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 Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:30 am
The bids just kept getting higher, and with them Hitsu was increasingly frightened. What... Exactly were they bidding for? What was expected of them from these people? She watched in horror as Riyo was dragged off of the stage, looking worriedly to Mitsu. It was clear that she wasn't much better off, were they all three going to end up alone with some horrible stranger? She was jealous of the men, in a morbid sort of way...
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One down... How long was it going to take for the other two to sell?
He glared in Victor's direction as the blonde was led toward him. Even despite this, the b*****d was still shouting out bids.
"Fifteen on the brunette! Eleven on the wolf girl!"
Apparently, he'd been holding out.
Deacon was seriously mulling over just letting him win the trio, then he'd personally go slit his throat and take them. It sounded like a decent plan, he'd get what he wanted all around that way.
Caleb bumped into him from behind, and Deacon rounded on him with fist raised. There was a heavy thud on the floor at his feet, and his attention veered toward it. A single satchel of coin, though this one was much larger than the others he'd brought. Whoever he'd managed to get this from must have been a dipshit.
"Where did you-"
His question was cut off by a nearby, furious cry. Victor had found something amiss when he'd intended to hand over his payment for Riyo.
"My gold! Where the devil is my gold!? I've been robbed! Someone stole my gold!"
Deacon hurriedly snatched up the satchel and stuffed it underneath his shirt and out of sight. Shooing Caleb off without so much as a kick, he turned back toward the stage and shouted.
"Twenty on the brunette!"
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:19 am
A small grasp on reality, did she say? Riyo had no retort for that one. It was... It was very true. She said nothing more to Tessa as she was led off-stage. Only gave her one more glance. And with that, she memorized that face. Because that's who she'd blame for everything that was to come.
When she was led to her 'owner', Riyo didn't look at him. Instead, she looked at her surroundings. Observing. Taking things in. Paying close attention to the details of this city. This man had no idea what he'd walked into. Therefore, it shouldn't be too hard to trick, and possibly kill him..
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:16 pm
As the men began to leave, Blade tried to move as fast as he could to toss Neko the knife he had lifted. As the weapon left his hand, he aimed the other thing he had taken at one of the men walking off. He had seen a gun being fired before so it shouldn't be too hard, right?
Well, he certainly wasn't expecting as strong of a recoil when he did pull the trigger. Chances were that he'd miss, but hopefully it'd be enough to at least give them time to break away or something along those lines.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:57 pm
Neko saw something shiny flying his direction and like every good cat his attention was drawn to it. Eyes dilated in an almost playful way before he snatched the knife out of the air and palmed it close to keep it from being taken. As soon as it was tightly secured in his fist he rounded on the closest guard plunging the dagger deep into the flesh just below the sternum and pushed up. The guard made a small grunt of surprise, still too shocked to take in the pain.
Before Neko could let that man drop and aim for another a shot rang out and half of the crowd hit the floor. The sound sent unnerving chills up and down Neko's spine but now was not the time to freeze in terror, now was a time to move. Throwing the now unconscious or dead guard to the ground, Neko palmed the keys and started to work on his cuffs as he began to shuffle through the crowd back toward the stage. "LET'S MOVE!" As soon as his hands were free and the collar was off he tossed the keys to Yuki and continued forward tripping over a frail looking boy in the crowd.
Bewildered Neko looked around thinking someone was trying to stop him but laid eyes on someone unexpected. "What in bloody hell are you doing here?" He spat at Deacon.
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Everything was happening so fast, what was going to become of them? Would they be killed? Eaten? Mitsu could only imagine so much but it wasn't long before her vision started to go dark and her hearing began dull. Her pounding heart slowed to a soft thump in her chest as her eyes visibly darkened to the color of dried blood.
It was almost like someone had hit the off button. Mitsu stood in place, face falling to a more emotionless expression, eyes dark and lifeless, and her breathing was soft and shallow. Like a living statue.
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"Damnit!" Tessa hissed as she grabbed hold of one of her men and threw him off the stage. "Get out there and straighten this mess up!" Never had she had so much trouble trying to sell a group of people. All she wanted to do was make money off the suffering of others....was that so much to ask?
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:13 pm
Riyo's ears rang at the sound of the gun echoing through the town hall. She wanted to cover her ears, or at least cower from instinct, but she realized this was perfect.
Without missing a beat, she bent her leg at the knee and swiftly kicked her guard directly in the balls. There was a big grin on her face when she looked Victor straight in the eyes and stuck her tongue out at him. "Later, douchebag." She shouted and ran in the direction she'd seen the guys in earlier. Riyo was by no means proficient with weapons, so there was no point in trying to grab one for herself.
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Atticus had seen what was happening. Noticed Blade pick-pocketing the local yokels and readying himself for what was to happen. He eyed the guard and hummed a tune as the gun went off. Lovely. There went the guard. There were the keys. "Don't forget about me." Atticus called to Yuki as he received the keys, his face the usual neutral.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:52 am
((Tis been too long since the last post. D= ))
Blade stood there for a moment, somewhat stunned by the force the gun had produced. Then, hearing Neko shouted, he snapped out of it and nodded. The keys had gone over towards Yuki and Atticus, so they were taken care of. That pretty much just left the girls on stage.
Quickly, he ran towards the fallen guard to snatch the guy's weapon before racing with Neko to get the girls. He soon paused as Neko yelled at someone in surprise. Apparently he was familiar with the other cat, and from the sound of things they weren't all too friendly with one another.
"You guys can catch up later, we need to keep moving."
Shocked and enraged, the man that had bought the guys stood and stared as everything unfolded. On the bright side, they definitely had some combat prowess... but they were supposed to show that IN the arena! Not out here!
"Dammit!! GET THEM!!" he shouted an order to the few men he had brought along to help him escort the lot to the arena quarters. They didn't have to be told twice. Two of them went for Yuki and Atticus, wielding whips, while the other two darted through the crowd to reach the others that had broken away. It took little time before the first pair began to crack their whips at the raven and the (half) cat.
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I know ya might be buzy, but the Master is gravly ill. If ye have a chance, pleas return. He wishs to see you.
-Signed, Bent-tail
That was what was written on the note. The handwriting was poor and there were a number of spelling errors, but it was (for the most part) legible.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:39 pm
"The master?" poke repeated out loud with a puzzled look on her face. She thought for a second. Shun was hired by Suto to kidnap herself and the others. Her first thought was that suto was ill and shun had gone back to see him. But was that even possible? last she saw of him he was fine, in all his psychotic glory...
Oh well, it didn't matter that much. Right now there was only one thing to consider. Shun had let her go, obviously more intent on seeing this "master", and either he didn't care about capturing her anymore, or he was confident that he could track her down and capture her again.
So now, the most important thing to do was to find yuki and the others, and warn them about this crazy b*****d
only problem.... she thought grimly to herself Is that I have no idea where they would be now...
She shrugged, and putting away the note she continued on the dirt road
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 11:26 am
The panic, terror, and noise was causing another emotion outside of fear to bubble up. Mitsu's face contorted into something a little more savage as she clenched her fists at her sides. Just before anger overtook her and sprang into action something soft brushed up against her leg. It was enough of a distraction for Mitsu to look down and find Tobi at her feet, a key dangling out the side of his mouth.
"T...Tobi?" Mitsu's head came swimming back to reality and she knelt down to the dog feeling a headache coming on. "Where did you come from?" She reached out and took the key from his mouth allowing Tobi to give a bark of triumph.
Blankly Mitsu looked at the key for a moment unsure what to do with it. Her head was still swarming with so many different things it was hard to focus.
"What have you got there, Lass?" Tessa stood over Mitsu a look of complete frustration etched into every part of her face.
Mitsu didn't have a chance to respond, Tobi did that for her. Before she could even turn to look at the slave trader, Tobi had drawn back his lips in a vicious snarl and leaped toward Tessa snapping at whatever he could reach.
"Ah!" Tessa drew up her arms to protect her face as Tobi snapped at her forearms and bit at her hands. "You retched dog!" Thrusting her arms outward she threw Tobi from her but almost like a cat Tobi landed on his feet, slid a few feet on the stage, and instantly went back for more. This time when he leaped his teeth were able to find purchase in the flesh of Tessa's shoulder. Screaming at the top of her lungs Tessa began to beat at the dog try to dislodge him.
In the mean time, while Tessa was distracted, Mitsu fiddled with the key trying to get it into the hole in the cuffs. It took a couple of tries but finally she was able to work them free and quickly ran to Hitsu to free her hands as well.
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As Neko made his way through the crowd he noticed that Tessa had sent some men in after them, and a quick glance back told him that wasn't his only concern. "Well, damnit." Looking back toward Deacon Neko's eyes narrowed. "You better still be here when this is over."
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:02 pm
The crowd had began to flee as the situation continued. Those still among them were threatened to be trampled if they didn't move or at least shove back. Neko himself found it difficult as he tried to keep an eye on where Deacon was, look for his allies among the scattering people, while watching what was going on onstage. Needless to say it was busy.
Soon, however, the sight of familiar blonde tresses made him reach through the crowd to grab a hold of Riyo. He didn't have much of a chance to think of the consequences of randomly grabbing someone in all the panic, but he was in a bloody hurry. "Riyo!"
On stage, Tessa was having her own issues. Now that all her men were out in the crowd trying to round up her merchandise she was left alone to fend off the dog and try to keep the two remaining girls in check. It was by no means easy since Tobi was being relentless in his attack. Nipping and biting before running away only to circle back and do it again.
"You bloody dog!" Tessa growled as Tobi ran off again after biting at her heels. By now she was covered from head to toe in abrasions, bites, scratches, and more. Blood was dripping down her face from where Tobi had nipped her cheek but her patience for the situation was gone. Reaching behind her back Tessa produced a short sword that had been secured there.
Mitsu had been partially watching while she was undoing Hitsu's cuffs but the sight of a weapon had her panicked. "Tobi watched out!" But it was already too late. The shiba was already in mid attack and with one quick swipe Tessa had brought the sword around and made contact with Tobi's side and front leg. "Tobi!"
The dog fell like a lead weight to the floor and went sliding a few feet nearly to the end of the stage. With a whimper Tobi tried to stand but his newly acquired wound made that difficult and he only fell back to the floor.
"Now to finish you off you worthless mutt." Tessa began to move toward Tobi but an inhuman growl stopped her in her place. She expected another larger dog but turning her head she saw Mitsu now in front of Hitsuzen, her lips drawn back over her elongated fangs as she produced her verbal threat. There was something strange about her behavior, Tessa thought. This girl had seemed rather spineless, but perhaps this was her true colors when being cornered like an animal. "Do you have a problem Missy?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:55 pm
Blade did what he could to tail Neko as they made their way towards the stage. However, he wasn't able to keep track of the others they had left behind, but he could only hope they were faring well in all the chaos that was going about. When he heard Neko shouting out Riyo's name, he looked about and caught a glimpse of her in the crowd ahead.
"Neko! On your right!" he shouted as he saw someone coming in after them from them. Likely the guards that were headed in their direction shortly before.
((short but hopefully will get things moving a little more? D= ))
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:21 pm
Riyo had been miraculously dodging the fleeing dirtbags while slowly trying to move forward. It was like trying to swim upstream while avoiding the sharp rocks, in a way...
Until some stick snags your arm and almost causes you to drown! The second Riyo felt a hand on her, she whirled around with the intention to put the hurtin' whoever or whatever had her, until she heard that familiar voice.
She froze in mid-kick and let out a huge sigh of relief. "Thank goodness." No time to be grateful for little blessings, however. The loud, sudden warning from behind them caused her to look in the specified direction.
"s**t." The element of surprise that helped her escape was obviously out this round. And she still had that damn collar. Her hands automatically went to her neck and she tried ripping it off.
"I'm going to KILL myself if I can't get this piece of garbage- AH ********." Her sudden lament of pain was triggered by the collar sending her a message of electricity.
Temporarily, she forgot about the guards and just focused on the hate machine around her neck. "It feels like one thousand angry bees are under my skin, and I intend to release them on this whole goddamn town!" She hissed and continued clawing.
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:38 am
"Just calm down," Neko grabbed for Riyo's hand to keep her from clawing her throat out. "Yuki and Atticus have the keys, just find them. I'm going to-" Neko barely had time to push Riyo out of the way of a swinging sword and took the hit across the chest from it instead. With the crowd dissipating it was much easier for the guards that had been on stage to get to them. "Just keep moving!" Neko tried to yell to Riyo over the noise as he avoided the next attack.
Pressing a hand to his chest Neko could clearly see that he was bleeding pretty badly. At least that was the case for now, in a few minutes it would look like nothing more than a scratch. Letting the blood pool in his palm, Neko drew his dark energy into the crimson liquid until it was black as coal. When the guard rounded on him again he was quick to move out of the way and back up to the man's side. With a flick of the wrist, the black liquid in Neko's hand sprayed all over the man's face and began to burn instantly like acid.
The guard shrieked in pain as he dropped to his knees holding his currently melting face in his palms allowing Neko a little time to move on....at least until the next guard.
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:17 am
Before he heard Riyo speak up about the collar, Blade had attempted to flame the incoming guards, which only resulted in him getting quite the nasty shock. He let out a startled and pained cry and nearly dropped his current weapon because of it.
"Damn.. So that's what this thing does.." he muttered as he recovered, only to see Neko take quite a hit to the chest.
"Ne-"
His words were cut short by the man's bloodcurdling scream. The thief's eyes widened as he saw the guard's face seemingly melting off. Shaking his head to himself, he rushed forward to catch up with the two, as well as to sink his short sword into an armor gap of one of the other guards that was trying to advance in on them.
For a moment, he looked between Neko and Riyo, uncertain who he should be going with. They both were capable in a fight, but here he didn't know who could use the backup more.
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:24 pm
[Just pretend my characters have reacted to everything up to this point. >>;]
Once Yuki had freed himself from his bindings, he'd done the same for Atticus. "We have to find the girls," he stated hurriedly, leaving the key to Atticus. "I'm going to get my sister, I'll leave Riyo to you." All he could hope was that they'd all be able to get together again in one piece. In all of the noise, and his focus to get to Hitsu, Yuki hadn't realized that there was a familiar face in the crowd.
Hitsu had shrieked at the sight of Tobi being taken to the ground by Tessa's sword. Between she and Mitsu fiddling with the binds she was freed from them, she stood hesitantly behind Mitsu. Hitsu wanted to get Tobi away from Tessa, but feared the sword. However, it seemed Mitsu was angrier than Hitsu was afraid. "Be careful, Mitsu..." she murmured, already assuming that Mitsu was about to retaliate against Tessa for attacking Tobi.
Deacon was less than pleased to be discovered before he was ready to be, and offered no reply to Neko when he was shouted at. Instead, Deacon plucked Caleb up from nearby and dragged him toward the nearest exit.
"We're going to die!" Caleb was wailing, convinced that in all of the madness they would be found, and their thievery would get them executed.
"Shut your mouth and pick up your worthless feet!" Deacon bellowed. He was not going to get mixed up in this mess.
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:29 pm
When Neko grabbed Riyo's hand, her head snapped to the side so she could look at him. Before she had a chance to even open her mouth and attempt a response, the wind was knocked out of her as she hit the ground.
What had just? Wha? Who?
Riyo lifted her head up after a second to figure out what just went down. It didn't take her long to spot her companion on the ground bleeding profusely from the chest.
"N-NEKO!" She shrieked before even realizing she said something. He'd pushed her out of the way and now he was going to die. He was going to die because of her. He was-
Burning the guards face off with his blood. Woah. She... She didn't know he could do that. Slowly, Riyo stood back up... But couldn't seem to take her eyes off Neko. "... How neat." A quiet mumble she'd meant to think to herself.
Atticus, on the other hand, wasn't sticking around. He gave a nod of acknowledgement to Yuki and darted off in the direction of the commotion. It was almost guaranteed that would be the spot where his misfit companions would be.
Just as Riyo was able to pull her gaze away from the horrific scene and put herself in a sprint, she literally ran into Atticus.
Oof.
"Tell me you have that ******** key." Were the first words directed towards Atticus. Gee, what a greeting. Nice to see you too.
"Yes, I do, but-"
Atticus didn't even have time to finish his sentence. Riyo spotted the key, ripped it out of his hand, and fumbled to fit it in the lock. Her fingers were shaking like maracas. "Goddammitttt..."
Click. What a glorious sound that was. Following it was a c***k, c***k, c***k of the collar falling to the ground.
Around Riyo's neck was a raw, sick looking burn. Her eyes widened as she stared at the collar. It was off! She was free! She-
"... Maybe I should look at that burn Riyo."
"Back up."
"What?"
"Back. Up."
The key dropped to the ground. Atticus took a couple of steps back...
Out of her fingers dripped that familiar black ooze... But the drip turned into more like a fountain. "I... Can't stop it."
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