Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25924729-20151107020221/@comment-25924729-20160117040649

The entire building rocked as explosions rippled through it, and Barnes gripped the wall mounted monitor to steady himself. Lights flickered as the chandeliers swayed and clinked, and small shards of glass peppered the mobster, not enough to damage him past aura, but enough to make the man panic.

He could only watch horrified as his casino was torn apart. Again.

''Dahell is wrong with these bastard kids?! Is destroying nightclubs some kind of new trend in Vale? ''(Yellow trailer reference)

Then he spotted two of them already inside, and his panic increased. ''Dammit Narreau, your droids failed! ''Barnes desperately hit a few switches, sealing off the building with 30mm blast doors, and cutting off Vert and Cyzarine from the main group below.

Divide and conquer. he thought, as the survivors of the spider bombs regrouped and attacked.

She looked up at Amilanthior, feeling a tinge of shame. She lied to him for so long, and yet he still protected her? Even getting hurt doing so. Zhu-li didn’t know how to feel, or what to say.

“No''. I’m'' sorry. I should never have lied to you.” She finally spoke and scrambled to her feet. Gripping the bottle, Zhu-li hid behind a nearby car. Her prescence would only distract Amilanthior from the coming fight, he’d have to focus on defending her and surviving Tigris at once.

She needed to recover without being a liability, then help him...

“You would presume to challenge me?” Tigris growled at him, like the beast she was named after. “This fight does not concern you, stranger. Leave, and I may spare you yet.”

Amilanthior didn’t flinch, and the geisha sighed. No matter, it just meant another obstacle to remove before she reached her prey. Zhu-li would die today, she swore.

“You defend a traitor,” She mocked as they began circling with murder in their eyes, each looking for a chance to attack. "Who's to say you aren't being exploited. She'll turn her back on you and run once her goal is accomplished."

Sensing an opening, she darted in with a quick thrust, attempting to dive around the boy’s guard and stabbing where his heart would be. But he parried with a chakram-like weapon attached to chains, and she was forced back again.

"She already abandoned the man who raised her, made her a champion. What do you mean to her?" then she turned to the car and shouted "Loyalty is lost on you, Castellan!"

Seizing the distraction, Amilanthior swung the Zeracts aiming for her neck. Tigris ducked below the circular blades and rolled aside. This was getting tiresome. The longer she delayed, Castellan would recover, would be harder to kill.

She had to end this fast. "Coliseum."

Despite the cold weather, the ground erupted in flames. Snow vanished, replaced by water. Then hissed into steam by the intense heat. Tigris’ spear was tipped with a ghostly red, and she twirled the weapon, ending with a vertical slash towards Amilanthior’s direction.

Mirroring the gesture, a wave of fire sliced towards him, forcing them to dive aside and dodge. “Heh.” Tigris smirked as she ran past, vaulting over the car and stabbing behind it. '“SHI NE (die), ''CASTELLAN! '''

The spear impaled empty air. An empty flask and droplets of blood lay in the snow.

"Nani?! (What)"

Tigris sensed movement from behind, and summoned a wall of flame to block.

Her ice swords melted, but Zhu-li simply produced another pair and tackled Tigris to the ground, the two locked in combat, a tangle of violence, ice and fire.

Ravelyn's arrows hit home on all three CRACKS, detonating on their armored chests and momentarily stopping the droids as their systems rebooted from mild interference. Their armor was weakened, but otherwise unfazed.

When they recovered, one of them was lying in the snow, a sparking hole where it's head once rested. Registering a new threat, one CRACK sent a distress signal all other Narreau droids in the vicinity.

Nearby, the final STARK received the signal and redirected it's attention to the threat, locating Brunhilde, turning and forming it's laser to shoot her down.

The other CRACK bent and collected it's comrades weapon, now dual wielding shotguns. The other CRACK with an assault rifle joined it, and the two relentlessly continued hunting Ravelyn.

-

While most of the AK-130s and Narreau droids were destroyed, their human counterparts were still strong in number, and had a trick up their sleeve. The panicked crowd flushed out by Vert had now reached the exits and were pouring nto the streets.

Counting on the fact their attackers wouldn't dare harm civillians, the mobsters shoved their way into the crowd, blending in and using them for cover, while acting as meatshields against the attackers.

From above, it looked like a mass of panicked rich folk in fancy dress swarming the streets. Occasionally, one would draw a weapon and fire before hiding again. Like a bizarre game of whack-a-mole.

(Whew... that must be the longest post i ever wrote.)