The Regal Rper
Mad Scientist
Nik | London | The Tunnels
The moment the Bloodsucker had been knocked down by Nicho, Nik moved in with Cain, ready to bring his blade down on the beast's leg, right into the thigh.
The question Cain asked, the sense of disturbance that tickled Nik's senses through their link- he ignored them. This wasn't the first time one of his partners, in the first trial, had been astounded to see the contrast between the him he projected and the him he kept under a tight collar and leash. Nik didn't allow for the distraction to get to him, he was used to it-- what had him bubbling with such malice however was what they'd bypassed earlier.
How this thing, one of his own, had or could have been involved in the death of an innocent. It made his gut bubble with disgust and fed his beast the fuel it needed as he turned, crouched- and was about to launch himself towards the Bloodsucker as he was spouting off the proclaim of putting an end to all of them- but the guy was just a bit faster than Nik expected him to be in his current state.
Nik moved. He flared his wavelength, dashed forward- a single minded chase, a pursuit to catch him before he made it outside. The other lives he could snuff out, the continued stigma it'd bring- it wasn't just about stopping a monster that DWMA had sent them out to kill, in a way for Nik it was also making up for the actions of his own.
So when he sensed J's presence along with Rue in the distance, he stopped his chase and watched as their leader took the thing down.
There were a few things Nik took notice thanks to his soul perception in that moment. While J was taking his time to have his bit of fun, the sense of malice radiating off him like a furnace despite the jovial approach he took at it, Nik found something more troubling as he focused less on the cruel display J was putting up to instead turn his gaze more to Rue who was emitting the same sense of fury...and was that also a sense of pain? He was detecting.
It became noticeable to Nik in his heightened state, that there was specs of blood on J as well as he began freezing their bloodsucker adversary. He couldn't help but wonder if that was his but from the way he moved, from his own senses, he could not smell iron strongly from anywhere on J's personal body.
Everything only became clear when J addressed them at last. Rue fucked up? And then the pain he had detected off her soul suddenly made more sense. The pain and anger was tied to the possibility of her being hurt, maybe even injured.
Concern washed over Nik and replaced his focus on the Bloodsucker to her. J obviously had things covered, the fact he himself hadn't been hurt was, honestly impressive. It was just a testament of his strength and if the surprise attack he'd pulled on the bloodsucker before getting Rue's aid to freeze over wasn't a clear example of their teamwork, then he didn't know what was.
The question however that bounced in his head was: How did Rue mess up? If she had been injured that clearly meant she had been moving around in her natural form. Had she met one of the Bloodsucker's prior to with J? Had J been with her at all? The way J had said everything, it clearly implied that Rue had done something that put her in the current state she was in. Recklessness- certainly wasn't the bit of advice he'd given her the last time they'd talked at the park- even with J walking away with both cargo, he wondered if Rue would be getting a talking to after this.
Eyes perfect slits, expression intense but slowly calming, Nik sighed. "Nicho, wanna keep patrolling the area? Or would you prefer to head back with J?" He asked.
He was certain given the pang of disturbance he'd felt from Cain, that he'd have some explaining to do soon also. Walking towards the exit out of the tunnels, Nik waited for his Russian colleague and friend to join him outside. Stewing over everything that had happened. Wondering just what was going on in London, with Bloodsuckers running around- treating the place as its hunting ground.
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