(GS3) Field: Hoshiko High School

[Cipher Izanagi]

As the fight started, Seifer opened up looking for his trump card... and yet it didn't show. Then again it hadn't shown up in his fights up to now in the school so why should it here? Taking an early lead, the brunette pushed his reversed sister to the edge with a superior ride, reaching grade three first even though he went second.  Even without Nouvelle Vague, the fight seemed largely in Seifer's favor, even when Noel rode Ashlei Reverse. Several turns into the fight and he still hadn't seen his evolution, even though his triggers were responding. Ashlei's limit break however kept taking away what field presence he had, removing his effective advantage. However at the time he needed it most... He drove the dragon god.

"See the world through my eyes. Become my hopes and will, purify the darkness that binds! Ride!"

The turning point of the fight, Seifer rode the Grade four, his flames becoming even hotter and brighter. Even with that though, he still couldn't end it that turn... And her advantage continued to grow, even on her turn. Reduced to just two cards in hand, Seifer drew... And upon realizing what he drew, realized that he could turn the tide with this.

"Transcendence Dragon, Dragonic Nouvelle Vague's Limit Break! Purifying Flames!" by paying the hefty cost of a triple counterblast, triple soul blast, and dropping Nouvelle's mirror from his hand, Seifer's new dragon subdued Noel's entire rear guard, leaving her alone against the dragon's power.

"Bring her back! Nouvelle Dragon! Transcendent Blaze!" even with Noel's handsize, Seifer was trying to end it here... And the dragon god responded, evolving a new skill. The ability to cancel the guarding with grade zeroes. Even with this new evolution... Noel still guarded for a two pass... The Brunette hesitating for a moment. The moment of truth. Driving the first card... Was Dragon Dancer, Barbara... A heal trigger. Risking it all he stacked it to Nouvelle Vague and confidently drove the second. A critical trigger. All effects went to his Vanguard, and Noel was driven to six. At the end of the fight, the male was panting, the illusion of the units that currently surrounded them disappeared... Though Nouvelle looked back at the male before disappearing fully.

[Cece Lockhart]

"Break his heart and scatter his soul into oblivion! Ride my Avatar of Darkness! Broken Heart Jewel Knight... Ashlei REVERSE!!"

Seifer had gained an early lead in their fight. Riding to grade three the same turn he rode into grade two allowed Seifer to gain hand and damage advantage. What seemed like a tough climb for Noel, all she did was have an evil smile. She was enjoying the fight even though the stakes were high. And slowly, Noel started to close the gap and eventually be the one with the advantage

"COME ON NIIII-SAN! LET'S PLAY SOME MORE!! The weak has no place in this world! Make room for those destined to rule! Limit Break! Dark Sword Tyranny!" And with the acquired ability to Lock, Ashlei Reverse stabbed her own ally, Shellie and injected her with the power of Void which caused Shellie to be entrapped in a prison with black and red rings. Then Ashlei swiftly struck down one of Seifer's rear guards. Ashlei's morals have been twisted, by sharing the pain on both sides, their sacrifices allowed the call of a brand new Jewel Knight to join the field.

The more Seifer took out her field, Ashlei quickly refilled it with more units while striking down his units. Noel now had the advantage, her victory was assured until...

"See the world through my eyes. Become my hopes and will, purify the darkness that binds! Ride!"

Seifer rode into a unit which was never seen or heard of before. A unit of god-like status. A Grade Four who's power transcended across time to join the battlefield. However, Ashlei was strong enough to withstand an attack of that magnitude. Noel and Ashlei brought the god-like dragon known as Nouvelle Vague almost to the edge of defeat until the dragon god used it's divine power.

"Transcendence Dragon, Dragonic Nouvelle Vague's Limit Break! Purifying Flames!" A heavy cost of three counterblasts and soul blasts along with a persona blast, Nouvelle Vauge obliterated Noel's field leaving Ashlei Reverse all by herself.

"No! I won't let it end this way! I guard!! What?! My grade zeroes! They are on fire! What's going on?!" Noel couldn't believe what was going on. Her grade zeroes caught fire and were unable to guard. The dragon god unlocked another of its divine abilities which nullified the use of grade zeroes as guardians. However, Noel used other units of higher grades to block a two trigger pass attack. That didn't stop Seifer, he risked everything he had on this last turn and checked into a heal followed by a critical trigger.

"I... cannot lose!! I won't lose!!" Noel checked her first damage, no trigger. As she was gonna go for the second damage check, she suddenly realized her heals were all out of the deck. Six damage. Noel had lost which meant...

"AHHHHH!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" The Reverse aura started to rapidly gush out of Noel's body causing a tremendous amount of pain and when it was all gone, her consciousness started to fade and passed out.

[RosaliaIzanami]

Rosalia looked up at the start of the fight, watching as the silent tears that fell slowed to a stop. She had cried enough, her eyes red and aching, but she watched nonetheless. Maybe it would help her calm down... or bring her out of the world of gray... By the end of it, it was more like she had finally accepted that Venus Luquier was gone, and yet, she had no one to blame but herself. Noel had been Reversed when she tore up the redhead's precious avatar, but it was Rosalia herself who had Reversed Noel in the first place... At least... Noel was saved... by the strange power that was a Grade Four. She looked to Seifer when he had rode Transcendence, Rosalia tilting her head slightly. He had showed Onee-chan his incomplete Kagero deck... Was this the missing card?...

She didn't ask. Instead, the female got to her feet, finally standing up from kneeling on the floor throughout the entire fight. She moved to Seifer's side, wanting no more than to cling to his arm and cry again... But chances are, he was needed to carry Noel. It wasn't quite easy to deal with two people at once like that... "I'm... glad you came..." she spoke up, eyes half shut as she glanced to the now unconscious Noel. "Do you.. think she kept Ashlei Reverse?... Like I have Luquier Reverse?..."

[Cherry]

Ashlei, naturally, had been Reversed this entire time. A realization Salome didn't want to accept. She just wanted to believe the purehearted airhead was missing, but that was not the case. Noel pulsated with a maddening amount of energy that also coated the Jewel Knight. A Limit Break that left her jaw agape - Dark Sword Tyranny. The other gemstone warriors found themselves locked to be forcibly called into battle by the twisted nature of a contorted heart. This rule of the Broken Heart Jewel Knight reigned over the Flame Dragons, giving them leisure to give no mind to Kagero's retire.

In response, the power of the voice in Seifer's dreams discovered by Ahmes became real. An ancestral creator dragon of Grade Four descended - Nouvelle Vague. Salome had never even known about the existence of this unit, much less the possibility of a grade beyond most others being ridden in the game. It wasn't immediately enough to stop Noel's rampage, yet, still incredibly worrying how much damage the dragon god did to her friends. Soon after, a Persona Blast for a Limit Break was utilized, setting fire to everything in sight. The Jewel Knight rearguards vanished, and Grade Zero guardians were burned away.

Seeing the defeat of her Vanguard was relieving, but then came the hard part. The Reverse energy forcing itself out of the girl. Salome darted forward, catching her vanguard before she fell on the floor. A rare moment occurred, one that scarcely happened since the invasion began. The Leading Jewel Knight smiled without worry, holding Noel, hugging her closely.

"That was a little much, don't you think...?" She asked Seifer, not very pleased with knowing a Creator Dragon exerted almost all force possible to bring them back.

Still, she was content. Just a mental note to pay Kagero back in full later was made.

"Thank you", the woman spoke, standing with his younger sister. The unconscious girl was handed over before Salome would vanish into the deck. Into Noel's deck to reunite with Ashlei.

[ShadowCM]

Khudus had been fighting around the city for days on end. He never had much chance to rest especially as route to hotel was just as plagued by Reverse fighters as anywhere else so he decided to fight and destroy as many reverse fighters as he could. As he had finished with another he was preparing to hunt down another when he felt something in one of the rooms in the building. He just stood there staring. He had never felt powers from fights much before.

This power was so strong he couldn't move at all. He was engulfed by how powerful it was. When it faded he started to shake. He looked at his hand as it trembled. What was that? Such power. Curious he decided to search the school searching for what caused such power.

[Cipher Izanagi]

Salome surprised him, appearing to take Noel into her arms and not let her drop, though when she was handed over he picked her up princess style, since he had no idea how long she'd be out. "Unfortunately it was necessary..." The male glanced over at the red head with sad eyes. "It's possible. Though let's keep an her for now." with how today has gone it was time to actually take a rest though. Turning the male trotted out hopefully with everyone in tow, taking them back to his house.

[RosaliaIzanami]

Rosalia watched as Salome had caught Noel, rather than Seifer like she expected. But, it was nice... At least Noel has other grade three Jewel Knights to watch over her... She lowered her gaze again and followed the male out of the building. Above the school, given that Noel's reign of terror was finally over, the ring hovering in the sky should have disappeared. At least the redhead assumed so. She didn't bother to look up and check. They had their missing companion back, and that's all that mattered right now...

[ShadowCM]

Khudus was searching the whole school. He wanted to find the power. Maybe if he found it he could get some answers. Like what was happening. He found a door which was closed. He felt some sort of power on other side. Excited he rushed over and opened the door.

Hi there. I was hoping we could tal... Before he could finish he saw it was only teachers inside and they were all reversed. He tried to back out but students blocked his excited. He looked down and sigh. COME ON! SERIOUSLY! He knew only way out was too fight. Something he was getting sick off and that was one of the few things he thought he would never get sick of.

[Hope]

"Being possessed by an alien energy thing doesn't excuse you from having to do the schoolwork."

Sighs.

Homework, and more homework. Things apparently stacked up during all the reversing and not much had really been coming to school. Then there was the fact that the school itself got reversed. Well that was just dandy.

"Sensei! Sensei! I remember that I fought you and you were reversed too!" Isabella raised her hand.
"No?"
"Yes."

Sensei-kun-chan-sama was one of the reversed fighters over at the park that one day. Used Great Nature, not because of the teacher role or anything. She he just really likes furry animals. Teacher is a furry. Also gender less if it wasn't apparent by now.


Either way, piles of homework awaits.

[Jello]

The entire ordeal was not pleasant for Sera nor Haruka. Whilst they were in the separate dimension, they felt consistent moments of stasis, causing them to stay back at the shop with Neu who chatted nonsense or some other away in order to keep Sera from crushing her from the inside out, should he ever gain the strength to move again.

However that never happened. He eventually found himself falling into a deep slumber at the card shop. Sounds of crackling and laughing around, but nothing major. All he knew was that his dreams were starting again with the flames and the field. Things got more vivid, yet all dreary at the same time. This time was the same. The fire. The screams. The giggling. The arms. The only thing different was the smell of smoke and fire was much more intense....

He woke up at home. Presumably Sera had gotten a small conscious headstart in the waking up process and took the host body home. How thoughtful. The portal must have opened at some point, which is nice. However Haruka woke up to a throbbing headache and a school alarm. Riggggghhht.

Toast in mouth, Haruka raced down into the school entrance, starting to break a sweat. Running to school was commonplace for him so he didn't feel that exhausted really. It was brisk outside, to say the least. He went up the marble-white stairs and into his classroom on the third floor, class 3-C. The dummy class.

This sucks.

You suck.

When did you become a total twit?

When you started having crappy dreams that I'm now forced to remember. Man that sucks.

You're telling me. Been over a year for me; you'll get used to it.

[Hope]

Hana was over in the school yard, fiddling with her phone at the start of break which. It apparently updated itself mid-class and and had all sorts of weird features now. It was also going much slower and buttons were all over the place. Her muscle mempry led her to move her fingers where the old buttons were and using this phone was now getting frustrating for her pverall. Dumb update. First world problems.

It's been silent though. Calming.

[Jello]

Breaaaaaaaak tiiiiiiiiiimeeeee!

Haruka flew out of the classroom, not wasting a second to disappear from the conglomerate of actual no-nothings. Upon reaching the courtyard with his briefcase, he caught glimpse of Miss Hana Espoir. Or Isabella Hope. Haruka addressed her as the former, Sera went with the latter as of recently...

Sera really liked her album.

"Yahellooo!"

Man, what did I tell you?

She's my friend too, you know...

Haruka shook his head in disappointment at Sera's awkwardness. He was truly a high school boy at heart. Cute.

[Hope]

"I'm sorry." The phone spoke.
"Oh my gee, I was just trying to get to the homescreen!" She scratched her head.
"Okay, there are 3 window stores near you."
"N-..." Press more buttons, less speaking.

The phone decided to play loud emo music back from when she was going through her goth phase. She frantically tried to turn it off. "Ohayou!" She waved nervously over to Seruka, pressing buttons on her phone as it played the most depressing song in the world.

Emo idol phase was cringe-worthy.

[Jello]

She's so kawaii...

You're actually trash.

"What's uh, up? Your phone giving you trouble?" Haruka caught on to the frantic spam of buttons and was curious as to what was going on. Haruka wasn't usually too perceptive, but Sera pointed it out when her emo trash started playing. Sera was sort of into it, but probably only because Hana even had it in the first place. God Sera is actually the trash child Haruka never wanted, but got stuck with anyways.

Sera mentally pouted.

[Hope]

"Yep! This is trash, I should ask manager-San if I can get a new one." Nervous laughter. With hopeful eyes she looked upon her phone as the music finally stopped.
"Now texting Manager-san. The following message: "You are trash." Sending.'
"YAMETEEEE!"
"Message sent."

Despair. This was the end of the world. Her idol career is over. In a fraction of a second, her phone vibrated with a text message notification. She decided to slip her phone back into her pocket. Enough for today.

"Hmmm.. so how's world domination? At least school is back. That's both good... and bad." Darn homework. The cherry blossom perfume that she bought on the way here today smells nice. Walking air freshner.