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Off-Topic => Archive => RP Board => Topic started by: Grandy on October 16, 2005, 07:18:02 PM
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Florianopolis, Brazil, the sun was shinning, the shops were open, and a small group of guards using AKs was make noise enough to wake up the dead.
"He's up there!"
"Shoot him!"
It was only routine.
"Where is he?!"
They yelled as loud as possible, stupidy. Its like waving a flag and saying "I'm over here, and I'm coming, hide from me!"
"He cant be far!"
The voices got weaker and more distant, and lastly they were gone. A man leaved the shadows. His purple hais waving with the wind.
Only routine, indeed.
"Everything is clear." from inside a house nearby, came two women and a man, one of the women carried a baby. All looked really weak, and they seemed as if they didn't eat for a long time, scars could be seen all around the man's back. He steped foward.
"So... so where do we go, now?"
The purple-hired man pointed to a house nearby.
"Theres a passageway under a bed, in that house. A man will ask you, just say Atikkus send you there."
The skinny man looked to the womans and to the baby, and then back to Atikkus.
"How... can I thank you?"
Atikkus looked to the baby.
"You see the baby?"
"Ah... yes?"
"He can eat as many candies as he wants, understood?"
The skinny man looked confused.
"Go, before they come back."
"Yes, right." The man and the women walked to the house, shortly after that they were inside the passageway.
Atikkus saw they enter the house, then walked down the street.
"Another job well done."
He looked around. The voices screaming were getting back.
"I better get the hell outta here." He looked around, no one was close. Atikkus opened his hand and pointed his arm to the ground, a hole appeared in it, he jumped in, the hole dissapeared above his head, shortly after, he was making his way throught the sewers.
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It is growing dark in Cologne.
In the shadow of a gothic cathedral, a small house is in total darkness. A man opens the door, peering out cautiously. His hair is almost the same colour as the increasingly black sky, and a brown leather coat is slashed in many places.
A guard runs towards the house, and the man shuts the door again. "Damn", he mutters, "Gonna try and flush me out again, are we?". His voice is cold and slightly Germanic, but he speaks fluent English. The guard bangs on the door, yelling insults in German. The curtains are drawn, and smoke starts coming out of the house's chimney.
A few more guards join in, and make short work of the door. The man sits behind a wooden desk, scratched and worn. There are many cases of knives on the walls.
"Been working again, Gath?", asks a guard with a snide German accent. "I see you have a nice fire going. Just scrap, is it?".
The man nods and smirks.
"It's a shame, Gath, that you still try to trick us. You are not immune. There is no place in this city for a cold-blooded mercenary like you. Worthless, pathet --".
The guard is cut off as the man rises suddenly and slams him against the wall. The two others try to pull him off, but they are swiftly overpowered and sent tumbling back onto the floor. The man walks around the room, grabbing a select few favourite blades and attaching them to a thick leather belt. He strides out of the door as the guards scrabble around, yelling more insults.
A few minutes run away from Cologne, the man stops and looks at a map crumpled in his pocket. "A few days west of here... Hmm. Perhaps, if I head for South America... Yes, the Zenys there have lots of money... They shouldn't be too difficult to convince I'm worth hiring". He puts the map away and climbs into a tree hurriedly as a horse of guards with spears run by, looking around for him.
"No way I'll get to a port tonight", he whispers. "Better be on guard".
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Atikkus was in a bad mood. He was humid, he got flu, and in top of all he was smelly. But he was in home.
The Inferi base, located in the sewers. Right below the police departament (it was at the same time shocking and smart to put an Inferi center under the police department, since all they needed to do in case of rescuing someone was to use a stair that lead to a opening in the P.D.'s bathroom) It was the biggest Inferi base in town, what meant it was about 10X10 meters long.
Atikkus thought it was strange Zenys never even think about looking in the sewers, but he realised they did, just no one wanted to go down there.
"I understand...." he though, looking to his own robe, humid enough to go fishing in it.
For now, the base was deserted. Everyone must be out there doing their jobs.
Atikkus walked to his bed. It had been a long day.
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At the Argentinian province of Misiones, a young man wearing a long black coat, which combines perfectly with his dark eyes and hair, is staring at the horizon. "No one in my country has the guts to follow my dream... No one understands that the opression cannot keep advancing. I will have to start to travel then, to seek people with my same thoughts, to take out the evil power of greed..." he whispers with his quiet voice, while closing his eyes filled of sadness. This young man is Dalfas Dargalot, and he is being pursued for killing a couple of Zeny guards that tried to throw him in the jail for using a weapon (his sword). Dalfas, although he hates the Zenys, seems to not enjoy his action, but he thinks that "I cannot stop now! I have to fulfill my dreams of equality!!!". After a short prayer, Dalfas starts to walk North, silently.
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"They should be here somewhere!", "Find them!", "Go!". Only a few of shouts on the street made by the three guards. "Fools! The whole world can hear you coming!" says a figure with a large black cape. He walks up to the 3 guards. Showing their respect, they immidiantly salute him. He looks one, the captain, straight in the eyes.
"If I hear ONE more shout out off any of you, I'll personally cut off your balls with the rustiest knife I can find!"
The captain gulps, knowing that he means it. "S-s-s-sir, yes, s-s-s-sir."
"Now go find those them!" The three guards run off.
Another man with a black cape comes walking toward him while clapping his hands. "Bravo, bravo. You allways make them fear you, Jason."
"Only doing my job, Freddy. So, any news from the front?"
"We got Brussel, Antwerpen, Luik, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin and Copenhagen. The poor fools didn't put much of a fight."
"You can't expect them too. We got the best of the best."
"Still, would be nice if they put a little bit of a "real" resistance. Ah well. Anyway, the General has sent me to get you. He wants to discuss some... 'important' business with us and the others."
"I wonder what it is."
"Don't ask me, he told me nothing. I'll radio a Jetlo to pick us up."
"Ok, I'll make one more patrol through these streets then.
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It was a circular room, with 4 colums, and everything was dark. There's fog, as well. Looking to the walls of this room, you notice there are no walls, but only darkness. And past the non-existent walls, there's nothing as well. Nothing, not a single house, no sky, no earth, no people.
Well, there was one person.
Atikkus was in the middle of this room, looking as if he had just fainted.
Someone else, coming through one of the walls that aren't (and probaly never were) there, walked to Atikkus. Whatever this someone was, it surely wasn't human. Human usually have skin, bones and flesh. This man hadn't anything of that. But it was visible. In a strange way, you knew it was there, and you could see it.
Whatever it was, it walked to Atikkus, and whipered in his ear two words. "I'm coming."
"..h.....ey......wak.......p!..eY! HEY! ATIKKUS! WAKE UP!"
"Ahn?!"
It was the sewers, again. The Inferi base, Atikkus knew that because of the smell. There was someone poking him in the ear, he turned around and found out a woman, Gillains.
"Whatizit?"
"You looked like having a nightmare." She looked worried. "Neoth said to wake you up, he's making some tea."
Both remain without talking for a while. Gillains spoke first:
"That one again?"
"Yeah..." The same nightmare. Well, not really a nightmare. Atikkus never felt unconfortable or scared in that dream, but everyone sais he keeps shaking and mumbling as if he was having a heart attack or something. He sat in his bed, feeling his heart. It was accelerated, he could feel that, but he couldn't see a reason to that to happen. Something crossed his mind.
"What time is it?"
Gillains noded.
"Tomorrow"
Atikkus sighted. He had been sleeping for a whole day. Again.
"You could think I'm not doing much for the rebels..."
Gillains nodded again.
"Yeah, I could."
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Silently, Dalfas reaches the border, where some Zeny guards are standing. With great speed, he manages to through the border, and throws himself into the Uruguay river. Using a fallen tree as a boat, he reaches the Brazil border after some days. Tired and hungry, Dalfas smiles... The first step of his plan was succesful: Reaching Brazil, where the Zeny guards had a hard time against the Inferi. There, he would try to get a few allies for his plan...
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Gath walks quietly through a small hamlet on the bank of a river. A few locals (Suspiciously carrying pitchforks and torches) patrol a central courtyard. Hiding in an overhanging porch until a large rowdy-looking man passes, Gath rechecks his map. "I should be further East of here", he whispers to himself.
Without warning, he steps into the light and wanders into the middle of the courtyard, looking for a sign of the village's name. A door swings open and a stranger rushes out with a razor-sharp axe. Gath sidesteps him and brings him down onto his face. The man picks himself up and sheepishly dusts himself down.
"Sorry 'bout that", he says in a rugged Germanic voice, "We can not be too careful any more. I thought you were someone else. Wie heisst du?"
"Gath", replies the mercenary, slightly winded by the rush from this portly gentleman. "Ich bin ein Soldner von Stuttgart", he mutters, before clearing his throat when he is sure the man speaks at least some English. "I'm looking for a bed for the night, if you have one. I have no money, but if there are any jobs you would like me to do, I would be more than ha" --
The man cuts him off by putting a finger to his lips and gesturing for Gath to come inside.
"I have an offer for you", says the man, sitting down on a seat by a log fire. "There is a little something. A strange man has been coming to our village late at night. He comes from Frankfurt, to the North. He kills many of our people, but he is too strong to stop. If you could get rid of him for me, you can have the room, and I'll cook you breakfast and give you a ride up to Frankfurt in the morning. But be... Discreet".
Gath turns around and looks out of the doorway. "I need to take a ship from Hamburg", he calls. "Throw in a little spending money and you have a deal". The man rises and throws a bag of gold coins to Gath's feet. "Deal", he says quickly, "Please, you must do this for us!".
"Sit down, old man", says Gath confidently, taking a long, sharp blade and twirling it around playfully, "I know what I'm doing". He strides out of the doorway and waits for the masked man to appear.
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Jason walks to the streets when a very loud rumble goes through it. "That must be our Jetlo." He smiles. "Ah well, I'll get some later." A giant flying "jet" comes above Jason. The engines turn around and make it come to a stop following by pointing down. The jetlo slowly goes down and the door opens. "Come on in!" Freddy shouts. Jason jumps on a stairlike part of the Jetlo and enters it. The door closes and the Jetlo flies off towards the mountains.
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Gath sits alone in the middle of the courtyard, as a chill wind blows through it. The town hall clock shows that it is about half an hour to midnight. The door opens slowly and the man walks out, clutching a steaming bowl of soup and a bread roll, probably the most delicious food he has in his entire house.
He sets it down next to the mercenary, nods and whispers something. Gath nods. He waits until the man is out of sight, then dips the roll in the soup and takes a bite. He recoils and shudders as the soup makes him heave - a disgustingly bitter taste, neither meat nor vegetable. He finishes the bread, tips the soup into the river, feeling slightly guilty at wasting good (Maybe) food.
He sits back down and looks out into the night sky. He notices a rumbling sound, and a distant light in the sky, but thinks nothing of it. The air gets chilly, and he stands up and looks across the horizon.
"Something funny is happening tonight", he whispers.
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Dalfas keeps walking, hiding in the shadows when he could.
The resemblance of his father's and mother's screams always kept waking him up at night. They had died, sick and poor, as most of the Inferi. "When my dream is fulfilled, this injustice will stop..." He kept travelling towards Florianópolis.
His hands could still feel the screams of the Zeni guards he had killed. "But I cannot stop... They are guilty, because of them, everything is wrong, society is unfair... My vision is more important". The thought of his "vision", his "dream" was the only thing that kept him on his feet. Wearing a large black hood to cover his now wanted face, he started to seek allies, in his path towards Florianópolis. Luck wasn't with him, but Dalfas did not seem troubled, or worried. In fact, he was confident. "It doesn't matter, with only two or three allies, I'll do good...". After this thought, he smiled...
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Florianopolis, Brazil, the sun was shinning, the shops were open, but something was wrong.
And the thing was: Unlike the normal dais, today, the voces of Eduardo, Rodrigo and Alexandre*, the three local guards, couldn't be heard. And the reason of this was: There weren't inferis to chase.
And, if you're asking yourself why there weren't any inferis to chase, it because today was the great Guild Meeting. All the 5 guilds of inferis reunited in the big house, rightly across the major's house (the inferi only made the meeting under the major's house for laughing at him, after all, he couldn't find Inferi even if they're right below his nose. literally.)
One by one, all the guilds started to appear:
The Central Brotherhood, the Dumont Guild, the Albatroz Guild, the Ercilio Luz Bridge Community and lastly the Zeny-Should-All-Go-To-Hell Great Guild.
They had a meeting each month, but they aways choose a random day, so the Zenys never could get suspicious.
Not much could be said for each guild. Only that the Central Brotherhood was the only one with a non-undergound base (it was a house smartly covered as an hospital, that looked so poor no Zeny would ever dare to enter). The Dumont was the only guild with a Zeny on it (who didn't appeared in the meeting, smartly, since the Zeny-Should-All-Go-To-Hell guild was there). And the Zeny-Should-All-Go-To-Hell Great Guild was know to be de most radical and for winning the best name contest.
Atikkus, already feeling better, was with the Albatroz Guild**, Okneoth, the captain, was talking to the Ercilio Luz's captain, Gillains wasn't visible and the rest of the Albatrozes weren't nearby.
The meeting started, the captain of the Central Brotherhood started to talk, according to him, since South America was one of the places with less Zeny per person around the world (of each 10 person, 7 were Zeny) a lot of inferi was migrating to here. This was at the same time good and bad, he said, since, if the Zeny find out that, they'll send more troops, and the Pacifiers will be alert.
"Basically" Atikkus though "He means 'we need to be careful'. Everyone sais that, but I think we are preatty safe, here. No Zeny would even think of-"
"GRENADE"
The explosion hit Atikkus, it throwed him against a wall, where he hit hard his head***, he felt dizzy, and finnaly colapsed. The last thing he saw was some white and blue dressed soldiers appearing from the entrances, in their chest was written "Pacifiers".
*My cousins =P
**My Neighbourgood. (or houever you spell it)
*** just... how many 'h'
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A big explosion surprised Dalfas, as he was walking. "They are ineficient, though they have better weapons..." He thought, as he drew his sword. Rushing, Dalfas saw a soldier dressed in blue and white... "The Pacifiers eh?!" Dalfas said "You are nothing but an arrogant fool... Come at me!"
The Pacifier laughed and drew a handgun, but the last thing he saw was Dalfas running towards him. After killing the guard, Dalfas walked inside the building were he had heard the explosion. Dalfas saw a boy who had collapsed, and two Pacifiers with him. Dashing towards them, Dalfas killed the Pacifiers smoothly, and took the boy outside. He saw the boy's ID, which was in his pocket... "Atikkus, huh?" He put the boy on the floor, and waited him to wake up...
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Little by little, the world was appearing again. Atikkus felt the smell himself got while in the sewers, and then felt the smell of smoke.
Smoke....
Smoke?...
SMOKE?!
"Ack!" The smell of smoke made his brain work again, he woke up and sat down. The explosion, the fire, the Pacifiers, the Guilds..... the Guilds? He looked around. He saw a mna nearby, and assumed that, if he wasn't from one Guild, he was probaly of the Pacifiers, either way, he should know something.
"Where are the others?"
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Dalfas watched the boy to his eyes. He stood up and watched over Atikkus' shoulder. "No one's coming, man" he said "You asked about the 'others'? There were other apart of you?" Atikkus said 'yes', Dalfas sat down quietly and talked slowly, in a whisper: "I only saw you inside there... This has to have been something big for having the Zenis send the Pacifiers, I dispatched a few before finding you... What were you doing?
Don't try to lie, I know when someone's lying to me..."
Dalfas somehow kew that Atkkus had plans against the Zeni, but he wanted Atikkus to tell him...
"He is perfect for my plains" thought Dalfas, and gently smiled.
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"I... The meeting... A Inferi meeting... Almost all Inferi in town... And boom! And I don't...." Atikkus fell down "I don't know what to do now..." No, he didn't. Atikkus knew that, if there were survivors, they would be at the Pacifiers' base, located at the center of the city, but it would be necessary at least a small flank of soldiers to take it up.
Or would it?
Atikkus raised his head.
"When you said 'I dispatched a few before finding you'... you mean how many?"
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Dalfas watched Atikkus. He realized that although Atikkus seemed younger than him, he had an elder mind. Dalfas told Atikkus how he found him, and then told him: "I killed three of them, although I do not know how many are there..." Atikkus seemed shocked by this... There would have been a large unit, and he may have been saved by casualty. Dalfas was watching constantly towards the sides, repeating himself some words... "They may come from here... or maybe there... DAMN!" screamed Dalfas suddenly "We are ambushed!".
Atikkus didn't understand, he could not see anyone, but Dalfas said: "Buenos Aires... March 16th of this year... They did the same tactic. They blew up an Inferi resistance base and waited for all of the survivors to come out... It was a massacre..." Atikkus was shocked even more. "I won't fall for it! I'll scape like the last time! Atikkus! Show me the way to a big building, like a house, mansion or something. If we scape through a house, they won't search for us there, they center their attention in places like this one. Once we scape from here, we'll think in a way of rescuing your friends, I have a proposition to make to you all!"
Dalfas was nervous, but yet, happy... "He has the potential I need" Dalfas though.
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Atikkus though for a while, it was almost everything small Inferi houses, and it would probaly be filled with Pacifiers. The only "safe" house nearby was...
"The Major's house, across the street." he pointed to a big mansion. "But I don't know if it is a good idea, the Major is know for having many security, and I would eat my hat if there aren't guards inside."
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Dalfas was very sure that they would be safe. "Don't worry, just show me the way." And so Atikkus did. They went towards the mansion, and young Dalfas smiled. "It's perfect" he said "Let us enter through here!" Dalfas pointed a window. Atikkus tried to stop him: it was the Mayor's room. Dalfas didn't listen and entered, and found himself in front of the Mayor... Before the Mayor could call his guards, both Dalfas and Atikkus had taken him as a hostage. Dalfas was pretty sure about his deeds: He said to Atikkus "just follow me". Atikkus was following Dalfas, pretty surprised about his harsh way of doing things. The guards didn't dare to come closer to them, because of the Mayor's safety. After leaving the Mayor's guards behind and throwing the confused and scared man in the middle of thye street and running away towards the sewers nearby. After being sure of that they were safe, Dalfas said to Atikkus: "My name is Dalfas Dargalot, and I am the Builder of the Inferi Dream". Atikkus was very surprised when he heard this.
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Surprised and confused.
"What kind of name is that? Inferi Dream? It sounds like something from those Japanese cartoons. But, in another most important thing, this is the sewers, even I get lost here, finding my way back home, okay, cool, but only that, I don't know where can we go for now."
(And please, stop controlling so much my character.)
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(no problem bud!)
Dalfas smiled, but thought "I said too much".
Then, he asked Atikkus to go with him: "I'm not from this country, I escaped from the Pacifiers in my country, I'm from Argentina, and I am trying to build something that may look like a drem for an Inferi... I search for brave people, like you, people willing to fight against the Zeny's injustice. Right now I'm looking for a shelter, where I can be sure to have allies, and I see a potential ally in you. Can I go with you?" asked Dalfas with an entusiastic look on his face.
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Atikkus seemed more confuse than before.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm no brave, i fact, I'm just about to fall down in my knees and yell as much as I can, I've just been attacked, my head still hurts, God knows what happened to my friends and a weird man shows up asking me to join his group that until what I can see would be formed by me and you! Now, I'm freaking out, really am. Not only beacuse of this, but... how come the Zenys knew where would be the meeting?! It's just... impossible to GUESS it! It's in a random day of the month and sometimes we even don't have one!" he sighted.
"Look, I don't care about your dream, at least, not for now. I thank you for saving me, but now, the first thing I'll do is finding where are the guild members."
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2 days after Akkitus met Dalfas
Fantas looked at the knua,his crossbow drawn,ready to shoot.
"Little closer,little closer,gotcha!" He shoots his crossbow at the knua,instantly killing it. He goes over to the corpse,and picks up the remains,then takes out his bolt from the dead knua.
At the butcher........
"Whatcha gonna give me?" "Five renge?" "That'll do"
"Here ya go" "Thanks" Fantas walked out with enough money to pay his debt to a Zeny,and get dinner too.
As he walked he saw Akkitus on the road. Fantas walked up to him,being generous,he asked Akkitus to join him for dinner.....
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Dalfas seemed dissapointed after Atikkus negative. He kept traveling in Brazil "something tells me I'll meet him again..." he thought. He found himself at Sao Paulo after many days of traveling. There, he started to gather people, by his charisma and his entusiastic ideals. Within a month, Dalfas had gathered one hundred Inferis, willing to follow him. Dalfas started to feel more confident. And he named his group The Builders. The Builders soon begun to win a name and their acts where common nplace in all South America. Dalfas got people from all of the countries he could, and in no time he had an army on his side. "Yes! My dream... No... The Inferi dream will be built! We must strike now!"
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Not trying to be harsh or anything, but, sorry, Big_Duke, you RP is as bad as they say,
First of: Don't post "After two days" this just cuts a whole story, like, what did Atikkus and Dalfas did? They could save the guilds?
Second: Don't control other people characters, I'll put that as a rule.
Thirth: You didn't even presented yourself, just appeared out of nowhere, going for nowhere, shooting at knuas!
Fourth: What the hell is a knua?
5th: Atikkus and Dalfas are Inferi rebels, and if you read the other posts, you'd notice that they aren't the kind of person you would met walking down the street.
For those reasons, I must say the two posts never happened, Big_D can still RP, IF he doesn't control other people character or jump 48 hours for no reason other than appearing without having to read the posts.
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Well... Gues Grandy's got it right... And I guess I jumped a bit into time too. What will you do Grandy? Do you want to put what did Atikkus do when Dalfas and he followed different paths?
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I don't remember anything about them following different paths...
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Gee... sorry, i followed the story after Duke's post... i guess i'll have to correct everything
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Note: After Duke's post, nothing i posted goes, until.... NOW!!!!
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Dalfas, dissapointed with Atikkus negative, said: Ok... you'll be ready later on. Take me to your people for now... I need to hide.
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"Thanks." Atikkus nodded, seeming a little more confident. "Follow me." He made his way through the sewers, ending in a place where there was a fence. "We're..." he said "...rightly below the Pacifier's headquarters. This fence..." he ponted to it "...is here because they know we use the sewers, and are afraid we might attack. However, I doubt there are guards down here. Wait a minute..." he raised his hand, pointing it opened to the fence, and hold a deep breath. "AIR WAVE!"
The sound it made was the same as one smal explosion, the fence, now in shatters, flew up about 3 feet in the air, before hitting in a wall. Luckly, Atikkus was right about not having any guards on the sewers, or it could be the worse infiltration ever. Atikkus fell to his knees.
"Aww, this hurts..." he whispered.
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Dalfas helped Atikkus to get up. "You take the point, you know this place, he said". The Pacifiers had become more aware of the Inferi moves...
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"Here's the stair... it'll take us to an entrance below the Pacifier's bathroom." Atikkus muttered, and started to climb it.
OOC: Time fer some Metal Gear infiltration. :)
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Dalfas climbed the stair behind Atikkus. In a matter of seconds, they were under the Pacifier's bedroom...
"This is dangerous, and you know it" said Dalfas "But this is really fun". Hours kept passing, and Dalfas kept talking really strange. As they were passing below the bedroom, they could hear the Pacifiers talk...
"The Inferis have become more and more smart, it seems..." Said one.
"Ha! But we have the weapons, remember". Said another one, who seemed to be the superior officer. As he was hearing, Dalfas slipped his hand (he was ducking) and fell with his face against the floor, making a lot of noise...
"WHO'S THERE?!" Screamed the guards, as they broke the wood made floor, and found Dalfas and Atikkus...
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"Would you belive if I said 'plumber'?" Atikkus asked.
"No, I wouldn't!"
"Well, then..... RUN!" he snaped his fingers and what happened was the effect of a smoke bomb. "To the exit!" as he was running to the door, he heard someone cocking a gun outside, as he couldn't stop, he ran into 3 Pacifiers, two with Desert Eagles, and the last one seemed to be casting an spell. "Oh, shi-" the guns fired, Atikkus jumped inside in the very last second. "So..." he looked to Dalfas. "...I think this is your kind of situation."
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Dalfas didn't answer: he shouted really loud, like he was crazy and jumped towards the Pacifiers, running and swinging his sword. In a matter of seconds, they were on the floor, lifeless.
"Let's go!" said Dalfas, who seemed to have gone back to his senses. Atikkus didn't answer and ran along. As they were running, an alarm started to sound. "This is bad" said Dalfas "We should hurry up! Where can we go?!" He seemed more nervous now. They ran into a room, where the lights were off. Atikkus found a switch and turned it on, and Dalfas drew his sword quickly... But there was no one in there. But by the time they had realized that it was a bedroom, and as a fact, a dead- end, they could hear the guard's steps coming towards the door...
*chillin' huh?!*
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"I ran out of battle spells for today" Atikkus shouted "And you, have you run out of going berserk as well? Because I-" he didn't finish the sentence, he fell down to the ground, there was a bullet in his right arm he didn't notice before, the bleeding was pretty bad.
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Dalfas was way too nervuous for the first time on battle, and couldn't get himself into becoming a berserk. All he did was grab Atikkus and try to run away... but soon some guards caught him from his leg, tackling him from behind. Dalfas, while struggling to get Atikkus up, kicked one guard who approached. Soon three more came running, and Dalfas started to run, while amost dragging Atikkus behind him, holding him from his unwounded arm... But getting away was impossible at that time. Someting hit his head, and when he could open his eyes, he was inside a van, heading towards someplace he didn't know, and Atikkus was sitting next to him, with his arm now healed, but unconcious...
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--In-dreams--
Atikkus was in that same place. The four pillars were there, as there was the nothingness behind them. But this time the dream was a little diferent, the invisible-yet-visible creature walked to him. Atikkus was holding his right arm, though no blood was coming out, it was hurting a lot. He looked to whatever was in there.
The same cold voice spoke to him again.
"I'm coming..."
--Outside dreams--
Atikkus suddenly woke up. The pain in his right arm seemed to have duplicated now, he was cold sweating, Dalfas was next to him, looking a little worried.
"Nightmare..." Atikkus whispered. He looked around. "Where are they taking us to?"
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Dalfas didn't know what to answer. He just looked at the floor and kept quiet for the next minutes... until he whispered something: "I certainly don't know... but it's a long trip, and by the changes of temeperature, I can tell we are going north... It's hot around here" said, worried. The journey was long, and the van kept bouncing around. Then, the van stopped in a desert-like place. They had been traveling for days, and were starving. An important looking Pacifier said: "Here you are, Inferi traitorous rats, at the New Mexico Prisoner Camp. Here the rats like you who dare to opose us end up. You'll be here working for us until you DIE!!! Now, follow the guards, there is no way you can escape". Dalfas now was really worried...
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Atikkus looked at the guard. Then snapped his fingers, nothing happened. The guard laughed at Atikkus and threw a punch on his face, Atikkus looked at him again. "Anti magic spells, huh?"
The guard grinned. "Follow the guards, NOW!"
Atikkus did so. When they were walking, he whispered to Dalfas "So... do ya have any plans?"
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Dalfas was shocked. They were in the Pacifier's maximum security prison. Then, suddenly, while working on some rocks with Atikkus, he started to laugh...
"Can't you see Atikkus?!" said Dalfas "We are at the maximum security Zeni prison! We should be proud of ourselves, they are frightened of us!" Dalfas made a pause to take a long and deep breath. He whispered to Atikkus: "Those Zeni fools think that we don't know anything, do they? See those weird necklaces thay have? they are used to block magic used AGAINST THEM. But they can't help if some rock comes flying from nowhere and hits them in the head or something. If you affect another object, they can't stop you, those necklaces stop the magic that affects them directly. I believe it's up to you now. What is left to do is to find where my sword is, and then we will be able to get out... That's all I can think off right now..."
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Atikkus thought for a while. "I might have a go" he whispered "but not right now, there's too much guards in here, let's wait 'till nightfall, meanwhi-" a whip hit Atikkus in his back "Less talk and more work!" a guard yelled Atikkus pretended to continue working, but looking around him. "You see these other people working with us?"
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Dalfas kept pretending to continue working, then he said: "Yeah, those people are surely going to help if we gather them with us. All we need is to wait until nightfall". Dalfas received a whip on his back and seriously started to work. Dawn had fallen by that time...
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"Ookay..." They were still working, and there still had guards in there, only at 11 PM it would be break time (for the guards, that is) Atikkus was whispering to Dalfas "...you talk to them, see if you find another magician, we'll need as much as possible, I'll cast an illusion spell so it looks like you're working."
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Dalfas walked towards some prisoners very smoothly, although he trusted Atikkus, he was unconfident, knowing that there were hundreds of guards. At 8 PM he had gotten 3 magicians to help Atikkus, the rest were only warriors. Dalfas met with Atikkus at dinner, and told him: "The dinner's ready... We'll eat at 11..." Atkkus understood. Dalfas walked around some tables at dinner time, talking to some prisoners. It was 10 PM, everyone wassleeping... but Dalfas and Atikkus, at their jail. The guards weren't sleeping, though... they kept walking around. Dalfas waited... it was 10:30 PM now... 10: 45... the time was approaching... 10:50... They were almost free...
11 PM!!!!! Dalfas screamed "NOW!!!!!!!", while Atikkus looked at him surprised. Many spells were shot at the same time against a wall, and the broken pieces of it fell over the guards, who ere left unconcious. A magician used a magnetic spell to bring the keys to his hand, he gave one to Dalfas who opened the cage quickly. They were oput... Dalfas found the the office were the weapons were. He found his thin sword ("My buddy's back!" he said) and then took Atikkus through a door... When they opened it, Dalfas found out aboutr something... the prisoners weren't following them. "We lost the group!" said Dalfas. And when he said that, the door closed behind him, and he saw something in front of him... something he had never seen in his life...
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(And this, kids, is how Grandy killed his computer after 13 unsucsessful attepts to post, and finding out the one that worked didn't show up in the next day.)
Atikkus was looking to the door. "We would need, two keys, and a bunch of anti-lock magic spells to break through." he nodded "Well, what you say, we've been betrayed or they caught us?.......... Eh?...... Dalfas?" he looked at Dalfas, who was looking horrorized at something, Atikkus keep following his look until.... "Crap, I didn't knew they had summoners in here. Say, your 'buddy' can help us?"
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Horrified, Dalfas stared at what seemed to be an enormous lion... with wings. He drew his sword and said to Atikkus: "My buddy is always ready! I'll attack him from the front and try to take him away from you. When I do so, shoot hi with some weird magic or something... throw it stones, I don't care, but keep attacking from far away!" and Dalfas charged against the mutant lion, which roared and attacked as well...
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Atikkus grinned, "You want weird magic, I'll give you the weirdest magic I know, time for some Chaos Magic!"
---Itermission to explain what is Chaos Magic---
Grandy *dressed in a teacher suit* Back on 3D&T (some sort of D&D but with more jobs and less quests) there was a job that stood out to Grandy, it was the Chaos Mage, simply put, if a Chaos mage wanted to cast, let's say, a fire ball, it had 1/6 of chances of not working, 1/6 of chances of doubling damage, 1/6 of chances of the spell hit the caster 2/6 of chances of working just fine, and 1/6 of chances of the fireball become an ice ball or airball turning into stone. Based on that, Grandy made his own kind of Chaos Magic, which he presented Atikkus with.Basically, when he snaps his fingers, something random happens in an are of 10 meters around him, there's also something Atikkus calls Chaos Space, what is basically he snapping his fingers as fast as he can, what usually results in killing various basic law of physical, like this. *snaps fingers* *anvil fall on his head*
---End of intermission---
Atikkus snapped his fingers, luckly this time the magic was for better, a paper that was floating next to the monster exploded, injuring him a little.
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Dalfas smiled, and charged against the creature. The mutant tried to slice him his his claws, but Dalfas ducked from them. He could hurt the beast a bit on a leg, but the stab wasn't deep enought to stop it. Atikkus kept shooting his magic, and the fight became more tense. Finally, after Atikkus made a bottle explode into bits, which hurt the beast on it's eyes, Dalfas could kill it by stabbing the mutant's heart. "What was this thing?" asked Dalfas "I knew that the Zeni did experiments, but not chimeras of this sort..."
*Note: By saying chimeras I don't mean the mythical monsters, I mean an experiment of mixing two species, something that is done this days*
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"And I knew they made chimeras, but not anything like THAT!" he pointed to something floating, it was a human, but with a lizard tail and bat wings. "Chaos Magic!" Atikkus snapped his finger, it made his hair blonde.
"Crap..."
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Dalfas went pale. He grabbed his sword with more srenght and said "Don't worry!!! just focus, I'll keep him busy!!!" and jumped against the chimera, which hitted him on the head and threw him towards a side. Dalfas got up and charged again, before the chimera could charge Atikkus. He sliced it with his sword at a side, and the beats made a strange sound, like a scream. "Shoot!!!" screamed Dalfas.
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Atikkus started to snap his fingers as fast as his could, all around him, air bacame earth, a poisonous gas came down from the sky, a bird that was in a tree nearby started to glow blue and flew away in Mach 6, a bucket of water appeared over the monster's head, Atikkus returned to his normal hair, but was now dressing Dalfas's armor, and Dalfas's sword got surprisingly bigger and yet not heavier, and last but not least, a giant tree appeared out of nowhere and fell in the monster's head.
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The creature could not resist all of this punishment. The tree had left it unconscious, and Dalfas put it out of it's misery. "Well, I guess it was a fine job, we should move on" he said "Are you ready to run like crazy? Because things will go wilder from now on..." Atikkus nodded his head, tired, like saying "yes". Dalfas opened the door slowly. "No one's around... what happened?" he said. The went to the entrance, and after getting out, they found out that the yard was empty... no people around. "This is bad..." said Dalfas, and by the time he said that, he heard an explosion and multiple screams. He ran towards a stair, he climbed it and lookd towards the outside... "TANKS!!!" he said "They have brought the entire army!!! Everyone is dead!!!" Dalfas was now desperate... "We need to find a way through the sewers... there must be an entrance..."