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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Aug 8, 2022 22:23:13 GMT -5
DEVIL DOGS
Type: Destroy (PvE) (Repeatable)
Level: 1
Description: Locate and eliminate the rogue Hellhounds that are terrorizing a region in the Living World. These monsters are invisible to spiritually unaware individuals, about the size of a large wolf, and breathe fire. They have appeared in an area with high spiritual activity and instead of hunting Sinners, are feeding on anything with ample amounts of reiatsu. The pack leader will be larger than the others and sport a fiery mane around their skull.
Locate and destroy at least 6 Hellhounds.
Eliminate the pack leader, otherwise the others will just respawn on them.
On one of his now many trips to the human realm, Lazarus was originally here to meet his arrancar friend, having designated this day and time, Lazarus being a bit early as per the usual. there was a moment of hesitation as he stepped onto the familiar rooftop, eyes scanning the sky as he sensed something unusual. It was entirely different from what he had sense from the other races he'd encountered so far, and it felt almost worse than the hollow reiatsu that was given off by the race as a whole. Something about it made his skin crawl, and as he peered over the rooftop towards a nearby park, he'd see something most unusual. A group of hollows were being chased down by what he could only describe as flaming dogs, taking a moment to rub his eyes and do a double take, he'd confirm that yes, that was what he had laid eyes on. The wolf like beasts had gotten a hollow all by itself, and after a brief skirmish the wolves had successfully overcome the hollow and were feasting on it.
In any other situation he'd view this as a win-win, but there was something unnatural about those beasts, and it rubbed him the wrong way. While he wanted to wait for his friend, he also knew there were humans somewhere in that park, and there was a certain someone who might blame him if things went south while Lazarus was around. A disgruntled sigh escaped him as he summoned a normal reishi bow and pulled back, the arrow forming instinctively at his touch. He took a moment longer to focus his sights on the reiatsu of the wolves, lining the shot up before firing at one of the smaller looking ones. One second went by, two, three, four, and then the arrow would sink into it's mark, hitting a hind leg with a yelp as the pack turned to it's would be attacker. As he lowered himself from the building and moved closer, the sounds of the growling and snarling would get louder, not something he liked at all. Pulling another arrow back, he'd loose it at the ground in front of the pack, letting his reiatsu flow freely to see if they might get intimidated. Unfortunately for him it would appear they liked their odds better, Lazarus wasn't so sure he could take them all alone, so he'd let his reiatsu spike to try and alert Nezuel of his location, the pack slowly starting to form a perimeter around him.
"What the hell are these things..."
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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Aug 9, 2022 19:15:58 GMT -5
Nezuel was already in the area when he felts Laz's riatsu spike. With a sigh he left the food he had been about to consume, some lowly hollow, and started to make his way towards the quincy. It was foolhardy and all together odd behavior from the quincy boy. The chances of Nez being in the area and able to detect him were slim. The best way would have been to call him using the phones they received at Haven...though thinking on it...perhaps he was simply in enough danger that he couldn't call. Nez's steps got faster.
A barrier of ice and riatsu would surround Lazarus seemingly coming from nowhere.
Lazarus would feel the caress of soft hands on his neck, slipping around him and settling on his chest. The slight touch of hair on his neck, the burning and tingles that came with the contact of a quincy and hollowborn. "You know, its cute that you think you can call me when you want like that Laz." the arrancar would say, reishi platform supporting his weight as he floated behind him. His hands seemed unconcerned with the demon wolves around the two of them as fingers brushed his chin and cheek. "It seems," his lips touched the neck of the quincy leaving a burning spot. "That you're stuck between a dog and a hard place." as he drew his lips back, he let hit teeth scrap across his flesh, leaving a small red line. "If you want help...there is a price..." |
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Aug 10, 2022 16:22:46 GMT -5
Lazarus would inhale sharply at the sensation, however it was quickly followed by a sigh of irritation, the bow in his hand shrinking to a more hand held size. In his other hand he'd summon a sword of reishi, swinging it in front of him as he imbued the strike with more reishi, shattering the ice and sending it scattering like shrapnel at the hounds. Two of them were impaled by larger pieces and keeled over, while another was pelted and growled in response.
"We can discuss this as we deal with the issue, or would you rather watch me be mauled to death by these things?"
Almost on queue, a larger and more dangerous looking wolf made itself known, sporting a fiery mane and a slobbering maw of deadly teeth. It bared it's teeth before howling loudly, a noise that caused Lazarus to cover his ears, causing more skin to skin contact with the hollow behind him. The two recently deceased hounds seemed to disperse into ash and smoke, swirling together and separating to form two new hounds. Definitely not something he was happy about, but judging from the way it happened he assumed it was caused by the alpha dog before them.
"I've got a feeling that ones the leader, and from what we just saw this is gonna suck if we cant dispatch it quickly..."
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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Aug 10, 2022 21:27:16 GMT -5
"Hmmmm" Nezuel would murmur as the quincy he was draped around set about destroying the protective barrier of ice around him. "Very well Laz...I hope I didn't do anything to affend you, I'd hate to see your cute face scrunched up like that." He was still around the quincy's neck as the alpha of the pack howled, the dogs Laz had dispersed coming back to life. "How odd...I thought your kind managed to destroy the soul compleatly...does that mean these things don't have one at all?"
He hopped down off of Laz's back after giving him a quick peck on the cheek. With a wave of his hand he pointed his finger at one, two, and three of the dogs around them, sending out bursts of lightning as he used the little Hado he knew. Without looking his other hand traced a square in the air on his other side, the alpha running at him hitting an invisible barrier, one of his higher level kido. The invisible barrier burst apart like glass, the shards falling and embedding themselves into the demonic dog.
The beast wasn't dead, not by a long shot. The amount of glass that had fallen into its flesh was minimal but it would think twice about approaching them. He felt like it was going to howl again, so Nezuel tried to send the same wave of cold over the dog that he had used to protect Laz, trying to see if perhaps he could encase the things head, stop its howl from awakening its fallen breatheren.
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Aug 12, 2022 0:28:21 GMT -5
Lazarus sighed in relief as the hollow removed himself from the Quincy and offered aid, though he wasn't thrilled with what he might have to offer up in return for the help. Raising his bow hand up he'd sink two shots into the beast leader, aiming to weaked its hind legs while Nez dealt with keeping it from roaring. From his right one of the dogs lashed out, jumping towards him with expanded maw looking to take a chunk out of him. With a flourish of his sword the beast was cleaved in two, however the pack leader would already be working on getting the ice off its face, slamming it into nearby trees and rocks to get the ice off. It looked hurt, but nothing they had done so far had dropped it for good, and with another roar it would reconstitute the recently dispatched wolves back into the fight.
"If my power isn't killing them then they arent normal souls or hollow souls, I've never seen them before so unless you've got info I don't, our best bet is to focus fire big and ugly over there."
He'd lift his leg to narrowly avoid a mouth full of razor sharp teeth to the ankle, kicking the beast away as he raised a brow to the hollow friend of his. Lazarus was without a plan at the moment, he hoped the arrancar would know more about these creatures, or at least go along with the plan to kill the big baddie.
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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Aug 12, 2022 17:13:22 GMT -5
"I've faced a few of these things before...but they wern't nearly as nasty as these." he'd say with a frown. He'd let his riatsu flare again as he started to draw lines of kido in front of him. "There was an alpha there...and funnily enough, I did work with another quincy to get rid of them." he paused a second. "I believe the French call it Deja Vu"
He finished his spell as the sound of a sonic boom echoed through the air. Nezuel disappeared from sight, only to appear near the alpha of the pack. He reached out towards the beast as lightning coated his arm and shot from his fingers. Yet the alpha sensed his movement if not his intent, moving its ice covered head and bashing Nezuel in the best with the sharp jagged ice. Somehow, his own kido pierced his hierro, blood falling to the ground. His lightning died as he looked down at the pool, imagining small eyes peering back at him as the floated on that red liquid.
"No" he'd whisper, hands coming up to smash into the ice as electricity came to life once more. He shouted as his hands touched the ice, kido magic following the rules of reality as the lightning flowed into the ice and then the beast beyond. He could smell smoking meat as he detached himself from the ice and moved to the side. He grabbed his blade as he did so, raising it up high before bringing it down onto the beasts neck as it twitched.
"Now the big one is down..how are you doing with the small ones?"
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Aug 14, 2022 6:57:40 GMT -5
While Nezuel was busy taking care of the alpha, Lazarus was narrowly avoiding attacks from the beasts that surrounded him, slipping between the beasts like a serpent. He'd focus more on sensing them than looking at them, his eyes staring off into nothingness as his evasion became more fluid and took less effort. As if in a trance, he danced between the beasts as they continued their assault, his movements minimal, but just enough to avoid getting hurt. A deep inhale was all the notice the creatures would get, as he exhaled his counterattack would begin. From the left one of the monsters would jump up, maw open and awaiting the taste of reishi and flesh, only to have that same maw slammed shut by un upward thrust from his blade.
The beast would whimper a moment before being cast aside, flung into another approaching beast, and a denser reishi arrow would find it's way through both of their skulls. The remaining four circled him with growing hostility, though he didn't appear worried, he didn't appear much of anything at the moment. He was drawing them in, baiting small feints so they would back up and circle some more, some of them changing direction. Lazarus was waiting for something, and after a moment of two of dodging and leading he would find his opportunity to strike. For the briefest of moments, the beasts would form a line as they landed from attacking, and in the moment his finger would raise, the crackle of lighting like reishi forming and instantly firing from his finger, piercing three of the four remaining beasts. The bodies of the dead were slowly fading into smoke and ash, though this time they weren't reconstituting into more beasts, his guess about the alpha was right.
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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Aug 14, 2022 13:11:36 GMT -5
"Oh baby a triple" Nez would say, using sonido to appear beside Lazarus as the quincy managed to finish off three of the remaining four demon dogs. He'd put a hand on Lazarus' back while he looked at the last remaining dog of the pack that had assaulted him, tried to kill him. "I suppose that your quincy skills do work on them, if they had souls they're not within creation anymore." he patted his back and then put the hand to his chin, enjoying the tingling sensation in his hand. "You know...one of these by itself is kinda cute, maybe we could keep it as a pet in Haven."
The dog then moved up to the pair suddenly, moving its jaws and snapping at them. Nezuel moved forward, holding out a hand as the dog's fangs bit into his iron skin. It didn't pierce the first layer, which he was thankful of, and he looked back at the quincy. "You know," he'd say lighting dancing on his arm that was inside of the dog now, "Perhaps this one is untrainable?"
There was an audible *pop* as the dog died, fried from the inside by the electricity that Nezuel had shot out from his appendage. He looked around the are as he wiped the drool off his arm, just making sure the two of them were alone. "Well now...what do we do now that you're no longer in danger Lazzy?"
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Aug 15, 2022 14:40:04 GMT -5
Seeing the final dog begin to fade into nothingness like the rest, he would release his hold on the reishi weapons, their existence fading in contrast to the dogs as whitish blue particles. A sigh of relief escaping him as he pondered what to do about this incident, probably not something his Majesty had any interest in, nor something they could actively keep an eye out for. If it was kept to the world of the living it wasn't going to be an issue, but if these things bleed into other realms it might just become something worth following up on. He would shrug his shoulders and dust himself off, making a mental note of the sensation of the dogs reishi and their appearance in case they happen to cross paths again. With that squared away he turned his attention to his arrancar friend, while he was thankful the other came to his aid, he was apprehensive about the possible cost.
"Well the plan was to come see if you'd been in the realm at the time, however given what we just went through I'm not so sure it'd be good to stick around too terribly long. With the attacks we fired off and the amount of reiatsu being let off someone of the shinigami variety might go poking around where they don't belong..."
An honest answer to the question, but also one that avoided the topic in way of caution. He hadn't sensed any in the area, but knowing that at least one organization out there didn't have to be nearby to sense and react to reiatsu levels meant others likely could. He wasn't about to have to fight another, mostly more intelligent, set of enemies just for wanting to spend more time away from home.
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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Aug 15, 2022 16:07:41 GMT -5
"Its a boring answer" Nez would say, lips moving down and into a frown. "But a fair point." he'd looked around the area with his senses trying to see if the two of them might be interrupted or overheard. "But it seems like the area is clear for now...if shinigami come to investigate I might be able to lead them astray...at the very least a hollow would draw attention less than a quincy." With a shrug Nez would suddenly look over to the side, moving over and picking up a long white cone. "Huh," he'd say as he absorbed the piece of bone. "Part of a gillian, guess I'm a little stronger now."
He smiled and moved back over towards the quincy with a michiavous gleam in his eyes. "Well Quincy san...I'd love to stay and make you pay for having me save your skin but...I have places to be. Perhaps we'll meet back at Haven, no?" He turned on his heels and started to walk away unless stopped by the man. It seemed more and more obvious to the arrancar just how put off people were by his behavior, and while he did think Lazzy was cute it wasn't worth making the boy fear him just to tease him.
"Oh and Lazzy?" Nez turned slightly, looking over his shoulder. "Please stay safe?"
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Aug 16, 2022 15:00:34 GMT -5
Lazarus nodded in response, almost afraid to think about what kind of payment the hollow was talking about, but thankfully Nezuel was on the up and up about caution when it came to other races snooping. There was a moment of pause as he watched the other walk away, thinking about haven and its inhabitants for a moment.
"I'll do my best, though it would seem I have a habit of stumbling into trouble now and again. You do the same Nez, perhaps Haven, perhaps another run in here in the world of the living..."
He left it at that, letting the silence envelope them as he too turned on his heels and started making his way towards home. If hollows were poison to Quincy, he wondered what does dogs would have done to his soul if they had actually gotten a bite or two on him. He shuddered at the thought, shaking his head as he trekked on, leaving it as something better left unknown in the back of his mind. Thankfully this time there was little to no damage to his clothing, though he'd have to find a way to lie about the marks on him from the arrancar carelessly marking his skin.
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