trans_9 | Her Flight [semi-open]

Somewhere inside the vast dome of the City, Signum floated, transformed into her battle gear, eyes closed and mind reaching out to the ship for magical reactions. The presence of Stacy's mind - not magic per se, but still psychically loud - was a constant buzz, but her senses floated to smaller, brighter sparks, aided by what she held in her hands - the "Book of Darkness" that she had taken up last week. She'd been confused, then, but now that the Administration Program was back in her proper place, it was time to start filling the pages again. She'd dawdled too long on this ship, trusting 'Stacy' to keep Hayate safe (ha!), even socializing with the time-displaced Bureau mages who had been trying to stop her before all this...

She reaches out for magical reactions. People she knew - Nanoha and Testarossa (avoid at all costs), Aibghalien (noted), Hayate (...) - and others she didn't, or whom she was merely acquainted with through the Magic Department.

Ha. A Wolkenritter joining such an organization. That was possibly her least thought-out bit of subterfuge here. They had nothing to offer her, unless some bleeding hearts were willing to sacrifice mana...but that clearly wouldn't happen. No, no, it's definitely time to go back to doing this the old-fashioned way. The very old-fashioned way, since her comrades were all still in the pods.

Yes, she'd have to be careful, but the danger was worth it. To live quietly with her Master, even in this besieged cave of a starship...that was what mattered.

She focuses in on a magical signature and swoops quietly towards it, preparing a Barrier to isolate herself with the victim. Hopefully, they'd fall quickly and painlessly...

((Okay friends, reply to this post if you a) have magical powers and want to have a fight with Signum over them or b) spot Signum and want to stop her. Threads will probably take place in skewed pocket dimensions called Barriers for privacy, but these can be broken into if you like. Expect fighting! Signum isn't in the mood to talk. Further details can be found here. If you signed up to get mugged and want to do it in another post, just let me know.))

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"You have something I need," she says simply, then grunts as his spell impacts near the base of Laevatein, causing her to jerk it out of position before she can close the loop. Well, spells she was used to. It was a lifetime since she last had to deflect bullets, and she was a little rusty, so at least the fight was still on her terms. "If you surrender, it will hurt marginally less, and you might even recover quicker," she says honestly.

"What do you need?! You think I'm just gonna sit back and let you beat the crap outta me without knowing why?" Like hell!"

And now that he was a little more on point, he was ready to retaliate if she tried something again.

"Your magic power," Signum says simply. It is completely against her nature to rely on the sympathy of others or explain her actions in detail, but she can always offer terms in a fair manner.

"Can't say I'm really set on complying with that," he said with a touch of sarcasm, furrowing his brow. "What do you need that for?"

"I'm afraid I don't go giving information out like that to people I just met," Signum says, her chain-whip collapsing back into a sword, which she holds in a ready position. She always was a far better fighter than a diplomat.

Instead of further explanation, Signum yells a battlecry of "KARYU ISSEN!", swinging her sword and sending a column of flame tumbling through the air at Junior.

"Yeah?" And now that she obviously wasn't planning to let up, Jr.'s voice took on a slightly more aggressive tone. "Well I just don't go giving my powers out to people I just met!"

He jumped to the side, but not quickly enough for the flamed to singe one of his arms. "Ether drive!" he yelled, returning the attack with a flying spear of ice.

The spear flies close to Signum's face before she can parry it, leaving a small scratch. Ice spells...where was Reinforce when you needed her?

Oh, right, she had...the Admin Program, she meant, it didn't technically have a name...

Signum freezes for a split-second and shakes her head, but it was enough to lose some of her initiative.

Quickly thinking of a way to stop her from trying another attack, Jr. followed up the ice attack with an attempt to keep her grounded and immobile. Materializing from the ground just beneath Signum's feet, thick vines twisted their way upward to try to wrap around her before she could move again.

Signum shakes herself out of it, but not before getting thoroughly wrapped up by the vines - she is a Nanoha character, after all. After straining against them for a second, she decides to screw it and commands her sword to ignite with a cry of "Shiden Issen!", using what leverage her hands still have to burn her way out of the plants.

"Look, I'm not in the mood for this!" Jr. yelled when he had that moment. Didn't they have better things to do than beating up their fellow crewmates?! "And I'm sure nobody else is, either. So stop it, now!"

"If I don't get the magic I need from you, that's simply another person I need to attack!" Signum explains, with all the logic her current state allows her to employ.

As she burns free, she returns to a flying ready position with her sword. "Simply ordering me to stop isn't going to dissuade me from my path. You'll have to stop me by force."

"I'm not gonna let you," in one swift movement Jr. reached back to grab one of his pistols, aiming it up at her but doing nothing more, "attack anyone else, either!"

Flying, weird fire sword things ... "Don't you have enough magic on your own already?!"

Signum actually takes the time to shake her head. "Not for what we need. Even if I sacrificed myself, I'd..."

Again, Signum's talked herself into a confusing train of thought. What would happen if the Book simply absorbed one of its knights? Or all of them? Had that happened before? The situation felt...

She pulls herself out of that conflicted memory quiker this time, cutting off with a battlecry and charging downward with her flaming sword again, a shield spell already prepared and held in front of her to block any bullets that come her way.

And though he didn't want to, Jr. fired. Of course, he fired with a great aim, only really going to graze her arm at most to throw her off even by a little - he didn't want to hurt her just in case this was more than it seemed. Of course, he didn't expect something like a shield.

The panzergeist spell and similar active defenses were designed specifically to counter frontal attacks from things like bullets. Usually energy attacks, but Signum's shield and momentum deflect the slug well enough that the attempt to graze goes far wide of her. Signum's charge goes uninterrupted, and she in turn tries to cleave through the man's gun with her burning sword to stop him from trying a more serious attack.

Her Flight [semi-open]

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