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 Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:03 pm
Rosalyn gave Kasumi a slight nod as their gazes met. Her eyes flickered over to Constance knowing full well that Kasumi might very well know of the condition she was in now. She moved forward a little closer to Kyojin, feeling the odd sense that she should help the stranger. She didn't help strangers lightly. They had to earn her trust. She ignored the fact that both Merrick and Constance stayed where they were. Unlike her own father she knew they were adults and could make their own decisions. Constance smiled at Merrick's tone. She loved the way he protected her and would go to any lengths to keep her safe. "Don't worry Merrick, I know he wont get near me. Not with you here and my mother here. And even if he did get past the both of you I wouldn't go without a damn good fight.""We really need to make it to where anyone who means us harm cannot come within so many feet of this place." Cassandra said as she looked over her shoulder at Lorcan. "We have some extremely powerful people with us now. No doubt we can get it done." She looked back to the stranger and nodded. "He has great power Lorcan. A good thing he doesn't seem to be against us."
~~~~~~~~~ "The others are out there. Let's join them," Merida said with a grin as she hurried out the door and began sprinting towards the back. The power that this individual held made her hair stand on end, and that didn't happen often.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:27 am
Kýojin leaned aside as the large boxer threw a hard punch that scored a glancing blow, though a very faint smile flickered over his face before he drove a short uppercut into the boxer's ribs before following it with a brutal right hook as he twisted, evading another blow from Vega, most likely meant to maim rather than decapitate this time, before planting a mule kick into the Spanish fighter's gut that sent him skidding backwards on the balls of his feet an instant before the boxer's head slammed into the dirt with explosive force as the man's body contorted before he shifted his weight, kicking him hard in the gut that sent him rolling backwards head over heels. He wasn't surprised to see the boxer snarl as he rose before both of them charged towards Kýojin. "You're dead!!" both of them snarled in unison. His head cocked slightly before he reared back one fist before driving it into the ground with a thundering boom an instant before a concussive shockwave slammed into both the boxer and Vega hard as the ground beneath them shattered explosively. "Get over here!!" he snapped before yanking back on the narrow silvery chain that had hooked around both of their right ankles, subconsciously retracting them in the process as both fighters flew back at him, one with widened eyes and one with a single eye visible as the mask had been dented so that the other wasn't immediately visible. He pushed off, driving an aerial roundhouse kick into the boxer's abdomen as he elbowed Vega hard in the lower back just above his kidneys. He shifted his weight in the air as the narrow chains apparently disappeared before driving twin punches straight into the fighters' chests, driving them both into the edge of the two and a half foot diameter crater he'd created with a heavy crunching thud. "I don't care if you can walk or crawl away, but neither you nor those you manipulate are going to screw with me much longer," he muttered with a low growl.
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Kasumi snorted a low laugh at Constance's smile and Merrick's choice of words, since they fit her own thoughts fairly closely. Her eyes widened fractionally as she saw the kanji, narrowing as she recognized the dark feel of his energy as his skin deepened in its tanned color slightly. "That's rare... though I can't tell if he was trained in the Ansatsuken style; it is the only style that tends to awaken what he is drawing upon," she murmured to all of them telepathically, including Merida and her brother.
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Merrick shifted his weight slightly, feeling adrenaline trickling through his body. He wasn't going to admit it, but he was thoroughly tempted to challenge the stranger to a sparring match.
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Naruto frowned as a second dark energy joined the first, both clearly against the stronger chaotic energy though he could clearly sense the hatred and malice from both like pinpricks in his mind. An eyebrow twitched upward as he heard his sister's low telepathic murmur. The Ansatsuken, or 'Assassin Fist' style, was an extremely rare fighting style in the present day, but it was very powerful... yet at the same time came with a price.
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Lorcan cocked his head fractionally, nodding slightly. He knew that all of them heard Kasumi's soft telepathic murmur. He blinked when the stranger sent the disgraced boxer he recognized as Marcus Balrog and the masked fighter Vega airborne. He wondered what the glittering silver 'chain' was. He could tell it was some sort of energy charged metal, but not pure energy. He winced as both of them were slammed into the edge of the crater, the ground caving beneath them both as the stranger landed between them, the kanji fading to a dull, slightly darker shade of tanned brown skin than his naturally tanned skin.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:30 am
Kaosujin Ryu thought maybe Cassandra could display some of the predatory nature of the Carpathians... Rosalyn watched the entire fight silently, her head tilting to the side slightly as she heard Kasumi's voice in her head. Kyojin was strong, stronger than anyone she had met in a long time. There was something oddly familiar about the man, but she couldn't put her finger on it. She glanced over her shoulder at Merrick. She felt his desire to challenge Kyojin to a sparring match and she could only smile a little. Constance moved closer to Merrick as she felt his fighting urge. She knew it wasn't to harm, but simply to figure out strength. She rested her hand lightly on his arm and smiled a little. She was grateful that this stranger seemed to be on their side. She knew that if he turned against them it would take all of them to take him on. There was this darkness to him, and yet he seemed good. She didn't know how to explain it. She just felt it. Merida's gaze flickered over to Kasumi when she heard the other woman's voice in her head. Her head snapped back around when she heard the large boom. Both the boxer and masked fighter were in a large crater and she couldn't help but grin. It was where they belonged after attacking here. Cassandra watched silently, managing to keep herself in her spot. She wanted to move forward and get rid of these men. Something deep inside of her was stirring, an anger she hadn't felt in her whole life. It was almost as if there was a beast inside of her that just wanted to tear them apart for daring to come to this place. She had finally reached her boiling point with these idiots.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:45 am
Kýojin shifted his weight, backing away from both of the stunned fighters though he was mildly surprised when the boxer's form cracked and dissolved into hardened mud. He frowned before shifting his gaze around before he heard the whistling air as he ducked, the punch missing his head by mere millimeters. Unfortunately, Balrog's return uppercut caught him full in the mouth and under the chin hard, causing him to stumble. "Now, you're mine, fool!" Balrog snarled before throwing several brutal punches at Jin's torso and head, all of them connecting with painful sounding impacts. Surprisingly, only minor bruising showed as Balrog swung a last time, sending blood spraying from Jin's lips as he staggered back from where the disgraced boxer had pinned his legs down. "You aren't going..." he muttered before he heard a squelch as he looked down, seeing Vega's claws buried low in his chest from behind. He gritted his teeth as his irises shifted abruptly in color to a brilliant teal before a shockwave of power shoved both Balrog and Vega backwards, disarming the latter from his clawed gauntlet as Jin dropped momentarily to one knee.
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Kasumi blinked as she sensed the increase in power an instant before the concussive burst of ethereal energy made her stumble backwards. She could see the ground had cracked heavily beneath Jin's feet though it was clear he was badly wounded.
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Merrick blinked in surprise as the boxer suddenly recovered. "Seems this 'Bison', if he's working with Damon, experimented on his own people, making them more dangerous," he warned Constance.
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Naruto blinked at the Earth replacement, a technique he recognized all too well. That b*****d, was all he thought.
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Lorcan winced as the fighter was beaten down before being impaled. "That has to be extremely painful," he muttered under his breath.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:53 am
Rosalyn gasped as Jin went down on one knee. She moved forward quickly in a blur that nobody could barely see. She was instantly by his side, her eyes narrowed at the two other fighters. "This has gone far enough," she said in a low, menacing voice. A dark bubble formed around the former boxer and masked man. After a moment the bubble was gone as well as the two men. They would be missing for quite a while until Damon could unravel what she had done. "Then we will be extra careful Merrick," Constance replied. Her eyes widened and she took a step forward when her mother rushed forward. She moved so fast that she could barely be seen. And then the two fighters were gone. Just vanished in a dark bubble. Constance stopped in her spot as her mother knelt down next to the stranger. "What's wrong?" Merida thought as she looked over at Naruto. She stumbled slightly as the energy rushed past them, causing her to bump into Naruto. She held onto him to catch her balance as she looked back over at the stranger whom Rosalyn was now kneeling by. "Let's see if we can help," Cassandra said as she hurried towards Rosalyn and the stranger. She could feel the energy and power coming off him and it frightened her a little, but she didn't show it. He needed help with those wounds.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:14 am
Kýojin gritted his teeth as he touched the razor sharp blades before starting to push them out from the front of his body. HIs pain tolerance was incredible, though fortunately for him his body was healing slowly but steadily, though the impaling wound would take longer than the majority of his other wounds which would most likely take hours.
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Kasumi grimaced as she walked slowly and carefully towards the stranger. She could sense his power leaking out of the carefully erected psychic shielding the man had, but she was impressed that he'd done that much damage to the extremely tough duo before being injured like that.
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Merrick cocked his head, unfamiliar with the teleportation method Rosalyn used. He could, however, sense that both men had been injured and he doubted they'd be treated too gently with where they'd be dropped.
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Naruto exhaled a low sigh. "Let's just say that I recognize that technique. For someone to do it that easily to evade damage, they had to be extremely well trained, and I've known perhaps only a half dozen that could use that particular technique with such skill... three of them I killed personally, and one was long dead before I was born," he said quietly, his tone grim. The disadvantage was that the other two were extremely hard to take out, even with his wide repertoire of talents and skills.
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Lorcan stayed back, unsure how he could help.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:52 am
"Here, let me help you," Rosalyn said softly as she placed her hand over Jin's wound. She could already tell his other wounds were healing well. The impaled wound, however, would take longer. "I can't completely heal it, but I can speed up the process." The wound began to heal rapidly, the skin pulling back together as if nothing had happened. If anyone could see inside of Jin's body they would still see the damage, but it was significantly less. Cassandra walked side by side with Kasumi. "He's strong, so very strong," she said softly as the two of them neared Rosalyn and the stranger. "Those wounds...not just anyone can survive something like that. And how easily he fought those two...""That is definitely a unique way to transport people," Constance said softly. "Come on...let's see what kind of help we can give." She said to Merrick as she began to walk towards her mother. "Well how about we find out who this stranger is?" Merida said in a soothing manner as she looked up at Naruto. "Come, let's see what answers we can get."
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:25 pm
Kýojin exhaled slowly, feeling his strength return even greater than before due to the natural talent known as Zenkai that he had which made him stronger after any battle which left him wounded; he actually nearly doubled in strength from injuries that most would have called fatal. Unfortunately for him, he'd recently been hitting a 'wall' when it came to his strength both physically and spiritually. He had a natural healing factor that allowed him to heal roughly three times faster than even a skilled martial artist.
Jin let his hand drift up to where Rosalyn's hand was. "Thank you. It is not good that Bison's underlings know of this place, much less about your little group; Bison is a very dangerous criminal who seeks two main things: ultimate strength over all and world domination through crushing all of those beneath his totalitarian boot," he said quietly. "He created several clones, some male, others female... meant to absorb his soul when his own power consumed the body he was within. He deliberately ejected the 'good' side of his soul, leaving only the darker psychotic side of it," he said quietly. He didn't tell them that he had been meant to be one of those bodies, though other than him only two had escaped and survived to some extent.
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Kasumi cocked her head slightly, looking thoughtful. I think I know what he is... a legendary race known for their strength, fortitude and stamina... though how he survived when the last of his race supposedly died out nearly six hundred years ago, I have no idea, she thought quickly, remaining outwardly quiet as she walked closer to the fighter and Rosalyn.
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Merrick took a deep breath, feeling his demonic side stirring at the sheer strength of this fighter's aura. He suppressed its urge to take that power for itself, fortunately.
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Naruto nodded slightly, a cautious look on his face.
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Lorcan cocked his head, hearing the servants within the household stirring as if they had heard the ruckus and thought it was them causing it. They'd react with shock if they knew it was all one person, he thought.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:50 pm
Rosalyn felt the warmth of Jin's hand against her own. "We are no strangers to people hunting us," she said softly as she shook her head. "Obviously my brother is working with these men and that is not good at all." She pulled her hand away from his as she felt the others coming closer to them. She listened as Jin explained about Bison. "Don't worry about us. We will get through this like we have everything else.""Maybe he will tell us," Casandra said as they stopped near Rosalyn. "Rosalyn, who is your friend?" She asked softly as she looked between the two of them. Rosalyn stood up and dusted the dirt from her clothes. "This is Jin. Jin this is Cassandra, Kasumi, Merida, Constance, Merrick...." Her head tilted to the side as she looked at the other two men. "I am sorry. I have been away too long. I do not know these other two." She only knew who Merrick was because he was her daughter's mate. "Lorcan, my mate and Naruto, Kasumi's brother." Cassandra provided the introductions. She looked at Jin thoughtfully. "That is some power you displayed. I for one am glad it wasn't directed at us. I have never seen you here before. What brings you to this safe house?""A good question," Merida said with a nod. "You are more than welcome here. It seems that we aren't the only ones who are hunted." She watched Rosalyn curiously. She was surprised that the woman had helped to heal the stranger's wounds.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:47 pm
Kýojin took a deep breath as he let his hand drop as he stood. "A hell of a lot of luck, for one. I can say that I will see those who hunt me dead, partly for vengeance and partly so they don't do it again, though I'm pretty sure their supply of that metal they bonded to me is depleted," he said quietly.
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Kasumi blinked. "Those who resort to human experimentation are sicker than the demons they work with," she grumbled.
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Merrick frowned slightly, not liking that fact.
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Naruto exhaled a low snarl. "Seems everyone here is scarred in one way or another," he whispered in Merida's mind.
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Lorcan cocked his head slightly. He had heard of Bison through one of his Interpol contacts. Not good; he has reach through most of Europe, Aisa, and the South Pacific, he thought.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:13 pm
"I'll help you if I am able," Rosalyn said softly. She didn't say anything at Cassandra's surprised look for a moment. She looked over her shoulder at the others. "He was here last night. I ran into him and somebody shot at us through a window. He took off out the window and I saw him being attacked. I couldn't just leave him. I followed and helped. And then Damon showed up. He put himself between me and my brother.""Rosalyn, you should have awakened us," Cassandra said softly. "We just got you back. Thank goodness that Damon was not able to get a hold of you.""Thank you, Jin," Constance said softly. "For protecting my mother. I have only just gotten her back and have not yet had the chance to get to know her."Merida nodded her head slowly at Naruto's remark. "It's hard not to be with these demons and hunters coming at us from every angle. Frankly I am surprised that we are doing as well as we are sometimes."
"Well, how about we all go inside and we can talk more? I am sure there is much we need to discuss," Amelia said as she approached them, Nala by her side once again.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:25 pm
Kýojin inhaled slowly as subtly serrated blades slid out from between his knuckles. "They'll find that the chain they got ain't nowhere near thick enough to hold me," he said quietly, spreading his feet slightly apart. "Anyone else they've chained... I'll make them eat the chains," he said softly in a low hoarse growl as the nine inch blades retracted into the skin, the wounds sealing with tiny flickers of golden flame.
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Kasumi exhaled a low growl before she turned back towards the door. She absently noticed that though he hadn't commented on Constance's thanks, he seemed very protective of those he did allow to get close to him.
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Merrick shrugged, a low grumbling sound coming from his abdomen as he turned towards the doorway.
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Naruto shifted his weight. "It's nothing new to me, really; just because we carry emotional, mental, and/or physical scars doesn't mean we can't live a semi-normal life," he teased; he knew Merida wouldn't be satisfied with a 'normal' life, if the previous evening was anything to go by.
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Lorcan tilted his head. He knew they would have likely noticed that he never looked directly at the guy; the reason was because the man's aura was intense, like looking into the sun from the surface of Mercury.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:40 pm
Kaosujin Ryu sorry it's kinda bleh...gotta run to get husband from work Rosalyn looked at Jin thoughtfully. Although he didn't come out and say names, she was sure that he was speaking of her. She watched as everyone else turned to head back inside. She looked back over at Jin. "Come on. Let's get inside." She was already dreading it. She found that being inside felt like she was confined. She was sure that it was because of her long years of captivity. but at least she was amongst friends. Constance slipped her hand into Merrick's as they walked towards the door to get back inside. She looked over her shoulder once more at her mother as if assuring herself that the woman was still there. After not having her for so long it seemed like a dream. "Should we tell the others about the babies," she asked Merrick through their telepathic link. "Or should we wait a little longer?"Merida grinned at Naruto as she shrugged and slipped her arm around his waist. "Let's get inside."
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:47 pm
Kýojin shrugged slightly as he walked towards the door. "You are reluctant, likely preferring the open spaces at the moment," he murmured, unknowingly accurately picking up on Rosalyn's emotions simply from her body language.
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Kasumi decided to wake Carolyn up... and take a shower, preferably both simultaneously.
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Merrick tilted his head. "I think keep it secret a little longer, perhaps after we get something in our stomach," he murmured.
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Naruto snickered slightly, massaging Merida's skin beneath the dark green shirt.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:27 pm
"Yes, I do prefer the open space," Rosalyn said as she glanced at Jin from the corner of her eye. She was surprised that he had been able to pick up on her uneasiness so well. But then again she was out of practice of hiding it. "I like the fresh air and sun on my skin. It's a wonderful gift to have. Freedom."~~~~~~ "Alright. After we eat then." Constance agreed with a small smile on her face. She couldn't wait to see the reactions of everyone else. ~~~~~~ Merida's muscles relaxed as Naruto massaged her skin beneath her shirt. She looked over at him with a small smile. "Should we follow Cassandra and the others or make a little detour?"
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