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Who: Niari Imraith, Elvis, Anise, Tear Grants, Persephone Graham
When: 12/7
Where: Engeve, Malkuth, Auldrant
What: Niari and Hildee invade Engeve to reduce their corn field to popcorn. Elvis accompanies to reduce the villagers to barbeque. Team Girl Power (Tear, Anise, and guest starring Persephone Graham) attempt to stop them.
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[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass giggles wildly over something.
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith does too, actually.
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "I hope you brought plenty of butter, Dee. That really is a lot of corn."
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass chirps, "A ton! And salt, too!"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Well, then it looks like we're almost ready, doesn't it? Now all we need is something to pop it all with."
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass hops a couple of times. "I can do it!! It's awesome!! Watch this!! It's my new special move!!"
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass shouts, "Come out, Big Booms, come out!!" A magical sound follows. Then another.
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith laughs. "Oh my! I wonder what the people in Engeve will think of this."
The small farming village of Engeve and the huge cornfields surrounding it have been relatively peaceful, at least fairly recently. That is about to change.
Standing on the crest of a hill overlooking the cornfields near the town's south entrance, Niari Imraith places her hands on her hips and cocks one knee a little, smiling with self-satisfaction as she scans the vista below. "Just look at all that corn," she breathes, tossing her head, kitsune-styled ponytails rippling with the sharp movement of her head. With a look down to her left side she asks, "Do you think there'll be enough for everyone?"
"You bet!" shouts the pink-haired dwarf known as Hildee Sternbrass, hopping up and down a couple of times; her dark-toned Heavy Armour of Doom creaks and clanks. "It'll be awesome!"
"Well, then I guess you'd better start popping it, huh?"
"Right!" The dwarf pulls out a blueprint, looks it over for a second, then throws a handful of green crystals into the air. "Come out, Big Boom!" she calls, her words echoing on the wind - and with them, a runic circle appears beside her, turning slowly.
A squat construct rises from it. It appears to be a four-foot-high powder keg with a crude metal face on it - a face with a big lit fuse dangling from the top. It rides on a single balanced wheel, and its spindly arms hold a guttering torch out before it.
Immediately the dwarf begins concentrating to summon up another Big Boom; it appears next to the first a moment later. Niari merely smiles as her minion begins to build up their popcorn phalanx, looking out over the fields again.
"I wonder if Tear will come for some popcorn. <3"
... it's a fairly good guess that Tear will show up. But not for popcorn.
Of course she heard Niari and Hildee chattering on the citizen's band about Engeve and the corn - and the popcorn. Turning the farmer's hard harvest produce into delicous popcorn isn't very nice - Fun, maybe, but not nice.
Not to mention the possibility of the villagers themselves getting hurt trying to defend their vegetables. This was their livelihood! She's still a good bit away, but she can see the terrible two just ahead - quickly she breaks into a run, staff in hand.
Meanwhile, in Engeve...
The moment Big Boom (wut) appears, a few farmers still toiling away in the field glance up. It may be some distance away from the fields yet, but it doesn't stop the farmers from screeching like little girls and running for the village.
An alarm goes up, and once Rose manages to calm the panicking villagers, she proceeds to give instructions - evacuate the villagers. A small handful of farmers, no more than five, take up pitchforks and hoes and promptly rush out to the cornfields again. Clearly their primitive farming tools are more than a match for fire wielding golums and sorceresses. (Yeah. RIGHT).
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Butter, salt, and something to pop with? Are you making popcorn?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Why, yes, we are!"
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Why would you care what the people in Engeve think of your popcorn?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Well, largely because we're making it out of their cornfields."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "I see."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Do you expect much resistance?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Mmmm... possibly. I'm sure Tear will show up with the brat."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "The brat?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Oh, there's this irritating child she carries around with her."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Is that not the default state of children?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "...Point."
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass mumbles, "Told you."
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith mutters, "You don't count, you're in your thirties."
It didn't take too long for Persephone to check a Gate directory and find where the most dimensionally active Engeves was, once Niari voiced her popcorn plans over the Citizen's Band. Lacking better entertainment for the evening, the Scion of Hel decided to drop by and watch the fireworks. Popping an entire field of corn at once should be quite a sight, after all.
She slowly treks up a nearby hill, though not the one Niari and her henchmen are summoning Big Booms from. Garrett the Westie is following obidiently behind her as always, sniffing the air ponderously as he trots.
"Now that would be some good eating, chica! Hahaha!" Calls out a voice from behind, a rather heavy set hispanic fat man, smoking a cigar, walks a bit closer, taking out the cigar only to breathe out a few smoke rings. "But tell me, just how much butter have you brought? I'd like mine EXTRA buttery. We'd need at least a few barrels of it, eh? Heheh."
Rubbing his stomach, as the cigar is replaced, the larger man grasps one of the stalks and just rips it out of the ground, the circular rings on his arms clinking, before he .. stuffs it right into his mouth and swallows. ".. Ahh yeaaah, that hit the spot. But that's not even an appetizer. What I want is something a little more..."
His eyes flash to the area around it. The villagers. "Meaty. Maybe we can have a cook out too, ah chica? Ahahahaha!"
Farmers, clearly, are creatures of great might.
With hands on her hips Niari watches the small group of farmers rushing through the fields towards her hill of choice; the Big Booms, of which there are now three, act as beacons despite their short stature, flickering torches shining like beacons. Sliding her sword out of its sheath, the sorceress draws in a breath, a bit of wind rising around her as she prepares to cast a spell-
Only to flicker and fade as Elvis shambles along the hill.
...No, definitely NOT her type, she decides immediately.
Surprisingly the talk of cannibalism doesn't seem to disturb her all THAT much. "Oh, I've never been one for eating my opposition," she quips with toss of her head, "but you're more than welcome to them. And don't worry. We brought along more than enough butter for the job. Speaking of which...."
She gestures with her free hand.
Hildee breaks into a huge grin. "Okay!" she shouts. "Go go, Big Boom!"
And with a creak, one of the Big Booms goes racing down the hillside.
The little golem's torch billows as it streaks wildly towards the band of farmers in the field. It catches the edge of the cornfield and begins driving through it, rushing towards the lead farmer, then -
BOOM!!!!
There's a big fiery explosion - but not as big as one might expect. That's because most of the gunpowder has been removed, with most of what's left housed in the head, creating a hot but not incinerating explosion. A wavefront of heat ripples through an area of the cornfield. All at once ears of corn begin to pop and jerk, kernels puffing into popcorn and bursting into the air.
As for the rest of the gunpowder? It was removed.
Instead, there's butter in there, and it's splashing all over the flying popcorn.
"Now that's what I like to hear... I'm really huuungry." He sort of notes, looking out at the fields. "So what do these do, anyways?" He notes to the barrels. Big Boom, "Hehehe. So you prepared a feast with no one to eat it, senorita?" He licks his lips, taking a few steps forwards, getting in a better position to watch the fiery explosion.
"No problemo, eh senorita? Hehehe.. Guess I'll have to settle for a little fast food instead of some home cooking.. not that it'll make it any less appetizing. Ahahahaha!" A single hand is over his gut, rubbing it as he laughs, the other holding onto the cigar. He leans back, meanwhile, while laughing. "Now where to start.. the side dish or the /main course/." The last part, he gazes to a few unfortunate farmers.
"I've never had buttered meat.. but I can't imagine it'll taste that bad, eh cabron?" Elvis glances at one of the farmers.
That poor, poor farmer. He begins to slowly walk to him. Man, he's famished!
Hesitation is for the weak. And those villagers are going to get themselves killed. Fire artes are right out - she doesn't want to contribute to the damage. Thinking quickly, her eye widens when she sees the farmers charging. "No -- STOP!" How in the hELL is Tear going to protect the farmers from THREE golums and two /twisted/ sorceress.. plus a cannibal? But she hasn't heard the exchange between Elvis and Niari so as far as she knows, he, like Persephone, is an onlooker. Maybe?
AND BOOM.
"By Yulia.." Tear's breath catches in her throat as she sees the poor farmer go flying, caught in the explosion as the cornfield goes up as well. The other farmers pause, realizing that they may well be out of their (FREAKING MINDS) league in this.
"ROGER!" One of the farmers calls, as the poor farmer twitches on the ground like a twitchy thing that's about to twitch its last twitch. Wait, Elvis is approaching! Surely he is a good Samaritan, here to help carry him to safety -- right? Right? The other farmers have their own problems - surrounded by the fire and being assaulted by popping kernels every which way, all they can do is abandon their farming tools, duck and cover and try and navigate their way /out/ of the cornfield.
By now Tear has drawn within fighting range. She really wishes Anise were with her - she could use the little puppeteer's help. "SEvered Fate!" The cry precedes Tear's arrival, as three small daggers are flung towards Niari - they're not flung AT her though, as the intent is for the daggers to embed into the ground at three points around the sorceress, at which point a beam of light will erupt from the ground beneath her while Tear attempts to run past.
This could get complicated, if Tear has to worry about the farmers, the golums, Niari, Hildee and Elvis - the cornfields? At this point are being written off as a lost cause. The farmers will be vastly more important in the grand scheme of things.
Persephone frowns as she watches the Big Boom trundle down to the cornfields and explode... well, not very bigly. "That wasn't particularly impressive, was it, Garrett?" she asks, glancing down at her dog.
"Woof," barks the Westie.
"We should stop this before it gets any more embarassaing," the Scion continues. "Besides, I imagine Alexander will be displeased if he hears that we watched farmers burn to death in their own corn fields." The girl takes a few steps forward, channeling her Legend as she moves. When she reaches the slop of the hill she stops walking and begins sliding down, leaving a feathery trail of ice in her wake. When she reaches the edge of the cornfield she resumes walking, but still leaves frost on the ground with every footstep. Now, how to deal with exploding golems...?
Fear not, Tear! The Big Booms have no combat abilities of their own. They just explode. Well, except for the second and third ones; they appear to lack both fuses and torches. They DO have giant bowls, though, and they're driving around collecting the popcorn as it falls out of the sky. And Hildee is not likely to be a huge threat by herself; she's got her nose in her blueprint, working on summoning another golem.
Niari follows Elvis with her eyes for a second. (What a charming fellow,) she thinks sardonically, though outwardly she does smile, because it never hurts to cultivate gratitude among your allies, no matter how revolting they are. Besides, she doesn't really care all that much about the farmers; they're just collateral damage. "I am sorry for the butter," she calls after him. "I wasn't expecting to have to barbecue! I hope you can make do."
And then, a familiar voice; she blinks, looking over sharply. "Tear?"
A second later, knives embed themselves in the ground around her.
Niari's flirtatious, but not /stupid;/ she leaps to the side quickly, the beam igniting a split-second afterward, singing along the side of one bare leg but not really doing any serious damage. She grits her teeth and whirls, the train of her robe rippling behind her, sword held across her body. Yet the expression gives way to a sly smile as her eyes find the woman in brown. "I was /wondering/ when you'd show up, darling. <3"
Wind rises around her, and she gestures with her free hand. A shrill screech rips from her throat, eyes suddenly flaring with a surge of magic. The wind roars along her arm and explodes outwards in a buzzsaw-like hurricane disk, aiming to slash Tear with the power of the air.
As for the shrieking, she IS a spellhowler.
Another Big Boom, by the way, is now rolling down the hill into the farm field. It dives into the corn swiftly and explodes, sending buttery popcorn flying everywhere and depleting yet another chunk of the harvest.
"Hahaha! I'll make do alright senorita, this is a bounty if I ever saw one!" Grabbing some popcorn, Elvis shoves it in his mouth, swallowing, as he dashes his cigar in the air, tapping it a few times. "Now that's some good popcorn.. but I wonder..." The fat man moves towards one of the men, glancing down as he picks up the farmer, holding him up easily with one rather large hand. "Just how tasty the local flavor is, ah? HehehehehEHEH!" He licks his lips, "But we SHOULD get you a little flavoring before hand.. even I'm not going to just eat you."
Dragging along the farmer, Elvis makes a point to grab another. He might want seconds. "Now.. what about a special sauce, or maybe you have a few secret spices you're hiding... I at least want to make the last part of your lives something good for both of us, hombres! I'm not that bad a guy, eh? Ahahahah!"
He's dragging them still, but not that far. There's got to be some storage here or there.
Oh, maybe that chica would know. Glancing to Tear, Elvis bellows. "EY! CHICA! You got anything for meat on you? I can't just eat them like this. At least a little salt, eh?"
Roger is too fried and frazzled to do anything more than twitch like a fish yoinked up from a lake. "Ggh-eh..he..help -" he begs -- the wrong person as Elvis makes clear his intent to .. to.. *EAT* him? "G--GAah!" That's gross man. GROSS! WIth a capital GUH! And little Mike, who had hopes of being the world's greatest farmer is suddenly grabbed up, with the intention of being seconds. SECONDS! How inhumane! "W..wait!" Stammers the popcornburned boy, "I don't taste good! I'm stringy! I want to live! LET GO! TAKE MY SISTER!"
"YOU SUCK MIKE!" A younger voice screams out from behind her father. "YOU SUCK AND I HOPE YOU DIE!" Oh wait.
Tear glowers at Niari over the scent of delicious popcorn, "Do you have any idea," Tear retorts when she skids around to face the spell howler, "What you've done?" Those poor farmers. But before Tear can think about the plight _they_ are in, she hears another BOOM, and grits her teeth. Briefly her gaze flicks towards Elvis, and then snaps back towards Niari.
Spell howler indeed; she braces herself as she senses the surge in magic. Wind tears at her, even as she twists to dodge the spell, blades of ear ripping a narrow hole through the side of her coat and across her arm. She grits her teeth briefly, hopping back a step and -- staring at Elvis. "Wha.." DUDE! WRONGSICK! "You can't be ser--Put them down!" Niari first though - "Nocturnal Light!" Three more blades are flung towards Niari, though without the accompanying explosion of light as with Severed Fate. This is straight stabbums.
Well, that's... unique. Persephone watches the immense fat man (and he is truly immense for Sephi to be able to see him through the corn field; the waves of grain practically part before his bulk like the Red Sea) grab two farmers as if they were nothing and begin calling for seasoning. "I think he'll do well," she comments as she begins weaving through the corn fields, with buttery popcorn raining down from above thanks to the most recent explosion.
Defying the laws of stealth, the Helspawn tries to sneak up on Elvis from the front, relying on his being distracted looking for seasoning and the density of the corn to keep her hidden from view. Should she get close enough before being spotted... well, that big belly poking out from the suit makes for a great target. Persephone channels more Legend through her body, her hands dropping to sub-zero temperatures. She simply places the freezing hands upon the fat man's exposed belly and says, "Please put those farmers down."
"Of course I do," Niari answers Tear with a shrug. "I've made delicious buttery popcorn. Would you like some?" And she's serious.
She throws a glance back over her shoulder at Elvis, then flicks attention to Tear again, whirling her sword into a ready position. Though she's a mage by trade, she knows her way around melee combat on a basic level - and she does have enchantments on her side. One of those enchantments comes into play as Tear throws more blades; she gestures with her hand, soundlessly, and a shimmering wave of aura erupts around her, catching the blades in flight.
The aura floods downwards and away a second later, revealing the redhead standing with her head snapped back and to one side as though struck. Slowly she lowers her chin, eyes a touch wide as she brings a hand to her cheek. A long but shallow streak has been left by one of the blades, her aura apparently not enough to stop it. She pulls the fingertips away stained with blood.
"Tear," she says incredulously, "you /cut my face!/ ...Oh, how naughty. <3"
Taking a quick hop to one side and pivoting to come about to face Tear in profile, she smiles viciously and thrusts her free hand forward, fingers splayed. "Fire!" she calls in a perfectly normal tone. Harkening back to the techniques she learned among the human Sorcerers of the Ivory Tower, she summons a globe of crackling flame in her palm, then flings it sidearm at Tear. The fireball crackles and blazes, plunging towards the brunette like a comet.
"Ah you humans are so funny sometimes, AHAHAHAH!" Elvis laughs, a gutteral belly laugh. Perhaps a cruel taunt towards their FUTURE. "Yeah, you're not much, hombre.. but that's why you're desert! Hehehehe! You don't think I forgot about the smaller details, did you?" Sick and wrong? Sure, they can think of it that way, but all in all.. "A demon's got to eat, amigos! I'll give your bones the proper burial when I'm done though."
He's at least thinking about them!
"Sister, eh... Heheh. Maybe if I have room. You two won't have to be alone for that long!" Oh, how cruel fate is. But Tear, as the chica speaks up, gets his attention. "A man's got to eat! And this is the only meat I really desire, chica! Hahaha!"
He's turning and then suddenly. /COLD HANDS/.
"MADA MIERDA!" He cries out, dropping the farmers, and staggering back a bit, before he rubs his stomach, sub-frozen, but rapidly recovering. Patting it, rubbing, and then lighting a hand with demonic fire, help to stop the freezing. "What was THAT!?" Elvis calls, before looking down. "... Such a pequeno chica.. Are you really speaking to the grown ups that way? I'm just a little hungry .. can't you see that?" She's not a human, it's obvious to a demon.
"Just one of them at least, eh? Hehehe. I'll even split half with you and your dog!"
Her free hand rests over the cut on her arm, the white staining with the red of her own blood. THere is no pleasure or satisfaction (maybe a lil) when Niari's face is cut. If nothing else, she only stares steadily towards the sorceress, her back to the flames in the cornfield. Relief is the form of Persephone stepping in to help the farmers from being part of the menu. That's one less thing to worry about. "That's disgusting!" Tear retorts to Elvis. He's no man, he's a monster! A monster who eats human meat! Poor Roger and Mike, they -- well just Mike now -- struggle to get free, while the other farmers are starting to hurry towards freedom.
Wait, where'd Hildee get to? Commanding the golums probably. More importantly, there's a fireball flying through the air straight at her, courtesy of Niari-airlines. "Egn!" Tear lifts her hand, a glyph forming in the air in front of her, creating a small force shield in front of herself. The fireball slams into the shield, causing Tear to skid back from the momentum, wincing slightly as sparks and flame spread over the shield, which breaks under the pressure. The remains of the fire spell breaks through, and Tear throws up a hand instinctively, flames catching onto her glove, which she quickly shakes, thanking god for fire resistant material. Still HURTS though, especially that cut. OW.
"If you want to play with fire -" Tear's hand raises, drawing on the energy from the flames burning behind her, as well as the spell Niari just cast, "Have this~. Flamme Rouge!" She casts, thrusting a hand forward similar to Niari's own casting gesture; instead of a fireball being formed and missiled out at her target though, a column of fire will form and catch Niari in it if she doesn't get out of the way in time.
"Yes, I am," Persephone says simply when questioned about the way she talks to grown up. "You have not paid for those farmers, and furthermore, I sincerely doubt they are for sale. You should find an alternate source of meat if you are so desperate for protein today. I have heard that rappig steak is local delicacy."
When the offer to go halves on lunch comes up, Sephi considers for a moment before answering, "I don't eat anything that can speak back to me." Luckily, the 'speak' qualifier means that nobody can fault her for tasting that bit of zombie back on Halloween, since zombies can't talk. Well, maybe they CAN fault her, cause that was kind of creepy, but at least she's not a hypocrite?
Laughing. That's how Elvis responds to Persephone. "Pay for a human? AHAHAHAH! Now that's RICH chica! Maybe I should pay you for all the entertainment you're giving me instead! I haven't laughed like that in a long time!" Picking up one of the humans, however, he dangles it ahead of himself, shaking the poor Farmer. That's Roger, Mike is free due to freezing cold.
"This meat is perfect! Toned from years of work, and not too scrawny either! Why would I settle for anything less, eh, Chica? I'm sure you'd love a slab if it came down to it." Elvis actually ends up trying to be friendly to this somewhat demonic being!
"OH.. well it won't speak back to you after I'm done with it! heheheh! So maybe you can sneak by that. Let yourself go! That's where the fun is, chica!" But he seems to not take her seriously, really, and grabs for Mike again. "Now what to use.. barbeque or ketchup.. Hmmm.."
Hildee's right over there; she's moved down the hill a ways. "Go go, Big Boom!" she chirps. "Popcorn time!" And another Big Boom goes rolling down the hill, driving deep into the cornfields before exploding in a cloud of buttery buttery popcorn, which the bowl-golems begin to collect. The dwarf wipes at her forehead, chugging a mana potion. "Phew! At least I've got plenty of D-grade crystals."
As to Niari, the woman takes a step forward as her fireball knocks Tear back, then one more step, her smile returning; it's a little tight, though. It sucks to be cut. "You know, I really am sorry we have to fight. I was going to let you share the popcorn and everything." This time there's a sparkle in her eyes that says she might not be serious. Maybe she IS just doing it to get on Tear's nerves. Or maybe she really is that bad, who knows.
The brunette casts another spell, and the redhead widens her eyes, knowing this world's propensity for spells that come from above or below; she zips immediately to the side, but the flaming pillar erupts a split-second sooner than she expected. With a shout she throws up her defensive aura, blunting the worst of it, but the tail of her 'robe' is still seared away, scorchmarks appearing along the small of her back. She twists and comes to a ready stance on both feet just clear of Tear, eyes narrowing. "...That /hurt,/ Tearkins," she grates. "And you burned my clothes. That /wasn't/ /very/ /nice./"
Her left hand snaps back, and she flicks her fingers, a bloodstained bone spike appearing between them. With a shout she flings it at Tear. The cursed bone spins like a drill, a maelstrom of shadow flame blazing to life around it as it attempts to pierce through Tear.
"I'm sorry, perhaps you misunderstood me," Persephone says politely. "I did not mean to make that sound like a request. You shall not dine on human flesh this day, well-tenderized or not." She crosses her arms and stares up at Elvis, a piercing stare with an unnaturally unnerving effect. Of course, that's not divinitity right there, Sephi just has unnerving eyes. "You will release these farmers, or I shall have Garrett bite you."
The small, white, fluffy, adorible puppy barks in a not-very-threatening manner. Grr!
Poor Roger. Passed out from his injuries, But maybe it's a blessing he won't be conscious for these deliberations. Mike, on being freed, makes a staggering dash for freedom, "AWESOME I'm fre-" and then he's grabbed again. "OHGODNO!"
"Daddy, if Mike's eaten can I have his room?" Can be heard from little Sally as she is quickly handed off to her mom while her father assists with the quick evacuation. Methinks the girl doesn't fully comprehend the situation.
Niari's taunting and pouting about Tear having hurt her and burned her clothing is listened to impassively, the girl hopping back a step for some distance. Then a glyph appears, with motes of light floating upwards around her as she does the last thing that most people might expect. She starts singing. Niari will probably know what's coming though.
"Toue Rei Zue Kuroa Ryuo Toue Zu-" she doesn't even get to finish her song! That's the cruellest part! Because with no one to guard her while she's casting, she has no means of defending against incoming projectiles.
Her voice cuts short with a grunt, and there is a splash of blood on the ground, quickly followed by falling Fonist, too startled to even cry out in pain. "..Hgk.." Okay. Cut by wind? Hurt. Being hit by remains of a fireball? That hurt too. But this.. THIS..
OH SWEET LORELEI AND YULIA THAT REALLY REALLY REALLY F_CKING HURTS!
SHe bites back the pain, bracing herself up with her injured arm as she grasps the offending projectile and -TUGS-. Thank god it missed any vitals, but that doesn't make getting stabbed with it OKAY. "..." Oh yeah. OOOOOOOOOOW! Mean ol' Niari.
As Persephone continues, noting that's not what she meant, Elvis understands. And doesn't particularly care in the end. "Hahahahahah! Oh so you were serious, eh chica?" The large hispanic demon asks, looking down at the little girl with the fluffy puppy who seem to threaten them. A glance makes it "Chica, there's something wrong with your eyes, and it's kind of creepy.. maybe you should have that fixed, eh? Hehehehe.. or maybe .. I should fix it for you!"
The humans are spun around as /burning demon fire/ but not on the humans, spin around the arms and fat of Elvis. "I don't think you know what you're getting yourself INTO chica! If you feel like getting in my way, I think I can spare some room for you, too!" He laughs, once again, before seriously staring at her.
"If you fail to listen.. I will have /no choice/... CHICA. Now take your stupid perro and leave. I'm getting HUNGRY."
With a certain satisfaction Niari wets her lips, watching Tear collapse in pain. Whatever her interest in the woman, it's clear she's gone beyond considering her a friend. Perhaps she's not so shallow as she might seem at a glance.
Stepping forward with a slow, confident stride, the dark sorceress holds her sword casually, bringing the point down to rest at Tear's chest even as she sinks to a knee beside the brunette, her other leg outstretched as she leans over her. "You know, it's kind of a shame, really," she says in a quiet tone. "We could've been good friends in another time. But I suppose that's the price you pay to enjoy someone else's suffering, isn't it? Oh well. I guess it's over now, and I've won."
She leans forward, and promptly plants a good, firm kiss on Tear's lips. The fact that a bit of blood drips from her cheek onto the other girl's probably doesn't help.
That done, she promptly straightens and comes back to her feet, raising her left hand - another cursed bone, shadow flame blooming around it, poised in her hand. Her smile is wide and vicious, eyes blazing. "I hate to part with you so /soon,/ but this is it! It's /over,/ Tear! /Say goodbye!!/"
Oh noes! It seems Tear's in a bad position, and there's no way out! How will our plucky heroine survive this one? Will the villagers become dinner? And where the HELL is Jade? Find out ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF DRRRRAGON... BALL... ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
"Okay, everyone. Calm down. Get out of here so we can keep everyone safe." Anise has been in town all along. Really. She's just been helping to keep people from panicking too badly. It's hard, though! She pauses when she hears a very familiar song... then her eyes go wide as the song is suddenly interrupted. She knows exactly what that means... "Okay, keep calm... I gotta go.. help." Anise casts a worried look back toward the town and takes off running as fast as her little legs will carry her...
...and then, she pulls her plush doll from her back and waves her other hand over it. "Tokunaga!" The doll glows... and is suddenly nearly ten feet tall, with Anise clinging to the back of its head. From this height, she has a much better view of what's going on, too!
Then... SUDDENLY!
"Shadow Raid!" Tokunaga moves in a blur, crashing through the field on a collision course with Niari. "You get away from her, you old hag!"
"As you wish," Persephone says. She clicks her tongue, causing the Westie at her feet to snap to attention. "Garrett, rend."
The small dog growls viciously, shifting from adorible sidekick to JESUS CHRIST IT'S A DOG GET IN THE CAR in a matter of moments. It leaps forward with a snarl that sounds like it's better suited coming from a wolf, and tries to clamp onto Elvis' ankles with jaws just as powerful.
Sephi merely crosses her arms and watches her dog do all of the work, like a good Pokemon trainer.
As the small dog grows to a much larger demon beast, Elvis glances at the dog, and Persephone. "Dios mio, what have you been feeding him!?" And then it all comes to Elvis. "AHA! So that's why YOU don't eat any of them. Hahahaha! That's right.. so you feed them to your dog!" It's.. the best he an do okay? As he nips at Elvis, jaws clamping towards him, attempting to BITE BITE BITE, Elvis gets gnawed on.
"YOW! Chica that ain't nice, letting a cute little puppy like that! AHAHAH! Here, have them for your dog then!" Elvis tosses the farmers at the Westie, but otherwise, turns around, grasping a handful of popcorn to satiate him for the moment.
"HEY SENORITA! Looks like you're on your own. There's this demon dog already claiming the farmers, so I'm going to go elsewhere.. Hehehe.. Wonder if they got any hot tamale's in Spain.. and maybe a few peppers too." One of the two is not a women!
That's good though, right? That she doesn't consider Tear a friend? Because Tear certainly doesn't consider Niari as anything more than an enemy. Tear finally pulls the spike out and casts it aside, swallowing back a cry of pain. It hurts like FRELL.
She almost doesn't hear Niari - barely pays her any attention as she starts to whisper a healing spell. Niari gloating over winning though, gets Tear to glare up at the other woman, "It's not over ye--*" SHOCK. SHOCK is replaced by HORROR is replaced by REVULSION is replaced by EW as Niari pulls back. The sorceress is probably treated to Tear's face actually showing a HORRIFIED expression; a nice change from the usual impassive one she sports.
Oh GOD Niari just.. D:
Man and the spell was interrupted too. But then Niari is raising another bone spike, with intent to stab -- Tear flinches, even as she struggles to get out of the way when Niari is abruptly DYNAMIC TOKUNAGA'D. "..Anise!" What wonderful, WONDERFUL timing - but if only you'd come in five seconds earlier, Tear wouldn't have been traumatized. That moment will haunt her NIGHTMARES forever and ever.
Suddenly, TOKUNAGA'D
Niari looks up with a blink, just in time for Tokunaga to crash into her full-force and fling her violently across the hilltop. She hits the ground with a sharp yelp and rolls for a couple meters, ending up on her side. Growling through clenched teeth, she rubs fitfully at her right shoulder, climbing back to her feet with a bit of effort.
Her eyes smoulder. It is not a good kind of smoulder.
"Why you little...." Clenching her teeth, she closes her left fist so hard her nails bite into her palm, drawing a bit of blood. "You... little disgusting... /urchin!/ I am /not/ a hag! Why... If I were your parents I'd lock you in the cage for a /week!/"
Be glad Niari is not anyone's mother.
There's another explosion in the background as a Big Boom goes roaring into the cornfield, more popcorn bursting into the air. Niari ignores it. With Hildee's mana depleted by summoning so many Big Booms, this one's going to be up to her. She grips the cursed bone all the tighter, shadow flame bursting around it in a maelstrom. "Go to hell and /burn!/" she shrieks as she sidearms the bone violently towards Anise, aiming to either a) rip the blazing spike through Tokunaga or b) rip it through Anise. Depending on where they move, of course. Tear is let be for now.
That isn't quite how Sephi expected to chase off Elvis, but she's not complaining. "Heel," the Scion commands, Garrett instantly letting go of Elvis' leg. He trots to his master's side and sits obediently, as if nothing had happened. Such is the frightening power of the Westie.
The Helspawn has no intention of stopping Elvis from eating people in Spain, if he's that intent on chowing down. She glances down at the animal and says, "Come, Garrett, let us go--" A sudden BOOM cuts Sephi off. Looks like somebody forgot all about the exploding golems! "...let's get out of the cornfield and see what we can do about the summoner," she says.
Sitting atop Tokunaga, Anise looks positively smug. "Are too. Old wrinklebag!" She leans forward, bringing a hand beneath one eye and pulling down, and pokes her tongue out. "Biiii-daaaaa!" The pigtailed girl lets out a giggle and glances down toward the ground. "You okay, Tear? That hag didn't do anything to you, did she?" Anise didn't see any details, after all! She was too far away!
She doesn't even -see- the bone spike coming until it's too late. "Yaaaa!" The giant doll staggers back, a singed hole burned through his torso. "T.. Tokunaga!" For a moment, Anise looks like she's about to cry. "Speak to me! Tokunaga!" She reaches out and grabs one of his ears, shaking his head. "Tokunagaaaaaaaa--oh." The drama is brought to an immediate halt for what seems to be no apparent reason. "FINE then!" Her free hand POINTS at Niari. "You.. you... Don't blame me if you're burned to bits!" Purple and red fonons begin to swirl around her hand as she -glares- at the sorceress.
"Crimson Riot!" The particles disappear entirely. Right after, though, they shoot up from the ground beneath Niari's feet. She's got a split second to move before the area around her erupts into a massive fireball, swirling with dark energies inside.
Let alone? GOod, that's time enough for Tear to snap out of the horrified daze and resume casting her healing spell. Just enough for her to be able to get up and move. "Anise ..!" She didn't see anything? Tear's relieved! If the little girl had seen, why - oh good lord. "I-I'm all right." And then Tokunaga takes one for the team ;.; Poor Tokunaga! By now of course, the farmers that are still on their feet have begun the whole bucket brigade thing. Now that the cannibal is gone, and Persephone is off to do something about the summoner, it's safe for them to start tending to the wounded. Those that they can tend to anyway. Mike is probably going to wet willy his sister later though.
Niari forces herself to take a couple of breaths, pushing her temper into the background. (Calm down,) she thinks firmly. (You won't get anywhere if you lose yourself. Even if the brat DOES need a good firm beating with a cane.)
With a flick of her wrist she moves her sword into a ready position, straightening her back as she watches Anise weep over Tokunaga. A smug smirk pulls across her face, and she wets her lips, incidentally licking away a bit of blood that's run down her cheek. Tasting Tear on them has nothing to do with it at /all,/ I assure you. The Sword of Valhalla levels forward, shadow flame beginning to ripple along her arm to well about the blade -
ntil Anise casts something, and the split-second it takes Niari to break the spell uses up her split-second of movement.
She's picked up by the explosion and hurled bodily across the hilltop with a strangled yelp, a couple thin trails of blood and tatters of scorched fabric trailing behind her. After a few more seconds, she hits the ground next to Hildee, groaning a little and beginning to push herself to her feet. It proves less than successful.
For her part, Hildee looks down the hill wide-eyed at the Helspawn and - well, okay, mostly at Garrett, to be honest. She's an adorable pink-haired dwarf, she has no trouble believing that something so cute can be so uber.
She looks back across the hill at Anise and Tear.
She looks back at Garrett.
"Um."
Promptly the dwarf grabs Niari and tosses her across her shoulders effortlessly. She then turns to Anise and Tear, pulls down her lower left eyelid, and sticks out her tongue. "Blhhhhhhhh!"
With that, she turns and starts running as fast as she goddamn can.
Two butter golems carrying huge bowls overflowing with popcorn roll after her, leaving behind a cornfield strewn with even more popcorn - and ravaged by the Adenian twosome's snacktime.
Sephi and Garrett climb the hill towards Hildee with great purpose, intent on stopping the butter golems from causing further harm. Luckily, it looks like the mere fact that someone is going after her has caused the dwarf to flee, and to take her cohort with her! This is by far one of the easiest confrontations the Scion of Hel has ever been in.
She glances over at teh two natives of the world, Tear and Anise. "...hello," she says, staring at them inquisitively. That is to say, her head tilts to the side ever so slightly and she /doesn't blink/.
Persephone's assistance was invaluable; Tear would not have been able to protect the farmers by herself, when she was occupied by Niari, and Anise was assisting with the villagers in town. "You were the one fighting the cannibal, correct?" The pale faced Fonist inquires of the girl; Tear probably looks like she was put through a wringer, despite having used a healing spell. She's tired, and needs to recover - and poor poor Tokunaga needs to be mended. Tear will take care of that - it's the least she could do since Anise totally saved her bacon there. "I appreciate your assistance. If you hadn't been there, the situation would have escalated out of control." Further.
"Serves you right, dusty old hag!" Hey, Anise has to change things up a bit to keep it fresh! And it's probably true right now. The dusty part, anyway. Or sooty, at the least. That was a big fireball. When the dwarf dares to stick out her tongue, Anise does the same. "Thbbbbbbbb--" And she finally notices Sephi there. Tongue still out, the pigtailed girl turns to face the creepy undead girl. After a moment, she realizes her tongue is still poking out and she pulls it back in. "Eheh!"
Letting go of Tokunaga's ear, Anise slides down to the ground. "Hi!" Hands folding neatly behind her back, she begins to advance toward Sephi, looking at the other girl curiously and asking several questions without waiting for a reply, "What's your name? Were you the one who took care of the big ugly guy? Why aren't you blinking?" To emphasize that last one, Anise blinks several times.
A few agonizingly long seconds pass before Sephi finally blinks at Anise. "My name is Persephone, and yes, Garrett and I sent the man-eater away." She stoops to pick up the Westie, who silently obliges. "I apologize for not interfering earlier, perhaps I could have prevented some of the golems from destroying the crop. If I may, what are your names?"
Normal blinking has resumed by this point, for the viewers at home and Anises who keep track of that sort of thing.
Now that Tear is feeling a little better, Tear's attention swivels to furry cuteness. Namely the Westie. <3 Awwwwwhhh... ".... My name is Tear. Locrian Sergeant of the Oracle Knights of the Order of Lorelei." She must be competing with Anise for long titles. Even though Anise will still beat her out in that regard. There's a slight pause, where Tear sways a bit, and puts a hand to her head, "Forgive me, but I should look in on the injured. Anise." Tear glances towards the girl, a single word used to convey thanks, appreciation, concern and a request for her to take care of the rest. Continue talking to the creepy barely-blinking girl and her adorable dog though, Tear's player is about to fall out. z.z
When: 12/7
Where: Engeve, Malkuth, Auldrant
What: Niari and Hildee invade Engeve to reduce their corn field to popcorn. Elvis accompanies to reduce the villagers to barbeque. Team Girl Power (Tear, Anise, and guest starring Persephone Graham) attempt to stop them.
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[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass giggles wildly over something.
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith does too, actually.
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "I hope you brought plenty of butter, Dee. That really is a lot of corn."
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass chirps, "A ton! And salt, too!"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Well, then it looks like we're almost ready, doesn't it? Now all we need is something to pop it all with."
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass hops a couple of times. "I can do it!! It's awesome!! Watch this!! It's my new special move!!"
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass shouts, "Come out, Big Booms, come out!!" A magical sound follows. Then another.
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith laughs. "Oh my! I wonder what the people in Engeve will think of this."
The small farming village of Engeve and the huge cornfields surrounding it have been relatively peaceful, at least fairly recently. That is about to change.
Standing on the crest of a hill overlooking the cornfields near the town's south entrance, Niari Imraith places her hands on her hips and cocks one knee a little, smiling with self-satisfaction as she scans the vista below. "Just look at all that corn," she breathes, tossing her head, kitsune-styled ponytails rippling with the sharp movement of her head. With a look down to her left side she asks, "Do you think there'll be enough for everyone?"
"You bet!" shouts the pink-haired dwarf known as Hildee Sternbrass, hopping up and down a couple of times; her dark-toned Heavy Armour of Doom creaks and clanks. "It'll be awesome!"
"Well, then I guess you'd better start popping it, huh?"
"Right!" The dwarf pulls out a blueprint, looks it over for a second, then throws a handful of green crystals into the air. "Come out, Big Boom!" she calls, her words echoing on the wind - and with them, a runic circle appears beside her, turning slowly.
A squat construct rises from it. It appears to be a four-foot-high powder keg with a crude metal face on it - a face with a big lit fuse dangling from the top. It rides on a single balanced wheel, and its spindly arms hold a guttering torch out before it.
Immediately the dwarf begins concentrating to summon up another Big Boom; it appears next to the first a moment later. Niari merely smiles as her minion begins to build up their popcorn phalanx, looking out over the fields again.
"I wonder if Tear will come for some popcorn. <3"
... it's a fairly good guess that Tear will show up. But not for popcorn.
Of course she heard Niari and Hildee chattering on the citizen's band about Engeve and the corn - and the popcorn. Turning the farmer's hard harvest produce into delicous popcorn isn't very nice - Fun, maybe, but not nice.
Not to mention the possibility of the villagers themselves getting hurt trying to defend their vegetables. This was their livelihood! She's still a good bit away, but she can see the terrible two just ahead - quickly she breaks into a run, staff in hand.
Meanwhile, in Engeve...
The moment Big Boom (wut) appears, a few farmers still toiling away in the field glance up. It may be some distance away from the fields yet, but it doesn't stop the farmers from screeching like little girls and running for the village.
An alarm goes up, and once Rose manages to calm the panicking villagers, she proceeds to give instructions - evacuate the villagers. A small handful of farmers, no more than five, take up pitchforks and hoes and promptly rush out to the cornfields again. Clearly their primitive farming tools are more than a match for fire wielding golums and sorceresses. (Yeah. RIGHT).
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Butter, salt, and something to pop with? Are you making popcorn?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Why, yes, we are!"
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Why would you care what the people in Engeve think of your popcorn?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Well, largely because we're making it out of their cornfields."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "I see."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Do you expect much resistance?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Mmmm... possibly. I'm sure Tear will show up with the brat."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "The brat?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "Oh, there's this irritating child she carries around with her."
[Citizen's Band] Persephone Graham says, "Is that not the default state of children?"
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith says, "...Point."
[Citizen's Band] Hildee Sternbrass mumbles, "Told you."
[Citizen's Band] Niari Imraith mutters, "You don't count, you're in your thirties."
It didn't take too long for Persephone to check a Gate directory and find where the most dimensionally active Engeves was, once Niari voiced her popcorn plans over the Citizen's Band. Lacking better entertainment for the evening, the Scion of Hel decided to drop by and watch the fireworks. Popping an entire field of corn at once should be quite a sight, after all.
She slowly treks up a nearby hill, though not the one Niari and her henchmen are summoning Big Booms from. Garrett the Westie is following obidiently behind her as always, sniffing the air ponderously as he trots.
"Now that would be some good eating, chica! Hahaha!" Calls out a voice from behind, a rather heavy set hispanic fat man, smoking a cigar, walks a bit closer, taking out the cigar only to breathe out a few smoke rings. "But tell me, just how much butter have you brought? I'd like mine EXTRA buttery. We'd need at least a few barrels of it, eh? Heheh."
Rubbing his stomach, as the cigar is replaced, the larger man grasps one of the stalks and just rips it out of the ground, the circular rings on his arms clinking, before he .. stuffs it right into his mouth and swallows. ".. Ahh yeaaah, that hit the spot. But that's not even an appetizer. What I want is something a little more..."
His eyes flash to the area around it. The villagers. "Meaty. Maybe we can have a cook out too, ah chica? Ahahahaha!"
Farmers, clearly, are creatures of great might.
With hands on her hips Niari watches the small group of farmers rushing through the fields towards her hill of choice; the Big Booms, of which there are now three, act as beacons despite their short stature, flickering torches shining like beacons. Sliding her sword out of its sheath, the sorceress draws in a breath, a bit of wind rising around her as she prepares to cast a spell-
Only to flicker and fade as Elvis shambles along the hill.
...No, definitely NOT her type, she decides immediately.
Surprisingly the talk of cannibalism doesn't seem to disturb her all THAT much. "Oh, I've never been one for eating my opposition," she quips with toss of her head, "but you're more than welcome to them. And don't worry. We brought along more than enough butter for the job. Speaking of which...."
She gestures with her free hand.
Hildee breaks into a huge grin. "Okay!" she shouts. "Go go, Big Boom!"
And with a creak, one of the Big Booms goes racing down the hillside.
The little golem's torch billows as it streaks wildly towards the band of farmers in the field. It catches the edge of the cornfield and begins driving through it, rushing towards the lead farmer, then -
BOOM!!!!
There's a big fiery explosion - but not as big as one might expect. That's because most of the gunpowder has been removed, with most of what's left housed in the head, creating a hot but not incinerating explosion. A wavefront of heat ripples through an area of the cornfield. All at once ears of corn begin to pop and jerk, kernels puffing into popcorn and bursting into the air.
As for the rest of the gunpowder? It was removed.
Instead, there's butter in there, and it's splashing all over the flying popcorn.
"Now that's what I like to hear... I'm really huuungry." He sort of notes, looking out at the fields. "So what do these do, anyways?" He notes to the barrels. Big Boom, "Hehehe. So you prepared a feast with no one to eat it, senorita?" He licks his lips, taking a few steps forwards, getting in a better position to watch the fiery explosion.
"No problemo, eh senorita? Hehehe.. Guess I'll have to settle for a little fast food instead of some home cooking.. not that it'll make it any less appetizing. Ahahahaha!" A single hand is over his gut, rubbing it as he laughs, the other holding onto the cigar. He leans back, meanwhile, while laughing. "Now where to start.. the side dish or the /main course/." The last part, he gazes to a few unfortunate farmers.
"I've never had buttered meat.. but I can't imagine it'll taste that bad, eh cabron?" Elvis glances at one of the farmers.
That poor, poor farmer. He begins to slowly walk to him. Man, he's famished!
Hesitation is for the weak. And those villagers are going to get themselves killed. Fire artes are right out - she doesn't want to contribute to the damage. Thinking quickly, her eye widens when she sees the farmers charging. "No -- STOP!" How in the hELL is Tear going to protect the farmers from THREE golums and two /twisted/ sorceress.. plus a cannibal? But she hasn't heard the exchange between Elvis and Niari so as far as she knows, he, like Persephone, is an onlooker. Maybe?
AND BOOM.
"By Yulia.." Tear's breath catches in her throat as she sees the poor farmer go flying, caught in the explosion as the cornfield goes up as well. The other farmers pause, realizing that they may well be out of their (FREAKING MINDS) league in this.
"ROGER!" One of the farmers calls, as the poor farmer twitches on the ground like a twitchy thing that's about to twitch its last twitch. Wait, Elvis is approaching! Surely he is a good Samaritan, here to help carry him to safety -- right? Right? The other farmers have their own problems - surrounded by the fire and being assaulted by popping kernels every which way, all they can do is abandon their farming tools, duck and cover and try and navigate their way /out/ of the cornfield.
By now Tear has drawn within fighting range. She really wishes Anise were with her - she could use the little puppeteer's help. "SEvered Fate!" The cry precedes Tear's arrival, as three small daggers are flung towards Niari - they're not flung AT her though, as the intent is for the daggers to embed into the ground at three points around the sorceress, at which point a beam of light will erupt from the ground beneath her while Tear attempts to run past.
This could get complicated, if Tear has to worry about the farmers, the golums, Niari, Hildee and Elvis - the cornfields? At this point are being written off as a lost cause. The farmers will be vastly more important in the grand scheme of things.
Persephone frowns as she watches the Big Boom trundle down to the cornfields and explode... well, not very bigly. "That wasn't particularly impressive, was it, Garrett?" she asks, glancing down at her dog.
"Woof," barks the Westie.
"We should stop this before it gets any more embarassaing," the Scion continues. "Besides, I imagine Alexander will be displeased if he hears that we watched farmers burn to death in their own corn fields." The girl takes a few steps forward, channeling her Legend as she moves. When she reaches the slop of the hill she stops walking and begins sliding down, leaving a feathery trail of ice in her wake. When she reaches the edge of the cornfield she resumes walking, but still leaves frost on the ground with every footstep. Now, how to deal with exploding golems...?
Fear not, Tear! The Big Booms have no combat abilities of their own. They just explode. Well, except for the second and third ones; they appear to lack both fuses and torches. They DO have giant bowls, though, and they're driving around collecting the popcorn as it falls out of the sky. And Hildee is not likely to be a huge threat by herself; she's got her nose in her blueprint, working on summoning another golem.
Niari follows Elvis with her eyes for a second. (What a charming fellow,) she thinks sardonically, though outwardly she does smile, because it never hurts to cultivate gratitude among your allies, no matter how revolting they are. Besides, she doesn't really care all that much about the farmers; they're just collateral damage. "I am sorry for the butter," she calls after him. "I wasn't expecting to have to barbecue! I hope you can make do."
And then, a familiar voice; she blinks, looking over sharply. "Tear?"
A second later, knives embed themselves in the ground around her.
Niari's flirtatious, but not /stupid;/ she leaps to the side quickly, the beam igniting a split-second afterward, singing along the side of one bare leg but not really doing any serious damage. She grits her teeth and whirls, the train of her robe rippling behind her, sword held across her body. Yet the expression gives way to a sly smile as her eyes find the woman in brown. "I was /wondering/ when you'd show up, darling. <3"
Wind rises around her, and she gestures with her free hand. A shrill screech rips from her throat, eyes suddenly flaring with a surge of magic. The wind roars along her arm and explodes outwards in a buzzsaw-like hurricane disk, aiming to slash Tear with the power of the air.
As for the shrieking, she IS a spellhowler.
Another Big Boom, by the way, is now rolling down the hill into the farm field. It dives into the corn swiftly and explodes, sending buttery popcorn flying everywhere and depleting yet another chunk of the harvest.
"Hahaha! I'll make do alright senorita, this is a bounty if I ever saw one!" Grabbing some popcorn, Elvis shoves it in his mouth, swallowing, as he dashes his cigar in the air, tapping it a few times. "Now that's some good popcorn.. but I wonder..." The fat man moves towards one of the men, glancing down as he picks up the farmer, holding him up easily with one rather large hand. "Just how tasty the local flavor is, ah? HehehehehEHEH!" He licks his lips, "But we SHOULD get you a little flavoring before hand.. even I'm not going to just eat you."
Dragging along the farmer, Elvis makes a point to grab another. He might want seconds. "Now.. what about a special sauce, or maybe you have a few secret spices you're hiding... I at least want to make the last part of your lives something good for both of us, hombres! I'm not that bad a guy, eh? Ahahahah!"
He's dragging them still, but not that far. There's got to be some storage here or there.
Oh, maybe that chica would know. Glancing to Tear, Elvis bellows. "EY! CHICA! You got anything for meat on you? I can't just eat them like this. At least a little salt, eh?"
Roger is too fried and frazzled to do anything more than twitch like a fish yoinked up from a lake. "Ggh-eh..he..help -" he begs -- the wrong person as Elvis makes clear his intent to .. to.. *EAT* him? "G--GAah!" That's gross man. GROSS! WIth a capital GUH! And little Mike, who had hopes of being the world's greatest farmer is suddenly grabbed up, with the intention of being seconds. SECONDS! How inhumane! "W..wait!" Stammers the popcornburned boy, "I don't taste good! I'm stringy! I want to live! LET GO! TAKE MY SISTER!"
"YOU SUCK MIKE!" A younger voice screams out from behind her father. "YOU SUCK AND I HOPE YOU DIE!" Oh wait.
Tear glowers at Niari over the scent of delicious popcorn, "Do you have any idea," Tear retorts when she skids around to face the spell howler, "What you've done?" Those poor farmers. But before Tear can think about the plight _they_ are in, she hears another BOOM, and grits her teeth. Briefly her gaze flicks towards Elvis, and then snaps back towards Niari.
Spell howler indeed; she braces herself as she senses the surge in magic. Wind tears at her, even as she twists to dodge the spell, blades of ear ripping a narrow hole through the side of her coat and across her arm. She grits her teeth briefly, hopping back a step and -- staring at Elvis. "Wha.." DUDE! WRONGSICK! "You can't be ser--Put them down!" Niari first though - "Nocturnal Light!" Three more blades are flung towards Niari, though without the accompanying explosion of light as with Severed Fate. This is straight stabbums.
Well, that's... unique. Persephone watches the immense fat man (and he is truly immense for Sephi to be able to see him through the corn field; the waves of grain practically part before his bulk like the Red Sea) grab two farmers as if they were nothing and begin calling for seasoning. "I think he'll do well," she comments as she begins weaving through the corn fields, with buttery popcorn raining down from above thanks to the most recent explosion.
Defying the laws of stealth, the Helspawn tries to sneak up on Elvis from the front, relying on his being distracted looking for seasoning and the density of the corn to keep her hidden from view. Should she get close enough before being spotted... well, that big belly poking out from the suit makes for a great target. Persephone channels more Legend through her body, her hands dropping to sub-zero temperatures. She simply places the freezing hands upon the fat man's exposed belly and says, "Please put those farmers down."
"Of course I do," Niari answers Tear with a shrug. "I've made delicious buttery popcorn. Would you like some?" And she's serious.
She throws a glance back over her shoulder at Elvis, then flicks attention to Tear again, whirling her sword into a ready position. Though she's a mage by trade, she knows her way around melee combat on a basic level - and she does have enchantments on her side. One of those enchantments comes into play as Tear throws more blades; she gestures with her hand, soundlessly, and a shimmering wave of aura erupts around her, catching the blades in flight.
The aura floods downwards and away a second later, revealing the redhead standing with her head snapped back and to one side as though struck. Slowly she lowers her chin, eyes a touch wide as she brings a hand to her cheek. A long but shallow streak has been left by one of the blades, her aura apparently not enough to stop it. She pulls the fingertips away stained with blood.
"Tear," she says incredulously, "you /cut my face!/ ...Oh, how naughty. <3"
Taking a quick hop to one side and pivoting to come about to face Tear in profile, she smiles viciously and thrusts her free hand forward, fingers splayed. "Fire!" she calls in a perfectly normal tone. Harkening back to the techniques she learned among the human Sorcerers of the Ivory Tower, she summons a globe of crackling flame in her palm, then flings it sidearm at Tear. The fireball crackles and blazes, plunging towards the brunette like a comet.
"Ah you humans are so funny sometimes, AHAHAHAH!" Elvis laughs, a gutteral belly laugh. Perhaps a cruel taunt towards their FUTURE. "Yeah, you're not much, hombre.. but that's why you're desert! Hehehehe! You don't think I forgot about the smaller details, did you?" Sick and wrong? Sure, they can think of it that way, but all in all.. "A demon's got to eat, amigos! I'll give your bones the proper burial when I'm done though."
He's at least thinking about them!
"Sister, eh... Heheh. Maybe if I have room. You two won't have to be alone for that long!" Oh, how cruel fate is. But Tear, as the chica speaks up, gets his attention. "A man's got to eat! And this is the only meat I really desire, chica! Hahaha!"
He's turning and then suddenly. /COLD HANDS/.
"MADA MIERDA!" He cries out, dropping the farmers, and staggering back a bit, before he rubs his stomach, sub-frozen, but rapidly recovering. Patting it, rubbing, and then lighting a hand with demonic fire, help to stop the freezing. "What was THAT!?" Elvis calls, before looking down. "... Such a pequeno chica.. Are you really speaking to the grown ups that way? I'm just a little hungry .. can't you see that?" She's not a human, it's obvious to a demon.
"Just one of them at least, eh? Hehehe. I'll even split half with you and your dog!"
Her free hand rests over the cut on her arm, the white staining with the red of her own blood. THere is no pleasure or satisfaction (maybe a lil) when Niari's face is cut. If nothing else, she only stares steadily towards the sorceress, her back to the flames in the cornfield. Relief is the form of Persephone stepping in to help the farmers from being part of the menu. That's one less thing to worry about. "That's disgusting!" Tear retorts to Elvis. He's no man, he's a monster! A monster who eats human meat! Poor Roger and Mike, they -- well just Mike now -- struggle to get free, while the other farmers are starting to hurry towards freedom.
Wait, where'd Hildee get to? Commanding the golums probably. More importantly, there's a fireball flying through the air straight at her, courtesy of Niari-airlines. "Egn!" Tear lifts her hand, a glyph forming in the air in front of her, creating a small force shield in front of herself. The fireball slams into the shield, causing Tear to skid back from the momentum, wincing slightly as sparks and flame spread over the shield, which breaks under the pressure. The remains of the fire spell breaks through, and Tear throws up a hand instinctively, flames catching onto her glove, which she quickly shakes, thanking god for fire resistant material. Still HURTS though, especially that cut. OW.
"If you want to play with fire -" Tear's hand raises, drawing on the energy from the flames burning behind her, as well as the spell Niari just cast, "Have this~. Flamme Rouge!" She casts, thrusting a hand forward similar to Niari's own casting gesture; instead of a fireball being formed and missiled out at her target though, a column of fire will form and catch Niari in it if she doesn't get out of the way in time.
"Yes, I am," Persephone says simply when questioned about the way she talks to grown up. "You have not paid for those farmers, and furthermore, I sincerely doubt they are for sale. You should find an alternate source of meat if you are so desperate for protein today. I have heard that rappig steak is local delicacy."
When the offer to go halves on lunch comes up, Sephi considers for a moment before answering, "I don't eat anything that can speak back to me." Luckily, the 'speak' qualifier means that nobody can fault her for tasting that bit of zombie back on Halloween, since zombies can't talk. Well, maybe they CAN fault her, cause that was kind of creepy, but at least she's not a hypocrite?
Laughing. That's how Elvis responds to Persephone. "Pay for a human? AHAHAHAH! Now that's RICH chica! Maybe I should pay you for all the entertainment you're giving me instead! I haven't laughed like that in a long time!" Picking up one of the humans, however, he dangles it ahead of himself, shaking the poor Farmer. That's Roger, Mike is free due to freezing cold.
"This meat is perfect! Toned from years of work, and not too scrawny either! Why would I settle for anything less, eh, Chica? I'm sure you'd love a slab if it came down to it." Elvis actually ends up trying to be friendly to this somewhat demonic being!
"OH.. well it won't speak back to you after I'm done with it! heheheh! So maybe you can sneak by that. Let yourself go! That's where the fun is, chica!" But he seems to not take her seriously, really, and grabs for Mike again. "Now what to use.. barbeque or ketchup.. Hmmm.."
Hildee's right over there; she's moved down the hill a ways. "Go go, Big Boom!" she chirps. "Popcorn time!" And another Big Boom goes rolling down the hill, driving deep into the cornfields before exploding in a cloud of buttery buttery popcorn, which the bowl-golems begin to collect. The dwarf wipes at her forehead, chugging a mana potion. "Phew! At least I've got plenty of D-grade crystals."
As to Niari, the woman takes a step forward as her fireball knocks Tear back, then one more step, her smile returning; it's a little tight, though. It sucks to be cut. "You know, I really am sorry we have to fight. I was going to let you share the popcorn and everything." This time there's a sparkle in her eyes that says she might not be serious. Maybe she IS just doing it to get on Tear's nerves. Or maybe she really is that bad, who knows.
The brunette casts another spell, and the redhead widens her eyes, knowing this world's propensity for spells that come from above or below; she zips immediately to the side, but the flaming pillar erupts a split-second sooner than she expected. With a shout she throws up her defensive aura, blunting the worst of it, but the tail of her 'robe' is still seared away, scorchmarks appearing along the small of her back. She twists and comes to a ready stance on both feet just clear of Tear, eyes narrowing. "...That /hurt,/ Tearkins," she grates. "And you burned my clothes. That /wasn't/ /very/ /nice./"
Her left hand snaps back, and she flicks her fingers, a bloodstained bone spike appearing between them. With a shout she flings it at Tear. The cursed bone spins like a drill, a maelstrom of shadow flame blazing to life around it as it attempts to pierce through Tear.
"I'm sorry, perhaps you misunderstood me," Persephone says politely. "I did not mean to make that sound like a request. You shall not dine on human flesh this day, well-tenderized or not." She crosses her arms and stares up at Elvis, a piercing stare with an unnaturally unnerving effect. Of course, that's not divinitity right there, Sephi just has unnerving eyes. "You will release these farmers, or I shall have Garrett bite you."
The small, white, fluffy, adorible puppy barks in a not-very-threatening manner. Grr!
Poor Roger. Passed out from his injuries, But maybe it's a blessing he won't be conscious for these deliberations. Mike, on being freed, makes a staggering dash for freedom, "AWESOME I'm fre-" and then he's grabbed again. "OHGODNO!"
"Daddy, if Mike's eaten can I have his room?" Can be heard from little Sally as she is quickly handed off to her mom while her father assists with the quick evacuation. Methinks the girl doesn't fully comprehend the situation.
Niari's taunting and pouting about Tear having hurt her and burned her clothing is listened to impassively, the girl hopping back a step for some distance. Then a glyph appears, with motes of light floating upwards around her as she does the last thing that most people might expect. She starts singing. Niari will probably know what's coming though.
"Toue Rei Zue Kuroa Ryuo Toue Zu-" she doesn't even get to finish her song! That's the cruellest part! Because with no one to guard her while she's casting, she has no means of defending against incoming projectiles.
Her voice cuts short with a grunt, and there is a splash of blood on the ground, quickly followed by falling Fonist, too startled to even cry out in pain. "..Hgk.." Okay. Cut by wind? Hurt. Being hit by remains of a fireball? That hurt too. But this.. THIS..
OH SWEET LORELEI AND YULIA THAT REALLY REALLY REALLY F_CKING HURTS!
SHe bites back the pain, bracing herself up with her injured arm as she grasps the offending projectile and -TUGS-. Thank god it missed any vitals, but that doesn't make getting stabbed with it OKAY. "..." Oh yeah. OOOOOOOOOOW! Mean ol' Niari.
As Persephone continues, noting that's not what she meant, Elvis understands. And doesn't particularly care in the end. "Hahahahahah! Oh so you were serious, eh chica?" The large hispanic demon asks, looking down at the little girl with the fluffy puppy who seem to threaten them. A glance makes it "Chica, there's something wrong with your eyes, and it's kind of creepy.. maybe you should have that fixed, eh? Hehehehe.. or maybe .. I should fix it for you!"
The humans are spun around as /burning demon fire/ but not on the humans, spin around the arms and fat of Elvis. "I don't think you know what you're getting yourself INTO chica! If you feel like getting in my way, I think I can spare some room for you, too!" He laughs, once again, before seriously staring at her.
"If you fail to listen.. I will have /no choice/... CHICA. Now take your stupid perro and leave. I'm getting HUNGRY."
With a certain satisfaction Niari wets her lips, watching Tear collapse in pain. Whatever her interest in the woman, it's clear she's gone beyond considering her a friend. Perhaps she's not so shallow as she might seem at a glance.
Stepping forward with a slow, confident stride, the dark sorceress holds her sword casually, bringing the point down to rest at Tear's chest even as she sinks to a knee beside the brunette, her other leg outstretched as she leans over her. "You know, it's kind of a shame, really," she says in a quiet tone. "We could've been good friends in another time. But I suppose that's the price you pay to enjoy someone else's suffering, isn't it? Oh well. I guess it's over now, and I've won."
She leans forward, and promptly plants a good, firm kiss on Tear's lips. The fact that a bit of blood drips from her cheek onto the other girl's probably doesn't help.
That done, she promptly straightens and comes back to her feet, raising her left hand - another cursed bone, shadow flame blooming around it, poised in her hand. Her smile is wide and vicious, eyes blazing. "I hate to part with you so /soon,/ but this is it! It's /over,/ Tear! /Say goodbye!!/"
Oh noes! It seems Tear's in a bad position, and there's no way out! How will our plucky heroine survive this one? Will the villagers become dinner? And where the HELL is Jade? Find out ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF DRRRRAGON... BALL... ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
"Okay, everyone. Calm down. Get out of here so we can keep everyone safe." Anise has been in town all along. Really. She's just been helping to keep people from panicking too badly. It's hard, though! She pauses when she hears a very familiar song... then her eyes go wide as the song is suddenly interrupted. She knows exactly what that means... "Okay, keep calm... I gotta go.. help." Anise casts a worried look back toward the town and takes off running as fast as her little legs will carry her...
...and then, she pulls her plush doll from her back and waves her other hand over it. "Tokunaga!" The doll glows... and is suddenly nearly ten feet tall, with Anise clinging to the back of its head. From this height, she has a much better view of what's going on, too!
Then... SUDDENLY!
"Shadow Raid!" Tokunaga moves in a blur, crashing through the field on a collision course with Niari. "You get away from her, you old hag!"
"As you wish," Persephone says. She clicks her tongue, causing the Westie at her feet to snap to attention. "Garrett, rend."
The small dog growls viciously, shifting from adorible sidekick to JESUS CHRIST IT'S A DOG GET IN THE CAR in a matter of moments. It leaps forward with a snarl that sounds like it's better suited coming from a wolf, and tries to clamp onto Elvis' ankles with jaws just as powerful.
Sephi merely crosses her arms and watches her dog do all of the work, like a good Pokemon trainer.
As the small dog grows to a much larger demon beast, Elvis glances at the dog, and Persephone. "Dios mio, what have you been feeding him!?" And then it all comes to Elvis. "AHA! So that's why YOU don't eat any of them. Hahahaha! That's right.. so you feed them to your dog!" It's.. the best he an do okay? As he nips at Elvis, jaws clamping towards him, attempting to BITE BITE BITE, Elvis gets gnawed on.
"YOW! Chica that ain't nice, letting a cute little puppy like that! AHAHAH! Here, have them for your dog then!" Elvis tosses the farmers at the Westie, but otherwise, turns around, grasping a handful of popcorn to satiate him for the moment.
"HEY SENORITA! Looks like you're on your own. There's this demon dog already claiming the farmers, so I'm going to go elsewhere.. Hehehe.. Wonder if they got any hot tamale's in Spain.. and maybe a few peppers too." One of the two is not a women!
That's good though, right? That she doesn't consider Tear a friend? Because Tear certainly doesn't consider Niari as anything more than an enemy. Tear finally pulls the spike out and casts it aside, swallowing back a cry of pain. It hurts like FRELL.
She almost doesn't hear Niari - barely pays her any attention as she starts to whisper a healing spell. Niari gloating over winning though, gets Tear to glare up at the other woman, "It's not over ye--*" SHOCK. SHOCK is replaced by HORROR is replaced by REVULSION is replaced by EW as Niari pulls back. The sorceress is probably treated to Tear's face actually showing a HORRIFIED expression; a nice change from the usual impassive one she sports.
Oh GOD Niari just.. D:
Man and the spell was interrupted too. But then Niari is raising another bone spike, with intent to stab -- Tear flinches, even as she struggles to get out of the way when Niari is abruptly DYNAMIC TOKUNAGA'D. "..Anise!" What wonderful, WONDERFUL timing - but if only you'd come in five seconds earlier, Tear wouldn't have been traumatized. That moment will haunt her NIGHTMARES forever and ever.
Suddenly, TOKUNAGA'D
Niari looks up with a blink, just in time for Tokunaga to crash into her full-force and fling her violently across the hilltop. She hits the ground with a sharp yelp and rolls for a couple meters, ending up on her side. Growling through clenched teeth, she rubs fitfully at her right shoulder, climbing back to her feet with a bit of effort.
Her eyes smoulder. It is not a good kind of smoulder.
"Why you little...." Clenching her teeth, she closes her left fist so hard her nails bite into her palm, drawing a bit of blood. "You... little disgusting... /urchin!/ I am /not/ a hag! Why... If I were your parents I'd lock you in the cage for a /week!/"
Be glad Niari is not anyone's mother.
There's another explosion in the background as a Big Boom goes roaring into the cornfield, more popcorn bursting into the air. Niari ignores it. With Hildee's mana depleted by summoning so many Big Booms, this one's going to be up to her. She grips the cursed bone all the tighter, shadow flame bursting around it in a maelstrom. "Go to hell and /burn!/" she shrieks as she sidearms the bone violently towards Anise, aiming to either a) rip the blazing spike through Tokunaga or b) rip it through Anise. Depending on where they move, of course. Tear is let be for now.
That isn't quite how Sephi expected to chase off Elvis, but she's not complaining. "Heel," the Scion commands, Garrett instantly letting go of Elvis' leg. He trots to his master's side and sits obediently, as if nothing had happened. Such is the frightening power of the Westie.
The Helspawn has no intention of stopping Elvis from eating people in Spain, if he's that intent on chowing down. She glances down at the animal and says, "Come, Garrett, let us go--" A sudden BOOM cuts Sephi off. Looks like somebody forgot all about the exploding golems! "...let's get out of the cornfield and see what we can do about the summoner," she says.
Sitting atop Tokunaga, Anise looks positively smug. "Are too. Old wrinklebag!" She leans forward, bringing a hand beneath one eye and pulling down, and pokes her tongue out. "Biiii-daaaaa!" The pigtailed girl lets out a giggle and glances down toward the ground. "You okay, Tear? That hag didn't do anything to you, did she?" Anise didn't see any details, after all! She was too far away!
She doesn't even -see- the bone spike coming until it's too late. "Yaaaa!" The giant doll staggers back, a singed hole burned through his torso. "T.. Tokunaga!" For a moment, Anise looks like she's about to cry. "Speak to me! Tokunaga!" She reaches out and grabs one of his ears, shaking his head. "Tokunagaaaaaaaa--oh." The drama is brought to an immediate halt for what seems to be no apparent reason. "FINE then!" Her free hand POINTS at Niari. "You.. you... Don't blame me if you're burned to bits!" Purple and red fonons begin to swirl around her hand as she -glares- at the sorceress.
"Crimson Riot!" The particles disappear entirely. Right after, though, they shoot up from the ground beneath Niari's feet. She's got a split second to move before the area around her erupts into a massive fireball, swirling with dark energies inside.
Let alone? GOod, that's time enough for Tear to snap out of the horrified daze and resume casting her healing spell. Just enough for her to be able to get up and move. "Anise ..!" She didn't see anything? Tear's relieved! If the little girl had seen, why - oh good lord. "I-I'm all right." And then Tokunaga takes one for the team ;.; Poor Tokunaga! By now of course, the farmers that are still on their feet have begun the whole bucket brigade thing. Now that the cannibal is gone, and Persephone is off to do something about the summoner, it's safe for them to start tending to the wounded. Those that they can tend to anyway. Mike is probably going to wet willy his sister later though.
Niari forces herself to take a couple of breaths, pushing her temper into the background. (Calm down,) she thinks firmly. (You won't get anywhere if you lose yourself. Even if the brat DOES need a good firm beating with a cane.)
With a flick of her wrist she moves her sword into a ready position, straightening her back as she watches Anise weep over Tokunaga. A smug smirk pulls across her face, and she wets her lips, incidentally licking away a bit of blood that's run down her cheek. Tasting Tear on them has nothing to do with it at /all,/ I assure you. The Sword of Valhalla levels forward, shadow flame beginning to ripple along her arm to well about the blade -
ntil Anise casts something, and the split-second it takes Niari to break the spell uses up her split-second of movement.
She's picked up by the explosion and hurled bodily across the hilltop with a strangled yelp, a couple thin trails of blood and tatters of scorched fabric trailing behind her. After a few more seconds, she hits the ground next to Hildee, groaning a little and beginning to push herself to her feet. It proves less than successful.
For her part, Hildee looks down the hill wide-eyed at the Helspawn and - well, okay, mostly at Garrett, to be honest. She's an adorable pink-haired dwarf, she has no trouble believing that something so cute can be so uber.
She looks back across the hill at Anise and Tear.
She looks back at Garrett.
"Um."
Promptly the dwarf grabs Niari and tosses her across her shoulders effortlessly. She then turns to Anise and Tear, pulls down her lower left eyelid, and sticks out her tongue. "Blhhhhhhhh!"
With that, she turns and starts running as fast as she goddamn can.
Two butter golems carrying huge bowls overflowing with popcorn roll after her, leaving behind a cornfield strewn with even more popcorn - and ravaged by the Adenian twosome's snacktime.
Sephi and Garrett climb the hill towards Hildee with great purpose, intent on stopping the butter golems from causing further harm. Luckily, it looks like the mere fact that someone is going after her has caused the dwarf to flee, and to take her cohort with her! This is by far one of the easiest confrontations the Scion of Hel has ever been in.
She glances over at teh two natives of the world, Tear and Anise. "...hello," she says, staring at them inquisitively. That is to say, her head tilts to the side ever so slightly and she /doesn't blink/.
Persephone's assistance was invaluable; Tear would not have been able to protect the farmers by herself, when she was occupied by Niari, and Anise was assisting with the villagers in town. "You were the one fighting the cannibal, correct?" The pale faced Fonist inquires of the girl; Tear probably looks like she was put through a wringer, despite having used a healing spell. She's tired, and needs to recover - and poor poor Tokunaga needs to be mended. Tear will take care of that - it's the least she could do since Anise totally saved her bacon there. "I appreciate your assistance. If you hadn't been there, the situation would have escalated out of control." Further.
"Serves you right, dusty old hag!" Hey, Anise has to change things up a bit to keep it fresh! And it's probably true right now. The dusty part, anyway. Or sooty, at the least. That was a big fireball. When the dwarf dares to stick out her tongue, Anise does the same. "Thbbbbbbbb--" And she finally notices Sephi there. Tongue still out, the pigtailed girl turns to face the creepy undead girl. After a moment, she realizes her tongue is still poking out and she pulls it back in. "Eheh!"
Letting go of Tokunaga's ear, Anise slides down to the ground. "Hi!" Hands folding neatly behind her back, she begins to advance toward Sephi, looking at the other girl curiously and asking several questions without waiting for a reply, "What's your name? Were you the one who took care of the big ugly guy? Why aren't you blinking?" To emphasize that last one, Anise blinks several times.
A few agonizingly long seconds pass before Sephi finally blinks at Anise. "My name is Persephone, and yes, Garrett and I sent the man-eater away." She stoops to pick up the Westie, who silently obliges. "I apologize for not interfering earlier, perhaps I could have prevented some of the golems from destroying the crop. If I may, what are your names?"
Normal blinking has resumed by this point, for the viewers at home and Anises who keep track of that sort of thing.
Now that Tear is feeling a little better, Tear's attention swivels to furry cuteness. Namely the Westie. <3 Awwwwwhhh... ".... My name is Tear. Locrian Sergeant of the Oracle Knights of the Order of Lorelei." She must be competing with Anise for long titles. Even though Anise will still beat her out in that regard. There's a slight pause, where Tear sways a bit, and puts a hand to her head, "Forgive me, but I should look in on the injured. Anise." Tear glances towards the girl, a single word used to convey thanks, appreciation, concern and a request for her to take care of the rest. Continue talking to the creepy barely-blinking girl and her adorable dog though, Tear's player is about to fall out. z.z