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"You may call me Shaylee." The dark elf replied as she reinged in her glamor wrapping it tightly against herself once more.

She followed Sebastian back to the table and took a seat beside the woman that had bought her a drink. "Thank ye for the drink." Shaylee replied in way of greeting as she tiped her drink and gave a nod in the Valkyries direction. "Your friend Sebastian has asked of me to sit at your table for a spell.  He tells me there is the promise of much adventure and entertainment if I get to you you better. My name is Shaylee Ankou if you would have me as a companion it would suit me just fine."

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"That would be Andi who bought you the drink, Artemis who is trying his best to look like a brave soldier rather than a beaten puppy and Halo, who bore the creature who's handiwork we are witnessing on the news, without benefit of clergy or, for that matter copulation."

Sebastian looked up at the screen.  "She looked better as a blonde, back when she was Sue Torry."
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.  -George Carlin

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"A pleasure to make your acquaintances." The dark elf replied giving a polite nod. "Im afraid I'm a little out of the loop. I hardly ever pay attention to mortal affairs. Please enlighten me on the latest melodrama this is plaguing mankind."

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Sebastian looked at the petite mage.  "Halo?  You want field that one without getting too into hyperbole?"  He had yet to take a seat and began rubbing Shaylee's shoulder.  "Don't worry, I'll get to you soon enough, Halo.  I'm trying to make our guest feel welcome before we begin the traditional verbal savagery."
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Halo clapped her hands and giggled with an almost child like glee as the angel threw her trinket of sexual promise back in her face, "There we go, Sunshine, now you're getting the nature of the game!"

A second and less girlish laugh rang out with all the grace of a braying donkey as the Valkyrie upped the ante with her own flavour of mocking that was finely honed after years of friendship, fat tears lazily rolled down her face as her breath hiccuped in squeaky barks between the laughter, "Oh man, Andi. See, this is why you need to get earthbound more often. If you can convince Skadi to even allow us on pup to try and trail junior, at this point we basically need all the hel p we can get."

Her eyes followed Sebastian as he silkenly bamfed his way over to the one who had obviously caught scent of earlier, her gaze never shifted from the smooth talking former denizen of hell as she continued the dialogue, "And it looks like our resident is to swell his ranks", a wide grin split across her elfin features, "Oh my, Fruedian slip, much?"

The pocket sized source of tremendous magical power was harnessed back in to the root of their being gathered in the bar by the Valkyrie's command to the TV set. She watched as the images flickered across the clear sea of her cyan eyes and nodded with a soft sigh, "Oh, Momma is so proud of her little hellspawn. That's my boy alright and he's still keeping to his fairly limited hunting ground, he's gotta be holed up somewhere close."

The arrival of the fae wrenched her attention from the censored images of death and destruction, she gave a small wave then a killer all purpose smile, allowing Sebastian the tedious task of introductions, "No worries, Sebastian. I actually prefer the massage after the venture into the killing fields, rather than the physical pep-talk you're delivering right now. Basically, Shaylee, that fun and frolics you see up on the old cathode god up there is the product of my loins. He's a cunning little bugger, as he destroys life he also creates new life from the parts he doesn't consume and all in the name of obliterating everyting we know and love, including ourselves. WHat we're trying to do is stop the little bastard. . oh wow, he really is a little bastard. . no wonder he's so pissed, Daddy fucked off and Mommy's trying to kill him, talk about issues."

Halo signaled for another round for the all new and improved Doom Patrol, "One thing though, doll. Don't worry about your glamour, we're all kinda on the different side in here. I'm the only human of us and in fact, in the bar, so don't feel like you gotta hide all your pretty darkness for our benefit. Besides, I have the feeling that we're all goning to be so covered in shit and gore by the end of all lof this, there's going to be no telling us apart, anyway."

The shake of her head caused her pigtails to dance merrily about her face before she shrugged almost apologetically, with her palms upwards, "But seriously, The Vatican will be having a field day with this. The end of the world came from a vagina."

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"Reminds me of a South Park episode.  Pope comes along and declares a bleeding statue of Mary to be bleeding not from its ass but from its vagina and his statement was the blood coming from a vag ain't no miracle."  Sebastian sighed.  "I miss romping amidst the clergy," he said, more to himself than anyone else.  "They've lost their sense of humour.  So, what's next.  Andi goes and looks for a hound?"
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Shaylee watched the box of images. "That could prove interesting to follow. I don't know how much assistance I would provide but I offer my services. If it gives me a chance to flex my skills and use my scythe then I am in."

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Sebastian's hands stopped for half a second.  "Scythe?  You mean you're a reaper?"  He chuckled.  "Should I clear some space and get a little Jell-O so Andi and Shaylee can grapple it out for the title of Grand Gatherer of Souls?"
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"I doubt that's necessary. There are more than enough souls for everyone. Besides I cull the ones that call to me. Reaping is only one of the things I do Sebastian. it just happens to be one of the more enjoyable hobbies I have." The elf replied. "And as for the Glamor, I think it best to keep up for now. I wouldn't know the full effect my presence would have on a mortal. It likely wouldn't be... Pleasant." She finished.

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Artemis looked confused with the fae, then pointed a thumb over to Halo. "I actually don't think it's gonna be a big deal here, seeing as Little One's the only mortal here, and she's had the Antichrist pop out of her vag and start tormenting the city in its hellish pursuit to destroy it, and everything else following that. I'm pretty sure she'll be all right, hon."

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"And we don't want your pretty face lookin' like this -" Andi said flipping her eyelids over and making an extremely grotesque face.
"As for the Jell-O, I didn't wrestle you Sebby-dear so you'd feel all left out. Though I don't need an excuse to roll around in Jell-O. Oh sweet ambrosia..." Andellion looked off with a whimsical expression on her face but then quickly returned to reality.
"Oh I don't have to run anywhere we all went wireless ages ago, though trying to teach Odin how to use T9 was a laugh...And Thor kept shorting his..." The Valkyrie removed a pearly white hued blackberry and her thumbs moved with inhuman dexterity reserved for mythical creatures and Asians.

Skadi - Can I take the hounds for a walk? Need them to hunt down hell spawn. Plzzzzzzzzzz :)
~<3 ANDELLION - Captain of Valkyrie Unit XII


"But Skadi is a quick gal...She'll get it."

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Re: Between Gods and Monsters
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Shaylee raised an eyebrow at the casualness of birth of the Antichrist. "We will see what happens. Once I get more comfortable I may. I've done enough to gain the displeasure of my people. As far as mortals are concerned wedon't exist. Its one of our best defenses. If we manage to get into an area that is less populated it might be possible."

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"I figure that's probably for the best," Artemis said, rubbing a finger under his nose. "There's probably going to be a lot of security around the area, what with all the chaos going on in there, so I can only imagine they've got it cordoned off, so if we waltz in there looking like a bunch of things from stories -Little One excluded- I'm probably not going to be able to get us in there."

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"Agreed. Shall we be leaving then? Or do you guys have a plan?" The reaper asked thoughtfully.

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The fallen angel raised his finger and spoke. "Uhm...I've actually got an idea that might work...I know we don't really have anything to go on at all for the time being, so maybe we could actually just head right through the barricades without drawing too much attention?"

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Halo pointed a solitary finger at Artemis, poised to continue the mocking. Her mouth opened but was devoid of any sound as she quickly reconsidered his idea, "You know, that's just crazy enough, it might work. I'm sure I could whip something up to make us appear official and all, and I even have a few friends in various departments of the law and. . .oh. . .shit on a stick."

Her cerulean eyes dropped to her crimson canvas clad feet as she recalled the last interaction with several of her connections and the small fact that when they parted it wasn't exactly on the best of terms, "Okay scratch that, I could get us in, but if any suspicious are raised and I'm not aware of it, like some local burg cop calls top brass and I don't catch it, basically, we're fucked."

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Artemis beamed, delighted that his plan would actually work out [if the rest of the team accepted it as a good idea, granted, but he wasn't gonna look a gift horse in the mouth]. He dug into his pockets, fervently looking for something as he spoke.

"Actually, Little One, there won't be any need to worry about calling any of your contacts. One, it's a little short notice for that kinda thing, and two," he pulled a leather billfold out of his back pocket and let it fall open, revealing a heavy-looking gold badge, and an FBI ID card, and finished his speech, "I'm agent Adam Moore, FBI. I flash this baby and boom, we're in."

While the rest of the party was looking at him incredulously, he shrugged one shoulder. "What? I told you guys I liked it down here."

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Halo's eyes dropped from the angel's face to the freshly produced wallet, back to his face then down to the wallet, this cycle happened a good seven or eight times, all the while her jaw hung slightly agape, "Wait, no. You're a spook? That's not. . you gotta be. . .fuck off. . ."

She picked up the official identification and searched it for every anti-counterfeit device she knew they had then double checked for any magical jiggery-pokery. Her long fingers skimmed the surface of the gilded shield and she shook her head as her disbelief furthered, "Holy shit, its really real isn't it? Like real real, not my kind of real where I can conjure shit to look real, taste real and be entirely convincingly real, this is certified actual real. Well, fuck me sideways, Sunshine, I'm thoroughly gob smacked."

The mini-mage scrutinized the photo id on the card and she chuckled softly to herself,  "Well hot damn, Criminal Investigation Division, huh?  Are you kind of at an unfair advantage to all your fellow men in black? Like you got that whole angelic mojo going on that can sniff out human bullshit? Damn man. . ."

The pigtails swayed comically as Halo continued to shake her head, "Well I guess this will be just dandy to get us in, why the fuck didn't you think to being this up earlier? I would have been much easier on you if I knew you could get us past the velvet rope with a flick of your credentials."

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The angel looked at the table through the bottom of his glass, smiling. "Yeah, it's really real, and well, a guy's gotta have hobbies. As for the whole human bullshit thing, that doesn't really come with the territory, seeing as how I'm doing a lot more of the actual crime scene thing and less of the dealing with people, and corpses aren't always the most talkative fucks, unless...well, you know, there are extenuating circumstances." He looked up from the table and at Halo, an inquisitive look on his face.

"And as far as I can recall, you were too busy giving me shit about being an angel or whether I could hold my own in a firefight and not how I was going to get our asses closer to finding that little bastard shit of a son of yours, doll." A wry grin stretched across his handsome, practically androgynous features."Besides, I also didn't know where exactly we were supposed to be going until that little thing came on the TV, either, so I didn't know if my playing the 'Official Business' card would get us anywhere.

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"Huh, I guess I did get distracted by the halo and the harp and went for you with the tenacity of a pitbull on PCP, but you gotta admit, you winged warriors are just so gosh darned sweet prey for a gal like me. The holy holy against the jaded hairless monkey is a never ending source of japes and hi-jinx. I mean, you know you're trouble when God Himself sends down one of his finest as a playmate, just so it keeps me out of his hair", she pointed at him with a new and softer measure of playfulness in her voice, "But don't go thinking this gets you off the hook, you're still very much in the firing line for my inflammatory roasting, not only because you're the new guy, but also because you came in with a typical angelic attitude. Some might call it prejudice, I like to call it well informed caution."

Halo dropped her feet from the cross bar of the stool and begun swinging them like a kindergarten kid pumped up on a dozen pixie sticks, "Yay! So what's the plan, Agent Sunshine? Five is a pretty big team for f'beee guys to travel in, how we gonna play this with the local flat foots, what parts do we get to play? Ooh! Ooh!! Ooh!! Can I be the slightly jaded and cynical FBI chick that no matter what insanity I view I always have to break it down to entirely illogical logic and science? Please?! Can I, can I, huh?"

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Andi's phone buzzed against her hip as she chuckled at Halo's antics. When she removed the device the screen bore the optomistic message.

Andellion - The hounds have been itching for a hunt, I can give you two, I'd give you three but you spelt "Please" Plz. Unamused. They'll be ready for you when you arrive, but remember dear, this is a FAVOUR.

-Skadi


"And looks like we have our pups. If you can make a couple of giant wolves look like bloodhounds or german shepards I may be able to get in as the animal unit with em." Andi offered with a smile as she responded to her superior's text and slid the phone back in to her pocket. "As five is a mighty large team."

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Shaylee listened. They were such an energetic bunch and eager making jokes and jabs at each other. She was the first to admit she didn't fully understand human humor but this would be a definitely learning experience. More than likely she would be stuck playing the role of the 'straight guy' in this drama. "If it helps I can merge and travel though  the shadow and meet you on the inside. Being born in the court of darkness and nightmares does have its advantages.

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"Oh that is cool I like you more and more by the second." Andi said with a grin "Though I could of course do the same and 'bamf' my way in, and then you guys could catch up with our loveliness inside."

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"It sounds reasonable if that makes things more convenient." The elf replied.

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Artemis shook his hands widely in front of him, showing his thoughts on the idea. "Woah, ladies, the enthusiasm is great and all, but the fact of the matter is that the whole area's too heavily guarded to just pop in unannounced. There's also the little fact that if you don't come in with me, and if anyone sees you with me after we get in there, that's gonna seem a little suspicious..." His train of thought moved elsewhere as he looked at Halo. "...Unless there's a way you could make it seem like they were there the whole time, or something."

He scratched his square jaw in thought. "I really don't think the size of our team is going to be a major problem. If anything DOES come up, I can always just say you the rest of you guys are federal CSI guys." The fallen jabbed a finger at the TV, now showing an advertisement for some body wash. "You saw what they were dealing with. I'm sure they'd like all the help they can get. Oh, and you can do what you like, Little One. Just as long as we get in there, that's the important part."