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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tuned_wrong: (Weapon: King's privilege)

[personal profile] tuned_wrong 2012-03-18 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Aion didn't mind the being switched back and forth as much as he was worried about it becoming a pattern - which not only he but also the birds were becoming increasingly aware of.

Even though the crows had already lost a considerable number of their own they keep coming, matching their attacks more and more towards Takuto's pace and the small opening he has. They aim is to separate Meister and Weapon and the more they kept going, the closer they got to succeeding with it from what Aion could 'feel' while in that form.]


They are trying to separate us. Be careful with your rhythm!
tauborn: (ginga NO)

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-19 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[The problem is that there really are too many of them. More black birds keep spiraling down from the sky to swarm them.

Aion's warning is helpful, but ultimately it's only a matter of time. The advice allows him to fend off several more of the birds, but he's trapped on all sides--even from above.

He steps forward to stab a bird but slips on the slick, blood-covered streets. His attack misses, and before he falls--and far before he can regain his balance--the birds see their chance.

In an instant, Takuto is being tugged in four different directions, and Aion is yanked from his grip in the beak of the bird he had been intending to kill. His feet get pulled out from under him in a confusion of feathered black bodies and hoarse, squawking cries.]


A-aion!! [He's flailing his arms and legs, trying to get the creatures to lose their hold, but each time he succeeds another takes its place. Beaks and talons close around his limbs, and one legs suddenly grips him around the throat. Where's his weapon? Is he alright?! What are these birds trying to accomplish?!]
tuned_wrong: (watch out!)

[personal profile] tuned_wrong 2012-03-19 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aion lets out a yell as they get taken down and separated. He wants to turn back right away, but there are too many birds around and it's not safe to do so. The birds barely manage to stall him for a couple of moments, but it's enough to make their distance grow.

Finally seeing an opening to turn back without losing an eye immediately for doing so, the demon knows half of the crows simply to the ground and even tears or and the other into pieces with his claws, but they keep flocking to him and preventing him from taking proper flight.]


Takuto!! [His yell is interrupted by a curse as the crows try to lift him as well and he has all of his limbs full and busy fending them off successfully, garnering countless scratches and other minor wounds in the process.] Hold on! Don't let them drop you until I'm there!!
tauborn: (ginga taubuuuurn)

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-20 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Takuto is thrashing around because being caught like this makes him feel incredibly helpless and that's not a feeling he wants to keep. Aion's words shock him into stillness, because in the few moments they'd been separated, he hadn't realized just how high the birds had taken him. In just those few moments.

He's past the point where he'd land safely if he managed to get the birds to drop him, which is a terrifying thought in itself. Are the birds planning to drop him anyway? Should he, of all things, try to hold on to them?

He's torn between acting and not acting. If he moves too much, he risks being dropped. But the longer he holds still, the smaller the chances are that he'll survive being dropped. And going quietly to whatever doom the birds are planning is... not something Takuto can so easily do.

And he promised Aion he wouldn't be a burden....]


Don't worry! I'll... I'll figure something out!! [He hopes Aion can hear him over the noise of the crows' cries and flapping wings. One lets go of one of his legs, but instead of feeling freer, it feels like the claws around his throat have constricted slightly. Swallowing is difficult--he can't even try to tell Aion that he's sure he'll be okay....]
tuned_wrong: (don't be an idiot!)

[personal profile] tuned_wrong 2012-03-21 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Aion lets out a curse as he is forced to watch Takuto being taken away even as he rages bloody murder on their enemies. He has realized by now that he wouldn't be able to catch up with them as long as those familiars are around and once again he finds himself cursing his lack of any special abilities.

Watching their distance grow, he calls after him.]


Stay alive! I'll come for you!
tauborn: (ginga beaten down)

[personal profile] tauborn 2012-03-21 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[It's both encouraging and terrifying that Aion promised to come for him. Encouraging because it meant that Aion cared enough about him and seemed desperate to get him back. Terrifying because it meant that Aion had realized what Takuto was realizing: that Takuto isn't going to get out of this right away.

That, despite all the dire situations they'd been through together, this is by far the worst.

He doesn't know where the birds are taking him--and now it's becoming more and more clear that they are taking him somewhere far away--and he doesn't know how Aion will be able to find him, or even if Aion will manage to get out of the mess that he's in. What if the birds just keep coming and he gets worn out? What if the birds' final destination is high above the desert where he'll plummet like a stone to the dry, baking ground....

No. He wills himself to think positively, because Aion said he'd come. He vows to stay alive, even though he can't even gasp the words out. In fact, he's feeling rather light-headed...

To think that they'd be overwhelmed by a flock of birds....]