Near The Tent: Battle Thread (Open and Typan)

@pan ENEMY, the arhcer, Acacia

As the boy ran toward her, Acacia raised her bow once again. She laughed out loud. She had cut off his ear, her colleague had sliced him in the ribs. He was gushing blood out of his side, his head, and even his mouth. Still... he charged her! With one measly little knife. She aimed her bow at his head, right between the eyes and pulled back...

@diana. Egyptian, Marcus

Marcus charged at Diana, spinning his bow staff in his hand until he was in reach to attempt swiping her off her feet.

As the girl shot another arrow at him, Pans dodging abilities were all but spent. Instead of moving to the side, he let himself fall into the sand, onto his knees. The girl laughed, stepping up to him. He looked up at her as she got a little too overconfident, getting incredibly close to him until her next drawn arrow was touching his forehead. "Say goodbye little Roman," she said.

Pan swiftly kicked a leg out, bashing in her knee and lifted a hand, ripping the arrow from her own bow and standing up to stab her with it in the gut. "That's 'little Greek' to you," he said before she stumbled back. He was shaking all over, blood coming from who knows where. But he stepped up to her as she fell on the ground. "I should kill you right now but-" he felt himself getting dizzy as he fell forward...

A spear sticking out of his back.

@tylar

And so Leo tripped the girl successfully and hit her in the neck.  While the girl was on the ground Leo stabbed her in the back and left her lying there.  Good, she was dead, but when she glanced over to check on Pan, he was lying flat on his face with a spear protruding from his back. 

She gasped, her eyes filled with terror.  Her heart ceased to beat.  He was so bloody! "PAN!" she screamed before running toward him.  She was quickly at his side and fell on her knees beside him.  GODS HE WAS MISSING AN EAR.  "Pan, no! No, no, no!" Her eyes misted with tears, and she looked around frantically, not knowing what she was doing.  "Someone, help! He's d-dying!" she called desperately.

Diana watched as the man spent all his time twirling his little stick. Seriously dude? Could you waste any more energy? She waited until he went for his sweep of her leg and jumped, dodging the sweep and bringing the hand with the dagger down on him as the other hand came onto him. One way or another she would kill the bastard. The knife jammed deep in his gut, but he continued to swipe at her. Swipes she was for the most part able to avoid. Then she gripped the guy's bowstaff, the thing turned to wine instantly. It was then that she took hold of his wrist and concentrated her powers on him. She didn't release him until he was on his knees before her, coughing as he strained for breath.

She knew she would have to calm in on her powers soon, using them too much always tired her out. That was when she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the child had passed out mid battle. She pulled the knife from his corpse and ran for the woman that he was fighting. But she was soon taken care of too and another girl was trying to stop him from dying. She came to kneel beside him, reaching for the spear, turning it to wine as well so it didn't damage him anymore. Then she pressed her hand to him, making sure her power was in check so she didn't kill him.

No, she was holding his wood to stem the blood. She looked to the girl and said in a calm tone "Run, Find help for him... Hurry!!! I'll keep him safe..."

The next few minutes were a blur. Tylar's body moved unbidden and she didn't even have the mental capacity to articulate real thoughts. It was like some other being took over her body. She ran towards a girl she thought she heard mention Pan's name. She didn't even acknowledge any of the attackers. She was on her knees in the sand, the stain of tears making her face burn bright red in the fiery glow, "Oh my gods." She didn't even see Leo there. She reached out but couldn't bring herself to touch him, "Pan, no...Please..." Her voice sounded like she was being strangled, choking through her tears. She finally held her hands, palms down, over his torso, "Please don't die...I..." Her fingers started to glow an orangy, pink glittering color that lit her face with sparkles. If she wasn't torn to pieces on the inside, she might think it was pretty, "..I..." The bleeding stopped as the glowing tickled Pan's exposed skin of his back. She dropped her hands when it was done and fell over him sobbing, "Don't leave me here...I love you...Please come back..."

"Pan, no! No, no, no! Someone, help! He's d-dying!" Pan faintly heard a voice near his, but it sounded like it was getting farther away. He felt his body stop moving, his hands stop shaking, and his blood didn't seem so warm anymore.

"Run, Find help for him... Hurry!!! I'll keep him safe..." another voice was there, she sort of sounded like his mother, Urania... or was he crazy? Suddenly a cold liquid spread around him and he knew it wasn't blood, and someone was pressing hard on his back.

They couldn't know how pointless it was to go get help... he could feel himself losing consciousness. He knew he was dead, and he only had one regret. If he wasn't face down in the sand and dying, he would have said Ty's name. He would have told her that he was sorry, and that he should never have used her. He would have told her that he loved her, and that he had never loved anyone. He didn't even know he was capable of love, until her. He had missed his chance, lost it, lost her for good and all because he was a selfish fool who wanted to live forever.

"Oh my gods." another voice, like an angel, broke through the haze, "Pan, no...Please..." she was crying, sobbing. He wanted to go to her, hold her in his arms, kiss her hair, stroke her back... "Please don't die...I..." he was starting to lose hearing now... she was fading away. It was just as well. She had come back for him, and now he was leaving her. Well, he wanted to die young, didn't he?

Suddenly, and almost in slow motion, he felt a warm tickling glow coming in contact with his back. Hadn't he just been stabbed there? What was this warmth running through him? This life? "..I..." the voice said, that angel from before... why did it sound so familiar?

The warmth was building inside him, and he felt his limbs start to move, slowly at first. The warmth was familiar too... as if he'd felt something like this before. Then he knew why.

It was Tylar.

He felt a weight on him, as if someone had laid down on top of him, "Don't leave me here...I love you...Please come back..." that voice....

He suddenly took a deep, sharp breath, "would you-" he started to say, turning his face out of the sand, "would you mind getting off of me so I can kiss you now?"

The silence seemed to drag out for Tylar even though it was really only a few seconds. She could feel his warmth beneath her but she still didn't know if she had even gotten there in time. Her power would save him, if she did, giving him plenty of time to heal before the magic of immortality was taken from him next year. Please, be okay... She willed the gods to save him in a silent prayer.

As if answering her thoughts, his voice sounded in her ears. She popped up so she could see his face, "Pan.." Her voice was sharp and peircing, laced with shock and gratitude. Her eyes well with tears again, even though she had been sure she was all cried out, "...Pan..." Her whole body relaxed, "Thank gods..." She lowered her head and started sobbing again, this time out of thankful relief.

Diana was holding onto the boy while waiting for the one girl to do as she said, however, another girl joined them, she was crying, clearly she was having a fit and Diana wanted to reach out to slap her, tell her to snap out of it. However, before she could, the girl was pulling the boy from her and then she sat there and watched a miracle happen. He was dying, she could feel it, but then suddenly... he wasn't... what the hell?! She looked from the girl and to the boy, and then he spoke and she felt herself taking a deep sigh of relief. Thank the gods.. she thought.

Leo was about to get up and sprint around the whole of Concordia to find a healer for Pan when the girl, Diana, told her to get help.  However, it seemed that help had come in the form of a young, pretty girl around Leo's and Pan's age.  Usually Leo was streetwise and knew the popular peeps of Concordia, but this girl she didn't know.  However, she seemed to be intimate with Pan in a way that Leo would never have imagined Pan could be with a girl (besides Abcde Grace, perhaps).  But that hardly mattered now--what mattered was the girl could heal! She could coo over Pan all she wanted, as long as the orange-y glow from her hands were powerful enough to save her best frind, Leonora would steal all of the treasures of the world for her.

She watched in silence with Diana, her eyes still teary, as the healing girl worked her magic.  Finally, she could hear Pan's voice.  "He's still alive!" she gasped, then sobbed even more, but out of happiness.  "Oh, thank the gods!" But then she remembered who was really to thank, and she eyed the girl with an appreciative smile.  The girl was just as emotional as she was.  Leo reached out her hand, patted her on the shoulder.  "Thank you, thank you very much...you saved him...good job..." She then looked at Pan again.

She glanced at Pan's face then.  She really couldn't believe that he had asked to kiss the girl who had healed him, but then again kissing wasn't completely non-Pan-like.  She had taken pictures of him kissing Abcde Grace--but then again, it was the girl who had kissed him first.  However, at least he knew how to lock lips now.  "Congratulations, idiot.  You beat me in the race of experiencing first romances...who would've known."

Diana sat in relative silence, she watched the things between the younger citizens, but her eyes lifted every few moments or so, the rain that was pouring down and the lightning and thunder obscured things a bit, but she still watched out for any villians that might come their way. However it seemed as though the mass of the attack was on the wedding party. She looked to the one girl that spoke of being beaten and gave a wry laugh.

"I think now is a bad time to worry about such problems, eventually you will get to experience it, don't rush for it. She said as she continued to look around for any enemies that would come at them. "Can you fight? Or should we try to find a hiding place?" She asked, wanting to protect the children more than wanting to fight.

Pan rolled over, coughing and groaning a little as he did so. He never thought he'd see the day when he was surrounded by three females. That made his eyes widen a little and he smiled in gratitude. He pushed himself up on is elbow, turning to Leo, taking her hand, "what she said," he commented, gesturing his head to Diana, "you'll get there, Lo," he joked before releasing her hand and sitting himself up more. He reached forward and placed his hands on both sides of Tylers face, slowly attempting to lift her eyes to his, "did I sound like I was joking?" he said incredibly softly before pulling her toward him and planting his lips on hers, kissing her along with taking a deep breath.

When he pulled back, he looked at Diana, who had asked if he was able to fight. "Too be honest... I feel like I could fight a hundred men right now. But maybe we're better serving elsewhere," he lowered his hands from Ty's face to take one of her hands in his. "We should find the other students, the kids," he nodded. They were kids as young as eight or nine years old on this island who probably had no idea what was happening right now or... or they were in a really bad position.

Warm. Despite the strangely bitter chill in the wind and the smell of blood around them, Tylar's heart was soaring high on a cloud in some far away place where it was sunny, and warm, and perfect. She didn't want him to pull away from her, ever, and she felt strange and lonely when he did pull back. But she knew they weren't necessarily in the best place for talking, much less making out. She looked at him with concerned eyes and bit her lip, "You feel strong, but don't forget..." She reached forward and gentle touched his rib cage, "...you're not 100%..." She then stood, bruushing the nasty sand off her wet jeans and looked at Leo, "There's a bunker in the Garrison. I think that is where they would take the children." She murmured, looking at the trees that stood between them and the large fort, "It will be difficult to reach from here."

Leo acknowledged that what Diana said was true, but she decided that it didn't hurt to sit back and watch Pan and Tylar kiss.  When he took her hand in his, she just smiled and nodded at him, and now she watched him kiss the girl.  She wanted to find a tissue somewhere and dab her eyes.  She felt so much like a mother watching her son grow up.  However, they had to focus on other important matters in the midst of an attack.

Helping the younger students was definitely a student thing to do.  While everyone else was busy fighting the bad guys, Leo thought that it ought to be their mission to help the kids.  She glanced at Tylar.  "Let's just do our best to reach the dorm in the school first, and then we can figure out what to do from there," she proposed.  "I think we can find a way to get to the school quickly without bumping into enemies.  Pan and I are pretty nimble and we're nifty at finding shortcuts...so just follow our lead?" The truth was Leo was a little nervous with this idea.  She hadn't the slightest idea how they were going to do that, but what she knew was that once mischievous people like her and Pan got into action, they naturally found a way to be as subtle as shadows.

Diana let out a breath she hadn't known she had been holding as all of them agreed with her. One thing about younger kids is that they rarely, if ever agreed outright with adults, it was the way of the world. She stood and looked around again, nodding to the one girl who was wishing for love. If the kids new the fastest way - which Diana didn't doubt in the least - it was the smart move.

"Well then dear hearts, lets get the hell out of here and go find the rest of the kids." She said as she waited for everyone to be ready, waited for the two that were going to lead the way did just that. Still she was keeping an eye out for danger, her eyes shifting around, never being still.

"Right," Pan said, placing a hand over Tylers as she touched his ribs to acknowledge that he wasn't 100%. He then smirked at Leo as she said that she and Pan knew the best ways around, using short cuts and whatnot. He nodded as Diana suggested they get going. He stood up, slowly at first and using Leo and Tylar to help, but once he was standing it felt just fine.

The group was sneaky indeed, and Pan and Leo took the lead. "So, did we decide to check the dorms first?" he asked, turning back to their little covert group as they all ducked behind the side of a building. "If we head straight to the Garrison... well, I'm sure one of the brigades was told to check the dorms but there is a possibility that they're spread pretty thin."