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[Cy appears, hissing and spitting at something that isn't there. It's a shade, a shadow, and then it moves and looks like a faint gray twist of something, a fragment of some whole, a mirrored eye shining in the dark.

The reek of ammonia, rotting meat and mud fills the air around it, heaving in and out like breaths from a rotting carcass.]

Cy.

[It's voice is crooning, almost loving. She hisses furiously, fluffed up to nearly twice her size.]

Don't go ringin' that dingadong bell, that's my chimer, poisonponce.

Cyyyyypher.

[It rolls in a circle around her, the movement of its smell the only real clue to its change in position. It laughs and it sounds like rust on a swinging gate.]

Cy Cy Cyyyyypher...

[SO. Uh. Cy has brought a vagus to the Plane. The Time Lords and others who can sense such things will be able to tell that it's, basically, a moment in life or an experience that got broken away from the Wild Roads when the roads changed course (they do that on occasion--some fading out, others shifting to follow the journeys of cats in a changing landscape) and now exists as its own entity. It is, essentially, a lost bit of time. It has no conscious will, and exists only to perpetuate its experience--that is to say, a memory of the hunt will hunt, a memory of the kill will kill, and presumably a memory of a nap will nap, but a vagus so benign has never been mentioned. XD

SO ANYWAY, long story short, this thing can do damage, too--this particular vagus is a memory of cornering and killing prey, and the damage it can do is directly related to the memory it's spawned from. Have fun~]

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[Drawing his knife.] Cy, what the hell is that?

It's the taste death leaves over, Shan!

Can it be killed?

Can be nibbled away, flattened out, planed down--Ace, Ace, Ace can fight them. [Wandering back and forth in agitation, occasionally skipping into the air in a wild leap]

Too bad Ace isn't here. [Isn't quite sure what to do. He's never fought anything this insubstantial before.]

[Better think fast, Hei, because it's blasting toward you now]

[SHITFUCK. Hei will be throwing a wire at it now but LOL passes right through. Fortunately Hei thinks fast. He back-handsprings away from it and slashes at it with the knife, though that goes right through as well. Hei focuses on just ninja-ing away and keeping it away from Cy.]

[It rushes after him, leaving Cy to stand there shuddering]

Hei...

I know you, Hei.

Like hell you know me. [Slashes at the thing again, then dodges to the side. His outline glows blue as he thrusts a hand at the thing, trying to pump it full of electricity.]

[It's as though the thing isn't even there. It hisses out a breath of laughter.]

I know you.

[Cy yowls and comes skittering toward them.]

[Well, shit. Hei might be a little worried now. This is reminiscent of some of the stranger things in the Gate.]

Shut up. Go the hell back where you came from.

Hei. Kill, Hei. Kill. You can do it.

Can't you?

[Cy moans and shudders against the plane]

[Backs away a little, knife raised defensively.]

Cy. Cy, how do we defeat it?

Ace knows, Ace knows. [Hissing, mournful noises]

Dammit... [Watches the vagus swirl and shift, ready to try to fight it again. And probably fail.]

[It roars forward, and Cy yowls.]

[Shit shit shit Hei dodges but not fast enough. The vagus gets a hold of his arm and attempts to make mincemeat of it. Hei shouts and goes down into a roll, trying to dislodge the vagus.]

[Cy goes flying, skids across the plane, and then scrambles back on the attack, trying to sink her teeth into something that isn't there]

[Hei manages to get the vagus to let go, though his arm has been a bit shredded. He scrambles back to his feet, watching the thing's every move.]

[Cy kicks at it; it wraps around her and opens up cuts on her head and hindquarters, crooning while she yowls.]

Cy!

[Tackles the thing and pulls Cy away from it. And with nothing else to do he scoops her up and starts running.]

[Annnd the vagus goes rushing after them.]

[Fuck fuck fuck fuck running FASTER.]