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Who: Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, partners, others later
What: This is becoming a tradition. Investigating a sword in stone.
When: July 5th, 2009
Where: Paladin Point, Draco Island
( You really are a needy little thing, you know that, right? )
What: This is becoming a tradition. Investigating a sword in stone.
When: July 5th, 2009
Where: Paladin Point, Draco Island
( You really are a needy little thing, you know that, right? )
Lina continued with her chin in hand, kicking the dirt as she went. He was right, though it begged the question of what someone else WAS doing here. Mind you, she was certain it made a great tourist spot and everything... but the timing was just mildly suspect.
Those bootprints... it wasn't from anything that LIVED here. No Tamers really seemed to, at least not for very long... It also wasn't HEAVILY frequented, at least judging from Comm posts...
No, it was a Tamer. Human or humanoid.
There were any number of reasons one could be drawn here...
She stopped short, as she came across a plaque.
It read:
THIS LEGENDARY BLADE
CAN ONLY BE DRAWN BY THE HOLDERS OF
THE TAGS OF THE DRAGONS, THE BEASTS, THE MACHINES MACHINE,
THE DWELLERS OF THE JUNGLE,
THE BIRDS, THE HOLY ONES, THE DARK ONES,
AND THE DENIZENS OF THE SEA
"Well, that's a nice set of instructions, there," Lina mused, running a finger across the words.
She had seen it before, in texts from various libraries.
It was obviously something of importance, but damned if she or anyone who wrote about it really seemed to understand fully what. Well, besides her suspicions - she had PLENTY of suspicions, but no concrete PROOF. And there was little ways she could get without THAT.
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Vergil had appeared silently behind them, approaching them with his sheathed katana in hand.
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At the same time, Kotemon drew his sword, giving Vergil's partner an angry look.
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"Well hello!" Dracmon cackled, raising his hands aggressively as he beheld Kotemon. "You eager to get your butt kicked again?"
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Freaking Witchenly people seemed to lead to this guy.
...
No, scratch that. Witchmon.
She knew he was good. Very good. At least every bit as good as Gourry. And that, was not something she would ever say lightly.
And there was something that was ... distinctively unusual about him, besides that maddening level of skill.
"Oh, yes, of course," Lina said. "'Cause being cautious around the guy who almost cut my head off last time is a bad thing. Though I was wondering where your butt had gotten off to..."
She planted her hands on her hips. "No, Gourry. Not following him. Just so happens we end up at the same place regarding the same thing at the same time, again. Funny how things work out, eh?"
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"You wanna play nice, you can quit threatening us!" Kotemon said in annoyance, ignoring Dracmon's taunt.
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"Can I get 'em?" his partner asked.
Vergil's answer came in the form of a sudden lunge and a ring of steel as he dashed towards Lina, his sword leaping from its sheath faster than an untrained eye could see. Dracmon was enveloped in a shimmer of light and he evolved, unceremoniously, into Matadormon.
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Wholly expected.
Someone trying to kill them?
Must be that time of the week.
She braced herself in the split second that followed. Even with her exceptional reflexes, she didn't have a chance of dodging that unscathed in the instant that Vergil was attacking her.
Despite that, though, she had very little worry as to her chances of living through the next five seconds.
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As a matter of fact, he was betting Lina's life on it.
It just so happened, he was right.
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This exchange took place in less than a second.
Only as Gourry was attacking Vergil was Kotemon finally able to respond to Dracmon's evolution, evolving to Mystimon and levelling his sword towards Matadormon. "We've done nothing to you!" he shouted angrily.
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Still, she wasn't going to just stand around when she had a sword pointeda t her head.
Thus, she snapped up one hand, clenching her eyes shut as the spell she had been silently summoning burst forth from her palm.
"LIGHTING!"
The otherwise harmless light spell flared forth right in Vergil's face... just as she took a jump back, and ducked low, swirling flames replacing the vibrant glow in her hand.
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He sighed a bit dejectedly, looking back and forth between the two Perfects, before nodding in agreement with Mystimon. "Yeah! You can't tell me you're still sore about a botched robbery from a year ago, are you?"
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But there was no way that Gourry would expect this either.
He lifted Yamato's sheath in one hand, blocking Gourry's blast sword with Yamato's blade before slamming it back into its sheath. The summoned sword that Gourry caught and turned around to attack cut through his throat like a hot knife through butter, sending a line of blood through the air before the blade disipated with a shattering sound.
Vergil's eyes closed quickly, but whether from the light spell or from his throat being slit nobody could tell. It didn't seem to matter, as he was already drawing Yamato once again to cut at Gourry's stomach.
Matadormon didn't seem to notice his partner's condition, or he didn't care. "We don't forget being slighted," he sneered, pointing his claws towards Mystimon. "And you, dragon, should stay out of this. I can't be bothered to care when weak digimon cry. THOUSAND ARROW!"
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"Am I?" Vergil asked, and Gourry did a double-take. Before his eyes, the cut in Vergil's neck was closing, as though it had never even been there. And in Gourry's distraction, he never noticed Vergil's foot shooting up and snapping into his face, sending the swordsman flying.
Having learned from the fight a year ago, Mystimon started to cut through the air to deflect Matadormon's attack. A majority of the blades were cut down, but a few penetrated his sword barrier and sliced him. With a yell of pain, Mystimon swept his hand in front of him. Several small globes appeared in front of him, and as Mystimon yelled "CORE DART!", they transformed into glowing cones that launched towards Matadormon.
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