Shadow Sabre

[Araeana]

"And... you... killed them... all..." It wasn't meant as a question. Araeana suddenly felt terrified, like a small animal trapped in the claws of a predator. She actually saw the man sitting across from her for the first time since their reunion. He had no regard for human life. None. She stood and asked, nearly hyperventilating, "Why am I still alive?"

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara raised his head, his face flawless and pale, less one long scar over his eye. "Would you rather not?" His saber extended in her direction.

[Araeana]

Araeana shook her head. "You're not going to kill me, Chikara. That's why I'm afraid." She knew the words were true as soon as she spoke them, even though she didn't understand why. She felt a little braver as she stepped closer to Chikara's seat. "Why have you kept me alive?"

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara retracted his blade. "I fear for you, Araeana. You get by on luck. That contact you were meeting was going to kill you if I hadn't of exterminated him. That power I sought... You." Chikara didn't know why he was speaking like this at all. He shook his head and stood up, replacing half of his mask, only showing one eye, the Red one, with the scar. "We need to move. Now."

[Araeana]

Araeana barely had a chance to register what Chikara had said before she was following him out of the carcass-scattered apartment.

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara ran straight out of the apartment, and was half-way down the corridor before Araeana was clear of the apartment door. "HURRY UP!" He ran back to her, and gripped her wrist. "MOVE!" he shouted. He dragged her down the corridor, bones splintering and flying every which-way.

[Araeana]

"Wh- What`s the hurry all of a sudden?" Chikara wrenched on her arm. "Chikara!" Araeana screeched in pain. She struggled to keep up with his pace, so as to avoid dislocating her arm.

[Saito Chikara]

He sprinted toawrd the ship, and skidded, heading down an adjacent hall. "Leave it. We need to get out of here."

[Araeana]

"What? Are you insane? We are NOT leaving MY SHIP!" Araeana attempted to pull Chikara back towards the Canary.

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara released her arm, letting her stumble over the corpses in the hall. "Fine then. Die." He began to sprint away from Araeana.

[Araeana]

Araeana's feet were planted on the floor. She kept looking back and forth between Chikara's running figure and her beloved ship. She made her decision after what seemed like an eternity, but was in fact, a fraction of a second. "WE HAD BETTER BE COMING BACK FOR HER!!!" She shouted, running full tilt to catch up with Chikara.

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara stopped, and held out his metalic arm. He judged Araeana's pace and position by the sound. He hit at the right second to just keep her from sprinting off the edge.

[Araeana]

Araeana was winded by the force of Chikara's mechanical arm hitting her hard in the ribs. She nearly fell to the ground. When she had regained her composure, she snapped, "Don't suppose you could've mentioned that ledge was there, huh?"

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara held out his arm. "Hold on. We're going down." He motioned for her to hold onto him.

[Araeana]

Araeana grabbed him tight around his torso. "I... got a really, really bad feeling about this..." She closed her eyes tight.

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara made an inhuman leap accross the chasm, dodging numerous cars. He reached out with his mechanical arm to grip the wall accross the alley several hundred metres down. they slowly came to a stop at another access tunnel.

[Araeana]

Araeana let out a tiny scream, then locked her jaw closed to muffle the sound. She held on to Chikara for dear life. She heard the sound of tendons and wiring being stripped from Chikara's mechanical arm as his metal fingers dug into the wall, slowing their fall. When they finally dropped into the access tunnel, Araeana gasped, trying to regain her composure. "Don't you ever, EVER, do that to me again!"

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara looked at her in the darkness, his eye glowing as red as his saber. "Tell me what to do. Go ahead."

[Araeana]

Araeana rolled her eyes and grabbed Chikara's arm. "I need to look at this... I think you did some more damage. Got a torch?"

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara wrenched his arm from her, and gripped her wrist tight, and began pulling her farther down the access tunnel, running faster than she could.

[Araeana]

"Ugh! Not again!" Araeana sprinted as fast as she could, but still felt as though her arm was millimeters from dislocation. "Where are we going?" She yelled over the sound of their boots slapping the tunnel floor.

[Saito Chikara]

Chikara opened his mouth only for a fraction of a second before a loud explosion eruped and shook down through the tunnel.

[Araeana]

Araeana lost her balance as the shock wave reached her. She nearly fell, with Chikara dragging her along the tunnel.

[Saito Chikara]

"Get back on your feet!" He pulled her around a corner as a ((OOC- Very Theatrical)) wall of fire burned down through the tunnel.

[Araeana]

Araeana scrambled back to her feet. She could feel the heat of the fireball closing in behind them. "Holy sh**t!!!" Adrenaline pulsed through her, allowing her to overtake Chikara. She quickly turned a corner and pulled him into an alcove with her, allowing the explosion to pass, leaving them unharmed. She pushed Chikara against the wall angrily. "That is IT! Neither of us is taking another step until you tell me exactly what is going on!"