paixaorpg | Rain and Lightning and Sin [active; open]

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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Was this a cave or a monster? Knuckles couldn't really tell, and he didn't care to. What he did care about was getting rid of this thing before it caused any more damage to the city (stranger as he was to this place, Knuckles was a protector, and that was just what he was going to do). He floated down after Sonic, looking over at his friend.

"No idea," he growled in response, "but it doesn't look good." This thing was giving him the creeps; it was probably best to get this fight over with (the sooner the better so Knuckles could find a way back to Angel Island). He flew off after Sonic, keeping a sharp lookout for anything that would get in his way.

"Oiiiiii! Wait for me!"

The two running ahead of Luffy were so much faster than he was that he didn't honestly expect them to slow down for his sake, but at the very least, he could try and ask them. Keeping an admirable pace behind them, Luffy chugged along as quickly as he could, taking fleet, cheetah-speed strides into the fog. He hated the idea of being left behind in a fight, an idea that only motivated him to run even harder.

Hopefully, they wouldn't be able to defeat the enemy awaiting them ahead before he could catch up and join in.

"YOU PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY BAD AT THE WHOLE TEAMWORK THING!" echoed someone hypocritically from behind Luffy. Hamel was rushing along as fast as he could while still managing his song. As long as the two furry things could still hear it, the spell would go on and they'd be fine. The second it ended... well. They'd be down two fighters for some time.

Hamel had downed some big mazoku in his day (Mouthpiece on Mt. Fine still gave him the chills) but none so big he actually had to go inside of them to kill them. This time, he was alone without the aid of that snotty little prince or Sizer's scythe to help out. This thing looked like it could be Mouthpiece's older brother.

Whatever.

However, if any of Sin's attackers had been expecting this to be easy they would soon find that to not be the case. The Sinspawn themselves might not be a threat here, but there were monsters all them, remembered from what Seymour had seen inside the real Sin and summoned forth into reality much as Yu Yevon's summonings had been.

As a matter of fact, one of them was even now approaching the group through the mist, a strange demon-like creature (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/hitokiri_neko/Final%20Fantasy/varuna.jpg) that looked more than capable of providing a fair amount of hurt.

Well jeez, wasn't the whole point of this to take down the monster before it did any more damage? They'd never get it finished if they slowed down! On the other hand, leaving your team behind was pretty dumb when you didn't know what was out there...

Sonic compromised, slowing down a bit and turning around, flying backwards. "Hurry up, slowpokes!"

Of course, the problem with not looking where you were going was you often ran into things. Unfortunately for Sonic, rules like that tended not to make exceptions for him. His flight was stopped as he rather abruptly plowed into something. For once common sense prevailed, and he turned around to see what he'd hit before mouthing off at it.

It was another monster. Another, big, nasty-looking monster.

"Oh man..."

Knuckles gave Sonic a flat look. "Do you always have to do that?" he called, rushing after Sonic. "This isn't a game." Leave it to the Blue Blur to make light of such an important situation; Sonic was always mocking situations and people. He saw the creature before Sonic did and attempted to call out a warning, but it died in his throat.

What the heck was that? Whatever it was, it definitely didn't look good, but Knuckles wasn't about to let something like that stop him. The Guardian charged forward, readying a punch as he did so.

"Get out of my way, you freak!"

Could it actually be considered lucky that the monster had emerged and stopped Sonic short of leaving the others in his dust? Luffy didn't stop to wonder about whether his fortunes were improving, though they obviously weren't; instead, he kept on running until he had finally made up for lost ground and joined the two.

Like Knuckles, Luffy was immediately ready to fight. There was no question whether or not this creature was a threat, so a debate on the next course of action was hardly necessary. However, the red echidna was already there and already throwing the first punch, leaving Luffy to wait and watch. He wasn't about to step on anyone's toes by interrupting.

Through the mists ahead, Luffy briefly glanced off into the hazy distance. There was still work to be done, and he wondered for a moment whether or not the group should split up. "Naa, 'Pointy'!" he called out to Knuckles, another of his spontaneous nicknames. "Think you can handle this guy on your own?"

Hamel stayed near the back, as usual. His violin strings were already hot and they wouldn't be cooling down anytime soon as he quickly switched songs. He already had two puppets... but firing up all of these suckers couldn't hurt.

"Smetana's Moldau, 'Our Fatherland'! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8G9qHNS68s&feature=related)" he muttered to himself. This was a song of soldiers defending their country. It would inspire his allies to fight bravely-- and surely they could already feel themselves growing stronger...

Sadly, the creature didn't seem to be particularly phased by Knuckles' attack. Admittedly, it had done a fair amount of damage, but one hit wasn't going to be enough to take it down; one giant, clawed hand reaching up to swat Knuckles out of the air even as cast Haste on itself.

Let them try to keep up now.

It didn't take Sonic long to recover from his surprise at running into a monster, and he backed up a bit, building up steam to ram the thing head-on. "Knuckles, look out!" he called the warning to his buddy as he curled into a ball and spun through the air, executing a homing attack aimed right at the monster's chest. The thing was fast, sure, but they didn't call Sonic the fastest thing alive for nothing.

Knuckles, unfortunately, was in midair when the creature struck, and found himself barely able to avoid being smacked down. Nonetheless, it managed to wing him, and Knuckles went crashing into the ground, gritting his teeth. "Ngh!" Okay, so that had hurt, but it wasn't about to stop the Guardian, so he flipped back up and resumed flight, zooming towards the creature as best as he could.

"Get over here!" the echidna roared, aiming another hard punch at the monster.

Luffy, still standing by with a massively impatient look in his eyes, began to grow even more antsy as he watched the red one move in aggressively. Being one of a similar nature, Luffy could respect his determination; despite being knocked down, he simply picked himself right back up and charged in again.

Respect like that came with another decision: Luffy knew that the red one, whoever he was, wouldn't likely want any help with this little contest. Others would just get in his way. After taking one last look, with Knuckles closing in for another hard blow, the man in the straw hat simply broke off and began to run towards that same distance he had been eyeing anxiously earlier.

"I'm going on ahead, you guys!" he called out, turning towards them only briefly. "Catch up when you get finished!"

Rain and Lightning and Sin [active; open]

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