Team 3: Betrayal of Mistletoe
This is the second post for Hellboy, Kate, Warren, and Leon. If you are on one of the other teams, please do not read this post until the game is over! The information contained herein could give some things away!
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Every so often, a bubbling sound preceeds a shrieking face appearing on a wall, floor, or ceiling amidst the arms. This is only visible for a short time, and then it sinks back into the surface it came from.
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Leon pulled back near the others as the walls started to change, but now they all didn't have much room to maneuver. "Stay close!"
One of the arms reached out and grabbed him, but his knife was able to slash into it, then kicked a chunk off. That didn't do much good as another arm quickly replaced that one. And when that arm would get cut up, two more would pop up in it's place.
"God damn this shit... it never ends!"
He had noticed the shrieking face, but it would appear and disappear at random. No real pattern to it that he could figure out yet. But... "...why does this seem so familiar?" He didn't have much time to think on it, he was busy ducking another swipe at himself.
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It's all Hellboy has time to get out as the room changes and the arms begin to swipe at them. Holstering his gun, the demon begins smashing at the hands and arms with his stone fist. Pieces snap, crumble, and break away, but it does no good. They seem to come back unaffected.
"What the heck do ya gotta do to this place?!"
He swings to pummel another hand, but is swatted across the small room to smash through pews and crash into a wall.
"Ok...that is no way to behave in a church."
Hellboy picks himself up and charges at one of the hands, crushing it with a few blows. Another springs quickly in its place.
"Oh come on!!"
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But he tried, slashing at anything not... friendly, that comes at him as best he can. Flames lick at his one arm, the fire seeming to bring him calm where nothing else did. It barely does anything, more seeming to infuriate than stop. And the noise just seems to burrow into his head, eating at his ear drums until it seems it's all he can hear. The shrieking and the yells of his teammates.
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"Warren! Give Kate the book and cov--!" His shout was short lived as he got hit by another arm, this one from behind. He was dropped to his knees, and ended up face to face with that shrieking face as it appeared in the floor. Leon ignored it at first, opting to kick the arm that was taking another swing at him, then largely out of pure spite, he fired two 9mm shots at the face in the floor just as it was disappearing.
"Will you shut up!It was then that why this seemed so familiar clicked into place. "Salazar...", or more accurately, the final battle with him, with the constant vine whips and the the mutated 'Left Hand', and the constant noise, though instead of shrieking it was a stream of insults. More importantly, Salazar kept hiding, and the only time Leon could do any real damage was when he showed ( ... )
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"Get back here! I'm not done wi..."
A hand grabs him by the leg and drags him across the broken boards and mess of the church floor.
"Le' go!"
Hellboy pulls the Samaritan free and shoots the offending hand to be free from its grip.
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Fighting as best he can, slashing and burning at anything that reached for him, and by default, for Katie. Warren just kept himself between those hands and her, with the book, as best he could.
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He got hit again, dropping his gun, but managed to clear out the arms near him and retrieve it. However, by then, the face retreated into the wall.
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However, when the face soon moves to rise from the floor, Hellbot throws himself on it, punching it mercilessly. Finally, he fires a couple of rounds into the thing just before it disappears again.
"Geez, what's with this place? Does ev'rything gotta have a trick answer?!"
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Yelling it out and yet trying to sound casual about it as he slashes and stabs at anything that comes near him and Kate.
"Now figure out the damn trick before I burn out,' he snarls, face cast in bright light.
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Warren wasn't the only one who needed to worry about energy. Even Leon was getting winded, moving about as much as he was. The face finally appeared again, on a wall near him this time. He fired off the remaining six bullets in the clip in his .45, all six hitting their mark.
The face finally began to crack, but as Leon reloaded, it disappeared into the wall.
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He tears his way free of the hands and arms and begins firing on the screaming head. When all five bullets are spent into the thing, he moves in close and begins slamming at the cracking visage with his stone fist.
"Shut it! None of us are havin' a good day!"
The cracks spread and there's a sound like the scream itself is shattering before it goes quiet, breaks and disappears. The arms stop moving, some snap and some recede back into walls and floors.
"'Bout time... geez... Everybody ok?"
He rubs at a bruised and battered shoulder and has a look around at everyone.
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"I'm alive,' he mutters, tasting fire even in his mouth, like he'd charred shit in there and that was when it hit him that he was likely dehydrated.
Tired, shoulders slumped, he looked around and saw the altar slip into the floor, sees the door revealed. "If this puts up back in the hospital, I swear I'm going to kill something,' he mutters, pushing it open.
This room contains another altar, but it isn’t nearly as benign as the one previous. The surface of the altar itself is splattered in red and thick, black sludge. An overturned goblet drips what appears to be spilled blood. Just beyond the altar looms a hole, about four feet in diameter and ringed with symbols written in red. Its darkness is endless, and the bottom can not be seen.
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He takes a few breaths, taking a moment to look over himself. A few cuts, several bruises, his ribs got a bit banged, but nothing broke. Mostly, he's just out of breath. "I'm fine."
He follows through the door, and looks at the hole and the alter. This was largely out of his realm of expertise.
"What now? We try the incantation?"
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"If we use the book and it works we're still leavin' a lot of team members behind. Who knows if we can use it again t'come back and get 'em?"
He walks over to the edge of the hole and stares down in to the deep, black nothing. He kicks a bit of debris in and never hears it land.
"I think this's our exit, kids. Just as safe and invitin as everything else around here."
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"We might not get another chance to make it out," she says. "I don't mean to sound grim, but it's not like we can do this without Walter knowing."
She glances at Hellboy.
"We're probably going to need you to get out, Hellboy. So it's up to you."
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