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Anadwen

"You two have some takeaway in the back, if you want. Seiki, I got you extra wasabi. Amaria... I hope you like sushi." Shinobu explained plainly while starting the car, and pointed at the box behind herself. Seiki picked it up and carefully put down onto the armrest, but kept it closed till they got onto the straight road.

Only then he opened it and picked up the pair of chopsticks that was packed to it. Truth be told, it wasn't as easy to use them with his left hand, and he almost dropped a piece of fish, dunked in the green mass, onto the car seat.

He kept staring out of the window, and no longer seemed so cold. Distant, yes, but not hostile. He was silent and calm, and so was his sister. The only one that seemed not to be miles away was Isako, playing on her phone.

pryatama aphrodite

"No thank you-" came the uncharacteristically hoarse voice of Amaria before she cleared her throat, and fell silent. She seemed to be the only one... to notice the tension radiating off her. She didnt know why it was there, nor how it came to be... But... she did understand she was off her game... unguarded and vulnerable.... Dammit...

Anadwen

Seiki hardly ate two measly pieces of sushi before he closed the takeaway again, and twitched on his seat. The window rolled down as he pressed the button on the door, but even though he stuck his head out of it and let the wind play with his hair, he still felt uneasy.

"There's a spirit nearby..." he uttered.

As if that was a response, something hit the car from the side, and moved it a good few feet to the side. In the mirror, Shinobu's and Isako's surprised faces could be seen - they were alone on the road!

And then the same motion was repeated on the other side. There really was a spirit, and incredibly close! How did it manage to hide its spiritual presence for so long?

Seiki's eyes widened with surprise... And something that could have been horror. He immediately stuck his head out again, and after it went out his arms. The sling that held his right one up was opened by the strength of his sudden movement, and sled off.

A white orb could be charging between his hands, and right after shooting at a large, dark figure by the side of the car. It blasted it away a good distance, but even despite it was lacking an arm as it returned, it managed to keep up with the car. He just used a mid-level spell on it... How was it still alive?

"Seiki, stop! You can't yet-" Shinobu shouted back, but her voice was drowned out by the spirit's roar. Even Isako dropped her phone and was now frantically digging through her bag.

pryatama aphrodite

Amaria noticed, but clutched at the seat and watched from a distance. The way the so called gentlemen moved was incredible. He had obvious .skill, and bottled it well in that frame of his. She tossed a lok at the spirit, freezing up. The blackened figured had the aura of a rune user around it. Something glinted at its waist...

She threw the weapon cylinder and it shifted into the blade shed used earlier. When it planted into the figure, it didn't dissolve as it would a normal supernatural. She set her jaw and removed the trench coat, reevealing a turtleneck, sleeveless black skintight shirt. Her pants shifted to an equally tight black cloth that was stretchable to allow movement. War boots and weapons adorned her form and she grit her teeth. A black tendril (a rune) sprang from her fingertips, and she screamed a name. Her sons name.

Anadwen

Something crashed into the car again, and twisted it around a few times. Shinobu held onto wheel firmly, even though they were all tossed all around the car as it spun round. Seiki managed to get his head back, and was breathing heavily, his eyes suddenly opened unnaturally wide. "Amaria... Stay in the car..." he muttered, even though seeing how her appearance changed, and feeling the strong surges of spiritual pressure that came from her.

The door behind his back opened, and he rolled out of the car, almost immediately unsheathing his sword with a blinding speed. It wasn't a cause of a weapon flashing before one's sight. It was simply in the sheath, and in the next quarter of a second it was in his hands.

Shinobu and Isako got out just as well, unsheathing their own soul-cutters. Each sword was different, but all of them were razor-sharp and deadly.

Seiki was the first one to move. He leaped up at the roof of the car with ease, and slashed after the talons of the beastly-looking spirit, cleaving a few straight off. Even despite the sharp pain in his arm, he moved like he always did, not slowed down a little. Shinobu soon appeared before the car, and a blast of crimson was fired from the hand that wasn't clenched around the sword, developing into several tentacle-like strings, and binding around the spirit, which was still going after Seiki.

pryatama aphrodite

Amaria, despite protest, was assigned to stay in the car. Dam...
But that never stopped a shini shifter from assistance. She'd respect their word, but... Wait, what was that?

She craned her neck out the window and behind her, only to near instantly catch sight of a read aura. Surrounding the creature they were facing.
It was a bit odd, Ill give you that... She retreived her circular device, and whipped back around, aiming it at the. creature and activating its purpous. Or, one of them. The people of the Conara Community are hand picked from the best mix. Inventors, scientists, engineerers, and, of course... publishers. *wink*

She pressed a mishapen button, and a bright light heated up at the back of the funnel. It didn't shoot, but something else flew from her left hand. Two iron balls attached to both ends of a chain. A personalized bolo, or one of the ninja weapons seen in movies.

It wrapped around the creature, and sent it tumbling to the groung, instantly flattening. As if the body inside had not been solid, but ash. She was catching a breath at the flash of a mark tip, and ducked back in the car, dismissing it as mere trick of the eye...

Anadwen

Before Seiki would strike the ghost, bound by Shinobu's spell, it got destroyed, and crumbled to ash. It wasn't a spell, but he caught sight of something flying through the air. Amaria most likely didn't listen to him - he figured out that much.

It was gone. Shinobu and Isako returned to their places in the car, and Seiki, too, returned Blood-red Blossom to its sheath, sliding back onto the seat. He was pale, even more so than usual, but otherwise didn't let on any sign of his own exhaustion or pain.

When Shinobu tried to start the car up, however, it refused to move forwards. She growled, and kicked up, producing a dull thud, but it didn't do anything. With a grumble, she moved out of the interior once again. "Something is messed up. Fife minutes." she muttered, immediately moving over to open the hood of the car and check the engine.

Isako's head appeared between the two front headrests. "You two, are you alright there?" she asked, clutching the sides of the seats with her small hands. "It wasn't a strong spirit, but still, we just dragged both of you out of the hospital."

Seiki gave her a slight nod. After the spirit disappeared, the air itself felt somewhat lighter. "Isako, hide your spiritual presence as much as you can." he instructed his sister. As if it was an answer to his question, another spark of a heavy presence in the air disappeared.

pryatama aphrodite

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