Guns, Ice, Tanuki's, Scythes, Wolves, and Brennan....

((OOC: You guys wanna do WC method? Like we post as normal, don't worry about making massive posts but if we hit the WC before 50 posts then we can shrug it off and move on with our lives. We each would need 6,800 words in total if we did it.))

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OOC: Sorry for the miscalculation...
50x400 = 20,000
20,000+3(200)=20,600
20,600/4=5,150
If someone wants to recheck my horrible math, please do X_X


Azurius Tade carried out 1 launched of one Monster Dice :

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The member 'Hero Yamamoto' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Monster Dice' :

It was a day like any other. Except it was not at all. First of all, it was already dark. Second of all, a ton of things happened in recent days. The Rune Knights, which were run by the Magic Council, were found to be guilty of corruption in the higher ranks of the order. Fiore's King ordered a Purge on the organization and the ones who were to carry that out were known as the Garou Knights. Hero himself was requested an audience with by an officer from that organization. Though the giant answered the call, he did not accept the invitation to join their ranks. The reason for that? Yamamoto felt that an organization led by royalty was ultimately doomed to corruption eventually and he did not want to commit to a faction that was not going to hold true to their ideals. Hero wanted something more than that, though he did not know or understand what it was he wanted. He did know though that he wanted the strength to genuinely protect those that are, or would be, close to him. That was the main thing spurring him forward currently.

After that whole thing happened, he continued to get mail from their organization regarding the Rune Knights and such though there was nothing substantial yet that drew the giant's attention. Meanwhile, his cousin Elyx had the man go on a little trip for him into this active volcano for a treasure chest. Yeah. Sounds fun, doesn't it? Hero was in there for about an hour and a half before he finally found it, though it was not that simple. It was slightly confusing as well, considering what happened. At first, there was Elyx who wanted to challenge him to get the chest by getting through him first. That was fine and all, but then another Elyx appeared. Yes, there were two of them but then it went downhill from there. The Elyx who had arrived second knocked the other Elyx on the head and then that Elyx poofed into a woman. The woman was explained to be the real Elyx's girlfriend and that she liked playing pranks on unsuspecting people. The man had already figured that something was off about the first Elyx but he never would have thought it was a shape-shifting tanuki woman. After all that nonsense, his cousin explained the reasons behind why he wanted Yamamoto to take this little game of a request and it made at least some sense, though it would have been easier to just ask. The giant had no legitimate reason to deny the offer from his cousin so he accepted and thus joined the legal guild, Golden Phoenix. Hero also obtained an empty bottle from the chest; Elyx said that a good friend of his wanted to know what lava tasted like and wanted the giant to fill the bottle with some lava and take it to the friend. There was a problem with that though: he had no idea where to find that person. His only clue was that she worked as the guild's bartender when she was not out on jobs.

The bottle of lava was still in his house out of sight and it was likely going to stay that way until he knew exactly where to find that friend. If this person was a friend of Elyx, chances were high that they were also very strong though that of course was only conjecture. After that day, it was actually pretty quiet. Since there was no guild hall yet according to Elyx, there was no way for the man to know where that friend lived or worked, which meant he had to either wait for his cousin to give him another hint or try and search for them by going on some pilgrimage to every city and town in Fiore. He was NOT going to do the latter for the sake of one person whom he had never met before. Unfortunately, Hero was not kind enough to do something like that without some more legitimate reason than "they want to know what lava tastes like". There was one thing however that he deduced from that. The friend must have been a Slayer of some type and he also figured that they had to be a Fire Slayer. However, there were three known types of Slayers that they could have been; they were distinctly different in the way the types obtained their power. It was simply a matter that the man was not willing to handle just yet.

Today was extremely normal up until Elyx barged through and into the house. Why did he do that, one might have asked. Well. He had received word that his girlfriend, Izayuki, was out on a job that was more dangerous than it may have sounded. The man had teased his cousin a little, saying his worrying about her was sort of cute and then it got serious very quickly since he learned that tonight was a full moon. He explained the details of the job to Hero in a hurried but relaxed way, very typical of him. Initially, the giant wondered why he could not just take care of it himself but before he could ask, Elyx explained that he had the guild hall plans to attend to and could not make the time to head out there. Yamamoto did not mind heading out to this place as he had nothing better to do, but how the hell was he going to take on werewolves? Of course the man had read about them plenty in reports but never actually saw them. There was a first for everything he supposed. This was the first time for instance that he saw Elyx with such a semi-serious expression and that was why he felt it necessary to leave immediately. Hero nodded once and gave his cousin a thumb up before he jumped out of his house and dashed at full speed to the place the young man outlined.

That was how the giant ended up in the current situation, dashing through the evening to this place that was about to be overrun by werewolves. Of course it sounded dangerous, but that was the fun of the whole thing; it reminded him of his time with Elyx, fighting those machines and that behemoth Einheim. Already he had grown so much in such a short period of time. An invisible hand was guiding Yamamoto somewhere and he did not even know it... yet at least. The sky grew darker and darker, and minutes flew by while the Moon gradually began to show itself in place of the Sun. It had likely already begun, though considering Izayuki was a capable wizard herself, he was not too worried about being a bit late to the party. Hero never expected to be dashing through the night in order to fight off werewolves with his cousin's girlfriend. It was actually quite comical, the thought. To think that just last week he was sitting at a desk four hours a day writing reports on absolutely nothing. The giant sighed and shook his head while pushing himself through the air so swiftly that it would have looked like he was running on air to a normal person.

According to Elyx, the Moon tonight was unique and forced the normally-controlled people in this village to go out of control with bloodlust. The Magic Council had wanted some talented wizards to handle the matter with extreme care since the werewolves were to not be killed. Certainly it sounded difficult, but Hero loved a good challenge. Since the giant was running in, he was more than likely going to come across some of the traveling beasts whom were intent on terrorizing the more populated towns closest to the area. He was only one person so he was not going to be able to catch all of them but hopefully he was going to get a lot of them before he arrived in the village to meet with Izayuki. At least, he thought the woman would be somewhere in the village if she managed to get there before the villagers started turning. That was the plan anyway.

Speaking of villagers turning into ravenous bloodthirsty werewolves, the giant noticed three of them headed straight toward him. Alright, so there were three werewolves and he had to take them down without killing them. What was the game plan? Simple dodge and hit tactics probably were not enough for something like this. Maybe they could be turned against each other? Sure they were in their animal forms but they were initially human. The easiest way would have been to make them hit each other, so how was he going to do that? Wait that was actually the easy part. Hero grinned and continued his swift run toward the three beasts, knowing exactly what to do in this situation. He was a tank of a man after all. The creatures all jumped at the same time toward the giant; mentally, he planted his forehead into his hand and instantly knew he did not have to do anything at all. The man did not lose speed but he did move slightly to the left of them, and since they were all in midair and coning in on each other, they were going to hit themselves before he did anything. And just as the man predicted, the beasts began mauling each other out of anger, completely ignoring Hero whom was standing some meters behind them watching. Eventually, one of them was beaten away toward Yamamoto and he took that opportunity to knock it out. He jumped into the air and used gravity and momentum to pull his weight and then some onto the creature's head. The force of the blow was enough to create a small crater beneath the werewolf's head and knocked it out cold as well. The damage it sustained was enough to keep it out until the Sun rose again; the other two continued their fighting without noticing what Hero had done which was nice. So far, he had succeeded in taking out one of the three without taking any damage or wasting any energy.

Some minutes passed and the animals both looked torn up and the giant began to fear that they were both going to die at the rate they were going. In order to keep them alive, Yamamoto had to step in and knock them out at the same time. How was he going to accomplish that? Simple. He had to time it just right or he was going to miss one of them and place his body at risk. More moments passed before he finally charged ethernano into his legs and dug his bare feet into the ground. After aiming himself at the pair, he took a deep breath in and then exhaled before lifting himself off with a burst of speed directly at the beasts fighting it out. He stretched out his arms and at just the right time grabbed the backs of each beast's heads and smashed them together. Then, as a precaution, he followed through with momentum from the launch and slammed their heads into the ground. The force of both impacts was enough to knock them both out cold for at least a couple of days, especially after all the damage they already dealt to themselves. Without wasting anymore time, the man dashed away again toward the haunted village where he hoped Izayuki was... along with anyone else that took on the job.

It did not take him much longer to arrive at the village that was currently in chaos due to the turning of the villagers. Without stopping, Yamamoto headed straight for the center of the village where most of the normal villagers probably were. There was a feeling in his gut that told him he was going to need all of his strength for what was to come, and when he got to the center, his gut was definitely correct. A gigantic werewolf the size of many of the buildings in the area was grabbing frantic civilians trying to get away and crushing them mercilessly against the concrete ground. It was a gruesome sight though Hero did not remotely flinch at it, for he had seen plenty enough blood and broken people in his lifetime to not be affected by such things. Hero then ran in without thinking of anything more and struck one of its legs with a straight but powerful punch before jumping out of the way of a swipe that was a lot faster than he expected. He was just barely able to move out of its range but the punch definitely got its attention because it turned around and looked down at the giant whom struck it. Yamamoto needed help if he was going to take this thing down without losing his own head.

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The member 'Kite Wilhelm' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Monster Dice' :

A village haunted by spirits. A village plagued by the curse of lycanthropy. Now Magna wasn't really the type of person to go and fight against such things. It wasn't really his style. Sure, he helped people, but he wasn't exactly the most combat suitable. He was a chef and he hated hurting people, even if they were temporarily transformed into monsters. However, a rather rare ingredient had been rumoured to appear at the same time as the werewolves. Two ingredients in fact. The fur of the alpha and omega werewolves. If blended together right and put in the right dishes they were actually a delicacy or so he'd heard rumours. It would be the first time he'd cooked using fur so it would be interesting. However, first he had to seperate said fur from the werewolves and that would be rather tricky.

When he arrived it seemed that the berserker rage that was rumoured to occur had already began to occur and some people were fighting against it. He used his gauntlets to blast himself a top a roof to get a better view and saw in the distance a large white werewolf. The first of his two targets. It was in truth a lot bigger than he had expected, but size didn't matter. What did matter is that his natural instinct for ingredients was peaked. That meant it was probably real. Even if it couldn't be used as an ingredient it could probably be used in some fashion or another. That is what his instincts told him and ever since he had gained the power of the cerberus the spirits of ingredients spoke to him much more clearly.

He ran at high speed off the roof and propelled himself off the roof using his gauntlets and landed atop another roof nearby. He thrust out his hand sending a blast of kinetic energy towards it causing it to turn to him and growl before letting out a roar and leaping towards him. Magna nodded and blasted himself upwards over the top of the werewolf and blasted it downwards causing it to howl out in anger. It seemed that the attack hadn't been that effective. The werewolf turned and swiped up at him, but he blasted down again and threw himself out of range. "You've got some thick fur buddy. Mind sharing some of it with a chef?" he said his eyes fading from gold into red. "I'll put it to good use promise." The werewolf let out a powerful howl in response that threw him backwards and through a chimney. As he emerged from the dust, dusting himself off as he did so, he let out a faint smirk and removed the headband from his wrist and bound it to his brow. "I'll take that as a no then. Guess I best get serious." With that his face split forming into three faces and two extra pairs of arms formed as his tail unfurled from his waist wielding, for some reason, a frying pan.

He didn't like to kill unless he had to. That wasn't his style and wasn't who he was. However, he had ways to bring down opponents without damaging their bodies. He would damage the spirit directly and leave the body standing. Word came from his spirit animals. A werewolf had a rather unique spiritual structure. Their spirit was divided in two. One half was the human and the other half was the wolf. So he just had to be accurate with his attacks. Attack the wolf part, not the human part. Accuracy was his thing and against canines well....there would be no difficulty.

He ran towards the beast blasting behind him to throw himself forward and began to spin rapidly in the air, soul energy wrapping around him forming him into a living drill. As he got closer it suddenly split into three, and each set ablaze with fire, and all three converged on the wolf going straight through it and Magna came out the back standing ready to see what happened. The wolf let out a howl of agony and turned swiping him across the back with its claws. Or that is what it had intended, but instead it hit Magna's frying pan. "Never underestimate my frying pan." He said throwing himself forward and flipped round sending out another blast of energy towards the wolf. Its soul had been heavily damaged and its body was scorched, but it was still standing. "Looks like you need tenderizing some more."

With that suddenly a large hammer made of ice appeared above the opponent and slammed down heavily into it. "Cold Hammer." he said and that was when the hot spell before came into true effect. The intense heat was instantly turned into intense cold within the soul of the creature amplifying the effect greatly and causing massive spiritual damage. The creature stood there for a moment frozen in place almost. That was when Magna ended it. He ran in up close and extended energy blades from his gauntlets fueled with soul energy and sliced through the beast's spirit ending it. The form began to dissapear and he began to shrink back to human form. That was when the blades changed to ordinary ones and he snicked off a large chunk of fur and held up like a trophy. "Now where's the alpha..." It was that point that he noted a few familiar scents. It seemed his guildmaster was about. How interesting. Was she here for the actual job or had she heard the rumours and come to get him some ingredients? Probably the former, but he could live and hope.


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Accidental double post. ;-;
Disregard this.

As Magna stood there observing the area something deep within him told him something. It was something that in truth dissapointed him, but at least it meant that the greatest danger had been taken care of. What this inner voice told him was that the soul of the ingredient that was the alpha wolf's fur was no longer present. That suggested that someone had managed to beat the wolf before he had a chance to try and get the ingredient. Truly a disappointment. He scanned the area with his red eyes faded back to golden looking for any sign of the guildmaster Izayuki. Joining up with her seemed like a wise decision especially when he could smell so many werewolves still active. The biggest threat, and the best ingredient, might of been taken, but there were still many other threats. Numbers alone could overwhelm them and Magna, whilst incredibly dangerous, did not believe himself much of a fighter when compared to others. This was perhaps contradicted by how easily he had taken down the omega werewolf, said to be one of the strongest werewolves in existence. He wondered if he would have to wait fifty years for the alpha to resurface so he could get the other ingredient or if instead it woulds surface somewhere in the world. Or at least something similar so that he wouldn't of wasted his time so far. From what his instincts told him the silver fur of the omega werewolf was only useful when combined with the fur of the golden alpha. Though it seemed Frosty, the ice spider monkey spirit who inhabited his body, quite liked it. Toasty, the fire spider monkey spirit, however seemed disappointed they would not get the other fur. It didn't quite match his colouration as much as the omega's matched Frosty, but he still was annoyed. In fact, he almost seemed jealous. That was rather odd for two spirits that essentially represented the harmony of heat and cold within him.

As he stood there pondering things suddenly the knife on his waist began to glow brightly and an armored figure flew into the air slamming into a werewolf that had suddenly leapt up towards him silently. The two collided into the roof of a nearby building and with a powerful single double fist blow the armored figure had knocked the wolf out cold. It too began to return back to its human form. "You are too distracted Magna. If I had not been watched then you'd have yet another animalistic trait." the knight said reproachfully and Magna blushed running a hand through his hair. "A trait that might actually conflict with the power of the cerberus." Magna considered this briefly. The cerberus slayer lacrima he had gained from defeating a cerberus allowed him to directly harm souls, but it also allowed him to do more damage against canine opponents. It was one of the reasons he'd been able to so easily take down the omega werewolf. However, how would his body react if he himself became part canine? It was certainly an interesting conundrum, but one that would have to be pondered another day.

Why would it need to be pondered another day? Because it seemed that the defeat of the omega werewolf had summoned up a lot more wolves. There were at least five now present, excluding the one that Aegis had just brought down, and all five were making their way towards Magna. Perhaps to avenge the omega or perhaps they sensed him as a threat because of his cerberus slayer, and thus canine slaying, nature. Five opponents was not an easy feat and not something he could easily manage. He'd used a lot of magic power in the battle with the omega. Almost a third of his magic power was gone and now he had five opponents. With Aegis here that made it five versus two battle which wasn't exactly the best odds, but it was better than five versus one.

The five leapt towards him and suddenly Magna span round extending energy blades from his gauntlets to increase his range. As he did so a grid of energy in a dome formed around him that blasted back the oncoming werewolves sending them flying. It would only do a small amount of damage, but it would at least get them off his back for a brief moment. What's more the damage done was to the soul of the wolf within each rather than the physical body or the soul of the human. Already he could see a slight change. Their fur appeared less thick and their claws a little less sharp. They were still however a major threat and one he would have to deal with. Aegis, despite the weight of his armor, leaped back over and from the gem in his helmet a large golden axe formed. This was the weapon known as Rex and was his best form of attack. "Good to have you with me on this one Aegis. I don't think i'd be enough alone."

"I'll always be by your side. One way or another." the knight replied spinning the axe and letting off a flare of his own magic to try to intimidate the wolves and also to try and make them attack him over Magna.

In truth it was both successful and unsuccessful. Several werewolves who had been gunning for Magna after defeating the Omega now turned their attacks on Aegis, but not all of them as he intended. If all of them had attacked the knight then he would of merely held them off whilst Magna picked them off with his spell combinations and other techniques. They made a lethal pair in truth with Aegis a close range monster with his axe/spear whilst Magna had a lot of techniques that worked well at range to devastate opponents using combinations of spells. However, Magna wasn’t exactly a slouch in close combat either it just meant that his combinations wouldn’t be quite as useful, but still he was dangerous. In fact, if it was one on one fights there was little chance they would lose though perhaps it might involve killing the werewolves rather than saving them. The real threat was the numbers. With those numbers neither could go all out for fear of killing the wolves and they could easily get blindsided or caught by an unexpected attack. It was truly a dangerous fight.

A group of three wolves charged at the knight claws and fangs bared. They came from three sides, but none of them even got close. As soon as they were about to lay into him with their clawshe suddenly pole vaulted over the top of one smashing it into the roof The other two collided with eachother and landed atop the one he’d slammed into the roof. He stood there calmly waiting for them to get back up. There were no more that were coming for him that he could sense so he was going to keep them occupied until Magna could work his magic, literally in this case. He could probably quite easily kill them, but that was not the task at hand. He had to keep them alive.

Magna however was in fact occupied. Three wolves were attacking him as well, but these seemed a bit faster and stronger than the three attacking Aegis. Like with Aegis they came in from three angles, but they were much smarter. When he leapt into the air and propelled himself above them they did not collide because they came at an angle that caused them to miss. They were not just that smart though. No, they were much smarter. One of them grabbed the arm of another and swung round throwing himself into the air and straight at Magna. Magna in truth was quite impressed by this, but what they didn’t expect was the frying pan that suddenly appeared in his tail and swung round slamming down upon the wolf. Its own physical movement combined with Magna’s own swing caused it quite the headache. It fell down heavily, but Magna was not yet safe. The other two had used this moment as a diversionary tactic and attacked from both sides.

What they hadn’t expected was for Magna to blast himself downwards using his gauntlets to slam into the one he’d hit and send it smashing through the roof. Whilst it was down he quickly sliced it with the blades of his gauntlets. Both used soul energy and sliced the werewolf part taking it out. One werewolf saved with one to go. The other two growled at the opening. They were angry, but they were also fearful. It had taken down the Omega and that alone was pretty impressive. Enough to scare a lot of them, but they thought numbers might be the thing to do it. After all, wolves hunted in packs for a reason. Perhaps if the omega had not been fighting solo then it wouldn’t of been beaten. However, now they weren’t 100% sure. He had so easily handled a three way attack and hadn’t even got a scratch. The other three were also being easily handled by the knight that had come out of nowhere. Werewolves, like wolves relied on instinct, and as such they didn’t think on strategies too much. No, they just worked seemlessly, but they had lost. They were scared. What was here just appeared to be a human but he was wiping the floor with them.

Magna tilted his head in confusion as he watched them. In truth he was bit frightened as well. In an open environment like the rooftops he had an edge. He could use his gauntlets to fly about freely and dodge about. In something enclosed like this the ingredients at his disposal were much fewer. There was also no easy way out. If he turned his back to go to the door behind him they’d likely see that as an opening. If he backed away they’d think him scared and attack. There was only one way forward. From each of his hands launched a fork of energy that caused them to leap back and he threw himself upwards using the gauntets using the brief opening to escape. Now he just had two to face. Well, one actually because as he’d come up out of the hole he’d blasted towards one and sliced into it turning it back human with his energy blades again. One opponent left and then he could help Aegis.

Not that Aegis exactly needed help. In his battle he’d already managed to use the werewolves seeming inability to co-ordinate a combination to bring their numbers down. They weren’t dead or unconscious, but one of them found itself pinned against a chimney by the scruff of its neck using the golden axe. The other two were finding out that Aegis wasn’t exactly a slouch when it came to unarmed combat. One came in close and received a swift right jab to the jaw followed by a left cross that sent it spinning into the other. He didn’t let up though and dashed in hitting one of them with another swift jab followed by a backflip kick that sent it soaring upwards.

It was that one soaring upwards that was the next target of Magna. The wolf he was fighting was sent flying into that one and the two collided and began to fall directly onto Magna who had his energy blades at the ready. The remaining one Aegis grabbed and held still. Enough for Magna to turn it back human. It seemed that everything was over. Or at least so they thought. Magna just had to go to the one pinned and disable it then they were home free. They’d of easily taken care of enough to prevent the werewolf spreading. Especially with the likes of Izayuki there.

Or at least that was the plan. Suddenly, the axe came flying at them like a spinning blade and the two barely dodged it. The remaining werewolf had managed to free itself and hurled it. The slight opening was enough for it to charge in and sink its fangs into the space between Aegis armored joints.

“AEGIS!” Magna shouted as the knight roared out in pain and seemed to dissolve back into light forming at his waist. Magna had never seen the knight go down in combat. The single blow shouldn’t of been enough to do so, but something had happened. Magna let out a roar his six armed, three faces form returning. All of them displayed anger as he charged in. The wolf turned to look at him and saw the vengeful demonic figure coming towards it. It let out a whimper and turned to retreat, but Magna caught it by the tail and swung it once slamming it into the roof before hurling it upwards.

He leaped upwards behind it using his gauntlets and let out a flurry of punches. Magna was royally pissed and this was something no-one had ever seen of him before. He kept moving about the wolf keeping it airborne, juggling it as it were. The beasts bones were broken, its body bloodied and beaten before he stopped and jammed a soul blade through it to turn it back to human. He stared at it for a moment in disbelief. The human was beaten rather badly. “What...what did I do? What have I done?” he said in shock. “I’m so sorry.” With that he let out a golden mist that began to heal the wounds before turning and running. He was afraid if he stayed he’d do something worse. Werewolves were the last thing he wanted to face right now. Not after one had hurt Aegis.

As he ran he placed a hand on the knife at his side, but there was no response from the knight. That worried him more than anything. Something was very wrong, but he needed to get somewhere safe before he could find out what. He didn’t want to fight anymore. IF he did that anger of his might come out and next time he might forget to use a soul blade. His battles today were done. He had won, but why did he feel like he had also lost?


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