"JESUS CHRIST!" Lily shouted, jumping madly, and accidentally squeezing the trigger of the gun and firing a bullet into Mryddin's leg. "Oh shit" She mouthed as the warlock screamed, and noticed the blood welling around the wound as he collapsed.
Forgetting entirely about Rin, Lily turned her aim towards the door, both hands on the gun and breathing heavily. "Get behind me" She said to Zetta, deliberately neglecting to use a name, peering into the darkness of the night against the bright white lights of the warehouse. Seeing nothing, she began to edge towards the door. "Step out with your hands behind your head" She called, hoping that it wasn't anyone involved with the police. That would be bad for business. Her mind briefly flicked back to the invisible boy, and decided that he probably wouldn't do anything to reveal himself to the stranger. Even children usually knew that alerting strangers to their presence was rarely good.
Gabriel flinched at the second gunshot, and he shook his hand, putting out the green glow around it. He pressed himself against the outer wall and edged towards the door. Even though his mind was screaming to him to leave, something at the back of the chorus made him edge closer to the doorhole.
Fearing gun-toting people, he started snapping his fingers, readying himself to produce some lightning.
"If you could take it easy," He said "I'll come in and say hi!"
He stepped around the corner and through the entrance, his hands clearly behind his head. The static surrounding his hands made his hairs stand up straight.
Takeda was crouched behind a crate, watching and listening to the adults talking. He felt a knot of dread form in his stomach as he heard Rin lying to them, telling the demons to attack and that she was on their side.
"Yeah, I'm still here." he said softly to Maya. "Rin lied, she made me promise to kill them. I can't break my promise."
He peeked up again as he heard one of the women curse and fire a shot. She was facing away from them now, and the door was open and letting light flood in.
"Don't trust Rin!" Takeda shouted suddenly, tossing a pair of white flares towards Lily while her back was turned. "She made us do it!"
Myrddin screamed as he fell to floor, blood pouring out of the deep wound in his leg. As he did so the case he was holding fell out of his hands and landed chunkily onto the ground; the shining sword it held clattering out across towards the two children. Rin didn't pay any attention to the blade, however, as she dropped to her knees to clutch the injured wizard.
"You monsters! What have you done to my baby? Don't worry my darling, it'll be alright."
Ignoring the exchange between Lily, Gabriel and Takeda; she turned to Rezetta with a look of pure rage on her face and pointed an accusing finger at her.
"I promise you demon that the third time we meet you won't be so lucky as our past two encounters, and nor will your new friend, or those useless children. Guess a kitsune's promise isn't worth much after-all!"
With that she and Myrddin disappeared, leaving nothing but a faint puff of smoke.
~
Mr. Ling jumped backwards as the entity that possessed Alec abruptly vanished.
"What was that?" he said dully "That ain't normal, even for this place!"
Suddenly a small radio balanced upon the room's desk began squeaking in Chinese, the large man picked it up and pressed to his ear for a moment, before slamming it down quickly.
"Der police are 'ere, dunno why though. Say they want a white woman who is visitin' us, her name's Backroads or something. Reception can hold 'em up for a few minutes, but could yer get her from the third floor and bring her here. Then I can help yer both escape. Make quick now! Mr. Kimura won't be 'appy with me if I let our patients get arrested!"
Alec coughed out a small amount of dark smoke before his eyes regained color, and his shadow shape-shifted back into a human form. Alec stood up almost like nothing happened, and covered the holster with his coat. If the police are here, he might as well hide his weapon.
"So what should I do? Should I go upstairs and fetch that woman, or should I stay here and make sure no one enters?"
A voice in Alec's head told him to go to the third floor and look for "Backroads".
Nickname: Blackrose (Real name not known, nickname given to her explained later in Bio)
Age: 18
Appearance: 5?11? With short black hair, a baby blue jacket, a pair of baggy black jeans, and a pair of green Converse for shoes.
Race: Human (Caucasian)
Bio: Blackrose was abandoned on the streets as at age 3, without as much as being told her name. She was unsure of how to survive, and resorted to stealing. Eventually, she learned how to pickpocket, but one day she was caught one day by a known gang member. Taking pity on the small girl, he taught her self-defense skills, and how to survive on the streets without getting caught. Eventually, she met the rest of the gang (The Snakeheads) the man was in. As she showed some of the techniques the man had taught her (and some she had taught herself) the gang began a discussion. Realizing she had no home or shelter, the gang allowed her to join them and live in the warehouse they used as a base.
At age 13, the Snakeheads decided it was time for her initiation in to the gang. She would have to choose a store and steal at least two different items for herself. As she was wandering the streets, she walked into a gardening store. As she looked around, she saw a bouquet of black roses, along with a shovel. As she asked the employee working there to bring up something from the back, she grabbed both items and ran. As she returned to the warehouse, she went to a patch of dirt in the back and planted all but one of the roses. She took a pair of scissors and cut the flower off of the top of the stem and placed it in her hair. As some of her now fellow-gang members congratulated her, Blackrose started to hear some quiet voices in the back of her head.
As she helped the Snakeheads with some robberies and petty crimes, some of the gang noticed she had an obsession with black roses, and gave her the name ?Blackrose?. The voices that she had been hearing also had been getting progressively louder. As they got louder and louder, Blackrose began to go mad because she couldn?t control it. She tried everything, from plugging her ears to taking pharmaceutical drugs. One time, she was screaming inside of her head, and some of the gang members around her turned and asked if she was okay. She said yes, and they said they thought something was wrong because they thought they heard her screaming. She began to figure out how to direct her thoughts towards the specific voices, and even began to learn how to convey images to the person. Unfortunately, the more she used this, the more tired she became. One day, she used her power to much, nearly killing herself. The more and more she used this power, the more it strained her each time.
There was one member of the gang who specifically tormented Blackrose. Calling her weak, saying it was no wonder why her parents abandoned her, even going so far as to calling her a b****. Once Blackrose figured out how to control her powers, she decided to get her revenge on the man. She planted increasing horrific and violent images into the man?s head, driving him to the brink of insanity. Two weeks later, she picked up a newspaper and saw the details of a horrific accident, caused by the suicide of Ted Banks, the man she mentally tortured. This death has caused Blackrose the most mental scarring, because this was the first time she killed someone.
At age 17, Blackrose had been having relations with a boy that lived near the warehouse. One day, she saw a member of the gang attempting to ?persuade? him to give up his money. When the
boy refused, Blackrose saw the gang member shove him into the street, right In front of a speeding car. Blackrose rushed forward past the boy, and punched out at the car. She felt a large rush of her energy surge out of her hand, and she blacked out. When she came to, she was lying on the ground next to a car with the front end smashed in. As began to get up, she felt extremely weak and her energy depleted. She realized it was a new development in her powers. This one was more dangerous, however, because of the amount of energy it took from her. If she used it when she was tired or after she has already used it, she would most certainly die.
On the day of her 18th birthday, Blackrose was more concerned by her powers yet. She decided she would go to the most obscure location she could, and hide, while trying to find out the truth of how she obtained her powers. Eventually in the Chinese city of Jinan she came across a secretive company who claim to study and treat those with powers...
Equipment:
Knife (1)
Sledgehammer (1)
Black rose (2)
Water bottle (4)
Abilities:
Mind blasts (i.e. Punching/kicking and using her mind to release a blast of mental energy to amplify the impact of her strike)
Telepathy (Can convey thoughts and images via mind)
Notes: To prevent her from being over-powered, the downside to Blackrose?s powers is she gets increasingly tired each time she uses them, and if she becomes too tired, she dies. Blackrose is also a vegan, and will eat anything plant-based, be it grass, leaves, or pine cones (Yes, it IS edible!) Also, to cut down on her increasing paranoia and madness (due to the voices in her head part mentioned in the bio) Blackrose is a smoker. She takes a piece of paper, puts some grass in it, and uses flint to light it. If I have any plot holes in any of my posts, please alert me, because while I AM on The Escapist, I do have a life, one that doesn?t include the time or attention span to read through hundreds of posts.
"Why are the police here? I didn't do anything!" Blackrose began to panic as she heard the sirens. "I didn't do any major crimes. Well, there was that one time... Blackrose began to shake as she relived the horrifying experience from a few years ago. Trembling as she thought that she caused a man to kill himself.
"Calm yourself down, Blackrose. Just light yourself a cigarette." She said to herself, grabbing a piece of paper and taking some grass out of her pocket. As she lighted it, she heard someone coming up the stairs. As they came into the room Blackrose drew her knife, shouting, "Who the hell are you?"
Rezetta couldn't help but groan as Lily shot Myrddin and then rushed over to the warehouse's door. She spun around once, twice, unsure of whether to get behind Lily like she told her, or to go after the sword that had spun across the floor. Instead, she stood where she was and fixed her eyes on Rin as the woman shouted at her. Zetta had the vague notion that she could probably just grapple Rin to the floor when she and the wizard disappeared. For the best, really, she told herself with a shake of her head. Not like I would have been strong enough to do that, anyway.
Zetta took a deep, shaky breath and looked back to where Lily was. "Rin and Myrddin are gone," she announced, once more reaching up to rub at her temples. She grimaced, wondering how long it would be before they'd be able to get somewhere safe and relax. "She gave us a very lovely death threat too, pretty much," she added.
She paused then, unsure of whether to go stand by Lily or go for the sword. There seemed to be somebody just outside the warehouse, and with their luck it would turn out to be another enemy. As for the sword, it was just by the crates where the invisible children were. And one of them's a kitsune, she marveled, staring at the gleaming blade. That must be the thing that was attacking me earlier. The same boy who threw out those flares and told us not to trust Rin, I guess? Her lips twisted into a wry smile as she began to make her way over to the sword on the ground. That warning of his came a little too late, I think.
Maya was relieved to watch Rin and her assistant vanish; after hearing what she had said about her and Takeda she had decided that the woman must definitely be a bad person, however kind she had acted earlier.
Does that mean these demons are good? she thought to herself I've never heard of a nice demon in stories, but maybe there really are some?
She was brought back to Earth by Takeda's reassurance to her, which from her point for view didn't make much sense.
"But that's silly; you don't have to keep a promise to a nasty woman who makes you kill people... I wouldn't!"
The small girl didn't wait for a reply though, as Excalibur landed with a clatter only a few feet away from where she was hiding. She crawled out on her hands and knees, looking furtively around despite her invisibility before reaching out for the sword. She cautiously gripped the metal handle, which felt a lot warmer between her palms than she had expected. As she held the blade a faint tingling feeling went up her arm and she tried to wave it about in a swinging motion, though the heaviness of the weapon meant she barely lift the tip more than two inches before letting it crash back onto the ground.
"Come and see this, Takeda!" she excitedly called back to the kitsune "It's really..."
She was cut off however as she noticed one of the demon-women was approaching again, forgetting that she was still invisible she stared up wide-eyed at her whilst clutching the sword, unsure whether to flee or to stay.
Lily listened to the boy shouting, and turned around in time to see the two balls of flame flying towards her. She quenched them in mid air, but felt a blast of hot air hit her. "Can you put it off for five minutes?" She called back "I can probably get you out of it if you tell me the specifics of exactly what she made you say. She made a big mistake in her research" before turning to the new arrival, the gun lowered. She gestured that he should put his hands down with her free hand "OK, I can't imagine this is ever easy to break to someone, but the world you know is just the surface, there's a whole lot more to see, and none of it makes sense if you've stopped believing in Santa. Anyway, two seconds for damage control" She said, holding up a finger. "Leave the girl, she's scared and she could be dangerous if cornered." She said to Zetta, still being careful not to use names in case this new man had some connection to the police. "No offence, kiddo" she added for the little girl's benefit. "So. What part do you want explained first?" she asked, smiling to the man.
As Alec entered the, room he was shocked to see a girl threatening to stab him....already...after like five seconds!
"Calm down! I'm here to help you escape the police! I don't know what you did, but the police already surrounded the building! If you cooperate with me, we can get out of here safely. However, don't think that you'll stay with me forever, I got to find something and bring it back here, I'm sure you would like nothing less than to go back to your home. The reception should be keeping the police outside right now, but they cant hold out much longer, we must get Mr.Ling."
A deep and serious scream was heard downstairs.
"Open the door right now, or we start the warnin' shots!"
"That makes everything so much easier." Lily replied, letting out a protracted sigh. "What this is, is a set up. The nutty cow who shouted at my friend is a nutty cow who's getting an invisible young girl and a boy whose age I can't be sure of to attempt to kill us. The boy is bound by some form of magic to kill us, but I think I can get him out of his little contract, and if you can tell a demon from someone not descended from a fallen angel, then you can help with that. Until then, we need to calm down the girl, because she has a sword that I assume is imbued with phenomenal amounts of power, and I don't think anyone will like the consequences if something goes wrong." she gushed all in one breath. "'kay?" she finished, adding a wry smile.
Takeda crouched in cover again and hugged his knees as the adults talked. What Lily was saying sounded rely intriguing, and he wondered if she would actuaally be able to help him. I really don't want to kill them, but I promised Rin. Even if she lied I can't break a promise . . . not without dying.
He looked over as Maya called to him. She was still invisible, so it looked like the hilt of the sword was levitating in the air. But more importantly to him was the demon woman standing nearby, looking at the sword with her disturbing white eyes.
Takeda rushed over to stand next to Maya, putting his hand on her shoulder for a moment, then he lowered the cloak of invisibility and stood in front of her protectively. He stared at Rezetta with his arms crossed, trying his best to look intimidating but not having the effect he wanted at all in his guise of a young boy.
"I promised I would kill you both." he said straight-faced, flicking his gaze between Lily and the woman directly in front of him. "But I really don't want to . . . how do you think you can help?"
"What the hell!? Did they just shoot someone? What does this f***ing company do?" Racing over to the door, she grabbed her backpack and shovel that were just by it.
"Hey, I'd recommend that you two get down here, won't be long 'fore they get here."
"I'm going to assume that's Mr. Ling, now come on." Blackrose said, practically jumping down the stairs. "By the way, name's Blackrose, and I don't plan on leaving this city 'til I get some answers."
Alec followed Blackrose to the first floor silently. When they got there, they saw that one of the scientists that worked in the building was shot in the leg, and was on the floor bleeding a pools-worth of blood.
"Oh my god! They already started shooting!"
Alec forgot about Mr.Ling and decided to improvise his own escape to save time. He grabbed hold of Rose's arm and pulled her into the company's parking lot. He saw a small black car parked in the second parking space from the entrance to the building, and began hijacking it. First he broke open the window to the drivers seat, he then pulled out a small knife and jammed it into the key slot, starting up the car after Blackrose got in.
"Hold on, this is going to be one hell of a ride!"
Zetta had stopped just a few feet away from where the sword was levitating off the ground. She knew where the girl was now; if she wasn't so exhausted, she would have tried to peer through the invisiblity. Instead, she was about to turn and walk over to Lily when she said to leave the girl alone. Before she did, however, Takeda revealed himself in front of where Zetta knew the girl stood.
"So you're the one who rammed into my legs, huh?" she asked, the corners of her mouth upturning slightly. She said and shook her head, glancing over to where Lily and the new arrival stood. "Honestly, I've no idea how she can help. She seems to know a lot more about this kind of stuff than me anyhow, so..." She paused, then took a few steps back and looked over to Gabriel again. "By the way, how'd you come across this place? I mean, if there's a chance somebody else can crash this party--namely, people in uniform--we might want to hurry this up or something."
Realising that the fighting had apparently come to an end and that Takeda had revealed himself, Maya decided it was safe to remove her invisibility. Her arms and then the rest of her body reappeared within a couple of seconds, faster than the previous time she had knowingly discarded the effect. She peeped round the boy's legs to get a better look at the smiling demon-woman, who now seemed a lot friendlier than before. Despite this the little girl was still glad that the kitsune was standing in front of her as she wasn't entirely sure she trusted the two women yet, especially after what had happened with Rin. Working up her courage, she called out in a quiet voice to the nearby adults before nervously ducking behind her friend again.
"Don't worry about Takeda, he's a nice fox-boy really, he just had to do that because Rin stole his ball and wouldn't give it back unless he promised to kill you!"
Maya lifted Excalibur up and then banged it down onto the floor with a clang to reinforce her point, as she did so a few bright sparks shot out of the end. She yelped but clung onto the sword regardless.
"I'unno lady." Gabriel said to the red-head after nodding to the rapt explaination of the other one. "I just wandered in here 'cause I heard gunfire, but I can't imagine anyone being around a here this early in the morning."
He saw the tiny fox-boy appear from whatever shadows he'd been hiding in, and the small asian looking girl from thin air.
"Snap, it's a regular convention of us people in here."
As they peeled out of the parking garage, Blackrose heard gunshots being fired from the windows up above. As they were speeding away from the Tao Zheng building, she heard the sound of metal piercing metal, and felt the piercing pain of a bullet hitting her shoulder. As she felt blood run down the back of her jacket, she felt the bullet still lodged in her shoulder. As the Tao Zheng building went out of sight, Blackrose decided it was time to start asking questions.
"Alright, you better know how to get a bullet out of a shoulder. Now what does that company do? Just what the hell is going on? And I'd like to at least know your name."
"OH SHIT! I don't know what to do about that bullet! Just keep your head down!"
Alec drove through a highway full of speedy cars, where most of the cops crashed trying to keep up. He then gave his phone to Blackrose and a business card.
"I need you to call this number! We're in deep trouble right now, and I have no idea where the restaurant I need to get to is!"
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