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~Forge~
Forge had had it. He was bruised, beaten, exhausted, and blind fighting an opponent who, if he let go of, would probably drop him off a cliff. He lost it. He still had a hold of the ender person's arm. Now, he decided that was where his attack would start.
Forge grabbed the dark arm with both hand, as another punch found its way to Forge's stomach, but he didn't care about that, nothing was stopping him. He turned around, and pulled the ender over his shoulder, dislocating the ender man's arm in the process. While it screamed, its friends took notice that even without a weapon, even without a partner somewhere in the world that formed a contract with him to grant him the power of that mob, he was still very dangerous.
One of them yelled, this one a girl "He got Rick! Help him!" Forge heard the flurry of teleports around him, and knew he had to work fast. He quickly ducked under the swing of an arm he couldn't see, but he hear it and feel the wind as it passed over his head. He jumped toward the sound of another teleport, and grabbed around a tree, a tree that luckily had vines on it, he quickly climbed up before one could grab his foot, he could hear them arguing about how to get him down without going against orders and killing him, but he couldn't hear the exact words.
As he climbed up, he heard someone land on the leaves above him. Peering through fog obscured eyes, he saw someone in almost all white. That figure had something shiny in its hand. "Say good night."
~Beatrice~
As she wrestled with one ender girl for her sword, she heard a scream behind her that didn't sound quite human. Then the ender girl's eyes grew really wide as she screamed "He got rick! Help him!" Then she quickly let go and teleported. Beatrice quickly turned and watched Forge fight blind, then make a fail attempt at a counter attack that might have been funny in different circumstances.
She watched him climb up the tree, and saw the assassin land in front of him with a knife. She couldn't do any thing to help him, but as she tried to call out a warning, she heard a hissing behind her.
She turned and saw a corrupted creeper, which had no arms any more, and instead had four tiny legs. Panicking, she swung her sword at it like a base ball player swings at a fast ball. Right before her sword met its mark, iit had time to flash white one time. It was too late, it started a count down that couldn't be stopped. Death would only put that count down at zero. The explosion knocked her off her feet, as she flew threw the air, the world going black, she wondered if her farm was ready to pick yet.
When she landed, she thought she was delirious because the green thing she hit was soft, who knew trees were soft? She slowly closed her eyes, but swore at a later time that she could smell, a nearly overpowering scent of flowers, and freshly cut grass.
~Tanya~
She had him, two days without sleep, and she finally had him. An explosion caught her eye for a second, sending a face well known across the civilized Minecraftia, Beatrice the trader. So this was the one that he was traveling with. As she turned back to her target, she froze when she realized he wasn't on the tree, when she looked to the explosion, he had jumped off, and landed on an unsuspecting ender man.
She gritted her teeth and slid down the vines. She wasn't letting him get away, she was so close. Forge was wrestling with the group of ender people trying to pull him off their friend, he had his arm around their friend's throat, and wrapped his legs around him, he kept hitting the same ender man in the back of the head until two of the ender people grabbed onto his arm, and another started punching him in the stomach, all the while yelling "Let him go we were just following orders!"
She jumped off halfway down, and threw her daggers into the ender guy and girl's backs that were holding Forge's arm, he would have kept punching the dner, but knew something as wrong and quickly moved to the side, headfirst into a tree. With a flick of her hands, a pair of hidden blades made of diamond shot out from under her wrists.
Both Forge and the ender he was choking were unaware of her presence, the one that was punching the target however. He looked up with wide eyes for a split second, before disappearing in a flash of darkness. A shadow fell over her, and a leg foot came down directly on her forehead. The world flashed white, and she found herself on the ground, what she saw made her smile, the target, out cold right in front of her. She must have been knocked out for a second or two, because there was another ender knocked out next to him, and she could hear the last ender remaining crying over his fallen comrades behind her, if she could just… stand up, and fight through the pain that was quickly appearing out of no where, with the adraeniline wearing off she ahd nothing to dull it with.
But she was so close, she wasn't going to let ten blocks of dirt, a concussion, and a potentially broken arm stop her. She tried to sit up and fire flared in her side, but she didn't cry out… she wouldn't be able to fight an ender in her state.
~June~
As she walked, guided by the smells, and sounds of a struggle, she heard a hiss of a creeper, and a girl yelp, after that an explosion that happened to have a body land, into arms that happened to be stretched out at the time, trying to avoid running into trees. She couldn't see after all. She sat there, surprised that the explosion knocked the girl right to her, an odd coincidence, but then again, odd things happened all the time in Minecraftia, you never knew when you could discover some strange new thing. She gently laid down the girl onto some bushes nearby as she fell unconscious, but she didn't smell like coppery blood, so she couldn't be injured too badly, but she definitely wouldn't be fighting.
Now, she moved unseen, she knew this because no one ever saw her when she moved in the jungle, and people rarely saw her when she walked out in a completely open field, a benefit of being a creeper, that and she could explode with out dying, but not a particularly useful skill if she couldn't stay awake afterwards. She gripped daggers she was born with, and treasured them since she was born form humanity, into the ranks of the mobs. Mobs had very few possessions of their own, so what they had they kept close to them always. Perhaps the only thing that distinguished her from other creepers besides her duel green daggers, was a scarf that she often took to wrapping around her face before a battle, she didn't need to see so why bother leaving her white face a target to slash at in a fight? Besides, the few people that saaw her usually only saw her after she killed half the people in the room with out any one noticing until just then.
She could hear the shouts of her comrades from the barracks getting closer, that would be an issue if she was going to find out what all the hype was about challengers that had no set power, only raw unfocused power that seemed to attract attention and mayhem where ever it went.
~Forge~
When the ender that was trying to give Forge internal bleeding teleported away somewhere unseen by him, the one he was chocking teleported, and Forge came with him to the top of a tree, then that top of the tree quickly turned into the middle of the air when the ender man jumped off it, intent on knocking Forge off his back by hitting him against the ground, and with him cushioning the blow for the ender, he would walk away relatively unscathed.
He wasn't letting that happening. Still in the air, he let go of the ender man's neck and instead grabed his shoulders, while at the same time unwrapping his legs from the ender man's back, he quickly shoved down on his shoulders while attempting to lift his legs in the air. The ender man was skilled in this sort of fight though, a fight were a half movement could make a difference, he twusted around so forge was the one going to hit first, just before the impact. As Forge stared wide eyed at the rapidly approaching dirt, he swore he saw a green blur pass by at the edge of his vision, but didn't have time to look because, he already hit the dirt.
~June~
June heard an enormous thump right beside her, and she nearly leaped out of her skin in fright, after all she didn't see it coming. After a minute a small groan was heard, and the smell, that unnamable smell grew stronger very quickly.
With all of the participants of the recent battle pretty much out of commission, or hurt enough to not fight, the field was mostly quiet save for crying ender man some where behind her. She quickly found her way closer to the source of that power, and felt around the ground to find it. As she searched, she found a new smell nearby, and heard a girl grunting in pain, moving towards the challenger June sniffed a few times to find out what it was. Then she sneezed. It was a cat, she was allergic to them… she always disliked cats with a great intensity, and this one was probably going to try to steal her prize from her. She wasn't going to let that slide.
~Tanya~
She was so close, only bocks away now. But something was off. She could smell a faint scent of gun powder. But it was faint so she was probably okay, whoever the creeper was, since it smelled like gunpowder instead of flowers, because here the smells as well as telling you how strong someone was compared to you, depending on which smell it was ttold you if it was an enemy of a frined to you, for creepers it was flowers and grass for friendship, and the smell of gunpowder, like when a gun goes off, you can just smell the malice in the air.
As she went closer, the apin starting to fade, she ate quite a bit before the fight and was still full, so it was helping her now. She heard a sneeze. Here, that only ment one thing, only creepers were allergic to cats, and when they sneeze, they are uncorrupted, making them extremely dangerous with their stealth skills, and to make it worse, when they sneeze, they know you are there.
But flicked her wrists again, knowing she was running out of weapons, the daggers in the back of an ender man and woman, her ice blade wouldn't work in the jungle, and she sucked with a bow. She was running out of options, but she wasn't going to give up with out a fight, she may never et an opportunity like this again to kill the challenger, if he gets a partner, he will be a very dangerous enemy with his aura unlocked.
She froze in place, and scanned the ground around her, searching with her instinct to find the hidden warrior. She saw it for half a second, five blocks away, and apparently looking for her just as hard too, but not with its eyes, with its ears. When she looked directly at her, she faded again. This one was strong, Tanya could only see her using peripheral vision, vision out fo the sides of you eye that could see movement, but no real detail, this would be a difficult fight for both of them, Tanya may as well have been blind, being unable too see her opponent, and Tanya was trained in the art of stealth so heavily she could move silently and undetected through a room of fellow assassins.
They moved around and searched for each other for several minutes, and only started fighting after they accidently bumped into each other, neither detecting the other until that happened.
~Yahiko and company~
They finally found Beatrice, laying unconcius on some leaves, quickly, boo shadows being the alchemist of the group, gave her a few potions, but it would still be a while before she woke up. "Damn, think she is going to be alright?" asked Kuro.
"Of course!" replied boo, "My instant health potions are potent enough to brine back the dead." He only said that part half jokingly. "Well, we should probably find that challenger, red only goes up if someone escorting one here is under attack right?"
Yahiko nodded and said "That is correct, now judging from this, The challenger kept fighting after Beatrice was taken down, at least a minute or two longer, so lets find him, if he can fight that long with no powers of his own, then he will be a valuable ally., as long as June doesn't get her self killed trying to make the contract with him she should be fine too."
The three quickly jumped into action, Kuro already high in the trees, ready to strike form above, Yahiko in front, ready to fight off any ground forces getting past Yahiko, and Boo in the back. It isn't that he wasn't a good fighter, he was just as good if not better than Yahiko, but he was the one with the potion set and the best archer of the group, so he was long range support. As they moved up, Kuro suddenly dropped in right in front of Yahiko.
"Find anything?" He asked, cluthing his blade just a little tighter ready for a fight.
She shook her head and said "Nooo, I just came down to say high," Yahiko looked disappointed, not understanding the sarcasm. "Yes you moron! The challenger is up ahead but I can hear fighting down there, I couldn't see either of them…. So im guessing at least one of them was June, the other one though… I'm not too sure about…"
That was not good news. As far as they knew she wasn't much of a fighter in a straight up brawl, her skills in staying undetected were her greatest strength, even though she had a few tricks up her sleeve, she still couldn't knife fight to save her life.
All of them sprinted off, and climbed a tree just on the edge of the fight. They saw the challenger, laying down about fifteen blocks from two dead ender men. Well one was a girl but still. As they watched, they couldn't see a thing down threre. But they heard metal against metal, and running eet all around the small clearing.
Yahiko nudged Boo by the shoulder. "I think you already know what I have planned" He said as he looked between Kuro and Boo. The Three had worked together for a few years now, and knew what he was thinking.
Kuro slid down the tree, Boo readied his bow, and Yahiko shielded his eyes as Boo fired from a bow made of Blaze rods, and a golden thread for the string.
~Forge~
Forge sat up in the dirt, everything hurt about ten times worse now. He still couldn't see that well. "Damn this sucks, worst day ever." He tried again to rub the ender fog from his eyes, and this time it actually worked. Smiling he said, maybe this won't be so bad after all, looks like all the enders died any ways." He took a look behind him, and swore he saw to blurry people fighting, right before a blaze rod arrow landed in the middle. In a huge flash of ligh, there were two screams. One was Forge, the other a cat-like yowl as somewhere, she was stumbling around blind, about to be roped up with slik thread by Kuro. But Forge didn't know that. The only thing on his mind was putting his fist through the head of the next person to touch him.
~Beatrice~
She groaned and sat up off her nice soft bed. And looking around, she saw that it wasn't 'her' bed, she was in the medical ward of the trading post. That explosion must of hurt a lot more than she felt. Then, a familiar face walked in the door. with sliver moon like hair, a scar about the same color on his left cheek, and one of his two green eyes covered by his hair, he walked in with that black hood, blue jeans, and green sneakers. Death bringer. Once was a terror amoung the villages as a bandit group leader, but after Beatrice discovered he was a challenger, and took him into her squad, he became on of the most loyal allies to her.
Looking up, he grinned and said "Since your awake, no point in asking if your okay, so how about we take a walk to the jail huh? There are three, should I say… interesting, people in there. One of them nearly took Yahiko's head off with that knockout punch of his."
Beatrice sighed and said "I was hoping this would be easier than that, but here nothing comes with out a price I guess. Time to start negotiating for his release." Then she remembered thet there was only one jail cell in pretty much the whole base, they just locked up every one in it that pissed them off. "Wait, who was in there with him?"
Death bringer smiled and snapping his fingers, a flame appeared in them bright as lava, "Oh, but that's the best part."
YAY CLIFF HANGERS
YAY CLIFF HANGERS
