Night 71: Sun Room

[monkeyboy]

[From here]

Now this place, he remembered intimately for a number of reasons. Goku couldn't feasibly count the number of times Taura, Birdy, and he had come through here to get to the basement. Most of the time they had been stopped by someone or something lurking in here. The memory started his heart pumping with excitement. It had been a long time since he had a proper fight!

The one with Birdy didn't count. Goku thought back further and stopped on the time he had attacked Kibitoshin in this exact room. He tried, but he couldn't remember why he had wanted to defeat the man... Either way, it had been a great fight. It was also the night he had truly met Taura and everything she was capable of. Yeah, those were all fond memories!

Welp. Goku flicked his gaze back and forth within the spacious room, but nothing seemed willing to assault him. That was a real drag!

"Ah well..." Technically, he had a job to complete. Reluctantly, he peeled his feet off the carpet and moved to the doors that lead into the main hallways. He could there'd be a lot of people out there to throw these bricks at.

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Comments

[lighthearted]

It didn't surprise Sora all that much that Tsubaki would ask them to do that. They were more alike than he really wanted to admit -- in her shoes, he probably would have done the same thing. That didn't mean he was ready to listen to her, though. There was no way that Tsubaki could handle this fight on her own, was there? Even if she had a weapon she could pull out of her hair, there was no denying that she was outmatched here.

But the next thing Sora knew, Tsurugi made a break for it. "Wh--" That had been sudden. Now Sora was essentially stuck between a rock and a hard place. The third floor was bound to be guarded, so Tsurugi would need his help, but how he could abandon Tsubaki?

When the blast of wind came his way, Sora did his best to dart out of its path, but it still shoved him back and made it feel like he'd just run into a wall. He paused, caught his breath, and looked back to Tsubaki.

In the end, she had more fighting experience than Tsurugi. Plus, they needed to try and reach the third floor above everything else. Sora frowned and bowed his head in apology. "Be careful!" he yelled back to her before he took off as quickly as he could to the library door.

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[thecamellia]

Tsurugi took a chance for the library door before Korra had a chance to answer, and Tsubaki was right to think Korra would target him. Instead of fire, she sent some kind of concentrated air strike after him, like Tsubaki had seen her do before.

"I'll find you later!" she assured Sora, who had stayed behind. A second later, she dove forward, timing her dodge to the way Korra's muscles bunched in her arm. To keep Korra's attention she had to keep in front of the others; it put her within closer firing range, but splitting Korra's focus gave both boys better chances of making it free and clear. She could only hope Sora wouldn't get caught up in those blasts...

Then she heard his warning. Though she didn't turn her head, she nodded. After that she heard the pounding of his feet on the floor. Good. They could make it.

Once Sora had left, taking with him the last source of light, the room became truly dark with only the windows above offering any solace. Tsubaki joined the rest of the shadows by crouching, putting herself behind the arm of a chair. Had anyone stopped to listen--really listen--they would have only heard one step of footsteps and the beat of one heart. Tsubaki didn't have her weapon modes, but she didn't need them--as a human, she was an assassin first and a weapon later.

"Since I've met you, I've never thought you were the type to let others tell you what to do." Her voice floated up from a spot three feet to the right of where she'd started, the only sound she made.

crap, I lost this notif for some reason! I'm sorry!

[rebonding]

Now the other kid was gone, too? Korra re-lit the fires in her hands, eyes narrowed as she searched the room for Tsubaki. She whipped around, searching for the source of her voice as she spoke.

"You think I'm doing this because I'm being told to?" Her voice was darkly amused as she sent consecutive shots of fire at the area she suspected Tsubaki was hiding. "It's you guys I have to watch out for!" Yeah, so the Landel guy's interests aligned with hers. So what?