"As you say.. er, Kwok's not gonna find us if we hide *too* well. Could be a problem. Ah, well. He can take care of himself. I hope."
Carthrat moves to find his own hiding spot, as close as possible to Priss's without being in it..
Ladyhawke peers ahead to see if she can find either an advanced area of shelter or see what's going on.
The pathway didn't seem off at all to Doujima. A bit dusty perhaps and cool, but nothing menacing.
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no you don't detect magic
To Yokoshima:
The girl turned, smiling beauticiously, "Oh that's not necessary."
Examining the area he noticed paper thin areas without any dust along the walls, ceilings and floors. But with his eyes alone he couldn't tell much more than that.
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As Kwok stealthy snuck along, low to the ground and hiding from the sights of the rogue soldiers...he heard a 'crunch' beneath his foot...
"Who goes there!"
Four guns were trained on his position.
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To G:
"Certainly, sir. It's twenty five coin for a day ticket. Thirty for the tour that starts in about an hour."
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Ladyhawke dashed towards the nearest alley, getting out of the way as the fighting spilled out into their view, the front of a store getting blasted with a tossed grenade as the rebels made their way onto the main street.
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Shinichi scanned the surroundings with infra-red, trying to see whether there were any openings or hidden panels to indicate a trap, like Genma said.
Shinichi couldn't detect any sources of heat that may indicate a trap.
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Shinichi decided to try and use the magnifying feature of his glasses to examine the passage before him for anything that might indicate a trap, like thin fractions which could be the result of two rock brought very closely together artificially. He's use night vision at need, and inspect the walls and ceiling next, unless he finds something suspicious. If he does find anything of the sort, he would try to spend more time examining it from his spot, before continuing the examination.
At the very close zoom examination, Shinichi saw what Genma had earlier, slight apparent slits in the rock running up and down all along the tunnel.
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"Wait here," Genma advised.
Walking back up and outside, Genma looked around for anything that seemed it might weigh 25kg at least.
Well, there was some bonsai trees as well as some of the rocks scattered about in classic feng shu(sp) style to provide a relaxing traditional Japanese environment.
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Genma took a closer look at the rocks while counting them.
Yokoshima felt a blush surface as he caught her smile.
"N-no, I insist..." he persisted. "I don't feel right if I don't..."
In view there was at least thirty or so that he estimated he could lift.
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"Well, um, Okay..." The young woman responded.
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"So, umm..." Yokoshima said, fidgeting. "What can I do?"
Hefting a pair of good sized rocks, Genma walked back down into the basement.
"You might want to wait outside while I trigger the trap."
"I want to see if we can call out the monster," she said to Genma.
Speaking in almost a shout, she talks towards the darkness, believing the monstor snoring couldn't resist such a wonderful idea as she was about to unfold.
"Hey Guys, have you read my new fic, it's so cooool. Jared 'skysaber' Ornestead is warped into Ranma's body. He then proceeds to go to Juban and kill those nasty outers slowly and painfully while convincing the others how right he is - they are marxist communists, and therefor follw Darwin and believe in their own greatness. The inners see the light and bow down and worship him, much sex is had as Jim bader writes the lemons scenes for me with all five inners and Ranma-chan. Nabiki finds out, tries to extort money, but Jared... I mean Ranma is too good for that and he convinces her to join the orgy as the lave for his desires."
She takes a breath, eyeing the room for the monsters entrance before continuing, "Does that sound excellent or what!"
The young woman's eyebrow twitched for a moment at the idiocy of the man before her.
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Carthrat dodged behind a car as the explosion occured in open view... the rioters charging out.
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"What the..." Ladyhawke hissed in obivious startlement, reflectively reaching for her gun, then cursing under her breath as she realized she no longer had it.
Looking about in the fury and the rage, she spotted Carthrat ducked behind a car maybe five feet away.
"Hey!" She hissed, as loudly as she dared to avoid catching the rebels attention. "Here's an equation for you! Rebels + CT = Black Moon... CT + BM + *Us* = We gotta get our asses OUT of here before Serenity sends us off to the Dark Side!"
With that she started looking for a good way of getting out without getting spoted. Or failing that, doing a really good job of convincing any appearing senshi that she was on THEIR side... @_@
Flying down from above, golden rays of light could be seen, spearing through a few of the rebels with deadly effect....
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Yokoshima sweatdropped as he caught Alice's eyebrow twitching. He's seen that kind of twitch before... usually just before Mikami beats him to a bloody pulp.
"Umm... I just remembered that, err... I gotta go, Alice... so see ya! Thanks and stuff!"
He ran out of the store.
After her short speech, she listened for the monsters breathing while forming a shield in front of her while backing up towards the stairs, alert for any changes in the room appearance or sounds she heard.
G winced we he hear he had to paid for admision , looking at the guard for a sec he considered his options and choose a course of action.
"Ah my good man I fear you're mistaken, I'm not here to partake in the wonders that is the history of our ancestors, I merelly wanted to make some research about our city and perhaps make a small donation from my own collections of rare antiques to this fine institution."
Waiting for the response of the guard, he pepared his scan spell to look for any hidden cameras or people around, if there is no one he will knock the guard out.
Genma shook his head as Doujima shouted into the darkness, leaping backwards to flee quickly. Shinichi hardly a step behind him as the thunderous roar traversed the cavern. Doujima quickly found herself alone as she moved backwards... A wave of heat impacting her before the storm... the last thing she saw was simply white light traveling towards her, the cavern seeming to twist and distort as it came blindingly fast at her.
As Genma and Shinichi dove for saftey, a column of superheated plasma blasted forth, tearing out of the tunnel... Genma's felt a searing pain as he landed, his back burned by the blast. Shinichi landed in a crouch, barely managing to shield his face as the blast gave him a painful sunburn over most his flesh.
Slowly the column fell back down... the whole cavern still feeling quite warm though.
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Yokoshima bumped into another man as he hustled out, "Hey watch it."
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"Oh? You would have to talk to the curator regarding that. I don't handle such. And if you wanted to research the city, then you should have gone to a library," The guard responded caustily.
G found it took him little time to prepare to cast the simple spell as the guard looked curiously at him.
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Yokoshima bowed profusely.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
The brown haired man blinked, "Um, Okay...it's fine dude. Just don't do it again."
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"Okay, I won't..." Yokoshima nodded absently, and began to walk away and back to his original goal, that being the palace.
Ladyhawke nodded carefully to show she understood what Carthrat was getting at, then slowly rose to a sort of stooped running position and started moving in the same general direction as Carthrat.
As she moved, she casually unhooked the 'peace guards' holding her saber and hawk locked down on her belt making it possible to tear the weapons from their resting place at a moment's notices, possible even less. Her eyes darted about looking for a GOOD target upon whom to inflict as much pain as she could achieve upon short notice...
OOC: It's LADYHAWKE, Rat! NOT Priss! >_<
Shinichi looked around for any new signs of danger or someone else nearby besides Genma. If there's nothing of the kind, he'd try to move to the side of the door and then treat himself with his first aid kit. (Shinichi would try to minimize his movements and avoid any sharp turns/moves, unless there's immediate danger)
" oh you migth be ritgh if you would please tell me where I migth find this curator?"
G used his spell while the guard answered his question.
The gunfire glanced over him, a shot taking kwok in the arm as he fled, but surprisingly missing being a fatal shot as he scurried away, the gunmen turning to the cries of chaos and pain down where Sailor Venus was making her appearance...
"For those who seek to destroy fashion malls, hindering young girls from attaining the true joy of mall hunting, I shall punish you in the name of Venus!"
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A target immediately made itself aware to their eyes as a young man with wavy brown hair leapt upon a broken car, cigar at the side of his mouth with a bishounen face. Dressed in black leathers he smirked as he spit his cigar out, crouching slightly and revealing a personal missile launcher, as Carthrat recognized, in his hands. A missile blasted into the gloating Sailor Venus moments later, sending her careening from view as the man smirked.
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Why yes, G does find some hidden cameras about. Two of them in fact. The man also suddenly frowns and turns to run back as the alarms sound, three burly guards coming out of a side room behind the counter. "Sir, we'd like you to come with us."
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Genma winced as he got up and looked around. Pulling off his backpack, he bit off an oath as his injuries made themselves known.
Attempting to ignore the pain for the time being, he examined the backpack and was relieved to find it only a bit singed and the contents unharmed.
Pulling out his first-aid kit, he set about treating his burns while keeping an eye and ear on his surroundings.
Both Shinichi and Genma find themselves alone in the silence after the explosive outcoming. Slowly they were able to use their respective medical supplies to recovered. Though a bit shaken from the loss of a comrade, they were both easily fit to proceed.
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'A... rocket launcher... great' Ladyhawke couldn't help but think wryly as she flashed a few hand signals to Carthrat to convay her intentions before beginning to move.
She eased her saber from its sheath and settled her hawk in her opposite hand, thanking the heavens above that she had trained so long to be as accurate with her off hand as her strong hand with the hawk. She began slipping towards the rebel leader, trying to blend into the crowd as she did.
As Priss did so, one of the guys she passed turned and looked at her, "Hey you, gimme a hand here with this."
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Ladyhawke grimace but did the only thing she could think of.
"Eh? Wit wot?"
She turned a dim-witted face to the one who'd hailed her.
"Gimme a hand flipping over this car for a barricade. Common..." The man lowered to lift the car up with a couple of others that he gestured to.
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"Eh? Shite! Elron's callin' me again! Can't he do anything on his own?"
And with an expression of clumsy frustration and an air of the half-witted firmly held about her, Ladyhawke dives back into the crowd... and towards the leader again.
Amidst the chaos, Carthrat sights the leader-type person, draws his gun, and fires a shot aimed at the guys head, taking that extra half-second to make sure he dosn't hit the wrong guy..
The unnamed man went down, a bullet in his head, gurgling blood as he collapsed on the car. Shouts promptly went out as people turned around looking for the culprit, "Someone shot sarge!"
Meanwhile a shadow seemed to start to cover the street...
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It seemed prudent to put away his gun and roll behind cover again, so that's what Carthrat did.
Then, he looked UP.
And he was not alone in this, as many of them turned from looking for him to the oddly darkening sky as a truly massive ship floated over the city...
And then, just to make things all happy, it began to rain as well...
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Kwok yelped, clutching his wounded arm diving for whatever spot seemed the best for someone to crawl and hide in.
He gave a quick look for Carthrat and the other chick as he ran..
Stumbling into an alleyway, Kwok managed to get at least momentarily out of view as the rain fell around him.
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Yokoshima travelled along the road, never noticing a figure, dashing valiently across the rooftops at he sneaked across the heavens.
Waiting patiently.
Watching the latest of his targets. His wife said he was quite strange for this. But he could not help it. It was all he could do for entertainment these eons of ~peace~.
As the rain began to fall... Yokoshima felt a presence landing behind him with fluid grace... A slight 'thud' as the feet echoed against the ground...
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'Carthrat...' Ladyhawke thought to herself as she heard the shot and sall the man fall... sarge by the sound of it.
'And if he was only a sargent'... Ladyhawke's eyes widened with the thought, "there has to be some one ELSE in charge!" the last was said out loud, though she did manage to keep it below a whisper.
Snagging the nearest person and putting on her best 'I outrank you so much that'd you'd die of old age before you ever catch up with me' look as she did, she barked out. "Sarge is down! Where's the Captain?!"
'Hopefully the follow a military hiearchy... if not...' She frowned. "Where the hell is Wiseman NOW!?" she muttered, fully aware that the person in her grasp could hear her.
"What the fuck, Your Wack! Get the fuck away from me you nut..." The guy raised his pistol.
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"I don't have time for fools." Ladyhawke growled, drawing her saber sharply across the man's throat, having put her hawk back into her belt when she saw her target fall.
'Step the second, get the hell out of here!' she thought to herself, barely having the presence of mind to catch up a fallen weapon as she glanced around for Carthrat and prepared to clear to his locale.
"Hey, She killed George... get her!" Three guys leapt at her in anger, bringing her to the ground from the sheer weight.
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Genma stowed his first-aid kit and shouldered his pack.
Turning, he examined the house, walking around it looking for, and making note of, any windows, doors, or opening potentially large enough for someone to enter or exit.
While there weren't any on the first floor, Genma's keen eye espied a window that, while he couldn't fit through, his thiner companion shouldn't have any problems with on the second floor. It was unfortunately closed.
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Shinichi decided to continue his initial sweep of the area, proceeding cautiously until he found signs of life/danger/traps, or until he returned to the front door. Also, he activated the sensor grid and checked the location of the three badges not on him (the one near the bound girl, the one Doujima had and the one in Genma's possession), whether they were still working and any strange sounds that they may have been picking up.
Shinichi gradually made his way back to the front door without disturbance. Of the badges, he detected two were still functioning, a soft whimper being picked up by the one left near the bound girl, and the sound of genma's breathing being picked up by the one he carried.
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"What next?" Shinichi asked Genma over the radio. In the meanwhile, he examined the front door for any traps he could find.
Shinichi examined the door, but was unable to notice any distinguishable traps on the exterior of the door.
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"Just a moment." Genma stated while looking at the wall around and below the window, determining how difficult it would be to climb.
Pretty difficult unless they got something to climb upon. Not like there were many handhelds to grab on a flat wall.
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Yokoshima whirled around to face whoever it was that landed behind him.
"W-what is it?"
Turning around, Yokoshima found himself looking up into the masked gaze of an imposing young man. Dressed in a formal tuxedo he slowly patted his cane in a suggestive manner. "You know, it's dangerous for a pretty boy to be traveling alone..."
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OOC: Gay Chibi-Tux-boy? 0_o
IC: "I'm... uh... not alone," Yokoshima offered. "I'm going to see my friends right now, actually."
It began to grow dark overhead as it slowly started to rain...
"Now, now, It wouldn't be right if I didn't look after a dear citizen..." He wrapped his arm around Yokoshima's shoulder.
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Yokoshima sweatdropped.
"Oh, look, it's raining..." he pointed to the sky. "I better go and, uh... meet my friends... thanks for the offer, but I gotta go!"
With that said, he tried to run away from the young man.
By now though, the man had a firm grip, and pulled Yokoshima close to his chest, wrapping a cloak around the younger boy. "Now now, I said I'd help you out..."
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Carthrat starts to move towards the buildings themselves, searching for some kind of vantage point. He puts away his gun but leaves a hand in his cloak for fast-drawing purposes, and makes sure to keep down and move through cover..
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Meanwhile, Kwok continues to hide, watching what happens..
looking at each of the men addresing him G smirked at them.
"I'm sorry but my Mama told me not to go with strangers"
that said G charged his legs with ki He jumped over them, reaching in mid air for his katana that was safetly straped to his back and slashed at the middle man downward.
his mind working furiously to determine his next move he brough the blade down on the poor man head....
The blade opened the skull of the first man as the other two lifted taser rods, jabbing them surrounded G and letting loose with muscle relaxing magic that drained him quickly of his ability to move.
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Frowing as he felt his muscles grow tired, G focused in his magic reserve and casted his own protective magic barrier, trying to stop wathever magic they where trying to do with him before it takes full effect.
And G found himself vastly outgunned in the area of magic countering as the silver millenium magic continued to drain him. Moments later he found his eyes closing weakly as a blow to the back of the head rendered him unconscious.
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"Eep!" Yokoshima eeped. He had goosebumps all over. He wasn't into men, dammit!
But that probably wasn't the best thing to say, the young man seemed to have a presence to him.
"Then can we, uh... move faster? I need to find my friends, they're probably... worried about me or something..." he said as he continued to try to untangle himself.
Carthrat noted windows in the higher floors. If he found his way inside, they would probably provide a higher vantage point to view the situation from. Otherwise there was always the alley they'd been hiding in earlier to hide in away from the crowd...
He lost sight of Ladyhawke as she went down in the crowd.
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"Certainly..." The young man responded playfully, pulling Yokoshima gently along as they walked down the street, guiding him away from the lights towards an alleyway.
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Yokoshima tried to shake the young man's hand off him.
"Not that way!" he said, then pointed towards his previous direction. "I need to go that way!"
The man paused, appearing to think before smiling widely and leading Yokoshima back, resuming the tight 'hug' around Yokoshima.
The rain seemed to be growing more intense...
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Yokoshima sighed and continued walking in the direction he was going before being sidetracked, pretending not to notice the wide smile and trying to keep it out of his mind.
"Gotta go find my friends..."
Alleyway!
Carthrat heads towards the original alleyway, primarily because it's far easier to vacate than a building..
As Carthrat dashed for the alley, he began to hear behind him...
Screams accompanied by the thud of bodies flying all over the place.
"Halt demon!" The young female voice from before called out.
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"So what are your friends like?" The taller man grinned as he shielded Yokoshima from the rain, idly rubbing against him and feeling the younger man up.
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Yokoshima idly blocked the man's attempt to feel him up.
"My friends..." he echoed. "They're strong and weird. Really strong too."
Hopefully that'll stop him from doing anything...
If anything the young man smiled wider, pulling Yokoshima closer to him and rubbing against his back.
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Shinichi sighed. He shouldn't have underestimated the dangers the way he had. Sure, he may have been reduced to the body of an elementary school kid, but at least he was a live kid.
Sighing again, he holstered the gun and tried to open the front door with his right hand, while keeping his pen in his left.
Seeing Shinichi attempting to open the door, Genma turned invisible and readied himself to react instantly to whatever happened.
Yokoshima absentmindedly edged further away from the young man, and picked up his walking pace.
"We need to move it."
Carthrat chances a look over his shoulder..
Something large and black was barreling down the street. It was hard to see much in the rain, but the bodies that were flying everywhere spoke volumes of the deadliness of whatever it was. A flying corpse literally flew overhead, blood spilling all over from a cut that all but cleaved the corpse in two.
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The door handle turned a bit before stopping, apparently locked.
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As Yokoshima tried to tear away from the young man, he found himself again trapped in the man's 'hug'.
Ahead, there was a loud thud as something unseen landed in the darkness.
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"It's locked," Shinichi said, stating the obvious, and took a step back. "Genma, I assume picking this lock would be child's play for a... security expert... of your caliber?"
Yokoshima almost jumped at the thud.
"Umm..." he said, pointing a finger ahead to the direction of the thud. "I think something or someone might not be welcoming us..."
Ignoring Shinichi's subtle dig, Genma examined the lock.
Blearily G opened his eyes and focused them in his surroundings, he didn't know how much time he stayed unconcious but the dull trobbing in his head told him it has ben a while , rubbing his temples to get rid of the reminding dizziness he looked around.
danm....
And lo did G find air difficult to grasp as he looked around, finding himself in some strange tube, as his eyes closed again for the last time... he wondered why he decided to fight security by himself.
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The lock seemed moderately complex, but nothing Genma couldn't handle. He didn't see any traps on the lock.
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"Don't worry..." The young man breathed into Yokoshima's ear, licking it slightly, "I'll protect you..."
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Yokoshima tilted his head to the other side in an instant, crying "Eww! That's gross!"
"Not a problem," Genma stated confidently while pulling out the required tools.
"This will just take a minute," he muttered as he picked the lock.
A few minutes later, Genma heard the resounding click as the lock unlocked.
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"It's open," The Invisible Man stated as he took a step back and to the left while stowing his lockpicks.
Carthrat scrambled somewhere where the thing isn't going, and preferably where he's not likely to get hit by any bullets which still might be flying around, and continues to watch stuff unfold..
Violence ruled the streets as the creature moved closer into view, carving a swath of death and destruction through the street with four clawed arms. The skewered body of Sailor Venus hung limply from one of it's claws, her blood drenching the black claw crimson. The thing stood at least fifteen feet high and another twenty long. It's bladed legs swished this way and that as it slaughtered all who came within reach indiscriminately. Gunshots rang as they bounced off of it's thick chitoneous hide.
A grenade went off, briefly obscuring Carthrat's vision as it devestated a portion of the street.
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"Don't worry... you'll enjoy it. I promise..." Suddenly there was a ripping behind Yokoshima...as his clothes were torn across the back by the searching hands of the stronger man.
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"Ack!" Yokoshima cried, then elbowed the man behind him. "Just go and take care of whatever's up ahead!"
Kwok coughed in the smoke, having patched up his arm as he scrambled back into the alley... a badly mangled corpse aiding his cowardly running as it slammed him bodily back into the wall, leaving him dizzy.
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Shinichi nodded at Genma's statement, and attempted to open the door.
Carthrat didn't like the idea of being trapped in the alley, but he also didn't like the idea of being anywhere near that thing.
With this in mind, he starts moving alongside the side of the street, in the opposite direction of the big spiky thing..
OOC: Drac, I'm assuming I'm at the mouth of the alleyway. If I'm wrong and I'm somewhere else, can you tell me and I'll edit my post? @_@
The man grunted and then smiled, "I'll deal with it after my fun." Swiftly he reached forward, ripping off Yokoshima's pants as well as his shirt...
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Shinichi successfully opened the door, revealing the way into a small greeting area. The Japanese architecture was obvious, with three visible pull across doors that separated the small wood area to leave the shoes from the rest of the house.
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No, I don't know japanese architecture. Yes, I'm making this up. Don't call me on it.
OOC: Assumption correct.
IC:
The smoke cleared as Carthrat began to move, him finding himself uncomfortably close as the ugly mug of the giant creature stared at him from mere feet away. It's red eyes peered into his as the smoke drifted away.
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Shinichi scanned the greeting area for any traps which would be triggered by stepping inside, intending to enter said area and perform a mor thorough search there should he find no traps.
Shinichi did not see any traps. Glancing about he noticed two bonsai on either side of the open door, as another to the left of each doorway. The floor was solid tile throughout.
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Shinichi entered the greeting area, and examined it, as well as the three doors leading into the house.
Genma stepped up to the door and examined the area, looking for anything that might not be readily visible with a cursory glance.
A dart flew from the bonsai near the door as he stepped in. Imbeding itself in Shinichi's arm, he began to feel sleepy.
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Shinichi stepped outside, closed the door, and tried to take out the dart and assess the damage, asking Genma for that anti-poison kit.
Shinichi found it thankfully not barbed, the dart pulling out easily enough, though a wave of dizziness spun through him. Only a small cut was visible, bleeding negligably really.
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Genma quickly pulled out the kit and handed it to Shinichi.
Thanking Genma, Shinichi used it on the cut, while scanning the wound for any foreign elements.
Draining the poison out barely, Shinichi was left feeling woozy and tired. Other than the slight remains of the poison being sucked out, there was no other foreign elements.
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And lo, after many an age the tired slime awoke from his slumber. Weaker than he began the trip, but alive.
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Onion, valliant red slime that he was, tried to determine if he was in good enough shape to make the leap back to the outer wall.
Several minutes later, Shinichi finally finished getting the poison out, and returned the kit to Genma, thanking him again.
"The bonsai trees next to the entrance are booby trapped," he said sarcastically. "How could they not be?"
Shaking his head, Shinichi asked Genma, "Got something with caffein in it, per chance?"
Crawling up the window, the slime examined the distance. Yes he could make it, though he'd go splat against the wall a little ways down.
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Slimes cannot sigh, this is true. But had he the ability to do so he would have. He made a thorough sweep of the room, trying to find the exits and any items that might be of use to him.
"No, that's one item I neglected to bring."
"Too bad." Shinichi frowned, and reached into his backpack, fishing out his first air kit. "Wanna take care of the traps inside while I recover from the sleeping dart?"
While waiting for an answer, Shinichi found disinfectant and poured it over the wound, continuing dressing it afterwards. His mind tried to focus on the pain to become more alert.
"Ok."
Genma stowed the anti-venom kit and went over to the door again where he carefully and thoroughly examined the visible area.
The slime indeed saw not one, but two exits with his eyes. Doorways towering high above him, yes they were. Items to use though, he was a slime, what use had he for items?
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Genma stepped up to the door, he could see the fine wood ceiling, the three japanese sliding doors, the three bonsai all to the left of each of those doors, and the two nice looking bonsai on either side of the door he stood before. The floor was tiled.
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Genma examined the tiled floor.
Carthrat swears to himself, and dives into a roll underneath the big thing in hope that it'll give him up and find someone else to eat.
And with any luck, it won't sit down.
Genma saw a beautiful dragon pattern of silver designed into the tile floor. The floor was completely flat and level.
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Yokoshima roughly shoved the man back.
"Deal with it now!"
Carthrat rolled towards the beast, moving as fast as he could as he slid under the beast's head... as the beast brought down one of it's sharp limbs, spearing Carthrat as he tried to roll under and dragging the bloody corpse back out.
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Life sucks and then you die..
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"Shisho!"
Now, Kwok, should I ever die, I've gone on to a better place. Under no circumstances are you to ever, ever, EVER bring me back to life.
An evil plot hatched in Kwok's mind as he decided upon his course of action...
And so, he began heading in the opposite direction to the monster, keeping low, and scooping up whatever rifle or weapon he came across first..
Onion tried to determine the opening mechanism for the doors. If they were the same as the others they would be fairly easy to get into.
To Yokoshima:
"Oh, you play rough...Fun!" The young man grinned as he suddenly shed his tuxedo, revealing before Yokoshima the most horrifying sight he'd ever seen. In leather straps and with very black tight pants that accented his throbbing member, the formerly tuxedo'ed man slapped a bullwhip against his side before lashing out with it, ensnaring Yokoshima's legs.
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The creature continued down the path, slaughtering more as he crushed what lay before him.
Kwok, lucky kwok, was quickly able to find a rifle on the ground.
For one, it had a series of indentations above him. For the other it had a familiar type of handle.
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Onion climbed the wall above the door with the familiar handle and used his psuedopodia to open it.
The door opened with a mighty hiss as a wave of heat came through the door...
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~HEAT!~
Onion grasped the wall above the door with psuedopodia and gently lowered himself enough to see into the next room.
Inside there was a large room with four huge braziers arrayed in the corners, glowing with large flames. In the center a huge circle with a pentagram inside was errected. A torch sitting at every point of the star.
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Fighting the urg to dash to the nearest fire, Onion continued to hang, trying to spy the exits for the new room.
Well, yes, on the other side there was indeed a large bronze door that closed it off.
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Genma examined the area that Shinichi had moved to, looking for the trigger to the dart trap.
He couldn't see the trigger, but he could presume that it had something to do with stepping inside the building given what he'd seen from Shinichi's problem.
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To Shinichi:
The pain brought focus for a moment, cutting through the wooziness, but he still felt pretty out of it.
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The slime utilized his psuedopodia to grasp the wall above the door in the other room and pulled himself in. He approached the pentagram until he was about ten feet from the nearest tourch. He looks to see what might lay inside the construct.
So the slime pulled himself and then considered, pulling himself back out and away a few feet, looking inside the construct to realize he didn't see anything there.
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Taking to the walls the slime moved around the room, only to stop above the metal door and looking for an opening mechanism.
Edit: Spelling
The slime did not see one.
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Onion made his way to the center of the pentagram.
As Slimey walked into the pentagram, the runes flared, trapping him there as magical energy gathered around him... in a blast of fire he found himself no longer in the tower, instead staring at more demons than he could count, surrounding him in all directions.
Grinning, noticably...
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And so ends the tale of slimey, who went to hell O_O;
Frowning, Genma activated his goggles, scanning the room in IR and thermal.
Neither infrared or thermal picked up anything particularly strange. Sure the plants were a bit warmer than the surrounding area, but that was expected.
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I might be wrong about plants. Just pretend I'm not -.- *isn't an expert on thermal ^_^;*
Yokoshima's eyes widened at the man's latest getup.
"ACK!" he cried as his legs were ensared by the whip. He kneeled down onto the ground to prevent being dragged off his feet, then leaned back and tried to untangle the whip.
OOC: To clarify, after leaning Yokoshima would be in the position of how the Japanese "sit" at the dinner table ^_^
The young man enjoyed the view as he watched Yokoshima try to entagle himself, not moving forward for the moment as he laughed.
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Kwok gave the rifle a quick checkover, scrounging any extra clips he could find while heading towards the palace...
Moving towards the palace, Kwok could hear the screams of death around him. Almost as if the whole city was under attack. He was able to find two clips for his gun as he continued down the street towards the ever growing in his vision palace. Ahead he could barely see the palace walls, coming together in grand crystal gates ahead of him.
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Pulling out his crowbar, and crouching down, Genma proceeded to put pressure on each tile that he could reach, without entering the house, in turn, attempting to determine if the trap was triggered by a pressure plate.
Two darts flew over his head with a hiss.
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Mentally marking the tile that had triggered the trap, Genma checked each of the tiles adjacent to it.
Checking them, a few seconds later he found that another dart fired from the right.
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Staying crouched down low, Genma moved carefully into the room, pulling out a piece of chalk and putting a small mark on each tile that activated a trap while avoiding placing any weight on them. Moving cautiously, he tested each tile with the crowbar before he moved onto it.
OOC: In this way, he's going to move into the room and check the rest of it for traps.
As long as he was near the door, darts continued to fire right over his head every few seconds.
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Using the process of elimination, Genma moved around the floor testing and marking each trapped tile, while remaining crouched and alert to anything out of the ordinary.
Much of the floor seemed trapped, triggering darts from the various bonsai when pressed. The tiles near the front door triggering one or both of the bonsai near that door, the ones near each of the three doors, triggering the bonsai on the left of them, and the ones near the center triggering seemingly random shots from the bonsai.
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Moving over to the bonsai to the left of the door he had entered, Genma examined it in an attempt to find the dart-launcher.
Yokoshima growled softly as he tried to untangle himself and think of what to do.
That looks like an S&M getup... I've seen a couple of those on tape... I hope this works...
"Dammit boy!" he yelled. "Come over here at ONCE and untie your master!"
Examining it closely he could see the small launcher hidden among the carefully cultivated bonsai. The branches wrapped around it hiding it from casual view.
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"Sure thang, honeycheeks," Lord Darien smirked as he came closer, suddenly pulling out another whip and wrapping Yokoshima up further before waving a black rose in front of his nose, causing Yokoshima's mind to start to go fuzzy.
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Examining the launcher, Genma attempted to disable it.
Genma found he couldn't very well get to the mechanism. Whoever had built it had grown the bonsai around the launcher.
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Shinichi decided to use the chance to eat some of the food he had brought with him, drinking a glass of water afterwards.
OOC: Fine, fine, want me to die quick, don't you? >_<
IC: Yokoshima felt his mind going fuzzy.
I can't black out... I have to do something...
He tried to concentrate and think of scantily-clad and naked cute girls, so he could fire a beam of reiki at the other man.
As Yokoshima did so he felt a masculine hand gropping around his genitals.
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Do you think you could concentrate on it or not. I'm leaving it up to you here.
Yokoshima closed his eyes for a second, excercising all his concentration and perversion.
In Yokoshima's imagination...
Cute girl 1: "Yokoshima-san, do you want to have fun with me?"
Cute girl 2: "Yokoshima-san, do you want to become one with me?"
Mikami: *whispers* "Yokoshima-kun... do you... want to..." *rubs her body against his, especially his lower half*
"MIKAMI-SAAAAAN!!!!" he cried as he shot a large beam of reiki from his forehead.
Sitting down outside the house to eat, Shinichi happily filled his belly, feeling a touch more energetic but still woozy as he rested.
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okay genma, waiting for you to act a lot more or to wait for shinichi to recover.
Examining the device more carefully, Genma attempted to determine if the launcher extended up from the floor, or protruded from the wall.
Yokoshima heard a groan of pain as his reki hit something.
"A fiesty one...are you..."
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The launcher apparently was wrapped among the bonsai and extended down into the soil itself. He couldn't see anymore of it after that.
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Genma used a small vacuum blade to sever the bonsai and launcher about an inch from the soil.
The bonsai fell down, landing on the floor by his feet.
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Moving over to the other bonsai, Genma proceeded to give them each a very close pruning.
OOC: Severing them all near the soil. ^^
Kwok takes a quick check of what, exactly, is going on around him.
OOC: I.e, movement of the crowd, fighting, etc. etc.
To Kwok:
Glancing around, he could see a few people running away from the palace. The nearby city looked peaceful enough for the moment, despite the steady rain, but the sounds of destruction could be heard not far off to both his left and right.
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The bonsai each fell down, landing on the floor.
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Yokoshima heard the voice, and opened his eyes to see how far his opponent was.
Five paces before his eyes, Lord darien crouched, his tongue extended fully as he had a maniac gleam in his eyes. "fun fun...."
The leather clad lover of Yokoshima leapt towards him...
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Yokoshima tried to call up the perverted images again, this time easier than the last time since he already started imagining just before, and tried to blast Lord Darien away with a beam of reiki, and kept on untangling himself from the whip.
"Go away!"
Kwok gave a short groan on seeing the gates of the palace closed. He promptly turned and went for the alleyways, deciding to find a back route back away from the palace where the big thing wasn't likely to go.
Shinichi mentally went over his favorite cases, his pride swelling as he recalled his brilliant deductions and the praise he received for them.
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C'mon, revive the poor kid. ^^
Still crouched, Genma tested a few of the triggers to verify that he had disabled the dart traps.
Lord Darien swiftly moved to the side, dodging, a maniac grin on his face as he liked his lips, his whip flying forward at Yokoshima.
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Kwok was easily able to head into the back alley, the sounds of death and destruction growing louder as time passed.
As he looked out the other side of the long alleyway, he found to his dismay...another of the beasties was coming down that street towards the palace.
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Genma found that the whoosing sound of darts flying overhead had stopped.
Outside, Shinichi found himself feeling more energetic as time passed, even if not up to his normal stuff yet.
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Moving over to the door, Shinichi glanced inside to see what Genma was doing, while being careful not to actually enter the room or get in his way.
Shinichi saw Genma crawling around, exmaining the ground and tapping it.
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Shinichi decided to wait till Genma signalled him that he was done with whatever he was doing.
Nodding to himself, Genma stood and motioned for Shinichi to enter.
Shinichi entered, keeping himself as low as Genma was.
Stepping up to the leftmost door, Genma carefully examined it.
Examining the door, he found it to be a traditional Japanese sliding door. It could be opened by pulling it open. From this side he couldn't see any traps.
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Stepping to the right of the door, Genma pulled out his crowbar and used it to slide the door open an inch before stopping.
Opening the door an inch, Genma observed nothing happening.
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Stowing his crowbar, Genma pulled out a small mirror.
Crouching down near the door, he held the mirror to the bottom of the opening, tilting it to get a look at the room beyond.
Checking in the room beyond he saw a narrow corridor of wood with one door on the right, and another at the far end.
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Shinichi asked Genma for his crowbar, intending to try the same procedure on the next door.
Genma handed Shinichi the crowbar.
Shinichi carefully repeated what he had seen Genma successfully do, sliding the middle door open an inch with the crowbar.
OOC:
Crowbar!
Shinichi was able to slide open the middle door easily with the crowbar.
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Shinichi returned the crowbar to Genma, and asked for his mirror, if he was done with it.
Genma stowed the crowbar and handed Shinichi the mirror.
Thanking Genma, Shinichi crouched and followed Genma's earlier example by trying to use the small mirror to examine the room beyong the middle door.
Shinichi could see a pathway leading off. A wood floor, and what looked like a doorway on the left, the right, and at the end of the corridor.
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Shinichi returned the mirror to Genma, asking, "How about we choose one of these paths?"
Nodding, Genma stowed the mirror and slid the door he had cracked the rest of the way open and examined the area.
Opening the left door, Genma could see a long corridor, with tapestries along the walls depicting a red-haired warrior in epic battle with black dragons, vicious wizards, and many other nasties. To the right was a closed oak door with a golden handle. The whole place was elaborately decorated. At the far end another sliding door could be seen.
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Kwokinator turned, traveling deeper into an alley as he tried to find another route... he never quite saw what killed him as he turned the corner, only a flash of pain, and then sudden death.
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Genma intently examined the floor and walls.
Moving closer to Genma, Shinichi peered into the door the other man had opened.
Past Genma, Shinichi could see the same hallway Genma had, with one door to the right and one door at the far end. Elaborate tapestries covered the walls.
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The floor seemed sturdy and smooth, no obvious deformaties in the wood as it traveled across the floor. The walls were hidden beneath the large tapestries.
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With a strength born from desperation, Yokoshima ripped free of the whip binding him, and ran back the way he came from, back towards the clothing store.
Shinichi looked for any sign of trecherous bonsai beyond the door.
And so he did rip free of the whip binding him, as the other whip that Darien had been flinging his way wrapped around his neck, yanking him back painfully as his face turned blue for a second from lack of oxygen.
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There was exactly...
Zero treacherous bonsai beyond the door.
"Wait here," Genma muttered in an aside to Shinichi.
Very carefully, Genma placed one foot on the hallway floor and slowly shifted his weight onto it, alert for anything that might be amiss.
Nothing happened as Genma cautiously tested the floor ahead with his foot.
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Moving cautiously, Genma slowly made his way to the door on the right and examined it.
The door on the right was another sliding door frame, similar to the earlier design.
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Shinichi waited by the first sliding door, covering Genma from any nefarious bonsai in hiding.
And his guarding was well placed as the neferious bonsai leaped out from the shadows with supreme skill. Raising their little branches they proceeded to demonstrate how deadly this fight would be as they spun little launchers about with ninja proficiency....
Until Shinichi blinked and realized he must be more out of it than he thought to have been hallucinating that.
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Genma carefully examined the door in front of him.
The door didn't appear to be locked. He couldn't see through the thick paper, but it seemed it would easily slide open. He didn't notice any traps on this side.
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"ACK!" Yokoshima cried as the air was forcibly removed from him for a moment.
Going along with the momentum of the pull, he ran full-speed at the other man, then turned his body sideways for a shoulder ram.
Lord Darien blinked, smiling sadistically as Yokoshima rammed into him. Somehow he wrapped his arms around Yokoshima, causing them both to be carried to the ground for a painful thud.
Yokoshima promptly began to feel hands where there shouldn't be.
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Pulling on his goggles, Genma activated the thermal vision and looked for any heat sources beyond the door.
Genma saw a few small ones, notably they seemed to be about the size of small lamps.
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Resting the goggles on his forehead, Genma moved to one side of the door and carefully slid it open a couple centimeters.
Yokoshima's eyes widened and he growled angrily as he felt hands roaming around his body.
"Bow! Down! To! Me! And! Call! Me! Master! And! Stop! Groping!" he yelled, accentuating each word with a punch to the other man's face from his position on top of him.
The door slid open easily.
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Lord Darien groaned, his face bruised as he let go for a moment, dizzy.
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Yokoshima took the opportunity and ran for it.
Yokoshima ran as if his very manhood depended on it, charging forward into the darkness, through the pouring rain...
only to slam into something very very hard.
Looking up, he could see three eyes glowing down at him, illuminating a demonic face as it grinned at him.
Yokoshima saw this: http://dracos.anifics.com/COR/bof2_bo_barbal.jpg
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Using his mirror, Genma crouched down and took a look through the crack.
"ACK!" Yokoshima cried out loud at seeing the three-eyed dragon... thing staring at him.
He quickly retrieved the most expensive ofuda he had and stuck it on the dragon, then ran to a side just as quickly.
As he did so the creature, who was not a dragon, paused for but a moment before the ofadu incinerated.
Roaring it lashed out with it's tail, burtally slamming yokoshima into a wall... Yokoshima heard and felt painful cracks as his rib cage was brutalized by the impact. His eyes were dim as a throbbing pain went through his entire body and most especially his head.
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Genma saw books. Lots of books. On shelves. Apparently he was looking into some sort of library.
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Yokoshima screamed as he impacted the wall and his ribs broken.
"Ugh..." he groaned. "That hurt... but I can't stop..."
Getting up as quickly as he could, he threw out the rest of his ofudas at the strange monster and ran away as fast as he could, trying to ignore the pain and concentrate on perverted images.
Pocketing the mirror, Genma carefully slid the door open wide enough to enter, taking a better look around the room as he did so.
Opening the door, he saw what appeared to be an odd mesh of a european library inside of the Japanese style house. Hundreds of books were along the wall.
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Genma slid the door closed and went to examine the door at the end of the hallway, carefully observing his surroundings as he moved over to it.
The place didn't seem hostile, there being just lots of books, reading tables, etc around. Genma's danger sense was calmed in this place. It just seemed so relaxing. No traps made themselves apparent to his eyes.
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Lowering the goggles again, Genma looked for heat sources beyond the closed door.
Genma saw small ones, ascending up in a sort of spiral pattern.
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Slipping the goggles onto his forhead, Genma stepped to one side and slid the door open a crack.
While waiting for Genma to check on their surroundings, Shinichi took out his laptop and made a map of the places they had explored so far with it.
Cautious Genma Opened the Door..
Cautious Genma looked inside...
A stairway rising up he saw...
Cautious Genma, what did he do?
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Yeah, I lost the rhythmic cant on the last line -.-
Genma slid the door shut and went back to the foyer.
"There's a set of stairs going up beyond that far door, and a library of some sort to the right there," he guestured to the corridor while speaking to Shinichi.
Shinichi grunted in acknowledgement, entering this latest data and saving it, before putting away his laptop and moving towards Genma, intending to look at the stairway the other man had indicated.
Looking past Genma as he walked, Shinichi could see the two closed doors.
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Shinichi cautiously slid the doors open again.
Behind the door on the right, Shinichi saw...
A HORROR BEYOND IMAGING! SOMETHING SO FRIGHTENING THAT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CANNOT EVEN...
Oh wait, that's just a library. Nothing to fear here. ^_~
On the far door, he saw a staircase, spiraling upwards. Both routes well lit.
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Shinichi scanned both rooms with the zooming feature of his glasses the same way he had back in the cave, looking for any possible trap.
Shinichi did not detect any traps.
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Shinichi followed his scan with infra-red, trying to see whether there were any heat sources that weren't visible to the naked eye in the rooms.
Nope. No heat sources that weren't visible with the naked eye here.
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Shinichi stepped onto the stairwell, and looked above, trying to estimate how high it went.
The stairway curved up what appeared to be about two floor distance.
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"We might as well try to go up," Shinichi told Genma, before ascending the stairwell cautiously, his eyes looking for traps.
Shinichi saw no traps.
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Rising one floor, Shinichi stopped, gun in his right hand and his pen held in a guarding position in the left, and took a look around.
The stairway had a slight pause, a wider plane area, but didn't have an exit there.
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Shinichi examined the area more closely for a hidden exit.
If he doesn't find one, he'll go up one more floor exactly the same way he had before.
Shinichi couldn't find a hidden exit.
Going upstairs, he found an ornate goldent door with a red handle at the end of the stairwell.
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Shinichi carefully examined the golden door and the handle, without touching them.
The gold door seemed to be finely engraved with an image of a phoenix over it. The handle is some solid red stone coming out of it.
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Shinichi examined the door and handle with infra-red.
Shinichi sensed a slight bit of warmth from the door, but not much.
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Frowning, Shinichi scanned the edges of the door, where it met the walls and floor, to see whether the heat was only in the door itself. He also tried to scan beyond the door and walls, to see whether there were any heat sources in the room beyond.
The heat was only in the door itself and he could sense small heat sources in the room beyond. The looked sort of torch sized.
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Shinichi relayed his findings to Genma over the radio, and settled to wait for his companion.
Genma acknowledged Shinichi's findings before following him up the stairs, pausing at the landing to take a look before continuing up to examine the door closely.
The door was an ornate golden door with a red handle. Engraved into it was an artwork of a phoenix.
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Genma ran an experienced eye over the door handle and frame, looking for any telltale signs that might indicate that it was trapped.
Genma's trained thief eyes did not see any sign of tampering that might indicate a trap.
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"I don't see any traps, but I can't be sure that there isn't something magical," Genma relayed to Shinichi as he gazed at the door in thought.
"Only one way to find out," Shinichi told Genma, and pressed the handle dow with the tip of his gun.
Genma readied himself.
The handle....
moved downwards only slightly resisting against the pushing force of the gun.
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Wondering, why the door didn't just open when he pushed the handle down, Shinichi pushed it forward with his gun, without moving it from the handle.
The door slid open revealing a grand room filled with indications of wealth. Here a large grandfather clock gilded in gold. There a towering statue of solid crystal.
And at the far end, a single comfortable looking chair sat, it's huge back to them, facing a large fireplace.
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"Wait here," Genma whispered softly to Shinichi.
Wrapping himself in the Goshin Dai Ryü Sei Fu, Genma examined the floor beyond the door.
The floor was covered by a fine rug. He couldn't see any traps on it.
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Moving very carefully, Genma stepped through the door silently and looked around.
The room was opulantly decorated. While there could be traps anywhere with the sheer amount of decor, his danger sense wasn't being disturbed by that...but more by the chair. A sense of utter "DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER" eminated from the soft cushy looking chair.
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Moving VERY quietly, Genma slowly made his way along the walls to the left to get a better look at the chair and any occupant it might have.
There in the chair, sitting with a book over in his hands, slowly sucking on a lollipop, was a young man in glowing platemail with flaming red hair. His eyes were closed, apparently asleep. Twin magnificant blades sat sheathed at his sides. Even asleep a powerful force of charisma shone off of him, his skin vibrant and glowing.
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