Chapter 3: Rat Pack Attack
Twilight looked inside the dark empty room in front of her. "Ryuu? Ryuu, are you in here?" Twilight sighed to herself and switched on the light, only to see nobody was inside. Only thing there was his samurai sword, and his hollow bamboo boe. "Where did he go?" Twilight closed the door and went down the hall. As she turned the corner, she noticed Psicosis pulling Hybird up. "Hey, have you two seen Ryuu?"
Psicosis turned his head to look at Twilight, and shook his head. "Not since he said he refuses to trust ninja-boy, then stormed off."
"I haven't seen Ryuu eith- Hold up, he called me ninja-boy?!"
"No, I did, sorry if I confused you."
"Oh, remind me to kill you for that later."
"Will do."
"Hey, back to reality you two. If neither of you seen Ryuu, where can he be?"
As the three argued with each other, a inhuman screech echoed across the base. Psicosis gave a short sigh. "Why do I get the feeling Ryuu is somehow involved with that scream?"
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Ryuu dove out of the way as a set of rats lunged at him. As he landed on the ground, Ryuu rolled forward to evade two more rats attempting to bite him. The rats kept lunging at him, until they forced him to lean onto a tree, as the surrounded him at all sides. "Bloody hell..." Ryuu leaned back into the tree more, holding his Kunai tightly, waiting for the homicidal rats to hunch and prepare for the strike. The first row tightened their legs as they leaned back to launch themselves towards the exhausted Shadow Elf. The second and third row started tightening their legs as well, but didn't lean back. Ryuu, having a hard time even holding his light Kunai and chain, his exhausted body heaving in and out as he waited for the do or die moment. "C'mon you ugly sons of..."
The first row of rats suddenly launched themselves forward, Ryuu began to push himself off the tree, ready to face the rats head on. But stopped dead in his tracks when he heard something whizzing behind him, almost as if it was actually cutting through the air. This forced Ryuu to quickly lean back against the tree as a familiar mobile piece of leather and a flexible type of metal, perfectly combined in to a whip (thanks to alchemy,) shoot past him. Cutting off a small strand of hair as it made an explosive impact into the middle of the rat pack. The stranded and confused remainder of rats was quickly snuffed out by a barrage of a bright neon green balls of explosive energy crashed into the dirt, not only breaking a mass amount of ground, but incinerating the rats upon the single, split second touch. The bright green light forced Ryuu to close and cover his eyes as he turned his body to block as much light a he possibly could.
The onslaught was quickly over in a matter of seconds, but due to his sensitive hearing, the sonically mixed echoes of the rats screaming, the whip cracking, and the high energy bullets exploding rung through his ears constantly. Only the familar voice that suddenly sliped into the chaos ensuing in his head, stopped the echoes ringing in his head. "Well, Mr. High and mighty elf is cowering against a tree like a baby!"
Ryuu quickly uncovered his head and looked up, following the person's voice. Above him stood Psicosis, the oval gauntlet like guns calmly blew out smoke from all of his firing. "For once I'm glad to hear you cheesy jokes."
"Glad to hear that."
Ryuu didn't even notice that somebody placed their hand on his shoulder until another familar, more feminine voice seeped into his ear. "Ryuu, do you know how worried you had us?! What were you thinking coming out here alone?!"
"Thinking..."
"Thinking? That's the best answer you got?"
"As of a matter of fact," Ryuu politely took Twilight's hand off of his shoulder, and stood to his feet, "yeah, that is the best answer I got." Ryuu looked around him, relising only he, Twilight, Psicosis, and a pile of dead rats were around. "Only you two came?"
Psicosis sighed and scratched his head. "We couldn't wake X's lazy a** up, and Hybird went ahead of us..."
Ryuu's head snapping towards Psicosis. "Say what? Why didn't he stay with you guys?!"
Psicosis gave a small shrug before answering. "After I assured him about a hundred friggin' times that we could save your a** without his help, he said he was gonna go ahead of us to take out to handler."
Both Ryuu and Twilight gave Psicosis a dark glare, and at the same time, screamed at him. "YOU WHAT?!"
Psicosis, slightly confused, shrugged his shoulders again. "I told him that since we didn't need his help he could go find this 'Handler' dude. Whoever the hell that is..." Psicosis nodded his head to the side a little. "The hell is wrong with you guys?"
Ryuu growled before punching the tree beside him, causing a few leaves to fall, as well as some bark to fall off. "Psicosis, an Handler is a person capable of manipulating weak willed creatures!"
Psicosis sighed. "And, I'm pretty sure Hybird can handle it himself, can't he?"
Twilight growled, causing Psicosis to flinch. "Not when he's injured!"
"Wait... Hybird's still in bad shape?"
"Yes," yelled both Ryuu and Twilight.
"..." Psicosis lowered his head, thinking. As he thought about the mistake he made, he noticed that all of the rats disappeared. "... Oh... ********..."
