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High Seas Mods ([personal profile] highseasmods) wrote in [community profile] high_seas2014-01-24 12:35 am

To go with your crew...



Who: Everyone who is fighting in the battle to kill the witch.
Where: The Black Fortress in the East
When: Jan 24th-25th
What: The grand battle to get back what you have lost, get revenge for what was taken, and avert disaster.
Warnings: Language. Death. Victory. Defeat. True love. Miracles.
Style: Text or prose
Status: Open to all



The black fortress ripples with shimmering iridescent energy, the piles of black coral heaped on roped together barges around it, bobbing in the waves. On the largest barge stands a slender man with a copper belt, wearing a face mask, orange red hair flecked with black from ash or dust. As the dawn slowly folds over the ocean, he'll look up, as if hearing some hidden voice.

At the top of the fortress, a figure climbs into vision, a woman, dressed in gray, features obscured by a hood with impenetrable darkness behind it. She staggers a moment as if she is weary, then straightens to her full height. As she speaks, her voice comes out of the journals, echoing over the water, low but clear.

"This is no small task ye do. She that rots within'll do anythin' ta stop ye. Don't hesitate to kill what ye find. If they were human once, they hain't no more. Watch out for her golems, too, or they'll drain ye dry quicker'n a wink. But if ye can get rid of 'em, it'll weaken her." She hesitates, cants her head to the side. "And if ye lot aren't as much of a bunch'a idiots as usual, ye might come out alive through this."

That said, she raises her hands. After a moment so does the man on the barge. For a moment, nothing seems to happen and then iridescent light shimmers over the coral, seeming to match that which surrounds the fortress. It crackles and dances like a fire, and then without warning bursts into a furious life, slamming against the energy of the fortress. There is the sound like thunder and light snaps and crackles, zipping with energy. Then with a woosh the light flies upward, taking the figure with it. The man on the barge lets out a cry like a seagull and dives into the water as if intending to swim after her.

For the boats that remain, a part of the fortress will crumble away into the sea, revealing a small harbor and an open doorway. Enter all ye who dare.


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[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2014-01-25 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
*At this moment, Selphie's reactions are unpredictable. Even she doesn't know what she wants - while a strong part of her just wants to be held and told that everything is okay, another part of her wants him to leave her behind, because she isn't worth his time, energy, or emotions. The longer she sits here, the more she wonders if she just imagined what he said before he killed her, both of them. While the kiss and the way he spoke to her before suggest that it was real, now she isn't so sure.

His scream is met with one of her own, and she curls up tightly, hiding in a ball for protection from a punch which she expected to land on her. Selphie is trembling in fear when she looks at his face, all the more scared that she can't see his eyes. She speaks up with a quiet tremble, her lips almost close enough to brush against his*

Do what you want with me Ikki... I don't care anymore. Just do...whatever you want.
uccellodifuoco: How could he just forsake us? (004 - This is life that's so thankless)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2014-01-25 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Good.

[His tone is heavy and dark, but he's honest. It's good that she thinks that way because he's done caring for what she wants. Right now at least, he's totally done with it.]

Because doing whatever I want with you is exactly what I'm going to do. And if you don't like it, that's too bad.

[There's almost a promise there, of how she won't like it but it's just Ikki's pessimistic sense speaking, sure as he is that sooner or later she will really regret ever getting involved with him. He leans forward and kisses her again, just like before but in a more demanding way, it's not a long kiss though.]

I love you, Selphie. And you're mine, not that witch's or anyone else's, mine. So you're going to come with me, and I'm going to find her and kill her. And that's final.
booyaka_boom: (Sad Selphie)

[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2014-01-25 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
*The tone of his voice causes Selphie to lower her eyes, too afraid to look up at him now, in case she catches a glimpse in his expression of how he's feeling, and of how he's feeling about her. The way he says it, she's sure it's nothing good, and maybe he's realised that he's wasting his time with her, when he could be rescuing someone else.

But that kiss takes her breath away, literally too, and it catches her by surprise, though only in a very good way. Then he repeats the words she was sure she heard him say before, and she knows she didn't make it up. In a far better mood, Selphie might have teased him about his possessiveness, but right there all she wanted was to feel wanted, like she belongs somewhere. Her answer comes first with a deep kiss of her own, her hands reaching out to him, ready to go wherever they needed to go. Holding herself to him, she whispers by his ear*

I love you too, Ikki...

...now let's go.
uccellodifuoco: Weaken and save me (011 - So take me and make me)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2014-01-25 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sighs, satisfied with her answer, before he moves to stand up, pulling her with him. He looks at her again, noting that she's not in the condition to fight and nods to himself.]

Stay close, and I will protect you.

[With that he starts moving, one hand occupied by holding her wrist to make sure she follows.]
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[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2014-01-25 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
*Having been sitting curled up for weeks, Selphie is still wobbly on her legs, stumbling into Ikki and away from him again, even as he holds her wrist. She winces slightly when he first takes it, as she took out a lot of her frustration by scratching hard at her wrists with her nails, so the skin is red and raw, even with some cuts that were healing. She follows alongside him, as carefully as she can, knees buckling every now and then*

But if I get in the way...just go without me.
uccellodifuoco: Keeps saying the same thing (012 - This hate that you gave me)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2014-01-25 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[He doesn't even turn to look at her as he answers. They already stated that he would do whatever he wanted, not what she wanted.]
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[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2014-01-25 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
*And so she says nothing else, just dutifully following Ikki along, her thoughts slipping in and out of consciousness. As far as she was concerned, she wasn't really here anymore*