[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[Wraithblade6]

Strygwyr used his nose to peer through the bushes. On the other side was a big, red old fashioned convertible with chrome hubcaps and fuzzy dice on the mirror. Its lights were flashing, and some being of some sort was in the driver's seat. She turned her head instantly toward where Bloodseeker and the Dark One had crept up to watch, as if she already knew they were there.

"It's about time you got over here." She said. The car door swung open and she hopped out, a young adult girl with long brown hair, looking human of course. "Heh. 'White holes.' Wiz is always making up the randomest shit. Strygwyr!" She shut the door and started walking over.

Strygwyr stepped out of the bushes, keeping his guard up. Somehow this being knew his true name.

She looked him up and down and placed her hands on her hips, completely unarmed, completely unafraid. "Huh... Damn you look cool. And Dark One? God, I completely forgot how buggy and lizerdy you looked. I can't wait to see Eclipse, or what remains of him... Anyway! You're probably really confused. Ahem, hold on a sec. I'm just really excited and I have to calm down." She takes a deep breath, then her sharp brown eyes snap open. "Ok. I'm Wraithblade. You can call me Wraith. I'm a 'writer,' but forget about that right now. I got here by taking advantage of Voidwalker's completely powerful and fucked up portal magic, and I'm going to get YOU all the fuck off this boring swamp world."

She waited a moment, an ecstatic expression of glee frozen on her face as she waited for a reaction.

Strygwyr, as meaty and large as he was... he really looked like a bald bear decorated with feathers... Inclinded his head and appeared to look up into the sky, then back down toward Wraith. "You get us out of here?"

"Yes. Now get in the car." The girl opens a door to the back seat.

Stryg briefly looked back at Dark One. Eclipse's sword was distinctly silent. He shrugged. "No tricks?"

"No tricks."

He climbed into the car, taking up half the back with his blades.

"Hey hey... blades on the vinyl! Gyah! Damnit you have no idea what I'm talking about. Strygwyr just... Gyah! Please don't slice up my upholstry. Dark One, are you coming?" The Wraithblade person gave him a moment to decide.

[supertinyking]

@Wraithblade6

The Dark one flies over, and lands in Wraith's lap, looking up at her. "....you smell nice." It says, and it curls up in her lap, and falls asleep.

[supertinyking]

@RavenTLark
"Oh, I smelled arrogance...great gateway to pride.....but I don't think it came from you oddly..." Ozzy chuckles, before looking Raven over, with a wide evil grin. "No, I'd expect sweeter smells from one like you..." He chuckles out, his voice sending a chill up Raven's spine..the kind when confronted with some sort of predator...or..something caused that feeling.
"Now then.....what can I get you Miss....any sort of drink or food is just a snap away...." Ozzy purrs out,his voice shifting, as his teeth take on a more pointed shape.

[RavenTLark]

Raven shivered, it was suddenly cold, she felt as though she were being treated as prey. Be nice, get them to trust you, then attack. "I'm not hungry, or thirsty for that matter, and I believe that you should know that flattery is nothing to me." She could sense that something was going to happen, something bad. Raven took a small step backwards towards the doorway that the others had gone through, all she knew was that she was getting more uncomfortable around him by the second.

[Teoinsanity]

Teo would still be in the Tetris with the child . He was wandering the multiverse .
"So ,What is your name"

he says refering to the child.

"I'm just gonna call you Storamageden"

[supertinyking]

@Teoinsanity
The baby simply coos at Teo, and was currently content, just sorta sitting in her cradle, looking around. Oddly, when he is going around closing these portals, soon a loud screech is heard as the tetris hits, or is hit, by some sort of object. Scanners would show, somehow, he had hit a person, and they look to be in critical condition from the impact....

[Angel]

@supertinyking

In the last good while Angel had found herself with the man she'd hated most, but spent most of her life with. Israphel. Israphel had removed himself from Minecraftia, making everyone think he was gone for good, When he had merely re-located his base to a secret location. Angel has been trapped in Israphel's domain for quite some time now, Having just suddenly vanished without a word, No trace left behind. So did many of the mob-talker girls, But they were somewhere else that Angel did not know of. For the past good bit of time, Which felt like an eternity to poor Angel, Angel had been being tortured by Israphel, Including him just burning her, leaving a few scars on her arms here and there, Him beating her, leaving bruises and cuts here and there just in general all over her body, and other things that left little scars here and there. Now, Angel has gotten a black eye.

Angel's clothes had seen better days aswel. Her creeper jacket torn, missing the left sleeve and missing the right sleeve down from the elbow. The part of the hoodie with her Creeper Symbol on it was missing, and her jeans were torn at both knees, her left ankle, and the right pocket was missing. Her boots had small chunk's missing here and there, and all of her clothes had burn marks and cuts here and there around where her injury's where.

During a time when Israphel and everyone had been asleep, A strange portal opened and before Angel could protest she was sucked into it, It spitting her out into Ozzy's Hell Dimension, her crashing into Bug before rolling off a bit and slamming her head on the ground. She groaned in pain and sat up on her knees, Rubbing the top of her head with her left arm, whom's glove had been torn to shreds and was now missing. She groaned in pain and slowly stood up. "What the hell did I hit?.." The Angel asked, blinking a few times before looking around, She was not in any place she knew. She turned to see what looked to be Bug, But was it? After all Israphel's torture, Angel did not quite understand what was real and what was not at this point. Beside her best judgment, Angel walked over to the male she had collided heads with, gently poking him on the shoulder.

"... Bug?..."

[supertinyking]

@Angel
Bug was sent sprawling by the sudden impact, and had landed on his rump. Dazed, and slightly confused, he looks up to see something which made his entire mind go into overdrive, his heart began to pump faster, and faster. His pupils dilated, from shock, and awe. As Bug stood, he couldn't believe what he saw...

"....Angel....is..that really you, or has my mind played a cruel prank on me once again?" Bug asks, shaking, as gently, he tried to hug her, scared that if he used to much force, she might poof into dust. Tears welled up in his eyes, and his hands shaking more violently than the gentle shaking the rest of his body was experiencing.

Was this real, or was his madness being cruel once more? Many times he had seen her face, a twisted image taunting him for his failure to stop that which to him, had destroyed his family. The voices, they had all sounded like her, was it really her voice? Was this real? Or was Bug simply doomed to his own madness......so many thoughts raced within Bug's mind, all in the time it took him to try to hug her.

[Angel]

@supertinyking

Angel chuckled at his comment, Now she knew he was real. How? Well, He seemed just as confused as her. Angel smiled, her eyes filling with tears as she slowly made her way forward, gently picking him up and hugging him as she began to cry from not the pain of torture, loneliness, no. She began to cry from... joy. Something she had not felt in what felt like an eternity to her from all the torture Israphel had put her through. Though she had only been gone a week or so, He had made her feel like each day was a month of torture, And she felt she had been gone for months. Angel smiled and held Bug gently, seemingly afraid of holding him too tightly.

The Angel wrapped her damaged, but still soft wings tenderly around her previously missing loved one. She had missed him very much, and thought that she may not seem him again, that he would be dead or worse. But he seemed to be relatively fine. Angel used one hand to wipe away her tears, before wiping away Bug's gently in turn and kissing him softly. "It's really me." She said, smiling. She then gently set Bug down, removing one wing from him but leaving the other mostly wrapped around him. "Sorry I vanished... One minute I was in Minecraftia, And the next I was in some strange would with... Israphel.." Angel muttered his name and hung her head, shivering at the memories. "But eventually a portal opened and I wound up here... with you." Angel then looked at Bug, smiling as she coked back tears, rubbing her eye with one hand.

"S-sorry, Sorry... I'm just... so.. happy.." Angel said, Then pulling Bug into a tight hug before sitting him down and smiling at him. "So, How have you been? What have I missed?" Angel asked, smiling innocently.

[supertinyking]

@Angel
Bug slowly went from smiling, as he began to see more..he noticed the scrapes, the bruises, and cuts..the burns...
"Oh gods..." Bug says, as he quickly began to create arcane symbols in the air, using his ancestral magics to try to heal Angel. "......Israphel did this? I swore, I saw Tsubaki....he must of........that..BASTARD! When I find that pale skinned excuse for a pile of rotten filth, I will rip his entrails out his rectum, and them make him swallow them!" Bug says, his eyes going from yellow, to green, to brown, all in a moment. His aura became visible, a dark emerald green hue around his body.
".....Come with me. I'll make sure this doesn't go unpunished. By the end of the day, Israphel will rot in hell..." Bug says, gently trying to pick up angel to carry her. For once, in a long time, Bug felt like himself again...this burning rage he felt, it wasn't as rare as one would think.

[Angel]

@supertinyking

Angel watched as Bug's eyes changed colors. Yellow... Green... Brown... She knew this only really happened when he was mad. Though Angel was in pain it was bearable, And then Bug started to create arcane symbols in the air, Him using some kind of magic that healed Angel, But the scars remained. Angel smiled and kissed Bugs cheek. "Honey, Please calm down before you burst a blood-vessel. I'm fine, honest. Just relax. He re-located so some strange dimension, I have no idea where. I couldn't teleport out or anything ether." Angel said, Before she was picked up.

Angel shook her head and looked at him. "Israphel is not that bad, Hes just misunderstood. And why are you carrying me/Where are we going?..." Angel asked, confused.

[supertinyking]

@Angel
"I'm going to talk to my brother, and the reason I'm carrying you is..well, you've had it rough enough...you diserve a little pampering." Bug says, the last bit with a slight grin. His eyes even kicked down from brown to yellow when he looked down at her, the sight of her calming the inferno of rage within Bug, if only for a moment before the scars became noticeable to him, reigniting the rage.

@RavenTLark @Angel
As Raven would back away to leave, she'd bump into someone. A rather tall man in brown robes, with a wizard hat, with glowing brown eyes carrying what looked to be an angel of some sort.
"....Pardon me, Miss." Bug says, moving around her, him giving off the aura of someone who is trying really hard not to be outwardly angry at something. He looks at Ozzy, and Ozzy looks at him, Ozzy grinning a little.
"Oh, Angel is back, and you're already treating her like a delic-" Ozzy starts, before he is cut off by Bug.
"Cut the shit. I need to make a deal...what would you want in exchange for tracking down someone I really want to kill...a thing named..Israphel." Bug says, his voice harboring a lot of anger. Ozzy scratches his chin for a moment, and snaps, pulling out a picture of a man, horribly scarred facially, who was bald, with extremely pale skin.
"This man, he is named Logar, and he has ties to the monsters that took our little sister...Remove him." Ozzy says, and Bug nods, before setting Angel down on her feet. Opening a portal, Bug looks back at Angel.
"I'll be right back...for now, make a friend...Oh, and you." He says, turning towards Raven. "Becareful, Ozzy is a demon, and he rather likes women in all the wrong ways...my advice, when he gets to close, whisper a passage from a holy book. Gives him a rather painful headache..."
"...Love you too bro." Ozzy grumbles, rather..perturbed at Bugs little warning to the girl. "And, one of my new minions will help you in your little errand. Tell Saied that he's to kill as many as he can..."
With this, and a nod, Bug vanishes though the green swirling vortex of his portal.

[Angel]

@supertinyking

Angel smiled up at Bug and gently kissed his cheek. "Oh, Your so sweet." She said, smiling as they headed towards where Ozzy was, When they arrived Angel jumped to her feet and listened to the back and fourth of the two brothers, Bug being told to go kill someone who was responsible for killing... Lisa? She assumed it was Lisa, She did not think they had any other sister. And in turn Ozzy would have Israphel killed. She did not understand most of what was going on, but remained calm as they talked.

@supertinyking @RavenTLark

Once Bug left Angel turned to Ozzy and smiled. "Heya, Ozzy!" She said, smiling innocently as she turned to the new woman beside her, Raven. "Hello, Miss!" She said, still smiling. Angel stretched out her wings, which were missing a few feathers here and there, and looked burnt, turning from white to a brown or black. Angel then folded her wings onto her back, carefully. She looked around, not really knowing what to do as she had been dropped off without anything to do, aside from being told to 'make a friend'. Easy enough, Angel thought she was fairly good at making friends.

[thewizardguy]

@Tyki
Arriving at it's destination, the creature immediately attempts to dig into Cosmos. This, of course, was not something Cosmos was prepared to risk. This body held some meaning for his compatriots, and he was intent on keeping it intact. However, to deprive the creature of prey entirely would most likely incur it's wrath. And that would remove any chance he had of studying it in it's more natural state, when it was not engaged in combat.

Cosmos shot backwards, avoiding the grasping tentacles. Whilst it would have been impossible to evade the wire creature's grasp forever, it was quite possible to distract it. Using his limited telekinesis, Cosmos held Raiden's now heavily wounded form in front of himself. He didn't know if the Sith would resist being probed, but it would certainly be interesting to see. Perhaps the creature would now gorge itself, and it's particular feeding pattern would be crucial in learning to control it.

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In the constant darkness of Nocturnus, Kihaku dwelt. Getting used to her new body. Recovering from the damage Nathan had dealt to her. Returning to full strength, so she could once more emerge. Right now she was wounded, forced to retreat from the main stage. But when the time came, Cosmos would gather the Omegans again. When the time came, she'd have to be strong enough to follow him. To fight off those who would attempt to stop them. Just a couple of times more, a few more seals. And then she'd get to see everything burn. The good along with the bad. And the worst, too.

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Void moved from place to place. Her state of rest was a state of perpetual motion. Anchoring herself to a reality, remaining in place for more than half a second, was an effort. She was most at home in that short instant of transportation, the void between realities as she crossed from one to another. It had been this preference, this strange quirk of hers that had gained her her nickname. No matter what, she would follow Cosmos to the end. The moment he called on her, she would be by his side. Even if that meant breaking this feeble body of hers to pieces.

[Tyki]

@thewizardguy

While cosmos had expected the creature to gorge itself upon raiden, it didn't strangely enough, instead it's wires catching the collapsed form and probing his body to discover it's secrets before discarding it through a portal either once it had learned all it could from him or had discovered that he did, in fact, need air to live. As it's setting of a more humanoid form takes place, cosmos can since all the magic it had gathered being focused into one place to create a singularity effect where it could generate it's own magic before it's "skin" completes and the object becomes shrouded, the soil beneath it cratering under it's immense weight. While cosmos knew it housed immense magic within it, he couldn't sense it... in fact, he couldn't sense anything about the creature through any form of mystical senses available to him.

Once the creature's transformation had been complete and it's question posed, it walks over to cosmos, getting close to him and leaning towards him, looking him over with it's newly constructed eyes as his entire body felt like it was being washed over with a caustic liquid that slowly ate away at him. Though, there was a noted change in it's speed being that it had been capable of supersonic movement before but was now regulated to a normal human's speed

[RavenTLark]

@Angel @supertinyking

Raven finally understood why she didn't like Oswald thanks to .. what was his name?...Bug, that's it. "Well, that explains a lot," she said a bit too loudly, then she thought to herself," I never thought that bible passages would come in handy." Raven looks at the girl that came with Bug for a minute or two and thinks to herself," They must be pretty close," and then said to the girl," hello, I'm Raven and you?" Raven was fascinated by the girl's wings, they might of lost a feather or two though, they reminded her of a wing from her namesake, the Raven.

Raven pondered for a moment and then she asked in a slightly sarcastic tone," So you and your 'brother' aren't that close, huh?" looking straight at Oswald.

[Angel]

@RavenTLark @supertinyking

Angel smiled. "My name is Angel, I'm Bug's girlfriend." She said, smiling. She turn to Ozzy and snickered. "Oswald? Your full name is Oswald?" Angel said, grinning like mad before laughing. She calmed down in a minute though, rubbing her eye. "Oswald. That is the best name I've ever heard, I always thought it was just Ozzy." Angel said, she smiled and turned to Raven. "Cool name, by the way. Im Angel the Angel.... Yeah, Im not good with names." Angel said, chuckling nervously and scratching the back of her head, before just stretching out her wings repetedly, before leaning over and wrapping Raven in one, before unwrapping her. "I has soft wings... Israphel burnt/cut off a few though..." Angel said, growling slightly, before going back to being cheery and smiling at Raven.

[supertinyking]

@RavenTLark @Angel

"Bah, we used to be close, but then a fellow with a green suit and morals righter than right gave my brother a sense of right and wrong. Before, he and I would go about causing a bit of chaos and havoc..now? All he does is go about "Helping" people....you gotta ask though, does helping anyone really help anyone? When just as soon as you leave, something, or someone comes along to undo all that hard work....and in a flash, hours, weeks, months, even years worth of effort and trying is just..blown away..like dust in the wind." Ozzy says, picking up a bit of stone, only to crush it into dust, and let it blow away. ".....Just like this place...years..and years of work...destroyed in moments...."

Then, Angel makes her smart comment about his name, and he glares at her, his eyes glowing red for a moment.
"Oh, is that so Angel the Angel? Angel the angelic angel of angels?" He growls, before sighing, and walking off, opening a compartment hidden in the stone wall behind him. In this hidden compartment, was a wast array of weapons, ranging from guns to blades, to a set of 5 clay knives, one of which was missing from the rack, which could hold six.
".........." He slowly, looks though this vault of weaponry, and picks out a few prime weapons, two pistols, each looking like a revolver, one rifle and a bow, but with no arrows. ".....So, ladies, I have a question for you both...Wish to go on a little hunting trip?" He asks, spinning around. "A few souls have escaped from the deeper circles, which are still in tact...they're running about in the area below here......I would..much appreciate some help. I might even pay you if you're willing to aid me in getting these slippery buggers..." Ozzy says, loading his rifle slowly, as if waiting for a reply.

[RavenTLark]

@supertinyking @Angel

Raven had been thinking of what he might say, she had not been surprised at all with what he said about helping people," Sometimes helping others is the best that you can do, plus, you could always get something in return," she said with a cheeky smile. Raven looked at him momentarily and then asked out of curiosity," What was it like before? Before it was like this," Raven became very solemn without knowing the reason why, what Angel said cheered up quickly but it also made her realise that it probably hadn't been a good idea to call him by his actual name. Raven turned towards Angel, grabbed her arm, pulled her near and told her in a whisper so that Oswald wouldn't hear," His full name is Oswald C. Corest."

Raven had been watching Oswald closely, she didn't trust him one bit but didn't really have a choice about leaving so she figured that she would have to make do, she had felt a bit of aggravation when he started talking about the spirits like that, it sounded a lot like her father which she didn't like at all, therefor making her trust him less if that was even possible. She knew that she would have to watch him not only for her sake but to help out the spirits by making sure that he didn't give them too much trouble. "I'm all for a hunt any day, I'll even do it for nothing," She didn't want anything that he had to offer, she didn't know what he was going to do to them but she knew it couldn't be good.

[thewizardguy]

@Tyki
Cosmos raised an eyebrow, debating in what manner to answer the question. In truth, he wasn't entirely sure what the creature was himself, nor if it was capable of grasping the more philosophical implications of the question. What he did know, however, was that this revealed sentience, the capability to understand language. Whether this knowledge had been interred into it's mind at the time of it's creation or it had acquired it later would be impossible to test, but it was most likely capable of learning. So it could be trained. "A magical construct with an emergent latent intelligence." It was a correct answer, of course, but most likely not the answer the creature wanted. Unless it was truly unaware of it's own existence.

"On the more philosophical side, you are a sentient being, possessing of a soul, body and mind. From what I have observed you are fully capable of learning, and as such the path you choose to follow is entirely your own." Cosmos had some limited experience with emergent intelligence, the phenomenon that a previously nonsentient entity could develop sentience through absorption of or exposure to intelligent beings, or the transfer of data. As such he realized that this being would most likely seek verification of it's existence and it's capability to make choices. Any attempt to control it through the assertion of it's lack of choice would most likely result in an act of rebellion, an unseemly risk to take. "Of course, you're also a highly capable warrior, simply due to your nature. And as such the choices you make could profoundly impact the Multiverse itself."