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nightbeyondfire ([personal profile] nightbeyondfire) wrote in [community profile] genessia2014-01-18 12:18 pm

"We opened the door to the shadows...

The man sat alone, back slumped against a wall as he stared down at the pistol in his hand, unloading and reloading it in silence. Over and over again. How long had he been here, ignoring the sounds of life around him and the chatter and racket from the communication device on the ground along with the discarded necklace? Days? Weeks? Months?

It didn't really matter. None of it did anymore.

Load. Unload. Reload.

"You look like crap."

The man looked up, staring upwards at his only companion for what felt like an eternity. Himself... only different, like seeing a photo negative version. The colors were all wrong and there were a few things off.

It had no eyes. He'd found that strange once before the feeling had been bled out of him.

Load. Unload.

It was this thing that had shown him the truth. It had started with whispers in his mind when he was alone and had grown from there, appearing in shadows, taking the place of his reflection and finally standing right there beside him exposing the plain, hopeless reality of where he'd found himself.

An ugly grin split the negative version's face.

"So, what's the hold up, jackass? You know what you have to do now."

Load.

Yeah, he did.

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In the early morning, it happened without warning. A shudder ran through the entire city and for just a moment it was almost as if reality itself... bent for a moment, warping out of shape before snapping out of place and one of the buildings of Genessia's skyline vanished into a rising cloud of smoke and dust.

The thing rose up out of the cloud, standing over the buildings around it. Misshapen, grotesque, it could only be called humanoid in the most generous of terms. Its body was colored in splotches of red and black, its limbs twisted with the right arm many times larger than the spindly left and it stood on legs that should have been bent and twisted too awkwardly to support it at all.

The head swiveled from side to side on a too-long twiglike neck, wide, blanket white eyes that seemed painted on searched the city and a toothless mouth opened wide in a low, groaning howl that rumbled over the city.

The creature’s body convulsed and with a chorus of sickening splits and cracks its body bristled with weapons, and they all fired as one, shearing the top floors off of the next several blocks and covering the rest of the town in burning debris.




Through the city, every communicator screamed out a deafening alert, which was followed by the voice of the AI.

“CORRUPTED ELEMENTS DETECTED. PLEASE ASSIST IN PURGING IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE CONTINUED SURVIVAL OF THE CITY AND ITS INHABITANTS”


[OOC: Subthreads are up. Post in them for combat, or go nuts with planning/reactions through the rest of the comments.]

Didn't get a notif for this orz

[personal profile] scarletrequip 2014-01-28 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's their chance. Erza lowers her shield and ducks into a crouch for more stability. It was up to Ruby now.]

Now!
onecream_fivesugar: (and justify the pain)

Don't worry about it!

[personal profile] onecream_fivesugar 2014-01-28 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ruby will take aim with Crescent Rose as the rockets fly past the Hamjet.

Once the shield goes down she'll open fire, unloading her entire clip into one of the monsters eyes.

Eat dust, dirtbag!]

[personal profile] scarletrequip 2014-02-01 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Dammi--!

[Erza throws her arms up but the shield doesn't form in time to block everything. Stray bullets deflect off her armor as she tries to block Ruby, most are harmless but a few larger caliber rounds bite into the metal. The creatures ammunition doesn't feel like regular weaponry which means that the longer they bombard the shield, the weaker it would become.]

We can't stay here!


onecream_fivesugar: (cause I can't take no more)

[personal profile] onecream_fivesugar 2014-02-12 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Uhmmm, Right!

[Think Ruby, Think. Oh! She's got an idea!] Captain Hammer, Take us up higher! Erza hold the shield up as long as you can! Once I'm off the jet pull back and get some distance

Oh! If you guys see me falling off that monster in a bit, could you try and catch me? Unless I'm exploded or something. IreallyhopeI'mnotexploded.

[Okay deep breath Ruby. This is idea is just crazy enough to work.

...Okay it's just crazy enough to kind of work.]


I'm going in!

[And once the Hamjet is high enough she'll dash off and free fall toward the head the monster. She'll use crescent rose to try and avoid any missile or cannon fire that heads her way and she'll just have to hope that her aura can hold up against any of the stray gunfire.

This monster has a date with the sharp end of her scythe.]