Riku charged right at Danza, his beak once again snapping on thin air.
"You really never learn do you badger san"?
"Shut UP"! Turning around Riku was confronted by not one but TWELVE Danzaburos, as if one wasn't enough of a nightmare. Ploughing stubbornly forwards Rikuaoshi received an unexpected kick to the side, as a gryphon this failed to do anything other than piss him off, and boy was he pissed. Snapping around in a wide circle his beak, more by luck than by anything, caught hold of the tanuki's bushy tail. Flinging it's owner into the air he dived after it, only for Danzaburo to zoom through the air in the form of a hawk.
A gryphon could out fly and outmanouever a hawk on any day, but in the Forests of Yarrikan, what with the close set trees and what not, the half eagle,half lion's added bulk was rather counter productive, Riku of course was far too angry at this point to even consider turning back, he would eat that tanuki whole if he had to !
Taking a sharp turn to the right, Danzaburo allowed his far less agile opponent to crash into the tree he had literally just avoided. Spinning around mid air and flapping his wings, Danza waited for Riku's next attack.
He waited.
He waited.
He waited.
Suddenly there was movement to his right, swiftly dodging to his left he was suddenly caught in the gryphon's beak, head first this time. Riku wasted no time in shaking his head, disorientating his opponent, before letting the tanuki drop onto the branch,one of the badger's talons firmly placed on the spy's throat.
"I know these here forests better than anyone. You didn't think you were the only one who knows about tactics do you"?
"No, I'm the only one here who knows about strategy"! He suddenly threw a leaf into the gryphon's open mouth. The beast swallowed without a care in the world... before suddenly erupting into a fit of coughing, smoke coming out of his beak and nostrils as he coughed, evidently Riku had swallowed a smoke bomb. His beak wide open Danza was then able to launch another leaf into it's open mouth, this time it erupted into tar, thick and coated in black. Standing on his hind legs Riku continued coughing, clearly in pain from both the tar and the smoke that threatened to choke him. Shaking his head and coughing out the last of the smoke Rikuaoshi was now back to being a badger. A very, very angry badger.
"ENOUGH OF YOU AND YOUR TRICKS", he bellowed. "FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN YOU PUSSY"!
"Very well, you wish to be treated like a man. And here I was going easy on you. My most sincerest apologies".
Too angry to notice that Danza had literally placed a TONNE of leaves inbetween the pair of them, Riku charged, he was forced to stop halfway through his attack, leaping gracelessly into the air with a girlish scream as his feet swelled like a pair of balloons upon coming into contact with the caltrops spread around. Danzaburo ended the pitious creature's misery with a katana through the gut.
"You can say sayonara now".
DANZABURO WINS !
J: So the Spy of a Thousand Scents ends Riku's reign of terror.
G: Congratulations !
J: That brings Danza's total score up to two.
G: Wait what ?
J: We'll count Mind Jack's analysis into this and each victory earns you a point and a defeat looses you one.
G: So both Riku and Saras have Minus One points ?
J: Pretty much. And it's time to start our next battle. Hei An vs Saras.
Hei An surveyed her surroundings with interest. A few mountains were visible up ahead, a deep river gushing deeply behind her, a forest of bamboo across the surface of water. She now stood in a flat plain of grass.
The demon wore a dark grey sleeveless vest with a hood. Beige pants and brown sandals. Twin sabers sheathed in a belt on her waist. Her fur was light grey with dark spots. This was after all her leopard form. She had several others. A crocodile, a monkey, a great horned owl and an elephant, all the forms of those who's soul she had devoured. She heard the sound of a bow getting drawn back.
Hei An spun around.
Saras wore a green hooded cloack, a sleeveless yellow jumper made of hand knitted wool, a pair of blue pants and a pair of pincer like Talon Claws, the blades looking like the foot of a bird on top of his own hind paws. He also wore a yellow rice hat and four blades along his belt. Two were long and spiked with green spikes, two others were short and unserrated. Next to him stood a large quiver of arrows, and in his paws he held a bow, ready to shoot, and aimed directly at the leopard.
"And you are"? Hei An replied confidently.
"Bat Cave Operative, you have just entered the private property of an elite organisation, one I happen to work for. I suggest you scram."
"Who's gonna make me ?"
"Me".
"You ? Give me a break, you're just a kid".
"I am much more than that".
Hei An drew her sabers. "I could take you apart with one blow".
"I could take you apart with less than that." Saras retorted, fully confident of his abilities as a shapeshifter. He had in that year mastered the Ten Forms he was limited to. Armadillo, fox, crane, hummingbird, hedgehog, mole, dragon, catfish, platypus and mouse, respectively. This truly was the year of the fox, or so he thought anyways.
"Try me". Hei An challenged.
FIGHT!
Saras let the arrow fly. He was shocked however when she summoned a barrier of shadows that conformed to her body, the arrow dissapearing nto nothingness. Stunned, Saras was unable to avoid the fist of shadows that slammed into him.
Hei An grinned. "Less than a blow, hmm, I'm waiting". The only thing left of the fox was his bow and pile of arrows.
She stopped grinning when she recieved a painful kick to the back of the leg, forcing her to fall forwards.
She rolled with the fall however, rising to her feet with ease. There stood the fox, still alive apparently. As a reply she summoned multiple spears to errupt from the ground in his direction, she didn't expect him to dissapear in a puff of green before her very eyes. Getting slightly annoyed she was again kicked in the side, this time the Talon Claws slicing at her side. She spun around, her sabers slicing his hat into a pitiful pile of straw.
"You missed", he mocked, drawing his long spiked blades.
She decided to reply with a slice at his cheek, one he was too slow to block entirely. The fox replied by lunging at her gut, she blocked with both her sabers, before freeing one and stabbing at his midsection, this time however he caught the blade inbetween the spikes on his own, before leaping into the air and using his Talon Claws to grab the pair of blades, promptly swinging at her neck.
Hei An managed to avoid both blades, before forcing him into an involuntary split by pulling her sabers apart from each other. She promptly slammed the hilt of her saber against the bridge of his nose. She would have ended the fight then and there with a quick decapitation, but found her quarry had vanished. She spun around quickly, slicing the air around her, expecting the little devil to come from somewhere she didn't expect.
He did.
As a mole Saras exploded from the ground in front of her, landing a powerful blow to her chest, winding her, knocking her back and forcing the sabers from her grip. Shifting back into a fox, Saras held a smaller knife against her throat.
"As a rule I don't normally hit a girl, but I'm not really sure you count".
Saras promptly received a powerful punch into his chest, forcing him off of her. She promptly transformed into an elephant, her skin still gray, her trunk wrapped chokingly around the vulpine's throat.
"I'll admit I expected less, but right now I've seen enough".
Before she could pop his head off his torso he morphed into his mouse form, scurrying around the elephant in rapid motions, before suddenly lashing out in a few well-placed blows.
It was supposed to hurt her, but provided a rather ticklish sensation. One she could not help laughing at, until it got a bit annoying and she dug out the pesky little mouse by the tail.
'Okay, you've had your fun, now I've had enough"!
They both shifted simultaneously, Hei An into her crocodile form, Saras into his catfish. The demon's jaws snapped shut over Saras' form... only for several hundred volts to course through her body and force her to spit out the Jit Kun.
They both morphed back into their original forms.
"Finished landing your blow"?
"I was about to ask you the same thing".
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