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 Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 12:35 am
Late nights in Destiny City, Tobias was coming to understand, were something of a crapshoot. There was a chance he would be able to walk home from his late-night class perfectly safely, but a few times he had been surprised by strange creatures lurking in the dark. He wasn't exactly eager to become a meal for a monster the week before finals.
He walked past the entrance to one of the innumerable side streets that were barely more than alleyways on his usual route from the University to his apartment, and then stopped. There were what sounded like noises of distress, desperate pleading, coming from the street.
Some people might have kept walking, determined to make it not their problem.
Tobias Banner did not, particularly, have much of a concept of "not his problem."
So he turned down the side street, already shifting one of the heavier texts he carried out of his bag and into hand to use as a weapon if necessary (and he knew that was stupid, something out of a low-budget horror movie, but it was what he had.)
"Hey!" He barked, hoping to draw attention to him and away from whatever unfortunate was getting accosted.Whimsical Blue i hope this is a decent start orz
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 12:20 pm
The scene had played out so many times on the streets of Destiny City. Almost daily, some weeks, to the point it had begun to feel mundane.
Stalk through the dark, find some unfortunate soul who was stupid or careless enough to be easy prey, and then take them in a quiet corner. The young woman she held pressed to the wall made distressed noises past the hand clamped down over her mouth, but the momentary twang of feeling it gave Cinnabar was not enough to dissuade her. She had her needs, which had to be met. It could have been anyone else, but it was this girl's lack of care that had landed her here, not any action on Cin's part to single her out.
"How often were you told not to walk home alone in the dark?" The general murmured as she pressed herself against the wriggling body. "This is your fault as much as mine, and I can't help what I am..."
The girl sobbed and shrieked as Cin shoved her hand quickly into her chest, jerking her hand back with her prize within moments. A quick death was all the mercy she could grant her and she slowly lowered the now-unresisting body to the ground. In the cage of her fingers, a starseed glowed a gentle pink. It's glow was seductive and warm... it promised everything that felt good, everything that took away her pain. That calmed the insessant clawing of the inside of her stomach as the vestiges of her beast demanded to be fed.
There was a shout behind her as General Cinnabar shoved the starseed into her mouth and crunched down, euphoria exploding through her body in a wash of wonderful sensation. Her nerves buzzed and zinged like live wires and for a short space of time, there was no pain. She was alive, and whole, and perfect.
The first flush passed and Cin angled a red-black eye over her shoulder to see who had stumbled onto the macabre scene. She was surprised, and not, to see a regular civilian. It was a shame for him, as she could read the angles and planes that suggested male. Tall, toned. He should have minded his own business. The people who lasted the longest in this city were the ones who learned that lesson quickly.
In a moment, she was gone from the spot she had been standing, blinking out of existence. A breath later, her voice came from behind him, something rough and feral lurking under the calm voice.
"Were you hoping to play hero tonight, pet? Someone has been putting too much stock in those super hero movies..." Cinnabar rumbled as she stood close behind him, the pupils of her eyes shrunk to excited slits. "Heros die in Destiny City."
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:05 pm
Tobias realized he was in perhaps more danger than he had ever faced when he realized that one of the two women in front of him - the one doing the menacing, the one who ripped something small and bright from the other woman's chest and let her fall - was not human. There was "good makeup and costuming" and then there was "that tail is moving independently", and her tail was definitely moving independently.
"My God," he murmured under his breath, but he still gripped the book, still determined to do -- something, he wasn't really sure what.
(Had he just witnessed a murder? The woman left wasn't moving, or speaking, or struggling anymore, and - s**t.)
And then the monster-woman vanished, and her voice was coming from behind him, and he barely registered the threat, just spun, and swung, as hard as he could.
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:34 pm
Some sort of violent reaction had been expected, appearing as she had behind him. When he spun and swung at her, Cinnabar was ready, and her hand snaked up to slam into his wrist as she leaned back, changing the direction of his swing so the book whizzed harmlessly by and shot upwards instead. Her other hand darted out and slammed palm flat into his chest, shoving him violently backwards to catch himself or fall to the ground.
Cinnabar smiled as she followed him with an eager step, chains rattling on her coat as she drew her fist back and balled it. Another step flowed into a sharp punch aimed towards his face, but truthfully, she was not putting her all into this. This stranger was a civilian and the thought of him being any sort of threat to her was laughable. Why waste the energy on him? It was hard to resist having just a little fun with him though, and the evidence was in the toothy grin she offered.
"Come on now... is that all you can give me? Try harder, pet... its not fun if you don't struggle a little more." She chuckled.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:55 pm
Tobias should have, he realized, expected this strange woman-creature to be strong. Weren't monsters always? But the way she casually batted him away, like he was having absolutely no effect...
That was terrifying.
He ducked away from the punch aimed at his face, practically on autopilot as he dropped his bag and the book in his hand and swung a foot around, aiming for her side.
"What are you?" He asked, slightly desperately, tone tinged with horror.
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 9:17 pm
It was the fear in his voice and on his face that really got her going. Knowing he was terrified was incredibly exciting, and the more she saw, the more she wanted to prompt from him. Every movement, every word spoken, every twist of his features just screamed 'prey'... and she was a predator, pure and simple.
Humans were nothing more than fodder for the Negaverse. Cattle to sacrifice for their energy to feed the troops. Only a very, very few were worthy of being more. The strong ones. The clever ones. The ones that had something to give to the Negaverse.
Cin felt his kick thump into her side and she grunted, but she didn't even bother to dodge it. It felt like getting kicked by a child, and she'd suffered worse pain than that. All it did was stretch her grin wider and her arm snaked out to loop around his leg, giving a hard pull to take him off balance. With a twist, she sent him to the ground and came down after. With his leg pulled to lay him out, she twisted and landed with her kneed in his stomach, a hand snaking out to wrap around his throat and pin him hard to the ground. A rough laugh made her shoulders shake under her heavy coat.
"Me?" Cinnabar said, her red eyes wide with feral excitement. She held herself back from savaging him now that he was down, but only through a force of will. She wanted so badly in that moment to hurt him... "I'm a monster. A beast that roams the city at night, hunting weak little morsels just like you... Poor little tid-bit."
She leaned down over him, her dark hair tumbling around her shoulders. Her horns and pointed ears held it back from her face, and her pupils were excited slits. In her throat there was a rattle of sound, uncannily like the rumble of a big cat.
"I could make you stronger though. Like me, or the me before I became this. You could be useful to the Negaverse." She whispered to him.
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:16 pm
Tobias didn't have much formal training, but he had bulk and strength on his side, so it was rare that he was completely and utterly outmatched. Here, he was, there was no denying it.
He went down hard, breath driven from his lungs, and gasped briefly to try and catch his breath again. This was...alarming. Deeply, deeply alarming. Things like this were not really supposed to happen, were they? He was supposed to be strong enough to defend himself, but that was really not accounting for magically-enhanced monster women who could, apparently, chew him up and spit him out with minimal effort.
And who crowed in it.
He snarled, hands going up to wrap around the arm at his throat, digging his nails into it in an attempt to make her to let ******** off," he gasped. He'd die before letting some monster make him into whatever she was. Whatever this Negaverse was, he wanted absolutely no part of it, would not give himself over to something that was so terribly toxic.
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 3:19 pm
His struggles pulled a laugh from her throat, low and sultry. She could feel herself getting too excited by what was happening, and she knew, deep down, that it was a poor way to introduce someone to the glory of the Negaverse and its purpose... but so far into it now, with his large, strong body pinned as though he were nothing more than a child... It was impossible to resist the allure of it. She didn't have the will, not against the beast she had become. She didn't even bother to fight the desire.
"No, Pet. You may not want or understand this, but some day you'll understand." She murmured as she bent over him. "Just a little pain now, and then so much reward... I think you'll thank me, someday. For giving you this power. Work hard, embrace it... and no one will ever be able to do this to you again."
It was one of the founding principles of her life. It would become one of his, perhaps.
Reaching up, Cinnabar began to focus, pressing the clawed fingers of her hand against the young man's chest. Right over the center. Then her fingers began to sink into him and she smiled as her hand passed through cloth and flesh into that dark place where the shining star of each life rested. She couldn't see it, but she could feel it as she wrapped her hand around it, cradling it with surprising gentleness in her palm.
A pulse of dark energy went through her and she gathered it, forced it down her arm, through her hand, and into the star she held. More power poured and she sent it all down into the man under her, the effort drawing lines on her face and sweat beaded around the edges of her scaled. It was hard to control this much power, and draining, but she was determined.
Chaotic energy filled him, sinking into his starseed, and changing him from the inside out.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:52 pm
Tobias kept struggling, trying to yank her hand away, to get out from underneath this creature who clearly planned to do him harm.
"I said no," he growled, and he was fully ready to keep protesting, except -
Her hand slipped into his chest. It hurt, almost immediately, a much as a hand going places a hand should not go always would, but there was no blood and he was, so far, still conscious, which was the most bizarre of all. Was this what she had done to the woman earlier, the one slumped on the ground not far from them? Some sort of magic trick that let her reach in and pull out whatever she wanted?
Or - or put something in.
Whatever she was doing, it hurt, like having liquid fire forced into his veins, into his very core. He scrambled to grab, to push, to fight, to do anything to make it stop, but it was over as quickly as it had begun and by then, it was too late. He was transformed.
"What..." the new Lieutenant panted. "What the <********> did you do to me?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 3:34 pm
The boy struggled, but it was hardly worth noticing. He couldn't budge her, he was no threat. At least not yet. She was working hard at changing that.
By the time the last of the energy slipped from her fingers, his look had changed dramatically and there was a new flicker of cool chaos energy against her senses, soothing and pleasing. Especially with the way sweat beaded around her hair and scale line, and the tiredness that pinched the corners of her mouth. Slowly, and with care, Cin eased her hand free of the new lieutenant's chest and backed off him completely. She released her hold as she rocked onto her heels and scooted backwards, putting just a bit of space between them while she remained sitting on the ground.
A smirk pulled at her lips and there was an amused light in her eyes, watching the anger on his face as he gathered himself together.
"I made you stronger." She said simply. "You have real power now, same as I was given in the beginning. And you're been conscripted."
She waved a hand, her fingers fluttering in the equivalent of a shrug.
"Welcome to the Negaverse. A semi-secret organization headed by our Queen, Metallia, and her General Sovereigns. We are fighting a war against invaders that's been going on for a thousand years, near as I can tell. We need your strength, and that's why I brought you over." She waved at his book. "You obviously have the kind of sharp mind we need in our ranks. You're lucky. Had you been less useful, I would have killed you."
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 8:30 pm
The newly-minted Lieutenant sat partway up when she moved off him, hand going to his chest to check for any lingering damage. There was none, as far as he could tell, but...He glanced down, and made a noise somewhere between shock and dismay. That was absolutely not what he had been wearing before; the musket resting under his other hand was new too.
He wanted to panic, to run, but where was he going to go? It was done, obviously; his transformation into a soldier in a war he was now never going to be able to escape was complete.
He took a breath and schooled his expression to as much blankness as he could make it.
"I hope you don't expect me to thank you," he said, voice dry. "You've conscripted me - now what?" He had a thousand other question, but that one would work as a fine start. "Am I expected to start fighting immediately, or is there an ease-in period?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:32 am
Cinnabar smirked as she tucked her hands into her coat, looking at ease in an effort to cover how tired she was. It always surprised her how much it took out of her, doing these corruptions, but ******** if she was going to show weakness in front of her newest lieutenant.
"Don't worry... we won't be throwing you to the wolves right away. Actually as a lieutenant most of your responsibilities will be learning and helping gather the energy that fuels our forces. You're an investment, Pet. We're going to take good care of you, no worries." Cin said. Finally she stepped forward and offered a hand to him.
"You can power down by concentrating on banishing this form. Its the same for powering up, but I don't suggest you do that until we've had some time to train you. Our enemies are hiding all over the city... they look just like anyone, just as you do when you're not powered. Which, by the way, you're not to tell anyone about this. Its in your best interests not to reveal your new powers, even to family and loved ones."
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 3:35 pm
Tobias ground his teeth. He wanted to tell her to ******** off, to turn and run so that he could be free from this and away, but that wasn't really an option. Not anymore. So he kept his face as blank as possible when he took her hand and stood, hanging onto the toy musket like a silly plastic lifeline.
"I understand," he said. "I doubt anyone would believe me if I did tell them." He huffed.
So, fine. He would be her toy soldier, and the Negaverse's. It was just going to be a game of making the best of it that he could.Whimsical Blue i think i've promised to drop a fin on this about half a dozen times SO HERE WE GO, FINALLY
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