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Little Silver Play
... and so Wei Lai, the Crimson Devil, was born.
Gin and Sapphire's expertise allowed them to find the right herbs even on such a limited place to dye Leaf's hair crimson... and darken his skin as much as they could. The Mask was a nice touch. Ivory white of bone, with long fangs and sharp, mocking eyes... the mask of shogunate warriors. That is when Leaf's pechant to taking souvenirs of defeated foes, more than simple dojo signs like most dojo destroyers, had a crucial role. The Mask had belonged to Ourobo, the The Blood Demon. A master of martial arts almost as good as Leaf, a Chosen of the Night... Gin remembered him well. She had stopped the deathblow to her contractor... and Leaf's backhand had taken out the Mask, causing Ourobo to flee. To top it all was the crimson cowl of one of the Red Dawn assassins, the ninja... Gin had stripped one of the dead ones on the garden, hoping the uniform would be a clue. It was, at the very least, a good disguise.
And with all that done... came the fun.
Leaf laughed!
He laughed as he brought down the wooden garrisson. None of the Inns... nothing that could discourage people. He made his intentions to beat the royal kid and deflower Aquamarine's daughter clear. He brought down the hamlet's little Guild soldiers with ease. The Berines had little more luck... but of course, they weren't trying. And the royal guard... well, let it be said that they tried. They tried their best. But easily, the Red Devil dispatched them. He laughed. He laughed merrily, breaking the Guild stalls(Guild property damage was fine, after all; It's not like the Guild would stop doing bussiness!)... and then... his students begun to come to him.
The best of the royal guard clustered around the prince... and as it happenned, usually, the martial artists got called to help. Black Rose stepped foward... the few of her students that tried their hands. Wood Aspect master martial artist against an anathema. Lights took the sky. The Black Rose filled the view, her thorns destroying everything in the street. She fought with puissance and supernatural understanding. She was mighty.
... and she ended up held by his diamond-tipped chain to a building, her top torn off... of course, none dared to come closer, as her anima still raged. The plan would involve Gin... taking her in, later, before she could be very humilliated by this.
And then, having defeated and chained the sifu, the Red Devil laughed.
"Is that the best you've got? " He shouted, walking slowly towards Aquamarine's temple...
Fangs-of-Winter: Off in the distance, there was a howl...
And it was a terrible thing. In its cry was heard the deathcries of a thousand men, the cries of a hundred slain beasts. There was no defeating what had made that howl. It was a thing of utter, complete terror.
And everyone who heard it knew it called for Leaf's end.
She was there almost before the echoes had died, standing proud in her Ascension. She had torn the gossomer garb from the Demise, and wore it now... a goddess of Battle and Terrible Wrath. She brought with her a spear, and on the silvered point rested a faelords head. She drove this into the ground.
"Anathema!", she cried, the echo of death still reverberating in her voice. "I am the Fangs of Winter!"
She paused for effect, letting her name sit in. "This place is under my care! I demand surrender, or I shall tear the flesh from your demon tainted bones!"
Seven Leaf Sorrow: All those at his side ran. They ran scared.
All those at his side.
The streets cleared...
Of all but the golden devil.
The others, the defending side... all pale in fright... saw the fae-lord's face. Burning Star of Demise. All knew. All feared him. He had a palanquin waiting for him, at the wedding... it is not like he would come. But he might, and they prepared everything for it. They even had slaves ready for him to devour. Sacrificial bridesmaids groomed to die for the safety of the prince's wedding. But now... he was... he was... dead?
The Red Devil, however, was non-chalant, looking at Fangs...
"You can try, little goddess. I am Wei-Lai, the Red Devil! I bathe in flames, I drink divinity's blood! This little hamlet is now mine, to do with as I wish! Come, little Winter... come witness true power!"
Fangs-of-Winter: Her fangs wetted on a Fae Lords blood, she felt rather sorry for Leaf.
After all, she had not actually tried to hurt him seriously before. A tremor of worry came over her. What if she really did hurt him?
But as he began his tirade, her ego reared is monsterous and ugly head. Little!
She was on midway into the word 'power', her claws outstretched to take the smirk from the Beautiful Bastards smirking face.
LITTLE!!
Seven Leaf Sorrow: He was masked, of course. So she could not see the grin.
But oooh, lord, was he grinning.
He held her arm as it came, and in his fighting way that was almost a dance, he moved her along... giggling on her ear. "Had fun? Remember we gotta put up a show." He whispered... and then, his feet blocked hers'... and he sent her flying through a Guild wagon... laughing."Silent and inneffective... little goddess."
Fangs-of-Winter: She crashed into the wagon, sending goods flying this way and that.
She rose back to her feet, uninjured. She snarled at Leaf, and repressed a giggle. She gripped the edge of the wagon, and gave him a tiny little grin. And with a sudden surge of Essence to her muscles, the wagon became a missle.
There was an audible curling of air as it flew toward, and into, the Red Devil.
Seven Leaf Sorrow: And it crashed upon him. In fact, on the last moment, he struck it... but amidst the breaking pieces of wood, he let himself fall... and begun to get up a moment later. His sleeve had been ripped by the impact and the fall, and he even seriously scratched a little of his arm. Not even something that could be considered a wound, however. Not after what she had given him with love alone. He raised slowly, amidst the wooden wreckage...
And stared at her, waiting for her next move...
Fangs-of-Winter: She didn't wait for the wagon to land, she came at him in its wake. Even as he looked back to her, she was on him again, her balled fist striking into his midsection. It was like Leaf had been hit by a mace, and her clawed hand snaked toward his throat.
Her smile for him was soft, tender.
She brought her knee up into his crotch even as she grasped for his throat.
Seven Leaf Sorrow: He groaned. He could not scream. How could he? He had no voice even to scream. That was low. Too low. Too fast. She did move far too fast, far too fast for him... he was barely recovering from her blow as another came. His vision went dark. The pain filled everything. For a moment, he wondered idly if he would ever have children.
She felt her nails on his throat, and thought it was all over...
Hah. As if! came the stray thought that brought him back.
He got a handful of her hair, and snapped her face back. He got a handle of her arm, and tore it off his throat. He tried to get up... slowly... even though the pain was burning, that his legs shook... and then, turning Fangs around, pushed her face into the nearest wall, that of a wooden house, breaking it. "What? " He asked her, angrily, but still low enough that others might not hear. "You spend a lil' while being the aqua-goddess lil' bitch and now you hate the sausage?" He asked as he yanked her face back.
"You know, I've wanted to do this every second I saw you being her pretty little bitch. It was so... so..."
Grasping the face, he pushed it into the wood again, fully breaking the wall!
"You are my bitch!" He said, this time louder than he should....
... the fuck, why am I being possessive of her?!?
Fangs-of-Winter: Her face into the wood, her heel comes strait down onto his instep with crushing force. She twists away from his grip, a lock of her hair, blood at the roots still in his hand.
Her nose was broken at an odd angle, and before Leaf's eyes it fixed itself as good as new.
"You lack... potence," and suddenly, she drove her claws into his abdomine with all of his strength, sending a burning, tearing pain through Leaf.
She lifts him up off the ground, so hooked, and with a sadistic grin, brings him crashing down into the ground, causing a rippling break of the stone around him.
- All the expectators, least the male ones, held their breath even further.
That knee strike was painful even to watch.
And then, her claws tore through his abdomen... his blood pouring crimson.... and they felt the hurting.
The earth trembled. And the illustrious guests held their breaths...
... and their hearts skipped a beat.
Such terrible forces...
Walking forces of nature.
Terrifying forces of nature...
Gin: As Demon and Goddess faced one another in the near-empty streets, an aura of terror hung over the rest of the town like a murder of crows blotting out the sun. So much fear, for rumor spoke often of how the battles of the Chosen left little but ash behind them. Yet more, they had all heard the demon's threats. They knew his dark desires. One champion had come to protect them... and now she hung, defeated and humiliated before them all. A second had appeared, enigmatic and nearly as terrible as the demon itself. There could only be questions, only fears as they hid in their homes and watched from afar as the two faced off. Would the outcome for the town be any different regardless of who won? Would their lives and souls be forfeit either way? The royal guards surrounding the prince were brave soldiers, yet even they shivered in the face of what they had just witnessed. The prince himself a man of valor and integrity, but even he glistened in cold sweat...
... until a hand laid gently on his shoulder. "Be at ease, my fair one," soothed a voice as calm as the white clouds that drifted indifferently overhead. Just to hear it was to know peace... and desire. For as gentle as it came, there was an unconscious undertone of something else. Something so feminine and warm that it sent new shivers through the guards and made the prince bare second thoughts to his marriage. Soft lips hovered scant inches away from his ear, hot breath caressing his skin as the voice went on. "All will be well."
She came from the depths of the temple where he was to be wed and for a moment, any who were strangers to this place would think she was the goddess made manifest. Even those who dwelled there could only wonder what new spirit had descended from heaven to join them. She did not seem to walk, but float, carried on a mist of iridescent light that coalesced into a hallo of wavering tendrils arrayed out behind her. Robes of immaculate white touched with vivid bands of deep black and shimmering patterns of silver draped her body and a tiara of twisting silver rested between the fox-ears that stood proud atop her head.
"All of you, come forth!" She called as she stepped beyond the prince and his escourt, her gentle hand reaching out to each as she passed them, offering a squeeze of the arm that left it's warmth lingering. A long leg slipped from the skirt of her robe with every other step, it's open and unashamed perfection displayed so blatantly in contradictory to the aura of modest holiness her clothing implied. "Come forth, sweet children! All will be well!. Do not fear the night! Your guardian stands before you, locked in battle with the hated foe. She, as I, have come to this place to ensure your lives are lived as heaven intends. In comfort and safety. In sanctity and pleasure..."
The last word beckoned irresistibly to any who may have still been hiding. Summoned them with image of sensual delights unknown to man, filled every mind with visions of a perfectly formed pair of feminine lips whispering that word to each as though she knew what fantasies danced in their minds. As if she had meant it for they and they alone. Driving out fear with passion and uncertainty with hope - for what person would not want to live through this to see what the fox-woman spoke of?
"You are cherished to us, my darlings. We will see none of you come to harm. Come together now, here, before the temple of the Lady Aquamarine! Give praise and thanks to the goddesses who watch over you and witness the might of your protect as she overcomes the darkness!"
In theory at least. No doubt twinged upon the kitsune's serene face, but inwardly she winced hard as she watched Fangs and Leaf tear at one another. They did remember this was merely to be a show right?
... right?
Seven Leaf Sorrow: It hurt. But by now, he had little pain left. He was anger. And fury. It was burning him as much as the pain, and thus, after the breaking of the rocks... he got up. No, he shot up the ground, juping on Fangs and going through the house with her... making it crash in dust and wood behind them, the sound like the death throes of a great beast... as he slammed Fangs face-front on the ground, holding her arms.... "Are we done with staging already, bitch? Do you want to be hurt that much?"
Fangs-of-Winter: She was forced to the ground, much like the night they had first met. She sighed at the romance of it all.
"Now, now," she whispered, "if I wanted to marr you, I'd have sunk my teeth in." Her brought her arms apart, the muscles tensed visably as she brought her arms back under her dominion.
Almost spread, she suddenly leans forward, curls her foot under her, and drives her heel into Leaf's fresh wound, breaking his grip and sending him flying back.
"You will fall, demon!" she snarled at him, seemingly little damaged from the affair.
- The prince was a beautiful individual. Prince Mirai Cynaran had hair that was like caramel under sunlight, and eyes of the most vibrant green. Gin knew, from what she studied from the local kingdoms for the wedding that those were traits of some lesser Wood Elemental far down their line. But still made for a... striking visual, especially clad as he was, in beautiful white and viridian... his voice was soft, but commanding... and now, full of admiration. "You... who are you, my lady goddess? Who might me and mine pray to, ally of our goddess Aquamarine...?" Gin could feel the uncertainty in how to refer to Aquamarine... she was a goddess he apparently cared little for before, but now... he had to pray for her, and she was to become his mother-in-law...
All others followed inside with less thinking than the prince. His royal guard, men and women in shining plate, Jade Daiklaves in the hands of two of them - God-Blooded of some lesser pedigree, clearly able to use those bastardized weapons of some minor legend... but even then were so awed by her, she could behead him then and there, and it would take a moment for them to have a proper reaction...
Aquamarine: "Welcome, my children."
Were the words as the third goddess appeared.
The words like a city mother. So very Aquamarine, to think of most of them, from kingdoms she held no sway into, as her children. She appeared over her own altar... shimmering image like a bridge under those troubled waters. She made the ground beneath their feet seem hardier, more solid, made the struggle outside seem like rapids below them, outside of their concern. Calming... "I have called my fellow goddesses here for the protection of my son-to-be. For your protection. A new era will begin, in more than one way..."
Seven Leaf Sorrow: Leaf was knocked back.... and she could feel his behind the mask. He grabbed her arm as he went back... and once again, his feet dug into the ground and the sprung foward like a speeding carp, driving both of them through the wooden remains... and making them fall not too far from the river. Leaf, disentangling from her on mid-air, fell perfectly, even with his wounds... and took his most agressive combat stance. Still shining with golden light, he was menace personified.
"Time to finish this, then!" He shouted, for the impact of anyone watching!
He prepared himself. She had to appear to kill him, now.
He had a mask she could take bloodily to the temple... but this?
This had to look good!
Gin: The kitsune spun around gracefully, turning with apparent indifference away from the battle to face the prince. She stood shorter than he, yet her eyes seemed to drop to regard him. They did drop a bit, in fact. Gin looked the young halfling dragon over, took a study of his features and form. They were a surprisingly interesting topic.
Her smile remained as calm as ever, though she put a more pronounced sway into her hips as she stepped closer to him. The air around him filled with the subtle sweetness of her perfume as she leaned a little closer. Her finger tips scooped up his hand and held it upwards as she rested her other palm over the top. "You may call me Gin, my fair dragon-boy, and may know me as a goddess of pleasure and comfort. Of protection, as well, though I leave this aspect to the lady Fangs-of-Winters for now. She is the fierce one you witness doing battle with the Anathema devil."
... if one could call it a battle. It sounded more like a brawl. Honestly now, were the two of them drunk? If this did not stop soon, there wouldn't be much of a town left to invest in.
But Gin relayed none of those concerns to the young bridegroom before her, only lightly stroked his hand with the tips of her fingers and smiled, her eyes mysterious and inviting behind long painted lashes. "Give your praise and thanks to the three of us. We are a trinity now. Bridge and Battle and Bliss. Know, dear one, that we will watch over you as if you were already our own. Know that when you wed the child of one, it is as if you married a daughter of each."
Fangs-of-Winter: She gripped Leaf around the throat, and put on her best fearsome scowl. With her other hand, she gripped his hip, and brought the Solar high over her head.
"Die, and be forgotten!" she screamed at him, and with a swift, fluid motion, she knelt and brought Leaf down over her knee.
It would have killed most men, the sheer strength of the action, but her aim had been purposefully off. Leaf would have a nice bruise where her knee conencted with his back, but he would not die from it.
She ripped the bloody mask from the limp demon, and with a disgusted motion, hurled him into the river.
- The Prince looked up at her... he did. He was losing himself in her features even as he tried to remind himself he was to be wed... but she was beauty. Pure beauty. As she brushed his hand, he shivered, from head to toe... and then, went on one knee in front of her. "I understand... my mother-to-be. I will make sure... that you are honored. And now... I honor you, and plead for your comfort, for your protection, for your blessings in my future."
At the same time... Aquamarine made it appear for them. Images of the fight.
They could see it... they could see the crack of her strike... at the same time he was preparing his own deathblow. So beautiful coreographed even in a fight of life and death. And the Solar had lost. Their new Goddess had won. So magnificent! So powerful! Destroyer of even the Anathema! They cheered. They clamored! They cheered!
It was a moment of joy, which the prince watched from his knelt position... smiling up at Gin. "Thank you for your protection, my mother-to-be." He smiled, looking at Aquamarine's images... and hoping he would not have to deal too much with Fangs. To think of such a being as her mother would be... scary...
Aquamarine: "We are the Three-in-One!" She spoke most emphatically, her long sleeves basking them in her protection as they appeared to span the whole room, wrapping them all on that... feeling... of safety. "And nothing... nothing shall prevent this wedding. Nothing shall threaten your safety. You have seen the head of Burning Star of Demise. He shall not prey on your lands anymore... pray for me, for your safety. For your protection. To know the feeling of being on a bridge over troubled waters. Pray for Fangs, for your protection, for the destruction of your foes. Pray for Gin, for your personal protection, for your pleasure, for the comfort your lives."
"Pray, my children."
"Pray. "
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