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Chapter 426 - A Rush from The Royal Flush

A King of Clubs, Queen of Spades, Jack of Hearts, Queen of Diamonds and A Queen of Hearts. 

These were the Cards Drawn and Chosen by Deckard for his Royal Flush attack. They all stopped spready a many feet apart from one another, their designs faced the oncoming opponents and slowly formed bodies around these cores. 

The Cards all formed into bodies almost all at once.

But The King of Clubs was the first to begin taking shape. Its card seemed to begin to unravel layer by layer without ever truly losing detail or form. These small shreds floated out and around the core and began to form a body 

It was much like that of the card knights, but in far more freedom and detail. It was like they were made up of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of cards to fully define their shapes. The Clubs was that of a bearded older man, waving hair that was made of cards that came down to his shoulders. He wore a doublet across his torso, the tunic underneath reached down to his knees where stockings. It also wore boots, and finally a regal cloak 

The King, A Card often known to be connected to power and temperance. This was reflected in the fact that the object tied to Arcana is that of the Sword. Which it drew, and was made of a solid wild flame. 

Then, a ring of flame formed around the bonnet on top of his head, shaping into that of a crown. The Sign of The Clubs on the buckles of the cloak that attached it to his shoulders. 

The Queen of Spades Adorned a simple dress that exposed the top of her bust, a thick belt on her waist. Boots like a warrior. And a half cloak that hung off her shoulder. The Shape like a Spear Head of the Spade on the 'Fabric' that hung from her shoulder. 

The Queen was Symbolic of Leadership, and Power from within. Reflected in that there was a hole just below her clavicle, a perfect circle that glowed with purple energy. The Arcana Object was a Wand; that she held in her hand. It was simple and straight but curved like a branch near the end. A small chaplet of purple kinetic energy formed above the flowing her hair that was up in a tight bun 

The Jack of Hearts was much simpler. The Sigil of a Heart was adorned across the front of the flat cap he wore. A tunic of his torso that went down to below it's pelvis. Much like the king, simple stockings and boots were on its feet.

Jacks were Symbolic of Servitude and Fitting any role given to them. Reflected in that he was much simpler in clothing than the others. Able to do as much as they can with the power of their Suit. And the Arcana was the Coins. But these were large and were more like discs than anything. 

The Queen of Diamonds was exactly as the Spade, but had the Diamond Sigil in place of a spade. And in the hole below her clavicle was a perfectly cut diamond. Diamonds also replaced the other parts were there was once Purple energy 

The same was with the Queen of Hearts. The space above her bust was totally empty. 

"Go." Deckard Commanded them, out stretching his hand. All of them moving all at once like a well oiled army. They were not autonomous, but were subconsciously controlled by the want of Deckard's mind. 

"Looks like there's one for each of us!" Cali smiled, metal surrounding her arms and constructing into those same Metal mechanical arms! 

The first to Clash was Raven with the Queen of Diamonds! The Construct waved its wand and brought the tip up to her chest cavity, and pulled a diamond shape from it! It formed into a Diamond axe with a razor sharp edge! 

The Cards showed no emotions, and let out no noises of exertion as they acted. It swung the Axe down, Raven, while not being the most athletic or nimble of the crew, was still extremely strong from the years of practice and fights from organizations she hoped from. 

Dodging to the side, she thrust her hand up like a slap! "Palm Bloom!" A dozen arms sprouted from the ground in a pillar and slammed into the side of the Queens face, Causing it to be damaged! Cracks and a decent chunk taken out of the side of its head! 

Quickly, the Queen redirected its attack and shifted the attack pointing the blade to where Raven now stood, the large blade of crystal shattered and shot towards raven in a collection of Cards! 

"Sprout Hedge!" She rose her arms up, a hard grimace on her face while a thick wall of Arms blocked the shards and embedded like shrapnel into it! 

It was a good thing that these limbs were Facsimiles of the real things. While they could have bone if Raven wished (In the mere moment before she did activate, the ability read her intentions) they were filled with muscle. But nothing else. Meaning no blood was spilt from the injuries to her Bloomed limbs, even if she herself felt a fraction of the pain. 

The Queen brough the tip up to the cavity again, diamonds clumping up into a spiked ball of diamonds, floating above it by an inch! 

The queen pointed the wand at the Hedge of Limbs and shot a spray of shards! Dozens and Dozens of the them continued to fire! The queen would only need to 'Recharge' if it wanted to change its action such as switching back to a melee weapon 

"Weeping Salix!" Raven shot her hand and clutched hard! A dozen arms sprouted up and slammed into the cavity of the queen! Reaching deep inside, she crushed the Card inside causing the Construct to explode into shreds of cards! Diamonds spraying across the floor like light rain… 

 

Cali was next with the Queen of Spades. She dashed forward with a manic grin across her face, reeling the metal fist back and slamming it forward! 

"Radical Rocker!" As Advanced form of a Rockin' Fist extended the chest cavity of the Queen of Spades began to glow a bright purple, a beam then shot from the void and pierced straight through the metal fist! The friction from the kinetic energy beam caused the metal to be melted into a glowing orange! Steam rising from the rain impacting it as the Shipwrights Eyes were widened with surprise!

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