"Silent night, holy night..."
The music played softly, but Alex was sure that nobody else could hear it. Nonetheless, the soft lullaby soothed his senses and brought low his guard, though it could not stop his eyes from darting across the room in a fervor. Surely they'd be beset upon at any...
As you draw closer together you begin to notice that the cuffs are emitting a strange aura, seemingly a blue tinged glow that gets stronger in proximity to another set of cuffs. Though damaged, they still appear to be linked in some way. The sooner they were off, the better, you assume. As your...
Blackness all around, stretching out in every direction, swallowing you whole. You can't tell if you're dreaming or suffering from some kind of sleep paralysis, but the result is the same. Unfolding in front of you is a menagerie of abstract colors and shapes, weaving and collecting and falling...
As time passes you can hear the stiff breeze turning to a bitter howling wind, biting at you with nips of cold. Autumn, they would have called it, if the seasons were distinguishable out here. The thick layer of dust could easily be mistaken for snow, and the shifts in temperature seemed random...
The ride continued underground for some time before light could be seen. The long wait had ended, and now the windows could be used for more than surveying the rock surrounding you. For four miles, the landscape passing by in the windows consisted of a dreary dead landscape stretching out for...
Tapping his foot impatiently didn't seem to do much to impede his anxiety, and Joel couldn't help but keep his eyes peeled the entire time Cameron was in his family's store. After all, this was RIGHT next to the alleyway where they had all met, one of the places that Edmond had stated they...
The blonde haired man straightened out his ruffled wrappings and went to finish his mug of poison. Being called out and even manhandled for simply stating fact struck a nerve with D'var, and he wanted nothing more to do with the easily offended midget. He wrapped his fingers around the wooden...
Slowly, Joel felt his weary eye creak open like rusty hinged shutters. The night before had been brutal, with barely a wink of sleep, but he managed to get enough to keep going. After all, he had a cup of his favorite tea to go along with it. Leaning up from his sleeping position, his body ached...
Being on edge the whole way to Edmond's mysterious lair didn't help the throbbing pain radiating from where he presumed the woman had hit him to make him fall unconscious. It wasn't a horrible pain, more like a headache than anything, but the whole trip was a daze. Eventually they entered his...
Joel barely managed to throw a weak and mostly useless chunk of rock at the woman before she disappeared. As she used her ability to vanish, he noticed something peculiar. His makeshift projectile, barely able to scratch a normal human, seemed to have vanished with her. What kind of stand...
His bold play had paid off. He had pissed her off enough to get away from her in his weakened state, but ultimately it backfired as he shot at breakneck speed towards Edmond. He thought for sure that he'd be killed, but Edmond managed to create an icy web of his own body to catch him. Joel was a...
Foggy... quiet... god, where am I? Something's happening, my head hurts... m-my neck! OW!
Suddenly, Joel's thoughts turned from formless shapes to sharp points as a slicing pain sounded off in his throat. No matter how hurt he might have been, that was enough to slice some sense into him...
Rapidly moving down the alleyway, the footfalls of someone escaping became closer and closer to the ears. However, their target had already become aware of their pursuit, and oddly had begun matching Edmond's undead fueled pace. It was a dead sprint down the night time alleys, with Joel's life...
Keeping a brisk pace didn't seem to slow any of them down as the man shooed them out of his store, as he found himself cut off from continuing down the street by that same woman. She introduced herself as Hachi, that was all Joel caught, and offered him a handshake. He found himself hesitating...
"What good is humor when wasted on the ears of the ignorant? I-" spoke D'var before being completely cut off by the shouting of a short, gruff man. Watching as he shooed off the other drinkers of the room, he nearly became one of the aforementioned removed patrons before affirming the man that...
Evidently, Joel didn't quite have the amount of control over his stand that he thought he did. Edmond may have been able to heal from most or even any wounds, but he didn't mean to injure him quite so badly. Filter's hand slammed into his closed fist, but it stayed resolute and shut, a signal of...
Joel raised an eyebrow at his proposition on the coins, interested but naturally cautious. As he looked over the table, eyeing the other two stand users down as to ascertain their intentions, he decided not to immediately go for the coins. It would be some nice pocket change, yes, but did he...
"Hey, I know you saw me, okay? What the hell are you two doing here? Did you-" Joel finally decided to say, before the front door swung wide and in stepped a familiar face to the three of them. Joel blinked a couple of times as Edmond metaphorically came crashing into the cafe, around when he...
Joel awoke slowly to the sight of the burning sun glowing in the sky, bathing the city in a great yellow light. His window was placed just perfectly in his room to catch it rising, a beautiful sight that he never got tired of. Groggily, he slowly picked himself up from the comfortable mattress...