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Amaline looked at her hands, they were no longer as deathly pale as they had been, and paws and fur and claws were slowly becoming fingers and skin and fingernails. So it was happening. Outside of the elder's care, she was turning back into an elf.

She didn't want to change, her identity was all she had left. Exiled and soon to be excommuniated from the syrinye race, it seemed that she would soon lose that, too.

It made her so angry. She hadn't done anything to deserve this. She had tried a lot harder in training than most of the others her age, if only becaue it came naturally to then and not to her.

It made her so angry, so goddamn ANGRY!

She spun on her heel, and saw them, probably just a harmless traveler, but her mind was too drowned in hate and anger and self-pity to think straight, she attempted a slash at the stranger, but they dodged out of the way.

"Consider yourself challenged..." She hissed.

Senju-nata jerked his body to the side following the slow moment of her hand, and the sharp nails she bore. He took a wide stance, and initiated the Battou-jutsu (Sword Draw), This technique is used to finish off someone quickly. With His sword in the sheath, and his right hand hovering over the handle to prepare for the draw. He tapped the hilt with his left thumb, pushing the sword out from the sheath. Then with god-speed, a quick stroke of the sword the blade cut from the side of her belly up to underneathe her breast, it was a thin cut, and then Senju-nata held the blade up over his shoulder.

"HA!" Senju-nata lashed in with a common thrust, but she jumped away throwing sand in his eyes... where the hell did she get that. Senju-nata jumped away rubbing his eyes. He could hear her footsteps infront of him coming closer he blinking looking at her vauge outline. Raising his hand into the air with his sword initiating the Do Ryu Sen (Ground Dragon Flash): He slamned the blade into the ground sending a shower of rocks at her, pelting her a dozen times over, but then came the final part of the attack, the gaia sunami. The Wave of earth about twelve feet tall consumed her throwing her body back, and through a tree.

Senju-nata sheathed his blade, thinking the battle was finished... knocked out cold she would bleed to death so he thought... Senju-nata was in for quite a surpise.

She lay there, holding on to what was left of her concsiousness.

It took a while. For a second, she felt nothing. Then the pain kicked in.

This in itself was bad news, as her senses were getting slower. She was definatly changing back. Bugger.

Then her train of thought ended as the pain, tired of being ignored, engulfed her entire body. She didn't scream. Even if she did, the sound would have been to weak to escape her lips, which shone with the blood that flooded from a deep cut on her cheek where one of the rocks had pelted her. Breath felt cold in the back of her throat. Her armour could hardly be called armour anymore, and what was left of it was in shambles.

"Just let me die...Let this be over..."

//Thinking like an elf, now, too? Not a syranye anymore? Going to die without taking somone else with you?// She thought. Had she the energy, she would have slapped herself for even thinking of dying without a fight.

A deathly pale hand, smeared with familiar blood, wrapped itself around the glaive.

For a second, she used the glaive to prop herself up, then she realized that her legs, dispite the searing pain in her right ankle, were not broken. For a second she stumbled, but regained her balence quickly.

She swung, aiming for the throat, but he heard her and spun, his blade slicing the handle of her glaive in half.

Looking death in the face, she thrust the handle of the glaive into his stomach, and used this distraction to grab the bladed side of her glaive.

"Matter to water..." She said, hoping that the words of the spell wern't lost within her throat. "Water to matter..." She realized the distraction had ended. Deep red blood stained her icy bule hair, the blade of her opponent had bitten into her flesh just below her ear. Any lower, and it would have been her neck.

The fan calmed her as she realized that the spell had taken effect. She waved it towards him, but it clanged against his blade.

Had he seen it?! Could he sense the blade?

//Of course not// Amaline assured herself //He just got lucky.//

The force of the handle knocked the wind clean out of him, but not a second more before he heard something.

*ting* Just before it happened I heard the hollow sounds of the wind in a way I never thought before. I thought back to the day I defeated three Syrians at once, and the skill all three of them used. That invisible sword I was nearly defeated that day. Her appearance she resembles those I fought that very day, but this one seems different. All these thoughts ran through my head that split second before I deflected the blade mid-flight.

Unlike my opponent I never go all out, just so I can say I wasn't even trying. I hold back purposely to prolong the fight, what a rise. If this is the road I travel I will travel it having fun. I started my first attack to my sequence of moves. First the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryo,Hi Ryu Sen (Flying Dragon Flash): With my left hand I grabbed the handle of the blade just below the hilt, and launched the blade like an arrow. She rolled to the side just in time as I thought she would. She thrusted the glaive at me, just as I preformed an after image this is where It got trickery as I initiated the after image strike. I saw her body through the streaking light as I raised my hand the bridge of my hand chopped her in the throat. Appearing behind her, and slowing to a stop, I leapt into the air twisting my body leading with my right knee. Then I fully came around, and the back of my heel smashed into the side of her head. She shot to the ground with a good deal of force behind her.

Senju didn’t waste anytime as he quickly went for his sword, and pulled it from the tree. Senju-nata sighed looking down at her body.

“Well it seems your far to under killed to take me on. Just because your capable of that spell doesn’t mean I will be overcome by it. I suppose I am the first warrior you have fought at this caliber aye. Not used to a warrior hack and cut style. It’s fine I can sense with each blow you deliver you are angry about something, I suggest you get over it, that is if you plan on winning.”

//And then there was Selene. Little Selene. Promised that she could keep me a Syranye. Little Selene, too young to know it was over when the arrow killed her. Too young to know that apocolypse holds no prefrences. Too young to die, really, but death didn't care about that.// She was going to die. Selene's death to protect her had been in vain.

Quicker than she even thought she could, she leapt to her feet and swung the bladed end of her glaive forward, cutting into her opponent's shoulder, just short of his neck. Her aim was off, now. Selene had stopped her from changing back for a while, but with Selene dead, the transformation was speeding up.

A slice to her side informed Amaline that her opponent had recovered quickly. Amaline stopped for a second. Mistake number one. She took another cut to her arm, blocking her opponent's blade from finding it's mark at her heart at last minute, before remembering stopping was a bad idea. She fell to her knees, her opponent's blade swung towards her back and, panicing, she did the only thing she could think of.

Placing her hand on the muddy ground, she whisperd "Matter to water"

Both fighters disappeared from the line of view into the water in a flurry of bubbles. Her opponent rose to the surface first, gasping for air and kicking her down to stop her coming to the surface.

She tightned her fingers around the fan, glaive forgotten.

Senju grabbed his throat, this spell couldn't last forever. He closed his mind from the outside world. Shutting down his body leaving his mind in deep meditation. He opened his mind seeing her in front of him. He concentrated his energy for the Ryu Shou Sen (Rising Dragon Flash) he's never used it underwater before, and didn't know how much of an affect it would have. He flipped forward under the water, and kicked into it. A strange force carried his body extremely fast. His foot dug into her shoulder he felt it give. The blood draining from his shoulder made vision scared, and difficult. Kicking off her chest she shot downward from the gravity's effect, then Senju reversed the effect on himself, and shot upwards, and then out of the water.

Flipping in the air above the water he activated a warp portal, and teleported a good distance away were he could see the lake formed by her magical might... what power... unbelievable.