190 Rescue (1/2)

AS the room went dark, Leona let out her breath that she had been holding, but she still refused to make a sound. The gashes on her body hurt, but they weren't bad enough to cause her to bleed excessively. As such, she knew they would heal soon enough. One of the benefits of her daily training was that she had an increased tolerance to pain. Another benefit was that she knew her body enough to know when she was in trouble and this wasn't that serious.

Despite her relief, she was worried as well. She had no idea what Brian had done to her but it seemed like such a casual attack had still done this amount of damage. She didn't want to know what would happen if he had attack with his full strength if this wasn't it. Despite her throbbing head, she steadied her breathing as much as possible to try to figure some things out.

Over the course of time with Laz, she had gotten a pretty good grasp on the types of powers he had seen with infected. Also, when she considered Laz's ability, or Ruby's, or even Dee's and Reggie's, she felt that Brian's was definitely different. Laz could send out his flames, but they came from the energy he produced. Even if he didn't use his flame ability, it wasn't like he could send out an attack that would just move through the air like that. The closest thing Ruby could compare it too was Reggie's ability, but even then, it was different. Reggie's ability was based on the grounds of using runes. As such, once he created the rune, it would have an effect. But most runes were like an inscription that once used, had to come in contact with something for it to be effective.

What Brian did was completely different.

Although she was stuck in a cage underground, located who knows where, Leona started to feel worried about Laz. She knew that he would find her and soon. But doing so meant he would have to take on Brian without having a clue as too his ability. The only spot of comfort she could feel was that Brian had no idea what Laz could do. Had she known that Fred had already sold Laz out to Brian, she would have started to lose her cool in no time.

What Leona didn't know was that the action of Brian's attack actually alerted Laz to his position. He had been keeping a very close eye on the main building, while keeping his distance. Up until this point, he hadn't been able to find anything since he wasn't trying to alert anyone that he was here. The hardest part about all of this was that Laz really didn't know what to do.

To top it all off, Laz didn't exactly have a guide book on how to change the shape of the laser, change the color or anything else. The only thing he could do was to add or decrease the power of the laser to make it less easy to notice. But when you do that, you lose a good portion of the picture.

Due to all this, Laz had just been casually hitting the building in out of the way spots so as to avoid detection.

But since he already had his spiritual sense focused on the building, as soon as the burst of power went off, he noticed it right away.

Considering how odd it was, Laz knew that it wasn't Leona. He would have recognized her energy right away.

As Laz focused, what he noticed amazed him. The burst came from an area below ground... way below ground. It seemed like it came from somewhere deeper than even the basement. And that was a problem. Assuming that there was actually a layer below the basement, Laz had no idea how he was going to get there.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it would be easier to just rush in and try to push through. Or at least, the was the only idea he had. If the security inside had been moving around at all, Laz could have found a way to slip in. But it seemed like they were staying in place for the long haul and weren't coming out.

Just when Laz started thinking that he had to do something stupid, he felt a slight tickle on the back of his arm and looked down, only to see a rather cute spider looking back up at him.

:Tyr?: Laz had completely forgotten about this little guy. In fact, he had no idea how he had gotten here.

Rewind a few hours.

When Ruby had gone to pick up Vivi, unknown to them, Tyr had been excited by the sudden action and snuck his way inside the car. Then, meeting up with Laz who he had decided to follow along with, he ended up hitching a ride on Laz clothes, completely escaping anyone's notice. Even Laz who had spread his senses out to cover as much ground as possible didn't notice Tyr simply because he never focused on himself. It was only when Laz started to become agitated that Tyr sensed a problem and made himself visible.

Despite this happy little occurrence though, it didn't solve Laz's problem.

:Hey little guy. Sorry, but I can't play right now. I'm trying to find a way underground...: Although Tyr didn't possess the ability to respond to him, Laz still felt a tiny bit better at having someone next to him to share his worry.

Strangely though, after saying this, Tyr ended up looking in the direction of Laz's gaze and noticed a familiar energy. Leona had been there when Laz first encountered Tyr so Tyr knew who she was. Looking at Laz and then looking back to where Leona was and then back at Laz again, Tyr's tiny mind had some understanding on what was happening.

Big person wanted to find good smelling person.

:K:

Laz was taken back by this sudden communication. Tyr had never before communicated in a way that he could understand. Even Vivi was at a loss when it came to the little guy and could only surmise that Tyr was smart, but hadn't begun to open up his spirit. As such, he wouldn't be able to communicate for some time. As Vivi said, he was simply like a small newborn.

Yet now he was able to express his understanding.