Welcome To the Abyss

        Zell was just barely ahead, this Forcewave character not far behind, and Vaga even closer still. Something inside him was irked. Something wanted nothing more than to turn and ward away the other two. Hatred boiled inside him, nothing in the world would please him more than to see Sean’s corpse decorating the ground, nothing could please him more than to look into those silver eyes and watch the life fade from them...the same way he had to look into the blue ones. The ones that bore into him and scorched her name into his heart. His blood pumping, he couldn’t hear anything, he was too focused now, everything was hollow like in those war movies when a cannon went off next to them. He could feel his heart beat, the electrical impulses reaching his pulses all over his anatomy. His breathing was equally as hollow, in fact it was the loudest thing he could hear as he closed in with his target. He couldn’t wait to kill him.
 
         What am I? What happened to me? As he moved he felt himself almost brought to tears by the thought. He once selflessly threw his own life on the line to save total strangers, to bring people to true justice. He never wanted to kill or hurt anybody. He just wanted to be good, to be respected in some ways. But being good was more important than anything else. Sean began to close in, and all Zell could do was feel all the more bitter. He didn’t care about his transformation anymore. The monster he was destined to become was going to happen regardless and he wasn’t even talking about that. He was talking about what happened to HIM. Sean changed him, almost in the blink of an eye. He was a Hero, and here he was wanting to murder. No...he wouldn’t do it. If he killed Sean it would show just how much Zell had fallen, and if Zell falls then Sean truly wins. Ouroboros wouldn’t allow that. He activated his A.V.A.T.A.R and with that he activated the item he called “Save the Queen”. Despite the name it was a highly useful item, allowing for the shielding of his allies. While Zell himself was left exposed, he did not care, putting his life on the line for strangers is what he did. He was a Hero.
 
 
 
       And Sean would never take that from him.
 
 
 
        Zell had created a barrier over all his allies, it was weak enough to succumb to Sean’s energy, but strong enough to handle anything these lesser demons could deal, however the two “Generals” that Sean had was another question entirely. Seeing a barrier over Forcewave, or this “John” character made him feel a little better as he charged. Shara’s Visor appeared as it normally did, and Zell took only a second to concentrate.
 
        "Let me open a shot for you, but I'm gonna need you to drop back a step or two so you're not caught in the backlash." Zell’s message time was not an issue, though if the man listened that would be different. Zell activated his A.V.A.T.A.R again, opting for his newest project. Project: Empower and he granted himself a hefty speed boost to himself, and then granting himself a hefty speed boost, followed by a glowing fire that shined like some form of holy fire. He pushed off doing a twist while tossing the flame to Forcewave, hopefully he caught on to how badly Zell wanted Sean stopped and didn’t try to avoid this. (+2 speed to self and +2 Stat boost to Forcewave, allocated where willed) "This might help." he said very "matter of factly" through the telepathic connection.
 
 
       Hopefully this John guy listened, because Ouro ran a few feet ahead, reaching close enough to Sean. He jumped and arched an arm back. While Zell was nothing impressive power wise, what he intended to do was powerful enough. His nanite Assault was calibrated and ready for a total unleash. Zell aimed to punch Sean, if the woman Titan got in the way then she would be the one who suffered the wrath, potentially even Sean still. All that was certain was that anything near Zell at the point of impact, was going to feel this. As it stood...Sean was going to get the full front of it.

One of the group, Zell, had decided to charge directly at the three leaders of this demonic army. Forcewave ran after him to protect him. This could turn out like Pickett's charge if things went poorly. Now was not a good time to be making a suicidal run. Then again it never is. It's why you shouldn't make them.

Despite being faster, Forcewave was having a hard time keeping up with Zell during this run. He couldn't maintain his full speed because he was having to deal with all of the incoming demons trying to attack them on their way to the three titans. It was proving to be a difficult task to undergo, and he was having a lot of trouble with it. He attempted to ward off nearly the entirety of the demons trying to intercept their charge at one time. There were about a dozen heading right towards him. Forcewave pulled out his tonfas as a wave of energy was unleashed to stop them all in their tracks. Then came the more physical portion of this attack pattern. He then started attacking the ones that were still standing after that. Three still remained after his initial attack on the group. For now. First he struck one in the neck with the tonfa in his right hand and pushed it into another one and struck the second one with his other tonfa bar. Then he swept the legs of the third and slammed it to the ground. All of them were defeated. He then saw that Elaine had joined them in this crazy charge. He definitely appreciated the help she would provide.

Looking towards the person he was trying to assist in this direct attack, he saw that Zell was in danger and seemed to not have noticed what was about to hit him. The male titan had snuck around him and was about to tear into him with some blades. Forcewave was about to try and stop the attack to save the guy, when Vaga came in and did it for him. Then he took off again. Back to the crazy charging idea.

The reason for this kind of suicidal run. They were after Sean, and he stood directly ahead. He ran forward and caught up to Zell again. The moment he did a barrier was formed over the two of them. Who did this? Did he put this up? Was this a new part of the plan? Then came a voice in his head. A voice that was not his own. Wait, is that?

The voice spoke of a plan of attack. Well, it was a plan different from the crazy direct charge they were doing. Forcewave then saw Zell using something for some reason and tossing it to him. What was he supposed to do with this? Hold on to it for him he guessed. He slowed down a bit as part of the warning given to him, but for some reason no longer felt like he had been going at his full speed. What had just happened? The attack came. Zell reached Sean and struck at him. Would it work though. Time seemed to slow down as he watched it and got ready to take advantage of the outcome.

So it only took a little while for everything to fall apart and even a shorter period for it to come back together.  One more bullet slid into the chamber and erupted through the calamity like a knife through butter.  "This isn't working."  When one creature fell, it only took seconds for two more to claim its place.  A stockade of flesh and blood created a severe bastion against the assault.  "It's like karma doesn't want people to get shot."

Spells started taking a toll on the fatigue the magician could muster up.  When fighting the infinite, it helps to be in something of a shape.  "Karma doesn't apply to demon creatures; just ask the little dog.  He knows."  

"Is that true?"

"I haven't been paying attention to tell the truth."  In between bursts of violence and never ending waves of minions, the small corgi wandered off towards thoughts of other endeavors within the scorched town.  "Have you tried doing the jump thing with a demon and using an exploding bullet?"

"No."

"Well, that's karma for you."  It really isn't.

"I get it now.  Super better stage of enlightenment."

"Better?"  Nothing got better.  Not for Amethyst, not from Elaine.

"God, I forgot you worship Harry Potter and don't have Jesus as your co-pilot."  Knowing a variation of voodoo curses and anti-racism would keep her safe from the evils of demons, Elaine prepared a demonstration.  "Watch."  

While the battle raged, Elaine waited her time until one of the slick creatures lunged towards Forcewave.  Catching him in air, Elaine dove into him and wrapped around his torso.  Air shattered with the impact of a bullet entering the lower abdomen of the black creature as the duo stepped out of the shadow jump with the creatures bladed appendages lunging towards the vile woman.  Hoping the blades would do their job and jettison their animosity into the body viceroy's body, Elaine pulled herself onto the shoulders of the beast and leaped away while her fingers caressed the grip of her handgun for good measure.  A measure weighted and balanced in a phosphorus compound packed deep inside of one of the bullets just waiting to erupt.

Bursting forth like Minerva from the head of Jupiter, the high explosive round would shatter off with an intense heat to melt material close by.  Free from the impact zone and overwhelming scorch of her deadly resolution, Elaine looked up to remind Amethyst of the lesson she hoped to instill within her.  "If that isn't what Jesus wants, then I don't know what enlightenment is."

Vaga was waist deep in demonic corpses. Boy. That's not a line he would think often. Granted, waist deep wasn't very high for the half-sized hero, but it still left an impact. Ichor coated the ground, staining it darker than the sky overhead. Chaos, sheer, utter, and absolute, was spreading across the battlefield. In one corner the female titan was taking on an entourage of new faces. Zell was finally approaching Sean and the male titan was... where? In the confusion, it had nearly vanished!

No... not vanished. Sneaking. It was coming up behind Zell, running in the gap left behind in the wake of their mad charge. Vaga closed the gap, twin blades slicing just in front of the titan. Surely it was fast enough to avoid the blow, since Vaga was only going to deter it from catching Zell.

"Now now, Mr bad guy. None of that. He's got an appointment with the boss." Vaga grinned, internally terrified that he wouldn't be able to handle such a large creature on his own. It was still his first real outing as a superhero, after all. Well, aside from a few cats in trees or piddle like that. Surely nothing this... big. Vaga's toothy smile just increased in size. The bigger the challenge, the better the tales of glory afterwards. "What are you guys even doing here, anyway?" He crouched, waiting for the male titan to say something or make a move. The longer he took, the longer Zell had to try and...

...an explosion rocked the ground behind him. Zell had hopefully connected, but Vaga couldn't risk a glance backwards. Cool guys don't look at explosions, particularly when staring down giant demons. Once again, not a line he would think often.

"You talk too much" Zell said plainly as Misanthropy roared with a slash up to meet the Katana that would have otherwise beheaded him. Despite the threat of being killed, Zell was still calm. In fact...this was the calmest he'd ever been since he knew the fate that awaited him. Sean began to twirl a nether blade in hand as he looked to Zell and oh so arrogantly. Zell felt...nothing. No more hatred, no more desire to murder the Titan. He found his center, so to speak, and with all of the emotion whisked away...there was only the object, and his means of getting to it.
 
    Zell clenched his left fist, and in a flash he summoned forth a blade of unknown origin, one stronger than even it's counterpart. With both blades in hand Zell looked to Sean, calculating and focusing on every movement. Zell even felt a smirk play on his face, he already knew how this would end...and it wasn't pretty for Sean. Though he had no desire for revenge, he was not opposed to the idea of playing with the Titan's ego...toying with him and drawing this out long enough for Forcewave to do whatever it was these hero types do. Zell would have done it...but the hero in him died not too long ago. With his superior fighting skill, he could play on the defensive and handle his own, surviving from any incoming attacks from the Titan or a stray demon from whatever angle. His eyes were opened, his ears heard, and he was ready to react.

Finally. They had finally reached their target. A target he would not have wanted to reach, but they had been left with no other choice. Forcewave and Zell got to Sean's location. Sean, an ally of his in the past. This was kind of a shame to be happening. It didn't feel quite right, and yet it seemed impossible to prevent.

Forcewave watched the strike come down, and fail, it seems. He had not exactly expected it to work. It would probably become his turn now. He could see Zell there, looking unclear as to if he could continue to fight or not. Something seemed off. Was he exhausted already? He looked almost defenseless over there. Forcewave ran forward and got between him and Sean. He glared at Sean intensely as a way of expressing that Sean would have to go through him now if he wanted to attempt to kill any of the others. He looked all around at the others to see how they were doing. Still a lot of fighting going on. Things were kind of at a standstill. Momentum in this battle was impossible to establish at the moment for things were going back and forth so quickly. He looked at Zell last before turning back to Sean. "I got this. Don't worry." he said to him reassuringly.

One of the demons came right at him in order to protect its apparent master. Forcewave ducked under its lunging claws and struck it right in its underside before blasting it away and directly towards Sean himself. He did not think that would accomplish anything other than perhaps angering the lead Titan. He saw the energy blades that were being wielded and took note of them before charging forth to attack. He wrapped himself in energy and threw a backhanded strike at his head with the tonfa and carried himself forward with the momentum to also throw a kick.

Elaine and Amethyst fell behind the main group bursting towards the gap in the demon phalanx. Good enough positioning to continue holding the back guard while a host of new arrivals began to pour into the fractured town. A slew of spells and bullets continued to dwindle down the forces threatening to overtake the party from behind, but Elaine focused on the danger of moving towards Sean without someone of her skill and magnitude.

"I should be fighting the main guy; I'm like the best fighter here." Elaine pointed her gun to the ground as she slid a full round back into her six shooter. A demon collided with a magical barrier set behind her, sending the flailing mass of animosity to the ground.

"That's precious." Coming back to metaphorical reality, the corgi watched as Amethyst did more than her fair share of work Elaine would no doubt deny or appreciate.

"No, seriously, like on a scale of one to ten, my skills in fighting are a ten. My intelligence is probably a ten and definitely my speed too. Come to think of it, all my stats are probably ten."

"You can't have all your stats at ten. That's stupid and overpowered. I think everyone should have 30 points to allocate."

"I want and deserve more than thirty points. You're an idiot and are ruining my creativity." In between the breach of two barriers, Elaine's bullets found home in the torso of two demons charging towards the woman who entered the battlefield.

"Points probably go up as people experience new things, but it takes time. I'm limiting the cap humans can start with at thirty."

"You're a dumb, Nazi corgi."

A clear mind always made the best of the magical fields swirling around the world, but the chatter between her partner and her supposed spirit corgi stole her attention. "Are you talking about something in general or is this just..."

"Shut up." Compromising a dash of reality and a handful of wishful thinking brought Elaine further from the harsh circumstances of the battle around her and more towards the use of her most powerful ability as a utility device to escape other people. "I'm just gonna go to another realm of existence."

"You have fun with that. Do your little shadow jump until you're on a planet where suddenly everyone thinks you have good ideas."

"I will." Darting threw the fray of demons by interweaving her dimensional shift, Elaine hopped into the spirit realm and came out behind a fresh target. Her ruse failed in objective, but her bullet proved effective in the secondary. The small dog however continued behind her.

"Do it."

"I will." Flashing behind another flank, Elaine found the same dilemma and delivered that dilemma into the spine of a demon. Still, the dog followed.

"Do it."

Flustered at her attempts, and convinced she could still try one more option, Elaine closed her eyes and held her breath. To prevent a savage attack from a demon against the woman not minding her senses, Amethyst rushed to erect a barrier blasting back a demon before it could collide with her partner. With the carbon threshold reached, Elaine exhumed her breath and looked to the carnage of the battlefield. She felt dismay for literally every wrong reason. "Aw, it didn't work; I'm still in this dumb dimension."

"I'm your only hope now."

"I have no hope."

"I'm not telling you to do anything, but maybe there are people more hopeless than you who need help."

"Is Ame dead?" Elaine barely noticed the odd noise Ame gave before brushing her off as being alive and thus not caring about her anymore.

"That's a good place to start with 'hopeless', but I meant the people fighting the demon king or whatever he is. Oh, I made myself not care about this situation by clarify what it is."

Elaine made her charge towards the gap with no hesitation or prior planning.  "Time to be hero everyone deserves, not the one they need."

"I think you said that in the wrong order." Amethyst found her attention towards Elaine wane as the general they were predisposed with turned towards the new comer. Seeing the display of power surge from Chelle, Ame would try to root the general in place to force her to take the full charge from the demonic vampire.

"No."  The small dog got up and began to follow Elaine as she shadow stepped through the crowded battle field.  "She really didn't." Elaine would make her shot at grabbing a demon mid shadow jump and throwing it towards Sean.

"Hey!" Her challenge shouted as she tried to grab the attention of the Titan. "Didn't you use to be a guy named Deluge who carried a water bottle around?"

Vaga was, to say the least, no longer having fun. What had started out as an interesting outing, with plenty of violence, blood, action, violence, explosions, and violence (Did he say that already?) had quickly dissolved into tedium. The demons just kept COMING. The Eternal Youth had long since established their attack patterns and was, as the kids would say, "Roflstomping" all over them. Demon lunged? Talon to the eyes. Attack from behind? Roll to his knees before pushing off the ground with his hands and pummeling the creature in the stomach. Every action had a reaction, and it was almost pre-planned. Like someone was sitting in the background in a dark room somewhere just writing all of this out. Unfortunately, Vaga's pest problem caused him to lose his quarry. Hopefully he had distracted the Titan enough, but he couldn't be sure. Seems like people of his stature were too easily ignored. He grimaced as another enemy fell. Then, just as another bad guy swept up from behind him, Vaga got the excitement he was hoping for.

With an explosion that shook the very earth, dark energy erupted behind him. Vaga spun, parrying the attack that another demon had aimed at him. The boy pierced each of the Demon's arms with his blades, forcing the demon into a stance that screamed "HUG ME!!" (though the demon's ACTUAL screaming was incomprehensible. Pain'll do that.). As the shockwave hit, Vaga used the Demon as a Meat shield, forcing the wave to break (at least in part) before hitting the hero behind. The wave was too powerful, though, and sent the pint-sized protagonist careening into a mob of similarly-affected mobs. Pain wracked his body, but Vaga looked up to witness what was coming next. Within moments, the church was devastated and the sky seemed ruined. Vaga achingly got back to his feet, hoping desperately that one of the more magical-oriented heroes had an idea of what to do next.

”However, this whole fight is done.” was all Zell needed to hear. He turned only to feel a blast of Nether energy knock him back a good ten to twenty feet, flipping and planting his face into the ground. with a sickening crack and a sharp pain in his mid-back, before flopping over like a ham-shank and sending a small dust-cloud up. He roared in pain as his skin began feeling away form his face form the necrotic energies of Nether that wracked the face. To say he had no coherent thought in his mind at this time was...mostly accurate. It was all a blur, all focused on how to numb the pain, to take away the torment that ate away at his throat and vocal cords that stifled his cries. His spin was snapped and from the waist down he couldn't move. He began crawling as blood seamed from his face, the skull beginning to be revealed. There was nothing he could do...nothing he could say, there was only darkness and impending Death. But in death would there be a final rest for him? Would he finally be able to rest in the comfort of Heaven or Hell and know that the monster he was to become was going to be prevented?

"One of the smartest men in the world...and yet he never thought to make a helmet..." a familiar voice hummed with a rather amused undertone. Zell innately looked up to see a skeletal face, the man whom looked of Death. Zell raised a hand to fire out a protonic blast, however the skeletal foot stepped upon his hand and cold unforgiving bone showing the futility of resistance. "You're making this too easy boy." The Lych said as he turned his head, a few Titans whom continued to assail, a larger brute charging. The brute froze and scrambled, falling to the ground before his eyes began to glow, a deathly screech was emitted form it, before it proceeded to grab a smaller Titan in each hand and run with them, smashing their skulls into others of their race. With the distraction taken care of The Lych reached form within the Deathstench robing and removed a small little vial. Placing his other bone foot beneath Zell's shoulder he pried the young male form the ground and placed his foot upon his neck.

"Generally I would leave such genetic altering potions to a madman... but when in Rome..." He chuckled as he poured the contents of the vial over Zell's deteriorated face, allowing it to seep into blood and muscle and tissue. Zell continued to squirm as he placed his hands on Lych's foot in attempts to remove the foot from his slowly crushing trachea. The chemical burned as an itching sensation formed at the edges of his remaining skin, and his muscles seemed to feel as magma. Sinew flowed like blood and formed over the face, bone repaired and the skin slowly crawling over the newly restored muscle. The portions of hair lost form the blast were soon restored, a rather brilliant blonde with dark brown roots. "I've put too much into you to allow you to die here... don't mess this up." He snapped glaring into the glowing green eyes before driving his foot from the Trachea and across the jaw before turning, his cloak barely gracing the ground as he walked away. He snapped his boney fingers, as his new "puppet" had expired it's usefulness and it dropped to the ground, dead. He would disappear as a nether-like smoke, shooting off into the air at impressive speeds, leaving the beaten and broken Atterius child to lay there, changing... He lay there... thinking I die as.... I lived... he let out a little sigh, weakened. His chest sopped moving, his hydraskin no longer regenerating and his suit finally powering down as the emerald glowing eyes faded. Alone

With so many of those that had gathered all at this church in this town now converging all on one spot due to some crazy all out attack on the one responsible for it all, things quickly became a fracas of great proportions. Anyone within this grouping wouldn't be able to keep track of everything going on here. It was just pure chaos much alike the very attack on this little town itself.

Forcewave got to the Titan king that was Sean and attacked. There was an opening and he took it. As he drew near and struck out at him, an explosion suddenly tore through the air and quickly laid waste to the surrounding area. Those that had been running forward were then bounced backwards with great force. A crumbling sound could be heard over all the commotion as the church collapsed.

The explosion was of the titan king's own doing. A last resort attack it seemed. Forcewave felt it clash against the barrier he had surrounding him and felt himself unable to stay aware of what was ahead of him. He just kept going despite himself until he felt himself make contact with something. Though he knew not what he had wound up hitting, that was not the first thing he looked for in the aftermath. Forcewave's vision went about scanning his surroundings. The area was devastated. Bodies of abyss demons scattered all around and this poor town was damaged beyond what it should have been. He looked around for the others to see if they were okay. He could see them all moving, even those titan generals. Speaking of titans, sure enough that thing he hit was the person he had been trying to hit. Sean was laid out unconscious on the ground near him. Now what? Try and finish him off in order to possibly stop this whole attack. The other two generals were right there nearby. There was a very small window of opportunity available.

[/color]"Oh my God I get here and the gay guy with the water bottle takes a nap. What happened to Southern Hospitality?" Elaine looked around to the slew of others who came before her with lax appreciation, disregarding the fact she narrowly escaped death through the force field of Forcewave. "I don't know who any of you are, but two of you seem like okay guys; you can be my sidekicks if you don't mind getting gunned down in hails of bullets and occult fire."

"So Tyuki..." Amethyst continued to shield the area with mystic energy to guard the outpost Nathaniel used to tend to Tyuki. "When is Girl Alive! coming out with new stuff? I know it isn't prudent right now..." A powerful blow swept over Ame's head as she struck her staff into its side and let lose a burst of light. "But you know, whenever you feel like talking, or meeting the other band members, we can go out sometime or something."

"If you could hear my words for the past five minutes, you would kill yourself."

Light erupted across a prismatic spectrum shielding Ame and blasting one of the demonic creatures to the ground.

"I'm cheering for the monsters right now."