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Creative Arts and Media => Roleplay => Serious RP => Topic started by: Gabag on April 16, 2009, 05:00:10 AM
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The year is 2050. Humanity is at it's peak, limitations of the past are cast aside as Humanity reaches new heights in the age of technology. The Golden Age has arrived. However all Golden Ages end in tragedy. At 1400 hours a Russian spy satellite detects an American nuclear test launch. Fearing that the Cold War will happen again, the Russians prepare their nuclear warheads as if to "put down a possible nuclear crisis". The Americans however prepare their large assortment of nuclear warheads in response. Iran and North Korea's governments panic and they prepare their nuclear warheads. Armageddon nearing it is now 1500 hours. The world leaders meet up in Britain and last minute cancel all the launches. However when radio contact to the missile silos was attempted, no one responded, the crews killed and the mysterious killers launch the warheads at precisely 7:00 A.M. The Earth is smothered with Nuclear fire, and Humanity's light is almost extinguished. 2/3's of the population are gone. The survivors are mutated into the likeliness of animals, and are known as the Furs. Some of these mutants lost their minds and went Feral, attacking any creature on sight to feed their ravenous hunger for flesh. Those not mutated, the "Pure Bloods" as they were to be known as, made a mass exodus to the east, in search of something called the 'Bloodline'. Some of the 'Pure Bloods' remained with their furry brethren, and they became known as the 'Outcasts'. Life continued on, Humanity slowly rebuilding. Settlements are established, and the surviving populace lives on, passing on the 'Fur' gene on to their children.
The Year is now 2100. The 'Pure Bloods' return with the Bloodline. A strict militaristic regime, the Bloodline quickly sweeps out of the Eastern U.S.A. and carves a swathe of destruction throughout the local settlements. Furs are taken to experimentation camps, to work on a cure for the gene that causes them to be a fur. These experiments usually result in the subject's death. The camps are built like a prison, the guards cruel and merciless. Some furs have turned on their brethren to escape being experimented on, these are now known as the "Turncoats". The Bloodline believes those with the 'Fur' gene will one day go feral, and Humanity will consume itself because of this. The Bloodline's soldier's gas masks now becoming a symbol of death, enslavement, torture. The year is 2101, the peak of the Bloodline's power, a new discovery in the 'Fur' gene. After years to develop with the toxic radioactivity still in the area, the gene allows the mutated extraordinary powers, which at first are minimal at best. Over time if the mutated lives long enough, these powers are a sight to behold, and a terror to all but the Bloodline soldiers, who are fearless till the end.
Post Merge: April 16, 2009, 05:01:00 AM
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I'm walking towards the open field where the earth users are told to practice at...and I look at the dog-tag around my neck...knowing that the tag I wear belongs to someone who used to be me...How long ago was I a pureblood....about a year ago....and it only took a month to become what I despised...and it turns out...I really like it....
Once I reach the field...I see some of the other earth users have had little devealopment since they gained their powers...which was probably a week ago at best...I had about 2 months with this, talent. So, I show what only time and constant training can accomplish, as I raise a pillar of limestone, about ten feet tall, and start striking pieces off, and it starts to look like a statue...but this is as far as I can go and still keep it standing....so I stamp my left foot, and the entire structure collapses, and sinks into the ground it came from...then I just sit down and try to remember the bloodline language as I pull out my combat knife and write in the dirt....and wrote 'Drax Nikobi' in the dirt....
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John stood at attention with other members of the Overwatch as General Masterson left Experimentation Camp # 01 after another routine inspection to make sure everything was going smoothly. After being dismissed he went back to his post guarding the prisoner's dormitories. "Please let us out, this is all a mistake, Please a mistake!" some of the prisoners pleaded with the Overwatch. Those cries fell on deaf ears as prisoners were herded towards the research division of the camp to be experimented on. "Well well well, lookey who we have here boys, It's our favorite guard John Shepard" grunted Slyde, the prison tough guy and the self proclaimed 'Head of the Prison'. He came forward with two other fur's as they cracked their knuckles. "Well we don't like it when our favorite guard leaves us for inspections, guess we'll have to teach him a lesson eh boys?" the two other prisoners laughed and blocked the possible exits for John. Slyde came forward and brandished a wicked looking curved knife, probably smuggled in by one of the other inmates. John stood there, ignoring the quickly growing crowd of inmates. Slyde stabbed forwards with the knife, but was unprepared when John caught his arm and quickly broke it. Slyde fell to the ground in intense pain as his two buddies decided to back off. Switching on his voice changer that the guards were ordered to use when dealing with unruly prisoners. "Slyde, your behavior in Experimentation Camp 01 has been horrible. We sheltered you when you had nowhere to go, this is how you repay us. Threatening a member of the Overwatch, with an illegal weapon I might add." He said codly. "NO YOU NEVER SHELTERED US, YOU KIDNAPPED US FROM OUR FAMILIES, YOU BUTCHERED THEM IN FRONT OF OUR EYES!!" Slyde yelled through the pain now sobbing. Ignoring the crazed man's cries John continued. "You have been found guilty of these crimes, and the punishment is death! Prepare to receive Civil Judgement" And with that John took out his sidearm, and just before he pulled the trigger, he saw a gleam of defiance in Slyde's eyes. He pulled the trigger anyways. "LET THIS BE AN EXAMPLE TO ALL OF YOU, WE SHELTERED YOU FROM THE HELL THAT IS THE WORLD TODAY, YOU SHOULD BE ACCEPTING THE GIFTS OF THE BLOODLINE!" he yelled. The crowd dispersed and John stood at attention, a clean up crew dispatched to remove Slyde's corpse, and an officer to debrief John.
It was just another day on the job.
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The machineguns rattled on as they always seemed to around the Maw, and the furred officer crouched beside one of the gunners. It was hard to talk over the noise, but not impossible. "Bursts, corporal, you don't want to overheat the barrel!" He patted the pureblood on the shoulder and stood up, missing his corporals curse under the gunfire. He was aware his squad was uncomfortable serving under a fur, but they truly hated him, and had orders to kill him if he even showed the slightest compassion for his 'kind'. Still, the value of a potential undercover agent kept him useful, and he was well known for his firearms proficiency. He looked over the mining complex, rifle at the ready, surveying the workers below. He didn't understand why anyone would resist the Bloodlines offer of shelter. After nine full months of 'training', it was not hard to understand why. Seasons blended together in the wastes, and the time went unnoticed. He had even forgotten the others he had betrayed to stay safe. All he knew was that his life now was an easy one, and for some reason furs still seemed content with the wasteland, and actually OPPOSED the bloodlines. "Let 'em go feral then," he said, rubbing the collar around his neck.
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Philly stands up pushing his food tray aside. He wasn't hungry at all. All he could think about was the day he betrayed his entire village to follow the bloodline. "Did I make the wrong choice?" he thinks to himself. Closing his eyes he shakes away the thoughts in his mind. He surely wasn't about to betray the Bloodline. That would definately lead to death. As far as he was concerned he was content with doing a few missions for the Bloodline whenever they asked. He wasn't pleased with his latest assignment however. He had been assigned to work on gaurd duty at one of the biggest experimentation camps there was. It wasn't easy having to walk by his family and everyone else he had betrayed everyday as they watch him from inside their cells. "I need to get out of this place, maybe get a different assignment in the city or something." Philly said walking out of the cafeteria. He looks over to his side and sees John terminate yet another fur. "He seems to be doing that alot lately."
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Cain could hear their screams again. The screams of friends, family, furs he didn't even know. He could feel the needles and knives, and the guards batons and fists. He could still hear the guards yelling, laughing.
The badger turned and looked back toward the facility. His whole body ached, and cuts and bruises from their "experiments" dotted his body. He'd managed to crawl under the fence, where the rain had washed out the dirt under it. They hadn't noticed he was gone yet, but it wouldn't be long. Cain stumbled and fell under a tree. He hugged his knees to his chest, and cried. He knew everyone else would be punished for his escape, and he almost turned and went back. Almost.
He tried to stand, but his legs collapsed under him. He couldn't go on. He was too weak. There was a reason everyone sold me out, he thought. I can't go on, but at least I made a good run of it. Cain settled down under the tree and tried to sleep, hoping the Bloodline wouldn't find him.
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He stands on a roof top in New Gunevia scoping trough the far end of the city with his trusty Mosin-Nagant.
He spends most of his time just scouting the perimeter for Bloodline Troops, waiting and waiting while thinking to himself I'm the only one patrolling the city? Are the others too carefree to even care? Even if they don't know I MUST keep them safe!
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"Oh please...does he really expect us to believe this crud?" Coraline thought to herself as she listened to Shepard's little speech.
When the crowd dispersed, she moved away as well, giving Slyde's dead body one last look before it was taken away. The cell next to her's would be awfully quiet now...
"They'll just bring in another Fur to take his place in the cell..." She thought to herself. But she knew it wouldn't be the same, of course, it'd be one who wasn't so tough.
She moved to her cell, seeming how she wasn't scheduled to be experimented on. She began to hum the song she had made up during her time there as she sat on her bed, not feeling like actually singing the words after what had just happened just to be safe.
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After giving yet another debrief to the CO in charge of the dorms, John looked at his watch and saw that his shift was over. Walking out of the droms he walked steadily to the de-sterilization chamber. "Please remain where you are, and do not be alarmed, the removal of harmful radiation is standard procedure." the A.I. controlling the chamber droned. As the red laser scanned John's person, it eliminated all traces of radiation from his body. "Harmful contagions removed, have a nice day". "Finally, now i can take off this gas mask" John thought. Removing the helmet first, and then the mask, he revealed his copper skinned face. His eyes shining an emerald green, showing decorum and resolve to the letter. After leaving the chamber he walked into the Rec. Room. "Hey Carmack, you in here?" he called, looking his for his childhood friend.
"Yea right here John" As John walked over, the alarm suddenly went off. The warden yelled over the intercom "ATTENTION ALL OVERWATCH, WE HAVE AN ESCAPEE I REPEAT WE HAVE AN ESCAPEE, ALL PERSONAL TO THEIR STATIONS! ANY FURS FOUND OUTSIDE THE DORMS WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT COLLARS OR NOT!"
"Well once more into the breach my friend" John said to Carmack as his friend sealed the hatches on his hazard suit's helmet. Locking his own helmet into place John ran to the exit and quickly came out to see personal scrambling to and fro, getting to their assigned stations. The occasional gunshot reminded the two of them that this wasn't a drill.
As they reached the dorms they found it empty except for a few members of the Overwatch standing guard, weapons free, safeties off.
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Upon hearing the alarm go off Philly took off running towards his own dorm. He definately wasn't about to stick around and get shot. When he reached his dorm he grabbed his M4 assualt carbine and waited by the door for someone to give im an assignment.
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After I write the whole bloodline alphabet, I hear footsteps down the hall, and brushes out the writing with his leg, and sees one of the 'prodigy' earth controllers walk into the room, with a posse'...as usual. He walks up to me and looks down on me...like I used to when I was in the bloodline, killing my first ten furs...
"Reformer....what gives you the right to practice what you used to kill other Furs for accomplishing?" he ponders with a smirk on his face. "Not now punk, you're not worth breaking my vow over....and with the attitude you have, you take your talent for granted far more than is allowed, or should I tell the elders how you almost got yourself killed, and how I had to pull you out when you decided to bum-rush the Blood-line soldiers in the Maw, despite the fact that the elders, who have been around in this existance and exposed to more than you, FORBADE you to go within a mile of the Maw!!"
This set him from being cocky to angry as he threw a low kick which I blocked easily, then backflipped off the ground and onto my feet, knife in my pocket, knowing he isn't worth killing. "How about this...I only fight you with my hands and feet, no earth manipulation, no weapons, you however, use everything on your person to fight...whoever passes out first loses..." and that was I needed to say to provoke an attack from him, but I still kept to my side of the 'bargain', and dodged out of the way, and came up close for a gut-punch...causing him to double over, then as he bends over, I round-house kick him in the left side of the head, sending him a good three feet away..."A real fighter doesn't depend on one skill to win, but equally increase his skills until either 'weapon' he uses can be a winning strategy" I finished, kicking him over, and walking off to my room...
But he got up and chased after me, claws bared "NO WAY I'M LOSING TO A FORMER BLOODLINE!!" he yelled. I look behind my shoulder, and as he gets within leg reach, I stamp his foot, almost breaking it. This causes him to look up and howl in pain as I punch him in the throat, and he falls over..."Game.."I said, walking over to his currently dazed body..."Set...."I said, rasing my leg into the air. "...and Match" I finished, driving the kick into his solar plexis, crushing three ribs, and knocking him out for at least two hours...
I stretch my arms as I walk off to my room for an afternoon nap...
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(Hope you don't mind, the Maw was getting kind of dull.)
News of the escape reached the Maw quickly, and in no time a handful of overwatch squadrons were moving to intercept. The furred lieutenant looked out the door of the aging V-22 Osprey transport as they closed in on EC-1. "When we hit we will have to hit the ground running! Escapees move fast, and they can drop out of sight in an instant, so stay sharp! You will link up with a local Overwatch squad for the duration of this mission! I have been ordered to track him alone, to increase our chances! Alright, let's go, move, move, move!"
Gasmasked soldiers ran out of the VTOL to reinforce the local troops, while their lieutenant headed straight into the woods. He carried very little, leaving him easily more maneuverable than the humans blundering through the dead brush. The mud hardly hindered him, and soon he had the faint scent of a fur. The rain kept it faint, but it was undeniably present. "This is lieutenant Bowman, I have a lead on the escapee, and am moving to capture."
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Coraline continued to hum her little song as the alert was sounded.
She had to hold back her urge to smile. Someone had escaped and that made her glad, but she also knew that whoever had escaped might not survive anyway, since there was a high probability of being found.
"I'll get out of here someday..." She thought to herself as she continued to hum.
She looked outside her cell to see what was going on, still staying seated on her bed because she knew if she was outside her cell, she'd be shot.
Her pitch-black eyes stared directly at the wall opposite from her cell after finishing looking around, her humming echoing in her cell.
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Lounging on my bed...I try to count the amount of days I've been a fur...and how long I've gone in my elemental training...by all rights I should be a feral right now...but I'm not...
After about ten minutes of continued self-reflection...I hear a knock on the door to my room..."If its a rematch you want...come back later, I want to rest for today..." and the reply I got was..."Young one...your rest is of little importance at the moment"...oh shit...please don't let it be her....and as I opened the door to see who it was....it was indeed her, Elder Siria...the military strategist for the entire Fur force...
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(Hope you don't mind, the Maw was getting kind of dull.)
News of the escape reached the Maw quickly, and in no time a handful of overwatch squadrons were moving to intercept. The furred lieutenant looked out the door of the aging V-22 Osprey transport as they closed in on EC-1. "When we hit we will have to hit the ground running! Escapees move fast, and they can drop out of sight in an instant, so stay sharp! You will link up with a local Overwatch squad for the duration of this mission! I have been ordered to track him alone, to increase our chances! Alright, let's go, move, move, move!"
Gasmasked soldiers ran out of the VTOL to reinforce the local troops, while their lieutenant headed straight into the woods. He carried very little, leaving him easily more maneuverable than the humans blundering through the dead brush. The mud hardly hindered him, and soon he had the faint scent of a fur. The rain kept it faint, but it was undeniably present. "This is lieutenant Bowman, I have a lead on the escapee, and am moving to capture."
Watching the veiw screens that are over the landing pad, overlooking the VTOL, all John could ask was "Who are these guys?" "I heard they were reinforcements from the Maw" Carmack answered
"Your kidding me, the Maw? That place needs all the soldiers it can get, wonder what these guys are up to, and how come only a Turncoat of all people gets to track down this escaped animal!"
"I dunno, it must be good at tracking it's own kind"
"Heh, maybe your right, maybe it's helping IT escape, we should report this to the CO"
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I point to a chair for her to sit on and I sit on my bed as she explains the situation "Something has happened at the Maw...a group retreated...one group...but that means something is going on without us knowing...I want you to take a team I hand-picked and try to push through the Maw...." and my jaw drops...Bloodline leaving the Maw...and she closed my jaw with her hands, trying to continue her report. "Also...I know this might sound like a lie...but Nairobi was found on our borders, in a condition I can't describe...." and that was basically a gut-punch with brass-knuckles...the one fur who gave him a chance at survival...is gone...
"Uh...sure...just let me get my 'bike' and I'll meet the team there...that ok?" I asked...hoping for a nod, and no words of grief, which she surprisingly gives.
I head into the garage, and find my 'bike'....well, more like a two-wheel armored car than a bike, but its more reliable than most personnel transportation at hand...I revved the bike up, and drove off to the Maw...savoring the last moments of peacefulness at the Temple, and preparing to enter a complete war-zone...
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(Im not the only one searching, I'm just searching alone)
The group from the Maw had been more or less green, untested in tracking situations. This, the CO's thought, could be a good training exercise for them. Since their MG teams had only had to contend with packs of ferals, and the teams were only to serve for about an hour, the Overwatch had considered this a safe bet. And as for the lieutenant...
He was close, and he knew it. He could smell the fur clearly now, the mixed scents of excitement and fear were unmistakable. "This is Lt Bowman to EC-1 Overwatch. Target located in perimeter area four, reccomend redirecting assets, over.." The goldie released his radio, now speaking directly to the escapee. "A valiant effort, but I have you cornered. Come out, unless you're trying to get yourself killed." His paw tightened around the grip of his .45 pistol as he drew it from his holster. "I'd rather not have to kill you. Just give up, and we can end this futile chase." He scanned the area with his gun drawn, searching methodically for any sign of the escapee. "I'll find you eventually..."
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Walking alone to confront the CO John asked "What gives? We're the commanding garrison for this camp, and soldiers from the MAW of all places search for the prisoner."
"Well John, I understand your concern, and I was hoping to give this later to you today, but you've been assigned to the Maw, last minute hand selection from the CO there"
"Wait, you.... your serious?" John asked
"Yes, it seems your skills in disposing of Furs could come in quite handy at the Maw"
John saluted and quickly jogged to see Carmack, but when he returned he was nowhere to be seen. Looking around he noticed Furs out and about, but the guards were nowhere to be seen. "HEY GET BACK TO YOUR CELLS ALL OF YOU!"
The Furs turned and looked at him coldly, and part of the crowd parted aside, revealing corpses of the guards, and a few Furs, Carmack among the corpses.
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Coraline was staring at the corpses from where she sat on her bed. The killing of them had taken place right in front of her eyes and she had just kept humming the whole time as the sound revirberated off of her cell walls.
She saw Shepard a little ways away and listened to him yell. She watched the crowd part and she noticed that Shepard's friend was among the dead.
She looked back at Shepard to see his reaction.
She began to sing...
"See how the shepard herds his sheep,
Leading them here and there.
Keeping them safe and sheltered, he says,
But that's not what the herd thinks.
So they lie in wait and behave as their told,
For the time being, at least.
But you see, the sheep, they knew he would stumble,
He wouldn't pay attention and their chance would come.
They'd trample his resources and then turn to him,
His time would be then and his rule would end.
Leaving him alone and weak.
See how the shepard herds his sheep,
Leading them here and there.
Keeping them safe and sheltered, he says,
But that's not what the herd thinks.
He'd live, you see, for a while at least,
But he'd never be the same.
More sheep would come until it was over and done.
Then the sheep would roam free,
Going where they pleased, no one to tell them no.
See how the shepard herds his sheep,
Leading them here and there.
Keeping them safe and sheltered, he says,
But that's not what the herd thinks..."
Throughout her whole song, her pitch-black eyes never moved from their gaze on Shepard.
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Sweat beading down his neck and chills going down his spine as he realized what the lyrics of the song meant. All John could do was reach for his assault rifle. Putting one hand on the XM-8 he watched as a few members of the crowd slowly walked towards him, pulling weapons out of their sleeves. Then suddenly they stopped moving, as if contemplating how best to kill him. Seconds evolved into minutes, which evolved into years. A deathly silence filled the room as no one moved, scarcely breathing. Shepard took the assault rifle off it's strap to see the crowd running at him. "THIS IS SHEPARD I NEED BACKUP I REPEAT I NEED BACKUP RIOT IN PROGRESS" he yelled desperately over the radio. Firing into the mob Furs fell, but still they kept coming. Running back down the hall, he stopped occasionally to fire back at the mob. "^&*) Need to reload!". Reaching for the extra clip on his waist, a furred hand grabbed the assault rifle from his hands. Reaching for his sidearm and knife he fought back against the mob with all his skill. Stabbing one, shooting another, YES he was getting closer to his XM-8. After killing the Fur who stole his weapon, Shepard ran down the hall standing on some knocked over tables. Reloading his weapon, he stood firing into the approaching masses, the light from the gun reflecting his image throughout the darkness.
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A riot? Now? "Looks like you get off lucky, prisoner... Don't get used to it." At a full sprint he was still at least a few minutes from EC-1. So much for a training mission... He hoped his squad had been searching, because he doubted they would fair well in a riot situation. They weren't carrying much ammo, and there were a lot of prisoners at EC-1. The mud had started to dry, and he reached the perimiter fence sooner than he had expected. He climbed through the same hole the escapee had likely used, and began sweeping the base.
He clicked off his pistols safety, moving slowly through the base. It seemed deserted at first, but he picked up the faint sounds of a scuffle. A scream followed soon after, and a small group of prisoners emerged from behind a building. They had taken the weapons from the guards they had come across, and Arke only just managed to dive behind a supply crate and avoid detection. They're arming themselves... Great... He headed for the prison complex, sticking to the shadows as the sounds of gunfire echoed. The lieutenant slipped through a side door and dove behind a corner. Footsteps. Gunshots. Getting closer. He snapped around the corner, gun drawn and saw...
A Pureblood. He lowered his weapon quickly.
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Coraline got up from her bed and walked behind the crowd, going back to humming her song as she walked. She pulled a hidden pin from her hair and began picking at a lock as she walked.
The lock she was picking was what kept chains tight around her torso so she couldn't use her wings. Once she got the lock picked, she stopped just for a second to let the chains fall to the ground before continuing to walk behind the crowd.
She stretched her wings and let out a sigh of relief, glad to not be restrained. "I'll take care of this collar later..." She thought to herself as she hummed.
Once Shepard had stopped and stood on the tables, she saw her chance and began flapping her wings, raising herself off the floor and flying towards him. She took a couple of bullets, one in her upper arm and another just barely grazing her waist, and spotted a Fur that had come around the corner, just by looking at him, she knew he was a Turncoat.
She quickly flew over Shepard and kicked him in the back, just wanting to get him off-balance at least to give the others an opportunity. She didn't expect that they would kill him, not today, and probably none of them would escape, but this would be a start. Then she flew over the other Fur while his weapon was lowered and kicked him as well, hoping to knock him into the wall.
She glanced back only for a mere second and snapped at the Fur, calling him a traitor, before continuing to fly through the hallways towards the outside, expecting that he would probably react and begin shooting at her so she flew as fast as she could towards the bend up ahead.
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Hearing the riot outside, Philly opens the door to his dorm up a crack and peeks outside to see what's going on. What he saw though he didn't expectto ever happen. All the furs had banned together and formed a mob. He opened the door more, stepping outside to try and help. Loading his weapon, he begins running towards the mob, but stops when he sees a fur flying overhead kicking at Shepard and another Turncoat. Setting his weapon to burst, he aims at the fur and opens fire on her. "I can't let them take over this camp. I know I won't get any mercy." he said to himself.
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After being kicked down off the table, Shepard hit the ground hard, and had a knife thrown at him. Ducking in time it just barely whizzed past his head. "There's too many of them, and reinforcements aren't coming" thought Shepard. Standing up he decided to fall back to the designated rally point, firing at the mob as he ran. "Shepard..... can you hear me......" he heard over his radio. "Loud and clear, who is this?". "This is your former CO, don't go to the rally point, the rioters are swarming inside, there's no hope for this camp, best thing to do now is head for the dropships from the Maw and get out of here, Good Luck Soldier, and may the Bloodline avenge us........."
Feeling the weight of the CO's words, Shepard bum rushed outside the camp, he saw other soldiers do the same. "HEY DIDN'T YA HEAR? WE'RE BUGGING OUT COME ON MOVE MOVE MOVE!" said the Drill SGT. of the camp.
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Philly turns and starts running in the direction that all the other soldiers were running. He straps his assualt carbine to his back and starts sprinting past all the furs, dodging knives being thrown at him from every direction. "I've got to get to the dropships. I can't be left here for my fate to be decided by these prisoners, my former family members..." he thinks to himself as he leans forward to run faster. "I could run alot faster than this if I didn't have these stupid boots on" he shouts.
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Coraline heard a shot whizz by close to her head just before she turned the corner. "Holy!" She yelled and continued to fly further until she pushed through a door to the outside.
She flew further into the air and watched the soldiers below running to the dropships. "Cowards!" She yelled, though she didn't expect to be heard from that high up.
She continued to fly on, not sure where she was actually headed, just knowing she wanted to get away from this place and get her stupid collar off so she could waterbend again.
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Upon arriving at the Maw...I see what I'm dealing with...two 'firebugs'...a water manipulator...and two other furs who use guns instead of powers....guess that makes me the only earth manipulator...
"Okay...listen up...because you won't be able to hear me when we get into the thick of it...stay with me at all times, and I'll do my best to protect the group, cover eachothers backs and make sure nobody is alone...now, on the way here I was informed that there are dropships here, lets take them out so the Bloodline can't escape...and if you find yourself overwhelmed, and none of us are in sight, run, don't fight...run...you're more useful to the cause alive than dead..."
After we gathered our weapons, got affiliated with eachother, and a threat assessment of the current front-line condition....we started advancing...the rest of the fur amy slowly following us as we mopped up stragglers from previous conflicts...
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The lieutenant fires a full magazine from his .45 at the flying fur, more or less calling her a coward for not finishing her fight. With that out of his system he follows the pureblood and the other turncoat, switching to his rifle. "There's an Osprey not far from here sir, I think that's our best bet. Can either of you fly?" The lieutenant turned and put a few rounds into the pursuing mob, aiming for their legs.
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"We're headed to the VTOLs that came from the Maw, hopefully they will return us there" I quickly yell, climbing over the perimeter fence, the Osprey in sight, already prepped for liftoff and almost full of passengers. "Running like a lunatic and stopping for no one John sprints like his life depends on it (cause it does :D) to the Osprey. Jumping in the pilot says "10 seconds, those collar'd better hurry up or we're leaving without em" Little did the rebels know, the Co in the rally point already hit the self destruct command inside the camp, and it was primed to explode without a warning, with only 15 seconds on the clock.
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As we continue to mop up the abandonded Bloodline...I feel pity, and some jealousy as they are killed without mercy, their deaths painful and quick, but not going through the emotional stress of becoming what you hunt...But then again...they brought it on themselves for herding furs into camps instead of just making it quick and painless...
As I finish off one of my former brothers, our water bender notices that the intel was mis-interpreted...as there were no dropships in the Maw...but actually dropships heading TO the Maw..."Okay...close the gap between the lines before the dropships arrive, then we'll pull back and let the other furs handle this..." and I got a few 'Yes sir!' and some whoops and cheers, seems like we all wanted a break from this Bloodline hunt...
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"I wish I could fly" Philly said back to the other Turncoat. As he returned his gaze towards the dropship he saw that Shepard had already made it on and they were starting to lift off the ground. "I can't be left here!" Philly thought as he ran faster than ever now, intent on getting in the dropship. Just as it was about 8 ft off the ground he leaps into the air and grabs onto the ramp of the ship, pulling himself in just before it got too far off the ground.
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The lieutenant dives for the dropship, pulling himself in and firing at the pursuing furs. "Alright, we're on board! Let's go!" Another burst into the crowd, and he kicks at a prisoner who makes it within a few feet of the door. A handfull of other dropships took off as well, but two were caught in the bases self-destructive explosion. The furred officer moved to a seat in the Osprey, sighing. A whole squad gone... Some training exercise... "Well, at least we got out..." He turned to the Pureblood, offering his paw. "May as well get aquainted. Lt. Bowman, Maw overwatch. Sorry about pulling that gun on you back there."
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Cain looked up as he saw the dropships lift off. He'd heard the gunfire in his sleep, and he thought someone had been nearby, looking for him, at some point, but he wasn't sure. In the next moment, the prison camp exploded in an expanding ball of fire. The badger sank to his knees, stunned. They were all dead now, he supposed. Suddenly, he heard something and looked up. It was a flying figure, and it looked like a fur. Cain hefted himself up and yelled as loud as he could. "Hey, down here! Can you hear me? DOWN HERE!"
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Coraline thought she heard a faint sound after the dropships took off and the camp exploded. She looked down and saw a small figure who looked like another Fur, and she also noticed that the Fur was outside of the fence. "Must be the one who escaped..." She said to herself.
She pulled her wings to her body and dove towards the ground, then expanded them when she got close to the ground, landing softly a few feet away from the Fur.
Turning around, she faced the Fur and looked them over. They were weak and injured from experimentation, she noticed, so she knew they weren't a Turncoat.
Unsure of what to say since she hadn't really been one for conversation once she had been brought into EC-1, she rubbed the back of her neck and looked down for a second.
"Umm...did you need something? Help or anything?" She asked, looking back up at the Fur. When she spoke she had to try hard to have it not come out like a song, since she had spent most of her time in EC-1 humming and singing rather than speaking to anyone.
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Cain looked at the other fur. He recognized her from the compound. The badger scratched the back of his neck. "Well... I... uh... I figured we could... well... travel together if you want. I mean... I just don't wanna travel alone and saw you... so..." He dropped his gaze. He wasn't much of a conversationalist, especially since he had been put in the compound. "Any place you're headed?"
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Coraline kind of chuckled. At least she wasn't the only one who wasn't big on conversation.
"I..." She started in a slight singing way, then stopped and cleared her throat. "Sorry...too used to doing that..." She sighed.
"Well, I'm not really headed to any particular place. I just want to get away from this place and also work on getting this collar off." She said, reaching up and feeling the front of her collar. "I'm just glad I didn't have difficulty with my chains..." She stretched her wings subconsciously.
"Was there any place in particular that you wanted to go?" She asked him, making sure to get his opinion instead of just thinking about herself. Then she looked down and pulled a throwing dagger out of her clothes, starting to pick at the back of her collar while waiting for his answer.
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Cain looked at Coraline as she picked the lock on her collar. They'd taken his off before they began to move him for the last rounds of "experimentation". He figured they were going to kill him, so he found a way out before they could. "I dunno." The badger bit his lip. "I've never been outside the compound. They turned me over to them when I was little. They said I was half feral, so they got rid of me." Cain coughed. "I don't know where anything is anymore, so it's you're choice."
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Coraline frowned slightly at the thought of one being taken when they were young. It just wasn't fair.
"Aha!" She said as the collar came off and she put her throwing dagger back. She examined the collar for a second then tossed it aside.
"Well, I'm not really sure where everything is relative to this place." She said, looking around the land. "I'd follow the dropships but I'm not sure that'd be totally wise..."
She thought for a minute, turning around and looking into the distance in the direction that the dropships went anyway. "We should probably just head in this direction for now." She said, gesturing straight ahead of them. "I guess we'll just figure it out as we go..."
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Breathing. That's what they told him to do. Breathe.
Snowy let out a sigh of frustration at his training "ugh, I already know how to breathe". He said to himself, he was sat in his room in the temple. He was sent here due to an accident in training resulting in three students breaking their arms and two breaking a leg. He was training in using air blasts when he lost control of his powers and sent a few students flying through the air, and so he was here, learning to concentrate and control his powers.
After a few hours he decided to leave his room and walk about the temple, he always found a sense of calm when he walked through the temple grounds.
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a lonely jackdaw flies over an large nuclear wastland to find the nearest experimental facility.
he suddenly hears a explotion to the east. with a smile on his face he says
- i think I've finally found one, hope there's still is at least one survivors left.
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Pulling his hand back as to refuse touching the paw all he says is "Cpl. Shepard sir!", sounding very annoyed at having to call one of THEM 'sir'. Staring out the Osprey, he sees what is the Maw, although still far, it's a giant light against the bleak surface.
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whilst flying he saw a osprey flying towards the maw and shouted to himself.
- no......please say that there is at least one survivor. at least ONE!
he continued flying to the sound of the explotion with hopes of survivors
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"That was mighty rude of you Shepard" Philly said panting from all the running he just did as he slumped down in a seat. He looked the other Turncoat that was standing infront of Shepard with his paw out, then turned his gaze towards the Maw. "I usually try to respect my superiors."
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"DID YOU JUST SPEAK AGAINST A PURE BLOOD ANIMAL!" Shepard yelled in utter disbelief. How in the world has one of them, with an attitude make it into the Turncoats. "O respecting your superiors, just like you respected your family and friends before you turned em in?"
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Philly smirk immediately dropped off his face as his eyes grew wide in shock at what Shepard had just said to him. "I had no choice when it came to turning them in! They deserved every bit of what they got for what they did to me!" he said shouting. Calming himself he then said "By the way, I saw what happened to Carmack.....it's a shame you weren't there to save him. But then again the same fate would have probably been yours too, had you been there."
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"You should watch what you saw Turncoat, lose your temper again, and the CO might have to kill you like all the other mad critters" Obviously enjoying toying with the new Turncoat, John wished this ride would go faster, he just wants to get his new assignment, and fast.
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Philly turned his gaze to the ground and just simply muttered "I wish I was back in D.C." He closed his eyes, but all he could see was his family being dragged away, the memory forever haunting him, but he would never let anybody know that.
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"Thats quite enough, Corpral. We're all on the same side. Let's not try to change that. Understood?" The lieutenant looked out the Ospreys bay door, at that sorry pit they called the Maw. "If I'm not mistaken, the riot started on your cell block..." He racked his pistol, cleared the breach, and changed the magazine.
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"Course it started in my block, they didn't have their Shepard to tend for them is all" dreadfully remembering Coraline's sick song. "Well 'Sir' the Maw is in sight, we should be landing soon" "And, I guess, I owe you an apology Philly, I'm just so used to dealing with unruly prisoners I forget my manners" Shepard says with sincerity in his voice.
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Henry is at the site of the explotion. he can't see anyone att the site. he assumes everyone died except the ones in the osprey.
- so the only thing i can do now is to fly to the maw. if i only had more food I've wouldn't have to go there, but i guess i don't got a choice.well maybe i should get some sleep first. i mean i don't think they'll ever come back here again.
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"Apology accepted" he said to Shepard, still staring at the floor. "I hope you'll accept mine as well."
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"Sir...we're almost at their line, and the osprey is in view....got any ideas?" one of the 'firebugs' asked me. "Well, try to find any injured Furs and get them out of here, can't let the Bloodline take more lives for experimentation...then come back here and get ready for an all-out war at the very least..." I said, killing the last two straggling Bloodline by making two stalagmites run through their their backs and out their stomachs, almost before they realized what happened...
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As the Osprey descended on the Maw, Shepard got his first real look at the facility. Turrets and sandbag barricades surronded the only entrance into the main facility, and soldiers were on constant patrol. In the distance, the lights from the advancing Fur army could be seen, slowly making it's way to the maw's barricades.
"WELCOME TO THE MAW, WELCOME TO HELL!" droned the Sgt. waiting at the landing pad. Shepard leapt out of the Osprey and looked around.
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The lieutenant immediately returned to the firing lines, his rifle ready. The 'killzone' was almost empty... for the time being anyway. The furs seemed to be holding position just out of range of the machineguns, and since they wore no uniforms there were no officers for the marksmen to target. Well, at least they're not ready yet. He raises his rifle and looks at the furs through his high powered scope. One in particular seemed to be getting a bit more attention than the rest. It was hard to pick out their features, but this fur, maybe the local commander, had a darker pelt than most. It helped him stand out. He debated pulling the trigger... killing him before he even knew what happened... but no, he would just keep an eye on this one.
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"Okay...we're at the frontlines, lets pull back and let the army handle this..." I say as my entire squad falls back into the charging army, as it passes around us and towards the front line...
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Philly steps out of the dropship and looks around. "So this is The Maw. I half expected it to be alot worse actually." he said laughing slightly and then quickly running up to the entrance, kneeling down behind a sandbag and reloading his weapon. "I hope I make it out of this one alive."
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Cain looked back at the ruined compound. "Maybe we should look for survivors. I don't want to leave anyone behind, even though it's unlikely anyone is left."
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Coraline turned back around and looked at the camp, watching the flames and knowing that he was probably right.
"Yeah, I guess we should do that first..." She said and moved forward, starting to hum her song out of habit.
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Henry thought he heard voices somewhere nearby.
he didn't reliese until 6 seconds later that there was living persons around.
he waited for someone to show up because he didn't want to get noticed.
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Cain set off toward the compound, dreading what he might find in the wreckage. The badger braced himself and looked around. The fires were still going, but most had died down a bit. He felt the bile rise in his throat at the site of the charred bodies. Cain turned and vomited what little food he'd had in his stomach. He turned back toward the wreckage and began to search, tears in his eyes. If there was even one still alive, it would be worth it...
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Henry walked to something that looked like another fur near the wreckage
- is somebody there?
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Coraline walked with Cain, looking away when he vomitted. She looked through the smoke and dying fires, trying to spot any signs of life. She checked under debris as well.
She heard a voice and spun around. "Who's there?" She questioned as she pulled out two of her throwing daggers just in case.
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Cain turned as well when he heard the voice. He grabbed thin piece of pipe from the debris. "Show yourself, whoever you are! We don't want to fight, but we will if you make us!"
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walking slowly forward to the 2 furs, he said:
- hey calm down I'm not going to harm you, I'm just going to ask some questions and im going to leave OK?
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Coraline lowered her daggers but kept them ready.
"Alright...go ahead..." She said, watching the Fur closely. She didn't feel she could trust anyone around this area who she hadn't seen before.
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- OK. do you know any other experimental facilities somewhere in this country?
but if you don't, do you know absolutely anything about the maw, what weapons they use, the deffence system,anything?
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Cain looked confused. "There's other facilities? What's the Maw?" He stopped himself. "Sorry, I've been stuck here all my life. I don't know anything about the outside... except that it's better than the compound. So far, anyway."
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Coraline thought for a minute or so. "From what I heard in my time here, there are at least nine other facilities..." She said, thinking back. "I don't really know anything about the Maw though..."
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OK thanks, and you wouldn't know the the locations to the other facilities would you?
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"I wouldn't." She answered. "The officers were at least smart enough to not say locations within hearing distance of Furs, but that's not saying much for them because I never would."
She looked to Cain. "Do you want to keep searching or do you you want to move on?" She asked him then looked around from where she stood.
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The badger sighed. "Let's move on. There's nothing here, that's pretty obvious."
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Henry said;
-well thanks for your help. but might i ask where your going now?
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Coraline turned back in the direction that she said they should head before, then looked back at the other Fur. "No problem," she responded, "We don't really know exactly where we're headed. We're just set on getting away from here for now."
She looked back in the direction that they would walk in. "But if you're trying to get to the Maw, I would suggest going in the direction that we saw the dropships go." She said, pointing straight in front of her. "We'll be going in that direction for the time being, but we'll most likely change direction because we don't want to go to the Maw..."
She put her daggers back where she had pulled them from and continued to look into the distance.
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Cain hefted the piece of pipe he had picked up, then picked up a piece of cord from the wreckage and tied it around the pipe and slung it over his shoulders. "Maybe we should find a safe place and rest a bit. I dunno about you, but I spent all morning crawling and running away." Cain rubbed a row of scars on his arm, left over from the experiments. "We could get a fresher start in the morning."
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eh-em,will you 2 mind if i travel with you 2 for awhile? Henry said.
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Coraline turned her head back to the other Fur. "If you wish, you can..." She responded.
She then looked to Cain. "Yeah, rest sounds good to me. I doubt anybody will come back to this place so it shouldn't be hard to find a safe place around here." She answered him and then looked around, trying to spot a place where they could rest.
"Oh! I'm Coraline, by the way." She said when she remembered she hadn't told either of them her name, looking to them both. "What are your names?"
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Cain yawned. "Cain Albe's my name." The badger looked at the third fur. "And you would be...?"
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-My name is Henry karlssen. well we should get some sleep now. and if your hungry just look in my backback for some bread.
Henry said.
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Walking over to two soldiers next to a machine gun turret, John notices they have a radio and have some headphones. Poking one of them, John asks "What're you listening to?" Without speaking a word, one of the gunners hands him some headphones and plugs them in. "Hey Mr. Wonderful Ohhh You're so Incredible....." was all he heard before taking off the headphones. "Well, that's going to be fun listening to when the Furs finally arrive" Looking out onto the field he watches as the Fur army, slowly gets closer, outside of the kill zone of their guns.
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Before I can make a full retreat to the back of the army, I feel a hand block my chest and I look where the hand came from...it was the phompus fur that I beat down not so long ago..."Whats the matter, running away from your former comerades??" he said with a smile...then in annoyance, I turned back around, and ordered my squad to take control of certain sections of the army....If it extinction the Bloodline want...we'll be happy to oblige...
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The lieutenant noticed another figure approaching the fur he had thought was the leader and immediately reassessed the pair. This newcomer looked more the commander type. Or at least he thoughtas he peered through his scope at the blurry, distant mutants. He fired one shot, and knew in an instant he had missed. Not by much, but this new fur was not about to take a killshot. Maybe a shoulder wound, something painful, but he'd live. "Lucky you..."
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"Fire team Charlie reinforce the cental barricades, get there before more shots happen!: said the SGT. The furs wandered into the killzone, and the gunners started opening fire. "For the Bloodline, For Humanity!" yelled someone over the radio. Shepard climbed over the sandbags, and looked what appeared to be a very very large mob of furs. Scoping in with his rifle, he saw they were out of range for his rifle. "Come on Come on get closer!" The thundering of the machine guns ringing in his ears, as the gunners expended a fearsome amount of ammo.
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"For the Furs...For Freedom!!" I yell, then I start the attack on their side by slamming my fists into the ground, creating a shockwave that caused the ground to create a 10' wave of earth that moved toward the center of the Bloodline troops...
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Noticing the ground waves, the gunners quickly pack up their turrets and move back to secondary barricades. "WE HAVE BENDERS!!!"
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Opening fire on the now much closer Furs, he takes down a burly one who had the front of a motorcycle as his armor, and he keeps firing, taking down more furs. "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!??!" he yells to them
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Being out of the line of the wave of earth, the lieutenant lined up a shot at the bender. Another close miss, at best a gash or a flesh wound. He stood, firing unaiming into the approaching army. "Benders, rear line! Focus fire, take 'em out!" Switching his rifle to automatic, he cuts down a handful of furs before falling back from the wall. "Secure the prisoners! Return all workers to their cages, now!"
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I hear a voice taunting the furs to attack, and I almost recognized it...but when I saw who was the source, I soon remembered...Shepard..."Stay back soldiers...this one...is MINE!!!" I say, the ground around me trembling as I get ready to go all out...
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Hearing a familiar voice, all Shepard can say is "Your kidding me, he's alive?" while still firing on the Advancing furs, Bloodline soldiers now taking fire from the Furs shorter ranged weaponry, they start to take their losses.
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Golge sniffed the air, he could smell death, looking around he realised he was the only one left. him and his squad had been assigned a mission to scout out the advancing fur army, but they had been ambushed along the way, now he was stuck, in between the maw, and an advancing army. "i gotta, request aid, or something" he pulled his radio out of his pack, and turned it on, nothing happened, "dammit! worthless radio, one of these has to work" he began checking the bodies of his squadmates until he found a working radio, turning it on he began sending a message to somebody, anybody, in the maw "hello? can anybody hear me? this is Scout one, my squad has been killed, and i require assistance, i repeat, i need assistance" he destroyed the remaining radios, leaving only the one he was using, and waited for a response.
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Answering his radio "Well i'd love to help Scout One, but there's A FREAKIN ARMY OUTSIDE OUR GATES! just try to sneak in or something like you Scouts do!" he replied with anger at the scout's stupidity.
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hearing the response from the radio, golge exploded with anger "gee I'd love to lemme just sneak in, have our guys shoot me on sight and we can all die in this hellhole.....fine...ill see what i can do, but anyone shoots at me, and they wont have eyes to aim with, let alone a life to live..." he stood up, checked his gear, and began to make his way to the maw, "damn commanders nowadays are useless" he muttered to himself along the way
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I walk past the line of furs, and then I stamp my foot, making a controlled shockwave, knocking everyone but I and the supposed Shepard back 50 yards...
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"Ohh, this is going to be painful..." The lieutenant lands on his feet despite being thrown, and runs back to the fur and the soldier. He sees Shepard squaring off with the commander and smirks, thinking he ought to see how well the corpral handles himself in a one on one fight with a bender. He swaps his rifle for his .45, only shooting the furs that would dare come close to him. "Good luck Corpral, I'm rooting for you." He'd step in if things went badly, but not a moment before.
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Coraline yawned and stretched her arms up. "Hmm...thirsty..." She said softly.
She held her hand out, palm down, in front of her then pulled her hand up, drawing water from the ground and bringing it up. She switched her hand so her palm faced her and the water came in front of her face, opening her mouth she bended the water into mouth and swallowed it. "Ahh..." She breathed out.
She found a spot where she could sleep and sat down. She looked around before laying down and shutting her eyes, but not falling asleep at the moment.
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Cain unashamedly nabbed a chunk of bread from Henry's pack. "Thanks. I ain't eaten in almost two days." The badger scarfed down the bread, then burped. "S'cuse me."
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Coraline chuckled. "You're excused." She answered, her eyes still shut.
"If either of you needs any water, don't be afraid to ask..." She stated, opening one eye to look at them both then closing it again.
She yawned and rested her arms under her head.
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Cain flopped down on the ground and closed his eyes. "Na, I'm good. How 'bout you, Henry?"
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-Im fine.Henry said.
Henry found a spot to sleep and layed down to sleep. Henry looked att caroline and said.
so i see that your a waterbender. he said to caroline.
he turned his face to to cain and said.
- so what powers do you have?
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Cain shrugged. "I dunno. None that I can think of, really. I'm just your average badger, for all I can tell." The badger rubbed his back against a tree, scratching. "How 'bout you?"
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well I'm very good att calculating the movement of bullet or things i throw, and in English that means i have superior accuracy.Henry replied
Henry closed his eyes.
- it's been 2 years since i talked to someone.Henry's eyes filled with tears while he toughed that to himself
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Coraline smiled as she listened to them both. She didn't really know why she was smiling but she was nonetheless.
"Yes, yes I am a waterbender." She stated, opening her eyes. "Though I haven't advanced to ice yet."
She thought about how she had not been able to finish training herself because she had been captured and shook her head slightly.
"I'm going to guess that you're an earthbender, Cain." She said, looking over at him. "But that's just me being slightly stereotypical. I mean, most think that I'm a firebender and sometimes I wish I was, but really, water comes in more handy anyway..." She stopped herself there, trying not to ramble on.
All of a sudden, she felt a sharp pain in her left arm and winced. She moved her left arm slowly out from under her head and sat up, also feeling the tiniest bit of pain on the right side of her waist. She looked at the upper part of her left arm and sighed seeing the bullet wound in her arm. She then looked to her waist and saw that a bullet had just grazed her waist.
"Huh...I completely forgot..." She said softly. She bended some water out of the ground and washed out the wounds. Then she peered closer at the wound in her arm and saw that the bullet was still in her arm, so she bended water around it and used the water to pull the bullet out. She held the bullet in her hand and looked it over.
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Philly peeks up from behind a sandbag getting ready to open fire on any fur that he sees, but is forcefully thrown back suddenly. "Great we're dealing with benders here" he said looking around to try to spot any. He sees one fighting with Shepard not too far away. "Well I personally don't know who I want to win" he thought silently chuckling. But he was brought back to the fight when a bullet grazed his ear. He aims at the fur responsible and opens fire, nailing him right in the chest. "I hope they're not too many of them"
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"Well, well, well, the traitor returns, you have no business here, just go back to where you spawned and I won't have to waste a bullet on you." reloading his XM-8 he prepares for the duel, getting into a combat stance. "Well since he is a bender, I need to stay on my toes, dodge any shockwaves, rock, and whatever else he makes, and counter with controlled bursts." he thought to himself, relaying his tactic to himself.
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"Youve got bigger problems at the moment, corpral. I'd keep my focus on him if I were you." The lieutenant threw down a fur attacking him from the rear, executing the mutant with his .45 pistol. "If he's still got some life in him after this fight, and..." he stared the Pureblood in the eyes through his gasmasks lenses, "...I don't doubt there will be, he'll make a nice captive." He turns to the fur, addressing him now. "Dont mind me, there's obviously some bad blood here, and I'll let you work that out. I just hope you're willing to see reason afterward. You're a subcommander, right? You could be useful..."
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Cain shrugged. "Maybe. Of course, I suppose I wouldn't have figured it out in the camp anyway, but maybe something will come up and I can learn." The badger yawned. "I gotta sleep, guys. See ya'll in the morning." Cain rolled over and was asleep in a matter of seconds.
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I start laughing when hearing 'subcommander' then I laugh louder when I hear 'useful'. "..And here I thought I would give you my dog tag...but I guess you'll have to win it off if you ever kill me Shepard...and as far as the Bloodline is concerned...once I became a Fur...I have nothing to return to...what family would accept a fallen soldier?!" I said with a mock smile, as my anger caused the pebbles to rise into the air....
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While polishing his rifle on the rooftop he hears of a battle that has broken out near the Maw thinking Hmm Maw is quite far away it would probably be over in the time it takes to me to get there.... Pulls out a map and does some calculations If I'm not mistaken i don't have enough air in my rebreather to cover such distance
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Coraline sighed and put the bullet in her pocket. She laid back down and closed her eyes, trying to fall asleep. She wanted to be rested for the long day ahead of her tomorrow.
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"No family of ours will take you in traitor!" he yelled coldly as he started to open fire.
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"Traitor implies I threw the first strike!" I say, throwing up a wall of stone to block the bullets, then with both hands, send the wall towards his former friend...
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Rolling to the side, John avoids the wall still firing. Reloading quickly when his magazine runs dry, he switches to burst fire for more accurate shots.
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I call up another wall, but instead of sending it flying at him...I cause a sudden eruption of stalagmites to occour in an attempt to skewer Shepard...
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Seeing the rock spikes a little two late, they pierce his armor, but not enough to be a major wound. "Come on you can do better then just a papercut!" he says taunting. aiming his grenade launcher attachment towards the wall he fires and expects it to fall on his friend, even if he catches the wall, it'll still make an opening.
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"Already ahead of you old friend" I said as I made the ground under him an empty space, causing a pitfall to occour under Shepard...Now I have to catch my breath....that was WAY too much to do in such a short time...
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Taking out his knife and stabbing it into the wall to catch himself. "You have skill, but I can already see you fatigued."
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Panting...I finnaly get enough air to talk..."I still don't understand how I become a traitor when I couldn't even get a chance to become a Turncoat...." he said, reaching for his only weapon....his combat knife...
The edge he had over Shepard has now crumbled away...
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The lieutenant steps in now, swinging the grip of his pistol at the fur in front of him. "Thats quite enough. I suggest you stop now, before I have to kill you. And that would just be a shame now, wouldn't it?" He leveled his pistol with the furs head, giving him a quick, hard kick. "Shepherd, I can trust you to keep an eye on him, can't I, corpral? Just take your time crawling out of that hole."
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Climbing out the hole Shepard yells "NO I MUST END HIS MISERY, HE HAS TURNED INTO A BEAST"
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Cain twitched uneasily in his sleep. He was dreaming about the compound.
Don't hit me again... Don't hit me... Stop hurting me... The voices in the badger's dream reached a fevered crescendo. Stopitstopitstopitstopit!
The badger woke up suddenly. Where was he? There were strange smells, and he could feel two other people around him. Who were they? Were they trying to capture him? The badger let out a loud roar. Their was a nagging thought at the back of his mind that these were friends, but he ignored it and pounced at the nearest figure. They were NOT going to take him back...
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Coraline shot straight up when hearing the roar, now sitting up straight. She had fallen asleep a while ago and was now wondering what was going on. Then she was pounced by Cain, somehow she just knew it was him by the way he had moved.
"Cain! Get off me!" She yelled at him. "It's Coraline! I'm a fellow Fur!" She looked up at him through the darkness and could tell he was scared. "Cain...the camp was blown up, remember?" She spoke softly to him now. "You, me, and Henry are resting here by the camp before we move on. No one is here to capture you." She kept her eyes on him, wondering what he would do next and if he'd actually listen to her.
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Cain looked down at Coraline. What was he doing? The badger stumbled backwards and tripped over a rock. He fell back on the ground and just lay there. Finally, he sat up and clutched his head between his paws. "I- I'm sorry, Coraline. I'm so sorry..." Tears ran down his face. Am I going crazy?
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Henry wakes up by sounds of voices. he quickly stood up to see what's was going on.
- What's going on? Henry said too them both
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"I think he thought that he was going to get captured by us..." Coraline said. "Probably the result of a bad dream..."
She slowly moved over to Cain and gently rubbed his back to try to calm him down. "It's okay, Cain." She said softly. "I understand. You were just confused and with what you've gone through, I can't blame you for reacting in such a way."
Growing up in an experimentation camp could have never been easy. She really felt bad for him.
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Cain flinched and trembled a little at her touch. "O- Okay. I j-just n-need to r-rest a bit." Cain pulled away from Coraline and laid back down, though he couldn't sleep. What if I'd hurt someone? What then?
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-oh.......well at least you didn't hurt anyone,so what did you dream about cain?.Henry said.
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The badger just shook his head. "You don't want to know. Trust me." he said softly. "Just trust me."
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Coraline moved away from Cain and laid back down where she was before, frowning. She wasn't surprised by how he reacted but it kind of hurt her, but she was glad that her look was hidden by the darkness.
She sighed then began to hum her song softly, closing her eyes and trying to fall back asleep, somehow the song comforted her.
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As Coraline began to hum, Cain finally fell into a restless, yet also dreamless, sleep.
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"Now, now Shepard," he says, not taking his eyes off the fur, "no need to be hasty. I'm sure your comrade deserves the chance to make the right choice. He would probably make officer in no time. Shame to see a good soldier wasted, eh, Shepard?" The battle had either died down or moved deeper into the maw, so the lieutenant dropped his guard a bit.
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Henry felt asleep to the weird humming Caroline made,
but it was kinda soothing in a way. he closed his eyes and began to sleep
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"Your lucky my allies want you to live, this isn't over old friend!" Running off into the main base to help repulse the Furs, he wondered, why he let him live, after all these years.
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I finnaly regained my breath when my squad that I left behind came back, and most of them have had their wounds recently healed..judging from the water-benders exhausted look. "Sorry for leaving you guys...I didn't want you involved.." was all I could say before one of the firebugs smacked me. "Don't you EVER run off like that again!!" was what he said, then tears formed in his eyes as he picked me up by the shoulder, and helped me out of the pit I made....
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Philly couldn't understand why Shepard had just let the fur live. "I thought they hated each other. Maybe I could listen in on his conversation." He said softly, sneaking around the group of attacking furs.
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"Alright, now for the... Sunuva!" The lieutenant returned to find the fur gone, and shook his head. "So much for making the right choice..." He raised his rifle, chasing the injured mutants fleeing the Maw alone. Two dropped as he fired into their backs, using his scope to search for the rebel officer.
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I noticed two of my squad-mates were downed...and immedeatly motioned to the waterbender, who reluctantly gave a nod, and I started limping, my body aching from the stress the earth-bending put on me, but I advance towards the Turncoat...."You know...we may not want to be turn-coats, but we're still a unit...and I don't appreciate pro-bloodline furs from putting holes in them" I said, ready to stall him as long as possible....
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The sun was just starting to peek over the horizon now.
Coraline was standing up and looking towards the sun. She had just woken up about a minute ago. She glanced back over her shoulder at the other two then looked back towards the sun. They could get up on their own, she wasn't going to wake them up before they were fully rested. It wouldn't do anyone any good if they were still tired before they moved on.
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Cain woke up and yawned. He could barely remember what had happened during the night, but he knew it wasn't a dream. The badger stayed where he was and acted like he was still asleep. He could see Coraline's shadow on the ground, and he didn't want to face her just yet.
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The sun woke Henry up with it's bright shining.
Henry lifted his hand to shadow his face. He looked att Caroline and said:
''Well aren't you an early riser.'' He said.
he looked around to see Cain sleeping on the sand near him.
''wow,he seems tired,i wonder what he dreamt of.'' Henry toughed to himself.
He looked att Caroline and said.
''So why were you here.where you a prisoner at this camp?''
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"Is that so? Well, good to see you're not too far gone." He smiles at the obviously tired fur. "You look thirsty. Need a drink?" the lieutenant takes a sip from his canteen. "No drugs, no poison. We both know you've already lost." The goldie lobs the canteen near the other fur, his .45 at his side. "Live or die, your choice."
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Coraline smiled slightly from Henry's first statement, though he couldn't see it since her back was to him.
"Yes, I was a prisoner..." She answered, still looking towards the sunlight with the smile now gone from her face. She stretched her wings out to full span then let them go back behind her. "Kept in a cell. Experimented on. Fed lies. Had chains locked tight around my torso, keeping me restrained..." Her wings drooped for a second and she sighed before moving them back to their normal position, not wanting to show her emotions or anything.
She didn't say anything else on the matter, just continued looking towards the sun. She didn't want to think about anything at the moment, maybe she'd say more later, but right now she didn't want the bad feelings that came with talking about it.
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''Sorry'' Henry said to Caroline.
''I..i just haven't talked to anyone in years...an..and well i didn't really know what to say.'' He said looking away from Caroline.
Henry looks at Cain and shouts:
''Hey, wake Up! you can't sleep all day ya'know Cain.''
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I look at the canteen, and in disgust kick it away...."It might be the Bloodline teachings that have me so pissed right now...but I won't accept pity from a Turncoat, someone who took the coward's way out, I'd rather die with what honor I have left than spend the rest of my life as an outcast among my own allies..." I said, and I prepared to make what could be my final stand....
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The Turncoat swings his pistol at the fur, grabbing his canteen. "Pity? No, I'm just trying not to kill you. I was like you once. But the humans showed me this life. I wish my friends could have seen this... They were blind. It really was a pity." His voice stayed cold, but not quite emotionless.
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"Yea...'all furs will become feral eventually'...was what they told me when I was still a Bloodline...but I don't remember them saying that the collar they put on Turncoats preventing such a thing...In fact my parents told me it was a safety measure they put on furs in case they go feral..." I said, not changing my stance
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"Yeah right. Like I'll fall for that." He leveled the .45 with the furs head. "I'm trying to help you, but if you're going to start this routine, I may as well cut to the case. Do you want to come back to the Bloodline, see your family, and get the cure once we find it, or should I end your misery here? I want an answer."
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I didn't even give him an answer as I felt adrenaline rush through my body...probably for the last time too...and punched the ground hard, causing a diagonal pillar to slam into the Lieutenant's hand, trying to keep him from using guns....
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Arke tries to pull back, but the rock pillar knocks his pistol out of his hand. "Gah! You sunuva...!" He grabs his rifle and fires a few akward, inaccurate shots. "This is how it's going to be? Fine! You'll die like the frakking dog you are!" Another short burst from his off hand, his eyes locked on the fur.
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I create another wall to block the shots, and then slam my palms into it, using the wall as a platform to fire rock-shards at high speed, yelling "Go back to your doghouse Turncoat...you're out of your league!!!"
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The soldier dives to his right, dropping his rifle but priming a fragmentation grenade and tossing it past the wall. He scrambles to his pistol, taking aim at the fur who he could only assume survived the grenade. "Give it up now and I'll only snap one leg!!!"
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When I saw the grenade...I don't know how I did it..but I somehow opened up the ground under me, and started to tunnel to where I predicted Arke was, and slamed the ground around it, trying to make another giant pillar....
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Hearing the commotion from outside, John runs outside and sees Arke battling the fur. "IF YOU WANT A REAL FIGHT, COME FIGHT ME!!!!!" he said yelling as he sprinted towards him, combat knife and pistol drawn.
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"Where the..." The pillar struck his back, knocking him into the crater his grenade had blown. He rose slowly, nursing his injured paw as he rises to one knee. "Must be getting tired... You reconsidering that water?" He tried to find his target, not noticing the hole. "He's all yours corpral... Kill him if he doesn't give up..."
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Seeing the new fight start up Philly didn't know what to do. He managed to dive out of the way of a grenade that had landed some distance away from him and the other fur. Standing back up he sees Shepard run back out and start yelling something. "I've got to do something" he says pulling out his Assualt Carbine and firing a few rounds at dragon before he started tunneling through the ground.
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"It's alright, Henry." Coraline responded. "I understand why you asked and I'm not mad at you or anything. I just have to restrict how much I talk about that stuff at once and learn how to keep my emotions in check."
She chuckled at him shouting at Cain. "I think he's already awake..." She said, glancing back for a second then looking back towards the sunlight. "Unless he went back to sleep after he stretched..." It was easy for her to hear things at this time of day when everything was so still and quiet, so it had been easy for her to pick up on Cain's movement before.
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Cain sat up and looked at the sun, still on the horizon. He sighed and stood, then stopped when he looked at the area he had been sleeping on. The sparse grass that had been under him had grown and spread out. It had gone from dry and brown to lush and green. The badger scratched his head in wonder, then looked over at the other two. "Hey, uh, guys. Is this normal?"
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Coraline turned and looked at Cain, then looked at the ground. A slight smile came across her face. "That'd be your elemental powers kicking while you slept." She responded.
She eyed the grass. "So you either control water or wood...either element would explain what happened..."
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Henry looked at Cain and said:
''well i don't think water would make grass grow that fast in just a night, so i think it's wood.''
Henry looked around and thought to himself
''i guess there is alot of benders here, where i came from i always saw people with passive powers like mine and never any benders.''.
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I left the tunnel I made, and popped up behind the lieutenant, getting him in a chokehold, then turning around to face Shepard..."Back off or I snap his neck..." I said with a snarl...
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The lieutenant didn't realize that he was in trouble until the furs arm wrapped around his neck. Of course, he couldn't help but laugh at the threat. "Like he cares... Ranking officer or not, I'm not going to stop him..." He reached down for his pistol, but found the holster empty.
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"Then I guess this means just one less problem to deal with..." I said as I, ignoring my bodies' plea to stop bending, opened up another pit, and pushed the lieutenant into it "Have fun getting out..." I said with a smile, before sealing up the entrance...
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Henry stood up and said:
''so are we going or what?''
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Watching as the bender sealed in the commander, he laughed. "He is right, I dont care, but he needs to live, we need the firepower, AND ITS TIME FOR YOU TO TASTE YOUR OWN ELEMENT!" rushing the bender pistol firing
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I dodge the bullets by hitting the ground, causing a pillar to send me a few feet to the left, but one of my arms starts to squirt blood as the body begins to have an 'elemental feedback' "Shit...not now!" I said as I hit the ground hard and rolled a bit before lying down...
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Unseathing his knife, John lunges towards the now extremely exhausted earth bender, who shouldn't be able to reate any more barriers, and needs to fight with cold hard steel and skill.
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Not losing my cool at all, I pull out my knife and roll back over to dodge the lunge, and swung at John with a downward swipe
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Leaning back to block the swipe, John heard the tang of metal deflecting metal, as he reached for his pistol to fire a few point blank rounds. Reaching up he fired.
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My expression changed for an instant when John fired the blanks, but I quickly kicked the pistol away, and grunted in pain as my leg started to bleed from excessive stress dammit, I can't keep this up... I thought, starting to shake...
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"I'm ready to go if you both are..." Coraline stated. She turned back towards the sunlight and just stood there. Her mind was swirling with thoughts so it was hard for her to concentrate on anything.
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Releasing the grip on his pistol, John looks up to see his old nemesis shaking "Well, well, well, your weaker then I thought" Kicking his friend over, he points his knife to his throat. "Any last remarks before I send you back to your maker?"
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"Yea...mind taking the dog-tag back to my family and said I died in combat?" I said...trying to gather energy for one more earth bend...
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"Yea...mind taking the dog-tag back to my family and said I died in combat?" I said...trying to gather energy for one more earth bend...
"NO....." stepping on his old friend's weak arm, he takes a fallen pistol and prepares to shoot.
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"AUGH!" was all I could say before I slipped into a trauma and fatigue induced coma....
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The lieutenant used the fuse from his last grenade to blast a hole in the earth above him, climbing out of his hole and finding the corpral looming over his unconscious foe. "Good work... Prep him for transport."
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~Furs that have come as reinforcments start to close in on John and the lieutenant~
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The Sgt. of the Maw comes up, pulling out a remote detonator, pushes the button and explosives all around the camp decimate the reinforcements. (your gonna be captured for now)
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Coraline sighed and started walking in the direction the Bloodline had retreated to the day before. She knew that Henry and Cain would follow her if they wanted to do so. If they didn't, however, she would start flying instead of walking to be faster.
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Henry noticed that Caroline had started to walk,
he quickly stumbled after her.
''are we in a hurry or something?''. He asked Caroline
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(well this died, o well, unless you want to restart it, it's dead)
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(well this died, o well, unless you want to restart it, it's dead)
(I've been waiting to get picked up for awhile, but then again, there are two people who joined it that still havn't shown back up, or am I wrong? ???)
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(I could re-join to get it started up again if you want)
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(well if we revive it, i'll set it up, try to get a broader group this time cause I know more people, so yea, if it gets revived, i
ll make something, look in companion board, it'll be slightly obvious
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It was back to the drawing board. The Furs were all so close to escape. The siren in the camp went off. Men, women, and children rushed outside their bunks and workhouses to stand at attention at the front gates. A fox stood tall, his chin high as he watched about a dozen escapees lined up against the wall. The guards were about to make an example of them...yet again. Spike stood in the front row, avoiding eye contact with anyone. As soon as everyone was finished lining up, a single guard stepped forward before the organized crowd. "Today, you will be the witnesses of what happens when you pathetic creatures try to escape. You will remember this moment next time you are thinking of breaking free." Five men with machine guns rushed to his side and turned to face the dozen lined up who were shedding tears, and even spat in his direction. "But this will be no ordinary execution...No. Each escapee will step fourth to choose one of you to die with. If they refuse, two others will be killed." The guard turned to the escapees. "You may choose." Spike swallowed hard. As the fist escapee, a short chubby squirrel, stepped forward to choose, Spike began to shake but held his composure. The chubby one picked a monkey standing beside Spike and as the moment of choosing for every escapee felt like eternity, Spike found still found himself with the crowd. "Fire!" The weapons fired and Spike flinched as he was sprayed with blood.
The guard turned to face the crowd. "Let this be a lesson to all of you...Dismissed."
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(im not necro'ing this YET!, and two
submit your character in the companion board, doesnt anyone read the first page with the rules anymore... I like to have my rps NEAT AND TIDY!)