Spyne quicky spun around once more, this time lodging a spike into the lizard's robes and sending it into another wall. I will have revenge. I will have my prey. I will have blood. And I will have it NOW! The insane mutated figure clopped over to the Draconian and removed it's hood to show fully the horror that was his face. "You and I are very much alike... I can tell that you detest Arachnos. We will become allies. Do not resist me." The super-powered insectoid creature sent mind-controlling thoughts into the lizard.
Aurak was surprised that the abomination could move so fast and was thus unprepared for the spike that pinned him to a wall. Pulling at the deeply lodged thorn with frantic strength, Aurak succeeded in freeing himself just as Spyne arrived in front of him.
Aurak looked up at the creature's hideous face and his teeth bared in an instinctive challenge. Then he felt an alien mind intruding upon his own and mentally recoiled from the utter insanity of sheer...sheer...alienness of its thoughts. Only the training that aided him in mastering his powers kept him from being overwhelmed.
"Get away from me!" Aurak shrilled.
Throwing his arms out in front of him he summoned a cone of fire that blasted the creature away. Scrabbling backwards, Aurak drew his dagger and held it out in front of him. The ritual that bound the dagger too him allowed the weapon to assist in organizing his thoughts and calming his fears. Soon enough, Aurak had straightened his posture and was brushing dirt off of his robe. He shot a glare at Spyne and his tail thumped the ground.
"Ssstay away from me, abomination. You may detessst Arachnosss asss I do but I at leassst do not try to dominate a potential alliesss mind. Explain yourssself or sssuffer my wrath!" Ordered Aurak.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"I was merely testing you." I will have revenge... "You are very potential in my war." I will have my prey... "You are a hunter, proud, strong, and agile." I will have blood... "We could become allies, rule this island and crush the spiders in their own web!" And I will have it NOW! The crazed mutant spun around and held a sharp thorn to the lizard's throat. "Or... I could kill you now and then devour you flesh. It is your choice."
OOC: Yay more people!
Brightspot watched as the mysterious figure Lotus disappeared. She felt kind of sorry to see her disappear and vowed to track her down later. She got slowly up lowing her hackles and looked with feline contempt at her "Companion". "Come lets Hunt so you can have your blood and I can get some food for my kittensss." She said.. She got up and padded quickly toward the nearest snake den. Spyne followed along and then immediately attacked another Lizard creature who was heading toward them. She watched as he was pinned to the wall and then crouched down and listened as they talked. She waited for the right time then padded up sniffing him suspiciously. "You are..not from the islands or the mainland are you?" She said heavily accented voice. She held her tail out in greeting. "I call myself Brightspot. You are?" She looked at Spyne and tried to smile but it didn't really fit on her feline face. "I know who you are. I want to know who this Reptile is and whether or not he is a Hunter or Prey."
Aurak looked down at Spyne's hand and suddenly it was covered in ice. Aurak brought his dagger up and held it to Spyne's throat.
"Touch me again," Aurak warned, "And I will kill you. I am not a mere baaz to be treated as such."
Turning one eye toward Brightspot, Aurak inclined his head a milimeter in her direction.
"You may know me as Aurak." He said to her, "And I am anything but prey as this creature here might soon find out."
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
The walls in the crater crumbled a bit, then visibly rocked as Dobermann ripped his way out. He missed the bit where this new reptilian creature came into the pit. He missed the bit with the threats being bandied about between the two in chest thumping testosterone style.
What he didn't miss was that his suit was now torn.
Dobermann stood and growled. It was a deep rumble begining in the subsonic ranges and ending in a pitch that shook the ground.
"All right look you freaky little abomination." Dobermann began, and then grabbed the spiny little creature by the back of the neck and hoisted him into the air. Spines peirced his hands, but only scraped off a layer of very plastic looking flesh. Metal and wires showed beneath the pink ragged mass now, and several spines cracked when meeting it.
"Number one... You touch me like that ever again and you'll be eating your own jaw. After I cram the rest of your skull down your throat."
Dobermann tossed the thing to the ground and hoisted a rock. This he pulverized in one slow grinding movement with his hand. He sprinkled the dust slowly as he talked.
"Two, I'm here to do a job. You don't like it, then you can take a walk. Three, I'm not part of ANYTHING. If you knew how to read you'd have seen on my card I'm freelance. People pay, and I take care of problems. Kalinda is paying me, I do the job, I go home. We're all happy."
Dobermann pulled down his sunglasses a bit and glared at the little thing. A dull blue light flared and was gone behind his eyes.
"You pull any mumbo jumbo and I'll cave your skull in and use you for snake bait. I'm only polite to someone once, after that I can be VERY mean."
The last of the dirt hit the ground and Dobermann flicked the few specks left on his hand into the face of the creature.
"Capechise? Oh and when we're done here, you're payin' for a new suit."
With that Dobermann turned, straightened his now tattered suit and dusted off his jacket. Spotting the other reptilian creature as if for the first time, Dobermann offered his hand in greeting.
"Heya I'm Dobermann. Nice to meetya." He stated simply and after shaking hands he looked at the feline/human crossbreed.
"I'm sorry I had to get rough there with the repti-bug in front of you Miss. Guys like that have no class, none at all."
Looking about and then entering the tunnel Dobermann called out: "So are we here to take down some snakes or what?"
((OOC: If you have not guessed, Dobermann is a SS/EA brute, just with class. Lets be careful with "interparty conflicts" however. It's a good way to kill the story quick. Nothing is gonna happen between the characters, and the story won't move forward if we all have a pissing contest and decide "Why the hell would I even work with this guy?" and walk away. Just my 2 Cents there...))
Spyne looked at Arauk. "Fine. You are a worth companion. Fearles, powerful. I will not kill you." The monstrosity then turned to the robot, and opened his mouth in a feral high-pitched growl, much like the face of an praying mantis before it starts eating a fly. "I will not kill you... for now." The reptilian thing clopped over to the hole on its hooves and jumped in without a word.
((Okay, just to clear it up, we're villains. It's going to be obvious that we will have conflict. Mine especially. I'm RPing a guy who is totally insane, enjoys eating things alive, and has "Revenge, blood, Right now" going through his mind at all times. Just trying to RP him like he is.))
Photaic decoupling efficiency: 98.23%
Kinetic dampening field array: active.
Nanoservo matrix: fully charged.
All systems nominal.
The barely-audible voice sounded in her earbud, informing Iris O'Connor that her bodysuit was fully operational. The words were like music in her ears.
Building the suit had been a stone bizzatch. In the Zig, finding the necessary materials was a neverneding series of frustrations and degradations. She shuddered inwardly, remembering some of the things she had to do to get the components she needed. Keeping her project secret had taken more of the same...and the occasional vicious beating of someone not inclined to accept what she had to offer. There were a lot of oblivious idiots in the Zig, people who didn't or couldn't read the signs that despite her appearance, Iris was a multi-discipline martial arts expert. Their mistake...
But all the skills in the world wouldn't let an ordinary human like Iris take down the superpowered nasties and so-called "heroes" out there. Anyone who told you otherwise was peddling bullshido. For that you needed power...real power.
Fortunately, Iris had always been more than clever with tools and gadgets. Like a lot of little kids, she had enjoyed taking apart stuff like her parents' computer. Unlike most of those kids, she could also put it back together...and make it better than it was before. Not bad for five years old.
She was nineteen now. The last couple years had been spent in the Zig. The three before that in the Zig's Juvenile Corrections Facility, the "KiddyZig" as a lot of clueless twits who had never been near the place likes to call it. She sneered, thinking of those kinds of people and how they were also the ones who would shake their heads and wonder aloud "how such a promising girl went wrong?" Puh-leeze...
Whatever. The Spiders had broken her out of that dump and she figured she owed 'em. Fair's fair. If Kalinda wanted her to take out a few slithery snakes, that was fine. She was Mourning Veil...it said so on her nice new Threat Level ID. She rolled her eyes.The Snakes would think she was a threat, anyway. They'd never know she was there...until it was too late. She made her way to the coordinates the creepy Fortunata had given her.
And pulled up short. What the frell was this? There was some kind of menagerie pulled up out front of the hole. All kinda-sorta humanoid, but only kinda-sorta. A cat, a bug, a lizard...
She double-checkd the light-bending matrix woven into her bodysuit to make sure she was essentially invisible and made her way closer to see what was up on the friggin' Animal Planet channel down there.
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((OOC - Iris O'Connor, aka Mourning Veil, is a Martial Arts/Energy Aura Stalker of Technological origin. She has more than a little goth-girl-meets-cybergeek look about her, although she doesn't completely "get" the former genre: her makeup is more "The Crow" than Wave Gotik Treffen, etc. Whe's always beena bit obsessed with the darker sorts of supervillain, and would be a classic wannabe, except for one thing: she actually is a superb martial artist and gadget-maker.))
"And in this moment, I will not run.
It is my place to stand.
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands."
Completely oblivious to Iris creeping up behind him, Aurak was feeling a bit better. He had told Spyne off and neither of the others seemed to want to kill him. Although normally this would not be a cause for celebration in the here-and-now it was. Slipping his dagger back under his robe he started dow the pit to the snake hole.
"I believe we are all here for the sssame purpossse?" He said to Brightspot. "We would do well to join forcesss for now."
The draconian looked up at the cat-woman and waved a hand toward the snake hole.
"Come, let usss cleanssse thisss pit."
That said, he hopped down through the hole. He landed about six feet down and walked past an overturned rock to find Doberrman and Spyne standing just on the other side of the rock. Tapping the android on the arm to get his attention Aurak bowed to it. After a second he straightened out.
"I did not have time to introduce myssself back there, Doberrman. My name is Aurak and I am mossst pleasssed to find sssomeone of sssome measssure of civility on thisss planet." Aurak shot a cold glare at Spyne. "I believe you never introduced yourssself, abom-"
Aurak cut himself short, not wanting to provoke the insane creature again. Instead he sufficed with some frantic tongue flicking, which happened to be quite an insult back home.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"I believe you never introduced yourssself, abom-"
Mourning Veil watched with a mixture of wry amusement and trepidation as the big (they were all bloody big to her, 'cept maybe the cat...[/i] lizard's tongue flicked in and out rapidly. She'd bet tonight's dinner that meant something, but she had no idea what. Probably something frequently expressed by humans with a single digit.
But they were obviously getting ready to act...to jump into her snakehole! Not good. "Um, gee, Kalinda, I was gonna take care of those snakes for you, but someone beat me to the punch. What? Lame? Um, well...yeah" Nope, not good at all...
There was no way she could kill all of them, so that to do? Why, crash the party, of course! She used a subvocal trigger to suspend her photonic deflection array and faded into view, seeming to coalesce before their eyes.
"Room for one more?"
"And in this moment, I will not run.
It is my place to stand.
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands."
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"I did not have time to introduce myssself back there, Doberrman. My name is Aurak and I am mossst pleasssed to find sssomeone of sssome measssure of civility on thisss planet."
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"Hey think nothing of it. Far as I'm concerned everyone is cool until they piss me off. You have class, I like that. Nice to meet ya Aurak."
Dobermann peered into the gloom. There were odd carvings on the walls, piles of bones in the corner, and massive snakeskins lying in coils on the floor. Torchlight blazed in the far corners, giving off an acrid stench of burning fat.
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She used a subvocal trigger to suspend her photonic deflection array and faded into view, seeming to coalesce before their eyes.
"Room for one more?"
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"HOLY!..." Dobermann stepped back as the woman seemed to pop into focus. It was no movement of terror, but of a man snapping into a fighting stance. Fists clenched, feet planted, muscles tight.
All that quickly faded when the voice that followed seemed friendly, and more importantly, female.
"Yeowza lady! You could give someone a heart-attack doin' stuff like that!" Dobermann laughed then and shrugged. "I got no problems having someone else along. You have any problems Aurak?" Dobermann turned to look at the massive reptilian nearby, and then to the crouching cat-woman "You have a problem with her?"
He turned and looked at the little repti-bug.
"You... You I ain't gonna ask cause I don't care what you think."
Dobermann turned back and grinned, offering a hand and a buissness card. Old habits die hard it seems.
"Heya, Name's Dobermann. Nice to meetya."
"Do not try to hide what you were about to say. I have suffiecient mindpower to read what you are thinking while clicking your tongue." Spyne looked at the carvings and sensed something. There was one more presence in this room. He didn't care. As long as he got blood. Spyne ignored the outbursts and speech and sniffed a bone before plopping it into his mouth. It seemed the only one worthy of his presence was the feline. Spyne enjoyed cats. While human, he had had one. He liked them still, and not to eat... usually.
He straightened up and turned around. "They are this way." He spun around one more, the torches on the walls reflecting off his blackish-green scales and carapace. His hooves made quite alot of sound through the cave as he clopped toward a tunnel. "Are you coming or must I kill feast on the worms on my own?"
"Heya, Name's Dobermann. Nice to meetya."
"Call me Mourning Veil," Iris winked and jerked a thumb at the departing Spyne. "And it looks like someone's anxious to get this little exercise in pest control rolling. Let's get this freakshow on the road."
She spun on her heel and triggered the photonic displacement array. Two steps later, she had faded to nothing, and was striding swiftly after Spyne.
"Might want to let me have a look," she hissed as she sprinted to catch up. "I'm invisible and quiet. You're...not."
"And in this moment, I will not run.
It is my place to stand.
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands."
"You're right... for now." His body went from large and hulking... to nothing. He had dissapeared. Somewhere in the darkness, his high-pitched screeching voice said, "You are not the only one who has tricks, witch. Now let me have my prey." He pushed her invisible form out of the way and started off once more.
I will have revenge. I will have blood. And I will have it now.
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"Might want to let me have a look," she hissed as she sprinted to catch up. "I'm invisible and quiet. You're...not."
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Brightspot was mildly amused by this and keeping to the shadows followed along silently. Snakes...snakes were an annoyance that had shown up a few years ago. Her first encounter with them had been her first year as Clan Matriarch after disposing of that male Rushlight who wanted to make peace with their former Prey. Thinking about it now that may have been the better thing to do rather than be hunted, and called Vermin by the monkeys inhabiting this place now. She sensed a presence and her tail went rigid and she crouched. She knew the others had seen it too. Snakes....lots of them all milling around the body of something or other. "Lots of them.." She muttered. Mourning Veil didn't seem worried and neither did the others. "Well lets see what those Reptiles killed this time." She muttered Leaping toward the Viper with a vicious glare in her eyes. She landed on his back and grabbed the back of the things head with her claws and used her weight to force it to the ground. The viper went down without a sound but the other snakes saw her and spat a horrible venom at her. She could feel it burning into her fur and she knew she was in trouble. She vaguely saw the body of a brightly dressed female child on the ground before she was buried in snakes all wanting to tear her limb from limb. "A little asssistance would be appreciated." She yowled.
OOC: the girl is sort of an introduction to another minor character that I'm planning. You'll find out more about her if we survive this encounter. If not then she dies.
Julie
At least these creatures seem more normal. Aurak thought as he prepared to attack.
"Burn in the pitsss of the Abysss!" He shouted as he hurled a fireball into the Snakes' midst. Because he willed it, the feline was unharmed but the same could not be said of the Snakes. The five that had jumped Brightspot were knocked back with terrible burns. They still lived but they were very weak now. A particulary large Snake turned toward Aurak and he lifted his hand toward it.
"Freeze in the farthessst reachesss of the sssky!" And a block of ice swallowed the Cobra up, taking it out of the fight.
Several smaller Snake's pulled out throwing knives and hurled them at Aurak, forcing him to take cover behind a convenient rock.
"Sssome help?"
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Spyne sensed rather than saw the troubled cat. He sent his telekinesis into a few of them, causing them to float. Another, he sent flying up into the air and then into the ground with a bone crunching strength. Yet another he sent two-foot long spikes into the skull, spatterng blood over his insect-like hide. And they just kept coming. "I will have revenge!" He shot a spine into the throat of a charging worm. "I will have my prey!" He sent another slithering creature flying backwords. "I will have bllod!" Spyne ran up to one of the snakes and bit into it's neck while repeatedly stabbing it. "And I will have it NOW!" He sent a volley of spikes that gave him his name in all directions. But there was still more.
"A little asssistance would be appreciated," Brightspot yowled.
Mourning Veil circled around the developing melee, intent on a large, ominously-hooded snake. This one was certain to be one of the leaders. She didn't have a clue how snake society worked...but even if killing this horror didn't freak the rest of them out, at least the big sucker would be wormfood. SHe moved in behind it.
She paused, crouching in a horse stance, and gathered her ki about her. Drawing both arms back, her hands at the point of each hip, she took a careful breath, focusing on a point six inches under the creature's spine. And struck, both hands blurring forward in simultaneous heel-palm strikes. There was a sickening crack and the big snake reeled.
But didn't fall. Insted, it whirled and spat venom at the suddenly-revealed Iris. Cursing with irritation (and pain), she sent a whirling roundhouse kick crashing into the side of the snake's head, and followed it with a crippling axe kick that sent shards of broken bone into the creature's chest cavity.
"Tastes like chicken," she hissed through the pain of the burning venom. Damn...there were an awful lot of snakes in here.
"And in this moment, I will not run.
It is my place to stand.
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands."
Stabbing a snake that had followed him behind his rock with his dagger, Aurak poked his head around the rock and saw still more snakes incoming.
"Thisss ssshould ssstop them." He hissed to himself as he clambered up on top of the rock.
The ceiling in this room was rather high so he didn't have to worry about hitting anything as he raised his arms over his head. Concentrating on one snake in the rear that seemed to be issuing orders, Aurak cast his spell. The air suddenly grew frigid and filled with snowflakes as the spell settled over the majority of the snakes. One slow moving specimen drew back its arm to throw a knife at Aurak, but the draconian, his spell completed, had ducked back behind the rock.
All the spell required now was increments of his strength. It would exhaust him much faster than usual if he continued to fight while channeling the spell. So he settled back and kept his dagger handy, he'd let his allies do the work.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Spyne sunk his 'mouth' into a writhing snake, biting a large chunk of meat off and killing it. He looked over to the mechanical mean while stbbing another reptile and said, "Care to help?"
OOC: I hope that you all don't mind one more person coming into the fray *Smiles*
BIC: Lori Ricci had had enough of the Zig and its happenings. She hated being put in the Maximum security area but she only had herself to blame. Being the head of a Mafia family and being the only female known to achieve such a task had its rewards... but also its drawbacks.
The Moretti family had pegged Lori the leader of their rival family, and tried to leave a spy within its mist. It had taken a long time to figure it out... but as her name suggested, Lori the Noodle had figured the spy out... but just as the RIP came in and busted her people and ripped apart her headquarters.
As she was contemplating her last days of her existance, the ZIG was struck by a LOT of bomb sounds... both near and far away. Lori knew that this was her one and only chance to get out but she had to plan this carefully. She looked around and seen that the doors were opening and all of the shouts of freedom and joy were being heard from EVERYWHERE. Now is my chance. Mix in with the confusion... and I am home free. She thought to herself as she slipped out of her cell and into the crowd.
There was fighting everywhere and even she had a little punch in the face. Looking over at the inmate who just decked her, she let out an right hand and nailed the inmate square in the stomach. "Don't mess with the Mob... or you WILL get hurt, Paizan!" She shouted as the inmate doubled over and fell to the ground.
She knew that soon, the chaos would cease and that order was going to be restored soon so escape was essentual to her survival. After a little jog down into the sewers, which was so conviently planned, she looked at what looked like a big guard at the sewer door. "If you get me out of here, I'll give ya some protection once you bail." She whispered to the guard.
The guard knew about Lori and was in fact one of her accomplices. He simply nodded his head and gave Lori his rifle and small pistol. "The Ricci's will pay you handsomely. Grazi." She said to the guard, who then told Lori of the helicopter that was waiting for her outside
Lori, with a simple nod went outside and then amid all of the chaos, shot a couple of prisoners who happened to spew out obsenities at her as she made her way to the chopper.
Once there, she was met by a huge man who looked to be wearing totally black. "You must be the pilot. I'll pay ya handsomely if ya get me out of this [censored] hole." She said as she then put the barrel of her rifle onto the guard's chin. "And if we don't do this the easy way, We'll do it the hard way, Capiche?" She said with a scowl on her face.
Behind the mask, the pilot was sweating bullets... so to speak as she then let out a simple nod and went to the controls as Lori than went inside and took her seat.
As the pilot then landed onto Mercy Island, Lori smiled for the first time since she was sent to the Zig. She looked at the pilot and nodded. "Payment will be given soon. Be aware that it may come when you least expect." She said as she left out and went to see this Kalinda character that all of the Villains were clamering about.
"So... You're the Mob Boss that Lord Recluse has been telling me about. Not what I expect." The Red clothed woman said.
Lori went over to her as she put the gun onto this woman's chest. "Yeah? Whas it to ya, Chica?" She asked in a scowling tone.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. If we are to be... acquaintances. I am Kalinda, Fortunata of Lord Recluse... and I have powers beyond your imagination." She said in a scowl just like her own.
Lori knew about the powers of the Fortunata and nodded. "So I see." She said as she put her rifle back into her trenchcoat. "I hear that ya got a job fer me." She said wanting to get to the point.
"I do. I sent out some more villains to get some snakes... to prove their worth to Lord Recluse. I need someone to head over there and give these villains some direction... some.. guidance so to speak." Kalinda offered.
Lori knew that the Ricci family was in shambles and she did need some new blood to help her along in getting her "family" back together. "And whas in it fer me?" She asked.
"Prestige... Power... and the ability to guide people again." Kalinda said softly.
Lori didn't need much time to think this over. It seems that Kalinda was speaking Lori's "Language." "Power. You said the magic words, Chica. Where is this hole at?" She asked.
Kalinda gave her the directions of where the hole was. Lori nodded and set out to find this hole and in no time, she found it (after stealing a map of Mercy Island from a sleeping begger... and the begger's money). She then jumped inside and nodded.
"Caves... creepy things if ya ask me." She said softly. After lighting up a small torch from her hand, she walked on down towards what seemed to be a fight... and it was a fight all right. Looking over, she had seen a pile of snakes laying on the ground and nodded. "Nice work, Paisanos." She said softly as she looked over around the Cat-like figure and the Goth looking girl.
"The Name's Lori... Lori the Noodle. And you Paisanas are?" She asked softly.
OOC: Lori is a Assult Rifle/Thermal Radiation Corrputer with a Big Mafia past. The clothing that she wears is basically your suit and tie with a trechcoat that covers her rifle. She also has a black small fedora hat that she wears almost all of the time. Think of Lori as a Mafia boss and you will get the attitude that she has.
Feel free to add @Jenne to your global Friends list. Dollhouse and Julienne are already there.
((OOC: As ARGH's girlfriend I've taken over his account for some RPing. He'll be mad, but he'll have to answer to me if he doesn't like it! *pulls out whip* 
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Ice dropped her Threat ID on the ground. Mumbling words of anger and disgust into Kalinda's direction, she's cranky.
"Pfft! Not even the decency to give his only lil' girl a REAL name. What a crook!," Ice complained.
Still mumbing curses on her father's grave, Kalinda laughingly shouted to her stature, "I have another job for you, FOOL!"
Everyone within a 20 foot radius became silent.
"So Kalinda, What kind of dirt must I do now to prove I am worthy to Lord Recluse? Kill more Hellions? Save more people? I want some real work, damn it! I want to get my hands dirty for a change because I'm not here for the experience, I'm here for the Infamy."
Kalinda mockingly replied, "Me, Me, Me!" Just to spite her constant attitude problem. " If you want Infamy, allow me to explain."
"I'm listening. Spill the beans already, Kalinda," Ice leaned in with her hand to her ear as if she has a hearing disability.
"Theres snakes inside the Island's earth. I've sent many of you out to clear out the most recent sighting and there is no way they will come out alive if there is as many as Recluse is expecting. I trust you to guide them along the way and tend to their needs or I will have your head. Leave me now before I revoke your... "Pardon" from the Zig..." Kalinda orders the villian.
With out another word, Absolut Ice, snatches the cordinates from Kalinda's fingertips and jets to the snake sighting, only wishing she had bought a drink from her secret base's bartender before hearing this news. Killing snakes isn't an easy job. The bitemarks, the blood, the acid-like spit, and the left over skin is enough to make most turn back.
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"The Name's Lori... Lori the Noodle. And you Paisanas are?" She asked softly.
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"Absolut Ice. But you can call me Ice!" A loud voice echoed behind Lori. "I followed you in, I hope you don't mind. Are you here for that Witch in the red mask? Ya? You are? Good! Well, I have news for you. Kalinda thinks you can't handle this wild-goose hunt she sent you on. Theres alot more then your expecting in this putrid cave, aside from that pile of dung over there and that dead snake over....."
Ice pauses as she realizes neither of the team had a chance to speak. Maybe it was her bursting in with a quick to draw mouth? She stops talking and allows the other to speak.
<Insert temporary moment of silence in the cave here>
"Suprised to see me?..... You, um... Know who I AM right?" she inserts into the moment of silence. With a dumbfunded look, Ice taps her flashlight onto her hips waiting for an answer, only yet to realize she's not as reknowned as she thinks...
((OOC: Absolute Ice is a big mouthed and talkative villian. Just for some basic info on herL She's an experienced Ice/Cold Corruptor who often hangs out in Sharkhead Isle. Dressed in Combat boots with spikes protruding from them and a light blue t-shirt, her most self conscience attribute is her blue ears in her long white hair. She's here to help 
))
OOC: Well, I guess the fight has been finished then. Victory for us, yay...
BIC: Aurak blinked at the two new people that had shown up. One of them was carrying a long metal stick of some sort and the second had blue hair. Hair. Aurak was never going to get used to seeing intelligent creatures with hair. Now, since his blizzard spell basically sealed victory for his current comrades he was feeling a bit confident and decided he should be the one to interact with the newcomers.
"Greetingsss." He said as he walked over to the two. "My name isss Aurak. That isss Dobermann," Aurak pointed to each person in turn, "Brightssspot, Ssspyne, and the human whossse name I have not caught. I presssume you are here to asssissst usss?"
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
OOC: Hello! *hops into the story* Since I can't fit this character satisfactorily into the game itself then I'll put him here. Also, Aurak looks like an actual walking lizard, not that stupid reptile build.
BIC: "Remember, lizard, you owe Arachnos for getting you out of that testing facility. The only reason you aren't locked up with the rest of the extra-dimensional freaks is because your powers make you useful. Now get out there! Talk to Kalinda, she'll tell you what to do."
Aurak hissed and his tail lashed angrily as he stalked down one of Mercy Island's ruined streets. He was grateful to Arachnos for rescuing him from those damned Portal Corp. ingrates but treating a draconian of his station like that? Simply unthinkable! Of course, his birthright meant nothing to these creatures.
As soon as I repay this debt of mine I am getting the hell away from this dimension. He thought to himself.
The golden scaled draconian hissed again and glared at a sickly looking human that was creeping toward him with some sort of device clutched in its grip. Aurak eyed it warily as he walked past and jumped backward in surprise as the device made a loud noise and something whizzed past his head. Cursing this world and the elders that had forced him to explore the portal, Aurak raised a hand and encased the human in a block of ice.
"That ssshould teach you." He hissed at the figure trapped inside the ice.
Anger handily released, Aurak finally came upon the position where the soceress named Kalinda had told him to go. In front of him was a large pit with several large holes in the bottom. Arrayed at the edge of the pit were a number of figures. A cat-like crossbreed of the dominant species of this planet, some sort of spined mutation, and a tall human that was even now pulling itself out of a wall.
Fingering his ceremonial dagger beneath his blue and red robes, Aurak edged around the figures. He was not anxious to get in a conflict despite his belief that he was immensly strong. Unforetunately, his beliefs didn't always count, as evidenced by the power of the weapon that that human has used. But as Aurak neared the pit he paid too much attention to the others and not enough to the ground. He tripped over a rock.
"Krazzz furar!" he cursed as he pulled himself to his feet.
Damn this world to the Abyss, his ankle was sprained. This was not a good day.
OOC: Aurak is an Ice/Fire Dominator btw.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.