5th Bite - The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

[badladyscramble]

[Early Monday morning, Remilia finds a package on her doorstep. Having long since decided it's no use fretting over these things, she opens it immediately - and as realization spreads in her mind, she grins wickedly and heads for the roof. Finally, something that can go right...]

[Action - All Day Monday, Around Town]

[Throughout the day, hints of red mist start to fill the town, spreading around out from Ricardo Street. Also throughout the day, Remilia can be found walking around with her parasol or at her usual hangouts (Sakuya, Flandre and Meiling's houses), seeming a lot more upbeat than usual and grinning far more than is possibly normal. She seems very pleased with herself.]

[Action - All Day Tuesday, Around Town]

[Now the town is entirely drowned in Scarlet Mist, cutting out much of the sunlight and leaving what's left of it deep crimson. Most people can only see a few yards, but Remilia has no trouble navigating through the red cloud that covers even over the tallest houses and buildings. Delighting in her freedom from the sun, anyone in the mist might hear a delighted, wicked laughter or spot a dark shape with large, bat-like wings flitting about through the mists. Feel free to call her out, or maybe she'll stop by herself when she sees those rendered helpless or frustrated by their surroundings.]

[Phone - Tuesday Evening]

Ahh, the world's so much better painted in red! Truly, a devil's delight. Much better than the boring white of all those houses and picket fences, don't you think? But~ I'm sure there are some of you who disagree, don't you?

You're welcome to come and find me if you dare to argue - the Scarlet Devil won't refuse a fun date~ Especially from a certain red-white miko, hmm? It's going to be a fun night.

[Action - Tuesday Night, 506 Ricardo]

[And in a relatively clear patch of the mist, Remi is standing on top of the roof of her house, posing dramatically with her wings out and hands folded before her chest, awaiting the night's entertainments. The thinning mist above her paints the moon a deep red, making for quite the silhouette.]

Hmhmhm, I wonder if she'll come~

[OoC: The Scarlet Mist mini-event has begun! The details can be found here, but basically red mist will begin filling the town on Monday; by Tuesday Morning, most of the town will be so covered in red mist, you can't see more than a few feet to a few yards at most. Feel free to respond to any of the prompts or make your own posts complaining about/dealing with the red mist.

It all goes away Tuesday night at midnight, after Marisa beats the crap out of her, so for anyone who fights her, just know she's either going to win or escape since her fight against Marisa will be the last one.

You can also come fight her faithful servant, Meiling, over here, as it's a midboss's gateguard's duty to take on anyone who wants to challenge the final boss.]

Comments

[badladyscramble]

Hmhmhm, I'd like to see you try, human!

[With that, she leaps up into the air, wings flapping once before she dives towards him]

[sunnydwithagun]

(Django quickly leaps out of the way, readying his gun and firing several shots at the incoming vampire. Unlike regular guns, this one shoots bullets made entirely of concentrated sunlight! What do?)

[badladyscramble]

[This seems PRETTY PAR FOR THE COURSE to Remilia. It's just more danmaku lasers, right? She flits between them, dodging side to side and gradually closing the distance since she can't fire back]

[sunnydwithagun]

(It's pretty much easy mode danmaku, if that. Definitely nothing worthy of even a shmup genre.

Definitely a growing concern for Django; she's closing much too quickly for his preferences. However, it calls for a change of tactics: As opposed to regular shots, his gun is now projecting a fan-like spread of solar energy. Careful, Remi; touch it and it'll hurt!)

[badladyscramble]

[Oh, she's well aware of not touching it, so she'll be dodging up and down as well, backing off when necessary. She's not closing in very fast, but... she's also laughing]

How fun! I didn't think anyone else would know how to conduct a proper danmaku fight~

[sunnydwithagun]

(She's certainly a very maneuverable vampire; much more so than any one he's fought before. He's not giving up, though! It's what gets him killed what keeps him going!)

A danmaku fight? I assume that's how battles work in your world?

[badladyscramble]

Yes! Everyone fights with their strongest, most complex and beautiful bullets and lasers in a stunning array of colors~

Unfortunately, I've not got those back yet, so you'll have to excuse me using my hands!

[One of which takes a swipe at the boy as she lunges in over a wave at him.]

[sunnydwithagun]

(Okay, that one comes dangerously close to his face. He reflexively takes a step back and tries to counter with a few shots from close range.)

That sounds more like a performance than a battle, but a unique form of combat nonetheless.

[badladyscramble]

It's the most entertaining form of combat~

[She flits around, practically seeming to appear and disappear around his shots, though she does back off a bit.]

[sunnydwithagun]

(He's managing to keep her away, but she's dodging all of his attacks. Clearly, he'll need better tactics if he's going to even manage a hit. Perhaps he can bait an opening...

Django quickly swaps out a piece of his gun for another, firing shots directly at her while rebounding others off of rooftops and other surfaces.)

[badladyscramble]

[It's truly irritating, dodging all of these, but she keeps at it, moving back a bit more. The bouncing shots are making it harder to keep track of everything though and after a bit, she finally slips up and one grazes her arm, sizzling with an angry burn as it shoots by her]

Oh-ho, so you really do have the power of the sun!

[sunnydwithagun]

(Hardly a cause for celebration, but at least his efforts finally amounted to something.)

Of course. I am a solar child; the sun is our greatest pride as well as our source of power! Even through your scarlet mist, the sun shines brightly!

[badladyscramble]

[Closing in fast again as he speaks]

I see! What a fitting opponent! But I've no intent on losing to you, dear child.

[sunnydwithagun]

(Coming in surprisingly fast there, Remi. So much that Django gets knocked down on the ground...so to speak. Falling off during a rooftop battle is instant lose and we can't have any ringouts here, can we? Nonetheless, he's standing back up and noticeably open for another swoop.)

[badladyscramble]

Hahaha, oh my, it's been a while since I've had a foe with footing so unsure though~ Shall I go easy on you?

[She swoops in at him again, but instead of taking a real swipe at him, she just ruffles his hair, if a bit roughly]

[sunnydwithagun]

(Nooooo the taunting! That's the sort of thing that would easily infuriate someone!)

I'd prefer if you didn't.

(With Remilia so close, Django fires several rebound shots at the floor directly in front of him. Careful; they're bouncing up at you!)

[badladyscramble]

[A hiss - she hasn't had to fight bouncy things since Sakuya. She dodges back away, but several of the shots pierce her wings and singe her arms. The wounds sizzle and are slow to heal.]

Oh? Then I suppose I won't!

[She dodges back further into the mist, which starts to close in around the rooftop, surrounding Django]

[sunnydwithagun]

(Django's back on his feet, his eyes scanning the encroaching mist as it makes everything even more difficult for him to see.

He swaps a piece of his gun back to what it was before, holding the gun in one hand and drawing a sword with the other. He can't see Remilia at all, but he's turning about, trying to find her.)

[badladyscramble]

[The mist now completely surrounding him, Remilia is now little more than a flitting shadow amidst the churning red.

As he's looking around, she uses that to her advantage: attacking from above, dropping straight down at him]

You're open, boy~

[sunnydwithagun]

(Boy, is he open. He tries countering with another solar spread, but with Remi taking him by surprise like that, her attack easily connects while his own likely misses.)

[badladyscramble]

[Moving around the shot, she swipes at his chest, both with her arm and her wing, more aiming to knock him off the roof than tear a chunk out of him]

[sunnydwithagun]

(It certainly knocks him back! While he might not have fallen off the roof yet, he's still holding on to the ledge with his sword-holding hand. He's slowly pulling himself back up, but is more open than before.</small.)

[badladyscramble]

[Being the monologuing villain that she is, Remi lands on the roof just above him, a vicious grin on her face as she spreads her wings out intimidatingly while looming over him]

And here we are... well, I suppose this is what a hero who can't even fly amounts to. Any parting words before the fall?

[Not that... it's a particularly deadly fall. Two stories into the hedges.]

[sunnydwithagun]

(Django's fallen from this height before and come out of it just fine. Really, he'd land on his feet and probably climb back up to the roof.

Django looks up at her with fierce determination in his eyes.)

A hero needn't the ability to fly to rise the victor. Just the willpower to rise when they've been knocked down...to rise like the morning sun!

(And with his gun-holding hand, Django channels the fan-shaped solar spread directly at Remilia.)

[badladyscramble]

[Luckily, she was expecting as much, and just dodges back enough to avoid it]

Well, then let's see you try it.

[Which is when she goes ahead and kicks his handhold off the edge of the roof]