Eye of Fire 4-The Final Chapter

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Originally posted by Ikaris
Euthalia's attempted flight does her little good. The attack against her isn't like a physical one, its not affected by distance. With a gesture, Belasco hurls her downwards to hit the floor. Barking out some sort of ancient spell, he sends bolts of electricity through her body.
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:: Euthalia suddenly feel to the ground. She sighed and then felt the electricity going through her body, she thought for a moment after the spellhas diminished, apparently her scream was the only thing really working against Belasco. So she began screaming and ran towards the sorcerer aiming to grab the EoF. (assuming it's around his neck.). ::
 
Belasco explodes into shards of a glass like substance that fly through the air, some of which strike Amy, cutting her. His body reforms quickly though and he begins to fling eldritch bolts at her before she can totally focus her attempt to make his body spasm.

"That was fun, little girl. But lets play another game!"

He continues to throw the eldritch bolts at her, making her dodge out of the way to avoid being hit.
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Real Amy
*As Belasco exploded, she called out for the Eye while his body was stilling rematerializing, throwing up a telekinetic barrier against the shards, the power of all the bolts knocking her over backwards as she kept the barrier up, atleast preventing the brunt of the pain. She held onto the gem as she tried again to create the body spasms throughout his body.*

Astral Amy
*She astralled out of her real body as Belasco became focused on firing eldritch bolts at her and dealing with the spasms. Immediately as she appeared behind him, she flung dark lightning into him to stall some time.*
 
Originally posted by Storm
:: Kurama dodges the bolts of force that Belasco is suddenly throwing widely around, but it seemed that he was able to get the Eye and now Belasco is desparate as he is now fully blind. As Rama sees the barrier set up, his manipulation powers go into work, first he paryilzizes the muscles in Belasco's throat and arms stopping any speaking and movement of the arms. Beside the barrier, Kurama's Astral self appears with Rose Whip drawn. ::

Astral Rama

:: As the astral materializes with its Rose Whip Drawn, it immediatly begins to slash the whip repeatedly and with great speed all along the barrier. Meanwhile the real Rama.... ::

Real Rama

:: Kurama watches as his astral sets to work, and now it is time for Kurama to as well. Giving a "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE" gesture, a telekinetic bomb blast with great force is unleashed on the side of the barrier where the slashes are being given, hopefully with enough force to shatter it and send Belasco flying from the blast backwards and into a jagged metal spike which Rama conjures and teleblinks into a wall so that Belasco is impaled ::
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Rama's attacks shatter the weakened Belasco's mystic barrier. The explosion sends the demon sorcerer flying, narrowly missing the metal spike that Rama has conjured. The impact against the wall though, snaps Belasco's neck and he slumps to the floor dead. The same flaring light that brought him here returns Rama to the throne room where he narrowly avoids a lightning bolt cast at Sati by the enfeebled Belasco.
 
:: Rama watches on as he defeats his version of Belasco. As a flaring light goes off, Rama squints a bit and then when the light fades he sees he just missed a bolt of lightning heading for Sati ::

"LIGHTNING!"

:: The lightning blinks out from the path of Sati and Rama redirects it back to Belasco. He goes over to Sati ::

"I take it you beat your Belasco too?"
 
:: She had been seconds away from sending the lightning back at Belasco, just as Rama had, when Rama teleblinked it over to the failing sorceror. Smirking a little, she nodded ::

"Damn right I did. I guess we're just going to have to do it again.... although I wish we knew where the others are."

:: With the snap of her fingers, Belasco once more lost his speech.... and the arms and legs of the throne wound around him, pinning him in place without his spells to help him, buying them some time ::
 
The husk that Belasco has become struggles against the arms of his throne. He manages to be able to lift a hand, and summoning the last of his reserves, strikes out at Rama, casting the bolt of eldritch energy right in the mutants face. Rama is caught completely off guard and his head snaps back asthe bolt strikes him. Had Belasco been at full strength, the bolt would have killed Rama outright, instead it burns his face causing first and second degree burns... Rama howls in pain.
 
:: Watching, unable to do anything as Rama was burned, Sati instead concentrated her attention more on Belasco. Now was the time to end this. With the slight snap of her wrist, she literally drew the bindings around his body back into the chair.... drawing themselves directly through his body, and, to make matters worse, they formed long, sharp thorns from themselves - literally cutting Belasco to shreds in a second ::
 
:: Rama screams a scream that goes through the entire castle as he is struck. He looks around panting for something to cool him off when duh he remembers his own water powers. Using a wave of water he cools the burns long enough to snap his fingers cutting off all oxygen intake for Belasco ::

"Bastar*!"
 
Between the attacks of Rama and Sati, Belasco dies horribly, struggling to catch a breath and being torn to pieces. As the last of the light fades from his eyes, the missing members of their party each reappear with the exception of Toby who appears still embedded in the crystal. Toby's skeleton is currently outside his body and dancing a jig in front of the crystal. Maia refuses to look anyone in the eyes. Whatever happened to her, she doesn't appear willing to talk about it. She stands adjusting the torn remnants of her clothing. Amy is looking very strange indeed, she has the whiskers, ears and tail of a cat. Euthalia's hair is standing on end and she looks a little singed but not much worse for the wear.

The spells keeping her out at last dissolved, Ororo teleports into the castle and surveys the damage. She notices the price that everyone has paid and whispers a spell of forgetfullness on Maia, causing her to forget the traumas she has suffered. She heals the worst of the damage to Rama's face as best she can but it appears the burn marks will be permanent. She trusts that Amy will be able to find someone to help negate the transformation spell on her and sets to work on reuniting Toby and his skeleton. Long minutes pass until the skeleton is drawn into the crystal. It flips its middle finger at Ororo as it fades into Toby's body. His body restored, Toby is once again able to move as the crystal fades away.

Exhausted from not only her own battles against Oberon, but from the healing as well, Ororo sits down on the steps leading to the throne. Something troubles her and she peers at everyone using magical sight. She sees the taint that Belasco's spells have caused. Even in death he is striking out at them.

Ororo: "Oh children, I wish I had better tidings to give you but the evil one has plotted well. He has cast a spell upon you that will prevent any of you from ever leaving this room unless someone is willing to die for the others. The hearts blood of a willing sacrifice must be spread on the Eye of Fire to break the spell. I am so sorry to have to tell you this, there seems to be no other way to break the spell. Even cloning or astral powers won't be enough. It will call for the true death of one of you."
 
:: Kurama after being healed and had heard of the neccessary sacrifice had been looking at Sati and had been having a private convo. Both he and she stepped forward. ::

"Lady Ororo, both me and Sati have been talking and are willing to sacrifice both of our lives for the welfare of the group. You may end our lives in the neccessary manner as to which enables the spell to be broken and our friends protected."

:: Rama looks at the agreement from Sati ::
 
:: Her brief relief at the death of Belasco had not lasted long; not after hearing what Ororo had to say. Yet after stepping forward with Rama, she nodded, aware of what they needed to do. ::

"We came this far as a group. I'm not willing to let us die here as a group. Rama and I, are going to do this."
 
*She held a hand before her eyes as the blinding light returned, seeing all her friends again as they were back in the throne room. Everyone looked a little bewildered and tired, but they were all fine and ticking. She scratched one of her ears as her tail moved some hair behind her shoulder. She smiled at Ororo and listened to her words, knowing the sacrifice would be a tough one. She watched Sati and Rama and slightly glared at Sati's comment.*

"We started this as a group, and I'm going down with the group. I for one am not going to go back knowing yall had to die for us, so move over and make room."
 
:: Rama turned as he heard Amy's conjecture ::

"Amy, we need a good leader for the group. So please rethink this, Toby is already in a weakened state and Maia well Maia right now is troubled and besides, isnt it a bit pointless for 3 to die?"
 
With tears in her eyes, Ororo takes the Eye of Fire from around Belasco's neck. She stands before the others with the amulet that they have come so far to find, held before her.

"I cannot choose from among you and it is a task for only one of you. I will cast a spell that will choose from among the three of you who have volunteered."

Ororo gestures and conjures a dagger. It floats in the air and begins spinning in a circle. Faster and faster it spins becoming a blur of motion. The dagger stops suddenly in front of Amarisy then launches itself directly into her chest. A small gasp escapes her lips before she collapses into Rama and Sati's arms. A single drop of blood flys to land upon the Eye.

Darkness begins to gather within the castle walls, growing stronger. Soon they can no longer see. They all begin to experience a feeling of falling. The sensation stops abruptly and they find themselves standing in Ikaris' workroom in the exact same positions that they had been in at the start of the quest. None of them is injured in the least and the only differences are that their muscles feel stiff and Amy stands blinking and holding the Eye of Fire.

Ikaris stands before them, a self satisfied smile on his face.

"Well I see that everyone has managed to make it back. The only casuality was Sydney who has gone back whatever life held for her. She wasn't strong enough to continue on. The rest of you however did prove yourselves strong and worthy of the rewards you shall receive..."

Thus ends Eye of Fire. The rewards portion of our program will occur in the Spectator thread. Please join me there.
 
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