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[color=9B9F94][h3][b]Assani 16th[/b][/h3]
[sub][b]Location:[/b] ReTan, A now annihilated mountain, Ogauraq Camp
[b]Day of the week:[/b] Pandes
[b]Time:[/b] Night
[b]Characters:[/b] Abdel, Dayanara, Rikard [@Force And Fury], Kaureerah, Ingrid [@dragonpiece], 
Valerian [@yoshua171], Trypano [@A Lowly Wretch], Yalen [@pantothenic], 
Wu Long, Golden Monkey, Lucky Dragon[/sub]

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[color=9e0039][i]What the hell am I doing here?![/i][/color]

Abdel had entered the cave with his colleagues, but he never truly wanted to. There was a sense of obligation that took over, and he even put up a brave face for his girlfriend when encouraging her to stay behind while he went to war. He regretted it all. The meeting with Brother Ash that turned into a battle with the Black Guard and a demonstration of power from Wu Long should’ve been enough to remind him of his place. He almost missed the popsicle state he had been forced into by Cold Soup when comparing the situation he was now in.

He took a light cut on his cheek from a White Guard he had attempted to control, while the other was successfully robbed of his free will and made to dance around Yalen as a human shield. The cut did not make Abdel panic, but the mild pain made him realize this was indeed all real.

[color=9e0039][i]... Daya?[/i][/color]

And in just an instant, his mighty Skuggvar, a beast that almost seemed invincible, had been ragdolled effortlessly by a golden blurr neither he or any other teammate was able to keep up with. Paranoid, he pushed his back against the stony wall behind him, terrified of what such a strike would do to his much frailer body. Abdel was sweating profusely, and eventually tears ran through his face.

[color=9e0039][i]Mister Escarra! Marci! Jocasta! Help …! I can’t do this![/i][/color]

Abdel was but a boy, far too young and experienced with the world. And now he was made to feel helpless, a mere audience member to the carnage that was going to take place. Waiting for his turn to be made a volunteer to Golden Monkey’s next magical display of sheer brutality.

[color=9e0039][i]Just do it already! This is worse than death![/i][/color]

[color=9e0039]“COME ON!”[/color]

But his turn never came. Instead, in the midst of his wallowing in despair, he had actually paid attention to his colleagues. They were still all in the fight despite the odds, with Ingrid in particular concocting something that [i]felt[/i] like it could match the obscene energy coming from the speedster. And, as his mind entered this bizarre transe of intense focus, he could finally lead the unfathomably fast target via his Tethered sensing. It was that Yasoi.

[color=9e0039][i]I can’t get a lock on but … Daya, I need you![/i][/color]

Focus on his puppet diminished, and instead he just barely managed to keep Golden Monkey in his peripheral vision while he tried to heal his beast. It was [i]just[/i] enough to get her to stand again and [i]glare[/i] at the assailant. Aided by her master, she sniped the monkey in his rare halt, failing to strike true but offering an opportunity for the others to position the ape just right.

It was all coming together like a perfect equation. The portal, Ingrid’s nuclear preparation, Trypano’s web, Rykard’s tenacity, Yalen’s crowd management. It was going to culminate into a finale the Godly ape couldn’t see. A glimmer of hope shined in Abdel’s eyes, and so he positioned his Skuggvar to ensure this outcome.

[color=9e0039][i]Wait … No.[/i][/color]

Then he sensed Valerian. The odd addition to their team he had barely seen. A dapper fellow, one that easily impressed a youth like Abdel. But what he sensed was anything but impressive.

[color=9e0039][i]No! NO! Stop![/i][/color]

[color=9e0039]“NO!”[/color]

He shouted, but he had no real prowess in sonic magic. What he was good at was Magnetic magic, and he could practically SMELL the copper melt and the magnetic charge weaken to oblivion. The heat was too much and the outcome was nothing good with the trajectory it was going. What was a perfect equation turned into a perfect disaster. Little did he know just how accurate that view was.

[i]Ba-bump. Ba-bump.[/i]

Everything went quiet. All he could see and hear was the tinnitus-inducing screech of Ingrid’s spell. Before any other could, Abdel ran. Where? He didn’t know, but he ran and got closer to whoever he could find. The only way he’d survive is if he was mobile.

[color=9e0039]“RUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNN!”[/color]

Abdel yelled. No need for sonic magic, he strained his vocal cords just for this. Dayanara sensed the signal near-instantly and got to dashing as well.

Portals opened just as the explosion was about to pop. His running paid off and he made it to one before most. And so did the bullrushing Dayanara that likely carried a couple of strays that latched onto her in the last two seconds they had.

Once home free, right at the edge of the portal, Abdel turned.

[color=9e0039][i]Move, move![/i][/color]

Abdel didn’t think, he just acted. He had no idea what he was doing, but he created an electro-magnetic barrier to delay the Cataclysm for under half a second. It was, hopefully, enough for any straggler to make it.

He did not hear the explosion. The young Tethered was propelled back just as the portal closed, landing on his back and coughing dust. He was alive, despite his stupid choice to not keep running.

[color=9e0039]“Damn …”[/color]

Abdel sat up, body sore from all the exercise and taking a ton of kinetic energy all of a sudden. His vision was settling. First quads, then triples, then doubles, and finally he could see one of these non-speaking giants. It kneeled before him and offered their hand. Abdel blinked and accepted it. He then looked around and saw more of these big people, in a camp with a few others that seemed to have come out of a portal too.

[color=9e0039]“Did … They all make it?”[/color]

He inquired sheepishly, his mind gravitating to the three girls that mattered most to him.
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