Sourin Kingdom!

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Takato didnt move. Instead he scratched his head and looked away a bit. "Yeah...about that. I dont usually fight girls." He reached into his pocket and drew a dagger, it shifted but before it had formed he threw it buryingitself at her feet. It had formed a metal rose. "How about dinner instead?"

Out of no where a sword appeared and smashed the rose into little pieces. "If you don't fight girls then you'll never get far enough to..." She went silent and looked down at her sword. She picked it up out of the ground and pointed it at Takato. "Nevermind, no need to know what you won't accomplish." She walked up to Takato and smiled. Up close she really was quite beautiful. "If you won't fight then make this easy for me." She thrust her sword aimed at Takato's chest.

Takato's hand was already infront of his chest. His palm covered in a recently formed metal gauntlet from the recent daggers. The clank resonated through the streets. "If you insist then i apologise for any harm that may come to you."

"Glad you came to your senses." She said before jumping back. "Now," from nowhere another sword appeared in her left hand, "Shall we begin?" He smirked and ran at Takato. She would try a horizontal slash from the right, that should start things off nicely.

Takato's right hand went straight out catching the blade with a gauntlet covered clank. It was now a stand off of strength, surely takato's incidental gorilla like strength couldnt be matched. "Does it have to be violent? I am not very freindly when the bloodlust takes over."

She released the strength duel and jumped back quickly. "Why didn't you mention blood lust sooner?" She said with a wicked smile. She took her own sword and made a small cut in her arm. She let go of both her swords and they fell to the ground. Blood welled up from the cut, slid down her arm and splashed on to the ground. "Getting excited yet, does it make you want to kill." The way she looked at Takato was that of a predator watching it's soon to be prey. She licked her lips waiting for Takato to move.

Takato's eys flickered as he tried to look away. "You are tempting the lion little lamb." He kept his bearings as the blood lurched through his veins. His programmed actions forcing their way to the surface.

"Oh come on, I know this is what you want. You know it too." Her voice was unnaturally soothing. Takato's surroundings started to swirl around him. "Now why don't you just let go, release that bloodlust you're barely holding back." Before Takato knew it she was behind him, right behind him. It was obviously a spell, a spell to make the opponent do what the caster wanted. She slowly moved in front of him and wiped a bloody finger across his lips. She was still ready to move at an instance though.

Takato spasmed to wipe the blood away. "Its horrible. Nasty blood, its so vile....so so...entrancing." He clutched his head in terror she was drawing on the very conditioning he had been put under his entire life. "Why, why do you want this?" His eyes were seering now completly engorged.

She leaned back in fake shock. "Why, do you really need to ask? I live to kill, I was made to kill. So why should I settle for a boring fight." He sucked one her finger to get some blood in her mouth. Then without warning she pulled Takato closer, kissed him, and spat the blood into his mouth. Then she stepped back to watch him become a killer. It would be near impossible to resist now. She had a sword out, so she was ready enough.

Takato clutched his head on the point of breaking. The kiss had completly taken him aback. He managed to spit the blood out before reality became a blur. When he looked up at her his eyes were a full silver blaze. His massive sword was out of its sheath and already into its third slice , down croos and up, before the ground cracked where he had been standing.

When the ground beneath him broke, hers did the same. She blocked all of his shots and was able to dodge around him and jump away. "Come on, you'll need more than a big fast sword to beat me." He's almost there, just a little more and I might even be promoted for this. To kill a god, now there's an achievement. She thought as she traced his steps before matching his attacks and dodging around again. "Well then, how about showing some fight?"

"You..he...will be a sacrifice...to the Nakini clan." Takatos eyes blazed in shear malice. He swung shearing the air clean in half, it relapsed rsonating in a sonic boom. He followed up with a spin slash where the shins would be if she dodged and chucked a kunai formed from his chain around his pants with his free hand above the boom.

She dodged just like Takato expected but his slash at her shins was blocked her sword, the kunai also found itself being pushed back by a sword, but looking at her you would only see her holding one sword, with two swords floating in mid air in front of her. She was controling the two swords with her mind, and they seemed to just appear where she needed them. "What's wrong, can't take on two swords at once?" She smiled right before the two swords pushed forward against both of Takato's weapon, it was obvious that whatever controlled them was much stronger than she was.

"He...he fun, telekenisis." Takato then did something he had never done before, or even knew he could do. The huge blade called Yamina started to shine right now the middle as it suddenly forming to separate blades. "He..he half as light twice as fast." He thrust foward his right hand trwisting his wrist so he could easy circle the blade and parry a defending blade, the other swung through at the neck area and just for good mesure he swung his corrosponding leg in a sweep kick at her ankles.

She smiled through the whole thing. Two new swords appeared to block the both swords and she simply stepped back, her only focus though was on his kick, not his swords. She spat on the ground, "Telekenisis, what an insult. This is so much more the telekenisis," Then she slowly said, "This is swordmancing." She smiled looking right into his eyes, whether he knew it or not didn't matter. She already knew that no one she fought in this world ever fought another with this power before.

Takato's gaze could have burned a hole through diamond. "Swordmancer?...he he the clan of the north...he." I have the advantage He used the force of the blocked swing to throw more weight into the kick by pushing off the sword.

The woman jumped high into the air, over the kick, but she didn't come back. She was sitting on a sword that had just appeared. "You really underestimate me." She had a wicked smile on her mouth as the other swords to the form of if someone was holding it, and then all at once they started attacks, horizontal, vertical, and diagnol at the same time. Plus she had thought ahead because he was perfectly surrounded.

Takato's bloodlust had overridden his common sense as he let the first few attacks peirce his skin. He planted both swords in the ground next to him. He slapped his hands together catching two blades. They began to glow and shifted to cover his his skin like a shell deflecting the rest of the blades. "More! More!" He launched into a jump after reteiving his blades. He tride to x slash while rising up at here.

From her sitting position she backflipped to stand on the blade, her feet on one of the sharpened sides, and two move swords appeared in her hands. The riding sword lifted itself so that when Takato and her blades met she would be pushed towards it instead of getting pushed off. She made sure that his strike and her defense met and all of the other swords followed Takato up without a second to spare. Thus she stopped him in midair with blades coming up at him full speed.

Takato swung one blade up and into the sheath and reached out to grab the nearest blade with his bare hand, his silvery blood instantly forming the blade into a sheild. He stuffed the sheild under him. His other hand was still occupied giving the girl a ride.

She laughed, "You may have the ability to change metal into what you want," She put one hand at the cross section of her defence to keep herself in the air. The other hand reached out and delicately touched the shield that was once one of her swords. The shield morphed back into a sword and started violently slashing, careful not to his its master, "but I can turn anything into a sword." 

Takato's eyes seared. "Fun." He pushed off off her parry, heading head first for the rising blades. His noe free hand lashed out in a flurry of punches nudging them just enough to wear he wasnt impaled apon hit the ground. Numerous cuts sepped out silver blood. He was immediatly on his feet again. "Try this one." He yanked out the sheathed half of Yamina and hurled it spear fashion at Her.

A sword, this one wider than the other, appeared right infront of the blade halfway between them and completely stopped the spear without being pushed back the slightest bit. "This was more fun back home" She said before yawning. The floating sword had turned to hold her back up by now but she lowered and stepped back on the ground. All of her swords, except on in her hand, and the wide one with the spear, seemingly disappeared. A closer look would reveal that they change into orbs of light. Then they whiz off to somewhere but it was too fast to see this time. "You lack of skill is disturbing." She said mockingly.

Takato's mind barely registered humanity. He retreived his sword and launched into a flurry of blows, left-down, horizontal spin to a cross slash, the back blade following the first, a flick of the lead wrist into a jab and the back hand coming acroos with the blunt of the blade towards the skull. "Lack of SKILL!?!?!?"

Another sword appeared in her hand and she stopped every blow with incredible ease. The big sword that stopped the spear pushed the spear down into the ground so that the spear would get stuck inside the sword. Then the sword came to her with the spear and she let one sword go to defend her itself and she changed the spear into another sword. Then the big sword and former spear vanished she grabbed the sword she let go and continued to make it look like she was actually defending again. She found and advantage in Takato's tiraid and used it to push Takato a bit so she could roll away to safety. "Come on, you may be in blood lust but you still have to think." You'll have to do this to win against the others she thought as she watched for his next attack.

"Think? Every castle is built on firm foundation." Takato planted his foot down through the cobble stone. His feet found the minerals he was looking for. A amount of ore was beneath the street. "Ryozuko Dragoon jowels." A huge set of metal jaws erupted under her roll making it hard to dodge and tried to smash her in its mouth.

She smiled, she didn't even try to keep her footing. She simply let herself fall. When the mouth was almost closed though twenty swords appeared at the same instant at the mouth and wedged is open. The was a small gap in the sword blockade and she floated upward lieing lazily on a sword. The sword fitted into the gap and she stood upon her blockade looking over the jaws with interest. "Now this was a smart move, I give you brownie points for this." She jumped down and the twenty one swords all vanished. One sword appeared in her hand and she smiled, "Let's see some more of how smart that blood lust of your is?" She licked her lips, she liked this bloodlust of his... a little too much.

Steelheart dashed foward after jerking his foot from the hole and slapped the dragon head with his palm after sheathing one sword. "You, wont like this a hundred fold." The dragon shift and formed four exact copies of Takato, everyone was conected by a razor wire by a loop at the small of the back. The average eye couldnt tell the real one from the metal covered fakes. One squatted and launched another directly at her two others ran up the sides of the alley and launched at her from both sides each with a variant of slashes. The remaing two, one took the other by the wrist and slung him high over her head to cover an areal strike.

"You realize that if I simply touch one that's a copy it can be changed into a sword." She thought over the idea while the Takatos came after her. "Nah, this'll be more fun." Another sword appeared in her free hand and she fended off the side attacks and jumped back from the straight ahead one. The ariel attack was also fended off because of her back jump. "More, more. Out think me." She fended off the attacks of the two easily, the others still had a few seconds before they caught up to her.

"Go right ahead, now that iv had a few moments i can plan ahead." Takato's bloodlust had reached an all new level, he was somehow focusing his energy into thought while still going for blood. The two takots linked arms an spun throwing one straight at her while the two on the ground ran under and hand tossed one straight up under the blade trying to grab on to it to kkep her from escaping. The whole time the steel wire seemed to endlessly spool between the five.

When the Takato grabbed her hand she smiled. "You think that's such a good idea." Instantly there were twenty swords around each Takato, the points were pointing straight at them, only cenitmeters away from their bodies. Even the one in the air had swords on him that followed him down to the ground, the course changed though when the swords appeared making him fall short of her. "To think, I've still got more swords than that." She said with a smiled as she pulled her hand away from the Takato. She silently commanded the swords to strike all at once while she jumped back.

"Mine!" All the takatos laughed. The string whipped around from all the spins and throws coming in contact with a number of swords, all shifting to form orbs around them. "Yes, keep feeding us!" The swords deflected off the orbs. The orbs shifted and formed aromor around them. "Please look at your wrist." The clone had formed a shackle and wire on her wrist during the grab.

"Ooh smart little boy." She said looking at the wire on her wrist. "Too bad though." She placed her free hand on it and all of the wire spooled out and away from the Takatos, unwrapped from her hand, and floated above them so the wire could change into many different types of swords. Then the orbed swords vanished and reappeared outside the orbs. They instantly started to slash while the wire swords rained down upon them. She simply crossed her arms to watch how Takato would conter this. Come on, you can do this. She thought. She didn't know if he would beat her or not, but her decision at the end of the battle was made up now. She just wanted to push him a bit more.

Takato finally got his concious under control. <i.Think clearly, no more violence...her advantage is my advantage. Think think. Got it!</i> "This is going to be hard." He grabbed the nearest, now non functioning clone, and shifted him into a shel to protect himself from the onslaught. He pulled a chunk from the sheil with one hand and set all his energy into redirecting every atom in the hunk. His eyes flared and hands glared as his abilities were pushed to the limit. When the clinking stop he poked his head out from under the sheild. "Done? Because i would like to show you my new gauntlet." Every peice of metal in the area quivered the shot off to collect on the gauntlet. Every sword, sheild, and yes chain belt attracted to rhw glove. "What happens when every atom is shifted to a uniform polarity?"

She made as many swords as she could disappear before they were sucked in. "I'm not sure, but I'm more of an experience person. So how about showing me instead of telling me." She smiled with her arms crossed, waiting to see Takato's next attack. She showed no signs of moving out of the way, or defending.

"Super high density magnet." Takato Drew back and launshed into a sword covered haymaker.

"You have no idea about the power of a swordmancer." She smiled, she had one more trick up her sleeve, while she knew everything about the Nakini's powers. She was taught it just like all the other dragoons. Not only that but she fought some under Ethrin's orders many years ago, she was much older than she looked. "Well, let's let this be the final bout." She stretched her arms out in front of her, palms facing Takato. She closed her eyes as Takato came closer. Then she opened them and it looked like her eyes were replaced with a swirling silver liquid. Then houses around them crumbled and thousands of wooden swords appeared. They started to move through the air in a certain formation, faster and faster until the shined brightly making one giant wooden sword. She touched it and it compacted into a wood sword harder than steel and with Takato only feet away she put all her power into one swing aimed at his gauntlet.

"And you have no idea of My power!" Takato screamed his eyes flared again as the the last of his energy was poured into this last attack. The Gauntlet had never stopped glowing from his control. Inches from impact he surged all his energy into forcing the poles to face inward causing a massive magnetic push, forcing the material apart. It exploded akin to a mini big bang, (actually this is the new theory of the big bang, for some odd reason their was a masive magnetic spin and everything epanded eponentially) into a cloud of molecular shrapnel peppering himelf and pushing him out of harms way, however an oncoming momentium of force would not be so lucky.

She smiled, the instant her sword touched the gauntlet she forced all her power into that single instant and moved so fast, she seemed to disappear. The power of both things connecting was becoming near nuclear so from her spot on a roof top she looked down at Steelheart and made a decision without a second thought. She dashed down, grabbed him and they both appeared on the sphere held up by the castle, far enough away to just feel a breeze from the near nuclear explosion that occured seconds later. She turned to him as the breeze tossed her golden hair up, catching the light of the upcoming sun. She smiled and said, "Congratulations, you seem to be stronger than you seem. When you think that is." She showed no more signs of fighting, or threat. She looked sincere and nice, she was however ready to act if his bloodlust was still burning.

Takato smiled. "Thank...argh!!" He rached back and wrenched a metal shard from the seal on his neck. "Well that explains alot." He tried to clot the wound but didnt even have the energy left to that simply magic. "So what exactly was that about, did you want me to insane? In that state i could have brought out a god, or worse. I mean that was crazy, i could have killed alot of innocent people." He paced back and forth babbling.

"Here sit down." She said stopping him. When he sat down her started to patch up the wound, although she knew it was temporary. "Well not many people would have been hurt, for one the city was empty except for all the others fighting. Plus I would have stopped you before it got out of the city." With that she stopped and whispered, "We all know about that ear trick of yours." She blew air at his ear. With that she stood up stretched. When she stretched the heavy armor broke off revealing a rather nice dress underneath. Ah, I hate that armor She thought as she waited for him to say something.

Takato shivered. "How do you know so much about us? And what is with the femine fatal act your putting on?" He was completly dissoriented.

She rolled her head before responding. "Act, who said anything about act?" She sat down watching the sun go down. "I know a lot because it is... no, was my job." She sighed. "I was told to team up with those weaklings to find and kill you. I had different plans though, I need your help to stop the general, and whoever or whatever his master is." She paused and turned to him. "I had to test you, to maek sure you were worth my trouble. Plus I... know about your clan. I know what happened to it." She left out the fact that she took part in the fight, although it was more like a slaughter from her view point. Takato was one of the strongest Nakini she had fought though.

Takato's face went blank as his mind forze in place, he remembered going back not knowing, only to find a charred village and corpses. He couldnt believe there was a force on earth that could take down his entire clan. There hadnt been any news of suvivors since, they were scattered or still on missions. His eyes fixed on a pebble his mind wallowing in hollow memory. "I will help you." He responded though he sounded a million miles away.

"Thank you. Tomarrow we leave then, today though is a festival. The others will take care of the ruler of Sourin Kingdom." She stood up and a sword appeared in her hand. She held it up and span it around, refracting the light across the city to signal the others. The gates opened and people started pouring in. In little time all combatants of the night before were now on the sphere looking down as the stalls were quickly set up and a stage hastily erected. Then the leader got to the top of the stage, although he wasn't the real one. The dragoon smiled looking down at the blob disguised as the leader of Sourin. "He'll have to do until we come up with a reason why the leader 'mysteriously' disappeared." She let out a little giggle and jumped down to enjoy the fair. Kyte stayed behind with Takato though. "Well, I'm here in time for the fair. That's why I came after all right?" Kyte smiled at the joke.

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The blob danced and giggled in excitement. "Oh ho! who are you?" It quivered as it asked Kyte with no apparent mouth.

"The name is Kyte Highmoon. Look I don't really want to fight you, I was expecting... something... different." Kyte said, hands at hip sizing up his... enemy.

The blob bounced and rotated in glee. "Thats the orders." It quivered and rolled foward. "Dont underestimate me. Out of the group, i am one of the strongest!" The blob shifted and formed a rolling morning star blazing down on Kyte.

"Wow, a shape changing blob." Kyte said before sidestepping his flailing enemy. "That's new. Look, there's other stuff I could be doing other than fighting you." Kyte got out one of his knives. "So please don't choose the hard way."

The blob seemed to defy momentium as it stretched as soon as he dodged. It formed a fist and was right in front of Kyte by the time he had finished his sentence. "But i want to fight you."

Kyte used his free hand and put above the fist blob, careful not to touch it. "Paper covers rock." He walked away a bit and said, "Okay, you want a fight, then bring what you got."

The blob jiggled. "But gun blows paper apart." The back half of the fist fired off like a bullet at Kyte's chest. The remaining half stood at the ready waiting for a good opportunity.

When the blob changed he jumped out of the way and started taking into account his surroundings. They were in a wide street, nothing much he could use, just buildings, two carts, and street lights. He'd have to think of a good strategy to take down this blob.

Now the Blog was on both sides of Kyte with him caught in the middle. "Jelly gatlin." The forms suddenly exploded in a flurry of tiny bits aimed for the center where Kyte stood.

Kyte jumped and somersaulted forward to avoid the attack. He looked up and down the street to make sure that it was on an angle and got to work. He threw thre knives at different points in the street, they disappeared into the night before the blob could see where they hit. Kyte took out another knife and threw it at the blob.

It hit but passed through. The hole formed a mouth as the rest of the pieces came back to it. "What are you planning" The mouth chuckled. It began to bounce gaining height each time.

Kyte watched him closely and asked, "More to the point, what are you planning." When the blob started another bounce Kyte rolled under him, with a knife fired at him during the roll.

"Why im just a simple peice of gunk, what could i be planning?" As soon as the knife hit he burst into a hundred different peices. Each one formed a dagger that came searing down at Kyte.

Kyte took out another dagger and deflected the blobs but some got through and left cuts on his arms and legs. He looked around and saw the blobs scattered across the street. "Looks like the road has pox or something." He said moving into the optimum position while the blob made its next move.

It reformed and jiggled in excitement." Not made for gelotinous poison huh?" He slowely rolled up face to face with Kyte. "You, you are different. A sense of drakness emits from you."

An expression of 'that figures' formed on Kyte's face. "Poison, ya... this sucks." He said with a sigh to end. "So how long do I have." He said backing up, to anyone it would look like the blob invaded his personal space, to him, he was edging close to a cart on the side of the street.

"Are you expecting it to kill you? No no my friend it simply breaks down the solid compounds in your body to jelly form then ill absorb you." The whole broke in a smile. It inched closer then suddenly lanced out in a blow with a spear like apendage.

He used his knife to deflect the blob and shot more knives, the bounces off of so many things that it was impossible to follow where any of them landed. He took out another knife and used a circling technique as a cover for getting closer to the cart.

"More importantly, what are you planning." The Blob flattened and tried to cover the floor under Kyte's feet.

Kyte stayed silent as he threw three daggers in quick succesion into the blob.

The blob simply receded from where the knifes stuck in. It then quivered and created a spike like covereing over the gound of the surounding area. "Your feet are next."

"Go for it. He threw a knife into a nearby wall. Then with great dexterity he seemed to take three steps up the wall and he was just able to grab the knife. Then he swung up to stand, on foot on the knife, the other foot on top the first. He went up high in case the metal was formed together to make one long spike. He thought this might be long enough to elude it or at least give him time to react. He threw a knife up the street which was also uphill.

"Yay!" The blob shot up the wall faster than it had ever moved as of yet and seemed to stretch around Kyte forming a bubble with him only standing on the blade, the only safe surface area. "Now what will you do? My poison even difusses through the skin." The face formed on the inside facing Kyte. "Now lets talk."

"Seems I don't have much of a choice... for now. What is it you would like to talk about?" He said with a smile as he counted down the seconds. He didn't care about the poison because it was already in his system, he could feel some of his muscles changing back and forth between normal and jelly.

"Your eyes arent like that of the other. He is a simple hero minded fool. You are sharper more shady. What are you planning to do here?" The face quivered truely interested in what its prey had to say. "Talk quickly now, you legs are opique already."

He poked a leg and, although it looked normal, it was squishy and mushy. Well, I'd rather show you than tell you. He fell off the knife and grabbed it his his hands. The knife stayed in the wall and acted like a spring board. He let go when it went back up and it helped him to go through the blob and roll out to the middle of the street. He smiled before throughing two knives one up street and down the street. There was a loud click, but in the dark of the night, nothing could be seen. He looked down, as if depressed that his plan didn't work. It took all he had not to smile at how silently carts could roll down these streets.

The blob refomed infront of Kyte. "You have a death wish." He has something to hide if we went through all that to avoid talking. "What with the knives?"

"Knives are my specialty." He said with a smile. He lie down on the ground feeling his body start to change more, although not visible outside. "And yes, I do have a death wish." The cart was almost where they were fighting.

The blob took a human form this time and stood over Kyte. "I want to know your strength." The blob brought down a gelatinous spike fist over Kyte.

Kyte shook his head. "I'm weak, simple as that." Then he threw one more dagger down the street. "But the hell if I'm not smart!" He yelled before the cart came into the light. It was rolling down hill to fast and not before long it hit a knife in the road and flew into the air. The dagger he just threw dislodged another cart that moved into the middle of the street right above his head, from his lied down position. The cart in the air hit the ground right infront of the blob and if the plan worked it would scoop him up and land upside down on the second cart sealing him in. Kyte would then throw six knives to keep the carts connected. He had already checked the carts during the fight, they were made tightly enough to keep the blob trapped until someone seperated the carts. Of course the momentum would keep the connected carts going down the street until it evened out, which was only a foot or two more. He also planned it so the carts wouldn't break and it would happen so fast that the blob wouldn't be able to react quick enough.

The blob's fist was centimeters from hacens face when the cart scooped him up and trapped him inside. The blow from the impact caused him to lose his feet though. The tiny mounds of gloop reformed to shape a miniature blob. "Well didnt see that coming."

"Thanks." He said struggling to sit up. "So, does this poison dissipate, or is there something more I should know about it?" While Kyte talked a figure sat on the roof nearby, he arrive just before the blob fell into the trap. He smiled as he jumped down. "Blob, that's enough for now. We got what we came here for." It was the one that went off to fight with Lebon. Although something was amiss. He walked into better lighting and it was very clear that what was missing was an arm. He didn't seem to mind though. He nudged his head up toward the sphere of the castle so blob knew to look there to see as the dragon stretched and her armor came apart. The sun still didn't peek over the building though. "I'm calling the fight as a draw. Kyte, you would have died because blob is too stubborn to give the antidote. Blob, you would die in the cart, or the guards would have killed you when someone released you. He snapped his fingers and the daggers disintegrated. At the same time a bit of her arm grew back. He held his hand out to Kyte. Kyte took it and found that the poison was gone, he stood back up. Kyte looked toward the blob and said, "Good fight." Then he looked up at Takato and the dragoon just like all the fighters were now.

Blob formed a hand in shaking posture. "He has me down to a t."

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