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 29, 2008 23:15:33 GMT -5
"Oh? My face?" she looked at him her face half covered in blood and didn't seem to remember it was, but she took his sleeve anyway because he had offered it. It was one of the nicest things anyone had ever done for her, at least to her recollection. "Uh, what's wrong with my face?" she looked down at the torn fabric and when the sound of the huge pipe smashing into the ground erupted she almost lept into Sean's lap.
"Ahhh!" she yelped and then slowly popped her head up to have a look around. "Where'd everybody go?" she asked as the cloud of dust and rock began to settle she could make out Hardlight. "Oh wait there's the little guy. What's-his-name, Kevin! Hey where's Cyclops?"
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
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Post by Frostbite on Jul 29, 2008 23:39:24 GMT -5
Frostbite looked around silently at everyone, seeing Sean and k'8 hugging each other, Miss Frost standing nearby, and then at Kevin, who within a few seconds had become the target of the demon she saw near Guardian's remains. Almost immediately she felt something that wanted to protect him from the demon, though what she would do she didn't know yet. However, she didn't have to move at all since Miss Frost reacted quicker and sent the light tube flying at the demon, killing it for sure. She saw with relief that Kevin ducked and rolled away in time as well, and once it was safe to go near, she approached with a bit of a quick step despite her prior decision to stay away and offered a cool hand to help him up. "You okay?" she asked, giving him a weak smile.
When k'8 spoke up the icebender looked to her and wondered the same thing - where was Cyclops? Frostbite thought she had caught a quick glimpse of him, but then noticed that he was out of sight. "Don't know" she answered quietly, though she sniffed the air, smelling something amiss besides the heat and the distinct smell that was Limbo. "Hey, what's that smell? It smells like it's burning," she said, and then looked around again for Ember, who had disappeared somewhere too.
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Post by Cyclops on Jul 30, 2008 0:00:06 GMT -5
Through gritted teeth and a folded leather glove Scott grunted loudly in agony. *Pthoo* He flopped his head back as he spit out the glove and inhaled sharply. "Oh that was pain." he said weakly as he lifted his head was great effort and looked down as much as his visor would allow him to. "How's it look?" he asked as he reached out his good hand to her for a bit of help getting to his feet.
"Help me up would you. Can't lay out in here all day, got a bunch of kids to look out for." He did his best to block out the pain and focus on his task, get this group of people out of hell, and somewhere along the way try and find Nightcrawler and Wolverine. "Ember, thank you. Good job, young lady, good job." he said with true sincerity and gratitude. He knew she had saved him from bleeding to death, painful as the cure was it would have been a slow agonizing bleed out, as the hell hound bite was deep and serious.
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Post by Ember on Jul 30, 2008 1:04:32 GMT -5
A breath of relief silently left Aideen when he didn't pass out from the pain. It seemed the only time emotions slipped through her lately, or rather since she found out that Wolverine was alive, was when it came to the Headmaster and the Headmistress. That was harder to do than I expected. It had to be done, but I hate having to hurt him after how good he's been to me. At least he's alright, for now. I will do what I can to assist him in any way possible. She put her hand on his good shoulder in relief that the wound closed up with no problem. Aideen carefully inspected the wound, bringing the fire back into her hand and tracing it with a light warm finger. "It's closed completely, but it still needs to settle. For a wound that deep it was lucky," she said in her usual soft voice that had less of a robotic like tone.
Aideen stood up quickly and grasped Cyclops' good arm and pulled him up gently. She would have smiled if she could have when he thanked her, but there hadn't been anything to smile about lately, even less than there was before. Instead Aideen just gave his arm a light squeeze and let go as she looked up at his shoulder. "It feel okay?" she asked quietly before she peaked out to look outside the cave. Aideen nodded her head to confirm it was safe to step out and would have no problem flying him to the ground if he could stand her heat. She looked at the others around in silent satisfaction. They did alright on their own. Hopefully we can pull together when those demons break through the wall.
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TuneUP
New Mutants
Sean Winterstar
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Post by TuneUP on Jul 31, 2008 11:48:42 GMT -5
Sean took the ripped sleeve and wiped the rest of the blood of her face that wasn't on his shirt. "There ya go, good as new," he said and stood up, pulling her gently with him. "I don't know but we better check it out. Stay back in case that demon is still there," he told her as he took her hand and got his rifle ready in case it was needed. Sean peeked over the boulder they were hiding under and saw the light boulder had crushed the demon.
"C'mon Kate, I think it's alright. Let's go see if Cyclops is around. I don't see him either and he looked like he was hurt pretty bad," he pointed out and cautiously walked from out of the boulder. He saw Lorelai and Hardlight and a tall shiny diamond like figure. Sean squinted his eyes and then they widened. "Ms. Frost mam? Is that you? Wow..." Sean said with wide eyes when he realized his Headmistress in diamond jewel form. He looked over at Lorelai and Hardlight and gave them a slight smile. "It's good to see ya'll in one piece," he said grimly as he looked over to where Guardian died and squeezed Kate's hand reassuringly. Man this is just not good. I should seen somethin' coming at us, but I was too busy lookin' at that demon in the sky. Poor Kate, she was so close when all that happened. I ain't gonna let nothin' happen to anyone else, especially not her. Poor girl been through too much, Sean thought as he brought her closer almost unconsciously in a protective manner.
Sean looked around with concern etched on his face over the screeches of demons behind the huge wall of fire. "Anyone seen Cyclops? He was really badly hurt," he said worriedly.
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Hardlight
Acolytes
Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
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Post by Hardlight on Aug 1, 2008 23:18:46 GMT -5
He heard the voice in his head, Miss Frosts voice, saying to duck and roll away. He could hardly move on his own so it was like the voice of God herself in his head, cause every gay boi knows god's a fickle bitch and she likes stuff her way. So he didn't reely have to much of a chanse to argue and he just did it. He rolled away and then he couldn't believe the sound of some kind of trainreck smashing into the ground only like a foot away from him.
"Ohly smokes!" was all the lightbender could say as he sat up and looked around at the mess that was made where he was just standin. You coulda have heard a pin drop for a moment and then it sounded like tinkling bells and snow falling as the shattered bits of his light sculpt fell softly down. This place was maddnest and all he could think of was his friend Guardian.
"Uh?" he heard some voices through the dust and as it cleared he saw Sean, wow was he a sight for hell-burned eyes, and k'8 was in his arms 'Lucky girl, she is!' he thought. Then he saw that Frostbite had walked rigth up on him and was asking if he was ok. "Yea-YES, yes I think so. Sure have been better though" tears started to swell his eyes as he said"Guardi-" and he broke out into tears before he could finish saying his friends name.
"Lookit what they did to-" He was realy crying hard "-he was my friend. Lorelai, oh god." he started sobbing as he tried to get to his feet and just flopped down on his hands and knees. He reached out his little hand for her to help him up.
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Post by Emma Frost on Aug 2, 2008 0:58:33 GMT -5
"Children, quickly let's keep moving. Those demons up there are not going to wait for us to finish mourning. I am so sorry, we will have time when we are safe, Cyclops and Ember are just up in the hill there." she looked up to the cave in the cliff and made sure not to point and give away their location as she noticed the fire wall had failed and the remaining demons were pouring through toward them all.
"We have got to move now. They can catch up and take care of themselves. Let's go!" she knew that Cyclops was one hardcore fighter and that Ember, here in Limbo could certainly and had been taking up more than her share of the fighting. She looked at them all as the demons rushed down on them, time was not their friend. Running might save them for a minute, but there were too many fleet footed creatures in that horde. Not to mention they were running downhill after human flesh. Changing her mind was not the option she wanted to take, but it was a lack of alternatives that led her to the realization that they had to make their stand here and now.
"AW Hell, kids maybe this is our spot. We can't outrun them so it's time to stand and fight. Remember, when your back is up against the wall and there is no other way out you fight with all your might fight until you drop." She transformed back into her diamond form and began to give commands. "Frostbite, charge up your power, if there ever was a time this is the time to use whats left. Hardlight, pull it together. I know you're sad but WE ALL need you now get ready to make some walls to channelize those demons. K'8, Sean, stay covered behind my "girls" here and do what you can to stay safe. When Cyclops gets back here tell him I love him- I'm gonna go slow them down."
Emma charged forward balling her hands into fists and leaping with amazing grace and power into the meat of the advancing wave of demons, pounding and flinging broken bloody bodies as she cut into the heart of the horde. She was doing a great job of it until.... Overwhelming numbers pulled her under a heap of demons, and the wave of evil creatures washed over her and came crashing on toward the children.
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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 Aug 2, 2008 9:46:03 GMT -5
"Thanks." D'mnchyld said softly to TuneUp as he finished wiping her face. "Wow, that's a lot of blood." She looked at Guardian's body and Hardlight sobbing over him, maybe that dragon wasn't all bad. 'I wish I had time to really forgive him and see what he was all about.' she thought as the idea of forgiveness and the limited amount of time anyone had to be alive wound into a picture in her mind. 'Where did all this compassion come from?' she wondered about herself, Limbo was indeed changing her and she looked up at Sean.
When Ms. Frost spoke it was like an energizing force for her. K'8 thought that if this was going to be the end she wasn't going to spend the moments cowering. 'What can I do to help?' she thought hard, but then she realized that if it was going to be the last minutes of her life she wanted to do something more than just fight. As Emma ran out to protect them all she felt courage fill her chest.
"Sean?" she said as she tugged on his shirt a little and looked up into his eyes. She had never liked boys or anyone really, people just didn't give her a chance and she had always been so defensive, but she did like him. "I don't wanna die without...uh, well this~" she stretched her lips up to his and stole a kiss.
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
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Post by Frostbite on Aug 2, 2008 12:44:21 GMT -5
Helping Hardlight stand up again, Frostbite couldn't help frowning at her friend and teammate breaking down over Guardian. "Come on," she urged softly, and turned to Miss Frost as she spoke to them all. Glancing past her she saw that demons were starting to come, and though she was brimming over with the cold energy she gathered from being in the tube, she wasn't sure of what she was to do, until she was addressed and told what to do. So it'd be time then, give it my all, or most if it, at least. Though what? Ice spikes only do so much, maybe I can use that cold energy beam Colossus had me try, but I don't know, she thought as nodded and then looked to Hardlight to make sure he could stand on his own. She wouldn't be able to fight her best while holding his hand for support.
Letting go of his hand, she turned back to the oncoming demons and clenched a fist as she saw Miss Frost go off first into giant hoard of demons, watching for a second as she saw her do well for a bit and then start to be overtaken as more passed her and came towards them. "Come on Kevin," she said, inhaling as she sent off a wave of sharp ice shards with both hands at the first incoming layer of demons, seeing some get stabbed in their guts while others got their eyes gouged out, some dropping. She felt only a little of her energy was used for that, and thus she aimed another wave higher as she sent them out raining over their heads, catching some demons who looked up in the eyes while other demons who kept charging now had ice shards sticking out of their heads, and more dropped. I'll use the beam for a last resort, or for my next attack, whichever. That takes up a lot more energy than this does, and though I'm told that NOW is the time to not hold back, well, I won't be. I'll just use enough of what I have so that I can at least make it, even if it comes to me being in the state I was. Just as long as I somehow make it back to school with everyone, she thought as she swept out one arm with another flurry of ice shards at one side of demons that were getting too close.
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Post by Cyclops on Aug 2, 2008 22:22:59 GMT -5
"Yes, it feels fine enough. Hurts like sin." he winced a little as Ember helped him to his feet. "Wish I had the luxury of time for it to settle, but look at that!" Cyclops said as he had caught a glimpse of the scene playing out below.
The demons who had been corralled by Aideen were flooding down the hillside into the area where he had just been. It looked as if Emma had left the children and he looked for her in a moment of panic before seeing her in her diamond form in the midsts of the gaggle of ghouls and hell beasts. 'She'll do fine for a moment or more, it's the kids I need to get to. They are the priority.'
"Ember, we have to get down there, it looks like Frostbite is on her own holding them off with her ice powers. Ice in this Hell? She wont last long at that rate. She's gonna run out of endurance soon enough." he looked at her and said "Can you fly me over there?"
He was pointing to the area between the demons and the children "Quick, I'll gouge out a chasm in the ground with my blast. Keep me steady and fly me sorta low and fast so I can plow it out." He knew he needed one hand free to work his visor, and since he had to use his good arm for that it meant she would have to hold him dangling by the arm she had just taken great pains to minister to.
He would have to endure unless she could fly without her body being engulfed in flames. Cyclops knew that even the Fantastic four's own Human Torch couldn't do that. At best he could keep his arms free of flames, like Ember had done moment before. "You ready?" he asked her, holding out his damaged arm for her to take hold of while with his good hand he adjusted the aperture for his beam.
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Post by Ember on Aug 2, 2008 23:42:44 GMT -5
Aideen looked out with her fire eyes and then back at Cyclops, her eyes moving to his injured shoulder. "It's going to be very hot. You might have a mark with prolonged time," she said quietly and concentrated on the heat around her. Her body absorbed the heat like a sponge and instead of having a protective layer of fire around her, she left herself bare. The only thing that wasn't very convenient was the powerful heat waves that emitted from her body. Aideen's whole body was quite hot, the heat so high the it could give someone a severe burn if they got too close. She concentrated for a second before she lifted herself in the air. Just like when she grabbed Cyclops, she focused the heat out of her arms and into other parts of her body so she wouldn't burn his too bad. She wasn't too worried since he was wearing leather and its hard to burn through leather.
Aideen decided for a second, refusing to grab his injured arm, though that would be the most logical choice. I won't hurt him any more than I have to. The heat gives me energy and strength. I'll do this another way. She wrapped her arms around his chest and lifted him up in the air. "I do not know how long I can hold you steady, but we have some time," Aideen said and locked her arms around his chest as she flew him down to the others. She surveyed the scene over Cyclops' head with fire lit eyes as she held him steady, doing what she needed to do.
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TuneUP
New Mutants
Sean Winterstar
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Post by TuneUP on Aug 4, 2008 0:38:02 GMT -5
Sean was always liked to think of himself as a guy who took things in stride and lived in the here and now. He was taken by complete surprise when Kate just reached up and kiss him. He wasn't going to lie to himself and say he wasn't happy about it, but surprise overtook it all. His heart beat a little faster and he closed his eyes in the short time that lasted, squeezing her hand. When it ended, Sean opened his eyes and smiled down at her. "Don't you worry Kate, you ain't goin' to die. I promise you that. I never break my promises you hear?" he said and gently ran his hand over the scar on her cheek tenderly.
Sean then grabbed his rilfe and tucked Kate behind him. "Alright, stay behind me Kate," he said and took the safety off his rifle and aimed at the demons. He had a limited number of bullets so he had to make them count. While Lorelai did her thing with her incredible ice power, Sean looked at the Demons and shot at the biggest looking ones. He didn't always hit his target, but always hit something. For every demon that fell, it slowed the others down just a little bit. That's when Sean looked up at a shadow that flew over him and his mouth dropped. "That's Aideen! And she's flying! She musta been the flaming demon!" he exclaimed as he looked at the girl carrying Cyclops with amazing ease and grace. God she's is real gorgeous. Like a goddess that you can look at, but not touch, he thought before looking at Kate and smiling tenderly at the sweet girl he had grown very fond of. Keeping an eye on Aideen flying with Cyclops, Sean went back to his rifle.
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Hardlight
Acolytes
Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
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Post by Hardlight on Aug 4, 2008 15:20:20 GMT -5
Snufflig up his tears and snots Kevin got to his feet and as his freind, his team mate Frotsbite got out her can of whup-a-demon and let off some shots with her ice powers Hardlight Tried to think of something good to do. He didn't have much power left so he had to make it count. Then he remembered something about his light sculpts and how the demons before, even thogh they weretotally out for blood just like these ones were too they stopped and had a intrest in his marbles and then it hit him. 'I don't have enough left for a wall, but something to distract them well, maybe that i got.' he started to make another toy he loved, and lots of them.
---------FRISBEES!-----------
---------FRISBEES!-----------
---------FRISBEES!----------- He started making them in light blue and gold colored light and flinging them out as far as he could and with each one he perfeted the shape a little bit more and more until he was sailing them far over the heads of the herd of foul beasts. The first ones didn't draw too much attentuion but then the ones that came after were great and the demons started to get confused and some broke from the charge to chase them, maybe they looked like pure spirits that they had to devour or maybe they just wanted to get the pretty things, but they liked them or something and chaos started to spread in their ranks. Still though more were coming now, coming fast and only a small area was seperating them from the kids. "Where is Cyclops? I'm gettin scared!" Kevin called out.
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Post by Emma Frost on Aug 4, 2008 16:07:48 GMT -5
Struggling under all the wiggling biting mass of Demonic creatures, Emma looked back at her group of children. 'Oh God, I hope this wasn't a mistake. Leaving them to fight for themselves. I can do the most good out here, but not on my back!'
She hated the image in her mind's eye of the times she spent in 'less than lady-like positions in her life. She had turned her back on her family's fortune and sought out a way to make her own, she had been unscrupulous in her dealings, her life was far from kind or sainted, and now she saw the wages of her life from a different perspective.
"I'm better than this!" she growled as she shoved monsters off of her, they were an analogy of all the monsters she had dealt with in her life, the men, women, governments and corporations she had climb her way on top of and she would do the same now.
"This WILL NOT STAND! I'm drawing a line in the sand!" she cried out and with an explosive force, borne of sheer will and immense mutant genetic strength, she hurled herself from the ground. Bursting out of the mound of demons and some 3 or four meters off the ground.
Looking quickly around as she reached the apex of her leap she saw Frostbite in all her uncertainty standing strong against demons and the very elements of this world as her powers were running out. D'mnchyld claiming her life, becoming a part of something greater than just herself. TuneUp brave and patient, making every bit of himself count from the shots he aimed so carefully to the impact he was having on k'8. Hardlight, every bit a little kid yet doing all he could, his imagination never failing him- an artist turned warrior now. And to the rescue Ember, following to the letter the warrior's code not letting anyone down not leaving anyone behind, with Cyclops in her arms. "The tide is turning boys, hope you're ready for a beating." she said as she landed in the middle of the gathered mass of monsters below.
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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'!
Posts: 187
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Post by D'mnchyld on Aug 4, 2008 18:43:01 GMT -5
'He kissed me back!' she thought with a shock as she felt Sean's lips press back against her own and his hand squeeze hers. "I- uh, O.K." she said when he spoke of keeping his promises. His finger tracing the cut on her cheek, that cut, the one that had brought them all here. It was her blood and her fault. She wanted to change things for herself and her future, to be closer to someone like Sean, actually to be closer to Sean.
She started to say something but then she saw he had turned to take aim and something caught his eyes. Above them, that fire girl and she was carrying Cyclops. "Wow she's amazing!" K'8 said. The ground under them beginning to shake slightly, she didn't know why. Thinking it was from the rushing onslaught of demons she put her arms out to steady herself as a mound rose up in the ground between her and TuneUp.
The sand soil under foot became hotter and suddenly a hand reached up from out of the mound. A blue flame licked up it as it reached and clawed itself out dragging behind it the rest of the demon who had killed Guardian. Katie screamed and fell back onto her butt as the Demon looked straight into her face for the first time and raised it's taloned hand to slice her into gory chunks. It held for a moment and something seemed to play out in it's head as it hesitated. 'What is he waiting for?' was all D'mnchyld could think as her happy life dissolved in a moment.
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