Amity's ears rang.
Somehow she'd ended up on the floor.
The entire building was.. on fire..?
When did that even happen...?

Right.
An explosion.
The others had charged in behind her.. but they were gone now?
It had thrown her across the room, and she'd slammed into a large piece of sharp.. something.
No.
Looking down at her stomach, Amity noticed the giant piece of metal piercing through her gut. It was something from the kitchen, she figured, something that had exploded and shot conveniently towards her.
It hurt.

Of course it hurt, Amity, it was a giant piece of metal jutting from your stomach.
Gritting her teeth and pulling herself upwards, Amity let out a pained yelp as she fell forward.
The skin on her back was practically melted.
Flames burned brightly around her, the entire house lit up like a fireworks exhibit. Amity felt the heat, sweating from it, her eyes watering and sizzling a little in their sockets.

It. Hurt.
It. Really. Fucking. Hurt.
Amity reached forward, grabbing the floor and jamming her burnt fingers into it to rip herself across the ground. The kitchen had been the epicenter of the blast. That's why she'd taken a hit.
Several hits, actually, but she barely noticed. Her lungs burned as she breathed in flames, choking herself on the heat.
That's it.
Get as much pain as possible.
Fill yourself with it.

That Jotun is your kill.
No matter how much pain you feel.
No matter how much agony you're in.
No matter if your body is breaking apart.
That Jotun is your kill.

Gritting her teeth, Amity let the pain mix with the anger. With a scream that built up in her burning lungs as she staggered to her feet, a monstrous scream ripped itself from her vocal cords and filled the air louder than the crackling of the fire.
She took a step, numb to everything except the pain, and then took another.
Her leg snapped as the fracture it had sustained from the blast turned into a break, but Amity simply roared and stomped hard on the floor, rocking the entire building and forcing herself to move.
Unfortunately, the bone now jutted out from her shin like a spike.

Another step, another, Amity heaved and panted like an animal. Her entire body was now coated in flames.
She was blinded by rage.
Also by fire, but that's not relevant to her.

Where was the Jotun?!

Amity noticed her sword on the floor beside her and she grabbed it, letting out a pained noise like that of an injured animal as the searing metal branded itself on her palm.
She gripped it tightly.
The hilt crunched under her grip, snapping from the immense force.

Amity's healing was fighting off the flames, her body constantly burning and healing and burning again and again in an endless, painful cycle.
She sniffed.
She smelled the Jotun, saw where it had evacuated the burning house.
She tossed her sword through the hole, watching it slam into the Jotun's palm and sink deep into the ground below it, effectively pinning the thing to the floor.
Amity quickly did a self-check.
It didn't look good.
Left leg, broken.
Spine, injured.
Left arm, shattered in several places.
Face, burned and scarred and still twisted with animosity.
The pain was almost overwhelming.

She could work with these odds.

Amity leaped.

She crashed through the same hole the Jotun did, slamming into the ground still ablaze and pulling herself to her feet. Her body, still ablaze, glowed a bright red that seemed utterly unnatural. The fire had burnt msot of her clothing right off, exposing her skin except in the place she'd prefer nobody else saw.
Convenient.
Like the Jotun, Amity's body was crisscrossed with lines but hers were of bright crimson that started from the Rune on her stomach and covered the rest of her form like cracks that bled scarlet light. The Berserker took a quick look around and snarled, launching herself at the Jotun as it swiped at Oren and tackling it away from her. Amity rolled, eventually managing to grab the Jotun's throat and slam it into the ground beneath her. Gritting her teeth tightly, Amity pulled back with inhuman speed and slammed her clenched, bloody fist into the Jotun's nose with enough force to push it's skull back into the concrete below it and shatter the ground it hit. She lifted her fist again, slamming the Jotun's face full of rage-fulled punches and strangling it at the same time.
Taking a moment to stop, the shockwave wind from her punches having essentially put the fire engulfing her out, Amity leaped away and grabbed the Jotun's leg at the same time, yanking it through the air and over her head to slam it face-first into the concrete. Her hands sizzled painfully as she clutched the thing's burning limb, pulling it back over her head and slamming it into the concrete again. The ground shattered below it with each throw and Amity grinned savagely.

She slammed the Jotun into the floor again, its body still billowing with flames before she let go of the Jotun's leg and stood up, savagely stomping on the thing's face over and over again, strong enough to push it into the ground below them. Panting hard, Amity reached down and pulled the piece of metal from her chest. It was slow at first, but she needed to act quickly.

She screamed as she wrenched the piece of metal from her stomach, blood splattering across the pavement and glowing slightly before dulling. Amity hurriedly slammed the piece of metal into the Jotun's own stomach, pushing down on it until it slid deep into the thing's body and stayed there. Stepping backwards, she felt her broken bones intruding upon her rage-filled consciousness and winced a little, the fire in her eyes dying just a little as she began to feel the effects of her body overexerting itself.
This was probably the longest she'd fought a Jotun for- the fire had come out of absolutely nowhere for her and she'd never expected an Ice Giant to burn her clothes almost all off.
First time for everything, she supposed.

Gritting her teeth, Amity lumbered away and sank to her knees, her body finally giving in on her. She was absolutely drained, the fire having chewed up the majority of her healing abilities and the broken bones were only just starting to repair themselves as she crouched there. She didn't know if the Jotun was dead or not, but she was sure she'd given the thing a good run for its money.
Like nobody else probably could.

She bowed her head, panting hard and loud as she reached up and touched her face softly. The burns were already fading, which was good, but her Berserker rage was already leaving her.
Swallowing painfully, Amity coughed up a bit of blood and wiped her mouth.
"[color=#CC0000]Go grab the thing, Oren..[/color]"
Her voice was soft and gravelly, pained.
She'd done her job.
Now they just had to make sure the thing wasn't going to escape.

[hr]

Kana listened to Gael idly, her eyes focused on the show down the road.
Then there was a rather loud explosion.
"[color=#037635]That wouldn't be enough by far.[/color]"

Watching Gael get giddy with excitement and probably hunger as well, Kana chuckled to herself a little. Taking the candy offered to her, Kana bit it apart and swallowed it- stick included. Her eyes were still trained on the show down down by the house.

"[color=#037635]The real show starts now, little brother.[/color]"
The faintest of grins.

And then a burning monster lunged out of the house, got tripped over, took a swipe at a Rune, and then was promptly tackled and beaten up by yet another burning monster. Kana watched Amity toss the Jotun around like a ragdoll, screaming and roaring all the while.
She'd been waiting to see the redhead's true colours in person.
It was breathtaking how much of a monster she really was.
"[color=#037635]That one's mine, Niddy, so please don't eat her even if she absolutely reeks of sins, but yes, the entertainment was great.[/color]" Kana giggled to herself, letting her oversized tongue flop out of her mouth and wiggle a little before she slurped it up, licked her lips slowly, and then slurped it into her mouth. Cracking her neck, Kana took a step away from the wall and narrowed her eyes.
Something else smelled around here.
Her eyes narrowed.

It smelled like.. dog?
The scent was faint, very faint, but it was still there.
Kana instinctively hated it.
Part of her wanted to go check it out, but she wasn't sure if she'd be able to stop herself from spitting at whatever carried it.
She hated dogs, you see.
Clearing her throat, Kana watched the fun down the road die down before reaching over and ruffling Gael's hair energetically.
"[color=#037635]It's like an anime. I'm surprised nobody died.
Oh, wait, plenty of people died.
Ah, but if you die in the prologue, you mustn't be very important anyway, right? That's how anime works.
Cheap deaths to pull on heartstrings or progress the plot. Shame this isn't an anime..
... Is it..?![/color]"
Kana whirled around, trying to catch a camera watching them. She turned her head to look behind her.. and kept going like her name was Regan and she was trying to unnerve some priests.
"[color=#037635]I'd advise waiting a little while before going in to feed. There's a very keen-eyed person keeping watch over the site. They smell delicious, so I might eat them later, but for now I'm a good hero and I won't. For now. It all depends on if they increase my Affinity Bar to 100% before starting the final quest, y'know?
Y'don't know?
Nevermind then, buddy.[/color]"

Grinning from ear to ear, Kana watched as her favourite human in the world kneeled on the floor and barely held onto consciousness.
If she want in now..
Kana drooled a little, but reached up and wiped her mouth.
Not just yet.
But eventually..
She'd be delicious and Kana would enjoy her thoroughly.