After setting Charlie down, Ranma spread his wings and took to the air. The golden halo of energy that surronded and bathed his form flickering slightly from the action, only to return in full strength as he leveled up to his floating adversaries.
Kee-Ra-Ra was an elite guardsman, much like his compatriot Ra-Kaw-Ra. They had to be in order to counter the effective counter measures that nubian landling had used to confuse his people. He had seen many strange things in his time. The Musk and their Dragon ruler, power personified on a intimdating level. Old Ghouls who moved with the grace of the best Phoenix warriors, but armed with the deadly knowledge age and wisdom had granted them. This of course was not to mention the strange things that would occasinally appear from the Curse Valley of Jusenkyo.
Kee-Ra-Ra simply had no words to describe what they were now facing, but deep in his bones he knew he had made a mistake. The young.. Phoenix he guessed.. possessed striking differences from any other Phoneix he knew. Were he had clawed hands and feet, the wings of the Phoenix generally being a varied hue of brown, dark red, and on very very rare occasions white mixed with some other color. Only Saffron is known to possess the pure white wings, but obviously that wasn't true anymore. The boy possessed the White Wings, yet his feet and hands were more the same as a Landlings rather than that of his ilk. His subtle form screamed with power, yet the way he flew was at best described as a novice. Like he hadn't ever gotten use to the wings that graced his form.
Ra-Kaw-Ra nodded his head, obviously coming up with the same assessment as he did. In the end it didn't matter to the two elite guardsmen. Whoever this was, he was a traitor to the Phoenix people and sought to go against the word of their God-King Saffron. That was all they really needed to know.
"Prepare to die." Kee-Ra-Ra said as he veered to the left, lifting slight in the air as he twirled his spear. A purplish hue enveloped the spear leaving streamers of energy behind as the spear past.
Ra-Kaw-Ra made no declaration, but took opposite his partner. Dropping slightly and moving to the left, his own staff becoming incased in a hue of blue.
Ranma narrowed his eyes slightly as the two split apart. He reminded himself that combat in the air was much differnt that fighting on the ground. Were you only had to defend front, back, side to side and up while fighting on the ground, the air was differnt story. Yet, Ranma was nothing if not adapatable. It was a good thing his style was meant more for air to air fighting than it was on the ground, so while he was slightly fresh to this new avenue of fighting he felt he was more than prepared enough to hold his own in such a circumstance.
Ranma didn't notice the gold light filling his being brighten then shimmer about his form, he did notice the way his two targets blinked and tensed themselves as if preparing for some form of attack. It didn't matter. His long white wings flapped once, then twice, then BOOM!
Flying straight up at speeds not even the experienced Phoenix warriors could match Ranma ascended the skies, the wake of his sudden movement caused the two Phoenix warriors to lose control for a second, the rushing winds and displacement of air doing its work well.
A second was all that Ranma needed.
***
Charlie smiled, a soft demure one that held little to no innocence in them. Whoever her saviour was, he seemed to bring something out in the young Harpy. Maybe it was the way his clothes hugged his taunt form, or his caring and seemingly endless kindness she saw in his eyes as he set her down. Perhaps it was the way he decided to fight for her, it didn't matter. Charlie didn't realize it, but she was having her first crush right here and right now.
As Ranma and the Phoenix Warriors joined in combat, the latters blades swinging and humming with untold strength as her Angel blocked them on some strange shimmering plain of force. The subtle movements, the fludic grace of both sides as they joined in the ballet of battle intrigued her. It was all etheral to the young Harpy.
Yet, despite this a screaming warning caused her to break off from watching the deadly battle going on over head. While she didn't like it, she had to leave and find the others. Penny was in danger! She needed their help!
Casting one last look at the battle, which was drifting slowly away from her position, Charlie took to the air in a desperate search for the others.
***
His blood was singing! The power was raging! His opponetts fought with savage grace and untold skill, this was heaven to the Sex Angel! True, Ranma didn't realize he was a Sex Angel, in fact he speculated on being a Battle Angel, but at the moment it didn't matter.
Breaking off from the fierce combat for a moment, he observed his foes. Both didn't look to be tired, in fact they both look exhilirated. Each had a few bruises visible on their cheeks and arms, and both seemed to be rushing him obviously eager to rejoin the combat in earnest.
Ranma was good, very very good. There could be no denying that, but these two were just as good. While he had managed to deal a great deal of damage to the duo, they had managed to do more to him via well placed strikes and impressive team work. All in all, Ranma felt the fight was even at the moment.
The battle was rejoined, and Ranma was left no more time to think as his blood ignited in joy with the rush of battle.
***
"Brit?" Gina called out, a frown marring her features. Her 'Something bad was about to happen' senses where flaring. An odd sense of doom crawling up her spine as she looked about the camp site.
"Sup Gina?" Brit answered,dumping one of the numerous boulders crossing their path tiredly. They had been Digging into this site for hours and had run into a few snags. While Gina's hurtbots were more than adequate for dealing with this kind of thing, Brit was simply bored out of her mind. She'd much rather be at home doing something, or some one(Strype). Nothing exciting was happening, so she decided some manual labor would work wonders with keeping her wandering mind busy
"How long ago did Penny and Charlotte take off? I would think they would be back by now."
Brit shrugged, "I dunno. How about you Bri?"
Brianna looked up from her work table, various Peebos laying about the table. Some looked broken, it was obvious Brianna was tinkering with the kamakaze-robots again. "Hehehe HAHAHAH I DID IT!" she exclaimed, holding up a Peebo triumphantly!
Brit and Gina both groaned. Just their luck, Brianna had come up with a new peebo. No doubt she was going to use it some time in the near future, and chances were the Two Digger sisters would be at ground zero when it went off. Today just couldn't get any worse.
They were wrong.
Brianna frowned, something catching her attention. "What the heck is that?"
Gina raised her head from where she had planted it in her hand, first looking to Brianna then following her gaze to the sky. The sun was begining to set, yet over in the Horizon various shades of purple, blue, and gold light seem to erupt and flicker as if possessed with a life of its own.
Brit did the same, following Brianna's gaze until she spotted the sight. She didn't dally over it long, as Charlie came into her enchanced feild of vision quickly.
She sighed, relieved. She was getting worried about Penny and the Harpy, as both should have come back by now or at least notifed them that they would be styaing longer than they had intended. "Whatever it is, it isn't important. Look.." Brit cheered, pointing at the descending Harpy, "Theres Charlie."
Brianna and Gina looked away from the strange light show to watch as Charlie landed. They were about to say 'Hi! Welcome back!' and 'Hey Charlie, wheres Penny' but the Harpy her self spoke before they could.
"Cheetah! Gina! Brianna! Penny's in trouble! Some strange bird men got mad at us and attacked!" she started babling, "Penny told me to run, so I did. I was running, two of those meanie Phoenix men were chasing after me! I was scared! Then I ran into some guy with Wings and nearly crashed into the ground! He saved me, then those mean guys told him to give me up! He set me down and started fighting! Please please please! We have to save Penny and the man who saved me!"
It took a minute before the three girls realized exactly what the distraught Harpy had said, considering she said all that with out even taking a break for a breath of air. But once they realized that Penny, and some 'guy' was in trouble they quickly mounted up and ran off to help, Charlie on their tail.
***
Ranma leaned back, sweat trickling off his brow as the blue colored spear passed within inches of cleaving into his body. Folding his wings, Ranma flipped back in a full circle, planting his legs in the Phoenix warriors abdomen as he grasps his spear. Ranma gritted his teeth, the aura on the weapon burning his hand slightly before he ripped it out of the hands of his enemies. The spear's energy flickered then guttered out.
Free falling, Ranma twisted - avoiding the spear of his second adversary mostly, though it manage to carve a small gash into his arm. Falling quickly out of range of his enemies, Ranma spread his wings and caught the updraft, rising slightl as he regained his ability to fly.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
An explosion over head rocked him slightly, his concentration broken as he once again began free falling to the ground. The fight had been long and tough thought it was a loosing battle. He simply didn't have enough experience with air combat at this level to do more than than he had already done.
As the ground approached Ranma watched with a detached sort of awe. He knew this was going to hurt, and chances are he wouldn't survive the crash. Oh well, he had lived his life as best he could, and even though he died the boy knew the girl had managed to get away during his tussel with the Phoenix warriors.
Ranma was indeed surprised when he hit. But it wasn't the ground, something had caught him and was now holding him tightly to their body. He looked up at whom ever his saviour was, only managing to get a breif outline of furry ears and feral green eyes before his rattled mind collapsed from exhaustion.
Faintly he could hear his savior taking a long breath, obviously tired to his senses. He said something, but couldn't remember what.
Oblivion overcame him then.
***
Brianna grinned as her weapons discharged their deadly salvo. She had aimed it so all it would do was knock the three in the sky around, just a warning shot after all.
When Charlie screamed Brianna felt horrible. Two of the bird people were stunned, but quickly retreated one helping the other. The third bird man plummeted like a sack of bricks. She hadn't just killed him? Did she?
Brittany spared no time for thought and took off at her top speed, careful not to trip over the dense foilage as she went. She only had a precious few seconds to catch the bird man before he became a pastel of red goo upon the ground.
Faster and faster she went, her eyes tracing the falling figure as she neared him. Putting forth the last of her incredible speed, she managed to reach the figure in time - catching him roughly before tripping and rolling on the gound with the boy held protectivly. When the roll can to a stop she was panting heavily, the act of running having tired her out, not to mention to rough tumble she had taken in order to save the boy any more damage.
She looked down at the boy and marveled at his features. Wings, as white as snow adorned his back. His stature was tough, yet in a way gentle. Holding him as she was caused a spreading feeling of peace to envelope her. She wasn't turned on, but she felt more at peace with herself than she ever did. She knew, on some level, that anything she asked of the bird.. no angel.. would be granted. Even if she wished to join with him in more.. physical ways.
The boy opened his eyes, if simply holding him was bad, then looking into his eyes was pure torture. They held a sense of relief and contentment, at the same time they were also challenging yet inviting. "She.. she's safe.." the boy groaned out, before slumping unconscious.
Brittany shook her head, only now realizing where her thoughts had degenerated too. "Eep! Think Muffin! Muffin is for you! Muffin is good!" and unbidden came the figure of her husband. She didn't realize her vision of Strype was of the tiger man with Wings, but she didn't think nothing of it.
She started purring as she held the unconscious boy.
Slow conversion.. what a drag.
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