Lash pulls Areku away from Shouya, hoping that the stand would follow him and not her. “I’m looking for somebody,” she says, keeping Areku at a distance. “A hero named Pulse.”
Unfortunately with the user no longer in range, 「Shepherd of Fire」 disappates and avoids the lasers, although a few do manage to land before it fully disappears.
“I don’t give a heck about who you’re looking for, just stay out of my business!” And with that, 「Shepherd of Fire」 reappears, smashing a fist into the concrete ground and sending shards flying up, which it then launched towards Lash with a flurry of punches, setting every one alight with a harmless blue flame.
Seeing a chance, Shouya shoots another laser, this one at Areku, likely close to his shoulder.
Lash backs away with a squeal, releasing Areku and bringing all four of her whips to bear on 「Shepherd of Fire」. The two burned ones attack from the front, hopefully tangling up those punching arms, while the two that had been holding Areku come from behind, hoping to wrap around its torso.
Thos continues to watch, gathering information.
Akeru gets hit in the shouder, although due to the instant cauterization and his stand user resilience he still seems to be determined to continue on.
Akeru lands on the ground, standing up as 「Shepherd of Fire」 quickly circles him, beating away the ropes and setting then alight as they neared. They both slowly approach Lash, and Akeru stops to pick up one of the burning shards and throws it up and over Lash, disguising it as a bad throw.
Once more, Shouya attempted to shoot Akeru in the shoulder with palm laser.
This time 「Shepherd of Fire」 was ready, and threw a punch to absorb it. Although the damage was still received it was far less than normal, as the stand is much more durable than Akeru himself.
Squeaking again, Lash drops the ropes, suddenly using her telekinesis to push off the ground with incredible force. She flies backwards, managing to get one foot on the ground and repeating the motion. She tries to land again, but her heel skips off the ground and she lands on her back, doing a somersault and coming to a stop. She happens to be outside of the stand’s range now, not that she knows that.
When Lash leapt back 「Shepherd of Fire」 called back its burning shard, sending it at deadly speeds towards Lash’s back. However she managed to luck out, as Akeru definitely did not forsee her falling backwards. Instead of hitting her the projectile just barely flew over her head before landing in 「Shepherd of Fire」 palm. The other burning objects nearby feel an attraction to the Stand, but due to their proximity it isn’t anything considerable.
Shouya felt the pull on his suit. “That’s not good.” He muttered to himself. He took the chance to sneak away, going towards the harbor so as to try and snuff the fire out using the water there.
Lash slowly gets back to her feet, her head spinning from her attempted escape. She leans against a building, shaking her head.
Void Eater hovers through the alley was of Tokyo, wandering around. He keeps an eye out to make sure no one sees him, or at least very few people see him. His goal is something he desires to fulfill, and public knowledge might worsen his goal.
Shouya would find that the pull would quickly dissipate, presumably from a deactivation of the power rather than escaping the range of its effects. If he turned to look behind him he’d find Akeru hot on his tail.
He sees the follower, then turns back around. “Oh shoot, that’s not good.” He says to himself as he keeps running, extending his wings. “Let’s hope these things work.” He says as he jumps into the air, trying to use them to fly away in tandem with his boots.
Akeru stops and watches Shouya flee. After waiting for him to travel a fair distance he activates his Stand power, immediately pulling Shouya back towards him with an immense force.
Shouya struggles at first, but then goes with it, forming into a kick, and firing lasers at the stand and user as he approaches.
「Shepherd of Fire」 waits for Shouya to be moving at relatively how speeds before deactivating its power and stepping to the side, along with Akeru. Hopefully if all goes well Shouya will end up a splat on the concrete.
Oyama was the next city struck, this time though some thing was different news reports detail that the being known as the sacrament went through the city. But after it a procession of people wearing masks that imitated the rusting colossus’ faceplate. They carried a mixture of improvised weaponry, banners, tools and some guns. Their banners had the characters エントロピーの子供たち emblazoned upon them, some reportedly were following the thing and others were in front of it acting as an advance team.
Tokyo was soon the fall under the glare of the sacrament.
OOC: load up, stockpile supplies, make peace and prepare.
Shouya tried using his wings and boosters to slow himself, and succeeded, to an extent. He hit the wall with quite a bit of force, but little damage was done to the suit, and that inside, from what he could tell right away. “That’s gonna hurts in the morning.” He tells himself as he gets up.