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▼ ([personal profile] cutshort) wrote in [community profile] thearena2013-05-07 11:09 pm

the end

Who| Hyperion | [personal profile] cutshort, Barbara | [personal profile] acro_bat_ic and Wyatt [personal profile] the_marshal
What| The ending of the fall of Hyperion! Round 2: Hyperion vs Barbara, followed by Round 3: Hyperion vs Wyatt.
Where| Tomorrowland.
When| Week 8.
Warnings/Notes| Character death, horrible violence, Hyperion being more psychotic than ever


His breath cuts through his throat like barbed wire.

He's dragging himself, back to safety, back to a place where he knows his implants will certainly save him. He almost died at the hands of Ruby, but he ran away, looking like a grotesque version of what he was when he first stepped foot in the arena. There's blood everywhere. His clothes are torn, ripped, twisted, dirty. The lines on his face are deeper than ever, the look in his eyes brighter than a lunatic's gaze.

Hand against a wound that refuses to stop bleeding, he tells himself just needs a little more strength, a little more clarity in his eyes, then everything will be all right. He can win. He can win.
acro_bat_ic: (scared)

[personal profile] acro_bat_ic 2013-05-21 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
She didn't want this. She was tired of this. Everyone dying beneath her watch. Falling, one after the other - continuously falling for her. She didn't want it.

One step than another, toward the duo, reaching out but stumbling toward her knee. There had to be something she could do. Something she could make happen.

It would have sounded more convincing to herself if she could get up off her knees.
the_marshal: (wyattWhat)

[personal profile] the_marshal 2013-05-21 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wyatt doesn't respond. He wouldn't have been able to even if he'd had the inclination. The first blow ripped the air from his lungs, the second echoed through his chest, the pain like fire.

He was not going to survive this. The realization came in a burst of clarity as his heart stuttered beneath his ribs.

And that was all right. Would be just fine... if he could take this bastard down with him.

He let the attack rain over him, let the gloved hands wind around his throat - and then struck back, the blade of his knife disappearing into the man's side.
acro_bat_ic: (scared)

[personal profile] acro_bat_ic 2013-05-28 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Barbara merely watched. Helpless. It was all she could really do, wasn't it? All she'd been able to do all arena long... watch other people get hurt.
the_marshal: (wyattAngry2)

[personal profile] the_marshal 2013-05-29 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
He saw the fist coming - it almost seemed to slow down as it pulled back, every knuckle in fine, sharp detail as it swung down - but there was no escaping it.

It crashed against his jaw, a crack echoed in his ears, wet salt bursting across his tongue as a tooth snapped, and his vision flashed black, the crack of pain, like white lightening, the only thing he see.

The chips of his tooth fell into the back of mouth, slipped in his throat. He struggled to breathe, to swallow....

But he didn't give in.

As his lungs burned and his heart labored, he twisted the knife, determined to fight to the very last.


acro_bat_ic: (sad)

[personal profile] acro_bat_ic 2013-06-03 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
She watches. Just... watches. She wants to scream herself. Why can't she stand? Why can't she stop this? ...Why is someone else always fighting her battles for her? She's not a child. She can handle this.

But it's taking all her effort just to move onto her feet.
the_marshal: (wyattHathide)

[personal profile] the_marshal 2013-06-04 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
The light had gone dim, the very sun seeming to hide its face as the darkness circled in. All he could see was the stranger's mouth, moving above him, the words lost in the fierce pounding of his heart.

Did they matter really? He suspected not.

The familiar cold was creeping over him, his fingers limbs turning to lead, his fingers grasping at air as the knife fell away.

Death was here again.

At last.

His eyes rolled, found the sky, and watched it turn to grey, and then to black, as he sank once more into the nothingness.
acro_bat_ic: (scared)

[personal profile] acro_bat_ic 2013-06-08 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Barbara, for her part, simply... lays there. Half crouching, still wishing she could get up and run to them. Something in the back of her mind is screaming that she can still do something. That she's still a hero, and heroes aren't too late. They're never too late.

But that's a lie. It's all she can do to get to her feet. Even if she managed to get to them, she couldn't patch up those wounds - she doesn't know how. Even if she did know how, they'd still have to die. Or kill her.

It's useless.

She's useless.