Ami/Miroku: Personality Clash!

[Kwokinator]

Kwok shrugged. "I guess it'll have to do."

"We need some kind of plan, we're severely outnumbered" he said. "You know more about them than I do with your visor.  Any weaknesses they have?"

[RyderHakubi]

"Hold on, let me take a look at them..." Ryder replied as she turned the visor's focus on the glowing dogs...

[Carthrat]

The dogs were apparently fine physical specimens of the Akita, a Japanese hunting dog. They usually grew quite large, and this group was no exception.

They all seemed to be passing through the early stage of the disease Flamewreath, but not so great as to spontaneously start fires nearby.

They also all seemed to be on an adredaline high..

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder nodded, and decided to turn the visor's attention on the swordsmen to see if there was anything particularly interesting about them...

[Carthrat]

The swordsmen were just regular swordsmen.

With swords.

And they were hacking everything in the villiage at an alarmingly fast rate, leaving almost nothing standing, let alone alive.

Two of the swordsmen also had holstered pistols, but had yet to use them.

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder turned to Kwok from her position in the tree and relayed the information...

"Alright, the guy with the flaming hair isn't a demon, as you might think... he's got a magical disease that's going to eventually kill him.  But, I don't know how long he's had it.  The flames around him aren't particularly too hot, but I'd still proceed with caution...."

"The dogs are Japanese hunting dogs in an early stage of the disease, and are very rabid... be careful..."

"The swordsmen... are thankfully normal.  2 of them have guns though, it would be best to take them out first... But still, we're severely outnumbered here.  Any ideas on strategy Kwoko?"

[Kwokinator]

"Hmm..." Kwok paused in thought. "Your fog move thing might help.  If it works, they can't see us, so that would be easier on us.  I just don't know how much it can work with so much fire around.  It should work to some degree though, fog still has gas in it so it can't be vaporized completely by fire."

"How much magical power do you have?  Do we have enough to quench the flames for the dogs and the guy in the middle plus cast a fog?"

[RyderHakubi]

"Honestly, I don't know... it never went over how much mana the Senshi had in the show, and I wouldn't know the feeling of how much I have." Ryder replied as she hopped down from the branch and turned off the visor...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok shrugged.

"Ah well, no better way to find out than do it, I guess," he said.

"Hmm.  Wait a minute," he addded. "To win a game of chess, you need to capture the king.  This might work here too.  If we concentrate our forces to take down the guy in the middle first, the leaderless pawns might lose their focus in attacking the people and the town.  It's a dangerous gamble though."

"What do you think?" he asked, neatly delegating the decision-making off to Ryder. "You think we need a better plan?"

[Carthrat]

While Ami and Miroku were busy planning their strategey, several loud screams were constantly piercing the air, along with loud grunts, which sounded a little like rape.

Of course, these were promptly followed by more screaming as the villiage continued to be razed to the ground..

[Kwokinator]

Kwok grit his teeth as the sounds of screams and grunts reached his ears.

"Screw planning," he groowled as he tore off a small piece from his robes. "I hate men who rape women, and that's what it sounds like right now."

"Let's do it," he wrapped the piece of cloth around his palm and used it to pick up the previously frozen branch. "Time to move, Ryder."

He broke off into a run towards the village.

[RyderHakubi]

"Oh hell... what an idiot..." Ryder muttered as she took a look at her surroundings...

Ryder then turned to her left and started to flank them, hoping to catch them off guard as they dealt with Kwok...

"Mercury...." she started to chant as she ran...

[Carthrat]

As Miroku ran towards the villiage, a pack of roughly four or five dogs ran out to meet him.

Snarling viciously, with rabid saliva drooling from their mouths, they leaped at him, and as they did, the area around them increased notably in temperature.

[Kwokinator]

Noticing the pack of dogs leaping to "greet" him, he quickly stepped out to the side with his foot.  As he did so, he gave a small push with his leg and went into a low lunge to step away from the dogs, with his arm swinging a circular arc to hit the dogs with the frozen branch.

[Carthrat]

Two of the rabid dogs were caught on the branch, stumbling backwards. There was a sicknening crunch, and it appeared that their noses had been broken. Yipping madly, the began trying to get away.

The other three dogs, however, were under no such strife, closing in on Miroku at an alarming speed.