Horati's gauntlet glowed brightly with stored energy, his hands flashing rapidly as he fired beams of solar energy which all landed around Sanguine. He laughed loudly "I expected more kid!" The beams lit up in front of him and columns of fire erupted around Sanguine lighting up the dim surroundings in blazing light, but when they had subsided Sanguine stood only slightly fazed, his straight razors held in front of his face, metallic aura like a shield with them in the middle. Silver appeared behind me and gently pulled me to my feet.
"Can you protect yourself?" I smiled through the pain at him and brought my hand over the big scar on my arm, closing my eyes and focusing all my aura. "Episkevi" I muttered and blue surrounded my arm, closing the wound fully and only leaving a faint scar. "Let's go, find Noir for me." I commanded and his face fell and we spun around to see Noir stood in shade, stone faced and determined, her feet surrounded in shadows which flicked around her body and she radiated coldness.
"Silver? Can you help me ?" He leapt across holding himself up over rocks on small clouds and helped pull her towards Horati who was face to face with Sanguine now.
Sanguine stood a little taller than Horati, both in close proximity with each other. Horati's eyes glowed dark red, like a dying rose, but brighter than I had ever seen. "Oh I'm soooo scared!" Sanguine said mockingly hunching down slightly to Horati's level, "up close you really can see you're just a dirty, little, pathetic reptile faunus!" He laughed manically, causally spinning a straight razor across his knuckles just before Horati headbutted me "Let me show you what we 'pathetic' faunus can do!" Horati exclaimed confidently yet with an incredibly sharp tone. Sanguine threw the razor off his knuckle directly at Horati' face who darted out of the razors path, spun and caught the razor mid-flight, using its own momentum to bring it towards Sanguine, he caught the razor by the blade which should have hurt him but he stood, un-phased.
Sanguine spun the razor around his index finger several times until it took the shape of a handgun and fired multiple shots towards Horati whilst leaning backwards slightly and firing from the hip, Horati dived out the way of the incoming bullets behind a thin steel pillar, as the bullets stopped he leapt towards Sanguine knocking him to the ground with a straight clothesline to Sanguine's face.
"I expected more from you, kiddo, seeing that dear sweet little River thinks so highly of you." Sanguine joked whilst raising from the ground flipping from his back, "a fearless leader she thinks, what a joke, I know everyone's deepest fears" He grinned happily from under his matted hair, the white stripe catching the small amounts of light that Horati emmitted when he fought. "What are you talking about!" Horati shouted even more aggressively than last. "Let's just say this, I know you feel for someone, someone close, closer than you think, but not who you expect. Oh this is sooo much fun!" He giggled whilst cocking his head creepily to the left.
"Enough!" Horati shouted, he leapt towards Sanguine then slashed his sword right then left followed with a left-handed haymaker which landed on Sanguine's temple temporarily stunning him, he then twisted his left arm to hit Sanguine in the face with his knuckles and raised his sword upwards which broke Sanguine's defense by lifting his razors. Something Sanguine had said must have struck a nerve as Horati then roared and hit and Sanguine with a quick, but powerful, solar powered jab to his chest. Sanguine slid backwards for quite a way before stopping. Horati jumped into the air towards Sanguine and primed a downwards slash, Sanguine smirked slightly, he found his chance, as Horati drew closer Sanguine swiftly cut diagonally across Horatis chest then kicked him backwards. Horati landed on his back and although he quickly rose, he was briefly shocked by the outcome. "Oh what's the matter kid? Didn't see than coming? Hahahahahahaha!" Horati growled and bared his teeth slightly "Horati!" We all shouted as we ran towards him "Get back! NOW!" He ordered still staring at Sanguine, "but we can help" I shouted, pleading, "if we fight him together we…" Horati span around "I don't need your help, look you two are in no condition to fight and I need someone to take care of you, and Silver, you are the only one I can trust right now so leave now so I can finish this!" "But Horati…" Silver said quietly, Horati's eyes began to shine dark red again "I AM YOUR LEADER! NOW DO…" Horati suddenly shot upright, his eyes widened, his face and mouth seemingly frozen in place "uuhhhh…" Horati dropped to his knees before falling to the ground. We gasped in shock as we saw multiple small razors scattered across Horati's back, they emanated a white mist. "Wasn't he the life of the party eh? Oh, if you're wondering its ice based dust he will be frozen there for, well, who really knows!" Sanguine explained whilst skipping back and forth with a huge leering smile and a wild expression on his face "it's amazing what you can find in a barber shop these days" Sanguine began to laugh wildly again, brushing his hair back like nothing had happened.
Silver turned to face us "I know neither of you are in the best shape but can you fight?" We nodded hesitantly but determined. Me and Noir knew we had to take down Sanguine. "Good, now get ready this is gonna be quick" Silver uttered, I grabbed my katana tightly, my palm sweating, I was as ready as I could be, Silver span his staff around his right and launched Noir using the wind towards Sanguine, she cut at Sanguine's left side, but he blocked her knife with his razor, whilst Noir was airborne Silver span his staff on his left and launched me the same way, I went to strike Sanguine's right but he shoved me out of the air before I could. "Dekára!" I cried as I landed hard on my back, most of my aura had been damaged after what had happened to me but I tried to not think about it, I had to focus, for the sake of my friends, I had to fight. Silver then threw his staff like a javelin towards Sanguine's front, it hit his chest and Silver caught his staff and span around to hit Sanguine again but he evaded this attack by bowing down, his razors graciously held out. Sanguine was about to attack Silvers leg but I reacted quickly and threw a kunai which hit Sanguine's left hand knocking his razor out of his hand he then stumbled backwards as Silver kneed him in the face as he was bowed down.
"I must say I've never seen anyone be as active as you two after my… treatments, I'm amazed you can even stand, this just proves what I told you doesn't it River?" Sanguine turned to face me as I moved to Silvers side as did Noir "You are the perfect weapon! You just need someone to wield you, someone like-" BANG!
The sound echoed around the area for a while before subsiding. I closed my eyes and held my ears as the sound rang in my ear for a moment. When I opened my eyes I could see Sanguine laid on the floor and Silver knelt down with his left leg forwards holding his staff pointed at Sanguine, but it looked different. The blades had spun around the tip of his staff meeting each other at the bottom end, a small scoped sight had appeared on the side of his staff with a modern green laser sight on the other, the blunt end of his staff had altered and bent downwards to form a stock, handle and trigger. We looked at him for a moment before he stood, "Oh god sorry! I forgot how loud this is, maybe less wind power in the chamber next time" Silver spoke frantically, we all showed a brief moment of relief, it was nice, it was just friends talking. For a moment. But it did not last long.
In the corner of my eye I saw Sanguine beginning to stand "Pulling no punches, are we?" He coughed loudly, "But I don't fear death or pain, no matter what you pull out of the hat, I'll never stop." He coughed and spat blood on the floor.
"All this and I don't think his aura is even broken." I said worriedly "We can do this we have to, but we have to overcome this peril together or fall before it alone!" Silver pronounced triumphantly, "We may not have our leader, but Silver is right" Noir softly whispered "Ok then, together." I replied. We all turned to face Sanguine who looked fully prepared to fight even in his state "Wow, what a morale raiser!" He spoke jokingly "Come on then, show me the real 'superpower' of teamwork."
Dekára- Damn, Episkevi- Heal. -Tschuss