Aura's Story

Ara stopped once again to look around. "We are being watched." She says. She presses a button on her bow and holds a little grip it folds out in almost an instant. She aims it and fires a arrow of light it hits something that resembles a prairie dog. Its called a Cardos in this area. Ara walked over to pick it up. "This could be dinner for later." She says with a smile as her bow folds back up.

Ara looks around. The desert on one end there was a slight peek of a ruined city. "We will make it there in a few hours." She looked up at the sky it was the afternoon alright. She just hopes they can make it there before night fall. This wasn't a safe place at night. Ara frowns She knew they would cut it close. "Come on we need to move now no more brakes"

[From deathdisciple with love]

"No duh" Brandon said jokingly. "we stay out here, we die, and the raiders get a weapon of mass destruction, which is that rifle." Brandon looked around, gripping his M1 grand tightly. While moving at a brief pace, along Ara. then he felt strange....like there were prying eyes everywhere. not good....."Ever get the feeling were being watched?" He was now half way aiming the rifle, and he bolted it back in preparedness.

Ara pointed around to some rocks with a little black dot on them. some looked natural others well not so much. all the black dots were pointed in different directions. "They are Little area's for bandits to attack us from. These bandits have mutated and cant see during the day. So they use those to scout and see if anyone is near." it was starting to get dark. If they were to get to the city it would have to be soon and it will be a close call. Ara starts to walk again a bit faster then her usual stroll "We need to go the ruins close at night!"

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They were almost at the city. But the sun was still falling. It was getting too close they were only 40 feet away. The sky just turned dark. It was too late. They had just reached the city doors. "FUCK!" Ara screamed. "Old war tech really knows how to fuck with you. This was designed so that all business could happen in the day. If any crime was committed at night, well getting away would not be easy." She pulled out her new rifle and turned around. It was already happening Hundreds of raiders came out of the ground. All with evil glowing red eyes. Breed for the darkness. They came out of the ground. Ara aimed her sniper and took a shot "DAMNIT! its not sighted in." The raiders were moving in. One said "Oh what a pretty little hide on that cat. I call dibs." they all had a weapon of sorts. Some ranged others were rusted blades. All were ready. "Fuck fuck fuck. There is no way in hell we are getting in now. But hell if im going to die without taking some out with me." She put away her rifle and pulled out the bow. She shot normal arrows. most were hitting. But there was not enough arrows to kill or even wound them all. Same with the ammo.

It was almost as if more came up every time one died a lot more rangers came out and unleashed hell. They started firing frantically. as soon as the first bullet got close There was a blur Then a shield. It was a steam mech In one hand it held a lmg the other was a shield. It fired at them all. When it spoke it had a mechanical voice. "Watch out!" as soon as it said this it swung the shielded arm and made a hole in the gate. It dropped the gun and picked up Brandon and Ara Stepping into the hole sat them down and put the shield in the hole. It held out a finger and welded the shield where it had made the hole. There was still a hole in the gate though. The thing then seemed to shut down. The back opened up. A female human with crimson red hair stepped out. "Oh fucking great. Another mech lost. This time thanks to a fucking feline." Ara looked at her "Well I didn't ask for help."
The human frowned "Forgive me for saving your ass."
Ara then smiled "You're a fucking idiot we had it clear as day."

It was at this moment hey hugged. Ara had missed Tanya It was a long time since they had seen each other. Ara turned to Brandon with an arm around Tanya "This is Tanya She is one of my greatest friends." Then she looked at Tanya "This is Brandon I found him in the town and I thought it would be a great idea to bring him. so what happened to your +1" Tanya shrugged "She died on the way. She had a bounty on her which meant there would be people tracking her. I had to kill her she already knew to much." Tanya then looked to brandon. "We need to go. We are late."

"Your right Tanya we need to....-***" Ara was interrupted by a cat who forgot to land on her feet. Ara was flung forward, she drew out her full auto pistol. Tanya landed on her face. Ara looked at the new comer. "Give me one good reason not to fill you with led!"

Brandon was reliefed......in two ways, One, theres another human, Two, there asses got saved by a fucking mech. You don't see to many of those anymore. Then Ara dragged him to meet this new friend of hers. "Ara, arnt we forgetting that That she---" A white Jamia Crashed between the two Friends.......Not good Brandon thought. He pulled out his M1911 and aimed it at the intruder. She claimed to have save There lives. "Save us from what u crazy cat?" Brandon exclaimed. This was slightly frustrated at the idea of more trouble. He didn't want to waste another bullet.

"You saved us by not killing us?!?!?!" She yelled. "Are you fucking stupid! So if I had you in my sniper scope and was about to pull the trigger but didn't that means i saved your life?" Ara laughed then stood up gun still aimed. "I SAID ONE GOOD REASON AND YOU GAVE ME A CRAPPY ONE! ONE LAST FUCKING CHANCE OR YOUR DEAD! GIVE ME A GOOD REASON!!" Ara yelling was making her own voice hurt but she needed to get the point across. It wasn't good that they were being followed. Tanya stood up and looked at Ara then to Aura "Ara you're getting sloppy."

Brandon looked at the Intruder. This was Stupid. He had his pistol aimed on her head, keeping both hands on it, gripping it tightly. He was a little taken aback by Ara's outburst, and Tanya seamed to be critizing her like it was normal to do this. He looked torwd Tanya. "Is this normal, or do you two know her?" He asked, easeing his finger on the trigger. "and were In The hell did you get a Titan?" He looked at the destroyed mech, but only a for a second. Although it was kinda stupid whispering questions while in a stand off, but he couldn't imagine seeing anything like that actually working, well, except in cities. Then Brandon hard a voice comeing from the top of the wall.

"Hey! Ether kill the fucking cat or don't, but please keep your voice down......." the voice yelled.

Brandon looked in the direction of the voice.

"I haven't had a single raider problem here ever and I don't intend to now." It continued.

Fuck. Brandon thought. It looked Like a immortal.....although without glowing eyes.....Brandon looked torwds Ara. She got the first intruder covered. And they didn't need a sniper on the lose. He pointed the gun torwds the immortal.....or at least, a immortal look alike. "Who the Hell are you?!" Brandon shouted to him so he can hear.

Ara smiles "I don't give a fuck about where you came from. Me killing you would preserve something special to my heart and to my friends. So if I shot you now I would not give a shit. Your people could try to hunt me down but i know these parts like the back of my hand and would trap them. Yet again bad reason. But more then likely if i shot you dead here then you would fall back and release the string. That means when it is let go it would probably hit me in the head. And i have come to far to die. I guess that means I would have to pull something fast but i'm too tired." Ara put away her gun but kept her hand on her own folded bow. She knew this one could be problem.

Brandon looked at Ara in the corner of his eye. Damn it. Brandon aimed the pistol back at the intruding Jamia. "You think this is a fucking game? And lucky for me im a human, and i don't care about your group, and like she said, she doesn't ether. Just scram, and we will not put a bullet to ur head. And ur stupid, because, there's 3 of us, one of u, so, weapons down, and In exchange, we let you live from threating us" Brandon said boldly. He was tired of fighting but he stood up straight, and his gasmask was prepped, looking as fierce as he can." then he shouted to the immortal up on the wall, " You try to snipe, u die"

"Taking orders from dogs? What the fu.... nevermind." Ara looks to the other new guy then back to the shadows. "Bitch thought she could scare me. Fucking idiot." Ara looked back to the other guy. "So who are you and why are you here?"

It's too late to be putting up with this shit right now.

Waylon Champion eyed the gun the male human pointed in his direction. "Who the hell are you?!" he called out. A natural inquiry for a person he never met before.

It was then that the intruding Jamia moved, taking out her bow, aiming it at the other of her kind, and talked about the crimes that would be brought against her if she were to be killed. Crimson realized that if she was telling the truth, then that made the arrow she had pointed at her fellow kind was about as lethal as a pillow. She wouldn't dare break her own code if the other didn't comply. Luckily, Waylon never had to find out as the Jamia retreated with an idol threat and some venom-filled advice. Fair enough, Waylon thought.

The attention was brought back on him however when the female Jamia spoke towards him. "So who are you and why are you here?" Despite his height advantage over the group, he didn't have his bow on him, meaning that they had the offensive. He still was behind cover, meaning that they wouldn't be able to hit him if they decided to attack.

"I think that question should go the other way around," he retorted. "I live here, so who are you guys and why are all of you here?" He wanted to show assertiveness while letting them know that they were intruding on his property.

Ara reached for her weapon and started to put her auto pistol down along with her bow she went to put the rifle down when something hit her "Wait you said you live here but for how long?" Tanya looked over to her mech and with a pouty face she said "My weapon is already down." Ara looked around She remembered this place but he was new to her.

Ara looked to Brandon "Don't start acting like the leader. I recruited you remember." Ara shifted her sniper "I need to bring this I think its broken. If it did turn out you want to kill us this would be the worst weapon to fight up close with. Ara pointed to the barrel I think its bent." Tanya looked at the titan "There is no fixing it. We will have to leave it I can build another." She looked to Ara "If we stay we have to leave at sunrise."

Ara walked around her rifle on her back. Tanya followed shortly behind. She stopped next to the guy "So how long did you say you lived here for?"

Brandon fallowed in, a little mad about being showed up like that, but it passed. like all other emotions. Once they found this "Waylon" They could be closer to finding the oasis, not that it even existed. But sytill, he always wonderd wat a live tree looked like, and wat pure water tasted like without all the chemical to make it drinkable......but a place of blue sky and plants is nothing but a fairy tale. Then he saw Waylon. this time up close. He held his hand out, a sign of human greeting, the hand shake. "nice to meet u close up, Waylon"

Ara thought for a moment. "I was wondering because we have been thru here a lot. Once a year every year for the past 2 years. This will be my third time." Ara looked around the house. "So im gonna guess you haven't seen the entire city yet" She held her breath This answer would determine if he could be trusted.

Tanya just walked in She looked to Brandon. "You asked about my titan. I made it of course. That's my fifth one"

"Nice Set up you got here. But tell me, wat you get for food here?" Brandon asked, Praying that this man wasn't a cannibal. He dealt With that a long time ago.....wasn't pretty. Then Brandon resigerd that Tanya said something "You asked about my titan. I made it of course. That's my fifth one." She said. "U built them?! How the hell u manage to do that? and wats it made of? Scrap?" Brandon asked. He mostly forgot about Waylon for the moment, but then he heard Ara "If you can spare the time to walk tomorrow I can show you something that will make the water here seem un drinkable And not to mention Tanya needs a plus one." No. She cant be, I mean, does she give the secrect out to everyone? Brandon thought. "Ara! I need u!" Brandon yelled