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[doestheickyjobs]

Who: Axel the Accidental Ayakashi and you!
What: After a badly thought out conversation with Roxas, Axel succumbs to his memories and turns into a fiery ayakashi. (See the plotting post for details!)
Where: In a pretty park area in the Heavens, and rampaging around from there.
When: April 28, early afternoon
Warnings: Violence, character death, body horror

[A few hours after noon, a shriek spirals up into the still air of the Far Shore. Among the trees to one side of a path, purple limbs flail, backlit by a sullen lava glow, and something massive moves. The trees tremble.

Incoming.

Duck.]


(( This is an catchall mingle log for interactions with ayakashi!Axel and reactions! Axel will be tagging into the fight threads as well as the threads of anyone who asked for a quick interaction in the OOC log. ))

Comments

[closed to Roxas]

[doestheickyjobs]

[Axel's hanging out under the trees where he'd told Roxas to meet him. For once, he's early. The don't-do-this feeling has him twitchy and on edge, and even with his arms crossed to look calm and steady, his fingers are tapping a quick tattoo on his sleeve.

As Roxas approaches, he steps forward, letting his arms fall.]

Hey. Thanks for coming.

[missingache]

[Roxas had tried to be the early one. He's actually somewhat surprised when Axel has beaten him to that. It doesn't even cross his mind that something could be up. He's just happy to see his friend.]

Why wouldn't I? So what's up?

[doestheickyjobs]

So, I've been thinking. [He's been thinking since his conversation with Add, and... as much as he trusts Add, which is slightly less far than he could throw the guy, Axel has to admit he has a point.

All they've got is this weird feeling that they shouldn't ask. Maybe that's true for real shinki: who knows? But the new shinki aren't real any more than the new gods are. They've got something else going on. And some of them are even remembering on their own... so their memories aren't going to mess with them.]

Do gods really know things about their shinki's past?

[He'd heard someone speculate about it. He doesn't know if it's true, but it might be. And if it is? Roxas is the guy to ask.

Roxas is also the one he trusts not to go spreading this around. The kid's smart.]

[AYAKASHI FIGHT THREADS]

[doestheickyjobs]

(( Closed to the following:

Jae-Ha & Hazel
Ayumu
Repliku & Sora
Leo & Saix
Pippa & Urashima ))

Ayumu

[kagenonadeshiko]

[It'd started out such a beautiful day for a picnic.

For the first time since the ayakashi invaded Takamagahara, Ayumu's felt well enough to leave her temple and after missing out on the one put on by the Heavens, she'd simply gathered up a basket of her own. With so many changes taking place lately, a nice, pleasant outing for just herself was in order.

And it'd been fun, just lazing about the park watching children play. It'd always been a bittersweet experience for her before, wondering what it would be like to have children of her own and knowing that as long as she lived as part of the Oniwaban, any she bore would share the same fate as her and Susumu.

It's not as if she's thinking that far ahead with her and Axel, their relationship, while close, is still new, they're still getting to know each other and figuring things out as they go. But that sort of life, a happy, peaceful life and family of her own someday, doesn't seem like such an impossible dream anymore.

Or at least, it didn't until her body was suddenly wracked with intense pain, unlike anything she'd experienced before. A wave of weakness, far more severe than anything she felt with Yamato, would have brought her to her knees had she not already been sitting on the grass. Ayumu feels something rise in her throat, forcing her into a violent coughing fit. When her vision clears and she pulls hand away from her mouth, it's stained with a thick, black substance too alien to be natural.

What's causing this? Ayumu looks around the park frantically. She has to find it. There are children here.]

Re: Ayumu

[doestheickyjobs]

[A flailing limb, purple-and-pink and edged with a vicious set of razory blades, whips through one of the smaller trees in her line of sight, and a massive ayakashi hauls itself into view as if surfacing from the soil. It's on fire, sluglike body blackened and glowing like lava through cracks in its skin, but there's part of it that's almost like a human body. Torso, and head, with flames licking over the slimy purpled flesh emerging from the blackened lower body. One startlingly human green eye stares out of the face, edged neatly in eyeliner, with a fragment of teardrop tattoo visible on the cheek below.

A handful of yellow eyes dotted across the torso swivel in her direction, and the mouth opens too wide, shaping sibilant words:]

Smells niiiiice....

[The ayakashi shifts into motion, slithering with snakelike speed toward Ayumu, and leaving a seared trail of grass in its wake.]

Sora & Repliku

[oathkeeper]

[Sora is minding his own business playing with Wan in the park when suddenly there’s a fiery burning going up his back. Thick purple burns spread like poison over his skin and Sora collapses onto the grass.

He grabs at his throat and tries to call out but all that comes is a thick cough and purplish ooze spitting out. He shudders violently with pain and continues coughing roughly.

His dream eater starts panicking and woofing loudly for help making frantic circles around Sora. He struggles to sit up, eyesight going blurry.]

[falseshore]

[Riku isn't fond of that cat-dog thing, that isn't a secret. Thus, he's not playing with it, having gone to the park because he wanted to hang out with Sora. So when it starts barking like crazy, he yells at it first thing, before even looking at what might be wrong.]

Sora, what are you do-- [Oh. Sora's the source, but it's not good.] Sora! Sora--shoo, shoo!

[He waves Wan away, then tries to help Sora into a sitting position. This means touching the purple on his arms, which promptly spreads to his skin, burning pain included.]

What the hell happened? [Like he's in much of a state to say.]

pippa & urashima

[turpitude]

[ It starts as a pinch.

Pippa squirms uncomfortably in her temple, and suddenly, there's a wave of nausea and weakness that overtakes her. Pippa lets out a gasp, and she feels absolutely terrible. Thick purple splotches spread over her skin, and she's never been in this much pain before. Never. Not even during her fits... ]

U-Urashima! [ she manages to cry, holding one hand over her face. ]

[minogame]

( The entire temple is still incredibly overwhelmng for Urashima to be in. It's so rich and fancy that he just feels unworthy of being in a place like this, man. But it's been nice. It's like being in a castle from a story and it's been easy and great.... until now. Until he hears Pippa cry out in pain and he snaps to attention and rushes to her side. )

--What's wrong?! ( Aaah, he's here, he's here and he's trying to see if he can tell what's wrong. Why is she covering her face? Why-- what are those marks? He's completely unprepared for dealing with this, ) M-miss Pippa?

( He isn't going to just stand there useless forever, though, )

Tell me how I can help...!

Jae-Ha & Hazel

[razzledazzles]

[Jae-Ha had wanted to go out for a walk, for once, instead of soaring around at high speeds. He'd wanted to enjoy the scenery of the Far Shore and talk a little more with Hazel, especially after what had happened yesterday. The shriek stops him in his tracks, and he turns his gaze to the side just in time to see the glow behind strange, purple limbs, and the trembling of the trees.

As soon as he recognizes that there's foreign danger, that something is about to crash or cut through those trees, the rest is reflex. He turns and wraps his arms around Hazel to keep him close as he does, in fact, duck.

His eyes immediately trace whatever that was as soon as it passes and likely stops. What...?]

time to lose

[churchbelle]

[Hazel, genius that he is, does not immediately duck - he hears the shriek and turns to look, and can only stand there wondering exactly what's gone wrong this time. The incident with Goku wasn't so long ago, and it's fresh in his mind, but he probably should have a better excuse for genuinely just standing there staring until Jae-Ha grabs him and pulls him down. He's startled by that, too, grabbing instinctively for Jae-Ha's arms with both hands.

Okay, warn a guy, first of all!! But that thing-] —What the hell?

[And also, with mounting concern since he is now stuck to Jae-Ha and cannot see-] Where's it gone?

Leo & Saix

[oathkeeper]

[Sora lays face first on the grass, his body wreaked with blight. His skin is nearly covered with purple burns and he can’t stop coughing up blood and black ooze. His lungs burn and his limbs are weak. His vision is blurry and unfocused. He doesn’t suffer from only blight as his body is also battered and bloody from the fight with Axel.

He tried to stop Axel but with this much blight he didn’t last long. He needs help or he’s going to die. The first person he thinks of is Leo. With some remaining strength he pulls out his phone awkwardly and manages a confusing text to his god father.]

help

park heavens

ayakashi

[fullcowl]

[He was doing a lot better after a night of rest. Yes, they managed to finish up a prayer- but at the cost of a charred shirt and a very muddy lot.

He was recovering pretty well in his apartments- until about early afternoon. That's when a sudden pain hits the back of his neck and the blight starts to spread over his skin.

He's doubled over in his living room and trying not to cough up his guts.]

[blindfoldcode]

[Kido should not be living on his couch. She has her own room and she should live in it. And she acknowledges this. But she doesn't give one flying fuck and so Kido lives on Deku's couch.

She's zoning at first, music plugged into her ears before she sees him move out of the corner of her eye. She's about to just ignore it and go back to listening when she catches what exactly he's doing. She jumps to her feet, the earbuds yanked out of her ears and left behind on the couch, and takes him by the shoulders. Oops.

What's going on?! She's not doing it this time??? She doesn't understand at all, she's never blighted him this bad and Shouto doesn't seem the type to go about wontonly sinning at this rate.]

B-boss?! Are you--What's--[She can't form the right question in her mind. She has literally no idea what to do because this is not what she expected.] Shit... S-sit down, okay?

[missingache]

[Dying from this honestly is taking a lot longer than Roxas thought it would. Somehow he's managed to hang on. The last time he died it was at least quick. At least someone had heard his pleas, even if they did leave him here. Heh. He'd laugh about it if it didn't involve a wave of nausea and more pain. Leaving someone to die was messed up, but what was one life compared to countless others?

Maybe he should have asked Senri or Raichi to come along. Encouraged them to leave the house. Now Roxas has no way of contacting them. Grabbing his phone was too difficult. What would he even tell them? "Hey, I'm dying on the street somewhere. Come get me!"

Can this day get worse? Just please let him die already.]

[bear_necessities]

[No, Roxas. You can't die. This bear does poorly on his own. Ever since he arrived in this place, nearly all of Senri's time has been spent following Roxas around. So should it really come as a surprise that he's nearby?

But maybe the first indication of that will be the very gentle hand on his shoulder, trying to see if Roxas is still conscious. Because if he is, then he could give Senri instructions. Because it's not like Senri has any idea what to do.

Pokepoke?]

[oneblackcat]

[With a home nestled among the forestry of the Far Shore, Omi is out in his backyard practicing his water manipulation when he hears the shrill scream in the distance. Whatever that was for, it didn't sound like anything good, and it's only in his nature to go running to try to help wherever it seems needed. He keeps his mass of pool water and takes off in the direction of the scream.

Just in case it involves trouble best not alerted to the approach of help, he opts against calling out into the forest for more information, like who's out there or what's wrong.]

[doestheickyjobs]

[The scent of smoke wafts from the trees as grass and wood singe where the brush against an ayakashi's blazing body. Distantly, there is a crash, and a purple-black bulk swoops with startling elegance between two trunks. It's moving as though swimming through the ground; plunging into the soil with a delicate sweep of segmented, spiked limbs, and then surfacing again with a new crash and searing another patch of grass.]

[noli_oblivisci]

Pre-hit and run

[There's a primal instinct that exists in most beings - a screaming, immediate trigger that punches the flight-or-flight impulse.

[That shrieking noise triggered that in Psyche. Her head jerked up from the book she was reading and she froze in place, heart leaping up her throat, listening for a long moment as the trees rustled around her. Then, she stood. She didn't know what that noise was but it felt...wrong, somehow. An animal, maybe? Or worse, more ayakashi?

[Either way, someone should go take a look. Immediately. She slipped the book into her pocket and quickly, quietly went towards the source.]

Post hit and run

[Psyche's boots rapidly clapped against the ground. Her eyes were focused, though there was a sharp tension to her movements.

[The ayakashi was gone. She couldn't blast her way through the ground but she tried going around. There could be an underpass or something, right? As she ran, eyes continuously scanning, a careful, charged blast of emotion built around her hand. Prepared for sudden movements.]

[doestheickyjobs]

[The creature that rushes by ahead of her is no animal: nor is it a mere ayakashi. It's badly wounded, with blood and purplish ichor streaming from a dozen cuts and the ragged stumps of arms that spring from a blackened, lava-glowing body all the way up to the purpled, glutinous flesh of a torso. Despite the injuries, though, there's still some human skin visible in tiny slivers across the ayakashi's monstrous body. Its head swivels toward her as she approaches, and one of its intact limbs lashes out in her direction, spikes tearing through the air with brutal speed.

It's not stopping. It's not even really fighting.

It needs refuge, a place to coil and nurse its wounds, and without even stopping to see if it has wounded its target, it turns away, lunging forward as though diving, and disappears into the soil with a graceful arc of spiked limbs flourishing behind it and vanishing in turn.]

Fly-by sighting (à la please don't eat us) [Yato, Yukine, Kazuma, Axel]

[returnedfromtheline]

[Takamagahara. Quiet. Peaceful. Serene. That is until... Yato makes a nuisance of himself and tags along to Yukine's lessons.]

Would you pipe down already? This isn't a baseball game.

[Yukine sighs irritably for what must be the tenth time already - seriously, is the guy trying to sabotage him, or Kazuma-san? Not that his mentor looks put out one bit.

And then he has to move fast as Kazuma-san sends another bakufu spell at him.]

Tch-!

[As he wards that off with a borderline, something in the corner of his eye catches his attention and the back of his neck prickles.
Of course, Kazuma-san would send another spell the instant his attention wavered.]

Geh- No, wait, was there something over there?

[Caught by the bakufu, now he can't turn his head to look.]

[doestheickyjobs]

[There's a collection of energy to Axel's left, at a distance, but he's busy. It's not the only delicious spirit energy glittering in his senses, and so he doesn't bother turning to investigate. There are closer gods just ahead.

He's wounded, but it's slight, already healing as the energy of the goddess he'd just devoured flows through his veins. He lunges forward smoothly, his spiked purple limbs flashing in long, elegant arcs as he seems to swim like a dolphin through the soil itself and up into the air again.

In his wake, he leaves seared grass and deeply scored trees, bark scorched with the heat emanating from his body.]

Distance Telepathy

[volksdaemon]

Schuldig doesn't so much notice what's going on with Axel himself - not ever having named him as his shinki, nor anyone close to him doing so - but what he does pick up nice and clear is his usual background chatter spiking. He has no idea what's going on but he's curious now, so very curious.

So he teleports nearly a mile away from where the center of the chaotic thoughts of God and Shinki alike are screaming out from. Schuldig takes stock - it's been 3 days since the picnic, so he's touched base with several people in the middle of the mayhem. They become his conduits to find out the gist of everything - some shinki's gone ayakashi. He heard about it from the Messenger when he'd arrived, but to 'see' it in person through his telepathic powers...

How very interesting. What an opportunity.

Confident in his own mental shields, Schuldig tries to reach out to the shinki in question. 'What a ball of hell you're turning out to be. Do you even know your name?'

[doestheickyjobs]

There's no sense of identity in the roil of rage and hunger that Schuldig's mind touches. It's sentient, and aware -- at the thought sliding into its mind, its focus sharpens and anger flares up to scorching heat. It's casting around, limbs lashing as it stretches mundane and spiritual senses out to find the thing invading its mind.

Find. Strike. Devour. It's not a response to Schuldig's question, but in its very lack of response, it is an answer.