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Solace In Night: A Kingdom Hearts RP

------------------------------------------ ~~~~~~Agrabah / Desert (Empire/Old Trident - Warship)~~~~~~ Though the blackout caused by Dominic had helped him and his partner in their daring snatch-and-grab of Caleb, the sudden blindness that fell throughout the room brought with it an element of unpredictability the two couldn’t have foreseen. As Nomis twisted his body away from the console and monitors at the sound of the doors opening once more, the blackness that appeared as everything electronic within the room shorted-out kept the sight of the man hidden as he was flung into the wall of dead screens, the broken glass and metal raining down on him after falling to the wayside hard. While the more intense force of the psionic wave that came straight afterwards was enough to pin all others throughout the room to the wall, it was a situation Nomis was not apart of, the man finally awakening as power returned, only to find most of the room in a wild and chaotic state of destruction. The motionless cloaked bodies strewn on the floor appeared to cause only a mild annoyance to Nomis, the man wiping off some of the scraps of metal clinging to his sleeves as he began to call out Caleb’s name, only stopping the moment he noticed his nephew was not there. Stepping towards the table which he had last saw Caleb, Nomis almost as if without any strength, suddenly placed his hands down upon it for support. The sheer surprise of having someone appear and take his nephew from right out of his hands was something unthinkable to the man, and the anger at having just watched that was now quickly rising within him. Balling his hands into tight fists, the sight of the table crushing in upon itself was quite terrifying to watch, as was the sudden sweep of his arm towards the hooded bodies which produced a loud chorus of something similar to cracking bones. “Make repairs, I want this room ready for when I catch those two!!” Roared Nomis, his metal covered fingers shining with their familiar dark glow while the hooded figures rose from the floor, an even more deathly silence coming from them as they made their way around the room to do as Nomis commanded. Snatching the black cane that lifelessly rested to the side of the door, Nomis left the room in a swift pace, the man closing his eyes for a brief moment before purposefully making his way towards what he knew for certain was the trail of Caleb. ------------------------------------------------ As the power returned throughout the specific level of the ship, the first thing were the lights that now illuminated the same empty hallways which Shinto and Dominic were quite familiar with since entering the colossal ship. Though unlike all the other hallways the two, now three, had came across, this one suddenly took on a new phase as a large metal bulkhead appeared to form out of nothing from the surrounding walls and swiftly blocked the way ahead. “Electrical Discharge Source has been located in section KR6. Systems have been reconfigured to combat native level of discharge used to destabilise internal sensors.” The loud and computerised voice sprang into life throughout not just the hallway, but most likely the entire level and even ship itself. The familiar sound of clicking was something Shinto and Dominic knew plenty about, the floating batch of Birugs coming further on down the hallway being the only warning the two would get before they arrived.

Solace In Night: A Kingdom Hearts RP

------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~~~~~Agrabah / Desert (Empire/Old Trident - Warship)~~~~~~ "I take it those results were unsatisfactory, Uncle Nomis?" The sound of Caleb’s voice, right there coming from his side, was the only thing to cause Nomis to stop for just a moment and to turn towards his nephew. “Very unsatisfactory. Seems the sample was more a second or third generation, it’s ability was too diluted to react successfully with the substance. I need a subject with a much purer strain to work with.” Said Nomis, the scientist tiredly running through his hair the sharp metal fingers of his hand, before walking past Caleb in order to reach the collection of monitors and machines that still spewed in countless amounts of information. “Is the experiment ready to begin?” Asked Nomis, the man not looking at anyone in particular within the room, his sole attention on examining the information displayed before him, but still one of the hooded scientists seemed to instinctively know it was them, their Lord was speaking to. “Yes, Lord Nomis. Though we are without any great supply of the dark sample used in the first test, the few vials you had remaining were enough once rationed out amongst the larvae.” “Good, we’ll begin once preparations are complete. I want this to be the final attempt before we leave this world.” With that, the hooded figure slumped off before shortly leaving the room entirely, taking two others along as it passed by them, while Nomis was busy adjusting some of the controls before him. “You came straight from the Palace, correct Caleb? What were our fellow members of the Empire doing before you left?” ------------------------------------------ The trail the floating Birugs followed seemed to become erratic the further along they travelled down the hallway, until before long what had been a faint but constant path of wispy bits of red electricity had faded to the point that even the machine’s scanners couldn’t find it. Swiftly changing their sights back to their normal gaze, the flying robots simply continued on the straight path before them, the clear reasoning being the cause of the anomaly should be ahead. Picking up speed, the sound of the gears, which made up their bodies, getting louder as they spun was all anyone would hear throughout the hallway, and though the lead machine only caught sight of the faint two figures as they began to turn the corner, it was all that was needed for it to scan and know the figures were not part of the ship in any way. The arc of energy that suddenly struck the wall ahead of Shinto and Dominic, the attack just about missing Dominic’s arm to be more precise, was the one and only warning shot by the Birugs, the others which floated behind the lead machine soon spreading out by its sides, and all with their own energy based weapon already out and preparing to continue the attack started by the first.

Solace In Night: A Kingdom Hearts RP

---------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~Agrabah / Desert (Empire/Old Trident - Warship)~~~~~~ "Replication has begun on samples 2 and 5 after tests showed..." “Electrical discharge detected at sections 4D - 8J on external hull compartments…” "Production and distribution of newly designed Birugs have begun, completion estimated..." “Electrical discharge detected internally through sections JF4 - SW6, sensors destabilised, Birugs are to monitor sections for…” "Data from Foreign Parasite has steadily increased since its time of merger with target. Cross-referencing results have..." Voices came from all around, filling and echoing throughout the room all while the now coat-less Nomis was busy hunched over a long metal table near the far wall. The room itself had a few more of these, all identical except for the varying levels of age each one had along its once pristine surface. The body that lay on the table before Nomis had gone cold long before the man arrived onto the ship, his group having spread out, some returning with him while most ventured off to conduct other experiments and tests on behalf of their master. The results and constant updates of data were being streamed into the room across the vast wall of monitors, in most cases alongside the tabs which projected the voices all speaking at once. The brief momentary shiver and clutch of his arm was immediately replaced by a sudden violent filled burst of anger, Nomis quickly and forcibly grabbing the large syringe-styled canister before injecting the sloshing and thick liquid it held through the veins of the lifeless body before him. Everyone within the room continued to bury themselves into their given tasks, even when the heavy thud of the twin doors slid open for Caleb, no one, not even Nomis, stopped for a moment to see who it could have been. It was one of the few non-working hooded figures that approached the young nephew of Nomis, the hunched body of it twisting lower even more as some kind of respected bow. “Sir Clacverk, welcome back...Master Clacverk is in the midst of testing some results from a previous experiment…” Said the robed figure, its long cloaked arm twisting with its body to motion towards Caleb’s uncle before it went back along its slow pace through the room. Standing before the table and the body now, Nomis was busy silently counting the seconds with one of his pocket-watches, the man’s eyes turning from the clock’s dial to the still lifeless body every set number of seconds. Though the body was one of the three that Caleb had dealt with the previous day, the large wound in their chest that should have still been present and clear, was instead hidden from sight by a large smear of the same dark liquid that Nomis had injected into the cold body, now in the process of hardening into a material not unlike his particular solid metal. “That creature has to be brought back to us if we’re to return to Hollow Bastion and continue our work, we’ve spent far too much time on this world as it is. And these subject samples are far and between too normal and common.” Said Nomis as he placed his watch back into his pocket once the dark veins began to show themselves on the still cold body, the man motioning for the body and table to be taken away, apparently not that happy with the result. --------------------------- The hallways of the ship were almost identical, and though age had faded some of the shine the metal had, it still held a rather silent, lonesome, and even one might say clinical atmosphere down every corridor. The silence they once had though soon began to fade away, as the low hum and click of a number of things began to come from around one of the hallway’s corridors. The large metal eyes whirled their enlarged lenses around their casings as they floated through the hallway, each small group composing of three side by side before moving ahead and allowing the next three to come up behind and repeat the process. All in all there seemed to be five of these tiny groups of three, every one of them individually scanning and checking their surroundings for anything different. Though it was impossible for the naked eye to see anything from the ordinary looking vent, there was still something left behind for the lead Birug machine to immediately come across. It’s large eye focused on the simple metal border the vent opening had, and as it switched through a few of its different sights and sensors, it didn’t take long for the small wisps of red electricity to show up not just for it but for the rest of the machines floating behind it. The same faint electricity hung in small patches through the air, though the biggest gathering of it quickly shot off further down the hallway in front of the Birugs, a trail which the floating group now began to follow.

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Anorgoros, i'll get with you on what we can do, it'd be easier of Alt posted or was informed. I don't really use IMs anymore since, like with Sole, college has resumed for me as well.

Perfect Anarchy

Sounds good to me, if it's easier for you to talk with PMs here on the site go right ahead and I'll reply as soon as I can. ^^ I'll also let Alt know about anything that can concern him or maybe just to PM as well if he needs to.

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~~~~~~Agrabah / Royal Street (Main Street leaving from the Palace)~~~~~~

The panic seemed to rush through the crowds faster as more people fled from the large shambling creature of darkness. Even those who couldn’t possibly see the beast itself through the mass of people quickly picked up on the fear and promptly ran or hid from the monstrosity, its singular gaze rolling around catching sight of anything in front of it, while its long tendril hanging face slithered and disturbed the dust covered ground, like any other animal trying to catch a scent.

The creature’s leather-like body stretched and shook with every one of the beast’s long strides of its distorted appendages. Though almost bone like in appearance, the flimsy and somewhat brittle look the body gave was quite clearly misleading, the slow change the rest of the body was going through only now seemingly beginning to settle on the ribcage and spine styled exoskeleton on its upper torso.

Though it was a single word before what happened next, just as it had done with the screams that came from all around it, the abomination continued its search. That was until the searing pain through one of its frontal arms caused it to release a hideously loud shriek and hiss. Propping up on its back legs, the beast clutched the now stump of its arm, the black goo splattering onto the ground by the still wiggling limb not enough to actually cover the appendage, even with such a bad wound, but there was enough to stain the once lightly brown sand a shine-less black.

Swinging its leech-like face towards the alley, and the two figures standing within, the once single eye was soon joined by many smaller ones, the things appearing along the creature’s smooth skin like growths, and all glaring solely on the one who had hurt them. Releasing its grip on the stump, which had miraculously stopped bleeding, the beast’s remaining whole arm quickly reached down to grab the remains that still laid on the ground. The sight of it not only bringing the lifeless piece up to the stump but of it somehow reattaching it, was with a disgusting sight, the crunch and pop of it signalling its reattachment as the same dark liquid from its wound bubbled and seemed to congeal and harden where the pieces now joined.

It was very clear the creature was definitely nothing like any Heartless. It was something much older and clearly much more dangerous.

Able to keep sight on Ryoko and Salforge with its dozen of eyes, the beast let out another one of its high-pitched shrieks, the sheer sound of it enough to cause some of the reflecting cubes close by it to shake and ripple. Though it was the sudden look in the creature’s main large eye that seemed to be the reason why it didn’t leap towards Ryoko and Salforge, and instead cause its spine to creak and groan as it immediately went flying down Main Street, the now slightly mismatched arms sweeping at anything in its way.

The panic that quickly seemed to spread further through Main Street had finally appeared to get the guards to begin closing the city’s large gates, trying their best to contain the fearing crowds within these sections of the market only. Having been slowly making their way towards the palace itself, it was the reason why the sections had fewer and fewer citizens within them, yet each one was passed through exactly the same way by the creature. The once large gates were torn apart as the beast ran by, its arms easily capable of ripping through the material in a matter of seconds, even if it meant some of the jagged edges sliced into its body as it passed through, and yet always the scars were quickly covered by the congealing and bubbling liquid by the time it reached the opposite gateway exit.

It was the iron layered gates, having been lowered in panic at the sound of the increasingly growing sound of wood caving in, which proved to be a little hard for the abomination. After a few anger filled whacks from its arms and tendril flailing face, the creature quickly began to climb the iron wall, its weight compared to its brittle looking body clearly enough to bend the metal as it slowly reached the top, its gaze able to peer through the iron holes and over the wooden gates, to see the figure of a man, one who looked to be from this world, and the darkness reeking being that was behind it. It was the sight of this that once again caused the beast’s eyes to flare in both excitement and impatience.

Like a caged and wild animal, the creature shrieked as it shook and clawed and very soon even succeeding in beginning to tear apart the iron contraption that kept it from its source of hunger. Scraps of crushed metal were flung behind the hanging beast as it pulled the chunks free with pure strength with every grasp of its clawed hands. Soon, there was enough of an opening to allow the creature into the gap between the two iron gates, and it was with this new foothold that its whole strength was used, not in opening another hole, but judging from the loud rattles of the gate and cracking wall edges with each slam of its arms, to bring down the whole gate itself.