Escape Through The Halls (Event Day 3)

[Lina]

She had been dragging Mat toward the doors when suddenly she had been scooped up in his arms. Lina didn't weigh too much for her height and frame. Her clothing was covered in paladin's blood, and her own. The red head's free hand clung onto his shirt for a moment in shock as they ran toward the doors. Startled icy blue eyes as he kicked them in. Knight in shining armor much?

And then they were being followed by a solider. Lina's mouth came open to let out a warning, but Mat was already on it. Kicking the man without letting go of her body. Shouting something about the gun. Which was now flying in the air toward the right of the two of them.

So Lina pivoted and leaned, twisting her body in his arms. Trusting him for the moment to keep her steady and there. Good arm reached as her legs clenched around his arm as an anchor as she went for the gun. Her fingers, halfway covered in fingerless leather gloves, closed around the metal of the gun. As soon as the gun was in her grasp, the tan skinned girl rolled her body back to Mat. Slim frame sliding back to where it had been, legs relaxing for a moment.

And then Lina started making sure there was ammo in the gun, making sure the safety was clicked off. The young girl then stared down the hall, the gun at the ready in case any of the enemy came running after them. But her head was pounding. It was hard to concentrate. Her head hurt so badly. She gritted her teeth and held on. No point in passing out right now. What could keep her up? Banter with Mat? That sounded just about right.

"My last name? I don't know if I should tell you! What do I get in return?"

Yes bantering with Mat would keep her mind sharp, and keep her awake long enough to shoot at anyone coming toward them. That was the important thing, right? Where ever Mat was taking them had to be safer than where they had come from. And it had better be decently soon, she felt like shit. Now she couldn't clap her free hand on her wound. Lina didn't trust her injured arm to aim correctly. She didn't want to hit Mat accidentally.

How would he react to the fact she was Natasha's daughter? Considering the woman had beat the holy shit out of him before they had met. And of course, her father was just as scary when he arrived here. If not more so. Honestly, she was more afraid of her father. That man had a scary side that very rarely came out.

"Where we headed to Mat?"

Her voice was laced with pain. She couldn't help it, Lina wasn't good at those sorts of things. Her emotions were drawn out easily when she was in pain, like now. Mat would be able to tell she was hanging on with all her might. She'd last, at least for a bit.

[Matrim]

Ok... chances of getting shot down if I say 'a kiss' 99.599%. Chances of getting physically shot in addition, 99.469%. Yeah, that seems about right. I like those odds.

Something about the girl just attracted Matrim like no other, he felt very bound to her, and he would probably do the heroic kiss scene right then and there, except she would probably kill him, and having been shot she might get caught by Paladins.

Matrim heard them behind them, they must have been in that first hallway, but the one they were in now was a long straightaway, if the Paladins turned down it they could get a few shots off, hopefully Lina would get to them before that happened. Matrim had faith that the girl would be able to kill them with ease.

"I'll give you a kiss, or if you don't want that, I'll promise to never bring up kissing you again." Matrim said. He was the talkative type and it was a way to keep the conversation going, "I don't know, it's just that your new here, and one of the things I've found is that a lot of us seem to have a similar thing. Most of our parents or the teachers at this school went to the same school as kids. Not sure whats up with that, maybe they were near a nuclear plant or some shit, I don't fuckin know."

Matrim was reaching the end of the hallway, there was a right and a left. He knew the way that would lead towards the exit of the building was to the left. It was the right way to go.

"We're heading left, once we get out of this building we'll have a short distance to go to get to the tower, and then we'll make our way to the core, which is relatively close to the front doors. Once we're inside the core, we'll be safe. I'm guessing that's where everyone else is. The rest of my gang, most of the other teachers, you know, the rest of everyone." Matrim said, the left was up ahead, whether or not Lina took care of those soldiers wasn't a concern to him, that was her job. His was simple. Run.

His shield was down so he was open to attack, but all that he cared about was keeping Lina alive.

You know.... when she moved around earlier..... that was kinda sexy how she got that gun out of the air like that. It's a good thing I got a good hold on her.

Matrim focused his attention, there was a wall coming up, and if he wanted to make this turn he'd have to somehow slow down and turn, otherwise he would end up slipping from the speed, so as he came to the wall straight ahead, he hopped on one foot, planting his right foot on the wall he pushed off of it towards the left, his left foot landed on the ground hard but he kept going.

Why did my idiotic step father have to hit my knee like that in class?

Matrim galloped a few steps as his knee shot out in pain, but he dealt with it and fixed his pace, making his way down this last hallway of the building. Then there would be a clear shot to the core.

[Lina]

A kiss? Seriously? He was really going with the normal sort of things, wasn't he? The things she heard over and over whenever she asked those questions. Oh so normal. Those icy eyes stole a glance at the young man, and she lifted a single dark red brow.

"Fine, but I get to decide when I redeem said kiss. My last name is Sabir."

Let him chew on that one. Lina liked to keep things interesting. It was the way she worked. The normal was oh so over rated. She returned her gaze to the hallway they were running down just as she saw a flash of white. Not taking any chances, the young tanned girl shot. Finger pulled the trigger. Her good wrist steadied on the arm of the bad. Both eyes open, pulling on the trigger as soon as she sighted the white.

Right after that Mat kicked the wall and set off along the adjoined hallway. She kept the gun trained on the ground Mat was putting between them and whoever the hell that was. She didn't want any surprises, at least from the likes of them.

"A lot of the students here seem to have some sort of odd power. Or something really weird about them. I could have sworn I saw a guy walk through a wall in my math class. Honestly, I had no idea anyone could do anything like that. I mean, no one in my family is like that."

At least that Lina knew of. She had yet to realize that she had a power. One she had received from her grandmother. Or a version of it at least. Lina just knew that her mother and father were freakishly strong and fast. For some unknown reason.

"Wait, they all went to 253?"

That was the high school her parents had met at. Once upon a time shortly before she had been born. Lina heard the story all the time. Over and over and over honestly. It almost made her sick, with their speech of love repeated so many times. The young girl just kept a grim smile on her face as they continued their odd retreat. She did have to wonder how long he could keep carrying her. It wasn't as if she was a feather.

He was a decent looking guy. Honestly, Lina wouldn't mind kissing him. It would be far from her first kiss. Despite being fifteen years old, she had had a couple of run ins with the opposite gender. Her father had scared off a lot of potential boyfriends. And those he hadn't scared off had gotten boring shortly afterward. Lina hated boring. She had yet to find some one not to be bored with. Thus was life. She would have to live with it.

[Matrim]

"So your the principle's girl then eh? She packs quite a punch, I hope that's hereditary seeing as your currently on our side of this battle." Matrim said, knowing she didn't have super strength, or assumed it since she had been pretty hurt and had been using guns. "I'm one of those myself, you might have seen it shatter earlier, but I can create a shield around my body. It's somewhat bulletproof for a few direct shot. Mostly its for blocking Qi attacks."

Matrim made it to the door, kicking this one open and making his way across the grass clearing to the tower. It wasn't too far and he was getting to the door, "I agree to your terms, anywhere any time."

Matrim listened to her other question, "Yeah I have this sort of theory going that maybe there was something in the water there. My father went there, your mother, Matrim Aldon, a few other people. But a lot of people have a connection to 253, not everyone, don't get me wrong. But there was definitely enough connection to make me do a double take."

Matrim saw the door coming up, he kicked this one open as well, cringing when his knee locked up on him a little bit, again he limped through it, galloping until he had a steady rate going.

"Well, lets go in shall we?" Again Matrim took off, this time for the core. He could see it now, it was just ahead. "We're in the home stretch."

Thank God..... this was getting pretty ridiculous. Never had this much trouble traveling around school. Oh well.

OOC: We could just wait for day 4 or we could join the core. Leaving it up to you.