Shadowfall

[Blewcheese]

"The winning side? You threw away everything you had worked for. Something you risked your life for, so you could be on the winning side. There will be no honor for you. You could have lived a hero. Remembered by all to be the one who stopped Shadowfall. Instead, you took the coward's way out. Hiding behind your pitiful mast of immortality, so that you might shield yourself from the inevitable. Shame. Jakob would never had done such a thing."

Pops begins collecting energy as he speaks.

[Battal]

Heroics?  Jakob asks.  Large words coming from the one who allowed his own brother to be taken by the shadows.

Jakob lets that sink in for a few moments.

Coward or not, I am still the one standing, while you are the one crawling across the ground, trying to build up energy for an attack that will do nothing.

[Blewcheese]

Pops took a deep breath.

"My brother... Was simply a burden to me. It is best that he died."

It's clear that Jakob hit a sweet spot.

[Battal]

How heroic.  Jakob says, clapping his hands together.  There is no sound.  We all are not heroes, and we never were.  You go ahead and keep living in your fairy tale fantasy.  Because, trust me - you're not getting a happily ever after.

[_-_-_]

(How many deaths have there been?)

[Will]

"Pops, don't listen to this ****! He's just trying to distract you so someone else can kill you!"

[Blewcheese]

Pops either doesn't seem to hear Dark Will, or chooses to ignore him. More energy builds up inside Pops.

"I don't need to live happily ever after. I simply need to stop Shadowfall. I'd sacrifice anything for that."

[Battal]

A goal which you will never achieve.

[Battal]

The Mother

 

 

A hideous creature of unknown orgin.  The Mother can spit acid, and her eye doubles as a mouth.  

[Percival]

(Thanks for the picture. NOW I CAN DRAW IT!)

[Blewcheese]

Pops snorts.

"Prove it to me then. Stop me."

[Battal]

Jakob hisses.  He telepoofs up to Pops and raises his flame-wreathed hands.

[Blewcheese]

Streams of blood shoot from Pops's hands, branching out towards Jakob.

[Battal]

Jakob burns through the blood with barely any effort, then grabs Pops by the neck.  Agony rips through Pops the instant his burning fingers reach his skin. 

 

As I said.  You never learn.

[Blewcheese]

Pops shouts in pain, groaning. The blood boils through the air and drips to the ground.

[Battal]

Jakob lifts Pops into the air until his shoes are a foot from the ground.  His body begins to spasm from the pain.

[Will]

"Get the f**k away from him!"

Violet let's loose all of her rage in one electric punch that sends Jakob skidding into a wall.

"You don't touch this man. You don't touch any of us!"

[Battal]

Jakob is still for a moment before he rises, shattered bones repairing themselves like building toys.  He pulls his head back into the correct position as he hovers into the air.

 

Fool.  Your efforts are pointless.  Your friend is probably dead by now.  We will whittle you down, one by one.  You cannot win.

 

Tentacles wrap around Pops, and begin to pull him underground.

[Will]

"Pops!"

Violet grabs Pops's arms, and attempts to hold him above ground.

[Blewcheese]

The blood that had dripped to the ground separates the tentacles from Pops. He looks up weakly.

"I'm fine..."

[Battal]

Jakob hisses.  I am done with you.  Prepare to die!

 

Dark fire whips around Jakob like snakes, letting off more heat than an inferno.  He prepares to unleash the fire when he is smacked into the wall by a large millepede.

 

"They are mine to ssssssslay!  I do not need Ssssshadeyy'ssss help."  The Mother hisses.

[Battal]

Jakob growls.  By all means.  He then vanishes in a puff of sparks.

[Blewcheese]

Pops pants, backing away. There was no way he had enough energy to perform the same spell that he had before to defeat The Mother.

[Battal]

The Mother spits acid everywhere, but for the most pasrt misses the group.  Meanwhile, Dark Will is probably doing something important.

[Battal]

(I see you're on.)