|
Post by 0 on Sept 30, 2017 21:45:41 GMT
The fox's ears pinned back as the light grew brighter. His eyes began to squint, and he gave one last check of the angle before shutting them completely, turning his face away from the light.
His ears rose back up, and he started listening closely to the sounds around him, trying to pinpoint certain things in all the chaos. When the beam finally came and struck the reflector, there was a clear and resounding ring as it was bent and shot through the centipede. Its laughter had stopped, but the fox would wait until the shield's song subsided--which continued on for a few moments even after the light was no longer hitting it--before he would begin to open his eyes, slow and careful, just in case the light wasn't wholly gone.
He heard the reflector rattle, vibrating dully as it held firm against an attack from its front, the glass hardly even splitting. His stripes were already flaring up, muscles bunching as he prepared to leap away, but in the same moment that they began to glow and strip away from his body, he felt himself choking.
The stripes fizzled out, laying flat against his sides. The fox's jaws cracked open with a raucous hack, a burst of crimson splashing onto both reflector and the rooftop around him. His legs kicked out, claws scraping what little surface they could.
His eyes began to roll; the world was going fuzzy, and he swung blindly out with the reflector.
|
|
Administrator
|
Loner, Kazetatsu, Kaze
PLAYER NAME
|
|
Post by Loner。 on Oct 1, 2017 12:49:45 GMT
It was knocked slightly off balance, but pressed the attack. The fox didn't seem able to keep up the fight for much longer.
Malik's body moved before his thoughts caught up enough to initiate inhibitions.
He was on the roof behind the fox but he didn't have time to wonder how he'd covered that distance.
Light was physical, arms..no..wings, knocking the now arachnid like centipede back off the roof.
The insect fell, not managing to catch itself as the same tar that prevented the light beam from further harming it did slow its reaction time somewhat.
From there the men of the city were not being idle, a half giant among the residents, cleaving the body through with a large axe.
There was a wind like screech which came from the creature's body and it lay still, as though dead.
Malik was more worried about the fox. It had taken the brunt of the centipede's attacks and the damage looked bad.
A glowing hand grabbed at the back of the canid's neck to steady it.
Malik didn't know how bad the internal damage was, nor what this creature's anatomy was supposed to be like, but he hoped his light could heal enough of what had been done to ensure the fox would survive as he shifted his energy towards that purpose.
|
|
|
Post by 0 on Oct 1, 2017 22:14:38 GMT
Blood dripped from his muzzle. The reflector dropped onto his back, disappearing in a shower of light.
His eyes rolled back into his head and all his senses went numb.
The fox was halfway between limp and stiff when he was removed from the centipede, a hole through his throat and several gashes in his chest. His lungs struggled, muscles twitching.
The human's light flowed around and into the wound on his neck, sealing up the damage. Before his hand could move over to the other wounds, however, the fox's body was already giving a shudder.
Within moments, his flesh simply began to disintegrate, leaving behind only a small slip of paper. The body disappeared into a spotty haze of copper light, which rose, swirling, and then coalescing into a phantom shape above the others' heads.
In brass and copper tones, the fox reformed as a dimly glowing specter, visible only to those with such capable sight. As soon as the ghost formed, however, it was already fading away.
"Well, fuck," said the ghost of the tailless fox. He couldn't hear or see much, but he squinted as his nose turned in the glowing human's direction, whose light shone stark against the darkness of death. He had no idea the state of the centipede, nor the rest of them. "Hey, if you survive; pick up my groceries for me, will ya?"
In a small, final blink of light that seemed to shoot off like a comet into a tiny point of nothing, the ghost disappeared.
|
|
Administrator
|
Loner, Kazetatsu, Kaze
PLAYER NAME
|
|
Post by Loner。 on Oct 2, 2017 23:00:48 GMT
No. This wasn't supposed to happen. The fox wasn't supposed to die.
But soon enough there was nothing left to heal, nothing Malik could touch, or fix.
The ghost stood out firmly to the male's current vision, more clear than anything else to be honest. He'd hurt his own eyes back there. It was a wonder he could sense anything at all. "Shit." He should have been able to save the guy. He'd taken the most damage, he'd been the brave one while Malik had been more defensive in his tactics.
Instead there was no body to grasp. Only... strangely a piece of paper.
His vision slowly retuned to normal. The chaos below was extensive the carcass, ugly and blackened lying there, men fighting off the last of the demonic beings that had come out of the gigantic centipede. There were a few casualties on the human side but it could have been worse.
Malik carefully brought himself down from the roof, and dropped to the ground. It didn't look much better from down here than up there.
Pocketing the paper to look at later, he walked over to see if there was anything he could do to help.
|
|