The Disappearance? Dead? Why, of course not. >_>
((on a side note, I set this to a T-rating for a while, but after looking over it again, I've decided it's not
that bad.
))
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"Sheesh... that was rather unnecessary," Kindleflare grimaced, glaring at Crystal.
Crystal smirked. "You give up yet?"
Kindleflare held out Kiddo's spear. "No... and I'm not planning on doing so!"
The admin charged after Crystal, ready to stab her with Kiddo's spear. Crystal dodged to the side, and just then Stal and Spot came back into the room.
"Guys, we need a key!" Spot said.
"A key?" Crystal blinked. Then she turned to Kindleflare, "You better hand over the key!"
Kindleflare raised an eyebrow. "You really think I'd give it to you that easily?" she then slashed Kiddo's spear at Crystal and Spot.
Crystal and Spot jumped backwards to dodge the spear. Crystal grimaced, "No, I guess not..."
With that, Crystal threw a kunai at Kindleflare, who managed to dodge. Stal grinned, as he pulled his sai back out and charged at Kindleflare with them. Kindleflare managed to knock him away with Kiddo's spear before he could reach her, though.
"Come on!" Ikkin called to the other mods. "They're gonna need help!" she charged at Kindleflare with her cutlass, flames dancing across its blade.
Kindleflare blocked Ikkin's blade with Kiddo's spear, as Nimras and Tracy came at her from the sides. Kindleflare smirked, then ducked down and slid under Ikkin's sword, causing Ikkin to lose her balance. Ikkin fell over forwards while Nimras and Tracy crashed into each other. Kindleflare chuckled, then stood back up and prepared to block the next attack.
Leoness stepped forward, lashing at Kindleflare with her whip. Kindleflare blocked with Kiddo's spear. Mindy threw her shuriken at Kindleflare, who knocked it away with Kiddo's spear.
"Oh, this will never do!" Wandy exclaimed, as he built up power in his sword. "You can't keep blocking like that!"
Kindleflare smirked. "Says who?"
"Well, I do too!" Wandy released a sword beam which flew toward Kindleflare. She tried to block the attack, but even with Kiddo's spear blocking it, the beam had enough force to knock Kindleflare over.
"Get her while she's down!" Killix shouted, charging after Kindleflare with her sword.
"Oh, now what kind of honorable fighter does that?" Kindleflare replied, holding up Kiddo's spear to block Killix's swing.
"Since when was this an honorable fight?" Killix retorted, forcing her weight into her sword to try and keep Kindleflare down.
While Killix had Kindleflare pinned down, Stal ran over and tried to stab at Kindleflare with his sai. Kindleflare brought her leg around and kicked Stal away, also using the momentum to move away from Killix's attack and stand up. She then caught Killix off-guard and used Kiddo's spear to pin her to the wall.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Kindleflare said with a smirk.
Killix chuckled. "Oh, I wouldn't say that..."
Kindleflare raised one eyebrow as Killix's nails grew longer. Fur started to grow from her skin and her teeth became sharper. Her eyes changed from brown to yellow. Finally her ears changed and a tail poked through her pants. She had turned into werewolf form.
Killix looked up at Kindleflare, grinning wickedly. Kindleflare's eyes widened.
"Rawr!" Killix exclaimed, pouncing on the stunned Kindleflare. The two rolled around on the floor for a while, Kindleflare struggling to get back up. Spot watched them for a moment, then suddenly she thought of something.
"Hey, Killix!" she called. "The key!"
"Oh, don't you think about it you little-- aah!" Kindleflare yelped, as Killix scratched her across the face.
"You're too late if you don't want me to think about it!" Killix replied. She then reached into Kindleflare's pocket and pulled out a keychain full of keys, grinning.
"Great! Now toss 'em over!" Spot said. Killix nodded, throwing the keys in Spot's direction. Kindleflare scrambled to grab the keys out of the air as she did so but failed.
Spot smiled, and swiftly scooped up the keychain with her paw. Stal got up, smirking when she saw Spot with the keys. He ran over to her. "Great! Now let's go!"
Spot nodded, then started toward the halls. Stal followed, and the two were out of the room.
Kindleflare grimaced. Then sighed and said, "Well, what does it matter? Even if they
do free Patjade, it's not like it would do any good!" with that she kicked Killix in the stomach, forcing the werewolf off of her. She then hopped to her feet and readied Kiddo's spear.
"We'll have to see about that!" Rider shouted, charging at the admin with her cutlass. Kindleflare blocked the attack, as usual.
"Let's get her!" Ikkin called, coming in from the side while Rider had Kindleflare distracted. The other mods came over, and the fighting had begun again.
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"Alright, I know it was down one of these halls..." Stal said, as he and Spot ran through the halls of the building.
"Such deja vu," Spot sighed, rolling her eyes.
"There it is!" Stal smiled, pointing to the door labeled '289.' Spot sighed with relief, running up to the door.
"Patjade! We got the key!" Spot exclaimed.
"Great!" Patjade called through the door. "Can you open the door?"
"Yeah, one of these keys should work..." Spot took one of the keys and tried to stick it in the keyhole. It didn't fit, so she tried the next one. That one also didn't fit, so she tried the next one, and so on.
"Don't they have numbers on them?" Stal asked.
"Yeah, but they're so rusty I can't read them..." Spot tried to fit another key into the hole. Still didn't fit.
"Well, keep trying..." came Patjade's voice through the door.
Spot tried yet another key, but this time it went in. "Here we go!" she grinned, and turned the key.
There was a click. Then Spot pulled the key out of the door and turned the knob. The door swung open, and Stal and Spot were glad to see Patjade on the other side.
"Oh man, it's great to see you guys again!" Patjade smiled as she looked at Spot and Stal.
"Likewise," Spot nodded, and she stepped aside to let Patjade out.
Patjade sighed as she got out of the room for the first time in weeks. "So... we should get back to the NTWF."
"Not just yet," Stal replied, "We still have to take care of Kindleflare."
"Hmm," Patjade thought aloud. "If I wanted to do that, I'd need my bow..."
"Your bow, you say?"
Stal and Spot turned around to see Kat. Patjade smiled. "Kat! You're here, too?"
"Yep," Kat nodded. "And come with me; I know where your bow is."