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 Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:12 pm
Lucius's ears perked at the far-off voice of Yemits, and was only mildly surprised at Langsley's transformation. She was now far too large to laze around on him, and at this she was a bit miffed.
At the other gargantuan arachnids is where Langsley directed this energy and, more swiftly than one would imagine, attempted to skewer the first spider with one of her massive white forelegs.
((Anin; I vote Asch for a mentor.))
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:17 pm
Why do I come back to you?You hate me. You scream at me. You ignore me.But I still come back to you.You push me. You pull me. You shove me against random solid objects all hours of the day.But I still run back to you.Why?"We are not hopelessly in love." Floreta yelped as Falian ducked, shielding her head. Reign lashed out immediately, flames erupting into life around her as they crashed into the spider, searing it from the inside out with the heat of the fire. In Ether she needed no lighter to introduce her powers. Snarling, she landed in front of Falian as Floreta backed up into the other girl. Falian pulled Floreta into her arms. "Stay behind me!" Reign ordered as a massive burst of wind from Alhiria sliced the burnt spider into pieces. "Why are these creatures attacking us?!" Alhiria demanded. "Usually these are so docile!" "Alhiria, make them go away!" Floreta cried, burying her face in Falian's chest. "I hate spiders!" ((Same with me.)) Well, maybe I hate you too. Maybe I want to scream at you too.
Maybe I want to kill you too.
I yell at you. I fight with you. I drag my nails down your back so hard that I draw blood.
But you don't care.
You don't care because you love me too.
Why must our love be so tragic? "We are just hopelessly addicted."
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:00 pm
((NOW you tell me lol Sorry zfatal, but do you mind changing it? sweatdrop Harlin)) Harlin Anders heard the crash of a collosal tree snapping as it fell. He had been in the Ether long enough to recognize the difference in sounds, depending on just how subtle they were. On a normal day, he could instantly find a distinction in the roar of a waterfall or river versus the leaves of the great trees rustling in the breeze.
On the next sound, however, no such distinction was necessary.
By unspoken agreement, without a glance in either's direction, both Harlin and Damascus bounded off toward the noise.((They're heading for Onstaan and Yemits, but Shef's group is in the way so he'll just meet up with them instead razz )) One spider managed a charge, mandibles snapping furiously. It turned to bowl right into Holly, but Narissa quickly wrapped her tail around her companion (who stifled a gasp), and yanked her up into the air. Instead of getting disembowled by arachnids, Holly's hand was splashed with venom, and it starting stinging immediately, causing her to cry out in pain.
"Home sweet home," Narissa growled, biting off three of the spider's legs. On hearing Holly's cry, she looked up to see that the venom acted as a kind of acid and had degraded Holly's flesh to the bone.
Instead of wasting time worrying about it, Narissa turned her attention to the spiders, hoping to finish them off then attend to Holly if she could. With a savage roar, she channeled water, seemingly out of nowhere, and struck at the advancing horde of spiders, washing them back a few fifty yards.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:09 pm
Kiki frowned.
Not only was the group's naive-ness kind of strange [and slightly annoying], but more annoying was that they had a rather large chance at being killed or sprayed with venom if they didn't kill them when they were at an angle.
Sitting casually on a rock, Kiki sighed and began weighing out her options, while squeals of terror, squeals of pain [from the spiders], grunts, venom sprayed and people started fighting.
She could help, and provide herself useful. But if that happened, they may be slightly more weary of her..trickery.
If she didn't help, they probably wouldn't like her very much. She could always pull the old "damsel in distress" but, in all honesty Kiki was only afraid of a few things, and most of the Guardians already had a read on her.
Especially that wolf and that falcon, thing.
She looked at them both. She'd have to try and be nice to them.
Kiki rested her chin on her knee, and looked up at the group, to see where this group was- fighting-wise.
Well, "Shef" seemed to be doing little. And it would probably take him awhile to do something.
The girls seemed to be cowaring in fear. Wonderful.
The tall pale boy in the back seemed to be proving useful. But a boy with glasses seemed to be striking up a conversation.
They were almost begging to be helped. With a sigh, Kiki begrudgingly picked herself up, and grabbed Shef's Shoulders, lunging past his side. She stopped, and looked behind her. Perfect. With a sort of backwards jump to a sturdy looking branch, she started to swing.
"HEY!" Kiki shouted. One of the spiders looked her way. She whistled rudely at it, and it started to run towards her.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:38 pm
zfatal Rules Note: Guardians have no magic on Earth. But in Ether, they change to their own true form, which is different from their animal appearance on Earth. ((It is generally understood [or so I thought] that the Guardians do not have magic. They are the source of magic, but it is the humans that perform it. Guardians are downright vicious, though, in Ether.)) One of the Bakka, as the enormous spiders were called, was attacking Kiki, along with three more at least.
One was skewered on the barbed arm of a larger spider, Lucius (who would probably get attacked due to his similarity to the Bakka).
One was destroyed by a combined attack by Reign and Alhiria (though not necessarily magical).
One was... well, killed in some way, by Narissa. This writer neglects to describe how.
Another duo dropped down, except these two were circling, using the trees for support. What cause could they have to take slower to find the ground? A trap was brewing....
Shef saw the spiders, reacted slowest of all the humans, and then set his face in firm resolve. This time, Shef would not be helpless. He could feel the energy forming in his palms, the energy of a sword of light. It was coming, now... just a little more time. And then--
Shef was knocked down by a flapping of the wings of the still un-transformed Regond, battering him away from the fight, obviously not in tune enough with his Guarded to know that Shef was actually ready to fight. And ruining the moment in the process.
"Keep away from the venom!" Regond cackled worriedly, as if that weren't already common sense. "Shef! Get back! Hide behind a tree! I'll keep them away from you."
Shef tried to speak, but being constantly berated by feathery wings caused him to eventually begin coughing, having opened his mouth one too many times. With a mouth full of feathers, Shef finally backed into and tripped over a large root. He fell into a bush and then likely unconscious.
After that Regond attempted to tackle a spider headlong. Was flicked away as the spider turned around to perform the same move at Reign, tackling headlong. But this spider, unlike Regond, was spearheading its flying leap with venom that would harm even a Guardian.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:27 pm
Why do I come back to you?You hate me. You scream at me. You ignore me.But I still come back to you.You push me. You pull me. You shove me against random solid objects all hours of the day.But I still run back to you.Why?"We are not hopelessly in love." Alhiria swooped down to grab Falian and Floreta as Reign ducked the blow, the attack striking where the two girls had been standing not moments before. Snarling as the acid splashed along her tail and back, Reign dashed forward, tackling the massive Bakka with a tackle of her own. Except this one sent the enormous eyesore up in flames. "Goddammit!" Falian cursed as she and Floreta were released a little ways away by Alhiria, who flew back into the fight to assist Reign and try to protect Shef. "Regond, you blithering old coot!" The purple phoenix cried as she sent slicing blades of wind towards the remaining Bakka. "And you call yourself a Guardian!" "I feel so useless!" Falian stormed, stamping her feet. "I don't know how to do this! I can't do anything!" Floreta gazed at the other girl for a moment, and then her expression hardened. Slowly, she took Falian's hand in hers, gripping it tightly. "Don't worry," the shy girl stated simply. "I'll protect you." As she spoke, the wind picked up around their feet. Floreta was going to fight back. Well, maybe I hate you too. Maybe I want to scream at you too.
Maybe I want to kill you too.
I yell at you. I fight with you. I drag my nails down your back so hard that I draw blood.
But you don't care.
You don't care because you love me too.
Why must our love be so tragic? "We are just hopelessly addicted."
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:38 pm
Lucius, rather intimidated by the whole ordeal, wished very much to leave. He looked for a way to do so, and as he did he thought, Coward's blood runs through my veins. He looked uneasy and added as an afterthought, Though it is the coward that lives, The artist stood in awe at his Guardian's prowess; what was once a tiny brown spider no more harmful than a mouse (or so he saw it), was now a towering white, very frightful creature of sorts, maiming an unrealistic arachnid. He approached her, "Langsley?"
"Stay back, smallish one!" Langsley hissed at him, "Unless you intend to be USEFUL!"
Lucius, who was unconfident with his abilities, took safe haven under Langsley's belly after being almost skewered by her back leg. He could not help but look curiously up into the glowing red sphere underneath her.
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:28 am
((I didn't say she killed a spider. I said she bit off three of its legs, then pushed it back fifty yards.))
Narissa let out a frightening roar that shook the foliage-covered ground, then swung out with her tail and crushed two more of the spiders.
"You need to fight, Holly," she hissed. Her hand was still practically useless and she was no doubt in severe pain. But she didn't need her hands to fight.
((Sorry, I'll post more when I get back.))
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:51 am
((. . .
Guardians are incapable of magic. Alhiria does not throw wind, and Reign does not spout fire. It is the humans that produce magic. The source is their Guardian, but they are still the outlet.))
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:42 pm
Harlin's face didn't betray the fact that he was startled by hearing Narissa's roar. By this time, he could see signs of the Bakka's movement. Telltale scars left on the bark of trees where their venom had fallen, broken leaves, and of course, the webs. They were everywhere. He had to be careful and keep his eyes peeled to prevent getting stuck in them.
Holly avoided looking at her hand, at the spots where there was only white bone and blood to see. Tears of pain moistened her eyes and fell to her arm, and she felt the pain lessen as the bone was shielded from air by...
Water? A transparent cocoon wrapped around her hand, not completely diminishing the pain, but lessening it a clear bit.
"Good, Holly! Now help kill these creatures!" Narissa yelled, whipping a spider off her back in one rapid jerk.
Holly shook her head, ridding her vision of the blurring tears, then stared at a spider. She imagined a tsunami coming out of nowhere, but nothing happened. Maybe it didn't work that way.
"Come on Holly," Narissa growled impatiently, keeping an eye on the advancing land troops.
"I can't focus with you pressuring me like-" She was cut off as a spider's leg brushed against her forehead. With a scream, she closed her eyes and flinched away from it.
A moment later, and still finding herself alive, she discovered the spider still hanging by its original thread, but there was something pure white, and melting, that had gone past the mandibles and into its head.
Is that... ice? she thought incredulously. Several smaller shards were drifting around her, almost like a protective barrier or a tiny flying fleet, ready to do her bidding. The water droplets leaving the ice were returning by her side as well.
"There you go," Narissa said, calm and proud despite the horde of spiders.
((Otay, Buckwheat?))
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:24 pm
Kiki nodded as a bakka lunged for her, and she merely flipped off into the trees, a large electrical shock coursing through it's stomach.
Pretty good for someone hanging by their knees the entire time.
Kiki returned seconds later tugging along the bakka, careful not to touch the venom, and peered around. Suddenly she became, nervous, for the group.
Not exactly sure how to help she jumped down to a smaller branch, sat down, and threw the bakka corpse onto the attacker of that bird.
She sat triumphantly as it was knocked back. She grinned cheerily towards the two she had "helped", and then looked back at the others.
With hurry Kiki scuttled, dipped and dived through tree branches to reach someone. In a more secluded area was a large spider, with a boy hiding under it. More like cowaring, actually. She could tell that the white one was his Guardian, most likely.
She rolled her eyes, and Kiki swung down, creating an electrical charge in her palm. With ease she managed to create a bolt of electrical power that pierced through their body armour and burned their skin, burnt off an eye or two or flipped them onto their backs. In this small window of time she retrived two small pocketknives, and charged towards the few on their backs. She dropped one at the kid's feet, and winked before springing up, and landing gracefully at the bakka's side.
She smiled, and then skewered the bakka's heart. It squealed, and tried to get away, unfortunatly making sure to get a little blood and venom on poor Kiki. As it coiled up and squirmed it's last squirm, Kiki couldn't help but giggle quietly with victory.
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:52 pm
((Waidaminnut, did Kiki just kill Langsley? Attacking is fine, but will you please clarify that?))
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:33 pm
Dante looked at the spiders.
"Hey, Sleipnir, can't you, like, breathe fire, or something? You're a dragon, aren't you?"
Sleipnir shook his head.
"Dammit! What am I supposed to do! All I can do is run!"
The spiders made a grab for him, and he avoided.
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:51 pm
As quickly as they came, the spiders left. It was not instant, but they were fighting at one moment, then suddenly retreating the next. Regond settled onto a nearby branch, confused, and glancing around.
Shef sat up, hair messy and full of twigs and insects, and glanced around as well, though he was the exact opposite of alert. More dazed and confused, like always.
"Well," said Regond, "that was rather... strange." Random was the optimal word, however. "I've never known those creatures to attack. They're scavengers, feeding on only the weak, old, and dying.
Somewhere, somebody coughed. At least two of the members of their group (cough, Shef, Regond,) fit that description perfectly.
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:09 pm
Narissa hissed savagely as the spiders retreated, showing off her colossal fangs. She set down Holly, who still had tiny ice splinters hovering around her, moving slowly.
The water cocoon continued to envelope her hand. Her attention off the spiders, at least for the time being, she could feel the cold-steel pain again. She would need to get her hand healed soon, otherwise she may lose it or a few fingers. As a painter and musician (still her mindset), that could be devastating.
Harlin hid from a passing spider, but it didn't seem to be interested in him. His theory was that the venom they possessed acted as a strong acid. Because they were scavengers and they held no teeth to chew with, that acid was a form of breaking down muscle and tissue before it reached their digestive system.
A few yards past the densely packed foliage lay the group. Too bad he hadn't seen their attacks or skills. He'd have had loads of criticism.
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