Darkness is Light

[canadiansixpack.livejournal.com]

He smelled them. The familiar scent drew him like a bee to honey;melting away from the Queen while she consulted Marius. He has been a lurking shadow since then, out of sight, biding his time with the self-proclaimed promise of violence. He knew they were far from fond of each other, and now they are in disarray while the blood of Yeshua coats the stone floors in a macabre mosaic of Mystique's making.

Now, when their alliance hangs by the most precarious of threads, is when he strike; and he will take her out, the strongest first.

Teeth and claws, bone and flesh, reveal themselves in split-second anticipation of deadly impact.

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[tj-nocturne.livejournal.com]

The move catches her by surprise, but only for a few fractions of a second. She moves herself into a very graceful swan dive, sailing towards the Canadian, ready to phase into his body.

[canadiansixpack.livejournal.com]

He whirls with surprising speed, the torch still in his hand - and hurls it at her throat with a roar. Bone is still knitting, and his face is visibly shifting back into shape as it does so.

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

The vision is accelerated, and the reflexes are enhanced... so he's hoping that'll be enough to snuff that flame with thes webbing shots...

[tj-nocturne.livejournal.com]

Her fuzz is a little singed by the time the webbing snuffs out the flame, but she doesn't let it interrupt her dive into Logan's chest, where she immediately begins to fight for control of his body.

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

"Nocturne? You.. did you get him?"

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

The hex bolts did the trick. Between the mounds of charred webbing and the shed skin to get the last of it off her, it looks like there's apartially digested woman on the floor.

But now Raven is free.

She strides over to James/T.J. The girl's powers normally leave a victim unconcious for 24 hours after the possession ends. With James, that might buy her 2.4 seconds.

It'll be enough.

She cups his cheek in one hand. "Time to go now, sweetheart." It's not clear who she's talking to.

[tj-nocturne.livejournal.com]

Logan's eyes glow yellow as Nocturne gains control of his body.

"Got him. Mostly. Give me a... ugh... second... there" she tells them in Logan's voice.

She jumps out of his still-healing body, leaving him slumped on the floor. "Go for it" she says.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Raven straddles his prone body. One hand shifts into bone edged point. She plunges it straight up through the hard muscle of his chest, pushing through organs, up and up until it rests at the base of his throat.

Her flesh peels back from her last grenade. James made her practice this. Just in case. Decapitation is one of three things SHIELD thinks might keep him down. Position it just right and...maybe.

"Entschuldigung, liebe."

She pulls the pin.

[canadiansixpack.livejournal.com]

There's a sickening crunch, the familiar and torturous twisting of muscle and cartilage fighting to heal around the intrusion. He arches his back, jolted from his unconscious state just long enough to look back up at her in the moment of realization.

It could just be her imagination that she can see what might be a fleeting moment of gratitude in those dark eyes. It could be so many things in that moment.

She'll never get to know.

The grenade explodes in a gorey miasma of flesh, blood and bone.

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

S-Man clutches his head at the sight of that.

Trapped here. Trapped in hell, forever. Maybe we've earned this.