Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24296957-20140301210623/@comment-25763181-20140723045202

The once-fierce and intimidating tigress was now sprawled across the forest floor, her strength reduced to a minimum, her numb body a mutilated mess of gore and blood. She was fighting back the pain, her unstoppable will held back the darkness that tried to consume her vision. Just then, her ears picked up the sound of the shape of grass being parted by footsteps.

Well...this may very well be the end of me...my miserable rollercoaster-like story coming to a miserable end...

She yelped as Deryn planted her foot on her already injured abdomen, grunting with a matching expression of agony. Natsu didn't want to hear it, but her ears kept processing what the falcon was saying regardless.

"Hah, why don't you just end me right now?" She snarled with a raspy voice, chuckling with a smug smile on her face. "Do you really think I actually enjoy all of my job? I only do this to survive, to contribute to something, to feel like a puzzle piece that finally found a jigsaw puzzle that it can fit in!"

Natsu broke off from speaking, her expression slowly morphing into that of slight emotional depression.

"But that will most likely change. Today, my own teammates...they abandoned me, they left me for dead in building rigged to explode. I felt hurt, betrayed, as if the puzzle changed so that it can no longer accommodate me...

"I thought my mood would change when I heard the commotion in the forrest saw you. But...I remembered you, just barely. I remember all your good traits, the traits that would be used in order to maximize success. And I understand why you left and it's okay. But please try to understand that my loyalty stays with the White Fang. My orders remain followed and my protocol stays the same. Until I find a good reason to do the opposite - which I'm sure as hell won't despite what's happened today - my trust goes to no one except a few others..."

She paused, a slight expression of pain was etched on her visage.

"But I don't want your sympathy, nor your empathy. Hell, I don't want anything from you. But I just want you to understand that whatever I do is to benefit me and my own only, and that I do not always enjoy what I do."

Her voice lowered to a painful whisper.

"And I'm very, very sorry...about Ana. I watched her die in cold blood, I knew your close connection with her and again I'm so, so sorry. I...if you want to kill me, by all means do it. My life has reached its low now, and I can't see any other way that it can get back up...maybe Reiku was right...maybe I should regret turning to the White Fang... But like I said, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because I understand your feelings. Just...go ahead. Shoot me if you will. End me. Just...end...

"Me..."

The tiger-Faunus' voice trailed off, her head relaxed as she waited for a gunshot to signal that the last word in her story has been written...

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The adrenaline began to wear off, his body hit with a shotgun blast of fatigue. The last thing Reiku saw just before he hit the ground was the image was a woman off in the distance, her pink hair blowing gracefully with the wind...

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His vision returned, barely able to display the events that was happening before him. Then the pain returned, fiercer and more agonizing than before. It was terrible. His body began to feel numb from it. His consciousness slipped in and out of reality as he felt someone work on his wounds, followed by the disturbing sound of a muffled yet blood-curdling scream through the gauze in his mouth. He didn't mind the slap his teammate gave him afterwards, nor the pain he unintentionally inflicted on him. He knew he was trying his best to mend him.

After the lengthy ordeal was finally over, his voice creaked to his team.

"Is...is she...alive?"

He paused, thinking of Natsu's chances of survival assuming that Deryn had done whatever job she could have done on her...

He was then distracted when his vision slowly became to clear itself, his sight still fuzzy, but was able to point out the sky's current hue of red and orange.

"Look...it's s-sunset. C-camp..now..."