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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:05 pm
Again his hand twitched. If it wasn't for this constant twitch, he might've bought her story. "...Seems I fail to believe you...but the effort was good..." He decided to work on not speaking in broken sentences in the future, but he was a bit scrambled at the moment, not being able to fill in the plethora of holes that riddled his memory. "If there was nothing you could do...why is my body urging me to do this...?" In an unnaturally quick movement, Ein grabbed his bow from his quiver and, as it unfolded in its complex way, pulled a surprisingly familiar pure silver arrow out and notched it in his bow just as it had finished unfolding. He already had the string pulled back (boasting an immense pull of 300 compacted into a string that only took half the amount of effort to draw) with the arrow aimed at the girl's head. "...Huh...that felt so natural." Pieces were starting to fall into place in his memory about this girl. It made him believe that all he needed to do was to put a name to the face and the mystery would be solved. Ein lowered the bow, relaxed the string, but still kept himself ready for any unsure movement on the girl's part.
His hand twitched as soon as he lowered the bow. It was getting bothersome.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:15 pm
Finn instantly went into 'holy s**t mode' when she saw the all too familiar movement of the Hunter grabbing for his bow. With an inhuman speed she was at his side and reaching for his wrist, claws extended. It was only the silver bolt that stopped her from wailing on him and grabbing her bike to head for the highlands. Instead she grabbed his shoulder and went to kick his leg in at the knee. But he put down his bow....
Oh damn...
If that didn't make her look guilty she didn't know what did. Thankfully she could see them wheeling out her bike now. Maby she could blame it on his Hunter status? It was worth a shot! She relaxed her hand, hastily, and made it seem sympathetic.
"Your a hunter, it would be natural to shoot a Lycan, even if you knew them..."
She said, breathing heavily as if she was under stress. She didn't drop her hand from his shoulder, hoping that if her ploy didn't work she would be able to take him out of action before he did anything desperate.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:29 pm
His own reflexes kicked in after she grabbed his shoulder, even after she relaxed her grip. The hand that had been holding the string flicked downward toward his boots and, quite literally in the blink of an eye, he was holding one of the silver gladii in his possession to her stomach. After a very brief moment, he realized this and drew it back, putting it in his boot again. "...Sorry. Reflex..." Lightly removing her hand from his shoulder, he then took the arrow and put it back in the quiver, but kept his bow out...just in case. Her bringing up his being a Hunter was another elaborate ploy at lying her way out of him remembering the truth. Her almost completed attack gave away a lot. "Even so...my hand keeps twitching when I see you...and as you just saw, while my mind wants to talk, my body wants to shoot first and ask questions later..." Speak of the devil, there came that twitch. Ein sighed...he was so close to figuring out just one of the many holes in his memory...
"A name...what is your name...?" His scar practically burned now, he was getting so close. He ignored the pain and kept along his line of inquiry.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:38 pm
Finn's adrenalin skyrocketed as the blade was put to her stomach, even though it hadn't cut her yet it burned like fire being held to her stomach. Thankfully he had been kind enough to fall for her trick and put the blade away quickly. She was still breathing like a team of race horses, under all the stress she could hardly handle it. Finn just asked herself why she didn't just throw him against the wall and head for the high hills, especially when he asked for her name.
She took her time in telling him, as she walked around to grab her abandoned helmet and pay the guy who had finished working on her bike and was now rolling it out. When she was finally ready to leave she mounted her bike and put her helmet on, started the engine and then told him her name.
"Finn."
She would bolt if he remembered anything, but stayed there against her better judgment just to see if she could make a new friend out of an old opponent.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:51 pm
Ein sat down as he mulled the name around in his mind. Finn... His head started to hurt from all the effort he had making in racking his brain for answers. Bits and pieces of memory came together, starting with the scar. It involved an M-80 being shoved into a dangerously close proximity to his face, and the resulting explosion tore apart seventy percent of his face almost down to the bone. Finn... The next thing that came to mind were the long scars on his arm, which had been made in an unfortunate encounter with a lycan...one with blue hair and red camo. His blood had stained his nice white shirt. ...Finn? The last thing that came to mind an image of the junkyard. Two lycans, one which he knew to be Zzeill, were hacking at each other playfully with pipes when he had interrupted their playtime with one of his screecher arrows...that's where he recognized the voice from.
Everything fell into place now as he returned to the memory of his scar. The M-80...the explosion...and the brief flash of light that illuminated the face of the one who did it...
Ein's eyes snapped open as he shot upright from the chair, his bow drawn with a silver arrow (but not the one he fashioned especially for her), ready to fire. "It was you!" He shouted.
Took him long enough.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:59 pm
Finn, in a moment of stupid panic hit the gas and did a standing donut with a screeching sound as she turned sending gravel and dirt of the two-bit garage's floor flying towards Ein's face. Hopefully that would keep him distracted enough for her to get the hell out of there!
"What took you so long?"
She asked as she peeled out of the place like an avenging hell's angel with a deafening screech of the tires and a roar of the mighty Harley engine. In her haste she had blatantly blown through a stop sign and almost hit a few cars, thankfully it was late and few people where out so she was able to weave in and out of the cars. As she turned the corner, with almost too much speed to the point where her head was inches from the ground, she looked back to see the hunter's reaction.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:14 pm
It was at times like this that Ein was glad that his DNA was of the recombinant flavor. A split second after Finn bolted out of the shop, he took off after her, using the rooftops to his advantage as he bounded across them. He took every opportunity available to fire off different varieties of arrows at her...but he kept his more destructive ones in reserve. He knew he'd catch some serious flak from one of the higher ups if he started blowing s**t up that didn't need to be blown up.
He also took care not to nail any unfortunate civilians...but it was late at night, so there were very few out and about. As the fleeing lycan turned corner after corner, he found it getting harder and harder to keep up. He found a remedy soon after.
Spying a young-looking fellow sprucing up his bike a few blocks ahead, he leapt off the rooftop and landed next to the bike, putting a small indent in the ground (he weighs more than he looks, blame his freaky DNA). He only had a few seconds. "`Scuse me, Rambo, I need to borrow this." With that, he hopped onto the well-kept Virago, brought it roaring to life, floored the gas and took after his target, leaving the unfortunate kid behind. All he heard over the roaring bike was the poor guy yelling, "Aw, man! I JUST BOUGHT THAT!"
In the back of his mind, he wondered how many laws would be broken in this one night.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:29 pm
Finn saw the hunter hit the rooftops and pulled out her small handgun that she kept inside her leather jacket. Weaving in and out of the cars to avoid the array of more than unfriendly arrows he was raining down on her wile trying to take aim and shoot at him. One of the arrows landed dangerously close to her tire and she took an illegal turn in hopes of throwing him off for a few seconds.
She saw him disappear and with a grateful sigh she turned back into a proper lane so she wasn't dodging traffic... when it came along, not too many cars where out at this hour. Unthankfuly the familiar roar of a bike alerted her to something chasing after her and she turned around for a brief glance back.
Ein was back... Oh crap.
"you just don't give up do you?!"
She demanded over her shoulder as she took a few half-blind shots at him with her handgun. With another screech of the wheels she turned another corner at death defying speeds that would have been almost impossible for someone without inhuman reflexes
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:51 pm
Ein barely managed to make one of the turns Finn pulled by popping up on his front wheel and spinning the back one off the side of a car, tearing apart its windows. Luckily, it that tempered glass that broke off in tiny shard that weren't highly capable of destroying tires. As soon he got her in a straight street without any turns for a distance, he pulled something very tricky.
He popped a wheelie, high enough so that he didn't have to put his hands to the handlebars, but not so high as to lose control. In the brief amount of time that he had, he notched a Screecher in his bow as Finn fired blind shots at him. One grazed his cheek, yet he remained focused. He didn't have enough stability on the bike for an accurate shot...
...but Screechers weren't meant to be accurate. Just loud.
Taking his own blind shot, he tried to aim to the side of the bike, letting the arrow fly at an incredible speed. Ein almost felt sorry for Finn, but he didn't envy the pain her ears were about to feel.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:05 pm
Finn heard Ein knock the arrow to his bow, compound bows are nice and loud that way, and she took a turn to a lane over to avoid being hit. Sadly this did her little good as the arrow grazed past two lanes over with a wistleing sound that would have any dog squeeling in pain. She lifted her hands wholly off the handles to press over her helmet tighter, so the padding eased the pain on her ears that felt like they where going to birst.
With that motion she lost controll of the bike and it went screeching towards the sidewalk. Finn ducked to the side so the bike was forced off it's wheels on onto it's side. Sparks flew everywhere as the bike slowly came to a screeching stop by hitting a building on a sidewalk. Finn had rolled away just in time, dispite death defying speeds the riding jacket had taken most of the scrapes and her helmet did it's job well. With her ears still pounding from the screeching arrow Finn was back on her feet quickly. Down on one Knee as Ein passed, with a steady arm she took several, hopefuly well placed, shots aimed at his chest, the gas tank and his tires.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:12 pm
Ein saw Finn's bike go down but was caught by surprise as he saw her make a near-instant recovery and pull a spray-and-pray on him. He felt one of the bullets connect with kevlar in his vest, and he heard another bounce off the asphalt and one connect with the gas tank. Luckily for him, the first shot to his chest, going at such speed, provided enough force to be knocked off the bike. Rolling as he hit the asphalt, he stopped and got to his feet quickly, ready for another face-off...
...just in time to see his "borrowed" possession go up into a ball of flame and crash into a parked car...which resulted in an even larger ball of flame.
"...Lucky shot." Ein scoffed.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:20 pm
Finn was happy to take note that the ball of fire became larger after hitting a parked car. Distruction by fire was her kind of thing, thats how she got into most trouble... Mostly in this city. After a brush with the cops in Chicago about a burning building she had to lay off the fireworks, but that didn't mean she couldn't enjoy this explosion! Finn put a new clip to her gun as she saw the Hunter emerge from a few feet away from the crash, and scowled. The jurk was wearing a bullet proof vest!
"Luck is one shot."
She said, with a nod to the vest that had a cupple of her bullets lodged into it. she planned on making the next shot count, and made to place two right in his knees before dashing to the side of him. If he decided to pull out that bow again, she wasn't going to present a still target.
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:09 am
Ein matched Finn's dashing movement, making the bullets aimed at his knees barely miss. He was already going to have a nice bruise where that one bullet hit his vest, he didn't want to have to worry about his kneecaps, too. This fight was just the opportunity he needed to try out his new guns. A while back, Ein traded in his old Mauser Red9's for two sparkling new .50mm Smith & Wesson magnums, complete with silver bullets. Pulling the two guns out from his vest, he fired off the first shot from one...
...and the kickback made him lose his balance.
s**t! He swore mentally as he caught himself and regained his balance, hiding behind a truck for a brief second (where do all these cars come from?). And he thought the kickback on his old guns was bad! That shot damn near knocked off his shoulder! What was satisfying to see was, although he missed Finn by a country mile, the car that he had hit was now sporting a new half-inch thick bullet hole that went clean through the door.
Oh yeah, these would cause some damage.
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:16 am
Finn dove quickly downwards as Ein pulled out a variable handheld Cannon. The blast hit a car way to her left and way behind her leaving a mark that would make a tank envious. With a gasp she put her gun back in it's jacket holster and dashed around the side of the car Ein had taken cover behind. With her inhuman reflexes and sound sensitive ears she creeped quietly up behind him as he stared at the other side of the car looking for bullets or some other kind of retaliation from her.
Well, he would get retaliation. With a feral howl she dove at his back, claws outwards and fangs a-blazing. In these close quarters it would be dangerous for Ein to use his cannons so Finn was relatively confident as she started to go for his shoulders arms and head with wild lashing claws.
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:52 am
Close quarters was never a good mix with Ein. He wasn't a master at hand-to-hand like many of the hunters, and didn't exactly have the instinctual hand-to-hand prowess like the lycans. He knew enough to stay alive, though. Quick as he could, he split to the side to evade Finn's rush, but she still managed to graze his arm, slicing through his undershirt and drawing blood. Putting his guns away and whipping out both gladii, he stood in a battle-ready position once more. Things...might get tricky now.
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