http://just-a-rurouni.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] just-a-rurouni.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] paixaorpg2008-01-10 01:39 am

Intruders [Complete]

Character(s): Kenshin and Jintetsu
Content: Paixao's historical fiction buddies continue their mystical grand adventure.
Setting: Elysian Fields and St. Destino Church
Time: Mid-day, the day after the festival
Warnings: There will be fighting, yep.


There was no sun visable in the cloudy sky, making it difficult to pinpoint exactly how long it had taken for them to cross the field, but Kenshin suspected mid-day was soon approaching.

The Elysian Fields were beautiful, yet also strangely eerie, the white grass barely moving in the soft breeze that rustled locks of Kenshin's hair. It was so quiet, nothing seemed to be making a sound, not even the orbs of light that floated down around them like falling snow. At first Kenshin had thought it was really was some strange snow before they'd entered it and he found he was mistaken. Still, it was very similar. The sound of falling snow...

Kenshin found himself stepping lightly as he could. He almost felt like they were intruding into this quiet peaceful yet strange world. How different it was after being trapped inside those domes all that time. The rurouni wouldn't mind staying outside and wandering about to see what else he could find, however there was much going on within the city, and with the journals not working he'd have no idea what was going on. And what if Kaoru-dono was somehow pulled here? Or any of his friends? No, staying outside wasn't an option.

Finally their destination was there before him and Kenshin found himself slowing his pace as he took it in.

It seemed almost forgotten out here. Abandoned and forgotten...

Was there really something special about it? It seemed hard to believe... Yet perhaps that was what one was meant to be led to think. Anyone with something to hide would find a place like this an ideal location.

Well, there was only one way to find out. There was only one way into the church that he could see, so it seemed coming in the front door would be the only option, despite not being ideal. Kenshin subconciously touched the sakabatou's hilt as he glanced to Jintetsu, before heading towards the door.

[identity profile] jintetsu.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Jintetsu was only about halfway across when the monster began to move; he skidded to a stop to avoid being impaled by the massive claws, but in the process he vaguely felt his hat graze the grey body directly above him. He ducked again and edged toward the exit, but by then his momentary halt had already cost him badly.

The two claws met their marks almost simultaneously, the first sweeping his ankles out from under him while the second struck him full in the opposite side. The room spun violently around him from the impact. Haganemaru slipped from his slackened fingers and fell end-over-end across the floor before coming to rest by the door they'd come through. Jintetsu took a similar tumble, but in a different direction, and only stopped by slamming back-first into a side wall beneath one of the windows, almost twenty feet away from his sword.

He wasn't unconscious, not yet, but he was dazed, and as he slumped onto the floor he could swear he felt something in his back shift painfully in a way it wasn't supposed to. Get up. Get up! something in his mind screamed through the spinning, and he was trying, but it would be a couple more seconds before his limbs would quit fumbling and listen to him, and that was a couple seconds too long.