"Hey!" A hand could be felt patting his back as the words escaped K's mouth. His voice robotically changed a bit deeper. "Reality check, we got a job to do lets do it so check yourself." K said as he walked backwards so he could face D. K's face mask covered his chin, cheeks & his right eye. Over the right eye was a hole covered by thin glass.
T walked past D just to throw up two fingers and her thumb extended as if waving. Silent which was weird but she could be nervous as well first big job. T's mask covered only half of her face with a mouth piece that helped mask her voice as well.
D's Mask was shattered but in a tinkered kind of way. As if it has been constantly worked on for the last two years. Steam occasionally came out of the left side of the mask. How ever a Familiar little figure suddenly fell from the ceiling landing in front of D. "I would very much like to go play so you can stand there lost or jump with us." She said falling to the ground rolling backwards out of the Blimp.
D shook his head as he ran forward jumping out of the Blimp. As he fell straight down he could see the others landing already. As the ground got closer D put his hands out with a sudden force of energy escaping his palms hitting the ground right before his feet touched causing him to stop. D looked around the town. Horror's seem to be every where.
E and K were already going at some dark shadow like creatures. T had her weapon of choice in hand, her sword was as sharp as one could be. Steam shot from its handle occasionally, the handle of the sword seemed to do more then just looking good. A small trigger was on the blade handle as well if she pulls that trigger her sword uses steam powered mechanisms to transform her blade into a rifle.
D watched as his team cleared out the area. The town had been over run by Horror's, Horror's are the dark creatures that escaped from the underworld through the portal. Some are also just corrupted humans and animals. We call their portal, The Wound.
Probably worth explaining what the Wound is. The Wound Portal, this wound opened a gate in the earths ground that connects one part of the underworld. When the first bit of darkness left the gate it was as bad as one could be. It found hosts and created freaks. It merged demon blood into their host multiplied and watched the off springs grow to be powerful. Every new generation of freaks seem to get stronger, as this happened some chose to fight with the Horror's. Now it is worth noting that not all Freaks actually have demon blood but instead Demon abilities. These abilities can allow a normal human to fight against freaks or demons themselves. Then there are the Demons that actually had children themselves. Some demons have chosen to live with humanity and side with them on fixing the wound.
D shook his head as a small hand tapped his cheek lightly. "Heyyy.. Stop doing that and focus." E said softly jumping back to the ground. She looked around and then to T. "Can we just fix this wall so we can leave?" T asked looking to E.
K spoke. "We need to find the guards and Towns people make sure their alive. E stay with D, T take the left clear any Horror's that may be left." T nodded as she took off to the left as directed by K.
K started forward as he vanished into the forward part of the Village. Suddenly E felt her back against D's legs. Pieces of D's hair seemed to fall in front of E's face. "W..what?" She said softly looking up. A blade just barely missing D's head. His eyes looking to the right hit head only slightly turned. He had just dodged the attack, as he looked back to the figure behind him her mask was different. It covered her right eye only steam shot occasionally out of the small eye patch looking mechanism on her face. There was glass over the eye area, to help her see? Probably.
Suddenly Daos pushed E away. The woman spoke. "Who the hell are you? Why are you attacking this village." Daos blinked then turned to only be met with the blade of the sword aimed right at his face. E watched but noticed the woman has a Symbol patched on her shoulder. She lives here! E was now understanding why D hadn't killed her yet.
Daos spoke his mask darkening his voice, due to all the damage all these years his voice sounded broken & mechanic, just slightly though. "We accepted the contract that came through to the city." The sword moved closer but before the woman could talk Daos's eyes lit up blue the sword shattered right before her eyes as his palm broke through the steel. A pressure could be felt against her chest sending her back rolling through the dirt. A small laugh could be heard from E's direction.
The woman rolled to her feet standing the sword broken but the hilt stayed held by her hand. She was fine besides a broken weapon, dirty now. Daos began looking to the wall at the left. "That wall is just as easy to break. If you attack me again I will just destroy that wall and grab my team. You live here, some one sent for help, my team and I grabbed the contract to help." He spoke calmly his eyes back to a normal blue.
The woman was breathing a bit heavily. "But you two are not humans.. The other two are. You even attacked me-" Before she could finish Daos spoke. "You cut my hair.. You attacked me from behind.. Find a weapon and find your towns commander. Inform him to start sending folks to the damaged wall so repairs can begin." Daos turned as E ran across but past D heading toward the direction of where T had went.
Daos let her go as he began walking toward K's direction. Distant use of power could be felt. It seems K and T were dealing with things. The woman shook head coming back to reality her sword useless yet stayed in her hand. She took off down some alleys to avoid the the fighting. She was still trying to figure out her luck at the moment. The man could have killed her but didn't so was it a trick? Was she about to lead people to their deaths? Guess its a gamble.
As the woman reached the front of the town she saw a bunch of Horror's from small to large dead. The sound of fighting coming from out side the wall but where the hole was. She looked over to see the man and his group pushing the horror's back. She took off to the right where a building seemed to be well defended stood. She waved her arms to get guards attention they opened the gate. As she ran in she was met with the Commander. "People from the city.. They are here pushing them outside the walls. Told me to have folks to go start the building process or barricade it some thing." She said out of breath.
The Commander nodded as he raised his hand motioning folks inside out. "Lets go! We help fight, all able hands need to patch the wall behind the fighters then let us in through the gate!" He ordered as he pushed the woman to the side for safety as folks charged out toward the the hole in the wall. The Commander thanked the woman as he followed with the others now.
K, T, D and E all walked back inside the wall as the soldiers ran past them trading places. The village fighters began to hold the horrors outside the walls. As the soldiers fought with some of the villagers others prioritized getting that damaged part of the wall blocked off. E was hanging upside down on D's forearm as they walked, K and T seem to be laughing as they talked. D looked around at this little group but in that split second memories flooded.. A voice screamed, blood painted D's hand as he held it out, frozen. Another gone, another life to defend his life. A light gone too early. Suddenly D shook his head coming back to reality as he noticed E looking at him but before he or she said any thing a voice from behind stopped all four of them.
"Hey!" The voice echoed across all their ears as the four of them turned around but only one spoke. "Hay is for horses, rude to assume we are such things." She said letting go of D's arm, she fell to the ground a oof escaping E's mouth as she landed with a thud on her back. "Some of us could be considered Hay." T said softly. It didn't take long for E to get to her feet only to charge T tackling her. The two of them seemed to be fighting now in the background. K walked over to D. "I'm not touching their fight that's all you.. I'll handle this." K said in a low time of voice to D. D sighed as he turned toward the two fighting and stepped off toward them to handle it.
K looked to the woman. "What's your name? I'm K." He said extending a hand out. Worn out wrapping seemed to be wrapped around his hands and wrists. The woman took his hand and spoke. "Luna, I want to know if I could join your group." K looked at her then to D in the back who seemed to have T and E both attacking him however he didn't seem to even be struggling with either of them. K looked back to Luna. "Can you handle potential death, being used as bait, being messed with, being out through a dreadful welcoming process to even see if you can handle this group?" As K spoke Luna listened she nodded but before she spoke a sinister Voice seemed to whisper in the general area, electric charges small very small could be felt in the air around then suddenly...
"Enough..." D's voice whispered with the area, echoing. E and T seem to both freeze it was clear D was now upset. He began walking past the girls as he did so the Hatred, anger every negative feeling, emotion could be felt around Daos. It was so bad T fell to her knees but E.. She knew what it meant.. All day she's been trying to not let the memories take D back to the past but she stayed standing only to hold her hand out to T.
Daos walked back stopping a good distance from Luna and K so that they were not effected by his current state. "Let's go." He said motioning to K, T and E to follow. K looked to Luna and motioned her to come. Luna nodded and looked around. She was still dirty from D's attack earlier and the weapon was also still broke so she needed a new one. For now she'd just follow in the back watching them. As T stood up she looked to E. "I'll never understand why so much darkness comes from such a person..." She said looking to Daos. "You'll never understand until you seen what we've seen..." She said softly turning her back running to D to catch up. As she caught up she walked beside him until he felt his hand pick her up by the back of her shirt placing her on his back. T, K and Luna seemed to hang back some. As they followed D he headed out of the village by another exit to leave the villagers to win their own battles from here.
The city was not far off but thankfully a Blimp with soldiers outside on guard was waiting for the group at the Pick up Zone. As the group arrived Luna looked at the blimp amazed not ever being so close to a working one before. As the group approached the soldiers nodded heads, waved and high fives but all avoided Daos. E had also chosen to stay on his Back to avoid all the soldiers herself as they avoided D.
As the group got onboard Luna got looks of folks being curious on who would want to travel with such a group while others looked at her with confusion on who she is and why she looked as if she got thrown through a wall of dirt and dust. The group seemed to stop outside a door. D turned he seemed to be normal again his power as well. D looked to the group and spoke. "Let's call it. You brought her along K so T and You also E get to sit and test her if she passes she can come see me for the final test for now I'm gonna go in here and get our payment. We will meet up in our area later tonight so I can split it." He said firmly. The group nodded as Luna watched, E jumped off D and ran right to Luna. "Hello! I am E." She said softly her right eye glowing red as she gave the woman a toothy grin, her teeth razor sharp.