Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20160207063839/@comment-5999656-20160522054345

Platinum crouched on the forest floor, coated with pine needles and standing upon the carpet of dead leaves. Her sword was bent out of shape where it lay meters away from her, a result of taking on Vayne's cleaver, which apparently transformed into a massive vice. Blood was running down her face and back where the blade had gotten her, and she panted heavily while trying to blink the red liquid out of her eyes. A broken handcuff was jingling from her right wrist, a result of the two Fullers trying to subdue her. Her silver jacket was torn in several places. But her fists and teeth were clenched tight as ever.

Smoke was hissing upwards from all the places where they had tried to dump acid and who knows what else on her. She'd been successful in blowing the poisonous gas away with her semblance every time they tried to use it. But at this point the killer duo were engaged in a hushed negotiation as to what to do with her next.

She had lost - that was a fact. And they were gonna take their time with finishing her off, unless she had one more trick up her sleeve.

Platinum reached up and wiped the trickles running down her face, staining her jacket even more red. There was a pounding in her ears to the beat of her heart. She rose painfully to her feet.

"So now fucking what, huh?" she huffed out, even though it hurt to breathe.

Everglades turned and gave her a sneering smile, although it was hidden under her mask. She strode forward and took Platinum's face in her hands as their eyes met through the glint of her visor. Fire into ice.

"You've fought well," Eve purred. "Truly a magnificent specimen of the human race. I can't wait to see you break bit by bit."

Platinum grimaced and shut her eyes hard. God, what a nightmare.

She opened her eyes again and spat on Eve's mask. The mixture of saliva and blood ran down slowly as Eve stood motionless. Then, the woman shoved Platinum hard, sending the girl sprawling on the ground again.

"Lustra, your lesson begins," Eve called back to the car, where the child had witnessed the whole ordeal. Slowly, Lustra got out of the vehicle and began walking hesitantly to where her parents beckoned, where her father handed her a canister.

"Use this, sweetie," he grunted. Lustra took it wordlessly and began approaching Platinum slowly, as if in a trance.

The detective locked eyes with the small girl who was wearing the same chemical-proof uniform as her parents. Or rather, she looked straight into  her mask's eye holes, hoping that the girl felt her gaze.

Damn, this sucked. She was gonna get finished off by a kid with serial killer parents at this rate. And even if she died, what was gonna happen to the kid? Doomed from the very start by the people who should have set a good example.

"Lustra," Platinum said, and the quiver in her voice was obvious, "You know you don't want to do this."

Lustra froze a meter in front of Platinum. The ten year old kid standing before the 17 year old detective on the floor.

"Piteous mewling," Everglades said from where she was standing behind her daughter. "Nothing she has has any meaning. Only you and me and daddy matter."

The four remained in place, frozen as if in a still image, a snapshot of a single second. Then, as if it hurt to do it, Lustra raised her hand and sprayed hard. At the same instant, Platinum extended a hand forward and let loose her own cloud, enveloping the trio in fog. She heard a rumbling in the distance, and whoever it was, she needed to get their attention before this one chance slipped away.

"Why don't you all GO TO HELL!"

She rolled over and grasped the grip of her bent saber, and flung it at Vayne, where it clunked loudly off his helmet, causing him to stagger and curse angrily.

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"Hold up, do you hear that?" Zanipher moved from the sunroof to where her head was sticking out next to the driver, who nodded.

"I'm scanning now," Mazu replied, as the car's driver side interface lit up, revealing two red-orange silhouettes on the infrared tracker. The sound of a gunning motorcycle engine was echoing through the woods, startling birds into noisy flight.

"Cyzarine and Raizel," Fen said, stiffening.

"We're going after them. Tell the party to switch destinations and get over here ASAP."

mazu reached over and tapped a few icons on the interface, switching it to call mode.

"Alright crew, change of plans, we've found the Bluthardt and -"

A child's scream cut through the rushing air, and Zanipher felt a chill run down her spine.

"We're close, let's go!"