[center][h3][color=8f676f]Atarah[/color][/h3]
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Atarah stepped into the strike with the same side as Utada's swing (so if Utada was swinging with the right hand, Atarah stepped forward with her right foot) being more or less all aggression. This made Utada's swing from just slashing at Atarah, to landing across her entire back, even so far as the hilt aimed to crack against Atarah's shoulder, due to the short length of a Gladius. Atarah threw a hook with her right arm, not to strike Utada or parry, as Atarah's short reach wouldn't allow an attack, but to bind Utada's arm. Atarah aimed to throw her fist under Utada's elbow before Utada's slash could finish, and then pull it up and forward as it landed. This would bind their arms together by the time Utada's slash landed, allowing neither one of them mobility with their arm.

Of course, to time this bind in such a difficult to dodge manner, Atarah had to accept the slash across her back. By stepping into the blow, and making it so the hilt would land against her shoulder, she slightly would reduce the momentum, but otherwise, it would land at full strength. Save for the crucial detail of Atarah's magnetic aura and exceptionally tough skin. Being nearly immune to metal weaponry, Utada would find that last millimeter of distance nearly impassable with the whole blade landing across Atarah's back, resulting in a superficial scratch, rather than a vital armor breaching blow. And the longer the blade stayed close to Atarah, the more its systems would fry from Atarah's demonic corruption and magnetic aura.

If this had been successful, Atarah would hold Utada tight, while she aimed a punch towards the small of Utada's back with her free hand. This was aimed towards one of the weakpoints Soft Shadow Style had marked, and if it landed on target, the shattering wave of demonic energy would be activated, and Utada would take heavy damage, even through her titanium cloth skin and armor. But meanwhile, to distract her from this, Serah continued her advance. The best deception was one that could become the true attack, and the lance was gripped by a hand of earth and thrust forward for another SSS created weak point, this one located roughly where the heart would be on a human, attacking Utada from the front. 

Serah kept her momentum in check, so that if Utada say, detached her arm to dodge, or Atarah hadn't succeeded at the grapple, she wouldn't impale Atarah. On the flip side, Atarah went all out, activating her Maximum Effort to boost her physical speed and power as much as possible right from the start. [color=dedbb6]"Victoire's already got the battlefield covered in roses, you've already lost! This is just for stealing my prey!"[/color] Atarah shouted, anger and aggression oozing from her palpably.

[@Banana][@Lmpkio][@floodtalon]

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[center][h3][color=a2d39c]Miyu[/color][/h3][/center] 
[center][color=a2d39c]Happyverse[/color][/center] 
[center][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdaduOiiR10&nohtml5=False]Still Overly Dramatic BGM[/url][/center]

[color=a2d39c]"That doesn't sound like horrible idea, but I dunno, I almost wanted to build it myself. Get away from society for a little while. Start from the basics, re-invent everything from the ground up. Given my clinical immortality and lack of need for food or shelter, I could just devote all my time to it. I'd never catch up to someone like Hohenheim doing things that way, but I'd feel better about myself, and, eh, it's not like being the second one to discover something makes it any less fun to discover if you do it independently. But, in the more immediate comfort sense, it would make sense to try to find a job and some roommates. Let's see what we can see, eh? I'll see if I can sense any vast quantities of water. Hopefully I won't lead us to a sewer or water main."[/color] Miyu stopped for a moment and focused, casting her Circle wide to try and sense around for a large body of water. Of course, sensing so far out was very imprecise with Miyu's technique, and Miyu accidentally got a read on a fresh sea food place with a giant aquarium. 

[color=a2d39c]"Shall we?"[/color] Miyu motioned.

[@KoL]