The Sereni-Tree and the Madness of Arkham

POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Sunday, November 6, 2005 04:18
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CALLMEATH

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:30 PM

If we can go back a bit...

*As Ath grabs his lightsaber, meaning to try to cut through the walls or floor of the room, he feels a strange sensation, as if he's being pushed aside. He's forced to watch as his own hand ignites the saber, and stabs it through River.*

*A familiar chuckle echoes through Ath's mind.*

No! It can't be! I got rid of you!

"Rid of me? You fool. All I did was hide for a while."

Why did you kill River?

"That girl knows far too much. And also, I wanted to see that boy's face when she died."

You ing son of a !

"Language, Ath. Now you just be a good boy and hang out around here for a while. I may need you later."

And why the hell would I do that?

"Because I can kill every one of your little friends here. Mai, PR, Serenity. LISSA. So just be a good boy and sit tight. They'll be okay."

"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"

SAFEAT2ND

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:21 PM

The crew of the Grant are forced backward by the onslaught, taking refuge in a cell. Safe and Jack use a broken cell door as a barricade. Mai has discovered that if she concentrates, she can focus her light into narrow beams like lasers and has joined Safe and Jack behind the barricade. While the beams don’t do much damage, they do disorient and knock back the creatures, but the strain is taking its toll on her.

Unbeknownst to the crew the pool of blood grows and begins to swirl.

PR crumples to the floor holding his head. “IT STARTS!!!” A bloodied Serenity looks alarmed at PR.

The center of the pool erupts suddenly into a fountain. Mai’s beam hits it and the fountain begins to take on a human form with its mouth open in a scream. As the shape becomes more defined the crew begins to notice that it looks vaguely familiar and the scream becomes audible, becoming louder the more human the form becomes.

In the other realities: A swirling, blood red disc appears in the sky. The body in the Dark Tower reality turns to ash and swirls away in the wind.

Lissa screams and Serenity gasps in shock. Rivers body turns to ash. Now the crew know why the screaming form looks familiar….The crew realizes that the screaming has stopped. They turn as one to face the blood pool. There standing in the middle of the pool is a liquid River.

She beckons silently.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

JAKE7

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:29 PM

**jake7 watches in horror as the mutant creature clambers up the force field. She hollers out, hoping someone will hear her**

Can somebody get this thing OFF OF ME???!?!

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.

PIFFLE101

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:59 PM

LMAO..Since I wasnt following the last thread..It seems the Operative (or something along those lines) has come onto the TREE..with him saying I can kill everyone of you with a miss-ile, and then someone (Ath?) killed River..

*smacks head* PAY ATTENTION SELF!

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau
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-I think they captured his essence... -Wash
-Look sorta angry, dont he? -Kaylee
-Kinda what I meant. -Wash
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-Everywhere I go..His eyes keep following me... -Kaylee
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-How bout we get away from this eerie ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie ass day? How's that?!

THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:46 PM

Piff, all the action so far is happening over on the Arkham (not the Sereni-Tree). Those of us on the Arkham are split into three groups wandering about in alternate realities. Or something. There is no Operative that we have seen yet (unless you just now created one). The first post of this thread should contain an adequate summary.

PIFFLE101

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:32 PM

Riight..I should read that again..
Ah,Im not in the different universe? S'alright.

And, yes. I just created the Operative. He's (me) is in every universe, and cannot be stopped or pushed to the back of your minds.. Why, you ask? Cause in all of your sleep,I stripped you amygdalas. Now suffer and feel everything

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau
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-I think they captured his essence... -Wash
-Look sorta angry, dont he? -Kaylee
-Kinda what I meant. -Wash
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-Everywhere I go..His eyes keep following me... -Kaylee
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-How bout we get away from this eerie ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie ass day? How's that?!

THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:14 PM

(The General Lee Crew at Ambush Valley on Whitefall:)

As the mutant is about to jump down off the force field wall to pounce on Jake7, a tentacle from Needleseye whips up to wrap around the creature’s neck. A pull, a twist, and a sickening crunch and it falls back, stone dead. But its fellows clamber up over it. The growing pile of mutant bodies on the other side of the forcefield is allowing these slavering monsters something to climb up over.

Another mutant leaps up to the top of the forcefield. It has a form that is reminiscent of a human female, with an almost perfect, beautiful face, but it also has seven crooked limbs jutting out in all directions, each tipped with a bone spike almost a meter long. It leaps at Jake7, but it is caught in the strong arms of Nugget, the Meteor Troll. As it flails about in his grasp, Jake7 receives some minor cuts to her forearm and face. With a mighty howl, Nugget slams the creature to the ground and bears down on it with his considerable weight, all the while ignoring the numerous bone spikes that are thrust into him. Nugget repeatedly smacks the thing with his heavily muscled spiked tail.

Needleseye moves to intercept the next one about to strike.

So many mutants had been killed! Yet, there were still too many remaining, all uncaring of the devastation visited upon them. Every one them was a crazed berserker. Anything remotely sentient would have given up by now. Anything remotely sentient… or remotely sane.

TheRealMe: “Needle! Give us another scream! The rest, orderly retreat! Fall back to Rat’s position! Rat, enlarge and prep the Lee.”

With that, TheRealMe drops his gun and a red-bladed lightsaber activates and flashes into his hand. He charges down in support of his fellows. Behind him, Rat digs his hands in his pockets. On the other side of the valley, the Zoe-clones abandon their cover and circle around the canyon ledge toward the forcefield position, firing their weapons while on the run.

Needleseye takes a deep breath and inside of her, the rumbling starts again. When she looses it, her sonic attack blasts away another mob of mutants. She is breathing heavily, clearly fatigued.

TheRealMe: “Thanks, Needle! Good as a grenade! That should buy us enough time to…”

But by that time, the next wave of mutants begins its charge.

TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

SOULOFSERENITY

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:25 PM

Soul jumps to his feet as the body that had landed on him blows apart in the wind like it was made of dust.

"Okay, that was weird," Soul says.

"I've got something weirder," Jazaf replies.

Soul turns around and stumbles backwards in shock. The dark tower that had jutted from the horizon for the past hour or so now looms over their collective heads.

"What the hell did it do, jump here?" Jayne-clone2 asks nervously.

"Yeah, the building jumped," Jazaf laughs.

"Actually," Static states, his voice low, "It did."

He walks to the side of the momolith to a pair of heavy brass door set deep into the face of the tower. His pistol in his right hand, he raises his left hand towards the doors. They swing open at his touch, and from the chasm they reveal comes the sound of wailing, the same sound that had previously echoed through the forest.

Then Soul sees something on Static's face, something he hadn't expected. As the pilot walks into the darkness beyond the doors, a grin flitters across his lips, and then he is gone.

"What in the good gorram..." Jazaf whispers.

Soul swallows loudly and notches an arrow. He raises his bow, walks towards the dark opening, and steps into--

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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.

Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

http://havenofsouls.blogspot.com/

THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:33 PM

(The Dark Tower Crew:)

Jayne-clone2 is surprised as Static walks in through the massive doors.

"Uh, hey, we ain't really goin' inside that uh... hoppin' castle are we?"

When Soul enters, Jayne-clone2 falls in beside him, and scowls:

"This day just keeps gettin' better an' better!"

PSYCHICRIVER

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Dark-and-Nasty-Murdering-Evil-Ath-Guy:
"And also, I wanted to see that boy's face when she died."

*GASP!* *SHOCK!* *HORROR!*

*PR rushes to the still and silent form of the River-clone. Her eyes are closed and she looks peaceful, almost...serene. He checks her pulse, even though he knows for certain that she's dead. He cradles her still body in his lap. He gently strokes his hand over her face and then through her hair. A small tear falls onto her face.*

Quote:
Originally posted by safeat2nd:
PR crumples to the floor holding his head. “IT STARTS!!!” A bloodied Serenity looks alarmed at PR.

Quote:
Originally posted by safeat2nd:
Rivers body turns to ash. Now the crew know why the screaming form looks familiar….The crew realizes that the screaming has stopped. They turn as one to face the blood pool. There standing in the middle of the pool is a liquid River.

She beckons silently.

*The rest of the crew falls silent, and all there is to be heard is PR's loud and erratic breathing.*

*PR slowly looks up to the liquid-River, and his face falls. A trick*

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."

"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."

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