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Chapter 8: Roses vs Lightning

Silence was the only thing in that could be heard in the small clearing near the Xiao Long/Rose house. Both men had their eyes glued on the strange newcomer, one in pure confusion and the other in suprise. The crystallian being looked between the two as they stared, both unsure on how to move forward with this new happening. Eric's mind began to analyze everything about this new being. 'She appears to be completly made of some kind of crystal, and I don't want to find out if it's holster attached to belt with a green hourglass buckle. Outfit consists of black combat jeans and boots, a black muscle shirt going down the middle. Also has a white hooded... cloak... you cannot be serious. It's to convenient for anyone to just show up if they just happened to stumble across us. But it can't be her. Can it?'

Eric continued to go over information in his head in order to figure out if he was imagining things, but he kept coming to the same conclusion. The crystallian humanoid in front of them was none other than Summer Rose. Impossible as it seemed. But he was never wrong on things like this. Summer Rose was standing right infront of him, although in a completly different form. 'Yeah, I think I've finally gone insane. But that doesn't matter right now. If that really is Summer, I'll have a long talk with her when we kill this prick.'

One second had passed as Eric processed this information. When he concluded his thoughts, he looked over to his target. Creeden, however, finally regained the ability to speak five seconds after Eric locked his gaze back on him. "What the fuck are you!? Some kind of science experiment gone horribly wrong!?"

Eric and Summer sweat dropped at the outburst, neither impressed with the sociopath's inability to handle strange things emotionally. Summer shook her head before speaking, "I'm just a concerned citizen coming to help a Huntsman with his duties. Now, I would appreciate it if you weren't so loud. I'm pretty sure that there are children sleeping in this house."

Eric grimaced at her words. Several scenarios ran through his head that ended with one of Summer's children hurt or dead. He glanced at her from the corner of his eyes as he lowered himself into a ready stance. "Two against one Marcus. You really want to try those odds? Or do you feel like dying?"

He noticed Summer jerk her head towards him at the threat of death, but he was more focused on Creeden, who had gained a quizzical expression on his face. Creeden looked at Summer and then back at Eric, a sick grin growing on his face. He spread his feet slightly as he said, "Nah, only ones dying are you and diamond chick over there. So, if we are done talking I have someone else to kill tonight."

Eric barely had time to dogde a jab that would have shattered his aura. He swung his left gauntlet's blade toward Creeden's torso only to have it grabbed mid strike. A powerful kick to his torso sent Eric flying into the woods, his aura finally giving out when collided with a tree. Creeden turned to Summer and found a fist of green crystal smashing into his face. A sound like glass shattering sounded through the night as Creeden fell onto his back from the blow. Rolling back onto his feet, he looked up to see Summer's hand shattered down to the wrist. He began to laugh and dropped into a relaxed stance, only to back step as he was pelted by hundreds of green crystals. Through the hail of crystal he saw his opponent firing them off her hands like a machine gun. He began to walk forward, slowly closing the gap between him and the crystal Huntress. Summer stopped the crystal barage once he was to close and grabbed his arm, throwing him over her shoulder with a judo throw.

Eric shakily walked back into the clearing as he watched the escaped sociopath slowly stand back up. He glanced at Summer, noting a cautious look in her eyes. He looked back to Creeden as the killer began to laugh. "Ha ha, I haven't had this much fun in years. It took three whole teams of Hunters in order to actually get me winded, but you knocked my breath out in less time then them. I applaud you."

The two Hunters shifted nervously as he began to crack his neck and roll his shoulders. He looked back to them with a grin, his eyes nearly gleaming with bloodlust. He took a step forward as he began to talk again. "If this were normal circumstances, I would try to drag this battle out as long as I could. But, like I said earlier, I have someone more important to kill. So I'm going to have to end this game of ours."

For a split second, Creeden dissappeared from view only to be found when Eric was back handed into a tree, knocking him out. Summer's focus went from the area where Creeden once stood to where Eric landed. That lasps of focus cost a few seconds. A fist made its way to her face making her stumble back. Blow after landed on her, pushing her back toward the house. Creeden reeled back to land another blow only for a crytal hand to grab his face and spin him around and send him flyng away from the building. He landed hard, knocking his breath out for the second time. He rolled onto his back and sat up awed by the durability that his opponent showed. He tried to stand back up only to be pelted by crystals again as Summer advanced towards him. One she was close enough she slammed her fist into Creeden's chest. He gasped at the force behind the punch which knocked his breath out a third time. Scowling at that he sent his feet toward's Summers face with enough force to send he flying. He stood up and charged towards his still recovering opponent. He pulled back a punch only for a spike of cystal to smash into his face.

Summer ripped her hand from the ground and began to walk toward a recovering Creeden. She stopped a few feet away from and spoke to him. "You can't win. I may not be able to match you for strength, but I am tougher than you. So just give up will you."

Snarling Creeden hopped to his feet, electricity crackling all over his body. "Give up? Oh no! I will not give up! Not yet!"

With that, he shot his hands forward, the electricity following in a bolt of lightning. Summer crossed her arms to guard as the electricity slammed into her. However, instead of feeling a burning sensation, she felt a slight tingling feeling. In an instant, the bolt rebounded off her and back to Creeden causing a large flash of light. When she opened her eyes, all Summer could see was a scorched section of grass in front of her. She looked around for Creeden, before a beeping sounded from her belt. In a flash of green light, Summer was back in her human form. She rushed to Eric as he began to stir, gripping his head as he rolled onto his back.

As she began to check over him, she began to talk. "Eric! Are you okay? Is anything broken? Do I need to get you to a-"

"Will you shut up. You talking is giving me a headache you idiot," was Eric's only response as he sat up. He checked himself over to see if anything was out of place. When he found nothing was seriously harmed, aside from the black eye from the blow that knocked him out, he stood and looked at Summer with a calculating gazed. Any words that were going to be said were forgottn at the sound of glass shattering and a yell coming from the house. They both rushed towards the sound only to find Tai Yang on the ground recovering from being thrown out of a window. While Summer knelt down to check on him, Eric continued on inside drawing a side arm from his jacket. He aimed left then right, making sure the living room was clear. He continued through the room keeping his senses on high alert untill he made it to the stairs.

When he stepped on the first step, a scream from the second floor broke the silence. Eric abandoned all thoughts of stealth and sprinted up the stairs and checked the first open door he came across. He stafed his gun's aim around the room, only finding an open window. He stepped back into the hall and went to check the next room. When he opened the door, Summer bounded up the stairs, her weapon in pistol form at the ready. Eric spared her a glance as she rushed into the room he just checked. He continued into the room he opened searching for anything that seemed out of place. He turned to exit only to hear soft sobbing. He stopped and looked around for the source, his eyes settling on the barely disturbed bed. Laying on the ground he was met with twin silver pools staring at him in fear.

Eric stood, letting out a sigh as he went to the door way to call out to the only person who could make the scared child's predicament better. "Summer! You'd better get in here. I'd be no good in this situation."

Summer quickly made her way to him and recieved a gesture towards the bed. As the mother comforted her daughter, Eric went back to the first bedroom he checked. His eyes looked around the room again, eventually gravitating towards the window. He bit back a curse as he looked out towards the woods. One of his predictions had come true and the situation had become more difficult.

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Eric walked down the stairs to see Summer carrying her daughter as she brought Tai Yang an ice pack. With a scowl he began to walk to the door, Summer handing Ruby off to her husband followed him out. She found him looking for any trail to follow. She walked up till she was a few feet behind him and waited for him to find anything. When Eric stood up she asked, "So, What's our next move?"

He turned his head so he could see her out of the corner of his eye and responded, "You're staying here. If you come with you'll only make things harder."

"What!? I'm not just going to sit around while he has my daughter! I'm coming with!" Summer's voice was very close to yelling and full of anger towards him.

Eric suddenly turned around and stared into her eyes with his own. When he spoke it was very clear he was irritated with what had happened. "No, you're not. You'll make to many mistakes when trying to track him that will get the girl killed. Like, for example, when you told Creeden about them when we were fighting him. He never would have found him if you weren't so stupid as to talk so boldly. And don't even get me started on the impossiblity of you shapeshifting like you did. I know your semblance is low level illusions."

They stared at each other as Eric's words sunk in. After a second, he turned around and began to follow the trail he had found, leaving Summer behind as she just stood where he left her. As anger and guilt made them selves known, she looked down at the high tech watch on her wrist. The usual green light that it exuded was still there, almost as though it was trying to spur her on to action. Raising her left hand, she tapped the faceplate, bringing up the holographic interface. She scrolled through the icons till she found the one she wanted. Tapping the faceplate again for confirmation, she looked up to see Eric out of sight. She looked up at the broken moon hanging in the night sky before looking back to the Omnitrix, it's core ready for activation. She pushed it down with a look of determination and one thought in her head. 'Don't worry Yang, I'm coming'

In a flash of green light her formed changed into that of her Vulpimancer form. She lowered her face to the ground, the gills on the side of her neck flaring as she searched for a scent. If one to look at the world the way a Vuplimancer did they would see different streams fo color lighting the world as well as the fuzzy images of the world around them. She found the scent she was looking for and raced off in its direction. Along the way she caught up with Eric, who had a momentary look of shoch before the back of his jacket was snatched up in her jaws and he was thrown onto her back. As Eric regained his bearings, Summer kept following the scent trail, until she stopped at an abandonded warehouse near Patch's main city.

Eric hopped off of her back, an expression of irritation adorned on his face, as a flash of green light lit up the area and revealed Summer back in her human form. She pointed toward the warehouse as she unholstered her weapon. "Their in there. I followed their scent from the house. But I smelled blood when I stopped."

Eric looked at her and only said one thing to her as he walked forward. "I told you to stay behind."

Summer scowled at the dismissive comment as she followed him. "Yeah, well you aren't in charge of me. So I came anyway."

Eric only hummed in response as he got on one side of an entrance as Summer got on the other side. Both had their firearms at the ready as Eric kicked the door open. They both moved in the building and scanned the area. Finding the area was devoid of life, they moved into the main section of the warehouse. Once the door was kicked open the began to scan the area again, only finding a table sitting in the moonlight. Eric walked to the table and found two things on it. A cheap scroll and a single eyeball. He picked up the eye and turned it around to see the pupil and iris, confirming his suspicions on who it belonged to, due to the unique color on it. Lilac.

He closed his eyes as he gently placed the eye back on the table in such a way no one could tell who's it was. Summer saw this and moved closer to the table, grimacing at the eye. "Who's was it?" she asked.

"You really don't want to know," was Eric's only reply as he picked up the scroll. Not content with the reponse she made a move to pick it up, when a hand grabbed her wrist in response. She looked up meeting steel blue eyes as Eric shook his head. He looked back to the scroll as he opened it and found only one number on it. He selected the number and the calling symbol popped up. The scroll rang for a second before it was answered and cruel yellow eyes stared at them once again.

"Wow! You are really fast. Faster than I expected, for sure. I take you found my present?"

Eric snarled at Creeden's playful tone, finding it enraging with how he treated his so called 'present'. "Yes, we found your present, and I had help with finding this place. She isn't going to be happy when she finds out who your 'present' belonged to. I may not like her much, but you know about the saying with the mother Ursa and it's cubs. You won't last long that much I anyone can tell."

He began laughing at that, as if what he was just told was a joke. "I sincerly doubt that," he chuckled as he ended the call.

Eric turned back to Summer, meeting her furious gaze that was directed at the scroll in his hand. He sighed as he pocketed the communication device as he sighed. 'This is going to be a long assignment.'

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So, yeah, yet anothe big canon storyline changer right there. Yang is now a cyclops. On a side note, Summer is now on Eric's side for killing Creeden. And for that and for those of you who are inclined to think that Summer would never do that, ask any mother if they would leave that guy in one piece for doing that to their kids. Not many I tell you.

Well that is it for now, till next time. Ja Ne