A Triumphant(ish) Return---Open---

OOC--- So, I got some free time again thank God. Sadly, its because my hours got cut... bleh. But, at least I can rp again =D
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Xzuk awoke from what seemed to be a month long sleep. To his surprise, when he looked over at his phone, it was dead. And most of the things in his room were covered in dust. Even his ever prided guitars..

"What the hell's going on?"

He looked around him, making sure it was his room and even pinched himself to ensure he was awake. It was very real. He began roaming around searching for clues as to his situation and fond his old Titan communicator. He had only been asleep for one night. But why was everything covered in dust? And how did he arrive in his room?

I know someone who needs to cut back on his mountain dew intake...

He stood and brushed the dust from his pajamas in an effort to clean himself up before the search for a mountain dew began.

OOC: yay for being able to rp again and not much work to do in that hot florida sun!
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Mg never knew what had happened to the rest of her titan friends. She had missed them dearly along with her parents. She hadn't gone to see them in so long and always kept the excuse of a titan was going to be coming today. It was false hope that got her disappointed at the end of the day. When crime was in need of stopping, Mg would hope that a titan would come help her out of nowhere but it never happened. But now the city was quiet and so wasn't the tower as usual. Since the titans haven't come back from where ever they could be, she was thinking of having her parents come here for awhile but she hasn't said anything to them about it. Mg started to take a walk through the hallways that the bedrooms were on when she heard some kind of familiar sound. She stopped snd listened closely to see if it was just her mind that was missing the titans so much play tricks on her.

He sat back on the bed wondering once again just what had happened when he heard a noise from the hallway. He could hear it clear as the tapping of a nail underwater. Which, is a very distinct sound.. There was a heartbeat, breathing, no scratching of nails on the floor, and an almost depressing dragging sound.

Its not an animal.... More than likely human... Dragging its feet maybe? ... Murr.... I dont like this...

He turned on his toes as silently as possible and walked back into the corner of the room awaiting further clues as to what was going on. He was ready for a fight almost unnaturally itching for one.... Something was wrong... He was never the violent type... Suddenly in a flash of pain his vision whited out and a stream of memory entered his brain. A cold metal room... needles, drills, bio hazardous symbols. And a face. he couldn't quite make out who it was... It had a familiar look to it.... Then, as suddenly as the flash came, in the memory something clamped over his face and a great pain struck him again. He opened his eyes again... He had merely blinked.... His nose now bled profusely and he began to become very angry. His veins ran a neon green and he walked towards the door, kicked it down and slammed his hand to the wall, the green spreading to the floor and along the wall, searching for the intruder.

"Where are you!?"

Mg started to move again, closer to one of the bedrooms when she thought she heard another noise. She had no idea who would break into here if there was anyone in the building besides her and she wasn't going crazy and a part of her didn't want to find out. Though with her training, she wasn't afraid of what could be there but more of what she thought she wouldn't find. She missed her friends terribly and only wanted them back as a team and roommates that they once were. Soon she could see a green light in the hallway and looked to see that Xzuk was there. "Xzuk? Is that you?"

( Emblem changed a lot, beware. He's hellbent on destroying Jump City, The Titans and all unworthy humans. His physical strength has increased a lot, as his fire-casting ((thank you evil-side)) and he's un Emblem-ish insane. Welcome back Xzuk try and stay...and stay alive muhaha )

Emblem had lost his prayer beads. You'd never think Emblem the praying type, but if he would ever turn to anything unnatural, he always had his beads ready.

Whilst he had changed a lot, he kept seeing worth in his relics. He had deemed it worthy to search for his beads. While his faith had changed, his magical rituals had not. Following a placebo-effect, the beads would always trigger concentration with Emblem, and that was handy in some of his rituals. Emblem had no problem focusing, but just that extra sense of security was worth going trough the ruble of the Titans Tower.

Emblem had shot off the roof in the beginning, when he just returned to Jump of his long time of travels and adventure, that changed him to what he was now. He moved the rubble with his staff, using some magics to move the big pieces, and his strong arms to move anything that was left. The inside of the tower wasn't as bright as the outside, so he lit a fire, hovering next to his shoulder, illuminating everywhere he looked. He'd go straight for his old, empty room.

His beads weren't in the North Tower, not in his old apartment, not in his stash...they had to be here. Something was off though...He felt warmth. Someone was either here or had been here recently. No matter. If there were Titans here, he'd obliterate them with a smile. A big smile...

''Hello? Anyone there?..''

His voice echoed through the building, as he made his way to the elevator hole. Emblem ignited his wings and rose up a few floors. His room was a lot higher, but he enjoyed the feeling of him not being alone. He felt his adrenalin rising as he tried to listen carefully...If only they would show themselves...before they would be killed. He was sure of it, debris was moved by someone else then him, and he could feel someone's body heat vaguely. This feeling of body heat was something he uncovered whilst fighting Krious in the Jump city Park, and it wasn't fully developed yet, might not ever be...but it was enough as it was...

Two voices rang back to Xzuk's head, one all too familiar, and the other.... Sounded.... distant.... Like.. Emmy... But... monotone... uncaring... That couldn't be the Emblem that Xzuk knew. The green kept crawling forward along the remnants of the hall towards the opening of the common room. It came upon what felt like a shoe and grabbed it swiftly, pulling hard towards a window. These intruders wouldn't be welcome in his home. Especially not in such a dark state... the feelings of anger vanished as the person wearing the shoe let out a shriek. It was Mg.

"Mg?! Is that you??"

He stumbled forward, blindly in the darkness before reaching the common room. The windows were shattered, there was a gaping hole where the couch used to be and dust particles loomed the thick air. He turned and saw Mg holding onto a piece of rubble only inches away from the shattered window. He'd nearly thrown her into mid air. Then he paused. There was that other pulse. The sound pounded through his head like a migraine.

"Who are you? I wont ask nicely again!"

He hair stood on end and he backed towards Mg, veins lighting a familiar blue with every pump of his heart. He was ready. t was silent, and that... Was his deadliest advantage.

Mg had stood still once the glowing light had started to move around. She had thought it was Xzuk and even though he was the only person that could glow different colors like that, she was only hoping that she was dreaming right now. She couldn't recall Xzuk ever glowing green. Only blue and some other colors that weren't green. If she had no training then she would be running right now but she's been taught by the best the lab provided for her. Mg thought she heard another voice one that didn't remind her of anyone she knew off the top of her head. It had only made her get into a defending state of mind. If these weren't her friends then she wanted them gone from here. They had no right to be inside of here without her permission.

The green light came closer to her and she started to step away from it to think a bit before she defended herself. It seemed that she had ran out of time when her shoe was grabbed, a shriek came from her lips, and in a flash she was about to fall out of one of the broken windows in the common room. She had saved herself only by grabbing on some rubble or else she would of had to wrok fast to shapeshift into her favorite bird. She looked at Xzuk who started to change color. Mg was glad that he recognized her but then he didn't believe what he saw. She was getting a bit confused herself. "Xzuk its me Mg. Why are you questioning me like this?" She asked him, only moving herself to get away from the window if he tried to tackle her till she fell.

Xzuk turned and looked at Mg, his eyes beginning to cloud over in blue, resembling infared. It was in fact, more like sonar. He hadn't in fact perfected it, but it worked. She was now a cloud of blue, pulsing with every heartbeat. She began to speak again and he swiftly covered her mouth and put a finger to his lips. They weren't alone. He let her go when they were safely behind the counter top and whispered as silently as he could.

"I need you to keep you eyes open and your ears sharp. Someone else is here, and if they were a friend of the Titans, they wouldn't be hiding like this.."

He turned once again and listened for the slightest traces of sound, but nothing was coming back.. Perhaps the stranger had left. Very unlikely, but possible. He began to stand up as the sonar faded from his eyesight and everything became the dismal clear and boring tower it was before. He still felt uneasy. He turned and began to walk back towards his room as silently as possible when his communicator buzzed off again. He nearly dropped it in shock, but shut it down immediately.


No point in hiding now...

At the touch of Xzuk's hand on her lips to stop her from talking, Mg could feel herself gaining his power. It was a quick process by she could definitely feel it. It had been awhile since she had even seen him and even longer that she had gained his power. She nodded her head at him, confident that even though it had been a long time since she had used his powers, she could help track down where the intruder was. She closed her eyes and concentrated after they had ended up behind a counter in the room. Even though her eyes were closed, she could tell that the lights had been switched on which she didn't like at all. In what seemed like a blur, Mg was standing next to Xzuk, facing Emblem.

It had been a long time since she had seen him as well but what he had done not too long ago was stuck in her head now. Killing all those people in the park, leaving it like an open wound that was still healing up. It was one of the reasons she had come back to Jump City and now she was glad she did. To her the Emblem that she had got to know on the docks and the short time that she had actually went to his living space was dead to her. She felt terrible for the lost of a friend and really wanted to take it out on him.

Mg stood still, wanting to know exactly why he was here in her home. He wasn't welcomed here which made anger build up inside of her. She didn't want to see his face let alone be threaten of death by him. "Getting pretty cocky there aren't ya?" She said to him while trying not to be in a pose that showed she was ready to fight.

Xzuk still had no idea what was going on when Emmy was making his speeches, but he did take notice very quickly to the tone of hatred he took towards the Titans. What had happened in his absence? When Xzuk last saw Emmy they were about as close to friends as Emmy would allow, now he had nothing but hatred towards Xzuk. Once he started making hints at a fight and called out Mg Xzuk snapped out of it and turned towards Mg.

"You don't have to fight if you don't want to. I can handle myself and so can you. There's no reason to prove it by fighting."

He turned back to Emmy and looked around what remained of the common room. He still didn't know what had happened here, but now he had a pretty good idea. But where were the other Titans? What happened to Kira? Grim? Krious? Even Simca was no where to be found. Titans aren't the kind to hide away...

"So, tell me Emmy, you're the one who remodeled here huh?"

He didn't wait for an answer and tried not to cough or stutter, but it was miserably hot and dry. His sound would never fail him, but with this heat, focusing his power would be difficult.. Which, under normal circumstances would be bad and result in injury or death to the baddie... This time, He was only hoping it would be enough to cause some damage.

"Where's my team Emmy?... Hell, where are the other Titans?"

((This IS open to more people, right? Because I've finally watched enough anime fights to be in inspiration mode to beat the crud outta Big Chin-chan! XD And yes, I admit, I copied Bleach. BUT, just so you know, I created Roselight's powers before I ever even saw Bleach or knew what it was like, so, that doesn't count as copying, apart from the name! >.< It was a coincidence they ended up similar.))
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Sound of broken glass was heard. A sapphire energy blast of destructive proportion found its way blasted next to where Emblem was standing, exploding on the floor next to him in a human-sized Mushroom Cloud, rising high up into the roof of the Common Room and hopefully shocking and/or at least putting the fire-clad magician off his balance momentarily. She had missed on purpose; its purpose was to intimidate, not harm. She had loads more powerful that that one where it came from. "You were saying?" a new sound entered into the terrific scene, echoing throughout the smoke and debris that her attack had caused to raise up into the air, seemingly coming from all directions.

Simca had dealt with her tears. She had dealt with everything that had come with knowing about Emblem's betrayal and his changing. He had not done so in the future she had been from, but the time line had been polluted so many times that they now diverged. Yet, she had been heartbroken. The Emblem she had liked... loved maybe, she wouldn't know... was now their greatest enemy.

Well, after continuously spending some time 'kicking some air' thinking about that little predicament that she was now in, she had decided on one solution: she'd kick his ass until he was back to his old self again, no matter what it took.

Besides, its not like he was the only one who had increased in power. She had spent three years in the future training, hadn't she? She was as confident as ever that she could kick his butt into next century and back, Fire Sage or not. The most important thing to Simca, was her friends. Xzuk and Mg qualified for that, Emblem didn't. Not anymore. Now, he qualified for the big bully who hurt her friends and said bad things to them. And anyone who knew Simca at all could tell that it was in such a situation that she was in her strongest, considering the only thing that crossed her mind was "annihilate" the one that had dared to insult or hurt her loved one.

Which is what she was going to do to him.

The smoke and debris that had shot up from her energy attack finally dissipated, revealing Roselight standing there, in front of the new shattered window of the Tower, behind Emblem and opposite Wavelength and Mg, a sapphire flame-like aura pulsating around her frame, rising from underneath her feet and growing all the way above her head. Her purplish-pink aura was, in appearance, very much similar to Emblem's hot black fires and they were causing her robes and her hair to waver up and down as if she was standing on top of a fan. Yet, they were not hot and they did not burn; they were just part of the energy she manifested, nothing more, nothing less. Her eyes glowed a purplish-pink shade and her right hand was clenched behind her, her left palm raised and pointing in Emblem's direction at the shot she had fired at him.

One thing stood up against all else, though. It was the look in Roselight's eyes. One of pure resolve, determination, vigor and the willpower to succeed. It was rare that Simca tapped into her power to such an extent but her resolve to protect those she cared about was too great. Perhaps even more so than Emblem's will to burn those very same people.

"Che," her voice only betrayed emotions that a villainess' would, yet she was a heroine. "So, I finally get a piece of you after all this time, huh? Looks like my lucky day, considering what you just did to those two allows me to go all out on you," unemotional, yet determined, soft, yet powerful of a voice escaped her cherry flavored lips.

"Scatter," her lips echoed, their town commanding. Her aura flared, rising high up right through the ceiling, before it turned from a pulsating aura of sapphire flames into a solid cylinder of glowing hardlight pink energy with Roselight, now hidden from view, at its center. The cylinder then started breaking into pieces from top-to-bottom and separated into several slender, tiny blade fragments, revealing Roselight underneath and completely unharmed as the rose petals flew away and encircled her form elegantly. The cylinder had in reality broken into tiny fragments of an energy blade so sharp as to easily cut through iron that were now so elegantly dancing around Roselight, mimicking Emblem's flames.

"Senbonzakura," Roselight finished.

Simca could control the blade fragments at will, allowing her to shred opponents at a distance and break through almost any defense. That was her newest and main ability, the one that had earned her the name 'Roselight' and the name of her ability Senbonzakura, Japanese for 'One Thousand Cherry Blossoms' (figuratively of course).

Such great powers do not come without their consequences and when she had first begun to use it, she could only maintain it for a little bit of 11 seconds before it disappeared. Yet, with training, she could now maintain it as long as she wished. The only weakness though, was that while using Senbonzakura she could not use any normal energy attacks apart from her basic Air Walking. Yet, it did not matter, she had several strategies to overcome that flaw. Plus, she knew how Emblem fought for the most part (excluding his newly gained blood-lust, though), yet he did not know of her new abilities considering this was her first time using them. She had the upper hand. The blades danced around her form, circulating, as if she was a Princess in a romantic scene in the windy Garden of Roses, just waiting for the Prince to come, kiss her and sweep her off the ground.

Yet, that was not the case. The Prince would come, of course. For assuredly he would come. But the Princess and her petals would cut him down. He had insulted Xzuk. He had taunted Mg. She did not care about her feelings but the only thing that she would not be doing to him would be killing him. Other than that, she didn't give a damn if she cut Emblem's arms straight off.
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((Edited; I'd forgotten I was posting inside the T-Tower... though I think I just wrecked it... oh well, more money outta the Jump City Mayor! >.<))

(( Emblem had stated in this very thread that the T-towers were going to be rebuilt. Doesn't matter if you wreck it now! And hey, if we go copying names, allow me for a bit of special fun as well ))

Emblem looked over at Simca. While he did clearly notice Simca was all he had thought her to be, she didn't have everything he had expected. If she did, that first strike would have tried to hit him. Whether or not he would have been able to dodge it wasn't important, but it showed him she wasn't going to kill him...or at least not try to early on. Because he knew one thing. This was going to be a fight. The hair in Emblem's neck tingled with excitement. His fould grin spread all over his face.

''Hmpfh. Next time you make an entrance Pinky, try and be effective. All this barking and no biting. Trying to look tough has never been done so badly.''

Emblem felt the tingling in the air. His flames had noticed. They felt it. He felt it. They weren't alone. All that was left of the Common room with the roof torn off was getting crowded. Xzuk, Mg, Emblem, his flames, Simca,.. and her powers. Emblem formed a small ball of pure magma in his hand, about 3 inch in diameter, yet pulsating, surging and giving off a bright unreal red flame flame. The Prince of Purging held it up for all to see. With a quick pull, his arm pointed at Mg.

''Shakkahō!'' meaning ''Shot of Red Fire'' in Japanese, and apparently the name of this technique.

With that, the ball shot forward, shooting straight for Mg. It went straight, racing with the flames behind it. Before it hit her however, it was fended off by one of the petals from Simca's new technique, clashing like sword against sword. The blast that came forth from it was also partly conceiled to keep Mg safe, but it needed more then a few petals for that. While all this happened, Emblem looked at Simca trying to find out. All he knew for now, was in his eyes...enough.

''Impressive. You've certainly did more then I had expected. It seems Simca has grown after all. Older..hopefully stronger and wiser. However, it seems my style needs to adapt. I reckon you have seen Krious, but if that fools able to talk yet, then you'll have heard about this. Flickering Flame might not be strong enough...Way more fun though. On the other hand..beating you with the same style Krious was smashed with...''

Emblem talked about this swift fighting style which allowed him to move and dodge quickly, but he could only move where there was a base of flame. In small areas, this was great, but he reckoned it wouldn't be effective enough against Simca. With a blow of hot air, Emblem's flames dissipated, as did his robe and his tight sleeveless T-shirt. The robe warped and became tied around his waist, his staff had changed back to a ring. Emblem' eyes turned to small orbs of pure magma as he looked at Simca. He cracked his neck, stretched his strong arms to both sides and stood still.

''Ah wait. It's not a flashy Titan entrance. Excuse me.''

Emblem breathed in heavily and the Tower started shaking lightly. He raised his right fist in the air, then slammed it on the ground. In that very moment, all three Titans took a jump for safety, Xzuk using sound waves to land safely on the Titan's Island, Mg morphing into a bird and trailing behind Xzuk, and Simca carried by her Senbonzakura. They acted right. Half the Tower was falling apart, with almost all floors visible to the outside now. It was a miracle the building was standing, and it seemed most of the personal rooms were alright. With that, Emblem jumped on the Island.

Little did Simca know Emblem had planned this. The ground around Emblem seemed to magically crack up and shoot out flames, slowly licking Emblem's legs. Emblem's burning eyes fixed on Simca. Judging from Simca's cool reaction, Emblem guessed Krious hadn't told much specifically about Emblem's fighting style. That could however, be wrong, as it was a reflex but a wise act to leave the Titan scene through the window. Emblem grinned widely, slowly facing Simca. The Senbonzakura had to be close by. Emblem was planning to see how much punishment those shards could take before it would be too hard for Simca to focus on them. It couldn't be other then a big task for Simca to focus completely on all that energy in their current immensely agile and cunning form. Whether she was trained or not, energy manipulation and containing a fair amount of particles like that would never be as easy as she made it seem.

''You ready to be cleansed in fire? Pray to your Gods you don't end up like Krious...won't matter anyway. All that oppose me burn.''

With that, Emblem seemed to ignite, his hair turning in the same liquid magma his spit was back up in the Tower. Emblem's muscles pumped up as he took a huge breath...and when he breathed out, an immense cone of flame came surging for Simca. Emblem has started doing battle. He felt his adrenalin rising..Perfect. He loved fighting, raising hell, causing carnage, and Simca had just given him a shot at her. He never needed an excuse for a purge, but this was like Christmas had come early to Emblem.