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[songofthedeep]

Who: Cerceus and Xiao Long Nu
When: Afternoon?
Where: Down by the sea.... lake... whatever.
Rating: R
Warnings: Swearing, Violence, and Cy gets sadistic with water torture.
Summary: Cy has managed to piss off yet ANOTHER woman with his insensitivity and disrespectful attitude. This one isn't timid and storms down to the lake to teach him what's

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[wishonastone]

It had been a long walk, and so when Xiao Long Nu stormed out from the trees on the other side of the lake from where her enemy hovered unseen under the water, she was not in the best of moods.

She put her hands on her hips and yelled as loudly as she could (which was ear-shatteringly loud; her gongli wasn't working, but she was a naturally loud person), "HEY! RUDE MAN! ARE YOU HERE?"

[songofthedeep]

Oh, SO nice of her to announce herself so clearly... there was a whistling sound, and half a second later, a six-foot spear thwacked into the tree right behind her, passing close enough by her face that when the shaft wobbled back and forth it touched her hair.

On the heels of it, Cy launched himself out of the shallows and slithered up onto shore, leaning on his hands. His tail trailed back into the water, scales glittering like thousands of blue-green jewels. His eyes were completely black, without iris or pupil, and when he smiled, his teeth were as triangular and sharp as a shark's.

"Hey, mouthy bint. Volume doesn't equal confidence," he mocked her. "You're not fooling anybody."

[wishonastone]

Her eyes flickered and she winced at the passing of the spear, but she kept her aggressive pose strong.

And when he appeared from the water, she manage to stop herself from stepping back, although she'd never seen anything quite so grotesque. He might be ugly, but she wasn't the type to give up easily. "Why are you so weird looking?" she asked tauntingly, and took in the huge breath that marked the beginning of her Lion Roar technique.

She hadn't reckoned on the fact that her energy flow had been disrupted. What came from her mouth was an incredibly loud scream, but it wasn't the supersonic attack that was her trademark.

[songofthedeep]

Cerceus grimaced and turned his head to the side, but when she was done, he gave her a dry eyebrow raise.

"Is that all?" he asked, tone thick with sarcasm. "Your pitch needs a LOT of work, luv. Also your breath, but since I mainly eat fish, that's not a crack I've got room to make."

[wishonastone]

Her throat strained as she tried to work out what was wrong. "Why can't I...I've lost my gongli! Just like Linghu Cong did!"

[songofthedeep]

Cy grinned. "But lucky for me, I'm still strong enough to snap your spine in one hand. Changes the game a bit, don't it?"

[wishonastone]

She swallowed hard, then pulled hard on the haft of the spear, hefting it in her hands. It was different to the weapons they practiced with at school, but she thought it would be similar enough to be useable.

Her expression was determined. "I'm still a student of North Side! Why do you think I'm weak?"

[songofthedeep]

"Cause you waste so much breath protesting that you're strong. Didn't anyone tell you that a classy lady never yells?" He smirked at her, shaking his wet black hair out of his face.

[wishonastone]

"Ehhhhh?" She leant on the spear irritably. "Why do you keep saying stupid things? Why do you think I want to be a classy lady?"

[songofthedeep]

"You'd rather be a loud, annoying bint?" Cy asked dryly. "I get that 'arsehole' is a lifestyle choice, but it helps if you have a bit of charm to carry it off."

[wishonastone]

"My friends like me how I am!" she announced. "I don't want to be anyone else! And why do you say I've got no charm? You've got NO charm AND you're ugly!"

[songofthedeep]

"News flash, luv, your friends aren't here. And it's likely they never will be," he added, pulling no punches. "You're dead. Welcome to hell."

[wishonastone]

"What?" she asked, dumbfounded for a moment, and then gave a short laugh. "Is that the best you can come up with? You really are pathetic!"

Pushing back her disgust, she kicked him hard in the chest, hoping to push him into the water as a punishment for talking such nonsense and being an all round pain in the arse.

[songofthedeep]

Cy braced for it and gave her a dry look. "Er... no," he said flatly once she'd connected. "Niiiice try, though. You can't hurt me. This is hell," he said, waving a hand in the vague direction of the village. "We call it Sheol. You're stuck here for the foreseeable future... so if I were you, I'd get used to the view," he said sadistically.

[wishonastone]

"You're an idiot!" she said, turning away. "Why would I be in Hell? I'm going to find someone who knows where I really am!"

[songofthedeep]

"You're in Hell because you're dead," Cy told her. "Feel free. The village is northeast of here. They'll all tell you the same thing."

His tail splashed flippantly in the water.