Ya got me for 30 minutes. Have at meh.

Oh hey Aggron.
From past experience, I doubt we'll have actually started RPing within 30 minutes. XD

Heheheh, yup. Well, it was worth a shot.

HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW KIDS
I didn't do that last time because I was useless and late XD

If there's anything you want to write for your characters before you leave, you could do it now. From what I remember, though, most of them are stuck waiting for responses from me. XD

Hi there King!

I think Colors has broken slightly for me, it's stuck on saying that there's only four comments XD
Oh well, as long as I can see the actual comments-

@Radiant Yeah, they are, and Dianne doesn't get up this early. Even if I'm pulled away before we can start, I'd still like to see the replies from your characters for later.

(King) I think sometimes it takes a while to load the number display. It's happened to me before.

Also, sometimes if I make a comment and then delete it, it gets stuck thinking the comment is still there. XD

(Aggron) Alrighty, I'll make sure to write their replies as soon as I have a moment.

(King) Should we try to finish that hospital scene today?

My time is nearly expired. If I disappear abruptly, you'll know why.

Yeah!
I think that while Keenan and Crowley are fighting, lion boy'll drive him back away from the door so Morty, Emelia and doggo squad can escape.
That could take a while though, considering how fighty Crowley is XD

gtg.

(King) Sounds like a plan! I'll try to restrain Crowley from causing TOO many problems. XD

Bye Aggron.

Aw, see ya Aggron! ;w;

Shall we go ahead and start?

Right now it's only the two of us, but I can drag Draco off of Youtube if we need her. XD

Sure thing!

-hang on, lemme read up on last time XD

Okie, it's my turn to reply, so I'll start I guess? .w.

Sure, go ahead!
I just gotta do something, so I'll BRB. XD

hey yo, most of the important stuff is happening between your characters right now, so i might stay in the background.
i'll be hanging around colors tho, so just call me over if you need me. x)

(Draco: Okkk I'm trying to plan something to happen to Sheldon and Tochi in the future which may or may not involve Anastasia.)

Only just managing to duck under most of Crowley's claws (one catches the top of his head, leaving a slight wound), Keenan lets out a roar as he jumps up at him, charging his electrical power to send a shockwave through the feathered dragon's body as he clamps his teeth down on one of his front legs.

Hearing the commotion, Mortikai jerks away from Emelia and glares towards the fighting duo, standing as if prepared to fight. Upon realising that Keenan had seemingly appeared from nowhere, he ducks back down, cursing this entire situation under his breath.

Crowley let out a howl of excitement as the two leapt into combat, hardly even aware of the pain ripping through him and singing his feathers from the electrical burst. He raised his other foreleg and slashed his claws down Keenan's muzzle, leaving a few long, shallow wounds, then tore himself out of the lion's grasp and leapt backwards to clear some space between them. With his wings fully stretched out, there was scarcely enough room in the hospital ward for him, Keenan, Morty, Emilia, and the others.

'You're going down, cat boy!' he screeched.

*Emelia

"Don't you know? Cats hunt birds!"
He says with a slight grin, the coppery taste of blood in his mouth, though he couldn't quite tell if it was his, Crowley's, or a mixture of both. Either way, they were both wounded, which made it fair in his mind. The lion shifter pounces towards him, aiming to take out one of his back legs, which would hopefully slow him down.

'Oooh, so the little lion boy thinks he's big and strong enough to catch the birdie?' Crowley taunted, using his superior speed to his advantage and springing up into the air before Keenan could reach him. He hovered close to the ceiling, beating his wings rapidly to stay airbourne; a couple of dark feathers came loose and floated serenely down on everyone.

After hovering for a couple of seconds, he dived suddenly and threw himself on Keenan, causing both of them to roll uncontrollably across the floor with the crowdragon struggling to get himself on top.

(Reply for Aggron)

Armin leaned forwards in his chair, managing to look both grim and curious as he took in what Jeremiah had to say. 'Dianne had a daughter? How did she die?' he asked. 'And how did you get hold of that locket that supposedly belonged to her?'

Keenan makes a strange, almost strangled noise between a roar and a housecat's hiss as he grapples with Crowley, sending electricity through his claws as he bats them against him.

As Crowley had lifted off, Emelia had shrunk into a terrified ball, half concealing herself under the hospital bed.
Taking the time that they had out of Crowley's attention, Mortikai tries to piece things together, from both his fractured memory and what Emelia had told him. While his mind is busy, his hand finds hers and holds onto it, reinforcing his unsaid promise that he will protect her if Crowley decided to come for them instead.

Eventually, unable to throw off the pain of the electric waves any longer, Crowley let go of Keenan and rolled away, leaping to his feet at the other side of the room. He glared across at the lion as he took a moment to catch his breath. He was bleeding from numerous small cuts, and the stab wound in his chest had reopened, covering his bandages in fresh, slightly purple-tinted blood. Just for a second, his gaze flickered to the place where Emelia was, and he caught sight of Morty apparently holding her hand.

Letting out a hiss, he shouted over at his friend while watching Keenan out the corner of his eye. 'Hey! What are you up to over there? You'd better not be thinking of protecting her from /me,/ hairball.'

(Another reply for Aggron)

The hooded man looked back at Pythia without blinking, his head cocked to one side in a curious manner. 'You say you know ignorance and hatred? Then you should be well aware of how the human race has treated our kind. Magical creatures have suffered from living alongside humans for hundreds of years, and Lord Sargon has come to help us regain our freedom. We will once again thrive and flourish under his fair leadership.' He began to turn away, not intending to talk with her any further.

Taking the moment of Crowley's distraction, Keenan spots a power outlet and dives for it, ripping off the rubber casing of the plug attached and grabbing the copper wires to regain a surge of energy into his body, fur crackling with blue electricity. Staggering a little, he shakes his head to clear it, then grins.
"You're gonna need someone to protect you, birdbrain!"
He roars as he sprints towards Crowley, sinking his teeth into his other forearm with an added electrical bite.

Mortikai grimaces slightly, his brow furrowing as he tries to both think of a way out and the connection between them, eventually pushing that train of thought to the side to focus on the matter at hand.

Crowley yelled in pain as the powerful electricity coursed through him. He swung his neck around and headbutted Keenan in the face, before ripping his foreleg free and backhanding the lion with enough force to knock him off-balance. Seeking to escape the reach of Keenan's lightning bursts, he stumbled across the room and used his tail to smash a window pane. Then he sprang towards it, catching the edge of the window with his claws and hauling himself up to perch unsteadily on the sill.

He looked down at the others from his vantage point, grinning despite the pain. 'Still wanna fight, lion boy?' he hissed through his teeth, throwing another glance at Morty and wondering what the heck was taking him so long.

The force of Crowley's blows sends him sprawling across the room. Growling, he staggers into an upright position.
"If it gets you outta here, then yeah."
He says with a slight grin, despite being very aware of all the muscles in his body screaming for him to stop, and the blood matting his fur dragging him down a little. Steadying himself, Keenan gets into a sprint towards Crowley, ignoring the fact that they were at least one storey up and Mortikai yelling at him.

"Keenan! You idiot, stop!"
He yells, standing to attempt to run at him, but his body forces him to stay still.
Ango peers into the room, Toby close behind. She waves at her mum in the corner, beckoning and mouthing at her to run to the door while everyone else is distracted.

At the last second before Keenan was close enough to attack him, Crowley let himself topple backwards. As his talons released their grip on the windowsill, his tattered wings snapped wide open to catch the wind and he half-fell, half-glided all the way down to the ground, crash-landing around the side of the hospital building. There was a gorse bush and quite a lot of rubbish scattered close to where he fell, including a teddy bear that someone had dropped out the window and a bicycle with a flat tire.

Groaning as he flickered in and out of consciousness, Crowley staggered upright, weaving from side to side as he tried to regain his balance. Then he raised his head and yelled as loudly as possible up at the broken window: 'Ha! Bet YOU can't do that, cat boy!'

Realising it's too late for him to slow down, Keenan commits to his decision and jumps onto the windowsill, leaping off it and almost regretting his decision. His body twists as he falls, but gets into the right position to land on all four feet, shuddering as the impact goes through his body and a little of his electric power leaves him, almost literally grounding him. Once he can stand properly, he yells back to Crowley.
"At least I didn't fall into that pile of rubbish over there!...Oh wait, you're there too!"

"Mum!" Ango shouts as she runs across the near vacated room, stopping in front of Mortikai with an angered face.
"Get away from her!"
Toby joins them, growling and barking.
"Ango, sweetie, it's alright."
Emelia says shakily, having recovered enough to stand (or at least stay upright, as she's leaning against the wall). She manages a smile, holding a hand out to her.
His legs finally working, Mortikai moves out of the way, letting the girl run to her mother.

Thorn stood in the corner, having no idea whatsoever what she was supposed to be doing.

(I'm getting emotional now oh god XD)

(oH MY GOD
THORN AND JED XD
I'M SO SORRY I SLIGHTLY FORGOT ABOUT THEM)

(Pahahaha it's okay XD
I wasn't sure what to do with them anyway)

(The beautiful family reunionsssss--
*violin music plays*)

Crowley staggered towards the sound of Keenan's voice, holding back a grunt of pain when his chest wound flared up at the movement. 'Are you kidding? Did you ACTUALLY just jump out that window? You're even stupider than I thought.'

He let his head fall for a moment, clenching his jaws and fighting with every ounce of willpower he had to stay conscious. Combined with his other injuries, that crash-landing had done him no good. He just hoped that Keenan was in a similar state.

plot twist: crowley dies

(no)

"You're the one with wings, and you fell into a bush. Who's really the stupid one here?"
Keenan says as he steps forwards, only to instantly regret it, picking his right front paw up with a wince of pain. At least the injury would be on his wrist when he transforms back into a human. Along with that, he's painfully aware of every other part of him that hurts, growling softly as a reminder to himself to not let it show.

Morty paces over and looks out of the broken window, slightly glad that neither of them had died despite the height of the fall.
Behind him, the situation finally gets to Ango as she cries into her mother's arms, Toby standing on his hind legs to nose into the hug, which gains a round of smiles and slight laughs from them. After a few moments, Emelia looks up at Morty.
"You kept your promise, then?"
"Which one?"
He says, refusing to show any emotion. After a short pause, he speaks again.
"I can take you out of the city. I'm guessing you both heard that message earlier."

(plot twist: everyone dies)

'I didn't fall INTO the bush, I fell NEXT to it,' Crowley retorted, taking another stumbling, drunken step closer, flaring his wings out to keep his balance. Although he hadn't broken any bones in the crash, he'd amassed a nasty little collection of bruises, not to mention badly aggravating his chest wound. 'You're the one WITHOUT wings, and you still thought it was a cool idea to throw yourself out of a two-storey window.'

He cast a quick glance up at the window in question, then refocused his gaze on Keenan.

Jed stood silently in the doorway, wondering if he would be allowed to join the hug.

MEANWHILE...

The highest building in Shacklestone had miraculously been left standing after the attack, though non-humans of every description swarmed around it, going inside to deliver messages, or else simply guarding it from any humans stupid enough to attempt to break in.

At the top of the building, Count Sargon stood in front of the enormous transmitter he'd discovered with the help of his mimions. Using it in combination with his naturally powerful telepathy, he found that he was able to send messages to other creatures over a hundred miles away - far further than he could without the aid of the transmitter. And he'd made good use of it, too. Even now, non-humans of every species imaginable were making their way here to reinforce his army; soon, the country would well and truly be theirs.

Gazing out the window at the ruined streets below, he directed a few words into the mind of one of his highest-ranking soldiers. //Send Deadwalker to me.//

*minions

"At least I'm not a bleeding, stumbling, big bl.oody bird."
Keenan strings together, the pain clouding his thoughts and hindering his "sarcastic remark generator".

Emelia nods, not prying any thurther as to whether or not he'd managed to discover the entire story.
Ango looks over to Jed, her face tearstained and eyes slightly bloodshot. Managing a smile, she beckons him over. He'd been with them long enough to be called family, and this was a family hug.

(cue the audience
*audience goes "awww"*)

'Oooooh, /great/ insult,' Crowley replied, his tone even more sarcastic than Keenan's. 'You could teach kids.'

He sat down and folded his wings so he could more effectively hide how unsteady he was. 'And don't worry,' he added, 'I'll be fine in just a second, and then I'm going to rip your muzzle off.'

Jed gave her a little doggy smile and padded over, giving everyone a little affectionate nudge.

(I love how there's this cute, emotional family scene going on and then just outside these two idiots are staggering around and throwing insults at each other. XD)

(Wow boys, you really know how to ruin the mood x)
Though their fight scene is entertaining, and I'm not LION about that! I'm really KEENAN fight scenes, even if they're DRAGON on a bit---
*gets shot*

(oh my god noooooooooooOO
not the terrible puns)

(it's beautiful XD
then there's morty just in the middle of it like "my life is a lie but honestly when you live as long as I have you get used to it")

"Not if I tear your wings off first."
He replies, lumbering sideways a little just to show that at least he can stay on his feet.

Toby yips happily at Jed joining it, his tail wagging. Emelia laughs, stroking his head.
"Who's this handsome one that you've picked up?"
"His name's Jed, and he's a good friend."

(no, keep the puns coming
we'll leave Radiant MORTY-fied
but really, there's nothing TOBY fearing
though we might be a bit of a THORN in the side with all these puns)

'Tear my wings off? You're more likely to trip over and break your own face,' Crowley jeered, shaking his head in an effort to clear it. Then, as Keenan started towards him, he leapt forwards and attempted to pin the lion to the ground with his front claws.

(I can't do puns. XD)

Jed barked proudly, his tail wagging fastly (that's a word okay).

(I ran out of puns though)

(hey, i'm gonna head off now-
g'night children)

(Alrighty--

After my next reply, I'm going to call it a night too, it's pretty late. XD)

(*grabs a gold star* we tried
and yeah, I agree, it's getting pretty late ;w;)

Despite having one leg out of commission, Keenan manages to just avoid Crowley's deadly leap by running forwards at the last moment, getting close enough to bite into the nearest back leg, pouring the last of his electricity into him.

Mortikai looks to them, only noticing his sad smile when he catches it in the broken glass. He quickly frowns slightly at himself, clearing his throat and fixing his clothes (pulling up his coat sleeves, retying his bowtie, repositioning his tophat).
"If you're all done, then we should really get going."

Crowley hissed in pain, but it didn't hurt as much as before. Maybe it was because Keenan was running out of power, or simply because he'd become somewhat desensitised to electricity. Either way, he didn't care. As soon as the remnants of electric shock faded from his body, he shook himself and then threw Keenan off him with a snarl and a violent surge of strength.

'Fight's over, lion boy,' he hissed. There was no eagerness or excitement in his voice anymore; it just sounded cold, menacing. 'I've got better things to do than mess around with an idiot like you.'

(Alright, I think I'm gonna head off now. It's been fun!

Oh, and there probably won't be an RP next week because Aggron said they can't attend again, and I don't want to progress too far without them. Just a heads-up.)

For 3ds reading purposes.

Hey Radiant, whenever we continue our roleplay, would you like it if I extended my comment so it's not as hard on you? I guess I should've offered to do that sooner

Re: I meant I'd be willing to add onto my comment on the chance that I had made it hard for you to come up with a good reply, but I see now that it's just art block.
Good luck getting over that, it sounds terrible x'D

Re: Aaah, thank you!! >w<
He's honestly one of my favourite OCs at the moment-
Yes, big fluffy cat ;w;