Unchainer/Unchainer Unchained
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[edit] Unchainer Unchained
One day while in Bloody Bay, a man with black wings and an odd symbol on his chest appeared to Unchainer, demanding that she release the power of her curse to him. She refused, and the man walked off with the promise that he would return. Days later, Unchainer was ambushed by a woman in a building in St. Martial, who sought to take her life and salvage the curse she bore from her dead body. However, the woman underestimated Unchainer's command over the curse and was killed.
The mysterious winged man, realizing quickly that Unchainer was more powerful than they reckoned for, decided to hire help. He knew the secret behind her powers, and hired the mercenary Naughty Nadya to either capture Unchainer and bring her to him, or to bring her chains. Nadya agreed, and it seemed that the hunt for Unchainer's powers was on.
Nadya encountered Unchainer the next day in the D and utilized her love of red wine against her, slipping a drug into her wine and offering Unchainer the chance to see her own large wine collection. Unchainer agreed and the two left the D and went to Sharkhead. However, due to her light body weight, Unchainer began to feel the affects of the drug, and with a swift hit to the neck she was unconscious. Nadya brought Unchainer back to her hideout and left her there, returning to the D.
Unknown to Unchainer, there were those in the D who knew something was a miss. Luficia, Kat Kisses, and Thag Zug had noticed Nadya's suspicious interactions with Unchainer and demanded to know where she was. Push came to shove, and eventually numerous people attempted to fight Nadya. Though not all of them were victorious, Luficia managed to strike a deal with Nadya. Unchainer would be delivered to Luficia in Bloody Bay the next day, without her chains.
Sure enough the next day, Luficia arrived in Bloody Bay to find Unchainer barely conscious inside of an empty trash container without her chains. Left in a state of panic, Unchainer took Luficia's cellphone and frantically called Thyra to come get her. Thyra arrived and the two left, though Unchainer was much worse for the wear.
Nadya delivered the chains to the contact and received her payment. However, before the man could enact whatever plan he had, Nadya turned the tables and killed him, keeping the chains for her own use. The next few days were difficult for Unchainer, being forced out into the open without her chains, along with a bragging Nadya, holding the chains over her head like a prize.
This ended from a completely unexpected source; Unchainer's nemesis, Kichi. When the Flame Assassin found out someone else was causing Unchainer this much grief and anguish, she became determined to stop them, not out of care for the woman, but because it was not her causing the pain. She confronted Nadya and demanded the chains back, the conditions being if the two fought and won, Nadya would hand over the chains. After much debating back and forth, Nadya accepted, though she brought along three of her friends to the fight. Not one to walk into a bad situation, Kichi recruited Fearghas, Unchained Melodie, and Trevor Pillman to fight. The group fought, with Kichi's side coming out victorious. Angered, Nadya tossed the chains to Kichi's feet and stormed off. Kichi returned the chains to Unchainer, but promised that she did this only so that she would be able to kill Unchainer completely, and not feel that she was merely finishing someone else's job.
[edit] The Flame Assassin's Fury
Despite the aid from Kichi, Unchainer was determined to exact her vengeance. In her previous attempt to control Kichi, Unchainer was utterly defeated. But things were different now, she had more control over her powers than she ever did; in fact, in the few skirmishes that she and Kichi had, Unchainer had emerged the victor more times than before. It was time to attempt to bind and control the Flame Assassin again.
Unchainer lured Kichi into a warehouse in St. Martial and began her assault. In a surprise, Unchainer had the edge over the Kichi, but she could tell the woman was holding back. Full of hubris from her new powers, Unchainer demanded Kichi unleash all that she had, including her 'other' side. Kichi finally agreed, after testing Unchainer against her Mu Mystic, Herbie. Unchainer released Kichi's hidden side and prepared to defeat her once and for all.
However, Kichi was stil more than Unchainer could handle, and was soundly defeated by her lightning speed and quick reflexes. Still being controlled by her "evil" side, Kichi delivered a message to Unchainer to not try that again by stabbing her katana into each of Unchainer's legs, and then threatened Unchainer's future child. Much like their previous encounter, Unchainer bound the evil Kichi before any more could happen. Seeing the sight of Unchainer's feet barely attached to her legs, Kichi wrapped them in her scarf and departed. And once again, it would be Thyra who would rescue Unchainer from the warehouse.
Back in their secret lair off the coast of Sharkhead, Thyra realized that Unchainer's feet were far too damaged to try to reattach, and was force to cut the remaining off. Unchainer was horrified at the prospect of never having feet again, but Thyra had a plan. Over the next day or two, Thyra used her vast knowledge of medicine and technology to construct a new pair of feet for Unchainer and attached them to her legs. After a few days, Unchainer was good as new, at least physically. Emotionally, her grudge against Kichi was larger than ever, and she was bent on ending it once and for all.
Some time later in the D, Unchainer proposed to Kichi that they fight in the arena, much like the two always do. Kichi agreed, not needing too much of a reason to try to fight Unchainer. This match was different however; Thyra had rigged this specific match to teleport the two outside of the arena match and into a specific area of the Isles. Kichi didn't seem to mind much, as it meant getting to truly hurt Unchainer again. But Unchainer was prepared this time, and with a push of a button, froze over the lake that Kichi was standing in. The two fought briefly, Unchainer wounding Kichi with make-shift ice bullets in her revolver and an ice sword. However, the arena system glitched and fixed itself, causing the two to teleport back into the D with all their wounds.
After much arguing back and forth, in which the two stated their reasons for fighting, Unchainer stating that she must protect her future child, Kichi stating she had to protect her own family, the two came to a temporary cease-fire, under the agreement that they would not try to kill each other again. Though those present would probably say the likelyhood of that lasting would be very, very small.
[edit] Recovery and Resurgence
After her bout with Kichi, Unchainer slowly began to recover from her numerous wounds, both physically and emotionally. It would be a few weeks later that some would notice her stomach growing larger, not from fat, but clearly from what appeared to be a child. The news of Unchainer being pregnant seemed to baffle mostly everyone who heard it, save for Thyra. Before any could make lude suggestions about Thyra's gender, the two would explain that it was through science, and not some perverse twist of the human anatomy that Unchainer became pregnant. It is for this reason why many have not seen Unchainer drink her usual red wine in the summer months in the D, though she still seems quite able to start trouble or cause mayhem or chaos during her early months of pregnancy.
It would be during her early stages of pregnancy that Unchainer, seemingly for the first time, performed a good deed. The abomination known as Mr. Hide had one day set his sights on Unchainer's, "purty skin" and "purty hair" in the D, after causing Vexx Vandal and Crimson Cutlass in the D much...weirdness, at his fetish for his skin suit of a woman. Mr. Hide briefly ran his hand on her face and hair, causing Unchainer unimaginable annoyance at that. Not one to allow herself to be touched in such a disgusting way, she went along with his desire to take her to his "play area" to see if she could survive his rides. Once she was outside of the D, she turned and viciously attacked the man, the combination of her decay powers, her gun, and her knife overwhelming Mr. Hide, causing him to retreat into the D before Unchainer could decay his suit into pieces. Since then she has been on the look out for the man, all too eager to destroy the suit and give the man beneath it his proper punishment for such a disgusting act.
[edit] A Hex, A Cheerleader, and The Pirates
During their travels, Thyra and Unchainer one day retrieved a book of magic, which detailed various curses, or rather "Hexes" to put onto people. The two read over the book (though this part was mostly done by Thyra) over a few days, curious as to which hex did what to certain people. Then one night, the two struck upon one that Unchainer enjoyed greatly; a hex that would shift someone's personality into that of a bubbly, flirty, and carefree young woman, almost like a cheerleader. Without a second thought, the two knew who their target would be: Kichi. They enacted the hex and sure enough, after a few hours, Kichi was turned into what could only be described as a cheerleader version of herself, much to the amusement of Unchainer and Thyra.
Unchainer opted to visit Kichi during the first few hours of her transformation to view it, tipping off the Pirate group, The Dread Aces, of her involvement in whatever was causing this to her. Jet Nitro tried to investigate further and offer Unchainer anything she wanted to have Kichi returned back to normal. At first, Unchainer could think of nothing. Thyra, however, immedietely had an idea once Unchainer spoke to her of it. Kichi loved dancing, and had also removed Unchainer's feet. So then, their deal would be Kichi's hex would be removed at the cost of one of her feet being chopped off and frozen.
Unchainer presented the deal to the Dread Aces. Their captain, Crimson Cutlass, reluctantly agreed to it, only due to the insistance of Kichi to get it over with. Unchainer blindfolded Kichi and Sungazer, who insisted on going as well, and brought them the lair. Thyra was there waiting to perform the procedure, and after the hex was removed, she sliced off Kichi's foot with her large axe and froze it over. However, Unchainer failed to remove the communicator's from Sungazer and Kichi, allowing the Dread Aces to track down their lair. Caught by surprise, Thyra and Unchainer could not fight off the entire crew of the Aces and were defeated, with Kichi retrieving her foot. Though they were defeated, the two were only fueled further to strengthen themselves, and as well knew that they now had a new enemy to go up against, the Dread Aces, as long as they insisted on getting in the way of future plots against Kichi.
[edit] Appolonia
Unchainer's pregnancy was not a normal one. For reasons unknown to herself (though the most logical conclusion would be because of her powers somehow) the progress of the pregnancy sped up after three months. She went from being three months pregnant one week to nearly six months the next, the harsh change wracking her body. She would only be seen in the D for limited periods of time, and the people of the Isles could breath a sigh of relief knowing she would temporarily not be causing terror and chaos to them.
Her pregnancy continued to speed up at an abnormal pace, until the point came where she went from 8 months to 9 months pregnant in merely two days. It was on September 14th, 2007, that she gave birth to a baby girl within the medical facilities of her and Thyra's lair, and with Thyra's aid of course. The two agreed that if the child was a girl, Thyra would be the one to name it, and thus she chose the name Appolonia. After a few days of recuperations from the ordeal, Unchainer is nearly back to her former physical shape, ready to continue her old ways, along with raising her little girl with Thyra.
[edit] The Devil's Dagger
In her ongoing search for magical artifacts, Unchainer found out about an ancient Egyptian dagger, once believed to have belonged to a dark cult long ago. The story went as so:
There were whispers that this dagger was infused with the darkest of magic, its true purpose being an enhancer. Whomever wielded the dagger would find their own dark magic enhanced two-fold. The dagger passed from person to person, sometimes being merely a decoration in a home, other times being the key artifact to enhance some person's power to cause destruction.
The dagger eventually found itself over in the new world, America. The numerous owners it had there are not recorded, however at one point it fell into the hands of a Mexican deserter after the failed attempt to retake Texas. The dagger then slowly moved southwards, out of Mexico and into South America. The last piece of actual documentation was found in the diary of a man who lived on Archdevil's Island, off the coast of South America. He wrote that in order to protect it, he would bring it to the ancient ruins on the island and leave it as deep as possible, in the hopes that no one would discover the cursed artifact.
Unchainer, however, discovered it, through a mistake from the Circle of Thorns. One of their lower minions had papers on them showing the location of the dagger, as well as what it could do. Seeing the chance to increase her powers, Unchainer made her move.
Vidunder, someone who Unchainer knew had issues with a hidden personality, was the perfect choice for a person to use. She could have, of course, found anyone else with ease but it would be much more fun for her to stir trouble with the Aces. Under the pretense of a, "you help me, I help you" deal, Unchainer enlisted Vidunder's aid, so long as in return Rose would seal Vidunder's other side. The mercenary Lunar Wolf was hired as well to be their guide to the ruins in Devil's Island.
Unchainer and Vidunder arrived to the island and were led by Lunar Wolf to the ruins, where the Circle of Thorn were currently exploring. The three fought off the Circle and went inside, where Lunar Wolf left, under the pretense that he was not being paid for anything more than being a guide. Unchainer and Vidunder went deep inside of the ruins until they found the dagger, being guarded by a large, animated totem. The two defeated the great guardian, and the "Devil's Dagger" was acquired by Unchainer. They returned to the Isles, where Rose sealed Vidunder's other side, as promised.
With her ancient dagger and the Devil's dagger, Unchainer's decaying powers reached a new height. She was now able to twist them in such a way that she could slowly regenerate her own wounds. With practice, she would be able to do it faster and on larger wounds. However, she was still no fighter, and it would be best to avoid any hand to hand combat. Unchainer needed to find yet another artifact, one that would provide her with the cover to easily rip someone's spine out with her new-found daggers...
This was soon found when she heard a museum in Paragon was holding an ancient chain, known to make the wearer invisible. Seeing the opportunity was a foot, Unchainer made a plan to find out how exactly to get this chain. The plan came in the form of a young heroine who Unchainer ran into during a previous heist. Unchainer discovered the heroine's father was missing and crafted a story involving knowledge of his location. The two struck up a deal. Unchainer secretly sent two of the Thorns of Rose to rob the museum. The heroine would stop these two, not knowing they were part of Unchainer's gang, and in return would simply bring Unchainer the chain. The plan worked out perfectly, though Unchainer never did go through on her part of the bargain to reveal where the young girl's father was.
