"She's gone! We can't find her anywhere in the cabin."
The voice that spoke was that of a man. It boomed loudly expressing his displeasure.
"Do you think she got away."
This time another voice spoke, more hesitant and meeker. Their volume was also equally low. As if he were afraid to speak up.
"How far do you think a child could run."
The last of the three voices was female. She spoke sarcastically at the earlier meek voice, showing her displeasure for the stupid question.
"Doesn't matter, we'll catch up to her soon enough no matter how far she runs. Agent 741, did you make sure her parents are dead?" The female voice was more authoritative this time. Mikael could hear the ease at which she talked to the others.
"I got the milestone for it, but what a waste! That mother was one hotty…" The loud voice spoke letting his inner thoughts leak.
And then they all suddenly halted their actions. Mikael could immediately tell, he could hear how they all stopped walking and suddenly stood still. This made him wary immediately, had he been discovered already?
It took a moment; his instinct went wary. His danger intuition screamed in his head and then he heard the sound, like a roar or a shriek.
"[Incendiary Storm]!!!
[WHRRRRR-BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR]
…..
The bullets blasted from the M134 Minigun in continuous burst. Flashes of bright light and the sound of a storm of bullets roared within the cabin. The bullets were even more catastrophic. The reason for this was the fact that the man holding the gun had activated one of its abilities, Incendiary storm!
[
Skill: Incendiary Storm
Type: Active
Skill Description: For the skill's duration, all bullets fired from the M134 are engulfed in high-temperature flames.
Skill Effect
Each bullet leaves a 1.5–2m trail of lingering fire along its flight path, burning enemies that cross it.
Impact zones create small incendiary bursts (0.5m radius) lasting 3 seconds.
Fire damage is stackable — enemies hit repeatedly take increased burn damage per second.
Skill Duration: 12 seconds.
Skill Cooldown: 3 hours
Skill consumption:
45 MP per activation.
Continuous drain: 5 MP per second while active.
Skill automatically deactivates if mana reaches zero
Warning: The skill may only be used five times after which it will destroy the guns barrel
Ignoring the cool down will destroy the gun barrel faster.
Use of this skill puts the gun in an overheat state reducing accuracy by 30%
]
It was destruction given form.
The cabin was soon reduced to a mass od shredded wood, the window blasted away leaving behind noting but a wide ripped hole. Funny enough the cabin had not caught on fire. But the trail the bullets had followed as they blasted forward was a scorched dead zone.
"Hahahahaha. You like sneaking around right. Die you bastard! Eat my countless storm attack from my baby." The man, agent 741 laughed and cursed freely. He was the one who wielded the monster of a gun that had reduced the wall to shreds. He looked very insane with how he was laughing madly as he continued his so-called attack.
His use of this skill and his lunacy during fights had earned him the Codename [MadStorm]
This was enough to scare the earlier meek youth who looked to disappear further into himself while in his arms he held a purple-colored creature.
"You can stop now." The only woman among the three spoke. Her voice was cold and commanding.
Agent 741 turned suddenly, a madness present in his eyes. He looked unwilling to comply but one more look from the lady made him lower the M134.
"Tch, I'm only doing this because the boss left you in charge…" Agen 741 said and clicked his tongue in displeasure.
"I think that should have got him …" The meek youth said over the creeping silence. In his arms he further squeezed his Pokémon Rattata, trying to get some comfort from it on his arms.
"Good Job Agent 808. I'll put in a good word to the boss for telling us that guy was hiding there. We'll make sure to buy something to help your Rattata evolve further." Agent 639 spoke kindly to the youth, and her words brought a small smile to the youth's face. The reason she spoke so kindly to him was in fact the creature he held in his hands and the fact that he held an even more useful ability.
Rattata with its enhanced sense of smell, aided them in locating targets, finding important alchemy/potion materials and as it had done now, it was able to sniff out anyone who approached from a certain distance. This had allowed them to know they were being spied on and with covert hand signs their counterattack had been achieved. The youth was more useful in that he had the Pokémon trainer ability, which would allow him to catch even more Pokémon that were even more powerful. And that was why Agent 639 spoke so kindly to him.
"Tch, I'll go and pick up that guy's Blood Key. You two can continue with your gossiping…" Agent 741 said gruffly and started to move outside his walk having a certain fury to it.
"Wait, we need to be more careful, what if he's still alive…" Agent 808 tried to interfere but was cut off by 741 before he could speak further.
"Tch, let me give you a little lesson kid. This baby of mine destroys everything standing in its way. The only way someone would be able to avoid death was if they were fast enough to dodge bullets of if they were extremely durable. Anyone that strong wouldn't be sneaking around like a rat looking for cheese. Not even a Terminator would survive in a storm of this. "Agent 741 scoffed as he patted the M134. He had invested a lot to make it what it had become today.
What he said was the complete truth, and it quenched 808 worries. He had seen how Strong Dreamers acted, if they wanted something they would simply take it. And 808 had already seen countless strong people fall under the storm that was this gun's skill.
[Shif]
While they were distracted, something was suddenly thrown into the cabin. These immediately attracted there attention. Sheerly by how casually they had been after they concluded that agent 741 had killed the intruder.
The object was small, enough to be easily held in one's arms and oddly they found their eyes following it's flight path. A mistake none of them realized they were making
It was only 639 who after catching a clear image of what was flying in the air that immediate panic ran through her body.
"Close your eyes…" She tried to shout only to no unveil
[ BANGGGG]
There was sound, and then it was gone by a constant ring. There was light, but then it was eclipsed by a blank whiteness.
A flashbang had just gone off and they were dead center in its blast zone
….
His body had reacted instantly, moving instantly away before danger could strike. But the attack was to viscous, even with his quick reaction, Mikael was still affected by the flame bullets attack. About 40 of his HP was gone and them was a numbing pain on his left forearm where he the bullets had landed. Even now he could still feel the fire bun through the flesh.
He flexed his muscles and the bullet popped out, the pain making his thought sharper. But it was milder that ne thought it would be. The 20% Pain nullification was quite affective.
He was curious how he had been so quickly discovered but that did not matter for the moment.
His hearing become partially blocked by the constant stream of attack but it soon came to an end. Lucky him, because that bullet storm was too viscous. Mikael appreciated it even more that the guy was unable to curve his bullets. If that were possible, he would be a dead man already.
With the cover of the burning ground around him, Mikael maintained where he was hiding, listening on to the conversation. He soon came to know that Agent 808 was the reason for him being discovered as well as mentioning a Rattata, which Mikael believed was also involved in his discovery.
As he continued to listen, Mikael found it odd how reckless these people were, he was still not dead and they were already gossiping as if he were dead. It was only after he heard Agent 741 that he could understand their lack of caution. In their minds, he was already dead. But they had failed to add one scenario that was still possible to avoid the attack. To dodge before the trigger was pulled.
His opportunity came soon when Agent 741 wanted to come and pick his blood key.
Mikael moved then, he quickly took out two objects from his Storage, the first one he threw the pin already removed and the second followed a second later. Both perfectly calculated to time each other in effectiveness.
BANGGG
The flash bang burst, but Mikael was unaffected. He was already prepared for its brilliance. Then came the second object he threw following immediately after the flash bang.
A dense black fog rushed from the container, instantly shrouding the cabin and the surrounding in cold black fog. Yes, the object Mikael had thrown was a container for his black fog!
His pistol came out next, loaded and ready. His aim was perfect one glance enough to get his target in his vision and without hesitation, a barrage of shots burst from the gun without pause. His body felt no recoil. Stiff like an ancient statue.
"Bang bang bang bang."
Four shots were released at the same time all bursting forward to Agent 741. Two of the first shots before they landed were met with a sort of barrier that deflected them. A strange white gleam that appeared before the bullets could penetrate.
'Crack.'
"Arghh."
The next shots came and shattered that barrier and impacted the man's body drawing a scream from him. The next shot came, aiming to blast open the man's head but he managed to dodge barely, the bullet impacting his shoulder and throwing him downwards. Despite his blindness, his senses were quite good
Agent 741 almost drew a shaky breath. But a shadow soon came upon him.
Mikael had moved after the bullets had fired, his movement technique bringing him instantly next to the man.
His earlier pistol now replaced by his short blade Mikael swung at the unprotected body his strike viscous. A cut to the neck a stab to the heart and the final to the head. Three attacks were made so fast that Agent 741 had been unable to defend himself.
His body remained with its arm up and the unwillingness in his eyes persisted. His last thought was confusion on how fast he had died! The body twitched for a while and then slumped downwards.
'One down.' Mikael thought lifting the now dead body upwards and then he slashed its stomach open. He noticed the earlier effect of the flashbang wearing off on the other two.
The lady was the first to recover after he had just killed agent 741. From her storage she took out first a bottle of green liquid and emptied it into her mouth. Her expression looked better after doing this. She then took out a strange wooden stick from her storage. 10 and a half inches in length and with dark brown wood. Instantly, a sort of oppressive air permitted his very being. It took him a short thought to recall what this strange wooden object was. A wand, and that meant the user of this wand was a wizard. Or a magic user in short. Mikael had not looked at either of the three's stata. As Zoe had said, the values of a status could be faked and even if you did know what the stats of someone were, in no way would that affect the battle.
"Protego!" Agent 648 Drew her wand in an arc and cast a spell. The end of her wand shimmered, and a burst of blue came from the end of her wand. The spell shimmered into existence and transformed into a blue transparent barrier around the caster. But she noticed something strange, somehow, it was like she could not exert her full strength.
"Agent 808, quickly come to my side 741 is already dead!" She yelled over the darkness. It might have seemed like a stupid thing to do to attract attention while unaware of the location of the enemy within the black fog but what other option did they have. If the enemy had confidently used this black fog, it meant they had a way of moving within it without being affected. The notification saying 741 had already died in a matter of seconds only made things worse.
"Lumos." 648 waved her wand again and piercing light came from her wand tip. The black fog was only ushed back slightly by the spell, but it still persisted everywhere, surrounding the two.
Surprisingly, agent 808 had managed to arrive where 648 was. In his arms the same purple creature now tightly clutched within his arms. The youth looked like if it was possible he would make a run for it, but he was managing to keep his composure for the time being.
"Can you tell where he is. "She asked hinting for him to use his Pokémon.
"I can try. Rattata, can you smell out where he is." Agent 808 asked the Rattata in his arms. Rattata responded with a squek and raised it little button like nose. It took a sniff of the air around and started thrashing in Agent 808 arm's while squeaking wildly. This looked to have been understood by Agent 808 who now had a panicked look in his face.
"Straight ahead, his coming from in front of us!" Agent 808 yelled loudly.
A body burst straight through the darkness and instantly appeared in the light that Agent 648 had created. She was the first to react, her wand waving forward once again.
"Arresto Momentum!" A spell rushed from the wand a struck the rushing body. Immediately it was like the body had come to a stop, no looking closely you would notice the body moving extremely slowly, a sort of magical aura around it that resulted in this slowness.
"Descendo!" She immediately waved her hand again conjuring another spell from her wand. The spell struck the stopped body and immediately after the body was slammed into the ground violently crushing. A visible splatter of blood came form the floor as the body impacted the ground, bouncing once and the lifting once again to show the bodies face.
Agent 808 had a pale face as this happened, but he was wise enough to keep his mouth shut and not interfere.
"Wingardium Leviosa." Agent 846 said finally, pulled the body closser to them. She did this only after seeing the dropped blood key. But she felt strange, wasn't that too easy. The blood key was the only thing that eased her worries.
The body floated over slowly towards them. A silence in their actions. It was only when the body had fully exited the black fog, and they could see the clothes it had on that they realized they were messed up. This was Agent 741! They both paled instantly.
"Ding ding ding."
The sound soon attracted their attention they heads moved in sync as their eyes followed the object that had fallen from agent 741's lifeless body. It was only then that they also became aware of the opening within his stomach.
The object rolled up to the barrier and their eyes opened wide in horror! They were grenades…
"Boommmm!"
A crack and the Protego spell were shattered instantly. The two who were seeking cover behind the spell were soon blasted, the force of three grenades knocking into them violently and throwing them away. Countless pieces of shrapnel soon after pierced their bodies as their thrown bodies crashed through the wooden walls of the cabin.
…
Mikael raised from where he had lain on the ground. The hardening disappeared from his body gradually.
He looked at the destruction caused by the grenades and slowly approached the hole that had been made by the blast.
His thought over his actions and could only be amused by how their decision to assemble had aided him in picking them out. Yes, he had to agree it was the most logical conclusion during an ambush, but at the end of it all, logic didn't always win out. It wouldn't have made much of a difference from what Mikael had seen though.
Other than the lady who was a Wizard and who gave Mikael a dangerous aura, the meek youth did no such thing. Even the creature in his arms did not move Mikael much. So, Mikael would have simply taken out the lady first and then handled the youth later.
He passed by the mangled remains of Agent 741 and once more picked the dropped blood key from the ground. His plan had worked exactly as he had expected it would.
Mikael first let the two gather while he himself started rubbing his blood around the room as well as the body of Agent 741. He would have been stupid if he had failed to notice the creature Agent 808 was carrying to be a Pokémon that had enhanced sense of smell.
He then deposited the grenades withing Agent 741's body and threw it in the direction the two had gathered. It was after the lady used her Descendo spell that Mikael threw the key at the same time forward, making them think that they had killed him. The fact that irrespective of who killed a Dreamer the blood key would be seen by all of them had helped his plan.
The fact the Lady would pull the body closer was not part of his plan, but it worked out anyways, so Mikael did not mind it too much.
He soon exited the cabin once more outside the cold night. He noticed the two bleeding bodies and he approached, surpisingly they were both still alive, but Mikael could see they were hanging on barely. He marveled at the Dreamers ability to survive.
He pistol came to hand once again as he first arrived next to the witch lady. Mikael could see the unwillingness in her gaze, the will to live and she showcased this by still trying to lift her arm that somehow still held onto her wand. Throughout the whole process her hand trembled, showing the shear struggle she was going through. Her health was probably at it's lowest state.
Mikael was mildly impressed but her struggles did not mean match in his eyes.
"Bang."
One bullet. That was all it took for her to die. Her hand lowered, dropping down and her once shining eyes deemed.
Maybe if she hadn't gotten in the way of his mission, Mikael would have even spared her. But unfortune for her, they would all have to die.
"Huhh." He sighed but moved away again after he had picked up the blood key. All that remained was the meek youth. Somehow the youth now seemed to not be as injured as he thought earlier. He was now trying to crawl away from Mikael.
Mikael walked forward again and it was then that he wondered where the Pokémon he had been carrying had gone.
"Rattata use quick attack and then Bite!" Agent 808 yelled as he suddenly regained his composure. A purple blur suddenly picked up speed as it rushed towards Mikael at his left. The creature was a blur of movement a sort of glowing energy surrounding it as it darted around Mikael.
It moved around him at a fast speed, not attacking just constantly changing its position and trying to disorient him. Mikael eyes constantly followed along as the creature moved. He was waiting for the moment it would attack, obviously it would follow the commands given to it.
Rattata finally shot forward, seeing an opportunity when the human was unable to track its movement with its mouth and its teeth glowing white. It was aimed at Mikael neck, going for an instant kill attack!
It quickly approached and just before it could chomp down, Mikael suddenly twisted his arm with his unnatural flexibility. Rattata bit down on the arm and as it waited for the metallic taste of blood to come through, it was soon met with disappointment. It soon realized that its teeth had bitten down on something extremely hard. Even worse as it tried to move it jaw away it found itself stuck.
Mikael gazed at the struggling creature within his arms. He brought Rattata close to his chest and started squeezing down on it, not to wear it down but to quickly exhaust it of its energy.
"Click." He turned to look at the meek youth as he heard a sound behind him and surprisingly, he now held a pistol in his arm aimed at his head.
"Let go of Rattata." Their was emotion in his voice as he screamed this and Mikael instantly saw opportunity. A smile came to him, one that terrified the youth
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