7th Protocol--[Action all over the place] ☢

[idkmybfforin]

[This wasn’t the first time someone precious to her had gone quiet. Orin had stopped talking right several days ago, but Okuu assumed she would come back to her senses soon.

But she didn’t.

She should have expected this; it happened to her master, her master’s sister…and now her best friend. For a brief, horrible moment, she felt like the only creature in all the world.

Then the yatagarasu had started whispering to her, and Utsuho knew she was not alone. The voice preached fire, unfettered burning destruction like a sun allowed too close to the earth. Normally, discipline kept the voice at bay—what little discipline could be forced into her head. It was easy to ignore the voice when one barely heard it.

…but this time, it was different. This time, that all sounded like a very, very good idea.

Utsuho shook out her wings and leapt into the air, heat shimmering at the edges of her feathers.]


[ACTIVE STUFF]

[The hell raven was moving fast this time; no lazy, mindless circling today. The heat gathering at her wings flickered into flames now, as if the air around her was catching light. More heat gathered into the octagonal cannon covering most of her arm until the light grew too bright to look at—and then tore free in a fiery beam that seared an ugly scar into the formerly pristine road below.

When Utsuho cast her other arm out, suns appeared at her fingertips—tiny, miniature suns that grew alarmingly and then sped away as if thrown, arcing out across the sky until they burned out the instant her focus went elsewhere. Some fell to the ground like stars and burn out in the grass there or hiss and spit clouds of steam when they sink into the pond; the hell raven wasn’t really paying attention. She wasn’t aiming at the ground for the most part, some small bit of her remaining conscience saying her master might be down there, her best friend, her master’s sister…most of her anger was directed at the sky, but engaging a challenge was not beyond her senses.

For all that could be said of Okuu’s lack of intelligence, there certainly wasn’t much remaining in her eyes now. She was angry, very angry, and wasn’t thinking and didn’t want to think.


It probably won’t be too long before she gets herself droned, but in the meantime.

For today’s forecast there is a chance of angry gods flying overhead. You know, the usual for Mayfield.]

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[idkmybfforin]

[Well, less disposable and more that Utsuho was just That Mad. She'd come looking for it later if she...wasn't already droned.

The arm comes away with only a little more tugging, the fingers almost immediately clenching into a fist. The burns looked rather painful.

The cannon itself feels like some kind of metallic alloy, and tingles slightly to the touch, like static electricity.]

[walking_nuke]

[Balin's a little weirded over the way the severed arm is still capable of that powerful of movement even after spending all this time severed from its owner. Hearing Medics talk about ischemic trauma and the difference between clinical and biological death back in the AFS, he's aware that this has some disturbing implications. Maybe there's some youkai physiology at work there he doesn't know about—either way, he's more inclined to carry that arm home with him now.]

[First, though, curiosity gets the better of him. Noting the tingling, electric sensation while handling the control rod, Balin sets the severed arm down and looks into each end of the rod, trying to see how the heck the hell raven was holding on to this thing, and if this device had anything resembling the parts of firearms or directed energy weapons.]

[idkmybfforin]

[There's a rudimentary collar or sleeve sticking out the end the arm had fallen from, but aside from a crosswise handlebar in the center for a hand to hold on to, it doesn't seem to have any moving parts.

At least, on the surface.

Birds tended to peck at small moving things, you know.]

[walking_nuke]

[Having noticed that, Balin glances around the street—and then picks up the severed arm, trying to put it back into the control rod the way he found it, for now. Sighing, he starts heading back to his house. He can try and figure out how this thing works there, rather than in the middle of a partially-melted road.]