After a few thousand miles, you reach Ark’s location. He’s standing on top of a volcano, looking down into it, and seemingly contemplating how deep it goes.

"Ark? That's the name he chose for us? His brain must have been super fried after what happened." "Ark" reaches out his hand, and begins to siphon off some kind of magical energy from the volcano.

Nemesis arrives a bit after everyone else, not really built for such long distance travel. Her breaths came out harsh and anger rolled off in waves. Without hesitation she approached Ark and drew her sword. "You." She points the blade at him, "What are you doing." Although it was meant to be a question, the sentence came off as more of a demand.

Crimson walks behind Nemesis and put his Limiter on her shoulder.  "Put the sword away.  Force isn't needed here.  Do not be quick to judge, rather be quick to your feet." he joked slightly at the last part and walked to the edge of the volcano and crouched down and stared at the flowing lava.  "Dense energy...something lives among the heat...." 

After a few moments, a massive demonic entity emerges from the volcano, dripping with lava, glowing, and roaring. “Ark” is unfazed, and flicks it. It goes flying down the volcano, and slams into the ground beneath it.
”Huh, guess that dragon buffed us up more than I realized. Cool!” He rushes down to the entity, and begins to absorb it’s energy as well. He appears to have forgot you guys were here.

Crimson Limiter reacted to the sudden release of the entity and the dragons energy.  He slowly unsheathed his sword and dagger and threw them into the volcano.  His eyes locked onto Nemesis, then the demon, then Ark.  "Judgement befell you all." he said as his eyes glowed gold and a loud crack was heard from his Limiter.  Quicker than the blink of the eye Crimson's fist smashed into the demons skull, driving it deeper into the volcano.  His gaze switched to Nemesis and he drew two kunai and her feet, in hopes of tripping her.  He finally looked at Ark and jumped off the wall at him and grabbed him by the neck with his Limiter and stared directly into his eyes.  "None shall possess the power of Judgement.  The beasts from which you take only serve to protect, and here you are, a god above them, abusing their power for yourself.  You're no god if you do this, so may I serve as your judge for your actions against those who created me." he said to him, branding a curse upon his neck in shape of a dagger.  "And may this brand serve as a reminder for your sins." he said and began to bash him into the side of the volcano.  

Crimson sank deeper into the volcano, not in pain, but relaxed.  He concentrated onto his flow of magic and created a new arm of solid lava and began to swim out of the lava. Once able to climb the wall he broke little holes into the volcano as foot rests and climbed back to the rim and looked at Ark.  "You're fault for absorbing unstable energy you clearly can't contain.  And assuming you're not a single deity, an alternate soul takes over due to its hold on you.  I almost pity you for this.  For such a deity that is weak you should have complete control over yourself."  

Crimson sighs and takes one step forward, drawing energy and magic from the flames below and matching Ark's aura.  "Two can play this game." he said. 

(Right-o. apologies. I didn't intend for this to turn into a fight thread, so I was trying to steer it away by either establishing the power gap, or someone else intervenes. I'll slow it down.)

Last edited by ThreePunchAxel (October 31, 2022 15:29:25)

"Crimson, please stop pestering. It'll do nothing but worsen the mental state of the host, and strengthen the presense of the CD. That's no good."

As a counterbalance to Crimson's trashtalk, Time says, "Ark. Trust me in my words. Trust me over an outsider who doesn't know but a thing of you. As a fellow member in being a deity of magic, I take notice and will admit to your strength. As long as I have known you, I have though you to be strong."

He continues on casting a quick levitation spell, decending down to the level of Ark, his voice rings out loud and clear over the thrashing winds, "Ark, I know you are strong. You know out of us three deities of magic, I see myself as the logical and scholarly one. So when I make a statement of your strength, I know I am not wrong. I have of course, done research into known abilities."

"And I'm not talking just about your magic power. While your magic power is immense, I think it beats mine in raw strength alone already, I am really talking about you. Not your power, you. You always have a smile, and crack jokes. That's something not many can do, especially among the pantheon. Everyone, including me, is always so serious. Too serious at times."

"This is why..." Time hesitates, looking down for a moment, and then back to Ark, "I think I've been giving you a hard time with Chronos. In truth, while it is truly her choice, I think you two could be a great match."

Tim, in additon to kinda bashing Crimson's name in the beginning, is betting a lot of things here in his speech. That if it still holds true or fails:
1. Ark doesn't notice the concealment of truth in Times voice or aura. Before decending down into the volcano, he casted a spell to hide his true intentions. As well as his possible lies (I really do wonder what he is lying about lol)
2. Posibilty of Ark still having feelings for his twin sister.
3. Ark can actually even hear him while under the "CD's" control, if whatever he is speaking to is even a CD.

((I just spontaneously wrote that up on my phone hope it fits the thread or whatever))

Last edited by Time (November 1, 2022 02:11:25)

"You think- my strength- Chronos- Whah!?" Ark suddenly shifts out of this mode, staring at Time, completely shocked, until he collapses onto the ground, unconscious. 

Crimson crosses his arms and sits down and pouts.  "He started it..."

Crimson looked at his arm and sighed.  "First of all, you killed a dragon, absorbed its energy and went chaotic.  Tried to kill me, nearly did.  I got pissed and tried to rival you, Time intervened and stopped us.  You got knocked out and you owe me big time if I try to kill someone." he said, holding up his crumbling lava arm.  "You've no clue how hard it is to repair a Limiter, let alone make one!  And secondly what the heck are you!?" 

"Wait, hold up! What are we going to do now?" Ark struggles a bit, but doesn't attempt to break the chains. "I don't remember doing any of the stuff you're telling me about, and my soul is still the only one in my body, so what the hell is going on?"

"No, I've only got one. Here, let me show you." Ark moves his arm out of the chains and summons a view of his soul, and it is... interesting. The best description that can be given is that it's two souls violently smashed together. It is definitely one soul, as it's been stuck that way for so long that that's how it will appear if viewed, but it's two different sets of colors stuck together. Despite that, however, the souls were merged expertly, clearly done by some kind of scientist with knowledge in these matters. They've become codependent, and cannot be separated without them both dying.