Chapter Two: The bird strikes
Crouched upon a ledge of a building, he watches his prey walk along the street. Talon was scoping out Rengar, for he had a contract to fulfill. Someone wanted Rengar dead, and they were paying at a high price. The Noxian assassin was no mercenary but, he hated Rengar as it was and decided to take this opportunity to kill Rengar and get away with it, all the while making some extra gold on the side. Jumping down to a stall below him, and climbing down from that he walks into the daylight, onto the dirt road and stalks Rengar. Rengar sharply turns, and by doing so he finds no one there. He's pretty sure some one's stalking him, he just doesn't know who, and it's really starting to bother him. Since he entered this small village, he's been weary of someone watching him, stalking him. Not being able to pick up a direct scent either, as there's too many about. Turning back around he continues to walk along the dirt road, cautiously, watching for any out of the ordinary movements. Close, too close, for Talon's liking, moves out of a crowd that was conveniently standing by, and slides into one that was moving in the same direction as Rengar. Thinking of how he should approach this, he tries to stay to the out-most right, almost out of vision of Rengar. Rengar turns and heads down an ally way, this being Talon's opportunity he climbs up to a small roof and walks along the ledge, keeping an eye on Rengar.
Jumping over a gap, Talon pauses and crouches down to make vision minimal if Rengar so happens to look upward. Watching as Rengar then turns around and goes invisible. Talon instinctively jumps back, and gets his wrist blade ready. Falling to one knee and leaning forward to get a running start if he so happens to appear in front of him. That is what Talon thought anyway, there was little room on the roof, and the chance of a surprise attack was small, and by crouching he eliminates any possibility of Rengar subdoing his movements. Ready and willing, Talon focuses on the ledge he just jumped back from, becoming a statue, with patience, he will land the first strike. There! Talon caught it, it was a glimpse but he caught Rengar's movements of landing on the roof in front of Talon.
"So, you found out I was stalking you." Talon says calmly, but harshly.
"I couldn't smell you at first, assassin. Ever since I came into this small village I was having a feeling that some one was watching me. Waiting for me to slip up, so to get a better understanding of what was going on I slipped into this allyway." Rengar returned in a calm fashion.
"I have to fill my contract out sooner or later, cat. So if you don't mind, I'm going to kill you now."
"You can try."
In that instant Talon dashes forward, blade coming forward, towards the now visible Rengar. Pulling his claws up he catches Talon's blade inbetween them, and sending his own dagger out at Talon. Stopping the blow with his free hand, Talon jumps and kicks off of Rengar. Steading himself, Rengar throws out a Bola that was prepared during their little talk, catching Talon by the leg. Quickly cutting it the wire he picks up one end of the Bola. Rengar leans back, ready to pounce unto his new found enemy. Talon throws the Bola at Rengar who dodges it swiftly, just to find himself having to be forced to jump over a few blades Talon threw out from his cape. Talon picks up the other Bola end, and throws that weighted ball at Rengar, who was still in the air. Forcing to swipe the ball away, Rengar changes his position in the air to come down feet first, instead of head first. Talon now having a full offense, jumps onto his hands, pushing off of them he kicks up towards the falling Rengar. Doing a flip in the air Rengar causes Talon to miss, and lands on his back, pulling out another Bola, readying it to be thrown. Talon coming down a few feet away from Rengar, he pulls his cape around him, hooking some blades back onto the end. Getting back to his feet Rengar readies a fluke Bola, and turns, throwing the fluke, fake Bola out at Talon. As predicted Talon cuts the the Bola, to notice almost too late there was a second one right behind it. Attempting to catch the second Bola it wraps itself around his arm, one of the weighted balls hitting him in the face. Gaining some offense of his own Rengar then turns, and begins a charge at Talon, going in low for a tackle. Talon embraces the charging Rengar, taking the tackle off of the roof, they both fall. Rengar sends out a thrust of his claws to be blocked by Talon's own blade. Flipping in the air, Talon manages to squeeze his legs out from underneath Rengar, and in an instant he kicks Rengar off of him, falling to his feet. Landing on his feet as well, Rengar gets ready for another jump, aiming to try and get behind Talon, he puts most of his weight onto his right foot in front. Talon throws a blade out at Rengar, who side stepped it, just to deflect another one that's coming right for him.
Slightly annoyed, Rengar begins to step forward, slightly dodging these poorly thrown blades his enemy sloppily throws at him. Talon then spun, by doing so he unhooked all of the blades from his cape and sent them outward in a wave. Rengar seeing this as an opportunity jumped, and flipped within the air to give himself just the amount of hang time he needed to land behind Talon. Thrusting his dagger forward, Rengar tries to force Talon to try and block an attack while being unbalanced. However, this doesn't work as Talon rolls forward, out of Rengar's reach. Getting more annoyed, and slightly frustrated, Rengar forces a Bola to come out at Talon, in hopes to catch him on his way back up. Talon rolls onto his hands and jumps over the Bola, finally getting the one off of his arm, and lands in front of Rengar. Irritated, Rengar jumps back, and charges forward at Talon. Getting his claws ready for a slash at his neck, his dagger ready to try and stab him in the abdominal area. Talon jumps at the charging Rengar, just high enough to send his foot right into the cat's face. Pushing off of Rengar's face Talon flips in the air and lands back on his feet, in the same position. Rengar falling backwards, rolls back to his feet and starts charging at Talon who now fully pissed him off. Talon, readying for a tackle crouches down slightly. To his surprise Rengar leaps into the air, and comes down at Talon with more speed than usual. Talon rolls forward, barely escaping the attack, grabs one of his blades in a pouch on his waist, turns and throws it. Rengar deflects it down, and with a roar charges back at Talon, this time going down low. Talon embraces the cat once again, as he gets tackled, he wraps his arm around Rengar's neck. Pulling him out in the open, busy, street, Talon pulls Rengar down into the dirt with. Rengar breaks out of the hold, and gets on top of Talon, thrust down with his dagger. Catching Rengar's hand, Talon stops the thrust's descent, but is struggling to keep it away from his throat. Reactivating his blade he throws his, he goes to stab Rengar. Grabbing Talon's arm he stops the proceeding blade towards his neck. Both of them in the same predicament, as bystanders watched and hurried along, tried to force a blade onto each other.
Talon manages to barely over power Rengar and pushes him to the side and rolls to his feet. Rengar pulls out a fluke Bola, and tosses it, charging in close behind it. Purposely catching the Bola this time, jumps, gets his foot on Rengar's shoulder and pushes down, driving his momentum into the dirt. With a fast recovery, Rengar throws out another fluke Bola, in which Talon cuts out of the air with one of his blades. Charging at Talon, Rengar gets both of his weapons ready. Sending his dagger out first, he was caught by surprise as Talon wraps part of the Bola around his arm as well, tying them together. With a kick to Rengar's leg, he falls to one knee, Talon then drives his blade forward. Rengar blocks the blade, and upper cuts with his own, barely missing Talon's neck. Talon receives a knee to the gut as Rengar gets momentum going, and head butts Talon. Kneeing Rengar in the gut; cuts the rope to the Bola, kicking Rengar again to get some distance. Rengar manages to dodge a blade coming right towards his head, and starts charging at Talon again. Talon charges back, stops, back steps, as an angry dagger comes down at him, kicks some dirt up, throws a blade through the dust. Rengar deflects the blade and cuts forward going through the dust cloud, swinging violently at the retreating Talon, a thrust here, a slash there, a violent kick once in a while.
Looking for an opening Talon; still retreating, dodging, weaving, blocking. Dodging, weaving, blocking, over, and over, as the relentless pursuer pushes in harder. Jumping completely back, kicks up dust, stops a thrust with his hand, and kicks up over Rengar. Lands on his feet, kicks up more dust, rolls to the side, kicks up more dust, and dodges a violent thrust, a violent kick. Kicking up enough dust to make a screen; wide and dense enough for Rengar to only smell Talon. Rengar begins to sniff the air, trying to find Talon's location; spinning, slashing, thrusting, looking; spinning, slashing, thrusting, looking, spinning, looking for the one man who's out-smarting him during this crucial time. Suddenly he can no longer smell Talon, pissed off, let's off a curse and charges forward. No sign of him, gone, like a bird running from a predator. Rengar spins around, looking for Talon, no sign of him. He had looked every-where but up. Down comes from Talon, landing in front of him, blade out, and with enough time to stab Rengar in the gut. Twisting his blade, and pulling it across Rengar's stomach. Sliding the blade out, pushes Rengar to the ground, and wipes the blood off of his blade.
"Looks like cats don't have nine lives after all." Talon says slyly, letting off a cold, harsh laugh.