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Part 1
The ring of the two swords colliding rang like high pitch bells in the huge, roman-like arena. The candles that hovered, unsupported, above it flickered & danced on their wicks, making deformed shadows across the walls & stairs.
A woman with redish-brown hair stared at the scene from her place on the stone seats that made blocky crevices along the sides of the establishment. With her head resting on her fists, she shifted a little on her seat. Her armou, thin but extremely durable, gleamed in the candlelight. Her raven wings shifted an inch behind her as she stretched them.
"Look, Rem! I got it!" BOOM!!
Rem looked over at a guy with short black hair. He had dark smudges across himself & looked like he had just been slapped. She coulded help but chuckle. For the past few hours, she had been teaching him how make random things with his aura. His assignment was to make a rose. Apparently, he almost succeeded if only the plant hadn't detonated on him. Well that would be an interesting weapon. Probably if she'd deck him in a Tuxedo Mask outfit. She couldn't help but chuckle at the idea.
"I... lost concentration." He said.
"Yes. But that's ok, Taronis. Try again."
"Yes ma'am!" & he did so.
Beside her, a man doning a black cloak & pants loomed over her... even though he was sitting down. He let out a long irritated sigh. The woman looked over in time to see him run a massive hand through his medium black hair, save for one stubborn & annoying pure white lock. He caught her eye & she smiled warmly at him, knowing what was about to be said.
"Yeah, I bet you do know, Rem." he grunted.
Rem winced. Oh yeah. He can read minds.
"Then why not just go ahead & get it out in the open, Aergan?"
Aergan gave a curt nod. "Fine then. How much longer are they going to fight?! They've been at it for hours!" He said with some exaggerated hand movements here & there.
Rem sighed. "Not too much longer. They're getting tired. At least they aren't disappearing all the time." A blast shook the arena & a heat wave shot at the three; swooshing hair, feathers, & clothing. "...& Kai's getting a bit irritated."
Aergan stared back at the fight. "Well isn't that a change of things..."
Rem followed his gaze to another woman, Kakairo, who stood in the middle of the arena. Her long black hair rippled & waved in the cloudy black aura that swirled around her form. A pair of demonic wings spread half-open behind her, tense & ready to spring into action. Her blood red eyes glared at the smoke that was the after-effect of her fire blast. A white blur shot from it & towards Kai, a trail of the smoke following behind it. As if by instint, she reached sideways & withdrew the wakizashi from her hip in time to just barely block the other blade that collided with hers.
The collision produced a loud clang that resonated around the walls. To the woman, time had slowed down considerably. The waves from the ringing blades raised & lowered slowly in her eardrums. Just a foot away from her, now, stook a man with short white hair. Two completely white eyes, save the pupils, stared seriously back at her.
As the sparks shot out from the metal, they pushed off each other's blade & moved back a few inches. Kai shot her wakizashi's point forward in a stabbing motion & the man dodged by twisting & bending his body sideways. Seeing an opening, she spun around backwards & aimmed a slice at his back, just below his shoulder blades where two angel wings were attached to. The angel ducked, the sword whistling above him. The demoness brought her wakizashi in a wide arc up over her shoulder & towards his head. The angel shot up towards her ribs, but Kai only brought her blade closer to her body & blocked it, their swords now in a cross shape. Simutaneouly, they both turned, one the mirror image of the other, the blades sliding against each other as they moved. When they were back-to--back, their movemens changed: The demoness twirled her wakizashi so that it pointed towards the stone ground; The angel continued turning around while stooping his stance lower. The woman went on one knee & thrusted the blade in the opening between her arm & ribs, just as the angel swung his katana towards her neck.
The commotion suddenly stopped. Rem & Aergan craned their necks to see past the dust that had picked up from their movements. Aergan let out an aggrevated yell.
"ALL THAT FOR A DRAW?!!"
Kai stared at the floor, her senses picking up any movement, sound, smell, & touch around her. Her chest was heaving from exhaustion & perspiration drops dripped from her chin. Cool metal was touching her neck, making her skin crawl. She cursed under her breatch & slowly, carefully, turned her neck to look at the angel. He was just as out of breath as she was & tiny droplets dotted his own face. Her wakizashi point was touching his chest, but not deep enough to cut his samurai clothes or skin.
He smirked at her, his eyes going immediatly from serious fighter to a playful glint. He removed the blade from her throat. "Another draw."
"Damn it! I'll get you next time, Kioshi, I swear it!" Kai growled from irritation as she stood up.
Kioshi chuckled. "I'll be looking forward to it, oni no baka."
Kakairo winced at the term, wanting to whack him over the head for it but too tired to do so. She sheathed her blade with cat-like quickness & grace. Kioshi followed suit. He turned around & let out a groan at the gapping hole on one side of the arena.
"Kai~i! You're tearing my arena apart."
Kakairo stood up straight. "Well... then use those fancy cards of yours & put it back together again, tenshi..."
The angel shrugged, reached into the V-opening of his clothes, & took out an ancient-looking card with a rune on it. He pressed it to the floor & it began to glow a bright white light. The light traveled through the ground, filling every crack, fissure, or hole. When it disappeared the arena was prepared.
Rem & Aergan had walked up to them. Taronis was still behind Rem trying to make the rose again, but flinched whenever he got it looking like one again, & is disappeared.
"Ok. What's broken, scratched, or deformed?" asked Rem in a motherly tone.
Kai & Kioshi both sweatdropped at the ritual question. Kioshi bent down & picked up his card. "Nothing this time."
"Well ain't that a miracle...." came yet another sarcastic tone from Aergan. Rem smiled. Kai bristled.
SPLAT!
Taronis was covered by yellow goo now. His shoulders slumped. "This... sucks..."
Kai raised her eyebrows at the funny looking goo while Rem poked it.
"Ewwwww...."
"Watch it. It looks like its an acid." Aergan said boredly.
Taronis paled & started running around. "AHHHHHH!! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!"
Aergan grinned at his evil plot. As Rem tried to calm the frantic guy, Kakairo delivered the vampire a punch. Which with her 5 feet heigth compared to his 12 feet heigth, nearly landed below the belt if he hadn't shifted a bit to the side.
"GETITOFF! GETITOFF! GETITOFF!"
"Hold still Taronis & we will! Its not acid calm down!" Rem yelled over his screams.
Sighing, Aergan rolled his eyes & grabbed the other vampire's head.
"Meep!" Was Taronis's response to having this head grabbed like a basketball. The massive hands clutching the noggin looked like it could crush it like a grape at any moment.
"Hold... still...."
Rem sprayed Taronis with water & the goo washed off. Taronis sighed. "Thanks, Rem."
"How about we continue this tomorrow? It looks like you've been tramatized enough." she answered calmly.
"Yeah. That sounds good."
Meanwhile, Kakairo was watching the scene with amusement. "So.... has Zaira finished training with Sotaru, yet?" asked the demoness.
Rem shook her head. "Nope. I wonder what our two ninja's will cook up for us next...?"
Kai shrugged. "I don't know. & mostly-likely we won't know until its being hurled at us." It wasn't an insult. Just daily life in their demented arena family.
"I think that's the point." Aergan said. His voice sounding as if he was talking to some complete idiots.
Kai didn't bother to react to this one. She was too busy staring at Kioshi, who had suddenly gone quiet. Which wasn't abnormal, sometimes, but it was a deep silence. He was staring off into space with that serious look on his face. As if he was concentrating on something.
"Kioshi?"
He didn't seem to hear here, at first. It took him a minute to come to life & by then Rem & Aergan had joined Kai in the staring contest. Without looking at them, he started walking to an arched opening in the arena that lead to a dark tunnel.
"I'll be right back."
Kakairo nodded once. The three watched him walk away, enter the doorway, & disappear into the tunnel as if he was swallowed by some dark water. A moment passed before Aergan looked at the two girls.
"Follow?"
"Yes." Rem said matter-of-factly.
"Sure." Chimed in Taronis.
Kai nodded & they followed Kioshi into the tunnel.
Sotaru, Zen, you'll come in during the next one. As for Luician, Gold, Jack, Takara, & Kishama, you'll come in later. You all are someplace else at the moment.
 onime · Fri Aug 25, 2006 @ 10:35am · 5 Comments |
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