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witchesreign2012-01-24 09:08 am
gunbladegrrl) wrote in witchesreign2012-01-24 09:08 am
I'd rather fight alone... [BBS/Action]
If any of the people who've been willing to help me are interested, I will be working in the Training Center on LBT coursework this afternoon. Aura spells and guarding me while I'm weak would both be appreciated if you are willing.
-Cadet Maria Cyphert
][Given her choice, she would have rejected all help and simply done it alone, and to hell with what anyone said or did. Maria's had a hair-trigger temper since the departure of Instructor Farron, which only amplified her habits of stubborn overwork and independence. Still... what she has to do boiled down to fighting monsters while fairly injured. She isn't suicidal.]
[She has, however, started already, deliberately allowing herself to take blows until the feelings of pain scraping across her mind started to become too distracting to think properly. It might not have been weak enough... not for a starting cadet, alone, but she has more than enough anger and fury to bridge the gap of inexperience and lack of greater desperation.]
[Light sheds from her as power flows through her -- then the girl explodes from her ready stance with a howled battlecry. The poor grat has barely enough time to twitch its tentacles in alarm before her right-hand gunblade hacks through it from a descending overhand blow, shockwaves racing down the blade as she pulls the trigger mid-strike. As the weapon passs through its body, she twists her wrist to reverse the blade, then slashes upwards in a rising vertical cut punctuated by another explosion. Maria steps with the momentum, left foot and left leg coming forward as her right arm goes up, to thrust her other gunblade into the creature, letting it writhe around the blade's detonation.]
[Her position would be terrible if she weren't a gunblade user, but she is. She twitches her right index finger, sending another blast down that weapon to reverse its momentum and bring it down in another brutal slash. Such its the force behind the blow, in fact, that as it hits Maria leaps, so that it carries her in a broad, arcing spin over the grat. As she twists above it, she brings both weapons up and around; her descent is a brutal cross-cut that spatters long streaks of ichor everywhere as the blades cleave an X through the grat's body. Maria lands lightly behind it.]
[Impressive? Not really. It's only Renzokuken, nothing special. And up till now this is all she's been able to manage. But this time... something is different this time. Maybe her injury, maybe her anger, maybe just her colossal frustration at working on this for weeks and achieving nothing, but this time...]
[Maria vanishes. In her place, a massive white lion, shining like the construct of chi and raw determination it is, stands almost two stories tall, its brilliant blue eyes narrowed as it stares down the grat. With a roar that shakes the Training Center, it delivers one mighty blow with its forepaw, shredding the grat with its claws and pulverizing it with its force. Then, abruptly, it vanishes, leaving Maria flat on her ass on the ground, staring up at the ceiling in shock.]
-Cadet Maria Cyphert
][Given her choice, she would have rejected all help and simply done it alone, and to hell with what anyone said or did. Maria's had a hair-trigger temper since the departure of Instructor Farron, which only amplified her habits of stubborn overwork and independence. Still... what she has to do boiled down to fighting monsters while fairly injured. She isn't suicidal.]
[She has, however, started already, deliberately allowing herself to take blows until the feelings of pain scraping across her mind started to become too distracting to think properly. It might not have been weak enough... not for a starting cadet, alone, but she has more than enough anger and fury to bridge the gap of inexperience and lack of greater desperation.]
[Light sheds from her as power flows through her -- then the girl explodes from her ready stance with a howled battlecry. The poor grat has barely enough time to twitch its tentacles in alarm before her right-hand gunblade hacks through it from a descending overhand blow, shockwaves racing down the blade as she pulls the trigger mid-strike. As the weapon passs through its body, she twists her wrist to reverse the blade, then slashes upwards in a rising vertical cut punctuated by another explosion. Maria steps with the momentum, left foot and left leg coming forward as her right arm goes up, to thrust her other gunblade into the creature, letting it writhe around the blade's detonation.]
[Her position would be terrible if she weren't a gunblade user, but she is. She twitches her right index finger, sending another blast down that weapon to reverse its momentum and bring it down in another brutal slash. Such its the force behind the blow, in fact, that as it hits Maria leaps, so that it carries her in a broad, arcing spin over the grat. As she twists above it, she brings both weapons up and around; her descent is a brutal cross-cut that spatters long streaks of ichor everywhere as the blades cleave an X through the grat's body. Maria lands lightly behind it.]
[Impressive? Not really. It's only Renzokuken, nothing special. And up till now this is all she's been able to manage. But this time... something is different this time. Maybe her injury, maybe her anger, maybe just her colossal frustration at working on this for weeks and achieving nothing, but this time...]
[Maria vanishes. In her place, a massive white lion, shining like the construct of chi and raw determination it is, stands almost two stories tall, its brilliant blue eyes narrowed as it stares down the grat. With a roar that shakes the Training Center, it delivers one mighty blow with its forepaw, shredding the grat with its claws and pulverizing it with its force. Then, abruptly, it vanishes, leaving Maria flat on her ass on the ground, staring up at the ceiling in shock.]
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