042: It's the Fear, Fear of the Dark

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[Hei is here, wearing a lab coat and ridiculously dorky glasses. He looks tired and rather rumpled. He's also carrying what looks like a pile of iridescent, dark green putty.]

This is it, isn't it? How did I manage to make this thing?

[Hei's sheer genius and determination to help his family had led to a breakthrough. After years of trying and failing, years of long nights in the lab and painfully meticulous research, he had done it. He had created the ultimate tool for psychological therapy.]

Alright, alright, I get it. So it's a therapy thing...maybe that was why that Halliwell person was so interested.

[He turns the blob over. The blob shimmers and makes a sound almost like a purr.]

I wonder how I make it--

[The tool had of course been created with trigger phrases used to prompt transformation. For instance, the phrase Black Cat...]

[The blob shimmers again and suddenly transforms into a large brown monster that looks like a cross between a rat and a dog and an alligator. It's thin and spindly and has no eyes, only a long, heavy muzzle filled with lots and lots and lots of two-inch teeth.]

[Plane, meet the Gate monsters. Hei throws the thing several feet away before it's done transforming and stumbles backward before falling onto his butt. He reaches for his knife, but since he's a scientist for now, all his weapons are gone. Hei looks completely terrified.]

No, no, no, you can't be here, you're not supposed to be here...

[The Gate monster snarls and stalks closer. Hei scoots backward.]

No, you're not real. You can't be real. This can't...

[From out of nowhere comes some really creepy and intense background music.]

Voice...voice, how do I make it change back? How...

[No answer.]

Dammit...



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[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[HENRIETTA TO THE RESCUE.] Signore! [She drops into a crouch and lets loose with her P239, which she pulls from the pocket of her fuzzy robe.]

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[OH SHIT.] Henrietta, wait! [The bullets pepper the thing, which lets out a rather terrifying-sounding shriek of pain. Some of the bullets tink off of it since it seems to be covered in something almost like chitin. One of its back legs is now useless, but now it's snarling and charging at Henrietta. These bastards are hard to kill.]

[ghostlighter]

Hei! [In comes Chris, grabbing Hei's upper arm and pulling him back to place himself between Hei and the blob.]

This is what you were working on!?

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[Forces himself to calm down a fraction, since he really doesn't want Chris to see him afraid, and since he needs to focus on stopping the thing.]

I don't know what it is, I don't even know how I made it. Everything just sort of...came together and suddenly it was there.

[witchmaker.livejournal.com]

Hei! Stand back!

[ Hello Gate monster. This is a fireball. It is pleased to meet YO FACE. ]

What in the world is that thing?

[contract_star]

[Hei is more than willing to scoot backward a bit more. The fireball hits the monster head-on, and these guys really don't like fire. It makes several high-pitched chirping cries, bouncing up and down and rolling around to put the fire out.]

They're from the Gate. They're the things that were living there...

[immortalmistake.livejournal.com]

[WHAT THE SHIT.]

And you said I bring dangerous shit here! [He whips a knife at the thing's head.] Get up and run.

[contract_star]

It's for therapy, it's not supposed to be dangerous! [The monster shrieks at the knife and clicks its teeth together, turning its attention on Firo. It starts creeping closer, snarling.]

Firo, don't bother. You won't be able to kill it.

[madamemoiselle]

{Lucky for Hei, Diva isn't afraid of things that look like that at all. Especially considering that's kind of what she is. So as if it were something completely unimportant, she comes down to kick the thing in the head, sending it a few feet back before landing easily and turning to Hei}

Ne, you're bringing strange things with you this time? There's already plenty at home.

[contract_star]

I didn't know it was going to turn out this way...Diva, be careful, their saliva is pois--

[Though since Diva is the closest one to it now, the monster shimmers and transforms. Into Joel.]

[Have fun, Diva.]

[durch-feuer.livejournal.com]

{Just over here, watching. Helping? No way.}

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[Nice, Dietrich. Hei glances up and registers Dietrich's presence, and also that he's a douche and not helping. The Gate monster creeps forward, sniffing the air and looking between the two.]

[lamb_of_gold]

[Oops there.] Hei, run.

[contract_star]

Won't help much. They prefer it when you run.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

[OH HAI THAR. She fluffs up to several times her ordinary size, hissing. Still not looking healthy, but lkdjas DAMN THAT THING IS CREEPY.]

[contract_star]

Cy, get back! Get behind me!

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[Crowley appears, in his (now black) lab coat, wings still hanging out]

Oh, so this is—

...oh.

[contract_star]

Crowley...

Don't go near it.

[shunofandromeda.livejournal.com]

[Takes one look at the creature, then disappears and comes back with his Cloth] Li, what is that thing?

[contract_star]

It's Hei, and I don't know. I made it, I think. That...that's what's living inside the Gate.

[harmonixerdemon.livejournal.com]

[Claws already up as he starts to advance toward the creature] What the hell is this thing?

[contract_star]

It's from the Gate. It's one of the creatures that lives there. But it transformed...

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Oh god not those things again.] Hei!

[She pulls her gun--and realizes she doesn't have any bullets left, thanks to her own Adventures in Creepytown.] Damnit.

[contract_star]

Misaki--stay back. Guns are no good on them.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

Hei, what the hell is that?

[contract_star]

It's from the Gate. I don't--I don't know how it transformed.