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Tweak says, "Who the Hell is Bucky?"

homodemens (homodemens) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2020-08-21 11:31:00

Entry tags:

!closed, !plot, john constantine, ~higgs

If at first you don't succeed...
Who: John and Higgs
Where: An abandoned section of the Station
What: Higgs finds John
When: After this.
Rating: TBD
Open: No
Status: Finished

Higgs left Loki with a bit of fire in his belly. He took his time to wander his "beach" as he cooled off and pondered his next move as he travelled in the spaces between.
"Stupid "gods"." He thought to himself.

He yelped as he stood on something hot and stepped backwards sharply. Looking down, he saw that his beach had intersected a ley-line on the station. Interesting.
Leaning down he placed two fingers to the strong magical resonance and touched them to his tongue. Perfect, he grinned, tasting malice and excitement in his own belly. He sniffed the air and closed his eyes.

With a sound like lightning mixed with a gunshot, in a crackling fizzle of amber-red light and vibrant yellow lightning he sparked into existence about five feet from John Constantine in a quiet and abandoned sector of the Station.

"Hello, John." he grinned, his long southern-drawl elongating his syllables like molasses. "Good to meet you in the flesh."

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worksbestalone_
2020-08-22 08:10 pm UTC (link)

Maybe it was the tar like substance that slowed him down. It seemed to cover far of John than he would have liked. He was no fighter and he always did terribly unless he could find a way to cheat. A way to play dirty. For the time being he was trapped in an oily room and a large raging beast. His attacks had only seemed to anger it more.

The beast caught him again, knocking John back down to the ground. He tried to pull himself free from the mess. He knew what he needed to do in order to kill the beast. It was risky, but it was worth it. He had to lure it in to believing he was down and out. Lie there in the muck and focus as much as he could on creating a fire spell that would engulf the entire room while hopefully shielding himself. He couldn't hurt himself with his own fire or at least he hadn't been able to. He didn't want to risk that being changed by the strange black substance around them.

John lay there, looking up and over at the monster. He grinned as best he could.
"Is that it?" he asked, raising a hand to give the creature the middle finger. Not that it would have done much. Certainly made him feel better though.

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homodemens
2020-08-22 08:21 pm UTC (link)

Were the beast a smart creature it would have seen John's bluff. It would have prepared itself for a last gasp.

It was a being of rage, malice and hunger. With slow and purposeful steps it padded towards John with resonating thuds, approaching as a cat would captured prey. Savouring the anticipation of cruel and drawn out agony, the thrill of killing and consuming a fallen and helpless prey.

It placed a leg either side of him, one crunching down on his arm with bone splintering force. It's grotesque and golden face glowered over the man as its hauntingly deep and black void eyes gazed down on him with a hungry contempt.
It emitted a low growling, chittering sound as it reared up for one final lunge...

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worksbestalone_
2020-08-22 08:36 pm UTC (link)

John let out a blood curdling cry when the creature pressed down on his arm. He had been stupid, arrogant. He was fairly certain it was broken. Fighting through the extreme pain and discomfort he was in, he focused on his spellwork, pressing his hands into the murky ground.

His eyes reopened, staring up at the beat, glowing bright orangey-red. They used to glow orange before, but with the Demons blood in his system, the colour had changed somewhat. His magic was fuelled by the leylines and it was fuelled by the Demon blood in his system. Powered by the pain he was feeling too. Oh, John knew how to channel his pain the right way.

"Omne iter ignis!" he shouted, and with that not only did his hands ignite, but this time the fire spread. Once it caught the surface of the ooze around them, it spread fast, lapping up the walls and then engulfing the beast above him.

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homodemens
2020-08-22 08:58 pm UTC (link)

The beast let out a final shrieking howl that vibrated the room as the burning fire cascaded over it's body. A sort of rigor mortis cast over it as the black tar turned to the same gold on it's face.

Cracks rippled over its form with audible force and for a brief moment in time, it looked beautiful, a golden statue of a beast rampant. A testament to the great battle that took place in this very moment, this space in the station.

In the same instant, it exploded with blinding light. Force expelled over the ground and buffeted John, albeit gentler than the strikes and slams he had been subjected to already. In the space where the creature stood, instead was a jagged coral cluster of golden material, radiating dusty and glittering particles that floated upwards toward the ceiling.

The tar, oil and black viscera turned to ash, dissipating as quickly as it had appeared.
John's mind was freed from the obfuscation and concealment of Higgs' "magics". Detectable by his peers on the station.

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