An Unexpected Problem...
Ash brought his gauntly up at the very last moment blocking the swing from the iron counterweight. The powerful swing smashed into his gauntlet and forced him backwards. He stumbled as the second Kishin brought the sickle around and at him aiming for the head. Ash purposely fell downwards to avoid the second swing of the sickle. He quickly brought himself back up to his feet and charged inwards, winning against these two Kishins with their chain sickles was definitely going to be difficult. Even if he ignored the fact that there were in fact two enemies trying to kill him, he was going against long-range fighters. Closing the distance would be problematic.
The Kishins shared a brief laugh as they both brought their weights around, one aiming at his feet, the other one aiming just above at his waist. Ash leapt up into the air to avoiding the two swings. He looked up and noticed one of the Kishins had already prepared its sickle and was preparing to throw it. "Xander!" Ash shouted. Xander's reflection in the gauntlet's blade nodded in response. "Let's go! SOUL RESONANCE!"
Xander's blade lit up and lengthened itself. Ash brought is around and smashed the sickle as it came close to him to the side. He landed and continued his charge. He quickly brought his blade back around and into his skin, cutting himself and bleeding onto the blade. The blood quickly hardened and formed small daggers. Ash ripped them from his gauntlet and chucked them at the twin Kishins. They brought their two weapons around and brought their chains colliding with the small daggers, knocking them off of their original trajectory.
Ash hadn't stopped. He had almost closed the distance between himself and his target, Frowney. With one final leap from the ground he found himself within striking distance. He brought his fist forward, stabbing Frowney squarely with the sharpened blade. Ash's face grew worried as the Kishins' skin offered resistance to his punch. Ash quickly pulled the punch back onto to meet with the sickle of the Kishin as it came about slashing into Ash's back, gouging a cut into his back. Ash stumbled backwards with a grimace on his face.
"Oh ho ho ho!" laughed Frowney as he pulled his shirt out of the way revealing small silver iron links that were attached to each other, "we are so lucky Vigrid advised us about these weapons. I mean, this chain mail really save my life right then...not to mention these weapons! He is really smart!" He looked over at Smiley whose head was slack and didn't seem interested. "What's the matter now? I'll survive! I mean I got hit and he got hit, its a pretty fair trade, don't ya think, brother?" Smiley just sighed.
Ash quickly stowed the name Vigrid in his mind. Whoever he was gave Kishins both armor and weapons. He would have to talk to Lord Death about this and try to garner more information...if he got away from these two psychopaths. He already had a nasty scar from these two attacks and only one of them was injured, if it wasn't for the chain mail he had been wearing the attack probably would've finished him off, turning the fight to Ash's favor or at the very least leveling the playing field. However, that didn't happen, he'd have to formulate a new plan of attack adding into it the armor he now knew the Kishins had been equipped with.
He looked down at the blood daggers that hung onto Xander's blade. He still had three of them, enough for a decent rush, but would they even be able to pierce the armor or would it just be a waste of time trying to incorporate them into his plan. He stepped back as he took in the his two attackers. They were both slowly stepping forward, first with their large oversized leg and then with their smaller leg. Their two weapons were swinging perfect unison as they slowly stepped closer to Ash and Xander.
Finally, they both swung downwards with their heavy weights, both of them were at different lengths. Ash grunted as he jumped forwards refusing to allow them to scare him away and regain the distance in between the two. The two weights smashed into the ground, breaking the paneled floor up into small shards.
Ash stepped forward and tossed his small daggers forwards aiming at the two of them. The two of them quickly brought the sickle sides of their weapons around and spun it rapidly around in a circle deflecting the small incoming daggers. Ash quickly tried closing the distance once more while their weapons were busy spinning around in a circle. They quickly stopped the rotation and loosened it once more firing their weapon off with an almighty swing. Ash dodged backwards, just a bit allowing one of them to swing just barely in front of him while avoiding the other one completely. While the two weapons continued their own respective swings, he charged again. Quickly closing the gap between him and his target. This time he closed in quickly on Smiley. He made a quick jab at him, bringing the blade forwards and into the Kishin's thick chain mail, once he confirmed the fact that he, too, was wearing chain mail he took another step forward and further drilled the blade into him.
The Kishin's eyes grew wide as he felt the punch hit him. He tried to back up and get away from Ash, but Ash refused. Ash kept on him sending one punch after another with his gauntlet and even his other arm. The Kishin kept trying to back away and put some distance in between the two, but Ash remained on top of him never letting him get out of arm's reach. "Stop attacking my brother!" shouted Frowney as he brought his chain sickle around sending the small weight flying at Ash. Ash quickly wrapped his fingers into Smiley's chain mail and then stepped back pulling Smiley back as well. Smiley turned his head around as he noticed the small iron ball come flying and slamming into him, despite Frowney's best efforts to stop it.
"Guess you should've gotten a helmet from your friend, Vigrid," stated Xander as he and Ash watched Smiley lay on the ground completely stunned from the swing. Ash quickly switched his attention over to Frowney, whose grip on his weapon had become lose as he shared Ash's amazed look on Smiley. "Wanna take a moment to go cry to your mommy and tell her a bunch of little kids whooped yours and your brother's butts?" Xander's reflection was making numerous mocking poses as he laughed at the two Kishins.
Smiley burst open reverting to a plain old red ball floating in the air, signaling his final defeat. Frowney turned about and faced the opponent. "You jerk!" Frowney brought the large weight around and tossed it at Ash. Ash brought his gauntlet up just in time to block the swing. Frowney didn't let up and quickly flung the sickle at Ash as well. The weapon wrapped itself firmly around Ash's gauntlet. Frowney quickly pulled back dragging Ash straight back to him. Ash braced himself as he flew straight into Frowney's punch. Ash was knocked backwards, his hand still locked up due to the chain sickle wrapped around his arm.
Frowney began to spin his weight as he approached Ash. "You just had to bring his mom into this, didn't you Xander?" asked Ash as he glared at his partner. His reflection just shrugged in reply. Ash tugged on the sickle that was wrapped around his arm, incapable of escaping from the approaching Kishin. Any attempt would be rendered useless as with just a simple tug on the chain Ash would be sent flying back to the Kishin. Ash grunted as he jumped up and charged at the Kishin. Ash brought his entire body around and fired a single punch using his gauntlet. The Kishin laughed as he brought the weight arcing back down on top of Ash. Ash dodged to the side letting the weight smash into the ground, he took one final step forward and brought his arm forward, bringing the blade forward. The blade slipped right into the holes in the chain mail and kept going into the Kishin's body. Ash's follow-through sent the Kishin flying across the ground.
The Kishin quickly scrambled back to his feet. He was bleeding pretty badly now with two holes in his chest from Ash's blade. Ash re-examined the sickle that was wrapped around his arm. It hadn't been loosened from the Kishin's flight. The Kishin hadn't let go of the chain all the way through its flight, if anything it only made it tighter. If it had been on his other arm rather then the one with the gauntlet on it, his arm probably would've lost all blood flow. It was only a matter of time before the gauntlet began cracking under the pressure of the chain.
The Kishin was back onto his own two feet once more swinging the weight around above its head preparing for a long and powerful swing. The Kishin let it loose, as he swung the weight around horizontally. Ash hit the ground, hearing the weight swoosh above his head. The Kishin leaned backwards and tugged on the chain that was wrapped around Ash's arm, sending Ash skidding across the wrecked floor, sending dust, dirt, and rocks flying up into his face and onto his clothing.
(-with Michael-)
Michael was charging through the streets to May's apartment. He hoped that Ash and Xander were holding up well enough on their own. He knew they were both more then capable in fights, but he couldn't help but worrying about them. Then there was also Shi, Melody, and May who were in just of a bad spot as they were. A loud clanging sound was heard behind him. Michael turned around and his two hands automatically took up a bow stance despite the fact that he was unarmed at the moment. "Crap...I'm also all alone." Michael began to slowly back-up keeping his eyes on the way he thought he heard the clang. His two hands brought to his body in an inexperienced boxing pose.
He slowly stepped backwards with a quick check to both of his sides, before turning about and bolting back in the direction that May's apartment was in. He really didn't think it was this far away, he must've underestimated the distance. He could only assume that May did the same thing, but luckily the building was almost in his sight. He charged up to her room and stopped outside. The door was wide open and the doorknob appeared to have been bitten off along with half of the door. Michael charged in swinging the door open as far as it could go. The room was messed up. Michael slowly walked through there, looking around at everything that was tossed about.
Several of the chairs and other pieces of the furniture were all tossed about and broken. He kept his eyes out for any signs of May or her attacker, but he saw nothing. Michael breathed deeply, desperate to calm down and think of a what had happened to May. He walked into her room and looked around. It had been a long time since he had been in there. The last time he had been in there was probably when they first met. He still didn't see anything that would tell him where May went. Michael paused as he bent down and picked up a lamp. He may look like a fool about to use a lamp as a weapon, but he felt like he needed a weapon of some sort.
He crept through the house finding nothing. He couldn't find anything, he couldn't find anything. He was seriously screwed over right now. He breathed deeply trying to figure out the best way to handle this. He was beginning to worry about the Kishins. First the one that attacked him and Xander and now this one? They were slipping in through the city walls and going undetected, pretty well. He was about to turn around and return back to the Shi's and Melody's and get more help when he heard something. He could've sworn he heard the sound of glass breaking. He turned about, the lamp still in his hands. He slowly began to walk forward towards the sound.
Once more an unexpected problem for the gang, sucks to be them! For those of you who read my other stories, you probably saw something like this coming didn't ya...what can I say I'm a sucker for tales of kidnapping. The war starts off with a hidden attack and a kidnapping talk about disastrous happenings...duck and cover men!