Azereiah

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"Your smoke is mine now."

Hugo's purple smoke effectively began trying to cannibalize Shadow's black smoke, gaining bulk and force. Hugo was burning up, though -- it was too much effort in too little time without the joys of music to feed him power via poetry.

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The purple smoke split and slammed into Shadow's arms, legs, and head, trying to force them against the ground to prevent him from further harming himself. Hugo was putting an enormous amount of force into it -- more than his own body was used to by a long shot. Adrenaline and anger kept him standing upright and dancing, though he was slowing down a bit with each passing second. His face was red with strain.

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"No? No objections? Fine, then!"

Hugo was pissed, and his old German accent cut through his usual friendly tone like a bullet through a cloud. The smoke turned a shade of violent royal purple and spiraled around him.

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The black blood splattered all over Hugo's suit. He blinked and looked down at it. That was never coming out. He looked up at the rest of the crowd, his twitching eye betraying some kind of intense anger through his practiced smile of a poker face.

"Does anyone object to me going wild now?"

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Sorta regretting not rolling a Balrog or a Pit Fiend as my character now. :')

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"Whew, I need to learn how to do that!", Hugo exclaimed. Those chains looked fabulous!

As instructed, though, he took a few steps back. The teacher seemed to have it dealt with for the time being. He didn't notice Skylar going nuts, however.

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"You know, this much fun is easily worth being disciplined on my first day of classes!"

The barrier continued to grow and solidify further, completely blocking off Shadow's access to Hugo. Hugo's eyes had gone blank and were filled with images of scrolling sheet music, with the ghostly blue light from earlier shining down from above.

In response to the next attack, the wall of smoke shot up between Shadow and Skylar. Two abominations on the loose couldn't possibly be a good thing. The smoke wall wasn't guaranteed to hold either of them back, though.

"Hey Cindy, a bit of help here?", he shouted.

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"Nope."

The smoke wall blinked directly between Shadow and Hugo in an instant, as though it were always there. Hugo was now in complete control of the barrier, and required no more poetry.

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Hugo found his rhythm and found himself dancing to the rhythm of the music in his head, flailing the pipe about and spewing rainbow smoke everywhere, all of which spiraled straight into the solid wall of smoke he'd already conjured.

The smoke wall slowly grew and started curling around itself into a large ball, but it would take time to completely encapsulate Shadow.

However, the pacification gate dispersed the smoke, which quickly ran back to Hugo's pipe. His music had been interrupted, and he scowled.

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"...And in this struggle, we find eachother,
And as comrades we will never give ground."

The smoke rings condensed into a solid wall, which placed itself between Shadow and Rikeno. Just a bit more and it would fold into a box around the shadow creature.