"This will not do, this will not do at all!" Myrohm growled as he angrily shoved his communicator back into it's pocket "We've lost two more teammates! At this rate we'll all be wiped out!"

Luke Travis, a human, scoffed and mumbled under his breath "Your constant whining isn't going to help either."

"What did you just say you filthy peasant!?" Myrohm snapped at him "How dare you disrespect us like that!" If it wasn't for the fact that they were on the same team Myrohm most likely would have killed Luke himself

With his palm against his face, Luke groaned and said to himself "Why did Philias have to leave me alone with this freak?" Immediately after he said that, his communicator began beeping "Speak of the devil."

"What's a 'devil'?" Myrohm asked him

Luke just rolled his eyes and opened up the chatlog

- apathySpacer [AS] began chatting with voidEquation [VE] -

[AS]: Sup Philias, yOu dOing well?

[VE]: Yes. Is the rust blood giving you a hard time?

[AS]: YOu mean MyrOhm? If sO, then yeah he is.

[AS]: He's been acting like a little kid.

[VE]: Ah, well sorry for leaving you alone with him. He was just getting me sooo angry and I had to get away.

[AS]: I understand. PrObably wOuld've dOne the same thing.

[VE]: Bet you would but for me it's different. I can't get TOO angry unless you want death to ensue.

[AS]: Uh, right.

[AS]: Anyway did you spOt anyOne yet?

[VE]: I did, a young human girl.

[VE]: I lost sight of her but it's fine.

[VE]: How about you?

[AS]: NO, I haven't seen anyOne I want tO kill aside frOm MyrOhm.

[VE]: Ha ha ha

[VE]: Okay well I think I should go I think that I h

[AS]: What?

[VE]: lUKfgfgh

- voidEquation [VE] has stopped chatting with apathySpacer [AS] -

Luke looked at the screen of his communicator "No, no! Come on! What's happening over there?!"

What little color was in Philias' face slowly left as he frantically gasped for air while he tugged at the rope around his neck "Please just... Die already!" His attacker tightened the rope further blocking all of his airways, well until he elbowed his opponent in the stomach. She backed up and gasped at the sudden loss of air

"It's you, the girl from before!" Philias shouted at her between deep breaths, he was going against the human, Amanda.

Looking at her closer, she had a rather bright eye color that made him think of the highest blood caste but now wasn't the time to think about appearances "You tried to kill me."

"Uh, yes. I kind of have to."

Philias would have summoned his weapon but he noticed that she had the same one as him and obviously, there's no way to fight with a length of wire that he knew of "I don't want to fight you."

There was a look of anguish on her face "Neither do I but I want to win, I want to live."

He nodded "So be it." Philias wasn't used to fighting but he ran at her and attempted to tackle her. As he expected, she moved out of the way letting him fly past her

"What do I do, what do I do?" Instinctively she began kicking him. Once, twice, but on the third Philias grabbed her leg and pulled her down

"Got you!" He struck her across the face making her cry out

"You- You just hit a lady!"

Philias had to admit he did feel bad but he quickly got over it "To me, I just hit an enemy." The assault kept on until Amanda's face was bruised and bloodied "I'm sorry." She just groaned as Philias turned her over on her stomach

"This has to be done." Amanda, who was barely conscious, couldn't do much as Philias had his wire in his hands. "Please forgive me." Quickly, Philias pulled the wire around her neck, got a good grip and pulled with all of his strength

Amanda struggled as much as she could when she realized it was hopeless. In a futile attempt to get free she began clawing at the wire around her neck until her vision began going black, she couldn't breath at all, and all of her strength left her along with her life

"It's...It's done."

As soon as Philias confirmed her to be dead, the game automatically informed both teams of the death

"Another one is dead." Cavross dismissed the message telling him about his teammate's death "I hope Janima has reached Almere and Aigist yet, they need thier help."

Corvus had came across Cavross and had decided to join him seeing as how he was no longer with Cygnus "Oh well." He fiddled with the bolt on his weapon out of boredom

"That's all your going to say? Aren't you worried?" Cavross raised an eyebrow at the troll confused at why he showed no signs of concern

"Just as long as it isn't Cygnus I don't really mind." There was a bit of false-truth in there but Corvus wanted to show to Cavross how much he cares about her "Wait, that came out wrong. I do care about the others just not as much as Cygnus."

"Is this apart of one of your... Uh, quadrant things?" Once he said that, Corvus quickly focused on him "Cygnus told me about them, she gave me a quick run down on all of them. Kismesis, Auspistice, Moirail and Matesprit."

Corvus approached Cavross "She talked to you about matesprits? What did she say? Did she ask you to be her's? Did she mention me?"

"What? No." Cavross backed up slightly "I find her interesting and all but at most I'd rather stay friends with her. Unless friendships are part of your whole odd quadrant system."

"Don't be stupid it's not." Corvus scoffed "Well whatever."

Cavross was being unresponsive, he had noticed something that Corvus didn't "Oh no." Off into the trees he saw something pointing out, a rifle.

"What's wrong?" Corvus turned around and faced the rifle "I don't see any-"

"Corvus move!" Thinking about his own safety, Cavross ran behind a rather large fallen tree and crouched down "Quick!"

Corvus didn't get out of the way fast enough, the bullet was sent into his knee making him kneel down "What..." He stared at his knee, shocked "I...I can't die." Corvus tried getting up but couldn't

"Get over here!" Cavross shouted at him even though he knew what was going to happen next

Struggling , Corvus stood up and quickly hobbled towards Cavross "I'm coming!"

"No you're not." The shooter, Victoria, grinned as she aimed at him

"Ross? Corvus? What's going on?!" It was Cygnus, she came back.

"Cygnus! I-" The shot that Cavross feared came, it went into Corvus' upper back seemingly in between his shoulders

"No!" She reached out for him but Cavross yanked her down behind cover

Corvus fell to his knees with an empty look on his face. He had let out a groan and fell forward, dead.

"No, no, no!" Cygnus was saddened but that emotion was quickly replaced by anger "Ross I'll kill them! I'll kill them myself!"

"Cygnus hold on, don't run out there!" His warning was futile, she sprinted out towards Victoria

"Two for one." Victoria let out a small giggle and shot another bullet but this one froze mid-air "What the?"

Suddenly a window popped up in front of every remaining player, it read "Halfway point map change."

None of them could move "What's going on?" Cavross struggled to move but he couldn't

Slowly, the area around them began shifting into a limbo-esque state and almost instantly it formed into a new area. Cavross regained control of his body when he realized was back at the spawn point with the remaining members of his team except now they were standing on a bridge leading into a large castle and the rainy weather gave it a very grim and moody setting

The window now read "Welcome to the Battleground of Storms and Elegance."

I'm so sorry I haven't updated in months I've been really busy recently.