A Fine Line (open)

The Amazon Rain Forest. Thick and heavy, housing potential plant life that could be used for medical purposes. A haven for criminals and the indiginous. And a place where damn near anything can kill you. Deep in the forest, a small, well built complex made from the natural materials around them stood. It was a hideout for the type of criminals that Yuri detested most: rapists and molesters. One of the elder wolves, nearly 18, volunteered for the mission as bait. To lead Yuri straight to them.

It worked. The guy wasn't too afraid. He was more afraid that they'll find out what he was. Understandable. Yuri himself had dyed his hair color a forest green, and wore camo clothes. He was ready to fight. Ready to free those kids. He suddenly had a bad feeling...only to be confirmed when an explosion sounded on the opposite end of the compound. Yuri frowned. He really didn't like this. He jumped from his hiding place, slicing a shocked guard's throat upon landing. He continued on, gun drawn. He'd succeed with stealth, while whoever caused that explosion have their attention...

Somehow during her brief time in the country, She'd found herself bound and kidnapped in the night. The girl didn't really understand what was going on, but she went with it not to cause a fuss. These people, who'd put a bag over her head and tied her up would promptly realize their mistake. At least that's what Elayne thought. It never actually happened. They pulled off the bag to reveal that she was in a dark, slightly sweaty smelling shack. She was lying on the floor to nervous to speak, listening to the men talk. She caught some of what they said. Something about slaves.

The men left, and about ten minutes passed before they returned with another. A greasy, spotted man with a thick fuzzy beard. He was missing a front tooth and was chewing on a cigar. He grinned as he seen Elayne. "A pretty pick," He said in a thick accent. "get her out of those clothes and present her to the boss. No one else is to touch her, unless you want to loose your cock. I'll go check on the other people you kidnapped."

Elayne frowned. They'd kidnapped her? And others? She was starting to feel like something was wrong here. Then two men burst into the room with a small child and threw him against the wall, as the other two approached. "We found this one trying to escape." One said.
"Cut off his hands." Said the man closest to her. He picked up a machete and tossed it to the others, then turned back to Elayne. who was now standing and dusting herself off, after breaking free of the ropes. "Put the boy down!" she ordered. A man drew a gun, but before he could fire she'd moved in and jabbed a hand into his throat.

It had taken a moment, but she'd realized what was going on here. This was some kind of sick slave camp, and these people were hurting children. "You should be ashamed of yourselves!" She shouted as she kicked the man holding the child in the chest and sent him through the wall. The one with the machete attacked and she disarmed him by thrusting her hand into his wrist.

The last man fled and started to scream for help. Elayne looked at the poor disheveled child and her silver eyes flaired with rage. next to the boy, in a large sack, she spotted a familiar handle, and pulled out her Zanpakuto. Then she looked back to the boy. "Stay put." She said. As she stepped out, a man had a strange tube trained on her. seconds later a rocket fired from it. Elayne Cast Enkosen to block the rocket, which caused the explosion. More men where emerging now with guns and machetes and other weapons. "Your all very bad men." Elayne said. "I'm going to hurt you now."

The place was going haywire! He didn't know what was going on, but the goons were bringing out some heavy artillery. He killed a few more, but mostly because they accidentally found him. He didn't need advanced hearing to listen to the screams. He swore he heard some girl say "You're all very bad men, I'm going to hurt you now!" If it was a girl...he didn't want to be on the receiving end of whatever she was using to beat the shit out of them.

He found the place where they were keeping the wolf. He looked at the mostly naked teen. "Can I wolf out now? I can smell that vizard wreaking havoc...plus those assholes have a lot to be answered for..." He looked down at his hips. Yuri looked at the kid sympathetically as he cut the chains off. "Oi! Don't give me that look! I knew the risks when I volunteered to help with this mission! So long as I get to tear a few of these bastards apart, that would be wonderful."

"I don't care. If they get in your way, rip them apart. But your main job is finding the rest and escorting them out. I don't care what form you use. I'll try to find the boss man and put a stop to this madness." The boy groaned and both got up to exit. Only for there to be several men there. And then in one fell swipe, they were knocked out or dead...Yuri couldn't tell. But he saw a petite girl...that was extremely pissed off.

"That's her! She's the one I smelled! She's the vizard!"

Yuri looked at the teenager, who was just as tall as him. "Oh...well...that's good. Now go and set the rest free. *Looks at the vizard* Madam, would you be so kind as to assist me in punishing these assholes?" As he spoke, the child transformed into a hybrid wolf, and went out, killing a man trying to sneak up on the girl...

Elayne was moving around the complex at eye blurring speeds, stopping for only a split second to kick someone in the face every now and again. She seen a bunch of men crowding outside a shack ready to attack as two people who clearly weren't with them walked out. Elayne moved, attacking with a combination of kicks and lashes with her sheathed Zanpakuto to take the men down. She stopped and looked at Yuri and the boy as yuri spoke. The boy transformed and ran past her to tackle a man who'd tried to sneak up on her.

Elayne gave a little smile. As if in reply she vanished, appeared beside a man with an ak and kicked him in the nuts. The gun dropped and she shreaded it with her Zanpakuto. Then she shunpo'd back. "It would be my pleasure. But I don't like killing people. They can't learn not to do bad things if they're dead. But i'll let you decide what to do with them when its over." She said. She then let him lead the way.

Yuri cringed a little when she kicked a guy in the balls. But honestly, he didn't feel sorry for the guy. He would have shot them off. She was certainly good, and more than happy to assist him. Connor had transformed back. "If you guys see a guy with a mohawk and twin machete, please don't kill him...I wanna do it. You know he was rough when a werewolf's hips still hurt after a few days..."

"Noted. Can you go now?!" Yuri yelled at him. The wolf went on, with barely enough clothes to cover him. He started walking towards a firing line. With a wave of his hand, he put a barrier between them and the men as they let loose with lead. "I hadn't planned on killing all of them anyway. For sure, I want the big wigs to live to face justice, be it a firing squad or life in prison. If the one that raped my friend back there is one...well, shit happens I guess. He's gonna get torn to pieces..." He spoke as shine spells popped up behind the firing line and obliterated them, making fist sized holes in their chests.

For the most part, he let the woman handle those directly in their path, while he used a combination of his gun and his shine spell to handle further off douches. He was using his shine spells more though...he was down to his last clip for his armor piercing rounds. He did watch her back in the melee though, mostly in the form of slitting throats. Things were progressing too smoothly.

That is until they ran into three people. One of which was Mr. Mohawk. "Ms...is Mr. Mohawk and Twin Machete an advent human or something? Just wondering...because I don't like going back on promises...he's Connor's to kill..." The man laughed, and jerked his head. The one that went after the girl summoned a bow and arrow. It was bronze with gears surrounding an arrow. He knew that weapon. It was a magical weapon specially tuned for accuracy. The guy fired multitudes of arrows at them, seperating them...

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After the seperation, the lean man blurred with the girl, firing off three arrows. If dodged or deflected, they would turn and move in for another attack. A green magic circle appeared in front of the chick, firing out a spiked log...

Elayne nodded then lead the way. Anyone who got in they way recieved a rather rapid beating, and for all their manliness and postering they really were nothing to the small girl. Needless to say those who survived today would probably be to embarrassed to show their faces anywhere again. Today would certainly make them think twice about kidnapping innocent people.

Things were going ok until they were intercepted by three people. Elayne could see power emanating off the three of them. She pointed directly at him Mr mohawk. "That one is an advent. But he's really weak. The other two aren't much to be concerned about either, they're both weaker than you. Slightly." The mohawk man seemed to bristle at her unintended insult. Then the man with the bow started attacking. Elayne sighed and pulled on her Vizard mask, a plain white feminine mask with a streak of red running down the face from the left eye.

Dawning her mask doubled her speed, allowing her to easily dodge the arrows. The guy went after her, leaving Yuri with mohawk and someone else. Bowman fired 3 arrows and once again Elayne dodged, but when she turned back she caught sight of them coming after her. She didn't have time to dodge the first which struck her shoulder, but deflected the second and third with two quick swings.

Though the arrow didn't hurt much as it collided with hierro, but it still left a bruise.  A log shot at her from a magic circle. Elayne raised a hand "Hado 1, sho!" The force of the hado sent the log flying in the opposite direction, leaving Elayne an opening to attack back, which came in the form of 2 lightning bolts, one fired from a finger the other from her sword.

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Salvan watched his buddy fire a barrage of arrows at the interlopers and seperate them. Then his buddy went after the girl. She talked big, his buddy would be thinking. Salvan wasn't so sure. Eitherway if what she said was true, his opponent was weaker. Salvan drew a hand axe with a smile, and went after the other guy.

Salvan sqwung the axe and launched a barrage of air balls, each the power of a bala. He slid to a stop and tapped a foot on the ground, causing rock spikes to pop from the ground behind the guy who would hopefully be to busy dealing with the barrage of air to notice.

Kael jumped over his log, only to see lightning bolts coming at him. He backflipped, the bolts searing off his shirt and some skin. He fired an arrow in the meantime, going througha magic circle. The arrow was coated with electricity. He didn't know how well that was gonna go through, but it was better than nothing. She wasn't like anything he's encountered before. He fired two more at differing angles. The arrows bounced and hit a magic circle, converting them into an element. The one aimed at her leg was coated in acidic water, while the one aimed at her sword arm's shoulder was made of ice.

In the process, he pointed at her, a green magic circle appearing, firing off a bunch of hollow bambo spikes. Each with a needle and poison. But if she had any type of heirro...those needles weren't going through...

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When the guy drew a hand axe, Yuri put away his knife and pistol. He darted backwards, sending in shine spells to match the are bubbles. When he slid to a stop, Yuri jumped, first on a holy disc, and then again on one higher as the spikes destroyed the one he was on. Two magic circles appeared, one white and one grey. From them came swords. The first was the Heaven's Gate sword while the other was the Rune Blade.

He jumped down, spinning, slamming down with all his force with two blades. With one of the tips still pointed above him, he rained down fifty holy energy swords. They weren't meant to hit anyone. He hit one before it hit the ground to fling it at axeman. On his way there, he picked up another sword, and flipped it over his shoulder when he got close enough so that it was trick downward slash, in addition to one aimed at his forearm and one aimed at his leg with the two swords in his hand.

Elayne watched her opponent with interest as he used his magic bow. He fired an arrow that passed through a circle and seened to electrify. Elayne Trust while move towards it and split the arrow against her sword, dispersing the attack. She watched as he fired arrows in opposite directions and they bounced, turning back on her. Elayne used shunpo and appeared behind the man, continuing to watch him. As he turned a circle appeared and the man fired a barrage of bamboo shafts. She diced the into chunks of wood. Elayne looked at him sadly. She didn't want to kill him. She shook her head. "I don't know why your working for these people. If you dont wan't to be, you can leave. No one here will be able to stop you, once We're done here no one's going to come after you." She said.

If his answer was yes, and he left, she watched him go and then turned to keep an eye on mohawk. If he continued to fight, well she wouldn't hold back. To demonstrate that, she held out her sword. " pierce the sun, Icyene." She said, and with a burst of light her sword transformed into a rapier with a barrel set between four intricate hand guards.


Salvan dodged back as the enemy attacked from above, and a thick spike of earth emerged from the earth as  he did. If the attacker dodged it but was still really close, Salvan caused smaller spikes to pop out of it towards the user. The enemy called down a rain of swords and hit one towards Salvan, who barely dodged it and was clipped by the sword, causing a red streak to be cut into his side. Salvan parried to second one but another clipped his arm and then his leg. He was overwhelmed by the man's speed.

Salvan slammed a fist into the earth which slowly started to creep up and coat his body in rock. A thick layer of this rock armor formed all, giving him the look of a medieval knight, only his armor was stone not steel. He was not hampered by this armor either, not being particulary fast before, he countered it with massive physical strength. A slight aura of wind formed around him and then settled on his arm, creating a shield.

Fully outfitted for battle now, Salvan smiled under his rock visor and started forward. He gestured with his shield arm and pulled a gust of wind around from behind Yuri, and at the same time His armor rippled and spikes shot from his chest.

She easily countered him. Regaining some distance, he listened. He sighed before responding. "I'm on contract. Two more days, then I would have gotten the rest of my payment and left with an anonymous tip to the authorities. I would much appreciate it if you knocked me out instead of killing me...but unfortunately, I need to keep fighting because that was what I was hired to do. If I didn't follow the contract, what would I have to sell?"

He held his ground as the woman called out her swords name. The man closed his eyes for only a few moments. He took aim. Almost at the last minute, he pointed it up and fired...

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Yuri twisted out of the way of the spike and continued, only stalling from the smaller spikes hurled at him. But again used his speed and agility. Only stopping when the guy armored up. His eyes narrowed. Then he felt it...Yuri spun, making a motion akin to closing a shower curtain, creating a mostly transparent shield.

He made a full circle, swinging the Heaven's Gate sword, firing six shine spells and a holy wave. The basic holy spells destroyed the spikes, while the crescent shaped energy blade sliced one in half, the pieces going on either side of Yuri's face, and continued on to him.

It was about that time he noticed the bow user fire upwards with a shining arrow. "Fuck! Take cover!" He yelled at his partner and hopefully loud enough for Connor and the others to hear. Well, he knew Connor would hear it.

He dived under a slightly uplifted shelter as the arrow entered a magic circle far up in the sky. Then it rained down hundreds spiraling lances of energy. While they hit things, they didn't explode right away. When they did, it was with the power of a cero.

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After that he was done. He looked around at the devastation...his last gambit against her. But he fulfilled his end of the contract...he was now at the mercy of the girl...

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Yuri stood up since the sheltor he had taken cover in was blown apart. He saw mohawk guy and his own opponent. "Well that was interesting...ready for round two?"

Elayne listened to the man, and realised he'd been hired. while she was annoyed that he'd work for such bad men, she did understand he planned to turn them in. At least she didn't think he lied, but she was far to trusting. Elayne watched him fire an arrow into the sky, then heard yuri shout for them to take cover. Elayne watched lances of energy rain down from the sky, and she jumped up to meet them, dodging between them and watching them hit the ground. They didn't explode right off, but when they did the combined force was enough to launch her up and hurt her a little. She flipped and let herself fall back down to earth.

Checking to see if everyone was ok, she looked at the man. "I can't promise your boss will be alive to pay you, but I'll make sure you get your money, if you never take a job for such evil people again." Then she shunpo'd forward and aimed a strike with the hilt of her weapon, knocking him out cold. Then she turned her attention to the man in stone and mohawk.


Salvan wasn't to surprised when the man's attack countered his and a wave of energy hit him. It didn't break his armor but it still hurt and threw him back. Salvan then realised Kael had used one of his more powerful attacks, He created a dome of rock around him and cringed. As the dust cleared, Savlan climbed out from a pile of rubble, and stood up. He looked at Kael as he was knocked out by the girl in white, then at his employer mohawk, then yuri. The girl really hadn't been bluffing about how strong she was.

That ment that other guy was still stronger. Salvan sighed and looked back to his employer's second in command. "Your murderous bastard of a boss doesn't pay me enough for this shit. I'm out." He put his axe away. Mohawk pulled a pistol on him. "You'll fight or you'll die!"

Salvan moved so fast mohawk didn't have time to fire. He levelled the rapist with a punch and kicked the gun away as mohawk hit the ground. "I'm out." He said. placing a foot on the man's chest. He looked back at Yuri.

"Don't think bad of me for ditching my employer. Money ain't worth dying for. You'll find the boss in the big shack that way. Unlike this goon, he's pretty powerful. He also keeps women and kids close by, he might threaten to kill them to make you back off."

Yuri frowned heavily at the turn of events. He sighed. He looked back at the building...it seemed to have been a clothing section or a laundry mat. He started going through it, finding a pair of pants that looked like they would fit Connor. Desummoning his swords, he walked out just as his holy swords disappeared. "Connor, buddy! We caught the mohawk douchenburger!" He yelled. Then he looked at the man pinning Mr. Mohawk down. Raising a hand with fingers out, he spoke. "When I count down to one...you might want to get some distance."

It didn't take long for the boy werewolf to show up...eyes glowing, and then himself turning into a the very monster that he was, tearing up what little clothes he had left. Yuri had counted down to zero. Connor lept into the air, the tips of his hairs glowing yellow and spinning. When he landed on the mohawk dude, a huge explosion sounded. Blood and debris was everywhere. Yuri's own clothes were streaked with it from the attack. When the smoke cleared, it showed Connor, grinning in satisfaction. Yuri threw the pants at him, the wolf putting them on.

"All right. You *points at his former opponant*, can you form an earth barrier around the head honcho? I'll give you five percent of my cut if you just stall any attempt to attack the hostages by mere seconds. Miss, if you can get in there from the front and force him out the back, I'll have a surprise waiting for him."

If the other man said anything about no hope to save them all...Yuri would look furious and glare at him. "I don't care. I will save all that I can. Give me ten seconds. Connor...bring them out as quickly as possible."

Yuri blurred away. He was out back...with two judgement spells and an eruption spell ready to hit him. He just hoped she would be able to push him out the back...

Salvan smiled as he moved back and watched the wolf maul mohawk. "Man i hated that guy. Nice to see him die." As he said that the girl stared at him until salvan stopped moving and stared back. She looked really creepy in that white mask. "Wha.. What?" He asked. She pointed. "Your not very nice." She said to him. He shrugged. "Can't really deny that." He said. His former opponent spoke.

Salvan nodded. "It wont be easy, but i can hold him. I just need to get close. I should be able to by you 5 seconds to get in and distract him miss. Unfortunately the barrier I trap him with will also make it hard to hurt him, so dont waste time trying to kill him till he's free." Air currents started to swirl around his arms as Salvan crouched. "In ten seconds i'm going to come down on him through the roof, and trap him. Watch for that, then move."

With that, salvan crouched a little lower, then launched himself into the sky. 100 metres up, he turned and faced towards the earth as he passed over the large hut, and then shot down towards the ground at double the speed. He hit the building with such force he passed right through with no ressistance and past the boss man, with a grin on his face and a solute. He punched through the floor. Earth turned to sand to soften his landing. It would leave a bruise, but he was fine. Earth started to surge up and smashed through the floor, wrapping around the boss in a spire and rising him up through the roof. 5 seconds started.


As soon as she seen him hit, Elayne was gone form Yuri's side. She reached the building in time to see the spire of earth burst through the roof. 3 seconds later a blast of energy erupted form inside it, and the bad boss man was free. Something shot from his hand towards the ground, then he looked at her and pointed. A beam of energy shot at her, but her sword took on a red hue and she knocked it right back. The boss man dodged it barely. He tried to do something else, but Elayne raised her blade and used divinity peircer. He never stood a chance, she hit him directly and launched him out the back of the building towards where yuri wanted.

(note, he is not dead, or even close to it. XD That would be to easy.)

The man watched the proceedings, glad that someone else had sniffed out this place. It was especially nice to see Elayne there as well. Can't let one of my own do all the work, now can I? That would set a bad example. The man thought, brushing the stray dirt off of his uniform. His long, black hair trailed down his back, and his steel headband held the front in place, so it didn't get in his eyes. Emblazoned on the headband was the Vanguards symbol.

The man Shunpo'ed to where he had seen Yuri move to, careful not to hide his presence to much. He learned sneaking up on people had disastrous effects amongst people like him. Coming into a view a short length away, he smiled at the mercenary. "Hello Yuri. Long time, no see." And Parius Ryūkōtei smiled his signature smile.

Yuri was where he needed to be when a familiar came into view. "Hey Parius." As soon as he said it, he stared at the man, blinking twice. He pointed the Rune Blade at the man. "Parius!? What in the world are you doing here?!" Yuri clearly looked shocked and surprised. And he almost missed the explosions. "Help Connor and ally protect the hostages!"

He jumped just as the head honcho appeared, trapped between two Judgement spells. He did something to block the one in front of him, but not the one behind him. The explosion was fairly large, and Yuri didn't quite. As soon as he landed, two spells appeared in front of him. From it, came a barrage of hollow stars and a barrage of lightning bolts. Only to be nullifed.

The head honcho walked out of the smoke with a dagger and a small shield, grinning. This was gonna be a long day...

Yuri charged, swinging both swords...

Elayne dodged backwards as Yuri fired his spells. She was so caught up in the fight she didn't notice parius straight away. Jun attacked and the boss nulified them some how. He'd forgotten about Elayne though, because he was moving towards yuri with her behind him. Elayne rushed in only to hit a barrier of some kind, and then suddenly get blown back into the rubble of the shack.

She `jumped up and spun her rapier in a circle, creating balls of energy at six points along the circle.The bolts of energy fired and began chasing the boss who dodged them. They circled round and two hit before he realised they'd tracked him. Elayne darted forward while he was off guard and thrust her blade forward. He parried it with his shield and tried to counter  with the dagger. Elayne backed off and fired a bolt of lightning at him.

The lightning hit but like with yuri's attacks it was nulified. Or so she thought, but his chest was smoking where the lightning hit him. lightning began sparking off of him an then suddenly exploded outwards in a dome. (with the power of a Gran Rey)

Parius shrugged to Yuri's question. "I'm always somewhere." He said. He then nodded. "Alright, if you say so." Parius walked away from what appeared to be a good fight. Pity. He activated his Ryu no Me, looking for the two he was told to help. Seeing something out of the corner of his eye, he followed, and walked right into where the hostages were being held.

Disengaging his eye, Parius watched as two men trained their guns on the hostages. "Why does this always happen to me." Parius sighed, holding his hands up. "Enough. I'm not fighting back, no need to hurt these people." Parius said, as calmly as possible. Which was hard. The fact these men pointed weapons at defensless people already made Parius quite angry. However, all he could do was wait for the two people who were supposed to be there arrive.

Connor came up behind one of the men, snapping his neck like a twig. The other turned and fired, making lots of holes in the teen's body. Which healed. A very not human growl exited his throat...causing the guy to just run. "You heard Yuri...let's get everyone out of here!"

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Yuri was having a case of chills...now he was starting to recognize these abilities...Annabell Monroe. Luckily...he had the Rune Blade. He slashed at the expanding energy dome, negating it and essentially increasing its cooldown. "You're not the only one that can negate attacks...now that I know for a fact that you're a spellcastor..." He jumped up and started to spin, slashing at the shield multiple times. Until a brown magic circle appeared to the man's right, firing an earth sword that soon exploded a couple times.

Yuri got out of the way, but the man was injured now. Not terribly so...just a few cuts on his shoulder and back. It was soon followed by six shine spells and a holy wave...