[IC] ESCAPE HELL: The Gates

[souleaterfan320]

Stryder said
Mason sighed a little bit as Koran prepared to snap his neck, not the best way to go but it was a way to go. He glanced at him with now colorless eyes when he asked if he wanted to do this. "I'm not afraid to die, if you do this right, I'll come back anyway...." He said, managing a small smile, rebirth was going to suck he knew that much. "Tell Verona to take care of my dog please, my sword too, unless that goes with me.." He said, giving a sort of last will to Koran. "Remember, cut off my head after, you don't need me getting back up now.." He smirked, grunting a little bit in pain. "You might wanna hurry." He said.

koran closed his eyes... he really didnt want to do this, this man didnt deserve to die again, he was an alright person, not necessarily the best, but far from the worst... koran's muscles tightened as he snapped mason's neck with a loud crack, and he backed away, his hands trembling.

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verona had been standing just a few feet away, when she heard mason tell her to take care of his pup. she teared up, she always hated seeing this part, as being an oracle, she had seen this quite a few times. even though she looked into mason's eyes, her eyes filled with pain."please find us.... ill miss you..." although she had only recently met this man, but what she has seen made her feel like she had known him for ages. when she heard the loud snap of his spine, she let out a small gasp, and tears started streaming down her face.

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he just killed an innocent man, let alone someone he wouldve considered a friend under different circumstances, and even if he would be reborn, koran will never forget the cracking noise of mason's neck... he turned from the group, and sounded troubled. "i just... killed ... him..,.

[Minarawr]

Mina had looked from the window as Koran performed the "execution" of Mason. 'You stupid... I told you not to get bitten...' she muttered.
It was unfortunate, but it had to be done. Had Koran not done it she would have done so herself. The pup in her arms whined as it saw what was going on, squirming a bit, but Mina held it tightly.
'Hush now, it has to be done. He'll return in a while.' she spoke. The pup seemed to understand what she said, but it kept staring at the scene.

As Koran turned around from Mason's now lifeless corpse, she headed down the stairs and towards him. It wasn't particularly to comfort the nephilim, more so to keep him under control in case his powers went out of whack.
She moved towards him and placed one free hand on his shoulder. 'You did good, it had to be done.' she said softly. 'I'll take care of the rest.'
She nudged him lightly and gestured at the house. 'Now, go inside. Verona, can you bring him?' she asked the girl.

After that she turned back to Mason's body, drew her gun and shot one bullet into his skull, just in case. She holstered the gun and walked towards the house, the pup whining softly in her arms.

[Minarawr]

(Ugh)

[Stryder]

Mason's life was over in a flash, the pain of death was one that he hadn't expected to be excruciating after having gone through it before. The last thing mason could remember was Mina shooting him in the head, while that did aggravate him he saw the reasoning behind it. He crawled away from a rift that opened up in the hellish dimension, it spat him out like it was done with him. He scanned his surrounding, finding that he was in the exact same place as before, oddly enough, memories kept ringing in his head. Verona's voice, telling him to find them again, that was what he was going to do for sure. After some long hours of going through passageways he sighed, finally seeing the bridge that had got him to the cave he had first met Mina at. "Sure wish I had a weapon again..." He sighed, realizing his weapon was probably still with his old body or with Verona at least. The soldier continued to push onward though.

He stopped in his tracks when he saw a strange humanoid figure off in the distance, his past knowledge told him not to fal for anything here. Without hesitation he let out a shout of fury, charging at the small human shape calling for help. "Yeah, I have your help right here motherfucker!" He yelled as he ran, driving his boot into the side of its head, a sadistic grin plastered on his face as his boot came down as it fell, mercilessly he began stomping the low life creature. Blood splattered his uniform trousers a dark red, once the pathetic creature stopped moving, Mason went about his business, taking the path he had gone once before. A slight smile was one his face when he saw the saw pit he met the armored hell hounds in, he jumped down and immediately he was pounced by the creatures. "Hey, hey stop. I know.." He said, not used to affection from animals, the hounds seemed happy to see him return to them, as if anticipating his arrival.

With a short farewell he climbed back up to the top, only to feel that familiar touch against his ankle. "No, not yet..." He said before carrying on, hours had passed but he finally made it back to his group. His uniform shirt was tattered badly from the hellhounds inadvertently ripping it to shreds. "Oh..." He looked to see absolutely no one outside anymore, maybe they went in for the night, this wasn't exactly the place ti roam at night. He approached the front door and boldly knocked, hoping someone would answer it.

[rusty4297]

John had closed his eyes, both to avoid the horror of what was to come and to hopefully help him control his other self. Oh... But I wanna watch! Open your eyes... Not like I'll take over anyway, I wanted blood from these people, right? Just watch him die... Maybe cut him with your scythe a bit and I'll be satisfied for a bit... Come oooooon! "N-no... I won't desecrate his body..." He kept his eyes shut tight until he heard a loud snapping noise. When he did hear the noise, his eyes snapped open, seeing Mason's body seem to drain of life about as quickly as that fight went. He frowned, waiting there until suddenly Mina pointed a gun at Mason. What!? YES! BLEED! "What... The Hell are you doing!? That's your brother! You don't look very sad about shooting your own brother..." Ooo... Someone's a bit irritable... Heheheh... Let out some of your stress on his body or I might make you more irritable He whispered to himself "You got the blood you wanted... Leave it be..." Fine...

[Dash375]

Seth could not bring himself to watch as Mason was executed, he had debated about whether he should of done it himself but he could not bring himself to actually kill someone up close like that, let alone someone he knew. That was one of his weaknesses, despite being a soldier and having killed and been responsible for the deaths of many others he still had killing people and seeing death.

After the deed was done Seth walked over to Mason's body almost in a trance only being snapped out of it when Mina walked over and shot it the bullet into his skull. Looking in shock at Mina for a second Seth shook his head and laughed as if nothing had happened "Wow, give me a warning next time." He spoke to no one in particular before walking into the house to look through more of the rooms in an effort to take his mind off what had just happened, after all it was partly his fault for leaving Mason weaponless for a period of time.

[souleaterfan320]

Minarawr said
Mina had looked from the window as Koran performed the "execution" of Mason. 'You stupid... I told you not to get bitten...' she muttered.It was unfortunate, but it had to be done. Had Koran not done it she would have done so herself. The pup in her arms whined as it saw what was going on, squirming a bit, but Mina held it tightly.'Hush now, it has to be done. He'll return in a while.' she spoke. The pup seemed to understand what she said, but it kept staring at the scene.As Koran turned around from Mason's now lifeless corpse, she headed down the stairs and towards him. It wasn't particularly to comfort the nephilim, more so to keep him under control in case his powers went out of whack.She moved towards him and placed one free hand on his shoulder. 'You did good, it had to be done.' she said softly. 'I'll take care of the rest.'She nudged him lightly and gestured at the house. 'Now, go inside. Verona, can you bring him?' she asked the girl.After that she turned back to Mason's body, drew her gun and shot one bullet into his skull, just in case. She holstered the gun and walked towards the house, the pup whining softly in her arms.

koran nodded to her. "this could have been avoided though, had i been out here earlier.."
verona was sad, but fought through her sadness and went inside, doing as mina said.
koran walked in, laying down on the couch, and fell to sleep. in his dream, he was once again confronted by the man who claimed to be satan.
satan: "heh, so, enjoying your stay in hell, my little project?"
koran:"what do you mean by project ?"
satan laughed, placing his hand on koran's shoulder.
satan: "you really think that i would have a 'true' son? you dear fool. i created you, but not of my fruits, but of my dna. i mixed it with one of the archangels, Gabriel, the lone female archangel, and had created you, koran, the great nephilim of old, around 20 years from now, that is when god gave you that righteous title, ugh."
koran grinned. koran: "you think you can keep us here, but you are dead wrong, we will be seeing you soon, satan."
satan:"oh, i wouldnt get cocky if i were you, everything you know will come to an end."
koran:" id like to see you try."
that moment, a bright blue light burst around koran, and he woke up abruptly to the sound of mason knocking on the door. he opened it." mason, bout time you got back here.."

[Stryder]

Mason was happy to see that someone answered, after some hours of knocking it was beginning to get a little tedious. "Yeah, three days..." He said, the blood stained on his uniform and his tattered shirt surely showed how amused he was by Koran right now. He sighed and walked over to the fireplace in the living room and began lighting a fire, for everyone, assuming they were going to come down to see him anyway. He lied back on the couch, sighing comfortably. "Verona has my things right?" He asked, just remembering his weapon and his pup. "Verona?" He called loud enough for the oracle to hear, eventually he just got up, his torn and tattered shirt was getting annoying for him, he took it off, sighing a little. "I may as well..." He said to himself, holding onto the torn thing.

[Minarawr]

Mina looked at John, cocking her head. It seemed like a stupid question to her, but she answered nonetheless. 'Making sure my brother doestn't come back to life as a demonic zombie and take another life. I am certain he wouldn't want that, do you?' she asked.
She looked at Seth and shrugged lightly. 'Thought you'd be used to it, being a soldier and such.'
After making her way inside she took a seat, brushing through the pup's fur thoughtlessly as it fell asleep on her lap.

-Timeskip-

It had been a while, Mina wasn't sure how long as time passed strangely in Hell, when Mina heard a loud knock on the door. Her eyes lit up and she smiled a bit when she felt Mason's energy behind the door.
She looked as Koran woke from his dream, glancing at him as she picked up something weird from the way he woke up.
'Good to see you back.' she smiled at Mason. The pup woke up at the sound of Mason's voice and barked, jumping off Mina's lap and running toward him, jumping in his arms and licking him all over his face.

[rusty4297]

John had entered the house as well, thinking over what had happened. The next few nights had little to no sleep for him as he fought constant battles in his head with his other self. The night that Mason returned, John had been so tired that he had simply passed out wherever he could sleep, and had been finally getting the rest he needed. He did, however, end it when he heard people moving around in the middle of the night. When he woke up and looked around, he saw that Mason had returned, and he yawned before speaking "Welcome back..." He put a hand to his head, hoping he wouldn't have to even hear a word from his other self until he woke up again next.

[Stryder]

Mason smiled a bit at Mina, it was certainly strange to see an expression like that coming from her but he'd accept it. "You too, sis.." He smirked, guessing he'd keep up with the ruse, it wasn't like anyone was catching on anyway. He heard the sound of his armored little companion barking in reaction to his return, smiling a bit as he jumped toward him, Mason welcomed the pup with open arms. "Okay, okay, I missed you too.." He said as the pup licked his face, patting it on the head gently, wincing a bit when the pup's claws dug into his bare chest. "Okay, that's one down...now where's my sword?" He questioned, he glanced over at John. "Oh, hey..." He said, narrowing his eyes a bit at him.

[souleaterfan320]

Stryder said
Mason was happy to see that someone answered, after some hours of knocking it was beginning to get a little tedious. "Yeah, three days..." He said, the blood stained on his uniform and his tattered shirt surely showed how amused he was by Koran right now. He sighed and walked over to the fireplace in the living room and began lighting a fire, for everyone, assuming they were going to come down to see him anyway. He lied back on the couch, sighing comfortably. "Verona has my things right?" He asked, just remembering his weapon and his pup. "Verona?" He called loud enough for the oracle to hear, eventually he just got up, his torn and tattered shirt was getting annoying for him, he took it off, sighing a little. "I may as well..." He said to himself, holding onto the torn thing.

koran was shocked. "id been asleep for three days?!?!? how is that possible?!?!?..."
verona came down the stairs."mason! you made it!"
she hugged him .

[Stryder]

Mason looked over at Koran as if he wanted to make a rude comment but instead he rescinded the idea. "Yeah, for whatever reason..." He said as he shrugged a bit, his pup barking, not in an angry tone but a happy one like he had been upon his arrival. Looking up he was immediately taken off guard by Verona's hug, for someone who was all-seeing, a warning would have been nice. He hugged back somewhat to be courteous, it'd have been rude if he didn't. "Well I wasn't going to die again." He smiled a bit.

[souleaterfan320]

Stryder said
Mason looked over at Koran as if he wanted to make a rude comment but instead he rescinded the idea. "Yeah, for whatever reason..." He said as he shrugged a bit, his pup barking, not in an angry tone but a happy one like he had been upon his arrival. Looking up he was immediately taken off guard by Verona's hug, for someone who was all-seeing, a warning would have been nice. He hugged back somewhat to be courteous, it'd have been rude if he didn't. "Well I wasn't going to die again." He smiled a bit.

"thats good, tehe!" she smiles, then lays her head on his chest. "your so warm..." she looked, seeing him... shirtless..... "EEP!" she let out, red faced. "m..m-m-mason... your sh-shirtless..."
her face got red from seeing him, and from being embarrassed due to people watching.
"um... hehehehehe" she giggled lightly, seeing mason again.
she hid her face in her hood, and hugged mason tightly.
"c-can we go somewhere else..."

[Dash375]

Seth came out of the room he was in when he heard voices coming from downstairs and looked to see Mason "Welcome back." He spoke to him simply as nothing else needed to be said as he listened to everyone else greet Mason but was particularly interested in Mina's choice of words for her response "Shouldn't that be good to see you back brother or something similar like that?" Seth asked out loud so everyone else could hear and force a response out of Mina as he started to grow suspicious of her, the more he thought about it Mina did not look too much like Mason either.

[Stryder]

Mason looked down at her, slightly smiling when she commented on his warmth, most likely that was thanks to the fire he had created. "That'd be the fire..." He quipped, managing a small smirk when she finally noticed he was without a top. "Uh, yeah, it sort of got destroyed..." He said, showing her the tattered tan shirt. He was a little surprised to see how her face turned red, he wasn't sure if it went what he thought it meant though. "Uh sure where?" He asked, he wondered if she'd be taking him to his weapon.

[Zarkun]

Jerus had heard that Mason was back, but he felt no need to see how the man was doing. He was alive and back, and that was good enough. He had been in the living room, meditating for the past few days while they waited for Mason's return, had he really come back. Jerus himself had been skeptical that death wasn't absolute in this realm, but with Mason's return from death, it would seem they would bring them back just to kill them again and again. A rather unpleasant thought if one devoted time to it.

When Seth questioned why Mina wasn't happier to see her brother back, Jerus decides to pull him aside and speak with him. Standing up, he steps between Seth and Mina, fixing him with a glare. "Stop and think about it, Seth. She may very well have to watch him die, and he her die, multiple times in our effort to escape this place. It's not something they're looking forward to."

[a00000000000]

This event of the man coming back to life after death confirmed his thoughts. Doesn't matter how long it took, if he continued and repeatedly died trying, he'd eventually escape this place. He didn't care if it would hurt, it still means he'd come back to life and continue again. He was leaning against the wall. He turned to Mason. "What was the 'rebirth' like?" he asked curiously. He knew it hurt, but he wanted to know how badly.

[Stryder]

Mason, still entrapped in Verona's hug looked to Zaen, asking him about the process of rebirth. His happy expression faded a bit, that was a pain unlike anything else. "I'd rather not get into that..." He said, speaking in a solemn tone, he disliked thinking about the horrifying process.

[a00000000000]

"Well, it's likely going to happen often on our escape." he said, smirking. He knew this, and he knew unless they were lucky, they'd all feel the pain of Hell's rebirth. "I'll endure whatever pain Hell gives me if I can escape." he said, more seriously.