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"What the-!?" Sally shrieked upon seeing the spears. There was no time waste. They were coming right at them. Sally was basically a deer in the headlights. Quickly realizing that they were coming at any minute, Sally quickly rolled down her sleeves and held up her arms up in front of her face to protect herself.
"Hope this is enough to protect me. Why are we being attacked right now!?" She mutters to herself worried.
"Who the hell are you!?" Finn yells at the lady. Whoever she was clearly knew Ash. Whatever the case, there was something clearly not right with this lady. She made his skin crawled when she talked. When she pointed the gun at Rebecca and heard Ash scream, every impulse went at a moment's notice. Finn instinctively went to push Rebecca out the way right as Mikael apprehended the creepy lady.
"Mikael! Be careful!" He yells. There was no way in hell he was going to let his friends get killed.
Edited by LovelyMagicianSavvy on Jan 14th 2019 at 6:25:34 AM
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Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Iridium Wonders – Hardware Store
Its almost like I did not tell them on the first day that they can just reach out and commune with me. What do Americans have against communion? Then again, I might have been a tad harsh when I warned that girl against all-calls. Those are rude though, and not like anyone this year heard that... Despite continuing her musings and pouting a bit to no one who could see it anyway, she replied that they'd meet later. Going by outside much later. 'After I deal with this unfriendly fellow here. By the way, we're downtown. Tell me if you want anything.'
Mahvash flipped the phone shut, feeling the light dim and both feeling and hearing spears of all things heading towards EG, who could more than take care of it even if she did not have Ryuu's support. Hmph. I better not miss magical theory. The doc still owes me comments on my thesis last year.
"Well," the daeva clapped her hands together. "Empathy mask practice time. Think you can zero in on a hostile entity, Dante? And we have an Iris to look too." She gave Sally a quick whistle right next to her ear. "All of you, this is...another exam, a bloody one. Stay on it. Sally, you have Dante and Aster. EG has Iris and Ryuu. The first one to find the source go for it. Let's meet our new playmate." She all but pulled the others, sans Ryuu, all the way inside.
The daeva skipped and sailed around the block, half-leading, half-shoving people inside and under cover. "All of you on the streets begone." She thought a moment. "Hide and protect yourselves. The current enemy like us, but take cover anyway." Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Van - The Return
Not a word of complaint after a long day's arduous adventure. Not even the slightest move to relax. And just as Cendrillon was moving to shoot Rebecca in the face, there was a sluicing sound like blood flowing at rapid pace. A sudden burst of red right in front of the girl's face. A rush of the salty, dark smell of fresh bloodshed.
A rather worn down and...oddly dressed...Van entered the room with a long extended tendril of blood formed into a number of scythes. One bent and moved to intercept Cendrillon's attack, the other scythes moving to skewer her arm several times.
Van was now dressed in a black vest that poorly fit his muscular frame, with a number of pockets, a festive hat tilted a little forward on his head, and wearing stained looking jeans a size too big for him but adjusted with an odd looking belt with the belt buckle apparently torn off and haphazardly replaced. On the back were several odd hoods, torn up and fashioned into what amounted to loop shaped trophies - one of them in particular had PROPERTY OF JEB stained with tears.
"Sorry it took so long." Van breathed as he clenched a fist around the blade of Chikage, and readied his blade for use, "...I promise it's going to be an interesting story once this vile creature is cast away, castigated and crushed for her cruel chicanery."
In the time that everyone's teleporter basically went on the fritz, Van's both teleported him further away and also teleported him out of his clothes, though he managed to keep Chikage and his shield on him due to how he held on to those.
Edited by NickTheSwing on Jan 14th 2019 at 6:37:03 AM
Zach's Room — FOOLED YOU!
Looking at the bottom of the bed, Ellie could see a small green discus attached to the surface. Despite being frozen in ice, it was still glowing a sickly green. Which shouldn't have been possible. And yet as Ellie continued to look at it, she couldn't help but think it looked somehow familiar.
Suddenly the device evaporated in an instantaneous green poof. As it did, a green wave flashed through everyone in the dorms and through the building until it surrounded the entire place, sending a wave of nausea through everyone as it did. It stopped dead in its' tracks, solidifying around the dorms as a sort of large green gell. As Ellie got her bearings, it didn't take long for her to know just what this was. And that for now, her teleportation was kaput.
At that same moment, they could hear a pair of footsteps from the entrance. In any case, the situation was clear. Unless Squad 1 were able to think of something, they were stuck inside the dorms for the foreseeable future. Along with whoever else was stuck with them.
Up on Melancholy hill.
Zach - Squad 1 - The Dorms
A lot happened in the past few seconds, some of them being Shane and Yoko pulling him back, Ellie pulling his bed up into the air and now being surrounded by a thick, green smoke that strangely made his stomach churn.
And all the while, he couldn't help but think...why MY bed of all of them?
Someone wanna tell me what the fuck ust happened? Zach asked, waving his free hand in front of his face to blow away any of the remaining smoke away and giving him some room to breath.
The sound of foot steps caught his attention. The four tendrils leapt out IMMEDIATELY.
Guys...? He asked. What's going on...?
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?
AKA Nixer
Dorms – Squad 1
“It... wasn't a bomb.”
Yoko—who had immediately wrapped her entire self and tails around Zach in a protective cocoon—hesitantly uncurled herself, looking more than a little confused. And sick, actually. The ripple had made her as green as its own self.
“I... I dunno, is... is everyone okay? What was–”
Then she heard the footsteps.
“...that...?”
Dorms – Squad 3
“Grmph,” grunted the woman as her arm was grabbed by the demidemon, and was then promptly skewered in said arm a multitude of times by the vampire. Which was quite impressive. Or not. She might not have had as much pain reaction as a normal person. Which wasn't that fantastical considering what she did next.
Her arm squelched as she tugged it out of both Mikael's clawed grip and the blood constructs—which Van would suddenly feel a tug against as her mangled fist clenched to the best of its ability and promptly sent the makeshift scythes back at the vampire at a breakneck pace as easily as he would. An abnormal event one still didn't get to dwell on for very long as the remains of Cendrillon's fist was buried in Mikael's abdomen at a speed beyond anything perceivable by both human and demon eyes.
The way the ground cracked, the glass around them shattered, and a cataclysmic sonic boom erupted from her fist as she simply seemed to teleport with her sheer velocity was testament to this. It would send Mikael rocketing. And most likely with a fist-shaped impact point in his stomach. He was lucky she hadn't aimed just a little lower.
“752 missions, 5,785 men dead by my hand. I have been doing this for 127 years, and no mangy, half-blooded runtish pissant will squander my name. Either of you.”
There was nothing in her voice except her statement and a hint of irritance. Even as she wiped her eyes of the blood splatters. Her arm was relocated into its socket with a sickening crunch. It looked like it had displaced from the combination of the punch and its already damaged state.
“I have work to do.”
She vanished. Just like that. Gone. So quick that there was a noticeable delay between her disappearing and the ground gouging out beneath her feet. So indescribably fast that Ash—who had been sneakily attempting to make her way over to Rebecca—never saw the kick coming.
She gurgled and spewed blood as she hit the far wall and rebounded—somewhat less force in this strike than the one given to the demon—but it still cracked the wall. Her inflammable suit cracked and began to fall away, and she collapsed onto her front and heaved. Only to be kicked in the face by the sociopath who dared to claim to be her mother.
“Feel that? That strange tingling? Like pins and needles, right? That's good. Embrace it. It's the only chance you'll have–”
“Ffffuu youuugh.”
“–to kill me. Did I dislocate your jaw? That's a shame.”
The woman refrained from further attacks to the pyrokinetic; leaving the battered Ash to groan and roll over. Cendrillon was right. She did feel tingly. All across her body. All across her–
Skin.
Ash's skin was peeling.
“Next, please. Rebecca, dear. Do come here and kneel for me. Get this over with.”
And by now, Ash was sobbing in pain, rage, and fear. Her skin was peeling off in strips—nerves snapping and musculature system exposing.
She was in agony.
Edited by Enirboreh on Jan 14th 2019 at 3:15:24 PM
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Breath of the Sun
Squad 1 - Dorms - Ellie
As the greenness expanded and sealed the Dorms, Ellie tensed, pushing past the initial nausea but dropping Zach's bed with a 'thud' in the process. Lightning crackled from her hands as she realized what this was, stumbling a moment as she pushed towards the door.
"...Zenestria..." She hissed, remembering... that day. But this was different, however - this barrier was made by a piece of tech, not a demoness. Nonetheless, a problem. "This is serious, guys. This is a copy of a greater demon's barrier. My teleportation is blocked, and we can't leave by any conventional means. We'd need a powerful demon or someone like Dr. Bozo to break it. So we're stuck here."
She transformed into her full demon form, allowing her wings and horn to sprout as her skin shifted tone and her body grew a good foot and a half. "Be really careful. Someone's here to kill us."
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
Surrounded by weirdoes
Squad 1
"I'll try" Sam told Zach, but at Yoko's threat, he simply smirked, she could try, but she'll be through a serious freeze before getting anywhere. "You got your tastes, and that's something I'd rather not comment on,one way or another"
But the beeping in the room worried him, and this forcefield could be a serious issue.
"I heard of this one" He commented, his own cold air surrounded him "Danger incoming, get ready to rumble"
Wake me up at your own risk.
Where am I? What's going on?
Squad 3 - Rebecca - Hallway
A gun. There was a gun. Pointed at her head. Again. Why again? Why a gun? Rebecca went completely still as her brain tried and failed to process what was happening. Then someone pushed her just as a spray of blood erupted in front of her eyes.
All of a sudden, Rebecca's mind flashed back to the first time she'd had a gun held to her head. She'd been powerless then, stripped of anything that would let her fight back. But not now. Now she could retaliate. She wasn't helpless. She wouldn't be helpless. She couldn't be helpless. She couldn't let history repeat.
"Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!"
Rebecca let out a sudden, bestial scream as her powers pulled at her surroundings. First any dirt, dust, and grime from the hallway was pulled toward Rebecca, and then, with an audible groaning and cracking, sewer pipes began to burst from the walls and ceiling as their contents were drawn toward the young would-be hero.
She wasn't helpless this time. She had the power to defend herself. Defend her friends. She wouldn't cower again.
"Raaaaaah!"
With another primal scream, Rebecca's accumulated ammunition was sent flying at her would-be assassin with enough force to cave a normal human's chest in, far more force than Rebecca would ever use were she in her right mind.
Squad Three-Hallway
Martin paused as the woman approached, mostly because he assumed she was just another staff member. However the moment she spoke he had it in one. She was a villain, no one else spoke in such a dramatic and arrogant tone. Well that might not be true but that was his thought. The fact she had managed to get this deep into the academy meant she was either smart or just that good. Regardless he would have to make this quick.
"Citizen's arrest ma'am," and with those words out of the way Martin moved. Even at only fifty percent he was well above human levels of speed, and using the distraction that Rebecca had granted him moved behind the mass of shadows that had appeared to assault them. People were hurt, but having seen, or rather not seen, this things speed he knew that trying to run would just result in more people getting hurt.
"Fifty percent. Medium Hero." Matching his timing with the hail of projectiles Martin threw him toward the mass of shadows, jumping up and thrusting forth both of his feet toward the general center mass of the creature, moving fast enough to leave cracks in the floor
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Everything felt like a blur after Finn pushed Rebecca. Upon reclaiming his senses, he saw Rebecca and Martin going at it with the creepy lady. However, the sight of Ash was devastating. He had to protect her while the others held off the villain.
"Let's go! Other-Sider!" Finn almost instantaneously swapped over to his energy form. He made a medium sized sword from his left arm in case if he needs to protect himself and charge in front of Ash. He quickly picked her up.
"Come on, I'm going to get you out of here." he whispers to her. Picking her up, his plan is to get Ash to somewhere safe and come back to fight the creepy lady. He levitates above the ground and makes his way down the hall, hoping he wouldn't be noticed.
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Shane - Squad 1
"Uuuurgh...fuuuuark bro, what the actual fuck was that?"
Shane brought himself back up, wiping sweat off his face and looking around, his ears picking up on the sound of someone walking. He ran and checked a window, seeing the odd walls outside, and grimacing.
"...Seems someone doesn't want us going for help."
He looked down at his hand. The time for that kind of use of his power might be here.
Van - Squad 3
The scythes turned to a less potent configuration as they returned to Van, but any intent to get to explaining to his classmates was quieted by what came next.
The eyes of the young vampire prince widened as the wicked woman basically forced her arm into a corrected state and then kicked Ash hard enough that she vomited up blood. Van could smell it on the air, and his eyes darted between the dropped body of Ash and Cendrillion. He could smell something wrong with Ash.
He could see her suit decaying away. The repugnant look of skin spoiling and rotting.
Tears yanking at his eyes as he recalled an event from the distant past.
A similar set up, a similar brutality, and the gloating of one's inhuman and inhumane brothers as to the frailty of one's love.
"I...I—-"
He grimaced and then looked down. One fist clenched tight enough to draw blood.
"I-I will kill you!!" There was an explosion of force off of Van as he plowed through Restraints down to 4, I can't let her die. I won't let her die. Even if I have to—-
He ran in at Cendrillion at the same time as Martin, readying the Chikage. He unleashed almost twenty slashes at her with the blood lined blade, minding the location of Martin so as not to afflict any friendly fire.
Three potted cactus in a trench coat.
squad 2 - Streets
"Matten's right. I can just make pin-" She turned to look behind her as the sound of the spear crashing into the streetlamp grabbed her attention. She scowled at the interruption but turned back to the rest of the group unimpressed. Their antics drawing her attention skyward. "Yeah, so I can just make pineapples. Ah. Well, that is a tad more worrisome isn't it?"A nearby manhole cover was flipped over by countless hyphae releasing a visible stream of spores up into the air. Nearby decorative trees began ushering along civilians with their branches to help Matten in her task as their roots broke up through the abandoned parts of the sidewalk, lifting chunks of concrete to form a loose shield above the squad and civilians. "So... know anyone who uses black flames?"
Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.
Ultimate Hope, Absolute Insanity
Iridium Wonders – Towards The Hardware Store
While running towards the hardware store, he heard Ryuu.
React to wha— Oh shoot! , Dante asked Ryuu before noticing the raining spears of darkness.
Dante looked at his mask belts. He needed to choose the mask that would be the perfect mask for this circumstance.
Dante quickly followed what Mahvash said, and put the Schizo Mask on his face.
Even though he wasn't really wearing a jester costume, after his transformation, he wore a more jester-like version of his clothes,
Dante's face merged with the mask now. The color scheme of his costume was now consisting of navy blue and crimson red.
Dante's left side of his face was navy blue, with a crimson red eye and half-frown. Overall, the left side of his face looked depressed and somber.
Dante's right side of his face had a crimson red color, with a navy blue eye and and half-smile. Overall, the right side of his face looked euphoric and enthusiastic.
These things made Dante's face looked strange, and to some people, even twisted and disturbing. Dante even became taller.note
After transforming into Schizo Dante, the jester scanned, with powers, his sorroundings to see of there was a way to find the attacker's and their emotions. And he did! Schizo Dante felt something incredibly dark, negative that originated from the sky.
He turned to Mahvash.
Maaaavash Mattiuza, I can feel our attacker's hostile psyche......It Comeees FROM the SKY!! , Dante said to Mahvash, his voice distorted, unnerving...disturbing...twisted.
He pointed towards the sky, to the excact point the spears originated from.
The DARK Spears Of Destruction came from theeeere... , he said.
Edited by Theyja on Jan 15th 2019 at 12:25:47 PM
You might know everything I'm going to do...but that's not going to help you, since I KNOW EVERYTHING YOU'RE GOING TO DO! STRANGE, ISN'T IT?
An Ordinary Oddball
Aster (2)
Aster's sides were nearly grazed by the dark flame spears, but she didn't even flinch. Instead, she focused inwards.
The scales which signified Avajax's blessing seemed to vibrate as they served their purpose, which was protecting them from mental influences—in this case, the illusion that was covering the block.
"Well, we know where he is. Now the question is who," she said, summoning up her armor from out of her flesh, grinding and twisting itself into existence. "And he seems to favor mental disturbances. Both of our bets are on the Gaea representative."
Avajax growled in affirmation. Aster's visor snapped shut, and her transformation into an inhuman suit of armor was complete.
The shredded, distorted sounds of whalesong rang out from the formerly-Aster-shaped-figure, bidding their new playmate to come out, come out, and face their ever-bloodthirsty claws and teeth.
Perry (4)
"I not like this," Perry whined, burying her face into Dawn's legs.
"Leave us alone!" she growled at the seemingly possessed people.
I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
Feeling a Little Crowded - Felicity "Fluffy" Shepherd
Mass mind control, possession, or dolls. Civilians being used as both barriers and hostages. Directed psychological attacks towards Dawn. And, no doubt, a camera hidden somewhere waiting for us to make the wrong move.
Felicity gently clasped Dawn's hand and whispered to her. "But God's grace forgives us all. If it's in our nature to sin, it's also in our nature to strive for betterment. Remember that, okay?"
Fluffy turned over to Iona. "Sorry, feels like I've been asking a lot of you these past few months. But we can't hurt these people, or let whoever's controlling them hurt them; can you determine the magic that's causing this, sever it, and find the source?"
Then to Alex and Perry. "Can you fly Perry out of here and get back to campus...? Someone needs to warn Saint about the people we're dealing with now that we have a hint of who they are."
Taking a deep breath, Felicity handed Alex her backpack full of the reference books she had on Leopold, his associates, their employment in Gaea, Human Revolution, the journalist's connection with Human Revolution, all of it. Then she stepped towards the circle before her... and sat down, cross legged. She would not give Gaea the satisfaction of fighting.
"Whether you see us as sinners or not, I am here to hear you. Speak your judgment; I will listen."
Felicity placed her hands on her lap, taking one out of her pocket. Within, her phone was recording the chanting and her response...
Squad 4 - Library - Iona
Iona clutched her head as the chanting continued, her whole body trembling violently.
"SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!"
Smoke trails began to lift off from her hands, and the air began to hum and crackle with electrical sparks.
"I'm not a freak! You all are just close-minded and superstitious! All I wanted to do was learn about the Elemental Planes!"
She didn't seem to be entirely there, so to say, almost as if she were talking to a different group, and certainly sounded more child-like
"I thought I'd finally managed to get away, but no! This stupid attitude always comes back! Years of this! Years! And all I could do was try to ignore it or run away! Well guess what?"
Her hands and forearms burst woth fire in a great conflagration, the flames swirling and sticking to them, while the air around her lit up with voltaic power, a miniature lightning storm, her hair standing up on end.
"I've had enough! And this time, I'm not powerless to do anything! If people are going to make me out to be some dangerous freak, I'll give them a reason! Make them think twice about showing it!"
She glared at Fluffy.
"I'm done playing nice! I'm fed up with all of this! It may have been a few months for you all, but it's been years for me! It's why I came here, why I ran away from home, why I joined the Society! To get away from this kind of stuff!"
Gathering Storm - Felicity "Fluffy" Shepherd (Squad 4)
And that's all they need.
Felicity could feel Iona's glare pricking her neck, the torrent of heat and electrical energy beating down on her back. All she could do was sigh.
"It wasn't years for Perry, whose parents neglected her and abandoned her on the street? For Dawn, who's in constant conflict with the nature people forced on her?"
She slowly rose from the ground, a gentle breeze circling around her before expanding bit by bit, stopping just short of the people surrounding them. "For Mikael and Ellie with the eyes and the weight of Abyss upon them? For Iris and Rebecca? For Zach, for Victoria, for Mahvash, Yoko, Melissa...?" The winds intensified yet somehow remained constrained, carrying up Iona's flames up to the roof before spiraling and dispersing them, leaving not a flicker of a spark. "For Bellpepper, who's had to support you for just as long...?"
Felicity glanced over to Dawn with a steely expression, as if to say "This is what you don't want to become," before turning, electricity buzzing all around her as her own element rose up from within her body, drawing Iona's and serving as a lightning rod.
"You close yourself off so much you don't see the people around you, going through their own things, doing everything they can to support you. All you see is the hurt and harm and none of the help. You hear the people chanting but you refuse to meet their empty gaze because you want to believe these are the people who hate you. So you can have someone to hate and hurt yourself. If that's the case-"
Suddenly the ground trembled beneath them as pipes burst, sprinklers burst from above, a dome of ice surrounding Squad 4 save for an opening from above to let in air. "Hate me. Hurt me. Hell, kill me, if you can, if you want to. Because as far as I see... the close-minded and superstitious one is you. The stupid attitude here is yours. The selfish, self-spoiled child throwing a temper tantrum... is you. If you choose to become what Gaea wants to see you as, then that's what you become. Hell, this victory is already theirs."
Stop Killing My Titles
Dawn, Squad 4
Well, the merging of Alexes worked, even if he - they - looked positively spent. Perry and Iona were back, too, so no harm done. Fluffy meanwhile asked everyone to share the information on their findings. Dawn's brow furrowed: there was nothing to share, somehow. And they found themselves surrounded. The blonde tensed for a moment before realizing an obvious thing missing: the willingness in these eyes, devoid of soul and purpose. Something took hold of these people, and so she felt at ease. Gaea likely thought that this will be enough to set her off, try and do something reckless.
But though it wasn't always sunshine and roses, Dawn grew. Thanks to the love of her friends and her own renewed purpose. There were hiccups to address still, but she could tackle them one at a time. Fluffy held her hand in reassurance, but she would not disappoint. Gently rubbing Perry's head as she clung close, she watched upon the mindless horde. "There is nothing in the way of official history of Gaea." She muttered to Fluffy. "As if someone scrubbed all records clean. They didn't even bother leaving things that would be harmless."
Iona was not taking kindly to this whole situation. As they found themselves closed in an ice dome, Dawn gave Perry one more pet before approaching the irate magician. She knelt down, and wrapped her arms around her. "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." She muttered softly, holding Iona in a hug, heedless of any stray energy doing her harm. "I understand your pain, but we mustn't take it on those who have done no wrong. We're heroes. We must be better than our enemies."
"If you breach that line, we will all be lost to Gaea's triumph."
grah
AKA Nixer
Dorms – Squad 3
Ash half-screamed when she was picked up by Finn, but it soon devolved into whimpers. She was crying heavily, and as more of her skin stripped away into ribbons and seemed to wave about of their own accord her sobs were undercut by shrieks of agony.
Yet she did not bleed.
“Epidermal Ribboning. Inherited, of course. Isn't it beautiful?”
Rebecca's tremendous projectile of sludge and sewage was rolled out of the way of at the very last possible second—sending it crashing into the background with quite a hefty impact.
Cendrillon's voice didn't change.
“Paired with haemokinesis as from moi. Naturally. Don't want her to bleed out during the process.”
Martin impacted her abdomen, and she was sent sprawling. She promptly kicked him off; her suit of vantablack rapidly seeming to recede like a living liquid as her skin proceeded to ribbon off in a manner mirroring Ash's.
It wasn't long before a muscle-coated skull with no lips or eyelids was grinning unflinchingly back at them, and the epidermal whips lashed and streaked like razor wires—batting away a significant number of the Chikage's furious swings. Cendrillon was skinless; combatting with dangerously sharp, microscopic wires of her own flesh. Epidermal Ribboning indeed.
“Added endurance for good measure. Don't worry. She'll be fine. Mostly. Regeneration process post-haste is sloppy– oh.”
Her monologuing halted as the massive blade gouged into her shoulder and where her heart should have been.
After a moment of pause, a ripple travelled across her form from the wounded sight, settling instead into her lower abdomen.
“Good strike. Well done. But you're in the way.”
With that, she reared her head back and shot it forward like a bullet. A high-speed headbutt, aimed right at the vampire's skull. She was mocking them. She dared to. Somewhere in Ash's clouded mind, fury intermingled with her excruciating agony. This woman had hurt her friends. She was turning her into this... thing. She had tried to shoot Becky. She acted disinterested. It was infuriating.
But she was so cold.
Shivering violently, she grunted incoherently as she tumbled out of Finn's grasp—tendrils of her own skin supporting her as she glanced back at him. Like mother, like daughter. No face. Except her fully visible muscles were twisted with emotion. More emotion than was ever seen in the girl before.
She had no lips. She couldn't speak. So she stared. Praying he understood.
Don't stop me. She's gonna pay.
And so she began the slow, painful stumble towards the fight. Beelining for Cendrillon. Waiting for an opening. Tears blocking her vision as she literally tripped over herself multiple times. She still didn't bleed. Her brain instinctively clasped onto her own blood like a vice. Haemokinesis, wasn't it? Like Van.
She felt like she was in a nightmare.
Edited by Enirboreh on Jan 15th 2019 at 1:11:16 PM
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Squad Three-Hallway
Martin pushed himself back to his feet in one solid movement after the strike, a frown playing about his face as he realized that their enemy seemed resistant to physical attacks. Some kind of damage threshold that would have to be broken in order to actually drive her away. All they had to do was buy enough time for backup to come, but with his ability ticking ever further up he was playing on a clock in this fight.
Fighting a villain was heroic. Protecting his team was heroic. Fifty-eight percent total power. Any strength would be traded out the moment he reached his cap, and then he would be out of the fight. Which meant he had to be smart as well as strong. His eyes flashed to Ash and he saw in just her stance that she was looking for an opening, and that meant he would give her one.
"One chance to give up," Martin drew in a breath and got himself ready to do what he could. "If you surrender now I promise I will be there in court and let them know you gave yourself up. Please, just stop." his voice was earnest, and his stance was full of openings as he stepped forward. "It doesn't take anything to stop."
Whatever Ash was able to do, he had to believe that she could pull it off if he could buy her time. "But if you want to keep going, then come at me. Because I won't stop. And honestly." he smiled a bit. "I don't think you can make me," he thought for a moment. "B%$#$." Ash wasn't able to talk for the moment, so he would do it for her.
Library
At Dawn's words, the circle of 'civilians' suddenly stopped chanting like a hivemind. Instead their words became more purposeful and driven, an air of intelligence ringing through. As though someone was talking through them.
"Oh really? Brave words coming from you. Because if I remember, you did plenty of things worth condemning. Not that that's a big deal. I'm sure you've already told your friends all the juicy details. It's not like there's any reason not to. Isn't that right, 'sister?'"
Dorms
The footsteps slowly crept up the stairs, the floorboards creaking underneath them as they came closer to the students, ever closer. Once at the landing, they turned the corner, never losing their oh-so steady pace. It was almost like clockwork. They kept on coming, never stopping until they arrived at the lounge area that connected Zach's room with the others, just outside the door. And as soon as it did, they stood still. Almost as if it were waiting.
Edited by kkhohoho on Jan 15th 2019 at 12:30:07 PM
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Sally knew they didn't have a lot of time. They had to act quick. She knew she would have to be a leader.
"Alright, my group will find and fight the whoever is doing this. Ever Green, I recommend that your group mainly focuses on helping civilians. Once they are safe, you can come by and help. I hope that didn't sound bossy or controlling." Sally says to the group. She sprouted out her wings.
"I was useless the previous times. This time I can't be useless. I won't screw up this time." She whispers to herself.
When Ash went off on her own, he wanted to tell for her to come back. But, he knew she wasn't dumb and that she is one tough cookie. The most he can do is support her and the others. Clutching his sword, he ran back to the group.
"You should really listen to Marty, lady. Cause if ya don't, we will take action against you. You don't want to fight a bunch of supers. Also, you are pissing me right the hell off right now. So, it's your choice." Finn yells, ready to take action at a moment's notice.
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Squad 1
Sam just thought of what they were supposed to do now.
"And I guess digging a tunnel is out of the question too" He said, tapping the floor with his foot, as the footsteps got closer, sending him into alert.
Maybe he could freeze things on the outside.
"We have company, probably unfriendly, and if their moves are any indication, there is more to come" He warned.
Time to deal with more of this bull.
Someone is gonna have to answer for this.
Squad 2
"Whoever is doing this better show themselves soon" Ryuu grunted, before deciding to try something out. As the wind surrounded him, he simply vanished from sight.
Just a crazy idea he had, but maybe he will be able to be discrete for now, as he tried to keep any bystander from being struck.
Now, he had to trust the rest to keep things safe.
Wake me up at your own risk.
Squad 1 - Dorms - Ellie
A beeping drew everyone to Zach's room, where something was under his bed, beeping. Beep beep beep. It was sightly annoying actually. And then Shane ran in screaming and iced it.
"Jeeze, Shane, calm down." Casually warping past her Squadmates, Ellie strode over to the bed. "If it's a bomb I'll just send it to the Abyss, or to the stratosphere. No need to worry."
Casually, Ellie grabbed Zach's now-frozen bed and hefted it with one hand, to reveal whatever was underneath, and teleport the device away if needed. "C'mere, beepy thing."
Squad 3 - Hallway - Mikael
The instant Cendrillion raised the gun, her arm was caught by an inhuman clawed hand. Mikael, now in her full demoness form, loomed over the woman easily, scowling, smoke arising from her lips as she held back firebreath.
"You'll do no such thing. You're going to come quietly, so the proper authorities can question you, or else you're going to take a vacation to the Abyss. Understand?"
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?