|
|
Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 25, 2015 9:42:52 GMT -5
Jack turned around, quickly sidestepping Cat and taking flight, eyes trained on Todd. It was time to finish this.
On the other side of the church, Patrick sat up and rubbed his chin. That punch had left him confused and disoriented, but luckily his inner voices brought him back to reality.
Patrick, get up! Van insisted. Jack's on the other side! Riordan is down! We need to end this NOW!
Seriously, I'll take anything at this point! Ray agreed. Exorcise him! Try that light trick again! I don't care! I JUST WANT THIS THING DEAD!
"R-Right...!" Patrick scrambled to his feet and ran around the church, stopped halfway by a rogue Fiendish Dire Wolf.
What?! Ray shouted. Where the hell did THIS come from?!
Riordan must have summoned it, Van answered as Patrick, in a relatively simple manner, summoned a portal to dispose of the monster and continued on his way.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 25, 2015 11:18:16 GMT -5
"Rgh...!" Cat scowled up as Jack flew away from her. "Douchebag!"
When she was unable to come up with a course of action, she opted to kneel over Rio and anxiously try to figure out what Jack had done to him.
|
|
|
|
Post by DMis on Aug 25, 2015 11:26:10 GMT -5
Todd's fingers furiously flew across the strings as he started to send the rivulets towards Jack once again. The earlier crystal blades seemed to rise from where they had landed after the first few failed volleys. "I've seen things bigger and scarier than you, Jack! But you sir are one hell of an opponent," the violist cried over the music he played.
|
|
|
|
Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 25, 2015 12:16:45 GMT -5
"Thank you, sir! Same to you!"
Jack flew about in erratic circles, dancing around the blood crystals with ease and grace. Eventually, though, he charged right at Todd, tackling the witch to the ground, and held up Evan's key again.
"Now let's see what else this trinket can do..."
Patrick finally reached the group, freezing up as he took note of the chaos around him. Monsters and other strange phenomena created by Rio's magic ran rampant. Cat was kneeling over Rio, who had quite clearly been locked by the Paramount Key. Jack was pinning Todd down, key aimed at Todd's chest.
"NO!" Patrick threw his hands up, bright blue light engulfing his entire form and an abjuration circle lighting up beneath him.
Likewise, a sudden force knocked Jack off of Todd and enveloped him in blue light as well. The Paramount Key flew out of his hand and landed next to Todd.
Jack yelped, he convulsed, he grabbed the back of his neck in pain. He started to blink rapidly, his eyes constantly changing from silver to brown to one silver and one brown. Patrick stomped closer to him, hand raised like he was trying to pull Jack his way, emerald eyes narrowed with anger and strain.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, Jack opened his eyes one last time, once again glowing silver. He let out a weak chuckle.
"I suppose it is time I leave this place.
Perhaps what I need is a change of pace!"
He closed his eyes. He screamed in agony. Then he collapsed, hand still clinging to his neck.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 25, 2015 12:25:52 GMT -5
Cat turned around, watching Patrick and Jack with keen interest. When the latter finally seemed to go down, she asked, "W-Wait, what just...? Is that it?" She looked at Rio's still form, then Patrick, then Todd.
|
|
|
|
Post by DMis on Aug 25, 2015 12:29:22 GMT -5
Todd took a second to regain his breath before scrambling for the key and away from the chaos near him. Rage and anger was quickly replaced with fear as he backed away.
|
|
|
|
Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 25, 2015 12:55:01 GMT -5
Patrick cautiously released the spell, waiting and watching. The young man in the suit was down on his knees, panting like he had just completed a marathon, shivering like he was in the north mountains.
He whirled around, staring up at the mage with wide, panicked, dark brown eyes. "Patrick...?!"
"Evan!!" Joy filled Patrick to the brim as he ran over to his liberated best friend.
"NO!!!" But Evan just as quickly scrambled away, signaling for Patrick to stop with his free hand. "St-Stay away from me!"
Patrick halted, concern replacing his excitement. "E-Evan...?"
Evan groaned and screamed in pain, clawing at his head with both hands, unintentionally tearing at his skin and hair with his newfound claws. His mind was racing, struggling to adjust to his ability to move again. He still felt a deep-rooted sense of fear. Fear for his life. Fear of losing the control he had finally won back. Fear of slipping...
No... No, keep it together... You can't go crazy now... Stay in control, don't lose it, can't die...
Patrick swallowed the lump that had risen up in his throat. "Evan, dude, are you alright??"
"GYAH...! STILL IN MY HEAAAAAAD!!"
On top of struggling to keep a grip on his sanity, Evan could still quite clearly feel his little parasite detaching and navigating the inside of his head. It was a disturbing feeling, one he had felt before but found no less terrifying. Foreign entities controlling him, everyone staring at him, he was scared and uncomfortable and confused and hungry and angry and sick of all these pests and he thought he was going to die!
Don't want... can't Die... must LIvE... MUsT KILL!!
Evan looked up at Patrick again, panting and snarling like a disturbed animal. Saliva dripped from his fanged mouth. His brown eyes seemed to light up until they were practically amber.
"...Uh... Ev- AAH!!!"
And all of a sudden, Evan pounced on Patrick, forcefully biting down into the boy's shoulder.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 25, 2015 13:00:40 GMT -5
"HOLY BALLS!!" Cat yelped, properly horrified as Patrick was attacked by what was supposed to be his friend. From out of the frying pan and into the fire, Cat raised Goldenhand, charged at them and swatted Evan off of Patrick. "Buddy! Pull yourself together!"
|
|
|
|
Post by DMis on Aug 25, 2015 14:10:45 GMT -5
"I think there was more than just Jack in that poor boy's head!" called Todd as he clutched the key close and watched the mauling. A few crystal blades planted themselves near him before he plucked one out of the ground and put it between him and the rest of the chaos.
|
|
|
|
Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 25, 2015 14:24:05 GMT -5
Evan scrambled about on the ground before scuttling onto his hands and feet, enraged by Cat's attack. Rather than lunge at her, though, he resumed his pained roars, albeit much more guttural and animalistic than before, and clutched his right ear. His head hung low, as if the right side of his skull had increased in weight. Screeching and growling, Evan shook his head like he was trying to shake something off of it.
Patrick shakily sat up, clutching his bleeding shoulder. "E... Evan...?"
Black slime trickled out of Evan's ear, thick and slow as molasses, and finally condensed into a small black mass as it plopped to the ground.
"Ew..."
So this is Jack's true form... Van pondered. Seems fitting.
I have to agree with you on that one, Ray muttered.
And then, all of a sudden, the little blob started bounding across the field like a slinky, and surprisingly quickly at that. Patrick yelped and backed away from the grotesque thing, but it passed him by, instead making headway for Todd.
"Aw no!" Patrick raised a hand, hoping to stop it, but he sound found himself pinned to the ground by an enraged Evan again. "ACK-! Evan, why...?!"
|
|
|
|
Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 25, 2015 14:34:48 GMT -5
"Aw, sick...!" Cat was effectively grossed out by Jack's appearance and subsequently shocked when both it and Evan sprang into action.
"God dang it!" She hastily swatted Evan upside the head again before chasing after the blob, slamming Goldenhand down on it like it was a mere fly. She lifted the flyswatter to ensure that the pest had been crushed; it looked like a wad of black gum on the flat surface, and for a moment, Cat was certain she had bested Jack.
|
|
|
|
Post by DMis on Aug 25, 2015 14:38:15 GMT -5
Todd kept the sword forward as he started to hover a bit. Fear was really eating at the guy as he fumbled about while trying not to trip over roots and rubble.
One misstep and Todd tumbled backwards only to launch the key towards Patrick's direction.
|
|
|
|
Post by ParamountKeymaster on Aug 25, 2015 14:48:45 GMT -5
"Evan, no!" After having Evan knocked off of him again, Patrick bound him in bright blue light, his eyes wide with desperate pleading. "It's me, Patrick! Try to rememb- Oh... Oh, oh- Ohhhhhh..." With his focus partially on Evan, Patrick could only bring himself to observe what was going on with Jack.
Completely unfazed by the swat, the blob hissed at Cat and detached from her flyswatter, flinging itself across the field like a bullet until it finally smacked Todd in the face and tunneled its way into his mouth.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Aug 25, 2015 14:54:33 GMT -5
"OH SNAP!!!" It's telling how startled Cat was when she jumped so suddenly that she dropped the weapon that had not left her grip all night. All she could do was stand there rigid, horrified and extremely sickened by what she was witnessing.
|
|
|
|
Post by DMis on Aug 25, 2015 14:57:07 GMT -5
Todd attempted to claw at the thing funneling into his mouth as he gagged a bit. 'WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!' he thought as he tried to use the crystal blade to pry the black blob off of his face.
|
|
