Rowan grunted. "Nononononono. This can't be real..." His boxes collapsed, leaving him on the floor. He panicked, and a column of blocks shot him out of the opening on the top. He tumbled and then stopped, the effort breaking his pincer-like baton in half. He gritted his teeth, re-sculpting the baton. Rowan nodded to Sky. "What the hell is this? What does this mean?" Rowan looked around. "E-eh?" But then the sound hit him, toppling the lad upon the ship. His hair splayed out now that the hood fell back. His baton fell from his hands, and suddenly the world faded from his view. He was unconscious.

Allen smirked and slammed the scientist into the wall, "Yes you made me...I can agree there...but as Christians and Hebrews and many others believe a magic invisible giant in the sky made them...he doesn't control them." Allen breathed in a shaky breath, "Now I'm only going to say this once...I didn't start out this way...when I first fell out of that tube I could explode...THAT'S IT!!! I found the evolution of my abilities when I willingly gave my life for my friends...by melting through one of your ships walls and taking a Vitus with me! So no...you do not own me...I have become this form as if a fictional god...so let me make this clear...as a man of science...you created the apocalypse of the Vitus kind."

Both the Beast and Al hunched over in pain when Sky started screaming. It was the most painful sound Al had ever heard but after a few seconds he couldn't hear it anymore. His hands left his ears but his foe was still writhing on the ground in pain. The black-furred monster continued to shake violently as the sound hit the frequency only he could hear and he was in complete agony. Al turned to Sky as he gripped his bloody shoulder. She had totally just saved his life. "Um thanks?" Though he wasn't sure she could hear him over the sound she was making.

"Preposterous! Absolutely preposterous! A human? Destroying the omnipotent Vitus race? Never!"

The Vitus scientist struggled to escape from Allen, but to no avail. Allen was clrearly too strong right now to be budged from the Vitus.

"Even if you destroy me, there are other Vitus scientists that will find a way to kill you...Then we will dissect you, find the source of your power and make it ours. Then you will regret ever opposing our race. You are going to die! Just like that friend of yours, over there!" the alien said, pointing at Jack.

Then the alien pressed a button that sealed all the exits and a siren started to beep.

"This is my final stand. In 10 minutes, the whole room will be destroyed, along with you and your friend over there! And even if it doesn't kill you, it will do enough damage to sink the ship immediately, killing all the humans that are still of the ship! Perish, human! Perish, along with your companions!"

(Reposted and Edited due to Character Issues)

A cylindrical object bobbed on the surface of the Bay, it was cracked wide open with what seemed to be a pale cadaver in a deep slumber. The entity's eyes flickered open and proceeded to dilate, "Gah!?" The boy sat up from the pod, looking around with fear embed in his pupils. His body was in a complete state of discomfort, the cold water and numb-inducing substance mollified his body.

Monochrome images winked through his visage, "Pops.."

The boy tried to comfort himself by cracking a small joke "I never got to finish Martial-Fighters.." but to no avail, nothing was comical at this point. The cruel hands of sopor released his body, allowing him to stand up. A cajoling familiar voice told him to turn around, that's when he realized that choking odor that clouded his lungs, the water which was sable with pollution, and debris that was still raining from the supernal acreage hanging overhead. "What the-- AAH!" He slumped backwards into the pod, then coming to his feet in a hunkered bearing.

A grotesque structure rested in conflagrations aloft the surface of the Bay. "Did I come from that? Holy shit, am I an alien?" His hands slapped against both sides of his cranium and in a panic he toppled in retrogression once more. His gray globules yearned for closure, and with so he curiously traveled to the wreckage.

He was that of a moth ignorantly approaching a light.

John heard the sirens blare and began to panic. This could only end badly. He ran out of the console room and eventually found some of the others with a raving Vitus. God was this the end? Was he doomed to die in this hellhole in the middle of the Bay?

The air in Sky's lungs began to dwindle and the pitch dropped with it, quickly dying out and leaving the girl gasping for breath. Lack of oxygen forced her to her knees, palms flat against the hull of the ship to steady herself. She turned her eyes toward the writhing beast and growled. "Stay down you stupid mutt or I'll do it again." Naturally she was bluffing, quite positive that she wouldn't be able to provide the same result, but still she would try it if the creature attacked again.

Allen didn't say a word he simply reached his hand out to the side and a dagger formed made with solidified nuclear energy. Allen pulled back and rammed the radiated dagger deep into the Vitus chest. Allen then picked up jack like a child and walked out of the room the door melted in his path as he strode out and down the hall, Allen smiled down at his friend, "everything is going to be okay Jack..." Allen melted the ceiling and took off to the beach and laid him down and the took off at full speed till he found what he was looking for...a boat...an old fishing boat with enough space to hold everyone. Allen got behind it and pushed it to the beach, then he picked up Jack and laid him in the ships helm and then took off pushing the boat until he was next to the Vitus ship. Allen floated over the ship and then judging the size ratio he blew a hole over Sky and Rowan and saw a monster which he blasted to dust before looking to Sky, "let's go girly get in the boat." Allen smirked and flew to the front of the sip where everyone was, "OKAY PEOPLE WE GOT LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES TILL THIS SHIP EXPLODES AND SINKS...GET IN THE BOAT!"

(I only posted this to get us out of the ship.)

Jack's stomach wound was deep and blood was flowing all over the boat, making a relatively big puddle of blood inside. He was trembling from the blood loss, had high fever and coughing blood. He had no consciousness of his surroundings and everything that occured. His mind was in a limbo state, flashbacking to past events of his life. Nights with women, gambling games he won, TV interviews, nightlife, hangovers and many other happy events in his life. Then he went back even further, to an event similar to what happened now. He was still a kid, trying to find some food in the slums. To his bad luck, he was caught by a gang of mobsters from whom he tried to steal some money to get some food. Due to the ruthlessness of the slums, he ended up with a knife in his stomach, just like now. Everything was pitch black. The only thing he distinguished was a casino table and a figure, dressed in black, shuffling cards. He approached the table and the man said in a creepy tone:

"The stakes are set, let's play kid..."

He couldn't remember the flow of that game, but he remembered that he won. It was a memory that he had forgotten a long time ago. And now the same thing happened. The same black figure appeared before him, once again claiming that the stakes have been set and preparing for a game of Black Jack. He could now underestand the nature of the figure before him and the stakes.

"Let's play then..." Jack said and sat on the table.

(I may have exaggerated a bit, but I always wanted to cheat death like this...I hope there is no problem!!)

Al was still gripping his wounded shoulder. Blood was leaking from the wound fast and showed no signs of stopping. His mind went back to when he cauterized Liz's leg wounds. He was resistant to his powers so he wouldn't have to be careful like he had been with her. He filled the palm gripping his shoulder with fire as hot as he could make it, until he felt a slight sting on his shoulder as the temperature of the fire fought his resistance and he felt his wounds burn shut. He could only look at the monster that had given him the wound as it stopped writhing after Sky's scream taking on a docile appearance. "Whats wrong, afraid to go again?" The beast snarled something he couldn't make out. He couldve swore it was trying to say something.

"V-vitttuss....."

Al was a little shocked that the beast had said something, but he was even more taken aback by the tone it used when it spoke the Vitus name. It sounded full of contempt and anger. "You thought I was Vitus?"

The beast tilted its head in confusion not understanding what it had done. Was his target not Vitus something on the ship and sent the entire ship into a panic and he had used that to escape from his cell and he killed every single Vitus that had gotten in his way. He could only make out shapes of things but he didn't know Vitus that could do what these newcomers had done to him. Only one thing could explain this these things were another species the Vitus were using for their experiments just as they had for his all those years ago.

Allen had burst into the ship breaking the two of them from their thoughts. Allen had shot a blast at the beast who dodged it barely. These meat things were really making it hard to sympathize with them.

The male arrived, van-ward the heap of searing metal rested, and perhaps he imagined it but an opaque figure flew from the crest of the flaming craft, heading towards the area where the ocean kissed the vast ivory shore of sand.

As he traveled past the ship, enveloped in blaze, a small explosion was expelled from what seemed like a thruster machine, the oily solution that substituted water was set ablaze by the stray embers carried by the violent mistral of gas emissions. Tazzingo continued to row towards the beach with the shard of glass, barely moving from the path of the ship, soon realizing that the dimensions of the makeshift paddle was beginning to penetrate his flesh.

Suffocating fumes were blasted out of exhaust vents as he desperately tried to escape this harsh venture through the wreckage, his visage was violated, his nasal passage was invaded, his head was filled with ballistic hornets. "Unngh.." his groans were the audible embodiment of his current state of despair.

Allen let people go into the boat on their own, he had an agenda now. Knowing everything he could about the Vitus was a scientist's duty. Allen shot down into the main deck and to the computer systems, when he got there he realized he couldn't read a single key on the console, "Damn...ill have to guess." Allen started scanning over the area until he found what he assumed was the mother drive and the proceeded to rip it out of its holder and place it in his jacket. After that he rocketed out of the sinking ship and back to the boat to check on Jack. He was shocked to his core at what he found. Jack lay bleeding on the floor barely alive, "Jack!" Allen knelt next to him and knew he couldn't help him, if he tried to close the wound the radiation would end up killing Jack...there was only one person who could help. Allen flew back to Al, "Jacks bleeding! He isn't conscious...and i cant close the wound!" Allen stopped right there because the creature he thought he had dusted just a minute ago was still alive. Allen's eyes started to glow, "another enemy to fry huh!" Energy started to crackle around him as he readied a blast of white hot energy.

(there we are a post.)

Al stepped in front of the beast putting himself between it and Allen. "Leave this one! I can't go into it right now!" He ascended into the air using his fire. "Just hurry and take me to Jack!"

Sky's eyes shot open and up towards Allen, too exhausted to follow him. "Something's happened to Jack?" She gasped under her breath, forcing herself up onto her feet and over towards the creature Al was protecting. "Don't worry about this guy, I'll get him to safety." She forced out, having heard all of what it said to Al. Turning to it with curiosity she reached out a hand to place it on it's head.

Allen took of with Al behind him, "Yeah he took a really nasty wound and i can't seal him up without killing him!" Allen flew to the boat and landed his hands shaking as he pulled Jack out of the Captains area and laid him at Al's feet, "We can't lose him...we are so close. Home free."

The game between Jack and the shadowy figure was still on and there was no sign of any side giving up. The match was even between the two sides, but Blaze had to rely on his sleight of hand to win most of the rounds, since the opponent he had was not a normal one and, surely, not one who played fair. At some point Jack grew tired of playing without anything changing.

"I decided...all in!!" he said in a confident manner.

The man in black stared at him with an evil smile on his face.

"This time, you will not be so lucky, brat! You have cheated me once...You can't always be lucky!" the man responded in a cold, emotionless tone.

The beast found itself snuggling into Sky's hand despite itself. Such a thing was out of character for him, especially since he hated to be touched but this act felt right for whatever reason. He sure hoped this wasn't going to become sort of habit. He was supposed to be a bloodthirsty Vitus slayer after all.

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Al instantly dropped down to examine Jack's wound. He raised his hand to Allen. "Calm down, I can't do it perfectly but I should be able to close this without killing him."The fire formed in his hand was softer than usual at a much more controlled temperature. He was starting to control his powers more clearly than earlier. He was worried about these constant cauterization though. Even though they closed the wounds they still could get infected they all would need real medical treatment after this. "Don't worry Jack when I'm done you'll be back to slinging cards in some casino."

Sky smiled exhaustedly as the beast made no motion to kill her. "Just a misunderstanding then." She sighed, glancing over at Al and Jack. "I don't want to be the negative one... But you should probably hurry up with that so we can get out of here. I sure as hell can't fight another ship full of these things if they show now."

The beast disagreed with Sky. A ship full of Vitus to kill sounded like Heaven right about now.
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Al moved the flames over Jack's wounds watching them burn shut an the blood dry up from the temperature. "I'm done. Lets get on that boat and get to dry land." Al's eyelids were starting to feel heavy and fatigue was quickly starting to overtake him. "I don't know about you guys but I'm exhausted, sore as hell. and id rather not go down with this ship!"

Allen took a moment and started helping everyone from the sinking ship onto his boat, "Come on people everybody on we have places to go!" He dashed up to the controls, "She doesn't start al...I'll have to push her...But thats gonna draw a lot of attention when i push her into the bay..." Allen thought about it for a second, "Worth it!" Allen flew off and got behind the ship, "Ready to go when you are Al."