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 Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:49 am
Enter from KEYSTONE CITY
Alex walked through the portal as if she had simply stepped through a doorway. One minute she was out on the streets, and the next she was met with desert heat and an aroma of sulfur that seemed to permeate the vary air. Couldn't say that she wasn't expecting Hell to be like this, but...it was a little cliche, really. There was vast space above her, but she could tell that it was underground. She really didn't hear any tortured souls or see any monsters just yet. She really didn't...hear anything either. It was eerily quiet for a place that was supposed to be filled with lost souls.
...Too quiet really. Her powers were working enough to heighten her smell so that the hot aroma was sickening...so it was safe to say her hearing was up as well. So...why didn't there seem to be anything around this area? Was Hell supposed to be a vast endless space maybe? Where you were by yourself? Or was it more like...oh, what was that play about the guy and two girls who drove each other mad being trapped in one room together for all eternity?
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:59 am
[ENTER from KEYSTONE CITY]
Paragon, somehow, ended up in Hell after Alex, and he immediately felt his heightened senses being nearly overwhelmed by the environment.
"Gah! This smell, this heat... and no sound? Ugh..." he said, before Captain Marvel appeared next to them.
"Well, whaddaya know! My powers work!" the veteran superhero said happily.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:07 am
/// Gonna be leaving again soon. crying ///
"Well, the heat's not that bad. At least not for me. It's the fact I can't hear anything is what's bugging me. You'd think that this place would be...crawling with people or something." Alex said, crossing her arms and looking around.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:33 pm
Paragon took a few seconds to adjust to everything around him, and shrugged.
"There are bound to be people here," he said, looking around with his low-light vision in the darkened area. It was a sort of narrow hallway, one that looked both natural and artificially made at the same time. He couldn't detect any pheromones coming from organic life apart from himself and the others, however. He looked to Captain Marvel.
"So what do we do, Cap? Go on through, or wait for the others?" Paragon asked. Marvel frowned, thinking.
"I suppose I'll go, you two stay here and wait for Zatanna, Flashstep, and that other man, the SHIELD agent, to come on through. I've got enough magic protecting me to be able to take on whatever is around here, and if they are preparing to spring a trap or rush us, I'll be able to clear the way for us."
"Good plan. We'll wait here." Paragon said, and Marvel nodded before walking deeper into the area. Paragon would be able to follow his scent for up to one mile-- plenty of area to cover as long as Marvel moved slowly-- so that if he found hostiles, they could catch up to him quickly.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:36 am
((Enter from Keystone))
Walking through the portal, he took in his surroundings.
Ignoring the smell, the fact of no sound kind of freaked him out.
Turning on his mp3 that was built in his visor, Blaze turned and looked around to face his teammates.
"So this is it..."Flashstep said seriously, as he flicked his visor on.
"You guys ready?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:47 pm
"As ready as I'm gonna be." Alex replied, her eyes still scanning the area around them. "Just have to wait for the others, huh."
/// Sorry, all I have time to put. XP ///
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:11 pm
"Yeah," Paragon replied, half his mind still on tracking Captain Marvel's scent trail. Where were the SHIELD guy and Zatanna? Had they not gone through? Had they gotten stuck, or wound up somewhere else?
* * *
Meanwhile, Captain Marvel continued his scouting mission, encountering nothing up until he walked into a wide, cavernous area. It seemed to be dimly lit by torchlights in odd, demonic-looking brackets placed at sporadic locations along the area's "walls".
"Holy moley," Marvel said to himself. "This place is huge!"
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:22 pm
The shadows around him darkened, as a chill ran down Marvel's spine giving him the feeling that he wasn't alone. Out of the darkness emerged a lean black figure. The figure was demonic in form as it tail moved behind him. The creature seemed to smile at the Captain. His blood red eyes focusing on only Marvel as he spoke, "Foolish mortal. Spending your entire life doing 'good' for others and yet this is what you get in return. Pity that you must spend eternity with me!"
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:27 pm
Marvel raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, well... sorry, can't stay for very long. I'm on a mission, you see. And besides, I do get a pretty sweet deal out of it. I mean, c'mon, name another person that's got twelve thousand TV screens in one place, eh? Pretty cool, right?"
Despite what others might think, Marvel was, in fact, completely serious due to his own boyish enthusiasm.
"Oh, um, I gotta ask-- do you know where the guy is we're looking for? Shouldn't be too difficult to find, since apparently he was the guy that made all the universes come together." Marvel continued, seemingly completely oblivious to the identity of who he was talking to.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:15 pm
Meanwhile...elsewhere in Hell....
"Master?" a woman's voice called out from the end of a long hallway.
A slender woman in black sandals and a long cream-colored Grecian dress peered around a large black stone archway. Crinkly brown strands of hair fell from her face as she tipped her head to the side to look around the large Corinthian columns.
"Yes, Acacia." a man called back.
The woman stepped out of the archway and up a small set of stairs behind a large black throne lit on both sides with dark flames. "Master, Cerberus is acting rather strangely again."
"He's still adjusting to having a new environment and spectators."
"No sir...they're all growling and focused on one hall towards the end of our fields. They're doing...the growl." Acacia replied quietly.
There was a pause, then a man with dark hair and a black leather jacket turned around in the throne to face her. "What do you mean? We certainly aren't getting company are we? After we've been here quietly for so long."
"No, Master. He last acted like this when the Americans found their way into the castle."
The man paused for a beat, then let a smile cross his face. "Ah, then we have tourists." he purred as he stood from his throne. From there, he walked off the steps, his leather boots clacking at each step, and walked towards the hallway. "It's been a while since we've had mortals among the dead."
"Should we send someone out?" Acacia asked, following close behind him.
"No, no. I want to see if it's simply someone who's lost, or someone in the company of another demon. There's so much going on down here now, it's a wonder we haven't had more other worldly's over. I mean, what...there's some Neron, Blackheart, quite a few others. All with our own little areas and kingdoms down here. I just want to see if it's anyone I can convert. We'll be running out of power at this rate, and given who all is down here, that's not a good thing." He replied. As he reached the end of the hallway, he came to a large open door that looked out onto a row of columns, and large open fields. A large three headed dog stood guard at a gate at the very end of the fields, staring down at a wall of rock with a mass of tunnels. Towards the other end of the kingdom, the rock stopped, revealing a large open area that became lit with bright red light. Lava and demons took residence on that area. Cerberus had chased them from the gates long ago.
Danny gave a curious look towards the tunnel his pet was staring down, then turned back to his servant. "I'm going out for a bit. If anyone comes who isn't invited, let Cerberus have them." With that, the man faded from being.
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:03 pm
[ENTER the BLUE LANTERN CORPS from Odym]
The five-man Blue Lantern strike team moved through the portal created by Sayd and Ganthet, and they ended up in an empty area filled with ash, lava, and shriveled, wicked-looking plant life.
"We should stay close," Saint Walker advised the others, and they obliged, flying in a close formation as they searched for Zesoranael...
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:13 pm
"The Blackest Night falls from the skies. The darkness grows as all light dies...
 Calm...peaceful...relative silence prevailed the Blue Lanterns as they entered Hell, the world around them a burning, desolate haven for the darkness of the void and the chaotic powers at be, born from the sins of man and angel alike...
Not too far behind them, the Black Lantern Ghost was making his way through the harrowing, burning tunnels, executing spins, corkscrews and driving in upwards loops in a chaotic circuit, the flame of his head whipping behind him, the fire as long as his own hair was in his human form...
Xaronazar felt pained that he had to take over the boy so abruptly, so painfully, but the demon lord had a tight grip upon him and so they were called for their duty, marching onwards to the dark domain on their hellish cycle, its engines blaring and the fires roaring like a sadistic beast as the skeleton's jaw lay ajar, almost in a wide smile, enjoying the turbulent ride through fire and brimstone...
And then he saw it, ticket out in the form of a hellish, burning pentagram that slowly came to life, growing outwards from a fleshy wall like a laceration from a burning sword, opening a maw that displayed Hell's charcoal, ash ridden sky and Xaronazar hit his pedals as hard as he could, lifting the front end up as he approached the gateway, riding on his rear wheel alone as he burst through the hellish glass...
His appearance would be marked by a catastrophic explosion; the fires of Hell spewing out behind him as he outwardly flew through the sky, laughing his sadistic, demonic laugh as he scorched through the air. Just below him were the Lanterns and he fell towards them, just barely evading a crash in-between Elasa and Walker, chuckling as he looked into the man's eyes and sneered in that brief moment, a vile gaze connecting with his in the brief moment that they were in contact before he continued to fall...
He hit the ground hard, but he did not falter. The ground cracked and spurted lava at his crashing and his wheels protested vehemently, breaking the shell of the land as he rode, a lake of burning lava being created in his wake...
This path continued for a minute or so, keeping ahead of the Lanterns easily until the voice trickled inside his forehead, "Cavern...hard right...your first opponents await you..."
Xaronazar turned his head, seeing a spacious crack in the ground, spires and earthwork around it, showing signs that the cavern was partially dug out. Seeing as this was the way to go, Xaronazar waved his ring arm in a circle once, causing a thick, black, burning chain to appear out from his ring and snapped it outwards like a whip.
The chain's sickle-like hook on the very end caught fast on one of the rock spires, wrapping around it and dug into it hard, pulling Xaronazar heavily on the side, causing his bike to tilt. To compensate, his slowly shifted his weight and the handle bars towards the chain, causing the bike to become almost parallel with the ground, the cuff of his burning slacks just barely brushing against the rock ground as he was complete spun around the spire...
At the apex of his turn, he whipped his wrist which made the chain snap and he was freed to move on his path, barreling hard and fast down the tunnel. Within moments, his lights had illuminated the insidious Blackheart and Captain Marvel, of whom may be shocked or surprised by his entrance...
With little space in the tunnel, Xaronazar decided to take out the sparkle dressed one first, ramming his bike headlong into the bright, flamboyant hero, flipping backwards off his bike as it collided with the hero, smashing him hard and sent him barreling down the tunnel with his bike, easily pushing the Captain into a wall a fair ways down the tunnel...
After his flip, Xaronazar slowly grinded to a halt, kicking out his right foot against the ground as he skidded, digging his claw into the ground behind him to decrease his speed, stopping just a dozen feet behind Blackheart, slowly standing up and turned towards the black adversary, his eyes burning as he turned his back to the wreckage, thinking the hero was a goner from impact, but was obviously wrong...
He outstretched a hand, pointing a burning finger and spoke to Blackheart, his gravely, demonic voice grumbling through the cavern, "Son of Mephisto...one chance you are given to help remove these heroes from the realm...else I must take matters into my own hands...and give you over to the fires of vengeance..."
We crave your hearts and your demise. By my black hand, the dead shall rise!"
((Damage to Cap. Marvel was agreed upon between Oncaro and I. Just for fun, here is some music that I was listening to that perfectly fit this post razz ))
Hand of Blood
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:52 pm
The Lanterns were surprised by Xaronazar's sudden entrance, and were caught off guard for several seconds-- by that time, the Black Lantern hybrid had already pulled far ahead as they tried to catch up, going into the same tunnel their target had gone into. The tunnel was long and narrow, and they had to go through single-file. They heard a sort of explosion up ahead, and hurried...
* * *
Captain Marvel was surprised. The demon-dude was just standing there, staring at him and not answering his question, when the sound of a VERY large motorcycle interrupted them-- and smacked right into Marvel with a LOT of force and sent him flying into a wall. He wasn't hurt, of course, but the explosion and getting smacked by a large vehicle like that annoyed him. Plus, the guy had just done that out of the blue!
"Hey, you! Yeah, you with the chains! Was that really necessary?!" Marvel asked, feeling supremely annoyed.
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:36 pm
Alex jerked her head in the direction Captain Marvel had gone and stared for a long moment. What was that? Sounded kind of like an explosion of some kind. And she wasn't sure, but she thought there was some humming that came before it. Surely there weren't bikes or anything down here...were there?
"Was...I the only one that heard that?" she asked. She could have been. She had pretty damn good hearing when she needed it. She didn't have "Wolf" in her super hero alias for nothing.
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:40 pm
"Nope, I heard it too..." Paragon said softly. He could still smell Captain Marvel's scent, but he also detected two more now... and they didn't smell very friendly at all.
"What do you think, Alex? Do we stay, or go check it out?" he asked.
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