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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:12 am
Project Leviathan sat in the crotch of a rather large elm tree. Hung on the branch next to him was his bag, containing a pair of revolvers, belt of throwing knives, ammunition, and what scared food and water he required. Hanging on the branch to his other side was his rifle, a Chey Tac Intervention .50 with full scope, at his hips were a pair of long daggers.
He sat in this tree and cycled through his own spectrum of visible light, looking for life worth killing. All he saw were plants, and critters... nothing worth his effort, much less his ammunition.
It was at a time like this he would regret killing his creators, at least then he would have a steady flow of targets... As much as he detested it, he needed a boss. He knew he was a brilliant killing machine, hopelessly independent, but that still left him without any direction. He looked through his notepad, he was sure a lot of this information was quite out of date, but from the looks of it there were a few choice people in the surrounding area that he might be able to find happy and steady employment with. Xol, Mastema, Trunthil... Maybe... but first he needed to make contact with one of them.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:33 am
Renku observed Kuro quietly, smiling eerily to himself, he knew that she could not get away, she had lost too much blood and whatever energy she had she needed to stay conscious. Within a few days the would perform the ceremony, just as she had with Obake, that would bind them together and then after. . . .
well. . .let's just say that he was looking forward to the after.
There was no one to stand in his way, Obake was dead and he was told by his many spies that the one called Irvine Gray had lost all his memory of her, but he chose to save that little tidbit to himself. He sat back against a tree, watching Kuro casually, knowing that in a matter of days she would no longer be a problem.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:54 pm
A man wearing a long red coat with a red vest and black shirt underneath, which was barely visible, walked through the forest. To his back were strapped two swords with serrated edges. One blue, and one red. With these was also strapped an extremely large rifle. On his arms and legs were a pair of black gauntlets which seemed to glow with an eery light, and matching greaves.
"We've been walking for days. What's taking so long?"
"If we don't kill something soon, I'm going to-."
For ******** sake...
The man quickly drew both swords and clunked their handles together hard.
I told you two to never talk again! If you don't shut up, I'm going to have you both melted down and turned into soup cans. Understood!?
And with that, the two blades stopped talking, and he re-sheathed them on his back. He began to look around, flipping his platinum hair out of his eyes. He seemed discontent until something caught his icy blue eye. A man...or something like it was sitting in a tree. It seemed to emenate some kind of extreme power, the likes of which he hadn't encountered for quite a while.
Heh...now that's more like it...Maybe now I'll have some fun.
He pulled the rifle from his back, and without aiming, fired it into the air. The shot would ricochet off a few tree branches, but would eventually go straight for this man's head. Directly after firing, he would immediately take cover behind the nearest tree to avoid being seen right away.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:59 pm
Gareth sensed the shot coming, ducked, and looked over, flipping into thermal vision. He spotted his attacker hiding behind a tree, his heat signature giving him away instantly. His mind went though a thousand possibilities at once, and he rested on the best one. Play possum. In mid duck he let his weight go forward, and he pitched out of the tree like dead weight, landing heavily on the forest floor below.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:08 pm
With the loud thud that could be heard from the dropping body, Chronic frowned. He hadn't wanted it to be that easy.
"Bloody useless....Hmph..."
However, playing possum might not have been the best choice, as Chronic liked to rough up the corpses of his victims before taking their power for his own. He immediately drew two handguns from inside his coat and twirled them on his fingers, tossing them both in the air and then grabbing them with the opposite hands as they fell. The barrels of the guns began to discharge some kind of red electricity full of demonic energy before firing at the speed an automatic would. Each bullet would be charged with the same demonic energy as was coming from the barrels of the guns. Whilst firing, he slowly began to walk toward his 'downed' foe.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:18 pm
Gareth recognized the danger of the bullets flying at him, identifying the demonic energy. Normally bullets wouldn't slow him down, but he had yet to encounter demonic energy in his travels... this needed to be assimilated. He waited for one bullet to just clip him, coming into contact with his blood and giving him a signature to use later.. .now he decided to act. He sprung up, jumping back into his tree branch nearly 9 feet above him from a prone position. From here he jumped off the tree and dove into the bush, his dark clothing camouflaging him from the sight of this new target. In the meantime he took a glimpse at his guns through the infrared scale.... there was a large heat build up, something that could easily be exploited. He pulled the semi-auto pistol from his jacket and fired a few rounds at the loading mechanisms of the guns, where most of the heat buildup was taking place.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:29 pm
So it's not over...good.
Chronic smirked as his eyes tried to follow his opponent but failed. As the bullet came at his firearm, he immediately holstered both pistols and made an attempt to deflect the bullet with one of his gauntlets. He failed however and was shot just above the elbow. Without giving it so much as a wince, he simply jumped high in the air and charged the light energy within his gauntlet before crashing down at break-neck speeds and shaking the earth with a devastating punch, hoping to knock his foe from his hiding place.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:35 pm
Gareth kept low to the ground and in the bushes, seeing his target make a jump and charging energy, he knew what was going to happen next. He waited and in a split second was directly behind his opponent as they fell helplessly, unable to dodge, or comprehend, his clawed fingers going in to give him a dose of his neurotoxin venom.
((quickly, just letting you know exactly what he did... as you went to make contact with the ground, he jumped you because there wasn't much in terms of moving or blocking you could have done at that point... well statistically anyways))
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:44 pm
As he hit the ground, Chronic's eyes widened. Quickly pulling himself away from Gareth and his claws, he looked at his bleeding back.
You.......You put a hole in my coat! You b*****d!
He had a higher tolerance to this kind of thing than most, and had yet to feel the effects. He immediately pulled one gauntlet back and with no warning, he would go charging at his opponent, with no visible motion in his legs and throwing an extremely powerful punch whilst charging. Directly after this, he would drop quickly to the ground and attempt a leg sweep. If this was successful, he would jump up once again and charge a powerful energy blast quickly and fire it forward at his downed foe.
((Now explain what the venom does. xp ))
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:54 pm
Gareth stuck to his tactics. After making contact with his target, he booked it back into the bushes in a random direction, waiting for the neurotoxin to take effect. Now it was going to happen, the toxin wouldn't kill him, it wasn't strong enough for an X-Class Xeno life form, but it would incapacitate him soon enough.
((Its a neurotoxin, it will slowly shut down your body from the extremities in. You wont die, your chemical make up it too strong for that, but incapacitation is a very real possibility))
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:08 pm
Chronic was beginning to become annoyed with this opponent's constant hiding. He still hadn't felt the neurotoxin much yet, and jumped in the air, flipping upside down and drawing his two blades. He immediately begun to spin around, blades connected at the hilts. A tornado began to form, ripping out most of the plantlife in the area. It then became stronger and larger, until the red blade's effect came in and threw fire through the entire whirlwind, burning up the plantlife and spreading fire through that particular area of the forest. This would get rid of Gareth's hiding places.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:17 pm
Gareth saw the wind form and as soon as it was strong enough to carry his weight he humped into it, grabbed his sniper, and rode it as high as he could into the air. Once a good distance up with no sign uf slowing down, Gareth turned, and as he continued to rise, took the target into his sights, unloaded the full clip at him, then chucked the rifle, pulling out a pair of Daggers which, when the switch was flipped, pulsed at a frequency that drives X Class Xenos life forms absolutely crazy, disrupting their internal equilibrium. He put his fingers to the switch, then streamlined his body, daggers first, and dove for his opponent, the second he got within range he flipped on the pulse, covering a 20 foot spread in front of him in ever direction.
((Long story short... like riding the Whirl-N-Hurl 20 times in a row after hitting the Chinese buffet))
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:54 pm
The sniper rifle bullets barely phased him, and he continued his tornado until the switch was flipped. This forced him to drop to the ground and shake vigorously until one of his powers activated itself. The universe around him, including Gareth, would seem to stop indefinitely. He would remain suspended in the air, whilst Chronic would be on the ground vomitting. The sound waves had also stopped, so in very little time, he got up on his feet, grabbed his swords off the ground and jumped up to where Gareth remained suspended. Once there, he would slash with the powers of wind and fire with each blade eight times and finish it off by holding them both out forward and spinning forward, slashing in a downward motion, falling as he did so. Even if time was unfrozen, he would appear only as a blur of flame. Once this was accomplished, he would stand up and re-sheathe his swords. He was now feeling slightly disoriented, as the neurotoxin was taking effect.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:05 pm
Gareth didn't know what hit him. He landed in a puddle of vomit, coughed up some blood, and then gave himself a strong hit of adrenaline, allowing him to get back up to his feet. What he saw made him grin. The Xenos obviously had either some form of time stop or super speed ability, which is why he hadn't registered an attack. He looked him over as the target re-sheathed the blades out of muscle memory, even though there was nothing in his hands. Gareth gripped the two blades, still jammed stuck in his hardened shoulder blades, and wrenched them from his body, spraying Blood and Ichore everywhere. He planted the blades in the ground at his feet and shut off all the blood vessels in the vicinity of the injury, stopping the bleeding. He whistled."X-Class Xenos Life Form #22248, You have been deemed fit to exist according to protocol Alpha.27, subsection b, source of new adaptation. What is your designation?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:18 pm
His vision blurred as Gareth spoke, and he began to stagger a bit.
My...designation? Project...infinity... Call me...Chronic...for the few seconds you have left to live... I'm not done yet!
He immediately reached back into his coat and pulled out his handguns again, charging them with demonic energy quickly and firing at his opponent's feet.
Now while you're dancing....tell me your name! I like to know what to call my new weapons.
He shook his head, and his vision returned momentarily, though it likely wouldn't stay long.
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