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Gilgamesh and Enkidu's Excellent Adventure

WHO: Enkidu & Gilgamesh. And anyone else, of course.
WHEN: Dark Hour, August 16th.
WHERE: The Shopping District.
SUMMARY: Enkidu and Gilgamesh go out on a date.
RATING: PG-13 for language, violence, adult themes... Potentially R?
WARNING: Nothing in particular. Maybe one too many bro hugs or some vivid descriptions of blood.

[ Note:

Enkidu is this color and

Gilgamesh is this color. ]

Tick. Tock.

Tick. Tock.

Finally, the clock on one of the Shopping Distract buildings strikes midnight. The dark twilight-capped sky fades into a sickening, pale green color with the moon also brightening and enlargening to a fetid yellow. Everything comes to an immediate halt. The world takes on a sickly glow. Dark Hour is here.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu are on a street corner. Gil wanted Enkidu to witness the Dark Hour and the modern world coming to a grinding halt. Gilgamesh palms the flat of his blade impatiently. "Let us hope you are not as rusty as I was when I first arrived, brother. It would be a shame if you fell so easily to these fiends."

Enkidu smiles. "Brother, I was asleep for twelve days in sickness, not dormant with inability for five thousand years." He has a sword in hand as well. "Though this... Dark Hour... It is surreal..."

The conversation is cut short as a shadow skitters out of the alleyway nearby, charging at the two. Enkidu stares but Gilgamesh lunges, shoving his first sword inside of the damned thing as hard as he possibly could. The shadow shudders with a blade stuck in it, then stops moving.

"Ha, it seems these beasts can come from any location. Be on your guard at all times. Though I'm sure you'll have no problem if what you say is true."

Gilgamesh picks up another sword, spinning the blades in his hands with disinterest on his face. A materializes from behind a car in front of the two and leaps into the air toward Enkidu. Enkidu hops back as the shadow--in the shape of a hand--collides into the ground, then he springs and hops forward, practically jumping on top of it and driving his sword right into the shadow. He ends up lodging the tip of the blade into the sidewalk and through the monster, as it too shudders its last moments then stops moving.

"Brother, that beast resembled a hand... Are these really beasts at all?"

"Call them whatever you will, they can be formidable enemies. These creatures nearly killed the one person to ever succeed in defeating me. That should tell you something."

"You've been defeated?"

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Their "date" takes a turn for the worse, when a little while later they find themselves surrounded. The shadows prove to be fierce opponents. They easily swarm with overwhelming numbers, and Gilgamesh and Enkidu find themselves sandwiched and surrounded by a dozen of them. They are back to back and cornered by several shadows! The infamous Briefcase of Babylon is lying between the two, opened with most of the swords missing. Both have a sword in each hand. Both look pretty beat up. Enkidu hacks an approaching shadow at his right. The shadow takes slash damage but it still moves.

All of a sudden, one of the damned hands from the back of the mini mob casts a magic spell. A strong gale icy cold rips past the two, Enkidu specifically, and he takes magic damage. Enkidu roars, growing impatient with this turn of events. Suddenly barrels forward into the mob of Dancing Hands shadows, hacking, slashing and shouting.

"Follow me brother!"

[ Feel free to post whenever! Perhaps you got caught up outside too late? Or you're out on the hunt for shadows, too? Enkidu, Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Gilgamesh might be responding to your actions. ]

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Syd's been taking the opportunity over the last few days to exhaust herself during the Dark Hour, and then sleep the day away. It's been paying off - she now has herself a Dia - but maybe after tonight she'll lay off a bit. Possibly.

It's on her routine route that she comes across a large group of Shadows, gathered around something that she can't make out, but if she were to guess, it would be another Persona-user. Suzaku's Agi isn't much, but it does help to clear away the crowd of Shadows - not only eliminating them from the other side, but drawing some of them away.

'Follow me'? Gilgamesh wasn't about to let these damned things over power him, but at the same time... he wasn't one to ignore Enkidu's words. Though he struggled for a few seconds, he would eventually follow after his brother, slashing at shadows as they tried to fill in the gap they left.

...But then there was that sudden burst of fire that scattered the shadows. Surely these things would not attack each other, so that only meant... Oh, damn it.

"And just what do you think you're doing?"

"Saving your ass, it looks like," she says, as she Agis a bit more, clearing a pathway to him. She runs to join him; she's sure they can beat them all and work their way out, and she fits her back against his.

Of course, she won't let the opportunity to bicker over her shoulder go to waste. "Oh, believe me, if I'd known it was you I'd have turned around and let the Shadows eat you. But unfortunately I didn't, so I'm going to finish what I started. Suck it up."

He doesn't look too happy about this situation, either. He didn't want help from anyone, much less a woman. As much as he would love to bicker with her, he realizes that would be a complete waste of energy. Instead, he lets out an annoyed growl before charging at the nearest group of shadows. Two swords made an easier fight, but without a persona, they didn't go down quite as easy. Never the less, he'll hack and slash away at the group until they finally died.

"Ha... ha... See? I don't need the help of some little... girl. Nn."

Of course, all this relentless attacking has left him exhausted. He somehow fails to realize all the shortcomings of this accursed human body. He doesn't even notice the shadow creeping up behind him.

Syd just rolls her eyes and fires at the Shadows coming her way. She's nearing her limit, she can tell, but if there's only going to be this much she can probably handle it. If there's more, well, she'll worry about that later.

She turns around and sees another Shadow creeping up on him. After a cursory glance that makes it seem like it's the last one, she gathers her energy. Suzaku fires the Agi, incinerating the Shadow, so close to him that he can probably feel a flare from its heat. "Looks to me like you did," she calls as she runs over.

Oh, he felt it. But that really on serves to increase his own anger. Not necessarily towards her, but himself. As she approaches, she might possibly hear him utter a few words in a foreign language under his breath.

"...call yourself king, and yet you can't even handle a few creatures by yourself. If I ever find out who brought me here, I'll..."

For someone that had always prided himself on being the biggest, baddest, strongest person alive... This was really doing a wonder on his ego. Perhaps it was actually needed. Out of frustration, he'll throw his last remaining blade into the night sky. It was pointless but he had to do something to expel just a bit of the anger he was feeling.

She slows down, and approaches him hesitantly. She does hear him muttering, and his tone worries her. She goes to put her hand on his shoulder, but decides against it at the last minute. "Hey, you all right?"

Oh, right. She was still here, wasn't she? He'll shoot her a look that pretty much says it all while trying to recompose himself.

"It's nothing to worry about. We should probably be checking on them though."

While they had obviously cleared their part of the battlefield, it looked like his brother and that apparent history lover were still in the middle of their fight. But would he really rush into another fight in the condition he's in? Yes, yes he would. And he's already walking off towards the mayhem.

"Hey!" Almost without thinking, she grabs his wrist, spinning him around, before shoving a Dia right in his face.

Grabbing his wrist probably wasn't the best thing to do with him in his current state, but just as he was about to retaliate in typical Gilgamesh fashion, that flash of light accompanying the Dia halted his hand midway.

"...The gods must be rolling in their graves if a mere mongrel can use the powers they gave birth to."

"You really think they'd be okay with anyone who has mongrel status using these kinds of powers? I'm sure they'd have smited me by now if it was otherwise."

She looks at him closer, trying to tell whether the Dia had been enough. "Did that help at all?"

A bit of awkward silence. She had a point, but he'd never acknowledge it verbally. Instead, he'll merely offer an arrogant shrug before he continues on his way.

"It doesn't matter. I've survived worse."

Going out during the Dark Hour had become rather routine for April, and though the Shadows still continued to freak her out, she did enjoy the thrill from fighting them.

So, after shooting and Zio-ing a few Shadows, she comes across what looks like a mob of them and it's the sound of someone within the mob that prompts her to send a Zio towards them and pointing her gun and firing, managing to destroy a few of the Shadows.

Enkidu shoulder-checked into one of the shadows as one of the monsters next to him was suddenly encompassed in electricity. Enkidu scanned the source--weaving around another Shadow, pushing out of the mob, hacking and slashing until he finally broke free.

The sound of a gun firing does perk Enkidu toward the direction of the source. He stares at the person, recognizing that hair color, even in the eerie lighted night. He doesn't have much time to stare, though, as he deflects an attack with his blade and jams it into the offending shadow.

"Hey! You! Woman!"

It takes a moment for April respond, since she's focusing on making sure the Shadows don't get to close to her and it doesn't register that he's talking to her, before she blinks at Enkidu.

"Ah, it's you!... And my name's April!" She quickly steps out of the way of an attack as she says this, before shooting the Shadow and again using Zio on another.

"I see that even the women in Prospero can fight," He grins, kicking an ensuing Shadow before stabbing it fiercely. "How interesting!"

Though despite his snarky oneliners, it's obvious that they're getting surrounded.

"Let us make haste and escape! Come April!"

Enkidu lets out another bestial roar and charges past her, knocking over one of the shadows creeping up from behind.

April huffs with a small smile and was about to make a remark back, before her attention again returns to shooting Shadows, though it only lessens their numbers a bit before the pair start getting surrounded.

She blinks at him, and blinks again when he roars and charges past her, before she grins and nods. "Okay, I'm right behind you!"

And she follows him, though she takes a moment to shoot at any Shadows following them, before moving to catch up with him.

Asuka spots the mob of Shadows, happy she's not having to go very far or wander into the business district to find a crowd to fight. She grins ferally, yells wordlessly, and charges, axing a Shadow on the outskirts of the group in half before even looking up at what had attracted their attention...

"Oh. It's you two," she says, part of her enthusiasm gone.

fEnkidu cleaves one of the Dancing hands into two. The shadow falls to the ground and dematerializes as he charges forward, cutting a path free.

"Asuka," He shouts, grinning. His attention turns to her for a flicker of a moment before he weaves himself back into the heated combat, checking a shadow before it attacks and slashing again with his sword.

"The fires of Gerra burn bright! You heed the call of the warrior!"

Meanwhile, Gilgamesh has been happily hacking away at the various shadows that dared to lunge at him. But hearing that voice along with his brothers words caused just a bit of anger in his voice.

"Children should be fast asleep at this hour. Go back home."

"Go to hell, Goldie!" Asuka says. Rather than deciding on whether to pout at Gilgamesh or flirt with Enkidu, Asuka temporarily turns her mind to actually fighting.

"Persona!" the flaming, mounted figure of Brynhildr appears, and smacks one of the Hands with her spear but good. Asuka follows up with an axe attack to split it in half.

"Oh."

Enkidu watches from his peripheral as the large Persona is summoned and thrashes the shadow. With Asuka's attack Enkidu sees a path clearing.

"Come you two! Let us join forces and end the shadow beasts!"

Enkidu charges to the waned section of shadows, tossing himself recklessly into the enemy. He roars, hacks, stabs, throws elbows or fists, kicks, headbutts--tossing himself into flurry of the enemies. The wounds from the shadows he weathers as the damage quickly accumulates both on him and from the several slain shadows.

"T'ch, fine."

Is he really subjecting himself to this kind of torture? Fighting alongside a child? A sigh would fall from his lips, shortly before following Enkidu's lead. A punch here, a stab there. It really doesn't look like he's taking this very seriously anymore. Of course, that means that one of the shadows actually manages to steal away one of his swords. If anyone knows Gil, this can only mean one thing.

"Just who do you think you are, taking my property? Get out of my sight, you eyesore."

He stabbed the creature directly in... well, were he assumed it's heart would be and gave it a twist. It would let out one final moan before fading away into the darkness.

Okay that's bordering on making her heart wander away from Kaji there, Enkidu. Enough so that she lays into the remaining Shadows with much more vigor than Gilgamesh, laying into several of them with an axe. In an unprecedented display of actually helping, she has Brynhildr stab away at one of the Shadows attacking Enkidu. It doesn't fall, but Asuka's surprised to see it attacking one of the other Hands. "HAHA! Dance, puppet!"

Enkidu jumps back from the one shadow attacking the other. He tosses Asuka a brief glance before barreling his way out of the mob.

Suddenly another ice attack hits Enkidu square on the back. He is pushed hard and tumbles forward several feet, catching himself from landing face first and still on the ground. He sets himself to one knee, scanning the Dancing Hands shadows to see the one that used magic. The hand has a slight blue aura about it and Enkidu a la Gilgamesh just whips his sword right at the shadow.

The blade sinks into the monster as it falls down and stops moving.

Oh, his brother really has learned from him. That little display lifts his spirits, ditching whatever weapons may remain and simply resorting to primitive acts of violence. Not that he could actually rip their heads off, but at the very least he could throw all sorts of punches, toss them into objects or even more shadows.

"Ha, who would've thought this could actually be fun?"

Asuka gleefully watches her "pet" and another Hand kill each other. She briefly considers throwing her hatchet - unlike most axes and all swords, it was actually weighted for it - but decides to let the boys have the fun of throwing valuable weapons around and punching shit.

They're running short of bad guys by now anyway after those two go into their...very interesting frenzy, so Asuka decides to let them have their fun and simply rushes around and splits in half anything that looks like it's getting back up.

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Gilgamesh and Enkidu's Excellent Adventure

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