[10-15] The Docks

[Karl Jak]

Gin
Remilia
Amber

The noises of the city receded in the background as the two cut through the small patch of forest that separated the population center from the docks.  Without stopping to catch their breaths, they burst from the other side of the copse and stumbling out onto a small road.
 
As Gin caught his breath from their frenetic flight, Remilia scanned the landscape ahead of them.  They were on a nicely maintained road that looped around the trees behind them and fed back to into the city somewhere near their former sanctuary.  In front of them, the street led up to what certainly had to be ‘the docks.’  There was twenty feet of road because the area opened up into a massive, macadam lot adjacent to the mist-shrouded waterfront.  If there were any ships out there, they were concealed by the fog and the forest of intermodal containers that filled the dock.  While the nearest crate stacks were only thee or four units tall, the ones closest to the water had to be nearly ten tall.
 
With her friends’ breathing normalized, the pair walked down the street and came to a stop at the first massive, truck-sized steel containers.  Like its peers, the huge box bore the logo for one of Syntech’s various subsidiaries.  Although they knew to keep moving, Gin couldn’t resist the nagging question, and the redhead pulled open the end of the unlocked container.  Remilia, who had already been a few steps ahead, heard the screech of metal and spun sharply to scold her companion.  Instead, the words never made it from her mouth as her eyes caught the strange glow from the box as it washed over Gin.
 
Although he had momentarily looked a bit stunned, the young man shook his head and slammed the container shut.
 
“What?”  Remilia asked.  “…what’s in the box?”
 
“Omnilium,” Gin muttered.  “I think the whole stupid crate is like the piece I found in the hotel.”
 
The vampire frowned, but before the pair had time to relax, they both heard the distinct sound of claws scraping against steel coming from above them.  They turned their heads up and saw the small shadows swirling around about three crates above them.  Had they been followed already?
 
Before they could find the answer, the ground a few feet away started to erupt upward as it was torn apart by a rapidly-approaching stream of energy blasts.  Eyes wide, the pair dove aside as the blasts ripped apart the pavement and peppered them both with shards of cement.  When the quick barrage faded, Gin and Remilia turned their eyes to the shambling creature stalking down the row of crates toward them.  The creature, with its grayed flesh and lurching gait, was clearly like the other monsters—something that had been human long before the omnilium twisted its form into something more sinister.
 
Yet, there was a familiarity in the creature.  Its remaining ear was pointed like an animal of some kind, and the gunblade that functioned as one of its hands looked too distinct for it to have been just a mindless creature.
 
And then there were its eyes… They were clear and blue at the center despite the sclera being almost completely bloodshot.  There was an intelligence in that gaze—a vile, sinister intellect that provided no solace to the pair of winded primes that found themselves backing up down the row of crates as they tried to formulate a plan.
 

This is a PvP event (http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=5679) that pits Remilia and Gin against Ghoul Amber and a handful of lesser/normal ghouls.  Unless Amber decides to spend SP to empower them, the ghouls are normal secondaries and can be treated as such. 
 
Each of you receives one post each, unless you all agree you want to do two posts each.  You three have 4 days to get up your posts (August 1st at 10 AM CST).  If you cannot decide on an order, the order will default to Gin->Amber->Remilia (because Gin needs to post for Round 10).
 
While you have four days from the time of this post to do so, I will provide an update/conclusion once you’ve all posted.
 
Let me know if you have any further questions.