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Post by mugenginga on Aug 15, 2010 5:00:05 GMT -5
Chisaki whirled around at the instant of contact and grabbed the door handle, giving it a hard turn. Her eyes widened as it clicked as if it were locked. Her head jerked to the handle. This door couldn't lock! Was it jammed!? She had shifted her weight to turn around and defend herself further when a quick pain shot through her back and her her stomach. Her eyes widened and she jerked her head down.
The expression was pure shock. Just... like that, huh? Should she have tried to defend herself elsewise? Her body pulled back a bit, but the force allowed it to slide out. There was still breath, wasn't that comical? The body fell to the floor in a crumpled heap. She could already feel her vision beginning to blur and fade. Well, that was it? She was pretty sure she heard a voice, but her awareness was slipping...
"Good fuck, was that really necessary!?"
Dropping out of the empty air in the far corner of the room was Lucius. He glanced at Chisaki's body and the blood pooling out of it for a moment. He paused mid thought as he realized she was still putting off that familiar energy. His surprised expression shifted to one befitting his true identity and faster than Adachi could hope to track he was at Chisaki's side. His shirt was pulled off with equal speed and wrapped around her mid-section. At best it would extend her life by a minute. If Adachi tried to speak to him, he'd give him a glare not human. His main focus was on the glazing over eyes of the woman on the ground, though.
"You're about to die, you realize that?" he smirked.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 15, 2010 5:08:49 GMT -5
Adachi wheeled around as he heard Lucius' voice. He sighed. Should have expected that. He glared at Izanagi and there was a sound much like glass shattering as Izanagi disappeared. He looked back toward where Lucius was talking to Chisaki. What the hell was Lucius doing...?
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 15, 2010 5:21:08 GMT -5
Was there voices? For a second there she hadn't been... well, there. But she was pretty sure she heard a voice. The part of her left alive enough to be cynical found herself to be an idiot. She was dead, and there sure was hell no light at the end of the tunnel. Did this meant she got to hallucinate?
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Lucius frowned. Izanagi really hadn't had to be so quick with that, Adachi could have handled things. He pressed down a bit on Chisaki's stomach. The pain brought her eyes ever so slightly back into focus and she let out a fading gasp. At this rate he couldn't reach her by these means...
"Chisaki Nekoi, age twenty-four. Do you really want to die?"
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Who was that? Who exactly was talking to her. It wasn't Adachi, right? Her being realized it had understood what was being said. Want to die? She wanted to get Adachi's ass behind bars where he belonged!
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"Adachi isn't important. Are you so eager for death you'll let something as stupid as a grudge pull you towards it? I'm offering you a chance at life, Chisaki. A full life, one where you won't die before your time."
At this point Lucius was speaking out loud partly to annoy Adachi. The hand held on the front of Chisaki's stomach was ready to blast the man to the other side of the room with a small Force attack if he interfered. Given the connection of her soul to the physical, he had less than a minute.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 15, 2010 5:24:22 GMT -5
Adachi was still watching from afar. He wasn't planning on interfering, and he was interested in what Lucius was doing. Actually, he was starting to feel dizzy again. He really wasn't in any condition to be walking around, and this was the second walk his body had taken that day.
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 15, 2010 5:42:30 GMT -5
Who are you...? You can't save me, even if you're a doctor. What the hell does my opinion of Adachi have to do with anything!?
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"If you don't shut up and decide soon, you will die. You've got a useful purpose, and if you'll let my hold your soul here, it can happen. Tell me, Chisaki, what's more important? 'Justice' or life?" Lucius gave an amused smile. The life before death flash, "Justice that placed no blame on the cause for your family's death, or a life where you can fight to prevent that travesty?"
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How do-
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"Decide or die, I can't hold you here for much longer."
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Lucius frowned. He couldn't... his eyes widened and the dark grin that spread across his face was not human. His eye were slit and both red. He lifted the hand from Chisaki's stomach and grasped her right hand. For no longer than half a second, no less than twelve wings could be seen from Lucius' bare back. To his right were six angel wings of the sort Lucius had seen once before. To the left were six distorted bat-like wings.
The wings were gone as Lucius yanked up Chisaki's right hand. Her eyes came into instant focus and she let out a startled gasp as she was pulled into a sitting position. A flash of light could be seen over the two clasped hands. Chisaki's gasp turned to a hiss and she pulled a burnt hand close. The palm seemed stuck open from the burn.. which quickly faded into scarring.
"Welcome to my salvation, Chisaki," Lucius' voice was once again doing that somewhat demonic distortion, and he seemed quite pleased with himself to boot.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 15, 2010 5:53:48 GMT -5
When that dark grin spread across Lucius' face, Adachi knew Chisaki had signed her soul over. She'd agreed to let Lucius save her, meaning she would belong to him. Adachi just knew it. He blanched as he saw the wings appear for a split second, though. All things considered, the wings shouldn't have surprised him. In fact, it was the demonic wings more than anything that threw Adachi off.
When the wings faded, Adachi looked away from the scene. He was not going to watch that pact be made this time. He only looked back when he was sure it was over, but even still he didn't approach Lucius and Chisaki or even speak. Really, he couldn't think of anything to say.
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 15, 2010 6:07:30 GMT -5
Chisaki felt a cold chill shoot up her spine at the voice. It made the weight in her chest feel heavier. She looked down at her sore right hand. There was a nasty scar there, but a flex confirmed it didn't effect her range of motion. She looked towards Lucius and her eyes got wide. That was the kid who had... her breath caught.
Lucius put his hands on the ground and pushed himself up. He smirked as Chisaki's eyes got wide and held out his hand. Well, wasn't Adachi being an obedient little pet today? He would have expected the man to at least say something. It was possible the human had finely learned his place in their involvement. Chisaki looked down at her hand again. She seemed caught at some point between frightened and confused. What exactly had happened was hazy. And why did her chest feel so heavy...?
"Consider it an anchor," Lucius stated. Chisaki was back to looking surprised at his words, "Your body and spirit aren't connected anymore. You'll get used to the weight eventually. Personally, I don't care if you refuse to believe what just happened so long as you listen to me. I can cut you loose at any time, and don't think you'll fly to any kind of heavenly afterlife after the agreement you just made."
"Who the hell are you...?" Chisaki stated, her voice muted. She glanced over at Adachi. This blond seemed to be in control?
"Your savior, the demon Lucifer at your service,"
"Luci... what?"
"Tohru can explain it to you," Lucius turned towards Adachi and gave the kind of approving smile a human might give a pet dog for doing a trick. He turned back to Chisaki, "He seems to be finally learning his place. I don't want either of you speaking to the police without my instruction. Don't forget I own you two, and if I have to keep babysitting you, I might decide you've outlived your purpose. Do excuse me, I have some pressing business."
The blonde seemed far more annoyed than usual. In a dark burst of "light", he was gone from the room. Chisaki glared at Adachi. What.. what had she agreed to? And who the hell was a 'Lucifer'? Something told her she should probably know, as if she'd heard it somewhere before. Sounded like a Western thing, in any case.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 15, 2010 12:01:17 GMT -5
Adachi didn't speak until Lucius left the room. Throughout Lucius' whole conversation with with Chisaki, he was visibly annoyed. He got even more so when Lucius turned toward him and gave him the kind of smile one might a pet. Talk to the police? Adachi hadn't been planning on it in the first place.
"You're an idiot," Adachi growled. "You should have just died. Now you belong to him. I don't even know why he wants you."
He stepped back and sat down on his hospital bed. "I'll give you the short version. You just sold your soul to the Christian devil. You are now his property, just like me." He made a disapproving sound. "At least I was trying to help someone when I made my deal with him. You were just trying to save your own skin."
It was pretty clear Adachi wasn't happy about what had happened.
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 15, 2010 16:58:20 GMT -5
Chisaki was pushing herself up with her free hand as Lucifer spoke. When the dark flash happened, she jerked and took a stumbling step back. She looked up at Adachi. There was definently a vulnerability there in her expression and stance she'd never shown where Adachi could see it before. She tended to be such a hardass, after all. Her mind was still trying to grasp what had happened. Lucifer had... hadn't he used the word "akuma"!?
She glared at Adachi as he called her an idiot. Belonged to him? At the moment her mind was having trouble between being reasonable, being pissed at Adachi, and being confused. She was of the practical sort, but a lot of that had flown out the window with the thing Adachi had summoned. She was just showing the glare as Adachi sat down on the bed. It was a few seconds of blank confused stare at what Adachi had said for the woman to finally click all the pieces in place. She stumbled back as if she was having trouble standing. Her leg hooked the leg of a chair by the door and she managed to fall into it. Her hand went up to her face.
"Y-you're joking..."
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Things had been more or less calm in Souji's room for that few minutes since Chisaki had left. Shikome had settled back down into observing the situation. Izanagi's presence had gone, though. Shikome had jerked towards where he'd been for a few moments and then back at Souji.
"Izanagi-no-Okami is linked to you in ways I can not explain. Is there a reason he would have vanished from your spirit, Souji-sa...n?"
(OOC: I'll get to Lucius arrival once we cover the whole bit with Izanagi. XD)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 15, 2010 20:52:27 GMT -5
Adachi gave an even deeper glare at Chisaki as she fell back into the chair and spoke. "Do I look like I'm kidding? I've been that bastard's pet for over a month now, and I hate it. I'm property to him. And he hasn't even done the one thing he promised he'd do for me. He said he'd protect me from Izanagi, and yet it's Izanagi's goddamn fault I'm in this hospital in the first place."
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Souji looked toward Shikome as she spoke. He sighed and looked away.
"He's doesn't want me as his avatar anymore, but he can't kill me the way he would any of his other avatars, so he's using Adachi as his host instead."
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 15, 2010 21:18:31 GMT -5
Chisaki opened her mouth to object. He was expecting her to believe that one of the chief Shinto gods had been targetting Adachi. However, her mouth hung in that position. It didn't make sense at this point for Adachi to lie. She closed her mouth and glared before finally finding words.
"This is your fault for trying to rape me, you sick fuck!" She was pointing a finger at him, "Don't think I've stopped wanting your ass behind bars!"
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"This situation is well beyond my understanding, I am afraid. An avatar is simply meant to be a form, not a seperate being. The inability to destroy you is something I am unable to imagine."
Shikome turned to attention towards the door. It made no sense to her, even less than she could portray. There was no point in any world's history she could recall this had occurred to her Lady, and even Izanagi almost always ended up with his sister if they met as the should. Was there a reason her Lady was focusing more on the form than the being...?
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 15, 2010 21:42:43 GMT -5
Adachi gave another smug grin toward Chisaki as she threatened him.
"It's what you deserved, anyways," Adachi said with a shrug. "And good luck getting me in jail. The difference between the cops back home and the cops here are that the cops here are a bunch of superstitious country bumpkins. I'll be out in no time."
If only because of that damn god, Adachi added in his head. He hadn't been kidding when he'd brought that up earlier to Seta's group. Izanagi wouldn't react well to Adachi being arrested. He'd likely just take over Adachi's body and sweet talk his way into getting all of the charges dropped.
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Souji raised an eyebrow. That... didn't quite match up with some of what Izanagi had said before. Had Izanagi been lying? Well, it wouldn't have been the first time, but Izanagi didn't lie to him. Maybe because Souji could tell when he was, but that still made no sense.
He lay back down again and sighed. This was getting way too complicated.
Izanagi slipped back into Souji's room. Adachi's issues with his coworker were of no concern to Izanagi right now. However, nothing major seemed to be happening with his former avatar, either.
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 16, 2010 5:36:52 GMT -5
(OOC: Golly I'm sorry to any readers about the cussing. XD This is Chisaki, and it does get worse when she's pissed. >___> )
Chisaki had her eyes fixed in a hateful glare as Adachi gave his grin, and it somehwo got deeper at the first part of his response. The son of a bitch not only didn't have an ounce of regret, he was going so far as to say she'd deserved something like that!? Even if she could wrap her head around a "deserved" death, that was going way the fuck too far.
Arguably worse was that Adachi had a god damn point, at least with the latter half. If he summoned that thing where anyone at the station could see it, he could have them under his thumb in seconds. Given his actual intelligence that she was becoming painfully aware of, the likely only reason he hadn't yet was he didn't have to deal with people plotting behind his back. She looked ready to skin a bear.
"You underestimate how stubborn I can be, you bastard. Christian devil or not, if you try to pull that shit again I'll put a bullet in your head. I won't be surprised by that god damn thing you summoned this time."
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Shikome felt the return of presence, but said nothing. The truth was she was very confused. A minute or two passed before a pulse of demonic energy heralded a visitor. Izanagi would be more than aware of it, Souji as well if the god wasn't blocking their shared perceptions. Shikome was in a defensive position and her own energy was flared up in response to the flash of light followed by a shirtless Lucius standing smack dab in the center of the room. His turn towards Izanagi was also a turn towards Souji given the relative position of the two.
"When I said play, I didn't mean get in my way," Lucius said in a low tone. He seemed a fair bit irritated.
"Get away from Souji-sama, Lucifer!"
Lucius completely ignored her.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 16, 2010 20:02:11 GMT -5
Adachi only smirked and pulled the covers back over himself before laying back down. "I wouldn't even think about it. Now, don't you think you should get going? You probably need to report back on the whole Seta situation, don't you?"
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Souji shot up in bed again as he felt a pulse of demonic energy. He already had a glowing blue card manifested and had entered a bit of a crouching position on his bed as Lucius appeared in a flash of light. He glared at the demon as he turned his way. He couldn't think of any reason why Lucifer would be here. His confusion increased as Lucius spoke.
"What are you talking about?!" Souji growled.
Izanagi crossed his arms and remained standing where he was, invisible to Souji. Souji wouldn't be able to hear his words, either. "I wasn't aware I was interfering. Communication is important, you know."
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 16, 2010 20:11:21 GMT -5
Chisaki's face was going to get stuck in this position if she kept it up for much longer. She looked away as Adachi lay down, his back to her. He was right, she had to come up with something to tell the station. She turned around and grabbed the door, half expecting it to still be stuck. It opened fine. She frowned at it and walked out. She could tell the truth, or at least most of it. She'd managed to conveniently forget the part about not talking to the police...
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Lucius straightened up and crosses his own arms in response. It meant he was still glaring in Souji's direction.
"You're not an idiot. You would have been aware of my presence in the room before. The only reason I'm not killing you where you stand is the plan went through regardless," Lucius' eyes looked between the presence of Izanagi and Souji, "You know, we're not as opposed as you think. Adachi is beginning to outlive his usefullness. I don't tolerate dead weights."
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