Mission: Coal, It's a Dirty Job

[Bloodlust Alchemist]

(OOC:Thank you.)

Isabella's face went blank as she thought of Kindara and how he had been assasinated, just to prove to her that she had no one. She dug her nails into her left palm as she balled her hand into a fist. If she thought about him, she would most likely break down. She needed to appear strong in front of Bal and Wilhelm. The mention of the people only reminded her of her pain.

Bella glared at Bal as she shoved everything back into the bag."This is your fault. These assasians are after you. Which reminds me... I wonder if Hayes knew when you got accepted into the military." Bella leaned close to his ear and spoke in a near silent whisper, " I wonder if he knew that you are the Human Typhoon."

She stood up, ignoring Bal's hand, and clapped her hands over the strap on the briefcase. She altered the material into a longer strap and pulled it onto her arm."Lets get out of here. I am not in the mood to fight anymore today. I am in the mood for food and a nice warm shower." She quickly worked the mask back over her face and tied it in a knot behind her head.

Bella started to march off ahead of the group.

[Balketh]

Bal waved to Wil in a calm, friendly manner.

"Come on. If we don't go, who ever's following us will catch up." He said without an expression. He stayed quite a bit behind Bella. The feeling of 'I want to be alone' was strong from her. So strong you could cut it with a knife.

"Total Slaughter... Total Slaughter.... I won't leave a single man alive.... La De Da De Die, Genocide, La De Da De Dud, an ocean of blood. Let's begin, the killing time." Bal sang, then hummed this eerie little tune for a long while. (OOC: That's Bal's voice, AKA Vash The Stampede.)

After passing through the crisped houses, odd smells and charred landscape, they weren't two streets from Bella's house when Bal asked Wil a question.

"They're still following us, aren't they?"

[Wilhelm of Coal]

(OOC: sorry I haven't been on, I've been having track practice for throwing sports and such and I've just been to tired to get on my comp. However, today practice was cancelled due to snow so I'm good for the revamp over the weekend!)


"Yeah, and we better pick up the pace a lot if we want to see another day, It feels like their are even more of them, and their really moving..."

Wilhelm paused for a moment, he turned to his left and said to Bella and Bal,
"OK, if we want to get out of here we should go this way, It doesn't hairpin like the other road, it's a straight shoot so it's pretty dangerous, however what's a broken leg to a knife in the back, lets go!"

Wilhelm beckoned them to follow him at a fast paced jog, when he got to the edge of the leveled off land their was a steep jagged pathway that went down a hill sparsely populated with pine trees. "Oh God, we aren't going to get away at this rate," Wil looked around for something on the ground, "OK granite, nice and sturdy, pretty heavy, would probably slide well, alright!"

Wilhelm clapped his hands to initiate the alchemical process and he transmuted the mound of granite into large boat like shape, big enough for three people, with a flattened bottom, "Hop in, if we hit any trees we should probably just topple them over... So is everybody in? alright let's go." Wilhelm pushed the stone boat-sled down the hill and got in when the momentum carried the boat on it's own.

"That should lose them" Wil said as he let loose a sigh of relief, "We should slow down when we hit a creek when we get to the bottom of the mountain, We have the evidence, and my name is as good as cleared... I hope, but anyway we're all probably going to get down the hill ok and everything will be fine. And when we stop at the river their is a town nearby so we would probably get a ride, or at least temporary shelter."

TO BE CONTINUED

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[Bloodlust Alchemist]

Isabella sighed as she leaned back in the boat," We are going to my house. Then we are gathering our stuff and going to Central. Your name might be basically cleared Wilhelm, but that doesn't matter right now. I could care less if they follow us to the house. Angelica is an amazing sniper. They wouldn't survive her attacks. "

Bella mumbled something about being fed up with this crap as she sat up and prepared for them to hit the building at the bottom of the hill,"I suggest you manipulate this thing into a shape that will protect us."

[Balketh]

Bal, oddly enough, wasn't in the boat. He was well ahead of them, skiing down the hill. There was an alchemical flash, and suddenly, the friction between his feet and the ground was gone. He zoomed ahead, hitting the bottom in seconds. Another flash, and there was a funny curve in the road, almost like a half pipe. Bal went up, then down, and came to a skidding stop.

"Hurry up!" He laughed, and he walked towards Bella's house, hands behind his head, whistling.

[Wilhelm of Coal]

"all right Bella, I'l transmute a break" (transmutes spike-like breaks protruding form the back and sides. As they coasted down the rocky slope Wilhelm muttered something like "obnoxious prick" under his breath as he looked our in front of him. They skimmed across the surface of the lake and stopped at the opposite bank of the river. "Awesome!, I didn't flip this time!"

Wilhelm, with a great amount of concern in his face briefly mentioned, as if it were a mear side note, "Holy Sh!t (can I say that?) they were expecting this we're surrounded by about 2 dozen, um... I would strongly suggest running serpentine."
Wilhelm yanked Bella out of the boat (as gingerly as possible in a life or death situation) and started to run as if his life depended on it (which it did) He could see a large manor off in the distance, he assumed that was Bella's residence and that they would have cover fire, but a fact bothered him, If Angelica was such a good sniper, she wouldn't shoot Bal or Bella but he was a stranger to her and therefore a potential target against the wall. This was mostly the reason he was running in a zig-zag pattern.

[Balketh]

Bal sighed as he turned around.

"Jeez! You two are gonna get yourselves KILLED if you don't hurry up!" Bal punched his fists together, starting the alchemical process. The bottoms of his shoes formed into Rollerblades with a difference: There were two large cylinders on the back of each shoe now, and two small ones on the front.. Bal snapped his fingers like Roy, and a blue flame erupted out of the cylinders. He lent forward to counter the movement, and he was off.

The propulsion was created simply by gathering small amounts of oxygen, combined with whatever flammable gases there were in the surrounding air. He zoomed through the ring of people, bowling most of them over and past Bella and Wil, jumped and span in mid-air exactly like a figure-skater, and landed facing the two. He clicked his fingers, and he was off again, except this time, right through the middle of Bella and Wil, picking them up as he went. They were rocketing towards Bella's house.

As they neared, it appeared as though Bal had no way to stop, but another faint click could be heard, and the flame from the back cylinders slowly moved to the front ones, creating a breaking effect.

Bal came to a neat stop at Bella's front gate, and gently put the two down.

"Think up some better transportation methods." Bal said to Wil in a gruff tone, before he kicked off and skated to Bella's house.