soul_logs | [Event] Invasion!

Characters: OPEN to everyone!
Location: All over Death City
Rating: Various
Time: February 2nd
Description: Witches have invaded and are attacking the city!

The attack, when it comes, happens quickly enough that Death City would have been caught flat-footed had there been no prior warning, but it's not completely unexpected because of the city's heightened state of alarm the past day. Warning sirens start sounding to alert the citizens and guests the moment a dark, slow-moving mass out in the desert to the south-east of Death City is spotted by Shibusen sentries. There's even time for civilians to run and hide before the mass is identified as an army of what looks like decaying, shambling corpses. The city's defenders are slow to move, however; most of them are distracted and are having trouble dealing with the black blood in their bodies. While agents are gathering to head out to deal with the zombie threat, that's when the witches make their move.

Portals begin opening in the skies above the city, disgorging hideous familiars: bulbous spiders and leggy ants the size of dogs. They drop hundreds of feet down into the streets and alleyways of Death City, and scuttle off in search of victims. The spiders are poisonous and can spin copious amounts of web to capture their targets, the ants spit acid that cause agonizing, paralyzing pain. Their masters bear down on the city in a cloud of black shadows--massive ravens strong enough to carry off adult men. There are five witches, women on broomsticks, beautiful if not for their crazed grins and obvious glee at the chaos descending upon the city. At some unknown signal--maybe the cackling from a couple of them--they dive in concert and disappear into different areas of the city.

Their masterful plan has begun!

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This wasn't Shinjiro's first mass melee. Not even his first in Death City, to be honest. Hell, not even his first run again zombies. So considering all of that, he thought he was handling himself pretty well with transformed chainsaw in hand.

Still, he had to get through this and find Minako and the others as soon as possible. If something happened to them he'd never forgive himself.

"Kanaya, still holding up?"

Her engine's still humming, and the chain is working just fine. She'll probably never get used to thinking of an engine as a part of her, but to her, it makes it a lot easier. The chain goes fast enough to get blood off before it loops. As long as it doesn't jam - which is unlikely in the foreseeable future - she'll be fine.

"I'm fine. What about you?"

"As long as you keep running I'll keep swinging."

And it is really that simple. Shinjiro had seen enough drama on the DEMISE to know not all partnerships run so smoothly, but his and Kanaya's had always been as slick as silk. He doesn't question it, especially not now.

Instead he smirks, diving into the fight again, digging the blade into another torso and letting Kanaya's spinning death tear it apart.

Strange things always seemed to happen when she was at work. Minako had been in the middle of her shift, trying very hard to curb the urge to be fairly sharp with some of her customers. She usually considered herself to be a patient person with everyone, but recently she felt like she was being far, far more irritable than usual. She'd been sat in the stock, taking a breather after a very picky customer had come in and made the day a little worse for the whole cafe, when someone had screamed outside the building.

In a way fairly reminiscent of a few months back when the city was attacked by sand monsters, she grabbed a broom from the back and ran outside, skidding to a halt when she came face to face with the shambling creatures wandering the streets.

"Zombies?"

Oh seriously, what next? Banshees? Turning on her heel, Minako smacked the broom into the skull of one of the creatures, wincing as it almost crumbled in on itself with a sickening squelch. This... this was crazy. Really, Death City? Really?

Without pausing for too long, she spun around, running down the street as fast as she could. The cafe was likely evacuating by now, so it would be best if she helped out anyone who was in trouble in the nearby area.

Being raised above Shinjiro's head, even if only for a second, gave Kanaya a view that she normally wouldn't have. The new vantage point lets her see Minako, smashing the zombies with a broom - surprisingly effectively so. She smirks to herself.

"Shinjiro, your matesprit is here."

"Huh?" He paused, turning in the direction Kanaya's resonation indicated. He could just barely see the tip a broom held in just the right way. That was Minako alright.

Taking advantage of his distraction, one of the zombies lunged at him. Shinjiro snarled, swinging around and holding up Kanaya with one hand and grabbing the creature's face with the other, stopping it from biting into him. With the momentum he slammed the thing into a nearby wall, and felt blood and brain-stuff ooze between his fingers.

"I don't think so, asshole." he hissed, wiping the gore on his coat without thinking about it before making his way to his girlfriend.

"Minako!"

Minako paused briefly, head tilted slightly as if trying to decide whether or not she'd heard someone call her name. She didn't have a lot of time to consider though, as another zombie made a shuffling lurch towards her. Neatly, she spun around, dodging the clumsy attempts to make a grab at her, and cracked the base of the broom into the junction between the zombie's skull and neck. As soon as it wobbled off balance, she swung the flat of the broom onto the top of its skull, and a sickening crack and gurgle echoed through the air.

Now she had the chance, she looked around, eyes focused on the direction her back had been to a couple of seconds ago. If she squinted enough... that almost looked like...

"Shinjiro?!"

Okay, that is it. Kanaya doesn't care about how much Shinjiro likes that coat, she is burning it after that. If he decides to be bitchy about it, simple, she'll make him another. There's another problem, though, which is that she's ineffective if Shinjiro's going to run around not wielding her when the zombies aren't stopping.

Her engine roars. Shinjiro, can you at least get me far down enough to be productive?

A flash of embarrassment and annoyance at himself flickers through his resonation, and he lowers her, taking it out on more of the undead.

"Sorry." It was disturbing, how easily Minako distracted him at times, even back home. It was part of the reason he had been so very scared of pursuing anything with her.

Still, he used his renewed violence to make his way over to her, eyes set. "We're coming!"

Shinjiro's call makes little difference to Minako, as she had already spun around to where she heard his voice and begun to run towards them. It's fairly easy to dodge the zombies when she's focused on it - like dodging shadows back in Tartarus when the team were tired.

"I'll meet you halfway!"

It... made more sense to her at least.

Whatever. She wasn't really interested in whatever they were doing, but she was a lot less... well, bored after Shinji had lowered her back into the fray. He'd better not be thinking about withdrawing entirely.

Shinji could feel her boredom in their connection and smirked, whipping around and digging the blade into a zombie's neck, crushing rotten bone.

"Don't start letting your mind wander on me Kan. Once we get Minako things are just going to get more hectic."

He twisted around, going after another, so as to give Minako a clear path.

Minako skidded slightly around a toppled zombie body, hopping over another and winding her way to where she could see the largest collection of zombies hitting the ground.

Raising her broom, she cracked it onto the skull of a zombie trying to sneak up on Shinjiro, sending it crashing to the ground, and kicked it out of the way, before giving Shinjiro and Kanaya a smile.

"You guys doing all right then?"

Kanaya takes a second to answer - "Just fine." - before focusing more on the fighting. She can improve their fighting, however slight, and what with him being distracted by Minako - whether he'll admit or not - well, someone has to.

Good thing it's not exactly difficult.

[Event] Invasion!

[Shinji and Kanaya] [Streets/All day] [Open]

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