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 Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:29 pm
"Geroff, b***h," Liam snarled as Jizzy leaped forward, tossing her aside with a wave of his hand, although discreetly cushioning her head as she fell.
"You think that's going to convince me to take you?" William mumbled, ignorant of all else and laughing, "You aren't capable of evil, William. I need an evil body."
Liam would have cringed at the sound of their shared name, but laughed instead.
"I'm powerless without you. Bloody powerless. I need you here again."
"Prove to me you have the capacity," William choked as more soul left him, "and I will return to you."
"The capacity. Hm," Liam peered around for a moment before hearing Julian. Huh. Poor guy, "I know exactly what to do."
A sinister smile crept up on the young man's face and he disappeared, teleporting himself to Rabid. He grabbed her neck with his mechanically-reinforced hand, beginning to squeeze.
"Liam! LIAM! WHAT THE H--gnnnnh," Rabid struggled to catch a breath, but she couldn't. Not now.
Liam just kept grinning, his eyes wild. His grip tightened...tightened...
*CHNK*
Rabid gave a strangled cry before a great deal of blood exploded from her nose and mouth. Her eyes went completely blank, and her body slid to the floor.
Liam returned to his previous position.
William stood back, arms crossed and smiling. He called off his minions, turning them back into nothing but the rotting, mortal bodies of Humans they were. All except for that one stubborn one, off in the corner...
"Well, well, well," he said, "Very nice. Welcome back, son."
Ike's body suddenly wrenched itself straight, its eyes filming over like a squirrel drowned in a family pool. Water gurgled in his open mouth. Totally unexplained water...
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Ike's mind was suddenly clouded. He felt a strange pressure on his chest...so strange. Every breath burned his nostrils. He opened his eyes slowly, and found himself to be peering up to a wavering, translucent ceiling, the sun warped and blackened above him.
He then saw...himself. He was floating downward, limp and grey-eyed. He tried to scream, but no sound emerged. He couldn't move.
Is Ike dead...?
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:49 pm
Reid turned sharply, trying to find the source of the near-hysterical voice.
"Crow...?" he called, not recognizing the name. Tilting his head he tried to figure out where the voice had originated from-there! Half running, half flying he rushed to the slit he tilted his head to see as much as he could.
"'Lo?" he called into it again, finally sighting part of Crow, "Ms Crow!" he recognized her from-something. The dance? It didn't matter, he was beginning to panic in response to the panic in her voice, "s'Reid! Was' happen'in?!"
Wrenching her head as much as she could in an attempt to follow where Liam had suddenly dissapeared to Chao let out a strangled scream as Rabid slunk to the floor, blood pooling around her neck . The scream ended in a gasp as the bodies around her collapsed on top of her.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:54 pm
Jizzy's eyes were wide. Liam.. he.. he was evil? Thoguhts rushed through her head faster than she could process them, but then she hit the floor. SHe expected to feel pain, sharp, in her head, but only a soft thump greeted her skull. SHe.. she was fine?
Her eyes looked around as she sat up slowly, rubbing her head gingerly. It had still been a hell of a thump. She wasn't going to try that again. Hearing Chao's strangled scream she looked closer and saw Rabid on the floor, unmoving.
SHe couldn't be.. dead.. could she? Was she? Jizzy turned her head away, she couldn't take much more blood and looked for Chao, but she couldn't see her. Justa big pile of bodies and.. Chao's arm. Jizzy scurried to her, forcing herself to try to lift the bodies off of her friend, and trying to do ti as silently as posible.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 4:43 pm
"Reid?"
It took Crow a minute to place a face to the name - the little firefly kid Len had been rambling about eating after the party (or something like that).
"Reid? Uh...well..." She trailed off, looking around their featureless prison sourly.
"Honestly, I don't have a freakin' clue."
No. Oh, no.
Dazed by the endless waves of pain, Julian stared, unable to understand, for a long moment. Liam had...
No.
"No."
Shaking with uncomprehending rage, flames flickered from his hands and the now gaping hole in his back. He was full of fire - desperate to burn everything in his path where brute force alone wouldn't satisfy. The metal touched by the flames grew icy cold and spiderwebbed with frost, and he thrashed against them, the frozen metal cracking under the force.
"You son of a b***h. What have you done?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:00 pm
Liam turned to Julian. Crap. Not good. He'd ruin everything.
You'll ruin it. Stay.
Liam used all of his remaining power to reinforce the chains. He'd be damned if he was going to fail now.
"C'mon, Will," Liam held her arms out, "Give me your best shot."
William licked his lips, relieved at this new development. Good. Little Guv looked like him already. His eyes rolled back in his head as he forced his soul to enter the young man before him before disappearing totally.
Liam winced, and then collapsed to the ground. Swapping souls was nothing. It was the transfer of physical bodies that hurt like Hell. He gripped the ground beside him, screaming in pain...but it quickly subsided.
Alright. Let's end this.
"I concur," Liam smiled and removed Chao's dagger from his uniform pocket, "G'bye, you a*****e." He took a deep breath and slashed at his neck, sending a fine arterial spray over the group before collapsing, clutching at his neck.
"Uuuuurgh," Rabid groaned and stood, her neck crackling back into place, "Genius. Painful, but genius." She looked to Julian and noticed the gaping wound. All thoughts of her neck were dashed out. She pierced her wrist with her fangs and held her wrist up to Julian, trembling and swaying slightly.
"Drink it."
William appeared back on the ground, flickering for a few moments. He squirmed in pain, cluthching frantically at his neck, which was somehow still secreting blood. A moan of utter terror escaped his lips as his soul released itself and traveled into the alleyways. This was so wrong...
*click**click**click*
"HERK!" There was a random spurt of blood, and then a tired-looking Liam reappeared, "Well, that was hit and go for a little while there. Looks like I've still got it." His voice had changed. it was accentless...deeper. Actually, most of him had changed.
His pupils were gone, and his features more filled out, much less dead-looking. His torso was covered in thick, old scars, along with one slicing through his pierced eyebrow. His physique had gone from scrawny loser to...significantly more muscly scrawmy loser. There were two strange slits, one behind each ear, opening and closing as his stomach rose and fell, "Ah, what the Hell?! I'm still short!" He grumbled angrily and waved his hands a bit, removing the curses placed on his friends before poofing into Crow's room.
"Hey, luv. Ready to get out of here?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:11 pm
Chao's head snapped up as the last body was pushed off and away from her head. Taking deep breaths of the relatively decent smelling air she blinked and pulled the rest of herself out from under the pile of bodies, sparing a greatful look towards Jizzy before her eyes swivled to the-amazingly-mobile Rabid. And... that William's guy's body.
She looked over at Jizzy again, "what in Miaer's name just happened?"
"Li-man!" Reid called from behind the slit, he'd flopped down to sit after Crow's answer and scrambled up again.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:15 pm
Jizzy grin weakly. "Liam beat William. Tricked him." Her eyes were slightly wtaery. "I.. I think it might be over.." She said, her grin spreading a bit as she turned to the moving Rabid. "Rabid, Julian! You two ok?" She asked her had-been-dead friend.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:23 pm
I seriously don't think I can take much more supernatural stuff. Really.
Waving off Rabid's offered blood, he gave a final gasping wheeze of pain as the half-cauterized wound healed over.
"Guh. Ishta." Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Julian shook his head and cracked joints and bones back into place, where they'd been twisted and knocked out by his struggling.
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine." he said dryly, looking around with serious apprehension.
Crow gave a loud stream of relieved curses as she clung to Liam, nodding eagerly.
"Dude, get me the ******** out of here, if you don't mind."
She jerked a thumb at one of the walls.
"Reid's here, too."
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:31 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:44 pm
Smiling slightly at Rabid's confirmation of health she nodded to Jizzy. "Tricked him... that's... very good to know," with that knowledge Chao was sorely tempted to simply flop down. But the stench from the pile of bodies and concern for her son was enough to get her to push herself off the ground and stroll over to retrieve her gun. She caught sight of Reid just as her hand clasped over the slightly slimy metal and sighed in heavy relief, tilting an eyebrow at the sight of... well, she was fairly sure it was Liam.
"How exactly does one kill him for good? Does it involve mutilation?"
'You're acting like-' she shooed the mental voice away, not in a mood to listen to even her own morals.
Reid glanced at the slightly different Li-man for a moment, before turning his attention fully to his cloudy eyed friend.
"Ike? Ike ki?" he asked, kneeling down and shaking the other Mishap's shoulder gently.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:49 pm
As much as it pained her to say it, she did anyways. "I agree with CHao. If it involves mutilation I'm all up for helping." He sent a glare down at William, rushing a hand unconsciously across her neck, as if half expecting for the puncture wounds to suddenly burst open and start spewing blood.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:03 pm
Crow gave a long sigh of relief, shaking her head.
"I have NO idea what's going on."
Julian gave a wild laugh at Rabid's words, eyes glazing over and claws lengthening to needle points.
"Okay."
Approaching William like a hunting animal, Julian gave a low, rattling laugh that mutated into a growl. He knelt beside him and jerked William's head upward by his hair, tenderly tracing the curve of his chin with a finger.
"That day in the maze, when you let her fall, Rabid broke her neck. We thought she died because of you," he said, voice soft and friendly. He leaned in to kiss William's forehead, the tracing hand grabbing hold of the side of William's head and his claws digging into the flesh and hair.
"We have waited for this moment for a long while."
With a fluid motion, he stuck out two jagged claws and shoved them deep into William's eyes, laughing with pure insanity at the murderous release. Grabbing him 'round the throat with both hands, he stood and dragged William up with him.
"You son of a b***h. Suffer."
He gave a feral shriek and scrabbled at William's jaw, reaching in and grabbing hold of his tongue with a needle-clawed thumb and forefinger.
Maybe I shouldn't do this.
...
Nah. Go for it.
With another laugh, he wrenched his arm back, taking the tongue with it.
"Oops."
Crow merely gaped, looking suddenly quite ill. She nudged Liam and pointed, a what-the-hell-just-happened look on her face.
"Damn, Nahal. Hardcore."
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:12 pm
Ike willed himself to move at his friend's touch. Augh! He still couldn't...
"Actually," Liam stated, feeling a bit sick to his stomach and moving to spread his uniform open, blocking the children's views of the violence, "Only the undead and...err...demonic...can kill him. GO FOR IT!" As much as he hated to admit it, he loved watching the b*****d suffer.
"Niiiiiiice," Rabid watched, utterly amazed. She quickly went into Rage mode, seeing all the blood...and the screams...oh my...
William's breathing quickened and he attempted to crawl away, but was swiftly caught. Upon the impaling if his eyes, he gave a shriek and a violent jerk. Bloody tears streaked down his face and the shriek only crescendoed at the removal of his tongue. Thank God screams didn't need articulation.
Liam grabbed his gun back into tangibility, keeping his uniform spread with one arm.
"You owe me a foot and a half, you b*****d," he mumbled before pulling the trigger, feeling a sudden surge of power. William's power.
I win, b*****d...
William had died of shock before the brain matter exited through his left temple. His neck suddenly, strangely lashed to one side, a bruise forming all the way around it, as if he was hung by an invisible rope. He was wrenched into the air, up out of Julian's grasp, and suddenly disappeared.
Rabid, suddenly very short of breath, rushed forward and clung to Julian.
"Awesome," she laughed breathily.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:24 pm
Reid glanced up at the shreik but couldn't see anything due to Li-man's cloak. Shuddering the toddler pawed at his friend when he recieved no response.
"Ike?" he looked to his friend's chest, the sprawled out posistion looked so familar...it was just like the woman on the teev!
"Ike!" he yelped, bending down, listening for the sound of breathing. Finding none the toddler began to shake, sniffling as he began to cry. Ike was dead! Ike was dead and would sleep and nevereverwakeup-
No! With a firce shake he struggled to recall the steps Fai had shown him for CPR, acting as they came back to him. Chin up, airpassage clear, two breaths...
Chao tilted her head, watching the display with only a small grimace and a twinge of queasiness. Eye stabbing... she'd never seen that before. Still... with a show like that she felt no need to waste any bullets on the b*****d and neatly tucked her gun away.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:35 pm
Jizzy watched the very beggiing, but as soon as blood was seen she turned roughtly, her hand at her neck again. "Definatly over..." SHe whispered and gave the nearest person to her, which happened to be CHao, a very tight hug.
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