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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 3:34:57 GMT -5
Areni immediately saw that this young man didn't have a sense for either irony or sarcasm or anything else like that, as if he were an emotionless puppet or a robot of some sorts.
With a bit of a smile she replied to Naze. "So I see I was right. Well then, I would have to tell you that you were, too." She said. "Indeed, I am Areni, daughter of Gahm, and I was kind of here to stop young ZetsumeiRyu's resurrection. I can see I have failed in that, so I guess that is too bad."
She looked into Naze's eyes without any fear or shame, rather with mere a small hint of pride, if anything at all.
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Post by Great Saiyaman on Feb 16, 2007 7:32:07 GMT -5
Naze was well aware of her sarcasim. He just would rather have played along simply, rather than get irritated. However still he nodded to what she said. He looked her over several more times before deciding to speak. "Very well...then now that you have failed, I would assume you'd go immediately to your father. Tell him I send my best wishes." He said turning to ZetsumeiRyu and nodded to him.
Zetsumei nodded back and they merely walked past Areni and down a route. Zetsumei led while Naze walked behind him. The shadows followed Naze as they proceeded. Some shadows stayed however, as to follow Areni, incase Naze decided to kill her.
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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 9:15:27 GMT -5
"Not so fast." Areni spoke up without turning to the two Sons that had just passed her.
Her tetrahedron levitated from her hand into the air, emitting a soft light, illuminating the area around them, and setting the ball on top of Naze's cain alight with the light's reflection.
Areni turned, the tetrahedron followed the movement of her hand.
"I think I should inform you of objective number two..." Areni said.
The light that the tetrahedron emitted glew a bit brighter, scaring away the shadows of the darkness that the tunnel held normally.
"...prevent the revival of Son number three: Ziatoch." She said. "And I am intending to do that even if it means stopping you two handsome guys from leaving this place."
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Post by Great Saiyaman on Feb 16, 2007 9:24:03 GMT -5
Naze stepped back a bit, away from the girl. He amount of light was overwhelming at first, but he slowly adapted to it so he could at least bear it. He leaned on his cain a bit more and took deep breaths from his nose. "Zetsumei...take care of this little angel of ours." Naze commanded keeping himself calm as always.
ZetsumeiRyu merely nodded and dashed at the gril. He would then get close and send a crushing blow to the girl with his right fist into her stomach. He would then spin and kick her face to send her further down the corridor. He would then dash to her and slam both feet on her stomach and then jump on her once and would grab her left leg and slam her into a wall. He would then throw her into the other and then down the corridor again.
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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 9:36:27 GMT -5
Areni didn't decide to give ZetsumeiRyu any chance to attack, immediately allowing her tetrahedron to blast him with it's large rays of light, whilst Areni herself stepped a little back and took out her rod, which was roughly a third longer than Naze's cain was without the platinum ball on it's top. Out of the side came a scythe-like blade that gleamed in the light of the tetrahedron's rays of death.
"Angel?" Areni asked. "I'd rather not be called by such a title, for to hurt someone, even pretty demons suchs as you, I would be a disgrace to my kind." She smiled a little, but it seemed more like a smirk. "No, I'd rather have you just call me woman."
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Post by Great Saiyaman on Feb 16, 2007 9:48:46 GMT -5
ZetsumeiRyu held out his hands to stop the force of the blast, dead in its tracks. However his gauntlets were pressured greatly, making his arms hurt a bit. Then he got under it and allowed the beam to fly upward, going through the mine roof several stories before it died. Zetsumei showed some annoyance in his eyes but kept himself calm untill Naze would say to let his feelings go and really whail on the girl.
In the mean time ZetsumeiRyu figured he could have some fun with her. He squatted down a bit and turned to the side, spreading his legs out, the back going further than the front. He aimed his hands at her, palms out. His fingers curled down a bit and his wrists came together, still aimed at Areni. ZetsumeiRyu then allowed the hands to come back and the wrists part a bit to open up what looked to hold a ball.
"Ka...Me....Ha...Me..." ZetsumeiRyu began as a large white ball with a tint of blue appeared in his hands. Black electricity of energy shot around it randomly. "Ha!" He would yell and throw his hands forward to allow the ball to shoot out as a beam of ki at Areni. ZetsumeiRyu's Super Kamehameha shot at her quickly, grinding against the mine walls as it spead to her. This attack would not kill her, at the worse force her unconcious.
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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 10:03:20 GMT -5
Areni hadn't really anticipated on ZetsumeiRyu deflecting her tetrahedron's blast like that, but even less on him performing his Super Kamehameha right after that. In fact, ZetsumeiRyu was one of the Sons she knew less of, as during the time he had appeared in the Beta he hadn't been around much, and the people who had seen him didn't really seem to know what his abilities were exactly, nor what his greatest strengths were, nor his greatest weaknesses. She could take a wild guess, though, but she didn't think she would guess correctly in the heat of battle, especially when said battle was a battle against the one she was trying to guess the things of, ZetsumeiRyu.
In the narrow tunnel was little space to dodge attacks, especially techniques of such great proportions as ZetsumeiRyu's, the DeathDragon's, Super Kamehameha. She decided to go for the same kind of approach as ZetsumeiRyu had done with her attack: to deflect it, hoping to lessen the damage, or even to reflect it right back to it's source and hand some wounds over to ZetsumeiRyu himself. Or, should he dodge it, Naze, who was standing behind his brother, still.
She let the second scythe-like blade come out of her rod while she held it in front of her, as she started spinning it around. Faster and faster it went, until she flung it forward, still holding it, and litterally cut the blast in two, letting one half shoot past harmlessly, to her at least, and the other half to partly hit her, thus avoiding the greater part of the damage the attack could've done. And since she was a Daughter of Light, destined to defeat the Sons, as well as a warrior who wielded light as an uncanny weapon like few others, she could withstand what damage the attack had done.
"Pah," She said, "nothing but a flesh wound."
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Post by Great Saiyaman on Feb 16, 2007 10:14:09 GMT -5
ZetsumeiRyu stared as his attack was cut in half, not at all disturbed. "Hmph...not bad woman." He said loudly enough for her to hear. He then straightened himself and glanced back at Naze who was leaning against a wall, watching. ZetsumeiRyu took this as he needed to do more, not that he didn't know that.
ZetsumeiRyu looked her rod over before he darting at her. He would send a fist into her face, taking a new tactic. He would then grabb the back of her head and slam his forehead into her face. He would then bring his knee up to hit her stomach and would then lean forward and bring his torso past her and then bring his elbow to the back of her neck. He would then grab her face and throw her forward.
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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 10:18:05 GMT -5
Areni held her rod in one hand as ZetsumeiRyu came closer. She wanted to lift it up and slash at the young man to stop him in his tracks. However, she took a punch in the face before she could react. When ZetsumeiRyu grabbed the back of her head, she send her knee upwards to land a hit right between his legs, as she brought up her rod to strike him in the back with one of the blades.
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Post by Great Saiyaman on Feb 16, 2007 10:23:34 GMT -5
Zetsumei's knee that would go up to hit her, ended up being used to defend against her hit. "Playing dirty aren't we?" He asked darkly as her blade hit him in the back. He grunted in pain and then growled. He then would grab her around her neck with his free hand and began to squeeze the life out of her, cutting off air. Along with that, he would throw her suffocateing body into the wall on thier left. He would also pull out the blade from his back.
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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 10:28:23 GMT -5
As ZetsumeiRyu's hand slipped around her throat, Areni put both her arms around the man, grabbing her rod behind him... and pulled. Pulled hard, so that the blade dug deeper into ZetsumeiRyu's flesh and would penetrate one of his lungs should it find it's way between two of his ribs. Meanwhile, Areni's head turned red as her blood circulation was cut off. With bloodshot eyes, she tried to pull her out of ZetsumeiRyu's grasp. When she saw how futile that was, she pulled back her head and then knocked her head forward, trying to headbutt ZetsumeiRyu to free her from his grasp.
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Post by Great Saiyaman on Feb 16, 2007 10:45:14 GMT -5
ZetsumeiRyu could not risk a heavy so early, that he knew. Thus he would release his grip and slam his fists into her elbows to force her to let go. He would then reach back, pull out the rod and throw it behind him, it would stick into the ground blade first. He would pant a bit from the injury, getting himself together. He would then back up a bit to allow a distance to come.
Naze frowned upon the weakness of his comrade. Surely he could do better, and he better. If ZetsumeiRyu could not hold his own against the girl, Naze would kill him himself. He grew irritated of Zetsumei's lack of defence and being to reackless as to attack everytime he wanted. It only lead to defeat and ZetsumeiRyu was on that verge. "Do not dissapoint me ZetsumeiRyu." Naze said darkly at ZetsumeiRyu.
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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 10:51:02 GMT -5
Areni let go of the rod with only one of her hands as he gasped for air and released ZetsumeiRyu. Trying to catch her breath, a bit afraid she would start to hyperventilate, she held on to her rod and leaned on it a little. Her head ached slightly because of ZetsumeiRyu's attempt to strangle her just now. As she tried to catch her breath, she glared at ZetsumeiRyu from behind a few strands of blonde hair that hung before her eyes.
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Post by Great Saiyaman on Feb 16, 2007 10:56:52 GMT -5
ZetsumeiRyu immediatly straightened himself as Naze spoke. "I shall not." He assured, sticking to his loyal nature. His golden eyes glared at Areni. He thought on what torture could he produce for the child, something simple...or complex. Either may satisfy his current master, Naze. However knowing what to do and how to do are two different matters.
ZetsumeiRyu then took a step back and then another. He then flung himself on the wall and jumped from that to the next and so on. He pinballed himself in the tight space, gaining momentum as he went around Areni. Dust and wood chips fell around them as the mine started to cave, his plan: cave the girl in. Soon rocks began to fall around her as he continued. He would then stop to be on the same side as he was. Rocks would be around her, knee high. He would then point a finger to the cieling above her and shoot a ki beam, allowing more rocks to fall. This time enough to bury her.
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Post by Morph on Feb 16, 2007 11:03:28 GMT -5
Areni, still a little uneasy for what had happened to her, kept her eyes close on ZetsumeiRyu, trying to figure out what he was trying to do, what his plan was, as he started to dart around the place like an idiotic, gone crazy, pinball.
When she noticed some small rocks falling down from above, she figured out what his plans with her were. He was trying to cave her in! She decided she was not gonna stand by and let that happen. She straightened her back and waited for the right time. When she saw ZetsumeiRyu coming by again, she quickly lashed out the scythe-blade of her rod, intending to cut ZetsumeiRyu and stop him. She would then proceed with throwing a shock grenade at him to stun him, while she dodged the blast of the grenade.
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