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Psiwri	Oct 12 2008, 01:41 AM
Too Many Words Posts: 11,133 Group: Veteran Member #77 Joined: June 9, 2005	Chapter 3: There and Gone Part 3: Feral Northeastern Seral. Noon of September 14th, 848 Nathan had heard enough to know what had to be done. That Jappie had to either be shown it's prey was too tough to handle, or be killed. Either way was perfectly acceptable to him, he just wanted to make sure the only person to face the danger, the only person to live the moment, was him. The two mammals took a stare at each other, the beast's simple mind confused by that creature carrying the sent of its food, Nathan quickly assessing what he should expect. Their battlefield was the garden surrounded by sparse trees, and a wide, voluminous river flowing to his far right. It had the semblance of predator cat, but with some spidery traits. It's relatively small main body was supported on wiry legs and it sported a strong jaw of carnivorous teeth designed to make certain whatever it chose to eat would be effectively smashed to digestible pieces. Agility and whip like movements, Nathan concluded, were how this beast operated. He'd have to out last it before he could do any real damage. His mind reached out to the ether in his surroundings, marking them to his memory for use when the time came. He did not feel any such actions by the Jappie leading him to believe it did not actually use Ether, leaving it all to his own use. As the staple of his specialty, Nathan pulled in the Ether to his body, creating a protective and enhancing shell of the material on his skin. His body felt better than it had in a long time since finally having proper rest and food for the few weeks had been living where he was, there was no way some non-ether using mangy beast could best him. It did bite at the back of his mind, however, why would a hunter of ether using animals have no counter means to its use? Nathan lacked the time to think about it further, as the Jappie had made it's move. Letting out a screech of it's name sake, "Jap, jap!", it sprinted in for a decisive blow, a fore leg raised and poison to whack Nathan with sudden blunt force. Concentrating his mental shell on his right fore-arm, Nathan used that as a shield to take the force of the blow, and while it reduced the strike to nothing more than a tomorrow bruise, he was still knocked sideways off his feet and landed on his side. Curse this light weight body, I might be able to handle the direct damage but I get thrown around like a rag doll! On his back and far from safe, Nathan threw both reinforced arms up to protect his more damageable face. The Jappie was on him in an instance, it's jaw clenching down on the right arm once again. The beast tore Nathan from the ground with the move it's strong neck and shook him back and forth a few times before the Etherlite finally managed to get his other hand on the Jappie's face. Digging his fingers around one of the beast's eyes he forcibly removed it from it's rightful spot and threw it to the ground. Instantaneously the jaw that was so steadfastly clamped upon his arm loosened and let go, dropping Nathan half a foot the ground as it staggered in pain. Nathan looked at his bitten arm with surprise, it was bleeding pretty badly as clear punctures from the teeth were in his skin. That wasn't right, he had protected that part especially well! Using the bought time with the removed visionary organ, he tried to think of what went wrong. The answer came to him, he felt it. The creature's saliva, which was still dripping down his arm, was neutralizing his control on any Ether it came into contact with, forcing it off his skin and back into the air. Figures. He wiped the bloody, slimy arm on his shirt to remove all the saliva he could. Then he covered the arm once more in his much needed protective shelling. Attention returned to the recovering Jappie, he scrambled back to his feet, far more wary of the beast's dangerous maw than before. The beast has recovered from its pain and showed no signs of backing off despite the injury it incurred. Nathan chose to make the first move this time, taking off in a sprint off to one side. Sure enough the Jappie went after him, catching up with superior speed as it readied a strike with a foreleg. It swung as Nathan rigidly pulled his body to the ground, using the Ether more than his own muscles to do it in an abnormally swift speed. His adversary's attack flew over him and the monster tripped over the prone body, stumbling to the ground. This wasn't getting anywhere fast, with the added danger provided by the animal's spit Nathan's options were severely limited, he needed some way to get an advantage, or remove one of its. Still flat on the ground, he noted straight ahead of him the large river not more than perhaps twenty yards away from him. Water, the saliva wouldn't work too well if it was deluded in there would it? Then again, neither would his own ability to use either be very good. The answer to that was simple, have one party in while the other party was not. It was a worthy gamble at least. Nathan sprang up onto his feet again and ran towards the river, the Jappie was hot on his trail in seconds and struck him in the back, knocking him forward and back on the ground yet again. Instinctively rolling to one side, he dodged a snap by the creature's jaws and sprang up to run once again, only to be knocked down once more only a few yards further. Damn beast isn't making this work very well, maybe I'll just have to drag it with me! The Etherlite rolled from being on his stomach to on his back as the patterned jaw strike came. Rolling on his side as it fell he narrowly evaded the attack and wrapped both of his arms around its head, locking away the jaw from being any more of a problem. Not to mention making it really hard to see what it was doing. With another burst of Reinforcement concentration he planted his heels into the soft ground and began pulling himself and the Jappie towards the rivers. Naturally the beast resisted as best it could but it wasn't quite enough to stop Nathan's slow and determined progress. Inch by inch, step by step, he put all he had into dragging the Jappie towards the river bank, readjusting his grip as needed to keep it from freeing its head. The effort was exhausting, and if the ploy didn't work he could well be in a world of trouble. The two monsters struggled all the way to the bank, Nathan's death grip not letting up at all. Nathan's back to the bank there was only one thing he needed to do. The Etherlite gathered all his power and lifted the Jappie's body as he stood straight just long enough to then pull back and bring the two crashing, Nathan fell back as his arms and the Jappie's head splashed into the river. Their bodies slammed into the river bank a moment later. Nathan coughed for air from the impact forcing air from his lungs, as the Jappie's legs frantically scrambled to get free of the water that was drowning it. Now it was a struggle of endurance. Would the REM outlast breath, would Nathan's strength outlast the Jappie's legs? The beast's legs occasionally landed on Nathan's body, causing for a beating as all of his concentration now was on the arms holding the head in place, leaving the rest of him vulnerable to damage. His teeth ground upon each other as he took the pain, knowing that letting go of his death grip would cause far worse things to happen. They were both scrambling around on the bank, one pulling away from the river, one pulling farther into it. Tens of seconds later the Jappie's body slowed and relaxed, no longer struggling and showing signs of getting weaker and weaker until nothing. The body just flopped limply to the ground as Nathan found himself stuck under a heavy weight. He was so exhausted he felt like joining in on the relaxation. With a calming breath of fresh air the Etherlite worked his way out from under the body and proceeded to shove it all the way into the river, letting the current rid the area of the carcass.
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