Netfrica Research (EVENT!)

A sharp pain twinged through Kenji's body as he got up from the fiery ground surrounding him. He rubbed the back of his head carefully and regained his composure. He stood up slowly and shakily, aching in several places. His eyes were blurry, but began to focus slowly on his surroundings. He gathered his thoughts and saw the mighty Drauchen lying face down in the fiery fields.

"Uuuugh, What hit me? How the hell did I get all the way down here?"

"The timer on the windbox ran out, and you crashed face first into the ground. Oh, and if you haven't noticed yet, you're surrounded by fire, I suggest you do something about that."

Kenji looked down to see his pant leg slowly catching on fire. With a yelp of surprise, he quickly patted it out. He gathered his wind ability together and propelled himself up into the air above, out of harms way, and out of the fire.

He surveyed his battered foe, and watched as his allies pushed for one final assault on the beast. He gave a slight chuckle and grinned madly at the dragon. His chuckle turned to a giggle, then to maniacle laughter as Keito slid in three chips. Kenji's arm glowed for a few seconds before it transformed into a double barreled shotgun. Grinning at its sleek barrel and explosive firepower, Kenji couldn't help but smile at the thought of going Bruce campbell on its ass. Kenji let out two booming shots from his barrel, aiming for drauchens massive head. As his arm faded away and transformed back to normal, he continued to hover slightly over the ground, prepped for a quick evasive action in case any problems occur.

Summary:
Gust-dodge
1. Shotgun-50dmg-Drauchen
2. Shotgun-50dmg-Drauchen
3. Reserved for dodging
"You didn't... Fail me." Seraphim whispered, his lips seeming to move oh-so slowly as he reached out a hand and grasped the nearly slagged sword's sizzling grip with a gauntleted hand, ignoring the pain that bit through the armored glove and into his fingers, and then he looked up, at the giant beast. The dragon, the destroyer, all he had dear.. It was disappearing before his eyes. His world, his place within it, his friends. Everything. He looked up, his eyes determined as he took a firmer grip on the sword, then placed his other hand on it, feeling his flesh sizzle for a moment, the unprotected hand feeling like it was quite literally going to fall off as he grimaced, then forced his grim face into a smile, as suddenly, a rush of cold flowed through his hands and into the weapon, causing the burning sensation to disappear completely, his hands unmarred. As he drew the blade from the ground, still marred and melted, he spoke two words, with a near-silent voice.

"Rag Eclaw."He said, his eyes clouding over as he recalled the spell. He brought it to mind, and excuted the spell, putting it into action. Erin, entraced in the real world, placed the chip in and injected it. It slipped into that PET, clicking and setting itself into the net's reality, the marred slagged sword suddenly cracking along its edges, the data reformatting into a whole sword, not a new one, simply a whole one. It reformed and set itself in place. The same sword as before. The same sword as before. The same sword, just supercooled. Now.

"Arc Energize. Ice."The worlds sent twin spirals of ice down the blade, the blade being coated by them for a second, then exploding off the ice, only to have it hover an inch above the sword itself. The ice was part of the sword now, but not quite part of it. He lifted the sword with both hands, then swung it to his side.He looked up, and his eyes were slightly resigned. He had known this would happen. Something was different though, and he didn't know what. Wait. He did know. They were silent. His voices, his multiple personalities, whatever you called them. They were silent. All of them. He bathed in the silence for a few moments, all the while realizing he didn't have time.

"Now." He said, raising the blade. The voices also spoke, echoing after him in a shower of color in his mind, prompting him to smile. He raised a free hand the ungloved one, into the air, holding the gauntleted one with the blade into the air as well, stretching then grasped the blade with both hands. He began to walk forward, the blade held before him. He wasn't any longer in the dark. He could- no, Would. He would do this. He walked faster, breaking into a jog, and slowly raising the blade higher and higher, and going into a full-out run, whispering words caught in the wind and hurled away as he closed in on his target, the beast. The beginning was here, as was the end. The net was in peril, he had to save it. It was that simple, and that complicated.

He jumped into the air, adding force forward, and twisted slightly to the side, adding motion to the strike, drawing back and closing his eyes as he pummeled past whatever defenses anything could muster, the blade would go through them, and anything in its path. He struck with all the force he bore in his arms, propelling himself further up, into a somersault, and bringing the blade around for an even more powerful strike, holding the blade closely for a second before lashing out with it once more, the blade carrying every ounce of force he could muster, every ounce of thought and being, every bit of soul and bit of everything he could put into the blow. This was it. This was the last he could do. This was the end. This was the final blow.

"Break!" He yelled, and three voices yelled with him, the voices of those three friends, enemies, it didn't matter any more. This force united them, this force would keep them together for long enough. This was enough time for everything. This was enough. He drew in breath as his blade grinded against his target, as his allies pounded the foe, He and voices only he could hear cried out one last time, putting themselves on the line, putting himself on the line. He felt their helping hand, placing their collective power into him. Their desperation, their hopes for triumph. Their thoughts themselves. This thing would break, or they would die. The choice was simple. Their choice was simple.

"B[b]REAK!!!"[/b]

*Arc Energize:Ice
1] RageClaw (40+20+5) (Water element) (*2 against fire)
[Drauchen 75] [Ground 75]
2-5] All in one strike Rageclaw [130*4=520] [Drauchen]
Drauchen hardly even reacts to either Divinity's screams or her attacks, but once she's gone, he raises his head and looks at her, as if preparing to blast both her and Druidman into oblivion, mocking her attempt at protecting the Wood navi.

He's stopped by a barrage of missles from Druidman, with a driving blast of wind, and then a merciless barrage of exposives pummeling his face, visibly blowing away small chunks of data. He throws his head high to let out an earsplitting roar for the last time.

Capuchin fires at Drauchen's exposed target, then leaps into the air and strikes him with her pole, cutting him off in mid-scream. In desperation, Drauchen rears up, baring his claws to bring them down on Seraphim, Druidman, and Capuchin, then brings them back to the ground harmlessly with a deep THUD when another salvo of explosives, from Kenji, blindsides him.

An evil glint crosses his eye as he sees the incoming Seraphim. An instant before the final blow strikes his broken body, he closes his eyes, like a man waiting for the executioner's blow.

As Eon tears through what's left of Drauchen, the other Navis see a storm of stars erupt from where the beast had laid a second before, as Drauchen's hulk dematerialized. A few scales fell to the floor, as many more fragments of glowing red data rose into the air and flew in all directions, each one expanding into the shape of a dragon as it flew into the distance.

Drauchen: RELEASED

ALL GET: FireSword, Drauchen's Scale
(OOC: Im guessing we can leave now...if not, I'll change my post.)

Capuchin immediatley rejoices by doing a backflip and collapsing on the ground. "We.....did it! WEDIDIT WEDIDIT WEDIDIT!"

"Y-you alright?!" Aida worridly asked recieving a thumbs up.

"You....bet I am. Just tired." The monkey navi gave out a big grin, "We are really getting stronger don't you think?"

"Y-yes..." Aida agreed, "We certainly will accomplish ma-many things in the future........" They siddenly went silent for a bit when something both clicked in tehir heads..."Weren't we doing something in Scilabs????"

Both went silent for a few minutes then.......

"YAAAAH! The meeting with your GRANDMOTHER!!!!" Capuchin hollered and immediatley sprang back up, "SHE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT YOUR FIANCEE!!!!!"

"GYAH!!!! H-HOW DID I F-FORGET THAT?!?!?!" Aida screamed as she began to panic, "C-CAPUCHIN!!!! I'm jacking you out!!!! W-we need to hurry!!!"

"RIGHT!" Capuchin quickly turned to her teamates and replied, "That was loads of fun. We should do it again sometime! But I gotta go. See ya!" With one last glance, Capuchin dematerialised from the net to her PET.
Kenji let out a giant sigh as he gathered himself back together. His head was spinning, but he was fine. He stood up from his resting spot, and cracked his neck. After stretching out his various sore muscles he trotted towards the final resting place of the massive beast. He rustled over towards the evenly scorched earth and bent low to the ground. He ran his hands through the black ash, sifting through it searching for something. His nose tingleda bit and he let out a giant sneeze that blew apart the mounts of dirt. As he blewhis nose and wiped his watery eyes on his cloak, he noticed omething glowing in front of him. He picked it up and examined it thoroughly. Unable to figure out what the hell it was, he opened up his comm link, and waited as a floating screen of Keito appeared above him.

"Yo dude, any idea what this is?"

"No idea, i'll check the internet to see if i can find anything on the thing."

"Wait, how do you know you can find it on the internet?"

"Do you even hear what you just said? It's the internet numbnuts! If you can find my little ponie porn on the internet, you can find anything on there!"

"Why must you always corrupt my childhood?"

"Because i can."

Kenji sat down and fell back, Staring up at the sky. He let out a deep sigh and glanced at his team and their various shennanigans.
Panting softly, Divinity looked up at the spot where the proud Drauchen once stood. Slowly she walked over to the spoils of the battle and picked up the two items that practically lay ready for her. "Hmmm?" she hummed as she picked up the scale, "What is this?" Turning the scale around a few times, she looked closely at it but couldn't figure out what it exactly was. Eventually, she held it up to the sky and nodded. "Drauchen... But what does it mean?" she asked herself as she looked downwards again and noticed a scale had been placed for each member of her crew. "I guess I'll keep it. Is that OK, Area?" she asked as she looked upwards again as if Area was similar to a Goddess. "It shouldn't harm you, so as far as I'm concerned... Sure," Area replied, her voice coming out of nowhere. Divinity held the scale against the emblem upon her chest and slowly got absorbed into her system. After it had disappeared from her hand, she sent the battle chip information she had acquired through the battle. "It feels strong," had Divinity said as she sent the chip and Area replied, "It is. A flame sword chip. Good spoils, this one gives. Hey, what about-" Her Navi had already turned away from her as she wanted to continue and just laughed softly as reaction on it.

"Druidman!" Divinity shouted as she walked to her friend quickly, "We finally got him!" With these words, she swept her arms out to the sides and smiled wide as she entwined her arms around Druidman's neck as she jumped up a bit. Now being face to face, she just kept on smiling a bit silly and shy but eventually spoke to him softly. "Hey, you know... Druid... It'd be fun if we could team up again sometime..." she said with a soft giggle that left her lips afterwards. A soft smile remained on her lips as she closed her eyes for a few seconds, disabling all communication with Area for a few seconds. But a few seconds was all she needed. "What is going on? Divinity?" asked Area as she shook the PET a bit. Divinity opened her eyes slowly after disengaging the communication and looked at Druidman with a soft smile. Closing her eyes again, she reached with her head for his head and locked her lips on his lips. Kissing Druidman softly, she kept her eyes closed while random thoughts raced through her head about the current scenario she had landed in. All of a sudden, her eyes flashed open during the kiss and took her head away from Druidman's head. A light appeared between the chests of Druidman and Divinity, transmitting the data of their systems towards eachother. "A cross..." muttered Divinity softly as she saw the light becoming brighter.

In the real world, another chip popped out of the PET as Area was still shaking the PET. "A chip with... Druidman's... Emblem on it...? DIVINITY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE WITH DRUIDMAN!?" she shouted against the dark screen of her PET.
What happened next to Druidman was a blur. He saw the outward force of Drauchen's demise, he felt the shift in the elements, then he saw what was unleashed. Stunned. He only stared at the aftermath, as Divinity came up behind him, and wrapped her arms around him. He turned to face her in time to see her face right in front of his, leaning forward, kissing him. At first he was shocked, but then, he wrapped his arms around her in turn and closed his eyes to return the kiss.

Steve, looking onward from his PET, politely set the device down. Druidman had grown so much from his original programming, and was becoming a true individual, and this was his own private moment. As a sudden flash occured on the screen, Steve threw caution to the winds and took a peek. He saw a brief flash of Druidman and Divinity, slightly floating with a data transfer between them, then text filled the screen.

NEW NAVI FILES ACCEPTED. INITIATING SOULCROSS PROCEDURES. DRUIDMAN.EXE/DIVINECROSS CREATED. WRITING DIVINECROSS TO EXTERNAL CHIP DRIVE.

"Druidman, you dog." Steve said with a smirk as chip came out of the side of his PET, a pure white chip with Divinity's emblem on it.

As the data transfer ended, Druidman stood, still holding Divinity. "Uh, wow." he said, somewhat lamely. "That was, uh, really nice." he tried to explain. "But, uh, yeah. Yeah, we should totally hang out more, dudette. Er, Divinity. I would really like to go busting with you anytime..." he said, very much aware that he looked like a complete moron. Slowly letting go of her, Druidman took a step back, and noticed the chip data and scale left behind. Popping the data into his bag, he held the scale in his hand and examined it.

"What do you make of it, Druidman?" Steve asked.

"I'm, not sure, dude." he admitted. "It isn't like any other typical viral shedding. I can feel that there is still power in it, like a dormant Fire magic." he said, trying to turn it over in his hand, but having some difficulty, as it had partially embedded itself into his hand. Shaking his arm wildly, the scale dropped. "Must be because I'm a Wood type." he mused, dropping the scale gingerly into his pouch.

Standing back up, and facing Divinity again, he smiled. "Well, I think that we're done here. Time to report back to the NetPolice, don't you think?" he asked the angelic Navi.
Having turned on communication with Area again, Divinity hummed softly anda happily after Druidman had put her on the ground again. Area stared at her Navi, but remained quiet for a long time before she could actually talk. "What was that about, Divinity...?" muttered Area softly. "I kissed him," said Divinity happily, causing Area's left eye to twitch slightly. "Excuse me?" she asked softly while holding her head closer to the screen of the PET. "I kissed him, " said Divinity again and this time turned towards Area to look at her. "Why...?" Area asked with her eyes opened for a half only. "Because I like him," Divinity replied with a smile. Area remained silent for a few seconds, then sighed. She turned her head away from the screen as if she wanted to avoid contact and think. "Isn't there someone you like?" asked Divinity all of a sudden, causing Area to flash her eyes back to the screen. "NO! I mean..." she started and looked a bit absent, "Maybe... I don't know if he still..." With each word she started to talk even softer, eventually unable to be heard. Before Divinity could ask about it, they heard Druidman talk after checking out their spoils.

"I've already reported to them," said Area softly after she opened a screen next to Divinity so Druidman and his operator could see her talk. "No reaction yet. I suggest you write at their board soon. We've got more business with them after all." "Oh?" Divinity asked as she turned to Area as well, "Are we doing a mission of theirs?" "Yeah," Area said while looking at Divinity from the corners of her eyes, "I need one of those GMO files. I'm trying to get a lot of them, they're fun." Divinity thought a little bit after Area had said this and looked at Druidman. Thinking a bit more, she suddenly blurted out at Druidman, "Hey, do you want to join us on a mission?" "Divinity! You can't ask them, they're probably busy." replied Area immediately, but Divinity was already working on it. "Here. It's our new e-mail adress," Divinity said as she handed Druidman a file that looked like an envelope. "If you wish to join us," started Area, "I guess you could mail me. We have to log off. I'm at a gym and I need to... Change clothes." Divinity kissed Druidman on his cheek a final time and then spread her wings. "See you soon, Druid," Divinity said with a smile and then flew off into the sky, eventually disappearing from view and back into her PET.
Druidman smiled. Another mission, alone with Divinity? That might be fun...

Shaking his head slightly, he reminded himself that he couldn't dissolve into a big bunch of mushy stuff. He was, after all, a warrior, and Steve's online partner. His duty was to him first.

Walking over to Kenji, he looked down at the lying Navi. "Well, we seem to keep ending up seeing some strange things, don't we?" Druidman said with a smirk. "Next time fate tosses us together again, the net will somehow expand or something." he laughed, then looked around for the others. The small monkey Navi had already logged off, and quickly at that. It was a shame, Druidman didn't remember hearing her name, she had fought well. His eye did catch the other Navi, though. Walking up to him, he smiled and offered his hand. "Hey, dude. You were pretty awesome back there. I don't remember getting your name, though." he said, still smiling.
Druidman's smile slowly faded as the Navi continued to ignore him. He seemed to be completely absorbed in thought, and nothing was getting through to him. Resisting the urge to play a prank, Druidman shrugged. "Whatever, dude." he said. Calling over to Kenji, "Yo, see you around, Kenj! Peace out!" and with that, his body exploded into thousands of leaves, which were quickly scattered to the winds.
Kenji gave a deep yawn as he saw Druid departing. He glanced around at his teammates as they began to wind down as well. He Gave a nod to druid as he left.

"We'll nice seeing you guys, next time we meet, lets try not getting barbecued."

Kenji fell back and fell asleep as his body burst into blue flames and disappeared from the net.
And there was Seraphim in his cross form, standing there, his eyes blank. He fell to his knees, and slammed the sword to the ground, his appearance fading into the wind.