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Jun 27, 2019 13:11:17 GMT
Post by Homunculus on Jun 27, 2019 13:11:17 GMT
[nospaces] [attr="class","opmind"] [attr="class","opmindblurb"] [attr="class","opmindblurb1"]More yelling. More noises. More humans. They were closing in. Danger was looming overhead. The impact of its attack was great. But barely enough. It had only triggered its attackers. The building that it hadn't even aimed at gave away deep humming before the slow descent of its top floors destabilized it in its entirey. [break][break]
'No...'[break][break]
A thought floated around in its head. A feeling came up. The Homunculus failed to find the right word to describe it. Before long, rumbling and the sound of rock grating on rock could be heard some distance away. The process took time, but it was deliberate. Debris, dirt and all manner of city remains gathered in the sky, about about half a mile away from the crater's epicenter. While the action had begun to shift away from the sight, with the Homunculus trying to creep its way out of the hole it had made, the soldiers were still close enough for the following attack.[break][break]
The entire hulk of rubble made its way over to the crater at enough speed to warrant immediate action. Enough to distract its attackers. The Homunculus turned around. It saw an opening and moments before impact, it began running. One leg before the next. No faster than an ordinary human, the Homunculus scurried to make an escape. Turning its head to look over its shoulder, the rubble had made its impact and caused even more havoc than before.[break][break]
'Why...'[break][break]
Another thought. The feeling grew stronger. This was regret. It hurt. The Homunculus continued running. After about thirty seconds of running it was about halfway towards the edge of the crater.
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Jun 16, 2019 20:48:52 GMT
Post by Homunculus on Jun 16, 2019 20:48:52 GMT
[nospaces] [attr="class","opmind"] [attr="class","opmindblurb"] [attr="class","opmindblurb1"]Sensations kept overflowing. The second surge was vast. It heard high-pitched voices at volumes enough to distort the sounds they were emitting. Screams and cries all around. As the dust began to settle, the Homunculus was standing amidst a crater. Blood, guts, limbs and bodies were laying around. They contorted in strange shapes and forms, detached from each other. It stood straight. Turning its body to look around, the landscape was destroyed. Something was wrong. The humans around it seemed distressed over the destroyed environment. Was it the reason? Between the muddled sensation of instinct and impulse, something began to form in its head. A thought, as fickle as the light of a candle that had melted to its base and was about to go out.[break][break]
“Hello?” A soft voice, from a distance. Several meters away. A human with white hair peered at it. And the Homunculus peered back. The threatening feeling from before was retreating from the front of its mind. The human posed no threat. It tore its gaze from the human to gaze down. It saw legs. Attached to a mid-section. A shape resembling the humans around it. Albeit still intact. But its body was coarse and grey. Not varying shades of brown and white. Was It different? Another thought tried to form. The word 'human' was peculiar. What did it mean? What was a human, and why did it not seem to be a human? [break][break]
The Homunculus looked back up. It scanned its surroundings. The cries and screams did not seem to end. They began huddling together in pairs, sometimes three or four people at a time. The ones that could still move contorted their faces in weird ways. The Homunculus stretched its arms out. It looked just like a human’s. It connected to a shoulder, split in the middle to form an elbow. Then extended further before ending in a hand with four long fingers and a shorter finger that seemed a lot more dexterous than the rest. It moved its fingers. At first all of them, then each on its own. Raising its arm, it swung it down in a chopping motion. A surge of blue magic burst out, tearing a small crater into the ground next to the Homunculus.[break][break]
A look of surprise lied in the Homunculus’ eyes. It peered back around, searching for the boy with white hair. Failing to find him, the Homunculus remembered what the human had told it. ‘Hello’. A word? Something of that sort. It tried to speak that word, replicate the way it sounded, but failed. It brought its hand up to its face and where it saw a mouth in the faces of humans, there was only a smooth surface in its own. It felt something welling up inside of it. Its head began spinning. Upset. That was the word that formed in its mind. It was upset.[break][break]
While the Homunculus was busy with itself, Eos had already started responding. It took maybe a couple minutes for several men wearing clothes in various shades of blue and black circled around the crater. The Homunculus took a while before it noticed their presences. But when it did, it jolted together. Moving its weights into its knees, the Homunculus moved around slowly. The sensation of danger resurged. It had to find a way out. One of the humans stepped into the crater, it spoke a word. “Hold.” It sounded similar to the word spoken by the white haired human from earlier. But it was spoken in a different tone. It was a threatening tone. Peering around, the Homunculus was almost completely surrounded. It looked to the skies. Several buildings outside the crater were still intact.[break][break]
It didn’t want to be here. The instincts running wild told it to flee. But there was something that kept it. An unfamiliar experience. The Homunculus backed away from the human with every step. An image from earlier moved through its mind. Raising its arm, the Homunculus took aim in a crouched position and swung its arm. A blast of blue magic roared from its arm, set to impact where the approaching human was standing.
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Jun 13, 2019 20:02:33 GMT
Post by Homunculus on Jun 13, 2019 20:02:33 GMT
[nospaces] [attr="class","opmind"] [attr="class","opmindblurb"] [attr="class","opmindblurb1"]It was still shaky on its feet. Like an animal that had just been born, one foot in front of the next appeared to be harder to do consistently than it expected. [break][break]
Turning its head, the homunculus took in its surroundings. Amidst loud noises it had never heard before, countless voices speaking at different volumes and the people that bumped into it over and over it crouched over, covering its face with its arms. Too many sensations, too many things at once. But anywhere was better than that cramped space from moments before.[break][break]
A hand touched its shoulder. “Excuse me are you alright?” A friendly face belonging to a woman peered down on it. Lifting its head, the shining blue eyes gazed back at the human. The stranger backed away at the uncanny sight of the homunculus. Two eyes, but no mouth or ears to speak of. A head with no discernable shape. Skin that was coarse like a tree’s rind.[break][break]
The homunculus felt threatened. It patted the woman’s arm away, and in a flash of blue her hand exploded into blood and guts landing on those passing by. She let out a deafening scream. Heads turned; the homunculus lost focus. Voices yelled in his direction. He couldn’t make out what they were saying. It thrashed its arms around, flailed them like a child. And in the blink of an eye, another massive surge of magic broke up Altair.
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