Listen to Metallica as you type stories, it is calming and helps me concentrate, a little word of advice. Or it's advice to me ;) enjoy the procrastinated fight scene. And After ;)
Aurora reached into a pocked and pulled out ninja stars, or shuriken, and got in position to throw them at Avery. Quickly Avery moved closer to try and attack. The Ninja stars were thrown then at her and she dodged them all and rammed her shoulder into Aurora's stomach. They flew to the ground in a tangle and Avery quickly straddled Aurora. Her fist was pulled back and ready to hit the other girl when she was pulled off of Aurora and throw across the room into Snake Eyes who successfully caught her. When she was set down on her feet she watched storm Shadow help Aurora up. This only made Avery believe that he actually loved Aurora.
Then he flew at Snake Eyes. No he was going to Attack Avery, his sword drawn and at the ready. But Snake eyes got in his way and blocked with his own sword. And the two started to battle it out. More ninja stars were flying at Avery and she tried to doge but two got her. One only nicked her while the other ebbed itself in her shoulder. Wincing slightly Avery removed the painful object and threw it right back at Aurora. Aurora just knocked it out of the air with her sword. Avery was silent, even in her mind, but a question left her lips. "I think that using the sword is cheating." Aurora did not care and ran towards Avery. "Fine, then I cheat also." Avery knelt and picked up a gun then quickly shot it. The pulse was blue and nearly knocked Avery back with the back fire. Pulling out a smashed device she looked at it. "It was pretty good at stopping the mechanisms in the gun from working, but it's as easily stopped as the cellphone blockers."
Aurora was just barely able to jump out of the way of the pulse. Her distaste for avery only growing. But both women were distracted as Storm Shadow flew backwards through their fight. Then Snake Eyes ran after him and Avery let out a small giggle. She saw Aurora glaring at her and then smile. "You're right, it is sort of funny. Let's go." Then once more Aurora was racing at Avery. No time was given to Avery so she used the gun itself as a shield. After just a few moments Snake Eyes' sword was thrown from his hand. He then grabbed the metal things avery had no idea the name of. Thinking quickly Avery lunged for the sword and got it just in time. She brought it up and Blocked Aurora's cut.
Avery kicked Aurora away from her and quickly stood. "After I kill you and Storm Shadow kills Snake Eyes, I'm going for your son." Aurora only meant to taunt avery, she was not serious. But, like a lioness who had a threat to her cubs, Avery couldn't see past the threat. All of her focus was now narrowed down to a single point. Before Avery had focused on her surroundings but now all she saw was Aurora. The threat to her son. Aurora saw the change in Avery and mistook it for fear. "That little brat will be screaming for his 'mommy' but imagine how let down he will be when he realizes you aren't going to come in time to save him."
Before Aurora could react Avery was running forward at a speed Aurora couldn't manage. Avery swung the sword at Aurora and she just barely blocked. But the force of Avery's blow rattled in Aurora's arms and pain shot through her. Then Avery swung again with Aurora once more blocking. Swing after swing, block after block, Avery made the other girl feel the fear that was absent in herself. When a lion fears her cubs are in danger she does not fear, she does not love, she does not think of friendship past or present, all she can think of is the urge to kill what threatens her own. Avery felt nothing but the need to get Aurora as far away from Liam as possible, be it death or by other means. The next thing Avery knew Storm Shadow was in front of her and a new threat to Avery's son became evident.
Avery attacked as fiercely as Storm Shadow. She managed to cut him several time, just as he ahd managed to cut her. Avery knew that she was truly no match for Storm Shadow but if she didn't defeat him then there was a possibility of Liam being killed. That single thought drove Avery forward and she was able to deeply slice into Storm Shadow. He made a grunting sound then as Avery raised the sword again a sharp pain erupted in her back and she cried out. She fell to the ground and then blackness started to come. "Liam...Liam...Liam..." She kept mumbling his name over and over even as the blackness fully took her.
Snake Eyes woke up and saw Avery's crumpled body on the floor. The sword in her hand was bloody, a pool of blood was under Storm Shadow, and Aurora was behind Avery with a bloodied sword also. He saw Storm Shadow stop Aurora from killing Avery, if she wasn't already dead, and hear them talking. "What did you say to her to make her so vicious?"
"I-I only taunted her a bit." Storm Shadow got real close to Aurora's face and hiss 'about what' to the girl. "It was about her son. I wasn't going to go through with it. You know mw Storm Shadow. No matter what I said about killing a little boy, you know I wouldn't do it." Snake Eyes stood up shakily. "Look out!" Aurora warned Storm Shadow. But all Storm Shadow did was step to the side. He was still in reach of Snake Eyes but he knew that his long time rival wouldn't hurt him at this point. "Storm Shadow!" Aurora said and when the man still made no move to move Aurora got ready yo attack.
"Stand down. Aurora!" Storm Shadow hissed. He watched as Snake Eyes got closer, he knew exactly what the man would do. "This is your fault, let him. I had told you to stay back before, yet you just had to get in. I knew I shouldn't have brought you." Then Snake Eyes was right next to him and fell to his knees on the ground. As gently as he could he pulled Avery into his arms. Silently he wept for her, he knew that she wasn't dead and felt no pain, being in the arms of blackness, but he couldn't help it. His lover and love was so deathly looking. "I told you Aurora, we are not here to kill."
"I can't believe you! I love you and this is how you repay me? It isn't right, I saved you and you take pity on the one that was trying to cut you down. Why? Why won't you accept me?" Tears fell down her cheeks. Then she was pulled into Storm Shadows arms and she cried into his bleeding chest.
"Because, I told you we were here to become one of them." Storm Shadow pushed her away a bit then kissed her softly. "Snake Eyes." The man in all black looked up at his brother and knew that he really hadn't come to kill. Storm Shadow picked Avery up from Snake Eyes' arms. "You won't have the strength, come on." Then they started to run towards the medics and upon entering the doc forgot that Storm Shadow and Aurora were enemies and had them helping collect all that was needed as Snake Eyes sat down in a chair and fell unconscious. As soon as Avery was stable the doc went to working on Snake Eyes. And just then General Hawk came in carrying a Cover Girl, over the past five years the two had become quite close. And the doc once more put Storm Shadow and Aurora to collecting things. Once everyone was stable Storm Shadow requested to speak with Hawk in private, with Aurora of course.