Virdian City: Chap:1: New guy in town

[Premonitions]

The car pulled up slowly, two men got out and leisurely made their way to the building in front of them. Across the street, in one of those angry-looking, inner city trees, was The Poltergeist. Impossibly perched on a branch that couldn’t have been more than an inch thick, he crouched, unseen to the casual observer, waiting for his moment. As they hit the side walk, he made his move. Removing his cloaking and extending his blades, he pushed of, gliding down at breakneck speed. As he came behind the taller man he swung his hands forward. He rolled on landing and remained crouched on the ground as the other man turned around just in time to see his friend fall apart, into four separate chunks. He began screaming. “Oh my god! Holy shit! You freaking ripped him to shreds!” The Poltergeist looked back. “Did you know that that man killed four people with no remorse?” The other man stopped suddenly and looked shocked and nervous. “No, I-I didn’t know that.” Poltergeist swiveled on his heels and popped his blades out. "Did you also know that you’re a terrible liar?”
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Tracy Spear’s night was getting along to a rip roaring start. But across town someone else wasn’t having quite as much luck. Deljuan Hubbard was what you would call mostly harmless. He wasn’t much of a trouble maker, but he wasn’t good at very much either. His grandfather had supported his free-spirited ways since he was a kid. He had never expressed his disappointment for his slacker-ish ways. Deljuan had never been closer to anyone in his life. When grandpa died a few days ago, Deljuan received a package from his Grandfather, set to be released on his death. In it was a strange metal gauntlet with jewels and hieroglyphics written all over with a simple note attached to it in an unmarked envelope. ”Be happy”. Deljuan didn’t know what he had gotten his hands on. The gauntlet of Osiris had the power to grant his greatest wishes, it held within it’s casing a great magical energy that many wizards and mages sought out with great fervor. Taking a shortcut through a semi-wooded area to get back home, he absently turned it over in his hands and analyzed it. He stared at it intently, shuffling through the pine needles on the ground. He held it up to the moonlight which was exceptionally bright at the moment. Very bright. Very very bright. In fact it almost seemed as if… Before he could react a large object came streaking out of the sky and crashed just a few feet behind him. The shockwave knocked him off his feet and he quickly scrambled to the crater. Looking down he saw a round, egg shaped object that seemed to be made out of some indescribable metal, and a voice seemed to emanate from within it, repeating the same phrase over and over again in some strange foreign language. For a brief second he grappled with the idea of reporting it first but his curiosity got the better of him and he clambered down into the crater and leaned in for a closer look. At that moment his gauntlet banged against the outer shell and became stuck. He tried as hard as he could to pull it off but it seemed to be attached by some mysterious force. The egg began to glow and shake; the voice became louder and somewhat triumphant. Suddenly the light faded and the voice quieted. There was a pause, then a massive explosion that swept over Deljuan but didn’t seem to hurt him. When the light dimmed he saw a mangled, twisted form laying where the egg had been. Shadow surrounded it and he couldn’t quite make it out, against his better judgment he took a step forward. A yellow, jagged grin formed somewhere on the body and it lunged for him. Tentacles lashed out and wrapped themselves around his body his screams were soon muffled by a slithering appendage and all was silent. Minutes passed and soon Deljuan re-emerged from the Crater, A jagged yellow grin on his face and shadow obscuring his form.

[Heliomance]

Drake Lee was trying out a new way of training. He'd recently taken up parkour as a hobby, and was currently running across the rooftops of Virdian City. As he landed from a long jump, a flash of light caught his eye, getting brighter, before beginning to die away as he rolled to his feet. He pulled his quarterstaff off his back, and felt his eyes change, giving him enhanced vision. Looking at the now magnified scene, he could just about make ou the remains of the object that had crashed.
"That doesn't look good," he mused to himself, before setting off towards the source of the light just as fast as he could.

[ThanosOfTitan321]

“Hand over all your cash kid,” a voice said from behind Matt, “and that shiny think you got in your hands there.”
Matt turned around to face two large men, one with a rather large knife, the other pointing a gun at his head.
“O-ok…” he replied reaching into his pocket. He begins to hand over his wallet, when another voice from behind the two muggers spoke.
“Not so fast, guys,” Silo said, grabbing the two would-be criminals by the back of their necks. He turned them around to face him. “You messed with the wrong nerd,” he said, before launching them into the sky.
“Thank you Marco. I’m glad you’re here, you might find this interesting.”
“Wha’s that you got there, little buddy?”
“It’s a device I built to track unusual energy signatures. There was one in an area close to here. I’d be glad if you would come with me, there is a possibility, if a low one, that it could be dangerous.”
"No problem," Silo said, picking up Matt and flying in the direction of the energy signature.

[Premonitions]

Deljuan looked around. He leaned over the crater and shrugged his shoulders. He breathed slowly then stretched his arm out into space. He begans uttering words in a deep, resonating tone in the same language that had been previously coming from the egg. He stands there staring with his head cocked to the side for a few minutes. Then repeats the phrase, with a more forceful tone. He get's a confused and angry look on his face when nothing happens then lashes at a nearby tree with a tentacle, cracking it in half. As h stands there breathing heavily, he suddenly gets a weird smirk on his face and slaps his forehead in exhasperation. "first rule, my magic only works on my home planet, how could I have forgotten that?" He snatches the gauntlet of the ground and tilts his head back. He sniffs the air and grins looking inward towards town. "glad that still works" tentacles sprout from his body and cary him through the tree's as if he were flying.
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He lands in the city, outside a small "antique" shop in a rather run-down neighborhoood.
As he enters, a woman behind the counter greets him warmly. She is somewhere in her early thirties-late twenties. Her, long dark hair, sweeps the counter slightly as she smiles at the Young man in the drty t-shirt and jeans. "Hi, I'm Isabelle, How can I help you?"
Deljuan leans over the counter and drops the guatlet down. "This is'nt an antique store and I'd like to make a trade" Isabelle leans in closer. "You do know what you have there right? what mage in his right mind would give the Osiris guantlet away?" Deljuan Smirks, showing his big, pointy teeth. "well It does'nt serve me any purpose at this point and I think you have something much better" Isabelle jerks back "You get out of that boy right now , whoever you are you have no right to be in there!" Deljaun chuckles. "Bitch I have the right to do whatever I want, because I can. I can take anything I need, and right now, I need you." A tentacle swings up and jerks towards her.
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Deljuan sits in the second floor, watching television, Isabelle's corpse in the seat next to him. On television is a news story about a band performing a concert in town. He jumps up and looks at the screen. "Hey, I'm getting a neat scent off of him." He looks over at Isabelle, a crusty book clutched in her now lifeless hands. "Well my dear, I don't think you'll be needing this any more" he plucks the book out of her hands and picks her up by the neck. throwing her out the window he takes of, swinging on his tentacles over the city.

[Heliomance]

Drake spots the monster flying across the city as he speeds towards the woods.
"What in the name of the King of Dragons is that?!" he exclaims. "Whatever it is, it's not good news."
He stops moving, closes his eyes, and clears his thoughts. Grasping his quarterstaff in its sheath across his back, he formulates a question to his draconic companion.
"What's that monster?" he asks it silently.
Bad news. It's an alien creature, an outcast from its people. Very powerful, utterly ruthless. It will stop at nothing to get what it wants.
"And what does it want?"
I don't know. But whatever it is, it'll be bad news for the town. I'd better come and help.
Drake nods, and stands up. He draws his staff, feeling his canines grow longer and sharper, his ears turn pointed, and his eyes become lidless green pools of mercilessnesss. He begins to spin the staff around him in a blinding pattern, so fast that the pole appears to become a solid shield around him. A white glow appears in front of him, and he starts to hear wingbeats. He slams the end of the stave into the ground, and there in front of him is his companion, Rhuvair. Sedraiken vaults onto the beast's back, and the pair take off, speeding across the buildings after the monster.

[ThanosOfTitan321]

"Er... Marco" Matt says "The energy signal is moving towards us now."
Silo looks below them and sees the tentacled monster fly past and towards the city.
"And now another one has popped up," Matt says
Silo flies down low and drops Matt safely onto the ground.
A dragon zooms past him, just before he takes off after both beings.

[Tarrin]

Thomas had finnished his dinner with a new client, It had gone well and the Hoffman Conservitory would be the newist client of Krane & Krane.
Thomas had just seen his new clients off to their limo and was walking back to one of his safehouses, Tonight Shadow Dragon would stalk the streets.
Suddenly a dark figure flew past him, The dark raidence off the figure too powerful for Thomas to ignore, Then something that deffinetly couldn't be real.... A Dragon flew past him, Maybe the last glass of chetu de blenk was too much.
Deciding this needed more investegation Thomas ducked into his safehouse to change and grab his bike, Hopefuly he'd still be able to find these two.

[Waylander]

Mark was wandering the streets with a bored look on his face. He had just finished work at the store his parents left him after they died. The store although not exactly making a killing was keeping Mark with enough money to finance his quest to find his parents killer.

He had recently recieved a email from one of the private detectives he had hired asking for a meeting in a low class district of the city. "Wouldn't want to be out too late after dark" Mark muttered to himself sarcasticly. The darkness was where he felt most comfortable since he had recieved his powers.

He walked up to the building the detective had described. "What a tip, I wonder why he wanted to meet me here his office is on the other side of town" Mark began to get that feeling in his gut that something was about to happen.

He was proven right when seconds later a female body flies out of the next building and some dark thing (that was the best way he could describe it) flew out the window just after it.

Quickly he concentrated and changed to his shadow form and with the speed of dark (OOC he he he its the same as the speed of light) followed the dark form at a distance.

[Marinan]

Quickly he concentrated and changed to his shadow form and with the speed of dark (OOC he he he its the same as the speed of light) followed the dark form at a distance.

It seemed as if everyone was gathering in the same place. The Unseen was there at the meeting place. Unseen. As was the whole point. He was ready to grant any of the people's desires. Oh how great was this moment. His mysterious purposes were revealed after he had granted his servant's desires. And he readily did so, for he had his own purposes for his bizarre sense of reality.

[Premonitions]

Tracy found his way to Isabelle’s shop shortly after the group left. She had been telling him about some mysterious figures meeting across the street, and something else, some strange energy that she felt around her home. He had promised to show up that night, to help her out. Just in case. What he saw when he got there made his cold heart burn. There she was, sprawled out on the roof of a car, the life gone from her body. Strange wounds and tears on her clothes told him that there was a struggle. He walked past her and into the store. Scorch marks and broken artifacts only further proved what he already knew, “at least she didn’t go without a fight.” Isabelle had been… kind to him. She was one of the few living people he considered his friend. He walked back outside and looked once more at her body. Her clothes had been ripped rather obscenely, leaving her… exposed. He undid his cloak and dropped it onto her. He took a deep breath "TELL ME WHO DID THIS!!!!!!!!"

[ThanosOfTitan321]

"If ya ask me," Silo said, clumsily landing on the other side of the car from Poltergeist, "it might've been the thing I saw coming towards here. Any idea which way it might of went?"

[Heliomance]

As Silo said that, a perculiar yellow shape with tentacles shot past overhead, closely pursued by a slightly translucent dragon and a strange shadow. Poltergeist started to hear a voice in his head, like listening to half of a conversation.
I don't know. The only way we're goingto find out is by following it.

I know it killed her. I can't fly any faster than this though, we're not going to catch up unless it stops.

Well you can try jumping, if you like. I wouldn't recommend it though, you won't make it.

My breath won't reach him at this range, and it'll drain me too much to stay for long, you know that. Besides, don't you want to talk to it? Quite hard to ask questions to a crispy barbeque.

Of course. I'm always right.

((In case you're confused, I've decided that Poltergeist (able to hear ghosts) can communicate with Rhuvair, the dragon (otherworldy spirit). So that's why he's hearing random voices.))

[Premonitions]

((In case you're confused, I've decided that Poltergeist (able to hear ghosts) can communicate with Rhuvair, the dragon (otherworldy spirit). So that's why he's hearing random voices.))
OOC: Folks there's a discussion thread for this stuff. here it is (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?t=14173)
IC:Poltergest Snarled. "Whoever's in my head better not have a pulse because I'm not in the mood right now." He ran forward, leaving Silo by himself and Jumped into the air. His jump extended past normal distances, he flew through the air. He calmed down just enough to alter his weight to land softly on the dragon's head, readjust himself, aquire his normal weight and push off. The sudden change in weight and force caused the dragon to dip towards the street below. Poltergeist howled with a sound containing the fury and sadness of hundreds of years. He began falling closer to the fleeing man.
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Deljuan heard a sound, an almost frightening noise that seemed to come from hell itself. He turned to see a man, somewhat larger than himself and wielding two large blades come crashing down from the heavens. He landed on Deljuan's back and jammed his blades into his spine. It hurt, for all of about three seconds. They crashed to the street and two others joined them. There was something else there, a strange energy, something otherworldly. Black tentacles shot out from his back and suspended Poltergeist in the air, slammed him into the ground, and threw him down the street. Deljuan got up and turned to see two men and a dragon. "Sooo, that's what I sensed I got a good magical scent of your pet there. I don't suppose you'd like to share it with me?"Sedraiken merely Stares at him. "No? well then I'll just have to take it!" he opens the book and begins intoning in ancient Romanian. A ball of light forms in his hand...

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken's eyes quote literally flash, and a faint tracework almost resembling a scale pattern appears on his skin.
"I suggest you don't, creep," he snarls, drawing his quarterstaff and dropping into a fighting crouch. Suddenly he flips onto his hands and delivers a savage kick to the sides of Deljuan's head. Flipping upright again, he dodges the tentacles that attempt to snare him, and spins behind the monster. Sending his quarterstaff crashing into the back of Deljuan's knees, he sends him tumbling to the ground again, then launches himself into a mighty backflip that lands him on the dragon's back. Rhuvair rears back, Sedraiken on his back, and extends his talons, ready to rip Deljuan apart if he tries to atttack them again.

[ThanosOfTitan321]

"Hey!" Silo yells after Poltergeist as he leaps away. He takes off and flies after them. He watches Poltergeist jump at the dark figure, and flies down towards where they landed, touching down clumsily next to the dragon as Sedraiken flips onto its back.
"Hey I got dibs, you bastards. I saw it first!"

[Waylander]

Dakeyras soon realised that he wasnt the only one chasing the tentacled figure. It seemed rather more than coincidental that his detective lead had lead him to this tentacled figure. Whoever the figure was he was betting it wasnt Santa Claus. The female body reminded him of the remains of his parents.

Watching the fight beginning he saw that the figure seemed to be very powerful. With an angry cry he drew his crossbow and fired it multiple times at Deljuan's head and back. Without watching to see the results he Drew his sword held it high and charged Deljuan from behind with a battlecry.

[Tarrin]

The bike Shadow Dragon was on slowed to a halt, Video feed from his helm already zooming up the street.
What Shadow Dragon saw took him somewhat by surprise.
"looks like a pyjama party up there" he whispered to himself, Up the street a group of crime fighters, One on a very large dragon, surounded the dark figure he himself was looking for.
"Better join in the fun" was the last thought Shadow Dragon had before he gunned his bike towards the congregation.

[Premonitions]

OOC: One. Last time. we have a discussion thread, I linked it in my last post. It's purpose is to prevent Out of Character Chatter from cluttering the Rp itself, as well as allowing people to discuss things such as this. do not make a post of this nature again. And delete that one please

IC:As shadow dragon Made his way towards he scuffle, a grey skinned man shot past him in the direction he was coming from. he hit the pavement, bounced and landed witha thud and a groan. Shadow dragon eased over to Poltergeist, and moved to poke him when the silent body yelled, face still in the ground"JUST GO!!!!" shadow dragon Shrugged and Powered his bike towards the fray, when he saw something shoot out towards him...

Deljuan had far to much on his mind at the moment, he needed to build up his power, he needed to find the various trails he was picking up on, he needed to get what he assumed were the local authorities off his back. But most importantly, he needed to get out of this body. "I'm done with you Deljuan, and I'm done with these idiots"

Tentacles shot out from every part of his body, shooting large holes in his clothing. They grabbed all of the heroes around him, one snaked out and clothselined Shadow Dragon, sending his MotorCycle flying out from under him as the tentacle snaked around his neck. Deljuan jerkled them all into the air and thew them every which way.

Before they could land he held up his hands and winced as large, purple claws shot out of his fingertips, tearing them apart and gushing blood all over his shirt. He dug them in his chest and screamed,pulling apart his flesh until his chest ripped apart.

His mutilated carcass fell to the ground like an empty shell, and In his stead stood the true Master of ceremonies for this little show. A dark, black-ish purple creature. with glowing blue eyes and jagged, pointy, yellow teeth that did'nt seem to fit in it's head. From that head hung hundreds of porcupine-like quills. It stood just a little shorter than it's host with a slender build and the same bloody, purple claws that had previously sprung from Deljuan's hands.

It laughed with a deep, echoing voice. "I am Master Kwaku, I destroyed and subjugated my home world with my magic and I shall do the same thing here with yours! there is no way to stop me and no way to comprehend my genius." Kwaku leapt at Rhuvair and dug a volley of tentacles under it's scales. Slowly draining the energy from it's otherworldy form.

[ThanosOfTitan321]

Silo steps out of the crater created by his impact with the ground. "Ouch."
He rubs his head for a second, and takes off, flying back towards Kwaku. As he approaches he sees Kwaku draining the life out of the big dragon that he had seen earlier.
"HEY! Don't hurt that dragon you creep!" he yells out as he slams into the tentacled monster, knocking them both back. In mid-air, they both stop, and he feels tentacles begin to contract around his body. "FOOL!" Kwaku yells. Kwaku raises Silo above his head, and then begins the motion of slamming him head first into the earth. Silo pushes his gravity powers outward from his body, butthe tentacles are forced off of him only early enough to keep his head clear, and the momentum carries him into the ground.
"Just one of those days," he mutters, using his gravity powers to barely get back on his feet.

[Heliomance]

Rhuvair howls in pain, spreads his great wings, and launches himself violently upward into the air. Sedraiken jumps off his back and lands agilely on the ground, staff ready. Rhuvair reaches a decent height, then turns and dives back towards Kwaku, screaming in rage. He opens his jaws wide, and an orange glow starts to build in the back of his throat, rapidly getting brighter as the dragon plummets.

[Tarrin]

Slowly...ever so slowly Shadow Dragon pulled himself to his feet, The pain in his side no doubt coming from some cracked ribs.
"note to self, Don't charge in on a motorbike against that thing again." was the second thing that crossed Shadow Dragons mind, The first being "mommy".

Looking up Shadow Dragon saw a new figure battleing the other costumed heros, Pulling a weird gun from a holster he aimed at the new menace and fired.
The projectile bit deep into Kwakus shoulder, Seamingly unfased a Tentacle smashed Shadow dragon into the pavement and into unconsiousness.

[Premonitions]

Something bit his shoulder, probably a bug, this planet was full of them. He had two major concerns at the moment. The dragon, and his recenlty acquired spell book. He chuckled at Rhuvair as it began to exhale it's flame "You think you're the only one who can do that?" He opened his mouth, his neck began to swell as if something was growing inside his throat. An orange light built up in his mouth and he soon released it, exactly in tmie with Rhuvair's flame. The dragon was suspended in the air by the opposing force of the two jets of fire. They both found themselves in a stalemate.

[Waylander]

"damn it, Damn it, damn it, DAMN IT" Mark yelled as he tried to stand. "I try and do the right thing and what happens a bunch of OTHER superheroes turn up and then the guy just kicks ALL out arses." he reached down and gingerly touched his leg which wasnt quite the shape it should be "and to top things off i've broken my damn leg." Mark transformed his broken leg to shadow and tried to see if it could work out that way. "Why is this so damn hard!!". He managed to get to his feet.

"well its not as good but at least i can use it still, Now to get that freak"
With this he ran back towards the fray drawing his crossbow again. "It survived normal bolts lets see if it can handle explosive ones." He grabbed the crossbow and pulled what looked like a magazine out of the grip. Swapping it for an identical magazine which he produced from a pouch on his waist. Well identical except for a red mark along the base of it.

Taking aim Mark shot several bolts at Kwaku before drawing his sword changing to shadow fully and charging in with an brutal slash

[Heliomance]

Rhuvair's flame starts to falter, and his form begins to grow translucent.
I've drained myself, Sedraiken and Potergeist heard. I can't stay much longer. I'll try and grab him, see if I can take him back to my world - I'm stronger there, and there are more dragons. Anyone that feels the need to come, grab on to me.
Quickly, Sedraiken relayed the message, before leaping astride the dragon again. Rhuvair cut off his jet of flame, dropped quickly under Kwaku's, and seized him in his talons. As Kwaku struggled, he, Sedraiken, Rhuvair, and everyone else holding on to them suddenly vanished.

[Marinan]

"This should be interesting."

::The Unseen cast his "spell" and went with the rest of them. He prepared himself for what he was about to see.::"So, fairy tale dragons. I have not seen these things in years. If only they would have taken my offer to have one of them for an avatar, things would be much better than they are now. The Others are displeased enough."

[Whightwolf]

Perched high above. Synergy watched the fight with interest, whatever that tentacle sprouting monstrosity was it sure as hell was beyond his ken. Bloody wizards most likely, seemed bloody wizards were everywhere if you looked hard enough. Perhaps he should have brought popcorn? It wasn’t every day, even in the Big V, that you got to see something that ugly take on a whole gaggle of super-jokes and a spectral dragon.

Reaching into a pouch at his waist he drew out a cigar, well best case scenario they all kill one another, but what a boring world that would be. Drawing some of the kinetic energy out of the breeze blowing across the top of the building, he transferred it, focused it and a flame burst to life on the very tip of the brown cylinder. Still either way this was making for damn good television.

Below people seemed torn between fleeing and gawking. It was quite a display, flame met flame as dragon and monster battled, the ‘heroes’ all tossing in their share. Taking a deep puff he blew out a cloud of smoke. They were all just going for it hammer and tongs, no real coordination, no teamwork. Which, he supposed, was why this beast was having a relatively easy job beating off such an onslaught of ‘the brave and the bold’ of the City.

Still no use idling here all day. Eventually one of these apes would look up and involve him and that would be simply a waste of having them tied up. Seems like a time for some good old fashioned daylight robbery… In due time, for now well. Two gouts of flame met in mid air as dragon and beast bough let emptied their fiery gullets. Well for now he may as well watch the fireworks.

“Damn its good to be me.”

[Premonitions]

OOC: You know you did

Poltergeist: Tracy sruggled up from the ground, hearing voices speaking in his head. "Dammit! He's not going anywhere! I'll make him payyyyyy!" He ran forward, leaping in the air. Before he had even got off the ground they were gone. He drifted down and landed on a powerline.

He looked around, saw a lit flame up on a roof nearby. He took off and landed nearby synergy. "you the one that's been talking on my frequency? "

Kwaku: He Opened his eyes to find himself in a firey realm. Giant beasts flew all around in the sky and a few of his adversaries were there by him. A short distance away, Rhuvair was there, if Kwaku did'nt know better he could have sworn it was smiling.

It spoke to him with a voice full of vengefull mirth "Let's see what you can do now." Kwaku's crooked, daggerlike teeth seemed to widen in an evil smile. He Leaped into the air and grabbed a passing small dragon, throwing it to the ground and sucking it's life out with his tentacles. It writhed and howled but could'nt fight him off. Suddenly it lay still, Kwaku moved away to reveal a dried, empty husk. He looked around to the ones surrounding it. "So happy you could join us, I hope that was a good example of what I can do here"

[Tarrin]

Lifting himself off the ground for a second time, Shadow dragon looked around.
Had he been out for minutes, Hours, He didnt know, It was still dark so it hadn't been too long.
The battle was no longer going on infront of him and no bodies (Apart from his) were strewn around.
Limping back to his bike Shadow dragon made his way back to one of his safe houses, He'd have to make a phone call to see if she could come and fix him up.....again.

[Heliomance]

As Kwaku sucked the life force from the dragon, it screamed loudly, a cry of distress projected both vocally and telepathically. As the dragon collapsed, lifeless, to the ground, a large swarm of adults swooped in, claws and teeth bared, ready to avenge it.
Sedraiken picked himself up, and yelled at the other superheroes. "Listen! We have to work together if we have a chance of beating him! The dragons will help us!"

[Whightwolf]

"you the one that's been talking on my frequency? "
Synergy took a deep drag on the cigar before answering.
“Come on, do I look like a telepath? Unless your really running on radio waves I cant help you old fellow.” Another, long lazy drag, his head now surrounded in a corona of whirling smoke wisps. “What’s going on here anyway? You boys seem to be having a bit of trouble down there, at least before they all vanished. Your that ghostie fellow aren’t you? Any magic mojo going down?”

Synergy gave a friendly smile through his helmet. Hopefully this hero didn’t recognise him, he hadn’t been on TV since he had to kill that dolt of a traitor Dark Fiend. But then hurling a man in a demon costume off a skyscraper seemed to stick in peoples memories. Still just this guy did recognise him he was ready to launch himself up, there should be enough ambient heat on a day like this to give him all the lift he would need. He had no doubt he could ‘take’ any of these chumps but a city with out heroes was to good an opportunity to waste on a prolonged battle.

[Premonitions]

Poltergeist:Poltergeist scowled. "You seem familiar, your definitely not anybody good. good people don't know about me." He stepped forward "Tell me now and I'll make this quick, What sins have you to confess?"
Kwaku: He seemed bigger, a little more muscular as the dragons swooped in to attack.He laughed, a dark evil sound that chilled their souls. "You think I can't get out of here? that You're going to beat me? ME? Well I'll just have to clear you of that notion won' I?" he juped up, grabbing the closes dragon with his clawed hands and throwing it down to the charred earth. He landed on the next one and stabbed it in the skull with his wickedly sharp fingers. Just as he looked up, Sedraiken Appeared, his jaws glowing with a bright flame...

[Heliomance]

(Uh - Sedraiken's the human. The dragon's Rhuvair)
Rhuvair swooped down in concert with about ten other dragons, throats all glowing. They all released their flames at once, the resulting inferno completely engulfing Kwaku, the heat so intense that the ground under him melted near-instantly, forming a liquid pool of lava.

[Waylander]

Driven back by the intense heat Mark decided that it may be an idea if he stood back for a bit and waited for an oppourtunity.

Changing to shadow mode Mark disappeared into the shadows created by the inferno ready to strike.

[Premonitions]

Kwaku: as the flames cleared they found him there, untouched save for a noticed darkening of his pigment and an enraged look on his face. The quills on his head, rose and shook around, rattling like a thousand rattle snakes(or one porcupine). He stretche dout his hand and uttered a line of romanian. Electricity arched around his body and formed in his hand, he raised it above his head and shouted loud. Lightening streamed out of his hand and struck randomly all around him. "I'm so glad I memorized some of these basic spells before I left. Never leave home without em' eh?"

[Heliomance]

The drsgons wheeled skywards, out of the way of the lightning, and began to flap their mighty wings powerfully, setting up a huge wind. As they did so, the liquid rock that Kwaku was standing in rapidly began to cool and solidify again.

Jarn backflipped out of the way. "How did he survive that?!" Shoving his quarter staff into its sheath, he flicked his arms outwards, feelign the palm daggers slide into his hands. "What will it take to get this guy to die?"

[Whightwolf]

"You seem familiar, your definitely not anybody good. good people don't know about me." The muscle bound figure took a step closer along the power lines "Tell me now and I'll make this quick, What sins have you to confess?"

Synergy gave the guy an indulging smile as he continued to advance, oh so slowly, taking one last drag he stubbed the cigar out on the roof and got to his feet, booted feet planted on the cornerstone of the building.
“Sins? Why non. Didn’t you know?…. Gods can’t sin?” With the last words the temperature dropped all around them and the air went still as Synergy launched into the air, a film of hoarfrost where he had been standing.

He hurtled up through the air, flipping over and over. Just before he hit the ground on the other side of the block he took all the kinetic energy out of himself and split it in two, about a third made an updraft which flared up his cloak and a small dust cloud the rest he dissipated through the flags beneath him. Shattering one. A good entrance and exit is always important. Even as he congratulated himself on another chump outwitted he saw the bladed nitwit hurtling through the air after him.

Damn, what now? time for another jump? Or full escape… Even as the thoughts whirled through his head he knew what the answer was.

This guy wants a beating badly enough to chase him? Give him a beating.

Walking out into the road, cloak swirling around him he began moving his arms like a conductor in an orchestra. He pointed at them and cars stopped, in moments the whole street had ground to a standstill as drained their kinetic energy, hoods covered in condensation as the engine beneath them cooled. Wind began to swirl around him and Synergy smiled. With his last gesture he thrust his right arm out at the plummeting poltergeist hand cupped and open as if offering something.

“Bye bye big guy.” He said with a grin, his fleeing audience oblivious to his wit of course but then that’s the life of a villain. From a tiny point above his offering hand came a blast of wind, about six inches across and strong as a hurricane aimed right at the guys chest…

[Premonitions]

Poltergeist: The wind struck him in the chest, he halted in the air and then went flying back smashing through a brick wall and under a pile of rubble. all was still. Synergy laughed and started to stroll away, a smug smile of satisfaction on his face. Suddenly a horrrible noise seemed to come from all around him. The few people brave enough to be nearby ran in terror, even Synergy felt a chill run down his spine. The sound, sharpened and cleared. and out of the pile of bricks and wood came Poltergeist, screaming and battered, a look of rage on his face. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMURDERER! NOW I KNOW WHO YOU ARE! YOU'VE CAUSE MORE PAIN THAN ANYONE I'VE EVER FOUGHT! YOU WILL PAY FOR THE INNOCENT LIVES YOU'VE TAKEN!!!!!"

KWAKU: He was feeling a little winded, he needed to get back to business. Kwaku laughed and yelled up to Rhuvair and Sedrakien "You needed to bring me here to defeat me? here where the magic flows so freely? I'm not sure what you thought but all this energy only makes me stronger, I should thank you." he needed to make his bluff sound more convinving. He uttered out a spell and blasted a dragon out of the air. "feels great!"

[Whightwolf]

As the dreadful wailing surrounded Syn paused mid stride.
“Shit.” He muttered under his breath. Spinning on one foot he turned to see muscles rising up out of the masonry.

“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMURDERER! NOW I KNOW WHO YOU ARE! YOU'VE CAUSE MORE PAIN THAN ANYONE I'VE EVER FOUGHT! YOU WILL PAY FOR THE INNOCENT LIVES YOU'VE TAKEN!!!!!"

“Just who do you think you are?” He had used about half of what he had gained from the vehicles on the road in that blast and the guy just got up. Lives? He had killed a dozen people tops, maybe twice that and most of those where just expediency and there was no way in hell any of them had been innocent. “Do you really think you can pass judgement on me? ME?” He forced a laugh, the memory of that noise was still with him.

Swirling his hands he opened them together, wrist to wrist, gestures weren’t important to his powers. He could just sit on his arse and make stuff burst into flames or move but that really wasn’t his style. A great gout flame leapt from his open palms, all fire was really was ionised particles caused by the terrific heat energy he was letting out. This would come close to draining what he had got from the traffic but there were plenty of sources untapped on this street. This self proclaimed cosmic policeman really had it coming.

[Tarrin]

"Ouch" Shadow dragon grimiced thru the pain.
"Oh stop being such a baby" Kelly scolded him, "You know Thomas if you looked after yourself a little better"....."I know Kel" Thomas Cut her off.

Kelly finnished the injection and removed the needle, "I'm just saying there's only so much i an patch, One day i'm not going to beable to fix a wound".

"I do appreciate that you help me, I also am thankful that you keep my secret not many people would." Thomas explained "However i have to do this someone has to help those who can't help themselves".

"And that has to be you Thomas, What is it about men and their macho Bullshit" Kelly turned to leave "That should do you over jus....just be careful ok".
Thomas stood up and held Kelly "I'll be ok, I promise".

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken hurled the daggers at Kwaku, and they buried themselves in his flesh. Kwaku staggered a moment, then straightened up and grinned. "Is that all you can do?" he asked. He tugged the daggers out again, and ignted them with dark flame, before projecting them at Sedraiken. Sedraiken just managed to get his staff out in time to deflect the eldritch blades away from him and into the ground. Kwaku tried to walk towards him, but the almost solid rock around his feet prevented him. A look of worry flashed across his face almost too quickly to notice, as he realised he would have to free himself fast or he would be trapped.

[Marinan]

The Unseen was there watching all the fighting. Throughout all the chaos he noticed Sedraiken could not free himself. It was obvious what he wanted. Therefore the Unseen released him.

The Unseen continued to watch as the battle unfolded. He had been listening to Kwaku and hoped that he could possibly serve him, so that Unseen's goals could be met. Kwaku was obviously a powerful specimen.

[Premonitions]

Kwaku: Something was here with him, something powerful, something that could help him with this "problem" of his. he looked around, his feet were now free. He Screamed at the top of his lungs, "Whoever did this, if you can get me out of this realm, I'll give you half of this planet, and any other ones you want!!!!!!!"

Poltergeist: tracy Wasn't falling for the same trick twice, as he Zoomed down towards Synergy he readjusted his weight, becoming normal again, he focused, became intangible and slipped down underneath the pavement.

[Whightwolf]

“Riiiight…” As the flames died, leaving only a stain of soft tar in the road. The brute had just vanished into the pavement. Scanning about for a man who had lost his keys he searched for a head popping out of the pavement. After all what goes down must come up, besides which the brute seemed to have no intention of fleeing.

The fire had been wasted, his battery was almost empty now, the cars had fled along with the pedestrians. Shit, was that sirens in the distance? The villain didn’t have time to dwell on the possibility of approaching law though. Bursting out of the ground beneath him came Poltergeist. Fists first…

Only one fist connected, the attached blade cutting a deep score in the side of his boot, missing flesh my a fraction of bugger all. The attack took Synergy totally by surprise, flying up through the air he barely managed to absorb the kinetic energy of his fall in time, slowing suddenly a foot from the ground. Landing on one knee rather than a fighting crouch as he would normally.

Even as he was rising the shadow of the do-gooder loomed over him, the guy moved horrifically fast for some one his size. Perhaps he had underestimated the big lug, still he was not about to let this stand. Bringing a bracer up just in time to block a sweeping blade, which connected with all the force of a kittens breath as he drained the kinetic energy out of the blow at the last instant. Hopefully the thug wouldn’t be smart enough to work out what was going on and just think he was fighting another brick like the last few ’strong men’ he had fought. Clever opponents were the worst sort.

Swinging his other fist, adding most of the energy he had taken from the blade and pumping the kinetic energy into his fist. Synergy liked to punch above his weight. At the last second though his opponents other hand swept his own energy loaded blow out of the way. The energy dissipated harmlessly and the two leapt apart.

Slowly they circled, damn this guy, time too sit his ass time and get out of here. Those were sirens in the distance and one more bullet than he could keep track of and things could get messy. They asshole really was screwing with his day.

[Marinan]

Kwaku: Something was here with him, something powerful, something that could help him with this "problem" of his. he looked around, his feet were now free. He Screamed at the top of his lungs, "Whoever did this, if you can get me out of this realm, I'll give you half of this planet, and any other ones you want!!!!!!!"

Poltergeist: tracy Wasn't falling for the same trick twice, as he Zoomed down towards Synergy he readjusted his weight, becoming normal again, he focused, became intangible and slipped down underneath the pavement.

"When do you want out? You have someone to deal with first."

Unseen smiled and watched over the fighting. Ever remembering something mysterious that no one else had known.

[Premonitions]

Kwaku: seeing a way out, he decided to put some distance between him and his enemies. He rose upout of the earth and skittered off at high speed, armas lashing over the ground. "Let them rot for all I care, just get me out of here, take me back to that woman's home, I need to do a little shopping.!"

Poltergeist: He heard them coming, many of them corrupt, he did'nt have to know them to know that simple fact. regardless, the police of Viridian city held as much animosity for him as he held for criminals. The politicians of the city had passed laws protecting and, on occaision, even assisting quote "Super-Heroes" but those like himself, those who did what was necessary, they were "vvigilantes" They were thought of no differently than the criminals they hunted.

Poltergeist needed to take this battle far away, the police in Viridian city we'rent like the ones in other cities. They were all trained in anti-super-Human manuevers and equally equipped. He grumbled to himself and activated his cloaking. the combination of the darkness of the night, lacking the streetlights and headlights,(thanks in no small part to Synergy himself)And Synergy's apprehensions made it nearly impossible to see his otherworldy offender.

Poltergeist grabbed the man from behind, restricting his arms and threw him high into the air, Altering his won weight and jumping up after him. "Come, evil one let us take this battle to where no innocents can be harmed" He really hated saying that dramatic stuff, but he felt compelled to say it, plus it did sound kinda cool

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken broke into a sprint, chasing after Kwaku. As he came close, his movement preternaturally fast, he leapt into the air, wielding his staff, spinning in mid-air to attempt to bring the staff down on Kwaku's head.

[Waylander]

Somehow Mark had been pulled through with Kwaku to the dragon realm. He could feel the energy of the place pulsating around him. Fortunately where these is fire there is shadow so this realm had no real effect on his powers in fact he felt the same as if it was night back in Viridian City.

He had mostly just watched as he recovered his strength. Being thrown through a building had hurt. It had actually hurt quite a bit. Feeling a bit better know Mark decided that the other probably could do with his help they weren't doing the best and they all seemed to be acting as individuals not collectively making it easy for Kwaku to fight them each off.

Gathering his cloak around him Dakeyras changed to Shadow form and sped after Kwaku intent on ending this once and for all. Gaining quickly on Kwaku Dakeyras decided to try something new. Drawing up some shadow from the ground he quickly spun and curled it into a long thin strip. Spinning around Kwaku at the speed of light he drew the strip around Kwaku and joined the ends binding Kwaku in a rope of shadow preventing him from moving.

[Premonitions]

Kwaku:He Sped along, when something dark began to whirl around him. It was now or never "Now dammit! what the hell are you waiting for?NOW!!!" There was a flash and Kwaku found himself back in the store, with a feeling of nausea and blurred vision. The Unseen hovered next to him, he could'nt see him of course but he could smell his energy he shivered and looked around.

He tilted his head back and rustled his quills "I see you sent them away from me, looks like your good for something after all, I feel rather exposed like this so could you please-?" He held his hands out at his side. A black pair of pants and boots appeared over his body, with a long trenchcoat over his shoulders, emblazoned with purple flames, a bag appeared in his hand and he quickly made his way around the store, dropping various items of great age in and closing the flap, he swung the black satchel over his shouler and pulled one final item off a nearby shelf,a shining, crystal shaped like a starburst(not the candy) "Now this will be useful,"

He looked over to where the Unseen floated impatiently. Kwaku chuckled and said "Ohh and by the way-" tentacles shot out of his back and wrapped around the air, as the pulsated, the unseen began to materialize, the tendrous apendages digging deep under his skin. He screamed for a fem minutes then groaned slightly, kwaku dropped him to the ground and watched him struggle for a few seconds "thank you" he held the crystal out at arms length and focused his newly gained energy through his arm, in that split second he dissapeared, no flash, no boom, just gone, the unseen looked on, barely enough energy in his body to hate his assailant.


Dakeyras: he had it right where he wanted it, now all he needed was to attack, A flash and he was gone. He opened his eyes to find himself, in a McDonalds, everyone stared at him for a short while and then went back to their food, people in wierd clothing made dramatic entrances all the time. One man over in a corner shuffled over to him and leaned over "Hey, man, you got like fifty cent I could borrow?"

Sedraiken: The flames rose all around him as he crashed down onto the bound demon, Then it got dark, there were people all around him and a bright light in front of him. "Am I-dead?" many voices shushed him and ate their popcorn, he was ruining the movie.

Poltergeist:Tracy Screamed through the air, Synergy locked firmly in his arms, he reared back and slammed the villian into a rooftop, then dropped down like a rock after him, getting lighter as he fell until he landed softly by his enemy. he stood up and popped his blades "Shall we finish this, rogue?"

[Marinan]

The Unseen had decided to wait.He rested, and decided to wait until the time came to have his embarresing victory.

He wondered what he would do now. Kwaku was more powerful than he thought.

[Premonitions]

Mark hated the mall, hated it more so because he had just been fired from a job working at the shoe store. But he did'nt want to hurt anyone, so why was he standing outside it this morning? Why was he standing, with his fists clenched ad raised in the air? Why was he forcing "the change"? He was'nt like the monsters that frequented the city. He was a normal person. The fist on his chest began to move, the fingers twitched and started to slowly open. Hair sprouted up all over his body, his arms grew longer and rested on the ground, his toes shifted and gripped the pavement. His body grew larger and more powerful.the fist opened completely. He roared loudly and snorted. People ran and screamed as The Geurrilla stood in the parking lot and laughed
"It's about time!" He took one astonishing leap and crashed through the second story window. "Let's make some noise!" he slammed both fists into the ground, and sent shockwaves all around him, breaking everything in it's range and knocking people all around.

[Tarrin]

SD's scanner picked up the disturbance on the police frequency, Hitting his city map viewer he noticed he wasn't far from the scene.

Ducking down a few cross streets and allyways he made his way to a location close to the riot, Stashing his bike and climbing a near by building he checked out the devistation below.

The fur covered psychopath had destroyed most of the parking facility, Police cars had begun to turn up but it was clear that they wouldn't be much use agains this behemoth.

Firing his cable gun SD rappelled across the street to get a closer view of this new threat, Hopefully this one wouldn't dissapear in the middle of a fight.

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken made his way out of the cinema, ignoring the grumbles from the people he climbed over. As he ran into the foyer, someone shouted, "Look! It's Sedraiken!"
Instantly, everyone looked round and began to run towards him, yelling. "Can I have your autograph, Sedraiken?" "Will you sign my shirt?" "Sedraiken! We love you!" and even "I want your babies, Sedraiken!"
He looked around in panic as the screaming fans decended upon him, frantically searching for a way out. He ran towards the entrance, leaping over the heads of anyone in the way. Bursting out into the sunshine, he sprinted across the street and swarmed up onto a nearby roof, panting in relief at his narrow escape. Straightening up, he began running towards the place where he had first met Kwaku, on the grounds that it was as good a place as any to start searching.

OOC: Well, every superhero has to have a fan club, don't they?

[Whightwolf]

Synergy hauled himself to his feet. Spitting a mix of blood and phlegm out onto the rooftop. He had been just to slow in cushioning his fall, hell’s teeth he had to stop underestimating this guy.

“Shall we finish this rogue?” Synergy actually couldn’t think of words to describe his growing hatred. I mean seriously who says stuff like that? Really? I mean it just lacks decorum. Heroes nowadays…

Ahhh hell, he had a charity brunch in four hours. This asshole had completely wasted his night of fun and frolics at the cities expense. Ghostie is going to pay…. But not tonight, Synergy might be happy to blow the night away but that wasn’t the only part of his life. Time to leave.

Well if the guy wanted to play the part… why shouldn’t he. It would help the guy feel justified in his sad little life. Below him he could feel the power lines in the building. Thrumming through it like the nerves do in a mans body.

“Finish this I shall my ignorant friend. But not tonight, not tonight.” The temperature dropped across the rooftop, frost began to form across every surface. In the building below and the block around the lights went out as one by one the fuses blew with the juice he was draining through them. Poltergeist by now though was wise to what was happening. As soon as the temperature began to drop he was crossing the roof, cat quick.

But not quick enough. Synergy was up, up like a rocket, faster even than a rapidly lightening poltergeist could leap.

“Good night my translucent friend… but not good bye.” Laughing the villain surged into the sky, vanishing from sight.


OOC: does anyone have Syn’s profile? I’ve lost my copy

[Premonitions]

Poltergeist: "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!," The angry undead stood there fuming at the rapidly disapearing form, He walked over to he edge of the building and looked down, he dropped to the street and Jumped away to Isabelle's shop, He needed to focus on the bigger picture, not only had someone killed Isabelle, Someone wanted to kill her. this meant that someone wanted something of a magical nature, and magic like the things she possesed were far to powerful for him to let himself be consumed by rage.
Geurilla: someone landed behind him, He whirled around to see Shadow Dragon in a fighting stance, "Ohh, you're one of those No-power types? this'll be easy." he heaved a large chunk of the floor up and towards Shadow dragon

[Tarrin]

"Ohh, you're one of those No-power types? this'll be easy."

The road came up to meet SD, The beast who tore the huge chunk up however wasn't as fast as the Tenticaled abomination that he had faced earlier that night, Shadow Dragon rolled to the side and grimiced the ribs he had damaged earlier shot pain thru his body.

It was times like this that Shadow Dragon was glad to have a helmet to hide his features.
"Ooo youre a big one arn't you, and strong by the looks" Shadow dragon had to put the behemoth off it's game "Bet youre as dumb as a post too, With a face like that you probly had alot of time for study, What with the lack of dates". Shadow dragon was taunting the big guy, drawing him further and further away from where any innocent people could become a target.

Shadow Dragon kept himself ready to dodge as soon as the big nasty infront of him made a move.

[Bass]

Phoenix had known it was going to be one of those days; he had gone to the mall to buy some new shoes, his escapades over the last few months having taken their toll on his footwear. While he was there he had also decided to pick up a few other essentials and had been lugging several bags with him as he left the mall and was trudging across the car park when the Guerilla had decided to make an entrance.

Ah the dillema of herokind... Where do you dump your shopping when a bad guy shows up?

After a brief and futile scan of the area he sighed and simply dropped it as he ran for cover. From his rather poor hiding place behind a car he pulled out his equipment drawings and suited up. Thankfully by this time it looked another hero had shown up; he decided to watch for a while, it was clear Guerilla was very strong and had to be stopped before he caused too much damage. Inwardly Deuce sighed, he hated fighting other powered people.

As he watched he began to draw something he hoped would end the fight quickly; a large weight, although he stopped before he drew any numbers. He didn't know enough about the foe, to little weight wouldn't be effective, too much could kill him. Looks like I'm going to have to do some close up reconnasance first... Nuts...

He ran along behind a line of scattered cars to get closer; from what he could tell, the other hero was luring the beast away from the crowds, a good plan. He didn't know how well Guerilla would react to seeing two heroes infront of him, he may run away back into the crowds. He decided to play it safe, keeping his hand in the pocket where he kept his arsenal, he walked so that he was behind Guerilla so that was in place to 'change his mind' if he suddenly decided to turn and go back to where he could cause the most chaos.

[Tarrin]

"So what's your name anyway? King Kong? Monkey man?" Shadow Dragon continued to taunt the Hulkesk figure infront of him.

"I mean surely you've put some thought into a name." Sd continued his work "Oooo Hey i got it! You're the new NADS guy. With all that hair you'd be a shoe in" Shadow Dragon could see the rage building in his opponent.
He could also feel the darkness of night starting to envelop him, Just as he had hoped.

[Premonitions]

Geurilla: "Ohh, you think you're funny?" geurrilla ripped a sing post out of the ground and charged at him, pushing forward with his free hand and two feet. He roared loudly as he swung at SD with his newfound range "Laugh at THIS!!!!!

Poltergeist: Tracy soon landed at Isabelles store, but before he could enter he saw Sedraiken leap from one building to the roof of the shop. Poltergeist jumped tot he roof in an instant, startling the costumed hero. "what are you doing here?"

Kwaku: He found himself at the top of a tall building, many floors down he could see the street and it's inhabitants. Even with his recently aquired power, he still did'nt have enough to act on his plan, he needed to flush out some more victims.

He pulled a small box from his bag of tricks, on each side was a different symbol. He placed it down on the roof, a symbol with three horizontal lines facing up and pushed it down. Gusts of wind steadly shot out as it opened, the wind raced down the building, losing just enough of it's momentum to not draw attention, and hit the streets.

The alien evil grinned and pulled yet another trinket from his satchel. This one red and black in the shape of the fist. He paced it next to the wind box and tapped it lightly uttered some hused words and watched as a thick black smoke seeped out. the smoke got sucked into the streams of air and zoomed down the building, hitting the ground below and spreading out into a very fine mist.The people on the streets instantly began feeling it's effects, Their eyes glowed red and they began to throw themselves at one another, striking anything within range, their destrucition moving with the fog,picking up more members as it passed, slowly, a massive panic began to take hold of the city, with few left with the clarity of mind to run.

Back on the roof, Kwaku laughed heartily and leaned over the edge,

"Now, let's see what's on the menu"
he shot down the side of the building, and landed on his slithering arms. He looked around and sniffed the air, a maddened civilian came forward, and swung it's arms at Kwaku. The villian simply stepped out of the way and sniffed his assailant "Hmm, not you" kwaku punched the man in the stomach and threw him to the ground and moved on. He came to a woman, throwing bricks at passersby, he grabbed her and sniffed the air around her. "Not you." he threw her into a smal crowd that had begun to advance on him.

Kwaku calmly stroled down the alley until he sniffed the air and twitched his eyes "what is this?" he ranout into the street. Screaming and fighting was a teenage man of about sixteen, scrapping with an elderly gentle man on the ground. Kwaku quickly raced to pull them apart. Upon seperating them, he grabbed the old man by the shoulder andslamme dhim to the ground witha n audible crack. He held the trashing, foaming young man up by the legs and shot out seven tentacles, then wrapped around him and sloqly sucked the life comlpetely out of his body. Kwaku dropped the lifeless husk to the ground and continued his search, taking care to only reveal himself when he found suitable prey.

[Heliomance]

"What are you doing here?"
"Kwaku's back," Sedraiken replied. "If we leave him for too long, he'll get even more powerful. I just wish that some of the other had come - there's no way I can take him on my own."
He looked down at the rioting civvies on the street below. "Oh, shittake mushrooms," he muttered. "As if we didn't have enough to deal with. I bet that's his work."
Sure enough, as Sedraiken watched, he saw Kwaku pounce on a young man and drain his life from him. The people around seemed to panic, the primal instinct of fear managing to override even Kwaku's simulated rage. That gave him something of an idea. He began to whirl the staff in the air, hoping that Rhuvair had had enough time to recover. As the white glow faded into existence, he smiled in relief, grinning at the dragon as he came through.
"Rhuvair, Kwaku's done something to those people down there so they are trying to kill anything that moves. I'd rather not have to kill any of thm, so do you think you could fly down and panic them enough that they run away?"
The great beast nodded, and spread his wings. Launching off the rooftop, he swooped down on the roaring crowd below. As he picked one woman up by the shoulders and dumped her in an alleyway, Sedraiken heard the screams of terror coming up, and the crowd began to scatter.
"Oh smeg," he thought as something occured to him suddenly. "The papers are going to slam me for this!"

[Waylander]

By some wierd coincidence Mark had been teleported into a Mcdonalds in the food court of the Local Mall. He could hear shouts and screams coming from outside the mall in the parking lot. With unnatural speed he ran out of the Mcdonalds and out of the mall to see Shadow Dragon taunting some huge gorilla like guy. As Geurilla swung the signpost Mark quickly spun around him in a replica of the move he had used on Kwaku earlier binding his arms to his sides.

Turning his head back to normal he turned to Shadow Dragon. "hey whats happening? One minute i've immobilized that tentacle freak and suddenly im in the middle of Mcdonalds." Looking back at Geurilla "oh and do you wanna deal with this guy or should I?"

At that moment Geurilla roared and tore the shadow bindings releasing his arms.

"oh shit"

[Heliomance]

In his office, A.R. Fox, of the Daily Supreme, slammed a stack of photographs on his desk. Top of the pile was Rhuvair terrorising the civilians.
"I knew it! I knew he couldn't be trusted! Sedraiken is nothing more than a super-powered terrorist, just like all of these "heroes"." He called to his chief editor. "Pierre! PIERRE! I want these photos to be on the front page for the evening edition. Headline will be, SUPERHERO ATTACKS CITIZENS. Sub headline, WHO IS SAFE WHEN HEROES TURN BAD?
"Get our best reporter to write an article slamming Sedraiken, and get it out on the streets two minutes ago!"
He waited half a second, before exploding, "WELL? WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?"

[Tarrin]

The helm bought up a pitchure in pitchure screen showing the other hero, Shadow dragon didn't have time to aknowledge the other before His opponent attacked, Rolling out of the way SD vanished his invisibility kicking in.

Normally SD would have to stay completely still for his power to have it's best effect, Here in the dark however the teltail lines of movement were erased. His opponent was strong and agile but now SD was the hunter, Still he'd have to be careful not to get cocky.

[Premonitions]

Geurilla: The man in front of him dissapeared, but fortunately he had a weapon. He grabbed Dakeyras by the head and threw him to the last place he saw Shadow dragon, Dakeyras leg connected with SD's head and they sprawled on the ground. Geurrilla jumped up to the overhead supporting beams and swung from them until he was directly over Dakeyras and SD. He Hung upside down over his hapless victims. He flexed his legs and shot downward, ready to crash into the heroic pair...

Kwaku: lurking in the alleyways, lashing out when he could, kwaku had manged to find himself back where he had fought the previous heroes. It made sense a source of amgical artifacts would have a lot of magical traffic around it. Up above him, the dragon from before came back into the physical realm and scattered his prey. He did not want to fight now. He slunk back into the shadows and zigzagged his way back....

[Tarrin]

Dakeyras leg connected with SD's head, Thankfully the fact SD wore a helmet ment that he wasnt stunned, As the monkey man launched at him SD rolled to the side hopping that Dakeyras did the same.

Drawing his weapon SD thumbed the release switch and the head fired hitting his opponent, Smiling SD allowed the voltage contained within to surge into the target, It was a powerful burst if it didnt knockout Geurilla then hopefully he'd be stunned long enough to come up with a better plan.

[Bass]

Deuce had been distracted, it seemed that the screams of the running citizens had turned into angry howls. "What the..?" Looking back at the crowd he could see them tearing into eachother as though they were animals.

Suddenly a large clang brought his attention back to where it should have been. He spun round in time to see Geurilla propelling himself downwards into yet another superhero that had appeared. For then no apparent reason the Geurilla looked stunned. Not being one to waste an oppertunity, even such an odd one, Deuce pulled two fire cards from his pocket and ran towards the shadows where the fight had ended up. With all that hair he's got to be pretty flammable hasn't he? He thought as he hurled the cards toward the great beast where they ignited.

[Waylander]

Dakeyras had managed to avoid the lunge.

He was seriously not impressed by his use as a ballistic missile and rubbing his head he waited to see the result of SD's attack.

[Whightwolf]

Synergy landed on the balcony so hard, dust raised around his boots. Effects mostly, but it made him feel better. A fairly crappy day all in all. Coming home to his vast apartment atop Rome Towers, the head office and one of the concept development offices for Rome Corp barely made him feel better. He had long become used to material wealth and took it thoroughly for granted. By now money was just a way of keeping score.

Pushing open the tall patio doors into the great gothic apartment, he tossed his helm onto the sofa and unclipped his cloak just letting it fall in a sable pool onto the floor. The architecture was gothic and imposing like the rest of the Tower, but thick rugs had been tossed over the dark oak floor and tapestries and paintings hung to brighten the cold stone walls.

“Fire.” Alex spoke the word and the circular stone fire place burst into flames. Technology fuelling the blaze rather than his powers. “Television.” In one of the many alcoves surrounding the room a screen lowered and a projector mounted above the burnished copper chimney flickered into life.

“Today Alexander Kane, chairman and majority shareholder of Rome Corp announced yet another generous contribution too the well being of the city. His company will be starting extending an initiative for scholarships for under privileged students of a higher potential to the colleges they deserve. He gave an interview earlier today at a charity breakfast, raising funds for the city library.” The screen flashed to his smug smiling face.
“I just like to put something back you know? The city has been so good to be I feel like I owe it.” The sound of toadying laughter.

“Television off.” God he hated himself. Why someone hadn’t punched his smug grin clean off was beyond him. Still it was true, he always put back more than he took, always. Besides his charities were always Darwinian, scholarships for the smarter kids, building projects etc. Never just give the money away, they have to deserve it, if they earn it even better. That way Keynes really, if a man is unemployed don’t give him a bowl of soup and a blanket, give him a spade and pay him to dig and fill holes in the ground. He spends the money and the economy rolls on. They city deserved that much from him.

Why couldn’t he have proper powers. Dragging himself across to the liquor table he poured himself a scotch and took a cigar from the engraved mahogany box. An excellent piece, What could he create, all he did was more energy around. It made him feel, weak, dependant. Just like he was, his success built upon his fathers, nothing was ever really his.

Slouching back across to the low couch he slumped down.
“Lights off.” And stared into the dancing flames.

[Premonitions]

Geurilla:He could'nt explain it, but he was getting hot.. real hot... HE WAS ON FIRE!!! He ran around, swung from poles and finally spotted the fountain that was in the middle of every mall, not taking time to think, as if he ever did, he leaped into the water with a sizzle, a few seconds later he rose slowly out of the water, his fur singed and soaking. He uttered slowly and calmly to SD and Dakeyras "So.. who did that, huh? WHICH ONE OF YOU SPANDEX NERDS JUST DID THAT?!"

Poltergeist: He went down and looked around, There was a man laying down on the ground, feebly trying to get up, Poltergeist helped him struggle up. He looked in the mans eyes and felt something evil. He backed away. Tracy stuttered.. "wh-what-what are you?" The man shuddered and seemed to grow healthier in a second, He raced out into the street and when Poltergeist made it outside, he was gone. The man was nowhere to be seen.

Kwaku: It was that damn dragon again, this city was full of weak magic signals, he had'nt built up enough energy yet to fully battle it, But out there in front of him was one of the most powerful sources he'd sensed today, His predatory urges took over he shot out of hiding, if he could finish this one off now, he might be able to get rid of the dragon...

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken: Rhuvair and Sedraiken saw Kwaku emerge at the same time. Sedraiken yelled to Poltergeist to help, then leapt onto his dragon's back and the pair plummeted down towards the alien, Rhuvair screaming deafeningly, the cry echioning across the city, calling any heroes available to come and help.

Deuce: Deuce quickly ducked back into the crowd, pleased by the success of the fire. An idea struck him, and he quickly pulled out two blank cards and began sketching. On one card her drew a long coil of rope, on the other, a thin line - a tripwire. Finishing the drawings, he thought a moment, then added a steel girder to both pictures to make the results stronger. Tossing the cards at the Guerilla, he grinned as the creature was rapidly tied up, laughing aloud when it stumbled into the tripwire and fell over.

[Premonitions]

Geurilla: He Fell to the ground and struggled fiercely, but to no avail, the heros gathered around him. Geurilla kept struggling and finally wore himself out, He sighed heavil as he began to transform back. Mark looked up, "I'm in trouble are'nt I?"
Poltergeist: He heard Sedraiken call for him and looked back,, There emerging from the shadows, was Isabelle's murderer, he became filled with rage and charged forwards, Blades out, wailing his unearthly wail. He jumped into the air and crashed down , bladed first towards Kwaku. A tentacle snaked out and grabbe daroud his waist, Kwaku growled and threw The undead assailant towards Rhuvair above.

[Tarrin]

"Beep Beep" the tracer had activated and a split screen opened up in Sd's visor.
"Oh hell no" The beeo could only mean that the thing from the first encounter of the night was back, Pain shotup thru Sd's still sore ribs the pain killers finnaly wearing off.

"I'm sure you boys can handle this" Sd shot at the other heros as he ran to his graple and hit the retract shooting off into the darkness of the night.

[Heliomance]

Deuce heard Rhuvair's scream echoin across the city. Looking up, he frowned, and said, "I have one question. What the deuce was that?!"

Rhuvairr caught Kwaku a glancing blow onthe shoulder as he swooped down towards the monster, then shot upwards again, frantically trying to dodge the tentacles seeking him out, Sedraiken hitting away the ones that came too close.

[Premonitions]

Poltergeist: he went flying, through the air, He was able to soften hs landing, but it still Hurt a lot, He jumped Up and landed gently on Rhuvair. He lokoed over to Sedraiken"I don't like asking for help, But if I kep him busy-" He Held his arm up and popped out his blade"You take him out."
He jumped down, Spiraling in the air, and chopping the tentacles that came for him. He Flew straight down, his arms pointed directly at Kwaku...

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken nodded his understanding, saluting Poltergeist with his stave. Rhuvair came around behind the alien, and, as Poltergeist attacked, plummeted towards it in a power dive, jaws open, talons extended, aiming straight at Kwaku's back.

[Bass]

One of the other heroes had already departed and Deuce felt he should do the same; the local law enforcement was here anyway and though he doubted they could handle a giant monkey man, they shouldn't have to much trouble with his human form.

With his mind made up Deuce decided to concentrate on the latest in the long line of things that bothered him; that scream. It wasn't a human scream, but it was a scream and he was a hero. He began to turn and make his exit when he caught sight of all the shopping he had left behind. Sighing, he reached for his phone, he hated using his roommate like this but she was the only person who knew who he really was, having designed his costume and all. She wasn't in, as usual, so he left a message. "Hey, it's me. I left some shopping at the mall, could you pick it up for me... I think I'm going to be busy all day..."

With that out of the way he concentrated on finding the source of that inhuman scream. A task easier than he first thought, it doesn't take long to find a giant dragon and friends fighting tentacled monster even in a big city like Viridian; just go the other way from the screaming masses. Deuce sighed, giant gorilla men were barely in his league, how was he supposed to cope with this?

[Premonitions]

Poltergeist: He ducked and weaved, slashing at the tentacles that came for him, He smiled as he saw Rhuvair Swooping in behind Kwaku. "NOW YOU RECIEVE JUSTICE MURDERER!" He leaped out of the way as the speeding dragon crashed into the evil creature and latched onto him with it's mighty fangs. Kwaku Screame dout in pain as the pointed teeth dug into his flesh. HE stabebd at his attackers face with his claws in a primal fury. Rhuvair Shrekied out and let go of his prey, dropping to the earth below and crashing itno a parked sedan. Poltergeist landed next to the arriving Deuce. He looked up and down at the hero. "Hmm, they're all comingout tonight. Listen, can you, like shoot something, like fire or ice or lightning, cause I need one of those types to back me up now" He howled his terrifying howl and Dashed at Kwaku...

[Waylander]

Dakeyras decided that now the Geurilla had been dealt with it was time to find Kwaku and deal with him. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you looked at it it seemed like a fairly easy task to find Kwaku with the chaos that seemed to follow him wherever he went.

Spinning darkness around him Dakeyras sped towards the fierce battle intent upon stopping Kwaku once and for all.

[Bass]

It wasn't impossible for Deuce to shoot lightning but it wasn't his favourite thing to do; the backlash from the blast tended to ignite whatever he had drawn it on. However, when someone like Poltergeist asks you do do something, you don't exactly say no with such a pathetic reason as that.

Pulling three of the lightning cards from his pocket he maneuvered himself to where he would have the best shot; then he simply held the cards out and let go, he had done this once before and made the mistake of holding on to the cards, you could still see the burns if you looked closely. Before the cards had had enough time to even drop slightly toward the ground, electricity burst forth from each, arcing through the air toward Kwaku.

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken leapt off Rhuvair's back as the pair landed heavily. As the dragon lifted off the ground again for another pass at Kwaku, Sedraiken landed next to Deuce.
"Hitting that thing doesn't seem to be very effective. D'you think you could draw me some blades on this thing, so I do a bit more damage? I'd love ya forever."

[Premonitions]

He moved between Kwaku and Deuce, when the lightning clapped, he held his bladed arms straight out, pointing one at kwaku, and one at deuce, the electricity passed through his body with enough voltage to destroy his heart, thankfully, being struck by lightning was not a concern that greatly troubled the dead, he winced with the pain and growled as it left his body and struck Kwaku, the demon reeled back from the blast and snarled, attacking the stunned Poltergeist. He whipped out his slithering appendages and engulfed Tracy.

[Tarrin]

The beeping stoped in Sd's helm "Damn he's gone again" Shadowdragon cursed.
Turning his bike back to his nearest safehouse he sped along allyways till he was safe again. Sd showered and changed into some busness attire, Today he had a couple of trials, Coughing sd looked down at his hand, Blood lay on it.

"Guess i'll be visiting her before i do anything" Gasped the lawyer, Walking to the garage he slid into his jag and headed to get patched up before his day.

[Premonitions]

Poltergeist: They wrapped around his body, raining the energy out of him as they dug beneath his skin. He Pulled with all his might, trying to rip the slithering arms away from his body. He Suddenly he felt the grip loosen and the tentacles pull back. He barely had the energy to look up and see Kwaku shooting his wriggling arms ount into the enraged civilians. They shot into the heads of the humans around him and strted pumping inot them. The "innocent bystanders" began to grow and mutate, shifting their form and changing into horribly twisted creatures with long, pointed tails and tough hides. Kwaku chuckled and released them. He lifted himself up on his arms "You people have been in my business since I got here. I really need to get on with my plan for this little rock of yours"

[Heliomance]

((Hang on - I panicked all the civvies so they ran away))

[Bass]

Nobody is perfect, and nobody could be used as a better example of that than Deuce; in both his superhero work and his everyday life he finds himself easily distracted. So when Sedraiken presented him with the challenge of making his staff more deadly he forgot about Kwaku a little too easily. "You don't already? I'm hurt" He joked as he pulled out a pen.

His first thought naturally was to draw something on paper, but then of course he was making something for someone powered by dragons; flammable weapons were not a good idea. He settled on drawing on a lampost, he had thought of a manhole cover but decided against it; no one wants a blade that smells of sewer. It didn't take him that long, he drew a simple blade and then added a couple of details to make it look like a dragons head. Attatching it to the staff was even easier; draw a line to become a slit for the tang, and then draw a screwhead on the side of the staff which became a real one, holding everything in place. "Here...", he said trailing off as he handed the staff back, finally seeing what Kwaku had been, and still was, doing to Poltergeist and the few civillians who had been stupid enough to run when they had seen a giant dragon, and then later seen a large tentacled monster.

"Oh that's sick..." He commented as the mutated horde began their move towards them. This was every superhero's worst nightmare, having to hurt innocents to save the day; still he hoped that if he could take down the source that they would all return to normal. As such it was quite a shame that Kwaku was reared up on his tentacles and just slightly out of Deuces range, if only he could fly... Fly? He reached into his pocket and pulled out the wieght card he had prepared for the monkey back at the mall, shoving it and a pen toward Sedraiken "You owe me, and you've been fighting him for longer. Write a weight that you think will stop him, then get up there and drop it." He looked back at the approaching hoarde "I'll try and distract them..."

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken grinned, and vaulted onto Rhuvair's back. As the dragon took off, Sedraiken looked at the paper and shrugged, then wrote a one and filled the rest of the space inside the weight with zeroes, leaving just enough space to write the word "ton" at the end. As Rhuvair flew directly over Kwaku, Sedraiken dropped the paper, trusting in Deuce's power to do the rest.

[Bass]

Deuce looked up to see Sedraiken throw the card, it was up to him now; he concentrated on the picture, he liked to have them in his hand but it wasn't really a nesseccity, merely a convenience. He smiled as the weight on the card materialised and plummetted down towards Kwaku.

The smile was short lived though as Deuce suddenly fell to his knees, feeling slightly dizzy; woah... what weight did he pick? He wasn't too fond of generating to much matter at once, and that had been a lot of matter. Though the dizzyness never lasted long it did leave him trying to survive against a horde of mutated beings while at the same time waiting for his head to clear again; in a situation like that those few seconds could prove very unpleasant...

[Heliomance]

Sedraiken looked down at Deuce to give him a cheery wave, and saw him fall to his knees. Rhuvair dived down towards him, and the pair landed. Sedraiken pulled out his bladed staff, and was just about to start slicing mutated things in half, when he suddenly had a thought.
"Shards! They're civvies! can't kill 'em."
He reversed his staff and began laying about, tripping, knocking out, but trying to avoid doing permanent damage.