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 Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:10 am
Makie kept running, holding her breath. She really didn't know what to do, she wasn't even much of a fighter at all. She was truly pathetic. She will never win against Dante, even she knew that, but her body was fighting him against her minds wishes. And her heart was just telling her to be strong and win for Misty and Sakura. Wait... No, she was confusing what her mind was saying and what her heart and soul was saying. Her heart was really saying, give up, don't push yourself so much you might end up dying in a fight. Makie shook her head, shaking off all these thoughts. She couldn't let it get to her.
Makie took another breath. She heard Dante speaking, and the words literally went through her. What was he doing? What was he doing at the moment? Should she look back? Now picking up speed, she quickly glanced back. Her shadow... What was it doing? Something was coming out from it. No matter how hard she ran, her shadow followed her. 'Wh-What is this!?' Makie's mouth moved, but the words came out in her mind. 'Run Makie! Run!' Her mind told her as four Dantes took form from her shadow.
"EEP!" Makie sealed her chocolate eyes shut running, and running. She swore that if she watched what was happening she might meet impending doom. 'Look Makie! Look at what Dante is doing! Open your eyes!' The girl's mind yelled at her, almost coming out of her mouth in small whispers. Her chocolate orbs obeyed and immidatly opened to find all four Dantes pulling out Ivory from their coats. Assuming Ivory was some type of gun, she turned on her heels and ran the other way. The Dantes were still where they were and the next thing she heard was a gunshot. "Oh my... Please protect me..." Makie whispered under her breath, then a shriek came from her mouth.
'Am I dead!? Am I dead!? Please don't say I'm dead... Mommy... Daddy... Grandma, am I going to join you...? I can't feel my arms, or my legs... I don't think I can feel anything... If I'm dead, does that mean I lost? Does that mean I won't see Misty or Sakura...? Or Feena, Tiff, Kiwoya, Joy and Nohea? What about Lukan? I haven't seen him since our fight... I hope he's okay. Ohh... What about Darius... I didn't see him since his match... And... What about Oliver!? I don't wana die yet! Don't let me die! Please!!! I'll do anything, I'll give up gymnastics and dancing if you let me have another chance. Heck, if you give me another chance, maybe you can take my life after I've finished high school! I'm only in Grade 10!! I don't wanna die! NOOO!!!!!!! I've yet to tell Oliver that I love him...'
And her limp body, which was breathing faintly, suddenly moved. Tears fell from her closed eyes like a waterfall. Then another shriek as her eyes opened suddenly. The girl's eyes were chocolate, but also had a bit of blood stained into them. Was she dead? Was she really on her death bed? She sat up, to immidiatly feel pain above her stomach. The girl let her small frame fall back down on the ground. Her blood stained hand hovered off the ground to her stomach. She felt blood. So she wasn't dead. "Owww... My.. St-Stomach..." She choked out, coughing up a bit of blood. Her spirits were low, her energy was low, the pain was increasing, and a bullet went through her body above her stomach and below her chest. A few bullets managed to destroy Makie's, or Misty's, arm cuffs and managed to cut her skin in the middle of both a deep and close to the surface cut. There was also pain in her shins. Luckily, no broken bones. Just blood. And more blood... Makie wasn't exactly weak at the sight of blood, but it did certainly make her feel empty.
The girl sat up once again, bearing the pain. Her vision finally returned to her. She looked around, she was still in the abyss. So she was still in the fight? Her small ears, picked up 'Ohhhs' and 'Ahhhs' and cheers and boos. They were all getting louder. Almost giving her a head ache. The next thing that she noticed was her pendant just floating above her chest. Her eyes blinked a couple of times and then noticed the light barrier. Had her pendant saved her? She knew that her arms were bleeding, from pretty much grazing her skin, and her stomach hurt like everything terrible combined together, so did her pendant create a barrier last second when she was hit?
Everything was kind of like a blur since it happened so fast. Makie removed her right hand from her stomach. Fresh crimson blood stained it, so she wasn't dead, Makie was protected by her pendant. But how did it protect her. She couldn't have done it because she was knocked out for a bit. Wait, why didn't they let Dante win if she was knocked out? Makie looked around slightly, sure enough Misty was preventing any one from entering the arena. Then Makie slowly looked at the judge who seemed to be in an argument with Misty, and him losing terribly. The older midnight haired woman looked back at the brunnette and smiled and winked. A little uncharacteristic, but that was the old Misty that she knew.
Okay, one problem solved, but now... How did her pendant protect her? Makie just sat there for a bit as the light shield held up. How...? Well, she remembered whispering for some one to protect her, but her pendant was... Well, it was a pendant. It didn't contain some one's soul... Not that Makie knew of any ways. Even if it did, who would be in the pendant? More and more questions popped up as she tried to find a solution. When the light shield flickered somewhat, Makie looked at the shield. Then it hit her. More tears went down her cheeks, as she curled up in a ball for a few moments. Crying, as the tears fell onto her arms, removing some of the fresh blood.
Now, Dante could have attacked her this whole time. Heck, he might have tried to attack her while she was knocked out, Makie wouldn't have known, but the shield was protecting her. Yes, it would have gotten weak with every attack, but it was going to be there until the girl got up on her feet. You see, the pendant, you could say, was building up the ammount of light energy for a while, and was never used to protect Makie. However, since she was knocked out for a bit, nobody could protect her but the energy that was contained within the pendant. So, it's not like every attack Dante MIGHT or DID pull didn't work, but the attacks would have weakened it, as the shield wasn't as strong as it was when she was first knocked out. So, yes Dante could have attacked, and yes Dante could have tried to take advantage of her while she was knocked out, but the shield was in place getting weaker instead of Makie getting hit and prehaps dying.
So why was Makie crying? 'Grandma!!! I miss you soo much! And now it's like your standing right next to me, protecting me... Stay with me! Don't leave me! Stay and watch my fight! Protect me... Gandma!!' Her mind cried out, as the rest was continued in inaudible whispers. "Grandma... I'm so happy, you protected me, but when the shield is gone, does that mean you go too?" And then she had her reply in her mind. No matter how corny it might sound, and no matter how much it is over used in several animes, her grandma is always with her in her heart.
"I love you, grandma..." She whispered to herself, slowly getting up, crying her last tears. Even though she didn't want to fight, if her grandma, mommy and daddy was with her, she was okay. The shield, still holding up, Makie looked up at Dante, clenching her fists. Her expression was both one of a child, but one who has just gained a new power and motivation.
"I will not lose... I-I-I will not die because m-my friends a-and f-family a-are with me. A-And if they suffer, I suffer.. If I-I suffer, th-they s-s-suffer too. A-And they protect me, s-so... I-I will n-not l-lose!"
Then, griping her ribbon, she manipulated and took all the light from the shield and fused it with all of her weapons. And what was that famous saying? Light over powers the darkness? But the darkness grew in light? Both of them would have to be at equal power. Despite the dark aura and shadowy, purple hazy mist, Makie could pick out the bits of sunshine there. Just like in the darkest bits of the jungle, light can still be found. In the deepest and darkest parts of the water, light can be found. In the dark and cold ice, light can be found. Fire created light, and in the day light can be found. But even after all that, light can still be found in darkness as darkness is found in light.
Now, taking out a sharp and light filled baton, Makie flipped, tumbled, twirled, moved side to side, and ran to manuever in the shadows. Then she quickly pounced, leaped and tackled to get to where the Dantes were., since she had been knocked back quite a bit from all those bullets. Then, the girl tried to eliminate the three false Dantes as quickly as she could, but she didn't want to waste too much time on them, so she merely attacked them with a few little light attacks with her baton and then charged up to the real one. The brunette didn't want to waist time with the fakes, so even if they were gone, or if they were still there, she focused on the real one. She knew which one was the real Dante, as she hadn't actually managed to hit the real Dante yet, and the other three Dantes had a few scratches on their heads from when she first hit them.
"You shouldn't summon copies of yourself. It just shows you're a coward." Makie said as she sharply aimed for his head, sharp ends of the baton aiming directly for Dante's forehead. "Are you trying to run away from reality?" Then using the other hand, took a baton and aimed for his stomach. Then, sticking her tongue out at him, Makie used her foot to try and push him back, and put one baton, still fused with light, back into it's holder and finally she ran forwards again. This time, taking her ribbon, and wrapping it around the sword. After Makie quickly took the same baton that was still in her left hand, and quickly striked her chest, making him go back and it made Makie able to yank at the sword until it flew back ways away along with the ribbon still wrapped around it.
"I hope I'm not making you scared." Makie said jumping back, giving space between the un-armed fighters, all of Makie's weapons still hidden around her body, and Dante's weapons in his coat if her had any more weapons. "Because... I-I don't wnt you to hold back... I-I'd be sad if you're holding back on a little girl... I'd feel sad that you're scared of me... I wanna be friends. Don't you want any friends? Don't they make you feel safe? They must offer something that's important to you, even if you're a demon. Because those in the darkness too long, is like a coward never facing the light."
"And no one can escape the truth Dante... You have to realize that..." Makie said, adding in almost sympathetically. (sp?)
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:23 pm
Dante laughed.... He laughed and laughed as HARD as he could muster in his lungs from the misty dark aura as He fell to his knees in laughter. It was a haunting and evil tone, almost sadistic as blood tirckled from his lips down his chin, waving a single hand gesture and watching the shadowed forms of himself dissapear. He giggle, placing the same hand to his mouth as he tried to speak, to caught up in the moment of brief hysteria to fully understand what makie was saying.
"Scared.... Of a CHILD? You must have been hit in the head a few times last round to even PHATOM that idea.... You ******** idiot!" He laughed again, standing shakily through his hysteria as he reached behind his coat, pulling a slender envelope from it as holding it towards her.
"FRIEND? I have no need for a child to befirend me! I am here of my own accord! And that of someone paying gratioucsly. (sp >.<)
You have no idea who I ma... and I was giving you a chance at life, but now i see that you're nothing more than a stupid girl with a death wish...." Dante tossed the envelope aside, snapping his fingers and watching it set ablaze as his eyes dead-set upon her, ready to destroy the very fabric that held her soul together.
"Enough of this child's play.... we are about to end this little quarrel... and you are about to meet the end of your life." Dante jumped back about 10 feet, leaving an almost 20 foot gap between him and Makie as he drew his sword from his back, placing the blade into the semi-soft ground and grinning. "This is your LAST chance... I suggest you take it" He simply waited....
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:18 pm
Makie drew back a bit, raising a brow. Had he gone mad? Why was he laughing? In her point of view, it looked like some mental case who was laughing at the person that he keeps seeing, but really isn't there. You know, in those child tv shows where the bad guy goes mental and gets thrown into an assylum? Yeah, that's it. That's Dante reminded Makie. The brunette let out a little giggle as she thought about those cartoons she used to and still does watch. Then in matter of moments, Dante's insane laughter died down and he began to speak.
Then Makie listened. And listened... And she was getting a little upset too... Sure she looked like some child, but she was in high school! Yes, she was as small as a child but she was fifteen! And yes, she did have a personality of a child, but she still went through the same things normal high schoolers do, like exams and all those emotinal traumas. It was insult to Makie that he said that, then of course, she called herself a little girl. I guess she was caught up in the moment when she said that.
Then the next sentance was actually quite interesting as he cut himself off. Makie wondered what Dante could have really said. She would ponder what Dante wanted to say. It was actually kind of hard to think. especially in the heat of the battle. She didn't have any idea what he could have said. Myabe he could have meant 'You have no idea who I am...?' If that was the case, she really didn't know who he might be. It confused Makie, but her mind was taken off it as Dante continued on speaking.
'Death wish... I have no death wish, unless continuing on living is a death wish...' The Makie became even more upset. 'I'm not stupid! H-How could he say that!? How mean!' Her chocolate orbs watched the envelloppe set on fire. Fire scared her. How it just destroyed and burnt everything in iy's path, leaving no mercy. No mercy, no shame, it just killed. It does not revive, it just kills. And death, that scared Makie too, but she wouldn't let herself die so easily so soon. So if she was about to meet the end of her life, then Dante would come with her.
"If this is my last chance, then it is your last chance to actually show me the REAL you. All I can say, is that I hope you can dance, because I might never be strong enough. I might never be ready and I might never rise above. But we're just exchanging blows..." Makie paused, actually thinking if she should go on saying what she wanted to say. "... Because we can't prove each other that we're worthy of facing off against each other if we don't go all out."
"A-A-And if we don't give t-th-this our all, w-we'll r-regret it, even in..." Makie trailed off, putting more emphasis on the next word. "... Death..." And so she readied herself. The reason for saying what she did, was because she wanted to prove herself to Misty, which had been her goal all along and Dante was an exceptional fighter. So if Makie could somewhat stand a chance against Dante at his strongest form, then even if she lost, she would be happy.
So, taking out Makie's still light filled batons, she smiled softly. "Let's dance, Dante-samaa!" Her child like voice said, trying to encourage him to bring it on. She waited for him to move, seeing what he was going to do. Even if she was very afraid, Makie wanted to prove herself. And for once, she didn't want to be known as weak Makie. So even if a bullet went through her, and nearly destroyed Misty's armor that she was wearing, she would not give into the pain until the fight was done.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:11 pm
Dante spoke in a slightly unwavering tone, shaking his head as he realized that this fight needed to end."Dance? I'm not one for dancing unless my partner knows how to fight. Sorry little girl... but I'm going to stop you."
Dante didnt move towards Makie. He stood slowly, taking his sword and placing it against his face. He pursed his lips forward, kissing the blade as he whispered to it, then held the blade in front of him. "I have no quarrel... but seeing you in my way makes you an enemy... and as a slayer of the night...I'm here to deny you a tomorrow." His tone had changed drastically, to a calmer, more soothing and evil tone of vengence. Dante's form suddenly emitted a powerful reiatsu unlike anything she'd felt before from something so dark. Dante's form seemed to be ABSORBING the battlefield as his aura became black and red, surging like a pulsating heart around his powerful form. The floor seemed to lose its lusterous darkness as the blade of Dante's sword dissapeared, his shadow now nearly four times its normal size as he pulled his glasses from his face with his left hand, dropping them to the floor. Smiling weakly to himself, he opened his cat-like eye, a sheer fear falling over Makie like she had been facing the Black Plauge as he spoke in a simple and haunting tone. "If you die from this....please give my regard to my father, and tell him 'Dante said ******** you'. " He grinned as the sword's blade fell apart with a strong wind, seeming to spilt into Black and Red lotus and rose petals, seemingly countless in number as they swirled towards Makie, wrapping around the area her and Dante stood as he lowered the now blade-less hilt. Twisting his wrist and placing the sword back against his spine, twisted his head like the cheshire cat and spoke ina whimsical and riddle-filled tone. "What is the one thing no one can escape, one thing no one can run from...?" He raised his right hand, placing his thumb and middle finger together as he lost his smile, a sudden look of remorse on his face as he sighed, wanting her to lose, but live. "....The grim reaper....
Scatter, Sakura Desintaishou!" (Lotus of Desolation) He snapped his fingers, the petals suddenly suspending in the air motionless as instantly, they changed into blades, all of them heading towards her at an alamring rate, an un countable amount of steel firing like arrows towards her small frame as Dante spoke once more, closing his eyes. "I pity monsters and the like.... Because I am one."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:45 am
"Awww! B-But dancing i-is a-a way o-of life! You should t-tr-try..." Makie said in her normal fragile voice, hearing Dante's comment. "Y-You're d-dancing r-right now as y-you fight. After all, d-didn't Shakespear s-say 'Life is like a stage'?" Then a playful giggle came from her perfect pink lips. Out of every emotion she could be feeling now, extreme happiness shouldn't be what she should be feeling. Maybe wonder of Dante might do, or extreme concentration on the battle. I guess, she looked at this fight like being an angry dance between the two.
Next, what Dante did kind of freaked Makie out. Her chocolate eyes stared in confusion. 'Did he just -kiss- his blade? My... Who knows how much bacteria is on that thing...' Makie thought childishly. But then she tilted her head and smiled slightly. She was happy that Dante actually did consider her his enemy and not just a little girl. Would that mean, he would try and actually defeat her like a normal enemy? Hopefully, then again... Why was his body seemingly consuming the darkness from the battle field?
Makie chocolate eyes just watched Dante transform. If you looked at her you could say 'Oh! It's a little girl watching something interesting!' but then on second thought you might think 'Oh! She's scared of what's happening to her opponent!'. So both wonder, and fear were mixed emotions in her eyes. Then, as Makie glanced down at Dante's shadow, she jumped. 'How did his shadow get so big!?' Makie thought to herself, eyes widened. Did I mention she was also afraid of the dark too? So, at the moment, Makie was trying to keep fear under neath her smile.
'Note to self... Try not to piss off Dante any more...' Makie gulped slightly still watching the shadow. She tried to soak in everything that was happening, then she looked back up to see a rather demonic looking Dante. She tilted her head slightly, before realizing it wasn't a dream. He look like one of those final bosses in a video game. Or prehaps maybe those really evil crazy guys that never seem to die until the final episode in the anime.
"If you die from this..."
That was all Makie needed toget very upset. How could he be so cocky? Back to the little girl thing again? Oh my, the brunette was very sad and rather mad that he would once again bring up that issue. However, Makie just shook her head and tried to let it slip by. Every one thought that she was a small little girl, so Dante would be no different from every one else. Then, she went onto the next issue. All those pretty black and red petals going around both Dante and Makie.
"Flower petals!! Pwetty!" She said in a small voice, her eyes constantly wandering around the area trying to follow the circling petals. Then she let out constant giggles. All the giggles were childish, soft and small. However they ceased when Dante spoke a riddle. She knew this one, and she raised her hand if she were in a classroom, waving it around. "I-It's death. The a-answer t-to y-your r-riddle is death." Makie said proudly, as if she'd just answered a question on Jepordy and gotten 1000$. When the girl eard Dante speak, she tilted her head and frowned. So she wasn't right? She was sure that was the answer, but no matter.
The sudden cry from Dante made Makie jump, for the second time. She wasn't the best at Japanese, but she caught the last two words. It didn't really matter, because Dante who just snapped his fingers making the flower petals motionless. "F-Fl-Flower st-stopped!" Makie said before the girls feet stepped back a bit as they turned into blades. Then in a matter of moments-- WOOSH!
Makie took out a baton and tried to create a shield as fast as she could, while the petals headed towards her, Makie jumped, leaped, twirled, rolled on the ground and every possible dance move there was to dodge the petals. Of course, there was no way to dodge all of them and her shield wouldn't have lasted forever, which is why arrows hit and scraped up her back, under her arms, her arms, and her legs. Some even grazed her cheeks and cut her lower lip. Tears streamed down her face and you could tell she was hiding in all of the pain. All of it.
She landed, and it appeared to have been the last of the arrow like petals. That is until she felt something hit her around the area of her heart. It was as if time stopped at that moment. Her chocolate eyes closed immidiatly as she coughed up blood and fell back onto her butt. "Owwww!!" Her voice said as her hands reached out for the petal. Her fingers hit something, and she easily removed the petal. Makie examined for a few moments. There was hardly any blood. The brunette paused for a moment, her face darkening at what could have protected her. She looked down to find a chain with no pendant on it.
"Grandma!!!" Makie's voice was heavy with the on coming tears of sadness. Her right hand yanked the chain from her neck with ease. Then she unclenched her palms, and just looked at the chain. Her left hand then began to move the chain around as if it was searching for something. As if it was searching for the pendant... And if that wasn't enough, most of the spots Dante's petals had hit, and also around the pressure points of the body, were causing intense and severe pain. Makie kept the screams on by biting her already bleeding lip.
For about the one billionth time in the battle with Dante, tears flew out from her chocolate eyes like fire works. She clenched and unclenched her right hand as if she was trying to push away her anger. She brang her legs in close to her body, but not in a ball like position, but her knees and thighs were together, and her legs rested by her sides. She hugged her stomach out of both the emotional and physical pain she was in. If you looked closer, you would see that her tears were becoming like crystallized droplets when they went down her face. Her chocolate eyes, with little stains of crimson blood woven into them, looked up at Dante, then to her pendant. Her brown hair, darkened by the shadows of the arena, covered her face for a second. Her shoulders were moving up and down, like those people who were crying over something so sad that they were pratically hyperventalating crying.
Then, laughs seemed to be coming from her lips. You know, how people are in denial, so they start laughing. This also made people think you were crazy at times. Then Makie put both of her hands in fists, the silver chain dangling from her right fist. She pushed herself off of the ground, and then unclenched both of her fists. It was as if her chain was falling to the ground in slow motion like in those meaningful moments in those animes.
"I don't believe there's a difference between good or evil. In fact there is no good or evil. One just takes the wrong decisions in life and commits sinful acts. But god is forgiving..." Makie's soft voice echoed through the arena. "So I don't believe the is a devil, I don't think there's a god either. There's just life. In life people feel emotions, they live and in the end they die. There's life, there's death, there's choices and there's emotions. Every one including the monsters go through with this..."
"... So I don't think a monster is evil... Just misguided. And I will help you in all my power to guide you back into the light, since you seem to huddle and stay in the darkness, afraid of the light." At this point, Makie looked up, removing the hair from her pale, tear stained face. "Because you know, that where there is darkness, there is light. And your light is fading fast, being diminished. Have you been hurt in the past? Have you been abandonned? Do you hate some one in particular? Hate is a very strong emotion and really shouldn't be felt..."
"But I guess I should make an exception!" With that, she charged forward, a sudden icicle appearing in front of the right hand that she wound back. The girl ignored all the pain, at risk of actually hurting it more then it already was. Especially Dante's sneaky 2 part attack. Stupid petals, with them, Dante was able to loacte her pressure points and cause severe pain. Makie could feel her body go numb and it was exhausting fast with the pain, but she pushed herself anyways.
Anyways, when Makie was close enough to Dante, she circled him, switching directions ever so often. Then in a matter of moments, the giant icicle broke into several pieces. Just like Dante's attack with all the petals. The small daggers of ice surrounded Dante, and headed straight for him, but right before it was about to hit him, they came back together in the four large icicles, attacking from each side of the compass. North, East, West, and South. Or front, back, right and left.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:10 pm
*~((Something Makie-san said reminds me of an old favorite quote from Aili's old Ria 1.. or was it 2? RPs. I won't tell you what part though. Nevertheless i Enjoyed it greatly. Brought back some good memories))~*
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Dante Tony Redgrave rolled 1 100-sided dice:
65
Total: 65 (1-100)
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:18 pm
(( Rolling to see if Makie's Fortitude against pain would stop her in her tracks or simply cause a bit more pain, lower than she loses, higher than she wins.))
Dante smiled, all the attack needed was exactly what happened: To draw blood. He heard makie's little speech, simply mentally sighing through it all and wondering if she had any idea that he was a slayer: a man that had used his enitre life to give light back to those in darkness. The only curse of it was, he must spend his life in the shadows. "It pisses me off when someone talks more than I do..." he sudden movement was all that mattered to him as he took a step back, moving his body like that on a spanish fencer of the Renissance days. His body movements were slick and very agile as he moved around the blades of ice that now shot at him, one catching in his calf amnd causing him to cry out in slight pain. Now he was pissed. he had given her a chance to quit or to fall gracefully, but now it was over. He howled out, a large portion of the air around him shattering in the searing flame wave that came from him, like an atomic aura flaring to life. The Icicles were melted as the wave passed over them, and Makie could feel a flame like that of a pheonix fall against her skin as Dante moved... or so she thought. Dante rushed towards her body, but it was not him. His shadow sped across the ground at the speed of light, since the only thing that moves as fast as light is the passing dark that voids it, and entered her own shadow. It caused a long black streak across the floor, more darkness from the area now gone as Dante grinned at her, holding his right hand up in front of her. "Like judgement come to pass on those against the righteous... I drop the final decree of the gods upon your flesh. May they have mercy on your broken body...for I will not." He laughed hysterically as he closed his right hand swiftly, the link in their shadows seeming to break as the portion of his shadow that had connected with hers sped over her skin like icy fingers feeling her up in a sexual way. Into the wounds from the cuts of the sakura blades they went, and once inside, Dante called out, spreading his right hand open wide to mimic what was about to happen...
"Sakura Desintaishou: A lotus always blooms twice! FINAL PUNISHMENT!" The shadows that had leaked into her open wounds, and those that were already remaining from the attack itself, suddenly spread open, little ball-shaped spikes errupted in her skin, quadrupleing the amount of pain she had already been feeling against her pressure points and body. It was a pain that could be conisdered like her skin was burning yet no fire was seen. A pain so abrupt and sudden it would stop a normal humans heart. It was an ace in the hole he held for such battles.... and wondered what the girl would do if she could still stand. Her willpower was amazing, like his... but she seemed to lack drive and the mental fortitude for pain.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:18 pm
( HOLEE COW!!! I saw Kuri's post and I thought I broke a rule... >.> YAYY!! Aili!! >.< )
Makie was happy that her opponent was at least fast. Sometimes not all opponents are very fast. Dante also had a quick tongne. His come backs cam just so easily to him. Heck, all he really said through this battle were mean comebacks. It kind of boiled her blood too, but she'd never tell the person that. She felt bad for saying mean things, they made every one including herself feel bad. So like the famous sayings of 'Treat other the way you want to be treated' and 'If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.'
When Dante cried back, Makie wanted to smile because she hit him, but frown because he was hurt. Her expression remained a relaxed one, waiting for Dante's next move. Well, she couldn't really see anything, except her icicles being melted and the sudden burning feeling on her skin. She wanted to scream. She did. But she couldn't scream anymore. And she wanted to cry in pain. But she couldn't cry anymore. So it's like she was letting it just eat away at her why she cried and screamed inside. Outside, she appeared as if nothing was wrong, but in truth she just couldn't show her pain anymore.
Then, Makie's eyes picked up on Dante, or his shadow. His shadow weaved in with hers, almost intertwining. So, even if Makie did move, their Dante still would have been there. Her expression saddened a bit. What was he planning on doing? Then watching his right hand, she tilted her head, letting her semi long hair follow her head.And then, more battle cries. Why people yelled out their attacks, she didn't know, but it gave her time to prepare.
"There is no righteous or justice... There's just choices... Haven't I just told you that?" Makie said with a chuckle. But then, the shadows broke, and Makie felt something cold crawling up from her toes throughout her whole body. The girl let out a shriek. "You--!!" She tensed her body as the coldness then entered her wounds. No shriek, just a chill up her spine. And then suddenly, the pain increased. probably around 35% more pain. Now the pain was just way too much. But when she opened her mouth to scream, but nothing came out, and it only seemed as if invisible tears.
Now like Dante had said, it probably would have stopped a normal humans heart. But Makie wasn't an ordinary human. Heck, if she sustained all the pain and is still managing to stand up, she was no ordinary human, however her breaths became a bit more heavier, to pump more air into her lungs and more blood into her body. She let her knees drop to the ground, but she did not scream and did not cry. 'I cannot run anymore... I just want to live... And this battle... If it goes on, I don't think I'll have enough strength to stand after this fight...' Makie thought taking a breath.
'But I will not lose and I will not die! That... He just waltzs in all cocky, then he just pretty much DESTROYS my pendant that my grandmother gave me... He will pay!' Makie thought angrily, grinning, closing on chocolate eye and looking up with the other. It would seem as fire burned with in them, as bits of red were mixed in with their normal chocolate ones. She grinned even mre looking on Dante.
"You really have no respect for the youth do you? Especially one that wishes to help." Makie said, putting one leg forward and slowly pushing herself up. "You should accept some help... Then maybe you'll be able to live normally amongst others... Don't you want to be a man, and not stay forever cursed living in the darkness? Have you ever thought of trying to fight off the darkness, or does the darkness conceal who you really are?"
And soon the girl was on her feet. Her body... Well, she didn't really feel it anymore. But she would not rest until this battle was finished with a win for her. Or at least a satisfying fight. This girl will not give up until it killed her, or resulted in her win. "Because even those in darkness can live in the light." Makie's voice once again echoed throung the arena, and through the heads of Dante and the audience. Summoning up more ice she began to sculpt it into many things. Illusions, all of them were little ice mirrors of illusions of Dante's heart and past. Even the darkest pasts and hearts, the mirrors could see in, but for Makie she didn't understand it all the time.
Next, as Dante gazed into the mirrors, Makie summoned an ice pillard watching her opponent from above. Then, without warning, summoned ice spikes that raised up from the ground throughout the whole area impaling every thing that was below 30 feet. Yes, the ice spikes came up to about 10 to about 30 feet. She wanted to see if any of them would hit Dante, and if he jumped, then icicles from the top would be there waiting to fall on him.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:43 pm
Dante listned to the girl speak as though she could help him, but there was no hope for hunters of the night. When the children of the light need proecting from the dark, a generation must be born from the shadows to watch over them. He lived his life in the light as well as he could, and now this fight was really getting to him. He watched the mirrors rise, glaring into each of them, Seeing the war, his old lovers, and brother, pass before him simply reminded him of his past life and how he didnt miss it at all. He simply waved his hand as his swords blade came back together, then he sturck down 3 of the mirrors with lightning speed. Gazing into the fourth, he stopped in mid-swing, laying eyes on his mother. There she was, caressing his hair and telling him he wasn't a monster as he cried in her arms. Dante's grip falitered from hiss word a little as his eyes grew wide to images of his mother being raped and murdered, being called a heretic for trying to protect her child. His cat-like eyes watered slightly as he felt the devil in his heart breaking loose...
then it happened.
Sharp dagger-like icicles entered his forearms and chest, his thighs and his back, and he screamed something inside him snapped. An unthinkable amount of rage filled his body as his mind flashed with his mother... and how he failed to protect her...then Asuka, the first woman he ever loved... He felt the devil in him laugh and grip his soul, begging for Dante to let him take over. 'Make her PAY for this act! Let me destory her!' Dante nodded, standing up like Christ would after the cruxifiction and ressurection as he screamed out, his limbs shooting from his body and spasming as he screamed, his tone becomming droning as makie's body began to ache from the amount of pressure pulling down on it. There: Dante stood... but something about him was different. Energy pulsated around his body in thick peals that seemed to sizzle even the darkness, and no shadows surrounded him or anywhere near him: his body had begun absorbing the dark power to make it his own, to make him stronger..faster... more deadly...
"Its a pity that such a young girl made the mistake of bringing back such an unfriendly past... Thank you for freeing me girl. But from the depths of his past, something diabolical has emerged... and I hope your ready..." The icicles melted from where they were, Dante's blood falling to the ground and sizzling like flames as he jumped, his motions almost instantanieous as the air around him shattered from the force, the remaining mirrors shattering to powdered ice as he drew his blade and passed over Makie's form, the draw was really 6 cuts that went up, down,right,left, diagonal up, and diagonal down, across her body.... hopefully going to sieze her in pieces or damage her beyond continuation.
She wanted to see what others had not...and she wouldn't be conisuous long enough to remember...
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Sincerely Sunshine generated a random number between
1 and 100 ...
49!
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:13 pm
Makie watched him from below. Breaking the mirrors as he pleased. She pouted her lower, and ran her fingers across it. The bood had stopped, the pain was still there, but no blood. Then she took the time, to just prepare herself for Dante. It was obvious that he was going to finish breaking the mirrors soon, and he might have escaped some of the icicles she had created. It was then Makie began to feel guilty about what she had done. What if he really saw a meaningful image, and she just took it away by summoning up those icicles. The small girl, crouched down, and looked over the edge.
Dante's grip on his sword was loose... Very loose, and he seemed to look as if he was sad. Makie wondered what he was remembering. She wished to learn everything about Dante and why he was so careless and living in the darkness. She had no clue about hunters and what not, and that is why she wanted to learn. However, if Makie looked into the mirrors alongside him, they'd both see different things. So the brunette had the power to make one remember and to see into their hearts, but she would never learn about them anyways.
As Makie watched his eyes grow wide as he appeared to be watching a sensitive image, her expression turned to sadness too. She had now regretted summoning the icicles, especially when she heard Dante's scream. Ear-splitting and window shattering. It made Makie feel bad, but she wanted to learn more about him. And his pause did give her time to rest a bit.
That was when Makie stood up at the next horrifying scene. She covered her chocolate eyes with her blood stained hand. Then she nearl lost her balance on the ice pillard from the increasing pain that came out of no where. However, she quickly caught herself, and the ice pillard seemed to move with her, to catch her when she fell. When the pain died down a notch, Makie opened her eyes. The blood stained chocolate orbs were taken back at what she saw. Dante's blood melting her icicles, and he was once again soaking up the darkness in the area. The girl stood up on the pillar, just letting the scene play on like the climax in a book.
When she heard Dante's new strange voice, Makie felt a feeling in her chest. Not pain, but sorrow, that she must have made him remember something bad. But she didn't have a lot of time to react when he suddenly jumped and tried to attack her. The blade managed to nick that strong, magical corset when the sword went up and across, and both diagonals. The icicles on the top fell the moment her began to strike her. So before he could managed to completly cut off her arms, the icicles fell and was cut up more instead. Makie thanked Misty for lending her the corset, and thanked the icicles that fell for saving her. I guess luck pitied her for that moment. However, pain did increase even more, and she managed to fall backwards off the pillard. Another pillard appeared and caught her, but it hurt her back as she impacted with it.
'So... He's a demon... Then... Heh... I have no chance of winning, but he destroyed my pendant! That was the last thing my grandmother gave me and she died right before my eyes! Although, everything in my past seems so blurry...' Makie thought sorrowfully. The pain increased, blood poured out. If she managed to win this fight, she probably might not be in good enough shape for the third round anyways. And if she managed to live through this fight, she'd just be thankful.
She kind of lied there for a moment, pretending to be knocked out, but considering he wasn't in a very happy mood, she'd have to just act fast. So she decided that she was going to just finish the battle with the next attack, or at least pull off the attack and after, just stop. She slowly sat up, and with the help of the ice pillards, that she manipulated, she managed to get up and stay up. "Well... I'm glad I got to see the real you... But I'm going to have to end this. You see, if I stay like this too long you might not know what will happen."
And then Makie stopped in her tracks. Yes just stopped. Stopped talking, and just stopped moving. It seemed as if nothing was moving at that moment. Then in a matter of seconds, you could see that Makie was losing her sense of who she was. You could see from the intensity in her eyes, that she was not shy Makie anymore. You could tell from how she stood, letting the blood run down, that she wasn't weak Makie anymore. Then actual little ice droplets, that fell down her face onto her wounds, began to slowly take the blood away and stopping it from bleeding. She was not healing herself, she was simply stopping the blood from spilling out any more so that she would die.
"Tee hee hee... Sorry about that. It seems you've hurt me. I just didn't want to die before I saw the end of this fight." The girl's voice no longer sounded like a helpless girl, but one of those little cocky girls that pretty much manipulate others and hurting other people's feelings. "Anyways... It seems like you're having a hard time killing me. No matter what you do, I just seem to withstand it. Ah, but that's okay. It's my turn to cause a little damge."
With that, she seemed to summon up giant 30 feet icicles below them, and pillards for each of them to stand on. There were also icicles on the top of the area that fell at random, even Makie didn't know when they would fall. Then she raised up a bloody, cut up arm, to signify that she was presenting a new little field. "Rules are simple. If we fall, we can fall to our death. The darkness is still in this arena, so that doesn't mean it's a completely different field. There are also icicles on the top that will fall at random times, and all we have to stand on are pillards." Makie summoned up smaller pillards throughtout the whole area. "So, we clear? Good, now let's fight!"
The Makie that once stood in the arena, the shy one, was really not there anymore. I mean she was, but at the same time wasn't... It was a bit hard to explain. I mean, it was a different Makie, since this one just seemed to want to kill him now for her pendant. It was like, when she was hit so brutally, she felt as though she was loosing herself, so then she lost control of her powers, and her the ice powers that seemed to be dangerous to a lot of those around her, was now taking over her thoughts. She would use her ice powers to win no matter what. And that's what she intended to do.
Makie's small body easily leaped and landed from pillard to pillard. Then, before she was by Dante, the girl dropped between both pillards, created another one and began to spiral around the pillard Dante was on. When she passed by him, she wielded a baton made of ice. Kind of like crosses between a dagger, a sword and a spear. She hit him from the side, around the chest area, around his shoulder blade area, and then as she jumped off to the next pillard, Makie thrust her hands back, several little sharp shards were sent at him like a repeat of before. However, this time, if they hit him, they would sink deep into his skin, pretty much freezing up all of his insides. It would spread fast, but the effects outside on his body, like freezing up, was slower. So it was kind of there to give her the advantage later on in the battle.
( Unfortunately I have debate provincals coming up and I might not be on tomorrow, so I'm going to generate the number. I'll be even and you can be un-even. I won't end the battle with this post, but if we ever need to finish it really soon, then well, we'll know who'll win.
XDDDD 49 - Dante wins. That's cool! Makie would have let Dante go to the third round any way, she would have been too tired, and this isa very interesting fight. ^.^ )
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:58 pm
Round 2 of Ria High's 4th Star Test!
((Judging from Makie-san's OOC))
Dante Vs. Makie-san
Dante Wins!
((Thank you Dante and Makie-san for making such a quick and smooth battle ^^ If you guys have lil bits to finish up ill let you do so. Just announcing this so we can get the 3rd round on its way ))
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:25 am
Dante simply stood there he let her attacks hit him violently as he simply stood there, no blood leaking from his wounds as he laughed meniacally. Her freeze attacks ment nothing, the core of his body was now much hotter than that of pheonix fire as all she did was give him a breeze. He mentally applauded her on her effort, but this fight was drawing to a close and he was about to shut it down. He suddenly moved so fast it was like he was still standing before her. The image of him slowly melted away and rose into the air like fog. She suddenly felt cold steel pressed against her neck. Dante's back was to her own, his sword slung over his shoulder nonchalantly as the blade crossed over her neck. He sighed, a sudden surge of energy as he spoke, his eyes and tone back to normal as he slid the blade back across her neck slightly, enough to cut but not puncture. "You're about to pass out, and i'm about to kill you...this fight is over and if you say otherwise I swear to god I'll kill you. This fight has been dragged out longer than needed, and you stood your ground. There is no need for me to kill you, Lady... Dont be an idiot. This fight is over. Say otherwise... and I promise we'll have the shortest argument in recorded history.." The sheer POWER of Dante's words felt like she was being stabbed, his aura and essence now completely different...like that of a beast awoken from a slumber and ready to kill and make up for lost time. Sliding the Sword back a bit more to slit her throat slightly, he allowed his Reiatsu to crush her will, falling on her like 100 times earth's gravity as he walked towards the exit, the shadow's he was feeding off of for power holding her like a distressed marrionette as his shadow's actual size went back to normal, and he pulled a cigarrette, lighting it casually as he headed towards the exit, the arena suddenly went back to its spherical underwater wonderland as a large monitor shown ahead, a light flashing to the patrons in the waiting room andf other arenas as he exited towards the Waiting room, the grip on makie now gone as he wondered if she'd find him and talk to him after she treated herself. His wounds had already healed, the power of the arena itself stitching his wounds and steeling his pain as he took a long drag, the monitor ahead of him slightly amusing him as he passed it. 'Youth.... is wasted on the young..' He thought of Makie as he left. DANTE BLACK WINS! ((Next post will be in the waiting room! *wooshes away* >.>; ))
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