"Did he get him?" Zac asked worriedly.
"No," Taylor answered, having sent a probe down to get a better view of things. "He made like Z and created a gap where the flames would have gotten him."
"Phew."
Isaac changed into himself again, but it was a metallic version of himself. Now knowing what a fiery fellow Bloodlust was, he decided to take no risks.
"Coward!" Bloodlust declared, becoming just human enough to say so.
"No, not cowardice. Intelligence. There's a difference. You're just annoyed because you don't have enough of the latter to figure out how to beat me."
Bloodlust growled. Isaac sat down and smiled at the vicious werewolf. Despite Bloodlust's further attempts to hurt Isaac, he only succeeded in hurting himself. And he couldn't get his fires hot enough to melt Isaac either.
"Are you quite finished?" Isaac asked after awhile. "No? Shame, I'm getting bored. Hmm, maybe this could make another song to add to my 'Isaac is bored' album. What do you think?"
Isaac got up and kicked Bloodlust through to the other side of the arena,
"See? I told you I'd kick your scrawny butt."
He then shape shifted back to normal and walked over to his sister.
"Jess?" he asked. "You okay?"
"Mmm-hmm," she replied. "I think I must have been knocked out there for a while, but my Healing looked after me."
"Go-" Isaac began.
"Ike look out!" Jess yelped.
For Bloodlust had recovered for his quick trip, and had lunged at Isaac, yet again. And again he banged into Isaac's force field. Isaac remained expressionless.
"Daddy?"
Everyone looked up at Angela, whose wings were now big enough to let her fly over to them. She hovered in the air and Bloodlust turned back human.
"Angie! Sweetie, come down and let's get out of here."
"Daddy... why do you keep trying to kill my friends?"
"Your 'friends'," he growled, "are MIA!"
"I don't know what MIA is, and I don't care. All I know, is that you lied to me. You were never in security were you? You killed people for a living. All this time, I've been living on blood money! And if that's not bad enough, you try to kill my friends. Jess - the girl you threatened to kill tonight - numbed the pain of one of the growth spurts of my wings!"
"Can't you see what they've done? They've poisoned you against me!"
"Dad, you and your friends attacked the Hansons for no reason, and all they were doing was trying to get to the next stop on their tour! I, I know that some people I've met are out to kill you, but I also know that the Hansons at least have spared your life a few times. On the bus, Zac could have used much higher volts of electricity, Taylor could have killed you easily with one of his probes, and Isaac, well, you've seen what he can do."
"How does she know all that?" Taylor whispered to Zac, bitterly. "Not many people know I can kill with my probes."
"Maybe one of those 'not many people' probably told her. Or maybe its common knowledge that probes can be used like that."
"Then they're all [insert something incredibly condescending about their intelligence and most definitely unrepeatable here]! And so are you for following them!"
The moment Bloodlust had stalked from their sight, Angela burst into tears.