Jamie tried to keep his breath steady as he looked forward and he kept walking. As they approached the mound, Emily pointed slightly to the right.
"Let's head that way. Scott mentioned he sensed something there."
"Okay."
"Where are you guys going?"
Jamie and Emily turned to look at the blonde hair male who spoke, watching them with a slight smile on his face as the three approached their direction, walking down the mound towards them. That smile...Jamie tensed, and sent two transmissions through his bonds.
"Eve, get ready to fight."
"Blackwing, descend. Get ready to attack once I tell you to."
Jamie watch as the girl with hair in a ponytail, radiating ice type energy, moved to the left, and the male with brown hair, radiating fire energy moved to the right, and they started to encircle Jamie and Emily closing in.
Emily rolled her eyes. "That's none of your business."
The blonde male held up his hands, but his smile grew sharper and the trio all stopped less then five meters away from each other. "Just asking a basic question. Your beasts look tense. And your hands are sweating, sweetheart."
Emily shrugged, rubbing her hands together. Her voice trembled slightly as said. "It's hot. So what?"
The blond male eyes flickered to their bags as the two behind him started to grin and took a step forward. "Since your so hot, you should stop and grab some water from your bags....."
Jamie swiftly sent his thought through the bond, mentally shouting at Blackwing and Eve.
"ATTACK"
An Ember shot from the sky at the blonde male, and the tips and rings of Eve's tails started to change color, one turning brown, the other black, and she moved forwards instantaneously, appearing next to the brown hair male with the fire energy, biting down hard on his leg with a loud crunch, shaking his leg vigorously.
"AAHHH."
As the brown hair male started screaming, the blonde hair male jumped backwards, avoiding the Ember attack from Blackwing. The black hair girl froze in shock, as Scott leaped at her, his mouth glowing in a fiery red light. Instinctively, she jumped to the side, light blue energy starting to gather around her hands, and a glowing light blue rapier formed in her hand. As Scott jumped past her, she started running towards Emily.
As the black hair female closed in on Emily, the blonde hair male looked up, to see Blackwing diving towards him. Frowning, he held out his hands, and brown light started to gather around his left hand, and red light started to form around his right hand.
Jamie frowned as he observed all this, shooting out two commands through the bond.
"Blackwing, don't get close, just hassle him, attacking him from a distance."
"Eve, leave him, come back and attack the female."
Blackwing started to beat his wings to pull out of his dive, as Eve let go of the brown hair male's foot, darting back. Jamie reached his hand out, grabbing Emily, who was frozen in shock, and pulling her backwards as the black hair female closed in with her rapier pointed towards Emily.
The black hair shifted her target to Jamie, as Eve appeared in front of her in a blink of an eye. The female smashed into Eve's body, tumbling down, with her rapier slipping from her hand. Eve moved to bite down on her neck and Jamie's eyes widened, and sent his thought through the bond.
"Don't kill her. Break her arms."
Eve hesitated, and shifted her head to bite down on one her arms. As she let out a scream, Jamie looked up to see Scott turning around to move towards the blonde hair male as he held up his shield, blocking a second ember attack as Blackwing flew over him.
As Blackwing flew over him, the blonde hair male's eyes shifted towards the ground, seeing the female lying on the ground screaming, and Scott running towards him. He lifted up his shield in front of him speaking out loud.
"Let's ta....."
Scott dashed into the shield, slamming into it, the pushing him back two steps. Jamie glanced at the brown hair man, who was struggling to get up, using a red poleaxe as a crutch to assist him getting up. Jamie moved towards the blonde hair man, tracing Blackwing's location through the bond. Seeing Blackwing not looking in his direction, Jamie tapped into his Martial Energy Pool. Holding up his hand as he approached the blonde hair man from behind Scott as the two were having a standoff, a golden light started to form in his left hand.
Seeing what Jamie was doing, the blonde male cursed, ducking his head behind the shield. Scott took the opportunity to dash forwards, his front paw being coated in fiery red light as he slashed at the blonde males leg, causing him to curse as it sliced through flesh.
The blonde hair male raised his red ax, slamming it down blindly towards Scott as the flash of golden light erupted from Jamie's hand. The blonde male lowered his shield, as an Ember shot down from air, hitting him in the face. The blonde male started screaming as his hair started burning, and Scott once again leaped towards the blonde male, fiery light coating his teeth as he bit down on the blonde males leg with a crunch.
The blonde male started screaming as he fell to the ground, and Scott let go of his leg. As the blonde hair male dropped down to the ground, Scott moved forwards, with bloodlust in his eyes, towards the blonde male.
"Scott, ENOUGH! We don't need to kill them."
Scott halted in mid stride, turning to look at Jamie, staring at him. Jamie locked gazes with Scott, and after a moment, Scott lowered his gaze, and turned and walked away. He glanced around at the fallen trio, shaking his head. The brown hair was the only one left standing, and was watching Eve warily, as her paw was over the black hair females throat, looking at him, her tails flickering.
Jamie turned to look at Emily, who looked somewhat shell-shocked.
"What's the procedure when you capture people who try to rob you?"
"We can take them to the Military Outpost in Gladrock City."
Jamie's eyes widened, and he turned to look at the voice, to see Nicholas watching them on the top of the mound with a smile.
"Well done. You handled yourself well."
"How....how long were you watching?"
Nicholas chuckled. "The whole time. Ivan did ask me to watch over you both, after all."
"Then why did you wander off?"
"I didn't. I told you that because I wanted to see how you both would handle yourself."
His gaze turned towards Emily. "Honestly, I expected the situations between you two to be reversed. That you would respond decisively, and Jamie would freeze up."
Emily blushed, and lowered her head, looking at the ground. "It all happened so fast..."
"Exactly why you need to act swiftly, and decisively in a conflict. Ah well, you'll learn how to react appropriately with experience. Come on, I will take you both back to the truck, then dump these three with the Military Outpost."
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Back at the red and grey road train, Jamie was slouching in a blue foldable chair, with a can of Pepsi in his hands, with his back to the last carriage of the road train. He was looking ahead, as he watched Eve playing with the pups.
Hearing footsteps behind him, he turned around to see Emily approaching him.
"Errr.....thanks for pulling me back from the girl with the saber."
Jamie shrugged. "No problem. Even if I didn't, Nicholas would have intervened before you were harmed."
"But you didn't know that."
"As I said, no problem."
Silence fell between them, as Emily started to set up the foldable chair besides Jamie. After sitting down and watching Eve in silence for a moment, Emily broke eventually broke it.
"You have never ventured into a portal. How did you react like that..."
"The Training Room in Warpet's Delux. While you don't actually die in there, it hurts like hell when a creature in the virtual room tears you apart. It's great motivation to pick up the right reflexes."
Emily winced. "I only used it a couple of times. Afterwards, I stayed away. Nightclubbing and hanging out with friends is much more interesting."
Jamie glanced at her. "Scott had the right reactions, and we generally don't need to do much. But we do need to be able to position ourselves and keep our beasts between ourselves and our opponents, along with evaluating the situation and making the appropriate commands."
"Uhhhh. I think I may need to reconsider joining the tournament in Brouis next year."
Jamie chuckled."Na, you'll be fine. Tournament fights are much more different. You can't attack the Battlepet Master during the fight. Scott just needs to fight."