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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 6:28:31 GMT
"An ambush... my favorite," Kadaj sneered. There are times to keep your inner demons in a cage... and then there are times to take the monster off his leash and let him play.
He engaged six of the attackers at once, alternately striking at each of them, repelling their attacks and making a few counters of his own. Staying out of the way of their weapons took a bit of skill, but not too much effort (at least so far as he was concerned... going head to head with SOLDIERs tends to make other combatants pale in comparison). The only tough part was finding time to try dealing punishment back to them in kind. Give me a little time to get their rhythms and this will be a breeze.
Yazoo sniped at the assassins. Few managed to dodge out of the way in time, and he began picking them off one at a time, braking his pattern only long enough to defend himself from any who got too close. But as he lined the sights again after blasting one in the face, he could have sworn he saw something approaching him from the left in the gun's reflective surface... He spun to the side and shot, but nothing was there. Nothing but the cloudy winter sky...
Loz headed into the thick of it, but took care to steer clear of his younger brother's shots. A couple Sarsha tried flinging daggers at him, but he blocked them with the pile bunker, knocking them to the ground. He grabbed one and slammed it point-first into one of his enemies' heads, killing him instantly. Thre was no stopping him after this... he'd scented blood now, and that always made him go a little wild. Several Sarshe were blown backwards with green sparks flying from their pummeled bodies, splintering the trees they hit... "Who wants some more?" Loz challenged.
Ami heard the sounds of combat commencing and began to scrabble at the ridge anew, but made no progress.
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Post by lutz on Jan 11, 2007 6:57:45 GMT
Dark Sarsha Assassin kepted jumping down from the trees throwing daggers left and right, one flew right into Loz arm. a few others got in close to Yazoos sniping and attacked. Some of the Sarsha stood back just watching the fight, seemed like they were learning, but these three dark Sarsha were different they had face paint on and feathers in their hair. the rest of the mod turned their focus to Kadaj one bigger dark Sarsha with a massive 2hander sword crossed blades with him. Lutz dashed over to a group of them and set them into flames,
"There is about 30 of them! stay strong guys!"
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Meanwhile back at the van whispers could be heard someone was there...
hot breath on Amnesty's neck but nothing was there....
"Amnesty....your going to watch your brothers kill each other!...."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 7:14:47 GMT
Ami jumped at the feel of hot breath and the evil hiss in her ear. "Holy c**p!" She spun around but saw nothing... until she spotted her reflection in the window of the van.
A huge, hulking creature stood there, and it was one of the most repulsive things she had ever seen... She let loose a bloodcurdling scream as she groped for her sword.
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Loz yanked the dagger from his arm, and green blood covered it. He snarled and slit the throat of the nearest assasin, blasting him back with a stiff backhand. He switched the dagger to his other hand, fighting with two hands now... He noticed a couple drops of blood fly off the blade, hitting an assassin in the face. The blood began to eat into the Dark Sarsha's skin, fizzling like acid... Loz was faintly surprised. His blood had never had that effect before. "Strong enough for ya, wolfman?"
Yazoo also noticed this strange effect, just as the unlucky Sarsha dropped dead. Our blood-- it's toxic to them! Something in our respective chemical compositions... He didn't have time to ponder this discovery or share it. The assassins were pressing him hard... but not hard enough that he couldn't hear his sister's shriek of terror. He made his way back towards the edge of the ridge to help her...
Kadaj heard the cry and gritted his teeth as he pushed against the assassin's blade. "You're finished now, blue dwarf." No one gets between me and my family, as certain people know only too well. He shoved his assailant away, dodging back and coming in with a powerful swing to the creature's side. He knew committing that far was risky, but the size and weight of his opponent's sword made it slightly safer to put more effort into it-- it would take longer for the creature to move the blade for counter-attack or blocking. With any luck, this stroke will finish him.
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Post by lutz on Jan 11, 2007 7:44:33 GMT
Lutz was shocked to see the blood of Loz killed a dark Sarsha
What is so special about Loz?
Lutz heard the screams of Amnesty and tryed his best to leap in her direction but the Sarsha blocked his path, there was to many of them. so he began to blast them away with a flamethrower like move burning them to bits.
The heavy blade Sarsha did loose contorl of his blade but their was more to this Sarsha then meets the eye, in fact his eye glew purple and Kadaj's blade sprung from his hands like some kind of psychic blast. the creature laughed and began to lift his heavy sword again for another swing.
the three dark sarsha watching the battle nodded at one another and fled the scene.
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back at the van the demon introduced himself.
"I am the Sin Beelzebub....forces out of your control are at work here Amnesty...give up
the voice of Beelzebub sounded as if he had cancer or something, the breath of him smelt of burning flesh.
"Oh...here your brothers come now to face their doom..."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 8:02:57 GMT
Amnesty froze in terror, feeling herself get very small... she felt almost totally helpless...
"Don't listen to that b*****d!"
Sharp reports sounded from above her head and she ducked, shrieking and covering her head. Yazoo had gotten past the assassins and was dropping towards Beelzebub like a missile, blasting away... two Shadowcreepers broke from underneath the snowy ground, sending clumps of white everywhere, as they sprang at the demon from both directions.
Ami shrank back against the ridge, unable to realize she had been caught by the vile monster's influence over her emotions... she planted her sword in the side of it and tried to drag herself upward, away from the creature she found herself so terrified of...
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Kadaj dropped and rolled for his blade, snatching it and springing back up to one knee just behind the Sarsha, arcing the sword at the back of the creature's legs to try slashing its hamstrings. Hopefully his psychic capacity is as pathetic as his reflexes... "Laugh at this, brainless."
Loz found that every Sarsha he cut or stabbed with his knife dropped dead in moments, but the effect wore off after a little while. Oh well... it was getting to be too easy, anyway. And too easy equals boring!
He activated his Speed materia and dashed after the fleeing observers, unwilling to let any of these pests escape... to his way of thinking, that would mean losing the game.
Loz was a very sore loser.
A few more drops of blood flew from his wound, grazing other assassins, who screamed in agony, frantically wiping the liquid away as it burned their flesh... some got enough off to survive, but others weren't so lucky...
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Post by lutz on Jan 11, 2007 8:12:05 GMT
Lutz and Loz finished off the remaining Sarsha, Lutz dash on Loz's shoulders the jumped off them like a leap frog move, he yelled back
"Hey good work there Loz!"
as he dashed in Amnesty's direction.
Kadaj made a smart move at the heel of the creature cutting deep into his flesh, the large dark sarsha fell helpless but he looked back at Kadaj with anger and his eye glew purple once more knock him back with more psychic powers. the creature continued to crawl away from him.
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Beelzebub vanished once more and turned his gaze to Yazoo whose gun shots were easly dodged and the beast he summon clashed into each other. Beelzebub whispered some mystic words into Yazoo's ear taking control of him turning him on his brothers.
"Shoot Loz right in the head Yazoo it will feel good to do it...."
Beelzebub hissed with a grin.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 8:34:46 GMT
All the life drained out of Yazoo's face... he turned away from the creature as his Shadowcreepers whined, trying to disentangle themselves... the summons began to howl miserably, bashing their heads into the ground, into the van, into each other... They had gone totally mad. They finally screamed and tore into each other with their razor sharp talons, putting each other out of the misery their master's taint had forced them into...
Yazoo approached the ridge, where Ami was still clawing at the ice-locked soil... She stopped and stared at him in horror, screaming her words. "You can't be actually listening to this freak!"
She tried to block him, but he merely knocked her aside with a careless swipe. Dizzy from the blow, she huddled on the frozen ground, shivering more from fear than cold...
She looked up to find herself staring at the back window of the car... and in the glass, she could see the demon towering over her.
Ami looked around frantically for a weapon... She discovered a heavy rock lying a few feet away, under the car, and scrabbled for it... Another scream split the air, made all the more profound by the realization that she had left her sword embedded in the ridge.
Yazoo leapt up the ridge, clearing it easily... a glazed look had come over his eyes... He moved silently and serenely past the flaming corpses of the assassins, but as this was normal behavior for him, not much notice was taken of this.
Loz had been bowled over face-first when Lutz had leapt off him. He turned over and began to get up to resume his pursuit, only to discover his brother standing over him with a gun pointed at his head. He jumped, then relaxed. "OK, Yazoo, very funny. Help me up."
Yazoo did nothing but pull back the pistol's hammer.
Loz blinked. "Yazoo... what are you doing?"
A strange smirk played over Yazoo's face... "OOF!"
Something had propelled itself into his back like a speeding train, knocking him several feet away. Kadaj, sensing that Yazoo had lost control of his own mind, had body-checked him away from Loz, barely in time.
Stunned, Yazoo lay at the base of a tree, which was cracked by his impact with it. Kadaj caught up with Yazoo before his dazed brain could know it, and he felt himself being yanked to his feet... a probe going into his mind... Kadaj was shouting angrily at him... no, more like screaming. "Yazoo, wake up in there!!! NOW!!! I give you the orders... not that d**n mutant bat, do you hear me?!"
Kadaj was searching for a way to break the hold, but in the meantime --G**, this made him feel sick-- he had his sword against his brother's neck. The guns lay harmlessly several feet away.
Loz heard his sister scream and began lumbering to the ridge; along the way, he spotted the miserably hobbled Dark Sarsha. Coldly, he placed the pile bunker directly against the assassin's head... and discharged it, killing the creature instantly.
Loz could not see what was terrifiying Amnesty so badly, but it was enough for him that she was afraid. He began making his way down the slope, but carefully, because ice had always made him nervous...
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Post by lutz on Jan 11, 2007 8:43:39 GMT
Lutz made it to the van and notice Amnesty screaming at nothing.
"Are you ok Amnesty...there...there isn't anything there?"
Just then Lutz was grabbed by his throat and tossed aside like a rag doll, he flew into a near by tree.
Beelzebub: "That should take care of the fire wolf.....now....Amnesty....you may not believe it now but you are the savior of this planet....you must die....are you willing to accept death? maybe not but it is still your fate none the less..."
Beelzebub's claws popped from his fingers, green oozy posion dripped from them.
"I can taste your fear....."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 9:06:22 GMT
Amnesty dragged herself further under the car by her elbows, desperately terrified... Her pleading fingers finally dragged the rock to her, and she twisted around under the van's chassis, looking for the place where the creature's tracks ended, where those unearthly footprints in the snow stopped...
She shoved herself out from under the van all at once, slamming the rock down on the last apparently empty footprint, feeling something under it give way along with a loud crunch. She felt like her hair should be turning white by now... but courage is not the lack of fear. It is action in spite of fear. "Everybody dies," she stammered through gritted teeth, a current of determination lying beneath her terror.
This determination was borne out further by the belated arrival of Loz, brandishing his sister's sword, which was caked in mud. He thrust it forward with all his weight at the place where he estimated the demon's ribcage should be, and he heard a sickening gush... whether he had made his target, he couldn't tell. Ami held down the rock stubbornly, too frozen by her alternating fear and anger to let the demon escape...
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Kadaj was still working on Yazoo, feeling the bonds Beelzebub had on him snapping gradually, like strands of hemp in a thick rope... Coherence was gradually returning to his mind, but also oppressive guilt and shame at his actions... "Don't give in to that," Kadaj snapped. "Listen to me-- keep fighting." If I could do this for myself against the Template, I can do it for you against that maggot down there.
But until I finish... this sword stays at his neck. And I have to be ready to actually use it... if I must.
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Post by lutz on Jan 11, 2007 9:14:35 GMT
Beelzebub was hit by the blade but not bad, still in this case for him it was bad for he was bleeding and the group could now see blood marks in the snow, green ooze for blood.
Beelzebub yelled out in anger.
"Fool! I destroy kings, I excite unto desires for wicked sins, and evil heresies, and lawless deeds; and they obey me, and I bear them on to destruction. And I inspire men with envy, and murder, and for wars and sodomy, and other evil things. And I will destroy the world . . . "
Beelzebub then showed himself for all to see. he flipped his bat-like wings hovering over Loz like a volture. His claws ready still dripping with posion.
"die....."
he swupped down slashing his claws at Loz.
"Watch as I kill one of your brothers Amnesty!"
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 9:24:31 GMT
Loz avoided the claws, throwing himself to the ground... he turned over and looked up just in time to see two figures springing from the ridge, flying through the air at the demon's back.
Yazoo blasted at the roots of the creature's wings, while Kadaj impacted directly between them, slashing at the back of his neck... "Mess with him, and you mess with his whole family."
Yazoo shot over the creature, turning in midair to set his feet against a tree across the road... he coiled and sprang again, blasting towards the demon's head.
Amnesty, cowering under the van, realized that for the first time in her living memory, he looked... angry.
In fact, he was more than angry. He was p***ed.
You took my self-control away from me. Allow me to take something from you in return... your life.
Loz rolled out of the way to avoid the dripping poison... and as he got up and brushed off the snow from his coat, he heard a distant rumbling, and spotted faint yellow lights... Oh, great... Snow plow!
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Post by lutz on Jan 11, 2007 9:28:37 GMT
Beelzebub released the massive posion explosion knocking back the brothers outword, the blast formed a green posion mist around the area. The bullets of Yazoo gun did effect Beelzebub flight and so he had to take the battle to the ground. He quickly landed and shot out posion acid from his mouth in Yazoo's direction.
"Fools!"
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 9:45:33 GMT
The poison in the air stung the brother's throats and made their skin itch, an itch which escalated to a burn...
Fortunately, the force of the blast had taken them to edge of the poison cloud, and they were not affected as badly as they might have been. But Amnesty was still trapped under the car near the cloud's center, coughing racuously... and Squall was trapped INSIDE it, with the door still open from Amnesty's escape...
Her brothers wasted no words. Yazoo dodged the stream of poison easily and led his brothers as they charged the creature, each holding his breath and with his eyes half-closed. At least their suits protected most of their skin from exposure. Kadaj split off from the others as he made his way to Ami...
She painfully pulled herself out from underneath the car's chassis, and she yanked Squall out of the front passenger seat, towards the acid cloud's periphery. But the density of the toxin, concentrated as it had been at the blast point, was too much for them... the two collapsed in the snow at the cloud's edge.
Kadaj started dragging her farther away, forgetting Squall entirely for a moment. It occurred to him that he had overlooked something and glanced back at the form lying still in the road... Recollection of the repressed memory flashed across his mind, and he considered just leaving him there... Then he remembered the spatters of water at Ami's feet the day she thought she had lost him.
He propped Ami carefully against a tree before going back for the boy, kicking himself the whole way.
Yazoo's bullets were not having as much effect as he desired. Worse, as Loz discovered, Ami's sword seemed to be corroding from the acid's effects. The irritation from the omnipresent mist continued oppressing them, but Loz made another enraged attempt to slash at the demon's guts, hoping to spill its intestines...
Yazoo summoned two more Shadowcreepers, knowing the smell of the blood would make them ravenous... The gruesome pair leapt high and low at the demon, the first clawing for his legs, and the other aiming its beak at his head...
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Post by lutz on Jan 11, 2007 9:54:12 GMT
Beelzebub forsaw the attack Loz had and he smacked the blade out of the way a slashed at Loz face letting the posion flow in him making his very weak. the beast Yazoo summon on the other hand caught him off guard and jumped on the back of Beelzebub. the beasts bit and ripped into his back removing his wings! Beelzebub did one more posion explosion killing the beast where they stood. he turned around looking at Yazoo.
"I...shall....destory the world!"
Beelzebub was heavly wounded from this wings being removed from his body the green blood was dripping everywhere.
"doesn't matter what happens to me....you don't know the power...of Lucifer..."
Beelzebub hissed.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 11, 2007 10:03:43 GMT
Yazoo pointed the two barrels of his guns into the creature's eyes.
He considered doing this silently to establish his bid to regain his self-control. He discarded the idea immediately: To h**l with that.
Instead, he chose to manifest the words he so sincerely wished to share with this vile creature.
"Die, you piece of s**t."
He unloaded every bullet he had left into the demon's eyes, splattering his brains on the road behind him. He kicked the body out into the middle of the road... just in time for the snow plow to come over the crest of the hill and mangle it beyond all recognition.
The driver screeched to a halt. "What the h**l?!" He began to get out of the vehicle... until he saw exactly who, or what, was glaring at the corpse just behind the plow's bloodied treads. I thought they were dead...
The man stammered, crossed himself, wet himself, and finally drove away as fast as the plow would take him (which was not incredibly fast, as any plow driver will tell you).
Yazoo stood over the bloody pulp with a cold look in his eyes. Layer at a time, the cool veneer returned as he continued to stare at it, as if daring it to rise again. When he finally turned to look back at his siblings, he almost looked like himself again... almost.
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