Log:Chimera Exhibit at the Zoo

2017/01/30 Grimm Matt 1

Its been a quiet night, and yet, a flair of magic..elemental in nature comes from the Zoo. To those with the senses, it will not be difficult to realize Matthew Regent is at play. What isn't obvious is why there is a measure of dark magic evident in the energies that are at work in the Zoo. The magic is malevolent in nature, little more is felt by anyone who isn't immediately present.

Grimm has been adrift above the city, just below the cloud cover as she sits cross-legged. When she told Malcolm she needed some air, she wasn't kidding. Her scarf and hair flutter in the wind in a lazy dance as she meditates on the task at hand with closed eyes. Breaking into the Wizard's vault would be no small task, and chances are, the Wizard would decide to lock Grimm away with his other cursed artifacts and oddities to keep her power away from the world. And THEN how could she save Malcolm?

Her brow twitches as she flinches from the flair of energy down below. Her eyes fly open when she feels the twinge of dark energy accompanied with it. There is a ragged sigh as her legs unfold from under her, dangling weightlessly below as she focuses on the area where she feels those energies the strongest: The Zoo.

Letting it call to her, she draws a circle in the air to get a peek first, opening a dimensional portal down below and peering through it. "Mirror Mirror on the wall," she mutters to herself.

Looking through the portal, there are a few things that are incongruous, One, Matthew Regent bleeds, and seems near to being unconscious. Two, the whole bear population seems to be encased in stone, and dark energies shroud a humanoid creature. Out of its back are mystic extensions of the body of the creature, that have spiked Matt through both shoulders, hands and feet. His body is being pulled akimbo, his body shudders trying to fight the forces that are ripping him apart.

Grimm cringes at the state of Matt and steps through the portal, feet planting on asphalt along the paths leading to the tiger exhibit. The portal closes behind her just as her own dark, shadowy extensions begin to extend from the field of dark energy surrounding her. "Not sure what the bears did wrong, but you, buddy, are messing with the wrong person," she says with a dark, malicious grin.

The figure's body turns without normal turning. It simply twists its head around. It is a chimera of animal types, a beak with a furred face, cat-like eyes, large pointed ears. "aaahhnd whhho arre you??" asks the figure in a sibilant voice.

"The Shade Queen," Gabrielle smirks at the double meaning. One of her long, winding black tendrils shoots through a sudden portal that opens before it. And while the creature is distracted looking at her, a portal opens up behind it and the same tendrils lashes out to slap it aside, away from her and Matt.

The body of the creature flies apart its apparently made up of many animals, but they all reform back to a body a few meters away, It reforms and the spikes are still are still in Matt's body, "You..." from the eyes of the animal spirit, comes a beam that one probably doesn't want to be hit with...

"You will be culled from the earth, as so many of our kind have been!" hisses the animal spirit. "We were to be protected, instead, we are hunted, jailed..."

Gabrielle grits her teeth as the beam strikes her, but she stands her ground, tentacles curling up around her. She tilts her head at the creatures claims and its composition of many animals. And gives her some ideas. "Yes, you were hunted and jailed. But this place?" she extends her hands out to their surroundings broadly. "It was meant to protect. From those who would hunt and jail. It was meant to keep hunters out as much as it was to keep animals safe so they wouldn't wander into a hunter's trap. You are culling the ones who want to help you."

"So many of us gone from this world. Only to exist in the next world." it points with a talon at Matt. "He is a protector of this world, but he does not protect us, does not fight for us. so we will fight for ourselves!" it wriggles and Matt screams in pain, once again it turns towards Gabrielle. "Gaia herself cannot save him."

Grimm rubs the back of her head as Matt screams. "Yeah, well there's a lot of protectors of this world. You can't pin it all on a kid that still had a lot of work to do to undo, oh, centuries of stuff. He hasn't even grown. He's a cub. He can't fight yet." Her fingers twitch as she tries to drag Matt into the shadow realm, hoping the creature's hold on him will be relinquished once Matt is only a shadow.

. o O (First, get Matt out of that thing's clutches. Second, if it can't be reasoned with, smash it.)

Matt goes shadowy, and falls through the wall, only his once pinned feet and shins are still visible.

The creature shreiks "Who are the protectors of the animals? Who are the ones who speak for us? The forests, the tundras, the plains and the rivers, the oceans, the deserts, all shrink, and we all die. Who speaks for the rest of the children of this world!?"

"Conservationists. The zoo keepers who love animals. Hippies," Grimm rattles off. "Matt, get up and out of that wall already," she calls at him. "I mean, really," she mutters as she turns into a shadow herself, translucent and dark. "So you feel the animals would be safer in a world without humans? Where the forests and rivers are plentiful? There are worlds out there like that. Where you can live out your days without human interference, and without losing more animals trying to cull the humans with their weapons and their fire. Wouldn't that be better?"

"We do not leave our kind behind..." it hisses.

Matt floats unsteadily out of the wall, even shadowy, the hurts he has endured are obvious. he can only float, even shadowy, he is in capable of nothing else.. "Gab...rielle..Can you bring it to see Gaia?"

"Well, we -could- just do that if you think Gaia can do anything to appease this angry spirit," Gabrielle mutters with her hands on her hips. "Though I was thinking of just opening a portal to let all these animals go. But I guess since you're a mess, we could just go to see the Wizard."

She and Matt both begin to solidify at the same time. Gabrielle is muttering under her breath. Something about constant distractions. Ever since she found out Malcolm was doomed to a terrible fate, she's been distracted again and again from finding a way of saving him. But it seems that will have to continue to take a back burner. And it eats at her.

"So how about it?" she asks the animal spirit. "Would you like to make your case to Gaia to cull the humans?"