Zac (RDKnightZac) vs Kiyori (Lockx)

[RDKnightZac]

"Oh man" Zac thought as the girl began to show off even more of her underwear causing Zac's face to become bright red as he averted his gaze once more. "I...see" He said as he coughed into his hand, "Um... if you want you can borrow my mantle for the time being" he offered, silently hoping she would accept as each passing moment sent him closer to losing most of the blood in his body.

[lockx]

Kiyori was finding this very amusing to watch, it wasn't every day that you saw a guy go as red as a ripe strawberry. She listened to his offer and it caused her to actually show her amusement in a smile that managed to leak through her control.

"You are embarrassed by it?" she laughed in the most provocative way she knew. "Ai thank you for the offer but Ai don't think Ai can accept. If you give it to me you are likely going to end up without any clothes. And Then where will we be?" she finished in a very suggestive tone and raised her eyebrow.

[RDKnightZac]

"Dammit all, I need to calm down..." He thought to himself as he closed his eyes and found his center, slowly opening them he looked Kiyori dead in the eyes and laughed at her remark, "Yes indeed, where would we find ourselves?" He said with a chuckle, "But enough with the exhibitionism for now okay? Are we gonna talk or are we gonna fight" He asked as he raised his eyebrow in response and fell into his fighting stance.

[lockx]

'He has that much self control in the face of something that had him bright red a moment ago?' Kiyori found this surprising enough that one of her eyebrows rose of it's own accord.

Kiyori started to walk over to Zac while swapping her blade between both hands so quickly that it appeared that the katana was in multiple places at once and in the air between the hands. Yet in truth she was not letting go of the blade at any stage but instead swapping between hands and moving her hands back to their starting position very fast. She knew that if she actually let the blade leave her hands that she would be making a vital mistake that could end in her death, Death by Idiocy.

She wondered what Zac would do next seeing as she was leaving him the initiative.

[RDKnightZac]

"Ah, a solid defense" He said nonchalantly as he at long last drew his longsword Rossyu from its sheath, the sun gleaming off of its crimson blade made it seem as if it were ablaze. "But throw a little surprise into the mix and the best of defenses will fail" He finished as he held the blade upright and let go, running his hands up and down the sword and causing it to disappear completely.

"Tada!" He exclaimed as he showed his empty hands to Kiyori to prove the blade had vanished, "But wait, there's more" He said with a chuckle as he fell into a quick draw stance and began to move his right hand forward from his waist as what appeared to be a walking stick suddenly began to materialize.

As he finished his trick, he grabbed the cane sword with his left hand and held his right hovering an inch over the handle, "So, you like my little display?" He asked as a grin slowly spread across his face.

[lockx]

(o0 not quite sure i got that o0)

Kiyori watched this with a sense of bemusement and puzzlement as the physical form of the blade changed to that of a sword cane and yet she really saw a ghostly overlay of a longsword in it's true form. The handle appeared to her to be made out of Ivory and looked like a Bone, the Guard looked like the open mouth of a dragon-like creature with rubies for eyes, while the Blade was stained crimson with highlights of a gold tone with the whole thing wreathed in Flame. This was slightly disturbing to Kiyori as it was an indication of his taste in fashion which frankly appalled her but not disturbing as a weapon on the whole. He was making the blade hover in the air however and that was the part that was slightly worrying.

She decided at that moment that the fight was definitely going to be interesting and that it wouldn't be necessary after all to kill the poor guy, 'If I could' Unless the fight ended that way.
She was still willing to let him attack her Due to the wonderful amount of ways she could fail if she started an attack at a character as clearly aware of himself as Zac appeared to be.

"Ai have to say the tricks would be a hit at a circus... But may Ai ask what is with the ghostly overlay? It has to be the most ugly piece of work Ai have ever seen..."

[RDKnightZac]

"Ghostly what?" Zac asked as he tilted his head slightly to the right in confusion, "What's ugly?" Shaking his head from side to side, he let out a small chuckle, "Are you sure you're alright?" he asked in a bemused tone, "You didn't smack your head when you landed did you?"

[lockx]

"you can't see it?" now she was confused at his reaction.

"Well regardless... Hurry up and fight me already..." Kiyori was grumpy now "Ai'm starting to get bored... and when bored Ai hurt my opponent worse than usual."

With that ultimatum out of the way she settled down ready to fight the man in front of her, if not kill him because of her boredom.

[RDKnightZac]

"Well if you want to hurt me..." he said with his trademark grin spreading across his face, "You'll have to hit me!" With that, Zac closed his eyes and focused his energy before moving forward and running full speed towards Kiyori, a faint whisper on the wind was the only clue to his intentions, "Shin Ougi Ryu: Mirage Strike..."

[lockx]

'mirage?... she wasn't shure if that meant he was going to feint.

Kiyori got her katana between where he was and where he was seeming to appear to attack and waited. She was ready to block if it wasn't a feint but had decided not to get straight into position just in case it was and the position she was in would help if she needed to defend another part of her body.

[RDKnightZac]

"Heh" Zac muttered as he drew closer, "Defense is only as good as one can react." Zac continued to move forward dispite his already close proximity, and then something strange happened, He ran through Kiyori and vanished in a waving haze, no doubt sending a wave of cold air over her.

Soft laugter could be heard in the air before a voice sprang from nowhere, "Surpise!" With that, Zac and four other magically charged after images appeared encircling Kiyori, but before they were able to swing Zac felt the earth beneath his feet begin to give way, "Oh S..." was all he had time to say before the ground broke and sent him spiraling into the darkness below.

[lockx]

Kiyori witnessed a moment of absolute panic as her fight or flight insticts kicked in as she observed the after images totally throw of her sense of where Zac was. She had been worried when he ran through her but the after images had to take the cake in her opinion.

Then she felt a slight rumble through the soles of her feet and a moment later the ground under her and Zac started to give way. She didn't have enough time to come up with something to get her out of this and fell down into the darkness.

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Kiyori's Eyes slowly adapted to the faint light coming from far above where they had fallen from and the light that was coming from the walls of the large cavern that they appeared to be in. She could just see the still form of zac to her left yet she was much more interested in finding out what was around her.

She could see a river that had been previously hidden underground winding it's way through the cavern and lit by the faintly glowing lights in the walls of the large cavern. She ran over to the nearest wall to see what the lights were and found out to her amazement that they were precious minerals and gems that appeared to be lit from within. The grond along the way to the wall had been strewn with pebbles, rock and big clumps of dirt from the fall from above, and this made the footing of this new place that much harder to fight upon.

"Hey Zac" she yelled out to him and the cavern made it echo. She waited for the Echoes to die a little before continuing "You still able to fight? this place is even better suited for it!" she sounded happy and this was because the cavern would make the fight even better.

[RDKnightZac]

The sound of Kiyori's voice echoing through the cavern stirred Zac as he slowly picked himself off the floor holding a hand to his head, "Oh...man, anyone get the license plate of that truck?" He mumbled as he dusted off his clothes before retrieving his sword and sheath from the pile of debris near him, he spun the sword a few times to get the rubble of it before resheathing it and turning his attention to Kiyori.

"Well, I can still fight" he said slowly as he took in his surrounding, "But shouldn't we be looking for a way out before we start up again?" He finished as he put a hand to his chin and continued to look around with a thoughtful look on his face.

[lockx]

"Why not" she replied to the course of action that Zac had put forth. She would have really liked to fight him in such a difficult place to do so like the cavern they were currently stuck in yet she supposed 'I can't have everything in life...'

She picked her way back to Zac and found him with a thoughtful expression on his face, 'is that recognition on his face?!' if it was she really wanted to know why. Yet she felt confidant to wait for his conclusion unless it was clear that he wouldn't tell of his own violation.

[RDKnightZac]

"Hmm..." Zac said tapping his index finger against his chin, "Well, either way getting out of here is going to be difficult..." With that Zac walked over to the stream and produced a canteen from beneath his mantle before dipping it into the stream, "Let's see..." he said looking thoughtfully at the river while taking a sip of its water.

"If the river above is flowing to the east, then this river must be flowing south, which means north is that way!" He finished as he pointed to a tunnel on the far side of the room. Finished with his observation, Zac stood up and walked over to Kiyori before extending his canteen towards her, "You want some water before we head out?" He asked politely.

[lockx]

Kiyori was surprised at this offer of water from the man who from appearances had managed to get them down here, and yet with no thought for the fact that he had caused it he just went and offered her water as coolly as you please. It was all just a little bit confusing from her point of view and the same applied to his rational for the direction they had to go in.

She wandered right up to him and wordlessly took the canteen he was offering in his outstretched arm towards her in her left hand. She raised it to her lips coyly and made the process of drinking from it as sensual as she could with the act of raising it drawing attention to her chest. While she raised it she turned so that he would see her from her right where the cut still was in her skirt and swayed so the hip was closer to him than the rest of her body yet she did this subtly so that he would not realize that it was purposeful.

Then with half the bottle still full she raised it so that it was over her head and poured it on her hair with the intention of slicking it back behind her ears when she was done so that it wouldn't fall in her eyes.

She bent over and refilled the canteen from the stream and handed it back to Zac and after doing so she finally remembered where she had put her hair clips and with no further ado retrieved the hair clips from where she had put them.
"So that's why Ai felt something digging in when Ai was lying on the ground in here before Ai got up" she said as she put them in her hair after retrieving them from her bra.
"Well... thank you for the water. You lead on" Kiyori said this while waving towards the tunnel he had pointed out. Even though she had noticed another tunnel to the south-east if the direction he had pointed out was the north.

[RDKnightZac]

Zac's face turned a bright shade of red as he turned his head, "Does she always do stuff like this" He thought in frustration. After retrieving his canteen and placing it back beneath his mantle, he proceed to walk over to the tunnel's entrance and peered inside before pulling his head out and tilting his head to the side, "You think whoever was down here before would have lit these tunnels up"

As he finished, Zac jumped up and snatched a torch from the wall and motioned for Kiyori to follow, "Alright then, here we go, just stick close and don't wander off" He said waving a finger in the air over his shoulder, "Whoever was down here before isn't here now, and I don't feel like finding out why."