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Post by Animebella on Mar 14, 2009 22:59:33 GMT -5
Katsumi was down and out before she knew it, only swaying once before she collapsed. She hated showing weakness infront of anyone, especially guys. Though her strength was seeping away from her as was her consciousness. Slowly as her blood was being lost, it was too painful to even think about what had just happened. She had been careless and would have probably lost to the idiot if not for his brother coming in the knick of time. her whole body shook with anger but then subsided as she grew still. Her heart was still beating, but with every second was growing weaker. No bood meant no Katsumi.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 14, 2009 23:38:32 GMT -5
"Lt, return Sal to the manor" said Ikovi picking up Katsumi and tossing her unconscious body over his shoulder.
"My pleasure, CO" said the man who was doing most of the work holding Salanim down.
The man unsheathed his blade and slammed it's hilt into Salanim's temple, and Salanim fell silent, still believing that he had killed the girl...
Ikovi stopped Katsumi's bleeding effortlessly with a little bit of his magic. Her blood was already soaking his clothing, his formerly white Roknish formal uniform was stained red at his right shoulder all the way down to his waist, but the bleeding had stopped.
Sal probably thinks he killed her, so if I can just heal her I can set her free without and worries, so long as she doesn't run into Sal again. Not that I think she'll want to go near him again. Speaking of which how will she react to me when she wakes up. Hmm... Mustn't be too close to her when she does...
Ikovi turned quickly to the closest man to him "corporal, have your fireteam follow me, I trust you know why..."
((OOC: For reference a corporal is the second to last mill. Rank, just above private. A private is basically the standard soldier with no command authority. A corporal commands a group of three other privates this group is called a fireteam, and including the corporal is a group of four people. Of course I am using Marine rankings and squad assignments…))
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Post by Animebella on Mar 15, 2009 15:32:15 GMT -5
Katsumi felt a vague feeling of being lifted into the air then something soft but firm. She haden't the strength to move anything as she was afraid to make matters worse. Aside from being pretty much unconscious she had no clue where she would be taken, she figured she was on her death bed as they walked along. Cursing herself deep down for being such an idiot. Attacking someone she knew would be difficult to defeat. If he was able to grab onto his whip then he was pretty strong. Not many dared to get close to herwhen she flared up. Not many would live through seeing such a thing. He was mearly lucky.
(Man you sure do know your stuff. I bet you'd be awesome in that sort of field.)
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 15, 2009 16:02:20 GMT -5
Ikovi managed to carry the girl without help to a nearby cave, this would keep her out of sight and far away from her battleground so that if Salanim woke again he wouldn't be able to find her very fast. Ikovi kneeled down, telling the guards to watch the mouth of the cave, and slowly taking the girl off his shoulder. He was careful not to hit her head, she was probably already concussed, or bend the neck, a snapped neck did not do you too well either.
He stood and stretched a bit before he went back to the girl, there was really no rush anymore. He looked at his formerly perfectly kept uniform, which was now covered in blood and sighed. Father is going to kill me...
"Corporal, two should be enough there, you and another come here and help me" he said to the four guards standing just outside the cave, they weren't too far inside the cave, but he still had to raise his voice a bit to cover the distance.
"There, hold her up just like that, and be ready to restrain her, I have to remove all the shrapnel, which is going to hurt like, well use your imagination. So she's probably going to wake up" he said, pulling a vicious looking sharp tweezer looking device from a pouch inside his robes.
"Here we go..."
((OOC: Hey I pick stuff up, it gets more complicated past sergeant. Anyway, If you've never had shrapnel pulled( I have, but not from a shot shell, which would've hurt a lot more) I should not that it involves digging around inside your flesh to find a little piece of metal. As I said before, use the darkest parts of your imagination.))
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Post by Animebella on Mar 15, 2009 16:15:13 GMT -5
Katsumi was still floating in a black world, though she had a tingling sensation telling her that something had changed. She wondered what as the lightheadedness was strangely seeping away from her. Had someone healed her wounds? What the... but wasn't she bound for death? Not that she haden't already faced it a few dozen times before. You'd think she would have learned a thing or two from her hastiness. She always ended up in some sort of tricky situation, but always lived through it. Surprising enough, most of her scares were healed over, or hidded through use of her clothing.
She hung limply and only twitched once she felt herself being held tight. Both of her arms were held tight to some means or another and she felt useless. She had to wake up, something was bound to happen if she stayed like this. Just then a sharp pain came from one of her wounded areas, she cried out and her eyes shot open. His first wonder was where the heck she was, the pain came second as she squirmed, who was holding her and if she could take them out, and finally who was sending her through so much pain.
She looked down seeing a white blur, only the part she saw was tinted red. Her whole body shivered, "Wh...what are you doing?" She gasped through the pain, her hands had balled into fists to escape from the pain. She notcied the tool he was using and had to look away. She normally didn't mind blood, but seeing too much of her own made her woosey. She locked her eyes closed. "Te...tell me..what you are doing." She growled, as best as she could, but you could tell she was weak from the attack.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 15, 2009 16:45:22 GMT -5
The two guards at the front of the cave looked back with pained expressions, obviously they had been told how bad it hurt of have shrapnel pulled.
"Eye's forward!" shouted the corporal as he tightened his grip on the girl, though she wasn't struggling much.
Ikovi dropped the first piece of silver into a small collection tray that he had just set out. Most people pass out again after I take about ten more out, but she's a devil, she might last to very end, I was planning to the ones in her chest while she was asleep. This might be traumatizing... Oh well, 50+ to go... thought Ikovi as he dug into her collar bone for the next one.
"Well..." he said, wondering what exactly to say, he had no anesthesia, and besides she would learn her lesson if she felt all the pain "I'm pulling out the silver in your chest before it kills you, maybe you should listen to me next time I tell you that someone is going to kill you..." said Ikovi as he yanked the bllet from her skin, proceeding to the next one...
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Post by Animebella on Mar 15, 2009 17:20:49 GMT -5
Katsumi could see she was stuck where she was until the end. She was at her limit, though the dreariness had disappeared she didn't feel the need to struggle. The pain was intense but she had to bear it. She found if she sent her warming skills to the area it helped ease the pain. She still growled lightly though, she wasn't enjoying this. d**n idiot taking advantage of her when she continued to attack regardless of the shower of bullets that she clearly forgot about. Who knew it'd be so painful?
She wriggled a bit more but then sighed, moving her chin up to allow him better access, fighting would only increase the pain, and she just wasn't up for it. She heard a few pieces of silver hit the tray he had provided and sighed. She still cringed at each new spot though, it was hard not to. She had half a mind to burn the guy to a crisp but decided it was better to live than to have to worry about dying because she chose to kill him instead.
Kat's cheeks pinkened, she hadn't thought of that. Normally no one ever got away with laying a hand on her, let alone yanking up her shirt for a closer look of something that didn't belong to them. She growled a bit more but looked away, she had no choice if she wanted to live. She knew he was right. She'd better obey, but she didn't want to. She looked away, "Fine, but make it quick, I won't stand for hands groping around on their own will." She glared at the wall of the cave not looking forward to what was to come.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 15, 2009 17:38:58 GMT -5
Ikovi felt a little bit of sweat rise on his brow, he bbetter pick this up, it was taking a lot more than he had thought to keep the silver from entering her blood stream, too much more and he wouldn't have enough power left to finish healing her.
Hmm.... Still awake eh, but probably in a state of shock, so she basically asleep... "Private, your knife" he said looking up as he dropped the past piece of shrapnel from the visible skin into the tray.
The private handed him the knife, Ikovi flipped out the blade, carefully lifting up the bottom of her shirt and slipping it under there. He drew it up carefully, the blade cleanly and easily cutting the damp fabric. He sighed sighed and folded the shirt back, not a pretty sight, it was torn as it got. The girl shouldn't really care what she looks like after, but I'll put in the effort to take the scars out anyway...
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Post by Animebella on Mar 15, 2009 18:02:19 GMT -5
Katsumi felt lightheaded again as soon as she saw the knife. It could only get worse from here on, she was more than exposed to this guy and she felt like passing out. She held strong for a bit longer though, not looking back until she heard the rip of her shrirt from his knife. She cringed, wonderful, so much for a clean escapse. She thought as she glanced back, her eyes started to close unfortunately.
She had nothing left, she was more than upset with herself by now, and this guy wasn't doing much to help out. Aside from exposing her, old and new scars alike. She was upset, but untill she came back to there was nothing she could do. Eventually he lead lolled to the side, blacking out once again.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 16, 2009 1:00:49 GMT -5
Ikovi pulled the rest of the shrapnel. His hands were covered in blood now, Much like Salanim's only his is in a metaphorical sense, and I'm actually helping people...
He sighed and shook his sleeves back, now came the easy part, the shrapnel wounds weren't very deep and Ikovi was a talented battlefield medic so pulling the shrapnel had done quite a bit less damage than it normally would have. Now it was all just a few incantations and knowing which tissues were linked to what, which to a man who had spent his childhood reading medical journals surgeons didn't understand, was easy.
It took Ikovi about two minute to heal her, he had a bit more energy than he thought he did and did a little cosmetic healing just to show off his skill to the guards who were watching. When he had finished she had even less scars from before, though covered with enough dried blood to be told from a skin tight crimson shirt. She would come to soon.
"Thanks" he said as one of the guards handed him his water bottle, and he proceeded to wash the blood from his hands.
He turned around, the two guards were turned decidedly the other way. Whats wrong with them? Oh, she's still naked. Ikovi took off his formal bloodstained jacket and threw it over her chest, the guards turned back around at the sound.
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Post by Animebella on Mar 16, 2009 12:18:51 GMT -5
Katsumi was still in a dark nightmare, but it seemed it was just the stillness and quiet of the darkness that made everything ten times worse. She wanted to wake up, and she wanted everything to be just a memory. She knew however that, that would not be the case. She would remember this time in her mind for a long while, if not forever. She sighed in her mind wishing she could get the face of that idiot out of his head, but it seemed to stick. She would definately get her revenge on him. He wasn't going to make a fool out of her and get away with it so easily.
After a bit of feeling the cool breeze disappear she started to come to. Her eye lids felt heavy and she felt even worse, but for some reason the pain was fading. She opened her eyes and lifted her head back to the front, blinking a few times to adjust to the dim light. She looked her self over but noticed she had been covered with a white jacket, looking further to see it had been Ikovi's. She sighed as she tried to move but felt stiff from being held for so long. She bit her tounge ready to curse him, but rather than cursing she should be thanking. He did seem to have saved her life.
Her eyes found him in the darkness, "I suppose I should thank you." She growled lightly, but not taking her eyes off of him. "Unlike that idiot that just assumed he could kill me, you used your skills to save me." She paused, "Why?" She asked bluntly, he had her in his hands, she would have been dead by now without his help, so why did he save her?
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 16, 2009 18:49:45 GMT -5
Ikovi watched as he woke, and began to put some distance between her and hi, but not looking like he was a coward, he did it casually. To Ikovi it was something of a practice action of body language and slow gracefulness, he had learned it from years of being a commander who couldn't fight.
Actually the girl, if she was truly that ungrateful, had a pretty decent shot at killing Ikovi, the guards were not to be taken lightly but were soldiers meant for tactical warfare, not a cave brawl. Besides that, Ikovi had the fighting skill of the average kindergarten schoolgirl.
"Because Salanim is my charge, everything he does wrong is directly blamed on me" said Ikovi boredly as sent guards to various advantageous positions around the girl with flicks of his eyes.
Ikovis corporal was almost directly behind the girl, two more privates stood on either side of her and the last of the guards stood just to Ikovi's left...
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Post by Animebella on Mar 16, 2009 19:00:12 GMT -5
Katsumi watched as he guarded himself, in the meanwhile surrounding her. She sighed, "I suppose, but no matter... he was at fault." She looked around sensing the presence behind her as well as the others. She hugged the jacket over her chest as she watched them, wondering if he did intend to kill her after all.
Her eyes flickered back to Ikovi in wonder, "You still have yet to answer my question. To be foolish enough to go along with him in the first place was my mistake. My mother always warned me of these things. Humans... never have trusted one in my life. I'd fallen into his trap, just a mear play thing." She snirted, "The horror." She hated her human side, she was greatful to be more like her mother than her father. Not knowing him for too long there was nothing to like about him and the human race.
She looked to the white, now stained red jacket in wonder if it was all her blood. Though it made perfect sense. "I suppose this is his fault then too?" She asked still looking at the jacket. She knew she felt stronger, but she also took into account that even so she wasn't feeling up to fighting. That being said she wasn't going to give that matter away to them either, less of course they made a move.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 17, 2009 2:56:30 GMT -5
"Ah, yes" he began "But you see I am directly responsible for everything my younger brother does. And so I have to clean of his messes, sometimes quite literally." Ikovis tone was formal and almost friendly, but inside, like always, deeper thoughts were seething.
That's right, she's young, and has no followers, she wouldn't understand. Like I've been taught. No matter how good you are, as a person, you will always be judged by the actions of your followers and your comrades. Like me, I'm not evil, but... But I'm taking part in what can only be called a genocide with my forces, and my rise to this position has not been without it's own brand of casualties, many good people have had their futures taken from them when I snubbed them in the quest for the power of command... But, also like I have been taught, the ends justify the means. I will make this world better, even if I have to force it.
((OOC: Machiavelli!))
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Post by Animebella on Mar 17, 2009 11:37:47 GMT -5
Katsumi tried to straightne herself out as he spoke, though it seemed as though she was still sloutching. She sighed, "Younger brother then? Odd.. you two don't seem very alike." She paused, "I still wonder what he was thinking when he went after me the second time. The first time he seemed...." She paused again.. "Well.. he was more or less killing.. but some of the already dead. Still he had his chance when i was down, his stupid gun made me break this wing in the first place." She said as her left wing wavered a bit then slumped back down. She looked over at him, "Is he always pulling crazy stunts like this? I mean if he's that much of a bother why not just kill him?" She asked with curiosity.
(O.o Le gasp.. scary)
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