MÄR-Heaven: Chess's Third Reich

[Helbaworshipper]

"You would not believe me..." The queen spoke, a nostalgic smile on her face. "In the history of such things...that cannot be changed. Death that can never be avoided... Spirits that use poor things like that to exist just a little longer..."

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Agatha looked even weaker up close. "It has been 240 years...she will die soon. One day soon." He spoke, looking at her with an almost loving gaze. "You make her warm, it was a sign...a sign she would die."

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"Agatha-sama..." Hei spoke, looking towards the arena. He had refused food, but a few pawns made sure he was holding up. "Hang in there...Agatha-sama..."

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

The King sighed greatly, unable of comprehending her words, he sat on his throne and put his palm against his head. "...So you are in fact dying?"
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Little Saito was on the verge of tears, "So is it my fault she is dying?"
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"MIIIIIIILLLLLLYYYYY!" The girl shouted as she ran out of the door, "I'M DONE WITH YOUR KNIIIIIIIFE!" She said as she continued to run through the halls.
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Saito was waiting by the Arena, "These things start soon right?" The man nodded, "In less than an hour"

[Helbaworshipper]

She nodded, her limbs unable to moved as her eyes went halfway.

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Kami-sama shook his head. "It is not your fault. Everyone dies eventually."

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Hei was sitting near the Arena, his body relaxing against a pawn's body. He hadn't wanted to, but the pawn had forced him to. The others were around as well, keeping people away from him. "You guys get so protective when I feel weak."

"Only because you don't have someone to protect you."

[nobodyknows]

Emoto looked down into the ring, seeing the announcer stepping up onto the stage,"Contenders and Spectators! get to your places and hold your colors! the third round of this Tournament is about to get moving!!" Emoto sighed, walking up off his seat. Surame followed,"Hold up there Emoto... I deserve a chance in this round, so let me take the first one..." Emoto raised an eyebrow,"will they even let you?" Suram stopped, remembering her refusalto join the firs two rounds. she turned back, looking slightly grim,"ugh.. fine then. You do it Emoto, and don't screw it up..."

[GamerKale]

After giving the woman the slip he returned to the castle, reverting to his humanoid form. "I wonder if she's done yet. What could she have possibly wanted that dagger for?" His ears perk up as his name gets called. "Oh-" The girl runs around the corner and would almost certainly have accidentally stabbed him in the throat, but his hands seemingly acting on their own saved him for the hundredth time. Meow Meow Wave activated, sending out just enough force to cause the blade to stab into the ground next to Milly. He scoots away hurriedly and reaches for his neck. He feels a new groove in his collar. "Didn't anybody teach you not to run with sharp pointy objects?!" He shouts as he tries to meld with the wall at his back.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

The cloaked knight looked outside seeing the arena, Garnet lay on his bed, "You got drunk yesterday..." He sighed and saw Tala and Oniko standing near each other, "She just jumps from man to man..."
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Saito looked at Hei, but ignored him, he then looked around waiting for the others.
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Ai stood by the exit of where they were all residing waiting for little Saito to pass by.
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"...I'm sorry..." She kissed his cheek. "Thanks for letting me borrow the knife! Let's go fight!" She helped Milly up to his feet.
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"Should I stay here with her then?" Little Saito said taking off his backpack and running to her side.

[Helbaworshipper]

"You must fight." He spoke, Agatha's eyes opening a little. Since she was so weak, she didn't register anyone but Kami-sama, who was stabilizing her condition so to speak. "When the time comes, if you choose it, you can follow her." He spoke with a smile, kissing Agatha's forehead. Her eyes shut again, her hands moving up to hold his clothing a little. "She'll be strong enough to have dinner tonight, be strong for that. She is not weak enough to die yet."

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Hei's body leaned a little more heavily, a few more pawns sitting near him. "You really shouldn't be doing this. She'd get mad."

"She's probably in worse condition than you."

"Good point..." Hei's eyes shut a little.

[GamerKale]

"It's not a knife." He spins the blade around his middle finger. "It's a dagger." It reverts to a ring on his finger. "Anyways, Let's get this over with." Milly jams his hands into his pockets and starts walking towards the arena, changing into the black cat shortly before entering the light of day once more. Did the crowd get bigger since yesterday? I wonder if they're all just really concerned or if they're just bloodthirsty.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

The girl picked Milly up and put him ontop of her head, "I promised you wouldn't fight today Millintica." She smiled and ran onto the stage, "I'm fighting first!"
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Saito sighed greatly, "Didn't she just get lucky last round?"
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Little Saito nodded, "I'll win this fight for you Miss Demeter! And I won't kill him either!" He ran out wiping tears from his eyes, running into his sister, "We're both gonna fight?" She nodded, "If you want."

[Helbaworshipper]

Hei's eyes opened, looking at the events going on around him. He shook his head and let his eyes shut again. He was feeling too weak to be sarcastic.

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The queen's form began to get a little paler.

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Agatha's body became silver like for half a second, but returned to normal after.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

Everyone was on the stage at this time, "It's time to roll the dice!" The man rolled his dice, and then called out it's results, "The number of fighters is six!" He then paused, "The stage is fire!"
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The twelve disappeared suddenly, as the sun reflected an image.

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A woman not that much taller than the young girl smirked, "So I get to fight some little girl who got lucky in her first round?" The young girl growled as she put Milly down, "This'll take only a minute"

[Helbaworshipper]

"Great..." The pawns spoke, keeping Hei from hearing noise. If he heard them he would get up and he was too weak to do it well right now. "Just go to sleep Hei-san...it's alright..."

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A strange invisible mist began to form around the arena.

[nobodyknows]

Emoto looked around at the arena he stood on. he glared around, trying to find any terrainal advantages, but the only things he could see besides flat rock, were strange, maccabre statues. seemingly made of bloody flesh. each one of them carried an oversized knife, and wore a disturbing helmet in the shape of a pyramid. Emoto tried to touch one, but was repelled by a hideous aura, almost as if the statues were alive, waiting to begin their onslaught. Emoto then noticed the sheer number of them. he looked at the announcer, who cleared his throat indignantly as the bell rang,"Okay. the only way you contenders can win this match, isn't by simply beating your chosen opponent... once that is done, you must beat one of these statues in combat." he chuckled,"and it's a lot harder than you think to do that..."

the statues (forgiv my obsessions.. please =_=?):

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

((Lol did you see the terrain? It's a volcano! XD Can you instead make the statue like one Chess Piece? since Little Saito will never win against a Pyramid head when he won't kill it.))

The two girl faced each other as the first bell rang the Chess Piece showed her Bishop earring, and then, in a flash the match was already over, the young girl had lost, and not even seen what attack hit her square in the forehead, blood rushing out like a volcano, "What...what happen-" she fell unconscious quickly.
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Saito couldn't catch what the woman's attack was, he ran over to the young girl who had lost and picked her up, "I'll fight next."

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Little Saito looked to Ai, "What happened? What did the girl from Chess do?"

[Helbaworshipper]

"Looks like she got that treatment..." One of the pawns spoke, Hei still quite asleep.

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The queen's body turned colder.

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A tiny bit of silver was now on Agatha's eyelash.

[nobodyknows]

((you don't actually 'kill' the statues, you just demonstrate your strength, and if they see you as worthy, they'll stab themselves with their spears/ knives, giving you victory of the match. as for little Saito, lets just say that the pyramid head ignores him. finally, I recall pyramid head being close to indestructable, so I think a little lava won't hurt it =P...))

there was a rumble as one of the statues moved its leg. it waded through the lava as if it were a puddle of water, dragging an over-sized, blood covered butcher's knife across the lava. immediately a low ranking bishop dashed at the statue,"heh.. this thing will be a piece of cake... it moves too slowly to even hit me!" he dodged the swings that the statue executed, then attempted to stab the statue. the weapon hit the statue's chest, leaving no mark on the statue's skin. a bloody number appeared on the statues shirt. it read 140/141. the bishop looked dumbstruck, then the statue picked him up by his head, tearing off his clothes in one movement. the statue then grabbed the bishop's chest, twisting it until it had tightened beyond all possible recognition, then with an almighty tearing sound, the statue ripped the skin off of the bishop, chucking it t an innocent bystander. the statue then walked back over to it's pedestal as an announcement rang out,"uhm.. uhh... due to disturbances on the field at present, challenger one wins by default..." Emoto watched the incident with great interest, trying to get his around why these statues were being used instead of the regular chess piece statues...

[GamerKale]

Milly walks over to the girl and nudges her hand just before Saito picks her up. What happened? I thought you said I wouldn't have to fight today. Tears start to run down his fuzzy face and he glares at the bishop that had attacked the girl. Why did you have to make her a liar?! He lets out an unnaturally loud and ferocious roar of anger from his tiny feline body before he throws himself headlong at the bishop.

Millintica skitters to a stop at the feet of the pyramid head. With all of his hair standing on end, making him look at least 3 times bigger, he growls and glares past to the bishop. I guess I'll have to wait to exact my vengeance, again. He turns his back on the members of Chess and walks over to Saito. At least I got Lauz for what he did to the other guild members. But there's still the issue of my village, and now her. When he makes it back to Saito he looks at the girl and then up at him as he tries to either communicate his thoughts through his eyes. I'm after you. He turns to glare at Chess as his hair slowly settles back down. He scratches the offending bishops face into the ground quickly and then scratches it out furiously.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

Saito dropped Healing Angel at Milly's paws, "Give this to someone to heal her, it's a Holy ÄRM" The statue infront of him was taller than him, and quite frankly, the tallest person there. "..." He took Renkin and mimiced the statue's sword and swung down hard and fast, breaking the helmet, and the statue completely, "...That man lucked out..."
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Little Saito awaited an answer impatiently, "She threw a rock." Ai's answer came back as a surprise, but the Bishop glared at Ai, meeting her eyes, "..." Ai sighed, "Her name is Kinyuki"

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The Announcer sighed, "And the third match..."

[nobodyknows]

Emoto stepped forward, taking the belt off of his waist,"that would be me.." he looked for his opponent,"are they ready yet? I'm getting kind of impatient..." a nearby statue twitched, letting out a loud, yet also piercing, moan-like roar. Emoto looked at it. blood was spurting out of it. it gripped it's head in pain, then let out another roar. there was a pause as it turned to stone, then the bits of flesh that made up the first statue began to rejoin to each other. the helmet doing the same. once the pyramid head was reformed it ambled over to it's pedestal, dragging it's sword in an overly grotesque manner...

[GamerKale]

Milly nods and picks the ARM up in his mouth. Placing one paw on the girl's shoulder he heals her. He manages to get the necklace around his neck and then he turns his attention to Chess. If none of them are going to come out and fight, then I'll just pick one. He walks past Emoto and then breaks into a run towards them. As he jumps over a small gully of lava one of the members of Chess throws his cloak off and into Milly's path.



Milly dashes to the side as a whip-like blade slashes the cloak to ribbons and slashes the ground where Milly had just been. The man jumps to a rock outcropping and raises his sword up in salute. "Just give it up kitty. I don't want to hurt you. Stand still and it'll be over quickly." The blade lashes out at Milly again this time clipping Millintica in the side. "You won't beat me like you did the guy you fought in the first round. If you don't have an actual offense, you will lose, and you will die." As the blade flies for Milly again he activates smokescreen and manages to evade the weapon. Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch. Milly licks his side and ducks behind a rock in the smoke as the blade lashes out in the smoke cloud. I've got to do something. Like this I'm not fast enough to dodge. A lava bubble explodes next to Milly causing him to jump up with a loud meow. The blade stabs through the rock he had just been hiding behind and Milly ducks behind another, thicker piece of cover. "Come on kitty, just give up. I'll find you eventually."

Wait, this is a lava field. That means fire ARM users have an advantage here. Milly deactivates smokescreen and walks out from behind his rock to look at his opponent. "I see you've finally come to your senses. I'll make it quick." He pulls the whip back. Milly lets out a roar as he activates his ARM of flame. An intense wave of flames rolls over the area starting from Milly and engulfs a large portion of the area, including his opponent. When the flames disappear after a long minute much of the ground is red hot and some parts that weren't lava before now are. Milly jumps from cool spot to cool spot until he comes to the man's ashes. Milly picks the rapier's ring up in his mouth and then hops back to his side. He sets the ring down in the girl's hand and then looks at the pyramid head coming towards him. Millintica jumps up to a rock and waits patiently for it to get close before he blasts it away with an explosion. He then curls up next to the girl and begins nursing the slash he received.