Post by vastrix on Feb 22, 2024 3:14:09 GMT
“Zolothach” Tabitha Osborne walks down the alleyway between high-rise buildings. She’s in a low-cut sparkling red dress and though she still looks frightening in the face, her body is smoking enough that she gets a few catcalls from the local homeless folks leaning against the buildings and drinking cheap hooch. She mumbles to herself as she walks.
Zolothach - When Cthulhu rises from his ancient slumber, there will not be enough of a population left to go homeless…
As she walks, she starts hearing footsteps behind her. She stops and looks behind her, but sees no one walking. She shrugs her shoulders and goes back to walking, but the footsteps on the ground come back into play. She stops for a moment and says a momentary prayer to Cthulhu.
Zolothach - Tō no ma no kaibutsu (Monster between the towers). I am ready for you.
Tabitha turns around and this time there is a beast of a man behind her. He stands nearly eight feet tall and is broad of shoulder in a black trenchcoat He looks down at Tabitha.
Monster - I am Hiraoka Eisaku. The Monster Between the Towers. My prey does not speak. It screams.
Zolothach - Your reign of terror ends today!
She brings up her right hand and forms it into a play gun with two fingers as the barrel. Only the fingertips are glowing with pent-up power. She slashes her hand through the air and shouts.
Zolothach - Ferrum spectris!
A slashing line of energy speeds toward Eisaku and slams into him. The front of his trenchcoat is slashed to expose dark skin, but no blood. Eisaku snarls and raises his arms into the air, bursting the trenchcoat apart to reveal another set of arms below the first to reveal that Hiraoka Eisaku is not a man, but a dangerous oni! With a roar, he charges at Tabitha and shoulder charges into her. Tabitha is smacked against the side of the building. She bounces off the building and lands on the ground. She jumps to her feet, blood trickling down the side of her face from a cut. She forms her hand into a gun again, but this time, she points it like a gun at the oni. She breathes in deep and yells as loud as she can.
Zolothach - FERRUM SPECTRIS!
A line of energy streaks out from Tabitha’s fingertips to strike the oni in the chest. There, the power is stopped for a moment before it drills through his chest and into the side of the building behind him. Eisaku roars in pain before charging Tabitha again and grabbing her with his lower arms, pinning her arms to her side.
Hiraoka Eisaku - Now you die, little one!
Eisaku begins to pound on her with his upper arms, striking her in the face and chest repeatedly, sending blood splattering across the ground. He stops after a time to admire his handiwork. She is bruised and bloody with her right eye swollen shut, but she smiles as she whispers.
Hiraoka Eisaku - What is this nonsense that you are whispering?
Zolothach - I am calling upon my master for help in my time of need.
Hiraoka Eisaku - And who is your master?
The ground begins to shake as tentacles sprout from the ground and grab each arm, each leg, and coils around his waist. Tabitha is released as the oni struggles against the tentacles.
Hiraoka Eisaku - Who are you?
Zolothach - I am Zolothach, High Priestess of Cthulhu, Lord of Madness! You feel the wrath of but one of his children.
Hiraoka Eisaku - I will not be bound!
The oni breaks free of the tentacles, ripping them apart with his power. The tentacles fade from existence as if they never were. Now, Eisaku is covered in weeping wounds from where talons inside the tentacle’s suckers tore into his flesh. Black ooze streams from the wounds. He looks to where Tabitha is and sees her stand in front of him with her hands out and palms together.
Zolothach - You will terrorize these people no longer! Milia scapulas!
Thousands of blazing blades pour from Tabitha’s hands in a stream of power that tears into the oni’s flesh, sending black blood everywhere. He stumbles backward a few steps and falls onto his back.
Hiraoka Eisaku - When I get up, I will tear you apart!
Zolothach - You will not get up from this! Chasma ad infernos!
A crack opens up in the ground and demonic hands reach out to grab the oni by whatever they can reach. They start to drag him into the crack, but Eisaku digs in to the ground and halts progression.
Hiraoka Eisaku - You. Will. Not. Drag. Me. To. Hell. Bitch!
Zolothach - If you won’t go in whole, you’ll go in pieces! CHASMA AD INFERNOS!
Another crack tears open the ground on the other side of the oni and more demonic hands spill out of the crevasse to grab the other side of Eisaku. Now, he is the prize of a demonic tug of war. Eisaku’s strength is legendary, but he is not this strong. His arms and legs are pulled in different directions and he screams, a horrific sound, as his limbs are being torn away from his body. The limbs gone, the demonic hands now focus on the torso and rip is in half in short order, Eisaku’s pleas for mercy go unanswered. As the pieces of the oni are dragged into Hell, Tabitha watches impassively as the rifts in the ground close. She quietly walks away as the homeless people in the alley stand up and celebrate the destruction of the Monster Between the Towers that had stalked them for so long.
Zolothach - I have a deathmatch tournament to go to at Cult Wrestling. I face Justin York and Barney Green in the ring in a triple threat deathmatch. Not only do I not know who these people are. I don’t really know what the stips of the deathmatch are. I will win the day, of course. I will win the day like I won the day here.
Tabitha wipes a mixture of black blood and her own from her face. She smiles even as she looks messed up more than usual from getting brutalized by the oni.
Zolothach - Secrets come whispered to me about my opponents from the ether. Barney Green is a pathetic drunk that is missing an eye and Justin York is a worthless asshole who thinks too much of himself.
She dusts herself off and straightens her dress.
Zolothach - Translationem!
A rift tears itself open in the air in front of her and she walks through. It closes behind her as the scene fades to black.
Zolothach - When Cthulhu rises from his ancient slumber, there will not be enough of a population left to go homeless…
As she walks, she starts hearing footsteps behind her. She stops and looks behind her, but sees no one walking. She shrugs her shoulders and goes back to walking, but the footsteps on the ground come back into play. She stops for a moment and says a momentary prayer to Cthulhu.
Zolothach - Tō no ma no kaibutsu (Monster between the towers). I am ready for you.
Tabitha turns around and this time there is a beast of a man behind her. He stands nearly eight feet tall and is broad of shoulder in a black trenchcoat He looks down at Tabitha.
Monster - I am Hiraoka Eisaku. The Monster Between the Towers. My prey does not speak. It screams.
Zolothach - Your reign of terror ends today!
She brings up her right hand and forms it into a play gun with two fingers as the barrel. Only the fingertips are glowing with pent-up power. She slashes her hand through the air and shouts.
Zolothach - Ferrum spectris!
A slashing line of energy speeds toward Eisaku and slams into him. The front of his trenchcoat is slashed to expose dark skin, but no blood. Eisaku snarls and raises his arms into the air, bursting the trenchcoat apart to reveal another set of arms below the first to reveal that Hiraoka Eisaku is not a man, but a dangerous oni! With a roar, he charges at Tabitha and shoulder charges into her. Tabitha is smacked against the side of the building. She bounces off the building and lands on the ground. She jumps to her feet, blood trickling down the side of her face from a cut. She forms her hand into a gun again, but this time, she points it like a gun at the oni. She breathes in deep and yells as loud as she can.
Zolothach - FERRUM SPECTRIS!
A line of energy streaks out from Tabitha’s fingertips to strike the oni in the chest. There, the power is stopped for a moment before it drills through his chest and into the side of the building behind him. Eisaku roars in pain before charging Tabitha again and grabbing her with his lower arms, pinning her arms to her side.
Hiraoka Eisaku - Now you die, little one!
Eisaku begins to pound on her with his upper arms, striking her in the face and chest repeatedly, sending blood splattering across the ground. He stops after a time to admire his handiwork. She is bruised and bloody with her right eye swollen shut, but she smiles as she whispers.
Hiraoka Eisaku - What is this nonsense that you are whispering?
Zolothach - I am calling upon my master for help in my time of need.
Hiraoka Eisaku - And who is your master?
The ground begins to shake as tentacles sprout from the ground and grab each arm, each leg, and coils around his waist. Tabitha is released as the oni struggles against the tentacles.
Hiraoka Eisaku - Who are you?
Zolothach - I am Zolothach, High Priestess of Cthulhu, Lord of Madness! You feel the wrath of but one of his children.
Hiraoka Eisaku - I will not be bound!
The oni breaks free of the tentacles, ripping them apart with his power. The tentacles fade from existence as if they never were. Now, Eisaku is covered in weeping wounds from where talons inside the tentacle’s suckers tore into his flesh. Black ooze streams from the wounds. He looks to where Tabitha is and sees her stand in front of him with her hands out and palms together.
Zolothach - You will terrorize these people no longer! Milia scapulas!
Thousands of blazing blades pour from Tabitha’s hands in a stream of power that tears into the oni’s flesh, sending black blood everywhere. He stumbles backward a few steps and falls onto his back.
Hiraoka Eisaku - When I get up, I will tear you apart!
Zolothach - You will not get up from this! Chasma ad infernos!
A crack opens up in the ground and demonic hands reach out to grab the oni by whatever they can reach. They start to drag him into the crack, but Eisaku digs in to the ground and halts progression.
Hiraoka Eisaku - You. Will. Not. Drag. Me. To. Hell. Bitch!
Zolothach - If you won’t go in whole, you’ll go in pieces! CHASMA AD INFERNOS!
Another crack tears open the ground on the other side of the oni and more demonic hands spill out of the crevasse to grab the other side of Eisaku. Now, he is the prize of a demonic tug of war. Eisaku’s strength is legendary, but he is not this strong. His arms and legs are pulled in different directions and he screams, a horrific sound, as his limbs are being torn away from his body. The limbs gone, the demonic hands now focus on the torso and rip is in half in short order, Eisaku’s pleas for mercy go unanswered. As the pieces of the oni are dragged into Hell, Tabitha watches impassively as the rifts in the ground close. She quietly walks away as the homeless people in the alley stand up and celebrate the destruction of the Monster Between the Towers that had stalked them for so long.
Zolothach - I have a deathmatch tournament to go to at Cult Wrestling. I face Justin York and Barney Green in the ring in a triple threat deathmatch. Not only do I not know who these people are. I don’t really know what the stips of the deathmatch are. I will win the day, of course. I will win the day like I won the day here.
Tabitha wipes a mixture of black blood and her own from her face. She smiles even as she looks messed up more than usual from getting brutalized by the oni.
Zolothach - Secrets come whispered to me about my opponents from the ether. Barney Green is a pathetic drunk that is missing an eye and Justin York is a worthless asshole who thinks too much of himself.
She dusts herself off and straightens her dress.
Zolothach - Translationem!
A rift tears itself open in the air in front of her and she walks through. It closes behind her as the scene fades to black.
