Atlantis: Between Gadgets and Ships... (Complete)

[iuma]

As Sweet turned around his smile disappeared when Audrey, Nyra, a fellow soldier and Roxas appeared all carrying a wounded soldier. The doctor could tell by the look in Audrey's face that they were in critical condition. The fear of their death was so clearly present in the tough Latina girl's eyes.
The tall man righted himself and quickly rolled up his sleeves while shouting:
"Alright, lay them down here, stat. Nice in a row with 3 feet between them."

When the first one was laid down, Sweet crouched down and investigated his patient. Soon discovering the gaping stab wound that was endangering it's life. Thick darkred blood was gushing out as a main artery had been cut open.
Sweet knew that there wouldn't be enough in the first aid kits he scavenged to treat them all.

Then Roxas appeared beside him with some of the potions that were in the bag that the white dog had fetched. Explaining them while chucking down a Hi-potion in the poor sap he had dragged over. To the dark skinned doctor's surprise again, the bleeding stopped immediately. Of course, the potions! His medical training had taken over when the wounded came that he momentarily didn't though of that option. Taking hold of one of the mega-elixirs the doctor started to administer it to the wounded. Handing one over to Audrey, Nyra and Lumaria in disguise to. Telling them to use them on the victims.
For all the other stabbed soldiers that were to come, Sweet confided over them with the large collection of potions.
Working his way from the most potent healing potions down the line till the least effective ones.

As their lives became saved, Sweet sighed with relief. But not long after that he gave Audrey a worried look as he asked her:
"Audrey, these men were all stabbed in the last 10 to 15 minutes. What happened?"

While awaiting her answer, Sweet looked over at Bolt and suddenly had an idea. Quickly he said to the dog:
"Hey buddy, you want to help? Guard the patients and the wounded for me. Don't let anybody suspicious near them OK? Good boy."

Turning to Audrey again he continued:"Remind me to buy him the biggest, tastiest and juiciest bone we can find OK."

[Deleted]

Seed
"This, could be fun"

Seed sneered at Roxas; that obnoxious little bastard. He gave him another slap on the back as he practically whispered, "For a kid you talk alot. Don't let that light of yours cloud the darkness staring at you in the face..." he gave a very quick point to Lumaria. Then he said for all to hear, "Well since I am older than blondie here I dont think I'll take any order from him. So I'm staying." he moved his body through space once more and was sitting on top of the crashed space pod and sighed. Today was getting worse and worse; Lumaria took him as a traitor and even Seed took an insult to that. Well that was life wasn't?

"Ask me its all your guy's damn fault anyway, being bad pilots and all." Seed said as he moved his body over to the main crash site; he was leaning on a slab of steel with his arms crossed. He did, however, take notice of Sweets question and answered with utmost pride.

"Oh, that would be the doing of the guy I killed. Though I had no idea he was stabbing his companions at the time, I simply killed him of sheer boredom. If you want to thank a "hero" than talk to Lu...that guy over there." Seed pointed to Lumaria and then glanced over at Roxas and then Zexion and gave an odd smirk. Truth be told Seed wanted Lumaria to be found out, only fitting a person thinking a traitor is amongst him be treated as such.

Seed
"Forget it, you're just. To. Boring."

[Ellie who has 0%]

//Alrighty lovely people Shunny will be M.I.A, so any plot whores in this thread can take over for him please do. I would, but XD I have sooo have no idea what's going on here//

[Zephiris]

(( End of Round 4 (a little late, my apologies), Round 5 ends February 15th. I shall keep things moving with Audrey until Shunny returns. ))

A U D R E Y R A M I R E Z
"NO TOQUES NADA!"

Satisfied that her words had spurred others to assist in carrying the wounded back to Sweet, Audrey shifted the man in her sturdy arms and continued towards the doctor. As they approached him, however, Nyra pulled up beside her and began to speak urgently.

Audrey sighed gustily. She realized that the other girl deserved an explanation, but was still unsure if she could reveal information beyond the fact that they were flying, and had crashed. Atlantis was too precarious a secret. The untold riches it housed. . . the more in on the expedition, the less rewards for everybody, right?

Then, Audrey was jolted back to reality. Their crew was split across multiple worlds. Many were dead. The equipment was broken. At this rate, they weren't going to Atlantis any time soon.

"Alright," she decided out loud. She'd tell Nyra, and the others here she trusted would be able to help reunite the crew and find the lost city. However, just as the decision was made in her head, a few words from Dr. Sweet behind her caught the latina's attention.

"Audrey, these men were all stabbed in the last 10 to 15 minutes. What happened?"

She spun around slowly, hands inching to her hips in a subconscious mirror of the female beside her. "What?" Audrey said, at a loss, already confused about the chain of events that had just occurred. Exactly how much time had passed since the man in the pod had been murdered? She turned to Roxas as he sifted through a convenient pile of potions nearby, and quirked one eyebrow. The blonde seemed to have recognized the man in the green. Did he have any idea what was going on?

Said man had also traveled to the main crash site, making Audrey distinctly uncomfortable, and responded to Sweet's words in a tone that caused her eyes narrow angrily. Turning away from him, she focused on the man he indicated, and nodded. "Lu?" she queried.

A U D R E Y R A M I R E Z
"TWO FOR FLINCHING"

[poseidon]

Zexion looked at Seed as soon as he approached. Looking him up and down, he set his face. "Seed. So... interesting to meet you. I'm sure you already recognize me from my abilities. Who else can do this?" he asked, and summoned an enormous illusion of a Twilight Thorn to the side, standing at the foot of the hill they were on. Of course, to the others, they would think it was real. Seed would be able to see through it.

"I must say, I'm quite tired of people copying my abilities, from Vexen's creation to filthy Heartless. It's not a very nice thing to do. Maybe they'll give it to a Hume next, or a dog?" He added the last part with a glance at the white dog.

[Jason Arilani]

[You said everyone else would think it is real, and you never said you got rid of it, so yeah.]

Bolt heard the words come from Dr. Sweet asking him to guard the wounded from any potential outsiders that would cause them further harm. Bolt barked lightly showing that he understood. But as he went over to the pile, he saw a large being appear at the foot of the hill. It was a silver colored being with a strange symbol on his head. He immediately started barking, alerting the others to its presence. He didn't like it being there, but wasn't sure what to do. If Penny was there, she would direct him to attack or help or something. But Penny wasn't there, so he wasn't sure what to do.

His eyes quickly shot forward as he launched beams of hot energy toward the large creature, not able to even see what it did to it. It was farther away then Bolt had expected, but the energy would still reach it anyway. Even though it was an illusion, Bolt couldn't tell that. He had never seen it before, and he didn't have a scent of it before to know. He looked at the two that were conversing back to where Audrey just was and immediately didn't trust them. They didn't seem fazed by the large creature that appeared and that made Bolt even more suspicious. For that reason, Bolt wouldn't allow them to come closer if they tried. His power was greater then most would think. And he might just have to demonstrate it if necessary.

[xraivex]

(If it's all right for me to join, I'll step in! ^_^ If not, that's okay too. You can tell me to delete my post and I will.)

Setsuna Hirodomo quickly slid down the hill on his shield, cursing to himself. Of course, he couldn't be everywhere at once. But he blamed the ominous crashing sound on himself, thinking that it could have been avoided had it not been for those guys in white.

Or so he thought.

"Damn!" He muttered to himself. "I need to get stronger... so I can protect those who need it!"

Drawing upon the crash site, he became aware of various things; for one, the wrecked craft upon the ground drew his attention for the most part. But then, his attention became fixed on a few other things, his eyes darting quickly from one person/action to the next.

First, he noticed a man in a flowing, black cloak address someone with bright green hair. However, the green-haired man did not seem to notice the man in the black cloak; he was addressing another figure in black, a bit smaller in stature, but from the look on the green-haired one's face, one harbored extreme dislike for the other. Perhaps Setsuna could call it hatred.

He next noticed a small, white dog shoot beams from its eyes. Setsuna swore in surprise. He never thought a dog could do that! Perhaps this was no ordinary dog...

He next noticed a broad, dark-skinned man ordering others to lay out wounded men from the wreckage. From his ministrations, Setsuna surmised that he was obviously a doctor... but he had never noticed any of these people (or creatures, in the dog's case) here before. He rode down to the dark-skinned man on his shield and whipped it to his side. "Sir. I couldn't help but hear the crash. I take it many are wounded... is there any way I can help?"

As he awaited the doctor's answer, he looked back at the green-haired man. Next to him, also looking at him with extreme disdain (as far as Setsuna could tell) was another man. But Setsuna immediately had a sense of unease from both the cloaked figures, the green-haired man, and the man next to him.

Turning his attention back to the doctor, he addressed him more quietly. "What is going on? Could you please tell me? ...Did it have anything to do with mysterious figures in white? Kind of sinuous creatures with zippers in place of their mouths?" He made his voice slightly louder here, in case anyone here knew about them.

[sumdood]

DAMN YOU SEED, SHUT YOUR MOUTH! IF YOU BLOW MY DISGUISE, YOU WILL REGRET EVER HAVING CROSSED PATHS WITH ME![/b] Lumaria screamed in his mind, though he kept any hint of anger from his face. It was time to silence this cretin, so Lumaria started calming any soundwaves that Seed created, including the ones that allowed him to speak to others. In short, they might see his mouth move, but the soundwaves would be dead before they could reach anyone else's ears.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Lumaria responded to Seed, furrowing his brow at the green haired heartless,"My name is Jacob. I've never seen you before in my life, and nobody has even called me Lu, or anything close to that."

Lumaria was getting tired of Seed's little antics. He was like a child, really. You have to smack him around a little sometimes. However, Lumaria wasn't all that forgiving. He would allow Seed to continue his miserable existence, but only until he'd finished his little mission here, and helped devour the Heart of Atlantis. Then Lumaria would come back and leave nothing left of Seed....

[Deleted]

((Okay....really? I dont have a problem with sound manipulation as a power, but making it to where I have nothing to post anymore because you basically muted Seed? No, not going to fly here. With what you did I'd only be able to make like two sentence posts...))

[sumdood]

(Seed, sorry, but I'm fully within the rules here. I didn't affect Seed's ability to speak, per se7n but the ability of his words to reach others' ears. Also, I'm sure there's plenty for you to do. Just improvise a little. If you wish to continue this discussion, please PM me so we don't clutter up the thread.)

[iuma]

Just as there future was finally starting to shine bright again, clouds gathered. Sweet became overwhelmed with chaos as a number of things were all transpiring around him. Luckily by the use of the potions, the patients no longer needed his attention and the tall man could concentrate on their current situation.

As Seed then confessed in killing off one of their crew, Sweet looked at him with a startled look. Immediately there was this vibe, this tension coming from the green haired man that made the broad man feel uneasy. Those words and the manner in which he spoke them. As if killing was an uninteresting and meaningless task. Sweet instinctively feared the Heartless. Fearing it to be psychotic and unpredictable. Noticing the joy on Seed's face as he explained why he did it made Sweet even more upset.
Then came the suggestion toward the soldier of the crew that helped carrying a wounded over to Sweet. Sweet first didn't know how to respond to the implication. After hearing how Jacob defended himself, the doctor shook away the paranoïd thoughts as he said:
"Audrey, don't let some stranger who just confessed being a cold blooded killer sow distrust among our own ranks. What we really need right now is to stick together. Like peas in a pot."

Sweet's attention was then drawn by the alarming barking of the white dog. Following it's gaze the doctor gasped as he laid eyes upon the Twilight Thorn that was standing at the bottom of the hill. Seeing the monster that looked like it came from somebodies nightmare.
Then a second surprise startled him as the white dog shot out laser beams from it's eyes at the monster.
Overwhelmed Sweet yelled out loud:
"Ok, now this really doesn't need to get anymore crazy then that."

Then Setsuna came sliding down from the top of hill, arriving at the doctor, offering his help. At first Sweet was careful. With all the strange and dangerous people around one could never be sure. Still the young man in the vest and jeans looked sincere in wanting to help. Quickly Sweet answered Setsuna while pointing at the Twilight Thorn:
"The wounded are taken care of, but we need now to take care of that.

The wounded were now indeed been taken care of. It did cost the entire supply of healing potions that Bolt had acquired, but all military personal were up and walking again.
Quickly they armed and readied themselves as slowly the crew started to take matters back into their own hands. A small platoon formed behind Bolt as they readied their rifles at the Twilight Thorn. But still holding fire for now. Awaiting what the large creature would do.

Wilhelmina Packard

Sighing she gave up. She had tried all this time to make contact with the rest of the expedition. She had picked up and listened to every possible signal that was out there. Local radio mostly. But no matter what she did, she couldn't get a hold of Margie again. She put out the twentieth cigarette out in the helmet she used for an ashtray. Some unlucky soldier had forgotten his in the pod. Her bony fingers reached for her pack as she tried to pull out the next. After banging on the back, still no cigarette shot out of the open package. With a displeased look Wilhelmina peered inside the hole to see where it was hiding. And then saw the pack was empty. Glancing around she noticed that all her cigarette's were gone.
With a sigh she turned off the radio and started to climb out of the pod.
Not paying attention to any of the dangers around her she walked slowly passed them all and started to walk away.

Sweet seeing Misses Packard pass shouted after her:
"Hey, Wilhelmina? Where are you going?"

The old woman snarled back:
"Off to the train station to buy some cigarettes. I heard on the radio it's the only important thing here in this town."

Sweet was baffled for a moment. But as her words sank in, a luminous idea sprouted in the dark skinned doctor's mind.
"Hey Audrey, the train station sounds like a good place to go. It's big enough for all of us to take temporary shelter. And maybe we can find a train that gets us out of here and back on track... Get it? Back on track?"

[xepte]

Roxas shook his head, looking at the cloaked schemer and a hint of exasperation seeped into his voice. "Zexion, get rid of that stupid illusion." The twilight thorn... heh, I haven't seen that guy in a while... I wonder if I can still summon him?

Roxas was also disgusted by the whelp known as Seed. Maybe the kid was older than the Key of Destiny, but that didn't speak for his actions. Maybe some people could be sick like that, just killing whomever, but seriously? I really wish Xemnas coulda kept him... chained to a wall or something. Or maybe inside that sphere he was in...

He opened his mouth to retort to Seed, when he heard the big black guy say something about staying within the train station. Roxas walked over to the group and looked at Sweet. "That's not a bad idea. The train station should have enough space for you all to stay in, safely anyway. But you're still going to need to be careful, and keep up a watch."

Roxas blatantly omitted what they would need to watch for: if it wasn't already obvious, the expedition would have a long and hard journey ahead of them.

"What do you need to move to the Train station? do you have any kind of shelters or something like that? any equipment? Whatever you need to move, let me know, ok?"

[Deleted]

(So be it Sum)

Seed
"Don't be such a baby!"

Seed only gave a cocky smirk to Lumaria as he ignored Zexion altogether. That arrogant Heartless is like a child, always needing to be right and in charge. He started to talk back once more to "Jacob" but when he opened his mouth even he couldn't hear his words and by the attention his "voice" wasn't getting Seed assumed no on else could either. "Pfft," Seed mused to himself, "Lu-lu thinks he can silence me? Ha! He obviously doesn't know my powers can literally speak for themselves!"[/i]. The Heartless crossed his arms and gave a very obvious eye roll as an illusion Seed appeared next to the real Heartless and once next to "Jacob".

The illusion next to Seed spoke first, "Oh bravo, bravo. Whoever is the one that bends sound to their will? Genius really, trying to shut this guy," the illusion gave a nudge to the real Seed, "Up. Oh, but wait. I can talk for him! Real nice try." the illusion narrowed his eyes at Lumaria as the illusion Seed next to the Dark XII member placed a hand on his shoulder and said,

"Jacob, a word?!" and in an instant he and Lumaria were a few yards away. Seed found it best to speak through his illusion first before Lumaria attacked. However, an image of Lumaria stayed behind to not draw that much attention to duo.

"First off, cut the shit Lumaria. Keep this act of thinking I'm a traitor up and I'll do more than bend your body off the planet." the fake Seed image wavered a bit. Being far away from its source would eventually make the illusion fade, so Seed continued before it would vanish altogether.

"What makes you think I'd betray the XII anyway, THEY GAVE ME MY LIFE BACK! Elaeus gave me purpose and meaning and you'd think I would betray him like that?! NO WAY!. I don't want to be a freak on a leash for Xemnas. So you can either keep thinking I'm scum or think of a way to use me inside the Organization to Ansems advantage" the illusion vanished as the real Seed brought Lumaria back to where he was to contemplate what he was told.

However, with his voice still being blocked the other illusion spoke up once more. "Hmm, guess you're lucky the Train Station's been fixed then. Though I doubt it will be any help..."

Seed
"And get to thinking about how this can be useful"

[Ellie who has 0%]

(-3- You guys are...ridiculous to the point I'll have to say it differently...ridonkulous.)



Wihemina turned around to look at this so call crew she was hired into. Her knuckles rested on her hip as she watched everything very unamused; at her age nothing really can be surprising. One thing she did know...she needed some cancer and wanted to get paid, "Come on you're becoming slower than I am."

Looking up she saw a wierd tall white thing, "Sweet Nibblets...this is like the first time I tried pot. Marge would love to here this."

Shrugging it off, she turned around heading towards the Train station.
{exit}

[Those who wish to move...post thy exit. The rest of you can keep your Self-Servitude and Cock Fighting here. For now on post rounds are 3 days long.]

[Zephiris]

Nyra tried to hold her adamant pose, but the strange occurrences around her tore her thoughts away from whatever Audrey was about to tell her. Her golden eyes tracked the movements of another of Seed's illusions, the blue-haired man's terrifying heartless beast, the recovered tread of every last one of the fallen soldiers, and then finally, the retreating back of an old women she hadn't particularly noticed until then.

She didn't understand all that was going on, but felt certain it had little to do with her. With no words Nyra listened and tried to take in as much as possible. Later she would try to make sense of all that was going on, but right then she decided to do what seemed the most logical - follow the gray haired old women.

Before she could take a step forward, Nyra caught eyes with Audrey and jerked briefly with her head in the old woman's direction. She still wanted to know what was going on. It seemed as though this wasn't the place for Audrey to explain anything, and the high tension lacing the air had pulled the atmosphere taut. Trying to relax, Nyra beckoned with her hands to the surviving crew members and led the way after the old lady. She felt a danger still lurking in the crash site. Yes, it'd be best to pull everybody away.

(( Nyra exit. ))