The Cat Upon the Cliff vs The Armored Man

Luna sat on a cliff meditating, her black and white fur ruffling in the wind as she breathed in then out matching the ebb and flow of the ocean crashing against the cliff side. A soft silver aura radiated around her as she quietly sat, rumors had began circulating about a powerful being who resided on an inactive volcano turned island supposedly a hermit. She wore a black and white martial arts gi as on the back of both hands were a yin and yang symbol, the yin symbol on the white hand and the yang symbol on the black. On her back under the uniform was a Bagua map, her cat ears twitched on the gentle breeze as her twin tails flicked gently. Fauxhass scuffled around his armor, and quickly leaped over a dead tree, he exhales, and quickly regains his sense of direction back. "Oh, right. The village..." He turns towards the pathway, which was besides the cliff Luna was meditating on. His armor shone brightly in the sun, the plate reflecting some of it into Luna, possibly catching her attention. His short sword was readied in his hands, and his shield, still bloody from the last kill. "Hopefully that merchant didn't had his friends around..." He said, with a high enough voice for Luna for hear. He glanced at Luna, and winced. "B-Blast..! Who are you..?" The villain shivered in fear. The cat said nothing, simply meditating before the ground quietly quivered as if to fear her presence. Fauxhass feeling unsafe, if he left the new figure alive, attempted to approach her. His soft, plate boots gushing at the ground after each step. "Excuse me..?" He did not care if the person he was about to confront was anyone. He was paranoid. Luna sat meditating as the tremors grew more and more violent as he approached closer.

Fauxhass backed off, when he wanted to do his 10th step. He was now 16 meters away from Luna. He decided to pull out his shield. "Y'know, it's rude to not answer someone." He said, with another tone, which was darker, deeper and more grim. His sword shining brightly, the blood slightly deafening the reflection of the sunshine. The cat lady softly exhaled causing the tremors to stop. Fauxhass tightened the grip of his right hand, which was holding the shield. Instead of calming down, he tensed up. He looked at Luna. "Sorry to disturb your little picnic. But I feel like I need to do something about you or I'll regret it." His dark, orange eye glowing as if it was a small neon circle. Sitting quietly a violent force strikes him head on, Fauxhass quickly bent his body forward, as if anticipating for the force. His left-shield-hand up, trying to guess for a projectile attack. The force alone dragged him back a substantial amount of distance, but his feet remained on the ground. "Manners matter." He continued. Luna sat there quietly before speaking. "Turn back now... This will be your only warning..." She said calmly. The armored man sets a ghostly grin behind his helmet. He stepped forward once, and held his left hand out, the sword pointed at Luna, as if he's opposing her. "I can't run away from my mistakes, I might want to prefer a honorable death, than a traitors death." He stepped back again, and did his defensive stance; his shield low, and his sword up. She  sighed softly and a heavy force bashed into his back then again at his front before she stood up, the silver aura fading as the ground began to shake violently. "Very well..." She said as the two symbols glowed and she turned to face him, silver gray eyes distant as they peered through him.

Fauxhass stayed his ground, his stance providing him with better grounding than before, which resulted in him just sliding back for a couple feet. His eyes turned to a half moon, as he tightened his grip, and moved forward, being only slightly affected by the shaking ground. Luna walked over as he felt as if he was facing something entirely different than some cat lady, her presence felt otherworldly before her eyes turned a bright white, the wind ripping around them as she took an open handed stance. "If it is death, I will grant it." She said emotionlessly as silver aura radiated around her. "I have no one to come back to. I've killed them all." He stepped forward. "I have no place to live at. I've burned them all." He stepped forward again. "I.." He cuts his own sentence, and quickly jumped, both of his hands on the hilt of his sword, the blade rippling the air, and striking down. Luna raised her right hand to met the sword before her hand radiated white and she turned it meeting the flat of the blade and knocking it off course and narrowly missing her as she stepped in and continued with her extended hand, bending it back and down towards his chest rotating her hand facing forwards. Upon impact she would release static Ki through the armor and into him sending him away. He released the grip of the short sword, and spins his body horizontally, making Luna's hand flail around, harmlessly. He quickly regained balanced, and pulled his sword out followed with a cheeky shield bash. She slid her foot out as a wall of earth blocked the hit, bringing her arms close to her chest she spread them out and bent the elbows before thrusting forwards sending the wall at the shield before closing her hands and swinging down crumbling the wall into small projectile rocks and flinging her hands forwards sending the now rock turned spikes at him.

Quickly he rolled back, sheathing the sword, but not the shield, he does a hand gesture, as his shield seem to be coated in a much bigger layer of blue light. It made the rock spikes flew away harmlessly, but was soon destroyed by the last one, which hit him on the side of the helmet. It clatters, but only dents it a bit. He scoffs. "Might be a fair fight, no?" He asked. Luna closed her eyes and exhaled before taking her stance once more, now a closed fist stance, her left hand extended out as the right was pulled back a bit. Fauxhass pulled the sword back out, it's blood now fading to a brown coat. His neon eyes look straight at Luna's closed ones. "This isn't a boxing club, get real." He spins and slides down the ground, the force of his spin and the grip of the sword adding to the force of the impact. It was aimed at what-seemed-to-be Luna's abdomen. Retaliating, she kicked the ground sliding away before stomping the ground launching up a boulder before him as he slide before she raised her leg up and kicked outwards sending the boulder at him before stomping down and turning her body so her right side faced him as she pulled back her left arm and thrust her right arm outwards causing the soon to be impacted boulder to violently explode before him. He threw his sword, the blade whizzing past the exploding boulder. He takes his stance again, and casts the same spell. The blue coat protecting his vital parts, but not his legs. One piece of the now-exploded boulder collided with his knee, and it sent him wincing, slightly. Once he looks up, the sword was already past the dust cloud, and getting its way towards Luna.

Luna thrust her arms down and then back up to her chest as she shifted her right foot at him she turned with knee raised and stomped down thrusting her hands back down as a pillar of earth knocked the sword upwards before she rolled forward and into a front flip. Bringing her right foot down she unleashed a wave of fire before landing and soon turning her body as she swung her leg out sending a horizontal wave of fire, as he foot touched the ground she stepped forward bringing up three boulders that she then sent out at him as she thrust her fists out at him before taking an open handed stance and waiting, a silver aura radiating around her. He stood up, and launched himself, revealing a hidden falchion blade that was stored in his right side of the hip. He held his shield up, and turned into a bullet, driving through the fire, making him only feel the slight heat of it. He then rotates in the air, and slashes at one of the giant boulders, the impact destroying it. The other two was sent to his back. He quickly landed, and rolled before regaining his balance, and sending more waves of attacks at Luna, at a faster speed. She raised her arms up and pushed forwards sending another wall of earth at him before she moved through the boulder creating thick rock like armor as she rolled through the wall and met his blade with her rock fist clashing against it.

Fauxhass sent a quick blow, before leaping backwards, and doing a fancy back flip, he used the same defense spell to coat his shield, but instead of staying, he crashed the layer on the earth, creating a hole for him to go through. His sword landed a couple feet next to him, but he didn't take it just yet. He slashed diagonally at Luna's face. Luna raised her hands up blocking the hit with her stone arms before the stone armor shattered and she stepped in close. "Forbidden Soul Art: Destruction." She said lowering her arms to chest level before striking hard against him unleashed a violent force through him as the resulting impact would leave him feeling blank, the world around him becoming dark and cold as numbness would crawl through him. He quickly bent forward, meeting the force with his own falchion blade.. The blade shatters, the metal whizzing back, one hitting him in the shoulder, knocking the armor off. The force, though reduced, sent him flying back some-ten feet away, crashing down at the ground. He quickly stands up, and takes back his short sword, seeing the falchion blade's less than useless. Luna took her open handed stance and stood there. "Enough playing..." She said dropping her stance and walking towards him before sprinting. "I was about to say the same." His eyes turned completely red, as the sword seem to ignite, the blade not only coated with blood, but ember, fire and flames. He gripped the short-sword with both of his arms, the right-shield-arm both defending and gripping it. He waited for Luna to kill him. "End it." He spat.

Luna slid to a stop and shifted her foot across the ground forcing the ground beneath him to pull back tripping him, raising her hands up she unleashed a burst of wind to launch him up, her left eye shifting blue she held her hand out to him and swung down smashing him into the ground before closing it and raising her rights steel spike would rip from underneath him. The armored man was completely caught off guard, his footing losing to the sliding ground, as if it was a mere cloth. He flew upwards, and shortly afterwards, smashed down, his abdomen sprouting a new steel spike. He gasped for air. His right hand lets go of the shield, while the left one laid limp, the short-sword still remaining, burning. She walked towards him as she stared coldly down at him. "I grant you your wish of death." She said as his armor heated up immensely before burning him alive. Fauxhass coughed blood as he looked up at her. "... What are you, some kind of deity? I stopped believing years ago..." He said, with the faintest grip of life. "Keep the stove down a bit. If ye want to cook me, cook me good..." He joked around death. The feline stared at him. "No, I'm no deity, just someone who has become one with the force of the world around her..." She said stopping the cooking before lifting him off and healing him with her Ki. The man  had started to regain his vision. "... Nature's guardian? Sounds cheeky... You did your job well on keeping it..." He hesitates. Luna nodded. "I guess you could say I'm a guardian... But I have lost touch with the outside world for some time now..." She said sitting beside him once she finished healing him. Fauxhass he looked at his pierced armor. "Looks like I won't be doing much with this plate armor anymore." He looked at Luna, his neon eyes were now purple. "... I hoped to see my wife, after losing that battle. Yet, you've extended my vacation..." He said feeling his strength return.

Luna shook her head. "I have given you a second chance, there is more to life than simply battling... Seek resolution, change yourself... Our paths will cross again..." She said. Fauxhass paused, and looked at his falchion blade. "I'll be sure to check that in me head, and to bring better swords." He sets a ghostly grin, though a friendly one. "... Thank you." He said. "You are welcome." She said simply, standing up and returning to the cliff to sit down and resume meditation. "... Well now you've seen it, Hass." He turned to his shield, and picked it up. He then starts to walk back, resuming his path, to wherever the dirt track might lead him to. Maybe a bloodbath, maybe the end.

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