Slash after slash, Hiroki quickly dodged Kyocho's attacks, but sometimes she would do a sudden back-handed slash, and would hit him right on the chest. Hiroki jumped some distance away, perhaps ten feet. Hiroki and Kyocho glared at each-other from that distance. Kyocho; not a bead of sweat on her body, and Hiroki; blood oozing from his chest and seeping into his T-shirt and hoodie. "Arrgh..." Hiroki mummbled, pulling off his sleevless hoodie from the heat. Kyocho raised a hand to her lips, and suddenly a butterfly-shaped mask apeard. Now only her eye's showed, but they were flickering with wonderfull electricity, it was no doubt that she was enjoying this. "Are you just going to bleed yourself to death there?" She hissed. "Or are you actually going to FIGHT?" Hiroki growled. "Shut up! I dont even know WHY your here!" "I'm here to kill you, now come and release your power to me!" She commanded, quickly flying at him and stricking his gut with one of the blades. He howled in pain, some dust came up from Kyocho's sudden movement. Kyocho blinked. Once the dust had settled, she saw that Hiroki's hands where on part of the staff. "GET OFF!" She yelled, twisting the handle, then striking his hands with the blade. "AAAH!!" Hiroki exclaimed, jumping back more. He raised his hands to his eye-level. They were bleeding like mad; some would think that he was wearing red gloves, there was that much blood. He winced, feeling sick, then looked back at Kyocho. "Who ARE you?"

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The little girl on the ball jumped down and looked around. Instantly, as soon as she relized she couldn't see him, she started bawling. The woman telling fortunes had tooken off the cloak on her, and rapped it around her shoulders. "Anna, whats wrong?" She asked with a smile, her cat-ears flickering from the cold wind. "Big brother...." She sniffed. "...I dont know where he is!" "Oh, I'm sure he's around here somewhere!" The woman coaxed, gently grabbing Anna and setting her on her shoulders. "Lets look for him, yeah?" Anna nodded. "Okay, Sayaka." They hadn't walked too far, when suddenly Sayaka started sniffing the air. "What is it, Sayaka?" Anna asked. Sayaka's eye's suddenly had slits in them, and fangs emerged from her lips. "Hiroki! He's being attacked!"