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"Rei, you take care of them, I'm going after her." Sachiko said as they hurried to the wounded women. Taking off in a different direction, Sachiko pursued the kidnapper though at one point she lost sight of him. Entering the thick forest, Sachiko isn't familiar with the surrounding nor was she born with a good sense of direction, in fact it is safe to say that Sachiko have absolutely no sense of direction unless she's hunting a monster as her sense of smell far more superior than her sense of direction (not by much).
By the time she managed to find her ways out of the thick forest, the sun was setting and Sachiko decided to take a break from searching for a little bit. Before long her ears perked at the sound of a distinct whistle of a human, getting back onto her mount Sachiko followed in the direction of the whistle. Using her Guan Dao, Sachiko tapped lightly on her mount to get the beast to increase its running speed in an effort to catch up with the kidnapper.
Strangely enough, one minute there was a lush green forest and the next minute the dunes of sand stood silently under the pale cloudy moonlit sky. Not far away, Sachiko could see the two riders moving quickly further away from there, giving her steed a hard jab she sped up in an attempt to catch up to them and asked them for the whereabouts of that kidnapper. But as she got closer, she realized that one of them was indeed the kidnapper, which by logic the other was an accomplice.
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"Take her," Yumi said quickly leaping off her mount and summoned her scythe to block the incoming guan dao from cutting down her cousin. "But…" Noriko was about to protested. "Just shut up and hurry to Niflhiem!" Yumi shouted her order as she pushed her enemy back with a following attack. Noriko quickly grabbed onto the reign of her cousin's mount and pulled it along with increasing speed, leaving Yumi behind to fend off the attacker.
"You lowlife," Sachiko growled whirling around using the butt of her weapon to stab her enemy. "Never says I was… noble…" Yumi grunted her reply bringing her scythe up and transforming it into a large claymore to deflect the sharp metal of the guan dao's butt. "Are you working for those men?" Sachiko spitted at Yumi. "No…" Yumi grunted deflecting yet another life threatening attack from Sachiko. "They're my family…" Yumi grunted yet again as Sachiko came at her in full force powerful enough to cause her hands to felt slightly numbed.
Leaping backward a few yards, Yumi started to whirl her scythe at fast speed and by the time she stopped the scythe already changed into a marvelous glaive as she stood in a fighting stance. The sands made it harder to move, but it didn't seemed to bother either woman much as they continued the battle until the wind started to pick up did Yumi called for a time-out (is that possible?). Not so far away, the two could saw the storm forming, and this isn't the rainstorm but a sandstorm that happened very often on this stretch of land. Turning away from Sachiko, Yumi tossed her weapon up in the air and took a dive into the sand as though she's diving into the lake, river or maybe an ocean. Sachiko felt as though her enemy had tricked her to run away, and she changed her weapon back until it looked like a saber did she sheath it to her side and dove into the sand in pursuit of her opponent. What she didn't know was that action was the very action that saved her life, above the howling wind and sands moved like a cyclone, picking up her mount and tearing it into micro pieces.
Deep under the sand dunes, lies many tunnels and if one knew ones way around, one could easily make it out of there alive. The tunnels under the sands were made by sand worms, the kind that eats anything that move. And Yumi happened to be very familiar with the tunnels; this was the place that she and her cousin used to play in or rather left to fend for themselves for two weeks by Hel in an effort for them to hone their demi instinct.
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"Shit," Sei cursed wrapping her partner's wound up. "Sei, language please," Yōko reprimanded the blonde. "Sorry love," the blonde quickly apologize and kissed the latter's lips. "How are you hanging Yoshino?" Sei asked not looking over at the shorter girl with an even shorter fuse. "Like shit, fucking bastard managed to slice me. I'm going to fucking kill that mother fucker," Shimazu Yoshino cursed up a storm as Hasekura Rei helped wrapping up her wound. "Good gods Yoshino, you're getting better and better at mouthing off by the day there," Sei commented. "Fuck off you lecherous woman," Yoshino snapped though refraining herself from calling Sei with worse names. "Knock it off you two, you're embarrassing yourself in front of a stranger here." Yōko snapped and both women looked away from each other feeling guilty and scared.
Yōko may carry a calm and charming looks about her, but her power was something to be feared even by the gods. Her prowess and level-headed temperament was the reason why she's the leader of the group, even though the only person that constantly got scold was Sei. She is the only person that could keep Sei in line; otherwise her lecherous actions would've gotten her killed by now if it wasn't for Yōko.
"We need to chase after them if we're going to get Shimako back from that scoundrel," Sei said once everyone was back on their feet. "My friend already after them, the sun is setting we should find a place to camp for the night and could resume the chase when dawn arrive." Rei suggested. "Indeed," Yōko nodded her head in agreement and the others didn't dare to argue. So they traveled to the edge of the forest, close to the food source and also close to the road.
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"Dammit!" Noriko cursed while setting up camp. It seemed that the maiden didn't run off but sat there quietly, observing the young warrior through calming eyes. "You could try and kill me or run off if you want," Noriko said once the tent was set up. They had managed to get far enough from the sandy plains that they ended up in the flooded forest, where the sounds of insects like a buzzing of a saw cutting through a large tree. "I see no point in killing another person, especially one who will take responsibility for one's actions." Shimako answered looking at Noriko still.
"You're strange, you know that?" Noriko commented getting up and stretched her muscles. "You think so?" Shimako asked innocently. "I know so," Noriko chuckled lightly. She'd never met someone whose grace and beauty stripped away her own inhibition and restrain, giving into her dark side of primal instinct to devour (in a sexual way) the helpless looking woman before her. "Any sane person would be screaming and trying to run away the first chance they got, and I say the cave was when one would take the chance and run like hell. After all, I've done something unforgivable to you, so you should hate me and try to kill me. But I guess demi doesn't do things like the mortals does," Noriko shrugged. Leaving Shimako there, she went to fetch from dry woods and foods for two, Noriko worried about her cousin but she was confident that everything will be fine and they will meet at Niflheim.
A/N: sorry that it took ages to get this up, slipped my broken mind as a millions of other things jumped in taking over the priority list. Well, least I managed to get it up -laughs- enjoy. Ja~