Thread: Courage Under Fire (Attn: Domino, Sophia ONLY)

Domino knew not to question Corin when she started yelling directions. She was too worked up to ignore. When they get to the house ablaze he imediately parks and runs out to the couple that got out. When the man murmurs about the children he instantly hears H's voice in his head from long ago. It echoes "it's our duty to protect the mortals, our law." Then again he hears him say "Run". Domino leads the charge into the house. He feels the beast inside growl abit but he silences it right off. The beast would have to cover its eyes tonight. The inferno wouldn't stop him from his duty. It never would have stopped H. It was who they were.

Turning quickly when Corin yelled out the directions she saw the pain in Corin's eyes, she had seen that look with Corin before, she knew Corin was having some sort of vision. Looking Victor in the eyes now she smiles trying to keep his attention away from Corin's pain.

Watching Corin jump out of the SUV she follows hearing the man say that there are children inside she runs into the house with Corin and Domino not even waiting to look around at where the fire is, she keeps close to Domino not wanting to see anything happen to him.

Inside the house they can see the blaze engulfing everything inside, then they hear it, the screams from upstairs, three distinct voices. The hallway to the stairs is completely consumed with flames, there is hardly any way to get through it without damage.

Corin turns to look at Domino and nods to him, knowing that he of all people may have a way to figure this out. She grabs Sophia and tells her to hang on.

Domino pushes his sense of hearing to the edge and picks up the sounds of the kids. He looks at the stairs on fire and then back to Corin and Sophia. He took one last look around where they were in the house and saw no mortals could see them where they were. He summons all his courage along with his strength. In an almost impossible-to-see blur he draws one of his obfuscated blades and flashes up and down the hallway and stairs. The girls can feel the rush of as he runs, suffocating the fire to a smolder down the path. Domino suddenly stops at the base of the stairs and pushes the bottom of the rail off to the side. Its then that the girls watch as the smoldering railing falls to the floor, clearing the path up the stairs. As smoke from Domino's singed pants float up he holsters his short sword and says "Follow me.". He goes first making sure the stairs don't break under the girls.

Once Domino has cleared the path, Corin summons all the willpower she can muster, and forces her blood to help her with her speed. Picking up Sophia, she runs after Domino up the stairs then sets Sophia down.

She runs one direction as she watches Sophia and Domino run the other direction.

After Corin puts her down, she runs off to the right down to the first door she sees, bangs on the door and yells for anyone inside that room to get away from the door. Laying down on the floor in the hall she kicks at the door till it opens, then looks for anyone that might be in that room. She see's a young boy, no more than seven years old, runs into the room, tears her shirt off and holds it over the boys mouth and nose. She is about to turn and leave the room with the boy when part of the roof collapses, trapping her in the room.

Domino sees the roof cave in as he goes by the door. Something inside him wells up and he feels his body and mind rise to a new level of determination. He screams "NOOOO!!!!!". Domino continues to the room next door as he planned. As he kicks the door open it goes flying off the hinges, across the room, and crashes out the window on the other side. This room is definately a little girls. He can hear coughing in the closet. He opens the closet to see a little girl with pigtails laying there. He picks her up and takes her out to Corin. "Take her! I gotta save Sophia!". Domino runs back into the girls room. He summons all his strength and brutality. Without a second thought he runs right through the burning wall of the room, emerging in the room Sophia and the child is in. Domino is so focused on finding Sophia and the boy he doesn't even notice the splinters of wood in his arm and leg.

She breaks a hole large enough to fit a child through into the door she had run to. She peeks in through the hole and see's a girl about the age of three. The girl stops crying when she see's Corin and runs over to the door. Corin reaches through the hole and pulls the girl through. When the girl cries about her teddy Corin kicks the door in, runs into the room, then finds the girls bear. She hears Domino scream and runs out of the room and down the hall to find Domino running towards her with a child.

With the two children in her arms she runs down the stairs and out the front door. Ambulances, fire trucks and police cars can be heard and seen coming down the street, still holding the kids she runs up to the parents and Victor. The mother and father take their two little girls out of Corin's arms as Victor grabs and holds onto Corin.

"Check on the girls...I have to go back in and help Domino."

Victor tries to hold onto Corin's arm so that she cannot leave. She looks him in the eyes and places a hand on his cheek.

"Victor, you're a doctor, those girls need you. Please."

Victor let's go of Corin's arm and she runs back inside the house.

Ready to run through the rubble that had just trapped them, she looks the boy in the eyes and tells him to trust her. Pulling the young one close to her to cover his face she musters all her courage only to find Domino breaking through the wall. She cannot hide the relief on her face when she see's him, then nodding to him before she runs out of the room with the boy. She see's Corin running back into the house and hands the boy to Corin who runs back out of the house.

Sophia turns around and looks to see if Domino is behind her.