Loose Count | Battle Thread ((Open))

Dante began to run towards the hospital praying to the gods that he would get there in time to warn Braxton and anyone else with in its walls. He raised his arm in a small wave to his brother before he turned around and ran, grabbing all the arrows that he could find from the bodies lining the streets. How many had already fallen? How many more friends would he lose, he cast a glance up at the balcony where he had seen Rowen and he prayed she would be safe for the time being while he went to report to Braxton.

(Dante Leaving the thread for now)

"Wow, you actually sound tough there," he commented, but then he noticed that her run was not really proper.  That was, she was limping and it was then that he realized that she actually was injured.  "Hey, wait!" He ran after her and caught her by the arm to keep her steady, placing his hand over the injured spot.  The palm of his hand glowed over the injury and soon it was gone and then released his grip upon her arm.  "Alright, I suppose that our only place is the roof of one of the buildings.  The top of the apartment building should do.  We can't really shoot from here."  Looking around at all of the chaos around him, and he smirked.  "It'd be proper of me to say that I wish we can help our comrades in the thick of the fighting, but truth is I'm rather pleased we get the less chaotic job.  Benefits to being inborn archers, whether we like it or not."  Not that she had been born being an archer, but the day Artemis adopted her, the skill must've been incorporated into her.  "Although, I do have a sword just in case, because just in case is almost always happens."  He patted the sheathed sword tied around his waist, at his hip.  He had learned plenty of sword training in Camp Half-Blood.  He also had a shield to, although it was currently in the form of a bracelet.  Out of all things his father had thought to give him a sun shield as a claiming gift, but it was pretty useful sometimes. 

"Anyway, let us be off."  He turned around and started to head back into the apartment to get to the roof, sure that she would follow.    

Dani gave a slight roll of her eyes as he said that she sounded tough. Despite her shy nature, she did actually have a backbone. It wasn't one that she got to show often because she was often on her own, but in this case, it was coming through. The same jerks that had killed her family just to get to a camp full of innocent children were back, and now they had tried to come after her a well.

Then he was calling to her, asking her to wait. Wait? What the the name of tartarus? He took hold of her and out of instinct alone she tried to jerk her arm free before she saw what he was up to. He reached for her injured leg, and in that moment she felt the warmth, felt her muscle, sinew, and skin knitting back together. It was the first time she could remember a guy touching her in a place other than the hand she would offer someone just out of respect. She blinked for a moment and then gave a light nod. "Thank you for that..." She said in her mild tone again before she let him continue on with what he was saying.

This wasn't the time to be arguing so she didn't say much, just nodded at certain times with things she agreed with before she gave a nod to his last thing. "Let's..." She said in a stronger tone, turning to follow him. Her previous perch was known now, and the fact that she had been caught once before meant that having someone to watch her back would be useful. Plus he was also good enough in close combat, something she wasn't.

When they came out onto the roof, far higher than they had been before, she could see more of the island and she turned to look at Nik before pulling her bow off her back and pulling an arrow from the quiver. "Let's take these bastards down, I'm tired of them killing innocent children..." She hissed, "You take the left I'll go right?"

And they were finally on the rooftop.  Seriously, why couldn't people be this awesome in everyday life? Why did they only wait until a disaster like this to finally act frantic and reveal their true natures; put aside their fake and superficial demeanor in response to urgency? That was his view, as he really hated proper conventional expectations.

"That's the spirit," he said with a game-on smile.  He nodded.  "Sounds like a plan," she said when she suggested that he take the cronies on the left.  He got down on one knee and lifted his bow up to the correct level, grabbing three arrows from behind and attaching them to the bow.  He drew the arrow and released it, hitting three bad guys at once.  They fell to the ground almost instantly.  "You know, you ought to be more like this.  Tough and ready to use profane language.  I think it this is your natural self, if you weed away all of that stammering shyness.  Fits you perfectly"  He stole a side-long glance at her.  "And really, you're much cuter this way."  He was just teasing, and probably not a joke to make a huntress laugh, but that was him.  Anyway, he continued to keep his attention on his task and continued to shoot down at the bad guys on the left. 

She took her position, using the doorway they had just come out of as a means of hiding while still giving her a line of sight to all of the cretins that they were about to take down. Her brow arched though as he spoke to her, nocking an arrow in her bow and taking aim before his complement hit her. So he thought profanity was cute? She hadn't even really been thinking about it. She was sure her mother would roll over in her grave if she had heard the words that had come out of Dani's mouth.

And if she hadn't been concentrating on her release and grabbing another arrow almost as soon as the first one was away. She would have turned bright red at being called cute for doing such a thing. This was her though, the hunter, the protector that Artemis had blessed to protect people. Her arrows soared through the air, each one hitting their targets. She had managed to drop 6 in under a minute and was nocking up another arrow, readying her release when she finally looked over at him and said "six jerks down... make that seven." She said with a smirk as she released her shot mid sentence and took down another one.