[center][h1][color=cyan]Kanbaru Otoko[/color] [/h1][img]http://66.media.tumblr.com/51fc61ac770a524e9468f174afa94d7f/tumblr_inline_n1xc79Kcic1rb3m8r.png[/img][/center]

Not paying attention to her allies seemed to have cost Nephy more then it did Kanbaru, a flash of shock paralyzing her when Thomas barreled through clad in black flames and launching the white wolf into the abyss of caverns with a vicious thrust. That on its own wouldn't have brought the undead samurai down but the whale knew full well she'd already beaten her to her limit, a cold certainty gripping her that Nephy would be limping to her death if she even rose at all after that. Her moment's hesitation passed and she whirled, pained expression melting like wax till she was gnashing her teeth in a tumultuous scowl.

[color=cyan]"I had her under control! She would have lived long enough to apologize to the damned Princess herself when she came back, and now you've made a liar of me!"[/color] The Whale felt ready to snap, fed up with the constant backstabbing of her companions. It was like everyone of them was as much an enemy to her when it really mattered from Caprice to Akiko, and now Thomas goes and kills the stupid bleeding heart wolf she promised to show the sky. [color=cyan]"Why don't any of you trust me? Why does no one ever listen and let me have a chance to carry through?! Is my parasite the only one who fucking lis-"[/color]

The rant died with an audible change in pressure, body turning with every instinct both natural and JSTR related screaming at her to witness something. Something never thought possible but long clamored for, a merging of entities whose destinies were divided along a clear line yet were now joined in body and spirit. Her relief that Nephy hadn't bit the bullet yet was swept away, a mote of dust in a maelstrum of emotion that was the JSTR when it was roused to action. It wasn't gentle in pushing her forward, any ire with Thomas smothered as she stood beside him and the steadily assembling party. Katie was there, clothes whole but powers diminished with what were undoubtedly the lesser Vassals Erika and Esa overseeing the battle like the Valkyrians they were. 

[color=cyan]"Marianne in the flesh."[/color] She noted, finding it almost expected that every member of the group was possessed by some power. The Tower may as well have been training them for it with their early reliance on Serei cards. Still there was precious little room in Kanbaru's mind to not focus on the fight before her, this apotheosis that had to be tested. There was no room for being fair or sporting, the whale's power surging beyond her limits. Flesh teared and muscle shredded, bone pulverized and washed away under a swirl of blood. The Abyss shook yet again, not from a force that threatened the foundations of the floor, but from the fathomless depths themselves as the very waters they entered from drew upwards and carried it to the effigy of blood in Kanbaru's shape. 

She drew the water into her self, blood diluting, mixing, and merging with all that had drowned in the murky depths, yet her shape did not swell. Denser and denser did she grow, the stone shattering under the weight of her body at rest till she could not stand a moment longer. Kanbaru formed her sword from the same bottomless well of mass and a thick orca tail sprouted from her rear, striking the earth to rouse a mighty tremor as she hurtled through the air upon a torrent of water to clash with fusion of Nephy and Runa.

[color=cyan][i]"Don't make a liar of me, Nephy, or I'll drown you right here and now!"[/i][/color]