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 Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:59 pm
((Disclaimer: Setting is mildly graphic, if you're unhappy with piles of corpses you might want to not join or possibly even read this RP. >.>; )) The village was little more than a frontier town, a small place inhabited by hunters and their families, one of many that collected furs and the rare oddity to be shipped to climes that housed better markets. It was quiet, in spite of it being the middle of the day in what passed for warm weather this far in the mountains. An eerie quiet, punctured by the occasional creak of hinges from a door that wasn't solidly attached to the frame anymore. A smell permeated the air along with it that gave away the truth of the place; it was a village that only housed the dead.
Broken doors and windows littered the ground around the smaller buildings, blood smeared across the ground leading toward the largest building in the village that had once passed for a town hall. The smell came from there, but in spite of all the signs of slaughter and the obvious stench of rotting corpses there were no signs of scavengers. Even the normally brave crows that usually took care of carrion were not to be seen, and the surrounding woods were also silent. Something had scared everything away.
That something was a Hell Kage, lounging idly just outside the door of her chosen storehouse of food, gnawing on a fleshy piece of bone that was no longer identifiable as to whether it was human or from one of the animals the townspeople had kept. Were it not for her surroundings she might pass for an odd dog with a soup bone.
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:04 pm
 It was the feeling that attracted him, rather then the smell. The silence, the violent aftershock that seeped from everything that materialized the corpse that was the small town. He sensed nothing of life from this place, and he searched for what had removed it. What had ended it so completely. What would, in his minds eye, be a delicious meal to ravage.
A low growl rumbled up his long neck and through a mouth barely open to track the smell of something as dangerous as him. A creature built to be nothing more then a murderous wave of destruction. A sweet thing, radiating anger and death. 'Come to mee.' He hissed, his dark eyes steadfastly set on the building it all seemed to accumulate at. He did not even pause as he approached the building and the kage he sensed, rather then saw, there.
'Come and meet me where you will die...'
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:32 pm
A curious sensation ran through her, the called challenge seeping into her mind as a feeling more than anything. Words made no sense to her. A disturbingly long tongue lolled from her mouth as she looked up, ears quivering. A second calling, this time with a promise of death. It was only the third eye in her skull that moved wildly in search of the intruder, finally rolling around backwards to pinpoint his location in spite of the building in the way. There.
Tongue now wrapped tightly around her prize, jaws locked around the oozing piece of flesh she'd been slowly devouring, she stood. Her tail uncoiled, writhing like a possessed snake as she bunched herself to leap to the top of the building, there taking dainty steps across the roof to where she could see the other better. She watched him there for a moment, bony plates and spines and scales glinting dully in the light, before a hellish grin stretched the back of her bony maw and the spines on her back flushed a deeper shade of crimson as excitement set her blood to boil.
Someone to play with. Perhaps he would prove a better playmate than these chew toys had been. She dropped the fleshy bone then, the saliva slimed meat making a disgusting slap as it hit the roof tiles before sliding down the slope and tumbling over the edge. She returned his call then with the closest thing she had to words, with a baying shriek that sounded like the screams of a dozen damned souls in chorus. She turned then, disappearing over the opposing side of the roof and out of sight. If he wanted to play in her territory he would have to play by her rules. And she wanted to play hide and seek first, yes.
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:55 pm
Lazael hissed in disappointment as he finally made his way to the building, sensing the creature he sought was not there anymore. He growled darkly, then lashed out in anger at the building, as it it were the fault of the building and corpses inside that his toy was now gone, and tore his way into the building.
Slowly, he opened his dark eyes wider, inspecting the mound of rotting flesh eagerly. This was someone just like him. This was a monster. He laughed, his mouth opening to release the chilling barking noise as he left the opening of the building to look around. His mouth twisted into a grotesque smirk. He wanted to play with his kindred soul. Lazael twisted, leaping straight up to land on the roof, tearing it apart as he leapt from it and took off after the other beast, his mouth opening to breath in the scent of rotting meat that followed this creature.
'Weakling. Coward. Do you fear death?' His mind called out ahead of him as his claws dug deeply into the earth's crust, tearing deeply at it as he bound after the other kage eagerly. Why run and try to hide? Did this one not realize he could smell the rot coming from it? Was this one a dumb beast, to flee instead of fight? Or perhaps they meant to ambush him. The thought brought a chill of joy to his core. Let them come at him. Let them tear into his flesh and spill his guts, if they could. He dared them to spill a drop of his blood upon the ground that had yet to taste of him.
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:17 am
Terrafin was not afraid. That emotion was foreign to her; even when Master snapped at her, beat her, sapped her energy to feed his own, she was not afraid. He had not killed her yet but she suspected he would, eventually, though for now he seemed content with his pet. Or perhaps this one would kill her and beat him to it? Master would probably go after him then, wouldn't that be entertaining! A shame she wouldn't be here to see it.
But no, the prospect of returning to the depths of hell did not frighten Terrafin. Having been pulled into this body was like a vacation, an amusing diversion. She would be returning some day, one way or another, so there was no point in ruing that. She would simply have fun while she could before she had to get back to her occupation of eons. Her "day job", as it were.
She knew the stench of wallowing on her kills would not be hard to track, and so she used her speed to seek out a space where she had broken some kitchen piping during her earlier fun. What had once drawn water up from the well into a home now seeped water out onto the floor and through it, making a muddy mess of the ground behind. She rolled in it, quickly, and darted away again. The heat of her blood should dry her temporary coat in a matter of minutes, and if she could stay out of the other beast's reach long enough for the scent of rot and wet mud to fade under dried earth then the game would be afoot indeed!
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:59 pm
Lazael stopped his chase when he came across the signed of the other kage playing in the mud, his breath coming out in a huff as if he were laughing. So this creature was not just a dumb beast inside a body of power. Indeed, she was able to think and plot! Zael felt a chill of excitement at this, for how entertaining this game was becoming for him!
He sniffed at the air, his military training kicking in as he traced both the wind speed and direction. To follow the kage now would end with him walking about blind, for the wind seemed to be blowing with him upwind now. He scoffed, slowly stalking forward a few more paces before he got an evil grin, his fangs flashing as he lifted his head to sniff the air again.
Very well. Let the little kage play keep away, and he would destroy her either way. He stalked forward, growling in amusement. He would let her little trick dry out, and let her use her energy up running from him while he saved his own for gutting her. He would enjoy feeling her wriggle beneath his claws. His whole being radiated the feeling of the hunt, and of his thirst for blood. A lethal predator stalking his prey.
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:31 pm
Terrafin set off to leave a trail for him to follow, not too obvious, no, he would know it was a trick then. Just some broken grass, a stray claw-gouge in the earth there, signs that she had passed in a hurry, all circling around the town, and just past her intended trap. There she rounded a hedge edging a much taller fence at the fanciest home in this small place. What passed for fancy here, at least. It had probably been the Headsman's house, not that it mattered now.
Then a circle through the broken gate and back across the top of the fence to leap to the opposing building's roof, and then to the building next to it just a bit further up her false path. There she positioned herself carefully out of sight, even her writhing tail still as she waited. Her third eye was locked on her pursuer, and her hind feet were braced carefully against the stones of the chimney here that she'd damaged during her attack. One good shove from her would send it tumbling, hopefully atop her playmate, and also give her a push-off point to get moving again.
Not that she intended to keep running this time. She would try her trick and then hide and seek would be over, and it would be time to embrace the battle she felt approaching. The bloodlust burned through her veins with painful intensity, but she wouldn't lose herself to it yet. Not quite yet.
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:25 pm
Lazael took his time following her tracks, making his way back into the village with a scoff. She was leading him in circles? what a bothersome thing to have to put up with. His red eyes glowed slightly in anger as he looked around, slowly making his way toward and around one house in particular. The small little pest was nearby. He could sense her, but it was truly around this point that her smell had disappeared. Was she inside? If so, she truly was a stupid beast, to trap herself thus.
He stopped outside, sniffing and searching the doorway before moving around the house again. She was there, somewhere, and he was going to find her. He gave a bit of a growl, his claws digging into the earth impatiently, before he heard a noise. Hissing, he looked up just in time to see a chimney toppling toward him, but he was not quick enough to dodge it completely, and he felt the weight and pressure of the bricks on the end quarter of his body.
Wiggling from the wreckage, he growled loudly and looked up at the roof. 'Get out here and stop fooling around!' He mentally yelled. 'I'll kill you, you little wench!"
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 7:01 am
Terrafin heard at least some of the bricks hit with a satisfying thunk and clatter and grinned to herself in her mad-dog way as she pushed off from the roof. Picking up speed with every sprinting leap she circled the building and used the one next door as a launch pad to turn back around, coming around the corner to face him almost as soon as he finished his irritated shouting.
She did not pause to gloat, did not hesitate nor circle, simply lunged straight for him. A moment of hesitation to let your opponent recover usually meant the end of the fight. She kept her belly low and snapped at his legs, hoping to score a bite to slow him down. Hamstringing moves were a canine favorite, after all. If he scored a bite or strike on her he would have to contend with her bony spines and the thicker scales along her back and flanks before he could really do damage.
She'd faced plenty of physically stronger opponents, both here and back in hell. She knew better than to leave herself exposed, or to let up on the attack. This fellow was going to have to work for it if he wanted to take her down~! This day was turning out to be such fun.lord_pippa_ari ((These two are both rather overconfident about this, aren't they? XD))
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