04/29/2013, 12:42 AM #258 Melun Centre - France
Who would have known that things would have worked out so well? Just the slightest addition of her magic had made the previously remarkable, but not very deadly human gun into a weapon that could shred through even these Character modified helicopters and tanks. Things were going perfectly.
However, like all good things, perfection eventually became imperfection and full of flaws. Remilia's plans of using her nested position as a guarded firepoint might soon mark her grave. Having gleefully destroyed the helicopter as it had flew over her, a modified tank had approached her from the south. Entering a short firefight with the tank and gaining the upper hand, Remilia had thought this would be yet another easy kill. But things didn't quite work out that way. Having put plenty of holes in it so that it resembled some metallic swiss cheese, she had figured it would either blow up or just cease to move. Instead, Remilia watched in horror as she saw the tank flip onto its side and start tumbling and skidding - directly towards her.
Remilia didn't have much time. In fact, she probably had somewhere between two and three seconds before it wrecked not only her gun emplacement, but her with it.
Scrambling out of the seat of her gun, she quickly spread her wings to use their push to give her a boost.
She flapped her wings with full force.
Nothing happened. In being bombed earlier, Remilia had forgotten that her wings had also been burned badly, leaving not much more than the bone structure of her wings. The tank came crashing with a great sound, Remilia looked over. Everything seemed to slow down aa she watched the tank roll and bounce towards her. Everything looked crystal clear as she bemusedly noticed some of the holes she had made resembled a heart. Suddenly, everything to speed back up as the rolling tank smashed into her AA gun, promptly catching her in the collision as well.
It hurt a bit more than Remilia had imagined. The tank had rolled into her right side as it tore through the park. The pain was splitting and sharp. Particularly, her right arm had been hit hard. She tumbled with the tank and AA gun as her arm got caught in the fray. Suddenly, in excruciating pain, suddenly the pain of her right arm disappeared to be replaced by a greater pain at her shoulder. How strange. She seeme to be missing a limb. Uncaught from the mess, Remilia was thrown off, away from the tank which continued rolling through the park. Normally, this kind of injury wouldn't have even fazed her. After all, she could easily regenerate and had taken a tank shell through her chest at Bourges. But now...
Remilia opened her mouth to scream as the pain suddenly hit her, full force. Her arm was not regenerating and she barely had enough magic left to stop the bleeding. She clutched at what had before been an arm but now was not much more than a bloodied stump. Her body bounced across the ground after having been flung off but soon came to a stop. She was in pain. It was great pain, but she couldn't let herself give up or slow down. There were people and Characters still hunting for her. If he slowed down now, she would be a sittin duck. Pushin herself up with her remaining arm and letting a tear fall from her blood crusted cheeks, Remilia started towards the cluster of concrete and steel buildings.
Melun Centre - France
The Spy watched from a short distance away from behind a car. Even the Spy's heart had skipped a beat when he saw the tank roll directly into the small devil. Staying put, the Spy watched the Devil get flung out from the rolling tank, albeit with one limb missing. Even though the Spy was used to seeing human carnage, seeing a young girl having her arm ripped off did make him flinch a bit.
He knew that if he struck now, he could easily take care of her. However, he was uncertain of just how weak she was. Considering the carnage she had already wrought, it would be a dead fool's mistake to underestimate her. Better to take his time and make certain of the kill an his safety. The Spy activated his invisibility watch and slowly stalked after the girl.