Wrath of Apophis

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Antony Sovers
Age: 23ish,
Gender: Male
Appearance: he's tall and lank, not the most impressive male specimen. His hair is long to a point and it persistently gets in his eyes, which he doesn't seem to mind. He has gray eyes the color of a husky's fur, a simple nose and a strong jawline.
Personality: He is by all means, insane. Not in the obvious giggling madness way but the fact that he is a psychopath of the narcissistically aggressive kind. A sly cunning manipulative jerk that has a very difficult time experiencing emotion. He's a stoic that feels no remorse and no grief. And is willing to risk any life except his own, or one he deems equal to him. Although his grandiose sense of self worth defies the possibility of an "equal"
History: He's alone. He always has been, from the days when he wandered the streets with a gaggle of older children to now when he roams like some ghost who's lost its way. He was left at the doors of his aunt's home in the southern part of what used to be the Saharan desert, in a re inhabited town called Tombstone. She didn't accept him, and left him in the hands of the first person who asked to keep him. The first person was an elderly man named Nikolai, who cared for Antony for a while. At least until his capabilities were realized, Nikolai, as stupidly superstitious as he was kicked Ant out and left him to the fate of the world. He taught himself in the libraries, learning To read and write and do math. His logic was twisted by the books he read, the Mitchellan philosophies and the Warrior's Codex and others of that sane caliber until he learned one thing, Survival of the Fittest. He's found his way across the land, and to one of the cities that still remain, in an apartment he "adopted" from the previous owner. Located in a sort of new Chicago, where he's gathering those he can find to go with him to one of the canyons where he seeks to create a city unperturbed by the disruptions meet his own control. He's recruiting pilgrims to go to a new land, where the world is falling apart. He collects the citizens of a future haven, that he seeks to lord over.
Usual clothing: He's constantly in a simple black trench coat that goes down to his ankles, despite the fact that it makes him appear like someone out of a history book. Beneath it though is a simple dark gray vest and a white shirt worn with black pants, another one of his whims to appear out of the ordinary. On occasion he uses a cane, a pocket watch, or a scarf, but none at the same time unless it's drastic.
Element: Earth, and despite how much he practices and tries he cannot get plants to obey him, however the minerals and rocks and and silt and sand gladly bend to his command, because of his abilities with the grainier lands he's capable of manipulating glass since it really is only refined sand. His favorite toy is quicksand, because it swallows up whatever is dim witted to fall in it.
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*Pardon me, but I'm sure that I reserved female Earth...*

Name: Arden Wright

Age: Looks about 21, she's not too sure.

Gender: Female

Appearance Arden is about five foot six and somewhat slender. Thorn-like spikes grow from her form-arms, each a vibrant green in color. She has dark red, curly hair, down to her waist, that is usually up in a hair tie. Tree bark has intruded on her body from her elemental powers and grown on each side of her face, like somewhat of a cowl that outlines her basic features. She has emerald green eyes and bright red lips, behind which are extremely sharp eye teeth. She can usually be found in a white crop tank with a black leather jacket, which the thorns on her arms jut out of, and high waisted skinny jeans and calf high boots.

Personality Arden is normally a very happy gal. She always has a smile on her face, rather she's alone or with other people. She does, however, prefer to be left to her forest and her animals of the forest. Around those she's never met, she's very quiet and reserved, and speaks in a voice barely above a whisper. She rarely shows any emotion other than either being blank or smiling.

Often, Arden will remember times with her father and gets a bit teary eyed. If others are around, she'll retreat somewhere to solitude. Don't let her appearance fool you though. It takes a lot to get her angry, but when she gets to that point it isn't pretty. At all. She's still not in complete control of her element, not having anyone to practice on, so often times when she's angry, her abilities will go haywire, all things happening at once.
History As a child, Arden loved running around in the forest which the animals. She grew up with only her father, so learned to be a tough child. She wasn't introduced to the element factors until her sixteenth birthday, when her father was brutally murdered but a masked man, who Arden ended up killing with her ability to splitting the earth beneath the man's feet, sucking him to what she hoped was the core.

Element Earth. Arden can heal very well, using her powers to not only grow herbs and plants in the palm of her hand, but also infusing it with the human body. She has the ability to cause earthquakes, which in turn can cause tsunamis, but is too scared to do so, in fear of hurting someone innocent. Like stated before, she can grow any plant in the palm of her hand as well as cause rapid growth of the plants around her. She also has a very strange connection with the strange animals of the forest of Uhm, which she rarely leaves.

Other: She preferes to be alone, she's prefected it in the last few years.
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So, uh, is there a slot open for this, or not? I can't tell.
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Poseidon ~ City of Messiah

Poseidon walked down the street, shoved and jostled from all sides. A mule brayed loudly, its master cursing at it furiously, while somebody with a gravi-scooter tried to be smart and cut above the crowds. The man hit a washing pole, got tangled in some underwear, and crashed do the ground, dangerously close to a garbage disposal can, laser humming ominously within.

Even though he was not the oddest around, people still glanced at him. He didn't mind. He was used to stares. Now, however, he was distracted. He had more important things on his mind. Which is why he almost hit a cart, left unattended, head-first. Fortunately, he managed to lunge forward in the nick of time, somersaulting above it. He then caught a pipe with his foot and swung himself on the roof, landing lightly on his haunches.

Poseidon frowned. Messiah was the only city where one had to apply martial arts just to walk through a street.

Deciding to play it safe, Poseidon continued walking lithely on the sloping roof, shifting his weight slightly whenever he felt it tremble. He then had to jump as the tiles ended. He soared above an astonished family of tourists, hit the next roof with his shoulder, grunting in pain -- reinforced titanium alloy -- and rolled up, steadying himself on one knee.

Immediately, he could see that this was not his lucky day. His eyes sparked, and suddenly, he was seeing in monochrome. But there was one dark area of throbbing reds and purples, focusing around an intersection above which a massive water tower rose. Chaos Energy, and a pretty dense concentration at that. Oh, no. Poseidon saw two vague shapes approaching from either side of the intersection...

... his eyes sparked again, and suddenly, everything was pink and rainbow ponies. Goddamn! He slapped himself, then rubbed his eyes ferociously. His eyes sparked for the third time. Poseidon's eyes watered, and again, he was seeing Chaos Energy.

The two blobs weren't Grumpy Bears, as he had originally feared, but rather an enormous carrier transport, hovering dozens of feet above the ground, and a ITT truck, both surrounded by swarms of flashing police-ships.

The blob of Chaos Energy grew denser, darker, swirling with more intensity. There was a small explosion, and Poseidon felt like his guts were being ironed and pressed meticulously. The carrier transport swerved, the truck skidded. The water tower wobbled ominously. Alarms went off, screams.

In that split second, Poseidon had to make several life-or-death decisions.

He did the most rational thing that came to him, naturally.

Poseidon charged.

He started off at a light jog, calculating things. He jumped over another roof, twirled above a pipe, spun down past a crack between to homes, came up rolling, fell down to the street, ignored those who yelled at him. He charged past barricades of police, flinging his arms back and sliding down on his feet. A wave of water crashed down on those too stubborn to move.

Poseidon froze it, and shot upwards. The water tower moaned, buckled, and finally, tipped over.

Chaos Energy was incredibly high now. Again that feeling of extreme discomfort, and time slowed down.

Poseidon used the remaining momentum the wave had to land just below the ITT, the engine fuming. He made a slicing motion with his hands, and the truck was cut into three pieces. In the same movement, Poseidon hurled the pieces upwards. They inched along, slooooooooowly curving into a pattern, as Poseidon's feet left the ground.

He met one of the pieces feet-first, and jumped upwards. Finally, the water was falling down. Poseidon twisted, spinning, shifting the water around him, forming a bubble.

He hit the bottom of the water tower and shifted the water to a funnel, sliding down the side of the building as time re-asserted itself and all hell broke loose.

Well.

Ten minutes later, Poseidon was walking down a street, wholly undamaged, as people all around him rushing towards the scene of the incident. He wished he had a cigarette with him now. And maybe some sunglasses.

That worked out rather fortuitously, he thought to himself, brushing some dust from his wings. The incident meant there would be less guards around when he stole Messiah's greatest treasure.
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Dave: Jequjia holding cell

The night was crisp and cool, yet Dave was far from comfortable. He had been bound in tight chains and sealed to the cobblestone walls of this prison; dank, dark and dreary. The leader of the Jequjians was not a particularly forgiving one, and clearly not open to the concept of an open marriage, but it was all the same to the prisoner. Charged with treason, Cyclonus had been bound to his confinements and sentenced to death the following morning... but he’d be far away by the time the citizens arose from their slumbers.

The steel chains were tight and firm around his ankles and wrists, but he did not have to strain himself by standing up; he merely floated for most of the night. It wasn’t exactly a complicated situation: Dave found a civilisation, felt the need for trouble, and decided (almost immediately) that the lady of the town needed a bit of relief from her husband- and she complied- but that was not his primary reason. Cyclonus had felt it necessary to try and improve his stealth- he had found that his noisiness and lack of verbal control had caused too many close scrapes, and conflict was always a last resort.

So, he killed two birds with a single stone, and now he could put his training to the test. Taking a deep breath and focusing on his respiration, Dave conjured two bindings of his own: a seal of wind, which he used to break the chains. As he pulled with his mind, the steel links shuddered uneasily, and creaks from the cobblestone wall warned him to lessen the pull away from his back. He obliged and kept the bounds roughly at his ribs, and continued to tear through the final link in the chain. After a few seconds of concentration, a sharp snap echoed through the prison, but it was more highly pitched than loud, so he was sure the guards would still be resting peacefully.

Dave’s next challenge was a set of solid, iron bars that stretched from the floor to the ceiling, almost ten feet in height.
“Not too difficult,” the man grinned, confidently. He found himself wincing as the white teeth bit into his flesh, which he rubbed against the bars, triggering the oxidising process into iron-oxide, making the pole much easier to break through.

“Okay Dave, let’s not mess this up...” he whispered to himself.
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John Sindrash:

I awoke another day, or whatever time it was, in the cave. There was no light from the outside so it was hard to tell the time of day or even what day it was. The lava was the only source of light in my cave. Today was the first day in the volcanos cycle for heat which I had finally found a pattern in. This was the perfect time to create the new object I came up with that would harness the energy in this cycle and turn it into a HIGHLY profitable item. The cycle in the volcano runs bimonthly so I plan to sell the item and place a high charge to renew the energy source to the highly powerful weapon.

This weapon will be my ultimate invention and be the highlight of my life, at the moment. I begun the forging at precisely the peek of the cycle by placing a perfectly round boulder I shaped with a precise circumference of 100 ft. around in the perfectly sized holder I created over the lava. At the moment, the rock would sit in this basin that was completely surrounded by lava, which just barely reached the lip of the basin till the lava goes down precisely 2 ft. At that time I will begin the shaping of the weapon till the lava rises precisely 1 ft. This cycle of forging will ensure that the boulder and weapon will absorb the most energy from the lava and area surrounding it. This was the perfect plan. Suddenly, I felt a disturbance outside and needed to check it out. Unfortunately, the energy in the volcano meant temperatures outside decreased and I needed to get in my specially made heat/energy suit before going out. When I got outside, there was someone outside who gave me a huge surprise to see there.
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Ray - Messiah

I slid my hands out of my pocket when I saw the petalled man leaving a path of destruction. I didn't want him to see me, so I raised a thin layer of water over myself. For about ten minutes I followed him, seeing guards rush past him, them clearly not knowing he had caused the destruction.
He looked back quickly, his eyes passing right over me. I now knew where he was going. He was walking to City Hall, an ever morphing building perched atop a hillside. He made his way up the steps to the door, doing the same thing to himself that I was doing to myself.
I looked for the rippling it the aptmosphere to see where he was, but I was so distracted that I tripped on the stairs. I cursed under my breath, but I had no idea whether or not he heard me. I continued to follow him up the stairs until we entered the building, which right now was a perfect golden sphere.
I followed him into the building. The building was deserted, probably to attend to the fallen water tower.
He entered the Vault, something the mayor had only taken me inside of once. Inside was the entire net worth of Messiah. This was not good, and I was going to have to be the one to take him down.
I followed him silently through the door. I was only then when he attacked me.

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I woke up precisely two minutes and seventeen seconds before my alarm was supposed to go off--never a good sign. The last time I'd woken up early was the day that still-anonymous zoologist had decided to leave his collection of cannibalistic saber-toothed flatworms in my backyard. And then there was the fact that up had changed in the middle of the night, leaving me pancaked face-first against what had been the ceiling the day before. I was lucky I had remembered to redo the cheese seals on all my furniture--getting crushed by things rarely killed the one being crushed, and that would have been rather painful.

I staggered to my feet and started picking my things up off the ceiling. I had gotten most of the loose hair ties and pens and things like that when my alarm clock started quacking. I reached over to smack it, only to realize that it was still stuck to my nightstand, which was glued to the floor-turned-ceiling. I shrugged, and let it go--at least it had decided to actually work this time.

I managed to make it to the kitchen without too much difficulty, but decided against eating breakfast when I noticed that one of my cereal boxes had exploded. Cereal was a rather volatile commodity--especially the kind I liked--and I didn't want to do anything that might set off another explosion. Bits of rice flakes lodged in the eyes had a way of ruining one's day, after all.

Instead of eating, I went straight to the front door. Upon opening it, though, I was reminded of my gravity issue--the sidewalk was now directly above my head. "Oh..." I muttered. "Did not think about that, did I?" No matter. I transmuted a square of sidewalk into cream cheese, and stepped right out the door. I fell forward for an instant, and then gravity reversed, tugging me up toward the cheesy walkway. I flipped in midair, and landed in the square of cheese on my back. Much better--the sky was where it usually was now, even if it was behaving a bit strangely.

At that moment, I looked out toward downtown Messiah--just as the water tower fell.

Alrighty, then. My day just got a whole lot more interesting.
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Jezebel

Jezebel flew high into the sky, the suns beams onto her skin, there warmth making her feel like I was at home again. So much has happen in such little time, she begin to tilt backwards slowly almost like she was falling, she turn my fall into a dive bomb, headed fast towards to the ground level of Messiah. At ground level was the palace that held Messiah's greatest treasure, Poseidon had his eye on it, they had ways of going about getting, it's just that her ways are faster. She pulled her rapier from her hip, just as she was about to hit the ceiling, she swung her blade and cut a hole though, and then several more times to make it to the ground floor. She lands just inside the dining hall, where she was unlucky enough to bust in right at lunch hour, she stood on an old fashioned table now. The guards all rose to meet her in battle, each hesitating to attack.

"It's Princess Angelo of the Molten Kingdom!" One guard pointed out.

"Ain't she wanted back to the kingdom for a reward?" Another questioned.

"The first man to bring her to me alive and captured shall get promoted!" The guard who was obviously the head of the guards said.

"Sir yes sir!" The guards roared together.

Jezebel considered going up a few floors, in there confusion she had been pushing for a volcanic reaction to suddenly erupt and kill most of these guards. She could take two or three of them, but there was a whole platoon's worth here, and Jezebel did not like her chances in a head on conflict. She stood there intimidatingly, no man attacked her, maybe in fear of her, or they didn't want to physically harm her. Whatever the case, she had to think of something or else things were going to get really bad, really quick. She considered killing the head of the guards, how quick she could do it, and how much she could hope for the guards to retreat in the case he fell. There was no way she could get something to erupt on time, and no way she could retreat, so only one option left.

Jezebel, aimed down her sword. Flew into the air, and headed right towards the head of the guards. Why he didn't defend she didn't know the guard was either shocked or stupid, Jezebel's sword broke right though his armor, and skewered his heart. Dead before he even hit the ground, Jezebel pulled her now blood soaked sword from his chest. Spun and released a wave an intense wave of fire from her sword, guards fell, others were set ablaze. And the whole place was set ablaze.
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Poseidon

Poseidon strolled into the City Hall, the building practically deserted. He knew the place well, due to some, ah, information, acquired previously. The vault was located underground, only accessible via a hidden door Poseidon could see all too well. Chaos energy swirled around it, throbbing gently.

He contemplated the door -- double steel, reinforced by several locks and an electronic keypad. He was sure motion sensors were in place too. Several long seconds passed.

Poseidon shrugged, and hacked the steel apart with his blade, glowing blue. Alarms went off, as expected, but those were the least of Poseidon's problems now. He felt a presence behind him, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a girl. He turned and attacked, on impulse. She jumped back, eyeing him warily, and unslung a bow from her back, notching and arrow with the practiced ease of a skilled archer.

She sent an arrow flying, but Poseidon deflected it easily with his sword, and charged forward, blue and red flames streaming from his body. This was it. Combat. Nothing else mattered now, nothing else existed. Poseidon's mysterious assailant was force to backtrack quickly, bows being pretty useless in a closed confine. Poseidon raised an arm, ready to send spears of ice plunging into her heart, when another massive explosion shook the building.

Temporarily distracted, Poseidon raised his eyes skywards, and saw a familiar winged figure fall down, fire trailing from her form. None other than Jezebel Angelo, self-proclaimed rival of his. She was out of sight for a few seconds, though screams could be heard. Another boom, and the whole building was set on fire.

Well that escalated quickly, thought Poseidon. There was no time to continue the fight, now. He had to get to his objective. He saw Jezebel stride through the flames, light glinting over her bloodstained sword, and Poseidon backtracked.

He jumped over the ruined vault door, summoning a wall of water as he went. Ignoring the seemingly endless steel drawers, Poseidon made his way straight to the end, his eyes guiding him. He pulled water from the air, and let it seep through the lock, then freeze rapidly. It shattered, with some help from Poseidon's sword.

He grabbed the artifact inside, a small, delicate multichromatic bauble. Intricately carved, it seemed to absorb light, then spit rainbows back. On a deeper level, though, Poseidon could see it was a dense, swirling concentration of Chaos Energy. He only knew of three artifacts similar, though precisely where eluded him.

Poseidon closed his fist, then smashed the bauble onto the floor.

A third, more powerful shockwave, stronger than any registered before in quite a while, pulsed from the shattered glass in Poseidon's hand. Steel bent, the floor cracked. The pulse was so powerful, Poseidon knew, it would compel all Chaos Lords in Hell to move towards this area. And he would be waiting for them.

But now, he had more pressing concerns. Like breathing. The smoke was becoming unbearable, cloying, sneaking. The flames had long since reached ridiculous temperature, but Poseidon was away from the brunt of the inferno, and besides, his skin offered increased resistance to heat and cold.

There was no way he could risk walking out the vault door, but he probably couldn't break the walls apart either. He couldn't go up, nor down.

This was the Dysmal Abyss all over again, he reflected. Only now, he was infinitely more powerful.

Poseidon sat down, cross-legged, and waited.
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