by Kadina » Mon May 20, 2002 4:18 pm
(Ooc: If you want Lysa I could post your posts for the others and post their post here for you, so you can still rp if they don't come here.)
Greywolf_Immortal:
"Step aside," Jackal smirked. He walked up to the security cnsole and pulled a small metal pad with several wires sticking from the side from one of his belt pouches. He place it over the keypad and pressed a tiny button on the surface. The machine gave a small whirring as Jackal smirked, waiting for something. "A little device of my own invention," he boasted.
Greywolf set Pearl down and arched a brow. "What the hell does it do?"
Meanwhile, Bane looked behind them at Hime, his face as unreadable as his brother's had been. He stood still as a statue with his arms folded over his chest. He was a very unnerving sight to behold, standing tall and intimidating with his jet hair, red eyes, and black clothes.
"How does it feel to be on the recieving end for once," he asked in a monotone voice. "Well?"
As this went on, Jackal smirked proudly. "It scans the fingerprints on a keypad left behind as far back as a year. The keys with the heaviest layer of fingerprints on them are often the ones most frequently pressed and there's a good likelihood that they are the numbers in the entrance code." The scarred twin puffed out his chest proudly as the device gave a small beep and displayed several illuminated squares on its surface.
"Perhaps not all machines are as useless as I thought," Greywolf said under his breath.
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Kadina:
"Ok, now we're getting somewhere!" stated Yun and started typing a code, which blinked wrong, and a number poped up displaying attempted tries, "Let's try that again..." after eight more tries he got acess to the files needed, "Now the problem is how to shut it off, I assume you might be the expert on that, Jackal?" he asked stepping aside, "It will take some hacking into the defense system, but they will put on a defense in a matter of minutes, if we don't get it done quickly!"
Meanwhile Hime didn't even bother to lift her head, she knew who was speaking, and she cursed under her breath, "Why don't you leave me alone?!" she move to a corner facing the wall, "Why don't you do what you're brother told you to for once? Infact, yell at me if you want, hit me if you want, but don't just stand there like that!" she told him glaring at the wall, "...If you really want to know though Bane...I've been on the recieving end since I was born, I'll never rule since everyone has left Jiya, nobody really knew about my brother and me for 'safety' reasons, but we were 'accepted' for being better then most of the other bastard children he had! You will never know how much pain that hurts to live in a place where you watched helplessly, so many people who you knew and loved died!" she whispered angerily hitting the wall with her fist until they felt numb, "All that and that's just a part of the hell I live in, so don't think I don't know how it feels to hurt! 'Giving' sometimes eases the pain, everyone knows that...it's just the way life is, why should anyone always be mostly on the 'recieving' side? Must I be cursed by my bloodlines karma forever?!" with that all said she closed her eyes, laid on her back, and started playing with her hair lazily while humming a song she heard often as a child, just to block out the tears that came with the pain.
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Greywolf_Immortal:
Jackal cracked his knuckles and grinned. His fingers flew over the keyboard, keeping the contents of the monitor in front of himin constant motion. "Clever system they've got here. But nothing I haven't seen before. The basic structure and organization is pretty standard. Just a few alterations and safeguards."
With a triumphant grin, Jackal laid the final strokes on the keyboard and gained access to half of Jiya's computers on this lone terminal. "59 seconds! I'm on a roll."
Bane rolled his eyes at Hime. "Oh spare me! Do you think just because you had a bad childhood you can take it out on the rest of us?" The long-haired twin sighed and hung his head.
"For your information, I know exactlywhat it feels like losing loved ones. Did you know Jackal and I were once two of three? Triplets? Our brother, Shadow, was killed three years ago, torn to shreds by ghouls. And all Jackal and I could do was watch him die.
"Do you see me taking that out on everyone else? I offered you my help because I felt sorry for you. I saw someonewho felt like I did when Shadow died. Now all I see is a child who refuses to think of anything beyond her own misfortune."
Bane pursed his lips and slowly walked over to Hime. "I'm not going to help you up again, because I know you won't take it. All I want is to see you think of something other than yourself. What do you think Gamma 8 would say seeing you lying there like a baby? I ask myself what Shadow would say to me if he saw me depressed and moping over the tragedies of my past."
He looked down at her in silence for a moment. "Tell you what, I'll make you an offer you'll undoubtedly find appealing. If you can stand up on your own, I'll let you kick me in the crotch. If you can, I'll stop bothering you. If not...." Bane simply shrugged. "Then I guess you just have to grow up."
Greywolf twitched his ears this way and that, straining to hear as far down the corridors as possible, hearing Bane and Hime's conversation and thinking both of them to be completely insane.
"And there goes the anti-magic field," Jackal boasted as the screen displayed the shut down of the field.
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Kadina:
"Wow....that was beautiful...." whispered Yun in awe at how fast Jackal got the system down, "Where did you learn your skills?!" he asked Jackal.
"Beautiful?" Pearl whispered giggling, "I wonder was Yun really talking about his skills with the computer or Jackal himself?"
"Maybe both!" Jerec whispered back, they both glanced between Yun and Jackal then covered their mouths to surpress their laughter.
"Huh?..." Yun looked up at the two confused, "What are you guys laughing at?"
"Nothing...." they both said quickly, Yun looked at them strangely before turning his attention back to Jackal.
"Um Katyana..." Jerec coughed to get her attention, "What were you guys talking about back there, if you don't mind me asking..." he asked taking a seat down next to her, "I heard...a name and was wondering why you seem so mad at Sekor and Wuflric, they care about you a great deal."
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Hime sat up and looked up at him with her eyes wide, almost in awe, mixed with shock and respect for Bane, "You would let me hurt you, why would you do that for me?" she asked him, wondering what in the world was going through his mind, she crossed her arms still looking at him, smirking in her mind, but had a blank face shown to him, thinking of how he would answer her questions.
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"Who's up there? Show yourself or I'll...use a spell on you!" she threatened now slowly feeling the rush of magic returning, and took stance, waiting while in fear was nerve wrecking.
Suddenly a beeping sound came from the screen, Kadina turned to look at it, "What?..." words scroll down until a window pops up showing the others on camra, "...the others!..Where's Gam?!..."
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Greywolf_Immortal:
Greywolf smirked at Pearl as he looked at his hands, which now had dark energy arcs dancing over them. He lowered his hands and let the power dissipate. He now had his magic back and was ready to payback the Slayer for what it did to his friends.
Jackal grinned proudly. "Self-taught, my friend. Self-taught. Everything my brother and I know we learned on our own." The scarred twin hooked his thumbs on his belt and puffed out his chest to show off the various gadgets and weapons he had designed himself. Perhaps this group wasn't so bad after all. Bane wasn't the only one who appreciated genius.
Bane himself was still looking down at Hime. "I'll explain later. Suffice to say, I have my reasons. Now I'm going to make the offer one more time. You can stand up, kick me in the crotch and I'll leave you alone to be as childish as this whole thing sounds... Or you can stand up and grow up. Which is it going to be?" The long-haired brother stood perfectly still, like statue clad in black. He looked dark and intimidating, but at the same time he seemed to almost be silently daring Hime to strike him. "I'm only going to give you another ten seconds to make your decision, because we can't wait around much longer. We need to find the others. Your brother. 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2..."
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Kadina:
"1." Hime huffed and got up facing him for a moment eye to eye not moving, "....I don't hate you, you know." she half scoffed half whispered, her arms still crossed as she walked pass him to Yun, who had a silent staring contest before acting like nothing had happened between them.
Yun was mentally drooling over Jackal, but was composed enough not to show it much...when Hime arived they did what they always did through the years, pretend the fight never occured and go on being the strange sort of friends they were.
"Our powers are back!" praised Pearl doing a sort of dance like before, "The others will be easier to find if they use they're powers!" letting some magic heal what little wounds she had, "I feel so....alive..." she sighed.
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scyla:
Slowly gamma 8 (hereafter known as bowie) emerged from the vent shaft.
"Evening!" he said calmly, droping down on to the floor from a short hight. his hair was tied back now, leaving two strainds hanging down either side of his face. He looked different from the last time she saw him, and his eyes, a much deeper gray.
"Damn i've missed you." he said grabing hold of her and tightly.
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Kadina:
Kadina stood there in utter shock, she didn't realize it was him until he spoke, then again she wasn't expecting him to just drop down out of nowhere, ok so the vent wasn't nowhere, but still.
For a second she thought she was going crazy, "Wha...what are you doing here...and how did you find me, weren't you with the others?" she asked barly a whisper, she didn't know what to make of this, he acted like he hadn't seen her in...well forever. It even confused her more that she felt the same way, the hug was a warm welcome even if he did squeeze some of the air out of her lungs, but she gladly took it being so close to him.
She blushed dark crimson red that made her pale skin looked sun-burned, at the thought that he missed her, the tone of his voice when he said it made her smile, "Gam...did you follow me?" she hoped not, it was embarassing enough to know she was afraid of and ran (or crawled quickly) away from a small spider that seemed to chase her for fun half the trip in the vent.
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scyla:
"No, nothing like that. I followed your sent up this shaft." He said, while moving his left hand up her back, towards her head, runing his fingers though her hair as he went. His other hand sliping within kadinas front pocket (Don't get any dodgy ideas!). "look, I can't stay here long, I have to get moving again soon!"
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Kadina:
"Oh." sighed Kadina thankful he didn't see the embarassing momment, and looked shocked at him saying he had to go.
"What....but you just got here." she stated to him giving him a hurt look, "Where are you going?" she asked, even though she didn't know much about the place.
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Meanwhile a beeping noise is heard from the computer.
"Hey someone's on." Yun said looking back at the screen just as it displayed the scroll of words then showed Kadina and Gamma 8 on camra, "Ooooo...there they are..." he told the others.
Hime's eyes widen seeing her bother on the screen, "Gamma's alive!" she said happily then added dully, "...oh and her too....."
"Yes well..." Yun said bringing attention back to him, "We'll still have to find them, even if we can see them on screen now, doesn't mean we know what floor they're on."
"Please with all these peoples tracking skills it won't be long." Hime pointed out.
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scyla:
Gamma looked at kadina. She could tell by his eyes he didn't want to go. "I have to go finsih something." He said reluctently. He step bak and kadina felt a voice in her head. 'Don't follow me, this is our last good bye, I'm sorry.' With that he waved to her, reviling the disk and jumped into the vent.
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Kadina:
"Goodbye...." whispered Kadina looking up where he had so suddenly appeared form and disappeared to.
Her vision blurred with tears, and she leaned against the wall, "I'll never forget you..." she said feeling like a dagger had shot through her heart, but she knew they would heal with time.
The whole room was silent except for the sound of her breathing and the echos of her steps to the pod that she planned to go in and find the others with, "No one will even know about him, except us...how sad is it to live alone for most of your life then when you start to actually live you have to go?..." she thought as she steped in.
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(Remember the begining intro? I know if your a fan of Jhonen Vasquez's works, you'll know that I got the creature idea from "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac".)
Meanwhile out side the safety of the floating city, the winds seemed to roar while thunder and lightening ripped through the sky above the city and only the city.
The surrounding area seemed not to be effected by anything, it was like it wasn't happening at all.
Somewhere in the city there is a building with dead bodies on the ground, and a wall covered in a thick layers of blood that went down to a small hole in the floor, the door was now open, but it was suppose to always be locked to hide the shamful secret of Jiya's powers.
When the last ruler chose to ignore it, it desided to kill all the people, some had gotten away, but two children were left inside, forgotten in the rush.
So instead of killing them it took the boy to be it's feeder, the girl to keep it's feeder from feeling lonely, and created one to keep it safe, though that seemed to had back fired since it took a life all it's own.
Raven was it's feeder, he brought people to it and in secret try and distroy it, though many would die his way it was the only way he knew to without arrising alert to the monster, but he was now dead.
It had enough power from the previous feeder to roam around though it was still hungry for more power, and it's senses told it there were many victums near by.