Whew! Slightly longer chapter. But it's all good. Actually, this took a loooong time to write, as I started before the new year and finished up only a few minutes ago. Of course, I blame it on the booze consumed for New Year's followed by the misery felt after consumed said booze. Of course, it was fun as crap and I would absolutely do it again, but that's beside the point.
Ah! If you want to see what I imagine what Lorsvall looks like (or his head, at least), head on over to my author's main page on this site (just hit that pretty blue hyperlink that says 'stigma') and you'll find the link for it pretty quickly. (Hint: it's the only one there...)
usual disclaimer: Naruto and all official affiliated properties are not mine. But son of a gun, they outta be...
LANGUAGE WARNING!! A bit heavy this time around!!! I kid you not!
The soldier clad in onyx carried his forty pound spiked shield on his left arm, but he didn't mind it at all. He wielded a fully stocked seventy pound machine gun with his right hand, but he paid no attention to the weight. His body was soaked with sweat and burning from the one hundred plus pounds plus of shaft-like body armor, yet he did not heed his aching muscles' cries for relief. All that mattered in his world was that he march forward in unison with his comrades and pull the trigger when told by the metallic voice in his head.
He didn't even care that his skull caved in when it was greeted by an airborne concrete column flung by a red-eyed blonde man then deflected by his commander. His perception began to darken as his excessive weight pulled him to the ground and his head slammed against the hot ground. His hand wouldn't obey his mental orders as his grip loosened and his weapon was wrenched from his grasp. The final image sent from his visual senses to his brain before everything went dark was that of an attractive blue-haired woman scurrying away with his firearm.
Hinata ran as quickly as her feet could take her up a stairwell to put some distance between her and the never ending formation marching in the streets. Naruto was currently doing the impression of a spider as he moved on the walls of another building somewhere across the roadway while dodging Lorsvall's shots as best he could. She scaled five floors in record time, took position by a window, and waited for the fast paced battle to pass in front of her.
Her wish was granted after a few more seconds. Uzi went flying by, chakra tails moving swiftly as they propelled the blonde across the outer walls of the set of buildings opposite her. The general followed closely behind, his silver chakra pushing itself under his feet to keep him airborne as he unloaded on the eastern red-eye. The white-eyed woman focused a huge surge of chakra into the ammo drum and pulled the trigger without the intent of letting up until the magazine was empty. A barrage of energy-enhanced bullets exploded out of the building, catching a wary Lorsvall's attention.
"So there you are!" he shouted as his silver energy extruded outwards to knock the rounds out of the air. He brought one of his rifles to bear against her and unleashed a salvo of his own. He continued firing until he felt someone at his back…
Naruto missed the enemy specialist by mere centimeters when he flew towards him. When the General was momentarily distracted by the white-eyed woman, Uzi doubled back and, preparing a particularly large amount of energy in his sharp tattoos, launched himself across the street with his chakra tails. However, his opponent noticed him just in time to melt into sharpened silver and spiral out of the way.
"Holy hell!" Hinata shouted as she dove out of the way when the blonde red-eye barreled into her position. She emptied the remnants of the drum magazine against Lorsvall and tossed it to the side. "You okay?!"
"Fine!" He rubbed his head to recover from the hard landing. "Start running!"
The eastern duo broke out in a dead run in differing directions to confuse the western specialist's aim. The Hyuuga ducked and dodged as errant globs of sharpened silver flew by her head while Uzi burst from the wall and clambered up another building with his energy tails. Hinata leapt headlong behind the concrete stairwell as it was plastered with the liquid-like metal. She darted up the stairs to make her way to the top for what would most certainly be a daring feat.
"Hinata!" boomed a familiar voice from somewhere outside. "Stick to the plan! I'll meet up with you later!"
She nodded mentally as she cleared another floor. "This'll be risky as hell," she mused, turning the blonde's scheme over in her mind. The first portion of it was a success; lure the General into the inner city where spaces were fairly crowded. The second phase to the plan, though, was incredibly dangerous and carried with it a staggeringly high chance of death.
The eastern woman burst from the door to the roof and instantly took cover, as keeping the enemy in the dark about her location was a must for this hasty plot to work. As she kneeled behind the extensive ventilation and listened to the sounds of battle roaring around her for Lorsvall's trademark weapons, she had a moment to herself to observe her surroundings.
Had it not been for the hostile situation, the skyline would have been a beautiful sight in an architectural kind of way. The smog from the city illuminated the atmosphere in brilliant yellows, oranges, and reds as the sunlight passed through the many towers that dotted the horizon. The wispy clouds floated by without a care in the world, parting only to allow any errant bullets passage. If one were to ignore the sounds of gunfire and explosions, it was an ideal city scene.
She was shaken from her daydreaming when the low pitched thrums of the western specialist's guns drew near. Her Byakugan easily found the airborne man chasing after her blonde crush, silver chakra pulsing as it propelled him forward and flew towards Uzi in lethal globs. She waited for the General to get closer to her building before dashing to the edge and leaping off… forty stories above ground.
Hinata said nothing and tried to stay silent as she descended. She readied an intricate charge of chakra in her hands as she continued on her downwards journey to intercept Lorsvall in midair. The western General stayed true to his course as he pursued Uzi, paying no mind to the sky above him. She was thirty feet away… twenty… ten… mere inches away…
Then he glanced up with wide metallic-orbed eyes and spiraled away in a flash of sharpened silver. The only thought at this point in the Hyuuga woman's mind was brief and simple: "Shit…" Even though her bloodline revealed all, she closed her eyes tightly to brace for the rough landing coming up.
She was suddenly jerked to the side by a flying blonde red-eye. "You okay?" he asked with rushed concern in his azure and crimson eyes.
The eastern woman simply nodded, her shock being strong enough to negate her voice.
"Alright, looks like that failed…" Naruto thought out loud as he slammed into another building and secured himself and the Hyuuga with his energy tails. "Okay, we'll try this- what the hell!!"
The structure under their feet suddenly shifted and began to crumble in massive chunks. The blonde struck his freefalling portion of the building with his energy appendages and launched the duo back into the air. He began curling a few tails around them as a shield just in time for something to strike it, knocking them into the fray below.
"Freakin' shit!" exclaimed the blonde as the eastern pair smashed into the marching formation. He immediately shot his tails out in a sweeping motion to take out the black troops now staring them down, forgetting that the crimson paint on their shields absorbed energy…
Hinata saw the rerouting of chakra with her bloodline eyes. She pulled up the rifle dropped by the soldier crushed by their landing and pumped rounds into the enemies' exposed heads as the rods welded to their firearms began to crackle with deadly chakra. She turned to take down the final modified soldier as the energy spiked in his gun.
Her finger pulled the trigger but the firing pin clicked against an empty magazine. "Crap!" she thought as the chakra became visible and began to pulsate between the sharpened bars. She jutted her arms out to pull an unused shield in front of her as the soldier's energy levels reached their highest point.
However, Naruto unleashed his tails against the partially alive man, wrenched his arm from his body, and aimed the weapon, limb attached, at Lorsvall. The refashioned rifle discharged, sending an erratic bolt of electric energy towards the General.
The western specialist laughed heartily as especially large orbs of silver formed at his back and arced forward to intercept the redirected energy. The two strange energies clashed in a brilliant flash of colorful lights and liquid metal. "Smart move," he muttered with a snakelike grin as he shouldered one of his rifles and thrust his open palm forward. Through the consistent flaring of energy in front of him he could observe Uzi and the White Eyes of Death bludgeoning a path through his semi-human battalion towards another skyscraper. "Gotchya…"
A glob of solid metallic energy oscillated in his hand. He bent his fingers inward, touching the tips to the liquid-like metal before jutting them forward again. In doing so, strands of silver no thicker than threads propelled outward in a fast and violent manner, slicing through everything in their way like hot knives through butter.
"Duck!" Hinata yelled when she saw the stringy metal whip towards them. The blonde red-eye instantly obeyed, pulling her to the ground with him the moment before the silver energy flexed over them and cut through the remaining troops in their way. The Hyuuga looked up to find a fully alert, if not slightly frightened, blonde red-eye glaring at the collapsing first floor of their target structure. "Oh hell…"
"Hold on!" he yelled, hooking her with a tail and propelling them into the ground floor of the failing building with his other energy appendages. His blue and red eyes were as wide as they could be and his attention was focused purely on their surroundings.
Hinata's lavender eyes resembled saucers. The blonde's actions went against every piece of logic in her mind; so much so that her brain shut down in certain places. "Uhh…" was all she could mutter as Uzi shielded them with the chakra tails. She shook some sense back into her head when the eastern specialist began scaling the crumpling floors, knocking away debris and clearing temporary paths as they moved upwards at an amazing pace.
Outside, the failing skyscraper crashed straight down per its design. The dust from the crushed concrete gushed outwards amidst the tangled metal and broken glass like a wave over a sandy shoreline. The dark formation nonchalantly took the brunt of any deviating chunks of artificial stone as they marched forward mindlessly.
The eastern duo emerged from the roof of the doomed building several seconds before it fully ceased its fall to be met by Lorsvall floating on his silver energy above them. He smiled wide and brought his bizarre firearms to bear.
"That was beautiful, Uzi!" he exclaimed before unleashing a globular metallic barrage. "I mean, really, that was art!"
"Crap!" Naruto thrust both arms forward, releasing a salvo of sharpened energy and spiked whips against the silver projectiles. He was too surprised to think about redirecting his airborne trajectory, forcing him to attempt countering every shot.
Hinata, however, came up with a hasty idea. Whether out of shock, foolishness, or a combination of both, she channeled chakra into her legs, placed her feet against his shoulders, bent her knees inward, and pushed.
"The hell?!" he shouted in surprise as the blue-haired woman flew in front of him. "What the hell are you doing?!"
"I dunno!" she answered. A small part of her brain was screaming at her, but she tried not to listen to it as she gathered chakra into her hands to parry the aerial metal. Her Byakugan clearly saw a handful of bolts that would intercept her if she did not act upon them. She cocked her hands back and pushed them forward, connecting superbly with the leading projectile.
What happened next, no one knew. A bright flash of pure white light bathed the white-eyed woman, obscuring her and her immediate proximity. When the dazzling glow phased out, Hinata was directly in front of the enemy specialist.
Lorsvall was far too taken aback to react. It also appeared that he was somewhat blinded, if his rapid blinking was any indication. He shook his head violently to snap himself back to reality. Unfortunately for him, it was too late.
Hinata, wondering what had transpired, found herself within striking distance of the silver-orbed specialist. She hurriedly concentrated a burst of chakra in her hand and struck the man under his left shoulder. She missed the lung, but she succeeded in disrupting his bizarre energy network.
The General responded by melting into his sharpened energy and spiraling away, but he suddenly reformed in midair. He obviously didn't anticipate this, as he started panicking when his energy didn't act normally.
"Oh, shit, shit!" he sputtered as he fell in and out of his metallic chakra without any precise control. "What the fuck did you do to me?!" he shrieked once he landed on the stable base of an adjacent rooftop.
"She owned your ass," Uzi responded softly as he crept up from behind Lorsvall. The western specialist turned to shoot the blonde red-eye, but there was no distance between them. Naruto buried Silba's scratched combat knife deep in the General's right arm. The freakish commander spiraled away with a flash of silver only to appear at the edge of the roof. His face contorted with pain as he dredged the knife from his now useless muscles amidst a sea of cursing. As soon as the blade clattered to the ground, the westerner shot away in his usual globs of silver, faltering at multiple points along the way but recovering in time to avoid crashing to the ground. In a few seconds, he was out of sight.
Uzumaki knew they got him. It wasn't perfect, but his plan had worked well enough. He looked at Hinata to find her landing softly on the rooftop. "Strange," he silently observed. "How high up was she?" He dismissed his curiosity when he saw that she was in good health. "Great job!"
She gave a thumbs up. "Thanks."
"Hey, uh… what was that light?"
She froze for a fraction of a second as she contemplated her reply. She settled for shrugging and saying, "No idea. But it helped, whatever it was."
Uzi smiled. "Sounds good. Let's go finish him off."
"Right!" she affirmed, settling her attention into her blood limit to find the retreating man.
"But I didn't just see that," the blonde red-eye thought as his companion focused on their surroundings. "I felt it, too. What the hell could it be?"
"Found him," she said with realization in her voice. "He's heading for the central tower."
"Alright. Let's go!" He cracked a foxy grin as he took the Hyuuga into his arms and rendered them airborne with a strike of his energy tails.
Alrighty then, that's one fight down! A few more to go! (Like I'll tell you how many...)
Please do let me know if my methods of writing work for describing battles. Seriously, I felt during the whole time that this was rather lackluster, but I could just be paranoid again. Whatever, but please let me know!!
Oh, and the 'official' date of the art contest thingy is now the end of the second weekend of January. I forget the actual date, and I don't care to take 2 seconds to find out right now, but I'll repost the date later.
Later, ya'll!