I - Darkness Event

[darknpc]

What: Darkness Event
Who: Lucifer and Everyone (with your choice of NPC involvement)
Where: Genessia City (Four other cities and dimensions gates are excluded)
When: July 17, 2014
Warnings: Possible deaths. Horror. Flames. Darkness. Lightning. Falling Debris. People falling off buildings.

I

From the highest building of Genessia city emerged a dark and unwavering light. It lifted up into the heavens. It brought with it obsidian smoke swirling around the light as if a shroud of darkness. In an instant the bright skies lost its light. Thick black clouds descended from the heavens. They tossed, tumbled and seemingly kissed the city's skyline. It was noon and yet the sun was no where in sight. With all light, it stole all happiness from people who saw the dreaded skies.

Loud booms, sizzles and crackles were heard beyond the clouds - as if a prelude to the coming event. This lasted a while before everything became hauntingly silent. Nothing could be heard. Everything, from the ground to the skies were silenced.

Waiting.

Aching.

And finally welcoming.

The skies glowed eerily. Dark hues of crimson, azure and silver lined certain portions of the skies. Then a white light glowed. A light which ripped through the space between ground and skies, leaving a crisp sound in its wake. The lightning bolt was strong enough to make the very ground quake at its presence. After a moment of silence, similar bolts of lightning hit different areas of the city. Continuously. Relentlessly.

Following the thunderstorms, came a foul stench raining from the skies. It smelt like rotten eggs. Suffocating. It was Burning Sulfur. With the stench came black flaming orbs which plummeted wantonly on the buildings of Genessia City. It burned anything it could get its hands on.

The terrible weather continued for at least five minutes after it had started. Never softening. Just ending abruptly after it had left most of the city in flames.

II

Not too long after the skies started to brighten, after people assumed a crude state of sanity, an ominous circle of light emerged on top of Genessia Hospital. For a few seconds, there was nothing but silence. But slowly, the circle of light expanded its terrain. Soon, it was large enough to cover the entire medical building. But still it remained silent. For people who have affinity for arcane magic, they can sense the power flowing through the circle - an energy devoid of any positive light.

A minute after the circle first appeared, the land beneath it started to quake. Every pillar and every wall shivering and threatening to fall. Then, the same fire storm that was released around the city was concentrated to fall upon the hospital building. A barrage of obsidian flames fell to the building one after another. Never stopping until the building itself hasn't fallen. After the building has crumbled the flames slowly dwindled into the bright glow of scarlet flames.

((OOC: Each part here comes after each part from Lucifer's Video Feed. So Part I from the feed comes before Part I of the Log. Each section here will be divided to sections deemed appropriate for the event. Any further questions can be addressed from the ooc-community post or from this journal. Fights Lucifer will get into are limited due to ic (after his little show, it'll be too much if he can still fight a horde of people) and ooc reasons (basically too many fights will drive me bananas).))

Comments

[dragonform]

[Either he's unaware of Zeref watching, or is too focused on his task at hand to care. Though some of the people do react in fear to his presence, he does his best to communicate with his body language that he's trying to help them.

There even comes a time when a burning piece of rubble from a collapsing building comes to fall towards one of the humans he's trying to help, and he puts himself between the rocks and the human to protect them. Though it does hurt him, it's more the rocks than the flame that manage to cut into his scales.]

[deathsought]

{ He's seen worse happen to dragons. Acnologia, before he was allegedly turned into a dragon, butchered dragons by the hundreds simply because he could, whether they were his allies or not. He had taken Dragon Slayer Magic, and the mentality that came with it, to its ultimate extreme. Zeref didn't have access to any kind of healing magic, but it seemed like the dragon would be fine, for now.

He was now more curious than ever about dragons in this world. Whether or not this dragon was native to Genessia was irrelevant. He had been meaning to seek out dragons from other worlds for a while, after all. }

[dragonform]

[With the area cleared, Ryu turns his attention to seeking other people to try and help them. He might catch sight of Zeref if he doesn't bother trying to hide himself, but Ryu still won't pay him much heed other than giving him a look that more or less says "Help or leave." Though despite the cold glance, he wouldn't pay much more thought to the other man while people needed help. It's when he finds people with serious injuries that he's forced to change back, though he tries to be out of sight to those injured. He kneels over their forms and begins channeling his healing spells for those who need it.]

[deathsought]

{ If Zeref could, he would. Unfortunately, with powers like this, that can only destroy... the only way he could help was to find the culprit. Zeref avoided others for a reason. And if this dragon was friendly... he didn't want to make an enemy of it. He'd seen too much violence involving dragons over the centuries, both including the war four hundred years ago against dragons, and the centuries-long reign of terror caused by Acnologia.

Zeref turned, and began walking away, frowning; not because he didn't want to help, but because any help he'd have to offer would probably do more harm than good. }

[dragonform]

[Fortunately for Zeref, Ryu is a bit more amicable and less vengeful than most dragons, though perhaps they'll meet again under less trying circumstances. When Zeref's back is turned, Ryu changes back to his human form and sets about treating the injured with his healing magic. Part of him at least wants to check on Zeref and make sure he's okay, or at the very least ensure he had nothing to do with this.

Lucifer was already going to be a big enough target without having to worry about any minions.]