More Meteor Showers Bring Even Stranger Powers. (O/A)

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Freya effortlessly blocks Trinity's counterattack, and raises her arms in an X to block Trinity's push. As Trinity increases her distance, Freya swiftly reaches into her coat and throws three kunai knives at her.  

[PixelMuse]

Trinity knew she had to keep moving. She barely dodged all of the kunai knives. Freya's shadow shifted to a tar-like substance, she knew it wouldn't hold her long but perhaps long enough to address the question, "Where's Okami? Did they mess with her too?"  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Freya looked down at her feet, then back up at Trinity with the same dead expression. No words spoken, she steps out of the tar shadow like it was nothing more than shallow water.

Almost as if to mock Trinity's question, Freya takes a wide stance and places her hand together in a symbol. "Juujin bunshin."

Freya snarls at Trinity as her body begins it's transformation. Her calves and forearms becomes lined with black fur as her nails become claws. Her fangs grow as her gaze becomes wild. The change in her eyes is short lived, however, as they return to the same dead gaze she had been looking at her with.

She springs from the ground and swipes at Trinity with both hands.  

[PixelMuse]

Flashback

A great man once said that in a fight the body must be like water: lucid and free flowing one moment, then striking down in a raging torrent the next.

Trinity managed to dodge the swipes she drops down landing on her hand and kicks at her ankles. Then she brings her toes up aiming for her chin then she tries punching at her chest then follow that move with an elbow to her stomach. These people are depending on her to win, she can't lose now. Even if it is her sensei.  

[Natsa]

"Ah...you mustn't..!" But by the time he had managed to find the voice to speak Theonis had been gone, he had extended his arm to no one. Stepping off the bed is when he realized how exhausted he had truely become, falling to his kneesm teh dark eyes widening in a sense of confusion and misunderstanding. "...?!" It was a moment before he refused to fight against his physical limits, the dark eyes looking over towards the twenty year old who still seemed to be napping. "...Orion." The boy called out, half hoping that he wouldn't open his eyes when the name was heard, unfortunately that isn't how things played out.

The red eye abruptly opened when he heard his name be called, looking around the room he pushed himself up and slowly walked over to the one who couldn't physically stand. "So he bailed...?" Orion said quietly as he suddenly picked the boy up and placted him along his shoulders. "Well...That's his loss, let's get out of here eh?" Orion said with a light shrug as he felt the sibling place the palms of his hands along the fiery red hair. What an ill mannered man.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

PixelMuse

Trinity managed to dodge the swipes she drops down landing on her hand and kicks at her ankles. Then she brings her toes up aiming for her chin then she tries punching at her chest then follow that move with an elbow to her stomach. These people are depending on her to win, she can't lose now. Even if it is her sensei.

Freya's anticipates and dodges Trinity's attacks, catching the elbow with her hand and pushing her back. Though her mind is no longer under her control, she seems to have retained her skill. Freya raises her hands again makes a sign with it. "Kagekiri no mai."

Freya's shadow splits and spins around her in a morosely beautiful fashion. She spins and maneuvers with them, almost as though she were dancing within the shadow blades.

Elsewhere the soldiers continue their search. They arrive at the center of the safe house, at the tree known as Matron. They wonder why they haven't found more people. They then don NVG's to start searching the walls.  

[PixelMuse]

When Trinity saw she brought out her blades she brought out hers. It was her glaive, made of titanium and design based on what her ancestor weilded. She could have light channel through the thing and when that is used directly on a shadow in use it would disrupt it or disperse it. She also hopped it would help to snap out of it. The moment came she blocked a few but there was a cut on her cheek her left shoulder and her right side. When she managed to hold up her glaive, "Freya stop! You are going to regret what you did when you wake up!". She turned the light on which made her weapon glow cutting the shadow blades in half. She backed off knowing she'd shift gears and shape them into kunai knives to swipe with. The glaive's light turned off.  

[mc2]

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"Lead the way then," John said, turning he said goodbye to the lab assistant, "Bye Alice. See you later." Dr. Berchant sighed, no, no John wasn't going to see Alice again. Not if Shane Morris had a say in the matter.

Shane notices the way Alice and John look at each other. Pity, he thinks, but they sealed their fate when they started doing research for these monsters.

Shane nods to John as he walks past him to follow Dr. Berchant. He can almost feel Annie's potential feelings in this matter. That Shane is killing another innocent human. Then again, this was to get her son back. Shane feels that she may actually be alright with this.

Shane adjusts Annie's position on his shoulder to make it a bit easier for her to breath, and then follows the two scientists.

"I can't believe you are letting someone else touch your pet," John laughed following Dr. Berchant.

"I've trusted you to raise my son, why wouldn't I trust you with dealing with his mother?" Dr. Berchant asked coldly.

"I don't know," John said. "You've always seemed pretty possessive over her that is all. Some of the students joke you're obsessed with Soulsmith as more than a lab rat." Dr. Berchant stopped and glared at John with his blue eyes, he was really beginning to feel less and less guilt about leading John to his death. John shrugged, "I never really bothered analyzing your two relationship, personally. After all, I figured you two hated each other."

"We do more or less," replied Dr. Berchant reaching the garage. "Annabella has far too many bad personality traits to make her a likable person. She's a murderer. And of course, she's a metahuman. Nothing to like about her besides her usefulness as a lab specimen."

John nodded, to him how often Dr. Berchant badmouthed Annabella Soulsmith was suspicious, but he wasn't stupid enough to say that aloud to Dr. Berchant. Dr. Berchant exchanged a few words with a guard and received a pair of keys and walked to an armored truck, which he unlocked.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

PixelMuse

When Trinity saw she brought out her blades she brought out hers. It was her glaive, made of titanium and design based on what her ancestor weilded. She could have light channel through the thing and when that is used directly on a shadow in use it would disrupt it or disperse it. She also hopped it would help to snap out of it. The moment came she blocked a few but there was a cut on her cheek her left shoulder and her right side. When she managed to hold up her glaive, "Freya stop! You are going to regret what you did when you wake up!". She turned the light on which made her weapon glow cutting the shadow blades in half. She backed off knowing she'd shift gears and shape them into kunai knives to swipe with. The glaive's light turned off.

Trinity's assessment of Freya's tactics are correct. When she notices her shadows being slide in half by the glaive, Freya starts punching the flying pieces of shadows and launching them at Trinity's like knives.

She then rears her fist back and throws it forward while making her shadow travel along it. The shadow fist starts to come out when the ground beneath them begins to shake, disrupting her shadow.

The soldiers around the tree look around at what could possibly be making so much noise. They should be paying attention to Matron.

The children huddled in front of the monitors gasp in awe, "Matron...the stories are true."

A few of the soldiers spin around as they hear the wood begin to crack. The bark on the trunk starts to twist and open, creating a horrifying maw crying from the depths of Hell. The roots tear from the ground and thrash around it, crushing several of the soldiers. The survivors start to open fire, but are met by the tree's heavy branches smashing them against the floor.

The soldiers that had broken off from the group earlier, to look for hidden doors, hear the gunfire and screams. They level their weapons as Ivy begins to slither it's way from the center of the safe house at a unbelievably quick rate. They open fire on the flora, only to end up tangled and crushed by the devilish plants.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

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"I can't believe you are letting someone else touch your pet," John laughed following Dr. Berchant.

"I've trusted you to raise my son, why wouldn't I trust you with dealing with his mother?" Dr. Berchant asked coldly.

"I don't know," John said. "You've always seemed pretty possessive over her that is all. Some of the students joke you're obsessed with Soulsmith as more than a lab rat." Dr. Berchant stopped and glared at John with his blue eyes, he was really beginning to feel less and less guilt about leading John to his death. John shrugged, "I never really bothered analyzing your two relationship, personally. After all, I figured you two hated each other."

"We do more or less," replied Dr. Berchant reaching the garage. "Annabella has far too many bad personality traits to make her a likable person. She's a murderer. And of course, she's a metahuman. Nothing to like about her besides her usefulness as a lab specimen."

John nodded, to him how often Dr. Berchant badmouthed Annabella Soulsmith was suspicious, but he wasn't stupid enough to say that aloud to Dr. Berchant. Dr. Berchant exchanged a few words with a guard and received a pair of keys and walked to an armored truck, which he unlocked.

Shane quietly apologizes to Annie before flopping her into one of the restraining seats in the back roughly. He peeks his head out the back and motions toward John. He acts as though he is waiting for Dr. Berchant to be out of ear shot. "Pssst, hey kid. She's completely out...you want a free feel before we go?"  

[mc2]

Annie would have growled or made some sarcastic comment if she wasn't playing unconscious at Shane's offer to let John feel her up. Honestly, couldn't Shane have thought of a better reason to attract John to the back?

Meanwhile John looked surprised at Shane and considered the offer briefly before saying, "Nah... but I'd love a good look at her. A metahuman that can change their body into any type of liquid they want: pretty unique, eh?" Smiling he climbed into the back of the truck to get a better look at Annie who was lying "unconscious" in one of the restraining seats.

"Everyone says her son looks just like Dr. Berchant but I sort of see the resemblance of him to her too," John said, pushing some of Annie's auburn hair out of her face. John looked at her much like a kid looked at an ant that he was about to fry in the sun- with a sick scientific hunger.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

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Annie would have growled or made some sarcastic comment if she wasn't playing unconscious at Shane's offer to let John feel her up. Honestly, couldn't Shane have thought of a better reason to attract John to the back?

Meanwhile John looked surprised at Shane and considered the offer briefly before saying, "Nah... but I'd love a good look at her. A metahuman that can change their body into any type of liquid they want: pretty unique, eh?" Smiling he climbed into the back of the truck to get a better look at Annie who was lying "unconscious" in one of the restraining seats.

"Everyone says her son looks just like Dr. Berchant but I sort of see the resemblance of him to her too," John said, pushing some of Annie's auburn hair out of her face. John looked at her much like a kid looked at an ant that he was about to fry in the sun- with a sick scientific hunger.

Shane closes the door behind him and turns toward John. With one swift motion he pounces on the man and places his hands over John's throat and neck. The palm over John's throat produces a small blade that slices his throat open. Even before the blood can start to flow the consumption process begins. As John is devoured by Shane's biomass Shane takes one step forward and stand in the place the unfortunate man was just standing, while changing his shape to match his latest victim.

A few seconds and it's all over. Shane undoes the straps holding Annie down and asks, "Would you like to hit me now or later for suggesting he come in here and cop a feel?" He says this with a playful grin, which seems strange because it isn't his face.  

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"I'd rather do so when you aren't expecting it," Annie replied coldly, brushing her hair over her shoulder. "A slap has more impact that way, but seriously... 'you want a free feel before we go'? And what if he said yes? You know I do have some dignity left."

The truck began to rumble as it turned on and a speaker turned on, "I see Annabella is no longer playing opossum. So I assume everything went well on your end. I'll be heading to HQ now, it will take a few hours to drive there..."

"You better not try to double cross us now, Berchant," Annie replied.

"I wouldn't dream of it," muttered Dr. Berchant. "After all this vehicle isn't sealed shut even if Shane can't end up in the front seat easily you can..."

"Exactly," Annie said.

"Anyhow," Dr. Berchant said beginning to drive the vehicle out of the garage, "I won't bother you two anymore on the speaker phone until we get to HQ..."

"How polite," Annie said sarcastically as the speaker phone linking the front and back of the armored truck turned off. She leaned back in the restraining seat her arms crossed and she inspected her nails a mix of annoyance and boredom on her face. She was so close to getting her son back and Shane was close to getting Gidget's body back, but she still didn't trust Dr. Berchant to keep his word about helping them. And working with Dr. Berchant gave her a sour feeling in her stomach.  

[JewJewBeans]

Rikki Tikki Travi

Gidget started thinking for a moment when Tom looked up at her and started tugging on her shirt. "Oh, right yea. Thanks Tom, you can leave now,"

The young boy replaces the bandanna covering his third eye and regards Tansy with a bow before taking his leave.

Gidget watches him go and then returns her attention to Tansy. "In the vision I saw he was wearing a priest's robes. Where were you when you saw him. or do you remember?"

Tansy sighed as she close her eyes and tried to think back to the day that it all happened. She frowned slightly as she spoke. "I went to a chruch... An older one, all run down. It looked abandoned and I was sure no one would be inside, but I wasn't alone. I didn't get to see the man's face... but I know his voice." She opene her eyes a looked to Gigdet. "He told me he could help make all my problems go away. I didn't think he meant to do so by locking me inside of my own head." She scoffed softly.