Prey: A Character Driven RP [FINISHED]

[JoJo]

Rin smiled knowingly at both Rezetta and Lily.

"There are certain objects in the world which are infused with magical powers. This is one of the most powerful, certainly the greatest I have ever been able to get my hands on. I bought it a number of years ago off some Chinese woman with a baby, I have no idea how she ended up with the sword but she evidently didn't know how to use it. My ability to see the possibilities of time allows me to take advantage of these sorts of opportunities that would normally require extraordinary luck. I have foreseen that together with a strong wielder, this could be part of a route to world domination. Come closer and read what is written on Excalibur."

The followers crowded silently into the warehouse behind the two women, almost as if they were waiting in anticipation for something to happen.

~​

Just a couple of minutes earlier, Maya fled after Takeda, not wanting to be left alone in the middle of the darkened warehouse. She crouched behind the crates and then closing her eyes in concentration, felt something similar to a cool breeze running down her body as she turned herself invisible. Her hands shook as she clutched the heavy pistol to her chest. As the voices outside became steadily louder, it felt less like an exciting adventure and far more frightening. Without warning the small girl suddenly burst into tears.

"Why are we here Takeda?" she sobbed "I don't want to kill demons, I don't to kill anyone! I just want to go home..."

 

[i don't know]

Alec kicked opened the door and dragged the man to Dr.Strauss, then he put it on the floor.

"Ok, I think we should take a look at the building map first."

Alec spotted one in the hallway, and looked over it. The medical wing appeared to be at the far end of the first floor.

Alec grabbed the body and rushed towards the room. When he got there, he knocked on the door.
An angry voice was heard: "Gǔn chūqù!"

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I used Google translate to translate "Get out" to Chinese, hope it worked properly.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Dr. Strauss followed Alec to the medical wing as fast as he could.

Damn... this guy sure can move fast... and he's dragging a corpse around...

Dr. Strauss eventually caught up with him.

"Here," he said while trying to pick Mr. Kimura's body up, "Help me get him onto the table."

Spoiler: OOC

I'm sorry this post is short but I'm kind of relying on IDK's response here.

 

[i don't know]

As the two entered the office, the doctor inside of there quickly hid a petri dish and microscope under a desk.

"What was that?"

The man didn't understand what Alec said, and left, muttering something under his breath.

"Well, I wonder what's his problem."

Alec lifted the Mr.Kim onto the table nearest to him.

"What do we do now?"

 

[TheDoctor455]

Dr. Strauss looked around the room carefully. He found an extensive medicine cabinet, a portable defibrillator, and just about every tool a surgeon could ask for. Dr. Strauss plugged Mr. Kimura into the heart monitor. It started beeping at a regular pace.

"That's odd," Strauss said, "He should be nearly dead by now... Hmm... my best guess is that how much skin makes contact and how much time it... never mind... need to focus on curing. For now... just lower the temperature in the room to freezing levels... need to slow his blood-flow... prevent the virus from spreading too far..."

Dr. Strauss dug through the medicine cabinet and dug out a few stimulants, some ibuprofen, and a rare medicine that functioned as a combination of insulin and biflorcloric acid. Dr. Strauss got a hypodermic needle, filled it with the rare medicine, squeezed the air out of the needle, then injected it into Mr. Kimura's left arm. Then he gave him a few bits of ibuprofen. Miraculously... during all of this, Mr. Kimura's pulse remained stable.

"It looks like he's going to make a full recovery... I'm sorry... I don't know what I was thinking back there in his office. There's just something about his plans to give more people special abilities that really bugs me. I don't like what he wants to do... but I just don't want another death on my hands... not after..."

Dr. Strauss buried his face into his hands.

 

[i don't know]

Alec was at a loss of words, but did what he was told. He found the thermostat in the room quickly, and set it to the lowest safe temperature there.

"I hope this works, and if it doesn't, maybe I can find a way to use the sword and save him, but that's unlikely."

Alec saw Dr. Strauss appear to cry, trying to ignore him, he began looking for something to do.
He found a small remote which had the words "Mini EMP laser." Alec pointed it at the tracker in his chest, and turned on the EMP. Soon afterwards, the light began to glow dark purple as it appeared to dig farther into his flesh, looking for a way to avoid the EMP wave...

 

[JoJo]

"What's going on?" a weak voice came from a nearby bed.

Pale and shaking, Mr. Kimura struggled to turn his head so he could see his surroundings. The room was generally clean-looking with painted white walls and several medical posters easily visible. He looked a little disappointed when he spotted Dr. Strauss crying in a corner and Alec apparently studying a miniature laser.

"Oh, it's you two. I'm surprised you're still here after what he did to me. How long have I been out?"

He spoke a little stronger this time, emphasising his dislike of Dr. Strauss with the way he said "he".

 

[TheDoctor455]

Dr. Strauss took his hands away from his face. He checked the heart monitor... it was still beeping at a stable pace. Mr. Kimura's eyes seemed to be regaining their color... as was his skin.

"Mr. Kimura... it looks like you're going to make a full recovery. And... I'm sorry about what I did. I did everything I could to save your life just now... but I'll understand if you'll want to call the authorities and have me arrested. I won't resist."

 

[i don't know]

Alec put the EMP back and decided to let Mr.Kimura handle the tracker.

"Ok, I've found out that the sword is in possession of a woman named Rin, who has some dangerous powers. I plan on digging up Hui so I wont get lost on my journey for the sword and to get this tracker removed when you get better. I hope you didn't lie when you said I'd get paid because I cant earn any money for the next few days, and I need to eat."

Alec came closer to Mr.Kim examined his eyes, they appear to have changed color during his revival.

 

[JoJo]

Mr. Kimura looked thoughtful for a moment when he heard Dr. Strauss's statement but then shook his head.

"I suppose your... ability lets call it... could come in handy when searching the sword. Help Alec retrieve this most important object and I'll forgive you, and pay you a large sum of money too. Take this for now."

He slowly reached into his trouser pockets and while still lying down, took out a wad of cash and handed it to Alec.

"That's about a thousand Chinese yuan, equivalent of maybe a hundred and fifty American dollars. That'll last you a while. I'm sorry I can't help much with this Rin woman, I've never heard of her. You'll have to find her on your own. Did Hui say anything... interesting? Also do you really need to dig her up? It's only been a couple of months since she passed away so I'd imagine that the body... hmmmm... wouldn't be too pretty to say the least."

 

[i don't know]

Alec took the cash happily and thought of the lunch he'd be having that day.

"Thank you Mr.Kimura, I'll do everything in my power to find that sword, but if I'm going to be dealing with a woman with dangerous powers, I might need some weapons. Do you by any chance have a revolver of sorts?"

Alec began considering where Rin might be.

 

[Sporky111]

"You don't have to kill anyone." Takeda assured his friend in a hushed voice. "Just hold the gun in case you need to protect yourself. Hide here and wait and I'll do it."

Still invisible, he peeked over the crates and watched as some people started to enter the room. They were talking to Rin and Merlin and he didn't understand most of it. But he did see the sword. His eyes grew wide at the sight of it.

Then the two women, who he figured were the demons, both seemed to get antsy at the same time. One of them glanced in his direction briefly and he ducked down. He remembered Rin had been able to see them despite being invisible, he hoped it wouldn't be the same now.

 

[JoJo]

Rin seemed to notice the subtle change in Lily and Rezetta's expressions as she stepped back and raised her hands upwards towards the heavens as if calling upon a deity to heed her call.

"Now I have you here I will reveal my true purpose with you, foul demons, to deliver divine justice!"

For less than a split-second after Rin announced this, silence filled the air, before almost simultaneously a small cry came from somewhere behind one of the crates, the sound of a gun firing reverberated through the air and one of the followers fell to floor, blood pouring from a wound in his leg. Then all Hell did break loose.

~​

Meanwhile as the early morning sun rose over the ancient city of Paris, with it's patchwork of old and new structures mingled in with each other, a pale young-looking man who was nonchalantly smoking walked down a relatively dark street. Around him the most of the buildings appeared to be in state of slow decay, with many of them missing window panes and sometimes even a door.

Suddenly as he sauntered past a particular decrepit warehouse, a couple of robed figures burst out and ran down the street, shouting fearfully words in what sounded like Latin. Intrigued, he approached cautiously to take a look.

~​

As this happened, far away in Jinan, Mr. Kimura shook his head as vigorously as he could in his weakened state.

"Of-course not, you must surely know it is illegal in China for civilians to own firearms, with penalties ranging from three years imprisonment to death!"

Then, looking around furtively, he pulled Alec close to him and whispered in his ear.

"If you're willing to take the risk, speak to Mr. Ling the security head in the nearest room to this buildings exit. If you get caught though, I had nothing to do with any of this! Now go quickly and take Dr. Strauss with you. Here's my number if you need anything. Please leave now, I need rest."

He passed Alec a crumpled business card with a mobile phone number and e-mail address written on in bold font before collapsing back onto the bed and closing his eyes with a sigh of relief.

 

[i don't know]

Alec took the business card and reconsidered getting a gun, but then again, it was his only defense from a possibly murderous woman.

"Okay, thank you. Have a nice rest, [small][small]at least its not permanent[/small][/small]."

Alec shuddered at the thought of Mr. Kimura dying. He was too nice to die that death.

He whispered to Dr.Strauss to follow him and left the room.
Soon they reached Mr.Lings office, Alec knocked on the door. A tall, muscular, and uniformed man stepped out of the office.

"Who are you, and what do you want?"

"Hello, I'm Alec Bernsworth. I'm sure you've read about me in todays paper [small][small]god knows why[/small][/small], and I've had a really wacky day today. It started out with me being attacked by a Dr.Y, and ended with me helping a Mr.K. Long story short, I need a gun."

The man stared at Alec for a few seconds, and then burst into laughter.

"Are you serious!? I don't trust a few workers here with a gun, what makes you think I'll trust you!?"

"Well it's what will help me retrieve the sword that this company had long lost. I'm sure you should do everything in your power to help as well, but all I'm asking for is for you to give me something to help me, help this company."

"Well, I guess I could think about it, but I definitely wont give you one today. Come back tomorrow after I thought this through."

"Hey Dr.Strauss, meet me back here tomorrow at 12:00 am. It will be the beginning of our quest for the sword, just the sound of that makes me feel like I'm in a fantasy RPG...so dont forget to come! Good bye."

Alec decided that this was enough excitement for today, and headed towards the nearest bar, it would be a long walk home.

 

[JoJo]

Still holding the gun tight, Maya nodded silently in the reply to what the kitsune had told her before peering between the crates to listen in on what Rin was telling the two demons. She was surprised to see that rather than being little red creatures they looked like a couple of white but otherwise ordinary women. She jolted as she heard the word's "divine justice", recognising them as signal for her and Takeda to attack. Panicking, she almost dropped the pistol and as she fumbled to keep it from clattering to the ground, she caught it by the trigger...

"BANG!"

The small girl was thrown onto her back by the force of the firearm's recoil, the weapon itself flew out of her hands to land somewhere far behind her. Though she couldn't see what was happening, a man's scream of agony from the other side of the room indicated that the fighting had begun. Feeling vunerable and exposed she cried out and covered her face with her hands, before a terrible realisation came over her.

Wait, I can see myself... my invisibilty has come off!

 

[SeanTheSheep]

With the element of surprise lost, Lily stood completely still for a moment, observing the chaos unfolding around herself, sure that her shields would hold. Lying crumpled on the ground next to the boxes was a small child, dirty and confused, covering herself with her hands. The gunshot had come from her direction so Lily assumed she was the gunman. She sent a spear of force flying towards the child, aiming to pin it to the ground, but at the last moment, she had a change of heart, and moved it to the right slightly, instead making a hole fifteen centimetres deep, and roughly the diameter of a fifty pence piece in the concrete floor next to the child's head.

The gun was lying several meters past the young girl, but Lily was taking no chances, and brought the gun towards herself across the floor. It stopped a meter short of her feet, but Lily didn't mind, it was out of the hands of anyone who would use it, and lay close enough that anyone attempting to retrieve it would get the full force of a car smashed into their right eyeball. Turning to face the child, she sent a wall of force at knee-height towards Rin's entourage, catching them by surprise. People always assumed a telekinetic needed to look at what they affected, never failing to bring a smile to her lips.

 

[DktrAgonizer]

"I knew something was up!" Rezetta hissed, more to herself than to anybody else, as the inside of the warehouse became chaotic. She whirled around as she heard a gunshot, surprised to see what looked like a little girl get thrown onto the ground in plain view, presumably from the recoil of the gun that had skidded across the floor. A child! she thought, shrinking back against the far wall as Rin's followers began to run about. They were going to use a child to kill us?! Zetta shook her head in disbelief, brow furrowed. She'd known there was something up with that Rin woman and her followers, but to use a child like that... It was sickening.

Several of the robed men had run out of the warehouse by now. When Rezetta's head snapped back up, aware that others might be trying to attack her, she saw one run right past her. Her hand shot out and she caught the man by the collar, dragging him back to stand in front of her. "Are there more?" she demanded, for now ignoring the headache pounding in her temples. The man stared back at her, eyes wide and his jaw slack. Zetta bared her teeth in a nasty scowl and pointed her free hand to the little girl on the ground. "Are there more of them?!"

"I-I don't..." the man stuttered, trying to pull away from her. Suddenly, he reached into a hidden pocket of his robe and pulled out a metal cross. Before Zetta could let him go, he'd pressed the object onto the exposed part of the wrist that held onto his collar. She let him go with a screech of pain, bringing her other hand forward to smack the cross out of his hand. Pain and rage clearly visible on her face, she grabbed his collar again and forced his face to hers, eyes boring into his.

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, and while that may or may not be strictly true, it was true enough for her. All Rezetta had to do was look hard enough and she could see the things he most feared. Predictably, what she saw in his eyes were the stereotypical, evil-looking, beast-like demons as portrayed on the television. Gathering up enough of her power, she quickly fashioned an illusion of the demon's image in her place and let the man go. He scrambled backward with a shout, just barely making it out the warehouse door without wetting himself. Zetta let the illusion fall and, feeling more exhausted now than ever before, started to make her way towards the girl on the floor. There was no way a girl like that had been holding a gun of her own free will, she reasoned. She wanted to get to her, before Rin and co. could--and she wasn't entirely sure of what exactly Lily might do to her, either.

 

[Sporky111]

Takeda cowered behind the crate and covered his ears as the shot rang out. His eyes stayed squeezed shut for several seconds as he waited for trouble, or pain. It sounded so close, he thought someone had been standing right over him with the gun.

When he finally did open his eyes, it was because of a clattering beside him. He looked just in time to see the gun skitter across the floor, seeminly of it's own accord, and out of sight. Next he saw Maya, curled up on the floor nearby covering herself. And she was visible!

Takeda stood up and started to rush over, but as he was about to step out from behind the crate he saw one of the demon-women approach her.

"Don't touch her!" he shouted, conjuring a pair of white will-o-wisps in his hands and throwing them at her. He aimed them for her upper body, so at the very least they'd disorient her. If he was lucky she'd catch on fire and burn so he could save Maya.

 

[JoJo]

Maya screamed again as she took her hands away from her face to see one of the demons walking purposely towards where she lay, the other also seeming to watch her. In the corner of her sight she spotted Rin and Myrrdin standing still; having somehow avoided the fate of many of the followers. The Asian woman had a look of deep pleasure on her face as she observed the spectacle in front of her, when she saw Maya was looking at her she gave her a cheeky wink. It was only then that it dawned on the little girl that maybe the apparently kind lady hadn't cared quite as much about her or the kitsune as much as she had pretended.

"Help!" she cried out feebly, staring up in horror at the rapidly approaching figure.

Without warning flames suddenly shot from somewhere near her towards the woman, she assumed it must have been Takeda and momentarily felt very grateful towards her friend, before the mind-consuming terror of the two strange pale women and the shouts of pain and fear coming from the followers as they tried to flee returned. She turned onto her front and tried desperately to crawl away from the frightening scene, begging the heavens that something would stop the thing before it caught up with her.

 

[i don't know]

Spoiler: ooc

Sorry, there was a misunderstanding. I will change my post within a few hours.