OOC: Music for part 1 of the post:
Also: I'll give you a heads-up: This gets a bit bloody. 
Altis calmly walked into a nearby building. It was short, compared to the buildings nearby, but still relatively tall. He brandished the spear, sinking into a combat stance, as the Neo Illuminus soldiers who had refused to surrender drew their rifles and took aim.
They opened fire. The newman rolled to one side, taking cover behind a reception counter. Their gunfire kept him pinned down. He closed his eyes and focused, determining by sound the locations of his assailants. His eyes snapped open, and he lept over the counter, dashing to his right. A few bullets hit, but Altis kept moving, undeterred. With a single thrust of his spear, one soldier was impaled halfway down the lenght of the spear. Altis shoved him to the ground and ripped his spear out, creating a shower of blood that rained down over him. The terrorists stumbled back, stunned by the violent display. Taking a moment to himself as well, Altis clutched his left hand to his chest and muttered, "Forgive me, my friends, for my sinful indulgence..."
As soon as the Neo Illuminus soldiers recovered, they resumed firing. Altis didn't miss a beat. He rushed the next nearest soldier, ducking low, and cut the man's legs out from under him. A quick sprint to the next soldier ended with the rear end of Altis's spear in the human's face, along with the cracking of bone. A third soldier fell to a thrown spear. The fourth, having run out of energy in his machine gun, drew a pistol and fired at the newman as he turned. Altis dropped to the ground.
The soldier inched up, handgun pointed at the fallen newman. Assuming him dead, the soldier lowered his gun. Altis shot up and tackled the man, slamming him into the wall. As the human slumped to the floor, Altis grabbed his spear and proceeded up the stiarwell, cutting down the soldiers that dared to stand in his way.
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OOC: Music for part 2 of the post:
Altis calmly walked into the fifth, and the top floor of the building. Directly across from him stood a strongly-bulit human with a large sword, with a rifleman on either side of him.
"I assume you're the one who is in charge, now that Sasha's left you," Altis said, his voice devoid of emotion.
"Yes. And after I am finished with you, I will kill that traitorous bitch," the man replied, contempt in his voice, "Of course, I don't have time to fight you." He nodded to one of his men, who pulled out a detonator and activated it.
Altis, heard several beeps and looked down, only to see several Burn Trap EX's imbedded into the floor. They all roared to life at once, creating several large and continuous explosions, the newman warrior caught in the middle of them all.
"Worthless newman. And he calls himself a warrior."
Two daggers flew out of the flames left by the blasts, each landing square in the chest of one of the guards, before the blades melted away. From the flames walked Altis once more. His clothes were ragged and burned, and his line shield was offline, but Altis was still standing. After a few steps, he rushed forwards at top speed, attempting to impale the Neo Illuminus commander. A wall of glowing hexagons stopped the blade about six inches from its target, sparks flying from where the spear met the line shield. Altis stumbled back a few feet, having lost his balance in the attack. The human hefted his sword up with one hand, rushed Altis, and took a sweeping horizontal swing. Altis backflipped, jumping both over the blade and out of its way. Rushing back in, he threw three quick stabs, all of which were parried. As the human swung his blade overhead, Altis spun to the side and attempted to slash the man below the ribs, although this too was blocked by his line shield.
Altis lept back, narrowly avoiding being elbowed in the face. Rushing back in, he threw a fake overhead slash. Falling for the feint, the human raished his sword to block. Altis quickly pulled his spear back before the impact and stabbed for the man's midsection. The newman felt a bit of give under the force of his strike, a sighn that his opponent's line shield was weakening. However, he had no time to push this opportunity, as he had to leap back to avoid the man's sword.
The human, angered, went on the offensive. Rushing Altis, he trough three sweeping slashes. Altis backstepped the first one and ducked the second. When the man threw the third one, Altis was more or less backed against the wall. Not missing a beat, he backflipped onto the wall, kicked off it, and flipped over in midair, bringing his spear's blade down on his opponent's head, providing momentum for him to land behind his foe, whose line shield was now badly damaged. Now absolutely enraged, the man attempted to bring his sword down on Altis's head, an attack easily sidestepped, although this attack did smash a hole in the floor, sending Altis plummitting to the next floor down.
The pain was nearly crippling. However, Altis still mustered the strenght to roll out of the way as the man lep down, blade tip first, onto where he was just laying. Getting back up, though breathing heavily, Altis charged. He stabbed relentlessly at the man, focring him to back up with every block. However, the human ran into a suppor beam along one of the glass walls. Altis took this chance and threw a powerful thrust with his spear. His spear slowly broke through the man's line shield, the tips of its blades burning into the man's flesh. Altis forcefully pulled the blade out, causing the shield to completely shatter. Exhasted, the human looked up at Altis, unable to stand and slumped on the floor.
"What now?" he sneered, "Are you going to try and re-"
"They may show their foes mercy, but I do not," Altis replied, his spear sticking out of his now mortally wounded opponent. Calmly, Altis drew the blade out and picked up his opponent over his shoulder, before throwing his opponent out the fourth story window. "How unsatisfying," Altis sighed.
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OOC: Part 3 music:
2 Months Later
Altis was alone, barely visible in the dark of night. The stars were shining in the clear Neudaiz sky. The grassy hill on which he stood was lined by four graves. One in particular had a boquet of flowers on it. The newman was unarmed, with his line shield deactivated, and was kneeling before the graves in a deep state of meditation. Slowly coming out of it, he stood up and continued to stare at the graves for several minutes. Much to his chagrin, his communicator buzzed, although it was set to a soft series of tones.
"Who is this?" Altis asked, annoyed.
"Hey, Altis, you want to come over to my bar a little later and have a drink? I think I could use one, and it's always more fun with more people," the voice replied.
"Oh. It's you," Altis said, his voice lightening a bit, "Sure. I'll see if I can catch a midnight flyer off Neudaiz. Just don't leave me there with a hangover like you did last time."
Hanging up, Altis began to walk away. Turning his head over his shoulder to look at the graves once more, he said, "I'm sorry for what I've had to do... And it's all my fault that you died that day... You were my family... I'm nothing without you all... Unfortunately, my life doesn't end just yet... A-All I ask... All I ask is that you forgive me for my sins." He stood still for a moment, as if expecting an answer he knew wouldn't come, before he departed towards the city.
OOC: Just sit and listen to the rest of the third tune now.
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