Worse then a dino in a flower shop (Kai/Kait/Amber

This was a bad idea.

Kaitlyn had left the Sanctuary for such a short time, too. It was supposed to have been a short little errand. Go out to the grocery, get listed food items for Stephen the dining hall employee, return with food items, done. She had been given a wad of money, a list of... spices, from the looks of it... and the absolutely ridiculous notion that it was perfectly acceptable to send a nine year old with a poor understanding of the local area on errands to the local grocery. The girl had never even made it to the store. She was hopelessly lost.

Come to think of it, wasn't it this guy's job to go out and buy these things? Ms. Lori wasn't paying him to send children to do his job for him. Children who, in all likelihood, should be meeting with Ms. Dallas around 5:30 PM for tutoring. She should have just said "No."

No, more than that. She acted it out in her head: 'No, I'm not going to go out and do that for you, Stephen. I don't even care that I'm getting a special dessert out of the deal. The idea that I might get lost and never come back if I do this favor for you is making me upset.' That last part would have really gotten to him, since she had overheard them saying not to get Kaitlyn upset, or she may blow up the Dining Hall again. Stephen would immediately have done something nice to calm her down, and she wouldn't be lost out here right now. It would have been the perfect plan.

But, no. This was not the case.

It was 6:30 PM. One hour late for Ms. Dallas. She had been out here for about two hours. She needed to find a way back to the Sanctuary now. But who would know the way to the Sanctuary?

Then, the child recognized one of the two girls who were walking into that flower shop. Aura! She remembered meeting her in the Sanctuary's library. Aura would know the way back to the Sanctuary. Kaitlyn decided to walk over and ask her about it. Maybe she could even follow them home. Right after Aura finishes fighting these random violent men in the flower shop.

...What? She's fighting somebody in the flower shop? The kid could only stand outside the doorway and stare. Her mind was not able to wrap itself around what was happening at the moment.

To say Aura was enrages a human had laid a hand on her skin, was putting things lightly, for once she had actually wanted piece and quite so she could take her sister on a nice tour of the city. The Humans could not even let her do that, and that bit of rage made her realize something else, Amber would be in danger, not only would they hurt her ,but they could hurt her sister as well. It would not happen, Aura would guard her if she had to level the place in the process. Aura chose a more rarely used weapon, it formed almost a complete circle from her knuckle to the middle of her wrist, and then the circle began to form teeth, before rotate, she had made in Aura saw. Aura rushed forward and her assault sent drops of blood raining all over the shop, She was very sure they would not be putting him back together again.

Their seemed to be more humans in the area and Aura was so angry she simply saw every human as a threat. SHe swung at the Next human she saw, this time the saw cut it's way through weak metal bars which held many of the plants on display. Without turning back, Aura spoke in a growing voice to amber. "Watch the humans, and how they treat our kind. This is why their can never be peace between our people" Aura said, even As Several men took notice of her not that it was hard at this point. They were smarter then the first keeping their distance, Aura closed this with the man in the middle of the group, who tried to back away, he was much to slow in his reaction. Even as she swunbg her saw turned instead to a hammer, which impacted the man in his arm, even as a bullet from his gun deflected off of her Aura, covering the snapping noise of his arm.

Distracted Aura abrely realized as the other two men figuring the other girls had come with Aura decided to go after them instead, it seemed the less dangerous option. Aura abrely even heard the screams of the man, whose arm she had prolbely just destroyed, even as he knocked over several potted plants trying to get away from her. Aura turned to look at Amber, but as She did the man fired a second shot this one at the bacl of her head, if not for her Aura, she knew it would have been fatel as it was the aura took the full impact and Aura staggered forward from, her swing cutting several small trees short. this was getting rather bad, and Aura decided retreat might be the ebst option here, after all Amber was defenseless, as she had not found her power yet.

And just like that, Joe's day was becoming extraordinarily bad.

This wasn't in his job description. He had only come here for... business negotiations. Yeah, that's the word for 'em. He was a businessman, and a respectable one at that. Furthermore, Joe was not a fighter, but a lover. Sure, he had to break a few kneecaps every now and then, but that was business. Now more than ever, he wanted to go home. To hug his wife and his son. Take a few days off. Show up to one of the kid's baseball games. his kid still played little leagues, right?

First, he had to make it out alive.

The businessman drew his .45 just as Tony got ripped to shreds by the mutant chick. Who was this chick, anyway? Part of the Order? Sure sounded like it, what with her bull about humans treating her kind badly. If only she knew that Tony was a mutant. He could shoot lasers out of his damn eyes. Too bad they were both rolling around on the floor right now, entirely disconnected from his head.

There's some nightmare fuel.

The Order already had a good thing going, with their 'Mutant Insurance' policies. This wasn't their turf. And Joe wasn't about to let the Order muscle in on the Family's turf. As Otto's arm cracked under the force of Ms. Mutie's crazy hammer, he ran right by her, leveled his handgun to her head, and fired.

And the bullet bounced off. Suddenly, he wished that he had invested in some of the Order's mutant insurance. "Screw this, I'm ou--"

He never got to finish his sentence.

Kaitlyn couldn't understand what was going on. She didn't try to understand what was going on. She didn't want to understand what was going on. The child wanted to look away. Away from the blood splattered on the window, which Aura had just liberated from that poor man's body. Away from the gunshots. Away from that man's arm, which the kid was sure should not be bent that way. But she couldn't.

Aura couldn't be doing this. She was a nice person. Kaitlyn had talked to her personally, so she knew that she was a nice person. Nice people don't go on murderous rampages at the slightest provocation.

>>"You should l-leave!"

Was that Amber? Of course it was. Nobody else had black eyes like that. As much as Kaitlyn wanted to leave, she couldn't. She had no idea where the Sanctuary was from here. The child needed their help if she wanted to get back home. So there she stood, still unable to move. Unsure of what to do.

Another gunshot. This one hit Aura right in the back of the head.

It probably killed her. Kaitlyn couldn't hold it in any longer.

The resultant explosion knocked a large hole in the street-facing wall of the flower shop, sending glass, tables, and wall chunks flying at its inhabitants.

Luckily, all of the other pedestrians had run away after the first gunshot. Only a few unlucky taxi drivers were caught in the blast, their cars knocked through the air and sent into other nearby stores.

Up collided with down. Left collided with right. Face collided with sidewalk. Ow... The girl fell flat on her face, too dizzy to even tell which way was up.

Aura had began to retreat to amber, afraid she might get hurt, the lack of vision and commotion made things all the more worse. As she came back she bumped into a woman obviously panicked, to worried about getting back to Amber, Aura knocked her out of the way, with her Hammer aimed at her head, Aura knew from the sound she was very dead before she hit the ground. Aura heard Amber scream and began a dash to her, knocking over several plants as she did and stepping on others that ahd already been knocked over.

Kneeling down by Amber, Aura smiled at the changes taken place on her sister and tried to comfort her. "See? you do ahve power, let it flow and accept it" she said trying to help her sister, even as she turned away and deflected another bullet, this one hitting one of the lights above them, shattering a bulb, but that was nothing to what happened next as Aura heard an explosion, she tried to protect amber but was thrown over the table she wa shiding under and struck the wall hard enough to leave a huamn shaped indent in the wall, falling off of it, Aura tried to get up, but the blast had taken a good amount out of her and she found her Aura very much depleted by the blast. "Am..ber" she moaned as she forced herself up, she had to find her sister, she could not face abyss if she had let her sister down and let humans kill her, unaware the blast had been caused by a mutant.

Thinsgs seemed quite now, no more bullets, or screaming from what she could hear, just infernal ringing. breathing hard, Aura fell back against the wall she had indented and saw the damage the blast had done, the store front had been ripped away and she could hear the moaning of the ceiling as it tried to keep the roof in the air. Aura coughed as dust made it's way through her aura, it took Aura a moment to realize her Aura was no longer on. She brought it back as she tried to stand again, though her Aura was weak and her leg's not much better. She was aware much of her clothing had been ripped away as well, barely covering her dignity.

Kaitlyn stayed prone and kept her eyes closed. She didn't want to move her head, and she didn't want to open her eyes. Doing either of those things just made the diziness worse.

Soon, though, she heard an incredibly unusual sound. It sounded like something between a chirp and a screech. The chid needed to open her eyes to see what was happening, and, reluctantly, she did.

The sound came from a feathered dinosaur. It was looking around the rubble that had once been a section of the flower shop. Also of note: the shop was on fire, and Aura was missing large shreds of her clothing. Eyes closed again as the kid felt the world spinning around her even faster than it already had been. This stuff was too weird for her; she was probably dreaming. Dinosaurs are extinct.

Joe's head was bleeding. Everything looked blurry. It was hard to think. But he was alive.

Something must've hit him on the head when the explosion happened. How did that explosion happen, anyway? Doesn't matter. What did matter was the fact that he was alive. If one of these people didn't decide to finish himoff right now, he would be home free. People would be less likely to try to knock him off if he didn't look alive. Just play dead.

Who was that chick standing there, with all the pink?

The same chick who killed all the other guys he was with. That same dumb mutant supremacist broad who keeps hitting the news because she knocked off chumps like him publicly, and the police couldn't do squat about it. He suddenly felt the need to say something to her: "Hey, broad. With the pink." His voice came out a bit more slurred than he intended. "That first guy, first one of us you killed, Tony, he was a mutant. You killed one of your own. Just thought you should know."

He gave a nervous laugh. Didn't he just come up with a plan for staying alive, just a few seconds ago? Shouldn't he feel sad about Tony, or worried about his own safety? Freakin' head trauma would turn him crazy, if he didn't become a vegetable. Now he coulda sworn that he was looking at a dinosaur. That's just crazy.

Aura stumbled a bit hearing a snapping noise beneath her foot, which she barely took notice of. Aura looked around and saw what looked much like a war zone. Fire, smoke, dust bodies, blood, just like the good old days, except for the dinosaur, that was new. It took her a few moments to realize it was her sister, the memory flowed back to her, though she was still unsure what truck had hit her. "Amber...you all....right?" she said panting a bit concerned about her sister and barely letting it further register she was now talking to a giant lizard.

Tapping her Side she realized part of the issue, her bombs had gone off, well one had the other, she looked over the half pipe bomb and and dropped it. The a voice spoke something about a mutant being killed, her first kill had been a mutant? "He was? Sad" she said as she walked over to Joe rather slowly, she had wanted to shove a pipe bomb down his neck and watch it blow up, the idea seemed really entertaining. She had left her sword behind as well, figuring she would not need it traveling with her sister, she ahd been wrong.

Kneeling down at the first body she found, she formed a saw and proceded to cut into the man, given his already heavily mutilated corpse, it was quick work for Aura to saw into him and threw a rib bone, lifting her hand up from the body, she looked over the dripping crimson weappon with a morbid smile. It may have been the blast, but Aura blamed joe for the mutant's death, assuming he was the leader, though what brought her to that she could not have told anyone. Kneeling back down by Joe she took a moment to sharpen the bone, more to let joe watch then anything. Placing the white bone over the man's eye, she formed a hammer with the strength she had left, she brought it down hard, not even bothering to cover herself from the blood rain that followed.

She took no notice of Kai as she stood up and wonderd back to her sister, her work done. "My beautiful...sister" she said her Aura fading inr andom places as she tried to keep it covering her own body, barely noticing as her hammer faded back into her aura, though making littile difference. "We may....wish to exit sis" she said stopping to throw up on the corpse she got the rib bone from, and dropping that on him as well, as she wiped her lips.