Mongoose
Experienced Novice
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
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Post by Mongoose on Feb 16, 2009 2:02:49 GMT -5
Oliver shrugs then looks around above them. "Dunno, 'aybe." Pointing then to a metal sheeted square with a long window above them thirty or so feet above them. "Tat 'aybe? Dunno how ta get tere tho'gh. Flyin time 'abye?"
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Post by Oliver on Feb 16, 2009 2:18:30 GMT -5
((Damn, eh, forgot to change accounts))
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Post by Iole on Feb 16, 2009 2:18:57 GMT -5
(OOC: No worries. We all know who you are)
::Iole shakes her head::
No. They'll see us. But my big sister was kind enough to provide us a way in.
::She points to the gaping hole in the wall just twenty yards away from them that Eva had previously blasted through. Flames still burn at its edges. As she leads them closer to it, a stairway becomes visible. They take off up the stairs until they arrive at the door where Echidna's crazed emotions have led Iole::
Here we are. I can sense a few gang members in there as well. After we get in there, we'll knock them out until I get a clear shot at Rena. Then you can go.
::She pauses and looks back at the door, away from him::
Hey... before we go in there.... I'm sorry. You know, about what I said earlier. I really didn't mean it.
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Post by Oliver on Feb 16, 2009 2:35:47 GMT -5
Oliver nods. "I kno Iole but I desrvied it, I did. Nev'r gonna get over wat I did ta you. Anyway-" Oliver takes a quick peek through the crack in the doors seal. "Lead ta way... hmm, i'll tryan ges ta gang'uys away, gos an idea. Wheneva ya ready."
He pauses for a moment, then looks to Iole. "You be safe, kay? No more bleedin in ta snow, a'right?"
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Post by Iole on Feb 16, 2009 2:49:59 GMT -5
Alright. I'm ready.
::But before she turns back to the door, she takes his furry little muzzle in both hands and plants a quick peck on his nose. Then she spins around with one of her wings out, taking out the door with it. It falls from its hinges and the two of them dash in. Echidna doesn' have time to do anything but turn around and see the girl sprinting towards her. With all her might, she throws herself at the mad sorceress and claps both hands over their ears. Echidna staggers back from the impact and drops to her knees. Nothing seems to be happening between them besides staring intensely into the other's eyes. But droplets of sweat are starting to trickle down both their foreheads. Meanwhile the three gang members have gathered their senses and their footing as they find an unexpected surprise waiting for them as they close in on the two of them with their hooks::
Hook 1: Well well well, wha's this? Pointy ears, and blue eyes. I say we've stumbled on the Witch's Brat.
Hook 2: Y'mean that freak girl that hung on the Demon Witch wherever she went? Say Shaun, didn't you lose yer mum when she attacked Timber?
Hook 3: That I did. Always swore I'd make the b***h pay if I ever got a chance.
Hook 1: Well looks like we get a li'l payback now. And with the damn crazy witch down, we get two for the price of one.
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Post by Oliver on Feb 16, 2009 3:09:51 GMT -5
The first gang member yelps in pain and slumps to the floor, a crude shiv sticking from his back. The remaining two turn to Oliver he taunts them.
"Pic'in on 'ittle girls ar'ya? How abou'ta big bad Hook Gang deal wit'a Shaunkill, huh. Wuldn't ya jus love tat, 'nother ear for ya belt an all."
Oliver quickly bends down and picks up a piece of shattered door and tosses it at the two.
"Jus gonna stan'tere. Come ges me."
They look to each other, forgetting all about Iole and Enchida for the moment to deal with the little prize just a few feet from their grasp.
Hook 2: "Get him!"
Hook 3: "Want his fur for a coat!"
"Oh shi!" Oliver quickly turns and runs out the broken doorway with the two Hooks following behind him, swiping at him whenever they get close enough. Oliver leads them down the stairs with Iole to confront Rena alone at last.
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Post by Iole on Feb 16, 2009 3:25:51 GMT -5
(OOC: Thanks for that. Off to bed after this. Going to get my teeth drilled in the morning).
::While Oliver leads the Hooks away from the turret, one final distraction before he can do what he came here for, he couldn't possibly guess what is actually going through Iole's head right now. She's caught in that maze again. Horrid images flash through her mind as Echidna assaults her over and over. Or was she really assaulting her? Were these images intended, or were they just stored and scattered about that maze in Rena's head? No, these are Rena's memories that fly through Iole's conciousness. Days of surviving on her own in the woods, making crude traps to catch animals before she could fully use her powers, unable to make a fire and having to eat it raw. Running and hiding from travellers that she hears, scared to move or to breath. Further back is even worse. Three men take a young dark haired girl and throw her in the back of the car. Then they come for her. Strapped to a metal table in a flourescent lit room somewhere underground while men in white coats poke and prod and shock. She was so much smaller then. She had only been a child. Tools and instruments all look like nightmarish monsters to her. They writhe and snap and hiss. They want to hurt her. Somewhere else, a rural village somewhere. People screaming and tearing at themselves. They turn on each other out of savage fear, ripping and killing with nothing but their bare hands. And little Rena walks quietly through the chaos with a wicked little smile on her face as the village is soon engulfed in the violent orange light of flames::
Echidna: So beautiful to see you cry.
::Iole is back in the room with Rena, and becomes aware for the first time that she is screaming. Rena stands over her now with triumphant glee in her eyes::
Echidna: Cry some more. ::She kicks Iole across the face and kneels down to get at the poor girl with her fists:: Cry cry cry cry CRY!!!
::Uncontrollable rage flows through the woman now as her reptilian hands constrict around Iole's throat, pressing down on her airway like a vice::
Echidna: CRYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
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Post by Dante Shadesang on Feb 16, 2009 5:28:55 GMT -5
"Of course..." Finally... some... fun! ^.^
Already, one of the scorpions thrust forth its poisonous tail at Dante's head. He calmly and quickly tilts his head to avoid the attack, spins, and unsheathes Unforgiven to slice it off. Angered of its lost tail, he thrusts forward with its snapping pincers. He Backslides out, fly-switches to his DES, and thrust forward to lock into and block the next pincer attack through the DES's blades. He charges up his DES and fires them, blowing off its pincers.
Before the scorpion does its next move, he performs Estharian Rage, sending down a charged downward attack with both DES's blades to not onto the scorpion but the ground, causing shockwave to send it up the air. Before it lands to the ground, he ends it by performing Conflicting Zephyr and thrust forward the ball of wind to send the scorpion crashing towards the others.
It was in the end he heard the scream of Echinda saying "cry"... it could mean one thing. "Iole..." He tries to move forward to the docks but blocks another incoming pincer attack from behind. "Eva... Iole is with... the screams..."
He turns and fires his Revolver at its tongue, kicks it back by hitting its face, and performs Aerodynamic Thrust through the mouth and into the body. He lifts it up over him and slams it down the other side, crushing another incoming scorpion. He then swings it off, sending it sliding and crashing to another group once more. He readies his blade for any more incoming seeing it as it seems it is not possible to reach to Iole from the ground; however, he continues to observe around if possible...
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Post by Eva Natsuki on Feb 16, 2009 10:59:21 GMT -5
::Eva dodged and cut off the creatures head, breathing a bit hard as various parts of the creature's tongue was seen a bit over the place while Eva is seen to have a bit of a few scratches here and there::
"Nothing that regen can't handle later....."
::She heard Dante over the phone in regards to Iole and closed her eyes as her pendant on her head started glowing as she tries to find where the pendant on Iole's head was before her eyes flashed for a brief moment::
"I'll be back Jas..."
::Before Jas could go help he was cut off as Eva went charging towards the direction she felt Iole was and started to hear Echidna more clearly screaming::
Echidna: "CRYYYYYYY!"
"The one who will be doing the crying won't be her....."
::Before Echidna had much of a chance to react the arm that was choking Iole had been cut, loosing her grip as Iole started gasping for air and looked up to see just in time Eva connecting a punch on Echidna's face knocking her hard against the wall::
"We're going to have a serious 'talk' when we're done young lady......"
::Eva said with a bitter tone voice as her eyes were glowing a deep violet as she glared at Echidna::
"So we meet again...."
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Post by Jas on Feb 16, 2009 11:03:36 GMT -5
*Before Jas could fallow, he dodges one of the beasts. His eyes narrow as he draws Excalibur and readies it. He dodges another attack, but quickly slashes, severing the monster's tail* I'll fallow once I get these nuisences out of the way! *As the thing writhed in pain, jas drove the blade through its skull, effectively killing it before dodging another*
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Post by Iole on Feb 16, 2009 12:05:30 GMT -5
::Iole rolls onto her knees still gasping for air. A red haze dances around the edge of her vision as the room starts to become clear again. Meanwhile, Echinda backs away to the edge of the room like a frightened animal, cradling her injured arm, but still grinning and giggling like a child::
Echidna: A devil's fire beneath the angel's ice, voice like a songbird and fist like a vice. Daughter of War good to see you again, now that the game is approaching its end. Saved the formless freak with the lying smile, but she'll be mine again in a short little while. The King is drawing his lovely net in...
::Echidna hides a hand behind her back, charging a small fire spell into it as she gets closer to the wall::
Echidna: And then it will be over, we will win.
::Before Eva can stop her, she presses her palm to the glass of the window, releasing her spell. The wall splinters to pieces and the window shatters. The mad cackling sorceress falls through and lands on her feet like a jungle cat. She turns to face the party below as they face her scorpions. She holds her hands out and the scorpions cease their attack. They fall back to circle around her. With a flick of her wrist they melt and their liquid forms crawl up her body, growing and hardening. When she finally becomes solid again, her lower body is encased in four plated legs and a long plated tail with the same venomous stinger. Her torso is encased in the same brightly colored plates and her arms have become two massive pincers. Her face can still be seen in the center of the armor's chest, and those same ten wiry forked tongues start to grow from her mouth, flicking in and out like long metal whips::
Echidna: Come and play, make my day!
::As the monstrous creature advances, Nurse Takano shrieks and ducks for cover behind some of the battle's debris. With one lunge, the scorpion woman catches Dante in its left pincer, swinging him upwards and slamming him back onto the street. Then she goes for the next in line, bringing her venomous tail down and lashing it into Rainii's shoulder. A deep poisonous wound starts to bleed from above the marked sorceress' collarbone. The tail does a side swipe at Kerion, throwing him several yards and separating him from his rifle. Then with her many tongues, she catches Adrian by his ankles and hoists him into the air and cutting into his flesh. More of her tongues wrap tighter around the rest of his body, pulling him closer and closer to her mouth::
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Post by Lillith on Feb 16, 2009 12:11:58 GMT -5
::Meanwhile, inside the base, Lillith and Kenny are still frantically searching for Oliver while the others outside deal with Echidna. But something about Kenny's attitude at the moment is bothering her::
Alright Kenny, what gives? You keep looking at me like I could drop at any second.
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Post by Situation on Feb 16, 2009 12:27:50 GMT -5
Back outside, Nurse Takano's instincts kick in when she sees Rainii fall from her poisonous injury. She scurries out from under her makeshift barricade and pulls the woman away from the battle. "Hang on honey, this might be a little awkward." The nurse takes a deep breath before placing her lips over Rainii's wound. Rainii can feel the poison's burn slowly subsiding as the nurse sucks the venom out, spitting it onto the ground and gagging at odd intervals. "Ech disgusting! It tastes like jock sweat!" But she presses on dutifully, then applies some medicine she brought with her. "You feel okay now? You're not dizzy or feverish? You're lucky I got to you before it spread too--AAH!" She screams again and rolls out of the way as the monster's tail returns, retreating back to where she was hiding.
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Mongoose
Experienced Novice
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
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Post by Mongoose on Feb 16, 2009 19:38:27 GMT -5
Adrian winces as the vice of tongues wrap their slimy selves around his body, he struggles, desperatly trying free his arm and grab something from a pouch dangling from his waist.
"Ashi... now!" He yells as his arm slides from the monstrous tentacle tongue, Ashi quickly slides down his arm as he takes out a small potion-bottle, flicking the stopper away and like flicking water off his arm, sends the bottle's contents and Ashi flying through the air towards the scorpion creature.
In mid-flight Ashi grows, like instantly rising bread and strikes the creature face first with outstretched maw that clamps itself over the creatures head. The tongues loose their grip and Adrian falls to an acrobatic spin, landing on his feet.
Ashi, now the giant size of a full-grown Midgar Zolom coils herself around the scorpion creature, failing wildly as she attempts to subdue the struggling thing, her mouth snapped tightly over the scorpion woman's head, her fangs planted deep into its flesh, waiting for the venom to take its toll.
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Post by Book of the Twilight on Feb 16, 2009 19:58:19 GMT -5
::Scorpion Echidna thrashes back and forth, loosing Adrian from her tongue's grasp and clamping her pincers onto Ashi's long muscular body. Grabbing her by the neck, she pulls the snake off of her, the serpent's fangs taking a huge chunk of the scorpion's armor with it. She hurls the snake at the heroes in front of her. The woman inside is exposed through the broken part of the vibrantly colored plating. But with another twist of her fingers, it closes back on itself, covering her again::
You heroes behave like little boys, bullying and breaking a little girl's toys.
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Post by Rainii Loire on Feb 16, 2009 21:04:36 GMT -5
"I'm fine I--"
::The lash of the monster's tail in their direction cuts her off, and when she turns around Takano has already gone back into hiding.::
"I guess I'll thank you later then."
::She runs back into battle just in time to see the hole made in Echidna's armor close up. Thinking that maybe she could duplicate the effect, she rushes forward, lunging at what-used-to-be Echidna, digging her sword into the side of the creature.::
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Post by Kenny on Feb 16, 2009 22:22:34 GMT -5
:Kenny noticed that Lillith was suspicious of his attitude as of late and he did not want to keep things from her as he was a bit nervous but began to speak finally: "I....was scared...of losing you...My nightmare was that i failed in protecting those that i cared about and you...were among them" :His voice was wavering a bit as he explained:
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Post by Eva Natsuki on Feb 16, 2009 22:26:22 GMT -5
::Eva bent down and checked Iole for any injuries before bopping her on the head::
"I would yell at you right now but now isn't the time..."
::She looked out the whole Echidna blew open and watched as she was attacking everyone before she frowned::
"I'm assuming you failed to get to her from what I walked into...."
::She looked while Iole stared at the ground a bit before Eva sighed::
"Do you still want to try and save her?"
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Post by Book of the Twilight on Feb 16, 2009 23:15:20 GMT -5
(OOC: Out of curiosity Rai, are you using Dissension, or Iris?)
::Echidna screams with rage as her pincer grabs Rainii and pulls her off, hurling her into the nearest building. Then her four segmented legs gallop towards her and the others again until she's right on top of them, digging her tail into the ground and dragging it with her. The rift she creates in the ground flings rocks and debris with it as she rents the cobblestone streets, dragging them with it until she skids to a stop and turns her massive plated body, gathering momentum to charge them again::
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Post by Iole on Feb 16, 2009 23:25:53 GMT -5
::Iole's face has three bruises from where Echidna punched her, as well as dark marks along her neck. The woman's boot had also split her lip open which is now swollen and bleeding. In answer to Eva, she just stares helplessly at the scene below, unsure of what she wants to do. Too many things are happening at once. She wants to save Rena because she knows it's the right thing to do, but her friends are in grave danger. And she hates herself for feeling this, but she's also scared of going into her mind again. She had barely escaped from the maze this time. Another trip like that and she might not come back to her body. What if she was stuck in that nightmare forever? She closes her eyes, stepping closer to the edge of the broken flooring, rubbing the bruises on her neck. She can feel the wet sting behind her eyelids as she closes them and takes a deep breath::
I'm sorry Rena. I'm so sorry.
::Her wings sprout from her back as she leaps off the edge. Her body grows and changes shape until the white black winged dragon soars over the street, her jaws aiming for the center of the scorpion's chest where Echidna is hiding. But that won't save them this time. Echidna's massive body dodges at the last moment and catches the dragon by the throat in its claws, pulling her from the sky and slamming her into the ground, grinding her face into the stone::
Echidna: This is the reward for singing of the King. My revenge, you'll feel its sting.
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