She... hadn't anticipated other people dropping into the fight with the General. Not that she was going to object--in fact, she was certain the one covered in vines looked incredibly familiar from the burning warehouse. It just... wasn't exactly something she'd thought to figure in. It dawned on her a little late he could have just as easily teleported in other agents. She must have had at least one lucky star trying to glint through the gloom that evening.
A voice behind her made her pause, glance over her shoulder. She intended it to only be a quick look, just a peek before her attention returned to the General. The guy with the arrows. But... her eyes stuck. The smile spread across her lips before she could help it. Do you remember our oath? Themiscyra's smile softened. She hadn't told Andronicus she remembered. She hadn't told Ashur, Valhalla, Kairatos... no one. Yet... Her hand went to the golden chain, and lifted it from her belt carefully, some of it still wrapped and tangled around the leather. Lifted high enough for Andronicus to see for certain. "I'm ok with them getting that idea. Are you?" She remembered what she'd tried to tell Andronicus then. An oath all its own.
She hadn't been paying attention when the General loosed the arrows. Didn't look, didn't move, till movement caught her eye and she turned.
Don't die, Alexandria had just said. Show them what it means to play with fire. The arrow certainly hurt like a flame. Themiscyra's hand, still clutching the golden chain, went to the arrow protruding from her left shoulder. Slipped right under the clavicle, it felt like--that was the bone, wasn't it? Blood seeped and she wondered if it'd managed to nick something vital.
Flame bloomed in her shoulder, jagged and scorching. Flame across her flesh, curving around the scars and the memories in a continuous glow. She'd always laughed. Flames of Mars. She snapped the shaft, letting the feathered end fall where it may. Keep the arrow in, it'd keep most of the blood in, right? Wasn't that how it was supposed to work?
She saw him. In the cell. He... got up. Briefly. So briefly. Themiscyra stilled. Her blood ran cold, stomach dropped, chest tightened to secure the scream that wanted to break from her. Not too late. Please not too late. Too many energy signatures, she couldn't pin-point anything. Could anyone? She told herself he was alive. Swore to herself he was still alive. Alexandria would get him in time. Take off the Captain's ******** head.
Flame bloomed from her shoulder, but it coursed through her blood from her chest. The pressure built, bubbled over, flamed and scorched, and Themiscyra charged for the General. Take out the greater threat, the weaker pieces fall easily enough. Take out the b*****d with the arrows and anything else was child's play. The Page of Mars saw red in that fleeting moment. True, flaming, red. A line streaked through her vision, burning and pulsing and waiting. Her hand lunged forward, the gold chain hanging from her belt. Flame flooded her system, burned away cloth and leather, melted metal and reforged armor. Gems and metal caught light and proclaimed the knight's alignment proudly. "If it's chains you bastards love so much," she bellowed, hand grasping the links forged of Mars itself, "allow me to accommodate you."
The Squire of Mars gripped the other end of her chain and rammed it towards the General's throat, hoping to every deity that ever was or would yet be that she would strangle the b*****d before her. Sorry, Val. Kairatos will back me up on this one. The vote's in my favor.
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[ Jarosite - 41 HP - 4 = 37 HP, attacking for 7! ]
He had to give her credit. She had spunk and apparently a lack of self preservation and fear. It was refreshing that she had the guts to attack him, and fight back. Most seemed to just run. While Jarosite loved the whole chase and hunt, actually going toe to toe with someone was incredibly fun as well. She'd make quite the spit fire corrupt to be sure.
The heel to his foot made him snicker. The steel toe caught most of the hit, protecting his toes and foot from being impaled. He shifted his weight to his other foot, feigning pain. He even hissed under his breath for dramatic effect.
"Gutsy, I like it. You'd make a wonderful corrupt with that fire." Jarosite grinned at her toothily.
Then he snapped out the foot she'd stomped on in a side kick to her hip.
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He still had his place within the Negaverse to protect and so he ignored the senshi of Dove's pleas for answers, information, and instead settled for trying to bait her into following him. "What? You don't want to play?" He questioned as he looked between hr and he red haired knight."This is a fun house after all - you should have fun." He stated and into the shadows and darkness he stepped and while making sure they could hear his steps he headed off. "Do come and find me..." Oh how he hoped she was smart enough and caught on, he couldn't very well scream out for them to follow him. Did she not get it?
Wanting to shake his head, or smack them both, he hoped they would follow him as he took off through the familiar darkness of the fun house, leading the way he hoped.
Aquamarine was momentarily startled when the Page grabbed the Super Senshi as if he meant to leave with her. Not that he wasn't pleased by the effect he, Jet, Seraphinite, and the arriving youma seemed to have when pitted against them, he simply hadn't thought the forces of light to be so cowardly.
“What, are you so afraid of a couple of Lieutenants you'll turn tail and run in the middle of a fight?” he jeered.
On second thought, the sudden retreat pissed him off. How dare they gang up on Jet and then back away from the fight upon receiving a taste of their own medicine?
Aquamarine gripped his plastic sword and threw it toward the Senshi who meant to retrieve the cat, hoping to get in one last hit before they all fled the scene. He had no intention of following after them to continue the fight elsewhere. If they wanted to run, let them run. Aquamarine would never let them live it down.
“I suppose this Senshi's ours then,” he said, smirking as he eyed the bound Eternal.
Of course, there was the other matter of the fourth Lieutenant. As Aquamarine summoned his weapon back to him, he asked, “I'm sorry, whose orders brought you here for her?”
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Phact started to scream out again but stopped as he walked back, edging them on. He stood still a moment, thinking, knowing all too well this could be a complete trap. Yet Acrucis had trusted him enough to come after her with no harm met. It was that one meeting that made up her mind.
"We have to go after him." Phact whispered back to Shang as she slowly turned around. "Yes it sounds crazy and it could be a trap but he's the best lead we have. Besides..." Phact's eyes dropped to her hands as she opened them with the cross she had been keeping with her. "Acrucis trusts him..."
That was enough for her.
Looking to meet Shang's eyes, she nodded, hoping he would not leave her to do this alone. "We don't have much time. Let's go." Shaking slightly, Phact made the dive into the darkness after the General.
The foot which hit her in the side sent her sprawling and landing on the ground some feet from the Captain. But she was determined not to just give in, despite the pain throbbing in her side now. Picking herself up, wincing as she did, the senshi of vampires narrowed her dark blue eyes at him.
"What? Did you expect me to just roll over and take whatever you wanted to dish out? I may not have experience but I'm not going to just let you slap me around." Or kick around as the case really was, since he seemed to like kicking things. That gave her an idea, one which had already been floating about her head. It was a hell of a move, if it worked, and it really was a low blow but...this was a battle and she didn't much care really. She'd feel guilty about it later...she was sure of it.
Striding back toward him, leaning a bit due to her now sore and upset side, but she did come right back to him. "I wouldn't join your side if I were paid to." And that said she kicked him, aiming for the most painful place you could kick or hit a male.
Chaldene still hadn't run into anyone or been jumped by anyone and he felt lucky, very lucky. However he still hadn't a clue where Ganymede or Valhalla was and he was sure others were looking for them, but who he didn't know. Perhaps now more than ever before he felt a drift from his fellow senshi, he knew so few of them and those that he did know he'd had very minimal interactions with. It was something he should work on - he knew it. But being social was hard not to mention draining. It took a lot out of him to be social, especially with so many people, it left him wanting to crawl into a hole somewhere for a while and be a lone afterwards. Was that normal? he was certain it wasn't but it was how he felt and it was why he was in this odd situation as well.
Sighing, more to himself than anything, he raised his voice. "Ganymede! Valhalla!" They had to hear him, right? Or at least someone else. he wasn't about to think either was dead or in a state that they couldn't hear him, unless it was due to distance - that he could accept. He liked to be a realist but right now he couldn't be, he needed hope.
As he continued he came to part of the floor covered in broken glass. "Mirrors broken." Those funny ones which distorted people. Lovely...another nice little trap set up by the Negaverse. Glad he had sneakers and not some sort of open show he made his way across the glass, carefully but not too carefully. There was a problem though, it seemed that whoever had made his shoes had decided not to use the thickest of materials and so some glass got past the shoes and and stuck his foot sending him stumbling and leaning on a wall for support. Gasping in shock he managed to limp through the glass to the end where he actually took the time to remove the glass shards from his shoes. He knew he'd be bleeding, how could he not be? But he couldn't think about that now.
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In any other situation, Skadi would have laughed at Oberon's reaction to the 'Chibi' introduction. But in this particular moment, she was having a hard time wrapping her head around the idea of leaving this place. She hadn't even realized that she was staring blankly until Oberon asked her name.
"Huh?" She said, blinking a few times and snapping out of the weird trance she seemed to be in. Her name... It took her a moment before she finally answered, "Skadi. My name is Skadi." Blinking through tear-filled eyes, she glanced back down at the binds around her ankles and the chains around her wrists that held her within the room and shook her head- the ability to stand was definitely something she lacked. Apparently the Negaverse Agents didn't appreciate her kicking at them when they tried to interrogate her, so they made damn sure that ended quickly.
Then suddenly, as someone's screams echoed through the funhouse, Skadi's breath caught and she shut her eyes again. "No more," she sobbed, writhing against her bonds in a panic- as if at any moment someone was going to wake her up and it would be her screaming like that.
It wasn't until Cybele approached and tugged at her chains that Skadi stopping thrashing, her chest heaving with every shaky breath. She stared at the group surrounding her with wide eyes, like a caged animal that felt threatened. Skadi shifted slightly, the chains rattling awfully loud in her head. It was Oberon's grin and assurance that had Skadi finally offering her heroes a smile.
"Thank you," she murmured quietly as she let the group work against her chains. "It's okay if you have to hurt me to get them off, I promise," she tried to reassure them. As long as she got out, it didn't matter how.
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Why was this taking so long?
Cyllene continued to pace outside of the fun house, not at all caring if she was noticed by Order at this point. Her fingers were twisted in her long blonde hair nervously as she watched the doors. The corrupt Senshi was pretty sure that she had never been more uncomfortable and sick to her stomach in her entire life. This was taking far too long.
They should be out by now.
Just before the Corrupt Senshi could decide to run into the fun house herself, she spotted a blonde Squire in pink carrying a limp, blood-covered body through the front doors. Cyllene's breath caught in her throat and she instinctively took a step towards them, a hand reaching out.
Biting her lower lip, she stopped herself and her hand was pulled back down to her side- all she could do was watch as Ganymede was carried out of the fun house to safety. And while her heart ached not being able to go to her and help, Cyllene heaved a giant sigh of relief- she had never been so happy to feel that disgusting power signature, even as weak as it currently was. It meant that Ganymede was alive, and she would be able to find the other girl when she was back on her feet and figure out this mess that she had gotten herself into.
Now, she just needed to see Valhalla follow suit and she could get away from this terrible, awful place and never come back. And maybe, just maybe, reconsider her place in the war that raged on in Destiny City.
Accepting and ignoring the officers around her, the youma went with her last order, make the senshi pay. The one in chains (Mintaka) was also disregarded. One nod from her awkwardly tilted head showed acknowledgement to aurositbite's statement, turning her attention completely away from him and the senshi.
In the chaos, beautiful as it was, there was difficulty finding a target. Thus when the cowards started to run, the porcelain youma started to laugh. How nice of them to get to where they were easier to hit with less chance of harming one of her own.
The previous target (Megrez) would not get away so easy. "Too late, too late, too late. Let me heal you." Another flick of the wrist sent out the peroxide on an open wound like burning liquid. All of the burn without the benefit of the healing powers once possessed in another lifetime.
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Where- No great confluence of agents. Don't cast.
Thraen's stomach felt pulled in all four cardinal directions, but it was already familiar enough from the handful of times Alois had drawn him hither and thither. What wasn't usual was the wet thocks of arrows as he recovered to try to redouble pursuit of the General who had pulled out of his grasp the moment they arrived. The transfer of force drove his side backwards even in the sprint forward.
It's buried through and through- less trouble getting the arrowhead out. Small favor. A knight, leather clad and bearing a chain appeared from seemingly nowhere at the black-jarred edge of vision, driving pain back on the General. Athene was foggy likewise in peripheral sight. It took another second to clear and Thraen resumed in forward sprint and flank the man, aiming blow for the agent's weapon arm.
Attacking General One for 6 damage.
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The other two were up at least! And the buxom one already back at it. 'get her free', no kidding. Not that I'm a 'kiddo.' I don't know that you look like you're really good to keep tangling with the guy anymore than I am in a General sense. Ha...'general'.
"I'm—"
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"Sandrine— uh, yeah. That's what the fluffball called me. In this get up."
"No sweat on the hop in, its not like I'm bleeding out like anyone else here, ya know? I can take one or two for the team." The General vanished even as Sandrine went to grab Ida's hand to start pulling her over to the girl still stuck in captivity. "I don't suppose anyone has keys? Or lockpicks?"
Rather than strong arm the wounded, Sandrine let Ida go and went to Pisces side, trying not to flinch at the continued panic, screaming, dirt-blood-smell, everything was just awful. "Shhh, shhhshshh hey, We're here. We're going to get you outta this joint. These gals got the moves, okay? Can I touch you? Can I hold you so you don't drop once they figure out the chains and stuff? Easy, there. Easy..... what's your name? I'm Sandrine."
Can't promise that nothing more bad will happen- if another one of those crazies shows up throwing weapons around I don't know if I'm fast enough to take the hits for her. I can try. Aw man, what did they do to you. This isn't right.
Pisces!
Eternal Thraen Rolling tunnel entry (Stumbles) Sliding floor tiles (Cleared!) Pisces / 2 Generals / teleporting To the back! HP: 43-7? (arrow) = 36
Liryn hadn't been expecting the Mars Squire to make a decision to fall back and was definitely with the Super senshi on this particularly given that he had seen two of them in the process of trying to take the Eternal's starseed.
"You can't leave" he said back once again on the ground. "Not without helping - we can't leave her."
He turned his purplish gaze on the senshi who moved to be in front of him, ignoring the outstretched arms "They were going to take her starseed" he told her, voice upset. "I won't leave her so that they can do so." His glance shifted to the senshi turned youma and then back to the senshi as he added quietly, sadly "Or try to do even worse."
HP: 41/50
Sorry for not getting this up yesterday - my broadband decided to go kaputt on me
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It won't be quite that easy to get him out Sadachbia
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In case Jet wants to do retaliation for the claws - I'll either edit here or in his next tag
Maybe he'd been a little too confident in clearing the mirror maze, a little too sure that the obstacles for the main part were behind him. Whichever it was - that or something else - the end result was the same and so he had ended up stumbling when the vents that he was walking past had chosen to blow air up and out of the ground at the same time as the eerily loud scream had rang out from somewhere further in.
There had been awkward flailing that had verged on windmilling but it had not been enough to save him and he had fallen backwards to land awkwardly on his rump.
The only good thing had been the fact that there'd been no one to witness his embarrassing display - at least he was certainly hoping that there hadn't been any there to witness his embarrassment.
He picked himself up, not liking the way how the scream had suddenly cut off and although he could sense auras both behind and in front, there seemed to be less Order auras up ahead - or at least that's what he'd told himself when he'd decided to press on.
He was pretty committed in this particular direction now and hopefully there was a chance for him to get to wherever the heck that scream had come from. Because Falias was tired of being too late for things.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:09 pm
"Sandrine? It s nice to meet you." Ida said with real warmth as she smiled, tossing a look Chariklo's way as she went for the remaining General. She was quite the fire cracker, that one. The eternal dismissed the blood running down her arm and thigh with a flutter of fingers. "Senshi strength comes with some bit of better defenses... We'll be okay as long as we get some treatment soon..."
Having the new senshi grab her by the hand and start tugging was a little starling, but she brushed it of quickly. It was the direction she was wanting to go anyway. As soon as she was released, Ida dropped to her knees and reached for Pisces, running gentle fingers down her arms to the cuffs.
"It's okay, we're here to help... Here, this will make you feel better..." She murmured as she forced her mind to empty and wrapped her fingers around the damaged wrists. Concentrating, Ida opened herself and let the energy inside of her flow freely, down her arms and through her hands into the senshi she held. It was hard to concentrate, but she forced it. The energy brightened the glow curling down her face and arm, pouring like warm sunlight into the other girl. It wasn't going to be much, certainly not a full recovery, but it should help some. Maybe it would soothe her too... That was mostly why Ida did it.
Chariklo's gleeful howl as her blows struck the General were very quickly silenced by the boot to the gut just before he vanished. Gasping and gagging, she doubled over on the floor. Oh, son of a b***h that hurt! ******** Negaverse. ******** a*****e Generals.
After a moment, she was dimly aware of Ida and the other senshi passing by and managed to roll to her feet and follow (albeit a little shakily). When she reached the doorway, she leaned wearily against it, watching Ida's glow brighten. Then, her attention went to the senshi and the chains that held her. Poor little thing. Even with whatever Ida was doing, she doubted the little senshi would be able to break out of those chains.
Moving far more slowly than she would have liked, Chariklo crossed the room to the trio and dropped to her knees in front of the captive senshi and reached out to gather the girl to her in a gentle hug. Still, given her state and the panic that had been in her voice, Chariklo gave her plenty of room to dodge away. Lowering her voice to a soothing murmur, she carefully traced the chains, trying to figure out where and how they were locked.
"It's okay, sweetheart, none of us are going to hurt you. Can you tell me if you remember seeing those assholes lock these chains? Do you know if they had a key?"
Heart breaking out of sympathy, Chariklo couldn't help but reach out to stroke the girl's hair and face. Poor, poor thing. No one deserved to have this kind of s**t done to them. No one.
"C'mon, baby girl," she continued to murmur to the captive. "We're gonna get you out of here."
