The Betting Ring

[Neon]

"So either a girl, or Vlad's flaming brother." Edrin said thoughtfully.

[Raven]

"I'm going to assume girl, for my own sake," Ryan said, smirking.

[Gifted]

Vlads note said the same as Katrinas. The Wall. The Snake. The Doctor.

Olivia screamed in pain when the electricity filled the air, and tried to flee. She was still inhumanly fast, but Ben Ben could now easily make her out and see she was not up to form, stumbling and in pain as she fought to get away. Theoretically, if he'd had a car, keeping up with her would've been laughably easy.

"Yeah but there's no proof anyone would let you come close enough to read their note without killing you. That doesn't seem like it'd be smart to just trust you to find the people who match. There has to be a way to tell if a person is the Wall or the Snake without reading their note." Joan said critically.

[Raven]

Katrina nodded. "We'll have to look for the right powers."

Ben didn't have a car, but it didn't stop him from trying to keep up. He had a bit of range on his power, if he could just keep her in that range for a bit longer, he might be able to incapacitate her...

[Gifted]

Olivia scrambled to a cliff edge that, with Ben at full sprint, took him about two minute to get too. Obviously by the time Ben was standing at the edge she'd gotten there about a minute and a half ago. She'd jumped from this edge, and when Ben got there he could see her crouching behind a rock on an outcropping twenty five feet below, bleeding from a bad landing and her breathing accelerated but well enough to move freely and asses her injuries. She was still clutching her knife in the same hand, which looked red and burned.

[Raven]

Ben wasn't sure if it was worth it trying to go after her. He knew she couldn't heal herself, and it was a steep climb. Plus, he was bleeding rather badly. He decided to go sit down with his back to a rock and shock anyone who came close.

[Neon]

"Oh me too. That guy is creepy as hell." He said. "He tried to have sex with me twice." He added sadly.

Vladimir read the note, and knew for a fact he was a snake. Now, who could be a wall and a doctor? A healer, perhaps, and... A wall? What could make someone a wall? He decided to find a healer first. He walked stealthily through the forest, and then walked right into someone.

[Gifted]

Olivia pulled her knife slowly out of her hand, whimpering in pain as she did so The electricity had burned her hand badly and bits of skin peeled off as she pulled it away. She blew gently on the burn, trying to get it to stop stinging. God, that hurt. She guessed she wasn't in as great a shape as she thought.

Rick was absorbed in reading his own note and didn't hear Vlad coming up behind him.When Vlad walked right into him he stumbled forwards, whipping around and berating himself for being so stupid. He was in a battle to the death, he had to be more observant than that! He threw a powerful punch at the mystery boy.

[Neon]

Vlad ducked quickly, throwing a punch back that should have burned on contact.

[Gifted]

Rick was hit, but any extra ability didn't hurt him. He retaliated without a moment of hesitation.

[Neon]

Vlad was actually very unsettled by this and put his hands up in surrender, tentatively poking Rick. His clothimg should have melted in a hole around the finger, but then none of his poison actually affected Rick's skin. Poor Vladdy could not have concealed his surprise and terror if he had tried.

[Gifted]

Rick got it then, and gave him a look like Vlad might be nuts. "What... What are you trying to do?"

[Neon]

Vladimir mumbled something then decided to illustrate by melting a tree branch instead, then being unable to so much as tickle Rick. "You should be down dead with the amount of poison I am hitting on you with." He said in his obviously-not-native English.

[Gifted]

Rick laughed. "No powers work on me at all, kid. None. You could poison be all day and I wouldn't budge."

[Neon]

Vladimir thought quickly. "Then are you a wall to my Snake?"