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Riyo hadn't noticed the fact that there were now people heading toward her. She was engulfed in the amazement of talking to a bird. You heard me. Riyo smiled and continued to stare. "Caw!" She shouted. "Caw!" It squaked back. She thought for a moment before responding again. "Caw!" A squak came from another direction. Just then, another raven landed and perched next to the first one. Riyo gasped and smiled. She was just making friends all over the place now! "Caw, caw!" She said to the new bird. "Caw!" Came another, this one landing on her shoulder.

Riyo's eyes widened. She looked at the bird that was now perching on her and blinked. "N-nyuu?" She asked it. The raven only stared back. She scratched her head for a moment and shrugged. It was still cool. She reached up a finger and scratched under the closest one's beak. She didn't know why she was so popular all of the sudden, but she was drinking up the attention like a thirsty flower. Of course, she didn't seem to notice the group of ravens gathered along the side of the roof. "Friends, nyuu!" She shouted happily, getting a "Caw!" From all of them at different times.

“Hmph,” Neko stood a little straighter eyeing X curiously as he walked away. “Strange old coot.” Spinning his blade idly on his finger he turned his attention to Kyo, even for only a moment, as if trying to judge if he would try anything or not. But before he could really determine anything Hitsu had yelled at him for something. “What??” He turned toward her. “You are just far too trusting of people.” He snapped back. “Here I had to convince Yuki you were old enough to be out of your own and take care of yourself and you go and hook up with strange old men.” Neko sighed sheathing one of his blades but still keeping the other out incase he needed it. “I mean, he could have been some sick freak looking to snatch up pretty young maidens to have his way with them.” Neko motioned a lot with his hands as he talked his other blade still looped around his finger spinning as he moved his hand.

Mitsu waved a little sadly as X left wondering if she would ever see him again. “But he’s not a bad man.” Mitsu said softly, mostly to herself. At least if anything she was a fairly good judge of character and he didn’t have that creepy vibe, at least not like Suto had. While X’s presence was strong and bold he also had a sense of kindness about him. Aiming to prove her point she pulled out a gold coin from the new bag she had tied to her side and showed it to Neko. “He gave me a bunch of these pretty shiny things. The people take them and give you cot….cot…cotton candy.” It took a moment for Mitsu to spit out what she was trying to say having slightly forgotten what she had had.

“Paying for company, that makes everything better,” Neko grumbled as he turned his attention back toward Kyo, his eyes still glimmering dangerously. He wasn’t sure what this guy had in mind but he didn’t like that smile one bit.

Not understanding what Neko meant, Mitsu turned to question Yuki but he seemed to be busy with Riyo’s new friend. Ears lowering a bit at the sides of her head, Mitsu eyed the growing population of ravens nervously. Ever since the chicken incident birds had bad memories for her whether they were the same kind of bird or not.

It was quite considerate of kyo to lend his wolf companion to pokes walking plight, allowing her to ride the animal towards the girls and out of the mens way. In truth, she would of loved to be in the thick of it, fighting off the guys as well, but there were a few problems that would of prevented her being anything but a target or in someones way.

The alchohol seemed to be wearing off, at any rate. As the men's tempers flared and then suddenly subsided, she was able to stand on her own two feet again without feeling dizzy or weak. However it didn't seem to matter as of now x had suddenly walked away from the fight

"just..what the hell is going on here?" she mumbled, then noticing riyo and the bird that had pearched on her shoulder. Looking up, she then saw the other ravens on the roof. Apparently birds nowdays liked to hang out with cat girls.

as she listened to poor mitsu trying to stammer her excuses, she decided that for once, she'd do something more then get drunk. "you know, you could, be a tad nicer to the poor girl" she told him off. "I doubt she would of known better nayway!" Though, her words went unoticed. Apparently kyo was still in the mood for a fight, and she blinked at neko and kyo a few times.

Kyo's tongue rolled out of his mouth and his eyes narrowed. Chase was the only word that echoed throughout his mind. Kyo ran along the ground, keeping an eye on Neko. He did this until Lady Luck threw a little his way. He lept onto a crate, to an awning, to the rooftop. The feline had gained a frustrating amount of distance, but Kyo was at an advantage. From back here could fire spells at Neko all night, however unsatisfying it would be.

Kyo let loose the spell, 'Burden of Sin' and began to cast another, more vicious spell. It looked like a vague shimmer hurtling towards Neko. Were it to strike, it would feel like a two hundred pound man had hitched a ride piggy-back style for about half a minute. Wielding his sword, he quickened his pace in anticipation.

Just barely able to move in time, Neko avoided the attack by diving to the side edging his way closer to the top of the roof. In mid dive, Neko threw his flaming blade toward Kyo’s charging form, aiming at his lower legs, more specifically his knees. Once his hand was free he drew it up to block his face from flying debris and pieces of ceramic tile being thrown in every which direction due to the spell Kyo had cast. A few shards of tile left tiny cuts along Neko’s arm, crimson beading up into tiny gems along the wounds.

Paying his small injuries little mind, Neko quickly grabbed for another blade to replace the one he had just thrown and made another attempt to gain more ground along the now damaged roof. Instead of turning to run, however, Neko made his journey jumping backwards, keeping his eyes focused on Kyo encase he were to step close enough for his mind control to take effect. True this left him vulnerable to unseen things in his path but it also gave him a greater chance to gain the upper hand. The whole while he willed the man to make eye contact with him his eyes shining like the very stars in the heavens. If Kyo started to get too close and made eye contact he would feel his mind begin to waver in thought. The closer he would get the stronger the hold would be.

Seeing his blade bounce off Kyo’s overly large sword, Neko grumbled in disappointment as he took a quick glance back to see where he was going. The end of the roof was coming up quickly but there was another rooftop close by. Snapping his head back to face Kyo once again Neko was met with an alarming sight. A being or sorts was manifesting itself from Kyo’s back, a odd blackish thing with eyes that to Neko promised death. “Great.” Unsure if the creature was intent to attack or not Neko swiped out at him with his blade. “Away from me!” He hissed as he found the edge of the roof with the heel of his foot. For a short second he was unsteady but he quickly took a large leap backward and just managed to land neatly on the next roof.

Reaching to his side Neko ran his fingers into the loops of four more blades drawing them up neatly with his right hand. He paid the creatures chatter little mind, demons were always so talkative, he would know. Instead he tried to refocus his vision on his true enemy, the man pulling the strings though it was hard with the thing constantly in his face. “You really are a burden aren’t you?” Neko asked casually ducking from side to side to regain his vision. The more he tried to focus he could almost see through the creature to Kyo but as soon as he started to see he would loose whatever mind set he had and the creature’s body would once again become opaque. Was this creature…an illusion?

Many-as-One's "tongue" lolled out of his mouth when Neko started to dodge around, trying to avoid him. He started having fun when he found out he was obscuring the catfolk's vision. "My, you have strange eyes." He said, reaching his intangible "tongue" out to lick one of them. Even though as a spirit entity such an action was pointless, he still enjoyed the reaction it often brought.

Kyo's spell had completed, so he reached out his left hand. In front of it a large space began to glow with a soft white light. Looking at it would give anyone a feeling of peace and calm. Anyone except Kyo, that is. Suddenly, something began to appear in the soft glow, vaguely the shape of a crucifix. When it had fully materialized, the 'Guilty Cross' hung in the gentle light. Roughly eight feet long and six across, it appeared to be made out of a metal-like substance. While its edges were honed to a razor's sharpness, its ends came to glimmering points. Leading his shot, Kyo loosed the Holy bolt at Neko when he would be at the apex of his next jump; so as to catch him while he was moving the slowest.

The amalgamation of demon souls felt the 'Guilty Cross' as it worked its way towards him. He stayed in Neko's face as long as he could before moving away. It was partly to give the guy a fighting chance. No, not really. Even though he was ethereal, Holy spells hurt like hell when they passed through him. He cursed his self-servitude for giving the enemy any quarter, but then it would allow the fight to continue. That alone made him smile.

The spell had come hard and fast. Kyo didn't even have time to assess whether or not he had made any kind of contact with his own spell. He skid to a halt and poured pure magicka into a thin barrier to stop the malevolent disks, which would cost him most of his higher level spells as well as limit the amount of weaker spells he could cast. Though he regretted not being able to use his "massive crater-leaving" spells, he was confident that he had enough in him to finish the job. He would soon regret his knee-jerk reaction, however, as he failed to analyze the kind of spell the man had thrown at him. The disks smashed into the wall and stayed there.

The magic disks wiggled in place for a split second, giving Kyo enough time to raise an eyebrow before they exploded. All at the same time. The shockwave threw him backwards and shattered his protective shell, sending bits of pointy shrapnel made of his own magicka back at him. A long slender piece pierced his shoulder, while others hardly large enough to be bothersome had torn through his clothes and become embedded in his skin. Thin rivulets of blood ran out of the many tiny wounds, while the fleshwound in his shoulder let out quite a bit more.

The pain was wonderful. Kyo's eyes rolled back in his head as he pushed the shard deeper into his shoulder. To hurt. To be hurt. That was the glory of the fight. He found his feet. His mind was focused. His eyes were wide. He felt alive. The wardrums had become pounding thunder in his ears.

Reaching into his coat pocket, Kyo produced the last spell scroll he owned. He placed it on the ground and activated it. Six pillars of lightning erupted from the sky and fell downward in a circle with a diameter of about twelve feet around Kyo. Lightning shield. He pushed his sword down into the roof, and into a load-bearing column, found by stomping around a little bit, four feet from the center of the circle. There he began to work on a minor summoning. Within his defenses he felt safe from spells.

Many-as-One had tried to keep up with Neko, but when his maximum distance had been reached, he began to fall back. "You may want to start fighting with your head," He grinned, "You might not live to regret doing otherwise." He shouted as he moved to return to his master.