A/N - Finally! The fight scene was kicking my but, so I cut down on how graphic it was originally. Warning- some lines stolen from Samurai's journey.
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The 'Green Samurai' had left the ball early so Cam could manage to get back to the rooms and make it look like he had never left. Which meant doing a few small chores, but it was worth it to keep his freedom. Of course the 'Green Samurai' appearing at tomorrow's match might be a bit of a problem. His Uncle definitely looked at least a little suspicious of him, but Cam hoped that it was just his Uncle's inborn paranoia more then anything else. Still if he waited until his Uncle left, then he could make it to the match. The only trouble would be if Lothor left the match before it finished, which was unlikely.
Hunter watched as eagerly as everyone else as the Green Samurai stalked out of the shadows. He had arrived later then everyone else and the crowd had already started to become anxious. General Madtropolis was a powerful samurai and Hunter wondered how long the fight would last.
As soon as Cam stepped into the challenge ring, Madtropolis had went into his beginning stance. Hiding a smirk Cam bowed to King Omino, the Princes and the newly married in Princess then turned to face his opponent and bowed again before relaxing into a simple offensive stance. He would be making the first move on this fight and hoped to end it before his obvious fumbling attempts were noticed.
Calm down Cam! You'll do fine! I was there to observe Madtropolis when he was a youngster, he was a no-class bully then and he's a no-class bully now. The amulet inputted into his mind and Cam sent a brief prayer to his mother that she would not keep a running commentary on the fight before launching into his first attack. He drew his wooden bokken(1) and began striking quickly, shifting his attack so Madtropolis would not know where it was coming from. He was faster then the General and able to adroitly dodge any attacks or parries that the larger man made. It did not take long before Madtropolis began to show he had not had this hard a work out in a long time, and that was when Cam felt the first of his dark ninja powers.
Madtropolis was a dark ninja, like Cam's uncle, and was apparently set on sucking Cam's energy out to have for himself, unfortunately Cam was making that rather difficult for him. "Who are you?" General Madtropolis growled as the young man once again evaded his attacks and managed to block his energy sucking powers, which was his most powerful weapon.
"I'm the ranger who's gonna bring you down." Cam stated with a wicked half smile that had half the court fanning themselves, Hunter resisted the urge while Dustin tried to figure out why the guy in green looked so familiar. The Samurai Ranger attacked once more in a flurries of strikes, and Madtropolis felt around to draw power from somewhere else. He could feel the powers of the other rangers and he quickly snagged their signatures beginning to drain their energy.
At the high table Tori, Blake, and Hunter exchanged looks as they began to feel really, really fatigued. "Madtropolis must be drawing on the other Rangers' powers, he must not be able to get to the Samurai's," Hunter figured out. On the other side of the room Shane and Dustin also started to look a little unsteady.
Madtropolis grinned at the influx of power and attacked the smarmy brat now, putting him on the defensive briefly with several quick strikes and an attempted thrust at his throat. The Ranger blocked them all though and twisted the attack around on him. "Is that all you got?" He questioned laughingly and Madtropolis soon found himself knocked off his feet by a powerful swing. "Haa!" Madtropolis flinched as the thrust stopped seconds away from his throat. "I win." And then he felt a pulsing along his reserves of energy and then a flare of power coming from the young man. His eyes widened, no one could have this much energy... enough energy to force him to overload!
The nobles watched as Madtropolis fainted. Many of them had felt the power that had flowed into the other man, forcing him to empty his reserves of stored power, but what no one noticed was that Tori had regained color in her cheeks, Blake was sitting straighter, Hunter's scowl was less pronounced, Shane was smiling again and Dustin... well Dustin looked less dazed the usual. And then when the nobles looked again the samurai was gone.
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"Agh! Another one!" Lothor slammed his fist down onto the desk his anger evident. Marah and Kapri were keeping out of sight but it did not detract from Lothor's rage. Miko's amulet had turned up at this ball and it was held by someone who fought as well if not better then she did. Miko had possessed a mere fraction of the power that boy held in his hands. Growling Lothor turned to find his nephew nearly managing to escape from the room.
"Cameron. Where are you going?" He snapped and watched as his nephew fumbled some excuse or another out. "Never mind, get out of my sight. I don't want to see you for the rest of the day." And with that he turned around slightly appeased that his nephew would have to deal with finding somewhere to be in a city where anyone who knew him he would want to avoid.
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Cam cursed as he wandered about the town again, trying to ignore the fact that all the shop owners were trying especially hard to catch his eye. Of course his Uncle would kick him out of the rooms today, and the black haired samurai really wanted to avoid running into either Hunter or Dustin again, so he had decided to wander the town, but now he realized that might not have been the best of ideas. He had very little money on him, and was certainly aware that many of them would have given him free things if he would make sure they gained Prince Hunter's patronage. It amused and angered him at the same time.
As the afternoon wore on Cam found himself wandering back to the castle and especially to the training facilities where he had met up with trouble so many times. Are you sure you're avoiding Hunter? Because honey, it doesn't look like it.
Okay, so maybe Cam was wandering in places where he and Hunter had met up or been together, but honestly, he had only been in this town a few days! And maybe subconsciously he was seeking Hunter out, he was bored after all and maybe, possibly, a smidgen attracted to the buff blond man. Opening the door to the practice room Cam found it empty and eagerly stripped off his shirt and glasses as he stepped inside. This mornings sparring session had been fun but it had hardly been a work out. Then he noticed that the amulet was visible on his chest without the shirt. 'It okay if I just stuff you in my pocket?' He asked.
Sure, but I'd better not feel anything poking me! The amulet laughed as her holder grumbled and placed her carefully inside so she would not fall out during his work out. Don't lose me either!
"Yeah, yeah..." Cam muttered before grinning and beginning to practice.
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Hunter was intrigued by the noises coming from the practice room as he approached. It definitely sounded like someone besides him was using it, and thought it might be possible for one of the visiting ninja to have decided to use it while they were at the castle. It was his usual practice time though, so they better not mind having someone else in the room. You never knew with those snotty nobles. Opening the door though all thoughts left Hunter's mind as he saw the hottest, most unbelievably gorgeous thing ever. Cam; the-servant-who-was-possibly-royalty was kicking at the punching bag and had obviously been working out for a while. His skin was glistening with sweat and his breath was faster the normal, the young man's muscles moved silkily under his skin as he turned in surprise to face the door.
"Your highness, I apologize." And Cam started to move towards his clothing but was stopped by Hunter's outstretched arm.
"No, continue." Hunter's eyes though were on anything but Cam's face, instead they were eating up the nearly hairless chest that had been revealed for his viewing pleasure. Cam blushed and began to shift away awkwardly which brought Hunter's eyes back up to his face only to lock on his lips. Nervously Cam licked them as he began to say something to break the tension.
Prince Hunter beat him to it though, sealing Cam's mouth with his own, Hunter delved inside of the hot cavity. Cam stiffened at first but as one of Hunter's arms encircled his waist and the other held onto the back of his neck Cam decided to give in. 'What the hell, if everything goes well he'll never see me again.' With that thought in mind Cam let his hands rest at Hunter's waist as he began to kiss Hunter back.
The prince was finding holding the servant in his arms to be quite enjoyable, the man was all heat and muscle, submissive but with an inner core of strength that none of Hunter's other conquests had. Cam though, was far from a conquest, far, far from a conquest. In fact, Hunter might go as far to say that he was in love.
Hunter broke off the kiss with Cam to realize that both of the other man's hands were tangled in his hair while Hunter's hands were holding onto the other's shoulders and one had slipped inside his loose pants to hold one firm tight buttocks. "Umm..."
"We should stop." Cam said for him and they quickly disentangled themselves, both feeling very self conscious and uneasy as Cam threw his shirt on and rushed out of the room.
Blake passed a very frazzled young man coming from the practice room, he was dressed in servant's clothes but apparently he had been using the room for some purpose or another. Since Hunter was in there though... Blake smirked. Man, his bro was a player. Entering the practice room he saw a slightly rumpled Hunter with puffy lips. Yep, definitely kissed him. "So who was that?"
"Huh?" Hunter looked up confused at Blake his mind still processing the make out session. His brother was leaning against the doorframe with a rather smug look on his face. Damn, he was caught. "Who?"
"The cute servant boy who just ran out of here." Blake stated.
"His name is Cam." Hunter muttered and ran his fingers through his hair. Damn but he was falling fast for that guy, faster then he had ever fallen for anyone really. What was it that made Hunter want him so much?
"Bro? You okay?" Blake asked concernedly, Hunter looked really frazzled.
"I honestly don't know."
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A/N - (1) Bokken- wooden swords used in kendo. Kendo is based off of kenjutsu which was the art of the sword that the samurai practiced. You're allowed to strike at certain places or thrust at the throat. It's the fighting style I used. Hope you liked the kiss! Sex soon I swear!