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A Very Bad Dream

Tonight, even if you are not asleep, you dream.

This is the first of these dreams in which you are yourself. Any thoughts and feelings are your own. The sickness takes no toll on you here as you survey your surroundings.

The world is dying before your eyes, grass dying and rotting and earth eventually becoming dusty rock. The devastation is spreading out from a single point in the distance, a colossal four-legged machine. It’s favouring one side - were it not a machine, you could swear that it almost looks injured. Even from this distance, the way its metal feet tear into the ground is clear, as is the fact that it’s slowly recovering. Whatever’s happening to the world around you, it’s repairing the great machine.

Above you, something begins to encroach on the sun. Pointed silhouettes close upon it and it’s only when its light is extinguished from the sky in a single bite and the world goes dark that you realize that those were teeth. Illuminated by the sunlight shining from its mouth, a great dragon appears. Its scales are crystalline, trapping the sunlight within them and making it glow brightly in the sunless sky. Glorious as it appears, it’s clearly as injured as the machine is. Its scales have broken away in places leaving it to bleed a glowing silver-blue substance, almost like mist, but the sunlight shines through the injuries, reforming scales and healing its wounds.

The earth groans and creaks violently, tearing itself up in places as the machine rips its feet up from the ground. It dashes closer with speed that nothing its size should possess., continuing to rip through the ground below it as it does. The dragon treats the world no more delicately, spitting the sunlight down into it in its attempts to strike the machine. In a matter of minutes, the world has gone from verdant and lush to a dead, burning landscape.

You realize that these two entities, each mighty as a god, are fighting each other. And that you are unfortunate enough to be in the way. The earth itself is as dangerous as either of them, tossing and rearranging itself as if it were a sea in a storm when the machine moves or the dragon’s tail slams against it and throwing anyone unfortunate enough to be stood on it when it does. Flame rains from the skies, meaning they’re no safer. The machine seems to care little for anything in its path, but the dragon occasionally snatches people up into its hands, absorbing something from them before tossing them aside.

It’s now that you realize you’re not alone...

[OOC! Okay, this is going to work differently from the previous dreams, in that it’s a mass log post. Characters are now having kind of a bad dream, as you might have guessed. Important points are-

1) Any injuries recieved, short of those that would cause death, will remain upon waking. Death is possible in the dream, but won’t stick when waking (though a healer will be needed pretty urgently).
2) Characters are unhampered by the illness, since they’re dreaming. They’re as well-armed as they would generally be on an average day, so those currently stuck on bed-rest will be as covered in metal as they’d be were they healthy and fightan things. Much as I’m sure we all want Kain to be forced to fight giant dragons in his favourite baby dragon-printed pajamas.
3) Shinryu can use character’s memories to heal himself. These memories won’t be gone upon waking, though they’ll be inaccessible for the rest of the dream and characters may be a little fuzzy on the details of whatever was forgotten for a few hours.
4) Dissidia folks will probably recognize the place. Shinryu may be familiar to them, but not recognizable unless they’ve survived a cycle long enough to see him. (...so Percy and team Canon Fodder).
5) People who’ve seen either Shinryu or Omega as a superboss will recognize them if they look the same (the robotic Omega, rather than the beasty one). But they’ll know immediately that the one they fought was far, far weaker.
6) If there’s anything else you need to know, tell me! And I’ll edit it in here.]


The injuries remain when you wake, the dragon’s roars and the sound of metal moving still ringing in your ears.

As before, the linkshells transmit emotions for a few hours after the dream is over.

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Kain!

[Terra soars toward him, relieved to see him around and whole...and terrified that he's caught in this mess, as well.]
bound_skyward: (greet the end here)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-14 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain glances to Terra, just as relieved.]

Terra! You're unscathed. Good. We must try to-

[But then there's an attack from Shinryu, and Kain takes to the air, trying to avoid it...]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra, already in the air, narrowly avoids the dragon's tail as it swings around, slamming into the ground and causing it to tremble anew. She can sense its vast power, far eclipsing her own, and glances to Kain. Do they dare fight it, or flee while they can?

...flee where?]


We need the others!

[They have to be around, don't they? All those who were summoned before....]

Edited 2012-02-14 04:02 (UTC)
bound_skyward: (will not forget this)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-14 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain manages to just barely dodge that, but there's no time to pause for long- Omega is already counterattacking. He looks around but so far sees no one else. Is the war to start again? Where are they if so?]

If they're here, they'll surely join us! We don't seem to have much choice...

[He's preparing to fight.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Unable to disagree with that and not willing to leave Kain, Terra merely nods. She begins to glide away, with the intention of using her magic to distract from Kain's blows...if it even comes to that. The esper can't ignore her feeling of dread, even as she can't see a way out of the situation.]
bound_skyward: (cross the heavens!)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-14 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Right, time to spring to the attack! Except as he flies up into a Sky Rave, the two fighting powers unleash more attacks at once upon each other... catching Kain right in the middle of that.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Kain!

[Terra pauses her plans for attack when she sees that, instead unleashing Cura instead. If he needs more, he'll get it.]
bound_skyward: (broody thoughts)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-14 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain comes slamming down to the ground, one of those awful unpleasant landings that doesn't happen too often. He groans a little, picking himself up. The Cura helps- somewhat- but at this rate who knows how long he can stay away from further injury. As if to answer such thoughts, the ground quakes again, and Kain falls back to the ground.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[At that moment, Terra responds with another Cura before adding Haste. In this area, they're bound to need it whether in direct combat or not. As if to prove that point, she is immediately distracted with dodging that fire-rain from the sky, while the entities continue to clash before them.]
bound_skyward: (k)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-14 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[That outburst of fire comes at Kain as well, and it's suddenly all he can to do try and dodge that, on top of the warring entities. That dragon... if he had more time to really think about it, he's sure he's seen it before. In a place and time that seem very dreamlike almost, because he himself had been... fading away...]

[But no time to think about it- there's more fire incoming, and he tries to get out of its way, but avoid the attacks being slung back and forth. Haste is helping, for now, but those two are powerful.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[One particularly fast streak is getting closer to Kain than Terra's comfortable with, and she move to intercept it with a blast of ice, only to cry out as another strikes her instead. She lands none-too-gently, tossed back as the battle between the beings causes the earth to tremble violently once more.]
bound_skyward: (cross the heavens!)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-14 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
Terra!!!

[Kain leaps in to try and make some kind of stand and help her. But getting between the beings, trying to evade fire, it's all more than even he can manage at this point. Even as fast as he's moving, he eventually finds himself right in the midst of a nasty attack... and down he goes.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra reverts as she stirs, groaning. Well, that didn't last nearly as long as she had wanted. She wobbles, getting to her feet just in time to see Kain go down.]

No!

[She runs/stumbles/wobbles over, to get in range for another round of Cura.]
bound_skyward: (merciless)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-14 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[This time, the wounds are pretty bad, and he grimaces as he stirs. That's... unpleasantly painful.]

...Pathetic. I must be stronger than this...

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-14 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[More Cura, then, whatever it takes to help Kain. And herself, though her thoughts are mostly on the dragoon.]

It's too much. They're too powerful....
bound_skyward: (not now dark side!!)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-15 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain gasps in pain. Even now, with such terrible odds, his instincts are to fight. Never run. That's the way of the dragoons, and all honorable men of Baron. He's willing to take a more defensive strategy to things, but that's as far as he'll compromise.]

Perhaps others will come. We need only bide our time until then. Cosmos could hardly have summoned only two of us...

[Then, there's another round of attacking between the two warring entities. It's coming too close, much too close-]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra can't help but agree with that last part, but...where are they?]

Well, we--Kain! Watch out!

[She grabs at his arm, not very gentle this time, but trying her best to keep him out of the path of that dragon's tail.]
bound_skyward: (cross the heavens!)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-16 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain tries to avoid it too, rushing to get out of the way along with her- but he's a little too late. The tail slams violently into him as the ground shakes more, and more fire rains down...]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-16 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thanks to the group trembling so violently, Terra isn't able to get to him right away. She has to wait until it subsides enough for her to dare move over to him, and when she does it's all about Cura. In fact, she's so busy with that, she fails to realize just how close the machine-creature is....]
bound_skyward: (merciless)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-16 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[TOO CLOSE. This time, it's going right for Terra- or at least it's running in line to stomp over her in its path to the dragon. Kain freaks out.]

No! Terra! Out of the way!

[He rushes in to try and push her aside... but as he does that, Omega's charge still continues. The massive robot tramples over Kain, tearing into him as it goes, leaving him in the worst shape he's been in yet in this whole thing. He can no longer get up, the wounds are too deep. Deep, dark blood stains the ground around him.]