Elizabeth's Domain

[Kotomine_Rin]

Valerie - Arena 1

"Not only do you ravage my wardrobe but you demand my hospitality as well, does your greed know no limits? That settles it!"

The blonde dropped down as the tattered remains of her clothes ripped apart further exposing even more skin to the ones watching. She wrapped her arms around his neck and clung to his back like a complete freeloader. This circus went both ways and he'd learn it fast.

"Fine.... But we are going shopping now I need stuff to wear and do not think for a second I would allow someone else to kill you, you belong to me now Zeeeky boy. "

Zeke

His eyes narrowed for a second at her last words, when she uttered those same words he'd heard before. "Now aren't you considerate."

Well, he didn't mind going with the flow, what could one more schmuck change?

Besides, he got valuable experience out of this. Contrary to what you might think, he did have some sense of gratitude, he wasn't that heartless or selfish. And this would help him grow and change into a better self. But he made a few mistakes along the way. That's the thing about mistakes though. You learn from them and correct them.

"Sure, you're the boss. I owe you that much at least, mm?" He grinned and scratched the vampire behind the ear. "Don't you have a match though?" For a moment, he couldn't hide the concerned sound in his proxy's tone.

[Panda]

Nanako

The squirrel girl's eyes darted about this way and that, Nanako turning as the sounds died out. The bleeding at her leg was starting to slow, as was her flank, but the wound at her belly still flowed fresh. Still, trepidation was creeping in as he spoke, the idea giving the squirrel girl a moment's pause. However, whatever thought she might have put into it was interrupted when new sounds registered, keening blades cutting through the air, the lacerating wheels approaching from multiple sides.

Nanako's eyes darted between the blades she could see while her ears flicked to the ones she couldn't, the squirrel girl darting this way and that between the projectiles. Over, under, even twisting between them before her wings flashed, propelling her neatly away from the cutting saws altogether and giving her plenty of room to deal with any more projectiles.

"Almost sounds like they're a parasite," Nanako called out, her senses straining for any trace of him, even as that maddening heat pulsed in her core and her her heart pounded in her ears, "But they've been pretty helpful so far."

Come on, don't just peck away from afar...

[Aiden]

Wendy

"Why should I care about shit like that! Lizzy sleeps with me, and feeds me! What more could I possibly want from life than to be spiritually and physically fulfilled!" Wendy began to chortle at Mira's attempt at an insult and headed towards an item box.

Mira

Arena 3

"How about having some fucking pride?" Mira moved toward one of her own, keeping an eye toward her opponent at all times and trying not to let the damage to her leg slow her down much. "Or do ya just care about where your next meal's comin' from, not care that there's a leash tugging you to it?"

Wendy

"Fufufu... A leash... What a nice idea..." Wendy chuckled.

Mira

Arena 3

She reached the next box, and opened it.

[YOLF]

Orcus
Arena 2

One of the suspended cliffs, moving so faintly to her eyes, completed the turn of its face a mere dozen meters away as she flapped away from the intersection of blades. Nanako caught a glimpse of Orcus's teeth before two spheres of blackness wide enough to swallow a man floated towards her. Under the illusion that nothing with such titanic mass could move so quick, the sorcerous attack that should have been a slothful bullet to her seemed to instantly appear, poised to crash.

Saws whirring in his hold like chakrams, the primal himself shrank behind the anti-shadow of one of the black suns, a living missile ready to swoop at the girl. She might run through, confident and disappointed nothing would happen, or jump aside of inextricable instinct. But in his mind's eye he was already cleaving, talons aimed from groin to hip and from neck to shoulder.

[SINIB]

Wendy

"Why should I care about shit like that! Lizzy sleeps with me, and feeds me! What more could I possibly want from life than to be spiritually and physically fulfilled!" Wendy began to chortle at Mira's attempt at an insult and headed towards an item box.

Mira

Arena 3

"How about having some fucking pride?" Mira moved toward one of her own, keeping an eye toward her opponent at all times and trying not to let the damage to her leg slow her down much. "Or do ya just care about where your next meal's comin' from, not care that there's a leash tugging you to it?"

Wendy

"Fufufu... A leash... What a nice idea..." Wendy chuckled.

Mira

Arena 3

She reached the next box, and opened it.

Wendy

At the same time as Mira, Wendy also smashed one of the boxes with her remaining arm. However, while they took the same action, the results couldn't have been more different. Black, crackling energy arced up Mira's arm, searing at her flesh and muscles. Wendy however, began to grow. The already large woman practically doubled in size within an instant, looming over Mira from afar. She chortled before crouching down and launching herself at her opponent.

"Kyahahaha! See! Lizzy favors me! That's why you're about to lose, [W E A K L I N G]!!!

[Panda]

Nanako

As she pulled away from the blades, something else occurred to her. He'd seemed about as serious as everything else with the talk about these things consuming her, but the others. Justice. He'd been touched by the feathers as well, they'd taken root in him as well. She didn't have long think about that, however, as the massive balls of blackness were suddenly upon her. Ponderously slow as they were, the squirrel girl opted to dodge them instead, knowing what was probably waiting for her when she did.

She leaped up and past through them, barely twisting past the sorcerous suns only to be set upon by Orcus himself, as she'd expected. The talons flashed before Nanako, too fast to dodge both in mid-air, but she didn't have to. Knowing the match was drawing to a close, the squirrel girl went for broke, ducking out of the way of the blade aimed for her neck and letting the other cut open her already broken leg. Fresh pain and dripping warmth surged anew as she met his eyes, her own still alight with that mad gleam as she powered through the pain, pulled together what strength she had left, and let fly with a stiff punch of her own, her fist rocketing up to his chin from below in a monstrous uppercut!

[Bern]

Zeke

His eyes narrowed for a second at her last words, when she uttered those same words he'd heard before. "Now aren't you considerate."

Well, he didn't mind going with the flow, what could one more schmuck change?

Besides, he got valuable experience out of this. Contrary to what you might think, he did have some sense of gratitude, he wasn't that heartless or selfish. And this would help him grow and change into a better self. But he made a few mistakes along the way. That's the thing about mistakes though. You learn from them and correct them.

"Sure, you're the boss. I owe you that much at least, mm?" He grinned and scratched the vampire behind the ear. "Don't you have a match though?" For a moment, he couldn't hide the concerned sound in his proxy's tone.

Valerie

"Oh we have the time, the mall is right here, just go up a floor. But that is not what you truly want is it?...." The Blonde leaned in closer and whispered right in his ear. Her eyes were aglow with a far more mischievous glimmer than before. She could smell it, the thing that was really bothering him and she could strive to fix it and his perverse goal all in one fell swoop.

Now that was devious.

"You are under the thumb of someone are you not? How about working under for me, no with me instead? I could kill this body of yours with my Essence Reaver and then turn you if you jumped over to one of your familiars. That might break the chains binding you...."

[Kotomine_Rin]

ZEKE - Arena 1

For a moment, he blinked in total shock. As if a chill had just ran down his spine, he looked right at her and-

Poked her right in the forehead. "Idiot." Teeth ground and gnashed in an annoyed pout-like rictus, and he just scratched his back oafishly, as if whatever cleverness she thought he might have evaporated out of thin air. "No one wants to work with a turncoat scoundrel who'd jump ship at every opportunity. That's just bad business." Implying he was professional in the slightest. He looked embarassed to so much as say it. Gritting his teeth, he glowered in annoyance. He knew just how much she could hear.

"And it's neither here or there milady, this is not a discussion meant for those ears." A moment, he glanced at the audience and winked. But was it really at them that he was winking?

Four great black wings ripped from his coat like mud and stretched out, and without a care he carried her to the skies. To the floor above this one.

[Aiden]

Wendy

At the same time as Mira, Wendy also smashed one of the boxes with her remaining arm. However, while they took the same action, the results couldn't have been more different. Black, crackling energy arced up Mira's arm, searing at her flesh and muscles. Wendy however, began to grow. The already large woman practically doubled in size within an instant, looming over Mira from afar. She chortled before crouching down and launching herself at her opponent.

"Kyahahaha! See! Lizzy favors me! That's why you're about to lose, [W E A K L I N G]!!!

Mira

Not expecting the sudden surge of pain, Mira doubled over, the arm opposite to the side where her leg had already been damaged twitching. Her muscles felt like they were crawling, and it took all she had not to do more than just grit her teeth and howl in pain -

[W E A K L I N G]

- but, she responded. At the last possible moment where Wendy had completed the arc of her jump, where course correction was no longer possible, Mira let out a fierce, "ORRRYAAA!" as she brought her remaining good arm down onto the platform, breaking it enough that Wendy's increased weight would shatter it instantly upon impact.

Then, she rolled off the platform, ringing herself out deliberately with the knowledge that her opponent was equally screwed. She grinned through bloodied teeth all the way down into the blackness.

[YOLF]

Orcus
Arena 2

Whispered elation sprang upon his face, riding the penultimate blow as one spinning edge sailed over skin but the other sang through ligament and arteries. The blood spurted wildly, putting a crippled leg out of its misery as far as the fight was concerned, and marking the conclusive act thereof.

But a winning move is not a final move. The severance of victory does not extinguish the will to fight. The desire to respond to an enemy and an inherent abhorrance for him are as different as day and night. Maybe the primal, in his furlough of the world, had forgotten this, or maybe he had weighed the scales in his tempered mind and made a certain call rather than commit to uncertain evasion. But because of it, Nanako's fist struck home.

The heavy crack to the chin sent Orcus bowling back like he'd been slapped. He twisted inwards and his wings retreated, but his hands and feet carved a distinct set of trenches before stopping in a guarded crouch.

Orcus reached for his face, and reset his broken jaw into a smile of now naked amusement. He rose slowly, flexing his steel pinions. "If all you hope for is the rapture of pain, perhaps you should let it take you. Does it sound pleasant, to be thrown into battle without regard for harm until your usefulness is extinguished?"

[Bern]

Valerie

"If you call me milady again, I will castrate you."

She held onto his throat tighter in warning as if she was trying to crush it. "Val..." Her grip loosened ever so slightly as her voice softened. "Call me that and I will think about forgiving you.... But do not get your hopes up or anything you are still a pig... And just because I am taking you shopping does not mean anything... I do not want to be your friend okay!"

[Kotomine_Rin]

Zeke

Zeke yawned.

"That might prove.... difficult. Even for you, Val." He just flew carelessly, ignoring the pressure and chill biting down behind his soul. But that didn't mean he didn't acknowledge it. It wasn't just the vow of pacifism in this place that made it impossible but another detail. One she certainly knew nothing about.

"You're a pretty shoddy liar~. Just because we fought doesn't mean anything... I do not want to be your enemy. Okay? "

He smiled back smugly at her. And with a final and useless flap of his wings, he dramatically landed in front of a clothes shop. His eyes narrowed for just a tad there. "Can't say I ever understood it. Why do people feel the need to cover themselves with cloth?"

[SINIB]

Wendy

At the same time as Mira, Wendy also smashed one of the boxes with her remaining arm. However, while they took the same action, the results couldn't have been more different. Black, crackling energy arced up Mira's arm, searing at her flesh and muscles. Wendy however, began to grow. The already large woman practically doubled in size within an instant, looming over Mira from afar. She chortled before crouching down and launching herself at her opponent.

"Kyahahaha! See! Lizzy favors me! That's why you're about to lose, [W E A K L I N G]!!!

Mira

Not expecting the sudden surge of pain, Mira doubled over, the arm opposite to the side where her leg had already been damaged twitching. Her muscles felt like they were crawling, and it took all she had not to do more than just grit her teeth and howl in pain -

[W E A K L I N G]

- but, she responded. At the last possible moment where Wendy had completed the arc of her jump, where course correction was no longer possible, Mira let out a fierce, "ORRRYAAA!" as she brought her remaining good arm down onto the platform, breaking it enough that Wendy's increased weight would shatter it instantly upon impact.

Then, she rolled off the platform, ringing herself out deliberately with the knowledge that her opponent was equally screwed. She grinned through bloodied teeth all the way down into the blackness.

Wendy

The platform shattered, and the Wendigo's momentum shattered all remaining footholds for her. She fell down into the abyss screaming Mira's name.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Yang - Arena 2

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?" A roar suddenly shook the stadium to the core. It was an unrecognizable voice that hadn't been heard in the public audiences for years. But for those who were into the underground fighting scene, it was unrecognizable.

Yang Xiao Lan, The Golden Boy and one of the youngest contestants in this very arena. It was after that first loss years back that he had suddenly disappeared from the public eye. It was around that time that rumors of his promoter fixing matches and taking bribes came to light. He never showed up to a public fighting event since.

Yet he was here, cheering the most unlikely person in the ring. "YOU CAN DO IT BUDDY! DON'T GIVE UP!!"

[Bern]

Valerie

"Hoooh...."

She leapt off his back and strolled in confidently despite her state of dress. "You wish to transcend this world yet you do not even know something so basic?" The blonde went back and forth while picking up pieces of what would be her new outfit. "It is about expressing individualism, asserting your sense of self through the things you wear. What someone is wearing can tell you a lot about them and lastly they are just too cute. Your collective can never beat the cuteness so just give up!"

The clothes on sale here was exceptional quality, they all were presented as self cleaning and stitching themselves back together. Some of them even had more exotic effects to them but she avoided those on purpose. After all, they were all prohibitively expensive and she didn't know how much cash he had.

Valerie then spun around and walked into a changing room with her pile of clothes.


"Tadaaa!"

Valerie flung the doors open to reveal her new look to him. She strutted over to him with seemingly even more confidence than before and put her hands on her hips and then flung her hair to the side.

"So what do you think? And do not hold back, after all you are going to pay for this hehehe..."