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 Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:00 am
"Are you ok?" Jabir looked at Rabid with a worried expression
He then looked at the door and tried to 'see' what was happening on the other side
"Oh God CROW!!!"
He quickly started to remove the cloak and the scythe, getting ready to slice the door open
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:22 am
"So weak. I just don't understand it...why were you so damned special? Why?" Jean Michel spat at Crow, looking angry.
Gritting her teeth against the pain, Crow glared up at Jean Michel impudently.
"Because I was good at what I did, you b*****d. And the Piper knew it. I was the favorite because I was better than you."
Pressing the gun against Crow's temple, Jean Michel was shaking with anger.
"You were his favorite because you were his whore. You did everything he asked without question, and look where it got you." He put his finger on the trigger, white with rage. "And now... Lethe, you should've died a long time ago."
Crow closed her eyes, looking defeated.
"Yeah. I know."
"Leave my mum ALONE!"
Lenore pounced at Jean Michel, relishing his scream of pain as she slashed his back open.
"Wretched brat!"
Bang.
Crow screamed in horror as Lenore fell back, looking shocked. She felt her arms released as her captor cursed and groaned as though in pain behind her, and she fell to her knees.
"NO!"
Jean Michel sneered at her, and pressed the gun to her head.
"Goodbye, Lethe."
Crow felt nothing at all as Jean Michel pulled the trigger. Her head jerked back and she fell to the floor, dead.
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Outside the room, Julian howled with pain and staggered back, screaming and clawing at his face. Ethan raced to his side and tried to see what was wrong, yammering in Slovak. He grabbed at Julian, trying to restrain him, and suddenly gasped and fell back.
"Liam! Liam!"
Deep, long cuts were opening all over Julian's body as he continued to scream. His hands scraped across the floor, fingers elongating into skeletal talons.
"What's wrong with him?"
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"Too easy."
Jean Michel kicked at Crow's body, deeply satisfied. He turned on Lenore, who glared up at him, her hands pressed against her side where the bullet had scraped her. He smiled and aimed the gun at her lazily, laughing. It was Jeremy's cry of horror that distracted him, and the squeal of hinges as the door was kicked open. he turned and stared, unable to comprehend.
"What the?"
Crow's body was gone. In its place was something withered and horribly fleshless, with a skull-like face that grinned up at him.
"Hello."
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:35 am
"Oh, bloody HELL!" Liam yelled, grabbing Ethan and pulling him away from Julian in a flurry of multilingual obscenities, "We step away. Quickly." He felt no pain himself. He knew what that meant.
"Why? What's going on?!"
"You heard the gunshot, right?"
"YES! WHAT THE ******** IS GOING ON?!"
"I think...they're...turning."
Rabid gasped and stumbled backward.
"No...no, it's can't be...please..." she stammered, her eyes glowing oddly bright. She knew what this meant.
It meant that everyone was going to die.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:45 am
Jabir completely ignored Julian and Crow. Whatever they were turning into wasn't good byt his first priority was Lenore. He wasn't going to fail his duties again
"Are you alright?" He coiled around her in a protective circle, trying to see how serious her injury was
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:05 pm
"It does not like him."
The creature spoke in a hoarse, echoing whisper as it crawled towards Jean Michel, sides heaving as it breathed. Its brilliant yellow eyes stared up at him from the deep sockets of a skull, lidless and piercing.
"It wonders how long he will take to die. It wonders how it should hurt him. It wants to put out his eyes, yes. Pull them out of his head, long and slow to make him scream."
Jean Michel staggered back, his face blank.
"That....that isn't fair," he whined, firing the gun at the creature. The bullet ripped through it, but it did not react.
"That will not help him. Nothing will help him."
It rose slowly, hunched over. It reached out and grabbed him, long-fingered hands wrapping around his throat.
Lenore stared at the creature in shock, unable to speak. What the hell was that thing? Clinging to Jabir, she struggled to sit up and winced at the pain in her side.
"Mum?"
The creature twitched slightly, but regained itself as it drew Jean Michel close.
"He shot it. He hurt it. It does not like him."
The creature turned and threw Jean Michel out into the hall. He struck the opposite wall hard, shouting in pain as bones splintered.
"That isn't fair! It isn't fair!" He cried, looking at Rabid, Ethan and Liam in absurd anger. "She can't do that!"
He gave a cry as something grabbed him from behind. Long claws bit into his flesh, scraping down his back. He turned and looked, shuddering in horror. Julian, his body covered in bloody gashes and blood dripping like tears from his eyes, smiled back.
"I don't like you much, either." He said, standing and dragging Jean Michel up with him. "Maybe she'll let me play with you first."
The creature staggered out into the hall, glaring at Jean Michel and Julian. It dragged Jeremy with it, the boy struggling weakly in its grasp. It threw him at Julian, shaking its head.
"He is mine."
Julian shrugged, letting the trembling man fall to the floor and grabbing Jeremy instead.
"Of course."
Jean Michel gasped and cursed, trying to scuttle for cover. Looking up at Rabid, he held out his hands pleadingly.
"Help me!"
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:12 pm
"Non, vous hybride," she growled, guilt tearing at her heart nonetheless, "You hurt my son." Sobbing, she wrenched herself away from the grouna dn ran off to huddle in an abandoned doorway.
"Ethan?" Liam laughed nervously, watching the proceedings with wide eyes, "You...may want to look away."
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:20 pm
Jabir carefully picked Lenore up in his long, thin arms and followed the creature that was Crow, grabbing the scythe he had left at the entrance with his tail
"Shh, don't look"
His features were starting to turn feral without him noticing. This smelled just like a hunt and that made him hungry
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:41 pm
Rabid shook with emotion, clamping her hands over her ears and screaming herself to try and drown out the noise. There was so much death...so much insanity...
Liam cringed and dropped his head. Huh. He was still bleeding. He carefully removed a vial from his uniform and downed its contents. Jean Michel was gone. As far as he was concerned, all they had to do was wait for things to calm down.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:52 pm
Jabir approached Rabid and and settled Lenore near her. He wasn't sure what was going to happen next, but he better have his arms free just in case
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:06 pm
Trembling, Lenore grabbed at Rabid and winced at the screaming.
"Where's Mum?" She asked, clinging to the woman's arm and looking ready to cry.
Inside the room, the creature threw what was left of Jean Michel off to the side, shaking the blood off its body in a dog-like fashion. Crawling on hands and knees towards the door, it paused and looked back as the remains gave a gurgle. Creeping back over, it ripped the dying man's shirt open, scrabbling for the pendant he wore around his neck. Taking Lenore's necklace off him, it picked up the arm it had ripped off and removed a bracelet from the wrist.
"Not yours," it spat at him, clicking its teeth again and turning away. Pushing the door open, it crawled out into the hall and laid its head down on the floor, exhausted. A shiver shook it, and when it spoke, it was Crow's voice that came out, thready and terrified.
"It wants...no...I...want to go home," she said, frightened. She looked up at Liam, and covered her mockery of a face with her hands. "Don't let her look at me."
Ethan stared at her, then looked around for Julian.
"Where did he go?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:10 pm
Rabid placed a hand on Len's, sobered slightly.
"She's fine, honey," she choked on her words, "I...I want you to close your eyes, okay? I know you've seen worse, but you hafta do it. There's a lot of...terrible things happening. I'll carry you out."
Liam pulled off his uniform and offered it to Crow. It'd be more of a use to her than to him.
"Huh?" he looked to Ethan, "Oh...I...uh...hm. Dunno. Maybe making a meal of the guards. Not sure. We may want to check that out."
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:21 pm
Jabir had been waiting eagerly for his turn
As far as he was concerned this man was no longer a sentient. Which meant meal time
He quickly devoured the remaining flesh, tearing it from the bones and swallowing it whole. Soon there was nothing but a messy pile of bones
But he wasn't satisfied. With a strange idea on his head, he picked up the spine, the skull and another few bones and bundled them up inside his cloak
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:54 pm
Nodding slowly, Lenore curled into a ball and closed her eyes, shivering.
"I want Mum an' Julian!"she wailed, crying. "Where's Jeremy?"
Ethan glanced over into the shadowed corner of the hall. The boy was dead, his face calm and peaceful. Surprised at the lack of suffering, he glanced at Rabid and shook his head, pressing a finger to his lips.
Using Liam's uniform to cover her face, Crow shambled unsteadily on her fleshless limbs. She slipped a few times, landing hard and cracking dried out bones. She shied away when Ethan tried to help her, as though afraid to let him touch her.
Liam, she thought miserably. Don't let her see me. Keep her with you and Rabid. I'm begging you. I don't want her seeing me like this.
As they left the basement, a scene of carnage greeted them. Burning bodies were strewn from one end of the hall of the other, shadowless and bloody. Julian sat in the foyer, staring at the bodies, bloody tears dripping down his face. His skin had turned a dead grey, making the ever-bleeding wounds stand out awfully. As Crow and the others approached, he looked up at them with glazed eyes.
"I couldn't stop. I really tried. I was just hungry. Even after I ate, all I could think to do was keep killing," he said, his voice shaking. There was no evidence of insanity in him now, only cold horror at what he had done.
"Please, I want to go home."
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:19 pm
"Shhhh," Rabid picked Len up and hugged her, attempting to comfort the terrified girl, "Everything's fine now. We're going home." She screwed up her face upon hearing Crow. The poor girl...
Liam nodded in understanding, but his eyes widened upon seeing Julian.
"Gods, kid...you.......come on...."
Rabid had to clap her free hand to her mouth to keep herself from screaming. Her eyes wide, she stumbled backward before quickly making her way over the corpses for the door, hugging Len close to her and sobbing silently.
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