Prey (One Person)

OoC: I've been itching to try my villan out. Lets see how well Fuzen will work.

BiC: Fuzen was sitting in a chair at the back of the local bar. He looked around at all of the corruption. The men that were drowning themselves in alcohol, the women that were arranging to sell themselves, and the occasional hooded figure who was probably running from the law.

Fuzen felt right at home. All he needed now was a good victim. "Who will it be tonight?" He said to himself. "A man or a woman, someone strong or someone weak. So many choices, only one I'll actually make."

He scanned the room and looked for someone who might be a challenge for him. But there wasn't anyone out of the ordinary. A few of the men had axes or swords and one or two of the women had a dagger sheathed at their side, but no one looked that different than anyone he'd killed before.

With a sigh he got up and walked up to the bar. He ordered the strongest beverage the place had to offer. He quickly drank it. The alcohol wouldn't calm his demon nerves, but he liked to think it did.

Alright, I'll kill the next person who comes in and sits down next to me. He ordered another drink and got ready for whatever was coming.

Ooc: Sounds cool, I will use Tayler.

Bic:

Fuzen sat in the bar for about another half hour or so, but not many people came in. Those that did enter the bar already had plans with someone else who was already there, but Fuzen wasn't ready to give up, he thirsted for blood.

Finally, a young woman entered the bar, a disgusted look in her eyes as she looked around the bar. Her mouth was covered by a black cloth, her ice blue eyes illuminated her face, and dirty long hair loosely tied back. She obviously didn't like the look of the place, but all the other restaurants in town were closed this late and her stomach was itching for some food.

She ignored the lustful eyes that fell on her from various men in the bar. She glanced around the bar and looked for a descent empty seat or at least someone pleasant looking to sit next to.

Fuzen eyed her carefully, aside from the katana at her side and the mask over her mouth she looked quite incapable of doing much damage.

Tayler sighed; she saw Fuzen and his striking features. He looked like a nice man so she made her way in his direction. However, silently from behind her came an overweight man who had too much to drink. He reached his hand to grab her in a private area, but soon he found an elbow in his face that was quickly followed by a twist in his wrist.

"Pervert!" She hissed and threw him across a table and crashing onto the ground. She shook her head in pity for the drunk and threw a few rupees on the table he slid across, "That should pay for your drinks." She apologized to the lowlifes who were eating at the table.

Acting as if nothing happened, she fixed her hair and sat down next to Fuzen. The demon smirked, "Fresh meat." he thought deviously.

And a woman to. I'll enjoy this night. Fuzen was thinking as he waited for his prey to order something. Tayler pulled down her mask and called the bartender over. "Could I get a cup of sake and some sushi?" She asked. The bartender looked down at her. "The best I can do for someone like yourself is a cup of whiskey and an uncooked fish."

"Fine. How much?" Tayler asked. The bartender was about to answer when Fuzen interjected. "Don't worry about that. I've got her covered." He handed over a few rupees and turned to his prey.

She looked over at the man next to her. "Thank you." Tayler said. "Your welcome." Fuzen replied. He put on the best smile he could and got the reaction he wanted, she grew pink in the cheeks. "My name's Tayler, but you can call me Tay. It's nice to meet you." "My name's Fuzen. Likewise."

Fuzen ordered another drink when the bartender brougt out Tayler's food. "And what's a little lady like yourself doing here at this time of night?" "Well, I just got into town and after I got a room, I decided to go out and get some dinner. The inn kitchen was closed and this place was the only one opened."

Tayler took a few bites out of the fish and took a few sips of her drink. "So where are you from? I havn't seen clothes like that in a while." Fuzen asked. She swallowed what was in her mouth and answered. "I'm from far east and north. But I havn't been there in a while. I've mostly just been around."

Tayler took another sip of her drink and asked Fuzen the same question, "So where are you from?"

"Far south and west from here." he lied easily.

"Oh, so what's it like there?" Tayler set down her drink, "I havn't been much farther south than here."

Fuzen chuckled, "It's hot, hotter than hell I might add." he said ironically.

"Yeah, it's cold where I come from." she took another bite from her fish.

"Do you like the cold?" Fuzen said, taking another sip from his glass.

"Not really, I prefer where it's warmer." She pushed her plate over to the bartendor and he took it to throw it away, "Well it was nice to meet you but I think I should be going."

Ooc: Meh, it's really short but I'm not sure how you want your character to begin this fight.

OoC: Actually, one reason I thought up Fuzen was so I could work on my exposition.

BiC: Almost too easy. "Well, I don't have anywhere I need to be tonight. Would you mind if I walked you back to the inn? There's a lot of creeps roaming the streets."

"Sure thanks." The two left the bar and started walking down the street. The full moon lit up the scene. "It gets lonely out there, out in the world." Fuzen spoke in the most mellow voice he could muster. "Tell me Tay, have you ever wanted someone?"

Now for the delicate part.

"Well... Yes." "I mean, have you ever wanted someone to love? You like me, a fellow traveler, know. When you're on the road, every time you start to get to know someone, you eventually have to leave them." "..."

She's falling for it.

He put his arm around her. "The years seem to pass by so quickly. I sometimes wonder, with this lifestyle of mine, will I ever meet anyone? Is there anyone out there that will love me no matter where it is I go?."

Perfect, perfect.

Using his other hand he put his finger under her chin and tilted her head toward him. They looked into eachothers eyes. "There's a sadness in your eyes. A sadness that shouldn't be in the eyes of someone like you."

Getting closer.

They stopped walking. Fuzen looked at the building they were standing next to. "Well, we're here. I guess this is the part where we go our own way." "Yeah, I guess it is." He took his arm off of her.

Here we go.

"Goodbye" Fuzen said as he started to walk away. He only made it a few steps before he stopped. "I just realized something." He perked up his voice. "I spent all of my money back at the bar. Would you mind If I sleep with you tonight?" "What?!" Tayler said with suprise in her voice. "But we just met! I mean, you're a nice person, but I've only known you for less than a few..."

No problem, I can recover.

"I didn't ask to lay with you. I just asked if I could stay in your room for the night." Fuzen answered with a slight nervousness in his voice. "Oh..." Tayler thought about how Fuzen had paid for her dinner and what he had told her on their way here. "Well, okay."

Nailed it.

They went inside and walked up to the second floor. They went into her room and Tayler lit a candle.

You picked the wrong person to trust. Too bad for you Tay, because this is where it all ends.

Tayler faced away and started to remove her equipment. Fuzen on the other hand started to transform. Blackness started to curl up his legs and across his arms, strand by strand his hair turned silver, and like two clouds of smoke his eyes turned red. He blew out the candle.

Outside there was silence. One of the windows in a town goes dark. Then, a flash of light. And from out of that very same window, a demon flies out and crashes to the ground. A ninja looks down at the demon she had just attacked. She jumps down to meet the demon after he gets back up.

OoC: After a bout of depression I got around to fixing it.

Ooc: Hey, no need to be depressed. That's why I feel guilty whevever I point out others faults. We all do the same thing *cough* except me *cough* (Just kidding of course, I do it too)

Bic:

The anger began to swell deep within Tayler, it bubbled instantly to the top. Struggling to keep from exploding, she spoke slowly to the beast, "I can't believe you," She growled, "but that's what I should have expected from a demon!" She began to flash back to her parents, remembering how her father was slaughtered by a demon.

"Where did I go wrong?" Fuzen asked himself in his head, thinking through everything he did, "It doesn't make sense, she shouldn't have suspected me."

Tayler's face was red with anger and slight embarrassment, for a moment she actually began to fall for him. She was so ashamed that she began to like him.

"Oh well, this will be more fun anyway." Fuzen chuckled, cracking his knuckles.

"I will kill you..." she took a deep breath and unsheathed her katana with her right hand, "... and every other demon to dare crawl from the pits of hell!" with her free hand she slipped her mask back over her mouth.

Fuzen raised an eyebrow, "So be it." he smirked. With those words, he bounded forward with a start. He jumped high in the air and brought his deadly nails down upon Tayler's location. But all his claws hit were the ground.

Tayler was standing just a mere foot away from where she was standing just a few seconds before. She swung her katana in an upwards arc as it connected with Fuzen's claws. Their weapons screeched past each other as Tayler brought her blade down from above, Fuzen blocking it with ease once more.

Their weapons locked for a brief moment and they leaned against each others weapon, trying to overpower the other, "It's a shame, Tay. I was looking forward to the time we would share together tonight." the demon smirked.

"Go to hell." Tayler spat. Their weapons pushed off from each other, Tayler and Fuzen slid to a stop, and then darted back toward each other.

The battle began to heat up, each of the warriors exchanging blows. Anger slowly began to swell up in Tayler as their battle raged on. She had no mercy in her heart that night.

"She's fast," Fuzen thought to himself, "but everyone has their weakness." He jumped backwards from the fight and darted toward a tree alongside the pathway. He grabbed a hold of it and quickly climbed to the top, trying to change the levels of the playing field to see if Tayler struggled with one more than the other. He stood at the top of the tree and chuckled slightly as he watched Tayler run in his direction.

Tayler raised her sword in the air and stabbed it into the tree. Fuzen didn't know what hit him, a bright light flashed from Tayler's blade, up the tree, and into his feet sending a strong energy through his body. He jumped from the tree and onto a nearby house top. His whole body was steaming hot; also, the tree he just jumped from was on fire. His eyes darted down to Tayler's sword which was seering with lightning.

"Ok, so she has a few tricks." Fuzen commented, shaking the pain and numbness from his legs.

As Fuzen tapped his feet on the roof, trying get his feet back to normal, Tayler scurried up to meet him. He got into his stance even though his feet were still tingling.

Tayler darted toward him, sparks falling from her blade as she ran. She swung at Fuzen, who leaned back to avoid the blade's shocking sting. She pressed her attack, while he continued to avoid it.

"What's the matter demon?" She taunted "You seemed so energetic before. Have I scared you?" No one says that to me. Fuzen thought.

He brought one claw up and the other down, and then closed them together around her weapon. The shock was great, but it worked perfectly. He twisted his arms, rigging the blade free of her grasp.

Fuzen tossed her katana into the air. But with his arms straight up, his belly was exposed to attack. Tayler hopped up and delivered a spinning kick to his side, knocking Fuzen down. She reached her hand up and caught her weapon as it came down.

But before Tayler could react, Fuzen got up and attacked. She blocked his first strike but got nicked by the second one. He was almost as fast as she was, but the difference was, he had two weapons to attack with.

They clashed several times. Sparks danced as their weapons met eachother. Every time Tayler put lightning into her blade, Fuzen would start avoiding. But once it wore off, he would once again press his attack.

"You know Tay." Fuzen said as he laid down a counter move. "If you gave me your body for, oh lets say, ten minutes, I would promise not to kill you."

Tayler grew even redder. "Shut up demon!" She yelled as she tossed lightning at him. "I'll not tolerate any of your perverted trickery!"

"You humans anger so easily." Fuzen replied as he swung his right claw. She's good. This is going to make her death so much sweeter.

The two fighters locked together for a brief moment then pushed off against each other, causing both warriors to fly through the air briefly but land safely on different buildings. Tayler, still enraged, charged toward her opponent once again and raised her weapon to attack. Fuzen smirked as he waited for the young lady to reach him.

Tayler leapt from the building she was on and landed directly on the one Fuzen was occupying. She continued to dash forward, however, not slowing in her running pace.

Fuzen prepared himself for her attack and awaited for the exact right moment. Right when the young ninja was in range, he swept both his claws down toward her legs. Tayler noticed his movements before he even made them. While still moving forward, she performed a sideward summersault over the claws and through the air, and then landed just behind the demon. Right when she dropped to her knees, she swung her blade backwards.

The katana barely nicked Fuzen's leg as he rolled forward to escape the strong point of the attack. a small drizzle of blood sprinkled from the cut, but nothing too deadly or too deep. He jumped from the building and landed messily on a building two stories higher than the one they were already on.

Fuzen grumbled to himself, their speeds were too evenly matched but her agility exceeded his own. But at the same time he had two weapons and she only had one, they were all too evenly matched.

Tayler was on her feet again, thinking quickly through her next possible moves. Fuzen licked his lips as he glared at her with demonic lust.

Tayler's lip twisted from the sick facial gesture and swiftly pointed her sword toward the fiend. A bolt of lightning shot from the tip of her blade and seared directly for her target.

Fuzen barely had time to react. He saw her move her blade forward but he assumed she was going to shout at him some more. The only thing he could do was hold his claws up for defense. The lightning struck his claws and sent a burning shock through his hands. It was better than the attack hitting him directly.

Fuzen chuckled to cover up the pain in his arms, making himself seem even the more frightening. Although the pain was unbearable, he managed to keep and straight face, "You're weak, Tay. Magic has no effect on me." the beast cleverly lied. He could even fool himself with such a lie.

Tayler's face cringed, she seemed to take the lie and believe it. She would store her magical energy for later.

"Good, she fell for it."

Fuzen, trying his best to ignore the pain in his arms, jumped from the higher building. With a loud crash, he slammed onto the smaller building's roof, sending tiles and debris tumbling off into the streets. He ran forward at his target once more. He raised his claws yet again and their weapons clashed.

Fuzen had caught her blade in another awkward lock. She couldn't pull free in any way. This time Fuzen twisted his arms around and grabbed hers. He jerked her toward him, her mask slipping down, then he brought her up to his face. The perverted beast planted his lips on hers and kissed her in a manner you would expect from a demon.

She gasped in shock. She pushed off from the ground and pulled both her arms outward. While doing this she elegantly twirled in the air, braking free from his grip. Before landing on the ground again, she spun two more times and slammed her foot in the side of his head.

The powerful blow knocked Fuzen from the roof and crashing down into the ground, dirt and gravel tossed into the air.

"What an ungrateful *****." Fuzen was saying, as he lay in the street.
"I give her a little bit of demon love and she knocks me off a roof." He chuckled, and then with a sigh he put his claws above his face. The only rage driven attack Tayler could deliver would be a downthrust.

And that's exactly what the attack was. She jumpped from the roof and
brought her sword down. Her blade was paralel to her legs, which were
spread so she could stab Fuzen in the face and make a perfect landing
at the same time.

As the tip of her sword met his claws, he spread his arms. With the
curved ends of them, he caught the hand guard on her katana. Their arms
shook as they held their weapons against eachothers.

"You know Tay, if you squatted down more, you'd touch on one of my
favorite subjects." Her weapon jerked closer, the look on her face would
have been able to scare children. "And you know demon, if I moved this
blade down more, its edge would touch on one of my favorite
subjects."

With that, Fuzen lifted his claws and tilted his head. Tayler struck
the ground, but quickly lifted her weapon again. Fuzen swung his claws
along the ground, aiming for Tayler's legs.

She hopped back, leaving Fuzen time to get to his feet. Once he was
upright, he rushed toward her. He brought both of his claws down on her,
but she slipped between them. She shoved her elbow into Fuzen's chin,
which led into a backslash that made a cut up his shoulder.

Intense, so very intense. Fuzen thought. He charged again, leading with his right. She put up her sword to block his slash from the side, and grabbed his other wrist to stop his thrust.

So Fuzen reached his leg back around hers and pulled it forward. She fell backwards and, still holding Fuzen's wrist, brought him down as well. She landed on her back and he ended up right on top of her.

"Looks like we're touching on my subject." Fuzen whispered. And with that Tayler let out a high pitched grunt and rammed her head into his. He rose up into a kneeling position while pressing his katar handle against his forhead.

With his free claw, he swung down at her head. She brought up her blade and pushed it away. Before she could hit him, Fuzen rolled backwards and onto his feet, while Tayler did the same.

The two stared at eachother. Fuzen was licking his lips, his desire to kill her almost too much for him to handle. Tayler, shaking with anger, her face red as a cherry.

SO INTENSE.

Tayler's adrenalin was pumping at great speeds. The thought crossed her mind, what if this was the demon that killed her father? If it was then vengeance would be hers. But of course this thought always crossed her mind every time she fought a demon. She attempted to push her anger to the side, but it still leaked through, "It's hard to believe some of you were once angels." she growled.

"Sorry Tay, not this one." Fuzen chuckled sinisterly.

"Only my friends may call me Tay." she growled as she spun her sword to attack once more.

"Whatever you say my love," Fuzen taunted again as he bounded forward first.

Tayler ran toward the rapidly approaching abomination, both of them were ready for the kill. They both swung their weapons as they passed each other, one of them hit but it was unclear as to whom. They both stood about ten feet away from each other, back to back.

Fuzen glanced down at his shirt; it was ripped in the front with a wound that would be put to shame by a paper cut. There was a long tear in the front of his shirt, revealing his black stomach.

Tayler looked down as well, nothing appeared to have hit her. But she was wrong, her eyes widened as her entire lower dress half fell to the ground, severed in half. She shrieked and tried to cover up her undergarments, but there was really no point in doing so.

Fuzen's eye popped wide open as he stared at her legs.

Tayler chuckled slight, despite her embarrassment, "You like them? That's as close as you're going to get." she swung her sword as she prepared to attack once again. With her free hand, she shoved her mask back around her mouth. She was tempted to wrap her tattered skirt around her waist, but she wouldn't dare for Fuzen may have wanted to try something stupid.

"That's what you think." Fuzen answered her question, smirking and licking his lips in greed. With a flash he darted forward once more at the female warrior, closing ground fast.

Tayler shut her eyes tight and thrust her sword forward. She had only used this attack once before, and she was unsure it would even work. But it should work since Fuzen was a demon.

Fuzen left the ground and was a mere three feet away from her sword when Tayler shouted into the air, "Sun's Wrath!"

A bright beam of light exploded from her blade and into Fuzen's chest. The entire village illuminated by light as the demon was sent soaring through the sky and across the city. He was airborne for a good five seconds before he crashed through two walls of a building somewhere ten yards away from Tayler who was now wrapping her skirt around her waist to keep her modesty.

She slowly began to walk toward the fallen warrior, ready and prepared to finish him off. Usually that attack would have drained her of most of her energy, but with her adrenalin pumping with the added anger she had twice the amount of energy as usual.

Tayler looked at the body that was lying in front of her. Fuzen's once striking looks had all but been erased. His shirt had been burned away completely, exposing a dislocated shoulder and a simmering hole going straight through his chest. His hair had come untied, letting itself loose over his broken neck.

She poked him with her sword to see if he was still alive. He didn't wake up, move, or even twitch. "You got what you deserved demon." She said, her voice colder than ice. "You monster!" She brought up her Katana and jammed it through his hand.

Tayler returned her blade to her side. She started to walk away from the body of the fallen demon. Her steps took her only to the other side of the street, when she heard a shuffling coming from behind her.

She turned around to see the mangled body rising to its feet. It stumbled as it tried to stand. Its jaw hung open, the blank look in its eyes was that of a dead body's. It closed is mouth and smiled at her.

A white blotch appeared on one of the remaining portions of his chest. it started to expand, changing the blackness to a flesh tone. It started to move over the hole in its chest, covering it. Eventually it started to cover its entire body.

The whole again Fuzen let out a grunt. "Wow Tay." He said, a hint of insanity in his voice. "How refreshing. I havn't been hit by an attack like that in a very long time. But as I told you before, your magic can't hurt me." He drew his sword.

If that doesn't keep her from using her magic, nothing will. Alright, I need to figure out a way to get out of this. She kills me again, it's all over.

The look on Tayler's face was one of shock and anger at the same time. "Aww, what's wrong Tay? I thought you liked this face better than my other one."

"Quiet demon!" Tayler shouted. "I'll kill you no matter what you look like! Inside, you're still the same vile creature!" "Such harsh words." With his free hand, Fuzen brushed some hair out of his face.

And with that, she let loose a scream and charged at him. She jumped into the air and brought her sword above her head. They clashed, the force of Tayler's attack pushing Fuzen back.

She hit the ground and immediately lifted her leg. She thrust it forward, but Fuzen brought up his knee to block. He swung his sword across, which she ducked under, leading into a counter vertical slash from below.

Fuzen leaned backwards to avoid it. He then reached forward and punched her on the head. Tayler countered by giving an uppercut to his jaw. They both doubled backwards, placing them in their original position.

His muscles were sore. Because his demon form was trying to recover from the blast, his Hylian one was suffering. That hole in his chest would take weeks to heal fully.

Tayler had just about had enough with this monster, she had just unleashed her most powerful attack and now it appeared to have done nothing. There's no way she could pull off that attack again without killing herself, and even if she could it may not work on him. She had to pull herself together and use just her sword and her fists; she still had a good number of tricks up her sleeve.

"Enough playing, now we fight." Tayler growled. She would have to use some of the more advanced ninja tactics on him that she was taught in training. She sheathed her sword and took a deep breath, "Focus Tay." she told herself.

"I thought you said no more playing." Fuzen smirked, "Take your sword, you're going to need all the help you can get." he spun his katana in his hand as he waited her to reply, every second he stalled he felt more dizzy, he would need to finish this quick before his energy was drained from repairing his other form.

"I won't need my sword to kill you." she hissed, she grabbed the loose sheath strapped around her waist and flung it around to her back. She blushed as she dropped the mangled skirt wrapped around her waist, it would only slow her down so she had to get rid of it.

"Remove your top and underwear and we're set for the night." Fuzen taunted. This of course made Tayler even more furious.

"That's it! You've drawn the line too close to the fire!" the moonlight flashed off her eyes, making her appear frightening even to a demon. She wove her arms around through the air, gathering the energy around her, and then she stopped in an attack stance. Her lip twisted into a snarl as she waited for her opponent to strike first.

Fuzen stood still, wanting her to show off some of the attacks so he would know what move to use on her, but she remained still. Her face slowly relaxed down into a smile. Smugly she waved her right hand slightly, beckoning him to attack.

Fuzen spat in response, he couldn't wait any longer. He lunged forward, raising his katana mightily in the air. Mere moments before his blade struck her, Tayler twirled to the side, letting his blade swing vertically down toward the ground. Before he could do anything else, she ended her spin by grabbing his arm and twisting it to the side forcing the demon to let go of the blade.

Almost at the exact same time, however, Fuzen grabbed the hilt of Tayler's katana on her back. With her free hand, Tayler swiftly grabbed his other arm as well, keeping him from taking her weapon. She now held both his hands, giving her the advantage over the situation.

Tayler swung her leg up to kick him, but before she reached her target, Fuzen had snapped his wrists free from her grasp. He ducked low and grabbed her bare leg at the hip with both of his hands. He pulled her leg forward while he slid the lower part of his body toward her other leg. He successfully sat on her left leg, causing her to fall backwards toward the ground. Still holding onto her right leg, he shoved it forward and down. Her own knee connected with her chest in a powerful blow, but that's not what caused most of the pain. Most of it was caused by the stretching of her legs since Fuzen was still sitting on the other one.

“You look uncomfortable.” Fuzen smirked.

Tayler squinted through the pain, but attempted to shake the thought of it from her mind to concentrate harder.

“You don’t know how comfortable this is for me.” Fuzen finished.

Tayler roared in pain and anger as she pushed with her full strength. She bent her left leg, raising Fuzen twelve inches off the ground, but twelve inches was all she needed. She swung her leg back to the ground but swiftly swung it up again, kneeing him squarely in the groin.

Fuzen’s mouth dropped open from the sudden pain. This was enough for Tayler to overpower him; she pushed with her right leg against the force of his arms and slammed her heel into his jaw. The half demon toppled backward and slammed onto the ground once more.

Tayler jumped to her feet and limped toward the vermin lying before her, her legs still soar. She kicked him in the head and stomped on his wrist. She raised her leg again and slammed it back between his legs again, “It looks like there will be no fun for you tonight.” Tayler grumbled, and then she grabbed the hilt of her sword as she prepared for the kill.

Ooc: lol, I was going to have the fist fight a little longer but I got bored after I accidentally erased everything I wrote.

OoC: Sorry I'm late.

Tayler stood over Fuzen. She reached for the hilt of her blade, so she could deliver the final blow to the demon below her. She unsheathed it, squeezed with both of her hands, and pointed it at his neck. "This is the end for you demon." She said grimly.

With a grin of satisfaction, she thrust her sword forward. But Fuzen raised his arm and slapped it off course. It struck the ground less than an inch away from his neck.

With that, Fuzen reached up and grabbed Tayler's wrist. He pulled her toward himself, making her fall forward and jam her shoulder into the hilt of her own blade. That caused her to turn as she fell.

Fuzen let go of her wrist and stretched his arm out to the side. Tayler hit the ground with her head landing right on Fuzen's bicep. He closed his arm, putting her into a choke hold. "Who's end did you say it was again, Tay?" He said, with as much enthusiasm as he could muster at the moment.

She clawed and beat at his wrist, trying to break free, but he wouldn't let go. Soon she started elbowing him in the ribs and kicking him in the shin. She would probably break one of his ribs, but if Fuzen could hold onto her a little longer, she would choke to death.

Then, Tayler gripped his wrist. She slowly forced it upward, till she got it above her chin. With that, she oppened up her mouth and sunk her teeth into Fuzen's flesh.

He let out a small roar of pain, and immediately let go. As soon as she was free, she rolled away from him. She gasped for air and clutched her throat, trying to regain her breath.

The two lay there in the streets, both hurt greatly. Tayler, exhausted and out of breath from the amount of energy she had put into the fight. Fuzen, bruised and battered from his opponents unforgiving attack.

When Fuzen noticed that Tayler's katana was still sticking out of the ground near his neck, he thought about where he had dropped his. Looking over, he saw the glint of his blade reflecting the moonlight, only a few feet beyond Tayler. He reached for the hilt of her sword, and tried to pull himself up.

When Tayler had caught her breath, she noticed Fuzen's katana was lying a few feet from her head. On that note, she looked over at hers. It looked like it was sticking out of Fuzen's face, but it was just stuck in the ground on the other side of his head. She sat up, grabbed his sword, and tried to get back to her feet.

OoC: Sorry for the bad post as well. I'm having some real, bad, Fuzen related problems at the moment.

Tayler stabbed Fuzen's sword into the ground and forced herself up into a standing position. Her leg muscles were soar, her neck was soar, and her lungs were soar. She was having trouble breathing, but slowly and steadily she was resuming her normal breathing pattern. Tayler was more embarrassed than anything. She couldn't believe that she had grown so careless as to letting Fuzen pull off a move such as the one he did. She promised herself she would be more careful from then on.

Fuzen wasn't exactly having a picnic either; his groin was only smashed twice by a powerful ninja's kick. He grabbed the hilt of Tayler's sword and pulled himself up as well. He was having trouble walking even more than Tayler was, he couldn't remember the last time he hurt so badly in one spot. His demonic side was still recovering causing Fuzen's energy to work toward repairing his other form; this also didn't help much with the added pain.

Tayler opened her mouth to talk, but she couldn't seem to form any words. Her lungs and neck were too sore to even try.

"What's the matter?" Fuzen chuckled, wincing through his own pain, "Cat got your tongue?"

Tayler rolled her eyes at Fuzen's joke and raised her blade, now able to stand on both feet without falling. The wind began to wisp through the air, bringing a slight chill onto the scene. The sudden coldness brought memories of home back to her mind. She remembered her brother Dehel once again and how he had run off. She had to live; she had to know what happened to him before she died.

Her memories were disrupted from a disturbing gesture from her enemy before her.

Fuzen was licking his lips, intentionally wanting her to become enraged with his lust.

Tayler opened her mouth and this time was able to muster two sentences, "What are you waiting for, beast? Come and do what you wanted to do to me from the beginning of our encounter." Tayler shifted her weight to her least injured leg and raised Fuzen's blade with both hands over her head in a defensive attack stance, prepared for Fuzen to strike first.

A demon's lust cannot be contained; Fuzen stared at the warrior ninja’s revealed lower half and wanted it for himself. The demon lunged forward with a smirk toward the woman opposing him; he raised the weapon that was once hers and was ready to kill her or wound her enough so she couldn’t move. What he would do afterward was unknown. Tayler jumped up at her target to attack horizontally at the same time that Fuzen came down upon her with a vertical slash. The two swung their swords through the air as no clash was heard, but only the tearing sound of cloth and possible flesh. One of them had laid a hit, but if one were watching from afar they wouldn’t have been able to tell who did. Just like they had earlier, they landed a few feet past each other, one of them realizing who had hit.

The two stood there, swords still outstretched. They were both breathing heavily, both sweating, both anticipating what they already knew had happened. Tayler turned her head back, prepared to announce her victory to Fuzen.

"I've won, demon." She said weakly. "Now fall down."

And with that, she collapsed. Fuzen had been the one that had made contact. His mind went wild with satisfaction. This feeling of taking a life in cold blood, and in these conditions no less was one of the most pleasureful things his life had offered him.

He raised his new blade over his head, and watched the moonlight glint red off of its surface. It hurt to raise his arm, but with everything going through his head, he hardly noticed. Leaning the weapon closer, he took a taste of the red fluid. Just as he expected: delicious.

Lowering the blade, he turned toward his fallen prey. Slowly and painfully, he walked toward her. But as he got close to her, a sound hit his ears. A gentle sound, a soft sound, a sound that angered Fuzen to the core. The sound of life, she was still breathing.

Lust now replaced by wrath, he glared at her unconscious body with deep hatred. Somehow, she had avoided a lethal blow, but how she did, Fuzen did not know. "You weren't supposed to survive that." He hissed. "You were supposed to die from that. It was supposed to kill you."

The lust started to creep back into him. "Oh well, at least this way you'll stay warm Tay." He said lightheartedly. "We wouldn't want you to get cold, or at least any colder than you already are."

He started to bend over. He reached his hand out to touch her. And as he was about to close his fingers around her, his body locked up. He immediately shot up to full posture, his legs stiff, his arms straight down at his sides. Then he felt it, the electrical current.

Lightning shot forth from his body, an explosion of light and sound. In an instant, it was over. Fuzen stood there, smoke rising from his body, his clothes and hair smoldering. After a moment he was able to squeeze out a last sentence. "She... Delayed it."

And with that he collapsed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Of all the places Fuzen could have awoken, a church would not have been one he would have chosen. But fate seemed to see it fit that he wake up there. With a grunt and a groan, he returned to reality to find himself in a room adorned with crosses and triangles.

He tried to remove himself from beneath the white sheets, but his muscles would just not allow it. When the priest that sat at his bedside noticed his shuffling, he got up and put a damp cloth on Fuzen's forehead. "What am I doing here?" He asked weakly.

"It's good to see you're awake my son." The father replied. "You were hit by lightning. One of our priests found you badly wounded, and brought you here." Fuzen pawed around under the covers. "Where's my sword?" He asked.

The father motioned toward a table. Tayler's katana lay across it. Brown blotches marked where the blood had been zap fried by the lightning. This prompted Fuzen to ask the question. "Where's the woman that was with me?"

"Well, she...

"...She's still in bed, down the hall." the priest waved his hand toward the corridor, "She was just about as wounded as you were, she's recovering quite well though so do not worry."

Fuzen clenched a fist under the sheets but made sure the priest wouldn't notice his anger, "Good, I don't know what I would do if something bad happened to her." Fuzen said with a false relief, brilliantly deceiving the priest, "Has she said anything about me?" Fuzen asked, a little worried that she may have told the priests what he really was.

"No," the priest shook his head sadly, "She's still asleep, but we're expecting her to wake soon."

Fuzen tried to move the sheets again, but he could still barely move. His demonic form was still recovering as well so he still couldn't change forms.

"Could you just cast a reviving spell so I can be on my way?" Fuzen grumbled, he wanted to kill Tayler and be on his way.

The priest shook his head and frowned in disappointment, "No, we are not wizards. We have already prayed for you though, but these things take time."

Fuzen hissed a sigh of annoyance through his teeth, the whole presence of the church wasn't to his appeal.

Just then, another priest walked into the room. He walked slowly over to the priest Fuzen was talking to and whispered something in his ear. The first priest’s face lightened up and motioned for the other to leave and continue what he was doing.

“I have good news, the woman is awake. She’s asking if we picked up a man named Fuzen.”

Fuzen tried one more time to move the sheets, and this time he succeeded, but his legs were too weak to support himself, “I’m glad she’s awake, I’ve never heard of a Fuzen before though.” Fuzen lied, just in case Tayler was to say something more about him.

“Ok then, just sit back and relax, you were wounded greatly and you still need your rest.”

***

“You haven’t found Fuzen?” Tayler asked, “Did you pick up anyone else?”

The priest looking after her nodded in response, “There’s this other man we found lying next to you, is he Fuzen?” the priest asked.

Tayler nodded nervously, “Yes, it is imperative that you get rid of him at once.” She pleaded.

“Get rid of?” The priest repeated, “Why?”

Tayler took a deep breath, still recovering from her extended sleep, “He’s a demon, and a twisted one at that.” She shoved the sheets off, but found it painful to move. She looked down at her legs, pleased to see the priests respected her privacy by leaving her current clothes on, although she felt uncomfortable wearing her tattered skirt.

The priest seemed to have trouble believing that Fuzen was a demon but said again, “A demon?”

Tayler nodded desperately, “I know this doesn’t sound right in a church but you must kill him.”

The priest shook his head, wide eyed from her violent request, “I can’t do that.”

“Why?” Tayler gasped, “He’s a demon! Didn’t you see the claw marks on my skin and dress?”