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Chloe smirked as her blade collided with Kain's in a mid-air power clash. She had completely ignored his comment, she was completely focused on fighting this battle, he was just another soldier for her to put in the ground, and move on. She twisted her body and placed her foot on the back of the blade and pushed with full strength, much like one would normally do with their free hand. Her flexibility, and great leg strength would add much more force behind the slash than your average two handed technique.



Maya had climbed up on to her roof to watch the battle. Chloe was right, Maya couldn't hide her urge for battle. She just had to watch it take place. It was a good example of what would happen once Lodis' full force arrived in a few months time. She knew she would have to fight then, everyone would. Latium's army was large, but she was certain it wouldn't matter. Lodis would have the support of all the other kingdoms by then most likely, and their would most likely be a massacre. It would take a miracle of some sort to aide Latium.

Chloe frowned slightly that her decapitation attempt failed as she flipped backwards from the force of the attack. She tucked her legs together and held her arms straight out forming her body into a cross a** she glided back down. She glanced down at her landing area and noticed she was about to collide with a Lodis soldier. She practically folded herself in half forward to bring her sword down into the unfortunate man. She released the blade and landed gracefully in crouch as her weapon pinned the man to the ground. She stood amidst the spraying blood from his jugular and pulled her weapon from him, holding it at her side in samurai fashion as she charged Kain once more, waiting for him to act before giving away what type of attack she would unleash next.

Chloe sped up to a controllable but increased speed and drew in closer for her strike. Not many around her had seen this fighting style, she had learned it from the various war books and fighting manuals she studied when she wasn't training. She hadn't mastered the way that the warriors across the sea had, but she had her nice variation on it down pact. As she drew within strike range she dropped and slid in almost on her knees very low so as to strike in an upward crescent and slide past Kain so she could turn around and come in again if he was caught off guard.

Chloe sat crouched for a moment watching her enemy as he locked blades with one of her fellow militia. She felt a slight rumble in the ground, her senses from her beast master training were trying to tell her something was coming this way. She dropped her ear to the ground and concentrated hard, trying to listen through the sounds of battle.

She could hear two feet pounding the earth hard, and strange grunting noises. She snapped her head to the east, settling on that as the source direction. Her eyes locked on to the beast approaching at an alarming rate... it was a beast she had only read about, never tangled with. It was an....

"OGRE!!!!!"

the cry came out before she could even finish her thought. It had trampled down a few Latium men and was beginning to munch on another. She was just about to accuse Lodis of summoning the Ogre, when it turned and snapped one of their men in half as well. An alarm sounded from within Latium's walls, it was the beast alarm, it would summon the city's best tamers and beast masters, but most were already out in the field; except for one.




Maya's ears rung with the beast alarm. "Karyn, stay here. I'll be back. Another beast is near by, you know the drill." Her sister half-heartedly ran over the escape plan as Maya disrobed from her elegant dress and slid into her battle armor. She grabbed her sword and rushed from the house heading towards the main gates. Her vision brought her the image of the ogre, and she nearly stopped in her tracks. Latium hasn't seen ogre's since before the last time they saw war... could the two possibly be related?

She paused at the gates, the other beast tamers had stopped fighting the Lodis unit and had formed a circle around the ogre keeping it at bay, but just barely. Whips cracked at it, followed by prodding staves and pole-arms. It responded with deep growls and grunts. Maya rushed over and stood just a few feet out from the circle trying to think of the best strategy to take the beast down, as there was no known way to tame an ogre without magic.


Chloe ran over and joined Maya. "What do you think? double strike at the neck? Or would that be too dangerous." She was very uncertain of how to deal with the situation.

Maya sighed at her two questioners. "I suggest we kill it, as quickly as possible... The whips will hold it at bay for now, you go for the neck with your lance, you go in for it's right leg, and I'll split it from belly to gullet.... anymore questions?"

Maya's entire personality had changed, almost as if she was possessed by something. As she spoke the sky began to grow dark, a faint glow of the sun in the distance gave it a purple color. The earth trembled once more, this time far more violently than anything it's inhabitants had felt ever before.

The ogre looked to the sky quizzically and Maya saw that as her opportunity to strike and rushed in motioning for the other two to do the same.

Chloe followed crossing paths with Maya twice before coming in for her strike just below the left knee.