Nate sighed as the fireworks stopped, and leaned onto the poll, "Ah, what a great night to win, isn't it?"
Sean gave a bubbly, drunken chuckle. "Totes, dude."
Sarah shaked her head and smoothed out her skirts as the rose up in the wind. "Can I kick booties now?"
Kyrine had already ran off to the left, planning to sit in a tree and remain invisible until her prey bounces along to snipe. Nate looked over to where she was trying to grasp the dead branches.
"Need help, princess?" He said cockily as Sean, Sarah, and the other two nameless Guardians sprinted for Zone C.
The Awoken jumped again, gloved fingers trying to grasp the tan branch, when she suddenly felt strong hands around her waist, lifting her upwards to scramble on the tree.
"Ummph," She grunted as she hefted herself up, the hands disappeared as she kicked to bring herself up more. "Thanks, Nate. You can go now." She waved her hand towards the popping bullet shells.
She nestled into the center of the tree and her invisible mechanism kicked in, and she disappeared.
The tall man gave a salute and said, "Don't worry 'bout it." He turned, and sprinted off towards Zone B.
Kyrine watched him go, then waited for her Icebreaker to load to its full ammo capacity. There was a throbbing in her temples and she could have sworn her helmet vision was fuzzy. "Ugga ugga." She rapped on her helmet.
Sean laughed beside Nate and lifted up his Gjallarhorn, zeroing in on the turret near Zone A. He looked through the zoom spot, though his vision was hyped, he saw the controller.
He turned a giggle in Nate's direction. "Think they see us?"
There were three guardians at Zone A. A Warlock, and two Titans. The other three must be after Sarah, Kyrine, and the other two nameless Guardians.
One Titan was manning the turret, which had taken out two Guardians, one being Sarah, and had them in the lead.
The other two Guardians had taken up Sniper positions at the bridge, waiting for someone to appear in the strip of land to take out.
Little did they know that Kyrine with her Icebreaker was waiting for just the right time to take them both out. The turret was turning, looking for targets, and the Titan's head was exposed to Ethan and Nate.
Nate shook his head. "Hit it in the balls, Seanie." He commanded, tipsy.
The redheaded hunter planted his feet and pulled the ginormous trigger and the huge bullet zoomed after it's target, and Sean flew backwards and hit the stone wall. The Glallarhorn crashed down beside him, and Nate heard an explosion, and looked up from laughing at the knocked out Sean, who's body dissolved and his ghost took his place.
Only to receive a sniper bullet to the helmet, and he could hear it as it tore through his jaw.
The impact knocked him over to lay beside Sean's ghost. "Ooh, Traveler..."
The bug bullet was off the turret, but hit the wall beside it, due to drunken state. But, it still had a devastating impact on the turret Titan and one of the guardians at the bridge. With the Titan at the turret taken down, Kyrine zeroed in on the damaged Titan from her tree.
She shifted quickly, and looked as her last ammo packet charged (which had previously been used on a curious enemy) , and shot the staggering guardian in the skull.
The helmet shattered, along with the mans skull, and Kyrine zeroed on the shocked woman warlock below him, and shot her in her chest.
The woman regained her focus, looking to the bleeding wound, winced and turned and ran away from Zone A.
The Awoken huffed and put down her sniper, her aim had been off.
"Hey, LADY!" Someone yelled from below, and she turned to look at a battered Sean.
In the Crucible, armor is badly damaged and only minorly healed, until the initial game has ended. Then it is repaired by the Guardian's ghost. Physical damages done to the Guardian will be partially healed, but still hinder the Guardian's overall performance.
Drunkenness will also down a players performance.
Obviously.
The redhead was tapping nosily on her tree, causing it to shake and Kyrine to hold on, dropping her sniper.
"S-Sean! What are you doing?! Do you want everyone and their ghosts to hear you!" She hissed as she grabbed onto a branch.
"Oh!" He whispered loudly, "I sorry, it's just that-"
There was a gunshot, and he materialized into the night sky, little glowing sparks illuminating the area.
Kyrine's head whipped around to see a glowing male Titan running towards her tree and her eyes widened as she let go of the branch and fell on top of her sniper.
Sarah was staggering around with Nate, looking for an interceptor.
"Sar'," He huffed from behind her, "Slow down...I don't like running..."
Sarah, who had been sprinting briskly for a couple minutes, barely spared the tired Hunter a look. Her skirts were flowing behind her, and her boots made light imprints on the Mars sand.
"No time to waste, Nathaniel," She grumped under her breath and trudged on.
As the wind picked up, sand blew around and made it hard to see out their helmets, but after walking for a little while longer Alyssa say the white mass of an interceptor.
"Finally!" Nate whooped into the howling wind.
The Warlock snapped back around to glare menacingly at him, "You dolt! They probably know where we are now!"
There was a burning shot that was fired, and Sarah was sliding down the stone wall next to the interceptor.
And Nate turned and fled.
Kyrine blinked as she looked up to see the enemy Titan hovering over her with his shotgun, the light from the fireworks reflecting on his helmet.
They looked at each other for a moment, each hesitating.
'Is he going to shoot me or not?'
"Kyrine!" She heard her name shouted, and then a shot was fired.
She looked up to see the enemy Titan stagger back from a shot to the shoulder, while Nate rushed to her side and Kyrine hefted herself up.
Nate pointed his own shotgun at the Titan and shot him clear in the head.
He turned to look back at her.
And then fell over.
"Ah...Nate?" She questioned as she leaned over him.
"Minor wound." He mumbled and grunted.
She pressed her gloved fingers to the wound in his lower back and a grunted and snarled.
While the crucible can be for fun, it can be for pain.
Wound are very real for the Guardians that get shot and don't go down.
Kyrine frowned and examined the spot. "Grab my hand," she said, and held out her slender hand for him to grab.
He took hold of her and she helped him up, and put it over her small shoulders and started walking to the red boulders for coverage.
She jumped as she heard a gunshot from behind her, and turned.
There was no one there.
The Hunter woman narrowed her eyes as she searched, then put Nate down behind a boulder.
Pulling out her sniper, she searched the area, and was about to put the weapon back on her back when a white head popped from behind a tree and a glow from its sniper blinded her.
She ducked as the shot grazed her head.
Kyrine panted as she look back down at Nate.
"Somethin' wrong, babe?" He asked.
"Don't call me that." She pointedly said and aimed her sniper again. She raised an eyebrow as the enemy hunter hopped around, and took out the white Hunter-Jumping Bean.
Kyrine scanned the area again, and sat beside her partner.
"Turn over," She told him. He cocked his head to the side, and laid on his stomach.
She poked the bloody spot and he growled from his spot on the ground.
"Shh. I'm going to try to get it out." She patted his head.
"That. Will hurt." He said.
"Obviously, baby."