War of the races

[Nyyrikkia Anikeria]

Melanie looked from Arilys to Siyan confused. With her ears lowered she asked Siyan. "What the hell are you?

[Armalite_]

Sam looked at Ivan. "I don't know yet." He looked the soldiers body up and down. His legs were soaked in blood. Sam unsheathed his combat knife and cut open the leg of the kid's pants. His bone stuck out from a gaping wound below his knee. "He sustained minor burns and he's got a busted leg. Other than that, he'll live." He re-sheathed the knife and looked at the soldier who was frantically yelling in shock. "HEY!" Sam said, slapping the soldier across the face. "Shut up! You're still alive!" The soldier looked around and fixed his gaze on the desert fox that was kneeling over him. "AHH!!!" He screamed, reaching for his side arm. Sam quickly pulled out his Colt .45 and pressed it to his face before the soldier's gun was halfway drawn from it's holster. "...Don't even think about it." Sam said, narrowing his eyes. Sam took his own hand and disarmed the young man, throwing the M9 to the side. "Listen. You'll be fine? Okay? My name is Sgt. Crowe...That's Ivan." He said gesturing the human standing beside him. "You're banged up okay? Leg's broken. Don't look at it." The soldier started gasping. "You- You killed them!" Sam made a face and looked back at the firestorm burning the remains of the convoy. "...yeah...Sorry about that." Sam looked at Ivan. "There's nothing we can do for him. His guys will find him and get him a medic. For now, I need to get back to the rallying point." He looked up at Ivan. "Coming?" The soldier on the ground winced in pain. "You're...leaving me here?" Sam ignored the question and picked up his gun and started jogging off in the direction from which the convoy came. "Well!?" Sam asked, looking back at Ivan.

[Self-sain]

Siyan grabbed the girl the lifted her in the air by her shirt, pulling the blade of his cane to her throat. "You better watch how you speak to me, I saved your life, I can easily take it" he threw her on the ground and turned to the other creature. "Cravings that don't not pertain to you, just stay out of the way and we will get along just fine.,.. more or less."

[Lucky]

rose made her way to the upper part of town where the majority of the humans lived in peace, saluting some of the guards on her way up who were patrolling the area, most of which were either sleep or slacking off. "noobies" she said shaking her head "best way to get your throat split by a feral is slacking off" she said under her breath as she continued to make her way to base camp to give her status report on the mission.

[serpington]

"hay, what happened here?" serpington called seeing two people near one of the blown up cars and another moving away from the other two. he walked up to the two to see they were human. "oh.......did i just make a big mistake?" "hi! are you going to help us? we're on our Way to the city." said Genvieve popping up from under the shoulder of his jacket. Nikki popped up to and looked around noticing the humans, "why are we standing so close?.....and why aren't they trying to kill us?......

[StalBlue]

Ivan felt guilty about living the kid there but there was very little he could do for him and he was certain he would have be viewed as a traitor is seen under these circumstances, so he ran and caught up to Sam. "Sorry, friend. Hey Sam! Wait up!" When he caught up he spied a figure approaching. In all the confusion he hadn't noticed their approaching. Talk about being clumsy. Oh well. "Hey, Sam. Over there." Ivan motioned towards the figure.

[Armalite_]

Sam looked back at Ivan. He could hear yelling coming from their direction. He raised his M16 and looked through the scope at the figure coming in close. It was another anthro. He lowered his weapon and looked at Ivan. "It's an anthro." He said raising his weapon again and looking through the sight. "We've been spotted." He said while his bottom lip curled back in thought. "They're not shooting...which is good." He looked back at Ivan again. "Be cool, lets see how this plays out. If bullets start flying, hit the deck." Sams radio suddenly buzzed. "Angel 6, this is Hitman 4. I have you in my sights. Who's the tag? Over." Sam clicked his radio on. "A friend." He replied. "Do you have sights on the unidentified target approaching my position, Hitman 4? Over." There was a moment of silence. Sam's eyes switched to the figure of a building off in the distance, a bright glare came from one of the windows for a split second.

Meanwhile, a rattlesnake peered through the sights of a Barret M82 .50 sniper rifle in the window. He lay perfectly still as his attention switched from Sam and Ivan over to the approaching stranger. He slowly clicked on his radio. "Affirmative, Angel 6."  

Sam smiled. "Watch my back, Hitman 4."
The snake cocked the bolt back in his rifle. "Copy that."

Pretty soon, they were not more than 10 feet away. Sam's grip on his rifle tightened. "You sure are a sight for sore eyes." Sam said to the anthro who'd approached them. "My name is Sgt. Sam Crow, this is Ivan. You don't want to head into the city. It's not safe."

[serpington]

"I'm serpington and that's not my problem if its safe or not. these two need to get to that city." he said walking up to the two figures. Genvieve and Nikki peaking over his shoulders timidly. Genvieve suddenly looked over at a building in the distace "snake......1200 miles north of our position, threat detected." "are you sure?" "subject is on the third floor, second window from the left and is listening in shock through his radio.......yes I'm sure" "what are you two doing out here?" Nikki gave the two the evil eye for a little while but then started falling asleep again.

[Armalite_]

Sam chuckled. "What I'm doing here is..." He looked back at the firestorm behind him. "...was classified. But that's not important. I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation. That city just IS NOT accessable to anyone...especially a wanderer. You will be shot before you even get close. Those two on your shoulder shouldn't be leading you to certain death. I wouldn't be trusting your...intel." He said, his eyes shooting at Genvieve. "...The radio's not on by the way." He said, looking back at Serpington. "If I were you, I'd be heading back to where ever it is that you came from." Sam reach into his pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes. He pulled one out and tapped about against the pack to pack down the tobacco. "So just out curiosity." He stuffed the cigarette into his mouth and lit up. "What's in the city that's worth stepping on a landmine for?"

[serpington]

"for me......nothing, for them........everything." serpington said calmly watching the two strangers. "and they are going to get to that city, even if it kills me." he said as he started walking towards the city again with the two little girls heads resting, one on each shoulder.

[StalBlue]

Ivan just stood there, deep in thought. The girl who detected Sam's sniper had intrigued him. There was a chance... Perhaps... May was well try it. Ivan decided to send her a little message via telepathy while the others were talking. If she was a budding telepath, as he suspected, then she would hear it without a problem. "Hello, child. My name is Ivan. What is your name?"

[serpington]

Genvieve started scratching the inside of her ear while rechecking her senses. completely unaware that Nikki had heard a whisper of a voice in her head.

[StalBlue]

"Oh, well. I was way off base, wasn't I? The little fox bat is the budding telepath." he laughed head. "It's okay darling. Just think. I'll hear it." Ivan smiled at Nikki. I know it's scary, all the voices that start coming into your head. Most of them are awfully loud, aren't they? It'll pass when you get older. Ivan was pretty good with kids. Hopefully this wasn't the exception.

[Armalite_]

Sam watched as Serpington walked past. He shook his head and sighed. "Can't help people who can't help themselves." He said with a tone of disappointment. His radio buzzed. "Angel 6, what's the situation? Over." Sam stood there watching as Serpington kept walking before he took another drag from his cigarette. He clicked the button on his radio before he spoke. "They're heading into the city. Everything's fine on my end, Hitman 4. Over." There was a moment of silence before the snake on the other end replied. "Copy that, Angel 6. On my way to the extration point. Over." Sam clicked the radio again. "Copy."

Sam's eyes switched to Ivan who seemed to be staring contently at Serpington. "You alright, Ivan?" Sam looked over at Serpington who was getting smaller and smaller in the distance.

[StalBlue]

"Huh? Oh yes. I'm fine," Ivan said casually. "We just going to let him go in with those children?"