Lust (open)

What happened?

You stupid idiot! You've been hit!

Uzuki looked down at the chain that was tied around her.

"This is . . ."

She looked up to see the girl who was at the other end of the chain, gripping it tightly.

"Wow, this is really lame," she laughed. Before she could try and free herself though, she started to feel strange, like she was being plugged into an electric socket. She could feel the light magic searing into her like flames.

Uzuki screamed in pain from the light energy coming from the chains.

Ugh, this is bull♥♥♥♥! the demon in her head screamed. I am NOT letting this person kill you this easily! I'm taking over!

For a split second a scream rose above the wail of the metallic creatures with AMBULANCE written on them. His headache spiked with the noise, but the pain filled cry sparked a sense of curiosity in him. Many things were strange here, but pain and fighting were familiar to both sides of him. Familiarity would be welcome.

He approached the source of the noise cautiously, his eyes shifting side to side suspiciously at the metal beings.

When the scene behind the ambulance came into full view, he instinctively took a step back. A part of him urged him to run - something was going on here that didn't need him interrupting, but another part instructed him simply to wait. And to watch.

"Stand down!" Sophie yelled. However, before she could finish her sentence, she paused for a moment, and then said, "...whatever you are!"

Yeah, very threatening, Sophie.

Her facial expression temporarily changed to show annoyance to herself, but she quickly brushed it away and returned to her serious, determined expression. Sophie continued to hold her chain with strength greater than any human could possibly imagine. However, she obviously was not dealing with an ordinary human, so Sophie did her best to not underestimate this opponent.

"Wow, this is really lame," the individual said with a laugh. Sophie stood in awe as the girl laughed - did she not take her seriously? Sophie was offended, as she was completely serious, while this girl seemed to be taking this all as a joke!

However, suddenly, the demonic being seemed to be affected by the aura of Sophie's chain - of course! This entity had a high chance of being blessed by darkness, making it weaker against light, just like Sophie, but vice versa! She didn't even need to unleash her divine lightning to harm this opponent! Sophie then allowed a small grin to appear on her face, revealing her satisfied feelings. However, she quickly reverted back to her original, serious facial expression.

Aida couldn't help but take notice of the man from the alley peeking at the battle scene before them, dark vs light with whatever Aida could be consider amidst it. The silver haired boy observed the reactions of both individuals as the golden chains slithered through the air and wrapped around the soul eating female.

The chain seemed to pulse with an energy that Aida couldn't quite explain, but it clearly did something as the opponent was reacting... though with an almost mocking laugh. Sophie seemed annoyed by it at first, but suddenly smiled at some realization that Aida could only guess at, as he was unfamiliar, still, with all the peculiarities of this world.

He took a few steps forward while the dark one was held before he regained his stance, he didn't want to be caught off guard even if this person seemed restrained. Aida could sense something about the shadowy girl, something that his eyes nor his mind could see, but through Netchur he could definitely detect something roaring from within...

"are the hostilities over you think?" Aida spoke to his side where Sophie was so he could maintain his focus on the wicked woman before them. He honestly didn't think they were, or would be soon, but it would be reassuring for someone else to tell him otherwise.

The chain was still wrapped around Uzuki's body, but it wasn't so painful now that she as awake. Uzuki dropped her head down low, and then slowly turned it towards the girl holding the chain, her hair falling past her face.

" . . . So, you think that this chain can really hold me?" Uzuki snickered, her voice demonic and cold. Shadows burst from her body, blowing out the power of the light magic and breaking the chain away. The shadows continued to fly around, covering the entire area like a shroud.

"Good luck trying to find me."

Mikken had raised his arms in weak defense at the shadows racing towards him. He didn't feel any pain from them, however, just instant shuddering cold from the sun being blocked. He lowered his arms, finding the the area completely enshrouded by impenetrable darkness, save for a shapeless light form that was floating near where the two girls had been fighting, as well as a faint light emanating from the chain where it laid on the pavement.

"Good luck trying to find me."

A familiar and involuntary shudder coursed through him at that statement. He gripped his axe, slowly pulling it from where it hung. Not right now. He thought, taking a few steps backward and stumbling over a pothole. He shivered, but not from the cool the shadows brought with them.

If he needed to, how could he fight what he couldn't see?

Suddenly, before Sophie could react, shadows were unleashed from the demonic female's body, covering the entire area with the eerie darkness. The massive cluster packed together looked like black, dust clouds, but Sophie knew better - these were arcane shadows. They managed to prevent Sophie from seeing anything other than black due to the lack of light, unfortunately for her and Aida.

"Good luck trying to find me," the mysterious entity said.

Sophie then felt her chain losing its grip, and once she pulled it back to its original length, her target, or rather enemy, was gone.

"Dammit! I lost her!" Sophie yelled with an irritated and aggravated tone. Her target escaped and she couldn't even see - what else could go wrong? However, her day was slightly improved when she saw a ray of light - literally - piercing the shadows.

My chain!

Sophie's golden chain, which had an eternal, glowing light, could be used as a flashlight of some sort to illuminate the darkness! Now with this in mind, she stretched her hands, which were holding her shining weapon, forward, now able to see what was in front of her.

OOC: lol, if you read my profile it'll tell you that darkness doesn't effect his vision

BIC: A flow of energy was released in a burst from the eerie female, and she faded away while the flashing distortion hid her for a split moment. Sophie, however, seemed to be blinded completely, it was at that moment that Aida remembered that humans had a different form of vision from him, as hard as it may seem - apparently they used light as a required source of their vision.

Seeing as how his companion was blinded, he began searching around for the female, but the initial burst of energy from the releasing shadows gave her enough chance to get away from even his sight. Sophie, at the time was trying to bypass her darkness problem by using the aura of her chain to pierce whatever it was that effect her vision so badly - Aida honestly couldn't comprehend what she was seeing right now.

A movement! - Aida shouted within his mind as he saw a figure move, or even stumbling around by the looks of it... but it wasn't the female, it was the male once again, that Aida had spotted earlier - he seemed terrified, Aida probably would be too if he couldn't see, the poor guy probably couldn't even see Aida as he neared him.

"you might want to find a safer spot than sitting on the ground" Aida whispered to the man, as to not be noticed by the lurking female. There was no telling if Aida could be seen while speaking to him, but surely words weren't blocked out by shadows too.

OOC: btw, I didn't want to simply say that I saw Uzuki because she probably didn't know about my form of vision, so I'm making it seem like she's also evasive for now until I get the go ahead to see her or something

I need to get out of here, now.

She could hear footsteps all around her, and she could see their auras glowing through the darkness, but she wasn't going to stick around for them to catch her again. Uzuki leaped up onto the wall of a building and leaped off that as well, catching onto the ledge of a rooftop. Then, as shadows covered her entire body, she took off into the air, like a black cloud billowing away from the scene.

"You might want to find a safer spot than sitting on the ground." Mikken flinched at the whisper. The voice wasn't the same as the mocking one before, however. It younger, and male. He recalled seeing an oddly dressed boy with the two women, before the shadows descended. The wereboar pulled himself back to his feet quickly, and turned his gaze in the general direction of the whisper.

"Do you know what's going on?" He asked, keeping his voice level as he mentally fought the urge to change shapes and flee the scene as quickly as possible.

Suddenly, the shadows that blanketed them seemed to pull themselves together into the air, making an insidious cloud the began to blow off quickly, despite there not being a breath of wind in the air.

"♥♥♥♥ this!" Sophie exclaimed. She looped her chain around one of her jean's belt holder-thingies until it was safely secured, and then jumped high into the air. However, instead of falling back down, she continued to head upward, taking to the skies. Trying to find someone within a cloud of shadows would be extremely difficult if not impossible, so flight would serve as an advantage here. She wasn't sure if Aida would be able to follow her, but she didn't care at that moment - Sophie needed to find out what this demonic entity was, if it was one of the dark entities that would serve as her enemies, and if it was associated with these misogynistic crimes.

"Where is she...?" she muttered under her breath impatiently. Sophie was not going to lose her target - not here, not ever.

Yet another distortion in space occurred as everyone around Aida seemed to regain their vision, whatever the shadowy female had created had apparently just disappeared. "♥♥♥♥ this" Aida heard Sophie say from his side, before she launched into the air with a jump, yet she never came down, she just kept going before staying there, floating in the skies.

Aida had only seen one other person that could do fly, and they at least had wings, from what he could tell, Sophie had no method of staying airborne, but he also realized there were so many more things that he could not explain.

At nearly the same time, the man just beside Aida had asked a question, a very good question in fact:"Do you know what's going on?", Aida turned to the man to try and reply, but he found no answer, unfortunately. He then looked back at Sophie who seemed to be looking for the other woman, one more turn to the man. "I haven't a clue".

Aida touched the ground and shot himself a to a building top by using a lifted panel of concrete as a spring board, he needed to stick close to the events, and Sophie would probably spot the dark female before Aida could, being in the sky and all. So he hopped from roof to roof with plenty of speed and agility - what many of the planet would call parkour - in order to keep up.

Uzuki landed gracefully in the middle of a distant forest. She didn't like the woods, but it was the only place she could go to to escape. She didn't care if nobody else understood why she did it - not only was it her only chance at survival, but it kept her sane.

Uzuki looked around at the trees around her, their leaves rustling from the faint wind in the air. She could feel her skin crawling and her inner being chilling from the fear of being in a place like this. She had to get out of here, without being found by the two people who were hunting her.

Uzuki pulled out her scythe, and then continued on her walk through the woods.

"Gods..." It was a low curse, muttered from the mouth of a wereboar whose animal side couldn't take the stresses thrown at it anymore. It took control swiftly, ramming Mikken into a full and fast shift, not caring about the audience he could have. A very painful shift, at that.

The first thing beast did after taking a few moments to rest was sniff at the air, trying to clear away the congestion of the city scents and find a single, clear whiff of air from the wilder areas where he could hide, for the time being.

The only trace he could fund came from the general direction of where the strange people dissapeared to. He was hesitant, until a human pointed something at him that made a loud banging noise and he realized that what they were doing did not concern them at the moment. Not at all.

The Wereboar skittered painfully through the streets, padded hooves scraping against the rough asphalt until they stung. People screamed and shouted when they saw him - one woman did not get out of his way fast enough and was trampled. He knew later he was going to feel terrible about that - but for now, all that mattered was escape.

After what felt like ages, with his muscles burning underneath his skin and hooves raw and bleeding he found the source of the wilder scent. A forest; without all of the strange metal-beasts and humans with strange noise making things.

Sophie was aggrava...pissed. Right when her chances of figuring this mess out was within her grasp, it slipped out of her grip - literally. However, she knew that she couldn't have disappeared forever, so Sophie continued to look around in the air, checking buildings, streets, alleys, and even places like the sewers. Fortunately for her, she used her super speed to her advantage (though she didn't go too fast as that wouldn't be so simple to control), as her quick movements allowed her to be unseen by pedestrians.

Where the hell is she? Sophie thought as she looked through what seemed to be be a junkyard. She effortlessly lifted and tossed destroyed trucks around, doing her best to find the lost target.

Suddenly, while looking, Sophie heard noises...noises of a beast-like entity running. She quickly dashed high up into the air, looked toward the origin of the sounds, and saw a wild figure running toward what seemed to be a...forest.

Maybe that's where...she...is!

She paused for a moment, pondering on about the possibility, and then made a decision. Sophie then proceeded to fly forward, propelling herself at high speeds toward the rural area of nature.

Once she made it to the forest, Sophie quickly deactivated her flight in fear of her target seeing her, and then performed a perfectly executed motion that granted her a skillful landing. She managed to hit land in what seemed to be the middle of the forest - thick with green vegetation and sunlight barely able to penetrate the bushy trees. The place was a great place for hiding...and ambushes. Because of this, the demigoddess kept her guard up, staying alert.

"Wait a minute...where's that guy that was with me?" Sophie questioned herself with a whisper.

Aida was had been keeping up with the goddess the best he could, taking every moment that she stopped to flip things over to catch up, but then she would dash off again at speeds almost so fash that she was invisible to those not paying attention. He did take note of her direction after seeing her stop in the air as if she noticed something - the forest was clearly the next place for her search.

He hated running and exerting energy like this, it simply wasn't enjoyable, but right now there was a mission at hand, and had come to love a good thrill. Aida sped up to launch himself off the edge of the city, grabbing a pair of boards just at the lift-off point. As he flew into the air-space above the jungle he transformed the boards in his hands into wing shapes that actually surrounded his arms at the time.

A brightly clothed, air-plane winged, flying boy would be seen above the canopies, descending quickly but at a controllable angle and not at a fatal speed. He skimmed across the tree tops for a while before dropping into the leaves, allowing the wings to disintegrate before he landed on a high branch.

Not a demigoddess in sight right now, but as he descended down a few more branches a similar figure did come into view. "there you are" he said to the woman as he hopped off the lowest branch he could find. "find anything?" he said with a grunt as he hit the ground.

Uzuki lay on the tree limb in the highest tree in the forest, a good fifty feet in the air. All of the trees in this forest were gigantic, so big that they almost made two-story buildings look small in comparison.

Uzuki let out a tired sigh and relaxed herself against the tree trunk, taking a sip from her bottle of vodka to cool her nerves. She released a long yawn, and then let herself close her eyes, listening to the sound of the rustling leaves and the giggling of the children within her damaged mind.

Suddenly, she sensed something. The rising of auras coming through the forest.

It was them - the same people that attacked her earlier.

Oh, whatever. I'll make them understand.

He had slowed to fast walk, crashing through the forest without a particular care as to what heard him. The wild boar was by far one of the more deadly and terrifying creatures out there, and even the birds went silent as they respected that fact. He mostly tracked his progress with his eyes and ears, because they were filtered easier. Humans don't understand smells that well. He did occasionally sniff the air, and perhaps it was that lack of use of his strongest sense that had him stumble into the white-gold girl and the boy.

Not literally stumble into, of course. When he was close enough to smell them without having to focus on the act, he paused, then paced forward, sticks snapping and leaves crashing as he plowed through. Whatever fear he had simmered into annoyance - this was supposed to be his element. Then Mikken remembered the girl's gold chain and the boy's Strange Use Of Power.

He snorted at himself. Was he really terrified of teenage girl and a child? He was a trained warrior (not that that was particularly useful at the moment) and a wereboar - what could be more terrifying than a beast that thinks like a man? He scented the air, pinpointing where the girl thought she hid.

Mikken lowered his head and circled the area until he was able to get a glimpse of her. He stood sideways, glaring at her with what he hoped could be read as warning. A low rumble quaked from his chest, sending frothy spittle everywhere as he pulled back his lips into a snarl.

In his opinion, that would send them running.

Upon hearing the voice of her apparently newly formed comrade, Sophie turned around. He had somehow managed to keep up with her, which made her smile, as she now knew that she had a competent ally. However, the grin was quickly turned into a serious expression once again.

"Not really," Sophie said. She left out the detail of the beast that she had seen before, but it seemed insignificant anyways. She then continued walking forward in her attempt to find her target but not arouse any attention or suspicion.

Suddenly, the demigoddess stopped herself once she heard a strange...noise. It was a hideous sound, which was the reason why she quickly turned 90°. She was surprised when she saw a wild boar attempting to...scare them away? The thought of that made Sophie grin and let out a small chuckle - what could a simple animal do to a demigoddess that could lift 30 story buildings and shrug off bombs like they were nothing?

"Move along, now," Sophie said with a playful tone. She enjoyed the presence of animals and refused to hurt one, which was why she intended to get this one to leave before things got ugly. She also did a small hand gesture that ushered it to leave while saying these words.

Aida was at the time scanning the dense forestry, not much to see but leaves and branches, maybe the grass if you were lucky, there were a lot of fallen tree debris everywhere. It was very peaceful, but also so very different from what Aida was used to seeing, even after being away from his planet... for a very long time.

He understood that plants on this planet tend to grow in abundance in certain areas like this, but this place was ridiculous, even the plants had plants on them! Suddenly, Aida's concentration was broken when he heard Sophie talking to a bush; at least, that's what he thought until he moved his head to get a better view. It was a pig-like creature, yet almost the size of a Paluṡ! (not just making things up fellas)

At first Aida thought of being intimidated and cautious, but then Sophie began talking to it sweetly, telling it to move on. This led Aida to believe that it was a 'gentle giant' type of creature, but the further actions of the boar would prove that to be true or false on it's own.

Aida walked closer to the beast, until he was right beside Sophie, and then he realized... this thing had that same feeling in the eyes as that man from before. Something about it's composition and general appearance just felt similar, but it was one of those mysterious situations where you know you know something but simply can't explain why.

A shape-shifter?