"Basically yeah, two hours... give or take. Likely less," Giselle said with a nod, when Idris spoke.
When she saw the fire rising up in the distance, Giselle remembered that Cosimo was going on a rampage. "Oh dear... that's... not good I think," Giselle said as the fire rose higher.
Then Giselle remembered Bossy was there in the palace, and she could feel her panicking. "Oh shit... Bossy was in the palace," Giselle whispered almost where the other three wouldn't hear unless they were close. "And yeah, I knew. Terra told me," Giselle answered Kalt, even though she didn't think that Kalt was talking to her specifically.
"I don't suppose you can direct your powers a little less... destructively, can you Kalt? If so, would it be beyond the realm of possibility for you to portal me to Bossy? So I can grab her, and get back here?" Giselle asked Kalt curiously, looking over her shoulder at her.
No, or rather, not nearly as accurately as Idris could. And even then? I can't get a feel of her, none of us can. That's her big advantage, she's the hardest to find. We could walk right passed her and never know. Only Kina and Kuna would have half a clue. She said, Idris nodding.
Closest I could get is well, Cosimo.... erm... dad. You're kidding right Kalt? The hell do you mean he's our real dad?You see Idris, when two people love eachother they Fuck and make a Baby. she said sarcastically, the others looking shocked shitless at the news. OOooo yes, he's your 'Real' Father alright. Too bad he was never around. Interesting what Corellon said though isn't it. I kill the little beast, and you all cease to be. a familiar voice hissed from above, Giselle looking up to spot Cammy, who was resting against the mountain wall. She'd been waiting for the walls to drop and let her in. Kalt immediately turned and turned the mountain where she was standing to dust, Cammy moving fast down into the valley. Idris bristled. She's serious then huh? Giselle, protect our body, Kalt, TRY and get her there. Idris said, crackling with electricity into a larger, silhouette body, before bolting off, Sola fast on her heals, while Luna spotted something and took off as well. Kalt rubbing her head. I can get you half way. Best I can do. she said, as the others took off after Cammy.
"Oh... damn. And no Idris, she's not joking, Cos is your real dad as far as I know," Giselle said, chuckling a bit at Kalt's sarcastic words.
When Cammy spoke though, Giselle sighed and shook her head, knowing it would have happened sooner or later really. "And you're such a role model of a mother huh. Going to kill your own daughter without even giving her a chance," Giselle called back to Cammy, before Kalt turned the mountainside to dust.
"I will, don't you worry. I'd die before I let anything happen to you," Giselle said to Idris, watching her streak down the mountain after Cammy. "Halfway will have to do then, send me, and... try to stay calm, I know it's hard, given the situation and everything, but the more worked up you are, the less of, well... you, there'll be when I put you back together again," Giselle then told Kalt, preparing to go.
Dad is dying, Mom is trying to kill me. How calm can I be expected to stay. Kalt said evenly, before dropping Giselle through a portal and into a forest. Giselle could hear Roaring music in the background of a type she'd never heard before and the screams, moans, and groans of the undead, as well as the stamping of their feet. There had to be thousands of them. Gunshots as well. She'd have to move quick, but she was pre-empted by Chesire, the Halfling standing in front of her.
You know... Cammy is a rare talent. She's so far ahead of you on this game board, that I can't even follow her. But she Swore you'd be here.... She said, grinning as she raised her arms like a puppet master, and large glowing tendrils, as thick as tree trunks, slid from the ground all around them, Tidecaller hissing dangerously from inside Giselle. You see... I could just go after the body..... Or I could kill you first, save myself the trouble, and THEN take the body. Personally I think that's safer given the situation. What do ya say? Just lay down and die for me?
"I know honey, believe me... I know what it's like to lose your parents," Giselle told Kalt sadly, nodding before she dropped through the portal, and heard... music... some amazing music to say the least, that she would love to sing to.
She also heard the undead from the outer areas of town in those districts, and could only suspect that the music was luring them. She also heard the gunshots, and immediately ducked a bit, before noticing that they weren't aimed at her. Sighing, and feeling that she wasn't a full halfway there, Giselle began to move, before spotting Chesire... or no... Wee Jas. "Oh? And tell me why I should do that, hmm? To just stand by and watch, as my lover is stolen from me, yet again. As well as my unborn children. Did you even think that through before you spoke, Wee Jas? Or should I say, miss forgotten goddess. No... I'm going to kick your ass, or kill you if I have to, and then I'll do the same to Cammy if I have to. Nobody is going to take Kylie from me. I don't give a flying fuck what you want her for, or what she may or may not do in the future. She's my fiancee, and I love her no matter what. I can even love her if her shards bring ruin to this land. And you know why? Because I know that neither she, nor I, were the underlying cause of it... you, Cammy, and all of the others that just want her for her power are the true cause of it," Giselle said to the halfling bitch in front of her.
Giselle then called up her own powers, and sent a wave of water outward, washing those tendrils away from her, and then trying to draw it back in right towards Chesire in an attempt to damage her, remembering what Terra had taught her, and trying to use that as she performed her own attack.
Giselle attacks, properly :3
11 vs 4 Chesire takes a hit. ?/?
Chesire takes the gloves off. 18 vs 19 Miss, Barely.
Giselle's wave of water boiled into the air as the nearby trees shriveled into husks, Tidecaller not taking any shit right now as he pulled the water from everything available to summon the wave which rushed through the Halfling, diverting her own attack, before it rushed back to Giselle in a series of solid bolts, heavy balls of ice on watery tendrils of her own that struck the halfling hard, sending her closer to Giselle.
The 'Forgotten God' Dusted herself off, and sighed, before her cloaked form billowed and rippled, a cloak of starlight, black on black with tiny lights from a thousand million miles away flickering inside it rushing around her as her tendrils reformed. Suppose you wouldn't understand it Mortal. Very Well. she said, before the battle started for real, Chesire armed with her cloak and her magics, Giselle with a swirling, hissing serpent of living water that rushed and snapped around her and her spear.
20 vs 9 ?/?
5 vs 7 miss.
Giselle was in no mood, with her love in the crosshairs like this, and rushed forward, spinning her spear in one hand while she guided the water with the other, throwing her palm forward to twist the serpent up and around in front of her as she did to constrict the tendrils, before slamming the back of her spear down onto Chesire's head, bouncing her into the dirt before drawing back again on her power, the waves unforgiving as it tore Chesire's tendrils again, and swung her hard through a tree trunk as the water returned, while again, Chesire's counter-attack had been thwarted by the constricting water, that Roared loudly at the Halfling in rage as Giselle spun her weapon down and slid back into her stance once her combo had finished, re-positioning on her opponent.
The sounds of combat all around them were sounding, Shouts, screams, cries, gunshots, sword clashes, and that music refused to stop, changing and twisting to the situation, the Blood Moon rising high and huge in the darkening sky while Lightning lit it up in a gridwork net of stunning power and ferocity. Cammy wouldn't be flying out of here at the very least.
Giselle yanked water from everything nearby to use, smashing the icy balls into Chesire and knocked her closer a bit, and then Chesire retaliated. "I'm no mere mortal, forgotten one. I'm fey," Giselle said, narrowing her eyes as she dodged the tendrils coming at her.
Giselle was not taking Chesire's shit, and charged at Chesire, launching a serpent of water out of her right hand while spinning her naginata in her left to help block, and then she spun and smacked the butt of her naginata down onto Chesire's head, knocking her down. Giselle's waters helped her yet again, preventing Chesire's attacks from landing, and she was glad they hadn't, because that meant less for her to have to worry about from the little halfling bitch.
"I told you, I'm not going to let you take my beloved from me, halfling," Giselle growled at Chesire, narrowing her eyes and preparing to attack again, sending her coiling serpents out again, this time in an attempt to pierce Chesire's body if she could, to force her to concede defeat and retreat, or be killed outright for trying to take Kylie from her, while the sounds of battle rang out all around her.
Giselle 16 vs 9 ?/?
Chesire 3 vs 13 miss
Giselle 12 vs 6 ?/?
Chesire enrages.
14 vs 12 Giselle 5/6 and Distanced.
perception. 14. Passing aid, no extra damage.
Giselle rushed in, her serpent turning into a spear on it's own as she launched a combo, the ice biting down hard on Chesire's shoulder and pulling the halfling mid spell into Giselle's naginata, the blade slashing into a body that felt far tougher then it should, both blows scoring damage.
Chesire however raised her hand like a claw, slamming it into the side of a serpent with an otherworldly roar of her own, the ice shattering before a magic circle lit up the ground around them and exploded, the blast throwing Giselle through several trees and a good hundred yards away.
The impact left Giselle dazed, and it had certainly hurt, but she was far less injured then she should have been, looking up, she'd see several paladins, all geared and armored to the teeth. A silver haired and Angry looking older man holding a barrier between her and a viciously pointed stone jutting from the earth inches from her back, a bastard sword in one hand, blade red and dripping with some enchantment, and a cracked skull in the other. Nodding, her left Giselle to her own battle We're out of time, Get through that mess and to Ichiro before we lose him! he shouted, a battlecry to the sun god rising into the air as they fearlessly charged into what Giselle could now see was truly a rampaging horde, all of them wreathed in holy light as they rushed towards another battle.
Meanwhile, Giselle would see what looked like Sola and Idris joined, the Shard pulsing with glowing golden electricity that arced furiously around her while she, and another man Giselle didn't know fought furiously with Cammy, Idris somersaulting to throw blindingly fast unarmed strikes and kicks, flashes of light and lightning echoing around to keep Cammy occupied, who didn't dare take to the air because of the sky, while the man, wielding two longswords came in to score blows, both moving in perfect sync with one another as they pushed the servant of the Raven Queen back.
A bolt of energy lanced straight through the fray, disintegrating undead in a straight line for a mile and missing Giselle by mere inches, the protection from the Paladin before still holding, but fading under the weight of that spell as Chesire started to chant again, preparing a spell. She'd never make it to her in time on foot to stop her. But the source of the music was getting louder and before she knew it, She'd been tossed unceremoniously into a wagon, where hecate pounced on her, holding oranges in each hand and nuzzling her, while Kina and Kuna just let the wagon's horses hurtle dangerously at the halfling.
Hecate leapt to the front after several wriggly hugs, and inhaled the spell, another blinding lance of dark violet energy from chesire as she did, before exhaling the spell back at her. SORRY LADY THEY ALL WNNA MURDER US DEAD SO YOU GET HER WE'RE GOING AFTER BOSSY AFORE DAD SMUSHES HER! Kuna cried while playing a guitar furiously, and Kina just kept singing her tiny fluffy white heart out, seeming Super into it, the wagon rushing passed Chesire entirely and Giselle being shoved off of it to skid back into the fight, having gotten a driveby assist from the insane shardlings.
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Chesire attacks immediately 7 vs 14
Giselle counters 19 vs 8
?/? the Godling is looking ragged.
Leaping back into battle, she couldn't reform the serpent immediately, but the water was still there. Chesire however attacked immediately, Giselle having to skid straight passed the blow, a tendril scything over her and cutting everything it touched like a vorpal blade. Springing back up she managed to score another deep cut on the Halfling as she resummoned the water, the spilled ice and water in the earth surging up into the air and slashing her badly as the serpent reformed on her shoulder, roaring like the miniature sea dragon it was, Tidecaller roaring inside her just as furiously.
Giselle was glad that her attack seemed to pay off, her naginata blade slicing into Chesire as she snatched her with the icy serpent. Chesire was taking off the kids gloves though now it seemed, and Giselle gasped before she was sent flying back from a powerful blow that she just barely blocked enough to keep it from being too bad. Giselle slammed into several trees, and flew quite far, until she finally landed with a grunt against something, and prepared herself to jump back at Chesire, using her water to splash her towards the little halfling bitch.
Before she went though, she saw the paladins, and was a bit dumbstruck as to why they were there, and noticed that a barrier had prevented her from slamming into a very sharp pointed rock. She nodded a quick thanks to them, before spotting Sola and Idris joined together as one, and they were fighting Cammy alongside someone else, a man she didn't know in the slightest bit. She only caught sight of their fight for a few moments before looking back to her own, barely managing to avoid being hit with a blast of power from Chesire she assumed, thanks to the paladin's help.
Narrowing her eyes, Giselle was about to jump back at Chesire, before being scooped up by Hecate, Kina, and Kuna, and fell into their wagon they had gotten from somewhere. Giselle hugged Hecate quickly, before watching her jump in front and gobbling up Chesire's powerful attack she sent forth, and spat it back at her. Giselle nodded to the cat and dog, and jumped back down with a bit of a shove from them, landing in front of Chesire and she skidded towards Chesire, ducking under her attack, and spinning around slashing Chesire's back.
"Halfling bitch... concede defeat, or die here... those are the only options I'm giving you!" Giselle cried at Chesire, before driving towards her again, lashing out with her serpent, trying to either trip Chesire down, her grab her and hold her in place, where she would try to run her through with her naginata.
Chesire. 20.
Giselle saves for damage. DC 15
17, 19, 15. As if by some fucking miracle, Giselle takes NO damage. Holy fuck girl.
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Chesire, instead of letting Giselle closing in on her again, figuring out rather plainly that she was NOT going to beat the Siren in a close quarters fight, threw her head back in prideful fury, and brought both her hands together in a triangle, the center arcing with a furious, dark light, that rapidly arced out in a series of circular pulses that obliterated anything they touched, crushing them with a gravitational energy that only the darkest magics were capable of. Those magics born amongst the stars and in the dark places of the universe where nothing could ever escape. The true void.
Those rings tore trees and earth apart, reduced boulders to infinitesimal fragments that were so heavy the earth cratered under them. Giselle was blown back, but rolled to her feet, using the water to launch herself above the first ring, which would have cleaved her cleanly in two, the others tracking her actively, twisting and warping in their orbits to follow her. Slamming her naginata into the trunk of a tree, 20 feet above the ground, she had to swing to avoid the second, and a short roll brought her under the last by the barest of margins, part of her hair destroyed.
The magic continued to wickedly twist and spin, Chesire standing in the center of it, her body rippling with energy as she started chanting to hold the powerful spell in check. But what was more horrifying was that she was doing it with a single hand, her other raising and her fingers snapping to form a gate directly below her. I WILL HAVE HER MORTAL BITCH she screamed, her she vanished, and all the energy lashed back, exploding outwards in a wave that immediately sapped all the strength from Giselle. As she was passing out, she felt herself in the arms of someone who put her soul at ease as she was spirited away from the battlefield.
Giselle was quite glad to know that Chesire feared her enough to know that she couldn't take her in close quarters, as the halfling attacked and knocked her back, as everything around Chesire was obliterated. Using her watery powers, Giselle bounced back to her feet, and jumped over one of the rings coming at her, and thumping her naginata into the tree limb above her to pull herself up over the second death ring. Then she managed dodge the final ring, though lost a bit of hair in the process as she ducked under it, looking up at Chesire with a frown.
Giselle was about to go in again, when Chesire began building up power. "NO YOU WON'T, FORGOTTEN BITCH!" Giselle cried back, just before the power building exploded outward, and Chesire vanished through the portal she'd opened up underneath herself, and Giselle was blasted back a bit as the strength left her body from the shockwave of it.
Falling to her knees, as her consciousness faded, Giselle faintly felt someone catching her, and she felt a bit more at ease, as her eyes closed, no really knowing who it was that had caught her as she fainted.
Giselle woke slowly, and she was sore, literally, All over. She was back underground at the temple, but the room Kylie was in was badly damaged by a fight that had taken place there. Kina and Kuna were in the corner, curled up around eachother and both out cold and bandaged, seemed their luck had run out at some point.
Gale was even worse off, laying in the healing pool with her body, cut up in several places. But her wounds weren't smoking like before, the pool seemed to be staving it off, letting her recover.
Hecate was... doodling against a shattered wall, heaps of stone laying around the far side of it like a bomb had gone off, and Luna and Sola were both tending to Giselle, her head resting in Sola's lap. Kina and Idris were nowhere to be seen, and... Cammy, was resting against the shattered wall, looking tired, beat all to hell, and arguing quietly with the man Giselle had seen.
Young, and with short cropped dusty brown hair, he was dressed in Rose leathers, and was holding onto Kylie's swords, the pair resting in his lap while he argued with the great black winged woman, who seemed to be trying to explain something.
When she next woke, Giselle groaned softly, her body aching all over, and incredibly sore. She barely felt like moving, but Giselle forced herself to raise her head up slightly to look around. She recognized the temple's underground area, which was a bit damaged too, where Kylie's body was, and groaned again as she saw Kina and Kuna both battered a bit and bandaged up. Gale was also quite beaten as well, and was in the pool with Kylie's main body, letting it heal her up some too.
Spotting Hecate, Giselle saw her doodling on the walls again, a broken one. Looking up, she saw Sola and Luna with her, and smiled up at them, before noticing Cammy and the... strange man that had fought her alongside Idris and Sola. Giselle jumped a bit and gasped, looking for her naginata to protect Kylie with. "W-What's she doing here?" Giselle asked, looking straight at Cammy, and glancing nervously to Kylie's near lifeless body in the pool.
Whatever I please. She's my daughter before she's your fiance. Or did you forget. Cammy said, raising an eyebrow while the man slapped his palm over his face. Mom, you mind being Halfway nice? We're both dead. What say do we have who she marries. Stow the Fey hate for now.Why should I? She's kept my feather around, I know every single move she's made, and then some. She should be putting her back together, not giving her different pieces marching orders!Giselle! Cammy! Cammy! Giselle! I'm Regi. Everyone can fucking Shush. Reginald bellowed, mostly because Hecate had looked between Giselle and Cammy and sat on her butt, crying loudly, but her giant maw snapped shut when Reginald said to shush.
Cammy cuffed him upside the head, making him glare. Dearest Mother here has been trying to tell us her grand plan and design and I can't follow it at all. Something about being watched and measured until now because of the compact and other godling fuckery I don't want to try and understand. Good job though, we saw you back Wee Jas off, which finally put an end to the fight here. Apparently when you made her withdraw, she had to pull back from here as well. She can be in two places. And I'm willing to bet that saved Gale and the Fluffy dipshits. Reginald said, gesturing at the badly hurt shards. Cammy nodding. Know how hard it was to get leave to come here in the first place? My Matron had to be certain I was here to kill her, not help her. So I'm not apologizing if you're gullible Cammy snorted, crossing her arms. The Kylie Sass came from Cammy's side apparently. Uhhh huh. Anyway. Hi, I'm Undead, Mom's proper Dead, and Kylie's not even really alive by standard definition. Welcome to the fucked up family. Reginald quipped, starting to run a whetstone over his old swords.
Giselle frowned a bit when Cammy spoke, groaning a tiny bit as she tried to raise up the rest of the way to stand. "Well, since I don't know if it's as easy as just throwing Kylie's shards back into her to revive her or not, I'm more inclined to just find the rest of the shards first, rather than just forcibly stuff them all back into her. Besides, having Hecate and Gale, and some of the others out here to help with the searching, and fighting, is a very big help," Giselle said, sighing softly and feeling the aftereffects of the fight with Chesire... or, Wee Jas, rather.
Giselle sat there and listened to Regi introduce himself, and Cammy, officially, and she couldn't help but smile a bit, having wanted to actually meet them both since not long after meeting Kylie herself. After both Regi and Cammy were through talking, with Cammy's words being mostly sass, just like Kylie's usually were, Giselle sighed softly. "You know, Cammy... if what Regi says is true, that Kylie's not alive by standard definitions, then you technically can't kill her, not just because she's your daughter and that's kin slaying, but also because, your job's already done... technically. Wouldn't you say? I mean, especially now," Giselle said, looking over to Kylie floating in the pool with a sad look on her face, barely alive.
After a few moments, Giselle looked back to Luna and Sola and smiled softly at them. "Girls... were Kina and Kuna able to find Bossy, as they called her?" Giselle asked the two shards, looking hopeful, but not expecting the two to have managed it.
Cammy snorted. Not really. She can still be killed like this. And the Fatespinner is getting awfully pissed. We've got a ton of threads cut because of this anarchy and while it may not have been by her hand, it is because of what she is, that it's all occured. There's also the risk the Okami over the mountain are worried about. Wee Jas may be mostly interested in the children, but if he got his hands on her body, and sat his unholy ass inside it? He'd be a great deal stronger then he is now. The path to Godhood would be short and sweet. Cammy snorted, denying the hopeful but circular logic. Undead aren't alive either and they're the Raven Queen's primary target. No matter how you slice it, what Kylie is, is something that shouldn't be. Her kind hasn't been around for a very, VERY long time. She spoke to the Alfar, but Tiana exists outside her control. She exists outside the control of most. Corellon would need to command her, and he will not. she continued, Reginald nodding.
That much I got. She refused to give up Kalt, but Kylie is close enough to the Alfar's favourite pets. They excelled near the end in creating automatons. Kylie would be what's called an Atronach. Her ability to pull and use magic without blood or word is the ability of a type of Golem. She's unique obviously, but the original design is identical. Look for yourself. Reginald said, Hecate tilting her head while Luna and Sola sighed.
Do you wish to see Giselle? We wouldn't fault you if you did not...In truth we were unaware of this as well... too busy looking out. Not looking in... Luna mirrored, looking nervous as they helped her to her feet.
"So basically... I have to put her back together again, and soonish, else everyone and their brother, are going to try and take her away from me. Right?" Giselle said, sighing softly and looking a bit overwhelmed with all of this.
After Regi spoke, Giselle nodded and looked to Sola and Luna and smiled at them. "I love Kylie, every part about her, no matter how light, or dark. I've already told you both this, and Kylie, more times than I can count. I would not trade any part of you for another, or for anything else," Giselle said to Sola and Luna, cupping both of their cheeks lovingly, as she kissed both on the lips.
Both of the shards sighed and Hecate snuffled and wandered into Regi's lap, demanding attention and hugs, Cammy sighing. Luna and Sola both shook their heads and stood Giselle in front of Kylie's body, and held out their hands, the sun and the moon peeling back the layers of an illusion so complex it bordered on a dual reality.
Kylie's form shimmered in the water next to Gale, until Gale became as incorporeal as dust surrounding a black gem sliver, and Kylie herself... ceased to resemble anything that could be called human.
She lay there, humanoid surely, but wreathed in lightly curling blue flame that wisped and danced just above a body that was more skeleton then form. Her face was a dark shimmering helm, a great band of crystal slashing across where her eyes would be, while her skeleton was more outside then in, curling and hooking down her limbs, coiling and twisting with bone and a dark and dusky metal so soaked in magic that it hurt Giselle's eyes. She was slender and beautiful, like a carefully carved and shaped work of art. But inside that framework, a dull light, those same dancing flames gave her form and definition. Her chest was a broad plate, where a great stone star with 14 points sat, but it was shattered, a great hole cleaved through it's left side where she'd been shot. It was like looking at a suit of armor, or a special body or puppet, that a soul could wear.
I understand what happened to my children before they were born... that they would not exist without that little monster's interference. But it's hard.... Cammy muttered, hanging her head, while Reginald nodded. Imagine my fucking confusion when I died and looked like that. he said, patting Hecate who whined softly, until the the pair stopped and Kylie resumed being the white haired woman Giselle knew.
Still have no idea how she's pregnant. How do babies work with a body like that. I mean they obviously do... somehow.
Giselle watched as Sola and Luna did their thing, and watched as Kylie's form in the pool shimmered and changed, quite a bit. Watching as Kylie's form changed into what it did, Giselle gasped softly in surprise, before stepping out into the pool, sliding her robes off before doing so, and wading over to Kylie for a few moments, reaching down and caressing her cheek, while shielding her eyes as best she could to keep the sheer overpowering light of the magic from blinding her.
When Cammy spoke, Giselle glanced up at her to listen, as Sola and Luna shifted Kylie's form back to normal. "I... guess it was quite the shock, Regi," Giselle commented as she waded back to the side of the pool and climbed back out to dry off, redressing herself once more and taking a seat next to where Regi and Hecate were sitting, where she reached over and patted Hecate's head. "And I don't know either, Cammy. But I know they are my children, and I will do anything to keep them, and Kylie safe from harm. I... I just don't think my heart could bear it, to lose her, and them," Giselle said to Cammy, reaching up and wiping her eyes as tears formed in them.
Sorry... all the light is caused by the pool Luna muttered as Giselle shielded her eyes. Stroking Kylie's cheek, she'd feel it was smooth, but warm to the touch... She'd been fucking this thing for ages O.O;;
She'd stuck her dick in blue fire.
...
Patting Hecate, the little monster flopped her head down into her lap and Regi chuckled. Reminds me of how she'd get if she was drunk. Just, sprawl all over the place. he said, Luna and Sola moving to Kina and Kuna.
