Did anyone else see FT's new opening? SO HYPE! Sorry for not updating yesterday, feel kind of sick. Still do, but I wanted to update!
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Simon had lost his target, which pissed him off. He'd been on his trail only a moment ago., but lost him in what appeared to be a residential area. Weaving in and out of the people and ignoring the looks he got for not apologizing when he slammed into someone, he kept his eyes open for the white haired man he was chasing.
"How the hell did I lose him?" Simon muttered, "I was right behind him..." Pushing past a few more people and muttering half hearted apologies, Simon was about to lose it. He was already worried about the Etherion blast and where that'd be, but now he had a rogue asshole on the loose.
"Excuse you, sir." Simon had half a mind to turn and confront whoever had addressed him like that, but he knew it'd only get him into trouble. After a little more pushing, Simon spotted a mop of white hair through the crowd.
"Got you." Simon said, watching the man walk. Before long he broke into another sprint, forcing Simon to follow. The man broke down a door, and Simon heard screams inside. Appearing in the doorway, Simon saw a frightened family staring at him with wide eyes.
"Where'd he go?" he asked. The mother pointed to the stairs in front of them, and Simon bolted up them in pursuit. After getting there, Simon found the man in what appeared to be the parents bedroom, staring at the wall. "Stop! You're cornered." He told hi, causing the man to turn and smile.
"Quite the contrary, Simon." he replied. "I can get out any time I want."
"Who are you?" Simon demanded.
"Name's Lennix." He did a sarcastic bow. "I'd ask you to say the same, but I already know the answer."
"How?"
"I'm observant." He replied. "Calculating. I can rattle off some facts about you right quick, if you'd like."
"Amuse me." Lennix grinned at this.
"Simon Scarlet." he said. "Righteous attitude, daddy issues. Your Dad showed up so little while you were growing up you no longer know how to talk to him and it worries you that you're drifting away from him, you and your mother not even taking his last name." Simon stood there, mouth agape, as Lennix listed things off about him.
"I..."
"You consider yourself the protector of the group, often taking it personally if another team member gets hurt." Lennix continued. "This is why you attacked Apocalypse when he surprised your team, because he hurt your friends."
"I..."
"It's possible you're pushing away feelings of affection for one team member..." Simon's eyes widened. "Am I correct? It's always hard to tell with you hero types."
"Dead wrong." Simon replied, ignoring the thumping in his chest. "Now, explain to me why you're here. What are you after?"
"Surely your trip to Era was not that uninformative." Lennix replied. "Surely you learned why we're here."
"Something about an Etherion cannon."
"Correct. Apocalypse is currently on his way to that, yet you're wasting your time here with me." Simon narrowed his eyes.
"You're just a distraction then?" He demanded. "Apocalypse is already going to the cannon?"
"From what he said, yes, he's on his way." Lennix smirked. "Although he did give us very specific instructions."
"Which are?" Simon waited as Lennix stretched and yawned, smiling at Simon.
"If the Fairies catch up to us, make sure they don't reach me." Lennix said, making Simon growl. "You don't know where he is, neither do I." Simon requipped a sword into his hand and pointed it at Lennix.
"Tell me where he is before I run you through." He threatened.
"I don't know, honestly." He replied. "He told me to take out any Fairies and then disappeared."
"Then looks like I can find him once I've finished you off." Lennix laughed.
"Come and get me." Simon launched himself at Lennix, who brought up a hand and hit Simon in the face with his open palm. The resulting white explosion threw Simon backwards and through the wall, leaving a crater in the house next to them.
Impact magic." Lennix said as Simon watched him. "Now, come and get me, Scarlet." Lennix planted a hand on the bedroom wall, and it exploded. The man disappeared out it, and Simon fell on his hands and knee's coughing up blood from the impact.
"Bastard." he hissed, running towards the hole and looking out it, seeing Lennix run across the rooftops. Activating Meteor, Simon flew after him, reaching him in no time. A fist met a palm, and Simon flew back through the air again, cursing as he regained control of himself. Lennix was now waiting for him on the roof next to him, smiling.
"What's the matter Simon?" he asked. "Did I hurt you? Or are you still in pain from Apocalypse?" Both statements were true, but Simon showed no reaction.
"It would seem a head on interaction with you would do no good, huh?" he asked.
"Apparently not." he agreed. "I'll have you know, I technically wasn't even defeated before. That water wizard Juvia only put me to sleep." If Gray and Juvia hadn't actually beaten the guy, Simon felt a little more intimidated. "One last chance, Simon. Turn around and pretend you never saw me." Simon growled, the light around him growing.
"Never."
Ultear didn't know where the mist had come from, but it was annoying her greatly. Wiping the moisture from her brow, she looked around. The street she was on was mostly vacated, save a few merchants and old people. None seemed like they'd have any clue where her target what, or what she was even talking about, given the age of a few people she saw. Continuing down the street, Ultear took a moment to ponder if she had lost him. That was entirely possible, given how fast the man had run from her.
"I can't believe this." She hissed, putting her hands on her hips. "How did I lose him?"
"You didn't." Ultear jumped and looked around, looking for the voice that had spoken.
"Where are you?" She demanded. "And what do you mean I didn't lose him?"
"I'm right here."
"Where?"
"Here."
"Where?!"
"Look around you, Fullbuster." Ultear did as the voice said, still not noting anything that wasn't there before. Aside from the fact that all other citizens had left the area. there was nothing.
"What?" She demanded, doing another three-sixty. "I still don't see you."
"Where do you think the mist came from?" Ultear's eyes widened as a face formed from the mist. "I am the mist, the mist is me." Ultear panicked and threw a fist at the face, which dissolved around her fist. He laughed.
"What the hell is so funny?" She demanded.
"That you think mere physical hits can touch the master of Mist magic, Ramin." Ultear rolled her eyes at the ego that leaked from his tone.
"Alright, great." She said. "But what's the point of this? All you're doing is making this difficult on the both of us." Ramin chuckled.
"Quite the opposite, actually." He said. "Apocalypse gave us one job, which is to distract Fairies. I'd say I'm doing an excellent job of that, wouldn't you?"
"So what you're saying is that all you're doing is distracting us?" Ultear said, earning a hum of confirmation from the mist. "What if I just, you know, leave and go look for Apocalypse?" As if on cue, the mist thickened to a point where Ultear couldn't see anything.
"There." Ramin said. "Mist is a misdirection magic. So please, leave and go look for Apocalypse." Ultear sighed and turned on her heel.
"Watch me, assho...!" She had turned and slammed right into the side of a building she could have sworn wasn't there before. "Since when is that there?!" She demanded, wiping the blood from her nose.
"Do you know what misdirection means?" Ramin asked, his voice full of egotistical pride. "As of right now you have no idea where you are." Ultear couldn't see a foot in front of her, she almost couldn't even see her own feet below her.
"Well, you've got that right," Ultear said, unsure if it was moisture from the mist or nervous sweat running down the side of her head. "I really do have no idea where I am."
Drake splashed down in the sewer water and almost threw up. The smell was going to kill him and he doubled over, almost throwing up.
"You okay?" Winter asked, rubbing his back.
"I'm going to hurl." he threatened. After gagging more than a few times, Drake finally realized he had no choice but to breath out of his mouth and block his nose off, or he was going to hurl.
"You good?" Winter asked as he straightened.
"Not at all," He replied, enhanced senses still smelling the sewer. "But I'll have to make do."
"How do you intend to track this guy if you can't smell him?" Drake's felt rather stupid as Winter put her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Uh..."
"You can't." She answered for him. "You almost threw up without even inhaling a lot to track him. Come on Drake, we can't track him down here."
"..." Drake cursed under his breath, but nodded. "Yeah, you're right. I can't." Winter smiled at him.
"Thank you," She said, turning to the ladder up. "Now, let's get the hell out of here." Drake followed Winter up the ladder and away from the shitty sewer until she stopped, causing Drake to hit his head on her ass.
"What?" He demanded. "What's the matter?"
"Did you shut the manhole?" She asked, looking over her shoulder at him.
"No..." he replied slowly, seeing the manhole was indeed covered up again. "What the hell? I promise I didn't."
"Well, someone did." Drake shrugged.
"Open it." He said, "As nice as your ass is Winter, I'm really not keen on it being in my face."
"You wouldn't have said that if we were dating." She shot back, pushing at the manhole. "Oh, you've got to be fucking kidding me."
"What's the matter now?" Winter looked back at him with an exasperated look on her face.
"It's stuck." She said weakly. Drake's eyes widened.
"How the hell is it stuck? Push harder!" Winter did so, put it still refused to open. "Here, come back down." Both slid back down the ladder and landed in the water, Drake looked up. "Poison Dragon Roar!" The spell hit the manhole dead on, but it still didn't budge.
"Didn't work." Winter said as the roar disappeared.
"No shit?" Drake asked sarcastically.
"Here, let me try." She said, inhaling. "Sky God's Bellow!" The black winds hit the manhole, but it still refused to open. "That manhole is a trooper." Winter said angrily.
"There must be another one around here." Drake replied, "Come on, let's try this way." Drake walked off to the left, Winter close behind. Spotting another ladder, Drake launched a few attacks at it to test it. Nothing happened, and Drake made a face. After walking a little farther and trying another, still nothing happened.
"I'm going to panic pretty soon." Winter warned. "Why are they all stuck?"
"Hell is I know." Drake replied. "There must be another way out of here. Come on, let's go." Drake turned and slammed right into Winter, who made a sound and pushed him away.
"What the hell man?!" She demanded.
"I can't see anything!" Drake shouted back. "I'm sorry!" Taking a moment to look around, Drake's stomach turned: He couldn't see anything. He could just barely see Winter's outline in front of him, staring at him.
"It's really dark down here." Winter said, only making Drake feel worse.
"I have a bad feeling they're all stuck for a reason." Drake said weakly. He tried to listen for a direction to go in, but his hearing just bounced off of walls and made everything distorted.
"Which is?" she asked, hugging herself.
"We tracked a Phantom Dove member down here." He told her, earning a nod. "It's just a theory, but I get the feeling the one who created the shadows they hid in back at the estate is causing all this darkness." Winter hummed in agreement.
"That would make sense." She said. "Now he's trapped us down here with him." Winter's face contorted into a fearful one. "That means..."
"Yep." Drake agreed, looking around. "The hunters just became the prey."
Ohhh! Sorry for practically nothing happening today, just trying to drag it out a bit, you know? I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get ten!