Into the Maelstrom

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Who: Hex and whoever's at Atlantica
What: Hex is after something...
Where: Atlantica

Purple and blue lighting raced across the sky, nearly blinding Hex as she struggled to keep the boat on course. The waves tossed it back and forth, soaking her again and again. It would have been so much easier to just portal her way there, but she didn't have an exact idea of where exactly 'there' was. It had been a miserable week, but...

A steady grin kept itself pinned to her face.

It was here. At the heart of this storm,  was what she had been suffering this whole week to find.

Just a little further now...

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"Personal offense has nothing to do with it." Ray turned and walked into a portal. When she stepped out onto the deck behind Hex, the Corridor started to move, closing as it pooled around her feet. Her eyes narrowed. When she spoke next, her voice was quiet, cold.

"Light."

The Light magic on the deck suddenly surged forward like a living being. It lanced forward in a quick arc, racing for Hex's back.

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[i]Oh, Fuck.

Inbound Light spell, qualities unknown. Too close, can't see it, can't dodge it. Only three shields remaining, but deploy one anyway.[/i]

A black orb erupted behind Hex, it's shiny black material catching the light, before the 'Light' caught it. And burned straight through. It clipped her shoulder, throwing her to ground, and melting part of her coat away. The flesh beneath it was already turning blue, as though from a nasty bruise. Hex wanted to scream.

[i]Options, options, options! Pepper Spray? Useless! Rug trick? That should work![/i]

Dark Corridors erupted beneath all three of them, the other ends depositing Leslie and Ray fifty feet to either side of the boat. Hex's own portal dropper her unceremoniously on the floor of the shack she had been planning on retreating to earlier.

[i]Ow.

That... really... Hurt. What the hell... is that Light spell supposed... to do, anyway? Ok... Follow the plan... It can still work... Could work better, actually.[/i]

She dragged herself to the window, and braced againt the sill. Her legs didn't really feel steady, but this would have to do.

[i]Alright, I know where the target is...[/i]

She closed her eyes. Miles away, a large boulder slowly sank into a portal.

[i]Portals, set.[/i]

Finally, it fell through. And then it fell again. Hex had put the exit point directly above the entrance point. And it fell again. And again. And again.

[i]Gravitic acceleration in progress. Assumed pull of gravity is nine point eight meters per second, per second. Can't be bothered to do math right now. Hold pattern for two minutes. That should give enough acceleration to blast this thing.

Strange. I thought I was wet before, but now it feels like I'm sweating.[/i]

Breathing hard, Hex squinted out at the beast out at sea, focusing on it just in time to see the boat smashed by the things fist.

[i]Just got to hold it together for a little bit longer...[/i]

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Ray had but a moment of exultation before she was thrown back into the cold of a Dark Corridor. She was only there for just as long, but the cold and fear stuck with her for a few seconds more as she was thrown, yet again, to the deck. Her landing was... less than graceful, to say the least.

Then she looked up, and saw two things.

One, Maleficent's little minion had bailed. Well, maybe not bailed entirely, since she sounded pretty determined to get that "treasure," but she certainly wasn't here.

Two, that monstrous undersea abomination was...

Oh. Oh, shit.

She scrambled to her feet, eyes scanning the deck for her partner. "Lesley, we gotta go! Like now!"

There wasn't any more time to spare. Ray turned and dove through a portal, stumbling over the thrashing waves on her way out at the beach. She turned back to the ocean just in time to see the boat get destroyed, and had to crush down a flash of rage, directed both at that... thing, and the bitch who'd made it come out in the first place.

But, if they were lucky, the woman would reveal herself to them again, hopefully before the world ended.