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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:54 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:09 pm
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At first, one would think that the armored woman hadn't reacted, and thus been caught unawares by the attack from behind. But the fact that she wasn't laid out on the ground with her back split open put a lie to that belief. It became clear soon, that she'd turned just enough to allow the white oak sheath of her blade to stop the attack.
The woman's helmet turned back casually as she turned her head, looking over her shoulder at the girl. "So be it." Those would be the last words from her as she lashed out with a boot, mule-kicking up towards Tsukuyomi's center mass. Whether she struck or not was irrelevant to her; either the girl would be struck and knocked back, or she'd move back of her own accord. Either way, once that distance was opened, the armored woman spun with a flourish of the dark blue cloak hanging from the shoulders and left hip of her armor, armored hand darting up to her sheathed sword with a speed that even a trained eye would be hard-pressed to follow, the shirasaya blade flashing out over her shoulder in a classic iaido quick-draw, aimed at Tsukuyomi's head in a strike intended to cleave the very sight from her person.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:30 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:06 pm
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She shifted her body to the side, freeing one hand from the hilt of her blade and using it, coupled with her sideways motion, to smack the lunging blade away with the back of her gauntleted hand. At the same time, she shoved forward with her own blade, bringing the locked weapons closer to her foe, and then slashing down and away. This could potentially leave a nasty mark on her foe as she disengages her blade from her enemy's, but that's only a bonus. She turned the disengaging slash into a full rotation, spinning around and charging up ki in her blade as she did so. At the apex of her spin, she struck a hard horizontal blow toward Tsukuyomi and, more expecting it to be blocked than to land it, she released the charged ki in a pressure blast centered on Tsukuyomi, a pseudo Force push to send her flying away, hopefully into a building or something else that would stun her.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:33 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:45 pm
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This was the part where things got cinematic, and a damn good show nonetheless. She rolled out of the path of the first ki wave, though she could just as easily have sidestepped, and then came up as the second arced toward her on a diagonal. Demonstrating an impressive agility, she leapt up and into a backflip to avoid the strike, sheating her sword as she did so. In midair, still inverted, she drew ki to her hands, then released in three powerful 'globs' of compressed air, each aimed toward Tsukuyomi.
Landing in a crouch, her hand reached up to her sword and she charged the girl, where she could have easily executed a shundo to reach her target. No, that wouldn't do. She wanted her enemy to see her approach, and to try to attack her before she drew. Just at the edge of Tsukuyomi's reach, the armored woman dropped into a slide, her momentum carrying her skidding along the ground between the girl's legs and beneath her, though it was scratching the hell out of her cosplay armor. She'd have to fix it later. Completing her slide, now at Tsukuyomi's back, she rose and struck directly upward as she drew, the edge of her blade seeking to carve Tsukuyomi a second spine.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:20 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:22 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:33 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:43 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:06 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:26 am
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Zazie hadn't gone far. In fact, eventually, she had come to a stop, far off from where the chaos had been ensueing. She was as casual as always, a bored look in her eyes as she tried to find Kaede, but not even seeming like she was looking very hard or taking the time to really search among the crowds. Soon she came to a stop though, far off from any bit of the crowd, close to a gift shop near the edge of the village. Turning around, her hands once again folded beneath her sleeves, she looked to see who it was that had been following and approaching her.
"Together forever...?" She said with a dull tone when she noticed it was the two soulmates she had just recently departed from. They didn't look to happy for some reason. But... why? The two were a couple, shouldn't they have been pleased that they were closer than ever?
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:29 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:51 am
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(killed? oh perish the thought. it had never been in my intent to kill. temporarily debilitate yes, but not kill)
Rising gracefully from her baseball slide, the armored woman settled her sword upon Kenneth's shoulder, the blade just barely touching his neck. "Mind your words, hellspawn, or lose your tongue. The affairs of Shinmeiryu are no concern of yours, and for your own sake, pray you do not become the attention of our affairs."
With that said, she removed her blade, sheathed the weapon, and set off in the direction that Tsukuyomi had gone. Hiding in a crowd was pointless when one could still track your ki.
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:02 am
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