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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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( Actually seeing the monster behind the door is something else. He can feel a shiver go down his spine. Aaah, what is that? )

Is that...

( The thing hurting Pippa? It's so ugly and gross. It's not all monster though, is it? Because there's something familiar still and though Urashima has only been here a few days and he certainly isn't close with him or anything, he can see. Aaah... so there really is no "wait until Axel comes back" is there? It's just him and Pippa... Pippa--! )

--Miss Pippa! ( She's afraid. He understands because he's afraid too but now isn't the time. If they're too afraid to move, they're going to die and he can't let that happen to her. Like this, he's dependent on her, though, and he yells sharly, ) Please, fight!

[Refuge and sustenance, safety and life. Axel surges forward as the door is opened, his new, twisted body massive enough to fill the doorway and knock the heavy doors asunder, streaked with scorch marks from his guttering flame. The corridor is too narrow for him to effectively use his spiked limbs to disarm and ensnare the goddess beyond, and he's too wounded to flee into the walls or try strategy. He only lunges for her, mouth stretching wide and toothy, desperate to consume.]

[ Urashima's voice cuts through her thoughts, her fears. Pippa raises the sword, and she gives a sharp cry when Axel lunges. Oh, god. She's terrified, absolutely terrified, but she manages to swing the sword right at one of those limbs. ]

S-stay back! [ she cries, swinging the weapon wildly. ]

[The blade slashes deeply into his right arm, cutting half-through one of the purplish segments in a gush of gooey ichor, and Axel reels back, blundering against the wall. The floor smokes with heat, and he turns his head helplessly: inside, he has no way to maneuver. He's too big, the corridor too small, the ground unyielding to his weakened attempt to dive into it.

He cries out again, half a roar and half a pitiable noise of pain, and tries another simple lunge.]

[ She wants to run, wants to cover her eyes and see if she can turn back time and see if she can do anything--anything--to stop this from happening. But it's too late for that, and Pippa can only fight for her life, and Urashima's life. Pippa's vision is blurry, and she doesn't realize yet it's from her tears.

The attack connects, and Pippa cries out as it cuts through her shoulder. Her scream pierces through the air, the blight so much more potent from where she's injured. ]

P-please, listen to me! We can--we can fix this, can we not? Axel!

[His teeth tear into her shoulder, leaving a nasty half-crescent bite, and away again. He rears up, licking his lips with a long, purple tongue, and focuses on her face with both eyes. The green eye closes, and the purple stains around it shift and swell as it bursts open again, bulging out like a croquet ball, golden yellow and bloody scarlet. There's no skin left on his face, nothing recognizable at all.

His mouth opens and his voice emerges in an inhuman croon.]

Tastes good....

[ Another scream, and Pippa's head is so clouded with pain that she can't think straight. His teeth are what keep her upright, for the most part, and when he releases her, she falls in a heap to the ground. The blight's spreading rapidly, but not too rapidly that she can't summon an illusion.

Or several. Behind him, a line of girls appears, girls in corsets and petticoats. Pippa funnels her energy into making the illusion something almost tangible. Before long, they're waving their hands and crying for him to look over here, we're what you want, please play with us-- ]

[She's collapsing. Axel looms over her, ready to bite again, to pull in the bright energy of her life, but -- there's something else, right behind him in the narrow corridor. Something equally energy-bright and enticing. This one is down; those might escape, and he needs them. He's still wounded, he's still slow.

He turns, trying awkwardly to reach for them with his few limbs that are still responding. He's slow, half-trapped by the walls themselves, and the whole back of his torso is left utterly unguarded to her.

She's fallen. She's not a threat, and so he hardly spares a thought for her.]

[ Pippa stands, and she's hunched over from the sheer pain of the blight. But she has to stand, she has to fight, she has to... she has to do something. She has to gather herself and lift Urashima with trembling, heavy arms. ]

I'm so sorry. [ It's barely a whisper, and she stumbles her way closer to Ax--no, to the ayakashi. Because she can't think of this thing as her friend, as her partner...

Pippa manages to pull back, and then she plunges the blade through the ayakashi's unguarded back. ]

( This is bad. This is bad, this is bad, this is bad and he wonders if it might be best to have Pippa call his name so that he can fight instead until he remembers he'd be unarmed. He might turn into a sword but he can't summon it on his own. If they want to fight-- which they need to do to survive right now, then they need to stay together.

Her blight is spreading, she's getting more and more hurt, and all he can do is urge her to fight. When she falls, he woners again if it's best that he took over. He's able-bodied, at least so maybe he can help her escape? He doesn't know. He doesn't know, he doesn't know. Where is someone to make a decision for him?

Before he can work up the nerve to suggest it, Axel is turning away. What? He can see the illusion and he understands enough and he tries to urge Pippa to rise, )

Now's our chance--!

( But she's ahead of him, already getting up onto her feet. Hurry, hurry, hurry. He doesn't say it out loud because he knows better than to assume she's taking her time but hurry. He isn't sure though, if Axel is going to struggle or not so he tries his best to encourage her right now, hoping his words can at least give her some strength, )

Hold on!

( Whatever she does, don't let him go. Don't lose him when she might still need to defend herself. )

[The blade plunges deep into Axel's back, and he arches, a scream spiraling up into agonized falsetto as blood mixes with the purple goo spewing from the wound. He collapses.

The ayakashi body steams, beginning to dissolve from the outside in, leaving a human body curled at the center of it. There's blight covering every inch of visible skin. Black smoke spirals up from the wounds scattered across his body: bitten shoulder, slashed arms and torso, and the deep stab wound between his ribs.

He doesn't speak; he's beyond that.

One last, shuddering breath sighs out of him, and all of his flesh goes to smoke at once, dissolving on the still indoor air.]

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