Damian Wayne (grownup_robin) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2016-07-10 00:02:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, celaena sardothien, damian wayne (robin) |
Who: Damian Wayne & Celaena Sardothien
When: Backdated: End of June. During Breach Plot
Where: A Park
What: Fighting demons by a rift
Rating/Warnings: Mostly Family Friendly
Status: Complete
Damian had been in Orange County and on Valarnet long enough that he was no longer surprised when things happened. There had been the whole craziness with Alyssa’s house as a result of her dreams, goblins, orcs, gremlins, whatever had happened that past February and so many more things, so when green rifts began opening up around town and demons began coming out of them, he wasn’t exactly surprised. In fact, he’d decided that he should try and help out.
Normally Damian patrolled on his own, occasionally with Raven or Kate, but tonight he’d brought Celaena along. She was a trained assassin after all, just like him, so who better to have with him when going to fight demons? They’d trained and sparred together for some time now and were quite good together, so Damian thought this was a good idea. He was armed with his katana and his utility belt over black jeans and a black hoodie as they moved along the streets towards one of the open rifts.
Celaena was so much stronger than when she’d first started training with Damian. Stronger and more confident in her abilities and she got a little thrill every time Damian asked to train or patrol with her. She’d Dreamed some more and the twin blades she fought with in them had appeared the other morning. After getting over her initial shock of waking up with them in her hands, she’d been pretty excited. She couldn’t wait to show Damian and start training with them.
Damian looked pretty hot as she watched him walking slightly ahead of her and she couldn’t help but tilt her head and admire his beautiful backside under his hoodie and utility belt. Grinning to herself and biting her lip as she imagined grabbing his belt, dragging him down some alley and simply ravaging him. To hell with whatever these demons were. She got a little lost in imagining that and fell a bit behind him as they walked.
Damian was so focused on keeping his senses focused for any possible trouble that it took him a few moments to realize that Celaena wasn’t right beside him. Stopping, he glanced over his shoulder and quirked a brow, “Hey, slowpoke, what’re you doing all the way back there?” He smirked at her as he waited for her to catch up.
Celaena couldn’t help the dirty grin that spread on her lips as she sauntered up to him, making sure to put some extra sway in her hips as she did. “Nothin’, just ogling your hot self,” she told him, stepping up close. One hand slid up to the collar of his shirt where she played with the edge of the fabric and the other slid around and down his waist to smooth over his backside. “You are incredibly distracting on a night when we are supposed to be alert to all the demons in our city. Seeing you all geared up just makes me...ravenous,” she whispered, pretending to take a bite out of his neck before pressing her lips to the column of his throat.
Damian knew that they should be paying attention and not getting distracted, but when Celaena’s hands were on him, it was a little hard to concentrate, “If you get us killed by demons, I’m not gonna forgive you.” He teased, a smirk upon his lips as he gave her a quick kiss then reached behind himself to take her hand, “Come on, there will be plenty of time to grope each other later.” When Damian was patrolling, he was usually extremely focused and serious so that no one or nothing would get a jump on him.
Celaena pouted as he took her hand and got them back on task. “You’re no fun. Where’s your sense of danger?” she challenged as they continued on their way. Sighing and looking around the street, things seemed quiet, too quiet really and trouble was probably only a heartbeat away. A flurry of movement to the right between some houses caught her eye and she stopped, pulling Damian to a stop beside her with the grip she had on his hand. Slowly, she reached over her shoulder with her free hand and took hold of the hilt of one of her swords and carefully withdrew it from its scabbard on her back.
Damian had also noticed the movement and glanced in that direction, taking a moment to wait and watch. When he saw no more movement, he gestured for Celaena to follow him. When they came out onto the main street, Damian surveyed the area and a green glow, not too far away caught his eye, “That way.” He’d heard about how a lot of the rifts had opened up around various businesses, but he’d had the idea to check residential areas, because those were areas that were the most populated and at risk at night.
This particular residential area had a park nearby and as they got closer Damian saw what looked like a tear in the air in the middle of the park and green light continuously shot out of it where about half a dozen demons milled around it. “Jackpot.” He glanced back at Celaena, “Be careful. We don’t know what they’re capable of yet.”
Celaena followed Damian as he took point and withdrew her other blade from its sheath as they moved. She saw the green glow emanating from the tear in the air and squinted to try and get a better look at the creatures around it. “Ok, so how do we want to play this? Try and draw one of them away and take it down?” she suggested quietly. It would be a way of determining their abilities with less risk after all, but this was Damian’s play so she would let him lead for now.
Damian watched the demons, two looked like they had grayish purple skin and were stooped over, two others glowed green like the rift, but were transparent and looked like only the upper portion of a person. All four were floating. “I don’t know if that’ll work.” At the moment they all simply seemed focused on floating around near the rift. “I say we go for the two solid ones first.” He had no idea if they could do damage to the other two.
“Full frontal? I thought you said we were saving that for later,” Celaena teased, nudging him gently with her elbow and tipping a wink his way. “However you want to do this, I’ll follow your lead,” she told him, tightening her grip on the swords in her hands and watching the weird creatures.
Damian glanced at Celaena and smirked, “Shush, you.” He glanced back at the demons to make sure they hadn’t alerted them, but it seemed as though they were still focused around the rift, “Okay, if we get in over our heads then we get out of there. Got it?” He reached behind himself to unsheath his own sword then glanced back at Celaena, “Ready?” Not knowing anything about these demons, of course he was worried about something happening to Celaena, but at the same time he was pretty sure she could take care of herself in this situation.
“I think you’d need a gag to accomplish that and again, you said we needed to wait. Honestly Damian, why do you come up with all these imaginative ideas while we’re meant to be serious,” Celaena grinned, leaning forward to press another quick kiss to his lips. “I’m with you baby, all the way,” she told him, a fierce, determined look in her eyes. Her grip tightened on her swords as she followed Damian out of the shadows towards the danger.
“You’re ridiculous. You know that?” He smirked as Celaena kissed him then headed in the direction of the closest demon. Damian had seen lots of things in his dreams and in the waking world, but these might have been the most interesting so far. Keeping to the shadows as best he could with the rift casting a green glow over the park, he waited till the most opportune time before charging the closest greyish/purple skinned demon and ran it through with his sword. The demon shrieked the dissolved and it appeared that the rift absorbed the demon’s energy. This of course attracted the attention of the remaining demons and they turned on him and Celaena.
Celaena grinned as they moved through the shadows. She loved teasing him and she was excited to be heading into battle with him. The skills she had gained from her Dreams and her natural agility had made her confident enough to be able to play with him somewhat. She didn’t feel worried or scared, but exhilarated and when the second demon turned on her, she easily dodged underneath the spit the closest demon sent her way and leapt up to slice its head from its shoulders. Landing as elegantly as she could having decapitated a demon, she turned and grinned at Damian.
Damian watched as Celaena dispatched the other demon then brought his attention to the other two demons who were floating towards them. “Cel, watch out!” One of the green glowing demons shot something towards her as Damian rushed at it. Unfortunately his sword passed right through it. “Shit! These ones are immune to physical attacks!” He yelled over what sounded like the rift charging.
Two blasts shot from the rift then, depositing two more demons in place of the first two. These two almost looked like giant walking sticks with arms and legs and boy were they ugly. “Avoid the wraiths and go for these two.” He didn’t know exactly what the two glowing ones were called, but wraiths seemed to fit.
Celaena nodded at Damian’s instruction. Running past the ghost-like figures, she slid underneath the gangly legs of one and sliced at its legs with both her swords. The demon howled in pain and dropped to the floor from its severed legs. Getting swiftly to her feet, Celaena turned and drove her sword through the back of the flailing body’s neck, stopping all brain function.
Were it not for the fact that there was another demon for Damian to take care of, he would have enjoyed watching Celaena take down the first one, but he had to fight his own. It was taller than he was, but he’d gone up against opponents taller than him all the time in the dreams, considering he had been ten years old in them. He was about to do the same thing Celaena did, his katana poised to take out one of it’s legs when it made a sudden jump, the ground below it blazing green before it vanished into the ground only to appear again, seemily jumping out of the ground beneath Celaena and pinning her. “Shit!”
Running at it, he took out one of it’s arms before stabbing it in it’s side. It might not kill him, but he wanted to get its attention off Celaena and onto him to give her time to recover.
“Crap!” Celaena swore, suddenly finding herself pinned beneath a demon. Seeing Damian had stabbed the beast, she bought one of her swords up between herself and the demon and slashed across its abdomen, brought her legs up and kicked it off. “Where the hell did that come from?” she asked, getting to her feet. “Thanks for that,” she tossed him a little grin and swirled her swords. “So what do you want to do about the ghosty ones?” she asked, looking around at the remaining demons.
Once Celaena was back on her feet, Damian was able to breath a little easier. “I don’t know.” He glanced towards the last place he’d seen the greenish wraiths and noticed that the rift appeared to be absorbing them along with the newly killed demon, “I wish I knew how this thing worked.” At that moment four branches of green lightning shot out of the rift and deposited four more of the first type of demon they had fought. “Lets take these ones out and if it keeps throwing more at us, we might have to retreat.” With no way to actually close the rift, Damian had a feeling that they would simply keep fighting demons.
Celaena nodded, using the brief respite to catch her breath and prepare for the next fight. “Are you ok?” she asked, taking her eyes off the demons briefly to give him a quick once over.
Damian nodded and turned towards the oncoming demons, “Yeah, I’m fine. Let's work together to make quick work of these ones.” Damian didn’t know how much longer this was going to last, but he at least wanted to take care of this last wave before making any further decisions. Once they were done here he was going to have to let the guy who could handle the rifts know where it was so he could close it.
“Ok, let's do it,” Celaena agreed and turned to face the demons again. Advancing on one of them, she deflected a flying spiney thing with her swords, which she had no doubt was poisonous. The demon swung at her legs and Celaena flipped over the extended limb with ease. As soon as she had landed, she detached said limb from the demon's body with her sword. The demon turned it's head to her, giving Damian the opportunity to attack while it was distracted.
And Damian did exactly that. As Celaena sliced off the demon’s arm, Damian came up behind it and impaled it through the back. Before the Rift even had time to reabsorb it, Damian was already pulling his sword from its body and turning on an advancing demon whose head he quickly parted from its body. Within no time the remaining demons were gone and the Rift looked like it had become a little smaller and less volatile, “Alright. Let's get out of here before it starts spewing out more demons.” From the looks of it, if he informed Max right away, the other man might get there in time to close it before it recharged.
Celaena considered telling him no, that she wanted to stay and fight, but she recognised that Damian had more real world experience with this sort of thing than she did. While she was physically fit and healthy, being in actual combat with an enemy was different to sparring with a friend. She also wanted to get her hands on Damian and see for herself that he was safe and unharmed. “Whatever you say,” she said backing away from the Rift and the demons. When they were behind a building and safely away from the Rift, she put her swords into one hand and pushed him up against the wall, sealing her mouth over his with a firm kiss. “When we get back to your place, I am stripping you naked and checking every inch of you for injuries,” she grinned at him breathlessly.