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Amethyst A battle has erupted just outside of Elderloch's walls. An army of marble statues is clashing against the army of fae and wyld mutants and they look like they might break rank any second now. Glorious stands leading the charge, but greatly underestimated the army produced from Rishi's "Puzzle box". The tides of war flow before Elderloch, and it's all coming to a head.
Bright Journey What in the name of Gaia did Rishi even do?

Bright looks flat bewildered for a moment as the Lunar sorcerer pulls out what's obviously one heck of a trump card, something Bright at least never in a million years saw coming. Still, she's here, bow in hand as the battle has made its way right to her, so to speak--and the Eclipse Caste is more than ready to meet destiny.

Silk's somewhere near Glorious, so there's a couple charms she has that are out for the time being, but there are other options. First and foremost, a chance to keep Glorious from finding, and possibly -ending-, Silk.

She swiftly draws a handful of arrows from her shoulder quiver, one between each of her fingers, as she draws and fires the lot of them! Each glows with shimmering silver and pure white Essence, speeding to Glorious in a swarm of blood-seeking projectiles.

Bright Journey As Bright fires all of her arrows at once, they shine like the sun and moon together, arcing in different directions and converging like the Eight Directions coming back to the Imperial Mountain. Each arrow strikes from a different direction and punctures Glorious' defenses like a swarm of angry hornets. Glorious is left off balance, his martial skill in as much tatters as the holes in his cloak.
Silk Moon Lotus Silk moves from the shadows along the side of the golem army and springs at Glorious from the shadows once more. The shadow that is Silk's hands burst with a bright flash of golden light that washes over everyone in the area. Her hands quest not to strike him but his weapon instead.
Silk Moon Lotus The shadow that is Silk deftly pulls the Orichalcum blade from Glorious's hands at though he were a ghost. The blade blazes with golden light as she grasps it. It then does a quick spin and strikes Glorious in the back of the legs knocking him further off balance and towards the golems. She then darts towards the shadows once more.
Rishi Between the golems, a silver fishlike shape darts though the water.
	 As Glorious is knocked flying towards them, the silver shape lunges forth to meet him, an aura of blue and silver filling the water around her, shadows burbling up from below. 

	 The figure's paws of seaweed and thorns glow with a dark silver essence that makes one feel ill just seeing it. She slashes forth at the man who dares claim that he has the Sun's favor!
Amethyst Watching their leader be completely decimated all at once by the combined might of the Exalted definitely has taken its toll on the army. And with their quartermaster having ordered a retreat, there's no denying it. They break rank and flee as fast as their webbed limbs will take them. There is no more opposing army on the field, only Glorious.
Rishi SLASH! The silver shape slices across his once glorious face as she flies past him, slicing open terrible wounds that begin to burn with poison, as Rishi swims around coming to a halt before him. "It is time to be ending this, I am thinking."
Rishi Seeing the opposing army dissolve before her, the box heaves a great feminine sigh. "I had hoped for some exciting sport on the playing field today. Pity. Hopefully Mistress Rishi has something more interesting in store before I am dismissed. Mortals and the Exalted do love a good gamble."
	 She herms for a moment, before the automaton holding her jiggles the box slightly. "Yes, yes, quite right. I should be attending to *this* game, not dreaming of a better one. Per the Mistress's orders then, in good order chase away those fleeing, but do not engage unless they attack back."
Amethyst Glorious is bleeding, poisoned, his army gone, his generals deserted or dead, his sword stolen, and his armor filled with holes. Only he remains. He takes the moment to draw the only weapon he has left, a little silver dagger. He lets out this unhinged laughter and stares Bright down, gesturing his dagger at her. "You, you Exalted will fall before the might of Glorious. It is foretold in the records of old. I will rise to lay waste to the desert Creation and return us all to the precious land before form had shape." And with a final act of defiance, as the marble soldiers flow around him, he throws his dagger at Bright Journey. "You will all know my wrath!"
Bright Journey The flying dagger pierces the water with ease, as it was meant to do. Unfortunately, against the white-gold majesty of Bright Journey, standing on the crenelated parapet at the edge of Elderloch, it is nothing. She seems to almost lazily dodge to one side, leaning to her left as the dagger whizzes by her face. It neatly flies through the shimmering golden five-foot-diameter halo behind her and past the pure white anima that surrounds and effuses through her. Her pink hair floats in a long streamer behind her as she almost reverently draws another arrow from her shoulder quiver.

"Glorious, I have had quite enough of you. You asked for this. You brought it upon yourself. And you had every chance to write a different ending to your tale."

As she nocks this arrow, the head erupts in silvery aura and golden flame, a roiling flame of Essence engulfing it and Nightbane. Her very anima itself, the white-gold majesty of the Crowned Sun surrounds her bow, suffusing it with overwhelming light and irrepressible heat, boiling away the water. As she draws it back to her ear, the arrow's impossible burning flame condenses to a single point, the tip of the arrow burning to bury itself in the heart of pride.

Of hubris.

She looses, and the arrow describes an arc of silvery-gold flame, a line speeding straight for Glorious' black heart.

Bright Journey The arrow is less a shaft of wood and metal and more of a line of piercing, all-devouring Essence at this point. It strikes Glorious dead center in his chest, clawing for his heart with unfathomable, irrestible force. Bright's force of will, focused through her powerful anima, is a brilliant shaft in the darkness of the seas outside Elderloch. It pierces straight through Glorious, transfixing him with its immeasurable power, and he instantly erupts in a -massive- bonfire of golden flame.

The flames rage for minutes, even surrounded by boiling water, and when they die down there is absolutely nothing left but a trace of swirling ash.

Silk Moon Lotus The shadow that is Silk shields its eyes from the glow and marvels at something burning underwater. With the threat past, the shadow fades to reveil a shadowy woman wreathed in a black aura shot through with gold and crimson ribbons racing through it. She bends down and starts gathering up the armor from where it fell to the seabed. The water rapidly cooling it. She bows to her companions and nods to her good friend Bright. "Well fought everyone. We should take our leave of this battlefield. We shall rest the rest of the rightous tonight."
Rishi Rishi gets a stricken look on her face for a moment, before it settles into determination. Her anima glows even brighter, shadows boiling beneath her she she dives into the plume of fire and boiling water, claws out, mouth open. She is inside the plume for a long moment, before she dives out, chewing on something no-one can see.
	 After another long moment, she gives a gulp, and her tattoos blaze gold for a moment before returning to silver. As she continues swimming back though, her hair starts to shimmer and shine through it's moonsilver coating, eventually settling down into more of an electrum hue that implies a nice rose gold color to the hair underneath. "Hmmm...That will be most interesting. I wonder if Ammy or Pearly would be liking it?"
Bright Journey For all of Bright's incomparable majesty a moment ago, her anima banner is now entirely gone and while she's unhurt, she's definitely looking a bit knackered as she swims up and over to join everyone else by where Glorious finally met his end. She yawns, but is all fond smiles as she draws close. "A battle well fought, everyone. And you're not kidding about sleep. That..." She chuckles and looks at Elderloch. "It'll be one for their history books, I suspect, but I'm going to sleep very well tonight regardless. Are you all right, Silk?"
Silk Moon Lotus "I have not allowed my anima to blaze like this in some time. He took the wind out of me, that is all, nothing to worry about. It took me a few moments to recover and now I have a fancy new sword.
Rishi Rishi swims up to join the others, her body that of a silver mermaid with gilvery-gold hair. "That was being a most excellent job everyone!" She looks slightly miffed at Bright, "I am understanding why you did this thing, but I hope that you will not be destroying more of the souls in the future without the most exceptionally good of the reasons." She looks down and pats her tummy. "I am thinking that I have gotten most of him though. Ashuria may being able to be saving him and turning him back into the friend she once knew." She gives a feral grin "If not, it will be of no trouble to be finishing what you started, so do not be worrying about that."
	 She looks over at Silk. "Are you being all of the right? When I saw him hit you I.." she looks contrite "I know you are not liking the Demons, but I knew of one that was having her own army, so I did the summoning just in the case." Rishi looks around "I think she did some of the helping." She goes to touch Silk, presumably to check her for wounds, the seaweed and thorns dissipating, but hesitates, clearly worried that Silk is going to be angry with her.
Silk Moon Lotus "Thank you for assistance Rishi. He mostly wounded my pride. I will be find with a good night's rest. I do look forward to sleeping in my bed once more." She looks over at Amethyst "I am glad that we were able to save your home." The armor that she was collecting seems to have disappeared along with the grand daiklaive.
she turns back to Rishi "I will admit that this demon you have summoned is a good one. I do not know that I wish to play against it as I do not trust them."