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Post by Pyre on Jul 22, 2008 12:13:20 GMT -5
The first strike did almost nothing other than knock the air out of him for a second. But the second one--
A thundercrack sounded through his entire body it seemed, his chest smashed under the force of the blow and his ribs bruising, his body in a sudden panic. He heard her words but didn't really respond. By now I'm sure you know what fellhounds do when they panic--they flame up big time.
Bane was practically a bonfire, and his flames were turned to burn her, to hurt her, to get her off him! His suit suffered some fire damage itself--it wasn't entirely fire proof--but the harder plastic and metal parts survived wonderfully. But would Aura?
"You can't! I'm doing this because I need to! Refia needs it!"
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Post by Shukko]| on Jul 22, 2008 12:21:21 GMT -5
"Ah! Fire!" Aura jumped back, spinning through the air until she managed to land safely on the floor, away from the sharp objects randomly scattered around the room. The end of her fur singed in several areas.
She glanced down at her hand, flames covered it, yet... They didn't burn, there was no pain... "What the h*ll...?" Was this...? When she first met Jet she talked about the ability to mix elements, and how she wanted to try it, she never got the chance to... But, maybe she had? Just now?
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Post by Pyre on Jul 22, 2008 12:31:57 GMT -5
((o.o Bane: Ah crap. Ummm...I'd like to make the motion that now is not the right time for this. Gyre: *still clutching wounded eye* No one asked your opinion, psycho.))
Bane shoved himself upright with a little bit more ease now that a lot of his stuff had been burned. Though he was lucky none of his explosives had gone off.
"Aura! Let's try a little double-team!" Jet shouted. He wanted her to fight like Gyre did with Jet. Jet assumed that's what the flames were, that she was somehow keeping them at bay with her winds. "Can you handle the heat?" Jet's blue flames flickered along his body.
Bane didn't want to let that happen. He pulled off two grenades and pulled out the pins with his teeth, throwing them for Jet and Aura. Jet lunged to one side easily, though one of the net mines were set off, the twisting net barely missing Jet. That's when he got the idea. "Use your winds, throw the mines at him!"
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Post by Shukko]| on Jul 22, 2008 12:38:37 GMT -5
Aura jumped out of the way of the other grenade and nodded at Jet, letting wind start up in the room and lift the mines into the the air, and sending them flying for Bane. A vortex came up around Aura, and started to suck in some of the razors and broken glass, but she managed to keep them away from her body.
'hey! Jet, toss some fire at me!"
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Post by Pyre on Jul 22, 2008 12:54:51 GMT -5
Bane scrambled to get backwards, but of course several of the nets latched over him, the fellhound struggling against it and wrapping himself tighter, snarling like the devil. Jet quickly fed his flames to Aura, all too happy to oblige, watching Bane struggle and wondering if they might finally have him.
But Bane wasn't down yet. Far from it. His flames flared up three times as much, burning at the net, weakening it. But these nets were supposed to be somewhat fire resistant, though they were more for fighting galehounds than fellhounds. But at that moment, the intensity of the flames set off one of the grenades strapped to Bane's right leg.
He was sent flying into the wall, the net desintigrating but his leg! He fell to the ground, smashed down hard. His leg was bloody, the suit unable to protect him much when the explosion was that close. He was fortunate he hadn't lost the limb, but the gory mess that resulted was frightening. "AAAHHHH!"
"Ha! You bloody dog!" Gyre's voice came from somewhere in the smoke. "See how that tastes!"
Bane writhed, twisting and whining on the floor, his hands clutching his leg where the explosion had hit, at his thigh.
Jet was stock-still. He still didn't think they'd fully gotten him... Bane was injured, but one of his shaky hands moved away from the wound for one of his many weapons.
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Post by Shukko]| on Jul 22, 2008 12:59:56 GMT -5
"Hah!" Aura cominbed the wind and fire into one small sphere of energy, pressurised like a bomb. Ready to go off at any moment. Then, she tossed it at Bane, it started to expand very quickly, exploding as it flew through the air towards him, then just before it touched him...
The sphere exploded completely, releasing all of it's energy in one huge blast of air and fire, likely to weaken Bane, not wound him some more, but weaken him and hopefully, if it worked will enough make his flames die down.
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Post by Pyre on Jul 22, 2008 14:17:47 GMT -5
Bane was smashed further into the floor, the wood actually cracking beneath him. The pressure of the wind did kill his flames significantly. The helmet was suffocating, he ripped it off with his free hand. His other hand was still searching for something...anything.
"Alright! Nice, Aura!" Jet said in triumph, leaping over the concentrated areas of sharp objects towards Bane. But then he stopped frozen.
Bane had pulled something from his back, a fire extinguisher, the metal clinking on the ground loudly as he set it down beside him. His eyes were no longer alight with flame, but they were narrowed and angry. "What? Keep coming closer, Jet. Come on." Bane rolled over onto his stomach, patting the extinguisher.
"You're gonna get yourself killed if you keep this up!"
"Maybe that would be better...."
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Post by Shukko]| on Jul 22, 2008 14:28:52 GMT -5
"Bane! Just tell us what's going on! Where the h*ll is Refia?! She's my friend too!" Aura growled, this wasn't getting them anywhere, they needed to finish this up quick or they wouldn't find out anything.
"Please, just stop this and tell us what's going on... We'll give up if you do..."
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Post by Pyre on Jul 22, 2008 14:34:12 GMT -5
"...We will?" Jet protested after Aura's words.
Gyre was struggling upright, still swearing bitterly, leaning against a wall. "He cut out my eye!"
Bane flattened his ears, still clutching the fire extinguisher in case any of them changed their mind, though it would only do real damage to Jet.
"R-refia...she's in trouble...." the fellhound muttered, not looking at Aura. His gaze was still fixed on Jet, as though daring him to come closer. "Th-the voice told me that I had to bring these two. Jet and Gyre. I had to bring them to where Refia's being kept and then she'd be let go. But she'll die if I don't..." Bane didn't include the fact that the voice wanted Jet and Gyre so it could murder them. They didn't need to know that...they'd never agree to anything after he told them.
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Post by Shukko]| on Jul 22, 2008 14:39:52 GMT -5
"Voice...?" Aura thought it over for a moment, this person wanted just Gyre and Jet, but... She'd be coming too, definately. Her ears twitched, there was something else here... The room lit up with a white light, and then everything around them had changed.
They were in a ruined sandstone arena, the ground covered in sand, ruined pillars and sections sticking out here and there.
"Heheh... Bane, it's so nice of you to weaken them for me..."
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Post by Pyre on Jul 23, 2008 13:52:45 GMT -5
Bane recognized the voice. Jet and Gyre did too...
"What have you done?!" Jet shouted at the white hound. Gyre didn't have a wall to lean against anymore and he fell down hard, growling and whining at his lost sight in one eye. Well he could still see in the other, but you can't tell me you'd react well to that either.
Bane just continued to clutch the fire extinguisher, eyes half-closed against the pain, his world swimming as he struggled to stay conscious. "Wh-where's Refia?" he growled at the voice. "You said you'd let her go..." Bane was in so much agony...it was all he could do not to scream.
"Did she also add world domination to that list? Or did you forget that part?" Jet spat.
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Post by Shukko]| on Jul 23, 2008 14:02:51 GMT -5
((Gyre, Jet and Aura only saw Lanza in the past rememeber? They never saw her at Sky Corp.))
"Oh? The ice girl... Heh... Here..."
There was another flash of white light and Refia appeared next to Bane, lying on the ground, breathing slowly. "She passed out because of the heat... But she'll be fine..."
"Now for you ..." Metal coils lashed out, wrapping around Aura's legs and arms, and pulling her up againest one of the pillars, another one pressed againest her mouth so she couldn't speak. "Can't have you getting in the way..."
"Now here's the game... Everytime etheir of you two get hurt... Your little girl here, gets electric treatment with every ounce of pain that you feel when struck..." More metal coils burst out of the ground, surrounding Jet and Gyre in a circle, each one having different kinds of weapons to use againest them. Hoses, small knives, a ball and chain (without spikes), and many others.
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Post by Pyre on Jul 23, 2008 18:58:36 GMT -5
((Didn't they see her in the colorless world? Oh, my bad, I thought they eventually figured out what she really was, I thought like Cyan told them or something because otherwise they would have just gone after Azel.))
Gyre got up abruptly, swearing, his back to Jet's as they watched the swirl of weapons. "Oh no..." Jet almost started whimpering himself. He watched Aura between the coils. They couldn't let this thing hurt her...
Bane put his arms around Refia but was unable to stand up still. "Come on, Ref...come back." Her cool body was oddly soothing, but it was still far too warm, for her...
At the same time, Gyre, despite having only one eye, was hissing words of strength to Jet. "Come on, man. Suck it up, we can do this. Just concentrate."
"Gyre...I honestly don't even think there's a way to win. Not for us."
"We'll find a way. We're fellhounds."
"Fellhounds have all but been wiped out; we're not invincible!"
"Pft! I know that! Have you seen my eye? But that doesn't mean we can't put up a bloody good fight...." Gyre flashed his cousin a look over his shoulder. "For Aura?"
The fire dog shivered visibly, but his smoldering eyes were hard. He nodded firmly. "Let's do it."
Both dogs let out a wild roar, and a wall of flame and wind beat at the coils that encircled them. In the midst of the sapphire inferno, Jet crouched on all fours behind Gyre, also in feral form. Flames sprouted from Jet's every limb and ears and eyes. Black wind whipped up the blue flames around Gyre's body, his eyes turned to sockets, the bloody one giving the frightening appearance of having had it cut out.
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Post by Shukko]| on Jul 24, 2008 14:30:02 GMT -5
The coils crashed into the ground, some of them melting and burning. But then another one appeared and aimed for Jet, gushing out gallons of freezing water at him, a second appeared and fired at Gyre, sending multiple beams of electricity.
"Heheh... You'd better hurry! You don't want to let the poor girl die!"
Refia's eyes slowly opened. "Bane...? Is that you...? Am I... Are we... Dead?"
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Post by Pyre on Jul 24, 2008 17:35:18 GMT -5
Jet wasn't fast enough to do anything about the hose that shot icy water for his face--but Gyre was. The wind flew up, deflecting most of the water, but as it cascaded down it drenched Jet's flaming feet. And at the same instant the beams of electricity hit Gyre. The galehound went flying backwards, over Jet's body, and the wind no longer blocked the water, freezing them both.
Jet scrambled out from underneath, flames extinguished, water dripping from his steaming fur. He yanked Gyre upright, helping him onto steady feet. Jet was wet, shivering, but he was fine. Gyre had actually been hurt. And suddenly neither of them were in any state to offer a counter attack.
Bane just shook his head numbly, his eyes stinging as he looked back at the chaos, at the slow slaughter of his three friends. "No...we're not dead..." He closed his eyes, a shudder passing through his body. "But I wish I were..." he moaned softly.
He had to take another deep breath before he could muster his voice again. "I'm sorry...I didn't want to...it's just...I realized something back in the old hideout. I realized that I was growing to like you more and more. You're frozen, you're cold, you're my complete opposite. And yet against all reason I love you. I love you too much to let you die..."
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