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 Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:14 pm
"Now, none of us want trouble, we're just...."Zen stupidly ended a brief attempt at diplomacy when one of them lunged at Gyp. Two were around him and the girl he had fallen on top of in an embarrassing manner earlier.
"Stop, we are armed and you cannot hope to fight our group and live..." He declared, while flashing his eyes in the dark in contempt. Sometimes it worked, the glow was impossible to not notice, but of course the beast still jumped at him as the other did at Gyp.
Zen instinctively reached to pull his cloak over himself, but he realized he hadn't had one on when he got poofed out from watching Harry Potter earlier.
He didn't have much alternative other than to take a stance and dodge, thankful for the strong metal plating on the front of his boots and heels.
If the thing dared to come again, he'd give it a nice kick in the face.
The knife was too short to be of much use unless the creature came uncomfortably close, so he proceeded to move closer to Angela.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:35 pm
[[I'm posting because dang it, no one's posted for 12 hours.]] >=O
Angela wasn't sure whether to be annoyed or amused at Zen's attempt to reason with a pack of slobbering hyenas--granted, they could speak. But they were still slobbering. This clearly indicated they were not up for solving things diplomatically over tea and biscuits. She wondered if the red head was a politician perhaps.
She felt Zen move closer to her and stepped away from him. "Don't get too close to me," she said. "I'd be rather put out if I injured you on accident."
When one of the creatures jumped for her, she swung out ward with the rusted blade she'd picked up earlier.
The vohr saw the attack coming and managed to dodge the brunt of the attack. The knifed skittered across its leathery hide, making only a shallow cut along its hind flank. It spun around and lashed out at her with it's claw, the very tip glancing off her shoulder, making a shallow wound.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:59 pm
Cheeva threw up an arm, glad for her thick, leather gauntlets. But one look at the teeth, hiding behind the ropes of slobber, told her her arms wouldn't last long gauntlets or no. She dodged sideways, away from the group. Cheeva cursed under her breath. Stupid, stupid idea! Stay with the group, idiot!
With her arm up, blocking her good eye a well as her face, she was as good as blind. Cursing again, she swung swung out wildly with the knife in her free hand.
"Don't let them split us up!" she shouted.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:27 pm
Cheeva's wild swing made contact and struck the vohr's left eye, raking down its face, leaving a bloody trail of eye goop and torn flesh.
The creature let out a howling shriek and swung its head back and forth in confused agony.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:13 pm
[[Nim! I accidentally deleted your comment! =O So I'm reposting it below...K?]]
Gypsum expertly whapped the beast 'twixt the eyes as soon as he felt it twitch toward him, and seemed to daze it enough to bash it further upside the head, the force exerted making him need to dig his feet into the ground. He had never before been thankful to be blind and sense-gifted rather than his normal use of sight--it would've probably been too late that way.
The brunette girl managed to dodge, but the white dress was caught in the monster's teeth, and she tumbled to the ground with a loud tear of fabric and a screech as the black bird was flung from her and slammed into the ground. She rolled onto her back, blinked dizzily at the sudden numbness she felt at her shoulder combined with the fetid breath of the animal crouched over ******** you and your crappy sense of fashion," she managed to gasp out, groping for the hunk of metal in her garter as a nasty crack of bone indicated the thing's teeth making themselves comfortable in her shoulder blade.
"Oh stop whining, you little masochistic b***h," The black-feathered bird hissed, flapping It's wings agitatedly. It dove at the beast, attempting to gouge out whatever It could.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:26 pm
The vohr attacking Gyp went down like a rock after receiving several sharp blows to the head. It was clearly only temporarily stunned but for the moment, it wasn't moving.
Sin-bird was fruitlessly attempting to gouge out the other vohr's eyes or some other soft, vulnerable body part. The creature released Nim's shoulder and placed a heavy claw on her to hold her down. It whipped its head around and made a vicious snap at Sin-bird.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:06 am
Inutai's ears twitched and perked up to attention as the sound of some type of dog rushing towards them came into hearing range. He immediately dropped his nearly finished meal and looked up only to see one of those weird looking Vohr things tumbling towards him and Toshi.
The boy cried out slightly and immediately bolted towards Toshi. "Toshi! Geigeki!"
At that word, Toshi abruptly stood and turned towards Inutai's voice just as the smaller one rushed up to hide behind him. "Masugu! Low target!"
The boy seemed to have completely changed, going from a childish, immature brat to a much more serious young boy.
At the orders Inutai gave him, Toshi tensed and readied himself for an attack.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:14 am
The vohr came in low and fast, swiping its claws at Toshi's legs in an attempt to disable him before going for the kill.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:40 am
Cheeva heard the creature howl and felt the spray of blood across her hands. She lowered her hands protectively, using the moment to regain her balance.
Cheeva watched as the creature shook its head back and forth. She grinned a shark-toothed smile.
"Ah, now we're on level ground, my friend," she purred. "One eye against one eye."
Out of the corner of her eye - the good one, naturally given that an eyepatch really does nothing to improve one's vision - she saw a creature dive at Toshi and Inutai, another two circled Zen and Angela. She had no idea where Sin or Gypsum or the fluff-ball was. She was torn.
"Oh...hell..."Cheeva made for the closest pair. Zen and Angela, backing away slowly from the wounded beast before her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:20 am
Instead of shouting an order, Inutai just grabbed the chain between them and yanked Toshi back as hard as he could (as it was a much faster reaction), so that the attack just barely missed.
Toshi, instead of waiting for an order, went ahead and attacked the thing, already knowing it's general location. The air compacted into a small, neat ball near Toshi's left hand as he concentrated. Hurriedly, he forced the ball towards the sounds he had heard the creature make earlier (such as it's running towards them). After thinking he was close enough to it, he pulled his energy from the ball and a rather loud 'POP!' was heard as the ball suddenly exploded from sudden expansion. Even if it wasn't a direct hit, the creature should've taken at least a bit of damage from the backfire.
At the sound, Inutai winced and covered his ears in slight pain, his ears flat against his head.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:04 pm
Cheeva's vohr opponent was injured but by no means was it completely disabled. As soon as Cheeva turned her back, it let out a shriek and made a dash for her, swiping at her with one of its massive claws.
Toshi's attack exploded with a loud pop that sent his vohr toward the groud in hopes of avoiding being hit. But the explosion had a wide destruction path and the simple evasion tactic failed. Blades of highly pressurized air lanced over the creature's hide making dozens of deep lacerations and cuts. For a moment it was dazed but it lumbered its feet and shook itself, blood flying with every moment.
It was shaky on its feet but it made another leap for Inutai and Toshi, fangs bared.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:55 pm
Angela clutch at her wounded shoulder and hissed through her teeth. It had barely caught her but it hurt like hell. She grimaced as she felt the blood oozing through her fingers.
A flash of movement to the left caught her eye. "CHEEVA!" she shouted. "BEHIND!"
At the sound of her voice, both of the vohrs nearest her and Zen attacked at once.
Angela was suddenly very grateful metal was such a beautiful conductor. Electricity sizzled down the edge of her blade. It wasn't enough to kill in one hit but it would definitely make more impact than the blade by itself.
Zen still didn't have a weapon and she had no idea how she was going to protect him against two of these things but she was sure as hell going to try.
Fortunately the vohrs were attacking side by side. She positioned herself between them and ran at them, hopefully distracting them long enough for Zen to get to cover.
The blade flashed out and caught the one on the right, ripping flesh open down its side and flank.
She whipped around and kicked the other, catching its hind flank and throwing it off balance.
It stumbled and hit the dirt face first, skidding to a halt.
The injured vohr had retreated momentarily and as the other lay in the dirt, Angela jumped on it and drove her knife into the fleshy area at the base of its skull, sending a friendly jolt of lightning through the knife at the same time.
Her stomach lurked at the feel of the knife cutting flesh and the smell of burned skin and hair. Her shoulder was aching badly and there was still another one to take care of.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:40 pm
Zen darted off quick, getting out of the way as much as possible, but in a position where he could rush in if the time demanded it.
He had faith in the others, he could feel either their power or their resolve and their hardened state. The kind that came with exposure to violence, constantly.
It was highly annoying that he had been warped here without having had time to prepare for it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:53 pm
Inutai, his ears still ringing from the rather loud pop just earlier, wasn't able to warn Toshi of the attack until it was too late. Toshi had barely managed to raise his arms up, so that the Vohr bite into his right arm rather than his throat. He clenched his teeth in pain, refusing to cry out.
Yet a cry rang out anyway, but it wasn't from Toshi. Inutai was curled up on the floor holding onto his right arm in pain. He shook all over, his eyes clenched shut. The boy was whimpering, ears flat, tail between his legs.
Hurriedly, Toshi, without much thought, punched the Vohr as hard as could, attempting to get the thing off his arm (since he now knew it's exact location).
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