The Sharky Empire (OPEN)

[Clash]

Clash had found himself in a huge frozen wasteland. It was like a tranquil sea of ice, a cold expanse reaching onward. A perfectly flat horizon, a razor's edge separating the ground from the sky. Cold winds blow powdered snow through the dry and crisp air, and sunlight poured through hazy clouds reflecting off the ground and carried through the icy terrain. Inhospitable, Silent, Unlivable, Unending. Like all life had turned a blind eye to this patch of the world and all things that drew breath and felt warmth had forgotten this stretch of land even existed.

FUCK YEAH!

"THIS PLACE IS MINE NOW! FROM ALL THE WAY OVER THERE TO ALL THE WAY OVER THERE TO ALL THE WAY OVER THERE!"

The decree echoed as far as could be heard, then came the sound of movement, the whistling of the air as it was disturbed, the sound of metal blades on ice. A large robotic shark had propped itself up on its bladed fins and was actually skating over the surface of the Crystal Expanse, laughing like an idiot as the powdered snow whipped around his fast-moving form. He banked and turned as best he could, but his form wasn't made for such movements. Eventually Clash leaped, his body turning in the air then plunging through the ice, his dorsal fin moving as if through the water, leaving no distortion on the surface as Clash's form was visible through the murky ice.

Bastard shark was having the time of his life in his newly declared domain.

He stopped and pulled himself up from the water. "I'm write my name in the snow!" He wasn't... He was. A warm stream was produced and started to trail through a patch of powdery snow.

"C...L...A...S...H...YEEEAAAAAH!" Clash rolled backwards and once more passed through the ground, his fin coursing through the Crystal Expanse once more. He was causing quite a commotion...

[Chloe/Kat]

"It's sooo c-cold!" mumbled Chloe as she made her way through the Crystal Expanse hugging herself to keep warm. You would think the dual sun would provide that much extra needed warmth to even an area as cold as this but no. No. They just sit up there with their thumbs in their asses laughing at the travelers below. Teasing the good people of Genesis who have to tread pass this area into believing that they will give them some warmth but instead they're forced to freeze their asses off for most of the trip. Having enough of the dual suns tyranny Chloe looked up to the two suns and cried out, "FUCK YOU! FUCK! YOU!" Perhaps it was the cold getting to her, perhaps it was the insanity from the nightmares or even that bag of weed she found back in Moon Valley, but for one reason or another those suns looked like they were laughing. Laughing at her. Laughing at her misery. Laughing at the fact she was raped, killed, came out of a grave and almost got killed again, went into a cave and almost got killed again and was always losing her hair. No more! The line draws here! This far. NO FARTHER!

"Do you think this is funny!? DO YOU?! You just sit up there in space enjoying the view as us honest decent folk are left to suffer through the follies of this world? You couldn't walk a mile in our shoes you bastards! How would you like it if you kept losing your hair, being man handled by an armored bitch who bites off a piece of your throat leaving you to have to regenerate for a couple of days, or swallowing down your own hair bum? How would you like it if you had to dig your way out of a grave just to nearly get stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake!? How would you like it if-!?" Chloe, in the midst of all this yelling at the suns, didn't notice the shark that had made a claim on this land as she tripped over his fin and landed face first right into the piss that marked his name into the snow. Again she could hear laughter from the suns as she pulled her face from the ground and saw the name peed into it. "Clash? CLASH?!" Chloe got up to her feet and turned around in anger, eyes red and fangs extended as she was ready for a war. "WHO THE GODDAMN MOTHER FUCKER THAT JUST SIGNED HIS OWN DEATH WARRANT?!

[Clash]

Clash' face peeked out of the snow, looking at the person who had just won the "Worst Luck in the Universe award." For she, in the endless tundra of the Crystal Expanse, in the sprawling world of Genesis, in every reality and in every possible cosmos, had tripped face first into the name wee'd onto the ground. He decided he could turn this to his advantage and emerged from the ground, his body quickly shifting, metal plates folding in on themselves as he once again took on his human form, behind Chloe.

"I know who did this! Clash is in Hallowton, he left that immature mark on the ground during the events that led to that damned second sun in the sky!"

Clash pointed towards Hallowton, the tracks of the refugees destroyed by time and twisting winds but the gouges of the battles and the snow-covered corpses remaining. "Seek him out, he's the one who did this to you." He grinned, deciding to play it safe. "I'm Slash by the way, my 'brother' has banished me to here as one of his many cruel acts." He bowed slightly to Chloe, then kicked snow onto the name she had fallen onto.

[Chloe/Kat]

Chloe nearly jumped out of her own skin at the man who randomly appeared behind her like that. She should have been able to sense him but anger had clouded her senses leaving her wide open for an attack. Good thing there wasn't one or she'd be in trouble. Chloe looked the man over, finding him a little suspicious as she wondered what kind of a name was Slash or Clash for a person but given how foreign this land was to her, it probably wasn't too far out there that these were normal, native, names for the people living here. Though they certainly were the first. Chloe looked over to Hallowton while wondering if there was any truth to what Slash had said. There was one way to find out if she was willing to risk it.

Turning back around to face Slash a warm smile appeared on her lips and she slowly approached him, gradually closing the gap between them and bringing her hands up to his cheeks, made cold by the expanse, stroking them up and down gently as she gazed deeply into his eyes. "What kind of a horrible, cold-hearted, ugly man would banish someone so kind, helpful and handsome?" She leaned into him now, running her hands down his cheeks and across his shoulders, now wrapping those thin arms of hers around his neck as she kept eye contact with him. "Tell me Slash, have you ever known the touch of a woman?"

[Clash]

Clash's subterfuge seemed to win through. He gave a rueful, hopeless smile and spoke; "He looks like me, only with slightly longer hair and stubble on his face. He dresses similar too but has a sword on his hip with a basket-hilt." Clash stepped closer to Chloe. "That's the cold-hearted, ugly man who banished his own brother..." He felt her hands on his face, she must have been out here as long as him, feeling her coldness, it matched his... His body stung from the cold but he felt a heat rising in him. "I... I haven't... And I fear I'll die out here, not knowing it..."

He moved his hands to her sides, pulling her close, those watery blue-green eyes of his staring into hers, they seemed dulled, though this was a result of his simplistic animal mind trapped in his overly-complex human brain. He tilted his head slightly, direct eye contact breaking though his eyes still looking into hers. "What's your name? My savior?"

[Chloe/Kat]

"Let see what we can't do about that, shall we?" Chloe smiled, feeling the man's hands on her sides as he pulled her warmth closer to his. The vampiress' face moved closer to Slash's, her lips drawing near looking for his while he asked for a name. "Chloe." And upon that, their lips met. Chloe's arms holding onto him tightly as she kissed him on the lips softly, adding more into it as time went on. Her hands ran down from the back of his neck to his shoulders, breaking the kiss the woman moved down to his neck, licking it, sucking on it, making it just right for the picking and before he would even have the chance to react. Chloe found the vein which pumped blood through it and bit down hard against the human shark.

Then she saw it. The truth in all its sharky glory. His name wasn't really Slash but Clash and he wasn't a man, he was a shark. Ew, she had just tasted a shark. Gross! But most of all, the single image that stood out in the herd, was the one of him taking a piss in the snow, the very same piss she would later fall face-first on! Chloe pulled away from him and then took a couple of steps back, pointing her finger, albeit a little dramatically, towards the man as her eyes went wide. "You! It was you all along! You put that name there and then tried to cover it up by giving me some sob story!" The nerve of people, or in this case, fish! The nerve of some fish just flopping around and leaving their name in snow, snow of ruins no less. Did nobody have respect for the dead anymore? Well Chloe wasn't going to stand for this, being dead herself and all she knew what it was like. "Well!? What do you have to say for yourself, you stupid fish!"

[Clash]

"Chloe..." He leaned in to the kiss slightly, gasping as she moved to his neck. He was almost able to react when she bit his neck, then went limp in her arms, breathing lightly. He seemed in a trance, almost completely out cold as Chloe drank from him. When she eventually pulled back and took some steps away he slumped, almost falling over. He looked to Chloe as she spoke. Her accusation stung true and left a bad taste in his mouth. That and he was still bleeding heavily from the neck. With a sudden jump he quickly shifted back into a shark. His body sank into the ground then his head emerge from the ice, a coating of snow on it as she told him off.

Clash grinned at What do you have to say for yourself, you stupid fish! He knew exactly what to say: "You sucked on a fish!" He turned quickly, 360 degrees as he moved back a few feet, his yellow flashlight eyes locking onto Chloe. "Alright, I committed a random act that I had no intention of harming you with then tried to pin it on an alternate dimension facsimile of me that is living in Hallowton. For that I appologize. HOWEVER..." He pointed his fins at her, his voice growing dramatic, then suddenly an almost adorable clueless naivety filled his voice. "I was bleeding when you were done... Did you just take my Virginity?" He put his fins together and turned away, as if embarrassed.

[Chloe/Kat]

Chloe made a "how dare you!" face when the male informed her that she had indeed sucked on a shark. The vampiress felt like she was back in school with little boys who thought they were so cool and funny, when that couldn't be farther from the truth. They were about as funny as a show with a laugh track. If you have to tell us when to laugh then chances are you aren't funny! Then he said something that would flat out offend. "What!?" He had the nerve to ask if they had sex? If she took the shark's virginity? Did sharks even have any virginity to take? Chloe didn't want to know and to be quite honest with you she didn't WANT to know. "H-how dare you! How dare you even suggest for a minute that I-! That we-! How dare you!"

Chloe wasn't going to stand for this. Fair enough that a supposed "Vampire Slayer" nearly killed her or that an armored chick with purple hair blows off her hair. It's fine that another vampiress that offers to teach her the ways of the vampire forces her to eat her own hair bum but this, this could not be tolerated nor go unpunished. There was no chance in hell that Chloe was going to allow a shark, a fucking shark, to make a fool out of her. Not her. She won't stand for it! Looking around for a weapon Chloe realized she was surrounded by weapons to use on Clash. Weapons he deserved to have inflicted upon him like no other. All rational thought was out the window now, like the fact that she herself was a weapon, as Chloe stuck her hands in the snow and created a snowball. "You're still a virgin you son of a shark!" Chloe threw the snowball into Clash's direction, right for his bleeding fin. NO MERCY!

[Clash]

Clash heard "Son of a Shark"

"I have a father? OW!" The snowball hit his fin, cold ice on an open wound made of metal... OUCH. That dark-blue blood of his ran over his body from the wound like a papercut right on the tip of the finger. THOSE THINGS BLEED, MAN. "owww..." Clash's lips quivered and his flashlight eyes suddenly activated window wipers, sharky tears forming up. "why you hurt me so bads?" Clash wiggled in the ice, like he was struggling to swim a little. He looked at Chloe with the best puppy-eye'd pout a giant robot shark with flashlight eyes could muster, then he smiled.

"Fortunately I already forgot about everything that is going on. So what're you up to?" Clash suddenly seemed remarkably cavalier about everything that was going on, his wound still weeping that darkblue blood of his. He wam slowly around Chloe, then looked up at the double-suns. "You'd think that after we saw someone roll doubles so wicked it put another sun in the sky this icy tundra would melt away, but the damage caused has already vanished. This place be cursed, arrr..." Clash suddenly gained a pirate accent upon finishing that remark, but indeed the great gouges and wounds left by Aper trying to out-epic the sun that was in the sky before him were, in fact, completely gone.

[Chloe/Kat]

Clash's reaction was so comical in nature that had she not been so furious with the man she would've laughed. The vampiress knelt back down and built another snowball in-between her hands but by the time she stood back up and bent her throwing arm back to send it hurling into the cyborg shark he had forgotten the reason they were fighting. Chloe just stood there about to throw a snowball, looking at the shark awkwardly. How has this thing managed to make a total fool out of her with such little effort? She thought about dropping the snowball but ultimately decided to hit him with it anyway for good measure. "You made a mess, didn't clean it up and I was the one who had to pay for it, that's what happened you stupid shark!"

Wait, was he bleeding? What a wuss! All she did was hit him with a snowball. How many people busted open and bleed while hit with a snowball? She couldn't even recall real sharks that swam in water that bled from a snowball, albeit she never hit one with one and probably never would because real sharks was predators and this thing looked and acted like a walking joke. Then he started talking about things Chloe didn't care about. Roll doubles? Suns? What? "Hey! Don't go changing the subject we're still on the matter of me stepping in your....in your....in your mess!"

[Clash]

"I thought you faceplanted."

He just HAD to remind her. It was hard for even Clash to tell if he was doing this on purpose at this point, wincing as another snowball nailed him in the face, he immediately thought of making a joke about Chloe repeatedly snowballing him, but decided against it. "owwww... it stiiiiiings...." Clash squirmed and wiggles as the cold ice mixed with the hot blood from his cut, he'd probably get an infection... He looked around then blinked a few times, eyes focusing back on Chloe.

"I apologized already, but I will again. I'm sorry you fell into my wee, I didn't mean for you to fall into it and I should've taken responsibility for it in the first place. Also I'm sorry I lied to you and tried to get you to fight a doppelganger." He put his fins together and made a motion akin to bowing, at least as much of a bow as a robotic shark could muster. He smiled to Chloe. "Is there any chance we can put this ugliness behind us and go on to talk about... crepes?"