Fighting! Monsters! [OPEN]
Characters: Anyone on the Amestris
Content: Monsters are running all over the ship! Where did they come from?
Setting: All over the Amestris
Time: Late at night
Warnings: Monsters and fighting
( But no loot )
Content: Monsters are running all over the ship! Where did they come from?
Setting: All over the Amestris
Time: Late at night
Warnings: Monsters and fighting
( But no loot )
She remembered the things she'd only heard happened to other people. Being ignored more than usual, avoided, pushed around. Some people had even tried to steal her hat full of money. People had done that before, of course -- she was a street performer, it was part of that -- but not this much. Then there had been what she'd heard on the network. Everyone seemed to agree that it was because her ears had changed and she'd sprouted a tail. She loved being like this, but... maybe, she thought, she should go back to normal.
When the emergency message woke her up, she left the still-sleeping An-nin in her room and began wandering the halls in search of monsters. The sleepy little girl hadn't even noticed that her ears were human, nor the lack of a tail swishing behind her.
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The first thing he'd thought when the emergency message had sounded had been the entirely irrational, 'Did I do that?'
Now he was a bit more awake, and dressed, and clutching his new claymore while really hoping that he didn't run into anything. But he had to make sure that Lea was all right and hadn't run into anything, because no matter how irrational it might be, Isa knew he'd feel guilty if Lea got hurt.
He'd have preferred that Lea not know about the sword, or the training he'd had, but this kind of thing was exactly what he'd done it all for, so he'd have to suck it up and deal with any potential mocking that might come afterwards.
He made his way slowly down the corridor, hoping to hear any monsters before they saw him so he could avoid them altogether, when he spotted Bu-Ling.
"You should go back to your room," he said, before he noticed anything else.
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The last part registered, and he looked at Bu-Ling flatly. "You're too little, and they're dangerous. Don't fight them. Let the grown ups deal with it."
Isa did not, by that, mean the likes of himself. He didn't intend on dealing with it, he just intended on making sure Lea was okay and not off doing something stupid, like going to make sure Isa was okay, or worse, going to see if he could see the monsters.
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Then he stopped, and look at Bu-Ling a little harder. "Where are your ears and tail, anyway?"
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She blinked. "Huh?" Her hands went up to her ears and patted them. She blinked a few times when she recognized their old shape. "Where'd they go? They were there when Bu-ling went to sleep."
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"So let's get out of the way, and we can try and figure out what happened when we're somewhere safer, okay?" He tried, though he wasn't sure what results he'd get.
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Something creaked at the end of the hall.
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"Your ears and tail are gone; you don't even know if you can fight the monsters," he pointed out, in an urgent whisper.
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This was, of course, not whispered.
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"If we ever meet up with the Convoy again, I have got to introduce you to Ulquiorra," he muttered. "This isn't like in comics. Good guys die too. Even six year old ones." Getting the age wrong wasn't deliberate, but he did.
The creak got closer, and Isa stared in its direction, holding his sword up the way he'd been taught and starting to make his way back, away from the source.
"Guts are no good to anyone if they're splattered across the scenery. Come on."
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Something stepped around the corner, scratching the floorboards. One of the lamps on the wall revealed a creeping thing that looked quite like a rat and would probably be a rat were it not pink, bearing multiple sets of eyes, and large enough to take up the entire hallway. Upon seeing it, Bu-ling's face lit up.
"A monster, a real monster!" She ran forward and sprung into a spinning kick at it. "Bu-ling's gonna prove how strong she is no da!"
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He snatched forward to try and grab Bu-Ling, and stop her running for the monster, but he missed, and grimaced as he quickly took up his position with his sword again, hoping for the best. He was still creeping steadily backward, but he knew he wouldn't be able to outrun the monster, and turning his back on it to do so sounded like a bad idea.
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"You okay?" He asked, taking a careful step slowly backwards as the monster's attention turned to him, and his sword. He raised it slowly, too, ready to strike if the monster moved towards him, or Bu-ling.
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