Wyvern
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Scarlet Hall[M:0:0:]
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 28, 2011 23:10:11 GMT -5
They were getting better. That was a good thing for them but ultimately bad for her. Once they got their teamwork down it would be all the more likely that they would get her. Hopefully it wouldn't be painful. Not that she cared. Her body was a powder keg of dangerous chemicals that made her life very uncomfortable. It was a wonder she didn't burn down the mansion every time she ate curry or a burrito.
The students were on the move. Scarlet reached for her belt, popping out a small pellet from one of the pouches. It was gray and rather weighty considering it's size. She popped it in her mouth and swallowed it whole. Almost immediately she felt nauseous. The pill was a compressed mix of Potassium, Carbon, and Hydrogen, all the chemicals she needed for her fuel. Eating one of the pills was like adding C4 to a bonfire. It wouldn't augment her flames any, just ensure she didn't run out of fuel.
She perked up at sound of slight movement. Most likely Zachary. The suspicion was confirmed when he jumped in front of her. "The whole point of a surprise attack is that it's a surprise."
He was taunting her, distracting her. Most likely as part of a hasty plan. Erza would come in soon. Scarlet stepped forward, taking a deep breath. One thing Xavier had suggested was that she take dancing to make her more graceful and to channel her more aggressive nature. It worked partially and at least now she could do this.
Wyvern rolled for, tucking her shoulder in as she began to spin. She began break dancing, red hair flaring out as her body spun faster and faster. Xavier never said what kind of dancing she should try. In a continuous stream, she released fire from multiple pores: her feet, hands, shoulders, hips, shoulders, and more. A 360 degree area around her was engulfed in flame, keeping Zachary at bay. She hated when people taunted her. He was lucky she didn't just roast him out of the air.
The flames died and Scarlet dashed to another barrel, this one closer to the wall. Zachary couldn't sneak up on her from here, unless he came from above, but that would just lead to a clean roasting. Her eyes scanned the room for clouds and vapor.
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Rapunzel
X-Men
Erza Sovari[M:0:0:]
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Post by Rapunzel on Oct 29, 2011 15:32:47 GMT -5
Zack was doing a really good job. She could tell from his movements that it would distract her. It was even distracting Erza! She shook her head, she must concentrate. She was sneaking around some barrels close to the wall but not all the way close. Suddenly she saw a cyclone of flames erupt not too far away but close to where Zachary was. The way Miss Wyvern was moving was incredible! The best thing happened right after that. Wyvern had taken a position right near where Erza was, and she had no idea! The distraction had worked perfectly!
Erza could tell that because of Zachary's constant assaults, Miss Wyvern was clearly more concerned about him rather than her. Erza decided not to move, instead she decided to have her hair move. Her hair was soundless, but if she moved her body,she would be making sounds with her feet, and Miss Wyvern could pick up on that. Her hair went around the barrels and reached Miss Wyvern from behind. In a rush of blurry speed, the hair wrapped itself around the belt, cutting it off as the sharpened tip breaks it and yanks it away from her. In an instant, Erza had the belt in her hands and she smiled brightly, her eyes going wide. She couldn't believe it! Their plan worked! But this was just the belt. They needed to defeat Miss Wyvern herself. Erza wrapped the belt around her own waist.
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Post by Shadow cats on Oct 30, 2011 12:57:18 GMT -5
Heat quickly spreads out, pushing Zachary away as his teacher started to spin and dance. She showed no surprise as he had flitted about. Solidifying his form to his more human form, Zachary hastily dashes behind a column as fire starts blossoming around her. Minutes pass as the flames swirl through the air. In a sudden rush of air the flames disappear. Looking around the column, Zachary sees no one and nothing.
Dang it.
Walking out Zachary looked around until a spot of red caught his eye. Erza. Watching the movements he sees it as it pulls the mechanized belt across a distance. This meant that the teacher had lost the belt and that she was near.
But then… she knows erza’s location and she was probably more vulnerable to fire than me.
Rushing forward, Zachary sporadically shifts into and out of his gaseous state. As he nears the barrels between the two other mutants, his form spreads out in a cloaking smokescreen that would eliminate a lot if not all visibility within it. Solidifying within it, Zachary bursts out of it in front of Erza as she finishes attaching the new belt. “We should probably move.” Jogging past her he looks back urging her to follow as he watched the smoke behind her for signs of their teacher. “I have an idea on how to try and win this sparring match with out serious injury.”
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Wyvern
X-Men
Scarlet Hall[M:0:0:]
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 30, 2011 23:39:32 GMT -5
Scarlet took a moment to breath, eyes still carefully watching the area around her. They would have to hurry up. About half their time was up. Getting pelted with rubber bullets would suck. Wyvern would just vaporize any that got near her, but the others weren't so lucky. Well, maybe Zachary could escape by evaporating and Erza could shield herself.
Her tangent thought was interrupted by a quick tug at her hip. She looked down to see her belt being dragged away by a long lock of red hair.
The teacher's mind went white with anger. That was her belt! How dare she steal it! Scarlet inhaled a massive breath and released the full brunt of her fire towards the hair. The heat was so intense the barrels that were caught in it's wake exploded prematurely. Not to much effect as the contents were immediately turned to crispy flakes.
She calmed down a moment later, shoulders bobbing as she breathed laboriously. She might have overreacted, but it was a pet peeve of hers when someone stole from her. A trait gained from her early years.
Scarlet hopped on a barrel and peered towards the damage, looking to see if she had hit either of them with that attack. "Computer, what are the life signs of the children?" Hopefully neither of them had been hit.
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Rapunzel
X-Men
Erza Sovari[M:0:0:]
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Post by Rapunzel on Oct 31, 2011 2:22:40 GMT -5
Zachary appeared as she attached the belt around her waist. She was kind of caught off guard because she was not expecting him. Behind the two, where they had last seen their teacher, was a giant cloud of mist. She couldn't see even the barrels. He suggests that they move and that he has a plan. She awkwardly gets up and follows after him.
"What do you have in mind?"
At that moment, there was a massive flame that engulfed the mist that was behind them, and was spreading quickly, rushing towards them like a wave. Erza felt the heat burn her skin as she stared wide eyed and gasped. Parts of her hair burned off, she could feel it happening. Erza hastily threw a wire, not really knowing what she was doing but it pulled her away from the flames- no not pulled, yanked her right off of her feet away from the flames. Since Zachary had been in front of her, if he had not been paying attention, he would probably get carried off with her too. She screamed at the very top of her lungs. In fear of what she didn't know about the wires but most of all, the flames rushing and swelling behind her.
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Post by Shadow cats on Oct 31, 2011 19:10:07 GMT -5
Erza was just managing to walk forward as Zachary saw the flames push its way through the smoke with ease. Eye widening, Zachary watches as Erza moves her hand towards her belt before she starts to step forward again. She haphazardly threw a wire out, cutting Zachary’s cheek as it passed by. Zachary stood frozen as Erza was visibly pulled off her feet towards him.
I have to get out of her way.
Jumping to the side away from the wire, Zachary realized that he wouldn’t be fast enough to keep from colliding with her. Instinctively, Zachary half shifts into his gaseous state, this luckily decreased his density enough that as she sped towards and past him, he was tossed aside with little resistance. Spinning around uncontrollably Zachary comes to a stop standing as the wave of fire rushes towards him. Shifting fully into his gaseous state Zachary flits through the air in an instant to try and get behind a barrel a couple feet back around where Erza had sped off to. He winced as his right arm, and his tail, flared with pain as they had been caught in the trailing fires as he had solidified. The pain thrust him back within his smoke cloud form. Instantly it started to ease up.
Dang it. Uh this hurts.
As Zachary slowly shifted back he looked at his arm which almost appeared to be stuck within a cloud of smoke as it fought to heal itself. Holding his arm as it hurriedly started to ease up on the pain, Zachary walked through the gaps until he found Erza. As he could see that she was mostly unharmed he noticed the time on the wall behind her. “Good. You’re alright.” Looking at her he noticed how frayed and freaked out she looked. ” You’re not hurt right? I need you to try and cage her within a cone of huge red spikes, like the ones that you created earlier from your hair.” With a glance he looked over his shoulder and though he couldn’t see his teacher, he knew she was probably on the move.
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Wyvern
X-Men
Scarlet Hall[M:0:0:]
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Post by Wyvern on Nov 2, 2011 23:47:20 GMT -5
The flames died, leaving a long streak of soot and charred machinery where it had been. Wyvern's body heaved up and down, desperately catching her breath. Small wisps of flame flickered from her hair, cheeks, and teeth, giving her a demonic appearance. Her arms felt like spaghetti after that attack and her chemical sacs felt shriveled. It would take a minute for her body to break down that pill from earlier and start to regenerate the fuel.
That had been phenomenally stupid. Now she was vulnerable, her flames reduced to a paltry range and intensity. Granted, she was an accomplished martial artist, but that wouldn't help much. She leaned her body against a nearby barrel as the feeling began to come back to her legs. "Alright, what should I do-?"
She was cut off by a sudden overwhelming urge, causing her to double over and vomit. The bile hit the floor and began to eat away at the metal, catching fire as well for good measure. This was why Scarlet sometimes hated her ability: the indigestion. The extra circulatory system in her body felt like it was driving thousands of needles into the surrounding muscles. Her fuel was volatile and moving that much around was very stressful for her. Plus producing it en mass didn't help much.
Scarlet ducked behind a barrel and began to move as quietly as she could. Thirty seconds, that was all she needed. After that, her body would have recovered enough to ward off the kids again.
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Rapunzel
X-Men
Erza Sovari[M:0:0:]
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Post by Rapunzel on Nov 4, 2011 21:44:49 GMT -5
Erza looked at Zachary with a worried expression. He appeared to be injured but still he told her his plan and she nodded, a bit uncertainly. She looked up from behind the barrels. The smoke was clearing and Miss Wyvern was nowhere to be seen. The only way to find her would be to go out into the open instead of sneaking around. Or...
Erza hopped up on top of the barrels and crouched. Then she slowly started to jump from barrel to barrel all the while looking for her teacher. She moved faster as she gained more confidence by the second. There was a flash of red from the corner of her eye and when she turned, there she was. From where she stood on top of a barrel, she shouted as her hair sprung up to life and shot about a dozen piercing red hair spikes aimed to land in a circle around their teacher to trap her.
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Post by Shadow cats on Nov 5, 2011 19:44:29 GMT -5
The pain echoed in the background as Zachary looked towards Erza though it had already faded by a great extent. Ignoring his questions of whether she had sustained injuries, Erza glanced almost worriedly at his arm as she silently walked past him. Turning after her Zachary followed for a while till she jumped up onto the barrels and started to make her way around the Danger room. Keeping her within his sight Zachary maneuvered himself through the maze of barrels. Glancing down, Zachary flexed his hand as the mists that had surrounding it drifted away.
Amazing.
A shout rings through the air, catching Zachary’s attention. Erza was on the offensive, flinging her hair out. Spikes flew through the air in a spray of red. Now. The room spins within Zachary’s view as he appeared above some of the spikes, wind winding through his hair. Seconds seem to slow as he snatches one out of the air before the world spun out of control again. Metallic pings ring out as Zachary’s feet slam into the ground. Shaking his head, Zachary looks up and sees a conical red pyramid of spikes jutting into the sky. Turning towards the spire, Zachary breaks the red spike in his hand in two before passing part of it to be held by his tail as he held the other half. Nerves on edge, Zachary quickly approaches the circular pyramid like cage. Ready for an attack Zachary looks through the red spikes to see if his plan had worked.
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Wyvern
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Scarlet Hall[M:0:0:]
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Post by Wyvern on Nov 5, 2011 21:30:00 GMT -5
Wyvern sat there, mentally beating herself for getting trapped. Erza had sprung on the helpless teacher and trapped her in a cage of hair. Scarlet could probably burn her way through with ease, but it was probably smarter to just wait. But that was also kind of stupid. So she pondered, cross-legged in the middle of a cone.
Erza's hair was red, the same color as Scarlet's. Or at least close enough to say such a thing. But it was pretty hard. Close to metal at the very least. As she thought, her fuel began to leak out of her pores. For the first few seconds it ignited into short spouts of fire, but soon the oxygen in the trap ran out and it began to build up. What fuel escaped burned lightly at the edge of the hair, heating and slowly igniting it. But right now she was in the middle of a giant fire bomb.
It took Scarlet a second to notice this and she shrugged. It was as good a plan as any. The moment they tried to attack the prison would burst in a ball of fire. Or if they waited the prison would burn away and burst anyway, allowing Wyvern to escape. All she had to do was wait. She crouched down, stomach calm and chemical glands full, ready to move.
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Rapunzel
X-Men
Erza Sovari[M:0:0:]
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Post by Rapunzel on Nov 7, 2011 17:42:20 GMT -5
Erza gasped for breath as she ran up to Zachary who was standing next to the red Pyramid of spikes she had created to capture their teacher. But had she really captured her? Looking around, she saw that she was nowhere to be found. It was unbelievable. She actually succeeded! The adrenaline rush that course through her veins so suddenly as her heart accelerated caused her to become a little dizzy and she put her hands to her knees in order not to lose her balance and fall over. Still catching her breath, she turned her head to Zachary.
"What, hah, do we do now? hah... Did we, hah, win?"
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Post by Shadow cats on Nov 10, 2011 23:27:02 GMT -5
Red Spikes rose into the air as Zachary neared the spire. Footsteps echoes as Zachary pressed his hand against the bars of red. Heat rises heavily from the thin cracks within the wall of red. With a scowl, Zachary steps back and looks towards the colorful red.
Thoughts where almost nonexistent as Zachary realized that the plan had backfired. Turning to leave Zachary is almost hurtled into by Erza and her vibrant red hair. In between breathes she posed a question that was evident to few. “No. I don’t think we did and so we should move quickly before she starts another inferno.” Twirling the three foot section of a red spike, Zachary slowly backs up from the spire of red quills as he glanced at the wall and noticed what little time they had left.
Time is of the essence to us.
Stopping behind a barrel near Erza, he waits and watches to see what their teacher would do and if there would be time to try and complete this training in time. "Any ideas Erza?"
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Wyvern
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Scarlet Hall[M:0:0:]
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Post by Wyvern on Nov 12, 2011 0:46:37 GMT -5
They weren't coming. The adult in Scarlet was relieved. An explosion at that range might hurt them. The psychotic, temperamental, maniac in Scarlet was disappointed. An explosion at this range would have gotten them good.
The hair finally burned away enough to allow fresh oxygen. The fuel ignited in a white flash that lit the room briefly before fading. Flames clung to Wyvern's skin, trying to find stuff to burn before dying out. Luckily her leotard was fireproof or this would have been awkward. She glanced at the clock. Just a little under two minutes left. They had to hurry. Their best bet would be to make use of her limited mobility. Scarlet would have to refrain from using her flames to maneuver and rely solely on her instincts.
She jumped onto a barrel, lightly leaping from one to another. She let loose a few small fireballs from her hands. They died quickly after impact but were more for show. She wanted them to move and think of their feet. In battle the enemy wouldn't just let you chat and think up a plan. You had to adapt or have the benefit of experience. The latter was beyond them at the moment. Scarlet herself had dozens of strategies she had practiced and memorized for a variety of situations. Plus she had the street smarts to survive anyways.
"C'mon!" she screamed, letting loose a dozen more fireballs.
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Rapunzel
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Erza Sovari[M:0:0:]
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Post by Rapunzel on Nov 12, 2011 14:07:25 GMT -5
Erza frowned as she thought for a moment. She could grab Scarlet with her hair. It wouldn't burn right away. After all, it was nothing like normal hair. Still, it would burn eventually. If she were to risk her hair like that, it would have to be for a really good opportunity. Erza could kill people with her hair. Originally, her hair would spike up defensively around her so that she wouldn't be harmed by physical strikes, but if she were to grab an opponent and activate the spikes, she could puncture them and kill them.
She couldn't kill her teacher, but if she had the opportunity to capture her good, they would have won, right? That would mean Zachary would need to do something during that brief opening period... anything at all. Even hurl a barrel at her. Erza was so nervous, her whole body was shaking and she was sweating not just from running around but from nervousness as well.
"I have an idea. We'll take her with my hair. As you saw, it doesn't burn that fast."
Erza didn't wait for approval from Zachary. She ran straight towards Miss Wyvern. Where was this confidence flowing from? IT was unnatural for Erza to be so bold. Completely unlike her. But she couldn't just sit around and do nothing! They were running out of time! Scarlet was throwing around balls of fire. Erza went around all of that and came up from behind, Her hair shot forward and attempted to grab Scarlet. Hopefully Zachary was preventing her get-a-way, though she probably should have told him.... it was too late though. If she grabbed her teacher then all she would have to do was separate two clumps of hair and press it against her neck. That would make her stop right? It was pretty sharp....
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Post by Shadow cats on Nov 19, 2011 3:08:41 GMT -5
A shout rings out through the room. Pricking Zachary’s attention, the shout slowly sinks in as Zachary starts to turn around. A blazing light tears through the air and disperses against the barrel a few feet away from Zachary in flaming tendrils. Hair almost on end, Zachary slowly looks around the edge of the barrel. Words resonate behind Zachary as he watched the fire fly through the air. A blur of vibrant red hair rushes past Zachary as Erza dashed through and around the barrels.
Erza had a plan. So now I had to move.
Spinning around, Zachary walks out from behind the barrel he had been leaning against. He grins as he looks towards his teacher while she threw fire around from a point around twenty feet away. As he steps behind a barrel a few feet away Zachary breaks into a run and quickly dashes behind a barrel a couple feet away from the last. His vision quickly expands as he shifts behind the barrel, spinning through the air as he back tracked through the air as the room seemed to blur. Only a few seconds later Zachary condenses with his back against the line of barrels near the center of the room. Taking a breath, Zachary lets the room spins as he flew up and condensed atop the barrels and saw his teacher across the room.
Hopefully Erza would hold back for now.
Twirling the two red halves of hair in the air, zachary calls out to his teacher “sup teach.”
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