Introduction
A year passes by, and strange thinge begin to happen around the old building. People begin dissapearing from the area, and strange noises, like people screaming, can be heard from inside, but upon inspection, nothing is ever found. Police have roped off an entire block in an effort to discourage people from tresspassing, but that doesn't really help, and although they won't admit it, the police are too afraid to mess with the building too much.
In truth, the Gates System was a success, in a way. It just took time that the impatient TU people couldn't wait on. You see, when the System attepmted to transport the object, it actuallty pierced a tiny old between thie world and another, and had they continued to test it, the hole would have grown larger quicker, but instead it was never noticed. Over that year, however, the hole grew in size, and now creatures from that world are escaping. These creatures attack humans and use them as a sort of caccoon, maturing inside their bodies until they are a threat on their own.
The Creatures seem to come from a dimension where some type of technilogical virus has taken over, as they look like small android-like snakes when they enter our world, however, after nexting in a human they take on a humanoid apperance. They stand as tall as an everage person, with pale gray skin, cold, dimly glowing eyes, and they over all look like cyborgs, a combination of flesh and mechanics. They have razor sharp claws on hands which they can stretch out to snatch up their prey and either kill them or use them as a new nest. They have other abilities as well, some seemingly random or unique, as there seem to be some Boss Creatures which are far stronger and more deadly than the others, and who also seem to be able to control packs of them.
However, there was another side effect of the Gates System, and that was a type of radiation that leaked out into the area around the building over that year. It seems some teenagers who were exposed to this have gained the ability to access the other dimension as well, giving them unique powers. These powers are activated by opening a gate, which means the user wills a small hole in the dimensions to open up near them, from which they draw their powers. Each of their powers are unique, and their gates are named after them, for instance, if a person were to open their gate and it granted them the ability to reach inside and take a fireball, and to throw them as long as it was open, then that gate me be named the Gate of Fire.
Now, a man named Knight is searching for these teenagers, hoping that they will be able to go with him to the source of everything and close the wormhole. Knight was a man working with the Gates System team, and was also exposed to the radiation, though a muh higher dose, and because of this his powers slowly eat away at his body every time he uses them...
Creature before infesting a human->
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Okay, so, you are what is called a Keeper of the Gates, a person who has the ability to reach into another dimension by opening a hole between your own and that other plane and gain a special ability. Each Gate is unique and named after whatever ability it grants.
The enemy are called Creatures and Boss Creatures. They are humans who have been taken over and changed into cybernetic weapons by beings from the other side of the wormhole. They are much stronger than a normal human, and no weapons from this world seem to be able to harm them, which is why it is up to the Keepers of the Gates to destroy them and seal the wormhole.
Power: each are unique, and can be anything from throwing fireballs, to changing weather, to flight etc. However they must be reasonable, as everyone except for the aforementioned Knight have only recieved a low dose of the radiation that causes the abilities. WARNING- althought Knight;s powers eat away at him fairly quickly, all Gates do this, and overusing them will cause this process to quicken.
Gate Side Effects: as you use the gate you are exposed more to the radiation of the other dimension, and our human bodies cannot handle that, so they begin to change. As the Gate eats at your body you become more like your ability. For example, Knight's ability involves metal, and so everytime he uses his power more and more of his cells turn into metal. With fire abilities you may develope a sunburn like burn, which wouldn't go away, and would worsen as time and use of powers went on. The only way to reverse this is to seal the wormhole, which seals off your Gates and all the radiation
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Name:
Age:
Side: (a member of the Keepers, against them, not sure, etc.)
Apperance: (a pic is fine as long as you add at least height to it)
Gate: (Gate of incert ability here)
Discription of Gate: (tell what ability you gain)
Background: (how long have you known you had the Gate? any idea why you got that particular one? etc...)
Other:
Personality and History can be filled out en Rp, if you like, I do. Well, as long as you add that little bit mentioned above at least ^_^
Please remember to check the OOC often for plot and other such useful info, I will be using it alot...and try to keep OOC chat while in character to a minimum...other than that, ask me any questions via OOC or PM.
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The Creature, this one had been nesting in a little girl, let out a scream that was something like a scross between a mic reverbing an a child's laughter. It was small, but it was very fast, and it's arms stretched out like vipers, with several paper thin blades on either hand. Already Jin was covered in what looked like hundreds of papercuts, his shirt shredded, but he ignored the pain of the now and focused on that of the past.
The Creature shot forth like a rocket on the Fourth of July, suddenly and without warning. With the way it was raining it seemed the thing dissapeared, but Jin knew it hadn't, for he could still hear that horrible scream as it moved, first here then there, to and fro. An arm lashed out, and he barely moved back in time to dodge it. It came again, and again, but on the fourth time Jin swung his sword and severed the arm with a mechanical crack, the sound of flesh tearing, and that of fluids squirting. Now the Creature roared at him, but as it leapt into the air in an attempt to finish the Keeper off, Jin dissapeared, then reappeared behind it, letting the sword go, allowing it to return through the Gate as it reopened.
There were two seperate splattering noises as the two halves of the Creature fell into puddles of mud on the ground, then a sound like glass falling as they shattered, turning into particles and evaporating back into their own world.
"Damnit..." Jin says, dropping to one knee and clutching his left hand. The red bandage wrapped around it begind to leak, turning the water beneath him crimson.
"You did a good job there Yamamoto, we could really use your help at the Keepers of the Gates." It was Knight, stepping out from his fancy silver car, holding up an oversized black umbrella in one hand and a card in the other. "Come on, at least let me give you a ride back to your place."
"Everytime I see you, you give me one of those stupid cards..." Jin said, slowly standing. "And everytime I turn you down. Am I the only one who sees a pattern here or what?"
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The rain begins to let up, and a cloud moves, allowing the brightness of the full moon to shine through and illuminate the scene as Jin reluctantly takes the card and slips it into the front pocket of his jeans. It look as if he would say something, but then his phone goes off, alerting them that there is a small group of Creatures in the area, about three blocks away, near a tunnel entrance of the highway.
"Sorry old man, gotta go!" Jin says with a smirk before turnng and running off in the direction the phone indicated.
Knight sihs and turns around. Looking up at Max he waves, giving him the signal that he can comedown, it's time to move on. After that he walks back over to his car, stepping in the red puddle Jin left behind, and getting back inside.
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Before either of them can say anything else the tunnel entrance seems to explode as a very bright light shines forth. Hundreds of the small cyber-snakes and maybe ten to fifteen of the Creatures, come out. The snakes surge forth like a black wave towards the two of them, while the Creatures let out their odd, creepy yell and stagger forward. The light still emits from behind them however.
"There must be a Boss Creature in there somewhere." Jin says, sticking his left arm out to hsi side. "Gate of Blades, open!" with that he swipes his arm befoer him and leaps high into the air, so that the wave of purple throwing knives he sends forth don't hit the girl. Each of them fly accurately and pin one of the snakes down, but there are still several more coming towards them.
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"Now please die." She said to the snakes and creatures around them. A whips of blood spiraled out of her fingertips and then sliced at every creature and snake it could get. "The boss is very well dead. I killed it and I guess that's the reason these things are here." Luna said a bit too casually, considering that blood was falling onto the ground from the cut on her back, it had opened up again.
"Now if you help this could be quicker to finish. So a little help would be nice please." A few more waves come forward to meet Luna's attack.
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Jin then moves before the girl and begins swinging the blades, seemingly wildly, however with each movement another one or two of the snakes goes down. Soon they are all dead, and only a handful of the Creatures are left standing. But before either of them can attack, the Creatures move closer together, and begin to merge into one large entity which towers over the both of them.
"Well, that's a new one on me..." Jin says, looking up at the huge being, coming up just to the halfway mark of its shin.
The Creature then looks down, lets out a screech, and kicks Jin, sending him flying into, and crashing through the wall, of a nearby building.
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Luna had some blood restrain the creature as she went over to inspect Jin. She went poked him with tip of her sneaker. "Get up. The creature won't be restrained like that forever." She staggered a bit and was very pale. She was using to much of her power.
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It looked like just a line, but then it began to split, and the foot fell into two peices, causing the thing to fall down on one knee. He then looked back up at the girl as he stood. "You don't look so good. Close your Gate, I had handle this on my own." He said, taking a breath before rushing forward.
In truth he was fairly banged up, with cuts and bruises all over, nto to mention a few fractured ribs, but he was always in pain, so he could easily ignore such things. As he got closer the Creature reached down, his hands huge claws that blocked out the moon, and attempted to grab Jin, but suddenly he wasn't there, he was running up the Creature's arm, towards his neck.
Letting go of his swords they goth decentigrate into particles and dissapear as a new, larger gate opens behind Jin. With a yell he reaches into i and draws out a huge greatsword, something only a giant should be able to wield. "Die!" Jin yells, swinging the sword around with both hands gripping it tightly.
There is a loud groan as the neck resists the edge of the massive blade, then a cracking sound as the sword makes it's way halfway through the Creature's neck before getting stuck. "Shit..." Jin says as he is forced to let go of the sword and jump back, doing a backflip before landing beside the door.
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Ignoring the pain in her back she sent her blood inside the creature. Then made the blood turn into spikes, only manging to hurt the organs in the body instead of making the creature explode before shutting her get off. "Damn it! Do something it probably is hurt to badly to do anything." She yelled as the creature screamed in rage and pain. Luna sunk to her knees as fatigue settled in.
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As he takes off, rushing towards the Creature, his left arm hangs loosely at his side, dripping blood and throbbing. The pain has gotten bad, and he can no longer use it at the moment. With a scream he opens his Gate while still moving, and through it fires a large barbed dagger, the chain wrapping around his right arm as it does so. The Gate closes and the dagger sinks into the creature's chest. Jin then stops suddenly and pulls once on the chain with all his strength, which causes the Creature to lose balance and topple down.
Rushing once more he lets the dagger and chain dissapear and grabs the greatsword, using the force of the Creature's fall to finish severing the neck. The body falls to the ground before him, the head behind him, and then it and the sword both turn to dust and float away as Jin falls on his face, his left hand and arm bleeding badly.
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Luna was then forced to shut off her gate. "I guess I look undead now." She muttered to herself.
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"yes, Luna was it? You do look undead. Don't over do it, okay? You're no good to anyone dead..." He spoke softly, not trying to sound mean, but wanting to get his point across. "And you, little boy, why the hell didn't you help us? You sit back and watch as two people nearly kill themselves, then ask one of them to join your team?!"
By the time he finished talking he was shouting at Max, and before he realixed it his Gate opened and a throwing knife flew out from it, crazing the boy's cheek. This also caused the bleeding of his left arm to return to flow of blood it had had before Luna had helped.
Suddenly lighes were on them, illuminating Luna and Jin. The engine turned off and Knight stepped out into the rain once more.
"Luna, get in the car. We'll take care of you back Home," Knight says, meaning the Keepers base of operations. "And as for you Max, you can finish up the patrol for the night." He paused for a moment to look at Jin, who was now holding his left arm close, the blood staind his clothes badly. "Come on boy. I know you can handle the pain, but what about a cold?"
Reluctantly Jin nodded and got in the back of the car.
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He heard that he was finishing patrol and muttered under his breath. "Great the highest chance of me killing myself is good." he groaned then sighed. "Gladly knight" He said then turned back in the shadows and dissapeared. He knew knight was angry at him for not helping out. But it was the only way he could have gotten a chance to fry those god damn creatures that killed his family that night. He saw a group of them and made a quick work of them not having to deal with a boss creature. After the night pass he went back to the base of operations.
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"...off at?" Knight said, causing Jin to snap out of it. "Hey, you alive? I said where should I drop you off?"
"You mean you arn't going to take me back to some lab and lock me up?" Jin asks, glaring and crossing his arms.
"Don't have one, just an old house with some fancy stuff inside." Knight says with a smile. "But there's a spare room there if you'd like to have it."
Jin looked from Knight to the outside. It looked as if it might rain again, plus it was near dawn and he hadn't slept yet. So, too tired to argue, heagred to the room, since he really didn't have anywhere else anyway, and Knight drove on.
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"Come along if you like I could care less." Luna said still quiet, remembering that memory of the elementary school.
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"Thanks, but I can manage." jin says, looking up at Knight, running a hand through his hair. "This is actually...a really nice place..." He says quietly, looking around. It looked like a mansion to Jin, but he knew better. It was really just a large, nice house, much nicer than the tiny one he'd gown up in. Looking back Kniht said nothing, and looked as if he were slightly in pain and didn't want Jin to know it, so he lead him quietly to his room.
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