It’s The End of the World as We Know It

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Who: Tiamat(Valdis), Clarke, The Captain and Skulduggery
What: The Beginning of the End Part 2
When: February
Where: The Bridge at Dawn
Warnings: Potential violence



After all that, waiting until dawn seems like little consequence. But wait she does, though she can’t help but send a little taunt to a particular party before making her way up to the bridge. The sun rises just over the edge of the water, the stars beginning to fade from view. She can sense Clarke not far behind, and the Skeleton must be here somewhere, though maybe they will get lucky and he’s elsewhere. Tiamat leans against the railing to look out over the realm a scared little child created, musing over the various outcomes of what is about to happen. Even if the Captain knows who she is, he’d entertained her before, there’s no reason to suspect he won’t now.

“Oh, Captain,” she says, still watching the sun come up. “Care to watch the sunrise with me?”

Comments

[inhairently]

( the briefest flicker of shock passes over his face before he steels himself and tries to wrench the bat from the captain's hand. )

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[the bat breaks apart in his hand.]

[inhairently]

( he takes a startled step backwards as the bat splinters in his hands. well, shit. he hates the captain. he's never been quiet about that. but what she says about him is enough to make steve's skin crawl. )

Is that what you're gonna do to all of us? Get inside our heads?

( make them more docile exhibits, he thinks. )

[sailmods]

Does seem like there's plenty of free real estate in there!

[inhairently]

( there's no point in talking back so he says nothing. instead he takes a step back, then another, and hopes that someone might have a plan. )

[yournewsidekick]

Nimona... does not have a plan.

What she does have: the knowledge that the Captain's been on the run from humans, if not all the reasons why; that boiling rage, colliding with a terror rarely felt, at seeing a monster like him (like her) jerked around on a puppet string; an impulsive streak that means both those things blot out her earlier reassurance to Karkat that she'd, y'know, talk before she jumped next time.

And, of course, she has her teeth and claws.

Nimona lunges straight for the Captain. She's aiming for the collar, but hey, if that smoke turns out to have physical form, she's not gonna cry crocodile tears about ripping some flesh open either.

[angrycrabnoises]

Karkat can see what she’s doing. And while he doesn’t agree with her jumping into things again five minutes after saying she wouldn’t keep doing that, he does agree with the impulse here. They have to get that stupid collar off of the Captain.

He’s about to do something very stupid and he knows it. He takes out his sickles and rushes for Malin. Maybe, just maybe, if she’s preoccupied with defending herself, then she won’t be able to stop Nimona from getting to the Captain.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[he vanishes before Nimona can reach him--

only to reappear in front of Karkat, grasping the blades of both sickles.]

[yournewsidekick]

"KARKAT!" she screams.

Nimona tumbles into wolf shape, scrabbling against the deck as she rounds on Malin and the Captain. Another leap, jaws wide to try and bite the Captain's collar again while he's distracted --

It's not enough. It won't ever be enough.

[nepetaleijon]

At the same moment, snarling soundlessly, Nepeta leaps at the Captain from the other side, claws out and --

-- and nothing, as it turns out.