River stepped toward Jayne and Crow, in case Jayne tried to run or fight.
Misty shakes her head "No that was never Grant, but it was almost exactly him, besides the fact that he was always next to me." Something begins to change, Misty's wings begin to shrink back into her shoulders, her angel like form slowly fading away. Leaving the normal Misty that everyone knows, except her clothes are the ones she wore in her former form. She sighs, a huge chunk of her heart was ripped from her, but something starts to fill that void as she looks at the others, like a fog lifting from her mind and eyes. She finally starts to see, for once in her life her eyes are not clouded by fear, violence, and a longing sense for Grant, someone who was never really there when she entered the new dimension. Misty smiles at the others, she decides to explain herself, "My name is Misty Wilson, a Howl'fia from the dimension Elemians, I have ice elemental powers a blessing from the blood moon. I am the last of my kind, the last of the Elemian people. I now have seen the light, do you fear me? I do not fear you, and I will not hurt you unless provoked. I am a Hybrid." Misty stands tall and stares at the stars. I just wish I could let go...
"I-I don't fear you...?" Crow said, sounding confused.
Okay... okay? Did she just re-introduce herself?
"I just..."
He glanced at River and then back to Crow. Jayne shrugged and smiled nervously. "I just shot a guy and it didn't phase him at all!"
Jayne eyed her nervously and hoped that he would be able to survive these kids. He should have left earlier.
"You get used to it after a while." Crow said dryly. He tried to hide a smirk.
Chase could only concentrate so much as he ran, and his invisibility flickered in and out. Over logs, thorns tearing at his clothes, spiderwebs clinging to his face and arms. If only they could get a little bit ahead they could hide!
He chanced a glance back at Ruby. Poor girl's legs were likely still wobbly "How are you doing?" He panted. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted her. The Nameless one.
Sammy panted as she ran after No-name, who had somehow grown wings.
Add that to the list of advantages she has over us poor untrained adolescents.
Rex flew to the airport. On his way, he was close to the Starbucks his friends were at.
Keep flying, keep flying, keep flying, they're probably fine, Rex thought, but he swerved a little just to check and make sure they were okay. "What the heck?" Rex said, looking at the dead bodies. He couldn't make out who they were, but one looked like a giant fly. He landed heavily, and stared at everyone, before shaking his head and turning around to walk away.
Crow whipped around as Rex suddenly fell from the sky. He relaxed as he realized it was just Rex. "Oh. Where'd you go?" He asked, mentally slapping himself for not noticing his disappearance.
Jayne raised his eyebrows at Gage. "O-Kay." he said slowly, so they weren't actually going to let him go. He shot a glare at Thomas who was more than willing to help. "I'll stay if you insist." He said to Crow. "You can let go of me."
Crow let go of Jayne, still eyeing him suspiciously.
Why am I the only one who's worried that he'll betray us?
(Okaaaay.)
The policeman at the desk glanced up from his desk as a group of battered inhumans stormed into the office. He raised an eyebrow. He remembered some of them. Some had been arrested just a few nights ago. He didn't remember signing a release form.
"Hey, where are the rest of you?" He said, mostly just curious. He remembered mocking the elevator guard in front of a bat boy and a few others who were most likely inhuman.
The Nameless one flew after them, and Chase nearly cried out as a shot echoed through the woods. His heart leapt in his throat. Why didn't he have a weapon? A knife, at least!
She has a gun. Great. Sammy thought, trying to go faster, but only managing to trip over a branch. She got up, wincing because of her now-scraped knee.
"Ma'am, this is the ground floor." He said, putting on his 'work voice' like he always did when people got testy.
(Misty suddenly appears in with everyone)
Misty glares at the man, "dont play games with us, fastest way to the bottom floor now" She secretly pulls a knife from her right sleeve, ready to attack him if he lies again.
Crow was watching what was going on by the desk a few feet away. He saw the glint of a blade in Misty's hand.
This is not going to end well-
Gage simply walked past the front desk. He remembered the way from when they had been arrested the first time, and through the hall, turned the corner to find the guarded elevator. "Hi, yes. We'd like to get imprisoned again." He said lightly
Crow looked away from Misty to stare at Gage. He quickly walked over, "Are you crazy?" he hissed.
Misty stands up, she narrows her eyes at the guard.
"Oh it has? Well sorry for you but your life has expired also" She bends at the waist and rushes at him, her knife in hand she slashes at the guards throat and he crumples to the ground. Misty straightens, and looks at the other guards.
"Misty!" Crow yelped, his eyes wide with shock. His eyes were locked on the guard, blood was slowly oozing from his neck. "You don't just kill random people!" He hissed angrily, trying not to let his voice get too high in case the policemen heard. "You can get a death sentence for that, you know!"
Gage blinked. "Oh... Oh my-" he said as he stared at the man. He felt like he was going to hurl. He tried to remind himself that this was just anothet soldier, like the one from the battle. But even in that battle, he had flown above their heads. It was so much different when it was right in your face.
"Hey, what's going on over there?" Said the man at the desk.
Crow cursed.
If he comes over here, we're dead.
Misty flicks her ear and rushes at the man, she slashes him across the chest, he falls to the ground and she punches him square in the throat crushing his windpipe, he writhes on the ground for a moment then ceases. She tosses daggers at the video cameras destroying them and erasing the video, no one was in the camera room anyway, that she knows. She rushes at the other guards and knocks them out. She looks at the others and licks the blood off her hands. "We going to save the others or what?" She smiles warmly.
Crow just stared at Misty, unable to form any coherent sentences.
She... she doesn't even care that they're innocent... He shivered as a sudden thought came to him.
No.. Misty's not a psychopath... She can't be...
"Hey its fine, the art of assassination takes no prisoners, a few lives must be sacrificed to save the world" She then looks at the men she killed, purple blood oozes fro their wounds, she realizes she was licking that off her hands and gags. "Look! What the hell is that then? Looks like I had a right to kill them"
Crow felt sick.
Elemians, or whatever it's called, must have some looser rules about killing people...
Gage tried not to look, "We don't exactly all bleed the same anymore! Every life is worth saving..." He poked his head back out of the elevator, and spied a keyhole.
"That might be true but corrupt humans or inhumans are worth killing to save the world from Firestien, but I am sorry you had to see that"
"How do you know they were corrupt?" Crow asked, though it came out as a whisper.
Gage blinked. He was twitterpated with her? Where was the dreamer? The one he had flown in the storm with? He had seen her like this before, and he knew what might happen if she came face-to-face with the man. He glanced down. The guard's body had a key dangling from his belt. He swallowed hard as the doors began to clatter shut again.
In an instant, he lunged. He yanked once on the keyring, and it broke away. He shoved it into the keyhole outside the door, and turned it back and forth. The door kept clattering. When he heard a small click. His eyes met Misty's just as he yanked the key out and pulled himself into the elevator. The iron bars clicked shut between them.
"I'm sorry, but this is my fight." He said, the gate's shadows falling across his face. Eyes roaming from Misty, to Tayn, to Rex. "Stay safe." Then the second door closed, and started down.
"What- no! Gage!" Crow shouted, watching helplessly as the elevator closed.
Jayne was confused, had they come here to kill people or not? He slipped away from the group while they were distracted. (
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Rex had already started breathing fire at the elevator door until the door melted enough for him to grab the doors and pry them open. His hand were burn from all the melted metal, but he ignored it, and jumped into the elevator area, using his wings to slow his fall. Rex landed on the top of the elevator and started trying to pry the roof off.
Crow almost jumped in after him, but he remembered that not all the group could fly. He couldn't just leave them, the police would be coming soon, and when they saw all those dead bodies...
Then the elevator did what every machine does when it's abused.
(oh deer. brokey elevators. no fun for you guys)
Ruby saw Chase preparing to fight. She wasn't sure who he was fighting, but he had saved her life, so she decided to fight with him. She unsheathed... er... un bun-d her hair and took up an athletic stance beside him, ears pricked to their approaching feet.
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Chase stood rooted to the spot. More shots rang out, bullets whizzing past their ears. At once he grabbed her hand and pulled her down as he crouched, trying with all his might to concentrate. Tune out the fear. Ignore the death. Blend in.
The two of them were translucent at best when No-Name and the rest thundered up to them.
Tayn watched as people left and spotted the door to the stairs as people began filing out in herds. She turned back to the hallway "I found the stairs.... where is everybody?" (not sure who all is left in the hallway, but silver and Taylor, I think maybe Zen didn't jump down) She spotted the melted elevator doors and figured it out. "Come on, let's go." She said, and headed for the stairs.
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Chase hunched in the brush, trying to concentrate on hiding the both of them. Then the Nameless stopped. He could hear her panting. Almost feel her breath.
Don't focus on that. Think about anything else. Plants. Be the plant. Hide, Chase, hide.
Sammy stumbled up beside No-name, her hands on her knees as she panted for breath. She looked around, narrowing her eyes at a particular spot of undergrowth, which seemed hazy. She made a split-second decision, and with a racing heart, slowly positioned herself so she blocked the hazy spot from No-name's view, hoping she wouldn't notice.
