Acion Nakamiji
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”Acion. Acion. What happened?” The calling of his sister echoed into his comm links.She noticed how stiff he was down there. Did he get contracted to a mid-control or mental manipulation quirk? Her worries risen. But it was relieved, for a short bit, as his response came.
”I’m alright…I just...hear something coming from the alley.” ”Which alley? The one to the right?” She asked.
”Yeah. A sound of howling wolves. In dozens. And they seem to be on the hunt.” That sent a shiver down Aurelia. Someone must have been there. And who were those wolves hunting on? Were they being murdered? Should she and Acion come into the alley to try and save them? Decisions had to be made. Quickly…
While the silver-haired girl was adding weights to her criterias, the boy was on the edge, breathing in high alert. His hearing was especially sharpened, tuning for any other sounds that may indicate any other clues of what the hell was going on in there?
He could hear gruntings, blades clashing, guns firing amidst the sound of the wolves hunting their prey. The gruntings sounded young. Students? Then suddenly, a yell, filled with pain, exhaustion and familiarity, brought him back in shock.
"Kusayanagi-san!"’What?!’ The other partner had stayed at the other end of the alley, incase the others were to run away. But Hades was pretty good at keeping groups occupied so it was more of keeping others from joining in. While his attention was semi on the group fighting he noticed the silver haired girl and blonde boy who were fighting.
Hades, don't fucking touch the blonde boy or the white haired girl. Don't you recognize them? Sensei would have our heads if they got hurt badly. He said over his own coms in an irritated cold voice.
He glanced over to see a white haired boy standing dumbfounded in armor. He knew right off the bat that the kid wasn’t a pro...but went to the same school and class as Takeshi. His eyes looked up into the sky to find his sister. The only reason the boy would be out in armor was if he was shadowing someone...and clearly it would be his beloved sister who was the leader of the sky knights.
When a girl yelled out the blonde boy’s name, the boy before him seemed to be finally getting into gear to move in. With a sigh, a black thin shadow shot out on the ground, slithering almost to a trash can. He gripped it with the shadow and launched it at the boy with surprisingly great speed. All while he was in the shadows behind a vending machine.
Kusayanagi? Why is Roy’s name here? And that voice. He recognized it.
’Reina?’Shit. They must be caught in the crossfire. Or were they targeted?
No time for that now. He paid attention a bit more, and heard some more familiar voices. There was no doubt. His friends and classmates were in there. And he had to intervene.
The moment Acion got his blade ready, halfway unsheathing it, something zoomed straight for him, at an insane velocity. He could not dodge this one. Not completely. No way. In a split second, he both moved his body to the right, whilst raising all three left wings to brace for the incoming object. The trash can collided with the wings violently, producing a large clang as it bounced off his tough wings, due to the acute angle of impact.
”Oh no...” Finally, he unsheathed his sister’s blade. Identifying his targets, he saw it. Behind the vending machine. Someone, with a mask, leaning against the side of the vending machine. The silence filled the winged man with tension. The first time ever he clashed with a villain, a professional one. But he could not afford to shiver upon this. He was born for this, sooner or later. He had to stay calm, and assess the situation.
But his options were limited. The man was standing in a dead corner. Acion could fly up, but that would just give him the range advantage. That vending machine, if he wanted to utilize his feathers effectively, he would have to use his techniques to his fullest, which could cut through even steel. But he had no altitude to build up power. He was on the ground. And flying up would just mean disengaging. That was not an option.
Therefore, he just stood there, at the ready for any sort of attacks this guy had in store. He had to lure this guy out.
Meanwhile, above in the sky, a few hundred meters in the air, the Sky Knights leader was observing everything in her binocular. She too had spotted the target, though not as clearly. She saw that trash can being thrown at him. But then, she saw her young brother standing there, having unsheathed his sword, and did nothing. What?
”What the fuck is he doing?” She knew it. It was her cue to ready her weapon, along with her comm link.
Rakshasa stood there keeping his eyes on Acion. As he pulled his blade he continued to stand there, allowing the silence to speak volumes. It was clear that he was not at all afraid that Acion saw him or drew his blade. After a moment he decided to play the boys game. He knew he wanted to have him come out from his corner. He took a few steps forward, his arms behind his back casually. His sword still in its sheath. Another shadow snaked on the ground away from both of them towards the truck. Gripping a massive tire he threw it once again from the side of Acion. While he was throwing that, another shadow reached a bench on his opposite side and threw that as well. All the while he walked forward
Unlike last time, he knew it was coming. At first, the tire. It was coming right from the side. Acion quickly jumped backward, dodging it pretty easily. But then the bench was thrown right after he landed. It was coming for him fast. The boy decided to utilize the current stance he had, putting his strength on his two legs and boosted him upward. His wings soared to propel him higher, avoiding the oncoming bench. Immediately after the jump, at the peak, he slashed all wings downward, sending dozens of feathers down to his adversary. Once done, he flapped his wings, flying a bit upward. The initial plan had worked. He was out. But he knew that the attack was nowhere near a decisive one. He was walking towards Acion with his sword still sheathed. He was surely an experienced one, and really confident. This would be a long battle.
All the while, Aurelia was still observing the scenario, assessing her opponent. That ability to use shadows as if it was his own limbs. Extremely dangerous in close range. She must take caution.
Her brother did not make any contacts with her. She knew he was trying to keep her presence concealed, and she planned to keep it that way, until she got the first strike. Though it would be very unlikely that she was going to have it at him completely undetected. The cloud was hanging a bit low today, but if she got below the final cloud level, she would be spotted. A trained eye could easily do that. Her best shot was to take the hundred meter shots and then dove in for the fray. There was a cloud right near her, and she would use that to her advantage. She dove in, and was ready for the shot.
Annoyed his attacks didn’t connect, but slightly impressed the boy knew what he was planning. Slightly. However he was prepared for his counter attack. He jumped quickly but gracefully to the side, one of the feathers catching him in the shoulder but it didn’t faze him.
Rakshasa ripped it it from his shoulder and within a few seconds judged its balance and weight before throwing it back. He didn’t wait though. He then sprinted towards the closest building and ran up the wall and jumped up and towards Acion. He let out a wordless grunt as he then aimed a kick with all his strength towards Acions stomach.
It appeared that one attack had hit. Evidenced by the fact that he ripped that feather from his shoulder and was holding it in his hand. Then suddenly, he threw the feather back at him. Acion was keeping his eyes on him the whole time, so he could see that coming. With a twist of the torso, the feather passed by him harmlessly. However, the next attack was totally unexpected. When he looked back at where his opponent had been, he was already gone. Spotting his target again, he was dangerously close, running up the wall of a nearby building and was trying to kick him out of the sky. He was in no position to dodge this one, and he could barely even block it. The kick made its contact, the strength brutalized his stomach, as Acion was sent flying downward with it. But if there was anything about this young fighter was that he was especially good at recovering his flying path. With a few more turns and the might of his powerful wings, he flew upward in an arc, his trajectory nearly missing the ground.
Aurelia could see what the hell was going on the second she got out of the cloud. Judging by what he just did, he was also incredibly fast. Probably could even rival her movements as well. She knew she would likely miss at this range, but she went for it anyway. She quickly adjusted her aim, and fired with her double crossbow, but only one shot. She was trying to lead at his stomach. The second shot came a second later, a little later than expected, since she was actually trying to predict where he may move to. He could almost likely spot the arrow and dodge it anyway. The second shot would be the one that he could not dodge. But that was only if he moved in the direction that she predicted he would be moving.
After the second shot was done, she immediately dove down, noticing her brother soaring up. She yelled into the comm link.
”Throw the sword up now!”Acion was still recovering from the stomach pain, and was just able to throw that sword upward when the sight of his sister bolting down, one of her hand catching the hilt of the sword gracefully, while the other hand threw the crossbow upward, giving enough time for Acion to catch it. As he remembered that she said ‘I’ll cover you than you cover me’, he knew what he had to do. Conveniently, there were four arrows on the quiver of the bow, so he was not out of ammo.
While Acion was reloading the bow, Aurelia was charging straight at the shadow guy. Her unsheathed sword at the ready. She would not let her opponent know which direction she would swing the sword, until she was near. It turned out to be a downward slash, straight down.
After Rakshasa managed to hit Acion he landed with ease on the ground, He was continually watching his surroundings and was wondering when Aurelia would jump in. He was sure it was any moment after landing a hit on her kid brother. Sure enough he heard a whistle from a bolt and looked up to see Aureila flying directly towards him. He easily could have dodged this attack but he did not. He only smirked under his breath as he shifted his stance to take the force of the blow. The bolt hit his stomach and caused him to slide back a little. But otherwise he seemed unharmed.
He pulled the bolt from his stomach and tossed it to the side. Side stepping the second bolt as he did, and moving to the center of the road. Giving Aureila a clear path towards him. He watched as the siblings did a fancy weapon switch and waited. He was glad she was attempting to get close to him. Fighting with flyers was always so annoying because they would just hide up in the air and shoot down at a safe distance. But this one, she didn’t mind getting her hands dirty.
He watched her closely as she skillfully hid her attack, which made it even harder because she wasn’t actually standing on the ground. Where he could read her stance. At the last moment he saw it. He gripped his sword and unsheathed it. Where most swordsmen would raise their blade over their head to block the blow head on and turn it into a fight of strength, He did not do this. He gripped his right wrist (his sword arm) with his left hand to steady it, but held his blade with the hilt pointing up and his blade at a forty-five degree angle with his tip pointing to the ground. Most would be unprepared for the deflecting blow, and lose their balance, their blade sliding down his. Where it would protect him but give him a huge advantage to strike with a downward attack, into their exposed back.
Aurelia knew this techniques of deflection, but wasn’t really expecting it to be used here. After all, it was a secret tip that a few swordsmen knew, including her. For that split second, what her master from multiple schools of martial arts and swordsmanship had taught her, what her most fatherly teacher, Jais, had taught her. All of that did not come back to her mind, but her senses. While her mind consciously devise tactics, her body subconsciously acted just as what she was taught. That blow. Once the blade slid down, her back went cold. It was her dead angle, exposed. She had to quickly cover it.
She was passing him, and his blade was coming down at her back. With a quick turn of the torso, she was now facing toward the oncoming blade. She brought her own sword up, narrowly blocking the attack, while she was still falling. Because she had already committed to pacifying his attack, she was in no condition to deal with the fall. Aurelia fell flat on the ground, but was able to do a few backflips to regain her footing, bringing her back into an active standing position. But now she was on the ground, losing that one advantage she had over him: air supremacy.
Expected of the leader of the sky knights. He had learned she was taught the fine art of swordsmanship by Jais Haven, a famous hero from France. But while he was a fine swordsman. He could not compare to the Shadow clan style. He didn’t wait for her to regain her footing before running after her. He knew if he kept her on the ground it would be highly in his favor. Soon he was sure her team will come, meaning time was against them. While he had no issues taking on the sky knights, it would be smarter to do it at another time. He went for a kill slash to her throat, one she would surely parry.
But the reason he did it was so he could get into her head. She could hear a deathly low amused hum coming from behind his mask as he looked down at her with his amber eyes.
“Aurellia Nakamiji, you once said that you don’t fear incredibly strong opponents. Rather a team that works in perfect coordination…” He pushed her back and slashed a few times, toying with her really as she was sure to dodge each of his attacks.
“If that scares you... ” He used his shadows discretely to come up behind her to cause her to trip while pushing her back with his sword attacks.
“Then the clan should be terrifying to you …” While she would perry his attacks she would easily notice each strike was getting stronger and stronger, that above an average human. The ploy worked as her foot was caught by the shadows behind her. But rather than letting her fall over completely he reached out and grabbed her wrist. And with great strength he pulled her back and spun her around as easily as an adult lifting a toddler, in a complete three sixty and sent her flying into the shadows of the alley where his brother was currently fighting.
As she would land hard on the ground he would speak up loud enough for the entire group to hear.
“You’re in over your head girl!” In a calm but spine tingling tone.
She had no problems dealing with the initial clashes, but the follow ups were getting stronger and stronger with every single blow. And while she was trying to keep up with him, he was barely giving his all. Was this the Shadow Clan’s might? Or was it just a head start. They were way stronger than she had expected.
She did not reply, her head in a myriad of fear and concentration, on both her surroundings and his attacks. Damn it. He was so fast she could not counter attack. She could only parry him until he slowly overwhelmed her, throwing her into the dark alley. The odds were against her. She didn’t have a team, her brother was pretty useless, and she totally underestimated her opponent.
Being thrown into the alley, she tried to open her wings wide, slowing her down, but not enough to stop her from crashing into a dumpster. But she was ok. Not too painful as she stood up quickly enough. Crap, now that she had been separated, her brother was completely vulnerable against that guy. Aurelia had the urge to charge out, but the wolves, which were scarily big, and was preying on the students nearby, convinced her not to. All she could do now was fight, not to subdue them, but for her own life, and pray that her brother could disengage, in which she knew he would. Despite his idealistic heroism, he was no fool.
The winged man just finished the reloadings when he witnessed his sister being thrown like a ragdoll into the dark alley, where his friends were being attacked. It happened too quickly, way too quickly. Now, he was all alone, against a professional villain. A man a hundred times more powerful than he was. Acion was in a difficult position. He was able to leave, probably unscathed, to gather the other Sky Knights, in which he knew they were stationed in the adjacent sectors, but that would mean leaving his friends and family alone against two, perhaps more, mysterious yet very mighty people. From what he heard, they weren’t faring well. He could stay and fight, but it could mean the end of it. Not just his career, but his life. All washed away in a fight that he knew he was seriously handicapped.
”Arrgghh…” Acion’s grip on the bow tightened but shaking. For the first time ever, this young hero trainee had learned what was actual fear.
Screw it.
He must not die here. Stay and fight would be heroic, but heroism without a purpose was just plain stupidity. He had to disengage, now.
’Sis, guys. Hang on.’Noticing that the man on the ground was looking up at Acion challengingly, the winged man quickly flapped his wings hastily, trying to go as high as he could before turning away, flying away, leaving the battlefield.
”Pathetic…” The man said with disgust as he slowly walked towards the alley after watching the boy run away.
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