Snippet #1852673

Terra was running across rooftops at such a speed that she would trip with the wrong step, and the rain wasn't helping with that at all. Fucking hell. I'm late! Was the only thought in her head. She had been out hitting the clubs with friends, need to relax after a hard dull day. Even practicing parkour and continuing honing her powers seemed a bit dull for some reason. So when her friends called her up to see if she wanted to hit up some over under 21 clubs, she happily agreed, figuring she could use a break from the normal. Now she was late getting home and the only short cut was through Xibalba, the Place of Fear. She did not like this and decided to move through the area as quickly, quietly, and unconventionally as possible to avoid drawing unwanted attention to herself.

Terra jumped onto a lower roofed building, sprinted across it quickly, and scaled down the fire escape to the ground below, techno music from her headphones filling her mind. She ran through dark back alleys silently except for the occasional plash of a puddle. Rounding a corner, she ran past a group of thugs a ways down a street. One of them shouted and they gave chase after her. She ran down another alley and was faced with a wall junk piled in front of her. There was a relatively small in the wall of abandoned and useless items that was just big enough for her to fit through. Hurtling though the hole and continuing onward to round a corner, she could hear the thugs climbing over the heap of unwanted junk as fast as they could. Spotting another fire escape, she quickly dashed to it and scrambled up to the roof. Terra started to head for her house in Highrise again, deciding it was much safer to stick to the rooftops as much as possible.

While running along the top of a two story build Terra looked and saw a group of people in the alley below. She didn't pay much attention to them though, not wanting to be any later than she was. She looked forward again to find the next place to head to and a gunshot sounded over her music, startling her and causing to slip in a puddle. "Shit!" She yelled in surprise as she tumbled forward, hit the roof hard and rolled off the side of building. She caught edge of the roof and tried to pull herself up, but her fingers slid off the wet edge and she fell with a small yelp. The next thing she knew, the gravel ground of the alley rose up in a small pillar to meet her half way. She hit the gravel pillar with a grunt and bounced off, hitting the ground hard and landing on her back, the pillar of small rocks and pebbles now gone. "Ow. That stung a bit," she said as she lifted her head and looked at the four other people in the alley, one of which was a corpse. "Oh crap...."