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Date Posted: 01/12/05 1:10:08am Wed
OOC: Okay, due to the crummy nature of yahell, a bit of this never made it on paper. After a few beautifully well placed threats and some nice banter about letting Lashana go or else, things came toa drastic measure of blows. Johan, in ana ttempt to snatch his wife and run, feinted at Janai and managed to get a hold of her, taking Yomi from Tiani and running for the circle, Janai retaliated by obliterating eh druidic circle and turning it into a beautiful pool of magma, then proceeded to stab at Johan. Tiani, already in motion to step in the way, was destined to take the stab. As you can see, things went on from there... Our scene begins.
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Johan stopped before the magma, and muttered, seeing his way out gone, then, he immediately got away from the magma to a cooler place, and, immediately sidestepped and danced away from the magma, putting Yomi and Lashana in a safe corner, gently shaking Lashie to wake her before he turned to Yomi. "Yomi, stay with mommy, Daddy is gonna go kill the bad lady now," He said, and turned to aid his other daughter, drawing his blades again.
Yomi clung to her mother's arm, and her own contact with Lashana removed the restriction on her weave useage. Life flowed into the room, vines began popping up everywhere. And they weren't nice vines either. They had thorns, and they lashed around like serpents if someone came close to Lashana or Yomi...even Johan might get lashed at.
The blade shattered, immaterial as it was it broke even as it passed into Tiani, never coming out the other side, even visually. A quirk of a smile lit on Tiani's lips as recognition dawned on her face. "You missed something, lady. Whoever the fuck it is that you think you are, things are going to work my way or theya en't going to work at all. Let them out or we are going to have a real long talk in a real short amount of time." The pressure was continuing to build, pushing against Janai herself now, a feeling of restraint held to it despite the way Tiani's left wing twitched in near anticipation. "Trust me, you don't want to play like this. You'll find another way to get the info you want."
Johan smirked, "Thats my daughter. She really is right you know... I'm not the most dangerous person in here," He said with a grin, not willing to launch any attacks that might disturb the the move that Tiani had held. "I'm just an opening firecracker, she's the show." He grinned at Tiani, he had always known the girl was more powerful than he'd ever be.
The Phoenix magic responded harshly to the attack on Janai's essence, the pressure stopped suddenly for Janai as the chaos unleashed and tore through Tiani's ability. Janai fought herself, she didn't want this, but she couldn't control it. Janai yelled out but her voice was gone, the darkness closed and all she could do was curl into a ball. "Don't..." was the only words that came from her mouth before she was gone. The Chaos fire consumed her instantly after lashing out at Tiani acting of it's own accord, it would shred the bounds of her life force and slice off this absurd power that she had. That which was in control had no essence anymore, and it spoke in a harsh hate filled voice. "No, the most dangerous person in her is me." The Chaos flame lanced out at Johan then, the left hand raised. The person in control now already knew what Johan could do and what the Null would do to this attack but it didn't matter. The person in control now also knew what Janai could do and could control all of her power.
Tiani frowned at the wave that washed over her, feeling the peices connect and interlock, then rbeak apart again as her ability, her essence that this new incarnation sought tod estroy simply broke and reformed, never a solid whole to begin with as the instability in her countered the instability forced upon her. You couldn't break a shardcaster. Only one person in existence could ever do such a thing, the shardcaster his or herself. Energy was boundless, healing and breaking as a true phoenix would....as a true shardcaster would....they matched essence to essence through the attack and when it ended, Tiani's wings quivered angrily.
Johan sighed as the energy approached, focusing on the charged energies within his armor. The flame didn't bounce off, rather, as he expended all of the power that had been stolen from the world around it, leaving his armor with nothing more than it's reflective ability, the flame stopped, and immediately began to change. it became corrupt as he focused the energy to distort its nature. Its nature immediately became hostile... even to the one that had thrown it. And it rushed directly back at Janai... it might not kill her. But it -should- at the very least sting. Quite a bit.
The flames stopped, Janai's body reformed. Her hair red streaked and eyes tinted the same, a dark smirk crossing her face as the air around her chilled from that which slept being awoke. It was a power that she always knew she would have to come to terms with and now here she was, coming to terms... But the most she could do was curl up in her mind and cry, helpless and weak against the enemy that killed her people. Struck dead on the fire ripped through her body, her body fell. But only an instant later began to rise again with a dark chuckle. Inside her mind trying to scream out, trying to give warning to run Janai fought against her own fears she could feel what was building and didn't like it, this is why she didn't fight. "Best you've got? Weakling!" The voice was harsh and dark as it burst out of her mouth followed by a harsh and dark chuckle.
Tiani smiled, the recognition that had quirked on her lips now in full bloom as the ceiling of the cavern simply cracked and fell, the wall near Yomi and Lashana falling in a noisy cascade and opening the air to them, sunlight streaming into the cavern as a nice pathway was happily made clear. All objectives were lost to Janai, the most vital thing in the woman's midn taken and broken at a fatal instant. Her sense of goal was broken. lashana was no longer the most important thing in the room, Tiani was.
Johan turned the moment that the wall fell, sheathing swords, he grabbed Yomi and Lashana, dodging vines all the while, and literally leapt through the hole. It was at that point, that he started running for everything he was worth.
Janai smiled, and fused with the falling rock, the power surging through her jumped up and forced her forward. She moved through the rock and air as the elements. This side of her knew that fighting was pointless.. There was a goal, achieve it... Fighting was no fun for someone who had the power of Transt Animus. She was out of the cave in seconds, right behind Johan... She could feel a darkness in him, a great darkness. "Johan... Run faster." The words tugged at that darkness... To awaken it.
Another mistake, teh moment she became one witht he rock, she was broken. Stone shattering and falling apart even as Johan ran over it. As part of that stone, Janai would eb broken ruthlessly, torn to sand with no defensive action available. Some choices were set ins tone, literally.
Johan didn't need to be told. He simply upped the ante, reaching within himself to find secrets long unused. Suddenly, it was like watching a man go from a walk to an unrealistically fast run. Life force normally unfocused focused, feeding his legs, driving them forward until he reached the absolute limits of his speed outside of trance. Needless to say, he was covering a lot of ground, even before he lifted into the air, shifting the life force into his wings to allow for a similar speed in flight, his whole form nothing more than a silver and bronze streak in the sky, as it were.... he was gaining distance between them at what most might view as an unrealistic rate.
Janai screamed inside feeling the pain, then feeling the burn of the phoenix fixing her. That which was in control had nothing to shatter it was darkness purely, her body wouldn't break under any stress because it wasn't there anymore. Transt Animus was unkillable for a reason, it was because there was nothing of him to attack left. Tiani's greatest ability was useless against Janai as long as this power ruled her body.
The moment Johan was free of the rock, it caved in, tearing down as it broke, carrying the one fused to it with shattering as a distraction attack, pulling dowanwards each glimmer of sand, reforming and unforming as it did....granting Johan time and pulling the phoenix closer to Tiani waiting at the bottom.
Johan's lungs felt afire, but it didn't matter, for Johan knew that he was getting very close to Morpheus and Tiani's home. There, the rules were different, the weave was altered, and they made the rules. Even the rules of physics were at their whim there. He just had to keep up the pace a little longer.
Yomi cried, and the weave responded to protect it's protoge, and Johan, Lashana, and yomi were snatched up into the weave, and disappeared. But to where was unknown
Janai bored with Tiani, smiled and disappeared.
"Good girl, Yomi." Tiani sighed and ran a hand across her forehead. "What a bitch." She opened her own wings and began for home.
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