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 Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:25 pm
Karin paled, though it wasn't certain whether it was from fear or something else. As of now, it seemed mostly likely it was fear. She kept her eyes shut tightly, feeling him leaning further towards her. Her face was still faintly red as she continued wriggling hopelessly, trying to knock him off. Though, she knew by now that that was not going to work at all. She bit her lip a little harder and peeked one eye open slowly, both of them widening as she saw just how close his face actually was. They quickly snapped shut again as she turned her face away from him once more.
The random thought of headbutting him entered her mind, but she quickly dismissed it. She'd probably just end of hurting herself more than anything. She growled quietly to herself, but it turned into a whimper at the end. She bit harder on her lip as her hands clenched, unusable from how he was pinning her. Damn it, get off of me! she shouted mentally, still squirming uselessly. This wasn't her idea of training. He was just practically lying on her, not letting her move. The feeling of helplessness was almost unbarable. Leave me alone... Just go away! Her clenched hands suddenly opened again, bending towards his hands in an attempt to free herself. The claws seemed... strangely longer.
Then she stopped biting her lip as well, a mark where her fang had been pressing, though it hadn't quite drawn blood. Her already pale skin was noticably paler now and she slowly turned her face back towards him, growling deep in her throat. "I said... get off!" she shouted suddenly, baring her rather large looking fangs angrily. Her eyes opened, suddenly revealing that they were no longer gold, but instead a piercing red. She glared at him as she thrashed around even more, still trying hard to get away.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:23 pm
Instead of forcing her into getting him off on her own he let go of her andpushed off of the ground with his arms, kicking off of it with his feet so that he woulkd be at a safe distance for the time being. Her scent had changed very slightly, and that was the final confirmation that told him her claws, teeth, and complexion had truely been side-effects of her transformation. He stood there still silent and then dismissed his two swords from the wall, along with his staff, and summoned the daggers to him returning them the same way into their proper pockets. He would need his weapons in case she did not control herself well enough at first. "There...I'm off. And we can actually begin...How different are you feeling from moments before?" this was the first question he needed to ask, if she would answer then there would be no need for more questions-but having little control over a new form was very normal...so if her personality had changed drastically enough she might not feel obligated to answer his questions. Here would be where the training began...training to control her new Nightmare form and then later on her Blood Demon form aswell. Right now he was going to be on tehe defensive and perfectly alert, because she already seemed to have recieved a unique Nightmare form...if she had gained a completely new personality then it might take a bit more effort to teach her to control it-but in the end the profit would be worth the trouble in earning it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:52 pm
Karin watched as he pulled away, her now red eyes narrowed angrily. She growled in her throat, leaning forward and quickling swiping her claws at him as he withdrew. Though, he got away too quickly and she missed. She slowly got to her feet, arms hanging limp at her sides as her shoulders slouched, her face bowed to the ground. Her hair was in her face, completely hiding it. She stood like this for a few seconds, her tail flicking slowly behind her and her ears flattened back. Then she slowly lifted her head, facing him now as she straightened her shoulders. Her hair was still in her face, causing the red eyes to glow slightly from the gloom they cast. She blinked slowly a couple times and then took a small step towards him before pausing again, seeing he'd gathered his daggers once more. She dismissed the question entirely as she stared at him oddly, almost as if she didn't recognize him. Her expression was pretty blank, eyes slightly wide. She took another small step towards him before pausing again, her eyes darting around him, the room, and his weapons. "...you're cheating," she said suddenly, her voice rough, sounding more like a hiss than anything else. Her eyes narrowed again as she lifted her hands slightly, straightening fully.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:12 pm
HE nodded "Well of course, this isnt't supposed to be a fair fight...but I guess we can keep it from being so easy if you want it so badly..." he said this and then the daggers dropped again, he swped his foot across the ground and all of the dagers flew over to her, stoppping just in front of her. "You can use them...it's still not a fair fight though..." he finished with this as he let his wown skin grow pale and claws/fangs extend as his still purple eyes brightened a little. Once his wings shot out from his back once more he crossed his arms and spread them. "YOu can leave them there or use them...what comes next is completely up to you...." Suka stood there with a new silence and waited for her to come at him, as most of the time happened. He had been in enough fights that it would not matter much, but he had Nightmare forms up to level 6 already and though he was unstable, even at that low level, he was strong enough that in any fight one-on-one he would usually not need that high of a transformation to defeat whomever it was attacking him. Sooner or later this would be clear to all, starting with her.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:22 pm
Karin stared at him quietly, ears still flattened back even as she listened to what he was saying. Her eyes lazily drifted towards the daggers as they came towards her, but she didn't move. She just watched as they stopped in front of her and stared with a rather blank expression once again. Then she slowly reached down, picking up one and turning it over in her hand a few times. She listened again to what Suka was saying, but didn't remove her gaze from the dagger. She stared at it completely silent, her eyes somewhat wide again, and still blank. Then she slowly looked back up at him, blinking a couple times as her tail flicked lazily behind her. In the next second, she'd brought her hand back and thrown the dagger at him before leaping after it, running up close and swiping at him with her clawed hand, horizontally across his body. She doubted she'd hit, but she wasn't really thinking about that right now. She was just swinging at him, trying to catch something with her claws.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:43 pm
He saw this with sharp eyes but in the end was not quite quick enough to dodge it perfectly. He caught the dagger for it was thrown first, but he could not dodge the swipe of her claws that aimed at his chest first. With the flat end of the blade he tried to push her hands quickly away as he tried to jump back and out of her range, but instead simply aimed her attack lower, on his abdominal area where the wounds from Yuri's lightning were still open. She ripped them open a little further and they began to bleed, but he made it out of her range before there was any further damage done. Even being so alert could not keep him perfectly safe from her..."Come on...you can do better then that can't you?" he taunted, knowing that she knew it was not her best of attempts. He stood this time with his wings more spread out, ready to use them to his advantage instead of just for show. She might sprout her own wings, of whatever size, during this short battle, so he would not keep those from helping him whenever they could as he knew it would only be natural for her to use hers if she had them. He now droppd the dagger and hels his fingers bent so that his claws were in an effective order as he waited for her to come at him again before he would go on the offensive.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:48 pm
Karin eyes widened slightly as she felt her claws meet flesh, but she actually smiled for a second. Then her expression returned to a blank state as she came to a complete stop, staring at her now bloody hand for a moment. Then she looked back at him, blinking a couple times as he spoke. She shifted her weight between her feet, took a sluggish step forward, and then sprang again, moving towards him in zig-zags this time. Her hand was ready again, held in front of herself as she darted towards him. Just before reaching him, she jumped to one side, attacking his right side now with another sweep of her claws. Her gaze remained almost blank even as she did this, her ears still flattened back. Though, her tail was just flicking behind her, as she didn't even bother to curl it around her waist like she normally would. She didn't seem to care that he was bleeding either. She kept her eyes upon him as he aimed for his right arm with her claws.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:39 pm
Suka thrust his wings forward, shooting himself out of the way and into a wall which he kicked off of immediately, and with such strength that it sent him flying for her before her attack was out of his own range and he swung his right and left arm toward her, claws first, in a movement that if it hit would have caught her and sent them both onto the ground again. She was doing a he would have expected, but now that she had sent two attacks at him, he noticed that both times she seemed a little apathetic when compared to other Nightmares. Here he went, attacking a fellow Nightmare so that he could help the particular person who it was he attacked. This person feared him, and yet at the moment the person did not know fear, they did not know pain it seemed...it was very easy for them to send attack after attack at him and so he decided he would send his wown atack at her, if not more than one in combination with each other. Once he had her cornered (which can be hard in a cylindrical room ; )) he would be able to begin training the mind that was being overpowered, or the personality which was being overpowered, to control the release of this Nightmare which fought so hard for no fully apparent reason.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:58 pm
Karin blinked again, seeing him dodge. Her red eyes followed his progress as she slowly made to straighten again. But, because of her slow movements, she didn't even stand a chance of dodging. She simply blinked as he hit her though, eyes widening into another blank stare, as if she didn't know what was going on. She toppled over and onto the floor again, eyes shifting to her left shoulder where he'd hit her and the claw marks there. She stared dumbly for a second, and then looked over her shoulder towards her back, except it was pressed against the ground once more so she couldn't see it. She could smell the blood though, but couldn't really be sure where it was coming from. She didn't really hurt either, as she just lay on her back again, expression blank and upon Suka once again. A couple seconds passed, during which she stared at her shoulder and Suka, and then she placed her hands on either side of herself as she started to push herself up.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:15 pm
Suka landed in a kneel as he brought her to the ground and slid a few inches, though he was right near her as she looked up at him. When she started to get up, he pulled his left hand up and, with claws first once more, he dug them into her chest shallowly and pushed her down onto the ground in that way. He looked at her now and blinked once. "Don't get up..." he was unsure if he should expect her to stay down on his command or not, but it would not be very difficult for her to get up if she tried, it would just cause his claws to dig in deeper and then all of a sudden release. Though he was expecting everything with no sign of emotion, either this was very odd or else very unconditionally dagerous for him. Apathy usually is of no threat to someone in a fight, but apathy to the point of neglecting pain...you could be right near killing the person and they would be able to move as if they were at full strength. Neglecting one's downfalls does that for a person...and for a Nightmare, apathy is the road to eternal life...until now he had only seen one Nightmare who was near apathetic...and that was Akumu. He too had red eyes...could it be a trait of the red eyes? Was she in any way related to that evil creature known as Akumu? What of Sharifka then?...Noneof it made sense, but to help her he would need to find out eventually.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:32 pm
Karin's back hit the ground again as soon as she'd started getting up, and she blinked a couple times at Suka he spoke. From her blank expression, it was unclear if she'd taken in the words or not. It almost looked like she didn't even understand what he was saying, like he was speaking a foreign language. This wasn't the case, but it seemed strangely that way. She blinked a couple times, her red eyes darting around the room as she simply laid there on her back for a while. After a moment, her gaze returned to him. She blinked a few times more and then tilted her head slightly, the back of it resting on the ground. She looked like she were simply laying down and relaxing, ignoring the fact he actually had his claws digging into her chest, and her shoulder and back had been torn open in places. Her eyes seemed to remain partially widened as well as she stared at him before slowly starting to push herself up anyway. She used her right hand, while her left pushed against his chest, her claws seeking a way into his flesh as well.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:41 pm
Suka watched her as she pushed of of the ground and dug her claws into his own chest aswell. He grabbed her wrist with his right hand, but unfocused on that it did nothing but let him feel the temperature of her body. He, instead of letting her up now, pushed her harder oto the ground, using his palm instead of digging farther into her chest. He did not understand the way she was acting, though her ignorance of pain seemed to agitate him a little. If her claws were not now digging into his own flesh then he would have moved to a better angle for this, but now he held her wit simply the power in his arm, nothing else. Whatever she was plnning owuld probably be a success...if she were planning anything at all. He did not need to harm her, since that was not suppsoed to be the plan in the first place, but he was not going tosit there and let her injure him and get away with it. Whatever was happening needed to stop quick, and for it to do that he would need to find a way to force it into working the way he wanted it to work instead of the way it seemed like it would end up working.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:05 pm
Karin stared up at him, looking confused for a moment that he wasn't letting her stand. She blinked as she glanced around herself at the room once more and then back to him. Then she began pushing against his chest more firmly as she lifted one of her legs, attempting to push him entirely away away by hitting him with her knee. Her tail was still flicking absently beside her now, tapping silently against the floor at her side. Her confusion disappared back into the blank expression as she stared at him, unblinking, slowly attempting to push herself up again. She hadn't planned what to do after that, but she disliked being held down like this. That much was certain, so she currently only wanted to get herself up and away from him. Part of her was angry at him though, but she was satisfying that for now from the way her claws were pressing into his chest. Her main priority was to get to her feet. She was curious about seeing the condition of her back. While it didn't hurt, she could feel the blood seeping out and forming a puddle beneath her, being added to by blood from her shoulder as well.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:43 am
He watched her make her way up, and when she him with her knee he resisted moving-barely-and released his claws from her chest, frippering hers out from his chest and, as the blood poured, he jumped away from her and skidded into another half-kneeling halt as he looked at her. She would be a very strong enemy, even once she gained control...but fo an ally she might not be the best. Apathy was definitely not an advantage when it comes to fighting along side someone...trust was hard to build between one of that personality. He wondered if she was being controlled by her Nightmare form or if it was simply the change in personality that had her doing so well. It would be impossible to tell until Karin returned to her normal state of being and there was no having to deal with her Nightmare personality at all. This was simpoly the first step, causing her to transform...she needed to do the rest on her own before he could teach her at all. Keeping it under control was not a passive thing, but he would need to ask a few questions of her...right now that was not possible. The final factor, that would decide for him what approach he would take, would be how gradual she returned to normal. For now it didn't look anywhere near happening though...
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:51 am
Karin blinked as her knee hit him, yet didn't really do much at all. Then she glanced down, seeing him remove his claws from her chest, and then pull hers from his. Her eyes followed lazily as he jumped away and then watched her as well. She slowly pushed herself back up to a sitting position, her right arm propping her up as her left hung at her side. Her legs were straight out in front of her, but bent slightly. She sat like this for a few seconds, tail flicking idly behind her as she began staring at the ground. Then she slowly looked over her left shoulder, noting the injuries there as she did, and glanced down her back as well. It was pretty torn us as well, blood pooring down. She frowned very slightly as she realized her sweatshirt had been ruined. With a soft grunt, she got back to her feet, both the front and back of her sweatshirt quickly dying themselves red, and stared back at Suka in silence. She didn't move though, and just stood there with both arms dangling by her sides. She was hunched forward slightly again, shoulders slouching, as she peered through her messy hair.
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