NPF Avatars: Going where no man has gone before!

[Krylo]

The kiss, however, relied on an opponent capable of appreciating the kiss. It didn't matter if you found men attractive, you simply had to be capable of feeling lust, and it would send any being into a catatonic state from a complete overload of hormones from which they never recovered.

Krylo, however was, at this moment, incapable of feeling anything. Love. Lust. Joy. Fear. Sadness. It was all lost. Gone in a swirling sea of rage. Words couldn't be formed in his mind, his desires could not be expressed--but that was of no consequence, as that his only desire was death. The death of the merman.

When he felt the lips against his lips and the tongue in his mouth, Krylo opened his newly fanged mouth further, and bit down on the merman's face, his sharpened teeth easily tearing through flesh.

The merman's concentration failed completely causing the trident's hold on Krylo's body to fail, and the gunman reacted with amazing speed, drawing his plasma pistol while Simultaneously grabbing the merman's hair, keeping the creature from swimming off.

The barrel of the pistol smashed into the merman's solar plexus (or equivalent there of) hard enough to cause the merman to double over, before plasma began ripping through his flesh.

Krylo released the merman's head and smashed a fist into what was left of his face, knocking him away before spitting out the creature's tongue and lips.

The creature was not dead, though. It looked up at Krylo with eyes full of rage. The overbearing arrogance was gone now, as it looked upon the gunman with its teeth forming a grisly harlequin's smile, without lips. It could not speak at first as the water swirled around his wounds, healing the burnt away hole in his chest, as well as bringing flesh back to its face.

Krylo didn't let up the attack, however, firing off one bolt after another. The two were caught now in a game of cat and mouse, as Krylo fired off plasma and the merman dodged, using all his power to heal.

Once his flesh was back the merman struck his trident out toward Krylo and a great maelstorm burst forth, the water twisting about wildly and throwing Krylo back and away. The gunman smashed into a wall of the cavern, shattering an arm which quickly healed.

"I WILL KILL YOU!" The merman shouted as he let off another blast shattering stone from sheer water pressure just as Krylo burst away from the cavern walls, barely avoiding the blast while returning one of his own.

The two then began to weave in the water. Plasma travelled through watery typhoons, to narrowly miss the weaving merman, while Krylo was thrown about like a rag doll in the sea. He never stopped moving though. He continued the attack, finally scoring a hit on the merman's shoulder, which only served to enrage him more.

The trident leveled at Krylo and the merman spoke, "I tire of this. You will die NOW!"

Krylo could feel a strange pressure all throughout his body, as though his blood was attempting to escape from all directions at once. And, as it turns out, that's almost exactly what was happening. All of the water in Krylo's body exploded out through his flesh, tearing the gunman asunder. Shattered remnants of legs, half a face, and an empty hand floated inside what was left of his clothing inside the bloody water as the plasma pistol drifted to the bottom of the sea.

The merman smirked once more and started to swim back to his position. However, when he turned his back, he didn't notice that the few remnants of flesh were rebuilding themselves, and soon a skeleton with a few muscles swam after the merman. By the time the merman turned around, Krylo was upon him, though he was hardly recognizeable. A few muscles connected to bone was all the flesh on the right side of Krylo's face, and the complete muscle structure of his body could be seen in his chest stomach, and groin. The withering blade was held in his left hand and is right was stretched out for the merman's throat.

The creature reacted with slight panic, quickly interjecting the tip of the trident between himself and Krylo, but it didn't stop the gunman. The three tips slid into his flesh, and flesh was torn apart as he slid past the wide end and onto the haft of the trident. Even then, however, he did not slow. Swimming forward and catching the merman's throat. The merman attempted to swim away, but Krylo had him in his grasp now, and the trident wouldn't pull back out of the gunman's flesh so easily now, as it was healed around the haft.

The two tumbled foward through the water, until they smashed through the gate and rolled onto the ground. Krylo ended up on top, with the withering blade rammed through the dark merman's shoulder and into the stone behind him JUST enough to allow it to stand by itself.

The merman screamed in pain and desperation, but no easily discernible words came out, as the gunman ontop of him smashed his fists into the creature's face. The pirahna flesh was ejected completely from Krylo's flesh, leaving only the almost naked gunman, other than a tattered duster and a few barely strung together leather straps, holding the adonis of merman to the ground by his throat.

Krylo's fist came up and then down, spraying blackish blood all around. The fist moved again. And then again. The merman's face was slowly turning into a mangled mess of blood.

[Toastburner B]

TB recovered from the attack of the large fishy thing that had nailed him. The fish-monster came at him to follow up the attack, but TB was ready for it. Sinking to the bottom, TB put his earth-aligned leafblower weapon on the ground. As he did, a series of rocky spikes shot up from the ground and impaled the beast.

Looking around once more, TB ducked as a car (?!) zoomed over his head, much blasting over the speaking in that disorted, underwater way. TB was halfway to spiking it before he realized it was on his side. "Good grief." he thought to himself.

It was then he noticed the submarine was in trouble.

Shame he had promised Death he would unleash the box on it.

...Oh well.

"Hey!" TB yelled as switched the earth gem out for the wind gem. "I'm suppose to torment that submarine, so don't destroy it yet!" Using his wind-powered leafblower once more as a motor, TB covered the distance to the submarine quickly.

He entered the hatch, and his eardrums were immedately assaulted by the long dead voice of John Lennon swearing. Not just swearing, but swearing like a master. Swearing that could of driven Godzilla away from Japan in tears.

However, TB had been through high school, so it was kind of normal for him.

"Are you the submarine possessed by John Lennon?" TB asked.

No! I'm the [Expletive] Titanic that [Expletive] possessed by the [Expletive] queen of [Expletive]Eng[Expletive ]land! the ship replied.

TB pulled the box from his pants pocket. "I come on a mission from Death...he told me to give you this."

What the [Expletive] is that?

Instead of answering, TB just opened the box...and almost spotaneously imploded at the sound that came of it.

JJJJooooooooohhhhhhhhnnnnnnnNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

Dear [Expletive][Expletive][Expletive ]! What the [Expletive] did you [Expletive ] do?!

((OOC: EDITED! That should of been almost, not also spotaneously imploded.))

[Raiden]

Ruijin covered his ears. The sound of a high-pitched female asian voice echoed through the water, and since he was more attuned to water noises at the moment, it was striking him right in the brain.

"FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S GOOD AND ELECTRIC, SHUT HER UP!"

Because of his mind being thrown in all directions, the water around him began to bubble and froth. Ruijin truly had little idea of just how powerful he was in this environment, and with the sounds putting him in a state of incredible confusion, it was about to get messy up in here.

A strange sound emenated from his body, gathering together some of the most dangerous and mysterious creatures of the deep. These creatures were on the good side, and began to tear into the enemy creatures.

Below Ruijin, a gigantic vortex of swirling water formed, dragging anything unlucky enough to be close down to the depths of the black water.

Water began to freeze into icebergs in some places, while it became boiling hot in others. Water pressure began to randomize, becoming either incredibly crushing in variable areas, and so light that beings began to come apart from the sheer lack of it.

Ruijin grabbed at his head, trying to cover his ears. The Yoko voice was piercing into his mind, the water waves doing nothing but making it so loud that he couldn't even see straight. He kicked out and around, beginning to thrash in the water, sending bubbles flying in every direction.

If there was an end of the world beneath the water, this would have been it. He could do nothing but hope that none of his friends were getting caught in the mess.

[mammothtank]

"GAH!" MT shouted in surprise as Ruijin's uncontrolled power suddenly froze the water around his right arm, encasing it and the Wishblade in two inches of rough ice. He stared at it incredulously for a moment before realizing that, due to the buoyancy of ice in water, he was slowly floating away from the main battle. Quickly drawing his Silver Sword with his free arm, he began clumsily hacking away at the ice in an attempt to free himself, but it was a slow process. Floating still higher, he began to panic. "Crap! No no no no no..."

[mauve]

(OOC- Mammoth! You ninja'd me! )

"Expletive!!" yelped Mauve, dodging a chunk of ice that slammed into the stone wall next to her. "Raiden! What are you doing?!"

Her arms and legs waved about wildly as she barely managed to escape a pressureless void that somehow popped into existance at her side.

The song hadn't affected Mauve much, mainly because she had been a Beatles freak during her middle school years and was therefore immune to its wickedness. It WAS a Beatles song that had been tainted by the powers of darkness and therefore DID make her feel slightly nauseous, but apparently she was faring better than those aboard the submarine.

Yoko's screeching she could deal with. The extended chorus of Yellow Submarine she could deal with. Hell, she could probably even stand a rousing verse of "Don't Let Me Down," her least favorite Beatles song of all time, if she had to. But being attacked/burned/frozen/impaled via the doings of an out-of-control water god who was on her own side? Heck no.

"EEP!" She swerved around a maddened hatchetfish that had answered Raiden's call and was confused by the lack of absoulte darkness.

"Turn it off!" Mauve yelled to Toastburner and the submarine. "It's doing more harm than help!"

She hastily swam away from the god, using the stunned bodies of various sea critters as leverage to kick off of.

So intent on getting away from the chaos that Raiden had spawned that she didn't look where she was going. WHAM! She slammed into an escaping Mammothtank. The water, of course, made her ricochet comically off him before she knew what was going on.

"Apparently you had the same idea," she commented, pulling back as a pocket of boiling water formed between the two of them. "Not that it's doing us much good."

Then she noticed the ice surrounding his arm.

"Oh," she said. "Um... Need some help with that?" Hmmm. She couldn't do any fire spells, but...

She swam up, grabbed his arm, and forced it into the swirling vortex of boiling water. The ice melted almost instantly.

"I'm a helper!" she said with a grin.

[PyrosNine]

The box flew from TB's hands, and fell onto the ground. It hopped about.

JOOOHHHNNNNY! WHY HAVEN'T YOU CALLED ME??

Uhh....I was (expletive) busy...(guesswhatitis) yeah...

NOOO JOHHHNNY! I MISSED YOU! WHEN I DIED AFTER AN IRATE FAN KILLED ME, I THOUGHT I'D SEE YOU AGAIN! BUT I DIDN'T!

I went to ex(fucking)pletive hell! It's not (expletive, expletive, expletive) would let me (SPOOMEOWJIM!) to heaven! Of course, he was (SPORK!) a favor, keeping your (Meot niceness word for butt!) far from me as (NEOT NEED AIRE!) possible!

JOHHHHNNY! I DID NOT GO TO HEAVEN! I TOOK THE FAN TO THE GRAVE WITH ME! ONO FAMILY TRADITION! I WENT TO HELL TOO FOR IT JOHHNNNY! AS A MATTER OF FACT, SHE RIGHT HERE!

OMGIT'SYOUANDICANTBELIEVEI'MFINALLYGOINGTOMEETYOUA NDIWANTYOUTOKNOWILOVEYOUANDIGIVEMYSOULTOYOUANDICUT MYSELFTILLITBLEADSANDTOUCHMYSELFWHILELISTENINGTOMA XWELL'SSILVERHAMMERANDLETTINGTHEBLOODWRITELOVEPOEM SBEFOREMYEYESBEFOREIPASSOUTANDMUMCALLS911AGAIN!

What...the...(expletive)?

JOHNNNY! NOW WE BE TOGETHER FOREVER!

Before anything could be done, the spirit of Yoko ono flew out from her box and into the sub itself.

JOHNNY! I HAVE GOOD IDEA! WE CHANGE THE SUB INTO A TURQUOISE RAILCAR!

The spot she leapt into began to warp around, the speakers dissolving into the wall, and the entire section began spewing turquoise blood which died the area that color. The windows spread out, and seats were moved. The right side became like a hellish green railcar, which was most definitely not suited for this depth. The glass immediately bursted and water rushed in, and TB was sucked out.

No! Stop you crazy (How sexist of him.)! It's a (ducking) yellow sub! Why would a (expletive) be in the (expletive) ocean at this (expletive) depth?

The Fan's soul came out and entered the left side of the ship.

ILOVEYOUJOHNWHYDON'TYOUFEELMYLOVEEVENTHOUGHWE'VENE VERMETANDITRIEDTOKILLYOUBUTIDIDN'TBECAUSEITWASONLY THESHADOWTHATSPEAKSBACKWARDSANDIWANTYOURBABIESTOEA TAND...

The left side became like something from Silent Hill (Not a bad tourist spot, except for that annoying part where by chance you get sucked into someone else's hell.) With bloody arms that reached out, and sharp bone knifes coming out as well. The knifes cut the wrists of the arms, and blood began to cover the floor.

Ewww (expletives)! That's sick! (expletive) Get out! GET (expletive) OUT! OUT GET (expletive removed: involved pancakes, 3 year olds, and succubi.)!

The yellow sub fought back, and the yellow surged toward the railcar and bloody arms.

JOHNNY! WE BE TOGETHER FOREVER!

Yoko's part spread and crashed with Johns, making a visible rippled between the to forces.

DON'TYOUTOUCHHIM!HE'SMINEHE'SALLMINEYOUMURDERER!IW ANTTOKILLHIMANDLOVEHIMANDMYPOEMSAREMYSOULINTHENIGH TSKY...
The fan's influence surged toward Yoko's, and towards John's. The three fought and struggled, and the swearing continued.

GET OUT! JOHNNY! (EXPLETIVE) ILOVEYOUDON'TLEAVMEI'LLKILLYOU Away from me! OOH! NEW IDEA! NO!YOURIDEASTORETHEMAPART! I'd like to tear (expletive) both (expletive) LENNON CHIPMUNK ALBUM! THERAININSPAINLIESMAINLYINMYLUSTFORYOU! Whyy..(expletive)? FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER JOHNNNY! MYSOULONGSFORYOUJOHNANDTELLSMETOBURNTHINGS! Damn you (expletive) Pyrosnine!

The ship drifted off, and into one of the vortex Ruijin had created, the three cursed souls fighting, yelling, until they dissappeared into the portal with a maddening scream.

*FF Victory Theme Plays*
Toastburner B defeated the Hellsub!
Toastburner B gains 666 exp.
Toastburner B gets a paperclip, 7 dollars in pennies, and a limited edition cd "Jam's greatest insane cat hits."

As the sub was gone, the prone figure of Asheth floated away in her bubble. A surviving group of fish inspected the bubbble. They gave it a look over and a light went on in their heads. They strangely recognized her unconcious frame, and knew what they must do.

Gently, the fish surrounded the bubble, and propelled it towards a nearby underwater cave.which led to William's lair...

[mammothtank]

"Gah!" MT yelped again, yanking his arm away from the bubble of boiling water before it could scald him. "Whew... thanks, Mauve." Swimming back down, he looked around at the creatures still standing in their way. "Argh! We need to get THROUGH!" He punctuated the outburst by swinging the Wishblade in the general direction of a few monsters. This action created a sort of slashing shock wave that flew at the monsters, cleaving many of them in two. MT blinked a couple of times in disbelief, then looked at the spear he held and grinned. "Cool! I didn't know it could do that!" He swung it again, and another slash wave cleared a path through the enemies. "Mauve, follow me!" With that, he sped toward the entrance to William's lair, launching a Slash Wave at anything that came near.

[Arhra]

Arhra had been trying to judge the situation. It wasn't looking good. She was effectively alone against Poseidon's usurper who wielded the sea god's trident, a weapon of immense power. Even worse, those two who should be her allies were still under the insidious sway of the Dark Merman. Admittedly he was sexy with his stunningly - No! She couldn't affor to get distracted. Thankfully Rizp looked to be taking a more defensive role and the overlord seemed to be reserving his power for now. That left Rhiya, her face incandescent with rage and her mutable wings twisted into twin writhing snake nests of clawed and befanged tentacles.

Still, there was one single factor in Arhra's favour. The Inverse Ninja Rule. This ancient and significant rule stated that the amount of badass ninja are capable of is inversely proportionate to the number of ninja. Arhra was outnumbered and on her own. She was death on legs.

The two of them circled each other like cats, each waiting for the other to move first. Arhra could only hope that Rhiya would at least hesitate and think about the situation. Perhaps she'd even break free of the enchantment now.

Then Rhiya leapt into the air, wings outstretched and descended upon Arhra like an angel of death. No, it seemed she was still firmly in thrall of the Dark Merman.

Snapping claws on Rhiya's left wing lashed out but Arhra was already twisting out of the way. Rhiya chased after the ninja, claws and tentacles lashing out and only Arhra's advantage in speed keeping her just ahead of Rhiya's many sharp hurty bits.

The relentless attack backed up Arhra up against a wall and so Arhra was force to do the only reasonable ninja thing to do. She ran up the wall, kicked off and hurled shuriken at Rhiya's wings as she turned. They thudded into tentacled wings, pinning them against the walls. Rhiya was trapped.

Rhiya laughed as she simply reformed her wings to slide around the shuriken harmlessly and free her but was less amused when the smoke bomb Arhra had also left behind went off. Coughing and furious she emerged from the smoke cloud scanning around for where Arhra had disappeared to.

"Beginning to realise that there's something wrong with this Rhiya?" Arhra's voice came from behind. Rhiya swung around and almost decapitated her.

Arhra continued, staying just out of reach, "Well, so much for trying to shock you out of the merman's control. You almost shocked me out of life." It wasn't going well - she still hadn't managed to get an attack in edgewise against Rhiya's onslaught and had nearly been eviscerated by Rhiya's claws of the same name multiple times. She couldn't hold back to try and avoid causing Rhiya too much harm. Arhra started fighting back much more agressively, not trying to just disable any more. After all, Rhiya could always respawn she reasoned.

Swords, claws, hooves, fangs, tentacles and sneaky ninja weapons flashed in quick succession, leaving both Rhiya and Arhra bleeding from a number of minor wounds. It was fortunate for Arhra that William the Underwater Overlord seemed disinclined to prematurely stop a battle between two attractive females for some mysterious reason. Arhra finally found a decent opening and took it, only to find herself blocked by invisible force. She took a moment to glare poison daggers at Rizp, "Damn you Newb!"

They fought on, neither of them able to gain any lasting advantage against the other. Rhiya conjured entangling gummy snakes with her chaos magic to partially ensnare Arrha while Arhra returned the favour by using a pressure point to paritally paralyse motion on Rhiya's left side. In the midst of the furious battle Rhiya then suddenly noticed something very disturbing. It was something very troubling to see a ninja opponent doing. She couldn't help but blurt out, "You're smiling... Why are you smilling?!"

Outgunned and outmatched, Arhra was smiling. She ducked a swipe from Rhiya's reverse chaos claw and replied, "It must be the endorphine rush." Then something horrible happened. She had another bout of the coughing that had been plaguing her since her encounter with the trap. This was bad. This was very bad.

[Toastburner B]

TB slowly drifted to the bottom, curled up in the fetal position, sucking his thumb (no mean feat, considering he has that face-hugger-water-breathing-thing attached to his face)). "What in the blue blazes just happened?" he thought to himself. Part of his brain wanted to die after what it had just witnessed.

Seriously, that was so messed up that even Cthulhu was scratching his head and was wondering "What the heck was that about?"

Finally, TB's battered sanity won out. He slowly stood, and shook his head. "Oh, man. Death owes me big time for that one." he muttered to himself.

Seeing various NPFers continue down the passage way, TB followed...trying his hardest to get that horrible voice out of his ears.

[PyrosNine]

The bubble broke the surface of the water, and emerged in the throneroom, which had now become a battlefield. If Asheth were awake, she'd have found it almost a bit deja vu. Another battle taking place in a throneroom, whilst the bad guy just sat in his chair for the entirety of it.

With a gentle push, the fish rolled the bubble out of the water and onto the floor. It rolled a bit, then finally came to a stop, and the bubble dissolved.

Asheth lay still asleep, but another force awoke upon arrival.

Sub-Pyros yawned. He didn't expect a second appearance in the NPF avatar rp, but as he very well knew, the unexpected was something PyrosNine did on the daily. Of course, it wasn't truly his appearance in the actual world, as to Appear you have to be visible, and not an unseeable manifestation of psychic powers.

But what was seeable was Rhiya and Arha fighting, while the Merman and someone on a chair watched. Sub-Pyros was confused about this turn of events, but decided not to do anything. Such fights usually sort themselves out, and any extra work on his part would wake up the conciousness. There were somethings he wanted to see with his eyes only every now and then, and a ninja girl and a winged woman fighting was a rare sight.

He was tempted to send some water and sand over to them and watch them continue their fight in the mud though...