The Return of Rakdos - RP

The cultists, adorned in black and red robes, gather around a carved stone altar. The carvings are jagged and sloppy, and the altar is stained with blood. They gather in a circle around it, and begin to chant."Mortals..."The chanting gets louder. The leader is spreading a strange powder across the altar. "Release me, mortals, or I shall devouryou!"The chanting's speed increases, as the leader lights the powder. The altar bursts into flames, and they lower a human skull onto it. "Mortals! Obey or you shall not be spared!"The chanting suddenly stops, and the leader takes his gloves off. He chants alone now, and his hands light on fire. He shows no sign of pain, and clasps his hands together. The flame is still alive within his hands as he bring sit down onto the human skull with full force. The skull is crushed and charred, and leaves only this outline on the altar.

"I can feel my power growing.... GROWING!!"The leader lowers his hood, and stops the chant. The others start again, while he burns an outline of his open hand onto his forehead. His eyes begin to glow red. His mouth opens to reveal a glowing red light, and he begins to scream. The hand has been burnt onto his forehead, and he is now screaming louder, obviously in the worst pain he has ever felt. He falls to his knees, and begins to bleed from his eyes, ears, and nose. Spikes begin to sprout from his skin, and he grows horns. These are all injuring him as they would too any human being, and it's a wonder he's alive. His lower jaw becomes larger, and his lower teeth grow. His entire body shifts, become much larger and more muscular. His skin stretches, splitting at points. This goes on until he stops screaming, and a demon bursts out of his skin. "Mortals...."the demon looked around the room at the chanting individuals. "I have Returned!"Rushed out of the cave this took place in, ripping a cultist in half on his way out. He felt rage he hadn't felt in years,and he would take it out on the life he so despised.

"Gothic City..... The land above my tomb.... I.... Will.... DESTROY YOU!! Nyearrgh!"The demon rushed into the city, using his wings to move himself far beyond the normal speed of a creature his size. The first car he saw was caught and thrown into a nearby building. He dashed towards a civilian and ripped them in half, throwing their body at another to incapacitate them. The demon bit this one's head of and spit it across the street at another innocent person, killing them. The rest of the body was smashed into the ground, cracking it, and pulverising the body. This crack tripped multiple fleeing civilians, who the Demon jumped ontop of. He tore them to shreds, and caught another person. Most surviving civilians having fled at this point, he lit the man on fire and threw him into a building at the trapped men and women who were too terrified to exit the building. The demon entered through the flaming hole he had created and began to wreck the office building, plowing through cubicles and tearing to pieces anyone he saw.

"Come and meet your doom,mortals!"

@_ophelia_:

Nymphixia awoke with a startle, sweat slicking her skin. Something was wrong -- while her host's teleportation-sense usually only detected nearby travel, something had just moved a great distance... and from a familiar place, at that. Something big had just come from Hell, and the last time that had been a good thing was when Nyx herself had done so.

Sitting up in bed, the demoness exhaled softly, trying to get her bearings. The sensation wasn't going away -- something horrible was happening and it was happening right now. And with the lockdown on Hell, whatever it was was either extremely powerful, had a lot of help, was exploiting some sort of cosmic maelstrom (as Nyx herself had), or any combination of the above. Only the last option offered any measure of solace, but she couldn't dwell on her nerves right now. Even if Nymphixia wasn't the most powerful denizen of Hell, nor was she the weakest, and if she was going to be a hero then it was her duty to fight fire with fire.

Hellfire, in this case.

Glancing beside her, Nyx looked at the slumbering countenance of her fey lover, and leaned down to gently kiss the other woman's temple, not wanting to wake her up but needing some kind of final contact. "I have to go," she whispered. "But I'll be back." She couldn't bring Ophelia with her. Even in fox-form she wasn't powerful enough to deal with what was coming. Nyx wasn't even sure if she was herself.

Her nude, tattooed figure slid out of bed, steadying her breathing as a scarlet shimmer washed over her, bathing her skin in crimson. She sprouted her horns and tail, her eyes taking on a red-and-gold hue. She couldn't play around, here. No "Brimstone." No holding back. If Hell was coming to Earth, it would swiftly learn that the front-row seat was already taken.

Quickly clothing herself, the Red Angel of the Harvest whispered a profane prayer and vanished in a plume of red vapor.

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@rakdos_dagon:

The runes inside of her head lighting up, Nyx traced the signature of the portal out of Hell, and quickly followed its trail, landing her on a rooftop in another bloom of scarlet. Moonlight silhouetted her curvaceous, demonic form against the dark Gothic sky, her eyes and mouth already beginning to softly glow with the intensity of the hellfire within her.

And that was when she saw it, the source of the chaos, the screams and fire around her. The Fiend of Rathix. The Champion of the Eternal Battle. The Beast With Wings. Rakdos Dagon, a demon so far above her paygrade it made Nymphixia feel like Hell's janitor. Not that that was gonna stop her.

"So at long last, escape you've made,
Rathix spat forth Rakdos Dagon,
How many of your pitiful servants you've flayed,
To finally see this day? Gone
are the hounds of hell to keep you in check,
No longer the lords of the dead steadfast.
Now it's my home you've come to wreck,
But this day in the sun -- shall be your last."

@nymphixia:

"Your riddles will not save you, worm! You'll die like the rest! Nyeeargh!!"The demon lunged at his adversary, wasting no time in clawing as her. In a flurry of attacks, he slashed and bit at her, even trying to claw her with his wings. He was breathing small plumes of fire with each heavy breath, and there were glowing stoned floating around the battlefield, slowly coming together to form a flaoting obelisk shape above them.

"You'll meet your end, bastard child of the damned!"

(sorry about short posts, I'm pretty straightfoward on my attempts to attack lethally and no godmodding)

@rakdos_dagon:

Nymphixia shrugged at the comment, offering a small smile as the demon lunged at her, wings beating and claws slashing. She vanished from sight in a red bloom, feeling a minor sting on her soul when Rakdos passed through her teleportation-scar -- it would heal. It would have to.

She reappeared above the fiend, letting out a bestial roar of her own as she came rocketing down, kicking off the fiend's back and using the momentum of her massive jump to teleport once more, this time thrusting herself towards Rakdos's midriff with an enormous uppercut. A blow like this should be enough to level a skyscraper, yet something told her that the Beast of Rathix would be less impressed than she'd like... if the punch connected at all.

@nymphixia: The blow landed hard on the demon's jaw, sending him back a few feet. The demon shrieked and ripped out a chunk of the ground and threw it at his opponent, before charging once more. Teleport. Just as suspected.

The demon knew she would be kicking him in the back again, and prepared his wings to catch her should she attempt this again.

@rakdos_dagon:

*poof*

The demoness popped back up, diving for Rakdos's back in an attempt to keep her momentum going, letting it build with each teleportation -- but it seemed she had grown predictable very quickly. Wings extended at the most inopportune moment, their sharp tips catching her as she dove down, the forespike of one driving through her shoulder and causing Nymphixia to hiss with pain before vanishing in another puff of red.

She remained gone for a moment before blipping back, the wound already starting to heal as she appeared on her feet at a nearby rooftop, waiting for the wrath demon the get closer... and drawing in a deep breath of air, her mouth beginning to glow. Come get some, she thought to herself.

@nymphixia:

"Your teleporting is becoming tiresome, worm!" the demon spraye fire across the area, and lunged once more. The stones floating in the air were frantically shaking, and forming into sharp poits. The demon would rain down hell on the enemy if necessary.

"Nyaargh!" Every step the demon took left a burning footprint, every breath a gout of deadly hellfire. Every time he clenched his fists small shards of rock pelted the battlefield. The demon's most likely futile lunge would again include the rending of flesh with claws, wounds that would be soon cauterized by the demon's breath.

@rakdos_dagon:

The demoness weaved backward, scuttling across the rooftop as the bigger demon landed on its feet and charged, hellfire a'blazin'. This wasn't going according to plan at all -- she had been hoping to unleash with a gout of fire of her own as soon as Rakdos came into range, but belching out his own flames made that harder. She stumbled, barely keeping up with the flurry of attacks but, fortunately, absorbing most of the damage of the other demon's fire. Catching a few claws across her midsection, Nyx staggered backward and lashed back out with a rapid sequence of kicks, trying to keep Rakdos at bay -- or, more specifically, trying to get him to back up for fear of suffering city-crushing blows directly to the body.

@nymphixia:

The demon noticed not that any of his blows landed or missed. All he knew was that his opponent was still alive, and that angered him more. The kicks knocked him back, as is what happens when a building shattering blow hits an object only three times later than a man, but the pain was not crippling, rather empowering, as the seething pain fueled the demon's rage. The skin around his horns and spikes began to flame, and his nose and eyes began to as well. He was now partially on fire, and baseball sized pieces of burning rock pelted the building.

"I will devour you, mortal!"

@rakdos_dagon:

Nymphixia smirked, though she didn't answer. Let the beast think she was mortal -- he'd learn better soon enough.

The instant Rakdos staggered backward she seized what she saw as an opportunity, teleporting behind and below the massive entity and wrapping her long, sinuous tail around one ankle before propelling herself forward with both feet, leaping directly outward and attempting to carry the bigger demon (or at least, his ankle) along with her, hoping she could use his brief lack of balance to trip the beast entirely.

@nymphixia:

"Neyyarraghrahh!!"The demon felt great force against his legs, and began to fall. "Now now... NOT SO SOON!!"A large stone pillar burst through the building and circled the demon. He then filled the tube of stone with fire, and blew flames and shards of rock everywhere. The plume of flames was seen for miles, attracting more Law Enforcement. The police and S.W.A.T. were of course already here, with helicopters overhead. The demon was kneeling, as his powerful explosion did injure him slightly. With is opponent nowhere immediately near him, he leaped into the air and plucked the helicopter from the sky, jamming his hand through the back propeller and holding it as though it were a baseball bat. When his adversary returned to view, she would be feeling the force of a swung helicopter.

@rakdos_dagon:

Well that hadn't gone as well as planned, but it had been worth a shot. The blast of rocks and fire sent her hurtling backwards, teleporting away only to reappear at ground level in a contained blast of rock shards. Chunks of the stuff were embedded in her skin, dark crimson blood leaking from the wounds as she tried to pick them out bit by bit, hissing to herself and glancing up at where Rakdos still ran rampant. Crap crap crap she thought to herself. Could seriously use some help here.

She finally brushed off the last few nibs and her wounds started healing up before she finally teleported back upward, leading with a gout of hellfire -- only to find 50 tons of steel and blades hurtling towards her. "Oh, f***," she whispered as the entire thing crashed into her, crushing the side of the skyscraper and grinding the demoness along down with it, leaving a long scarlet smear across the shredded rebar and broken glass.

It was about a full moment before the demoness pulled herself up onto her feet, stretching her spine out and grumbling to herself, short rhyming phrases -- all that could be understood of which was "that's gonna be sore in the morning."

@nymphixia:

The demon landed, roaring into the sky. He looked down do discover his right leg bone was broken and had pierced out of his skin. He jammed the bone down into his leg and forced it back in. He breathed fire on it, before bringing the stone rain to a halt and creating an obelisk.

"My work in this location..... Is DONE!!" The demon leaped off of a building, absorbing gunfire. He plowed through a SWAT blockade and threw a large armored vehicle at whatever might be left of his opponent before charging towards the location of his next obelisk, killing an and all in his way.

@nymphixia: @rakdos_dagon: Aaron was not happy when he received the message from the leader of the blood council about how some demon who was the embodiment of rage has escaped and how he needed to go stop it Aaron grumbled " I have important Research to work on but just because some demon is genociding humanity I have to stop it this is really typical of the council" Aaron had been researching the last diary of Alistair the blood mage which could hold the secrets to some very powerful forces but now he had to stop this work to go put down some demon.

Aaron was still grumbling a little as he got dressed and teleported to Rakdoses location 'and why do demons all have to be the embodiment of something I am the embodiment of chaos I embody men's desires I am the embodiment of Phil Collins its all just of bunch of titles to make little demons feel bigger then they are it was to Aaron' s surprise when Rakdos proved to be stronger then he expected but not nearly strong enough to leave an impression he was curious how powerful he would be at full strength.

But he chose not to find out the last thing he needed was the councils whining about him letting a demon reach full power then the battle with said demon resulted in half of north america being wiped out so as he observed the large demon fight the tiny demoness a interesting thought popped in this mind just because he had to do this does not mean he couldn't have fun with this .

Aaron summoned one of his many thralls this one was the shadow mage turned demon called umbrarum horrore The blood king found him working as a mage for a demon lord after slaughtering his master the mage came into Aaron's service and this was the perfext moment to bust him out .

As the swat van came flying nymphixia a shadow barrier formed and deflected it and next to her appeared a strange shadow and out of this came the demon, he turned toward the young demon girl and bowed "I am Umbrarum Horrore my master has given me the task to protect you and help you bring this demon down .

While this was going on Aaron disappeared to prepare a little suprise for Rakdos .

@ownagepants:

Rakdos noticed through the cries of the unworthy and the crimson most that surrounded him that the vehicle he had thrown was stopped by a mysterious black shield. "No! Who dares to further interfere!"

The demon began to hurl everything he had: Flaming chunks of rock, flaming vehicles, flaming people, flame, and himself. He let the objects float while he dashed towards the area.

The demon arrived in the midst of the bombardment he had created. "Your being alive is very displeasing.... VERY DISPLEASING INDEED!!" The demon attacked the newly appearing shadowmage with all his might, breathing fire, clawing, raining down burning earth, and emitting a low chant. With each repetition of the chant, the obelisk overhead grew brighter and the pulsing became more intense.

The demon's power grew with the obelisk, the blows became more powerful, the fire burned hotter, the pelting stones were hurled harder, and the demon's rage became more infectious.

Any law enforcement that entered a certain radius began killing anybody in sight, causing destruction, and joining in the demon's chant, despite trying to kill him as well.

There's always trouble in this universe it seemed like Vamoose and an assortment of others might not be forging a team as others speculated. That of course did not mean Seras herself would slow down on heroics. Somewhere deep in the stars her AI scanning for the biggest cause of turmoil today she waited. The alarm indicated the back water world that was filled with brilliance and super powers, yet that was always at war like it was a board game. Evidently a demon had broken loose and was growing in destructive capacity. Amusingly it seemed to be in Gothic, a city that seemed to be one of the two thickest places of crime and might not even be part of the nation anymore. But no matter almost all lives needed saving Seras believed and as such she departed.

A golden trail follows as she propells herself as fast as light. Do to her unique nature she even takes the energy dispensed preventing her flight from causing harm. This was one of the more unique and prosperous gifts of being a cosmic elemental. It was easy for her to manipulate elements from any planets periodic table to her will. She was still a young elemental and thus only had a reach of about thirty feet but even then this allowed her a wide range of options and perks.

When finally appearing in Gothic she first moved to a chapel. Run down tagged and bleak it was obviously not a hot spot in Gothic. In a city like this how could anyone have faith in anything 'sacred'. But Seras didn't come here to confess her sins she came to touch the provided holly water. This allowed her to transmute her body to that of holly water herself. Now as a blessed water elemental she knew her punches wouldn't be that impressive on their own, but the sacred aspect would surely burn and be efficient she figured. With that she once more sped off towards obvious calamity. Raging fires screaming how could anyone not find the city block under duress.

"Haven or Seras If you rather pleasure to meet you." The bronze skinned woman with hair that seemed more like fire remarked to the duo. "I'd shake your hands but I'm presently made of holly water to fight that shizno." With that and quickly acelerating towards the demon at a chosen fifty thousand miles per hour the elemental sought to get the demon in a head lock. Efforts being made to use religious waters to burn through flesh and perhaps even triger a decapitation. Meanwhile her right hand would also try to cover his mouth and drown the being.

@ownagepants: @rakdos_dagon: @haven_:

Nymphixia blinked. After she had finally dragged herself from the twisted, burning wreckage that had been a helicopter and half a skyscraper, creating a demon sandwich in the middle, this flame-haired amazon beauty, not to mention a spooky guy in a vest, had popped up seemingly out of nowhere.

"Though I'd hoped for a better outcome,
From the tug of fate's lever,
I suppose that I should not complain--
For it's better late, than never!"

The demoness belted out a quick rhyme and then slowly inhaled, using an ability that she often neglected, preferring teleportation. Her converse-clad feet lifted off the ground as the demoness's body defied gravity, bringing Nyx waveringly into the sky as she began to fly upward and behind the bronze-skinned alien. She felt a little out of place, ironically -- despite being the only demon having come to fight the demonic menace, her lack of control over flight made her a clumsy target and made it challenging to pursue Rakdos.

Though... just because she was flying didn't mean she couldn't teleport too.

Vanishing in a puff of red smoke, she reappeared an instant later, now neck-and-neck with Haven rather than far behind. Grinning and blowing the alien a kiss, she sped up, building up as much momentum as possible before teleporting again, this time in front of Rakdos Dagon... and redirecting all of that momentum into a flying side kick aimed at the beast's big, ugly mug.

@rakdos_dagon: @haven_: @nymphixia: Umbrarum closed his eyes raised his staff the shadow demon began to chant "sed omnia et sub umbraculo illius ligare totum umbra umbram servus tuus in omni virtute, et veni, ut totis viribus incumbite petere viribus utere quaero voluntatem meam sed potens est creatura eorum, qui ante me et ideo potentia, unde rogo te, eum ad te omnia liget "As he spoke a shadow came from the ground and wrapped around his staff .And parrelel to that two shadows rose from the ground one went to wrap itself around the crystal and seal it the other was a giant mass of shadows that came from beneath the demon and was meant to hold him down so that he would not be able to avoid the attacks coming at him .