Chapter 7 Rage Art

There was no postcoital, there was no time. After catching their breath and putting back on their clothes, both of them with a content smile on their face, they only had time for one more kiss before there was a huge explosion from right outside the cave entrance. Feeling renewed, Tian jumped straight into action with Bryan both of them running to the entrance. The aftermath of the explosion cleared most of the trees, it looked like a battlefield.

"Going somewhere?" Came a voice from their upper left, someone hidden between the trees that weren't blown up.

"Nina." Bryan said so low it was almost a whisper. Tian was even more on alert, looking around for her. He didn't have to look for much longer when Nina came flipping out from the tree line.

"Time to die!" Nina yelled while making a slashing motion across her body.

"MUHHHAHAHAHA!" Bryan laughed his signature laugh. And got ready in offense mode. Tian was right by his side and ready in his own attack stance. Nina circled the two men, no one dared to make the first move. Bryan stayed still but alert, Tian moved with Nina, not wanting to give her the upper hand. And then, like lightning, Nina surged forward throwing a jab at Bryan, side stepping around Tian and sweeping his legs out from under him. Tian fell to the floor but quickly rolled to the side narrowly avoiding a heel stomp from Nina. Bryan then saw an opening and sent a punch and a kick to Nina's stomach. She was too distracted to notice that the hard drive fell out from her skin tight camo bodysuit. Tian ran to where it was and snatchted it up. Nina and Bryan were locked in what seemed like a dance. Nina would do extraordinary flips around Bryan sending kick and punch to wherever she had the opportunity to and Bryan would side step, block, and return powerful kicks and punches right back to her. Tian could tell that Bryan was enjoying this. He had a cruel smile on his face and loved toying with Nina even when it seemed like he didn't have the upper hand. He sent combo hits at her and ended them with taunts. Nina, frustrated, would let lose an onslaught of combos herself. Tian stayed to the side, staying alert not wanting to get in the way. Suddenly to his right he heard a woman's laughter.

"Aww, does my poor sister require assistance." Tian heard. Sister? Tian knew that this must be Anna. Tian finally had an opponent himself.

"I've never seen you around, a newby managed to make it to the finally. Try showing me what you've got" Anna declared.

"I've got all day," Tian bit back. And then they were off. Their battle didn't look anything like Bryan's and Nina's. Theirs had more weapons, well Anna had all the weapons, all Tian had were his fist. And Tian was definitely no match to a gun. He let out a painful scream when a bullet lodged into his shoulder. That distracted Bryan enough for Nina to send him into a throw and allowed her to escape. Bryan yelled after her but ran to Tian.

"Anna," He said.

"Cyborg," Replied Anna. Bryan was glad Tian was in too much pain to hear her retort. Bryan threw off his jacket and ran toward Anna. Her weapons couldn't do any damage to him. All Tian could hear was grunts, throwing of cuss words, skin harshly hitting skin. Nothing like what happened in the hot springs. Tian came to enough when he heard Anna screaming and Bryan holding nothing back, throwing a combination of punches, kicks, knees, and ending in a throw. Anna was still, her eyes opened in a permanent look of desperation. She came to her sister's aid and her sister ran when she had the opportunity.

"AHHHH!" Bryan yelled, startling Tian even more awake. "Nina ran off with the hard drive."

"No, I have it." Tian stated holding up the hard drive. And just like 2 hours ago, another explosion hit. This time a foot away from Bryan. It sent them both flying. Tian looked up when he heard Nina's laughter.

"This should be fun," She said, laughing even more, now that she has the bazooka. Bryan got up enraged. His skin melting off his body like it didn't even belong on him. And that's when Tian saw it. He didn't have any blood on him. He had wires sticking out of his body and one of his eyes was red. Not blood red more like the red of a machine. Bryan looked as if he flew to Nina. He laughed a deep full belled laugh and then sent a punch straight down on her head. Then another that sent her into the air, when she came back down he kicked her in the stomach. She bounced back up from the ground where he sent another punch at her, she skidded 20 feet away. Bryan finished it off with a switch of his knees and a rude flick of his wrist up to his forehead. And just like her sister Nina also laid still.

"Shut it down! Shut it all down!" They heard a voice command. Jack 7s entered into the destroyed forest, ushering Bryan and Tian back to the resort. It took about 4 hours to walk back. When they got there Tian received immediate medical attention back in their room, where Bryan never left his side.