Corrupted Radiatons

by Michael Rogers

  Rachael: *Winds from Synthoss' attack caused burns to appear on her face.*

  Lezard: "Quick healing shot, HEALING IMPLOSION"

  Synthoss: *She waved her free hand towards the ground, causing cracks to appear in the ground.*

  Rachael: *She watched the ground revert back to normal.* (She changed the ground?)

  Champion: *She looked surprised.* (It wasn't my imagination! Her Rostical somehow separated all the Astragons bonding the elements together! I haven't seen such a disintegrating ability in a very long time!)

  Synthoss: *She stepped firmly on the ground and grabbed the whip with both hands, sweeping it along the ground.* "Hiyah!"

  Rachael: *She watched the wheat-like grass cut behind the whip, as if it were a blade.* "Crud-"

  Lezard: "Razzypoo!"

  Champion: "Rachael!"

  Rachael: "I know! Piercing Land." *The ground underneath her shot up, blasting her into the air.*

  Synthoss: *She watched the whip slice through the rock Rachael manipulated with ease.* "Dirty, dirty lamp!"

  Rachael: *She landed on the ground and the whip suddenly shot up from the ground, piercing into her arm.* "Arh!"

  Champion: "AQUA LIQUID" *She flicked a wave of water directly onto Synthoss, pushing her and the whip back.*

  Rachael: *She moaned in pain, as the whip ripped out of her arm.* (Definitely felt that one-)

  Lezard: "Quick internal light, INVOKING AURA"

  Rachael: *She watched light slowly close up the wound.* "Okay-" *She threw the daggers into the air and cracked her knuckles.* "Stone's Might."

  *Rachael cupped her hands and formed a V with her fingers. She swayed them up and a tunnel of gravel exploded up, crashing towards Synthoss.*

  Lezard: *He stood on a bright white glyph, as he continued to focus on healing Rachael's wounds.* (I haven't seen some of these Azure Bursts!)

  Rachael: "Hahr!" *She leant forward with a slight push in her arms, burst the gravel into Synthoss' face.*

  Synthoss: *A wave of cracked air blocked majority of the gravel, as she tumbled back.* "This isn't how I planned it!"

  Rachael: *She looked up and caught the dagger, before spinning around, throwing them at the forming dirt cloud in front of her.* "Hah!"

  Synthoss: *She quickly stood up and flicked the whip to the side, blowing the dirt out of her vision.* "Huh?" *A blue dagger sliced past her face, alerting her of the other.*

  Champion: *She watched Synthoss flashstep as the second dagger shot past where she stood.* "HEAT LANCE"

  Rachael: *She took a deep breath and flicked her fingers in a 'come here' motion, causing the two daggers to spiral back towards her.* (My control of the ground almost feels like second nature to me-)

  Synthoss: *She flashstepped into the distance and groaned with anger.* "Power up my Rostical, beetle!" *She grunted in a condescending manner.*

  Rachael: *She looked down to her feet.* (I feel the weight in the ground-) *She spun around and kneeled to one knee, punching the ground.*

  *A car-sized boulder shot up in the middle of the meadow, spiralling broken wheat-like grass underneath it.*

  Rachael: "Rock Slide." *She punched towards the boulder and dagger-like pebbles blasted towards Synthoss into the distance.*

  Lezard: (All of Razzypoo's Azure Bursts are quite similar, but each has a different use. She's deliciously amazing.)

  Synthoss: "Two of three.." *She uttered under her breath.*

  *The area darkened and flashes of purple and black appeared around a curved wave of cracked air.*

  Lezard: (What is that?)

  Synthoss: "Time halt, the power of five inverted stars gather, hear my call, AYONSITE RAPTURE"

  *The cracked air around Synthoss and all of Rachael's rocks suddenly disappeared, as the area reverted back to normal.*

  Lezard: *He looked at Synthoss in shock.* (All of Razzypoo's projectiles disappeared before they hit her?)

  Rachael: *She suddenly leant forward, sitting on all fours.* (What was that? It felt like something got sucked out of me?!)

  Synthoss: *She noticed Rachael's exhaustion, causing her to smirk.* (Elementalists are connected to their abilities. Even though the ground wasn't touching her, draining its Neurons affects her as well.)

  Champion: "This is the first time I've seen Rachael display any type of exhaustion-"

  Synthoss: *Her eyes cracked like glass and the leather around her purple whip suddenly ripped off, revealing a steel-like appearance.* "My whip, my Rostical, my will, my revenge! Become one!"

  *Synthoss shouted and the whip suddenly shredded into grain, before absorbing itself through cracks in the air.*

  Lezard: "What's happening?"

  Champion: *She frowned.* "All members of that brigade had a different type of Astragon in their whip."

  Lezard: "What are you saying? That they use different member's weapons?"

  Champion: "No. That their weapons for some reason have their own Astragons."

  Lezard: "The whips aren't alive... Are they?"

  Champion: "I'm not sure."

  Lezard: "Jinkies." *He shook his bottom in shock.*

  Champion: "But, with the disintegration of her whip. I believe she's somehow merged with it."

  Lezard: *He looked back to the exhausted Rachael and stepped forward.* "Razzypoo isn't the only one that has acquired special powers off-screen!"

  Champion: "Lezard?"

  Lezard: "I can thank the Seraphic Sunders for teaching me some of their powdery ways, bwarharh."

  Champion: "Pardon me?"

  Lezard: "Restoring winds, sway and swirl, calm my allies' will, RESTORING HALCYON"

  *A wave of wind blew Rachael's hair and clothes to one side, restoring her stamina.*

  Rachael: "Huh?" *She looked at her hands and slowly stood back up.* "Thanks?"

  Champion: "I didn't sense any Radiatons."

  Lezard: *He smirked and raised his hand to adjust his cone-shaped hat, realising he wasn't wearing it.* "That Remenistal rejuvenates Lezard's target's stamina."

  Champion: (So the Radiatons weren't needed to physically heal her wounds.) *She focused back to Synthoss in the distance.* "Rachael, her power continues to grow."

  Rachael: "Hehe, I'm gathering that." *She tightly held onto her blue daggers and contemplated what to do.*

  Lezard: "It seems it doesn't matter if we back her into a corner, she will continue to use that strange Remenistal."

  Champion: "I could use a Grand Rostical, but with the chance of getting you two caught up."

  Lezard: "You've used it before without hurting us."

  Champion: "With her growing power, I'd need to use it at its maximum, which means I won't be able to hold back."

  Lezard: "Lezard understands." *He looked back to Rachael.* "Razzypoo, you need to-"

  Rachael: *She ran towards Synthoss and jumped over a small ditch in the meadow, feeling the grass whip against her legs.* (It's obvious nothing is working right now... What was that saying you always said to me, Ash?)

  Synthoss: "Harh!" *She flicked her hand towards Rachael and the air cracked towards her.*

  Champion: "MYSTIC SHIELD"

  *A silver shield materialised in front of Rachael and suddenly shattered the moment the cracked air touched it.*

  Rachael: *She discreetly gasped and quickly cartwheeled to the side.* (It can now completely shatter her shield?)

  Champion: "We may have to start using incantations."

  Lezard: "Your Mystic Shield." *He stepped up to the champion and rubbed his hands.* "What is its incantation, sausage?"

  Synthoss: *Her skin started to peel, causing flesh to appear.* "Kayliana, Johnasire, they-"

  Rachael: *She ran into striking distance and spun around, flicking a string of mud into Synthoss' face.* "Rotten Slab."

  Synthoss: "Ah?!" *She leant back, as the mud covered her eyes.* "Why you!" *She blindly waved her arms across her body, causing zigzagged lines of cracked air to move around her.*

  Rachael: *She raised her
fists towards her face and sidestepped to each side, elegantly avoiding the cracked air, as her body glowed a shade of blue.* (Okay, this is an Azure Burst I learnt to make on my own-)

  Synthoss: "This disgusting mud!" *Her face cracked like glass and pulsed the mud out of her face.*

  *Synthoss noticed Rachael's foot moving towards her face, causing her to smirk.*

  Synthoss: "I can easily flashstep-" *She moved her feet and looked down in shock, noticing they were sinking in quicksand.*

  Rachael: *She kicked across Synthoss' face and a pillar of rock shot up from the ground, cracking her bottom teeth.* "Infinite strikes and sequenced kicks-"

  Synthoss: *She shuffled her feet through the sand back and waved to the side, disintegrating the pillar of rock.* "Dirty lamp!-"

  Rachael: *She kicked forward, as if she was trying to knock down a door and a curved pillar of rock shot up, slamming into Synthoss' stomach.* "Harh!"

  Synthoss: *She grabbed the pillar with both hands and focused, causing it to disintegrate in between her fingers.* "You're next-"

  Rachael: *She spun to the side and kicked the ground, causing a pillar to hit on the side of Synthoss' leg.* "Avalanche Fury."

  *Rachael punched up and spun to her other side, punching downwards, causing two pillars of rock to erupt from different angles, doing a scissor-like attack around Synthoss' head.*

  Synthoss: "Yarh!" *A sudden pulse disintegrated all the surrounding pillars of rock and blew Rachael back.*

  Rachael: (Hot?!) *She crossed her arms in front of her face, allowing her to notice her fingers slowly disintegrating away.* (M-My fingers?!)

  Lezard: "Sacred light of Radiatons cluster and form, aid and replenish what has been lost, SOOTHING LIGHT"

  *A ray of light shot down from a growing white orb-like ball and burst on top of Rachael, healing her wounds.*

  Rachael: *She looked at her hands in disbelief.* (It feels like I've burnt them? But.. There's no blood?)

  Lezard: (The Astragons in her Remenistal acted like acid?) "Lezard can't wrap his head around this technique."

  Synthoss: "No more tricks... Three of three."

  Rachael: *She looked at Synthoss and observed the ground near her feet.* (That technique she uses, it even reverted the ground back to normal-)

  Synthoss: "Time stop to my command, call forth the powers of the seven stars, gather your power and freeze motion, halt the foes at hand, AYONSENITE RAPTURE"

  Champion: "Lezard!" *She shouted, instantly catching Rachael and Lezard's attention.* "Protect Rachael!"

  Lezard: "Neurons draw, Astragons repel, MYSTIC SHIELD"

  Champion: "MYSTIC SHIELD"

  Rachael: "Piercing Land." *She punched the ground and a wall of rock rumbled out of the ground.*

  Synthoss: (You all have no idea what my Grand Rostical does.) *The cracks from her eyes and face started to travel down to her neck.*

  Rachael: (This should be enough-)

  Synthoss: *She leant back and waved forward, causing storm-like flashes of black and purple to crack the air towards Rachael.* (If I had tried this Rostical back then, then maybe I could've saved the others from that Susanoo!)

  Lezard: *He formed a square with both his hands, as he concentrated on the shining shield in front of Rachael's wall of rock.* "What is she doing, champypoo?"

  Champion: "Just focus on your Mystic Shield, Lezard."

  Lezard: "Okies-"

  *One of the silver shields suddenly shattered like glass, causing Lezard to stumble back in pain.*

  Champion: (Was his shield that weak, or-?) *Her shield suddenly shattered, causing her to stumble to the side, falling onto her hunchback.*

  Rachael: "Huh?" *She looked at the wall of rock and watched it explode in her face.*

  Synthoss: *She watched Lezard and the champion stumble around in slow motion.* (The Astragons in my Grand Rostical are so powerful, it distorts even the flow of time.)

  Rachael: "Krgh-" *She coughed out blood, as she tumbled back in slow motion.* (What is happening? It feels like I'm totally drained... It feels like-)

  Synthoss: *A thick stream of her hair turned grey and wrinkles appeared around her eyes.* (The price of having the ability to manipulate time-)

  Rachael: *Flashes of black and purple disorientated her.* "Dust Storm-" *She attempted to punch the ground and nothing happened.*

  Synthoss: (Ayonsenite Rapture doesn't manipulate the time's flow. No matter how strong someone is, that's not possible. Even the legends about The Valkyrie, her capability, time control, not even that was possible-)

  Champion: *She watched the wheat-like grass turn brown around her.* (Is this technique absorbing the Neurons out of the vegetation?!)

  Synthoss: (I'm manipulating my own body's time!-) *She glanced at Rachael in disgust, as cracks on the air made a direct path towards her.* "Now! Time will eat you alive!"

  Rachael: "Ahhh!" *She screamed in pain and her leather gloves started to flake off her fists.*

  Champion: "Lzarhd." *Her voice sounded distorted, as the area started to blur.*

  Synthoss: *She looked at Rachael, Lezard and then to the champion.* (The look on your faces.. The unknowingly inevitability of death. One of the most strangest feelings I've ever felt in my life.)

  Rachael: "No-..." *She sighed out the word and her eyes rolled back, as she fell unconscious while leaning up.*

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  Gabriel: *He smirked, focusing all his attention to the wooden shrine.* "What has drawn me to this?!"

  *Gabriel's fingers suddenly extended like vines and he waved down, violently exploding the wooden shrine, causing distant birds to flap away in fear.*

  Gabriel: *His eerie yellow eyes widened in excitement, as he watched a dirt cloud slowly fall down to the ground.* "Reveal to me!"

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  *Rachael opened her eyes and found herself in the middle of a small flowery meadow, surrounded by a blurred environment.*

  Rachael: "Where am I?" *She paused and looked to each side.* (I think I've been here before-)

  ?????: "The fourth time thy've come to visit thou."

  Rachael: "You-?" *She spun around and noticed Arcadia sitting in the grass, dressed in her white garbs.*

  Arcadia: *Her blonde hair flapped in the wind, as she leant up to stand back on her feet.* "What are thou doing back here?"

  Rachael: "I..?" *She stepped back in confusion.* "We're fighting another Black Brigade-"

  Arcadia: "Thy do not care for your trivial mortal debates."

  Rachael: *She raised an eyebrow.* "It's not a debate-"

  Arcadia: "Thou are breaking the will of The Valkyrie."