Shinka Knights IC

Death Valley-Night

Nisen chased after the two into the forest, jumping from tree to tree silently without alerting the tainted, but due to having to remain stealthy, he was rapidly losing ground on the duo. Sonia had quickly assessed the situation and contacted Nisen, "There doesn't seem to be any point hiding now, this doesn't seem to be precautions, they really must have had a way to detect you. So here is the change in plan..."

Nisen listened and acknowledged the plan, then he dropped to the ground and activating the wind crystal, sped after the duo. He ran along the path the duo had crossed, not caring about the tainted he was disturbing. Within a few seconds, he was within a hundred meters of the duo. When he could easily keep track of them without losing sight occasionally due to the foliage, he drew out his two wrist blades and threw them each at Seki's legs. He doubted that he would connect, but the purpose was to halt them not kill them. Not yet anyway.

On root to base l Early night

"Right.", Jason said to Brooks as he looked out the window.

Jason may not have been able to see anything outside the window, but right now, he simply needed something to focus on so that he could think about what had happened today. To be honest, Jason had no idea what anyone would try to cover up. What was there to cover up, and even if they were trying to cover something up, what would they hope to gain by stirring up the Tainted. There were vary few that were insane enough to deal with the Tainted. After all, the Tainted not only posed a threat to the Infecta, they also posed a threat to Ragnarok as well. Surely nobody on either side would risk inflaming them and risking the survival of their own faction, right?

After a couple more seconds, Jason turned towards Brooks and spoke.

"Surely Ragnarok would not resort to inflaming the Tainted and risking their own faction, would they? Neither would we... It's not logical that Ragnarok would use something so dangerous. They hate the Tainted just as much as we do... Something just doesn't add up. Neither we, nor Ragnarok would do something like this.", Jason said to Brooks, trying to find the answer to their current mystery, trying to reveal who the culprit was.

Death Valley-Night

Kris noticed the oncoming knives and fired the side arm to them "We got our follower" she warned to the infecta as she carried the tengu

The fox fired to the source of the knives as she didn't have any arrow, only her bow

Baphomet's Lair

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Baphomet returned to his lair, set deep inside a cave system, in the dead of night. His minions gathered up the corpses of those who died in the battles today, both from each other, and his own pawns, along with the corpses of Tainted as well. They would soon be converted, their biomass used to create new Tainted. Baphomet had been experimenting with the bounds of the taint, the limits. There was so much potential, and all he needed was the right bit of biomass for everything to work.

The interior of the cave he walked through was almost completely tainted, tendrils spreading through the floor. He and his followers could see everything down here. If someone came in, the entire swarm would know. It was perfect. And with today's gains, it would soon get better. He looked upon the network of tunnels, Tainted scurrying along quickly and with singular purpose.

Yes, it will soon be better.

Death Vally l Night

Seki had known about the boy's presence even before the Tengu had alerted her. After all she had left the assassin with the options of either losing them in the chase, or coming out to fight. Actually she had hoped for this outcome. As the Moko's blade flew towards Seki's leg, the infecta quickly tossed the Tengu she had been carrying up into the air where she could attack as she saw fit, while flipping backwards over the Moko's blade. Seki was in mid air, horizontaly facing the Moko. Burst of fire came from Seki's feet and launched her towards the moko like a rocket. She quickly drew her blades as she flew towards him, aiming her right blade in such a way that iit would remove the boys head if he did nothing to stop it, while gaurding her own body from attack with the blade in her left hand. The posibility of him escaping both Seki's and Kris's sight was slim, and the posibility of defeating them in a fight was much slimmer.

Nearing the Infecta base l Night time

As Brooks and Jason peeked out the window of the chooper it wasn't long before they saw a light again, along with the familiar sight of their home. "We'll be landing shortly" the pilot said. Brooks looked at the pilot and nodded before returnning his his gaze to the window. He had listened to Jason's explonation and he agreed with him, It did seem unlikely that Ragnarok would do any of this, it simply went against their military's style and reputation. "If what i suspect is true, Ragnarok was probably a victim in this as well. After speaking with the Recon unit that got attacked, we can confirm that SHE played a hand in this."

Death Vally l Night

While being thrown to her own feet, Kris landed on her four limbs prepared to attack. She knew that the moko was better than the average, but facing both Seki and herself was almost a dead end for him.

Her nails glowing eerily green, the Tengu prepared to face the boy while checking on her partner

Death Valley-Night

Nisen knew that he was in a disadvantage in a straight up fight, even excluding the fact that it was two on one. He mainly operated by taking down his targets before they could react, so he knew he had no chance of winning this fight, but that wasn't the goal anyway. As the Human charged at him, he continued speeding forward without slowing, as usual changing his colors as he moved so that he confused his opponents view of him, throwing off their aim slightly. He had already automatically drawn another blade from his back with his left hand after throwing the first two knives. But instead of drawing another blade, his right hand reached into his pouch at his waist. As the distance between him and the human closed, he threw what he held in his right hand into the air, causing the multitude of objects to scatter into seki's face as he dropped to the ground and ducked below the first blade, slashing upwards with the blade in his left hand, only to have to parried by seki's other blade as expected.

As he quickly rose to his feet again behind seki, he threw the blade held in his left hand behind him, using the wind crystal's speed to propel the blade to make it move almost as fast as a bullet. But he didn't throw it at either of the duo, instead it flew up into the air and sliced through a large branch of a tree. The branch then fell towards seki's head. After ensuring that the human was thus preoccupied, he quickly drew another blade with his left hand from his waist and reaching into the pouch with his right again, he dashed at the tengu. Throwing the objects he held in his right hand once again straight into the tengu's face, he jumped straight up above the tengu and slashed behind him as he landed behind the tengu.

Death Valley-Night

Everything went into slow motion as she saw both the oncoming small objects coming to her and the blade going for her back, yet she was calm. Using Seki's side arm she still held, Kris fired to the ground just in front of her to make the pieces of dirt and rock collide with the objects

The oncoming blade was the thing the tengu waited for, she waited for the right moment and quickly moved her left leg towards the moko's weapon, a small yet filled with poison blade appeared from the sole of the boot cclashing with the boy's weapon as the poison energy flew towards him at almost point blank range

Death Valley-Night

Nisen was caught off guard by the blade that came from the tengu's boot, having expected his attack to be replied to with the tengu's claws. As a result he reacted a bit too slowly and got hit by some of the poison energy as he jumped backwards. He quickly threw more of the small objects at the tengu, adding three knives to the barrage that he threw in quick succession as he retreated. He quickly escaped into the trees and tried to put some distance between him and the duo before he was incapacitated by the poison.

As he jumped from tree to tree, Sonia's voice issued from his earpiece, "As expected, those two are too strong for you to fight straight up even in a one on one. After all, unlike you their crystals are used directly in combat, guess you will have to wait until the latest prototype which can actually channel your wind crystal directly in combat is ready before you challenge the likes of them again. We are ready at the rendezvous point but make sure to shake any pursuers before you come."

Death Valley-Night


Evading most of the objects, Kris moved with the last knive and caught it, yet the moment she glanced at the moko, he was already leaving ("Looks like he undertood that it was too dangerous to battle both Seki and I") she thought twirling the knive on her fingers and threw it to the moko´s direction.

Glancing back at her friend, the tengu only spoke "We better leave before anything else happens. That tainted humanoid is something I need to check, the tinted creatures followed his command" she glanced back at wherever the moko left