Arks of electricity shot through his head. His eyes rolled back, and he collapsed. Slipping from my grasp. I turned, and looked at the rest of the team. They'd handled the rest of the team pretty well, and just as I'd asked the healer was still standing.
I walked towards the healer. The healer paled when she realized I was headed her way. The look on her face screamed oh god.
"Heal us," I stopped a few feet away, "And we'll let you go."
"What do you mean let me go?" she was shaking a little out of fear.
"We'll be keeping your weapons," I rubbed the swollen side of my jaw tenderly, "But you yourself can leave."
Most of our team was hardly injured besides me. I was in poor shape, and a massive amount of pain. I was thankful for the blank look on my face. It cemented the fact that I was tough in everyone minds. I could still think clearly.
That was impressive on its own.
"You swear?" she was shaking on her feet.
"They'll have to deal with me if they disagree," I gestured back at the rest of the group.
"Ok," she reached out to me first.
As soon as her fingers touched my arm all my injuries started glowing. Broken leg. Broken arm. All the fractured bones in my right arm along with the gaping wound from when a big chunk of my arm had been blown off. Then there was my broken jaw.
I was a map of musical injuries. I cut the bandage off my injured arm so it could heal unimpeded. The burned, and flaked bits of flesh made everyone around me queasy. My healing would have started automatically if I let my health get too low. That would have alerted everyone to something being off.
Her look of fear was replaced with a look of surprise as my wounds started healing at a visibly accelerated rate. It seemed her ability stimulated my natural healing process.
"Your body is really resilient," she commented as her ability kept accelerating my healing ability to the maximum her ability could pull off.
Smooth fresh clean skin replace the hole in my shoulder. My bones mended rather quickly, and the swelling went down as well.
"Much better," My muscles relaxed as the pain faded, "If it weren't for the exhaustion that came with the healing I'd be happy with the results." I looked at her, "Now it's their turn."
I sat down, and took up a watch position so I could keep an eye out for what remaining enemies we had left. I yawned slowly as I thought about going back to my room for a nap. Fighting while injured had worn me out, and the healing that followed had only added to that. There was a big hollo screen that I could use to project the following matches if I even felt like watching.
"How long have we been at this?" I looked over to the rest of the team.
"It should be about over," Savannah responded first, "We've been at it for quite a while."
I nodded in response.
"I'm done," the healer girl spoke softly.
"Good," Jax gathered his mana.
My fist met hit face a split second after he began gathering mana.
"What the hell?" Jax yelled at me as he rubbed his damaged cheek.
"I said she could go free after she healed us," I looked him in the eyes, "I said whoever touched her would have to deal with me. She is not to be touched for now." I glanced back to her, and nodded, "Run. You won't get mercy from us a second time." I backed up so that my back was facing her as she ran away, "She has no weapons, and she's exhausted. She won't be able to counter attack us. Not without getting weapons from elsewhere first."
"She was an easy point," Jax got in my face, "Why would you waste that?"
"We're winning," I stepped in closer to him so we were nose to nose, "We don't need the easy point."
"Maybe we don't need you in our way anymore," Jax's mana started gathering again.
He got an instant gut punch in response. Gather mana. Shoulder shot. Gather mana. Knee shot.
He was getting beat up really quickly. Without being given the chance to strike back.
"How the hell do you know when I'm going to attack?" Jax was unsteady on his feet from the knee shot, "You shouldn't be able to tell."
"Instinct," I kicked him in the other knee.
Making him fall to his knees.
"Instinct?" Jax blurted in disbelief as he started gathering mana again, "You've got to be kidding me."
My hand shot to his throat, and clamped down. The claws on my gloves drawing blood, but not digging in further. His mana flow dissipated.
"It's so obvious that you're getting ready to do something," I hissed through clenched teeth, "An impending sense of doom I guess. Same way I could tell when, and where we were getting sniped from. The best word to describe it is instinct. Now you can keep trying to make me break my promise to that girl or you can strive for a few more points with my help. There are no other options."
"Fine," Jax was trying to force himself to calm down now, "I'll go along with you for now."
I let up after that. Backing off, and giving him a chance to fail. He let his mana settle, and stood up on shaky legs.
"Did you have to hit me so hard?" Jax complained while still stuffing down his irritation towards me.
"Did you have to attack an unarmed healer?" I rubbed the back of my neck as the temptation to shake off the exhaustion faded.
Pain dude, and Jax both looked confused for a moment as if they expected me to cut myself since I hadn't taken the gloves off to rub the back of my neck. Both of them seemed surprised that I hadn't cut myself. Ethan, and Savannah on the other hand. They knew that I normally had claws. It was second nature for me to avoid cutting myself with my own claws by now.