Loc, Ida, and Corin are standing on a roof looking down at the Rafferty Rolls Casino.
A crowd is forming at the entrance as a black and red limousine pulls up.
They all cheer as a young, handsome-looking white man with slicked-back dark red hair with a black streak, wearing an all-black suit steps out.
-"OMG ITS HIM"
-"He's here at the casino"
-"He's so cute!"
Corin looks down, leaning over the ledge
"That guy looks important."
"That's Rafferty, the owner. He runs the city." Loc says as he waves his hands around in a gesture.
Ida looks over to Loc
"So are you gonna tell us how we are doing this?"
Loc looks over the ledge and watches as Rafferty shakes hands and takes pictures with the crowd
"You're going to use Rafferty as a distraction for me to get to the vault."
Ida and Corin turn to him concerned
"What do you mean by that?!" Ida says
Loc points back over to Rafferty
"Look how obnoxious he is, he is literary throwing money!"
As he says this aids and Corin turns to see Rafferty toss money into the air for the crowd.
"He will have every guard around him, and so if you guys can just distract him and the guards for just long enough so that I can get past the security devices we should be good."
Corin looks around at the Casino and everyone starts to enter
"But how are we supposed to do that now that we've been kicked out once."
Loc walks behind Corin and Ida who are standing next to the ledge
"Maybe cause a little trouble, we'll call it Plan T."
As loc says this he pushes Corin and Ida off the 40 foot ledge.
Corin screams and Ida looks up at Loc shaking her fist and screaming: "I'll GET YOU FOR THIS!"
Loc walks away waving and loudly saying "Good luck"
Ida quickly moves over to Corin
"Again with the falling." He says with an annoyed tone
Ida chuckles and holds onto his shoulder then activates her magic to slow them down.
This time they land on their feet
Corin looks over at Ida
"Why couldn't you do that last time."
"I've never slowed down before, only sped up so it was a gamble," Ida says as they start making their way to the casino.
Suddenly they bump into something- someone
Rafferty stands before them looking at Ida
He's a bit taller than them up close
"Time magic, how exotic."
Ida starts thinking how lucky they are to have him this far out of the building so now Loc can get to the vault.
Corin looks concerned.
I didn't even see or hear him come toward us.
Rafferty puts his hand out
"Hand over the symphony and I'll think about letting you walk away."
Ida sharpens up
How does he know about that?! Wait he called it the symphony like that man, they must be working together."
"I don't have anything like that."
She puts a hand behind her back making a thumbs down so Corin can see.
Corin looks at her hand
This guy is no good, I knew it.
Rafferty grins and puts his hand on her shoulder
"Don't lie to me." He says as his eyes start to glow scarlet.
Ida pushes his arm off and starts to back up a bit, getting into a fighting stance and activating her magic.
Rafferty looks over into her eyes.
"That turquoise color, there's no mistake, you wield time magic and you have the Symphony!"
Rafferty has a circle divided into 8ths appear above his head and there's a little hand on it like a clock. It starts to spin and lands on 3x.
Afterward, Rafferty blitzes toward Ida and gut-punches her, causing her to lose her breath and fall over.
Corin runs over and punches Rafferty across the face, but it's in vain for Rafferty stands there unaffected looking down at Corin.
"And this is all you have? What can you do that she can't?!" Rafferty says as he starts laughing
Corin takes a step back fighting ready, but is a little shaky in worry that he won't win.
Ida tries to get back up but she's her breath hasn't returned to her and she wheezes.
Corin punches Rafferry in the liver area but again Rafferty remains unfazed, then counters Corin's attack with a swift kick to the head (Above Corin's head appear the words Critical 1.2x in scarlet),
causing Corin to go flying back to where Ida is.
Corin is dazed but still tries to recover but as he tries to Rafferty hits him again with a left hook which makes him fall back over to the street floor.
Without Rafferty realizing it, Ida jumps over to him trying to kick him in the head, but over Rafferty's head appears the words: (Bonus: Evasion) in scarlet which leads to Rafferty ducking below Ida's kick from behind.
Ida goes flying into a wall crashing into it.
Rafferty walks casually over to Ida and then leans over her to look for the symphony.
"A pity, you would think a time magic mage would be a challenge in the slightest."
Quickly, Corin grabs Rafferty by the leg to try to stop him but it's no use as Rafferty turns and stomps Corin in the back.
"You don't learn!"
Rafferty now annoyed by Corin's determination, starts to stomp Corin into the ground while he screams in agony.
Ida yells at Rafferty begging him to stop but he doesn't listen.
Corin's eyes go blank, he's bleeding out the mouth with no strength to try and get back up.
As Corin watches the world around him go dark, he notices things start to slow down.
Nothing is moving, Ida is on the floor reaching for him as Rafferty stands above him preparing for another stomp.
Corin with what energy he has left thinks about how what's happening is similar to when he met that dragon and then starts to fall unconscious.
With the flicker of his eyelids, he sees once again the red dragon, this time his body is hidden in the shadows of a building cast by moonlight.
"You again?" He says in almost a whisper.
The dragon looks over to Ida
"This Girl is Quite the asset you picked up Boy."
Corin starts to regain consciousness
"No doubt she is the result of the old man. He must have seen that I picked you and sent her your way. I do hope he's ok."
Corin looking up at the dragon speaks faintly with what strength he has.
"What are you talking about." he then coughs up blood
The dragon looks at the spilled blood
"It's nothing... Right now you should be focusing on proving yourself." It says with a grin.
Corin puts his head back down on the floor below him, covering his head in a puddle of blood.
"You're delusional, I can't even stay awake."
The dragon raises its voice.
"You have been Blessed Corin Fortis, you just aren't aware." The dragon says holding his head up high.
Corin looks back in surprise his voice more clear than before.
"What are you talking about?"
The Dragon smiles down at him
"Your flames crave fuel, give it to them!" Then backs into the shadow and time starts to resume, everything accelerates to its original speed.
Following this Ida regains the energy to activate her magic. Allowing her to speed over and tackle Rafferty off of Corin who lies there barely conscious.
Rafferty looks up at Ida who has him pinned down
"You will pay!"
Rafferty grabs her by the wrist and throws her off of him
The words above Rafferty appear (Strength: 1.5x)
Corin, covered in blood, struggles to get back up.
Flames... fuel them.
As Corin starts to try and get back up he starts to yell using all his energy just to try and stand.
As he yells his scream becomes demented and his white hair starts to cackle like a fire.
Rafferty sees this and runs over to stop it.
But as Rafferty got close, an explosion of flame pushed him back.
Through the settled flame rises Corin, his hair and eye red like fire.
His strength has replenished a bit but he is still much fatigued.
Corin looks around, he can see the magic residue of Rafferty and Ida, and he can also see how much they are both emitting. Rafferty is oozing with a Scarlet hue, while Ida's turquoise aura grows feint.
Corin runs over to Ida and helps her up.
"Are you ok?" He says to Ida who's breathing heavily.
Ida nods then looks up at him.
"Are you ok?! Why is your hair red?! Wait your eyes are red? Do you have magic?"
Corin looks at his hands which are exuding a flame-like aura. "I think so, I can see your magic."
Ida looks over to Rafferty who starts getting back up.
"Corin I think I know how his magic works, the wheel decides his speed, right now he's three times as fast as he normally is, and if we attack him or he attacks us, he has a chance of getting a boost to help him. It's like a luck magic."
Corin looks at her smacking his face.
"Another stupid magic that no new ever heard of."
She smacks him in the head
Rafferty gets a Lucky bonus above his head Audio Perception and grins
"Yes, it is luck magic, and you got it to a T, almost. I can spin a wheel to decide a factor of myself to try and increase, while throughout combat I get lucky bonuses that aid me, the longer the fight the greater the boosts can get.
The wheel above Rafferty's head starts to spin again and lands on 4x.
Ida looks over to then nods toward the Casino.
Corin sees and nods his head as Rafferty approaches them.
Let's see, if I remember, flame magic specializes in attack magic, so maybe a fireball?
Corin puts his hand out as if he were to shoot something from it, but nothing happens.
Rafferty uses this chance to attack Corin but Ida speeds them up to move them out of the way just fast enough so that Rafferty barely misses.
Ida looks at Corin
"What are you doing."
Corin looks at her a little worried
"I'm trying to figure this out but I need time."
Ida looks at him and rubs her eye.
"Yeah ok, I can do that." She sighs.
Ida starts moving over to Rafferty who is standing confidently.
He's fast as he is now, but lets we if he can match my fastest.
"For the next 12 seconds, your ass is mine." Ida declares as she points at Rafferty"
She turns her head to Corin.
"That's how much time you got to figure it out, you got it."
She looks back at Rafferty and gets into a running stance.
Rafferty within a second appears before her and throws a punch but Ida vanishes as he does.
From every direction of Rafferty, he is being punched by a turquoise blur.
1,
2,
He tries to move but he can't without being hit
His magic activates as a defense mechanism, Bonus: Resistance 1.3x, speed 5x, speed 6x.
Even as he gains speed it doesn't work Ida moves too fast
6,
7,
Corin feels a presence in his head, it's the Dragon
"The Magic in your body courses through you the same as your blood, image the fire rushing from your heart outward." The presence disappears."
11,
12,
Ida starts to slow down rapidly and makes her way to Corin, legs shaking, and sits next to him.
"I'll sit here and speed you up so you can somewhat match his speed, it's up to you."
Corin looks at Rafferty who is standing there motionless, looking up into the sky, beaten up and tattered.
His magic starts to rapidly increase to its max and he begins to move toward Corin.
"IF SHE WAS ANY BETTER I'D BE DEAD!" He says laughing
Above his head, many boosts start to appear
Bonus: Resistance 10x Max, Speed 10x Max, Strength 10x Max.
Corin starts to imagine his flames traveling from his heart out to his hand, and as he does a ball of flame moves at rapid speed just past Rafferty
"Fire Magic, let's see what you got," Rafferty says.
Ida applies her magic to Corin, making his legs have a turquoise hue. Rafferty attacks and Corin manages to dodge thanks to the extra speed, but even the slightest movements at this level cause extreme pain to Corin's legs.
Ida yells at him
"THE MAGIC I CAN GIVE YOU IS DEPENDENT ON YOUR PHYSICAL STAMINA!"
Corin nods and dodges another of Rafferty's attacks, this time when he moves out of the way Rafferty's punch causes a wall behind Corin to crumble from wind pressure.
Corin Charges a fireball in counterattack, it's about as heavy as an average bowling ball, but Corin throws it like a baseball.
It hits Rafferty center in the chest, but its effect is minimal.
Rafferty then shrugs off the pain and continues to throw attacks at Corin as he dodges.
Ida watches the two go at it, Corin and Rafferty move at extreme speeds, bouncing between lampposts and cars as everything is destroyed in their wake.
Corin starts getting the hang of launching attacks and starts doing it at faster speeds, yet its effectiveness against Rafferty is minimal but there.
If only I could just get more time to try and charge an attack, but he won't let me catch my breath.
Corin then looks at the Casino with an idea in mind.
He looks over to Ida and dodges Rafferty's attacks as he makes his way back to her.
Corin picks up Ida and starts running in the direction of the Casino
Ida grabs his shirt
"What are you doing? We supposed to keep him away from there, Loc is- I get it, I'm going to increase the speed, don't let go of me!"
Corin starts to accelerate, causing Rafferty to follow a little slow behind.
"GET BACK HERE!" Rafferty yells as he follows suit.
Corin breaks through the glass front door and starts running to the back as the entire of Las Luces who is enjoying the Casino watches Rafferty follow.
Some people start screaming and others start running.
Corin charges a ball of fire in each hand and shoots one at Rafferty making him stumble and blows up a wall with the other that leads to the back, there are lasers and guards.
Rafferty can be heard yelling from afar for the guards to stop them.
The guards approach Ida and Corin but they run past them, as does Rafferty who calls them useless on his way through.
A steel wall is at the other end of the hall, Corin charges another attack with each hand again and blows the next wall open as well as throwing one at Rafferty.
Rafferty is hit again and stops moving, looking irritated beyond all hell.
On the other side is Loc who is trying to enter a code by a large Vault door. He turns to see Corin and Ida behind him.
"What are you-?!"
Stops and moves out of the way so Loc can see Rafferty who is staring them down
He chuckles a bit
"Not the distraction in mind."
Corin puts Ida in Loc's arms and tries to convey his idea quickly so they don't get caught
"Make him fast, I'll ride on his shoulders and charge an attack."
Loc looks at Corin confused, but Corin doesn't care and jumps on Loc's back who is also carrying Ida.
They look at Rafferty who grabs a black Metallic star-shaped device and puts it in his chest, then a black Tar liquid starts forming around his body, turning into black armor.
It's similar but not the same, the man who attacked my home had all black armor, he is red and black. I knew they were working together.
Ida charges Loc up with time magic
"Start running!"
Corin blows another hole through a wall that leads outside and points to it telling LoC to go through it.
Loc runs while carrying Ida in his arms and Corin on his shoulders as Corin charges up a larger attack.
On the Shoulders of Rafferty's armor are jet engines that turn on, allowing him to keep up with Loc.
In the night of the city crowds of people from the Casino who are now outside watch as Loc runs down the street as Rafferty starts catching up.
Loc sees this and creates water imps to throw at Rafferty which causes him to fly around uncontrollably and crash into buildings.
After shaking the imps, machine guns are created in the sides of his arms and he starts shooting at Loc and as he misses, the road is torn up.
Corin has a massive ball of flame in his hand the size of a beach ball.
Loc looks up
"Is it ready?!"
Corin moves his head where Loc can see.
"Ten more seconds."
Rafferty's voice is disoriented by the suit, making it sound mechanical
"GIVE ME THE SYMPHONY!"
Rafferty speeds up at max velocity and catches up to them, Ida sees this, knowing Corin still needs time.
They don't see him, if I yell to let them know it'll be too late.
She reaches her hand out, and a small turquoise chain shoots out, wrapping around Rafferty's leg slowing him down.
"Yes!" she said pumping her fist.
Corin now holding a fireball the size of the front of a car notifies Loc to turn around, which he does.
Corin sees the chain leading to Rafferty from Ida, and understands what she did, he looks back at Rafferty and throws the powerful ball of fire magic.
And for the slightest moment for some reason, all three of them feel a slight vibration.
The ball of Flame then hits Rafferty dead on causing an explosion that takes up a 100m radius.