True Colors

[Shukko]|]

"Ack!" The coil's released electricity into Aura's body, slightly singing her fur and tensing her muscles. "Gyre... Jet... Help..."

More weapons appeared, lashing out at the two fellhounds, trying to hurt them, but not trying to kill them just yet... Not yet...

Refia blinked and reached out, kissing Bane softly. "I'm glad you came back for me... But..." She slowly moved out of Bane's grasp and stood up, she was weakened by the heat, almost out of energy, but she had to help. "I've got to fight too..."

[Pyre]

"Refia!" Bane started. He didn't want to loose her as well. But...honestly...it was the least he could do...

He watched Aura writhe, watched the coils twist, watched Jet take several of the blows freely to save Gyre from the main brunt force, and with each hit they took, Aura jerked in pain. Jet's fur was steaming, the ends of it smoking embers, but he was unable to get up a real defense other than to drop Gyre and throw up his claws, blocking a few of the weapons with them. His teeth locked onto a blade before it could cut into his face. And at the same moment, a ball and chain hit him in the gut.

Jet went tumbling back into the water, landing on Gyre who let out a sudden groan of pain. "Gerroff me you idiot!"

"Sorry, mate, but there's no where to go!"

"Well I can't get up and help if you dont' get the heck off me!"

Or maybe he could. Suddenly the air compressed and released with a bang. Jet was sent flying upwards as though shot out of a cannon. Then he came tumbling back down towards the twisting coils of death, unable to alter his course in the slightest or do anything to stop it.

[Shukko]|]

Light smoke lifted from Aura's body, her breathing had slowed but she was still awake, still alive... But she was weakened greatly, if this kept up any longer Aura would be dead before they were. "Hurry..."

Refia slowly walked towards the battle, gathering what energy she had left and then firing it at the coils, they froze, their systems going wacky, they dropped to the ground. All was queit now. Was it... Was it over?

[Pyre]

Jet landed hard on the ground. "Oof!" Struggling upright, the water yet again extinguishing any flames he had managed to light since the last time, he winced as his narrowed eyes looked up at the frozen coils. Frozen...?

Gyre got up as well, the pair of them leaning heavily on each other for support. But the galehound didn't want to take chances...the voice, the maker of it, was likely still around. Gyre didn't dare to hope that she'd give up so easily. Suddenly the air whipped up around him, lashing out powerfully at the frozen coils. Metal breaks easy when it's cold, and several of the weapons and coils shattered. Most of it still stood, but it provided a space through which the two injured fellhounds could struggle out. Gyre left Jet leaning against the wall as he came up to Aura. "You'll have to hold real still...I've never really done any concentrated attacks." He couldn't risk hitting her face after all...

[Shukko]|]

"... Okay..." Aura said, her voice had become a bit squeaky as she was scared of what would happen when Gyre tried this... She closed her eyes tightly. "Pleeasseee don't hurt me!! Just do it!" She screamed loudly, telling him to get this overwith.

Refia panted, collapsing on to her knees, if they had to fight, she couldn't do anymore... She couldn't fight, she could do everything but help fight this enemy. "Too hot... Aghhh... I wanna go home... To the mountain, I'm not a f*ck*ng fighting... I'm a Blizzard Tribe Dancer... I can't to this stuff..."

((Refia! Langauge! Refia: Sorry...))\

The mechanical sounds of the coils stopped, was this fight over? It had to be, it had to be over now that they had stopped. But from the darkness of one of the sandstone arena's entrances, eyes were watching them as the sun glared down at them through the giant hole in the domed roof.

Wait, where were they? Well, they had to be somewhere in the desert, it was incredibly hot and this old building was made of sandstone, this had to be deep within the desert.

((Hope you don't mind, but I made this to be a ruin of the Seeker Tribe's village...))

"Gyre... Before you do it... Can you promise me I won't get hurt? Pleeeeaasseee?"

[Pyre]

((Heheh....ooooh! Well it probably got mostly swallowed up by the desert by now, but that works great!))

Gyre looked up at Aura's eyes, flinching inwardly as he watched her, her words piercing him inside because he knew there was a strong chance he couldn't keep that promise. But he couldn't tell her that... He couldnt' resist telling her that everything would be all right.

"Yes..." he said swiftly, in a voice hardly audible but singing of sincerity. "Yes, I promise." And as soon as the words were out his hand over the coils was shot backwards by the explosion of air between his palm and the metal. Gyre staggered back, but the coils had been broken. And...other than the previous damage done, it didn't seem as though Gyre had caused any of it! Feeling almost giddy at his success, he ripped away the coils and helped her down carefully in his arms.

Suddenly Jet was beside him, holding out his arms to take her.

Gyre stared dumb-founded for a moment, before protesting. "I-I got her."

"Gyre, you're hurt. You're eye's bloody. And you've just had thousands of volts of electricity shooting through your body." But Jet's cousin continued to stare down at him with distant eyes, as though hardly hearing. Jet pressed, "You need to take care of yourself for a moment. Please. You can't patch yourself up while carrying her."

Slowly Gyre nodded, handing Aura off to him. Yes, that made sense. But as Gyre collapsed to the ground, leaning heavily against a pillar, he couldn't help but feel he'd lost some sort of mental battle against his cousin. The pain suddenly became all the more real to him then, Gyre shivering as it wracked through his chest in waves and through his head in pounding agony with each heart beat. He raised a hand to his bloodied eye, useless. He'd hardly noticed for the last several minutes... The need to help Aura had driven it away.


Bane was at Refia's side, though he must have crawled there with his injuries. "Refia...I'm so sorry," he hissed at her softly. "I'll never make you do anything like that again, I swear...I'm so sorry. I didn't know it would--" his voice broke and he had to take a moment to control it. "I'll help you go home. And if you want I'll never bother you again..." His voice turned to a whisper, then almost to something silent as he forced the words out. But this was his fault. Everything that had happened today...

[Shukko]|]

"I... Feel so tired..." Aura rested her head againest Jet, calming down and relaxng as much as she possibly could, she felt weak and tired. She needed rest, they all needed rest after what had just happened. "It's not over is... it?"

Refia blinked and slowly looked back towards Bane, he didn't even try to get her to stay...? Didn'y he care about her...? "Bane... I... Thanks..." She glanced at his wounds and her eyes widened, he was hurt?! She hadn't even noticed.

"Bane... Your... Your..."

"How does it feel? When your mere seconds from losing those you care about?" The voice called again.

[Pyre]

Bane was about to reply something about it not hurting that badly (though it hurt like a burning brand had been stuck in his leg) and how he didn't care (though he cared so much he could almost cry because he very well might never regain use of that leg again) and how he thought it could be much worse (though even besides his leg his face and hands and arms hurt from burns and shrapnel and his ribs were bruised and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe by the minute).

The voice stopped Bane from letting out this stream of lies. He held still, listening to it, eyes hard. Then, slowly, the flames along his body started to grow. The roar got louder, the roar of flames. Gently, slowly louder and more intense. Bane struggled onto one knee and both hands, but he didn't look like easy pickings as his eyes began to alight, soon consumed in the warm flickering blaze. He turned that flaming gaze towards the shadowed corner, detecting the owner. "Shut up...you're sick! You're sick and you're insane! You almost took them from me!"

Even Gyre had the strength to stand up, his one-eyed gaze swiveling dizzily towards the voice as well. "Shut up and show your d*mn ugly face!"

[Shukko]|]

"Heheheh... Three of you should recognize me... We met a few hundred years ago, in this very place..." Blue fire appeared a few feet away from them, mixing around and combining into a solid form. A nine-tailed kitsune, she smiled.

Aura gasped. "Y-you?! Your the one who attacked the Seeker Tribe!"

"So you remember?'

[Pyre]

"Get the heck out of here, you dog!" Jet snapped, his flames flaring up as he stood in front of Aura. "Or I'll shove a flaming fist down your throat, I will!"

Gyre and Bane were still both tense, both throwing around their respective elements around their bodies, despite all injuries. But Bane suddenly looked startled. "She did what?!"

"What I don't understand..." Gyre said slowly..."is WHY. Why would you kill so many of them?! They were innocent!"

((Crappy and short, real sorry))

[Shukko]|]

"Kill? I didn't kill them, I turned some of them into Fellhounds and they started to kill their friends and family... I thought I could make a perfect race like there was millions of years ago..." She began slowly.

"Like the Gaurdians?" Aura asked.

Lanza nodded and pulled out a little tiny red gem, between her fingers.

"That's...!"

"This is the gem that was intrusted to the Seeker Tribe, the hid it in a temple and it was buried by the sands... It used to belong to me and I took it back... This is what gives me the ability to make Fellhounds... and if it wasn't for GUN... You would've consumed the entire Western Hemisphere, both North and South America..."

Aura slowly grabbed Jet's hand from behind, slowly shaking, she was scarred... Just like Refia, who was now hiding behind Bane.

"But now... I can make more... Even if they aren't Canine, I can make the Ultimate Race... Wild, and completely under my control, unable to turn on themselves or kill each other... Just consume the land... and become it..." She slowly took four steps towards them, the gem started to glow.

"A perfect Race, combined by science and runes... and since you three were born that way... I'll start with the girls!" There was a flash of red light as Lanza disappeared in a plume of fire, an invisible force lashed out at Aura and Refia, sending them flying onto their backs, smoke emitted from their limbs.

The runes of their tribes were black, and a sense of destruction could be felt around them... A strange deadly feeling...

"AHHHHH! It hurts!" Aura held the sides of her head, searing pain burning through her nerves as she tried to stand up, flames had been lit on her ankles and wrists, just like a fellhound.

Refia got up too, but had recovered much faster than Aura, her eyes like reptillian slits, and icy white-blue fire lashing out around her wrists, ankles, ears and tail.

"Let's see... Bane, Jet and Gyre, how well you do againest the two you care so much about... Your friends... The ones you love, let's see how you do againest the third generation!"

Aura blinked, and when she opened her eyes they had changed to, she turned with Refia to face the others, both growling and taking steps towards them. Their friends, the ones they were in love with were now in the control of the enemy and they couldn't do anything about it, if they wanted to they could fight and try to turn them back. But if they didn't want to hurt them they could run away and think of a plan.

"So... What will you do? Will you fight them, hurt them and kill them in an attempt to turn them back? Or run so you won't have to harm them?"
((Sorry, about it being so long, and don't worry, I understand. I've had to make a short and crappy one, before I get off, hope you don't mind what I did in this post. ^^;; ah..heheheheheheh... heh...))

[Pyre]

((O.o Won't that kill Refia?! ))

The three fellhound guys were separated, startled at the sudden transformation. All of them were hurt...and with all due respect, Bane was in no state to run. But Jet and Gyre backed up from Aura and Refia, coming closer together until they stood side-by-side. "Bane...Bane get over here," Jet warned. "We have to stand together."

"What? I-I can't--"

"You're a fellhound! Suck it up!" Gyre snapped.

Bane struggled upwards, onto all fours, or threes rather, his injured leg trailing behind awkwardly, he joined them. The other two crouched down to their fours. Clearly a battle stance. So they would fight?

Like they were honestly that stupid.

"Aura. Aura, look at me. Don't let her turn you."

"Do you think they'll really attack? I mean...we're warm, we're friends. The fox is the cold one." A word for saying she wasn't a fellhound.

"I dont' think that's going to matter...."

"Aura. Please. Look at me," Jet pressed, louder.

[Shukko]|]

((... Erm... Yeah mostly, it'll kill her... Eventually... -_-))

Aura took a step towards Jet, and then suddenly lunged at him, not only with fire but with powerful winds lashing out at him, she had acted like he was a threat, since he was the first one to speak to her.

"They won't listen to you... They are the 3rd Generation, they see me as their master and leader, and you as a threat... Unless you manage to let your power consume you and go wild like them... They'll attack you over and over, so join them... and you can be happy...!"

There was another red flash, then a loud noise, like static... A white noise that you'd hear coming from a computer or TV.

Refia concentrated on Bane and Gyre, sending huge sky blue fireballs towards them.

[Pyre]

((Shukko! You kill her then I'll have two grumpy bachelors! Bane and whomever Aura doesn't pick! I'm only planning for one! Two's too much angst! Oh, and on a completely different note, Aura has an unfair advantage. She's Galehound and Fellhound. XD ))

Bane and Gyre easily dodged, leaping to either side, then looping around to lunge at Refia from either side. They weren't too concerned about hurting her...she was Fellhound now. Fellhounds don't die easy, especially by other Fellhounds. For what honestly does fire do to stop fire?

Jet wasnt' so lucky. He'd spent less time around Fellhounds, and he hadn't been expecting her to attack anyways. Suddenly he was knocked back by her winds several feet, his back smashing into a pillar behind. He fell down, but as he landed, suddenly there was a flare of blue fire into the sky.

Jet got back up easily. His entire body was cloaked in flames, his eyes like holes into a blue hell. "You wanna kill me, then kill me!"

[Shukko]|]

((... *Whistles* Oh come on! I never get to kill any of my charries... Sheesh, I could always bring her back somwhow...))

Aura lunged at Jet again, but this time, because of another flash of light, she had somehow missed Jet. She had actually tried to punch him, but instead her fist smashed into the pillar.

((And Aura always has an advantage. XD))

Refia jumped out of the way, dodging both Gyre and Bane, ice shards appeared in her hands, then she launched them at the two. Fire doesn't work againest fire? Then how about ice againest fire?

Aura slowly turned her head towards Jet, and took a step back from him. "Kill yoou? But don't you loove me? Don't you want to be together with me... Forever? Huh, doggy?" She was talking in her sweet little cute voice, like she still had some control, but that wasn't true. She was changed, even through her mind remained intact, her personality was completely different. She took a few steps towards him, smiling. "I thought you looved mee...."