Wellspring Attack

[npc_kun]

Characters:NPC Nothing, NPC Charger, NPC Steve and OPEN
Date/Time: Friday, September 23rd, midnight
Location: Wellspring Island
Rating: PG-13 and up
Summary: The beginning of the end.

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Re: OPEN

[marrymarajade]

Ben had been feeling a crawling, unspecific unease for a few days, which had only intensified as time went on. He spent a great deal of his free time - and there was plenty; his ability to 'see' with the Force wasn't so great that he could just return to all his old duties - meditating on it at a site outside of Wellspring, trying to coax up more details. The ones he got were few and, without context, didn't make a great deal of sense.

He was still doing that when a jolt that felt remarkably like hearing himself say "Be ready" happened, and when Ben rose out of meditation he sensed a number of large, simple lives rushing about. Then there was the explosion, close enough to feel the heat on his face. He picked himself up, tensing and then relaxing as he called on the Force and let it flow into him.

He found himself moving quickly, surely, before he stopped some ways from the clinic's back entrance. Someone was already here - he knew her in a general way; they worked in the same building, but at the moment he couldn't remember her name. Listening to her sense, she wasn't here simply to try to get a look at the sound, like a few of the people behind her.

"We have about fifteen seconds," he said, his voice calmer than it had any right to be. There was the sound of crashing in the woods as some of those large lives approached.

[wayofflowers]

It took her a moment to identify the figure just outside the door, backlit by the burning trees - and a moment of tension, her hand going to the hilt of Minazuki, before she realized he was not the foe. A name didn't immediately spring to mind, but that mattered far less at the moment than what he'd just just said.

"Until...?" What his answer was would determine her next move, it seemed.

[marrymarajade]

"Until the first hostile contact." He'd phrased it like he'd been military once, part of Ben recognized. Not important right now. "The first of many, I'm afraid."

With a great crackle, one of the nearest burning trees tipped towards them and crashed to the ground in a welter of sparks. It wasn't close enough to hit either of them with anything but trivial ashy particles. What it was close enough to do was provide a brief, semi-opaque cloud of incandescent matter for a particularly quick ogre to charge through, a display that was, sadly, quite lost on Ben.

[wayofflowers]

Bellflower pulled her blade fully, now, slipping into a defensive stance. She wasn't sure what was coming - she could only feel Hollows, really, so she could be fairly certain it wasn't that. But this place seemed to specialize in the unknown, and she would keep her guard up.

The man - Ben, that was it... she had never seen him fight, or heard of him fighting from others. Which put him in danger here.

"I'll hold off what I can - it should be safer inside." There was a steady, commanding tone to her voice - not an order, quite, but taking charge none the less.

[marrymarajade]

"For now. They're everywhere." A faint smile crossed his face. "Don't worry about me."

Quickly enough that it all seemed like one motion, Ben drew the pistol he kept on him and tossed it out and away, calling on the Force so that it stopped before it hit the ground, barrel pointing up. As the ogre charged over it, it went off, and the creature ran an automatic half step farther before collapsing.

He wasn't able to see to aim well, and this didn't work any worse than manually aiming.

That first, fastest ogre was down, but winged shapes shot overhead, and new humanoid creatures were passing out of the burning woods.

[wayofflowers]

She started, caught off-guard by that little display of power. She'd never seen anything like it - to be able to move objects like that. She had misjudged him, it seemed.

She composed herself, and gave him a small nod. "We fight together, then." Someone at each other's back - it would be safer that way. The winged creatures above were out of the reach of even her nodachi, but she could see new creatures coming out of the fire, and she moved, sweeping her blade to cut a swath through the first row.