The Misadventures of the Du Couteau House Chapter 9
Author: Tinnuwen
Co-Author: FallenAssassin9
Disclaimer: Tinnuwen and I, FallenAssassin9, do not own League of Legends or any of its merchandise, the owners of said game and merchandise is Riot Games, this is nonprofit story written by our love of the game, its lore, and its characters. Team Four Star op.
Tinn - Need moar… still hungry :9
Tinn - Germany you have surprised me with your viewing commitment :D
Fallen - Sorry for the delay I have been busy lately with school starting up and keeping an eye on the puppies my dog just had.
Tinn - Also was doing a thing and wouldn't let me sign-in :x
Marcus lead the three outside to the back of the mansion where there was a training area set up. The area had practice dummies, obstacle courses, exercise equipment, and a weapon rack filled with everything from; swords, axes, maces, and wooden variations. Marcus walked over by the weapon rack before turning to face the three.
"Now, I hope you will try to leave each other mostly intact. I don't want to have to clean up after the two of you, considering how messy Kat's battles tend to be in the aftermath." Marcus droned on.
"Not my fault that I take it a little too far sometimes. Besides, did you expect any less from me?" Allison replied with a small smile.
"Are we allowed to use real weapons?" Darryl asked in curiosity.
"Certainly not! We only need you two to gauge your power, not to battle to the death." Marcus sighed.
"What a shame, I would have enjoyed watching you kill the spoiled little wench." Talon boredly comments.
"Would have been rather amusing to kick that little twat back to the gutter." Katarina snidely says, completely forgetting that Talon can hear her due to the new connection.
"The only thing that would end up in the gutter is your corpse you spoiled little-"
'Children children, do I need to encourage Allison to find a way to obliterate your souls if you don't shut the fuck up?' Darryl thought, stopping Talon from starting another argument.
"Now then unless there are any more questions you two may pick your weapons of choice and begin." Marcus finishes completely oblivious to the internal conversation going on.
"Ooooo oooo I have a question!" Cassiopeia states raising her hand and jumping up and down.
Smiling down at his daughter Marcus asks, "And what is that Cass?"
Returning the smile with one of her own Cass responds, "Where can I watch?"
"Oh, up in the rocks. Over there," Marcus directed, "I'll be heading over there as well."
Marcus took Cassiopeia's hand and led her over to the rocks as Allison and Darryl watched. Darryl moved first and walked over to the weapon rack and smirked. "Hmm, Talon was right you know Allison, I am going to wipe the floor with you." Darryl taunted while picking up a sword and a few other weapons of choice.
Allison stayed silent. Taunts only make the weaklings even weaker. She will not let them phase her. Walking over to the weapon rack, she picked up two weapons. A tanto, and a katana. Dual wielding at its finest. The two after selecting their weapons walked away from the weapon rack and stood across from each other. Darryl with his single longsword and hidden weapons and Allison with her Katana and Tanto.
They stood staring at each other for a few moments before Darryl turned his head up to where Marcus and Cassiopeia were and asked, "Well aren't you going to give a signal for the fight to start?"
Caught off guard by the question Marcus awkwardly says, "Oh right… fight."
Needing all the permission he needed Darryl charged at Allison sidestepping her while swinging his wooden sword at her side. He was so predictable with his strike. So Allison merely leaned back to dodge. Not at all surprised that his attack was dodged Darryl decided to test her strength next by quickly bringing his sword down at her head.
Thinking quickly, she knelt defensively and crossed her weapons to catch Darryl's blade. After stopping the blade, Allison tumbled to the side. Not interested in playing the chase game Darryl dashes at Allison as she rises from her tumble, bringing his sword horizontally at her neck as a feint while prepping his leg for a kick.
Allison brought her arm-guard up to try to lessen the blow, finding herself pinned to the ground by the sheer weight between the sword and Talon's weight. Taking advantage of her pinned position Darryl was about to follow up with a kick to her chest before Marcus stopped the fight.
Marcus saw this as the end of one round, "That's the end of round one you two, get ready for round two."
Pulling his foot back Darryl is tempted to offer Allison a hand up but doesn't for the sake of his appearance and walks away putting distance between them.
"I'm curious, for the sake of testing our strengths against each other, can we switch out weapons each round to ensure an accurate measure of power?" Allison asked, her eyes never leaving the weapon rack. She knew Kat wouldn't have had the muscle power and agility to wield a katana and tanto combo.
Marcus thought for a moment. "Why not." He saw no problem with it. Allison smiled. This would be a good chance to put her hair up as well. Walking over to the nearest rack, which has a set of beautifully crafted curved long daggers. "That is what I'm talking about!" Katarina said happily.
Taking the break as an opportunity to gloat Talon boast, "Ha, like I said you wouldn't stand a chance."
"Well I merely was cocky and underestimated you. Sorry about that. At least now I know about a portion of your technique." Allison thought back.
"What would make you underestimate me? What do you think I have been doing the past few days?" Darryl asks slightly peeved at being underestimated.
"Oh I don't know, seeing as you took a bastard-sword instead of a set of arm blades as an example," Allison replied sarcastically. "That and how you go in is obvious. Easy to dodge, even if you are fast. I may not have as much practice, but seriously man." That was a low blow. Allison can tell he was beginning to get a little annoyed at her antics.
"I was testing your speed and strength, obviously you aren't very experienced with how you keep leaving yourself wide open. If Marcus hadn't of stopped the fight I would have kicked you in the stomach," Darryl counters pointing out Allison's flaws during the fight. Walking over to the weapon rack Darryl says, "But if you want to get your ass kicked even more I will go with an arm blade."
Allison scowled as she stepped back into her position. She had no idea if what she was going to do would work. Regardless she will try. Allison is going to try letting Katarina take partial control. 'Are you ready?' She asked. Katarina didn't respond for a few moments, "I believe so. I hope this will work. I'm not letting some gutter trash beat me. Especially in this condition." With that said, Allison closed her eyes and concentrated on switching places with Kat for the moment.
Darryl stands across from her and works on coming up with a plan unaware of what Allison is doing, 'Hmm, with the two daggers she is going to have better options for attack then I do. I'm going to have to be aggressive but careful, if I let her launch a barrage at me I'm done.'
"True, don't forget about the surprise you grabbed from the weapon rack, be sure to use it to your advantage." Talon interjects giving his own advice.
Darryl nods and thinks back, 'Ok, thanks for the reminder.' Deciding to make the first move Darryl lunges at Allison with his arm-blade thrusting the blade at her chest. A quick parry to the side later, and he finds himself on the ground. Darryl looks up in surprise at the sudden change in skill from Allison before she throws a strike down at Darryl's neck. Darryl manages to knock the attack aside while rolling away from a follow up attack from the other blade and onto his feet. As he stands, Darryl finds a dagger to his throat.
Quickly calling the match Marcus shouts, "Katarina wins, one more round to see who wins this match."
Darryl hardly heard Marcus to focused on his mental conversation with Talon, 'What. The. Fuck? How the hell did she suddenly get so much better?'
"I have no idea, it's strange though, last match she could barely keep up with you and now she beats you with ease. It didn't seem like she was holding back during that last round either." Talon answers just as confused as to how she just managed to beat Darryl.
'Well we have one more round, I will be sure to be more careful and use our surprise next round.' Darryl finishes moving back into position while glaring at Allison.
'Well that went well. He was rather over confident. Even though that parry was better than what I could come up with. Nice job.' Allison complemented. Kat appeared to enjoy it.
"Oh its nice having a bit of freedom. How much longer can you stay like this?" Katarina asked.
'Not too much longer, about ten more minutes. No more than that I believe…' Allison replied tiredly.
Darryl already with a plan in mind repeats his actions from the last spar by rushing at Allison waiting for her to react. This time, she didn't even bother to parry. Instead favoring to step to the side and yawn. A taunt, Katarina smirked. This was too way easy. Smirking at the spot she is in Darryl reaches into his jacket and pulls out three wooden Shuriken tossing them all at Katarina.
One completely missed, one was deflected, and one hit her shoulder armor. Katarina simply stood there, and began laughing. Katarina was too caught up in her taunts and was surprised when Darryl dashed at her full speed closing the small gap and stopping with the tip of his arm blade just centimeters away from her chest. Darryl's hood revealed just enough of his face for Katarina and Allison to see the taunting smirk on his face as he looks up at them.
As Allison's concentration broke, she looked up at the situation. Her face completely blank. Then out of nowhere she head butt Darryl then kneed him in the balls.
Darryl instantly drops into the fetal position in pain. 'That bitch...' was the only thought going through his head as he whimpers in pain. Looking up he sees Marcus and glares shouting, "WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP THAT ONE!"
Talon mentally winces practically able to feel the pain that all men have suffered from at some point. "At this rate I'm not going to be able to do anything fun when I get my body back." Talon comments while privately agreeing that Allison is a bitch.
"Well I thought you could handle it." Marcus said understandably. He was sure Katarina's mother kicked him a few times in the same area.
"No. Obviously not!" Darryl grit his teeth at the pain. It even hurts to talk.
'Correction. You will be able to do fun things, but don't expect little Talon's running around.' Allison droned.
"This match will be a draw, for foul play." Marcus announced.
"What a draw!? I totally won that one!" Darryl objects, not liking the idea of a victory being stolen because Allison is a cheater.
"Its a draw because Katarina disabled you. Its not a win because she did it in a very dishonorable way." Marcus replied.
Sputtering out complaints, Darryl just sighs before thinking of a way to get back at Allison. Then in a way Katarina. "Fine… Cass do you think you could help your big brother Talon up? Your sister did something very bad and hurt me." Darryl says smirking.
"Okay." Cassio looked worried as she helped up Darryl. It appears the little blonde will be giving Allison the silent treatment for a while.
"You didn't have to kick him in the nuts. I can see your methods, and they do work. Its not like I'm really complaining. But that looked painful." Katarina chastised. Allison wasn't very forgiving, her patience at this moment was running low due to her exhaustion.
'I did let you get control for a few minutes at the least. I never knew it would take that much energy," Allison sighed "At least I got to prove that it works. Maybe if we find some sort of magic, I can even get a body of my own…" Trailing off, Allison yawned and put her weapons away. It isn't time to argue with anything, she is too tired to even listen anymore.
"Mind if I take a nap? I could really use one." Allison said, yawning again.
"No, you can go rest but I will be having sparring matches on a weekly basis in between your training." Marcus explains while giving Allison permission to rest. Pulling out his pocket watch Marcus says, "I need to take care of some business now anyway. I will see you three at dinner." Putting away his pocket watch Marcus heads inside of the mansion.
Darryl lets Cassiopeia lead him to the house and as he starts walking past Allison all he can think is, 'I really shouldn't… but she has this coming after that last shot.'
"What are you going to do?" Talon asks curious as to what Darryl is planning.
Smirking, Darryl thinks back, 'Just watch.' Darryl quickly reaches into his jacket and grabs a small dagger. As soon as he is in front of Allison but trailing just behind Cass who is holding his hand Darryl quickly slices his blade up in front of Allison's chest, cutting through her clothing.
"Hey Cass I feel a slight draft can we speed up please?" Darry barely manages to get out holding back his laughs.
"Of course we can Big Brother!" Cass replies happily not having any idea as to what just happened.
Allison on the other hand just stops walking as what just happened begins processing through her mind, Katarina doing the same.
'Darryl, do you want to wake up dead? Either that or waking up with certain things... missing.' Allison thought sleepily as she zipped up her over coat. It barely covered anything, but then again… the things Katarina wears barely covers anything regardless. "I get the first cut." Allison couldn't argue with that.