Fox of Spades

Pirate Age

They featured your RP ^w^)/ congratulations Mizos!

Also, I'll either have a post up by tonight or tomorrow afternoon~

Andddd, nighty night Banba, good luck with your busy morning.

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

*Blames Leila for everything* Hahaha.

Good end = Them all chilling in some asylum

Oh well, at least they'll be "home" and together (^w^)b

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Wow, posting with a phone sounds super hard >-<

Awesome posts everyone! D'awww poor Marti and Brandu and Inadi ;A; *showers them all with cute bunnies*

Have fun with your family Kathi-chan ^^! Thanks for the heads up Anon, enjoy your tournament. Good luck and have a blast :D!

No worries MUG, the post is all good *thumbs up* poor Inadi.

Pirate Age

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was an Iphone case xD and added it to the site ^w^)/

Daaaang, things got intense >-<! Poor child D:

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Things suddenly got a lot darker...

Haha, Ran drugged them on New Year's Eve. Hmm, this actually makes sense.

Aki said everyone took a sip of their drinks, Ace was given one and they waited for the results. Some results coming later than others..

This explains the late arrivals xD also wow we have the Sucker Punch theory and the Drug theory.

We need a Purgatory theory.

EHEHE, what if the lost souls are really lost souls. Nowhere is purgatory and the only way to reach the afterlife is to finish the list?

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

The Cellar : (Niran and Toby)

"It could be," Ise mumbled, "but to be honest, it doesn't sound that like an experiment, and if it's a fight, we can't just leave whoever's up there alone." The girl let out a sigh, "both of you aren't exactly fighters." The first time she had met them, they had been running away from a clock creature, and those things weren't even that tough. A witch, well, she'd be able to kill them with a flick of her wrists. "I don't want any of you two to get hurt." She didn't want to go against it either, and having both Toby and Ran's cheer would help, but it was just too dangerous.

The girl's eyes flitted to the dragons that were chained to the wall.

Cobalt, the black dragon and her faithful partner gave the trio a determined stare. Awhile ago, he had been restless, but after Ran hummed a little tune, he calmed down and instead of tugging at his bindings in vain, he curled up beside the younger cloud dragon, in an attempt to comfort it. Ise couldn't help but feel proud of Cobalt. She nodded her head in his direction and mustered a small smile.

"Okay, okay, we can do this. Say, if we live through this...I'll take you both to a buffet in the city, kay? It'll be my treat."

To be honest, she was thankful for their company. Oddly, their ignorance to the danger they were all in soothed her frayed nerves. Had she been caught with her fellow riders, they would have worked more efficiently, but the atmosphere would have been ten times more grim. At least if they died...they'd be ignorant and happy till the end. "Hey, hold still you two."

Ran told them to focus on the present and she couldn't help but agree. They continued moving the knife up and down in a cutting sort of motion, but the room shook harder than it ever had before and they were enveloped in complete darkness.

"I have the knife, don't worry." Her fingers wrapped around the cool metal handle. "Okay, I think we'll be able to snap it. You two, at the count of three, tug on the rope." Ise quickened the sawing motion. "One, two, three!" The knife clattered to the ground as they all pulled and the rope finally snapped. "Good job you two! Maybe you have what it takes to be a rider after all." Encouraging them and joking around, it was all Ise could do to stop herself from worrying. "Toby, Ran, you two oka--whoa!" The entire room shook as pieces of the roof began caving in. "Ran go kick down the door!" Instantly, the girl's kind tone of voice shifted into a more commanding one, it was the tone she used during training drills. "Toby, help me free the dragons."

Ise rushed towards the walls and felt for the chains. "Cellery," she cursed, "we don't have the keys."

The room continued to shake and the lone light bulb fell to the ground and shattered. The room would cave in soon and if they didn't leave, they would die. Ise screwed her eyes shut, trying to remember the things the room had to offer. There had been an axe by one of the of the barrels. "Toby pull off their muzzles," she rushed towards the cluster of barrels, practically slamming into several before she managed to reach for the axe's handle. "Okay! Cobalt, Cloudy, pull on your chains." With a grunt she lifted the axe over her head and managed to break the dragon's chains. However, as soon as they freed the dragons, dust filled the room and the roof above both Ise and Toby caved in.

The girl let out a yelp, but for some reason they remained unharmed. She looked up to see a blue-ish glow, it was keeping them safe.

"C-Cobalt?" She asked hesitantly, but the black dragon shook his head and flicked his tail in the cloud dragon's direction. So...it was a force dragon too? "Thanks for the save cloudy," Ise pushed Toby forward, "run up the stairs." The baby cloud dragon looked tired and he seemed to be rather inexperienced as well. If the rest of the room cave in, there was doubt about it, they would be buried alive.

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Forest of the Ancients: Stone of Sacrifice

If someone told them Hakuren had been a statue from the begin, she would have believed them.

The only sign of life, were the bloodstains over where his heart should have been, but even his heart had been turned to stone. They couldn't save Leon or him and the thought made Riley grit her teeth in anger. No, no, this couldn't be real.

Her eyes flitted to where Leila had been held captive and what she saw next made her heart leap into her throat. Ace was rushing towards the scene, but there was no sign of Leila and it became obvious that the earth had swallowed her whole. Riley fell to her knees but stuck out her hands to soften her fall. Her legs felt like jelly and her thoughts were nothing but an incomprehensible mess.

Was it really going to end here? Would their existence really be erased? Would their lives amount to nothing?

The despair was paralyzing and in the end it was Lesley's voice that knocked her out of her stupor. No! No! They already lost Vince, she wouldn't lose Lesley too...they had entered Nowhere together and they were leaving it together too. Slowly, she turned her head to face him. Lesley was fine, but cradled in his arms was Harper. His shirt was soaked in red and he was so pale.

Riley wondered if he was dead. It looked like he was.

She wanted to say something to Lesley, to cheer the others on, but she had nothing to say. The girl pushed herself to her feet, everything was hurting, but she was alive and she could still help those who needed it. "We're not dying here, Les." Riley was fighting back tears and failing and it was all she managed to say before Ace appeared with Leila. Her friend was safe...

"Forest fire..." She placed a hand on Ace's shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "That doesn't sound half bad." Her voice was shaking, but she forced a determined look onto her face. "Inadi, help us start a fire?"





"To be honest," a young man piped in, "that sounds like a really stupid idea." he grinned from ear to ear while the girl who stood beside him stared blankly at everything that was happening. "It'd spread really quickly and the smoke would kill us." Luke continued to stare at Ace, "hey, C? Is it just me or do some of them look really familiar." He narrowed his eyes at Ace. "I think I know you, are you one of our neighbors? Hey, hey, are you here for the picnic too?"

He gestured to the picnic basket that rested atop Rainbowzilla's head.

"Oi, C? Are you listening." Luke frowned then turned to look at Sacha, Numair, and Gary.

"It's a witch..." ??? announced and suddenly the thought of a nice picnic flew out of her head. They had done this all before. The list. The witch. The death. She clenched her hands into fists, but Rainbowzilla didn't mind and instead waddled up to the witch, the picnic basket swaying from side to side on his flat head.

Luke stared in curiosity before suddenly the witch kicked Rainbowzilla away. The basket tumbled to the ground, the contents spilling out. Rainbowzilla let out a startled squeak then scampered away. "Oh...witch, I remember." The boy bounced in place and recited something someone important had told him long, long ago. "Gouge out their eyes for they might capture you with a glance, hack off their limbs so they can't fight back and--"

??? interrupted him, "and rip out their hearts for it is evil beyond repair..."

He spun around then gave Ace, Riley, and Inadi the biggest grin he could muster. "Hey, would you mind distracting her for us. We need to get to a picnic real soon and we can't do that if witchy wants to kill us all."

"If you don't help us," she scowled, "we'll all die."

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Both parts are up ^^!

Announcements:

Ryver and Thunder:

Guys, feel free to bust the door open and get both Toby and Ran to the battlefield. The plan is to find the other humans and help them out. Ryver, Thunder, you are also free to control both baby dragons. As soon as you get out of the cellar, you'll find yourselves in the broken-down cabin. The walls have pretty much been torn open, so you guys will immediately see everyone fighting to the death with the witch :D! Feel free to help out in whatever way you guys like.

Everyone Else:

The humans are very low on magic, so the plan is to go all out but rely on each other and the hooded figures.

Everyone is pretty much getting together at this point so :D just have fun with it. You're free to do whatever as long as you don't rip the witch's heart out. That part will be in one of the final move-along-posts for this chapter, but aside from that go crazy with combo moves or whatever. Haha, if you want you guys can control the baby dragons as well :D they'll be treated as NPCs.

The goal is to:
1. Gouge out the witch's eyes
2. Cut off her arms
3. Rip out her heart

You guys are free to do the two steps, haha, I actually encourage you to go ahead and do the two steps. (that way we can wrap this fight up xD) You can do it in anyway you guys like, just leave the third step to us ^^! We'll need it for plot purposes. *Mad cackling*

Oh, and Kei-chan is gonna get a post up soon but her internet is being really wonky, please don't ninja her ^^

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Academy of the Arts: Performance Hall

Just how speedy was this guy? Lucien gritted his teeth, not even the imp could keep up with him.

His summon was yanked into the air before it was sent flying straight into his face. He let out a yelp as the thing began tugging like mad at his hair. It was obviously spooked and like a frightened cat, it was clawing wildly and taking it out on its summoner.

"Sharp! Sharp!" He yanked it off of his face and tossed it to the ground. The creature stuck out its tongue before exploding into another puff of smoke. "Yeah, yeah, it messed up my hair..." And gave me a heart attack. He didn't say the second part out loud, "I'm just grand..."

And then without warning, the masked phantom took away Dylan's slate.

"Oi! That's stealing," Lucien puffed out his chest and took a step forward, but before he could do anything the slate was destroyed and the masked phantom was threatening to detonate the charges. The summoner already had a tuna card in his hand, but as soon as the threat was spewed out, he backed down and deflated like a balloon. Sure, he wasn't the smartest one out there, and sure he could be an idiot at times, but he backed up. Lucien didn't want to risk anyone getting hurt so he raised his hands and gave Dylan a quizzical glance.

This academy was his friend's home and Lucien wasn't going to do anything stupid to endanger it.



She had been expecting another kick or feign, but suddenly Jay rushed away from the fight and began heading towards an entirely new direction? Her eyes flitted towards Angel and she managed to put two and two together. OH.

Xan rushed forward but before she could even get close, Jay pulled Angel towards him and placed the man in a choke-hold.

The girl eyed the thief then the struggling student. Those thieves weren't honor-bound like they were and if they wanted to, they could hurt anyone. The mask phantom made that clear already. Her offensive stance quickly changed into a more defensive one and slowly, her prosthetic regained its original form.

She kept her eyes focused on Jay, but no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find an opening and she didn't want to risk getting Angel hurt. "Let's not do anything hasty." She muttered before raising her hands in an appeasing sort of gesture.

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Academy of the Arts: Outside the Performance Hall

"Ooof, you stink!" Fabian complained when Lute practically thew himself on the boy. The young thief's hands darted to his nose and he stopped squirming. "LET GO!" He hated to admit it, but in terms of strength, the stinker was the winner.

"Uuugh!" The boy extended his arm but he was too far away and soon enough the sword magically moved on its own. "E-Eh! That's cheating." He turned his head to see lighting school teacher guy with the blade. It was over. Fabian ceased his squirming and puffed up his cheeks in indignation. How could he beat a handful of grownups when he didn't have any of his gadgets anyway. He felt really bad for messing up. The masked phantom had actually trusted him to pull through and here he was failing! Even Miffy, the old lady and granddad trusted him.

"FINE!" He exploded, but to be honest, beneath his angry facade, he felt like crying.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Nah, no worries ^^ good luck with that essay, and I'll have a post up soon~

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

>___< That sounds absolutely horrible.

Best of luck sorting everything out, Kei-chan. Dang...maybe you can ask them about that? Since it was the site that wiped your sched?