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Hibarii chan generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
3145!
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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:12 pm
Kaori Sakurazaka, the Wild Cherry Blossom of the Human Weapons Unit  Kaori stopped abruptly when she saw something coming their way. The thing crashed between them... and Kei reacted faster than her, pushing her out of the spores' radius, putting himself in danger. The woman gritted her teeth as she brought herself back to her feet... covering her mouth with her hand. She could barely see anything inside the cloud of spores... but she could make out his silhouette faltering... his strength failing.
"No!" She grabbed the poor JPs soldier by the back of his collar... and just launched him in Kei's direction... throwing them out of the spore's range. Once she saw him out... the violet haired girl ran up to him, kneeling beside him... checking his vitals... looking for any sort of wound or lingering effect of the toxin...her demons working their magic as fast as they could. They felt her distress... felt how important he was to her.
Her fingers brushed over his cheek... before she leaned in...feeling his faint and labored breathing against her skin. He was alive, but...
"Hang on, Kei. Don't leave me."
Quote: Demon: xxxxxxxEarthys [7] xxxxxxxHairy Jack [10] xxxxxxx Aeros [12] Tokens 24 tokens
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
3957!
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:26 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."It had gotten blurry for a few moments...his mind addled as his body threatened to falter; the force of something hitting him and knocking him out of the cloud of spores barely registered as pain until he had landed and skidded to the ground and halted there, feeling a little bit outside of himself. And then he felt the fog begin to fade and the arms lifting him, feeling the warmth of a body near to his lips and hearing the voice of someone calling him back from the sleepiness that threatened to swallow him whole. No...it wasn't time to sleep now...it was time to fight...fight now, right? His hand slowly raised and brushes the sleep and haze out of his eyes, still tingly but recovering...and then he traced the backs of those fingers over the cheek of the girl looking over him.
Too close...
"I am not dead, yet. Thank you, Kaori," he let out a breath and slowly felt himself sitting up, knowing that they likely didn't have long before more of these poison death buds started dropping nearby, "Can you help me up? We need...-cough-...to get to JPs Headquarters. They can help us...?" It was as much a suggestion as something he believed in. But if there were answers about all of this craziness, that was where to find them. And he had promised...and that promise might be what kept this from happening again before things got even worse.Quote: 22 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21]
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Hibarii chan generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
3558!
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:37 pm
Kaori Sakurazaka, the Wild Cherry Blossom of the Human Weapons Unit Thank God. A sigh escaped her lips as she pulled back, giving him enough space to sit up and breath. That had scared her to death. She had never seen him that close to death... and the thought terrified her. Kaori couldn't imagine going on without him. She...couldn't. She stood up in complete silence, her body tense as she offered him her hand for him to take. She pulled him back up onto his feet... and immediately slid her arms around his torso, holding him tight. Kaori wasn't one to show affection in such ways, but... she was tired. She was tired of this. She... didn't want to lose him.
She pulled back and shifted her gaze away...before turning to the road ahead, making her way towards the JP Headquarters. They would go.. they'd find answers... and they'd find a way to end this once and for all.
Quote: Demon: xxxxxxxEarthys [7] xxxxxxxHairy Jack [10] xxxxxxx Aeros [12] Tokens 25 tokens
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
4740!
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:42 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."He didn't know how to tell her how much that her presence meant to him, how much her willingness to fight for him, tolerate him, stay beside him...and feel for him the way that she did kept him tethered to this person that he wanted to be. If there was one main reason why he had never become the monster that the government men who had trained them wanted him to be, it was that he had met her...that she had been there for him...and she was a presence in his life that simply couldn't be replaced. She was his better half, filling in the gaps of who he was...she was his best friend, and so much more...and when she hugged him his arms had found their way around her automatically, for those barest of moments letting their intense feelings seep from one into the other...exhaustion, fear, relief, affection...
...And then the Human Weapon training kicked back in, that automaton response that let them put that aside until later, to do first what they needed to in order to survive. Headquarters first...and thankfully a small display of power from the two of them had driven off the rioters that Yamato had warned might be blocking the route back away before things got too dangerous. After this they might have missions...they might come even closer to death than he had just been...
But come what may, they would face it together. And that was all he could ask should the end at last dawn upon them...right?Quote: 27 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21]
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
2541!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:23 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you...""Stop what you are doing," the swordsman commanded a pair of thugs attempting to accost a woman on his and Kaori's way back to the JPs Headquarters where they could regroup with Yamato and decide what next to do in order to survive this situation...to remake the world...until they had come across this situation. Now, hand on his hilt and instincts screaming in his ears, urging him to do to these people what his body was made to do, he silenced it as best he could in order to simply do what was right. "That woman...release her."
...And then he saw it, the demon circling around from behind the girl, the smirk on the girl's face...it was an ambush! His hand slowly withdrew his sword as he struggled to maintain control. This...was a mistake. On their part. But he would deal with them as he always had, alongside the one person who knew him best of all.
"I will not kill you," he said simply, barely-restrained killing intent palpable, "But you will all wish that I had."Quote: 28 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21]
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
8491!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:28 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."It wasn't the mission he had been expecting; he couldn't deny the fact that in a way, however, he was much more grateful to receive this sort of a mission than he was if they had told him to go out and fight someone or worse, kill. Even if it was demons he worried that spilling real blood would make him cross a line he didn't want to cross anymore...and in doing so, he would have to rely upon Kaori to do what needed to be done so that he could die not a monster, but die the man that he wanted to be. He never wanted her to have to make that choice...to have to face him that way, to kill him when she meant so very much to him...but that was the reality of his condition. One day, most likely, that would come to pass...if he fought too much, if he was forced to kill...
Dancing was much better, even if he didn't really know how to do it. But what he did know was that dancing was practiced footsteps, fluid motion...his katas were much like that and he could do those in his sleep. Nodding at the strange request, he drew his weapon and stepped back to a safe distance at the heart of the JPs Tokyo Headquarters and began his 'dance', moving with precise and beautiful skill...it was a dance of a sort, and he hoped that the God of Destruction liked it. He'd take this over ending life any day of the week, no matter how much it might have embarrassed some.Quote: 39 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21]
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
7191!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:21 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you...""Hi there, my name is Otome...I'm here to give you your evaluation, both physical and emotional, so if you're having any issues whatsoever I want you to come out straight with it so that I can help right away, all right?" the swordsman settled into the exam chair behind the curtain, his shirt and jacket removed and a stethoscope swiftly pressed to his chest to listen to the beating of his heart...slightly elevated, but only because his instincts were still troubling him, his breathing exercises to get it under control still slowing it ever-so-slightly as time passed. His eyes shifted towards the other side of the curtain where they were likely going to be examining Kaori and he wondered if she was having the same issues with this that he was. Last time he had been examined like this, after all, had been before they had escaped them...the HWU...
"Open your mouth and say 'Aah'?" the next command came and he did so, but she could feel his unease and smiled to try and put him more comfortable around her, "I heard about what happened to you...I'm very sorry. This is really tough on everyone, but for someone with your condition I can only imagine. If there's anything I can do...just tell me, all right? I'm a doctor. That's what we're here for. And times like this we all have to work together, don't we?" Quote: 49 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21]
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
8936!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:26 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."Finishing his examination, there was another test that they had immediately wanted to run on the swordsman; his unique skills an resilience for a human made him an ideal host for a demonic possession if it was required for them to fight against the forces opposing JPs. And it had happened before to him in the last few days, so he had no objections to acting as a medium. Little had he known that his possession would be something he'd have to put to use as several rioters decided to make the Headquarters a target to try and loot...and though it would have been easy to repel them if everyone in the JPs were present, most were out with the Chief and Sako on a mission. That meant that someone with strength needed to fight...and that someone was Kei.
"Turn around and escape while you can," he warned them simply as he stood out in front of the Headquarters with a gaze that was ferocious, but he found that the devil inside of him was actually doing more to dull the influence of this bloodthirsty impulses than encourage them...Saki Mitama had calmed him, if only temporarily...had him looking at the situation logically. And logically, he did not want to become a murderer, nor did JPs if they could help it... "I will not warn you again."
Power crackled forth from his hand...the civilians couldn't help but shudder and pause...and when he stepped forward it was intimidating enough that most fled. The rest were gone after the first attacker was knocked aside into a sidewalk (non-fatally) with what looked like little more than a push. A crisis was averted without tragedy for now...and the possession left him a few moments later feeling drained...and powerful all in one.
"That was..." He had no words...Quote: 24 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21], Baphomet [32], Saki Mitama [35 - Liquidate at any time for 15 Tokens] 49 Tokens - 10 Tokens [Draw Power - 24] - 10 Tokens [Draw Kikuri-Hime - 27] - 15 Tokens [Fuse Power + Kikuri-Hime = Baphomet - 32] + 10 Tokens [Possession Post] = 24 Tokens
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
6960!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:38 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."He had thought his fight was done...he had thought that he had finished drawing his blade for a while and could rest in the base. Things had been almost peaceful for a few seconds, the members of JPs and Kaori inside feeling able to relax for a few precious moments. It had all been safe...
...And then the Fire Nation...err...the Alioth Spore had attacked. And the sudden, instinctive response to the threat landing behind him had been immediate and absolute.
...One slash of his blade, one crash of the club in the hands of his new Berserker...and the Spore had dissipated into magnetite and nothing. It hadn't even been intentional and he had been so lethal that it almost scared him, his hands swiftly sheathing his blade as he turned his back...thankful that the inhuman thing had shed no blood. He wasn't sure how he would have taken the sight of it, his blade if it had drunk from the creature's veins...
It was better that it hadn't. He needed to stay himself.Quote: 36 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21], Baphomet [32], Berserker [38] 31 - 10 Tokens (Draw Berserker - [38]) + 15 Tokens [Liquidate Saki Mitama = 36 Tokens
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
5771!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:47 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."The rioters that had been scattered by Kei's initial possessed attack had come back...but they had seen the ruthless destruction he had wrought upon the Spore and rethought their attack. Turning to glance over his shoulder at them with eyes that promised he might do the same to them if they came at him, many fled...the rest attacking were pushed back by his devils, Berserker...he passed through the doors without incident and shook out his arms, ignoring the ringing in his bones of his last strike and the way that it felt just right...
He reminded himself that the Spores weren't human, weren't demons...just existences made to wipe out humanity. They were the spawn of Septentriones...the enemy of man...they had to be destroyed. It was no different from cutting up a practice dummy to increase your skill. Killing them was for a purpose...it wasn't killing. Cutting, practicing, training...not killing. Not killing...not killing...Quote: 41 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Aeros [12], Bai Suzhen [21], Baphomet [32], Berserker [38]
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
8368!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:51 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you...""The way that you communed so easily with the possession demon, all we'd like is for you to try out dancing again...see if you can't make a connection with Shiva and convince it to come out and shoot Pasupata for us," a JPs agent had proposed when Kei reentered the facility, and he was thankful for the suggested distraction from the darker turn his mind was threatening to take. He removed his shirt again so that it wouldn't become soaked with his own sweat as shirts often did when he began his kata, and as he moved with grace and a lethal skill, he couldn't help but let the world melt away from him for a while...everything coming together in his mind's eye, this dance...this training dance of steps, turns...precision, control. It was all about control. He needed to regain control...
"Haaa..." he let out a deep breath as he twisted and leaped, a difficult maneuver for any who hadn't gained an incredible skill in this particular set of moves...but for him it was smooth, easy, "God of Destruction Shiva, we ask you...to come out..." Maybe giving voice to his desire would help the process? He hoped, but it hadn't had the desired effect. He just had to keep trying...until they got it right.Quote: 37 Tokens!Current Devils: Kobold [3], Bai Suzhen [21], Baphomet [32], Scathach [44] 52 - 15 [Fuse Berserker + Aeros = Scathach - 44] = 37 Tokens
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
1892!
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:58 pm
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."He had been trying to meditate after the failed dance/kata session when reports of another Spore dropping nearby had reached the former Human Weapon and drawn him to the outside of the building, but no sooner had he gotten there than the thing burst and nearly caught him within the cloud of toxins that threatened to choke the life out of he and anyone else who drew near. He already knew the threat and had his demons holding back the people that had come too close...but his oldest and least powerful of demonic allies, Kobold, had been too near when it burst and was caught in the Toxin.
It was too fast, too late to save, but Kei had saved the people by herding them back inside until the toxic gas had time to dissipate into the air. Once it was gone they could go out again safely...but just for the moment they had to stay in and call the people in charge to make sure they didn't try to enter through the front for a while. This was a job he could handle. Keeping people safe was much more in line with the person he wanted to be...Quote: 44 Tokens!Current Devils: Bai Suzhen [21], Baphomet [32], Scathach [44]
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
622!
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:02 am
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you...""That's right, one of the Spores burst outside of the front door of the Headquarters. Be safe when you return and try to enter through an opposite entrance if at all possible. I'll see you upon your return," Kei hung up the phone and turned to the JPs officers still struggling to catch their breath after the near disaster outside, ignoring the bloody thoughts that sprung to mind seeing them all so confused and vulnerable, "I'm going...be safe and don't go out the front for a while."
One last warning to the gathered officers of the crew and he was gone again into the bowels of the Headquarters looking for his companion. Ever since he had returned to JPs they had kept him busy, his skillset making him an ideal asset for several uses. But he needed some time to himself eventually. He didn't want to be caught up in the fighting and around people all the time. It was hard for him...and his hands still wouldn't pull themselves from his hilt when his hands were idle...Quote: 44 Tokens!Current Devils: Bai Suzhen [21], Baphomet [32], Scathach [44]
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
6201!
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:06 am
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."They had only just begun to test the outside of the base to ensure that the toxins were gone when not far down the road another of the Alioth Spores fell with several people nearby; his instincts took over, both to protect as he desired and to do what he had been born to do...to kill. This wasn't a bloody demon nor a human, however, and when he cut it down he at least could rationalize what he was doing as a necessary act for the sake of humanity. He could tell himself that he wasn't killing a truly living thing, only an automaton created by some other thing...sent to wipe them out from this planet. And he couldn't let the Spore explode and leave the Toxins in the street to threaten them again.
Fortunately he had stopped it...and no spores escaped. His still being alive meant that the one from before had finally dissipated, so he let out a breath as he turned back to the front of the Headquarters and started slowly in...stopping only when he heard a voice on the sidewalk...a child...
...And his hand clenched tightly around his sword for just a moment, teeth gritting as he realized what he was doing...immediately banishing such a traitorous impulse from his mind without hesitation. That...was wrong. He needed...to avoid killing, if he could. By his own hand, at least...when it came to the Spores, even.
He couldn't be lax now...or it would be the end of him...Quote: 26 Tokens!Current Devils: Baphomet [32], Scathach [44], Vivian [52] 51 Tokens - 10 Tokens [Draw Hecate - 47], - 15 Tokens [Fuse Hecate + Bai Suzhen = Vivian - 52] = 26 Tokens
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Arena Emperor generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
3209!
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:13 am
Munakata Kei, the Deadly Nightshade of the Human Weapons Unit
"...I'm not simply a man who kills for no reason. Because the world is ending, I'll kill you. Because I need to find Kaori, I'll kill you. Because my time is short, I'll kill you..."She wasn't called the legendary mentor of CuChulainn for no reason; his blade clashed with hers and she was on him in moments, forcing him to parry and use all of his sharp instincts to counter her attacks and eventually strike when the opening presented itself...but the encounter had him sweating, tense, easily working out much of the stress that had gripped him after his...moment out in the street, helping him to regain control of his body and his mind. Scathach was a demon that he could benefit from keeping in his arsenal for as long as he was forced to use this Summoning App in this apocalypse. He was thankful that he had been able to draw her...
...And now, as she came at him from above he ducked underneath and punched out into her stomach, only to find air...and the demon hovering behind him, as if reminding him that even if he was winning in pure technique his opponent was supernatural. He had to use all of his senses, all of his abilities. Else he'd end up on the floor just like anyone else who faced her.
"Again..." Quote: 27 Tokens!Current Devils: Baphomet [32], Scathach [44], Vivian [52]
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