ShadowBlade's Suite

[Red Gypsy]

Alba Derosso

Blade frowned at the knock on the bathroom door but guessed that it was probably one of the servants with fresh towels or something. She gave a heavy sigh over it but called out, "Come in!" anyway as she checked the temperature of the water and reached over to adjust the flow a bit to get it right, so she really wasn't paying too much attention when the door opened behind her.  

[Alba Derosso]

The door swung open, and a nightmarish shriek sounded out as a tentacled monstrosity barrelled into the room. Multiple mouths slavered with drool as it stared Blade down like a beast looking at food.  

[Red Gypsy]

Alba Derosso

Blade gave a sharp cry at the sound that echoed in the bathroom and put her hands over her very sensitive ears. She managed to roll away from the thing as it moved into the room and came to a stop in a low crouch, intending to get out of the bathroom to the weapons in the bedroom. But the creature was between her and the exit, making her curse silently and vow to put some daggers in the bathroom from now on.

She tried to reach for Anube but found her bond to him blocked somehow. Which left her on her own.

Fine. She could handle this.

She shifted instantly to her wolf, the black and silver beast snarling and growling at the creature as she leaped to attack, managing to get her sharp teeth around one of the tentacles as she swung around bit by the attachment and landed her paws right into it, throwing both of them into the filled tub.  

[Alba Derosso]

The creature shrieked loudly in pain, tumbling with Blade. It flailed about before getting back up, and its tentacles flailed towards Blade wildly until two entwined together to form an arm. The arm grew teeth, and it managed to swing a wild attack at Blade, aimed right at her mid section.  

[Red Gypsy]

Alba Derosso

Devossy

The hit landed and knocked the air from her even as the teeth sank into her skin and tore a bit of flesh from her as the hit threw her into the wall. She hit the floor amid a rain of tiles, stunned a bit. She shook her head as she staggered to her feet and slipped in her blood as it mixed with the water pouring from her fur. She gave a pained whine and tried to shift again to heal the wound but couldn't just yet.

She noted that the creature was in the tub and made a slipping and sliding run for the bedroom, trailing blood and water behind her. Somehow, she made it past the monstrosity and got to the bed. There, she was able to shift to her human form and threw the pillows from the bed to access the six daggers strapped to the mattress under them.

But her shift to human form had carried the wound over and revealed a very nasty bite on her belly with a chunk of flesh missing as well, so she had to keep one hand over it as she did what she could to defend herself, still trying to call for Anube through their blocked bond.

But the one thing that couldn't be blocked was her twin-bond with her brother who picked up on the problem and threw Aten off of him as he raced out of his room next door, yelling to Aten that Blade was being attacked on his way, hoping he'd get to her in time to help.  

[Alba Derosso]

The beast slithered and tumbled put of the bathroom, its amorphous form slowly solidifying into something vaguely humanoid. Its skin looked rotted and pale, full of teeth and slime and spitting hatred. A pair of bulbous eyes appeared on what could be identified as a head, and the shrieks became hissing laughter as the tentacles combined to form limbs. It went from some insane nightmare to something...else. Something intelligent.  

[Red Gypsy]

Alba Derosso

Blade turned and threw a dagger in one move that landed directly into one of the freaky eyes, followed by another into what she hoped would be it's mouth. Or one of them, at least. She held onto the daggers as she scrambled off the bed and stumbled for the door to the living room, her other hand still pressed tightly to the injury over her belly.

She slid in the blood that moved down her legs and stumbled into the door frame but tumbled through it and tried to get to the main door, anything to get away from the thing. But she just knew her brother wouldn't be able to get to her in time, could feel his frustration at finding that his door was sealed shut.

She could feel herself getting weaker from bloodloss, her vision starting to fade at the edges. But she still struggled to get to the door...  

[Silquestnocte]

Michael could hear the noises coming from one room at the end of the hall, it sounded pretty bad. Without a moment's hesitation, a foot clad in fine Italian leather slammed itself into the door next to the door knob. Jitters felt the wood crack beneath his foot, and promptly wrenched the door open. He found a woman, bleeding rather badly from the side desperately trying to escape something... He went to grab the woman's hand, but had found that she had passed out. Moving as quickly as he could, he lifted up the woman a carried her out of the room and into, shutting the door behind him. "Metis! We've got to get this woman away from whatever is in there, can you take care of the woman while I deal with the creature?" He spied the spear he was holding "... Please, let me take care of it, women are more nurturing than men anyways." It probably wasn't the best time for him to show his sexism, but it was how he felt. In his mind, he was better equipped to deal with whatever was behind the door, and she was better equipped to stop the bleeding.

Red Gypsy

The False One

Alba Derosso

 

[The False One]

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Silenced Nocturne

Red Gypsy

Alba Derosso

Sakhmetis slid to a stop before them, her brows shooting up at the state the woman was in, ohh dear..she wasn't a healer, that much was for certain and she was more equipped for fighting. Ohh sweet heavens! She swallowed nervously before exhaling softly, "Alright alright alright!" she huffed eyeing him on that sexism comment about women. She'd get him back for that later but for now she had an injured resident of the castle on her hands. "just give her here now." she turned her spear sideways and took the bleeding woman from him. "Don't get yourself killed okay!" she seemed concerned about him as she shifted the woman using the long pole of the spear to help with the limp weight as she was carrying her down the hallway away from the room almost slipping a couple times on the blood that was dripping from her. "Oh for the love of the gods!". she snarled in frustration as she hurried got back down to the other end of the hallway and nudged in the door to her room hurried going over to the bathroom where she left her bag and gently placed the woman on the floor.

((Exit to Sakhmetis' room))  

[Silquestnocte]

"Don't worry, I won't." Michael was relived that Metis didn't make a fuss about it, sometimes women did when he said things like that. He took of his glasses, and cracked his knuckles. Time for splitting skulls. White scales rippled over his skin as he partially transformed, he was faster that way. Blessed steel knuckles now equipped, he slipped through the doorway, ready to face whatever was in there.

He moved smoothly, silently through the rooms, not ready for the grotesque creature he found. He eyed the creature, carefully circling it with his fists loosely raised. It had four limbs, but he still had no idea what it was. His eyes were that of a cold-blooded predator, and he was currently staring at it with a look that could completely paralyze the weaker willed, he couldn't get a reading of it with his pit organ, whatever it was, it wasn't hot enough for him to track it's movements with his nose alone.

What was this creature?

Alba Derosso

 

[Alba Derosso]

The creature pulled the dagger out of its eye and stared at the new comer, hissing loudly as it began to change shape once more. The soft pale skin began to grow into chitinous plates, veins appearing in them as the teeth along the body became spike. The hands grew cruel claws, and an extra set of arms popped out of its sides as the nightmare grew larger. The legs bended backwards to reverse joint legs, and talons sprouted from its feet. The face became insectoid, and its mandibles clicked loudly as it crouched into a combat stance.  

[Silquestnocte]

Even with all of his speed Michael was barley able to dodge the knife, it had ripped a nice hole in his already bloody jacket. He hadn't been expecting that at all, nor was he expecting for the creature to mutate into something that looked like it was born from Tim Burton's nightmare. "Che dio ci salvi" Micheal whispered, He sent a silent prayer to the heavens, then without any other sign of preparation, lashed out at an incredible speed to strike the creature in the gut. He withdrew nearly as fast, he hadn't done much damage, at least not physically he hadn't even heard the chitin crack.

But his steel knuckles were blessed, he took a few steps back to see if it affected the creature at all. His pupils were fully dilated, his heart thrumming along smoothly as adrenaline raced through his system. He was ready for a fight.  

[Alba Derosso]

The creature screeched and recoiled from the impact, yet it got back up just as fast. The holy items did not work, though the chitin on its stomach was heavily dented from the blow. Its claws gently grazed over the wound, a hissing and clicking sound coming from its face as saliva dripped down, creating burn holes in the floor. It began to drool on its claws and stared Michael down before charging at him, swinging blindly with its claws in random swipes. It seemed like the beast had no pattern or logic in its strikes, bouncing around from one spot to another as it tried to land a swipe on its foe.  

[Silquestnocte]

Michael observed the holes being burned into the floor with an odd sense of detachment, well he certainly wasn't about to go give the creature a kiss. Biting it seemed rather fool-hardy as well. He saw that his punch had done some damage, if he could focus his attack there, it could certainly make this fight go a lot faster. He crouched slightly, ready to dodge once the creature began to charge.

The creature prove more difficult to dodge than he expected, he had to keep on moving his feet, the creature forcing him to do so. He managed to land another whip-sharp punch to the creatures torso, and this time he heard a crack. "One or two more, and this'll be over" It was quite hard to fight with entrails being pulled out of you. The punch however did come at a cost, the creature landed a blow, raking a claw across his face diagonally over his left eye. Michael paid no heed to the pain, and just kept moving.

Blood had blurred his in his left eye completely, and the wound burned. Without a doubt because of the poison the creature had drooled all over its claws. His dept perception was out of wack, and he knew it. Another blow or three from the creature, and he... He didn't want to think about it.  

[Alba Derosso]

The creature was starting to get a little slower, making a wheezing from its plating denting inwards. Deciding that to continue a protracted fight was pointless, it decided to try and end this fight and have a meal. Still bouncing around, it made a sudden lunge at Michael, claws extended towards in an attempt to grab and pin the poor soul.