11-21-2009, 07:26 AM
After the first fight against Kaden, she'd awoken in a dumpster. This time, Damon had shaken things up a bit by teleporting her somehow into a more abysmal location than previously. There was no disgusting smell, at the least, but the confinement was just as small and it was just as dark as the first time.
She didn't entirely understand why she had even been teleported in the first place. In the hotel, she had managed to narrowly escape from her assailant with a bit of difficulty before she finally came across another translucent stasis barrier just outside of the city block. Having not been knocked out, she was perfectly capable of continuing her escape. There wasn't any reason to turn down a perfectly good card out of there, but this wasn't exactly better for her.
She had shimmered away suddenly as the wall faded simultaneously, the world suddenly becoming quite dark. At first, she'd just stayed silent within the room, taking the route of safety before impulse. After a few moments, however, she'd heard nothing beyond a disturbing creaking sound.
Her footsteps echoed a bit on the carpeted floor as she walked across it with her arms wide, nearly jamming her fingertips as she unknowingly slammed them into the sealed door before her. Her first thoughts were that she had been teleported into some kind of dark room, an empty bunker without power perhaps, but she quickly realized that she was actually stuck inside of an elevator.
One that was also without power.
"Oh, FML," she groaned, speaking the acronym for a less than pleasant phrase for the situation.
All attempts at prying the door apart had proven pointless. Damon had clearly thought that he was being hilarious with this game of his. Her fingers had tried every combination of buttons that should could randomly think of against the keypad to no avail. Deciding that the risk was worth the chance to escape, she leveled the wand shaped Ki Rifle out before her, pointing it directly at the metal plate housing the electronics.
Pausing for a moment, she gave the wand a theatrical wave through the air accompanied by the words "Open sesame!" The blast from the wand ricocheted off of the wall before her, returning quickly to graze past her before hitting the wall behind her and bouncing off. She fell to the ground and rolled over, hiding below the beam's level to avoid getting hurt by the failed blast. Fortunately, the beam had a great side effect during its short lifespan before it dispersed.
There was a small metal grating at the top of the roof that looked like an escape hatch in case of, of all things, power failure. Ashe climbed back to her feet and took a deep breath before aiming the wand at the general location that she'd seen this in. "Let's try this again..." She gave herself a moment to settle on a phrase before lavishly announcing "Abracadabra!"
Moments later, she found herself at the top of the elevator, having attempted a few jumps before managing to catch the edge of the exit. She was extremely lucky to find that the doors leading into the elevator shaft for the floor directly above her were wide open, taking nothing more than a measured leap to clear the distance. Putting it behind her, she decided that the next course of action would be to find Kaden again to continue her training.
It was one thing, she realized, to be completely out gunned in a fight in which one had no guns to bring to the table themselves. It was entirely another to have the capabilities to accomplish a goal and still manage to fail. It was a rough equivalent to studying all night for an exam only to find your mind going blank the moment you look at the test. You fail, everyone around you scores within ten percent of a perfect score.
Her trip from the elevator took her roughly thirty minutes, stretching throughout the halls of a building that seemed to be a business of some sort, complete with cubicles and work desks, all the way back out into the block where her fight had taken place. Thankfully, she managed to recognize her location and find her way back to the city bunker, her eyes growing dark as she stepped through the entranceway of the dark bunker.
"No way," she whispered, running her fingers along her collar. "This place has the power shut down too? Is the entire grid down or something? All of this fortune from running this event and someone can't even pay the power bill..." It was annoying, she realized, and actually terrifying to know that she was likely to be the only person within the entire Sector distance.
Well, her mind reasoned. That wasn't entire true. There were always other fighters in this event that were looking to kill her, and Damon had made absolutely sure that even if they didn't want to, they would. Turning back towards the door, Ashe noticed a sheet of paper had fallen to the ground.
"Dear honored guests,
This bunker is no longer Active. Participants will need to travel to another bunker in order to reset their collars. I apologize for any inconvenience.
"Yeah, he totally would do something like that," she complained, her words falling into the darkness. She turned the paper over in her hands before she realized that someone had written the word MOUNTAIN across the sheet. "Kaden," she realized. The two of them had originally planned to head back to the mountains the first time before they had gotten turned around. He would have headed back here to find her and leave some kind of clue for her, she assumed.
Dropping the note back to the ground, she pulled her map out from her bag. "So the quickest way to the Mountain Sector would be to follow this street all the way to the end of the bridge before taking a left here..." she mumbled, making sure that she had all of the details straight in her mind.
It took her very little time at all to find her way back into the Mountain Sector, surprising her as she realized that she was simply retracing the route that she had first used to come back across into the City. There had been another bridge also just around the curve of the canyon that she'd had to climb up upon her arrival on Dante. The bridge took her completely over her arrival location and to her amusement, the floor was actually still not covered with lava of any sort.
The actual trip to the bunker took a bit longer than the one to the Mountains, forcing her to frequently consult her map to make sure that she hadn't turned herself around. If Kaden had indeed gone this direction, she reasoned, she was likely to beat him to the bunker itself, as it was a known fact to all of the girls at her school that men never asked for directions of any kind. With some of her boyfriends, she would be lucky if they didn't intentionally turn the exact opposite direction from what she suggested according to a map, in some attempt to prove the map (and girl) wrong to help their ego out.
Thankfully, the travel time had given her a chance to take her mind off of the fight from before by letting her tune the world completely out to her music player in her ears. She had everything on shuffle, from heavy guitar tunes to screaming insane music to trance and rave music. The trance music, especially, seemed to help her with the situation as she continued to try to bring some kind of life to the palms of her hands. A few times, while zoning out completely, she had reached her hands up to wipe the growing sweat from her face. The first time she panicked, realizing that she had her hair matted up with dried blood inside of it from her fight.
Lucky her, there were no brains leaking out or anything of that nature.
The second time, she noticed that her hand was once more giving off a wispy blue light, fading quickly as she realized what was happening and tried to focus on it. "That's cool, I understand," she announced sarcastically. It was a great thing that no one was nearby as well, since the music over her ears left her unable to gauge the volume of her voice. "Keep screwing with the girl who can't use her energy!"
The rest of her trip was spent with her deep in focus of trying to conjure up some kind of energy once more, taking full advantage of the chance to practice her art when it might actually matter. Seeing the bunker in the distance, however, extinguished the concerns as she burst into a sprint, her fists balling up tightly and thrusting out into the air. The collar announced her arrival as she came through the door and slid to a halt, nearly running directly into Kaden at the entranceway as he was walking outside to look around.
"Whoa, whoa!"
The two collided painfully and hit the ground. Kaden was the first to his feet and he reached down to help her to her feet before grinning. "Hey, congrats on the energy use," he commended, looking down at her outstretched hand as he took it. She looked from his eyes to her hands and saw that they were indeed glowing once more.
"Son of a-"
She didn't entirely understand why she had even been teleported in the first place. In the hotel, she had managed to narrowly escape from her assailant with a bit of difficulty before she finally came across another translucent stasis barrier just outside of the city block. Having not been knocked out, she was perfectly capable of continuing her escape. There wasn't any reason to turn down a perfectly good card out of there, but this wasn't exactly better for her.
She had shimmered away suddenly as the wall faded simultaneously, the world suddenly becoming quite dark. At first, she'd just stayed silent within the room, taking the route of safety before impulse. After a few moments, however, she'd heard nothing beyond a disturbing creaking sound.
Her footsteps echoed a bit on the carpeted floor as she walked across it with her arms wide, nearly jamming her fingertips as she unknowingly slammed them into the sealed door before her. Her first thoughts were that she had been teleported into some kind of dark room, an empty bunker without power perhaps, but she quickly realized that she was actually stuck inside of an elevator.
One that was also without power.
"Oh, FML," she groaned, speaking the acronym for a less than pleasant phrase for the situation.
All attempts at prying the door apart had proven pointless. Damon had clearly thought that he was being hilarious with this game of his. Her fingers had tried every combination of buttons that should could randomly think of against the keypad to no avail. Deciding that the risk was worth the chance to escape, she leveled the wand shaped Ki Rifle out before her, pointing it directly at the metal plate housing the electronics.
Pausing for a moment, she gave the wand a theatrical wave through the air accompanied by the words "Open sesame!" The blast from the wand ricocheted off of the wall before her, returning quickly to graze past her before hitting the wall behind her and bouncing off. She fell to the ground and rolled over, hiding below the beam's level to avoid getting hurt by the failed blast. Fortunately, the beam had a great side effect during its short lifespan before it dispersed.
There was a small metal grating at the top of the roof that looked like an escape hatch in case of, of all things, power failure. Ashe climbed back to her feet and took a deep breath before aiming the wand at the general location that she'd seen this in. "Let's try this again..." She gave herself a moment to settle on a phrase before lavishly announcing "Abracadabra!"
Moments later, she found herself at the top of the elevator, having attempted a few jumps before managing to catch the edge of the exit. She was extremely lucky to find that the doors leading into the elevator shaft for the floor directly above her were wide open, taking nothing more than a measured leap to clear the distance. Putting it behind her, she decided that the next course of action would be to find Kaden again to continue her training.
It was one thing, she realized, to be completely out gunned in a fight in which one had no guns to bring to the table themselves. It was entirely another to have the capabilities to accomplish a goal and still manage to fail. It was a rough equivalent to studying all night for an exam only to find your mind going blank the moment you look at the test. You fail, everyone around you scores within ten percent of a perfect score.
Her trip from the elevator took her roughly thirty minutes, stretching throughout the halls of a building that seemed to be a business of some sort, complete with cubicles and work desks, all the way back out into the block where her fight had taken place. Thankfully, she managed to recognize her location and find her way back to the city bunker, her eyes growing dark as she stepped through the entranceway of the dark bunker.
"No way," she whispered, running her fingers along her collar. "This place has the power shut down too? Is the entire grid down or something? All of this fortune from running this event and someone can't even pay the power bill..." It was annoying, she realized, and actually terrifying to know that she was likely to be the only person within the entire Sector distance.
Well, her mind reasoned. That wasn't entire true. There were always other fighters in this event that were looking to kill her, and Damon had made absolutely sure that even if they didn't want to, they would. Turning back towards the door, Ashe noticed a sheet of paper had fallen to the ground.
"Dear honored guests,
This bunker is no longer Active. Participants will need to travel to another bunker in order to reset their collars. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Regards, Your Humble Host,
Damon Dukes"
Damon Dukes"
"Yeah, he totally would do something like that," she complained, her words falling into the darkness. She turned the paper over in her hands before she realized that someone had written the word MOUNTAIN across the sheet. "Kaden," she realized. The two of them had originally planned to head back to the mountains the first time before they had gotten turned around. He would have headed back here to find her and leave some kind of clue for her, she assumed.
Dropping the note back to the ground, she pulled her map out from her bag. "So the quickest way to the Mountain Sector would be to follow this street all the way to the end of the bridge before taking a left here..." she mumbled, making sure that she had all of the details straight in her mind.
It took her very little time at all to find her way back into the Mountain Sector, surprising her as she realized that she was simply retracing the route that she had first used to come back across into the City. There had been another bridge also just around the curve of the canyon that she'd had to climb up upon her arrival on Dante. The bridge took her completely over her arrival location and to her amusement, the floor was actually still not covered with lava of any sort.
The actual trip to the bunker took a bit longer than the one to the Mountains, forcing her to frequently consult her map to make sure that she hadn't turned herself around. If Kaden had indeed gone this direction, she reasoned, she was likely to beat him to the bunker itself, as it was a known fact to all of the girls at her school that men never asked for directions of any kind. With some of her boyfriends, she would be lucky if they didn't intentionally turn the exact opposite direction from what she suggested according to a map, in some attempt to prove the map (and girl) wrong to help their ego out.
Thankfully, the travel time had given her a chance to take her mind off of the fight from before by letting her tune the world completely out to her music player in her ears. She had everything on shuffle, from heavy guitar tunes to screaming insane music to trance and rave music. The trance music, especially, seemed to help her with the situation as she continued to try to bring some kind of life to the palms of her hands. A few times, while zoning out completely, she had reached her hands up to wipe the growing sweat from her face. The first time she panicked, realizing that she had her hair matted up with dried blood inside of it from her fight.
Lucky her, there were no brains leaking out or anything of that nature.
The second time, she noticed that her hand was once more giving off a wispy blue light, fading quickly as she realized what was happening and tried to focus on it. "That's cool, I understand," she announced sarcastically. It was a great thing that no one was nearby as well, since the music over her ears left her unable to gauge the volume of her voice. "Keep screwing with the girl who can't use her energy!"
The rest of her trip was spent with her deep in focus of trying to conjure up some kind of energy once more, taking full advantage of the chance to practice her art when it might actually matter. Seeing the bunker in the distance, however, extinguished the concerns as she burst into a sprint, her fists balling up tightly and thrusting out into the air. The collar announced her arrival as she came through the door and slid to a halt, nearly running directly into Kaden at the entranceway as he was walking outside to look around.
"Whoa, whoa!"
The two collided painfully and hit the ground. Kaden was the first to his feet and he reached down to help her to her feet before grinning. "Hey, congrats on the energy use," he commended, looking down at her outstretched hand as he took it. She looked from his eyes to her hands and saw that they were indeed glowing once more.
"Son of a-"
Quote:Ashe has left the City Sector and entered the Mountain Sector. She has entered the Mountain Sector Bunker.
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