[color=gold][center][h1]Melon Derby[/h1][/center][/color]

[u][h3][color=gold]Hour 1[/color][/h3][/u]

Desmond talks to both Korin and Woren about first heading off to a dangerous place, one of the most dangerous in the entire school. To prepare for this moment Desmond bought a lovely wooden pole for today, yet made some modifications. He bore a hole into a basic melon before attempting to freeze the melon into a solid mass and then fusing it to the pole to create a melon warhammer. Once he feels it is solid Desmond heads off with Korin and Woren to check the den of the Devil himself, the water where Mallow abides. Once they made it near the water, Desmond began instructing Woren and Korin in their search for any high-value melons nearby. While even taking on the Devil himself to raid his nest and take the possible melons placed there.

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Yet Desmond was just a bit too slow reaching Mallow's nest, as it already looks like a battle has taken place, and the goose is downright ornery. As he arrives on the scene, Jomurr Ikon is engaged in a tussle with the yasoi Ashon and one of his Nashi allies over... what looks like a dark melon and two of the big 100 pointers. Korin and Woren, however, spot something potentially even juicier in the near distance: dozens of people from various teams just diving into the lake - really a glorified pond - in an almost trancelike state. As they turn Desmond's attention that way, one emerges with a massive splash, holdin a watermelon and the water just keeps on splashing. He runs with the melon hands it over to a tall, lean man in monk's robes with short blonde hair and a beatific smile. The man directs him to continue carrying it. Strangely, nobody nearby seems to be attacking.

Korin and Woren call out to Desmond and point out the very juicy target, a Watermelon that is constantly spewing water. A smile came onto Desmond's face as he instructs them on the plan as they go on the hunt for the almost statuesque blonde man who has now been given the melon. Desmond attempts sneak to go around while Woren and Korin will attack in a pincer. Korin and Woren begin to attack in a super speed pincer to take the man by surprise and hopfully take the melon through dazing the man with Arcane light flashes and then exerting Telekinetic control over the melon to rip it out of his hands. 

Desmond begins to draw from his own energies within him and converting it into energies that he dissipates into the enviroment. While using stealthy movements, Desmond begins to move and hide his pressence to allow himself to get around the group moving about. As he kneels low as he moves he passes his Melon hammer to one hand as the other grabs another low-level melon as he seems to fade into the background and the crowd.

Once Korin and Woren came close they were no more than 10 feet away from who seemed to be the ring master as Woren yelled out, [color=orange]"Got'cha Guldie"[/color]. Yet the moment they even made one more step closer Woren gets tackled by 3 mages letting out howling shrieks as they take him to the ground. While Korin is caught off guard 3 other mages wheeled around and lets loose 3 lightning bolts onto Korin, as 2 hit Korin dead on and knocked her out, the third seemed to go off course as the mage almost thrashed about in their place, as if they were trying to miss on purpose.

Jomurr, witnessing the disconcerting display, turns to Yuliya. [color=800080]"What do we do?"[/color] he demands. 

[color=pink]"Focus on watermelon from church people, I can handle hegelans"[/color]

Jomurr has an inkling and decides to pursue it.
He targets the monk directly and holds nothing back. 
Drawing up to his full capacity, he prepares to unleash a massive kinetic shockwave that'll flatten everyone around the monk, leaving him nobody else to work with.
However, as he nears full, a sudden headrush takes him. It's too much energy. bruises break out all over his body and his head pounds. The world swims and Jomurr collapses, almost as if he'd overdrawn...

As the tall priest looked towards Woren his kind yet unsettling smile never faded as he spoke in a calm voice "Your manas are no longer your own,". While Woren was busy struggling against his multiple zombielike attackers, he feels his capacity for the Gift diminish, almost like the effects of his mana shots are wearing off early. As he feels the three assailants he was once pushing against now starting to overwhelm him, yet he still gritted his teeth and pushed against hem.

That's exactly what she's going to do. While the Priest seems focused upon the Hegelan, Yuliya uses kinetic energy to move as quick as she can through the path with the most shade, as she's going to attempt to touch the Priest and use her Sensemaster abilities to render him blind and deaf. Yet the moment she reached out, a screaming girl leaps into her way and takes the attack. The monk turns to her and smiles as he speaks in a hiss [color=gold][i]"So you're the fucking bloodsucker,"[/i][/color]. As many of Yulia's other teammates are fighting their way through the horde of lackies this Priest has, he and Yulia stare down as right when he was about to open his mouth to speak his eyes roll back as he falls over.

Desmond had learned from the failures of those who went before him as he had hidden for long enough of him to wait for when the Tall Monk's attention was away from him to overload his nervous system and brain with chemical and electrical impulses, as his subtler approach worked a charm. Something about it felt weird, wrong, even, but the monk wavered and collapsed. Yet in that moment Desmond felt his back stink like he was just stabbed, as he felt a pressence materialize behind him and said [b]"Sleep,"[/b] said a woman behind him. [b]"You are incredible"[/b]. As Desmond felt his body began to assault his body and mind, and even with the power of the mana brews and shots making him stronger than usual, he was only able to put up minor resistance, as he knows darkness after a very fleeting encounter.

Yet Desmond's eyes flew open as Korin yells, [color=lightgreen]"GET UP!"[/color] As Desmond's body began producing adrenaline in vast quantities, he threw himself to his feet to see Woren running off and chasing down a fast blonde woman who seemed to have taken the melon. As he notices the man he knocked out up, which for Desmond just won't do as he attempt to hit the dread priest once more with a chemical and magnetic assault, and it appears to rock him for a moment, but then, his tendrils of command spread out once again, infecting over a dozen people around him and he recovers. [color=gold][i]"That's not very neighbourly of you, friend"[/i][/color] He turns o Desmond and smiles. Desmond shrugs and smiles as he says, [color=gold]"Eh, it's just how I welcome new people into the neighborhood"[/color].

Yet in that moment their eye's locked, Desmond felt something off, he could see through the eyes as he knew he was duped, yet it was too late as all at once, the man he was just talking to simply disappears. In his place is a petite and pretty woman who smiles at Desmond as two dozen thralls hurl kinetic and arcane blasts at him. As his eyes widened, he felt his body tense up and loosen at the same time as he began going on the defense, he shifted and dodged out of the way of a few, while a few other attacks came glancing by and barely hitting his shoulder or arms, yet the ones that hurt were the 3 or so lances that each hit him in the torso and the one that made solid impact with his shoulder. Yet two came for his head, as one seemed to have shifted mid flight, as the kinetic lance slammed Desmond dead in the head, and for most they would assume that hit would have knocked him out, and if he was a lesser man, much worst. Yet the worry did not come from the first one, for there was a second one, as this attack neared, if it was to hit it surely would have killed him. Yet Desmond was not a lesser man.

Desmond's head twists out of the way as his foot shifted underneath his body to allow him to shift and regain his footing, as his head straightened and his eyes locked onto the petite woman, it wasn't one of anger, now he had a smile, one that was a smirk that was on his face as he said, [color=gold]"Bye"[/color]. Like a bat out of hell, Desmond bolts off as his face seems calm while his body becomes a maelstrom of energy. He begins to use chemical to boost himself with increased vigor and adrenaline, kinetic energy to enhance his speed, magnetic energy to reduce the attraction he has with the floor the moment his foot lifts off the ground to propel him further, as he far surpasses the speed of the others who are in the pursuit of the Watermelon. As Desmond spotted the Watermelon he notices it being held by the Belzaggic noble Jomurr atop his Savanah Runner Dragon. As Woren and Korin begin to use their magic to keep people off of Desmond and Jomurr, yet Desmond felt something off again, as he prepared for the assault. All at once, the members of Covenant pounce. As Desmond heard a voice callout and says, [color=gold]"Those manas exist to serve the will of the Pentad, not your selfish desires"[/color], as Desmond began to feel his manas shift on their own and seeming to almost control him. Brother Ash dashes out and body checks Jomurr's dragon and staggers it, as it loses further ground to Desmond, who is now right on top of it. Sister Cadence appears and gestures to Yuliya as she erasea the sight, sound, and feel of Jomurr's location from Yuliya's senses, as he is now truly on his own. Finally, Brother Flint wades into the fight, as he pulls in a massive amount of energy before producing a kinetic push that took out Woren on impact, while Korin uses him as a shield and stays in the fight.

As in that moment he felt his manas move, Desmond almost naturally pulled against them as he realized something, he was free. The control was not there as he realized he was unaffected, as he thought of a devious plan. He will now go with the control the Monk trying to hold over him. Just to bide his time and play along. As when he is running after Jomurr and sees Korin and Woren while he is in a full run, when Desmond brings up his right hand he will send his index finger up showing what he did when he asked for that last Mana shot. Trying to signal to them he is in control. As he felt his manas being controlled he followed as he saw he was to kick the dragon's legs out from underneath it as when Desmond did the savannah runner crashes catastrophically, flinging Jomurr loose, and he has to release the melon to catch himself. It rolls down the street... tantalizing close to Parade Street and most of the Zeno houses.

Korin noticing the signal, she knew what she had to do. She needed to keep as many of them on her as possible, so she decided to do a large kinetic smash on as many people as possible while just falling short on Desmond to not hurt him. As the kinetic energy pours down onto everyone, it sends Jomurr into the ground, Yuliya seemed stronger as only one of her knees hit the stone, while 2 of the Priests seemed almost too strong to even care as they looked to Korin and laughed. As Brother Flint, the taller of the two priests, came barreling at Korin and started to do multiple kinetic slams and punches as the attacks became overwhelming for her as one landed solidly and knocked her out. While Brother Ash, the paler of the two, rushed Yuliya and began attacking her, while for Desmond the rest of Team Covenant assisted him in getting the melon home. As one of the sisters kinetically threw the melon to him while the others defended Desmond.

Yet in the moment Desmond got the melon he was bombarded by a large kinetic attack that almost caught him off guard. If not for its speed, the placement seemed off, as the kinetic slam was way off and slammed Desmond's back and mostly stung, yet he felt his pants falling as he had to fight the urge to pull them up, yet he couldn't as he grabbed his plants with one hand while the other held the Watermelon. As he heard a woman yell from behind him, [color=red]"He is no longer an ally!"[/color]. As Desmond shifted his feet and boosted himself with more kinetic energy as he felt a stinging pain on his exposed butt cheek as he saw a student from one of the dorms trying to chase him as she just let off a heat beam, yet it was too late, Desmond was at his door.

[color=gold]"Let me the [i]fuck[/i] in!"[/color] he hammers on the door. As Desmond saw more people get closer and closer as he began to bang on the door louder and louder as he shouted, [color=gold]"FUCK FUCK FUCK LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN!!"[/color].Desmond began to see as Ingrid came to fight as she attacks that Arcanist that had shot Desmond in the butt, yet the Arcanist seemed determined as Desmond yelled through the door as he slammed on it even harder, [color=gold]"HELP THEY WANT TO HURT ME!!! I THINK ONE HAS A THING FOR ME AND I DON'T LIKE BUTT STUFF!!"[/color] Yet the moment he finished his sentence he felt a pair of hands grab onto his ankles as all the left his mouth was, [color=gold]"Oh boy"[/color], as he was dragged in through a 1 foot tall hole, Desmond landed on his ass, and then fell back as he was pulled in. Yet it was not pretty, he screamed, [color=gold]"HELP!!!!"[/Color] as he dissappeared into Zeno Moonlights house. 

As Desmond was on the ground Zarra came over and grabbed the melon from his hands and dissappeared, as Desmond made an audible [color=gold]"Phew"[/color] as he is on the ground as he tries to catch his breath. While outside the fighting instantly stopped as the tall blonde Priest snarls out, [color=gold]"It's gone,"[/color] as with that the members of Covenant back off... for now.[/hider]

[u][h3][color=gold]Hour 3[/color][/h3][/u]
Once Desmond had finally made it back to base and the Water-Melon was secured Desmond knew it was time to strike out again, after changing. Desmond went to his room an grabbed a set of dry basic clothing and changed into it. Once finished he headed off to retreive his very helpful partners Woren and Korin and get them up. He got both of them up and they licked their wounds before they headed off to a spot Desmond remembered from his Lamplighter watch, the Fieldgate Tower [A-9].

people bristle and prepare to defend as the trio walks by, but Desmond makes it to the tower at the very bleak edge of the city without incident. There, after climbing six flights of stairs, he and his hegelan companions find a fat hundred-point melon and a pair of grenades, one cheekily shoved down a carronade's barrel. They also find a decent-sized aberration on one of the parapets.

Once they made it up the tower Desmond began looking around and grabbed another 100 point melon and 2 melon grenades that he split away from each other with one being with Korin and the other being with Woren. Yet the thing that made him worry was the aberration as he saw it. He sighed and let it be as he began looking around as he noticed quite a lack of movement in the Nobles Dorm. Desmond thought for a moment as he remembered the more travelled areas and thought about there may be some roads less travelled that has some things as they will be heading from their position to The New Gate and head towards the tower at [U-2].

On their route, Desmond and his partners find two more hundred-pointers, a slew of tens, and two grenades.
After Finding a few more melons Desmond, Woren, and Korin all make their ways bac to base to secure their findings ad prepare for the final defense that is going to occur. They secured plenty of things now it is time to try and hunker down. They had some more time before the points would be tallied.

[u][h3][color=gold]Hour 4[/color][/h3][/u]

Desmond, Woren, and Korin make it back to their home, one that seems mostly fine. As the final hour dawned it was time to get ready, they lit the fire place to ward of future attempts at use it as an entry way.

They hardened defenses around the house and melons, it made it much easier to know where they were but it helped keep them more safe since they were there. As the rest of the Melon Derby seems to go off without a hitch as Zeno Moonlight's group was able to snag 4th place.