The Treacherous Cliffs

Zurakia mentally laughed at krakarda, his message beaming directly into his mind, And your closed mindedness will be your greatest failure.

At this point, trapped in a prison specifically designed to stop him from using ZE, he is just an observer. The true origin of this attack was from outside his influence. Thus, there is no change in the aira that drained them away bit by bit.

     Zurakia felt an uneasy fear take root in the darker corners of his mind as soon as he touched Krakarda's, a feeling that an unknown something was watching him.

     "Borthers," Krakarda addressed the makuta. "Will you let this thief dishonor your title, or will you cut off his hand?"

     To Zurakia, his own voice chanted by possible mimicry of The Makuta. "I am War! I am War! I am War!" The foreign thoughts were in a native tongue, conveying a perhaps familiar drive in an alien string.

He ignores her; it's not as if her knowledge of her crime would change a thing.

OOC: Charix is firmly against Zurakia, and anyone who stands with him is also against Zurakia.

got'cha

Swordsman stops, and focuses on conserving energy.

Zurakia's own voice gave reply.
"Out, Makuta! Pester me no further! Even now you twist my words against eachother, though without effect, I must add. I am far too lazy to act on any thoughts I might have!"

The Makuta spoke again to his brothers. "Are you really Makuta? Your vain attempts at resisting call out your likeness to matoran! Leave now, before my pride in you is swallowed whole by your stubbornness. This is a show put on only for Charix and Zenila, true Makuta."

Charix, who I believe maintaining his physical presence several dozen yards underground, is unaffected by the ZE energy drain. However, the shadow he is using to manifest himself in the area looses its connection to the shadow zone.

Realizing through a quick and covert reading of Stalker's thoughts that this version of Zurakia is indeed prevented from managing the ZE aura, Charix shifts his focus from mentally assaulting this trapped opponent, and towards mentally scanning the ZE itself to try and detect a mental presence that could be attacked and frustrated.

Also noticing the disappearance Valix, Charix attempts to discern the Makuta's mental presence.  

Charix sends a quick mental message to his Firedrakes, which, each caught in the ZE power drain, are quick to adopt Charix's order in hopes of combating the drain. Each of the warships devotes a considerable amount of the energy they have left to their support system, quickly using magnetism powers to attach a hefty magnetic force around and about themselves, and the assembled Makuta and allies. Relying on the principle that magnetic force can affect the direction that kinetic energy moves, as well as manipulating heat (since heat is generated from the vibration of atoms which can themselves be manipulated by magnetism), the strong magnetic forces attached to the warships and allies are managed so as to both prevent the ally from losing heat (by preventing the atoms from vibrating) and redirected any energy pulled away from the ally by the ZE; directing it back into the ally (this is accomplished since magnetism levies a perpendicular force upon moving energy charges. While it cannot change the amount of energy contained in the charge, it can exert an influence to bend that charge elsewhere).

In this way, the Firedrake's attempt to stabilize themselves and their allies.


 

Response. "Explain."

TD's foe would use stasis to have him stuck in place with some of that energy and take on the rest like a champ