End To An Era [Plot] [Open]

Zack flew from the blow. The power was so great. Still, despite the agony he was in as he was falling into unconciousness a smile came to his face. He might not of been able to headbut the king of dragons, but he did knock the giant cerberus off the top of the magic council and save Zenshin so he could finish up with Yugi. Things went very well all things considered. Shame he wouldn't remain concious to see the result, but that didn't matter. Few could say they had done what he did. He would remember it for a while. Maybe even longer than a month. That would be impressive.

The fall would probably have ended Zack, but he was saved at the last second by a winged women clad in green. Devon had disobeyed Zack and come to help. She had stayed out of it for as long as possible, but she couldn't let him die. She caught him and that was the moment when his eyes closed into total unconciousness with a broad smile on his face.

"I told you not to come." he murmured.

"You know nothing Zack Rose." she said as she carried him away from the battlefield. Zack was a healer and could probably have healed his own injuries in a heartbeat, but he was unconcious. He would not be waking up anytime soon without a miracle.

Mel smirked and ran up to Ren sliding under her legs completely. Obviously her last hit was deflected. There she was at the head of the dragon. She flipped herself over then climbed her way to the dragon's eye again. "LOOK YOU STUPID! UNSPORTING! IDIOT! Turn around! You got other places to go and fish to fry! I mean jeez! You have more pride than this Acnologia! Listen to me this time. You have got to free yourself from Warden! There's nothing I can do about that, I don't have a potion for that! Nor do I have the time to deal with you!" Mel screamed at the top of her lungs then finally swung a spiked toe clog to the dragons eye. "Does that make you angry?" Mel smirked and repeated started to clog the dragon. "How about now? Now? Now? Are you even listening to me you stupid dragon? This place wasn't even as cute as my Atlier! Yet you destroyed it! You destroyed my home! All because you lost a stupid game! How stupid are you! How about I take my rage out on you for a change you stupid dragon!" Mel continued to kick the eye. "Does hearing my voice annoy the piss out of you? Because back then it did the same thing! So listen you stupid immature dolt of a dragon! You are being controlled by a human! An ant! Even worse than an ant! A pissant!"

Lance nodded at Rita's comments before getting up "Yes the city does need help..." he said as he started to walk back into the city and it wasn't long before he was face to face with the dragon "Hey you!" he yelled as he readied and attack "Prepare to die!" Lance said running toward the dragon before having a barley standing building topple down. Before it could hit him two invisible people with coats on grabbed Lance and ran as soon as it fell. Before the smoke cleared one of the figures turned around and cast a spell making a exact copy of Lance lay on the ground making it look like he had died. The hooded figures left the town and when Lance awoke he was in a sort of medical room with Melody standing over him.

Rita had convinced Lance to go back into Era with her, She only expected them to be helping any injured or trapped civilians. "Prepare to die!" To her absolute shock Rita turned to see Lance charging in the dragons direction. "Wait! Lance you cant!" Rita called after him knowing not even the strongest wizards could bring the winged  behemoth down. Rita was able to hear a crack a noise that deepened in her ears. The sound was very quiet but amplified itself to Rita over the dragon's ground shaking cries. Rita's eyes widened in absolute terror as she er identified the noise belonged to a building that stood over Lance. Rita froze as she watched the building come down on her closest friend. Her vision was obscured by the smoke and wreckage that came out from the crushing structure. Her heart practically stopped in her chest.

"LANCE!!!!!!!!!" Rita screeched out her vocal chords yelling as the rubble of the building piled up where her friend was moments before. She ran in an unsteady sprint to the rubble tripping over her feet a few times. Rita's eyes began to water up as dug she through the rubble struggling to find her friend. Rita spent her time relentlessly upturning the remains of the structure. Suddenly something cold met Rita's hand. Hope full Rita upturned the rubble over the object only to witness a ghastly sight. "no......no...no..no.nononono NO." Rita mumbled in a rising tone of disbelief kneeling down to the limp and battered body of her friend. "Lance c'mon get up!" Rita yelled to the corpse shaking it savagely. "this can't be-" She mumbled hollowly looking down to his body. Her eyes leaked steaming tears as she buried her face into the chest of her friends corpse. "Lance...Why- your such an idiot..."Rita cried.

She did not want to leave but Lance was now just a corpse to her, asleep,dead, not there anymore, But little did Rita know the body was not Lance's and that her friend was in a better place-Literally he was not in Era but he was still off this world and he was due to get a visit from Rita soon enough. The saddened wizard tried to tell herself away from the body, But she failed and cradled it still not ready to say goodbye. This just broke Rita down into more tears as she held the corpse close. "This should of happened to me-I froze up- I could of saved you!" Rita cried. The cloned body soon began to vanish. Rita watched it as it painfully disburse into a grey glow of dust that blew out of Rita's arms.

Rita's Sorrow transformed into a deathless rage she arose to her feet drying her burning eyes with her sleeve. Her despair turned to a scowl as she looked over at a crowd of the winged bastards from earlier. They were tearing away at the flesh of a civilian that must of been at the wrong place at the wrong time. This ticked Rita off even more knowing that they will not get the chance to return to their family or friends. Rita's eyes soon began to emit a violet Red glow as she drew her weapon from her sheath. She whistled getting the creatures attention, They must not like eating from dead things, because one came from behind the shadow wizard-it's teeth just decimeters away from Rita, But that changed very quick because in the next instant the creature did not have a head as it tumbled to the ground. Rita looked back to the other winged creatures as they came for her. The enraged wizard managed to hack away the majority with ease. Although a few of the bigger ones gave her problems, but given the needed effort Rita cleared the area of the things with only minimal damage taken. "Everyone of you is going to pay." Rita growled out  thirsting to savagely unleash of her anger.

Zeno squinted his eyes a bit as the raw power of Acnologia came roaring down from the skies onto Warden. Magical pressure erupted from the red-eyed demon as it whipped up a heavy whirlwind across the area far and wide. Zeno's cape waved violently in the wind, but the Wizard Saint didn't flinch.

As soon as Warden took that one decisive step forward, Zeno retaliated with an even greater burst of aura of his own. His vision of Warden may have been obscured, but so was Warden's vision of him.

That brief moment was all the time he needed. In that instant, as Warden blinked through the space between them, arcane magic rushed out of Zeno in several ways. His shining arcane armor had a slight glow to it, indicating that his Arcane Immunity was active. Zeno's right hand was engulfed in arcane energy with the handle of Retribution attached to his gauntlet. This was one of the most special forms of his unique artifact. The energy released from the handle would form a gauntlet of pure arcane upon his right arm, making him able to block blades, shatter armor, and tear through shields with his hand alone. Hovering next to the left side of his body was an exact replica of the gauntlet, which he could telekinetically control. A card was on the ground not far from his feet, covered up by the settling dust. Some other cards were hidden up his sleeves as well.

Zeno observed as Warden emerged from the dust right next to him. The sword made its way for his shoulder, Zeno didn't even move or blink, yet before it even connected Warden kicked over to the other side to swing at Zeno in an upward motion.

That's when he sprung his trap. Zeno didn't move to block or dodge Warden's attack at all. The speed and physical power Zeno had to bring forth in order to surpass Warden's was surprising to say the least, but he managed. As The River Styx slashed at his armor, it didn't even leave a scratch; Zeno's Arcane Immunity protected him from any damage the blade could deal. The whole scene was but a flicker; when the blade initially touched the armor, the hovering arcane gauntlet had already grabbed Warden's leg and yanked it down. As the blade scratched at Zeno's side, Warden's foot made contact with the card on the ground: "Major Arcana: The Tower", and his right fist, powered by the arcane gauntlet, flashed forward to deal a shattering blow to the nose.

The final motions of Zeno's counter attack happened simultaneously. By the time Warden would finish his unsuccesful upward strike to cut his opponent in half, Zeno would have connected his face-breaking right cross, and the arcane crystals of The Tower would have risen from the ground to keep Warden tethered in place until he'd break out. If Warden would choose not to, the crystals would just rise up and imprison his entire body within moments.

Zeno was not counting on the full imprisonment though. Trapping Warden's lower body for a moment would be enough. It would prevent him from flying backwards after Zeno's punch and allow Zeno to either follow up with another attack or create some distance.

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Zeno is still at 100% MP because of the mana boosts of his Artifact(+) Weapon and his Legendary(+) Weapon and Armor.

Spells Used:

Arcane Immunity:

Arcane Retribution:

Arcane Replica:

Major Arcana:

Zeno raised an eyebrow as he watched his raging fist slam into his own crystal instead of Warden's face. As quickly as he'd assaulted Zeno, Warden had escaped his trap and jumped backward to create some distance between the two. Zeno could already feel that this fight would be high-paced and that no reserve of magical energy would be spared.

After a brief pause of eyecontact held under straining pressure to analyse the situation, Warden created another portal. As soon as that happened, Zeno used a Rift Phase to create an after-image of himself and appear behind Warden. Warden wouldn't know it wasn't the real Zeno until his attack would go straight through the mirage. As soon as Warden threw his kick and stood on one foot, a card in Zeno's hand disintegrated into swirling arcane energy and was fired to take impact right at the one foot that kept Warden in balance. A portal opened immediately, right before the kick could even connect to the slowly fading after-image, that would drop Warden into an arcane tunnel where he would have no control over his movements and fall through the Arcane Realm for a brief moment until he would be spit out from a different portal right at Zeno's feet.

As soon as the portal would open and Warden's head would pop up, Zeno would fire from so close Warden would never have the time to block or dodge, as he'd fly out head first leaving his body incapable of protecting him. Zeno had but to point, a purple lazer dot would appear on the top of Warden's head and an instant later it would explode. The close-range, piercing explosion would deal B rank damage directly to his body, he was not wearing a helmet, and it would leave behind a burn would with a stigma that would intensify Warden's susceptibility to Zeno's magic.

His next connecting attack would then deal damage as if it were of a higher rank. The explosion would slow Warden's exit out of the arcane tunnel down and create a momentum that would make him hover for a brief moment right in front of Zeno. In that moment, Zeno would take advantage of the confusion and explosion dealt to Warden's head to punch him with both his Arcane Retribution gauntlet and the replica straight through the wall of an opposing house. The physical impact if that attack were to connect would be insane.

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100% MP remaining

With the assistance of a Fairy Tail mage and Hidate, Marick was finally able to make it outside of Era. By now though he'd lost a significant amount of blood and he could feel himself becoming progressively light-headed. This was not a state he'd envisioned getting into when he came here to save Kara, but he'd done what he came to do and that was the important thing. As soon as they were clear of the dragon and the demons, Marick slumped to the floor and leaned with his back to the remnants of a wall. He began to breathe a little slower but heavier, attempting to rush oxygen to his brain and keep himself conscious. Of course, he'd need something to stem the the flow of blood before he died right there. The wound hadn't been incredibly deep at first, but the constant movement had certainly made it worse, and the blood had not been able to clot properly. It was possible that it would clot now he was still. On the other hand, there was a considerable chance he'd die from blood loss before that point. Thus he made quite the decision.

He gripped his deck holder and pulled out his cards, skimming through them until he found the one he was after; 6: fireball. The funny thing was it was the 6 of hearts. "Promising..." he chuckled to himself as he dropped the remainder of his deck onto the ground. His smile turned to a grimace as he moved his shirt away from the wound, letting the air get to it. After three. One...two... he activated the card and a small fireball lit up in his hand. THREE! The mercenary screamed out in agony as he pushed the fireball close to his wound, instantly drying up the blood while also giving himself mild burns around the area. As soon as he'd held it there for long enough he moved the fireball away and snuffed it out on the ground beside him, panting heavily. The burning would heal fine, although the wound would most likely scar. Still, that was just another one to add to the collection.

[Mari and Max - Exit]

Dryaw felled how the spear hit his opponent and the blood splatted around.  Tough she was a nifty and quick one jumping around evading his spear. He even got hit in the face by a heel. A scratch went over his nose from that nifty attack. She was getting more in a better position then him. but he didn’t care. The gods were behind him even if he would lose today he would be back another day. She was his goal now and he wouldn’t rest till he got her. It seemed she was done meleeing as she started to crouch down. Was she going to sprint  or cast a spell. Dryaw waited calmly for the next part. She suddenly got envolved in water as she jumped up towards him. god dammed he didn’t had the magic do dodge it anymore. But if he jumped on his spear he could jump over her. Don’t underestimate me dark mage. He ran towards her with his spear in front of him as he was going to jump.  At the last moment when she was going to hit him he punched his spear in to the ground and jumped up.

he sundenly heard a boo behind him and not much later a explosion hit him letting him fall down. Followed up by the spell of erza exploding him away another time. He was skipping over the ground as his body was thrown away. He finally got to a halt not so far away from them. He crouched up with his elbows. His body was hurting over the place. He probably broke a couple of ribs. He was coughing and a huge amount of blood fell on the ground. He was also completely covered in blood. But even through all this pain even in the face of defeat he started to laugh out loud.

“That was a good hit. BUT IT WONT STOP ME. EVEN IF YOU KILL ME HERE I SHALL RISE AS A GOD AND PURGE THIS WORLD WITH A NEW VESSEL. I AM AND SHALL ALWAYS BE AFTER YOU. YOU USED A VILE CREATURE. A UNDEAD. YOU BROKE THE LAST RULE YOU COULD EVER BREAK. FOR MY GODS FOR MY LAND I SHALL FALL OR BE GLORIUS!”, dryaw shouted out. He was a bit wobbly standing but after a second he started to run to the two persons. He first slided towards aedra and pierced his spear towards her right knee. After he slided under her he would get up and slashing up over her back. He didn’t care if it hit or not he then crouches up and uses his strength bosot to jump from his location to the undead one. That vile presence was a thorn in his eye. Crashing down near her a small crater was made of his strength alone. All of his face was glowing up by his tattoos as he stared in the eyes of the undead person. He stabbed towards her location three times and then jumped around to kick her in the face.

hp:30%
mp: 5% +10% (5th post)

Her initial attack had been successful, but as she had expected this man was a so called 'man of god' and so hated the undead just for their existence. He turned on her angrily and tried to strike at her three times. Despite the damage he had received he was still fast and Sinali was unable to dodge the three spear stabs. They all hit her and she let out a scream of pain. However, as she did she also shot a ball of acid and leapt back. The acid was a ball with a 3ft radius. It also had a splash zone though of 20ft which was why had leapt back using her wings to give her extra distance. She would probably still be hit by the very edge of it, but he would have little chance of dodging. It would do some severe damage. She still had her cannon though and patted it on the head. It still had one shot left that would be ideal as a last resort.

"Beati Mortui priest. Blessed are the dead. So why hate the undead?" she said with a confused look on her face. "Hate me and fear me for who I am not what I am."

Acid Spit:

Zeno watched as his sigil formed on Warden's head, but the explosion got lost or obscured from view as the Guildmaster of Tartarus moved through another set of portals of his own and flew head first against Zeno.

The Shadow Savior clenched his jaws as he was pushed back and another punt to the head made him stumble backwards. He looked at the sky for a brief moment and sighed, then closed his eyes as he stretched his neck from one side to the other and refocused them on Warden.

"Damn, you are a trickster, you know? I don't know what I was expecting,"

Zeno remained quiet, he had no patience for conversation at this point.

"I'll make use of something a little more complex then," Warden continued.

The Grand Mage seemed ready to take the fight to a higher level. "Mach Armor - Atalanta,"


"Kyll! Now!" Zeno roared as cards and arcane energy exploded from him. Warden was about to exceed Zeno's physical capabilities. The Arcane mage had to step it up himself... and he would do even more than just that.

Before him appeared two hovering, large, round metal plates. The design on the plates was like a sun. Solar rays came out of the sides as curvy spikes. The plates started to spin around clockwise at an incredible speed as the rest of the arcane energy flew into the center of the first plate. The first sun started shining bright and released the arcane energy from the other side into the second one. The second one shone even brighter and then released the augmented energy from the other side into Zeno.

Meanwhile another spell had already taken hold. A faint aura had appeared on Zeno's body. The Temperance Reverse spell had granted the Arcane master a tremendous speed boost. If Warden's new tricks wouldn't give him any benefits in speed, he would not even be able to see Zeno move.

The rest of the energy flew into Zeno and white light burst from him. The ground started trembling and whirlwinds were sent whipping across the area. When the light retreated in the form of a faint aura on Zeno, he had changed form. Horns now decorated his head along with a majestic crown, his face was hidden behind a plain white mask. Only his dark red eyes burned through the sinister holes in the mask. He had a collar of darkred fur that extended over his shoulders. His attire was elegant and equally as majestic as the crown. It was black with red sigils written on it, creating a beautiful and mysterious pattern. The stitches and buttons in the attire seemed to be golden. His skin had turned red and his musculature was lean but incredibly tight. Each muscle seemed to be pronounced and bursting with more strength than it should be able to hold. Waving in the wind was a black cape with subtle purple flames rising from it. In his left hand, Zeno was holding a long katana of red arcane energy. Both handle and blade were longer than the usual katana size. His right hand still formed a powerful arcane gauntlet and its hovering counterpart was calmly floating next to the sword.

This Arcane form was known as The Divine.
The suns had projected it onto Zeno, doubling its already divine powers in all physical aspects on top of what Temperance Reverse had already granted.

This fight had become a clash of titans, a battle between gods.

Zeno's Divine form had taken hold at the same time as Warden's Mach Armor. As Warden took his stance, so did Zeno.

All the Eclipse Soul guildmaster was waiting for, was his extra edge.

The Ace of Rebirth.
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HP: 99.8%
MP: 70%

All physical aspects are boosted x4

Just as Zeno commanded her to pop off the spell. An orb of purple light formed in front of her chest and she floated about a foot higher off the ground. The orb surrounded her and formed a barrier, separating Daemon and Kyll revealing their position. "A new life. A new power. Eclipse Rebirth!" Kyll's voice changed to that of a confident warrioress under Zeno's command. She tilted her head up to the sky and a light beamed out of her forehead and shot out to the sky. The beam went straight through the clouds shoving them into a circle revealing the sun. Immediately the area around them got dark as the sun was covered by a moon. A solar eclipse. A beam of yellow and purple light flew straight out of the sun and surrounded Zeno upgrading his strength and giving him a defensive barrier.

Kyll on the other hand was having an out of body experience. "Woah..." Kyll said aloud. "What am I doing here?"

"You wanted to watch... so we're watching..."

Kyll looked at the orb. "You... are... awesome." Kyll smiled and stood there concentrating her energies in her astral projected form. Keeping the eclipse going.

The blades completely annihilated the area. The buildings surrounding the long street were shred to pieces, if not by the metal of the blades then by the sheer amount of magical pressure and wind that was generated upon every movement made by either Warden or Zeno.

When the whirlwind of blades was finished, the place where Zeno had been standing was revealed to be abandoned. He was nowhere in sight. The only thing he'd left behind were some drops of blood on the ground.

Suddenly, sound barriers were broken in the sky. There was a star shining bright not too far from the sun, an instant later that same star had become what seemed to be a meteorite. That very moment, the meteorite had become Zeno crashing down from the sky with such power and speed he had left a trail of golden light and blurred heated up air that could be seen for miles.

Zeno found himself in mid-air in front of Warden. His cape waving violently in the wind, the cold visage of the magician staring Warden right in the eyes. Some parts of his tunic seemed to have been cut open and were covered in blood; Zeno had taken a few hits on his way out of the vicious minefield of blades as he had leapt into the sky. His arcane gauntlet was going straight for Warden's jaw and its hovering projection charging for the ribs.

All of it in what appeared to be the same instant, which was going to be the standard for all attacks from this point on. It would be flashes, blinks and lightning-fast strikes.

Both arcane gauntlets were meant to hit at the same time, like two meteorites taking direct impact and sending Warden spiralling off into the horizon.
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Total damage: 2 H Rank blows to the body.
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HP: 92%
MP: 120%

Daemon was knocked back  by the barrier and fell to the ground having spent the last of his strength  to protect lady Kyll long enough for her to use her spell. With a heavy cough Daemon slowly closed his eyes and passed out leaving him defenseless in the ally. A hour later the battle had only escalated to a bloody duel to the death as a thin woman  wearing a silver dress covered in blood and holding an odachi slowly walked through the ally ways  until she reached the weakened Daemon. The woman shook her head and took out a charm  with the crescent moon and wrapped it around his neck then proceeded to stroke his hair with a gentle smile on her face.

As the maiden  began to slowly heal Daemon's wounds using a variation of lunar magic a lone demo skulked up behind her preparing to devour he whole only to be cut in two in a spit second by the silver eyed maiden staining her dress with the demon's blood.

As soon as the maiden finished healing Daemon, she slowly stood up and   lightly kicked Daemon in the leg. It's time to wake up spawn of the dark moon" the woman said before takeing out a  whistle engraved with the crescent  moon  pointing it to the moon then quickly blew the whistle sending out an ear splitting call across the battle field causing anyone with heightened hearing's eardrums to nearly pop .

Across the battle field Daemon spade senior  nearly screamed in agony  before slicing the final demon in front of him in half from the torso. "I swear to luna if she does that again I'm going to kill her." Daemon growled as he grabbed ayami's hand and ran towards the sound of the whistle.