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Things are Changing - Endgame

Who; The Five (Main Fight), anyone for other prompts
What; Bringing down the Demon Bear and dealing with the other things it’s brought with it
Where; (Little Terrors) All over the city; Main Event: Abandoned Square, Noble District
When; Halloween Night (when else?) for the main fight, leading up to Halloween for the others
Warnings; As the DB (Demon Bear) can manipulate the mind and cause hallucinations based on fears, general warnings for scarred characters apply. This will be updated if anything more specific occurs.

Please see threads below for individual prompts.

Note: The Main Event is only for those who volunteered on the event plotting post. It will determine whether the bear is defeated or retreats (retreat is obviously the worse outcome).

The event will affect the rest of the city as well to a lesser extent! Have fun with it!

Please leave all questions here! Any and all questions are welcome, but this thread is actually tracked so I should get a notification for it!

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A menagerie of emotions gathered and knotted within Yuna's chest. Fear, anger, excitement, worry, and some that she wasn't able to put a name to. Her heart hammered violently against her rib cage but she wasn't focused on that. Her own status didn't matter. There was only one thing that mattered, one thought that passed through her thoughts: Caelan. Her friend was missing and she knew that it was somehow this Bear's fault.

Her grip on her guns tightened as a soft silvery glow of magic gathered at the tips of her fingers. She wasn't good with subtleties.

"Don't underestimate it." That was all Yuna said before she stepped forward. The Bear already knew that they were hunting it, she didn't see a reason to try and be stealthy. Instead, she lifted her guns and released a barrage of bullets towards the Bear.

A long day, that’s what this was. But hey, hunting monsters wasn’t just his job here with the guard, but one from back home. And now came the hard part. He felt the panic flutter in his chest, a fluttering that he knew wasn’t natural. He’d been through worse, seen worse, feared far greater things. Whatever was happening was because of this thing.

For now, he stays back a step, certain there were plenty of hot-heads to take the lead. Despite the naginata on his back and the halberd in his hands, he had other plans for the moment. In this case, a barrage of spells he launches off, one after the other. Doing them earlier would have been silly.

Nida gathered power in his hands, his eyes flashing with brassy light as he let off the first burst of magic, the warm tingle of protect spells settling over skin as blue light formed rounded shields before them and then faded away. But the power was still there, a barrier to help lessen the strength of physical blows against them.

“What is hell?” He asks, catching his breath as the burst of five spells in a row left him slightly staggered. He’ll need a moment before he can launch others. “Keep it away from anything flammable if at all possible. I’ve got other spells, but it will need some time to bring it to bear. Pun unintended.”

Ignis looked over at his first companion and couldn't help but a fraction of a smile. The man's attitude reminded him of Noct and Gladio, stating they'd be done with a monster in no time at all. This was Iggy's first bear, though he'd seen his fair share of monsters that were this size or larger. There had been that one Zu that Prompto that said was half-bird, half-airship, and half-storm, making Gladio report that was three halves.

To his second companion, the blonde head shook. "I'm not quite sure, but I'm more than willing to bet we're going to send it somewhere." Hell was a place he'd heard of while being here and upon listening in on the conversation had been enlightened. But he hadn't added anything to it.

With Yuna here, Ignis worried. He just didn't want to see her or anyone else for that matter get hurt. But his innate chivalry was bound to get him into trouble with her because it did with Aranea. However unlike the dragoon, he knew Yuna could heal. And the advisor had been about to tell her to be careful, but then she started shooting it. So much for that link.

And as he was about to move, Ignis felt a warm sort of magic overcoming him. He then turned to Nida and smiled, nodding at the instructions before taking off. He couldn't show the worry he had for the man and instead hopped up on a ledge before leaping into the air to come down onto the bear, shoving his lance into the back of its head.

It's just a bear, it shouldn't take long. The creature enjoyed the mirth of some of the hunters' underestimation. Others were warier and it made note of their locations. It bared its fangs at the young thing who deigned to attack it so brashly, bullets burning into fur and steaming glowing orange liquid dripping from wounds that sizzled as they laced into its hide. The growl that had been growing turned into a howl of rage as moved to charge her, dropping down on all fours and moved, lightning-fast.

Nida's spells were glancing blows as it moved, narrowing missing Ignis' attack as it bore down, claws extended, toward the woman who'd so quickly opted to attack it. It would pick these insolent mortals off one by one, as it had done for eons.

But it would do so slowly, so they felt the pain of their failure.

"If you have a way to banish the beast it may be worth trying whether any of the Hells are here or not." As the protect spell settled on him he gave a small nod to Nida as a silent thank you and an acknowledgement to keep away from flammable objects.

The moment he heard the gun fire Aragibal hefted the huge sword on his shoulder and launched himself at the bear without a moment of hesitation. He moved faster than one might expect: as if the wind itself were helping push him and carrying his limbs to make them lighter. The goal of the plunge was to land him between Yuna and the bear and for him to raise his sword as a rampart between him and the claws.

Should he manage to intercept the bear on its way to Yuna shadows would coalesce around him as a barrier of protection should his sword not be enough, otherwise if he realized he wouldn't manage to put himself between the bear and Yuna the shadows would coalesce around her as an extra barrier of protection from the claws.

Either way, he would move from defensive to aggressive and go on the attack in an attempt to encourage the bear to look at him instead of anyone else.

Yuna tried to avoid the bears strike but she had been too eager and the bear too quick. It's claws raked against her shoulder, down her arm to her elbow with bring scarlet streaks of blood.

She didn't look bothered but annoyed at the injury. She wasn't going to let this slow her down. "You aren't going to get me." She shouted as she lifted her guns above her head and dropped them in front of her. The Twinbee's slowed in their fall, turning to a bright silver swirl of magic that gathered and twisted around Yuna's slender frame. Her clothes glowed and as the magic settled her outfit was now purple and silver with a mic held in her right hand.

"Listen to this!" Yuna brought the mic to her lips and began to sing and dance in front of the large bear. As her body moved, magic gathered around her feet and twisted towards her party.

As she sang, they would all feel a boost of constitution and speed. Her song combating the fear that the bear radiated from it.

Nice song. Get him a single of it some time, because Nida felt more powerful for just hearing it. And that meant a lot. Enough for him to reach out for his own magic again, and launch a curative spell at Yuna. It sucked that he didn't have as high level as he'd prefer to work with in this situation, but hey, sometimes support just meant that you did what you could when you could. And in this case, it was the healing before he called another up. His job here was to keep the bear back from Yuna, and that meant stepping up next to her, heedless of the creature as he gathered the energy for a fire spell and launched it right in the creature's face.

"Over here, you bag of fleas. Can't understand what the big deal is about. Bears are nowhere near as intimidating as dragons. Never have been."

Yeah yeah, pointless taunting, but the thing seemed intelligent enough, so maybe it would help.

Ignis fell as the bear moved but he was quick to draw his daggers to slide down the side of the thing and yet do damage at the same time. But he fell away after it had charged at Yuna. There were three on the ground and Ignis immediately went after it, crouching back down in order to be able to jump back onto it.

Fortunately he wasn't in its face to be hit by Nida's fire spell and he managed to avoid any attacks by the warriors beneath. Once he had come down, he tried to drive his drain lance through the bear's neck for a severing point or what would normally work as one at any rate.

The great beast howled in rage and fury even as the scent of Yuna's blood fueled it onward. The roiling shadows the dragon man clad in armor drew upon himself and its query irritated it more than anything, and then she sang and it felt the magic fortify the others. The demon's fear would not reach them without more effort; effort it could not afford to spend and thus it changed its tactics. While it's great bulk was heavy it was supernaturally agile and it turns away from the burning strike of Ignis' daggers, swiping at those nearest it as a distraction to pull away.

It planted itself on all fours, drawing a visible energy to itself, a shimmering wave coalescing into the beast's hide even as it's black blood trailed from the wounds Ignis had inflicted.

It sucked in a breath and roared, releasing the energy as it did so, a wave of force meant to knock them all down, should they be unprepared, and then, if successful, it will charge the one using healing powers: Nida.

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