Tsunami was left with no more time to think as the creature lunged towards him, arms extended out to maul him as if his opponent was a wild beast pouncing its prey. Tsunami shifted his stance, back stepping as the creature rushed in, and raising his sword in defense.
Tsunami blocked a savage swipe of the creature’s claw with his blade, side stepping quickly to avoid it tackling him with its forward rush. Bringing his sword to bare, he thrust forward quickly to stab the creature.
The creature blocked the magical sword with his glimmering claws, an act that surprised Tsunami. He cursed himself a fool when his surprise got the better of him, the were-smilodon snaking in his defenses and punching him brutally in the ribs and chest numerous times before he could bring his sword down in a swipe, warding the creature off as he back stepped from the creature to regain the advantage of distance.
The creature seemed to stall a moment, circling him carefully as if he was searching for any holes in his defense. Tsunami winced, pain flaring in his abused ribs as he thought about his opponent. "He.. is strong. Monstrously so." His ribs felt as if they were cracked, and his chest felt as if a flare fire had seared him across the front where he had been struck. "He's fast.. really fast." Tsunami groaned again mentally at that. Fast. Strong. Skilled. It just wasn't his day.
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Ranma eyed the man warily. While he had been the victor thus far in their breif melee scrimage, a few of those sword slashes and thrusts had come close to hitting him. It was obvious though, the man wasn't an up and front fighter, and he shouldn't have expected anything less from the Ninja. They tended to work in shadows, the path of a Shinobi and all that.
Pushing forward, Ranma tested the mans defenses with numerous near amaguriken punches. He was relieved the man was able to either dodge, or deflect the blows as he backed up to gain distance. Still, he had yet to see the man on the attack, and was kind of curious how good this weapon master really was.
"Amaguriken!" He shouted, the shimmering field surrounding his claws winked out, only to reappear brightly around his fists as flaming Ki energy. His fists became a blur as they broke the sound barrier, leaving sonic booms in his wake as he lunged forward into the mans defenses.
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Tsunami grunted, blocking as many of the attacks as he could while dodging what he couldn't. He couldn't contend against the speed of the attack, and not for the first time he realized the prowess of the were-smilodon had been toned down from the truth of the matter. "Shit." he groaned mentally as the force of the creature’s blow blasted his katana from his hands to a good fifty or so feet behind him. As he began moving to escape the creature’s attack, Tsunami felt numerous blows slam into his body. The sound of bone breaking under the assault alerted Tsunami he was really in deep shit at the moment. Pain flared up from his side, a sticky warm wetness ushering forth from his mouth with the blows. He knew it was blood.
Back flipping to escape the immediate area of destruction being inflicted by the creature, Tsunami tried to put enough space in between him and the creature while ignoring the flaring wounds of his injuries. The creature seemed to be following him though, and only now he was just outside the creatures effective attack range by the barest of margins.
Back flipping high, Tsunami pulled three specially prepared daggers from his suit. "Kanzou!" he shouted, flinging the projectiles at the creature as he tapped into the ethereal stream to speed their flight. The daggers sped true, but were knocked away with little effort as the creature jumped up into the air with Tsunami, moving faster than even some one as trained as Tsunami could see.
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Ranma smirked as he took to the air after the Ninja. His daggers had been sneaky, but whatever the ninja seemed to draw power from was clearly visible to his eyes. He had to wonder why he would even do such a thing, since it wasn't very stealthy compared to a warrior of his capability.
Kicking the man brutally in the chest, Ranma was surprised to hear a distinct crack as his chest began to cave in from the force of his blows, followed by the most sickening grunt of pain he had ever heard in his short life. The man crashed into the ground roughly, slowly struggling to his feet despite the pain of numerous broken bones and internal bleeding.
Following the man back to the ground, Ranma pounced on the down man ready to end this fight. He was surprised when the man turned on his back and threw a dagger at him, this time with out whatever energy source he had used previous. Surprised by the sudden action, Ranma could do nothing as the dagger ripped into his shoulder painfully.
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"~I win.."~ Tsunami communicated with a smug expression, despite the absolute mind numbing pain he felt. ~"Silver is your great..est.. what?" Tsunami's expression dropped in shock as the creature reached up and yanked the silver dagger out of his shoulder, blood falling to the ground for a few moments until the wound itself let up like a living flame of blue ki fire, only to disappear and leave no trace that he had ever been wounded in the first place.
The creature snorted, casually tossing the dagger to the side. "Don't know why everyone thinks silver is suppose to hurt me.." the thing said cruelly as he grabbed Tsunami with one of his massive hands, lifting him up from the ground. He brought the ninja up to his face before continuing, "Your not half bad, for a weapon user. Whatever Ki your using you need to stop, I could see your attacks comin a mile away." Tsunami would grunt, if he could. The pain from his broken rips and extremely damaged rib cage making such an action impossible. He was amazed he was still conscious considering all the damage and internal bleeding.
The creature then slammed Tsunami head first into the ground, before picking him back up and repeating many, many times until Tsunami finally lost consciousness.
***
Ranma grunted, pulling on the rope one last time before tying it around a tree. He spared the fallen weapon master a glance, before wrapping his cloak around himself again and running off to the south. "One down, ten to go." he thought as he ran. "Gotta hurry with the weapon masters in Seers Hamlet. They are going to be up in arms once some one finds Tsunami."
Tsunami was hanging upside down, his arms tied behind his back, while his feet were tied together to a rope that had been swing over a tree's limp, then pulled down and tied to a tree to keep Tsunami suspended five feet above the ground. His bloody cloths had been peeled away and left at the base of the tree he was tied up too, except for his face/throat scarf and a pair of underwear. His body was bruised, broken, and bloody. He was still alive, though.
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