Friends of Humanity Rally (open)

[Graydon Creed]

No...it couldn't be. Not now!

Graydon was petrified at the sight of Victor walking down through the crowd. Well at least this would be public and if he died it would only help his anti-mutant cause. He flinched as he saw victor heading straight for him, only to feel himself being pushed. Graydon was pulled to his feet by his bodyguards. He didn't pay any attention to his rival that he had been thrown into. It took him a moment to realize it wasn't his bodyguard that saved him. "The hell do I pay you guys for?!" He sneered at him before he moved past them and behind the curtain of the stage. With the boy giving that beast a distraction, Graydon ran for it.

He moved through the back cooridors of the building and out to the alley. He smirked as he saw his limo waiting for him. With a moment to straighten his suit he walked over and slipped into that limo. "Drive." He barked the order to the driver and gave a slight sigh of relief.

Graydon pulled his phone out of his coat pocket and dialed his assistant's number. "Yes, I'm fine. I need you to put in a few calls and arrange a meeting for me. Code red. Yes, the best...I dont care how much it costs. I don't like the idea of being a martyr." It seemed he was going to have to do something about his...Father.

[zaintison]

Everything was preceding normal Luke feeling the tension in his heart as if predicting something occurring. The New politician that had stepped on stage, seemed to speak of the dangers and unpredictability of mutants like someone who was appealing to the average unintelligent audience who would watch stuff like this on fox news. When suddenly something different occurred. You! Young girl why do you wear such dark glasses indoors! Take them off yourself if you dare! What do you hide behind them? Are your eye’s only slits like a cat!? Or are they a soulless black like all mutant souls if they indeed have souls!” [/b] Luke was astounded and had turned to the girl in sunglasses next to her wondering what he should do to help her the politician on stage had pointed her out to ensue chaos for his own political agenda. Luke was nervous thinking of a plan. I need to do something to protect this girl I've seen riots and there not pretty come on focus. I could create duplicates and draw attention to my self... no that's stupid that would never work... just as Luke was engrossed in thought the woman suddenly took of her sunglasses Oh, right. You wanted the soulless black. Sorry, forgot for a minute. The man was ripped from his seat and thrown Luke observed in horror. This girl why I need to calm settle this situation quick and she just skewed the line Luke needed to decide what to protect and quick This woman she had just threw a harmless old man into the crowd. These people obviously won't be able to stop her do i stop the people from attacking or do i try to get her to run both of these seem very unlikely. This could send a horrible message to the public if this continues Luke looked at the camera. Luke thought quickly his mind racing faster than it ever had before from nervous adrenaline he had a plan tossed his water bottle into the crowd, and quickly pick up his folding chair in a stance that was ready to swing he looked up at the high ceiling and saw the lights and sprinklers. Luke focused. He Created mirror images of himself holding the chair next to all sprinklers and swung with all his might not that he needed sprinklers are fragile. The broken sprinklers triggered sounding the fire alarm and flooding the area Luke's mirror images quickly disappeared before they were even halfway to the ground. Luke felt tired already as most of the audience started to flee stumbling over each other towards the door not knowing what had happened hopefully this would short circuit the feeds but this was far from over. Luke back away from Alice still holding his folding chair in a defensive position Loud bells and water covering him.

[rhyme]

Artemis flinched when the man was shoved into him. Not because it hurt but cause his illusion was light based only. Graydon Creed once he recovered from nearly dying would realize that his cloths did not feel like a nice suit and instead felt like a leather coat and jeans. He also didn’t want to be this close to a target of Creed’s.

“Get off me you fools.” He yelled his voice wavering through from his Yates voice.

Once the man was off him he got himself clear and ran for a far corner as panicking people ran past him. In the chaos he felt safe at being ignored enough and truthfully, at this point he didn’t really care. He dropped his head and breathed out. When he did he appeared for 3 seconds as his true form with purple hair and leather jacket and then when he breathed in again he had jet black hair, blue eyes and very tanned skin. It was a drastic change from Artemis though his bone structure was very similar and he wore the same leather jacket.

“Looks like if he is here I got to stay and make sure he doesn’t get himself captured again, or killed. I will need him later.” He said softly to himself as he brushed himself off.

Normally Artemis wouldn’t bother with such a small time fight but now with Victor here he would have to make sure the man didn’t get captured. He needed him to take control of the Brotherhood. He was powerful but he didn’t have the commanding presence Victor did and there was a decently strong subset that wanted Victor as their leader now that Apocalypse was gone.

[Victor Creed]

Just as his feet landed on the stage, Victor's eagerness to feel his claws in Graydon's body caught him off guard. Where did that thing come from? He growled as he was launched away and felt his back hit the wall. He landed on the ground on both feet, bending his knees slightly to cushion the fall. Whoever that was...they were going to regret that.

He knew Graydon was long gone by now, but that was fine. Graydon knew that he was after him, and that constant nagging fear in his son's mind would be an entertaining enough effect for the time being.

His attention turned to the flow of the crowd as people started to flee the room. "Oh no you don't! You'll miss all the fun!" Victor grinned as he took a nearby support beam to the room, yanking it from its attatchment to the ceiling and the floor. A moment later he threw it at the door, letting it make an impromptu baracade. Of course he didn't care what poor souls he killed between the door and that concrete beam.

His attention turned from the door towards Alice for a moment, smirking as he saw her flinging people around. Girl after his own heart... Victor leveled his eyes as the sprinklers turned on...lovely...

It wasn't long before he went looking for the one that ruined his chances at revenge. As he stalked back towards the stage any human that managed to get too close to him had a meeting with his claws. He sliced limbs off of them, spilled entrails, snapped necks. After only heading half way each death seemed like a blur, movements made on pure instinct while those eyes looked for Night.

[James Adler]

Things had gone from fine, to hell, to worse. The amount of time that it took for all hell to break loose was more then staggering. A minute....maybe?

By the time James could make heads or tails of the situation, half the room was already dead, and more were sure to come. As sad as it was and as much as he would lament about it later, he didn't really have time to think about it, Alice was on a rampage, and Luke, for one thing he was here that was a WTF moment in and of itself, but on top of it he sat next to Alice quite possibly the most dangerous and mentally unstable person in this room (he loved her, but he had to admit that was true).

Count on Luke to put himself in one of the most dangerous situations possible, and be oblivious of it at the same time. What James needed to do was slow this chaos and slow it now....problem was what was the best way to do that.

Regardless of that he started running for Alice careful to keep up his guard for any shadow that approached while also staying invisible to avoid the monsters wrecking the place.

James got behind Alice and threw up a circle of light stronger then the last , live and learn.

Regardless he was going to have to keep her here until he was sure she was under control. Hopefully he could calm her down a bit...if not it was going to be a bumpy road.

"Hey Alice....we gotta calm down a second....the mutants are going to kill each other...and as much as I'd like to we can't kill humans just because they are stupid...Oh this is my brother by the way....Luke, this is my girlfriend Alice...I see you guys have met....anyway...Luke how many copies can you make?"

[alice]

Alice hadn't actually moved from her chair, even when all Hell broke loose. She was a little to calm for someone who had just thrown a man and probably killed him. Better yet, shadows were grabbing any human they felt like it, ending their lives. You didn't want to know exactly what they were doing though, because most people would lose their lunch just from the thought... Let's just say... There was a lot of slicing and dicing involved...

Then, before she even realized he was there, she was blinded by a wall of light. She let out a sharp yelp, the light stinging her sensitive eyes. Shutting them tightly, muttered inaudible curses under her breath, which was a bit odd considering she didn't usually curse when 'possessed'. But, James didn't realize it yet. She wasn't under the shadows' control. She was just angry.

Eyes shut, with her hands making sure no more light reached them, she listened to that voice. She knew it, James. She didn't even seem to realize that the sprinklers were going off. That, or she didn't care. No one ever really know what she thought unless she said something about it. "James, you blinded me." It was a little creepy, the girl sounding hurt, with a silent pleading for him to take down the barrier. Of course, James probably knew what game she was playing at. He put that barrier down, she could go back about her business.

[/justify]

[Night Wolf]

Night Wolf was watching the man come towards him. He managed to glance around the room a few times and wasn't happy that everyone was trap in the place. That was just going to make things worse for him and trying to get Jamie out of the place. He had looked around the room when he first entered and with the dangerous man and Alice between the humans and the back door and the front door blocked, they had no way out. He didn't like it, but he was going to have to help these people get out while he wasn't engaged in a fight. He traveled back by the door and pulled out the large, heavy handgun he had holstered on his right leg. He aimed it at the wall and pulled the trigger. A chunk large enough for people to get out of was blown out. He holstered the gun and traveled back to a spot that he had clear view of the large man and was between him and the hole. Night's right arm was hurting like it had taken the full blow from when the man had pounced him earlier. He didn't want to find out what would happen if he took another shot or both of the last shots.

Night had his revolver back out and took several shots at the man's arms and legs. The man didn't even try to avoid them and just took the hits and didn't slow down once. The gun shot wounds healed over quickly and didn't seem to have done anything to the man at all. Night was on the verge of cursing out loud. The man had a healing mutation and Night never had pleasant outcomes with fights with those kinds of people.

" You had to be able to heal didn't you? Great, just great!" Night said out loud in a voice loud enough that anyone could hear him.

[jamie]

Jamie had just gotten her Recorder in a safe spot and her bag covering it just when sprinklers started going off “Dimmit” she muttered to her self making sure that the recorder was covered so it whouldn’t get damaged by the water.

Who ever lame brain idea was that really was an idiot the water wasn’t going to help anyone hear, Jamie rushed to the other side seeing that the other news’s reporter cameras who where all set up to go live there wires where shorting out thankfully she wasn’t going live she was just filming this so she could look at it latter.

She dogged the little girls attacks as Jamie rushed back to her camera thankfully someone had stopped the little girl so it made it a hole lot easier

Once she reached the camera Jamie looked panic and worried as she checked it sighing when she saw that red record button still on. Thank god the camera was still working she threw her jacket over it to protect it form getting anymore water damaged and kept her hands on the stand ready to get out when things got to bad……..if she could get out and hopefully she could.

[rhyme]

He enjoyed a good fight but this room was just too small. He could barely do anything in here. Enclosed spaces were horrible for him since anything he could do was general at range and he was not muscular nor had a healing mutation. He saw a man pull out a gun and fire it. He put that way for future reference to be careful at range. Bullets were not hard to make vanish their mass was not a lot but he had to know ahead of time. Could even make them vanish before they were fired which would be funny but that would take a decent amount of set up.

He squinted when another mutant created a large amount of bright light. Covered his eyes and his eyes ringing he finally had enough. He stopped forward and set out a shockwave knocking a large amount of people away from him and away from the wall.

“Enough!” he shouted. The sound of his voice created what appeared to be a pressure wave and would be very clear to Victor since this would be his third time seeing it. Once it encompassed the entire room the fire alarms were quickly silenced.

((Divide—Disturbed Link ))

An electric guitar appeared within his hands and he began to jam hard on it with a rock style. As he sang the first part of the song the pressure began to build. It was not clear what was going to happen but the feeling of ‘something’ was building.

As he got close to the first chorus the floor beneath him began to crack and crumbled as his eyes glowed with a brown energy. On the first uttering of “divide” a blade of brown energy erupted from his guitar cutting the building in half. After each uttering another blade emerged cutting the building again. If looked at from above the building began to look like a sliced pizza.

When he got to the point where he spoke about not being lost in the crowd a circle of the same brown energy ripped around him and a pillar of earth shot him up into the air as the ceilings above him crumbled out of his way. He stood on his pillar five stories up watching those below him.

If anyone tried to get in his way that would most likely see a rock flying at their head.

[Victor Creed]

Victor moved like a man on a mission, amber eyes staring at his target. The room was starting to smell of blood, though it was deluted thanks to the water that flowed from the ceiling. It was still a scent that tensed Victor's muscles and spurred the animal inside of him. Though as he grew closer to Night he found is body jerking slightly and then the sting that followed. Oh..he was shooting him? Really? Pathetic. Creed couldn't help but to laugh as he continued forward.

The sudden shout hadn't really bothered Victor at all, his attention was trained upon Night like a cat stalking its prey. But what was that? Was that...music he heard? Oh not that guy again. He sneered a little at how obnoxious the kid was, but he had bigger issues to deal with at the moment.

Again Victor leapt, decreasing the gap between him and Night. Once he landed he was only a foot away from him and his hand reached out to grab his neck. Fingers squeezed his neck while he lifted him into the air, "You know...you really shouldn't interfere in things that aren't your business.."

The floor and building was cracking around him, splitting apart and sending debris to the floor. And yet Victor seemed oblivious, his complete concentration devoted to the man that stopped him from his chance to kill Graydon.

[zaintison]

Hey Alice....we gotta calm down a second....the mutants are going to kill each other...and as much as I'd like to we can't kill humans just because they are stupid...Oh this is my brother by the way....Luke, this is my girlfriend Alice...I see you guys have met....anyway...Luke how many copies can you make? I don't know, right now about eight, but that's not important right now, obviously shock induced hallucination of mine. Right now Ive got people to save. The man on guitar had just started to cut apart the building. The man who tried to kill Graydon was about to murder, another man.

Think the man uses a guitar song to cut things obviously sound based powers. I doubt this will work but i need a distraction to get these people out of here as well. Luke ran through puddled grounds towards the stages. tripping over only one of the chairs. Come on I hope this works. Testing testing he said into the mike thankfully it still functioned. He quickly created as many mirrors of himself as possible turned the volume as high as possible and with all eight copies he sung into the microphone as loud as he could rain pouring like the stress in his veins, he sung the only song he could think of, while of trying to hide his tone of nervousness and fear. Hopefully this would work.

[James Adler]

....Luke...
God Damn it Luke...

well the place was in shambles the building was literally creak under its own weight. If they didn't get out of here and fast....things were going to be bad. Two uber mutants in the way of the exits...and the most annoying song being sung through the whole thing...

He had to babysit Alice, save Night (even if Night didn't want to admit it) and get out of here....in oh about thirty seconds or so...God damn it Luke if you weren't such an idiot you might have done something useful..instead you put on an impromptu kid show for some homicidal maniacs in the middle of a riot...that at least should have been put on tape.

Then it dawned on him a way to save everyone, in the little time that he had.

James took down the circle of light surrounding him and Alice.
"Okay Alice unless you want to stay here and listen to the concert...I think we should get out of here before the building crushes us." James grabbed her hand gently, but nonetheless he couldn't have her dying on him, and he started running for the hole in the wall. On the way he diverted the light within Artemis's and creed's eyes so that they had a perfect view of his brother's performance and nothing else.

Artemis may prove to be a problem as he was a light bender the same as James, but tricks like these were very easy to do...It would really only come down to who was the better manipulator.

Night could handle himself...hopefully...and it was easy enough now to get him and Alice out...now if he could only do something about Luke...

[alice]

Alice kept her eyes closed until James took down the barrier. She was actually a little surprised he did! Considering he rarely listened to her demands when she was 'mad'. It wasn't until he took her hand that she opened her eyes, blinking the last remaining spots from her sight. Finally able to see again, she look at James. "Why does he want to save them?" She peaked around James, her normal blue green gaze focused on James' brother. "And why does he think singing will help..?"

Of course, right around that point he started running, just about dragging her behind him. Stunned, she stumbled, forced to follow until she realized what was happening. When she did, she planted her feet firmly on the ground, throwing all her weight into forcing him to stop. "I don't want to go."

Refusing to move, she looked around for Sabretooth, wondering where he was. She'd lost sight of him earlier. In the process though... She spotted a camera. A working camera. Suddenly, she went from mad, to furious. Like before, there was no warning, her eyes solid black as the human woman's own shadow, leaped off the floor, ripping the electronic from the woman and tearing it, destroying it to the point there wasn't even a chance of salvaging a few seconds. She didn't stop there, once the shadows finished their work on the camera, the lashed out at the woman, a noose of sorts wrapping around her neck and tightening. "Reporter...." She only spoke so James might see what she was so focused on. Lying, cheating, reporters. She hated them all, even more then humans. And if someone didn't stop her.... She'd kill the woman.

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[Night Wolf]

Night Wolf was starting to see spots appear before his eyes and feel extremely light headed from the combination of being choked to death and the lose of blood from those cuts he took earlier. This guy was stronger then he looked, which was saying something since he already looked strong. His healing powers made this whole situation very tricky and extremely hard for Night. He needed to get out of this guys grip soon. That guy James and the one who started singing some weird song both failed to do anything about this guy's grip on his neck. Night was going to have to get out of this himself, especially now that Alice had begun to choke Jamie. Night needed a second to get things ready so he could have a chance of saving himself. He put his revolver back in it's holster and planted his feet on the guy's chest. He leaned in closer to the man, as much as he could, and said with a bit of a wolfish grin, " Mr. Kitty Man, I always thought cat's used their claws to kill not choke their victims. I guess your not a very good kitty now are you?"

Night quickly pulled out both of his long knives from the holster on his back and drove them through the man's forearm of the arm he was using to choke him. He wasn't sure if they cut the tendons in the man's arms like he was hoping for, but it did cause his grip to loosen enough that when night pushed himself off of the guy with him legs he was able to get free of the death grip. Night's knives cut a long line of his flesh as this happened and came out of him right before Night traveled away from him and over next to Jamie.

Night wrapped himself around Jamie and caused the shadows that were choking her to disappear. Jamie had trouble breathing but he was glad to see she was fine otherwise. He looked over and saw the kitty man was angry. He did what he needed to do at that moment, he summoned some shadow wolves out. The wolves came out of the shadows around the kitty man quickly and had bitten into him. He couldn't pull them off or shake them off, but they couldn't do anything more to him then cause him to bleed since their fangs wouldn't let the area they had in their jaws heal. Two wolves stood near Jamie to guard her just in case Alice tried to use her powers again. Night stood their breathing hard himself as he tried to catch some of his breath back. He could still see some spots infront of his eyes, he was still light headed, and his body ached and was in pain. His cuts were still bleeding since all of the movement kept them from healing over.

Night caught his breath after a moment and quickly removed his guns and knives holsters and handed them to Jamie. He didn't like what he was about to do and wasn't sure what would happen, but it was his only option to stall the angry man who was coming for him again. He looked down at Jamie and said to her in a serious voice, " Get out of here now, I don't want you seeing what I'm about to do and it is no longer safe for you to be in here even if you want a story."

" Come on Kitty Man! Lets have some fun, but don't blame me for what's about to happen next! I'm not going to be in control of myself!" Night yelled as he began to move at full sprint towards Victor. After he had closed the gap some, Night suddenly turned from his normal human form into that of some kind of wolf/human monster. He let out a blood chilling howl right before him and Victor crashed into each other. The shadow wolves seemed to vanish as he changed as well.

[jamie]

The fire alarms where now turned off and now it seemed like there was concert or something Jamie had no idea what was going on when some guy started singing she almost laughed people wouldn’t believe this she was so glade that she was getting this on tape she tried to make sure she was getting this all and that the water was not going to mess up her camera. When the ground started to shack and the building was falling apart Jamie looked at the other side of the room where most people had gotten out of the hole, it might be best if she left she just hope Night would catch up with her latter .

She was about to pack up and run for the hole in the wall when suddenly the camera was ripped form her hands and was shredded, Jamie looked like she was going to curse or something that was until she was attacked by her own shadow as it wrapped around her neck Jamie tried to grab it she was trying hard not to panic but its hard not to panic when you have someone trying to kill you. Jamie’s eyes where wide in fear as she looked at the young girl across the room, Jamie tried to scream but it was hard to with the shadows around her neck and them growing tighter and tighter.

When it stoped Jamie fell limb having a hard time breathing she had started seeing spots she blinked a little bit looked to see Night not knowing what had happed