For Zell and Zuko

[noblerworld]

Rapture was in chaos and Seifer couldn't be happier. With Ryan pulling out all the stops to defend his kingdom and any exit back to Tabula Rasa cut off it meant war, desperate backs against the walls war, and that meant glory.

He wiped the blood off his blade, left from the last party of splicers they'd encountered, and turned to his partner with a smirk.

"Enjoying yourself, Zell?"

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[irisewiththesun.livejournal.com]

Zuko isn't keeping track of how many Splicers he's killed. Later, he's sure, he'll have time to actually think about what he's done, what he's become, the killer he's sure his father always wished he would be. He knows, on some level, that it's not the same as killing normal people, but Zuko doesn't think it feels much different. He hopes he never has to find out for sure.

Either way, he doesn't have time right now to dwell on it, and right now he's employing that razor-sharp focus he'd used to hunt down Aang for so long, slicing and blazing his way forward through the continuing Splicer attacks. There's no room now for anything but action.

He doesn't stop, not until they're well clear, and it doesn't take him long at all to catch up with Seifer. He doesn't know what to say to the guy, the anger still burning inside him, but quieter now. Instead, he turns to make sure Zell's clear.

[spirited-hero.livejournal.com]

Zell took a moment to kick a burly Splicer in the jaw. Being on the ADAM stuff, he was able to go from having his left foot in the air to spinning around to finish it off with his right. Not wanting to stay too far from the others, Zell caught up again. He briefly looked up to Seifer for orders. It was too chaotic to do anything else but follow his lead.

[noblerworld.livejournal.com]

Nobody was saying anything, which meant Seifer could fill the silence with a reprimand about how Zell had ruined his plans, or a smug comment about how dangerous the splicers were and how lucky they'd both been that Seifer had saved them.

But he didn't want to. He still felt the pains from both Zell's blow and the battering he'd took from the splicers and he still felt somewhat cowed by how poorly he'd fared against a man he'd never thought as anything but an inferior. And so the smirking arrogance that normally came so easily for him, was a struggle to reach for.

In the end all he said was "We need to get back to Barnes," in a gruff voice as he holstered his gun-blade and started moving and then he focused entirely on the passage ahead, not even checking to see if Zell and Zuko were still with him.

[irisewiththesun.livejournal.com]

Captain Barnes, Zuko's mind supplies, but he keeps his mouth shut on the correction, not wanting to get into it over yet another thing with Seifer. He takes a deep breath, the only indication he's even been breathing the last little while being that he's still alive, and heads off behind Seifer and Zell, moving swiftly to keep up.