towerofanimus | A kirin's nature [Attn Eridan and Open]

Characters: Taiki, Eridan. And anyone who wants to be confronted by Gohran
Setting: Room 2-18 for Taiki and Eridan (moving eventually to floor 20) and everywhere for Gohran
Format: Take your pick and I'll match
Summary: The paranoia reaches a peak, the compulsion to kill the surgical victims clashes directly with the fact a kirin can not kill or fight without the order of their king. Taiki goes mad, and decides the only way is to escape. He takes Eridan with him. Gohran stalks the tower. (If anyone wants to have a conflict with Gohran/be killed by/get into a fight with but not die then jump in!)
Warnings: Horror, paranoia, fear, breakdown, violence, death. Swearing most likely. I'll add as it goes.

A: Room 2-18 There was no one he could trust. He woke up with this one certainty in his mind. Everyone wanted to hurt him, everyone was working for the tower. Everyone. He stood up and glared at the sleeping form of his roomate. Why else would he sleep in the day time and be awake at night if not to kill Taiki in his sleep. Taiki felt ill, more ill than he had felt the day before, it was getting worse. The blood, they were probably poisoning him. Everyone in this tower had been acting weird and Taiki could not trust any of them.

He opened the door before realing backwards. The smell of blood, of violence, of fear was so strong it was overwhelming. He had to kill them. All of them, it was their fault, the experiments. The tower hadn't smelt so much like this before they had came back. It was the only way to stop it.

Taiki doubled up as the implications of that hit him, just like when he had tried to prostrate to Shoryu his kirin nature conflicted so forcibly with what his mind was telling him he could barely move, barely breath. He couldn't kill, couldn't commit violence without his kings order. Didn't want to. Murder was so wrong, so bad, so horrfying. Yet...

It was the only way. But it couldn't be, killing was never the correct way, violence was always wrong even if sometimes it was necessary for a king. A kirin would temper them and lead them down the path of benevolence.

But they will hurt you, they want to, they don't care about killing you, they will do it without a moments thought. Taiki let out a scream. No... this was murder.... but...

Tears rolled down his cheaks as he screamed curled in a ball. In seconds Sanshi and Gohran were there. Sanshi held him. "Taiki, Taiki," she rocked him in her arms. Gohran, in his wolf guise stalked the room.

"Ki... kill them all" Taiki gasped, clamping his hand over his mouth as the words came out. "No, no. Gohran don't! Don't!" But the wolf had bounded out already, the paranoia had passed to his Shirei and Gohran didn't even need the excuse to hunt for those who were harming Taiki.Taiki screamed again and sobbed into Sanshi's arms the two compulsions waging war inside him.

B: Gohran in the tower

Gohran stalked the corridoors, looking for those he had to kill. Those that smellt wrong, they were the ones that had to die. Of course there had been those who had saught to hurt Taiki as well, they would die as well if Gohran found them, and anyone who many hurt Taiki in the future, all the creatures of this tower. They all would die. Taiki had commanded it.

OOC: Gohran: http://cscreen.anisearch.de/14109.jpg

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"Wwell wwhat am I supposed to do about it?" Eridan whined to Sanshi. "Not like I can fly or somethin'. There's no ocean, no doors, no fuckin' wway out, anywway, that I'vve been able to find. And trust me, I'vve been lookin'!"

He considered for a moment, then moved to his trunk and rummaged through it, coming up with a large bottle of green gelcaps. "Maybe this'll help," he said cautiously. "Not like I need them."

"Fly..." Taiki's voice was quiet and he looked up eyes shining. "I can fly! We can escape!" He wasn't sure why he hadn't thought of it before... or maybe he had... someone had probably talked him out of it, someone working for them.

There was a wind and soom stood in front of Eridan instead of a cowering little child there was a black Kirin, his mane flowing behind him. "What...what's that?" He asked about the bottle, even in Kirin form he sounded afraid and unsure.

Eridan backpedaled as the boy suddenly transformed into some kind of hoofbeast. He stared for a moment, shocked, then quickly pulled himself together. Standing around looking all flatfooted was just the way people got killed. He had always survived by running while others were standing around getting themselves torn to shreds.

He drew in a breath and held out the bottle towards the kirin, though he held it more like it was a warding amulet rather than an offering. "It's a drug," he said. "Supposed to calm vviolent tendencies."

Even in the guise of a kirin, a completely benevolent beast the paranoia didn't stop, nor did the knowledge that he had to kill them, all of them, the ones that had started this.

He looked at the bottle suspiciously, "How do I know your not lying..." he muttered, "How do I know it wont make me hurt people more, or kill me!"

He looked around, "Do you want to escape with me?" His usual friendly nature and his paranoia were as much at war with each other as his inability to incite violence and the compulsion to kill.

Eridan drew the pills back, scowling, but this paranoia wasn't just what he had come to expect from the child - it was perfectly natural to him. There was a reason he didn't take the pills himself, despite the fact that refusing the pills was illegal.

"I wwouldn't poison you or make you hurt people more," he said, sniffing derisively. "If I wwanted people hurt, I could just go and do it myself. But it seems to me, wwe might as well escape, instead a playing around with drugs."

Taiki nodded still suspicious. "Well you can ride on my back, and we can escape." He flew round the room to demonstrate and then bent down for Eridan to climb on. He worried for a moment that he would hurt him, but managed to push the thought away by thinking of escaping, after all. If he took him with him he was less likely to report him to those that ran the tower.

Eridan regarded the hoofbest nervously, then walked close and carefully climbed on top. He didn't think this was a very good idea, but staying here was definitely not a good idea. Wherever they went, it was unlikely to be much worse.

He immediately regretted the thought.

"Don't you need some kind a harness or something?" he asked, fiddling with his scarf. "So I can hold on to something? I don't wwant you to drop me."

Sanshi dissapeared into the shadows and Taiki shook his head. "No, just hold my mane!" Without waiting, in case Eridan decided to change his mind and report him Taiki set off, flying out the door and down the coridoor.

Glub. [Eridan clings to his mane, pressing his cheek to Taiki's neck and watching the scenery whip by. This was a really bad idea. He's never flown before and he's pretty sure he's not going to like it.]

You'd better not drop me!

I wont drop you, just... sorry... hold on! [He glided down the stairs and stood on floor twenty, mane blowing in the breeze. He walked into the centre and stared out into the mist.] Ready?

[No.

Eridan looks back at the stairs, then forward towards the mist. Behind is a true horror filled with crazy people and monsters and whole rooms where there's just screaming.

Ahead, the unknown.

He straightens up a little on the kirin's back. He straightens his scarf, checks his hair, and puts on an expression like a Prince about to ride his noble steed into the dragon's cave to rescue the Princess. His cape flaps majestically in the breeze. He finishes by taking a firmer hold of Taiki's mane.]

Yeah, let's get the fuck out a here.

[The noble steed gave a determined nod and set off for the edge of the roof at a run, he leapt off and for a moment the Kirin and Troll flew beautifully through the air.

But just for a moment, then instead of flying forwards Taiki plumeted towards the ground screaming in fear.]

[Eridan wasn't happy when they leaped off, and he's really not happy now. His claws dig in and he screams as the kirin plummets.]

Can't you fuckin' fly!??!?!

[He's pretty sure that getting on a hoofbeast with no wings and expecting it to fly was the stupidest thing he has ever done.

Luckily, it won't last long]

Of course I can f... [And that's as far as Taiki got before his words turned into another scream of terror as the mist rose up to meet them.]

A kirin's nature [Attn Eridan and Open]

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why don't I have a falling to his death icon :(

sob, me neither

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