Everything Stays: In the Future

Hostages

Team SPHE and Phoenix's parents stood like the rest of the crowd in fear and shock, yet the four huntsmen and huntresses in training still stood with rage in their eyes. Auburn stood around the remaining troops while Orion walks forward with the butler in hand and enjoying the position of power he was in. He smirked and shove the butler to the ground and stomped onto the butler's back and looked across the crowd while his gunmen took aim at them.

Orion: Now, now, now. Listen up here pretty boys and girls. Let's make this nice and easy and no one gets hurt. Unless I want to. Or you make this troublesome.

Orion kicked the butler away and right up to Radicast, Sonia, Phoenix and Sterling. The four kneel down and up the old man up. Ms. Helios slowly walks away, fear on her face. Auburn walks out from behind Orion and whispers something in his ear. The man nods and then walks forward and aims the gun to the family.

Orion: Alright then, how about this. Simple and Clean. Anyone who I put the gun to will transfer 10 million Lien to a specified bank account. Once the payment has been received, we will be on our way and you all get to live. How about that?

He walked over and tapped one person and watched them get their scroll out. Sterling reached his own jacket and got his scroll out and pressed a button while on an app, contacting someone silently. Another gunman did the same to Helios who quickly agreed with. A gunman then tapped Sterling who looked up and saw the gunman aim sights down on him. Sterling stood up and put his scroll away.

Gunman: Hey, kid. You know what to do here.

Sterling raised his hands but left his index and middle fingers up on both. The gunman cocked an eyebrow and Sterling formed two glyphs on his hands and grabbed the gun with on and push the man back with the other. That got everyone's attention and Sterling slapped his hands together and formed two more glyphs from them. Other gunmen opened fire and Sterling made a shield in front of him and other party goers.

Hunter ran over to Sterling and slid along the ground and reached into his jacket and took out his pistol. He fired three rounds and took out three gunmen. Auburn took her pistols out and began to fire at Sterling and Hunter. Suddenly, an EMP wave crossed the entire room and all the guns ceased firing and the lights went out. A backup generator comes on to revel Eminence released her semblance, an EMP wave.

Sterling lowers his glyph and Hunter ran forward towards Auburn and he spun in the air and threw a punch. However, Auburn shatters from the punch and Hunter rolls along the ground. Auburn comes down from the ceiling and landed on Hunter's shoulders. Auburn leapt off of him and did a two footed kick to Hunter's face. Auburn back flipped and began to run towards Sterling and the Harkins.

Eminence leaps forward and attempts to kick Auburn but she disappears in thin air only to reappear and kick Eminence in the stomach, launching her onto Hunter. Sterling dropped his first glyph and made two more and threw them at Auburn like discs. Auburn flips through the air and evades both and disappears again only to kick Sterling in the back and walk over to him.

Auburn: What can I say, my mother taught me well.

Sterling: (Forms two more glyphs) So did mine.

Auburn: Your auntie killed my daddy. And now, I'm going to kill every last one of you.

Sterling: Killing me or my family won't bring him back.

Auburn: I know. I just like killing. And now I have a pretty good excuse for it.

Sterling forms a glyph behind Auburn. Phoenix gets up and punches through the glyph, sending Auburn out throw the window. Sterling flips in front of Phoenix and generates more glyphs around the other gunmen. Hunter and Eminence then leap in and punch and kick the last of the gunmen. Orion slowly started to get up only for Phoenix to kick him in the face.