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VS
Storm Bird
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Yukari Yozakura, Dulga Tarata, Aegis
VS
Tomoe Kishitmoto
As Kaida went to confront the other two Yukari ran n from a drain pipe, which hopefully would give Yukari the chance to blind them with her makeshift dirt bomb and bind them up. She really didn’t want to hurt anyone, but she wasn’t afraid to get physical with them. If she could wrap them up with the capturing cloth or the ring cuffs, that’s basically like beating them in a fight.
When the footsteps grew close enough Yukari sprang out. She twirled rapidly through the air, her long pink twintails spiralling around her. In a flash the ball of dirt flew towards Jett but didn’t hit him. Instead it exploded right in front of him creating a dirt cloud, followed by two of the ring cuffs being thrown through the cloud to his chest and thighs. With any luck both would hit and Jett would be subdued but Yukari knew it wasn’t going to be that easy. She landed on her feet like a cat and took on her fighting stance. ”Give up! I don’t want to hurt you but I’m not afraid to fight you!”
Jett sighed when Kasuke went after Kaida, slightly relieved, but worried as well. He noticed the no nonsense look in her eye before he turned his gaze around to look for the others. He suspected Dulga wouldn’t be anywhere near them, as she was carrying a rifle. She would probably be trying to take people from a distance. It left Yukari or Momoru. Both difficult, especially more so without his quirk. But he hoped it wasn’t Yukari, he didn’t have anything that was really effective against her like a blade...even then that would be hard to use it on her.
He got caught off guard as dirt suddenly hit the ground in front of him and exploded. His reflexes kicked in and he dove to his left, feeling something glance off his thigh as he barely dodged the two rings he didn’t see coming. He tucked and rolled, getting back to his feet effortlessly, He looked up to see Yukari landing and telling him to surrender. In his case, he didn’t have any real chance at beating her head on. She was rubber and any of his powerful kicks, or hit with his staff, or even his gun is basically worthless. He also knew she would just tie him up with her arms if he got too close.
He couldn’t let Kasuke go against her as well, she had even less options than he. Jett took a few steps forward “Sorry Yukari, You know I can’t do that.” He did have a plan though, ever since finding out she was in his class, he thought about how he could defeat her. He did have a few times he could use, but he didn’t want to use them THIS early.
He tapped the end of his staff on the concrete once to gain her attention before bolting past her, breaking his staff into two batons once again and diving through an open window, not expecting to see a dining table right there but rolled roughly over it and knocking the chairs over. He knew she would be right behind him and quickly made his way to the kitchen, quickly going for the one spot everyone put their cleaning supplies.
Yukari didn’t visibly react when she heard Jett’s voice. She was a little bit scared. She liked Jett, but she couldn’t go easy on him either. Plus he knew what she could do and probably thought about how to fight her. Yukari hopes that he underestimates her, but she couldn’t underestimate him. When he tried to dive through the window she stretched out to grab at him but missed, instead grabbing the window still. She pulled herself inside the room just inches after Jett, and along the way pull out one of her flashbangs. She didn’t know what Jett was planning but she had a nasty surprise for him when she tossed the grenade onto the floor. She heard Jett rustling on the ground so Yukari tossed three of the ring cuffs, but only one was going right at him. The other two flew off to the side to catch Jett in case he tried to roll off to the side. Then the flashbang went off. From what she heard, Yukari always thought flashbangs just made really bright lights that blinded people. But now she also learned they made really loud noises too.
”OW SHIT!”
Yukari screamed as the explosion nearly popped her eardrums. She immediately fell to the ground clutching her ears in painful agony. She knew Jett was still here but she couldn’t hear him at all, and she only sort of smelled him in the same room. So she just started swinging her arms wildly hoping maybe she’d clip him with her hand and latch onto him.
When Jett opened the cabinet under the sink, heard a clatter of a small metallic object thrown into the kitchen. “Oh...sh..” He didn’t have time to close his eyes as he was shocked Yukari would use such a device. With her own sensitivity to noise. The bang was deafening. Luckily he wasn’t looking directly at the flashbang, but still the light was blinding. And the force of concussion knocked him from his crouched position to his hip.
His ears were ringing from the explosion, and everything seemed to slow down, muffled heavily. He heard a deep yell, mixed with his own. He reached out his hand to try and grab the counter when it was suddenly hit by something hard, wrapping itself around his left hand and pinning his fingers together. The hit of that hurt like hell, causing him to cuss.
He looked back towards where he came from, everything was blurry, dark and constantly moving on it’s own. But he could see Yukari on her hands and knees flailing with one hand with some ring. Looking to his own hand he saw the same thing. Restraints.
He fumbled with his other hand under the sink blindly and grabbed the item he was originally looking for. Ammonia. He knew this stuff was highly corrosive and irritating to skin and eyes, so he didn’t want to throw chemicals in her face. But he needed that foul smell. Squeezing the bottle to his chest with his right arm, and awkwardly gripped the lid with his right hand. He ripped it open and dumped some of it directly onto the ground between Yukari and himself, His eyes started to water at it as he at the same time scrambled to get up, looking like a drunkard as his balance was still suffering from the blast of the concussion. He crawled onto counter ungracefully. Now safe from immediate danger of being restrained he rested for a second, trying to get his wits about him.
The smell hit Yukari as soon as Jett opened the bottle. Bleach, or some sort of strong cleaning chemical. She always hated that stuff, it was too much for her nose. She immediately pulled her arm back to cover her nose, but without her scent she was worse than blind, since she couldn’t hear anything either. Nothing but constant ringing. She at least knew where she was relative to the room, and could feel a breeze from the window. She wasn’t in a good situation right now though so it was time to retreat. She jumped out of the window and moved southish, mostly thanks to dumb luck. She grabbed her communicator and tried to contact Dulga and the others.
”Ow ow ow ow…. Dulga-san, I… I can’t hear anything, but Jett, he’s in one of the buildings. Kaida is fighting Mina. I’m heading your way, I think, or maybe I should find Kaida?” Yukari said, somewhat confused. She was so hopeful for her first fight too. Pocketing her communicator Yukari shook her head and tried not to lose hope. ”No, I have to keep fighting. I have to find Kaida. I can help her.” Though blind and deaf, she could vaguely smell Kaida’s scent to the east. Hopefully by the time she gets over there the ringing in her ears would be gone and she could help Kaida take out Mina. Even if it wasn’t Ezra or Jett, it would at least be one person less from Team A.
Jett felt horrible using this dirty trick on her, but it had to be done. while she was fumbling to get out of the window, He got off the counter and picked up the lid to the ammonia and tightened it, stuffing it in his back pouch. He also picked up the two extra restrains she threw at him that were laying on the floor and added those to his pouch as well. Even though he didn’t have a key, they still could be useful. He then slipped both of his batons back into the sheath on his back before quickly following Yukari as fast as he could. He needed to get that key off of her to get this restraint off his hand. While it didn’t hinder him, it was extremely annoying, and sure to get in the way if he got in a tight spot.
Dulga got Yukari’s message and sighed. She guessed that she had expected too much from just the two of them. ”You got that message Akasha? Let’s get moving.” Dulga slung her rifle over her shoulder and jumped out from the second story, landing on the ground with a solid thud before running northward. She had heard some sort of explosion up north, so she guessed that’s where Jett and Yukari was. Since they weren’t using lethals Dulga knew it had to be a flashbang, since it also made Yukari deaf. Dulga just wondered if it was Jett or Yukari who threw it. Either way Dulga had her shotgun out in case Jett was still nearby and ready to fight. ”Akasha, cover Yukari, I’ll take out Jett.”
Mamoru followed Dulga out of the window, landing on her shield and rolling to her feet. ”Awesome! And here I thought I’d be bored.” Mamoru raised her shield and ran ahead of Dulga, ready to intercept anything that might come in their direction. From what Mamoru heard Yukari was fighting Jett. Jett was crafty, he probably made a sound bomb or something to daze Yukari since trying to blind her normally wouldn’t work. It must’ve been pretty effective too if Yukari needed to ask for backup. Not wanting to leave her teammate exposed she picked up the pace. It wasn’t long before she spotted Yukari’s pink twintails trailing east. Mamoru guessed that since she was now both blind and deaf she didn’t know which way she was going. Still wary of the rest of Team A, Mamoru would go towards Yukari to protect her.
Jett quickly caught up to Yukari, while still shaking off the effects of the blindness, and his equilibrium going back to normal, he still managed to find her. He hesitated for a moment, while he was sure she probably couldn’t hear him still, his trick with the ammonia was probably done now they were in the open. He couldn’t dump more on her because it wouldn’t really affect her as much as it did inside. He moved slowly, hoping the wind didn’t reveal his position as he slowly reached out and tried to slip his hand into the utility belt pouch to find a key.
Yukari had been busy trying to ease the pain in her ears, quietly sobbing from the strain. She should have listened or asked someone how flashedbangs worked before she used them. She bet that Jett probably wasn’t even that badly affected. Sure enough, she felt someone trying to go through her pockets, likely Jett who no doubt was already back to fighting form, while she was still reeling from the shock. She didn’t seem to notice him at first and just kept walking forward, but soon her leg would shoot out between Jett’s legs and upward, basically striking him across the crotch. But that wasn’t the end of it; her leg would also start to wrap around his leg and down towards his knee, with the rest of Yukari’s body following.
They had sat on their lookout spot for quite a while before Ezra had decided it had no use to sit here any longer, their ambush plan didn’t work out as good as they thought it would. No one had came since they started here so it was too guess that Ezra would lose his patience at some point with the timer still ticking. Tomoe kept happily being close to him and hugging and snuggling him with no care in the world. If it wasn’t for her clone she would have probably gone to someplace else already. Ezra mentioned for her to come with him, they descended down the slope together and were met by the side of the parking lot alongside the forest. Ezra led them through the forest part next to the parking lot. Open areas were a clear no. When they came till about the end they were met by two people running by them in the distance. Ezra pulled Tomoe under the bushes as well to hide from them and to see who they were as well. Appeared to be Dulga and Mamoru. When they passed they soon followed close after them. Tomoe thought they were trying to catch them so started to head after them even faster losing Ezra in the progress. She was in it alone while Ezra hide behind one of the bushes. After the distance was close Tomoe decided to do a tackle out towards Dulga full on although her weight wasn’t much the force she kicked her legs with possibly did some damage at least.
It wasn’t easy to surprise Dulga, though admittedly she didn’t expect someone to actually somehow manage to get behind her. That being said the surprise was short lived. As soon as she felt someone hit her back Dulga’s hands grabbed the person in a vice grip. One arm around the neck, two locking the arms, and another right around the solar plexus to cut off air. Dulga was surprised to see it was Tomoe however. She didn’t seem like the type of girl to do something so reckless. But Dulga also figured that she wouldn’t do this if Ezra wasn’t nearby. She was probably just a distraction.
However Dulga kept calm and raised her rifle at Jett. While he was busy trying to dodge Yukari and Mamoru, she fired two shots at him. One directly at his chest, and another that would hit his head if he doesn’t move. But if he tries to jump, it’ll probably hit his shoulders. Two loud shots echoed from Dulga’s rifle as she kept grappling Tomoe and then kept her senses out for Ezra, who’ll probably come and attack soon too. He was either going to go after Dulga to save Tomoe or try to help Jett since he was fighting alone. Either way they won’t have the element of surprise anymore.
”Hey! Stop touching Yukari-chan like that Jett!” Mamoru shouted as she went for a drop kick from slightly above the shoulders. Excited for the fight Mamoru mentally ‘sync” up with Yukari. While she may be blind and a stranger to Mamoru, she wasn’t going to get in her way. Jett was going to be slippery, but even with his quirk he wouldn’t get away from both Mamoru and Yukari. Almost on instinct, after her kick Mamoru went low to avoid Dulga’s bullets as they went for Jett’s, though she also took note that it seemed like Dulga was fighting someone too. Mamoru couldn’t see who but she wasn’t going to leave her behind. ”Naughty naughty! Taking advantage of a blind girl, for shame!”
All the while, the entire battle, or most of it, could be observed from one particular spot of the battlefield: way above.
”Hmm…”
The natural flyer of A-1, Acion Nakamiji, was smirking as he calmly read the battlefield situation. He noticed that team D was going to the lake for some reason. And they were together. A one versus many could be viable, but he ought to avoid it, unless he had the full advantage over them. Moreover, they appeared to be entering something...a tunnel? But going down on them now would be too late.
For the situation of both A and B, they were taking out each other. Despite they were taking out each other as exactly as Acion had wanted, the fact that they were the last teams that remained outside was telling Acion that he should attack. Unlike his situation with Roy and team C, team B and A was out in the open. The environment was on his side.
”Alright. Let’s do this right.”
His blitz tactic was about to be over after all.
And he was confident that he could get out of this final one, alive.
With that said, his holographic cameras shut down instantly, albeit his binocular was still on, as he began free falling. To a certain height however, he began twisting himself into dive bombing position, and began all the usual attacking procedures that he was so used to that it felt so natural to him.
Jett wasn’t prepared for the kick to his groin. But thankfully he had it protected with a cup. It still jolted him, but he had to get away. She was already wrapping around his leg. He grabbed his mask from its pouch and quickly connected to his helmet. However he heard someone yell about stop touching Yukari chan like that.
He didn’t have time to react as he was kicked from the left. He tried to catch himself stumbling to the side. But with Yukari wrapped around his right leg he tripped. Suddenly he heard two gunshots and something whistling by his head as he fell. Thanks to Mamoru and Yukari tripping him, the bullets Dulga shot at him missed him because of his fall, although it was just barely.
He hit the ground and reached up with his left hand and slipped his finger under the Velcro and ripped it open, and slipped another finger through a pin and pulled it.
While his other hand reached for his gun and pulled it from his holster, shooting from his hip trying to give mamoru no time to block it.
After a few seconds a yellow gas spewed from Jett’s chest. Tear gas. While it normally blinded people so it was hard to see, it would still effect Yukari in the same sense for the burning it would cause. And the smell as well causing her to cough as the chemical would irritate her breathing. While at the same time it burned Jett’s own eyes, he had used it on himself so he was somewhat used to it.
Yukari moved fast when she smelled something putrid in the air. She thought it was the bleach again so Yukari just went straight around Jett’s leg, wrapping around his knee and going inside of his boot. Her hands worked to undo his laces while her torso wrapped around his ankle and began to twist it. She was going to forcefully sprain his ankle, which hopefully will make him submit. And this way she could avoid the gas too, even if she has to smell jett’s smelly feet instead. If she could she’d also try to grab one of his toes and dislocate it, something she could easily do if she puts her full body into it.
As Tomoe was trying to tackle down Dulga for fun she was quickly met by 4 fast moving and well coordinated arms. Tomoe glared at each of them in surprise for a moment as she tried seeing what was happening with her. Her arms were forced of Dulga her body with two of Dulga her arms letting her hang freely in the air from dulga her arms. There were two other arms, one wrapping around her neck immediately tightening. The other one went to quite a weird place, it was under her chest, the pushing hurted. Only now Tomoe came to realise that Dulga wasn’t in for games. This was a straight up fight, she understood. Her pupils shrunk down became way smaller than before as the corners of her mouth turned up. There was a crazy wicked smile on her face as she just stared at the back of Dulga her head. A soft chuckle sounded from her mouth showing that this clone wasn’t anything like Tomoe was before.
Tomoe her arms shook lightly while she moved her own hands towards Dulga her arms that were around her neck and on her solar plexus. While she was chuckling it still sounded like she was having a lot of trouble trying to breath. More in the way that if she didn’t do anything now this life would be short lived. Tomoe got both hold on Dulga her arms and was able to just shift them a little so that she could at least breath. She muffled something under her shaky voice of using so much force on Dulga.
”Haaai.”
Two bullets struck Mamoru before she
could raise her shield to block the attacks. One hit her right on the right breast, which fortunately was armored, but still stung ?. The second struck her upper left thigh causing her to drop to her knee, but fortunately this also meant that she was in a smaller, more defensible position as the bullets bounced and dropped off her shield. Mamoru rolled away from the gunfire and away from the smoke, though she didn’t want that to stick around either. Putting some distance from Jett, Mamoru threw her shield right at Jett, aiming for his gun or at least arm, while she kept moving albeit mostly through dodge rolls as her leg was hurting like hell. Shortly after her shield hits something she’d recall it back to her hand and hide behind it.
Nobody appeared to be noticing him or anything. Perhaps they were a bit too busy fighting, the girl with six arms, and those nearby. Acion did not pay attention to those guys. He tilted himself so that he was diving on the yellow smoke screen that was covering an entire area. He knew that he wasn’t able to strike precisely, but no one inside it would even notice him coming as well, or the feathers coming in.
When he got low enough, the avian fighter span his whole body so that his wings would face them perpendicularly. And then, with might, with power, with strength, he flapped them, inertia sending dozens of sharp feathers down onto the thick smoke. And then he would turn his body around once again, back to his flying posture and soared upward.
Jett looked back to Yukari as Mamoru pulled back as she managed to get her upper body into his boot. As weird as it was he knew the only thing to get her off was a flare in his vest. He awkwardly pulled it out and broke the seal on the ground, but as soon as he did, a shield came out of nowhere and slammed into his forearm, managing to hit in between the carbon steel plates of his armor and causing him to scream in pain and send the flare flying to his right. He rolled a few feet, holding his arm to his chest, now at the mercy of Yukari. But even before that could happen Jett suddenly felt a couple points on his body suddenly get stuck with something. His shoulder, a thigh and his chest all had metal feathers sticking out of them.
Yukari squeezed and crushed Jett’s foot as hard as she could, feeling him resisting her as she twisted her flexible body around him. She tighten herself around his knee too, hoping that the pain would keep him at bay. But what she didn’t expect was something stabbing into her legs. She couldn’t see what it was, but it felt like someone had driven needles into her calf. She wasn’t sure if it was Jett or someone else, but in that moment she torqued Jett’s ankle before curling her body close, a hand slipping out to pull the feathers from her leg.
”Ah! That hurts!”
Watching over the exercises through the monitor proved to an interesting experience for the group in the communications room. It seemed as though the students were not as reckless as the day before and they evaluated their actions thoroughly. Pivoting his head, L guardian looked towards the monitor on his left squinting his eyes as he saw Jett in a tight spot. Caught in the teeth of team B, he smirked watching the boy fight for his life. A prime example of why he stressed teamwork in this exercise because one slip up and you can be caught out by the enemy. The man watched with not emotion as Mamoru slammed her shield into the boys arm getting a gruesome reaction out of the young boy. At the rate things were going Jett would be out of commission and no one would be able to come to his rescue at the moment. Mina was recovering while Ezra and Tomoe were caught up in a battle with Dulga. Looking out the corner of his eye, he could sense Mrs. Haven tensing up as she watched her baby boy get pummeled.
Adriane was impressed at first at Jett’s quick thinking in the House, using the ammonia against Yukari. How ever she though he was stupid for trying to get the key from her out in the open. He should have tried inside house.
Her hands were white as they were balled into fist watching as her son got instantly surrounded by three enemies. Manda tried to calm her down with a hand on her shoulder, she too was worried for the boy. While she could see he was putting up a hell of a fight with his quick thinking, he simply was just being overpowered after that flash bang. If he had his quirk working, she was sure that it would have been a completely different Scenario.
When the strife came down, Adriane couldn’t hold it in anymore as she slammed her fists into the console. Yelling at the screen. “GET OUT OF THERE!” She saw the pain in her boys eyes even before the strafe. What was his team doing? Why weren’t they helping him!?
L guardian simply sat in silence as Adriane released some of her anger. It seemed as though Jett was disadvantaged from the beginning excluding his quirk situation. Team B were made up of a bunch of students who excelled in close combat with extraordinary defensive abilities. Dulgas multiple arms and herculean strength, Kaidas toughs scales, Mamoru's steel body, and Yukari’s elasticity makes this somewhat of a nightmare match up for team A who all are great in close combat offensively. Once Adriane snapped and slammed her fists into the console a strange beep came out of the system, immediately L guardian stood up lashing out at the woman.
“Calm yourself! You let your anger get the best of you and placed your son in an even worse condition now” Which was true, it seemed like she had deployed the training robots and not just any. These were the ones used for much more advanced training. 8 of them were released and each of them the size of a home. The students on the grounds could here the sounds of large gate opening from the North and the west as the robots flanked the two teams. The machines were also armed with capture weapons, smoke grenades, and rubber bullets to restrain their targets. The ones coming from the west had much more of a distance to travel than the ones from the north.
Mr.Yoshida contacted Isshin was overseeing the battle immediately, “The students are two zoned into their battles to realize what is coming so if things go too far I want you to step in” The small robotic group of four split off into pairs, two coming up from behind Ezra and Tomoe while the other pair was heading straight in Jetts direction. Outside they could hear it bulldozing over trees stepping through the empty homes.
Adriane placed her hand to her mouth as Yoshida told her what she did her anger all gone but worry on her face now. Cursing herself as she watched Jett wince in pain and grab his leg. With the robots coming and coming right for him. She hoped he would be safe. She felt a comforting hand on her shoulder. Manda saying softly "He's going to be fine Adriane.."
Kaida came running but honestly she got lost for a bit. She heard gunfire and ran towards it. She could hear Jett yell in pain as she rounded the corner, only to see him in a cloud of yellow smoke. She didn't see yukari on his leg, but she saw Mamoru kneeling, looking like she was hurt. Suddenly she saw Acion throw his feathers at Jett while he was in a ball basically on the ground. She couldn't help but get angry and she ran to the side, watching Acion closely as he did a few more flyby’s before she prepared herself. Crouching down she took a few moments to breath before putting all her strength into a jump appearing suddenly in front of Acion. As she tried to grab hold of him.
The winged man was way concentrating on the target that as he was about to do his second strafe, a silhouette of a girl suddenly dragged him off-guard. And not just any normal silhouette, but the one that was jumping way into his flight path. The girl had long silver hair, just like her sister. Acion suddenly jerked out of pure instinct, but slammed into Kaida anyway. The unexpected weight redistributed his centre of gravity, and he was in no shape to deal with it in time, as he went down onto the ground at a high speed, along with Kaida who was latching on him.
His face was spared, but his ribs and torso was struck pretty bad by the crash. But thanks to his acrobatic ability, he managed to stand up after a few flips and drifts on the concrete ground. If he hadn’t got the armor on, it would have been a lot worse.
”Tch…”
Acion growled annoyingly at how he got brought down so easily. But the confident smile somewhat returned to him, as he took a glance at Kaida.
”Heh, I feel more entertained now. A bit more entertained.”
Kaia grunted at Acion flying straight into her. She was ready for it but still it knocked the wind out of her. She held on as long as she could but hitting the ground unlatched her. She grunted each time her body rolled and bounced on the concrete. Part of her clothes scraping away from the hard ground.
She did land on her feet finally though as she skidded to a stop. She looked at Acion who was smiling at her. Saying he is more entertained now. As she stood there, part of her scales along the side of her hip could be seen. And a little bit on her arms. “I'm sure shooting people in the fetal position is less entertaining than fighting someone face to face.”
”Sure. It isn’t an honorable deed I have to admit.” He replied, his eyes rolled a bit, while he ripped off a feather from his wing. ”Thank you for that. Now that all the chivalrous issues have been resolved, let us begin.”
Looking at Kaida and her scales, it appeared that her quirks were some kind of reptilian-related. But she was quite fast, managing to catch him off-guard like that. Flying up would be quite a bad idea, since she wasn’t too far from him. She could jump onto him or maybe attempt something unexpected. He did not have the momentum to go upward now. But he could if he could bypass her once.
Acion suddenly crouched on his one knee, his wings in standby. Remembering vividly that Kenichi once attempt this once, he dashed towards Kaida with all the might of his strong leg. Sudden adrenaline rushed to him as the pain from the previous fight with Roy, specifically the time he slammed his leg onto the red hot ball, resurfaced. His strong wings also acted as accelerator, as he pushed forward. The ripped off feather from his wing, now lied firmly on his left hand in reverse grip acted just like a knife, as he would take advantage of the speed to slash her. And if she just let off for one second, he could simply soar up the sky again.
When Acion crouched, Kadia copied him. But she didn't sprint towards him but only braced herself to grapple him. Her eyes flashed yellow as she raised her hands up and grabbed him. The shock of the hit would cause the knife to cut the clothes just above her chest revealing even more black scales that the feather glanced off of. She also slid back a few feet holding Acion back. It was a sight to behold seeing this little girl of 5 feet stop a bigger boy in armor in his tracks. She would then grip his armor and throw him to the side between some buildings. Trying to make sure she got him away from an open area.
The throw created a momentum that could have allowed him to soar to the sky, but as he regained his composure, the silver-haired girl immediately followed him. So instead of using the momentum to fly up, he pummeled his six wings deep into the ground, halting him in his tracks. Turning to Kaida, as she was heading for him, he made a horizontal flinging of feathers before preparing to brace her incoming attack. Or rather, brace to deflect any incoming attack.
Looking at her face as she was about to clash with him. A cut on her face, radiated with her determined and burning violet eyes.
It reminded him of his sister.
”I look forward to this!”
Kaida didn't dodge as most of the feathers glanced off her scales, she did however raise an arm to protect her eyes. Feathers wizzed under her arm and sliced her fair skin in a few places. When she lowered her arm her gold eyes had returned as she growled in a low animalistic growl and reared back, punching Acion in the shoulder with all her force. Breaking his shoulder guard into four pieces and a loud pop could be heard as his arm dislocated. She also used the momentum of her body to knock into him. It was then she heard Dulga say retreat.
Coming out of a trance almost she looked down at herself and realized her scales were showing. She quickly turned and ran into the closest house and found a bed with some white sheets. Quickly throwing it over her like a makeshift cloak.
Acion anticipated her incoming attack. As she zoomed in on him, he raised the knife with his left hand. He lifted it up and down, trying to adjust to where she might be hitting. But inexperience with swordsmanship simply turned back and punished him, as the knife he thought that would block Kaida’s blow turned out to miss it by a few centimeters. A few. That number turned deadly, as that punch he could have blocked smashed straight into the shoulder of his other arm.
He could feel his bone popping, being blasted out of its original position.
”Argh!”
He yelled, as she continued to bring forward with the punch. To prevent any more damage being done, he simply turned his body around, to let Kaida simply pass by him. And braced for another attack like that. Which never came.
His eyes widened in surprise as she unexpectedly ran into the house nearby. He was expecting something more threatening than that. Her scales were a lot more apparent than before, revealing some skins and so on.
But this was his chance. She gave him one huge moment to fly without any obstacle. And he took it without any hesitation. While still gripping on the dislocated shoulder, he mightily spread his wings and propel him upward, like a helicopter.
He should not linger long here. His plan to bomb the two teams was in complete jeopardy once he got grounded. And once he did so, he could be ganged up by anyone and everyone.
”God.”
What is that? What the fuck is that?
Giant robots?
More the reason for him to get out of there.
Acion immediately flew to the east to avoid the other members of team B. Once escaped out of there, he would head down south for the point. His team should have been there any moment now.
”Stop struggling.”
Try as she might, Tomoe wasn’t going to get out of this easily. Even if she put enough pressure on Dulga’s arms to prevent her from choking the girl out Dulga still had a firm grip on Tomoe. Knowing that Ezra was already lining up his shot, Dulga kept moving, positioning Tomoe’s body to intercept any shot Ezra might throw at her. However in the distance, the sounds of the robots approaching made Dulga silently curse her luck. First her team fails to isolate a member of Team A, and now robots were on their way. The teachers probably released them just to make sure students didn’t wait outside of the auditorium for the rest of the students to take eachother out.
It was time to retreat and regroup.
As Dulga ran towards her team she spotted Acion in the air. Dulga knew that he was alone, but she wasn’t so certain if other teams might’ve followed him. Kaida grounded him so he wasn’t an immediate concern, instead she spoke over the communicators to the rest of her team. ”Retreat and regroup.” She said simply as she heard the machines in the distance coming closer. Maybe with any luck, the robots could attack Team A. But dulga couldn’t rely on luck.
As she ran towards the tear gas Dulga squinted her eyes as the chemicals burned her eyes, noticing Jett’s body on the ground. She wasn’t sure if he was knocked out or just taking a breather, and Dulga debated slamming Tomoe onto him. However she had no time for such foolishness, though just to make sure Jett didn’t end up asphyxiating himself in this tear gas, Dulga grabbed him by his boot. Then so that she didn’t slow herself down, she tossed Jett and Tomoe through the front door of one of the nearby houses. Hopefully that would take them both out, but if it doesn’t then it should at least hurt. Jett went flying first, smashing through the door and rolling like a rag doll, slamming into the wall. His boot in Dulga’s hand. She then noticed Yukari was somehow in his boot. Dulga didn’t question it however and just tossed Tomoe after Jett, then went to Mamoru.
”Akasha on your feet and with me. Let’s find Kaida.”
Tomoe her hopeless attempt to get loose from Dulga was to no avail. Her back was hurting a little from the bullets having hit her back, there were multiple blue dots on her back when you tried looking under her shirt. She did manage to kick her arms a few times to get her aim with her sniper a bit off balance but she did not seem affected by it in the slightest. Dulga her strength did not seem to fade either seeing how she maintained the strength at all time. Tomoe did have another trick up her sleeve though, she let go off Dulga her arm of her solar plexus and moved it up towards the one holding her neck. With all her strength she tried making a gap between her neck and Dulga her arm. When she got as far as that she would bite into her arm with all her strength clearly showing off that not all her strength was hiding in her limbs. She could not breath however, if she could just bite through it would be enough for her to take on the other arm after this.
She bit as hard as she could while she still had the time, both her arms locking Dulga her arm into place as her breath slowly faded. When they ran through the tears gas Tomoe still had her eyes full open, it burned. Tears fell from her eyes as she widely opened her mouth trying to grasp for air. Dulga changed the positions of her arm on Tomoe her neck and under her chest to somewhat carry her. She was thrown over the head of Dulga, her hands slipped away from Dulga her arms as she was being launched after Jett into the doorpost of the house. She could not see much but she knew she was soaring through the air upside down. The hit of her legs hitting the door post definitely made her realise. The wooden doorpost broke before she painfully landed on Jett his downed body. Tomoe immediately sat upright rubbing the back of her head a little as tears were still falling from her eyes. She softly rubbed both of them a little but the burning did not go away that easily. There were cuts all over her legs and arms, there was suppose to come blood out of them but they were different. The cut was there but the inside only seemed to exist of a dreamy like universe, pink with yellow stars floating around definity giving away that she wasn’t human. Some of her clothing seemed a little ripped as well. Tomoe felt that she was sitting on something soft, she turned over to see Jett beneath her.
Yukari’s grip on Jett had loosen just a bit as she nursed her leg. It was bleeding just a bit, nothing too serious, but it hurt. Suddenly she felt something strong wrap around Jett’s boot and Yukari braced for impact. But to her surprise she wasn’t crushed. Instead, Jett was flung out of his boot, giving Yukari much more space to move around while hanging on for dear life. She stayed hidden inside the boot until the smell of the tear gas was away, and once she could take a breath of fresh air that’s when she smelled Dulga extremely close to her. ”Dulga-san? Is that you?” Yukari asked rather loudly, as her ears were still ringing. She probably couldn’t hear the response either, but if it was Dulga Yukari would stick with her for now. She couldn’t do anything in her current state.
Having taken cover behind her shield Mamoru was bracing her leg to charge at Jett when she heard Dulga stomping over. In a few deft movements she had flung Jett inside of a house, and Tomoe too. Mamoru also had something big and stompy in the distance, but Mamoru wasn’t really paying any attention to that. Dulga had given them orders to retreat but Mamoru didn’t want to. Finally, all the action was coming to her! This was the moment she’s been waiting for!
”Aw, why? We can totally stand our ground here! The four of us together! I mean, Jett looks like he’s KO anyways, and Tomoe doesn’t look too pretty either. I’m sure Kaida took care of Mina too, so now all we need to do is take out Ezra!”
Rubbing her head Dulga gave Mamoru and stern glare, but otherwise didn’t lay a hand on her just yet. ”Yozakura needs medical attention and the proctors just sent robots after us. This is not a defensible position, especially not with the rest of Team A and Acion here. We need to regroup and head into the school,” Dulga pointed towards the school building in the distance. ”We can defend ourselves better there. Besides, aren’t you supposed to be a hero? Helping others first is more important than fighting.” With all her hands free Dulga drew both her rifle and shotgun, and loaded two more bullets into her shotgun.
”Now let’s go save Kaida.”
Almost on cue, Kadia came running out of a house next to the one Jett was thrown in. Her newly acquired cloak billowing out behind her. “Where we retreating to?” She asked coming up to The others… looking at Dulga holding jetts boot oddly. More so to see Yukari in it.
Mamoru shrugged. Dulga wasn’t wrong, and Mamoru couldn’t really see any flaws in her logic. Mamoru supposed that it might just be because she was restless, but if Dulga had a good idea then Mamoru wasn’t going to go against it. When kaida showed up Mamoru waved at her and gave her a Victory sign. ”We thrashed some Team A guys! But Dulga says that robots are coming and we need to head to the school to defend it or something. Are you alright Kaida-chan? You look like you had a fun fight!”
Dulga nodded to Mamoru when Kaida asked where they were going. ”What she said. Let’s get moving.” Dulga took point as she dashed towards the school building. In the distance she could see the mechs on their way and Dulga’s eyes looked serious. Rubber bullets weren’t going to put a dent in those things. It would be dangerous, but she was going to need to use live ammo. And the heavy calibers too. ”We go in and head to the top floor, staircase only. I don’t want us to have to fight in an elevator.”
”Dulga-san? What? I can’t hear you.” Yukari got out of Jett’s boot and ran alongside Dulga and the others. She could tell that they were speaking but she couldn’t make out the words. It was all so buzzed and jumbled. It just all sounded like muffled whispers. ”Where are we going? What happened to Jett, and Kaida and Mina? And is that an earthquake?” Yukari could feel the vibration of the robots with each step. Yukari had no idea how or why they’re here but she didn’t have a good feeling about it.
Takeshi listened to Hatori as she threw out some ideas, and Fumika added her input. He smiled for only a moment. Their team was probably the most well off. With Hatori and her ability to scout, and Fumika and her unique way of watching their backs, if they made their way slowly, they could essentially bypass any traps or get the jump on any team.
Hatori-San, Can you move and use your planes at the same time? He asked, looking at her, then to he turned to Motome. “Same question for you Motome-San. Can you use your...Recording while moving? Because if we used both of your quirks at the same time as we made our way to the building, we could easily bypass traps or get the drop on other teams while making our way to the point.”
As for Aname, his description of his quirk was extremely vague and unhelpful. He sighed when he also said if they find the enemy just let him do his thing. Clearly he did not want anything to do with the team. ”While you look capable enough to handle things on your own, I think you should still stick with us. With the four of us together, we can be even more formidable. That is the whole point of this exercise.
He then remembered Hatori’s last question and said, ” I don’t know everyone’s quirk, but I do know that a guy named Roy can make light constructs, much like my own quirk. A girl named Jojo who uses kenetic energy to make herself go faster, throw electricity with her punches and even solidify the electricity into a blade. She is extremely reckless and has no issue of using unstable techniques that could seriously injure her opponent. I received third degree burns from her yesterday in a simple spar. She doesn't care for anyone but herself. So be careful around her.
He thought for a second, “Then there is Jett, who’s mother is one of the Valkyries, if he’s anything like her he can teleport...but he will be a formidable fighter, much like his grandfather The Frenchman. Takeshi easily connected the dots because he grew up learning of Heroes and their quirks, their weakness...their connections.
There is also that tall girl...Dulga I think. She has six arms and has abnormal strength. I also saw her heavily armed with guns. So that would be something to look for Hatori-san. Any vantage point where a sniper can fire from, a high rooftop of a store, or second story windows of houses. You would have to get close to see, as she would not stick her weapon out of a window.
It was then the teacher started the exercise, at which he pulled his Katana from his sheath and held it lightly in his right hand, the tip of the blade meere centimeters from the dirt. Alright, Kishimoto-san leads, I follow with both of you next to me, Ill keep an eye out for the both of you while you use your quirks.
After they got to their starting point and agreed upon their plan, Jett pulled his hood/helmet up on over his head, locking it into position while leaving his mask off. He then checked all his straps and made sure everything was secure. He also made sure his collapsible metal bo staff was ready to be pulled out at a moments notice.
When the exercise started Jett and Kasuke broke off from Ezra and Tomoe and started to do a slow run towards the auditorium. He looked over at her and said, So I was thinking once we cut the power there, we enter through the roof, As I’m sure there are some faster students than us that would have made it there. Once inside, I can guide you to the middle of the room with my night vision and make sure they are all looking when you flash them.
As he spoke, his eyes moved from her regrettably and scanned the houses around them. He wondered if they had any useful items in them… much like the car…
But he glanced back to her and gave her a smile. "Now I see why you run in the school uniform Skirt. I must say, it's extremely impressive you can run in that dress.
Takeshi watched as Aname ignored them, his suspicions growing even more concrete by the second about this guy. He ignored him for a moment when Hatori then explained her idea. He thought about it for a moment, glancing at their new teammate and said, “We shouldn’t wait in one spot, but continually move around the point. We also shouldn’t wait too long before trying to control the point. But I agree we should pick off teams by using your planes to position ourselves to ambush them along the way. “
“Also If we set up with you and Motome behind us while Kisimoto and I take the brunt of the fighting, I think we will do well.” He added before looking to Motome. Especially if you could copy everything you see, which would be amazing and could help confuse our opponents enough for us to take them out.
He noticed she was mostly sticking to herself, in her own head. He hoped she would be more engaged if he talked directly to her. When she would look at him, he would give her a confident smile.
He then looked to Aname and asked, “So what is your quirk Kishimoto?”
Jett smirked at Kasuke with an eyebrow raised when she freaked out over tomoe touching her. Giving him a few ideas on how to tease her in the future. After prying herself away from the even smaller girl, Tomoe turned her attention on him, and freaked out, running to Ezra for protection. He rolled his eyes.
I’m not going to kill you Tomoe! He said with some irritation. Crossing his arms across his chest Though It is annoying you don't even remember us going to school together less than a year ago.
It was just after this, Ezra mentioned it was only jett, like she knew who he was in the first place. Shaking his head at the idiot, he looked towards the teacher when he got started. He quickly memorized starting locations and entrances to the auditorium. When he offered communication devices he gave Ezra a queer look when he said he would trust him with techy shit. Shaking his head he went and grabbed three devices...as his helmet already had one built in. Once he got back he handed each of them their communicators starting with Kasuke, then Tomoe than Ezra.
Ezra then mentioned he had some ideas and would tell them on the way. Honestly he felt that his idea was ‘Bust down the doors and charge in head first.’
He then looked to the other two and then said, ” To be straight up with you all, my quirk hasn't actually been working since yesterday.” He shrugged, ”That doesn’t mean I’m worthless though... His hand dropping from his chest and resting over his .40. I’ve trained to use my quirk as little as possible anyway.
If we take this next test purely tactical, slow and steady, the others should wear themselves out enough, and if we use each others quirks to the best of their abilities, we should be able to have a good chance at beating this. We just don’t do what everyone will do, and rush in for the hill, and use our surroundings as best as we can to help us and our quirks. Also, if we cut the power to the auditorium we could have a major advantage if we waited for them all to be in there first.
Adriane Haven Manda Alengaurd
Adriane made her way towards the exercise, her combat boots hitting heavy on the slate floors. She was wearing her hero outfit, just a simple tank top which showed her heavily tattooed arms and elbow pads. Over that was her bulletproof vest, with straps that held pouches and ammo for her shotgun shells. She wore kevlar gloves and camo A sheath for her K-bar on her left thigh, empty, and a pistol holster on her right thigh, also empty. As she was forced to leave the weapons at the security post. Much to her own protest of course.
While she was grumbling to herself, another taller beautiful woman walked silently next her, her face emotionless unlike Adriane. She was dressed similar with pouches and a bullet proof vest, but with a long sleeved shirt rolled up to just under her elbows. She also had some metal plates for thigh guards and shin guards unlike Adriane. This woman was Manda, Adriane’s closest friend. She was more than that, she was her sister… even if it was clear they were not related.
The two came up on the class just as the teacher finished explaining the situation. Adriane’s fowl mood suddenly went away as she got excited, and admittedly worried seeing her son all dressed up and talking with his team. As they were about to be lead off, Manda tried to stop her by placing an hand on her arm but it did very little.
JETTY! Adriane yelled as she ran over to her son, ignoring the abnormally tall boy as she hugged her little boy. Manda came over just as Jett managed to pry himself from his mother, red in the face with embarrassment. Manda took this time to look at Jett’s teammates.
The little pink haired girl who was even smaller than Adriane, but not as small as Ashley…She seemed oddly out of place in a hero’s academy and apparently loved pink. Her gaze moved to Ezra, who was taller than her, than most boys in japan really. He was the only one without a real outfit, just going for a school issued Jumpsuit. She could tell the boy had a hard life just by looking at his face. Anyone who had one could easily see it in another. Now looking at the blonde girl who wore such a ridiculous outfit that hardly seemed suited for fighting. A full on dress? She knew this girl was the daughter of the Seductress. That was clear. She noticed how Jett had looked immediately to her when his mother embarrassed him, it was clear he liked this girl.
Mother? He said quietly. Glancing at Kasuke ”Why must you insist on calling me that infront of everyone?
”Because it’s my job to embarrass you. It’s what mothers do.” She said with a mischievous grin.
Jett then looked up to Manda “Manda? Mother dragged you here as well?”
Manda gave a hint of a smile and nodded, She moved forward and placed both of her surprisingly smooth and soft hands on his cheeks before kissing him gently on the forehead. Goodluck little one... Her voice silky and melodious.
Manda then pulled Adriane back and nodded to Jett as if to say get going. The two watched as the group followed the assistant teacher, both taking notice of a really tall green cloaked girl with a mask as well. They looked to each other with an odd look before moving to Yoshida.
Adriane sighed. “Alright Yoshida…. Where are we watching this from?”
Verrick grumbled as he found out the princess was currently with the King. It would do no good to hand her this letter in front of the king. He racked through his mind to think of who would be the most trustworthy to deliver said letter discreetly….as it came from a traitor to the crown. He would have normally waited… or snuck into the princess’s chambers to leave the letter there. But during the middle of the day. Would be foolish beyond belief.
As he remembered all of the ladies in waiting..one popped out in his mind. One that had a slight connection with Fenros through her older brother. Not one to likely turn on him or the princess.
Making his way to where she should have been, waiting for the princess to finish her argument with the king no doubt. He came to a corner and looked to his left, seeing her standing alone...and to his surprise...she was practicing magic. He smirked as this new information gave him a sure way to keep her in line to follow his ‘request’. He pulled back behind the corner and gave a casual footfall, which was MUCH louder than his normal silent steps, but loud enough for her to hear it and stop her practicing..
Elize waited in a small corridor outside the king’s personal chambers, trying to ignore the yelling coming through the walls. Princess Eleanor was beyond angry. Somebody did something to General Fenros and she knew it. Elize thought it was a bit obvious to throw a big fit like that over Fenros. She’d met the guy before, and he took maybe one look at her before gluing his gaze to Eleanor for the rest of the night. This temper tantrum with the king only made things more clear.
But Elize still felt bad for the guy. He seemed like a good and honest man, and this disappearance was beyond bizarre. Wild rumors were flying around the court. Some of Elize’s favorites were that he had run off with a peasant girl, or that he was captured by the Ouroboros and was being held for ransom. Ridiculous, Elize thought to herself. Every single one was absolutely absurd, considering none of them thought to mention the undeniable culprit: the goddamn king.
It didn’t take much to bore Elize. After listening to the princess squabble with her father for a good ten minutes, the noble girl teased the air around her fingers, letting it wisp in a little tornado around her ring. Elize wasn’t the best elemental mage; she needed to work on it. After peaking around both corners to make sure nobody was coming, Elize allowed herself to summon small wind torrents. They dispelled in her palms and grew with each breath. By the time she had managed to make a controlled cyclone as high as her knees, her lungs felt like balloons in her chest. Her fingertips tingled and her mind buzzed with that mystic high she so loved, but the moment was ruined by the sound of someone approaching. Startled, Elize let her cyclone loose. It slashed through the air around her skirts before billowing in her hair, leaving blonde strands standing straight. She looked up to find a hooded figure standing closeby. The person was short but obviously a man by his athletic and wide build. A bow and quiver were slung over his back. Something about him seemed familiar and almost otherworldly. Her heart quickened as she realize he must have seen her. FUCK, she screamed the unladylike language in her head.
“Welp,” Elize muttered miserably. “Can’t quite get out of this one.” She didn’t even bother trying to lie or explain herself.
Verrick, once she noticed him, slowly moved over to her till he was close enough to speak privately. He positioned himself just right that the sun from a nearby window caused the cowl to black out his upper face, so she would only see his mouth and beard. He then spoke to her, his voice low and gruff.
“Lady Casterly... an interesting pastime you have.” He said simply and matter of factly, as if he knew about it all along. “I must ask a favor of you, if you don’t mind?” he added, getting straight to the point.
Elize stared the man down, trying to study what little she could see of his face. The women in the court, the foolish, foolish women all spoke about a hooded man with blackmagic and immense knowledge and power. Please be another ludicrous rumor, Elize begged in the back of her mind. “Seems as if I must. It would only be polite,” the noble girl finally responded. “What do you wish of me?”
Verrick reached into the pouch directly behind his back, under his cloak. Pulling out a folded letter with a red wax seal on it. He then said, “Well… You don’t HAVE to m’lady. For it is a favor.” He offered the letter to her, the wax seal facing up. If she were to look at it, she would see Fenros Allaway’s recognizable crest on the seal. “I was hoping to get this to Princess Eleanor about a mutual friend. However…” He moved his head to the door at the still audible argument between the royal family. “I’m sure the princess’s meeting with the king will take some time. Of which I don’t have.” He turned and looked directly at her, despite his face being blocked out it was clear he was staring into her eyes. “I can trust you can give it to the princess...discreetly?”
Elize hesitantly accepted the letter, letting her fingers press into the wax mold. She held her breath as she gazed down at the small scrap of paper and the seal. Fenros. Without speaking a word, Elize looked back up to the mystery man and nodded, still completely breathless. “My princess will be pleased to receive this...thank you, sir. May I have your name?”
Verrick remained silent when she took the letter when she then asked for his name he sighed, which almost sounded like a growl. He didn’t want anything to do with being connected with this letter if it indeed got into the wrong hands. He didn’t like anyone even knowing his name in the first place. He stood there for a few more seconds before just saying. “That's not important.” Before turning and walking away.
Elize finally let herself breathe as the man walked away. So many people would have asked much worse of her with that kind of blackmail. She would make sure the princess took the letter, it was the least she could do with the…”kindness”? that the man had shown her. Whatever grace he had given her, it certainly wasn’t pure malice. The girl examined the letter closer, letting her nails scrape over the wax seal. Yep. Definitely Fenros, she thought to herself. Elize could envision the look of disbelief and joy on Eleanor, especially after this fight with the king.
VERRICK ATTACKS THE EARL
Anna looked scared when the woodsman said he was leaving, Alexander felt a flash of jealousy. Did she really think he could not stop the intruders if more came? Did she think that the only way they would survive was if the woodsman was here? Fine then, he will leave them to their worrying.
Alexander put the drink down and walked over to Anna and put an arm around her. "I am going to head back to bed, and if you feel like joining me again you are welcome. If not please wake me when the guard gets here." With that the baron turned around to head back towards the stairs.
Verrick tilted his head to the side as he inspected his last person he dropped on the ground before nodding to himself. It was then Anna came and touched him on the arm, and asked him worriedly if he was leaving. He sighed, but before he could say anything the baron came over, wrapped his arms around Anna's shoulder and said he was going back to bed, and clearly putting out that she was in bed with him before.
A sharp pain cut through his chest, as a clear change in his face could be seen. Any look of compassion now gone as he grabbed the earl by the back collar of his tunic and yanked him towards the front door. "No, you lazy bastard you are not going back to bed." He quickly made it to the trough and shoved his head down just enough so only his head was submerged for a second. He then pulled him back up and out, getting right in his face, as if inspecting his handiwork.
Alexander was caught off balance by the small man dragging him forward. As he shoved him back in Alexander closed his eyes and was shocked by the temperature of the water. As he was pulled out of the water he began to yell, "What are you doi-!!!"
"Nope...not yet..." Verrick said to himself ignoring Alexander and slapping his cheeks, as he tried to demand what was he doing. Then he shoved him into the water once again, without remorse.
Anna's heart stopped and she was about to explain what Alexander was referring to when Verrick grabbed him and dragged him outside to the trough and started to dunk him. "What the hell are you doing Verrick? Stop it you'll drown him. Nothing happened we were talking and fell asleep. STOP!"
Anna grabbed his arm and pulled hard trying to loosen his grip. Verrick might not be a huge guy but he had a lot of strength and she knew it.
Ignoring Anna at least visibly, with his head moving side to side like an internal clock while Alexander thrashed around just a wee bit longer than before under the water. He finally pulled Alexander out and while he was gasping for air he dragged him back inside, throwing him into a chair while grabbing a towel from the bar. Tossing it to Alexander so he could dry himself off. He then said, in a low but highly controlled voice that was clear his raw hot anger was just millimeters below the surface. "I can't have you go back to bed just yet, Prince Charming. You have to act the hero."
He stopped in front of Alexander bent down and inspected his wounds, after that fight he didn't do too bad. Just a small cut on his chest and on his jaw. He nodded his head. "Impressive...but it needs a little more..."Without finishing his sentence, a quick powerful right jab slammed Alexander right in the nose, instantly drawing blood from it. But not knocking him out.
"I will turn your life into a living hell." Alexander glaring straight at Verrick. "You are from here on out forbidden to step foot into any lands I control or preside over. If you ever do enter my lands you will be tied to the ram of a warship and crashed into the beach. Your corpse will be spread to the four corners of this kingdom, unburied and unmarked. I will find any of-"
Verrick quickly backhanded him, cutting off his monologue before adding "I'm shaking in my boots Sire" his words dripping with sarcasm. " But why Lord Markos? " he leaned down once again and pulled one of his larger blades out of his sheath. "I'm about to make you a Hero."
"Any organization you are affiliated with I will work to destroy. To whoever brings me your head I will offer a lordship within my lands. Images of you will be spread throughout the kingdom stating both the bounty and that you are a woodsman. I will hire any man who will take the money to find you and spread your location and ruin any mission. You will never be able to stop and rest, you will forever be looking over your shoulder never quite sure there isn’t a dagger in the dark waiting for you. I may not kill you, but I will ruin your life."
Anna was shrugged off and when they went back inside the tavern Anna followed. She wasn't sure who it would be but she was pretty certain someone was going to get hurt. Alexander was still drunk and his reactions were a lot slower than Verrick's right now. When Verrick pulled out a large blade while speaking of making Alex a hero she stepped between them.
"Verrick stop before someone gets hurt. Please! Nothing happened." Anna grabbed his arm with the blade and held the blade against her chest. If he pulled or pushed it too fast he would cut her. "Stop... you made your point."
She could hear Alex still going on behind her and she wished he would quit antagonizing Verrick. Even though he had right to be upset with Verrick it was kind of his fault that he had set him off. "ALEX ...Please be quiet!"
Verrick sighed when she suddenly pulled the knife to her chest. While she held his arm he looked her in the eye, clearly not amused. While she was focused on trying to explain that nothing happened, he managed to pull the blade back enough with his wrist movement, and spun the blade downward and reversed his grip. Pulling her close to him with the arm she held, dropping the blade he caught the blade with his free hand. He then pulled her to the right and swiped at Alexander. The sound of fabric tearing and a hairline cut appeared on the man's leg.
He looked back to Anna. "NOW. I'm done." Sheathing his blade as he moved away from Alexander and Anna, reached down and picked up a sword. He then looked to Alexander. "As much as I want to imprison you for those treasonous words against the King's Woodsman, I need you to to PLAY the part of the HERO. He said, slowing his speech so the idiot drunk could understand. "You killed..." motioning around to most of the dead bodies behind him. "All these men. Protecting the fair lady honor and life, yadayadayada. Whatever it is you lords do,"
He looked at Alexander as he flourished the blade in his hoping the idiot would catch on."You understanding me now Lord Markos? Oh and you're welcome for saving your life earlier as well you ungrateful bastard." He said with a straight face, while pointing to the three men he shot around him. Totally ignoring the fact of the few things he did to him to make up this cover story.
"I was wondering why you showed up just in time, like you were expecting it. Could it be that you let your man get away from you with the information that the coin purse was here?" As Alexander said those last words he grinned up at Verrick.
Anna felt her stomach start to fight back and she ran through the curtain and out the back door and to the bushes before she lost the contents of her stomach.
Verrick glared at Alexander when he grinned at him. "Would not have happened if you didn't fuck the plan up in the first place you damn drunk."
After several moments she washed her mouth out and walked slowly back into the bar. She looked up to see both sets of eyes on her and she felt embarrassed. "I feel better now...sort of." She looked at the last man she killed and shook her head and mumbled ...."I shouldn't have killed him. I should have let them hang him."
She continued to the nearest table and put her head on her arms. "So many mistakes tonight..." She groaned in frustration. When she looked at Verrick her emotions were raw and bare to him. She remembered what he had said earlier and asked him, "Are you leaving me here?"
Verrick sighed, as he glanced back at Anna. "Yes. But I won't be far, and the town guard is coming any moment. They wont make an attempt again tonight, I am sure."
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