“Bring it on you old freak!” Ranma shouted as Jane saw him focus his aura and launch an attack that had her moaning in embarrassment a few seconds later. “IRON DRAGON FIST!”
While that Fairy Tail show that Sue picked up at the convention and had them all watch later in the motel room was the least repugnant of the other dragon’s indulgence of her odd addiction, if it was going to start polluting Ranma’s mind as well, she would have to start putting some restrictions on the vice.
“Ms Jane?”
The dragon looked away from the battle as Happosai and Ranma started going at it, and over to the masked butler that addressed her. That fact that she couldn’t identify him irked her, as his aura was oddly muted in a way different than Ayane’s.
“If you would indulge me a moment. I would ask you to clear Ayane and her friend Ms Carla from the battlefield,” he asked before pointing to the fight.
“IRON DRAGON CLAW!” Ranma shouted before four mystical energy blades flew along the ground towards Happosai, who intercepted the attack and canceled it out at the cost of his aura.
Jane looked back at the fight and saw Ayane had managed to sneak around behind the gnome as was preparing to attack. She said something that Jane couldn’t quite make out over the din of the crowd, but the woman’s words apparently warned the gnome in the last seconds and he pun around to blast her into the air with a strike that was more solidified aura than actual mass.
“Yeah, she does some a bit out of her league,” the dragon mumbled before mumbling a spell to create a wind current that slowed Ayane’s descent as well as flipped her around right side up before it brought her down next to the dragons and the butler.
“I’ll go get Ayane’s friend,” Sue volunteered as she moved close to the ring’s edge were the woman had collapsed. The dragon quickly reached in and grabbed Desire by her costume and pulled the girl into her arms.
Close as she was, Sue couldn’t help but get in in-depth look at the poor girl’s aura. The reaping she had suffered had been a shoddy affair, doing far more damage to her than what Sue had heard people were supposed to suffer. It made the dragon feel said for Ayane, that she was going to loos someone she cared about in such a way.
The sudden twist in the wind and aura punch had Ayane stumbling. “Whoa, freaky air conditioning,” she mumbled while stumbling around before Jane grabbed her by the arm and helped the woman steady herself. “Thanks for the assist. But you guys should be getting out of here before that old bastard looks this way.”
When she tried to step back towards the ring, Jane reached forward and grabbed Ayane by the wrist. “Stay here, or run to the back with your servants,” Jane told her. “I’d suggest you do the second. It’s probably safer.”
“Hey, you don’t know what that bastard did to me!” Ayane said to the other woman as she glared at her in the eyes. But instead of someone sent running in terror, all she got was a…raised eyebrow? Okay, that‘s new…
But before Ayane could recover, Sue spoke up. “Hey Jane, I really don’t like the looks of Desire down here. Can you do anything?”
The distraction kept her form mention how Happosai. In her first fight of the UFF when she was under Zero’s tutelage, he had completely humiliated Ayane by managing to strip her completely naked before taking off with her clothes and underwear. Luckily, the event hadn’t been televised and so her reputation was saved thanks to the UFF wanting to avoid a scandal. But she could still remember that bastard’s hands fondling every inch of her naked flesh with that almost curious look on his face; as if he had never touched a woman before.
But instead of getting wrapped up in herself, Ayane pushed the memories to the back of her mind and went to her friend’s side. “Carla!” she shouted before kneeling and checking the woman’s pulse. It was low, and Ayane couldn’t tell if she was breathing over the noise coming from the crowd. That, and the fact her eyes were open told the Mistress that her friend was in something approaching a catatonic state.
Jane frowned at the prone form and grit her teeth as she surveyed the damage. This isn’t good, she thought while considering everything she could.
Although Jane had the body of a dragon that was older than the human race and all the power that came with it, a dragon’s natural spell repertoire that they just knew didn’t include anything in the way of healing sells that had to be gained from outside sources as they wandered the world.
If she went to D’Bra for help with some simple healing magic, it would raise question that Jane knew were best left unasked. But if she didn’t, the human was as good as dead; and Jane found she didn’t like the idea of Ayane crying over her lost friend either.
Of course, if the human just up and died on them, D’Bra might wonder why Jane and Sue hadn’t been able to save her too, being such old and experienced dragons.
Well crap, the dragon thought to herself before she noticed something happening above the ring.
(Posted Fri, 31 May 2013 04:30)
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