Ties of Blood: Of Fire and Steel

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Coraline helped Shinzuu and Rana up gently. "We have to find a way out of here. Guards are going to be everywhere." She said as she looked around. Then she turned and bent down, helping Ryan up as gently as the other two since she knew he was injured too. "Thanks for cutting my lock, by the way." She said, looking at Shinzuu. She began unconsciously humming as she waited until everyone decided they were ready to go and realized she was the only one who wasn't injured in anyway. "Bet I'll pay for that later..." She thought as her unconscious humming continued.

[Entaru]

"********!!!"  Yamataru cursed loudly as the door slammed shut behind the escapees.  Quickly turning to his men, he ordered them to follow him.  I am NOT letting this happen...not on my watch!  The Turncoats sprinted through the halls to find a way into the section that the escapees had fled to.  Through his radio he ordered men on the guard towers outside to be on high alert.

[Osiris]

One of the Turncoats stops, turns around and glares at Yamataro dead in the eyes. "I see you've learned how to survive in the wild, Yamataro!"

[x]

Rana nodded quickly. "Ready when everyone else is.....I guess I'll go first." She was insanely tense, every muscle coiling and coiling and coiling on themselves almost to the point that they would snap. On jittery legs, her formerly white smock now halfway red-stained by her bullet wound, she walked forward, looking for a way out, a hall that didn't look overtly suspicious. Rana wasn't taking the lead, oh heavens no.....she was simply testing the waters for everyone else. If there was anyone who needed to be the first shot....again....by a guard, she figured it might as well be her....she was the youngest AND the most useless. And useless beings tend to make the best guiena pigs.

[Armalite_]

Ryan got to his feet with the help of Coraline. "Thanks." He looked over at Shinzuu. "And thank you for giving us this chance for freedom." He clenched his shoulder with his shirt. Blood was beginning to soak through and drip onto the floor. He was bleeding out and with two holes, he wouldn't be doing so good in about an hour if he didn't find medical attention. The same went for everyone else who'd been hit. He snapped his fingers and a small flame lit the end of his right index finger. He was hesitant before he jabbed the finger into his wound, burning the ends of the blood vessels to stop the bleeding. He made a face at the pain. He repeated this action for the exit wound in his back.

He noticed that Rana was already slowly making her way down the hallway. Ryan could tell that by the sound of her tone she was scared and at this rate they'd be dead from blood-loss before they made it even close to escaping. Ryan walked up to her and put his bloody hand on her shoulder then took it off once he realized that it was. "Umm...I'll lead." Ryan immediately took off in a sprint at the expense of the pain in his shoulder. His right hand burst into flame as he readied himself to fry anyone who tried to get in his way. The only thing that would stand in his way of freedom was a fire extinguisher and a bullet to the head.

[Necrosis]

Tanner cursed at the stinging pain in his arm and torn a small piece of cloth from his ragged t-shirt. Then he tied it over the wound to stop the bleeding and got up shakily. “Hey guys, wait for me.” He called as he followed Ryan and the others.

[Gabag]

The troops in the perimeter didn't have a clear shot of the escapees yet. There was too much debris in the way, but one of the guards in the towers had a semi clear view, he could see one's head. He toggled the laser sight on his M4A1 on to get better aim and looked in his ACOG scope.
"Stupid Duck won't know what hit her..." he muttered as he breathed in deeply as the laser danced her forehead. All he had to do now was pull the trigger and she would sprawl over dead.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu thanked the others as he got up and spotted the red dot on Rana's head and yelled, "Duck your head!" In a quick, snap judgment, he formed another curved sword from the melting ice lane he had made. Suiha Ryujin (Water Dragon Missile) With a swing of his new blade, Shinzuu sent a dragon made of water right at the tower, flushing it of its tenant. He grunted as the blood from his various cuts cried at him from performing that attack. Quickly, Shinzuu melted the ice bits and used the water to form another blade. He placed a hand on his chest, the blade between his chest and hand, and small parts of the blade melted off and made their way to his wounds and froze after covering their destination. "We must move quickly."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Coraline noticed a guard in another nearby tower starting to take aim at the group. "Oh no you don't." She said in a low tone. Punching the air with both fists towards the guard in the tower, she sent a ball of air at the guard. It moved in curved motion which made it hit the guard in the side, knocking him off-balance and off of the tower. "I agree with you on that point." She said in response to Shinzuu. "So let's go." She started to move on, looking around for guards and possible escape routes.

[Entaru]

Yamataru and his men made it outside just as two of the watchmen were knocked from their posts.  "Cheap black magician's!  C'mon, you worthless throw rugs!  Do you want the Bloodline to skin you for incompetence?!"  The soldiers scattered throughout the debris, trying to get a clear shot.  Yamataru jumped on top of a massive piece of scrap iron and pulled out his katana.  "GET THEM!  KILL THEM IF YOU HAVE TO!!  JUST DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!!"  Yamataru called in a heavy wind that began blowing the dust in the compound into a brown fog.  It wasn't much, but it would obscure the vision of the escapees.  He didn't worry about his men...they had masks and infrared.

[x]

Well....this was a shocker to Rana's system. Dust kicked up and a brownish cloud grew, throwing and tossing sand as in the waves of a mad sea....She decided it was best to keep running forward, despite the fact she didn't know where to go, but just as she ran on a few long strides, her legs grew rubbery and the nerves inside them froze up on the poor duck. It caused her to trip on herself and therefore sent her glasses flying. She heard a soft clink as they slid across the ground a few meters away. "My glasses! God, my glasses!" She threw herself to the ground and desperatley started feeling around for them. Not my glasses, anything but my glasses.... Without her glasses, she was even more useless, for she wouldn't be able to see beyond the length of her arms. That made it worth it to search for them.

Though everything.....everything in and of itself....seemed unbelievably bleak right then. Maybe she'd be killed or caught no matter whether she could see or not.

[Armalite_]

Ryan was running in full sprint now. Dust, sand and debris flew up from the ground around him as bullets whizzed past his head. He ran around the large pieces of metal laying about in the yard. "Why the hell is this stuff here!?" He thought to himself as his shoulder clipped the sharp edge of rusty steel plating. "That's a nice dose of tetanus." He exclaimed. He didn't have time to think about the stinging pain but put all his energy and focus into getting out of there. As he ran, he found that Rana was on the floor feeling around for something just up ahead. "What are you doing!? We have to get out of here or you will be shot!" Ryan pulled her to her feet by the back of her shirt and was almost dragging her while he ran. He then realized that he remembered the duck was wearing glasses. He heard a clink next to his feet and he looked down. His eyes went wide as the grenade landed softly in the grass a foot away. He immiediately released his grip on Rana and picked up the grenade, whipping it back in the direction from which it had come from. He heard screams and then a loud bang. No more screams. Just as he went back to dragging Rana, a glare caught his eye from the floor. "There you are." He picked up Rana's glasses and shoved them onto her face. He felt sorry for being so forceful with her but she was going to get herself killed. "C'mon!" He said, taking off into the woods.

[Necrosis]

Tanner tried following Ryan and the duck girl, whose name he couldn’t remember now, but got lost in the dust cloud and ended up tripping over something, which turned out to be a guard’s corpse, probably killed by the grenade Ryan threw back. He examined the dead man closer and saw that he’s still clutching his weapon, a brand new sniper rifle PSG-1 with a flame suppressor. “Not a grenade. He must’ve fallen from the walls…” Tanner thought as he snatched the rifle and, to his great relief, saw that its clip is still full.
“This is too useful to be left here!” he said as he darted after the other escapees, hoping he’d be able to catch up with them.

[Gabag]

The perimeter guards continued to pepper the escapee's position with gunfire, with troops trying to get a good angle on them. Whenever one sniper got a good shot, they moved and evaded his scope.

"There's too much cover to get a good shot, someone flank them!" someone yelled over the radio.
Juno and his team had just gotten outside the base and were making their way to the front from the left side of the base. They received the message over the radio, and hoped that the traitors were there to greet them.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu took advantage of the dust clouds and got as low as he could. He saw the bare feet of prisoners running through an opening at the side of the outer walls. He ran after them, yelling for Coraline to follow suit. "Let's go, dragon girl! We're making a break for it!" Staying low, Shinzuu sniffed around and followed Ryan's scent. He jumped out past the opening and found himself staring at a group of guards heading his way. With as much energy as he could muster, Shinzuu gathered his energy and swung both of his curved swords. Sui Nana Hou Ryu! (Seven Headed Dragon Missile) Seven dragons, larger than man, left his blades and headed straight towards the oncoming group to wash them away. Shinzuu then collapsed onto the ground, fainting from exhaustion.