Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26060252-20150130001450/@comment-25169271-20151012020019

As Elroy faced off against his opponents Alice and Darian were faced with two other White Fang combatiants, one with a simple sword, the other with a common assault rifle. Darian took a step forward to fight but was stopped when Alice moved out in front of him and took up a fighint position. She took a moment to glance back at her boyfriend and smiled at him, that one glance told him everything he needed to know. ''"I've got this. I'll be fine. Go find what you're looking for." ''

Darian nodded at her as he dashed off into the warehouse, after the man he was looking for. The faunus with the rifle moved to fire at the man as he moved deeper into the warehouse but Alice was too quick for him. In an instant she closed the distance between them and knocked his rifle aside with the defensive portion of Smashing Creschendo, driving the knuckler portion directly into the man's rib cage with a debilitating punch which broke most of his ribs.

The man with the sword charged at Alice as she attacked his comrade, swinging to bury his blade deep into her chest cavity with a single blow. Unfortunately for him she trained with a much better swordsman on a daily basis and easily spunn to her left to avoid the attack and countered with an elbow to the man's temple and a powerful blow to the middle of the man's spine knocking him out and potentially crippling him. As Alice finished up her fight she looked over to see Elroy dealing with one last white fang member. As he let the girl leave Alice stepped in front of him to momentarily hault his progress. "Listen, we're going to get out of here, and we're going to get out of here with Darian. But we're not going to interefere with his meeting with his father. He needs this confrontation and I'm not going to deny it to him," she stated, taking a moment to realize she had just inadvertently diverged Darian's relationship with the White Fang leader.

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Darian chased after the man though the rows of shelving, playing a slightly ironic game of cat an mouse as he constantly got in front of the man with his semblance any time he tried to cut off to the side of the warehouse. Finally Darian had cornered Rufous at the back of the warehouse with no door or way to escape. "Well it seems you have me cornered Mr. Pink Cat," Rufous said as he slowly raised his hands above his head, making no moves that would be considered aggressive. "Would you mind telling me why you have decided to side with humans to get us arrested tonight instead of with your bretheren in the White Fang?"

"The White Fang are not my bretheren! The White Fang killed my mother and my sister. They died because the White Fang couldn't protect them! Because you couldn't protect them!" Darian snarled as he pointed his massive sword at the man menicingly. The entire night had gone to hell in a hand basket and it had clouded his mind. What had seemed simple a few hours ago was now a cluster flop on a timer. Still, it had not taken his mind off of his goal he was here to achieve. "Why...why didn't you protect mom and Angela? I was just a child...I tried but I couldn't and I carry that with me. But you....why didn't you do more to protect them? Why didn't you save them?!"

It took a few moments for all the tumblers to fall into place for Rufous as he realized who he was talking to. "Chester?" he said calmly as he lowered his arms and took a step towards the disguised man, who promplty rose his sword to disuade the man from doign anything else. "Chester that is you, isn't it? I thought you had died after you ran away all those years ago."

"Clearly I didn't," Darian snapped as he lowered his blade, keeping an eye on the man and keeping his distance from him. "So answer me, why didn't you protect them? Why did you let them die?"

Rufous sighed as he folded his arms into the small of his back and discreetly pressed a button on his watch. "Well you surely are your mother's child, just as stubbron and narrow minded. You wish to know why I didn't protect your mother, why I didn't protect your sister? Are you expecting me to break down in tears and cry that I just wasn't strong enough? Do you wan't me to try and explain my actions away? Well I won't, because everything went according to plan...well nearly according to plan."

"Plan?" Darian repeated, the single word managing to break his train of thought and grind everything to a hault. "W-what do you mean plan? What kind if plan involves your family dying?!"

"A plan to further our cause, to get me higher in power, and to move our bretheren to action," Rufous explained as he stopped his pacing and stared directly at his son. "Your mother and I never really loved eachother. Our marriage was for convenience; she got a stable life to raise children in that wasn't on a battlefield, and I got a wife of great repute and fame. But your mother was much smarter than I gave her credit for. She saw the way I was attempting to lead the people I could influence and she wouldn't have any part of it."

"So...so you killed her...to prevent her from leaving you?" Darian snapped, restraining himself from simply killing the man there. "You killed your wife, my mother because you couldn't stand to loose someone you didn't even love?!"

"No, I couldn't have cared less if she was going to simply leave me; hell even if she was taking you and Angela, which she was planning on doing," the man explained as he leered at his son with the smug look of a cat toying with a mouse that was bleeding. "But she was going to inform the humans of my plans, the White Fang's plans. And I just couldn't have that."

Darian dropped the tip of his sword to the ground, not able to comprehend how his father had done somethign so haneous. "So...you...you had the truck smash into the car that day? You had her killed?! And what about Angela? Why her?"

Before Rufous could reply in any way the wall behind him exploded in a mote of green light, blinding Darian as he drew his sword up to protect himself. As he lowered his blade he saw his father getting pulled out of the hole by what appeared to be tendrils of smoke that had managed to turn solid. As Darian prepared to attack his father he came under fire, forcing him to deflect a series of energy blast with his sword. "Perhaps I'll tell you of Angela's fate next time we meet Chester," Rufous taunted as he was pulled away, a devilish smile on his face.