Mixed Worlds

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

((Rah!! I wanted Azure to post first! Now my demon is a main I guess))

The demon has eaten the flesh off the woman, and followed suit with her deceased husband. Within his hair two spikes could now be seen, and his ears more elf-like than human like. “Damn! I’ll have to rid myself of this vessel soon; it’s become a second skin.” He crushed the husband’s bare skull and licked the blood off his hand. “Now what’s it take to summon a reaper to his prey?” He sighed, and looked out of the window, sensing, hopefully, what was to be his new vessel. “Ooh, she’s here! But I've still got so much left to prepare!”

As she opened the door, he was nowhere to be seen; however, his voice could be heard. “Who iiiiiiiissss it? I’m in the kitchen now darling; I implore you, please have a seat! I’ll bring us some tea, maybe we can sit and have a chat, I’d just love to talk about our new living arrangements. I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse.” The demon was kneeling on the floor, carving something into the floor by the kitchen door’s exit.

((Since Azure isn’t posting, Atticus isn’t sticking around.))

Atticus, flicked his wrist and with it he was instantly gone.

[GamerKale]

Looks like she has the front. Agreed. Gabriel moved quietly around to the side of the house, he wanted to avoid any fights. Weiss seemed capable enough to handle practically anything his ears flattend against his skull and he peaked through a window. He whispered quietly to himself, "What is he doing?"JUMP! Without thinking Gabriel leaped for the roof, flipping to see what Cubia had warned him about. A demonic clawed hand as big as himself chased him from a foul portal in the ground. The hand grabbed the empty air and fell back into the portal. Both disappeared without a trace. "That looked like-" Yes, it was a darkness spell. But more importantly, he's here. Give me control Beaux, NOW! The keybearer is here. Ok, does the demon have the key? "No, he does." As if that was some sort of signal an old man holding a black book, wearing glasses and a bowler hat, and dressed for a funeral pushed aside the wooden gate he had been hiding behind. With an evil smile the man held out his hand and a bright white light shot out. The lines on Cubia's body lit up as he absorbed the light with his right hand. He leaped from the roof, shoved his hands forward, and sent out a pulse of white energy from them. The plants in the path of the attack wilted and the wood of the fence began to rot. Green 1s and 0s encircled the man, protecting him from the pulse. Rings of the same green light rose up around the man, disappearing just above his hat. With a smirk, the man followed suit, fading from view a scant second before Cubia's claws could reach him.

His claws dug furrows in the ground in lieu of the man. ((The rest is all internal dialogue.))Morrganna damn it Beaux! If you had given me control sooner I could have gotten him! I gave you control as quickly as I could! And what makes you think he wouldn't have just teleported away sooner? And why can't we just follow him?I was integrated into your body. You never gave yourself the ability to warp without using the points. And without getting a data sample, like when you tried to sample me with your Bishop, we have no way of following him. Actually, I did give myself that. When you integrated yourself you must have disabled it, or maybe it has something to do with what brought us here.Well, unless you can figure out how to hack us and give us that back. We need to get a sample from him. I doubt he's just going to pop up again let us scan him. They, not he. There are at least three of them. Although, I can't say whether or not they can all do as he. How-Before we were brought here, there was a scythe wielding woman, but she only had a fragment, just like this man. The two fragments don't add up to the whole though, so three. That's disconcerting. You think they've found each other yet? No, I'd be able to sense them if they were all together. More good news, I think I figured out how to use Lei Zas.

[AZURE-KITE]

(Sorry haseo, oh yeah, i'll crush your demon's hopes)
Dante saw something curious at the distance "...." he started running in that direction, heentered a house as he listens to the demon “Who iiiiiiiissss it? I’m in the kitchen now darling; I implore you, please have a seat! I’ll bring us some tea, maybe we can sit and have a chat, I’d just love to talk about our new living arrangements. I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse.” "..." he slowly walks to the kitchen as he says "Sorry... but i'm not in the mood to sit down, why don't you-" he enters the kitchen as he shoots the demon "COME here and WALK WITH ME" he jumped back to the hall, where he could run to a wall just in case, and waited to the demon to come "You filthy demon

[AZURE-KITE]

bump(also, kale, sorry to ignore you and the seal, but, as you can see, i'm a demon too, and i was concentrated more in the house than in the roof, also, i think you didn't wanted to be discovered)

[GamerKale]

((Ignoring Gabriel is fine, he was trying to avoid the notice of the first demon, and given that he immediately got into a fight it's unlikely Dante took notice of the brief light show outside.))
So, can I have control again now? Or do you have some plan for finding them? Given that all you can do is cast the one spell, it would be better for us if I remained in control. Especially with that second demon showing up. The one from earlier. You can smell him too, right? I didn't notice the differences in smell at first, but now that you mention it, yeah. You really are learning. Good. You don't have to say it like it's surprising.

Cubia's ears perked up as he slinked over to the wall of the house and gently pressed an ear up against it. There was no telling how perceptive these demons are, so for the moment he would leave it to his ears to tell him what was going on. Weiss was the closest thing to an ally he and Gabriel had right now, so if fighting broke out he would go to help her, if it sounded like she needed it, but he doubted that would be an issue. Although not a key bearer he could tell that she certainly had a presence about her. Plus she seemed to come away from her prior demonic encounter no worse for wear, so she certainly was capable.

He flexed his hands glancing down at his extended claws. He felt so limited, so weak in this form, he needed to figure out some way to get his power back. He had survived the earlier attack, but that key bearer hadn't been serious and there had only been the one.

[nekoryuuha]

Weiss frowned greatly as she listened to the gunshots and watched Dante retreat from the kitchen. Two for two. Ever since I got here, trouble brews and I find this joker.... I wonder if killing him would make a difference..? She thought to herself as her floating blades vanished, but the one's on her wrists stayed out. "You're always knee deep in trouble. Why are you here?" Weiss asked him as she moved quietly up to the doorway, but didn't make herself visible yet.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

((Le gasp! Ye stole me daemonspeak!))

The bullet tore right into the demon’s right eye. “Ahhhh! I’m blind! Oh Lucy, oh Lucy, this hurts!” The demon clasped his right eye and looked around in the kitchen with his free eye. “Dammit, dammit, dammit! I need a new vessel!” He walked towards the stove and turned it on, throwing a spoon on top of it. “Owwie, owwie, owwie!” The demon grabbed the spoon and placed it against his eye as once again the skin sizzled, but the demon could not hold in his pain. “GOATS and MONKEYS!” He screamed and turned towards the hallway. SKREEEEEEEE. “No…” SKREEEEEEEE "No! It’s not finished yet! Give me a moment my pretties! I’ll be there shortly with the tea and biscuits!”

Atticus opened the door only to see Weiss before him. “I thought a demon did this. It smells like a demon’s work but if it’s just a human, this makes things easier.” Atticus said as he reached the Husband first. “Mister Grimes, I am here to tell you that-” “What’s going on here? Why are there so many freaks at my house.” Atticus dodged the man’s charge “Calm down, and I will explain all to you.”

((Lucy = Lucifer ;D))

[nekoryuuha]

What the hell...? Weiss thought to herself as Atticus walked in. She would normally have paid him little mind if not for his comment. "Hey, I may have crimson eyes, but I'm not Demon. Nor am I the one that did this," she said to him with some minor annoyance as she readied herself, more blades coming in another her. "It's one of the two Demons here. Probably both. You can question 'Joker' here, while I deal with the crazy one in here." She'd see about ending it in one shot. "Blade Sign: Legacy Edge!!" she yelled as she turned the corner into the kitchen and showered her crimson blades at the injured Demon.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

Atticus looked towards Weiss, “I cannot, I am busy at the moment.” He turned to the spirit before him. “I am a reaper, here to collect your soul.” “No, please! I don’t want to die yet! Am I going to heaven? What about my wife.” “You’ll be going to final judgment after we conduct our business, the Reaper’s Games.”

The demon screamed in pain on his knees as more and more blades cut into his flesh. “GRAHH! I HATE IT HERE! HATE IT!” He was finishing his carving when Weiss’s carvings began, and now that her attack had ended black ooze began to pour from his mouth. “I liked having a vessel, it provides for easy cover, however, the more you damage it the more I have to replace.” The body fell into the ooze that was now pour out of his wounds. “Now, there’s no body left.” He rolled over and the ooze began to form a creature. “You owe me your pretty little body! Buuuut if it makes you feel any better, you’ll get to see my True Form in your last moments.” The demon’s new body grinned on its multiple mouths.

[AZURE-KITE]

Daante. watching the others, he listened to the demon, tthen stepped in front of weiss "Why don't you mess with someone of your saame race?!" he finished his wordss as he gets out his blade "You" he turned to weiss "I can't let a girl to get hurt when i'm here, so, don't worry, i'll do the dirty work" He turned into hhis demon self "Now we're taalkin'!!!" he slasshed the monster, making him fly across the wall, to the street, he then started walking to him, as he moves his finger, taunting him "Come here, puppy..."

[GamerKale]

Cubia peaked over the window sill. The demon was a strange thing, a mass of gibbering mouths more or less. Host true form it sounded not dissimilar to himself, but there was no logic behind its formation. It was hideous. Strange, I never considered aesthetics before, Beaux must be rubbing off on me. But it disappeared before and ostensibly it reappeared here, that could be useful.

Cubia stood with a hand on the wall and his eyes and lines began to glow. White light shot from his hand, shattering the glass and punching large holes through the wall he was touching and the one behind the demon as well. As he took no care to avoid him Cubia's spell grazed Dante on its way to the demon. While it was recovering from taking a lei zas full on he ran up and grabbed what he thought to be its head, digging in with his claws. It took only a second, but for the demon it was an agonizing hour and its eyes glew as Cubia's for the duration. After copying the pertinent data, the glows faded, he let go, and walked over to Weiss hands in his pockets, saying in his almost computerized voice to Dante, "He's all yours, half-breed."

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

The demon shouted in terror and pain with the dawn of his fourth enemy. “Noah! Noah! I don’t like it here anymore! Take me home! Noah! Noah! Pleaaaaaase!” The demon’s shouting became high pitched as his other mouths shouted in dissonance. His body melted as the hexes on the door’s exits withered away. “Noaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!” The demon cried before his body completely decomposed itself.

Atticus had the man in checkmate and lifted his blade. “May you forever rest in peace.” He slashed through the man, sending him towards judgment. His wife was not far, and had seen the game of chess. “Do you understand the rules of the Reaper’s Games?” Atticus said reaching for his coin, “If so, call heads or tails.” The woman spoke in a quiet voice, nearly crying over the death of her husband. “Tails…” Atticus nodded and flipped the coin. Miraculously it landed on tails. “Well, now this makes things more difficult. We’ll talk over chess.” “I-I don’t know how to play chess.” “Is there another skill game that you would prefer?” She nodded and wandered back into her house. “Wait miss!” Atticus said as the two walked through a door, passed the group of three and the puddle of black ooze.

[AZURE-KITE]

"half bread!??" dante said as he saw the monster vanishing in the ground "Well, that makes one less, now where is that reaper??" he looked through the house as he sees him with a woman that game again.... never played it, and i hope i'll never play it... he said as he crosses his arms, watching the reaper play

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

((Whole wheat actually.))

The woman brought down a game of Connect4 and Atticus sat down as he replicated its design, albeit in a more Gothic style, with black and white pieces as opposed to red and black. “This is the game of skill you choose to play, correct?” The woman nodded as Atticus allowed her the first move. “C-Can he see me?” She said pointing towards Dante. “Most likely, if he can see me he can see other spirits.” Atticus made his first move and told her to just ignore Dante.

[GamerKale]

((Haha, took me a minute to notice what you did there.))
Ok, it's dead. Give me control again. Cubia didn't respond, he just stopped next to Weiss and turned in the direction of the Reaper. Cubia. Can you hear me? Of course I can. Then why haven't you given me back control? I don't want to. Cubia. This isn't funny. CUBIA! Gabriel slammed his mental fists against the walls. Cubia simply locked the door and walked away, leaving Gabriel trapped in his own mind.

After a moment's consideration of the reaper Cubia came to a decision, "He is not the Shadow of Death, I must find the key bearers." He turned to leave, "Are you coming Weiss?" Cubia didn't wait to hear her response, he simply exited the building through the front door and set off in a seemingly random direction.

[nekoryuuha]

Weiss looked to the Cubia controlled Gabriel and narrowed her eyes. It's that thing again... Cubia... "The shadow of Death... And Key Bearers...?" Weiss was suspicious of the being. especially now as it seemed...wrong...it the moment. She looked back at the Reaper and woman as well as the the half-breed, Dante, before walking away. "I've no interests in Half-breeds or Reapers.... I'll take my leave now," Weiss said suddenly as she about-faced and walked out of the house, her blades vanishing without a trace.

[GamerKale]

He took her comments as a question. "My primary directive is to seek out and eliminate the key of the twilight. The shadow of death is a part of it. At one time it bore the key. That thing back there, I believe the demon called it a reaper, based on information I gathered from the demon, I thought it might be it. There is a large group of people this way, thus a greater percentage chance of encountering a bearer and eliminating it." He glanced at her, "Beaux thought you would want to know where we were going and why." It was a lie, but since Cubia's tone and facial expression never changed, it would be impossible for most people to tell. Of course, Weiss wasn't most people and Cubia wanted to know just how much she could tell about him.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

((Thanks! I tried to be punny =D))

The woman lost Connect4 horribly, and in no less than eight of Atticus’s moves. “Stand up and fight me, if you win this final challenge, your wish is yours to claim.” The woman remained seated, asking shyly, “Do you really expect me to fight you? And win?” “No, you will lose, but it is necessary for the Reaper’s Game. Stand, you shall feel no pain and arrive at final judgment.” The woman, sobbing loudly now did as she was told, closed her eyes scared now, even in death. Atticus raised his mighty blade and slammed it down, cutting her visage into mist.

The black puddle of ooze crawled its way through the house’s wooden plank floors into the dirt, hoping to return itself to hell.

[nekoryuuha]

Weiss looked at him for a moment in silence just like she usually did before responding. "Did he...? I see," Weiss replied as she walked with, but slightly behind Cubia-Gabriel as the two slowly walked away from the house, Dante, Demon, & Atticus. "So then... Just who is 'Beaux', Cubia?" Weiss asked from the blue, though she made no move to do anything other then continue walking. She'd decided to see what had become different about the Lei tribesmen before choosing a course of action.

[GamerKale]

Cubia stopped and stared at Weiss for a moment before he blinked again and replied, "Did you not surmise it already? Your processing speed must be slower than I anticipated." He returned to walking, "I suppose this is to be expected given my only examinee has been Beaux. He is the hacker, the other Gabriel. The one who insisted that you call me Cubia to avoid confusion. This walking and talking is pointless. I will transport us the rest of the way." His eye and lines lit up, Cubia grabbed Weiss's arm roughly and one moment they're standing on the street, the next surrounded by horrifying images and sounds that could drive s same man mad within s few hours, and the next second they were in a steam punk metropolis bustling with people. Cubia, of course had not even batted an eyelash at what they had just witnessed and was examining his new surroundings. "This should be part of our world, but it has been modified, and the chaos gate removed. These are, for the most part, not characters and none of these people seem to have noticed the change. Interesting indeed, but irrelevant." He stepped out of the alleyway where they had appeared and onto the main thoroughfare.