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@supertinyking@tyki

The battle was finally over. Eclipse was weak. He was well beaten up and drained of his magic. With the last swirl of tornado disappating, he turned briefly to the sound of clapping, smiled, then fell into the water himself. Markus gave him a lift back to the ship.

Changed back into his human form, Eclipse laid in the pile of rope, wet, and with some kind of war-paint on his face, courtesy of Markus. "Thank you, cloudrider." He said to Marcus and smiled with the depiction of the epic battle scene on his cheeks. "I will be alright. Is everyone ok?" The winds were down to a calm breeze, and a light rain was falling while the sky was opening up to the sunlight above. A rainbow appeared.

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@thewizardguy

Mithias sank down, and the light of the spirits around him illuminated a path down to the scene of a massive sword in the moving sand. The fish creatures were all focused on the sword, not even seeming to notice the drowned vampire getting nearer. Mithias would have sighed, if he could have done that underwater, as he believed himself too far gone now into his madness. He didn't know who the god of storms was, nor who was stabbed into the ocean floor under that eerily active sand, but he didn't really care. He was just riding the waves now, following down the rabbit hole. He'd obey the commands of the dream set before him.

He couldn't talk, but he really didn't feel like it anyway. With little effort, he swam closer to the top of the sword. Freeing this bening didn't look easy. This weapon was massive, and Mithias had zero footing. He touched the handle to see if it gave any kind of reaction. Perhaps it was magical? He gave a perplexed look downward for help. He needed to know what to do.

Hell's Coffee Lounge: You're gonna have a bad time....

@ADamnFiddle
Welcome. It is fun, but it does take a while to get to know everyone. Wanna join?

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@thewizardguy

So, the raging winds were ire itself, a demon, a deity of its own. The only end to it was complete negation, to dispell the anger into oblivion, leaving nothing behind. Eclipse had no problems with this, since anger, hatred, and demons were naturally in opposition to him. It was his mission, the essence of his existance, to bring justice, peace, and serenity into the world and to sustain it. The question was a matter of power. Whichever of them was more powerful would win this contest of wills.

Bracing himself, Eclipse put his hands together and formed a deflective shield against the force and debri the wind creature whirled at him. The arms closed in and crashed over him, pulling him deeper inside the heart of the tornado. A random shark flew by, jaws open and confused. Eclipse used his power and wings to resist getting sucked in, but bits of debri were making it past his shield, hitting him and cutting him.

"I can't let you pass." He struggled. He realized that his innocent friends would be destroyed if he didn't stop this demon. "Tell me your rage. Confess to me your hate..." He kept his aura up, combating the negative and irrational embodied emotion. "Abate yourself and find rest. Your purpose is finished. Your desire is reached. Welcome peace, and fall like rain." Bashed and torn by the furious winds and needle-like rain, Eclipse used all his strength to endure. Every wind that whipped him, every hit he took was one less that the wind demon was willing to ever dish out again. It would spend itself into mothing, eventually, if Eclipse lasted that long.

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@thewizardguy@Snarfulblast

Mithias watched in horror as the boat left his reach. His mind screamed in denial as his fear became realized. The water had total control of him, and there was no way to deal with it. Water sloshed over him relentlessly. Nothing less could be expected of the sea, for its waves had been rolling rhythmically since the planet's formation. Such eternal nature would never cease.

The boat was getting farther and farther from him, and struggle as much as he did, he still got pulled under. Each time he fought to break the surface, his only reward was a mocking glimpse of a vanishing ship. Darkness easily closed in, and the vampire had to accept the welcoming stillness of the depths.

Everything became black, and only the sound of crashing waves could be heard above, giving hope to his sense of direction. Water filled his mouth, cold penetrated his bones, but Mithias didn't die.

Sorrow struck him. Loss, lonliness, and a fear that some abyssmal creature would swallow him whole came to mind. The only comfort he could find was in a memory, that some familliar arms would find him sinking alone under the water and wrap themselves around him. The depths were his lovers home, a lover who would never let him drown alone, a lover he would never see again.

No such savior was coming. Mithias closed his eyes. So wrapped up in emotion had he been that he didn't even realize the humming vibration that was growing in intensity around him, but then it terrified him. He began to prepare himself mentally for a likely death, until he realized it was speaking. Searching, he opened his eyes, and this time saw the water spirits. He could feel the pressure of the water on his body, he was getting deep. God only knew where the bottom was, and what might have been waiting down there. He looked at the spirits imploringly, yet hopeless that they could understand his plight.

"Please don't take me down." He thought, but he knew no being in the universe could read his mind. It was his gift, and his handicap. His only wish was to return home. Reluctantly, he went with the spirits, their world no more foreign to him than the rest of this odd world.

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I don't have time to write this morning, but I will tonight.

Hell's Coffee Lounge: You're gonna have a bad time....

Just as before, Eclipse's aura returned to affect Mithias. While not dropping him to the wood, it made him weak and light headed. The vampire lurched to the side with the rock of the boat and lost part of his grip. "Damn... fairies..." He managed to grab a rope that was tied to something sturdy and regain his security, but he realized that he needed to get himself down below deck with the others. Come hell or high water, he still didn't want to die in this dream.

Mithias waited for a favorable tilt, then released the mast and rope and dashed over toward the door. The tiny spirits grabbed onto his collar and pants for the ride, while others merely watched him from their place in the air or wood or water.

Water...??

Just then, a very unexpected wave crashed into the side of the ship, jolting it such that Mithias slipped on the wet wood and was slammed with a huge splash of ocean that had literally jumped out of the sea just to faceplant him. He desperately tried to grab onto anything on the way, but the water on deck was suddenly a mini lake, and it sloshed over the side with him, throwing him overboard like a piece of seaweed.

Mithias was gone.

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@Tyki@thewizardguy

Eclipse stood straight and met his gaze with that of the raging winds. "Hmm." He looked strong, sincere, and confident. Through his divine vision, he saw what mortals could not. He could easily see deeper levels of meaning, transcending materiality and even time. "Take heart, my friend, for what is anger but an urgent plea for justice?" The angel-god began to shimmer, sets of large, magnifacent wings appearing behind it in a ghostlike form, moving him, yet somehow untouched by the violent winds. Eclipse looked upon the summoned destroyer with sympathy and understanding. "I am familiar with this beast and what fuels it. Its need shall be satisfied."

In a brief, but muted flash, he blinked off the deck and a small spec of light appeared much farther out travelling into the thick dark clouds.

Appearing close to the face of the magical storm, Eclipse held open his hands. His mere proimity sapped the fury of the magical entity. Winds slowed as they came close to him, and a soft, sunlike light made the clouds appear smaller and less threatening. He felt the rage of the creature, its intense desire to get its vengeance, to right a wrong, and he listened to it. The thundering heart pulsed with the life of its will. It was suffering from the pain of its desire. It hated its targets. Eclipse reached out in an attempt to ease its pain, to extend its patience, and reassure it that justice would triumph. "No storm rages forever." He added fatalisticly.

Eclipse hoped that the wind elemental would appeal to him, as a paragon, as kindred, and from there he could connect with it and turn it around with compassion and reasoning. Chances are it couldn't speak, but even nature gods heeded the most base wisdom. If it were controlled against its will, he would try to free it. Depending on how loyal it was, or how reasonable, he could possibly undo its course.

Hell's Coffee Lounge: You're gonna have a bad time....

Yeeeeargh... Why are people not doing stuff?? :/

Hell's Coffee Lounge: You're gonna have a bad time....

Waiting on @tyki and @thewizardguy in regard to Eclipse. Otherwise he's flying out to negotiate with the winds.

Where in Tsubasa did the new characters arrive? Are they on the same ship?