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Daisuke smiled, quickly darting away taking out a rather sharp knife as he moved behind Kira, yet still far away. He threw the knife at her back, the whistle being a dead give away. He then quickly moved away again, though the knife was still moving.

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"You have to be faster than your knife, Daisuke." Anemone said.

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He closed his eyes for a second or two, though when he opened them they were... more cat-like. Daisuke felt a little different too, but tried to pay no attention to it. He pulled out a few acupuncture needles with paper bombs attatched to them that gave off an awfull smell; Usefull against animal-based demons, though he would most likely suffer from the smell as well.
He threw the needlestowards Kira's feet, hoping that she wouldn't block them away. His attacks were long ranged, but in the end, he would have to make a few close moves.

This was how it was with assasinations.

Ayame's eyes widened, both of them having extrodinary speed. "They're both so fast! I could never move like that!"

Daisuke tried to quickly think of something to do, but he couldn't think of anything. He pulled out a couple of daggers, ready to defend himself. The problem was, he never knew when the paper bombs would explode, and so he never knew when to cover his nose. The smell that the bombs gave off was absolutely nausiating, and often made people dizzy. His small finger gripped the hilts of his daggers, his arms moving over his face as he tried to think of something to do.

Countering wouldn't be usefull, because of the size difference between their weapons. He could always sneak a paper bomb onto her, but that might be too obvious, or he could... He stopped himself. Daisuke didn't want to resort to his... ability. But he might not have a choice. He was wearing a small pendant on his neck, though tucked away under his shirt so it wouldn't be swinging around.

Suddenly, Daisuke could hear a loud screech in his head, his ears folding back. He was in agony, though he wouldn't show it.

St.p tryi.. to h.de.

I'm not hiding!

U.e me th.n D..su..

I-- Argh!

Daisuke's eyes widened, the pain becoming worse. He fell to the ground, his eyes full of fear. His small hands covered his face, fangs growing, his sapphire blue eyes becoming a bloody red. "H-Hit me!" He shouted at Kira. Rather large, leather wings sprouted out of Daisuke's back, tearing apart his shirt. "Arrrgh!" he painfully cried. He shook his head, tears flooding down his face. He longed for help from someone... anyone. He quickly pulled out a knife, close to the salution of stabbing himself.

"Hit me!"

"Ki-kun!" Ayame cried, panicking as she saw Daisuke suffering. She leaped out of her seat and she tried to get into the arena, but there was a field around the fighting part of the arena. "Let me in! Let me in!" She cried, throwing herself at the wall. She held her hands awainst the wall, trying to use her powers. She then remembered the kitty, so she ran back and grabbe it, then rand back at the wall, this time, going through.

She landed on her stomache, moving the cat so she wouldn't squish it. She immediatly shot up, putting the cat down and running over to Daisuke, a heavy aura surrounding him. She knew why he left his village.

He was afraid.

"Ki-kun! It's okay! I'm here!" She cried, wraping her arms around him. She could see it, though. the number of ghosts that surrounded him, that could be from the lowest pits of Hell. This terrified Ayame terribly. She could feel the ghosts striking at her, though invisible to most people.

"Stop it!"

Ayame couldn't hold back her fear. She was shaking, and tears flooded down her face.

Kiko came in behind Surion in his human form. "Ah, I see you have recovered fully and are up to par." He said smiling. "There is one thing I must do though... Just so that Miss. Snow wont be unhappy..." Kiko said nodding. Kiko reached out and put a hand to Surion's forhead, closeing his eyes. He muttered a few ancient words and then opened them again. "You should feel some sort of power surge through you... I have cast an incantation so that the worst damage we can do to each other is a few bruises. There will be no deep wounds. The blades on your daggers will be very blunt until the duel is over." He said nodding. "The same is for me also."

Kira was running at him, when she suddenly noted a change. She'd been watching him closely, in case he decided to throw something else at her. She wasn't sure why he was just standing there, until she saw his eyes widen suddenly. She skidded to a halt, lowering her sword slightly but still keeping ready just in case. She really had no idea what was going on. Her hold tightened upon her sword as she heard him say to hit him. "What?" she cried, eyes narrowed slightly. "Why?!"

She inched one foot backwards and away from him as he pulled out the dagger, not sure what he was doing, and extremely confused as to what was going on. The wings, especially had her about to start freaking out. Her eyes were flashing between green, blue, gray, red, and any other color imaginable in her confusion.

Meanwhile, Kurri meowed quietly, watching Ayame as she lurched forward and began launching herself at the force field. The small kitten blinked as he was lifted up, but didn't protest and instead stared around as he was carried into the arena and set down once more. His head tilted slightly as he sat down and simply watched what was happening, bright blue eyes blinking slowly.

Kira turned sharply to look at Ayame as well, her eyes still flicking between various colors. Her widened eyes followed as the little girl latched herself onto Daisuke. For a moment Kira just stared, and then she quickly slipped her sword back into the sheathe as she walked forward quickly, dropping to her knees beside the two of them. She couldn't see anything, but she felt a shiver run down her spine as she thought she felt something odd. She clenched her teeth and then hugged the both of them, covering them almost like she was trying to protect them from some unseen enemy. She still had no idea what was going on and didn't know what to do. This was the only thing she could think of, despite how useless it might be. "It's ok, it's ok..." she repeated quietly, in a small, soothing voice. She hoped that once Daisuke calmed down this would stop.

((Yeah, they were behind you. ^^))

Jeg dodged the watery daggers like they were nothing. Magic-wise, he was right. He spun around and focused his attention on the clones. Since they were basic clones, they only had the basic shape of Razzer - they still looked like blobs of water. While his opponent was distracted with the clones (which wasn't for long - Jeg quickly disposed of them), Razzer muttered a couple of words and initiated one of his techniques - one that he hadn't used in a battle before. Once Jeg was done with the clones he turned to Razzer, who was still standing several feet away.

"You are quite skilled I must admit. You are the most troublesome person I've fought in ages. I congratulate you for that." he said. Razzer smiled.

"Troublesome? I can be much more than troublesome." Razzer responded.

"Now let me show you something of mine. You have shown me some of your powers; so now its my turn to show you some of mine." Jeg continued. He rushed at Razzer with unrivalled speed, and thrust his sword directly at Razzer's chest. It was then that Razzer saw the markings on his opponent's arm, and he knew that this shot from the blade would be much more powerful than any previous. Razzer knew that there wasn't enough water in the arena to block the blade's wrath.

His face emotionless, Razzer stood strong and braced for the sword to pierce his midsection. The blade struck him just above where his belly button would have been should he have been human. It slid right into his stomach, but Razzer didn't feel any pain. Though, apparently, neither did his advanced water clone. It just stood there and looked dazedly at the sword that was sticking out on the other side of his body, where his spine would have been.

"'Nightmare Blade', eh?" Razzer whispered quietly, silently raising himself out of the water behind his opponent. "My clone doesn't seem to be in pain... perhaps it does other damage than physical?" He shrugged, and began manipulating the water surrounding Jeg. He concentrated as much energy as he dared to spare and wrenched up many columns of water around his clone and his opponent, forming a jail-like area around the two of them. Finally letting out a sound, Razzer laughed and let his advanced water clone lose it's form and colour and fall back into the water from which it was born.

"Give up now." he said, taking a step towards his captured opponent. "I can send these columns crashing down upon you, and you won't like it." smiling, the mage wiggled the columns threateningly. "You put up a good fight, I'll admit. But it's over."

Kira sat up abruptly again as Ayame was tossed away by Daisuke. She stared at the boy, her eyes wide and still flicking between random colors as she sat on her knees, hands clenched on the ground in front of her. She watched in shock for a moment as she saw him stand and raise the dagger, his sights set upon Ayame. That's when she seemed to snap out of it and leapt to her feet, a rather loud growl rumbling from her throat as her eyes finally settled on red.

She felt like she was invading suddenly, even though she was the one Daisuke had challenged in the first place. This got her even angrier, as her hand went to her sword, gripping it tightly but not yet drawing it. She simply stared at the two, waiting to see if something would happen and she'd need to intervene.

Though, he seemed to suddenly calm, but she wasn't sure why as she watched him still silently as he turned to face her. She pulled her hand from her sword again and smiled faintly at him, her eyes swirling a mix of blue and green as she began to reply, but he toppled over before even finishing his own words. She blinked at him a few times and then glanced over at Ayame as the girl approached as well.

Then Kira took a couple steps back before dropping to her knees again, just watching them silently. Kurri walked over to her and stepped into her lap, curling up there as he watched the two children as well. Kira was obviously still confused, and what had those things been she'd seen a moment before Daisuke had collapsed? She shook her head, staring at the ground. "Is... is everyone ok?" she asked uncertainly.