[IC] Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

[Crawkid]

"..." His tail waves behind chi as he considers his responce

....

Ok, yea, he is not going to be the one to burst that bubble. Instead, he's just going to act cute!

"Meow!" he says, licking his paw nonchalanty

[MegaraFoxfire]

Ash sighed and picked him up. “Well might as well come with me more comfortably. Let’s go you two” Mina chirped and curled back around Ash’s neck and she walked back out into the street. “I can handle myself. I don’t know why Bane thinks I can’t…”

[Crawkid]

"Because you cant even see a car about to run you over" He thinks flatly to himself, shifting some to get comfortable in her arms. As they start up traveling again, he purrs a bit, but keeps his ears perks up and ready for anything else.

[MegaraFoxfire]

Ash looked down at him but then Mina came out a chirped at her, sounding upset. “I saw the car…when I needed too. It worked out right?” Mina sighed and shook her head then moved back into place.

[Crawkid]

Chi gives this girl a flat look. The most judgemental of looks. It is probably conveyed prety well, considering his is a cat at the moment. Nor does he pull back the punches. For he was the reason she had stopped.

And he gives a cat huff to emphasize the judgement.

[MegaraFoxfire]

Ash sighed and said “alright you two I get it. I was in my head…” she suddenly stopped suddenly, her eyes glowing a little. “We have a tail. Mina? Scan” Mina perked up and scanned but then shook her head. Ash said “magic based then…”

[Crawkid]

Oh, sure...now she noticed being tailed. The cat shakes its head a little inwardly, then his ears perk as he looks around with the little robot. His tail twiches, he doesnt like being the one followed. So he looks around again and points his paw to an alleyway on their way.

[MegaraFoxfire]

Ash nodded and ducked under a tall cart and said softly “Mina, battle ready” the ferret chirped again and her eyes glowed gold. Ash moved into the alleyway and turned on her wrist band and reached to get her pistol on her hip.

Then she waited for their tail to appear.

[Crawkid]

For chi's part, he hopped out of her arms and began to mold himself until there was a tiger standing next to her, at the ready

[MegaraFoxfire]

Three men walked into the alleyway and the tallest in the front chuckled. “Seems we weren’t stealthily enough boys. The little lady knew we were tailing her.”

Ash raised her pistol and said “I always sense when a threat is nearby. If it has a pulse I can feel it” the man smirked and said “you’re a hard girl to find…harder to pin down…we have a client who needs a word with ya…”

[Crawkid]

"Who are these idiots" thinks chi, and why arent they paying attention to the large scary predator?

It doesnt matter for now, he decides, he can probably get some answers after the threat has been dealt with. For now, he snarls. Big, mean, scary.

[MegaraFoxfire]

The guy looks at him then does a double take. “What the heck? That thing is real?! Not one of your tricks?!” Ash blinked and said “tricks? What the heck did your client say I did?”

The men all pulled guns out and aimed them and Ash sighed. “Great…this is not my day…I’m not out of the clinic an hour and I’m getting jumped again…”

[Crawkid]

Meanwhile, Chi has lost his patience. As they aim, he growls more, growing bigger and starting to form what looks like armor from an armadillo.

He hardly gives them time to consider running though, instead he charge, ready to swipe. Being a large, armored tiger, he is quite deadly- thugh he aims to incapacitate rather than kill.

[MegaraFoxfire]

The guys started firing and Ash saw the risk. She cursed and said “I didn’t want to do this…” she then threw her hand up and a shadow shot out and blocked the blasts from hitting Chi. Then she started firing stun bolts as Chi went on the attack. The three guys weren’t much of a match for the pair of them. Firing wild and yelling in terror.

[Crawkid]

After the trio is handled, Chi, the armored tiger stands over them and huffs. perhaps more like...pants. But he gives each a sniff, making sure theyre all unconcious before shifting once again. But this time...this time its much slower. Now he is an armored tiger centaur, his human trso reaching up and focusing hard enough to perform a contract with spirits - soon opening a portal to what Ash can see is obviously a scrapyard.

Grumbling and grunting in barely concealed pain, he just tosses the unconcious guys like luggage and pauses, looking at ash before gesturing for her to go through

[MegaraFoxfire]

Ash looked at him and said “are you…” then she felt her shadows reaching up as a shield again and she turned sharp. She threw them up as a blast from above hit the shadows that were shielding them. But the blast was more magic then the others and hit a trigger making her fall to her knees, her head snapping at the magic pulse.

[Crawkid]

Seeing they were under attack again, he rushed forward and grabbed her around the waist, practically throwing her through the portal with him as it snaps shut behind them.

Suddenly, it's quiet. The sounds of the city are just a faint buzz within the scrapyard. Not only do most people not go there, besides the workers, but there also seemed to be a noise dampener spell through out the area. Not extremely powerful, just enough to dampen the sounds of the louder crashes and banging going on, while allowing for normal conversational volumes.

Beside her were the threee stooges, still unconcious. And one armored tiger centaur, laying on his side and panting. His mana is weak, spent, and his skin is slowly turning more silver as he lays there.

around them, if she notices, are faint precenses. A mixture of shadow and mana, with signatures of contracted familiars.

[MegaraFoxfire]

Ash groaned as she tried to move, her head pounding and spinning badly as her body hurt. What had that attack been? What was that power? She looked around and said “Chi…”

Then a figure appeared before her and a accented voice said “well our cat brought in more then a rat…three mutts and a lovely dove…” Ash tried to move as she felt arms move around her and a pair of red eyes look at her. “My lady? Seems we have guests! Aura? come help Chi. He needs a boost”

By Chi appeared a flaming figure with wings then a sweet voice said “oh my sweet kitty…come here my sweet dear…”

[Crawkid]

Chi grunts softly, but seems to relax as he hears the familiar voices. His strange hybrid form begins to melt away faster, returning him to a blobular form, though looser and less dewdrop shaped than before. A bullet slides easily out of his mass onto the ground. But liquid shifters are a hardy bunch, hard to keep down. Only really harmed when in a fleshy state, and able to heal faster in their liquid state - with sufficient calories and nutrients.

"Oh poor boy...he was forced to be serious? What a surprise~" an elf clad in red and black leather walks out into the clearing, "Bring them back to the base, in seperate rooms. We'll get the full story in time."

The base wasnt far, just near the back of the scrapyard, in an underground labyrinth beneath an old bus.

[MegaraFoxfire]

Aura, the fire sprite, released her flames and appeared in her light red skin tone and bright gold eyes. She was wearing armor of the fire resistant style. She bent down and picked Chi up and hugged him to her huge chest. “My sweet chi…let’s go get you some food okay…”

The fang holding Ash stood but Ash tried to move from his arms. The brunette smirked softly as his red eyes glowed softly. “Even in your condition your a fighter…I like this one you brought home Chi…”

Ash said weakly as she fought to stand on her own “who…are you…” the fang smiled again and bowed to her. “Dante Vale. At your service. But I must get you inside for treatment my dear. Your not alright and I can tell…”

Ash swayed a bit on her feet as she watched Chi get taken away and she said “don’t…I can’t…” then she fell backwards with Dante there catching her in his arms. He picked her up bridal style and headed inside. “Coming Boss. This is going to get interesting…”