We Have All Been Genderflipped 2.0

Erika emits a hiss, having not expected more people to get to the group of fallen people, like bees to an intruder near their hive. Having heard the extra voices, she looked to try and make her way around the group, emitting a somewhat stressed hiss as she tries her best to slither from tree to tree in an attempt to keep concealed, though keeping a fair length of serpentine tail might not prove so simple. Upon getting to the next tree for cover, she knocks a frail branch to the ground absentmindedly, emitting a hiss that is a bit louder, like a tire losing pressure as the branch falls down. The branch, aside from being knocked down, looks something like an arm that had been misshapen, with some of the foliage, emerald in hue on the ground, but otherwise staying mostly on the branch. She made a decision, and began to flee in a hurry, ditching the subtle escape plan in favor of just avoiding conflict with her retreat to the building, like a goblin survivor in a failed siege upon a dwarven fort. "Ssstupid tree!" She hissed as her body glides to the best of its abilities on the terrain, her hair moving in the wind and quickly losing the shape it had, which would have made her look something akin to a cobra as she tries to evacuate.

Edited to swap a single word really. I need to be more careful about the word choice!

edited 16th Jun '16 3:02:42 PM by NESgamer190

Kit stands by the three for a moment without saying anything. Eventually she takes a deep breath and speaks. "C-can I help? I can probably help move her. If you...need me to do that." What are you doing, Kit? "Please...let me help..." Her mismatched eyes may be visible at this point.

*The woman pauses, glancing upwards when she hears the sound of snapping tree branch. She continues watching as the cause of said tree branch dropping stops being stealthy, and continues to watch aforementioned cause of broken tree branch for quite some time, mostly due to the unfamiliar everything. There's a long pause.*

Ah'll jus' write that off as somethin' weird 'bout this place. Yep. That's what ah'll do.

*She turns to Kit, and her confusion increases at the mismatched eyes thing, although considering it isn't quite as weird as what she just saw, she relaxes.*

"Eya. Y' could prob'ly 'elp out. Dunno how, though. Ask one'a them."

*She indicates to Daydre and the missing arm person.*

Elsewhere, there appears to be a young lady walking around aimlessly, clad in nothing more than a collection of quilts and throw blankets. Her facial expression and body language give off a semblance of confusion, as though she's not entirely sure how she ended up in this situation. In fairness, you would probably be a bit discombobulated too, if you woke up in the middle of the woods with nothing but your bedsheets.

This girl is a fair distance away from the others, and doesn't hear any noises they're making. She's moving in that direction, though.

As Erika gets closer to the clearing along the path, a roundabout driveway and perimiter wall come into view. Wrought-iron spikes and gate decorate the brick construct and the building is revealed to be a rather large mansion sitting back a ways from the wall

From what one can tell, the gate itself is unlocked, if closed. The entire place seems to invite you in through appearance itself.

From the forest, another girl appears, looking to be about 19 and having blonde hair and blue eyes. She's wearing a black fedora, a black hoodless jacket worn over a white homemade t-shirt with the Smart Brain logo on it, a pair of jeans with a brown belt, and black and silver tennis shoes. She looks tired, as if she's been running and hasn't eaten in days. And strangely enough, she also has an evil-looking dark cobalt blue gauntlet on her right arm...

"Emily...there you are..."

edited 16th Jun '16 3:23:42 PM by TheHailStormer

"Yeah, I think we should carry her to that building over there... Can you help me?" He asks Kit. He doesn't notice her mismatched eyes yet, probably because his mind is on other things. He doesn't notice the girl in the quilts, however he does notice the other girl in the fedora. "Emily?"

Erika looked behind herself to make sure she wasn't being tracked, before she had gone to try the gate of the mysterious building, finding it to open with relative ease. "Unlocked? Thisss may prove a problem, but better thisss than the group." She would then approach the mansion-like structure, taking a look at the surroundings, and her mind began to slow down and stop racing so much, feeling a bit more secure.

"At leassst they did not follow..." She whispered to herself, emitting a long, drawn out hiss within this relatively safe place. She would then try to approach the manor-like structure, maybe see if her luck continues to hold with the front doors being unlocked too, but for now, she merely looks upon the surroundings in a trance, like a charmed snake to a snake charmer.

Somewhere else in the depths of the forest, a tan, green-haired girl wakes up in cold sweat. "Huh?", she stuttered, looking around frantically. She is clad in dark-colored ronin armor, complete with a sheathed katana and other weapons attached to the sides/back of the armor. her hair almost reaches down to her waist, her brown eyes are big and full of passion. Lying beside her is a blueish napsack. "Alexa! Emily!", she called out, standing up, "Where are you two?"

The young warrior grabbed her bag and started trudging forward, still calling out the names the two girls.

edited 16th Jun '16 3:21:40 PM by Konkfan7

Those at the clearing already might notice a brunet finally coming to and sitting up. It was obvious that the young man had been outside a while – his hoodie and jeans were dirty, his sneakers had mud caked on the soles, and his hair was long and messy, covering his eyes from view.

“…The heck?” the others might hear him say. “This isn’t the forest. How did I end up here?”

The girl looks up at the new arrival. Giving a weak grin, she says "Hey, sis." Turning to the other people surrounding he, she says "I'm fine. I just need to lay down."

Kit nods to Daydre. "Sure. I'd...I'd like to help." She watches the interaction between Alexa and Emily. "Nya? I guess you know each other?"

edited 16th Jun '16 3:38:09 PM by Morgikit

"No, you're not fine...you're still bleeding..."

A voice then speaks in the girl's head.

Oh, I wonder why that might be, hmm, Oh Bearer Mine?

"Shut up, you! You made me do this!", she says. To everyone else, it's gonna look like she's talking to herself.

Brisk breathing pulled from exhausted lungs, the crisp scent of the wild roads.

Kuro's onyx eyes focused straight ahead of him, shallow breathes caused his chest to heave. The chilled winds lashed at his face, pale cheeks flushed a rosy hue of pink. Ahead of him, a small, black-and-white cat ran, clearly trying to escape the young man. After arriving suddenly in a new and mysterious location, he and Shiro had discovered an injured cat licking its wounds. In an attempt to discover what was wrong with the creature, it had fled, causing Kuro to chase it through the forest, and onto a field in front of a vast mansion. As the furry feline rounded a corner and disappeared, Kuro halted, hunched over and catching his breath.

"Wait up." Shiro's voice was deeper, more stoic. As Kuro regained his bearings, he turned around, gazing at his brother in an intrigued manner. Unlike Kuro, Shiro wasn't known to directly show emotion very often. The older twin had his hands buried into his pockets, and eyed Shiro in an unreadable manner. "You should've been able to catch it." He spoke casually, before lifting his gaze upwards to the mansion that loomed in front of them. "Let's go." Without another word, the white-haired twin continued forward, leaving Kuro to follow him. They approached the doors, and Kuro's brows furrowed, expression becoming puzzled as he gazed at his twin.

"In there?" He questioned, only to be given a grunt by the white-haired young man. At times, Kuro really couldn't get a handle on what his twin was thinking. But he really wasn't that easy to read, either. Although he had more questions, the black-haired twin continued to follow his older brother. If there was one person that Kuro knew he could trust, it was Shiro. The two of them had been together for their entire lives. And that would never change. Kuro couldn't stand the thought of Shiro abandoning him... As they reached the tall wooden doors, he brushed off the unpleasant thoughts.

"The roof. We can see our surroundings from there." Shiro spoke blatantly. His answer admittedly made sense to Kuro, who merely nodded and scurried to follow the taller. He stuck close to Shiro, feeling comfort in his twin's presence. Immediately, Shiro took the lead, searching for a stairwell or some sort of passage that could lead them to the very top of the building.

edited 16th Jun '16 3:48:43 PM by Ringabel

"Yeah, no.. You're missing an entire arm.. unless you have a magic flesh regrower or something you're going to bleed out..."

Nya? And another person talking to themselves... Is today going to be one of those days..?

"Voices..." the blankets-wearing girl murmurs. Seems I'm not alone out here.

She changes direction towards where she's pretty sure the others are. Pretty soon, they- "they" being Emily, Alexa and Mikaela- might perceive a young lady with a brown mop of hair, dirty feet and a large number of sheets draped over her torso and around her waist. Not heading out into the open yet, she eyes them uneasily.

edited 16th Jun '16 4:22:43 PM by Inceptiond

Nina looks around, then she throws back the hood, revealing a steel mask which begins to flow downwards, revealing copper eyes under short, steelgray hair. A scar adorns her face going from her chin to her left eye.

She looks around, noticing the building as well as the others. "We should get to cover in case of a shooter...", she says, loud enough to be heard by the others as she walks towards the building, entering it soon after.

The green-haired girl in samurai armor pokes out from the forest, still calling out, "Alexa!" Her eyes widen a bit as she spots Alexa and Emily. "Ah, there you are.", she said, sounding relieved. She approached them, taking note of Emily's injured state.

"It is no problem, miss." Hearing the name and looking her over once more, this time Tamaki flashed a mischievous grin instead of the steely eyed smirk at the girl, teasing but with good humor. "A rather strong name, not what I was expecting really." With an incline of her head and one final sweep of the surrounding to take in group's overall body language, Tamaki finally left her position and walked slowly on over to the Chinese woman.

"Asagami." Briskly introducing her surname though not without a slight incline of the head in acknowledgement, the girl shrugged her backpack on before taking a hold of a sheathed machete from the container to place at her belt to act as both camouflage for what she could really do and as a means to save magic when simple physical exertion was a better option. "In any case, we shouldn't tarry about in the woods like this. Much too defenseless for my liking. Perchance we scout out the trail and see what's on the other side of this suspect fog?" The young woman said in a business-like manner, setting her sights for something beyond the horizon.

edited 16th Jun '16 4:05:55 PM by Makaioh

*The shield-carrying woman, who has remained oddly silent for quite a while, is currently looking around the area, scanning to see who else might be present. She seems to have wandered a short way away from the group, closer to that building... and she's also inspecting her shield in the meantime. Finding that it's currently doing just fine, she smiles a little, and mounts the shield back in place on her back.*

Wait, never mind.

edited 16th Jun '16 4:16:23 PM by Inceptiond

Kit takes note of the girl who seems to be talking to herself. She whispers "You don't think..." Maybe. She speaks up. "Maybe we should try moving her over to that place over there? Seems to be the only building around."

As the various individuals make their way forward, the building reveals itself to be a large mansion, several stories tall, built in a classic style.

The gate that sits in front of it, easily a football field's length in front of the building actual, is joined by a wall gracing the perimeter of the grounds. Curiously, the gate is open, as are the front doors, the likely culprits just disappearing out of view into the building itself.

as one approaches the mansion, the air itself seems inviting, even beckoning, you in. A large lawn flanks either side of the mansion for a good 600 feet until it ends with woods on all sides, the front notwithstanding.

As Kuro, Shiro, and Erika might have noticed on their way in, the doors to the mansion are simple, but beautiful in its accuracy and attention to detail. as you open them and enter, it takes a moment for your eyes to adjust to the warm, calm light of the main hall. doors stand on either wall and complement the grand staircase on the wall in front of you. one door shares the same wall as the staircase, tucked away nicely away from the main view of the hall.

*The shield-carrying woman stares at the mansion for quite a while, taking in the details and committing each of them to her short-term memory, before deciding to wander over to take a look. Seeing that other people got there first, she decides to rely on their reactions to the place as well, strolling over to the entrance and pausing. Then, she enters the mansion, to take a look around the interior as well. Those close to her, if anyone, should be able to hear her whistle in admiration.*

"Nice place 'ere. Wonder who owns all'a this."

"No idea, truth to be told. Be on your guard though. We do not know what will appear when.", the girl says to the shield-carrying woman, putting the knife grip back into her pocket.

Soon afterwards, she leisurely lets her left hand slide over a collection of hilts on her keychain, grabbing the one closely resembling a katanas hilt.

"Cover me. I will go in front. This place sure looks inviting."