Blazing Sky

[Jason Fox]

"Of course it's not... You've never faced someone like me before!"

Halting, 3173 let his foe rush towards him. Turning side-on to the cat's charge, his grin changed... Still being one befitting a demonic entity, the grin was more of a psychotic smile. Leeching half the fire of the sword, he formed a small shield on his opposite side's forearm... Now, with straight sword and buckler preped, he stepped backwards from Aurora's move when she got close enough. As he did so, he sung the sword up at her chest, the demonic flames burning as hot as hellfire.

[Zai Shukko]

Aura turned within mere-seconds, her blade clashing with his, and instead of getting hurt. A massive barrier of solid and thick ice came up between them, unmelting and not affected by the heat of his flames, this ice was special. She pulled her sword from the barrier and stepped back, it wasn't that big, so he could easily step around it or shatter it, but melt it? No, it wasn't possible. This ice couldn't melt.

"Heheh, I'm full of lots of tricks just like this! Keep going! This is fun!" Apparently, there was something wrong with her definition of fun and it was obvious she didn't intend to hurt him seriously.

[Jason Fox]

Jumping back form the barrier, 3173's grin increased to an almost ear-to-ear size. Shattering the ice with a powerful swing, he stepped forwards.

"Never-melting ice against demonic fire? This should prove most entertaining."

Not caring if Aurora was intentionally trying to hurt him or not, 3173's psychotic personality was enjoying the fight. Leaping forwards, he thrust with his sword, while maintaining a guard with the shield.

[Zai Shukko]

Aura thrust her sword into the ground, causing water to burst from the holes underneath 3173, and went it got close to him it turned into ice, spiked shaped, all of them positioned to scratch him up and stall him as she jumped up onto a street lamp. "Too slow!" She called cheerfully.

Water came up from some of the cracks in the ground, slowly covering the street as it began too flood, it seemed her intention the entire time was to sink the area, and it was working too, the water stopped just below knee height. Of course, some parts of the ground were higher than others, so the water level would be different.

[Jason Fox]

OC: Eheh... Sorry it's taken me this long... D.Grey-man is REALLY good to read... And I've just finished Chapter 176... Which is the last one up on onemanga.com right now...
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As the spikes appeared, 3173 leapt them... Right into a patch of knee-deep water.

"Is that all you can do? Block and run and flood the ground? You'll not beat me that way!"

In a flash, the water turned to steam around him, having raised the temperature in the air around himself more than a hundred and eighty degrees... That gave him ample cover until it all rose up and away... Not that he left it that long anyway... Only seconds after he had concealed himself in the steam, he burst from it, heading up the lamp post in a leap that would normally be impossible for his build. As his leap peaked hight, he slashed round in a full circle, aiming to both break the lamp post and even HIT Aurora for the first time the entire fight.

[Zai Shukko]

She jumped back, off the street lamp and once again avoiding his attack and landing on the ground below, which once again began to flood with water as the buildings around them started to creek and the windows started to crack, the buildings no longer able to properly support their own weight.

"Who says I'm trying to beat you?" Another vortex whipped up around Aura, picking up water and spraying it towards 3173, trying to atleast make him a little cold, after all the water itself was very cold.

[Jason Fox]

"You're aiming to inflict a lot of pain... That's the sign you're trying to win!"

As the water sprayed over him, 3173 increased it's temperature to boiling point, immediately negating the chill. Killing another few years f life, he forced the steam to explode as he burst out of it, the hydrogen exploding, and the oxygen keeping it burning behind him as he almost literally flew forwards. As the gap closed between the pair, he thrust forwards with his sword.

[Zai Shukko]

Aura turned her sword, blocking 3173's sword with the blunt side of her blade, which brought up a small plate sized barrier, it wasn't much, and it was already starting to crack. "Oh? Really? Heheh, this is all just a game! Like I'd fight you for real, there's not point!" She pushed away, just before her small barrier shattered and landed back in the water, smiling.

"Come on! How do you know I'm not trying to lose? Maybe I don't want to win?"

[Jason Fox]

"Then don't play defensive at the same time!"

Crouching a little to trail two fingers on the water, 3173 once more made steam, this time by pushing the water suddenly past it's boiling point. If she was unlucky enough to still be in the water, Aurora would be scolded and temporarily blinded by the super-heated steam... If she was lucky, she'd have moved... Either which way didn't matter to him... He didn't plan on losing. Drawing on one trick he had learned in acting; throwing his voice, he called out form somewhere to her right.

"Fighting isn't a game... Not one that is easily dealt with without killing or serious injury!"

Hopefully, she'd be distracted by that trick long enough for his move to work... Rushing through the steam cloud with his sword ready, he slashed waist-high at where he had last seen her, and bulled forwards with a thrust at where he figured she would have moved to if she had moved.

[Zai Shukko]

Aura blew the water away with her wind abilites before it managed to turn to steam, and moved away just as he attacked her, but dodging didn't work so well this time. Her movements left a long cut along in stomach, it was bleeding, but it wasn't exactly bad. She had a worse injury before.

"Agh... That was good! But then, for me fighting is a game! I was trained by the most Elite military company on Earth, I should know! After all, just like in a game, there's a winner and a loser!"

[Jason Fox]

"Feh. I'm the only surviving result of a mad scientist playing God with the help of a fire demon."

Ouch... He hadn't meant for that to come out... Awwww... Better kill her or swear her to silence for now... Then find a way to kill her later.

"I shouldn't have told you about that experiment... I'll have to kill you now... OR... there IS another way..."

He spread his arms slightly, to show he wasn't going to press his advantage... Yet... Before he continued to speak.

"I like things that are very expensive... Because I can sell them to people for money. Right now, I'm after seven very expensive stones... The only seven of their kind in existence; The Chaos Emeralds. I'll let you live if you agree to help me look for them... I'll make it worth your while financially when I sell them."

Now he was REALLY pushing it... Letting go his entire plan, and a promise of paying her plenty of money after he sold the seven gems... Not that he truly intended on keeping that promise... He never did... After all, half his biological body and all of his power was that of a fire demon's... And demons lied right? Perhaps if she continued to interest him, he'd keep that promise... After all, when he sold the Emeralds, he could always steal them back from those he sold them to and use them to rule the world... That meant anything he gained from the initial sale would be like spit in the ocean.

[Zai Shukko]

"Heh, like you could kill me... I could just use my teleporter to get away..." She listened to what he had to say about the chaos emeralds carefully and slowly, not missing a single detail about what he told her. "The Chaos Emeralds? Sure, I'll help. But I don't need money, I've got enough already. Through it doesn't matter much to me... They're pretty hard to find, considering they randomly scatter across the planet all the time. I'll help you."

[Jason Fox]

Was she always this random? She seemed to ignore the fact that he wasn't even fighting seriously... If he had, then it would have gone for much longer if he had started to toy with her... Oh well, at least he had someone to help his search for his money ticket... Then again, the emeralds DID give a lot of power... Could the world be in his grasp if he collected the seven stones? If he ruled the world, the money would be there for the taking anyway... It was win-win as long as he had all seven of them...

"Well... Better this way than I forgo more vitality to cause mass destruction..."

In retrospect, telling her that fact probably WASN'T the best... The only safe part was he didn't mention just how long he still had left...

[Zai Shukko]

Aura had also ignored his last statement, busy exaiming her blade, making sure it didn't recieve any damage from their fight, and it didn't have a single scratch. "Good thing this is made out of that metal..." She looked back to 3173 and smiled again, she was still in a happy mood.

"Looking for the emeralds is hard through, they've been known to end up in werid places... The ocean floor, or buried in the ground or something."

[Jason Fox]

"Then I'm lucky I can make water burn... I can burn a hole down that far if I have to... Not to mention burn through the ground if I must..."

Typical... The Emeralds would never be in convenient locations... That said, the adventure HAD to be worth the effort of getting the power... Not to mention the money... Money was ALWAYS the objective... Power came with the money... And both just made his ambition easy.