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Post by Black Knight Durante on Jul 31, 2012 6:37:51 GMT
Thanks to Setsuka's help, Durante manages to find his way to Mt. Fuji without much trouble. While the path was off the beaten road, it was a much quicker route. Though after a long walk, he takes a little break and sits down underneath a tree to examine his surroundings. While he did think that the scenery was rather beautiful with all the trees and birds, he was more concerned about finding the supposed samurai training ground to gather information from them.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 7, 2012 12:27:37 GMT
Suddenly interrupting the little birds' chanting, some screams were heard some distance away like if people were afraid or shouting orders to fight. It seemed quite chaotic.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 7, 2012 13:00:27 GMT
Durante perked his head up and faces towards where he heard the screams. He promptly pushes himself off the ground to stand up and starts running towards the location where he hears people in distress.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 7, 2012 21:53:32 GMT
After a while, Durante can see what seems to be a small villlage. Some samurais are battling agaisnt some strange creature who has the head of a monkey, the body of a raccoon dog, the legs of a tiger and its tail is some moving snake seemingly having a life of its own since it hiss and bite at people while the monster claws at them. Many dead are lying donw on the ground. The monster seems quite ferocious. Some mother and her small children quickly get out of their house were they stayed hidden and almost ran into Durante as they tried to flee. The mother quickly apologize and continue running with her small children.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 7, 2012 22:00:40 GMT
Durante stares at this chimera-like demon, trying to figure out what it is, but he has no clue. Quickly looking around the corpses that surround him makes this obvious that this thing is not friendly. As the woman passes him, he gives off a slight nod. He cautiously approaches the creature and asks him just to see if it can communicate, being careful not to get hit by the other samurai fighting this... thing. "Hey, why are you killing all of these people here?"
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 7, 2012 22:31:09 GMT
The creature does not seem to understand and seems to possess an animal intelligence but Durante can now hear the sounds it makes. As if to confuse even more it is making birds sounds. One of the samurai fighting it tells Durante: "It's a nue, a demon bringer of illness and bad luck! The creature turns around and claw the samurai sending him falling on the ground, unconscious. It then stares at Durante and prepares to pounce on him.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 7, 2012 22:52:39 GMT
As the samurai told him the demon's identity, Durante grips the hilt of his sword and draws it. He has no idea if silver will affect demons of the east, but he figures it's worth a try. When the nue pounces him, he swings his blade horizontally at him in attempt to whack it away from him.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 8, 2012 4:18:48 GMT
[HP=33/50]
The slash only scratched the though hide of the already wounded beast but made it miss its attack. The monster then landed beside Durante and as it turned on itself to attack again, the serpent tail quickly lashed at the black knight, trying to bite him with its venomous fangs.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 8, 2012 4:40:11 GMT
[HP=45/50]
He grunts as the beast clamped onto his arm, but it wasn't enough to fully pierce the steel armor. While the Nue got his arm, he tries decapitating the snakehead tail off with with another horizontal slash.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 8, 2012 12:57:18 GMT
[HP=30/50]
At the last moment, the demon suddenly turns into a black cloud and flies some feet away before it turns solid again and charges back toward Durante. But its tail have been partially cut and the serpent is now bleeding and wiggling in pain yet still there and really furious.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 8, 2012 13:58:21 GMT
[HP=45/50] Durante looks a bit surprised at it's ability to transition from solid to gas. However, as it charges at him he readies his sword again. Predicting it will pounce at him again, he goes for vertical slash to prevent it from jumping straight at him.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 8, 2012 22:10:07 GMT
[HP=25/50]
As the beast was about to jump on Durante, it suddenly noticed the blade coming vertically at it only at the last moment so it received it in the stomach, making a long wound n its tough skinn across the body. But the beast landed on Durante and clawed at him before it tried to rake him with its hind claws.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 8, 2012 22:21:50 GMT
[HP=35/50]
Durante fell flat onto back and he gets smacked around while his armor gets scratched. While he lies down on the ground getting scratched at, he attempts a fierce kick right into the fresh stomach wound in attempt to cause further damage.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 9, 2012 11:51:26 GMT
[HP=21/50]
The monster was still clawing at Durante when it received some kick right into its wound. It still strangely made some bird sound in pain before it clawed at its enemy one more time while taking its momentum to jump away on another samurai who tried to slash at it but only scratched it. The kick seemed more painful...
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 9, 2012 12:22:19 GMT
[HP=33/50]
As it jumped off of him, Durante rolled off to the side and quickly got back onto his feet. He turns back towards the demon and gripped the sword's handle with both hands. He then goes in for a quick thrust at the beast's flank to try to cause it to bleed even further.
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