An Abjuring Evil

[Nio Tak]

Dina had recently ascended to the 7th sphere and her poison was unmatched, her other arts were not to be trifled with. Drunken with power and hungry for more she blazed a path through the city, leaving in her wake ash and turmoil. On one particular day Hammen was genning in harrow when Dina stormed in, "What the h*ll are you doing in my spot?!" she exclaimed. Hammen, clearly shook up by her demeanor and aggressive behavior, took a few steps back and quickly applied his arts. Dina however was too quick for him and he felt his strength rapidly diminishing as the poison began to flow through his veins. He tried to grab a chak and fight back but she sidestepped and his first shot missed. The second landed but it allowed her to get off an evoke and he felt several off his arts being stripped as she abjured his free action, protection, and vision. He had a fifty-fifty chance at choosing the right alteror because he was certain that she would choose blind or paralyze. He tapped vision because it was the easiest to reach but her chakram fire hosted a crippling paralyze rather than blind. After that it only took one more shot to collapse poor Hammen. As he floated away, Dina grabbed up his head and smirked as she told him that it would go good with her collection.

As she stood at the gen hoping for a level 50 or 60 chakram to gen, she thought about how she was going to carry out her plan to take over the city. Agonarious had been doing a nice job of keeping everyone thoroughly distracted but she was running out of time. She needed to get her hands on one last house prime. Purple Lace was supposed to bring it to her gift wrapped but something had gone wrong and the woman had gotten herself demoted from the house completely. As angry as it made her, Dina had always been a firm believer of, "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." so she planned on marching right up to the Peace Corpse and taking it herself. She had been hunting their members since Purple Lace lost her crest. Gorgunson, Tamarisk, and LadySilver had been a few of her favorite targets. As strong as she was now, though, no one could stand in her way.

Dina had successfully taken OoL's prime easier than she had thought that it would be. After one trapping session, they had handed her the prime to empty her pack and she just walked away with it after making quick work of the members present. Her poison alone could drain half of most dreamer's dreamsoul and she was quite proud of that. Her restore was fast enough to heal during battle so DrS was not really necessary but she carried it anyway. Her vampyric draw would make even Zaxun tremble in his oversized boots. Right at that moment she was pulled from that line of thought because Lu and Black Cloud had stormed through the portal with Hammen hot on their heels. She quickly poisoned Hammen, Black Cloud, and then Lu Chaos himself. By this time she had only needed to shoot Hammen once with a 60 before he collapsed. Then as Lu jumped the gap she moved ever so slightly to the left as his chakram whizzed by her face. Dina blasted off one abjure each as Lu ran by and BC landed the jump. That was all it took before she was able to switch to a choice chakram and finish them off.

While Lu was yelling profanities at her, she knew that now was her chance. So without saying a word, she ran as fast as she could to the Peace Corpse. Coraal was standing in the main hall waiting for her. His evoke ready, he managed to abjure her before she could abjure him but it wasn't good enough. He fell before her just like the others. At this point Hammen, Black Cloud, and Lu Chaos came running in from the missions room. It only took her about 15 minutes, 5 shields, and 3 chakrams to fell them again. Someone was missing, she thought to herself as she moved towards the guardian lounge. Everything seemed really quiet now and her blend infused artifact made the portal locks useless.

She began to feel uneasy and immediately knew why as she stepped into the guardian lounge. The shadow of a man stood against one wall and as Dar'canon stepped from the shadows they evoked at the same time. Dar'canon fired so quickly after evoking it appeared that his chakram had burst forth *from* the evoke. Dina's knees weakened as Dar's abjure took her mind blank, protection, and resist fear. Those three arts she could have lived with but almost simultaneously her own abjure was reflected back taking away her free action, vision, and trail. She closed her eyes as the bright blue ball dripping with tainted resilience sped towards her because she knew that the end was near. .

[Nio Tak]

As she floated before Dar'canon, Dina felt her anger growing. She would not be thwarted so easily, she told herself. It was about this time that Hammen, Coraal, Black Cloud, Lu Chaos, and the late arriving Em'et burst through the nearest portal. Dina was about to say something when she saw Dar'canon pull forth a very familiar looking mace from his bag and heft it onto his shoulder with two hands. "But how?!" she exclaimed. The reflection of the mace shined in her eyes and it did not take long for the others to realize what was happening. "No!" Em'et yelled, "I won't let you do it!" Lu Chaos seemed just as confused as he said, "Brother, put it away. What are you thinking?"

Dar'canon paid no mind to their pleading as he approached Dina slowly. The weight of the mace was clear in his step and his determination was clear on his, usually unreadable, face. Coraal quickly stepped between Dar and Dina. "Stop!" he demanded as he threw up his hands and stood bravely before the soul sphere. "She has done nothing to deserve this. The prime is safe and we can return the others to their respectful houses. Dina will pay for her crimes but not like this." His voice turned pleading as he finished speaking but Dar'canon's only reaction was disgust as he shifted the weight of the mace in order to free one hand. Once that was done he swooped his arm horizontally in front of him and some invisible force propelled Coraal out of the way, slamming him into the nearest wall. After hitting the floor he did not move. LadySilver who had came in unnoticed began to cry very loudly at this point, in fact it was better described as more of a wailing. Lu turned his attention from Coraal to Dar'canon with a deep growl coming from low in his throat. Black Cloud never left his side. All parties were on edge and the tension in the air was thick enough to slow ones movement.

However, what happened next, seemed to happen all at once and those in attendance have described the act as a movie. Lu released a chakram aimed for Dar and Cloud's chakram followed close behind. Upon impact, the mace was flung away but Dar seemed little more than jostled as he began firing off evokes. As effective as his abjuring was, it proved futile with Hammen and now present poppygirl keeping Lu Chaos and Black Could fully arted. Realizing this, Dar'canon switched to poisoning between firing chakrams but the combined might of the Peace Corpse was too much and his coherence began to falter.

As everyone thought the situation was almost under control, Dina soul evoked and restored herself before quickly joining in the fray. To this dream, the battle is referred to as the clash of titans and it lasted for 6 hours before Dar'canon finally turned on Dina whom had been assisting him against the Peace Corpse. Their abjuring each other allowed Em'et to paralyze them both and it didn't take long for the others to collapse the two of them.

Dar'canon and Dina floated silently and their fate was discussed. Lu Chaos was demanding answers from Dar'canon and Coraal suggested making Dina and Dar'canon both stand trial before the city. During the confusion Em'et had picked up the mace unnoticed and now stood before both Dina and Dar'canon. In one fell swoop he finished them both off before turning to face the room and saying, "Let that be an end to the soulmaster elites." The Corpse stood in silence.