Welcome to Gaia! ::

For a place with the policies and layout of Barton Town, the Red Light District is a really booming place. No matter the time of day, one will find young Gaians lurking the alleys and secret "love mansions," most of them with insane speech impediments ("hi wana cyber asl lol") and little concept of what it is, exactly, they are looking for.

At the center of the district is a large "club" called Personals. A few years ago the club was closed down, but many still sneak in to take advantage of it's various facilities.

• Head north to reach Barton Fountain.
  
• Head east to reach The Rubble.
  
• Head south to reach the South Gate.
  
• Head west to reach the Barton Hospital.

Xallen finally arrived at his intended destination: the Red Light District. They had been hard at work for quite some time now, and Xallen was really ready to finally relax for awhile. There was delicious food everywhere in this district. And probably most importantly, there were lots of girls...or at least people wearing dresses. The average age in here was about thirteen, which was to his current personality's liking. Apparently he was developing a Michael Jackson personality as well. He looked to Zen and said, "You know, let's go find somewhere to eat and relax." And they looked for such things.

((I'm thinking I'm gonna have to second that...unless Arc is coming here with a puzzle. biggrin ))

Angel came up not far behind the winged figure. He was tossing more grenades out towards harmless citizens. In the time she was running she'd already manned her bow. The arrow was ready. She brought the bow up and released it at the target.

"Try throwing another grenade at me!"

Oh yeah, she was pissed. Someone was gonna die for that move, and hopefully it wasn't her.

The arrow flew true enough, clipping part of his left wing. The laughter of the man was cut off by a sharp cry, and his wings folded in, dropping the guy like a rock. He was falling fast, about to hit pavement, when finally his wings snapped open, breaking him out of the suicide dive, and pulling him out into a nearly street level (About 4 feet high) flight. His wings were already angled up, starting to trade his speed from the fall, to altitude.

And while he was at it, two objects dropped from his belt. Not grenades. They looked more like flat plates, about 6 inches by 4 inches.

Tweak moved to comply with her request but never quite made it through. IF she dropped the shield as soon as she warned him he would manage to fire off a shot in the thing's general direction.

But if she waited his marking would flare up, his marble glow, and then vanish altogether into nothingness. He hit the ground like a brick in the few seconds it took his energy to return. It was gone, he felt weird, this was bad, oh lawd, hurry and fix it. It was kind of like that feeling when he replaced his first marble with the speedy one and...oh wait.

With that in mind Tweak's hand flew to his bag and poped open the pack. The Moralizer marble would have to be inserted into his navel before he found the strenght to stand up. Hopefully Angel would come to the same conclusion.

Chances are her shield had dropped when her marble vanished, prompting Tweak - if they had not been attacked yet - to shoot in the general direction of the thing had he not before. But he was not really focused so much on that as he was on yelling to Angel.

"Go replace Athan's marble!" Yeah, he was actually kind of concerned about that. More because the guy had been so useful to them thus far. It might have even suprized Angel that once she replaced her marble, Tweak would be throwing one at her to take to Athan. He had put in Motivator, what he gave her would be his Attacker.

((Yeah, I was waiting for the shield to drop, but since things went everywhere it changed for where she was heading. xd ))

Angel hadn't even dropped the shield yet when her shoulder started to glow and it was replaced with a sudden weakness. s**t, just as two grenades were lobbed at them. They hit and broke the shield for her. It tossed her backwards, landing not far from Tweak.

She was sore, along with feeling very weak, it was consuming her until she fetched the fortifier marble from her pocket and switched it with the attacker, sending that burning sensation back through her shoulder. Now she felt renewed, but in that time she had to worry about Tweak actually covering there backs.

Standing up as quickly as she could after being tossed, she grabbed the marble Tweak was handing her and ran over to Athan, shoving it into the palm of his hand, the marble that was in his hand popped out and was replaced by another. She shoved it in her pocket and turned, hoping to find that the winged man wasn't barreling down on them.

The bullet was off target. Or at least, not lethal. It hit him over on the left side of his stomach, mostly a flesh wound, or if it was going to kill him, it was going to take a hell of a long time to do so. Longer than Tweak had most likely.

Especially as he fell for the decoy, winging off towards his right. He pulled off three grenades in one hand, tossing it over in a sidearm throw toward Tweak. One aimed at the ground right under him, another aimed 5 yards to his left, the third aimed 5 yards to his right.

((Impact style, Explosive in the middle, fragmentations on the left and right.))

Oh ********, he was dead, game over, the end, LIFE IS FINISHED.

Arms crossed, body got into it, head went down, and it altogether looked like he was planning on weathering the storm as he threw himself back. First grenade to detonate was the one in front of him.

Instant severe burning sensation across his arms, legs, and he smelt osme of his hair burning. It also threw him back by force of the explosion rather violently before he stopped against something rather hard. That something, rather then the gates of heaven or a wall, turned out to be Angel's sphere thing. Inside of the sphere he burned for a moment before it died out and the sphere for heavily assaulted by shrapnel, the excess flame, and other things that would probably wear it down relatively fast.

What did Tweak have to show for the save? Some of his tips were burnt, arms felt heavily sunburned thanks to the heat, and his legs felt similiar to his arms. The worst thing was really getting tossed back into the sphere-shield by an explosion which prompted a rather hard hit.

He was so not quite fully coherant at the moment kthx. That he was awake and consious was a go, but he was pretty much down for the moment as his vision swam, brain rushed to catch up with what was going on, and he held his gun uselessly in his left hand with back leaned up against the sphere.