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Post by Kyubey on Feb 13, 2013 10:39:43 GMT -5
When he was hit by the torrent of water, John stumbled a single step forward, clearly startled, and now, wet, but otherwise fine. He turned around, glaring at the younger man, and scowled. He wasn't angry, but definitely annoyed at what had just transpired. Alden was irritating before, but now his pride and predictably short temper had just interfered with the task that John was trying to do. From the moment Alden and Qi burst into the mission uninvited, this was the thing John was most worried would happen, the upstarts, with still limited experience, thinking they could just throw their weight around, without putting any effort into actually earning their cocky attitudes. Youngsters were all the same in that aspect, which is why John hated working with them. Or anyone, for that matter. Internally, John cursed at himself for not letting the tiger eat them both earlier.
"I distinctly remember telling you," he seethed, while stepping towards the mage hunter, "Not to get in my way."
John then threw a short, light punch at Alden's ribs. It was an ordinary blow, not augmented by magic like his normal punches, and was meant to simply knock the wind out of him. At this point, John was greatly underestimating what Alden could do, so he might have blocked the punch or avoided it somehow, but still the youth would find that the strike was faster and more direct than the majority of punches he would have seen.
"Let me get one thing clear, you little shit. I don't give a fuck about you, or what your name is, or whatever issues you have. The only thing I care about right now is earning my pay, and you have just made it harder for me to do that. I don't think you fully understand, but we've got a job to do, that you're not doing a damn thing to help out with. If you want a fight, I'll fight you as long as you'd like, but save it for after we're through here. If you can't keep your smug ass focused, then take your girlfriend and go straight back to the guild. Now, if you're ready to shape up, then you and the girl look around here, call me if you see anything. As for me, I've still got some words with the freakshow over there. Now get the hell out of my sight."
He turned to Qi, who so far seemed to be far more mature, and actually was somewhat useful with the information she was providing, but ultimately didn't seem to be contributing much either, and, like Alden, was nothing more than another setback about to happen. He doubted she would be as much of a pain as Alden was, but if she had a similar attitude of placing pithy personal matters over getting things done, it would be better to get it out of the way quickly.
"You got a problem too, Girly?"
As for Janus, John wasn't about to let the troublemaker go so quickly, but as of that moment he was too distracted to do anything about it. There was no way that John was going to make do with so vague a hint as "closer than you think," and he planned on getting a straighter answer soon enough. Already, he had an idea about where to look.
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Post by Kuro on Feb 13, 2013 18:57:08 GMT -5
"Goooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning!"
And suddenly, Dofun Gofundo. He suddenly appeared before the guildmaster and slammed into him with all of his frontal force, his massive hammer in one of his hands. Dofun fell to the floor by the impact but quickly jumped back up and onto his feet. He hopped in place one foot at a time as if the floor was on fire, and kept his hands and hammer close to his face as he giggled, practically squealing.
"Oooh, we have new missions, new missions, new missions! I heard the whole thing, the whole thing indeed! Oh, but it seems as if some of us have already left. What a shame, what a shame."
He then looked at a nearby wall and spoke as if he whispered to some hidden audience.
"I wouldn't want to be them though, an S-Class mission, oh ho ho..."
He looked back at Elrond and now stood in place, his head bobbing from one side to the other with his hammer behind his back. "So so so so so, I think that I shouuuulllllllllddddddd have some fun! Or at least, help someone else have some fun! The snowmen sounds nice, but if you want to do that then I am perfectly fine with that! Are we working together or alone? Oh, tell me tell me tell me!"
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Post by CJ on Feb 13, 2013 23:45:09 GMT -5
(OOC: Again, cell phone.)
"Summoner girl?! Girly?!" Qi cried out in distress. "I'm not involved in whatever you guys are fighting about! I didn't even want to go on this mission! S-Rank missions are too much for me!"
Her face was flushed. She was very embarrassed to be around John and Alden. She thought they were as immature as she was useless.
"You pathetic cocksuckers," Janus whined, suddenly, rolling his shoulders. "Shut the f*ck up already!"
He twisted around. His gloved hands grasped and pulled at his hair.
"You really know how to f*cking piss me off. You should have killed me when you had the chance. Now I'm gonna rip you apart with my bare hands! Broken Fingers."
His fingers cracked and twisted, appearing as though they might break off. He pulled them up, issuing more bones from the ground.
Two large human skeletons practically shoved their way out of dirt underneath Alden and John. They tried to grasp onto them and shove them into the ground where they had emerged. The rogue mage stepped toward Qi with heavy feet, shaking the roots of the tree under his steps.
"You first, f*cking summoner."
She cried out again, stepping back. Her eyes widened when she saw Janus's gloved hand grasp onto the keys and his exposed wrist hit the gold metal. It was not out of surprise or shock but of revelation. She actually reached out toward him when he crushed and destroyed the cane in his gloved fist. He then pulled his leg back to kick the small mage in the side of the head. A blue light overcame her as one of her summoning keys glowed gold.
The kick struck the still forming summon and blasted the two straight through a house and deep into another. Qi and her summon were buried in rubble. Before the two might react to this, Janus was at it again.
He let out a high pitched screech, sounding a bit too primal to be human. His cold black eyes darted from Alden to John, Alden to John, Alden to
John would witness Janus run on his hands and legs in an almost desperate manner. Like a shadow lifting off the ground, the rogue mage rose up and pulled his leg high up to dropkick John and the skeleton. It wouldn't be pretty if John was hit after the way Qi and her summon flew from the previous attack. Though Alden would notice his skeleton's grip loosened with this new attack.
Several flakes of Janus's rashed skin blew onto John's face as the leaves from the enormous tree fell off behind him.
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Post by Hitotsumami on Feb 14, 2013 13:41:28 GMT -5
Elrond was so happy to see Dofun he nearly gave the guy a huge hug. "Thank goodness someone is left in the Guild!" he yelled out. "The others vanished on an S-Rank mission, and there are snow monsters and giant creatures attacking the nearby town! We gotta do something!"
Just then, the doors to the Guild flew open, releasing a burst of cold wind and mist. Two evil snowmen appeared, their charcoal eyes slanted in rage. They immediately pulled out two icy snowballs from their body and threw them at Elrond. Elrond dodged out of the way and the snowball slammed into a nearby vase. The vase froze instantly then shattered.
"Don't let that touch you!" yelled Elrond to Dofun.
To make things worse, the roof of the Guild was suddenly pulled off by a giant one eyed cyclops. It roared in rage down at the Guild Members.
"Not the Guild again! Why are they coming after us anyway!?" yelled out Elrond in fear. "Dofun, you take the snowmans or the cyclops and I'll take the other!"
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Post by Shark a' Pult on Feb 14, 2013 19:53:24 GMT -5
Alden took the punch right in the ribs. He didn't move to block it or anything, he only tensed his body for it. Thus when it struck he was actually knocked back a bit, but he didn't stumble or fall over, he just slid the distance and stopped. Then John had the idea to go off on him about something, but he just looked at him, his gaze narrowed.
"Going to be fun having you around the Guild. S-ranks are always fun to hunt."
"You pathetic cocksuckers, shut the f*ck up already!"
And then Janus was back again, slinging a profanity or two with that foul mouth of his. Maybe they should have just knocked him out or tied him up, if he was going to keep on like this. Alden wasn't worried about him per se, he just didn't want him shouting in their ears every few seconds while they looked for the kid.
"You first, f*cking summoner."
"Ah crap, he got her. Wonder if she's dead..."
Alden's gaze followed Qi as she was kicked through the buildings, somewhat annoyed that Janus had just ignored the two of them and went straight for the support. He supposed it was his responsibility to go see if she had survived the attack, he had seen people die from less. He figured John would take care of Janus well enough, so now was his chance to go help Qi if she needed it. Only he couldn't.
"Oh. Skeletons. Ok."
Alden saw Janus running for John, though there wasn't much he could do to stop it, and really he didn't much care what happened. What he was most concerned about right now, was the skeleton grabbing his legs. He could feel it's grip loosening when Janus drew near, but that wasn't what concerned him. With his feet held steady, he leaned down a bit to look at the skeleton.
Yes, it was in fact, a normal skeleton. Well apart from the whole moving around thing. But he looked at it.
He blinked.
Just a skeleton.
He blinked again.
He reached his hands for the skeleton.
*pop*
With some small initial effort, he pulled the skull off the neck of the skeleton and looked at it. There were plenty of things he could do to break free, why he could use his helmet like he did against the tiger, he could water blast it like he did with John, he could even use his sword against the thing. But he had a feeling that simply removing the head might do the trick, and it took barely any effort at all.
"Alas poor Yorick! I kne- ah screw it, here, catch!"
With that he wound up like a baseball pitcher and hurled the skull directly at Janus, with the intent of hitting him right in the head with it. Whether or not the skeleton continued to hold onto him shouldn't have effected that, and he didn't know what else to do with the skull so he decided to get rid of it. In his own way.
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Post by Kuro on Feb 16, 2013 22:16:31 GMT -5
"Don't worry, leave the giant to me! This spectacular act can be performed by just one man and one man only, Dooooooooooooofun Gofundo!" He spun his hammer around and around with one hand at a very quick speed, whirling it here and there like it was nothing. He threw the spinning hammer into the air, where it went up and up and up, still spinning and spinning and spinning.
The clown crouched with his arms stretched towards the sky and rocketed off. He jumped - shot off, more like - towards the edge of the wall and bounced off at the same high speed, now flying towards his trusty hammer still spinning in the air and going higher and higher. With a high-pitched and delighted shout, he managed to grab its long hilt and got caught in its whirlwind like a cat stuck to one of those new-fangled ceiling fans you hear about in the real fancy newspapers.
"Woah woah woah woah whee whee whee whee wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
The hammer began to slow down, its owner still clinging to it. Eventually, its speed became nothing and it was just Dofun in the air with his hammer...and with it, he came crashing down onto the giant hand that held the roof, falling with all of the pent up speed he had gained from being so high up in the air.
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Post by Kyubey on Mar 11, 2013 23:20:07 GMT -5
John scoffed at Alden, not in the least intimidated by the young man's attempt to scare him. If the boy did turn out to have the guts to continue their dispute, so be it. John had beat down plenty of pests just like him before.
In all actuality, John had lied to himself in one aspect. None of the kids he was thinking of would have taken the punch as casually as Alden did.
In any case, the older conman did not continue the debate, now preoccupied with a much louder nuisance. If he hadn't allowed himself to get distracted before, he might have settled the mission already, and he once again mentally scolded himself for that. Now, there was someone else who just couldn't go a day without picking a meaningless fight.
Before the skeleton even tried to grab him, John attempted to backhand the monster, hopefully dishing out a plenty strong blow. Whether the attack was successful or not, he then shifted his focus to the mage controlling the skeletons, the only real threat present at the time.
"Figures. Why do they always go for the girl first..."
He wasted no time in reacting as Janus came towards him. John grimaced in disgust as the skin flakes brushed against his face, and clenched his fist, preparing a counterattack. Dark matter began to form around the fist, and as John threw a punch, the darkness tightened to the extent that it looked as though he simply had a very black glove on. Already he had put much more effort into this punch than he did when he struck Alden, and the magical boost multiplied its power. John attacked with the intent of blocking Janus's kick, and perhaps overpowering the enemy mage.
"Now, pal, let's see if you're allergic to dark matter, eh?"
Mostly though, what John wanted to test was if his magic was stronger than whatever allowed Janus to kick Qi through a wall like he did.
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Post by CJ on Mar 12, 2013 22:51:33 GMT -5
John's punch hit its mark. The forces of the two mages collided as the two remained in what appeared to be a standoff. His punch was only so much though and did not make direct contact with the rogue's skin, merely his shoe. John would have noticed that Janus was clearly overpowering him. He was only a fraction away from pulverizing him when Alden's thrown skull smacked against his head. His leg fell and John's attack sent him skidding across the ground.
The dark matter made Janus's skin on his ankle bubble and boil. He screeched again and rolled on the ground as the skeletons collapsed. He wasn't wearing any socks, hinting at another possible allergy with wool or another material.
"I told you not to f*ck with me," Janus said, choking. "I told you to run."
He clutched at his ankle with tears swelling up in his eyes. When he touched the burned skin with his leather glove, he let out another yell. The glove itself was making the reaction worse. He gingerly took off the glove and patted the wound with dry, rashed fingers.
"Say," he said with wide, nearly innocent eyes, "I have an idea. This'll work out for all of us. The only f*cker that had to die was that bitch summoner and now Aldy can keep doing my master's will. Here's the thing..."
Janus took out a match from his coat pocket and struck it against the back of one of his hands. The burned steak turned black on his skin but he didn't seem to mind.
"We burn down the kid. Right here. That way he doesn't get kidnapped, so you guys get the money reward. It didn't say anything about him being dead when you returned him, right? Then, I don't have to take him back to my master so he doesn't live a life of agony. Like me. Good? Let's do it."
The freak of nature stood up and hobbled on his injured leg. The tails of his coat dragged across the ground as his broken fingers cracked and twitched. The tree groaned. Yes, it groaned, similar to the sound of a whale. The monstrosity actually leaned backward away from the three and slowly waved its branches back away from the antagonist.
Of course, John and Alden could simply watch Janus burn down the tree, if they wanted to.
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Post by Shark a' Pult on Mar 15, 2013 22:38:27 GMT -5
Alden watched the little spat between Janus and John, and how after, the rogue expressed the idea to kill the target boy of the job. While he may have had his own opinions on the matter and something to say, there was only one thing he needed to know as he watched Janus move towards the tree with the fire; he was no longer confined by the skeleton. Now that he was free, he proceeded straight past, and more or less completely ignored the rogue. As far as he was concerned, John could handle the problem himself, if there was a problem at all.
"Summoner Girl! You alright? Where are you?"
Alden made his way to the entry hole through which Qi had been kicked. Grabbing onto the wall as he entered, he made sure to tread carefully as he looked for his teammate. Whatever state she was in, was more important than the status of the job, so he looked for her now that he had the chance. If John was as good as he believed he was, he wouldn't even need either of their help. Alden couldn't just go back to the guild though with news of Qi's demise, not on his first job.
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Post by Kyubey on Mar 17, 2013 2:49:17 GMT -5
John grimaced at Janus as he shook off his hand, looking at him like he would look at trash left on the side of the road, or a diseased animal. The outcome of the skirmish was mostly like he expected, but what he did not expect was for Janus to have been so strong. What might have happened if the skull hadn't hit at the right moment, he didn't know. And that bothered him. He was supposed to be stronger than anyone, be able to hit harder than anybody. And there was a moment when Janus had the upper hand. Even though he eventually came out on top, the criminal mage felt completely humiliated. He looked down at his hand, wondering just what was wrong with him. That he was saved, as it were, by the Squirt just made the whole thing stink even worse.
"Don't fuck with you?" he replied, regaining his normal cocky tone. "Why the hell not? It's worked out alright so far."
When Janus began slinking towards the tree, dark matter formed around John's feet, and slowly moved along the ground towards the rogue, like it was a sentient shadow. If it made contact, Janus would feel a tugging at his feet, like the darkness was a hand pulling him downwards. Part of John just wanted to let Janus burn down the tree. It would certainly bring the already unpleasant job to an end faster. He felt a little proud of himself, having figured out that the kid was the tree before Janus made it obvious, but it hardly mattered now. It didn't even matter that moments before going on the mission, John was perfectly alright with the idea of leaving the boy nice and dead. More than anything else, more than reason, more than his own sensibilities, John's pride would never allow a scumbag like Janus to decide a single damn thing.
"Hold on, pal," he said authoritatively. "Nobody's getting burned here, and nobody's will's gonna be fulfilled. And no way in hell are we letting you or your master have your way with this. See, we're not that kind of guild. We're taking the kid, and we're taking him alive, and you're not gonna stop that. Living kids get more money in the end, and it's just better for business, you get that, right? So you have options. First option, you get the kid back to us, nice and alive and human-like, and maybe we'll let you go, depending on how fast you can run with your foot like that. Second option, the one I get the feeling you're gonna take, is we both put up our dukes and you'll see just how much of this crap I'm willing to put up with in one day. Either way, we'll be getting what we're owed, it all just depends on how much you want me to end that sad, agonizing life of yours. Your call. Pal."
John held out his arms, as if opening himself to attack. Whatever Janus did, John readied himself, and waited.
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Post by CJ on Mar 17, 2013 13:41:48 GMT -5
"Alden?" a small voice called out in the wreckage. He would have to pull up a broken table to get to the girl, stuck beneath it. She was like a doll, dressed in her fancy garments and unable to move from her place. "I can't move my feet," she said regrettably. "I didn't want to yell and give away my location. I'm such a coward. I'm not like you guys... fighting so bravely to save that boy..."Qi managed to sit up, though it was with great struggle. "This could sound strange but I... might be able to put a stop to Janus once and for all but..."Clutched in her hand was a third golden key with a yet another foreign symbol on its handle. It had been disconnected from the other two on the upper half of her broken staff. If Alden had been paying attention over the past few weeks, he would know Qi only had two summoner keys. "Could you help me move? My summon, Snake, was able to take most of the damage for me; she's too nice. But my knees and ankles hurt... really bad... and he broke my cane."Qi tried not to look at Alden directly, entirely disappointed in herself. She tried to hide her sorrow over her snapped cane. It was rather expensive and handmade. It was irreplaceable. "I shouldn't be complaining. I'm sorry."--- Janus clawed at his feet, trying to sway away the dark matter. He screamed out in even more agony. His skin around his ankles actually started to burn away. Cringing and squirming with his feet locked in place, Janus was done for. His fingers twitched and cracked again, snapping and bending back horribly. He fell to the ground on his stomach. He wasn't going anywhere. It appeared John had won. "Either way, you're going to kill me?" Janus gasped in his pain. "That doesn't sound like the Fable I knew. Then again, you aren't the Fable I knew, are you? You're Renascence."He moved his left palm up, summoning the forgotten saber-tooth skeleton to its feet. John might have assumed Janus was trying to attack him again but, instead, the skeleton walked slowly to Janus. The rogue lifted his other hand to stroke its head, almost like it was real friend and not some construct of magic. "I hope you can find it in your heart to realize there's more to this world than money. Throughout these years, I've seen people do regrettable things for cash and material objects. At first they steal, do little deplorable things but it builds and builds until, like you, they think killing's OK. There's only one thing worth anything in this dimension. That's home... that was Fable for me... and I can't ever have it again... so don't miss this opportunity, John. Renascence can be your home."Janus had never called John by his name up until this point. How much did the rogue really know? Whose side was he on anyway? "That being said," he sighed again, "let's go with a third option. You kill me while I'm calm and get the kid to safety. Right now, I think that would be the best for us. Oo-kee..."The gigantic tree leaned forward, as though trying to get a closer look at things. Its shadow came over them as Janus closed his eyes and let his fingers fall. The tiger skeleton collapsed in a heap of bones next to him.
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Post by Shark a' Pult on Mar 19, 2013 12:44:25 GMT -5
"I didn't want to yell and give away my location. I'm such a coward. I'm not like you guys... fighting so bravely to save that boy..."
"Guess again Summoner Girl, I'm not fighting to save the boy. Now lets get you out of there."
Traipsing through the rubble, Alden managed to find Qi, though her situation was not good. Stranded underneath the rubble and unable to move as she was, a thought emerged in the mage hunter's head that he could take her out right here and right now, and no one would ever know. This was just his instincts speaking though, so used to playing the "game" as he was, and he didn't even need to consider whether it was right or wrong. Just old habits speaking up, he quieted them sooner than they came. Leaning down, he worked his hands around the broken table.
"You ready? This is going to hurt."
With a hoist, he managed to lift the table up and promptly pushed it over so that the summoner was no longer trapped by it.
"Could you help me move? My summon, Snake, was able to take most of the damage for me; she's too nice. But my knees and ankles hurt... really bad... and he broke my cane."
"Sure thing, let's go break something of his now."
If her legs were messed up, then he had to be careful about how he carried her, to limit the amount of stress put on them. He wasn't a very delicate person though, but he tried, and picked the summoner up to hang her over his shoulder. Unfortunately since she was facing him when he did, she would now be facing backwards, but he was not unwilling to turn around so she could see where they needed to get to. Regardless, he kicked over or through any rubble blocking their path on the way out, aiming to head back over to the rogue mage and the tree. He was of course not stupid enough to simply run right into the fray however, and approached slowly, ready to stop on the periphery of the conflict.
"I shouldn't be complaining. I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it, I know I'd be complaining if my legs weren't working. Now, just tell me what you need to do and where you need to go to handle this bastard, and I'll get you there."
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Post by Kyubey on Mar 25, 2013 2:15:05 GMT -5
As Janus gave his pleading speech, John merely closed his eyes and shook his head. If there was any heartfelt honesty in those words at all, the conman completely failed to hear any of it, knowing only that at best, the rogue was stalling until his next little mood swing. John got by on a lot of things, but never by kindness when he couldn't profit from it, and this time was no exception.
"Hey hey now. I never said I was gonna kill you if you took the first option. I only said that we'd let you run, but... well, as it turns out, I like your idea a lot better."
In the first place, he found it a little strange that Janus would suddenly start preaching morality when he himself apparently turned a child into a tree and most certainly tried to kill them, directly going after the small crippled female first. He had heard normal, law-abiding citizens fail to convince John with similar words, but not anyone who was arguably less honest and decent than himself. It was funny, John thought, the times when people seemed to care most about the good in others was when they were personally at risk. He never heard someone talking so much about goodness when they had the chance to personally profit from someone else's misfortune. John never even considered what Janus had to say. He was only more irritated than he was before.
"If you really think you can trick me with that, that's just tough. You gotta come with better stuff than that if you wanna convince a pro like me. I mean, c'mon, you didn't even offer to pay me to spare your life! Oh, and just so you're aware, you don't have to worry about me crossing that line."
The darkness at the rogue's feet began to grow and swell, until Janus was surrounded by a circle of the stuff, that seemed to almost shift about beneath him, like the black substance was alive.
"See, I was kicked past that point a long time ago."
What was home, really? Did getting to it really entail letting oneself be tricked and used by people claiming to be friends so long as it suited them, until they finally took everything he had and left him behind, like he himself did to so many others? He would have been wrong if he thought that the prospect of having people to believe in and fight for wasn't a little appealing, but he knew better than to think it could seriously happen. What it came down to was, the idea just wasn't practical. That's what came through John's mind as he prepared himself to end the life of his pesky opponent. It bothered him so much, that he almost missed something important. But, in a flash of opportunity for Janus, he suddenly remembered something, causing him to hold off on the final blow, but not shrink the dark magic he already had prepared.
"Hold on, pal. How the hell do you know my name?"
The one thing that caused him to stop was, in all the time he spent near that tree, in that conflict, nobody, not Alden, not Qi, and certainly not John himself, had ever said his name. So how did Janus, a man he only just met, know what he was called? It was a minor detail, but John was, if anything, the kind of guy who didn't let those details slip him by without an answer.
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Post by CJ on Mar 26, 2013 23:47:30 GMT -5
Alden sure was mysterious. Like John, Qi wasn't sure why Alden wanted to be in Renascence. Maybe it was to have the advantage of guild members or maybe he simply needed income. Either way, she appreciated his gesture but she wished she never had to be in a mission with him again, lest it came to ignoring a hostage again.
"Break something of his?" Qi asked almost innocently. "Well, I suppose I am going to break him, though not in the way you or John would. At least, I think I am. I hope I am. Oh goodness... what if I'm wrong..."
She squeaked slightly as Alden picked her up. Her legs were in immense pain but she gritted her teeth and tried to think of the task at hand.
"No," she shook her head. "I've got to try. I'm going to wipe this creep off the face of this planet. Alden, get me as close to him as possible... um, if you would."
As she held onto him, careful not to move her legs too much, she kept talking.
"Ummm... Alden, why did you join the guild if you weren't going to want to help people in trouble? I don't mean to be rude but isn't that what Elrond wants to do? Sorry if I'm being too blunt."
She was being too blunt.
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Janus shrieked again in a strange animal tone. He cringed and squirmed as the dark matter engulfed him. He breathed rapidly as he tried to calm himself. His skin began to burn and flake at every part the darkness touched.
"How do I know your name?" he almost screamed at John. "I... I guessed it. Yeah, John's a common name right? It's not because my Master's been watching you since your father died. Nope, definitely hasn't. Shit f*ck! What the f*ck is wrong with me answering that? Master, don't let me live. Please make him kill me! I don't want to go back to the ice!"
As he continued to suffer, his dark rimmed eyes suddenly went wide.
"Wait. She's not there. The voice inside my head isn't there."
He rolled onto his back and the dark matter took hold of the skin that wasn't previously exposed to it. Janus didn't seem to care.
"Why can't I hear her anymore? It's so... peaceful. Now that I think about it. I haven't been hearing her at all recently..."
Janus actually smiled and not in the creepy sort of way, more like a person coming home from work after a long week. He looked at John again with the same look plastered on his face.
"Oo-kee, Take it from me, John. Killing me here is alright, especially now since I asked for it. But I would look for a different path after this. You see, my master has uses for thieves. I'm not sure that Elrond does but despite the fact that he's a stupid little f*ck, you'd be better with him. It's not too late... what the f*ck, shit summoner lived."
It was probably then that Janus saw Alden and Qi. He was in shock, though it was hard to tell if he was happy or not to see the girl had survived flying through two buildings. The tree seemed to perk up a little at their arrival, waving its branches slighty to and fro.
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Post by Shark a' Pult on Mar 27, 2013 13:20:08 GMT -5
"No, I've got to try. I'm going to wipe this creep off the face of this planet. Alden, get me as close to him as possible... um, if you would."
"Sure thing Summoner Girl, I'll see what I can do."
With Qi over his shoulder Alden looked around quick to see if the town was still empty, after which point he ran over to the conflict. He wanted to make sure that if Qi actually went and killed the rogue mage, that there wouldn't be anyone to see and or otherwise get them in trouble later down the road.
"Ummm... Alden, why did you join the guild if you weren't going to want to help people in trouble? I don't mean to be rude but isn't that what Elrond wants to do? Sorry if I'm being too blunt."
"Don't know how rude it is, just asking questions and all... maybe I said it wrong, it's not like I don't want to help people. I'm just not about to stick my neck out for someone I've never even met. Got important things to take care of before that, at least."
By now he was close, and he ran right past John, not listening to anything they'd been saying. He pretty much just ran right up to Janus and stopped short, skidding a little bit of the way. He looked at Janus for a moment, then up at the big tree, then back to Janus again.
"Oh my, what's that over there? Isn't it just splendid?"
With his free hand that he was not using to keep Qi on his shoulder, Alden exclaimed out loud, and pointed in wonder at some object in the distance that was not there. Whether or not Janus actually looked for the distraction, Alden just up and went to boot him in the face. Not enough to blast his brain from his head, but ideally enough to knock him into the ground so that Qi would have the chance she needed.
"Here you go Summoner Girl, do your thing."
With that he helped her off his shoulder, and gently set her down.
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