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"No!" His mind's voice trailed, he felt so helpless, he, of all this power. His mind raced watching her body tummelt. "Blade! Get him!" He yelled knowing that his friends power would take leaps and bounds seeing her take the blow. "I got her!" He yelled running at pure focus at her, he soon reached her and knelt down. Her arms bleed so badly. Grabbing his shirt he ripped it and began to wrap her all the while speaking sporadic words of comfort. "Cerise...you will be fine" "Yet another light grows dim""Don't you ever say that about her." Geidel throught back to the man and the acknowledgment of silence was enough for himself to know it was taken serious. "Just hang in there" He said moving a strand of hair from her face. "Blade will be by soon to help you." The pain of that sentence hurt him more then she felt now...."But why." He thought from the sudden grip of pain in his mind.

Cerise's eyes twitched open. She tried bringing her hand up to her head as it felt like exploding, but she grimaced from the pain and put it back down. "Damn, that was pathetic of me," she groaned. Her vision became stable again and she looked at Geidel.
"Geidel? I'm okay... really. You know I'm not that weak," she said, halfway smiling. She closed her eyes again, her head was spinning. Too much blood loss... I need to drink blood... no! I am not weak! she thought to herself.

Cerise slowly opened her mouth and shut her eyes tightly, she leaned towards the blood. I will not! She shut her mouth and turned away. "Why do you tempt me?" she said, her voice strained a bit. "This is not how I want it to be... I will recover with or without the blood... "

She grimaced again. "You're a horrible person, you know that? You make me face this.... and I just want to run away..." she whispered. Before Geidel could say anything, she quickly turned her head back to his palm and lapped his blood up with her tongue. Cerise gasped as the rejuvinating blood circulated through her system. Her wounds healed as she twisted out of Geidel's arms and sat on the ground, her back towards him.

Zyxa had been just as shocked, when this new comer had interrupted the attack. He pushed all his weight to jump while in mid-air from Blade, to put space between him and the sword wielding assassin. The ribbons of darkness fluttered in the still breeze before they effortlessly glided through the air and returned to Zyxa, wrapping up his arm like a coiled snake.

He saw the anger in Blade, and decided it be best he capitalized on it. "Is that all you have?" the mutant mocked. "You need these people, to save the decade old demon assassin?" Zyxa released a booming laugh. "Show me what you got!"

No sooner had he said that had Blade rushed him, threw his sword and launched the black ball. Zyxa squinted in the blinding darkness trying to compose himself. He swore under his breath as he tried to cover his face with his free arm and flung the remaining ribbons haphazardly at the oncoming attack to no effect. "Crap crap crap..." He was becoming more and more desperate. "What the hell do I do now...?!" The ball was moving very slowly, but it was horribly unlikely he should be worried about its speed. Would it help to run? Could he block it? He scoffed at both options. But then Blade had ushered it along with an extra oomph from his shadow beam and Zyxa grinned. The essence of the attack resonated with the shadow user as he convinced himself what he was about to do was not stupid. "All or nothing!" He roared. The ball was almost a meter away from him. It all hinged on this next move. With all of the strength in his legs, he pushed off the ground and over the tiny black orb. "Here I come!!"

He focused hard on the beam of shadow. It's a shadow... right? He grasped as he would any other person's shadow and pulled himself into Dark Space through the beam. A surge of pain erupted throughout his entire body as he fell onto the cold ground that made up the void. He writhed on the ground for a while, his head pounding even harder than it had before as he struggled to keep himself together. With a heavy grunt, Zyxa pulled himself off the ground and stared blankly into the nothing. "That was more trouble than it was worth..." He muttered to himself. "But I better get out of here..." He tried to take a step toward Blade's shadow, but the pain shot up through his body again. He fell to one knee and grasped where his heart should be as he wheezed heavily. "Okay, okay. Fine." Taking one last relieving breath, Zyxa shot up through Dark Space to where he had fallen from.

From nothing to reality, he burst through the tail of the shadow beam Blade had used to launch his attack and blood spilled from Zyxa's mouth. He had emerged only moments after he had disappeared, with his claw poised to attack, but the pain had become unbearable as he froze up only feet away from the still airborne Blade.

((Sorry about length. And I'm sort of uncomfortable with how I chose to avoid that attack. Seemed a little god-mody to me, but I think it's plausible. Tell me if you think otherwise, and I'll change it))

Geidel blinked as the explosion erupted, his eyes caught the violent theatrics through the darkend orb of control around him. The ground roared under his feet as the shadow wavered slightly as if under more stress then its limit. "...it'll hold"

The explosion ceased and Blade formed coughing up blood. "She is fine." He said looking at the man. "You look like s**t." Geidel smiled at the man hoping for his sake his attack was worth it, if not he himself would step in and there would be no shadow-porting on the enemies part. "Take a break." He said while he opened his mind to the desolate surroundings searching for the hint of the foe's energy.

(blades not in the barrier)
you dont look so great yourself *blade said to geidel, with a slight hint of amusment in his voice* and fat chance hes mine *no sooner had blade said this that zyxa said "ill be back" and dissapearded into his shadow* and ill be waiting *blade said before falling on his face, about halfway to being unconsious *