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[Itena]

ooc: I'm actually a veteran wolf roleplayer, and I've really been wanting to rp MKR for a while. I may have a different roleplaying style than everyone else, so please bear with me.

Also, I'm not too sure of the rules here; so if you find an error, please correct me.

(based on an idea for a fanfiction I have ;P)


Tall gray buildings seemed to ascend forever to the heavens in the gray city that was Tokyo. The few trees that were there did little to help from receiving the constant exposure to the strong UV rays; which seemed to come in violent waves of heat, despite the fact that it was morning; slowing everyone down considerably.

Hikaru Shidou walked slowly towards her school; a grim look on her face as she remembered once again her recent test score that she had received the other day.

"59%..."

She had never received such an incredibly low mark, and it wasn't like she got a hundred percent on everything; but she always was a hard-working student. Hikaru didn't get why her mark had dropped so bad. Of course; there was the fact that her second great mission in Cephiro made her forget everything she had studied. This was a problem.



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As she walked slowly towards the middle school; her negative thoughts swirling through her mind, a familiar warning chill suddenly raced throughout Hikaru's body. Without thinking, her body jumped high in the air, did a forward flip, then landed gracefully a few meters forward on the pavement; a cloud of dust and pebbles accompanying a sliding sound of Hikaru skidding to a stop. Eyes wide with adrenaline and surprise, she looked at disbelief at what was in front of her.

A great monster, in the flesh, was standing before her; a growl being emitted from deep in it's stomach.

[Shiidou Hikaru]

Despite its large and ungainly build, the creature moved very quickly which indicated to Umi that this monster was quite strong and powerful however, Umi herself relied on neither of these qualities to counter her adversaries. Her skill in fencing had given her the great disciplines of precision, quickness and agility and along with her past experiences of combat with various strange monsters in Cephiro Umi faced the coming threat with confidence and without fear.

"I don't know why this thing is here in Tokyo, but I don't have time to worry about that now." she thought to herself, instantly sorting her priorities and concentrating on the creature. "It leads slightly with its right arm ..." and that was the only information that Umi needed. Sure enough, the monster took a savage swipe at Umi with its right arm, but being ready Umi used her sword to push herself under its right armpit as the creature ran past her. Wasting no time, Umi spun around to witness the monster scampering with its claws on the pavement, and soon it also reversed direction.

"That thing is pretty slow, but I will not be able to defeat it by avoidance" she observed as it charged for another pass. This time the same thing happened, with the monster unable to lay its claws upon the elusive Umi Ryuuzaki. This time as they turned to face each other again, the monster let out a loud snort of annoyance and its orange eye began to burn a darker red ... clearly it was getting very angry. Hunkered down lower, the creature charged again, but at a slower pace. It was determined not to let its prey escape a third time. To make up for the slower speed, Umi ran towards it, evading its grasp by jumping high into the air over the creature.

When Umi landed however, an unwelcome sensation greeted her. Since childhood Umi had always let her hair grow long, so it was inevitable that somewhere along the line, whether by accident or malicious intent, Umi had gotten her hair pulled. Since the monster was moving slower this time, it had a chance to turn around before Umi did and it had grabbed a great shock of her beautiful waist length hair. The surprise of her neck being pulled back wasn't unfamiliar to her so Umi automatically knew what to do. Resisting would've seriously injured her neck so she just let her feet go out from underneath her and allowed herself to be pulled to the ground. Umi's head, shoulders and behind all hit the concrete sidewalk at the same time causing the world to flash for a brief instant. Immediately intense pain spread from those three places to everywhere in her body.

"Uhhnn ..." Umi groaned loudly in both pain and disgust. "I should've known ... that you would fight dirty." Her moment of misery ended very quickly though as the creature raised its great clawed hand to kill Umi. She was flat on her back, but only Umi's head was pinned - all of her arms and legs were free and instantly Umi took aim at the shoulder of the creature's attack arm. Umi's magical sword wasn't "sharp" in a sense that people commonly understood - a razor blade was like a ruler's edge in comparison and thus with almost no effort the escudo blade surgically severed the creature's arm from its shoulder.

The monster let out a high pitched wail of agony as a green, oily substance that Umi guessed was its blood poured from the wound drenching her and the creature. For a moment the monster writhed wildly and it let go of Umi's hair, however as she tried to get up the monster used its remaining good arm to pin Umi's sword arm to the ground. Then it placed one of its huge clawed feet on Umi's left thigh very effectively pinning her down under its great weight. The crushing weight on top of her already throbbing pains made it almost unbearable for Umi, but still she remained defiant "No! I am not going die like this!"

Just then, a tiny voice was heard in the back of her mind ...

"Umi-chan!"

"Huh?" Umi questioned "Hikaru? Hikaru ... you're in trouble too?" she answered. Then, just like in their days in Cephiro, the fire began to burn hot in Umi's heart as the love of her dear friend surfaced. The creature lowered its bare fangs to Umi's throat to rip it open and with a deft flick of her pinned arm's wrist, Umi tossed her sword hilt over to her free left hand. With one decisive move, Umi's sword beat the monster at its own game. Huge volumes of the creature's oily, green blood vomited from its severed jugular veins as Umi's sword effortlessly slit its throat open. There weren't any howls or writhing this time, the creature simply reflex snapped over backwards and lay still only a meter or so away from Umi.

Slowly she staggered to her feet. Her hair, face and school uniform were completely drenched in the monster's putrid green blood. Looking around, Umi saw that she was surrounded by a wide circle of onlookers staring in silence, with their eyes wide and some with mouths open at the spectacular event that they had just witnessed. Quickly, Umi removed her uniform jacket and used its inside liner to wipe her face clear of the quickly coagulating goo, but the rest of her was hopeless until bath time. She turned to look at the crowd and only made a single statement to them:

"This just isn't my day."

A moment later Umi's thoughts returned someone more important "Hikaru!" The crowd eagerly parted the way when Umi ran off the best that she could in the direction her heart told her to go.