Dawn of the Third Age/IC Logs/Session 60

[13:21] <Lob> In the dark infinite void where victims shone as stars, Gang suddenly shot towards Snow, his carapaced footfalls leaving imprints of glowing silver-white and flakes of essence like snow

[13:31] <Bright_Snow> A flash of light, a blur, and Snow is moving too. For the moment keeping distance between them.

[13:37] <Lob> "You can't hide from me, Snow. I too am still a Lunar!" His many beady eyes glowed like a cat's struck dead-on by moonlight.

[13:52] <Lob> "I heard that!" He hissed

[13:56] <Bright_Snow> "I don't need to hide, especially from you." She says with a snarl, charging back in a plum of prismatic silver essence. Her Spear strikes out once as she passes and then she is past.

[13:58] <Lob> The massive Li's carapace twisted into silver metal and dodged her attack, then twisted her spear so that it struck her instead. He tutted in disappointment.

[13:58] <Lob> "I taught you that attack, Snow."

[14:04] <Bright_Snow> "What stabbing people?" She laughs, "Finesse nor brains were ever you strongpoint, Akuma. Else you would not be a soulless reject." She laughs from the shadows, her voice calm.

[14:11] <Lob> "I can sense your fear." He responded, equally calmly

[14:11] <Lob> "The shadows are my domain now. Do not be so trusting of them."

[14:14] <Bright_Snow> "Use a line that the last three Akuma of the Ebon Dragon haven't."

[14:14] <Lob> "How about this then. I know why you run, Bright Snow. Run from everything."

[14:18] <Lob> He tore the mockery of Fate and continuance of the prison they fought in, devoured it for his power,

[14:20] <Lob> His anima burst into life, a silver scorpion riddled with shadowed cancer.

[14:25] <Lob> He knew that he could see her, she was too quick

[14:26] <Lob> Therefore he would take that option from her

[14:27] <Lob> So with a silvered path opened before him, and a dragon shadow flitting in front, he shot towards Snow with unbelievable speed

[14:29] <Lob> "DIE" He said when he reached her. slashing twice with his moonsilver blade limbs

[14:37] <Lob> but hit only air

[14:41] <Bright_Snow> Snow's lance knocks both blows to oneside with casual ease.

[14:42] <Bright_Snow> She gives another laugh and with her free hand pushes him backward and follows with two quick strikes over his heart. While her direlance weaves in the prismatic shadows, faking a blow.

[14:48] <Lob> Gang's shield pulled the blow aside, the direlance only striking a pretend shadow of Gang instead

[14:49] <Lob> Suddenly Gang's 8 eyes flashed and a sword the size of a tree trunk shot forward with the speed of a striking cobra to impale his former student

[14:52] <Bright_Snow> Who nimbly dances to oneside, a look of boredom on her face

[14:56] <Lob> "Your boredom insults me, mere student. Look me in the face, stop avoiding your destiny."

[14:56] <Lob> His gaze promised death, and Snow's body acquiesed, paralyzing her, forcing her to suffocate on the air she could no longer breath

[15:03] <Bright_Snow> "Threats from Creatures of Darkness don't move me much Akuma. Neither do their impotent glares."

[15:07] <Bright_Snow> She sidesteps and disappears into the Shadows of the Room

[15:18] <Bright_Snow> She strikes again, a shadow amongst shadows. Her palm awash with Silver.

[15:21] <Lob> "Pathetic" He snapped, as he slapped her palm away.

[15:22] <Lob> "The shadows moved with you, and gave you away."

[15:22] <Lob> The World flexed and switched a Realm Dojo where Snow had trained wtih Gang

[15:23] <Lob> Li, to his credit, didn't seem surprised

[15:24] <Lob> "You have learned NOTHING." He snapped

[15:26] <Lob> "You stand there, smirking self-righteously because one person made one mistake that was beyond their knowledge. Do you think you're immune to this? Do you think we could not be in different positions now?"

[15:27] <Lob> He looked around and noticed the enclosure they were now in, and laughed.

[15:28] <Lob> Perhaps you do require a lesson in humility. If an Akuma of the Ebon Dragon must teach you compassion, then so be it!

[15:28] <Lob> He clapped his claws together and suddenly the entire room was trapped in malevolent darkness

[15:28] <Bright_Snow> "The Ebon Dragon could not force such a position on me no. My dreams are secure, as any sensible Elder exalts would be." She stands in the dojo, walking sidewise. "If you'd ever read a book or studied something that wasn't to do with your fists you'd know this." She still seems unfazed.

[15:29] <Bright_Snow> "Were you my old teacher, some of this might work on me. But from a piece of the Ebon Dragon this is all so much noise."

[15:29] <Lob> "No one can escape the grasp of Samsara. We are caught."

[15:29] <Lob> He responded from the darkness

[15:30] <Lob> "And you, you just fool yourself, locking yourself away from considering what others may have gone through. Your martial arts simply cover a truly cowardly heart."

[15:45] <Lob> "In fact...they reveal it. You always were the Crystal Chameleon. Running adn hiding but dying for attention."

[15:58] <Bright_Snow> "You expect me to give a damn what you think. Your a souless puppet. Anything I cared for on the inside, loved or hated is gone." Snow says, moving around the murky dojo. "As Lunar's we do not judge the outside, and Akuma... well they have no inside. You are less than nothing and it is time..."

[15:58] <Bright_Snow> She leaps forward. "Time to die."

[15:59] <Bright_Snow> A flurry of punches with her silver palm alight. The fury in her manifest. "Light Rends the Dark."

[16:04] <Bright_Snow> As her hand connects he is knocked back into the equipment, even as she rips and tears at his very being, his very essence.

[16:05] <Lob> Li fell back, appearing to be fatigued, although not injured

[16:08] <Lob> "It doesn't matter. Nothing matters. One of us will die here, the other will survive."

[16:10] <Lob> He swung as he stumbled and sliced through the wall like paper, throwing scrolls and lanterns and other things like shattered memories, rolled into another vision of the palace of Solitary Talon. Not understanding why it happened and not caring

[16:11] <Lob> The darkness itself attacked Snow from all sides. long fingers of dark on dark that cut like his blades

[16:16] * Bright_Snow whirls the tattered remains of Li's memories of the dojo helping shield her as she pursues him.

[16:17] <Lob> "It wasn't supposed to be this way."

[16:17] <Bright_Snow> "Life long ago tought me not to care Li, it comes from having creatures that feed on your feelings as parents." She says as she follows him.

[16:18] <Lob> "Then they've won."

[16:18] <Lob> He responded from nowhere in particular

[16:18] <Lob> That's what the Ebon Dragon has long wanted

[16:19] <Lob> *"That's what the Ebon Dragon has long wanted"

[16:23] <Bright_Snow> "The Ebon Dragon wants people to suffer not cease to care. I do not suffer not anymore, my despair was taken from me. Did I ever mention my awakening to you Li?"

[16:24] <Lob> "No. Of course not."

[16:24] <Lob> He said as he scuttled up a wall in preperation for her

[16:26] <Bright_Snow> "It always seems amazing that I still alive.My mother murdered everything I ever cared for and spent several years feasting off my despair, my pity my anguish. And when she was done I was left for the snows to finish."

[16:26] <Lob> "Is that so." He said as he moved closer, above a doorway

[16:26] <Bright_Snow> She leaps moving in a brilliant flash, bouncing off a phallic statue and starts running along the wood panelled wall.

[16:27] <Bright_Snow> "Perhaps you are the creature of lies, Akuma, you tell me."

[16:27] <Lob> "I did not lie at all. I never did."

[16:27] <Lob> He said as he turned to see her.

[16:29] <Bright_Snow> "Then let me put you to rest... blessful sleep. An end to the torment, yes?"

[16:30] <Lob> "You won't. I have seen your fate. Sacheverall shows that you will die to my blades."

[16:32] <Bright_Snow> "There is no lie greater than Fate. Merely a shaping done by those with the power to do so. Were you truely one of us, you would have carved your own. As it is there is still time to do so."

[16:35] <Lob> "Fate and Samsara are differnet. the vision of Sacheverall cannot be denied, though I would wish it so. But no, it is too late. We cannot leave here until one of us dies."

[16:35] <Lob> "And reality has chosen. it must be you, Bright Snow."

[16:35] <Lob> A mouth of razor'd shadow gnawed at her from under her feet. Gnashing again and again and again

[16:36] <Bright_Snow> "They are different names for different lies."

[16:36] <Lob> "You must know that I do not truly wish you harm. Yet I *MUST* obey my Urge. For that I am sorry."

[16:37] <Lob> "Perhaps if I had truly gained freedom from the Bond, this would not have been necessary."

[16:38] <Lob> "One day, you may think as I do. If you survive."

[16:39] <Bright_Snow> With a shove the statue falls into the razored mouth as Snow leaps for safety