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| [Graded]Descent Into Darkness; Jayden and Shor | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 8 2014, 09:50 AM (672 Views) | |
| Jay | Jul 8 2014, 09:50 AM Post #1 |
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Melody, So… I know you’re gone for about a week, but if you get back and this note is still here… Don’t worry. I’m just camping/exploring this big staircase hole into the earth I found in the forest. The locals call it the Realm of the Draghorn… and well, I can imagine you know why I wanted to check it out. Be safe, and thanks for everything. It means the world to me. -Jayden Jayden blew on the paper, making sure the ink was dry before setting the note on the kitchen table where Melody would be able to find it easily. She rather hoped her friend would never see the note in the first place, because that would mean something had actually gone wrong. If she did see and something wasn’t wrong, she’d be chewed out for not waiting for Melody to go with her regardless. There was an undercurrent to the note. The whole… if I don’t come back, this is what I want you to remember, type thing. She knew it was probably stupid to go in there alone, but she couldn’t help it. She had to at least try. She glanced at the slightly larger than average backpack she had secured just for this occasion. It had several high powered flashlights and extra lacrima batteries, a thin but warm heavy blanket as well as the reflective emergency blanket that was some sort of metallic plastic material to act as windbreaker and serve to keep the heat in if she could stand the sound of it crackling around her. Matches, a lighter and a tiny bit of kindling for starting fire, as well as a decent length of strong lightweight rope should she need to rappel or climb something. The food she packed was light, but nourishing and durable though not the tastiest. An extra knife, a small first aid kit and an ample supply of clean water and tablets to purify other water she might find rounded off her kit. She hefted it easily onto her back, adjusting it so that it fit snugly against her without impeding her movement over her jacket. Her sais were firmly strapped to her thighs and her long braid swung softly against her shoulder as she left the house, locking it behind her. Slipping through her quiet garden in the light of the early dawn, she unlocked the back gate and closed it behind her, hearing the locking mechanism slip back into place. Silently, she padded through the forest. Shortly after she left the gate though, her little squirrel baby that she had nicknamed Mu found her. Jumping to her braid, she stopped for a moment to pet the little wild animal who had seemed to adopt her after the mission with Sierra. It chittered at her as ran her fingers over its soft fur, smiling softly. A moment later, Mu started chittering more loudly, scurrying up onto her shoulder. “Who’s there?” Jayden’s voice was wary. Mu was good at noticing the presence of others in the forest, like most wild animals. Her hand inched toward her sais as she waited. It didn’t matter if she was still relatively close to her house. The forest was rarely a truly safe place... Edited by Jay, Jul 8 2014, 09:54 AM.
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| 博 Tenken | Jul 10 2014, 04:40 AM Post #2 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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For once Shorasuke actually had a specific plan when he had set out to one of the parts of Fiore that he was visiting, and since this was a "for once" kind of situation the plan was one that was more befitting his professional standing than his personal one. He was here to apprehend a criminal for the Knight's Organisation, someone who had assaulted another knight here in Poinsettia and had then run off. The knight would live, the assault had been moderate but not fatal but they were in recovery and so the orders had come down to Shorasuke to apprehend the criminal and bring him in for questioning. It was a simple enough brief and Shor had gone about it as he did with everything - solidly and making sure he covered everything at every step. He followed leads, he found witnesses and worked out the man's name and tracked him down through thick and thin and now was following him through the aptly named Lavender Forest. It was an easy tracking, the man was on the run since he had caught sight of Shor earlier that day but he wasn't hiding very well. His trail was wide and crashing since he had left the path quickly and run off into the brush, creating a large wide path. Shor followed along at an easy pace, quickly but not quick enough to be leaving an enormously wide path himself or be heard from a misstep on a branch or twig to make a crack. No he moved quietly and specifically, his eyes moving as they looked for his quarry and his movements. It didn't take him all that long to find what he was looking for, the man was standing against a tree panting heavily and holding his side, his head down and his fists balled hard as he recovered. Shor approached easily, his smile friendly as he got within a few feet and then whistled out, the man's head snapping up immediately as he saw the knight before him and standing so casually. "Hey there neighbour," Shor said good-naturedly, "My name is Shorasuke, I'm afraid we didn't get the pleasure before did we? I'm here to bring you in you know -ah but of course you know!- and so it'd be so much nicer if you came along easily rather than putting up a fuss, ok?" Of course it was never that easy, the man immediately turned and ran off and Shor sighed. Chasing was always such a pain and he followed along at a normal pace this time, crashing through the undergrowth and making as much noise as the other man. Still, it was easy enough to follow him and they burst out of the bushes at the edge of the Forest- And Shor almost ran straight into a young woman. She was pretty he supposed in a conventional sort of way -and if you were into that sort of thing- but in the time it took Shor to recover and stop himself from slamming into her the man had already ran off into the forest and Shor missed the trail. "KUSUCHAINA!" he cursed loudly in Minstrelian, rounding on the shorter young woman and trying very hard to stop from losing his temper, "I'm sorry for startling you miss, did you see where he went?" He kept his voice restrained to stop from yelling at her that it was all her fault, but he had to restart the chase ASAP or risk losing the man. |
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| Jay | Jul 11 2014, 09:02 AM Post #3 |
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Jayden had been less surprised than the man who had burst out of the bushes a few feet in front of her. Mu chattered angrily at him as he took one look at her and turned, running to the path she had intended to take and disappearing into the forest. She sighed. She didn’t really want to deal with someone on her path… but she didn’t have much time to think about it, because at that moment Shorasuke burst through the trees and almost bowled her over. She had been paying too much attention to the man running away that she hadn’t noticed the second set of crashing noises. Sloppy. However, as he’d cursed loudly she’d jumped back, her hands going straight to her sais as she looked at him warily. She didn’t normally consider herself short, but he still stood a good 7 inches taller than her and she had to look up at him. He was attractive enough, and most women would fawn all over him… but she was not most women. Instead she sighed as he apologized for startling her, then asked where the man, probably a thief, had gone. “Mu, follow the other man who went into the forest.” Her little squirrel friend chirped in seemingly acknowledgement, rested a paw on her cheek for a moment before leaping from her shoulder and disappearing into the trees. She glanced back at Shorasuke and said simply, “Members of the guild of Wishes tend to keep hiding spots in the forest. It’s likely he’s headed for one of those. Mu will find him.” She sighed. Did she really want to take time away from her exploration to help this man? She would have said no, save that her hatred of the Guild of Wishes was still fairly strong because of her last two encounters with them. She glanced back at the gate to her house, thankfully locked behind secure walls. She disliked that a member of the guild of wishes had come so close, however… She and Melody needed to get those magical protections up sooner rather than later. Glancing at Shor, she nodded and said simply, “Right. I suppose I’ll take you then. He took the path I was heading for anyway.” She started walking towards it, moving simply at a brisk walk. Her hands were still next to her sais, ready to pull at a moment’s notice, though the man looked trustworthy enough. Still, as she set off along the path, she was hyper aware of both the path before and after her, listening for every sound. Faintly, she could hear familiar chittering ahead. It wasn’t particularly agitated, just as if it was normal, so she maintained her steady pace. |
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| 博 Tenken | Jul 16 2014, 03:30 AM Post #4 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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It was odd to have a woman sigh upon meeting him, something Shorasuke did not think he would have noticed before his time here in Fiore, but he actually found it oddly refreshing that she didn't immediately start fawning all over him. Honestly he was an attractive man, he could say this objectively, but since his vow of celibacy he would not break short of the only way to bring peace to the world he was left somewhat frustrated almost all the time by the fact that a lot of people couldn't accept it. In fact there was even a damn fan club about him and the members of it seemed to always know where he was. Hell he had even run into them earlier that day before heading into the god-forsaken forest and he had had to run pretty fast to avoid them... ANYWAY! So the girl sent a squirrel off to chase down the man before saying something the a "Guild of Wishes" which left Shor with nothing more than a quirked eyebrow in curiosity. He had no idea what that even meant and he was fairly certain his quarry wasn't affiliated with anything like that -it had been a personal attack he had already found out, something about the knight "insulting his honour"- but that was knight's business so he simply shrugged and followed alongside easily as the girl walked off, a simple little walk. It wasn't far into the forest before Shorasuke heard the chittering sound as well and before long he spotted movement further ahead, his eyes narrowing and he sprinted forwards away from the girl, reaching the spot he had seen the movement just in time to find... the man's dead body. "Well then," Shor said to himself as the girl finally caught up -turns out he was faster than her- as he stared down at the bloody body of the man he had been after, "That I did not expect." The body was mutilated and it had apparently been done ridiculously in a short amount of time too, Shor counted at least two dozen slashing marks on his body and the blood around him was... everywhere, just everywhere. Turning to the girl he surveyed her for a moment, his fists closing tightly just in case she started to attack him. After all this could be a trap, albeit a terrible one. "My name is Shorasuke," he said simply, his tone neutral now and his posture relaxed... but his fists clearly clenching and unclenching, "And I am a Knight of Fiore. I was following this man on knight's business and now I must find his killer. What do you know about this area?" |
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| Jay | Jul 16 2014, 05:55 AM Post #5 |
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Jayden heard Mu chattering ahead, and let the man run ahead of her. He was the one chasing the bloke and she was simply playing guide on the way to her camping spot. They just so happened to coincide. She was trying hard not to think about it too much, and failing miserably. It was hardly turning out to be the peaceful day she had planned. However, something about the way he had stopped without fighting had her on edge. There should have been fighting... Shouting... Something! But there wasn't. She didn't like it at all, and warily picked up her pace, only to stop short at the sight of the mutilated dead man. She glanced around as Shor introduced himself, ignoring him for a minute as she called out, "Mu? Are you there?" A few seconds later, Mu flew out of the tree and latched onto her outstretched hand. He was shaking with fear, and she held him close, trying to calm him as she glanced back at the dead body, then at Shor. "Jayden." She responded simply with her name, looking back at the dead body. She shuddered and went on. "I'm fairly new to the area myself. I just moved here recently. I was planning on exploring a cave system I'd found... The guild of wishes is a band of thieves that haunts the woods, but I thought they were the worst thing out here... Apparently I was wrong..." She sighed, looking at the shredded man still and trying to comfort Mu. Glancing back at her house, she succeed and then looked ahead. She nodded to herself, then said simply. "I'll help you track it though. I don't really fancy anything that can do this" and here she gestured. to the body, "running amok in my backyard." Holding Mu up, she asked quietly, "Mu, can you help me find what did this?" The squirrel chattered angrily for a few moments, and she asked, "Please. We can't leave it to hurt someone else." What if it had been her? She shivered. If she had been the one walking down that path, would she now be the bloody mess on the forest floor? Mu seemed to sense her mood. As if releasing a squirrel sigh, he jumped to her head, then flew a short distance away, chattering at her until she followed a few steps and he went a little further. Still a bit white around the edges, she refused to let the sight of all that blood shake her. She looked at Shor. "Are you coming ?" She turned without waiting for his answer. If he stayed to take care of the dead, that was his prerogative. She preferred to hunt while the trail was fresh. She didn't like leaving a corpse, but there weren't a whole lot of options. So she made her choice, and walked forward without glancing back. She was still unhappy that this far... The trail was leading exactly where she had already been headed... Edited by Jay, Jul 24 2014, 05:56 AM.
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| 博 Tenken | Jul 22 2014, 02:11 AM Post #6 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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Shor didn't notice the girl ignoring him, he was too intent on the crime scene arrayed before him and the oddities around it. The man had died but there had been no noise of it, no sounds echoing through the twisted treeline and back to the people who had been following him. But not just no sounds of the attack, there had been no sounds of him making a fuss in any way, no sounds of his crashing through the forest once he had started. It was like as soon as he had entered the trees he had been moved to this place and killed, his life ended in rending blows that tore through his body. One minute he had been alive and fleeing and the next he was dead and with a rictus of terror plastered across his face. This was no ordinary death, this was magical and that made Shor irritated. He didn't even show any change in his concentration when the girl went on about helping him track it, though he heard her words and appreciated them quietly inside; he had already turned his head to cast his eyes around this way and that to look for any further signs of the trail moving but he came up with nothing. There was no blood trail, no large swathe of broken branches or leaves leading away, nothing that showed a movement of any kind from any direction around them. Except up. Not many people thought to look up, even animals forgot unless otherwise necessary but Shor made sure to note the direction and his eyes narrowed as he saw what was in the trees above them, something that should not have been there. A long narrow cylinder, maybe a foot across, leading from the point exactly above the man's body was bored through the foliage above them and leading all the way outwards. It was hard to spot, the branches were already swaying in the breeze back across to block the hole and yet it was easy at the same time for it was long strewn with blood. Wordlessly Shor pointed upwards, then shook his head as he did. "Whatever did this is no ordinary being," he said softly, "If it came from above then no doubt the man died instantly which was why we heard nothing. And tracking it that way would be just as foolish. We need to see if the trees thin out anywhere nearby, probably that way," he said after a moment, indicating North, "Since the blood smears run up the opposite side of the cylinder meaning it was aiming to launch itself the opposite of that direction when it emerged from the top - dragging itself along the way it doesn't want to come from." The girl had already started off, the squirrel thing having found something nearby that looked to Shor like a footprint... but that didn't seem to fit the brief. Something was happening here, something wrong and confusing and mysterious, but he simply followed along quietly as he pondered it all. He just really hoped there weren't two horrors to deal with in these woods... |
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| Jay | Jul 24 2014, 06:29 AM Post #7 |
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the faint blood trail leading back to the sky. It wasn’t something Mu could follow, nor would she ask him to… But what was Mu following? He was obviously terrified out of his wits and not happy to be leading her towards whatever it was… but Shor had pointed North. Mu was going North. She had been planning on going North. “I really don’t like this…” she muttered under her breath. Glancing back at the man, she kept one hand near her sais. She didn’t know if she trusted the so called knight. However, despite her misgivings, having someone else there whenever whatever it was might attack again was probably best. She didn’t like the thought that Melody might bring her back from the dead just to kill her again if she didn’t return in one piece. Up ahead, the trees were indeed thinner. She could see one tree that was taller than the rest, rising in glorious lavender glory. It had no branches near the ground, however. The first branch was a good thirty feet above the ground. She glanced back at Shor, then said simply, “I’m going up that to see if I can spot anything.” Used to climbing the trees on the mountains at home, she was stronger now. It was easy as she picked a tree next to the giant, swinging effortlessly into its branches and quickly climbing higher. Once she was about twenty feet up however, the branches had started to thin. Gauging the distance, she pulled out her sais. She took a running leap, her black hair flowing behind her like a banner as she sailed through the air, her sais stabbing into the bark of the tree briefly as she impacted against the tree, still four feet below the nearest branch. Gripping the sais, she braced her feet against the tree, changed her grip… and turned upside down so her face was out, her back against the tree. Her feet went up, wrapped around the branch and she pulled her sais out as she did a crunch motion, bringing her body up to the branch and swinging around it so she was on top. She smiled softly in exhilaration while Mu seemed to chatter angrily that she had gone into the tree on her own. She quickly began to climb the branches, emerging above the tree line to look out. There was Pointesettia, gleaming in the daylight over the sea of purple and green trees. She turned North, scanning for any sign of whatever it was that had attacked the man. She could see the hole in the trees that indicated her desired destination into the ground… “No…” Her voice was nothing more than a whisper as she saw… something. It had emerged above the trees for only a moment, but she had caught the gleam of red on rows of sparkling white teeth before it dove back into the treeline… headed in their direction. She recklessly half scrambled, half fell as she jumped lower on the branches. Coming to the lowest branch, she ran along it and launched herself into a nearby tree, catching hold of branches and swinging to break her fall, jumping lower again until she was about ten feet off the ground as she dove off, hitting the ground and rolling to come up on her feet again. Looking wild with leaves in her now disheveled hair, she said a bit frantically, “We need to find somewhere defensible. Right now. Whatever it is… it’s coming back.” She didn’t even seem to notice that her left wrist was now bleeding lightly from a scrape from her trip back down the tree. There was panic in her eyes. Whatever it was, she had no desire to be in the open when it found them. |
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| 博 Tenken | Jul 29 2014, 04:10 AM Post #8 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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Shor moved along silently towards the North as they tracked the trail of the beast that had done this to a man, a beast that apparently had moved into the treetops to escape and attack. If it was at home so high up surely the girl's squirrel would be the most in danger -though it seemed to be at once wild and also not?- not to mention there was the suspicion on the girl herself. She had appeared from nowhere to stop Shor from seeking his target and when she had moved to "help" him find the thief the man had showed up dead? Truth be told Shor was no coroner but he had seen dead men before, but the problem was that the dead body was so mutilated he couldn't be sure it wasn't a plant. Coupled with the fact that there had been no sound of the bodies death, no sound of killing or rending of bones or flesh and there was a high chance the knight was walking into a trap. That was a problem for a number of reasons -excluding the obvious ones- so he figured he should take preparations just in case this "Jayden" was working against him. It was easy enough to ease his gauntlets from his jacket without the woman seeing but they made a little bit of noise when being put on, so unless she left for a moment- Oh look, she was moving into the trees, that was convenient. She took a running leap and was into the canopy in moments, Shor slipping his hands into his jacket and into his gauntlets a moment later, pulling the dull red things out on his hands and clipping them on in two practised movements. Now he felt better but not as good as he could be, that would require him to pull out his full arsenal and he wasn't sure he would need it. By that same token the girl had seemed at least moderately quick when leaping into the fronds of the trees -though not quite as fast as he was he guessed- and so he reached behind his body this time and pulled out a small metal case, opening it and pulling out pieces of metal that he arranged quickly and just as practisedly into a long Naginata. Holding the weapon in his hand as he stowed the case easily Shor flipped it around his hand a couple of times then made a single downwards swing, the rush of air around him as the weapon passed through it making him smile a little. 'Yes, this is good,' he thought to himself, 'Much easier to prepare when there's nobody to stop you. Easiest way to avoid an ambush is to walk into it while you know it's there after all...' He walked on a little ways, his eyes scanning around him as he walked to make sure nothing would strike out from the shadows but nothing came. There was nothing around him that he could sense, nothing appeared from nowhere until a crashing above him put him on guard. Immediately he set his stance, horizontal with feet held forwards, his naginata point low and held prepared to slash... until Jayden crashed nearby, her eyes a little wild. Shor listened idly, not changing his stance before moving his gaze upwards, eyes searching. If it was coming surely they would have heard it? Even the stealthiest of beasts could not move so silently in the thick boughs above him and with his naginata and gauntlets positioned evenly he was less afraid than the girl seemed to be. But he nodded curtly and actually gestured for them to continue onwards, for something had caught his eye before the girl had come crashing down. It didn't take long, less than a minute at a quick jogging pace with Shor's eyes scanning around and above them the entire time, his polearm held tightly in one hand and his dull red gauntlets catching the light and shining from time to time, but soon they found a moderately large clearing before them, maybe fifty metres across without any hint of trees above. Shor moved himself to the center and began to turn slowly so as not to dizzy himself, his polearm held low once more. If the thing came from the trees then an area with no trees was surely the best way to do it. And if his suspicions turned out correct this turned out to be a trap set by Jayden and various thief friends then he'd want some room to move around and keep himself safe. Win-win, he thought, it was all about tactics and Shor was very good at tactics. |
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| Jay | Jul 29 2014, 08:10 AM Post #9 |
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He was crazy. She didn’t want to move towards the beast, but unwillingly followed him at a jogging pace. She reached down, pulling out her sais again as they moved. Her eyes flitted to the tree tops. She had seen the creature approaching from a decent distance away, so they had a little bit before it would find them, but she wasn’t sure where Shor was taking them until he brought them to a large clearing. She paused, hesitating. She didn’t like the light and the open. It went against her nature. She was used to slinking about in the shadows unseen. Her Sais were close combat weapons. While the open nature of the clearing was an advantage to Shor, it was just as much a disadvantage for her. The drip of her own blood was what made the decision for her. She stopped at the last tree before the clearing, kneeling next to it as she slung her bag off of her shoulders. It was fairly lightweight, but it still mildly restricted her movement. If it was going to come to a fight, she wanted to be free to move. Reaching into her bag, she took out a small ace bandage, wiping her arm off quickly and wrapping it. She left her bag on the ground next to the tree before looking at Shor as she said quietly, “I’m going to stay here on the edge. Open or long range fighting is not my forte, and I don’t like being so exposed.” Even being this close to the light was a compromise for her. She stood next to the tree, her eyes scanning both the sky of the meadow and the tree tops. Absently, she muttered softly. “What’d I do to deserve getting dragged into all of this?” It was said more to herself than to him. All she had wanted to do was explore the hole in the ground, not witness a horrific mutilation of a murder and get hunted by wild beasts. She had no desire to get involved with whatever it was she had glimpsed, honestly. If it was coming from where she had seen it, it should be approaching from the opposite side of the meadow… A chill ran up her spine. She glanced at Shor, a good 25 meters away from her in the middle of the clearing, then into the trees behind her. If she hadn’t know what she was looking for, she may never have seen it, perched in the top of one of the trees about 40 meters away from her, red eyes glowing as they studied her. When had it gotten behind her? She hadn’t heard it. As their gazes met, she did the only sensible thing she could think of… she turned and ran. “I changed my mind!” She could hear it now. Even as she was running forward recklessly to meet Shor, hoping that something inside of him would cause him to help her despite her stubbornness, it was swooping through the trees behind her, no longer caring to be silent it seemed. It was also way faster in the air than she was on the ground. She didn’t have time to turn and see what kind of creature it truly was in the light of the sun, because she could feel it behind her. The whoosh of air was the only notice she had. She dove sideways, seeing razor sharp claws pass through the air she had just vacated. She’d only made it maybe a few meters towards where he’d been before it had been upon her. However, it seemed unable to make the sharp turns she had just done, and instead lifted back in the air and back into the trees. She lay there on the ground for a moment, her heart pounding. It wasn’t over. It was likely just waiting to dive again. She needed to get up and move. Rolling quickly to her feet, she glanced around for Shor and immediately started running in his direction again. He may not need her, but she was going to need his help if she wanted to survive. Close range fighting wasn’t really an option at the moment. It was a thought that rankled. She didn’t want to depend on a man… but she didn’t really have a choice right now. Edited by Jay, Jul 29 2014, 08:30 AM.
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| 博 Tenken | Aug 3 2014, 11:49 PM Post #10 |
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At first it was fairly clear that "Jayden" didn't agree with Shor's choice of position for them to take, her own weapons were clearly ones for a close range encounter and while Shor appreciated that -he preferred up close and personal himself as well- his Naginata gave him a slight edge in range in this case and it was easiest to defend from here. Thus he practically ignored her sullenness over his choice, she was young and she would learn but for now this was the best spot and as he turned he watched and waited. The thing was coming, no doubts there. It wasn't a long wait, the knight held himself in a closed Earthen stance, Naginata held low and body solid, slightly bent at the knees so his center of gravity was lower and he could strike upwards and inwards in an instantaneous defense when needed. Jayden herself burst from the trees a few moments later, her eyes wild and shrieking something about her changed mind but Shor paid that no mind, only attached the smallest part of his attention to her in the form of protection and wariness as she dove just as an enormous thing swooped by her and landed at a run, moving towards Shorasuke himself. The thing was horrifying to behold, its large body was scaled and plated at the same moment and with four solid limbs attached to a clearly serpentine body it moved with a sickeningly flowing grace en route towards Shor. Its clas were almost omnipresent and its glowing red eyes stood out even in the sunlight it charged into, its mouth opened in an enormous gaping maw. It was clearly going to rely on its weight -and the terrifying spikes at its chest- to deal with Shor as it charged, to bowl over the silly human in its path before it turned its attention back to the girl it had left. But Shorasuke was no fool, as soon as the thing had burst out of the woods he had moved his stance to one where the sun was in its eyes for a reason and his Naginata was no longer just held low but turned on its side, the blade edge shining in the sunlight and facing away from the beast. As it charged its eyes hit the glare of the sun just as it would connect and it was at that moment Shor moved himself to the side, the things slithering, charging body moving right past him just as he swept his weapon forwards and around. It slammed into the beast with a sickening crunch, the sound of hard metal meeting thickly plated scales one that echoed around the clearing but it hit its mark and hit it hard, a long shining streak of crimson blossoming all the way down the things side as it moved and shrieked in pain simultaneously. Its momentum caused it to stumble forwards a way to the far edge of the clearing even after being wounded, its body turning at top speed despite the injury and hissing in evident rage at the knight who had wounded it. Now it was still for a moment Shor could see it better, could see that what he had thought of as plates before were merely larger scales atop ones below, tiny ones that were almost invisible due to their size. He also noted -now- the long blood stained spikes running all over its body as well as the thickly glistening spines on its tail, spines that glistened not with the blood of itself or the man it had killed before but a dark filmy coating that was very probably poisonous. "Whatever happens," Shor said in a steady voice, directing this at Jayden but still facing the serpentine-beast easily, his face relaxed but prepared, "Even if it scores you with its other claws, don't get hit by the tail spines." And then the beast charged again. |
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