The winds of Change (Kari only)

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I would advise against any foolish manoeuvres, *vulpine*, I do not need free range of movement to more than outmatch any efforts you can put forward… and it appears young Kari Raise does not consider you too favourably at this point

The voice drifted telepathically to Ike, Virion's voice.

Ike sensed his opponent's dominance. Virion was right about what he had said about his mobility and Ike simply growled at the thought. This insect like humanoid was far stronger than he was at the current moment. He was perplexed by Virion's aura. Ike stared into the fiends eyes and sent an angry telepathic command.

"You are no demon. What are you?"


His voice revealed his pain. Ike then noticed the girl (that Virion spoke of) across the room that was pleading desperately to Master and the Fiend. Ike could taste the fear emanating from the girl's body and mind. Thoughts of the desperate prey excited and stirred up a fire in his mind. He watched her every move with gluttonous lust. The little fidgets and insecure actions began to make Ike move, unbeknownst to himself. The girl had pleaded for the safety of Master so she did not seem to want to harm Master. Ike began pacing from wall to wall, keeping his eyes locked on the Fiend. He struggled resisting the thought of the girl's fear. His ferocity was starting to die down as he gradually restored his focus and he (very) slowly began to revert his controlled state. He sent a telepathic message to Master.

"What is thy bidding, my master?"

[Jorlaxl]

In this state, Jorlaxl was not fit to give any bidding at all. Virion's confounded technique held him fast, and even then, he was at odds with what to do in this situation. Virion was much too powerful for him, and he could only hope that he didn't plan on killing both him and his students. No, that would be the words possible outcome. So much bright youth, so suddenly silenced? He wouldn't stand for it. During the whole time, Kari was in a state of both nervousness and grief. Obviously intended for Ike, Kari was glancing around the room, hoping for any kind of solace to the predicament that everyone was in.

Grimacing, Jorlaxl only had one choice. He had to go down with his ship. He was preparing his body for a final explosion, hopefully ridding everyone in this room. It was the only way to destroy this evil once and for all... Kari began to speak, but Jorlaxl was hardly listening. This was a last ditch effort, for when there was no other choice. Preparing his body and mind for an explosion of terrible magnitude, Virion's voice broke through his reverie.

A chip..? In his skull? Vaguely, Jorlaxl was able to recall back to his days on earth, before joining with Touketsuki. The ki fuse was firmly in the back of his skull, and there was something else... something that helped him this entire time? Frantically, Jorlaxl panicked, searching his mind for something, anything that could tell him more about what this other bio-android said.

I can feel something... but whenever I feel like I'm close to finding the answer, it moves away, like it was never there to begin with. What is happening to me?!

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Beginning to visibly sweat, Jorlaxl had no choice but to believe what Virion said. It all only made too much sense. If this chip in his mind was so vitally important, he needed to protect it at all costs. No matter how much he liked it, Virion was in control.

Sighing visibly, he released his hold on Virion. the ki rings coagulated around him, turning a blinding purple before dissipating completely. Virion would now be free.

"Ike, calm yourself. These two aren't our enemies..." Even though he was still so totally incapacitated, Ike would have a hard time believing his master.

"Virion... what is it exactly you want? You tell me of my future, of some great leader I never was, but why? What is your endgame?"

Being free, would Virion be more inclined to speak? Or would he simply have his way with the naive master?

[Virion]

You are no demon. What are you?
Virion's telepathic response was annotated by a note of mirth
So, the beast finally begins to rein itself in, not as mindless as I thought after all. Even so…[/i] Jorlaxl spoke then, interrupting this telepathic exchange and drawing Virion’s attention as he, perplexingly, released Virion from his bindings. Rather than pleasing the brown bio-android, his expression seemed to harden. Jorlaxl’s killer edge was lacking, the vicious trader who had ransacked planet Vegeta reduced to some... dejected lamb to the slaughter, his instinct for struggle and self-preservation apparently broken. Or perhaps he was merely deluded and dejected...

One could imagine how things may have similarly played out had it been Gurin who found him, the crane school hiding here - right under his nose all this time... Virion had little doubt that Jorlaxl would remain ‘uncollected’ for much longer considering what he had learned about him from Nam.

"I am on the outside what you are on the inside, Red Engine.” came the semi-reply, though Virion wasn’t looking at the other bio-android now, eyes instead focused on Ike, as if cryptically addressing him. His gaze glided sideways, moving past ike, as he continued;
“…A twisted, incomplete husk of a being whose outer purpose has since withered and died,"

An arm was held out towards Jorlaxl for across the several paces worth of distance, palm facing upwards, almost invitingly. The third arm Virion had grown early from this same side also slowly came upward.
"But tell me this…”
The limb was now pointed towards Ike, but unlike the one extended towards jorlaxl, the flat of this palm was facing forward. Virion's body began to shift again, going through a form of mitosis, splitting into two separate beings now that the bindings had been removed. As the second form extruded from the right side of the first, this third arm came to belong instead to the clone, continuing to hold it’s palm up directly towards Ike. Other than their stances, each clone was an exact duplicate of the other.

“…when did I ever say I was not your enemy?" as the second Virion said this, energy within it’s palm began building. Absorbing the vulpine was too risky, simply obliterating it was the safest bet. It became obvious that Virion was charging a powerful energy attack.

As this happened the first one was slowly approaching Jorlaxl. This meeting was coming to it’s conclusion, no use drawing out it out any longer.
“You want to know my goal?” He had learned all he needed of what the Red Engine now was, and couldn’t help but feel disappointed by the outcome. It seemed a slight change of plans was in order. Perhaps this was the best outcome anyway, the most useful way to deal with Jorlaxl. The Virion making their way across the room opened his arms, as if showing his full anatomy.

“This body has become flawed and degenerate, Red Engine. I need certain genetic components if I am to see it whole once more, just like you I am trapped in a state of imperfection. In the end it seems you and I are based off the same fundamental design.” Virion’s eyes gleamed
“surely you can figure out where I’m going with this” Assuming Jorlaxl had already been informed about what was required for him to reach his perfect form, the implications here were all too clear.

The second clone spoke up now, the light of the attack he was charging was already flooding the room, a wind picking up off his form; there would be no dodging such a blast at this close a range, and Virion’s strength would be more than enough to seal the deal.
"How unfortunate that you would so quickly let down those who place their trust in you…. They seem willing to die for you, but are you content that they should die because of you?"

Kari seemed horrified, she didn’t know what to do and felt herself trapped, just as fozen as Jorlaxl was, though for entirely different reasons. She felt relieved, seeing Virion with the fox demon completely at his mercy, preparing to destroy it. It was so reassuring and had dulled her fears… but at the same time a new fear had grown, for it seemed Virion was intent on destroying Jorlaxl too. Despite her sense of kinship and assurance with Virion, her logical mind was screaming against this. Her instincts were telling her that everything was alright, that this was good and working exactly as desired, but her eyes could see that her friend and indeed teacher was in trouble, that he was about to die right before her eyes. She was frozen…

“Once you’re out of the way there is not one of your students that could escape me, I’m sure you realise that. You do care about them, don’t you?” As the question was croaked Jorlaxl’s head would be jerk sideways, so that he was looking directly at Ike, his friend caught in the grasp of death.
“Ultimately you alone are the only thing that stands between them and powerful, monstrous, vile creatures like me.” he gave jorlaxl a pointed look, a small crease at the corner of his insectoid lips


“and you are not living up to that obligation…”
The clone was done charging it’s attack. Ike’s time had come.[/color]



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((I’ll let you guys react first before any killing blows are struck. My second last post of the thread I’d say, we’ve had this one going for a while XD. Thanks though, has been an interesting RP, neat to see daring members like you Ike ))

[Virion]

((Well Ike, I'll leave this here and let you choose whether you still want to 'exit'

Also, in the likely case that you didn't see it yet, a message for you is in here: wodresurrection.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=absent&action=display&thread=4947&page=1 ))


Virion's attack however was not what it seemed.

The beam indeed struck Ike, and the inevitability of his demise seemed all but assured, the scenario of his own death likely playing out within his minds eye... but despite the energy Virion's attack seemed to extrude to the senses, no harm came to it's target.

The blast was a falsehood, it let out a momentarily blinding flash on impact, and the area was bathed in an energy obscuring static, but nothing more.
No death, no injury and not even any pain.

With the other Virion holding Jorlaxl's face towards the disorienting techniques origin, there was a strong likelhood that he too would find his senses momentarily overwhelmed, blinded and unable to sense whether his friends energy signature was still there or not.

This was Virion's technique spoofing ability, another of the deceptive trump cards which filled his particular deck, giving every impression of a true attack without any of the fire-power, like a magicians escape trick or the perfect setup to an underhanded sucker-punch.

"I have seen already the destiny of The Red Engine, the being dictated by the machine component embedded within your skull... Now let us see the destiny of Jorlaxl, the man..." came Virion's voice quietly, perhaps even too quiet for Jorlaxl to hear. He was reminded of the words he had spoken to Nam, under the guise of the Earth's prior guardian, as yet again he found himself seeking, perhaps foolishly, to drive a wedge between the timeline he was from and the timeline he was now in.

An almighty blow was rendered to the base of Jorlaxl's skull, and in that single harsh moment the chip was fractured. The restraints holding him to the wall were dropped, and with the following detonations of the other ki fuses embeded along his back and neck, the motion would likely cause him to fall from his feet.

Was greatness simply part of the Jorlaxl's makeup? Or would he descend into ultimate obscurity? Only time would tell from here and by the time Jorlaxl, Ike and Kari's senses did return to focus, they would find that Virion was gone.
Perhaps Ike has collapsed to the ground from his earlier injuries, or perhaps not, the cursed fox-demon was a very tenacious protector.

It seems I have a date to make on the Icey Jewel of the Kold Empire, and time is of the essence. Perhaps we may cross path's again, both vulpine protector and human-caste bio-android... let us see if it does not come locked in servitude to Geurin or another
These were Virion's last thoughts as his vanished into thin air, instantly transmitting away. Away from the school, away from the Yanzubit Heights, and away from Earth itself.

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Kari rushes over upon seeing Jorlaxl now on the ground, fearing the worst. He begins to move however, or otherwise shows signs of life, and a look of horror and guilt crosses her face, her pink eyes, locked to his, speaking volumes even though she can't seem to form any words. In the following moments she flees, unable to face her master and friend after what has happened, not even pausing to see what fate had befallen the fear-inducing Ike, despite no longer being in his blood lathering demonic form.

She dashes up and out the secret doorway, leaving it completely open in her haste, fleeing out into the main school, rushing past a few surprised faces. Speed was always one of her strong points - she was gone in but an instant. Others may have been alerted by this stranger dashing from Jorlaxl's office however, and might go down to investigate... though then again perhaps not.


Either way Kari would not stop until she had returned to the Satan School Ruins, the place she and the ten or so other surviving infected now called home. Jorlaxl would need to seek her out if he wanted to see her again, cause in her eyes there was no going back now... not after all that.


((If you really, really really want to die then I can edit my post I suppose, but as i said in the link at top, despite laying on the drama i never actually planned/wanted to kill you ))

[guest virion]

((Oh? still dying eh... oh well, up to you I suppose I mean, it was a life and death thread, so I assume you're allowed to do it?
story-wise might make for some interesting misunderstandings XD

btw, just posting this to clarify that was both Virion (and Kari's) exit.

To whoever grades: Although some posts are here under kari as the seperate account, remember that she's actually been converted to a minion(under Virion's account) since then, sorry if that makes things confusing XD

I assume it just means the grading all gets bundled under Virion, since I was writing up both anyway it hopefully shouldn't get too convoluted. I'll take PL))

[guest virion]

((haha, ok or you've removed that post since i last saw it. Well, whatever you decide, just give me a heads up so i know what actually happened here))

[Rensou Hiruen]

3,840 PL for Jorlaxl.

This is a pregrade. Feel free to continue roleplaying.