Shego laughed and shook her head at her opponent. "Of course I am. I don't give up that easily. Like I said before, you'll have to pry the ring off my dead fingers if you want to get it back." She said coolly, her whirling eyes picked up in speed and she seemed ready to attack. Kura shook her head.
"Quit being so stubborn. You know just as well as I do that yo-" Kura stopped talking abruptly and it was apparent to everyone why: Shego was up in the air, sending massive amounts of Glow blasts down at Kura. Kura was taken by surprise and, even though she could be hit by a few without being injured too badly, there were too many to continue to do that. Instead, she was forced to dodge. Damn her! She's testing me! Little punk! Kura thought savagely, doing a handspring to avoid several blasts.
Shego, breathing hard, sent four more blasts down at Kura and, to her amazement, one hit Kura with incredible force, slamming her down onto the ground. She hit so hard that she bounced before settling on the broken floor. A slow grin spread across Shego's face, but before it could plant itself, Kura's laughter shook up the whole room.
"I'm impressed. No, really, I am. It's been a pretty long time since someone has hit me like that. Wow, I almost forgot what pain feels like.." Kura said, slowly getting to her feet. She was rubbing the spot on her back where the Glow blast had hit her and shaking her head, her evil looking eyes still brimming with amusement.
"That whole spot on my back is completely numb." Kura began to drone on and Shego took this to her advantage. She had landed a few seconds earlier and was now edging back towards Drakken. Catching on, her employer hurried forward.
"How come I hit her?" Shego asked him, pretending to be listening to Kura.
Drakken, now at Shego's shoulder, shook his head. "Actually, I have no idea. If she can really see as well as she say she can, it would have been no problem for her to dodge that last blast. Shego..." Drakken trailed off and Shego knew what was coming. "This isn't-"
"Training. I know. I still think I can win though...If I can find out why I hit her."
"And if you die?"
Shego sighed and shook her head. "I'm not going to die. Eventually we'll both run out of juice."
"To be more precise, you will..." Drakken said, frowning.
"I guess you're one of those 'bottle half empty' types, huh?" Shego replied, grinning.
Drakken's frown deepened Shego's momentarily cheerful expression. "Stop messing around, Shego. For once in your life, take this seriously." Drakken hissed. Shego turned on him, her eyes flashing with what to any other person would be hatred.
"What did you-" Shego was hit hard in the back before she could finish her sentence and was thrown across the room.
"Geez, and here I was thinking you were listening to me." Kura said, watching Shego slowly get up. "I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't dropped your guard."
Shego had landed a few feet from Kim and Ron, but had taken absolutely no notice of them.
"So, how does it feel, Shego?" Kim asked, making Shego blink.
"Are you still mad about that little bashing I gave you? Come on, Kimmie, I just slapped you around a little bit." Shego replied, not taking her eyes off Kura this time. Kim scoffed and took a step forward, a fist raised.
"'Slapped me around a little bit'? More like left me to die. As soon as she finishes with you, you're mine." Kim hissed.
"Temper, temper Kimmie. I'll give you one warning: if you want to live to see your Senior Prom, get back right now. If she attacks me, you two will be in the line of fire as well." Shego said, disregarding the threat.
"What do you mean 'two'? Rufus is here; that makes three!" Ron said, sounding indignant. Shego promptly ignored him.
"And why do you care so much about my well being? You didn't when you left me to die." Kim said stiffly.
"Oh come off it already! Did you think that I didn't know somebody was going to eventually pick you up? Just before we broke into the place I spotted those two soldiers." Shego snapped. "And besides, this is different from last time."
"How so?"
"Well...It was only you and me fighting the last time; there were no real bystanders around. However, since you and the moron-"
"And Rufus!" Ron yelped.
"-are here but not participating in the actual fight, it would make me feel kinda guilty if the both-"
"Three!"
"of you died.." Shego finished, leaving both Kim and Ron in a loss of words.
In the middle of the room, Kura had remained motionless, watching Shego and Kim converse. She could care less what they were talking about and she was starting to get antsy. Shego had wanted the fight in the first place and now she was jabbering away. It seemed that it was time for her to speed things along..
Rushing forward, Kura leaned down and picked up a large chunk of debris. Shego, who had been watching Kura this time, saw her coming and took a fighting stance. Kura smirked and heaved the rock at the villainess. Her whirling eyes saw it coming before the rock had even left Kura's hand. The rock seemed to move in slow motion as it neared Shego and she raised a now glowing hand. She cut the rock in half and both pieces went flying in opposite directions. By the time all that had happened, Kura had covered the distance between herself and Shego. Raising a fist, Kura sent out a right jab at her opponent. Shego, seeing it, blocked. Kura's left leg shot out, kicking at Shego's stomach. Again it was blocked.
A left hook; blocked.
Right side kick; blocked.
Then, Kura looked down at Shego's feet and threw out a vicious upper-cut. Shego didn't see it coming and curled into the older woman's fist, winded. Kura released a right hook and sent Shego flying into Kim. The two bounced and rolled; Shego had somehow untangled herself from Kim before they came to a halt. Kim couldn't move for a moment, but Shego was already on her feet, wiping blood from her lip.
"Well?" Kura asked, holding her hand out expectantly.
"I'm not finished yet." Shego growled, rushing forward, her gloves lit up.
While Kim was slowly getting up, Ron now at her side, Shego and Kura were exchanging punches. Shego slashed at Kura's chest; she missed and was walloped in the head by Kura's fist. Shaking her head, Shego caught Kura by her shirt and tossed her backwards. Kura twisted, easily avoiding the Glow blast Shego had sent out a moment before.
"I can see 360°, remember? No matter what you do, I'll see it." Kura said calmly, on the attack again. Shego was doing better, however, always thinking a step ahead of Kura. Once more, Kura attempted to look down at Shego's feet to give herself an advantage. As soon as Shego felt her auto-response eyes loosing their strength, she dropped herself down to the floor, blocking Kura's next attack and kicking the older woman hard in the chin.
For the first time in the battle, Kura was actually starting to look enraged. She yanked Shego up before she could scramble out of the way and kneed her in the stomach. Shego remained stunned for a moment, but quickly grabbed Kura's wrists and pulsing her Glow out more strongly. Kura let out a snarl and she slammed her forehead into Shego's and threw her into the air.
Shego, in the air, was smirking though Kura couldn't see her face. She blasted three Glows down at Kura's back and one hit the small of her back while she dodged the other two easily. Kura winced and took an almost defensive stance as Shego, panting heavily landed a few feet away from her.
"So you can't see in a full 360.." Shego said, trying her best not to drop down to one knee. Kura let out a soft, cruel laugh.
"You figured me out, eh? I can see a full 360, but there is one little, miniscule area that has become my blind-spot. I wanted to tell you earlier, but it was much more fun to see you figure it out."
Shego blinked in surprise. She'd known all along what I was doing..? Shego thought, feeling slightly sick. She had wasted so much energy trying to find out why she had scored such a small victory that she hadn't even noticed Kura easing off.
"Give me my ring while you can still stand upright." Kura said; Shego, of course, shook her head defiantly. Then, as Shego had hoped, Kura began to drone on again and, miraculously, let her guard down.
Shego hit her max speed in a matter of milliseconds. Before Kura had a chance to react to Shego's swiftness, she was slashed across the stomach with a fully charged Glow. Shego was cackling madly as she backed off, her vision going blurry.
"I got you...?" Shego ended in a question as she stared at the wound. It was not bleeding even though Shego had cut through several layers of skin and had almost grazed Kura's intestines. Confused and figuring she was seeing things, Shego attacked again. Before she could even raise one of her fists, a grim-looking Kura had slammed her fist into her stomach and had kicked her, sending her flying. Shego hit, this time, Drakken. Again, the force of her collision sent the two backwards. This time, Shego had not the strength to roll off of Drakken and they landed with a heavy thud against the remains of a wall, Shego using Drakken as some sort of human chair. Kura let out a slow, sad sigh.
"I wished to keep the real reason I wanted my ring back a secrete, but, well, I guess I can't anymore." Kura began, rubbing the back of her neck nervously. When nobody spoke, she continued. "The effects of the ring are unnatural and, like any foreign object used on the body, it has side effects.." She paused and pulled a strange looking knife out of the same pocket she had pulled the note pad out of earlier. Its tip and blade resembled an elongated diamond that ended in a straight hilt bound in white tape. The end of the hilt curved into a circle that would allow the user to twirl it on a finger if desired.
"As you noticed, the nice little wound you gave me did not bleed, Shego. That's because there is hardly more then 12 fluid ounces of blood in my body." Kura stopped as Kim spoke.
"But that's impossible! You should be dead..." '
"Yes, I should be. But! I'm not. In fact, I'm not sure that I can die anymore.." Kura said, pausing again. "Observe." Without warning, she slashed her throat. Ignoring the cries and gasps of horror, Kura proceeded to stab herself in the lower abdomen, the side, her rib cage, chest, and slash at the same spot Shego had blasted Kim in the leg.
"See? No blood...Well, okay, there is some..somewhere..I just don't know where.." She said, glancing over to Ron, who was on his knees, gagging. Kura turned to face Shego, who's face, like everyone else's, wore an expression of mingled fear and horror.
"That ring has turned me into a walking corpse, Shego. I really don't want you to share my fate. I can't take off this stupid contraption without dying. The changes aren't over night, but you'll start to feel yourself changing: your heart rate will slow dangerously, you'll faint, the blood slowly disappearing from your body will make you deathly pale, even rigor mortis will set in. It's not a pleasant feeling you know. But I am not completely dead. I don't know why though..." Kura said, sighing as she put her knife away. From the same pocket, she drew out the same tape that was covering her arms and legs and began wrapping it around her neck wound.
"So! Now will you give it back?" Kura asked, now looking cheerful.