A/N: I don't own Billy-Ray, Adepts or Elementals, but Calamity and Sam are my babies. Thanks go out to Hellsgun EmmortalDead for the review, fave and follow and to DeadGirl19 for reviewing. This is some time after the first chapter, I reckon.
Calamity Cat stared at the ramshackle structure in front of them and tilted her black Stetson back on her head as her eyes narrowed. "He would hide in a place like this. Looks like it's haunted." She growled.
Sam Sanders, leaning slightly on his duck-headed cane, nodded. "Looks almost like an antebellum mansion. Boy has a romantic streak."
"Good, great. Mint juleps and all that jazz. Being a Southern boy yourself you are welcome to go in there after him." She was clearly in a bad mood over something and Sam just looked at her worriedly. It wasn't fear, he knew that. Calamity tended to shoot things that spooked her. It was anger, but over what he didn't know.
He led the way in, getting the door for her and doffing his white panama hat politely. Calamity smiled at him, then ducked her head slightly. "Sorry, Sam. It's just- I don't like fighting the only other tunneling adept out there, you know?" She asked and he nodded in sympathy.
They were about three feet into the main hall when Billy-Ray Sanguine surged up from below them, narrowly missing with his blade and Sam pushed back on the air to send the blade skittering across the dusty wooden floor, then stepped back as he fully emerged and Calamity set to work.
She grabbed Billy-Ray and drug the startled man first underground, then after a few moments they surfaced, shooting straight up from the floor to fly upwards, then they were falling and Calamity was splaying her hand at the floor and then they were crashing into it with more force than should have been possible and Billy-Ray was stunned as her body slammed into his.
Calamity reared straight up like a cobra and hauled Billy-Ray with her, firing off punches that hit like a jackhammer, then dropped the barely conscious Sanguine to the floor to cuff him. "You're under arrest, and don't fight these cuffs. They bind your power."
"You- adept and Elemental, not fair." Billy-Ray slurred in response.
"No, I'm just better than you." Calamity said as they hauled him back outside to the car and Sam chuckled. Calamity had learned from Elementals how they manipulated the elements and applied it to her Adept ability.
She couldn't manipulate the elements quite the way they could, but could move through them as naturally as she did the ground or anything else. It was why she hit like a truck, she could tunnel her arm through the air and her fist hit with the power of all the air that had to go somewhere. He'd seen her tunnel through fire water, smoke, anything and everything and he wondered if she knew just how powerful she was.
She didn't need the six guns she wore low on her hips. The Pennsylvania hellcat was a living weapon and Sam reckoned he liked that about her just fine.
What? My girl likes hitting people.
