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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:23 pm
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Not wanting to turn back now, Mei stuck close to Bul, cautious of their surroundings. She had been to the Haunted House on numerous occasions, but never with the fog like this. There was no telling what lurked in the fog, aside from the creepy a** misshapen figures that they had seen, and possibly some 'other' visitors. Thankfully, Bul wasn't impossible to follow, as he practically stood out in the fog. His size and height made it easy to keep track of his whereabouts, even if her attention wasn't on him all the time.
Nodding in response, the doll peered around the boil, spotting the group soon after he had. They appeared to have grasped a little bit of luck, as Gale was among the group ahead, and they would be luckier yet if they somehow avoided a fight here.
Her gaze landed on another familiar face in the group--Deryk, was it? She had seen him a few times already. From what she had seen of him so far, he was decent, for a hunter. The others, however, were completely unknown to her.
"What do you suppose we should do?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:19 pm
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The fog monster - thankfully - was dissipated much more easily than the bloody dragon that had destroyed Gale's house was, and he was grateful for it. He gave Deryk a somewhat apologetic look as he lowered his rifle, wearily leaning against it with both hands.
"One of the ones Caelius tagged, you mean?" he asked, gaze flickering towards Jude briefly. "We caught a few creatures earlier; he put tracking devices or summat in them," he said, by way of explanation. "But there's no point in asking the ones that have gotten this far - we won't be able to get anything out of them."
He straightened a little, and sighed, rubbing the back of his neck tiredly with a gloved hand.
<< Gale. >>
What?
<< Are you all right? >>
Just a bit tired, is all. Gale glanced at Jude.
"Let's keep moving," he said in agreement, and turned around, stepping down the hallway -
- and running straight into the two people he really had not expected to run into.
"...Mei," said Gale, half relieved, half uneasy at her appearance. The boyfriend was behind her, large and spiked. "Bul. What are you doing here?"
He lifted a hand, turning his head to the others.
"Don't attack - they won't fight us. This is, ah...Mei...and Bul. This is, er...Jude, Otto, and Deryk."
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:57 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:13 pm
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"Are you sure you trust them?" The voice would be heard only by Jude, spiteful, venomous and bitter. "They are your enemies, they will find your weaknesses and kill you." For a second, the trainee would feel something else, a flicker of doubt, even towards his allies.
Deryk too would hear another voice. "You are useless anyway," It hissed, reconfirming old suspicions, "All you do is mess things up. They will replace you, and then you will be killed, like the worthless bag of meat you are-" An image flashed through his mind of everyone around him turning away, leaving him, laughing at him, mockingly - for a moment it seemed real-
- For Gale as he turned to Bul and Mei, he could hear another voice. "Is this the right choice? You are trusting Halloween creatures, they could betray you. They'll betray you, they'll betray everyone, you will be crushed you will love everything you worked for and -" A single bloody, tattered jacket hanging from a raised pole. A voice, vague and distant, a hand pulling towards him -
- The whites shifted just slightly, but it was almost unnoticeable in the fog.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:25 pm
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"Mei was one of the ones who..." Gale started to say, but a voice interrupted him, a snide, sneering, amused voice that did not come from any of the people standing around him.
"...you will be crushed - "
He spun around, eyes flickering to each face in turn and then all around him. "Who said that?" Gale demanded, his fingers gripping the barrel of his rifle so tightly that his knuckles were white beneath the glove. "Who - "
And then he saw it - a white, bloodstained coat, fluttering, a hand -
"Stop it!" Gale gasped out, staggering backwards, his heart slamming into his chest. The fog around him was thick, but he could still see the people in front of him - and the coat -
" - they'll betray you - "
"Shut up," he snapped, his head beginning to ache. "Shut up, I know what I'm doing - "
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:24 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:10 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:21 am
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Sure enough Gale wasn't the only one hearing voices and it was a little too late for Otto's warning. Jude tensed up and took his attention off of the two newcomers and looked around but it was only just them...? The doubt that he felt turned him against his fellow Hunters. It was them wasn't it. They did something to him. There were always some sort of weird effects going on back home making him think he was a Dolphin Princess and making him feel so much Joy he didn't know where to go with it, goodness knows what else.
Agitated, Jude yanked off his cowl, "I am staying sharp, Otto, very sharp. I know exactly what everyone here is trying to do," He said with a bit of a paranoid gleam in his eyes. He wasn't going to let them see any of his weaknesses. Oh no. Definitely not.
They can just stop what they were doing right there. He stared at his fellow Hunters for a long moment and then toward the other two, maybe if he....
Jude started walking backwards to see if he could find a nearby wall to cover his back but then Deryk spoke up and he snapped, "No, you stop that."
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:21 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:27 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 1:47 pm
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"Are you sure that's even Mei?" As the voice whispered to Bul, the figure that should have been Mei slowly turned its head, eyes a sickly yellow, skin grey, crackled more so than ever, wispy and hollow as her body began to dissolve piece by piece revealing nothing more than clay and mechanical runes underneath. "Are you sure that this is same Mei you know? Who knows what the Hunters were up to, look how they hide secrets from you. They know something and they won't tell you, and now you're stuck with a puppet instead of your real ghoulfriend. You're being manipulated by a puppet to go willingly into the Hunters' hands ...."
Meanwhile Otto would hear a snide laugh. "Trying to look smart are you? Trying to look busy? Or are you just trying to hide the fact that you are useless, that all you are good for is being thrown away? You're lucky to even be alive, perhaps last time, but you know what they say about lightning striking twice in the same place...." A strange emotion began to bubble in the Death trainee's mind, festering. Paranoia. Confusion. Uncertainty. An image, the flash of a familiar dungeon cell, the smell of dank, stale water. The squirm of insects, crawling against his spine. "Or perhaps you've begin to realize that you still need to wake up. That you never left the dungeon all this time.."
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 1:51 pm
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"No. The question is. What can you do?"
Who said that? Was it Gale? Or one of Gale's friends? The way they looked at her, they way they eyed her suspiciously and cautiously, the way they examined her, just like they had back on the Island, back with the other Hunters, treating her like a dog, no, lower than a dog, lower than a puppet -
- Even though she said she willingly helped, how much of it was really her?
"That's right," The voice confirmed, sounding very much to Mei like herself. "That's exactly so isn't it? You didn't come back from the Hunters normal. There is something wrong with you. There is something even more broken than usual and you're just hiding it all this time and the Hunters know, they know and they're waiting for you to slip up, waiting for you to fall into their arms, for you to finally lose the tiny bit of will you have left and to take your boilfriend. Take everything that is yours."
A stab off feeling. Loss. Jealousy. Hatred. Confusion. Trepidation all at once as the voice whispered louder to her through the torrent of emotions she could no longer control. "They are going to take YOUR HOME."
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