Child Of Darkness

@@Drago Ryder, Shana scoffed as the, odd looking person walked away. Spouting off excuses as to why she had been looking at them. She didn't believe her for a second though.

 

"Welcome, I suppose I should say welcome to this town Blitz. Though I would say that staying around here longer than you have any need to is a bad idea, what with the way humans view our species. Consider yourself lucky to bump into me, I know this town a little so tell me what you need and I'll be nice and help you out."

@@Drago Ryder, Shana lost her balance a little and stumbled a little backwards after being bumped into. Regaining her composure, she was a little surprised at getting an apology out of someone. But after taking in a good look of this person, the fact that he too was of the same species as her made this encounter all the more unusual. But it was in an acceptable way. "Oh? I'm surprised. Another Neko has found their way into the town. Well how about that. With how human settlements are nowadays, moving from place to place is an absolute pain. Not everyday I see another a non human, rarer still one of my race. But manners." Shana stretched out her hand to greet the new person. "The name is Shanalott Windbreaker. Sell sword by trade under the, slightly annoying nickname Loli Rose, you can call me Shana. Rolls off of the--"

 

@@Yoshikupo, 

Shana cut herself off mid sentence, feeling more eyes fixated on her. It shouldn't be a guard, so she knew a way to make the situation awkward. With a single motion of her head, she tilted to face towards Banner and started staring directly into her eyes. Not moving, not saying anything, just smiling as she always does.

Shana was getting fed up with the guards eyes constantly following her around. Simply because she was not a human, she was instantly thought of as a threat. Well, they're right to worry, but that is beyond the point. She would never get anything done like this. She needed to get rid of them, and she had a plan to so just that. While walking down the streets she took a stop just before an ally way, looking around over her shoulder to give the impression she was up to no good, she walked into the ally way and round a corner, out of sight of the guards.

 

Just as planned, one of the guards was sent to follow her. Shana climbed a bit up a wall as to be out of his sight a waited for him to come around. Once the guard did, she could see the confusion on his face from up where she was. The ally she walked into was a dead end, but she was nowhere to be seen. Anyone would be confused. As the guard walked further down the ally way, Shana climbed down from the walls, blocking his escape. With her not being in direct contact with the sun, her powers are working as best as they can be during day time. Should could easily take care of one weak willed guard.

 

"Nothing? What in the world is going on? Vanishing Neko's. what's next?" 'What, what is that feeling? Why do I feel something behind me. I feel terrified to move.'

 

After seeing that the guard was almost paralysed by hear presence when using her Vampire powers, she deducted he must be very weak. Maybe she got lucky this time with her draw. She spoke in a rather high tone, one that sounded happy, innocent and almost childish. Completely different from the aura she emitted. "Oh? This much an effect from just by my being here? You must be new to this job. Well, no complaints from me. Hahaha." Shana quickly repositioned herself in front of the guard, keeping that large smile spread across her face. The guard reeled back and fell to the ground, still unable to rightfully move or yell for aid. While taking in what he was facing, he made the mistake of making eye contact with Shana. "Got you." Shana crouched on top of the guard, bringing her eyes close to his. "You're going to listen to what I say. It is in your best interests to do so. You know that don't you?"

 

The life in the guards eyes seemed to drain away, as he slowly stopped panicking and become more relaxed. Shana had just brainwashed him into becoming a temporary servant husk. "You go and tell your captain that I don't seem to be suspicious, so it's a waste of time following me. Do that for me."

 

"At once."

 

The guard did just that. Returning from the ally, relaying the message as he had been instructed. It worked as intended as the guards moved on to another area. Shana emerged from the ally way once they had moved on and restarted he search. Now with a lot more freedom. 

Shana looked up towards the sun as she stood in the town square. She had to say, it was a pleasant day. It would be better if she didn't have town guards closely following her from behind. She pretended not to notice them and went about her business. She would be travelling again in a day or two so needed a little special something for the road. ​'Human blood. It tastes dirty, metallic and bitter. But it's blood non the less. Where's an inn? They're always a good place.' Her train of thoughts wondered as she started her search around the area for an inn. Judging from how the town was built and where she was, it shouldn't take too long.

"You know, originally I had hopes that I might be able to get a group that can actually do things together as a team. You know, the basic fundamentals of working together to tackle a task in which you are far outmatched, considering the strengths and weaknesses of everyone and forming a plan that works best for the team. It's basic military. What do any of you know about discipline and organised strikes? Whatever, it seems like we have at least some form of plan that involves. Dancing with snipers followed by a fractional assault, most likely engaging at mid range fire fights. Without sniper support they have no chance of attacking the back line allowing our snipers to assist in the main fighting without the worry of being shot back. All right, that works for now. Have you taken into consideration their Power armour deployment, explosives, do you have ideas of your flanking routes both to a for, have you taken into consideration that they literally control creatures that can burrow beneath you, pop out of the ground at any point and kill you before you have time to react? We're going to die aren't we?"

 

'Never leave amateurs to do a professionals job.'

@@Jellal Fernandes, Start it when every you want. I'm free for the next 4 days

Name: Shanalott Windbreaker

 

Age: 20

 

Gender: Female

 

Race: Nekomimi (Cat Girl) Vampire

 

Physical description(or picture): Shana is a short person, only standing at a tiny 4'9" with a large portion of this being taken up by her rather long legs for her size. Her vampiric side makes her skin very pale, her eyes also shift between their natural yellow with slit pupil and a black Sclera, to a dark crimson shade when she intends to preform a vampiric act. Fangs are a natural thing for her race, but being a vampire makes hers slightly longer and much sharper than the average other Nekomimi. Her hair is shoulder length and silver coloured, she tends to keep split so that most of her hair flows down the right side of her head and a small part down the left. Her tail is rather fluffy and long, it is the same shade of colour as her hair. He ears are also fluffy silver, while also being tall and pointed. She also has a proportionally large chest, at roughly 32 inches. Rather large for her size.

 

Personality: Shana is a rather cheerful individual that rarely ever looses the smile on her face and does often try to brighten up the day for people she likes. She's outgoing and social with almost no regard for boundaries set by people she doesn't really care for, no regard for moral codes and no feelings on ethics. The happy-go-lucky attitude she has almost never goes away under any circumstances. Making her appear as a very cold person despite the positive attitude she tries to emit to everyone.

 

Skills:

Neko Nose: A species wide trait, her nose is much more sensitive than a human, allowing her to smell in much greater detail from much further away. This does allow her to smell the unique scents of races, letting her determine the location of any surrounding personnel and their race. Also very good for tracking the nearest piece of food. Her Vampire side also increases her sensitivity to the scent of blood.

Neko Ears: Hypersensitive hearing allows for Shana to listen at much greater detail than a human ear could. Allowing her to hear farther, more detail and a wider range of wave lengths. Making stealth around her very difficult.

Eyes Of A Vampire: On top of her already increased eye sight from being a Neko, Vampiric eyes grant her a natural night vision and make them more sensitive to any colour contrast and motion she may spot.

Master Blade Dancer: Specialising most of her offensive attacks in a mix of swordsmanship and magic, Shana has mastered her own sword technique she calls Blade Dancing. This fighting style works on the principle, "If you don't get hit, you don't need defence." As such he attacks focus more on striking quickly in large arch's. Attack in huge AOE's rather than focus bursting a single target. While her strikes are not powerful per hit, the speed at which she and her blade moves means multiple successive hits will soon start to stack and deal tremendous amount of pain. The "Kill it with bug bites tactic." Alongside the relentless offensive, Shana moves her body in unnatural motions and patterns while fighting, making it seem like she is dancing around her foes with a sword. Hence the Blade Dancer. This motion makes her difficult to track because of the speed and unpredictability of her motions. She does have one defensive ability, in which she creates 5 phantom swords that spin around her in circles. These swords do not attack, instead they just block incoming attacks and are destroyed in the process.

 

Magical or otherwise abilities(if any at all): Shana can use a variety of magic to aid her in and out of battle.

Status buff: Status based damage is applies to Shana's weapon for a short amount of time. Every swing of her blade will carry an additional effect. These can vary between, Holy, Dark, Fire, Ice, Lightning, Bleed, Magic, Poison and Cursed.

Charm: An ability from her Vampire side. Shana can cast this subtly by making eye contact with anyone. People under the influence of this spell and much more likely to listen to what she says and obey her every command.

Night Blood: While in contact with the moon, Shana's other abilities are increased by a tremendous amount and require less energy and focus to cast or use. Downside is, while in contact with the sunlight, Shana is weaker and has to focus more on casting and using abilities. While in the shade, so no contact from either celestial entity, Shana's powers are not multiplied or reduced.

Undead: Technically undead, Shana does not need to follow some of the laws of the living. She does not need to breath, does not need to eat regular food or drink water. Her heart does also not need to pump and so it lies dead in her body. All of this makes Shana's body naturally cold, but this is countered by her being able to control how hot her body feels to others through some simple sensory illusions. This also means she does not die by regular methods. Fire is her weakness and one of the methods that can kill her. Holy damage is also very fatal to her.

Regeneration: Slowly, Shana will regenerate her wounds when relaxing. Lost limbs will disintegrate and lost blood will evaporate and slowly start to rebuild themselves over the course of what is usually 24 hours. Smaller wounds will be fully healed within minutes and deadly wounds within a few hours.

 

Back story: Shana does not remember much of her life before she became a Vampire 15 years ago, nor does she really want to remember a time when she wasn't a Vampire. All she remembers from back then is that for some reason, she really hates humans. Since getting bitten and turned at the age of 5 Shana lived a rather tough life, she and her adoptive mother, who was the Vampire who turned her, lived mostly on the move, taking odd jobs to blend in and not arouse suspicion from the Magic inquisition. At age 13, the Vampire that had been caring for Shana vanished without a trace leaving Shana to care for herself. She never did found out what became of her. She became a sell sword, moving from town to town, selling her skills as a travelling companion, which never use to end well when travelling in large groups in a few different ways. Now aged 20, Shana still does roughly the same thing as she has done for 7 years. Travelling, killing and feeding.

 

Weapons/Gear: Shana's sword is a single edged curved sword, with a reinforced hit and fine sharpened blade. It falls under the category of a Falchion. She wears a Gothic Loli red and black dress, thigh high socks, red boots and a red bow in her hair. (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tg3F46czL._SY355_.jpg). Always makes sure to carry at least enough gold for herself to get accommodation and spend on weapon maintenance.

 

Companions(if any): Non

 

Motivation: Hates Humans. Wants to take every chance she can get to make their lives miserable.

 

Alternate aliases(if any): Loli Rose, The Dancer, Kitten

 

Yes I did some rather major changes to her.

After a time walking back through the mountain passes, White saw his group had moving forward slightly sooner than planned. It didn't matter much, he was positive the defences of home will hold. He came towards them at an angle as to make it seem like he had be skirting around the mountain before making himself noticed. 

 

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@@Meson Bolt,

@@Ethan Sawyer,

@@Ranger22,

 

 

"Hey, idiots A though Z. You're earlier than I anticipated. Can't complain, that's more of a good thing than anything else. Sooner we get going the better. I just want to make sure we all have this clarified in our heads. We do have a plan, that we all know and we're all going to follow right? We all know how to shoot and non of us will think twice about putting a 100 bullets into a Raider? Okay?"

 

 

"Say, any new theories on life, the universe and everything?"

 "Trust me. Even talking about one theory I have developed during this short boat trip would take more time than we have on here. If you're really that interested I can tell you some stories one on one. Though I'm sure anything I say would have either been disregarded in the future or expanded upon further. I'm hoping for the latter." Wade smiled happily to himself as he finished off his glass, tapping the bar gently twice asking for another. 'Just one more. Can't get too drunk. I need to keep my head on me. Though, maybe later tonight. I don't see much issue with letting my guard down then. Yeah, I'll do that.'

@@Meson Bolt, Yeah, and I am sorry for not posting. But I have some personal issues right now, and I don't write anything unless it's to the best of my ability.

@@MoodRaiser, What Typos? Can you point them out?

Hey, any room for me to be squeezed in somewhere?

 

 

 

@@Pucksterv,@@Unicorncob, @@Ethan Sawyer,  

 

Wade nodded to the bartender, confirming that the two new people are also with him. Giving a small nod of his own, the bartender brought out three more of the same bottle and placed them down on the counter. "Enjoy."

 

Wade himself was just relaxing a little bit off to the side of everyone else. Since he didn't really have anything to say or add to the conversation, he would just go back to being silent until he is needed or finds something to do.

"Aww what? Why do you have to go already? You essentially only just got here. Come on, don't be like that."

 

"Blood, you know I'd stay if I could. But for now I have to get back to the others. I have to keep my disguise and make sure they follow out the plan we have set out. Keep them funnelled along the path we set out. So I have to get going."

 

"Fine then. Go and do your things then. We already know how this will turn out and it's you we're talking about so I have no worries."

 

"Yeah yeah, thanks for letting me borrow one of these gas masks. Good to keep a general appearance. The slight extra padding on the Cage armour is nice and should help me tank a bullet or two more. I'll bring this back in one or two pieces. Maybe. Who knows? Anyway, I'll see you later. Maybe tonight, if not early tomorrow. Gonna be a busy day for us  One last thing. I'll be taking this Stealth Buck. Kind of need it to get back unseen."

 

White left the main building and entered back into the town. From the top of the crater he took one look back at the town before activating a stealth buck, and heading back down the mountain to meet up with the group.

@@Mentis Soliloquy, The sound of the announcement came as a rather big surprise. Shutting down the beach on the day of a festival and not give a reason why was particularly strange. And a corporation? What in the world was she talking about? "I don't know what is going on here Bass, but it looks like we should leave as soon as we can. I'd rather not have to pay a fine. Let's get out, grab Shizuko and our stuff and leave. Maybe your superiors would know something about this? If not I can do some research." Ryo returned to the shore from the water, Shizuko was ready to meet him.

 

"Bro, what's going on? Why are we being forced to leave. I didn't have time to execute my plans."

 

"Knowing you, you were planning something evil. I don't know why we're being told to leave, but I don't want a to have a pay a fine."

 

"Good point. We need to keep the money."

 

"We'll get out stuff and then head off. Worm through the crowds and get a head start alright."

 

"Roger." Shizuko skilfully worked her way through the crowds of people and began to pack up everyone's things. While doing so she looked over to the sand castle she had made. "It was fun while it lasted."

"Hmph, very well. But I plan to enjoy myself on this voyage, friend!"

 

"Plenty of ways you can have some fun without getting drunk. I'll admit non of the are as fun and staffing can be a bit strict during shorter trips about what activities you can and can't do. You know I take it back. This is most likely going to be a very boring hour. Unless we wait for say 20 minutes for the ship to get part of the way and start breaking the rules for the giggles in hopes that we will get thrown off of the ship by the time we hit land. That would be a little fun. I take it back again, that would be very fun."

@@Mentis Soliloquy, "Was my little display before not a good enough example? *chuckle* I joke. But no, I'm really not the best at swimming but I can at least keep afloat and swim a little bit. You are right in saying that feet are good for swimming. Some science reason behind it that I can't recite off of the top of my head, though your hooves are nice. It's not a very common thing to find someone who has the same appendages in terms of arms and legs as their animal counter part."

 

'Tsk, I haven't been able to make a move yet. Everyone is keeping a good distance away from the side lines. For good reason I think. Someone will be flamboyant enough to come close eventually. Just give it time.'

@@Mentis Soliloquy, "Hey, I can swim. I just made a slight miscalculation resulting in me swallowing some water." Ryo wiped his eyes and shook his head to try and dry some of the water off. It was slightly effective at doing its job. "As for how long it's been since I've been swimming, few years maybe? Time just seems to all mesh together nowadays. I'm sure I can remember how to swim. I'm not going to start drowning. But I do think I'll be trying to keep my head above the water if  at all possible." Ryo chuckled slightly as he lay on his back in the water, floating across the surface.Occasionally brushing his arms in the water for that little extra bit of motion.

 

Shizuko looked up from her sand castle towards the games being played. Not that she could see much from behind the wall of people "Is this really the only reason people even come to these festivals? To eye up women and eat junk food? Yet another time being 11 pays off for me. At least no one will be paying attention to anything I do, why look at me when they can look at boobs?" A dastardly smile formed across Shizuko's face as he mind thought of a few little pranks she could pull, abusing this factor. One of which would allow her to get away without being spotted and get some other people into a little flame. "I suppose I can give them what they want." She stepped away from her sand castle building and wormed her way through the crowds of people until she was at the front. Her plan was that when someone came close enough, she would pull one of the strings and make someone's bra fall off. "I am a being of pure evil aren't I? I hope I can get away with this one. My not so wise brother once said. YOLO."

@, The ladder which exits the bunker has always been in the same room as you are. You can't go further into the bunker because you will die

 

"I would, Mr. Cracksot, sir, but, umm," Kronos told Crackshot as he gestured over to the turrets outside the room he was in, "I'm kinda isolated here with my friend Lupus, so, we can't really be of much use, now, can we? Sir?" He noticed that Crackshot already left the room. "Typical." he snorted.

Tyra, naturally, had bounced up onto the bar stool - She had to, given her small stature - and beamed at the bartender. "A pint of your finest beer, tavern keeper!" She squeaked, slamming a hoof full of bits on the counter.

 

 

The bartender brought Tyra the drink she had requested, looking for a moment at the pile of Bits before pushing them back to her. "Don't bother paying. Your fee is already being covered. You wanna thank anyone, thank the weirdo in the robes with the bandages. I don't know his name."

 

"You don't need to know it, but you do need to know I hear everything."

 

"Sorry."

 

"I know I may be asking the impossible of you Tyra, especially with the promise of free drinks available. But try to not drink too much. We're only going to be here for an hour or so and we will have some walking to do. I rather you walk than have me carry you all the way."

Why does everyone need sleep? Its like 8am

@@Mentis Soliloquy, Ryo was cautious about taking steps into the water, putting one foot in to test the temperature before putting himself in was most likely a good idea, the water wasn't freezing by any means, but it surely wasn't the warmest either. He was slow but he eventually got all the way in up to the point in which he was now swimming. Yet another reason why he was grateful to not have fur, it wasn't going to weigh him down when he got out. He took a breath and dived under the water for a moment before resurfacing with a satisfied smile on his face. "Urgh, that was stupid. I think I swallowed some water. Not pleasant. Refreshing but not pleasant. What a great first impression of my swimming ability."

Wade had already found his way to the restaurant area, which came complete with a bar. It was easy getting here since he was familiar with the layout of these ships. Unlike the others. He had been informed that the tip would only take at most an hour, so he would only order a light drink as to not destroy his brain cells for the trip. Noticing that a few of the others had found their way here also, Wade turned his head to the Bartender. "Hey listen. That particular group of ponies over yonder, are travelling with me. I'd consider it a personal favour if you wouldn't mind wavering the fees for them."

 

"Not like we have much of a choice with what you types say. Alright, we'll wave fees but we expect compensation back at a later date for this. We need to keep afloat too ya know. Pun intended."

 

"Fun pun."

Further up in the mountain range. Far out of the possible sight line of the Bunker, White had made his was back Sting's Base. Passing through the final security gate, overlooking the Base from atop the natural crater formed by the mountains and what had originally just been an old Pre war base and was now a full small town, complete with everything one might expect and more. Training facilities and agriculture took a large relative percentage of the limited space they had and pens containing the creatures they controlled located not that far away. The living area of the town was located closet to the base itself, protected by turrets and the most well equipped and dangerous of what Sting had to offer. "Ahh, no one knows what we're doing behind closed walls. No one would ever understand what we can do, what we have accomplished. Forever hated for the methods we take to defend ourselves. Tsk, why am I complaining? I enjoy the killing."

 

Passing through the town quickly, greeting a few familiar faces and old friends before arriving at the entrance to the base, going inside and riding the elevator to the top. That is where the Queen was.

 

"Honeeeeey, I'm hooooome." White said in an extremely over the top manner, attracting odd looks from the guards in the room. They at least knew who he was and took this obvious que to leave the floor via several stairwells. Not long after, the pony who White had came to see arrived in the room, a very displeased look across her face. "So you just show up out of the blue without even the slightest amount of heads up? Even though you said we wouldn't be able to see each other for a while? Rude. But a nice surprise non the less."

 

"Well I'm sorry for wanting to surprise you."

 

"Fix your damn voice, you sound like an old lady. You being 10 years older than me is one thing, but that's another level."

 

"Aww, this voice has kind of grown on me, I might actually run a second business in which I trade in information. I jest of course. It feels nice to be home again though. You know how much I hate staying away for too long. Enough light banter, I have some status updates we need to distribute to all of our officers in the field. As I promised, I gave them weapons. Thermal imaging scopes for .308 rifles. Two in fact." White went into the Saddle bag and took out one of the Sniper Scopes in question. "I swiped a third one I made sure to keep hidden. Have that sent to one of the professional teams. They're pegasi, so we can abuse the natural crater to have them dive below the ridge line, fly to another spot and take shots. We only have 1 team that can do this, so pray they don't die first. Visibility will be naturally limited due to the attack possibly coming in the evening or nightfall. Expect them to be slightly disorganised, they can't seem to agree on the best tactic. Assault or snipe. If they do choose the former, well easy win for us. Not even power armour can tank a barrage from out bullets for very long. Plus the limited range of projectile based weapons puts him at a disadvantage. And anyway, I haven't informed them of the surprise."

 

"I think I know what you're talking about."

 

"The two suits of Zebra stealth armour we have. We could give them to the snipers and have them easily win the fight. But they are strong, I think they could make better allies. I want them to get to the town. I want them to see what we have here. I know this is a risk, never everyone we have hear knows how to even shoot a gun. Let alone defend against a team of mercs, That's about 30% of our population and all of our farmers and a portion of out best animal tamers. So we can give the suits to our best assassins. Have them follow from behind. Not even the EFS can target those guys in the suits. If they don't listen to us and still try to kill us after we explain ourselves to them, the assassins can shoot those who are the biggest threat and rest can get shot to death by the best of us."

 

"A lot of blood on both sides is going to be on you. You're going to have to live with that. Hmpf, you don't feel much guilt though. So that's everything for now. I'll relay this to everyone and get this scope sent out. That can all come later though, we still have time. And I miss you."  Blooddrop moved over to White's side, wrapping her hooves around him and nibbled on his ear.

 

"I get the message." End Scene