Dark Entities

A group of students from Beata Academy had recently been dropped off to deal with the mysterious entities that had begun to pop up. It was the middle of the day, and all seemed calm. The surrounding area was strangely vacant, the students being the only living things in sight. However, whether good or bad, something that fit the description of the entities rounded a corner about a dozen meters ahead, this being an unarmed and seemingly alone one of these entities.


Montare stood with the others, looking around a bit before seeing the entity, quickly drawing his dagger from his pocket upon seeing it, not wanting to charge at it due to not knowing how these things would fight, so he stood, holding his dagger defensively. "Heads up." he told the others, focusing on the thing ahead of them.

There was a loud chorus of shings as Cyth drew her longsword and Sam drew his machete. "How are we gonna go about this?" Sam asked, eyeing Montare. He'd heard some pretty shitty things about that guy, but Cyth seemed to have taken a liking to him, so he was gonna go on her description. If he hurt her, he'd be a crisp doggy. "I'd say that there's more of these guys. I'll take Ahbwen and we'll go around the other side and try to surround them and start fighting them off," Cyth suggested, running a whetstone over each side of her sword a few times to make sure it was humane death. Whatever they were, she was no advocate for suffering. She then grabbed Ahbwen by the sleeve and started half-dragging half-walking him off towards a corner that lead to the other side of the alley the entity was coming from.

The initiate that stood a few footsteps from Cyth nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me," she said, grinning and raising her gloved hands in a defensive sort of stance. Said gloves had huge six-inch spikes rising from each knuckle. Welcome to get-wrecked town, entities.

He was not one to look for a fight or even help someone or anyone. Though, there come times where he must do what is best for him. This was one of those things that he would openly accept to do. This was  a chance to learn more about his abilities, even if he discovers his own weakness. There are many things one must learn and learning his own weakness and building a strategy around it. He had signed up with a few other students to help a problem that had been reported recently. He did not know any of these students or knew their own talents. If they were going to defeat the enemy, they were going to have to work together.

As they were dropped off the first thing Ahbwen noticed how barren the town was. It was eerily quiet. You could even hear the wind battle its way around the buildings as the current came through the town. The dust picking itself up in the wind and the odd feeling of feeling small in a quiet town.

" This is not awkward at all..."

A quiet night indeed. He paused after his comment as one of the students pointed out a group that had matched the description. He then noticed one of the students had pulled out a knife. He laughed to himself as a "knife" to a fight. It was funny to him as they knew nothing about the enemy and he brings a knife. In a world of super beings and people with special abilities and a knife is the first thing he brings. He laughed and shook his head as he walked next to the student.

" We have to come up with a strategy if we plan on tackling this mission."


He paused to himself again as they other students pulled out their weapons. They soon told them their strategy. His thoughts were broken when someone grabbed his sleeve.

"Hey..."

He said as she dragged him to a point of attack. He felt a bit annoyed that she just grabbed him and pulled him in a direction of her liking. Even if they were working as a team, not something he liked. He frowned a bit as they stopped at their destination. Slightly yanking his sleeve from her hand, he peaked around the corner to look at the enemy.

" Prong attack? I am down with that. I can go on top of the buildings. We can hit them from three angles instead of two."

Montare glanced at Sam from his remark, but otherwise ignored it. He played attention to the plans from Cyth and then Ahbwen, frowning slightly at his laughing that he only carried a dagger. "Yeah, good idea Ahbwen. Go up on the buildings, I'll go with Cyth." Montare said whilst walking over to Cyth, smiling slightly.

Meanwhile, the entity visible to the group clawed the air in the direction of the students. Following this, the creature let out what seemed a loud hiss, several more of the creatures joining it. To make matters worse, even more could be heard come around a corner behind them, the entities now using the students' tactic against them, slowly advancing on the group.

Cyth shrugged. "Alright," she agreed, grinning back at Montare (with that same shiteating grin, of course) She twirled her sword in her hand, adding another hand to the first and readying to attack the entities. However, she recoiled as she looked around the corner and noticed there were many more than she expected- they were now using their tactic against them. Shit, she thought. "We need to move and regroup or something-- this isn't good," she mused, giving the slowly advancing entities a second look around the corner.

Nyra eyed the entities from where she stood- she hadn't moved, as she had been instructed to stay there by Cyth. She tilted her head in perplexion as the entities seemed to flood out of the alleyway that they'd been in. Oh, shit.

Ahbwen stopped in his tracks as it had just dawned on him. He had made a remark about it before but did not pay any attention to it before. It was very quite except the very small group of things that were standing before them. Ahbwen frowned a bit as he was mad at himself for missing such an important piece of evidence. He looked over at the girl as he thought about if she needed to know.

" Take note of the people that are missing. I have a feeling this is a scouting party in front of us."

With that he jumped onto the roof. He had a better view of the town before him and he was right. Everyone was missing and oddly enough this group before him seemed to be a scouting party. This of course was just a hypothesis. Though the things began to hiss but one started too and the others just followed. His plan had changed as he noticed that a lot more had began to come out of the other buildings in the town. There were a lot more than just a group. He indeed was right, this was a scouting party.

" Figures where the people went...they are the creatures..."

He then walked to the other side of the building he was standing on.

" We have a swarm on our hands. I assume its the rest of the town. To me it looks like a town wide infection. Its a party for sure"

He turned away from the group after relaying the information he had discovered. His view of the town gave them the advantage in a way. He knew that high was always the greatest advantage. This was going to be a challenge indeed but he did not want to use his ability for too long. His strength and speed was going to be enough...hopefully. He then stopped and remembered the guy had a knife and broke out in a chuckle. He covered his mouth with his arm as he had to get a hold of himself. As if these things could spread so easily; they must have their own talents and abilities.

He knew that they had to get to higher ground, tactics had to change and those things seemed to be copying them. Even if they could climb. If they got on the roof first, it would funnel the amount of things that could get on the roof. A idea that would minimize the amount that would swarm them.

" Get on the roof, get to higher ground! "

It was correct that many were now leaving the nearby buildings. However, there was yet to be anything to show that people hadn't simply vacated from the entities' presence.

The closest of the entities formed groups with about a dozen of them coming from each side of the group, luckily none of them ones that supposedly carried weaponry. They continued the advance, and the remaining students on the ground would either have to flee to the rooftops with Ahbwen somehow quickly or begin fighting the entities off.

Montare stood by Cyth, still holding his dagger defensively. "Wright, you can use frostfire right? You and Sam could try burning them, because I don't see any way we can follow Ahbwen." he told her whilst looking back up at him. How did he expect them to follow when he was the only one able to get up there unless Nyra was powerful enough to lift them up? Montare doubted this, and quickly looked forward again at the sound of a screech, one of the entities jumping at him. He barely managed to swing his dagger around in time to stab the thing before it could land on him to tackle him. The entity was very light, the stab able to stop it in midair, it dropping to the ground. As it lay there, smoke rose from the stab wound a moment before the whole creature melted into smoke and rise up into the sky.

"More like freezing their smoky asses, but yeah," she replied, twirling her sword a few more times. "He's not as good at it as I am though. Maybe I should go back over to him, you can stay over here," she suggested quickly, eyeing around the corner where her brother was standing, eyeing the creatures curiously and with a hint of fear in his eyes. "If he gets hurt, it's on my hands. Either way, we could climb the bricks to get to Ahbwen for a better vantage point. I've gotten pretty good at it what with all of the douchebags that hung around my old high school. Unless, however, Nyra can get us all up there."

Nyra gave a start at the sudden outpour of enemies. Overwhelming fear gripped her, and she immediately shot into the air at the sudden lack of gravity. Shit! She'd been getting better at that. Focusing hard, she began to slowly float through the air towards the building Ahbwen was on, eventually getting there, somewhat out of breath. "Hello," she said nonchalantly, cracking her knuckles and then peering down into the alleyway at Cyth and Montare. "I can attempt to lift you up here if you get in too much trouble," she called, "but it might not be very.. safe. But it's an option."

He was watching as the enemy seemed to have a plan but it was erratic. He then noticed the girl seemingly float onto the building he was standing on. He nonchalant comment made him smile a bit. He laughed as he rested his back against hers. Supporting her weight in case they got surrounded. It then hit him.

" I got a plan. Its simple but it all depends on your ability to use your talent. How much can you use it? If they can crawl or climb they buildings. Small pulses of gravity or whatever you can do will disrupt their advances. We both can help the rest get on top of this buildings and force the enemy to funnel their way towards us. They are very simple to kill. If you watched the boy kill one. They are easy to toss aside. Far easier for you. I have you covered if you get swarmed. If we win this day, drinks and food are on me."

He added as he picked up a small ventilation motor that was ontop of the buildings. Holdings above his head, he tossed it into the crowd of those things. Not hoping to hit one but a group of them. He then rest his back against the girls to support her weight again. They were back to back and had an easier advantage in fighting. Knowing one was behind the other. There was no need to turn around.

This was going to be a test of his skills. He was hoping to avoid using his mutation blade. He was only going to rely on his strength and speed. He looked to the others only for a second and had to think of a way of getting them up on the building they were on.

" This is getting interesting..."

There was a large explosion of smoke as the motor crushed and killed three of the creatures by Cyth and Sam. The remaining entities ignored the smashed remains of the motor, continuing to close in. While the ones on Cyth and Sam's side continued the normal tactic, the ones on Montare's side, due to still having eleven of their number standing and that there was only one person standing against them, attacked.

"Shit!" was all Montare was able to call out as he dealt with the entities attacking him. He slashed out with his dagger at the first to jump at him, killing it. He was badly scratched by a second one across his chest, but killed it with a stab and jumped back from the rest, now fairly close to Cyth and Sam. "Nyra, lift Cyth and Sam up!" Montare called up towards the roof, putting his dagger in a pocket and shifting into a fully grown wolf. From shifting, his wound was now on the bottom of him, blood dripping from it onto the concrete. Montare barred his teeth at the group, waiting for them to attack again.

Cyth reached Sam relatively quickly, checking him over quickly. "You been attacked yet?" she asked anyway, giving a somewhat angry look at the creatures and then looking back at Sam. "No..? Look, Cyth. Your boyfriend's in a lot more trouble than I am," he pointed out, gesturing towards the swarm of creatures clawing at the now-wolf. "He's n-not my-..whatever! We've got some trouble here too!" she hissed, and as she turned around one of the black semi-transparent creatures leaped at her, managing to claw her across the cheek before she cut it clean in half. The onslaught of creatures was relentless, but together they fared much better than Montare. They were so easy to kill, it was actually really easy to not get anything more than a few scratches. Cyth kept giving fearful glances in Montare's direction, until she heard him yell up to Nyra to lift them up. Oh, hell no, she thought, slashing open four creatures in quick succession when she felt her feet suddenly leave the ground. Fuck!

Nyra knelt close to the edge of the building, hand outstretched, sending the occasional creature smashing into a wall, instead of raking open Montare's back when he was occupied with another one of the black smoky entities. She tilted her head curiously as he called for her to lift the siblings- he was faring a lot worse than them, and personally, that was a pretty stupid idea. She gave a sideways glance at them- from far away she couldn't tell how hurt they were, but they were giving a pretty strong resistance to the swarm of entities attacking them. There seemed to be a lot more attacking Montare than them, however. Picking them off one by one, perhaps. "No," she stated, probably not loud enough for him to hear over the growling of the creatures. She focused for a minute and tapped into the deeply hidden reserves of energy she'd learned was her power- and suddenly the lupine Montare was ten feet in the air, about halfway up the building.

She threw her hand upwards and he was suddenly about a foot above the roof of the building, and then she gently brought it towards her. He fell about three feet before stopping. "Shit," she muttered, and then tried something different- she imagined him standing behind her. It was weird, him being a wolf, however slowly but surely he floated over behind her and he dropped the last foot onto the roof, dripping blood the whole way onto the flesh-hungry entities. The effort left her drained and pretty lightheaded. Lupine Montare was heavy-- but she wasn't done yet. The two siblings may have been faring well, but they would still tire and soon they'd be overwhelmed-- because the somewhat smaller swarm was now heading straight for them. Summoning the last of her energy, she focused on the bright life energy of Cyth and Sam- lifting them slowly off the ground. Too slowly, as soon they were barely able to slash at the short entities and all they could do is suffer through it as the creatures clawed at their legs. Clawing her way through the last of her reserves, they were only about six feet off of the ground, not anywhere near she needed them to be. This is life or death here-- and two lives is more than one, she told herself, and she crawled through the last of her energy reserves and bursted into the already slightly diminished pool of her internal energy- the kind she'd never had to use before.

Suddenly the two Summer teens flew htrough the air at an almost breakneck speed, within a few seconds they were dropped onto the top of the roof, released from the hold of screwed up gravity, followed by a soft thunk as the initiate girl collapsed onto the cold concrete roof.

OOC: ahh if there's anything you want me to change i can, i might've gone a little far here >n<

He watched as the two others who were on the ground were now on the roof. He was impressed but his thoughts broken by the sound of the girl hitting the ground. He turn as he looked at her and then turned to look at the freaks that now surrounded the building. He wondered if they could climb and he also wondered if they had any kind of planning. What he did remember is that they could jump but he was not sure how high or far they could jump.

He turned to the rest of the group as he backed himself over the collapsed girl and covered her. She was in no way to fight to defend herself. Even if he didn't know her or had no real reason to defend her, she was still a student of the same school he went too. For him, better reason then none. He was still not using his mutation ability as he did not need to or wanted to waste such energy he needed for this fight. He dug his hands into another cooling vent and ripped it out from the roof. A hole was let in the roof and he could see into the building itself. Tossing the large vent into the crowd of freaks he peered in the building.

Though, tempting it was to just jump in. It was easy to break glass from a window or knock down a door. They would get swamped in a matter of minutes. He shook his head as the roof was still a better option. Though, the others were also injured and now on the roof. He was the only one that was in perfect condition to keep up the attack.

He had no other choice.

In a haze of blood and the crack of his bones. His arm mutated. Looking like an alien movie you would see on the syfy channel, a large bone blade form. A three foot blade emerged from his mutated arm and the rest of his arm looked more out of world then anything else. He then ran towards the edge of the building and jumped into the crowd. He landed on both of his feet causing a small dent in the concrete and causing a small group of freaks around him to fly away from him. He then began cutting and slashing anything in his path to buy time for his allies. He was not going down without a fight and he knew he could take a lot of damage before passing out.

It was a mixture of a lot of things. His could change is arm and blade at will. A combination of kicks, punches, and slashes from his blade.

Grabbing the first one and tossed it into another. Mutation his arm and slashing a few in its path. Changing it back instantly and punching a few others. He had no fear and was willing to do what he could to cut down the numbers of the enemy. He was also taking their attention away from the group and onto him so they could come up with a counter attack plan.

As Ahbwen began his attack, a very loud hiss tore though the air. The few entities that still stood quickly fled as a large cloud of this dark smoke began floating into the alley, and then going upwards to the roof. As it moved, two scarlet dots could be seen near the center. "Go back to the roof." came out of the cloud in a hiss. Once it reached the top of the roof where the wounded students remained, it stopped in front of them, dissipating into two more entities, these ones with swords. A humanoid figure with scarlet dots for eyes stood in front of the students at six feet tall. The armed creatures stood by the figure spoke. "I must....apologize for your being attack by my own. I called them off as soon as....I knew who you all were." The figure had to pause in the middle of these longer sentences, but otherwise spoke normally if you ignored the voice.

Montare looked at the cloud as it became more of the creatures and something resembling a human. He was about to speak back to the figure, but uncontrollably shifted back to his human form and collapsed, the blood loss from his wound causing him to finally pass out. It was obvious Montare would need this wound taken care of, him being the most injured of the group of students.

Cyth gave a sideways glance at Ahbwen as she regained a somewhat unstable hold on reality. She wasn't one for flying in an airplane- and if you compare airplane and being literally thrown hundreds of feet through the air- that's pretty fucking horrible for her. She groaned, finally gaining a stable foothold on the roof, and looked back at Sam. He was already on his feet and helping out Ahbwen- the damned creatures were relentless. Unsheathing her sword which she'd quickly sheathed as her feet had left the ground, she somewhat painfully ran over to aid them in their attack on the creatures.

"Well, your attack was appreciated," Cyth spat at the humanoid, sheathing her sword. A second and somewhat louder thunk made her recoil and whirl around as the humanoid continued to stand there- oh shit. "Son of a fuck, Montare!" She continued swearing under her breath as she ran over to the unconscious boy. "Nice fucking job," she whispered, shouldering off her backpack and unzipping it. She'd brought some extra clothes in case she needed them- looks like Montare needed them more. Pressing them firmly to the wound on his chest, she looked over at Sam and Ahbwen, the former now standing behind Cyth, looking concerned and somewhat smug. "Call for help. Now," she hissed at her brother, who complied without a comment.

OOC: I'd say end of mission. >v<

One grabbed him from behind and instantly he flipped it over his back and stomped the things face into the ground. Another student jumped into the fray and help him. It was like chaos. The two men fighting off hordes of these things. Not really caring for their own safety but to help their allies. He kept swing his blade and slicing anything in his path. He lumped over the boy that was helping him and landed on a thing that was right behind him. Then they stopped attacking. He looked back up and saw a larger thing standing before the two up on the building.

He could smell blood.

It was obvious enough the boy with that small blade had gotten injured. He glanced back at the crowd of those things and gotten a bit annoyed on how things turned out. They didn't know who they were?! They obviously had some intelligence and knew about the students but why were they here? What where they doing here? Many questions filled his head but he was not going to speak his mind. IN a haze of blood and the sound of bone cracking, his arm went back to normal. He walked to edge of the building and simply leaped back up to the roof. He watched as the girl helped the boy with his wounds as he laid on the ground.

He showed no real emotional value towards the boy but it was of no consequence. He really didn't care, just it happens in a fight. He brought a simple knife to a fight without expecting things to go wrong. He sat down on the edge of the roof and just waited what to do next. In a way, mission complete...right?

"What now?"

He said.