Upper East Side

The Battle for Upper East Side
Something blue whizzed past his head.

Another flash of blue, but coming from the opposite way.

Emma’s Cryo hit the Enlightened, who toppled off the building and landed with a crash on top the dumpster.

Emma leaped up, her skirt swishing.

“I really wish I brought better street clothes,” she muttered. Casey created a ladder for them out of twisted copper pipes.

“Oh, now you do that,” Emma muttered as she switched onto the ladder.

Casey didn’t need it, he’d already perched himself atop the building facade.

The Enlightened were waiting. They probably didn’t poke their heads out until Casey appeared because of their comrade falling.

“Cowards,” Casey thought.

Flashes of blue ricocheted past Casey, one even grazing his hair.

With a snap of his fingers, their Cryos melted, turning into a slippery pile of melted metal.

The Enlightened lunged at him. Their feet touched the melted Cryos, and they slipped, tumbling over the dragon gargoyles and into the alleyway.

Emma swung herself on top of the building. “Nice work.”

“Thanks.”

Casey ran, and, leaping across the gap between buildings, landed with a tuck and roll on the other building, where the dojo was.

Emma followed him. “Are you insane?”

Casey shook his head. “They’ll kill Wü. I can take them.”

Emma muttered “Hubris” as Casey leaped off the roof, landing in the center of the attacking Enlightened.

They were stunned at first- then they got their act together and drew short stabbing knives, made for shanking.

Their knives melted into hot metal, leaving only the hilts.

Casey dodged a flying hilt, which flew over his head and conked another Enlightened.

Then flashes of blue light swerved to avoid Casey’s face, stunning the Enlightened around him. Emma was here.

Stepping over the bodies of the Enlightened, Casey surveyed the fight. Twelve Enlightened down, five Pariah stunned.

Two killed.

The Battle for Upper East Side was a short, one-chapter battle that resulted in the burning of a large portion of Manhattan.