Post by Samantha Black on Feb 24, 2014 9:07:03 GMT -5
Fleur ✱ | "It was exactly like you said, sir - We caught her red-handed with your device." "Good... Good." Sam's head was spinning and her vision was blurry... On her knees she felt the damp coldness of stone and on her wrists the tight constraints of iron. "nngh..." "Leave us." The cell door creaked as it closed behind the masked stranger, leaving him alone with Sam. He squatted down before her and lifted her chin up with one finger to face him, revealing the details of his mask and allowing a golden glint to reflect off his eyes. In a whimsical tone he spoke - "Our own little Trojan Horse." He stroked her cheek with his thumb- "So young and lost." Sam used what little energy she had to accumulate some saliva in her mouth and spitting it at the man... but he dodged it with utter ease before returning to his original position instantly- "You just don't understand, do you Samantha? What you're trying to do is just plain silly; Do you really think a lone Quincy at your current level could've infiltrated to the depths of our organization alone?" Sam retorted with a weak smirk- "What makes you think I haven't already accomplished what I came for.." While deeply focused on Sam's eye, as if a bright light-bulb sparked in the man's head, he suddenly hopped up and spun a full circle in a dance-like fashion before heightening both hands on either side of him and holding the position - "Ooo! A divine intervention! Oooh... Why am I so smart?" She was completely ignored- "Tch." The man squatted back to his previous position and leaned closer. "Ahem." His playful behavior was now accompanied by an overpowering aura of arrogance, condescension, and intelligence; the type you expect from a mastermind blackmailer. "My little wooden horse." Sam's eyes widened as she was caught off-guard by his fearsome gaze- "Two thousand fourteen. This is the lunar year of the 木馬 - having taken the throne from the 水蛇." Sam did not understand the Asian words he spoke, but his presence demanded her attention- "It was predicted here in China that it will be a fast year full of heated clashes, with the belief that the element of wood would fuel the conflict further..." He slowed down at the end of the sentence and averted eye contact to think- "Like the Vatican you serve so blindly - These are all mere myths and superstitions. Although.. hmmm.. It is always amusing to see them come true.." Sam released a puff of laughter and retorted sarcastically - "Hmph.. That's real rich coming from you, Jolly." "Hooh? How'd you find out?" "Your small scar on the left side of your neck. You may fool others into thinking it's a tattoo.. but the fiber composition of the protein making up the skin gives it away." "Very observant..." Gaining a sense of upper ground in the previously one sided conversation, Sam advanced further in an inquisitive tone- "So why would my target speak to me directly? What are you trying to gain?" Jolly stood up and adjusted his tie as if ready to leave. Looking to Sam for the last time, he left with this message - "Doubt, Sam. I want you to doubt the Vatican Church; they are not who they seem to be. <small pause> We will meet again." His last words caught Sam's attention as it implied he did not want her dead. As Jolly exited the scene, he told a simple order to another man standing outside, who bowed respectfully as he passed - "Do what you will." The man kept his head down until Jolly was fully out of sight. Then he proceeded to enter the cell slowly, looking over his shoulders a couple times as he did. "Hello horsey." Sam was glad no one she knew was here to catch onto that. Raising her head slightly to look upwards at the relatively large man who would most likely bring the pain before letting it relax downwards causing her strawberry blonde hair to curtain her face, Sam asked with a grin- "Is he gone?" He looked towards where Jolly went to confirm his exit before looking back to Sam and answering- "Yes. Now, I've got a lot of things t--" Sam clenched her teeth- Within a millisecond, ten flashes of blinding blue light erupted from underneath the iron gauntlets securing Sam's hands and obliterated it into a thousand pieces of metallic shards which ricocheted in countless directions away from Sam, creating numerous piercing wounds on the man and bright sparks against the stone and cell bars. In a flawless follow-through movement, using her now freed hands, Sam used one to rip her eye-patch off to toss aside, and the other to elbow the man right in the gut instantly knocking him out. Turning around instantly to critically examine the wall behind at great speeds, Sam noticed a thin strand of light coming from between a tiny crack in the stone. Wasting no time, she activated the Quincy Cross embedded in her synthetic eye changing its iris pattern to a glowing pentacle- <BOOM> Slowly, the clouds of dust in the cell settled to reveal a giant hole in the wall leading to the outside. Sam was nowhere to be seen. --- <Drip... Drip... Drip...> Wearing her eye-patch once more, blood continued to drip down from both of Sam's wrists as she maneuvered through the crowded apartment district at ground level to get as far away as she could. In the distance she heard the sirens of the local police... no doubt responding to the loud explosion she had caused ever so recently. "Shit.." Even though her wrists were both well-bandaged with teared clothing, the flow did not cease, and continued to soak through the fabric and leak all the way down her hands to drip subtly onto the floor below. Sam mumbled to herself - "That guy is seriously over-prepared..." By that she meant her mentor. Sam didn't like the notion of owing anyone anything, and that went double for her mentor Gareth. But in the end it was only thanks to his surgery of implanting miniature Gintou capsules underneath the skin around her wrists which could be detonated in an outwards direction that she was able to break free of her restraints and escape. Now she just felt stupid for refusing the operation so profoundly in the beginning. But it obviously didn't turn out perfect, as not only is her skin totally gone in a thin ring-shape around her wrists, the internal ricochets of the iron shards as it was shattered also wounded Sam in the process, causing the current bleeding. Hurt, tired and spiritually drained, Sam slipped into a nearby alleyway to rest and heal. [OOC: Jolly is the illusive mastermind of an international human organization with the ultimate goal of racial purity (the eradication of all races and impurities other than living biological humans) at all costs. The lead Sam received on the location of Jolly is truly precious and is likely to never happen again.] |
LAIKA OF GS!