The Horror (Open)

Gandigan was looking for info on the clan’s on namek. He seemed to been trying to find more information about the Mazoku cause it might relate to his curse. Cambia didn’t have any information. “I did meet one Mazoku. Marimba was his name. I trained him, and he betrayed my trust trying to attack this planet. But maybe he will give some information if you ask. He is very secretive of Mazoku information.” It was at least a direction Gandigan could go that might be of some help to him. Cambia also mentioned the danger of the beasts how they caused more ahrm then they should have. “It is probably his demonic magic that can allow the user to harm one’s soul. So that is not something people are use to be harmed by.” She had faced soul based magic before.

But, they had a lot of other issues they had to deal with. They needed to figure a way out of the City. Cambia had a few memories as she thought back to her past in the city. She had been here at least a few times in the past so at least they had some direction to go. Cambia asked if she knew a good way out, Crotona shook her head. “No I don’t know much about the city.” She had scrubbed a lot of her memories out of the city. “But if we head towards the Studio maybe we can go from there.” It was a memory that seemed to just pop in her head. The sewers could be taken below. Perhaps not as tainted as the surface as no one was in the sewers when the corruption occured. At least not the same amount.


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"Oh right... Namekians are sort of born fully grown..." Cambia recalled from her time on Namek and the unintended biology lessons she had gotten from Shakuhachi. "A toddler is a small child, usually between the ages of three years old and five." she quickly explained, even as Gandigan asked the question she had been dreading. The tips of her ears began to take on the same crimson hue as her cheeks. "Umm... well... I actually..." she began to try and explain that she hadn't yet figured out how to fly yet.

She never did manage to get the explanation out fully in time though before the Namekian put his plan into action, charging full pelt across the street towards the former studio. The blonde Konatsian took in a slow breath before she began to follow suit, her blade held in one hand by her side as she ran across the street.

Her eyes caught the shift of movement to the left of the building, her gaze narrowing at the sight of these twisted creatures born of the rift in the sky. They seemed to be trying to get in towards where she could sense the Namekian was positioned.

Cambia's power Bloomed once more, even as azure lightning crackled along the edges of her sword. The blade itself took on a darker shade of silver, with streaks of red here and there across its surface. "Mazokata Impact!" she yelled out, swinging her blade and unleashing an arcing wave of energy into the pack of monsters. The sparking energy wave arced and seared through a few of the creatures, but there were still a few left... And now they were aware of her presence as well.

As she braced herself for the inevitable charge, one of the creatures features caused the blonde Konatsian woman to suffer a moment of hesitation. In amidst the parody features of some sort of beast... was the unmistakable silhouette of a pair of half moon rimmed glasses, with beads affixed to the ear-ends. The same kind that Madam Carna used to wear... No, not just the same kind... The very same pair... "What the... Madam... Carna?" Cambia asked softly, her eyes widening as she tried to figure out what she was seeing.

The creature charged towards her, and the world seemed to slow down around Cambia. The way the beast moved, every other step was like... a perfect copy for Madam Carna's practiced gait. This twisted malformed creature that was slavering away with a desire to end her life, and every other life here... It... it used to be her teacher... It was almost upon her when out of instinctive reflex she brought her blade up and into the... twisted persons throat, through the back of their head.

She stood there, her mouth opening in a silent scream as she was forced to look into the entities eyes, recognising this twisted malformed being for who they used to be. And yet whilst Cambia recognised her... the person that used to be Madam Carna did not recognise her. In fact there was... nothing in those eyes. No sign of any kind of sentience beyond that of a beasts... Less even... The blonde haired womans eyes began to film over with the precursor to tears, before she shut them tight and swung her blade, ripping it free of the dark magic mutated abomination that had once been a person...

The creature dropped to the ground, as lifeless as every other creature she'd killed so far in this twisted version of Dharatan... As that thought crossed her mind, Cambia released a haunting, wretched scream from her throat. How many of these things, these malformed twisted creatures, these parodies of life, these abominations... how many had once been Konatsians? How many had once been people who lived here? How much of their blood was on her hands? Her mind flash backed to the smaller creatures she'd killed earlier on today... And she felt violently ill at the possible connotations of this discovery...

Crotona would keep swinging as Gandigan called out that he was hearing something. A child that was still alive out here? That should not be possible. Maybe he could hear it being Namekian? Crotona glanced over at him. Cambia went to look for the said girl but they were still more and more of these creatures. They didn’t exactly have time to be looking. She glanced at Gandigan. “Go help Cambia! I’ll handle the creatures! You got it! We're gonna save that child and get out of here.” Crotona's aura rose as she used the massive aura to attract as many of those monsters toward her and away from the others. Like a giant light show, she seemed to be doing the opposite of helping by bringing all these creatures towards them.

But they pilled upon her they were biting into giant bones. As Crotona transformed into Belial. The Giant Skeletal monster lifted all the creature upon its body before the bones jetted out impaling the creature. Being a massive target more and more of the creature would focus on her. She would form a giant spear of Ki and swing it around cutting through all the creatures that got close to her. Any other that got past were met by giant blasts of ki aimed down at her feet to scorch the creatures! She was not going to give them an inch. And that also gave Cambia and Gandigan some time to actually find the child so they could go for an escape. Cause eventually the void in this area was going to do something to them. Especially Crotona being exposed before, the bones that had been impaling the creature started to gain a dark hue of ki. But she really didn’t give a damn as she kept swinging.


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The blonde Konatsian nodded at Gandigan as he began to direct the pair over towards some nearby rubble in the area whilst Crotona worked on dealing with the swarming aberrant beasts. But there was something... off about this whole thing.

Whilst she could now hear the same crying sound that Gandigan had heard earlier, Cambia couldn't sense any energy coming from anywhere in the area besides the three warriors themselves... Her fears were soon to be readily founded as the crying child turned out to be a trap!

"Don't move." Cambia said, her voice cold and furious at the lengths these twisted monstrosities would go to in order to acquire prey. Her blade took on a sparking edge to its form before a bolt of magical energy seared forth from it towards the tendril wrapped around the Namekian's neck.

Or rather, specifically the portion of it between the part wrapped around his neck and the creature it came from. As soon as the tendril was cut, she held out a single hand and unleashed a massive sphere of dark and light energy that sought to practically erase the rubble and the creature hiding beneath it.

Tears evaporated in the air once more as her body shook, this whole nightmare scenario making cracks in her spirit. She looked over towards the Namekian. "Sorry... Let's get out of this hell..." said Cambia, turning around to head back towards Crotona and briefly stopping in her tracks as she took in the sight of the dark ki flickering across what looked like a giant skeletal form. "That's... probably not good..."

Crotona glanced back at Gandigan and Cambia. They seemed to be worried about the form she took. Gandigan mistook it as another being. Cambia seemed to at least keep that to herself. She gave a nod. “Don’t worry, it won’t be coming back.” But what of the other voices? She seemed to ignore or been unaware of it. “We should get out of here though.” Hearing that the children was made he sad. But they had no more time to waste. She put her sword on her back and began to walk. She was numb in a way at the moment, this city was a wreck. There was so much darkness here. Darkness she allowed to happen by being too weak. At least that was how she processes seeing all this chaos. She just could not accept it. She couldn’t accept how things turned out.

The pit in her stomach growed with the iry darkness. There was no way to move on from this. To forgive herself for allowing this madness to happen. If she had defeated Marrow. If she had helped Erebos overcome Kamae. If she had been stronger. There was so many things she could list but if all those fell into place, then maybe..maybe this place would still be safe. All these people she had just killed would be smiling and having a good time. Crotona gritted her teeth and just walked. She didn’t wanna see this place any longer. She didn’t pass much concern if the two of them needed help but she was ready to cut anymore of these monsters away if they did appear.


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