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The Heroes are Dead, Long Live the Heroes (GuardianAngel and Ezralora)

Ezralora

Supernova
Joined
Mar 5, 2018
Location
Somewhere in Limbo at the moment.
Powers are... well a thing. Amazing i know that's what a lot of people thought once they woke up, had accidents or just generally got curious and began to manifest superhuman abilities. It was in a way magical, heroes began to take to the streets beating back crime to an almost stand still... Until ambition began to clutch at the hearts of those with power. Villains began to rise up to combat the heroes, the heroes got organised became defenders of the countries of the world, separate from the governments of the world and policed by each other all united under the want to make sure the world remains in a state of peace.

That was until the Villains of the world clicked and moved under the shadow of the one with the biggest ambition. A man known now as the Ruler. There was a battle that left the world scarred and even now all these years after the event the Earth still heaves from the blows dealt that day. The heroes inevitably fell, and the Ruler divided the world up amongst his followers, those that were most loyal to him form the ruling body of the world now. Those with powers, though known off are still outnumbered by the population but what they lack in numbers they make up for in power. Over the years the Ruler began to make himself into a deity like figure. Working hard that with every year that passes the memories of what was before his time grey dimmer and dimmer.

The world now under the grip of the Ruler seeks out those with abilities to bring into his fold and keep his rule as long as possible. Many rumours have begun to spread of the Ruler's feats, that he doesn't age, that he can't be killed. All of this just further stomping down on the will to rebel and rise up. However, the descendants of those heroes long ago still live. Those with a sense of justice that are just lacking in the experience to combat such a large foe. Those with the memories of how the world use to be, but this begins to ask the question what happens if they take down the Ruler? How will the world change will it be for the better or the worse. Only one way to find out and that's through the actions of these souls.

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Name: Kavardra Hemwick

Age: 23

Occupation: Vagabond, Performer, Professional Liar, Hero.

Gender: Male

Appearance: Kavadra is a man that looks older than he should, he has lines around his eyes from tiredness that generally makes him seem devoid of the youth that should be pumping through him at this age. His skin is white, but stained in parts from constant exposures to dirt, though along his muscled arms are a criss cross of silver like scars that can be found all over his arms and hands. His physique is muscled and athletic rather than buff up. Just enough to make sure he can do what he needs to do, and just too little to avoid having people's eyes drawn to him. His tired eyes are sea green, often reminding people of the oceans when the sun shines on them just right upon the beaches. They go well with his flaming red hair that goes to just above his shoulders. This is probably his most distinguishing trait and makes it harder for him to blend into crowds.

Kavardra tends to dress in a once white, now grey shirt with the sleeves rolled up with a faded waistcoat and a patched trousers and coat often seemingly giving him a bit of a colourful yet jester like appearance at times. His coat has been fitted with numerous pockets but is usually used to house his thick leather bound book, that is also attached to his belt. He is very protective of this book, some rumours coming that it contains the information of the time before the ruler. His trousers tend to be pinstriped with equal amounts of patches put into them through overuse and wear and tear. The only thing that seems dusty but in the prime condition are the boots he wears, which is a miracle considering the amount he travels. In short his clothing tends to be just enough wear to blend in and just enough him, so if people are looking for him they can spot him. He would wear a tie but he claims he hasn't found one that is quite his style yet.

Power: Names

Names is a rather bizarre power, it allows Kavardra to work towards finding out the true names and names of people and objects without having to explicitly ask a person. If he knows the true name of something he can influence it to a varying degree depending upon his practice and relationship of the name. He has to verbally speak the name in order to activate his power, for example if he wished to influence a fire he'd have to speak the true name of fire in order to gain influence of it. Same for a person. If he doesn't know, or is unable to speak he cannot use his power. Also he is only human and has a limited memory span for all the names he knows.

Fun Facts: He has been publicly executed twice, and imprisoned... until he recently broke out and fled to the other side of the continent.

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It had been two years since Kavardra taken his last breath of fresh air before he was sent into the cells where he was held. The cells hadn't agreed with him, where once he had looked more lively and jolly, happy go lucky and ready to save the day. Now he looked tired, drained. The sunlight exposing the work that had been done to him in his time away from civilisation. At first it was strange getting use to it, almost as if he had been missing a step. In the few months he was allowed to be himself he had gradually picked up on the step he missed, having to cover miles upon miles of land. He had always been a trouble maker as was evident by a steady reputation the flame haired young man had began to build around himself. The world around them just seemed wrong and constrained, and he was one of those that wished for change and unlike most was willing to work towards it. Spurring people into action with impossible deeds and lies that he turned to truths... eventually.

He even knew that there was a few times that he had been quote on quote killed only to turn back up a week or so later with a smile on his face and a welcome back with his fellow comrades in the war against the Ruler. That however had changed, the last time they tried to pull a stunt it had turned south quicker than a dog snuffs up food. The deaths were high and the people captured and taken away were less but also a heavy blow. Kavardra was unsure of how many people were still willing to do what he and the crew had managed... No doubt the Ruler and his gang of leaders made an example of them.

Kavardra was one of those gifted with powers. He unlike some had been born with them and that had been his ticket to an easy life if he chose to take it. The best education, the best life one could ask for and then working under the Ruler's regime above the normal people. The sheep being guarded by the wolves... but that life... eventually grew sour. He had found out about heroes and how they opposed evil and somewhere deep in his mind the word evil connected just oh so nicely with the Ruler and so he formed a crew with his childhood friend and like minded people... Until thing well and truly fucked up.

He brushed a nervous hand through his wild flaming red hair, before clearing his throat as he came to an old statue that he was sure had once served as a memorial for someone long ago. The name had been scratched out, but the date was just barely visible. Somewhere in the early twentieth century... Nearly two hundred years ago.

Kvaradra placed his cold hands into the folds of his colourful coat as he swirled around, the many strips that made up the tails of the coat flaring out, briefly exposing the blue fabric on the inside and a variety of symbols woven into it. The park was quiet at this time, most people had rushed back to their homes, the large blocks of apartments getting taller with each decade, and those that stayed out were in the pub. The only people who would be out at this time with business would be the Noble families and their Powered people, sons of noble's, bodyguards. All the people that wouldn't want to be seen under the harsh light of day. Kavardra had grown to like the night, it made him appear more lively and hid what the cells had done to him.

"Where are you all..." he questioned, as he watched his breath rise into the cool night sky, the stars now visible clearly in the sky as over the years light pollution had cut down. It was a breathtaking sight. With a deft movement he plucked a wind up pocket watch from his waist coat and checked the time. 9:56pm. In just four minutes he would see who was left, see who he had to work with. In just four small- Oh would you look at that, three minutes now. Slipping the pocket watch back into his waist coat, he closed his colourful coat with a mixture of buttons and more secure buttons. If there was anything this coat was, it was his; his and very warm.
 
Keely just shook her head for a moment in time before she spoke, "It wouldn't take much to get this place under our control. Mother is getting old, and is looking for somebody new anyways. Somebody to take over what she does. And that is keep the order within the warehouse while people are out doing missions and what not." She would probably offer, considering she mostly stayed there, but she did have her occasional moments where she did leave. With that she was kneeling down on the ground near the bud and was coaxing it once again, giving a faint smile as it did begin to blossom and grow. "Besides... while I wish to help.... I don't know how much help I will be." Keely was commenting after a moment in time. Yeah she didn't think overly highly of herself, when it came to being helpful.
 
Kavardra let out a long sigh and went to take her hands in his as he looked over her, his hard green eyes moving over her for a moment. "Helpful... you have been nothing but helpful." he told her, it wasn't anything that he expected the others to understand but he needed her with him. She was the one thing that had remained constant in his life he needed her more than he thought she knew. "Out of everyone here, you are the one i trust Keely... more than everyone..."
 
Keely just looked up in his direction for a moment in time before she was giving a half smile before she spoke, "I remember when we were younger, how difficult it was to actually separate us." Came in handy when her parents had been fighting one night and his parents were already use to her randomly sneaking in, so they weren't at all surprised to walk up and find her just curled up on their couch, fast asleep.
 
Kavardra smiled a little before nodding his head a little. "Yeah..... some would argue that we were too close for comfort." He mused as he reflected on the memory.

In his younger years, he kept his rather well wild appearance as his true red hair flared out around his head like a flame. He frowned as he walked up to the sofa quietly before crawling up to sit next to her. Looking over his best friend in the whole world. "What's wrong Keely?" he asked her, his younger face not looking so tired and worn out, and full of youthful vigour.
 
Keely just looked towards him for a moment in time before she spoke, "And a lot of those people have no room to talk, they have somebody that they are far to close with as well." She was just shaking her head a bit although there was a smile on her lips as well. She was drifting away from the current plants that she had been working with, to go over to a separate part of the garden, where they grew medical herbs.

No she remembered that night fondly as well, one of the worst fights her parents had gotten into. Her mother had just found out that her father had been cheating on her, and he had been attempting to explain why it had happened. As though what had happened hadn't actually been his fault at all, but he was the one who had made the sober decision to do it. Keely had ended up sneaking out of the house and ran across the street to where Kavardra lived, and was sneaking in through the back door, which she knew was always kept unlocked. She had woken up to her best friend coming up and climbing up onto the couch next to her, before his parents had even gotten up. "Mommy and daddy were fighting again." was all she said as she was just hugging the teddy bear that she had brought with her at the time.
 
Kavardra frowned as his large green eyes gazed upon her as she held the teddy bear before moving in closely to her and hugging his friend tightly, the only way he knew how to comfort her. "Well... you can stay here! We can... we can find something to cheer you up i'm sure." He said with a strong air of confidence before he moved back and smiled before he rushed around, grabbing every single pillow from the sofas and chairs and two large blankets as he placed them around them in a fort like shape before wrapping himself up like a burrito and gave her a grin as a few strands of his fire kissed hair stuck out as he slumped next to her like a caterpillar.

"See if you stay like this you can be warm and... and hold the teddy all at once." He told her with a comforting smile, trying his best to do what he could. "Or... or maybe..." He frowned as he looked around, his parents had told him not to use his powers without their supervision. He cleared his throat and spoke a name, the only one he knew comfortable before stopping. "Or... do you want something to eat?" he asked her, thinking that what had happened could be easily fixed with sweet things and a warm blanket and a hug.
 
Keely just looked towards him for a moment in time as he was giving her a hug, and soon enough he was grabbing all of the pillows that were in the living room, and two large blankets. It wasn't long before a fort was being made and she was just tilting her head slightly. Honestly she had to wonder what else he had been going to say but she pushed it aside for the time being. No it wasn't that important she figured. He was asking if she wanted something to eat which had her speaking, "Food does sound good. But your mom and dad don't like when we try to cook without supervision." Yeah there had been one time when she had come over and they had tried to make some scrambled eggs. They had both watched their parents many times, it had looked easy enough. But it was something that they had failed at. Burned and set off the smoke alarm. That had been a wake up call for his parents at like six in the morning, and it was all because the kids had wanted something to eat.
 
"Well then we just won't cook then." He said as he kept the blanket around him as he slid off the sofa and waddled out of the living room towards the kitchen. Once he came to the freezer he opened it slowly, and looked over his shoulder. As a child would when they were doing something that they shouldn't be doing, thinking that their omnipotent parents would spring around the corner catching them red handed. No such thing happened though as he reached into the freezer and took out a large tub of ice cream, and balanced two of the biggest spoons he could find on it. Then with his tiny frame he heaved the thing up whilst his face was going red as he began to waddle back to the sofa. "Mum always says ice cream can make things better... Though she always makes me thank the Ruler before i eat some." He said as he offered her one of the spoons with a smile, his face still nearly as red as his hair from exertion.
 
Keely was just watching for a moment before she was crawling over to the edge of the sofa, just listening to the noise that was being made. It seemed like he was digging into the freezer, and was soon returning. This had her taking the item from him that he had tapped against her hand. A spoon it seemed, and what he had hauled out seemed to be ice cream. "I wonder what Ruler is like. Is it a boy or a girl? Are they truly powerful?" the young child spoke. The time before Ruler had turned more power hungry, although not by long. Shockingly enough, the Ruler they knew at their current age, hadn't always been the same one that they had heard about as children.

She was clicking her tongue for a moment in time before she was helping him bring the tub of ice cream up onto the couch. Already at young ages they had developed abilities, which was a bit unusual considering powers didn't usually show themselves until a bit later in life. But nobody was going to complain about it. So far it had been very helpful for Keely, her ability to manipulate air kicking in young. It made her feel a little less useless with her blindness, and slowly she had been learning to do other things with it as well.

This had been the day when a lot had changed for Keely as well. Later in the day she had finally gone home, with her best friend in tow, only to discover that her parents weren't even there. The house was trashed, and her parents were just gone. Even to the current day, she hadn't been able to track them down at all. Even with her abilities, it was as though they were dead. For the longest time she hadn't believed that fact, and continued to try to seek them out, but now... that feeling that they were alive was fading away. She was beginning to feel like at some point after they had gone missing they had perished.

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"Hey, Keely! We have a slight situation!" a voice broke Keely out of her reminiscing of the past and she was standing up fully, just looking off into the distance for a moment in time. Oh she could feel it now. Seemed like that Mutant that they had skirted past on their way to the warehouse was circling back around. And some of those that lived within the warehouse were still out in that general area. If they were even spotted by that damn thing, who knew if they were going to actually be able to get away. The smaller ones were easy enough to deal with, the real thing on the other hand.... that was a different story. "Who went out and what were they doing?" she inquired, not even looking in the direction of the person, nope she was still watching off into the distance.

"A couple of the scavengers. I believe Landrim was with them though as well." the person spoke and she was pushing some of her hair out of her face before she was turning around. After that she was looking towards Kavardra before she inquired, "Want to come with me and be a hero?" No there were some of them that were out that had no abilities at all, but that didn't mean that they were safe from the mutants. Those creatures didn't seem to register if a person was helpless or not, as though they didn't care. You didn't bow to their master, they would take you out of existence no hesitation.
 
Kavardra scratched the back of his red hair as he heard her mention that there was a mutant lingering around. He chewed the inside of his cheeks as he felt the scars along his forearms begin to burn lightly as he shook his head, pushing that thought far back down into his subconscious. He didn't want to deal with that right now especially when it seemed like there were people in danger. He steadily brought himself to his feet before he raised his hands above his head and checked his pockets for a moment before glancing at her. "I mean it is why we are here is it not?" He asked her with a small smile before he moved his body in the form of an exaggerated bow so she could at least sense it as he grabbed his coat and pulled it on. The many strips of fabric flowing in the wind as he stepped to the edge of the roof and just quite simply lean back.

There was the sound of his boot going out from under him and he began to plummet to the ground, he muttered a word under his breath, a name and the wind began to buffet him to the ground. He by no means had as much refined control over the elements of his friend. She was on a completely different level in this, but his power certainly allowed him to influence to stop his brain from being dashed along the pavement. It was something that he had been aware of from a young age, everything had a name just waiting to be learnt. Once he knew it, he could manipulate it and work on his relationship with it.

His feet lightly tapped onto the ground as he looked up at the roof before peering out into the forest and took in a deep breath. Somewhere out there, there was a mutant lumbering through the woods getting close. He straightened his coat, adjusted the flower he had been given and made his way into the forest. His fingers clutching a handful of coins as he held the name of metal on the tip of his tongue. Metal was probably one of his best resources, sure he could have used it to slow him down, but he was a showman and wanted to show off in front of Keely, showing he had progressed as well and that she hadn't left him in the dust. Yet he knew if she would just have confidence in herself she would surpass who knows how many... Until then he'd be here to help her. With a flick of his wrist he flipped a coin into the air with a ting, and caught it as he walked.
 
Keely was just giving a faint smile before she was speaking, "Somebody has to be the hero." With that she was gesturing to the person that was at the door before she spoke, "Let Mother know that we'll be back soon with everybody." After that she was following after Kavardra, taking to just leaping off of the building as well. For whatever reason.... the free falling was fun to her, especially considering she knew that she wouldn't hit the ground hard. Not ever. No after years, she had developed a strong bond with the air, as though it were a person. Never once had it failed her, even if she wasn't even able to use her abilities, it seemed to act on its own. Not that she could ever say that about the other three elements. Perhaps one day she would be able to master them, but who knew how long that would take. Right now she needed some kind of medium to even be able to use them.

She was gently floating down to the ground and taking to prancing over next to her companion before she spoke, "Well lets get going then." How strange it was that the Ruler openly knew that there were people hiding away within the warehouse, but never did they send anybody to attack it, to flush them out. Afraid perhaps? Or maybe just waiting. A scary thought to be honest, but what could they do about it other than stay strong and be prepared for anything.
 
Kavardra took in a deep breath as he continued to walk, a small skip in his step as he walked. A step and a flick of the coin before he grinned at her and nudged her shoulder a little. "Reminds me of the days when we were young foolish, and thinking we were the strongest in the world. Well.. a few of us." He said to her, trying to get the emotion on his face through his voice. Something he grew use to doing as they grew up, thinking it a shame for her to never experience a smile, grimace, or smirk. So he worked hard to try and express it vocally for when she couldn't run her hands on his face.

He came to a stop as he heard a clatter of something in the distance. The Mutant had grabbed one of the scavengers and flung them into the eye with impossible strength. The Mutant stood strong with the tattoos around their eyes before they narrowed their eyes at Landrim who coughed up a bit of blood, having taken a punch to his rib which shattered like a fucking twig under the pressure. The Mutant was holding a glass axe in its hand as it twirled it around before sniffing the air as it looked directly towards Kavardra and Keely, grinding its teeth a little before it straighted up, the robe around it flowing slightly.
 
Keely was giving a small giggle before she spoke, "When we would play superhero at the park. We were unstoppable, invincible, and perhaps a bit overpowered." They had pretty much any power imaginable, and had perfect control over those powers. But now... those games were done, they were just games. And the fact of the reality was... that they weren't anywhere close to what they had pretended to be. They were unstoppable, or invincible, they were just human beings with strange abilities, that half the time they didn't understand. She continued along through the wooded area although it wasn't long before they heard a noise in the distance. Well there was a scream from somebody which had Keely actually reacting. The one who had been flung up into the air... well now they were just floating in the air, instead of dropping back down to the ground. Landrim was on the ground, that much she could feel, and the Mutant, well it was a lot closer than she had anticipated, but she didn't allow a hint of fear to form on her features, even if she was terrified.

"I have to wonder.... what caused them to be like this." Keely was commenting in a soft voice as she was feeling the vibrations of the fleeing scavengers. Right now there wasn't a whole lot that she could do for Landrim other than smile in his general direction before she was cooing, "I hope you still trust me." You would almost think that she was telekinetic or something when he was just floating up into the air. But yet again, the air knew what she wanted. Her desires, her emotions, it seemed to know it all. And there was almost a pang of pain that she felt for the mutants most of the time. She had to wonder what they were like before they became what they were now. Were they actual humans at one point in time? Or had they always been how they were?
 
The mutant let out a grumble before a cold mist began to spread over the area around them as the ground turned into a frost as they began to use one of no doubt many powers they had lying inside that body of them. It began to walk towards the pair of them and studied them closely before their head lurched back with a snap.

There had been a ping as Kavardra had flicked his finger and hurtled the coin like a bullet towards the mutant, the coin slicing into its eyes before he watched in mild surprise as it leaned its head forward. With two fingers it plucked the coin from its eyes and the eyeball began to heal before it tossed the coin away. "Urm, Keely i'd advise that we try and figure out a better plan of action right now otherwise we might have a slight problem with something!" He yelled before the Mutant swung the axe into the air and held it there. Not moving like a statue.

Kavardra glanced up, then at Keely. "Urm... what?" He almost laughed as he looked at the thing, last he checked those things would have killed them by now. His body cleaved cleanly in half from that thing. "You are getting this as well right?"
 
Keely was just letting out a small breath of air before she was giving a small shiver. Oh she could feel the cold as the mutant seemed to tap into one of its many powers, but she didn't move necessarily from where she was. Nope not until it moved towards them, then she was dancing backwards a couple of steps. She did listen to what Kavardra was saying already moving over to one of the closest trees, and away from that creature. Currently she was asking the tree for assistance, and it was responding, vines coming out and wrapping around the axe when it was raised up. Well that was just around the same time that it stopped moving. The vines wouldn't have done much to begin with, but it was definitely something to say the least.

She was however looking in that general direction when she felt that it had stopped moving, which had a curious look forming on her features. What the hell was even going on? That thing... it had actually stopped moving. But for the time being, she wasn't going to focus on that, not with Landrim hurt. She was actually gliding around the creature and going over to where the male was at, kneeling next to him on the ground, not that he was back on the ground. "How the hell did that thing manage to get the upper hand on you? You always seem to know where they are." she was speaking in a soft voice as she was kneeling next to him, for some reason not overly worried about the Mutant. The fact that it had just frozen in place was strange but she wasn't going to argue it at all.
 
Kavardra refused to break eye contact with the creature as he stared at it, feeling as if he moved there would be something completely and utterly wrong with it and it would start attacking now. "Am i going to be stuck in this perpetual staring contest for the rest of my life?" He asked her as he looked over the thing, as the vine coiled around it's axe. The ice was still forming around it as it stared down at Kavardra and then turned to Keely as she made her way to Landrim. "Leave him." It warned, it's voice cold and haunting as it let go of the axe and began to walk towards her.

Landrim glanced at her, "I do, but it got the jump on us, it wasn't suppose to come by this area for another thirty minutes yet here it is..." He coughed as blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth. He tried to breath calmly, but it sounded gargled. "I think something is definitely getting into my lung..." He croaked.
 
Keely was just giving a small frown before she was taking a water bottle out of her bag and helping him actually sitting up with him slowly. "I can hear that." She was speaking lowly although she was listening to what was going on around her, in particular Kavardra wondering if he had to have a staring contest with the thing for the rest of his life or not. Although what shocked her the most was to hear the mutant actually talk as she was actually working to get Landrim to drink just a little of the water. No she could help after that point in time, already she was using the water to work on healing him. Oh seemed like the creature was moving towards them and she just glanced up before she spoke, "No. I will not leave my comrade behind." Already she felt the air caressing against herself and Landrim would be able to feel it as well. She was shifting so that she was sitting on her knees, his head on her lap as she sat against the tree. No there was something different about the Mutant at that point in time, something that actually had her less afraid of it. The fact that it actually abandoned its axe, is what definitely got them. That wasn't normal. The vines were wrapping around the mutants legs as though to stop it from moving forward. No she wasn't going to just leave Landrim there, not if she had an idea that she could save him. "I refuse to lose any more friends to the violence that Ruler and their people create." Keely spoke in a low voice, an actual determined voice for the first time in a while.
 
The Mutant stood there for a short while before the ice around it began to increase as the vines that were grabbing onto it began to freeze, and grow brittler before it shrugged off the vines with a sharp snap. It began to head towards the two of them, the wind causing its cloak to start whipping around violently as it clenched its fist. For some reason it couldn't bring itself to kill them, but if they continued to obscure its work it would have no choice but to harm them. It brought its fist back before it snapped its hand forward attempting to grab Landrim away from her. Its muscled hand snaking forward like a claw as it attempted to hook around his shirt and pull him out of Keely's grip.

Kavardra saw the Mutant moving and gulped before he fumbled for another coin, there was another ping, and another as coin after coin shot forward towards the mutant. Before he saw they were having little to no effect as he glanced around to find something else. He saw the frozen vines and grumbled as he began to mumble name after name and the shards slowly began to form into a bigger one.
 
"Dont. Touch. Him." Keely spoke in a rather sharp voice as she was drawing their downed friend closer, somehow not phased by the creature at that period in time. Somehow. There was hesitstion, but she couldn't understand why. Where had it even come from. Never did it hesitate before. And at that point she couldn't really move much considering she had to be touching Landrum to work her magic. But the healing was at least getting some where. She couldn't fix the broken ribs, but she could take care of the lungs. Getting the blood out, fixing that. That much she could do with the water, that much she knew she could do. At least she was hoping that she could do that much, yet she was doubting herself a bit. Not much of a shock as it was anyways. Lately there had been that lack of confidence in herself and her abilities.

She could hear her other companion mumbling names but she wasn't sure exactly what he was mumbling. What he was trying to do. Hell she wasn't even sure what she was trying to do herself. Standing up against a mutant. There was a small head shake though after a moment though. First thing was she needed to have confidence in her abilities, and in herself. With that thought in mind she was letting out a small breath and the pair just seemed to vanish, melding with the air.
 
The mutant vanished in a puff. Leaving himself and the position where he had been standing remaining empty. Kavardra stared over at it, confused, very confused. He frowned as he looked around before there was a low rumble in the clouds, lightning cracking over in the gather clouds, lighting a few of the areas around them. There was a moment, and then there was a blinding flash and crash as a bolt of lightning forked out of the sky and struck the ground between them all with a crack and explosion and an oh so blinding sound, and deafening white.
 
"We need to get the hell out of here." Keely spoke from where she was all of a sudden standing next to Kavardra, supporting Landrim at that point in time. Well his lungs were almost fixed at that point in time, and he could get his ribs healed by one of the actual healers when they got back to the warehouse. Honestly she wished there was more that she could do, but there wasn't. The air she was wrapping around the three of them in more of a protective manner at the rumble in the air, and found that she was actually trembling slightly. But she did have to wonder.... why did it hesitate when it came to herself and Kavardra. But it would potentially kill Landrim and the others without a second thought.
 
Kavardra shook his head slightly before he agreed with her. "Yes i agree with a strategical retreat." He told her as he began to head back, aiding how he could with carrying the wounded, or those that were still alive to get back before anything happened. He frowned slightly before he chewed the inside of his cheek. "It might be an idea for some of us to scatter now, the thing knows that there are some people here, and well i'm not exactly a face that you see everywhere." He pointed out, it might be best if he and a few others moved to a different safe house somewhere else, in case the Ruler sent other forces to deal with them.
 
Keely was just mumbling "No. We will be safe. They haven't managed to break in yet, shockingly enough. But if you do move to another safe house, we will have to do it in secret. Or people will begin to fret if they discover what is going on." With that she continued to head back to the warehouse, still actively working wateragic on Landrim. No she was actually trying to attempt to fix the ribs. Testing how far she could take using water to heal. Wouldn't know until she explored. Possible it seemed but a major magic strain on herself. Worth it? Perhaps. She was faintly talking to herself under her breath, and listening to a few of the other scavengers that were walking with them, they were all frightened. She couldn't blame them. She felt the fear as well.... Those creatures... They were on a whole other league.

"Hey Kav.... Do you remember a few weeks after we learned my parents were gone. I was in a sullen and lost mood, unsure what to do with myself. I was lost, and felt out of place. One day you had come bolting in wearing a cape and announcing yourself as a hero, who needed a sidekick." Keely was speaking, seemingly out of the blue. She did remember that day. Probably the first time in a few weeks that she had actually decided to play again. But the villain had been powerful, which meant that they had needed to get stronger. "We need to do what we did then. And get stronger. Push our limits and surpass them."
 
Landrim had been steadily getting healed over the time of this engagement. He had been doing his best to not complain when he felt his muscles and flesh begin to heal itself and stitch itself back together, he had been quiet when the mutant was about to try and take their heads. But when he felt the bone of his rib begin to twitch he frowned before crying out in loud agony as there was a snap and it moved back into place as if a magnet had tugged it. "What the fuck Keely!" He yelled out, more in pain than anger or a question. His face had gone a pale white from the shock as his breathing and sweat began to form on him from the exertion that was being placed on his body before he tapped Keely. "That's enough, that's enough! Anymore and i think you might drain everything i have in terms of energy."

Kavardra ran a hand over his face and let out a slow chuckle as she talked about that before he slipped a hand into his pocket. "I remember..." He told her before he brushed a hand through his true red hair. "How do you intend for us to get stronger, there's not really anything out there that would give us a major boost. I mean we're not monks, we can't just climb up a mountain and meditate it out." He said as he moved his hand through the air. "And it's not like i can learn names any faster."
 
Keely was actually cringing ever so slightly at the sudden yell from Landrim, having not really expected that at all. "Sorry, love." she spoke in a soft voice after a moment in time. Okay no more healing. No she couldn't do much more herself anyways, probably pushed it slightly past her energy point anyways, she could feel the drain although didn't allow it to be shown on her features. No his lungs were fine, that was the major thing, and for the most part his ribs were slightly more aligned it seemed like. They would heal a lot better than what they would have before. Although she felt a bit bad for seeming to just make the pain worse which had her mumbling softly that she hadn't meant to hurt him. Her attention was turning towards Kavardra when he was asking what she intended for them to get stronger, and was just making a comment that they were monks, and it wasn't as though he could learn names any faster.

She just shifted how she was assisting Landrim, but she just shook her head slowly before she spoke in a soft voice, "I..... I don't know....." She really had changed quite a bit since the crew had broken up, and her closest friends had disappeared. Once upon a time she spoke her thoughts and her mind, now she was more hesitant, even around those that she trusted. Which was strange because usually when it came to the two guys, and a select few others from the old crew, who they had no idea if they were dead or alive, it was almost impossible to get her to stop talking. It wasn't long before a couple of others were coming from the warehouse, sent by Mother, to assist them. "I would have Talia look at him. I did what I could but my healing abilities are mediocre at best compared to hers." Keely spoke as a few others were coming over and she was allowing them to take over helping Landrim, and she was just taking a step away, wrapping her arms around herself slightly.

No she had definitely pushed it too far. Perhaps it wasn't exactly Kavardra that she was stating needed to get stronger, but herself. His ability, was unique to say the least. And as long as she could remember, he always seemed to know the word for everything. When they had been kids, it had usually been him rescuing her. Mostly because she couldn't control her abilities, hell half the time she had issues with it. Even now.
 
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