The Hope, The Hero
Parade Front, Core Gundam II (Hiroto Kuga)
Hiroto had been watching silently from his Gundam after Momotaro briefly responded to him, right up to the moment where Kanami brought up "true love's kiss."
Thankfully, no-one would see him blush inside his cockpit. Especially since, given how well "Yugi's" interrogation of the fake Princess had been progressing, it wasn't exactly the time to be joking about stuff like this.
Then again, given the whole deal with Alus, he's one to talk. Though he does want to speak to Yugi once everything is taken care of.
Spelunking through a Halo Ring is something else...
"NO!" The fake princess screamed, struggling against the rope around her waist. "STOP! LET ME GOOOO OOOH! "
As purple mist wafted from her sweating body like steam vapour, a startling metamorphosis occurred. What seemed like blushing at first soon turned her pale skin scarlet. Her nails went black and sprouted into sharp talons. Her arms rapidly bulked up, bursting through the sleeves, while her torso bulged and expanded to the point where it was a wonder the rope stayed on. Her wrigging feet disappeared into the dress as she lost half a foot in height. Long horns stretched from the top of her head, while her hair, now black and stringy, fell over her face. The Amanojaku brushed its hair out of its eyes with a snarl, and its true face was revealed- blocky and hideous, with blackened eyes, yellow pupils, and a mouthful of gnarled fangs.
The watching crowd gasped and drew back in shock, none more so than the Prince and his lordship. "Nante koto," cried the Prince, "I was almost married to that!"
Uriko clenched her fist and scowled through her tears. "I can't believe I called her my friend..."
"You ruined it!" the yokai snarled, "You ruined everything!" In one last parting shot, the beast swung at the air, sending a wave of black smoke hurtling in Yami Yugi's direction. Anyone hit with it would have their darkest thoughts overwhelming their mind.
AKA Nixer
Lara Croft: Parade Front
Lara, who had been waiting for this exact moment, acted immediately upon seeing the yokai's dark smoke heading towards Yami Yugi, and promptly shoved him out of harm's way with her body to instead place herself in its path. Honestly expecting pain, she was surprised instead that beyond the initial shock, she felt relatively unharmed. Apart from a wicked little voice in her head chanting for her to kill.
But then again, that wasn't too different from normal, and if anything it felt like a wonderful idea at that moment. Looking back up at the Amanojaku, she pressed her lips together, unholstered her other pistol, and promptly aimed both of her guns at it.
"Well, if you insist."
-BANG-
-BANG-
-BANG-
-BANG-
-BANG-
Five shots were all she could confidently fire off before she felt the urge to move, and so in an effort to avoid a counter-attack she attempted to dive out of the way into a roll and reposition herself a little further away from the parade. Of course, she might've misjudged her timing, and dodged away too late. Shooting this thing might've been a terrible idea. Or an excellent one and she'd look like an idiot for dodging out of the way of a corpse.
She didn't really know, which was actually rather exciting. This was something she hadn't encountered before, so as those dark thoughts clouded her mind, she found herself looking forward to whatever might happen here.
Edited by Enirboreh on Apr 24th 2024 at 12:24:34 PM
bork
The Light That Blinds
Magolor (Okinoka)
Magolor let out a horrified "No!" as the rope descended, throwing a hand out in some last ditch attempt to stop it—only for it to wrap around the imposter's wrists and not her neck, causing the mage to nearly collapse with relief.
Said relief was quickly subsumed by shock as the disguise fell away, revealing the amanojaku as some...demon-looking thing? (Part of Magolor internally snarked that, given the kinds of things he and his friends had seen, this monster was honestly fairly tame.)
"You ruined it! You ruined everything!"
As it fired its first attack, he could almost see the boss subtitles appear:
Magolor whirled around to the crowd and shouted, "Everyone get out of here! No need to panic, we'll handle this!" And then, taking advantage of being up close to the monster, he summoned a ball of magical energy and hurled it right at her face. "Kept me waiting, haven’t you? Tch. No matter. Dawdle all you’d like. In the end, your defeat remains inevitable."
Léodagan, the Bloodthirsty
Parade Front
Agahnim did not react as the Amanojaku was forced to reveal its true form. And it wasn't just because he was unfazed by it. Truth to be told, he found the wickedness of its true form quite entertaining.
One of the other outsiders pushed this "Yugi" out of the way of the impostor's attack, falling victim to her darkest desires. How foolish. Despite how Lara becoming plagued with dark thoughts amused Agahnim, the dark wizard let nothing out, instead displaying concern.
"I would advise watching out for this friend of yours. This is no simple smoke. The demon is capable of influencing one's mind with twisted thoughts." Agahnim advised the others. He then turned his head towards the royal trio.
"But have no fear, my Lordships, my Lady. This will be over soon." he calmly said, staying close to protect them should the demon decide to attack them.
The cloaked priest's hands raised both arms in the air, aiming at the Amanojaku. He then fired surges of lightning bolts in its direction.
As this was happening, Ganon, in his bat form watched the Yokai from afar, hidden. He didn't intervene as his alter-ego followed the others into attacking the impostor. He somewhat felt disappointed by what he saw. It seemed he overestimated the Amanojaku's abilities. It couldn't possibly rival him.
Truth to be told, the Amanojaku reminded him of one of his own henchmen. Blind, a former Hylian thief whose greed turned him into a wonderfully wicked creature upon entering the Dark World, powerful enough to receive orders directly from the Prince of Darkness. Blind was also able to deceive others through shapeshifting.
Ganon's magic was alas, limited into this realm. But perhaps, this Yokai could prove an excellent servant to spread the Demon King's influence across this realm, assuming it was powerful enough to survive the upcoming onslaught.
Edited by Scipion3 on Apr 24th 2024 at 3:53:43 PM
"You're married like me, you know monstrosity can take many forms."
Fool From The Depths
Emporio, Okinoka Parade Front
Emporio's resolve hardened as the Amanojaku was forced to reveal her true form, the young child clenching his fists as Weather Report by his side did the same. Seeing her revealed in all her dubious glory, he knew he couldn't hesitate to act anymore.
"SHUT UP!!!" he shouted as loud as he could, hoping his yell would reach the Amanojaku. "Your time as ruler here is over! Now..."
He pointed accusatorily straight at the monster, his gaze a glare far fiercer than anyone his age should have been capable of mustering.
"It's time to walk the path of JUSTICE!"
The stormcloud above the palanquin finally released what it had been building up for so long now, unleashing a devastating lightning bolt that came crashing down right on the Amanojaku's head!
Something's Fishy Here...
You grit your teeth as you took witness of the abomination's transformation. Somehow a part of your broken mind found this familiar, but not a good kind of familiar. A familiar you loathe. You dislike. You felt betrayed and want to exterminate it at all costs. But right now you don't want it destroyed for your sick pleasure. You want it destroyed to make sure it can't do any further harm to those in this town.
Crackling lightning dances and flows from your scaled arms, as you tap into the Weave to create a mighty blast of thunder to strike down at this evil fiend.
"Tonitru!"
And with that, a mighty strike of lightning falls from the sky, working together with the blast the young boy has unleashed as well. Aimed right down at this changeling's position.
Edited by Darkomega245 on Apr 24th 2024 at 7:07:42 AM
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
Okinoka, Parade Front
"Yep! Pretty soon this whole false bride trouble will just be a bad memory!" Kanami assured the royals - particularly the to-be-wedded couple - with a confident grin, even as the others rained all hell down on the youkai. "But don't let that spoil your special day! In fact, I'd say this makes your day even more special, since you've overcome so much to reunite with your love! Ooooooh, I'm so happy for you two! This is great! So, I know you probably need a little time to catch your breath after all this, but once you're ready, where is the ceremony being held? Do you mind if we attend? I know it's a little unusual to let people who are practically strangers be present, but I love weddings, and I'd be overjoyed to see the moment my friend Uriko-chan is finally married to her darling Prince!"
GM of AGOG S4: Frontiers RP; Sub-GM of TABA, SOTR, & UUA RPs
Druid Dude
Lancer Cú Chulainn (still Mario Mario?), Okinoka Parade Front
In the semi-conscious mass of Spiritrons known as Lancer, he lazily watches the proceedings. He could fight the Amanojaku, ugly, Obviously Evil monster it is, but it's not very fun when several people are already ganging up on it.
What he is looking out for, however, is any effort for the Amanojaku to attack Uriko. If the monster does so, it would quickly find a gnarled, crimson spear racing toward its head as Lancer materializes out of thin air. The rest could handle themselves.
Edited by Jules-Firenze on Apr 24th 2024 at 9:20:36 PM
You piss off the Venom T-Rex. Roll initiative.
The Best Worst Psychonaut
Okinoka - Parade Front (She Shoots, She Scores!)
Mabel was at a loss at how to react to what she'd been told. Her every instinct was screaming that Mr. Hedgehog Head over here couldn't be trusted, an instinct that only got stronger when she saw the ropes descend and - oh sweet Moses, were they going to hang that creature? Sure, she said she wanted to see a revolution but she didn't want to see the executions! Well, really she didn't want there to be executions in the first place, dang intrusive thoughts...
The revelation that they weren't going to hang the creature was only a small comfort - she looked back at her brother, still frozen and pale as a ghost. She couldn't even begin to imagine what was going through his head. The thought that this was all her fault certainly wasn't helping her any. Could she even do anything when half the people here look like they could kill her as easily as kicking a little bunny rabbit? Oooohhhh, that was not a good mental image!
For the time being, she just stood there, unable to do anything but watch. Normally she'd turn to Dipper but right now he was even worse off. She hated that she couldn't do anything to help him. She wasn't stupid, she can't just hug the problem away. She can't even attack the bad guys in front of her because she honestly can't tell who the bad guy is!
And then the steam started erupting. ...Well, that answers that question.
"WEURGH!!" she instinctively recoiled as soon as she saw the 'princess' transforming into some squat little red devil critter. She really should be used to this by now, but it was somehow way more visceral (is that the right word?) than it had been with the Shape-Shifter. Loads more... icky stretching and splitting and odours. Blegh.
Mabel felt tears stinging her eyes - from the hot steam now in the air, the stank, and just the sheer distress she felt herself in... and as she closed her eyes, she felt something SLAM into her from behind.
Rolling along the ground, she seethed in pain as she felt her knee graze against the cobblestones, her sweater thankfully cushioning herself from the worst of the fall. As she fell, she turned around to see...
"Wh- DIPPER!" she yelled out, as she saw what just happened - the Armani Joker or whatever the hell its name is was blasting out some weird smoke, and her brother had rushed in and pushed her out the way! She tried to clamber to her feet, but she was too late - whatever the smoke was doing was already working its sick magic, as she saw Dipper curl up into a ball and shiver.
It was then, she felt something tap against her foot. She looked down - it was Dipper's crystal flashlight. Either he'd dropped it or he'd managed to push it over to her before he succumbed to the smoke.
Mabel bent down to pick it up. She spared her brother another look - she couldn't see his face, but she could make out something shiny on his arms, and he was audibly whimpering. The sight made her heart ache, but instead of falling to despair, she felt a white hot fury enter her veins. Her knuckles began to strain as she gripped Dipper's flashlight harder than any handshake she'd ever given (and that's saying a lot).
She glared at the red demon who dared reduced Dipper - Mason - her smart, resourceful, cool-headed brother - to this. She knew what needed to be done.
As the monster was distracted by the various attacks that came from all angles, she flipped the crystal around, experimentally switching the light on to check it was pink, meaning it makes things smaller. It was. Perfect.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" she screamed as she charged the demon, casting the shrinking light on it, hoping to reduce it down to at least half her own height, if not more. Ideally the size of a football, whatever, she wasn't really thinking of the specifics.
When she got close enough, she dug in one heel to slide in, while winding up her other foot, taking a deep breath.
*PUNT*
She kicked the creature as hard as possible, hoping to send it flying into the nearest wall, or at the very least knock it over, leaving it easy pickings for everyone else's attacks.
"Sorry, but your reign's been CUT SHORT!! HAAAA!!"
Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on Apr 25th 2024 at 9:26:16 AM
"If you think like a child, you will do a child's work."
Parade Front
When Chara next looked up to see what the true face of the monster looked like, he was not disappointed by how grotesque and disturbing it was. Nor was he surprised when it attempted to lash out at them with...smoke...
("If he was here, he'd be moving in to kill. Just like you taught him.")
("I'll bet he's out there right now, giving in and killing so he's not killed. Just like you taught him.")
("He's human. It's in his nature to kill. Just like you-")
Any further thought was drowned out by the sheer cacophony of noise that was damn near half the party attacking the Amanojaku, snapping Chara out of it and prompting him to step out of the smoke. As he bore witness to what was happening, he shook his head to try and clear his mind, stepping back so that he didn't get shot at or shocked or...shrunk? Okay, that was new.
After witnessing Mabel's actions, Chara's attention shifted to the other sibling, and his footsteps led him to stand next to the panicking boy. Before he knew what he was doing, the lad was crouching down and shaking Dipper's shoulder.
"Snap out of it." Chara told him, not caring to come up with anything more gentle than that.
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Parade
While the Pharaoh was certainly prepared for a counterattack from the amanojaku, he was decidedly unprepared for Lara suddenly shoving him aside.
"Nngh! Lara! What are you-?"
He's cut off by Lara opening fire. And Magolor blasting the youkai himself. And Emporio and Durge unleashing lightning.
"I...suppose that's a solutio-"
"Yuge!"
Joey runs over to join Yugi, Flame Swordsman following behind. As Joey practically tackle-hugs Yugi and pulls him into a headlock, the Dark Magician and Flame Swordsman share a handshake between comrades.
"Joey! Let me...I can't...breathe...!"
He's doing this to the Pharaoh, mind you. Joey releases Yami, who takes a few gasping breaths.
"How da heck did we both wind up here, anyways?"
"I'm...unsure. It seems some mysterious force is responsible for our...displacement."
Their friendly conversation is interrupted by Mabel's enraged punt.
"...You, uh, want in on dat?"
"When in Rome, I suppose."
The two duelists hold their hands out towards the presumably-launched amanojaku, calling out to their respective ace monsters.
"Dark Magician! Dark Magic Attack!"
"Flame Swordsman! Salamandra Flame Strike!"
A blast of dark magic and a draconic maw made of raging flames erupt from the two Duel Spirits, converging in midair on the amanojaku.
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The Hope, The Hero
Parade Front - Core Gundam II (Hiroto Kuga)
Hiroto is almost tempted to join in on the beatdown, but given that a lot of the others had already served justice upon the Amanojaku, there isn't really much point to adding his Core Gundam's firepower to the mix.
Of course, he silently smiles and looks aside from his cockpit at Kanami (and Agahmin)'s confident claim that they had nothing to worry about. There was something oddly humourous about the <Monk> discussing the wedding while everyone else was doling out justice to the Amanojaku.
Speaking of, he just barely manages to spot the she-devil being launched into the air after being shrunk. Yep, they're fine, and the airborne Earth Armour gets a command from Hiroto to stay clear of the attack from both Joey and Yugi. Which it does, as it flies over everyone present.
Spelunking through a Halo Ring is something else...
Crazy dave at the parade.
Seing from a fair distance all the stuff that developed from the amanojaku he knew he had to contribute somehow, he looks back at the plant that he used to blockade himself in Penny and pointed at the yokai.
"Alrigthy, Melon pults fire!"
The melon pults in question obeyed the comand as each catapulted watermelons at the monster with enough power to break bone and enough accuracy to not hurt anyone else but the designated target.
Okinoka, Parade Front
"Oh, sorry about that, Your Lordship!" Kanami chirped with a little bow toward the Emperor's brother. "We'll be sure to address you properly!"
"Coppelia apologizes for addressing you incorrectly, Your Lordship," Coppelia intoned quietly, giving him another curtsy of her own.
"Well, you know the one tried and true way to break wicked enchantments on one's love according to old stories, right~?" Kanami suggested to Uriko moments later with a mischievous smile as the youkai's influence over her victims' minds was brought up. "True love's kiss, isn't it~?"
Granted, given that youkai's disguise was dissolving as she spoke, they might not need to break the enchantment the old-fashioned fairytale way for much longer!
GM of AGOG S4: Frontiers RP; Sub-GM of TABA, SOTR, & UUA RPs