--- Kat ---
Kat didn't think she'd ever et soone that would make her more uncomfortable then g. No that was wrong, she knew it would happen eventually. She just didn't think it would happen IN THE SA DAMNED MISSION! Kamiko had gone passed the point of exhaustion to hill the dickhead. She wasn't in recharge mode she was completely unconscious.
Kat was furious, and planning multiple ways to ensure that Ronldo didn't survive whatever was about to happen next. Kat wasn't entirely sure how serious she was about those plans… but Lily was working alongside her, happily creating her own or ensuring that Kat's plans were a bit more robust. Ti would tell really. Oh, and she was keeping the knife. Ronldo didn't deserve it back.
Hunter had a slight frown on her face but it wasn't major. Kat didn't really know what that ant, perhaps she was disguising her dislike for the mission or perhaps to her it was 'disappointing but understandable' having spent so long around g. Strdl looked uneasy but also sort of smug. As if she knew sothing like this was bound to happen from the start. g seed entirely unconcerned, sothing that just added to Kat's frustration.
Pebbles actually looked the most uncomfortable, besides Kat and Lily of course. He was leaning slightly away from his 'friend' and wasn't looking pleased at all. He was fidgeting in place sowhat and if Kat kept her ears open she could hear stone moving about underneath the table in a cyclical motion. Perhaps as a way to calm himself down.
"So, what happened?" asked g while the others were still recovering.
Kat pulled Kamiko closer into the hug she'd wrapped the younger girl in. Not willing to let Kamiko leave her reach at this point in ti. "Well, we might not have too much ti so I'll stick to the basics first, and expand later if we can. I assud, correctly it seems, that soone on your team would sneak into the vault. So I'd set up in the corner and was watching the only entrance.
"I didn't spot anything at all until Trvis showed up, for you demons he's our secondary contact with the nobles we work with. He's more of the muscle but not stupid by any ans… and he knows the key to the safe. He opened the door and walked inside, heading straight for the gem.
"He moved through disabling most of the protections, but not all of them. Seems our other major contact, Sarhe put a few extra bits of protection that she didn't talk about. She's both the main contact and our enchanter for most things. Anyway, Trvis smashed through and grabbed the crystal.
"At that point I confronted him… I considered trying to just get the drop on him but if he died before I got any answers we'd still be in trouble. Anyway, he shouted 'I will take this power for myself!' and then he shattered it to pieces on the floor before taking a large one and STABBED HIMSELF IN THE CHEST with it. Crazy stuff I tell ya…"
g's eyes went wide as she heard this, but didn't interrupt as Ronldo continued. "I didn't stop him. I an, we knew it reford when broken because of a mistake made in transit… and well… it went right into where his heart should be so I thought the guy was crazy and about to be quite dead… but instead… instead he sort of twitched things got a bit fuzzy for a second then…
"It's so hard to explain it. It's like my brain failed to properly add the mory to my mind but it was happening even as I was watching it. Things sort of… blurred over and then all of a sudden he was completely different. Long claws instead of fingers, ghostly wings behind him and he roared. That set off sothing and the whole enchantnt exploded.
"Barely managed to get behind the wall and save myself from most of the damage. Had to use a few of my defensive items for that. I was just going to run away when the dick teleported behind and stabbed through the chest. As in, while I was hiding in the corner. There wasn't even enough space for him to fir there let alone stand and wind up for a stabbing…
"From there you basically know what happened. My last resort teleporter shoved away and from there, and sent to my good friend the Mountain Shaker here," Ronldo patted Pebbles on the shoulder and the other man looked distinctly uncomfortable at that mont. "Normally it's ant to send to a safehouse, but I guess the backup for the backup triggered and I ended up here instead. I think that mode was ant for closed off space.. but eh."
g nodded along. "So we need to find and take down… Trvis you said. Finding Sarhe might also be worthwhile…"
"Yeah but she's not here at the mont. It's one of the reasons Trvis was willing to risk sothing like this. She's away for so reason. Didn't tell us why but it's been planned for weeks at this point. The fact you attacked while she was away is real bad luck for us," said Ronldo.
g frowned but nodded. "So just find him and deal with him? Sounds tricky if that explosion didn't take him out…"
Ronldo paused for a mont freezing in place completely before eventually loosening up enough to reply. "Huh… I did not think of that. I was just thinking that he like teleported out at the sa ti as he attacked … but perhaps not? That's strange… are you sure he would've tanked the blast?"
g shrugged, "That wasn't really my point. My point was that he managed to deal with a concentrated and powerful blast at point blank range without any knowledge of it beforehand. It doesn't matter if it's through reflexes or durability but he DID manage to survive. As such he is likely quite a deadly foe…"
Ass g was speaking Lily leapt forward onto the table and everyone reacted to her sudden change in position. Before they could do much though, a tear in space opened up at the sa ti as Lily coated the gash in paper shields with a solid layer of shadows in between them.
Sadly, while Lily was quick to react she didn't have the power necessary to do more than slow down the thing on the other side. Claws ripped through the paper and shadow with ease, disrupting the spell and revealing Trvis.
Since Ronldo had described him a few things had changed. His face had started to stretch outwards into a muzzle. It hadn't completed the transformation yet but it was moving that way. The invisible wings were a bit more solid but clearly ethereal. In contrast, what once might have been nice leather armour had been shredded as Trvis' muscles expanded in size. "I'LL GET YOU!" growled Trvis through elongating teeth as he jumped towards the Lily, the nearest person to him.
Lily threw up several paper shields as she jumped backwards. At the sa ti Hunter shot him right in the head. The bullet went through with minimal resistance, brain and blood coating the table as the body collapsed. Kat let herself relax, breathing deeply… but only for about half a second.
The corpse on the ground seed to shudder and glitch like she was looking at a faulty computer program. It twitched in place without the limbs moving, jittering slightly to the left in right and then Trvis reford. Two of him. One from the remnants of his head, and the second from the main body that remained. "I'LL GET YOU!" yelled them both at the sa ti.
One slashed its way through Lily's shields, while the other went for Hunter. The lamia jumped backwards and yelled, "g how do we deal with these things!" Not noticing her slipup with the 'na'.
At the sa ti Kat and Lily were backpedalling away from the second on. "Take Kamiko for , I can't fight and hold her," Lily nodded transforming and grabbing Kamiko from Kat's hands. At the sa ti Ronldo was backing up and Pebbles summoned up a large hand of stone, squishing both of the Trvis on the table.
For a mont things were silent but g quickly said, "Don't kill them! They just co back! I'm having trouble working out what to do!"
At the sa ti four Trvis… clones? Copy? Temporal anomalies? Whatever they were, four of them rose up above the stone hand and leapt. One going at each person with Pebbles and Ronldo sharing a Trvis, and the sa for Kat and Lily.
Pebbles reacted first, dropping the table and ground below into a big hole and closing the lid over the top. This only managed to catch three of them. The one going for Kat and Lily was close enough to jump over. Moving forward, Kat winced as she let stab into her arms as she pulled it into a bear hug as softly as she could manage while that Trvis thrashed around.
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