The Demon's Game

Akira sighed, traveling through the brush of Wild Woods, holding Jack the RIPper at hand as she went. She felt exposed, quite a while ago, so she looted a corpse for some better clothes. It was nice, being able to have a camouflage suit, rather than that stupid tank top and booty shorts.. and no shoes. Goddamn, who ever thought of putting her in this scenario without any SHOES?! Seriously! She really wanted to kill them, whoever it was.

But anyways, she stole a pair of combat boots and some camouflage wear, just for safety. She hadn't found Nikoli's tree perch yet, but she was sure she was getting closer to the lake in the middle of the "bowl" of death known as Wild Woods.

Which meant there would be Zed.

Without warning, Akira stopped dead in her tracks. "Who's that?" she called out, then repeating in the few other languages she knew, Japanese and Russian. She had to be sure it wasn't Nikoli, because she was already revving her chainsaw.

FSSSHOOOOSH! She slashed at the air, and blood burst everywhere. Not living blood, but dead blood. It had been a Zed, and not just any. It had been a bleeder.. or a stalker.. or a runner. Whatever it was, it was pretty fast, until she had killed it.

Moving along, Akira stopped again. More noises. She slashed again, resulting in more corpses falling to the forest floor, leaves crunching underneath them. A bit happier, she came to the clearing that marked the lake, and scanned the horizon for anyone, or even the motorboat.

"Hell-o?!"

Bassam immediately froze in his tracks, his heart pounding hard in his chest. "Uh oh..." He could feel nearly every single muscle in his tail seizing up, and boy was that unpleasant. He inhaled sharply, his nails digging into his palms and drawing a small bead of blood. The grating whirring of the chainsaw buzzed in his ears and the naga withheld a small wheeze. Noora was gone and he was going to die. Absolutely, positively, definitely.

He coiled himself up and around the nearest tree, hoping to get a better view of his surroundings. He squinted and saw a girl through the bushes, near the lake. Ah, lakes. Accursed, blasted bodies of water. He let out his breath in a whoosh and darted down again, slithering low to the ground. Perhaps he could get near her and maybe, maybe they could work together. Unless she hated snakes. Then this wouldn't work out at all. He let out a loud, low hiss of warning to see how she would react.

Akira narrowed her eyes once she heard a hiss. A low, deep hiss, probably from some weird snake or weird shit thing that lived in the forest. Goddamn. She turned to face the source of the noise, chainsaw poised. A Zed tried to sneak up behind her, but she flung it backwards. RUNNNNGNGNGNGNGNGNGNGNGNG..

"Who's there? Dipshit, you better come out!" she shouted, her thoughts running. This better not be a dipshit or one of Nikoli's pranks.. Wait, Nik doesn't pull pranks. What if it's some giant snake or some shit like that? GODDAMN..

The thoughts went on. Man, I'm hungry.. I hope I can eat whatever it is over a nice, toasty campfire. Yeah.. I could go for a burger, even if it was made of snake.. or whatever the hell this thing is..

'Ah. She called me a dipshit.'He reared backwards as the chainsaw was turned his way, unintentionally exposing his upper half, the human half of him. "Wh-Whoa! Whoa, sorry! Sorry if I surprised you!" Hastily, he clapped his hands together in front of him in a sort of praying gesture. "I'm really sorry! Please, please don't cut me up, miss! Dying isn't something I'm hoping to come by anytime soon, so I'd really appreciate it."

His tail began inching back up the tree - hopefully there would be some sort of branch he could grip onto if he needed to get away; his dagger would do no good with her weapon. The same could be said of his venom, especially if he couldn't get close. "Ah, um, if you're open to talk to someone like me, maybe you and I could work out some sort of cooperation? Granted I'm not sure what kind, but I promise I'm as earnest as the next snake."

"I'm not no miss," the girl hissed, holding her chainsaw back as she saw a human - supposedly - appear out of the brush. "Shhhh, Jack, you don't wanna eat 'em up just yet.. lemme talk to him," she whispered to her dear chainsaw, then letting his RUNGNGNGNGNG's die off. "Shh.."

Yeah, this girl was crazy.

But anyways, she was listening to this.. naked-ish person, who seemed to have no lower half - at least one that she could see. "Now, what kind of agreement are you looking for?" she asked the figure, eyeing him carefully. She honestly didn't know whether or not she'd like to trust him, as he'd probably make a better dinner than anything, but she was willing to listen. For now.

Jack, on the other hand, had a mind of his own. Revving up once again, the chainsaw seemed to speak to the girl with a series of various noises. "Ehhh, no Jack. I know you want to too, but that's just stupid. Shh!" she slapped the chainsaw with her free hand.

She turned to the naga-who-seemed-human, and sighed. "Ignore him, he's just feisty today. Tired of eating Zed and all. But anyways, this agreement. Cooperation. Whatever. Jack doesn't really want this, but I'll deal. What exactly do you want from me?"

The loud, annoying voice of Azazels scimtar was no doubt saying something annoying as Azazel stormed through the trees, in a raging temper.
She'd woken up in these makerforsaken woods, again.
She tore her cloak off (it had snagged on a branch again) with such ferocity it ripped, And threw it into a tree, before continuing towards the yelling and an unmistakable machine noise, appearing next to the tree the naga man was in, not noticing him. She stared at Akira, emerald eyes wide. "Is that... a chainsaw?" She asked softly. "Are you the Miss Akira that beautiful pony mentioned?"

The girl turned her attention to the woman who had appeared, apparently agitated by all of the people. "Yeah, I'm Akira!" she shouted, for being loud was her nature. "But uh, beautiful pony? You mean Thrackerzod, right? That dinky little unicorn that calls himself a god? He mentioned ME? You've got to be kidding," Akira said, then taking a moment to think. Another waterlogged Zed approached from behind her, and she smashed it in the face with a single thrust from her fist.

Of course, it dropped to the ground, dead. Fully dead. Apparently, she didn't need a chainsaw. Not to kill, anyways.

"So, what do YOU want? C'mon, Jack and I are tired of people bugging us!" Jack rip-roared in response.

Azazels eyebrows raised as she took in the girl and her weapon. "Well, Yes, Thrackerzod... he didnt fail to mention how impressively strong you are, And I only wish you had heard the way he spoke of your handsome chainsaw." She smiled sweetly.
"He did, however, fail to mention your impatience. Oh, but it is a shame, I would have loved to stay close to you to observe your wonderful abilities." She gave a rather convincing pout.

She was talking to her chainsaw. That couldn't be...good. Granted, he talked to a mouse most of the time, but this was somewhat different. "Oh, yes, an agreement. Well, I was thinking perhaps you and I might be able to, ah, work together to stay alive? Maybe?" He wasn't a natural sweet talker, at least not in this kind of situation, and he was sure he sounded awkward. "You see I haven't completely grasped my situation just yet. Oh, ah, but I'm sorry if I offended your...chainsaw."

Bassam's gold eyes flicked to his right when he heard the new voice. Withholding another panicked sound, he let his tail slide back down the tree, coiling the entire thirty feet of it beneath himself before sliding cautiously out of the bushes. Most people tended to react badly at the sight of his lower half, and he instinctively drew a bit away from the two girls. "Er, pardon my asking, but what's this about a pony? Or rather, a unicorn?"

Akira finally noticed the naga's lower half, and pointed quite rudely at it. "WHOA! You did NOT mention this, Mister.. Snake thing. Whatever you are!" she shouted, drawing in more Zed. Of course, she made a point by killing them for the newbies. "And SO-RRY, but when I'm on my way to some place, I obviously expect not to run into anyone."

She considered the offer with the snake-man. "Before we do any business, I gotta know, how good are you at killing Zed?" she asked, pouting almost identically to Azazel. "As for you, weird lady, you may stick around and see my amazingness. As long as you don't talk much."

The girl turned to the snake person again. "As for the unicorn pony thing, his name is Thrackerzod. He's one of the gods of this Game, and he's pretty damn cool. He helped me to upgrade Jack."

Azazel bowed. "Thank you, lady Akira. I am Princess Azazel Black, and you have my sword should you require my assistance."
She straightened, brushing a lock of Ebony hair behind a pointed and heavily ringed ear. "He is a Naga, a traditional spirit guardian of caves... if I am corect, his blood is highly caustic, so to kill him would splatter your blade or flesh with blood, in which case you or your handsome chainsaw would melt to nothing. I highly recommend you try to protect rather than injure him." Her voice was silky, unwavering, and she accompanied it with an attractive smile.

A large clay spider crept into the scene, followed closely by a rather small redhead. As soon as she caught it she looked up, and realized that there were people around her.

"Sorry am I interrupting something?" She asked, as the spider tried to escape from her grasp. "Play dead!" She told it, annoyed. It turned into what looked like a Zed and ran around.

Jack was running and he was running quickly.he didn't know what was going on what so ever but he was scared so he kept running.he wore a black t-shirt which had a Bunch a rips in it. He was also wearing dark blue jeans they had a few rips in them as well.


He continued to run. "Why in the world is going on" he came to a sudden stop when he heard voices. "Shit!" He quickly looked for a place to hide there wasn't to many good hiding places so he hid behind a tree with fear and panic filling his body

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Bassam rubbed at the snake-shaped tattoo on his face. All this wild talk made him nervous. "Ah, well, to be completely honest, I couldn't say that I've ever killed a, uh, whatchamacallit. Oh, a Zed. No, I've never killed one."

He felt for his dagger under the sweep of the cloth about his waist and pulled it out to show the two girls. "But I have killed other things. I-I'm sure it shouldn't be hard." He nodded to the girl who claimed the title of a princess, inclining his shoulders to her in a bow. "Your deduction is correct, I am a naga, though I'm not sure about the spirit part."

He whipped back and saw the spiderlike Zed approach. In an instant, a third of his tail lifted up, the thick appendage whacking the creature and slamming it to the ground."I assume this is a Zed?" he asked, before stabbing the blade through its eye. "Well. I suppose I've killed one now. I do hope it wasn't your pet, little miss?" he asked the girl it had escaped from.

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Jack was hideing behind the tree still he heard all this talk about zeds. Maybe these pepole knew what was going on, but what if he went out and It turned out to be a trap and they killed him he stood very stil but Finally decided to step out."w-who's there! W-what's going on!? Are you going to hurt me?" He reached for his sword ready to defend himself

"I said traditionally, Ser, that does not mean you are a spirit."
She turned her attention to the screaming boy. "Sheep! Silence!" She snapped, voice full of contempt. "The only reason I'd hurt you is if your voice raised another octave, a feat I see as nigh impossible. Feel free to try though, it would entertain me to silence you."

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The girl facepalmed upon seeing the naga attack the redhead's Zed thingy made of clay, and pinched her brow. At the screaming kid, she raised her chainsaw and revved him. She took a similar stance on his screaming as the princess. "Hey, shut up or I'll mince ya!"

As for the naga, she turned back to him, chainsaw still lifted towards the random screaming kid. "ANYWAYS, I believe that was her pet. Now you've done it. You just stabbed the Sharkbearagator's golem.. or at least that's what I think that thing was. Right, Jack?"

Jack revved in response.

"And no, it doesn't count. It's a goddamn golem. Not a Gollum. Golem. Not a Zed, golem. And not a Gogogo Golem, either.." The girl started rambling.

Azazel went silent again, eyes on the ground. She pensively stroked the hilt of her scimtar.
It decided in that moment to break it's silence. "I thought he'd never shut up, ya sure told him princess furer." it had a sharp, rather obnoxious voice. "By the way, can ya make the damn chainsaw shut up next, he won't stop rumbling, all bark and no bite like the kitten man from last time we were here!"