Hisbiscus City

Seeing the tar monster get an extreme moment of weight loss was satisfying, less so when it didn't keel over. Blitz growled. "Didn't think it would off it easily, but I hoped it would at least slow the beastie down a bit more..." Then, seeing Ace's flare go off, he turned his feet into wheels, nodding to Tiir to follow, and sped towards Ace, dodging the occasional panicked citizen or trickle of tar. When he saw Ace and Giacomo, he screeched to a halt, leaving a long black skid mark on the tiles. "Ace, I know you've got a plan - a flare means you have a plan or need help, and i notice a distinct lack of tar on you - but here's a backup idea - if your plan doesn't take the thing down, what if i made a makeshift bomb from metal bits and fire lacrima and you teleported it inside the beast itself? or better yet, inside the heart?"

Giacomo was helped up by Ace after being pushed to the ground. Something he had to find way to counter for, knowing that he would be defenceless when on the ground. He saw the tar move towards the centre of the city, with Ace following close behind it. Since Ace had signalled him to follow he did so, to not come off rude. Keeping in the back of his head that he wasn't for close quarters combat, but for long range balistics. As he followed Ace he could see the massive tar creature form in front of them. Ace seemingly having seen the same thing, but a lot later stops before colliding into the collosal blob.

When a fireball hit the creature it screamed of pain and turned to the culprit, something Giacomo considdered a dangerous situation, knowing that a single mage would never stand a chance against that massive thing. Feeling that it's the best option left he takes aim at the creature and fires a reasonably sized shell straight into the creatures head. Having made it an airburst it explodes right in the centre of it's head, creating a rain of tar as the head blasts into droplets. Unfortunatly the droplets seemed to return to the blob and his action had only bought them some time and distracted the creature. The only thing substantial was that wilst it was reforming the 'heart' moved slower and was partialy exposed. Though probably too sturdy to destroy with a single bullet, he yelled to Ace. "I am going to give the thing another shot, when the heart exposes itself shoot to your hearts content!" He would want to destroy the heart himself, but it was moving around too much for him to accuratly hit and he wouldn't be able to shoot the heart in the short regeneration time.

Once more Giacomo takes aim for the head and shoots an airburst shell straight into it. Exploding right on que and sending another load of tar skywards and back to the ground.
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Kalas heard Tai say that she was scared and with a slight smile on his face he said wilst having to breathe every few words: "Don't worry about being scared, nor about admitting it. Being scared is very usefull, it prevents us from doing stupid things, and it helps us recognise danger." He looked at the creature thinking to himself: "I used to be scared by these sort of things, nowdays I don't know what scares me anymore. It's a pity, that it no longer prevents me from doing stupid things, nor does it warn me for danger. Living without fear isn't couragous, it's reckless."

Kalas looked at Tai when she said she could fight the creature, but she would need help. "I don't think I can do much at this point, at best I could give you some support, but at this point I don't have a lot left in the tank." He said with an appologising experssion on his face.

Blitz glanced around, snapping up street lacrima and metal to construct his makeshift bomb if needed - in a hurry he could just dump the lacrima into in the bomb's core and add a bit of magic to destabilize it. He snatched up more metal and formed it into a rough cannon on his shoulder, taking aim at the creature's heart, waiting for Giacomo to give him an opening. If Ace was too busy to teleport it in, maybe firing it would be enough.

Standing perfectly still eyes shut while the others came to help, Ace begins summons all the magic power he could in his body , while Giacomo fires some pot shots into the creature . As the tar continues to fall the heart was moving back into the tar too quickly to make an accurate hit. Blitz apparently had seen the flare and he was quickly rolling over towards them.

"Ace, I know you've got a plan - a flare means you have a plan or need help, and i notice a distinct lack of tar on you - but here's a backup idea - if your plan doesn't take the thing down, what if i made a makeshift bomb from metal bits and fire lacrima and you teleported it inside the beast itself? or better yet, inside the heart?"

"We need to get this thing as far away from the city as we can Blitz, I'm not risking a bomb going off in the middle of town." Ace says while still focusing. " Though once it's heart is out I want everyone to blast it to kingdom come."

Hearing Hershell's screams coming from the monster, Ace stops for a moment, his portals still weren't strong enough to be able to send people through them so the thing had to be stopped quickly if they had any chance of saving him . "HERSH!, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, HOLD YOUR BREATH!" Ace shouts as he opens his eyes, Three large portals appear above the mage each about a meter apart stacked on top of each other. Near where Giacomo had left a opening a fourth portal appears. As the tar starts to leak into the portal it reappears from the middle portal above Ace's head. Finally seeing the heart fall into it, Ace almost instantly dismisses the two connected portals As the heart falls into the bottom portal it comes back out the top portal building momentum. As Ace allows the heart to gain speed the rest of the tar quickly begins to travel towards the mage. When the giant flood of tar was mere seconds away from devouring the young mage he readjusts the top portal aiming it upwards and, towards the ocean. Crossing the portal threshold almost in a blur the heart quickly goes flying high into the sky. As the tar began to fly after its heart. Ace spots a familiar hand in the down the street heading towards him in the moving tar mass as it heads for the sky. Ace throws his hat and guns onto a nearby table as he jumps up onto a light post, Ace tightly wraps his legs around the top as he sticks both his hands into the moving tar. Feeling his guild mates hand amongst the thick liquid he grabs it and is almost instantly jerked into the tar himself. As his legs strained to keep himself locked on the light post he begins to pull his arms back out. Quickly he begins to make out the figure of the lazy mage as he pulls with all his might. With one final giant tug Hersh comes flying out of the tar, falling to the street below. Caught slightly off balance by the act Ace loses his grip on the post and falls right after him.

Blitz nodded, sprinting around to nab all the nearest street lacrima he could, grabbing others from ovens and other devices, including his makeshift bomb, before dumping them in a heap on the street and swiftly placing his hands on them to absorb them all - totaled up, around 100 lacrima. Not much individually, but together...He molded them into a heap inside his chest, his torso actually glowing from the energy, before he placed both hands together facing the beast, which quickly turned into a giant cannon-like gun, as his feet grew clamps on the side to hold him in place. As red light pooled out the barrel, he yelled, "100 Lacrima Special - Impact Cannon!" As a giant ball of fire and crystal slammed out the end of the gun, the recoil cracking the stone of the street, as it would have knocked Blitz off his feet without the claws. As it sped towards the heart, the tar moved to defend, but got shredded through by the heat and energy, being thinned out from Tai's earlier attack. The giant shell slammed into the heart just off-center, ripping a huge chunk out of it;s left side as the crystals shot into the nearby tar, igniting patches of it near the heart as the giant behemoth let out a gurgling roar.

Blitz laughed. "This." said Blitz, turning his feet back into wheels and taking off fast enough to make the tires screech as they turned on the pavement, He held his hands out, the remnants of Tiir's Gungnir strike bolts playing around his fingers before diving into them, gathering more and more as he gathered until his hands sparked and glowed with blue sparks. Ramping off the side of a destroyed building into the air doing a triple somersault, he hurtled over the creature's heart, broken off in pieces and fried with lightning, but still ticking. He stretched the metal around his fists to super-size them briefly, letting the stray bolts gather into his palm before clenching his fists, falling right onto the heart, smashing it with both fists before yelling "Thunder Crush!" as the heart was flattened against the pavement, creating a good-sized crater as Blitz's aerial attack in unison with the last of Tiir's bolts drove the heart into the ground, crushing the metal and gears under his fists as tar sludged over nearby buildings near the heart.

Blitz covered his face with his arms as the heart exploded, letting them drop as the explosions came to an end. As Nevark landed, Blitz approached him from behind. "Nice move, Master - but honestly, punching the heart right after I did? You're such a show off," Blitz said with a laugh. "Where the hell did these things spring from, anyway? Though at least they'll be useful - we can use all this tar to patch up the roofs they smashed," Blitz said with a chuckle.

Blitz let out a sigh. Pity that all the repairs were done, he thought. He had made a killing off those - though he had agreed only to take on the jobs that were too expensive or time-consuming for the contractors and builders, much to their relief. Still, nothing like the ability to lay a hand on a busted object and get enough coin to pay the rent 5 seconds later. He swung his guitar around with his right hand in a circle, making it thrum in the air as it spun. A few people waved at him, either from his various repairs or his part in the Bicentennial Incident - firing a giant cannon into a massive tar monster looming over the town kinda stood out. Though he had been nice enough to repair the house he had used to ramp off for free, in exchange for it's help in getting him a good shot at the beastie. He had helped clean streets too - that monster let a lot of loose tar out when it gave out, and turning into a vacuum cleaner to vent it up and spit it into a furnace was handy at the time, minus picking out the not-to-be melted debris that got caught in the tar - bits of stone, mortar, wooden splinters, scraps of the tar men clothing, and for some reason, a butcher knife. Still, good pay. He began to meander back to the guild, propping his guitar over one shoulder with his right hand so the head of it hung behind his left shoulder.

Having the tables turned on him, Ace couldn't help but feel slightly embarrassed though that was kind of a cheap shot. Grabbing Blitz's hand he pulls himself up.
"Well I'm off. I'll see you around Blitz." Ace says as he brushes some sand off his clothing. Taking off at a small jog he realizes that his head is still bleeding from the rock the material mage had shot at him. Reaching into his back pouch he pulls out a small bandage and places it over the wound.

-10 minutes later-
"Ace! Could you put that crate in the back" Mr. Denils calls out pointing to a as the two of them sort through the old man's somewhat messy toy shop.

"Sure thing Mr. Denils"

As Ace walked into the back room he placed the crate on a nearby table. As he goes to leave something catches his eye. It's an old photo taken in front of Golden Leo. In it several mages Ace can't recognize were all standing in front of the door with his grandpa who looked at least thirty years younger. As Ace moves towards it to look at it in further detail, Mr. Denils enters the back room.

"Ah, those we're the good old days. Not to say what you guys are doing now isn't as good. This was taken back when Guildmaster Lewick was in charge." He says walking up towards the gun mage.

"What was he like?"

"Almost the same as your Grandpa, stubborn, headstrong but loved the Guild with every fiber of his being. That's him there" He says pointing to a man who looks just as intimidating as Nevark. Wow, compared to the two of them Ace was an absolute shrimp, sure his grandpa never said anything about it but Ace could tell that he wanted a grandson who well.... stronger and tougher.

"Mr. Denils" Ace said with a slight pause.

"Do you think I could be the next guild master?"

"Of course you can. " He said, placing his hand on the boy's shoulder." Just try your hardest and I'm sure great things will happen for you."

Smiling Ace thanked the Old man who then told him stories from the older days of Golden Leo.