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Lloyd's Final Folly
Sephiroth/Fou-lu/Ryu vs. Iseria Queen
~Excal/ES
"Well, it's taken you long enough. Have you finally gotten what I asked for?"
"No... I couldn't, but I've gotten something better."
"Dammit! What did you get?"
"I can't say. Just know that I'll summon her with this trumpet when the time is right."
"You'd better not screw this up. I can't show my face in the ring again until this is finally settled."
"You know I can't either... Just trust me, he'll never know what hit him."
"Very well... then we proceed."
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"What do you want Ryu for?" Nina glared at Fou-Lu as she stood protectively by her dragon.
"An old matter that needs resolution. I have been invited to a final battle between myself and that deluded fool, Sephiroth. However, I do not trust him, and desire my second half to come with me as insurance against any tricks he may attempt."
"So you're going to risk him because of your problems?!" the Wyndian shrilled back at him.
"I hardly think there is any risk at all where the two of us go together given our... considerable power. We should be well able to defeat whatever treatchery is attempted."
"Ryu... you aren't going to go, are you?"
At this the leader of the Light Dragons, with his trademark "...," merely nodded. Fou-Lu gave him the time and place, and left him to prepare.
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Sephiroth was pleased with the location he had found. It was located on the neutral ground that the Duelling League calls home, but it was a remote enough location and well enough fortified that even a score of Godlikes could do battle here and none outside would be the wiser. He might have preferred a more public place for this battle, but there were far too many who came here who put honour over practicality, and he couldn't allow them to interfere. And so he waited in his secret arena for Lloyd to come, leading his accursed foe to his defeat. He didn't wait long. Soon enough the Wingly came, leading a pair of dragons with him. Sephiroth had let it be known in his challenge that he didn't object if Fou-Lu brought an observer; it was doubtful that any his opponent brought with him could survive any battle after the elder dragon fell, and Ryu was one who could easily be dispatched by Lloyd regardless. With all going so well, Sephiroth allowed himself a small smile. Today he would not be denied.
"An interesting venue for such a battle," Fou-Lu observed, standing as though he were the one who had issued the invitation.
"Indeed, our struggle is one which is not meant to provide entertainment for the masses," Sephiroth sneered. Lloyd's folly had proven far more embarrassing and long-lasting that the Wingly's baldness had after his humiliating loss to a human. "Let us end it in a more fitting manner. Lloyd?"
Though Fou-Lu showed nothing, he could see Ryu's eyes following Lloyd, and soon he could hear the instrument sound. This had the entirely unexpected of unsettling his foe, and then he saw shock show on his opponent's face. The dark dragon hurled a spell, catching the ultimate soldier offguard, but even more surprising, he wasn't the target; Lloyd was. He could hear the Wingly being hit, but that didn't hold his attention anymore as he could feel massive magical energy forming in the centre of the room. It seemed that Lloyd's song had been meant to summon something, and it had heard the call.
"No! Have you no idea what you have unleashed?" Fou-Lu called out at him.
"Yes! We've unleashed your doom!" Lloyd called out from behind him.
"You've unleashed the doom of us all! That one cares for nothing but destruction!"
Sephiroth could hear Lloyd's cackling laughter and felt his worries grow. He should have made sure that he knew what the Wingly had planned, but he had been too busy planning vengeance. And it seemed the humiliation of both his early termination in his mission, the ridicule of his companions, and the loss of his hair had caused the Wingly to take leave of his sanity. And then it hit him, there was but one being that came to the summons of a silver horn, Iseria Queen, a malevolent being kept locked away by a being more powerful than most of Godlike. And he had just helped unseal her...
His thoughts were interrupted as the magical energies ceased. Iseria Queen had arrived.
"Well now, you are the fools who dared call me and release me from my bonds? Ah... and on such a rich world as this one?" the potent being spoke to them all as she hovered above them. "For this you deserve a reward, and I grant you all the boon of a swift death!"
"Foolish woman, we shall not allow you to destroy this realm! By my strength thou shalt fall!" Fou-Lu called out as Ryu drew his blade and issued a cry of "!!"
"There's no place for you here!" Sephiroth decided swiftly that, whatever his grievances with Fou-Lu, siding with him was preferable to destruction, and drew his Masamune. "Fou-Lu, we can settle our differences later, for now let's work to take her down!"
"Agreed!" grunted the dark dragon as he prepared for battle.
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Fenris
Unless Iseria can somehow manage to take down the Infinity Dragon in one attack, Fou-Lu and friends should be able to pull this off. The Infinity regenerates its HP to full at the end of every round. I think it can survive the first round against Iseria. Unfortunately for the Queen, Infinity can treat every round as if it was the first.
Sephiroth, Fou-lu and Ryu: 20
Iseria Queen: 15
Infinity Dragon
Sure, Iseria Queen is frighteningly powerful and can smoke entire parties with a single Cosmic Spear. That won't do much once Fou Lu and Ryu merge into Infini and Sephiroth casts Wall on the fusion. Infini laughs at even Empress Massacre and fully regenerates his HP every round. Iseria eventually falls to a slew of Dark Waves.
Genocide Heart
Just for the record, I agree with Niu claiming that Iseria is the same in all Enix games. SO3 proved it anyway. Which means the VP form applies, and Empress Massacre equals OHKO on each and every one of the three opponents. Whereas they... can't KO her fast enough.
Semifinal
The only hope for Sephiroth, Ryu, and the great Fou-Lu is for Fou-Lu to absorb Ryu and become complete. Of course, Fou-Lu should try to wear Iseria down with his Tyrant and Astral forms, first. After that, the awesome power and healing abilities of the Infinity.
And even then, to defeat Iseria Queen what they'll need is a little energon and a lot of luck.
Eternalspirit
"Hah! To think that the three of you could possibly defeat me. I have made short work of the best of them, and you three will be no exception! HAH!"
And with that, Iseria launched herself forward, obviously confident of her victory over Fou-Lu, Sephiroth, Ryu, and shortly after, the rest of the world.
Sephiroth could see that Iseria was charging after him first, so he quickly cast his wall spell to try and stop her attack. Unfortunately, it did no good, as Sephiroth fell to the ground after an impact with Iseria's blade.
"So, can you see there's no point in resisting yet? Surrender now, and I'll make sure your deaths are swift and painless!"
"Indeed, thy power is vast, but can thou destroy the likes of two Gods? Prepare thyself!"
"!!!!!"
With that, Fou-Lu materialized his Royal Sword while Ryu strengthened his grip on the Dragon Blade.
"FOOLS!"
All three of the fighters lept at each other, Ryu and Fou-Lu's swords both meeting Iseria's, but the force of the blow, combined with Iseria's vast strength, simply pushed both Ryu and Fou-Lu to the ground.
At that moment, chanting could be heard from behind Iseria - Sephiroth was casting his Super Nova spell .
"Hmph, go ahead and hit me with whatever you've got, and I'll prove to you that I am invincible!"
Shortly after that outburst, the arena turned spacelike as a giant asteroid plowed it's way towards their location, blowing through several planets on the way there. But even using this spell, Iseria could not even be scratched, as she merely stopped the asteroid with her mental powers alone, and using her immense power, ripped right through it with her sword.
"Will you fools finally surrender? I cannot be defeated!"
"Dammit.. how.. did she block that spell.."
"It appears this be the end.."
"Lloyd! I'm going to kill you for.. wait.. where's Lloyd?"
Iseria looked around for his body, but couldn't see him anywhere.
"HAH! So he thinks he can run away! Fool! I'll find him after I'm done with you three!"
--- Down in the Central Sector of Sheltar, the underground world of this planet, the Regents were discussing a deep disturbance that they felt occuring in the world above them.
"This feels like a force even greater than that of Odjn's little "host".." said Jazuit.
"Indeed, but the question is, should we interfere? There may be a chance that this will not affect us at all, and when have we cared about outside issues?" questioned Cupid.
"Hmm, this is true, but suppose this force came down to attack us.. I can already feel a struggle going on up there, if we help those people out, perhaps with their aid, we can eliminate this disturbance? What say you Elyon?" asked Deamoned.
"Hmm.. perhaps it would be best to simply investigate the situation. From that point we can decide whether to involve ourselves or not," said Elyon. "I will go myself."
Meanwhile, back at the intense battle, Fou-Lu, Ryu, and Sephiroth all tried their hardest to defeat Iseria, but Iseria, simply toying with them, just knocked them all back.
"T'would appear that thou hath won in this battle, evil queen. Why hath thou not killed us yet?"
"This has become quite fun, I have found it rather enjoyable to toy with my victims before destroying them. But perhaps this should come to an end. HAH!"
Iseria lept at Fou-Lu, but was stopped by the blade of.. Lloyd?
"Huh? What's this?"
"LLOYD! Where the hell were you?"
Lloyd, without saying anything, took his advantage of surprise and knocked Iseria's blade out of her hands, then impaled her.
"Apparently, I was an idiot to summon this demon, so I've come to help you guys out."
"Heh.. I was defeated once before.. but it took more than a simple stab to do it.."
Iseria simply grabbed the hilt of the blade, pulled it right out of her, and threw it, blade first, at Lloyd, impaling his leg. Lloyd quickly fell to the ground in pain.
"HAHAHA! Can you see now? I cannot be.. DYAHH!!"
Iseria whinced in pain as she was sent flying forwards ten feet from the massive impact of Elyon's fist.
"This world, my dear queen, does not have enough room for the likes of you."
"Dah! Who the hell are you? I'm going to destroy you for interrupting my fun!"
Iseria lept to her feet and dashed right at Elyon.
"I am the High Regent Elyon, and I guarantee that you will not defeat me. Alter Ego!"
At those words, 2 clones of Elyon instantly appeared at either side of him, throwing Iseria off guard in mid charge.
"Whaaa? How did you do that? BAH! I'll destroy them too!"
"Try it."
A fierce battle ensued. Iseria and Elyon ended up matching up quite equally in strength and determination, Iseria knocking out clones as fast as Elyon was able to create them, while Elyon himself contributed offense via his Valhalla spells.
"Ryu.. it appears Elyon.. cannot defeat this demon on his own.. shall we.. become one.. once again?" Fou-Lu had obviously been tired out from all this fighting.
"... *nods*"
Fou-Lu groggily got up, while Ryu needed his sword to balance his weight.
"Ready?"
"*nods*"
It took a little extra effort than the previous attempt at this, but after a couple minutes of concentrating while the fierce battle between Elyon and Iseria continued, Fou-Lu and Ryu merged.
".. what.. just happened?" a startled Lloyd asked.
"Our one hope just happened, Lloyd."
"Indeed, 'tis time to show this evil being the true meaning of power. HYAT!"
Both Elyon and Iseria turned around and stopped dead in their tracks as a massive amount of energy started mounting near them, the trademark signal of a dragon transformation occuring. The first thing Iseria noticed was that Ryu was missing.
"Where is the other guy?"
"Those two fused, queen bitch.." said Sephiroth. "Now it's your turn to feel pain! C'mon Lloyd, let's clear this area."
"Right."
Just as they went for cover, the transformation had completed, and the Infinity Dragon emerged. It gave a massive roar as Iseria and Elyon looked on.
"Such immense power.. I suppose this is to be expected from a God," said Elyon.
"No! This can't be happening! Finally free from eons of bondage, to be defeated by these powerless fools! No! I don't accept this!"
"Accept it. Just as I had to.." Elyon reminisced as he remembered his defeat to Wyrm.
Infinity stormed forward and launched his massive arm in Iseria's direction. Iseria, being the immensely powerful being she was, blocked it, but with difficulty. She may have been able to handle either Elyon or Infinity alone, but together, she stood no chance.
"Prepare for your demise."
Elyon charged forward and landed a direct hit with Pentra Strike.
"Arghh.. NOW I SHALL END THIS!"
".. what is this?"
Elyon looked on, slightly taken aback. Infinity also stood his ground.
"HAHAHAHA! NOW WITNESS MY TRUE POWER!!"
The battle seemed to greatly tip in favor towards Infinity and Elyon, but with this immense power increase for Iseria, the battle was far from over. It raged on, completely leveling the scenery. Eventually, after the dust cleared, the victor ended up being..
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