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 Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:03 pm
There's a hole Ike would like to stuff you in...
"Nuh-uh," Ike voiced, not making eye contact, "Ike dunno. Ike had a b'aek down a'li'l bit in. Hadta go home."
Rabid started chewing on her hair, giving Julian nervous glances. She could only begin to imagine what he must be going through. There were a great many things she wanted to do and say, but ended up just...standing there and staring.
Do somethiiiing...
"Look...any time you want to rant or...beat something up...I'm right here."
Eh. That works.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:25 pm
Giving Malachi a slightly hurt look, Julian shrugged and hunched his shoulders against the cold.
"Maybe another time. I...I should probably be getting back to the room, anyway. Thanks for listening, though."
Turning and beginning to walk away, he stopped and looked around in confusion. They'd gone a lot deeper into the maze than he'd realized...
"Huh. How do we get out of here?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:33 pm
Rabid, unexpectedly hurt by Julian's sudden attempt at escaping, just shrugged. Why was it that everything they did turned into a major angst fest?
No. Can't think like that.
"C'mon," Ike sighed and rolled his eyes, "This w--NO!"
William had spotted movement down at the maze from his perch atop the mountain. Never wasting a chance to scare the living Hell out of someone, he leaped down, turning into his shadow form. He laughed as he swooped into the maze, formless, engulfing the 3 people in the maze in utter darkness.
He only laughed when he realized that it was Little-Guv's-Friend...but who was that guy?
"What the Hell is that?"
"It's...it's The Darkness, Mumma...it's laughing at me..."
Ever so suddenly, Rabid was beginning to believe her son's psychotic rants about the darkness coming to kill him.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:46 pm
"Ah, s**t."
Looking around in confusion and a bit of fear, Julian threw an arm out instinctively to protect Rabid.
"Ike, what is this? This..I have to doubt this is normal."
Brilliant deduction, Sherlock. Could you stop stating the obvious for FIVE MINUTES.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:53 pm
"Ike dun'n't know," Ike stood in place and just stared up into the infinite blackness. It seemed so much more real this time. One minute, though, and it would be gone...just like evry other time!
Rabid sidled up behind Julian and gripped his shoulders, almost immediately feeling like a wuss.
"Ah, the little one may not know who I am...but certainly you remember me, Charlotte?"
"What the...? Ohgodno....it's you..."
"Don't look so surprised, Charlotte! You knew I'd be back!"
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:02 pm
Face suddenly fixed into a snarl, Julian stared out into the dark like a hunted animal.
"Rabid, who is it?" he asked her under his breath, feeling the hair on the back of his neck bristle as his fingers hooked outwards. She was obviously frightened - everything in Julian suddenly and (deeply unexpectedly) wanted to rush out at the speaker and skin them alive.
Gods, calm down! Control yourself!
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:11 pm
"Well, I'm sure you remember Liam," she whispered to him as quietly as possible, "He was...well...posessed, I guess...by him. William. Gods, no..."
William gave another delighted laugh and took on a slight shadowy form, a human-like shape with long, thin fingers.
"Awww...is Nahalthes angry? What's wrong, son? You want to kill poor old me?" he laughed again, "Trying to look all high-and-mighty to your girlfriend and her rodent?" Ah, the joys of mindreading.
Rabid growled as she leaped at the shadowy figure, blinded by another bout with Vampiric rage.
William clicked him tongue at the woman.
"When will you ever learn?" he said and grabbed Little-Guv's-Friend by the ankle, dragging her high up off the blackened ground.
Rabid cried out and began clawing at her own leg, trying to be rid of the awful burning that William's grip brought on. This couldn't be happening! It couldn't be!
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:28 pm
"NO!"
Shouting in a twin-toned voice entirely not his own, Julian grabbed at Rabid frantically as she was lifted upwards.
"Let her GO!" he shouted, his red eyes wide and fixed on the shadowed figure.
No! Gods, something, I have to do something - I need help!
Breathing hard and a long, vicious growl rattling in his throat, Julian watched the white fire, that hated, freezing white fire, flare to life on his finger tips, enveloping his hands. His eyes, suddenly dead white and empty as the fire that roared in his grasp, fixed on the figure's hidden face.
"Yeah. I want to kill you."
Without a moments more thought, not thinking of Rabid's safety at all, merely relenting to the sudden insane, howling urge to kill, Julian raised his hand slowly and deliberately, letting bolts of the white fire fly into the shadow that held Rabid like arrows.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:39 pm
William howled in pain and released his grip, dropping his victim and retreating quickly for the mountains again. He allowed the sun to shine once again, again enveloping the little darkened portion of the world in light. There was something about that kid....
He made a mental note to murder him in his sleep.
Rabid bent backward while being dropped, but only succeeded in landing on her head with a sickening crack. A bit of blood spurted from her nostrils and laced her lips as she lay there, eyes shut loosely and neck bent at an odd angle. She paid no mind to the tears that automatically began streaming down her face. The pain could be equivicated to stabbing someone in the joints with foot-thick metal poles. She made no move at all and seemed dead for quite some time.
"Uuuuuuurgh...." she gave a gutteral groan, unable to inhale or really move anything but her vocal cords. Even that hurt...
Ike had, apparently, passed out.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:51 pm
Julian gave a wild laugh as the shadow departed, a dark pleasure taken in the pain he'd caused. The madness that gripped him vanished instantly as he watched Rabid fall and land on her head.
"No... oh, no...."
Suddenly exhausted, he stumbled to her and fell heavily on his knees beside her, gasping for breath at the exertion.
"Rabid, Rabid, please, I dunno what to do, are you alright?" he muttered wildly, afraid to move her. Her neck was broken - anything he did to try to help might kill her.
I'm so tired...No, stay awake, stay awake!
Bracing his arms in the snow, he panted as he struggled to remain conscious.
She could die, dammit! he screamed in his head as he collapsed into the snow. It was no use - he blacked out as he collapsed on his side, spent and exhausted.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:04 pm
"Nyergh," Rabid said and inhaled sharply as her spine unkinked itself. She licked the blood from her lips and sat up, looking down at Julian, "Umph." She found herself unable to make any real words. The pain was still there, clouding her mind and making her movements jerk and tremble. She had enough sense, though, to take a vial from her pocket and unstopper it with her teeth. She rolled Julian over to his back and poured the vial's contents into his mouth.
"Up," she groaned around the stopper in her mouth and cracked her neck repeatedly. Damn, this hurt
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:12 pm
Groaning and giving a violent cough as he swallowed the vial's contents, Julian sat up with a start, claws outstretched and ready to flay anything within reach.
"Wha?! Huh?! I...gah."
Intelligent words were a bit beyond him at the moment.
"Guh. What...what the hell. Really. One day without supernatural activity... just one..." he muttered, shaking his head and looking upwards, squinting at the wintery sunlight.
"Did I get 'im?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:16 pm
Rabid smiled slightly and nodded, her face then contorting into a moderately comical expression as she coughed exaggeratedly. He was so not Gaian. A day without supernatural activity? HAH! She was, though, far more interested in Julian's well-being than her own.
"Urgh...y'okay?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:20 pm
Julian nodded, brushing a thatch of hair out of his eyes. Something inside him was deeply pleased - true, he hadn't killed, but the pleasure of inflicting suffering had brought about a deep satisfaction in his mind. The memory of William crying in pain was glorious - he could cherish it for days.
After some deep reflection, he decided not to mention it.
"Yeah, just a little dizzy. Is Malachi okay?" he asked looking around for the boy worriedly.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:27 pm
Rabid shrugged and peered over at her son. He was breathing steadily and smiling, almost as if he was sleeping. She decided to not wake him.
"Good job. Very good job," she smiled, very satisfied with the apin inflicted upon her oldest enemy. After barely a moment of deliberation, she said "thank you" and hugged Julian as hard as her weak arms could.
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