Fifteen Minutes

"Fifteen Minutes" is a [SEASON NUMBER] thread written on [IRL DATE].
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Cracking sounds filled the air and the ground froze and split, before exploding into a million shards of colorful ice. They were immediately blown away by the harsh wind, revealing the crouched figures of Lila, Libulan, and a bloodied Vidar.
Libulan’s long white hair whipped wildly in the gales of the Scrublands, the destroyed village and rolling hills in their backdrop that they had passed by only an hour or so earlier.
He quickly turned to walk past Lila, and said in a low voice, “15 minutes.” Then he disappeared in a ring of frost.
Dec 17, 2020
Lila began to pace in front of him as she flourished her blade. “Alright, you’re going to tell me what you did to my friend and how to fix it… Or else.” As she said that flames began to creep down her blade.
Dec 17, 2020
The Jarl lurched to his feet, getting the spear in both hands and straightening. He didn’t look much better from when the nix had yanked all three of them through the portal, but he was standing with a vigor that shouldn’t have belonged to him in his state. As Lila’s sword heated the air between them, the light flared off his face, and she saw an unnatural web of red energy flickering around his brand, up his arm and across his battered chest, up his neck and around his injured eye. It crackled like static every time he moved. He cackled when she finished speaking, blowing white clouds of hot breath across the fields. His head was hanging, but he rolled it up in her direction, the demonic energy zipping across his profile.
“You idiot,” he wheezed through a feral grin. “I’ve already won, and you want to delude yourself thinking you can destroy a contract, of all things? Oh, to dream of such power…you almost remind me of myself.”
With a sudden backhand swing, Vidar unleashed a powerful blow on Lila, cracking their weapons together in several flashes of sparks and smoke. On the last swing, he locked the head of the spear against her blade and then flung her back, forcing them several paces apart, to prowl around each other once more. He grinned, like she’d passed an invisible test of his.
“Yes, if my blood was as muddied as yours, we’d be the same.”
Dec 18, 2020
Her scowl only deepened as he spoke and she continued to pace. “We are nothing alike.” She growls. “You fight to enslave, I fight for the freedom of my people.” With that she dashed forward, sword in her left hand as their weapons crashed together. He was faster, and stronger with Nala’s energy coursing through him landing a knick in her side and a cut across her right cheek. She pushed off him, jumping ten feet back as she panted, sweat beading down her forehead as she paced once more. “And maybe I don’t have the power to break a contract. But I have the power to kill you.” She said determined as she prepared for his next strike.
Dec 18, 2020
“As IF!!”
Vidar punctuated his scream with a forward thrust of his spear, pushing Lila back further into the destroyed village. The two of them scattered sand and dust and drizzles of rain as it consistently stormed around Vidar and avoided Lila. With every clash of their weapons, Lila’s fire and Vidar’s coursing, electric energy snapped and exploded in a show of sparks and steam. 
“You are a fucking half-breed!!” he yelled between swings, and it was clear that the thought behind his words and his realization that she was keeping pace with him was very much upsetting him in its contrast. “You are NOTHING compared to us!! Nothing without your pet demon!!” Their weapons locked together and their faces were barely an inch apart as he bore down on her, seeking to force her down under his larger weight.
Dec 18, 2020
Lila grunts as she uses all her strength to hold the lock in place. All the while though she’s grinning. “There are two things you should know Vidar.” She said through clenched teeth. “Firstly, I’m not left handed. Secondly, I may be a Half-breed, but I’m still better than you!” As she finished speaking there was a loud bang and a sharp pain erupts in the Jarls side as a round ball of metal launches from her hoodie pocket and through his armor easily
Dec 18, 2020
Vidar barked into her face and stumbled backwards, clutching his side in pain, which was steaming. Lila saw that his pain came not from the type of wound that would be inflicted by a bullet moving so quickly, but from a burn–there was a splatter of molten shrapnel across his belly and side, and the Warden’s red energy burned and snapped around him where it had tried to protect him. He shook his head and snapped his chin up to glare at the Commander. The energy around him grew fiercer and brighter, catching his eyes in an unnatural way.
Then his spear flashed overhead and slammed into the ground, and several loops of writhing scarlet light flashed towards Lila, throwing her back once more. The high-pitched whining emitting from his contract was intense and piercing. Even from their distance, they heard the faint bellows of a creature wreaking havoc among the Jaw, and they seemed to coincide with Vidar’s pulses of power. In a few strides, he was on her again, bringing the spear about his head to strike her as though it were a flag.
Dec 18, 2020
She was quick to bring up her sword to block and Parry his blow distancing herself from him as she pulled the hand cannon from her hoodie. It was different from the one dixie owned. This one her sister had designed and operated on her black powder, rather than Zippleback gas. She took her second shot him, but before it could impact she superheated it causing it to explode in front of him.
Dec 18, 2020
Now knowing her trick, he tried dodging, but the projectile was inhumanly fast, and he had no construct to guard him. The shrapnel blasted wider this time, and Vidar’s hand shot up to his face, gasping. Yet again, the energy had built around his skin and only peppered the glowing strips of metal across his face, looking like shooting stars embedded in the darkness. 
“Kill me and see what happens to your precious Rebellion,” he growled, clenching his fist and making his tendons stand out in high relief. The contract flared and buzzed, and a low level thump echoed across the plains, along with a brief flash of scarlet light that bled through the clouds. “You throw away your chance to be protected in a new world, a new way of life. You chose to be an insect underneath our feet. You chose this.”
The slightest tremble of his voice upon speaking forced him to immediately roar and charge forward to cover up any sign of weakness, purposefully darting through the cover of a decaying awning to throw off her aim before ripping down the threadbare cloth with the haft of his spear and whipping it at her, trying to tangle her.
Dec 18, 2020
Lila slashes at the cloth, setting it on fire before she goes on the offensive with a flurry of quick, hard strikes. “We chose this?!” She cried as she laid into him with her sword, countering his blows with strikes of her own. “We didn’t choose to be born! We did choose to be Half-breeds! You chose to hate us!” Slash. “You chose to treat us like insects!” Stab. “The only thing we chose was to live!” Her third shot. “And now, today, we choose to fight!” Parry, and thrust. “We choose to live in a world free from hatred and tyranny!” The fourth shot. “We choose to be free!” With that she brings her blade down hard over her head, the blade engulfed in full blue fire once again.
Dec 18, 2020
The sword bit into the center of Vidar’s spear and it shattered straight through the fire-hardened wood, carving a line down through his tunic and his sternum. The shielding energy once again took the brunt of the blow, but it couldn’t stop everything, especially the flames licking off her blade. He was thrown backwards off balance, and landed hard in the mud, clutching his wrist to his chest as it hissed and snapped and flashed. There was enough lead in his face to form small, shining pockets, and he was gasping for air. Stonegit had already beaten him to hell and back, and as his eyes found Lila’s, burning with determination, he felt something rare. He felt like running. 
They faced each other, chests heaving, rain splashing around his fallen form.
“It is…already in motion,” he growled. “You all have no idea what descends on this world…you have no ability to handle it. You’re weak.” He vomited up the words Stonegit had roared at him like he was delivering a dead animal, hoping the same barbs that had stuck in his own hide would pierce this rabbit-eared woman standing above him. He gestured upwards with his hand, indicating the runes smoldering in his battered skin. “This…is the only way to stop her.”
Dec 18, 2020
She scowls. “Then I guess it needs to go.” She swings her sword with intent to remove his hand from the rest of his body.
Dec 19, 2020
It was clean and brutal. Vidar’s hand landed far too many feet away from his body and he immediately contorted, curling around his arm and sputtering and gasping in shock and agony. His mouth was wide but the only sounds that came out were choked and choppy. The contract flashed, smoked, and then went dark. Vidar’s head whipped around to stare at Lila.
“NO!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?” he bellowed.
Dec 19, 2020
She frowns down at him as she slings her sword over her shoulder. “I imagine you’ll tell me.”
Dec 19, 2020
He slid backwards on his rear, further dirtying his armor, and coughed heavily, trying to staunch the bleeding of his arm against his belly. He still looked absolutely thunderstruck, craning his neck out towards the distant Jaw to see the aftermath. The two of them heard an odd lull in the storm, and then they both had to shield their gazes from a bright explosion through the stormclouds, sending rays of unnatural light kaleidescoping across the plains. 
Vidar turned to meet Lila’s gaze again. Something had settled in his mind, and he clenched his crooked jaw, his expression closing. “That.”
Dec 19, 2020
Lila squinted as the bright light shone from miles away. “Damn that’s bright.” She murmurs. She had no doubts what was causing this though it was still surprising to say the least. They were tens if not hundreds of miles away and they could still see it clear as day. As it passed she glanced down at the man, if she could even call him that. “So, do you want to surrender now, or do you want me to drag you back, embarrass you in front of your men and then surrender. 
Dec 19, 2020
Vidar hawked and spat in front of Lila, moving as though he meant to stand, even though he looked pale and unsteady. “As though I had a choice,” he growled. “Either way, you’ll choose the coward’s way out instead of finishing me yourself.”
Dec 19, 2020
She scoffed as she pulled him to his feet. “If I wanted you dead you would be, but your people don’t need another martyr to rally behind, and unlike you, the rebelion has a shred of decency.”
Dec 19, 2020
Their exchange was interrupted when the wind picked up and the rain that fell upon Vidar turned, swirling and slowly widening into an upright circle.
A comrade stepped through, sent by the Nokkines prince, “Commander, it is time...” Ambon said in his soft voice, a somewhat deep gash down his left shoulder but otherwise alive and well. He raised his good arm, and brought all three of them back to the Jaw of Fenrir.