*~Is It Not Over Yet?~* OPEN & ACCEPTING -NEED MORE PEOPLE

[haine_rammsteiner141]

Zion ran with all he had, never daring to look back for fear of losing speed. He carelessly vaulted over fallen trees and darted around quickly changing paths, trying to find the river. "You're sick!" he yelled. The tension was now becoming too much for him and he couldn't keep himself quiet. He soon realized his mistake of course, and tried to pick up his pace but he couldn't go any faster. His leg was still bleeding from when Akuma had cut him and each step pulled at the skin, letting more blood out of his body. The exhaustion was almost unbearable. He couldn't shift, couldn't change his physical make up, couldn't use his abilities at all; the only thing he could do was run and delay what seemed inevitable. Zion's thoughts had distracted so much that he didn't realize he had reached the river until he heard the splash as he fell in and felt the cool water embrace him. 'I wonder which would be better: to drown on my own or let that psycho do me in,' he mused as he rose to the surface. The river was much deeper than he had expected, but he defiantly tried to keep sloshing along in the river and make his way south.

[CrescentValentine]

Akuma held his evilly sweet grin as he chased Zion though he intentionally went a little slower so Zion was a little ahead, but not too much. "Such beastly running...and you honestly believe you can escape me or anyone like that?" Akuma said. "...but no matter how sloppy or vulgar the means of how you run from me I always loved the thrill of hunting my next victim" Akuma finished. He stopped at the edge of a river watcing Zion attempt to swim or just stay afloat even. He held out his harpoon arm and it shifted into the tesla coil once more though more electricity eminated off of it this time than when Abe used it before. "Electrocution....is such a beautiful way to die" Akuma stated as he aimed his tesla coil arm to the river. He didn't even have to hit Zion in order for it to work.

[haine_rammsteiner141]

Zion strained to try to hear Akuma's voice over the river, and turned around upon hearing him mention electrocution. He saw the tesla coil and frantically tried to make his way to the opposite bank of the river so he could keep running. Zion vividly remembered his last encounter with the coil and shuddered. He didn't want that helplessness again.

(when you wrote that, did you make it to where Zion got hit? Cuz I can edit it...)

[CrescentValentine]

(no, just mentioned that Akuma wouldn't have to hit Zion in order to electricute him)

Akuma then noticed something. It was a bird though it wasn't your normal average bird. It was Gilligan that swooped down and landed on Akuma's shoulder. "Dammit" Akuma muttered. "Seal...Phase AKUMA" Gilligan's mechanical voice sounded. Soon Akuma dropped to his knees as pressed his hands against the ground so he could hold himself up and making a noise that was between coughing and gagging for awhile for a minute. Then it started to stop, his tesla coil arm shifting back into a normal human arm as pools of steam emitted off of Abe as he stood up. Sweat pouring down him excessively. He looked to Zion. Then Gilligan squawked and Abe shifted his left hand into a rifle barrel quickly aimed at Gilligan and shot the mechanical bird making it explode into several pieces.

[haine_rammsteiner141]

(whew! lol!)

On the other bank of the river, Zion heard a gagging sound and quickly climbed the nearest tree to watch from saftey as Akuma...changed. The being steamed just as before and Zion wondered if there was an even more malicious persona in that body. When the person turned to look at him, Zion cringed, fearing the worst. As the now human arm shifted into a rifle barrel, Zion closed his eyes knowing that he wouldn't be able to run now. To his surprise though, he wasn't the intended target and he openned his eyes to see pieces of a robotic bird falling into the river. Curious as to the new change of events, Zion edged his way towards the edge of the branch and peeked his head out of the leafy foliage.

[CrescentValentine]

Abe turned his head slowly stopping only to look at Zion. His appearance had changed back to what it once was before and his eyes were their normal silver sheen they carried around his eye's pupils. He lifted his right hand and wiped the sweat off his brow. "It's not over" Abe said loud enough for Zion to hear. "...It's not over...until I get the basturds...." Abe began to say further, he looked down to the remnants of the bird that he had called his friend for so long now it seemed. "...that did this to me" Abe finished.

[haine_rammsteiner141]

Zion carefully swung down from the tree and landed on both feet, wincing at the pain in his leg. It seemed Abe was back to normal. Or was it that Akuma had changed? Zion shook his head to clear the confusion. "When you say over...Does it mean that you won't change back?" Zion had seen the sheer determination in the other man's eyes to know that this was no trick. He actually considered helping Abe, if only just to make sure Akuma would never appear again.

[CrescentValentine]

"No...Akuma is still here. Gilligan was just their quickest means in releasing him from within me....or within him....or......ah forget it! It's too confusing, but I know who I am and that is enough for me" Abe began to answer. He looked to Zion so to finish explaining. "...They have a direct satellite uplink that they planted inside me within my heart so it can't be removed unless I want to die" Abe continued on. "...and they can use that, but the process takes a little longer so you'd have time to run quite a distance away if I ever change again" Abe saying at least trying to offer some hope on the subject. He looked down to his hand flinching it into a fist a couple times. "...Or maybe...I can find a way to release him myself on my own?" Abe wondered. The power Akuma had...could be handy if stuck in a bad situation that Abe or Zion together even couldn't handle and Abe looked serious about attempting trying to release the murderous psycho maniac killer again.

[haine_rammsteiner141]

"Wait, wait," Zion shook his head, trying to clear the confusion. "So you can't get rid of this other persona unless you die, and you want to use this...destructive, psychotic, sadistic other self of yours...again?" Zion sat down and held his face in his hands, "I get that this Akuma is stronger than you, but if you release him on your own again isn't there the chance of creating more innocent victims?" He blinked a few times, trying to weigh the possible outcomes against each other. "I don't know. It's just..." he sighed and shook his head again, before calling for Asa again. He needed the comfort after nearly being killed and his brain feeling like it had been blown to bits with all this new information. As the dog came running into view on the other side of the river, it sniffed at Abe before jumping into the river and swimming across to Zion.

[CrescentValentine]

"I'm not going to try and do it now Zion so don't worry. I'm not going to make you Akuma's prey again just like that for I'm sure he would kill you no matter how much I fought him, but what you don't realize is that Akuma needs me because if I die so does he...and I know what kind of person Akuma is and he won't let me die just like that incase I get caught up in a poor looking situation that is very close to threatening my life" Abe stated. He looked down to the dog, Asa, and smirked. He nodded to the dog. "She's hungry which reminds me we should probably get some rest and restore our energy. We're gonna have a big day ahead of us tomorrow since we'll start planning out things then" Abe suggested though he was more concerned for Zion knowing he needed time to recover as Abe himself felt fine.

[haine_rammsteiner141]

"Oh... thanks then," Zion didn't want to be imposing on the man, but he knew it wouldn't be smart for him to remain by himself in this weak state. "Alright, so where do you suggest we camp out?" he called out across the river. "I need to get my wounds cleaned up, and I can't shift right now to go find dinner." Asa whined as he sniffed at Zion's slashed leg, and lay down by the boy.

[CrescentValentine]

Abe looked to Zion and he shifted his ankles to also hold a spring loaded mechanism to to jump across the river doing just that joining Zion's side shifting his ankles back into normal. "Hunting for me is very.....very easy so don't worry about finding something to eat" Abe answered. "But as for camping out, how about here. The river provides a source of water which is hard to find nowadays" Abe suggested.

[haine_rammsteiner141]

"Sounds like a plan," Zion said with a grunt as he pulled himself off the ground. "I guess I'll go look for firewood or something. I don't want to make you do everything," he muttered with a slightly bitter laugh due to the pain in his leg. He limped around, trying to find good sticks to use for the fire, finding one he could use to support himself.

[noctrena]

((thank you two for keeping the thread moving and keep posting. Just wondering where you guys are so maybe my character can meet up with them))

[CrescentValentine]

(ah...no worries though without an main MAIN antagonist this is gonna be hard to keep up, I can't do EVERYTHING xp hahaha. also, Abe and Zion are near the edge of some woods by a river that splits the forest apart still somewhere close to the city they were all just in if i remember right. hope that helps)


Abe nodded. He grinned as he activated his intangibility and slow sank down through the ground like a ghost moving through the ground which was more disturbing than you could believe seeing some buried corpses being worm food and becoming more soil to the Earth, but after a few moments Abe slowly started to raise up through the ground's surface just sticking his head through just under a mature adult buck. Abe moved his hand to breach the surface and he shifted his arm while he become solid. In doing so his shifted arm completing it's transformation becoming an extendable pole with a sword tip that was thrusted into the buck's throat causing it's death in a short couple moments. He grabbed the buck's rack and used his intangible to pass through the ground going back to where Zion and his pet Asa were pulling the buck up through the ground and returned to becoming solid along with it. "Hope you like meat" Abe thought.