Mountain Cry [M]

i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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Hana

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Aoki Hana

Mountain Cry [M]

POSTED ON Jun 4, 2024 3:11:07 GMT

Her empoleon doesn't expect the fury of a beast. Doing its best to wrench the ape off him, he smashes a metal claw against him, but it's too late -- the explosive fury of the infernape covers him in flames, and his mist disappears in a fiery inferno, revealing the two fainted pokemon.

Hana takes notice only out of the corner of her eye. All her concentration remains on the man in front of her.

The shield is obvious. Even so, it's hard to deny its superiority. Two blades allow you to cut twice as much, but a shield is just as much a weapon. He could have attacked with it if he wanted, but he holds back. Her wild heart only throbs with fury at that realization.

"Yeah? And what if I am?"

He's called her bluff already, but it doesn't matter. He's trying to talk down an assassin. Words won't win him the day this time, but they do speak to the spirit of the man she's fighting. He won't surrender to the heat of battle like the pokemon he's trained.

She understands him more with every blow.

"Doesn't matter. I'm here to kill you, ain't I? Won't be a 'next time'..."

Her smile is fanged like a wolf as she snarls.

She tosses her second blade to the side while she presses down on his shield, keeping it occupied. As it leaves her grasp, rounding the angle of his defense, it takes flight and aims directly at his head. Its no guard ensures the efficacy of its aerial ace, just to be absolutely sure.

"... but I s'pose romance ain't dead after all, thinkin' there's a chance I'd let you live!"

Navy [break]
MISSION: SEARCH PARTY (II)

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Michael Navidson

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Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"

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Navy

Mountain Cry [M]

POSTED ON Jun 4, 2024 3:58:14 GMT

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I DON'T KNOW THE SEASON OR WHAT IS THE REASON I'M STANDING HERE HOLDING MY BLADE.

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Navy is no swordsman. To call himself such feels tantamount to stolen valor. Even in Galar, when the path of the blade was open to him, he chose a gun and threw away the sword. His hands grip Dragonslayer’s handle in desperation of the coming blows.[break][break]
His blade senses the plan. It pivots around with supernatural speed, almost dislocating Navy’s shoulder in the process. Men weren’t meant to swing something this large as fast as he does. He turns the blade as it flies, aiming to swat her with the flat of the blade. Even now, in crisis, with every cell in his body telling him to aim for a kill, he fights his nature.[break][break]
“Rocket ain’t found a way to kill me yet.” He growls as Dragonslayer illuminates, runes along its body glowing. A spotlight is cast from the sword, leading to a tree behind them. The sudden flash of light and his heightened aggression is enough to throw off her aim, he prays.[break][break]
How exhilarating he finds this contest. He understands at last why swordsmen raise their blades. This time between the seconds, knowing he could die at any moment, makes him feel alive.

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Hana

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Aoki Hana

Mountain Cry [M]

POSTED ON Jun 5, 2024 1:26:24 GMT

The shield moves predictably, revealing the man's face again, along with those eyes - eyes that cut into her like bitter steel. Her heart freezes for a moment, enthralled, giving him just enough time to raise his sword.

She silently curses, ducking back.

Her shoulders fall lower than her waist as the sword is thrust at her. She can hear the hum of the light glancing off of its edge. She can feel the heat. It cleaves the tree behind her in two with all its fury, and she laughs in disbelief.

"... Damn, that's good."

Real good.

She's lost the advantage due to a party trick.

There's nothing for her to do. She drops her blades in response. They hiss in anger at the mere suggestion they cease their hostilities, not having taken their fill of blood. Even so, they relent.

She will need to feed them her own later, to pay their price.

For now, all she can do is raise her hands in a mocking gesture of mercy, trusting the sheriff at his word - that he will not kill her.

"Alright, sheriff. You win."

She looks up at the blade, still humming as it hovers over her. Her legs give out and she falls back, planting her ass in the mud. The gilded Aegislash remains above her, her own personal sword of damocles.

"Now what, hm? Am I under arrest? Time for a strip search, maybe? Been watching your eyes, y'know. Hope for her sake you don't have a special someone back home."

She jokes. In a situation like this, it's all she can do.

It would be easy for him to kill her and be done with it. Though she's dropped her swords, her tongue remains sharp. He'll need something more than a sword to disarm her of that much. If this is it, then so be it - but she will not allow him to rob her of her spirit.

Navy [break]
MISSION: SEARCH PARTY (II)

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Teddie

Michael Navidson

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October 13th

Slateport

Heterosexual

Elite 4.

Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"

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Navy

Mountain Cry [M]

POSTED ON Jun 5, 2024 6:22:45 GMT

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Aoki Hana

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I DON'T KNOW THE SEASON OR WHAT IS THE REASON I'M STANDING HERE HOLDING MY BLADE.

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You win[break][break]
The words rouse him to ungentlemanly action. Dragonslayer stays precisely where he is, floating above her. He acts as both reminder and literal threat. Sheriff Navidson grabs her, roughly, and hauls her up. He treats her like a dangerous thing, the sort of feral animal that would bite his throat out given half a chance. His hands search her body for other weapons. Inevitably, one is found and tossed aside. Her hands are forced behind her back, and she is cuffed.[break][break]
Her words force intrusive thoughts through his mind, ones he fights down with a swordsman’s precision. Hana is hauled up, kept close, his hand going for an empty pokeball found on her person. Alone in the woods, without the eyes of the press on him, he can focus purely on surviving this captured feral tiger. Doublade disappears in red light, as does her Empoleon. Wukong is recalled, and they are alone.[break][break]
“You have the right to remain silent.” Sheriff Navidson reads her the rights all criminals are due. Not like you’ll listen to that part.[break][break]
“Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” Handcuffs bind her hand behind her back, the first step on the road to proper justice. Lancelot, a Corviknight that serves as a poor replacement for Ironsides, jumps out of his pokeball. Navy mounts him, holding the swordswoman like a knight might hold a princess.[break][break]
“You have the right to an attorney. If you can’t afford one, one will be provided to you.” His gray eyes look down at her, the expression of a predatory hawk looking down on a wounded animal. “Do you understand these rights as I have said them to you?”

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Hana

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Aoki Hana

Mountain Cry [M]

POSTED ON Jun 8, 2024 17:42:24 GMT

Trust is not so easily given, especially for one like her. But she has no choice.

She does commend him.

Despite the way his eyes of bitter steel cut through her, despite the way he treats her roughly, he does not act on any impulse, to kill or otherwise. He puts her in cuffs, and disarms her, but justice is not his alone to deliver to someone taken into custody. There will be plenty of time before her fate is decided.

That time will be useful, she thinks.

"Ohh, doing your best to act the proper lawman now, hm, hm? Where'd that fire in your eyes go? Extinguished already? Nah... not a chance. I don't believe that, Sheriff.!"

Sincere or not, she can't help but smile at the act, even through the pain of her wrists being wrenched behind her back.

This is not his heart. She's seen how he acts in the midst of battle already, enough to realize that. Denying himself the pleasure of succumbing to the heat of battle can't be easy, but it'll certainly make the moment he surrenders all the more sweet. Just a little more prodding, a few cuts in the right places and even the hardest armor falls away.

"So, now it's all about justice, huh? How much paperwork you gonna take on, not finishing a fight the old fashioned way?"

She tries hitting him where it hurts, tries wounding his pride. He's made of harder steel than that, she realizes quickly.

"Thought the League had given up on justice ages ago. Your colleagues seem to think so. We're at war, you know? My friends will come find me."

That's a lie, but it doesn't matter. That doesn't change his mind either.

He hoists her up easily in his arms, carrying her atop his Corviknight. Any more complaints she has are drowned out by the wind.