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The voice sounded like it was pouting now. "Oh, come on. Don't be so boring. I don't like people that are no fun. Don't you want to know, even a little?" She wasn't psychotic- those that had lost their minds completely were not, in all actuality, better fighters. They lacked dicipline and focus.

This one seemed different. She wanted some intelligent conversation for the first time in all her centuries down here. Maybe if he participated, things would go a bit smoother?

"Well, he's smart as well as capable. A few millennia earlier, and you would've made someone very happy in my time." The voice giggled again as the waters suddenly came forth! But they didn't attack- nor did the waters receed at all.

Instead, they collected just above the grave marker, and began to take a shape with the feet and legs forming first. The curves and lines took shape effortlessly, and soon- rather quickly, in fact, a woman stood before him, balanced on top of the grave marker. Clothed in a white strapless dress with the hem ending at the ankles. Green eyes, and hair with so many shades of blue one would think it were the ocean itself.

It was her! The one from outside! And around her neck, on a golden chain, was a three-inch wide, perfectly spherical sapphire that shone with an inner light and had a bindrune facing toward Ruuvan.

"Now then... tell me who sent you. And remember- the water seeks truth."

Which meant that she could tell if he were lying.

"Hmm... Evan White... the name is familiar." She furrowed her brow for a moment. He wasn't lying- there was someone with that name in existance. But then again, Ruuvan had no idea who he really was. She smiled with the obvious hint of Raven Industries, and had already deciphered who he was.

But it wasn't like she was going to tell him about it, though she had the right to. She was just happy that someone from the Aesir had survived. It meant that there might be others as well. But that's niether here, nor there.

"Well then, you're a noble one if you do not care about a reward. Ambitious too- a place of renoun in the Heavens. Interesting. Tell you what-" She snapped off the chain with a jerk of her right hand, and looked at it in idle speculation as she continued her speech. "I'll offer you that 'place in the skies', along with this stone."

She then threw it up into the air with a flick of her wrist and a sweet smile. The damn thing went about fifteen feet in the air- pretty high for a flick of the wrist- before she continued speaking. "That is... if you can take it from me!"

Warning! High-Risk Enemy!

As she caught the sapphire on the way down, her right hand clenched around the stone, thus focusing her lifeforce into the gem and activating the rune. In a flash of light from the bauble, she began to change... her hair seemed to tie itself in a warrior's ponytail, with a silver baretta as a clip.

The light descended, seeming to cover her from head to toe, and her form shifted and changed yet again. Armor began to form over her arms, legs, and body. A stylized helmet was formed on her head. And from the focal point of the gemstone, something came forth- a spear. A kwandao, to be exact.

The blade was almost two feet long and had a wave pattern on the back, leading to the hook near the base of the blade. A keen edge surrounded the weapon, making it an incredibly effective weapon for piercing, cutting, and hooking as well. With a five foot long pole attatched to the base of the weapon, it was built for range and efficiency. And within the blade, near the very base, was a the gemstone itself.

"I see you're ready," she said with a grin. She raised the weapon over her head, twirling the massive 85 kg weapon above her head as if it were a bamboo staff. Hell, she was a warrior of the gods- she could do that quite easily. Quickly lowering it into place, angled slightly upwards toward Ruuvan's head, she took one step back with her right leg and shifted her left leg forward, and bent her knees so that the weight distribution would be 70/30, with most of the weight on the back leg.

"Okay, then. Let's have some fun!"

Prepare To Defend Yourself!

The Rune Stone flashed briefly before she suddenly rushed him, her figure blurring as she came at him full tilt. Her speed was befitting of someone who had been in battle after battle, and even with such a long and heavy weapon, her charge was swift and sure.

But before she came within range... she vanished. Completely and totally disappeared. In reality however, she had not simply gone into another dimension... just another form. Her mist form- one that was pretty much uesd for surprise attacks. And it just so happened that there was water everywhere- in the air, on the floor... hell, it was on his clothes.

Who knew where she'd pop up next?

Thing was, it didn't. How can one hurt something like vapor, unless it were some neuclear detonation that pretty much destroys all particles within blast radius? Awnser- you can't. So she vanished as he struck, and he would hear a sound behind him... the gathering of water particles.

The next instant, if he were not fast enough, he'd feel a metal boot on the back of his head. She was coming from behind and slightly above so that her left leg would impact straight on his head. And as for her kwan dao? It was held so that the polearm would be perfectly in line with her body, her right hand lightly cradling underneath the weapon near the spear while her left hand gripped the weapon near the top half of the weapon.

The move was done quickly and without pause between phase shift and attack, so it would look like she had simply come out of thin air. The only indication of her arrival would be the sound, and a cloud of mist before she reformed in mid-air.

"Whoops, bad idea," she said as the man stepped to the right. His blade came down on her leg, but met the broadsword's jagged back edge. All she had to do now was shift it backwards while she was landing and the weapon would be trapped between the hook and the third ridge.

Then as she landed, she would turn in a clockwise motion while in her low stance, not only tossing the captured weapon towards the far edge of the platform, but would make an attempt to sweep him off of his feet with her left leg... and her momentum would give her enough force to swing her weapon around after the kick with her right arm, the hand gripping the kwandao's midsection and the blade edge in line to cut him in the side.

Or at least, have him get whacked by the shaft as it came around, depending on how close he was upon the attack.

"Nice one!" She said before charging forward again, flicking her right wrist and sending the broadsword spinning in a circle as a feint motion before thrusting forward towards Ruuvan's midsection... and turning the blade into a temporary mist form for a quick retreat before stabbing again towards his throat. Repeat, stabbing towards his chest, near the heart. Thighs. Shins. If the last hit connected, Ruuvan would be knocked to one knee quite painfully before she thrust heavily towards his now exposed head, twisting her torso in order to add power to the one-handed lunge.

Thousand Mist Stab