Jade V Kitana: Test Your Might | By : Damien_King6 Category: -Misc Video Games/RPGs > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 1326 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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They met at the water fountains an hour passed daybreak, as the sun was still low in the soft blue sky, but rising quickly with soothing, warming light. They were alone, as it was well known they often trained here in the morning.
Kitana and Jade wore their customary training garb, with each article being similar to their battle dress, one in blue and the other in green, the hues of life itself. Their garments held subtle signs of being repaired innumerable times, but the royal seamstresses performed their craft well.
“Is today the day?” Kitana asked wryly, a fine black brow arching.
Jade scoffed from behind her mask. “Are you asking if I will finally stop letting you win out of deference to your title? I see no reason to break tradition now.”
“The time for such courtesies is long passed, my friend. Outworld is but a mirror's width away, and there will be battle aplenty in the coming months. Test me in truth, or you put my life in jeopardy.”
“There is wisdom in what you say, but you know I cannot hurt you,” Jade replied warily.
“As Princess of Edenia, I order you to try.”
“And after?”
“If you do it well, then I will need a healer’s touch,” Kitana replied, with just a hint of sensuality. “Which I will permit you to give.”
Jade twirled her staff around her wrist and then caught it with an audible clasp. “We are wasting time.”
Kitana assumed her stance, war-fans spreading before her with a brassy twinge. “Begin.”
Wasting no time, Jade closed the distance between them, leaping forward and thrusting her staff ahead of her toward Kitana’s chest. It was not the true move, however, for Kitana’s block missed the staff, which was jerked back as Jade whipped around and landed a spinning kick into Kitana’s stomach, knocking the breath out of her.
Instead of catching her balance, Kitana let herself fall onto her back, but as Jade moved to finish her, Kitana rapidly spun her fans around, emitting a shrill wave that made her opponent veer away.
“That’s a nasty trick,” Jade breathed.
Kitana laughed as she rolled back and onto her feet. “And you always fall for it.”
Jade answered with a combination of staff attacks, and the sound of her fans blocking each blow was like the thrashing of a tea gong . She caught a glancing blow across the cheek, spun with it and managed to slice Jade’s shoulder, drawing a fast trickle of blood.
“Don’t stop!” Jade snapped, and somehow the butt of her staff rose into view and hit her right on the edge of her eye socket, knocking her head back.
Kitana’s vision dimmed in agony for a split second, and in that time Jade raked her staff across Kitana’s heels, flipping her up into the air. As she went end over end, she threw her fans out in boomerang-like arc, which Jade managed to avoid by somersaulting gracefully through the opening.
She landed unsteadily and managed to catch her fans, but they had flown wider than she intended, so that her arms were spread open to catch each one, leaving her vulnerable.
Jade’s sliding side-kick brought her stabbing forward in a greenish blur, hitting Kitana where the first blow of the fight had landed, throwing her onto her back as heavily as though she were a sand-stuffed training effigy, with her fans falling to each side like discarded toys.
Kitana’s pride urged her to rise and resume the fight, but her body was all but done. For a moment, she tried to sit up, but it felt like there was just a mass of pain where her gut and abdominal muscles should be.
Once Jade realized Kitana was not getting up, she dropped her staff and ran to kneel at her princess’ side. “My lady!”
“You should never have held back for so long,” Kitana managed with a wince.
Jade nodded, regretful that she had allowed Kitana’s skills to ebb so much out of her hesitation to hurt her. “There will be other days. Come, let us return to your chambers.”
“So eager,” Kitana said, and it was clear she was smirking under her silk mask.
“I am thinking only of your injuries,” Jade answered defensively.
She helped Kitana get to her feet, draping her arm across her shoulder. After a few wobbly steps, Kitana’s strength returned and they were able to make quick progress across the cobble-stoned courtyard.
As they half-staggered up the steps to the East palace entrance, one of her own servants spotted them and came trotting over, wringing her elderly hands with agitation.
“Oh, princess, what happened to you?’ Asked Rin.
“I just started my training today,” she answered.
“But, princess, you have trained for years.”
“I will see to her injuries,” Jade assured the woman testily. “See that we are not disturbed.”
Rin bowed and went ahead of them to open the large, ornately engraved door of Edenian workmanship.
“Let us see if you are as skilled a healer as you are a fighter,’ Kitana said.
“My lady,” Jade answered.
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