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The sky was choked with blackened clouds, only slight blades of sunlight beamed through, sending simple blades of light into the distant horizon, moving slowly across the gloomy plains. The sky was polluted to nothing, their was nothing left to breath with the height, the only safe places now were the lower depths of the urban covered cities, where now nothing lies except the scattered ruins of a once proud and living city. Gray was the color of the lands, burnt out buildings and broken streets filled with mangled cars and trucks, yet no movement besides the simple gusts of wind moving the dust along without a whisper. The city was an endless tide of ruin; there was nothing to watch over, no places of interest, no brightened parks, no colorful markets … only the dead outer shell of a broken maze.Some lights within the streets flashed on and off, gleaming into the large clouds of dust with each gust of wind, the streets pale of life. Then with a sudden glimpse of movement a figure slipped from the shadows of a side alley, his body covered in a sleek gray armor, hiding his appearance well with smooth curves and lines. Within his grip he held a large rectangular weapon, its make twisted and unusual to be anything standard. Looking up and across the deserted street the figure tilted his head, where two green globes sat simple on a steel plate mask that covered his head, leaving only his bare neck exposed from behind. The man leant back against the wall, looking through his second visions, locking his sights onto the next building easily. From within its structure, nothing was completely visible, only darkened objects without any sign of movement for years beyond.
The man pressed his weapon forward and leaned around the corner, looking once more down the street. From within his goggles, small focus lenses changed shape, sliding inwards for a moment as he examined the area once more, before the goggles turned back to standard. Tilting his head a small cloud of dust fumed from the sides of his mask, three long slits opening across his cheeks for a moment before closing again,
“Area scanning as clear” He mumbled silently to himself, his voice shaded yet young. He waited a moment, staring at the ground to his side until a voice rang in his helmet,
“Advance to next area Senturo … we are picking up movement close by” The voice crackles in his helmet; ringing in his ear for the moment he listened. But he took not a moment to waste, holding his weapon out Senturo slipped out from the alley and kept close to the wall. He felt his shoulder touch the stonewall a couple of times before he came to his first stop. Turning his side he ran up to the half turned car and crouched low to slip behind it, looking outwards past the front end of the vehicle and into the next street. He lifted his gun up and watched for a moment.
There was nothing, the street continued onwards towards the end where the old library stood still, its doors blasted closed and long wooden planks holding it firm. Through the streets every car was turned, as if something large had pushed them all over to fit through the street itself. There was not a window that was still intact, glass and shrapnel littered the pathways, chairs and tables lay in the roads and within the higher rooms things hung out, long wires and broken ceilings … every window penetrated.
Senturo leant back slightly and sighed, another blast of polluted air sweeping from the lifts on his cheeks. His eyes seemed to lose their glow for a moment, but he held his gun still tight in his hands,
“I still got nothing” Senturo slowly leant against the side of the car and continued to look down the street, glaring at the ruins and everything that had fallen from the tall buildings above,
“That can’t be right Sen … I have viable scans that something is there right now, check it out now” The voice came back to him a little agitated this time, but more or less normal and it had no complete effect on Senturo. Lifting his head he looked up into the sky, feeling a single drop of water splash across his neck. He watched the sky move as sunlight beamed into the distant streets, yet the rain began to fall lightly, making the streets gleam a little, yet making them even darker then they were.
Senturo lowered his eyes back to the street, the rain around him making the city seem less quiet Stepping forward he moved from the car, keeping crouched, and his legs bent as if prepared for anything to happen. He dropped to the curve of the street entering, slipping past the first car and remaining to the side of the road, stepping silently into the gutter and lifting up to the walkway. He then stopped, lowering his gun as he looked around the street, still seeing nothing but silence and the rain pattering against everything,
“I don’t see any point to this … there can’t be—“ He cut himself off, gasping into his link and seeing the small figure that stood at the end of the street looking to him. He leant his head back slightly in surprise, it was a kid, she wore a simple red dress and seemed oblivious of everything that was around her. Senturo lowered his weapon more and was about to say a word but watched in complete disbelief as she darted around the corner and into the next street,
“Shit!” Senturo cursed suddenly bolting forward through the pathway. He leapt over all that stood in his way, turning his feet and keeping his weapon close to his chest,
“What is it Senturo? What happened?!” The voice cracked over his helmet, the voice too startled to the sudden movement,
“There’s someone here! … There’s a girl, I just saw her” He harshly called back, trying to keep pace as he spun around the corner of the street. He looked around, raising his weapon up as a cloud of dust blasted from his helmet once more, he took deep breaths and found himself staring down another street, its looks identical to the last. But his eyes didn’t fail him, there standing on the other side of the street stood the girl, waiting and watching. From what he could see, she was smiling, “Hey kid!” He called out, and before he could say yet another word the girl turned in a quick pace and sped down the next street, disappearing around the corner.
Senturo dropped forward in a sprint, holding his weapon in one hand as he leapt up on one of the cars and dropped back down again, speeding down the street, puffing with each groan his suit made,
“Senturo, please repeat, I couldn’t get all of that” The voice came once more, “You saying there’s someone there?” The voice clicked on and off, its transmission breaking up as he ran faster,
“A girl in a red dress is down here!” Senturo called back as he turned around the next corner.
(To Be continued)
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What the hell am I doing in this city? A single humanoid figure walked along an ally, a canine walked beside her. What was the matter with the last one? Well, at least there aren't any people here. Kathryn Willows, a girl of 19 years was walking alone, as she always did now, with a bandana over her face, the air smelled horrible, and her dog companion, Wolf, walked beside her. Her headphones, old, very old, yet still working were resting on her head, she wasn't even paying attention to where she was going, she never did. The music she was blaring into her ears would snap and crackle from time to time, but she had grown use to it, walking from city to city as she always did.
"What do you think Wolf? Hmm, boy? You like this place, or do you think it stinks... literally?" Wolf looked up at her and whimpered slightly, an affectionate whine. She and he had not been separated since Kathryn was 16 years old. Kat reached down and pat the dog softly on the head, running her hand behind his ears and scratching them affectionately.
"Yeah, I think you're right boy. Even though there isn't anyone here I can hurt, seemingly, this place stinks too much to stick around for all too long." Kathryn continued walking down the ally, keeping her eyes lowered, the music quitting for a time, so she took the headphones off of her head and scuffed her feet slightly. She really didn't have to worry about the polluted air hurting her, and evidently, it really didn't effect Wolf either, though she had to admit, it probably turned both their stomachs. She kept walking until she came to the end of the ally, but when she finally rose her eyes from the ground below her feet, she stopped in her tracks.
All the cars were flipped over, all the windows shattered, nothing was as it should be, and how the heck everything got this way, she didn't know, didn't even want to ask.
"What the hell happened here? Damn, whatever it was, I don't think it was natural, how about you Wolf?" She looked down at the dog by her side, but Wolf wasn't looking at her, he was looking down the street, the fur along his spine was up and a low and dangerous sounding growl reverberated from his chest. Kat knelt down beside him and rubbed the side of his neck, whispering soothing words to him.
"What's the matter boy? You smell somethin'?" She joked, she couldn't even smell anything in this dump, but when Wolf continued to growl, Kat looked up in time to see a girl in a red dress run right by them. Kathryn froze and watched, almost like in slow motion, as the girl ran right past her. She turned with the movement and watched as the girl ran off down the street. Kathryn moved out into the street, a car and a lot of broken glass between her and the opening of the ally way. Wolf moved to stand solidly beside her leg and watched as the girl ran.
"Hey!" Kathryn yelled, but the girl kept running. Just great, my one chance to figure out where we are, and the kid keeps running!
"What the fu-" She was about to curse, but when Wolf really started to growl, snarling and all, Kathryn turned around once more, this time to see an armored, man running up the street only this one.... had a gun, and he didn't look like he was simply out on a sunday stroll.
"Oh crap!" Kathryn turned around to run back to the ally, but stopped even before she started to run, she now had a car and several feet of glass to go through. The car and the glass was no problem for her, but for Wolf.... His paw pads would be torn to shreds.
"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit." Kathryn turned, the man was getting closer, and she didn't trust anyone. She turned to Wolf, knowing that he'd protect her, but she didn't want him hurt either.
"C'mon Wolf, we're getting out of here!" That was when Kat turned around, and started to run the same way the girl had, Wolf not far behind her. She leapt over toppled cars and lead Wolf through any glass that there could be, but when she took a single moment to look back, her foot caught on a car door, and she went down.
There was a sickening crack as her leg broke and Kathryn fell to the ground to tumble over onto the underside of another fallen vehicle, bash the side of her chest against the axle, bruising several ribs and fall to the ground, her back hitting the broken pavement hard. She cursed fiercely and couldn't move. Her breath coming in ragged gasps, and she spit up blood. Just my ruddy luck. A guy is running down the street with a frickin' gun, and I choose this particular moment to become clumsy! Kathryn breathed in sharply as she moved to get herself up into a sitting position, and in a moment, Wolf was there, by her side, licking her face softly, whining, trying to figure out what happened.
"I-I'm f-f-fine, boy, just a c-couple scratches is all." She rested her hand against the scruff of his neck and scratched him, but then she looked up, the guy was still coming.
"Ooohhhh CRAP!" Kathryn snarled quietly to herself and looked down at her leg, and pulled from her backpack what was left of her only blanket. She growled as she set her own leg and tied it as quickly as she could, she hadn't even ran very far in the first place, though the guy might not have seen her. Maybe I can get out of this yet. She got up and then almost fell, but Wolf place himself under her, and she used him to rest some of her weight and started to slowly walk away, but it wasn't long before she fell once more, in the street, yelling out in pain as she landed on her bruised ribs and clutching at her leg as it fell out of place. She didn't even bother to look up, she had really done it this time.
"Shit, Wolf, boy, you had better get out of here! And I mean now!" But the dog didn't move, not to leave anyway, instead he moved and stood over her, facing the man that was running down the street, Wolf's teeth were bared and he lowered himself down. If anyone wanted to hurt the human he protected they would have to go through him first.
"This, isn't going to be...... ahhhh, good." Kathryn said as she winced and tried to put her leg back in place, just waiting to hear the sound of the gun shot, and to feel the bite of the bullet. Wouldn't be the first time I've been shot. She thought bitterly.
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As Senturo moved to turn the corner he was expecting to see the red dress of this girl, and her standing on the other corner as if playing a game of tag with him, but instead what he saw was nothing like what he had expected. The marine turned, slowing in his pace for a moment to see another girl, this time standing in the street with a dog by her side.
How could this be? One girl down here was enough to send the council into a fit, but two down here in the city ... without armor, without a mask to help them breath. This he could hardly believe, as Senturo made his move down the street, hearing the crunch of glass under his feet he called out on his small communications node within his armor,
"Your not going to believe this command ... i have two, no .. three lifeforms down here, two human and one canine" Senturo spoke out as he made his way down the street towards them watching as she tried to turn and run down an alley way, but stopping in mid run, to look down to the ground, littered with glass and debris. She was trying to run from him too? With that thought he lowered his weapon, the glow of his green goggles dimming slightly as he leaped to the underside of a car in his way, the car moving slightly as he jumped back off, making his way down the side of the street,
"Sen, new orders from Council, you are to detain all three lifeforms for questioning, drop ship five is one route to your position, do you copy?" The voice crackled in the side of his helmet swiftly and suddenly, to this Senturo sped up,
"I got it ... though this is going to be easier said then done" Senturo pressed the rifle to his chest as he finally caught up to them, seeing her on the ground now, injured, he slowed in his pace, only coming within five or so meters, seeing as the dog was standing before her, looking all the more angry with him.
Sen turned his eyes up, looking down the street, no sign of the girl in the red, nothing ... only the bare streets, littered with destruction and ash. The marine leant his gun up, pointing into the sky, holding it with one hand while he used his other to point his palm to the dog as if telling it to stop.
He looked over her, amazed, there was nothing visibly wrong with her .. save the scratch on her face, all he could see was a girl, as if she had come down here without any help, appeared from no where .. but how? Senturo looked to the dog, realizing to himself finally this was no normal dog, but a wolf,
"Calm down boy .." Senturo spoke quietly as he made a few more steps forward, the slits along the side of his helmet opening up with another puff of smoke blasting out. The way he spoke was puffed, running for long distances in marine armor was not the most recommended thing of all. turning slightly he looked to the girl with his green goggles glowing slightly, "This city has been classed as a level 2 hazard zone! No one is meant to be down here save the UEC" Senturo slowly lowered his hand, watching them carefully,
"What are you doing here?"
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Kathryn was nervous, and she did not like that, this guy seemed odd, why the hell was he wearing armor? For that matter, what was up with the messed up mask? She growled as she finally set her leg. Now to just wait for it to heal. She looked up as the guy came upon her, and she couldn't help the snarl that came to her face, it matched Wolf's. It shouldn't take too long, only problem was setting it. The guy walked up to them, and moved his gun so that it was pointing up into the sky, and held his other hand, palm out, to Wolf, telling him to calm down... all Wolf did was to lower himself and snarl even worse. Kat just smirked and looked up at the guy, and her mouth started to work.
"If this is a, 'level two hazard zone' you boys sure did one hell of a job locking this place up if a girl and her dog can get in." She smiled wickedly, and slowly pushed Wolf off of her and stood up. She brushed herself off, and kept her weight off of her leg. Ahhh, baggy pants have their use after all, he doesn't know my leg is busted, all the better for me. However, as Kat spoke, the cut on her cheek slowly closed itself off, and vanished without a scar, without a trace. She looked up at him, a good deal shorter, and just continued to grin.
"I'm here, because I want to be here and as far as I'm concerned you can go to hell and leave me alone. I kinda like this place, no humans around to bother me and Wolf, no one I have to worry about." She then paused, and looked down at her leg, and took the wrapping off, it had finished healing.
"As for me, I'm going to see you later, I wouldn't want to hurt you if you decided to use that gun of yours." She smiled, and jumped up onto his shoulders and then leapt further away. She only had to leap once or twice and she was already a block away, Wolf following quickly behind. She stopped, turned around, and saluted the guy, calling back.
"Hell Mr. If you want, I'll send you my life's story, when I learn how to write, then you can dissect it, all right? As for me, I'm going to go and find a nice place to stay for a while, then I'll get out of your hair... if you have any." With that, Kat turned and jumped down off the car she was on, and started to run, but as she turned the corner, she flipped into an ally, and waited. Hopefully, the guy would run right past them. She hid behind an old dumpster and had Wolf lay down beside her. She rested her hand on his head, and asked him to be quiet... and then, they waited.
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The rain had indeed stopped, but the ground was still slightly moist around them, there was no sunlight that came from the sky above, clearly being hidden deep from behind the dark clouds, giving the city a gloomy look overall ... what light that shone through was enough to keep everything lightened, except the deepest of corners, silence and shadows fell through those areas dimmly. The air was polluted deeply, though that was high above the buildings standing high, the streets were only slightly smoggy, but nothing too serious. One could still see the end of each street without a problem.
Senturo, watched as the wolf made no hope of calming down with his words, not that he was expecting much from it .. he seemed pretty protective of the girl, standing over her as if he were her guardian. The marine leant his head back slightly as she spoke out about the comment he made of the area, 'You should be dead ...' he thought to himself as she began to stand up.
Narrowing his eyes and tilting his head slightly he watched the wound upon her cheek slowly close up and disappear, leaving nothing, not a mark or scar upon her face .. as if it were never there in the first place. He knew there were operations, medicines created to do such a thing as that ... but it just happened, with no help, healing her wound completely,
"As for me, I'm going to see you later, I wouldn't want to hurt you if you decided to use that gun of yours." she spoke out, he continued to leave his weapon in the air, but when she made her leap, he took a step back, her feet touching his shoulders unexpectingly jumping into the air and down the street. Sen took a few moments to get back into step, swiftly spinning around, breathing a gasp of air from his mask. It was as she sped off around the corner, his communications node called off again, though this time, the voice was a lot more worried,
"Senturo, we have multiple signals moving in through sectors eight and six, they are making a move directly for your position!" The voice crackled on and off, something was happening in the background, voices, whispers, "... You have five minutes Marine! Drop ship and reinforcements are inbound!"
"oh no" Sen spoke into his comm, turning back down the street, where she had leapt away ... they were coming for them ... but now out of all times, why now. Senturo held his weapon back to his chest, his eyes flickering red suddenly a small light showed up on his screen, flickering on and off, with the words, 'Activated' clear. With a sudden expel of gas from the back of his feet, the ground moving slightly as he leapt into the air in the same direction as the girl.
The marine suit moved through the air, dust falling from him before he crashed into the road around the edge of the street she had disappeared in. His feet snapped into the ground, the pavement breaking open with a quake of the ground, stone and cement flying into the air as he looked up with red eyes, down the street, his signals giving off two faint lifeforms. This girl was something else, and he could not give her the thought that he was not strong enough to keep up with her.
Slowly jumping from the hole he made he turned back down the street, four heat signals showing up on his visor, targeting two seeping through the buildings and the other two slipping on the sides of the pavement, but he could not get a complete clear signal.
Turning again he looked to the alley way, finding the two signals as easy as anything, calling out to them clearly, "Look, I don't know how the hell you got in here, or how you are still alive with this atmosphere ... but I also know if you stay out here any longer, you wont be alive long enough to find out" he slowly turned his eyes to the street again, watching as something invisible crashing through the glass that covered the ground.
Sen quickly made his way to the beginning of the alley way, a small spurt of dust slipping from the side of his helmet, watching the position from where she was hiding, slowly turning his back on the dumpster, pointing his rifle out to the street as a car suddenly crashed past, bouncing from the ground and snapping into the closest building ...
"Well, you can either just sit there and show off your wonderful launguage like before ... or you can come with me before this street gets turned into the biggest storm of destruction ..." Senturo turned his eyes back to her, "Well ..."
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lets get this going! 
And sorry Blue about the messing with your char ^_~ xD you diid say you were prepared for a hurting xD)
