revenance_rpg | The Fifth Sign

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The Fifth Sign

Who: Anyone who wants to participate
What: The zapapple harvest!
Where: Ponyville, Sweet Apple Acres, the orchard where the Zapapple trees are growing
When: Afternoon
Warnings: None yet.

A lightning storm crackles over the orchard, lighting the sky with electricity for minutes on end. Only when it fades does a rainbow arch across the sky. As if by magic - and it may well be - the gray apples on the trees suddenly grow to three times their size and gain rainbow stripes. It looks like the zapapples are ripe and ready for picking. There's buckets and barrels in the barn - best get started before the sun goes down and they disappear.

As for that howling in the distance...well, surely it's nothing.

[Anyone can join; this plot is friendly for combatants and non-combatants alike; no tag order; further instructions as events warrant. Have fun!]

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"Oh, hell no."

What the hell are those things, anyway? By contrast with the - now familiar - shapes of the Nightmares, the wolf-like creatures actually look like a threat.

Kanji's not moving, even though he's visibly unarmed apart from his Pricklemane and his own hooves. He's standing his ground. Okay, so he could still be more used to the whole 'fighting on four legs' idea, but damn it, who would he be if he ran from a challenge here?

"Hey! You lot wanna screw things up?" he yells. "You're gonna have to come through me!"

The phrasing is a little more crude than Aqua might have used herself, but it's the sentiment when you get right down to it. She doesn't know why timberwolves are teaming up with nightmares, but she knows one thing: she isn't going to let them get to anyone who isn't ready for a fight. Besides, she's managed to figure out how to get the spells she's used to working basically right with her new horn and even if she hadn't, she wasn't going to let that stop her.

She would have been a very poor Master indeed otherwise, and she steps up next to Kanji without so much as a second thought.

"Through us, you mean," she comments, as a glow starts to build around her horn.

Company? Kanji glances over at her and grins. "Damn right," he says, stomping at the ground. Got to admit, he's glad that he's not going to be doing this alone. Not that he plans on going any easier with her here... She's come to fight with him - and he's not going to let her down.
He glances down to his side - his Dream Eater does a happy flip, eager to get down to business as much as its person is.

"You ready? Let's do this!"

And here come the first Nightmares...

"Yes," Aqua answers with a nod, ignoring the slight shiver of worry that shoots through her as the Nightmares draw closer. She's fought the Keyblade a time or to - she's been in Ponyville long enough to run into the local nightmares - but this is important. She can't rely on her Dream Eaters, and both of them look as ready for battle as Kanji's does.

But she isn't going to let him down any further than he means to let her down, and she watches as the Nightmares draw just a little closer. Normally she wouldn't wait so long, but with things not be quite as certain here as with the magic she knows best, she's not leaving anything up to chance.

He first spell is a blast of lightning that seems to spring from the tip of her horn before arcing into the nearest nightmare. A pegasus could probably have managed something more impressive, yes, but she's only a unicorn and it does seem to doa not insignificant amount of damage to the nightmare.

Lightning, huh? Oh, he likes her style. Still, he can't really hit anything long-distance right now himself - but he'll take advantage of her weakening the Nightmare she's hit, charging in and delivering a vicious kick. Good job he's been warming up on the apple trees, really!

He's moving quickly, here, switching targets and hitting however he can. The smaller Nightmares? Shouldn't be a problem...

No, not between her own pair of Dream Eaters and Kanji's Pricklemane. It's the timberwolves that are going to be the problem, and after another blast of lightning at the nearest Nightmare, she turns her attention the the timberwolves. But this time it's not lightning. No, it's fire that she sends at them, and a sort of fire that seems to almost home in on them.

How well it will work... that she doesn't know, but it certainly looks like they're made of wood and it's not such an unusual jump to assume fire in that case.

It looks like it's working to Kanji! But damn. That's a neat trick, too. He's not used to seeing someone throwing off multiple types of magic so easily - well, he's not really used to seeing someone throwing around elemental magic without a Persona in any case. Everything's new.
...However, it does mean that he's having to dodge the fireballs, even if they are homing in on their targets. Focusing on one opponent at a time, now, trying to kick the things to pieces - keeping an eye on the Spirits, though.

Likewise, Aqua would probably find the idea of Personas a little strange if she'd been aware of it. As it is, she simply continues on with what she's been doing. It's working, little by little and once the timberwolves actually fall to pieces, she turns right back to the Nightmares. It's back to thunder spells as well, since those work a little better insofar as hitting multiple targets goes.

She hasn't realized, just yet, that the timberwolves are already starting to put themselves back together, but to be entirely fair she hasn't had to fight timberwolves before, and most of the enemies she has fought only need to be killed the once, barring extremely specific cases.

As for the Spirits, he's not the only one keeping an eye on them, and if there's one good thing about Cure spells it's not having to worry about their Spirits falling all to pieces.

She's got the heals going? Okay, this definitely works. While they're in near the trees, his options are limited, but he's not worried by being caught out by the Thunder attacks - he can tolerate them, after all. He'll just keep moving, hitting what he can - he's starting to get the hang of four-legged combat.

...wait. Did he see a movement in that pile of twigs? Can't have, can he? Probably the wind or something...

She most certainly has got the heals going. She's not going to let anyone fall on her watch, if she can at all help it, and that means the Spirits too. Fortunately, they seem to be doing just fine so far, with both of her and Kanji helping with the nightmares as well.

But as it turns out it isn't just the wind. The fallen Timberwolves are indeed reforming, and Aqua is in just about the wrong place to notice that she might shortly be under attack from the same.

Kanji's working on a small cluster of Nightmares when he can finally be certain of what he's seeing. Damn things - what are they doing? As if they weren't trouble enough before, when he thought they were staying down...

Most of them are within the Spirits' range, but some of them... crap. That's virtually right behind Aqua. The first gets to its feet and starts moving to pounce. He can see a second that's just about to follow suit. A couple more sticks, and...

"Like hell are you gonna...!"

He's got one chance. His Pricklemane's not going to make it. Even if he tried summoning his Persona - and in among these trees, he really hasn't got room - it wouldn't be fast enough.
One chance. And one option, that he barely even thinks through. He leaps to meet the Timberwolf attacks head on.

Anyone who'd fight with him is a friend. And Kanji does not let his friends down. He does not let his friends suffer.

The Timberwolves' claws strike home, cutting and splintering - he lets out a yell of both rage and hurt. But as long as it's bought her time... it's worth it.
He can take it.

It's the yell of pain that catches Aqua's attention. She might not know Kanji very well, but if he's fighting alongside her than that makes him an ally for certain if not a friend and she has absolutely no intention of letting a friend go unavenged, so to speak.

Instead, she explodes into flame, and fairly literally so at that. She is the heart of a great pillarof whirling flame that damages everything it touches... save for Kanji and both sets of spirits, and she isn't letting either the Nightmares or the Timberwolves go unscathed for long, and as soon as the flames of her first spell tries down, she's following it with Megaflare, just in case the first spell hadn't already been enough.

Kanji's about to start climbing to his feet, grimacing - but then the first spell goes off, and he's suddenly certain that he's best remaining lying right where he is for a moment.

Damn. Just damn. Even Yukiko, on her best days, hadn't been able to drop a flame attack like that. He's not sure whether to be more scared or impressed! Not going to show the scared bit, though, bar staring briefly - gritting his teeth, he starts to stand up again.

"I... think you got 'em," he says. Understatement of the year.

When the smoke and fire and ash and other signs of destruction have cleared, two bright lights shine, drifting apart from one another. One settles around Kanji's neck; the other, atop Aqua's head. They dim and fade, leaving gold in their wake. Kanji now has a gold choker around his neck, its center set with a red jewel in the skull and crossbones of his cutie mark; Aqua has obtained a tiara with a purple-pink jewel in the shape of her Wayfinder cutie mark set atop it. The Elements of Loyalty and Magic have reappeared.

Aqua is still glowing a little, when the Elements appear. It's not much, but it has the uncanny effect of making it look like she's still a little bit on fire. She isn't, and doesn't seem to be really bothered by it, but it's probably a little odd to anyone who isn't so used to it as she is.

On the other hand, it might not be so odd after the sudden appearance of two pieces of jewelry.

"What the hell?"

Okay, this has Kanji surprised. He stumbles backwards slightly as he lifts a hoof to poke at his new ornament. He can't see it clearly, sure, but he can see Aqua's just fine... alright, it's pretty, but what've these got to do with anything?

There's a moment of silence as Aqua blinks at the additional weight on her head - and just when she'd gotten used to the added weight of a horn! - but she thinks she can offer some light on what they are. Especially after having spoken with Celestia about them and well... what they looked like besides.

"I think they're two of the Elements of Harmony."

"Wait, what?"

Kanji looks more than a little baffled. He'd heard the name being thrown about, hard not to given everything that'd been happening, but...

"What're they doin' here?"

"We were supposed to be looking for them," Aqua answers. "They'd gone missing and I don't think they'd been supposed to."

That they've shown up here and now is a little surprising, but there's no changing it. Not now that the decision has been made.

"They must have found us worthy, I think."

"Huh? Me?" Still trying to tap at the thing- "Yeah, I get why you got one, that was awesome! But I ..." He looks down. "I just didn't wanna see you gettin' caught."

"Sometimes that can be just as important," Aqua answered with a gentle smile. Even something so small as wanting to keep someone safe can mean a lot and if the Element thinks Kanji is the right person for it she isn't going to try to argue with them.

He's quiet for a moment. "You think so? Heh." He's not entirely sure, but ... he guesses he'll take it.

"I do."

And if Kanji himself isn't entirely sure, that's alright. The most important thing is really that they've found two more of the Elements.

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