The sound of gunfire broke Hellion free of his internal reverie. The reverberating vibrations rang out loud, even louder than the anguished screams of dying men, women, and children. Those same sounds were a forewarning, a deep, inner jolt which told Hellion he was in danger. So, even as he heard the sound, he pushed his power through the translucent energy which flowed around him, and it soon became opaque. It also solidified from the inside out, the part closest to The Master of the Mist becoming nearly impenetrable, while the rest of it began to become much the same.
The bullets struck the Mist before it was completely transformed, however, and the bullets broke through the living entity with which Hellion fought - and which could not be killed by these simple means. The power within built up to an amazing degree, and the bullets traveled only a few feet into the metaphysical Mist which outlined Hellion’s body and the surrounding area. There they were stopped, the lead of the tips corroding and eroding by the ever-shifting power of the Mist. Soon the bullet was no more, ripped to pieces and made a thousand years older by the transcendental power of the fog-like structure.
Hellion, of course, did not look up from his main task. If a man would shoot once, he would fire again. He was sure the other had already moved, anyway. Still, best to be prepared, as his father had always said.
<‘Prepare to spread out to maximum distance. Exert only your psychometric powers, find the interloper.’> He told the Mist mentally, sending the information via mind-to-metaphysical-mind communication. The response was a swift agreement, and soon The Mist was spreading all the further across the city. Soon, it would cover the entire thing. Then, of course, Hellion would know the location of his opponent. Then, of course, the fun would begin.