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Gin snickered a bit "I still can't get anything past you" he smiled and unzipped the bag and pulled out one of the practice swords "I challenge you to a duel"

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X X X Alexander sat. His eyes were widened with fear and distress. He was out on the sidewalk, back to brick wall. Where was he? That question had long but disappeared from his mind. He didn't care anymore. He just wanted to be somewhere. Somewhere away from here. Anywhere. It was unsure how much longer he could take in his surroundings without loosing himself to nothingness.

X X X From nearby, he could hear the cries of both men and women alike. It was terrifying, an experience he'd never gone through before in his life. His shoulders trembled in response to the horrors that echoed in his brain. His head buried into his knees for protection, but none was provided. He could still hear. Sight did little to help. His head burned as he dug his long, ragged nails into his scalp. At least that helped to relieve the stress. Barely.

"well there's no fun in it if I wait" Gin said with a grin "besides I got new moves i want to try out"

"Then how about I let my own inheritor duel in my stead? She is your fiancee after all." Donni's father took a training sword from the rack on the wall and tossed it to her. "The rest of you, get changed and come back!" he called to the class. "Treat this challenge as a kendo lesson and watch carefully. Show him how much you've improved, Donni. Make me proud," he added softly, patting his daughter on the shoulder.



Belle watched the end of the fight and shrugged. She started off in the direction of...well, she didn't really know where she was going. She just felt like she needed to walk around the city. Anywhere but back to her stuffy room in her parents' house. A little ways away she saw a kid sitting on the sidewalk and looking like he needed help. Normally, she would just walk by, but something about this kid made her stop. "Hey, kid, you okay?" she asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Donni frowned at Gin's seeming disrespect for his weapons although she knew it was a part of his style. She closed her eyes and focused on the image of a golden ball of light at her core; her calm center. Her eyes snapped open and shone with a determined light, and she moved into a ready stance. Her kendo style was more like tai chi than a battlefield. Of course, tai chi was also a martial art though no one really thought of it as more than slow exercise. She rested her weight on the balls of her feet and sprang into the air, whirled, and brought down her sword in a slashing motion. "Falling leaves." The movements of her sword gradually became faster with each swing.

Cuzco
"I'm just moving things along."

Cuzco grinned. "I want you to make choices." She let the word drown out, and then she looked to the unconscious men without speaking. They'd chosen their side in all of this, probably working for a powered villain in these tough times, who knew why they'd made their choices?

That was what Cuzco wanted. Choices. To make people have them, and go through with them. The knife in her hand sort of melted, molded into a figure of a small pony as she was distracted. Damn her straying thought pattern.

"I just want to observe."

Cuzco
"I'm just moving things along."

"I won't only be watching you." Cuzco planned to watch a lot of people, that was the beauty of being an observer, of being an influence. She heard the boys stomach growl and her face evened out to neutral again. Glancing at the boys on the ground, she shrugged and leaned down, pulling ones pocket open to reveal a wallet. She ignored the identification card and pulled out the money from inside, holding it out to the boy standing near her. "Lunch is on them." She smiled. "After all, what's stolen can be stolen again."