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 Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:36 am
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Vremea was having none of this. She quickly rushed to the scene, watching Tamiya ensnare the greenblood with her chuckles and feeling her pumpbiscuit drop. She felt her insides tighten, and one look at the thrashing Rianon made her loose her train of thought. She wore a scowl on her face as she shoved the purpleblood to the ground, seeming frazzled and angry. She'd already ruined Odette's life, killing her lusus and destroying her life-- She wasn't going to do this to her, too. Vremea hoped that'd been enough to faze the purpleblood, even if only temporarily.
Her lusus looked... Very, very bad. Vremea glanced up at the struggling Crowma, and her insides clenched and unclenched. They needed to leave, she was already pinned, it was too late for them to help her right now. The hooded yellowblood's eyes fell on the greenblood in front of her, and she extended a slightly glowing hand to her, hoping she recognized it now that it was up close and personal.
"Come with me if you want to live."
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:46 pm
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Tamiya did not answer Rianon when she spoke – only gasping out in surprise when she was shoved unexpectedly. Almost immediately, the film in her eyes receded – bloodshot yellow sclera and pupils the size of pinheads were revealed shortly before she landed face first in the shallows, toppling off of the gharial lusus that now slid into the muck. Bahsoo, still recovering from his attack, had the state of mind to hold onto the harpoon gun as he flared his earfins and hopped into the water after her.
“Sir!”
The juggalo floundered. Her clothes were heavy with water, knees wobbling from the exhaustion of her mental attacks and the thorny whips from Rianon’s lusus. She emerged in time to spot a glowing hand – a tall, hooded figure – an accomplice. Tamiya snarled.
“They’re getting away! Refocus on capturing them – now!” In her tired state and utterly drenched, Tamiya was nowhere close to being able to catch a teleporter and what looked to be an adult troll foot to foot. But her squad, fresh and eager for more destruction, stood a chance assuming they were competent. Static from her radio flickered to life – the voice of the female hunter filtered through in awkward starts and stops.
From above the treeline, the impressive sound of beating wings filled the air. Leaves fell into the swamp, rustled from the canopy. Tritch and her lusus ascended – beaten, but driven. The heron’s necks were coated in blue blood, but nowhere could a headless stump be found – in fact, it was almost as though another neck had grown from the bloody base. “Yes ma’am. Lernaea and I are overhead, eyes on the forest. Let’s go!”
Only a couple of drones remained at the hive to ensure that the witch would not return – they began the work of chopping down the hive. The others swarmed like ants to their boats, in pursuit.
“Bahsoo. Reel it in.” Tamiya ordered. From the bottom of the lake, the seadweller activated the return on the harpoon gun. With a lurch, the thick rope began to retract at a shocking pace and pull Crowma into the water.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 12:56 pm
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Focus did not immediately return to the greenblood as Bellen jumped into the fray to sever the mental assault on Rianon. Her knees almost buckled as her mind cleared and she drew in a sharp gasp. However, her adrenaline was triggered into overtime from the very unpleasant sensation of the chuckles...those would haunt her dreams for days, that was for sure.
The witch clutched her forehead as she noticed the juggalo was now in the shallows around her island. What little satisfaction that gave her was short lived as the seadweller descended into the lake...with the gun. Soon the lusus began to move under their feet and Rianon felt her pumpbiscuit drop like a rock as she watched Crowma get reeled further from the sky, in a collision path with her and Bellen.
"Look out!" she shouted, diving at Bellen to knock them both out of the way as the massive flying lusus barely missed them on her forced descent. Landing in the shallows as well, Rianon was quickly back on her feet and wading into the lake towards her lusus who was struggling as best as she could to keep herself from being dragged under.
Crowma was speaking a mile a minute, though Rianon was likely the only one able to understand the crackles of her lusus speech.
"No! I'm not going to leave you here ma!" Rianon snapped back, her dress slowing her down as she mucked her way through the shallows, up to her waist now chasing after Crowma. Struggling against the silt and mud tears began to roll down her cheeks. "It'll be fine, we can still win this!" she tried to argue, her voice cracking as her hands reached outward toward the creature that raised her who was flailing on the surface, trying her best to save her child before she lost all the strength she had left in her. Water sprayed everywhere as the lusus battled with Bahsoo's harpoon gun.
"I won't leave you!!" Rianon cried again before one of Crowma's vines lashed out, shoving her little girl back toward the island before disappearing into the lake. "NO!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:01 pm
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Waves from Crowma’s thrashing receded into a rippling, green tinted froth. After a few breathless moments, the action had become too deep to identify.
Tamiya used the distraction to her advantage. Regaining her footing and leaping forward, she reciprocated the hooded troll’s shove with a full-bodied tackle, ensnaring her claws in her hood. Now that her leverage had slipped from her grasp, she was determined to halt this attempted redeemer and lock down her victory. If this troll was anyone the witch cared about, she might stall her further while her energy returned. Tamiya’s breath was hoarse and ragged as she tangled with the yellowblood, aiming to unmask her as they fought. She snarled, “You will join her soon, conspirator!”
Meanwhile, the lake had settled. Ripples from the seadweller and lusus had dwindled to nothing until a shape emerged from the water – horns first. Bahsoo surged towards Tamiya, leaking royal purple blood and holding tight onto a sizeable bowie knife. “Back-up, we’ve got a second! Surround them!”
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 7:06 am
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Vremea felt her insides clench at the sight of the other troll falling into the water, thankful at least some of the danger was gone. She glanced back at Rianon, eyes wide when she was suddenly shoved down and out of the way by the panicked greenblood. Vremea struggled some before finally getting up, attempting to stop the greenblood but her hand grasped only the open air. Her veins felt like they were boiling, and while she wasn't tired, her stress levels were definitely off the charts. "Rianon! Rianon, please, we cannot," Her pump biscuit felt heavy in her chest, forcing the emotions deep into her body. There was no time for remorse. "Rianon, Crowma is down! There is no t—"
Her body was suddenly shoved to the ground, and almost instinctively the yellowblood thrashed back as she felt the thrashing and clawing of the other troll. Her hood was tugged off in the struggle, revealing her bangs and panicked yellow eyes. Her body was not used to truly fighting one on one with others, and the yellowblood still felt an instinctual fear to hide or run, not just because she was a rebel but because she was lowblooded. She could feel her breath picking up and her muscles clench and lock, almost stilling— She'd never been caught in such a situation before, had never been so close to death she could feel it scraping at her skin. Vremea's flat teeth clenched and she forced the tears down, expression showing her nervousness as her anxiety sparked up and her mind tumbled with we're dead's and what if's. She jumped into this thinking this wouldn't happen. She normally planned ahead, triple checked everything before it happened, but now it was going terribly wrong. She thrashed more, trying very hard not to look at the other as her chest rose up and down from panic, and in that moment she had but one option— Rianon's powers. "Rianon please!" She exclaimed as she attempted to shove her off again, "We must go!"
Unaru RIANON PLS I KNOW YOUR MOM JUST DIED BUT HELLO
Sypon :actual kawaii teary eyes:
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 3:31 pm
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Rianon stood in the waist-deep water. The seadweller's blood mixing with that of her emerald mother in the water. The girl began to quiver, frozen in place for a few moments, her thinkpan unwilling to accept what had just happened. This couldn't be real, there was no way.
As Bahsoo surfaced, and only content to further destroy her life, she let out a blood curdling shriek. Why? Why didn't she finish the disgusting hunter fish off when she had the chance? It wasn't as though mercy was something easily reciprocated.
The witch's pupils shrank to dots and she flew into a rage. Spitting toward the seadweller surfacing and cursing his name, "MAY ALTERNIA CURSE YOU, BAHSOO, WITH A SLOWER DEATH THAN WHAT I SPARED OF YOU," she hollered at him in hysterics.
Before she knew what she was doing, the greenblood was rushing back to shore. The cries from Bellen causing her to remember who was really to blame for all of this. And she'd be dammed before she let the juggalo take another important being out of her life.
The sloshing could be heard coming toward her before Rianon's shout would hit Tamiya's spongeclots. "LEAVE HER ALONE YOU CALLOUS GUTTER SLUDGE!" The witch grabbed hold of a branch, scattered amongst the other debris on the tiny island before lunging at Tamiya, wailing on her with all her might to try and get her off of Bellen. YOU. ARE. THE. WORST. OF. ALL! She continued her tirade between swings. YOU HAVE CAUSED GREAT PAIN TONIGHT, NOW MAY ALTERNIA LEAVE YOU WITH A BLIGHT, FOR THE WATERY GRAVE YOU MADE, MAY YOUR UNDOING BE THE BLAZE! Tears cascaded down her face, muscles contorted in anger as she continued muttering the curse under her breath. She did not want this juggalo to forget that night.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 6:18 pm
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Rianon. So this was her name. Tamiya struggled to continue her fight with the mysterious hooded troll, when at last she managed to unmask her face. Blunt bangs and sandy yellow eyes caught Tamiya's gaze. She gasped, which then turned into a shriek.
"YOU!"
Before she could react, she was set upon yet again by the persistent greenblood - wishing curses upon her in the most heinous of ways. The very mention of the curse made her sting more than the blows from the bough against her back. But, after a moment, Tamiya smiled.
This was an act of rebellion. The Phoenix Initiative, no mysterious magic deep in the woods - just dirty, simple-minded fools in the swamp. What magic was a greenblood supposed to possess? There was no hope for her now. Tamiya's grin cracked into a harsh, piercing laugh as she whirled and slashed at Rianon with the metal talons on one of her hands, using a break in her swings. With the other, she reached to her belt and produced a pair of dangerous-looking restraints.
"What will you do?" Tamiya barked. "Bring your lusus' ghost back to blight me? Impossible, you heathen, you pathetic, frizzy worm. You and your kind are a goddamn blight - an unhilarious racket of shitheads and swamp scum. At least you have done me a great ******** service by luring one of your ringmasters into my clutches! Can't poof your lovely friend, can you? Ha! Thank you, Rianon!"
She opened the restraints, which buzzed to life with an electronic crackling sound. Currents of energy from within the cuffs began to flow across the diameters of the cuff rings, casting ominous blue light under Tamiya's jaw. Meanwhile, her companion had swam swiftly around to the three battling trolls, emerging now with the hunting knife. The creaking of Rianon's hive rung out in the forest as it started to weaken and fall, mixing with the loud wingbeats of the heron lusus hovering just overhead in preparation to dive. It was music to the juggalo's spongeclots.
Tamiya would remember this night - she would be remembered for this night!
((Tam's cuffs are military tech that basically incapacitate while restraining; they're also able to get on them wrists easy like butta.))
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:30 pm
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Vremea wanted to hold Rianon in her arms and tell her things would get better, but even she couldn't trick herself into believing such. She watched the greenblood through her struggle, heard her cries with a heavy pump biscuit, and felt her a hard pressure against on her chest as she watched Rianon return and begin to attack Tamiya, cursing her and crying at the same time. Her hood had been removed at some point, but at that point Vremea had already known she was being searched for and was definitely known by most of the military officials.
Also, Odette's made-up story from her booth last Bloodfest.
The yellowblood swallowed hard when she saw her smile, and as Tamiya whirled on Rianon with her too-sharp talons, her insides clenched. Her throat closed up. She was going to hurt her.
Not again.
She remembered Odette's empty-- No, broken, form. Never again.
Vremea's heeled feet pushed at Tamiya with purpose, aiming to knock her off her feet and hopefully startle her. Her eyes were steely and wet, voice forcibly pushed down in her throat. She couldn't say too much for fear of compromising Odette, but she wanted to scream at her, to do exactly what Rianon had done just moments earlier.
Instead, Vremea extended a hand toward Rianon. She knew what to do.
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 3:38 pm
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Still deep into her rageful outburst, Rianon wasn't swift enough to dodge a slash from Tamiya. The talon cutting her right above the navel. Emerald blood tinting the already wet and tattered dress.
Nonetheless, Tamiya had ended her scuffle with Bellen, who now posed dozens of questions in the back of Rianon's thinkpan. She had gotten the opening she was looking for, right as the twisted clown thought she had them.
The corners of the witches mouth twitched upward into a smirk for the first time, warped with anguish. "How do you think I saved so many?" she responded, clutching her stomach lightly. "I don't need to mess with ghosts to curse you. You've soiled the ground with blood. Alternia will make things right, she's the one you should fear." Before Tamiya knew it, Rianon had teleported herself beside Bellen.
"I'm The Witch of the Murderwoods. " she pronounced, kneeling to clasp her hand with Bellen's. Her gaze locked on Tamiya. "And now that you've so kindly keyed me in on where my friend is from, I think it's time you saw just how miraculous my gift from Mother Alternia is. " Things started clicking in place a bit, ringleaders, swamp scum, no wonder the swamp had always been a precarious place. That was where the rebels were at, wasn't it? And Bellen? Well, was her name even Bellen? That didn't matter right now, what mattered was getting her friend to safety, and to prove to this juggalo that Alternia has all kinds of tricks up her sleeve.
Mustering every bit of strength she had left, mixing with the sorrow of her loss, the pain of her wounds, and the bitterness of the crown, Rianon dug down deep for the kind of jump she'd never attempted before. There was an oppressive shift in the air, a faint smell of ozone crackling as Rianon shifted their physical existence in space to a distant location. And like that, they were gone.
Bellen and Rianon reappeared at the very borders of the swamp, a massive jump for the teen witch, something she'd never accomplished before. It had been fueled by every horror she had undergone that night. However, the ordeal had finally taken its toll. The very second they were back on solid ground, the greenblood collapsed. Rianon was thoroughly spent. She had spirited them away to freedom, but now she needed rest. She lay on the ground bleeding and battered, and still crying deep in dreams of her lost mother.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:38 pm
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