Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24296957-20140301210623/@comment-25763181-20140721191240

''What the hell...? How did he even know? Is this guys some sort of medic?

Son of a fucking bitch...that's it. I'm gonna kill someone right here, right now.''

The Faunus snapped, eyes suddenly flared violently at her assailants as her hands flew to her side. She quickly did a kip-up to her feet, not before she pulled out her pistol and took aim, pulling the trigger at the person the barrel pointed at first... ___________________________

Reiku flinched at the sight of Natsu's raging bright-orange eyes, only to double over afterwards when the bullet struck his abdomen. A sharp growl of pain came from his mouth, clutching his stomach before his adrenalin kicked in, allowing him to temporarily ignore the pain. Deep-crimson eyes bore into hers, their gaze showing strong determination from beneath. In almost a blink of an eye, the boy reached pulled out Aura Blaze and fired it backwards, bracing himself for impact as he sped at devastating speeds towards the sniper. ___________________________

Natsu felt the full force of the impact as Reiku's shoulder came into contact, sending her flying through the forest. She groaned, weak but still possessing enough strength to carry on, her indestructible will to win was still ever-present from within her soul. She stayed down until she heard the sounds of grass ruffling with every footstep. The redhead then raised her foot and kicked the boy right in the midsection, eyes processing a chance to win this fight... ___________________________

''Nope. Not done yet.''

The boy doubled over again, her sneaker striking a sensitive spot due to the bullet. But Reiku's determination won out, keeping him alive and readily able to avert anything that came his way from Natsu. The boy threw a right hook to her torso as her fist came towards his head. He ducked, not before Natsu diverted the punch to a different path. ___________________________

The two began brawling it out, until the tiger-Faunus managed to sweep Reiku off his feet with a low roundhouse kick. The battered and bruised male ended up losing Aura Blaze far away from him. He was now on the forest floor, with the tigress pushing her weight down on his body as she snarled maliciously to him.

"Reiku...you're not taking this chance from me. I know you're in love with her, but this...this is too much of a good opportunity to pass." ___________________________

I hope Deryn isn't around to hear that...

The pistol was readily pointed at his head, her index finger wrapped around the trigger. All she needed to do was pull the digit to end his story right here, right now. To Reiku, that wasn't an option. But what was he to do? The boy had a tiger-Faunus who was well trained in martial arts and marksmanship keeping him pinned down to the ground at gunpoint.

Checkmate.

...

''Oh? What's do we have here?''

Reiku's eyes saw a glimmer of light in the sky, his memory from a few hours back kicking in.

''Oh hey. A real life Deus Ex Machina. Where the hell have you been?...''

His brain quickly conjured up a plan. A sketchy one at that, but as reluctant as he was on it, he was willing to take the risk. His right hand crept behind his back, its fingers fingering around his backpack until they had found an HDPE.

"Reiku..." Natsu muttered. "You were a good friend to have around. But I'm sorry..."

"Yeah," Reiku replied, a smug smile slowly etched itself onto his face. "I'm sorry too..."

His fingers pulled the pin and tossed the HDPE to his right, activating his Aura barrier in that direction just half a second before the grenade went off. The tigress was sent flying, the boy sliding across the ground a few feet. Without losing any of his momentum, he performed a kip-up and ran towards Natsu's position on the ground. The boy looked up and jumped, his eyes catching sight of Kasai & Aisu in mid-flight as his fingers wrapped around the handles. Raising the weapons up, Reiku positioned himself as he went in for the kill.

/I'm sorry...

Reiku landed with a muffled thud as the blades pierced through the tigress' skin, an animal-like scream escaped from he mouth as weapons dug through her arm and upper-midsection. The boy swiftly pulled out the blades, the sickening yet familiar squelch of the weapons removing themselves from her body was followed by another ear-piercing scream. As he stood up, he looked at the girl, tattered and bloody as she whimpered softly in agony. He felt terrible for what he was forced to do, even if it was the result of simply following his survival instincts. The male reached inside his backpack and pulled out some bandages and home-made liquid that combined morphine and an antiseptic, placing it on the ground beside her, his eyes now clearly showing feelings of regret as the result of his actions.

''But will it remedy our potentially shattered friendship? Probably not, but I'll just wait and see.''

Without saying another word, Reiku nodded at the tigress and sauntered off to his teammates, picking up and sheathing Aura Blaze along the way.