Rifts : Chaos Chronicles

[Kristev]

"Yes. And stay as close to me as you can. I am the eye of the hurricanes I summon."

[Mytical]

"I thought my powers with air were impressive." the girl seems impressed. She starts doing some sort of Martial Arts routine, almost like a dance. You see small gusts of wind forming around her. As her routine goes on the wind continues to gather. The odd thing is it does not seem to affect anything..yet. Not so much as putting a hair out of place for those in the path of the gathering air. It is very smooth and elegant. Finally she seems to have gathered all the air she desires, and unleashes it at the spot where Simon has suggest the rift to be.

[Kristev]

When everyone is ready, and as close to him as they can get for the protection this provides, Luigi begins the hurricane. (Anyone who didn't get close to him is going to get hurt.)

[Jay 2K Winger]

Simon stays close to the others, his Shard glowing brighter, the glowing spreading over half of his head as he concentrates his telekinesis on the spot where the Rift is, as if trying to pull it open using it. The glowing now takes his outstretched hand as well as he feels the wind picking up. "I just hope the hurricane won't do too much damage once we're finished!" he shouts over the wind.

[Mytical]

There is no worries about that, the energy drains almost as fast as it is gathered, right into the rift. Opening it..slowly at first, then quicker. Soon it is of a size for the elementals to pass through. It drains your shards completely, but they are now where they belong.

Almost on que you get a call from headquarters. "This is an emergency call, we have agents down at ((Coordinates that would be in the exact center of the other four rifts)). We have a hostile entity, and it is more then they can handle. I repeat, agents down .. we need back up!"

[Jay 2K Winger]

The glow winks out from Simon's Shard and his skin as soon as the elementals are through. He sags, breathing heavily and then cups his ear to hear the call from Company HQ. He groans. "I might have guessed. We have a priority call." He glances at Chris. "I think you can probably guess where."

Chris had been in Simon's lab at the Company, and seen the 'X'-shape made by drawing lines between the four recent Rifts.

"Something nasty's come through, and they need help." He sighs. "Great. Let's go."

[Chanlin]

Chris throws up his hands, "I'd like to get some sleep some time this century!" He huffs. "I'll try to get us all there." With that a wormhole pops up and Christina is standing next to it playing like one of the models from The Price is Right motioning at the opening, "After you." She flashes a cheesy smile.

[Mytical]

The wormhole winks out immediately, the energy of the shard completely drained. The transportation expert appears, and whisks you all way to your destination instead. Chris even returns to Chris, as there is not enough power for the change to the female.

When you arrive..there is a man standing in the middle of what seems to be a war zone. He is holding a wolfshead cane, dressed in early victorian garb. He has slicked back black hair in a pony tail, and slightly pale skin. Quite a few military personnel are laying on the street, some obviously dead..others just injured.

"I will say it again." the figure says dusting himself off calmly. "I have come for what is mine. Interfere and die."

[Jay 2K Winger]

Simon considers the scene when he arrives on the scene of the carnage. He sees the totally not ominous neo-Victorian guy who is absolutely not probably the devil and grimaces. His eye-patch is back in place over his Shard in his eye socket. "Oh, this is promising," he says dryly.

[Mytical]

The man perks up as the group teleports in. "Ah, now that is more like it. Ask and ye shall receive." He eyes the girl, then Simon, then back to the girl. "Oh my dear, so unfortunate for you." You think you blink or something because he is then standing beside the girl ((There is a blurry trail for a split second from where he was standing to where he is standing however)). "You have something of mine, but do to the nature of these stones..I can not claim it while you live. It would just come back to you."

The girl stands straight, you can tell she is afraid, but she doesn't bat an eye. "You don't scare me."

The man chuckles. "Spunk I like that." Then he gets serious. "You should be afraid little girl. I am something that goes bump in the night. Something from mans darkest nightmares." A flash of .. is that FANGS? He draws back his hand as if to swipe at her..((This happens to fast for anybody to even blink)) but shadowy tendrils grab his hand and toss him back some. He lands on his feet, however, seemingly not to surprised.

"I am afraid, I can not allow that." Shadow Tiger steps from the shadows.

"If it is not my brothers lap dog." The figure dusts himself off again, after breaking the shadowy tendril. "You know you can not stop me."

"I know, and I do not plan on being the one to stop you." He turns to the others. "Start evacuating everybody, especially anybody with a shard. NOW."

[Chanlin]

Chris being out of power doesn't need to be told twice and scrambles off to find people that need evacuating.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Simon finds himself wishing he'd purchased or acquired a gun somewhere along the line as he watches Mister Ominous (for lack of any other name for the totally-not-the-devil-himself-probably) threaten Miss Airbender (since no one had gotten a name for her).

When Shadow Tiger turned up to stop him, Simon likewise didn't need any further telling. His Shard was still drained after opening the Air Elemental Rift, so he just ran to some of the fallen Company agents and quickly checked them for signs of life. Finding someone who was still alive, he grabbed him under the arms and dragged them over to Chris.

[Kristev]

Luigi will assist if anyone needs medical care. If there's nothing he can do, he will begin helping with the evacuation.

[Mytical]

((If anybody is still near where the initial confrontation is))

"He wouldn't dare. Too many innocents, with too much chance of collateral damage." Scoffs he-who-is-not-the-devil.

"Greater lives would be loss if you are successful." Shadow Tiger opens a shadow portal..and out steps..He-who-is-not-the-devil..only with wild hair and scraggly beard.

The new figure has two silver manacles on his wrists, with strange symbols ((Symbols that while Luigi would not know WHAT they mean, would recognize as ancient gypsy symbols if he saw them)). Almost as soon as this new person is through the gate, the manacles snap open and fall to the ground. He starts transforming into..you guessed it..a werewolf.

Immediately he-who-is-not-the-devil says. "YOU!" Then turns into a bat, and beats a hasty retreat as fast as his wings can carry him.

As soon as Shadow Tiger is sure he is gone, he opens another shadow portal, and throws the werewolf through it, and picks up the manacles. Over the radio. "Threat averted. All clear."

[Kristev]

"What on earth was all that?" Luigi asks.