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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:21 pm
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"I'm fine," Gale snapped at Otto, in a voice that clearly indicated he was very much not fine. His head felt light, his thoughts twisting in and out of each other, confusing him. An odd weariness had settled into his body, sinking into the coldness of the room.
"As for you," said Gale, wheeling around to face Bul and Mei. "I'm focused on doing what I came here to do. Halloween - "
He cut himself feeling confused and dazed. "I am a Hunter of Deus Ex Machina, and I - "
Another wave of tiredness, another dizzy spell. Jinhai was saying something inside of his head, shouting at him, but Gale couldn't seem to distinguish the words properly. It all sounded like a buzz in his mind.
And Bul was laughing - why was he laughing like that? - and there was the sound of more voices, too many voices -
"I'm fine - "
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:29 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:35 pm
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Mei flinched when the hunter, Jude, waved at the two of them. So stealth wasn't their thing! It was a relief that the other hunters had yet to attack them when Gale introduced them as friendlies. That was a little progress in itself for the whole Hunter and Halloween relations. It was also just their luck, that the hunters here were not eager to rush in and bash a Halloween denizens face in on sight. "Sorry," She started, stepping out from where she had been hiding--or rather trying to hide--with Bul. "can't be too careful."
Her attention was drawn to Deryk as he questioned her sanity, to which he got a raised brow while he himself started to act a little..weird. "No..? There has been some weird things going on, and we've been hearing things, but no, my sanity is just fine, thank you." Though, considering everything that had recently happened, maybe she should be a little crazy?
The fact that three of the hunters were acting strangely now, concerned the doll. Was this what Deryk was asking about? "Are you guys..okay?" The other hunter--who's name eluded her--appeared to be unaffected thus far, as did Bul and herself.
Nodding to both Bul and Otto, she took another glance about the area. Everything was going to be okay, right? Wary of what? Themselves? Whatever it was that was effecting them, it was in their heads, right? How were they supposed to..
"Bul..?"
Well, if there was a touch of insanity going around, it appeared that Bul might have just caught a bit of it. Grabbing at his hands, she tried to keep him from tearing at his own skin--why was he tearing at his own skin? "Bul, stop that!"
Taking a step back away from Gale, she raised her hands, shaking her head. "Right, okay! I know, but-" "No. The question is. What can you do?"
"What..?"
Who had said..? Was it one of them? Looking each of them over, she felt a bit of parnoia worm its way in.
She didn't like the way that they were looking at her, it was just like before, and it made her nervous, angry even. She had been working to try and smooth things over between them, to focus on more important matters at hand, but..was that really her? As if to confirm her thoughts, the voice--her voice--taunted her in the back of her mind.
She hadn't..no, she was normal, right? There was nothing wrong with her? Even if they did put something in her, she was still herself right?
But, then..she had been trying awfully hard to form some sort of alliance with the hunters. Before she had been taken and tagged, the hunters were source of hate--they were the enemy. What changed? Caelius. No, Caelius had shown them the pictures--he told them what the horsemen were capable of! Her choices were her own! She was no puppet!
..was she?
Was she starting to doubt herself?
Maybe this was their plan all along? If it was..then, she had been dragging Bul right into it--into their trap. What the hell has she been doing up until now?
"No.."
"They are going to take YOUR HOME."
"NO!"
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:49 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 6:22 pm
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"No," said Gale, and shook his head, as he took several steps backwards, tendrils of cracks beginning to make their way around her face, over her arms, across her legs. "No - no - "
There was a split second in which he stood frozen, watching her, and then -
"NO!" yelled Gale. "NO, this isn't supposed to happen!"
Except it was, and there was no fixing it, no turning it back.
Everything was collapsing around him.
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:09 pm
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Bul's teasing was met with an irritated huff. No respect. None. Every inch of Otto wanted to smack that guy in the face with his weapon. But what would that accomplish? No one respected him anyway...
And then the voices.
s**t. It was happening to him now?
For a moment Otto kept his head. It was just a voice, nothing more. The room felt colder, his muscles felt weaker, and soon that voice was all he could focus on. It spoke cruel words. It knew just how to hurt him. Where to poke, where to prod. It knew him.
Useless and easily tossed away.
Otto's grip on his cell phone tightened. He'd been taking notes as a means to keep busy, to make believe he was a responsible adult. But he was just a kid. A useless kid in a place that didn't need him.
The sudden images and memories of that horrible time spent in the Horsemen's dungeon earned a dreadful gasp from the short blonde. His hands flew to grasp his ears, his eyes shutting tightly. It was like living his nightmares while awake. He shuddered and quaked with fear. Terrible, agonizing fear. Those memory haunted him, plagued him.
And then paranoia that he'd once shredded returned. What if this was all still the trance? He'd never left. He was still in that cell wasting away, that horrible bug burrowing into his body; eating him alive.
Otto let out a terrified yell, and curled himself into a ball on the ground.
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:20 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:21 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 12:21 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:08 pm
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"Otto!" Gale shouted, but even as he yelled the blonde's head was disappearing into the mist. "Otto, WAIT come back!"
But he was gone and they were left standing there, Gale's fingers clutching the barrel of his gun so tightly that his knuckles were white. He could still hear Jinhai muttering something in his mind, but his focus was elsewhere, spinning around to face Bul.
"What happened?" he shouted, anger, frustration, confusion, everything building up inside of his head. "Why did she disappear - stop it!"
With a great shove, he pushed the monster back, resisting the urge to slap him, though he did consider it. "Stop it!" Gale yelled again. "Stop! You're being ridiculous, none of this is what's supposed to happen! This is not supposed to be happening!"
He rounded on Deryk, then Jude.
"This isn't my fault! Like I would ever betray you? What is wrong with you? If anything goes wrong, it's not my fault!"
There was a slightly hysterical note to his voice, the edges of his self agonizing insecurities beginning to show themselves.
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:34 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:29 pm
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