IC: Clan House

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla whimpered, slimy, creepy hands holding onto her. Claws scratched at her and she heard eerie moaning by her ear. She cringed away from the hands that were stroking hers, leaving a trail of slime behind them. The slime burned, as if acid had been poured all over her hands. She screamed weakly, thrashing around for a second before the hand abruptly left her. She was thankful for this, and her wide eyes met with more ugly deranged faces. Someone stepped foreword then, an adorable looking little boy. He was dressed up in polka-dots and stripes, a wide grin on his face.

She pleaded for him to run, run far away, but he merely laughed. He laughed so hard that his head began to make a full circle around his body. She could hear every single sickening crunch, as his bones realigned themselves. She almost threw up, but all she managed was to spit out some bile. The little boy was still laughing manically, drooling slightly in his insanity. She wondered if she was going to become like him, then shivered. Abruptly, the boy was silenced, cut in half by an unknown force. She froze, tears leaking down her face as she stared at the boy crumpled, motionless form. Dark, horrible laughter followed soon after.

Then the heat turned up once again, the flames getting higher, the figures creeping closer. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't find the voice. She just stared, wide eyed, with her mouth opened in a silent scream.

And then there was a light.

Leyla, please, it's Sara. Eric and I are trying to help you. What's doing this?

"S-Sara?"

She looked around for her friend, but she couldn't find her.

"SARA GET OUT OF HERE! IT ISN'T SAFE!"

She started crying again, one of the monsters had just eaten the little boy's head.

[charli]

-Eric-

Sara fell to her knees almost as soon as she took Leyla's hand, but she continued to speak to the girl. And then Leyla answered. "SARA, GET OUT OF HERE! IT ISN'T SAFE!"

"I'm not leaving without you!" Sara said, her voice shaky but resolved as she squeezed Leyla's hand. Then she turned towards Eric, her unseeing eyes shrouded in the same black film as Leyla's. "I don't know how she could be doing... this... to herself..." Her hand squeezed his, and he got a glimpse of what she and Leyla were going through. Holy shit... "Please, help her..." Sara pleaded.

"I will," Eric said, praying Sara could hear him. He took Leyla's other hand with his free hand and focused his energy the way the book had instructed. Closing his eyes, he sent a powerful wave of purifying energy through Leyla, and a bit through Sara in case whatever this was had settled in her mind as well.

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

I'm not leaving without you!

Leyla cried harder, her eyes stinging and swollen. Salty tears dripped into her mouth, turning into spiders and crawling down her throat, cutting off any possible reply. She panicked, clawing at her throat as the spiders skittered themselves deeper into her throat. She started coughing, getting a few of them out in the process. Staring ahead, the monsters were laughing at her, eye glinting in malicious amusement. Her breath quickened, she was choking. Her hands went to her throat again, clawing at it until her fingers were soaked in her own blood. She gave up, crying.

Is this the end?

She realized that she almost wanted this to be the end. Shivering, she let the spiders crawl. But this place wasn't about giving her what she wanted, the spiders slid down her throat and she could breath. Hot tears rolled down her cheeks, and Leyla wondered what they were going to do it her and possibly Sara next.

All of a sudden, the dark laughter halted. The monsters screamed in pain, melting away. The fires burned hotter and hotter, and then they were suddenly gone.

"What's going on?"

Her voice was weak, and her throat ached. Her fingers twitched a bit, sticky with blood. She blinked, and the horrifying images were beginning to disappear.

[charli]

~Sara~

Eric was there with them. Sara saw him holding both her hand and Leyla's, though his eyes were closed. Light radiated from him in gentle waves, each ripple sounding a bell tone that weakened the flames and darkness. Soon, Sara could see the living room through the dying fires.

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Shivering, Leyla cringed. The monstrous shadows were flickering. She blinked again, and the red eyes were disappearing. Moaning once, she cracked her eyes open slightly. She was so hot, yet her body was so cold. She coughed once, blood staining her hand more than it already had. The faces became those of her friends, but she barely noticed any of them. There was only one person she wanted here at the moment.

She weakly lifted her head, making sure Sara was okay. She whimpered at the movement, then started crying again. She missed her other friends at home too. She wanted them here. Abby...Kat.

"Kat......"

Sniffling, she clenched her eyes shut again, panicked tears slipping out. She barely noticed that she was back on the couch, surrounded by friends. She was terrified, images still burning in her mind. Her throat ached more.

And she wished her best friend was here to make it all go away.

[Kat]

(I can has post nao?)

Blinking and confused, Kat lowered her hand from the shower rod, where she had been reaching up to close the curtain after her shower.

"What the...?" she stared about her, taking in Leyla on the couch, Sara and some random other guys.

Immediately, wihout caring that she was only wearing a towel, she rushed to kneel down by her best friend's head.

"What happened to her Sara? Is she going to be okay?" without waiting for a response, she brushed her friend's hair out of her face and checked her temperature worriedly.

"Leyla... Someone go get her a blanket, she's freezing here!" Kat glared around in frustration. "Well?! I said GO DAMMIT!"

[echoes]

-Dan-

Seeing yet ANOTHER of Leyla's friends show up and start giving orders snapped Dan out of a brief daze. He let his nanites cover some of the floor and convert it into a heavy blanket. He picked it up and set it over Leyla. "That should do. Kat, I presume?" he said.
"Nice outfit, by the way." he said resisting the urge to crack up.

[TheTimeSweeper]

Nav-E

Nav-E snorted with laughter at Zach’s comment about Tom.

“I really shouldn’t be laughing seeing as how I barely know the guy, but it’s still funny. And I have no freakin’ clue what we should be looking for except anything that would be considered out of the ordinary. Has everyone been accounted for? There aren’t any more newcomers, right?”

Nav-E continued down the hall with Zach right behind him, pausing every so often to inspect the doors to the rooms.

“Geez, how many rooms does this house have? It seems like there are way more than just enough for the contestants.”



Evan

Evan could only watch, stunned, as Leyla woke up from her hysterics on the couch with Sara and Eric by her side. Whatever that Eric had done, it had worked.

“Thank God Midtown Madness vehicles cannot do this sort of thing to humans,” he muttered. “Or can they…? No, that’s just freakin’ ridiculous. Even the Audi TTX doesn’t have that kind of power. You just have Midtown Madness on the brain because of recent events; this has absolutely nothing to do with it. Geez, get a grip, Evan.”

Evan was then jolted out of his musings by a newcomer to the group who seemed to appear out of nowhere and was wearing only a towel, as if she had just stepped out of a shower recently. Dan then created a blanket out of the floor using his nanites after the newcomer requested one before placing it over Leyla’s shivering form. Evan didn’t think that was so unusual until Dan referred to the newcomer as Kat.

“Wait a minute, you’re Kat?” Evan asked the girl in disbelief. “Have you been in the house all this time?”

[Kat]

Kat

Kat glared as some guy made a comment about her towel.

"You got a problem with that?! Jesus Cristo, men are such perverts." She turned to the guy who asked her a question.

"Sorry, what? Uh.. Where's 'here'? I was just minding my own freakin' business and then I see my best friend freezing on a couch with my other best friend by her side, surrounded by random guys!"

She got louder as she became more and more frustrated and confused. She started fading in and out of sight as a slight pout came to her face and a tear dropped down her cheek.

"Dammit Leyla... What the hell's going on?"

[charli]

~Sara~

The flames were gone. Trembling, Sara fell forward, barely catching herself before her face hit the deck. "Kat...?" she wondered, turning towards the new comer. "Kat... Did Leyla bring you...?" And then she blacked out.

[Kat]

Kat

"SARA!" Kat disappeared completely for the brief span of her scream, coming back into view with a whimper.

She sat back on her feet and pulled Sara up against her side, holding onto Leyla's hand.

"What the heck.....

...what's going on?"

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla whimpered, her head was pounding and her throat was burning more and more. She heard voices, but she could barely distingusih anything. Opening her eyes again, she stared at the towel-clad figure before her. Her eyes brightened in recognition, but then the figure started to disappear. She began to panic, her mind still taunting her with the images she had just escaped from.

Stop it....don't taunt me like this....

She whimpered again, Sara was falling too.

"What the heck.....

...what's going on?"

She opened her parched mouth, reaching weakly towards the dissappearing figure.

"....but why do I love it so much....?"

[Kat]

Kat

"Th- there really is no ending... Wait! What?!"

"Ley...la?" Kat came back fully into view, an obvious, solid figure in a freakin' towel, sitting in the middle of the room with her best friends looking dead.

She sniffed and hugged Leyla, careful not to let Sara collapse onto the floor.

"You're all bloody Ley..."

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla winced, staring at her friend.

"You're all......nekkid...."

She scrunched up her face, coughing slightly.

"Why....how....?"

Her throat burned more, and she knew she couldn't talk anymore. A few tears leaked down her cheeks, but she barely noticed them.

I missed you Kat....

Her hair was dripping wet, and not carining about herself, Leyla was worried that her friend would catch a cold. She remembered what Kat looked like with dry hair and imagined it. Then her mind went off, her eyes clouded over for a moment and she was lost in thought.

Kat would look cool in that one outfit I drew....

[tomaszavenger]

"Haha Neko... I guess I can't harm you in Winter, just wait till Summer!" Tom replied with a smile on his face.

She's in good company... she has her two friends, I should probably leave...

Tom ran after Neko and Nav-E.

"I'll come along... I can save copies of any clues we find, so we won't have to move anything. My scanning equipment might also come in handy..."

Of course, he knew that was not the reason he was coming... he just figured he'd embarass himself if he had stayed.

[Yetisarge]

"Well this is interesting that Kat just showed up. Perhaps you would like a change of clothing?" Aaron asked grabbing a set of clothing that had appeared from one of the bots in the house. "As much as I hate them.. they can be helpful during certain times however." Aaron muttered offering the change of clothing to Kat in case she wanted it.

[Kat]

Kat

"Ermm.." Kat looked down, surprised.
She was wearing a really cool short skirt, fishnet gloves and a tanktop with faerie wngs.

"Thanks Aaron, but I guess I don't need any clothes." she did a double-take.
"AARON?!" Kat attempted to shift without knocking Sara over or hitting herself with her knee-high boots to hug her friend.

"So can you tell me what the hell's happening?"

[Yetisarge]

"Well as far as I can tell, we are on a some what of a reality tv show. However its about maybe sixty years into the future. Due to some problem with the selection process a lot of people who already knew each other got picked." Aaron began to tell Kat.

"However if you mean what the hell happened to Leyla.. I have no f-ing idea at all what the hell happened to her." Aaron said.

Zerb looked around. "So.. how many more people are going to end up being on this show?" he asked himself as he came into the main area and looked at Leyla and tried to figure out what was going on with her.

[charli]

-Eric-

Eric released Sara and Leyla's hands and stood. "I guess however many people Leyla decides to conjure. I swear to God, once she wakes up, I'm going to teach her to control that power." He looked at the magically clothed girl. "Your name is Kat? Alright, I'll tell you what just happened. Something got into Leyla's mind and started terrifying her. Sara went in to help her, and I cleared out the evil visions. They're both alright now, just tired. Truth be told, I kind of need a good dose of caffeine myself."

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan


Judging by the reactions and comments from the other contestants, Evan was sure that this newcomer was indeed Kat.

“Heh, anyone else that we know from the clan?” he muttered, looking around the room for any other people whom he might have missed. “The next thing we know, we’ll have the cartoon characters that we’re role-playing as just randomly show up. Although, that’s not really much of a stretch…”

Evan glanced at Leyla still lying down on the couch, but now awake. Well, she appeared to be, at least.

“With all of the items that she’s been able to summon, bringing the cartoons here might not be such a hassle. Heh, sounds like Nav-E’s idea might be all for naught. Then again, I highly doubt that Leyla should be doing anything in her current condition other than resting.”

Evan watched Tom retreat to the hallway where Nav-E and Zach had disappeared to before sitting cross-legged on the floor, his eyes changing from blue to a deep purple. He needed to do some thinking.

[Kat]

Kat

Kat looked at the two guys who had spoken.

"So who... are you guys?" she asked. One of them, whose eyes had just changed to a relly cool shade of purple, looked to be deep in thought, and she assumed he would just ignore her and keep thinking.

She looked at Sara and Leyla worriedly before getting up very carefully and leaning Sara's sleeping form against the couch so she could sit more comfortably.

At least, as comfortably as one can with wings on one's back.

Kat giggled, and her wings fluttered slightly.

"O.o Erhm.."

[upsilon]

-Dylan and The WOMBAT-

"Hey, hey. Isn't that the girl you're always going on, and on, and on about kid?" The voice of the indomitably evil rodent suddenly sounded off in the room as Dylan walked in. The furry fiend as currently leaning on his shoulder, looking over the crowd before it had finally settled it's gaze on Kat.

With a quick shift in it's weight, it retreated into his backpack where it began rapidly typing on the laptop therein. "Yeah, yeah! That's the one. Kat, right? You've got about fifty pictures of her on here I swear..." The wombat's voice was now muffled from within the backpack but it was still quite easy to hear throughout the room.

Dylan just stopped, tilted his head and blinked, staring at Kat for a second as the wombat preformed his deeds of randomness. "Um...Kat?" Without so much as another second's hesitation he leaped forward and hugged her tightly around her stomach, squealing like a school girl as he did. "Kaaaaaaaaaat. Weeeeeeeee! I'm so happy to see you!"

The wombat stuck his head out for a moment to speak before pointing to Dylan's head with his small index finger. "His name is Dylan if you remember. You should I'd hope, you're ALL he talks about, and I'm sure you're ALL he thinks about too. Oh, and I'm the evil wombat that lives in his backpack, it's Prada you know." Ducking back in, he left Dylan to his endless hug.

[echoes]

-Dan-

Dan stared at Dylan's display of affection, and cracked up.
"You DO realize Leyla's going to kill you when she wakes up, right?
I mean she fucking hates you." he told Dylan, still smiling.
And when she does, I'm taking pictures! he thought evilly.

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan


Evan looked up at Kat from his position on the floor and smiled.

“Hello, Kat. My name is Evan or MagicMidtown in the clan.” He then let out a chuckle. “I’m surprised you didn’t recognize me; I posted my picture in the clan so that should have been a big hint! Oh, and my twin brother, Nav-E, is somewhere in the house with Tom and Zach looking for clues as to what happened with Leyla. You’ll probably meet him later on.”

Evan then silently watched as Kat was enveloped in a tight hug from Dylan after she had propped Sara’s sleeping form up against the couch.

“Careful dude, you don’t want to squeeze all the air out of her. By the way, nice wings, Kat.”

[charli]

-Eric-

Check one dude off the list of "Guys I'll Need to Compete With For Sara". "I'm Eric," he said to Kat, wondering if he could get another shot at that wombat when it emerged from the backpack. "I'm part of the minority not from this Clan thing or whatever."

[Yetisarge]

"Yes, you and me that is for sure." Zerb said not caring about trying to hit on girls. If he survived he survived.

Zerb gave Kat a slight nod. "So what the hell actually happened to that girl named Leyla?" Zerb asked wanting to know what the hell was going on around her.

[Kat]

Kat

O.O

Kat squirmed slightly in Dylan's insane hug.

"Erm, hi Magic, Dylan..." she giggled, trying to flutter her wings again.

"I like these wings too. And whataboutawombatnow?"
"Too many things going on at once... xD" she laughed, cutting off her laughter as she saw another Kat sitting next to Leyla.

"Erm... whut?" she groaned slightly, but the other Kat smiled and started to clean up Leyla's throat and bloody hands.

"Ley," the original Kat said, "I think I saw Tom leaving just earlier... Although it might have been Peter... I don't know who's here or not.."

The copyKat disappeared after fixing up Leyla's bad state.

"And that was odd.." said Kat.

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla's eyes fluttered open, confused by the two Kat's in front of her. She blinked once and then the other Kat was gone. She coughed a bit, but noticed that her throat was all bandaged up.

When did that.....?

"...happen?"

She was so confused by what was happening around her. Everyone looked like little blurs and she had no idea what was going on.

"Hello.....?"

Everything being said sounded like babbling, and it was making her head pound. She tried to reach a hand up and rub her temples, but found she didn't have the strength.

The fuck?

She saw Kat, clothed now, open her mouth to say something.

I think I saw Tom leaving just earlier... Although it might have been Peter... I don't know who's here or not..

"Tom....Peter...? Huh?"

She was really REALLY confused. So confused, that she didn't even shout when Dylan came squealing in and making a huge fuss. She did, however, scowl a bit at the noise.

[upsilon]

-Dylan and The Wombat-

Dylan blinked, looking just a wee bit confused about the other Kat, but his mind was just a bit too focused on the Kat he was hugging to really care. "Erm. Wombat...he's evil, lives in my backpack...extremely random...furry...rodent...likes Prada...um...yup. That's the evil wombat."

On cue, the wombat once more shot up out of the backpack and looked around. "And don't forget it sister!" With that it went back inside it's apparent home and Dylan released Kat, just for a second, before tilting his head and hugging her again. Albeit this time he wasn't crushing the air out of her. "So yeah! Hi. Um...oh! Hee hee."

Kissing her cheek he pulled away again, reaching up his sleeve and pulling out a tea cup full to the brim with hot chocolate, sitting on a saucer. "Hot chocolate for you Kat!~" Smiling happily he handed her the cup and saucer and put his right arm around her shoulders. "Weeeeee! Kat is here~ Now all we need is that frackin Cylon Gavin."

[Kat]

Feb 25, 2009 9:10:40 GMT -5 TrickyLA said:

Leyla

Leyla's eyes fluttered open, confused by the two Kat's in front of her. She blinked once and then the other Kat was gone. She coughed a bit, but noticed that her throat was all bandaged up.

When did that.....?

"...happen?"

She was so confused by what was happening around her. Everyone looked like little blurs and she had no idea what was going on.

"Hello.....?"

Everything being said sounded like babbling, and it was making her head pound. She tried to reach a hand up and rub her temples, but found she didn't have the strength.

The fuck?

She saw Kat, clothed now, open her mouth to say something.

I think I saw Tom leaving just earlier... Although it might have been Peter... I don't know who's here or not..

"Tom....Peter...? Huh?"

She was really REALLY confused. So confused, that she didn't even shout when Dylan came squealing in and making a huge fuss. She did, however, scowl a bit at the noise.

Kat wormed her way out of Dylan's embrace, smiling and taking the hot chocolate over to sit next to Leyla.

"Yeah, some guy in a weird robo-suit-mecha-thing, he looked like Tom. Sit up and let me give you an advil," she said rumaging in her pockets, "I think I have one somewhere, or maybe it was in my bag..."