{ SAHARA MISSION } Salvaging the Remains THE END P.27

[LP]

Aleister finally quit screaming when he saw Julie's state. He twitched and suddenly he realized what they were suppose to be doing. Oh right, right. He swung pookie at the bugs squishing a few as he did. This was not cool, not cool at all. "Is outside the tent any safer?" He asked loudly?

HP: 31/40 (-3?)
DMG: 9 - 6 = 3
Charge: 1/3
Swarm HP: 226  

[demon_pachabel]

Being up close and personal, Cass made a very high pitched noise of shock - horror, even - as the incident with the bug happened. Yeah, it wasn't exactly what she was expecting from that. She was more expecting evil mind-control bug on Julie and that Julie was OK not...

not..

The swarm seemed to go mad and now Cass was there with Julie instead of out where it seemed so much safer than where she was.


Was she supposed to fight her way out of the swarm? Did she stay where she was?

s**t.

Cass is reacting to up close horror moment  

[kuropeco]

It was not Julie.

It was still in Gale's head, that furious, desperate pleading - a childish hope that was shattered into pieces even as the insects swarmed from the back of Julie's body, rising up into the air and buzzing with anger. Gale felt bile rise in the back of his throat, thick and strong, and he staggered backwards, a hand rising to his face, clamping over his mouth to keep himself from emptying the contents of his stomach to the ground. His head was spinning in circles, his chest aching as his heart clattered noisily against his ribs.

It's not Julie.

Somehow he had gotten used to the texts at three or four in the morning from her, the way she would always sign them with a smiley face, her baking.

The time she had "tried" to help him with his lack of a love life.

It's not Julie.

Gale spun the rifle up, the barrel of it resting on his shoulder as he ran, firing off shot after shot. The bullets went wide, missing their targets, and Gale's voice was low and rough with frustration as he gasped out curses.

Jinhai.

<< Stay calm. Breathe. Just breathe. >>

It can't be Julie. She can't be dead.

<< She is, and there's nothing you can do about it, Gale. Just fight. >>

There's nothing you can do about it.



[ HP: 42/50
Damage:
Charge: 1/3

SWARM HP: 226 ]  

[Baneful]

As it was revealed what she truly was he wilted. He knew it. He wished with everything he ******** was he didn't but he'd known. She was food for the swarm now, a desecrated husk.

He tried to think this wasn't the same woman who'd scolded them earlier, who'd solved their woes with cookies. He tried to push all the pain and the concern down, far beyond where he could feel it. This was just another fight, another incessant clawing towards survival.

The rage that had filled him back at the lair resurged in him, lending him new fury, new rage, that last burst of hate and defiance.

He swung frantically at the bugs, keeping them back, but only just.

HP: 28 (3 backlash)
DMG: 5
Target: Swarm
SWARM HP: 221/250
Charge: 1/3
 

[danse-hexe]

Somewhere in the sandstorm she'd lost Justin, and then it had gotten too dark to look for him. The uncertainty gnawed at her heart- no matter how much she told herself to focus, that it was a mission, she couldn't help but worry.

Not just Justin, too, but everyone else she knew. The majority of them she'd run into, as she made her way back with Allan, and those, at least, lifted some weight off her heart. But Otto, and Eva, and Justin.. she wanted to know, at least, that they were okay. Quickening her steps, she entered the tent, immediately taken aback by the sheer amount of injured hunters lying around- and the lack of people caring for them.

Part of her felt like she should try to do something, as a life hunter- but they looked so peaceful, asleep where they were, and besides, there was--

Julie, bleeding half to death. Reine could barely process what happened next, stepping back in horror as the sand shifted, as the insects squirmed and wriggled, like back in the bar. Not Julie. No.

Not any of these hunters, why, they were almost surrounded.

In front of her, people were fighting. Reine was well aware she should be out there, doing something. Anything. Julie. But her legs wouldn't move. It was one thing, when this had happened to civilians. It was another to see hunters, with their bodies taken over, just like that-- it could have been Eva, back there.

HP: 47/50
Damage: 0
Charge: 0/3 l Swift Strikes (11d4): 0/2

Swarm HP: 221/250  

[prolixity]

Julie was gone. It wasn't Julie any more. Jordan fought down a wave of nausea at the sight of the bugs inhabiting a shell that had once been alive, been -

Stop, Ferros hissed. Shut up and hit it. Stop thinking. You'll panic.

The dragon was right. Jordan swallowed hard and slammed Ferros down into a cluster of bugs. Just bugs. Stop thinking about it. Just bugs.

Target: Swarm
Swarm HP: 214/250
HP: 39/50
Dmg: 4
Charge: 2/3  

[Ice Queen]

Syd stared in horror at the bugs that filled up Julie. They had STOLEN HER SKIN! "You... you... YOU BASTARDSSSS!" she bellowed, shooting as fast and as accurately as she possibly could, almost. She was going to take them all out for what they had done to Julie--poop monsters or not.

Swarm HP: 205/250
Dmg: 9
Syd's HP: 32/40
Charge: 1/3  

[Nio Love]

.. And then it became startlingly clear that Julie was dead, and they were next. Whoops.

Robert continued to crush the bugs that tried to crawl up his leg and bite him, skewering them with Jezebel and simply crushing them underfoot.

HP: 40
Damage: 2
Swarm HP: 203  

[Blade Kuroda]

Deryk was planning on attacking the swarm again, but as he moved closer, he ended up stumbling and falling face first into the sand. Whimpering a bit, he shook his head, feeling some of the angry stings of the bugs. He was trying to shake them off so he could get back to his feet, but he was still getting bitten here and there. It wasn't too bad really..

HP: 37
Damage: 0
Charge: 2/3

Swarm:203
Cumulative damage done so far: 47  

[Toshihiko Two]

Big bugs, okay. Centipedes the size of trains, intense, but whatever. Maggots using every hunter they had left in the tent as furniture...don't throw up, he thought. Don't throw up. Not the time.

He could smell it too, and the skin of the bodies broiled with lumps, cavities yawning open, bumps stirring restlessly and inside-

And then Julie, Julie who was bleeding but could put up that shield of hers and get them the ******** out of there, turned around.

The edges of his vision greyed. He couldn't see, why couldn't he see, had someone hit the lights, and the floor suddenly seemed closer, don't throw up, don't throw up...

You're D/Cing! B0nez warned.

Harrison D/Ced.

B0nez erupted into an abusive rant on shitty servers. No one heard him.  

[demon_pachabel]

She'd been standing there like a deer in the headlights. Her. The girl who had just stomped through a swarm of insects to try and knock some sense into the Moon Assistant just to..

just to.....

It was like all of her strength had left her as she stared like a deer into the headlights. She was jerked out of it by hand, an arm around her, pulling her back and away from the swarm she was standing practically ankle deep in, stumbling back into Marcus. She only looked away then, instead looking to the moon hunter - the trainee one, not the..other...one.... - to tear her gaze away from Julie before she bit her lower lip and finally moved to take a swing with Nicodemus - a real one, not a bitchslap like she'd done with what she'd been hoping was a real Julie in a trance.

Her hands were shaking so bad she nearly dropped her weapon instead.

HP: 45/50
Damage: Lol Miss
Charge: 1/3
Swarm HP: 203  

[Ravvlet]

"Oh...Oh God."

Wash was snapped out of his previous good mood as he took in the disturbing sight before him. He held his scarf up over his nose to block the putrid scent of decay. What had happened here? Why- Julie? He could only stare, horrified. And he'd left that jar of cookies in the desert. Somehow, he didn't think cookies would help her now. Numbly, he took a stance a little in front and to the side of Jerry as he'd done before, to keep the swarms off him and to give him a clear shot.

"God our Father, your power brings us to birth, your providence guides our lives, and by Your command we return to dust..." he choked out.

Somehow though, he didn't think even the sincerest of prayers could help Julie now.

HP: 40/40
Defending: Jerry, 6
Swarm HP: ???  

[naggeela]

Once they had gotten back to base camp Tori had followed the rest of the trainees back into the tent. She didn’t like the sand so much any longer since from the blowing sand and all she wanted to do was to rest a little. Hearing from Allen that they needed to put the supplies away she put the weapons tablets that she had found with the rest of the tablets that were already there.

But then the swarms had come in and she was a little confused to how they had gotten in but she hadn’t attacked in the first wave since she was fighting with herself over the smell of the dead bodies as she flashed back to the first time that they had been here. She also didn’t want Julie to be dead.

Once Tori had seen Julie turn around to see her back did Tori really know that she was truly dead and being used by those stupid bugs. She was also going to never forget the sound that bug made. Trying not to panic as Aklin tried to help her do so as she summoned him and trying not to break down completely since that would be bad. So she just focused on the bugs killing them as she swiped them with her sword and keeping a good grip on her chain.

HP: 35/40
Damage: 6
Charge: 1/3
Swarm HP: 197