OOC: No problem. Just keep it in mind in the future.

Rugal just laughed as the cut regenerated quickly. Too quickly.

"So true..."

With that Rugal spun around, unleashing a fully-loaded roundhouse kick aimed at R.D.'s head.

R.D.'s eyes widened in shock as he saw the wound he caused heal almost instantaneously. The next thing he knew, pain split his head as he flew to the side, crashing into the side of a building.

He rolled over onto his knees and pushed himself up slightly, coughing up blood.

Rugal looked toward the newfound destruction, and took a step toward it.

"I ain't DONE WITH YOU YET!" a familiar voice shouted, and a wave of light blue energy slammed into Rugal's back, causing him to turn around in surprise. There Matt stood, bruised but not beaten, holding his familiar energy sword.

"Come ON!" Matt shouted. "BRING IT!"

Rugal just threw his hands back, charging energy but Matt moved quicker, and chucked his sword wildly at Rugal. "Striking Sword Force!"

Where there was one sword spiralling through the air, there were many, and all of them shot toward Rugal. With charged hands, Rugal began knocking them away, but a few got through and landed with a satisfying noise in the would-be ruler's body.

"R.D., if you're still with us, nail this bastard!" Matt shouted.

R.D. groaned and stood, watching as a blue wave of light struck his opponent in the back. He wiped away a trickle of blood from his mouth and shook his head, trying to clear it. He looked over and saw that his blade was lodged in the ground between himself and Bernstein, the hilt pointing towards him.

"R.D., if you're still with us, nail this bastard!" he heard Matt shout.

Yeah, this was a lovely life I had. It was what, two hours long? he thought.

The amnesiac teen snarled and dashed forward, grabbing his sword from the ground. With a primal yell, he swung the blade hard at his foe's back.

The blow was far more pronounced this time. As blood arced in the air, Rugal stumbled foward-but it was clear he wasn't finished yet when his hand shot out, grabbed Matt's collar, and threw the boy at R.D.

As this was happened Rugal swung his hand upward, and in response, an energy wave burst into life, travelling across the ground at high speeds toward the soon-to-be-colliding boys. "Kaiser Wave!"

R.D. swore as he saw Rugal throw his friend at him. There was nothing he could do, and when Matt collided with him, he had the wind knocked out of him. His sword flew wildly through the air, clattering down beside Hugo.

Just as the two hit the ground, it exploded beneath them as the Kaiser Wave struck, sending both of them flying through the air in opposite directions.

Matt cried out in pain.

"MATT!" Hugo shouted as his companion hurtled away as a result of the blast.

Surveying his work, Rugal grinned, crossing his arms. "Now that that's taken care of..."

(Juno's coming in to post next so hold off until he does.)

R.D. slowly rolled himself over, groaning. His entire body screamed pain. He tried to force himself back up, but failed, and collapsed on the side of street. "God damn... last time I ever listen to Matt about fighting..." he muttered. He then heard some distant thunder, and looked down the street, noticing a monster made out of metal charging down it.

"What in the world...?" he asked quietly.

"Hmm?" Naze turned his direction away from the ninjas with the skin like layer covering himself. The ninja's weapons were merely defended by it. He felt his play time was over, he knew what he needed to know. He looked over to the dojo and bowed as the darkness engulfed him. Naze reapeared ontop of an icey plateu, his heels sunk in the show he could hear laughing to his right. He looked over not moving his eyes. He saw them, Isis and Awai. He smiled. "Like the good old days." He said chuckleing lightly. He turned fully after Awai had bowed. "You know Awai, you shouldn't give off a show like that, you're bound to get some attention." He called out casually. His cain against his legs, he was smirking with the skin like layer gone and no weapon ready.

Rugal glanced up, and turned his head in the drection of the impending mechanical monster.

His eyes narrowed as the Karumuna Bash leapt toward him. "You again."

"What the hell?!" Hugo exclaimed as the large robotic hound smashed into Rugal.

R.D. slowly pushed himself up onto his knees as the Reaverbot charged past him, colliding with Rugal with a sickening thud. He staggered over to Matt's crumpled form and helped him up, putting the boy's arm over his own shoulder and lifting him up by the torso.

"Remind me never to go after your foes, Matt," he said as they watched the ensuing battle.

(Wow, this has come extremely far from the first few post, which involved cruise ship passengers getting totally wasted and singing "Bat out of Hell" naked

"Hey, I never said they were easy," Matt muttered, holding his bruised head.

"Genocide Cutter!"

From underneath the Reaverbot Rugal attacked, slicing upwards with the familiar kick at the hound's steel underbelly.

Having rushed over to the others, Hugo pointed his pickaxe in Rugal's direction and waited. "I hope you've got a plan, Matt!"

Matt grinned. "Don't worry. I do."

R.D. glared at Hugo. "Thanks for being concerned for us, jerk."

When he was certain Matt could stand on his own, R.D. let go of him and stumbled over to his blade, picking it up off the ground and returning to his comrades.

"Care to fill us in on this plan of yours, Matt?" he asked.

just thin two killers see the ship killer#1:it seems there is a ship here (killer#1 seems to git angry)killer#2:so it seems should we board it killer#1:good so we shall both of them jump onto the ship killer#1:we need to find a place to hide(killer#2 pounts to killer#1)killer#2:maybe the storage center is a good place to hide killer#2:ok we,ll hide there(as soon as thay git there they set up camp)

OOC: Oops...it seems I mixed up attack names. The wave attack Rugal did is called Reppuken and not Kaiser Wave, so from now on I'll use its proper attack name.

Without looking, Rugal flipped backwards, leaping over the beam of fire.

"Here we go!" Matt shouted, spreading his arms. "Giant Random Fist!"

Not surprisingly, a giant random fist made of stone burst from one of the ruined skyscrapers and punched Rugal in mid-air, knocking him right back down into the fire beam.

Edited by The Helldragon on September 28, 2006 at 23:01:46.

R.D. blinked as Matt stupidly, in his own personal opinion, renewed his battle with Bernstein with the Giant Random Fist. At the moment, he was still reeling from being blasted by the Reppuken attack, and could do little more than watch.

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R.D. wasn't the only one watching the battle, it seemed. True to its word, the demon had continued to watch the events unfold. It had perched on a windowsill of a skyscraper.

"A shame I don't have to intervene," it chuckled, "I haven't had a decent battle and fresh human blood in years, and these would make tasty treats.

It continued to watch as the mechanical beast entered the fray, tackling Bernstein to the ground.

"A Reaverbot...? Interesting. So some of the Ancients are still around... I wonder which one it is..."

Rugal's red eyes could only widen as a fist of rock suddenly knocked him back down toward the earth. What the-?!

The boy in denim...so that's where the power was coming from...

Rugal got back into the fight as the Reaverbot's teeth closed in on him. Grabbing the beast's steel neck, a pillar of energy briefly erupted from the ground to engulf the Reaverbot, a blazing skull appearing within the rising blast.

Damn! The Psycho Power only did so much to rejuvenate me...if I continue for much longer I'll risk defeat at the hands of these...children!

R.D. took several deep breaths, feeling the last of his pain fade to a dull ache, and readied his weapon for combat.

"Tell me when's a good time to attack this bastard and I will," he said to Matt.

"Suck on THIS!" Hugo shouted, launching a blast of fire at Rugal.

Rugal grit his teeth. Damn! I need to escape...for now...

With great effort, he threw the Reaverbot at the burst of fire with all the strength he could muster, and as soon as he hit the ground, he hit it running, increasing his speed with the stolen Psycho Power.

"I'll be back," Rugal promised to himself. "Once I've regained my full power, I'll kill you all..."

R.D. blinked and lowered his weapon as he watched Rugal speed off.

"What the... first he's going on about killing us, then he's running away... what gives?" he raved angrily.

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The demon watched from its perch and smirked as Bernstein fled.

"Poor, pitiful human... even with the stolen power he proves to be nothing more than a weakling... defeated by two boys, a mettaur, and the animatronic toy of an Ancient... how humiliating."

It watched for a moment more, then turned its gaze back onto its quarry.

"A shame, really... I was hoping he'd be able to unlock one of the ciphers..."

"Yeah! HEY!" Matt shouted, running foward toward Rugal. "Get back here!"

"Miserable pest-!" Rugal stopped, turned around, and with both fists launched a large, purple fireball right at Matt.

"Oh CRAP-" Matt began to say before taking the fireball head on, knocking him right back toward where R.D. and Hugo stood.

"Make no mistake!" Rugal shouted. "I will return to finish what I've started...so I wouldn't rest easy if I were you..."

With that, he folded his arms, and the air about him wavered and deepened into violet, until it was clear that he had vanished.

OOC: Yeah, just so you know...he'll come back, and he's gonna be a tremendous threat when he does.

R.D. dropped the sword and caught Matt before he could hit the ground, helping him back up, before picking up his own sword and turning to the Karumuna Bash.

"Well, I don't really like the looks of this thing. What the hell is it?" he asked.

Matt watched the Reaverbot leaped away. "Now what's it doing?"

"I have no freaking idea," R.D. said, deactivating his sword.

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The demon watched as the Reaverbot soared past him, but then continued to watch R.D. and his friends on the street.

Sending one of your toys to play with me, Ancient? it thought as it listened to the Reaverbot charge him. Not a wise move. I have a bad habit of breaking toys...

It unfurled his wings from its back and took flight as the Karumuna Bash drew near, watching as it flew off the edge of the building. Sneering, it dove downwards and grabbed the Reaverbot by the back, preventing it from gaining control to land, and piledrived it into the ground. It knew the Reaverbot was more than capable of surviving such an attack, even damaged as it was.

That's okay, Ancient... I'll play your little game for now.

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R.D. stared in horror at the monster that just slammed the Karumuna Bash into the street, causing a small quake.

It was hunched over the mechanical beast in the street. Its body was lithe but muscular, covered in pure white hide. Black markings wrapped around its arms and chest, and its throat and clavicle area were colored blood red. Black, feathery raven-like wings covered most of its back, and in its right hand it held a massive, thick-bladed greatsword with blades on either side of the hilt. But its face caused him fear. It seemed to jut out of the clavicle of the demon, ending in a insane, red-lipped joker grin. It had no eyes.

No eyes, but it turned its head in his direction, and grinned.

"It's been a while," it said to him, as it took to the air, releasing the Reaverbot.

Edited by RisingDragon on September 28, 2006 at 21:41:36.