FireStorm

[khamar]

Atakai having helped Kit and Mahari more then enough decided to leave the hidden bunker. He stopped briefly at the city of Lantana and was taking a train to station 6. Mahari's paranoia tha the government would send out something to find him proved true. Genetically engineered reptiles were scouring the city and causing hell up above on the streets.

Atakai was just about to find out. (this thing pretty much appears) b1nd1.deviantart.com/art/Hunter-125907850?offset=10#comments

Panic broke out on the subway train as the reptile backhanded a human passenger sending him flying out the window of the moving train. Somewhere a fuse broke and the lights went out on the train evenloping it in darkness.

A voice called out in the darkness right before she was killed. "Run for your lives! It will kill us all!" The lights flickered back to life revealing to Atakai the extent of the massacre in the train car cabin. He could not change in the confined quarters and opted to do the next best thing seeing as he hand no weapon.

Atakai broke the glass to a fire extinguisher and started to spray the new biological weapon of the imperial government in the face. Of course it did little more then to piss it off enough to just leave by breaking a hole through the roof.

[Mai]

Stupid, insolent boy! That's only going to make it worse! Do you not have any brains?!

A white lion-like creature with black markings, back about four feet high off the ground, growled, seeming to have appeared from nowhere. Atakai was certainly not a child, but, then again, to Leiara, he was. She was centuries old, and often hid away, preferring to ignore the world rather than deal with it. Despite this, she was incredibly all-knowing when it came to such things as this, and other things she "ignored".

Her white and black tail whipped around to whack him over the back of the head, as she glanced over at him with her blue eyes. She rolled with with a sigh and she padded forward, sniffing at the remains of the people who had died. She hissed in disdain.

I'm going to have to get my paws dirty, aren't I?

She muttered, claws extending then coming back in, and repeating, scraping claw marks into the floor.

Damn.

(click for what she looks like)

[niko]

OCC: Aw, its cute

Atakai stared at the strange creature. He winced though as she hit the top of his head. "I dont have time for you" he grumbled just as the tram came to a stop at the station. The door hissed open but not to a friendly sight. At the waiting area the lights on the roof were blinking and more bodies scewed the area.

Jogging bye and examing the bodies for life in the process Atakai started to make his way to the surface. The city was under siege. The human city of Lantana once called the glittering jewl of human architeture was now a sad sight of his former self. Buildings were on fire and the citizens were running down the street in fear. A firetruck with its sirens blaring came rushing down the street past atakai.

He waved his hand at the other following behind it and the truck slowed down. "I have experience! Have an extra suit?" The firechief in the passenger seat waved him. 'C'mon! We need all the help we can get!" Atakai climbed in started to dress in the firesuit. "Whats going on!" He asked the chief. "These things came out of nowhere and are torching the city!" Atakai looked out the window as they drove. out in the streets the bio engineered reptiles were chasing down people or climbing on the side of buildings to light them on fire. A gas leak in a building exploded breaking it in half. The truck driver took a quick left turn at a intersection just as the building hit the streets.

The firechief hit atakai in the shoulder and pointed to a giant skysraper. "Thats were we are going. The call is a godamn 18 fire alarmer." meaning 18 firehouses were being called to deal with it. The skyscraper had flames spraying out all over. "God almighty" Atakai said. At the sight of it.

There were already trucks on the scene and Atakai jumped out knowing the drill. He strapped a oxygen tank on his back and made sure the oxygen mask was ready WHEN he needed it. "Watch out for jumpers" some one called out right before body hit the ground. Rather then burning alive some of the people trapped near the top floor chose to jump.

The chief hit Atakais shoulder as he prepared to go into the skyscraper lobby. "Watch it in there. We lost a team 6 floors up. Your suit can only handl fifteen hundred degrees. If it goes any higher you will burn to death." As he went running to the entrance he saw some firefighers come out screeming. There suits had literally melted to there bodys.

They were sprayed with water and steam hissed up. Atakai was in over his head.

As for the white lion.....a series of events happened before his eyes.

A young firefighter was near a wrecked flaming firetruck. The only suviver of his crew after they were attacked. He waved a ax at the reptile hissing in front of him but it did no good. The creature spewed out black flames that engulfed the boy. He died instantly and dropped ot his knees before the airtank on his back started to hiss from the heat and exploded.

The reptile quicky departed leaving the massacre sight to chase people down the streets. One of the radios on the dead fighters came to life. "This is lieutenent Ra. Ladder 12? Ladder 12 come in?" Another voice came over. "dammit these things are killing us. Where are the police? What about the national guard? A yell and static ended all other radio chatter.

A cop came running down the street shooting his handgun at a reptile running along the side of a building. The man waved at civilians running through the streets. "Run! I will hold it here!" He reloaded his pistol just as the government bio weapon lept to the ground and started to charge him. "C'mon' He yelled and started shooting at it to no effect as the bullets just richoched off.

It lept by him and stabbed the cop in the back with the barbed end of its tail and went after the people running away. The cop put a hand in shock at the bloody stomach wound and fell over. A black military looking helicopter came flying overhead. "This city is now under quarantine. Any attempt to leave will be seen as a hostile act" The imperial government had set up a blockade around the city. One such blockade was nearby. A gunner manning a machine gun was aiming his weapon down the streets where paniced citizens ran towards him. None of this made sense to him but he was just following orders. "Turn back!" A officer yelled into a loudspeaker. "Any attempt to leave the city will be taken as a hostile act! Come any closer and we will open fire!"

The civilians were stuck between a rock and a hard place. Bio weapons on there ass. Armed soldiers to there front. The officer nodded to the machine gunner. "Open Fire!" With the order given the soldier opened fire into the mass of civilians running at them.

[Mai]

The lioness sighed once more before she began growling at the sight of civilians being killed, either by soldiers of by the reptiles. In truth, though they were bio weapons now, they had originally existed as well. They were the long lost first dragon race. The race had evolved to the next, then the next, and then split into the dragon species afterwards. Before that, dragons had been just simple lizards, similar to an iguana, really. But, then again, only Leiara knew this. Only Leiara knew they were like snakes--Cut off the head, and the body would die. Of course, then came killing the head, but, nonetheless, the bodies were a good start.

She began running at one, her speed incredibly. No creature of the modern world could move even close to the speed she could reach with ease. She was as close to a god as a mortal could get, and had been living for millennias already. She was the single race that was so close to perfection that it stopped evolving entirely, and that was a good thing. She was the last of her race on Alalea, so evolution would have been impossible anyway.

She leaped, massive body hurtling through the air and her teeth caught in the neck of one of the reptiles, the speed and weight behind the grab tearing it's head off instantly with the cracking of bones--The creatures bones, not hers. Sharp claws extended to puncture into the brain, rendering the creature's head useless even if it stayed alive. And then she moved on, the fur somehow managing to stay fairly clean.

She fought her way in the same direction as Atakai had gone, where the majority of the enemy was. She was killing so many of them she had begun to loose track. Not that she cared. As part of evolution, they had been normally aggressive, but never murderous. Now, as a genetically engineered weapon...Well, it was a different story entirely.

-yeah...once the situation isn't quite so serious, you'll find she's gonna go a little ADHD. she's a little kid at heart ^.^ -

[niko]

As Atakai moved further and further up the flight of stairs it got incredibly hotter. The paint on his helmet started to bubble. The glint tape on his suit started to melt. The suit could not take the heat. "We have to go back!" Someone called a few flights down.

The others including Atakai protested. "No, push up"

A police helicopter was spinning out of control as two of the ancient reptiles were clinging to it. One ripped off the pilots door and grabbed the pilot tossing him to his death. The body hit the street out of nowhere in front of the lioness. The helicopter crashed in the street blocking her way in a firey explosion. The creatures that braught it down looked at her with menacy eyes.

[Mai]

Stupid beasts.

She grumbled, swishing her tail and a cascade of diamond-like magic shards rained down, distracting them nicely while she decapitated them both, one at a time. With that done, she popped her head into the crash and pulled out the sole survivor, dragging him out of harms way, should more explosions occur from the crashed vehicle, and then she tore off to the building, bounding up stairs and pushing past others. That was one thing that could be said of her kind - Their fur was fire and heat resistant. Albeit, it managed to produce a horrible weakness as well. None of them ever managed to learn to swim, at least, none that she knew of. Their fur soaked up water, making them too heavy to stay afloat. Magic shields to keep in air only lasted so long before the air was unbreathable.

She pushed past some firefighters, not even seeing Atakai among them. She was too busy trying to get up high enough to save the people in a more dangerous position. She was dashing down just seconds later, about five or six people clinging to her back. She slowed as she went by.

Save those lower down. I will get those high up. There's no point having your suits melt to you and make you incapable of saving those who need the help when you've got me around. Now move!

She continued her run down through the stairwells, leaping straight down to the next landing on the occasions when she could without unseated her passengers.

[niko]

Atakai turned around to look at all the probies following him. "Well? You heard the thing. Downstairs now" As they rushed down the stairs everyone stopped as they heard a metalic creak. "No way" The skyscraper was about to collapse. The heat was to much for the metal.

"Get out!" Atakai yelled. "Were not going to make it" someone protested. Atakai would here nothing of it. "Were only on the 60th floor its not that bad" Not that bad? Right....

Atakai pushed by all the hesitant men. "There are alot of worse ways to go lads. Move it!"

[Mai]

Leiara was already on her way back up. She would go faster, but that was impossible with the tightness of the turns. She cursed human stupidity once more. There was no way she was getting any more of those in the high heats, her weight would cause the building's collapse, there was no doubt in the mind about that. She tossed the group of firefighter's she came across onto her back, ignoring any protests or horrified screams as her teeth dug into their collars. She was careful enough that she wouldn't nick skin unless she meant to. She began bounding down the stairs as a crash above could be heard.

Damn.

She muttered, lunging toward a window and leaping out. She reached her paws way out, scrabbling with her claws for a hold on the next building over, which wasn't in incredibly condition, but certainly far better than the sky scraper. And so she began bounding across rooftops of tall buildings, working her way to shorter ones until she deemed it safe so her to go for the ground--From a height of ten storeys. There were definitely a few screams from those on her back at that drop, until she landed and began sprinting them back toward the building, where their bosses would be waiting along with the lucky survivors.

[niko]

Atakai and the others clinged on to dear life as they were bounding from roof to roof. More then happy when there feet touched the ground.

Mahari was in the lab of his bunker listening to the Kits mercenarys up above throwing some kind of party. He was in no mood for them. At the moment he was talking and hitting on Kit who was a little drunk herself.

"C'mon" He said to her with a smile. His attempts to get in her pants were proving more difficult then he origenly anticipated. "I like you, you said so yourself you like me. Why shouldent we do it?" He gave a mischievous smile. "I would very much like to see you in that blue see through dress that you wore on the last mission" when he was overwatching the assasination it was the first time he saw Kit actually looked like a women. Most of the time she just wore mens style cloths.

Mahari was hoping that patience would win her over. He just had to keep trying until she said yes. He just ignored the fact every action had a consequance. Good or bad.

[Mai]

Leiara ran as if her life depended on it, and it was mere seconds before they returned to the firetrucks, and she slowed to a stop, giant stature coated entirely with ash, dousing her brilliant white coat to a mere grey that didn't shine at all. Once the firefighters were off she shook, creating a cloud of ash around her before it settled. It hardly helped. She did manage to spot Atakai, though, and she smirked ever so slightly.

If I were you, I'd be glad that I had the time for you, even if you had no time for me, young one.

She told him softly, before taking a scope of the area. It seemed the police and whatnot had everything that was left reasonably under control. She nodded her head, glad it had turned out better than it seemed it was going to, and turned to begin walking away, not saying a word and not staying to help longer than she had to.

Meanwhile, Kit, although tipsy for sure, continued to refuse Mahari's suggestions. It wasn't that she didn't like him - She did, she just wasn't the most trusting of persons when it came to relationships. With friends, she was fine, but she always had a habit of pushing away anyone who wanted anything more. Perhaps that was why it had never even come close to starting with Atakai. She was far too independent to find herself comfortable committing to anything so dependent on more than herself for what could potentially be years. Of course, this refusing of hers was becoming harder and harder with each couple of sips she took from her glass, but she wasn't noticing enough to stop drinking altogether.

[niko]

Atakai waved briefly at his new found friend. "Thanks" Now he just wondered how he was going to get out of the city with it blockaded by the military. His thoughts went to Natasha and his kids. They must be worried about me" It was kind of funny how things turned out with her. She got close to Atakai in hopes of using him but in the end could not forsee an actual love forming.

Mahari kept trying and sensed he was close when one of her mercenarys came in drunk off his ass. Mahari sighed and went back to work. Whatever it was Kit would probably have to go and deal with it.

"What ya talking to that nerd for when you got a real man right here" The drunk mercenary said to Kit with slurred words. Mahari by now had some optical zoom goggles on working on one of his invention. He looked up at Kit and the mercenary. Whe way he looked with the goggles on could almost make you laugh.

"Sir, I dont think the lady wants to be bothered at the moment" The mecenary shot out a finger. "Shutup mate" The drunk mercenary took Kits wrist and put her hand on his crotch. "Like that?" He said with a toothy grin. "Its all yours girly" Mahari almost flipped but kept his temper under control. If he knew Kit as well as he thought he did. She did not look impressed. Either by the mans actions or the size of what he had packing.

Mahari took off his goggles. "I dont recomend you do that...." He said in warning but it was to late. There was a blinding flash and Mahari shielded his eyes to look afterwards. "Where did he go?" Mahari asked Kit. After he got an answer he sighed. "You should really learn self control my dear.... I really hope you would never do anything like that to me"

He worked on his invention with a small welder that aluminated his goggled eyes with light. Setting the handheld welder down he raised his goggles to his forehead and resumed his flirting attempts with Kit.

"Are you sure you dont want to play around?" Play around. That was a nice way of putting what he wanted to do. " We draca men are renouned for our skills as lovers" he added. He slid his black goggles back on to resume welding. "And quite frankly I think we would be perfect together. Not only did he want to sleep with her it would also give him a chance to examine her body in the name of science. Of course he had worrys about that with her being a living time paradox and all. What would happen if she started to suck the life out of him?

He continued his work and spoke again to her. "I know you use to be a draca like me. Is it because you want to follow our peoples old traditions? Because if thats the case I will leave right now and find you the most pretty rock in the land. Like penguins, back in the old days draca males would present a stone. Depending on its quality the female would accept him as her mate or raise a snout in unsatisfaction.

[khamar]

Atakai leaned his head in to the radio handmike clipped to his shoulder. "Looks like we are needed at the hospital near the city outskirts." He waved the other firefighters and his new friend over to a truck. "Lets try to get there without running into any imperial soldier blockades"

That was the least of his worrys at the moment. Driving through the chaotic streets there was a loud boom and a blinding flash. When it supsided Atakai looked in the rearview mirror. A mushroom cloud was rising into the air from the center of the city and a shockwave was heading to them quickly from behind.

"Good god" Was all Atakai was able to say before the shockwave hit the truck sending it flying through the air.

Hours later Atakai woke up all disoriented. The Firetruck was on its back and his body burned like it was on fire. Patches of his suit were missing and his visible flesh seemed to be bubbling. Groaning he opened up the firetruck door after seeing none of his comrades inside were alive.

His radio was spiiting out chatter though a bit undreadable at some points. "All citezens within a two mile radios of the nuclear epicenter are urged to find the nearest UN contamination center for treatment *Static* Nuclear explosion epicenter located due south by 2.48 *static*

Atakai started to crawl out of the upside down firetruck and saw nothing recognizable. The air was filled with dust and debree that was carried by a burning hot breeze. Coughing he cotinued to crawl away from the wrecked firetruck. Atakai was already suffering from the post blast effect of radiation. He was slowly cooking alive from the inside out.

A nearby building gave in to its weak structural intengrity and collapsed sending out a wave of hot air and dust. Coughing Atakai continued to crawl ignoring the radio traffic over his radio.

"Comfirmed reports of other nuclear bombs are being reported in every major human settlement in the country. Exact casualty numbers are unclear but at the moment are estimted at 1.2 million. All human citizens in the country are urged to remain calm" Atakai stopped moving and rolled onto his back to look at the blood red sky. Hearing the voices of the wife and child he was heading home to in his head Atakai smiled weakly and died.

If his lioness friend came across his dead body his radio would still be talking chatter. The message was obviously a recording set on loop.

"Comfirmed reports of other nuclear bombs are being reported in every major human settlement in the country. Exact casualty numbers are unclear but at the moment are estimted at 1.2 million. All human citizens in the country are urged to remain calm....."

A voice called out loudly from under the wreckage of a miltary truck. "Help! I'm stuck!" There was young looking human soldier pinned under the truck. Aside from that he looked perfectly fine. Strange considering the city was bathed in radiation...

"Please help me!" He called out to the animal. "My name is private first class Kasatar" A human with the name of the first draca emperor. Also strange. "What is going on! I... I got seperated from my unit. I cant contact anyone on the radio From his erratic behavior the boy was suffering from emotioal trauma and shock. The trauma he coud get over. Shock was a silent and quick killer as the body slowly shutted down.

"This mission is FUBAR. We were supposed to protect and evacuate civilians. Why did a nuke go off" The boys face was not visible from behind the black bug eyes biohazard mask he was wearing but his muffled voice betrayed his youth and inexperience. He started to ignore the white lioness as he assumed the animal was ignoring him. "Help!" he called out and pethetically tryed to push the several ton truck off his pinnedlegs. A device on his forearm that monitored the tech soldiers vitals blared an alarm and electronic voice. Portable AI. The tech soldiers best friend.

"Private, you are suffering from level 4 shock. Internal hemoraging detected in scan. Seek emediate medical attention from the nearest medic He continued pushing and shoving against the wrecked humvee. "I cant!" He yelled at the wristcomp AI.

It replied coldly. "If no medical personal are available inject EM needle to stabablize vitals temperarily." Kasatar looked to a pack just barely out of his reach. "I cant reache it!" he wimpered. The AI responded coldly again. "User death iminent. Notifiying command of KIA status"

AI's were useful. But lacking in human empathy. "I'm not dead yet!" He protested. "Notify command to send help!' The AI responded. "Rank private infantry soldiers are not eligable for top priority medical evacs. Officers only.... No medical evacs availabe. Mercy killing suggested." The damn machine was telling kasatar to kill himself.

Kasatar had no intention of dying slowly. Pulling a .45 cal pistol from his hip holster the boy put it to his head.

[Mai]

Leiara's teeth closed gently around the gun, avoiding his hand with precision, she pulled it away and gently nosed his hand.

It is alright. I'll get you out. You must try to remain calm. Breath as normally as you can. If you feel cold, do let me know as soon as you can. I'm going to try and move this truck so we can get you out and get you some appropriate medical assistance.

Her body was much larger than his own, and so she began pushing, wrapping her tail around his wrist and hand in hopes to comfort him, and attempting ot keep talking, to distract him from the pain.

Do you have any family Kasatar? Anyone to go home to when we get you through this?

The truck was bigger than she thought, so she added a touch of magic to aid her in her plight.

----

You do realize if we go down this path I will end up running from it? Do you really want that? I'll live forever, Mahari. If I get too attached, I'll just watch you die in the end. And I won't look a day older. If that doesn't break your heart, it will break mine. Maybe someday I'll be willing to risk it, but not today.

Obviously she'd sobered up in a flash to deal with the mercenary. Things often got serious very fast with them when they were drunk, at it was like her body knew to get her ready for it as soon as they walked in the room. Thus why she'd been drinking in the lab rather than upstairs with them.

[khamar]

Kasatar was grateful when Leiara intervened. He was not sure if he had the courage to pull the trigger. Yelling in pain as the truck slowly but surely started to move he aswered her with a groan. "No family, but I have a girlfriend. I was going to propose after this mission because I accidently knocked her up. He laughed a bit at the thought. "Her family hates me" He yelled again as the truck was lifted just enough for him to pull his legs out.

From the looks of it his left leg was broken with a compound fracture a bone visibly sticking out through the uniform "My legs! Oh god my legs!" He moaned. Kasatar should have considered himself lucky. In the end he was helped to a forward operating medical hospital. The day after when his rescuer went to see how the boy was doing the military field hospital bed was empty. The doctor just shook his head. "The soldier died of his wounds last night"

Mahari thought over what she said. "I suppose your right. We are to young anyway to be thinking of such things" He paused before adding. "Just remember though. Its not about living forever. But about living. If you dont live life. What point is there?"

The next day the news of what happened all over the country reached them. By then though the news was reporting that a anti human terrorist group called 'the hand of god' had placed all the nukes in the human city.

Mahari suggested that Kit go and try to investigate what she could about the anti human terrorists. In a none human colony she would run into a old friend. Justin. Her old partner in the NSA. Though now just a FBI agent after being fired because of his failure to keep kit under control.

"FREEZE! FEDERAL AGENT!" Justin called out on the roof of a building with his handgun pointed at a young teenage nerinian. He was not quick enough to fire as his partner was shot. Justin fired of a few shots at the boy as he lept off the building roof to flee. Justin checked his partner and said over a radio. "Agent down. My partner roldings is dead. I'm pursuing the suspect" Justin was just a human and could just leap off buildings. He took the more sensible route. The fireescape.

Following in close pursuit of the nerinian kid he did not see antoher hiding behind the corner of a bulding with a bat. All justin saw was a bat come out of nowhere and hit him in the face. The force was so great it broke his nose and sent the agent flying onto his back.

The nerinian teenager took the uncousious justins weapon and pointed it at his chest. "Die human!" With that said he started to unload the entire magazine into justins chest.

[Mai]

Kit dove in front, managing to take all the bullets herself before landing on the ground, eyes still open despite being dead. Of course, bullets weren't a hard thing to come back from. All it took was a half a minute before she was blinking, and struggling to pull in air. She still hadn't quite gotten the hang of coming back from the dead silently. She wasn't quite sure she wanted to die enough times to manage it, either. As the wounds healed, pushing out the bullets, she pushed herself up and flicked a hand, strands of golden light wrapping around the nerinan and pulling his gun away before solidifying into thin but sturdy chains.

It would be appreciated if you refrain from killing me. It hurts like hell to come back.

She told the other person with the bat, who was standing there completely shocked to see her standing. He turned and ran the other way. He'd likely have composed himself by the time he returned to his superiors and report of a girl who could not die who was helping the humans. She almost expected to be captured, if they could capture her, and killed in other various ways. Jack had mentioned that it had happened to him on more than one occasion. She didn't worry about it now though. She turned to Justin.

Not quite the reunion that would have been nice, but nonetheless, it is nice to see you haven't gotten killed yet.

She sent out a burst of magic to straighten and heal his nose, as she waited for what his reaction would be.