The Ancient Temple (First RP :D)

[akumaneko]

[well, we still haven't gone anywhere.]
"guess this is were I come in. Seeing how both of you used such nice skills I would feel left out if I dint". Nocturnus stood still for a second.
"Pulse, Release!" his shadow armor exploded around him. it shifted in what appeared to be a small spiral around Nocturnus. then it suddenly came together on Nocturnus.

"Now this is how you destroy these creatures" he materialized a scythe, and a pair of shadow wings.

"to take them down you first need to get on the same level." he said as he quickly rose to face the swarm of bats.
"all you have to do then is simply,"he was sating as he razed his scythe "tear them down."(Ignis: he really likes talking to much) "Grand, Shadow Pulse!!"
as he slashed down the scythe. a huge Blade of shadows raced towards the bats. when it hit them it simply when't right through them.
"and then make sure they don't come back" he said as he snapped his fingers. Then the blade split into thousands of small shuriken, which simply used the wind currents created by the Mage's spell to tear the bats to shreads.
"and thats how you take care of enemies like these." he said after the last one fell.
Then he returned to burst mode.

Ignis stopped her flame around the Mage. "You really do talk too much you know"

"yea, yea" he turned to the Mage
"I think I found the door to the next room. it appears to be up here" he said motioning to a large crevice in the ceiling.

[srgtmaster]

None of what went on around him passed by Osseron as he tried to hold back the pain from his Limiter's Lash backs. His whole vision had blacked out and he could only kneel there as wave after wave of pain washed over him as his cybernetics his being fell apart from the oversurge.

As the smoke cleared, they could see that his body was wreaked, his hunched form barly identifiable by the organic parts that now supported a much heavier metalic weight.

Once he could think, let alone move, talk or see, Osseron willed his nanite factories into action, covering his implants in a soothing green glow as millions of nanites worked together to re-form his implants and energy pathways.

[Genis Sage]

As Osseron regained consciousness, one could tell something was slowly, SLOWLY, healing him. However, he wasn't near the state to walk ,move, or anything for that matter. Now, let's put things into perspective. Genis is a 14-year old boy who is physically weak. Osseron, on the other hand, was a cyborg-like being, and probably weights about half a ton. Now, Osseron needed to be carried.

"Um, Nocturnus...I don't think I can carry Osseron along? Do you mind, you know, carrying him?" said Genis, as he walked along to the exit of the room. It seemed to be on the ceiling. Ugh. Nothing seemed to be easy, did it? Well, Genis was small. He fit through the crevice in the ceiling, and came out on another room. Well, more like a cavern.

The room was huge, and stalactites/stalagmites hung/raised from everywhere. Somehow, crystals shone, creating natural light. Or maybe, some old wizard had used Prism Sword. Meh, it could be anything. However, the biggest thing of the room was the lake. A lake, big enough to hold a navy was pristine, without a movement within. Mainly because there was little to no wind in the room, making waves almost impossible. For some reason, more skeletons laid on the floor (DID THEY LOVE DEATH?!), with crushed bodies.

However, the wave thing seemed to defy physics. There were waves lapping at the shore. And when the half-elf mage looked around to try to figure out why, he went pale white. He looked down the crevice, saying:

"N-nocturnus? Uh...you might wanna give me a hand up here...we got a bit of a problem..." He said this as The Kraken roared, causing another wave with it's massive size.

[akumaneko]

[heading up to the cavern]
well things just seem to go from bad to worse around here. first the idiot machine guy smashes himself against a wall. Then I get stuck carrying him up the crevice along with Ignis. and, of course to top things off a kraken.Seriously?
[in the cave already]
"well this place seems to be full of truly bothersome creatures".
says Nocturnus as he drops the glowing cyborg to the ground in the cave with a loud thud.

"this time you have to let me fight." demanded Ignis.

"Fine, Fine. But please try not too go insane again. I'm pretty sure someone (Me, knowing my luck )might die this time." he answered.

"yay! better get ready then" she said with glee as a ghostly blue aura began to appear around her.

"best get ready as well" he said as he materialized a bow in his right hand and a chain claw in his left hand.
"best attack it from above. wile you people do the dangerous stuff" he said this wile thinking {I really don't want to be anywhere near her if she has an emotional break down}.

"fine by me. o!" she turned to Osseron.
"I'm going to give you a flame that should help you recover a bit."she said as a small yellow flame was ignited on Osseron.
"try not to die till we get back. K?"then she turned around and literally ran head first at the Kraken.

"sigh, I liked more the bats. they were less of a hassle to kill"
he said as he fired his chain claw and ascended to the top of the cave. then linked the chain to the back of his shadow armor and razed his bow, ready to fire at any time..(whenever any tentacle of the Kraken gets too close to either Genis or Ignis He will fire Burst imbued arrows at them)
"I really have a bad feeling about this."

[srgtmaster]

Osseron Winced as he was dropped onto the ground, his legs not even begun to be reconstructed as he focused on at least getting his arms, and his ability to fight, back to standing.

Thanking Ignis for the healing flame (and resisting the urge just sit there and analyse the flame), Osseron focused onto his arms. Slowly his arms became usable again under the combined nanites and (partially slowed) healing flame. Dragging himself into a nearby ledge, Osseron propped himself against the wall and pulled out his gear blaster, aiming down the barrel at the giant fish-squid-thing that had appeared there.

Taking a moment to calculate, Osseron found he could cover the younge mage and Nocturnus, and fired at any tentacles that tried to attack them.

Meanwhile the nanites moved down onto his leggs and inner workings, working as swiftly as possible to restore mobility to the downed cyborg.

Ruefully, Osseron thought as he fired At least there wasn't some deep chasm on the other side of that wall...I guess I know I need a new ranged attack now...

[Osseron will attack any tentacles that approach Nocturnus, Genis, or hisself, Mobility restricted to upper body]

[Genis Sage]

Seriously, who were these people?! A KRAKEN?! How in Martel's name did they get a Kraken in here?! UGH!

This wasn't what was going through Genis' mind though. Genis' mind was "W-were gonna die!" But he pulled through and thought of an idea to try to keep the monster fro-

IUAB IOFBAWIS WOOOSH!

A giant tentacle shot out from the lake, aiming well at Ignis. However, it was blocked by a piece of rock Genis raised just in time.

"Stalagmite!...."

From killing us all... dammit, this was the Kraken! It would take alot of power to bust this monster into sushi! Then, suddenly, Genis had an idea.

"Ignis, can you freeze the lake somehow? I would do it, but I need to work on spell!"

Genis focused. This wasn't no elemental spell, this was a hard one!

He said this as the Kraken roared, and splashed up a giant wave at the group.

[akumaneko]

[dangling from the cave ceiling]
"I really hate this thing." Said Nocturnus as he fired arrows at tentacle after tentacle.
"those two better kill that thing quick. I think its starting to get angry with us".
[on the shores of the lake]
Ignis was standing at the shores of the lake, staring at the kraken. She hadn't even heard the Mage say a thing. The air around her was getting colder by the second. she slowly started to walk towards the kraken. As she reach the shore the water was already turned to ice.
"You believe that you could defeat us with such corrupted emotions? I will show you the true power of emotions."
as she said this the entire lake began to freeze over. the enraged Kraken began to lash out at her atemting to crush the little fox that appeared to be the source of the ice. However each tentacle was blown apart by arrows shot by Nocturnus from the caves ceiling.
"you will soon die because your emotions were too weak."
the lake was completely frozen, The Kraken was writhing in pain, and Ignis' flames were burning colder and colder.

[from the ceiling]

Nocturnus was thinking "dang she can be just plain harsh sometimes. I really hope whatever is up next is ready cause it might end quite horribly for the poor thing." he shuddered a bit as he thought this.

[srgtmaster]

Osseron watched as Ignis simply walked onto the lake, idly switching through the frequencies as he had finally run out of ammo for the blaster. Carefully standing up, Osseron started to walk towards the kraken, his steps gaining strength as his nanites finished up repairing the lashbacks from Limiter Removal.

Stoping next to the Mage as he chanted, Osseron passed himself through his entire system rundown, mentally getting green lights from all his main and subsystems.

Cracking his kneck, Osseron's mind started to think how he could possibly get into close combat as he readied his hidden blades.

[Genis Sage]

The glyph under the half-elf boy was colorless this time. This was, after all, a non-elemental spell. It worked only by using raw energy, AKA Mana, and shaping it or forcing it to do something. They were tiring, but they were also powerful.

As Osseron got up, Genis said "Huff...Don't worry, Osseron. It's...gonna be over in a sec." The mage gathered his strengh as he said "O' Nature, crush this weak soul with your Power, and make it cower under your might!" As he did this, power flowed from the magical sign, and suddenly the Kraken stopped wailing. It looked like if someone had dropped a few weights on his shoulders.

(OCC: Description of spell here aselia.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_Well )

"Crush! Gravity Well!" Suddenly, a dome of darkness- no, it wasn't darkness, it was absence of light, surrounded the Kraken. It screeched in immesurable pain, as the gravity within the dome increased, pressing it's own weight 10 times, 20 times, 100 times unto itself, to a point where even the light started to bend, thus the darkness. Funnily enough, nothing outside the dome was affected. Ah, the power of magic.

In the end, the Kraken stopped screeching and became a ball, nay a pellet of fish-stuff. Genis was on his knees, gasping for air. Man, he was gonna die if he didn't get a pineapple gel soon, or at least some rest. Using so much high-caliber spells was gonna knock him out if he didn't regain some Mana. He said, gasping "Hey... guys, by the way, don't...touch the Kraken..ball...or it might explode...and I don't feel like cleaning up Kraken guts..."

This WAS true, as the whole Kraken ended up compressed into a little space. The slightest rupture, and it would be Kraken land.

[akumaneko]

[coming down from the ceiling]
"well that was rather impressive. the young Mage appears to have quite the skills. His speed is quite laking however." thought Nocturnus as descended to met his sister, and the other two guys.
[at the shores of the frozen lake.]
"well things appear to have gone without any major problems. Dont you agree?" he asked Ignis.

"sigh. I'm hungry." She said

"would you settle for oranges?" he asked hesitantly

"Oranges? is that all you have?"

"I think I also have a kiwi or two." he said as he started to search through his shadow. "here we go" he pulled out two oranges and three peeled kiwis.

"yay food!" she said as she snatched the oranges and kiwis away from Nocturnus and devoured them.

"satisfied?"

"I'm still hungry"

"how about I treat you too a banquet after we get out of here? would you be satisfied with that?"

"A banquet!? you promise?"

"I promise. However we have to defeat whatever is down here first. K?"

"Fine. but it better be one hell of a banquet." She shifted to battle form and walked away to find the door to the next chamber.

"you guys are also invited to the Banquet if you guys survive." after saying this he turned and followed his sister.

[srgtmaster]

"A banquet? Meh, I guess it would be nice, last I had a good meal was 1.7825 years ago..." Osseron muttered as he walked away from the lake, also trying to find an exit to all that water. Although he had little danger of dieing in it (His cybernetics could support him on a single breath of air for about 30 minutes, ten if doing vigorous actions such as fighting...) Osseron still very much disliked having to get wet.

Shifting through the different frequencies, Osseron found that something continued to be trying to jam his eye on the other frequencies. As he continued to walk around, Osseron found that there was a point along the wall where the jamming seemed to intensify drastically if he looked at it. Drawing a crude door-like shape along the area of the jamming, he noticed that the stone within the border was ever-so-slightly differently textured than the
surrounding wall.

Calling out to everyone, Osseron shouted out "I think this portion of the wall is a fake!" While thinking if he could break through with his normal strength, as his body just wasn't ready for limiter removal quite yet...and his limbs still cried out from the last time he had used it.

Looking at the wall, he felt sure he was right this time around, especially because this time he had time to actually check the wall out. Clenching his fist, Osseron begand hitting the wall with all his weight behind each blow, makeing large craters into the wall and littering the floor around him with sizable chuncks of the wall. After afew seconds of ramming the wall, his fist suddenly punched into, then through the 'wall' he had painted. Shouting out in surprise, he gritted his teeth and began to expand the hole, pulling out larger segments with his brute strength, his mechanisms grinding out as they were pushed to thier overclocked limits.

Eventually Osseron stepped back to look at the once-hidden doorway that had been hidding behind the door, it's simple wooden frame seeming somewhat out-of-place in the temple itself.

Then again...so are blood-painted rooms and kraken-guarded hidden doorways...What kind of people were these anyway?!

Turning back to the rest of the group, Osseron called out once more "Found the exit, ready when you are!" in a cheery tone, part of his mind praying that the next room would contain something that could that he could bleed and rend apart without having to walk over empty space or along the bottom of a lake for...

[akumaneko]

[going down. . . again]
"well this sure is starting to bug me a bit. The aura of this place continues to get worse and worse. first there were the skeletons which wile not very tough had an inkling of a slightly sinister aura. the the bats which were just dang weird. then a Kraken, of all things. And now were willingly heading even deeper into this little hellhole to find who knows what." Nocturnus was thinking to himself as he was walking down the stairs.

[What appears to be cattacoms]
"wow! This place is Huge" exclaimed Ignis as she stated to rush to the bottom of the stairs.

"Sigh I guess it is. I mean it is nice and dark, however the vaulted ceiling is rather over the top. and the forest of columns seems rather pointless." as he said this he noticed something odd.
"is that a wolf?" he pointed at an surprisingly realistic statue.

"Were?" she shouted excitedly.

"There by one of the columns" he responded as he began walking towards the statue. "It definatly seems to be lupine but its not a wolf, at least not entirely. It's proportions and posture are more humanoid than quadruped." He continued to study the statue.

"look theres another one!" Shouted Ignis as she ran to yet another staue, however this one was in a different pose.
"and theres another, and another. Aqua would love this place. It's filled with such weird creatures and places."

Nocturnus paused for a second as he noticed another statue. As he came in closer to inspect the statue he muttered "well this is interesting."

"What is?"inquired Ignis who for some reason seems to have appeared right next to him.

"This one seems to be different than the rest. The color of the stone and the weird pattern on it's body for one thing, but also the fact that it seems grander than the rest."
as he continued to study the statue Ignis lifted a paw and placed it on a circle in the statues chest.
"Don't touch that! For all we know it could be booby trapped."

{sadly however this was said too late. as the wolf like statue began to move. It first opens it's eyes, then it raises it's head and releases a loud howl. then as if on kue the other statues began to move. and Not slowly like those golems you normally see these creatures moved with incredible speed. in a matter of seconds the group was surrounded by approximately 7 living statues. The one who woke them dashed away from Ignis and Nocturnus and joined it's pack}

"dammit. Pulse release!" shouted Nocturnus. as he sifted in to his pulse mode and materialized his scythe and claw.

Ignis ran to the Mage's side igniting her Blue flame on herself and the Mage.(Blue flame of courage see Ignis build for more details)

"How the heck do we get into these situations" he thought to himself as the creatures began to circle them. preparing to strike.

[Genis Sage]

Man, these things were fast! Man, these things were made out OF STONE?! How did they even- Whatever. Genis huffed a little, still tired.

Suddenly, a blue flame ignited on his body, and he became energized, if only by a little bit. He then became a little brave again, and said "Don't worry guys! 7 pebbles of rock-wolves, coming up!"

The energy he had been given helped. He had cast the spell not a few minutes ago, so he had the chant memorized. Cast time became almost 0. Suddenly, the boy was already yelling "Crush, Gravity Well!" and grinning a triumphant smile.

The wolves walked through the dome and came out as if they were made of anti-Mana! Gravity didn't affect them at all (well, it was more of a "Ewww, increased gravity *shrug off*") ! Wait...they didn't give off any mana...and their mechanisms....

They looked almost like Osseron! Osseron had mentioned he was almost immune to magic. Maybe the same was with these monsters? If so, Genis was useless! Or at least his spells were. Who is to say a little collateral damage could not hurt them? "G-guys! My magic is useless! I'll try to damage them another way! Just try to keep me alive!"

The boy played with his Kendama yet again, as an earth-brown glyph shined under him.

[srgtmaster]

Osseron smiled grimly as he recognised the forms of the original version of the Ancient Gear Beasts. Ages ago they had re-designed themselves, and a few of the originals went rouge as they challeneged the will of the Omnissiah. He hadn't been completely sure until they had walked through the gravity well, but now he knew what he was fighting, and it made him glad.

"Watch out guys, these are the original Ancient Gear Beasts! They were designed to counter special attacks and paranormal activities, they'll try to outflank us, so watch your sides and back if you get seperated!" Rushing forward, he tacckled one of the beta-rank beasts out of the formation, and engaged his shield. Tossing the mech to the side, Osseron took the risk of tossing a teleport cog against one of the colums, where the metallic cog attached itself and began glowing with trans-dimensional energies. After pushing off the beast he had engaged (no easy feat now that the beast realised who he was, an Omega-pattern cyborg) He shouted over the noise of combat in the binary language of the Ancient Gears

"Emergency Support Beacon Oscar Tango Dash Lima One Bravo! Support Code Sierra Uniform Novermber Dash Omega!"

Responding to the code, the glow suddenly shot out and grew, becoming a portal through which the glory of Geartown* could be seen. Suddenly, the portal shifted and out of the rift shout out three forms, distantly related to those attacking the group. With a howl, the Ancient Gear Beasts (Version Omega) engaged the Echo versions in a grinding of gears and screeching of metal.

Returning to the beast he had engaged, Osseron waved the group towards the alpha beast, shouting over the din "Get the leader! He's the one co-ordinating them all!" just before backpedaling the outdated - but still powerful- beast he had originally tackled.

The beasts meanwhile engaged those that they could, the tactics they were using with Osseron effectivly creating an opening in the ring, at least while the Alpha analysed the new threats and began moving his units to counter Osseron's support.

In the distance, more howls could be heard, as well as lights from at least 5 more Echo-version wolves rushing towards the group.

[4 of 7 Engaged, 'Alpha' Beast unengaged,5+ enemy renforcements in-route]

*what can be seen:media.photobucket.com/image/Geartown/neolifeless/409px-GeartownTDGS-EN-C-1E.jpg

**Omega Version AG Beasts:media.photobucket.com/image/Ancient%20gear%20beast/kingnate3918/Ancient%20Gear/AncientGearBeast.jpg

[akumaneko]

[in the catacoms]
"And thus the fight continues. were we all end none can know" Nocturnus
Nocturnus placed his left hand on the ground. "Grand Shadow control". Chains began to sound around Nocturnus. He began to speak in a whisper "I who reside in the shadows command you, give rise to your rage O grand chains of death. Come forth!" as he finished pitch black chains began to rise from the shadows. He then disappeared from sight. {note: the chains are part of the shadow control NOT an individual skill. I just felt like chanting}
The chains started to lash at the creatures. one or two managed to wrap themselves around the statues. The leader of the creatures watched from a distance in the shadows. Seeing were the reinforcements would be of most use, and wondering were that dark individual diapered to.

Then

"don't you know its useless to hide from me in the shadows?" the creature spun around in surprise as a scythe slashed at it, leaving a shallow mark on its neck.
''To shallow." Said what appeared to be a living shadow. the creature quickly assessed that the opponent in front of it was a potential threat. it baked away slightly and began cheeking which of the Beta wolfs were close by.

"You had better stand still this time. I need to get rid of you before Ignis gets hurt." and as Nocturnus said this he began walking slowly towards the statue. his scythe began to release an even more ominous aura.
"Grand Shadow Pulse" he said as he brought down the scythe on the statue. A huge blade of shadows went slicing through the room.

"Aw I missed. I told you to stand still"
The Alpha wolf was barely standing. one of its arms seemed to have been torn apart but other than that it was uninjured. The wolf was now sure that it must escape or it would shurely cease to function.
"Gues I'l just have to restrain you then. Shadow control" thin chains shot out of the shadows aimed at the wolf. The creature barely dodged them.

at this time the alpha wolf ordered 2 of the the 4 wolfs being held back by the chains to aid him as well as the 5 reinforcement wolfs (send via wireless signal)
"come on stand still would you" the chains continued to assail the injured wolf, and the wolf continued to dodge them, but just barely.
soon the Alphas reinforcements arrived.

"Finally. its about time your little soldiers got here." as he said this he vanished and the pillars around the wolves exploded and collapsed on the 8 wolves. after the dust settled a disembodied voice said "doubt that hose creatures would die from something like this. Guess its up to the Mage now." said Nocturnus as he walked out of a shadow and began to walk to see if the machine needed help.

[next to the Mage]
"I kinda feel sorry for the statues." Said Ignis as she saw what the pillars collapse on the wolfs.
"they were so interesting. sigh." She then turned to the Mage
"guess this is were you come in Mr. Mage"