RPG:The Beast Within

[Valkarma]

Vexx took the moment when she let her guard down to slide back on some ice, out of her swords reach. Her eyes betrayed who she was. She was a waitcher. This surprised Vexx as he was sure they had all died out.
She asked him about the bodies.
"What these?" he pointed at the line of dead behind him. "These are for you and your kind" He smiled with a sicking grin. "they are to get the kind like you out into the open."
He drew on his energy again and summoned up an ice sword with little effort. He cheaked around to make sure there was enough water to last this conflict. He then smiled at the witcher.
"So how about you quit trying to be nice and just die" he lunged at her with his sword.

[Tsunami_the_Ice_Wolf]

Zanna stalked the two humans and licked her lips. This would be a good meal. She continued to hop from building to building, still keeping to the shadows. One of them had spotted her! Zanna shrugged it off and decided to attack now while she had the chance. She pounced and landed on Ellin, the one who had not spotted her, and made him fall to the ground.

OOC: Sorry it's not long

[Mortal_Engines]

Eddie looked down at the... fanged little girl. His first impression was of a young lion. Cute but also you knew what it could do.

He wanted to place the rest of the bullets held in his gun into the little thing and make sure, but as he was about to speak and lift his gun a series of explosions and other loud noises rang out across the night.

"I haven't got time for baby demons right now, sorry."
He then aimed down at the things foot and fired his gun as another loud noise shattered the smaller noises of this chaotic night. He didn't look back at the demon but only ran towards the noise.

It didn't take long and instantly he knew he had been tricked. This was where 'somehow' the boy and girl/dog combo had ended up after giving him the slip. His instincts told him to stay where he was but his feet carried him straight into the front door and into a scene of utter madness.
There was a small trail of blood from what Eddie guessed had been a beautiful chandelier. It led back outside before stopping as he guessed the 'bleeder' must have stopped the flow of blood.
Another loud creak and a peice of the 1st floor fell into the stairway across the hall.

"Damn!" Eddie shouted, "Come out you little tricky git!"
He took a step pack, panting slightly. Who'd have guessed his old lungs still had it in 'em? Still it hadn't helped. Hopefully if he waited outside he would be able to catch him slipping away.

And if he didn't find anything soon at least he should have disabled the little demon long another to go back and catch her. If he even hit her...

[Tetsanosuke]

His hanging arm had arisen to the blow, the scales of his body fully showing with small patches of his humanly pale disguise. That explosion sent him into the building beside/behind him, and he cracked his neck as his scales shined their neon orange, red and black sheen. His red glazed oculars opened to the dust and destruction as the his illusion had been nearly banished.

He snarled as his form shifted, cracking slowing back into place. His body seemed to snap like steel, and his features shifted back to his Draconic-wolf form. His eyes would start to burned with orange and red as he felt himself regenerate. The pain.. A pain he hadn't felt in so long. He was indeed the ultimate prey at this time. But what the human didn't know was that the dragons breath was about his fate, and soon it would solidify and shatter his body. Ouh, the thought was so exciting, he could only laugh to himself on the inside as his wings fanned out with their leathery snap.

He leapt from the opening in the new building, and used the higher wall of the building that was falling apart to jump towards the roof of the stable building. Slowly he crept to the edge of the building to spot another human, seemingly waiting at the building's front. Maybe he was a bounty hunter or some sort of assassin aimed at killing his great and worthy prey.

Krah wouldn't allow it so easily, but his form wasn't adequate for his purpose, so a shift was in order as he hopped from the top of that three story building. By the time he landed, quite gently in fact on the cement at the ground, his pale skin illusion was recollected and remade.

He started slowly towards Eddie, the street lamps that were still opperable hinting his true form via the shadows every blink; from one light to the next. His blank red eyes held a lock upon Eddie, coming closerand closer to the human with such a monotone vibe about him.

[Nespa]

Killai snapped to attention another demon was nearby it was a weak six sense or something she seemed to have developed over the few years. Snarling she turned around and locked her blue eyes with red, growling lightly she moved to the first lamppost until she was infront of him "krah your quite famous..for a demon" she pulled the hood of her cloak down revealing her darkblue hair, eyes and elven ears "shoulden't you be hunting naught humans or something" her eyes narrowed as she pulled a staf from under the cloak. Killai did not fight much she prefert to avoid it but due to the thing called mating season she was forced to learn to defend herself. Taking a defense pose she glared at Krah.

[Lady_Baneheart_Of_Blades]

Emily smashed his face with her sword dodging the ice sword, but narrowly being cut by it. "Witchers are fast for creatures like you!" He was harder to kill than she thought. She backed away a few stepps and ran jumping into the air lifting her sword she said, "There is no real reason to fight right now. Your girl friend can't come back! You only need a potion and give half your life away in order to do that." She missed hitting him and she backed away from the sword. "You know. Your looking for the person who killed your girlfriend... I can help you"

OOC: She is trying to hide her being the killer, so that she could see if Vexx got any good in him. So that she later will be found out that she is the killer and then a great fight will begin. But that can maybe not happen. ^_^

[Valkarma]

Vexx paused his attack for a moment.
"how do you know about her?" He then continued. However she was proving good at dodging. "How do you know about her eh? Do you lot brag about your kills?" He continued the attack venting all his anger into them. He could try something more but she had caught his attention. "However you know you dont seem well informed since you know nothing about us." He then stopped and let her rest as her intrest in his killer made him courios. "Why would you help me? whats in it for you?" he asked not letting his guard down.

[Lady_Baneheart_Of_Blades]

"There is a way to bring her back..." Emily said, "I don't want anything and we don't brag. I hate ones that brag" Emily dodged every move she could. She said, "Look your looking for the killer aren't you? Just stop!"

[Mortal_Engines]

Eddie was shocked and it showed on his aged features. The little girl he had tried to shoot was now protecting him from another demon.
"Hey... What's happening here? Shouldn't you be slaughtering humans and not fighting each other? I've lived a long time and I've never seen anything like this."
He made sure his gun hand was steady and loose ready to aim, while using his other hand to reach into his jacket and pull out his flask of whiskey. He undid the top with his mouth and took a long drink... It was going to be a long and confusing night...

[Tetsanosuke]

The now gleaming red eyes of Krah would shift towards the female monster, and he'd make a grin.. Such a rusty grin, but it was truly a grin in all effort of the word. Something like a smile, something like a scowl, but in the end a single grin. " Female demon with a mind, oh~ how you protect human kind. " His voice had a gently rolling thunder behind it, and soon his eyes returned to the human with his pistol and his question.

He started to think about the situation, he wasn't about to underestinate the female demon, but by normal comparison it was hard not to be confident. Though the female knew his name, that was appealing and quite flattering when he thought about it.. If he would take the time to do so. He snarled at her with such excitement before his fingers peeled into talon-claws. " Stay out of my way, Miss.. I'd rather not kill a fellow demon who can actually think. This is my business here, not yours. "

He cracked his neck gently as he fanned out his powerful digits, his hair swaying in the breeze before falling still..

With his superior agility he ducked under the human man after a swift dash, and lifted his right hand to his throat, the other under the man's gun arm. Using this leverage with his strength he'd bring the man against the wall of the building nearby, as his eyes burned with red and orange hues right into Eddie's. " Tell me, human, who is that.. boy who seems so well prepared? You aren't my prey tonight, feel my generosity and tell me, or I might just kill you."

( OOC: I hope that wasn't too forcefull, Engine. o.o;; )

[Mortal_Engines]

Eddie didn't stand a chance, he was still fast for his age yet demons just seemed to have the edge for some reason.
Well Eddie hadn't expected many manners from such a creature, but what really annoyed him, to the point of twisting his flexible human wrist towards the demons belly and sqeezing the trigger, was the sight of too much Yen's worth of whiskey making it's slow and painful way down a nearby drain.

He didn't have a clue who the kid was, but he wouldn't have sold him out anyway. He seemed to have a grudge against demons that was quite quickly awakening in Eddie himself...

[Valkarma]

Vexx let his anger flow out, freezing all the ground around him in the process. He then sat down and did the normal process that calmed him down. He made the ice fold up and created a small area of roses made of it. Their look and beauty often calmed him down.
They reminded him of the times when he was happy and not filled with such hate. He then turned and looked up with his one eye at the Witcher. She had proven to be powerfull but he figured he wouldn't need to fully release himself to kill her. Maybe it was best to listen to her like his family had once said:
'Listen to the chimes of life's creations and its speakers, only then will you understand life and death and who controls it'.
He still didn't understand it but he felt it had something to do with what was happening. The elemental demons used to be a balancing force in the world. Not good or evil but there to balence forces outside of themselves. Maybe he could use them ways now.

"Fine." He said with a struggle, "What is it you know? Tell me now before i decide to go back to my old way of finding it"

[Nespa]

Killai growled and jumoped back so she sat on the fire escape "i think you know who you mean, a boy who is great in making traps right?". she putted her staf away "his name is solo or something like that and he works for the police, i saw him a few times from a distance but did not dare to move closer" she glared at the older "you have your info now let him go" she bared her teeth.

[Tetsanosuke]

( OOC: Hope I read yours right Engine. Or I'll have some edits to do. )

The man had responded in his own manner, and after those gun shots he felt enter into his stomach there was an eerie silence. Krah narrowed his eyes as the shots started to be pushed from his stomach, and soon the bullets hit the ground with a sickly clank of metal to asphalt. He growled under his breath, soon becoming a roaring thunder of a call towards the sky.. Interrupted by the female demon who seemed to wish the man released.

The female had told him, maybe not everything he wanted to know, but as much as he thought was justified in a trade. By Eddie's underarm he'd throw him into the nearby lot which was overgrown with grass and weeds about five meters away, making Eddie do a mid air somersault to a landing on his back.. After which he coughed several times before his black and red scales were revealed; the gun shots were enough extra damage to his illusion that suddenly his figure bowed over, his sinew cracked with his bones as he stretched out his full fifteen feet of length. His wings spread out wide as he howled with a thunderous affect, and looked towards the female.

His eyes cocked gently with their red and orange cylindrical shapes, the pupil and the iris seemed to invert as he looked around.. And then back at the female. Slowly he walked in her direction, stopping only a few feet from her front side before speaking with a low rumble. " What does this human matter to you? They'd kill you if they had the chance.. you saw him attempt to kill me, when I was so generous.. " He cracked his neck as he gathered the electronic energies in the area, causing the street lamps and several buildings to go completely dark.

In the darkness that seemed so artificial, his eyes burned brightly at the female demon " We are beasts to them, and thusly they are to us. They take what they have for granted.. Things we don't. "

[Nespa]

Killai diden't move as krah stopped near her, she refused to show fear "perhaps krah but suprises me that inteligent demon like yourself does not what other demons do". She looked straightly "i am number 13 a demon body with a human soul as for your comment yes we are beasts" she glances to where Eddy landed "perhaps we always wil be beasts as you say or perhaps there are humans who actualy are openmindend and see beyond the monster they believe us to be". She straightens "now don't you have humans you should kill and eat?". She jumped off the fire escaped and moved towards eddie watching him from a save distance. She knew Krah was right for many humans she would be nothing more then another demon, the hunter from before made that clear by not listening to her. She sighed there had to be a open mind somewhere and she was gonna find it.

[Mortal_Engines]

OOC: Read perfectly well tetsanosuke...

Eddie looked over at the bullets on the floor. "Wow" He looked at the gun he had just a moment ago dropped onto the tarmac of the parking lot. Before looking up at the sky and giving off a dry laugh that resonated twice round the destroyed building across the street.

He pulled himself up feeling the hards night work, he wasn't one of these super heroes in the comic books. He still hurt from the demon claw wound down his back and now his leg felt insanely dead, but that was understandable, it wasn't the softest landing he'd ever made.

"Okay ladies, handbags away. I promise I won't try to hurt you again, but I have to say... I'm curious about what you've both been saying. I won't hide that fact."
He stepped over the chained bollards around the parking lot and walked over to the flask of whiskey.

He took a drag of the sparse liquor before looking at the fierce demon,
"I'm just a man who likes to make peoples lives safer by doing my job. Then I take my money home and make sure my wife and children enjoy it. Now i don't know if demons have any offspring, or even if they really care for them if they do, however I just wanted to know what you seem to think humans take for granted. And most importantly what you don't."

As he said the last two words he placed the flask back inside his now bloody and dirty jacket.
To be honest he didn't really know what he was doing, the little demons act of bravery had almost moved him in a way and he felt like looking deeper into these so labled 'demons'...

[Tetsanosuke]

His ferocious maw turned towards the man from the corner of the ally-way he faced. His large and powerful body shifted around as his wings folded back. In this form even in the artificial darkness he made around them it was a risk to be unhidden. He narrowed his wide and fearsome oculars at the human's sudden interest, and then when his words about taking things for granted came Krah snickered, though barely in any humorous tone.

" You all can walk past each other with barely any guise, you all can communicate with one another in such an easy fashion. You have something that we lack.. Society. " He stepped himself a few times towards Eddie, and subsequently the female demon, before continuing. " You have a family, you all have cognitive thought to some degree.. Yet you all seem so blind to it that you start wars and conflict. Us demons never had the luxury for a society.. There were never enough of us to truly be open. You humans see us in our guises now, but even so if we shed our masks you all cower in fear, or attack on an impulse."

He'd crack his neck, making a sickly sound that echoed gently down the ally-ways. " Not all of our kind can think, and not many can control ourselves..But the ones who can have no other choice but to be what humanity labels them. Beasts. Earlier I told you I'd spare you, and I didn't kill you on the spot.. If it were a human who did this you'd be more inclined to cooperate or use less deadly force.. We don't get such a luxury. "

His glowing red eyes scanned around the area before looking to the sky were few stars shined. The pollution of the world was showing.. another human ramification. " You all have free will, and reason.. Yet you all still abuse your world, and abuse each other. You do it out of choice, we do it out of necessity, or we are forced by humanity to be such a way. " He was amazed with himself, his fascination with humanity had somehow turned to a sort of explanatory feeling, as though he had a chance to word how he felt. Even so, he had sat his rear half at the ground as he spoke, and looked to the female demon again. He didn't know her name, and he was a little suprised that he was known to other demons, by name as well.

[Nespa]

Killai looked at krah "i was watching you for 6 years at a safe distance, like many you discared me as a weak female". she turned her atention to eddy "Demons do not a have society like humans often we hunt, we kill and feed upon humans and only a handfull is capable of thinking or even controling themself". she glanced back at krah for a moment "the control is the reason why krah and i are able te survive longer than most simple minded demons if we see opponent thats to strong or that the battle isent worth it we leave while a lesser demon would attack even if it kills him" she brushed a hair out of her eye.

[Mortal_Engines]

Eddie truely felt at a loss for words. He'd read novels and seen films about the failings of the human race but only now, in the almost pure darkness, did he stop and think.
Sure humans had done a lot of bad in the world and yeah, they have been fighting almost anything that moved since the time of recorded history... But Eddie knew so many good people, it was the darker side of humanity that had brought this upon them, the murderers, the greedy and most importantly the government officials who declared what was to be seen as right and wrong.

"I don't know what to say... I only know that something has to be done. But how can I? Nobody will listen to me..."
He was talking more to himself than the demons, his feeling of complete insignificance on the grand scale of things frightened him. But he didn't let it show as he looked up into the burning red eyes of the demon Krah.

"I assume that you can take a smaller human form? It's just that I think it would be good if we could meet again. In fact my house is not far, if you don't have anywhere to stay I'm sure my wife wouldn't mind lodgers..."

He wasn't so sure about that...

[Lady_Baneheart_Of_Blades]

"Well... If you want to know you have to look for a person skilled in alchemy... Tough I could never bring someone back, I always knew that there was some way to get it right. Now don't get hasty and carry on killing. I can show you this person, but you have to calm yourself. Try to relax. I'm sure."

Emily took out a small cripnotebook and read from off it, "The academy is skilled in alchemy..."

"If you would follow me I could get her to come back alive in about the next fullmoon, if that whistle has got to do with waking the beasts inner evil, I'm sure it can do something to you. But I have knowlage of how to bring them who has died to life."

Emily said, "Hope you understand..."

[suzumi]

OOC: Rem gave me permission to take over Ellin for a while.

Yuzuki let out a sharp scream as the "thing" flew past her and landed on Ellin.
"Get off of him!!" she cried, kicking Zanna off of Ellin, and to Yuzuki's surprise, the cat-like creature backed away. But her surprise soon turned to fear as Zanna began circling them.
Yuzuki quickly ran her hands over Ellin's body, searching for any wounds.
"Ellin? Are you alright?" she asked him, after not being able to detect any. He just moaned in reply. Yuzuki reached up to touch his face when her hand brushed against something warm and wet. "You're hurt!!" she exclaimed.
"I think it's my arm..." Ellin said. "And I don't think it's as bad as it looks," he added after seeing the panicked look on Yuzuki's face.
"What should we do?" Yuzuki asked Ellin, a note of desperation in her voice. "I don't think we can out run it."
"I don't know," Ellin replied. "Maybe she'll just go away."
Yuzuki opened her mouth to reply that she didn’t think so, when the sound of the flute came rushing back into her head. She let out a moan and clutched at her aching head. And at that moment Zanna leaped forward to attack. But suddenly, a binding flash of light spread out over the area. Slowly it receded to reveal Zanna a few paces away from the pair in the exact same position they were in earlier, but in Yuzuki’s place, there was another girl; A girl with silver hair and black wings and deathly white skin. In her hands was a sliver scythe. She stood up and turned to face Zanna, a smile forming on her face. She reached out a hand and beckoned to her.
“Here kitty, kitty…”

[Valkarma]

"Again you show you don't undertsand." He shook his head, "Never has a demon formed from the elements been sucessfully brought back to life. They return to the elements when they die making it almost almost impossible to bring them back."
He walked up to her. She flinched slighty but stood her ground. He came so close his cold breath touched her skin. The distance between them was little and she suddered from the cold. He then calmly whispered in her ear, "I don't trust you, but show me what you can do. Fail me and I will return to my old idea." He then took a step back to let her respond.

Deep inside his heart, through its frozen scars of hatred and small flame of hope had been lit. It suddered and dimmed in the darkness but was still there, hoping for the return of his love.

[Tsunami_the_Ice_Wolf]

OOC: Please try and not God-mod Suzumi. Thanks.

Zanna hissed out in anger. This... demon? Angel? Was trying to stop her from getting her meal. This would not do. "Tsk... Tsk... Don't you know it's bad to make a kitty like me starve?" Zanan smiled. Her golden eyes flashed. She took a step forward. "Come on. I'm hungry. Just hand over my dinner and you can be on your way." She eyed Ellin hungrily.

Meanwhile, Sorelle gave up and was walking with Naki down the sidewalk. Naki stopped and barked twice. A demon was nearby. "Lead the way. I've been wanting to kill something since that hunter got away." Naki ran ahead, but darted to the right into an alley. Sorelle followed. Once they got a little closer, she could hear the hissing of a cat deamon. This made Naki run even faster. He hated cats. Then, the flute came in. Why wasn't the cat deamon screaming and yelling like mst of the others had? She shrugged it off and finally came to the end of the alleyway, ending up in the street. She noticed two humans on the ground, an angel, or deamon, she couldn't quiet tell, and the cat deamon, a little ways off. Finally, a fight worth something!

[Tetsanosuke]

His eyes lowered to the ground as he seemed to be in a calm state, or maybe blank.. It was hard to tell. In the very least his muzzle was at rest, his maws not shown any longer. The winds which blew through the ally way caught onto the skin of his wings, only a little, making him bring them tighter to his form. He found this human's reaction fascinating, just like almost everything humans ever did. In this case though, he wasn't about to accept hospitality from a human who used his 'gun' on him. Not yet, he had the off thought to kill him but something stopped him.

His interest shifted to the female, his muzzle shaking left to right before speaking towards her. " I've never discarded you.. You were the closest thing to another of me I've ever really seen much of. Somehow you bring me a warm feeling.. " His muzzle turned back towards the human as his body uplifted from ground and shifted back to his human-like state slowly. His grey-brown hair swayed in the rest of the breeze as his sheet red eyes gazed as though right through the man, into him so deeply.

After a few moments he turned towards the allyway before replying to his offer " Humans are indeed fascinating.. " With that he leaped, or sort of run-leaped up the two-story building across the street from the condemned building. He stared back down at the two below, waiting, watching, wondering.. Craving just as well.

[Lady_Baneheart_Of_Blades]

"I cannot show you that easily. But I'll show you something that might help convince you" Seeing a rat scurring around Emily smashed the rat with her sword, cutting into the skin. She took out a potion and said, "Watch!" Pouring the red liquid over the body and letting it seap into the rats skin the fur and bleeding body healed up. There was a little left inside the bottle and it was her last one, the only one. "Hope that was helpful. Plus if your woman is elemental her spirit can still be alive, she however can be brought back to life I assure you, If you have a..." She took a breath, "If... Um... Well... You need a host for her to return and a certain book"