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 Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:23 pm
"Panther..." Smoke exhaled, eyes turning downward. Panther was such a sweet kid, it would make sense that only a true monster--only Devon and Yani, and an unfeeling computer--was able to shrug aside the loss. Hiccadu had lost control after that, he remembered. She had attacked Devon, caused considerable damage to the slaughterhouse and the digital records that had been stored on the scientists' computers. Then again, TAIS probably had been able to save all of that.
Which brought another interesting question. "How did you get away from TAIS? She's still inside you, isn't she." It wasn't exactly a question, but he had to know how. He knew TAIS could never truly leave Hiccadu; there would always be some part of her floating around in Hiccadu's anatomy. How then was she able to think for herself?
((Sorry for the short post. Will be out of town this whole weekend.))
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 12:19 am
"Choose your answers carefully darling."
I KNOW. Shut up.
She winced as she was mentally whipped for that. She snorted in strain.
"That..." she breathed. "THING... did only two things for me." She continued to breathe. Breathe in, breathe out. In, out. In, out. "She accelerated my healing, and she blinded me to the truth." She sighed. Lifting her head took too much effort. She shifted and laid her chin on her shoulder instead - the one that wasn't bleeding. "There was a microchip behind my ear that wired me directly to her." She was indeed bleeding behind her left ear. A Chimera had managed to slice her skull open right behind the organ, making a deep enough wound that could easily imitate a gash like one would make when ripping something out. "After I lost control... her systems went offline long enough for me to remember the chip and yank it out. It wasn't pretty, and I was punished heavily." Some of the wounds the whips and chains had made were still visible- scars where skin and scale had previously stood unmarred. She could hide the imperfections perfectly well in a human form, but in her true form she was as mangled and as scarred as any experimented-on Chimera who had escaped - even more than some. The worst punishment happened when the best pets misbehaved. "While her systems were still recovering completely I managed to out-muscle the guards and escape. She couldn't replant the chip because I was too unstable, so I managed to get away by myself, without her." Speaking was becoming difficult. She winced. <********... I haven't seen this much blood since I tore apart that weird octopus-breed." She sighed. "Ironic that it's mostly all my own."
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 1:21 pm
It wasn't exactly compassion. It wasn't his conscience telling him he needed to repay her for causing the diversion that allowed them to escape. It was a smattering of curiosity mixed in with hopeful logic and an "I hope I know what I'm doing" attitude.
After all, he figured, if Hiccadu didn't come with them, she'd track them if she was against them anyway. At least this way, he'd know where she was. If she wasn't against them, she'd probably die here in this alleyway if he left her alone, and if he invited her company, she wouldn't harm them. She might even come with a few benefits along the way.
The real problem would be convincing the chimerae to accept her. He'd need to speak with them alone...
He'd already made up his mind before he realized he hadn't mentioned any of this to Hiccadu. How exactly could he broach the subject?
"You've tried to kill us multiple times before, but you can join us if you want."
Just like that.
Yeah. He was serious. He lowered his handgun, not putting it up just yet, and turned towards their temporary home. Tonight, he was too tired thinking of the most diplomatic solutions.
((Crap crap crap... xD))
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 9:17 pm
((OOC: I'm back. Sorry about that. >.>))
Apsalar held the bottle of antiseptic that Smoke had given her, turning it this way and that. Once she figured out how to get it open, she sniffed at it curiously. The sharp scent made her sneeze, and then she tilted her head and examined it again, looking like a kitten trying to figure out how to pounce on a large bug.
Smoke had said to 'wash', and however reluctantly, she trusted him. She turned to John with the bottle in her hand. With no thought for how it might feel - it was just funny-smelling water, right? - Apsalar poured the stuff in the bottle liberally over John's wounds.
Then she sat back and began to fiddle with the cap again, trying to remember how she'd opened it in the first place.
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 4:14 pm
((No problem biggrin ))
John yelped, cringing away from the antiseptic. He raised his head a few inches from the couch cushion and looked down at his stomach, where Hiccadu's teeth had torn an inch or two through his flesh and felt, rather than saw, his vision starting to swim. He leaned back against the couch's backrest and closed his eyes, willing the dizzy spell away.The pungent smell filled the air, keeping him from passing out again, but it wasn't an altogether pleasant experience. The area around the holes in his stomach were sending his brain messages full of pain, adding to his headache, but he felt no pain from the deeper wounds, which alarmed him. Compared to the scary no-feeling, his cuts were sizzling quite pleasantly.
His limbs felt numb. His head was heavy. He felt that, if he tried to speak, his words would come out slurred and morphed due to a leaden tongue.
His vision cleared, and he could see some bandages and a bottle of antiseptic in Apsalar's hands, something similar to what the scientists at the slaughterhouse used, but smelling somewhat different. She was struggling with the cap.
"Twist it... the cap, twist it." As he had suspected, his words were thick, almost unintelligible. He tried to mimic a twisting motion using the fingers of one of his hands, but it simply twitched violently a few times until he gave up, leaning his head back against something relatively soft.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:34 pm
Apsalar looked up at his words. Concern instantly came across her face. John looked much too white and drawn. Chimerae who looked like that when they came back from the experiments tended to die.
He couldn't die. What would they do without their leader?
Pushing that thought out of her head, she turned her gaze down to the bottle and followed his instructions. The cap finally clicked down into place and she smiled a little.
After a few more minutes of silence, she finally got up the courage to ask him. "Hurt?" Meaning how much does it hurt, of course, not where are you hurt - since most if not all of the injuries were pretty evident. She was wrapping the worst wounds to the best of her abilities as she asked. Since she had seen and had her fair share of bandages over her short life, it actually wasn't too bad a job.
She frowned down at her effort. The deepest holes looked like they would need more than wrapping. She would have to see if she could ask Smoke...
Smoke. Where was he? What was taking so long?
She looked at John, suddenly nervous. "Okay?" she asked him. If he said yes, she was going to go and look for Smoke. If John was injured, they needed someone around who could explain this outside world to them, and Smoke was pretty much the only other candidate.
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 8:03 pm
The corner of John's mouth twitched upwards slightly at the sound of the cap clicking into place. Even if she hadn't understood him, he was glad for some inexplicable reason.
"Hurt?"
It was easy enough to tell from the inflection in her voice what she meant. Her tone climbed in the question. John was about to shrug, but resisted the temptation in case it added to his pain.
He couldn't answer Apsalar, because he didn't want to tell her that the anti-bacterial hurt him more than his actual wounds. Didn't want to tell her that it scared him, that he couldn't feel the punctures in his stomach.
As for Smoke, he didn't know where he had gone. John didn't know how long he'd been gone, or what he had said as he'd left, but it didn't seem to have been that long ago.
"I'm okay," he said, in confusion as to why she was asking.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:40 pm
((Apologies for my severely long absence. D: ))
Hiccadu was shocked into numbness. She was left staring at Smoke in awe.
"Just like that?" she asked in disbelief. "Just like ******** that?"
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:24 pm
((I apologise for my absence. My computer got hacked a little over a month ago and I've had it turned off since. If possible I'd like to get back into rping in here. I'll edit this post with reactions from My three characters once I've finished reading what I've missed.))
Hound sat in a quiet spot looking over at hiccadu. "So...My more deadly of siblings has joined us?" He seemed a combination of curious, sarcastic, and hopeful. "This will be interesting, not only because of what this could mean for us, but because there is another that is tracking us. My successor you could say. I can smell him. He's not far now. Closing in on his prey. But I recognize his scent, though I do not know his form, face, or name. Whatever happens, We must stick together."
R.J. sat on the roof of the motel looking at the sky.
A few miles away, Pup was tracking the group, but if he didn't stop exploring the world, he would lose their scent. He was curious, but he had to do. Though, his youth would probably prevent him from doing his job.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:29 pm
((No worries guys. This roleplay's slow-paced biggrin ))
Smoke blinked at Hiccadu. Had he been more self-aware and less tired, he might have been questioning whether he should corroborate what he had agreed to earlier or if he should deny it. Maybe.
As it was, he simply nodded his head in the direction of their cheap motel. "The others won't like it. Just play nice, and they might forgive you." She probably realized it was as much of a long shot as Smoke believed it to be.
The doubt he'd fostered towards his decision lessened at the small hope that sounded in Hound's voice. It seemed some would be quicker to forgive than others.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:37 pm
There was a panting sound coming from the tree line and a figure could be seen half way up the tree. And even from the distance, it was obvious that it was a young chimera. Pup was catching his breath, but making no attempt to hide. He wasn't worried about being seen. He had grown a little bolder about his personal ambitions since being set loose. He wasn't looking for the chimera anymore, but instead, searching for his parents. Parents that he didn't know didn't exist.
Hound stood up and sniffed the air and said aloud for all within ear shot to hear, "We've got company! The one that's been tracking us is here!"
((Anin, did you receive the last character sheet I sent you? I never found a response to it in my inbox.))
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:29 am
((Wire, they're in the middle of a city. There IS no tree line.))
Please. Like they'd ever forgive me. She winced. They probably think the poor girl dying is my fault. I wouldn't blame them. I'm the one who- Her gaze sharpened at Hound's appearance. -well <******** dislike welled inside Hiccadu's belly, and she was about to hiss a nasty retort at Hound before TAIS gave her a sound mental smack across the nose, making her teeth snap shut - almost on her tongue.
"Hush, you insidious fool. He is an ally. You don't hate him because you were MADE to attack him. By ME. Play your part, you rat."
Hiccadu didn't dare talk back. She gazed at Hound with a mixture of awe and disbelief.
"So you're going to accept me?" she replied. "Just like that?" Then Hound leaped up and let out the exclamation, and Hiccadu rolled her eyes. "Will you hush?" She demanded. "That little creature isn't hunting us." She painfully lifted herself up onto her feet. Two legs had a limp, her eye was caked closed, and her left wing dragged on the floor beside her. The bleeding had barely stopped, and she tried to walk with as much dignity as possible. "Look- he's not doing anything to disguise himself. He's just waiting, sitting there. Catching his breath. If he WAS hunting us he would've retreated to a distance, to where we wouldn't be able to detect him and he would be downwind." She snorted in impatience. "TAIS wouldn't release someone to track the escaped Chimerae who was so ill-trained."
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:26 am
The figure in the tree line, pup, descended into the city and made no attempts to hide. He called out, "Momma?" He called out over and over while heading unwittingly in the direction of the group. Though he was still a mile or two away. He stayed on the roof tops out of sight of humans.
R.J. heard the calls and said, "Anyone else hear a little boy calling for his mom?"
Hound looked to Hiccadu and said, "Do not strain yourself sister. I have still not forgiven you, but I accepted you long ago. I understand what you are, and that you are cursed to here and obey voices the rest of us cannot hear. But remember, I am just like you in that respect, once I've been deprived of my daily blood needs, except the voice I hear is my own. If I have my way, you'll be with us for as long as you wish to be." Then he lowered himself to all fours and stretched out as far as he could; yawning. Then he heard R.J. speak and listened. He heard it too. but he made no reaction to the sound.
Hound then sniffed the air and his claw like finger nails dug into the concrete he stood on. "If Only I could believe that sister. His scent is getting stronger and the humans are not panicking. Who ever he is, he's definitely well trained, but probably too young for the job."
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:48 pm
((If I didn't respond to it, I probably didn't get it... But I will check biggrin ))
Smoke noticed Hiccadu nearly biting her own tongue to keep silent, but he made the decision to keep quiet, pretending he hadn't seen anything. It could be nothing--but if it was something, he wanted to keep it to himself.
Supposedly, there was another group, or possibly more than one group of chimerae, tracking them again. Which didn't surprise him, really. He just knew he had to get back to the motel and stitch up John's wounds and tell the rest of the chimerae what was going on. Being in an alleyway soaked in Hiccadu's blood wouldn't help either, as the smell probably gave off more alert signs than a crashing UFO.
Then Hound reported a chimera--single chimera--coming from a tree line Smoke didn't see. He instantly checked for his gun, squeezing his hand on the handle and feeling relief, but looking around for their pursuer. Hiccadu didn't seem worried, and she was beat to a bloody pulp. Thoughts split between helping John and facing the new arrival, Trent backed slowly towards the motel, keeping his eyes open, though he wasn't terribly alarmed.
It dawned on him, then, as he was backing up, that Hound would accept Hiccadu easier than the other chimerae because he felt as much a monster as the others viewed her to be. Panther's blood had settled in his system only a few days ago. Perhaps Hound would be the one to bridge the gap for the others, opening a path to friendship.
How ironic. Hand clutched to a gun, looking for another chimera to shoot at, and philosophically contemplating his reasons for inviting Hiccadu into the group and how she would be accepted.
All in a day's work, I guess.
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The Amazing Flying Circus
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:37 pm
[[Wow; I am sorry guys. I thought I'd be able to keep up while moving and working but failed. I am all unpacked though so I'll be around. Please catch me up?]]
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