[Battle Prp] [1v1] Still got my balls | Ariane & Amrita

[Dragain]

Ariane was, for the most part, not fully recovered; she was still bandaged up in some areas, and there were bruises all over her body, making moving too fast a painful task. She was well enough to "get out of bed" but really, there was no reason why she should be at the lighthouse, standing right in front of the portal that would led her back to the Haunted House... The dreaded Haunted House where she had nearly lost her life - not once, but twice now. First due to the giant monster 'Red' and then, that recent incident with the Horseman 'Conquest'...

Hopefully she would live long enough to celebrate her 21st birthday, not that being legal have anything to do with being a hunter.. Is Deus Ex even legal?

Pushing her hair back, she took a deep breath, checked that the blue glowing pendent - her only ticket home - was securely around her neck, and then took a step forward through the portal despite Kintama begging for her to go back to bed. It was time to go digging for information regarding the place. She's a Death hunter. She can do this. Besides, this would be a good way to train! She had to get stronger... Strong enough to defend herself against those monsters.

With that thought in mind, she walked through the first door, ending up in a brightly lit room with pure white walls, making it almost painful to look at for an extended period of time...

[Rolling a 3: ALL DAMAGE IS HALVED.]  

[Enoh Love]

Amrita certainly didn't remember ever seeing a corridor there. In fact, she was pretty sure that was supposed to be where the bulletin board was. Hm. Maybe...they decided they wanted a hallway instead of a board? Stranger things have happened.

Now that she knew it was there she was wondering where it led to, and didn't think twice about heading down the hallway, holding a couple textbooks to her chest and her tattered backpack slung over one shoulder. It was someplace new! Hopefully, anyway; it still could very well be a known hallway, and that would be embarrassing.

Luckily, that was not the case.

But, upon recognizing the Haunted House...she really did wish that was the case. She wasn't sure why she kept walking, or even why she stepped into the house. Everything in her told her to turn and run, but...she just couldn't.

She ended up in a room, a plain, rather empty room of pure white. Somewhere in the room, she saw a figure but couldn't yet distinguish it.

Ow.

"W-who's there?!" The Vetala demanded, shifting the books in her arms so she could rub her eyes and adjust to the blinding white.  

[Dragain]

Ariane had a hand to the wall of the room, trying to find a way out; if she remembered correctly, one room led to another in this place... The arrival of someone caused her to freeze, and she squinted at the newcomer, trying to determine if it was friend or foe while trying hard not to stare directly at the lights above them or the white, white walls.

However, after a moment of squinting, she quickly realized that the other figure wasn't a fellow hunter. This could only mean one thing - the stranger was probably the 'presence of FEAR' that they were supposed to watch out for... And possibly eliminate.

"I wonder," She muttered, pulling Kintama's desummoned form off her neck, twitching at the bright flash of light from it when it transformed into the bolas she was so familiar with, "What are you doing here?"  

[Dragain]

'You mean kill it with you.'



'That's nice to know.'

However, as Ariane made that first step towards Amrita, she realized that there was something very wrong - with her body still in a bad shape, she could hardly lift her weapon up, much less to swing it the way she would normally do. Clenching her teeth to help with the pain, she closed the distance between them and swung Kintama out, feeling it hit something pretty solid.



HP: 40/40
Damage: 4/2=2
Charge: 1/3

[OOC note: Ariane is injured so I'm using the lower stats.]  

[Enoh Love]

Her corpse-hazy eyes were starting to clear, and the figure was coming in to view. There was an almost familiar white jacket (or something) tied around her waist...

Amrita's chest seemed to tighten, her body going stiff with sudden fear. Was...was this ghoul a Hunter?!

"I...I came from the---" A pause, a brief glance behind her. The Hallway! If this Hunter managed to get out, that hallway was incredibly obvious. They could get right into Halloween with it! Oh Jack this was bad! The attacker stepped closer and Amrita threw her arms up to block whatever attack was coming; she was too late however, and one of the heavy balls clipped her arm as her books tumbled to the ground at her backwards feet. More importantly, she felt the brief sting of something picking at her FEAR.

This...this was a Hunter! It was just like last time! She had to keep it from exiting, from finding that corridor!

"Leave!" Amrita demanded, stepping forward to swing an awkward punch at the ghoul; it was weird, though. She felt the force behind it, and yet...she felt so weak! What was going on!

HP: 38/40
Damage: 5/2 = 2.5  

[Dragain]

"Leave? No, not before you," She grinned despite the pain, trying not to let the fact that she was already injured show, even if the creature's light punch did cause her to wince and move a few paces backwards.

"What's that behind you?" She was sure that the creature had glanced behind her instead of finishing her sentence earlier, although she could be mistaken; the lighting in the room made it difficult for her to look at anything.

HP: 37.5/40
Damage: 3/2=1.5
Charge: 2/3  

[Enoh Love]

"Oh, but be my guest!" Amrita hissed, feeling the next attack graze by her, and thinking nothing of lashing out moments later, fumbling as one of the lights from above blinded her.

The question went ignored.

"How did you get here?!" Was there a corridor here, too? Perhaps a second wave of hunters, looking for that corridor to amity?!


HP: 36.5/40
Damage: 1/2 = 0.5  

[Dragain]

"No. no, after you," She grinned, raising an eye brow, "Hiding something, are we?" It was a wild guess, just something to keep her mind occupied so that she wouldn't focus too much on the pain in her body. The question was met with a pause and then a chuckle.

"How did I get here?" She echoed, bringing her weapon down on the creature, barely hitting as the lights was starting to make her eyes hurt, "Wouldn't you like to know?"

HP: 37/40
Damage: 2/1=1
Charge: 2/3  

[Enoh Love]

"N-no!" Amrita stammered out, perhaps a little too loudly. "I-it was out of concern for you, that's all!" A lie, of course. If this was a Hunter - and she was pretty sure now that was the case - she wanted to see her squashed like a bug. However, if it was just one little Hunter...well, Halloween could crush her in an instant. Then who could go back to report about the corridor?! Hah!

The next attack was brushed off as the others had been; whatever was making her sluggish was making this hunter sluggish too, she could tell. Despite the tingle in her arm, she grabbed the chains of the hunter's weapon, using it to keep the ghoul closer to her; her hand came down in a fist on her wrist, hoping to at least get the weapon out of her hands.

She had to let go pretty quickly though, as it was starting to hurt.

"...W-well yes, I would." The question made her pause more than the attack did, staring at the Hunter, completely baffled. "It's...kind of why I asked." Blink, blink. Was this Hunter stupid?


HP: 35.5 / 40
Damage: 4/2 = 2  

[Dragain]

Kintama's happy chattering brought a smile to her lips as she simply allowed the creature to grab her weapon. However, when the undead touched her, Ariane didn't bother to hide the look of disgust on her face as she jerked away, using as much force as she could spare, just to get away.

"You're such a great liar," She chuckled lowly, clutching her side when she realized that even chuckling made everything hurt, "Let's see what you have there-" Without waiting for the undead to react, Ariane took a sudden sidestep - which might had been accompanied by lots of wearing when that hurt too - past her, coming to... A door.

So that's what she was hiding... What was behind that door, anyway?

Grabbing the doorknob, she quickly realized that it would not turn, no matter how hard she tried; on another day, she might had tried to kick it down, but right now? She was in no condition to kick down anything, much less something that looked so solid.

"You're also not very bright," She muttered, leaning against the door that would not open.

HP: 35/40
Damage: 0
Charge: 2/3  

[Enoh Love]

"I don't have to be." Amrita insisted stubbornly, trying to stop herself from her obvious, full-bodied tense as the ghoul got behind her, and to the door.

"I-I'm smart enough to deal with you!" The Patchwork spat, turning on her toes and swinging a balled fist towards the ghoul's stomach, since she was so nicely pinned up against the wall.

"Now that, was not very bright of you." She informed the Hunter, her fist still firmly planted in her gut. The Undead stood close, very close; the human disgusted her, but she hoped to disgust the human more.


HP: 35.5 / 40
Damage: 3  

[Dragain]

Amrita's plan worked pretty well; the fact that an undead was so close to her - without any sort of a barrier, like the bars of a cage for example, between them - disgusted her. However, what disgusted her more was the fact that she couldn't seem to use her full strength against it. Ugh.

"Sure, but we all make mistakes," She winced at the punch to her gut, pretty sure that a wound had opened somewhere. However, the fact that they were so close to each other also made it easier for her to land a hit; fingers tightening around her weapon, she swung it at the undead's legs, unable to fit the bolas any higher.

HP: 32/40
Damage: 2.5
Charge: 3/3