Meduka 2: VS Not A Pile of Trashbags

[18:44] <&GeMshuku> THE YEAR IS 20XX
[18:45] <&GeMshuku> EVERYONE PLAYS FOX AT TAS LEVELS OF PERFECTION
[18:45] <Misao_Midorikawa> "Too bad people don't realize that Murth and Sheck are top-tier, too..."
[18:46] <&GeMshuku> Please get out of the narration!
[18:51] <&GeMshuku> ANYWAY, the day and time of reckoning comes! 4 PM (plus a few minutes), the town square. Everyone had been let known (even if Fate had to leave one a reminder) that this would be the time and place that other magical girls would gather. And sure enough, it was full of magical girls! Or, at least it was full of young girls, without a trace of anyone other than them. Not to say that the place was packed, but the amount was certainly sizable. Hard to pick anyone out of a crowd at the moment!
[18:53] <Misao_Midorikawa> "Where... is she?" Misao Midorikawa, being Misao Midorikawa, was lost.  "Argh, I can't find anyone in here..."
[18:53] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko was sitting on the bench in the town square with her legs crossed and her arms spread. She had what seemed to be a white stick out of her mouth, the end of which was smoking just slightly. No, it wasn't a cigarette, but the stick of a lollipop.
[18:56] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko stood around at the edge of the crowd, looking around awkwardly. This was far, far more people than she could have expected...Crowds were never her thing. Some of the girls seemed to be staying with their own groups, so perhaps she was supposed to look for people without a big enough group..?
[19:01] <&GeMshuku> It was a few minutes before Fate could actually be seen in the crowd, though, finding the four girls one by one and asking them to come with it. He certainly knew how to pick THEM out of a crowd, at least. Eventually, it manages to gather fall four them together! "Pardon the wait, I was sending off a group that's...not unlike your own! ...And honestly, I think this is something I should do more regularly. Gather the new ones together!"
[19:01] * Yuna_Mizuno approaches the large crowd, looking around for some girls that she was likely to get along with... Large crowds kind of uneased her, and she was hoping to find a small grouip to hunt Youma with...
[19:03] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko carefully studied the three other girls. She was by far the tallest and seemingly oldest of the bunch, and she could sense that she was the one most experienced in violence. So, it was natural to open her mouth and speak first: "So these are the sacri--magical girls you've gathered. You really don't pick your targets, do you?"
[19:04] <Misao_Midorikawa> "I- Um," Misao bit her lip, then countered at Ginko.  "I want to fight for the city of Mae, if only so that I can grant my wish!"
[19:08] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko raised an eyebrow at the older girl's words. Was that 'sacrifice'? She seemed quite confident, Akiko wondered if she was a veteran. Keeping her thoughts to herself, she stepped forward. "My name is Shirayuki Akiko. I will be in your care." She bowed a little, and appraised her companions-to-be once again. The other two seemed to be around her age, and...come to think of it, an older albino girl...wasn't
[19:08] <Shirayuki_Akiko> there someone like that at school?
[19:09] * Yuna_Mizuno looks at the group, twirling a strand of her hair around her finger. "I'm Yuna Mizuno," she greets quietly,
[19:10] * Yuna_Mizuno looked up at Sakata Ginko, who stood at least an entire head taller than her. It was kind of indimitating, to be honest...
[19:11] <Misao_Midorikawa> "A-Akiko-san!?  Yuna-san!?" Misao exclaimed, with equal parts of confusion and surprise.  "Wh-what are you two doing here?"
[19:15] <&GeMshuku> The rabbit seems miffed at Ginko's words, but holds its tongue and ignores the question. "Ah, you're already acquainted, then. Well, most of you. All the better, then! Maybe you can get the other one to take it easy." The last line is said in a manner that makes it no question that this thing was joking.
[19:17] <Sakata_Ginko> "Oh, so you three knew each other already? What, did this little thing crash your house party or something?" Ginko said, popping the lollipop out of her mouth and making no effort to clarify her meaning of "little thing". "Name's Ginko. Gin's good enough."
[19:18] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "..Hmm?" As her name was called, Akiko looked at Misao and tried to recall her face. (...Where does she know me from again? Class, perhaps?) Aside from the members of the art club, she didn't really remember anyone from school that well.
[19:19] <Misao_Midorikawa> "U-um..." Misao, now intimidated by Ginko's prescence, shakes a bit.  "I-I'm sorry!  M-my name i-is... Misao Midorikawa."
[19:19] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Ginko? The older girl really was that senior people often mentioned, then. Though Akiko always thought "Ginko" was a nickname, and not her actual name. "Nice to meet you...Ginko-senpai."
[19:20] * Yuna_Mizuno looks over at Misao as her name is called as well. "O-oh... Hello there Misao-san," she greets, suddenly feeling a bit more at ease. "I didn't expect to see you here as well..." A familiar face was a welcome sight in such a large crowd of unfamiliar girls.
[19:25] <&GeMshuku> "If I did, it wouldn't be a surprise to me. ...Though it seems some are less accquainted than others. In any case, let's not waste time. ...In fact, let's cut the matter of finding your first youma by simply searching entirely. Galaxia!" It calls out to the crowd, and a large owl, white just like Fate, but with clearly unnatural eyes that are nothing short of black spheres, answers the call. It flies in from within the crowd, and lands closeby. The owl, too, can speak, and does so, at Fate! "Do you mean to tell me you're going to make this regular, too? ...I suppose the recent surge is a reason to work harder, at least."
[19:26] <Sakata_Ginko> "Senpai?" Ginko scratched her messy hair and glanced over at Akiko,  while listening to the two talking "animals"' inconsequential banter. "Do I know you from somewhere?"
[19:28] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Not directly, no, but judging from the gossip I've heard I'm fairly certain that we attend the same school."
[19:28] <Misao_Midorikawa> "W-wait a minute, Ginko-senpai," Misao keeps her hand to her chin, somehow not noticing the two animals.  "Y-you attend the school in the North District, right?"
[19:29] <Sakata_Ginko> "Mmph." A nonplussed grunt from Ginko was everything they needed to know about her opinion on the matter. "Then you know who I am, and probably why I'm here too. I guess we need no further introduction than a name, huh, Akiko?"
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[19:32] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Why you're h- oh." Come to think of it, a teacher from the school was reported as missing recently...a teacher that people were saying Ginko were quite close with. That narrowed down the older girl's possible goals quite nicely. Akiko hung her head, not quite sure what to say.
[19:33] * Yuna_Mizuno looks over at the white owl, whose large
[19:33] <Yuna_Mizuno> (DANGIT KEYBOARD)
[19:34] * Yuna_Mizuno looks over at the white owl, whose large black eyes unsettled her somewhat... They were like the eyes of a plushie... On stuffed animals they were adorable, but on a living creature they just seemed... unnatural... A shiver ran down her spine as she observed it.
[19:42] <Sakata_Ginko> "I guess," Ginko pulled out a candy cane from her pocket and started sucking on it, "but that really doesn't matter now, does it?" She gestured with her head toward the two talking stuffed animals to the side. "We work for these jokers now."
[19:44] <&GeMshuku> Fate continues. "Galaxia will be finding your first youma, while you iron out those relations. Don't mind the eyes, they help it do what it does." The owl seems irritated at being so obviously used, but accepts it. It looks over the group...and comments. "This bunch at least seems more stable than the last." And after doing so, it TURNS ITS HEAD UPSIDE-DOWN (as an owl is capable of doing, even naturally), and its eyes begin to glow...then shine! After a few moments of this, they dim, and the owl's head rights itself. "To the south, in a place that...seems to have nothing but houses...and a youma. The place doesn't seem well, most of the houses are for sale, and it doesn't seem kempt at all...not that anyone is there right now, with the youma present. ...It seems people are avoiding the area due to high winds and trash not exactly being a good combination, though we know that's not the only thing wrong, don't we?"
[19:46] <Misao_Midorikawa> "R-right!" Misao earnestly nodded, and then turns to leave.  "L-let's move!"
[19:46] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...Well. That was quick. Let's go."
[19:46] <Sakata_Ginko> "Hold on. South, huh? I know where that is," Ginko bit off a bit of that candy cane, "had a job done over there a while back. Police didn't really care what we did, so didn't really get into trouble for that. Back then the place was inhabited too, but with the economy being what it is, people just couldn't afford it."
[19:48] <Sakata_Ginko> "The place's really handy if you want to hide a corpse or two, but it ain't that good if we got attacked by a fifty-foot tall monster or something cause it ain't wide open," she continued as she started to step off in that direction. "We aren't gonna get stomped, right? It's not like the youma's the size of a Gundam or somethin', right?"
[19:50] * Yuna_Mizuno stares at Galaxia, a bit creeped out by its actions. More so with the glowing eyes thing than the head-spinning thing. She then widened her eyes as she heard Sakata mention hiding corpses. "W-what? You don't actually do that, do you?" Suddenly she didn't feel so comfortable with her around... She could only hope she was kidding...
[19:50] <&GeMshuku> "It doesn't seem like it. On the contrary, it might be only twice as big as you! ...Not that such a thing would make it any weaker. If you're really bad at this, you could get stomped on anyway."
[19:51] <Sakata_Ginko> "Nah, we have others do that for us," Ginko answered rather brusquely as she turned toward the familiar, her tone turning sarcastic: "Well, thanks for telling me that. It was rather reassuring to know that we'll get stomped anyway."
[19:52] <Misao_Midorikawa> Misao is already a good distance away from the plaza... Best to catch up to her.
[19:53] <Shirayuki_Akiko> ...Job? Police? Ginko's background seemed...rather shady, to say the least, despite being close to a teacher. And the thing about hiding corpses...Akiko had a sneaking suspicion that the senior was trying to scare the rest of them. Admittedly, that was a nicer thought to entertain than the alternative. Akiko coughed, before joining the...'strategy' discussion. "How agile is the average youma, then? It would
[19:53] <Shirayuki_Akiko> be hard if they started jumping rooftop to rooftop or something. As magical girls, can we fly?"
[19:54] <&GeMshuku> Fate speaks up! "Galaxia isn't one to be reassuring. You'll do fine! And the average youma is about as agile as a magical girl...and yes, they can generally fly, much like you can. ...And you might have to, if you want to catch up to Misao!"
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[19:57] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko stepped up the pace until she was about two steps behind Misao. It wasn't hard to catch up to the smaller girl with her long legs and large steps. "We're fighting freaks of nature here," she said, in response to Akiko's answers. "Who knows? they could be faster than a freakin' bullet for all I know. Somebody better know how to laser 'em, cause I ain't gonna catch up to one that fast."
[19:58] * Yuna_Mizuno looks around as Fate mentions this, realizing that Misao is, indeed, nowhere to be found. "M-misao! Wait for us~!" she cries out, darting after her with surprising speed. Ginko had no problem catching up due to her size.
[20:02] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Wait up!" Akiko hurried after the other three. She turned to the owl. "How much further are we from it?"
[20:04] <&GeMshuku> The owl did not seem to follow, actually! It remained with Fate, in the plaza. Still, you did get instructions.
[20:05] <&GeMshuku> And they have an expert with them, too! The road does eventually get less and less kempt,  as well as less and less populated. There might have been people on the way, but by the time they had reached the tell tale signs of the slums, the people were all but completely gone, which is somehow still less than there would be, due to the high winds. In fact, some people you would usually find IN there were passed by on the way. Instead, the people were replaced by a larger amount of trash, likely blown about from the inside. Mostly small bits, to go with whatever big bits were thrown about normally. As one approaches, the wind gets stronger. It might get hard to walk if you don't shrug it off by becoming...more than just a normal person!
[20:06] <Misao_Midorikawa> "This wind..." Misao stops.  "How do we..."
[20:07] <Misao_Midorikawa> "How do we get past it?"
[20:07] <Sakata_Ginko> "Ugh, I didn't remember it being this windy," Ginko was then leaning forward a bit, trying not to get clocked in the face with garbage. "I guess... wherever the center of the storm is, the bastard's hiding out there."
[20:07] * Yuna_Mizuno has her hand in front of her face, her hair being blown completely backwards from the force of the wind. "Nnn... This wind is so strong...
[20:08] * Yuna_Mizuno has her hand in front of her face, her hair being blown completely backwards from the force of the wind. "Nnn... This wind is so strong..." she says, slowly advancing forward, leaning forward into the wind as she did so
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[20:12] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko was struggling hard to even maintain her footing, let alone walk forwards. "I...don't think we can just walk forward like this...We have to do something about this wind! With magic, perhaps!"
[20:12] <Misao_Midorikawa> "U-um... how?" Misao, being Misao, asked quite the foolish question.
[20:13] <Shirayuki_Akiko> This is probably the time to try out this whole magical girl schtick! Except..."Um, we...transform, right? How do we transform?"
[20:15] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko hid behind a house. A house that was creaking and buckling under the force of the wind, but a house nonetheless. "The thing said just concentrate and we can transform," she responded. "I don't know if that's going to solve the problem, but go ahead!"
[20:16] <Misao_Midorikawa> ./Concentrate... is this how we transform?/ Misao thought to herself.  It's now or never!
[20:18] <Misao_Midorikawa> "For the hope of Mae, I shall pierce the darkness shrouding it!" Misao declared, and the transformation began.
[20:18] * Yuna_Mizuno and fell into her hands as she struck a pose. This sequence was really just there for the viewing pleasure of the audience. In reality it happened nearly instantaneously. After all there's no way a Youma would wait an entire minute for the heroines to transform, is there?
[20:18] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko turned a corner. A giant Haagen Dazs lid appeared behind the house, and Ginko emerged transformed!
[20:18] * Yuna_Mizuno , hearing the other girls' conversation, decided to take the initiative, and transformed into her magical girl outfit. Her navy blue skirt went to ankle length, strips of fabric being magically added to it and merging seamlesslyt with the existing skirt. Her shirt became that of a shrine maiden's outfit, and large flowing strips of white fabric hung from her arms. A staff appeared in front of...
[20:22] <Misao_Midorikawa> ... Fire.  Everything was in flames, but... Misao felt calm.  The fire was warm, after all!  And consuming her, in an inferno of glory!  A moment, and the fire was gone, and only an armoured figure appeared!  Her armor bore a motif of butterflies, but there was a fiery tint of crimson upon the girl's armour!
[20:23] <&GeMshuku> As the megucas finish transforming, they realize that this is the perfect amount of wind for a picnic. ...OK, not really, but while the winds can be recognized as strong, it does not hinder your movements in the least!
[20:24] <Misao_Midorikawa> "I-is this... me?" Testily, she clenched a gauntleted hand, only to realize that, indeed, she was Misao Midorikawa, also known as something else.  "I am the Scarlet Flame, the fire that will bring light to Mae!"
[20:25] <Shirayuki_Akiko> That was...kind of vague. But it's worth a shot! Akiko concentrated on somehow transforming into a magical girl, and the magic inside her responded. Her current clothes turned into pure light and started to slowly disperse, as a rather large pencil appeared in the air above her, quivering back and forth as if writing something, causing a the black outline of a pure white dress to appear from its tip, which
[20:25] <Shirayuki_Akiko> then wrapped itself around Akiko. Underneath her feet, a pallette shimmered into existence, and spun as its various colour swaths started to pour colour onto her dress, making it green! As her dressed was completely and properly colored, the girl kneeled and bowed her head respectfully ahead, towards a congregation of odd-looking people, who could be recognized as various persons depicted in many famous
[20:25] <Shirayuki_Akiko> paintings. They handed her a scepter, which Akiko accepted, then she stood up, and with a flourish of her free hand seized a bright red kingly mantle out of thin air, and wrapped it around herself.
[20:26] <Sakata_Ginko> "Oh, gee, someone's on a power trip," Ginko walked out from behind the corner of the house and saw Misao. She scratched her head and then picked her nose, before flicking away whatever was on her finger. Then she took out a lollipop from seemingly midair and started sucking on it.
[20:26] <Misao_Midorikawa> With that, the Flame triumphantly raised a rapier, and charged into the youma's territory, somehow forgetting that four heads was better than one decapitated one!
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[20:28] * Yuna_Mizuno 's detached sleeves flapped in the wind, their vigorousness not at all indicative of how fierce the wind really was blowing. Soemthing about magic keeping it from looking ungraceful or something... Oh well... She saw Misao eagerly charging headfirst into the Youma's territory...
[20:29] * Yuna_Mizuno ...and hurried after her. "W-wait!" She didn't want her first encounter to end with someone getting killed. Fate wouid not think highly of them... both the creature that called itself fate AND the figurative red strings of fate.
[20:30] <Sakata_Ginko> "See, y'all should have gotten skirts or something, so you'd go 'kyaa' when the wind blows--" Ginko was trying to comment when she saw Misao charging in. Her palm met her forehead. "Oh, so help me God I'm going to spank that idiot if she gets out of this alive."
[20:30] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "That was...novel," Akiko muttered in stunned silence as she examined her new getup. A few seconds in, she realized that the heavy wind was now quite tolerable. Apparently it affected magical girls less? "Okay, as soon as we all finish transforming, le-" Then one of her companions shouted some weird exclamation, and ran off! "Wait, Midorikawa-san! Go as a team!"
[20:30] <Sakata_Ginko> By the way, Even when Ginko went after Misao, she made no attempt to hurry.
[20:31] <&GeMshuku> The party charges into the windstorm! Eventually, it seems bigger and bigger things have been lodged from their positions, as the wind gets fiercer and fiercer (yet no less consequential). Thankfully, none of it seems headed your way, but it's definitely there. One can only wonder if this storm has an eye...
[20:33] <Misao_Midorikawa> Luckily, Misao has enough insight to stop before the youma's lair, likely to plan out a super-kicking entrance!
[20:34] <Sakata_Ginko> Just as Misao stopped, however, Ginko's hand had firmly gripped the collar of her costume. "What the hell do you think you're doing, you fucking idiot?" She spat.
[20:35] <Misao_Midorikawa> "I..." Misao stammers a bit with the "I", but stops.  "I'm sorry, Sakata-senpai."
[20:35] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Er-Yes, that," Akiko said while sighing as she caught up. Not the exact wording she was thinking of, but it had the right sentiment.
[20:36] * Yuna_Mizuno decides to not pay any attention to Sakata's language, and instead looks around to see if she could see the Youma nearby.
[20:37] <Sakata_Ginko> "If you want me to call up some folks to hide your corpse, then by all means, charge straight in," Ginko continued, releasing her grip on Misao's collar. "But if you wanna stay alive, settle the hell down and wait for the rest of us. And, no more of this bullshit when we face down that freak, all right? If push comes to shove, I ain't taking lethal hits for you."
[20:38] <&GeMshuku> While the wind doesn't affect you, it does affect your surroundings. It's difficult to make things out, but you're welcome to put some effort into it! (By rolling insight.)
[20:38] <Misao_Midorikawa> "U-um..." Misao whimpers a bit, before looking up to Ginko, a smile being hidden by her helmet.  "Don't worry!  I'll protect you, instead!~"
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[20:40] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko squinted and tried to look at the direction the wind is coming from. It would be helpful to see the foe before the group barrels straight into them.
[20:40] <Sakata_Ginko> "I don't need protectin'," Ginko scoffed and stepped in front of Misao. Then, she muttered to herself under her breath: "damn it, I can't see where the wind's blowing. Best be on my guard for surprise attacks."
[20:42] <&GeMshuku> Ginko has no luck, but Sakata looks into the storm...and notices that, much deeper inside, there are things remaining stationary. Not sure what those things are, can barely even make out their size as 'big kinda maybe?', only that they're stationary. Sort of hard to see them, but they're constant, at least.
[20:43] <&GeMshuku> (HOLD FOR ME FIXING TEXT)
[20:44] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "I see something big not far ahead...That's probably the youma. It doesn't seem to be moving, though. Is it...waiting for us..?"
[20:45] <&GeMshuku> Akiko and Misao both see what was described! Whatever it is. Neither can make it out clearly.
[20:46] <Sakata_Ginko> "Well," Ginko said, stepping in that direction. "If that's the thing, we just gotta bust it open like a pinata! who knows? Maybe there's candy in there."
[20:46] <Misao_Midorikawa> "What in the...?" Misao steps back a bit, before pointing a lance at the general direction of... whatever it was she just saw.  "It's right there!  Let's move!"
[20:48] * Yuna_Mizuno looks in the direction Misao is pointing, and with the guidence of her, does indeed see something in the distance. she couldn't see it any clearer than the others could, however...
[20:51] <&GeMshuku> ...And Yuna can make it out too! ...About as well as everyone else. Which isn't really making it out as much as it is 'realizing that it's there', without even quite understanding what 'it' is. How helpful.
[20:52] <Misao_Midorikawa> "C'mon, there's no time to wait around!"  Misao advanced toward the youma!
[20:52] <Sakata_Ginko> "God damn it," Ginko breathes. "I'm so going to spank her ass." She also steps forward.
[20:53] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko followed behind the others. She wasn't expecting to be much help on the front lines with a scepter as a weapon.
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[20:55] <&GeMshuku> They advance foolhardily!
[20:55] * Yuna_Mizuno wasn't going to be much help on the front lines either While Akiko's scepter might at least be useful to bludgeon things with, her staff was purely ornamental, and had almost no utility as a melee weapon. It did, however, look quite pretty. She folowed behind the other three.
[20:57] <&GeMshuku> Eventually, they realize that they were looking at a strangely stacked pile of black trashbags. It's not that they defy gravity, as much as they defy the--wait, the wind stopped. No, it didn't stop, persay. It's just not blowing here. That's why they're able to not get blown around. ...Everything else behind them is certainly blowing about, but in front, it is a calm. A scary calm, perhaps?
[20:59] <Sakata_Ginko> "Was this youma a garbage woman or something? Did she fall into a compactor thinking it was like a bathtub?" Ginko quipped, drawing her bokuto. "Misao, don't charge in, kay? I'm not going to pick up pieces of you."
[20:59] <Misao_Midorikawa> "The youma was here, right?" Misao looked about, an axe now in her hands.  "Stay alert, everyone!"
[21:00] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Ummmmm." Okay, Akiko wasn't mentally prepared to just accept that their first opponent is a bunch of trash bags. "That's not the youma...right?"
[21:04] <Sakata_Ginko> "Damned if I know," Ginko responded, her eyes alert even if she looked relaxed. It was as if she was entering a mode or something, and she did it as naturally as breathing. "Stay on your toes, and no charging in."
[21:07] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Hmmm..." Akiko concentrated again, and tried to...make any kind of magical attack at all! She looked at the trash bags, and they reminded her of crows, and one thing led to another, and now suddenly some crows that literally looked like they were straight out of a painting were furiously clawing and pecking at the trash bags!
[21:14] <&GeMshuku> One can only wonder what's causing the windstorm...would trash cause a windstorm? Would it? Would it? Will the narration make you paranoid? Or maybe it's not actually the youma, as two will come to realize. As Ginko and Akiko concern themselves with their surroundings, high above, a youma is spotted! http://i.imgur.com/qHWQMlJ.jpg
[21:15] <&GeMshuku> The youma is spotted by Yuna and Misao, and Misao can actually tell that it's staring at them. ...Now it's staring at her, specifically.
[21:16] <Misao_Midorikawa> "Found it," Misao aims a crossbow at it, though the weapon would likely not reach it, with the distance between her and... it.
[21:16] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko followed the crossbow's aim and looked up. Then, she had to actually work--and fail--to suppress an exasperated sigh: "Gee, now I know why she jumped into a garbage compactor."
[21:17] * Yuna_Mizuno looks up, and spots the Youma. It... was surprisingly humanoid... y'know, apart from the harpy-like talons, the feathers covering her body, and the large slender wings... other than that, pretty human...
[21:17] * Yuna_Mizuno looks to Misao, "Are you sure you can even hit it from down here?" she says, looking between the two.
[21:17] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...Huh?" Akiko looked up to spot the opponent. Great, having to take flying lessons this early on, in the middle of a battle, would probably not be very easy.
[21:18] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "We...kind of have to go up there to fight it, huh?"
[21:18] <Misao_Midorikawa> "It'll come to us," the knight assured.  "If it doesn't, I can jump up there, and whack it until it does."
[21:21] <&GeMshuku> Misao's words ring true! It screeches a sound most decidedly inhuman, and a vortex of magical wind and feathers surround it! It begins to gracefully descend.
[21:28] <Sakata_Ginko> Now that Ginko could see the enemy, she knew what to do! Walking forward, she headed toward the enemy. Then, she threw her sword at the youma!
[21:29] <Sakata_Ginko> The wooden sword spun toward the creature, only to be blown off of its trajectory by the chaotic wind around it. It then returned to Ginko's hand, who sighed with some frustration.
[21:29] * Yuna_Mizuno merely stares at Ginko... "I'm no expert in the use of swords..." she says, turning to Misao, "But I don't think that's how you use a sword..."
[21:30] <&GeMshuku> It seems as though a ranged effort to attack this thing might prove...difficult! It laughs in a shrill, mocking voice.
[21:30] <Sakata_Ginko> "Shut up," Ginko grumbled. "You're not seriously expecting me to slash a blade of air toward it, now, are you? Misao, you're next!"
[21:36] <Misao_Midorikawa> "Alright, then!" Misao approaches the abomination, then throws, in order, a dagger, a javelin, and a hatchet.  They all miss, though.
[21:37] <Misao_Midorikawa> It might be because of the turbulent winds.
[21:37] <Misao_Midorikawa> Or that Misao has no skill in this sort of thing.
[21:38] <Sakata_Ginko> "I guess throwing things isn't the best attack against it," Ginko stated the obvious.
[21:38] <&GeMshuku> Actually, they were aimed PRETTY TRUE, and with a startlingly large amount of effort being put into them, somehing even she didn't expect! But the winds flared up at the perfectly wrong moment, sending them all flying in various directions!
[21:38] <Misao_Midorikawa> "Grr, it's dodgy!  Akiko, see what you can do!"
[21:44] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko stepped closer, and regarded her target. With the winds protecting it like that, she would have to either get close or completely bypass the winds themselves. She held out her scepter, and summoned a stake, already embedded in her target! Looking from the youma's lack of reaction, that probably didn't really hurt it right now, but she hoped that it was still unhealthy to have a stake stuck on your body!
[21:47] <&GeMshuku> It does seem a bit uncomfortable, though it doesn't seem to hamper it! However, it does seem to have greatly irritated the beast!
[21:50] <&GeMshuku> It flaps ones of its wings as if cutting the wind, and the air seems to distort...as it comes towards Misao!
[21:51] <Misao_Midorikawa> "A-ack!"  Misao hastily puts up a shield, but to no avail, as the shield turns out to be made of cardboard!  "I... I can't fall here!"
[21:52] <Sakata_Ginko> "Tch!" Ginko tutted and threw her sword. The sword seemed to glow with magical power as the air distortion collided with it, knocking it off of its trajectory. At the same time, the distortion lost its forward momentum: all misao would have felt was a slight breeze.
[21:52] <Sakata_Ginko> A relieved sigh accompanied the return of her sword into her hands.
[21:53] <&GeMshuku> It doesn't seem pleased with the results, and flies back into the sky.
[21:53] <Misao_Midorikawa> "... Huh?"
[21:54] <Sakata_Ginko> "Next time, try summoning something more sturdy, like a towel," Ginko quipped.
[22:05] * Misao_Midorikawa ([email protected]) Quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
[22:05] <&GeMshuku> NEXT TIME ON OBLIVION SEED Z: The party fights Garu--the Harpy!
[22:06] * Yuna_Mizuno runs ahead to the other girls so that she's closer to them. She was quite worried about Misao, but thanks to some quick thinking by Ginko, she had been saved. The wind was making attacking this Youma quite difficult, but even without the wind, she didn't think she would be able to hit it from this distance, so she merely waited and watched
[22:06] <Sakata_Ginko> Or, otherwise known as "the suicide victim that jumped into a trash compactor".
[22:06] <&GeMshuku> You're the trash around here!
[22:07] <Sakata_Ginko> Wow, descending to a pubescent insult. How mature.