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Post by JDGreat on Jun 30, 2012 15:01:02 GMT -8
(Takes place after Old Things where Kikime has interrupted and turned Alora against Rust after everything)
The sound of wood chipping slightly under pressure rang out through the air as Rusty Kekise punched at a tree like a man possessed. His knuckles were reddening already, but the mechanic, face grim, delivered blow after blow regardless. Bits of wood flew out with each strike and his general aura SCREAMED Pissed Off.
I did so well. I did EVERYTHING I could to make her feel better.
Then this Kikime girl shows up and in one sentence undoes all my work. All my attempts to try and make Alora feel better and she erases them just like that.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
More wood flew as Rust connected with a kick to the side of the tree, his legs not as achey as his arms. The Astral Arm hadn't been summoned, Rust was just too angry to concentrate.
Those boys...whoever did that to Alora...I swear they'll pay. No woman deserves that. NO ONE DOES!
More and more cracks filled the air.
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Post by Secernia on Jun 30, 2012 15:25:59 GMT -8
Secernia Grelix appeared a few feet behind the boy. She pushed her glasses up her nose as she watched him work away, chipping at the wood. A light smile graced her lips. She let out a laugh, "Hey, Excuse me~" She called, her expression made confused and perhaps slightly worried, "Are you alright?"
She took a step towards him, a quirky smile showing on her face, "Does the tree really deserve that? I hate to interrupt and everything, but... Obviously something is bothering you, and if you want to... I'm free to listen." She said kindly, that quirky smile still showing.
The girl paused for a moment and blinked, "Oh gosh, I'm very sorry." She offered her hand, from a distance so as to not get accidently hit, "I'm Secernia Grelix... It's very rude of me not to introduce myself first thing." She said, extremely pleasant.
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Post by JDGreat on Jun 30, 2012 15:37:35 GMT -8
The sudden female voice stopped Rust mid swing, just before he was about to impact into the tree again hard. Looking over his shoulder, he took in exactly who had interrupted his stress relief.
Red hair, glasses, playful disposition. Perfect, because THIS is what I need right now he thought, sarcasm fully deployed. Nevertheless, he stopped and turned round fully.
"Free to listen, huh? Pull up a seat," he muttered bitterly. "Cause this is one hell of a story."
Seeing the hand offered to him, Rust shook it as quickly as he could, anxious to get back to beating the crap out of the tree and not that Kikime girl who had frustrated him so.
Secernia Grelix, huh?
"Rust Kekise. No offense but, not in the greatest of moods right now. Want to talk when I'm not on the verge of exploding?"
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Post by Secernia on Jul 1, 2012 2:37:32 GMT -8
Secernia watched him turn around, looking slightly agitated by her interruption. Another smile played across her mouth. She gave a light laugh, "I have plenty of time you know... I think talking it out might make you feel even better than breaking a defenseless tree..." She said in a tone which would indicate her trying to lighten the mood.
He took her hand and gave it a quick shake. In her mind a secret was divulged. She saw for a moment him with a letter. Daidamus, in her mind, whispered 'f-ffather's... parentss... t...too MOM' She watched the memory slide-show play, as Rust as a child read the letter, about how they wanted to reconcile with Julie, on Cody's behalf. Secernia figured they must have been his parent's names. Flames consumed her inner eye, just before the front door opened, Rust acting as though it was a normal day. Daidamus spoke again Liaar...
In reality this all ran through her head in less than a second. To rust, there would have been a tiny spaced out moment on Secernia's face, before she blinked as though to clear her head and gave a smile.
"Nice to meet you Rust Kekise..." She took a step closer to him, "Actually, I was thinking we'd talk now. After all, It's best you get this off your chest..." She waited for the perfect moment to reveal what she had learned. If he insisted to talk later, well... Secernia would have to grab his attention somehow.
Kikime had after all, asked her to find this Rust guy and teach him not to play with Kikime's toys. Secernia found it difficult to deny a favor for a dear friend...
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 1, 2012 3:14:15 GMT -8
Rust's eyebrow raised as Secernia seemed to zone out for a moment, emotions still whirling underneath his sardonic expression. Seeing her step closer to him, he himself took a step back. He was fine at the distance he was, thank you very much. Besides, any minute now the Astral Arm would probably summon itself and he didn't want to be the one responsible for ANOTHER broken jaw.
"Alright," he muttered, clearly not in the mood for bullcrap. "Whatever you say." Looking around for a moment, he found a nearby bench and slung himself onto it to sit down, before offering Secernia a 'What Do You Want To Know?' look.
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Post by Secernia on Jul 1, 2012 4:05:51 GMT -8
Secernia noticed him step back, as well as the way he looked at her after her mild distraction. This boy at least has good instincts She noticed, happy to find that he was going to be a little bit of a challenge.
She walked with him to the bench, keeping her distance as he obviously wanted her to. He seemed very hesitant about talking but went with her plan regardless. She smiled at him, "You don't have to act so gloomy about it," She said with a smile, "Why don't you tell me what happened? Maybe I could help fix whatever is frustrating you so much." She feigned the act of the innocent bystander who just saw a guy punching a tree and figured something was up.
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 1, 2012 4:23:41 GMT -8
Rust sighed as he rested his face in his hands for a few moments. His arm blurred into life, hazier and more transparent than normal before fading out again as he tried to calm himself down. When he took a deep breath, he eventually moved his hands away from his face and just looked at the floor.
"It's...well...there's this girl in Dorm 1." he started. "Her name's Alora. And she'd been banged up pretty badly. And I don't mean a few bruises, I'm talking like horrific injuries. Hair shaved off, arms in casts, just awful stuff."
His fists clenched and unclenched slightly as he talked, knuckles whitening.
"She couldn't have been any more than 14... and apparently some boys did this to her. For a laugh. For kicks. So, I go in and try to help her out. We start to get along,"
He smiled a little bit at the happier memory.
"She liked Queen, so I know she's a good girl. But then this...Kikime showed up."
The fists clenched tight.
"She's apparently Alora's best friend. And with one sentence, just one, Alora no longer trusts me. She thinks I'm after something from her. I'm honestly not! I just... I just wanted to cheer her up, that's all. And this friend just automatically assumes I'm bad news? Just shatters her faith in me like that." Rust snapped his fingers for emphasis. "I swear... it was just so frustrating after working so hard to get her to open up a little."
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Post by Secernia on Jul 1, 2012 5:10:31 GMT -8
Secernia shook her head, listening to his story. Her gaze turned a bit dark, "Surely you wanted something from Alora, or you wouldn't have intruded in the game..." She said easily, looking into his eyes with her own. "What reason would you have to cheer her up if only to free your own conscience for later, so you wouldn't think back and ask 'What would other people think of me'?"
"You're very selfish," She continued, "But then again, everyone is, they just pretend. But you know, maybe you're just a little more selfish, though." She paused to lean down towards him, saying in a hushed voice, "Your mother never got to read that letter, did she... I know that you burned it. Don't you think that was selfish? Your grandparents just wanted to work things out, but you felt that you had the right to keep them away from their grandchild, from their daughter-in-law..."
She tilted her head as she looked at him, squinting slightly, "I wonder, did you really love your mother, or did you just want to lock her up and keep her to yourself, like a spoiled selfish child?" She asked, her tone pleasant, but her words anything but.
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 1, 2012 5:35:05 GMT -8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fndMldy1xvARust kept his head bowed during the first bit of Secernia's little speech... HAD he wanted something from her? He had felt incredibly guilty, just seeing her there, helpless. Free his own conscience for later? Just because he felt guilty for what his gender could do to women didn't mean he was a bad person for trying to alter their perception, right? Wasn't that a good thing? Showing that all men weren't that bad? He looked up at her accusation. "Selfish? What are you talking about?!" he exclaimed. "I did nothing for my own benefit there except try to make a friend! It was mostly for her! How can I be more-" Her next sentence stopped him cold. How...how could she know that?! That was years before this! YEARS! How the hell did she...An image flashed through his mind, Secernia's eyes glazed over for a moment just a few seconds before. When she zoned out. Powers. Oh my God...He continued to stare as she continued her little monologue, trying to ignore the accusations he couldn't fully defend himself against. When she accused him of not loving his Mom though... The Astral Arm flashed into existence, claws flexing menacingly. Rust had risen from the bench and stood now about five feet away from Secernia, slightly turned to make his body a smaller target in case she tried something. "You have ten seconds to leave. That was a private memory. I don't recall giving you permission to sort through thoughts that you have no right to access. You have no idea what the full story was." The mechanic replied coldly, right arm raised slightly so that the AA copied it. "Get out of here."
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Post by Secernia on Jul 1, 2012 11:06:54 GMT -8
Secernia laughed with a hint of excitement whenever he defended himself, his astral arms raising. He told her that she had ten seconds to leave. That the memory was private, and Secernia shook her head. "Maybe I didn't have permission... But the question still remains, I still wonder..." She grinned, and seemed to look away, but her peripheral vision still rest on him.
"Oh, It's alright. You know, I have a few secrets of my own I don't mind sharing..." She smiled warmly, turning back to face him, "About Kikime and Alora... What gossip I have..." She said whimsically, looking up at the astral arm. Curious she thought to herself. She knew that she was going to tell him whether he wanted to hear the 'gossip' or not.
"Ten... Nine..." She began the countdown herself, prepared to play a bit of a game of hide and seek... And Secernia was a cheater. She half expected him to interrupt her countdown to ask about her own 'secret'. About what really happened to the girl.
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 1, 2012 11:14:40 GMT -8
"You can wonder all you like. Fact is, I was a stupid kid at the time and you don't know the whole story." Rust responded, eyes not leaving Secernia. The tension was palpable as she had the nerve to start the countdown herself. However, her statement was curious.
"Gossip? About Alora and Kikime?" he echoed, looking at her oddly for a moment. He stopped to think, AA lowering slightly. It wavered a little in existence before re-affirming it's hold in reality.
Could...could she know who did this? Who injured Alora? Was Kikime somehow involved? What the hell could she kno-
Wait.
I gave her Alora and Kikime's names. That's how she knew them. I told her that something happened to Alora too. She's using information I gave her to try and convince me she has something. I don't know what her power is, but I have nothing that links her to Kikime and Alora. I can't jump to conclusions here.
Rust turned around, arm still summoned as defence, but ultimately, he began to walk off.
"You're not worth it."
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Post by Secernia on Jul 2, 2012 3:59:44 GMT -8
"I might not know the whole story now, but trust me.. I'll find out... and since you won't say, I'll decide whether you were possessive or not. At the moment, the scales are leaning..."
Secernia laughed, and watched for a moment as he began to walk off. Then she teleported a few feet in front of him. She wasn't going to let him walk away so easily. She didn't pay attention to him saying that she wasn't worth it. She knew he would change his mind.
"Oh yes, such great gossip, but you can't tell... You can't tell that Kikime set up the tea party and I was invited but her biscuits make me a little bit sick, so Alora took the fall... couldn't move, poor poor dear..." She said, eyes alight, speaking hardly above a whisper as though it was a secret she was really telling.
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 2, 2012 4:07:52 GMT -8
Rust was slightly startled to see her teleport directly in front of him and skidding backwards a few feet, AA growing in size a little.
She's not letting me leave. I don't like this at all.
He watched her for any movement as she started to explain her 'gossip'. He was ten seconds away from telling her EXACTLY where she could shove it, but mentioning Alora and not moving... His eyes widened slightly.
"Wait...no..." he started. "What...exactly are you trying to say here?" The mechanic hated these cryptic clues and right now, this woman was doing the exact opposite of making him feel better. In fact, he disliked this situation more and more the longer it went on.
Fight or Flight systems working overtime, Rust moved his feet to be better prepared for moving quickly.
"What the hell are you talking about, Secernia?! What did you do?!"
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Post by Secernia on Jul 2, 2012 8:22:58 GMT -8
Secernia smiled pleasantly towards him, taking a step forward. "Me? Oh, well, I thought I'd give Kikime some fun for the afternoon. I made those boys that were present for the tea-party believe that they raped her of their own free will..." She let that sink in for a moment, gave a sigh and continued, "-and, well, I just might have convinced the nurse that Kikime was an intern, and locked the infirmary for her to work..."
She giggled playfully and teleported a number of feet to his left, pulling out her knife. "But remember.... You can't tell anyone...."
"What can I say," She said, as though bored, glancing at her blade in her hand to see it's shine, "I suppose I just enjoy the thrill..." She said, flashing a grin, taunting him.
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 2, 2012 8:27:39 GMT -8
[/u] (click to listen!)[/center] It was lucky Secernia teleported because a gigantic blue fist rocketed through the space that used to occupy her head. Rust's own right arm was extended outwards, trembling like mad as his face contorted in rage. "You... BITCH!" he roared as he whipped his head round to where she was next, chasing her down and letting loose with a kick aimed right to her head as the Astral Arm retracted as fast as it could. "What the actual FUCK is your problem?! RAPE?!" The Astral Arm swung round again, an ethereal fist coming round with the force of a jackhammer. |
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Post by Secernia on Jul 2, 2012 8:37:36 GMT -8
Secernia laughed outright, seeing the look on his face. Such anger, it was delightful. She teleported behind him as he kicked at her, having seen him coming easily enough with the distance, and slashed at his back brutally, immediately teleporting away discerning from a distance whether or not the strike was a success.
The ground literally shook with the force of his astral arm hitting the ground. Secernia teleported away from him to gather herself on her feet, heart beating quickly, thankful that she just managed to dodge his blow. She grinned, feeling that this was going to be exciting.
"Yes... I do believe I pronounced it correctly..." She said with a small giggle, "I mean, it isn't that hard a concept to understand... She was unable to move, and they fucked her. I didn't think I had needed to clarify." She said clearly, with an eerie calmness.
She remembered another thing, and laughed, "Oh yeah, and after Kikime broke her arms and cut her hair and face, I made Alora believe," She laughed harder, trying to control herself, "I made her believe that Kikime had saved her from the rapists!" She was nearly in hysterics, laughing, a good 15 feet away now.
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 2, 2012 8:50:18 GMT -8
Luckily, Rust still had forward momentum with his big boot style kick and so the knife barely missed him and his lucky white jacket. Good thing too, cause it's not as if Rust's wrath could be any higher at this point. He tried not to listen to her, he honestly did, but then Alora's frightened face appeared in his mind again.
He grit his teeth as the AA shrank down to normal size, hovering above his right arm again.
"I don't know how you did it..." he muttered, low and dangerous, "But I swear to God, I'm breaking you in half for what you've done." the words weren't a threat, they were a promise. "And then... I'm finding Kikime and I'm going to destroy her too. Alora will hate me for what I do, but I don't honestly give a FUCK right now. You destroyed a 14 year old girl's life before she had chance to live it. You're no better than him."
A sudden flash as Rust trembled slightly and he shakingly removed the bandanna from around his neck. With purpose, he took it and placed it around his head instead, glaring daggers at Secernia.
"You're gonna wish Kikime was here to save YOU!"
The Astral Arm shot forward again as a fist, Rust following close behind. However, this time he expected a teleport and with a twist, lashed out behind him with a left hook, normal arm this time.
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Post by Secernia on Jul 2, 2012 9:06:56 GMT -8
Secernia glanced at his back and her own knife, unsatisfied by the lack of bloodshed so far. She grinned happily at his words, "Oh that would be fantastic, I'm really looking forward to you trying" She said, sounding very enthusiastic about the idea.
Her grin widened. "Do destroy Kikime though, she's a total whore who doesn't deserve life. I just keep her entertained because she's my best friend in the whole wide world." She explained as though conversationally, her tone entirely honest and to the point.
Her eyes lit up whenever he was speaking, "Him? Ooh how curious... Who is 'Him'?" She pondered, watching as there was a flash, and his astral arm shot forward as a fist.
She teleported a foot or two above the ground, using the fall to carry her knife down hard into his shoulder if she could manage. However, The swing of his real arm took her a bit by surprise and she ended up simply slicing at the flesh of his shoulder thinly, as opposed to the stab she had been attempting.
She let out a noise as he hit her and sent her to the ground, throwing her off balance. Dirt and grit of the earth cut into her, scraping her arms and elbows. He had hit her with his flesh however, and she gathered who 'he' was. She saw in her mind's eye his father walking out, the words he said, his mother with the bruises... Daidamus filled her in on the details.
Secernia began to laugh again, standing up. "Just like your father, aren't you. Smacking redheads into the dirt. He must be so proud," She began, "To have a son that would grow up to be just like him"
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 2, 2012 9:14:24 GMT -8
There was another blue flash as Rust roared, gripping his shoulder where the light wound was but paying no mind to the pain. How DARE she? More memories of privacy and the worst of all? Comparisons. To him.
"SCREW YOU!" he cried, "STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD! I'M NOTHING LIKE HIM, Y'HEAR ME?! NOTHING!" The arm lashed out but this time, it rocketed past Secernia and grabbed hold of the tree Rust had been beating on earlier. Yanking it, Rust catapulted himself at a far greater pace towards the redhead, knocking her clean out his top priority.
When close enough, he let go, claws of the AA leaving deep grooves in the bark as he slid over the floor, popping up underneath the glasses wearing girl for an uppercut. To protect his guts, the arm retracted and made a hook punch around his body that acted as a second shield in case he missed with the uppercut, wrapping round Rust's waist like a hoop.
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Post by Secernia on Jul 2, 2012 10:02:11 GMT -8
Secernia saw the blue flash and wondered what that actually was... She nearly laugh, knowing that she didn't bother to ask what his powers were. Well, she supposed she would find out.
She grinned when he told her to 'stay the fuck out of his head', not saying a word, leaving him with her previous words. She watched his astral arm lash out, and stepped back just in case. Her hair flew about with the velocity that he moved, but she was sharp.
She saw him coming up for the uppercut and leaned back to avoid it, instantly then getting hit by the hook punch. She was knocked aside but with a minor scrape, but before she actually hit the floor seemed to disappear.
She was sitting up in the branches of a tree a good distance away, watching him, waiting for him to drop his guard, become frustrated, and figure that she ran off. She then planned to strike. She wondered how he would react to her absence from the field...
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 2, 2012 10:26:16 GMT -8
Rust growled as the Astral Arm slammed into Secernia's cheek. He was getting somewhere at least. That little bit of hope turned to frustration when she disappeared again.
Raising his arm to block any attacks coming towards his face, Rust waited for a few moments, but the realised she was gone.
"GOD DAMN IT!"
Slamming the AA into the floor gave off a loud BANG and the floor cratered slightly. Heaving breaths ripped their way from his lungs, near feral with fury, Rust looked around, eyes aflame.
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU, SECERNIA?!"
Then his face paled as the AA fizzled out of existence.
"Oh shit! Alora!"
Turning, he began to dash back the way he came. He HAD to get back to Alora, he'd left her with Kikime in Dorm 1! Who knew what was happening to her right now!?
Secernia must have ran off after the first hit. Bullies and their like were often that way. One hit and they split.
Still, he began running his ass off. He had to get the message out at least, though he'd honestly prefer to be there. Before anything more happened to that 14 year old.
She didn't deserve it.
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Post by Secernia on Jul 2, 2012 10:39:10 GMT -8
Secernia watched him curse, smiling to herself, and then he thought of that girl. She grimaced a little at him retreating so easily. She wouldn't allow that.
She teleported behind him, roughly went to grab his hair and with it, a secret, going to pull his hair back if possible and lifting her knife up to his throat. Into his ear she would say, "You shouldn't worry about her, you should be more worried about me." As she said so she would have pulled the knife up away from his throat and towards his cheek, playfully laughing into his ear as she did so. Her smiling lips would have graced his neck.
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 2, 2012 10:46:41 GMT -8
"GHRK!"
Yanked back by his longish hair, Rust felt the blade of the knife press against his neck and inhaled, completely blindsided. He heard Secernia's words and realised that if he didn't do something, he was going to die.
Then the knife moved to his cheek with that horrible laughter echoing deep into his mind. He felt lips on his neck.
........no.
Another blue flash and this time, the AA reappeared, gripping the knife blade and with inhuman strength, beginning to bend it away from Rust's body. But now? There was a second glowing blue arm, hovering over Rust's left shoulder. It reared back and slammed Secernia full in the face, like a hammer of the gods.
The headaches began, Rust wincing as the start of a migraine began to make it's presence known. The sunlight began to get an 'aura' as it was called. He staggered forward, free of the redhead's grip, shook his head to try and clear it, but continued to dash, occasionally flicking glances over his shoulder and firing out with either his left or right Astral Arm from a distance as he ran.
He had no idea why a second one had appeared just now. Just that he'd been given a second chance and he HAD to make use of it!
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Post by Secernia on Jul 2, 2012 11:12:45 GMT -8
Secernia's eyebrows raised in confusion as she felt the knife in her grip bend. bend. She snarled then, letting out a grunt as she ripped the blade back, trying to get the AA to let go of it.
She only got a glance at the second arm when it appeared, as it rammed itself into her face, breaking her glasses and forcing a shard into the area just underneath her eye. Secernia screamed out in hatred and agony, teleporting yards away, throwing her worthless glasses to the side and covering her eye. She pulled out the small sliver of glass that had cut at her eyelid. Thankfully it didn't blind her, but the area under her eye was bleeding quite heavily, and the risk of infection was perhaps more damaging.
She howled at him and cursed words in greek that her nanny had taught her. She scowled at the boy. The secret that she had learnt as well wasn't going to be too much use for her at the moment. Only a little quip about how he was caught smoking by his mother. Nothing worth sharing, nothing that would cut into her like he had.
"Mark my words boy..." She said, beginning to laugh at her own rage, "Ahaha, you will not know what happiness is. You won't remember by the end of this year..." She pulled her hand away so that he could see the blood, the redness consuming her eye as it filled up.
"This game..." She started to laugh, "this game is going to be fun"
He had surprised her, that was for sure, and her knife was currently out of her hands. She would have to simply try to evade him for a little while, until this situation changed...
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Post by JDGreat on Jul 2, 2012 11:16:33 GMT -8
Rust just stared as he kept going. She was LAUGHING?! He'd busted her eye up something fierce! What the hell was this?!
She's insane...ALORA!
Priorities once again in gear, he spared but a glance at his new AA. Whilst his first one looked like a cawed version of a human hand, this one was more spindly, almost looking like a skeleton's fist rather than once covered in muscle and skin. Still, it had gotten that psycho off of him.
Twin arms of blue crossing at his back to stop her pulling the same trick twice, Rust wobbled slightly as he continued to pelt it towards the dorms.
C'mon c'mon! Alora, where are you?! he cried out mentally, headache striking and punding away at the inside of his cranium. Ace, Cal, Jacob, Gabrielle ANYBODY?! WHERE ARE YOU?!
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