Thread: Zac (RDKnightZac) vs Kiyori (Lockx)

"Zeman Entakumetz" Zac muttered under his breath, his speech momentarily reduced to Ancient Drakonian, but he quickly shook his head and put on a pained smile as he looked at Kiyori, "You can help by not worrying" he said tilting his head to the left, "I've had much worse than this." With that, Zac motioned for Kiyori to take a step back before taking a deep breath and yanking the arrow out of his shoulder, causing another spray of blood to hit the floor. "Xaigen ma Eiten Zuku gi Mouqoten Vesan!" He roared in pain as he let the arrow clatter to the floor before removing his mantle to inspect the wound, "Always" he muttered, "They always gotta be barbed don't they?" Reaching into a pouch attached to his belt, he shuffled around its contents for a few moments before pulling two glass vials containing oddly colored liquids from it and placing them on the floor in front of himself.



Quietly sighing to himself he grabbed the vial to the left and popped it's cork before pouring its luminecant yellow contents onto his wound, wincing slightly as the wound began to bubble, the excess blood in and around the wound began to turn to vapor and eventually disappeared altogether leaving it looking good as new. Next he grabbed the remaining vial containing a crimson liquid and poured it on the cleaned wound, slowly it began to close until it too had completely vanished leaving nothing but a thin scar where the gaping hole had been only moments before. "And done" He said nonchalantly as he stood up and threw his mantle back on, silently cursing the work that would have to be done to fix it up, "Anyways, that's why I told you to stick close, understand now?" he finished as he flashed his omnipresent smile at her as if nothing had happened.

Kiyori reached out and slapped Zac in an effort to remove the irritating smile of his face, he had made her worry about him and that was not something she liked to feel. Then he had acted all righteous and said that she needed to stick close, He had Ordered Her! Such a thing was something that Kiyori had an ingrained habit of breaking, she Never obeyed orders.

Standing up she stalked back in to the Cavern and made her way to the other tunnel she had noted to the south-east of the cavern. She didn't give Zac a word she was so annoyed at him and had resolved to ignore him is he yelled out to her before she got to her destination.
'how Dare he treat me like a servant, or worse! He'd better not do it again!' she thought furiously in regards to his actions.

Kiyori felt a slight premonition as she reached the edge of the tunnel she had stalked to yet she ignored it and kept going, making sure of where she stepped. Her caution as she moved had the effect of making her body move in sensual ways and she knew that Zac, having followed her, would be affected by this yet she didn't care what he thought at the moment. She was still pissed off with him.

She could see perfectly from the inner light the walls were radiating yet she had come to realize that zac didn't seem to see the light at all, which meant that it was another weird thing she was seeing for the day.

She heard a very faint thud behind her and was going to ignore it, but decided to turn to check just in time to witness Zac almost fall unconscious with his shoulder bleeding again which was strange seeing as he had made it seem as if it had stopped completely.

She made a split second decision to go back and help him despite her still lingering anger at the stupid repressive man. 'thinks he can do everything' she grumbled in her mind. So she hurried a little but not too much to get to him just in time to hear him whisper something about 'Lich Seed Poisoning' while looking bemused.

She slapped him again so that he would act lucid for enough time to find out what to do from him and asked him quickly "What do Ai do!" she was frustrated with him and this was conveyed in her posture, voice, and flickered violently in her eyes.

Kiyori just had to stare at Zac and his bowl. 'Does he know that he looks like a disheveled beggar right now?' she mused to herself along with the bizarre suspicion that the mushrooms being where they were was way to easy. What were the odds that the cure for a poison was right next to the guy who needed it.

She took her time to go to the mushrooms and as she investigated the mushrooms she amused herself by poking them every few moments. Then as she finally realized what was so familiar about them she let lose a pealing golden laugh of a type she had not experienced for quite a while. The laugh echoed as she turned to Zac as she rummaged around in what appeared to be her bra. Then she cried "ahah!'" as she finally discovered what she was attempting to find.

As she pulled out the vial however she managed to rip the string that had been holding her bra together apart and when the vial was out the top her bra fell down to lie about her feet. "Ooooops." she hissed in shock as she realized what she had done but disdaining to retrieve it she stepped quickly to Zac and forced the solution in the vial into his mouth, holding his nose to make him swallow.

Zac barely had time to notice the events taking place before Kiyori shoved a vial into his mouth and forced its contents down his throat. After he had finished the liquid, he coughed a few times before resting his back against a wall, "Many thanks, I'd be a dead man if not for you" he said warmly, "But there something that troubles me, its not everyday you see someone carrying a vial of Lich Seed Poison after all."

With that, Zac turned his head to look at Kiyori, but he quickly turned it away when he noticed her new state of undress, "Oh...umm...ahh..." he stuttered as his face turned beat red, "I...uh, apologize for the...inconvinence I seemed to have caused you" he finished as he struggled to return his face to its normal color. "Damn, my attention to detail" he thought to himself as he fought to keep his mind from wandering.

Kiyori had never known the name of the poison she carried in the vial yet she had learnt through trial and error that it was one of the most effective poisons she could use on her blade on those occasions which warranted it. She hadn't functioned as an active assassin in several years yet old habits died hard, even despite the emotional healing she had experienced while she had been with the one man who truly made her feel warm and fuzzy within. Though if she had to truly define what she had been the term ninja would be closer to what she had been compared to assassin even though neither were quite accurate.

She hadn't as much clothing on now as she had had when Zac had made his way into the clearing she had been so unaware within and the caves they were in now were colder yet she had never paid much care to the sensations she physically experienced despite the full awareness she had of them. And so she didn't really have any problem with her clothing whatsoever, even better from her perspective was the fact that Zac was so embarrassed by her sexuality.

"Zac..." she had decided to let him in on the secret at last - it would make their interactions with each other even more intriguing. "Ai've been doing this on purpose but Ai have to tell you that Ai already have a man Ai am interested in. Ai find it enjoyable to tease you especially with the way you act yet to be honest Ai am not really interested in you. Relax. Breath deep. And put the dress of Kiyori out of your mind." she hoped he would actually listen to the advice she was offering to him.

"Also Zac... Ai am perfectly comfortable while stark naked. So don't bother offering me your clothing."

She went over to him and hugged him as a family member would another of the same family and as she did so she experienced the click she had on occasion that caused things to happen. She took a few steps back from him and held out her hands flat in front of her just in time to catch the black leather 3/4 length coat she loved so much and took such lavish care of, just as it appeared to fall out of the ceiling of the tunnel they stood in.

"I really wish Ai knew how Ai did that just then..." she asked herself rhetorically as she unfolded it from the neat folds it had appeared in and slung it around her shoulders. Then while doing up the buttons she spun around and went to retrieve her Katana and called back over her should to Zac "hurry up time's a'wasting!"

Kiyori glanced out of the corner of her eye at Zac with a slight smile on her face. The smile conveyed a sense of ‘I know something that you don’t know.’ Along with some smugness about it. Then she decided to let up on him and explain what she could, though she did want to know why he was trying to hide his curiosity about it with nonchalance.

“Ai met him a short time back…” she sighed with rememberance and continued. “It was a wet and miserable day at the time and Ai was not like Ai am now… Ai can admit it now but Ai was just a little… well a lot, strange. Ai was suffering under a split personality and couldn’t bear to walk away from a fight, even when the cause was solely from my imagination…”

She continued to walk forward for a moment, then she stopped and turned to look back down the tunnel they were in. Kiyori could see the brighter spiritual glow from the underground cavern at the opening of their path and the lighter glow of the walls glistened as it reflected off the blood that Zac had spilt. She now knew a way to deal with Zac on the occasion they fought again and yet she did not feel as triumphant about it as she would have prior to the event with that man that she was explaining to Zac about.

“The sand dunes on that beach were amazing and they spread for quite some distance… Ai was relaxing in the only way Ai knew other than fighting and he… well he appeared to want to be alone as he wandered across the beach. Ai couldn’t resist and Ai wanted to fight him, He didn’t…” She sighed again as she though about it then turned to face Zac where he had stopped a few steps onwards after he had realized that she had stopped, he was facing her with an inquiring expression.

“We fought. He didn’t want to at first but we did fight. It was unlike anything Ai had ever experienced before and in the process of that fight Ai started to change. He healed me of my problems.” She broke off as she studied Zac with his mysterious physically changing sword that was currently sheathed.

“Ai suppose I’m boring you with my rambling on about noting aren’t Ai.”

“Well… Ai do want to know why you are so curious about what he is like. Wait…” She paused and studied him again. “Your eyes… It’s as if you’ve heard about or met this man before, despite my not having told you his name or described him properly.” She broke off and hummed a little.

Then suddenly she was up close to him with the hilt of her katana hovering just under his adams apple. She stared into his eyes for a moment then chuckled as she stepped away again. “You’ve come into contact with him as well, haven’t you? Hah…” she started to pace down the tunnel again, brushing against Zac in a provocative way as she passed him.

“He carries a Bokken as his weapon, though he does have a trick or two up his sleeves. His eyes are expressive and his hair… well it falls into his eyes and is a unique colour. However you’d know that already.” She started to pay a little more attention to the tunnel. She had a suspicion that they would come up against another trap soon. “Since that day Ai’ve learnt a little more about him. He was living for quite a while at a place called the Hinata Sou? In… Tokyo Ai believe. I’m not sure if Ai got the name correct though.” She shrugged.

“Travelling to get away from it for a while was what he was doing. Ai am not sure if he has returned yet. Oh well… Ai hope Ai come into contact with him again sometime soon.”

She turned around again with her left brow rising and asked the question she had wanted to ask since she had worked out that he had met ‘Him’. “So… Tell me about your own run in with him. The one called Ryo.” The emotions she felt about Ryo became temporarily visibly in the way she stressed his name.

“That sounds like it would have been interesting.” Kiyori was intrigued by this rather short story, despite its lack of detail and had an urge to learn more. Yet they had were just short of where the tunnel opened out and she strode ahead of Zac instead. There was a real glow from the opening ahead unlike the ghostly glow she had been seeing the whole time they were under the surface and she had the suspicion that they may not be in for the best of things to come.

She reached about a meter from the threshold of the cavern beyond and stopped to look closer at the walls around the tunnel with a suspicion that there was a trap embedded in them. She could see that the walls here were unnaturally smooth, as if this part of the tunnel had been cut out of butter with a hot knife yet she could not see any distortions in the walls and decided that there wasn’t a trap. What she couldn’t work out however was why she couldn’t clearly see the cavern before her. It was as if there was a non-material veil covering the opening that was unlike the spiritual glow she had been seeing, more as if it was a distortion in the air itself that prevented view beyond. Some light was shining through however that was it.

She made sure to be quiet while she asked Zac “Have you ever seen a distortion like this in the air before?” as she continued to study it. The only thing she was sure about in regards to it was that it was hiding something behind it.

Kiyori Had to wonder what this Seriphite was that Zac mentioned. Then the thought was pushed from her mind abruptly as a pulsing field of darkness streaked with a bloody crimson surrounded him. Raw feelings of thwarted frustration, murderous rage, and a desire to kill palpably filled the air to the point where she was panting through her mouth so that the associated etheric stench didn’t drive her before it into the realms of the unconscious.

Miraculously to her however the sensation ceased abruptly until the reason behind this departure of the raw emotion became clear. Zac had stepped through the mysterious veil with what she realised was the intention to snuff out the lives of those beyond. She had barely been able to hear him through the internal roaring in her mind that had driven all thought from her once the jagged pulses of emotion had filled the air, he had said something about severing ties… she didn’t know what ties other than their connection to the people she had come to realise must dwell beyond.

Forcing herself to step through the veil in pursuit of Zac was one of the hardest things she could remember. She knew that if she survived she would always shudder at the memory of the insubstantial veil passing through her body bringing with it a sensation like that which was felt as one rummaged around in the decomposing organs and intestines of a dead body in search of a swallowed object of worth. Kiyori had only had to do that twice and yet this felt both alike as well as worse.

The experience seemed to her to last for an age and left her feeling like she had lost a decade of life. It appeared to have been but moments however seeing as Zac had only gotten five or six paces from the veil yet he seemed unaffected by his passage. In contrast she was coated in sweat, felt like solid ice must feel in the Arctic regions, and was experiencing symptoms like that of a high fever.

Kiyori forced herself to ignore what she felt and instead made an effort to examine the area she found around her. It was large. Humongous even. She marvelled at the size of this underground cavern, for underground they still were, and came to realise they must be much further underground than she had realised. There was a dual-story building against the far wall and it appeared to be where Zac was headed to with such determination. She would only stop him if absolutely necessary, otherwise she would just follow.

She could still feel the emanations flowing from him with such vitality yet now that she wasn’t in an enclosed space with him she felt able to breath, despite the intuitive knowledge that the feelings were solely metaphysical she had had trouble with it previously.

‘I presume he has a reason behind this. And there had better be some other way out than that Horrible veil’

Zac's eyes looked like a cats as he neared the large building, his ethereal wings of fire slowly arose from his back and his emotions came down from their chaotic mess and melded into a singular drive that propelled him forward, "...Time..." he thought bemusedly, "Looks like your's has run out... Quetu...Celes...".

He barely registered the fact that Kiyori was following close behind him, but as he bent forward, he instictivly reached back and grabbed her by the hand and pulling her close before rocketing up into the air, propelled by his new wings.

He landed softly on the roof of the building and let Kiyori go, looking over at two people, one male and one female, and pointed at them as a look of pure battlelust came over his face, "Heya guys" he said in a tone of mock enthusiam, "You miss me?" The look on the two unknown figures faces could best be discribed as "Priceless".

Kiyori was taken by utter surprise when Zac picked her up and flew them both to the top of the building with wings of ethereal fire. Sure he seemed like a strange and mysterious person yet that was one thing she hadn't expected from him.

Landing on the roof was an experience in itself. Zac had no problems landing what with having stabilising wings yet he seemed oblivious to the fact that she had no wings with which to gain her balance. She fell some twenty centimetres, almost rolled her ankle and found the world spinning while for some reason she was lying on her back. Hearing Zac say in a severely mocking and sarcastic tone of voice something along the lines of "... missed me?" she started to get a sinking feeling that people were going to die.

Deciding to actually see these people that Zac had such a urge to kill she sat up to try and work out quite what was going on. The world wasn't spinning quite as badly as she levered herself up to see two indistinct figures with looks of absolute horror on their faces. As she watched they became more visible to her due to the fact that her head was clearing up from her fall.

Shock passed through her like a visceral wave as she recognised a figure who had been the bane of her existence years before. The former tactician of His Darkness Damasque's Army. Quetu Velaque. Kiyori had briefly been an assassin working directly for Damasque yet the "Honourable" Quetu, and even in her thoughts she referred to his title with an unhealthy sarcasm, had believed he could give her orders and tried to force her to act as his sex slave. Only a direct order from the Dark Lord himself had prevented her from maiming him for life or deigning to the messy state of murder. She hated murder and furthermore preferred her own actions to be referred to as "elimination", Quetu wasn't worth the term however.

Now she could see why Zac had such an urge to kill at least one of them. Though the female, now that Kiyori looked, made her begin to feel inferior due to the incredible beauty and elegance she exuded. This lady, being with Quetu, clearly had to be an unsavoury morsel herself. And as Kiyori looked closer she realised that the lady had lines on her face that appeared to be from a scowl.

Kiyori dismissed this person and returned to staring at Quetu, only a little while had passed and they were getting over their expressions of horror. Velaque moistened his lips and she realised he was about to talk, "I'd have thought you would be too cowardly a swine to come to us." The nasally voice grated on her nerves almost from the first syllable that slithered from his lips. Almost every time she had ever heard him speak she would notice a sense of insincerity to the words, unless he was speaking to Damasque, in which case he would try to ingratiate himself into the Lord's counsel.

She contemplated attacking him straight out, yet instead settled for imbuing his name with all the venom she could muster instead.
"Quetu Velaque... Ai presume you were finally cast out by Damasque for being a rat." she paused to climb to her feet and then continued. "At least Ai had a legitimate reason for leaving the army, Ai knew that they were destined to fail, like all dark armies before them. Ai just allowed my lust for Damasque gain control for a while."

"You had no such excuse Mr Pompous Git. Unless you were homosexual?" she allowed an element of question enter her voice.