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 Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:50 pm
Shadows were speaking to him, stretching upward over the walls, and he felt his tentacles flail outward to catch himself on the air, but managed to catch himself on his crutches instead in a clumsy stumble. Voices were talking, saying his name. Billybillyboy-o c'mere. A woman, a woman in purple with black hair. Still for a moment as he staired, purple eyes wide and glassy, untill he heard the second shadow speak. Yellow yellow all over, it was a dog, it was a beast, it was a man, it was a monster, twisting and groping and warbling in the air, "I don' wan' any," He managed in a shaking voice, stopping dead in his tracks.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:05 pm
Kikue noticed Billy's disorientation immediately, having lived with her father and his drinking ever since they had moved to Tokyo. She had become very good at noticing when something was wrong.
She stood up slowly, looking at Avery. Billy. His name was Billy. "I think something's wrong," she said quickly, her gaze flicking back to Billy's writhing tentacles and his glazed eyes. She wasn't even sure who he was talking to, and that was definitely a bad sign.
Knowing that he wouldn't recognize her, Kikue was hesitant to try and talk to him to see if she could help. She didn't want to startle him when he was like this. The sight of the man still stunned her, but the overwhelming feeling that he was clearly not all there overrode the fear. Kikue glanced back at Avery, her expression set but worried. This situation was all too familiar...except of course that this man was half octopus. Gods.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:54 pm
Avery frowned, glancing at Kikue. "Wrong..?" he peered more closely at Billy. He did seem to be acting strange. He took a small step close to Billy when he stumbled, but he stopped, not going any closer. No telling what he would do if there really was something wrong with the other man.
"You don't want any of what, Billy?" he asked, confused. What was he talking about? Avery had no idea what to do, he thought for a moment about leaving, but he didn't want to leave the new girl alone... and Billy was in the way of the door, too. He was starting to feel a little trapped.
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:56 pm
Billy Billy Billy what's wrong what's wrong Billy? The yellow monster was barking at him, snarling and twisting but when Billy looked away and the world he couldn't see dissolved around him, there was no monster anymore. Just the black haired girl in the funny purple bathrobe.
He had staggered all the way there from his perch at the lake, drawn on some sort of instinct to hone in for food, but after such a long walk, his brain had latched down on a crashing place. Couldn't go back to his duplex. That's what the man wanted. Billy didn't care. He'd show him he didn't care.
His tentacles coiled and uncoiled around his bare legs, the top set from his chest reaching out like arms for something to catch himself on, "Feckin'... chairs..." He managed.
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:21 pm
Kikue watched Billy stumble, leaning over as if he were reaching for something. She had no idea what, except that he was on a course for the couch. Quickly making more room for him by backing up against Avery, she watched Billy's rambling mouth and the distant look in his eyes. She couldn't smell alcohol, but something was definitely wrong.
"Is he usually like this?" she whispered urgently to Avery. Kikue had no idea how to help him. She wasn't even sure that this spell wasn't from the serum somehow. Should I say we should call the labs? ...No. That might only make it worse.
Remembering how her father was during his drinking spells, Kikue silently watched Billy's tentacled hands reaching for the couch. Silence might be best.
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:40 pm
"I don't... think so," Avery replied as he watched Billy, feeling unsure if he should help him or let him be. "I mean, I don't see him around much... he seemed fairly normal when I did see him, though. Not like this, anyway..."
He moved around Kikue, taking a few hesitant steps toward Billy. He reached out slowly to put a hand on Billy's shoulder to help steady him, as he appeared to be a little unbalanced. "Hey, man, you okay? Do you need any help?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:08 pm
At the sudden touch, Billy flinched, nightmare pills surging through his system at full throttle now, sloshing about inside, poisoning his waking conciousness at the higher dosage still. The yellow monster was on him! Grabbing him! Gonna' get him! Bill jerked up, eyes wide and locked on Avery's face as he gave a strangled cry, gagging as ink erupted form his mouth, flowing down his chin and front to splatter between them.
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:18 pm
Gasping, Kikue backed a few more paces as she stared wide-eyed at Billy's puddle of black vomit on the floor. She had no idea what it was, only that normally it shouldn't be that color. It was too dark for blood, but she still had to struggle to keep herself from reacting instinctively. She shot a quick glance at Avery, not knowing if this black inky liquid wasn't some kind of poisonous defensive mechanism. Do octopi even have those?
Billy needed help. Kikue tried to keep her face set when looking at him, but she was more than worried. He was reacting badly to their presence; this could be beyond her control. At home, she usually shut herself up when her father had started doing something like this. Should she just walk away now? How can I walk away? Something is clearly wrong with him --
But maybe being there, someone he didn't know, was only making it worse. Yet he had reacted badly to Avery and supposedly knew him.
"Avery," Kikue got out in a low voice, trying not to speak too loudly lest it trigger something in Billy, "should I leave? Should we call anyone about this?" What is that puddle on the floor, all down his front? Maybe I should just leave and call someone about this...
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:35 pm
"Holy s**t!" Avery gasped, jerking back quickly and stumbling backwards, nearly tripping over his own feet in his haste to get away. "What the hell was that!?" He gasped, staring wide eyed at Billy. Was he sick? What the hell was that stuff!?
"I... I don't know what to do," he sounded a little panicked, clearly scared by Billy. He wanted to get the hell out of there, he didn't want to have anything to do with this... whatever was going on. He didn't know. "There are cameras... the doctors would have seen... so..."
If Billy was really ill, the doctors would come get him, right?
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:48 pm
The monster backed away and the octopus kicked his feet to try to swim away, mearly managing to land sprawled on the floor in a clatter of limbs and crutches, tentacles flailing as though to try to swim away, ink still dribbling from his mouth as he coughed and gagged, trying to spit it out, "AWAY FROM ME! AWAY FECKIN' STAY BACK!!"
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:59 pm
Instinct kicked in immediately. Kikue's survival skills at home with her father only furthered the need to get out of here. Backing away from Billy, Kikue shot a look at Avery. "Let's go," she said urgently under her breath. "Let's get out of here. If something's wrong they'll come."
Billy wanted them to get away from him, and Kikue was only too happy to obliage.
Side-stepping the puddle of blank inky fluid on the floor, she made fast for the door. Pulling it open, she slipped quickly outside, making for her duplex. Number 48. Shooting a look over her shoulder, she nodded at her duplex once Avery was out so he might know where she lived, and then she didn't look back.
Pushing the key into the lock, she opened the door only to close it and lock it tightly behind her. This is insane.
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:14 pm
Avery had to agree with Kikue, especially when Billy started to scream at them. What the hell was wrong with him? What had happened!?
He didn't stick around to find out. He quickly turned and ran out of the room, not pausing to look back once. He felt a little guilty just leaving Billy there... but what could he do? Nothing, he thought to himself. I couldn't do anything.
The doctors would help him. It wasn't Avery's job. He saw the new girl run into her own duplex, and he felt that was a good idea. He rain straight to his own duplex, slamming the door shut hard behind him. He leaned back against it, panting.
Why couldn't anything just be normal around here!?
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:46 pm
And Billy lay on the floor, limbs curling up against his chest as he sat in the puddle of his own ink, hyperventilating as he waited for the monsters to go away. The had left, but their shadows still remained, snapping at him, clawing at his skin, digging it's nails deep down as though to pull what human bones remained in his limbs and pull them out. But painless, painless, just his eyes, just the world spinning. Falling apart bit by bit untill blackness took a hold of him and he fell into his own nightmares.
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:20 pm
New RP
Cassidy was stretched out on the sofa, just a length of tail all over the cushions, nose buried in a book. It was one of her own, but she'd needed a change of scenery from her duplex or her favourite trees, and this seemed as good a place as any.
Even if last time she'd run into Vasile. Well, that wasn't so bad.
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