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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 18, 2015 23:08:56 GMT -5
Patrick slowly shook his head, holding back furious tears as he listened to Jack. "No... No, you're wrong! And you're destroying everything anyway, so what makes you any better?! I... I'm gonna stop you! I'M GONNA GET HIM OUTTA YOU, EVAN!"
He started with a wide sweep of his arm, unleashing a powerful gust of wind that blew away everything in its path.
Once again, the raven was forced to relocate when the gale knocked him off his perch. "Oh man, s***'s going down now!"
Jack braced himself, smiling with delight as the wind smacked him head-on. He was pushed back into the mighty crucifix that stood atop the altar, clinging to it with one arm and holding his trilby to his head with the other. He seemed to be enjoying himself, as if he saw this as little more than a gentle, calming breeze. When the wind finally died down, Jack started climbing up the cross and sang...
"Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction
Forgive our sins forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons
'Cause I am a new wave gospel sharp and you'll be thy witness
So gentlemen, if you're gonna preach...
FOR GOD SAKES, PREACH WITH CONVICTION!"
He reached the top and spread his arms out along the horizontal bar, but rather than pose on the cross like the Son of God Himself, Jack faced the cross with his back to the audience -peering down at them over his shoulder- and started to quite visibly dry-hump it.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 18, 2015 23:18:58 GMT -5
Well, that settled it. If this whiny mage guy was gonna attack, so was she. Cat charged at Jack, an aura of Pandemonium energy flowing between her and Goldenhand. Then, with a furious battle cry, she slammed the flyswatter down on the floor, shaking the church's foundations and creating a small orange mushroom cloud that engulfed the altar.
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Post by DMis on Aug 18, 2015 23:25:03 GMT -5
Todd loudly gagged before being knocked off balance by Cat's strike. Instead of catching himself like he usually would the violist tumbled backwards.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 18, 2015 23:32:59 GMT -5
"Ugh... You sick mutha f***a!" the raven cawed.
From out of the cloud of Pandemonium energy, Jack shot through the church like a bullet. Patrick hastily responded by firing evocation spell after evocation spell. All of them were toned down so as to stop Jack whilst dealing minimal harm to Evan. Ice, wind, tiny explosions, sheer force... But Jack swerved around each one, flying about at top speed like an annoying housefly.
"Strike up the band!
Whoa-ho, the conductor is beckoning
Come, congregation, and let's sing it like you mean it
No, don't you get it, don't you get it?
Now don't you move!"
And then he vanished.
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 18, 2015 23:37:08 GMT -5
Cat growled and went rigid, raising Goldenhand again, ready to swat this pest when he showed his smug face.
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Post by DMis on Aug 18, 2015 23:47:00 GMT -5
Todd was trying to get his breath back as he stood up shakily. He was starting to get out one of his violas.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 19, 2015 0:01:22 GMT -5
"Strike up the band!"
Jack suddenly reappeared behind Cat, hoisting her up by hooking his cane handle to the back of her shirt, then flinging her across he room.
"Whoa-ho, the conductor is beckoning
Come, congregation, and let's sing it like you mean it"
Patrick immediately jumped right back in, firing a long, freezing blast at Jack in the hopes of keeping him still. Jack simply resumed flying in circles as the spell chased him, covering the church walls in a thin sheet of ice.
"No, don't you get it, don't you get it?
Now don't you move!"
He disappeared again, this time phasing through the ceiling. But when next he spoke, his voice seemed to be coming from beneath Todd and Patrick.
"Just stay where I can see you
DOUSE THE LIGHTS!"
At that line, Jack flew out of the floor right below Patrick, grabbing him by the shirt and carrying him up to the ceiling. Patrick yelped and desperately flailed about, Jack's insane grin and intense, glowing gaze leaving him too panicked to think up a spell.
"We sure are in for a show tonight"
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 19, 2015 9:19:06 GMT -5
"GYAH...!" Cat landed and tumbled amongst the shattered pews, sitting up shortly thereafter, unscathed and fuming with orange flames. "Oh, you are SO DECKED!" She was about to charge at Jack once more, but then he grabbed Patrick and carried him out of Cat's ordinary reach. "Dang it, man!!"
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Post by DMis on Aug 19, 2015 19:39:11 GMT -5
Todd jumped a bit before hovering in air to chase Jack. His viola ready to use in the fight if he had to.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 20, 2015 8:59:02 GMT -5
"What the f***?!" the raven squawked as he flew in panicked circles around the room. "Man, you gotta do something about this crazy mutha f***a!"
Jack's smile softened a bit into a light smirk as he slowly waved his hand in front of Patrick's face. The boy's emerald green eyes sparkled with a pink glow, and just like that, Patrick was asleep. Jack then turned to see Todd approaching him.
"In this little number we're graced by two displays of character
We've got the gunslinger extraordinaire"
He pointed to Cat with his cane...
"Walking contradiction"
...then he motioned to Patrick just as he threw the mage down towards the anthro. Jack then faced Todd, hovering in circles around him.
"And I for one can see no blood
From the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
And I for one won't stand for this
If this scene were a parish, you'd all be condemned!"
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 20, 2015 13:04:42 GMT -5
"Aw frig-!" Cat aimed to catch Patrick but only ended up getting crushed under him. "Gah...! Dang it, dude! Even when you're knocked out and ragdolled, you're still in my way!"
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Post by DMis on Aug 20, 2015 19:29:44 GMT -5
Todd readied his bow. "Wouldn't you be as well by that logic, Jack? We are in a church after all," Todd offered with a smirk as the wooden instrument turned to a slim purple one. "Now. Shall we dance, Devil?"
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 20, 2015 19:53:18 GMT -5
"Oh, come on! We all know what his answer's gonna be!" the raven insisted.
Jack chuckled at Todd's comment before summoning his tinted goggles into his hand, promptly snapping them over his eyes. And, logically, he did indeed answer Todd's question in the following lyric:
"Strike up the band!"
"See?! Called it!"
With a wave of his hand, a tornado of fire roared to life around Jack, spewing sparkling embers and great orange tongues that consumed everything in their way. His cane was pointed at Todd, and the fire seemed to obey his directive as a barrage of flames was launched towards the vampiric violist.
"Whoa-ho, the conductor is beckoning
Come, congregation, and let's sing it like you mean it
No, don't you get it, don't you get it?
Now don't you move!"
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 20, 2015 22:55:56 GMT -5
Cat's fur bristled as Jack filled the sanctuary with fire, quickly deciding that the best course of action was to carry the unconscious Patrick out of the furnace. Which frustrated her, of course. Todd was gonna get his chance to fight Jack, and here Cat was, once again relegated to the role of a spectator. It ticked her off. When would she get her chance?
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Post by DMis on Aug 20, 2015 23:00:15 GMT -5
Todd artfully attempted to dodge the flames as he struck up his own tune.
"A song for a song~" he taunted as his bow hit the strings.
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