Ami/Miroku: Personality Clash!

[Carthrat]

OOC: Little late, Kwok. Ease up the swearing. o-O

Kwok looked at the two swordsmen advancing on him.

Shit... I'm running out of options...

Just then, his leg twitched in pain to inform him of the presence of his wounds.

Dammit.  I can't move that well either, probably.

He glanced at his right arm.  It was convenient, but it had a price that'd be paid in the future.

"Ah, screw it!" he cried as he tore off the ward that sealed off the Air Void. "I'm gonna kazaana you motherfuckers!  You're never gonna kill me!"

"KAZAANA!" he screamed in almost hysterics as he held his palm in front of him to use to Air Void. "DIE YOU SONS OF BITCHES!!"

The Air Void promptly sucked the two surprised swordsmen into Miroku's hand, where they would doubtless meet a grisly fate, being crushed to the size of about a single cell of an ant.

Miroku promptly collapsed to the ground, spent.

Meanwhile, Ami was still hiding, though she doubtless heard Miroku's cry..

[RyderHakubi]

Indeed, Ryder did hear Kwok's call...  However, she was currently trying to make as little noise as possible as she moved across the side of the house she was hiding behind, towards the next road...

Crap... Gotta get to Kwok!  He used the kazanna...  This is not good.  Please kami, help us...

The fog slowly started to clear out as Ryder turned around the corner away from the swordsmen and started to move towards where she heard Kwok...

[Carthrat]

The swordsmen, thankfully, were too busy trying to get to see behind the house to notice Ami slip out.

But when she reached where she though Miroku was, he had gone. And heavy footprints led back into the forest. Miroku's frozen staff lay to the side, as if he'd gone without a fight..

[RyderHakubi]

Seeing the lack of Kwokage when she reached his area spooked Ryder a little...

"Kwok?  Yo, this isn't funny..." she questioned as her visor came down to see if there was anything dangerous in the forest that Kwok seemed to disappear into...

[Carthrat]

The visor indicated nothing out of the ordinary to Ami.

A loud roar from the villiage indicated that the swordsmen there had discovered she was gone...

[RyderHakubi]

Oh crap!

And, with a careful evaluation of the situation and the consequences of her actions, Ryder turned back towards the fog to check if there are any remaining villagers...

I can't be too careful...

[Carthrat]

The bandits had left, apparently. It was unlikely they wished to risk a fight with Ami, and there was nothing left here to indicate their presence..

Though Ami searched, she found nothing save burnt corpses and ruined houses.

The charred bodies of adults stared up at him, now burnt beyond any possible recognition. Those few who had attempted to defend themselves had clearly fallen first, with both bullet wounds and sword strikes indicating the source of their doom.

The more Ami picked her way through the wreckage, the more horror she unearthred from the villiage.

Then she found the corpses of children... equally charred by the cruel raiders who cared little.

A voice seemed to hover.. telling her that this is what the Red Eyes would do to the entire world if let free.. that this was never meant to happen... that this is what she could stop..

[RyderHakubi]

A tear dropped down from Ryder's eye as the death and devistation she picked through flooded her senses... The wretched scent of death was floating through the air, and the blood stained the ground red.

Bowing her head, she recited a small prayer for those that had died...

Kami-sama, those that lie here have paid the price for my delay.  Please, do not punish them for my mistake, and send them to thier eternal peace and joy.  Amen...

Opening her teared eyes, Ryder turned her head towards the forest, and stood.

No more...

And with an icy aura of vengeance, Ryder bolted off in the direction of the heavy footprints...

[Carthrat]

Ami picked her way through the forest slowly, though her destination could be some ways away. Evidently, her mark had been running and had quite a head start...

Meanwhile...

Miroku awoke. He was inside a small, typical Japanese hut, and he was tied to a post. His staff had gone missing, and the wards on his hand had been tied back..

[RyderHakubi]

DAMNIT!!! I'll never save him at this rate!!!

Once again, she leaped up to a branch and started to branch hop in the direction of the footprints...

"Hold on... I can't let you die..."

[Kwokinator]

Kwok tried to struggle against his binds.

"Hey," he spoke up, "anyone around?  Untying me would be appreciated, you know..."

As he spoke, he looked around his current surroundings to see if there was anything of use he could make use of later.

[Carthrat]

From his position tied to a post, Miroku couldn't see anything that might be of use. The room was quite bare, and it looked as if it hadn't been inhabited recently.

"Ah, I see you're awake," came a familar voice.

The owner of the voice presented itself, turning out to be the same cop who had assisted Miroku and Ami with the disgruntled farmer earlier..

"A rather... interesting trick you managed back there. Mind telling me exactly what that was?"

[Kwokinator]

Hey, I know him.  He's the cop that helped me and Ryder.  But if he's a good guy, why'd he tie me up?  Can I trust him?

"Let's just say it's one of the neat tricks I have up my sleeves when it gets necessary and things get heavy," he answered. "Mind telling me exactly why I'm tied up?"

[Carthrat]

"For my protection," replied the cop. "And the protection of others. What sort of policeman would I be if I didn't hold those who could be dangerous to society?

Though perhaps I'm asking the wrong questions.

Perhaps you'd enlighten me as to who that girl was? She is quite an... enigma, especially with her odd clothing and.. strange way of getting changed."

[Kwokinator]

"You've seen me and her," Kwok answered. "We don't, and won't, mean any harm to people."

"Enigma, huh?" he smirked. "As you may have noticed, we're not exactly normal around these parts.  Although if it suits your nervs any, I can tell you that I'm not lying when I say that the clothing and the 'strange way of getting changed' is normal from where she came from, and both of us are from pretty damn far away."