Castle Hallway [STORM]

[mrcrazycakes]

The Anomaly that had attacked Aerith was turned into a cloud of red mist as the ice impacted upon it, and the one that had burst from the ground beneath her quickly met with a massive lightning bolt to hamper the thing further from the blinding flash Yuffie had caused. Regardless, it retaliated by firing off magic in the direction of the girl it had attacked earlier, remembering her position and gauging about where she was. [Four casts of Fireball towards Aerith; boosted by x1.5 because of Jolt; Accuracy affected by Blindness]

Yuffie, in the meantime, seemed to have been able to slip past the Anomaly with Sneak undetected with the blinding flash of light preventing the ones that had been looking at her from seeing it. She was across the room now, where Ivolt quickly landed after sending two more Pioneer to clouds of red mist. Unfortunately, Ivolt's landing got the attention of the Anomaly attacking the pillar, and in effect allowed them to spot Yuffie, seeing as there was no real obstacle to hide behind. The Pioneers ignored the pillar and struck out, lashing at Yuffie and Ivolt with their claws, while the Chiral hammered Yuffie with several casts of Ice. [4 damage sent towards Ivolt; 2 damage sent towards Yuffie; four casts of Ice sent towards Yuffie]

The remaining two Chiral that had decided to attack burst from the ceiling above, both of them crashing towards Akilah. [8 damage for each if you get hit]

And the rest continued on the pillars...

Attacking support pillar I: 62%
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]

Attacking support pillar II: 46%
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]

Attacking support pillar III: 80% <DAMAGE PAUSED>

ATTACKING IVOLT & YUFFIE
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=4/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=6/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=4/8]
Chiral Anomaly [hp=22/24]

Attacking support pillar IV: 37%
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Gauge Anomaly [hp=24/24]

In defensive position:
Gauge Anomaly [hp=16/24] *Blinded*

attacking:
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=0/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=0/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=0/8]
Chiral Anomaly [hp=16/24] *Blinded*
Chiral Anomaly [hp=24/24]
Chiral Anomaly [hp=24/24]

[Rocket!]

Thok! went the first Chiral Anomaly's swiping arm as it landed on Akilah's person.

WHAM went every sense in Akilah's body.

The woman immediately flinched at the recieved eight damage, sending up a quick Reflect spell too late for the landed h--

Vwrr! went the wavering shield of air as the second Chiral Anomaly presumably landed a hit on the shield in question.

And as a wave of white light immediately struck back with equal force. [ Reflect on second attacking Chiral Anomaly for 8 damage! ]

"WHAT in the heck was THAT?" Akilah shouted, twisting around for a view of the offending Anomaly, to no avail as gravity called down--

Hrm. Akilah grinned. That was a nice thought.

The woman gripped her gloved hand, sending out a wave of purple and black with a small push-- and there! Sure, not too big... but it should keep the bugger down near Aerith down for a full round. Not to count out the two Chirals that had been flying down there after hitting Akilah.

And then a shimmering cloud of gray faded into existence around the Anomaly held down by Gravity.

A Silence spell.

Cancelling magic for seven turns.

That should be nice, the grin on Akilah's face said.

...

And then, just for spite, Akilah send down a Lightning Bolt spell. [ 3 damage x 1.5 is 4.5 damage! How, um, do you plan to fix that up? ^^;; ]

Akilah Aultman
[hp=94/102]

[ Akilah - Still flying above battlefield
1. Reflect on second attacking Chiral for 8 damage
2. Gravity spell on the two attacking Chirals and previously attacked Anomaly, to keep them pinned down and unactionable for the next turn.
3. Silence spell to make the three pinned Anomalies magicless for the forseeable future.
4. Lightning Bolt on the Gravity'd Anomaly-- praying that they're close enough for it to affect more than one of them, given Gravity. ]

[Blazed Soul]

Ivolt winced as the anomaly got him with it's claws, but as he was taking the hit, he lashed out with both knives, stabbing at the thing that hit him. It wasn't looking good for him and this new girl though. Trapped and outnumbered was never a good thing.

He had to keep going though, he had to. Closing one eye, he spun, and stabbed at another enemy that had been going at the ninja girl. The attack was quick and precise, so the thing didn't have much of a chance to get out of the way.

Looking over at his similarly unlucky ally, Ivolt said, "Hey, if ya can get over here, I think I can get us both outta here!"

[hp=14/20]

[Basic Counterattack activated on attacker, followed by Precision Stab on an anomaly attacking Yuffie.]

[mrcrazycakes]

[I'm sorry for an OOC post, but...

ROCKET. SPECIFY WHAT YOU'RE DOING PLEASE. SUBTLETY IS NOT MY STRONG SUIT. And the rest of you, I'm not waiting much longer now that I'm not sick, so try to derp out something.]

[Secret Agent Cat]

[Sorry..my post may be sort of blah. I'm sick and all ;-;]

Aerith looked up to see that someone else had joined in on the fighting and had decided to assist her. She then was hit with the confetti grenade that contained HasteLv2, now Aerith could see the enemies around her more effectively in that they all seemed to go in slow motion. Which would help her with reflexes and dodging attacks. With this she was able to move out of the way of one of the Fireballs that was fired at her, the second one she wasn't able to dodge. As for the other two, she simply Dodgeroll'd out of the way and as she stood up she raised her staff and cast ice magic towards the blinded Chiral, hopefully chilling it so that it would not move while she ran in and whacked her rod with it four times.

Jumping backwards she checked to see how many damage she had actually done to the Anomaly, perhaps it might dissolve like the others. Whether or not it did, she would cast Wind in its general direction and hopefully entangle other Anomaly as well.

[hp=52/60]
[Recap: Hit with HasteLv2, dodges first Fireball, hit by 2nd Fireball , Dodgerolled the last fireballs, casts Ice Lv2 enhanced with Ice Mage, whacks the Chiral anomaly 4 times attacks enhanced with Blunt Weapon Trainee, and casts Wind towards Chiral.

[avatar]http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/windrider28/aerith3.png[/avatar]

[Rocket!]

[ GACK! Edited, mon capitane! ]

[mrcrazycakes]

[Yuffie has two posts remaining among the living]

The Chiral Anomaly attacking Akilah took the hit from Reflect. Unfortunately for her, this Chiral was knocked back by the retaliation, falling out of range of her subsequent cast of Gravity and disappearing into the ground, but not before sending a Lightning Bolt at her. [first Chiral held; second cast Lightning bolt]

Ivolt's attacks on the Pioneers managed to annoy them, but they remained alive regardless. All of them turned their attention to the boy as Yuffie seemed to lock up for one reason or another, all of them swiping their claws at him. The Chiral disappeared into the ground... [Six damage sent at Ivolt.]

Aerith's attacks on the blinded Chiral did a lot of damage, but it wasn't out of comission yet, and thankfully for her still blinded. Its three casts of Ice Arrow were terribly off-target, while her cast of Wind also managed to catch the Anomaly held down by Gravity. None were gone yet, however... [Four casts of Ice Arrow sent in the general direction of Aerith.]

Remaining Enemies:
Pioneers: 12
Chiral: 4
Gauge: 2

Attacking support pillar I: 68%
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]

Attacking support pillar II: 51%
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]

Attacking support pillar III: 80% <DAMAGE PAUSED>

ATTACKING IVOLT & YUFFIE
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=2/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=4/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=4/8]
Chiral Anomaly [hp=22/24]

Attacking support pillar IV: 43%
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Pioneer Anomaly [hp=8/8]
Gauge Anomaly [hp=24/24]

In defensive position:
Gauge Anomaly [hp=16/24] *Blinded*

attacking:
Chiral Anomaly [hp=2/24] *Blinded* *Gravity*
Chiral Anomaly [hp=16/24]
Chiral Anomaly [hp=15/24] *Gravity* *Silence*

[Rocket!]

Akilah tsked. This was getting to be a serious hass--

Brzzt! went a passing lightning bolt through Akilah's body.

--SERIOUS PAIN IN THE BLEEPING--

This was getting to be a serious hassle. For someone as accustomed to power as Akilah, that was teeth-grindingly frustrating.

So, for starters, Akilah dropped the Super Glide spell. It was high time she took the battle at face value, and do what she came to do--

Something that mattered. [ Super Glide cooldown entered! ]

Akilah's boots slammed into the marble of the floor. With a heft up and toss of the raised hood, the woman-- as strong in spirits as in power-- stormed.

"Look at all the blithering STUPID someone left lying around!" she shouted-- barked, more like-- at the surrounding Anomaly. She began her walk, circling around the area Aerith and Akilah had been concentrating on.

"I don't give a freaking butt wipe what kind of magic you brainless morons have!" Stomp of the foot. She really seemed to be putting on quite the show of anger!

And then reality blurred.

Akilah kept walking. Her clone began to walk in the opposite direction.

"Watch me, you bleeping bleepity bleep bleep of a bleeping cloud!" The tanned woman raised her hand high in a sudden thrust, blasting the Anomaly previously held down with her Gravity spell high into the air with a geyser.

And then blasted them midair (hopefully!) with Fire Lv2.

The clone ripped the cloak from off of its back, giving it a small flick towards the mass of attacking Chiral Anomaly, sending five of the Dark Aura infused grenades forward for a grand total of 20 damage to each of them across the span of attacks. [ One action-- flicking the cloak where the grenades are held-- to send out a random few grenades. ]

"I'll blow you all out of the water!"

Akilah and her clone drew their swords.

Time to go to work.

Recap all:
Super Glide ends,
Clone starts,

Recap ctd. Akilah:
Geyser on Gravity'd foes (3 damage, sends foes into the air) (which are no longer Gravity'd due to one round limits)
Fire Lv2 on Geyser'd foes (4 damage!) (which is giggle worthy)

Recap ctd. Clone:
Sends five grenades into the three attacking Chirals near Aerith (1 grenade + Dark Aura = 4 damage per grenade; 4 damage X 5 grenade = 20 overall damage)

[mrcrazycakes]

[To speed things along]

The remaining Gauge and Chiral moved suddenly, the crouching Gauge slamming directly into a wall, followed by the Chiral smashing its arms into it, followed by all of the Pioneers charging to strike the wall, reducing it to rubble in a matter of moments, just in time for a scream to be heard from the room within. The Pioneers swarmed inside, the Gauge and Chiral on defensive in front of the collapsed wall.

Unfortunately for the idiot that is Akilah, her clone's explosives also caught AERITH in the blast radius (DO NOT USE AREA OF EFFECT WEAPONS WHEN YOU NEED PRECISION; IT DOES NOT WORK. EVER.) [20 damage from Akilah also applied to Aerith.]

Defending:
Chiral Anomaly
[hp=22/24]

Gauge Anomaly
[hp=24/24]

[Rocket!]

[ WAIT WHAT ]

Akilah lowered her weapon, it dissipating from view as the woman pondered what this wholly unexpected turn of events could possibly mean.

...she raised a very prideful eyebrow.

Clearly, she had scared them all into why is Aerith on fire--

Oh.

Akilah winced.

And they'd been such nice clothes--

"Ah," the woman said, eloquence personified, looking a mite bit awkwardly at what she'd caused. "I can pay for that."

And then she winced again as her ear was given a good stab at by the scream.

"I... you know what?" she said, looking pointedly at the eerily empty hall. "I don't feel like getting hit by a trap today."

Her eyes told of hard-earned wisdom. She, herself, must be familiar with being on the wrong end of traps.

Assuming it is a trap.

"I'm going to stick it out here, clean up any lazy bug-balls lying around." the woman told Aerith, still not having the politeness necessary to introduce herself. "As for you..."

Akilah unabashedly appraised the young woman before her.

And shrugged, walking away for other parts of Disney Castle.

"Do what you will."

[/size]

[ Exuent!

BUT SERIOUSLY WHAT IS THIS SURPRISE-- ]

[Secret Agent Cat]

Aerith was taken back with the young girl's sudden rash attitude and attacks towards the Anomaly. Aerith was WAY too close to the Anomaly especially the Chiral she had almost finished off. Raising her staff in front of her face was the only action she could do to protect herself from the explosion the grenades the young girl had thrown at the Anomaly. However, she was not totally unprotected. A spell she had cast earlier was still in play and reduced some of the damage she took.

However, the sudden array of grenades and explosion(s) had caused some, well most of the Anomaly to break through a wall closest to them. The mage sighed to herself as she looked at her charred dress, but she had no time to dwell over such things. Where the Anomaly had broke through, there might be other people in trouble. And it was Aerith's job to protect them. Two of the Anomaly were still in the hallway but they were not that close to the flower girl so she had room to sneak by them, well actually run. She ran through the huge hole in the wall the Anomaly created and into the next room... What awaited her she did not know.

[hp=42/60]

[Recap!..hit by explosion from grenades, damage halved by Protect. Runs into next room/area.]

[The Bilby Guy]

[It can't be that big of a surprise that I might not want to spend all my free time staring in a computer when i have to do that all day at work despite just recovering from eye surgery. =P]

Suddenly cartwheeling out of her position Yuffie flashed to Ivolt's side and thrust a long leg with the intention that it's foot would bury into the body of the most-battered Pioneer attacking the boy with the force of an Unarmed Combat Trainee. She she did this her right hand was grabbing him and pulling him off to the side the way she'd come so he would be out of range of the swipes the other two would be making on his person.

"Out of here? What for?" Yuffie asked with a determined grin. She was now fully recovered, mentally at least, from the heavy barrage of magical ice that had formed over her almost all at once. Having actually succeeded in slowing the ninja down Yuffie was somewhat ashamed of herself. if only his Ivolt guy hadn't come crashing in with a bunch of noise. She was hoping to sneak up on the monsters and start some good old-fashioned assassinations. Oh well, now she'd have to make up for it with some good old-fashioned butt-kickings.

"Time to go all out!" the ninja roared, stepping into range of the other two Pioneers(If her kick had missed or not killed the other one she was prepared to ignore it for now since Ivolt was still there to hopefully watch her back). She had yanked their target out of the way to hopefully disorient their movements for a split second. During that second she intended to end their existence with consecutive barrages from her Flash of Fists attack, first on one and then the other. Even though she was an Unarmed Combat Trainee Kisaragi's body could only handle the strain of the high speed attack a few times in a battle before it would refuse to execute properly again, so she hoped her choice to end their current attackers quickly was the correct one.

[HP=78/100]

[Normal Attack on Pioneer with 2 HP
Individual Flash of Fists on both Pioneers with 4 HP]

[mrcrazycakes]

As Aerith ran by, the ceiling's questionable stability ceased to be 'questionable' and turned to alright dangerous. Massive cracks spider-webbed across the ceiling where a wall once supported it, threatening to break apart at any second. Great chunks of brick fell from the ceiling and smashed the two Anomaly remaining to guard the entryway into dust. If Yuffie wanted to get through this way, she'd have to hurry or the broken wall would no longer offer entrance and she would be forced to circle around...

[Runrunrun.]

[The Bilby Guy]

"Ooh. Convenient!" Yuffie said with a grin as the two Anomaly blocking the way her friend Aerith had run through suddenly ceased to be. Bearing no desire to entertain the same fate herself the ninja Acrobat lunged herself with all her speed toward the opening in the wall, dodging falling debris as best she could along the way.

Those darn freaks were going to pay for all of her stuff lying around the floor that was probably about to be buried. Of that she'd make sure.