The school grounds, all day

[fh_beasties]

Not all the beasts were creatures of the land. One was a creature of the water (and a fairly disturbing one at that).

The scylla settled into the pond, through a magic all her own disappearing completely from sight under the water. The only hint to her presence was an odd ripple on the pond's surface.

[ooc: for those who want to have an encounter with a scylla!]

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[intraspective]

Ino had... heard the announcement and snatched up her weapons--including her gun--from the weapons locker and then deliberately headed out looking for trouble.

...Ino was a bit of a moron sometimes. Here, trouble trouble trouble.

She passed by the pond and paused. What was up with the water rippling like that?

[fh_beasties]

The water stayed quiet, somewhat calm for a moment longer before a huge, grotesque creature erupted from the water and growled at Ino.

[intraspective]

Ino, having not expected that--though really she probably should've all things considered--scrambled back, going for her gun, her eyes wide and, well, gleeful.

"'Morning!" she chirped, gun in one hand, a few kunai in the other.

Because, clearly, the monster would care.

[fh_beasties]

One of the Scylla's six horrifying heads leaned toward Ino and sniffed the kunai, tail twitching in the water.

[intraspective]

Ino edged slightly away. "That's a bit too close for comfort," she informed it, lashing out with her kunai. "Seriously too close."

[fh_beasties]

The Scylla snarled, drool dripping from her gleaming sharp teeth.

[intraspective]

Ewww. Drool.

"Oooooh, scary," Ino taunted it. "Come on, be more of a challenge!"

[fh_beasties]

Scurrying forward on many legs, the Scylla didn't appreciate taunting. She swung another head forward to headbutt Ino.

[intraspective]

Oh, gross. Wet, slimy, gross hair and it was touching her. And, alright, yes, having the breath knocked out of her hurt, like, a lot.

Owww.

"Better," she gasped out, informing the monster, scrambling to her feet, taking aim at one of the heads with her gun and pulling the trigger. "But I'm not going down so easily."

[fh_beasties]

Her gun may as well have been shooting water for all the damage it did to the Scylla.

Scared by the sound, she reared, her six heads screaming in unison at Ino.

[intraspective]

Okay, okay. So, that... was a bad thing. Very bad. Why wasn't the gun working?

Ino backed away, eyes wide with mingled excitement and fear now, shooting at the monster a few more times, and hoping that--somehow--these would manage to hurt it.

[fh_beasties]

Three of the Scylla's heads swooped down to glare and hiss at Ino before it turned and dove back into the water, tail twitching crankily at all the noise she was making.

[intraspective]

Ino laughed mockingly as it fled, then winced. Okay, yeah, the headbutt hadn't been fun.

But she'd won. Ha.

Ino bounced off towards town, in search of more monsters.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

More than a little worried, Katara was going out to find out what the heck happened to Zuko when she stopped to look at the pond. That didn't feel like normal water energies. She reached out into the water to feel for the problem.

[fh_beasties]

The water rippled, staying smooth for a moment before a huge monster loomed up out of it, growling and shrieking at Katara.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Huh. Yep, not natural. It was nice of the giant creature to hide out in her element though.

She reached for the water, pulling it to her before she bent it around her body, sending a thick flow back at the monster, splitting it to try to hit each head right in the face.

[fh_beasties]

Her heads swooped, trying to avoid as much of the water as possible and snarling as she leaned in with one head, getting as close to Katara as possible and bearing her teeth.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara jumped back. "You have bad breath," she informed it, shoving a flow of water into the mouth and turning it instantly into ice.

[fh_beasties]

She didn't really understand that, somehow, but she certainly understood the cold in her mouth.

It was painful, even if the scylla didn't exactly know words like "brainfreeze," and it succeeded in making her mad. Another head swooped in to snap her teeth at Katara, as a paw swept up from underwater to swipe at her.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Okay, paw to the head was not comfortable by any means, and Katara flew a few feet in the air, crashing to the ground hard.

"Ow," Katara picked herself back up. Fine. If that's how it wanted to do it. She concentrated hard and froze all the water in the pond. "Let's see you hit me now, huh?" she snapped.

[fh_beasties]

Well. That certainly made things difficult.

The scylla snarled again, trying to crack the ice and shrieking from the cold.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

She smirked up at the big monster thing. "HA!" Pulling a flow from the waterskin on her back, she used it to strike at the scylla again. "Go home, you. Stop bothering us here."

[fh_beasties]

The scylla tried to move the ice so she could dive back down, cracking it just enough to slip back under the water, growling all the while.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"That's right," Katara called after it, freezing the hole over again once Georgina the scylla slipped under the water. "Shoo! And don't come back please." She paused. "Unless you bring my boyfriend...person."

[the_merriest]

Okay, she totally called Romeo and Dojima, so now she had her Godhand strapped on and she was going to have a look-see around town and see if anything creepy was lurking.

Heyyyy. The water on the pond looked kinda weird. Rikku hesitated by the edge of it, peering in to see if she could make out what was down there.

[fh_beasties]

Georgina The scylla erupted from the water, heads reaching out for Rikku on instinct.

[the_merriest]

Oh. It was go time. Rikku was totally okay with that.

She aimed a punch at the nearest head, wondering what the heck this thing was and hoping it wasn't, uh, some strange mascot she just never noticed before. Like Georgina, the school pet!

[fh_beasties]

One head hissed in pain while one long leg came shooting out of the water, swinging wildly at Rikku.

[the_merriest]

Rikku flinched, stumbling backwards. "Hey!" she snapped. "That wasn't nice!"

... Said the girl who punched first, and all.

She aimed her fist for the creature's midsection, Godhand slashing out.

[fh_beasties]

Georgina looked appalled! How would she ever fit into the Vera Wang now!

The scylla roared, swooping out of the water higher and whipping her tail in Rikku's direction.

[the_merriest]

She was helping! Getting rid of those nasty love handles! She might have gone down a size or two!

Ewwww, gross. Rikku hopped out of the way of the tail, mostly, but the edge of it connected, and some of the ucky pond water sludge whatever-it-was on there got in her face.

"Oh, that's just nasty," she announced.

[fh_beasties]

The heads made some godawful sound of enjoyment before swooping towards her, teeth sharp and gleaming, ready to take a bite out of the human.

[the_merriest]

Nasty and mean. Funnnnn.

She considered blocking with her Godhand, but what if it could bite through Godhands? No letting scary psycho mermaid-things eat her legendary weapon, here.

She dove off to the side, tucking herself into a ball and rolling. Wondering if she could make a grab into her leg pouch for explosives. Or just something that'd hurt if she threw it.