Dead amongst the Living

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Stephen J. Constantine hardly ever had a moment where he was genuinely confused about something, but that moment didn't start when he hit the floor with an ungrateful, potential snack for the zombie. No, the moment of confusion began when the hideous zombie mimicked Stephen and fell to the floor just as afraid of the zombie, itself, as he was. It appeared that the thing didn't know what the hell it was, or it was trying to trick everyone in the room into being its meal.

All the hatred Constantine had for these soulless things fluttered for a second as he stood and looked down at the zombie. It seemed so innocent, but it didn't stop him from spitting, “YOU are the zombie. Jesus Christ, you just tried to eat someone!” Stephen had his hand wrapped around a flask of holy water in his pocket, but he didn't get a chance to dump it on the zombie.

Whether it was a flutter of a coat or a draft of air, Constantine didn't get a chance to pour the holy water on the poor monster. He looked behind him and saw something for a second, then it turned into a cloud. When something humanoid appeared on the floor, Constantine jumped backward away from it; this caused him to trip over the rigid zombie on the floor.

With another loud thunk, Constantine landed on the floor next to the zombie, but this time he held the flask. He accidentally splashed holy-water around the room as he fell. His head spun and throbbed from his impact.

Ow.


WORDS: 264
OUTFIT: Dress slacks, white shirt, red tie, suspenders, and his trench-coat
TAG: Jian @timecraked
@mimic
MUSE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_S9VvJM1PI
NOTES: Look at what you did.

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The metal man seemed to have about as much cognitive understanding to what was going on, as the undead girl, both assuming relative positions on the ground, because others did. At least the undead girl though, was following the instructions to stay safe from the zombie running around. Though of course, she had yet to realize that the zombie in question, was... well herself.

"Who zombie?" Jian's raspy dry voice croaked out, staring up at her own hand, the elongated fingers clenching down. The claws visibly shrank as any sort of thoughts of grasping vanished from the rather simple brain of hers. Her eyes followed Constantine's might spill to the ground, and her arm flopped, the end of one of the shrinking claws catching his coat. This turned Jian's, who's arm refused to bend, to lay on her side, with the hand laying on him for a moment. It was cold, and rather heavy. Or just seemed heavy, due to how cold it felt. Like it was sapping his heat.

The holy water, was just water to those around. Maybe a little uncomfortable getting splashed in a cooler room at night, but really just water. But a few seconds of Jian staring at her hand lying on Constantine's prone body, a loud sizzling sounded. The Holy Water, after these few seconds of staying, began reaction like acid. SSSSSSSS! Water on a hot surface, it smoked in its place. She slowly lifted her hand from his chest, shakily reaching to her face where it'd splashed. "Ow....." she lifted the finger away, the claws growing out again, smoking in the same way. "Ow, ow, ow, ow." Jian said, the volume of her voice rising, as her claws grew to their impressive length.

"Grrrr...." An inhuman growl, and then the sound of flapping filled the air as she became to dissolve, but not into something like goo. Her prone body became what looked like scores of bats, but more... not there. The water splashed on her hit splashed on the ground. They rapidly reformed away from the group so all could be within sight range. Solid, and angry. THe Lights right above her popped in a shower of sparks as they overloaded. The claws on both hands at her side. If it ever felt like one was going to die, standing in front of a pissed off looking monster, not just some pale girl.

Her mouth opened up, and it didn't look like a spotty bit of drool a child might have staring at a cookie, but a full on salivation. Her lips curled back, the white needle like teeth parting in a deafening hiss. Whatever Constantine had spilled around the room apparently had set her on edge.

All at once, the lights stopped flickering in the room, and she straightened up, the teeth shortening to a more normal length, and the monstrous presence disappeared, once again the little undead, began to look like a clumsy little girl again. "ow..." she said, the skin that'd been splashed taking a red tinge, the clothes at her shoulder burnt through as well to it, the red tinge similar to the burn, showing on the shoulder. "hello," she said, mimicking Andre's original greeting, upwards questioning tone and all.

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A strange cloud of mysterious and unknown origin had entered the room and formed into a humanoid shape, lying on the floor like the other three beings. Confused and trying to wrap his head around this odd occurrence and the whole situation, Andre was now half-up, sitting on his ass and watching things unfold. The stranger that had tackled him now jumped back from the new presence in the room, tripping on the first person he'd met tonight and splattering some kind of liquid around the room. It didn't smell, or taste odd... seemed to just be water.

Oddly enough the raspy voiced woman started to react as though it was burning her, and it seemed it was. Wailing in pain she hissed and smoke began to rise from her body. Moments later she dissipated into a cloud of seemingly incorporeal bats before reforming with a loud pop as the light bulbs exploded in a rain of sparks. Shocked and on edge, Andre pulled himself off of the floor. A malevolent feel echoed off of Jian now, honestly terrifying Andre. Her mouth drooled with sickening hunger and her lips recoiled to reveal her pointed teeth. Andre braced himself and prepared to make a mad dash if necessary. Suddenly, the lights stopped flickering as the straightened figure of Jian returned to her previous clumsy and innocent likeness. Andre was still edgy and confused but he loosened up a little. "...what just happened?" He asked aloud in a quiet tone.

He still hadn't questioned the new figure in the room either, faceless and wearing a cloak with metallic sheen to it's head area. "And what are you?" He didn't just want to know now, he was so jumpy at the moment that if he didn't find out he'd assume hostile intentions. He also wanted to know who the damn stranger that tackled him was, but he wasn't as strange as the ghoulish innocent girl and the faceless oddity.

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He had originally arrived with Stephen, but well, let's just say he was distracted easily. Raptor had never been in the T-Tower before. He had easily wandered off, transforming into a sleek black cat. He padded around the Tower, curiously seeing which rooms he could get into and which he couldn't. He'd even sat down outside of one room, a bedroom, and meowed a few times to see what would happen. Nothing happened, which was a bit of a disappointment. That was when he'd noticed he'd lost Stephen. He mewed once as if to call his team leader. When that didn't work, he took to sniffing the air. He started walking around and sniffing the air until he caught Stephen's scent, though he found it very hard to not get distracted by other scents.

It was like a maze, trying to follow Stephen's scent correctly through the Tower. He picked up speed, a black little kitten running through the Tower, following a scent like a search dog. As he ran, he tried to figure out how they'd gotten separated in the first place. He'd thought Stephen had been following him through the Tower. He paused, coming to a halt and tilting his head to the side. Or had he been supposed to follow Stephen...? That would make more sense.

Raptor transformed back to his "human" form, standing up straight and clad in his black and white costume. A black cat tail flicked behind him, but instead of cat ears on the top of his head, his human ears had become pointed instead. He didn't notice the difference, sniffing the air to catch Stephen's scent again.

When he finally found the group, the first thing he noticed was that Stephen was on the ground. Without even looking at anybody else, he rushed to Stephen's side, dropping down next to him.

"Stephen?" he was clearly concerned, focused on his teammate, not even noticing any possible threats. He placed a gloved hand down against the ground to balance himself, however his gloves were fingerless. A couple of his fingers, when he put his hand down, rested in some spots of holy water that had spilled. He became immediately aware of the painful burning. He snatched his hand back, hissing at the pain, his vampire fangs showing as the sharp hiss escaped him.

He looked around, his fingers red from the burn, trying to figure out what had hurt him. He didn't know it was holy water. Hell, he didn't even know holy water could hurt him. That was when he noticed they weren't alone. There was someone else, who looked like they'd been burned, and a young man. There was also some faceless guy. Whisper blinked. The faceless guy was creepy, he decided. He needed a face.

Cradling his hand with the burnt fingers against his chest, he childishly used his non-injured hand to poke Stephen in the side, still knelt down next to him. "Stephen? I don't think this is a good time to take a nap."


WORDS:; 505
OUTFIT:; costume (see app)
TAG:; stephenjconstantine , @timecraked , Jian , @mimic
MUSE:; Counting Stars by OneRepublic
NOTES:; Rappy, plz, be more helpful sheesh.