FISTICUFFS!
Characters: oathbreaker and brittlenerves
Location: Deck 03, the forest
Date: Just after the gauntlet is thrown here
Rating: Uhhhh... PG-13? THERE WILL BE VIOLENCE! As much as Xanth can muster, anyways. Also probably a lot of tl;dr-ing off Abi's side, but that's nothing new and doesn't affect the rating SO.
Riku paced through the clearing he'd chosen, every muscle tense. He was angry, angry with Xanth and Jinx and everything that had led to the day's events passing. But he was more than angry, he was upset, too. He was upset and worried and hurt and, uncertain of how to deal with these emotions, unwilling to even accept that some of them existed, everything was manifesting itself as a gigantic well of anger that saw no bottom.
Kairi had gone to the maze with Xanth. Kairi had trusted Xanth to go to the maze with her. And now she was nowhere to be found, gone, dead, while Xanth was still here on the ship alive and well, free to do as he pleased and go off to explore another day. Kairi hadn't returned yet--who knew if she ever would? She'd been the one to disappear, she, the one they were supposed to protect, and it wasn't right, it wasn't fair. Xanth should have protected her. If anyone was supposed to have been hurt, it should have been Xanth--it should have been him, really, but he hadn't been there, he'd been somewhere else again and that was a road Riku was refusing to go down right now.
Xanth should have been there. Xanth should have kept her from getting hurt. He'd trusted the other boy, trusted him to take care of Kairi... and he had failed. And in Riku's mind, there was only one way to solve this problem.
It was a simple fix, a simple lesson... but it was one that Xanth wasn't going to forget. Riku would make sure of that.
He continued pacing, all his senses on alert. He would know the instant Xanth got near.
Almost unconsciously, Riku's hand went to the sword at his waist. There were two at the edge of the clearing, laying crossed over each other, but in his mind Xanth should have known enough to bring his own.
There was only one way to settle this.
Location: Deck 03, the forest
Date: Just after the gauntlet is thrown here
Rating: Uhhhh... PG-13? THERE WILL BE VIOLENCE! As much as Xanth can muster, anyways. Also probably a lot of tl;dr-ing off Abi's side, but that's nothing new and doesn't affect the rating SO.
Riku paced through the clearing he'd chosen, every muscle tense. He was angry, angry with Xanth and Jinx and everything that had led to the day's events passing. But he was more than angry, he was upset, too. He was upset and worried and hurt and, uncertain of how to deal with these emotions, unwilling to even accept that some of them existed, everything was manifesting itself as a gigantic well of anger that saw no bottom.
Kairi had gone to the maze with Xanth. Kairi had trusted Xanth to go to the maze with her. And now she was nowhere to be found, gone, dead, while Xanth was still here on the ship alive and well, free to do as he pleased and go off to explore another day. Kairi hadn't returned yet--who knew if she ever would? She'd been the one to disappear, she, the one they were supposed to protect, and it wasn't right, it wasn't fair. Xanth should have protected her. If anyone was supposed to have been hurt, it should have been Xanth--it should have been him, really, but he hadn't been there, he'd been somewhere else again and that was a road Riku was refusing to go down right now.
Xanth should have been there. Xanth should have kept her from getting hurt. He'd trusted the other boy, trusted him to take care of Kairi... and he had failed. And in Riku's mind, there was only one way to solve this problem.
It was a simple fix, a simple lesson... but it was one that Xanth wasn't going to forget. Riku would make sure of that.
He continued pacing, all his senses on alert. He would know the instant Xanth got near.
Almost unconsciously, Riku's hand went to the sword at his waist. There were two at the edge of the clearing, laying crossed over each other, but in his mind Xanth should have known enough to bring his own.
There was only one way to settle this.