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 Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:19 pm
The evening was dark - darker than usual, at least. It was as if someone had blotted out all the stars and the moon barely glowed and brought any illumination.
It looked as if Twilight Designs was about to close up for the evening, though the only one present was the Seer. He had all ready run the others off with the excuse that something was not quite right.
With an annoyed mental sigh, Hawk finally came outside the shop after making sure that everything was all right. Something had him a little unnerved, but whatever it was his Sight was blind to.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:30 pm
It so happened that this was the evening that Red had chosen to get away from the house - and, strangely enough, he was not accompanied with Zero. To be honest, the cyborg didn't even know he was gone, but really, he needed to figure out how far he could now get from her before things got unpleasant, preferably while neither of them were in trouble.
And talk as she might, Zero was as much of a trouble magnet as he was.
He wasn't holding solid shape for now, simply floating along while turning the corner. He hadn't noticed Hawk yet, but Hawk certainly knew he was coming. No, he was actually looking up. The Seer wasn't the only one finding the darkness extreme, it seemed.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:35 pm
Hawk might have scowled - just what he needed. The Alisari to come knocking. His hand froze above the door, eyes widening for a moment.
'No,' he mentally hissed, but there was not much he could do. What was about to happen was all ready in play - and he had seen it far too late.
It floated in the dark night air, the light breeze carrying it aloft as it moved. For a non-descript piece of parchment to upset the Seer, it had to be something nasty - but it did not look it. Old and crinkled, the writing on it was nearly worn, but none of that mattered.
What mattered was that it was making a lazy, looping path towards Red.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:40 pm
Next thing he knew, there was something hitting him straight in the face. With the strength of a truck, that nearly sent him knocked down on the ground, in spite of not being quite solid.
Red hissed some choice words and... there was paper on his face ? What the hell ?!
He caught the paper and threw it away, shaking his head.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:19 pm
Hawk might have snapped something about not touching it - but the point was moot. It had all ready made contact and it was drifting it's way towards him.
The Seer shifted closer, snatching the parchment out of the air as it blew his way. There was no point in having the Alisari deal with whatever was coming this way on his own - though Athan would probably have words with him for this.
Except that he could not condone Athan getting harmed - not when he sensed something like this.
'Alisari,' he greeted, though his tone was not the usual annoyed one - more wary than anything else. His fingers brushed over the paper, his Sight reaching out to read the words.
Nothing. There was nothing his Sight told him but he knew it had to say something. With an aggravated sigh he - and he loathed to do it, to ask - moved closer to Red. The paper did feel oddly heavy as he handed it back to him. 'What does this note say?'
Anything that could actually not be read by him could not be good.
And no, the Seer was not in the mood for him to argue about it.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:37 pm
Ah, superb, he had company.
The note was all but shoved back into his face at this point, and he snatched it back - it still felt just as heavy as it had been when it had hit him face-on.
Red had been about to snap two things : the first would be that he had a name (though, really, he didn't, and that was a moot point, which was what kept him quiet). The second was that Hawk could read it himself, but again, he was quiet. Hawk sounded annoyed by having to ask - that is, more annoyed than usual. Maybe it wasn't possible for mister foxtail not to be pissed off at something or other.
It was that, and the blank eyes, that finally made it connect. No, that was ridiculous, really, Hawk couldn't be blind and do all the s**t he did.
Yet...
Red, thankfully, didn't ask, instead, he looked down at the piece of his current irritation. He wasn't sure about this, not at all. Something definitively felt wrong about all this.
'Beware the beast the hunts the dark
no safety in shadows, nowhere to hide'
He'd thought he'd seen that hand-writing, those fancy elaborate letters somewhere, but the thought only clicked all too late.
He had seen those letters somewhere. On that note that had ended up on Zero's door. The one that had turned Athan and Reyna to stone.
And much like Athan that day... once he had started reading, he couldn't stop.
'Perhaps the beast may not hunt tonight
but, alas! the moon is gone, the stars are hidden'
Red was clearly struggling with something, through it wasn't with the reading proper. No, he was trying to stop reading, pitting all of his mental strength on it...
But it wasn't enough. And it freaked the s**t out of him.
'and the beast hunts best in the dark ...
... your time has run out and the beast wishes to play ...'
He dropped the note, and his hand went to his spear, all the blades extending in it's characteristic star-point - the note bursted out in dark flame in between being dropped and what would have been it hitting the ground.
'Damnit.' He added for good measure.
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:58 pm
'Sorry,' he muttered, 'but rather we deal with whatever it brings than some other hapless twit.' Hawk meant it. They were likely better suited to deal with what he saw coming than the others. Strength and magick worked well together - at least, as much as he had Seen said so.
As Hawk was speaking, he turned towards the pitch black sky and watched sightlessly as the darkness pulled together. It was as if whatever was blotting out the stars and the moon was coming together.
It would NOT be nice, whatever it was.
'Best prepare yourself.' Hawk turned his attention away from whatever was taking form, hand raising and calling forth a rune in the air. He would not have this fight here - it would not do any good for the shop and the cost in damages would be ridiculous!
The howl that echoed down the mostly empty street nearly made Hawk pause in his spell-work but he did not.
It was a beast of nightmares and shadow, tail twitching back and forth as it lashed through the air. The only part of it that gleamed in the darkness was the glow of it's eyes and it's sharp teeth.
For a moment it seemed to be looking around, unsure of itself before it focused on the two shadow fiends as let loose another howl.
They were it's quarry.
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:15 pm
Again, he almost argued - but then he just had to imagine any of the childen shadows caught in this s**t.
Worse yet... All he had to imagine was Dio caught in this s**t, and his probably not-physically-existent heart was running leaps. Somehow that idea was even worse.
'...Yeah, I guess.' To think he hadn't actually been looking to start s**t that night ! Oh well, couldn't be helped.
And now the sky was going apeshit. Red's eyes narrowed as he looked up, then solidified, letting himself fall on the ground, slittering in front of Hawk like some kind of oversized red living wall. Ultimately, he had no ******** idea what the seer was doing - but he could tell his role for the moment quite clearly, without needing any special magical powers.
And that was to buy time until Hawk was done... whatever the ******** he was doing. The spear rose, pointed in the beast's direction, and Red was ready.
'C'mere, pussycat.' He had no idea if it was even a cat - it was just the first insult that came to mind. 'Havn't got all night to kick your a**~'
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:29 pm
Portals took a bit of time - though at least he was better than Mystic at casting them. Hawk's eyes slipped shut and he focused on Red for a moment, watching as he was taking solid form.
Growing did improve on his size - by a lot. Hawk left the creature to Red as he continued his spell casting.
The dark beast growled low in it's throat as it landed on the ground. The shadows seemed to bleed into it, as if it as pulling the darkness away from everything else. It's claws dug into the ground, the sound of ground breaking filling the air as it prepared to lunge forward and pounce on Red.
'Bring it through the portal!' Hawk shouted just as the portal erupted into life and he moved to slip through. When he came out the other side, it looked as if they were in a destroyed courtyard of some old castle.
Very abandoned.
So when they ended up destroying parts of it, no one would care.
Perfect.
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:35 pm
Oh, a portal. Fine, he could roll with that.
If the small display of destruction was meant to scared Red, well... it didn't work. He just stared down the creature, glaring straight into... well, straight into what it figured it's eyes might be - it was hard to tell.
Eventually, it finally did jump, sending concrete flying, and breaking the nearby windows in the process - Red swiftly moved, letting the beast land where he had been before and he readied his fist.
'INNNNCOMING !!!!'
This wasn't a proper battle until something had been punched into the face; and that was exactly what had happened - one punch right in the middle of it's forehead sent the beast flying, snarling it's way right though the portal - and Red followed in next.
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:33 am
Hawk snapped the portal closed the moment that Red came through, a scowl on his face as he ducked when the beast went on over head.
'... seriously?' he growled, tail lashing in irritation as the beast landed with a thud against one of the pillars of the dilapidated structure. 'You're just making it angrier.'
He did not have to See to know it was gathering it's bearings in it's new surroundings and with a shake of it's shadowed form it turned on the two of them with another howl.
Calling on another rune this time he was going for a more direct approach - even if he was still just trying to make it unable to choose whom to go after - and the wind picked up to a roar before it began to finally blast the creature further back into the wall it had landed in.
Repeatedly.
Until the wind settled down and the dust disappeared and it was clear that the beast was clawing it's way out of the crumbled stone and towards them.
'... to be honest, that probably just angered it more,' he snorted but it was clear what he wanted. A very angry, agitated beast - one that would follow them around just to get at them.
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:22 am
'I thought we were supposed to beat it up, not invite it for tea and cookies ?' Well, no s**t he'd made it angrier - that was kinda the point, wasn't it ?!
Instinct kind of dictated that he did not want to be in between Hawk and that thing as long as there were runes going around, and it was quickly proved very, very right. That was pretty badass, even he had to admit.
'Yeap, don't think that's improving its mood any.' Oh well. Red did actually stop to think for a moment. He could try to conjure claws to get faster hits in, there certainly were enough shadows here for it... but given that this thing was made of shadows, this might go nowhere fast. A shame, through, since he honestly could use the practice.
Oh well.
'It's got to have a weak point. We just need to find it.' Everything had a weak point, and this thing wasn't any exception.
With his spear at the ready, Red charged before the creature could rise from under the rubble, kicking himself in the air with the tip of his tail and trying to drive his spear down into where he thought it's neck might be. For a being his size, the snake-like fiend was deceptively fast and agile - clearly used to battle.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:18 pm
'Generally speaking, when you are dealing with dream creatures - particularly the ones that are NOT,' he paused for a moment, shifting closer to the rubble a safe distance behind Red, 'trying to kill you, feeding them tea and cookies is actually a good idea.'
And Hawk might have paused at saying that, if only because he was not sure where the information came from. It was not like him to know such things about dream creatures, but still he found himself certain of the information.
'Angrier it is, the better - won't think as clearly.' The Seer was watching in his mind's eye the movements that Red made. The beast was all ready clawing it's way from under the rubble and yowled when the spear end found it's target.
For a moment it seemed like that would be it, but Hawk was not certain. 'Move,' he growled and sightlessly watched as shadows leaked from the rubble and began to reform into a bigger, angrier creature.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:11 pm
'I think this one was intent on eating us, and not cookies, from the start.' Okay, now he was just arguing for the hell out it.
It seemed like he actually had a good shot going there - that is, until it started to ooze back out from under the rock. <******** thing...' He did move, through, phasing out to dart though the air before solidifying his body a few feet away from it.
So the neck didn't work. If he'd actually hit it at all. The head was the next idea, but maybe not - if it kept reforming like a little s**t, it's... core had to be elsewhere.
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:19 pm
'You never know, it could think we ARE cookies,' he snorted, not rising to the baiting. Hawk was trained from years of trading barbs with Mystic - so the banter was second nature to him.
The Seer's tail lashed irritably when the creature began to reform. It was obvious the nightmare was damaged, a gash in it's neck was bleeding shadows and he let out a brief hiss as vision clouded his Sight for a moment, briefly disrupting his next spell.
'Do not let the shadows it is bleeding touch you!' he gritted out, shaking the vision from his mind. 'It would be detrimental to your health.'
His brief moment of distraction, the vision that had come without warning, was all the creature needed to take a pounce at the Seer.
But the Seer was not so easy to attack, he easily side-stepped the creature and called forth another rune of wind and sent the thing flying through the air.
'And before you ask: it's weakness is still hidden from me!'
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