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Characters: Nanami and Bakura the batd
Location: Venezuela
Rating: PG-13
Time: May 20th, evening
Description: Tree-houses are being haunted, Nanami and Yami Bakura move in to ~~enjoy the resorts and spent Shibusen’s money under a thin disguise~~ go ghost hunting.

They had arrived early and taken their sweet time checking out a noble resort that was to be their temporary working central before Bakura and Nanami had eventually made their way to the supposedly haunted tree-houses. It was starting to dawn when they finally arrived after they had followed a dusty and half-forgotten street to its end.

Bakura had organized one of those four-wheeled motorcycles whose names me always forgot and had somehow managed to drive and park it well against all odds (keeping to the tempo limit wasn’t something the Spirit of the Sennen Ring considered an option). Climbing down from it, he grabbed his small backpack with equipment before he nodded to his Weapon of the moment.

“That’s it. We’re here.” Despite what they were about to do he seemed rather cheerful.

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Bakura's howl sent shivers down her spine. He was being reckless and she was used to that being her job. They had made a narrow escape to what was left of the roof on tree house, but now there was a longer way to fall and multiple enemies that were out for blood and it was only getting darker. She could see that the creature had a mixture of feathers and fur and while it's facial features were that of a bird the jagged teeth it sported were not birdlike at all and it's body was massive, almost ape-like which reminded her all over again that she really really didn't like animals.

There was a bit of blood dripping from the former attacker and it seemingly backed off a little and Nanami realized why. 'Behind you!' She shouted to her partner. The one who had been clawing at the wall was now attacking on the remains of the roof behind them. The two creatures were working together.

"Damn!" Bakura cursed as he tried to move to the side but ended up being a second too late. There was a moment of insecurity mixed with a strange sensation as Bakura simply stared and waited to get hit. It wasn't masochism or him freezing up with fear rather than a simple case of him not knowing what to do as his mind blanked out and he turned into a puppet waiting for a pull on its strings.

A single thought echoed through their resonance. 'Huh?'

It was like she had been standing on two stones in the middle of a quick moving river and one of the stones had become dislodged. She was shocked when the wave of insecurity washed over her as it was completely unexpected coming from Bakura who was just moments ago attacking without any hesitation.

Nanami wasn't able to completely hide her panic but she had pretty strong self preservation instincts that kicked in immediately.

'Hey! Move it! BLOCK!' There was really no time to bark out any other "helpful suggestions" as the claws shot forward and at the same time the area of the roof they were standing on finally collapsed beneath them.

Bakura jerked as if he had been physically hit when he heard those words. Pure self-preservation or not, they had been exactly the thing that he had needed at that moment. 'DAMMIT!!' While the thought was still forming his body had already sprung into action, making him take a couple of steps back that found the few stable spots within the roof with the instinctive surefootedness of a thief who had grown old in his profession. At the same time he jerked the scimitar up just in time to have the deadly claws crawl over it as they pushed it dangerously against his front.

Seconds later there was another howl as Bakura twisted the blade and forcefully pushed it against their opponents area between his fingers. Gasping for breath, Bakura gave the monster a challenging glare as his face pulled once more into his sadistically-confident smirk. "Well, that's not the kind of getting closer I had in mind when I came here."

She was relieved when he acted but tiny bit of uncertainty hung over her wavelength but she had increased her conviction about tenfold. Now was not the time to ask why he had locked up but she was sure as hell going to ask later. For now she remained silent, adrenaline was pumping and her senses were well in tune with the surroundings as she kept an eye on both injured creatures which now appeared to be quite angry with them and both decided to come at them again at the same time.

From an audience's standpoint something might have seemed off about the way the creatures were approaching and that was simply because they were setting the Meister and Weapon duo up. As the came close swinging arms and talons at the two something long and scaly snaked up around Bakura's ankle through the newly opened hole he had managed to escape. The chimera beasts were a decoy.

"Damn!" Bakura reacted quickly the moment he felt the hint of a touch, leashing out at their new enemy quickly and violently with a powerful downwards swipe as he leaped back. But since their range of movement was now limited in a new way he was running right into the reaches of the remaining two enemies...

The scaly tail recoiled below the roof relatively unscathed so the threat from below was still very much present and ready to strike at any time. Nanami knew they should retreat but at this point the three enemies were making in nearly impossible to do so.

'We need to get off the roof!' Clearly escaping into the house they had just vacated was not an option, there was also the possibility that there were more enemies waiting in the other places on the balconies outside of the house.

The beast in front of them whipped a hand out at Bakura's midsection and waiting right behind them was the second waiting for him to back into his clutches.

'Trap! Trap!' Nanami was doing her best not to panic in order to keep their resonance stabilized but some of it was leaking in anyway.

'Sure! Care to tell me how?!!' He barely had time for the reply as he kept being forced to do a dance out of the reaches of their enemies where he was forced more and more to back from one's into the others.

'I know, but I can't dodge', he gritted his teeth as he leaped once more out of the more muscular one's reach. This time there was no way avoiding the winged one's attack. All Bakura could do was to protect his vulnerable spots and hope that the old rule of superior agility meaning less brutal strength was true.

She was at a loss, this was supposed to be his specialty, she might have been a duelist in the past but fighting multiple monsters was not something that was on her resumé.

The winged beast grabbed at Bakura, it seemed that although the three creatures were working together, the spoils went to the one who captured them. It dragged them backward preparing to lift off luckily it was taking more time because what was left of the roof and walls kept crumbling under its feet.

'Can you break loose and aim for the bridge?' She remembered that was there and in the direction they were being dragged perhaps the suspension would cushion their fall a bit. There was the possibility of it snapping under their weight but at least that fall would be closer to the ground than where they were now. Too bad Bakura didn't have a weapon form because falling definitely hurt less that way.

Bakura might have been more experienced than her about taking on a superior number of enemies, but that usually happened on his own conditions. The thief liked tricking his opponents, to play them against each other and to fool them with their own plans and the terrain around them. Being forced back by an experienced team like he was now would have usually been his cue to retreat and try to turn the battle back into his favor by other means.

Just that retreating was goddamn difficult with both his physical and magical powers being limited like this. If he only had access to his Dark Magic or his real body-!

Bakura pushed the thought away as he twisted himself in a silly dance of hops and attempted jabs with his Weapon in a desperate bid to make the monster drag them in a direction that would be good for them without actually giving it what it wanted. At one point the claws ended up crushing right against his short ribs and the resulting pain was enough to make Bakura trip and stumble as a curse left his lips.

But then they were less than a meter away from the edge of the roof and he could see the bridge Nanami had mentioned. Sparing a look at it Bakura knew that he could, no had to do it! He'd bust himself free and take that leap and then when they were out of this death-trap they would show this wanna-be monsters who hunted who here!

Gritting his teeth, he stemmed his feet against the roof with desperate force and all but dragged the monster hanging on him even closer towards the edge. 'This is going to get rough!' One more hit, a twist of his hip and then they'd be free to learn how well gravity meant it with them- And then the roof gave way under the foot he had just put his weight on. "FUCK!"

He looked up just in time to see the muscular monster coming closer at a break-neck speed, aiming it's ugly, clawed paw right at his face.

Nanami was at a loss of what she could do to help diffuse the situation, she was starting to feel completely useless. If she changed back to human form there weren't many places for her to stand at the moment and the darkness that had been creeping in was making it hard to see all the details.

On one side, Bakura's constant wriggling was making it practically impossible for their current captor to lift off with them in tow. On the other side, the second beast was waiting for a chance to nab them while a third unknown monster was just below. They were in one of those dammed if they do damned if they don't predicaments.

And then Bakura got stuck. Normally Nanami would be aghast at the language he was using; unfortunately it was completely warranted here as she too saw the imminent danger. She had to do something, anything!

With little time to come up with a plan, she transformed blocking the pathway to her stuck partner. She had kept her arm in her scimitar form and attempted to block the attack as the creature came in close; there wasn’t enough space to skewer it with the length of her blade. It didn’t hit her too hard since it had slowed a bit due to her sudden appearance and she leaned into it to keep her balance. The beast held onto the blade with one claw while swiping at her with the other.

All she could do was tense up as the claw hit her side, nails tugging the fabric of her shirt and slicing into her skin as she was thrown off the roof. She let out a sharp scream before the bridge caught her for a brief moment and then the corroded ropes gave way where she had landed causing the bridge to split and fall beneath her.

Meanwhile Bakura's dangling leg was quite the tempting sight for the snake-like villain below but at least the sounds of Nanami crashing somewhere below were distracting the rooftop creatures.

Edited 2013-06-08 03:00 (UTC)

Bakura had witnessed her attempt to protect him and subsequent fall with eyes that were wide with surprise, but the shock didn't last long. He growled under his breath as he used the brief respite to try and drag his leg out of the broken roof only to be rewarded with a sharp pain.

"Kuh!" Exhaling sharply, he retrieved his second knife from its place (the first had gotten lost sometime during the first moments of the fight) and set to hammering its handle against the wood in order to break it. If he couldn't get out he would just go properly inside and take the other route..!

He was almost through when he felt something latch on him from below. "Nanami! Fight!" There wasn't more time for him to shout instructions at her as the monster below tried stronger and the thief was pulled through the roof with great noise, blade ablaze and ready as he went down with a challenging yell.

"Fight, he says..." she was still recovering from practically face-planting into a tree after a wild roll on the ground at the end of a bridge turned rope swing. Nanami got to her feet wobbling unsteadily for a moment while trying to catch her bearings. Her side was wet, "that had better be blood and not some sort of monster dung..." Priorities. Was she ever going to have a mission where she didn't come out covered in something awful?

There wasn't a lot of time to find out what it was because the rooftop creatures lost their rights to Bakura for the time being so they turned their attention toward Nanami instead. She kind of just wanted to run away but there was that little detail, the one where her partner was still around the vicinity of the tree-house. She couldn't tell if he was still on top or not from her vantage point but she should probably stick around and figure out how to get back to him.

What she could see was two monsters heading her way. Nanami pulled her dagger out and kept her other had free for the time being while ducking behind a dense area of trees. She was beginning to notice quite a bit of pain on the left side of her back.

The monsters exchanged a look while they drew closer to Nanami and immediately one of them backed away to the side with the obvious intention to circle her. They were going to use their tactic of teamwork against her again, if she let them.

At the same time a series of battle-noises came from the tree-house: the sounds of things being toppled over or broken, once an angry inhuman scream, the clang of metal hitting something hard and scraping down against it. Bakura wasn't giving the monster the easy time it had expected, it seemed.

She briefly looked up at the tree house as the sounds traveled from it. It sounded like he had everything under control, or maybe that was wishful thinking on her part. Right now she had to focus on staying alive and that was looking more and more like it was going to be a difficult task.

The monsters were moving separately and while Nanami was no expert on war tactics she had a feeling she knew what they were up to and she was not about to let them have their way. She backed away staying between them evenly so that their formation formed a triangle. It seemed to be buying her a little time but it wasn't going to last.

The monsters kept hunting her. Every once in a while one of them made a break trying to get closer to her, but all in all they seemed to have settled for a new tactic now: to wait until she fainted by herself.

Back at the tree something hit the ground. A dark shadow rose from the ground just to toss itself into the nearby shrubbery right away, the rustling of it coming nearer as the new threat honed in on Nanami as well.

The Human Weapon was beginning to tire out and she was slowing down, her steps were getting increasingly sloppy as she slipped and stumbled, signaling weakness to her aggressors. If only she could find a small space to squeeze into or somewhere she could blend in in her Weapon form and be easily overlooked.

Just ahead she could see an area of chaotic growth amongst a fallen trees and she b-lined toward that for the first time showing the creatures her back. Surprised by the sudden break of formation the two sprung into action behind her.

She weaved in, out, over and under until she suddenly disappeared using her small size to her advantage. Nanami had wedged herself under a pile of branches and a large fallen tree trunk before transforming and holding her breath.

The monsters let out angry bellows and chattering screeches as they communicated with each other and vented their frustrations of suddenly having lost sight of their already sure prey. They kept wandering the area, dark shadows that roamed dangerous close to the girl as they were looking for her.

The a new sound joined the ruckus of bloodlust and breaking branches.

It was the steady in- and outtake of air as something breathing harshly came closer and closer towards her. The noise quickly zoned in on her as if it knew exactly where she was hiding as it approached from the direction that was the direct opposite of the two monsters. Then a rough hand grabbed the handle of the Weapon and Bakura's strained voice hissed through their connection. 'Quiet!!

Nanami could hardly hear anything over the pounding of her heart. She squeezed her eyes shut and hoped her roll through the dirt earlier covered her scent enough to really throw them off. Even if it had only been about a minute or so it sure seemed like a lifetime she was pretty sure her heart was going to explode before the creatures found her at this point. As she strained to hear where they were in relation to her, she finally noticed something right before she was grabbed. The voice came through crisply and she obeyed the command, mostly from the fear causing her voice to completely stop and her thoughts to blank out for a second.

Bakura dragged the Weapon out and started running towards their bike with a quick pace that somehow still managed to make barely any noises thanks to his vast experience as a thief who needed to vanish quickly without being noticed.

Although it was hard to say if the light stagger in his rhythm was intentional or not. Or why he seemed to be sweating and why parts of his clothes were sticking to his skin thanks to all the crimson blood that was soaking them.

While Bakura was carrying her, Nanami used the time to put herself back together. At first all the excitement blinded her to the fact that her partner was off but eventually as she calmed down a bit and felt it. What had happened to him while they were separated?

Nanami remained silent and looked behind them to make sure they weren't being followed, willing those beasts to stay occupied looking for her amongst the fallen trees for the rest of their lives.

Bakura kept running even as the world started to spin out of focus with every step he took and the colors seemed to be draining from his sight. Oh damn...! That snake bitch must have managed to get its teeth somewhere into him before he had had the chance to shove that knife down the monster's throat.

They reached their vehicle in no time and Bakura all but threw Nanami down with a rasped "Change back!" as the foes behind them started to scream, having realized that their prey was getting away.

"Take the wheel!" Bakura didn't waste time as he straddled the saddle backwards, pulling out a small set of fresh knives from beneath the seat. He liked to hide backup for cases just like this one.

It felt like his spirit was fading and she couldn't help but worry about his current state. She had been staying in weapon form to mostly stay out of his way but as they approached the ATV she knew it was time even before he barked the order. She returned to her human form and only paused to glance back when the howling started as it sent chills down her spine.

She quickly wiped some tears away and turned back to the vehicle climbing aboard. It couldn't be that hard right? She had meant to ask him how to work this thing properly before she tried to drive it but there wasn't exactly time for a quick lesson. Instead she had to rely on what she remembered seeing him do when they first got on. Turn the key, something about the brakes and park, hit the start button. And the ATV jumped forward a little because she wasn't holding down the brake properly. "S..sorry!"

Bakura let out an undignified yelp as the ATV moved far too quickly in the wrong way and he was almost bucked off like a boy from a wild steed. For a moment the spirit saw himself already falling just to kiss the ground and be eaten by monsters while Nanami escaped on her own, but then he had somehow managed to place his arm (the one with the knives, dammit, must be careful not to cut self and- fuck, that knife had been held too loosely and was now gone) under himself to steady his forward motion.

He felt like throwing up when he somehow switched back to sitting properly on the machine again (no use trying to toss knives at anybody when he was already like that) and placed a hand over hers.

"Not that jerky. You have to feel it or you'll kill the engine." There was even a light chuckle in his voice as he tried to guide her hand with his own that felt too hot and dry. A small, almost gentle smile had appeared on his lips even though their corners still twisted with a haughty edge.

Bakura didn't know how to fear dead. But he knew how to laugh into its face.

The last thing Nanami needed on her was her partner's upchuck. There was going to have to be a rule about only one type of fluid everywhere per mission. Nanami had already reached her quota for this particular mission with blood being the fluid of not so much choice but chance.

"O...okay," She was really trying really hard to get this right while remaining as calm as possible. Bakura's body against hers felt abnormally warm and it was especially apparent the moment he had put his hand on hers. Was it from running or was he feverish? She carefully felt out the direction his hand was trying to lead her and managed to get the vehicle to move forward while gradually gaining speed. "I think I've got it."

And not a moment too soon as the beasts were nearly breaking the clearing not too far from where they were. It was a shame she missed the smile but even if she had managed to catch it there wouldn't have been enough time to fully appreciate the unusual gentleness accompanying it.

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Pardon the late and tldr - first I couldn't think of a good tag and then I wrote too much. |D

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