Age of Darkness

[Haylie]

It's the year 2015... maybe. At least one hundred weeks have passed since the demons were repressed by the legendary Alicia. New threats have risen, however, from other sources. It's uncertain what these sources are. Some suggest more demons, others blame Alicia herself.

Blame doesn't change circumstance, however. Humanity's numbers have plummeted to the point where they could be tracked by one person. They now live in clusters of beaten, hopeless groups, counting on each other for survival. But they aren't completely defenseless. Several agents of the dark have surprisingly sided with them, each faction with their own reasons.

One such group of sentients now camp in the center of an area once known as Las Vegas. Shells of ruined buildings tower over the group, it's shadows hiding who knows what. Unknown to all but a few, an attack from the undead is imminent.

A woman clad in black sits in the center of the camp near a fire, an imposing weapon on her lap. She doesn't speak, doesn't look around, barely blinks, even as others whisper behind her back. She just stares into the fire for several hours until the call of danger finally goes out, signifying death's arrival in the form of an undead horde. They move slowly and clumsily, and the barricades easily stop them at first, but they'll need to be dispatched quickly. A horde this size is usually accompanied by something bigger...

(Okay, folks, start off in the camp near Alicia. Zombies are more target practice for survivors at this point, so nobody should be too worried yet)

[Ookalf]

*Liz has been standing in the camp fairly close to the fire, exercising quietly. Hey, you never knew when an attack would come. Several of the humans are going out of their way to avoid going near her. She's tried to tell them that not all vampires are dark, brooding killers who only see humans as food, that many of them are actually fairly decent people, but some prejudices are just hard to let go of. She pauses and sits on the ground to rest.*

[Sam]

*Jake is sitting on a log drawing some schematics on a piece of paper

If only I had the proper tools for this one.....

[Zoey]

An old hooded man sits on the floor with a young girl at his side. Both of them eating soup some survivors gave to them.
"What's wrong Uther? You look depressed" said Lenalee as she shook the man. He turned to her and sighed. "What I wouldn't give for a decent meal..."
Lenalee pouted. "You should be grateful, the nice people gave us some of their food!". Uther just ignored her and looked to the side.
"I wonder if there's any pretty ladies at this camp" he said with a playful tone as he placed his hand over his eyes to see better. Lenalee turned her back and kept on eating. "Your imposible!..."

Uther then more seriously spoke as he looked at the horizon. "Grab your weapon, something is coming..." he said as he stood up. Lenalee without any hesitation grabed her rifle and followed him.

(( Cool Avi Haylie! ))

[Haylie]

(Why thank you. The full image's link is in my sig if you haven't seen it already)

The zombies approach the already battle-ready group of humans and creatures. Alicia stands near the barricade (everyone giving her a wide berth), staring at the horde as if sizing them up for the grinder. She pulls the Gunrod under her arm and tugs the loader. As she speaks, she's very monotone, as if it's not her duty to care, but her voice still easily drowns out most sounds.

"This is the work of a vampire. When we deal with these, we'll have to hunt it down, as well."

This inspiring speech doesn't help the people much.

[Sam]

*Jake gets out scoped .44 magnum from his backpack and waits for the zombies to get closer

Lets hope this thing still works

[Ookalf]

*Liz runs over to her weapons cache and, after a few seconds' thought, grabs a rifle and some knives, just in case. Now armed, she joins the other defenders.* Hopefully this won't take too long...

[Haylie]

Wielding shotguns, pistols, rifles, and machine guns, the horde is slowly beaten down under a barrage of bullets. Alicia, however, doesn't seem to see the need to shoot at the moment. Instead, she pulls a rose out of seemingly nowhere and tosses it into the horde. A second or two later, five pikes erupt from the ground, impaling five zombies and setting them ablaze instantly. Those that aren't too busy shooting watch in awe, then continue blasting.

After about five minuets of solid shooting, the last zombie falls on the now dead pile. Alicia admires her magic-induced handiwork without smiling. Several of the men walk around patting people on the back and saying, "Good work."

[Ookalf]

*Liz walks up to one of the corpses and idly kicks it.*

[Zoey]

Lenalee rushes to the battlefield just as the battle ended. "Aww we're to late... Uther I told you to hurry!" she shouted back to him.
Uther scratched his head as he turned his eyes. "Meh, it seemed there were alot of defenders here. No need to waste ammo here" she said as he patted her shoulder. He looks around as he is searching for something. "There's strong magical energies around here... especially from..." he thought as he looked at a female with a gunrod.

[Haylie]

Alicia stands there, quietly scratching a raven that had landed on her shoulder on its beak. She walks forward past the barricade over the zombie's corpses, directly behind Liz. For a moment-- just a moment-- Liz got a jolt of energy all over her body as Alicia passed behind her.

"I need all able and willing beings to follow me. We're going after the vampire."

(That means all you guys)

[Ookalf]

*Liz steps forward.* I'll go.

[Zoey]

Lenalee walks up to Alicia. "How do you know it's a vampire?" she said leaning her head to the side. Uther smiles as he quickly jumps in. "Well hello beautiful!" he said as he grabed her hand. As soon as he touched it he could sense Alicia's power. "Well what an interesting girl I found..." he thought.

[Haylie]

"Not many other dark powers can control the dead."

As soon as Uther grabbed her hand, she yanks it away and looks ready to smack him, but she... hesitates and slowly lowers her arm. As if something were holding her back. This thought is interrupted, however, by a low moaning in the distance. She nods to the group.

"Very well. Is this everyone?"

[Zoey]

"I'm ready when you are..." said Uther as he winked at her. Then Lenalee grabs Uther ears. "Behave old man" she said as he yanked him back. Lenalee gave Alicia a little bow. "Please forgive him, he doesn't know any better" she said.

((Hurray for pokemon refrence! ))