"Let them go, you pest!"
"Alright." The puppets bring their weapons towards the people's necks.
"STOP!"
"I AM JUST RELEASING THEIR SOULS FROM MY PRESENCE! OR DO YOU HAVE A REQUEST FOR ME?"
Iancu grits his teeth and says, "Let them go."
"IS THAT HOW YOU BEG FOR SOMETHING!"
Lowering his forehead to the floor, Iancu says, "Please let them go."
Skrie smiles and pounces forward to smash and beat Iancu, whilst saying, "This is what you get for defying me brat. Did you think for a moment that you could ever talk to me like this? You're nothing but a little daddy's boy who has had a silver spoon in his mouth ever since he was born! This is my strength, this is my power, and you will submit to it."
Iancu, through the chaos, feels something strike his leg, moments later all the pain in his body starts to linger for longer, causing a smile to appear across his face.
His eyes stare upwards at Skrie, who says, "I don't like the look on your face. Is that how you pay respects to your new master, your new kind, your new GOD! I guess I need to teach you a lesson, in a way a wannabe hero as you would understand."
Using his puppets, he grabs one of the children and slams them in front of Iancu, then says, "You can use your legacy to crush his skull, or watch as I slowly rip his body apart piece by piece. It's your decision."
Fury builds in Iancu's eyes as flashes of the children he once took care of rush into his mind at the sight of the little boy in front of him. He quickly turns his head over in the direction Suzuka went, but a puppet grabs and restrains his face forward as Skrie says, "Don't worry, my little Queen is keeping her occupied. She has been pushed a far enough distance backwards that she can't possibly reach us in time. Now let's see what happens when you defy your new king."
Φ Dammit, I don't think I can pull it off right now. I still don't have a grasp of who he is enough to do this. If I were more sociable, I would have been able to by now, but I can't.S till worse than all of that is that my mind is a complete jumble, I can't focus on this enough to actually selectively use my legacy, even with the ability to think faster, it isn't enough to process the information to calm myself down.
What am I going to do? I could try to push myself and restrain as many puppets as possible, but he could always create more and in a battle between me and him, there is no way with the lack of blood I have, that I could protect all of the fleeing victims, if this is to continue I am going to be crushed and all the people I am protecting will pay because of it.
"It's okay," I hear the child in front of me say.
Looking at his face filled with tears and snot, I see the boy say, "Everything is really scary right now, and only a few people can stop it. So I am going to do my part as well, don't bother about me, just focus on helping everyone else."
This child is willing to die slowly, just so I can protect everyone else.
Φ Skrie, clapping his hands, says, "How heartwarming, but let's see if that's how you really feel as the pain begins to surge, now, my audience, it's time to enjoy the view!"
In an instant, all of Skrie's puppets go limp, causing him to say, "What?" But moments later, all of the mutations to his body start to fade away slowly, causing him to say, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO! What is going on!"
Getting on one knee, Iancu, holding his hand up with his legacy activated, says, "You underestimated me, you bitch. My legacy reduces all forces, even the force of cursed souls bits in your body. It's hard do this for people I don't understand, but you talk so much that anyone could grasp your personality. Now enjoy being less than a Nightmare and less than a human."
Skrie's body continues to reduce in strength, yet from Iancu's mouth, blood flows out, and he says, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You can't keep that up for long, can you? It's my victory!"
The freed people try to rush Skrie, but he slams his tail into the floor and says, "ROOK!"
He forms a rook puppet around half the size as normal, and uses it to protect his body from their attacks. "You weaklings won't be able to kill me with this, and that girl is too far away; it's my victory!"
With a smile, Iancu says, "Is that what you think?"
"Huh?"
Φ From a distance, I use my sight, and say, "Suzuka, are you ready?"
Standing over the shattered Queen, Suzuka turns to me and says, "Always Maple."
She runs over to me, and in that same instance, I activate my legacy, send spirit energy into my legs, and she jumps up and places the soles of her feet against my own in mid-air.
In one motion, I increase her speed, and then I kick her forward as she jumps away from me, whilst she says, "Gozen battler arts; Spirit Spring!" Then in my legs I feel her spirit energy flow into me, then reject itself out, and the combined force from all of this sends her flying forward.
Φ Like a shooting star across the sky, Suzuka appears, and with her fist covered in her tail, she smashes her fist into the puppet, breaking through and reaching Skrie with her fist slamming into him as she says, "Gozen battle arts; Spiritual Tether!"
In a single instant, all of the crystallised spirit energy Angra created implodes, and Skrie is sent flying through the rubble in front of them as Suzuka falls towards the ground.
Rushing over, Iancu grabs Suzuka, sliding on the floor as he goes forward. Falling to the ground with Suzuka in his arms, Iancu peers upwards and says, "We won, right?"
"We completely dominated!" Suzuka, filled with excitment pumps her fist in the air.
He brings his hands to his face and smiles, then says, "I can't believe it."
"What you didn't think we could win with me?"
Turning his face to her, he says, "No, I just didn't trust in myself. I was pretty scared you weren't going to make it in time. Thank you, Suzuka, for coming back."
With a proud expression, she says, "I will always return to help my frie-. I mean, help cry-babies like you, Iancu."
His expression sours, and he says, "Says the girl who cries if Maple doesn't immediately say high to her at the exact same tone every single day."
"Shut up! How else am I supposed to know if she still loves me today or has gotten sick of me!"
"What a baby." Iancu turns his head annoyed by her words.
Mimicking his crying voice, she says, "I can never be like Orb. Why can't he be here to save me from every single thing that goes wrong, and let me complain about how much I hate him, even though I want to be his best friend."
Grabbing Suzuka by the collar, he says, "THE HELL!"
Fighting back, she says, "WHAT YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH!"
The two of them scuffle across the ground as Maple looks at them from a distance and says, "It seems their friendship has become a lot stronger while I was away. Unfair, I want to join in as well, though I should give them this moment." Turning her head upwards towards the Queen's castle, she says, "Though I can only hope things are going as nicely for Orb and everyone else."
Location: Soarele Blestemat, Queen's Chambers
Φ Standing in front of the Queen, Ivana takes a series of deep breaths, as Wadim stands beside her and Gheorghe stands beside the scanner. With a shaky voice, Gheorghe says, "Now to go over the plan one more time, Ivana I will give you general directions from here, and you'll send your hair follicles down till you reach the specified spots against the Queen's body, were Wadim will use your hair as a guide to send his shadows to absorb the negatives parts of the Queen's heart. Stelara will make the opening and sustain the Queen's blood flow. Are you ready?"
Grabbing her fist, she turns to her father, who is still restrained against the wall with the rest of the Ministers. Stiprais eyes skip over Ivana's as if he is trying to avoid the sight of something disgusting, so she turns around and says, "As ready as I will ever be."
"Let's begin then."
Stelara, holding her hand over the Queen's chest, says, "Forgive me, but please come back to us." She makes a tiny incision and tickles some of her blood inside, then says, "The Queen's blood flow should remain normal under my control, so don't worry about messing up."
Ivana then sends a tiny hair down, and Gheorghe says, "Right now, just follow the flow of the blood towards her heart, the vein your hair is in should reach it soon."
She nods and continues forward, and after a few seconds, she says, "I have reached her heart. Where do I go now?"
"To my knowledge, the place where the irritant is should be across the top right side of the heart, as well as the bottom right, and back. Make a small incision in her vein and slip your hair through it, then search around those areas."
"Right," Ivana says as she follows the instructions and quickly she finds her hair touching against the heart, constantly looking for the area of interest, and soon her hair touches it, and in that moment a surge passes throughout her entire body.
Ivana falls to the ground as her mind, her flesh, and her soul all become disrupted like grains of sand shake rapidly in a container. She spasms and vibrates through the ground as her screams shake the area, bringing the attention of everyone but Orlok.
"IVANA!" Stiprais screams as he tries to break his restrains yet they remain too strong, so he yells, "LET ME GO STELARA!"
"No, I don't need you causing chaos," as she uses some blood to sever Ivana's hair, freeing her from the grasp of the assault, leaving her unconscious.
Gheorghe and Wadim move over to her, grasping and shaking as they call out her name, trying to help her regain herself, which she quickly does and says, "Am I still alive?"
They both let out sighs of relief, and Wadim says, "What the hell was that?"
Stelara says, "It's the symptoms the Queen showed when she first fell into this state. They have calmed as she has weakened."
Gheorghe says, "Wait, are you telling me that even us making contact with her heart can make us be exposed to the irritant?"
"I didn't think it was possible, but it seems so."
Wadim says, "No way can Ivana hold onto that with her constitution, and I don't think I will be much better."
Stiprais screams, "THEY ARE RIGHT! END THIS STUPID EXPERIMENT NOW."
Vėja says, "If they are under constant assault while trying to complete this process, the likelihood of them making a mistake is much higher; we can't allow such a thing to happen."
Stelara, placing her hand against her check says, "That is true?"
Ivana, standing up, says, "I want to do it still."
"The chances of your failure have significantly risen. I don't think I can agree with this plan anymore."
"Then Gheorghe and Wadim can just hold my hand. When I feel upset, I usually spend time with those two to calm myself down. If I do that, I should be able to handle this."
"Still, I am not sure."
Stiprais says, "STOP BEING AN IDIOT AND LISTEN TO WHAT YOUR TOL-!"
A fist slams into Stiprais's face, and Elia, pressing it in, says, "I have had enough of you."