The recent events had not made Hati receptive to the idea of leaving the house for a long while. With the aliens and the betrayal and the horrible battle... He hadn't even been able to bring himself to do his normal patrol or find abandoned places to shake out his feelings with art on the walls. Laying low felt safest.
Eventually, though, he had to come out, so he exhaled slowly as he finally exited the house after his self-imposed emotional quarantine and set out to patrol. He needed to get back into the habit. Stop the Negaverse from doing more evil. Who know what kinds of crazy s**t they cooked up with those aliens being their allies? The very idea made him very, very afraid, but he pushed it down. The only way to stop them was to keep fighting. And fight he would, if the opportunity presented itself.
Speaking of. He sensed a Chaos aura nearby and bounded over to it. He needed to save whoever was there.
Noir Songbird
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:24 am
Lionel was not exactly eager to charge into his duties. Guinevere's strange and rapid change had left him off balance and discomfited, and he still wasn't certain what to do with the proof, right in front of him, that Chaos could warp someone so wholly.
She had killed. Without an ounce of hesitation. Had murdered a sapient being, when before she had been ready to lay down her life to protect a friend. It had shattered Lionel's confidence in the Negaverse, and in himself. What was he supposed to believe, after seeing something like that?
He could feel an Order aura nearby, and exhaled, tiredly.
Hati rounded the corner and thundered, without stopping to examine any of the situation, "Moor Stalk!"
After the spell took hold, he actually looked around—and didn't find anyone in danger. There were no civillians nearby, or maybe there had been and in that split second of distraction they were smarter than most of the civillians he'd met and already fled. Good. He really didn't need people following horror movie logic on his hands, as fun as it was to watch on the screen.
Sailor Scout Attack: Moor Stalk
A deafening silence settles over everyone within a ten foot radius. Shortly after the silence falls, a single, deep bark echoes through the area, and suddenly every enemy within the radius feels like they are being watched by a large, dangerous creature. The silence can be disorienting; no matter how loud anything is, while the magic is in effect they cannot hear anything but the bark--and maybe the sound of something heavy breathing just behind them. Paranoia, anxiety and fear for the invisible thread are prominent for the duration of the magic, and may persist for longer if the player desires. This attack affects all enemies within ten feet and lasts for twenty five seconds; it can be used three time per battle.
Noir Songbird
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 5:51 pm
Of course it was someone that attacked without hesitation, and of course the magic left everything silent, except for the bark of a beast whose eyes he could feel on him, whose breath he could feel at his back.
"What the ******** is wrong with you?" He couldn't even really hear his own voice--it felt like the silence consumed everything around him, and it made the whole experience a thousand times more terrifying. He was trapped--in silent, crushing darkness, with some monster that was going to come to tear him apart.
Was this how he died? Was this the end of it, the ultimate failure of his ability to be anything like a decent Senshi?
He had barely even gotten the chance to try--he'd spent years meandering around, doing whatever he felt like, not bothering to put out any effort for the Negaverse. And now that he was trying, now that he was realizing how wrong all of this was, he was going to get murdered by some overzealous Senshi with monster ********> it wasn't fair.
Hati really quite wanted to respond with an equally vicious question, but he knew he wouldn't be heard anyway. His magic worked thoroughly.
Though... the other Senshi wasn't moving to attack or retaliate either, and he frowned, looking at him more critically. Had there been any civilian, or was Hati just telling himself so he could feel better about attacking without any real provocation other than that this Chaos Senshi had simply existed in Hati's general direction.
So, he waited for his magic to time out, watching Lionel with vague concern on his face.
Noir Songbird
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:00 pm
Lionel could see the other Senshi, now; he'd been distracted by the magic, at first, and hadn't realized where they were. But the magic was starting to fade, the feleing of being watched was disappearing, and the fear was replaced with a roiling fury.
Lionel stormed up to the other Senshi, pulled back his fist, and swung it at his face.
"What. The ********. Is wrong with you?" He demanded, again. "Do you just ******** ambush anyone who's wearing black, huh? No matter what we're doing? So ******** self-righteous you think that you get to judge all of us, ever?"
That he was furious was obvious in every line of his body, every tense muscle. And he wanted to keep punching, but that wasn't going to get him anywhere else, and that also wasn't going to make his ******** point. No, there were much better ways, and if he were smarter, he'd have restrained himself from throwing that first punch, but he was far, far too angry to have thought that through.
"I wasn't doing s**t, you ******** idiot." As he talked, as he got angrier, his accent got much thicker, the Irish that was normally muted rolling up thick and fast. "So what gives you the goddamned right to attack me out of absolute nowhere?"
The punch was no surprise, considering... well, everything. The angry clear in Lionel's body language. The way he walked up.
So Hatu took it, only turning a bit so his jaw wouldn't get snapped by the punch, and barely winced, rubbing the pained spot gently as he let Lionel rant.
"Nothing," he said quietly, nodding, "You're absolutely right. I just assumed you were in the middle of toying with a civilian to kill. I didn't bother to check first. That's not fair."
Not that he particularly cared about fairness, when it came to many of the Negaverse's murderous types, but. Lionel clearly wasn't one of them. And there were many people that purified, so attacking first without assessing the situation was foolhardy.
"...I'm sorry."
Noir Songbird
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:29 pm
"Think before you ******** attack, next time," Lionel snarled, and then he turned around. "I'm leaving. If you follow me to pick a fight, you'll get one. But for now, I'm gonna walk the ******** away, and you're gonna remember not to attack before you ******** think."
Lionel stormed off, paying very little mind to the Senshi behind him. He seemed sufficiently cowed, at least, so hopefully that was the end of all of this nonsense.
Hati nodded, not that Lionel could see that. "Yeah," he said quietly, inhaling deeply before going to head back on his patrol. He had a lot to think about, and hopefully there wouldn't be any more incidents tonight.
