Market's Place ~The RP~

[Kenton Alkemi]

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[Jasae Bushae]

"how are you doing there little buddy?"
dling the giant white bear who was a mapmaker who charted byako asked  

[delbosque]

Andre frowned at the way the ruffians pushed Brian aside.

"You shouldn't do that to a kid."

He said, looking down at them from his considerable height. He had his oversized hands in his pockets, and further remarked (ignoring their statements about cash):

"Please apologize to the boy."

 

[kleptor]

One of them looked at Andre and grinned. "The bigger they are the HARDER THEY FALL!" And with an impressively hard swing used the crowbar to smash into Andre's kneecap. Brain tried to run to Andre but they kept pushing him away. He knew what had to be done. He switched tracks and pressed play and gulped as his eyes turned glowing white and his body began to glow a cherry red. the dry grass around him bursting into flames and the sand beneath his feet burning into glass. He breathed deep and spat at one of the gang members who screamed in pain as the tiny bit of boiling water hit him in the back of the neck. Brain growled silently and closed his eyes dightly bringing yellow to blue he began bobbing up and down to the beat of the music like a spring his fists out.  

[delbosque]

Andre was of course not fast enough to dodge the crowbar, but he grabbed one of the ruffians by the neck as he was falling. He pulled the guy down with him, but lost his hold as some of the others jumped at him, and Andre didn't see if he was injured or not.  

[kleptor]

Some of the other guys tried to grab him and their hands were 3rd degree burned within seconds as brain aimed a few swift punched to the crotch. The whole time it was to a beat as if he was dancing and they were simply in the way of it all. He was thinking of two things, weak points on a human body and the lyrics to the music burn baby burn, disco inferno, burn baby burn, burn that motha down! He smiled warmly as he grabbed a crowbar on the ground and melted it in his hand packing it like a snowball and tossing it at someones face when the tracks began to change. There was still so many of them and he was weak as the heat began to fade one of them got a bunch to brains face knocking some of the blood in his face out down into his mouth gritting his teeth at another man hit him in the ribs. The tracks wee about to change. From disco to techno.  

[delbosque]

Most of the attackers were now attacking or being attacked by Brian. Sitting, Andre threw punches at any of them who got within range. He knocked a few of them out, but one of his wrists was sprained or possibly worse when a punch was blocked by another crowbar. Grabbing the weapon with his other hand, he wrenched it away from the guy who had it and swung it at him.

"Are you all right, Brian?"

He called out, not sure where the boy was in all this confusion.  

[kleptor]

Brian shot up from the crowd well within view from a lot of people. He was seemingly floating like a rag doll when he began to come down it was in a spin like a cartwheel that was picking up speed. his eyes were closed and in one move he punched one of the gang members in the face hard not only causing his nose to collapse but his teeth to spew in every given direction as he used that as a launching point to twist his body like taffy his kicks spun in the air like his fists weren't even attached to his body and just pulled him along like a rag doll. The techno beat rammed the insides of his brain and pulled him in all random directions suddenly the upswing of the song came and the hits were less powerful but amazingly speedy as he got between 9 people and began landing hits in their chest areas. The only problem is Brian was in a trance, a hypnotic state of mind. he couldn't feel pain, which meant he made no efforts to shield his wounds receiving another blow to his already broken rib almost caused it to puncture which would have killed him. it was a good thing that there weren't too many of them left. His heart rate was getting too high. He was only about 8 after all. He was going to fight his way into a heart attack.  

[delbosque]

Swinging the crowbar and knocking out the last few ruffians near him, Andre struggled to his feet, trying not to put very much of his weight onto his injured knee.
Brian was somehow doing an excellent job of fighting off their assailants, but by the look of things Andre figured the boy was going to need some serious medical attention when this was over. He stumbled forward, swinging the crowbar some more at anyone who tried to attack him.  

[kleptor]

The song was just about over and there was but one man left. Brain swung a foot and caught him in the chin dislocating his shoulder and again affording him a lot of teeth. Brains song ended and he stopped the mp3 player falling like a hard lump into the ground and coughing up blood. Tears streamed down his face some in pain and others in shame. He didn't want this. He didn't want to kill people or hurt people... He didn't want the glory. He sobbed silently curled up in a ball with a gash of his forehead 2 broken ribs, and a somewhat flooded lung from his bloody nose. His heart rate was around 130 and his middle left toe was broken but if he got a doctor he'd survive this one.  

[delbosque]

Throwing the crowbar aside, Andre continued to where Brian was, and knelt down on his uninjured knee.

"Brian? Can you hear me, boy?"

Looking up, he called out:

"Is there a doctor around?"

and pulled out his cell phone.

"Hope this works."

he muttered, dialing 9-1-1. He didn't know what Byako had in the way of emergency services, but figured this was the best shot he had right now, unless someone capable happened to be around to volunteer to help.  

[delbosque]

The line was dead. Apparently Byako didn't have a 9-1-1 hotline of any sort.
Andre snapped the cell phone shut and stood up painfully... then started trying to stop passersby to ask them if there was a hospital anywhere nearby and how to get there.
Noticing his beat-up appearance in a suit that was now tattered and dirty, most people ignored him like he was a raving drunk, not noticing the injured boy on the ground next to him. A few people tossed coins his way and scurried on, making a point not to make eye contact with the tall man.
No one seemed to care that there was also a whole gang laying around that had been beat up.  

[kleptor]

Brain was still curled into a ball in the middle of the dirt road occasionally coughing up pink fluid from his heavily damaged lungs onto the face of the corpse next to him. He was in an emotional nightmare, lying on a pile of corpses he had created. his mind was getting more and more damaged at the seconds passed before his very eyes. Every second he was here the more trauma he experienced. He should be moved as soon as possible.  

[Faulty Ambition]

A jet black motorcycle without wheels floated over to the injured pair. The absurdly tall man astride it seemed to pay no notice to Brian and Andre, but then again, where his eyes should have been there were only heavily scarred empty sockets. His long silver-white hair floated gently behind him with the momentum of the moving bike. He stepped lightly off, patting the seat of the bike with a graceful long fingered hand as his obsidian coloured boots hit the ground.

"Two passengers to the Hospital. Both injured. One critical," the man muttered to the motorbike melodically, "Hop on Andre of the Dueling Arena, what was formerly the Ometta Dome. Take your injured friend. This bike will take you to the only hospital in Byako. It is understaffed, but incredibly effective and efficient."

The man adjusted the hood of his grey "Tenth Sea" hoodie with the tips of his pale fingers. His left hand strayed habitually to the blood-red summoning stone in the left pocket of his rumpled brown cargo pants. If Andre had been around when the Dueling Arena was still the Ometta Dome, he may have recognized this man from a concert. Or he probably could have figured out who he was from the concert poster and wanted sign posted on the wall behind the man. Afos Sem, nineteen years old and already a former number one popstar and the currently most wanted man in Byako.  

[delbosque]

Andre, absurdly tall himself, very carefully picked Brian up and got onto the motorcycle.
"Thank you." he said. He saw the posters and the young man in front of him, but was too concerned over the kid's condition to make a connection between the two at the moment.