soul_mods: (Witch's Soul)
Soul Campaign Moderation Journal ([personal profile] soul_mods) wrote in [community profile] soul_logs2012-03-14 12:10 am

[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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shihandai: (✿told a story about a man)

[personal profile] shihandai 2012-03-15 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kaoru just stares at that--brows furrowing. Why do all my students--kind of remind me of me? She thought with frustration she soon vented as she took a step, flushing a bit in embarassment at his words as she snaps:]

I never said you were going to die, but you're too busy making fancy speeches as usual! [WHACK]
tauborn: (takuto choke)

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-16 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
H-hey! Save that for the zombies!!

[He points in the direction of the moaning, shuffling crowd, even as grimaces a little from the knock from her sword. They are, after all, getting closer and Takuto and Kaoru won't be able to retreat.]
shihandai: (✿the sun is always gonna rise up)

[personal profile] shihandai 2012-03-16 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
I think I have plenty to save since we're basically surrounded, that's how you use your head! [she snapped, shaking his briefly]

Except there's not really anything in yours. [she let go quietly, giving him one smile, as tired as it was, as pained as it was, it was still full of hope. ]

Takuto, let's go.
tauborn: (ginga ending smile)

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-16 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He replies with a resolute nod, matching her smile, and then goes to meet the zombies head-on. Fighting them is completely different than fighting a living opponent--the undead are slow to react, if they react at all.

His first strike smashes one into a wall. The worst part isn't the sickening wet thud the half-rotted thing makes upon impact, but the smell.]
shihandai: (✿and if holding her means)

[personal profile] shihandai 2012-03-17 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaoru looks grim, but she's resigned herself to this. If she can still be standing after losing so much blood, she can face the undead. Or something.

So she swallows and whacks one right in the head, causing it to crumple and moan on the ground, twitching. Somehow she would much rather hit a living person with her bokken instead--..the way this one fell did not look right. ]


tauborn: (takuto dual wield next time)

should he try to get her to the clinic? or did you have other plans?

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-19 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[As he's fighting, he's wondering what he can do with Kaoru. The last thing he wants to do is leave her... unless he can leave her in a safe place.

But what kind of place in the city is safe during this?

He easily sidesteps a lumbering zombie's attack, bringing his sword around to the base of its neck. The first blow didn't seem to do the trick, but after he follows through with his other sword, the zombie drops to its knees and then faceplants.]
Edited 2012-03-19 04:08 (UTC)
shihandai: (✿then i am the martyr)

she's got plans! i take it they'll just be seperated soon?

[personal profile] shihandai 2012-03-19 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaoru's panting. Hard. Drops of blood are seeping from the makeshift bandage Sasuke made for her out of his shirt, and onto the ground. She sways a little, but uses her sword to push herself up, glaring up at the next zombie and striking at it, as a spray of her own blood hits the wall it smashes against. ]

N..ngh..--
tauborn: (ginga green pose)

he will just believe he is leaving her in a safe place?

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-24 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[She's... not doing well at all. Taking a deep breath, Takuto heads out in front of her. He's going to take down every zombie in front of them if it means Kaoru doesn't have to.

He attacks with renewed energy, smacking the zombies out of the way without hesitation. He knows he won't be able to keep up this pace forever, but he can perhaps clear a path forward. All Kaoru will have to do is keep close behind him.]
shihandai: (✿and fulfill someone else's dream)

yes...cry

[personal profile] shihandai 2012-03-24 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Takuto stop..[Kaoru manages, turning to shove her shinai up the throat of one unfortunate zombie as the horde begins to create a wall between the two of them. There are so many..]

Takuto!
tauborn: (ginga taubuuuurn)

oh my gosh, this is turning out to be so tragic

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-24 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He turns back, seeing more zombies flood out of an alleyway he hadn't noticed. How had he not noticed?! He has to make his way back to her, but they just keep coming. His blunt sword thunks halfway through a rotting corpse, and he downs another zombie with a quick blow to the skull. But it feels like for every one he drops, two more take its place.]

Kaoru!

[He can still see her, but with the sudden crowd of undead separating them, it'll be quite a while before he gets back to her. At least she's not surrounded, like he is. Wait... he could do this....]

Kaoru, turn back! I'll draw them off you and meet you two blocks to the north!

[The zombies do seem to be drawn to his voice, so if she's quiet, she should be able to get away.] D-don't worry about me! Just stay quiet and take a breather! We'll regroup soon!
shihandai: (✿then i am the martyr)

i have a lot of feelings suddenly

[personal profile] shihandai 2012-03-24 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Are you stupid?! [Kaoru shouts back, kicking one feebly with her knee and sending it down momentarily as she sways on her feet, pressing her hand to the wall as she pants. Her eyes are wide.

This is it. The one thing I didn't--I thought I could prevent--it's just like Yahiko--I'm failing another student. I'm failing again! Why?! Why are you such an idiot?! Why am I such a..]


I'm not turning back! I'm not leaving a student behind ever again! I couldn't protect Yahiko when he needed me--I had to turn my back on Chrono--I'm not leaving you! [her voice shakes, as she pushes a zombie aside, wincing as one grabs her by the throat, it picks her up--squeezing, as she feebly watches her blood drip down her pants, onto the floor. she feels so small. she hates it. her vision clouds as she rasps out:]

Didn't..we..plan to stay together!? I'm not going to have some punk I"m teaching tell me what to do! [she grits her teeth as she raises her shinai with trembling hands, aiming the point towards the zombie's eyes as it's grip tightens. prepared to thrust through it's skull.]

I'm not the quiet type!!!
Edited 2012-03-24 04:09 (UTC)
tauborn: (ginga angry)

s-sensei.... T^T

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-24 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
You're not leaving me behind! [He's the one who recklessly left her behind.] W-we're regrouping, stupid!

[But his breath catches in his throat when the zombie grabs her. No no no, he has to protect her! With renewed vigor he attacks the zombies, hardly seeing them anymore, just hitting them and shouting without any words coming out. Brown, coagulated blood seeps and spurts from each zombie he hits, and the sound of their shuffling and hollow groans drowns beneath his yelling. He has to get to her, he wants to get back to her.]

Kaoru!!!
shihandai: (✿emily will find a better place...)

ajlkwfjealkwj whyyyy

[personal profile] shihandai 2012-03-24 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[She smiles as a tear rolls down her cheek, her shinai poised and pulling back to stab as her lungs constrict] W-When this is over I'm going to--[And then the zombie grips her hand hard, lets go of her throat, and then jerks her by the ponytail. Kaoru can feel the sting of tears in her eyes but she's lost too much. Too many wounds. Too much in two days to stomach. Too much noise--She'd retort that he shouldn't call her stupid...but it's foggy.

And then she's thrown. Her body is airborn as the zombies flood Takuto, until Kaoru's body can't be seen, until it's just him and a wall of the undead. And no sensei, no best friend in sight. ]
Edited 2012-03-24 04:50 (UTC)
tauborn: (ginga NO)

brb going to go cry..... THIS IS SO SAD WHY SENSEI WHY YOU DO THIS

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-24 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[A wordless cry erupts from him as tears sting his eyes and he beats back the zombies with a strength he didn't know he had. But he can't help feeling that he's too late, that she's been throw around like a little, precious rag doll, and it's all his fault for leaving her there. What had been thinking, leaving her side?!

The undead are close around him--too close, as he slips on the slick cobblestone and drops to a knee. They're closing in around him, and all he can hear are Kaoru's words echoing. She wanted to make sure that he could go on without her. Stupid, stupid, stupid! He knows the only way out of this is to turn back, to defend a smaller space where he can't get surrounded... but for now he's just going to keep on dislocating old joints, cracking mouldering bones, and working to desperately find Kaoru.

She's got to be okay....]