Khai and Kya
I hadn't realized that I had passed out. I was so cold, the frost felt like it had been constantly whipping me with a thousand barbs all at once. At first I thought that I was actually dying, passing out and venturing out into the white light. However, unless the Spirit World was going through some traumatic ice age, I knew exactly where I was.
I hadn't realized how cold the outside, seriously, felt like 30 degrees dropped almost instantly. I could faintly hear the chaos that surrounded me. Satomobiles still blaring their obnoxious horns and the roars of fire consuming the leather interiors of the cars and devouring them.
It freaked me out knowing that I was surrounded by so much fire and yet I could still feeling this cold. I could hear screams, screams that sounded like the world was ending and after all that had just happened, it seemed like it was. So much damage for just a city block and yet I could hear the sounds of commands barked by metal bending police. Wouldn't be surprised if Captain Sven showed up and put an end to me now.
The ground shook horrendously. The cold, hard ground became soft. Freezing almost, as if Monna had changed the weather completely. My sight was becoming clearer, my ears rang back to life, and my limbs were as numb as ever. I'd hadn't even realized the snow falling from the sky, it coated the ground like a white jacket.
Dammit.. I'd honestly feel better on a bed of nails then this ice tundra.
The thing was the ground hadn't been shaking at all. My skin was so numb I couldn't even notice Kya shaking me back to consciousness until she started shouting.
"Khai! Khai! Get up for spirits sake!"
My mind was focused on her, I heard her words, I saw here lips moved, and I even tasted her fear. Yet, the only thing I could focus on was how beautiful she. looked with the snow flakes in her soft black hair. It was nice focusing on something other then hatred, maybe there is still hope for me...
I started to focus more on our situation. I sat up coughing my lungs out as if breathing in some noxious gas. The air was so cold it felt like my lungs were freezing from the inside. Kya must have dragged my through he snow, after slamming Monna with some water bending. She took cover behind a turned over 8 wheeler satomobile.
"What.. is this the same place we were before?" I said with horrific eyes. The nice night time evening had turned into a blizzard, and even the sky seemed to be lighter, as if blocked with a sheet of ice.
Ice hung from tree poles, snow banks formed on sidewalks and on overturned satomobiles. Metal bending wires wrapped around and hung down from street signs and traffic light, as if they were vines from a jungle.
"This is the same place Khai! We need to move, can you walk?" She said rapidly. Her words came out faster then she before she could even think of them, almost like instinct.
She sounded like she was in pain, she shivered violently and her breathing had become shallow and wheezy. It was so cold it could almost cause an instant frostbite.
Frostbite... we need to move, now!
"I'm-m, I'm fine. W-we need to move, are you okay?" I said getting to my feet.
"I wasn't the one unconscious" She said with a sarcastic grin. "But I'm fine, thanks. You'll be needing this, hero"
She handed me my K-Bar knife that Jonathon had given me before the Gala event had even started. I hadn't even realized that I had lost it, let alone even remembered that I brought it with me. We both were at our feet, bones felt hollow and fragile but we were fine. No, no it wasn't fine. Something was definitely wrong with my leg. It didn't function right and every step I took cause a shivering pain.
"Lets go" I said.
We started to move, slowly but we made progress. It was hard to navigate through all the wreckage. We navigated labyrinth of snow and satomobiles, almost trapped as the snow banks had been blocking the entrances to the building that had once been visible at the intersection.
Shame, we could have use that for cover
"I should've asked this sooner but did you even see where she went?" I asked.
"No" She wrapped her arms around her body, tormented by the sheer wind that felt like blades rubbing against her skin. "I-It was ove-over just as quickly as it star-started"
She began to occasionally gasp. It was obviously hard for her to breathe. I hated seeing her in so much pain. I vowed to keep her safe from The Pride and yet the whether was the only enemy that had been slowly killing her. My suit was torn and ripped but it was something. Putting it over her shoulders seemed so much simpler in my head but it felt so awkward.
I had given her a torn suit, and in return I had received only pain. A suit that I had endured all my life and this time it couldn't be taken off. I had only the bottom part of my suit and my white undershirt. My tie was gone and I hadn't even thought anything of it. Kya smiled at my friendly gesture, her blue eyes never looked so pale and so gorgeous.
"I wish I could offer you more"
"Khai, you've done a lot for me already, you need to stop blaming yourself. In fact, I feel warmer already"
I couldn't help but smile, she was so full of confidence, so much joy in her. She warms the coldest of emotions. I chuckled.
"Don't lie" I said with a grin. She chuckled back. Her shivering was the number one face that gave it away.
"Well, if you want to offer me more, how bout we do something when this craziness is all over?"
"What? You don't like getting frostbite and being hunted by a psychopath?" I said laughing. I wrapped my arms around her body, it slowed us down but sharing the body heat seemed more important.
Each step we took sounded like we were walking on leaves. Crunching after crunch sounds beneath us sounded as if our bones were ready to completely shatter. I cupped her hands in mine, breathing in them occasionally so we could feel the blood in our fingertips once more. The feeling only lasted for a brife moment but I think I kept doing it just to be close to Kya. Funny thing was, she caught on fast.
"Not r-really" she said giggling. I could hear her teeth chatter, her jaw vibrated uncontrollably.
"Don't wor-worry, we'll get out of here and then we can have that date, m-minus all this chaos" I assured her. However, I think she should be the one to be assuring me.
"I'd l-like that, what did you have in mind?" she asked. The wind blew more viciously, each curl was like a bone saw across my face. Each time a heavier wind started to blow I would cover Kya's face with my hands, shielding her from the razor like blows. My lips were chapped to the point where if I moved them slightly without licking them, they would crack and bleed. However, the warm blood would feel nice in an environment like this.
Echos of voices grew louder in the distance but my mind was on getting us out of here, or at least Kya.
"Well I was thinking about getting some ice cream, maybe some sh-sherbert?" I said, attempting to laugh. The air was so thin, I had choked on my own breath. She stopped walking and looked up to give me a long annoyed glare. It was the good kind of look. One that she'd cherish and we could both look back on and laugh.
It frightened me how powerful one member of The Pride could do so much damage. The cool night time sky didn't help at all, but it was perfect for Monna's assault.
I had been very alert, knowing little about The Pride, other then the fact that they want me dead, is that some travel in pairs. The first time I had met the sand benders they were in three's. The time Ruan was assaulted by Mao, another had shown up. It was at the end but he could have easily finished him off, if Porter hadn't arrived..
Time had passed and the blizzard hadn't let up. We walked on in the snow that didn't seem to stop falling. It piled up, getting deeper for every step we took. The crunching sounds beneath our feet and our shivering whimpers began to echo in our head. It hadn't been long until we found the eight wheeler satomobile that had initiated the crash in the first place.
This was no ordinary Sato Industries machine. This was heavy duty, top gear stuff. The type of machinery that the United Forces would use to transport new technology, important chemicals, or weapons. What the hell were they transporting? United Forces couldn't be here, could they? No, United Forces soldiers aren't permitted to patrol the streets of Republic City. That law had been imbedded almost immediately after the end of the great war.
But what was it?
I didn't know what creeped me out more, the turned over eight wheeler that looked like an ice fortress or the giant hole in its back doors. In fact, those back door hadn't looked like they were even attempted to be opened. The hole hadn't been a perfect cut either, indicating that it hadn't been cut open with any tools.
The rim of the hole had been jagged. Some strips of metal even hung down like it was burned or something. It had been melted. I need a second glance because they had began to freeze over, turning into icicles.
Fire bender.. Mao!
My body fueled with anger. Even Kya was nervous, as I had began to squeeze her hands to tightly.
"Sorry" I said.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, thought I heard something is all"
What was a lie became something I hadn't hoped for. In fact their was a sound, metal scraping against metal, a rusty screeching sound that echoed throughout the whole block. The ground began to shake and before I knew, the labyrinth of destroyed satomobiles began to change.
The snow banks shook, but it wasn't the snow that was being controlled. The snow had been shaken, it's rapidly shifting, white powdery flakes fell from the vehicle only to land in the spot that it once laid. The wrecked satomobile had been suspended in mid air, only by the power of bending. A nice product of Sato Industries to, tossed aside like a mere pull of junk. Only to stop by crashing through the front window of a Zhao's Curry restaurant.
My heart skipped a beat. Seeing Captain Szen and two other metal benders at this point of my escape with Kya was basically the spirit world giving me the middle finger. Bad luck seemed to stick with me, and being apart of an Equalist family and all, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't come down to our world themselves and finish me off.
"See what you cause Equalist?!" Captain Sven shouted.
"Khai it's that one guard from the Gala" Kya said astonishingly.
I cursed to myself, I was in no position to fight. Basically carrying Kya, dying from frostbite, and was just nearly out of breath to. However, it looked like Sven was in just as much pain as I was. The two metal benders behind him were alert but shivering, there armor nearly covered in a thin sheet of ice. Layered plates of steel shattered the ice during movement.
Captain Sven was in the same predicament as they were. His face was scarred, probably from the battle with Monna. His facial hair was nearly stained white and his armor couldn't have been in worse shape.
"No mercy huh?" Sven chuckled a hazy laugh, he sounded winded. "Just like I'm going to show you!"
I could barely do anything at this point. Sven lashed out, sending a metal coil and bended it around my neck. I had just enough energy to push Kya into the snow so she wouldn't be hit but Sven was much stronger then I had anticipated.
His coil had brought me to the snowy ground. My legs were completely hidden within the white powder. I gagged for what air I had left but Kya had saved me. It was her turn, thrusting her arms, she liquified the snow. She made whips of her own, sharp enough to snap the metal coil into four pieces. She saved up one more blow for the captain's chest but had her arms immediately ensnared by the two other MB's coils.
The Captain stumbled backwards but was not even close to finishing up. Shot sprung another coil out from his other wrist. It wrapped tightly around my arm and he reeled me in like a fish. I had no control, his bending was much to strong. I ended up being dragged through the snow and slush that hid beneath, all to come up to Sven's fist, hammering against my jaw.
"Khai!" Kya screamed, still wrestling to break free of the metal coils. Every chance she got to bend was only yanked away from her unsuspectingly from a new direction that pulled her.
Dammit! Get up you useless, son of a bitch! As negative as those thoughts were, they motivated me.
He pulled me up one last time but with the momentum I had as he yanked me up, I got a little payback. The back of my fist slammed into his noes, knocking him backward but I didn't stop there. Sven tried to defend my charge with a more offensive barrage of fists but he was to sloppy. Tackling him, we both fell into the snow. I put my knee into the breaking point of his chest plate. A piece of armor that seemed to be weakening from severe chill in the air.
Left, right, then left again. My fists slammed into his face one by one. His defense was useless as he weakly tried to bring his hands up to stop be. Occasionally pressing his palms into my face but I quickly countered with a palm strike to his elbows, temporarily crippling his arms. My blood flowed like high tides in an ocean, I couldn't remember the last time I had an adrenaline rush this big. So much power, it felt so great. It had made me completely forget about the cold.
You idiot! This is the type of person your trying to avoid becoming! Ease up and save Kya!
A battle in my own head, dammit I knew I would end up becoming this. I must stop!
It wasn't easy but someone I managed to control my anger. I could've sat there and killed that man for spirits sake and for what? He had a wrong idea of me, killing him would've just made me look like the enemy. It was at this point I had remember that I still had my KA-BAR. If I had remember it during my breakdown, who knows what path I would've ended up taking.
I ran towards the MB, stamping my foot in the back of his leg, he went down automatically, instantly recoiling his catch o Kya. Kya seized this opportunity to use her free hand to bend a wave of snow into the other metal bender's face. He flew sideways into a snowbank but ended with a bang. His head had hit a frozen metal door of a satomobile, knocking him out cold.
My MB elbowed me in the hip but I didn't go down easily. A slight shift in my stance and a single utter grunt but I was find. I caught his recoiling wire, I stretched it out and wrapping it around his neck. The man chocked and gagged as he tried to pull free. He tried to peel the coil off, his fingers attempted to dig between his neck and the coil, which he could've bended easily if he had more energy.
Saliva flew from his mouth, gagging and chocking until it became quiet. He soon became immobile and collapsed. First time chocking out an MB but soon he would be back, that is if the sheer frost didn't get him first.
"Kya are you alright?"
She flew into my arms, a couple tears rolled down her face but other then that she was fine.
"Khai?" She asked.
"yea?"
"I'm cold as hell"
We both laughed, we needed a way out and right now things weren't looking good for us.
"Allow me to be of some assistance!"
We both turned around to see a bloody and bruised Captain standing on both of his feet. His metal wrists gloves had been bended into wrist blades. He had a crazed look in his eyes. His armor was mainly frost at this point, covered with a smear of crimson which I identified to be blood. Half of his face was red, while the other side pale but he wasn't going down without a real fight.
"You know, I hear it's pretty warm in hell. Let me escort you!" The Captain said.
At that point me and Kya were ready for one last battle. A fight to end all fights with this guy but he paused. His expression of anger was masked with a layer of anxiety. He wasn't looking at us anymore, no. We were the least of his worries at this point. In fact his eyes weren't even on us, rather above us. It was a good choice to pick to.
A man wearing a large snow jacket and goggles had been sitting on top of the downed eight wheeler. His mouth covered with a black mask and his snow hood his his hair. However, the pure terror of it all was his laugh. A mild, yet seriously condescending laugh that echoed in my head. On his left hand was a mechanized gauntlet, the other was a normal glove.
"Gotta come prepared when your in this type of weather, eh?" The man said. Kya and I stood frozen, anxiously waiting for him to attack. He was disguised but I think I had a pretty good idea who it was.
It wasn't Johnathon that's for sure, he would've arrived in more style then this guy.
"Although, I didn't really plan for the whole snow storm deal. I guess that's just Monna's way of improvising" He said laughing.
"Your with Monna?" The captain said. His tone was weak, he couldn't have sounded more worried. "The you're..."
"Delun of The Pride, at your service! Well, not really"
Understanding the position Captain Sven was in he began to look extremely frantic. His personal goal was to stop me at all costs and other Equalists as well. However with a member of The Pride standing no less then 15 feet from him, catching this terrorist was his all on the line with his job. Not only would it mean a promotion and a better pay raise, once he finished off one enemy he could focus on another. Catching both a terrorist and an Equalist could mean big money for him but as always, greed is one of humanities greatest weakness.
"You happy Equalist?! Your kind brings all this damn destruction and chaos! You can never be happy unless us benders are dead! So why the hell would you turn another bender against his own kind?!" Sven shouted.
This mortal is very inconsiderate, so caught up in his own glory that he can't see his own greed and selfish desires.
The entity inside Delun's head spoke softly but with wise words.
You know he's going to attack? It's written all over his boney face
Delun only smiled at the entities thoughts. He mind possessed two beings, one of which being very good at reading emotions.
Just as the spirit predicted, Sven attacked. Rebending one wrist blade back into a coil, he ensnared Delun's mechanical hand. However, he didn't even move nor did he counter. He stood like a statue as Captain Sven tried to reel him in but failed, only wasting more of his energy and more of Delun's time.
"Oh, so unwise" Delun said.
He angled his hand so only a glass circle to be seen in his palm. A few seconds later, blasts of electricity flew from the glove. A fire powers bender in the palm of a water benders hand. He laughed maniacally. The spark were so unruly, he couldn't care less where they went, not that it was predictable. It was a prototype, stolen from an Equalist ship during a Pride raid for better tech.
I dove into Kya, knocking us both to the freezing snow. We sank deep, nearly avoiding the over charged stun gauntlet. The lightning passed through the metal coil with ease, hitting Sven. He roared in pain, his suit of frost shattered at once, revealing the old and cracking metal bending armor he truly had on. His coil snapped, the charge was so powerful it had completely shattered it in many pieces. Sven's body stood for a few seconds, smoke rising from his mouth and hair. A single cough was the only noise he uttered until he fell and sank into the deep snow.
The energy was outstanding. Only one blast and the heat had nearly melted the back end of the truck. Scorch marks bled right through the heavy armored transport. It had even scuffed up the back of my shirt, leaving black scorch marks going up and down. Suddenly the cold didn't seem so bad anymore, the charge seemed to have warmed up the air a little bit but it wasn't long until the air became cold once more.
Kya and I starred helplessly at the Pridesmen. His glove still hot and smoking, the rising exhaust fumes fogged his goggles but it seemed like he had no problem seeing. His eyes scanned the snow, searching of any signs of a surviving Sven. He didn't really care if he had killed him or not his prize was already claimed. Now he just needed to wait and be patient.
"You two can get up now" Delun said starring down at us.
It was one of those awkward moment where you were face to face with your enemy and yet you don't know what to say. In fact he didn't say anything in the beginning. He mainly concentrated on the cool down of his weapon. What did I do? Stood there, watching. For all I knew he could've killed us both, we were nearly at the brink of death as is. I had no idea what to do.
"I have no quarrel with you" He said, still attentive with his glove.
"That's hard to believe seeing your group's goal is to kill me"
An arrogant smirk grew underneath his mask. "The goal of the group is to promote bending supremacy" A couple clicks sounded off from the glove and it return to its fully operational state. It had been modified to stun on touch but with a few changes by the Pride specialist Sento, it could be used at an overcharged state frying anything in its path.
"MY goal however is completely different and doesn't concern you" Delun finished. I hadn't noticed it before but the around his should was a tube casing, usually made to hold maps or important army blueprints. It hung around his should from a black velcro strap.
His fingers tapped repeatedly on the tube casing. He had his prize and I knew where it had come from.
"You did this didn't you. You caused the crash all for what? A damn map?" I shouted.
Delun's expression did sound any different, nor did he act aggressively.
"Necessary lives must've been taken"
"You sick bastard!"
All those people murdered, so many innocent lives lost. Why is peace so hard to grasp?
He wasn't phased a bit. Not for a moment did he shed a little discomfort, he got what he wanted and he was smart. There was no purpose in showing his concern for me. Ice cold winds whipped across the skies, almost as if a blizzard had been created. Delun looked to the sky and slung the casing over his shoulder.
"I look forward to seeing you again, if you survive the weather"
He stepped back, disappearing into the white void the surrounded the both of us. This time I just wanted to leave. I got Kya standing up and we both set out into the frozen city. Monna's power was unlike that of any other. We had cleared the city block and had entered the main streets. One long street covered in snow and ice. Monna had caused so much damage to this section of the city but the heart of her power laid in the middle of the city block. It wasn't as bad here, in the city streets. Weather wise is was warmer, cold but better then what we had been through. However, bodies of innocent civilians, metal benders, and Equalists laid dead across the quite streets.
"Why are there Equalists here? Where did they all come from?" Kya asked frantically.
"I don't know. It's like a whole other battle was taking place as we were in the center"
I grasped Kya's hand tightly, this street was a war zone. A frozen wasteland where the dead sleep in a coffin of ice. Their skin pale and frozen, gashes across their faces and their blood dry. At some point Kya swore she saw the frozen breath of a metal bender lying a snow pile. Running over to check his consciousness she found no signs of life in his body. From a distance his hair blew in the wind but upon a better and more clear view, he lie there with his throat slashed oped. The inside was frozen, covered in snow which repelled Kya's attention.
It had been a few minutes before she had told me what she had seen, but before that, she just walked in silence with this petrified look in her eyes.
It hadn't been a while before we heard screaming. A most terrifying, ear piercing ring, that made my hair stand up.
"Help please!"
Kya and I stopped. We starred at each other and waited again. We wanted to hear the scream once more, to make sure it was real. Thing was we both heard it the first time, fact is we were just to startled to move. We wanted to survive and this wasn't the way but then it came back.
"For spirits sake, someone! It hurts!"
We started to run. The screaming echoed throughout the skies. The cold wind slapped against my face as I ran. I had been in front of Kya so she wouldn't have had to suffer so much. It came from an alley way, one that I had been to when I still worked as a courier. This time is wasn't the same. We stopped in complete fear and disgust. We had no idea what it was, maybe a wounded metal bender or a civilian but no nothing like this.
In a state of panicked I told Kya to run and hide but even she was to frightened to. All that was visible to my eyes was a metal benders upper body, his armor drenched and stained with blood. I knew he we wouldn't save him, we couldn't. Not after a few second we could see his lower body stretched down the frozen pavement. His intestines laid perfectly still, knowing they would freeze in a matter of seconds. I stepped back and gagged, my stomach churned and moaned
Kya screamed, clasping her hands over her face, she whimpered at the gruesome sight. I spat on the ground, I had the sickly feeling like I needed to throw up but all I had was saliva. This sick part was realizing that is was a fresh kill.
Seeing Monna at the very back, practicing her bending on his blood, was an inhumane sight. She couldn't move it, only freeze it. His lower body armor was removed and his back split down the middle. She let it drip out, watching it slide down the MB's back, until she thought gruesome enough to freeze. It became his second skeletal structure, one made out of blood, protruding from his back.
She hadn't initially reacted to Kya's scream, although it was faint, she new we were here. She looked at us, she wore the same as Delun, minus the mask and her hood which she kept down. Her hair was stained white and her skin was paler then a ghosts.
"Run Kya!" I barked pulling her away from the sight.
Monna on the other hand was much more quick then I was. She thrusted both fists into the air, forming large pillar of ice protruding from the ground. A the very second I thought we were to late, the pillar turned to a stake which aimed for my chest. However it was intercepted by Kya, who had reverted it back into water. She bended it like a true master, throwing the water through the air and quickly sending it back in large ice shape barbs.
Monna didn't even react emotionally. She took the stance of an earth bender and she brought her fists to her sides and then pulled them back, shattering the barbs before they could even reach the upper part of the severed body.
She didn't even waste time. Unlike Delun, Monna wanted us dead, especially Kya. She pulled the entire snowy ground behind her and reverted it to a wave like state. The ground roared, as she rode the wave, decimating the bodies in ice and snow, she came right at us. Kya would hold her ground in any fight and right now was her moment. Her stance was of that of an earth bender, and threw her palms out.
Monna was thrown forward to her feet as the wave came to an abrupt halt. Kya sent the wave backwards into a hundred icicles. Disappearing into the darkness of the cold empty building.
"Bitch!" Monna screamed.
She pulled water from the snowy ground, send large flat sheets of ice our way. Kya responded with a wall of water, quickly freezing it to a transparent point where we took cover from all Monna's blows.
"Dammit I feel useless right now!" I shouted angrily. "We need to get out of here but I don't see any way possible"
"I've got my hands tied at the moment to but as we can see.." Her eyes widened in horror. "Khai get away!"
We flew in different directions, a crushing blow sent by a large glacier of ice. Monna was powerful, in a way she controlled the weather as well. She could make the snow fall from the sky, make temperatures drop below freezing, and freeze a human's blood. I wasn't sure how she was capable of this incredible power but I knew that fear will struck the heart of millions after they hear what a lone Prides member had committed.
My legs were ensnared in a blanket of snow, it quickly froze keeping me from moving at all. I looked over to Monna with her hands in the air, bending the snow on the ground to her advantage. Just like an earth bender, her element was now everywhere.
"Dammit!" I said, cursing louder at the pain as the snowing only crept up more of my body. Squeezing and constricting my bones, as if they would just shatter from the pressure.
Kya was enraged with Monna, she sent wave after wave of water into Monna but she had only been redirecting it. Water crashed into her stomach, continuously sending her back into the snow. I could hear her, oh how it made me suffer to hear her in such pain. If it wasn't for her distraction, I'd probably would been completely submerged in the blanket of snow. Not being able to break through snow was like not being after to break through fog. It came so naturally but with Monna's level of power, I was at an impasse.
She walked over to me, my arms barely free but I knew she wanted them out to make me suffer.
"If you would have just died like the others, we would've never have resulted in this" She laughed at my pain, her wicked blue eyes were enraged with her hatred of me. "And to think that all you had to do was perish in a snow storm, but no your a stubborn prick who thinks he can change this damned nation back to the way "The Avatar" wanted it to be"
She put her foot on my aching chest, and came closer to me. Her fingernails ran through my hair, digging harder into my scalp until I felt a trickling of blood run onto the snow. Her breath was just as cold as her heart, a frost biting sensation that slowly cut across my cheek. She was making me suffer. She was freezing my blood.
"Get the fuck away from him!"
A white tundra exploded from my chest. Many shards of ice that had once been crushing me had now ejected off of my torso and changed into a shard like structure. Monna was sent backward, in admiration of my blood she was horribly injured. A large stake of ice had pierced her shoulder and some smaller shards had dragged across her face. It left with a bloody face and a useless left eye. She laid in the snow in desperate pain, clutching her should, she load out disturbing wails.
I hadn't even had a chance to have gotten up, Kya was already on my chest, checking my body for any wounds.
"Khai! Please tell me your okay?" She said desperately as she put her hand under my head.
"I'm fine. Kya, she tried to freeze me from the inside out" I tried to stand but my legs wouldn't give in. I shouted at the pain, spiking up through my legs.
She tried to freeze my blood, I'm so cold
"You can't walk can you?" She asked.
"No, I can't"
A horrific laughter, followed by the rise of snow, had begun. The snow ascended into the air as a bloodied Monna got up from her painstakingly horrific injuries. The stake was still in her shoulder, taking it our would only cause further blood loss. Her eye dripped with blood. It ran over her lip, leaving tiny red dots in the snow. Other slips it would leak under her lips, which she would result in licking it off, for her own self pleasure.
"Now, I will bury you two fuckers in a white coffin together!"
The amount of snow that rose in the air was unbelievable, Kya couldn't even control the amount. It was like the time that Ruan and I were being persude by those sand benders. The amount of sand buried us up to our neck, and we wouldn't have been alive if it wasn't for Porter. Well I was back in this situation, and this time the love of my life was with me.
She couldn't do anything but bury herself into my chest. We were exhausted and no match for her. Her cold wet hair brushed against my face, accepting death with the love of my life never felt so peaceful.
Two ticks was all I heard. A silent but devastating impact on Monna. The first went into her other shoulder, a blood splatter that even she didn't like seeing. Another had gone into her forearm. THe snow collapsed but not on us. I fell slightly, as Monna stumbled back. Some bits of it landed on us, a light dusting was all that we felt. The rest landed all around us.
She screamed in pain. A noise that sounded just like that of the metal bender. Blood started to pour onto the snow, leaving a red river, pouring into the cities drainage pipe. She made her way back down the alley way. I lost sight of her. If I could recall it was a dead end, so she'd probably collapse of blood loss.
heh heh, fuckin' karma
The next thing I new I had Johnathon right by my side, kneeing right by me like Kya. He scanned my body for any visible remarks but all her saw was the pain in my eyes.
"He can't walk!" Kya exclaimed.
"Well then we'll have to get him out of here. Can you do anything for his legs now?" Johnathon asked.
"I'll try, my chi paths are pretty strained right now so I'll do my best but it might not be good enough"
"Doesn't matter, let's do all what we can" He shifted attention on me. "Hey buddy, what the hell happened man? First a fancy party and now a fuckin' blizzard? Shit man" He said laughing. We both laughed a bit. Kya's healing abilities had been working like charm and she wasn't at her full strength. Absolutely impressive, I love her.
"Well then come suffer with me" I said.
Johnathon snickered, "Let's just first get you home and in better care, good ol' CZ-75. Your lucky I had it suppressed, didn't want to attract any more of those fuckers"
"Hell man, where have you been?" I asked
"Busy, Khai, I've had my own shit to keep me occupied. Kya are you alright?" Johnathan responded with an exhausted gust of wind.
"Been better, could use a hot shower" She said, trying to keep her teeth from chattering.
"Man, if anything Ruan's the lucky one. If he had been invited as well, then he would have had to put up with all the shit we just did" I said.
"Yeah, and I don't feel like baby sitting him tonight" Johnathon replied.
We all laughed, things seemed to finally come to an end. We spoke about Monna, how she was apparently passed out at the end of the alley way from blood loss. We agreed to capture her, for interrogation purposes only. Knowing the locations of this other members and their leader could give us a major lead. My legs were getting better, Kya was an excellent healer. Leaning my head back to the sky, I can only thank the spirits that I we didn't die today.
Delun
What a waste, she was to arrogant with her abilities. Why don't you go and save her? The other might get suspicious.
"NO, I do not care for her or the other, we only have one purpose. I'm surprised you even suggested that." He said.
Delun starred down into the alley way from the building above and watched a dying Monna lay up against a pile of snow. He blood was absorbed into the snow, leaving her body with nothing but a red ring around her. She breathed slowly, her finally breathes being visible to herself. No matter what type of clothes she had on or the type of power she possessed, she was infuriated with herself by admitting she was cold.
A tragic death, knowing you mortals you always get attached to things. Money, food, greed, lust, it's all the same with you. Mortals will fall and eventually the spirit world will rise to reclaim their once owned land, destroying anything in it's path.
"Your one to talk, claiming my body to become human again or rather immortal" Delun said.
No, remember, you called me here and to earn the same prize. So don't preach to ME about your wisdom of morality!
Delun's head grew worrisome. It bulged but he felt no pain. He became disoriented but lost no stance. His vision blurred but he could still see the blood flowing from Monna's wounds.
"You seek another don't you?" Delun said.
HIM, the one that's not from our planet. He's not one of us, I can feel it, he's.. different.
The entity had guided Delun's attention towards Johnathon.
"You want him? What good can he possibly do for you?"
It didn't matter, before Delun knew it, the entity was gone. Passing through Delun's mind it whisked away into the air, just as the snow did. It didn't go far before realizing that Johnathon was like Delun. Their minds possessed another. The entity stopped, frozen in its track it hovered above Johnathon. Then entered.
Johnathons's Mind
Who inhabits this vessel? The entity called out.
A large demonic growl called out to the entity but he only repeated himself.
Who inhabits this vessel? The entity called out again.
THE FATHER OF THE BROTHERHOOD NEEDS LITTLE INTRODUCTION FOR ONE SO PUNY.
Soon enough the entity was faced to a creature which even he could not make sense of. A large slim figure, who's fingers stretched out of its long black hands. He wore black, and his face could not be recognized or even seen by the entity for that matter.
A demon as I? What power can you sustain to control a mind not from this world.
Another monstrous growl called out to the entity
THIS CHILD OF DARKNESS NEEDS LITTLE OF THEE. YOU ARE NOTHING. WE ARE EVERYTHING. TO BE INTRUDING IN THIS MIND IS A SIN UNFORGOTTEN!
I am the same as you, born in blood and from womb. Seeking a vessel to command for spiritual freedom. Tell me how your vessel came to this world?
A third monstrous growl roared through Johnathon's mind.
FOOL! YOU NO NOTHING OF ME. FOR I AM SITHIS, FATHER OF DAEDRA AND BROTHER OF ANU. MY BROTHERHOOD BREATHES MY BLOOD AND YOU SHALL NEVER TASTE IT!
The shock sent the entity immediately from Johnathon's head, reassuring itself back into Delun
"Back again? So I'm assuming it hates visitors?" Delun said sarcastically
Johnathon, Khai, and Kya
"Where you going John?" I asked.
His face turned white, his eyes an unbelievable color of curiosity. He swallowed hard before answering. "Did you see feel that?"
"What? Frostbite? We all do John" I replied.
John walked away for a moment feeling a sense of great desire. I was a moment where he couldn't predict what would happen or if it was good or bad fortune. He passed through entrance of the alley way and stopped. His breathing became slow and he could hear the sound of his beating heart pound on his chest, it was all he heard.
At the end of the ally way was the body of Monna, collapsed in the snow. In front of her was a man long thought to be dead. He was bald, wearing a black suit, and a red tie. He had been crouched down examining the body but when he got up, he stood at 6ft 6in right in front of Johnathon.
"It's a shame we couldn't keep her alive. She committed suicide, froze her own blood to avoid capture, a pity." The man turned around and looked Johnathon directly in his eyes. "Hello son" He said.
"Dad..? But your dead?"