[!][HH 2 v ???] Sorry About Your Pizza (Madison & Leon)

[Sosiqui]

Madison wasn't feeling her best - the earlier battle against that damned mist-hound had been a little messier than she would've liked, though it was a stroke of luck that the lone Horseman had been taken out by the hound before she caused too much trouble. Hah.

Of course, the bigger problem was that now she was lost within the Haunted House, the Insanity biting at her and Kouki's mind - she couldn't quite tell where his mind ended and hers began, and that wasn't a very good plan right now. Not with the fog and the echoes that all sounded like home surrounding them.

She gritted her teeth as the floor sloped under her, skidding downward and ending up catching herself on a wall sconce. As Kouki hissed encouragement, she crawled up to a cross-hallway that was more level, sighing quietly with relief as she made her way to relative safety. Her only hope was to find either home home home home or another Hunter before the freaks found her.

"Deus ex machina," she muttered, for the hundredth time. It still didn't work.  

[Bloodlust Dante]

It was stupid. Leon knew it was stupid, right down to his very bones he was aware of it. Patroling this close to the Haunted house was a foolish idea, almost as foolish as being beat up with Robert and Jerry by the first two creatures they saw here in the mists. It wasn't just foolish, in his eyes it was shameful.

There was no way he was going to stand for that. His man card was on the line, or so he imagined. He picked up his still tired feet and stepped closer and closer to the fog shrouded building, the constant whispers of the home that made Nid growl into the wind. "why are we doing this meathead?" the grumble of the weapon emitted in Leon's head like a kind of transmitter. It only made the hunter scowl and stop harder on its path into the eerie house.

"Because someone has to Nid." he retorted back just as gruffly, the chainsaw was already in hand, primed and ready for the jump.

This time he didn't want to be completely unaware when the strike happened.

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[Sosiqui]

Between one step and the next, the floor dropped out. Again. Madison swallowed her scream as she skidded downwards - the House was just as treacherous now as it had been on her first visit. No, it was worse. The fog prevented her from seeing what lay ahead of her...

She had a sensation of things opening up around her, and then light - brighter than what she'd been used to, for sure. Was she outside...?

And then there was no more floor under her, and Madison actually screamed, tumbling five feet down to the yard outside the Haunted House, as if the House itself had spat her out. Yech.

Bloodlust Dante

 

[Bloodlust Dante]

The fog had its own harmonious tone, the endless wails on the wind for home. the moans of the lost that Leon could faintly hear. All of it that promised nothing but misery and woe for the boxer.

his stride was halted in its tracks, but the unusually high and terror filled sound of a scream. One that didn't have the word home bouncing around for all to hear from what he could tell. The life hunters eyes flicked over to a blur of white and pink. the pink seemed unnatural in the dismal theme and drew his eyes in.

To one Madison that looked like she got thrown out of a stadium for illegal betting. "Well, you're a sight for sore eyes." the hunter let out a chuckle and walked closer to the woman on the floor and offered a hand. "Not ladylike to be in such a ways in this place." and smiled at her.

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[Sosiqui]

"Yeah, well," Madison grumbled, taking the hand and scrambling to her feet - at some point during her tumble, she'd unsummoned her weapon, figuring that falling with sharp objects was worse than not having Kouki immediately to hand. "Thanks... Before was in there with me, but I lost sight of him. Got dragged in with a bunch of freaks and a hissy Horsebitch, then chewed on by a dog..." She looked a bit the worse for wear.

"You're..." She paused. "Leon, right?"

Bloodlust Dante

 

[Bloodlust Dante]

Leon stood there, being the momentary support and glad that his own weapon was unsummoned. There was less chance of having accidental victims. Even if the dragon entity weapon went after things with FEAR or not. "Before was with you huh?" he asked with a grunt and rubbed at the back of his neck awkwardly.

"Is he going to be alright in there on his own, or should I help escort you back to the hunter tent?" he asked quietly before giving the female hunter the once look over.

twice.

"You think you might need medical assistance there, Mads?" he asked gingerly. It was one thing to be polite, but he already saw that most of the girls in the group liked to be self sufficient, their own honer was just as fragile as his. "And yes, I am Leon." he said with a grin

that was his name, don't wear it out.

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((Just realized that I forgot to Roll lol))
Rolling a 6: ALL STUDENT/ HUNTER HP IS HALVED. You feel tired.... cold...numb. It becomes increasingly hard to focus as the battle draws on.

 

[Sosiqui]

Madison shook her head, slowly. "I... ugh... I was doing okay..." Had it been the trip through the Haunted House. "Dunno where Before ended up... damn house did its thing, and..." As the fog thickened around them, she felt a chill, creepily akin to that Chill that crept into your bones after you...

Kouki's grip on her tightened, and for a moment she got the sense of black coils wrapping around her protectively, the scales flaking away here and there to reveal patches of grey.

"I... sorry about the pizza," she mumbled, slipping back down to her knees. Everything was so damn cold.



HP: 11/50 (after applying status effect)

Bloodlust Dante

 

[Bloodlust Dante]

Leon continued to walk along with Madison, right by her side. "Before will be alright, hes been on missions away from the main group for awhile now." he said with a shrug. "He can take care of himself, lets get you back and get you recovered." The life hunter didn't even want to think about the horrors that awaited inside the haunted house, the things that Madison probably saw.

It made him shiver in fear, not only because of the clod that seemed to sweep over in a flash. It chilled him to his bones as he tightened the coat around his form. The ever persistent growl of Nidhogg had quieted again with the cold draft upon them. Leon learned quickly that it wasn't a good sign as he picked up the pace.

and quickly stopped in his stride when Madi sank down to her knees. "I already forgot about that,no worries." Leon grumbled out with a lopsided grin. he never expected the huntress to be fretting over that. "Pizza was pizza, there was no need for us to do something silly as fight over it, in retrospect." he insisted.


he didn't even eat that kind of stuff to begin with. "Come, lets get a move on, its getting to cold to linger like this." If he had to carry Madison on his back, he was ready to pick her up if necessary, but the fog that got thicker only made the life hunter more cautious, and aware of their vulnerability.

HP: 25/50 (with application of roll effects)

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[Sosiqui]

"I was kinda drunk," she mumbled, then winced as Kouki sent a hiss like a teakettle boiling over lancing through her mind. Her limbs tingled with adrenaline. Get up! Walk! Move! the serpent-sword ordered her. "Okay, Kouki, okay..."

She let out a long sigh that sounded a bit hissy itself. "Yeah. Okay. Geez, <********> this fog... which way is..." She almost said home, but stopped herself with a wince. "Where are we going?"

Bloodlust Dante

 

[Bloodlust Dante]

"So what you're saying is, I got manhandled by a drunk female." Leon said blandly as Madison got back onto her own feet and let that sink in for a bit. He could hear the dragon saw cackling over the audacity of it all, and how it was trolling him, the boil loved it. He however hated it as he grit his teeth and stared into the fog with a stone gaze.

"Beaten by a drunk female over some pizza." he repeated out loud. It just sounded wrong on so many levels. He could see why saying sorry now was important. "Apology accepted." he groaned out at last before turning back to the fellow hunter and the fine veil of fog between them, obscuring ever so slightly.

It was like a film, a thin barrier that looked like those scenes from noir films, besides the black and white look to it that didn't apply here. he always thought Casablanca would have been better if it was restored in color. the question from madi's lips spun the hunter on his heel as he tried to get his bearings, opening his mouth to speak before setting it in a hard line.

"I was trying to retrace my steps back to the tent." the life hunter said plainly before swinging an arms at the settling fog around them. "I think i lost the trail." he mentioned with a frown and faced madison, ashamed and distraught. The rugged air of a proud fighter was lost now. "We're lost."

We're ******** was probably the more apparent concept in his mind.  

[Sosiqui]

"Uh. I... I guess?" Madison made a face. "I don't remember it all that well... and this fog s**t isn't helping." She waved one hand in front of her face in a vain attempt to fan some of the fog back and clear a bit of airspace. Yeah, no, that wasn't going to work at all. "It's all home, home, <********> home. Where the ******** is home, huh?! WHERE THE ******** IS HOME."

She was shouting now, every syllable bringing back redoubled echoes. Oh god, this hurt her brain...

Madison clapped her hands over her mouth, then looked at Leon, haunted. "I'm so ********," she mumbled from behind her hands. "God."

Bloodlust Dante

 

[Bloodlust Dante]

Leon watched as Madison tried to sweep the fog away vainly. If it wasn't for the girl practically throwing a ft and ready to drop kick the fog in its non existent a**, it would have been funny. The life hunter was more concerned about Madison's state of mind.

"Hey hey, calm down." Leon uttered soothingly and placed his heavy hand son her shoulders, trying to keep the girl under control, and most of all calm. "Let's not freak out yet, alright, the house is still over there." he continued, pointing a finger at the structure that was still visible in the mist, the fog seemed to coat the building in its shroud, swirling around it, but all the sharp points, and uneven lines of the structure poked from the mists, making it still visible, noticeable.

And more creepy than before.

"Lets head back to it and try to find our way from there again huh?" he asked, giving the woman a nudge.

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"Yeah... yeah, you're right, sorry," Madison mumbled, her hands slowly returning to her side. Kouki's sword-belt and scabbards appeared around her waist in a flare of light, and she rested one hand on a hilt for reassurance. At his nudge, she began to shuffle forward.

After a few steps, though, she turned around and looked at him. "Hey. Why'd you decide to... to do this?" She gestured with her free hand as if encompassing the Haunted House, the fog, and Deus in its entirety in the sweep of her fingers. "... was it worth it?"

Bloodlust Dante

 

[Bloodlust Dante]

"Its already forgotten about, even the wound to my pride from that day, all water under the bridge." Leon insisted and went back to walking. The fog only seemed to linger in place, the haze hat settled in, persisting to stay right where it was as Leon continued to strut his stride. The question from Madison was enough to have him peek over to her, the pink scarf seemed to blend in nicely with the fog.

it was a question that made him furrow his eyebrows in thought, calculating the female hunter and looking into her yes, searching for the reason as to why she would ask such a thing. "Before I took this coat in my hand, before we woe up in that mock apocalyptic world in gas masks and riot gear, I was ready to sweep the world in a featherweight title match." he uttered lowly with the flex of his fingers. "But I gave up the chance, i'll never know if I would have won or not, something i'll have to live with for the rest of my days." he continued with a sigh and put an arm on the smaller fighters shoulder before continuing.


"There was also the chance that I could have died in that match, boxers and their head trauma." he said with a grin, tapping a knuckle lightly on the side of his skull. "I'd rather give up the glory to take a chance at saving those I cared about, even if I'll never see them ever again. Even if the are probably wondering to this day what happened to me, if I choked under the pressure and ran or died without anyone knowing." he stated, showing not an ounce of regret in his voice. "I did it for them, and if it means that through my tiny actions, from our actions as a group that they might be able to live for just one more day.... then it was worth it." he said boldly, flicking a jab out in the fog and crossing with a hook at the intangible opponent.

"If it wasn't worth it to anyone, I don't think they would be standing here and now, don't you think?" he asked back to Madison. "Now, I showed you mine, so you show me yours." he barked back with a evil grin in a tone that dripped with curiosity and mischief. "Your conviction of what brought you here, that is."

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[Sosiqui]

"Heh..." Madison looked away. "Yours was better. I didn't know anything. I still don't." She took a deep breath, pulling grey into her lungs. "I was never normal. I tried to pretend for a long time. So when I thought I had a chance to be special because of it... I took it. That's all. Pretty dumb, huh?"

Bloodlust Dante

((I'm going to be gone most of this weekend, so if you want to have Leon get pulled away I can follow with Maddie when I get back - just don't want you to feel stuck b/c I'm not responding or something!))