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[color=d7d0e7]"Spirits, you're a slow bastard!"[/color] Jin taunted as they nimbly dodged yet another heavy swing from Shao's heavy metal fist. [color=d7d0e7]"Is that how you lost your arm? Got your stupid fingers caught in the door?"[/color] They were doing everything to keep Shao pissed off and on the offensive. Jin let him burn off energy with every swing, dodging at the last possible moment. But they'd long since done the math. Jin was exhausted. The knife in their hands had done little more than scratch Shao. The adrenaline and spite keeping them upright would run out, a lot faster than Shao's strength would. Despite the continued taunting and the smile on their face, Jin knew they were going to lose at this rate. They had to attack, but how? One bad move and Shao would crush them flat.

[color=d7d0e7]"C'mon, fucker. What are you, tired?"[/color]

Before they could put any particular plan into action, an anguished scream startled them. Their gaze flicked to track it, but they could hardly believe the source. 141... was in pain. [color=d7d0e7]"Holy shit, there's a person in - OOF!"[/color]
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An upward swing from Shao took advantage of the momentary distraction and struck Jin on the side of their head, disrupting their dance around him. Although it wasn’t quite enough to knock them out or knock them off their feet, it was no small hit.
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Jin staggered with pain and nearly fell, the copper tang of blood filling their mouth. The world tilted. One of the contacts had gone flying into the dirt, leaving their gaze lopsided. Their ear rung where they'd been hit, and they could swear one of their teeth was loose.

Was this really it? To survive the endless grind of the Lower Ring and the Underground beneath. To live through LSF "recruitment" and training…

To survive when Lady Cho and so many of their sisters hadn't…

To taste the sun on Nelu's lips tonight…

All of that, for a death in the dark?

[B]No.[/B] 

They'd promised Nelu things would be fine. They'd promised him. And that promise would be kept.

Jin adjusted the grip on the knife. Silently they leaned forward, and gestured to Shao with their free hand - come at me.
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Shao grunted in frustration, clearly annoyed that so small a person was as resilient as they were. It was also becoming increasingly apparent that the seemingly one sided dance was not one sided at all. All across his body were small, shallow cuts. Most were not nearly deep enough to draw blood, but the fact they were there at all was proof of Jin’s skill and speed. They weren’t simply dancing around his every strike, they were striking back too, slowly poking at his defense and searching for something they could exploit. Plus, all the wild swinging was doing little else than wearing him out and he was getting very little in return for all his effort.

[color=white]”You know, the rest of us used to look up to you.”[/color] Shao said to Jin when the echoes from 141’s screams finally subsided. He raised his arms and began walking toward them, his palms up in an inquisitive gesture although his metal arm was very obviously pointed directly at Jin. [color=white]”What happened, huh? How much they pay you?”[/color]

Halfway to Jin, Shao’s open left hand was launched at Jin’s throat.
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Zhen’s head was pounding from the noise of 141, and her skin felt the heat of the lava even through the layers of armor she wore. While Hunang had been conjuring the lava, Zhen had summoned an air scooter, and ran far away from it, zig-zagging across the floor in an intentionally erratic dodging pattern. Lava-bending was quite rare, total number of live observations ranking in the single digits from what Zhen recalled of the LSF database. Difficult to fight, extremely destructive, but at least the lava itself was often slow moving.
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Hunang spun around, revealing to a retreating Zhen just how effective her earlier move had been. Blood poured from an open gash in Hunang’s forehead and drenched half her face, pooling beneath her feet as they began to shift into a more light and fluid stance. Despite the severity of her injury, she was keen to ignore it and remained fixed on the airbender as they continued to zigzag across the chamber. It was obvious to her now that her slower, more powerful attacks would do her no good against someone so well versed in their use of air, and if she wanted to accomplish anything, her attacks would have to be quick and precise. Instead of planting her feet into the ground like before, she began bouncing on the balls of her feet. Periodically, a light step would  become a heavy stomp. Each time her heel made contact with the ground, a cube of dirt would pop out of the floor and a quick arm thrust would catapult it toward Zhen. Frustratingly however, Zhen remained as slippery as ever. Each block of earth would narrowly miss the airbender and smash instead into the wall behind Zhen or bounced erratically off the corners and edges of raised platforms. The airbender was impossible to hit.
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As Zhen continued to dodge, she surveyed the battlefield and gathered her strength for a powerful airblast, one aimed at sending someone off their feet. She had it, and she motioned towards Hunang; but Hunang was not where the blast was actually aimed. Thanks to her remote bending, Kata was the one in the crosshairs. Hopefully, if it landed, he’d end up getting tossed right into the middle of the rest of the fray.
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Hunang reacted, swinging her arms up in front of herself and yanking a dirt wall out of the ground to block what she thought was an attack aimed at her.[/color][/quote]
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[color=777777]The dense ball air slammed into the side of Katakuri’s face, throwing him back and into the ground a few yards away from 141. The screaming finally stopped. When Katakuri came to rest, he found himself on his back, staring at the earthen ceiling and metal industrial fans far above him. How he ended up here when only a moment a ago he was watching a hole open up inside 141 he did not know. All he knew for sure was that something solid not unlike a fist had struck him with enough force to knock him on his ass and daze the hell out of him. He also knew he had no time to figure out the who or what. From somewhere else in the chamber, amidst a cacophony of crumbling rock and angry wind biting at the air, he could make out the unmistakable angry roar of 141.

With Katakuri momentarily stunned and Hunang fully distracted thanks to Zhen, 141 took the opportunity to break free from its makeshift prison. It flexed against rock and stone, growling angrily as the packed earth holding him in place began to shatter. Within a matter of seconds, 141 managed to thrust its arm free, flinging a large slab of earth away from it and tossing more dust and debris into the air. Not a moment later and its other arm was freed too, as was the dirt pinched around its waist loosened just enough for it to escape. 141 wasted no time, locating a prone Katakuri on his back not far away and immediately leaping out of the hole it'd been half buried in. It cleared the distance between himself and Katakuri in a single leap.

[color=b64040]”Shit!”[/color] Katakuri panicked. Flame jets erupted from his hands and feet and he jettisoned himself away from 141 just as the creature landed over him and swung, slamming a fist into the ground and burying its hand down to the wrist. It again immediately tried to pursue, but when it attempted to pull its hand free, the packed dirt around its wrist refused to budge. It clung to 141 unnaturally, holding him in place despite the way 141 tried to pry itself free. Blood poured from the charred wound in its chest and splatter on the floor with every desperate yank and grunt until finally it realized what was wrong. It turned in time to see Hunang, back in her more rigid stance with both hands in the air, bring her hands down with deliberate force in front of her. From above, a large section of the earthen dome fell away from the ceiling. A cube the size of a very small room fell through the chamber and landed directly on top of 141. The sound of the impact was like that of a thunderclap trapped in a bowl and once again, more dust was tossed into the already saturated air. Where it had landed, the jagged seam between the ground and shaped earth began to glow red orange.

Katakuri left 141 to its fate and refocused his effort on the airbender whose path Katakuri’s escape had put him in front of. Gaining some small amount of air until he was angled in such a way that he would eventually pass over Zhen, Katakuri repositioned the jets of fire pouring from his hands down toward the ground and turned those jets into a large curtain of flame engulfing the entirety of the immediate area ahead of Zhen. 
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