Bloopers[]
DIA> candle, i forgot to mention, we call him vivian, not vibin. never call him vibin. only vivian. it's his favourite nickname.
EaV> DO NOT call me vivian. doing so makes you a dingleborb
"So what's up with her?" asked Ryan, walking over to Breeze.
Merikki looked like she was still sleepy, rubbing her good eye. "Mmmh... with who?"
"The chick who fell out the sky?"
"...the what-?"
Ryan facepalmed.
"You're kidding."
δ> "The chick who fell out the sky?"
the w h a
At that, Gale immediately glared at the two. Meanwhile, the "chick" in question was faceplanted on the ground, mumbling something in the soil.
"MmmMMM!"
"What?"
"MMMM-MMMM!"
"Huh?"
She propped her hands against the floor, pulling herself out of the indent in the ground, "I SAID, FALSE ALARM!"
Gale promptly whacked her across the cranium with their tail.
DIA> *stares at birb breeze*
*stares at 'the chick'*
*stares at birb breeze*
*stares at other birb april*
April: *chirps* (breeze they've mistaken you for a fledgling because you fell out of the sky)
Breeze: *screech* (I AM NOT A FLEDGLING)
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Unbeknownst to the two wizards down below, there was yet another figure observing them.
Well, not really observing, because that's a bland word, and Merikki really doesn't like bland. She was, ah, assessing them, as she usually did to everyone she managed to find. Creepy? Probably. But it's for a purpose.
She let her gaze lazily slide to the figure in ice-themed robes, scoffing. She resisted the urge to taunt them about their poor choice of glamour, so she bit her tongue about it. Literally.
Ryan was moving pretty fast at this point, so by the time she stopped to see how the others were holding up, she was too far away to see them.
"Great. Now I have to go back." she muttered to herself. And so, she started backtracking with as much flair as when she was moving forwards.
April sighed in relief as Ryan finally came back into earshot.
"We're being watched." They explained, tilting their head ever-so-slightly towards the right, signaling for her to look down.
After watching them for a little while, he came to the senses that his existence has been acknowledged, his first instinct was to at least pull out his dagger, but resisted the urge to look violent, resting his hand on the handle of it.
If April somehow pointed at Merikki's spot on the roof, she waved. If they didn't, Merikki still did so. She tilted her head at the dagger's holder as they clutched onto it. "Aww, that's adorable~" she chimed, but she wasn't sure if Ryan and April heard her. She was at least trying to seem stealthy.
A curious place indeed, and yet that’s what drew the Kitsune out of his home. Of course, he had left for a few decades across the course of his life before this moment, but that didn’t mean each new residence evaded garnering new questions for the fox to search answers about. That’s what came with the pursuit of knowledge after all, a process he’s learned to develop in order to expand such a topic in his mind.
Tails brushed over the ground, the two swishing back and forth. Covered, sleeved-hands hung at his side, swaying back and forth as he moved with a bit of a skip to his step. His ears were perked up, investigating each and every noise he heard. So many things to learn, it made his mouth water in excitement! So much to see, hear, and so many to meet! Even if there happened to be little living around, there was bound to be plenty of the dead whom were attached enough for Ayla to interact with!
Ears twitching, he moved towards a curious source of noise. Geta sliding against the ground, he quickly moved towards such. Eyes wide, brimming with curiosity and excitement with tails wagging side to side. The first few bit of time he was here was going to prove to be interesting, he hoped.
He moved quietly, watching the scene up at the rooftop. He was close enough now to look at the other two passerby’s observing, though for now he kept his distance. So much to know, so much to wonder. What was the context of all this? He couldn’t help the bit of dust brushed up with how his tails moved side to side.
They're just hopping rooftops, nothing suspicious to do anything about. Yet. The icy figure thought, he released his grip n his dagger's handle, and began to walk to the bounty board, hoping there is a fugitive to catch as he was quite bored.
At the icy figure reached the bounty board, he scanned the flyers on it, looking for a fugitive to find. "Hey, Damon!" another random bounty hunter said. The ice wizard waved back, and went back to scanning the bounty board. Until he found one specific flyer, Ryan Dashflame, wanted multielemental.
He looked at the face, and realized it was the same person on top of the rooftops. Well, gotta earn money somehow. Damon said, he began to run back to the same place where he saw the three people, as he arrived at the spot, he started looking for crevices and cracks where a certain thin dagger could fit in.
Ryan looked down from the roof, and smirked.
"Come on," she said to April and Zane. "We gotta move."
There it was, a small crevice, but big enough to fit a small weapon, Damon threw the dagger, but before he was about to climb, he realized that there were people watching. So he couldn't really use that right now. He pulled back down the dagger, and decided to just make a staircase of ice up. he began to ascend the staircase.
Damon saw a flash of dark red, before seeing a strangely tall woman on the top of his staircase, dangling her legs off it. She did not look normal, with the way her attire was, the spikiness of it, and the strangely menacing vibe she gave off. She didn't seem to notice Damon, unless she was really good at feigning ignorance.
As he observed the tall woman and kept ascending the staircase, he decided to just dodge out of her way, he jumped off the side of the staircase, grabbing onto the top of the staircase, and used his momentum to swing himself up onto the rooftop. He saw the three people a couple rooftops ahead, "There you are," he muttered under his breath.
"What's up, punk?" asked Ryan, smirking.
Merikki didn't exactly like that, puffing her cheek.
Stealthy it is, she thought with a mischievous grin. I wonder how all of these fellow spellcasters will fare...
Zane yanked his scarf up to the lower half of his face and jerked around, eyes widening when he saw the bounty hunter.
Instead of responding to that question, he simply just said, "Ryan Dashflame, being a wanted multielemental. I will bring you in, as you are a fugitive."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." replied the traceur, as she folded her arms. "Bring it on!"
Damon suddenly felt a very hard strike to his left temple, possibly causing a bit of a shellshock in that ear. As the force of it threw him to the side a little, they all heard a strange voice -
"Nah, no you don't~" she chimed, dusting off her hand on her sleeve. "Finally, some action~" she continued, as her face broke into a fanged grin. She lived for the chaos.
"Who the hell are you?"
Great, another person is here. Damon thought, he grabbed his dagger from the floor, and latched onto another crevice on a taller building, he pulled himself onto the side of the building, away from the strange tall woman, and began to run on the walls of it. After he couldn't run anymore, he unlatched the dagger from the crevice, and jump down onto the rooftop behind the them.
"Ugh, of course he runs," Merikki groaned, facepalming. "It's never any fun when they run..."
She turned her gaze to Ryan, before giving a surprisingly friendly smile. Still scary as heck, though. "Don't worry about it, dearest Ryan!" she chimed. And suddenly, she was right next to the multielemental, and she saw the full extent of her height. "Hmm. You're not bad on the eyes. Keep it up, and you could be a star~" she chimed, ruffling the wizard(witch?)'s hair like a parental figure would.
"Uh, thanks?" replied Ryan.
Zane and April stared blankly, with the former slowly lowering his scarf.
"Anyways," the mysterious witch replied, stretching. "So why exactly do you and possibly the other two--" she jerked her thumb at Zane and April. "--have a whole-[WOOSH] bounty hunter on your tail?"
She sighed at her sentence. "Forget I can't exactly say that there..."
"You're pretty tall." said Ryan, unfolding her arms.
Hiding behind a barrel or something, Damon took a quick peak, What the hell is happening? Where did this tall woman come from?
She winked. "Gotta love those lucky genes~" she replied, giving Ryan another pat on the head. It was noticeable that the very flowery but spiky sleeve on her right arm seemed oddly limp, as if a) there wasn't an arm there at all or b) something else was there.
"Uh, to answer your question, I'm a wanted fugitive, since I have two elements." said Ryan. She pointed to the other two. "They're here because I asked them if they wanted to follow."
Well at least that's confirmed. Damon thought in his head, Now how do I get past that woman?
She stared in disbelief. "You're wanted because you have power?" she asked, before she burst out laughing--no, cackling. "Aah, that's funny," she continued after a solid minute of laughter.
"What, are you new here or something?"
Is she light enough to get pushed away from this? Or should I just use that? Damon thought to himself.
She shrugged. "A little bit," she admitted. "I admittedly don't know all the laws here, though I think I've already broken a few, such as fending off law enforcement." She chuckled at her actions, before craning her neck. "Riddle me this - why is having affinity with two branches of magic so bad again? Seems to me like a good time."
"I... I honestly forgot. I've been on the streets for years, so I've been more focused on not getting caught."
"Fair enough. Power to you, cupcake."
She looked behind her, glaring generally in the direction she thought the bounty hunter was at, which could be either spot on or completely friggin' wrong. "He's probably still here," she started, turning back to Ryan and the other two, "want me to deal with 'em?" she offered, her right arm getting a slight surge of movement.
Oh great, now she's offering to help the fugitive. Damon thought, he put his right hand on the handle of his icicle sword.
"Nah, I deal with bounty hunters all the time!" said the traceur, her left fist igniting with fire. "I got this one!"
Taking another peek, Damon saw the fire on Ryan's left fist. Great, she's using fire.
She smiled, giving another motivating hair ruffle. "Just holler if you need me, eh~?" she offered.
She's helping either way, but... Maybe I should let Ryan deal with most of it. If I try something, I might end up breaking something on the hunter. Permanently, she thought, with a bit of a shudder. She held her right shoulder a little.
The woman is staying, so if Ryan's losing, then she might jump in. Great, and what about those other two?
"Alright, now where is this dork?" Ryan asked herself.
She focused her vision on the tall build close to her, as it turned red, to her at least.
"Let's rock!" she said.
Guess I don't have a choice but to fight. Damon said, brandishing his icicle sword as silently as possible, a screeching sound could be heard.
The traceur expertly leapt from wall to wall, roof to roof, until she ended up landing near a barrel.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" she said.
Merikki groaned at the screech as she basically conjured up her own chair. "That's in dire need of sharpening..." she commented, as she checked out her nails, which were pretty sharp.
Damon knocked the barrel into her, knocking her over while he stood up.
"Ouch." Ryan said as she got up. She spotted his icicle sword.
"Let's turn up the heat!"
And then, she charged at him.
Dodging out the way with a couple milliseconds to spare, Damon crouched down and turned the floor around them into ice, trapping Ryan in the ice. Absolute Zero.
Damon suddenly heard the roar of what sounded like a mixture between a wail and a steam horn, followed by several huffs of steam.
Something tells him that he should probably move. Now.
Latching onto a crevice, he yanked on it, launching him upward, giving him a few second to see who made that noise before landing on the wall of which the dagger was attached to.
Ryan would have called him a wimp, you know, if she wasn't trapped in ice.
The wall that Damon was by suddenly exploded, and a weird... creature burst from it, since it rammed into the wall. This thing wasn't anything anyone had seen before, but it seemed to be the thing that caused that wailing.
Yep, it was, it was full-on sobbing.
It had stone-like 'skin', and it's eye sockets weren't filled by normal eyes, but with strange stalks that looked weirdly mechanical.
Bricks from the wall it just crashed through were in its jaw, the markings on it and its saliva glowing a strange sea blue. What the heck was this thing?
However, the thing seemed tame. Ish. Scary? 100%. But it didn't seem violent, probably just a fit of emotion.
It was then that a flash of green descended from the rooftops, somehow unnoticed up to this point. Even now, it seemed to reject the idea of being audible, almost as if it was photoshopped in; when the cloak settled, the shape was revealed to be another wizard.
And as his staff stabbed up into the air, a series of sharpened, thick roots followed the motion, immobilizing the odd behemoth.
"That's an attack on a bounty hunter," said the wizard as he brought his weapon to his side, the roots tightening around the... thing with every footstep. "I'm obligated to take you into custody... unless something more important happens."
April let out a dignified "eep!" at the sudden flash, tapping Zane on the shoulder and signing, We need to go back to the forest.
Zane signed back, And deal with the cat lady?
Well, I'd rather her than two hunters!
Ryan was struggling to break free, as if she was calling out for her tall companion to help her out or something.
The stranger's eyes darted between the active threat and the escaping spectators; something told him that the latter was worth pursuing, even if he wasn't versed in reading skilled sign language at long distance.
Now, to find an opening...
Fair enough, Zane signed. He leaped off the backside of the building, summoning a bed of golden flowers below, which cushioned his fall oddly effectively. He rolled off the flowerbed and stood up, looked around, and turned back to the flowerbed, increasing its size with more plant magic. He then gave April a thumbs up.
April followed him down, and the two of them ran back towards the forest, hoping they'd slipped away unnoticed.
As Damon landed back onto the rooftop with the momentum given from the explosion, he stared at the monster that was entangled in vines, "Now what the hell is that?" Damon yelled, yanking his dagger back to him before it fell too far away from him after the wall exploded.
The behemoth was still at the hunter's response, before letting its jaw drop. The sound that came out of the behemoth's maw was heart-wrenching and earpiercing, but oddly enough...
Ryan heard a sad song, and so did Zane, April and Merikki. The song was oddly pleasant, like a gentle rain, but to everyone else it was beyond painful to listen to, both mentally and emotionally. Of course, the other hunter that immobilized the behemoth could be unaffected, but it was hard nontheless. (i think)
Ryan felt a quick, thin sword sweep around her legs, and at that moment Ryan was free and next to the tall witch. Or rather in the tall witch's arm, as she set Ryan down. "There," she mused, giving a smile.
"Thanks." said Ryan, giving her rescuer a thumbs up.
Merikki gave a slight bow. "Of course. How could I lose a friend after just meeting her, eh?" she teased. The behemoth was still wailing, though upon closer inspection, Ryan could see the rune on the behemoth's knees on the tall witch's belt. Coincidence?
"So, is that your pet or something?"
"To an extent," she replied, remaining pretty vague. She did seem concerned for the behemoth, with its wailing song.
"How do we get him to quit it?"
"It'll take a minute. They particularly don't like confinement, and those bricks hurt... I'm gonna be soooo mad at that hunter if I have to get up there and break those vines myself..."
"I guess I'll help, can't leave my new friend hanging." said Ryan. "What's your name, anyways?"
"I think it's best for you not to know for the time being," she replied. "So... you can call me whatever comes to mind." She gave a wink, though the facial movement looked strained. What hid behind that oddly-shaped set of bangs?
Meanwhile in Firefly Forest, Zane and April collapsed against a tree, exhausted from running and trying to comprehend what in the flying french toast just happened.
Clearly, going to Lamplight Town was a mistake.
Merikki growled, gritting her teeth. "Clearly someone still needs to go. Au revoir, Ryan~" she chimed, before basically leaping to where she thought Damon was. She was on the hunt, a gleam in her eye that showed no amount of enjoyment. "Do you really have to play the hiding game?" she asked, patting the behemoth.
She took a moment to free the behemoth, which it promptly nuzzled Merikki. It stopped its wailing, and sort of just trotted off to do its own thing.
A barrel suddenly rolled into Merikki, having no success of knocking her over whatsoever, but that did alert her of where Damon was. Which was not good. Hiding behind a wall, he saw that there were no nearby crevices, or anything for his dagger to latch onto. So he would either have to fight on ground. Or make my own crevices. Damon thought.
Like a horror movie, Merikki snapped her gaze to Damon. "Aah... there you are..." she mused. "Tired of being a little mouse?" she crooned, before she was immediately next to him. Damon did hear the vwoop of her advance, but she was just leaning onto the wall he was trying to chip at.
"Let me make you a deal, eh?" she started, a sly grin spreading on her face.
Rolling away from her to keep a good distance away from her, he stood up. "What's the deal." Damon said, Okay that's going to take too long, and she's too fast. He thought, while listening, he observed the rooftop, what could he use to his advantage?
"How about you let our silly Ryan go, and you can get out of here unscathed?" she replied, though she frowned. "For someone who's clearly older, you seem rather scared of silly ol' me..." she taunted, and Damon saw some movement under the witch's seemingly limp right arm.
That's a sign of weakness. Damon observed. "How about, you give me Ryan, and you wont get frozen." Damon said.
Damon was suddenly slammed against the wall by the neck. "I wasn't exactly willing to bargain," she replied with a bit of a snarl. Damon could see a slight deformation of her face, but it was mostly covered by her hair. "Why do you want her, anyway?" she asked, releasing her grip from his throat but transferring it to the collar of his robe.
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