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[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Ali pinched the bridge of her nose as she shook her head, sighing she dropped her hands to her hips and ran the entire mission over in her head again. "I don't-I have no idea Hank...we were compromised." "How the hell were your compromised?" "The man that was there, he knew...knew about us. About me." "Wait. You mean to tell me that one of your targets knew what you could do?" "Target? You never said anything about a target...Hank what's going on?" "You were meant to bring back survivors. No matter the cost. Instead you tell me that your were compromised?" "Hank! You never said squat about any damn targets! Jeff and Pocket are over worked and tired, I'm shaken and Demetri..." "Demetri will be fine. You had a mission and you failed." Ali tightened her hand into a fist and felt her knuckles crack. "Are you saying you used us to get information on this *****? I could have lost Demetri last night, a good man and vital member of my team, Earth Fighter. And you tell me that doesn't matter since the 'information' you needed didn't come back with us?" "I couldn't tell you Alex, if I had you never would have agreed. This man that you ran into, he has the ability to control others around him, monsters, people, anyone that has a mental state easy enough to intrude on. You weren't able to use your power on him at all were you?" "No, he took me hostage as a result." "You lost focus. I'm not surprise he was able to get under your skin. He's good at that." "And how do you know?" "He used to be a trainee I was in charge of. His name is Sybille Beckett. He's a monstrous man and will do anything to win. Including using your weakness against you." "Yeah I gathered that, next time tell me this crap before you send us out. It could have saved us a lot of grief. And maybe Demetri wouldn't be in the med ward right now. If we had been better prepared and told what the hell you wanted us to do we could have had it done. Don't let it happen again Hank." She put a hand on his shoulder and let it drop as she headed for the med ward to get checked up on and to look in on her team. She sighed as Sasa, an older woman than herself, strode forward. "I hear you had a rough time. I told them they should have sent me." "Sasa, this is a really bad time right now. I need to get the med ward. Please?" "Aw, did you get hurt? Little Ali got a boo boo?" "I'll boo boo your face if you don't stop." Sasa gave a sarcastic smile as Ali smirked. Sighing she shook her head and nodded as Sasa followed her. "Yeah, it was rough, a lot more trouble than we all expected. Demetri ended up injured and the rest of us are more of less worse for wear." "Well I'm back from my little mission they sent me on. It seems they're sending all of us in the next few days." "And where is this?" "Egypt. There were reports of people gone missing and the seven plagues being unleashed." "What did you find?" "Nothing." Ali looked sideways at her as she swiped her card to get into the med ward. "Nothing at all?" "No town, no people...just an empty desert. Well I'm off, gotta go talk to commander Give the others my best will you?" "As if your best means anything?" "Of course not. I just want to sound like I care." Ali shook her head and walked through the door, Pocket and Jeff met her there. "I just talked to Sasa, we're headed to Egypt within the week. Are you two alright?" Pocket nodded and looked as Jeff went and sat back down. "We're fine, just tired, what about you? Did that man hurt you? Did he-" "No, I'm fine. I just need to check on Demetri." "He just got out of surgury. They say he'll be alright. He was allowed visitors a little while ago but I thought you would want to see him first." "Thank you Pocket. I appreciate that." She walked through the door that had Demetri's name on it, pulling the curtain aside she closed it behind her and sat down next to his bed. Grabbing an orange from the basket on his bedside table she began to peel it. His eyes were closed but she could feel that he was still awake. Finishing the orange she put it on a small plate and put it on his stomach. "Are you feeding me as well?" "You wish. How are you holding up?" "A few stitches, but nothing I can't handle." She nodded as he began to eat the orange piece by piece. "I'm glad to hear you'll be alright. It looked back in the van, deep." "Yeah, it grazed my spine." Ali felt her stomach tighten. "Thank goodness it didn't go deep enough to paralyze you." "That would have been ugly." She nodded and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Look about the mission. I'm...well I'm sorry for slapping you. It wasn't right." "Your apologizing? How did those words taste coming from your mouth." "Like crap. Don't push it. Look we're being sent to Egypt within the week, you think you'll be ready for action by than?" "Egypt? So soon?" "Yeah, Sasa was sent to investigate, she came back with nothing." "She failed? That's unlike her." "No, as in she went and there was nothing there, no town, no people...not a thing, just an empty desert." "That sounds unreasonable." Ali put her hand on top of his and gave it a light squeeze. "You just worry about getting better alright? I- the team needs you. So just...get better alright?" She gave him an uncharacteristic smile as she stood and left him in the small cot to rest. She motioned Pocket and Jeff to follow her as she left the ward and went to their small living quarters, it was set up like a small hotel all the room were on separate halls, each had a bathroom attached to it but the kitchen, living room, and dining room were in the middle of the small halls, almost like a small round house. Ali went to the kitchen and pulled out a bottle of water and tossed one to Jeff while she retrieved a can of soda for Pocket. Sitting down in the computer chair she took a sip of her water and leaned back looking at the other two. She explained the situation of Egypt to them and waited for their reactions, Jeff only nodded while Pocket scowled. "That makes no sense..." "That's why we're going Kiddo. So both of you start to get your things ready. Pack light and pack appropriately. Once Demetri is able to move we'll be heading out. My guess is about a week or so. Until stay sharp you guys." The nodded and left for their rooms, Ali stood and made her way back to the Medical ward, Demetri was asleep this time and she simply sat in the chair next to his bed and crossed her legs, folding her arms across her chest she felt her eyes get heavy and it wasn't long til her head fell forward and she was dozing lightly.[/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Anue wolfed down the food much like a starving animal would, as quickly as she could so as not to taste it. It wasn't that she hated the other woman's cooking, it's just she had sensitive taste and smell and sometime the woman would use spices that didn't really go together. Tonight was one of those nights. Swallowing the final bite she stuck her tongue out. "Ya know, she'd be a wonderful cook for a human...I call dibs on breakfast in the morning." Standing from the table she stretched and let out a small yawn. "Well, I'm gonna go tail after Oni, make sure he doesn't get himself into trouble. We all know how he is." Grabbing her leather jacket she grabbed her set of apartment keys, slipped on her boots and headed out the door. "Don't wait up!" She heard Rayne from the kitchen. "Back by dawn. You hear me Anue!" "Yeah yeah yeah." She took the stairs, not wanting to wait for the elevator, hopping them 2 at a time on her way down, reaching the bottom she opened the door and took a deep lungful of fresh air, catching Onidus' scent almost instantly, as well as Tahlia's. "Man, they sure leave behind a stink don't they? Lia should be fine on her own, she's not the one I'm worried about but if a human sees a giant wolf that loping around here there'll be trouble. " She began to walk in the direction that Onidus had take and before long ended up back in the park they had been at before, she couldn't say she was completely shocked. She saw him, in his human form thankfully, sitting on a bench looking at the ground and deep in thought. Kicking a stone on the ground to make noise and let him know she was there she saw the twitch on his eye brow; the only indication he knew she was there. "Hey comrade...whatcha thinking about?" "It's not your concern. You should go home." "And leave the big bad wolf alone out here? I don't think so." She heard the growl bubble in his throat and answered it with one of her own, the others sometimes forgot that she was a canine demon, though her transformation didn't give much into what breed of canine she was it was still there in her looks. He smirked and shook his head. "Your a stubborn one aren't you?" "Like all the rest of us. So why did you come back to this place...didn't get enough of it the first time?" "Same to you. I thought killing those children would make you avoid places like this for the rest of your lifetime." Anue felt her heart tighten and closed her eyes. "You know. I would usually take offense and try to rip your head off about now-" "Yes, you tend to do that alot with me don't you." "-and it's only cause you piss me off so much with your 'Oh I'm such a loner, leave me alone so I can wallow in my aloneness all alone' which I can respect...if you actually were alone." "That was quiet the mouthful." "Shut up dog breath." Again he smirked and said nothing. "Thing is Oni...your not alone. You have us. Me and Rayne and everyone else on the team. You know that right?" His silence told her everything she needed to know. "You always have us. No matter what." She leaned back into the bench and smiled as he sighed. "Your not leaving me alone are you?" "Again with the alone thing. Just for that...Nope, your stuck with me. Oh and Rayne wants us back before dawn." "As usual." "Yup." She put her hands on the back of her head and sat there with him as he remained quiet, whether in thought or just ignoring her she didn't know and didn't really care.[/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]I call dibs on the second car!!! xD Camero right? [/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Anue sprinted in the direction of the on coming monster, swinging her scythe out in front of her she dropped to her knees and put the blade on her legs sliding underneath the beast bringing the blade up she sliced the under side of the belly and spun around looking at it with sad eyes as it screeched loudly from the pain. "I am sorry little one...but you have to rest now." Spinning the scythe she sprinted forward and swung to the right with a powerful swing, Onidus landed on the blade and used it as a boost as she launched him towards the monster, she looked away as she heard it screech in pain once again and gripped her shirt, right above her heart as she heard it land on the wet ground, presumably dead. She was thankful it was still raining, at least it would hide the tears that streaked her face, her blue eyes darker than usual from her sadness. She twirled her scythe until it transformed back into the tiny hair clip which she put in her hair to hold her bangs back away from her face. Looking up at Rayne she heaved a sigh. "What next?" She froze as she heard shuffling behind her and dropped to her knees as a gruesom claw rushed above her. "What the hell?! that things not dead yet?" Jumping up she ran at the ungly thing, now dripping blood from the many attacks the team had hit it with, and jumped high into the air to deliver a powerful kick to the top of it's skull but she was a second to late as it's claw caught her around the stomach and sent her flying through the playground, she let out a scream as her back it a tree and she heard her spine crack painfully. "Damnit!" She coughed and was not surprised when blood colored the green grass at her feet, she looked up as Onidus knelt beside her. "Are you able to move?" "Who the hell do you think your talking to? Of coarse I can move." Meaning to stand she grunted as pain shot up her spine causing her to hit her knees and grit her teeth. "Alright, maybe I need a few minutes..." He nodded and left her to help the others while she let her advanced healing slowly fix her so that she too could get back into the fight. "This...sucks."[/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Okay, first question...why do they get the awesome car? lol. Or is that ours? cause if it is, your the best! lol Second, I was thinking that later on having like a huge shikibane 'invasion' of sorts, like during one of the more rare moon cycles or something like that...I dunno, I just thought about it so it's still rough. But having like a blood red moon, or a blue or harvest moon or something like that cause all the rouge shikibane to go berserk and having to split into groups to fight them? And on that note, I have another question. So we have means of communication? Cell phones, headsets, walkie talkies? That kind of thing to keep in contact with each other if we ever have to split up for any reason? Just some random thoughts that popped up. ^^;[/color][/font]

Anue sprinted to the left as one of the little girls dashed in that direction, coming up short as the girl, Eliza looked at her with tears in her eyes, she had yet to transform completely. "Your not gonna kill me are Miss? Your not gonna hurt me right? I just wanna go home..." Anue felt her heart squeeze, she had always wanted children and to see such an innocent form turned into this...it torn at a part of her she thought she had blocked away. "I'm sorry, but your no longer a sweet little girl...you've killed...we can't let that go." "Does that mean you wanna play?" Anue tapped the toes of her steel toed boots in the mud tightening them onto her feet as she dropped down into a well known Salivate stance, low to the ground and blananced so as to not get knocked over. Spitting the spent cigarette from her mouth she flipped to her right as the child turned monster charged at her as it transformed into a sickly looking Grey creature doing a swift hand spring she was back on her feet and facing the monster when a familiar form join beside her. "Oni, I really don't need your help here." "Rayne instructed me to assist you." "You know, that attitude of yours is really kinda charming sometimes, and than there are the other times, like now. It's really a pain in the ass!" The last word was yelled as she did a wide back hand flip as the massive claw like hand made a small crater in the ground she was standing moments before. "Well that would have sucked." She looked over at Rayne as he faced his own monster and yelled across the playground. "Are we allowed to transform?" "Not right now, you should be more than able to take these out in your current forms. We don't need any more problems with the media on this." "Yeah yeah, I got it. Don't get your feathers ruffled." Switching tactics she dug the toes of her boots into the mud and pushed off with her left foot into a swift sprint, charging the monster head on at the last moment she flipped onto her right hand and did a front hand spring high into the air and landed on the beasts shoulders as if it were getting a piggy back ride from the monster and stood up balancing her self on her left leg, her grounding leg and brought her right leg into a vertical split getting ready to deliver a might axe kick when the thing shook it's shoulders violently causing her to lose her balance and fall from the things shoulder landing hard on her left side. Grunting from the pain in her shoulder she sighed and cursed as she let out the foul word with the sigh. reaching up into her hair she took the small scythe charm and began to spin it on her finger til it was as tall as she was, swinging it forward the gleam of the black blade and the ivory, spine crafted handle contrasting off her slightly tanned skin making the weapon seem like it hand almost an ethereal glow to it, the monster took a small step back feeling the power emanating from the spectral looking the scythe. "Alright, time to get to work. Onidus flank it and we'll see if we can't take this unholy thing down with just a few well aimed hits." Gaining nothing but a nod she didn't wait for anything else as she swung the blade behind her to rest against her shoulder as she ran, ready to end this slaughter and get back home to a hot bath and a cold beer.

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Name: Anue Ookami Age: 29 Race: Demon Human Appearance: Anue stands at about 5ft 7in and weighs about 158lbs, she has a slender build, slightly muscular she has black hair with bright blond roots, bright green eyes she wears hip hugger jeans with two thin strapped shirts, the under one is bright red and the top one is black. She wears thick soled combat boots to complete the wardrobe. She wears very little jewelry, a simple silver cross around her neck and a silver bracelet with a wolf charm on it on her left wrist. She also has a tattoo of a wolf on her right shoulder. Usually has a smoldering cigarette in her mouth as well. Second Form Appearance: Her appearance doesn't change much other than the fact that her hair changes color, the blond becomes black and the black becomes blood red, her eyes turn bright yellow, she gains elongated canines giving her an animalistic look. She also sprouts 4 wings, the larger two resemble giant bat wings and the smaller two located directly under them resemble two small ones. Personality: Upbeat and slightly hyper she loves to have fun and will make a joke out of most anything if she can. Not one to be overly serious she is taken for granted most of the time as a well developed fighter. Easily distracted she can never sit for to long of a time period or she becomes overly bored and tends to do very foolish things. A chatterbox she can have a one sided conversation and not even notice if the other person is answering or not. Very child like she often gets herself into a tight spot just by being curious. The expression 'Curiosity killed the cat.' seemed to be made specifically for her. Weapons: She wields a large scythe made of Onyx and steel, the handle is formed to look like a human spine. But she is also very skilled at hand to hand combat, when not in the mood for using her scythe she uses her unique fighting style of Salivate to kick some ass. Powers: Anue can control fire to a certain extent, she can bend it to make it a lethal weapon or a gentle flame to light a cigarette. History: Born into a not so wealthy family Anue grew up on the wrong side of town, every night there was a killing or a robbery. Growing up in this kind of neighborhood she became well known in fighting and often had to put it to good use. Being human was her only downside. She was unique in her own aspect she never gave up and she never let things get to her. Even when she had to watch as her parents were murdered in front of her for a scrap of food she was able to shrug it off after a few minutes of crying and move on fighting for the right to live. At the age of 22 she was killed in a hit and run, not the most eventful way of dieing as she would say now. She was walking across the street and someone, not watching where they were going(a rich snob who was late for a whore meeting as she puts it) hit her and made her flip four times in the air til she hit the asphalt breaking her back and most of her ribs and rupturing a few of her organs. She lay there for what felt like hours til her eyes finally closed for the last time, feeling as if she were going to sleep she opened her eyes again to find herself in the same street as before but this time she was different and she had a weapon with her as well. Looking up she heard a voice tell her she was bound for greater things and to live amongst the humans til her time came. Having no problems with being allowed to live and have some more fun she took the offer swiftly and hasn't looked back since.[/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Ali looked up into the young man's face, her scowl deep as she studied him. He didn't look like a monster, but she could tell there was something different about him. He chuckled as he noticed her hard stare and shook his head. "You can stop trying to figure me out girl. You won't be able to." "Alright, than what's your angle? Why get rid of us like this?" "It's fun. Nothing more to it." "So are you the master of these monsters?" "Wouldn't you like to know?" The man snapped his fingers and Ali felt her stomach drop out, Demetri showed on the screen, couching up blood facing a woman he seemed to know. "What are you doing to him?" "Nothing he can't handle. You see this woman was someone he was supposed to save and failed in doing so. She seems pretty focused on getting revenge don't you think?" "Demetri did all he could! He's a good man who does his best at everything." "Let's see if he can do that well when it comes to dying, shall we?" "Keep your minions away from him!" Ali felt her face grow pale as the man looked at her in a new light. "You care for this man...don't you? I see now, yes. Well than, shall we give you a front row seat to his death?" "Leave him alone!" Ali let out a low growl and struggled against the bonds that had her tied her hands together as he flipped a switch. "Attention, all skeletals move towards the main control room, eliminate the man there and move on to find the other. Kill them all." "You bastard!" Ali stood and brought her hands down to her ankles and jumped over them easily, charging the young man she swung her left foot forward and caught him in the ribs, hearing him grunt and the wonderful sound of his ribs cracking she ran to the intercom and yelled into it. "Demetri, get the hell out of there! Now! Follow the others and get out of here. This is an order!" She grunted as the man tackled her from the right and threw her to the ground. "Stupid *****. You just made it worse for them. I'll kill them all, slowly. Maybe turn that man into one of them and let you have the pleasure of killing him, how does that sound?" "Up yours!" Cackleing the man flipped the intercom back off and turned on her, getting to her feet she charged him again and dropped down taking his feet out from under him she kicked him hard in the face knocking him out. Jumping to her feet she kicking the control desk that was there and sighed when the door hissed open. Reaching out with her power she felt pain radiating from a room down the hall. "There's no way I could be that lucky..." Sprinting as fast as she could she looked at the door and felt her spirits drop, the door was in shambles and she could hear the sound of a struggle from inside, pushing her way through she saw Demetri go down from another blast of the woman's voice. "Siren...just great." She ran into the room and brought her right foot down in a powerful axe kick and than swung around with her left foot knocking the woman away by a few feet. She rushed over to Demetri and dropped to her knees. "Demetri, are you alright?" "Alex? How'd you get away?" "Wasn't easy, where are Jeff and Pocket?" "I sent them to find you." "Right, get up, we have to get out of here, we're running out of time." Putting her shoulder against his she helped him to his feet and pushed him towards to the small hole he had sent Jeff and Pocket through. "Move it." "But Anna..." "Forget it Demetri! Move your ass or I will kick it the whole way back to HQ! We're out of time, the clean up will be here in 20 minutes!" That seemed to register as he turned and flung himself down the escape tunnel, Ali close behind him. Reaching the bottom she reached out with her powers and sighed. "They aren't that far ahead of us, go to your right and keep running." "Got it." "First thing...Demetri, could you get these things off my wrists?" He looked at her hands and nodded, slicing them off with a small burst of wind she sighed as blood began to circulate into her fingers again. "Right, let's move." She sprinted ahead of him as they made their way towards the others.[/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Pet Peeves... Stupid people. And I'm not being mean or anything else, I'm talking about the kind of stupid people you want to pin a sign onto letting the whole world know. Like today in the supermarket for instance. My son had picked up a jar of pickles trying to ask me to buy them for him, it slipped from his hand and shattered. First things this middle aged woman asks me? "Did that break?" That kind of stupid....yeah. Drives me nuts. Another one, people who ride your tail while your driving. If you can look in your rear view mirror and clearly see the label on their ball cap...they are to effing close! And biggest one for me...the word/term of MILF. I hate it with a passion. [/color][/font]

[b][font="Century Gothic"][color="#8b0000"]I realized I might not have put this in originally but this will be a mature RP. Okay, now that that's out of the way back to work. lol[/color][/font][/b] [font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Ali turned to Pocket and whispered to her quietly. "How many pistols do you have in your mind?" "Enough for all of us but why?" "Give us each one, I don't want to take a chance on one of us getting grabbed again. We need to stick to long range." Complying Pocket produced 4 pistols which Ali took and handed out, Demetri took his without argument but when it came to Jeff he gave a her a look and turned his head away clearly refusing the weapon. "Jeff, I'm not asking you. I'm telling you to take the damn pistol and use it. I don't want any of us getting that close to those things again." He took the weapon silently but the look on his face clearly said that he didn't like the idea. Checking the ammo and making sure the safety was off she took point and moved slowly inside looking this way and that. reaching out with her powers she felt a feeling of panic wash over her and took an uncharacteristic step back, her eyes widening and her breathing speeding up. It wasn't til Demetri put a hand on her shoulder did she pull her power back and relax. "Under the main power grid desk, there's someone there. Pocket, Jeff, check it out. Demetri, you keep an eye out, I'm going to see if I can feel anyone else." The team divided silently, though still within eyesight of each other Ali closed her eyes and let her powers leak from her own body as she felt around the room, this time ready for the feeling of panic that she was already aware of. Nothing. Sighing she looked up at Demetri and shook her head. "Nothing. Just the one person, who ever it is." Almost as if on cue Jeff and Pocket brought a pale young man towards them, his eyes were wide and full of panic as he looked from one of them to the next, his breathing was rapid and shallow. His skin had a fine sheen of sweat on it and from the odor coming off of him she could tell he had lost control of his bowels. Great. Trying her best to breath through her mouth she let a feeling of calm wash over the man and almost instantly his breathing slowed, his eyes didn't seem so wide and his shaking stopped. Looking up at them he blinked several times before standing on his own and covering his mouth, Ali and Demetri had a split second to step back as he vomited onto the blood stained tile and took a shuddering breath. "W-what were those things? I've never seen anything like them in all my life...what-what happened to the others?" "Don't worry about all that right now. You need to tell us what happened? But before that. Pocket, Demetri, take watch. Make sure no one or thing sneaks up on us while we figure out what happened here." The nodded and began to look through the shattered glass windows on the opposite side and doors leading out of the room. Kneeling down she put a hand on the man's dirty uniform and looked him in the eye. "I need you to tell me exactly what happened here. And don't lie to me, I'll know." "W-we were doing diagnostics on the system, all security cameras were down and the alarms had been shut off for the period of the test. It was all going as planned til we were 5 minutes away from reinstating all the systems. It happened so fast...there were these things...they looked like the zombies you see on horror movies or something...my friend tried to fight them off but they kept coming...one...one bit him and he fell to the floor...it looked like he was having a seizure or something. He was foaming at the mouth and there were these black lines spreading across his skin from where the thing had bitten him. It took close to 30 seconds after that thing bit him and he stood up with this dead look in his eyes...he-he came at me and tried to bit me but I got out in time and shut the door on him...." "Were there others in the room with you?" He looked down and Ali bit the inside of her cheek to keep from giving the young man a good tongue lashing. "So you left your other friends in here with him while he was like that?" "Y-Yes...I never thought it would end up like this..." "Well guess what. It did and now the entire base is nothing but what your friend turned into." "Ali." She looked up at Demetri, her name having been spoken as a warning, letting out an explosive sigh she looked back at the young man and closed her eyes praying whatever god above for patience. "What happened next? How did you make it out alive?" "A-Alive? You mean those things are dead? "As good as, now answer the question." "I ran to the lock room at the bottom of the base. It's a safe room in case of an emergency. I stayed there til the screams stopped and than by some grace of god made it back here to send out a destress signal." "We got the message while the Sargent was still in here, we could hear him over the radio relay." "I-I see...they must have gotten here after I ran...I just got back up here when I heard a gun go off so I hid." Ali looked back at Demetri, the noise he must have heard was most likely his wind blast, often to be mistaken as a gun. "Alright, here's the deal, we'll get you out of here, but you have to stay close and do what ever we tell you to do. Can you handle that?" "Y-Yes, I think so..." Ali stood and turned around facing her team she pinched the bridge of her nose and took a deep breath. "Alright, this has now become a rescue mission. We're to locate any survivors and escort them out. Once clean up gets here there'll be nothing left of this place." They all nodded and moved ahead of her scanning the halls as they exited the control room, following them out Ali froze on the spot as her powers receded back to her without her calling them, the calm on the room vanishing instanly. The hair on the back of her neck stood on end and her arms broke into goose bumps. Spinning around she glanced at the young man who stood erect, his shoulders squared and a menacing smirk on his face. His voice came out as a deep growl as he moved. Ali was taken aback at his speed and in the time it took her to blink he was in front of her, he wrenched the gun from her hand and snaked his arm around her neck, the feeling of the cold barrel against her temple. "Well now. This is the infamous HDF? Interesting indeed." "Who the hell are you?" "Just a fan." Ali looked up as the others aimed their guns at him, but they were unable to take a shot with him holding her in front of him, she locked eyes with Jeff, the most cold and calculating of the group. "Take the shot." He held still. "Jeff, take the damn shot!" Demetri shook his head and lowered his gun, the others doing the same, the young man chuckled and ran his tongue along her neck to her jaw. "My my, your so sweet. What's say we take this to a more private location." Holding her tight he leapt into the rafters and was gone, Ali along with him, her powers no longer keeping the easy calm on the others as tears began to gather in Pockets eyes.[/color][/font] [b][font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#8b0000"]Your on your own for a little bit guys. Have fun![/color][/font][/b]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"][b]Great first posts everyone, lets get to the good stuff![/b] Ali leaned her head against the window and gritted her teeth as Demmy took a sharp turn making the van pitch to the side. "You know, I realize we don't have to worry about getting pulled over due to the radar jammer that was put into the van, but I really don't feel like getting pulled over for anything. We're almost there anyway. Slow down before you make us roll." Demetri gave a smirk and looked her way making her frown slightly. "I'm serious Demetri." "Demmy." "Demetri." "Why is that you call Calypso by her nick name but not me?" "Cause personally I think your real name is better than your nickname." It was about as close to a compliment as they would ever get from her and he took it in stride. "Well thank you. I think?" She began to check her equipment as the base came into view and was pleased to see the rest doing the same, extending her power she could feel Pocket's dampered enthusiasim and Jeff's usual 'nothingness' as she called it. Switching off the radio she turned around and looked at the two in the back. "Be ready for anything, we have no idea what we're going into so watch each others backs and be alert." Giving confirmation signals she turned and frowned as they rolled through the gate without being stopped by any guards. Her frown deepened as they continued through the small base not seeing any movement or activity at all, she made sure her throwing daggers were easy to get to and began to let her eyes skim the area as the sun began to drop below the horizon. Looking back at Jeff and Pocket she saw them doing much the same and let a deep calm fill the van helping them to be more alert but it was short lived as Jeff yanked the wheel to the right and letting out a curse. Ali had her door open and was jumping out before the van came to a halt, the others doing much the same. Pocket was in behind them as Jeff and Demetri positioned themselves on her left and right, all poised and ready for anything. "What the hell did you hit? "I'm not sure, what ever it was shattered the windshield and buckled in the hood of the van, but it rolled off so fast I couldn't get a good look at it." She tightened her toes in her boot getting ready for a fight if it came to that, her daggers ready and gleaming in her hands. "Pocket, light some flares, we won't be much good if we can't see our own hands in front of our face." Within moments the area around them came to life in the red glow of the flares and Ali squinted as she began to see movement around them, reaching out with her powers she took a step back momentairly stunned by the lack of emotion she felt. The others looked at her shocked to see her so out of character. Demetri stepped forward and put a hand on her shoulder. "Ali? What is it?" "I-I don't know. I can't feel anything. I can usually feel something from our enemies, no matter what they are...but this time, it's just...blank." "Any idea what they are?" "I don't know, keep a sharp eye though, what ever it is, it's close." The others barely had time to nod before a pale creature launched it self at Pocket, spinning around in an instant Ali brought her foot across and caught whatever it was in the ribs and sent it a good 2 feet away from them, as a whole they walked cautiously towards it and Pocket gasped as the monster came into view. The military uniform let them know that whatever it was had once been personnel at the base, but something was wrong. The man was thin, almost nothing but skin and ones, his skin was a sickly pale, whiter than snow and seemed to give off the odor of sour milk, his eyes were solid black and his nails and gums seemed to have black veins spiderwebed through them. Ali covered her nose as the smell got worse. "What the hell is this thing?" Hearing her head set beep she put her finger on it and answered. "Ali." "They're skeletals. Be careful that no one gets bitten, you'll turn into one. They best way to kill them is to find their creator. Kill him you kill them all." "They sound like vampires." "Close but worse. They have no humanity left. All they do is stand there unless the creator gives them an order and they do it with out stopping. They feel no pain, no hunger or sleep. They just are. Watch your backs and keep your formation tight." They line went dead and Ali heaved a sigh. "You all get that?" The nodded and got ready. "Alright, here's our objective, find the creator and eliminate him or her and end this. Clean up will be here precisely at 0800 so we have to be out of here by then, if not, well you get the idea." Gaining another collective nods she put her daggers away and drew her rapier and began to move forward slowly, a flare glowing in her hand much like one was in the hands of the others moving into the base they stopped as something moved in front of them, throwing the flare in front of her she let out a small gasp as a wall of Skeletals shuffled back and forth in front of them. Back up slowly she settled a calm around them as the all got shoulder to shoulder and readied themselves. It was Jeff that moved first as one of the sickly creatures lunged at him, it's headed seeming to be to heavy for it's body and smashing into the ground to flatten, it's black blood and green organs covering the tile floor below their feet and as if on cue the rest of the deathly mob lurched forward attacking them as well. Throwing her left leg out she heard the satisfying crunch of it's jaw under her boot and pulled her leg back in time before another grabbed her ankle. Sticking to her rapier from then on she stayed close to the others as they fought through the horde of monster beings. [/color][/font]

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[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]I'm actually have a huge problem at the moment. When I go to sign into my actual account it won't let me. If I ask for a new password I have to use my e mail because it says my user-name is not in the system. I've requested a new password, inputted it many times and it still refuses to let me into my account. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but it is quite frustrating. I had to create a whole new account just to be able to let everyone know what was going on and that I hadn't bailed on any RPs I was in... Any advice or a way to fix this? It's just so frustrating to the point I'm ready to pull out some hair. Heh [/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Sekeiri rolled over on her bed and looked at her clock, sighing a soft curse she realized she had only been sleeping for less than 10 minutes. Pushing her face in her pillow she tried to will her self to go back to sleep but gave up as she noticed it wasn't going to happen. "Ugh, fine than." Flipping the one fingered salute at her clock she swung her legs off the bed and shivered as the cold tile of her room met her socks, slipping on her boots she opened her door, stuck the usual cigarette between her lips, lit it and started down the hall, picking up two cups of coffee she walked through a few other halls and stopped at the training room. Looking through the glass she saw Felix alone and cleaning, not surprising. Pushing the door open with her shoulder she nodded to him as he looked up, clearly shocked to see her back. "Sorry for bailing earlier, you know I'm just kinda intimidated by you guys, I have no special powers, or super human bull **** to help me fight. I'm normal and as much as I sympathize with you all for how hard it must be...there are times I envy you. You guys have the potential to do so much more damage than me. It seems so unfair sometimes. I dunno. I suppose I'm just scared of getting kicked off the team. I don't want that to happen, I love you all to much." She chuckled lightly and heaved a sigh; handing him a cup of coffee she leaned on the wall. "You want some help? I may not be superhuman, but I know how to tidy up a place." "Hard to believe when seeing your room." "And he speaks! Hey, what does that mean?" He didn't laugh but he shook his head and went back to what he was doing before. "Thank you." "For what Fel?" "The coffee, obviously." "Why is it, that when I talk to you, I feel slow." He didn't answer her but she knew he wouldn't. The look on his face was enough, it spoke volumes and she shook her head chuckling again. "How was Locke?" "Usual. Quite, reserved...the usual. Wish he would open up to us more, kinda like you. I mean I know you have your moments but you need to learn to relax and just spend some time with us. You'd be surprised how much it would help." "Help what exactly?" "Everyone. We work well together, hell we're probably the best team here, but we would work a lot more well together if we knew everyone better." "It could be a bad thing as well Sekeiri." "What makes you think so?" "Say that something happens where we have a target to protect, if we get to close, any of us, we won't throw our selves in front of our target to protect him or her, we will throw our selves in front of each other for fear of losing one another." "Is that such a bad thing? If we're willing to risk our lives for each other?" "It could be, yes. If we have to protect some one important, we can not let the importance of each other get in the way of that, we would fail our objective and be disbanded." "Yeah, I see your point. But you know Fel...it doesn't always have to be about the job. You can have fun to. That wouldn't hurt anything, and it's not that hard." Nothing was said after that as she put her coffee down and took up a rag and began to wipe off the table in the room silently. His words filtering through her head, was it such a bad thing to want to put your life on the line for people you cared about? Could it be a bad thing? She had never looked at it that way it was a shock for her, something she would think about for a while. [/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]"Seriously Fel, you expect me to get in there with that thing?" He shot her look that clearly said he did. "I'm only human you know! I can't shoot fire from my hands, or drench someone with a single thought." She gestured towards the craft users and grimaced as Elena took a hard hit to the stomach and coughed as she backed up. "Your insane." "I've heard that before." "Yeah, I bet." Sekeiri sighed and dug the pack of cigarettes and a lighter from her coat and lit one inhaling the bitter smoke deeply and relishing the numb, tingling sensation that filtered through her fingers and sighed as she exhaled the pale smoke watching as the air system in the building carried it away. Taking another drag on the cigarette she shook her head. "I'm out of here." Felix looked back at her with a look that could have been surprise, but she could never tell. "I'm gonna go see how Loke is doing." Felix didn't move but she could tell he was about to say something, she waved a hand at him as she stuffed the other into her pants pockets. "Don't bother, I know he probably won't talk to me but you know what they say, you have to work at a problem to find a solution." Before Felix could call her back by pulling rank she briskly walked through the halls raising a hand in a silent hello if she passed any co workers til she reached a small hall that was dark and foreboding. How many times had she been down here now? More than she could count really. Shrugging she walked down the short hall and stopped at an ugly olive green door with a few worn numbers that were to faded to make out. Tapping on the door she gave her best smile as the door cracked open and Locke's right eye could be seen peeking out. "Hey there stranger. Just wanted to check and see how it went." "Went fine. Why is it always you checking on me?" "Cause I can?" She held up her hands in defense as he scowled. "Alright alright. Sorry. Hey, you wanna hit the chow hall and get a bite?" "Your inviting me to eat with you?" "Uh, yeah. I always do when I catch you here. Is it so shocking that I still am?" The look he gave her was unreadable considering she could only see one eye from the crack in the doorway. She closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose and exhaled a breath she wasn't aware she was holding. Looking up as he emerged and gave him a wide smile. "See, not so hard huh?" He didn't answer her which made her chuckle, looking over at him she let her eyes roam for a moment before looking forward again. He was handsome, and she couldn't understand how he had become so withdrawn from people, something she was wanting to change by having him trust her. Getting their food she chose a table in the back and took a long drink from her mug of black coffee and sighed. She looked up and took a small bite of the chicken she had grabbed and grimaced, tasted like usual...crap. "So, how did training go?" He shook his head and continued eating. "Don't worry, it'll get easier the more you practice." She looked past him and flattened her upper body to the table making Loke jump slightly and jolt backwards, Sekeiri had her hands on his shoulders holding him in place instantly. "Stop, don't move. It's Felix. He's probably looking for me since I bailed on training earlier. Just don't move." Whether he complied due to shock, or just for the hell of it she wasn't sure, but as Felix exited the room she gave a sigh and smiled at him brightly. "Thanks bud. I owe you one. Well I better get back to barracks before he does find me and drills me into the floor with a famous Felix lecture. I'll see you around. Take care Loke." She checked the halls as she moved quickly through them and ducked into her room locking the door. Trudging over to her bed she flopped down and almost instantly fell asleep. [/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]You know what they say chibi, ice does nothing for the uncoordinated. lol[/color][/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Ali jogged down the hall, her long hair trailing behind her like a tail of brown tied at the end with a small red ribbon, her expression was hard and unreadable as she turned another corner and sprinted into the office not surprised when she nearly ran into Demetri. He was usually the first on there if not her. he grabbed her shoulders tightly to keep her up right and raised an eye brow. "Trouble?" "What are you doing here already?" "I was looking over a few older files, you look like ****, what's going on?" "We have a mission. A military base in the South was attacked last night. Do you know where Jeff and Pocket are?" "I'm pretty sure Jeff is in his usual area and as for Pocket, your guess is as good as mine." Cursing she turned and ran from the room only to turn back around and poke her head back in. "Call them on their cells. I'm gonna go look." He gave her a nod and shook his head as she sprinted from the room, she worked to hard sometimes. Ali raced through the halls and frowned as her phone went off, flipping it open she pressed it to her ear and rolled her eyes as she heard the music and sounds of a game on the other end. "Ali! I just beat the new game I got last week you should swing by and see it." "Pocket we don't have time for that! Get to the office on the double, we have a mission." "You got it." Flipping the phone shut she slid into a small room, no noise was heard and the lights were off. "Jeff, you in here?" There was no answer only the sound of movement, reaching out with her powers she did indeed feel his presence and sighed. "Get to the office, we have a mission. We're heading South." The only indication she received that he had heard her was when he came from the room and walked down the hall she had just come from. Nodding she followed and they entered the office together seeing Pocket and Demmy sitting at the small round table that was set up there. Walking over to the coffee pot she poured a cup and took a sip as the large screen flipped down showing an older man who had the worst receding hair line she had ever seen. His light blue eyes were watery and she was sure that there were frown lines beginning to show on his forehead. "Good to see you all here already. You have a mission, you'll be heading to the Southern military base. They were attacked last night by some unknown hostiles that we have yet to identify. Your job is to go there, find out who or what attacked them and why. If you must engage, you are to eliminate them at all costs. God speed and good luck." The screen went black and Ali looked at the others who sat there with different looks on their faces. She shook her head and set the white coffee mug down. "Well you heard the man. Let's get out of here." They nodded and headed to the small garage in the base and piled in, none of them needed to get anything, already having their weapons on their person and everything else they would need thanks to pocket they got comfortable for the few hours they had on the drive til they arrived at their current mission.[/color][/font] Alright, we're hitting the ground running. Everyone just go off of mine and describe hearing about the mission, whether from me or the base leader and if you want to go into the ride in the van feel free. Once everyone has just about posted I'll move on.

[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Okay everyone, it is I, Knuckles' Girl. For some reason it wouldnt let me in as my normal name so I had to re register. Not my day. But I am back and I havent forgotten about this. I will be starting it soon. If you guys are still interested please send me a message on this account. Thanks for signing up everyone[/color][/font]. [font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#000080"]Okay, there are two more people I'm looking for to sign up for this. But I've started it. So let's get this going.[/color][/font]