fly at her chaotically, but pattern recognition within seemingly chaos, especially when it comes out from a single vector, is easy to discern. Sanae weaves in and out of them like they were ribbons, and then takes to the air.

Having the higher ground now, she then issues her second attack with a wave of her gohei. Five white beams of light climb into the sky before taking a sharp ninety degree turn, then plummeting down towards the wolf. If he looks closely the heads of the giant beams seem to resemble snakes, but the truth is that they're moving too fast and shining too brightly to have much detail. It's a homing attack as well, and will follow to wherever he next leaps.

[young_oldman]

He watches his god evade the vines with a certain pride; she had bared her neck willingly that day, for surely if she had not given her consent then the vampire would not have been able to even lay a finger on her.

He doesn't need to speak up much but at the rare moments when it's needed, he calmly points out to her whenever a vine encroaches on her, just outside the periphery of her vision. He's not only encasing her heart with iron determination. He functions as a second set of eyes and ears, and together they ease their way out of the attack. He'll still be on the alert for any sneaky attacks but without any vines in attacking reach to bother her, Lu Meng watches as she rains down holy light on the creature.

[moonlitknight]

Holy light against a creature of darkness. Had he been in any human mindset he might have admired her for it, but the creature before them wasn't human anymore. The wolf operated on an instinctual level and it knew danger when it came rushing at it. The ayakashi knew it couldn't evade and instead stood its ground. The wolf threw back its head and howled into the night as vines burst from its mouth and rushed forward in five direction to meet the holy light head on.

If it couldn't evade the attack, it would take it. So long as the composition of its main body was kept in tact it was free of danger. The rose vines would take on the attack, sacrificing themselves for the core.

[miraculo]

If it's simply a test of power, Sanae's energy runs like a fire hydrant that's been knocked off of its post. And she has a plethora of followers to augment her energy. So, quite simply, she ups the ante against those vines of his. Naturally she doesn't care what happens to her temple or her grounds.

As an ayakashi, and one borne of a vampire, she presumes that his energy won't be as limitless. He may need blood, or negative energy from the woes and cries of humans. Neither of which is being supplied to him at this moment, and in contrast Sanae's power only becomes more concentrated through her shinki's unique ability. When one beam of light is consumed by a tangle of vines, the next follows through, and then the next, steadying pushing against him as there are five in total. But Sanae is on the offensive at this moment because if she doesn't stop him here, then who else will he hurt next? She won't allow that, for their sake.. and for Zero's. If he's still in there, then he shouldn't have to go through harming someone innocent.

That attack continues and keeping him distracted, and knowing that the beams' paths will stay true, she's allowed to begin her next assault. She casts her left hand out, and then upwards. Her fingers contract, her fist clenches, and then she whips that arm down in a path towards him like a hammer to an anvil. At first nothing happens, but then the sky darkens with a loud rumble. Then the sun itself is outshone as two bright spheres descend from gods knows where, radiating white, warping the space just beyond their corona through heat and gravity. Stars, literal daytime stars have entered the field, and they follow the arc of her throw. Spinning quickly, the chromosphere expels prominences like lasers at the wolf.

Quite frankly, she intends to overwhelm him.

[young_oldman]

Moments like these are difficult to reconcile with the bubbly, friendly Sanae. But Lu Meng has seen her take on ayakashi, and he knows the power of her miracles. To bring someone back from the cusp of death...or to send them careening into hell itself. Her attacks are a brilliant radiance, the bright light burning with an intensity that's causing the air to sizzle. He has never seen her use so much of her power before...and she does so effortlessly. She must have more in store, ready to be used against their foe.

Frankly, he's glad she's dedicated her heart to serving the people and doing right in the world. And he's glad that in this case, both he and her are united in their desire to kill this fallen shell of her so-called friend. Though...Sanae would probably wish and hope that this Zero would return after his death. Lu Meng can't deny that he'd rather rub this wolf out of existence, permanently. Some might say he's being ruthless but for him there is no excuse for attacking, wounding his lady, draining her of not just her blood and life, but also her smiles, her giggles, her confidence and happiness.

That, to him, is unforgivable.

"You've got him on the defensive. That's good, but be wary of the vines. He might attempt to attack you now that we're focused on the offence."

[moonlitknight]

Light clashes against steel holding off the attack, but its merely the opening act. Twin suns flash into existence hurling toward the wolf with the ferocity of the god controlling them. They tear through the rose vines like disintegrating them on contact and the wolf pulls back, instincts flaring to life as it finally engages in battle and moves with a speed familiar to the vampire in an attempt to escape the heated core of those stars.