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Katrea laid his blade on the sand as he watched tonnek speed after the drunken booze hound. He clearly was trying to get rid of what he thought to be the bigger threat, underestimating katrea would be a mistake he wouldn’t soon forget.

Looking at the scuffle he relised the booze hound was at a disadvantage trying to reload his gun in a sword fight. katrea pulled out his stone blade and swung it around like discus sending it flying into the air and at tonneks legs. Katrea followed the blade to see what it would do to his opponent before making his next move.

Katreas stone blade landed in the sand just behind tonnek and katrea ran in with his blade at his side. Katrea cried out and began a slash but stopped in mid swing and twisted around tonnek with his long blade at his side. Then as he came behind tonnek he picked his stone sword from the sand, the sand scattered off the blade as he swung it and Katrea made a slash with the stone sword at tonneks legs. its was blunt so he didn’t think it would sever any limbs but as it swung, he then made a full twist in the air to come at him as he most likely would try to avoid the stone sword slash. Katreas save the queen blade veered at his chest to try and do some damage. This is the chance Katrea was hoping for, he really needed to turn this fight around or he would lose.

"feel judgment of my steel tonnek!!"

katrea yelled to try and put him even more of guard as the stone blade went for his legs being followed by the save the queen at his chest.

Katrea thought fast slotting his grudge stone back into his back holder and bit his finger that had a wound still on it to make more blood pore from the end. Then he write a kanji on his blade save the queen.

"Try this on for size.”

Katrea slammed into the sand sending a blue light like slash at tonnek, it was a magic break technique it cut through the wave with a thin slash at tonnek. But the dark wave still came at Katrea and he was sent spinning over the sand by the energy and he fell in the near by water.

The blue slash of the magic break was yet another surprise in a fight that was becoming more and more dangerous. His wave had been too much for the break to cancel entirely but it still knocked Tonnek off his feet as it struck the earth in front of him.
The two gunshots that rang out from the direction of the gunman were a nasty surprise indeed, there was no way he was dodging them this time, not from his position on the sand. As he spun towards the bullets he felt one of them tear into his arm, burying itself deep beneath the bandages of his left arm.
Tonnek let loose a feral howl of pain as he recognized the scent that the gunman had beneath his myriad layers of stench, the scent of holy magic, his bullets were enchanted with the cursed element!
There was no suppressing it this time, the pain and rage had it's hold on his senses, all hell was about to break loose.
The wrappings on his arm stripped themselves free as he held his ground, his shoulders seeming to sag momentarily as the pain burned itself out, the bandages revealing the flesh on his left arm in the light of the sunset.
The arm was a curious thing to behold, myriad arcane tattoos danced over pale skin, the how and why of their movements a mystery to all but Tonnek himself. Smoke curled from the wound on his arm, the holy metal reacting with his infernal powers as his muscles twitched and contorted, clearly in pain.
The blasts from the gunmans second volley didn't seem to shake Tonnek out of his daze, even though there were far more bullets this time. As the leaden projectiles rushed towards him, a curious thing seemed to be happening with his shadow, it was rippling beneath him like smoke from a fire, suddenly rearing up from beneath Tonnek as it formed a barrier between him and the bullets, stopping the murderous volley inches before it hit him.
Tonnek looked up at the gunman as he tried to catch his breath some distance away from him. From behind his hair his cold eyes seemed to blaze hatred at every inch of the gunman as his shadow rippled around him like an inky flame.
Straightening up, he proceeded to pace slowly towards the tired looking figure of the gunman, his sword held at his side ready to strike down his foe, every inch of him ready to make this unworthy wretch suffer.

"Hey Katrea, don't worry I'm not gonna shoot you. We need to work together, this whole thing seems to have escalated rather quickly."

"I actually kinda miss the talking, it seems alot more humane." Art said softly.

The gunman loaded his pistols and readied himself "So katrea if we want any sort of chance of retrieving my booze, we're gonna have to work together. Hell, after this we'll go into that little bar tent in the trading camp and I'll let you buy me a drink. I don't want your friend in there though, he seems to have gotten pretty DAMN violent lately.

Art wiped some sweat from his brow, "goddamit it's hot, and your friend seems to be getting closer. You may not have noticed Katrea but I'm getting pretty tired, I'm having trouble thinking straight, severe de-hydration ya know?" Art was losing balance, he struggled to even stand on the spot.

Katrea looked back at Ark and nodded and then he moved his gaze as a most fierce attack came down at them. it was strong, to strong to not fight head on, he new little could be done to save them both from its power. Katrea thought fast and griped his fist around ark’s coaler

“Stop him and I will treat you to a drink my friend.”

Katrea twisted ark around full and then lunged him over his shoulder at tonnek helping him around the attack raining down. This needed something big, Katrea bit his index finger and his middle finger.

“A monster is what I fight now, so its ok to use all I have, for … I .. must ……kill ….all the monsters of this……world”


Katrea shouted this as if it was a vow, his hand moved to the base of his sword. moving like lighting up the blade, writing an intricate Patten of lines and symbols Katreas eye fixed on to what he was doing, he concentrated very hard, the slightest wrong line would made this attack mean nothing. The symbolic in black on his save the queen blade glowed the colour of holy light. Katrea got to the end of the blade but he didn’t stop writing he kept going up his arm and to his face and then stroked two lines down between his eyes.

“Wicked braking blade Gon Rin Dow!!”

All the symbols started glowing the same colour as the blades symbols. He jumped up and started to slash madly at the bolts of dark energy with his holy attack but Katrea was all ready feeling his muscles strain as he slashed it. The first attack like trying to push you body that bit to much. Every hit was precise; it had to be cuz if he missed one it would make him fall from this fight. In the mightiest of the slashes at the dark missiles of hell Katrea remembered the one other time he used this attack he almost died.

“GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Katrea swotted away one more bolt but he was slow this time and it missed hitting the sand and a blow of dusty rock burst into the air. Katrea was seen shooting out of the falling sand being hit by a barrage of what remained of the dark attack. There was only three left but they hit hard and stung like a hundred knives. Katrea then hit the ground as sand followed.

“Dam it all!”

Katrea said coafing out blood.

“End this ark. I stopped his attack.”

More blood dripped from his jaw

The attempt made by Katrea to counter his attack only made Tonnek laugh more as he saw his dazzling series of moves fail miserably as he was overcome by the rain.
The launch of the alcoholic missile was sufficiently high enough to avoid the apex of his attack, Tonnek readied his claws with a high velocity slashing attack, aiming to end the fools illusions that he could compete with him at this level. So engrossed in his laughter and own sense of satisfaction, Tonnek didn't see the gunner draw his weapon and fire until it was almost too late, his shadow rearing up once again to block the incoming fire.

The shadow could block the bullet with ridiculous ease, the bullet crushing itself and killing it's momentem against the shadowy shield, but the flare of light from the spell's activation tore through it almost instantly, searing Tonnek's optic nerves with an incandescent blaze. The pain in his eyes caused him to release the gathered energy in his claws prematurely, blasting a crater into the sand in front of him as he was thrown backwards by the blast.

Both hands, clawed and flesh, were clasped tightly to his eyes as he raised himself to one knee in pain, howling as his dark aura flared around him in his rage "I'll suck the marrow from your bones coward!".
Baring his teeth in a feral snarl, he tried to focus past his pain and use his other skills to sense his prey's retreat path.
'There will be no escape for you' he thought to himself as he heard the muffled sound of footsteps against sand some distance away.
Smoke curled from his clothes as the pain in his eyes started to recede...