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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thrusts: (I AM AMAZING)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-03-26 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
He would emerge not more than 20 minutes later from that fight. His arms bloody, acid still burning through to the point where he would actually need to slump down and get it attended to. But, for now, Megumi was safe and that was what the objective was.

In fact, despite how much pain Saitou was in, he was actually being quite smug about it. Heh, the Immortal One he really is.
megitsune: (surprised by all of you)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-03-26 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Megumi gasped. "Good gracious, look at you, Saitou Hajime," she fussed, hurrying over with her box on her back to have a look at the wounds. "Those stupid ants and their acid. Let's get to somewhere sheltered, with a water source. I can treat this before it does more damage. It'll heal much faster."
thrusts: (I AM AMAZING)

arghhh i apologize. tags from here on out might be slower because i'm battling the flu

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-03-28 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
If he could have shrugged, he would have. He would have also sassed back if they hadn't gotten his legs too. While he was struggling to stand, he wasn't going to rely on his sword in front of a civilian.

"That can be done later, we're going to take you back to your home."
megitsune: (very serious business)

Re: I just caught the flu myself. lol. no worries bro.

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-03-29 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not going home, you ninny, I'm going to where the fighting is happening, are you deaf?" she returned hotly. "But I'm not going before I tie up your leaking wounds." She gestured to his injuries. "Listen, the acid is still burning you. This is despicable."

Megumi looked up and down the street, and nodded to him when she spied an empty bar of some sort two doors to their left. "This way," she commanded.
thrusts: (LETS SEE)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-03-31 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"You're only getting in the - " Argh, he couldn't even finish his remark (things lose their edge when something is giving chemical burns), "way."

He was too stubborn to relent, he was going to make sure she was taken to safety, whether she liked it or not. So while she was trying to get him out from the path of danger he was going to pick her up and carry her to a safehouse.
megitsune: (yelling at Saitou)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-03-31 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
She let out a loud, rather dramatic gasp. "What the hell do you think you're DOING?" Megumi exploded with vitriol, arms and legs flailing. She let out a squawk, hoping someone might come help save her from whatever idiocy Saitou had in mind for her. "You get your dirty hands OFF of my person, you foul beast of a man! Help! Help! Pervert! Shinsengumi!"

Where were Ken-san and Sanosuke and Kaoru when she really needed them? Hell, even Yahiko would be a godsend.
thrusts: (WELL DAMN)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-04-01 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Since when was the Shinsengumi an insult? He was hobbling along with this harpy as he tried to find a safe place for her. "You really want to die, don't you?"

Argh, his legs, they felt like they were going to tear off. His duty, however, was to her first and then to himself. He would rather die than see a civilian die because of ...

Whatever it was that was happening.
megitsune: (i hate you shinomori aoshi)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-04-01 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't an insult that Megumi was using it as, it was a general alarm, as in, help, help, somebody, there's a Shinsengumi carrying me off to do god knows what with my delicate and innocent body before he gatotsu's me!

"How dare you threaten me! Unhand me, you brute! Help! SANOSUKE! KEN-SAN! Gyahhh, let me go, you stink like tobacco smoke!" Cry out as she might, there didn't seem to be anybody around to answer to her pleas for help. Pummeling him with her fists didn't seem to be working, and her legs weren't reaching when she kicked. Which was pretty much why she decided to try and poke Saitou in the eyes.
Edited 2012-04-01 23:14 (UTC)
thrusts: (Default)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-04-02 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Stop yelling."

His head was pounding as he sweat out the black the water. With the combination of the acid and the water, Saitou was slowing down his pace and the next thing he knew, he had to set her down on a bench and he was barely able to keep up with her beatings.

"You have a lot more things to worry about than my smell." He growled, even as he was hobbling along, trying to keep his grip on her.

"Poke me in the eye and see what happens."
megitsune: (glare - how dare you)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-04-02 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Megumi went right ahead and poked, completely irate by this point and not caring what the hell he'd try next. Her heart was pounding and her face was flushed bright red with anger, but she couldn't shake his godforsaken grip on her. "There, now get your hands. Off. Of. My. Person! You son of a dog. I'd rather be handcuffed to Shinomori Aoshi than be carried around like your personal bag of rice."

"You look like you're about to vomit," she added, noting his sweating and his complexion becoming rather bluish-gray as he leaned dangerously forward. Was he swallowing? Was he moving towards her? Oh, no! How disgusting! "Don't-- don't you dare do it on me," she stammered, objecting. "I'll make you sorry you ever saw the light of day."
Edited 2012-04-02 21:43 (UTC)
thrusts: (WELL DAMN)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-04-03 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
He couldn't stand her nonstop yelling in his ear. Argh, he was poked in the eye and had it not been for the black water, he wouldn't have dropped her so unceremoniously. He wasn't going to throw up on her, but he did sort of ... slump over.

Between the beating earlier from Kenshin, the acid and well, Megumi, Saitou wasn't faring as well as he should have. He actually stumbled and he had to rest against ... a wall that wasn't there and he found that the world was turning in the most peculiar manner. It was almost as if he was on his back and looking at the sky.
megitsune: (irritated sigh)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-04-03 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
His skin at the cheek didn't bounce back like elastic when she checked it, but moved slowly back into place, and there was that black... gunk sweating from his pores at the temple. This man (and that was how she'd think of him, right now, a man she didn't know from Adam or... Abe as it were) needed water. Megumi hurried over to one of those blasted metal box-things by the side of the road and passed her communication device over the tiny blinking lights on the right side of it. Carefully studying the alphabet letters and Western numerals beside the largest bottle of water-- or... well, what looked to be water, they all had these ridiculous names. Aquamarina. Dasafina. Sparklenator. Crystal Lake Mountain?

"Why not just label it WATER for gods' sake," she muttered to herself in gritted in her own language, hips swaying in indignation as she made her way back across the street to where Saitou lay. "Stupid, stupid, and stupider."

Kneeling down beside Saitou, she very, very gently lifted his head with her right hand, allowing it to rest on her knees, and opened the bottle with her left. She'd treat him as a human being with symptoms in this moment, and pretend to herself that Saitou the royal pain in the ass was something that could be switched off. "Drink," she said, her voice soft and tired and just a tiny bit pained. There was a massive headache coming on, she could feel it pinching at her. "This is purified. I'll hold it for you."
thrusts: (WHAT EVEN)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-04-04 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
He didn't want to take it, what sort of samurai took help from an innocent? Besides, it was just a flesh wound, right? Nothing big...? But then, he realized that he might actually be poisoned. Why was he lying in this woman's arms? Was he in her arms? What was going on?

Wait?

This woman, wasn't she?

"... A Fox?"

Of course, that was the first thing he equated people to- animals. But this one was actually familiar, now that he looked at her. It made all of the yelling seem more ... understandable than irritating, he supposed.

Yet, he opened his mouth for the water, knowing that he needed this. His pride could take a few hits after this.
megitsune: (lineface)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-04-04 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
He was totally lying on her lap, in her arms. Which was not something she wanted him to ever remember. EVER. She'd emphasize that, but she preferred not to speak of it.

"Don't you call me that." She stared sternly down at him and tilted the bottle of water just enough that he'd be able to drink without it coming out too fast. Foxes weren't so bad, as animals went, but every time someone called her one, they said it like it was such a bad thing. "Unless you want me to dump this on your face."
thrusts: (WHAT EVEN)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-04-05 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe he was passing out. Maybe he would have passed out because he really didn't remember the rest of what happened. Was it possible that he couldn't reply to her; what idiot spoke in tongues and so slowly that no one could really understand what she was saying.

If he just relaxed his neck a little bit, he could probably understand it better.
megitsune: (glare - there's no medicine for stupidit)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-04-05 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Megumi halted in giving him the water and sat him up a bit more to make sure that it would go down his gullet. She sighed. Her life was too miserable!

"Bah," she grumbled. "I'm not going to feed you like a mother bird. Don't pass out on me. Wake up!"
Edited 2012-04-05 06:55 (UTC)
thrusts: (Default)

[personal profile] thrusts 2012-04-07 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly for her, it was one of the rare times where he had reached his limit. Granted, it took the most inhuman thing to make it so and in the worst combination ever, but even Saitou Hajime had to succumb to the witches.

He had heard some distant talk before his eyelids grew heavy and he couldn't fight it anymore, and fell unconscious.
megitsune: (watch my back this time)

[personal profile] megitsune 2012-04-07 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
How troublesome. Megumi grumped about it to herself, but she had her work cut out for her, and she wasn't about to abandon him when he's fought to keep her safe.

Eventually, when Saitou came to, he'd find himself dragged into the lobby of the nearest office building, lying on the floor, quite alone. His black t-shirt had been folded under his head like a little pillow and his blue policeman's jacket lay over him like a blanket. All wounds had been cleaned and bandaged quite properly, anything that needed stitches would be stitched up and covered with gauze to allow him to have freedom of movement, and there'd be a packet of medicine lying on top of his folded blue jacket and black shirt. The instructions on the packet read that he was to add the ground herbs to his tea three times a day for the next two weeks to speed up the healing.