It's a bright, clear day over Tokyo. The sun is shining and despite a winter chill in the breeze there's the warmth of spring approaching. However, all of this is completely ignored by the young man hanging onto his skateboard several hundred feet above the tops of everything but the highest skyscrapers. Kukai Souma, otherwise known as Sky Jack, is racing home. He's got a wide smile on his face - due to a lucky comment by his new friend Reiko, he's realized he can complete a task he needs to fulfill and prevent a fight he didn't want in the first place, as long as he can get home and back to school quickly!
Jack lands on the roof of a 5 story apartment building, releasing the power of his Guardian Chara, Daichi, who pops up on his shoulder and lets out a little sigh. "That was a long flight, and we gotta go all the way back?" Kukai shakes his head, running down the steps. "It's ok, Daichi, we can take it, right? And this'll get the X-Eggs purified and keep Utau from fighting me! It's a win-win all the way around!"
He bursts into the apartment he shares with his brothers, answering the greeting from his bespectacled brother Shushi with a call and a wave as he runs to his room. In the closet in a sealed waist pack are two shaking, bouncing X-Eggs that he'd weighed down. He picks up the pack and begins attaching it to his middle, already thinking about the flight back....
Utau had made a promise to Kukai after he had guided her back home upon becoming lost - in exchange for them having a duel to determine who gets to keep all three of the X-eggs that she had stolen from the three thugs a few weeks ago.
Utau had intended to keep up her part of the bargain, however, she had grown impatient with all the waiting, and had decided to meet him at his apartment a day earlier than intended.
Unfortunately for Sky Jack, Iru arrived just in time to overhear his true intentions to purify the eggs.
By the time Sky Jack steps out on the street with his eggs, Lunatic Pandora is waiting there for him, a grinning Iru peeking out from behind her shoulder. The third X-egg hangs from a belt at her hip, along with Eru's egg. "So! You planned to double cross me all along, eh, Sky Jack?" She narrows her eyes, summoning her Nightmare Trident, pointing it threatenningly at him.
"I'll never forgive you for this..."
Sky Jack switches back into Sky Jack form as he hits the apartment lobby, thankful for long hours of training having built up his stamina, but then erks as he skids to a stop at the sight of Lunatic Pandora. "Aaah... Oh. Hi. You're early!"
Jack grins as she yells at him, then shrugs. "You say double cross, I say 'purify X-Eggs and prevent a fight'. That's not bad." He looks at her for a long moment, weighing his options, one foot on his skateboard, the dark magical emanations from the two X-Eggs in the pouch securely on Kukai's lower back responding to Pandora. "Sorry Utau. I can't just give them to you." And he's off!
Jack shoots down the street away from her, praying she doesn't land one of those dark energy bolts of hers, smart phone in his hands as he runs off a message to Reiko. EMERGENCY - CHASED BY PANDORA - HAVE EGGS - OMW TO SCHOOL. He veers around a parked car, sending the message - one second before an energy bolt lashes past his shoulder and blows the phone out of his hand. He jerks, the power searing his fingers, and keeps moving, trying not to run into anyone or anything!
Reiko Touyama is exactly where Sky Jack left her, sitting on a bench in a field at Seiyou in her Seishou uniform. Then he phone goes off as she looks down at it. Ch-chased!? She doesn't know who 'Pandora' is, but-- that can't be good, can it!? She sighs and closes that window on her smartphone and begins texting for help-- who you gonna call!? Prism Keeper(s)!!! Yellow, specfically!
Reikoi: Hoshi something is happening, head towards Seiyou and transform!
She does just that too afterwards! "Chroma Prism Orange! Transform!" she calls out--- and a transformation in some brush later and Prism Keeper Orange is heading skyward and looking about overhead- high in the sky. She happens to see the streak in the distance that is Sky Jack-- and begins jetting off that way as fast her tiny wings will let her! Which are fast enough all things considered!
She can help, she thinks with this! Luckily, Sky Jack happens to be headed in her direction so they'll be meeting soon--
Hopefully.
Tessen has been flying around the city, today, making her way through an old Belkan search pattern. She's looking for Ikuto - which means she has Carnwennan's sensors keyed to the dark magic signature of X-Eggs. She figures if he's done what she thinks he has, then that's what he'll be out looking for.
"Thaumaturgic Energy Signature match detected, meister."
"Good work, partner. Let's go have a look." She bends her course towards the part of Mitakihara the signal came from, and follows at speed. Her own signature is concealed, wrapped tightly around herself to keep from being noticed until she's on top of them.
Hoshi is not being called, in these modern times texts are an adequate replacement of such. Hoshi was at Seiyou to handle some paperwork for the Seishou Astronomy Club (regarding the use of Seiyou's Planetarium) when she gets it, she doesn't hesitate when she looks at it, rushing to a bathroom stall and responding.
GoldStar: Already here.
She takes out her chroma prism, and calls out, "Chroma Prism Yellow! Transform! and when the yellow light inside that stall fades, the door opens and Prism Keeper Yellow comes out, rushing outside to try to figure out where she's supposed to be going.
She notices Orange fly off, and runs along the ground to follow, still not trusting her own flight skills enough to actually fly.
Utau snarls, not lowering that weapon one bit. "You lied to me. And here I thought you had some sense of honour!" She wastes no more words on him, but indeed, when he takes off, Utau follows in hot pursuit, unleashing bolts of dark energy at him from her trident, attempting to knock him off his flying skateboard if she can!
However, just before she can knock the cellphone out of his hand, it seems he has already called for backup! She curses under her breath, wondering if she can take on this many opponents at once! With just the one egg to use as a weapon, Utau's a little uncertain, but she's definitely not gonna back down now!
"Coward! Quit running and face me! Nightmare Lorelei!" She yells as she spreads out her arms, unleashing a powerful wave of energy bats upon Sky Jack, attempting to throw him off his jetboard once and for all.
ROUGHLY TEN MINUTES AGO
EASTER TOWER
Quiet.
Everything was quiet.
It was a cell. Metal walls, no windows, a single cot for a bed. Light came in only through a tiny, barred rectangle in the door. It wasn't deserted. Inside there was a person. Short blue hair. Blue eyes. Dressed all in black.
He sat in a chair in the center of the room. Over him, a glass tube had been connected to the ceiling. And in that tube was a violin, fairly glowing with dark, malevolent energy. Yet he sat below it as if he didn't even notice it. He stared at a space at the wall next to the door. Unmoving. The only proof he wasn't a statue being the slow, regular breaths that raised his shoulders, slow enough as if he was asleep.
Of course... in a way he was...
The door opened. He didn't even flinch at the sudden flood of light into the room. He didn't recognize who came in. But he heard the words. It was an address. "Go there. You will act as support for Utau." Then he heard four words.
"Commence Operation Death Rebel."
The words threw a switch in his head. The boy rose from his chair. The infused violin was handed to him. He raised it into the air, and a drop of darkness fell from it, stopping at his chest and growing into the size of an X-Egg. It was black like an X-Egg, but there was no X. It floated at his chest level. And he spoke, the words dull and lifeless. Like his eyes.
"...Ore no kokoro ... unlock..."
The egg suddenly disappeared into his chest, and a whirlwind of feathers and dark energy began to whirl around him. He held his arms out as his body began to glow. A long coat with a dusty purple ruff of feathers around the neckline appeared in a flash. Another flash and a black, birdlike visor appeared on his face. The violin began to glow as well, its shape to lengthen, until it was a large, wickedly curved scythe.
CHARA NARI: DEATH REBEL
NOW
NOT FAR FROM KUKAI SOUMA'S RESIDENCE
Just for a moment, a shape is silhouetted against the sky as a figure leaps over the rooftops in the direction of Lunatic Charm and Skyjack. He's not there yet, but with those oversized leaps it's not going to take him long.
That said, Carnwennan might suddenly sense a very large source of the same sort of energy that fills X-Eggs. It's massive.
And it's coming this way.
Sky Jack winces at that comment about honor. "Believe me it was the last thing I wanted to do but I don't want to fight you!" He skims from side to side, dodging those bolts of energy barely, feeling the crackle of them as they slash past! And it's true, Kukai doesn't seem to be launching any attacks of his own at her, expending his steadily decreasing stamina in simply avoiding her bolts!
There's flapping behind him. Why's there flapping? He looks back and immediately veers hard to one side, letting out a little yelp as a wave of dark-energy infused bats shoot past him, more following close behind him!
His momentum launches him across the street and down a side alley, as bats latch onto him, biting and clawing at him before he can sling them off into the walls, one of them tearing at the pouch holding the X-Eggs, making it bounce perilously on his waist!
Prism Keeper Orange arrives, finally, closer to the action as she frowns a bit--- okay-- so. That's Sky Jack. So The dark bat girl must be 'Pandora'. She spins in closer as she frowns a bit-- she's picking up a lot here from her Chroma Crystal-- dark energy from the X-eggs-- expected. And---
She grabs her chest sudddenly-- nrg!? A-- a Shade!? Here!?
She looks around rapidly-- no-- no Shade. So what is that?
Regardless-- she'll worry about it if it shows it's head- for now-- she levels her wand down at Pandora and begins to open up a rapid array of orange color energy beams- three in rapid succession at 'Pandora'. She's aiming to try to knock her off target or make herself a distraction-- she does her best to keep along--- where's Yellow? She'll be along soon, she figures. Hopefully.
"Hey!" she calls out.
Tessen flits down from her higher flight-path towards street level as she approaches the X-Egg signal she'd detected earlier. She doesn't seem to really recognize Lunatic Charm, although she does give the girl a long look. Seeing Sky Jack carrying the X-Eggs, however, is enough to give her pause.
Once she takes a moment to think about it, however, the conclusion is clear. 'Jack' must have interrupted the new person in the process of stealing some Eggs, and is running off with two of them to... well, whatever.
So she circles around a building, out of sight of pursuer and pursued, to slide along the street just in time to catch Jack at an intersection. A set of flicker shots spills out from the sky around her to intercept the bats as she approaches. "I do hope you're not planning on anything untowards with those," she snarls.
And then -- "Warning, Meister. Magnitude eight energy signature approaching. Type match, series eleven. Approaching at speed nine."
Tessen swallows heavily at that. This isn't going to be pretty. "I suggest you find cover quickly." is her advice for Jack.
Hoshi stumbles as she feels the energy of the approaching darkness, she clutches her chest and, unlike Reiko, isn't recovering quickly. She isn't used to feeling this kind of thing this intensely, and even as she gets up she has to take it a little slow as she gets back to the chase.
At least she wasn't flying, she'd surely have fallen, and that wouldn't have been good. She tries to jump a little, using her wings to give her bigger leaps, and eventually lands on a rooftop near the others, aiming her wand at Pandora and shouting, "What's going on here?"
It seems that Sky Jack's allies have all arrived by now. Lunatic Charm narrows her eyes as her energy wave is intercepted by Tessen's flicker shots, followed closely by an array of orange energy beams. "Damn.." She snarls, landing across from Sky Jack and his allies, wrapping her black batwings around her body to defend against the attacks, but it seems her last wave of bats fade briefly before they can reach Sky Jack and his - or rather HER X-eggs!
Yellow approaches next and she smirks, "Well well. Only a coward hides behind such uneven numbers. Very well, I'll take you ALL on! Nightmare..Lorelei!" she yells as she unleashes another wave of dark energy bats upon all four heroes..
She's about to attack with a second wave, when suddenly she sees an unfamiliar silouette standing out against the sky, before the mysterious figure descends to join the battle! She gasps, stepping back, uncertain if this is another enemy..Or someone come to assist her from Easter, perhaps?
"Who are you?"
The masked figure doesn't speak to answer Utau. But he aims no antagonism her way. His scythe is down at his side as he faces her. Maybe he was sent by Easter to help her? Either way, he's clearly not going to attack her, so she has no need to worry. Even so, something feels... off... about him. Something feels completely wrong about him, in a way that can't easily be understood. Particularly not when in the middle of battle.
Then his head turns... slowly... towards the defenders. The beaked mask points at Sky Jack. Then Prism Orange. Prism Yellow. Then Tessen. And there he pauses. Death Rebel's personal 'time' might seem to stop, just for a moment. All the while, he remains silent and still. It might not even look like he's breathing. But there's no outward reaction. Not for a long moment. And then?
He leaps at Tessen, aiming to slice her with that scythe. He's not holding back, either. It's a strike with murderous intent behind it.
Sky Jack looks up just as Orange and Yellow pop up on the rooftops, firing down at Utau, along with... whomever this other girl is! He cheers as their shots bounce off her batwings, then slides further back, the bats flying past him at speed. "OK! Now it's time for you to leave, Lunatic! We've got X-Eggs to purify .... what?"
And then the psychopath hits the field. Jack can feel it, even in the midst of battle. Something is horribly wrong with this figure, a thought that's only reinforced as he attacks the new girl, trying to skewer her for good! "HEY! Utau! Call off your dog! He's gonna kill somebody!"
Jack looks back and forth - if he can get Orange or Yellow alone for a few moments and pass them the X-Eggs, they can purify them and that'll give Utau and the scythe-wielder no reason to be here, but for the moment all four of them are pinned down under the assaults! Jack decides to bide time for a second and wait for an opening. A soccer ball pops into existance at his feet and he kicks it, infusing it with energy and launching it through a pack of Utau's bats without actually aiming it at her just yet...
Prism Keeper Orange watches bats come from her. She frowns and raises her wand---and summons a bunch of vibrant, orange koi--- that immediatly swim to intercept the bats and crash into them-- making for a sudden counter attack. She frowns a bit. "Hey! When dreams are at stake, we need to have the advantage!" she calls out!
Then that dark energy signature appears and this makes Reiko uneasy-- her Chroma Prism can feel it-- it really only feels this way around Shades.. and Riventon and like that. It puts her on edge. Who is this guy!? 'Pandora' (Lunatic Charm) doesn't seem to know who this is.
Huh.
She frowns and sends an array of four more koi to race off like missiles at Utau-- aiming to smash into her and exploding in purifying sparkling bursts- hoping that this thing is powered by dark energy- she can't tell- Death Rebel is kind of drowing out everything else suddenly.
"Deflection." The single word, in a deep, somewhat mechanical voice, heralds the appearance of a rotating circle of spell-runes in the air, directly between the scythe-strike and the girl in blue and white.
Tessen turns to face him, suddenly holding a sword in her hand, lifting it to level the tip at her assailant. There's a look of strain on her face, as the shield holds back the scythe, but more rune-circles form in ribbons that rotate around the blade - and as she whips it down, they spiral out from its tip towards the Death Rebel. "Flakschrecken."
"Now, that's just rude, boya. You should introduce yourself first. Me, I'm Tessen. You can call me 'Tessen-sama', since you started this off so impolitely." The girl smiles a wicked little smile as she watches the mana vortices speed towards their target, then she dodges to one side to avoid the next scythe-swipe.
Yellow can feel Death Rebel is what's feeling so off, and then he goes and does that whole murderous swinging of scythes at unfamiliar girls. Well, she knows one thing, that can't be allowed. She points her wand at the scythe wielding dark magical boy, and sends several yellow stars flying, "Leave her alone!" She still sounds a little uncomfortable, but make no mistake, each of those stars is full of genuine purifying colour energy.
Utau feels a shiver up her spine as Death Rebel springs into action! She's thankful that he is apparently an ally and not an enemy; however, there's something about his aura that makes her feel terribly uneasy. No matter, as long as he's not attacking her she'll deal with it. Probably another one of Easter's crazy concoctions. Although she's never met this one before. Oh well..
She smirks, "What's wrong, getting cold feet? Just hand me those two eggs and we can end all of this before someone gets hurt!" however, Sky Jack's already hurling an energy ball at her, although it seems more aimed at her latest attack than at her, specifically, oddly enough. Combined with Orange's Koi, the rest of her bats are cancelled out.
"Seriously? Where are you aiming, Jack? Quit going so easy on me! I cant stand it!" and then missiles start racing towards her. Utau darts and cartwheels out of the way of some of them, but they're coming in fast enough that they blast into her, sending her flying, slamming into a nearby building.
"Ugh..." She grits her teeth, checking herself over. Just minor bruises, although her arm's got a small gash in it now and is bleeding. "Well at least your friend's going all out!" The X-egg at her belt wriggles and squirms, nearly coming loose. All this fighting is disturbing it enough. Let's hope an X-chara isnt born from it!
Utau summons her trident again and charges at Orange and Jack again, hovering only a few meters above the ground as she rushes at them, her trident charging with energy as she gives out a yell. A second later, a large ball of magenta energy is released from her trident, aimed primarily at Orange before she rushes at Jack with several vicious jabs with her trident, attempting once again to dislodge the X-eggs.
Death Rebel can't keep up the pressure for long. Mainly because Tessen's in the air and he can't actually fly. So the shield is sufficient to keep him back and ward away his scythe-strike. And because he's falling, he can't really dodge the mana spirals very well. Well, it's not just that. He... doesn't even try to dodge, or eve to block them. He makes not a sound as the ribbons crash into him. They take him down to the ground without much difficulty.
Someone is going to be very angry with his or her new 'customized' car, as Death Rebel lands upon it on his back, denting it. He doesn't move. It's hard to tell whether he's down or not, since that mask covers his face. But he wouldn't be emitting this high of an energy signature if he was that easy to take out, would he?
Sure enough, he soon begins to move again. He sits up slowly, shoulders leading the motion, his head lolling back until he's sat up straight. His head lolls forward then, and it takes him a moment to lift his head. Then he stood, still atop the newly 'customized' car. He looked like a marionette being pulled to its feet. Yeah. Definitely something off about this guy...
His head turns. He sees Prism Keeper Yellow. Vulnerable? Logic dictates to take out the most vulnerable one first. He ignores Tessen for a moment, and speeds toward Prism Keeper Yellow, swinging his scythe at her. He's aiming... at her head. With a blade that big, it's going to be lethal if he catches her...
('Iya!')
A 'blip' in the dark energy, for those who can sense it. And then Death Rebel's strike changes. The force lessens; the blade turns and drops a little. Now the flat is aimed at Prism Keeper Yellow's side. It's still a hard impact, liable to send her flying... but at least it wasn't a lethal strike...
Sky Jack grits his teeth, watching Tessen fight the scythe-wielding Death Rebel with Yellow's backup, leaving him and Orange to fight Utau. "Fine! You want the real thing? Let's do the real thing!" Soccer balls begin appearing in front of him, and he begins launching them at Utau directly, every one infused with his positive energy, accurate and fast, but easily dodgeable by the evil idol!
He is in the middle of kicking another ball as both Utau and the masked scytheman charge. He throws himself to one side from his board, the hovering skateboard winking out of existance for the moment, but stops as he hears Hoshi cry out. His heart stops as he looks up, seeing a yellow figure launched up and away from the fight - and it keeps him from dodging long enough for Utau's trident to slash his side and cut the strap on the pouch!
The two X-Eggs inside pop free as the pouch hits the ground, but Jack isn't even paying attention. He's looking up at the sky. "HOSHI!" When he looks back at Utau and the scythe wielder, the anger in his eyes is about as furious as anyone's ever seen from him. "YOU KILLED HER!"
Prism Keeper Orange watches as Death Rebel just leannnns into Yellow and her eyes go wide----- and--- wait. D--did Sky Jack just yell out 'Hoshi'!? Sky Jack knows Yellow!? Regardless, she doesn't waste much time as she shakes off the inital shock and darts downwards towards Yellow and throws a wave of koi toward's Death Rebel to keep him busy while Sky Jack races in and her eyes go wide--- yeah. She's out cold.
She softly worries-- then a koi appears in a nurses outfit and places a fin to Yellow's chest-- it waves affirmativly and dissapears- whew- she's still alive!
She goes about moving Yellow someone place safe she hopes Jack keeps thier attention with his yelling.
Yeah she's taking a moment to get her friend to safety.
Tessen's hood is blown back by the force of the wind, displaying a face adorned with cat-ears. Something about the situation seems to require them. "Alright, that's it," she says, her eyes flicking to the fallen Prism Guardian. "No more miss nice Knight."
She drives at him, now, engaging directly with the blade itself, magic shining along its steely length as she does her best to drive it through his chest. More of those rotating shields appear around her whenever the scythe threatens to actually hit her, though it certainly seems to rattle her even when it is blocked like that.
Above her, the famliar glass-like shards of Flicker Shots start to orbit, forming up the arsenal to be used later...
Lunatic Charm smiles coolly as Jack fights back with more oomph this time around. "Yeah, that's more like it! Nothing like some good, friendly competition!" She manages to dodge most of the soccer balls, wrapping her wings around her body to shield herself from the remaining ones that only push her back a little. One manages to bruise her wing somewhat, however, and she realizes he's got some punch behind those moves.
"Hmph. Not bad. My turn..." She's about to counter with another vicious combination of slashes from her trident, when the eggs pop out of his pouch. Amethyst eyes widen as she makes a beeline for them, only vaguely aware of what's going on with Death Rebel and his nearly lethal assault upon Yellow.
It's only when she's safely tucked the eggs away that she glances around, frowning softly. "That...Was a bit much." She murmurs to her new 'ally', although she still feels a little uneasy around him. But more than that, Utau didn't come here to seriously injure, and certainly not to kill anyone. She came simply for the eggs.
As the heroes check on Yellow, she doesn't even fight back, but watches intently, secretly relieved to hear she's still alive. "Well, I've got what I came for." She's about to leave, but pauses only briefly to watch the battle between Tessen and Death Rebel. What is it about this mysterious feathered fighter that has her on edge?
Death Rebel stands where he is as Sky Jack shouts at him. He turns again, slowly, looking in his direction. It's a moment of pause, and Sky Jack might get the feeling that Death Rebel is narrowing his eyes behind that birdlike, beaked mask. It's as if he's preparing to attack....
And then suddenly, WAVE OF KOI! This time Death Rebel pulls his scythe up before him, emitting a birdlike hiss. Fluctuations in his energy appear as the purifying koi smash against the blade of his scythe, and against his raised arms.
But he doesn't have time to attack in return, because Tessen is suddenly flying down at him. The lethal intent is clear. He leaps back, far enough to keep him out of her range.
He raises his scythe, and then begins to spin it above him. This creates both an extremely large dark whirlwind of energy above him... and a surge in the dark energy that can be sensed/felt from him. And then he does something odd. He speaks.
"...Dark Night Storm..."
And then he swings the scythe down, sending the whirlwind directly at Tessen. It is pure, unadulterated dark energy, the same kind in the X-Eggs. And while it doesn't seek to corrupt her, it wants to chip away at her energy, trying to whittle it away like a hapless victim caught in a tornado.
Beyond that, it's a massive tornado of dark energy, and it's likely to hurt if Tessen doesn't fly out of the way.
However, he pauses as Utau's statement reaches him. She got what she came for. And at that, Death Rebel stops. He turns, without a word, and leaps back to where Utau is. He doesn't speak to her. He just stands next to her general location (if she's in the air he can't really stand literally 'beside her, but it's clear he's standing with her). And he waits, silently.
Sky Jack doesn't see Orange indicating Yellow is alive. All he saw was that scythe, knocking one of his friends away. Something inside him burns, sweeping away his mind, pushing away rational thought. A passing concept makes him think of his promise, his pledge, the same one he'd made to Utau, that he would protect everybody. And now his unwillingness to fight had caused another little girl to suffer the ultimate sacrifice.
Metal fills his hands. He doesn't play it much, but he knows how to hold it, like it's part of him. The bat is simple, solid metal, just right in his hands, and practically glowing with righteous energy. At this point Kukai has forgotten the X-Eggs. He's practically forgotten Utau and that trident, can't even see Tessen, and doesn't even notice the lull in the fight. With a wordless scream at the top of his lungs he sprints towards the scythe-wielder, right past Utau as if she wasn't even there!
He dives headfirst at the Dark Night Storm and swings the bat, and when his positive energy hits the negative energy of the tornado there is a sonic CRACK as if every home run in the past decade had gone off all at once in the street! It blasts the powerful storm into pieces, leaving an exhausted and panting Sky Jack staring at the scythe wielder, supporting himself on one forward leg, bat pointed at him... "I'll see you pay for this..."
Prism Keeper Orange makes sure Yellow is okay and nods to herself. Yellow is tough stuff, she'll be okay. For now....
She summons up one of her koi shields that eminate from her wand- the fish shaped half dome covering her as she moves up back into the sky and frowns quite hard.
"You. Massive. Unfeeling. DARK JERKS!" she calls out! /SCATCHING REMARK!/.
She weathers the 'Dark Storm' as best as she can-- wait. Are they leaving?
Maybe it's best to let them leave, she thinks- with Yellow down there hurt-- so-- she doesn't launch an attack, she just keeps that shield up.
It's time for Tessen to be glad she brought whatever is generating all those shields. Because taking that hit without them? Decidedly unpleasant.
As it stands, even when the huge blast of dark energy slams into her shield, the force of the impact hurls her back and into a storefront window.
And then it stops. And her opponent is just standing there next to his partner. Tessen stares at the pair, and levels her blade once again, the familiar spiral ribbons of mana forming around it.
"Drop. The eggs. Now."
Lunatic Charm frowns, watching Jack's reaction. "Get ahold of yourself. It's not like your friend's dead or anything. Don't let your emotions get the better of you, or you'll certainly lose." Amethyst eyes narrow coldly upon him, although there's a hint of compassion in her voice as well. Secretly, Utau is relieved that Yellow is alive, however, her new ally is certainly..Fearsome. She's just glad he's on her side.
Orange generates a shield around herself and Lunatic Charm sighs, tossing her hair over her shoulder. "I have no desire to fight you anymore, now that I have these." Her gaze shifts towards Tessen and she smirks, "Really, I think there's been enough bloodshed here tonight. Unless you want to end up like your friend. Back OFF."
She summons her Nightmare trident, similar ribbons of dark energy forming near the end as she points it threateningly at Tessen. "Now, we're taking the X-eggs, and you're gonna stand down. Otherwise.." She nods to Death Rebel. "Cover me." And with that, Utau casually walks away, eggs safely tucked away in her pouch, flipping open her phone. "Easter. I have the eggs. Thanks for the backup. Reporting in..."
The scythe-wielding man nods at the request from Utau. It's as though he lived only to obey Easter and those associated with it...
The request prompts him to lift his scythe again. It gleams oddly in the fading light, beginning to glow with that same dark energy. And then he swings the scythe in a wide arc before him. A large, purple crescent of energy springs outward from the blade. It's in a big enough arc to discourage pursuit.
Tessen gets special attention, but he doesn't leave his position. No, he merely places himself between Tessen and the retreating Utau, silently standing as a shield.
Sky Jack uses the tip of the bat, the glow having vanished from it, to push himself up onto both feet, and as he steadies himself it vanishes into the ether. He watches Utau walk away, the pain inside still raw and uncontrolled, but lessened at the thought that Yellow is still alive. He makes no move to get past the scytheman, but he calls out after Utau as she leaves. "Hey Utau! I'll be at the concert like I promised, with all my friends!"
He turns away from Death Rebel, moving back over towards Yellow, sparing a moment to look at Tessen and motion her over, before sitting down on the ground besides the two Prism Keepers. "Is she alive?" He reaches down, putting a hand under Yellow's blonde hair. "I..." He shakes his head and stays silent, keeping whatever thoughts he had to himself.
Prism Keeper Orange softly frowns and keeps her shield up and backs down--- before she lands back down on the ground and turns to Sky Jack. "She's okay! Yellow is made of tough stuff!" she says softly. She sort of looks around a moment as she frowns--- she's not chasing Death Rebel or Utau-- but she screams up. "Hey! Ju--just let them run! We got a friend to worry about!" she calls out.
She looks back down and bites her lip. "So you know her, huh?" she asks. "You called out her real name. Be careful about that. She's kind of careful about it herself." she admits sheepishly.
She sighs and leans down and scoops up Hoshi's unconcious form. "Let's get her someplace safer, okay?" she asks to Sky Jack.
Lunatic Charm pauses only briefly, frowning softly at his promise, but doesn't turn back. "'I look forward to meeting the other guardians. However, I wont forgive you if you ruin my concert either. I'd rather not hurt you..Or your friends, but I will, if you continue to get in my way."
Spreading her black wings, she arcs into the sky, rapidly vanishing from sight. Somehow, even though she won the eggs, her victory felt emptier than she had hoped. And who the heck was that masked man, anyway!?
The man with the scythe waits only until Utau is out of sight. Then he turns his back to the group without a word, and begins to leave himself. His leaps take him away from the area pretty quickly. He's going the same direction as Utau, it seems....