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Post by Kenny on Dec 13, 2008 4:27:16 GMT -5
:Kenny felts something touched his boot and he felt a bit uncomfortable while holding Ioles hand.:
"Umm.....Sis? I think i felt something and I don't like it one bit."
:He begin to tremble a bit yet he held Iole close so that he won't lose her:
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Post by Iole on Dec 13, 2008 4:29:06 GMT -5
::Iole crouches by Kenny's foot, hoping to get a better look::
Oh wait, here I totally forgot I had these.
::She reaches into her pocket and pulls out two odd pellets. She scrapes them together, causing them to spark and ignite. They light the area around them::
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Post by Situation on Dec 13, 2008 4:36:30 GMT -5
The new light allows them to see what Kenny nearly tripped over, and very soon they wish it were invisible again. At Kenny's feet lies the crumpled remains of Mose the Flame, the Bowery boy gang leader. His arm is bent at a wrong angle, and his neck has been snapped. Blood spills out of his mouth and his eyes remain open and frozen in terror. But even worse is what lies just a few feet from him. With arms spread and her black dress drenched in her blood is Hellcat Madi. Her eyes too remain open and terror struck. The excessive amounts of blood on her dress spill from the opening that has been newly torn in her stomach, like she was ripped open with someone's bare hands while she was still alive.
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Post by Iole on Dec 13, 2008 4:41:11 GMT -5
::Iole freezes and turns a ghostly pale::
He... he beat us here. Look at them.... why.... how could someone.... this isn't a man we're hunting. He's a monster. This is just... they were probably just trying to find a place to be alone. They didn't deserve this.
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Post by Kenny on Dec 13, 2008 4:41:25 GMT -5
:As soon as Kenny saw the bodies he knew that his intentions were right that something bad was gonna happen. He felt like he was gonna vomit:
"Oh No I'm Gonna be sick. Sis we have to inform them!!!"
:He shook so rapidly he had a hard time keeping his balance of standing:
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Post by Situation on Dec 13, 2008 4:45:30 GMT -5
Kenny makes a grave mistake in walking too close to Madi's corpse. In a flash her hand twitches upward and catches him by the wrist, digging her nails into his flesh. Her mouth opens and closes, blood and drool dripping on the corners of her lips. She croaks once, and then, like the woman in the alley that Ren had kicked, she starts to sing.
The curtain rises, the crowd will hiss. And who can see how the road will twist? By dagger, magic, and sinful plots, No warning is heard and there’s never a shot, And corpses are left on the road to rot.
And the songbird sings sweetly, For her lord and king. For the King in Yellow she won’t cease to sing.
When her song is over, she releases her grip, and falls back as dead and cold as the stone she lays on. If either of them are still coherent, Kenny and Iole can hear footsteps heading for the end of the alley. Someone is fleeing the scene.
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Post by Iole on Dec 14, 2008 12:30:15 GMT -5
::Through Iole's daze, the words of the song cut like a sharp spike of ice through a cloud of heat::
King in Yellow? Songbird?... I've heard someone say that before.
::More than she's ever wanted anything in her life, she begs her intuition to be wrong. Then the footsteps register::
Kenny, I can hear someone taking off that way. Don't let them get away.
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Post by Kenny on Dec 14, 2008 16:31:15 GMT -5
:Kenny was still shaking a bit from the corpse grabbing his arm earlier, he heard the song as well which also scared him a bit. but he kept his cool as he heard the footsteps: "Come on then..We will stop whoever is responsible" :He gets ready to follow hoping that Iole will follow by:
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Post by Situation on Dec 15, 2008 0:46:39 GMT -5
((many apologies for taking control of anyone))
As Kenny races after the footsteps and Iole stays behind, he can't help but notice that catching up to their owner is a little too easy. They're definitely not as fast as whoever they had chased the night Lillith was attacked. He catches up to a figure hidden by the shadows just as they reach where the alley meets the street. Without thinking, he pounces them from behind and both Kenny and the one he was chasing land together hard on the road. In the light of the streetlamp, Kenny can seethe person pinned under him as she stares back at him with horror struck eyes. Nurse Takano's bright blond hair hangs over her face, forcing her to blow her locks out of her face to speak.
"Get off of me! What the hell are you trying to do, kill me? What are you doing out here anyway!"
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Post by Kenny on Dec 15, 2008 3:10:12 GMT -5
:Kenny felt so embarrased as he sees Nurse Takano and groans in defeat as he was upset.:
"I'm sorry, there has been another attack, t.t.t.two bodies in the alley. Me and Iole just saw the bodies and we heard footsteps." :Kenny slowly begins to get up looking like he was gonna be sad:
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Post by Oliver on Dec 15, 2008 3:37:36 GMT -5
-Meanwhile-
Oliver turns to mention about Iole and Kenny leaving but, upon turning around, he notices that Nurse Takano is gone, leaving only Oliver and Ren.
"Huh... where ta crazy lady go?" He loos around, scanning the crowd, but finds no sign. That is when a loud scream that pierces over the noise of the crowd and music. It comes from the door Iole and Kenny had just exited through a moment ago.
Everyone stops what they are doing and walks over to investigate, Oliver included. He pushes his way through the crowd till he is at the front, where, just a few feet infront of him is the dead bodies of Hell-Cat Maddi and Mose. Almost instantly, accusations start to fly.
"It was the Shaunkills!" Yells someone in the back.
"Mose and Hell-Cat are dead! Assassination! Assassination!" Yells another.
Scuffles start to break out in the crowd, Bowery verses Shaunkill, gang against gang, all accusing each other of breaking the truce and spoiling tonight festivities. That is when things take a turn for the worse as a younger Shaunkill and Bowery Boy beside him start arguing.
A gunshot rings out in close proximity to Oliver, he ducks down as does many others around him. Beside him, slowly falling to his knees, is the young Shaunkill boy, with a bullet through his stomach and back. He collapses over dead, blood forming a pool in the snow. There's a moment of stunned silence, then all hell breaks loose.
Fists are thrown, canes and shillelaghs swing, more gunshots, swords class against flesh and bone as the entire crowd assembled for the party plunges into all out war. Oliver runs through the crowd, dodging the onslaught of weapons and fists fly around him, the crowd moving like the tide against each other.
Inside, the scene isn't much different. On the platform above he spots 'Black Dog' engaged in a heated argument with a Bowery lieutenant, both with knives drawn; while the rest of the gang heads shout accusations and curses. Down below, the dance floor is a battlefield with every gang against each other. As he circles around the chaos, Oliver is confronted by a Hook Gang member, he tries to stop Oliver but, not wanting to be stopped in the middle of the fighting he draws his shank. In one fell swoop, Oliver slashes the teen across the belly and continues on, leaving the gang-member trying to keep his insides in.
"Ren!" Oliver yells, spotting Ren. He runs over to him. "Gos to'et outa here! Tis gonna get worse be'or it ges better!" Oliver grabs his wrist and tugs on his arm, trying to drag him out of there as quickly as possible.
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Post by Iole on Dec 15, 2008 3:47:50 GMT -5
Ollie, come on! We need to find Kenny! He ran ahead of me!
::Iole weaves her way through the crowd until she finds Oliver and Ren. She grabs both their hands and starts pulling them with her, dragging them away before they can be pulled into the all-out brawl that has broken out in the streets::
He was chasing someone who was fleeing the scene. I stayed behind so I could get you two. Come on, he went this way.
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Post by Renilius Blacklips on Dec 15, 2008 4:05:47 GMT -5
(oc: sorry guys I went on holidays in the Philippines. )
Ren ran along side them. "Where did he go again?," Ren asked. "Hop on my back, you two. We'll get faster to him then. Iole, tell me which direction he went."
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Post by Oliver on Dec 15, 2008 4:14:55 GMT -5
"I ain't getten on yous back!" Exclaims Oliver to Ren. "Ya jus a tar'et!" Looking to Iole now, Oliver taps her arm as they run. "Was gonna on? Who axed Hell-cat an Mose!?"
((Philippines? Man, I got stories about the Philippines. Was in Subic Bay back in 07, that's a test of wits and bravery as much as Baghdad is. Makes Tijuana look like a McDonald's play-place, don't want to go back there anytime soon. You go to Manila I take it?))
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Post by Renilius Blacklips on Dec 15, 2008 4:20:58 GMT -5
((well, I sorta was born there and moved to australia when i was 10 yrs old. I speak tagalog fluently. hahaha manila has changed so much!))
"What was he thinking?" Ren asked.
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Post by Oliver on Dec 15, 2008 4:25:03 GMT -5
((Ahh so you are Filipino, ok makes since. I only know Filipinos that actually go to the Philippines for a 'vacation' (I.E. my ex gf). I know you Australians though love Hong Kong, you Aussies were bloody everywhere when I was there. Still though, being white -and drunk- in PI , risky business for the likes of me.))
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Post by Renilius Blacklips on Dec 15, 2008 4:39:32 GMT -5
((I'm not aussie.hahahaha. i'm pure filo! i've been to hong kong too. I know aussies were quite everywhere. hahahaha. you know trinoma?))
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Post by Oliver on Dec 15, 2008 4:45:14 GMT -5
((You live in Australia, close enough And no, only been in Subic Bay, Iba, and San Narciso. Never been to Manila or anywhere else in the country. I also was under heavily armed escort most of my time in Iba and San Narciso, didn't get to see a whole lot there sadly.))
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Post by Renilius Blacklips on Dec 15, 2008 4:48:57 GMT -5
(manila was quite a head ache. lots of people everywhere and choking air. considering that my all my cuzins were immune to it! and when we rode my uncles car, and miraculously 8 people fit inside a 5 seated car. It was really humorous.)
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Post by Oliver on Dec 15, 2008 4:54:24 GMT -5
((We had 25 people in 15 seater bus, driving through the back-streets and countryside of Zambales going no less then 65 and never stopping, just slowing enough to turn, with armored vehicles in front and behind us the entire time. I never knew gun fire in the air and car horns worked so well to force traffic to the side of the road. Pity it doesn't work like that in Los Angeles, California.))
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