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Daka Crystal Vault
Psistrike wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:42 pm
"No! No more incarnates, no hate. This ends here and now for the good of all life and the universe." Aranel begins to glow once more with the same energy she unleashed against the Incarnate of War, her lifeforce and that of the very Earth in synch as it flowed out from her to strike down Knightfire.
Gilliam wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:05 pm
"No not going to happen Knightfire we will .."
About to attack the hate demon, Imogen slipped falling face first on the ground.
kenseido wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:52 pm
Before he can finish his speech, Jason uses
"FORZARE!" wrapping the villain up in invisible force for the others to put down hard.
The ground of the vault is littered with glowing blue Daka crystals -- hundreds, thousands of them. As Nightbird loses her footing, they go clattering every which way, pulsing in rippling waves outwards like the surface of a disturbed pond. All the while,
But Spellbinder's invisible magical bonds snap tight about the guard Knightfire is possessing and holds the struggling man motionless. Then Aranel starts to glow. A sudden wind rises about her, swirling around her form before surging out towards Knightfire, casting bright teal light as it goes. Wildflowers and grass spontaneously erupt along its path, growing straight out of the facility's steel floor. The breath of life sweeps through the black flame of hatred pooling about General Havoc on the floor and snuffs it out as easily as the sea breeze extinguishing a candle flame. It pours into the G.A.S. security guard through his nose and open mouth and ejects Knightfire from the possessed body, causing his black-red form to pour out into mid-air like a cloud of poisonous smog. The Daka crystals everywhere cease pulsing at once, and the unconscious guard slumps backwards in his magical bindings.
"NoooooOOOoOOOoOOOOO--" the hate-wraith wails, clawing with indistinct hands at the hapless security guard he was possessing, but the breath of life still swirling about the man repels Knightfire's touch like oilskins shrugging off the rain.
stavaros_the_arcane wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:54 am
"
NOPE! None of that!" Gelert says before blasting Knightfire.
At that moment, one of the grates on the ceiling behind Knightfire pops open and clatters to the floor, revealing Gelert's head. Knightfire has no corporeal form and the corgi's beam of blue light passes straight through him to blow up a rack of Daka crystals in the background.
But as the light of Hope passes through him, Knightfire screams. To hope, you see, to believe the best of others, to have faith, to trust that tomorrow will be better, that whatever darkened today's sky is only a passing thing, and that light and stars and possibility abound in the infinite space above, and that goodness and kindness will prevail, is something so utterly anathema to the cold, bitter cynicism that is Knightfire's heart that in this weakened state it shatters him. Knightfire screams, in a way none of the numerous beatings he has received in his long career as a terrorst have managed to make him scream, and his immaterial form gutters and extinguishes with a puff of smoke.
For a while, you sense a malevolent presence linger in the room. "No," whispers a broken voice. "You can't... can't..."
But whatever resolve powered his attempt to incarnate General Havoc just moments earlier seems to have been spent.
"You can't... get rid of me... forever," he whispers, feebly. "There will always... be hate. Always... always..."
For a fleeting moment you taste the immeasurably deep bitterness in his soul, a heart cold and hardened from a lifetime of prejudice -- and then he is no more.