NPF Avatars: Going where no man has gone before!

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

[OOC: bleah!]

But it was no use. As IC slammed his fingers down onto Mauve's eyes, the enchantment took hold. Only one single smile was needed to bring women to their knees. This was going to be insane. Quite insane.

The Dark Merman took a look at Garud, and smiled charmingly, raising his trident.
"That Suijin bitch seemed to have taken my minions, so I guess I'll deal with you first, human," he said melodiously as he swung his arm.

Garud's attack was... averted. In its place was...

Rhiya's eyes glowed madly, eyeballing Garud with pure enchanted hate. The Look that most men feared could've peeled skin if it weren't so watery.
"Don't you dare hit him. He's my darling," she said - in a quiet voice that all NPFers learned to fear.

Her right arm rose and fell. Her chaos magic, fueled by her desire to protect her 'love', came forth in a powerful disabling attack.

The 'Gigantic Right Auzzie Boot' hit Garud squarely in the groin, sending him flying backwards towards the tunnel wall. A dark tentacle shot outwards and grasped Garud's staff from his limp hands, snatching it away from him. Rhiya enclosed it within the folds of her wings, and waved her hand again, setting the chaos magic back to work.

Garud suddenly felt the stone around him respond, and suddenly - before he could react or come out of his pained daze - he literally sank into the tunnel walls, leaving only his face to be seen.

The merman's eyes then landed on the scheming (and fuming) Krylo and Darth. His lips curled into a sneering - yet powerfully charming - smile. With a wave of his trident, he created a solid wall of water between him, 'his' girls, and the rest of the NPFers. It was like bullet-proof glass, only less so, and stronger.

"Darling!" he called out to Mauve Mage with his charming voice, flashing another charismatic smile, "I'll leave these impudent folks up to you. I shall see you at the end of this tunnel, love."

Beckoning to the females that were following him as of the moment, he held their hands (and those that couldn't grabbed onto his elbows), and escaped through the passage, leaving Mauve Mage - who was empowered with the knowledge that her 'love' is endangered by these NPFer OAFS - to subdue the others.

[OOC: Mauve, beat as many up as you see fit. the Dark Merman is taking the girls to Poseidon's Throne, where they will soon encounter William. There will also be other critters in the tunnel if you break past the water barrier. Have fun.]

[Raiden]

"Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit. "

Raiden swore silently to himself. That prettyboy fishman just kidnapped most of the girls, put Mauve under his spell, and ran off. Damn, this was bad. Then, Raiden turned to look at his sister.

Suijin's face was a look of pure anger.

"Did he...just call me...a BITCH?!"

Oh crap.

The Water Deity's hand went up, and the water wall blocking Krylo and Darth disappeared. She pointed her fingers down the tunnel after the merman with a look that probably sent chills down even Krylo's spine.

"Go after him...hurt him....NOW!"



Raiden held his hand out and grabbed Suijin's shoulder.

"Suijin, Pyros9 is almost gone. We can't go forward, so he'll need to be taken back to the entrance to the tunnel."

"Fine, then take him back."

"I can't. I need to go ahead. Plus, I know how Mauve fights. I can keep her distracted while the others go ahead."

"And how do you intend to keep her distracted? It's not like you can zap her anymore."

"I'll just use my new Water Deity powers."

"Water Deity powers? How did you....no. No no no no no."

"Hey, you owe me. Remember when-"

"Don't bring that up. You promised that you would never bring that up."

"Please, sis. Just this once. It's not like I've ever asked you for anything before."

Suijin gave a frustrated huff, then nodded.

"Fine. But if I find even a SCRATCH on my Hydro Gem...I'll cut you."

Suijin reached to her chest, and slowly the water around her began to swirl. As it swirled, she became shorter and less slender. Her hair turned from a deep green to a light blonde. Her bluish skin became a pinkish color. She soon held a Gem of strange water in her hand. And she seemed to be running out of breath now that she could no longer inhale water. A tentacled creature was slapped onto her face, and she began to breath. Raiden's cheeks were bloated as he held air in. He took the Hydro Gem, and placed it near his chest. He was a little hesitant. While deities technically could exchange their Godhood gems, it didn't mean their bodies agreed with a sudden change in alignment.

This was gonna hurt.

He pressed the gem to his chest, and it was absorbed in. The water suffocated the sound of his intense screams as the sudden alignment change seemed to rip his insides apart. His hair began to grow long again, but this time it turned green instead of white. His tan skin turned a light shade of blue. His arms grew a bit longer and more slender. In fact, the gem seemed to make him even more handsome than he looked when he was a Thunder God. Soon, he was able to breathe in the water. He looked over at Suijin once he stopped convulsing.

"Suijin, take Pyros9 back to the dry area and insert his Fire Gem into his body. His Fire Angel status should heal him. Once he's healed, bring him back here."

Suijin nodded, and swam away. Raiden....Suijin........Ruijin, looked over at Mauve.

"You guys follow the girls. I'll keep Mauve busy."

[Truce]

Somewhere in the Universe, Earth was in danger...again. And while the NPFers were usually the constant threat of its safety, it was this time, under the threat of a new menace. One that was fluffy...and had an army of flying pigs.

That's right. Evil McMarshmellow, from way back in Ecurt's first post.

After taking over Tokyo City, McMarshmellow had gone mad with power. So mad that he consumed his own army to gain their strength. However, it wasn't enough, and he needed more. He needed to kill, to become stronger than anybody else.

And then, Godzilla roasted McMarshmellow and made the biggest Smore in existence.

However, this post doesn't take place in Tokyo. It doesn't even take place on Earth, or its universe. No...instead, we find ourselves in a parallel dimension, where one young prinny was fighting for his life.

Everywhere, all he saw were hands, reaching out, trying to grab him, chasing after him. He couldn't escape, there was nowhere to run...he was going to be thrown!

And then, the whole world seemed to slow down, as Ecurt's mind went through one of those moments of extreme clarity. Then, he turned around a bomb suddenly in hand.

"I am not afraid of you. I've been molested by CT all the time. You...you are nothing!"

Later on, he would wonder just how exactly those hands managed to scream in terror without mouths. For now, though, he settled for the fact that it was very, very fun.

[mammothtank]

MT nodded at the new Water Deity's suggestion, but donned a solemn expression. "Dunno how much good it'll do, though, considering I can't actually fight," he grumbled, glaring at his wooden sword. He stuffed it back into his bag and swapped it for the Wishblade. "I don't care if it's heavy, it'll actually deal damage if I can hit with it."
He looked around at the rather diminished group. "Okay, how many do we have left? If you can still fight, just follow Krylo," he suggested before heading off down the tunnel in the immortal gunfighter's wake, dragging the Wishblade through the water behind him.

[Raiden]

While the other NPFers went through the tunnel to follow the merman, Ruijin placed himself between Mauve and the group. He would keep Mauve busy while the others went after.

It was amazing the things he could sense now He could feel the vibrations from Krylo's angered state flowing through the water. However, the extremely perturbed mod was having trouble moving through the liquid. So, in his first act of water godlyness, Riujin decided to help him out.

He noticed a small school of the piranha left. Using the new powers he managed to attain, he willed the school of deadly fish to be ripped apart molecule by molecule. Then, he willed it away into the tunnel, heading quickly towards Krylo.

When the small water cloud of fish particles struck Krylo, it entered his body. Krylo's body began to tremble, not from pain, but from his body rearranging itself. Those that were close to Krylo could see fins growing on his arms and legs. His teeth were growing longer and extremely sharp. Krylo's skin was becoming scaly and slippery.

Krylo was now half mod, half deadly fish. As if he wasn't bad-ass enough.

[Krylo]

Krylo was indeed fuming. In fact he was outright pissed. However, when he got angry it wasn't like when normal people got angry. There wasn't any cussing. There wasn't any throwing a fit. There was nothing but a look of cold determination in his eyes. He WOULD rip that Merman's spine out his mouth, and he didn't care how many people he had to kill to do so.

Anyone with any sense would get out of his way when they looked at him. Anyone with both common sense and a sense of morality would hope to GOD that Mauve didn't try to stop him as he swam to the wall and began pulling himself along it as quickly as he could while still kicking with his feet. It was considerably faster than swimming for him, if also considerably more tiring. But, he was angry enough to be beyond listening to his muscles--which is why it's a damn good thing he was immortal.

[Krylo]

Krylo's body began to reject the change, starting him back again, but his mind stopped it. It wasn't a conscious decision. His body acted in the way that was best for him. In truth, his immortality could be explained by pure will. He did not want to die. No amount of pain or suffering had caused this to faulter, and so his body complied, and made sure he didn't die. He did not want to be wounded, and so his body complied by healing all wounds. He did not, usually, want to be changed and so his body complied by reverting from all changes.

However, in this one instance, he didn't care about how much it may or may not have ruined his good looks. He only cared that it felt GOOD. The power, the speed, the strength. The way he could move in the water now. It was a rush. It meant he could rip that merman fin from fin from fin. It meant he could catch him.

A cold sadistic glee appeared alongside the rage as Krylo imagined what he would do to that fish when he caught him--visions of his new teeth tearing through scaly flesh danced through his mind like sugar plums and toys through the minds of sleeping children on Christmas Eve. He jetted forward, cutting the water like a scythe through wheat.

[PyrosNine]

PyrosNine screamed at Ecurt's Revelation. Yet another thing that would haunt him till he could dream no more.

"Damnit birdman, I could've lived without hearing that. Well, technically I couldn't have, but..." Suddenly a pulse shot through Pyros.

Life? Was someone reviving him? It was happening all so fast. Wait...he'd better do something while he was in mid-life. He threw a dart which landed upon the Prinny Ecurt.

"Just so I can call you when I get back!" Pyros wickedly smiled as he faded away...into life.

Nein got up with a jolt. He felt his body burning, burning, without ceasing, without cool or comfort. Every nerve of his being was on fire, a hellish desert from which there was no escape.

And he liked it.

PyrosNine got up with a roar, the fire crystal back within him. It was good to be whole again. The crystal held a portion of his soul to ensure his mortality, and without it he'd only be half of himself. Looking around, he found himself to be back in the cavern he'd been in before his dive and the attack of the Merman. The Merman...Cheshyish...Piranhas...Merman...Sporks... Rhiya...Merman...Rhiya...

THE MERMAN HAD RHIYA!

"That BASTARD! Where'd he go?"

"Away. He took all the females but the Mage of Mauve, and now she barrs the others from following." A calm voice replied.

"Suijin? No wait. You're human."

"I am Suijin."

"Nahhh...really?"

"I am Suijin."

"Really Really?"

"I AM Suijin."

"Really really with a blind mime on top?"

"I AM SUIJIN, YOU HUMANOID ROMAN CANDLE!" She lost her cool and yelled at him.

"Oh...but you're not godly...And how'd you get here? Where's Raiden?" Pyros was abuzz with answers.

Suijin regained her cool. "Raiden was adamant about saving the others, and due to a promise I made, he is now using my water crystal."

Pyros scratched his head. Now that was very unRaiden like. From the beginning of PyrosNine's memory, Raiden was a Thundergod...now he was a watergod? At least a temporary one, anyway.

"Now that's messed up. But I can't do anything about it so I might as well ignore it. In the meantime, I must focus on a way to follow the others without getting wet. But first..."

Pyros started making marks on the floor with his hands, burning them into the ground. As he drew runes, Suijin looked on with interest.

"What are you doing?"

"Y'know, without your godhood, your chest's smaller."

Suijin looked down with a look of anger and confusion. "Wh-What?"

"Oh my silly distant relative of the liquid, I'm only opening a portal to hell."

[Truce]

Life and Death.

Looking back now, it was amazing how easily interchangeable both things were. After all, one is just as inevitable as the other. There cannot only be life, nor can there only be death. Even the so-called all powerful gods could die, if one simply prepared for correctly.

Ecurt knew this from his own recent experiences. In fighting through his own personal hell (with no thanks to PyrosNine-how dare that bastard get revived without him), he had defeated opponent after opponent until he had finally gone face to face with the lord that kept watch over the hell he had been sent to; a self-proclaimed God of the Underworld, if he recalled correctly. He couldn't remember the bastards name very well, but he was sure it had been something along the lines of Baal. What he did recall though was that Baal was a prinny, just like he was.

The battle was fierce, that was another thing he recalled. Though prinnies they were, it was a mistake to ever underestimate the underworld penguins, especially when you knew of their explosive potential.

Baal, unfortunately, had much more experience than Ecurt, and it showed. The Uber-Prinny initially overwhelmed Ecurt, the NPFer unable to keep up in speed, power, and sheer endurance. Though it took some skill, Ecurt managed to avoid most of the former Lord of Terror's explosives, and managed to hit Baal once directly in the face with a bomb of his own; but sadly, Baal simply shook it off, as he would all the other attacks Ecurt tried.

Baal laughed off Ecurt's pitiful attempts, before beginning his attack anew. It was all that Ecurt could do to avoid the blasts, and dead already or not, he couldn't weave in and out the explosions all day. Even all the battles before hadn't tired him out like this was, and pretty soon he would trip and fall. It was only a matter of time.

Ecurt had to think up something-fast; his survival depended on it. And so, with no other choice, he did a flashfront to find the answer. Moments later, when he returned to reality, he came back with a plan, and thanked in the back of his mind Pyrosnine, and all of the explosions that he had done.

A bomb materialized in Ecurt's fin, but rather than chuck it straight at Baal he threw it to deflect the explosive that was flying towards him. He did the same again to the next bomb, and again, and again, and again, until he finally regained control over the pace of the battle. However, it wasn't over yet.

Suddenly, Baal stopped using an explosive, instead switching into a gun. Shooting the bomb held in Ecurt's fins, the explosion sent Ecurt flying into a nearby crater. The latter was still coughing up in the cloud of debris when Baal walked up and pointed the gun at his head. Ecurt's backed away, looking all around him before smiling at Baal.

"Goodbye, dood."

Then suddenly, literally hundreds of cat plushies appeared, each with a grin as wicked as Ecurt's was. Baal scoffed at the boy, wondering how the younger intended to defeat them with this. That was, of course, before he was lit up like the Fourth of July.

~~~

From the moment he had defeated Baal, he had become the official God of this realm. However, because the title had long since lost most of its appeal considering how many Gods NPFers were or knew, that really didn't matter to him nearly as much as the ability to change forms did to him-he didn't want to be a prinny forever after all. Luckily for him though, it turned out that he could indeed change shapes, though he was surprised that the form he became was not one he had been before, he approved. Oh, he definitely approved.

Still...after all that, he still had one task left to do. Ruler of this dimension or not, he still needed to return as soon as possible. Even though Time probably flowed differently here, there was no telling how much time had passed, and he needed to help them; he was still an NPFer after all. The question was...how he would get back?

And that's when PyrosNine conveniently began to open up a portal to his hell, and though Ecurt had no idea where it led to he knew that, since this was an NPF Adventure, it would probably be some plot device to get him out of this place and back into the action.

Just as PyrosNine finished making the portal to Hell, Ecurt appeared, slowly rising from the vortex. He was different though, but unlike most of his transformations you could easily tell it was him. His hair was longer and white, sure, and one would probably assume that Ecurt never had those draconic wings on his back (unless you count the Dragon form Raiden had given him), but aside from those and the demonic aura radiating from him he was definately Ecurt; he even was wielding Gleipnir in this form, for those that could recall what that was.

"Dood," he said, unable to completely lose the prinny part of him. "What did I miss?"

EDIT: Just needed to fix some grammar.

[mauve]

[OOC: Mauve, beat as many up as you see fit. the Dark Merman is taking the girls to Poseidon's Throne, where they will soon encounter William. There will also be other critters in the tunnel if you break past the water barrier. Have fun.]

... ... ... Oh, I will. I will.

[IC] Mauve wasn't quite sure where she was anymore. She didn't know how she had gotten there, or even what she had been doing before she had caught a glimpse of the Merman's smile of extreme sexiness. She really didn't care, either. All she knew was that these people were trying to hurt her sexy dude, and that said sexy dude would be incredibly grateful if she stopped them.

Her eyes narrowed. Pfft. Typical. They thought they could just walk right past her and leave this green-haired freak to take care of her? Screw THAT.

"I don't know who you are," she said with a quiet ferocity, "but you don't know what you're dealing with." She clenched her hands into fists and folded her arms across her chest.

Now, seeing Mauve blow up a fellow forumite wasn't new to anybody. The thing is, though, that Mauve only went nuklear-retaliation if she was certain the victim could SURVIVE it. She had a temper, yes, but she wasn't a murderer. At least, not normally. In her current state, however, Mauve had no intention letting anyone survive. She didn't know these people: They were just some losers come to hurt her sexy dude. And that didn't fly with Mauve.

Mauve built up all her extra magic energy, mixing it with her anger and willing it to take form. It built up within her like bubbles in a shaken bottle of soda.

Her eyes opened wide and they almost seemed to glow. She spread her hands out to her sides.

"Elemental Rage: Thunder!" she yelled.

Apparently, Possessed Mauve was less conservative about using her uber-spells than "Normal" Mauve. Multiple beams of electricity, in varying degrees of voltage, shot down from the water's surface, being conducted by the water and randomly striking anything within range.

Mauve floated, watching the spell take effect. She was breathing heavily, from both sheer anger and the taxing nature of one of her most powerful wide-area spells. Her hands clenched into fists.

"Nobody gets through!" she warned. "Do we have an understanding?" (Apparently, Possessed Mauve was also more suicidal than "Normal" Mauve.)