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ENTER Rapture, Kenji, and Riku FROM LEX CORP


Rapture dove through destroyed buildings and around broken chunks of stone, trying to get some distance between himself and his pursuers. He made sure he kept his camouflage ability up, so that he could at least hide from Kenji. Riku, on the other hand, would probably still be able to sense him unless he shook the boy off his tail.
Once he found a suitable place to hide, he ducked into it and paused there a moment to catch his breath. This was ridiculous. He should have took to flying when he was on high enough ground to do so.

Kenji and Riku, in his Blood form, kept moving across the rubble, trying to keep up.
"Which way is he?" Kenji asked.

"In that direction." Riku replied, out of breath.

"You hang back then for a minute. I'll try and head him off." The next second, the man was gone.

Riku grimaced and tried to move faster. Unfortunately, the opposite was all he got. Unable to move much more, Riku had to stop and take a break. They'd been running for miles.
Landing on a large broken bolder, Riku sat down and let the majority of his Blood retract. Not all of it though. Needed some to be on the alert in case he needed it.
Damn it...why was NOTHING going right today?
He attacked and nearly killed Sapphire, managed to get captured as a result, then spent a few minutes with some stupid talking cat, tried multiple times to get Rapture to help him make a cure for this Blood problem, almost got his original Blood back, nearly got killed by Reaper, and what was surprisingly the worst of all...Kenji told Alex that he had a crush on her. Damn it! Why did he have to do that?! As many times as he tried to kill Sapphire, there was no way Alex would ever consider liking him. And now things were going to be...Ugh.

Riku's attention snapped back to reality when he suddenly felt the presence of something very, very familiar. Turning, he glared a bit up at the woman who wore his old blood. He hesitated a moment or two before answering. "As long as I can trust you to do the same." he called back, letting a small bit more of his Blood retract as a small gesture of truce.
To be honest...he didn't have the energy to try anything right now.

Riku's features twisted into something close to anger. What was more noticable than that, at least by anyone who had blood of their own, was that his new blood gave off more anger than he did. "Funny...you're the one who found me. I've found someone else to chase lately." he growled. "How does that work for me stalking you." Then he paused a moment, and his tone carried a hint of reluctance. "And I suppose we've both found something better. You don't have to worry about me trying to get you back."
His new blood was stronger, and for once, it actually refused to leave him. Something his old blood was rather quick to do. And...what the monkey had said after the girl had been taken away...actually made a lot of sense once he calmed down enough to think about it.

Riku paused a moment to see if Slaughter had anything else to say. "Is that all you wanted to talk about? I was kind of in the middle of something."

Riku stared at where the creature had been for another long moment, then relaxed and sat back down on the rock. If he wasn't ticked off before, he was now. It wanted to leave him from the start, huh? It even thought that Fisk was better than him.

'He's not...' a voice said gently. "You seen how quick it was to return to you when Fisk was taken down."

'It was just as quick to leave me when things were rough.'

'It didn't care about you...not the way you cared for it. As many times as it left you when you needed it, it only cared about itself. It only came back when it was convenient for itself.'

Riku paused a moment and stared at the ground. This was stupid. He felt like...he felt like he'd been dumped by his first crush after dating for years. He felt jealous. Angry. And more than a little hurt.

Without him telling it to, ink black 'skin' slid over his body and wrapped around his form, almost like a hug. 'I know it hurts...' the voice spoke again. 'And I know moving on won't happen quickly. But you don't need to worry about anything now. I do care for you. I won't leave you to save myself. I will take care of you.'

Riku paused a moment again, though he felt a little bit better.

'Should we find Alex after this?'

"Alex?" Riku asked out loud.

'Yes. If we cannot find Rapture, wouldn't you rather find her?'

'You...you're really going to let me try to talk to her.'

'Did your other not like her?'

'No, it...it didn't like it when I gave someone else more attention than it.'

'It was selfish. I am not. I don't mind if you give attention to someone else. I am with you every moment, so having someone else will not bother me. What does bother me is that you are not happy. If being with her will make you happy, then it's a good thing.'

Riku paused another moment, then let a small smile curve around his face.
This blood really was better than his old blood.

((... Oh s**t. .... Okay, I stand corrected. You know what you're doing, damn you. rolleyes ))

She stirred immediately at the familiar voice. "Nn... What?" Her eyes blinked open reluctantly. "... Spider?" More blinking, mostly to facilitate actually getting her eyes to focus. "What the hell?" Nonetheless, she took his hand automatically and allowed herself to be pulled to her feet, even as she looked around, her expression stunned. "Did we get hit with a nuke?" It sure looked like it. If this was what was left of Stark Industries, Tony was going to throw one hell of a temper tantrum.