"I'm Tempest co-founder of Haven and now a participant in this 'game' of Zerack's" He finger quoted the word game. He pulled the sword from the other fallen wolf and the sword turned into a small lightning bolt necklace that he slipped over his head. He noticed the girl was shivering so he pulled off his sweatshirt and offered it to her, having on a long sleeved Stranger Things shirt on under it. "Here I don't want the person who just saved my sorry behind to freeze out here."
Back at the tree Blake had climbed two other wolves circled the trunk, knowing he could not stay up there forever.
“Thank you, Tempest.” Dare tugged the sweatshirt on over her head, her whole body tense. “Is Haven this place? Who’s this Zerack dude and why are we even here?” Now that she knew this guy had knowledge beyond her own, she needed to know every detail, even if he himself might be dangerous. With that sword, he probably was, but hopefully not to her.
"no Haven is the organization I run to stop this sort of thing from happening. Zerack is the being that creates those creatures that are after everyone…" The young man told her
“Clearly, your organization isn’t doing its job very well,” Dare commented wryly. “Wait, why’d you call Zerack a being; are they not human? And there are more people here? What the hell is going on?” She poked a finger at Tempest questioningly. “If this is a game, how do we win?”
Blake glared down at the wolves, before scanning the trees around her. She crept along the branch she was on, and jumped. Her hands clawed wildly at the air, before gripping on to the branch of another tree. She pulled herself up to the branch, which supported her weight. She jumped from that branch to another, and soon was leaping from tree to tree, hoping to evade the wolves.
(I am so sorry, I’m extremely sick at the moment, if it’s ok can I just… stay in the sidelines until I am better? If not I’ll just drop this.)
( @Mood-Swings-Xcnx4 that's alright)
"Well we're trying okay? It's not easy most of us are still teens and to be honest I'd love to have a semi-normal life." Tempest seemed a bit peeved at Dare's comment. "But no Zerack is a sub species of demon called shadows…not all them are bad like he is but…he's really messed up inside." He looked at the fresh mark on her hand and pointed to it "looks like there are seven non-Haven members here. Zerack sets them here and hunts them down…to win he must die…simple as that."
Back with the tree hopping Blake one of the shadow wolves start to shift form until it looks like a big cat rather than canine and starts to climb the tree he had just leapt from.
Voices filtered in through the trees, and Kade turned toward them, hesitating. Should he go see who it was? Probably. He had nothing better to do.
Pulling his sweatshirt closer around himself, he trekked through the forest, towards the sound of voices.
Oliver moved his hand around the slimy cage, looking for something, until he grabbed a familiar stick the was sinking through the slime. He pulled it out, and turns out it was his walking stick!
He stepped out of cage, looking around and jumped when he suddenly heard noises near by. He waited for Erika to come out of the cage, trying to see if there was any movement from behind the trees.
There was a quiet sound of footsteps behind Kade "Now now grouping together isn't the best idea." It was Slash. He had a switchblade in hand and still had very little detail to himself even up close. He was like a simple black clay structure, though his mouth curled into a grin as the same toxic smelling substance dripped, staining the snow grey
“Demons… ok then. Those must be a thing that exist now,” Dare mused. She looked down at her hand and tilted her head. “So, there are six more people here, and Zerack has some sort of ability to put these marks on us without touching us, which points to usage of- well, I don’t want to say it, but magic.” She turned to Tempest. “Let me guess, for him to win, we all die? Well, I’m gonna do my darndest for that to, y’know, not happen.”
Tempest's eyes widen "you have a way to defend yourself right cause magic is pretty common here…if you don't you're kinda screwed…" He offered Dare a sliver pocket knife from his back pocket "also if any of those things cut you wash out the wound as soon as you can…or you'll become one of 'em." He tried his very best to mak sure she knew everything she should (you're really lucky @vidari-is-tired-in-advance that I rolled Tempest for you to encounter. @PrettyLittlePyro you were not so lucky as I rolled Slash as your encounter)
“I didn’t know magic existed until about thirty seconds ago, so thank you for the knife. I do not want to be screwed,” Dare replied as she tucked the knife in her front pocket. “And that’s good to know, because I don’t think I’d look very good in slime.”
(im very grateful for the assistance lol)
"What are these things?" Blake tapped her metal foot on the branch she was on. A control panel lifted on a rod from her knee. Blake tapped a command into it, and her metal leg began to shift, until there was something looking like a high-tech suit of armor covering everything but her head. Out of the mech's hands came razor-sharp blades, gleaming white-hot. "Whatever they are, if they're so insistent on following me, I'll teach 'em a lesson."
Oliver moved his hand around the slimy cage, looking for something, until he grabbed a familiar stick the was sinking through the slime. He pulled it out, and turns out it was his walking stick!
He stepped out of cage, looking around and jumped when he suddenly heard noises near by. He waited for Erika to come out of the cage, trying to see if there was any movement from behind the trees.
(Ach, sorry. I couldn't be online over the weekend.)
"Okay." Erika hesitantly steps out of the muck-filled 'cage'. "Are you alright with being together? I don't…like it here enough to want to be alone." Of course, she didn't want to sound scared, so she added, "Only if you want."
Back with the prosthetic wearing individual the panther like shadow got in pretty close and took a swipe at Blake, the claws sparking against the armor, leaving visible slash marks against the surface of the false limb.
The boy with Dare was quite figity, messing with an old rubix cube as he motioned for them to keep moving. The way he spoke and acted it was clear he suffered from a form of either ADHD or ADD at the least. "Gotta find my sister. This is like her element she loves hunting…normal hunting mind you not hunting people but I'm a little worried for her to be out her without anyone else." he huffed a bit, his breath visible at the slight drop in temperature.
Blake slashed at the panther's neck, the hot metal easily slicing its head clean off. "There we go."
(7 feral shadows remaining fyi)
The panther that Blake killed fell, smacking against each branch on the way down. The feral at the ground that had been following sniffed at the dissolving corpse of it's friend and whined, something changing not physically but mentally as it looked up at Blake. It's ears and tail lowered and the feral padded away.
Blake grinned triumphantly. "Good night, Willow." Her mech folded back into her prosthetic leg. Blake jumped to the ground, and started off in the opposite direction of the remaining feral.
Soon enough Blake would come across another feral, but this one wasn't a threat, it's hind leg had been trapped in a silver bear trap. The substance that acted as their blood had pooled around the creature, it's form unstable as if only vaguely resembled a wolf. It was alive and it's pure white eyes follow her but it doesn't growl or even attempt to get up.
Blake's eyes narrowed. She opened her palm, preparing to attack, but stood still. "What are you?" She knelt down and pulled a vial out of her tool belt. She dipped the vial in the blood-like substance, and capped it. She stood, never taking her eyes off the creature. Blake circled the feral, her eyes darting from the creature to the bear trap. "If I rescue you, you'd better not kill me. Remember, I'm still down for settin' you on fire." Blake tapped her foot again, and the control panel surfaced again. Blake tapped a different command, and her mech formed again, this time only around her arms. The white-hot blades easily cut through the silver, freeing the feral. "Good night, Willow." The mech folded back into Blake's prosthetic leg, and she started running before the creature could get up.
(alright I'm gonna wait for the others to start posting again after this post)
The feral soon regained strength in it's injured leg after it was free from the trap. It looked to it's savior then started to lick at it's wound. If it's master had discovered it had been wounded…would he had cared?…would he had helped? The feral didn't know but didn't have a desire to infect the kind woman.
“It makes perfect sense to be worried about your sister. Let’s keep moving, and maybe we’ll find her,” Dare said with as much compassion as she could muster. She had to quicken her stride to keep up with the taller boy, and she bundled her arms close to conserve heat. “How much do you know about Zerack as a person? His motivations, his fears, what makes him tick? Anything you could tell me would be great.”
"Well it all starts with the non-human equal rights movement. It's like the one you humans had with colored people trying and succeeding to gain equal rights In the US…if you've experienced it yet that is, I know time is tricky. Zerack has this idea that if humans were gone that the world would be a better place so when he isn't having fun with this he's trying to convert normal people into infected shadows. Of course this is wrong but it wasn't big enough for any multiversal intervention. That's why Haven, which was just a safe house for humans and non-humans alike originally has had to get in the front lines keeping shadow levels down and tracking down Zerack to imprison or kill him to end this unneeded war that's just making this civil rights movement even harder for the rest of us." Tempest started to explain
"He hates Haven and to a certain extent fears our organization because we're the only ones that have been standing up to him." he sighed and continued "I hope we do stop him soon cause I do want a semi normal rest of my life…ah who am I kiddin'? people with my job don't live past their 20's." he shrugged as if this were just a fact. "What's worse is that he spares anyone that works to help him even if they're human if they help him try to destroy Haven, so at this point I think he hates being stood up to more than humans themselves." He said the word 'humans' as if he wasn't included in that group
Blake stopped running, and looked back at the feral. She cautiously walked towards it. "Hey…"
