Chapter 3 the Emerald Forest
Damian was pissed. He didn't mind Terius however he didn't want to have him as his partner for the next four year, 'why couldn't it just be some love struck girl with zero combat experience! Now the next four years are going to be a competition.' Damien was absolutely correct on his last thought, the next four year will be a very intense competition, stating now.
Once Damien had quickly righted himself and told Terius what direction they need to go, he began running in that direction. Within a few seconds Damien saw Terius above him free-running from tree to tree much faster than he could normally running. "Game on mother fucker!"
"What?" Terius looked back to see Damien burst ahead using his shotguns to fly across the ground. "Oh I can beat that."
Damien nearly tripped when Terius swung through the trees in front of him using his gun fire to speed up his swings and never missing once with his lines. That is till he nearly lost his grip as Damien showed true high tech by having a compactable jetpack concealed on his lower back flying upside down using the systems in his glasses to maintain a steady flight wills giving Terius the finger. Damien then flipped back over and speed ahead.
In around a minute Damien grew concerned as Terius wasn't catching up in any way until he heard the cry of a Nevermore. Flying up above the tree line he spotted what would end their transportation competition. Terius stood on its back with his cable around its neck controlling it to some degree. That is until a round fired from Damien's 25mm cannons shot thru the Nevermore's neck nearly taking of Terius' head.
As the bird feel Terius, not giving a shit continued to ride it into the ground as Damien flew over to where he knew it would land, what he didn't know was what it would land on and those 2 unfortunate people are the Nightclaw sisters.
As the sun blackens over Heather and Emily's heads, the sisters look up to see the falling bird crush them.
"Perfect Landing every time," Terius shouts with a slight cockiness as he jumps off the nevermore. Damien lands next to him,
"I think you may have landed on someone." Just as the words escape his mouth the bird is blasted upwards, Heather stands there with her twin mallets fully extended staring into Terius' eyes with intent to kill, she leaps forward swinging her mallets with deadly force, Terius dodges the attempt with ease.
Emily walks over and stands next to Damien "Are you going to stop them?"
"Stop the fight and ruin my coat, or get popcorn and watch the show, decisions, decisions." As Damien talks he pulls out a bag of popcorn and cooks it with his jetpack. "You want some?" He asks offering some to Emily.
Terius blocks one of Heather's swings, sending him into the air with her force. While Terius is falling Damien turns to Emily and says "Can you catch him? I'm not willing, I want to see him fall." Emily contemplates aiding him than crosses her arms and sits down. Heather mallets flip down and open up to reveal the barrels of her guns while the outside forms the handles and other mechanisms. She starts shooting at the falling fauns. "Heather, why are you shooting at him?"
"Because he isn't dead yet!" Heather retorts, Terius lands perfectly fine on his feet, he checks to see if he was shot at all, patting down his body, looking up he sees Heather in the air diving to him with her steel boxing gloves, Terius quickly dashes back and uses Damien as a human shield forcing Damien to get involved by pushing him into her knocking both of them over
"Protect me mortal slave" Terius yells, Damien hobbles up to his knees and points his 25mm cannon between Terius' eyes
"You got dirt on my cloak" He stares into Terius' eyes, full of rage. "Now you die!" Terius looks over at Emily and smiles
"Hey cutie ever kissed a man who is going to die, yeah that's right, I'm dangerous" Emily reaches behind her and pulls out her spear and points it at Terius. 'Well I'm dead, let's have some fun with this' Terius grabs Emily's spear and throws her into Damien and Heather "Now I know all of you want to kill me but only one of you can kill me, so who will it be?" All three look among each other and then nod, beginning to point their weapons at Terius "Mortal slave stop!" Damien taps the side of his shades and hears a robotic voice say
"Target locked" Terius throws one of his blades into the trees and retracts the wire pulling himself out of sight.
Damien activates his jet pack hovering a few inches of the ground and formulates a quick plan. "I'll search from the air. Heather you search by brute force causing him to retreat. And…" Damien pauses not knowing Emily's name.
"Emily."Emily fills in the blank for him.
"Follow Heather and if you see him contain him with fire, everyone know the plan." Nods of approval follow. "Alright let's go." The team split up going about Damien's plan however Damien himself went towards a small alter like thing he saw in the distance hoping to grab 2 of the artifacts for his new team.
Heather and Emily finally managed to track Terius to a clearing. "Now you're going to get it." Heather shouted at Terius. Terius smiled a demonic smile. The only sound is that of retracting wire and both Emily and Heather are bound in Terius' Nylon wire. Damien lands and says.
"Ok I got the artifacts let's get out of here…." Damien stops talking as he sees the girls in their position. "Does anyone want to explain this?"
"Well I started with wires and then I got creative, now I got two helpless girls and more ideas" Terius says to Damien than brings his attention back to the girls. Terius unties Heather and Emily "Sorry about that just having a joke" Pulls them both up and makes sure they are okay "Okay lets go" Terius picks up Heather and throws his sword into the trees swinging away
Emily looks around wondering what just happened "Did he just kidnap my sister?"
"I think he would either me more subtle if he was kidnapping her." He looks south towards the beacon cliffs where they were launched. "Well I have a jet pack and can carry you if you want to get back up there quicker."
Emily blushes a little "Sure, it could be fun" She smiles as Damien lifts her into his arms and rockets into the sky, soaring into the clouds and back to beacon.