The red moon hung heavily in the sky, swollen and full as it turned the world beneath it into a red and black mirage of contorted buildings and russet light that bounced off the Crystal Palace and several of the buildings and businesses surrounding the holy structure. All was silent, tension filling the air and hovering thickly over a particular stretch of highway that wound around large cliffs overlooking the waves crashing violently over the jagged rocks below. Four elongated shadows stretched out on the pavement, their possessors in hot pursuit of a rather desperately sprinting individual no more than forty yards ahead of them.
All five individuals involved in the intense event were breathing raggedly, their power and determination the only thing fueling their legs to keep running. One shouted an attack, golden energy flying forward and crashing at the form ahead's heels. Her footing unearthed from the attack, a sharp and vaguely distant cry signaled that the attack had been successful as the form went down. Rolling and tumbling before coming to a skidding halt against the guard rail, the slight form trembled from the lack of energy and found herself unable to even so much as push herself to her feet and face her opponents in true warrior fashion.
Adrenaline was completely spent and she had practically nothing left in terms of power, thankfully she'd been able to burn all but whatever was keeping her alive and transformed in making the energy go to the muscles and prevent the lactic acid from exploding to cramp and cripple her efforts to escape. Her knees and several other parts of her body were raw, bleeding from the road rash from her high speed fall and skid across the road, tears burning and blurring her eyes as she tried to pick apart the shadows from her surroundings, despair in her heart as she realized her complete disadvantage at the current hour and could only turn her eyes to the large sphere in the sky to plea for some kind of assistance... for rescue or at least for an easy way out that wouldn't hurt too badly.
"We have her."
Her eyes closed at the sound of the same voice that had sent the energy that had knocked her off her feet and into the scraped up bloody and damn near sobbing mess she was right then approaching from her behind. It was too late to apologize and even if she tried to, the fact remained that only those with something to hide and something to feel guilty and ashamed about would try to escape from a "talk". It didn't matter that the imposing woman had terrified her with the merest sound of her voice or that her first reaction was to run away if a situation looked bad and nor did it matter that no matter how hard she tried; she just couldn't control her powers or when they decided to manifest and transform her.
The sound of more footsteps had her opening her eyes as two figures came running from the direction she'd been headed in and stopped at the same distance the other four behind her had. She knew by the sound of silence and the tension building in the air that there was about to be a fight and felt her heart sink as the verbal battle began to precede the more physical war she knew was about to happen.
Then again; neither party expected the abandoned car near the cliff to suddenly explode.
Her eyes widening as the heat washed over her, the force of the explosion throwing them all back and sending large pieces of the cliff side every which way and throwing the collective group into the guard rails. However, the horror that gripped the faces of those who'd suddenly remembered that she hadn't been standing was somehow nothing compared to the deadly calm of the girl who found herself looking at the rapidly distancing form of the edge of the cliff.
'To die like this... it isn't fair. It isn't fair
When her head connected with the side of the cliff when something caught her around the waist and tried to swing her away from the jagged rock below, any thoughts the girl might have had along with any visual of just who was wielding whatever it was that had caught her were soon cast into nothing but the void that welcomed everyone.