OOC note: This was rp'd out in irc. The following is for progression
Natani` Very little was said as they made their way to where Morlis made his home in Eternelle Lune. Instinct told her they were on the right track and as Akuma drove she stretched out her awareness, her “spidey sense” as she'd called it, much to her Grandfather's chagrin. Where there were demons there was often magic and she wanted to know ahead of time if something was going to hit them with some kind of whammy. They arrived at the villa and Akuma wasted no time with pleasantries but busted through the gate and drove right up to the front step. She was out of the car as quickly as he was and was only a step or two behind him as they went up the front steps. It was at the top step that she paused. Alidia had been here as they suspected and just as Akuma she wondered if it was to warn him or to fight for Sylvana.
Needing to know the answer she let her eyes close and looked with her other sight and as if seeing ghostly images superimpose on reality she saw Alidia arrive, heard her confront Morlis, heard raised voices and arguing as Alidia made use of her newfound anger and lit into her demon maker, demanding he hand over Sylvana. He had stonewalled her of course and she'd left to return to Akuma and Natani. “She came to get her back...not to help him. She's probably at the warehouse now wondering where we are...but we can't wait. We have to move now.” She spoke quickly and hoped that Akuma would understand just who and what she was talking about so they didn't waste precious time on an lengthy explanation. He understood her and the urgency in her voice and without further discussion the door to the villa was nearly destroyed as Akuma went through it and they were into the building. She took several steps in, shedding the doeskin jacket as she did so.
Once the extensive ink on her arms, left side, and back were revealed several of the individual designs that made up the overall theme seemed to life off her body as if specters and within moments she was surrounded by the ghostly images of 2 hawk's and at least 3 wolves. They weren't solid but they weren't helpless shades either, they were a force to be sure and they spread out, moving through the villa with the speed of wind and within moments her head snapped to the stairs. “He's upstairs...double doors at the end of the hall.”
Akuma`Prism She was right..they didn’t have the time to dick around. He walked through the house like he’d come to collect a fucking debt, and in a weird way he had. Alidia hadn’t fucked them over and he would be pissed at himself later for ever doubting her, at the moment though he was hauling ass up the stairs. Morlis heard the car, he heard him yell from outside, so the fucker was either doing 1 of 2 things. He was running away like a little girl…or he was getting shit ready to try and save his ass from them. As soon as he reached the top of the stairs he bull rushed towards the door, plowing his right shoulder through it as the entire arm and shoulder turned to that organic diamond skin.
The door flew open and the latch along with 2 of the hinges went flying a different directions. He looked over the room and saw Morlis back, the fucker was messing with something..something that looked like it was in a small box. He closed the box pretty fucking quick and turned around only to take a right hook right to the jaw. Fuck that felt good. For a second Morlis looked like a bobble-head as his skull shook from the impact and he dropped to the floor. He grabbed him by his shirt and jerked him to his feet; “You motha fucka! Did ya think we weren’t gonna find out? Come ‘ere you piece’a shit..” He shoved him back against the wall and then followed the rebound with a quick uppercut right into Morlis stomach.
As he doubled over he grabbed his hair in his right hand and drilled a knee up into his face..a knee that you just knew broke a nose. Before Morlis could drop though he was jerked up by his hair, and Akuma’s free hand grabbed him by the throat and pinned him to the wall before sliding him up it a few inches..letting him dangle from his grip. “Tani..you do the talkin’..I ain’t got anything t’say that won’t break more bones.”
Talisy`Aensland The portal that would open allowed for them to come to that of a vast open white stone room. It was unsual if anything else that the violet haired demoness lived in a white castle. She prefered something else but a was a present and she loved this one. The vast sprawling castle under the great sea spread about her, the ocean life swam around it, in it and yet for all it's simplistic traditional beauty, the advanced technological touches were everywhere. The portal room other then the sprawling archways that hummed with electricity and magic both. The sound of guards marching the hallways. It wasn't going to be easy to get to her. Currently she wasn't with her captive wolf.
She was seeing to the imp, the girl was hard to keep down. Having found a loup hole that tali had no way of forseeing. She'd started summoning ghouls mentally, so imgine tali's suprise to find Salome's tower flooded with the undead that had built the castle there. "Son of a bitch! She's more trouble then she's worth! I'm going to Castrate the bastard that taught her or allowed her taught necromancy at that level." She slammed her fist down on the counsol as she and a regiment of 5 guards battled their way through Salome's tower to the girl in question. This time tali wasn't going to bother being nice with sedation , hell no she was bashing the damn pink haired bitch's head into a wall until she stayed down and out. This inconvience was taking precious time she could use to prepare the girl for Morlis. Sylvana's outfit she'd set up with a little bow for a collar to gift her to her current Lover and Master. That Morlis was currently getting his ass beat because of her was not something she'd anticipated, nore was she aware of it as she and her guard faught their way to Salome's room.
Her hand was itching to strangle the life from the woman at the moment. As they left a trail of bodies in their wake past the gate to the left hand tower. The center tower was the more heavily guarded one to lead one to believe that that's where Tali was, where as also that's where she was supposed to be were it not for a complication. A complication that could have only come from a powerful source. That Salome a little nothing in Talisy's eyes had conjoured it just irritated the demoness to no end. The guard bloodied but well enough to keep going reached the main tower room where tali's fist found that of the sleeping Salome. "Fucking just sleep you little bitch or I'll snap your neck here and now." She snarled. By now tali was Not in a good mood in the slightest. She went to a desk and started working, checking the status of the shields, the wards, the guards, the cameras. All in all she was very damn determined to ensure that nothing, no one was screwing with her little bit of fun and present for Morlis.
Black leather clad from her spiked heeled boots to her pants that laced along her hip to her waist. A belt of razor blades rested and fastened over her thighs as she walked and paced a few moments. "So much time wasted all for what, some two bit bitch whore of another stupid bitch? Christ." She was ranting and irritated at the moment and the guards stood back, silent from the Makai Princess. Her temper was well known and it was flaring like a flame as she kept working swiftly. Fingers flying over a keyboard, "If one ghoul or one of those cut down returns to standing, ... End.. Her." She points to Salome. Not that she wanted to kill the girl, she was just irritated as her little trick bought her time, and attention. Tali's eyes saw talent, potential but damn it she want to knwo where the girl got access to that sort of magic. That wasn't something that was taught, it was something very very dark and bad.
She'd expect that from a hellbound sorceress but the girl, she was pretty surface dweller. Where she herself was a time bouncing, realm hopping bitch that made her life by trading on pain and misery, selling drugs and making them to bring people, nations to their knees. To say that tali was a mad scientist was and yet wasn't off the mark. Determined she was to prove that her science was as stronger then anything that could be coughed up, she kept up her research. "Who the hell.. gave her that much power... I will know and I will know soon.. I'm going to tear this little bitches memory apart until I know what the hell. " She snarled softly.
Natani` Akuma was up the stairs and she was only a heartbeat behind him, right on his heels the entire way and she was in the room only seconds after him when he busted through the door into Morlis' private chamber. She saw him fiddling with a box and in an instant of -knowing- she blurted out, “He tried to warn her!” How successful he was remained to be seen. As she moved into the room the spectral animals moved with her, the hawks returning to their host tattoo on her skin but the wolves remained in a semi-circle at their back, guarding the other entrances lest someone try to take them from behind. She watched dispassionately as Akuma proceeded to tear into Morlis.
He may or may not have had any hand in Sylvana's kidnapping but if he had to be hurt in order to get to their pack mate, so be it. Once Akuma had him pinned to the wall by his neck, his feet dangling several inches off the floor, she moved to stand next to Akuma, her brown eyes bleeding to their icy blue hue, her fangs elongated with the silent threat that she wasn't necessarily the safer of the two. “Tell us how to find this Talisy woman and we'll leave. Try to stone wall us and we'll be forced to hang around here, wasting precious time, fucking you up. Yes we are going to go after her. Yes Talisy will be punished. And Yes, you will have to face Ameerah eventually. Your degree of compliance will determine how much time you have to run.” She didn't raise her voice, in fact she sounded almost congenial, but there was no mistaking the sincerity to his words. He was fucked, no matter how this ended, and he knew it. Her words seemed to be working but she would never know as from behind her they heard the sound of the spectral wolves growling and then the shrieks of a female as the wolves attacked in their defense as the woman tried to interfere.
Morlis' eyes widened in panic as he watched what went on behind him though neither of them bothered with even a glance. She saw his lips move as he tried to speak through Akuma's grip, “Tessa! Okay....okay...call them off...I'll tell you..how to find her.” And like that the wolves stopped. There was no word, no gesture, not even a look from Natani but they sudden ceased their attack and retreated to stand closer to Natani. Glancing to Akuma they shared a look and he released Morlis to allow the other demon to crumble to their feet. His words rasped through a bruised throat as he gave them what they wanted, “The key..its in the box. Take it to the mirror and press it to the surface as if you are unlocking a door. It will open into her underwater laboratory. It's not in the Empire, its on earth..England or Scotland or something. It's heavily fortified from what I understand.” The moment he spoke of the box she had moved to where it had landed on the floor and had it opened, withdrawing a key just as he said.
Dropping the box she moved to the mirror and again his words were proven as the mirror went opaque and then seemed to open through the wall into another room. Glancing down at Morlis she sighed. “You know you'll never see her again...I hope having her was worth all of this.” Glancing to Akuma she waited for him to make the call. “Do we go now or wait for back up?” She was more than willing to follow him in there but she trusted his judgment, it was his pack.
Akuma`Prism made sure to keep an eye on Morlis, only glancing to make sure what he said was true once or twice. The key was used to open the “door” and he finally looked down to the Italian fuck who clutched his stomach in front of him. Go or wait for back up. Reasonable people would say wait for back up. It was the smart thing to do. Who knew how many guards or whatever the fuck defended her castle there were? Not only that but just in case Talisy got away it would probably be better to have more people there to track her.
Yeah..a reasonable person would definitely wait for back up. Maybe next time this kinda shit happens there’ll be one around. Right now there was him, and he was totally fucking unreasonable. His knees bent so that he could crouch down next to Morlis, his hand reached down to cup his chin and force him to look up at him. “Remember this fuckin’ face, faggot. Remember what could’ve happened t’ya…but didn’t. If I have t’show this face around ya again…I’m gonna make you shit out ya teeth.” Shoving his face away he stood up and walked towards the mirror.
“Back up. Nah. Two people can get in somewhere a lot easier than two hundred. If we call anyone there’s gonna be sirens, and storm stroopers, and all kinds of shit..she’ll see us comin’ a mile away. Besides..if she’s with that douche bag..” his thumb gestured over - his shoulder towards Morlis; “..I think she’s used to over lookin’ really obvious shit. So we should be alright. And if we’re not..at least it’ll be one Hell of a date huh?” As he was walking out he called out to Morlis; “..By the way..I fucked ya woman…and she said it’s the best she’s ever had. Sucks t’be you, huh?” And then they’d headed through the mirror.
Alidia · - Once again returned to the Desiderio house. A sheepish expression slipped over her features as she began to look for Morlis. She had once again been unable to control her emotions with him when she was here earlier. And while she was still pretty damn pissed, she should be able to control herself better than that. After she had gone a little farther into the house however, she realized that other members of her pack where also here. Shit. In an instant she was bursting through the door to Morlis' room, almost tripping over Tessa.
Only a brief glance is spared for her as her gaze finds the form of Morlis laying in the floor. She falls to his side and reaches out to touch his cheek. Pain sweeps across her face as Ali looks at him. Her misty gaze glances up to the retreating forms of Akuma and Natani... and finds herself in the middle of an emotional and instinctual turmoil. The demon side of her was completely loyal to her creator, while the wolf longed to join her pack mates. Tears slipped across her cheeks as she leans down and caresses her cheek against Morlis'. “You will heal,” she whispers frantically. “You tried to keep me from my pack member.”
This comes out as a hiss from between her teeth as she shoves him backward, albeit much more gently than he had been treated at the hands of the others. She swipes at her eyes, anger and sadness fighting to take control of her face. “Dammit.” Shoving to her feet, she gives Morlis another lingering look before turning to follow Akuma and Natani.
Talisy`Aensland Unfortunately the wolves were met with one problem. The second Morlis's hand touched that key in durress, her screen flared a warning. Morlis's face for as long as that key was out of the box. The male, the female. The conversation no as it was only morlis via her collar that could communicate with her. However, she couldn't stop the key activating the portal. "Guards, stand ready. We have a date with destiny." Her hand went to the keyboard and went to work. Cameras were activated, survelance around the portal room.
Sylvana's room she hit the lock that would drop the thick hard titanium walls behind the stone ones. Trying to fortify that room off at the same time in the lesser room she had slightly less control as the main computers were hidden in a panel within Sylvanas. Never the less she was irritated, aggitated to see Morlis drug into this, battered and bruised. Somehow she would make amends for this, as to her death wasn't an option. However the question was, how to do this , how to get things situated as for the moment it seamed quite the mission impossible. Granted she could shunt Sylvana to some place else and she could form a portal for herself for her and Salome. But how long could cat and mouse go without someone dieing from it. The guards well they were cannon foder in her opinion they were trained to die at the master or in this case the Mistress's commands. However she wasn't about the not set up for the worst case scenario, they were
Not taking all her years of work away from her. Typing buttons she started a system purge of all files, records having to do with anything other then security and the running of the facility. A purge that would store at her secondary labratory some place a vast different world away well rather on the other side of modern day earth out of sight out of mind. Sylvana was protected by guards, her security However somehow that little feeling like little sister was going to rat her out was there nagging. Morlis was again a concern as she started setting up the defense systems to an active statis. No allarms, everything seamed normal, except well how the guards were acting, how the citizens of her little castle were acting.
There was a rush, a buzz as though something was going on. Silently she touched her collar and murmured hopefully with some form of reflection to morlis her words. "I'm sorry, I will make amends somehow." A moment of regret, remourse as she wasn't heartless. For now she worked on getting things fized so perhaps, the wolves would be the ones rueing this day.
Natani` She had stepped a single foot through the large standing mirror when she heard Akuma's comment, the one about fucking Morlis' woman? Yup, that's the one, and turning back with her right hand set upon the mirror's frame she gave him a dry look. “That was absolutely necessary?” she asked, a single brow raised as she smirked softly, a look that said she was amused in spite of herself. Easing fully through the portal she paused just on the other side of it to take stock of their surroundings. The portal room was obviously in a white stone castle, touches of technology visible within the archaic atmosphere.
Technology like cameras. As she sensed Akuma coming through behind her she announced their presence, “Cameras, so this isn't going to be a surprise attack. I'm sure Morlis got a warning to her somehow the slimy bastard.” The spectral wolves reappeared around her, prowling the chamber and she knew she would likely be calling in more of her...friends. Just then she felt another presence, another pack member, and a few minutes later Alidia appeared in the portal. It was obvious the woman was torn in her loyalties between them and Morlis. It was only natural, much as she would no doubt be should Dread ever call upon the maker/chyld bond though it had been weakened considerably with the addition of Ameerah's blood.
She didn't fault Alidia for her torn sympathies as some might but rather offered her an understanding smile. The important thing was that Alidia was there, she had chosen her pack. “Good to see you.” Reaching out she rest her hand on Alidia's shoulder for a brief moment in a silent show of support then turned her attention to the matter at hand. One of the spectral wolves had moved to a large metal door that no doubt led out of this room and canting her head she whispered softly, “There are guards just outside the door.” A second later the marching could be heard on the floor as they passed the portal room and her body tensed in readiness for the possibility that the guards would enter the portal room.
Sure enough the sound of footsteps stopped and the metal door began to rise as the spectral wolves began backing away, closing in on the three of them in a protective ring, their teeth bared in snarls. Glancing to Akuma she grinned slightly, “Welcome wagon?”
Akuma`Prism At times like that there were only a handful of ways you could react…and he fell back on an all too familiar instinct. It was just like the cage door was closing, his face just seemed to turn to an unreadable mask. A few loose jabs were thrown low as he began walking forward. His body shifted in size and appearance with every step as his skin took on a diamond like aesthetic. Whatever light there was around gleamed off of each polished surface while he went from a pretty solid, 6’0 man to a 7’2 diamond fucking monster.
The new wolf additions were seen in the patches of crystallized hair on his chest, across his upper back, and on the tops of his forearms. Ears pointed slight and he decided not to give the fuckers the chance..he figured that it was best to put a little fear into them. So instead of waiting he rushed the metal door and -drove- it into the metal like a battering ram. The metal dented in a good ¾ of a foot, and the sound echoed through the entire hall on the other side. The entire fucking wall of stone shook with the impact. Now it was the soldiers on the other side who started backing up. They saw 2 hands grab the bottom of the door through the gap that had been made and he just dead-lifted it up..bending the steel as he brought it up and over his head, making it look like wrinkled skin. There were about 12 of them, and all 24 eyes just stared up at him. They all had weapons but no one wanted to be the first to use theirs…until some asshole shot a round at him.
The .50 cal round hit him in the upper right chest, and it deflected with a ricochet that caused 1 of the guards closest to him a good chunk of his head. After that they all started firing, backing up as they did…and dozens upon dozens of bullets bounced off of his skin as he lowered his stance and just drove forward in a solid sprint. He was a fucking train, and every guard on the rails was plowed over. The ones who managed to side step? Well, they’d have 2 pissed off bitches to deal with.
Alidia lays her hand over Natani's, still having to swipe at the tears that refused to leave her. She follows her pack without any hesitation though. Once they are through, she frowns and takes a step closer to Akuma's back. She had never been one to thrive on action, but is suddenly struck with a startling realization. When the bullets started flying to them, she wasn't struck by any kind of mind numbing fear. For a moment she is stunned, then reaches over and grabs Natani's arm. “There are guns and I am not freaking out!”
A laugh actually bubbles across her lips. Of course, Tani would have no clue what she was talking about but Akuma was rather occupied and Ali felt she had to share at the moment. And when a soldier stepped in on her side of their little triangle, it was with a light step and a smile still on her lips that she quickly knocked his feet out from under him and kicked that bastard in the head hard enough to send him into a coma. She steps on his chest and over him, continuing to follow their bullet proof Akuma. Ali glances around them all and finally grunts, “Sheesh, where the heck did all this stuff come from?”
Talisy`Aensland The fireworks were starting as she watched the cameras in the portal room. "Son of a bitch.. I want his dna... I want it.. I want to study that one." She hmmed tapping a fingertip on her lips as her fingers petted the pink haired girl's tresses. She sat on the side of the capsel watching on from the screnes, were it a panic thing she'd have bailed already but it never hurt to study the advisaries and it seemed she had 3. A diamond wolf like creature, a strange woman that had wolves with her, and then Alidia one of Morlis's other consorts. Amusing why she'd stand against one of her fellow consorts. A shrug of her shoulder was taken. "Collect dna from them, any means possible. They can die for all I care, I want their dna for further studies."
Small as she was she coled her feet back and forth as if she was on a swing. The male bulldozed his way through some of her guards, Others quick to pick up that guns were a faulty endavor switched to other weapons. None of her guards however were humans. "Cat's out of the bag I suppose. Show them a little of the might that is the Makai." She commanded sweetly with a beautiful smile at that point. Seveal of the guards shifted fully revealing lycanthrophy, some showed themselves as vampires. All enlisted, serving willingly to the Aensland Family, others were demons and some of her more powerful ones were keeping the Sylvana guarded. With the presence of the other wolves her life signs had started to pick up. Tilting her head she smiled watching on. Her voice though soft, sweet gentle almost child liek resonated through the hallways.
"Welcome to Elismera, alas, I don't welcome uninvited guests. " She chimed in then severed her voice to them. Their voices, words would broadcast to her. Her computer screen flashed to gain her attention, all it too was one button and they were all standing in a ticking time bomb. The escape routes mapped, data purged from sight as were her specimens. Perhaps it would be best to run but for now she watched, studied and planned.
Natani` She knew the look that came over Akuma's face. Knew it quite well, in fact, and expected the transformation before it started. She hadn't seen his “demonic” form since Ameerah had changed him though and she took a moment to inspect him now, the wolf influence obvious in his features, the fur, and lack of wings. Seeing as how the door was the only way out she watched, poised to act, as Akuma battered in the door and crumbled it to tissue, the spectral wolves tightened around her and Alidia, all of their movements happening without a single gesture or word from Natani. They moved as if of the same mind as her and in truth they were.
It was no regular ink that graced her skin, heavily magicked ritual tattoos imbued with her blood and life force the tattoos were an extension of herself and as she watched Akuma batter through the guards to the sound of a hail of gunfire several more rose as ghostly tendrils from her skin, the hawks returning as well as additional wolves. She could summon as many as her energy level could support and when she was fully charged that happened to be a lot. Suddenly Alidia gripped her arm and she glanced at her, alarmed until she saw the smile on Alidia's face. Realizing her announcement was some sort of breakthrough for her she smiled and nearly laughed as Alidia gleefully took down one of the guards that managed to get behind Akuma.
Realizing Alidia would be able to handle herself she turned her attention back to the fray just a two more guards made their appearance. The wolves swarmed, a wind not felt on the physical level stirring her hair as she wielded the astral weapons, the spectral pack descending on the guards and tearing into them. It was then that the guards began to shift, revealing lycans, vampires, demons...oh my. Realizing it was time for her to unleash one of her alternate forms, something she rarely did as her control of it was still tenuous at best, she sighed and let the change flow over her. It was as fluid as water, her skin darkening to a deep gleaming copper as she gained several inches in height, her body becoming heavier, more well muscled, her hands extending into clawed talons. She was an abomination in the eyes of vampire and wolf circles everywhere, a hybrid of, and stronger than, them both. The spectral hawks swooped from the room, seeking out Sylvana's location, able to use their eyes at her will.
They had to know which direction to fight in. Her eyes continued to blaze the icy blue fire and her fangs extended to lengths they typically did not take, even when feeding. “The hawks will guide us,” was all she said before she was on the nearest guard, the spectral wolves joining the fray as well, the nearest guard, a lycan, dying swiftly as her right hand punched through his chest, his heart in the damage path. She almost lost it at the scent of blood but retained enough presence of mine to continue on. They had to find Sylvana.
Akuma`Prism Waste not want not. The weapons dropped in his direct path he started picking up 2 at a time. It wasn’t a question of him being -stronger- than the guards..they just couldn’t seem to do any damage to him. Alidia and Natani were kept in the rear and he just moving forward, a bulletproof wall between the women and the majority of the guards they faced. The guards ran, they ducked and covered, they evaded..he didn’t need to waste any time with that shit. But as he was moving forward he caught something from the corner of his eye..a dark green tarp. A tarp always meant something good was underneath. And even as bullets kept hitting him and reflecting away he grabbed the green plastic and pulled it down.
What he saw made his eyes widen..and the way whatever it was had been set into the deposit in the wall, the guards couldn’t see what it was he’d found. A few seconds later his upper body leaned back out, and he had what looked to be a .50 cal mini gun that was meant to be set as a defense measure but hadn’t been got to yet. The grin on his face revealed a mouth full of jaws and the guards suddenly tried to take off in the opposite direction. All it took was the press of a button and massive 50 caliber rounds started tearing up the entire place..the walls, the bodies in front of him, doors…everything. Talisy called out to -them over some kind of P.A. system. He heard her and he stopped firing long enough to answer; his deep, slightly growled voice reverberating through every tunnel around them.
“Yeah? That’s too bad. Ya really gonna hate it then when I shove a thousand rounds up ya ass.” Tani said follow the hawks and that’s exactly what he’d do. The hawk’s led them down a hallway that broke off into a walkway. On that walkway he saw 3 different staircases..and the hawk’s flew towards the middle staircase. Wolf, demon, vampire..it didn’t matter. Hundreds of 50 cal rounds were tearing entire body parts away when they hit, and by the looks of the massive barrel magazine that he’d slung over his back…he had more bullets than this place had defenses. “We’re comin’ for ya Talisy! Better think quick about which hole ya gonna go hide in!…Get off me motha fucka!” A guard tried a -surprise- attack from 1 of the side doorways, and he caught the long barrels of the mini gun right across his face before they were aimed down and drilled enough rounds into him to turn his body into a pink puddle of shit.
Talisy`Aensland More of the specral and astral creatures lead her gaze to that of the woman at the center. She seemed to have some form of sway to tell them the hawks would lead the way. Her fingers tapped a little bit as her guard in small numbers fell. The shift showing vampiric and lycan ancestry made her giggle. "I guess my ice girl has a new little companion to be on the winds." She murmred softly to herself as her fingers still summoned a great deal of patience.
Caressing the bruised face of Salome while the fingers played within the sweet soft pink strands of hair. Gunshots, blood and death soiled her bueaitufl castle irritating her honestly. She didn't appreciate them messing up her home, it was very rude in her opinion.The male's commentary just brought a merry bout of laughter from her at that point as the hawks lead the way toward the staircases. "I think we should leave them a present yes, precious?" She asked of Salome as at that point she was the one in control still as her guard were cut down. Some fought actually fought despite the bullets, rather uncaring of physical injury or even death. Her lips remained coiled into a beautiful smile as again from the pa she said softly. "Why must we be enemies. We could help one another, I have no limits to what I can get my hands on.. even if it's to stop you. So let's try to be friends yes? You want the girl, she can be given back."
She offered nicely as her fingers pressed into salome's temples. The fact that the one girl knew her current captive amused her a little bit. "Summon your army little one.. summon your army of the fallen." She encouraged applying a direct charge of her energy to the woman's brain enough to stimulate that part of her brain only. Her smile turned up. Soon her fallen guard would rise again, leaving them a little problem. Only when they reached the main thick doors did it seem there might not be an easy entrance in.. other then a panel of silver that shined. A faint reflection showed there of a hand showing it required genetic identification to enter into the central tower.
Natani` She left the shit talking to Akuma, he was better at it anyway, and her concentration was focused fully on controlling her own impulses as well as the spectral entities she controlled. Akuma found a gun that made short work of their enemies, for the most part, but there were others who continued to fight in spite of it and the scent of death reached her nose. Something was keeping these guards alive even after they'd been killed. Alidia continued to fight at her side, new to the whole brawling thing but doing her very best and she made it look almost dainty. Akuma led the way, following the spectral hawks and as the guards attacked more ghostly tendrils lifted from her skin, her back this time, and several gleaming knives formed of energy just as the wolves and hawks were appeared and as she moved they sliced and stabbed at those who attacked her, the knives moving in an instinctive dance around her body in concert with the ghostly animals, the energy creations forming a protective circle around her as she followed Akuma into the hallway that led to the central tower. When they reached the door they were thwarted by a heavy steel door, warded and reinforced and protected by what appeared to be a genetically keyed lock.
There was only one way she could think of to get past it and glancing at Akuma she made a split decision and backed herself into the nearest corner to protect her back before sinking to her knees, the wolves circling around her in a protective ring as her figure returned to that of her human form, her attention and energy needed elsewhere now. With a smile at Akuma and Alidia, who stood near Natani as if she sensed she'd need to be guarded, she closed her eyes and a heartbeat later another ghost like cloud rose from her body only this time...this time it took Natani's form. She was, quite literally, out of her body, the energy of several protective sigils glowing in the air around her to protect her spirit while in the astral, it was her body that was vulnerable now, her attention split between maintaining her own astral form as well as the wolves who guarded her.
Easing through the very wall she was soon in the same room as Sylvana, who appeared to be awakening. That was promising but would do them no good if she couldn't get the door down. It was then that she struck pay dirt and seeing the computer console she floated to hover in front of it. Unable to spare the energy to take a more physically solid form she couldn't touch it but her hands reached out to hover over it, several tendrils of energy extending from her fingertips to snake their way into the computer. The console began to glow as she searched for a way to circumvent the security system. It was magic meets technology but one was not mutually exclusive from the other and slowly but surely she used her energy to take control of Talisy's security system.
There was resistance, certainly, so she focused only on the power surrounding Sylvana's room and with a sudden surge of her own personal energy that caused several of her protective wolves to disappear she shunted the power to this room and shut down all the power and security to Sylvana's chambers as somewhere a warning siren began to sound. Please let this work.
Akuma`Prism Natani did her “ghost walk” thing and he kept her body safe, shooting the bodies until even if they were reanimated they were in too many pieces to be a threat. Finally while holding the button of the gun the barrels went -click- and spun without shooting. Damn..out of ammo. He tossed the gun aside along with the ammo barrel. Standing there for a few seconds he saw a shitload of thick cables on the wall across from him..and while he wasn’t the smartest man in the world..he did do a bit of thinking. His body was basically a giant diamond..and when put through a diamond, electricity grew in strength just like a laser became hotter.
He walked over to the cables just as he heard the door to Sylvana’s tower opening. His large hands grabbed the cables and pulled them harshly, tearing them down so that the live ends sparked in both of his hands. “Looks like we both can get our hands on some pretty useful shit! Doesn’t it, bitch?!” And he sighed softly knowing how much this was going to sting. The two halves of cable were pushed against his chest, and suddenly his entire body reflected the surging blue light of the electricity. With such a large diamond the amps went up in fractions of a second and suddenly -way- more energy than the castle needed was being fed directly into its power system. Computers screens exploded in every room..electronics sparked and fizzled before dieing out, and the main power cell of the entire castle itself cracked, unable to contain the massive amount of amps that were being fed into it so fast.
He kept the cables to him with his jaw tensed, feeling every last bit of electricity as it passed through his body and completed the circuit. If the castle had a main reactor…yeah, that shit was gonna blow. Apparently something bad was going to happen..because guards were hauling ass to get away from there. “They..call me..Mr. Fahrenheit…I’m travelin’…at the…speed…of light..”
Talisy`Aensland Her watched through the screens as nothing was not visible to her. Her lips compressed a great deal, "I want her dna... " She growled but was mostly talking to herself. The girls actions were interesting, curiously interesting until she started fucking with tali's computers. Now that's where tali got pissed off, the woman dared to fuck with her shit and that there annoyed the hell out of her. The man's actions that made her drop her jaw.
"Are you retarded, you'll kill your own pack member!" She screetched at that point. Her fist slammed down on the main button that set the building on total lock down, all purge, it was the most she could do without the main computers. Sylvana's room shut down as the boy did his actions. "Mother fucker." She screamed and with a fistful of pink hair she opened a portal rift. "This is far from over." Oh yes.. oh so villianess like. The problem was there were few and far places that she could go. Going to the Makai would involve all of that realm, they would all risk death to protect her. After dorian beat her ass of course, and then she could go to one of her other labratories. Oh she wasn't liking having to retreat. The button however would deny Akuma his massive fireworkds display as the castle shunted and the reactor core itself would be ejected.
Leaving the castle on energancy generators that would come online after 5 minutes of the main power grid going down. To say the least she wasn't amused, but with the power well down and out and the surge in the wolves favor, she chose to retreat for the time being. "Damn it.. now I can't even give Morlis his present." She hmmphed to herself. Dragging the concubine like female after her well on the floor like rag doll. The older succubus demon sighed and closed the rift after her. The scourge of undead however would keep growing for the time being at least until their controler's presence entirely vanished. Then there would be silence.
Natani` Some where, some how, it worked and slowly the door to Sylvana's prison began to open. As it did so it revealed Akuma grabbing two very massive cables and pulling them free before putting the live ends to his chest. A wordless scream parted her lips as she reached out a ghostly hand to try to stop him but it was too late and the energy began to course through him. She didn't know what would happen and knew he could take a lot of damage without it hurting him in the long run but the sight reduced that logic to fear as she saw him tense under the onslaught. She wasted several precious moments trying to speak without a voice before remembering her lessons and slowly regaining her wits.
She needed a body to do anything about what was going on and her shade was seen drifting towards where she left her body behind, slumped slightly forward on her knees as Alidia and what remained of her spectral wolves guarded her. It had drained her, without a doubt. She'd gone straight to Akuma without feeding earlier so she was burning through what reserves she had though the power of the wolf kept her going at least. Easing back into her body her eyes opened with a sudden gasp as she reoriented to being physical and rising to her feet she leaned heavily on Alidia for a moment as she again started to call out to Akuma but just then the entire building shut down, all power failing. As if she could sense the absence of the demon they hunted she knew Talisy was no longer there.
“She's gone...we'll have to wait for Ameerah to get her, but Sylvana's in there.” Using Alidia to steady herself as she walked into the room she went immediately to the table where Sylvana lay, her hands reaching out for the girl as she began to remove all of the paraphernalia that was attached to her. It was as her hands brushed the girls skin that she felt it, the difference, and she stilled. “She changed her...she's..going to be like me now. A different strain of vampire...I can't place it but...she won't be the girl you knew.” And she may very well be hungry when she woke up.
Reaching out she tapped lightly at Sylvana's cheek, ready at any moment for the girl to lunge at her, having no idea how it worked on the reverse end, she'd been a vamp made a wolf, not a wolf made a vamp. Glancing to Akuma she looked him over to make sure he was alright before speaking. “We may need to carry her out of here.”
Akuma`Prism Sure, being a living battery hurt a bit…but it wasn’t anything he couldn’t deal with. Once the power shut down he dropped the cables, able to fake out the succubus by making her think he’d actually let things go far enough to where he killed Sylvana. He had been bluffing..and apparently it worked because Talisy bailed out and all the security measures of the castle had been brought down. Helping Natani to Sylvana’s room he eyed her on the table, listening to what Tani explained before saying anything. “If there’s somethin’ wrong with her than I know two people that can help…but I’m kind of on their shit-list right now so…I dunno.
But if she needs to be carried I can do that.” After all the shit was pulled off of the girls body he slid his large arms beneath her (1 under her legs and the other under her shoulders) and he cradled her from the metal table before turning and heading out of the room. As they stepped out he looked from side to side, and in the midst of all the blood, body parts, shell casings and weapons, he saw several different firearms that could make quite a bang. “Ya know..with the power down in this place I figure the emergency generators are gonna kick on in a few minutes and put this place on some kinda lockdown. Before that happens…maybe she would say goodbye?”
His eyes moved from Natani and Alidia to the massive glass dome like sphere that surrounded the castle. All the metal doors and magic in the world wouldn’t be enough to protect the place from the entire fucking ocean. And if ever there was a chance to take the whole castle down it would be now with every defense waiting for the emergency back up power to kick on.
Talisy`Aensland Talisy was gone but to a place that would come to light soon enough. The moonlight streamed down upon her pacing form. Salome was again sequestered in a labratory style room. She however was pacing, her lips compressed at this point. Irritated and annoyed at this point to have abandoned her base and favorite home. She had to figure how to resecure it again. With the wolves there, it would be a while before she ventured there again in case they set a trap. One never knew, as for Morlis she wanted to go check on him. It was not something she was liking so much as as long as the collar was on her, she was bound to him.
Where as back in Elismera the lights were down the flickered on in a slow steady glow liek a flashlight with half a battery worth left of charge. All around was the scent of death and blood and yet through mentally awake, Sylvana's body wouldn't move. With all the iv's and things attached to her body she asn't going to be moving much either until they were all removed. Smelling pack Sylvana's ears seemed to open , to listen. Not sure what she was but it didn't feel good.
The word Vampire resonated within her head along with tali's pet name of her. Revenant. Ias that who and what she was? It burned in her as much as an infernal snog that made her want to claw her own skull open. Fingernails elongated as she was picked up but no she didn't seem to respond. Hearing akuma she twitched her nails. Lips moved to form a solitary phrase. "Self Destruct Purple Button." There was no actual spoken words, her lips moved and that woud probably be enough along with if Akuma knew Ameerah from a few years back. He'd recognize the pendant on Sylvana's neck. It was Ameerah's own blood she'd made to give all the old pack a instant teleportation back to the empire. All that was needed was it gripped and the place described and off you went.
It might help if anything else. Even with generators down, that button would bring everything crashing down with a 30 second warning. Back on the ramparts as she paced back and forth. "I swear to god they better not destroy my castle.. Or god forbid fuck on my bed. Blech!" She huffed grouchily keeping her pacing.
Natani` Alidia helped steady Natani, her own blood lust rising as her weakened body demanded she refuel but she had far more control than Sylvana would and she wasn't about to lose her focus right now. Akuma gathered the girl once all the shit was removed and he started for the door. It was seeing Sylvana's hands grow claws that caused her to stop Akuma in case the girl was about to frenzy. It was then her lips moved and leaning over her she strained to hear her words, something about a purple button and then she finally made out the word destruct.
It wasn't a full explanation but she got the gist of it just as Akuma suggested they do a little redecorating before they left. Letting her still icy blue eyes pass over the room she finally spotted what Sylvana must have been referring to. “Over there,” she announced, her free hand rising and pointing towards the computer with the purple button on it. She and Alidia made their way to it and staring down at it she finally glanced at Akuma. “We'll have to move fast...very fucking fast. I'm not exactly at full speed here.”
She was the liability in this, and she knew it, and the last thing she wanted to do was to endanger her pack. She liked the idea of destroying the little bitch's playground too but not at the potential harm of her pack mates. She wasn't disagreeing, just pointing out all the angles. They didn't have time for mistakes and her eyes met Akumas's as she waited for his decision. In Ameerah's absence he was the dominant wolf she turned too for guidance for the pack as a whole. No pressure though. She had been gone from the Empire before the pendants had been made for the old pack so she didn't realize that the amulet would get them back to the empire with just a thought. Akuma should recognize it though.
Akuma`Prism Purple button. Pendant on neck. He was sure those 2 things could be used to their advantage somehow. Wait…wait…it’d come to him. Hmm. Ohhhhh. Gesturing his head towards the button he finally responded; “Push the button. We’ll use Sylvana’s necklace to bring us back to the palace. It’s kind of like a deSade door prize. The closest members of the family got one, and no matter where you are..all ya have t’do is think of a place t’go and it’ll take ya there. We just have t’make sure we’re thinkin’ of the same place. I don’t want t’end up at the palace while my nuts end up in a teepee in the middle of Bumfuck Arizona.”
He grinned a bit as he allowed his body to lose the change and revert back to the human looking skin. Whether Natani pressed the button herself, or Alidia did it, or one of the ghost animals..whoever went through with it would have to job back because he was just about to curl his hand around to touch the amulet. “Ok.. we’re goin’ t’the warehouse. She needs t’rest..not a bunch of people around her askin’ questions and lookin’ for revenge. All that bullshit can come later.” The countdown had already started and his fingers touched to the amulet just before Alidia’s and Natani’s did.
In a flash they all just “disappeared” and almost instantly reappeared inside the bedroom area of his loft. He was quick to lay Sylvana down gently and pull the sheets up over her before looking towards Ali. “I know ya wanna go talk t’him hon…go ahead. And thanks.” Ali smiled and left in a flash. Once she was gone he looked towards Natani and exhaled a deep sigh of relief. “..So, we live t’fight th’forces of evil for another day. Score.”
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:44 am
