Night 47: Courtyard

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[from here]With a little push from her hands on the top of the wall, Teresa gained enough momentum in her vault from the greenhouse yard to be a good couple feet away from the wall. Landing in a three-point stance, the large metal weapon barely clearing the ground, Teresa too a quick look around. She didn't see anything, didn't sense anything,

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[swornandbroken]

Mello heard the blow connect, and Usopp's surrender, and glanced that way as he made for the shed, meaning to give Niikura some sort of gesture of thanks for dealing with the nut case. He completely intended to share with him, if the spoils were shareable, or so he'd claim if asked. Hell, he believed it himself right now.

That look toward the 'pirate' was a mistake. Mello threw his arm up to shield his eyes from the light stabbing at them, a fraction of a second late, and staggered to a stop, blinded. God damn it, whatever was in that shed had better be worth it, because this was turning into way more fucking trouble than it had any right to. He squeezed his eyes shut until the afterimage and spots dancing on the inside of his eyelids had faded.

When he looked again, he saw that more people had joined the crowd, and that the bastard who'd snuck in while Mello and Niikura were preoccupied had made it to the shed. Oh no you don't, he thought, and sprinted for it, giving Usopp a wide berth in case he had something else up his sleeve. He'd gotten here first, and did that fucker at the shed have a chainsaw? None of this was fair.

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[oneman_onekill]

Alright! A hit! About fucking time, in Niikura's opinion; usually it didn't take him so long to get his opponents where he wanted them in a full-on fight. He paid no mind to Usopp's surrender--this wouldn't end until the pirate was out--and was hefting the flashlight for another blow when all of a sudden an intense light flooded his vision, and Niikura staggered away with a hoarse yell, clutching his eyes. Stupid, stupid, stupid mistake.

But it looked like once again Usopp wasn't going to pounce on him like Niikura had done only moments earlier. He honestly considered trying another assault, but realized that at some point, enough was enough. And right now his eyes were telling him that he had hit that "enough" point; it was time to make a run for it.

Niikura slammed almost drunkenly into the side of the shed--he'd certainly gone far from Usopp--and slumped against it as he tried to clear his vision. Once the spots had cleared away somewhat, he reached out with a hand, inched along the wall, and stumbled into the shed. He'd seen Mello run in here after some other guy whom he hadn't gotten a clean look at. In any case, he got the feeling his partner for the night needed a little backup--or maybe he could just snag the goods for him.

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[usoppsenchou]

Usopp reached out slowly for Kabuto as the attacker ran off, unfortunately not running in the right direction. This really was not going well. At least the flash dial had been enough to make them back away. What were they all so hot on getting into the little shed for?

Shaking his head to try to clear it of a lingering buzz from the solid hit, Usopp got back up to his feet.

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