@dragonmancer "What would be solved by killing me, exactly? You have a desire that you have deep down, to be like what I am. A monster. A maniac. Maybe you already are. Maybe we all are. Maybe I'm no more insane than you, or any random person on the street. Why would you have mercy? The gunshot with the dead shopkeeper? That was me. I shot him. He felt no pain. But you will. By holding in the rage, the monster deep inside, you will have pain. Unimaginable pain." Damien stared with his red eyes into Drake's soul. Damien noticed a man in the distance, rumbling. "Perhaps this is the end for both of us, my friend." @Jhett314

Viktor had left the diner by now and was once again walking around. So, far the city seemed fine, but he was sure it wouldn't be long before there would be a life to save or a crime to stop. For now, he just kept walking.

Kendra had been in her cave in the forest for quite awhile now and was getting restless and hungry. She walked out to where she buried her rabbit earlier and dug it up with her paws. She grabbed the rabbit before walking to a spot under a tree. She set the rabbit down and stood there as she began to eat it.

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It took a bit, but Arin finally calmed himself. "Maybe we should try hanging somewhere where it can just be you and me." He told his girlfriend, thinking that the only way they could ever get alone time would be a place where nobody else would go. However, it was only a suggestion.

The full force of Graeme's power exploded beneath the beach. Like clockwork, three giant metal hands crashed onto the beach, creating several small eruptions of sand. Focussing his will, the hands were directed to move towards the entangled two, extending from where they emerged. Light glinted on their palms as the crashed down into the ground swiftly, sending rocks flying and waves smashing back into the ocean.

@KaijuBaragon the soul he looked at wasn't so much a soul as it were a solution of two souls trying to remain mixed. I'd glare at the hooded stranger before looking to what he was referring to, the man charging at us had a distinct magic about him, such power and unexpected company had my eyes widen in suprise @jhett314

@Jhett314 @Jhett314 id leap off of the hooded man and covered my face with my arms from the blowing sand, an accomplice of the mad man perhaps? I glared at him with my torch like eyes. "I dont suppose your here to take care of the murderer." I asked, still trying to suppress my rage as my tail coiled behind me

Graeme let the Hands raise slowly. They were poised around the man on the ground and creature in the sea. Through very weak perception, he could feel the heat emanating from the creature through the Hands. It was powerful, and angry. Still standing back, the Hands started swaying slowly as they readied an attack.

"Get up" Graeme called out to the figures. While he tried to sound intimidating, the mask made his voice difficult to distinguish above the waves. "Now."

@Jhett314 @dragonmancer Damien laughed as Drake quickly leapt to the sea. He stopped laughing when he saw the metal hand, poised above his head. He stood. It was time to put on his sane act again. "Help me! This man attacked me for no reason. I think we wanted to mug me!"

I glared at the hooded stranger and his lies, tempted to consume him in fire. "He is a murderer and ill in mentality."

@dragonmancer @Jhett314 "Look at him! He's a demon! He probably wants to burn this whole city to the ground." Damien said, countering what Drake had just said. He looked over at the masked man with a pleading look. "Please, kill him, we don't know what he might do if we don't!"

Graeme eyed the man. He looked scared. A few more Hands emerged from the ground underneath the victim to cover him in a protective grasp. Graeme himself advanced, heading toward the water and summoning more Hands to restrain the beast if needed. It's crimson scales were iridescent. The façade of beauty always seemed to surround these creatures.

"You there. Creature in the sea." Graeme stopped at the water's edge, feeling the force of the waves lap against his toes. "Explain yourself."

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I looked down at the hands before returning my stern, fire-like emerald eyes to the new stranger. "That guy has some power over toys and he's been using that to go around attacking innocents." I exclaimed as calmy as I could. The water would seem to boil and steam around my legs like a cauldron over fire.

Graeme glanced from the draconic being to the man. And back again. He did not trust the creature, but the glint of its eyes didn't seem to be deceitful. He let the hands recede. "Step forth from the ocean." He turned to the man, still surrounded in Hands. "What's your name, fellow?"

@dragonmancer @Jhett314 Damien chuckled quietly under the protection of the metal hands. He had done it. He had tricked the masked man into doing his bidding. Once Drake was dead, Damien would sneak out and run. He would find some more people to terrorise. Maybe he would slit the throat of the tornado girl. He heard the masked man ask what his name was. "My name is Damien" he said, trying to sound scared.

Maxine strayed through the streets like a cat. She didn't really have a plan what to do but climbing over fences, hopscotching across the roofs or just going with the flow of the masses on the streets made the hours pass by. Without any obligations days feeled like minutes and years like hours, doing the same things on and on. Taking a walk, watching people or teasing someone. But it didn't bother her. Instead, it felt like a very long vacation and wasting time was a thing she got used to.
A long time ago, Maxine had realised that this city is full of extraordinary people. She had talked to many of them, wondered how some would hide their identitiy, because in her life, she had never realised that nearly every second person in this city is some kind of abnormal. And since she came to realization, observing people was her favourite occupation besides wasting time.
As she thought about it, an odd looking person catched her eyes. He had a mask on his face, which she thought was very beautiful. Her first thought was, that he was a street artist - maybe a frustrated one, because he wasn't really doing anything that someone would call a performance and she could imagine that staying on the streets for hours to get some change was really frustrating. - She watched him going down the streets and her second thought was, that he called it a day already and was going home now. 'It is the time of the day....nothing special', she thought next and then decided to follow him. On the way she changed to her nonsolid form, creating an illusion of a cat, while her real body was floating like billows of smoke right behind his back.
She followed him to the beach, and was surprised by the turmoil. He ran away and Maxine couldn't act that fast to stay behind him. After a few seconds, the illusion changed to a bird to find herself a place in the crown of a tree.

I'd walk out of the water, a trail of sizzling, boiling water and dead sea creatures behind me as I reached sure, the heat radiating off of me would settle as I would douse my rage. I would be silent as I watched the two strangers now speak

@Rallou amidst the scene I witnessed a bird morphing to a cat. And now that I was no longer needed here, I decided to investigate. "Pardon me for a moment, strangers." I said before taking off, flying towards the tree the bird had sheltered at. I looked up at the branches above trying to locate the oddity. "Oi, show yourself." I spoke smoothly as possible with the rough voice I had. My wings now folding behind me.

The branches were moving and bending as he landed but the bird didn't move as it was glue to branch it was sitting. The bird didn't look alive, more like a stuffed animal and as the man called her to show herself, the illusion dissapeared. "Not one of my best", she said as real form appeared. Black smoke swirled between the leafs and fell to the ground.

Graeme glanced back to the ocean and saw the half-dragon unfurl his wings. He was trying to escape! "Halt!" He yelled, but not before the creature had already become half its original size in the cloudless sky. Graeme felt another flicker of anger, mixed with exasperation. He decided to follow the creature and leave the man at the beach. "Stay if you wish. I'll be back soon." The Hands retreated back into the ground swiftly, leaving the young man exposed, and he set off in pursuit of the dragon.

"I didn't want to interrupt you. I'm just watching, that's all.", she said then and watched into his ruby eyes. Hers were shining white like two little nigth lights as she studied his face.

@Rallou I stared back at the strange apparition before me, seeing into her eyes I felt the presence of something otherworldly. "Watching, huh?" I blinked, unsure of what to make of this entity, my expression, aside from curiosity and awe, was neutral. I could make out her feminine design out of this smoke like substance the figure was made out of, I tilted my head puzzled.