Dylan slid back and felt his shoulder with his left arm. It was as he expected: the bullet had passed clean through him.
"No, no. It's gone. It's…gone… Tracking?" He began to slip a little in language, and shook himself vigorously, "How can they track? Are they backed?" His head swam, questions floating about in blood and confusion. He leaned his shoulder towards Avery to bandage. Where did she get bandages? Were they in the truck? Oh wait, the little day bag…. yeah, that's it.
Tracking. What was so interesting? Oh, right. Where?
"Special technology. They put trackers in almost everything they use. So there could've been a tracker in the bullet, or maybe not. But It's better to be safe than sorry." She explained. Then with a sigh, she stood and looked around cautiously. "You need water. If it's alright with you, I will go find some."
“We should have a bottle or two of water in our bag, but thank you,” Avery said as she slipped said bag from her back. She set it beside herself and dug through it, pulling out a bottle of water and the bandages. Biting her lip, she looked over the wound before looking up at Dylan. “I’m going to need you to take your shirt off so I can wrap it properly…”
(Oh dear, here I was thinking I'd responded all this time…)
Dylan nodded, still half-fading, and raised his arms to allow faint shadows to tug his shirt off. Blood slid down his side in small veins. While Avery started to tend to his shoulder, Dylan looked at the dark-skinned girl and tried to smile.
"I've been through worse… I think. Coming close to losing her," he said with a nod at Avery, "is pretty damn close to a bullet wound. If not worse. So, to what name are are we toasting tonight?"
Kagiso chuckled, and sat down again. The strangers were definitely funny, but still. She wasn't sure if she could trust them…
Screw it. What did she have to lose?
"My name is Kagiso. And, you two?"
“Aspect. At least, with the mask. I’d rather not tell my real name,” Avery mumbled as she carefully cleaned and wrapped Dylan’s shoulder, making sure to keep her gaze where she was working rather than his bare chest.
(Tread lightly…. I don't wanna make a fluff comic out of this…)
"To you, for now, Shadow. Later, I'll be more forth-coming. Thanks again for the hand, by the way. I never thought I'd be thankful to see a ball of fire closer than the sun"
(Lol. She's a girl. That just how we think. Most of us, anyway.)
"Your welcome, Shadow and Aspect. And, where do you come from? With names like those, you sound like your apart of the Avengers or something." she lightly teased. Then with a more serious face, she asked, "Are you apart of the Avengers or something?"
Avery chuckled a little at the woman’s questions. “We’re from America. And sorry to disappoint, but we’re not part of the Avengers. I’m part of my own group of girls who helps around my city.”
Dylan sighed and shrugged, wincing immediately from the pain, and again when he got a stern look from Avery. Without moving his right arm, he waved his left. "I'm just some guy. Was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And… uh…. well, maybe I shouldn't be telling this story. But yeah. And… where did those two run off to?"
Kagiso was about to speak, but suddenly shouting began in the distance, followed by the sound of a shot gun.
"Oh my." she whispered, peaking over the crates. "Yes. Yes, I think it's time to go." she said, frantically pulling the two onto their feet. But before they could even fully stand, something small was thrown into their hiding place. "Oh, we go NOW!" she yelled, and with no time to lose she leapt into the air away from the grenade that had been tossed into their shelter. However, she wasn't quite fast enough. The explosion traveled out, smacking her out of a clumsy flight and sending the trio sailing towards another crap shack. The impact was hard- only broken by the not so gentle thwack! of old boards.
Dylan had barely been on his feet before the explosion sent a wave of heat and force crashing into him. Shrapnel bounced around, lodging itself wherever it found solid purchase, including a small piece in his right hand.
He landed on his back against the walls of the shack. The shock stunned him. He couldn't stand, but he was able to crawl his way towards the road, where he thought he saw two bodies lying nearby.
(Sorry I like accidentally totally disappeared from this, I haven’t had time to respond to hardly anything. I could probably slide back in somehow, idk)
(Lol. Dw worry about it. Maybe Kaz and Vaughn got separated from the others but somehow find their way back to them?)
(Yeah that could probably work. I’ll have to see if she’s still doing this rp)
(Okie doke. Otherwise, Vaughn could have been killed in the blast, I guess… 🤷🏼♀️)
(Noo I don’t wanna do that to Kaz, he’d end up completely loosing it)
Kagiso caught her breath and stumbled to her feet, spying Shadow crawling in her direction.
"I am so tired of this." she mumbles, before pulling Shadow into a huddle with her and Aspect. "I don't suppose one of you could help me make an explosion? Escaping no longer seems like an option; we either draw them back or get caught." she explained.
"None of us are really capable of blowing things up. I can blind them, though. Maybe disorganize them," his eyes turned a golden yellow for a brief moment, and he added, "If I weren't bleeding internally I'd rip them limb from limb myself!"
Kasigo's eyes went wide, and Dylan immedietly waved it off, "Don't mind that. Sun demons. I could also try to pen them in with walls. Let me know what you need."
"Blinding them would be good…" she said, still a little concerned about the 'limb from limb' comment. "I'll try to make an explosion on my own, but it will be pretty messy."
Dylan nodded and raised his right hand up and out towards their attackers. Light shot out from around the fragmented shard in his hand, and for a minute the world was bathed in light. The light fell away as he dropped his hand. "You've got your opening, Kas," Dylan said in his cold voice.
He fell down, weak from being thrown around. With panic in his eyes he looked about him, trying to locate Avery.
(I would answer, but i don't think it's a good time yet)
(At this point, answering is better than not answering…. And that's not a knock on you, that's just an aknowledgement to how dead this is….)
(That's so sad. I was pretty exited about this coming back.)
Kagiso took the flash as her cue, and with shaky hands she created a small ball of fire, which then grew. And grew some more, and then some after that, until finally she was holding a gigantic, shaky fire ball in her dark hands. It took almost all of her strength to throw it, and it fell apart almost immediately, causing the explosion to come off smaller than it was supposed to. To try and make up for it, she gingerly smacked the earth and send a cloud of dust and stones showering over the enemy. Still… the effect wasn't as big as they needed.
(Yeah, I don't know where everyone went. I figured Autumn would be trying to stick with it. She's probably just incredibly busy atm.)
(That's what I was thinking)
(Hi, sorry I keep disappearing. I really do wanna keep doing this, but I don’t exactly want to respond or anything when Des is too busy to atm)
