The kushala flew to the area, why she did it? She got a feeling... something was calling her. She raised and majestically moved her wings to land on the ground, you could think it was a predator ready to chase a prey, but she was not going to hunt anything. The Kushala with a serious look, she began to look around, trying to find why she came here. OOC: I'll be around, but maybe I need a bit to post, if it will take me time I'll warn you

Zeke and pandoria arrive on the scene to investigate what the light is. "And today I thought we could relax for once...." P:We never get to! But that would be nice once in a while

My apologies, took a while to eat my lunch The dragon sees an ordinary building... although its aura is not ordinary at all. Anyone trying to peer through the window would feel that they were being watched. Both beast and swordsman can hear the crackle of flames rising and falling in an alley.

A surprised expression hits Zeke's face seeing what's going on and heads to investigate with pandoria following him and taking hold of his Weapon, the big band edge "The hell is going on?!"

The Kushala stared at the build for a few seconds, she was not scared by the crackle of flames, since she can live in heat places, but in the middle of the town it could be strange. Also the feeling of being watched motivated her predator instinct, she slowly and carefully moved towards the noise.

Suddenly, a flaming bird flies above the curious individuals. It has no flesh or feathers, only a skeleton. Even so, its flames give it the appearance of a regal phoenix. "You... what power do you seek? Do you consider yourselves worthy of me?"

"Power? What!?" P:What kind of Power...... Zeke glares at the "Pheonix" and so does Pandoria in a bit of suspicion....yet curious to the claim being said about what it means by "Worthy"

A young man in a school uniform wanders through the streets, he'd stare up at the flames and then grin to himself before dashing off toward them. "Oh ho, seems like something interesting might be happening today!" After a moment he'd reach the bird and overhear its little speech about power... His grin widens to the kind of look a slasher has before they claim a victim. "Power huh! I'm a big fan of power, even more so if it's from fire! As for if I'd call myself worthy... Name's Suou, Shadow of the Crawling Chaos. How do you feel about Armageddon?"

"Another bird? Aw man, don't tell me...." With a somewhat worried expression on his face, a blue haired young man rushes onto the scene, staring at the pheonix.

"The power to bring flames to all who oppose. Fire's purpose is to spread." The bird lands, the pavement underneath sizzling slightly. "I am Heat Death, the flame eternal. I seek a host to accompany. Whoever has the most desire for strength, I will lend my wings to." As Heat Death speaks, anyone wary enough would hear a soft noise nearby, as if some wings had fluttered to a stop.

"Me and pandoria seen worse I can say that enough...." Zeke Keeps his focus on Heat Death and pandoria takes notice of the sociopathic man(Chaos tatsuya) And the big bang edge is beginning to gain power from Pandoria

the Kushala tought about what Heat Death said... Power... is what she needs to survive... that is the thing she wish, but accepting power from something like this...? The Kushala moved her head from a side to another, she cleaned her mind, she has the feeling what that is wrong... Lend your strengh to someone who really needs it because I don't need that, I don't even think I should trust you.

Power huh? He begins laughing madly and holds and hand out to the bird, walking closer and feeling fine despite the flames. "Desire for power? I'm made of that! You wanna spread? I'll take those flames and burn whole dimensions in them! Let's burn!" There's a sadistic grin on his face as he stares over at the bird, standing close enough that if it had hands, he'd easily be able to shake them by this point.

"Very well... Come to me, and the contract will be sealed..." Heat Death spreads its wings and begins flying over to the Shadow, but a beam of white light knocks it back. The winged spy reveals itself: a shimmering rainbow serpent, with an eye between its wide-open jaws. Despite this odd body structure, it speaks: "Step away from the bird. Allow me and my master to handle this."

Seeing Shadow tatsuya Zeke puts his attention on him and sends a bolt of lightning to his direction and then makes a full on attack "BRINGER OF CHAOS! ULTIMATE LIGHTING FURY SLASH! MAX!!!" A barrage of Lightning and a Series of sword swings hit shadow tatsuya and follows up with a blade art from Pandoria, Electric circus Basically smacking him around with the sword itself by using the Electrical currents generated

Tch, blasts of electrical energy flow into the man. He wasn't expecting that... But Zeke would note that he isn't harmed too badly, simply a bit singed here and there rather than being all that harmed. "You'd get in my way? Fine then, RIP THEM TO BITS REVERSE APOLLO!" An flowing aura of power rushes from the man, a tall figure in a dark blue and white suit with a mask would take shape in front of the man and waves of flame begin rushing from its hands. They'd form a large wall that darts across the field and aims to slam into Zeke and Pandoira. As for C.Tatsu, he rushes toward the knocked back bird with a blur of inhuman speed and sneers at the snake.

P:Why do I feel like I'm looking at myself? Both Zeke and pandoria Dodge the flames as best as possible trying to regroup a few of the attacks from shadow tatsuya land in success as both in shock seeing a few of there many best arts not doing much to him.... "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?"

Heat Death stays where it is, only craning its neck upwards so Tatsu could touch it. Despite its flames, it would feel only mildly warm. Once contact was made, the bird would vanish, being absorbed into the Shadow's soul... In a futile attempt to stop this, the winged serpent weaves downwards, firing another laser of pure, intense light.

"Aw crap!" Seeing the combat happening before his eyes, Jiyu would dart away to a safe distance from the area, trying to think of an approach to attack one of the enemies.

The kushala surrounded herself with a wind aura in order to protect herself, she was ready to fight wathever she had to. I don't know where is this going... but I'm not going to run away, if you are going to continue fighting, I'll stop you using the force. The Kushala was staring at the fighters, it was dangerous, but she was ready for it.

"Nice! Well, I'm sure we'll have fun with each other... For now though, COME FORTH PERSONA!" The man grins and closes his eyes for a moment. Black energy flowing around him as he mutters "Leviathan". At that, the black energy would take the shape of a giant sea serpent. Water flowing from it as the beast stares up at its foe, it would rush forward in a blur and open its mouth, the beam crashes into the Persona and stuns it for a moment, but once it recovers a vast cannon of water blasting toward the other snake as it aims to get in close and assuming it does Leviathan would then stop firing and aim to clamp its jaws down on the foe. "What am? Do I want to do something bad... God, you guys are clueless ain't ya? I am a Shadow of Chaos dumbasses, I'm formed from all the world's fucking evil, of course, I'm plotting something dangerous!" The man smirks as a shadow long sword takes shape in his hands, he'd have a maniacal grin on his face as he rushes forward at the snake, aiming to slash into its lower body as Leviathan aims to bite down on the head. Reverse Apollo would keep attacking Zeke and his blade, this time 5 orbs of darkness would take shape around the Persona, in an instant, they rush toward the two and aim to slam into the ground near their feet. On contact, they'd explode in a shower of dark energy that hopefully slams into them.

There's no way in Hell the winged serpent's going against this... Thing. "A-another Guardian Spirit?!" It veers off to the side, part of its body getting slashed by the blade. Leviathan's momentum also means that despite not getting chomped, running into the sea serpent is not fun for the rainbow snake. It tumbles backwards and attempts to flee as best as it can.

The Kushala was sure now, C.Tatsu is dangerous, she has to do something. In that case, I'll show you the fury of an elder dragon! The Kushala raised her wings and she began to fly in circles around C.Tatsu, while doing that she began to shoot wind balls to C.Tatsu and his persona, she flew faster and faster to create a gigant tornado with C.Tatsu and his persona inside, to end the attack she went inside and slashed them with her claws. She went out from the other side of the tornado and landed on the ground, she was looking at the tornado, waiting for the next move of her enemy.

"STRATOSPHERIC THUNDER!!!" Bolts of lightning attack reverse appollo and then zeke parries the sword swings from C.tatsuya and the big bang edge power input goes up and the electric currents grow stronger now.

Coming up with a plan that could most likely work, Jiyu extends an arm towards Reverse Apollo with a blue light surrounding his body. "Washington, go forth!" The blue light would manifest itself into a tall spirit like man with long white hair, wearing a continental general uniform and black bandages wrapped around his head, covering everything on his face except for his orange glowing right eye, standing next to Jiyu. Unsheathing his orange glowing sword, Washington would dash towards Reverse Apollo with his extreme speed.

Let's see... One is running, but this is now what? 4 on one, the power flowing around him... Getting to be about time to leave, but the damned tornado rushing at him and Levithan would be an issue on that front. The sea serpent slam's it's body into the ground, oversized teeth biting down and latching it into the ground. As for the tail, it would wrap around C.Tatsu and attempt to hold him in place. Despite all this, the force of the winds still harms them a bit. Upon seeing the dragon rush into the tornado, the serpent's tail would jerk down and allow C.Tatsu to be under the attack, followed by quickly rushing back up and hoping to slam his blade into the underbelly. "Gah, ganging up on me like this? If I were anybody else it'd just be so unfair, good thing that I'm not someone else huh!" He'd drop down to the ground from Levithan. Chuckling as Reverse Apollo is slammed into the Persona would shimmer a bit before conjuring a blade of darkness in its hands. Quickly aiming to stab Washington straight through the chest with the weapon and yank the blade down as much as possible. "Yes get closer, that can only help matters right?"

The winged serpent flies off, although it soon meets up with a woman. The two watch the scene from afar, with the serpent coiled around her.

The sword left a wound on the Kushala's underbelly, luckily, her tough skin managed to protect her from heavy wounds, it was only a cut, but she was bleeding, a few drops of blood fell to the ground. You will need more than that to kill me, I've suffered worse wounds like this one. The winds around the Kushala turned black as her eyes turned more furious, she was very angry now and she wouldn't let C.tatsu leave that easily. The Kuhsala now threw a wind ball to the ground, it created a small black tornado going directly to C.Tatsu, it was impossible to see through it. The Kushala suddenly appeared from that tornado and she flew directly to leviathan, she began to attack Leviahan's eyes in order to "disable" him and stop the support he is giving to C.Tatsu.

Apollo's movements with its own blade were quick... But not quick enough. Instantly reacting to Apollo's blade, Washington would quickly sidestep to the right of the blade, almost getting hit in the left arm by the strike. A moment after avoiding the attack, Washington would make an attempt to quickly strike Apollo with his orange blade four times. If anyone were to look over at Jiyu's previous position, he wouldn't be there anymore. Where on earth did he go?

The man smirks as he sees blood dripping down from the wound, any snark he was going to unleash would be cut short by the tornado rushing at him, however... Upon seeing the dragon attack his Persona he'd smirk, the beast roars in pain and slams itself around wildly as Kushala tears into its eyes. As for Apollo, it'd parry a couple of the strikes yet be struck in each arm once. The thing does not, however, feel the need to actually counter. "Well, this trip has been fun and all but I've got other things to do! Catch you around yeah? But bye bye for now." He grins and holds his hand out, a black door with an unholy aura forming in front of the man as he quickly pulls it open and walks through, just as soon he went in the door, and his two Personas would vanish into thin air leaving behind nothing but those who remain and an empty area. Chaos Tatsuya himself laughs madly from whatever lair his little escape lead to. Small embers taking shape in his hands as the man focuses on the power of Heat Death. "I see, so you'll take some effort eh? I can work with that... At any rate, let's focus on getting even stronger, for now, shall we?" He chuckles and walks off, heading deeper into his realm and searching for something to test his new trick on.

The Kushala stopped attacking when the personas vanished, then she landed on the ground, she slowly calmed herself, but she was worried, her attacks wasn't strong enough to seriously hurt C.Tatsu, she needs more strenght. The next time I see you... I will finish you... The Kushala lied and looked down, she was more tired than she expected, that shadow is stronger than she thought... she is still bleeding from that wound and is being ignored... it could end into something worse if it is not treatened.

"This isn't good at all..." The woman approaches the group, looking pained despite not having any visible wounds. Her serpent, however, certainly is hurt somewhat. "Does anyone know who that was? Or why he had multiple Guardian Spirits...?"

With a twirl of his blade, Washington slowly slips his blade through his sheath on his hip after Apollo had disappeared. "Dammit! He got away!" Jiyu walks from out of the shadows near Washington with both of his hands in fists and his teeth gritted. It seems that he was about to take action in his plan just before Tatsuya had left. Jiyu crosses his arms, staring at his persona just as it looks over to him with his orange eye. He looks down, closing both of his eyes with a sigh. "I gotta train with this thing some more. I haven't exactly mastered it..." Jiyu and Washington both take notice of the woman. "I think he was that Tatsuya guy I've seen a few times. But he was, well, different..."

"Tatsuya? I'll keep that name in mind. And... different how exactly?" The winged serpent nudges her head with his snout. She sighs and rubs his head. "Right, I forgot to introduce myself. Cali Wester, and this is my Guardian Spirit, Eyeris. I came here because of rumors of a phoenix similar to the fabled Heat Death, as well as the odd activity matching Eyebis's domain... No, not Eyeris here. Eyebis."

A figure in a red suit with pieces over his chest that looked more wooden in nature would be standing atop the old building. He'd be trying to view the incident with an immense amount of concentration. Finally, he'd sigh upon realizing how much activity surrounded this building. "This one's no good. Too much activity and not nearly as abandoned as I thought it'd be. Oh well, seems like something else is going on anyway. Hmm, should I be getting involved? There was the strange bird earlier and it definitely didn't bring back the greatest of memories." The masked and armored figure would jump down to the streets below. Despite the massive height of the drop he'd seem to be perfectly fine save for cracking the floor a bit upon landing. "Hey, what's going on here? I was just wandering around this area on business but it seems some weirdo was stirring trouble."

"Hm, sounds interesting..." Jiyu looked between Cali and Eyeris with his hands behind his head. This Heat Death pheonix must be a big deal from where they're from, and now he's involved with it. Recalling that Cali had introduced herself, Jiyu thought that he should introduce himself as well. "Anyways, I should introduce myself too. I'm Jiyu Hatanaka, and this is my persona, Washington." Jiyu gestures over to his white haired persona just as it nods his head once. After doing so, Jiyu turns his head to face the newcomer. "We just had a fight with a brown haired dude and he ran away. Most importantly, who are you supposed to be?"

Johnathon finally manages to stop staring at everything in awe to approach the others, he’s holding a short sword in his left hand So, what exactly is happening here? There’s floating people, and giant mystical birds? Is this normal here? He looks like he’s more scared that confused at this point.

"What's a Perso-" Cali is cut off by the sudden arrival of the armored figure. She doesn't turn around, but Eyeris whirls around to face them with his mouth open. The eye between his jaws seems to glare... "Calm down, Eyeris. That 'weirdo' you're talking about is long gone, but resembles someone named 'Tatsuya.' Last name is unknown to me. Anyway, Mr. Hatanaka, it's a pleasure to meet you. I still have to stay here to handle the situation with Eyebis, although I'll have to call in backup if he doesn't contract a host. Eyeris and Eyebis don't get along, so I can't go in myself." She sighs, then mentally tells Eyeris to look at Jiyu. Something seems to click in the boy's mind. "There. Now you should be able to mentally contact me if Heat Death's host shows up again. Now, unless you have any other information or business, I need to make a few calls..." She then waves her hand at Johnathon. "Long story. Just some important Guardian Spirit business that'll make me miss dinner at this rate."

The figure would look around. There were certainly some strange things here but that wasn't important at the moment. Someone asked for a name so the figure would reply. "You can call me Match, the legendary arsonist. That bird thing reminded me of a monster I've been searching for. Also, "Tatsuya"? I believe I've met a Tatsuya before. He didn't seem too bad, he even convinced his girlfriend to not fight me. Good thing too, I hate having to burn up people. Hmm, I suppose appearances can be deceiving. Do you want me to help find this Tatsuya again? It'd be no trouble for me to find him."

Upon hearing the click in his mind, both Jiyu and Washington would get shocked for a moment, thinking that Cali put something bad in his mind. After hearing her explanation, Jiyu would let out a sigh of relief. Looking over to Match upon him mentioning him finding Tatsuya, he would shake his head. "No, were talking about a different Tatsuya that's quite different than the one that we all know. The Tatsuya that we're mentioning looks really young, about my age, and has an eerie looking face."

"Good, good, that's a lot more to go off of. I'll relay that to everyone else. If you'll excuse me..." Cali taps her foot, staring off into space. Eyeris's mouth closes, and he's apparently concentrating as well. Whatever's going on can't be seen... foof tiem bbs

Johnathon scratches the back of his head before turning to Cali with a hopeful smile on his face Well if you need any extra help you can ask me, I may not have one of those Personas but I’m not half bad with a sword. Who knows, maybe a crash course in this place could help me figure out a way home.

bacc "Hm... I could send you in to make a contract with Eyebis..." Cali thinks for a minute, then shrugs, returning to her mental calls after a link clicks into Johnathon's mind. "Either way, you can mentally contact me if needed now. If you wish to meet Eyebis himself, go into that old building over there."

Match would seem to be lost in thought for a moment. The idea of there being two of one person seemed confusing but the more important thing he would ask himself was whether this was worth his time as opposed to continuing his usual hunt for his own monster. "Alright, I think I got it. I'll help if I can but I'm not looking to get too involved if it means giving up my own goals. I can feel this is important but from my own perspective what I'm doing is important for its own set of reasons."

Thanks, I guess? Johnathon walks over to the old building and knocks on the door, as he waits for a response he thinks about the events that led to him being here in this moment. He then starts mumbling to himself. What was I thinking, following that strange figure into this strange city.

Jiyu smirks at Match after hearing that he'd lend in a hand to help find Chaos Tatsuya. "Great, we could really use more help in finding that son of a bitch and probably taking care of him for good!"

After establishing a quick link with Match, Cali finally gets on with her business... Inside the building, everything is black. When the door opens on its own, it's just... a void. A red eye opens. Then another. And another. Eventually, countless eyes are staring at Johnathon through the blackness. "Who comes here?"

Johnathon quickly freezes in fear. He stands there for a couple seconds in shock before finally speaking up My name is Johnathon, your friend Cali sent me, I’ve offered to help with the situation with the guardian sprit problem, at least that’s what I belive she called it.

The eyes close until a few are left. "I see... I do not recall anyone by that name, but I assume you were sent to form a contract." The eyes seem like they're staring into his very soul. "I am Eyebis, the Guardian Spirit that penetrates the mind. Stare into the abyss, and the abyss stares back, as they say. Should you be able to look fear in the eye, attempt to contract me."

Despite his obvious fear and uncomfort he looks Eyebis in the eyes for as long as possible. However this situation really seems to be getting to him as he starts shaking in fear I’m ready for this contract!

"Then come forward." The eyes slowly move in the vague shape of a bird. The eyes reflected the deepest fears of those who stared in them, yet at the same time, there would be more than that if a closer look was taken...

Seeing that nothing of his interest is happening at the moment, Jiyu extends an arm towards his persona, causing it to get called back to him. He takes his beanie off of his head and dusts it off a bit, revealing the entirety of his blue hair. "I should get going, mostly because I have to train." Putting his beanie back on his head, Jiyu would walk down the sidewalk with his hands in his coat pockets.

Eyebis seems to understand this, as the void filling the room gets smaller and smaller until it takes the form of a shadowy crane with eyes all over its body. Within the eyes, Johnathon can also see Eyebis's own fears. Of being lost, of fading away and never being remembered. That fear still sticks with it even now, but it's a part of it nonetheless. Its beak finally opens. "I... thank you for staying with your choice. I will not disappoint you." With a sigh, it- no, he- loses his form, melding with Johnathon and vanishing. Eyebis's shadowy bird form can still be called at will, but for now, he rests within the human's soul. I, Eyebis, shall see the fears of others and reflect the worries of their souls, much like you experienced. If those that have enough courage can stare us in the eyes, they will see our fears too, but I will not let that keep me from supporting you.

A few tears start going down Johnathon’s face as Eyebis enters his soul, it seems he can relate to Eyebis’s fears on a deep level. Alright then, let’s do this! Johnathon walks out of the building and goes to the hotel that has served as his home these past few days.