Prey: A Character Driven RP [FINISHED]

[RootbeerJello]

The cultists were dumbfounded. They had set fire to the water and shone powerful spotlights in all directions, but somehow the demon had escaped with his captive in a split second. Suddenly, there was a splashing noise from behind them, and the group of hunters turned, shining spotlights on the cultist that had been taken, as he weakly swam towards them.

"Niklas!" One of the hunters yelled. They helped the man out of the water. His clothes were ragged and torn, soaking not only with water, but blood. The man trembled violently, and although his face was still concealed by the now battered mask, he appeared to be too shaken to speak. Niklas weakly pointed down the tunnel, before taking a step, stumbling, and extending an arm to lean against the wall. As the rest of the group prepared more torches to burn the water again, Niklas faltered, then quietly crumpled to the ground. The unconscious man went unnoticed, as did the creeping shadow that slipped along the walls, rising into the tube to the surface, manifesting itself as a thin man noiselessly climbing the ladder out of the sewer.

 

[Quad08]

"In theory, it should work. We need to go about it in a way that won't exactly attract attention as I'm sure they have the area blocked off for the police"

Adam mussed, drumming his fingers on the table as he considered the possibilities

"Any ideas?"

 

[SamuelT]

Snippity

Snippity

Again, sorry for the small bit of character controlling, but I've tried to keep it true to their nature.

As the two indulged themselves on the sweets, neither of them noticed the shadow creeping over them. When Maya did look up though, she saw a woman who looked neither old nor young, with large brown eyes and a heavy coat standing over them. She seemed to look straight at them.

"Well. Stealing isn't very nice, is it?" She asked them sweetly. She reached inside her coat and pulling out a cheerful lunchbox. She handed it to Maya, who eyed it suspiciously but still opened it with a little curiousity. Inside was a neatly made meal of rice, small pieces of Tofu and beans. Maya looked up, obviously dissapointed. The woman winked at the small Kitsune with a knowing smile and walked out of the store.

SO YEAH APART FORM THAT

"Tell you the truth? I have no idea man. Sherlock Holmes I aint." Gabriel said. He looked at the people coming into the bar. One closed the door with obvious relief and shed what looked was his skin; transforming into a sickly-looking creaure.

"Can't you, like, taste the air or something?" He said with an expression that betrayed that he knew the suggestion was idiotic.

 

[Sporky111]

Takeda shrugged at the question, giving a non-committal 'ehh'. "I had a mom and dad, but we all got separated. I haven't seen my family in a long, long time because I forgot how to get home."

His tone of voice showed that he wasn't overly bothered about it. And he actually wasn't. For the fifty-odd years he'd been wandering he'd grown less-and-less concerned about finding his way home. He found the wandering to be much more fun.

When Maya looked up suddenly, Takeda did too. He froze in place as he saw the woman looking straight at them. Normally he could hear people coming, but she had managed to go unnoticed until she was right in front of them. And she could see them, and was speaking to them. A chill ran up his spine despite her sweet voice; he wanted to ask who she was, but he was too scared to.

However he calmed down as she left. After a moment of staring, he tore his eyes away from the door and looked at Maya. He let out an involuntary squeal as he saw the contents of the lunch box. Kitsune had a strong preference to such foods, and he wouldn't even pass them up for all the candy in the store.

Without asking the little girl, he reached in and grabbed one of the rice balls and stuffed it into his mouth. It was a bit bigger than he expected, and ended up filling his cheeks while he chewed.

 

[RootbeerJello]

<spoiler=OOC>

When Maya did look up though, she saw a woman who looked neither old nor young, with large brown eyes and a heavy coat standing over them.

Sort of like this?
http://i863.photobucket.com/albums/ab198/Rootbeerjello/NightmareFuel.png?t=1288407206

 

[DktrAgonizer]

Once Rezetta and Lily reached the apartment, Zetta fished around in her pocket and pulled out a key. As she fit the key into the lock, she completely released hold of the invisibility illusion that had surrounded the both of them. "I've got a couple of sodas, some water, and a glass of wine in my fridge if you're thirsty," Zetta said as she opened the door to apartment. "No food, though. Haven't had the chance to go grocery shopping yet."
She led the way into a small living room, gesturing at the open kitchen that stood just off of it. "Help yourself to something." Zetta gave a small sigh as she settled herself into a comfy armchair, crossing her ankles together. She was silent for a while, eyes trained on her ceiling as she sorted her thoughts.

Finally, she leaned forward with her elbows resting on her knees and said, "So, any thoughts on what the hell just happened back there? No way that... chaos was normal. I didn't get a good look at the scene before those fires happened." Here she paused and took a deep breath, thinking back on what had happened just a short while ago. "I swear I felt something odd before that happened, though. More demons, perhaps?" She paused again, focusing her eyes on Lily. "Speaking of which, thanks for not freaking out about the invisibility thing."

 

[SamuelT]

<spoiler=OOC>

When Maya did look up though, she saw a woman who looked neither old nor young, with large brown eyes and a heavy coat standing over them.

Sort of like this?
http://i863.photobucket.com/albums/ab198/Rootbeerjello/NightmareFuel.png?t=1288407206

Ha...haha...

No.

 

[SeanTheSheep]

"Hey, it takes guts to reveal something like that to someone you just met, it shows trust, something I don't come by often in my line of work." Lily lied. She won people's trust at the drop of a hat, it was the second thing she did after finding most people's names, though Zetta had been a special case. She got people to trust her, because it meant they revealed secrets, some big, some small, and always useful somewhere down the line.
"I honestly have no idea, but the explosion that started it wasn't natural, I could feel that much. The flames that swept the place had no chance of being caused by anything human, not even a "freak gas leak" like they do to explain things they don't want to. Because no-one knows what caused it. It wasn't magic, but it wasn't caused by physical means either. It was like reality changed for a moment." Lily proposed, sorting her ideas as she said them.
"I'm glad we got out of there quickly though, because in five minutes there're going to be Predators swarming all over the place. I may have seen one or two sniffing out the scene as we were leaving."

 

[JoJo]

For the next few moments after the woman had walked off, Maya was stunned, even as Takeda was helping himself to the meal. Eventually, she reached into the box and gingerly took out a rice ball, giving it a cautious sniff before taking a nibble.

"Ummmm!" She was pleasantly surprised at how nice the food tasted, she took some larger bites and then moved onto the tofu. "You can have the beans, I don't like them" she informed her hungry companion who appeared to be stuffing himself as fast as his mouth could move. After they had both finished and were sitting contently on the shop floor, Maya voiced the thought that had been on her mind throughout the meal.

"Who was that lady and how could she see us?"

 

[Sparrow]

Spotting the car coming toward the two of them, Alex signalled to Jules by waving his arms in a mad fashion as the car approached. However, as the car was mere meters away, bullets flew through the windscreen and the car veered off to the right and into the wall of a house.

"My God! Jules! Did you-- did you see that? They shot him! They shot Jules!", Alex cried as flames began to appear on the wreckage of the car.

"There! He's over there! Make sure you don't kill him shoot him the legs if you have to, just make sure he can speak afterwards.", the two men heard from a short distance.

"We got to get outta' here man, far away-like. I don't want to get shot, I don't, I don't, I don't..."

 

[DktrAgonizer]

Rezetta sat back in the chair again, her brow furrowed. "A change in reality, huh? It sounds crazy, and yet I know there are those out there with powers like mine." She ran a hand through her hair nervously and added, "And those with different, stronger powers, too. Well, I suppose there isn't too much to be done about it now. I do believe we promised each other some explanations once we got here though, didn't we?"

Rezetta stood and walked over to her kitchen, where she found a glass in filled it with some ice water. She took a sip before sitting back down in the armchair, studying Lily thoughtfully. She took another sip of water before speaking. "I was involved in a drug ring some years back, as I figure you've guessed already. We got busted one day and I barely escaped. I took to starting my own business of stealing from people's houses some time after that until somebody made an attempt on my life. Just a few years back, I decided to live a straight life and went for the delivery business."
Zetta took a big gulp of her water now, then set the half-empty glass on an end table by her chair. "I must've somehow gotten found out by one of my previous victims, though. It would explain the spooks in the diner. Now then... You know quite a bit about me, and I don't know too much about you. Care to share?"

 

[Sporky111]

"I don't know," Takeda said after eating his fill, "She didn't look very scary, but . . . I don't know how she saw us."

He adjusted his legs on the floor so he was sitting cross-legged with his back against the shelves. He still couldn't see Maya, but just as when he first discovered her there was a sort of 'sense' of where she was. He had no idea if she had something similar for her, but he couldn't formulate the words to ask her exactly what was on his mind.

"Who do you think she was?"

 

[JoJo]

"She seemed... nice" Maya couldn't think of anything else to say. Her bitten arm had started throbbing again and when she stroked it felt tender to the touch. She shrugged "Maybe she was another magic person? Or a kitsune like you?"

The little girl yawned and laid her head down on the floor. "She looked like a mummy." she said sleepily "I asked you about yours because I don't know where mine is either. She just went and never came back. I don't know if it was because somebody took her away, or if she left because I was too much trouble to look after." Maya paused for a second, and then carried on in a mournful voice.

"I wish she was here now. At night I get so scared, sometimes I think there are monsters and ghosts trying to find me and get me, even though I know there aren't really such things."

 

[SeanTheSheep]

"Not much to share really, I got bored of normal life, got in with the bad crowd and liked it. I've learned everything I use from intuition and advice when I've needed it." Lily said, cutting down her story by an awful lot, but still choosing her words carefully. "As for people with abilities being out there, you have no idea. You walk past them every day in the street, you get served by them at the supermarket, you invite them into your home." She said, not hinting that she had an ability too, but not hiding it either. "Some of your most trusted friends could potentially be lethal, and you'd never know..."

 

[RootbeerJello]

<spoiler=OOC> This is directed at Quad08 and SamuelT. If you don't wanna join up, I'll edit the end and make it some random bar and contiue with my own thing.

Basaran stepped out of the sewer, and immediately threw himself into the nearest crowd. He was weak, both from forty-five. Extremely weak. Many years ago, he would have consumed the group of cultists like the cavernous mouth of some unspeakable creature, killing them almost instantly. As it was, he barely had the ability to escape without being seen.

He weighed his options. If the cultists were hunting all paranormals, he couldn't continue following the Void-creature. They'd easily find him again, and in the sunlight he'd be even more helpless.

His best bet would be to lay low. He walked through the crowd, trying to find a suitably nondescript bar or club to hide in. He eventually decided on a coffee house that didn't stick out from the usual.

He stepped inside, sitting in an empty booth. Everyone here appeared normal, human, and absolutely terrified, in the paralyzed, helpless way humans were, but something felt off. There was a presence of more power. There were supernaturals here.

 

[DktrAgonizer]

"Friends, huh? I really don't have to worry too much about those. There aren't too many people I talk to on a regular basis outside of those that I work with and some of the people in the diner." Zetta propped her chin on her hand, staring up at the ceiling again. "Even most of them don't know what I really look like. I've been a little paranoid I guess, after having nearly been killed for my previous, ah, 'job.' Still though, I have wondered about a few of the people I've seem roaming around the city..." Her voice trailed off as she once again reached for her glass of water. "Anyway. What now?"

 

[Sporky111]

"Oh . . . " Takeda's ears flattened a bit as he heard Maya's story. It was really sad that her mother just left her.

He looked over in her direction, even though she was still invisible. A protective instinct rose up in him, and he scooted himself over until he was sitting right beside her. She was laying down, he could tell from the direction of her voice and how tired she sounded.

"I don't want you to be scared." he said softly, laying his hand on her side.

 

[JoJo]

Maya looked up at where Takeda would have been, even though she couldn't see him she could imagine his friendly expression beaming down at her. She reached for the hand that was on her and gave it an affectionate squeeze.

"Don't worry about that, I feel safe with you." She looked around tiredly at the now dark and empty store and the all-consuming blackness outside, then slowly got up, and walked off. A minute later she returned carrying several large faded towels. She carefully laid them out across the bottom of the closest empty shelf space between some crumpled packets of marshmallows and chewy sweets, except for one which she hung across the opening to the newly created den.

"Look Takeda, I've made a tent!" she said proudly. The towel covering the entrance promptly fell onto the floor. Maya sighed and picked it back up, this time wedging its corners under two boxes. "These towels will make it really comfy and warm, and the door will keep the scary things out!" She then yawned and wearily crawled into the makeshift shelter.

"I going to bed now" she called sleepily from behind the sheet. "It's alright if you want to stay awake for a while, just please don't leave me on my own!" She lay down and curled up with her thumb in her mouth. Within seconds placing her head down onto the soft interior of the little hideout she was fast asleep.

 

[SeanTheSheep]

"Misanthropy isn't a good look for you" Lily commented, looking at the shelf behind Rezetta, examining the objects on it one by one. "As for what now, whatever now" She said "We do what we want, it's not like there are rules of what to do after surviving a massive fire" She added as she wondered how much Zetta trusted her. She guessed a fair amount, but she needed more convincing, the fire had thrown the van out of everyone's mind. Eventually, Lily came to the conclusion that the best way to make Rezetta trust her implicitly was to reveal her ability.
"Zetta, I want to show you something..."

 

[Sporky111]

Takeda giggled as she built the tent, watching curiously as she layered the inside with towels. It did look very comfy. "Good job." he said eagerly, moving towards it.

He parted the edge of the curtain and carefully crawled into the cozy space. It took a few moments to find a place for himself, since he didn't want to crowd her. They ended up rather close anyway, with the shelf being so small. He curled up using a marshmallow package as a pillow. The kitsune's tail appeared and wrapped around him like a blanket and he hugged it as he drifted off to sleep.