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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. ))

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Re: Ayumu

[kagenonadeshiko]

[Of course she notices. Ayumu recognizes the teardrop tattoo, that green eye, sees the resemblance in the parts of him that still look human. But this is no time for sorrow, for grief, no time for personal feelings of any kind. Questions and mourning would have to wait. She had a duty, people in need of protection, and so she eyes him with calm, calculating coldness just as she would any other ayakashi that threatened the Near Shore.

Her options were limited. She left her phone at home so she couldn't call for reinforcements. None of her shinki were available to her so Ayumu would have to rely entirely on her own resources in this situation. She can't rend it on her own but if she can keep its eyes on her, she can get direct it away from the children. So she better make sure it doesn't look away.

Without a word or any sort of flourish, Ayumu simply gathers a ball of flame in her hand and throws it at that one human eye. As she does so, she shouts over her shoulder at the children nearby, trusting that they're young enough to notice them.]

Run! Get out of here! Find someplace safe to hide!

[doestheickyjobs]

[The ball of flame hits his head dead on, and it snaps back with the impact... then rolls forward again, sickeningly boneless. His eye is still unclouded green, but the purple stain on the skin around it is extending further across his cheek and forehead, starting to impinge on the eye itself.]

Hey, stand still.

[His voice is still a hissing whisper. Two of the spiked limbs slash viciously down towards her, one from either side, ready to slash into her flesh and draw her into range.]

[kagenonadeshiko]

[Ayumu wishes he'd just stop talking. It's not Axel. Not her Axel. Not anymore. It's an ayakashi now, an enemy, and she couldn't treat him any other way. She didn't care if she died but the others here, their lives mattered.

The limbs are slashing toward her, if they connect, they'll tear her in half. But not yet. Not until she's sure the children are safe. But then a flash of an idea illuminates her mind, one that's risky, possibly insane, and there's no guarantee it would even work, but she'll try it anyway. If it works, it'll put some distance between them and the park's inhabitants, give them time to escape.

Ayumu grits her teeth against the pain and the incoming spikes, they'll pierce her flesh, but when they do, she'll use what strength she has to teleport them both to a more remote area in the park she saw earlier.

Teleportation works on gods and shinki. Would it work on ayakashi? She guesses she'll find out.]

[doestheickyjobs]

[The spikes tear into her body on either side, and, as they make contact, the world around both Ayumu and the ayakashi flickers out to be replaced by the territory on the other side of the park. Axel's limbs flail back instead of completing the vicious attack, lashing furiously as he half-turns in place in an attempt to get his bearings. The fresh grass crushed under his weight sizzles and blackens from heat.]

[kagenonadeshiko]

[So it worked.

It's not a fight she can win. He may have not been able to do as much damage as he'd intended but he'd done enough. On top of the intense pain and weakness, now she's bleeding. It's only a matter of time until she either bleeds out or he lands a more successful attack. But he's disoriented, unprepared to be in such new surroundings, and her instincts tell her to press what little advantage she has against the enemy.

Ayumu may not be able to kill him on her own but she can certainly wound him until she draws her last breath. There's so many appendages, maybe she can still cripple one or two. She gathers another messy fireball in her hand, eyeing up his limbs, and hurls it at one with as much accuracy as she can muster in her state.

He's seen her do this so many times, if there's any of him left in there, he should recognize what she's about to do next - try to burn through the limb at the joint.]

[doestheickyjobs]

[If there's any of him left in there, it's not enough to make a difference. His limb sweeps around, intercepting the fireball, just the way any creature would acting perfectly on instinct. Someone throws something: you catch it.

Even fire.

As that limb hits the fireball, two of his other spiked limbs lash down at her from the left, stretching out to embed the spikes in her flesh and drag her in.]

[kagenonadeshiko]

[Ayumu's caught, impaled on those spikes, the pretty peach kimono she'd opted to wear for today's outing stained dark with blood and the black, tar-like substance as another coughing fit seizes her. He draws her in, blight mottling her skin even further to the point she's barely recognizable as herself.

But still she doesn't weep or even grimace against the agony she must certainly be in. She offers no resistance, her expression oddly tranquil for a woman facing certain death. She simply gazes into that one warped green eye and waits to see what he does with her next.]

[doestheickyjobs]

[She doesn't fight back, and Axel drags her in towards his body, spiked limbs wrapping tighter around her torso until she's within range. Her energy is redolent of divine power even as her skin blotches and purples with blight, and it entices his ayakashi instincts with the promise of food.

His smile goes wider and wider, stretching the flesh of his skin out as his mouth gapes hungrily open, and his mouth snaps closed over her head. Sharp teeth slash through her neck, and his limbs pull violently through her torso, rending flesh and leaving her body to collapse to the seared grass.]