The Path to New Babylon

[Erik Vrell]

Erik sighed irritably as he entered the marketplace with Shay not far behind. Another arrogant intruder who didn't know his place. And this one had attacked the king's hand of all people! "I guess he needs to have the sense knocked into him." Erik muttered under his breath, oblivious to the man's metal half as he dashed forwards. He planted a kick on the side of the captain. While this normally wouldn't have knocked him off balance, he wasn't expecting the attack and lost his footing, although he managed to stay upright. "Who do you think you are!?" Erik shouted as he closed in for another kick, still unaware of the captain's metal half. "How DARE you attack the king's hand like that." As he said this, a gust of wind blew sand into his face, temporarily blinding him. He quickly wiped the sand from his eyes and opened them to see a metal fist rocketing towards him. It hit him hard in the stomach, causing him to double over in pain. He coughed violently and spat a small amount of blood on the sand. "That's not good." He thought to himself. Just as the steam captain swung his arm to crush the smaller psychic in front of him, Sasuke charged into him, sending him stumbling and almost knocking him off his feet. Stephan muttered something about 'damn kids' as he regained his balance and showed no signs of backing down. As Erik picked himself up, he saw movement out of the corner of his eye. It was Demetri slowly limping away from the stall he had been rammed into. Erik remembered with a start that they had been fighting Demetri to begin with and knew that he could't let him get away, but had a brick wall between him and his target. He was unsure of what to do when Shay entered the market place. He quickly took aim with his gun and fired off three shots into the direction of Stephan. Two hit his metal help and one grazed his flesh and blood leg. While this did minimal damage, it gave Erik a window to slip past. He dashed past the distracted steam captain and began to pursue Demetri.

Erik raced after the hooded figure limping away from the fight. "Where do you think you're going?" Erik shouted as he drew Mageslayer, only a short distance behind Demetri. The thief had a look of horror plastered on his face as he turned to see the psychic right behind him. While there was no doubt that he would be able to outrun Erik in a normal situation, but he was bleeding heavily and Erik was almost sprinting when Demetri turned to see him. He was tackled to the ground by the psychic before he could break into a run. "Surrender now! You're doomed anyway so just come peacefully!" Erik shouted. Demetri was surprisingly strong despite having lost so much blood and managed to throw the psychic off of him and break into a run. Erik was about to give chase when pain exploded in his stomach. "I need to get that checked when this whole mess is over." Erik thought to himself. Furious but impressed at Demetri's resistance, Erik drew himself up to his full height and purple mist began to flow from the sleeves of his cloak. His eyes flared with purple light as the mist formed a large bow. He drew the string back to it's maximum distance and an arrow began to form from the same mist. "This is your last warning!" Erik cried as he trained the arrow on the fleeing thief. "Surrender or die!"

Used tier one super move - Great Psi Bow
-1 SP. 1 SP remaining.
I just wanted to make it clear that Erik won't fire on Demetri if he surrenders.