Barrel
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Angst
Jan 25, 2008 19:26:25 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 25, 2008 19:26:25 GMT -8
Barrel was now fully awake, and not bothering to hide the fact that he was glaring at Skyheart. He didn't want to disturb Laura, however, so he kept his mouth shut and remained where he was, scowling. If there was one thing you should never do, it would be never to make a Boogie Boy angry. With an angry 'hmph', Barrel turned his back to the two.
Sally wandered up the hill, looking around at the graveyard below, and finally made it to the top. Lock was obviously terrified, a fact that Oogie loved. "M-mr. Oogie! St-stay away!" WHY, out of all the sides of the lair, did he have to run to the one furthest from the exit!?
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Shock
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[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
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Angst
Jan 26, 2008 15:51:16 GMT -8
Post by Shock on Jan 26, 2008 15:51:16 GMT -8
Laura was too deeply asleep at the moment to notice much of anything. She muttered something incomprehensible, turning over. She'd had a long night. Skyheart decided he'd handle this like an adult, or try to anyways. He gently pulled away so as not to wake her, and stood, wandering over towards Barrel to hopefully talk things out. Brianna was curled up on one of the benches like a cat, sleeping shallowly.
Jack followed Sally to the top of the hill. He wondered if he should just try his idea, or atempt to explain things. Hmmm... Shock looked around, and tried to take one of the guns from the little slot machine things. That didn't work, so she grabbed one of those exploding dice and threw it at Oogie. "Leave him alone!" she snapped in a somewhat-brave voice.
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Barrel
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Angst
Jan 26, 2008 17:42:26 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 26, 2008 17:42:26 GMT -8
Barrel did his best to ignore Skyheart, his arms crossed angrily as he turned his head away. Sure, Laura may have known Skyheart, but it didn't mean he liked him getting close to his girl. He probably wasn't going to be able to talk to Skyheart without freaking out.
Sally looked around for a moment longer, then turned to Jack. Why did he bring her here? If she remembered how to speak, she would've asked him just that. The dice hit Oogie, who turned back to Shock with an annoyed growl. "I'll deal with you after I take care of the devil!" he snapped.
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Shock
Henchman
%7C-On the Wings of a Dream-%7C
[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
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Angst
Jan 26, 2008 17:57:00 GMT -8
Post by Shock on Jan 26, 2008 17:57:00 GMT -8
Skyheart frowned. It was obvious Barrel was going to be difficult. "Listen, we have to come to terms with the fact that we both care about her, okay? I won't get in the way of you two being together, but I'm not just going to give up hope that maybe she might still like me a little too. Could you blame me if you were I?" His hair still hung in his face, and he didn't bother to move it.
After a moment more deliberation, Jack just walked over and kissed Sally, trying to do so exactly the same way as they had in the snow after the Christmas disaster. Shock 'eeped' and took a hasty step back, unknowingly stepping into one of those bear-trap things she and her cohorts liked to use when kidnapping people they didn't like. She flinched with a tiny yelp, trying to pull her leg out of the trap. It wasn't working.
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Barrel
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Angst
Jan 26, 2008 20:11:23 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 26, 2008 20:11:23 GMT -8
"Yes I could," Barrel snapped almost immediately. He didn't feel like listening to what Skyheart had to say. He didn't want to be reasonable. "You stay away from her, or I'll do the best I can to make you miserable for a veeeery long time," he threatened, finally turning towards the other to glare at him.
Sally blinked, a little confused, then her eyes seemed to unfocus as she stared past Jack, body stiffening. She wasn't looking at anything in particular. Nothing physical, anyways. Slowly at first, but then faster with each passing moment, memory after memory surfaced in her mind. Finally, it was too much for her to handle, and she collapsed, eyes rolling back in her head as she fainted. Oogie grinned at the sight of Shock caught in one of their own traps, and turned back to Lock. "So. What're we gonna do with you?" he asked, not really expecting Lock to answer. "Well, you could-" Lock began, then was rewarded with a fist smashing into his face. "You're not supposed to answer!" Oogie snapped. But then he stopped thinking out loud, instead trying to hatch an evil scheme, but not quite succeeding.
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Shock
Henchman
%7C-On the Wings of a Dream-%7C
[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
Posts: 7,954
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Angst
Jan 26, 2008 22:14:01 GMT -8
Post by Shock on Jan 26, 2008 22:14:01 GMT -8
Skyheart turned his head away, glaring at nothing in particular. "I've been miserable since I returned, actually," he muttered, a few more strands of hair falling in his face. Since he was a little emo boy, he was tempted to cry, but he restrained from doing so, knowing Barrel would delight in it. His next thoughts went to how to cause himself enough pain and discomfort to distract him from loosing his girlfriend.
Jack caught Sally before she could hit the ground, picking her up in his long arms. "I hope that worked," he muttered, striding down the hill and sitting on the ground, leaning against a tombstone as he waited for her to wake up. Shock's tail was flicking frantically back and forth, betraying how badly she was panicking. Every time she put weight on her leg, it shook violently and pain lanced up it, making her utter a tiny cry of pain. She finally had to just sit down at the base of the wall, closing her eyes to try to not let the sight of her own blood get to her.
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Barrel
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Angst
Jan 26, 2008 22:55:12 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 26, 2008 22:55:12 GMT -8
"I'll make it worse," Barrel spat after a moment of thought. He knew what it was like to be miserable, but he was too pissed to really care at the moment. If Skyheart hadn't been an old boyfriend of Laura's, the ghoul would probably be much nicer to him. He just couldn't help but think that he was there to take her away from him.
The first thing Sally noticed when she woke up a moment later was the headache. Her head- no, it felt more like her mind- hurt. "Ugh..." she groaned, cracking open one eye to peer up at Jack. "Jack?" "Aw, screw this." Oogie waddled over to his control panel and turned on his traps. "Have fun with my toys, I'm off." He decided that he'd try to bug Jack and go after Sally. Preferably both.
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Shock
Henchman
%7C-On the Wings of a Dream-%7C
[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
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Angst
Jan 27, 2008 10:44:29 GMT -8
Post by Shock on Jan 27, 2008 10:44:29 GMT -8
Skyheart decided he wasn't going to get anywhere with Barrel and decided he'd just go try urting himself to see if that would distract him. "I-I'm going to go do something. See you around, maybe," e muttered, voice sounding a little strangled from him trying to old his tears in.
Jack smiled hugely. "It worked!" he declared happily. "Now, are you okay?" he had to make sure Sally really wasn't hurt or anything. Shock had to stay where she was, despite wanting to run away, because er leg was still caught in that trap. She heard something mechanical, and she opened her eyes to see one of those slot machines pointing a gun at her chest. Her eyes were huge as it fired three times, three bullets digging into her flesh and making her scream in pain.
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Barrel
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Angst
Jan 27, 2008 21:08:49 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 27, 2008 21:08:49 GMT -8
"Mmmkay. Have fun practically killing yourself," Barrel replied absentmindedly. He didn't know Skyheart was going to hurt himself, but he could assume, right? Besides, who knows? Maybe he would actually end up doing himself in. Then he wouldn't have to compete for Laura.
"What worked?" Sally wanted to know, but she was clutching her head. "I'm fine. My head just hurts. I don't know why." She basically had a gap in her memory. She didn't know what had happened between having the potion forced on her and now. Lock was frantically dodging swords, but froze when he heard Shock scream. "Screw this," he muttered, wincing as sword met flesh. He darted over towards Shock, getting cut up in the process because he didn't bother to try to avoid the swords. He needed to get to Shock NOW.
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Shock
Henchman
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[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
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Angst
Jan 28, 2008 4:52:26 GMT -8
Post by Shock on Jan 28, 2008 4:52:26 GMT -8
Skyheart walked outside of Town Hall, pulling out a small pocket knife. He unfolded its blade, which was polished and sharpened as though its owner cared for its cleanliness. He sat down against a wall, and slowly started carving deep cuts in the flesh at his wrists. He was right handed, so of course the cuts started with the left wrist.
"You lost your memory," Jack explained, trying to keep his voice semi-quiet to keep her head from hurting worse. "I couldn't think of what else to do, so I tried bringing it back by recreating our first kiss. And, apparently, it worked." Shock shifted slightly, blood making the red color of her shirt darker. Her eyes were half closed and out of focus as she focussed on just trying to breathe. But, every breath hurt. One bullet had burried itself in her lung, causing heavy internal bleeding, one had wedged itself in a bit of muscle, and one had gone almost all the way through before hitting a rib.
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Barrel
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Angst
Jan 28, 2008 14:51:40 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 28, 2008 14:51:40 GMT -8
Once Skyheart was gone, Barrel leaned back and closed his eyes. But he couldn't sleep. "Damn..." he muttered with a frown. Now he actually felt a little bad for being so rude to Skyheart. But he was totally going after Laura! he told himself. But he sighed and stood up, making a face. "Better go at least apologize," he said softly, mostly to himself.
"It's strange. The last thing I remember is Lock and Shock f-" Sally trailed off. "Oh. You already answered." She was sort of out of it at the moment, a little confused due to her headache and brief loss of memory. "Oh. OH. So that's what that potion did," she said softly. It made sense. They forced her to take a potion, she didn't remember anything between the potion and waking up near Jack. "SHOCK!" Lock howled, skidding to a halt in front of the witch. A bullet dug into his back, causing a small hiss of pain, but he otherwise ignored it. Shock was more important to him than his health, even if he did like to tease her a lot. "Shock, you're gonna be okay, right?" His voice betrayed how worried he was. The devil hesitated, then gave his cohort a tight hug.
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Shock
Henchman
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[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
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Angst
Jan 28, 2008 15:40:22 GMT -8
Post by Shock on Jan 28, 2008 15:40:22 GMT -8
Skyheart switched to the right wrist once his left hand trembled without him doing anything with it, the cuts on the right side becoming more and more sloppy and vicious as he lost more blood out of his left hand. Finally his hands were shaking so badly he put the knife down, pulling his long sleeves down over the cuts and leaning back against the wall, closing his eyes and breathing evenly. The pain in his wrists and hands were making his head clearer.
"They didn't hurt you, did they?" Jack said seriously, frowning. That was what was mainly concerning him. He would be a mad skeleton if they'd hurt her. "Ow! Ow, ow, ow!" Shock said rapidly. Her wounds hurt when they were touched at all. She was shaking. "I don' wanna die!" she whined, looking terrified. It still hurt for her to breathe. She coughed a little, and blood came up, a tiny trickle steadily flowing from the corner of her mouth.
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Barrel
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Angst
Jan 28, 2008 16:31:00 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 28, 2008 16:31:00 GMT -8
Barrel walked out of Town Hall, staggering a little. Okay, so he was a little more tired than he thought, but he wasn't going to allow himself to sleep until he got this over with. He looked around, and then spotted Skyheart. He wandered over, looking away, trying to figure out what he was going to say. He stopped in front of the boy, hesitating. "Hey," he finally said softly. "Sorry 'bout earlier. I was being a real jerk, huh?"
"Huh? Oh, no, they didn't hurt me," Sally told Jack. They really hadn't, but it wasn't like Sally was going to tattle if they had. "I think they were just bored or something. You don't have to get mad at them." Lock quickly let go of Shock, not wanting to hurt her. "Shock..." he whined, panicking a little.
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Shock
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[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
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Angst
Jan 28, 2008 16:44:07 GMT -8
Post by Shock on Jan 28, 2008 16:44:07 GMT -8
"K-kinda," Skyheart muttered, his speech a little slurred due to his bloodloss. It was making him lightheaded, and he was glad because that meant he couldn't focus on anything painful. He didn't notice that the blood was dripping down his hands and off his fingertips, because he was so out of it. It wouldn't kill him, but it would make him feel seriously out of it for a while.
"If you...say so," Jack consented. He pulled Sally into a light hug. "I'm glad you're okay and it wasn't anything bad." That was the main thing he kept thinking. What if it had been something much worse than memory lapse? Shock didn't reply, she was focusing too hard on breathing. It was hard to make herself keep drawing oxygen into her uninjured lung when she was being half choked by her own blood gurgling out of her throat and the muscles around her lungs being injured.
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Barrel
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Angst
Jan 28, 2008 17:55:07 GMT -8
Post by Barrel on Jan 28, 2008 17:55:07 GMT -8
"Mmm. Thought so. Well, I'm sorry. I don't know what got into me," Barrel said in a semi-apologetic tone of voice. This was a rare thing for him, apologizing. He was quiet for a moment, then sat down next to Skyheart. "So. Whatcha been doin' out here?" he wanted to know.
"They hadn't caused trouble for a while. I should've been on the lookout for something like that," Sally said softly. Of course, she wasn't mad at them. Just mad at herself for not being prepared for whatever they could've done to her. "Y-you're gonna be ok-OW!" Lock flinched as he was hit in the back by another bullet. "You're gonna be okay, right?" he asked a moment later, when he stopped mentally cursing.
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