Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5426254-20150930003410/@comment-13593058-20151007055529

"What's your beef with Carmine anyway?" Asher sneered as several shots landed behind the tree he hid behind. Each one made an oddly satisfying thud on its way into the plant's flesh. His team and he had taken refuge at a forested section of the arena. Its resemblance was not far from the famous Forever Fall with its warm, crimson coloured trees and soft ground.

He looked at Heart, who was hiding behind a slate coloured rock, for a response of some sort who only gave him a obnoxious smile in return.

"Of course," Asher sighed, bullets still bouncing at his cover. He had placed his hand on the handle of Breaker, his sword, but did not draw it from its sheath. "it's cause he's strong and equally hot-headed as you are if you push his buttons correctly."

And it was true, Heart's intentions were never mere blood-thirst, but to prove oneself as a capable duelist in the way of the sword.

Asher then relocated his two other teammates; Tana rested herself on the branches of the thick trees, back facing the trunk of course but playfully fiddled with the leaves. Rayne was by a bigger stump with legs tucked into her chest and eyes trained on Asher, ready to recieve any command.

It was evident the bullet shower was not going to end any time soon and HART won't get anywhere just taking cover. It didn't help that the majority of team lacked any sort of firearms. Of course, the key word was majority.

"Rayne," Asher began his command after piecing together a plan of attack, "kick some dust up won't you?"

Rayne acknowledged him with a tilt of her head and retrieved the pair of shotguns she carried with her from her back. She placed the two guns over her head, angling them downwards and pulled the triggers in a staggered manner. Two shots finally rang out from the forest, each a few miliseconds apart from one another and the projectiles landed onto the middle of battle arena, the no-man's land of this scenario, kicking up clouds full of dirt and debris. Members of team CASP now had no vision of where to shoot and their bullets began to thin out allowing Rayne to stand up from her cover in relative safety. She spun her shotguns in her hands individually after each shot, cocking and ejecting the shells at a steady rate to kick up a thick layer of cover. Rayne then looked at Asher, face still lacking in expression, and nudged her head towards the general direction of their opponents, signaling them to move while she continued her barrage.

Asher himself said nothing but lead both Heart and Tana into the cloud.

 "Damn," Sable commented while reloading his SMG with a third clip, "that's some dust, huh?"

 "No doubt, they'll appear from the cloud," Pieter notified the team, "either we go in and find them ourselves or we spray and pray, wasting more bullets."

Alicia looked at the cloud with confusion, surely the bullets they had shot earlier connected to their targets considering the sheer number sent over their. "Maybe I can push the cloud away with my parasol!" she giddily suggested, proud of her moment of brilliance.

"Don't be silly, Alicia," Carmine interjected, "a cloud that size would take hours for you to push out with that little umbrella of yours. It's better if we just let it settle and reassess the situation. They would've moved by-"

Suddenly, a bright pink flash rocketed from the cloud, forming a circular smoke ring as it exited its influence.

Sable felt the air rush out of his lungs as a fiery little girl rammed his stomach with her head as hard as a boar charging its challenger, sending the DJ speeding towards another crystal and decimating it. The little girl was not done, however, as the impact with Sable had caused her to richochet to Pieter next, causing him to defend himself with the guandao form of his weapon. He successfully repelled Tana's chained attack causing her to reflect back into Carmine and Alicia's direction but was pushed pack farther from his team close to a grassfilled flat-land.

Pieter recovered slowly as even he was shocked a person of his frame was forcefully pushed a good distance away from his team, but out of the corner of his eye, a white jacket could be seen fluttering in the dusty wind and a click of primed hammers were heard.

 "Ooo, a bouncy ball girl!" Alicia splurged, both amazed and amused. However, this time to Alicia and Carmine  was easily  telegraphed and Alicia prepared her parasol and swumg it like a baseball bat striking poor Tana close to where Sable landed. Alicia, pumped her hand at her accomplishment before looking towards Carmine with a mischevious smile to look for aproval, or at least some kind of amazing recognition.

"That... that was good, I guess." Carmine muttered, both in amazement and jealousy. However, the dust cloud earlier had begun to settle in front of them and two shadows began to emerge from it. The revelation caused Carmine's heart to hasten as a peak of silver hair showed's itself waving in the wind. The stare of the piercing golden eyes and the almost vampiric visage made his blood boil.

Behind her a boy had his fist up to his mouth, and several echoes of coughing fits resonated to Carmine and Alicia followed by a weak, "Ugh, I think I got some in my eyes."

"I've waited for this re-match for quite some time." Carmine said under his breath.