Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25389303-20160708180726/@comment-5999656-20160709191110

Zanipher looked at the enemy party, and back at hers and Hector's. Numerical. Advantage. Even if this Smiler was a tough fighter, it was physically impossible for him to be capable of taking down both herself and Hector, whom she knew from past experience to be a truly formidable combatant. Plus their combined teams of trained killers. And Smiler might be a deranged freak, but look past the Glasgow grin and he didn't look any older than herself. And she, Zanipher Hei'An, had received the benefit of a completed Beacon education combined with her family's covert training. She was virtually unmatchable by anyone who lacked this background. So what was keeping Hector from acting?

It's not Smiler he's afraid of.

These four men before her had to be part of a greater organization, one with either or both significant reach and dangerous members. If that organization was close to here, then they couldn't afford to dawdle about. Their retreat vehicles were parked some ways from here, with the drivers still lounging about awaiting their return. If necessary she could call down some attack drones as a diversion. The one convenience about roaming the wild was that there was no need for subtlety.

Something wicked this way comes.

"What makes you think I'm a Dragon? Did you really think Vale's top crime network would actually send one their bosses deep into Grimm-infested territory? Now you're the one making me laugh. And ya know what, Hector? While we're on the subject on doubling pay," she said, turning to address him, "My employers wil triple what they paid for you originally if you stick with us. But I think talking about it, well..."

She snapped her fingers. In a flash the Syndicate members had dropped their controllers and drawn either handguns or their personalized Hunter weapons, and opened fire on Smiler's crew. Zanipher herself raised her left arm and sent her grappling hook wrapping around one of the SMGs, and she tugged it hard. With her other hand, she sent curving streams of Ice Dust into the other SMG in Smiler's grasp.

"I realized I haven't yet had the opportunity to show you why it is, exactly, that the Nine Dragons of Vale are the top dogs of crime around here. If our only advantage were quantity, well, then our name wouldn't conjure fear in the hearts of every faction in Remnant now, would it? Please now, Smiler," Zanipher said, "Show me who you think the Nine Dragons ought to be afraid of!"