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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:48 pm
"H-hey! Let tha lizard go!" Anatoli called out, shakily running towards Jamal intent on catching him in an admittedly weak headlock and plunging the knife into his back. The knife was held in front of him, shaking wildly, as the opossum tried to unsteadily stab the tiger.
If he's lucky, he'll get a hit in.
Anatoli was never a lucky man.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:58 pm
"Do it! Do it!" Freddie cried, though it was hard to tell who exactly she was encouraging.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:59 pm
Jamal gave Amaya a long, hard stare, still angry but reasonably pleased at her response. "Dat's tha' plan," he hissed, then shot Alec a threatening glare. "Yer gonna be da first if ya don't st-"
A sudden burning pain in his back suddenly drew a crazed yowl from the tiger as he nearly threw Amaya back into Alec's lap out of reflex. Instantly, he whirled, claws extended in a mauling gesture, and slashed at the offending individual. It was a headshot for sure and Jamal felt flesh curling beneath his claws as the strike landed at the top of the man's right eye, went downwards across the bridge of the nose, and ended below the left eye on the cheek. He was furious that ANYONE dare try to take a knife to him now, of all times. Any restraint he had?....yeah...definately gone.
"Yer ********' dead!" Jamal screamed at Anatoli as he moved to bowl him over with his sheer body mass.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:59 pm
Rachel stopped in her tracks and instinctively reached a hand out towards Amaya as Jamal grabbed her. When she realized it would be pointless, she simply lowered her arm and waited, listening, and praying that he wouldn't hurt the girl.
As she listened she heard some terrible things. That Jamal had killed people, guards, and that he was going to start killing islanders, if they weren't with him. Rachel's heart fluttered wildly. While she certainly wasn't pro labs, they could rot for all she cared, she didn't like the tigerman's methods. Would she be on his hitlist then?
Behind Jamal, Rachel saw the nervous man, who had been off to the side all this time, suddenly approach with a knife. She wanted to cry out, to warn one or both of them, but she couldn't figure out who to call to. Jamal so he wouldn't be stabbed, the other man, so he wouldn't be mauled? Neither and just let things take their course? Her indeciciveness left her simply looking back and forth between the two, speechless.
That didn't last long, however, as suddenly Jamal was yelling in pain and turning to swipe at the other man. Rachel found herself screaming and backpeddaling away from the crazed tigerman. After only a few backwards steps, however, she tripped on a rock and fell over, landing hard on her back.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:09 pm
For a very brief moment, Anatoli was doing something useful. That moment was quickly cut short when Jamal swiped him right in the face. He cried out in pain, letting go of the knife and stumbling backwards.
"I-I ain't scared a' no p***y cat!" Anatoli feebly warned, spitting through green foam and falling on his back without the help of Jamal -- his legs had gone tense and simply didn't want to work anymore, and the stiffness traveled up his body as the opossum's natural reaction to fear started to kick in.
He couldn't run or get out of it if he wanted to.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:18 pm
Ambrose had just skidded into the village, his heart in his ears, gasping for air and looking over his shoulder with terror in his eyes... She wasn't there... she hadn't followed him.... thank GOD!
It was only then that the tinge of rubber and metal, the voices, and the wreckedge on the side of his duplex caught his attention.
"What... in... the... HELL!?" Ambrose exclaimed frantically as he rushed over to the group of people - familiar and un .... and the jeep crashed into the side of his bilding. Someone had tried to kill him?! Was that... JAMAL?! Annie... and Jamal..... same day.... Ambrose's nerves were already frazzled.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:19 pm
"Well, s**t," Freddie said. The fight wasn't quite what she hoped for, but it figured Jamal would get a hit in before possum boy could knife him. Obliviously of the thread that had been made, she maintained her safe distance from the fiasco. She glanced over the jeep and frowned, misled and left disappointed by countless action movies. She grimaced when she glanced back just in time to see Anatoli having some kind of seizure. Gross.
Ambrose's arrival on the scene made her grin, not to mention glad she'd kept her distance.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:21 pm
Amaya let out another screech as she was pushed back into Alec, tripping over the edge of his chair and landing with a thud in his lap. Then everything started happening quickly again.
The guy from before ran at Jamal, Jamal had sliced his face, her was on the ground, and... was that Ambrose yelling? Donner's incessant barking wasn't helping either.
She was dazed for a moment, crashed out on top of Alec.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:25 pm
"Oh yeah?" Jamal said mockingly as he hunched over Toli's body and went to wrap his hands around Toli's neck. By now, the distinct smell of burning wood and gasoline was in the air, but with that also came the sound of approaching automobiles. He tensed, his claws squeezed harshly into the possum man's neckflesh, ears pricked as he stood stock still.
Then, as suddenly as the attack started, it stopped. Jamal dropped Anatoli back to the ground and sprang away from his paralyzed body, panting hard at the motions sent fresh pain shooting from the stab wound and ache from his bruised lower body. He gave the area an appraising look around, giving Amaya a meaningful look that almost had a smile to it. The rest were ignored until he caught sight of Ambrose approaching and he almost...almost second guessed fleeing while he still could. He bared his teeth at the wolfman, almost tauntingly.
"Yer next," he mouthed, then laughed, as odd as it appeared. God, how he wished he could set his claws into that worthless hunk of flesh. Another time, perhaps.
He dropped to all fours and made a beeline for the jungle, hearing the jeeps approaching faster than he had anticipated. He couldn't get caught now.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:30 pm
Alec didn't even have time to hold out his arms to defend himself as Amaya came flying into his lap, the chair jerking backwards as its brakes weren't on, sailing a few feet before the boy could regain control of it. This was insanity, pure chaos. It took all his strength to keep up with what was going on; the flaming car, the ruined duplex, the bloody and seizuring man, the dog barking its throat out. And now Ambrose himself had appeared just as the crazed tigerman made an escape into the jungle.
He could hear the jeeps approaching now even over the screams and barking but he was dazed, wind knocked out of him.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:36 pm
THe jeeps had already been en route after Annie had been spotted on camera chasing after Ambrose. That, in fact, had been the ultimate destination of the jeep that Jamal had successfully ambushed. But more were on the way as the situation was quickly going from bad to worse.
"Me?!" Ambrose yelped. The last he had seen Jamal they were both on the same side - against Annie. But his blood was already boiling. He had heard of him being unchipped. Seen the last guard that he had killed... the man was insane. Perhaps he had had a fleeting moment of cognizance, but now it was surely long gone.
The jeeps' motors were growing louder already. Ambrose barely took stock in Amaya and Alec and Anatoli standing nearby except for Jamal's threats.
"You stay away from me. From THEM!" Ambrose snapped, baring his teeth. "You just screwed yourself over, you madman! You're killing guards! You're as bad as ANNIE!" He shouted, fur bristling at his fleeting form.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:39 pm
The tensity continued to crawl upwards, up to his chest as Jamal put his claws to his neck, his breathing became shallow...
Up until Jamal had sprung away, Anatoli had been trying to defiantly spit vile-smelling foam at the tiger. Then his mouth stopped working and hung open in a deathgrin, teeth exposed.
The shock had set in.
Anatoli was still conscious, but could not move. For all intents and purposes, he appeared to be dead, his glazed over eyes staring at the sky, blood and foam mixing with each other on the ground beneath his head, as well as in his hair and over his chin. His claws were all splayed out and pointed to nobody in particular.
He would have been a passable cadaver were it not for the twitching.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:42 pm
Rachel watched in horror from where she had fallen, as Jamal put his clawed hand around the neck of the smaller man, who seemed to have fallen over and stopped moving of his own accord. Then she saw Jamal pause, and it was only after he removed himself from the other man and started heading towards the jungle, that Rachel heard the sounds of the approaching jeeps.
After Jamal had disappeared, Rachel winced and gingerly started getting to her feet. She was definitely going to have a few bruises the next day. Her head whirled as she heard a new voice and saw a wolfman yelling after the fleeing tiger. Someone else she didn't recognize, but that didn't matter...there was someone else badly hurt and no one was looking after him.
Rachel started to make her way over to Anatoli, hoping the jeeps would get here soon and would take care of him. Even if she hated doctors, with every fiber of her being, she knew this man needed them.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:49 pm
Hot on his heels, the rumbling of the jeeps got closer until Four vehicles crested the small hill and rumbled into the village. Three of them were packed with four men each and didn't even slow down as they reached the village, continuing on in the direction that Jamal went. One continued on along the road to the beach, and finally, one with only two man - slowed to a stop and one man jumped out of the vehicle.
There was a gun in one hand and a walkee talkee in the other.
"SHUT UP EVERYONE! What happened. Where did Jamal go?! Where did Annie go!? Is anyone injured?!"
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Island of Moreau Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:51 pm
As Alec's wheelchair rolled back, Donner was rolled backwards with it as his leash yanked. But once they had stopped again the canine began barking once more in the direction Jamal had fled. He tugged at the leash and barked and barked until Amaya finally got to her senses.
"DONNER!" She yelled, shutting him up to a few more barks before he gave up and just growled at everyone around him. The lizard girl got up off of Alec's lap and rubbed her scaly forehead. She hadn't even noticed the jeeps until now.
But she just glared at them and said nothing. Like hell she was gonna help them find Jamal. And who the hell was Annie? "He's hurt." She finally said, gesturing to the stiff possum-man.
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