Rain and Lightning and Sin [active; open]

[summoning-sin.livejournal.com]

Character(s): Sin and anyone who wants in on the fight
Content: Boss fight! In the rain!
Setting: L7
Time: early evening, while it's still raining
Warnings: Destruction, mayhem, and violence. And a hole in the domes.

In the past few weeks, the city had proven itself up to the task of eliminating the lesser Sinspawn, but it was time to show them the real power of Sin. It was time to start bringing death to this world and those who inhabited it. Whether they belonged here was of no importance. They suffered here just as they would suffer wherever they had come from; where they were released from their suffering was of no real importance. All he needed to do was attract a bit of attention.

Which Sin itself was admittedly doing, by virtue of being a large electricity based creature, but the rumbling of thunder above the domes had given him an idea. After all, Sin was providing a far amount of destruction already, and surely no one would mind if he caused just a little bit more. And it was a matter of little effort to cast a simple Flare at the dome overhead, shattering a fair amount of it to pieces. With luck the explosion would serve as a way to get people to head this direction and in the meantime Sin could terrorize and kill the general populace.

[Note: Since giant boss fight is likely to be giant, it'll probably be best to split this up into a bunch of different threads. Thread hopping is, of course, not only okay but encouraged, so hop in and have fun!]

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[stretchmeout.livejournal.com]

"I finally made it!"

One lone voice came ringing out into the symphonic chaos, against the sound of the raining debris from the monstrous creature's firey spell. The voice was angry, determined, and seemed to call challenge the behemoth all on its own.

But where it did come from...?

All around, nothing but buildings and the wreckage of what were buildings as well. Smashed streets, littered with shattered stone and the splintered remains of the psuedo-plant life that had been used to decorate the eerily 'normal' landscape of Paixao. There was no sign of anyone, certainly no one large enough to challenge the awesome power of the creature now terrorizing the city.

"Now I'm gonna kick your ass, you giant fucking bastard!"

There it was again, that same tiny voice, like a bell being proudly knelled inthe midst of battle. Sin probably didn't even notice it, though, in which case, this would be Sin's mistake. It would have no one to blame but itself for what came next.

A rumbling sounded, an addition to the already panicked scene in which everything in Sin's path was being brought down to rubble. Suddenly, there came a dull whooshing sound, the same sort of sound as a solid object being thrown, with the wind whistling behind it.

It wasn't a rock. It wasn't a pile of rocks.

It was an entire building, and now, it was sailing straight towards Sin's left side.

Monkey D. Luffy stood at its source, snarling angrily at its target. Even then, this wasn't enough; the fury-driven pirate came running forward aafter it, his arms thrusting and his legs pumping madly. There was a great deal of distance to close between them, but once he was in range, Luffy was going to demonstrate that hurling Paixao's city-scape was the least of what he could do!

[sparkplasma.livejournal.com]

Ivan had seen a lot of strange things since he'd been in Paixao. Demon overlords, sudden disappearances, magic carpets, people who didn't exist... not to mention Sin itself. After a while, you started to build up a certain tolerance to it - except that instead of becoming normal, the strangeness of the city had, at some nebulous point, become simply terrifying.

In spite of that (it wasn't as if he'd never been scared witless before), he'd finally stopped hiding outside the radius of destruction and rushed in headlong to try and do something about it. True, he didn't know where his friends were, but they'd said they would be along, and he trusted them. Actually, who was to say they weren't already there ahead of him?

The closer he got, though, his stomach knotted uncomfortably. They weren't. They weren't there yet. Sin was still standing unopposed -

Except for the flying building.

That was a new one, and the sight of it stopped Ivan in his tracks. For a second he thought Sin had just knocked it over, but no, it was flying. And towards it. As if somebody had casually picked it up and thrown it at the monster.

A second later, from the same direction, he caught sight of - what had to be someone, although moving fast enough that he couldn't make out who. But it was someone, trying to take Sin on by themselves.

That was what Ivan saw, although for now he failed to put two and two together. Alarmed, he dashed forward, but stopped a second later as if thinking better of it - "H-hey! Wait! Don't!" he shouted at the lone fighter's fast-advancing back, although at this distance (and that speed, and over the sound of the building itself) he had no idea whether the guy would actually hear him.

[summoning-sin.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, the lone voice scarcely attracted Sin's notice - it was built to notice far larger things, when it noticed them at all - and one single person wasn't anywhere near that threshold.

The building that followed the announcements, on the other hand, was definitely large enough to attract Sin's attention, as it crashed into its side. And yet, for all the glass and stone that made up the building it didn't seems to have all that much of an effect on Sin, save for creating a rather impressive cloud of dust and debris.

Of course, it also let Sin know which direction the attack had come from. And with that, it could arrange for an appropriate counterattack; a blast of lightning shooting out of the cloud of dust and debris.

And while it was mostly aimed at Luffy, the blast was wide enough to strike Ivan as well, should he not move out of the way in time.

[greatherohamel.livejournal.com]

Sticking in the shadows, you happened to hear a lot of gossip about things that were happening around the city. Hamel had heard more than enough about strange monsters and attacks on innocents-- tch, even in another world there was always something threatening the people. And here he thought he was gonna get a nice vacation for as long as he was here.

It wasn't difficult to find the gigantic monster, not at all. It looked like a dark shadow in the distance, through the misty clouds of rain (how did it rain inside, anyway? This placed was stupid). Hamel stood underneath a large gazebo in what looked like a little square not far from the monster's looming shadow. That would keep him out of the rain long enough to do something.

First, he set out a handwritten sign that read "WANTED: HERO- INQUIRE WITHIN". He hoisted the violin over his shoulder and put the bow to it, beginning to play J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsCFHBYp-eA&feature=related) This was a melody to pump up a warrior as he or she plunged into the dark forces of the world to battle them. That monster was probably too big for the music to work on him- he needed to find a proper marionette. A strong one.

ooc: So basically, Hamel's music works like magical steroids for the one he targets. If you volunteer to team up with him, he'll have your character flying through the air and hitting a hundred times harder than they normally would.

[itshowiroll.livejournal.com]

Sonic's first thought upon seeing the monster (from quite a distance, too) had been man, that thing's huge! Sure, he'd seen robots bigger'n that before, but those had been robots. Normally living - at least he was pretty sure that thing was living - creatures didn't come quite that big. The monster being in the middle of the city probably meant bad news, too.

He'd changed direction, heading towards the thing at not-quite-top speed (Knuckles had to keep up, after all), and had almost reached it when a sign caught his eye. Hero wanted, huh?

He skidded to a stop and doubled back, looking first at the sign and then at the guy with the instrument. There was something about that music...

"Lookin' for heroes, huh?" he grinned up at the instrument guy. "No worries - we're here."

[knuckle-headed.livejournal.com]

Knuckles had almost stopped short in sheer amazement at the size of that... thing within the city. What was that creature? It definitely didn't look like a robot, that was for sure - and no living being on Mobius could have reached that size.

Then again, they very clearly weren't on Mobius anymore. The echidna grit his teeth and ran faster to keep up with Sonic - even when his friend was going slowly (for him, anyway), it was still a challenge to keep up. He nearly stumbled when Sonic stopped, his gaze darting to the sign that seemed to have caught Sonic's eye.

Hero? Well, if anybody could pull that off, it was him and Sonic. He let the hedgehog do the talking for the moment, offering a nod by way of greeting to the man who had, apparently, put the sign up.

[overlords_wrath]

There'd been more than just a few distractions on the way, but finally Laharl had arrived to check out the monster everyone had been talking about.

He had to admit, he was pretty impressed. It was pretty big, and destroying a hell of a lot of the city. After dealing with that idiot, this was going to be enjoyable. Ha, too bad Etna had to go and disappear, she might have enjoyed this too. Oh well, this was a good time to finally show off, but first...

Laharl turned a moment to Flonne. "Stay back and keep out of trouble, Flonne," he ordered her, sternly. He didn't want anything else to happen to her. He moved to leave but then paused, glancing back again, his expression slightly softer, "But... yell if you need me, right?"

That said, Laharl took off, leaping to the lower roof of a building then an even higher roof, till he found the upperest perch he could, but still making sure to keep within Flonne's magic's reach.

He didn't waste any time. Raising his arms above his head, he let the floodgate go, his dark power forming above him and splitting into a multitude of fiery orbs above him. A wicked grin formed on Laharl's lips. It felt good to let out this much power. "Oi! Monster!" he yelled, astoundingly loud for one so small.

"OVERLORD'S WRATH!" he cried out, as he motioned with his arms to send the floating orbs all on a convening destination of the creature. Even if the explosive attack didn't hit, he figured he'd have it's full attention now.

[summoning-sin.livejournal.com]

For all it was good at (mostly destruction, destruction and more destruction) Sin was not precisely good at getting out of the way of large explosions, and consequently, Laharl's attack hit it rather squarely. And while even Sin was capable of realizing that the attack had hurt, it had yet to show much damage from the blow. After all, if impacting with a building hadn't caused much visible damage, why should this?

Of course, it wasn't simply going to sit idly by as it was attacked, as with a crackle, a bolt of lightning arced through the sky, streaking towards Laharl.

[faithxhealer.livejournal.com]

Flonne knew Laharl had had his eye on taking down this monster for a good while now, and it was nice to...well, to get back to normal. Giant monsters were something you'd find in the Netherworld - they didn't mess with your head or make you fight against your friends or anything like that. They just roared a lot and caused some damage and...well, if they were a little smaller and laughed a lot, they'd be Laharl.

Either way, it was good to be doing something both of them knew well. "Okay!" she gave a salute, then smiled as Laharl's voice softened. "Don't worry about me, Laharl-san. I'll be fine." She watched as he leapt away, moving to keep out of the range of the monster's attacks but still keep Laharl within range of her magic. She couldn't help but smile at the Overlord's Wrath - when did he not start with that move?

It took everything she had not to cry out a warning when the bolt of lightening appeared. He'd be fine, she told herself. It was Laharl. He'd be fine.

[Closed Thread]

[superiorevil.livejournal.com]

Deep in the dark shadows of a building, a dark figure stood watching the fight above with great interest. It was rather convenient that such a large battle was taking place. One couldn't really ask for a better distraction. Plans could be put into motion with few even realizing.

It was a wonderful opportunity that was too good to pass up. However, decisions would have to be made quickly.

Sensing another nearby, the dark figure turned, glancing to them in the barest of greetings. "Convenient, isn't it?"

[masterfulflames.livejournal.com]

The other was a bit less entertained, but it may not have been all for this new convenience, and maybe because of the current company. What a downer, but couldn't win everything, right? As long as the plans, plots, and all that unfurled, some things just had to be taken in stride - calmly, coolly.

A shrug was returned as a response, while the figure found a spot to casually lean nearby. "Yeah, yeah, wonderful." And, trying to sound more enthused, "I love who they chose to redecorate. Really, some nice stuff. Need to call the guy up sometime."

[superiorevil.livejournal.com]

The additional comments were ignored as they were unimportant. "Nonetheless, it is a valuable distraction that should not go to waste."

As long as the city was preoccupied with the monster and the damage it was causing, it would help their movements remain undetected. The shadowy figure turned away, only pausing to glance at the other, "Keep an eye on the situation, but do not let yourself be seen."

[4thhighsummoner.livejournal.com]

No one could deny that it was a strange occurrence. Who had ever heard of rain indoors (at least, not without magic, anyway). It didn't take long for him to become soaked, his robes only becoming heavier.

The first thing he noticed was the building flying through the air, and immediately Braska came to stop. Obviously, this was where the fighting was going on, and he was late.

There were already quite of people here, he could see, and they were fighting with all their might. He couldn't help but smile. All these people together, fighting for one purpose... It didn't matter what their motives were, or whether or not they would normally fight alongside one another, they fought as one.

Something he needed to get to.

He immediately cast NulShock on himself before casting the barrier on the other groups currently fighting. It only allowed them one free hit each, but hopefully that one hit would protect them enough.

[kotetsu-blade.livejournal.com]

Auron tucked his glasses away. With this rain, they'd only be a hindrance. His arm was loosed from its cradle in his coat and his blade was shouldered, but he had yet to join the fray. Instead he watched Sin closely, attempting to figure out just what it was capable of, Sinspawn aside.

So far, all he could tell was that it used lightning, but that was obvious enough from just looking at it. A man within or not, it seemed as though Sin had as much strategy to its actions as its predecessor. He would have to participate in order to find out anything else--and that was fine.

It was then that he felt the magic wash over him, and Auron glanced over at the yellow pyrefly lazily orbiting him. "I would have thought you'd be the first here," he called over his shoulder to Braska.

\o/ INTRO FINISHED!

[4thhighsummoner.livejournal.com]

Braska had caught sight of the red coat before Auron had spoken, and so he wasn't surprised when the ex-guardian had. "I was a little bit further away than I thought," he explained with a small smile.

[estaunsinterius.livejournal.com]

Jagged boulders of solid ice fell from the sky, raining down on the gigantic monstrosity. That might not have been so bad, if they weren't followed by a fireball the size of Midgar - okay, maybe not quite that big, but it was still impressive.

Last but not least, Sephiroth himself leapt from the jagged edge of the shattered dome, a black and silver comet around which a glowing nimbus of colored light danced. Impossibly fast, impossibly airborne, he all but flew toward Sin's hulking body, with Masamune flashing in an arc that would have beheaded a titan with ease.

[summoning-sin.livejournal.com]

That caught Seymour's - and Sin's - attention more surely then anything else had so far, lightning crackling up to met Sephiroth only moments after the first chunk of ice struck. Admittedly, it might not have all that much of an effect, given the Reflect, but it was still something.

As for the great blade itself, it struck true only moments after Seymour had healed his Sin of the damage it had taken thus far. There hadn't been time to stop it.

But perhaps he wouldn't need to, as only moment after the blow had struck, Sin retaliated with something far beyond what its attacks as it answered with a great tornado - strong enough to pick up at the very least the larger chunks of the fallen buildings and crackling with lightning throughout.

And if that wasn't enough, Seymour himself answered the blow as well, although with Ultima as opposed to an Overdrive. He'd yet to take enough damage for that.

[estaunsinterius.livejournal.com]

The lightning wouldn't have had much effect anyway, considering the arrangement of Sephiroth's materia, but he wasn't about to tell anyone that. Rising from his landing crouch, he barely had time to brace himself before Ultima hit, surrounding him in what looked for all the world like ground zero of a nuclear explosion.

Somewhat the worse for wear but definitely not out of it yet, Sephiroth leapt -into- the tornado, using the debris as touchpoints to build speed and momentum for another devastating physical attack. The fireball he'd beaten to the ground in his initial attack landed about the same time as he struck, and the physical and magical attacks made for a nice combination. Not quite -exactly- how he had planned it, but close.

[ithehellamharry.livejournal.com]

Harry had been observing the battle from a distance, trying to get a feel for the nature of the enemy and what it was capable off. What he had seen had shown him he was way out of his league. Harry might have had the power to take on some seriously powerful foes in the past, but often what had beaten the most dangerous of them was fighting smart. Power for power, against beings capable of throwing meteors, he was frankly outclassed.

That didn't mean he was going to just stay out of it of course. After all, if he missed an apocalyptic battle, he'd have to turn in his hero license. Rather, he had come up with a strategy that, if it worked, would allow him to bypass the beast, which looked pretty unstoppable, and deliver the spell directly to the man within. Harry's Spell Delivers. We'll get your spell to you in 30 minutes or less, or your next curse is free.

The first step had been to track down one of the creatures spawn he had heard about over the internet. Turned out that first step had been a dozy. Apparently Sinspawn were big ugly creatures with far more tentacles than should be allowed. Luckily this one wasn't that bright, and Harry had gotten the drop on it, blasting off its legs with fire and managing to trick it into running full force into the dome's wall, rendering itself unconscious. Of course, it had put up a serious fight after that, as the deep cuts on his face and chest attested to. How it had cut him with tentacles he didn't want to know...

Now Harry rose to his feet, having drawn and sealed a large circle around the creature, and began chanting a spell in broken Latin, vaguely to the tune of "A Monster Mash," shouting to be heard over the rain. Digging deep, he drew up a massive amount of power within himself, and sent it into the circle, whipping it up into a fury, drawing on the chaos of emotions in the city, and mixing it into the creatures very essence.

Then, when it was ready, Harry stepped forward, breaking the circle, slamming one end of his staff into the sinspawn, and pointing the other end at the massive creature. The power crackled around him for a moment, making the hair on the back of his neck stand up, and with a snarl he shouted, “And here’s the pitch!” Unleashing the energy it traveled along the innate mystical path that linked all parents to their children. With a bit of luck, Harry’s power might be able to make it through and hit the man inside. Harry wouldn’t kill him with magic, even if he had been capable of doing so, since that would likely do more harm than good, but he could do attack the mans mind, rendering him unconscious, or at least stunning him for a while, buy the others some time. He had also thrown in a curse that would hopefully seal away a small portion of Sin’s strength, mostly just to be a dick.

Of course, the side effect was now Harry had used up most of his energy. He might have one good attack left in him, but he wasn’t going to be slinging spells left and right for a while. Leaning on his staff, Harry took a deep breath and waited to see if his efforts had achieved anything.

[summoning-sin.livejournal.com]

While Harry's spell didn't exactly fail, it didn't exactly go off exactly as planned either. Admittedly, the first part worked just fine, the spell bouncing quite admirably to Sin itself. With it being so closely linked to its Spawn, how could it have possibly failed?

Unfortunately, that was as far as the spell was going to be going. Seymour himself had very little to connect him to that which he called 'his'. He'd come up with the idea and the method, but beyond that? Nothing. It hadn't even been his hand that had held the metaphorical knife that had killed the people that had died to create it.

Consequently the only effect the curse had was to seal away some of Sin's strength - something that was not entirely visible to normal sight.

And then there was the fact that breaking the circle and freed the Spawn once again. True, it was more than a little disoriented by the spell, but it wasn't dead, and it would be going after the nearest living being as soon as it remembered where it was.

[forbiddenxhades.livejournal.com]

There was no surprise the monster had eventually caught the attention of the senshi. Her investigation into Paixao and the Organization had turned up rather stale, and then she'd noticed the monsters. She'd dispatched several sinspawn over the week, and begun to investigate where they had come from.

The creature in the sky she'd soon pinpointed as the cause, but it was far too much for her to take on herself. Now things were different. It seemed a full out attack had begun. For now she hung back, waiting for an opportunity which she could actually be of some assistance. Battling the monster head on seemed still out of her strength to do so.

((ooc: Lame post for activity is lame. Will jump into something else in here later. Possibly sneaking into sin later to help or something. :|b))

Hole Making \o/

[overlords_wrath]

Laharl had found at least some answer about the monster above.

They needed to get inside, huh? Well then. With a giant hole in the roof, it didn't take but a moment for Laharl to decide what he was going to do.

His most powerful, devastating attack was in order. While he couldn't summon a city-destroying sized meteor, since the point of this was to not have the whole city brought down on top of them by the damn thing, he could definitely smash a pretty good sized one into the monster that would be perfect for busting a hole into it.

Laharl tucked his journal away and quickly looked to Flonne. "Get back, and find somewhere safe, Flonne," he called to her.

Then he headed up. To rooftops then up onto the outside top of the dome above, pausing to glance down at the city below for a moment from the edge, watching the battle below. With the likes of Sephiroth and others down there keeping it distracted, hopefully it wouldn't realize what was happening till it was too late.

Then again, who could guess anyone would summon and slam a meteor into it?

Laharl was excited. He hadn't been in a fight to use this in some time, and certainly hadn't had a chance here. He hoped everyone was watching. Perhaps that's partially why he was willing to do this. It was a chance to show off. A chance to prove why he was to be feared.

Turning his gaze upwards for a moment, he felt the rain washing down his face. Huh. How long had it been raining? Whatever. Grinning widely he concentrated on his power, gathering the energy and then, with a cry, raising his arm to the sky, allowing the energy to raise up, forming a kind of glowing magical glyph very high above in the cloudy sky. The glyph grew in size and seemed to open up as a smoldering, firey rock began to appear.

The meteor was large. Almost a quarter of sin's size.

The Overlord wasted no time. As soon as it fully appeared, he leaped incredibly high up from the top of the domes up and landed squarely on the slowly falling rock. From that point it started to fall at a tremendous rate, building extreme speed in a mere second as if demon on top of it was forcing it's sudden descent; perhaps he was. Somehow Laharl managed to still fold his arms to his chest, scarf and hair whipping about as it was blown upwards, and let out his arrogant laugh as it fell, heading to slam into Sin.

((OOC: OKAY. So. I'm kinda combining the anime promo (obviously not THAT big though 8D) and the game. Everyone keep threading above till you feel you're ready to have this happen? You can comment then about it above or people can just comment off here of them noticing? Then I guess can try to arrange for a group to head into the hole or. Something. IDK. I wasn't going to involve Laharl in that part since he's doing this. XD Let me know of changes/edits I need to make or whatever, cause I can totally do that. I just... had this in my head and wanted to get it down while it was there.))

[itshowiroll.livejournal.com]

"Doin' fine, Red!" Sonic returned the thumbs-up, then focused back on the monster. How the heck were they going to beat this thing?

That was before the giant symbol appeared in the sky and the flaming rock came out of it. For once, Sonic was completely dumbstruck as he watched the meteor fall from the sky and collide with Sin, the strains of maniacal laughter floating back ahead of the explosion.

Well that was weird.

It didn't take Sonic long to recover, however, and he turned a cocky grin back to Knuckles. "I dunno 'bout you, but that looks like an invitation t' me!" Without another word (or another thought), he turned and zoomed into the freshly-opened hole, ready to cause just about as much damage as he could to the giant monster. This was where the real battle began.

Inside Sin

[summoning-sin.livejournal.com]

Although one might expect the inside of a giant city-killing beast to look very much like the insides of any normal creature, although on a scale to match Sin's size, that was very much not the case here. Instead, it looked far more like, well, like something huge and sprawling and not at all like anything remotely related to any sort of animal.

Anything more than that was obscured by the fog that swirled around and through wherever it was they were. Not enough to make it impossible to see anything, but enough so that visibility was severely limited.

And somewhere in among whatever lurked inside the beast was the man they sought. The only question was where.

[itshowiroll.livejournal.com]

Sonic, for one, was grateful that Sin's insides weren't like normal big-creature insides. That wasn't really something he wanted to mess with.

Of course, the fog was sure weird. "Whoa," he breathed, descending from the hole in Sin's top to almost ground level, coming to a stop and floating several inches above the floor. "What th' heck is this?" He was almost wishing he could look in more than one direction at a time, because this whole thing was just strange and he wanted to see what was going on. If that wasn't going to work...

"Let's check it out." Without waiting for an answer, he picked a direction at random and was off, flying through the fog, ready to take out anything that got in his way.