You can continue if you died too. Whatever works.
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The two cars drove
in the same lane on the road as the sun set to their right. Flame Phoenix,
Lynxia Lost, Ivy Animosity and Eve L'Keet were in the car in front while Sparky
Braginski, Nixion Strange, Zathract Mist and Star Inkbright. This was pretty
much the old gang at its finest.
They had not all
been in each other’s company for three years now, their last meeting having
resulted in the defeat and arrest of Tallulah Vengeance. After their last large
encounter had come to an end, most of them went their separate ways again, for
the most part.
But at the word of
Lavender Hope’s disappearance, they had reformed again, and were currently
on-course to a run-down café in the middle of hot country. They were hoping
this place held answers, for this place is where the clues they had been
following very attentively had led them to.
The boots of each
of the cars were loaded mostly with different weapons, canned food and water,
seeing as none of them new how long they would be out in the country or what
they might need in a situation.
After a long four
and a half hours, each of the cars pulled up outside the old café, just as the
last rays of sun disappeared beneath the horizon. Each of them got out of the car
and quickly grabbed a few weapons from the boots of the cars. A few nods and
short words were exchanged between the gang and they proceeded to walk into the
café, their weapons hidden from view.
There were a few
tables around the sides of the place and it stunk of filth and dirt. The floor
was covered in muck and grease while the tables and chairs themselves looked
half decayed. The lights were good enough to illuminate the entire place, but
each of them flickered every now and again.
There were ten
tables, each with two chairs. Two of these tables were taken with two people at
them, and another with a single person sitting alone. Two of the people facing
each other at one table were wearing hoods and the one sitting alone had a
black veil up, covering the face. The other two people sitting at the table
were not recognised by any of them. None of them had ordered anything.
Slowly, each of the
gang moved to a large table that had enough seats for all of them, and the
grime covering everything was ignored.
“What now?”
whispered Star.
“Look around,”
Sparky muttered to all of them. “Don’t make it too obvious.”
Nixion and Ivy
stood up and walked over to what may have once resembled a counter on the
prospect of ordering something. The rest of them remained seated and examined
what of the room they could, but nothing greeted them but more grime and the
sights of the strangers that occupied other tables.
After two minutes,
Nixion and Ivy returned to the table and sat, both looking a little too calm.
“Find anything?”
asked Flame in a hushed voice.
“She’s there,” Ivy
uttered, barely audibly. “Behind the door. Tied. Gagged. Can I kill someone now?”
In unison, everyone
stood while weapons emerged from everywhere and magic leaped to life. Bows and
arrows, swords and guns were drawn while flame and shadows rose to aid.
The other people
sitting at tables rose as well, only half a second off, and drew weapons of
their own.
Crucify and Nagier
lowered their hoods, Tallulah Vengeance tore off her veil.
But by then, Lynxia
had already begun walking to the counter, her arrows drawn and ready to fire.
And she was about to speak, probably to issue a threat, and the demand for
Lavender Hope. But the bullet shot from the man behind the counter and lodged
itself in her chest, and she fell to the ground.
At once, there was fury.
Shouts reverberated off of the walls, gunshots flew across the room.
Zathract’s knife
flew across the room and took the man’s head off before Nagier’s speeding sai
buried itself in his chest. As Zathract fell to the ground, Crucify sent spinning
shadow spear through Sparky’s head.
And then the chaos erupted.
