The Horror (Open)

Crotona was back on Konats, she had been for a few days. And she had been working on trying to keep the planet safe through any brutal method. Killing people who were trying to cause trouble. Ripping into the monsters that Kamae had created. Telling people to seek peace or face her sword. She had changed. She was not the same happy warrior she had been before the battle on Dharatan. Crotona was working through the city cutting through the monsters. But as she was busy working to clean up the mess that Kamae had created, she sensed someone entering the city. A power that was clearly different from all the other power that entered the city. Someone who must not have been aware of the danger this place possessed.

Crotona considered if she should help this person, but she didn't exactly know them. Were they a threat? If they came into this city they must have been a fool. But she knew it was the right thing to do. Even if something in her mind told her to let it happen. As Gandigan was in danger, Crotona darted down from one of the buildings landing in front of the Namekian. The Creature that was close by was met by Crotona's blade. She'd slash them apart sending them flying. She would turn her head to look at Gandigan. "So what bring you to Konat's." Crotona's voice was grave and demanding. She wanted to know what he was doing. She didn't have trust for anyone outside the circle of people she knew before the battle with Marrow and Kamae.



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Gandigan introduced himself and explained he was coming here to regain his memories. He had been on Konats in the past where he had been captured by the Kashvarr who experimented on him and as a result his memories were lost. He was planning to fight them and hopefully get his memories back. But first, he was trying to learn more about this city. He believed that whatever happened to it was what allowed him to escape. And then he posed the question if he perhaps knew what happened. Crotona would absorb that information, it was a lot to take in. And she was not hundred percent sure he could trust his words. But at the same time, he had said nothing untrustworthy. She didn't trust anyone new. Every time she seemed to do, they caused trouble.

After a few moment to compose herself she'd finally speak. "This city was attacked by a powerful demon warrior. He....won in a battle between myself and other who tried to defend the city. This is the result of his magic. He twisted this city into some monstrous version of himself. These monsters use to be the citizens we could not save." Crotona was almost monotone. Like she was being piloted. She should feel shame, guilt, anger, sadness or at least express some regret. But the Trauma was deep. Digging up that pain was not something she wanted to do. So she had detached herself from said Trauma. "This is probably what spooked the Kashvarr, it is far more devastating then what any of them could do. I've run into them before as well. Losing memories is not something they usually do. At least to my knowledge." She was not aware that in fact it was something they indeed did in some capacity. While not the same as Gandigan experience she was losing her own memories, being controlled by an unseen force in Plato.



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"Yes...well I didn't fight him. He had some friends with him, and I had some friends working with me as well. There were a lot of moving pieces. But this demon was the main instigator of the attack. His ally was more of a mercenary he hired to work alongside him." Kamae and Marrow made a fearsome team. Erebos and her had done quite well to start, but once they split apart, they were overwhelmed, and each side was able to claim victory. As a result, the city was reduced to this mess. Gandigan then asked if she lived here. There had to be some places to live. "While this was one of our cities, it was not there only one. They are other cities on Konats. So I live in other cities." She had not precisely picked an exact spot she lived on Konats. However, she was thinking of making the capital her home. It be the most useful place to be keeping an eye on for internal and external defense of Konats.

Gandigan was going to explain a bit more about his Kashvarr experimentation. He was not supposed to lose his memories, that was not exactly all that had happened to him. Before, he could explain they were meat by more of the creatures. Crotona drew her Z-Sword allowing the ki to surge to form the blade. The main creature leaped past her and attacked Gandigan. The other creature leaped forward to attack Gandigan. He said he'd handle the main so she had to deal with the rest. "I got it don't worry!" Crotona swung smacking the beasts aside. She then leap forward gutting one of them with her Z-Sword. The others leaped back to circle her as she raised her weapon waiting for her next opening to strike them down!


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Crotona darted in, slashing each of the beasts that got close to her. Her sword cut through them gracefully and without much effort. But she was also getting some of her anger out. Her anger at herself, Kamae, Marrow, and anything else pissed her off in the last few years. Her swords slashed forward into one beast, cutting off each limb. AS it cried out, she spun her sword forward, slashing the beast into pieces to finish it. A bit more brutal then the other deaths she dished out. She could have killed I sooner, but she did feel good to take the beast apart. Then again, that use to be a person once. One of many that she let down because of her weakness. Anger boiled to the surface as she gripped the Z-Sword so tight that blood began to run down her hands.

"Thanks I suppose but I don't feel mighty at all. Just look at what around us." Yes, she needed to get stronger to keep Konats safe. She had to be strong enough that she could never safe defeat. Never again, she couldn't lose when people were counting on her. They could talk more but some substance began to rain down from the sky. It was not harming Crotona. She had her demonic abilities that protected her. But Gandigan was not going to do so good. So he wanted to head towards cover. "Right, of course." Crotona spun around and followed Gandgian to a nearby building. Stepping inside, she'd glanced outside. "This use to be quite the nice city. But now...it is this twisted hollow. As you said, I am strong. But there are people even more monstrous then myself."


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The blonde Konatsian grunted as she carved her blade through one of the twisted malformed creatures as it rushed towards her, cutting the beast from left to right, grimacing as the legs kept going for a moment before stopping and falling over. She plunged the blade through the toppled beasts head in order to end its suffering, panting as she looked on at this twisted mockery of a city. She had bare memories of Dhartan from when she was a child, but it had always been a relatively peaceful port city...

The dark tear in the sky, the twisted buildings, and all of these monsters... This was dark and terrible magicks. What had the Kashvar been doing whilst she had been away on Namek? Was the planet wide storm not enough for them or something?! A host of smaller creatures came scrambling towards her, full of gibbering teeth and dripping talons.

With a sharp intake of breath she held out both her hands towards the gathered tiny monstrosities and unleashed a large sphere of energy that barreled its way through the throng of monsters. It eradicated a sizeable chunk of them, but the ones that had been on the outside of the pack quickly rallied and continued their charge.

"Damn it... Are these things mindless or something?" the blonde Konatsian asked of the air, swinging her sword up and around her in a series of figure eights as she fought to deflect their attacks as well as cut them down at once. But no defence is perfect, and some of their claws got past her blade and into her flesh. The pain was far more excruciating than Cambia could ever have been expecting, almost like the claws were digging deep into her very being and not just her physical form!

The pain caused her to Bloom instinctively, her eyes turning steely grey even as her hair began to float on an ethereal wind. The explosion of power sent the remaining creatures backwards and gave Cambia enough room to catch a quick breath before she carved them into pieces. She looked around, scanning the area for any more of the creatures when she detected a pair of energy signatures one of whom she thought felt familiar. The blonde Konatsian began to carefully make her way in the direction of the energy, doing her best to avoid being hit by the dripping ichor coming from the tear in the sky.

Eventually she managed to reach the building the energy signatures were coming from, and Cambia slowly peeked her head around the corner before letting off a sigh of relief. "Crotona!" she said joyfully, reaching over to try and give the red headed Konatsian a hug. "I am so glad to see someone here who isn't a monster." the blonde woman said with a relieved sigh before bowing her head towards the Namekian in the room.

"I don't know. By the time he attempted to reach the new level of power, we were already defeated. What I do know is that even before he reached a new level of power he was stronger than me." Indeed, he had been monstrous. He defeated Erebos after all despite the hefty amount of damage he took earlier thanks to Crotona and Erebos combo attacks. "So if he has reached that new level, I fear he will be unstoppable. Maybe he could do this not just to an entire city. He could do it to an even higher scale." Crotona shook her head. She prayed that was not going to be the case. She knew other transformations existed, she had unlocked her own form beyond her base after all. But for a level of power beyond this? She didn't know if that was truly possible.

Cambia explained she had been on Namek, got some training done then decided to come back to help out Konats. She said she had family out here too, and wanted to know what happened in the city. "Not by the Kashvarr. He is some other demon. He does his own thing. Don't exactly know his origin. He wanted to grow to a higher level of power which was some demonic ritual. We tried to stop him but we failed, hence the fate of this city." She glanced around sighing, she was really tired of explaining all this. She would hear a few of the creatures outside moving around shifting to find them but they had not just yet. She grabbed her sword getting ready to step back out. "More of these creatures are out and about. We should be ready to face them."



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