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Post by ~ N.P.C. ~ on Jul 12, 2008 4:50:44 GMT -5
The demon's head burst into flames as the fireball spat from the Acolytes very own dragon, Guardian, struck him full in the face.However, ... as the fireball made contact and impacted on his face there seemed to burst forth from within the demon's own husk of a hide, an even more intense flame. Dried it's flesh was, though not at all flesh, indeed. More a slathering of mud, straw, and rags of tattered clothing. It spoke! This time in a booming voice! The sound coming from a gaping maw of blue 'hate~flame'. Violently it barked at the boy "You disrespectful child!" Then, it laughed. Not a happy laugh, nor a laugh from something humorous, oh no. This was a laugh that said, in direct tone and timber how much a mistake that was. It then spoke, this giant demon, ablaze with the very fires of hate. Fires which anyone will tell you burn supremely hot. Licks of intensely hot blue fire spat out at him as the demon said "How STUPID of ye! To think ye mights a harm us with those flame? A fool now are ye shown to be. I lather that mud on me for glory! Made with the blood of my enemies it is, and YE have made me tear it!" It pointed at Guardian and without even a second passing the hell hounds launched themselves out from beyond the flames that were engulfing the area. It was amazing how far they could leap, and the speed with which they cut through the air. The demon continued speaking as if preaching a sermon "And drinks from da RIveR of da FiRe do me hondies fool!" It watched as the two demon dogs lept through the air and struck Guardian, each with the force of a runaway train. With pride the demon proclaimed "Makes a new glory skein for Me's with yer blood do I." He stepped over quickly closing the ground between himself and Guardian in two strides and crouched down grasping the dragon-boy's throat with his flaming claw. "For me pups, a wing each fer sure... and yer guts too, that's once yer blood's all been spilt. Not much meat on em wings o' yerz though." he said eyeing the boy up and down.
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Post by Cyclops on Jul 12, 2008 22:08:37 GMT -5
Scott watched as right before his eyes his student disobeyed a direct order and attacked the demons. 'Great now we pose an even bigger threat to them and they will have no other course of action but to retaliate!' he thought. Before he could say a word to Guardian though the demon had reacted and put the boy down with the help of his two hell hounds. ***Phhh~Zapppt***
Cyclops let fly with a blast of his ruby optic beam and hit the demon square in the side. A full acre the creature flew as the hell hounds still mawed and bit upon the boy dragon Guardian. "Hey!" ** Ph-Zapt **** Ph-Zapt **
He blasted both demon hounds off of the young mutant and said "When I tell you to move you move, no questions boy! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?!" Scott Summers had been here before and through many other hells besides this one, he knew what he was doing. "You do as I say and that is how you survive here. Is that understood?" he asked the promising young man. "We have the other two kids to consider Guardian, and heroics are not what we need right this moment. I wanted to give the impression that we were inconsequential and maybe they'd pass us by. But after your interactions that is far from a possibility." Scott looked down range to see the cadre of demons shaking off the blasts and charging back at them. "When I say to duck and cover, you do it! Is that understood?" Scott scolded the child, even though the young mutant towered over him. Fear was not showing at all, for there was no fear to be shown. Cyclops was more than prepared for a demon and his puppies out for an evening stroll, but now things had gone sideways thanks entirely to Guardian and his bravado. "Are you trying to get us all killed?" he asked.
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D'mnchyld
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Katie Lazaro
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Post by D'mnchyld on Jul 13, 2008 21:35:06 GMT -5
As she poked her head out of the cave and looked around she saw at the very far range of her vision three figures climbing over the ridge down a ways to her right. It was actually one large demon that looked to be carrying a smaller one and then another one right behind it. They looked to be moving fast and intent on something, or someone. Then k'8 caught sight of another.
It was engulfed in flames and flying backward it appeared. It was shooting flame back from where it had come from over the other side of the ridge line. "Weird, lookit them Sean. The demons seem to fight among each other here too. I guess things really are tough all over, huh?" she commented on the sight as she pointed it out to TuneUp and carefully climbed back into the cave. Things were getting dicey and it looked like the two of them were going to be caught up in the proverbial rock and hard place scenario. "Whatta ya think? Should we make a run for it?"
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Sean Winterstar
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Post by TuneUP on Jul 13, 2008 22:53:03 GMT -5
Sean gave Kate a reassuring grin and tried to steady the nervousness he felt for her sake. "I'm a pretty good shot. I learned how to shoot when I was real young," he whispered and followed her out, feeling foolish for allowing her to go first when she could be hurt. "Hold on the Katie girl, let me go ahead of ya," Sean said and quickly stood by her shoulder.
I really need to get them nerves of mine down. Pa always said to never shoot when unless you're calm and focused. And I gotta be for everyone's sake, He thought as he slid the safety off the rifle and held it carefully. He looked over to where Kate pointed and his eyes widened. "Wow.... those are some powerful flames. That must be a real dangerous demon. I don't think we should go over there, there's no way we will be able to handle that. It'll probably melt my gun before I even try and shoot it. Next thing you'll know we're friend like a french fries at the carnival," Sean said as he looked over where he knew Cyclops and Guardian were. He knelt down and walked toward them, his gun ready to take out the demon if needed. "Cyclops is real strong, my dad told me about him. We gotta help only if needed. It might be soon if theres a group of demons headed this way," he whispered and got his rifle ready.
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Guardian
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Aleksey Nevski
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Post by Guardian on Jul 14, 2008 8:00:26 GMT -5
Guardian was struck by the large hounds after blasting away the surface of the taller creature, he flew back, crashed onto the ground and was being mauled. He started snarling and growling at them until the taller one grabbed him by the throat. Guardian was getting more furious than ever, he was losing all control he had until Cyclops shot the creatures off of him. Guardian, enraged, got up slowly off of the ground and turned toward Cyclops in a daze from being hit by the large monsters. "'BOY??'" he said in his deep voice, "'PASS US BY' are you SERIOUS??" he added staggering on his feet. "DO YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT THEY WOULD HAVE JUST LET US GO LIKE THAT IF WE DIDN'T RETALIATE? IF THAT WERE THE CASE THEN THEY WOULDN'T HAVE FOLLOWED US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!" he argued with the Headmaster. Guardian turned to face the tall creature and his two little minions. He didn't want to stop fighting. He felt more powerful than before when he became enraged, but part of his consciousness, whatever part was left of the real Guardian, told him to fall back in fear of endangering the others. "NO" resisted the monster side of him, "I WANT TO DESTROY!" he yelled as he lifted up one of the stunned hell hounds by its tail, spun it around like a hammer-throw, and using his monstrous strength, released it with a ROAR, sent it flying about twenty meters.
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Post by Cyclops on Jul 15, 2008 22:20:26 GMT -5
Cyclops saw the boy-dragon leap over to the downed demons after he'd let out a bit of rage and angst, yelling and screaming over the harsh tone Scott had used with him. 'Damn, this kid is losing it.It's this place it does that to some.'
Cyclops knew how this realm could turn a person, twist them to their own dark nature and literally turn them into a demon. Scott looked hard at Guardian and thought 'I wouldn't have expected him to be the one to turn on us. If anything I was expecting the girl to lose it first.' He looked back up the slope toward the cave and noticed the duo of TuneUp and D'mnchyld climbing down. "Oh, great" he muttered "now what?"
'This one is screaming and tossing hell hounds, these two are freakin out or something...what is she yelling about?' He wondered what it was that k'8 was saying as she came running his way alongside Sean. He glanced back to see Guardian looking to take on the demon and the other hell hound all on his own and then back up to where it appeared that D'mnchyld was pointing to franticly. 'Is that more demons?' Scott thought.
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D'mnchyld
New Mutants
Katie Lazaro
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it 'The Present'!
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Post by D'mnchyld on Jul 15, 2008 22:31:46 GMT -5
Watching Cyclops and Guardian with their hands full, k'8 had tried to be patient and go along with Sean, but when she saw more demons coming their way she couldn't stop herself- she panicked. She broke into a run and pulled Sean along with her, screaming.
"Cyclops! there's more of them up there!" Katie hollered and waving her arm and pointing she made sure her headmaster got the gist of what she was trying to say even if he couldn't hear her. Then, as every eye in the area turned to look at her it dawned on her how stupid it was to run around and scream, she stopped in her tracks and shut her mouth.
A long moment passed and no one moved or spoke until D'mnchyld herself broke the silence. "Oh god Sean," she said looking up at him "I think I just really screwed up."
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Sean Winterstar
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Post by TuneUP on Jul 18, 2008 19:33:02 GMT -5
Sean wasn't prepared for seeing Guardian go into such a rage. He didn't know the dragon mutant very well, but he seemed relatively peaceful and docile till now. He had the rifle ready to fire if need be. He wasn't prepared to be grabbed by Kate as she screamed in panic. Lucky he had good enough reflex to slid the safety back on so the gun didn't accidentally go off.
Poor Kate, she's real scared. I don't blame her for gettin' scared and panicking. She's been so brave so far, but she's just a scared little thing. I think we're all pretty scared, he thought and put an arm around the terrified Kate and hugged her to his side protectively. "Shh, it'll be alright. Don't you worry, I won't let nothin' happen to you," Sean said soothingly as he kept her close to her side and watched the powerful and frightening demon in the air fighting the other ones. He visibly cringed when he saw the demon split open one in half and watched the guts and blood drop down. This is not good... that thing looks unstoppable, he said in his head before he looked over at Cyclops. "Sir we have I think a bigger problem. We ain't gonna be able to hold that off," Sean said as he hugged Kate tighter to his to reassure and comfort not just her, but himself as well.
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Aleksey Nevski
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Post by Guardian on Jul 18, 2008 23:21:16 GMT -5
Guardian's rage began to subside. He heard the screams of his fellow teammates, screams of fear and terror. His red eyes began to fade away into a pale yellow color, Guardian's care for his team overpowered the fury that was his darker side. "Headmaster sir" he addressed Cyclops, "These creatures seamed stunned from your optic blasts, perhaps it would be best now to retreat as quickly as possible, the others over head seam to be distracted with each other, lets get the other two and i can fly us all discreetly out of here" he explained as he began to back away from the creatures on the ground. "What do you think sir?" he asked in a calm soothing tone, trying not to lose his cool again by imagining the greater danger it would put the rest of his team in.
"After all" he added, "they did give away their position by yelling out loud, it would be foolish to leave them on their own now" he continued to convince his leader.
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Post by Cyclops on Jul 19, 2008 0:33:38 GMT -5
"You're right son, let's go collect them up. Hurry and I'll watch our backs." Cyclops said as he fell back to Sean and Katie's position with Guardian. Once there he realized they were indeed between two groups of demons closing in on them.
Looking up where k'8 was pointing at the demons coming down the hill he could see one was blueish, like the demon with the hell hounds and carrying a young one 'Might be his mate...?...and their child?' he thought for a moment. "Good eyes girl!" Cyclops complimented.
"Alright Guardian, TuneUp, D'mnchyld, we are getting out of this valley it's not-'' he stopped talking as even more demons came pouring over the top of the hill, and one flying demon ablaze with fire was lashing out at them with what appeared to be fire balls and flaming swords.
Scott took aim on it ready to fire. "-safe." He wasn't sure if they were coming at him and his little group, but he did not want to take a chance. The problem was that if they didn't know they were there it would make no sense to shoot. He looked back to the flaming blue demon with the hell hounds and they were gone.
Quickly he looked around scanning the horizon for them. All at once they were there right upon them. "Look out!" Scott called out and shot the closest approaching one of them. It was one of the hell hounds. His blast impacted with the force of a wrecking ball, his ruby optic beams shot concussive force, not as many would have guessed "heat". The hell hound's head took the full force dead center and the sound of a tree limb splitting from the trunk was heard. It's head caved in and it flew the length of a city block to land in a lump, dead.
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D'mnchyld
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Katie Lazaro
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Post by D'mnchyld on Jul 19, 2008 18:59:16 GMT -5
Katie was starting to feel less scared with Sean's arm around her and she was almost ready to feign bravery again, but then out of nowhere the hell hounds were leaping at them and she ducked cowering into TuneUp's chest and wrapping her arms around him. "This is too freakin much she mumbled" his chest absorbing most of the sound so even Sean himself couldn't hear what she had said, but the tone in her voice was one of fear spliced together with aggravation. 'I've about had it with being timid, this place should be cooler than this. All my old friends come from here. Why would they turn on me, what do we have to do to get home, to get back to the school? I never thought I'd miss it there, but I do. I really do!' she thought as she held on tight and shook.
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Sean Winterstar
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Post by TuneUP on Jul 20, 2008 14:26:20 GMT -5
Just as Cyclops blasted the demons with his optic blast, a shot rang out in the air as Sean reacted quickly and shot the hellhound that came at them. This gun's workin' pretty well. My pa would sure be proud of me for gettin' it right. He always wished I was more interested in guns, he thought before he wrapped his arms around the frightened girl that clung to him. "Shh... it's alright, they're gone. You're safe. I did promise you I ain't lettin' nothin' happen to you. Cyclops here is lookin' out for all of us," Sean said softly to her as he held her close and rubbed her back soothingly.
Just the a blinding light burst from the group of demons and he shielded his eyes for a moment before he looked back and saw the flying demons shooting fire at the stampeding demons. "Sir, isn't it a bit odd that another demon is fightin' it's own kind? I'd think it'd be joinin' that stampede rather than slowin' it down," Sean said as he held Kate close to him and watched the scene warily. Somethin' is just more odd than it should be about all this, he concluded as he rubbed Kate's back.
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Post by ~ N.P.C. ~ on Jul 21, 2008 22:48:44 GMT -5
Guardian, the brave young Dragon-boy, seemed overwhelmed with the situation. Panic looked to be etched on his face as he struggled to gather up his team mates and headmaster to lift them to safety. The weight was a bit too much for him as his wings couldn't generate enough force to lift them all off the ground. The two New Mutants, having been pulled apart from their embrace were notably disturbed and shaken as was Cyclops who reacted by peeling himself out of the boys grasping tail only to spin around and look him in the face, ready to settle the boy yet again with another firm scolding, however as fate would have it he never got the chance. Aleksey's face contorted in agony a flash of a second before the three of them saw what happened. A flaming demon hand ripped it's way out through the meaty center of the young man's chest, and laughing, the master of the hell hounds peeled him open like a large piece of ripe fruit. Blood sprayed out of Guardian as he cried out in mortal agony and terror, his life flashing past his eyes as he met his death in hell, misunderstood and confused. Torn nearly in half Guardian's body fell to the ground as the demon squared himself before them, and spoke. "Who is it then, what shall be the next?" the demon hissed at them as a cackling laughter rasped out through it's flaming blue skull.
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Post by Cyclops on Jul 23, 2008 21:57:37 GMT -5
"N O O O o o o!!!" Scott screamed! It was a mixture of shock and rage and agony over seeing one of his own students killed so violently right before him and being unable to stop it. Spinning to target the demon, he toggled open his ruby quartz visor to it's widest setting, letting out a blast of his optic beam as wide around as a city bus. The power he released was enough to level a building, he would make sure this demon was little more that a terrible memory. A scar on his mind and in his heart would be etched for the loss of so promising a young man as Guardian, but he would be avenged! However at the moment of release the hell hound which Guardian had given a toss to struck! It had run back to strike at the headmaster and no one had seen it approaching with the terrible distraction of poor Guardian being killed right before their eyes. Cyclop's was knocked to the ground and his beam missed horribly. Firing wildly into the sky his beam, a beacon of ruby mutant might, could be seen for miles and miles in the sky. The hell hound began gnawing and biting into him as the demon threw his head back laughing in ecstasy.
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Post by Emma Frost on Jul 25, 2008 16:55:23 GMT -5
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