The Park, Friday Afternoon

[bitchprince]

Arthur had been a little too busy clearing up his own bizarre situation with Merlin still to be finished being played out that morning to realise about the alligators. Then, of course, Sir Minsc's class had occurred, and he had spirited outside with his sword.

And, as per usual, his overly protective manservant (even if, after two days, he was somewhat relieved to at least have him tagging along). He wasn't out here to fight on his own, mind-- he was looking for somewhere central.

Maybe Francine had had a point. Maybe he should just get the numbers of every reserve member at the next meeting. As it was, he drew his sword to take care of an alligator or two - yesterday in Captain Algren's class had been a good practice round - while he searched for anyone he knew.

His kingdom for a runner.

... A goldfish seared over his head.

[[ open, up to and including if you want to get drafted by an overly ambitious medieval prince or a wizard on sp, as they are both out and about! ]]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin was most certainly not over protective. It was just that Arthur seemed to have the sort of awareness about dangerous, slightly magical beasts trying to kill him that would certainly end in his rather messy death without intervention.

So he was practicing that damned shielding spell on him now. It was taking quite a bit more concentration than the last time. And his eyes hadn't managed to go back to normal when he was in the middle of using it.

...at least he didn't have to hide them anymore?

[bitchprince]

Well, the shielding was useful, Arthur supposed. Useful enough that he could set his pride aside and bear it for the moment. There was something desperately disturbing about watching a twisted goldfish bounce off of it, however, even if that meant he now had goldfish guts all over his sword.

"How long can you keep this up?!"

[puppy_fair]

The instant TeeVee class had let out, Zack had made a beeline. For the weapons locker, first, and then he'd pretty much just followed the monsters about, hacking them up into meaty chunks until he found his way to the park.

"Arthur!" If Zack looked just a teeny bit drenched in gator guts, and like he was loving every minute of it, that wouldn't be a problem, would it? "And Merlin! Guys! How's it going?"

Aside from the obvious?

[bitchprince]

"Zack!" Arthur called. Sure, he was like a bouncing puppy most days, but he was also quite some use in a fight. "We can use some support!"

This was punctuated, of course, by thoroughly goring an alligator under the flicker of Merlin's shield.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Zack... are you alright?"

So he was a bit squeamish. Shhh.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

And that would be Dinah, with eskrima sticks and gaderiffi and yup, knives.

Whap whap whappity whap!

[bitchprince]

"Dinah!"

Of course she would be out here. How silly of him to even consider otherwise.

[puppy_fair]

"Hey, Dinah! You're right! There are totally more!"

Zack was positively giddy, yes.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin nodded toward her in greeting, focus only off Arthur for a moment there. He was kinda hoping the fight would distract from the reason for his lovely black eyes.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"Dinah!"

It was part greeting, part 'oh, you're here', and part 'need any help?'

[intraspective]

Ino was not dumb, no really, and had knew good and well that when it came to up close and personal, her capabilities in a fight... probably weren't useful here. Hand-to-hand against these enemies would be beyond dumb.

Which was why, with her stash of explosive notes and kunai and cards and gun, Ino had been making her away around town via rooftops and trees. That being said, she was a fair bit cleaner than most people fighting them.

She was splattered of course, but hey, alligators exploded quite satisfactorily. Which, speaking of exploding, she wrapped a note around another kunai and flung it with precision at the next one. "Incoming!" she carolled, because there were other people around and they'd probably like warning.

Boom!

Another alligator down, and Ino was swinging over to another tree.

[bitchprince]

...

Arthur was going to have to ask her about those explosives when all was said and done with. "Ino!" he called. He could have gone keep moving, but she seemed to have that under control, so he simply jerked his head slightly in one direction as there was a different kind of incoming.

You know. Goldfish.

[puppy_fair]

.. Okay, that was cool.

"Try saving some for the rest of us, Ino," Zack laughed, flashing a thumbs-up toward the trees.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"Thanks for the warning!"

No sarcasm. She meant it.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah's little bench-trash-can-dead-'gator barrier now had formed up pretty nicely, and while she still wasn't good with Ino, Arthur had a point. Distance take-outs over grudges. "Ino! Ready for more toward you?"

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Lacking the need for defense, and her tessen to do it anyway, Fiona had a yo-yo in either hand and she knew how to use them.

She was annoyed. She was annoyed with whoever thought this was funny, with the fact that the first set of alligators had gotten some blood on her new dress, and that she still couldn't figure out how to get her text messages on the Blackberry open.

...hey, sometimes it's the little things.

She did well enough, but she was leaving something of a mess.

[puppy_fair]

"Hey, Fiona!" Zack was pretty much coated in guts, yes, but he seemed to be in good spirits. "Looks like I get to see your yo-yo in action already, huh?"

Very good spirits. He was bouncing as he hacked at an incoming gator with his sword.

[future_sandworm]

Leto was certainly not going to end up being scolded for having turned into a tree this time. He had picked up a sword and another knife, as well as a shield. He had turned on the latter, showing as a soft shimmer in the air if you knew what to look for.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"To your right!"

...of course this was when she'd see him next, covered in blood and slicing up alligators with her yo-yos in a blur of snarling irritation.

Her luck. It was just a wee bit unfortunate.

[sonofmogh.livejournal.com]

It hadn't taken long for Worf to discover the alligators or the goldfish.

In fact he was now just in the park with a gory looking bat'leth hunting for more invading creatures.

Quite frankly this possibly the happiest he's been since coming to Fandom.

[bitchprince]

And wasn't that frightening. "Worf," Arthur called, in an unguarded moment when the bloody things weren't all over him.

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

At some point, Jen had decided that the town had bigger things to worry about than whether they got their pizza on time. (This may or may not have had anything to do with the delivery guy's trauma.)

Mutant alligators spitting goldfish? It was almost like home!

. . . so at some point, yeah, there'd be a helmeted figure in pink spandex (it wasn't spandex, not really, but technicalities) doing a series of handsprings into the park, right near the gathered fighters, and pulling a pair of mostly-translucent swords out of apparently nowhere to start taking swipes at the gators.

[puppy_fair]

That was a... lot of pink.

Zack took a moment to just stand there, blinking, before coming back to his senses (a nippy goldfish at the seat of his pants assisted with that) and calling out to her.

"You're here to fight, huh? We're looking for reinforcements in the park!"

[saikyou-no.livejournal.com]

Demon lizards.

AGAIN demon lizards.

But this time, he could do something about them - namely, cut them to pieces. Very, very fast. And while Hiten Mitsurugi was designed for killing people, it seemed to work almost as well on demon lizards. And goldfish.

What.

"This place is insane," he muttered, pausing for a moment (and only that) to flick the blood off his sword, and pick another target.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"Himura!"

It was a greeting. She didn't stop killing alligators while she did it, but she was glad to see him.

"Maybe tutoring tomorrow?!"

[notrestingyet.livejournal.com]

An exceedingly large white canine tumbled past, locked in mortal combat with a mutant alligator.

The gator was losing.

[bitchprince]

"Blind Seer," Arthur started, as he always did whenever he saw a large wolf--

Okay. Larger. Whiter. Not Blind Seer.

He was just going to stand here and stare for a few ticks.

[formerbrat.livejournal.com]

After class, Elspeth grabbed her sword from the weapons locker and met Gwena outside in the park to battle the giant lizard-creatures.

:This whole place: Gwena said privately to Elspeth, as she kicked one lizard in the head and dodged a batch of flying fish, :is like something an apprentice Bard would come up with during a feverish dream.:

:There are tales of lizard people living in the Pelagirs,: Elspeth pointed out.

Gwena shook off another attack and gave Elspeth a Look. :Do any of these tales say they spit fish?:

Elspeth wisely decided not to answer this. :I think it's best we concentrate on the job at hand,: she said instead.

[puppy_fair]

People! Person! Uh....

Girl and a... thingie!

Zack would figure out the horse bit, one of these days.

"Hey! We're looking for reinforcements in the park, if you're looking for a fight!"

[weetuskenraider]

The way Tahiri came chasing Ben into the park, armed with blasters and lightsabers, it probably wasn't obvious that this was part of their date. And yet it so was.

"This," Tahiri yelled, blocking several flying goldfish that sizzled vividly when they hit the blade of her lightsaber, "is definitely weird."

But she was grinning, so it wasn't a bad kind of weird, evidently.

[momslilassassin]

"Definitely," Ben said, looking around for an alligator. "In an astral way."

Ben was also kind of weird.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle by no means expected to be the most effective fighter in this brawl, but there were alligators and she had a kick and a gun and she was doing everything she could to fight them.

Which involved a lot of charging, kicking what little shins they had, dashing back and then taking a few shots. And a flaily little sound here or there because she was so not a fighter and this was dangerous, ohmygod, good thing there was a lot of people around because maybe someone would save her if she got herself into too much trouble.

...someone kind of cute would be nice, too, but she wouldn't be picky.

[saikyou-no.livejournal.com]

Battousai was cute. Even when he was murderous and covered in blood.

And killing the demon lizard coming up behind her.

"If you have no real melee skills, I suggest you get in a tree."