Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25924729-20151107020221/@comment-24617443-20160331141847

Well... that was, indeed, a bad time.

Akiba stood hunched over with his legs barely keeping him standing, his body's been battered and bruised and his attacks didn't even faze Lupin the slightest.

Although he has never been the first to strike, he still tried to just so that his fellow ally can have, if only slight, a better chance against the clearly stronger man.

But now said ally hightailed and ran off to wherever Memories went and now he's forced to handle Lupin alone, with his weapon laying at the rubble covered floor a few feet away to his right. With little strength left but not willing to just let himself get killed he rolls to his right and away from yet another high-explosive shot from his weapon. Thanks to the roll he was able to quickly get back his weapon before jumping away to his left from yet another shot.

Akiba then stopped in the middle of the large room, just a feet away from Lupin who gave him another cheeky grin. He takes his weapon and holds it with his right hand, turns his body until his left shoulder was facing his opponent, firmly plants his feet on the ground and holds the weapon's long handle with his left hand.

Lupin whistled upon seeing Akiba taking a stance, then chuckled as he remembered what that stance was. With his grin still plastered on his face he said.

"That's quite a serious iai stance you've got there, red-eyes. ", he said, just realizing Akiba's piercing red eyes. He could practically see the killing intent coming out of the hunter-in-training. "And it doesn't seem like today's been the first time you've had to try to get your ass out of a shitty situation, isn't it?", added Lupin whilst making whirling gestures with his pistol.

Looking at Akiba for a little more the red-scarfed boy looked as if he's now completely still in the stance. It was even more noteworthy is that the boy's controlling his breathing well enough to seem like he's not breathing at all.

"You're pretty serious about this, aren't ya kid?", honestly stated the gentleman before sighing and putting away his weapon. Not the least caring to show that he was cautious towards Akiba's seriousness. The fact that he PUT AWAY his weapon deeply angered Akiba. It was like a slap to the face for him, because it meant he wasn't even acknowledged as a threat.

It was insulting.

It was this that made Akiba take the first move.

Pulling the brake-pedal trigger on the handle, it activated his weapon to blow out a powerful stream of air that, combined with Akiba dashing forward with his body arched forward, enabled him to close the distance between him and Lupin so quickly that it looked like Akiba warped through the air. Lupin immediately knew that using his hands or feet to block this attack is going to greatly damage his aura, which he doesn't like happening, so he swiftly took back out his pistol and just barely blocked Akiba's horizontal slash.

"H-Hey you little runt, ya think being faster than a hummingbird's wings' flaps is gonna-", just before Lupin could make a witty remark on Akiba's failed attempt, the red-scarfed samurai pulled Furukizuna's trigger and fired a Fire dust shot point-blank from Lupin's face, making him stagger backwards with his left hand covering his face.

Akiba quickly backed away and returned to his iai  stance while Lupin quickly recovered from the shot. the grin on his face now replaced with a cold scowl.

"Oh boy, now you are getting it ya little-", but just before he was about to release his outrage towards Akiba he started hearing footsteps from the stairs.

Akiba jumped back to get farther away from whoever this other person could be. Lupin, once again, showed little care for what Akiba's doing and focuses on finding out whose coming up the stairs, as well as Akiba. It could either be friend or foe and if it's the former he's saved but if it's the latter...

He might not come back from this one.

After an agonizing 10 seconds of waiting the source of the footsteps finally reveals itself. Surprisingly, the footsteps were from a girl around his age or so with pale blonde hair and wearing a dark-red corset vest over a white polo, evident by the white collar popping out from the vest, a dull-red neckerchief with a flower brooch, black tight-fitting pants and plain brown leather boots.

From appearance alone, she looked more intimidating than Lupin but her manner of speaking is incredibly confusing. He couldn't understand almost anything she said but it does have some words he knows.

"Sir Lupin, the stalwart ealda be heading hither! Thee cometh for thy safe retreat.", said the girl which Akiba failed to understand fully. So he looked at Lupin to see his reaction, and judging from him asking the question again it was either he was in disbelief of what he's heard or didn't get it the first time.

So the girl in leather, or that's what it seems to be, rather than repeating the gibberish that she said, she said something else. Something that Akiba was able to understand as well.

"Sir Hunter Gerham Khrakkre hath joined the Hunt."

With this the gentleman cursed under his breathe before suddenly stopping and then making an ever more sly grin. "I think this'll work out, my precious apprentice."

The gentleman then turned to Akiba, "Little runt, ya' got a few minutes to run and hide, cause once good ol' Mister Hunter starts storming this place it's going to get very bloody. So, would ya' mind and lettin' me through so that I can meet my good man Barnes and get this party started?"

Akiba paused, taking a few seconds to decide before relaxing and sheathing his weapon away. Lupin smiled at this and proceeded to pass Akiba with the girl in tow but once he was gone Akiba began moving. He was curious as to what his true objectives in this damned funhouse are, but since Barnes office is at the top meant there's a high possibility that he'll just meet the guy again since he, too, needs to go to the top. So, rather than having to try to seperate from his and delay they're possible meet-up again, he'll go and tail behind him.

Lupin noticed Akiba following them but didn't show any care if he was. His apprentice soon enough noticed this but Lupin gestured her to stay quiet and keep moving forward. This little interaction was seen by Akiba, who takes note of it and continues on.

Meanwhile, outside the funhouse...

Tendon approached the mangled parts of machinery and bodies as he was forced to do clean-up along with a few other officers in the area. Douglas has been trying to call on Akiba on his scroll but nothing seemed to work. Worried, he tried to call on Tendon to check out the funhouse before he felt a man brush past him.

Looking towards where he felt it, he found a wrinkly old man who looked to be around his 80's. He was tall, around 6 feet or so, wore a worn-down brown slouch hat and similarly worn-down gray suit with a dull yellow polo and gray slacks with brown boots. A large overcoat hung over his shoulders with a large bulge on the right shoulder. Whatever it was, it raised Douglas' curiosity.

"Excuse me, sir-", tried to call ot the elderly man but he seemed to not have noticed it and simply continued walking forward towards Barnes' casino. Douglas felt a strange yet ominous aura from him and that made him somewhat worried. The elderly man simply continued on without a care in the world.

He soon enough passed Tendon, who also felt the ominous aura he was giving off. Then he entered the Casino, and once he did he reached for something, the bulging item hidden within the overcoat. He took the item out from within his coat, a golden, double-edged curved blade that seems to glow thanks to its almost mirror-like polish. It's handle was unusual, as it was behind the blade and was as long as the blade itself. He then, with his left hand, took out a blunderbuss and taking the end of the curved sword combined them both.

The handle of the sword seemed to unravel, revealing it to be segmented, and the blade flipped up with a clank. The curved sword and gun combined into a golden scythe.

The elderly hunter gazed around him and saw the bloody remains of people, and realized that the room was completely covered in blood. He relished this for a second, taking a large sniff of it and breathing out before continuing on, his golden scythe on hand.

He didn't notice Sandi as he did this, who looked at the man like he's a maniac ready to rip apart anyone in his way. He didn't know what to do, so he simply let the man continue on and hoping that he didn't notice him.