[IC] Master Of The Puppets

[VileSnake]

Abel city, ranked number three in cities that have the largest amount of puppetmaster living in it. Not much crime in it either, mainly because there's always some sort of puppet to stop them, weather they be from another world or from a person's imagination. One new puppetmaster Riku had just discovered that he too was one. Didn't take him long to start summoning either though he started small with just two. Dante, a demon-slayer and Delsin Rowe, a conduit with the ability to control smoke, neon, or video. Speaking of Delsin the young man was on the rooftops of Riku's apartment complex spray painting the giant billboard with his heroic symbol. "A man, a plan, and an aerosol can." Delsin said to himself as he put the finishing touches on his creation.

"Dude! What the hell are you doing?!" Riku asked as he walked over to the man.

"Just adding my own artistic touch to the billboard."

"Yeah, when I told to do that I didn't mean the billboard on top of where I live. Well.....it looks nice tough. Anyway, hurry up before they find out it was you." The two quickly escaped before anyone especially the landlord of the building found out who did it. Thank God there were no cameras up there. I think now Riku was realizing that there was more to this puppetmaster thing.

[Dark Elsa]

Sylvia was resting in her parents home not far from the apartment complex. She had managed to summon puppets of her very own after a few times failing. She had called forth a Huntress in training by the name of Ruby Rose. Said Huntress was munching on cookies in the kitchen. "At least this place has cookies.." She said happily.

Elsa..Sylvia's other puppet who had powers of ice and snow watched over her summoner as she slept while also keeping her powers in check. "You should not eat so many Ruby..not good for you. " She said as Ruby ignored her.

[Drakeonis]

Ares flipped through a book as he sat out on the balcony of his apartment. Like many others he too was puppet master and had manged to summon very lively puppets. As he read the young superhero archer Artemis sat across from him in her civilian clothes cleaning and inspecting her arrows and other gear. Inside the independent servant Archer laid upon Ares' couch waiting for something to do. Now that he had though about it he hadn't seen his remaining puppets all day.

"Artemis, have you seen Gamagoori or Katarina?" Before the blonde even had a chance to answer a fly buzzed by Ares' ear and attempt to land on his shoulder. It didn't make it that far. Like a flash of lightning a crimson blade bisected the fly with accurate precision.

"Disease-ridden vermin shall never touch my lord!!!" Katarina screamed into the sky while Gamagoori doing his weird size manipulation trick managed to barely squeeze his large frame out of the balcony door. "Let it be known that not a single fly will touch Lord Caster as long as I, Ira Gamagoori, draw breath!!"

Artemis rolled her eyes and went back to cleaning her bow. "There they are." Her response causing Ares to chuckle a bit.

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia was sitting in her bedroom, examining a new bruise her father as kind enough to leave on her. Her puppet, Mamori strode into the room with a pack of ice and sat down on the bed next to his mistress. A growl rumbled in his throat as he examined the bruise before gently laying the ice pack on It. Lydia gave him a small smile. "I'll be fine Mori." She said gently. "It still does not lesson my desire to see that man dead. He snarled, eyes bleeding red. Lydia flinched and whimpered as his hand accidently pressed down on the bruise. Sesshomaru, who had been sitting against the wall across from them flashed his eyes open and shot the fox demon a warning look. Mamori took a few deep breaths and stood from the bed, joining the dog demon Lord on the floor.

[VileSnake]

Meanwhile back at Riku's apartment Dante was plopped on the living room couch, flipping through the channels and drinking a cold one. "Shit, there's nothing on. at times like this I wish I was in Limbo kicking some demon ass." He said to himself just as Delsin and his puppetmaster came in. "Hey man is there any night clubs around. I'm bored out of my fucking mind."

"Dude, this is a big city. I'm pretty sure there's a nightclub or two around here. If you haven't noticed yet it isn't night yet." Delsin replied with.

"I know of one. Doesn't open till two. Pretty kick ass though. My friend and I always go there with our fake ID's." Riku finally spoke. "We'll go tonight."

"Hell yeah, that's more like it."

~~~~

Gene was sitting in his office looking out the window at the city. It would be his soon, everything would. His puppets Roman Torchwick was off with a crew gathering some summoning materials while Hans was busy organizing some appointments with his secret clients. Willow his own creation was standing beside next to him. "Hmm......this city has been awfully quiet lately. I think we should change that."

[Dark Elsa]

Anita one of Gene 's employees entered his office with her puppet Jo. "Boss jobs done. We got rid of that news reporter who spread word of false information about our company..." She said politely bowing. Jo looked annoyed with her friend/puppetmaster but nodded.

"I made sure to dispose of evidence....wasn't hard. "Jo said to Gene cleaning the blood off her desert eagles. Anitas other puppet Pyrrah Omega was in her office brooding over feeding her sword souls but unless ordered to she would not go on a soul devouring rampage yet the hunger was slowly increasing...

Ruby finished her cookies and flopped on Sylvia's floor boredly. Elsa sighed. Being with Ruby was like babysitting...Sylvia yawned slowly opening her eyes.

"Boreddd.." Ruby complained.

[Drakeonis]

Ares closed his book with an amused lock on his face. Katarina and Gamagoori were currently arguing about which one of them was better suited to protecting him while Archer merely groaned at their argument and Artemis looked like she was struggling to withhold some snarky comment.
"I think I'll head out for a bit." Ares said as he walked inside the apartment and started grabbing his wallet and keys. Katarina and Gamagoori's argument instantly stopped and both moved to him in a frenzied state.

"I shall accompany you m'lord!
"Allow me Caster-sama!!!"

He chuckled at their concerns. "Thank you but I won't be gone long, the two of you would be much better suited to protecting our home. I shall have Archer and Artemis accompany me so I won't be unprotected . Archer appeared next to him. "if that it was you think is best master."He said enthused and Artemis walked over with her gear stashed in a back pack. "I could definitely use a change of scenery."

"If you wish m'lord me and sir Gamagoori will protect this house." Katarina glared at thw other puppets. "Should any harm befall our master I will hold the two of you responsible, are we clear?" Artemis rolled her eyes and Archer merely scoffed before following Ares outside.

[VileSnake]

"Good, you both have done well. I think it's time for the city to have an, unexpected attack. Willow, my book." Gene spoke. His puppet handed him a book contain all different types of summons throughout the generations of his bloodline. Though Abel City was pretty tame there were times when it was attacked by some kind of puppet. You should know who was responsible for that. Gene was flipping through the pages and stopped on one as the summoning puppet looked pretty interesting on this. "Hmm.....this should work. If you'll excuse me Anita." Getting up from his chair he headed to his summon room. About an hour later there was now a Cerberus rampaging around the city attacking people and destroying everything in its path.

"Holy shit. A demon." Dante said. Riku and his puppets were watching TV until a breaking news update came flashing on the screen waring people about the out of control puppet.

"Lets take this thing down then. You're a demon slayer after all." Riku suggested. He knew that puppetmasters would sometimes have to fight other puppetmasters and their puppets, mainly to keep peace. "You're skills and Delsin's abilities you two should be able the stop it. Plus I'm sure they'll be other puppets there to help."

"I got powers, I think we'll manage without any help." Delsin said feeling all cocky an confident.

"Then lets get a move on then. Shouldn't be hard to find this giant asshole." Dante spoke again.

[DiZL ReloadeD]

Not having been assigned a mission, Sebastian and his puppets were spending their free time on their usual activities. Sebastian sat on a chair in one of the rooms corners, reading a book, while Vincent and Franko were sitting in the middle of the room playing chess.
Then someone's footsteps could have been heard, it seemed like there was a person running towards this room. Only moments later the door got kicked open and Lily stood in the doorframe. "I am baaack!" She exclaimed with a smile on her face. Sebastian looked up from his book "Did you get my soda?" he asked Lily, who took out a can from underneath her coat. "Yup I got it, here!" she said before she threw it over to Sebastian who catched the can with one hand. "Thank you" Sebastian told her before he opened the can and sipped before he continued reading. Meanwhile Lily sat down on the couch which had a small desk before it and stood close to where Vincent and Franko sat, playing chess. She took out a soda as well and a chocolate bar, today is unusual quiet she thought, they havent been sent on a mission lately, only Anita.
Then the silence got broken by Franko who jumped off his seat and yelled across the whole room "What, nooo! I fell for the same trick of yours again!". Vincent smiled at him gently and told him that he was hard to defeat this round and that he should not mind a loss since its just a game and he can try again if he wants to. "Hmm, I guess I am more better at doing physical work and stuff. The mind thing is more your thing~" he said as he sat down again sighting.

[Dark Elsa]

Jo watched the summoning and was dully impressed. Anita nodded and smirked once she saw her boss do his thing. "That is one dog no one will be able to tame and as always we do what we do best..." Having said that she and Jo headed to where Lily and Sebastian were and Anita entered. "Hello you two.." She said to her allies and teammates. Jo nodded silently.

Elsa smiled as Sylvia woke up. "Good morning. ."

Sylvia smiled back sleepily. To her her puppets were her only friends. "Morning Elsa..."

Ruby looked out the window and saw some giant...Grimm...? She immediately geared up Cresent Rose. "City is under attack!" She said zipping outside. "We have to help everyone...!"

Sylvia was confused but followed after Ruby as did Elsa.

[Drakeonis]

Ares, Artemis and Archer walked down the street. Artemis grinned as she strecthed her arms into the air. "This is a nice change of scenery." Archer smirked. "Personally I would've enjoyed lying down on the couch, but this is a lot more exciting." Artemis laughed I can't help but feel its missing something though."

Cerberus's giant paw swung down at the three of them without warning but Archer was faster. He put himself between them and the monster and erected his barrier ,Rho Aias. The beast claws collided with the petal barrier and one of the petals faded away. "Only one petal? This dog has a rather weak bite." Artemis grinned and ran away with her bag. "I'll come back when I get changed!" Archer scoffed as he dissipated Rho Aias and replaced it with his black bow. "Don't expect it to still be here when you get back. Shall we Master?" Ares tightened his gloves. "Let's do this Archer!"

[DiZL ReloadeD]

As Anita and Jo entered Sebastian replied with a simple 'Hi', without looking up from his book. Vincent and Franko did the same, focusing on their next chess game, but Lily was happy that Anita was finally back. "Yaay! Sis is back!" she yelled as she ran over to Anita and hugged her tightly "Now now sis, tell me what was it this time? You promised me that you would tell me when you are back". While she was waiting for Anita to tell her, Lily gave Anita a hangdog look, hoping that she might would tell her all the details.

[Dark Elsa]

Jo nearly face palmed at Lily. Anita smiled at her adopted little sister. "Well I had to take care of a dangerous gossiped columnist who was spending false stories of our company's scandals. Boss man was pissed so me and Jo took him out." She made a finger gun shooting it off for emphasis. "Sorry we took so long...He had friends that gave us some trouble."

[VileSnake]

Riku along with his puppets managed to locate the Cerberus. Both Riku and Dante took the low ground while Delsin took the roof tops with his smoke powers. Riku had some protection too if his puppetmasters couldn't protect him, though he doubted a pistol would stop the beast. They managed to get behind the three headed dog not noticing Ares or his puppet. "Got a plan?" Dante asked.

"How bout we lore it to someplace people won't get hurt, then we'll lay the smack down on it." Delsin suggested.

"Good idea. There's an old abandon construction site not to far from here. We just gotta go down this street and take a left." Riku said.

"Alright then." Dante found a rather large stone on the ground and picked it up. "Yo dipshit!" He yelled trowing the rock at Cerberus. The demon barely felt the stone but it turned around anyway growling at Dante. "Yeah I'm talking to you ya demon scum! Awe did I make you mad? Then come get me you slow piece of shit!" Dante taunted as he started just jogging but picked up the pace when the Cerberus started chasing after him.

"Yeah.....I think he pissed it off." Riku spoke again following his puppets.

[Dark Elsa]

Ruby, Elsa, and Sylvia were in the city now. "Ruby are you sure...." Sylvia asked or was about to when she saw the Cereberus chasing Dante."OK I believe you now"

Elsa just stood in slight fear but in doing to felt her power trying to escape but she would not allow that to happen as she did not want a repeat of what happened back in her world.

Before Sylvia could say anything else Ruby shifted her Cresent to sniper mode and shot thinking Dante was in danger.

Sylvia sighed. "Now it will come for us....I think.."

[VileSnake]

"What the hell?!" Dante yelled hearing the shots of a sniper rifle. One of the shots hit the Cerberus in the middle heads right eye. It turned its attention from Dante and onto Sylvia and her puppets and began charging after them. "hey! You're suppose to be chasing me!"

"Not good. Delsin?" Riku said knowing that the conduit was the fastest out of the two. The you man quickly neon dashed over to where Sylvia and her puppets were and drained the smoke coming from a totaled car.

"Down boy down!" Delsin yelled firing a barrage of smoke missiles at Cerberus knocking him down. "Uh, this would be your que to run." He told Sylvia and her puppets.

[Dark Elsa]

Sylvia looked at the other puppet. "I would but Ruby wants to fight." She replied to Delsin as Ruby took his smoke attack as a cover for her and kept firing zipping to avoid the Cereberus's prior charge. "I will not let this monster hurt innocents" Ruby said seriously.

Elsa on the other hand looked like she wanted to run. Her fear causing a trace of her secret to appear but she whipped that hand behind her back.

[Drakeonis]

Three green arrows flew past Slyvia and the rest of the puppets before exploding on contact with the downed creature. Artemis grinned admiring her handywork, continued to notch and release a variety of trick arrows at a time as not to give the Cerberus time to recover. "Less talk, more fighting!" She fired some of her foam arrows at its feet to hopefully keep it on the ground for a little while longer.

Archer flashed over to her side. "I was beginning to wonder if you were coming back at all." He said to Artemis with an amused tone. He was now wielding his dual swords, Kanshou and Bakuya in place of his bow. "Fighting this mutt would be a breeze, yet you want to limit the danger to civilians correct?" Ares had arrived holding a sword lent to him from Archers extensive collection. "Yes Archer the less people hurt the better." The servant sighed. "Then I suggest allowing me to use the Blade Works, by teleporting us all there not only will I be at my strongest but we will also be sent to Blade Works pocket dimension. Meaning we won't have to worry about these 'innocents'."

Ares though it was a sound plan but the chant took awhile He would have to try and enlist the help of the other puppet masters to pull it off. He looked to the other puppet master and Delsin, hoping the latter could relay the idea to his master. "Does that sound like a plan? If we work together I believe we stand a better chance of defeating this thing."

[Dark Elsa]

Sylvia noticed the other Puppet Master and his puppets. "It sounds like a great plan if we can avoid a calamity." She said approving Archers plan which the other Master proposed to Delsin.

[DiZL ReloadeD]

After listening to Anita's words Lily sighted "That's not fair, why do always you and Sebastian get the cool missions and I don't... well, atleast this mater is taken care of~".

Once more Franko jumped off his seat, beaten by Vincent with the same trick again "GOD-DAMNIT NOT AGAIN!".