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The doppelgänger grinned and bent back slightly, avoiding the hit. He then countered by kneeing Hiruga in the gut.

Velorius watched as the lump of rock and ice was destroyed, simply letting out a quiet sigh Those guys, I thought they would have fled by now... And where is Patrick? Why would he bring Sephiroth here and summon these shadow things if he intended to flee the city
"I don't like playing games Patrick, if I don't get what I want I'll obliterate this place, my patience is just gone! Meteor Swarm!"
Ignoring what was left of the first asteroid, he raised his arms and created several more similar portals, numerous asteroids of various shapes and sizes began raining down upon Arrius from all over the place. Lets see how long that shield will hold for them, I will see Patrick even if I have to level the entire city to deprive him of hiding places.

Atrius growled and added his power to the shield. The was all he could do, really, and it was not much. He closed his eyes as every one of his nerves lit up; the pain seemed to crawl across his skin. As this was happening, Raegib was on his knees reciting a prayer...the ground opened, and an Ifrit crawled from the hole and began to bombard the swarms with energy.
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Suddenly, the meteors stopped in place, and three people land a ways from Atrius and the others. Patrick was among them. He was flanked by a tall intimidating man with a billowing red cape and chains wrapped around his right arm. The other was a young witch. She wore a tight, form-fitting purple dress with a matching purple cape and on her head was a pointed hat. Patrick's laughter echoed through the abandoned streets, "Fools..." He turned to face Atrius, "You may leave, but Sparta and Kyoki will escort you." His two followers bowed and walked towards Atrius...Patrick then turned to where Velorius was, "Come here now..."

Patrick growled, "Your weapons cannot harm me. Now leave before I change my mind about sparing you. I killed both Leon and Nexol at the same time. Do not think I am not able to do the same to you, Follower of Perun. Now go. My fight is with Velorius."

Atrius nodded, "We should do as he says...Velorius is beyond any of us..." He tugged on Ciaran's arm, "I said Lets go!"

Velorius looked down on those who were trying to block his attacks and shrugged, they were a little disapointing. All their shield was doign was prolonging the event, with each passing moment another massive chuk of ice and rock smashed against the shield adding to the tons of weight it had to support, Velorius could keep the portals open idefinitely but it was only a matter of time before the growing weight of space debris became too much. Then something odd happened the meteor's stopped in mid-air, starring at the floating lumps of rock, Velorius considered if they had manipulated gravity or time to get the effect. Ah so he's finally crawled out from his little hole has he? Looking around he spotted Patrick with two others speaking with Leons lacky's, then Patrcik turned and spoke to him "Come here now..." Velorius frowned, does he think I am his lap dog? Velorius starred down towards Patrick then smirked "No dear boy, it is you who shall come to me..." Looking around he spotted the ruins of the Imperial Palace and set of in that direction, when he arrived he went straight to the throne room. There he looked around and seeing the throne swept it to one side then used his abilities to create a new chair in it's place, one that was a close reproduction of the one in his own study. There he sat to wait for Patrick's arrival.

Patrick laughed and noded to the witch who teleported him directly to te throne room, "Velorius, Velorius...Oh so glorius Velorius. Are you ready to die?" He pointed to the chair and smashed it into nothing with his command over gravity. "I have waited for this moment for a while..." PAtrick snapped, and Sephiroth appeared behind him.

"Did you kill Motosuwa?" He asked his new sevant.

Sephiroth shook his head slowly, "We were evenly matched, and he used being slammed into the wall to his advantage. Once he slammed into it, he used one of Nexol's abilities to melt into another realm. I am sorry I failed you."

"It is not important. I just wanted him out of my hair. He payed for his sins...now it is Velorius's turn..." His armour disappeared, and Leon's Katana, who is known as Kamizoroe, appeared in his hand. Patrick grined and launched at Velorius. Sephiroth disappeared and then reappeared behind Velorius before following suite, his Masamune positioned to run him though, puncturing one of his lungs in the process...

Atrius looked uneasily from the massive man (if that was what he was) to the beautiful witch. They were powerful-he could tell that from just sensing their auras, but he didn't know if he distrusted them. Obviously Patrick had no intention of judging this group. The question was why did he want them out of the city so badly? He fell back and whispered something to Raegib who then nodded and walked up to the witch, "Excuse me, ma'am..."
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Patrick stopped less than an inch from the wall then turned around to face Velorius, "You are a fool. I am beyond you. If you wish to talk before your execution at the hands of my loyal slave then so will it be." He created a powerful gravity well around Velorius. I didn't crush him, but it bent space enough that he couldn't more more than two feet and he couldn't teleport. Sephiroth then appeared, stepping out of a shadow in the corner to Patrick's left. Patrick continued, "Now, my friend, what would you like to discuss with the Executioner?"

"You really misunderstand the power of gravity over space and time." Patrick laughed a bit before making a pocket of super-density that absorbed the energies quickly and then evaporated in the manner that an old black hole would, "Now lets talk..."
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The doppelgänger demon made no move to avoid his hand being cut off. He screamed as red blood poured from his wound, and he faded out of existence.

"Now open the door, Hiruga. You have passed your test."

A massive oak door rose from the pool of the demon's blood; it waited to be opened by its master.