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Post by Iole on Feb 22, 2009 17:35:53 GMT -5
::Iole is the first one to catch up, having run ahead of the others. When she sees the two witches with Oliver in their clutches, she skids to a stop. Too late, they've seen her. Iole takes carefully planted steps forward, knowing full well that with one false move, Gwen's power would turn Oliver into a pile of bones and dust. Echidna turns and reacts to the little shapeshifter's arrival with sadistic glee. But Iole pays her no mind, just keeps her eyes locked with Guinevere's, occasionaly letting them drift back to Oliver::
Gwen don't.... Gwen please just let him go.
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 22, 2009 17:42:51 GMT -5
::Gwen leers at Iole with her predatory smile::
Ah yes, the little shapeshifter who has no respekt for boundaries. You didn't think I'd forgotten how you pried into my mind all those years ago and disklosed my personal past to Lillith did you? Now the tables have turned, and something you love is in my hands.
::She tightens her grip around Oliver's shoulder::
Korrekt me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe I'm the only one you've ... damaged. Echidna, didn't she destroy what you loved as well?
::With a jerk of her head, Gwen signals Echidna to take her. Echidna lunges her, striking her nose with her forehead and knocking the poor girl onto her back. Then she grabs Iole's wrist, forcing her onto her knees and twists her arm behind her back just as the others arrive::
Make any sudden movements, and I dust the boy. And then Echidna will snap dear little Iole's neck.
(OOC: Off to work again. I'll be back later tonight)
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Post by Eva Natsuki on Feb 22, 2009 17:43:58 GMT -5
"DAMNIT AGAIN!!!!"
::Eva could be seen with a bit of a fiery aura around her before she ran off inside after the two ::
*sigh* why do I bother sometimes....
::She had noticed something weird from the corner of her eye while she was in pursuit but put that off to the side for the time being, her worry mostly on Iole::
Iole: "Gwen don't....Gwen please just let him go."
::Eva managed to hide her prescence as she was close by and stoped to listen to the conversation::
Gwen.....probrably caught Oliver and I'm sure Echidna is not too far behind....
(OOC-Curses 2 seconds too slow I suppose lol)
::She cursed to herself when Echidna captured Iole before she had a chance to step in though she had already pulled off a trump before she revealed herself::
"Come now...so scared you have take hostages now huh?"
::She smiled at the both of them but one could feel the intend to kill coming heavily from Eva right about now::
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 2:59:59 GMT -5
::Guinevere just smiles right back. If Eva is resorting to trash talking, it means she has the upper hand::
Oh no Eva, there's more to what's going on here than meets the eye. How nice for you to go through all that trouble to take prekautions against my stop spell. But you should know...
::She backs slowly towards the door, reaching behind her for the hatch::
I never employ the same trick twice.
::She shoves the great metal door wide open. Just behind her, like silvery snakes somethins shoots past her. All Eva catches is a glint before it clamps onto her wrist; a long shackle with a mystic rune etched along its surface that's moving all on its own. A second one shoots out, catching her by her other wrist, then as quickly as they came, they retract, pulling Eva past Gwen into the room. Several more shoot out, catching and chaining Kenny, Dante, Rainii, and Jas, pulling them off their feet into the room beyond the door until each one of them is chained to a long metal table by their arms and legs. The heroes are now in a laboratory, filled with seven metal tables arranged in a circle around the room tilted to face the center of the room. Five are now occupied by the heroes, the other is obviously for Oliver and Iole::
Excellent. Now you'll all have a perfekt view of the festivities. Lillith is aktually in the room below us where the Ultima krystal is housed. But you'll be joining her down their shortly.
::The witch hands Oliver off to Echidna who takes both the children to their respective places while she circles the room to gloat in each hero's face::
Don't try to move. These runes etched into your shackles and the tables were kopied from the very runes Loci himself used to hold Natalia prisoner here all those years ago, modified and kustomised for each of you of kourse. Each one designed to supress your special brand of magik. August specializes in rune magic. I put some of my own magik into them as well to drain you physikally. I kan't tell you how happy I am that you all kame to dear Lilly's reskue. Prediktable yes, but konvenient for us. Echidna, take their equipment.
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Post by Iole on Feb 23, 2009 3:05:26 GMT -5
::Iole frowns at Eva, begginning to cry both for the situation, and her bloody nose. Her little body is stretched quite thin on this table, but her shackles are as tight a fit as anyones. She tries to shapeshift to test Gwen's words and finds them as true as they are annoying::
Dammit. I can't morph.
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Post by Dante Shadesang on Feb 23, 2009 4:23:50 GMT -5
Dante is repelled back onto the cold metal table before he could take action to save Iole and Oliver, let alone ponder Eva's behavior again once more. Then: Holy... what did I missed?? You are not helping... ... dur? I just came in. We'll explain more later but let's get out of this situation... being chained up isn't bringing happy memories...
He tries to unshackle himself from the chains... but no use. "Damn..." Ah geez... well, it can't be as bad being electrocuted... What? Nothing, just... look for something! Dante observes around to see a way out of this, if any...
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Post by Jas on Feb 23, 2009 13:42:45 GMT -5
*Jas surggled against his bonds, his eyes glowing white before they fade back to normal* Shoot, my strenght is being sapped. I can't even transform to my other self or summon Kyran. *He glares at Guinevere when she came infront of him. His sword pulsed at his side, not affected by the shackles* "When I get free Gwen, I'll show what happens when you mess with one of my friends!"
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Post by Kerion on Feb 23, 2009 13:48:41 GMT -5
::Kerion watches the events from the shadows, making saure to stay out of sight of Guinevere. Before he left the city, he saw the events of the rooftop of the police and had Anya secretly fallow the others. Since then, he's been like a shadow in fallowing them until they were captured, notcing there wasn't any shackles for him:: Looks like I wasn't anticipated, what to do first? Take that witch out first or free the others. ::He draws his Punisher and take aim at Gwen, waiting for the moment to strike::
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 14:01:03 GMT -5
::Gwen places her pale hand on Jas's face before pushing it roughly to the side::
Try not to tire yourself out too quickly. I need you koncious for this. It's a shame Kerion is no longer here. I made good use of him while I kould, but you'll make a fine substitute. Do you all know exaktly what those injektions were for? There was no poisoning, none of you needed to be vakcinated. I merely used it as a guise to inject you all with a special brand of our virus, fused with my own magik. It's the reason you kan see the King. It's been draining you for months, but you haven't felt it. I've been taking a different avenue. You see this experiment requires gratuitous amounts of energy. Your bodies would have been drained to nothing several times over if I had chosen that way. I've been doing research on alternative methods and I found that if I were to dig deeper than the body and draw on something else... your traits if you will, I would produce much better results. It takes longer, but it's a thousand times more produktive. And the traits of heroes; those who have been at the center of the struggle between good and evil so many times, are even more powerful.
::She takes in each captive's face with that smug grin::
Lillith's passion, Kenny's purity, Dante's inner konflikt, Eva's devotion, Iole's kompassion, Kerion's fokus, and little Oliver, I really didn't plan to take anything from you. I merely injekted you so as not to look suspcious. But when I diskovered the power you housed in your lust for revenge... oh that was prize I kouldn't pass up. And when I diskovered you were the son of Arach, it all made perfekt sense. Rainii, you were diffikult. After all you kame later, so I never had an exkuse to injekt you. I had to be a little more physikal with you. But the battle at the docks with Echidna's skorpion proved a perfekt opportunity. Let's just say it was a little more than venom I was pulling out of you. And since then your unwavering hope has put us all that much kloser to our goal. And now Jas... what treasure do you hold in yourself? The possibilities.
(OOC: How tempting it must be for Kerion to pull that trigger while she's monologing AGAIN)
::She places her hand on Jas' chest, worming her fingers along its surface as though she's searching for something::
Oh yes, your grief will do nicely. Wouldn't you agree Cetra?
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Post by Jas on Feb 23, 2009 14:09:27 GMT -5
*Jas struggled against her touch, but he feels himself near passing out due to exhaustion of his magic and strenght.* "Get your hands off me!" *He moves to use his feet, as they're the only part not chained, but is too weak to resist as they now feel like bricks. His sword pulses more as if it's responseding to its master's weakening condition*
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Post by Kerion on Feb 23, 2009 14:16:59 GMT -5
::Kerion's trigger finger faulters as he hears her words:: Virus? Wait, if she made the virus, good chance she made an antidote for it. ::He lowers his gun and holsters it.:: I'll be back soon guys, I got a antidote to track down.
:: Gets back outside the room without being spotted:: Only one problem, which room can it be in ::Hears Lillith scream:: No time to think, just go! ::Takes off down to hall, looking for any room that would resemble a biology lab::
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 14:24:05 GMT -5
::As Kerion takes off, Echidna looks up from her task of removing the heroes' weapons. Then as if she's completely forgotten what it is she's supposed to be doing, she walks gingerly out of the room::
Echidna, where are you going? I thought you wanted to watch.... oh well. There really has been no kontrolling that girl since we broke her out. Last time she got out on her own she killed those gang leaders and kaused the whole riot. Impulsive little thing isn't she. I don't know what goes on in that head.
::She crosses to the edge of the room where the intercom is and presses the button::
August, they're here. Open the hatch.
::The floor in the middle of the heroes groans and creaks until it segments and opens, allowing them to see the room below them. In the center of the lab is the giant Ultima crystal, and hooked up to it with numerous cables and strapped to the table in front of it with the same shackles, Lillith lies comatouse, writhing and sweating like she's in a feverish nightmare. Her stomach (or to be more precise, her womb) has swelled to twice what it was an hour ago::
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Post by Kerion on Feb 23, 2009 14:28:21 GMT -5
::Kerion has checked each room he has encountered, but has no luck in finding any of the mentioned antidotes:: I know they got to be around here. ::He then hears someone approaching from down the hall:: Crap! ::He quickly hides inside the closet in the room just as someone enters::
((OOC: Feel free to move Jas and Kerion along while I'm gone anybody.))
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Post by Oliver on Feb 23, 2009 15:36:39 GMT -5
Oliver struggles against the restraints fruitlessly, ignoring mostly Gwen's rant, surrendering to it he looks over to Iole for any idea or advice. "Iole... can ye do somtin?" He says in a whisper to her. His attention is then shifted as Gwen reveals Lillith and August below them. He lets out an audible growl.
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August Krasnow
Determined Individual
"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici."
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Post by August Krasnow on Feb 23, 2009 15:57:00 GMT -5
((Gwens reveal couldn't help but remind me of this song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3zBLQXGOU))::August looks up to his audience, raising his new knife to the folks watching above as he greats the guests with a theatrical bow.:: Everybody, everybody! Welcome! ::He dramatically rolls up his shirts sleeves, like a surgeon preparing for an operation. He turns then, to Lillith, leaning in close to her ear.:: Look, dear Lillith, we have an audience. ::He raises his hand skyward as he forces her head with with the other hand so she can see.:: You're a star, the center of attention, you were meant for the stage! Now lets give them a show they'll remember. ::August backs away from the table, stepping to the foot of it. With his arms extended out he slowly raises them up as a strange, large seal forms beneath the table where Lillith is strapped to. It glows brightly, flashes, and when it dims, there left is an integrate crest the likes of with haven't been seen by human eyes in millennia. With his dagger held high in both his hands above Lillith's legs, he brings the blade down right between her legs, embedding itself in the table. Veins of iridescent yellow worm their way out from the blade, through the table, wrapping themselves around Lillith's legs and body, disappearing the sheet. She screams out with a burning pain as the veins course themselves through her body like rivers of fire. August starts up a chant in an odd dead language his attention focused onto the dagger before him.::
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 16:08:25 GMT -5
::While August "performs" Gwen plays her own part. The heroes themselves start glowing once August's array reaches them. And with a twirl of her fingers, their energy starts to come out of them in a beam that connects them to the crystal which starts to whir and whine as it takes it all in to power the ritual. Gwen sighs, exhausted from the procedure and the heroes feel like their very makeup has been shattered and put back together shoddily with a glue stick. The witch circles the room until she's next to where Kenny is chained and whispers in his ear::
I'm guessing you kan tell by looking at her. Our pretty Lillith is dying. How sad it is to know that your last words to each other were spoken in anger.
::She places her hand on the side of his face and leans in closer::
Don't kry though. There is a way to stop it. But I don't think you'll like it. Would you like to hear?
::Meanwhile::
::Echidna enters the room Kerion ducked into just seconds after he closes the door to the closet. She wanders the room aimlessly much like how a small child would look around after getting lost in a theme park. Then deciding it's pointless, she leaves the way she came::
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Post by Kerion on Feb 23, 2009 16:12:25 GMT -5
::Kerion steadies his breathing as he slowly draws one of his handguns and readies it. He sighs in relief when Echidna left and slowly stepped out: (OOC: Yo. First post with a PSP. My cousin let me borrow it.))
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Post by Kenny on Feb 23, 2009 18:38:36 GMT -5
:Kenny feels defeated as he struggles by the chains he was wrapped in as Gwen was talking to him about a way to save Lillith from certain doom:
"Alright..What is it you want?"
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 18:49:11 GMT -5
Lets talk in another room. It's krowded in here.
::She waves her hand over a few of the switches, making them flip on their own. A mechanical door behind where Kenny is slides open. The table he is strapped to tilts backwards to lie flat before sliding through the door on the conveyor belt beneath it. Both Kenny and Gwen disappear through that door::
(OOC: Kenny, new thread)
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Post by Iole on Feb 23, 2009 18:54:57 GMT -5
(OOC: Very nice choice in music by the way)
::Iole struggles feebly against her restraints::
Dammit Gwen! Get back here! August you bastard! What is all this for?! What are you doing to Lillith?! Dammit August, she saved your life! Twice! Look at me dammit!
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