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 Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:40 pm
Sammy had followed those two steps, two quick pokes but no move at the minipet tucked between Rep's breasts. "There's been something off ever since she fused with that weapon.." She sighed rubbing her forehead again, "And the fact she came back is why I'm standing by her. Because I have a chance to make up for the mistake of hurting her and putting her through most of this."
Ixxy was off her shoulder once more walking around in circles around her legs chirping lazily as Rep spoke. "She is Red. She is every bit Red, and something more." She laughed, "Oh there is a load we both don't know, it's a pain you got that right." She stopped pacing, "But what I do know is Red might be right about you all, that you all aren't as terrible as I think."
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:07 am
"Just. Be careful, I guess." he hazarded. "Caelius has been kind of weird since he came back from that mission too." Though with Cael it was impossible to tell if he was being strange or just being Caelius, no one ever really got close enough to make an accurate assessment. "Though I might just have been imagining that." he frowned. "I just know a lot of things aren't right and anything with as much power as that Red chick has has to be sacrificing or working for something. Nothing's free, and like I guess if you care about her then you owe it to her to keep an eye out." All he could do was shrug, he didn't understand the instinctual hunches he got and was often far wide of the mark.
He finally put Mass down on the ground to shut him up and he immediately beelined to Ixxy, trying to bowl the other minipet over with a lot of eager enthusiasm and laboratory scent.
"No that terrible? Hah, Well I'm glad you think that." Rep said. "I still stand by my opinion that you bastards are the enemy." he smirked as he said it, adding "But I'll concede there are some exceptions." He held up a hand. "And if its any consolation, I think most of my own ******** faction are the enemy too. My attitude is bastards until proven otherwise."
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:39 am
Sammy narrowed her eyes, the flames leaking and bursting out between the slits left open. "He lived after that? Either he is a tougher b*****d then Red or Red let him. And that, sounds like a bad idea."
She frowned even more, "He wasn't bad before? I'm sorry, Red acknowledges, you die, she worked with you all once as Aria, she's the reason I'm willing to try and make some kind of peace with you. But Caelius? That's a monster. He would let all of you die in a blink, I've seen him nearly do it, he even turned on two hunters during that whole situation. Speaking of, what happened to them? The one's that became insanity beasts that looked like our kind?"
Again Sammy shook her head, "Red might still be a Boogie, but she does what she wills. That power came at a price of almost two years of Jack-knows-what, but she seems to be one of the few people who isn't fully declared to one side because she cares about both. Balance or some s**t. And trust me, I'm watching her. Because the last thing I want to do is have to put her down. Again."
Ixxy meanwhile looked up from a rather nice flower she was sniffing at only to get a facefull of Mass, she smelt odd things about him but that only made her more curious quickly rolling over to pounce on the small cow. She was quick as any good Scareon should be.
"Not terrible in the sense that you and I are alike. You're fighting because you want to Protect them right? Harrison and Jordan? And I'm fighting because that school is the only real home I've had. Just like your Island. As for the real enemy."
She stood silent for a while crossing her arms as she debated admitting something she would never have wanted to say, especially to Rep.
"You blew their home to kingdom come and pissed them the hell off, and they're going to drag us both six feet under if they get their way."
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:54 am
"He's hard to kill but at least he's consistent." Rep had a grim sort of admiration for the Death leader and always had, he was quick to admire strength, even when it came at the cost of an intolerable personality. Sometimes Cael had been the only one to respond in a situation the way Rep felt was warranted, he took no prisoners. "But I know he'd let us die, throw us away like so many meat shields, I'd never trust him with my life or the life of anyone I give a ******** about. But he gets s**t done, sometimes he's one of the few things standing between us and a slaughter. Him and Allan." He ran a hand through his hair, long and flowing in this golem and looked mildly irritable at the fox ears in his way. "Those hunters though ******** up, you break ranks in the middle of battle and side with the wrong guys you deserve everything you get. Bix and Ceres are awright now though. I guess whatever happened to them spat them back out again."
Mass wasn't quick, but what he lacked in speed he made up with in sheer clumsy enthusiasm, tripping up on his own long tail as he eagerly tried to slobber all over Ixxy.
"I fight for a lot of reasons. The guys are just one." And it was true, Harrison and Jordan were foremost in his thoughts, but there was also the deeply rooted fact that he just plain liked to fight, that inflicting hurt on others was exerting control on the world, that control was power. "As for the ******** horsemen, they were always going to drag everyone into destruction with them, they are an anomaly, a ******** virus. They don't work with the system the way you guys do, they want to destroy it all and themselves with it. They need a ******** strong antivirus is what."
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:36 am
"And Red's no different in that sense," she said in regards to hard to kill and consistent. Even with the recent wild card of Insanity Red was still there, and still strong. She went through a lot of suffering for Jericho, and she might have been angry at Sammy but she had always been that way.
"I'd trust Red before Caelius in a heartbeat, and I don't even have a heartbeat."
Sammy shrugged, "They sided against the man who demanded they kill their own. Did you enjoy killing Harrison knowing it wasn't real? Can you stop and realize being told to kill your allies is probably the hardest thing someone could be ordered to do? Especially when you're a human? You die, Rep, you don't come back. Its a position no one wants to be in. Especially when the order comes from someone as unstable as him."
Some how in all the turmoil of minipet fun Mass tripped falling into Ixxy getting a good tongue worth of slobber on her causing her to let out a whine of confusion before batting at Mass' forehead.
"Like wise." Her own taste on fighting was similar but she wasn't like Rep, she have avoided that thanks to Red an the Boogies who helped her. Had things gone the way her life was planned she would only know how to fight, to kill, to follow orders blindly and become the very thing Hunters where designed to seek and destroy.
"They don't work because they came first. They had cultures long before our own, primal fears that existed so long ago. Red pointed out something that was a problem, if our fights spill outside to the rest of Halloween think what would happen? All of Halloween would hunt for hunters, the Horsemen would use it as an excuse to attack all of humanity as a whole. But they wouldn't kill the humans, they'd go for all of you, and the FEAR? The FEAR it would generate?"
She shivered slightly.
"Red's right, no one, Halloween or Horsemen, should be able to have all that FEAR. We'd all be really screwed at that point."
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:53 am
Rep raised a brow at Sammy."I was the one who finished Bix off actually, on an order. An order that came from Caelius. I didn't know if he'd come back, I just know orders are orders and when they come in I obey them. Ace is different. That was just, a whole other thing." He didn't expect her to understand love or devotion, still mentally classifying Halloween creatures as other, incapable of some of the things humans were. "It was like trying to kill myself, and I've never had the mettle for suicide. Anyone else though other than my guys, I'll do it, even if the order comes from him, Cael is a b*****d but he's also head of the division that has all the information. When he says jump, I ask how high. Its s**t sometimes but that's how it goes."
Mass was delighted to have a playmate more lively than Dozy normally was and mooed loudly as he tried to pounce poor Ixxy.
"Halloween outside your little school already hunt for the hunters. You know why we don't have families and s**t? Cause the people who do still have families on the outside can't go near them any longer. Going near the people we used to know puts them at risk of being murdered, either by horsemen or monsters from here. It's a war we are trying to fight on two fronts, but the horsemen are by far the worst."
He shrugged. "I mean, I don't get it. They want humans dead. Every last one of us. What then? What would keep them alive? It seems kind of retarded. They are broken and I'm more than ******** happy to fix them. Halloween works. Sometimes s**t spills over and needs to be killed off, rogues and outlaws your own like, police guys miss. But it works. The ponies don't."
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:44 am
"And had it been him? Would you have done it because it was an order?" She was rather calm as she said it quiet even. "If someone told me to kill Siddie, or Red, that I would do it? Hell no. Not if I had a real say in it." She had started to pace again irritation in her stance as she moved.
"When Red didn't come back, it was the worst. You can't even being to understand it, you killed an illusion, something that wasn't real. It hurt, but he came back. I waited, two years, two years for the person I admired and cared about who saved me when I was worse then you."
She shook her head, "Think for yourself. He has his own goals, you know it, he's terrible. You know it dammit."
Ixxy squirmed about jumping to the side as Mass flopped onto the ground letting out her usual MAAAOW of delight she jumped on Mass' back nomming playfully at his ear. Hope you don't mind a soggy Mass.
"Who then? What faction what people? Are you sure its us, or the Horsemen? Most of Halloween knows nothing about hunters, so why would we be tracking you outside of Boogies, ourselves, and more importantly the Horsemen who have a pretty big mark on you?"
Sammy stopped pacing when he finally got to the last part pointing right at him. "We become the food. You, me, and any humans they leave to farm. We're made of FEAR and you hunters are more resilient then a normal human. Like the perfect crop once they figure out how to milk you down."
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:33 pm
"I wouldn't have done it because it was an order. I would have done it because I would rather do the deed myself and end all suffering than I would to let them go on as something twisted up, some perverse abomination. A coward is someone who is happy to do all the nice ******** things but who can't do what needs to be done" He shrugged. "Someone like me has to exist to do the dirty work."
Rep gave Sammy the most deadpan expression the golem could muster as she told him he couldn't begin to understand how her ordeal had felt. He was tempted to reply with cutting sarcasm but decided on honesty instead. "You say I don't understand yet it was my fault I lost one of the only people who cared about me a long time ago. And she will never come back. Not ******** ever. It's been about nine years and it still feels like forever." He shook his head. "I'm no saying you've no had a hard time of s**t, but don't tell me I'll never understand."
Mass though was oblivious to the tension, happily frolicing with Ixxy, retorting soggy with soggy.
"Most of Halloween that you know about don't know about hunters." he said coolly. "You are a kid. You think there aren't adults out there with their fingers in all the pies? Horsemen are just a ******** convenient scapegoat. They are bastards but there's still s**t you people can do that they can't."
Rep raised a brow at her for her comment on farming hunters for FEAR. It was a real worry and one he'd come far too close to in the famine hive. The swarms that had surrounded them had probably been partially fuelled on their fear.
me. Not them.>
He had never considered it. "Well, it's our job never to let that happen regardless. It would just be so much easier if none of you existed though."
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:56 pm
"Well I guess in a screwed up way that's good of you to do that. Doesn't make the job any more pleasant and still a far cry from right."
What came next gave Sammy a pause, before looking at the hunter locked in the golem. Most of the anger and irritation seemed to relax in her features and something along the lines of sympathy seemed to cross her face. "The problem with being Human, no second chances." She paused again, "I know it's not worth much coming from me, but I'm sorry to hear that and about what I said, I didn't know and well. Yeah."
If it helped at all, she let silence fill the air before she continued to let the apology sit and for both of them to gather themselves together before continuing to speak.
"Most of Halloween belives Hunters are a myth the same way Human's think we are. Those that do know are either very special individuals, have had personal experience, or at this point attended Amity which seems to be tied up with you hunters as far back as when some of our professors where our age. Regardless of who does what and blames who, if things get out of hand it's going to be ugly."
She only shrugged at his last part, "Human's have them selves to blame, we're born of your Fears. Same coin, different sides."
Meanwhile Ixxy somehow ended up under Mass and was squirming about since it would be rude to be rough with the sweet little cow thing. He was just an oversize Drutten as far as Ixxy was concerned.
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 12:31 pm
"Aye. No second chances, and dealing with you guys man, sometimes I worry that she might have come back. That she might be like you, or like B0nez, somewhere in this ******** up not-quite-an-afterlife." He'd never really admitted that was what he was looking for a lot of the time, and one of the first things he always considered when he met one of the more human looking creatures.
"The only reason I want s**t to get out of hand is so there will be an end to all of this, to finish this stalemate that's dragged on way too long."
Mass had no concern for the woes of humans and was happily trying to roll Ixxy over with his horns.
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 3:13 pm
"If it's any less painful, they don't remember, we don't know anything about our past lives. The first memory I have is waking up in a box six feet under, a test to see if I was strong enough to survive to fight through the dirt to be free." Sammy shrugged, "Not really and after-life more like another life on the side, a new one sort of. It only applies to ghost and undead though. No demons or monster reborn things as far as I know, Reapers are something else entirely."
At the last part she shook her head, "No, not worth it, we'd both lose. The only ones able to do an endgame are the Horsemen, we don't plan on killing off humans, and while you Hunters might want to kill us all, you don't have the numbers. Less you have some Horsemen doomsday device to use."
Ixxy of course rolled right over onto her back, legs kicking and batting at Mass lazily while letting out a lazy yip.
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