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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 7, 2017 4:46:22 GMT -8
Introductory Posts: 2 Battle Posts: 10 Outro/Conclusion Posts: 1 Story Versions: Off Combatants: Inori - Nightshade ----------------------
Intro (1/2)
A waste of time indeed.
Inori walked along the outskirts of Element City. It was quieter than the bustling atrocity of the inner city, but was just as dingy with all the trash laying around. No buildings could be found near this open plain, I mean you could see the inner city from where she stood but it was pointless to include them; Inori keeps that much distance from them.
She walks up to the river that traveled through the heart of the city. A decently sized river, that also lead to a small forested area treated so that Navi and their children could come and have a picnic or take a nature walk.
Inori reached up with her right hand and adjusted the red band of roses crowned upon her white hair. Her left hand held her red long blade tightly.
"So pointless.. Why must I hunt my father to capture him? He's doomed to be Dark. He will never have salvation. I don't want to save him, I want to kill him. He won't change."
Inori walked a small distance to one of the trees of the forested area, staying close to the river, and slashed a large dent into the tree.
"Why do people waste their time? I will annihilate all of the Darkness.. so that mama will be happy again.."
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Post by Nightshade on Jun 7, 2017 5:10:41 GMT -8
A black and green cat-like navi ran fast through the dense crowd of many others like him, the tip tap of his claws scraping the floor could be heard coming from a few meters away from him as he sped up across the small alleyways and huge plazas.
He was so focused on his own thoughts that he did not notice himself missing a turn and going off far from the main city hub. He had just recently recieved some small upgrades and he was eager to go test them out before actually participating in any virus busting session, or a real Net Battle even. He never had fought seriously, to be honest, but the help of a friend gave him enough resolve to step out an try.
Nightshade snapped back into reality in the middle of nowhere. He looked around, lost. There he was again, loosing himself in his own world and getting himself lost in the real one as well. Scanning the area, he noticed a gilr. Perfect! He would ask her directions. He silently walked over to her side and noticed she was talking to herself. He lightly used his right hand to poke the girl's shoulder.
"Uhm...excuse me, Miss..." he shyly whispered. "I...I'm lost. Would you know the way to the battle arenas? I need to go test my shadow attacks and I have little time to find 'em before they close..."
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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 7, 2017 6:13:39 GMT -8
Intro (2/2) Upon retracting his finger from her shoulder, it was easy to notice that a bit of coding, taking the form of a tiny shred of paper, remaining on his nail for a few seconds before breaking down into nothingness. Before turning around, Inori froze up upon hearing the phrase 'shadow attacks'. She spoke without turning around.
"Shadow attacks..? Don't you.. get enough practice with those.." --at this point she turned around violently and shouted-- "BY HARMING INNOCENT NAVI?!"
She panted a moment before continuing. The area where a Navi's mark would normally be was instead covered by a swirl of decaying data--similar to the shred of data that was on Nightshade's nail.
"You.. and all other Darkloids.. Despicable! No, despise-able! No no.. INFERIOR INFIDELS! HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOURSELF TO ME! You're in cahoots with Rosario, aren't you?! They told me he was hiding out somewhere in Element City. I wouldn't be surprised if he recruited you and many like you to 'train' in the 'arena', and the poor victim of your 'shadow attacks' are jumped by a bunch of other Darkloids after they leave the arena! Have you no shame for your actions you.. you cat?!"
She jumped backwards in anger..
"Ow..!"
..and hit her head on the tree she had slashed. She shook her head and took one step to the side, and then once again jumped back in anger, this time successfully. As she rubbed the back of her head, she held up her long, crimson blade towards Nightshade's direction.
"In the name of the Light, and for the good of all Navi-kind, I will 'practice' upon you my teachings."
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Post by Nightshade on Jun 7, 2017 11:15:23 GMT -8
"WOAH WOAH WOAH! WAIT TIME OUT!" Nightshade hopped to safety with a quick backflip. "I am no Darkloid! Never hurt a fly! You misunderstood I just need to find that place..."
The navi lowered himself in a defensive stance. Great. Of all the people he could meet he just had to find the crazy one... She was talking about a rosario guy he never heard before. Either she was really crazy or she was just seeking attention. Wait hold on...did she call him cat?
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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 7, 2017 18:18:36 GMT -8
Battle (1/10)
"Are you mocking me? Do you not realize the situation you're in? You're facing a devout priestess! Don't you dare mock the power of faith!!"
Inori spins her blade in front of her and stabs it into the decayed area where her mark is supposed to be. Pulling the blade from the swirling shreds, a Navi mark could be seen on the tip of the blade for just a moment before it cracks into many data shreds. These shreds, instead of breaking down however, attach themselves to the blade, concealing about half of its shining crimson color.
"Pray you are sent to an upper level of the underworld, sinner!"
Inori runs forward with the blade held out in the same direction. She attempts a simple sword strike to test the waters. She may seem out of it, but she still takes pride in her awareness. She has to figure out his strong suit and adapt to his style. Inori could easily fight in one of the many techniques she's learned from preaching faith to Navi, but in a fight against a Darkloid? Not happening. She will choose the specific technique that will cause the most painfully slow death they could experience.
... Darkloids.. why do they even exist.. she thought.
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Post by Nightshade on Jun 8, 2017 0:46:49 GMT -8
Nightshade moved quick. Immensly quick. He may not be able to unleash allmighty powerful attacks, but no one could match him in speed. That was what allowed him to stay alive.
He would zip past the enraged girl and right into the forest. He would then stop behind one of the many trees. "Missy, please stop this! I told you already. I am not a Darkloid. I do not hurt other navis. And I am pretty sure I am not the one who's committing a sin here. Just because I dwell in the shadows doesn't mean I am up to evil deeds."
The navi dug his claws in the ground and prepared to defend himself. That crazy girl was leaving him no other option but to fight for his life. Maybe, just maybe he could disarm her. If he made her vulnerable, she would finally listen to him instead to act like a pompous light fanatic.
A black sphere was summoned in Nightshade's hand and began glowing in a faint green hue. His tail began to sway slowly left and right, his breathing slowed down as well. Nightshade focused, he had to survive this. He would not allow that girl to kill him with her wrong beliefs and crazy talk. He just hoped he wouldn't have to delete her himself.
The cat like navi had to make sure he finished this battle with the least collateral damage possible as well. He wouldn't want to destroy that forest they were in, but fighting that girl in the open would be suicidal. He peeked his head from the tree he was behind, ready to jump away from any incoming attack.
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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 8, 2017 6:38:25 GMT -8
Battle 2/10"THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY! 'Oh, we're just pursuing our own sense of justice'--BOGUS. LIARS. ALL OF YOUR KIND."
She sees the cat's small head peek out from behind the tree. He could see the she holds out her right hand towards him as she slowly walks towards his location. Within her hand is a chip, unreadable from the distance, but the chip was known as she crushed the chip and her right hand turned into a army green Cannon. She fired a shot, the first hitting the tree. She readjusted and fired two more shots towards where she sees his head.
He seemed to be more of a runner. Could it be he was scared of her power? Probably it, she thought. She closes her eyes and 'vanish-steps' in front of Nightshade's position and aims the cannon directly at his face.
"Tell me your name, sinner. If you comply, I'll make your deletion swift. There's no need to be afraid of the Light, there's already no turning back."
.. This is the strangest darkloid Ive ever met, he's taking forever to prepare one attack.. And why does he retreat to the forest..? What a coward.. Just like the rest.. Inori thought.
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Post by Nightshade on Jun 8, 2017 7:05:27 GMT -8
Nightshade jumped away as she blasted the tree into ashes. The two successive shots were barely avoided thanks to his extreme speed and reaction time. He was caught off balance when the girl appeared right in his face. Whith his heart racing, his reflexes kicked in and he acted without thinking.
Allowing his own weight to pull his body down he planted his right hand claw on the ground and high kicked her cannon upwards, before she could pull the trigger again. Then, in a fluid motion, his elbow flexed and his tail flicked to redirect the momentum. His clawed feet drew a wide descending arc, transitioning from a high kick to a roundhouse one. The cat warrior made sure to plant his feet and not his claws square onto the girl's chest to push her away. The hit itself barely hurt. Nightshade wasn't a strong hitter at all and was clearly holding back.
The black sphere orbiting his body flew in his hand. Nightshade gripped it tight, but was hesitant to throw it. "Look who's talking." He spatted, glaring at the girl and slowly circling around her. "I am a sinner? Sinner of what? Do you have any proof of me hurting others? Do you have proof on my evil behavior? No. All you have is your fanatic belief made of black and white. Well, I'll have you know that just as light has many colors, darkness has many shades."
He stepped forward and pointed his finger at her, staring Inori down with golden eyes...some sort of tracking skill had activated as he kicked her. "YOU are the one assaulting me. YOU are the one trying to kill an innocent. YOU YOURSELF ARE DOING THE VERY THING YOU ACCUSE ME OF!!"
His body lowered into a defensive stance. "If you attack me again, I'll be forced to defend myself..." he growled.
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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 8, 2017 16:28:45 GMT -8
Battle 3/10Once he kicked up her cannon, Inori's eyes opened wide as it dissipated. She was expecting a simple answer, was he really going to keep running? And his speed, it seemed even faster than it was before. He shifted into a round kick that threw Inori back a couple feet, but she was too off balanced from him kicking her arm up that she fell to the ground. However, she rolled backward to quickly regain her positioning.
A little window pops up to the left of her face:
[WARNING: REGULATION BREACH, LEVEL 1. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION.]
The window proceeds to slowly orbit her head with this warning. She grins and lifts the blade in her left hand towards Nightshade once more.
"Me? Heh.. haha.. ahahahahahaha! Ohh what a good joke. So what if it's black and white? Thanks to me, there's many less pieces of trash off the net."
He's holding back..
"It's like I said before, you are way too late to defend yourself. I'll purify you until your data explodes!"
.. I'll toy with him..
Inori swings the blade to her side, causing her dress and hair to flow with the breeze created. The scene's tension grew, and she stopped moving. As Nightshade circled, her eyes would not follow his movements. She waited, until finally she instantly turns to him and seemingly dashes across the ground towards him. Shreds of her data flew from her core, as well as similar decaying areas beginning to appear on her legs, rapidly generating shreds as she flew towards him. Once she reached him, she attempted to draw him into a clash. She unleashed a flurry of blade strikes that targeted his hands. She would get him into a clash and lock down his range potential. He may be quick, but her skill with her blade was on par even in her non-dominant left hand.
As she tried hitting him with slash after slash, she whispered to him.
"Why do you deny your fate, who you are? You were CREATED to lie in the dark--to BE Dark! Why else would you have the power of shadows?! Maybe you're brainwashed... maybe your operator is just using you for crimes! If that's the case, I suppose I could make your deletion quicker even without your name. Just to teach your operator a lesson on siding with the darkness!"
.. He IS evil.. isn't he..? That's an attack he's charging, maybe he'll finally use it.. seems to be finally getting serious.. Don't hold back either.. He's still a darkloid..
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Post by Nightshade on Jun 8, 2017 17:06:16 GMT -8
Nightshade blocked the blade with his claws. "Hmpf...naive girl." He stated, grim. A few slashes left some small cuts in him, but nothing major. He pulled the blade forward, coming eye to eye. "I don't really want to do this, but I want to live. So...battle routine, execute!"
He deflected the blade and jumped away, flinging the the sphere at her. A couple others would materialize around him, ready to be used. Nightshade studied the opponent. She was shredding stuff from her body. That could either mean poison or high amounts of regeneration. Incapacitating her would prove quite the challenge. The girl's power was great, but he also had his own ace in the sleeve. If anything else would not work, he still had that. After all, he would make sure that if everything else failed his secret weapon would convince her that she was wrong. If anything, she could not object to something Darkloids could not do.
When light and dakrness collide, a new power that transcends dimensions is awakened. He was dead set on surviving. No way in hell he would die there.
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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 9, 2017 7:44:00 GMT -8
Battle 4/10Inori held her blade steady, using both hands, as Nightshade pushed it away and finally made his first lethal move. The incoming sphere lined up with her blade, creating a very easy opportunity to block, but instead, she moved her right arm towards her left side so that the blast would instead injure her arm. Upon taking the sphere, her arm was knocked slightly back, but wouldn't matter since it held nothing. Shreds of data began to decay from her arm, yet Inori still stood unsurprised to these occurrences--ones she was more than acquainted with.
"It's about time you're warmed up. Show me your heretic faith! I'll show you the error that is your being!"
Inori stabs her blade into the ground. Holding her arms slightly above her sides, she began to sing a note. While only being a singular note, Inori sung it with a harmonious sound, a beauty to be heard by all.
What was significant of this singing is that when she finished a few moments later, she pulled her blade from the ground. The data shredding from Inori continued to attach itself to the blade! The once shining, crimson red blade was now completely coated in decaying data.
With her weapon at the ready, she taunted him.
"Come."
.. I can save you.. you know.. Why won't he let me..? She thought.
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Post by Nightshade on Jun 9, 2017 10:12:14 GMT -8
Nightshade gave her a cocky smirk. "Please..."
In a millisecond he was standing behind her. His claw was promptly raised and attemted to be sunk into her shoulder, as to disable her from using the sword. Nighthsade was beginning to comprehend her patters. Just like her faulty mindest, her fight style was just as black and white. She either regenerated health or boosted up her attack prowess. "Ladies first."
He kicked her away from him again and flung two more bombs. With her pattern known it was useless to fight her close range. One of the spheres exploded in a bright flash not too far from the lady but not close enough to harm her, allowing the cat warrior to hide in the forest again. The other landed near Inori, but malfunctioned and didn't go off. Nightshade still needed practice with his new attacks.
"You know, a real Darkloid would have already killed you by now." He casually stated from his ducked position inside one of the many trees. "You are too predictable. Boring even. They would just erase you, because they would grow annoyed of your useless bantering an pompous attitude. You are nothing but a pathetic child that can only whine when he is not given their toy...more bark than bite."
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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 10, 2017 12:32:51 GMT -8
Battle 5/10Nightshade's claw tore straight through her shoulder, causing a mass expelling of her decaying data to seep out down her arm and onto her blade. Though injured, she still held her blade with unflinching resolve. This time she was ready. She lifted her blade, and instead caused Nightshade to bounce off of it rather than her. His two shots came in, one creating a flash bomb she had to hide her eyes from, and when she turned back, a sphere sat in the ground in front of her, and Nightshade went back into hiding. The little screen orbiting Inori's head bleeped a few times before displaying a new message:
[WARNING: REGULATION BREACH, LEVEL 2. PLEASE PRIORITIZE YOUR SAFETY.]
"Predictable? Erase ME you say? Ahahaha.. you really are a funny one! Funny AND delusional!"
Inori slashed the air a few times as she had done earlier, and then resumed speaking.
"I guess you're a failing darkloid then, cat. No wonder you need to go practice at the arena. It's not that a real darkloid would defeat me..."
Inori's blade erupts into a massive generator of white flames.
"... you're too weak. You know it. You are just trying to put me down so I lower my defenses. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'VE GONE THROUGH, YOU THINK I CAN'T HANDLE SOMEONE AS SMALL AS YOU?!"
Inori grabs her blade with both hands. She puts her whole body into a long, horizontal slash. As she slashes, the crackling, pure flames leave their home on the blade, and sizzle through the air towards the forest. The flames sweep through most of the trees, igniting and flaring up at least half of the reserve. Whether the attack hit Nightshade mattered not, he could burn down with the forest for all she cared.
Inori readjusted herself with her blade at her side yet again.
"I'm waiting for you. Walk into my blade, save me the trouble."
... If he comes near me, should I really use it..? Maybe I should reason with him... I've converted others in the past too.. Maybe I've let this go on for too long..
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Post by Nightshade on Jun 10, 2017 13:49:53 GMT -8
Nightshade jumped into another tree when the attack struck. He cursed when she ignited the forest. So much for avoiding collateral damage. He opened the palm of his and and water flowed from the surroundings into a small fliquid throwing knife. He aimed up ad the nearest cloud and threw it. The knife sailed up up in the sky. When it struck the cloud, it returned water. The chain reaction cause the clouds around the one he hit to begin raining down, in an attempt to put out the fire. He jumped down in front of her, his head turned to the ignited forest. "If you want to kill me do it. But don't slaughter innocent wildlife with your sick murder game."
The 6'2" cat warrior turned to face her. "Listen. I am not that good of a fighter. On that you are correct." When he flung yet another sphere at her, it merely bounced off her bade and rolled a few meters off in the grass. Another malfunctioning bomb.
"I don't know what happened to you. Nor do I care to listen to a black and white sad story of the little mary sue that couldn't. I don't really want to fight you either. I tried to tell you. Over and over. I am not a darkloid. I do not possess their powers. I cannot use Darkchips as I please without my code getting corrupted. But of course, the little girl has to whine and whine and get her revenge against the world. So fine. I clearly cannot change your stupid mind about it nor let you see how wrong your prejudices are. I have tried everything but one thing. I didn't want to use it against you, but you force my hand."
He stepped forward, getting ready. "You want to know the reason I am a shadow navi. Alright I'll give you the reason. When light and darkness collide, a new power that transcend dimensions is awakened. I want to become as strong as her. I wanna prove to the her that I am not useless. I wanna make her proud of me. If this means accepting the darkness in my heart, whatever it may be, I will. Accept it and control it. Not let it control me.
I am giving you one last chance to drop your blade and stop with this nonesense. You are not purifying anyone. You are not saving one soul. The only thing you do is inflict pain, suffering and committing murders basing only on your sick sense of justice, which is nothing but lies and prejudice. This time I am serious. Attack me again, and i will snap you in two."
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Post by xoDeathy on Jun 11, 2017 7:36:16 GMT -8
Battle 6/10... He's just like me.. But.. He actually has control.. and a significant other to fight for..
Rain... a simple way to dampen an evening. For some, the rain could mean opportunity; to get over something and worry on it no more. For others, including Inori, the rain was a compiling of lies. Everything always went wrong when it rained, that's just how it is. In the forest's case, the white flames persisted their immense crackle, but their spreading was stopped immediately. Gradually the flames lost their blaze, but the process is extremely slow, and would probably take a while.
She deflected the incoming shadow orb with little to no effort, and after that she looked to the ground.
I have to...
".. Do you think I want to be like this? I'm not myself.. I haven't been for a long time. Ever since he entered my life.. ever since Rosario betrayed all of us.. I didn't have a choice on how I get to live! Look at me!!"
Inori frantically shook her head and body forward as she lifted herself to look directly at Nightshade. Under the rain, it was hard to notice, but the sharpest of eyes could see tears rolling down from only her right eye.
"Healing?! Power boosting?! I can't do that! My coding cannot handle that! I am degenerating! I am ALWAYS degenerating!"
With each word, Inori took a step closer, and with each word, she frantically threw her right arm around.
"When I regenerate, I degenerate faster..! I shouldn't even exist..."
Inori looked to the ground again with those last words. She was still a good distance from Nightshade but quite a few steps closer. Words were doing nothing, just wasting more time. She would delete him. She won't let him leave alive.
... Why did you bring me to do this..? It's as if you want deletion.. You may be a weak fighter.. but you aren't stupid one.. That's why you've survived this long.. I admire that about you.. Please survive what's to come.. I rather save you..
Inori looked up at Nightshade. If he had notice any inclination of tears, they were long gone. Anger, pain, despair; all of these emotions ran through her face. Within a moment, dark flames surrounded Inori's persona. When they dispersed, her appearance differed. Her dress went from pure white to a deep black. The linings of the dress exuded a crimson red hue, and her eyes also adopted a similar shining crimson red color. Her hair remained the same white, but the band of roses withered into dead flowers.
Without warning, she through her blade straight towards Nightshade, in aim to pierce him. Inori empowered her fist with her own decaying data, and pursued him with close combat. Jabs, punches, hooks, whatever she thought would land she tried, her new increase in speed would prove difficult for Shade. Eventually she withdrew to bring her blade back to her by shooting out a wave of her decaying data, using it like a rope. Inori proceeded by aiming three large slashes of dark flames in a way to keep Nightshade boxed in before she attempted one last attack: she took a whizzing chunk of decaying data straight from her core and tried to jam it into Nightshade's own core, though, through the rain and pure frustration, Inori can't tell if she's aiming for his core, or his shoulder, or anything at all for that matter.
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