Underground, Day 3 [OPEN]
Characters: Thomas Raith, Minako Aino, FFVII Sephiroth, Nanaki, Misaki Shiki, Travis Grady, Link, HUNK, and NOW OPEN TO OTHER CHARACTERS
Content: The events of Day Three
Location: ??
Time of day: ??
Warnings: None, probably
Notes: For the time being, this is the only thread in which the missing characters can participate. Missing characters, ( Read more... )
Content: The events of Day Three
Location: ??
Time of day: ??
Warnings: None, probably
Notes: For the time being, this is the only thread in which the missing characters can participate. Missing characters, ( Read more... )
"Fuck," he muttered under his breath, barely audible, and pushed the thoughts back. Empty Night if they didn't get out of here soon it wasn't the crabs or the giant monster they'd have to worry about...it would be the monster Thomas would become to feed on them.
Stop thinking about it. Stop thinking about it. he thought to himself as he opened his eyes again and moved to walk forward again. His arm was throbbing in pain beneath the makeshift bandage that had been his shirt. It was helping to stop the blood...even though the blood wasn't clotting properly. He was surprise no crabs were coming after them, attracted by the blood from all of them. Thomas was glad his shirt wasn't white or else the bandage would be showing the pinkish blood staining it instead of normal red.
He stopped in his tracks when he reached a wall of rock...a dead end. Thomas growled in annoyance, "Fuck this shit," he punched the wall, he was SO sick of this shit.
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She nearly cried when they came across the rock. Was this really how it was going to end? She could tell Thomas was getting irritated, his inability to keep himself completely fed was probably a contributing factor... She watched him lash out on the rock as she slid down a wall, supporting herself against the wall of the tunnel. "This is ridiculous," she managed to choke out.
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Or maybe not, Thomas looked over at Travis and then up where he was pointing the light. He had to squint but he could tell Travis was right...there WAS a way out. "That's going to be a bitch to climb," he muttered, looking over at their small party of the sick and weak. The demon in him stirred a little...weak prey was good pray...easy to arose and pull emotions from...to drain their energy would be a snap and then he could climb up and---
NO Thomas snapped back at it in his mind. "It's worth a shot. Who all thinks they have the energy to climb up there and dig?"
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"I can try."
Anything was better than doing nothing. If anything, it would perhaps become an outlet for the anger and frustration he felt at being stuck at a dead-end. At the very least, he had been hoping for some sign of their captors so he could show them just why they should not have taken the best General the Shinra company had ever had.
Besides, there was little other choice. It was that or try to walk back and Shiva only knew how far they'd walked so far and how much further the tunnel would extend after that.
Unable to help the pained gasps as he moved - the bite seemed to be getting more painful or perhaps he was just becoming more aware of it the longer he stood still - the silver haired man began attempting to climb the wall. He did not think it would be easy but he would not give up now. He let the fury he felt at his entire situation give him the strength and energy he needed to climb.
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It was worth a shot, but if she were to do so, she knew she'd collapse... She'd have to depend on the others to keep an eye on her... She glanced down at her henshin bracelet, at least that was still there.... She looked around at the others, curious to see if anyone else would offer to scale the wall. She couldn't leave it up to that man alone.
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The hole was somewhat reassuring, but even on a good day Shiki lacked the arm strength to climb up that high.
Hearing Minako planning something, Shiki blinked toward her. "You.. you can't! You don't have the strength.." It was a bit fruitless, trying to talk down someone she barely knew, but she couldn't bring herself to just sit around idly as someone who could barely stand hurt herself further.
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Pathetic. Just like rats. Except rats have the common courtesy to stay quiet.
"You at the top." HUNK says to Sephiroth. "Stay there. The rest of you line up. The guy at the top will loosen the bigger rocks and pass them down the line to the bottom. Otherwise you're all going to run out of steam in a few minutes."
His voice is rather creepy through the gas mask filter, but there is a strong, militaristic sense of authority behind it.
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He paused when the irritable guy with the mask spoke up. He wasn't sure what the guy was afraid of being gassed or something but to each his own he supposed. "Awesome, you DO speak AND can come up with some good plans," Thomas replied with a snort. He wasn't in the mood and started climbing, to get near Sephiroth so he could hand down the rocks as the masked guy dictated.
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HUNK has a brief, albeit very satisfying vision in his head of grabbing Thomas and snapping his neck. In fact, the thought even makes him smile a little under his mask. But he doesn't do anything to him. For now, anyway.
Instead, what he does do is take a place in line to help form this working party. His arm was hurting like an absolute bastard, but he wasn't going to let these civilians see him showing it. This was just another test.
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With a frustrated sigh and a slight wince as he moved, he placed himself at the very end of the chain of rocks. If pushing rocks across the ground was all he could do, then he would still do it.
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It took a lot of work and every now and then Thomas would just have to stop, put his head against the wall, and force the bile from rising to his throat. He felt weak, tired, and like he wanted to throw up. Still, he had to press on...even if the walls were spinning. He swallowed and continued handing rocks down the line until there was a considerable hole that most of them could climb through.
"Alright," he said, his voice weak, "We should be able to climb out of there...hopefully there's a way out through that hole and if anything at least we'll be that much closer to the surface." He looked down at those further down the line, "We might need to help some of you up...who is going first?"
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He looked down at the others as they organized himself. He knew it was better that they form a line rather than the older girl to use her attacks, whatever they might be. As weakened as they were already, it was better to conserve energy in whatever ways they could.
"Be quick," he called down. "I'm not sure how long I will be able to last."
He began attempting to pry out a rock from the top...and paused, looking upwards.
He sensed something. Or thought he did. The faintest flicker of Jenova cells. But he would not say anything until he could be sure that there was someone nearby. If the feeling grew any stronger, he would say something but not quite yet.
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