Fantasy The Summits

[MisfitGhoul]

Reaching the crash site, XY shuffled her feet, looking around before scavenging it for any left-over things that'd be of use for her survival. She kept absentmindedly turning around, finding nothing but broken bottles and burnt food, she growled. Turning around, she walked towards a nearby bush and sat in front of it. I bet there are others, I came here with Babble.

 

[Bea Delaine]

Something in her mind snapped and her smile turned to a deep frown. "I said stop touching me!" Her voice vibrated and her eyes went distant, like an entirely different person. The trees around her bent and broke. The ground shook slightly.

 

[Sensei Fox]

Darman left this pole. Some memorial. What a joke. He had released enough of his emotion that it was safe to interact again. Back to work. He immediately looked over the group and decided priorities. Bird girl was singing something. That could be useful later. At the moment, Vi was in some kind of shape. Not happy. There was a newcomer again. Not like the last one, but still hiding in a bush. He started making his to Vi and gave a passing "I see you." as he walked past earshot of the newcomer. Finally, coming to Vi, he stood less than 3 feet in front of her motionless and silent, just staring at her.

 

[IceQueen]

Luna felt the ground shake and she lifted off her tree. Settling down on the ground again she chuckled. "Got a mighty voice there Vi." She said. She settled down under the shelter, her wings folded at her sides now. She sighed and looked up at the sky, or rather the cover of the tent. She liked looking up, because usually there was just a blank space that was always moving.

 

[Bea Delaine]

Vi pulled herself in, trying to take up the least amount of space. Canstance was pulled away from her and the ground around her deteriorated and floated, then pulled back into itself in a rhythm. Touch.. it terrified her.. mainly when it actually meant something. Kindness from others is a lie. It was always, every time she fell into it.. and now one she hoped to work with her was dead. Someone transparent enough to tell how he felt.

 

[Tugboats]

Seth stood there, looking at the spear jammed into the ground, and back to the deformed area around Vi. He spoke quietly to himself.


"I shouldn't have come here." If Vi and Darman both just exploded into a rage, what was stopping those less stable than them? "It was all just naive."

 

[Sensei Fox]

"Vi, we have work to do." Darman said clearly and plainly as if she didn't just bend her immediate area at her emotions. This was a dangerous game. Maybe groups were doomed. If she went off, everyone could die or even transmute into something terrible. He pushed his thoughts away, she could be able to hear them. He still wasn't quite sure what the extent of her power was.

 

[Bea Delaine]

Vi stared off longer, mind flowing in between her past and present. The basement and the smell of death back to the increasingly distorted ground. Pieces of tree broke and rotated are her field until disintegrating. Then she heard Darman.


She slowly stood up, fog in her eyes clearing. The ground settled and without fight her panic ended. " work.. yes. I apologize for the wasting time.." she looked up at Darman with a bit of self shame.

 

[Sensei Fox]

"It hurts. We carry on." He gave her a little nod before starting back to the shelter. He gave a nod to the bird girl as he passed and all the others. He stopped a moment with the spear and the person next to it. After that, he ushered them all to meet near the shelter. It was time to make this work.

 

[WolfOfProphecys]

Tony was sat in a tree, watching the others. He looked worried and slightly confused, but followed the man with the spear. He knew no one here, except Luna and Vi's names, as he'd stayed in said tree whilst everyone had talked and slept(?) He hopped from tree to tree, following the leader silently


(Just gonna randomly hop in....)

 

[IceQueen]

Luna heard feathers ruffling and sat up, watching Tony disappear from view. She sighed and followed him and his leader. She looked at him and then at the ground. She hated trying not to speak, so she took up singing softly, trying to stay calm around others. Somehow it worked rather well, seeing as she hadn't yelled yet.

 

[Sensei Fox]

Darman stopped the bird girl quickly and looked her in the eye. "Could I make a request?" He did enjoy music and she was a decent enough singer. Perhaps some music would help bring everyone together. If nothing else it would help him and maybe her.

 

[Bea Delaine]

Vi followed behind, putting her smile back on. "Hm.. so i have a freak out and you have one too. We are even, right?" She joked. Still, she knew it wasnt the same. She could kill without movinf and it disgusted her. "What can i do for us?"

 

[IceQueen]

Luna nodded at him. "Whatever floats your boat, but if it involves singing, count me in. There is nothing better to me." She said. She smiled and looked at the sky, questioning her existence for a moment before looking at Tony and the other guy. She could never remember his name for the life of her.

 

[WolfOfProphecys]

Tony watched them, listening closely. His wings would move each time he leapt, in order to help him stay airborne longer. It was safer in the trees than on the ground, ground predators couldn't reach you

 

[DeusExAlice]

With the sun rising ever higher, the advantage was rapidly going to the Third's quarry. Before hand in the dark, the two had been relatively equally handicapped. She couldn't actually see the little invisible skulker, but without any light source under the canopy she couldn't see the Third either. Now though the gloom was receding. While it wasn't bright by any stretch of the imagination under the trees, it was light enough that her prey could watch her in a one sided manner.


The Third knew she hadn't left the area though, the sounds of wildlife in the area were active everywhere but here. They could pick up on trouble far better than humans did. She was making an educated guess on how to handle this while peering around a thick tree trunk, hoping to catch evidence of the other girls movements.


Someone like her who can hide with ease isn't used to be targeted or run to ground. After a night like she had, she'd be tired and worn down from being on edge for so long. This would make her incautious and more reckless in fight or flight. The fact that the Third had given chase and kept on her would likely lead to a fight. If she was in the invisible girl's shoes, she wouldn't bother trying to run a second time.


If she were invisible, it'd also lead to some bold arrogance in her course of action.


The soft sounds of approaching footsteps from her blindside told the Third that she had bet wisely. Poor girl's heart was probably racing so fast she didn't even hear the sound her feet were making in the dirt.


"HAH!" The Third whirled around with a shout, shock and awe were just as lethal tools as any man made weapon. She had her right hand extended outwards, the flesh of her palm quivered for a moment before rupturing from below the skin to jettison a series of angular projectiles out. A crude version of a fragmentation weapon, but it was exactly what the type of opponent needed.


Some of the projectiles clearly missed, the blood stained bones slashing into the ground and surrounding tree trucks. A number of them impacted with the air that let out a shriek. Manifesting from nowhere, a girl in a patchwork of cloth and leaves fell backwards. Reeling more from shock than the strength of the impact no doubt. To her merit she didn't waste time trying to dig the bones out of her injuries, but instead flopped over and tried crawling away into some nearby undergrowth.


The Third didn't hesitate the moment her opponent was visible. She ran and full body tackled the girl before she could crawl away. Ignoring the curses intermixed with pleading, the Third over powered the flailing limbs. It was grossly apparent the stalker had no real notion of what to do when she get caught. Exposing your back was just asking for a quicker death. The Third ground one of her knees into the girl's right elbow, pinning the left arm with her one. Taking a full measure with an offshoot of bone projecting from the radius with enough force to puncture the girl's arm and plant itself into the dirt. The scream that came from the would-be-stalker was punctuated by the Third quickly, as she grabbed onto her lower jaw and jammed most of her fingers inside.


"Shhhshhhshhhh!" She leaned in closer, trying to muffle the struggling with her weight as the distal phalanges extended out to nearly half a foot in length to puncture the skull. Like a fish nearly all the strength in the stalker's fight left, becoming nothing more than spasms as the damaged brain fired off responses erratically. The Third wasn't taking any chances, the extended bones widened out to cause further damage before she ripped it out and staggered away from the body.


Taking a moment she spit on the cooling corpse. The stalker had tried to cut her throat a few nights ago, why exactly she wasn't certain. She did know just who's name she had sworn allegiance to. Still didn't have any idea how she had pissed off Cassius. Looking down at her fairly messed up outfit she swore. They certainly weren't the first bloodstains but the smell was hard to get rid of and only attracted more predators.

 

[Teh Frixz]

404.1


From inside her home, Tatt was already starting to feel the fools above breaking down. Her words were going to happen. This group would perish like the others. Not all the others though. There were the other hunters out there.


One rather close by.


Like a badger, Tatt crawls quickly out of her hidey hole and starts sniffing the air. Blood was in the breeze, a painful mindless death too. Good, it would be an opportunity to eat for the next cycle. Hugging the ground, she starts after the scent. Flared nostrils guide her to the area, the birds still silent. The predator and prey were here still.


Tatt goes silent, crawling on all fours toward the smell. Each step is slow and deliberate, her body on full alert as she feels the ground before her. There were two here, one now. A failure killed another failure. The stolen seeds were long digested and a fresh meal would be akin to rescue or even better, acceptance in the real world again.


Another step and she hears the branch crack. Her right palm must have gone through a fallen tree or something. She keeps frozen in place, listening for a response.

 

[Sensei Fox]

"Listen closely. I'm not much for singing but these are the words." He took a breath a moment and give a glance to Vi to just relax for a minute. One more breath and and he started off singing. He wasn't entirely impressive but passable. Not deafening at least. "Little girl, little girl, don't lie to me..." He continued on with the tune and words and finally ended. "Do you think you could do the song better justice than me?


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[IceQueen]

Luna nodded and started singing the words(For the sake of posting I will spare you the words) She felt the melody take her body into a trance. That's why she liked music so much. She could lose herself in the sweet sound that was made by instruments, or in this case, by her body. Before she became vicious, they said she had a voice of an angel.

 

[WolfOfProphecys]

Tony listened to her with a soft smile, and leapt to the next tree, only just managing to grab onto the branch with his arms because of the distance. He huffed, and pulled himself up, looking over at the leader, who didn't seem to of noticed him

 

[DeusExAlice]

The Third turned towards the sudden sound. Her innards roiling in response with sub-dermal plating. Panic gripped her at the realization that the stalker might've been just buying time for some of her allies to find her. The fact that they were too late to save the would be assassin was of little consolation to the Third, especially since outnumbered and against unknown powers victory was very slim.


What she sees not even ten feet away isn't a retribution squad, much, much worse it's the blind girl. Inwardly the Third was berating herself, in the frantic night before while chasing the stalker she didn't even realize how deep she had gotten into that things territory. While she didn't toss around the label "freak" much, anything that could come back from being chewed into a bloody torso was safely labelled as a freak among freaks.


Here the Third had laid out a buffet for the girl too, even marinated herself in some aromatic sauce. Deeeelightful.


Warily the Third took a few steps back, strategically putting the corpse between herself and Tatt. She even raised her hands, blood covered but fully healed palms facing out. It was a foolish gesture towards a blind person, but when you're really nervous you wind up doing things that don't make sense in hindsight.


"Long time, Tatt."


The Third at least had enough sense to not slap in "see" in that sentence. It might've gotten a sarcastic laugh, it might've gotten a torn throat. That was a bet she didn't want to place.

 

[Sensei Fox]

"Well done." Darman gave her a few rounds of applause before turning back the group. "Keep that spirit, and keep singing. We all need it." He felt much more at ease now. The singing was spectacular and it did him good. Now it was back into the fold. The task at hand seemed so much easier now. He turned to Vi. "We need to assess everyone here. Get them talking. We need to know eachother so we don't have any more surprises. You're better at emotion than I am. Could you get everyone together for our little chat?"

 

[Bea Delaine]

"Gather them now? Im not entirely sure... but ill try and boost moral." She said as she started to look for people. Tony was found first. "Hey, tony! I believe your other avian friend is singing. The pretty one.. hm? Im attemptong to gather everyone so might you be interested?"

 

[WolfOfProphecys]

Tony rolled his eyes, "She's not a friend" He muttered, swinging down from the tree and landing gracefully, "But I'll go" He replied, wandering over to them

 

[Teh Frixz]

404.1


Tatt nearly reels back to snarl and run. It was amazing how quiet certain beings could be really or maybe it was just the thirds abilities as a soldier showing. She had stalked along after the survivor for some time only to lose her. It wasn't even an aggression thing, Tatt just wanted to see one of the rare beings that could survive here.


In a rare gesture of comfort, Tatt opens her eyes. The white milky eyes stare blankly as 404.1 gives a little smile at her fellow survivor. In some circles, showing your teeth was a sign of a threat. Tatt didn't have teeth, she had a maw. Hundreds of extra protrusions inside her jaws gave her the ability to break down nearly anything inside her mouth, making sure she'd have food available always.


"There is a new group Third. Young and stupid, some are dead already." She sniffs and tilts her ears to look give the impression of looking closer. "Something else is dead too. Join me for lunch?"