Snap Decision

Fore word (i.e. Read this first!): Okay, this kinda drops you right in the action, so I'll just fill in for you! It's set in the middle of a fight between the Mummies and some shabties - Scarab's disappeared off and left them to fight and Meccha gets hit trying to warn Shade of an attacking shabtie.

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"Shade! Behind you!" the werewolf turned, just in time to slice in half the shabtie that had been approaching from behind. As he turned back he saw - almost in nightmare slow motion - one of the stone warriors surrounding them level its magical spear at her, firing an energy blast at her. Meccha's tiger armour left her midriff bare and the shot hit her unprotected back, causing massive damage.

"NO!" an explosion of darkness as Shade used is sadowcasting power and suddenly the shabties that had surrounded them were gone, teleported to the Shadow Realm from where there could be no escape, leaving F'lair and Meccha alone in the midst of the battle.

The werewolf knelt down, cradling her fallen form gently in his arms, "Please be okay," he whispered. But the blood on his hand from where he held her as he brushed strands of red hair from her face told him otherwise. There was so much he had never said to her, but wanted to say - to tell her that she was the only person he had felt able to trust his heart to after his break-up with the mercenary known as The Panther all that time ago, and now she was dying. There was an unspoken affection between the two that neither had yet realised into an actual relationship, and now it seemed that it was too late.

"F'lair?" the white tiger mask magically disappeared and she opened her eyes fractionally at the touch of his cool skin, "I...I don't want to die," she said quietly.

*She's slipping away* Raven's voice warned inside Shade's head.

"I don't want you to die either,"

*Then don't let her - you know what you can do* suggested the dracoliche spirit.

"Don't let me ... I - love you,"

Shade was caught, uncertain. He knew he could save Meccha by turning her into a werewolf with his bite, but there was no way back after that. Meccha knew he could save her as well.

"You're willing to become a werewolf too?"

She nodded, too weak to speak now.

F'lair shut his eyes, torn. Lycanthropy was something he wouldn't wish on anyone, but nor did he want to lose Meccha. But at least she would be alive and with her soul intact - unlike him. Then he made the decision and, steeling himself, bit her.

An instant later the young woman's eyes flew upon and she sat bolt upright with a gasp. As she was alive the mortal wound would take a little longer to heal over than for F'lair, but she was saved.

"Steady there - you need to rest," F'lair silently called upon Raven and his bone armour grew in, he coiled the skeletal tail about them to form a protective barrier until the fight was done. The other mummies had finished off the remaining shabties and now approached the two. They had seen the magical blast Meccha had taken but had been unable to reach her through the melee until now. Kemet, Meccha's sister, was the first there, tiger mask pushed back over his head and normally optimistic face taught with worry.

"She..she's alive? But how?" the horseman had known the wound was fatal. Then he saw the blood on Shade's face and the shame in his eyes, "You bit her? You turned my sister into a WEREWOLF?!" Kemet was shocked and horrified, "How could you?"

"I didn't want her to die!" F'lair's eyes flashed as he defended his action.

Kemet shook his head in anger, but knew that his sister would have died had F'lair not done this...but the thought of Meccha as a werewolf was one he knew he could never get used to...

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disclaimer: MA! belongs to DIC, Shade's mine, Kemet belongs to Kalia and Meccha belongs to Meccha! Simple as that!
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