lostcarnival | ⇨ FAERIE TALES

What might normally have been a groggy start for Lapis is thankfully overcome by Alphys' narration. Her head is surprisingly clear, but she doesn't question it. Peridot is in danger, and she has to help. She needs to save her, she needs to do something to help, because she just can't let Peridot go through what happened to her.

She lifts the water into a column where Peridot and the Lady are, giving very few options to flee. "Jasper! Get her!"

"Friends?" Jasper starts to protest, shooting a sharp, indignant look at Alphys -- but it's honestly difficult to fight the tide of the story Alphys is pushing along when she wants to fight the Lady of the Lake anyway... and can she really complain about fighting alongside Lapis?

Lapis's instructions bring her back to focus on the Lady and Peridot atop the pillar Lapis has made, and a split second later she's launching herself into a spin dash, hurtling forward and then directly up the side of the column of water. When she reaches the top she stops spinning, stabilising midair and summoning her helmet so she can redirect her momentum into slamming it down towards the Lady of the Lake.

"Alright! With the original kidnappees awake and unexpectedly breaking out of the Fae's control, they made just enough of a chance with their attack for the heroes ta blast her when she's knocked clear!"

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Well, some of that comes true. Jasper is strong enough to knock the Lady down into the water, the surface tension not enough to hold against the force - but it isn't enough to keep the Lady from grabbing Jasper with her arms and weeds, preventing her from leaving after the blow has been struck.

"Oh, you came back to me already," she says, and attempts to slam Jasper down into the water along with Peridot.

Peridot is thoroughly confused at first. One second the water is trying to drag her down, the next it's erupting into a column that lifts her up above the main surface of the lake. It's kind of disorienting, and it doesn't make sense until, in her haste to find a way out, she glances around and makes out the blurry shapes of Lapis and Jasper, apparently already conscious again. She sees Jasper fling herself into the action for an attack, and she can still see both gem and fae above her, grappling with one another now. There's a very real threat here that, if the Lady succeeds in pulling Jasper into the water as well, they're going to wind up basically back at square one, and that is just downright unacceptable in her opinion.

Concentrating hard, Peridot turns her gaze downward and searches with both her eyes and her mind to try and reach back out for the Vorpal Sword with her metal powers, wherever it happened to have fallen in the chaos. Considering half her current contract involved gaining better mastery over this specific ability, she senses it quickly enough. It flies to her, but she doesn't catch it in her hand; instead, she keeps guiding upward, with every intention of sending it out of the top of the column to slash upwards at the space between the Lady and the gem. Peridot can't speak to aid her actions right now, but she's putting every ounce of concentration into the moment and the intended results: At the very least, she wants to cut through those tangling weeds... but she won't complain if she slices a fae arm or two off, too. It is a sword that can cut through just about anything, after all.

The sword flies upwards, cutting through one of the Lady's arms. The part that is severed turns to water as it falls, splashing into the pool along with the rest of it. The Lady seems more surprised than hurt.

"Sharp knife!" she says, and then lashes upward with her hair to catch the sword on its way up. "I'll take that."

The bits of her hair that wrap around the blade cut themselves in two, but she manages to keep a grip on the hilt. Then, she aims it at Jasper, and takes a swing.

Lapis not so much pulls as yanks the water holding Jasper and Peridot back towards her, isolating the fae in her own column. It's a little bit rough and lacking finese, but whatever gets the job done, right?

Another hand comes up from the water and forms a hand, intent on flicking The Lady into the closest wall which as much force as she can possibly muster. Lapis would also like her sword back, whenever Peridot gets the chance? It's part of her skeleton morp, thanks.

Things are going to shit really fast. People are doing a lot of basic fighting and not a lot of narration, and the Lady is very quickly assembling an all-new necklace. So, dead-eyed, Herbert advances slowly on the water.

"In her time," he begins, projecting like a stage actor who's also trying to compete as a speed-talker, "as the Lady's captive, Lapis learned certain tricks to fight the Lady's prior literal stranglehold over water. She was furious! How dare the Lady take her....how dare she take her friend--how dare, she take the rude obsessive orange one. Or Peridot's sword." He takes a quick breath, really trying to spew this all out as fast as possible and feeling like he's lost track of the point, maybe a bit. "She used her new knowledge of the Lady and this time the water was hers."

Good thing Lapis moves away the water that's holding her, because Jasper attempts to block the Vorpal Sword with her helmet only to find the blade slicing clean through it and the upper part of her face, nicking her gem as it goes -- she just has time to react in horror and pain before her physical form destabilises, leaving only her damaged gem suspended in the water that Lapis is controlling.

"God, it took a second, but here's that chance--"

Shima lets Yamantaka dissolve back into flames which wreath his staff, winding up for a strike. "We'll put our all inta this!"

Despite the fact she is losing control of the water in a way that makes no sense to her at all, she can't help but be satisfied by the way that Jasper falls apart. She doesn't even think about grabbing the gemstone this time. That part was worth it.

Besides, the lapis lazuli is the one moving around the water, at the moment. It seems unnatural, but hey. She's always been very fluid when dealing with new circumstances.

Lapis may have the water but that doesn't mean Lapis has her.

She laughs, and then leaps out of the water, using long strands of seaweed to hover instead. She takes the Vorpal Sword in the arm that still remains.

"What do you think?" she asks Lapis. "Two out of two?"

Peridot splashes down next to Lapis as she yanks the water back towards her, landing back on the floor with a splutter in time to catch the tail end of Herbert's narration. Jasper's gem is laying nearby, but she doesn't get the chance to look at it closely enough to realize it's damaged. Besides which, she has bigger fish to fry.

Her face contorts with rage when she sees the fae holding the sword, and then threatening Lapis of all things. She stands up, looking rather bedraggled with her triangle hair all wilted from being waterlogged, and holds up a hand.

"The fae failed to understand that though she held the sword, she would never be able to wield it properly; this was because the sword had come to this fight along with the hero to serve a purpose, and until that purpose was served, it would always resist the fae, and come back to the hero when she called!"

And as she narrates, she attempts to YANK the sword out of the fae's hand with her metal powers. Should've kept it tangled with your hair, dingus.

The swords flies out of her hand. For the first time, the Lady of the Lake is starting to look annoyed. It's not that big a deal, but geez.

"Why do you keep saying everything out loud like that?" she asks, putting her hand on her hip. "It's a bit odd."

It's at this point that Sans looms out of the shadows, his jaw blazing with magical energy. It has take a while to get control of himself after getting seaweed in his skull, but it looks like he's finally had time to charge that laser of his.

He lets it loose on the Lady of the Lake, but this time at MAXIMUM POWER.

Or something.

WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK, SANS.

In an attempt to help, Alphys cups her hands to her mouth and shouts: "AND THE BRIGHT BEAM OF SHINING JUSTICE HIT THE LADY DEAD ON!"

Yeah, no, Lapis is, surprisingly on key with The lady for this. It is exceptionally weird, honestly. But then there's a bright blue laser zooming past her to hit the Fae, and anything Lapis could have possibly said or done is now a moot point.

Instead, Lapis makes a sweeping motion with her arm, and she attempts to gather every single person present in what water she has.

And book it as fast as she can. Like, fast enough that she doesn't consider that MAYBE SOME OF THEM NEED TO BREATHE.

Alphys has her mouth open right as the wave pool of doom hits her. So that's fun. She just sorta flails uselessly as she's carried along.

Herbert, thankfully, drank the total bullshit potion and is therefore safe from drowning, but he's fairly irritated that now he's unable to speak and continue to control the story. He drops the fake sword and holds onto his glasses with both hands.

It takes until his breathing reflex kicks in to notice Herbert's elixir worked, at which point he's going to like... try to swim around or at least use this GIANT SKELETON DOG THAT'S ALSO IN HERE as hand holds so he can get close enough to the surface to try to see what's going on.

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Peridot at least has the foresight to zap the vorpal sword back into her gauntlet, so that it doesn't slice a bunch of people in half while swirling around inside of Lapis's crazy water bubble. She does not, unfortunately, have the sense to try and signal to the other gem that some of these guys need to breathe.

While she's at it, she'll snatch Jasper's gem up as it floats past her.

At the speed Lapis is going, it doesn't take long at all for her to hit the carnival grounds.

Literally.

She goes ass over tea kettle, and eats dirt as she slides to a stop on carnival grounds. Where she just lays there, for the moment, dazed and absolutely confused. The waterball thankfully pops when Lapis first hits the ground, leaving everyone soaked, but at least they get a significantly lighter landing than Lapis does.

You're welcome.

A bedraggled Peridot hauls herself back up to her feet fairly quickly. The last part of that fight was so touch-and-go, she's still carrying herself with the adrenaline from that, ready for a fight in case the Lady was somehow the one responsible for making them crash and this thing turns out to not be over just yet.

But no. It's easy enough to see that they're not out in the athenaeum anymore. They're back on carnival turf, and a quick glance around (or, at her hand, in Jasper's case) confirms that everyone in their group is still present and accounted for.

So they did it. They actually pulled it off. The narrative magic worked just like the Scribe and the Curator said it would, and their team staged a successful rescue AND got a bit of payback in against a true fae. She can scarcely believe it?

Her eyes fall on her fellow gem last, and with a jolt, Peridot rushes over to her, clawed feet splashing through the mud and the puddles left behind by the bursting water bubble. Overjoyed and overwhelmed with relief, she calls out to her:

"LAPIS!"

Sans hits the ground with a clatter. It takes a bit for him to pick himself up, being careful not to squash any of the people that were hanging onto his bones. Well, that was some wild shit.

Though it would have been nice to see what actually happened after he blasted the Lady of the Lake like that. He's pretty sure he hit, but to what end?

Getting back onto all fours, he sighs and then shakes himself dry - right on top of everyone else.

Too busy spitting out all that water that potion let him "breathe" to care about getting sprinkled more.

In this trying and wet time, Herbert doesn't even have the sweet fire wings any more to soothe himself. Also, he can't clean his glasses because everything he has on him right now is drenched. He sits up, pulls them off of his face and shakes them furiously by the arms before putting them back on, anyway. May as well make the attempt.

He'll be so irritated if this ruins a second suit.

"We should all, go to the medical tent," he points out, and rolls to shove himself up onto his feet. "Especially Lapis. And Jasper." He squints at the orange gem in Peridot's hand. Is she ok or.... It was just light, right? He assumes she reforms somehow?

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