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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 7, 2007 18:05:58 GMT -5
"Oh please." Ameratsu said, before the knife cut her skin she merged to her cat form which made space between her and the blade of the weapon. One of the invisible Renjiro forms now stood behind Cecil, some water weapon in hand which seemed to levitate while another held an identical weapon as it stood over Darishan, a wicked smile on his face. The one visable Renjiro was in fact at this moment in the form of a white fox, it's pelt pure in color.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Jan 7, 2007 18:17:51 GMT -5
There beast roared as the spiked water bit a chunk out of its hide. It lunged for Ameratsu, spitting those razor thing teeth at her like needles. Somehow, it didn't seen like a good idea to let that monster knock you down. Who knew when you'd be able to get back up again, if at all. On the ground, Darishan's wide eyes widened a little less, and there were some signs that he was regaining consciousness, however slowly.
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Post by Arual on Jan 7, 2007 18:21:08 GMT -5
Cecil skidded down the trail of dust, then fell forward. Was there a wall behind him? How? The arena wasn't that small to begin with. His eyes had that black-red color to them once more. "You better wake up Darishan," Cecil said under his breath. He turned back around and as soon as the dust cleared from his sight.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 7, 2007 18:34:36 GMT -5
Ameratsu slid back into human form and then stood so that Cecil was between her and the tiger beast. The invisable renjiro let water gather around Cecil's ankles and freeze him in place. The laviathan seemed to have dissapeared and Amaratsu knew she had just wait till the tiger beast attacked again
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Jan 7, 2007 18:42:34 GMT -5
Darishan's eyes suddenly focused, turning first the deepest blue and then fading back to an absolute white. They seemed to burn with bloodlust and glowed eerily. A pulse went out from him, shattering the ice that held Cecil's feet. He finally looked up. "You tampered with something you knew nothing of," he said, his voice as unemotional as ever, yet there was an odd, malicious catch to it. "And now, you're going to die for it." It was a simple fact. Darishan turned his attention to the beast that was still there and whispered one word. Shadows seemed to flicker from the ground, merging and forming with the beat until it was tripled in size, a mass of inky darkness and protruding spikes of bone. an aura of death was so strong around it that it would have been visible to almost anyone. It swept one many-jointed hand at Ameratsu with a deafening gurgle sound.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 7, 2007 18:54:53 GMT -5
Ameratsu jumped into the air and looked below her at the opponent and laughed, "Please, my own experience surpasses yours so greatly it is but so sad a thing." She smiled as she reached into another pocket and took out a jewel and looked at it with a sad expression. It was neccesary for now but she knew that it wouldn't help her much but it would stop Darishan as well. She threw it to the ground which began to glow, "Land sanctified as holy from now in this mark, stop they treachery on life and death to the bark." she said as the land was now marked with crisscrossing blue lines of light. Oddly enough she carried such an item with her and she landed with a sad expression on her face at this moment- the ground was now unfit for undead and necromancy. "Now then." She looked towards the Tiger beast as due to the spell it would be turning to dust, bursting into flames or something of that sort.
Renjiro became visable, he turned his attention to Darishan and the water shot at him in great spears that whistled through the air in a shrill tone as they travelled ever nearer. He was the master of magic, Ameratsu could use some but she had a thing for objects and runes of which she carried many with her in hidden pockets about her person.
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Post by Arual on Jan 7, 2007 18:56:39 GMT -5
Shana, still in her gown for the dance and worried as heck, looked to find Cecil and Darishan. "Cecil!!!!" She yelled as she leaned over a row of seats that ended the floor and looked out onto the arena. Her curls bounced forwards when she did. She ran over to a different part of the row, with an attempt for her to be heard from him. Cecil, dirty and cut up in unprotected places from where his clothing ends, had a few of his gashes or cuts bled along the edge of his arms and legs. "Shana." Cecil mumbled to himself and then heard Darishan's voice. "You can do it!" Shana cried out over a balcony of seats. A smirk appeared from Shana's reassuranced voice and Darishan's help of getting him unstuck on Cecil's face. Even in this situation, to keep calm, was the best thing to do. " Alright, I only have two choices left now, but which one?" the boy questioned himself as he readied himself for an attack. "Darishan," Cecil called out loudly,"I need some time... can you help me out a little?"
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Jan 7, 2007 19:02:40 GMT -5
Darishan felt the burn of stepping on holy ground, but this body protected him far greater than how he would have been alone. He laughed softly at the girl's comment. "Once again you assume overmuch. I am ageless." The creature he had summoned died abruptly into the earth, but that was of no real matter. "Well, what will you do now, cat?" he asked. The spears of water made it to about a foot away from him until they were somehow refracted to the ground.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 7, 2007 19:26:08 GMT -5
Ameratsu looked over towards Darishan with a smile, well then... she smiled as she reached into yet another pocket and withdrew an item that looked to be a small metal box but it unfolded into a longsword which she held in her hand with a smile on her face, "Come come, don't you understand the nature of my kind?I have yet exposed the nature of my abilities. You may have heard of my brother Neko? He is so weak! See now..." her body dissapeared into black swirls of energy and she reappeared behind Darishan, "You think that I am this way because I wish it? My kind when we are bound to another to be a guardian adopt the traits of those we watch over. It is but one of the many forms of Blood Bond." she said in snarling words as she ran her finger accross the back of Darishan's neck.
Renjiro clutched his hands into fists and charged at Cecil, his eyes licking with flame as he charged foreward, "Ameratsu!" he shouted. Ameratsu's arm swung around to Darishan's side and threw the weapon she had in hand at Renjiro for him to use in the battle.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Jan 7, 2007 20:24:19 GMT -5
"An interesting story, but irrelevant," Darishan said, casually biting his hand. In a deft, lightning fast movement he flicked his dark (almost black) blood at her eyes, where it would burn quite a bit, he assumed. Then, wisps of fog swirled around him and he disappeared to rematerialize in front of Renjiro. He glowed with that same misty aura an inch around his entire body that had not fully disappeared from the fog. It would literally (though slowly) suck life from anything it touched. Blood dripped from his hand, hissing and steaming on the holy grids below.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 7, 2007 20:31:41 GMT -5
Ameratsu clutched her face with her hands as the blood splattered into them and she seethed through clenched teeth, "A blood bond is broken from a second exchange of blood- remember this." she hissed at Darishan and a new force entered the pair at the finish of the words, someone was aiding the two. Ameratsu frowned, "Renjiro! Are you doing this?" She shouted over towards the child.
"I was about to ask the same of you. I say we use it to our advantage while it lasts." Renjiro said with a smile that while splayed accross his face made him seem to a certain level- insane.
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Post by Arual on Jan 7, 2007 20:51:02 GMT -5
Cecil gave a deathly glare to the boy. His eyes as fiery as Hell and an unfrightened face to go with it. "I'm going to have some fun this time," Cecil spoke softly into the air. As if it had been planned out ahead of time, Cecil did a replication jutsu and surrounded his two opponents. The replications were speedy, just like Cecil himself from earlier in the fight. They would change direction of their locations multipule times, it would be hard to calculate exactly where the REAL Cecil was in all those rotating, twitsing, turning, circiling clones. As the circle rotated itself, it also started to get smaller, closing in on the two opponents. A wind picked up as the movements became a bit more rapid. Dust and dirt clouded the area. "Almost there...." Cecil thoguht as he kept track of each movement made.T he speed of Cecil became visibly twice as rapid, even though he was phyically was tired. Cecil told himself he wouldn't back off on any fight. If he did, then it means he wouldn't be able to defeat Dali. And Cecil was NOT going to let that happen. He took his dagger (his bloodline is amune to the poison) and gave a slight cut to get blood onto the edges. The real Cecil ran up behind Ameratsu and with the edge he let his own blood get on it, he went to cut her, so; like she explained it needs two people to kill the bond. Hopefully his brother's secret jutsu wouldn't fail.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Jan 7, 2007 20:57:00 GMT -5
Darishan took advantage of all the confusion and appeared behind Renjiro, one hand extending out quickly in an attempt to grab his neck. The life-taking aura around him would do much more damage there than any brief, glancing touches.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 7, 2007 21:05:08 GMT -5
Ameratsu grabbed hold of the dagger weilding hand and frowned as she flung the person foreward, Renjiro was already handling the wind and dust. She frowned as she stood there, her eyes sparking at him, "You idiot! That's not what I meant by a second exchange! There has to be a willing exchange of blood between me and him!" She pointed from herself to the boy and rolled her eyes, "Honestly you humans can be so dense at times."
Renjiro smirked, he wasn't ready to give up the guardian just yet- but he wondered why Ameratsu was letting the knowlege out to everyone- it would do her know good... except for Ameratsu's unusual ability that even Renjiro envied... He was taken completely by curiosity as to what Ameratsu had seen of events to come. He let down his guard and a hand was felt on the back of his neck, "Shit..." he mutteres, obviously for a child he had developed a colourful vocabulary.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Jan 7, 2007 21:25:23 GMT -5
Darishan laughed quietly again, a creepy, empty kind of chuckle. He could feel some of Renjiro's life being sapped from him, but that wasn't his main motive. He closed his eyes for a moment, gathering his magic in his arm and adding the slowly building stolen life-force from Renjiro into it. Then he focused the energy, calling up his Final. When he opened his eyes, they were an extremely dark red, narrowed with pleasure. "Red Death," he whispered, and the magic surged out of his arm and into Renjiro's neck.
It was a magical recreation of a sickness long forgotten, now non-pathogenic and slightly altered, but still effective. The symptoms were dizziness, agonizingly intense stabs of pain, and bleeding from the pores. Death percentile- thirty percent. The sickness itself didn't usually need to kill the victim though; Darishan wasn't above striking an opponent while they were suffering from the heavy effects.
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