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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pishirogane: Art by: Sya (You wanted to see me?)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-18 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, at least she ended that monologue. And she thought Yosuke was bad... though, she probably should eventually mention to Leo her gender.

"The latter. Let's try shooting our enemies before they try biting us again."

Naoto felt his nerves, but remained calm. He only needed to trust her long enough to get rid of the zombies, ants, spiders, and crows that might attempt to attack them.
lionborn: (you make innocence sound so dirty)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-18 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
The Half dropped his pretended cheerfulness as if on command. Giving her a half-doubtful half-helpless look he nodded once and stepped back. Looking for a good place where he could shoot from without being a good target as well, he sighed.

"Look, I'm probably a pretty bad shot and I suck at this resonating thing too, so if things go bad I'll toss you towards a better place and you make the you get out first, okay? I'm not gonna accept a 'no' on this."

The window on the first floor of the building on the other side of the street looked promising. Taking another step back, he calculated how much speed he would need to get up there with one leap.
pishirogane: (Last Stand)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-18 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
"... Fine, but I don't have to be happy about it."

He didn't have to worry about his aim though. With enough resonation, she would help him aim. Zombies were easy targets and one of her bullets piercing their skulls sent them down. Ants and Spiders took longer, but enough well placed aims would disable them. As for the Crows, they had higher endurance, but enough bullets could take them down as well.

She let her soul briefly bump against his.
lionborn: (it also works with just two legs)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-20 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
He smirked at her agreeing. "Heh. Nobody's asked you to. But I don't wanna worry about you doing something stupid in order to help me when I'm busy scrambling for my life." He reacted to the 'bump' with a short, grateful grin. "No worries. I might talk like this, but in the end I'm a big cat. We've got more than two or tree lives to waste before there's a reason to worry 'bout it."

That said, he took another step back and then broke into a short sprint that brought them onto the street. Crossing it half, he tensed the muscles in his legs, putting all he had into them and leaped straight towards the closed window of a room on the first floor of the opposite building. Slamming the butt of the gunblade through the glass, he caught hold of the windowsill and shortly later they were inside a deserted room.
pishirogane: (Suddenly)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-20 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"If that's supposed to lessen my concern, it isn't working." That whole saying of cats having nine lives wasn't scientifically proven, but Schrodinger's cat had. Let's not test that state. "I'll trust you know what you're doing."

And of course his first move has to startle her. She felt herself shatter the glass and watched as Leo clambered inside. That would've been better with a small warning.
lionborn: (want me to shut you up?)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-21 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Catching her last thought, he worded a silent 'Sorry' to her as they quickly checked out the room their had just broken into. It looked like some kind of bureau and a quick search ended with it being just as empty as the corridor and the other close-by rooms.

'Seems deserted. We'll go from here.' Returning to the first bureau, he barricaded the door with a chair and the took a post by the window. Hopefully it would be easier to snipe those things from up here. He flt a small shiver run down his spine at the thought. He didn't like killing, he didn't like the use of guns and he hated that he was going to have to do both if he wanted to survive.
pishirogane: Art by: Sya (You wanted to see me?)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-21 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Naoto sighed and just remained patient as Leo moved about the room. Well, whoever came into this room after the attack would have to forgive them later for breaking a window. Survival after all.

She peered out the window, noticing the streets below still crowded with zombies bumbling about tied in with a few ants and spiders crawling around on the walls. A small twinge hit her as Leo shivered and she peered at him. "Leo, what is it?"
lionborn: (suspicious)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-22 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
'Nothing. Just getting into the mood of shooting people,' he lied. True, Leo was a survivor, but the kind of things that had hardened him into it had been the mundane cruelties of growing up in the streets of a big city and everyday life of racism, not things like having to fight against monsters that could have been out of horror movies. Monsters that were probably a lot like him, to an extent.

Forcing himself to take a deep breath, the Half leaned close to the window and took aim on his first target. The truth was that he was simply scared and slowly hitting his limit of how long he could work by just pushing it to the back of his thoughts to worry about later.
pishirogane: Art by: Moru Moru Moru (As I stand without cover)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-22 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Naoto didn't reply because, what Leo said didn't reflex with his soul. In fact, with his resistance, he was beginning to reject her. When he moved to aim, her soul moved closer, helping him aim. It stung slightly, but she would push through.
lionborn: (gotta keep it)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-22 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
He grimaced slightly at the sting of their resonance. Trying to send a feeling that was apologetic, he tried his best to ease up and not to reject her, as much as the thought dragged against his insecurities - both, about this situation as well as himself. He knew that he was no good person by human standards and he was also a failure by Half standards because he was too human and too animal at the same time. There was no balance between those halves of him. The thought reminded him of the talk they had had about shadows before and he couldn't help but grin. Despite all the horror that came with it it seemed rather cool to have a man-eating giant lion as your evil alter ego.

Holding on to that thought he pulled the trigger, again and again, watching heads and chests explode as the zombies went down one after another.
pishirogane: (Where's my towel?)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-22 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Obviously, Leo had more issues than he would like to let on. The stinging between them softened, but didn't fully disappear. Naoto could only remain calm and guide him. He wasn't rejecting her, but the turmoil coming off his soul was keeping her away. Oddly, it lightened.

"... Leo, do you need to take a moment?"
lionborn: (because I'm human?)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-22 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
It didn't hurt that badly (not worse than any other time when he forced himself to hurt others past the point he wanted to) and so he ignored the pain until she spoke up. Still shooting, he gave her weapon form a curious glance.

'A moment? For what?'
pishirogane: (The final card)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-22 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
"You seem to be struggling."

Or he seemed to be. Maybe it would've been better if she didn't say anything.
lionborn: (tic toc goes the clockwork heart)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-22 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
" ....." He remained silent for a moment, feeling a touch unwell and painfully exposed. Then he gave himself a push and did as he has always done when something like that came up before - he donned a cool face and moved on as if it didn't touch him at all- Oh screw this! That was the way everything had gotten that far to begin with!

Lowering the gunblade for a moment, he sighed. Giving her a sad smile (how he really felt, not the one with the extra quirk of lips that would turn the whole conversation into a joke), he asked, "Hey, care to share a secret? You'll have to swear by your life to keep it, though. It's pretty embarrassing."
pishirogane: (Cool stare)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-23 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
She let him have his internal debate, waiting quietly and glancing around the dark void that was her Weapon form right now. When he sighed, she looked up, not saying a word immediately.

"It wouldn't be my place to reveal your secret." Unless he was ready to publicly reveal it, she would keep it. "I swear I will not tell anyone."
lionborn: (never back to you (running))

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-23 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Alright," despite his words he ended up hesitating for another moment. He knew what he wanted to say but to put it into words and words that she'd understand as a complete outsider to his world and how it worked at that was difficult. "Hurting others.... Being hurt... I'm scared of it. I don't like it it and-..."

He trailed off for a moment. When he started speaking again the insecurity was gone and his voice was firm. "It's making me sick." On so many ways. And he wasn't talking about something as simple as bruises.
pishirogane: (Cool stare)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-23 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
"..."

Was that it? Leo was going through more than she first thought. Down on the street, it may be zombies, ants, and spiders with large ravens in the sky, but it was still an act of violence.

Without another word, she changed back and looked up at him, nodding. "Stay low and leave it to me then. I'll escort you to a shelter so you don't have to deal with this." Her expression remained neutral. She didn't enjoy hurting people, but in her line of duty, sometimes it was necessary. Right now, it was necessary if they wanted to survive.
lionborn: (do I have to spell it for you)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-23 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
He gives her a long look and shakes his head, looking half sad and half upset. Dammit, she didn't understand.

"No. That's not it. I'm a Half Naoto and it's natural for Halfs to revel in that kind of thing. Me not enjoying the sound of breaking bones or an enemy going down is like..." He makes an unhappy noise. "...It's unnatural."

Pushing past her, he gave her a serious look. They had cleared some of the street, but there were still several of those monster insects around. "Change back. I might be off, but I'm still the second in command of the Jammy Angels and I'll be damned if I can't do what needs to be done. There are people out there that I need to find." So there was no way he was just going to hide and wait until this all was over.
pishirogane: (The final card)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-23 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
"All animals are violent by nature. I'm not understanding why, just because you're born a Half, you have to enjoy violence. What you are born as doesn't obligate you to anything."

She sighed and rubbed her temples, realizing she was lecturing on this when he still didn't know she was a girl. Still, dwelling into the explanations that would follow that revelation would waste more of their time. Naoto raised her head.

"... I'll change back for now, but if you begin feeling ill, I'll take over. I still have senpai's kunai and my gun..."

With that being said, she shifted back to her Weapon's first form.
lionborn: (bruised and still alive)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-23 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
He sighed and just silently shook his head. "Alright." Seems like she took him too literally, but in a way he was happy about it.

Picking up the gunblade, he realized that the confession had actually made it feel better for him. There was a lot less rejection coming from his side than before.

"Tell me when you need a break or if you see a way for us to get out and to a better place."
pishirogane: Art by: Moru Moru Moru (As I stand without cover)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-23 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
She takes everything too literally. Leo will gradually come to learn that.

Naoto's soul could resonate much better now that Leo had divulged a little more about himself and his thoughts. She still held a secret from him, but it wasn't a major negation from their connection. Perhaps she would tell him if he asked.

"I will." But for now, she was fine, her soul bringing in the surroundings sharply. Nothing to be wary of yet.
lionborn: (fire)

[personal profile] lionborn 2012-03-23 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe he'll ask one day, but this wasn't it. He doesn't think that there's any good reason for him to question stuff like that about her. Or, well, him as far as he is concerned. Expecting others not to ask him to just put his trust into them was a two-way street for him. He wouldn'T go digging until Naoto gave him a sign that it is alright.

Taking aim once more, he starts sniping at their enemies again, relying on her help to land good hits. "Thanks."

pishirogane: (Eighth Member)

[personal profile] pishirogane 2012-03-23 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
That was something Naoto was fine with. Handing out trust would be very unwise in certain situations. It was best to take precautions.

"You're welcome."