394/Like Fire and Dice

Like Fire and Dice
Date of Scene:	09 September 2023
Location:	The Book Nook
Synopsis:	Wolfrun of the Bad End Kingdom attacks the RPG club. A sunny peace is quickly enforced after the heroes devise a way to voice their charges.
Cast of Characters:	Akane Hino, Yayoi Kise, Mie Kitamura, Chrono Harlaown, Coco Kiumi, Molly Skyline, Amanda Faust

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Akane Hino has posed:
Wolfrun floated through the air, his hands in his pockets. A grumpy look on his face. As if the half-wolf-man could ever look anything less than grumpy, really. Well he could but he so rarely does. Something about being told to get off his furry butt and go gather energy put him in a worse mood than usual, though.

    He overhears, vaguely, someone below talking about wolves, and floats down a little bit to hear it better.

    "And as the wolves move in and surround you, you feel an overwhelming sense of danger!" one of the kids below begins narrating, sitting behind some sort of a screen. "Yes, fear the wolves!" Wolfrun says to himself. "It's just wolves." One of the other kids at the table says. "I cast magic missile at them." he says, leaning back. "The missiles strike the wolves and one goes unconscious and the others turn tail and run!" the first kid narrates. Up above, Wolfrun's jaw drops. "What? What are they doing? Playing at?"

    He suddenly raises his voice. "That's not how things would go at all, you little runts!" he shouts. The kids look upwards, but it's hard to process a floating werewolf man in leather clothes if you're not used to magic. "Just for that..." Wolfrun pulls out a book in one hand and a tube of black ink in the other. "THE WORLD! BE STAINED WITH THE WORST POSSIBLE ENDING! A BAD END! I'LL BLOT OUT THE PAGES WHERE YOUR FUTURE IS WRITTEN!" Wolfrun splatters the ink onto the page with his hand, and the kids around the table slump as energy is drained from them, the world around turning a shade of midnight blue, a massive moon floating in the sky.

    "We're just... playing at being powerful..." one of the kids says. "This is all useless..." the other notes. "The bad energy from these humans will help us to awaken Pierott-sama, the Emperor of Evil!" Somewhere in the far distance, the sound of a clock's hand slowly creeping forwards echoes. Wolfrun floats down to stand on the table the kids were playing at. "That's right, despair. All of these games are pointless when you'll never amount to anything, anyways." he says, and kicks one of the books with a booted foot.

    Somewhere in the distance, Akane is heading to meet Yayoi - but as she waves to her friend, she gets a chill through her body. Turning around, she sees the moon in the air above a section of the shopping area, despite the sun being behind her. "Well... I think... that's not good..." she turns around to Yayoi "... that's not good, is it?" she asks, pointing, seeking confirmation from Yayoi or from Candy, if she's around.

Yayoi Kise has posed:
Yayoi Kise has joined Akane Hino to shop. She was going to have so much fun! That was until the moon appeared in the sky and the chill ran down her spine too as she stops her walk towards Akane when she reaches her, and says. "But it's the day...!" she says with wide eyes.

Candy pops out of Yayoi's Yellow purse, and points. "It's Wolfrun-kuru, of the Bad End Kingdom!" she says, shaking before huddling down in the purse. "He's a big. bad. wolf!-kuru!" she says.

"Akane-chan, we better go!" she says as she grabs Akane's hand and starts to run towards the chaos!

Mie Kitamura has posed:
    Being a senior member of Radian Heart's RPG club, she had been volunteered to keep an eye on these kids to make sure everybody's playing fairly and having fun. Practically speaking, what this means is that Mie is letting the kids do whatever they want while she's tipped back in her chair dozing in the evening sun.

    That is until Wolfrun shows up to spoil all the fun. "Whuzzat?" she says, opening her eyes and blinking blearily having awakened from her nap. She blinks at her fellow Bad End Commander as he pulls out his own Picture Book of Darkness and starts siphoning all the Bad Energy out of the kids.

    "Wolfrun? Did you //have// to start this here? I was taking a nap!" Mie may not be immediately recognizable to the wolfman. She's almost always in her dragon girl guise around the Bad End Kingdom, but there is some semblance between the two.

Chrono Harlaown has posed:
Chrono Harlaown was, for the most part, recovered. And now doing some light shopping. Don't ask where he got money it's not important. What was important was that he had a small bag of minor school supplies to take to the apartment... only to feel the smallest chill going down his back. What in the world?

<S2U, run a scan.>

It didn't take long for a disturbance to come up. Right. Well, time to go be space officer. He drew his card, one quick henshin later... and putting the bag in his device... He then started to fly towards the disturbance, landing on a nearby rooftop to watch, for the moment.

... Was... was that a... mage's familiar? A wolf type? What was... Was it reading a book? Why was there a moon? What in the world was going on? For now, he watched. Because he was at more of a loss than nor... he was at a loss. What. In. The world. <Perform a scan for magical traces, S2U.> Maybe this would help? Seriously, he was so confused and he JUST! GOT! HERE! WHAT WAS THIS WORLD?!

Coco Kiumi has posed:
The light of the moon strikes the people currently looking at Coco as the girl dances and sings. She is currently holding a concert to advertise a charity in Juuban Ward, the donations going to fund local canteens for the homeless. The mermaid princess is currently in her idol form, this consisting of yellow gloves and boots with flowy extensions, as well as a yellow blouse with a yellow skirt, while her pearl is currently nestled safely into the E-Pitch microphone she is singing into.

The moonlight isn't reaching Coco, surrounded as she is by the white sphere of light known as the Live Stage, but the surprise on her audience's faces is enough to make her pay attention to what is going on.

"Everyone, thank you a lot for being here and your kind donations, but you'd better head home now", she says, not really knowing who could be so powerful as to change the sky, but not wasting any time in heading towards the direction of the Book Nook, where she feels the dark presence of a youma completely active already.

"Another wolf!?", she comments once she gets onto the scene, remembering Greta's tale. "Don't you ever get tired of pulling these stunts even with how they end!?"

Molly Skyline has posed:
For Molly, today has been a long day. Already. Somehow! MIght have something to do with having spent the morning helping one of her Moms in the shop, which is always a lot of work. Not that the purple haired British girl minds, particularly, but tired is tired, and when you're a teenager there's really only one way to deal with that.

Not that Molly planned this result or anything, mind you.

Currently, she's dozed off in a comfy reading chair, with an open book cradled against her chest. No she's not snoring. No that's not a spit bubble.

< Wake up. > suggests Starcrash. Molly snores and snorts a little more.

< Wake up. There is danger. > Molly hunhs? She blinks her eyes awake, plucking her spectacles off to rub her eyes before putting them back. "Hunh? Wha? What's going on?"

< Danger present. At the D&D Table. >

"Hunh?" Molly stands up, carefully setting the book down where it won't be damaged. "What... inexperienced DM? Challenge rating too high?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
> PICKUP D&D GAME AT THE BOOKSTORE PICKUP D&D GAME AT THE BOOKSTORE
    Okay, there's wolves. Amy built this character with *options*; not only can she telekinetically adjust one ally or enemy's position by one tile, she's got misty step to teleport out of being flanked and into flanking, and all that on top of other spells with various uses and her basic damaging cantrips. But then the *other* wizard wins initiative and ends up winning the encounter in one shot. Amy can't help but feel the party isn't being challenged, she's glad everyone is having fun but was kind of hoping for the chance to teach more advanced tactics to these newer players...

    ...And that's when a werewolf appears and people are collapsing around her and-- "Hey! Don't kick books!" She pulls the RPG book away from Wolfrun's foot and brushes it off. "And it's extremely rude to go around telling people they won't amount to anything! You don't know!"

    ...Aaaaaand her fellow RPG club member is just talking to the... wolf... and now the heroes are showing up and she's in an extremely awkward situation.

    "Uhhh. Soooooooo." Amy stands up from the table, shoving dice, character sheet, phone, and pencils into her bag as she steps back. "You guys up for diplomacying this out, or do we have to Roll for Initiative? Why is Jon Talbain and Weregarurumon's kid brother here? Who's Pierott-sama and what's he promised you?"

Akane Hino has posed:
Wolfrun crosses his arms. "Well, I had to start it somewhere!" he retorts. "Wait. Who are you and why are you not giving Bad Energy to the book?" he asks. "Oh you're not about to fight me, are you?" he asks, immediately misunderstanding the situation. "I just wanted to get Joker off my back for a little bit." he half whines. "But you're going to try to stop me, right?" He says, gritting his teeth, showing off his aptly-named canines.

    Wolfrun turns around to look at Coco. "The ending of the stories will change thanks to the power of the Emperor of Evil, Pierrot! Instead of ending poorly for me, they'll end poorly FOR ALL OF YOU! Just like they will RIGHT NOW!" he says, looking between Coco and Mie. And soon, Chrono... and soon Akane and Yayoi as they make their way to the chaos. "You know what? Forget this!" he says, pulling out a bright red sphere. "Come out, AKANBE!" he shouts, raising the sphere towards the sky. Dark Energy - a lot of it - erupts off the sphere and channels down to the... tower of dice on the table?

    And then suddenly the set of dice have turned into a giant... dice... snake... with... a... clown... face. And arms. An a bright red nose. That shouts *AKANBE* very loudly. It is a mixture of equal parts hillarious and legitimately kind of scary.

    It reaches back with an arm and tries to sweep it across -everybody- like clearing a table, swiping past Mie and Coco to punt them away unless something changes.

    Akane looks at the big dice monster, and then at Wolfrun, and then back to Yayoi and Candy. "Oh man, that one's big." she mumbles. "It's fine! Transform into Pretty Cure, you can fight them and bring back everyone's happy time!" Candy advises. "Yeah, sure. At least it's not a flaming bear made out of stardust." she notes.

    

    "Pretty Cure, Smile Charge!"

    She's a little late to do anything about the hand swipe, but she's not too late for a Dramatic Entrance! She lands directly in front of Wolfrun to yell at him personally.

    "Dazzling Sun! Hot-blooded POWER!! Cure Sunny!!! I'll defeat you, your dice, and whatever else it takes to put things back to how they oughtta' be!" But then she turns to Amy. "Also, I uh..." she scratches the back of your head. "Do not understand a single word you're sayin' girl. But I'm pretty sure if we just punch the bad things until they stop bein' bad, it'll all work out? That's worked for me so far, anyways!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    That's a dice snake. What. What even is the CR on that thing? She points past Mie, Wolfrun, and the dice monster. "Look, a distraction!" And then she tosses her bag aside and is briefly engulfed in flame before it clears to reveal the Puella Magi. Holding a rocket launcher. "So you gotta ask yourself. Does this do 10d6 damage? Or does this do 1d6 MEGA-damage?"

    And she takes aim at... Wolfrun. "Start explaining! Who's Emperor Pierrot?! Who are YOU?!"

    She's not going to fire in a bookstore! So uh, hopefully she can stall until the situation changes. Or someone gives her flanking for whacking the dice snake over the head with the launcher.

Chrono Harlaown has posed:
Chrono Harlaown narrowed his eyes. Oh, it looked like... others were arriving. Oh. That--

And now there was a... thing. He had an anime sweat drop at this point. What. In the world. Why--

And then THE THING WAS ATTACKING THE PEOPLE!Coco pinged as magic, but the other girl? She didn't.

<Stinger Move> He was suddenly off, like a bolt. Enveloped in light blue magic to form an arrow, said arrow flashed across the field, appearing behind Mie. One second he was there, the next scooping her up and flying up, out of the way of the attack. Hovering in the air for a moment. "Are you okay?" he asked, lightly panting from that sudden burst. Yeah. He didn't like having to go from 0 to 'GET THERE NOW!' but uhhhh... yeah. He quickly dashed away, landing on the ground and putting her down. "Please get to safety, miss," he said, before flying back up into the air to confront the creature. It seemed whatever the... strange... moon thing was, was creating a semi-zone of its own? He didn't know what would happen if he overlaid a time-space barrier over it. And didn't want to find out.

Instead, he held out his right hand and his holographic ID appeared. "I am Time Space Administrative Bureau Enforcer Chrono Harlaown. Please stand down your assault or I will be forced to intervene. Wolf-familiar, please contact your mage and tell them they are to come immediately. Giant... dice... snake... clown... golem... thing... just... turn... that... off..." He can almost feel his soul leaving his body as he says that. What the hell is this place?

"If you consent, lay down your weapons," Chrono ordered. "Or... I guess... put... your claws down... just... turn back into your wolf form and summon your mage," Chrono said. Yup. He had NO clue.

Yayoi Kise has posed:
"Pretry Cure, Smile Charge!" goes Yayoi Kise as she goes through a transformation before going..."Pika Pika Pikarin! Rock, Paper, Scissors, CURE PEACE!" goes Yayoi as she turns into Cure Peace after Sunny and then confronts Wolfrun. She thinks of something cool to say like, Bad Dog, sit! Or, 'You're not bad to the dogbone!' or something, she finally decides on it and suddenly... AKANBE.

She suddenly is taken aback as the creature swings for her and Sunny and she leaps backwards and then avoids the damage before saying. "Bad dog ..to the.. you're the.. dogbone!" she manages to stutter out that exact word salad as she jumps back and whimpers.

"W..why does it need to be a clown and ALSO a snake..." she whimpers at Sunny and the others!

"Get out there and show 'em what's for-kuru!" goes Candy from the sidelines now, probably.

Molly Skyline has posed:
Molly has absolutely no clue what's going on. She just woke up! But clearly, things are going wrong, in a bad sort of way. The teenage Brit just kind of... stands there, for a moment, resisting the urge to scratch her head as she shakes the cobwebs out.

"Uhm, what should I do?" she asks, apparently speaking to nobody.

< Fight? > responds Starcrash. < Also consider being more 'on the ball' as the saying goes. >

Molly turns beat red. She ahems softly, and plucks the star-shaped jewel out of her earing. "Alright then. Starcrash set up!"

Molly walks as she's talking; behind a bookshelf she vanishes at one end, and at the other emerges a more... heroic looking version of herself, with bits of piecemeal armor added to her outfit, and a carried staff with a big, star-shaped blue jewel on the end of it.

< ARMED > reports Starcrash.

"Alright then, now what?"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco stares straight at the wolf's face, unimpressed at his little speech. "If you change the story, all I have to do is put it back on track", Coco glares at him. "The gist of it never changes, we are going to oppose you and stop you from harming people, whatever your Pierrot has to say about it. This is, and has always been our wish!"

She has seen plenty ridiculous being summoned ever since she got here, so the snake-dice thing does no more than get her to raise an eyebrow at him. "Is the clown face supposed to be there?" she asks Wolfrun, keeping an eye on both his movements and the serpent. That clearly didn't come from the dices, so it had to be something the wolf added, but why? She could see some intimidating logic in the snake, but that was it.

Her wary attitude pays off when the youma sweeps at her and Mie, the latter being brought away from Chrono"s intervention. 'Wasn't that the girl that was collecting snacks?', she thinks, recognising her from the Mart. She apparently met with Amy on her own, smiling at the thought of the two of them already being friends. She waves at Amy enthusiastically, appreciating her presence, even if the Puella is currently at a disadvantage with the small room available.

She barely dodges the strike from the monster, having the presence of mind to kneel below the level of the table. The mermaid vaguely recognises the designation Chrono gives out, she thinks. Hannah mentioned something like it, right? Or was It Zephyr? Either way, she is glad this officer is here to lend a hand.

"See how you like this! Beautiful Wish: Pichi Pichi Voice, Live Start!" Coco starts singing and dancing, her melodious magic spreading everywhere as she moves around the Live Stage to dodge the demons' strikes, the magical notes painting a vision of crying hearts from which love can't be born.

The image shimmers, the harmonious enchantment shifting it like an illusion with peace that sees the seven kingdoms and the lands shining together as a beacon of serenity: in it, the tale ending in peace once more, the servants of darkness living in harmony, all the strife and the conflict now unneccessary.

Akane Hino has posed:
Wolfrun leans in and shows his fangs to Amy. By opening his mouth just a bit, like he might be debating taking a bite. "I'm the big. bad. wolf. And unless you want to end swallowed whole, you'll stay out of my way." he says, perhaps misjudging Amy's desire to not fire in a bookstore for some sort of weakness. He even ignored her for a moment to turn around and yell out the door to Chrono. "How about NO." to pretty much his entire speech. "I don't have a mage, that old hag is just a cauldron sniffer!" he adds, without context. "Anyways, here. Akanbe! Get them!"

    "Akanbe!" the dice-snek shouts, before taking a large breath. The sound of a die rolling on a table echoes and then the Akanbe exhales, its breath a cone of lightning. And it'll do damage not measured in d4s, for sure, if it hits anybody. The whole crew is being targeted as it sweeps the blast across the battlefield.

    But he also hears something that makes him turn his head. Look at Amy. "what does the yellow one mean, I'm a dog...bone." he asks, genuinely confused.

    Starcrash arrives just in time to have to do something about the sweeping lightning breath that the Akanbe launches downfield.

    One person doesn't have to dodge, and that's Coco - the Yellow Pearl Voice's singing seems to make the lightning blast unable to break through the live stage with much force, or maybe the snake's just out of 'breath'?

    "You can sing all you want. But when Pierot comes, he'll give the whole world a Bad End, and there will be nobody to hear your voice... no creature to care. Because you won't be here, either!" he has turned to yell out the door. Of course, now Wolfrun is standing in the door that leads outside, mostly out of the book shop...

    Cure Sunny runs up and goes as if to punch the snake, but gets blasted back by the electrical breath. "H-hey! Peace, isn't that your thing? Make it stop?! I can't get in on it if it's doing that." The Akanbe starts to take another big breath...

Yayoi Kise has posed:
Cure Peace 'buhs!' as she's called out. "I mean, uh, nevermind!" she waves her hands back and forth as she hears a dice rolling. "Oh no! Don't crit!" she yells as she freaks out, running in circles before a cone of lightning explodes and she's too far back to be hit with it due to her jump, but Sunny.. no. Sunny!

"Sunny, watch out!" she tries to call out, but she's too late. She determines her a little and runs forward a little as she closes her eyes and draws her fingers up and shoots out a quick bolt of lighting out into the fray at the Akanbe from each hand as she cowers and whimpers a little after.

Did she fumble with a 1... or crit with a 20!?

Molly Skyline has posed:
Molly has finally managed to make her way into the fight, and already there's lightning. "I always have the worst luck with dice," she grumbles, as she watches Akanbe building up to his attack. And, apparently she's here just in time to do something about it! But, like, what, really? It's not like she's equipped with a dearth of defensive spells. Her favorite class is sorceress! She's all about flashy beams and disintigrating stuff.

Well, that'll have to do then!

"Starcrash! Solar Beam!" she instructs!

< ARMED > answers Starcrash, sounding... almost happy about it.

Right as Akanbe unleashes his lightning, Molly does the same, firing a searing golden energy blast in a big beam to meet the electricity. Hey, it always seems to work in those cheesy cartoons, where two beams meet and they just kinda stop each other; maybe that'll work here too?

'Cause if not it's going to hurt real bad in a moment here.

Chrono Harlaown has posed:
Chrono Harlaown just lightly sighed. He hadn't expected them to like... surrender. They never did. But he had to give them the offer.

He glanced around at his allies. A... girl with a-- wait, did she had a rocket launcher? Okay then. That? That was excessive but he couldn't deny appreciating it. Rocket launcher girl sounded pretty good in his book. And magic, none the less. Double win.

Next was... a Cure Peace? Cure Sunny? Were they a duo? Okay then. They seemed nice enough. A bit tuckered from the run, but whatever. His cheeks went a little red when he realized... none of them were device users. They all--

Wait, one device user. Okay. Wow. This was new. Usually everyone around was a device user. This time only one. Eesh. Also, why were they all so pretty? Ugh. Not really relevant but... just a though. He sent a 'friend request' to Molly's device. He'd need to follow up on that later. It--

... There was singing. <... Scan it.>

And the singing was magic. And it come with a stage. Okay then. Apparently just magic singing was a thing now. WHATEVER. FINE. APPARENTLY JUST SING AWAY THE BLUES. LITERALLY. MAGICAL HOLOGRAM SONGS THEN. HE WAS FINE WITH THIS!

And now the monster was... yelling. Big bad wolf? "Ohhhhh. You're a ROGUE wolf familiar, I understand. Broke your contract? Be that as it may, that does not mean you can launch assaults on civilians!" he yelled.

Annnnnd now there was lightning. Okay then. He held up his device, a round shield forming in front of him and--

WHAT! The force of the lightning actually made him skid back, a hand holding out to support the shield he was protecting him with.

"Ugh," he said, deep breath. Then focused his force on Wolfrun and the youma. Well... he supposed it was time to enact his abilities...

"Then understand your resistance has been acknowledged and the TSAB will do what it can to end this pointless agression!" he yelled. Then held up his device and...

<Ring bind!>

Rather than launching an assault, instead rings of blue magic would form around Wolfrun's wrists and ankles, as well as the youma's... things. It wouldn't likely hold them for long... but the intent was to bind them long enough for the GIRL'S assaults to hit.

He had five living cannons with him. He didn't see much point to expending too much energy when he only just healed.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "You can't swallow me hole! What, do you unhinge your jaw like a snake??" Amy can't help blurting out.

    The dice-snek acts weird. Puella Amy stares at it and then is SET ON LIGHTNING. She screams in pain. Dogbone? What? "I don't know! And *Who the hell is Pierrot?!*"

    She runs in to SMACK the dice snake with her rocket launcher, taking advantage of being able to make it big or small mid-swing and that it moves like it's a tenth of its weight in her hands. And then she poofs the launcher and tries to drag a couple of her unconscious party members out of breath weapon range.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco keeps singing, her heartfelt desire to never give up and her yearning for the blue ocean, among the waves and memories she cherishes for the seeping into her voice, the magical notes giving additional vigour to those around her.

The passion of the magic infused into her voice keeps resonating around the area, everpresent in its effort to repel the darkness and corrode it.

She notices the wolf making his way out, but the offensive of the dice-snake is still crackling around them. 'We need to deal with this fast...!' she thinks apprehension setting in the back of her mind over what the wolf might do next.

Akane Hino has posed:
Molly's blast of energy does, in fact, cancel out the Akanbe's lightning breath. It might not, except for the fact that it's sweeping it across everybody instead of focusing it on one target like she is able to. And then there's other lightning, from Peace, striking out at the thing as it tries to ready another attack. Did you know dice-snakes have skeletons? They don't really but you can still see one when Peace's lightning shocks it.

    "I'm not anybody's familiar, short stuff!" Wolfrun yells down at Chrono. And then he turns and looks at Amy. "I can blow houses down! I can certainly eat one little girl!" he shouts. Maybe like he's trying to convince everyone there, including himself?

    The dice-snake is trying to inhale again, until Amy clobbers it from behind with a rocket-launcher-impromptu-bat.

    Wolfrun on some level feels like he should get involved, but there are also a lot of them. Besides, Joker wouldn't give him the Red Nose if he expected Wolfrun to actually fight.

    "Tch. You're not worth the effort, anyways. The Akanbe can handle you all!" he says as he goes up to perch on the roof. "Akanbe, stop playing around!"

    "Akan?" it asked, in a tone that actually made it sound pretty offended for a monosyllaballic polyhedron monster. And then the binds from before wrap around both the youma and Wolfrun.

    "What? What is this?" Wolfrun asks from the roof.

    "Thanks, short kid!" Cure Sunny yells from below as she runs in from the side and just punches the big snake youma in the head. It stretches out a bit, but she doesn't punch it -out- of chrono's binds, just rings its bell pretty good. She grins and gives a thumbs up to the others... at which point the D4 that makes up a stinger like tail lashes out at her and crashes into her, sending her flying backwards into a table. "Ow. Shouldn't... have stopped... to gloat..." she admits as she tries to pull herself up.

    The youma is still a little shell shocked, trying to escape the bonds, trying to overcome the signing.

    "Is this your plan? you're gonna hold me here and make me listen to her sing the whole time?!" he shouts. He doesn't want to admit there's more to the song than words. Doesn't want to notice the sky is getting a little bit clearer. Just a bit.

    "Akan...be!" the youma shouts as it puts another burst of effort towards breaking free of chrono's binds. It does... but then has too much momentum and crashes into a tree. It is now more dazed than when Sunny punched it.

Chrono Harlaown has posed:
Chrono Harlaown is, apparently, the designated target. Short stuff? SHORT kid? No. he was a TSAB agent. He was NOT going to get offended by... such a comment. Not much. Probably. Maybe. He was NOT.

"No, my plan here is to hold you down while the girls beat you down." It served many purposes. One, conserved his energy. Two, it let him learn more about these girls and how they operated. Three, it helped him avoid getting injured again. And four, it let him keep an eye out for trouble. One of the girls were getting civilians out of the way of battle. He made a note in his device to meet with her later. If anything came near them he'd be able to interfere. For... for now? The other girls were more than enough fire power for what they needed. And he was... admittedly...

He didn't want to get close to the clown, OKAY?!

Also, because he was kind of a dick? "Please feel free to hit it with everything you have, it won't be moving," Chrono yelled. Before binding it once more... this time, eight binds, holding it down. Right after it JUST concussed itself to get free.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco follows the wolf outside, the floating Live Stage carrying her there, breathing a sigh of relief when she notices that Chrono had already taken care of stopping him. With both the wolf and the snake bound together, she activates the bracelet on her wrist, the magical energy of white light shining from it calling forth a circle of white light that descends from the top of her, giving her clothes extra decorations. Now is the perfect time to put an end to this, tied up as they are thanks to the agent's efforts.

The Live Stage changes its soundtrack in accordance with Coco's intentions. The Mermaid Princess renewes the magic of her voice, now much more potent and invigorating. "Heartbeat ~Perfect Harmony~: Pichi Pichi Voice, Live Start!", she declares, her final strike against the two insidious creatures.

The magical voice of the mermaid princess of the South Pacific Ocean starts singing of a merciless sea, whose stormy waters threaten to swallow things up with a dark epilogue, but a promise of love lies in her heart, giving the strenght to stand.

The dark sky starts being influenced by the song too, the heartbeat of this flaming perfect harmony affecting it, the magical melody seeking to return it to what it was.

Thrice the enchanted notes urge to be faster than the southern wind, thrice to cross over the squall stronger, any fatigue vanishing like fine mist in this harmony colored with everyone's heartbeats as they overlap.

Molly Skyline has posed:
"Hit it real hard?" Molly looks over at Chrono. "Yeah, I can do that." She takes a step back, and gives her staff a little shakey-shake to clear the smoke coming off the end of it. "Alright, Starcrash, what's--"

The Brit pauses as there's a little doodley-ding sound and a friend request pops up. What, now? "Yeah yeah yeah accept," she declares impatiently, "Starcrash, what--"

< Friend Request Accepted! You are now friends with-- >

"STARCRASH WHAT IS OUR MOST POWERFUL ATTACK?!"

< Unavailable at this time. >

"What? WHY!?"

< You aren't strong enough yet. >

"Okay fine! Eclipse beam! Do that!"

< ARMED >

Molly runs, following the big snake monsters until she can get a good shot; and once she's got it she plants her feet and grips her staff tightly. She takes a deep breath, just about to open fire, but -- well then the music really sets in, what the Yellow Pearl is singing.

Well that's inspiring. Molly clenches her jaw, pulls on the handle sticking out the side of her staff with a loud 'Ch-Chunk' sound, and tilts her neck to one side until the bones crack.

"Fire!!" she yells, and unleashes a second blast of energy erupts from her staff, this time bright blue and shockingly cold. Also a fair bit bigger than the previous one.

Yayoi Kise has posed:
Cure Peace watches as the snake runs into a tree and she 'ha's'. "That's what you get for. uhm.." she says. "Attack everyone!" she says as she crosses her arms and 'hrmphs!' loudly, before she ohs. "RIGHT YOU'RE A BIG DOG!" she says, yelling at wolfrun. Before, suddenly blinking and face smacking herself. "Ugh! That's not what I meant to say, either!" she 'mouuuuuuuuus' and sulks a little.

Before she gets back to the fight and raises her fingers to the sky in peace signs. "PRETTY CURE....!"

LIGHTING FLASHES DOWN and smacks her, causing her to go shocked a moment, before she spins and then, calls out "PEACE THUNDERRR!" throwing a stream of powerfulk, purifying lightning into the beast. Hoping to help end it soon!

Amanda Faust has posed:
    (Amy's player has been called to a thing)

    In short: Amy saves her rocket, and magic. Unless it looks like the snake is going to escape Chrono's binds.

Akane Hino has posed:
To be fair to Chrono, nobody should be close to the clown after it tail-yeet'd Cure Sunny into a table. But continuing to Bind the youma was a good idea, as it pulled away from the tree - to get bound - to pull out of that - and get bound again - and this time the other binds wrapped around it after the first and held it fast for what was coming.

    "Akanbe! Stop fooling around! Also you! Stop singing!" Wolfrun yells down to Yellow Pearl - who intensifies her song, instead. For a moment, it seems like the snake - and maybe even Wolfrun? - are swaying slightly in tune to Yellow Pearl's song, even as he growls against it and tries to escape the Bind - he's pulling to the tune.

    Molly's blast gleams through the air, slamming into the dice-akanbe and holding it fast - especially considering it was already not going anywhere. A sheet of ice forms over it - and then Peace Thunder cracks through the air, from Cure Peace's fingers and arcs through the air like a much angrier snake - shocking the frozen, bound, mesmerized Akanbe and causing yellow energy to overwhelm it - the youma's form fading away until only the red nose is left, which also burns away to reveal... a small gleaming... badge? button? Well, it's a Cure Decor.

    The pudding decor, in fact. Candy floats over and grabs it, before anybody else can (or Wolfrun breaks free and re-acquires it.).

    At that moment he DOES break free of the binds. "You know, I'll remember all of you, and one day I'll personally make sure each and every one of you sees the worst possible ending to your stories!" The wolf-man promises before teleporting away in that signature Dusk Zone Jerk way.

    The moon fades away and the world goes back to how it was - the destruction even clearing away to return the world to it's bright, happy version. With one exception - someone's dice tower has fallen over.

Chrono Harlaown has posed:
Chrono Harlaown let out a low huh. Okay then. That familiar was... interesting. Well, at the very least... it seemed that the wolf didn't want to... fight... them... and...

The fudge? What was THAT? He just stared at Candy and watched for a few moments before shaking his head. The girls looked tired, some of them were already leaving, there was a singing girl, a... badge? Or something? Whatever. He just... sighed.

He wasn't exactly sure what to make this situation. Just another day of weirdness, it seemed.

As much as he wanted to bother them, ask them questions, the fight had... taken more of them than he'd have expected. So for now he stowed the TSAB work and decided what he'd do was the responsible thing.

He'd make sure they were all able to get home safely, or where ever they were going. There'd be time to ask questions later when there weren't tired teenagers strewn across the ground.