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Post by HungryHunter on Mar 29, 2015 19:30:22 GMT
Cosmina shuddered as the wave of cold flooded through her. She didn’t like being frozen, but as an alternative to fiery death, she openly embraced cold sleep. On the landing at the top of the stairs, Cassandra’s blindfold began to soak through and she wiped her nose. “No! Marika is good, and you’re bad because you want to take Cosmina!” She stepped nervously to the edge of the stairs. She didn’t want to fight on them. “I’m going to go get Marcy, and then I’ll kill you!” She boasted her brilliant plan and made a lunge for the door.
Below, Yuu dug her feet into the ground just in time. The shockwave shoved her back only a few feet, leaving deep furrows in the concrete. She lifted her head again, eyes burning with a new resolve. “Then I’ll just have to kill you.” She threw a handful of kunai. Three sailed for Haruko’s stomach in a tight cluster. A fourth flew wild and sliced one of the restraints holding John’s feet.
Marika panicked again when more knives came sailing for her. However, instead of flight, her mind settled on fight. She jumped up, avoiding all knives except for the one that struck her in the hip and the one that grazed her face. “NO KNIVES! I was going to take the only good bits you have and make something perfect to remember forever! But you go on with the fucking knives all the time! How fucking dare you!” She landed on the operating table, not caring if she stepped on John. She could injure him all she wanted, because now she didn’t need Marceline’s filthy mouth. She was going to cut this wretched, cruel, hateful reminder’s limbs off and shove her naked torso onto John. She drew a pair of scissors with each hand as he dove to the side of Haruko’s stabs, whipping one pair to slice her cheek.
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Marceline shielded her eye and stepped back as Chase erupted like a volcano. She continued to back up, but flame spread out and surrounded her. Oh god. She felt the panic return, a dark certainty that she was going to die here. As the chains reached out to grab her, so hot and strong, she readied herself in a fighting stance. “Yeah… neither can I.” She sprinted just a few feet forward before making a leap, thrusting her foot forward at his chest as she came down upon it. It would sear her, but it was her only option.
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Post by waybig1010101 on Mar 29, 2015 20:38:26 GMT
Chase sees Marceline running at him and he prepares to attack with his sword, which the blade's tip was still touching the ground, in an upwards slash at her, but then brushes away the thought. DAMN it. Chase knew that the urges were still there to kill her from the consciousness of the mark, yet as Chase was done fighting with his own thoughts in his mind in that small timeframe, he now notices a flying jump kick heading right at him... wait no, instead Chase finally gets lucky for once and he simple side steps to avoid the kick. Thankfully, Marceline misjudge the angle of her attack and was at least a half a foot away from Chase with landing that kick on his chest.
Chase quickly lowers the temperature of his flames as to avoid burning Marceline, as she was currenlty surrounded in his flames. He also tires to grab at her expose ankle as her kick misses his body, while she was still in the air. Then, he will attempt to throw her towards the bed as the chains continue to move towards their location. Even if Chase could only keep her here for a second longer, the chains should eventually be able to reach them even if he fails to throw her back at the bed. In Chase's mind the chains will either grab her here or will grab her in the air if she was thrown backwards in their direction. From there he might be able to trap her again.
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Post by TimePuppy on Mar 29, 2015 21:07:18 GMT
"I don't want to take anyone away!" Arthur told the blindfolded girl. "I would love it if you could all stay with your family,with this Marika girl! But it seems to me like she doesn't care about you. If anything, she seems to want to hurt you and I want to protect you!" A wall of ice appeared in the doorway leading to Chase and Marceline to stop Cass from going there. Perhaps the two would notice the giant block of ice soon and figure out that they're missing out on important stuff while they're wrestling in the bedroom.
"Now, since you're stuck in here with us and you think that Marika is good, why don't we talk a bit before you kill me? Will you tell me why you're so sure that she's good?"
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Post by Vapovile on Mar 31, 2015 2:02:59 GMT
What is going on? Why was Maika taking special offence to Haruko using her knives? Haruko had fought plenty of opponents in the past, and she rarely encountered anyone who commented on her weapons, let alone be afraid of them. Regardless, if this psychotic girl was scared of knives, there was only one way to go forward; use knives more.
However, her rage against Marika had to be cut short, as out of the corner of her eye, Haruko noticed Yuu tossing a batch of kunai at her. Reacting quickly, she launches a sound wave out of her hands that knocks the kunai off path, one slicing apart the belt holding John's right arm to the table. Before she could turn back and attack Marika again, a sharp pain crosses her face as Marika's scissors sliced at her cheek, causing a small stream of blood to start rolling down her cheek.
"How dare I?! You're the one murdering people here! And YOU are willingly helping her do it!" Haruko yells at Marika and Yuu, respectively. Why anyone would willingly help this girl was beyond her, but it didn't matter now. Both of them were going straight to jail.
Pulling her feet back, Haruko summons two more knives, these having much longer handles than the previous ones. Pulling her hands upwards, two large neon sound waves rocket out of the knives and head towards Yuu. Haruko launches ten more of these with a series of rapid hand movements, and at the end turns around to try and knee Marika in the face.
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Post by HungryHunter on Mar 31, 2015 4:17:08 GMT
The flames may have been cooler, but they were still flames. The dampness of Marceline's clothes dampened the damage, but flames still lapped at her legs. A smell even worse than before filled the air as her sweaty clothes lit on fire and steamed. Her leggings and cloth shoe scorched quickly on the leg that touched the ground, her skirt's fringes swiftly lighting ablaze within a few seconds as well. She screamed in pain, but instead of retreating to extinguish herself and survive, she could only spin to strike Chase while she was close. With agony came newfound power, finally matching if not surpassing Chase. She trust the foot he grabbed into his chest again to push him away, seeking to gain some breathing room for her next move. Another swing of the bat towards his knee was only a feint, as she immediately stepped in and reached for his face. A noise like static filled the air, combining with the lighting of the fire and smell of burnt flesh and unwashed body to create a horror movie atmosphere. Adding to it, the touch of her fingers would enhance every bit of pain Chase had a thousandfold.
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Cassandra smashed into the wall of ice face first, bouncing off and falling hard on her rear. She held her bumped nose, enhanced senses making the crash and cold far worse. "Owwwww! Marika doesn't want to hurt me! She only says mean things when I'm bad! And you don't want to protect me! You're mean and you want to take my sisters!" Cassandra's limited mind was working off what Marika had said about Haruko being a thief who wanted to take her work. If he was with Haruko, that could be his only goal. Yelling in anger, she lunged down the steps, aiming for where his words were coming from. She swung own hand to find his hair and pull his head up as her other swung the dagger for the throat she was planning to expose.
Yuu moved her sword to block the blasts, but found it knocked away by the first strike. The barrage pummeled her body, shoving her back until she was knocked flat. "Yuu!" Marika cried out before Haruko's knee struck her in the face, unbalancing her from her perch on the table. She flailed for a second, swinging one hand down to stab a knife into Haruko's knee in the hopes of stabilizing herself and crippling Haruko. It didn't work, as she was already too unblanced and fell off the table anyway, head hitting the floor with a crunch that sounded like a very big deal. Head spinning, she whipped every pair of scissors she could get her hands on from her shirt and threw them at Haruko, not caring where they hit, lacerating her own abdomen and cutting the midriff of her shirt to ribbons. Scissors already sprinkled with blood sailed for Haruko's face, her throat her eyes, anything Marika could see with her wild red eyes.
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Post by Vapovile on Mar 31, 2015 10:21:51 GMT
Success! The older one was knocked down, and the younger psycho was struck by the attack! Time to go over there and knock her o...
At that moment, Haruko heard the sound of metal clanging again the floor and knew something was coming. There wasn't any time to run away, so she did the only thing she could; hold her arms up in a similar fashion to a boxer to try and protect her face. A flurry of scissors soon came flying at her, though she did manage to knock a few off course with a last minute sound wave. The scissors slash at Haruko's body, making several cuts in her arms, abdomen, and legs. Once the attack was over, she lowered her arms, cringing in pain. Some of the scissors were still hanging off certain parts of her body, but she seemed to be...calm.
"Scissors? What an...uncommon weapon." She states, pulling a pair out of her arms and tossing it at Marika's feet. "I remember you now. Marika Arachne, one of the latest breakout seamstresses to come out of Greece. I have seen your work, and I was correct in assuming it was amateurish at best. If I recall, she was the model." Haruko motions toward Yuu.
"You may be asking yourself why I know about the magazine you were in. Well...I happen to be one of the top seamstresses in the United States, and a member of the seamstress guild run by my friend Hitomi Nakamura. That's right...I am Haruko Miyata. You could have had a future, Marika, but now your career is garbage...like you." With that, Haruko winds her fist back and attempts to deliver a hard right hook to Marika's stomach. No fancy attacks, no ki, only pure anger striking a psychopath.
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Post by waybig1010101 on Mar 31, 2015 15:02:37 GMT
Chase is surprise to see Marceline be set on fire, or at the very least her clothes getting set on fire. The worst part was her sharp scream and the foul smell of burnt and sweaty flesh hanging in the air. Chase quickly calls back the flames hurting Marceline to the tip of his blade and grinds his teeth together. He quickly becomes frustrated at himself for allowing his flames to burn Marceline when he intended to prevent that from happening. Thinking on it, he figures it must have something to due with his current mental struggle, which causes Chase to doubt his own control with his strength. Yet, he didn't really need to worry about hurting Marceline when she suddenly breaks his grip on her leg with a single motion and pushes him backwards with the same foot that he was trying to avoid.
As Chase is trying to recover from the sudden turn of events, Marceline's bat comes right at Chase's knee and he quickly moves his sword to block the blow, but it was a trick. As Chase shift his body to protect from the bat, Marceline real aim was to unleash a static like attack directly on Chase's face. By the time Chase realizes this, he was already too committed to stopping the bat to prevent Marceline hand from reaching his face. As her fingers get within a few inches of Chase's face, suddenly Chase's chains reach out in time to wrap around the woman's arm, slowing her hand speed just enough for Chase to avoid a direct attack. He bobs his head to the side, to only receive a small scratch on his face, but this small scratch caused by her finger nail felt as painful as if a blade went straight through his mouth. Chase even touches his face to make sure that his Jaw was still there. The Hell was that?
Chase commands his chains to begin to wrap around Marceline's body from the bottom of her feet and up to her neck. He then steps in with his shield out now, preparing to push Marceline off her feet, which will lessen her chances of fighting off his chains and if anything, to attack her counter attack if she was already preparing one.
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Post by TimePuppy on Apr 2, 2015 17:26:46 GMT
"She shouldn't say mean things at all!" Arthur yelled just as she grabbed his hair and pulled. He grabbed her other arm before she could cut his throat, but he lost his balance and pulled her with him as he tumbled down the stairs.
Once they stopped rolling, Arthur made sure she was underneath him and that he was holding down both of her arms. He also gave his crotch some frosty protection since he didn't want to get kicked in the balls again.
"She should tell you what you did wrong and how to do it right, not call you retarded! And we didn't come here to take away your sisters, we came to rescue Haruko's boyfriend whom Marika kidnapped. If your sisters decide to follow us out of here, it's their own choice. You can ask Cosmina if you don't believe me."
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Post by HungryHunter on Apr 3, 2015 2:58:57 GMT
The chains pulled on her arm, but after the initial surprise, she fought like they weren't even there. In physical strength, she had far outpaced Chase. Speed, durability, and striking power were still his, but it was inevitable. She'd win this. He'd have to hurt her to stop her now, and every wound would just make her more unstoppable. Even now, she pulled hard on the chains, looping them in more and more layers to give Chase less play until he was right in front of her. Then they would wrestle again. It didn't even matter that that thought was what she wanted to think about least. She wasn't in control, so who was she to care?
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"You shouldn't be mean and stupid!" Cassandra yelled in Arthur's face before they were suddenly moving in a disorienting way she had experienced before. God she hated stairs. Every bit of pain made her cry more, and her blindfold was soaked by the time they reached the next landing. "You f-froze her! Y-you froze her cause you're MEAN!" She thrashed under him, bawling harder than Cosmina had been, but couldn't free herself.
Below, Marika still cowered on the floor, but fear began to eat away bit by bit by a mask of fury as Haruko kept speaking. The fist that collided with her stomach drove any notions of victory from her along with her breath. She looked at her hands as she lay back, trying to breath again. She only one scissor left. She was going to make Haruko pay for what she just said. She was going to hurt her. And even a girl as far from reality as her knew the best way to make somebody hurt. She stabbed John in the neck, taking joy in the spurt of blood, rejoicing in the lethality. She giggled as she dropped the scissors, letting them bounce off the floor with the noise of a pin dropping to the people in the room. She backed up into a wall, eyes wild with madness.
"Run, Marika!" Yuu yelled from behind Haruko. The mad girl jumped onto the wall and scurried towards the door, beginning to laugh outright. Yuu readied herself to pounce if Haruko decided to follow. She doubted she would right away, with the red puddle now spilling off the sides of John's table.
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Post by waybig1010101 on Apr 3, 2015 3:29:47 GMT
Chase tries to avoid Marceline and let the Chains deal with her, but she continues to avoid them and continues to charge as Chase. This was a weird game of cat and mouse, luckly only Marceline's physical strength seem to be increasing and not her speed. Which makes Chase wonder if he could just outlast her until she was weak enough to chain up. Yet, Chase has never been a fan of prolong fights, at least that was before he had better management skills on his Black Hole. Before, Chase would have rush to end the fight because the amount of spirit energy he used to used was insane compare to now. He figure, that if he continues at the pace, he could go for a couple of hours no problem. Yet, another problem comes up, what if the others needed him, while he really didn't care about that situation too much unless they got defeated and he would have to deal with all the dolls on his own and their master.
The more he thought about his options, the more and more Chase's mind was gearing towards striking down Marceline, yet he didn't want to obey the urges in his mind in fear he would go to far and actually kill her rather than stop her. Marceline restless efforts were both impressive to watch and equally terrifying as well. It was almost like she wasn't even in control of her own body and allow her instincts to control her movements.
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Post by TimePuppy on Apr 3, 2015 16:17:55 GMT
"I froze her so that she can't kill herself like Marika told her to." Arthur said. He turned Cassandra over and froze her wrists together behind her back since he didn't usually bring handcuffs with him. Perhaps he should start doing that for moments like these. After her wrists, he did the same to her ankles and lifted up what he assumed was now a harmless Cassandra.
He carried the blind girl over to Cosmina, hoping that she could talk some sense into her. "Cosmina, you're her sister. Maybe she'll listen to you. Why don't you try explain to her who the bad guys are here."
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Post by Vapovile on Apr 4, 2015 1:08:21 GMT
This was it, the end. Marika was too scared to move, was out of scissors, and ready to be captured. How naive to think that someone as insane as Marika would go quietly.
"YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT!" Haruko yells after the fleeing Marika, summoning as many knives as she could and sending them all in the direction of Marika and Yuu. They needed to be stopped, they can't get away with this! Wait...John!
Turning back around, she notices that the gash in his neck was dripping blood at an alarming rate. She needed to stop this now. She began to calm the music to a slower, relaxed tempo to cast a heal spell...
And she transforms back into her normal form, having run out of energy. No! This can't be happening! She doesn't have any healing magic on her own! Wait...that's right...her boyfriend was an incubus. He heals by physical contact!
Running over to the table, Haruko slashes apart the two remaining restraints and pulls her hair back. Then, she leans down and kisses her boyfriend directly on the lips. Hopefully she had enough energy left to heal him.
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Post by HungryHunter on Apr 4, 2015 5:22:05 GMT
Marceline was still too slow to really hit Chase, so maybe he would wear her down after all. She was forced to look at her surroundings for a way to kill him, finding the wall of ice blocking the doorway, cold enough that the fire was apparently not a problem. She was really preoccupied with Chase, wasn't she? She lunged over with no real will of her own to smash the wall down in her search for Chase's death. One good punch did it. As ice flew out, Marika flew in, running on the ceiling to get by Chase. "Don't let them follow me!" The little bitch called to her. Marceline immediately lunged back at Chase, aiming to hug him to the ground. Her orders had changed. No more need to fight if she didn't have to. Just keep Chase here.
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Cassandra thrashed as Arthur made her cold and wet, becoming utterly incoherent when she couldn't move her limbs. Cosmina seemed uncomfortable when Arthur set her thrashing sister down. "Arthur... she won't betray Marika. I don't know if we can take her with us." Her tongue stayed from saying something was wrong with Cassandra in her head. She didn't know how to handle that knowledge herself.
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Energy flowed into his lips. There was pain in his neck. Pain all over, but mostly in his neck. The feeling of the contact was so much stronger he barely noticed. As Haruko weakened, his wounds healed, the worse first, the lesser following. He let his throat seal entirely, then staunched the blood coming from his leg. The rest he left. Severed tail, scattered lacerations. They could wait. He finally opened his eyes to see Haruko. So close, face sliced deep on the cheek, gashes in her arms and body. She had gone through some hell getting him. He spoke the moment his lips were free. "I was strapped here naked with a redheaded maid and the lady over there, and I wasn't in the slightest turned on." He was now, to the point he just wanted to kiss her silly and pull her onto this table with him. "I really must be in love with you." He strained his neck up to plant another kiss on her lips, not taking a lick of energy, just pure pleasure. He struggled to stand, finding no luck. But he couldn't drain Haruko any more, and he didn't like the look the Asian woman was giving him.
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Post by waybig1010101 on Apr 4, 2015 6:04:06 GMT
Chase doesn't need to look with his eyes to feel the presence of Marika entering the room when Marceline smashes the ice wall. He keeps his eyes on Marceline as she charges at him with the intention of knocking him down. Chase commands his chains to bind the charging doll once again and as the chain moves, Chase swings his sword down and behind him, which results in the birth of a massive wall of fire that erupts from behind himself and travels in what appears to be a powerful fire blast aiming for Marika. Chase didn't know if Marceline needed her master to be alive for her to function, so he held back a lot when it came to the heat and overall force of the attack. Yet, Chase didn't even need to look behind himself to aim his attack at her, as he could tell where the doll master was by sensing her soul. As the chains were trying to wrap around Marceline, Chase jumps with sword in hand to avoid the rampaging doll and once he reaches the ceiling, he turns around and swings his sword in one smooth motion towards Marika's direction, and sends another flame attack, but this time it was a wide and narrow shape flame attack, which resemble almost a wide sword slash with the exception that it was traveling through the air and was on fire, along with being wide enough to cute a dozen people standing shoulder to shoulder with each other. Now, Marika had a big fire attack being launch at her from below and a wide fire slash attack coming from behind her in a straight angle.  Chase looks back down and waits for Marceline to make her next move as he wasn't sure the chains are going to be enough for her. At the same time, he plays close attention to the souls of the people around him, making sure that he will not be surprise by anyone else showing up and to also maintain his own spiritual visual on Marika in order to tell if his two attacks did anything to her or not. |
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Post by Vapovile on Apr 4, 2015 17:33:14 GMT
Overjoyed that he actually was awake and healed to an extent, Haruko frowns slightly, forms a fist, and lightly hits him on top of the head. "Not the time to be joking about maids and boobs, kay?" She says, smiling at him and pulling him into a hug. Once she pulls away, Haruko walks over to the nearby shelf and tosses him his shirt and boxers. "At least put these on, please. We need to go after Frankenstein."
She was already breathing hard, the toll from the fight and giving energy was beginning to set in. But she couldn't quit now, not when they almost had this girl caught!
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Post by TimePuppy on Apr 4, 2015 18:18:12 GMT
Arthur frowned at Cosmina's words. "Are you sure? There has to be some way to convince her..." He looked down at Cassandra for a second before looking back at the green-haired girl. "And even if we can't, we also can't just let her go. Who knows what Marika will make her do..." But of course, they also couldn't force her to come with them. He couldn't tell why, but he didn't want to force her to do anything. It was probably just his conscience.
He let out a sigh. "Since you're her sister, I guess I'll leave it up to you. What do you think we should do with her?"
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Post by HungryHunter on Apr 4, 2015 23:26:38 GMT
Marika felt the heat from the flaming crescent flying at her. She wished Yuu was here. Her fingers let go of the ceiling and she dropped to avoid it. Unfortunately for her, this dropped her right into the flames erupting from below. Or would, if sticky threads from her hair weren't clinging to the ceiling. A quick swung flung her to the door and she was out like a shot, not even giving Chase a passing glance. Meanwhile, Marceline moved like the chains were string lightly draped over her body. "Chase, you fucking dumbass, pay attention! She said to make sure you don't follow her. So don't." She strafed around him and sat in front of the door.
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"I'll try..." Cosmina didn't look hopeful. "Cassandra. Marceline and I are leaving. You need to come with us. Marika's not good." Cassandra's face balled up and she screamed like a little kid throwing a tantrum. "NONONO! Marika is good and I'm good!" She kept screaming her mantra of Marika's morality and her own in between wordless shrieks, far too loud for Cosmina to be heard.
Yuu stepped slightly to the side to let Haruko get John's clothing, still acting oddly and standing by the tub. John caught the articles Haruko tossed him, glad to cover up, especially now that Haruko had him melting all over her. "This too much for you right now, huh?" He struggled into his shirt and boxers. In his state, it was exhausting. He wanted to go back to sleep and let somebody carry him out, but he couldn't just be a burden. And then he saw the tub that Yuu seemed to be pointing out with her fiery glow. His weak grin went. "Haruko... help me up." There was something he needed to do.
Huntsman fully recuperated from his fiery failure. "Well if none of you are going to, I'd better go slaughter the little bitch. Any of you want a piece?" He became a foul, lizard-like beast and lunged up the walls.
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Post by waybig1010101 on Apr 5, 2015 2:44:28 GMT
Landing on his feet, he faces the pink dressed woman. Chase feels John's soul with Haruko's soul and by the fact that his soul wasn't being suck in by his black hole soul, he could tell that he was alive. "Marceline...tell me one thing. If I kill her...what would happen to you?" Chase looks right at her eyes. Chase had to hand it to Marceline's master, she was a slippery one, but he was sure he could caught up if he gets through Marceline within a short enough time period. "If the answer is nothing... then I'm going to try to bring her down once and for all. I might not be able to free myself from my own chains right now, but I might be able to help free you in this moment. Besides, I'm going to need to satisfy this stupid mark, might as well be with that Bitch's blood." he said in a strong and confident voice.
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Post by Vapovile on Apr 5, 2015 16:10:38 GMT
"Don't strain yourself...what is in that tub that you need?" It was odd how it seemed that John was interested what whatever was in the tub, and the adult doll was guarding it even when Marika herself was gone. Did she value whatever was in there more than Marika?
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As Marika pops out of the Kaspa, she is met with a much different sight than what Haruko and the others left. The entire living room was surrounded by a thick network of vines, and was devoid of all the furniture that had been in there, all except one swivel chair turned around on the far side of the room.
"Good evening. Let me introduce myself; I am Aria Miyata, president of the Hidden World Intelligence and Containment organization. I have recently received reports that my sister's boyfriend, Johnathan Chandler, was kidnapped and had his wall punched in."
Turning her chair around to face Marika, Aria looked at her with cold, professional eyes. "You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you? Or why you suddenly appeared in my sister's house?"
The room was covered in a cage of vines, making it impossible to see where the door was. It was as if Aria knew there may be a battle here.
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Post by TimePuppy on Apr 5, 2015 18:02:30 GMT
Arthur couldn't believe that Cosmina called that an attempt at convincing Cassandra of anything. "You're not really the persuasive type, are you? Fine... I guess we should take her over where the other girl is and discuss what to do with them." The ice around Cosmina disappeared. Arthur was about to pick up Cassandra again and take her over to Yuu, but then he realized something and took off his coat.
"Here." He said as he handed it to Cosmina. "I'm sure you must be really cold right now. Again, sorry about that."
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