Episode 6: Laden Raine

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Trey: Cute fighting stance.
Raine: *Blushing* Sh-shut up...Brago, now!
Nuvia: *Giggling* Alright, time to witness my power.

(Nuvia raises her hand towards Trey. In a radius of 200 ft, everything becomes increasingly heavy. Old train carts begin to crumple in. Alma immediately falls to her knees.)

Alma: (W-what's going on?? My body, it feels so heavy!)

(Trey remains relatively fine as he seems only slightly affected.)

Nuvia: Hm? That's weird.
Raine: Stop messing around, Brago.
Nuvia: You know, Raine, I can easily increase the gravity to crush...well, pretty much everything...even you.
Raine: I'd drown you before you had the chance.
Nuvia: Oh yeah? Try me!
Trey: Wow...Bickering right in front of your enemy? Haha, unprofessional.
Nuvia: So 1.5 times gravity isn't cutting it? Fine, how about triple?

(She tenses her hands and the gravity becomes that much heavier.)

Trey: (She said gravity...interesting.)

(Suddenly, carts start to fold in almost immediately. Certain areas sink into the ground and crack. Trey falls to his knees and Alma writhes in pain, still managing to not make a sound.)

Nuvia: Hahaha! I've never had to use more than 3 times the gravity force before. You're done kid. Take him out, Raine.
Raine: Right.

(Raine surrounds her hand in water. Alma could no longer withstand the pain of her own clothing crushing her, and she lets out a scream before Raine can finish Trey.)

Trey: That- sounded like Alma.
Nuvia: Who was that?
Raine: No! that sounded like...

(The gravity folds the train cart Alma hid behind and reveals her location.)

Nuvia: Hey, it's that girl!
Raine: Brago, stop.
Nuvia: Uh, no. We are about to-.
Trey: Flame hellion.

(Nuvia and Raine both look over at Trey and see him spray dozens of mid sized fireballs from his mouth.)

Raine: Quick, move!

(They manage to dodge the fireballs, but Nuvia was forced to release her gravity as a result.)

Nuvia: Darn it!
Trey: Whew, what a relief! Say, is gravity elemental or meta?
Nuvia: Why are you asking me??
Trey: Well uh...it's your power right?...Ah nevermind. Your area of effect was impressive. Mine isn't as vast, but I think it's pretty potent. But you be the judge.

(In a radius of 100 ft, everything catches fire. In that instant, the area around Alma, about 10 ft, becomes covered by a metal dome.)

Alma: (A metal dome? That means-.)
Micheal: It's a good thing I placed sensors across the city to track people like us. Now...what has he gotten into this time?
Nuvia: Alright-.

(She's suddenly tackled into a crushed cart. Micheal straddles on top of her.)

Nuvia: Ow!
Micheal: Hey there.
Nuvia: Wha- Who are you!? Wait a minute, you're-.
Trey: Micheal...tracking me with your dumb trinkets again?
Micheal: Hi, Trey. And we've talked about this before, ok, it's for safety. But hey, you didn't tell me you were such a ladies man. First Avacyn and now these two beauties?
Trey: You know, I didn't know either. But let's just say none of these girls count, including Avacyn.
Raine: Avacyn? (Ugh, her?)
Nuvia: Get off me weirdo!
Micheal: Oh? I'm sorry.

(He gently gets off her and gives her some distance. Nuvia gets up, extremely pissed.)

Nuvia: I'm going to crush you!!
Micheal: Promise?
Alma: (Man, I can't see what's happening. Darn you, Micheal!)
Raine: Your A.O.E isn't bad.
Trey: Thank you. I try, I try.
Raine: That is, until you've gazed upon mine.

(Although there are no clouds in the sky, rain begins to fall. The rain grows heavier within seconds and it spans out 300 ft while covering the ground in water up to their ankles. It immediately extinguishes the fire. She then takes her fighting stance again.)

Trey: Looks like my work is cut out for me. Even arranged neatly before me...hahaha, I like you. You're gonna be fun!

(As they both take a step, a sonic boom bursts and everything around them begins to slow down as they reach mach speeds. The rain seems to halt, as well as Micheal and Nuvia.)

Nuvia: Raine will kill him.
Micheal: I wouldn't underestimate Trey if I were you. He's stronger than he looks, and full of surprises.

(Behind them is a series of sonic booms firing off rapidly as Trey and Raine fight at high speeds.)

Trey: I never really paid attention to how everything around me while moving this fast. It's actually...pretty cool.

(Raine blushes and hesitates in her movements very slightly.)

Raine: (Can I even do this anymore? What's weird is I didn't feel this way until he became my target...I thought I got rid of those pesky emotions. Do I...feel for him this strongly? By this point, even though we knew each other as kids, he's someone I no longer know. It's been years. Yet...why??) *Shakes her head*

Raine: Who cares about the visuals. My focus is to kill you.

(She moves toward Trey. Whenever a raindrop was touched, it would just move slightly and halt once more. She throws a palm strike, but Trey dodges. He then grabs her arm and tosses her away several feet. She then disappears leaving two rapid sonic booms.)

Trey: Oh no. Not another one already.
Nuvia: I don't care how strong you think he is. The fact is that Raine is stronger as well as faster. She can move at mach 2.
Micheal: Oh really? (But after Zellos, is that an issue for you anymore, Trey?)

(Trey falls forward onto the ground, coughing up water. Micheal turns to see Trey hit the ground.)

Micheal: Tch.
Nuvia: You ran your mouth about him, yet you don't seem all that concerned now that he's defeated.
Micheal: Well, should I be?
Nuvia: I suppose not, but you should be now.

(Nuvia clenches her hand and Micheal is subdued to 5 times the gravity. She then lightens the gravity of the crushed cart she was tackled into by 4 times and picks it up.)

Nuvia: Although people like us can take some nasty hits, we are still human. And we can still die from being crushed, albeit with enough force behind it.
Micheal: So, you'll use the cart? Fine, do it.
Nuvia: You can't psyche me out-.
Micheal: I said, DO IT!

(Nuvia tosses the cart into the air above him a couple dozen feet, then increases its gravity times 30. The cart slams into the ground, creating a deep crater.)

Raine: All that talk, yet you fell so easily. (And even still, I feel...sad. Guilty, as if I shouldn't have done it. I...kind of regret it.....*grrr* no! I don't! I...can't.)

(Raine looks over to where Nuvia is and sees what she did to Micheal.)

Raine: Hm.....Mission complete.

To Be Continued…

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